South of Chutian

Later, Li Yuechi still bought hot dry noodles and rice wine, but these did not change, they were still served in disposable paper bowls and cups.Tang Heng lifted the lid of the plastic cup and smelled a strong scent of sweet-scented osmanthus.

Li Yuechi pursed his lips, looking a little nervous.

Under his gaze, Tang Heng picked up the rice wine and swallowed it slowly.

Li Yuechi asked; "How is it?"

Tang Heng said softly: "It's delicious..."

Li Yuechi breathed a sigh of relief: "Then drink it..."

The two finished dinner in the room, Tang Heng went to take a shower first, and then Li Yuechi went.The sound of splashing water came from the bathroom. At this time, Tang Heng was not impulsive. He just felt very tired and a little dazed.

Li Yuechi walked out of the bathroom, wearing a new white short-sleeved T-shirt and wide knee-length shorts, which made his limbs even more slender.His hair was still dripping, and he was covered with the heat of the bathroom.

"Do you want to blow it?" Tang Heng said, "The hair dryer is in the closet."

"It's okay, it will be done in a while."

He sat down next to Tang Heng, and the mattress sank toward his position.

The sound insulation effect of the room is very good, there is silence everywhere, only the bass of the air conditioner.

"Sleepy?" Li Yuechi looked at Tang Heng.

"I'm a little tired. And I suddenly thought of something..." Tang Heng closed his eyes, and said slowly, "The last time I drank rice wine, I was with you. This time, when I woke up, you disappeared again. gone?"

Li Yuechi said in a low voice: "No..."

"Hmm..." Tang Heng paused, and said jokingly, "Otherwise I would really be ptsd of rice wine."

"Tang Heng..."

"Ok?"

Li Yuechi reached out to turn off the lamp by the bed, leaned over, and kissed Tang Heng lightly on the lips.

"I'm here..." he said.

Tang Heng thought that he would suffer from insomnia that night. After all, he knew that his condition was already very unstable, and he was in Wuhan again, with Li Yuechi.Wuhan, Li Yuechi.These two can always easily detonate his emotions.

But when Li Yuechi turned off all the headlights, leaving only a warm yellow wall lamp at the door, Tang Heng felt that his eyelids were heavy and he was really sleepy.

Li Yuechi lifted the quilt from the other side and lay down lightly.The room was warmed by the air conditioner, so it wasn't cold. After a while, Tang Heng quietly opened his eyes, and saw Li Yuechi's back was facing him, with a small half of his thin back exposed.

Six years ago I thought he was like a wild horse with a spine like a knife, and he still is.

His breathing was long and he was already asleep.

Tang Heng thought, the wild horse... and then fell into a deep sleep.

After a while, Li Yuechi opened his eyes.

He turned over gently, and stared at Tang Heng's face by the faint light of the opposite wall lamp.

Just stared at it for a long, long time.

Finally, Li Yuechi stood up and tucked the quilt tightly for Tang Heng.

The next morning, when Tang Heng woke up, Li Yuechi was already fully dressed and standing by the window.Tang Heng blinked vigorously, feeling a little dazed by the scene.

"Li...Li Yuechi..." Tang Heng sat up and looked around, "Are we in Wuhan?"

"Yes..." Li Yuechi came over, "It's just eight o'clock, do you want to sleep again?"

"Don't sleep anymore..." Tang Heng lifted the quilt and got out of bed, and went to wash his face with cold water before he recovered.

Yes, he actually returned to Wuhan with Li Yuechi.

Li Yuechi opened the heavy curtains, and the sunlight instantly poured into the room.Tang Heng narrowed his eyes and said, "I'll go buy breakfast."

"Don't want to go out today?"

"Come out..."

Li Yuechi said a little strangely: "Then let's eat together."

"I... okay..." Tang Heng said, "Then wait for me to change my clothes."

In fact, Tang Heng wanted to go out to smoke a cigarette alone.

When he was in Macau, he was used to going to the school swimming pool early in the morning to swim. This was the advice given to him by the doctor-exercise would stimulate the brain to secrete dopamine, which would help him maintain a good mood throughout the day.Tang Heng didn't know if dopamine was really effective, but after waking up from a nightmare sweating profusely, being alone in the empty turquoise water for a while did make him relax a lot.

