north bird south

After that day, when Xu Zhiyuan went to Liluofang again, it was already empty.Like a gust of wind, Liluofang, which Boss Nian has painstakingly managed for many years, just disappeared.

This made Xu Zhiyuan stunned for a while in the empty yard.

And on the next day, news of Liao De's death flooded into their sights.After many days of investigation, the result turned out to be a corpse thrown in the greenery in front of the house in the middle of the night. Sishan was furious and used newspapers to render the throwing of the corpse as a grotesque conspiracy. The sudden evacuation at this juncture, the police and the public didn't think much about it, and the murderer's charge was naturally pinned on the missing Niantang - Niantang was the person who saw Liao De for the last time before he disappeared The first person to abscond before the body was exposed had something to do with Liao De's death.

So the Bureau of the Ministry of Industry reported this obvious suspicion to the Huai City Government, and the Huai City Government issued a wanted order for Liluofang as soon as they closed their eyes.

But Liluofang has accumulated contacts and resources in Huai City for many years, and none of the relevant people knew their whereabouts. The whole team disappeared without warning, and the words "human life is at stake" were used in the collocation.This almost occupied people's leisure time, and ghosts and gods from all walks of life also joined in the fun in an endless stream.

And Yu Yao and Li Anrong planned to use the newspapers under the Tongpao Association to publish Wu Tongqiu's previous explanatory letter and the letter left by her brother after deleting and revising the confidential information.

After some negotiations, this idea has been approved by the organization, and the consent of Wu Tongqiu and his mother has been obtained.But Nian Tang's name was also written on the letter, without his permission, Yu Yao still felt that he could not disclose it rashly, so he kept the content in his hands.

These days are not smooth sailing.

Sishan was really as Niantang said, the front of the hall was a mess, and the back of the hall did not forget to send Yu Yao a "sincere" invitation letter.

But Yu Yao ignored the request this time.Right now, the war in Beicheng and the news of his eldest brother's death have caused him a lot of trouble, and as if reflecting the saying that misfortunes never come singly, the Yangzhi Bookstore was suddenly shut down, and the boss didn't know what to do.

Along with this news was the information obtained by the informant through the clues left by Wu Shenyuan. Yu Yao only knew about the Yangzhi Bookstore when he took over the document that should have been delivered to the boss.

Suddenly, the informant did not dare to act rashly in a short period of time without confirming whether it had been exposed. These documents can only be temporarily stored by Yu Yao, who is relatively safe.In order to be sure, Yu Yao encrypted all the files according to the exclusive rules of the fellowship club, burned the original files, and kept the ciphertext and key separately.

The flames gradually engulfed the paper, and Wu Shenyuan's neat notes gradually disappeared with the ashes. Some flying ashes and heat stretched out weak hands to grab Yu Yao's cheek desperately, like paper money and incense ash floating in front of the grave .But here no one knows their death, it is a silent and silent burial.

After burning the last one, Yu Yao buried his head deeply when the heat in front of him slowly cooled down.His sleeves were rolled up at the elbows, and his arms were covered in ink marks and smog.

He didn't sleep for two days in a row. The bloodshot eyes on the whites of his eyes were really boiled out this time. If Boss Yang Zhi was still there, he must have said that the young man didn't pay attention to his body.

Li Anrong warmed up a cup of milk for him, and when he knocked on the door to send it over, the first sentence Yu Yao said was "Is there any news?" Hearing his voice that had lost his voice, Li Anrong couldn't help feeling distressed, and she put the milk in Yu Yao's On the table, shook his head and said, "Not yet."

She comforted her and said, "Xu Zhenping has asked someone to inquire about your elder brother in Beicheng. The Yu family has a big business, so it's not that easy for something to happen...you can rest assured, Yao."

Before the artillery fire fell, it would not consider how many assets and contacts the owner of the house had behind him.Probably because he didn't want his depression to infect others, Yu Yao didn't open his mouth, but smiled wryly at Li Anrong.

When he bent down to take the sorted documents for Li Anrong, he shook his body, his lips were a little pale, he supported the edge of the table, and said, "I'll send it to you tomorrow, I have to look for it."

Li Anrong glanced at him worriedly, helped his back, and said, "Don't be tired... rest early."

Yu Yao nodded to signal, and only after hearing the sound of closing the door did he cover his stomach, gritted his teeth and lay down on the bed.

Insufficient sleep and not eating in time, when thirsty, he just took a few cups of cold boiled water - after these few days of pretense, Yu Yao guessed that he also knew that old problems would recur.

He was extremely tired, the soft blanket dragged him into the tiredness, and he didn't care about his stomach, curled up on the bed, his consciousness sank.

Until I heard "Does your stomach hurt?"

He opened his eyes, and vaguely saw Xu Zhiyuan in front of him, sitting up with his upper body up, and said, "It's okay."

