Peacock

Old Xu and I were interrupted by a few strangers when we raised our heads painfully.

Three people came, two men and one woman, they called me straight to the fire, and asked me where the Youjia Commissary was.

I pointed to the opposite shop with the shutters drawn down, and explained that there should be no one to be found recently, and their family seems to have gone to the other side to find a lawyer.

Hearing the familiar northern accent, they were talking about what to do now.

I realized: "Are you here to find Zhang Yong's family?"

The three of them turned to look at me like owls.

"...Because of Liu Pingyan?"

The slender woman froze when she heard the name, and she asked, "You know about this?"

"Where's the woman? Do you know where she went?"

I shake my head.I only know that Chen Wumian came out of the detention center, and I have no way of knowing more. Where did she go?

Where else could she go?

"It must be her, that crazy woman, a lunatic!" The woman scolded emptily, "No matter what happens, a man will always be pulled in front of the disaster. She thinks she can get out unscathed this time? