Eye of the Leopard

January [-]st.

In the new year, Xu Yiqing and Yang Yue still gather to play games in Internet cafes.

Xu Yiqing made frequent mistakes, was scolded bloody by his teammates, and was kicked out of the team.

He simply went offline early, came out of the Internet cafe on the first floor, and went to the square to breathe.

Within a few minutes, a person came by: "Xiao Xu, you are absent-minded when playing games."

"I will be distracted when something big happens." Xu Yiqing said, "Yang Yue, why don't you go down and continue playing?"

Yang Yue said: "After I finished a game, I found out that you were not by my side, so I felt bored."

Xu Yiqing's phone vibrated.

Yang Yue leaned over.

On the screen was a WeChat message from Cai Yusong: "Xiao Xu, I wish you a happy New Year's Day."

Yang Yue said: "Why doesn't Cai Yusong come to play? The application season is coming to an end, he should have time to play games."

Xu Yiqing said: "He made new friends in the International Department of the Ivy League. Can't he stay with us old friends? People always look forward." He looked at the ground on the square.After the snowmelt, the ground was dirty.Snow in the city may seem romantic, but it is always dirty.

Yang Yue said: "What about Zhang Zhengdao? Will you part ways with him in the future?"

In the black Internet cafe on the first floor, Zhang Zhengdao was playing to the point of excitement, waving his left fist, and suddenly sneezed.

"...Yes." Xu Yiqing said after thinking, "When he goes to Peking University, I will have a geographical distance from him. He has new friends in Peking University. Although the friendship between me and him is still there, the contact will not be. As close as it is now."

Yang Yue said: "Xiao Xu, after you pass the college entrance examination, I will also separate from you."

He said declarative sentences.

"Yes. People meet, people change, people even fall in love, and they will eventually separate. Death is the final parting. It's inevitable." Xu Yiqing didn't evade, "Before Yao Lingling died, I wouldn't think about it."

Yang Yue didn't laugh at him for being pedantic.Yang Yue was thinking: I don't want to say goodbye.

He thought very seriously.

Xu Yiqing's phone vibrated again.

Before Yang Yue leaned over to take a peek at the screen, Xu Yiqing raised her head and asked, "Are you going to the funeral?"

Yang Yue said, "Yao Lingling's?"

Xu Yiqing said: "Yes. We pushed her back to the dormitory for more than half a year, and Shao Hongxia invited us to say goodbye to her formally."

His phone rang.

"Hitchhiking? I'll pick you up from Blue Lake County." Ling Weiwei asked on the phone.

"Thank you." Xu Yiqing said.

They went to the side of the road in the shopping center and got a ride to Ling Weiwei's BMW.

Yang Yue got into the car and asked, "Ling Weiwei, it took you a long time to change Yao Lingling's urinal before. Did she tell you something? Although the blood loss from the carotid artery is fast, it doesn't take long to wait until the hemorrhagic shock. It will take a few minutes. You went in for the second time and handed her the fruit knife, and then refused to go in again after you came out. Did you know that she was going to commit suicide with the knife?"

Ling Weiwei turned the steering wheel and said, "I'm driving, don't interfere with me. I'm thinking about how to confront Yao Yong. He should come to his niece's funeral. After meeting Yao Yong, I'll tell you about Yao Lingling."

Xu Yiqing thought: Ling Weiwei should know.But her perpetrator is about to appear.We can't interfere with her.

He said, "Yang Yue, let Ling Weiwei take care of her own affairs first."

Yang Yue lay back, closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep.

They went to Anfu Hall in Jiangbei District to attend Yao Lingling's mourning ceremony.

There were very few guests at the scene, only a dozen or so people.

Shao Hongxia sat alone in the back corner, looking at her daughter's coffin in the center.Her hair was gray, and the hair of the daughter in the coffin was still black.

The three of Xu Yiqing registered their names, paid the share money, and sat in a corner to accompany Shao Hongxia.

Shao Hongxia's eyes were red and swollen, and she was in her early fifties.

Xu Yiqing shook her hand and said, "My condolences to Aunt Shao." Shao Hongxia's hands were covered with thick calluses, quite rough.

Ling Weiwei said, "Aunt Shao, stop crying for your eyes."

Shao Hongxia shed tears again: "I have no choice but to stop crying. I'm tired of crying all the time. But I don't know, how can I move forward? How can I have another child and raise it until I'm 17?"

She wiped her tears and kept rubbing her eyes.

Xu Yiqing brought her a stack of napkins from the table in front and put them on her lap.