Xu Zhiyuan took a cup of hot water, put it next to the milk, and said, "Don't get up, I'll call Pei Zhen."

"Don't call him..." Yu Yao closed his eyes and said, "It's better for him to have less contact with me recently."

"Then you drink the hot water first."

Yu Yao took over the hot water and took a few sips slowly while blowing on the hot air.Xu Zhiyuan looked at his chapped lips with complicated emotions.

Yu Yao asked, "Is there anything you want to tell me?"

"It's okay, can't I come and see you?"

Yu Yao didn't speak, probably because he didn't have the energy to argue with him again.Xu Zhiyuan stood for a long time, sat down by the bed, and said, "Fu Shubai...has made a decision. He wants to leave Huai City and go to Fulin District to take the exam again."

Yu Yao was quiet for a while before asking: "For Tongqiu?"

"Well, he said so...Tong Qiu and her mother have someone to take care of."

"That's fine...the place they're going to is under the control of the Tongpao Association, and it's relatively safe..." Yu Yao cleared the phlegm stuck in his throat, "Does his family agree?"

"I don't agree," Xu Zhiyuan said, "He intends to keep it a secret, and in the future... he will also apply to join the Fellowship Club."

Yu Yao's expression was hazy in the heat, the candlelight was dim, Xu Zhiyuan couldn't see clearly, he just said: "Fu Shubai told me before that he was afraid of death, and his only wish was to be safe, to spend the rest of the school year smoothly, and to spend the rest of the school year in Huaihe Just find a job that can feed him.”

"He clearly said...he will never help me with anything desperate in the future, and he wants to live a good life." Xu Zhiyuan looked at his palm and said, "I don't know why he chose to join the fellowship, probably because It must have been influenced by Wu Shenyuan."

Xu Zhiyuan thought that Yu Yao would not reply, so he stood up, but he heard Yu Yao ask, "Are you sad?"

Xu Zhiyuan stopped and said, "It's none of my business what he chooses."

"I know, but he's your only friend."

Xu Zhiyuan raised his head sadly, thinking of all the past, his perverse and difficult temperament drove away a group of peers who were willing to approach him, only Fu Shubai was still persistently willing to "give up his life" to accompany the young master.Xu Zhiyuan had also warned that his drinking and meat friends would come and go, and he could not be sincere, but after so many years, the only one around him who he could talk about heart-to-heart with was this "drinking and meat friend", and he did not leave and did not change.

"I have many friends, and he is not the only one." Xu Zhiyuan said, "It's just a pity."

"It's good that you can get over it in your heart." Yu Yao said.

Xu Zhiyuan took the empty cup in his hand, picked up a quilt by his hand, and said, "You lie down, I'll call a doctor elsewhere."

Yu Yao lay down. He watched Xu Zhiyuan cover him with a quilt. He seemed to feel some nostalgia and sadness in his clear eyes. Just as he was wondering, he heard Xu Zhiyuan say: "Little Uncle, Niantang has contacted me."

At this time, it was about ten days since Liluofang disappeared. Yu Yao's mind was rusted by the fatigue of not sleeping for several days. It took a while to recall, and said: "... what?"

"I will meet with him tomorrow, and he probably has something to say to me."

Yu Yao was stunned. He probably connected Xu Zhiyuan's sudden visit to tell about Fu Shubai's departure with the soft expression on his face just now. With difficulty, he raised his upper body and asked, "...Where do we meet?"

Xu Zhiyuan pushed him down and said, "You just need to rest in peace."

"No... I'll go with you tomorrow." Yu Yao said, "What if it's a trap... Are you sure it's Nian Tang who sent you the message?"

"Sure. He's only letting me go."

"Did he say it was about something?"

"...Little uncle, this has nothing to do with you."

Yu Yao clenched his fingers tightly and said, "You...don't mess around."

"Why do you think I'm fooling around?" Xu Zhiyuan asked suspiciously, "I just came to report a letter to you, I didn't lie to you or get angry."

After that, he glanced at the pale Yu Yao, took a deep breath, and went out with an empty cup.Sitting in the night, Yu Yao really wanted to drag him back and ask him to understand, but he couldn't make a sound, and his hands and feet were tied up by abdominal pain.

……

The meeting place is at Jiming University.

Going to cafes or restaurants is easy to expose, so Xu Zhiyuan followed his usual course of class and met Nian Tang in an elective class in the Faculty of Arts.

He cut his hair short, wore a white gown from Ming University, and sat next to Xu Zhiyuan in a very ordinary way.

Xu Zhiyuan didn't realize it at first, and when he dozed off, he was reminded by the people around him that he felt the voice was familiar.

Xu Zhiyuan glanced at his school badge and asked, "Where did you get it?"

Niantang rested his chin, flipped through the books and notes like an ordinary student, and imitated Xu Zhiyuan's tone of threatening him and said: "Boss Nian is exquisite and powerful, so naturally he can get anything."

"..."