On the way from the swimming pool to the office, smoking a cigarette in the brain is the happiest time of the day. To be precise, it is a kind of physical happiness.

"What do you eat?" Li Yuechi handed Tang Heng the menu of the breakfast shop.

"Soup buns, soy milk." Tang Heng raised his face, and subconsciously wanted to say, "I'll go to pay the bill." When the words came to his lips, he suddenly realized something was wrong.

He took out the wallet from his pocket, opened it, and there was only one piece of 20 yuan RMB, four pieces of [-] yuan patacas, and a handful of scattered steel coins.

Tang Heng: "..."

When he set off from Macau, he did not bring much cash in RMB. Firstly, he was in a hurry and he didn’t have time to go to the bank to exchange RMB. Secondly, he thought that he could use Alipay and WeChat in the mainland anyway.

As a result, when I checked into the hotel last night, I paid a deposit of 500 yuan.

The mobile phone was placed by Li Yuechi again.

Li Yuechi smiled, took back the menu from Tang Heng, got up and said, "I'll come..."

Tang Heng began to seriously think about whether 20 yuan was enough to buy cigarettes.

And where to smoke so as not to be discovered by Li Yuechi.

Li Yuechi came back with Tang Heng's soup dumplings. There were only four soup dumplings in a drawer. Li Yuechi said, "Aren't these enough?"

Tang Heng nodded: "I haven't eaten for a long time, I forgot they are so small..." The soup dumplings in Wuhan are no different from those in the north. They are very small and have thin skins.

"What else do you want to eat?"

"Hmm..." Tang Heng was suddenly a little embarrassed, "Let me see..." Living alone for several years, this feeling of being taken care of made him a little uncomfortable.

"Do you want to eat siu mai?"

"OK……"

Li Yuechi stood up again, took a step forward, and said in a low voice: "Eat the soup dumplings slowly, it's hot."

"Oh……"

In the next second, I heard the old lady at the next table say to her little granddaughter who was carrying a schoolbag: "Baby, eat slowly, be careful not to burn your mouth."

After breakfast, the two headed to the subway station.From Line 09 to Fuxing Road, transfer to Line 30. At [-]:[-], they saw the "Blue Sky Kindergarten" at the end of the path.

Long Juan was already waiting for them at the door.

"According to the regulations, you are not allowed to enter the park. I'm sorry..." Her voice was a little stagnant, "There is a coffee shop over there, go there and talk about it."

The three walked into the coffee shop and sat down.

"Actually, Xiaoqin and I... are not very familiar..." Long Juan looked at the two of them, and then turned her gaze back to the black coffee in front of her. I'm getting used to it slowly. But I don't spend a lot of time with her, because I have been practicing with the teacher in the kindergarten."

"Well, it's okay..." Tang Heng said softly, "You just say what you know, or... just talk about her."

"I almost forgot..." Long Juan smiled wryly, "It's been too long..."

Tang Heng didn't speak, and waited for her quietly.

About 10 minutes later, Long Juan suddenly asked, "Xiaoqin was... raped?"

Tang Heng nodded silently.

"But is what I said counted as evidence? I... I don't want to help you, but I'm in the system... and I can't talk nonsense."

"Just say what you know, okay?"

"What I know is irrelevant."

"It's all irrelevant?" Tang Heng couldn't help but frowned, "Did she mention Tang Guomu to you at that time? Anything, anything about Tang Guomu is fine."

"I have no memory..." Long Juan stood up suddenly, "I have to go back to work, I'm sorry, that's it."

Tang Heng and Li Yuechi walked out of the coffee shop, neither of them spoke.

Passing by a convenience store, Tang Heng said, "I want to smoke..."

Li Yuechi said, "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing, I just want to smoke, can you buy me a pack?" Tang Heng said a little irritably, "Or give me the phone, and I'll buy it."

Li Yuechi stared at Tang Heng for a few seconds, then said, "Wait here..."

Seeing him walk into the convenience store, Tang Heng bit his lip hard.The first feeling was pain, and then, the tip of the tongue tasted a faint smell of blood.This is Tang Heng's usual method, the pain helps to keep calm.

Now, the pain is used to counteract the heavy feeling of powerlessness.

Six years have passed, most of Tian Xiaoqin's classmates have lost contact, and Long Juan is one of the few who can be contacted.He thought that since Long Juan was willing to meet them, it proved that she was willing to help them.