Yang Yue looked around and asked, "Where's Uncle Yao Zhong...?" He should be polite at this moment, so he reluctantly added a title.

Shao Hongxia said: "He didn't come. He went to other places to work, and he won't come to school again in the future."

Xu Yiqing said: "Aunt Shao, he is with you..."

Shao Hongxia said: "As soon as Lingling left, I divorced him. He didn't want to see Lingling turned into ashes, so he signed the house sale contract without hesitation. We are one and half, and the house is divided neatly."

She didn't know that the three people in front of her knew Yao Zhong's prostitution.

She shouldn't have said this to the little boy in front of her.Her relatives thought she was being silly.She lost her daughter in middle age and got divorced, so she will not be able to get a man to take care of her when she gets old.But she had too much backlog in her heart, and she had to find an outlet to tell the pain.

Xu Yiqing can't do anything for her, but he won't interrupt her nagging.

Shao Hongxia went on to say: "I'm still working as an auntie in the dormitory at school. When you go back to school, you can sit in my dormitory. I'll bring you some vegetables grown in my hometown."

Her tears fell again.The daughter in the coffin never had the chance to go to college.

Xu Yiqing said, "Auntie, I will go to your place when I return to school."

"In addition to being an auntie in the dormitory, I also want to earn more money for the elderly." Shao Hongxia didn't match her preface, "Xiao Xu, let me tell you, I went to move a new red counter for the mobile phone store during the day, and I always felt that it was better than before. Lighter. The people at the mobile phone shop even gave me all the cardboard boxes. That trip cost more than 60 yuan more. Lingling likes red the most. I think she misses me, so she came back to help me."

"It must be like this." Xu Yiqing said.

Shao Hongxia said: "Go and say goodbye to her." She wiped away her tears again.

The three bowed before the coffin and stood to the left.

A person behind came up and bowed.He has broad cheeks, very similar to Yao Zhong.

After Yao Yong bowed, he walked to the left, met Ling Weiwei, and suddenly said, "Are you... the little girl from the laboratory building?"

Ling Weiwei said, "My name is Ling Weiwei."

Yao Yong said in a low voice, "Come out with me, there are many people here."

Yao Yong went out.

Ling Weiwei looked at Xu Yiqing.Xu Yiqing nodded, pulled Yang Yue up, and followed Ling Weiwei.

Yao Yong stopped at a hidden corner, looked at the little girl in front of him, took out a five-yuan pack of Hongtashan from his pocket, took out one, and played with it in his hands.

He said, "Those two classmates behind you?"

Ling Weiwei said: "They knew that I was raped at the age of 14 and contracted syphilis. Yao Yong, you were infected with syphilis five years ago, right?"

"I had syphilis, but it wasn't five years ago. It was...the National Day of the year before last." The funeral home was solemn, and Yao Yong finally put the cigarette back in his arms. At the construction site, I asked my brother to come over to earn Lingling’s tuition. My brother got a part of the money, and at night he said that the work was too tiring and he spent 200 yuan, so he invited me to relax. He works outside, so not every project is with me. I don’t know where he learned to prostitute. I have been working outside for many years, and it was the first time I went to that kind of place, but I contracted syphilis once. My brother said he had it too, so he introduced the hospital to me.”

Ling Weiwei said, "Where are the rest of the construction team? Have you ever been infected with syphilis?"

"The construction team of the laboratory building was formed temporarily by me. There were 32 people at that time. Except for my brother, I don't know the physical condition of the others." Yao Yong said, "Ling Weiwei, I originally planned to keep the secret for Yao Zhong, but now I see My conscience is very sorry for you. You are about the same age as my niece lying in the coffin. She was released from disability, but you always think about it. But Yao Zhong is my own brother after all, I..."

Ling Weiwei saw that he was hesitant, and said: "It's been five years since this incident, and the words are groundless, and the law has long been powerless. I just want to know who it is."

Yao Yong thought: She means that my brother cannot be sent to prison, she only wants the truth.

He took a deep breath: "On the night of January 1, people from the construction team and I played cards around the flashlight until 27:09. My brother stood up and took a large roll of napkins and said, 'I'm going to take a shit.' I I was unlucky, another worker replaced me, and I happened to check the time on my phone. I went to smoke in the hallway. My brother was going downstairs. I asked, "Why are you still going downstairs?" He said, "Go Shit on the first floor. Shit too lazy to bring a flashlight. There is a street light in the toilet on the first floor, brighter.'He went downstairs. Soon we heard you screaming, we went out together and met him in the hallway.He just finished shitting Come back and come down to the lab on the first floor with us."