With this face, even if he is about to go to school, he can easily pretend to be a student in his twenties.

Xu Zhiyuan didn't talk nonsense. From the corner of his eye, he observed the teachers and students around him who were listening to the lecture seriously, leaned back on the chair, and asked, "Did you kill Liao De?"

Niantang said frankly this time: "It's me."

Xu Zhiyuan snorted and said, "I finally admitted it."

"But according to my original thought, you should have killed him, young master."

Xu Zhiyuan was not surprised, and said: "In fact, you wanted to find out the relationship between Liao De and Wu Shenyuan's disappearance yourself from the very beginning. Helping me sneak into the night party is just thinking—in case Wu Shenyuan died in Liao De's hands." , so that I can use my hand to take revenge, or blame Liao De's death on me, right?"

Nian Tang laughed and said, "Young Master Xu still has a few catties and taels in his mind."

Xu Zhiyuan didn't think it was funny, he even felt terrified of trusting Niantang too much before, but luckily it didn't lead to any consequences.

"Why did you want to frame me in the first place?" He asked unwillingly, "Why do you want to help me later."

Niantang said directly: "Because I don't think Xu Zhenping is a good thing, his son must have ulterior motives when he came to investigate Wu Shenyuan. Later, I found out that your position is the same as that of the surname Wu, and you are still protecting his sister, so I believe you Once."

"..." Xu Zhiyuan swallowed fiercely, he was unable to refute Niantang's doubt, because even he would not dare to let his father know when it was involved in Wu Shenyuan's related incidents.

"You have hidden Liao De for so long, and you can obviously create many opportunities to frame others. Now you have killed Liao De with your own hands, and you have caused such a big disaster."

"Kill it if you kill it, I don't want to be so troublesome," Niantang looked at his fingernails, and wrote lightly, "Wu Shenyuan still wants to marry me in the next life, isn't this just to accumulate some virtue for myself and cast a good pregnancy chant."

Xu Zhiyuan didn't speak for a long time, thinking of his leaving figure at that time, he always felt that this understatement was very heavy.But he didn't mention it too much, he just said, "What else is there?"

"That letter, if you want to publish it or something, delete all the paragraphs with my name on it." Niantang flipped through the book on the table and said, with calm eyes, "His experience plus these writing It is very provocative, it would be a pity not to be a public opinion bomb for the colleagues."

Xu Zhiyuan looked at him, watching him slowly flip through the poetry booklet issued for elective courses, and heard him continue: "He usually likes to read these literary books."

"Why delete it," Xu Zhiyuan said.

Nian Tang said: "He is going to be recorded as a hero in the history of the Tongpao Club, maybe future generations will watch him from time to time, it doesn't look good to keep me on it."

"Why do you still..."

"Don't persuade me anything, delete it."

"Whoever wants to persuade you, I can't persuade you." Xu Zhiyuan held his breath and said, "...then where are you going after that?"

"Beicheng," Niantang said looking out the window, "it's a big place, suitable for settling down."

Xu Zhiyuan frowned: "Now Beicheng is fighting, if you want to reopen the troupe, what are you doing there?"

"Can you fight endlessly? It will always stop."

Xu Zhiyuan followed his gaze and glanced out of the window, and saw a familiar face, also wearing a white school uniform, with an expression that seemed to be waiting for someone anxiously.Xu Zhiyuan recognized that it was the child who came out of Niantang's room that day and was so shy that he couldn't speak fully.

"You don't like this, do you?" Xu Zhiyuan said casually.

"Oh, by the way... I like honest people who are shy and taciturn. I really can't bear such shameless words like the young master of the Xu family." Niantang probably wanted to scold him like this a long time ago, so let him go before leaving. He opened his mouth and said, "You must explain my previous words to Mr. Yu another day, and apologize for me. I really want to make him a friend, but don't leave any old misunderstandings, and I won't be able to solve them when we meet again. opened."

Xu Zhiyuan frowned: "?"

Just as the get out of class was over, the students began to pack up their desks and leave the classroom. Niantang picked up the booklet of poetry on the table, and said, "Give this to me, let's go."

Xu Zhiyuan looked up, but saw the red earring on his right ear again, which had obviously been dropped on the ground that day and could not be found.Xu Zhiyuan snorted coldly, and returned what he said before: "Walk slowly, don't see you off."

……

Grandpa said.

The corridors were sparse that day, and it was still after class as usual.There are countless different life trajectories here, whether life or death, ups and downs are hidden under the most ordinary skin, and no one knows what is behind the passers-by who pass by and smile at each other.Everyone performed their duties, and no one took a pen to record the ordinary farewell in classroom [-].

Niantang's "see you again" was a joke after all.Because since then, Grandpa and the others have never seen that well-rounded Boss Nian again.

"He may have changed his name, or he may not have gone to Beicheng at all." Grandpa took a puff of smoke and said, "Anyway...he must have a happy ending."