Catch the wind

Ye Xueshan knew that life was unsustainable.

Anan used to argue every day to break up with him, and ran away from home several times, always returning within an hour.Now it's really time to make a clean break, but Anan is quiet, he doesn't say goodbye, and he doesn't leave anymore.

Ye Xueshan saw him sitting alone in the corner a few times, playing with the diamond ring thoughtfully.He understood Anan's thoughts very well, so he walked up to Anan and squatted down, raised his face and said, "You go."

He raised his hand and patted Anan's shoulder. He couldn't make any other expressions, he could only smile: "Anan, thank you. I have lived a very good life in the past few months. Now the time is up, you should go."

Anan tilted his head to look at him, his lips were pursed into a line, his eye circles were faintly red, as if he was about to cry or not: "I'm leaving, what about you?"

Ye Xueshan took Anan into his arms, and gently stroked his back: "Forget about me."

Anan closed his eyes, put his arms around Ye Xueshan's neck: "The house is about to expire, are you sleeping on the street?"

Crying, he wiped his tears onto Ye Xueshan's short hair: "I don't even have any morphine for tomorrow, I don't have to eat, and I have to get injections. What will I do tomorrow?"

Having said that, he suddenly pushed Ye Xueshan away.He raised his sleeves to wipe away his tears, and stood up straight: "I'll go to the smokehouse and ask if I can get some ash back."

Opium ashes can also relieve addiction. If you are really poor, there is nothing you can do. It is better to eat some soot than to suffer.Anan wants to get some cigarette ashes to prepare, maybe it will be useful tomorrow.Of course, he will not be idle tomorrow, he will sell the diamond ring.It would be a pity to sell it to a pawn shop, and it would not bring much money, so he had to go to a few jewelry stores, and his legs were not working.

Anan is a man of action, he leaves as soon as he says he wants to, and leaves in a panic, blowing out like a gust of wind.Ye Xueshan sat on the small stone steps in front of the courtyard door, silently watching Anan close the door and leave, knowing in his heart that he was too much of a drag on the other party.Anan was still a child, earning food with two hands, so he was carefree; but because of meeting him, the teenage Anan learned to sigh.

Ye Xueshan's mind is quite clear now, he never thought that after the end of his life, he would meet a little Anan in the end.It's a pity that it was too late to meet each other. If it had been two years earlier, he thought that he would not treat the other party so badly.Thinking of Anan running to the smokehouse to beg for ashes like a scumbag, Ye Xueshan held back tears and slowly stood up with his hands on his knees.

After a lot of effort, he moved a pot of roses to the top of the stone steps.The rose was still left by the landlord, and the flower buds had already bulged out with lush branches and leaves. Ye Xueshan remembered that Anan said that after a while, the flowers would bloom.

Panting and sitting down, he leaned back against the wall, and slowly rolled up the sleeve of his right hand. He turned his head and looked at the pot full of green leaves, and thought plainly in his heart: "The rose is beautiful when it blooms."

Then he picked up a fruit knife that was dug out from the house, and without hesitation, he cut it into his wrist.

Putting his bleeding right wrist to the edge of the flower pot, he thought that the blood seeping into the soil would probably look better than blood dripping all over the ground.Don't make it too messy, otherwise Anan will be very tired to clean it up.

Under the sun, Anan walked towards the Japanese Concession like a wild cat and a wild dog.Smoking is not prohibited in the Japanese Concession, and there are the most smoking halls.He pocketed a little money, and prepared to bribe the smokehouse clerk when the time came.It's so easy for a guy to get some ashes out.

In late spring, it's hot.Anan walked away sweating, wishing to stick out his tongue to pant, but suddenly someone in front of him waved to him: "Anan?"

As soon as Anan raised his head, he immediately smiled: "Wang Wuxuan!"

Wang Wuxuan was one year older than Anan, and worked as an apprentice in a barber shop with Anan.The two were apprentices together, and they ran away together, and now they met suddenly, and they were very affectionate.Anan saw that Wang Wuxuan was also flushed from the sun, as if he had been walking on the street for a long time, so he asked, "Wu Xuan, what have you been doing this year? Have you found a good way to live?"

Wang Wuxuan said with a smile: "My second uncle helped me by introducing me to the Shen mansion as a helper for eight yuan a month. Anan, I'll treat you to a restaurant at noon."

Seeing Wang Wuxuan's vigor, Anan was very envious, and knew that with his cleverness, he would definitely be more handy than Wang Wuxuan in earning eight yuan.

"Aren't you busy today?" Anan asked, "Is it still a holiday?"