But what did she say?She said she was inside the system.

Before returning to Wuhan, Tang Heng had already consulted a lawyer. If they wanted to prove Tang Guomu's crime, they needed to collect evidence again.Moreover, because Li Yuechi had stabbed Tang Guomu, the effectiveness of his testimony was very low.

Thinking of this, Tang Heng couldn't help biting his lip again, harder than before.

Li Yuechi strode out and handed his mobile phone to Tang Heng: "Long Juan..."

Tang Heng froze, and quickly clicked the answer button on the unfamiliar interface.

"Hello...it's me..." Tang Heng said, "Is there anything else?"

"You record..." Long Juan said flatly, "I've decided, you record."

Tang Heng tapped the recording and asked blankly, "Why?"

"Because you mentioned Xiaoqin, I suddenly remembered a small thing... I have been suffering from severe dysmenorrhea. Once Xiaoqin asked me to go to the cafeteria for dinner. I was so painful that I couldn't get up. She knew it and ran to the school hospital. Buy me warm palace stickers."

"Um……"

"Let's get down to business..." Long Juan sighed, "Xiaoqin mentioned something about Tang Guomu to me. At first, she was a teaching assistant. She said that according to the regulations, students in the first year of graduate school cannot be teaching assistants. She did it for some reason. She went to Tang Guomu, and Tang Guomu said that he helped her fight for it, because Xiaoqin's family conditions were very difficult. Later, she said that she joined the project team and would have a fixed salary every month. At that time, I still felt that Tang Guomu was right The students are so nice... Then, yes, and then she was harassed by a senior, I don't remember the name of that person, but she was very anxious during that time, and suddenly one day she happily told me that the matter was resolved, Tang Guo Don't kick that senior out of the project team..."

"Bao Lei..." Li Yuechi approached the phone, "Is it this person?"

"Yes, it's him! It's definitely him! I remember he has a rare surname!" Long Juan paused and lowered her voice, "But you said that Tang Guomu raped her, I, I just guess... want to control A girl, especially, a girl who is short of money... Isn't the most direct way to give her money? As a teaching assistant and project, it is Tang Guomu who sends money to Tian Xiaoqin... And that Bao Lei, Tang Guomu helped Xiao Qin solve Bao Lei, and Xiao Qin trusted him even more."

Tang Heng was about to speak, but Long Juan said again: "Also... I remember that Xiaoqin mentioned something at that time. She said that Bao Lei and Tang Guomu had a very good relationship, because Tang Guomu had sent Bao Lei several times. A paper... But Tang Guomu kicked Bao Lei out of the project team very simply, so she thinks Tang Guomu is...very decent."

Tang Heng hung up the phone, Wuhan in April was still very cold.

And his back also seeped a fine layer of cold sweat.

He stood upright by the side of the road, and after a while, he said in a hoarse voice, "Is that so?"

"I didn't know it at the time, but I realized it later..." Li Yuechi lowered his eyes, "He not only controlled Tian Xiaoqin by doing this, but also made other students feel that Tian Xiaoqin was favored by him. Later...they all felt that he and Tian Xiaoqin The ambiguous relationship was voluntary by Tian Xiaoqin."

"That Tian Xiaoqin, she knows..." Did she know?

Of course she didn't know.Not only did she not know his plan, she must be very happy, right?

Appreciated by the mentor and given the opportunity to make money, it seems that the future is bright.

When she was full of joy, the darkness had slowly opened its swallowing blood mouth.

With his right hand behind his back, Tang Heng trembled.

He forced himself to calm down, and stretched out his hand to Li Yuechi: "Where's my cigarette?"

Li Yuechi looked at him, took out a bag of hot milk from his pocket, and put it in his cold palm.

"The cigarettes are sold out..."

how is this possible.

Tang Heng bit open the packaging bag, and warm chocolate-flavored milk entered his mouth to cover up the bloody smell.

The body is not so cold anymore.

After drinking the milk, on the street, Li Yuechi held Tang Heng's hand.

"Can you do it?" he said. "If we get tired, we'll go back to the hotel."

Tang Heng nodded and said, "I'm fine. Go find Bao Lei?"

"Hmm..." Li Yuechi looked at Tang Heng and said very firmly, "Don't be afraid, I'm here."