Wang Wuxuan smiled proudly: "Not at all, my uncle sent us out to find someone. If we find it, there will be a reward!"

When Anan heard that Wang Wuxuan could openly go shopping and be lazy, he became even more jealous: "Is there a reward? Then you tell me, and I will help you find it. I know the place well. If I find it, the reward will be shared equally between you and me!"

Wang Wuxuan thought that Anan's idea was very good, so he immediately said: "The person I'm looking for is in his 20s, a head taller than me, he may be quite thin, with a fair face and a little yellow hair, and he has dimples when he smiles."

Anan looked at him with his mouth open, and his heart gradually rose to his throat: "Yes, do you have a name?"

Wang Wuxuan nodded: "The surname is Ye, and Ye Xueshan is the snow mountain of Daxueshan."

Anan asked calmly, "Why are you looking for him? Your uncle has a grudge against him?"

Wang Wuxuan shook his head with a smile: "Actually, it wasn't my uncle who was looking for him, it was my uncle's friend who was looking for him. My uncle's friend is a military officer, and he said that Ye Xueshan is his younger brother."

Anan yelled in ecstasy, knowing that his good luck had come!

Half an hour later, Anan and Wang Wuxuan ran into Shen's mansion dripping with sweat.Wang Wuxuan's mouth was clumsy, and he couldn't straighten his waist because of panting, so Anan kept taking deep breaths, for fear that he would not be able to speak and delay the business.Just as his heart was beating like a drum, a big girl lifted the beaded curtain of the living room from the outside. Anan followed the prestige and looked over, and saw a big dark man stooping slightly and passing the door, walking towards him with fast pace.

Anan stared blankly at Gu Xiongfei, suddenly feeling a little scared.Gu Xiongfei stopped in front of the two of them, and asked directly, "Who found it?"

Wang Wuxuan raised his hand and pointed at Anan, and Anan quickly replied, "I...he is at my house."

Gu Xiongfei grabbed Anan's thin arm: "Let's go!"

Anan grinned in pain, tilted his body and followed him out, panicked and uncertain, not knowing whether what he did was right or wrong.The madman's elder brother looked really scary, no wonder the madman didn't want to go to him; but now is not the time to be willful, what is needed now is money!

Gu Xiongfei took Anan into the car, Anan sat on the seat and moved his buttocks, secretly very happy, because he had never been in a car before.

Then he turned his head to look at Gu Xiongfei, he timidly wanted to confirm the other party's identity: "Sir, are you Ye Xueshan's elder brother?"

Gu Xiongfei nodded to him: "I am."

Seeing his unfriendly demeanor, Anan couldn't help but move away embarrassingly.He didn't speak, but Gu Xiongfei opened his mouth: "Some people say he's crazy?"

Anan was afraid that he would dislike Ye Xueshan, so he immediately shook his head: "No, he is not the kind of lunatic who makes noise, he—he just likes to be in a daze sometimes."

Having said that, he lowered his eyes quite nervously, only to see Gu Xiongfei clenched his hands into fists on his legs, the fists were clenched tightly, and his legs were trembling.

The car drove fast all the way, turned into the alley after a while, the driver stepped on the brakes under Anan's guidance, and stopped just in front of the courtyard gate.Anan didn't know how to open the door, so he tried to push it twice, but he couldn't open it. He turned around and saw Gu Xiongfei jumped off from the other side.He took out the key and unlocked the door, before he reached out to push the door, Gu Xiong slammed open the courtyard door and stepped in.

Anan followed closely, and was about to call Ye Xueshan, but when he looked forward, he and Gu Xiongfei were stunned.

He saw Ye Xueshan lying curled up on the stone steps in front of the door, with one bloody hand resting on the edge of the flower pot.There was blood in and out of the basin, congealed heavily into jelly, trembling and stagnant.

Anan's hair stood up, and he subconsciously opened his mouth.When a scream was about to come out, Gu Xiongfei suddenly strode forward, bent down and stretched out his hand to test Ye Xueshan's breath, then picked him up by the waist, turned and ran outside.

Anan turned his head and followed without thinking.Gu Xiongfei got into the car, and he got into the car too.Usually seeing Ye Xueshan with long arms and long legs, he did not expect that now being hugged by Gu Xiongfei, he would look so thin and slender.Anan stared at Ye Xueshan, who was one size smaller, and asked in a crying voice: "Sir, is he still angry? Is he still angry?"

Gu Xiongfei looked down at Ye Xueshan as well.Ye Xueshan's head and face were very clean, and his expression could be called serene, as if he had fallen asleep.His right hand rested softly on his abdomen, and the open wound on his wrist was covered with half-clogged blood.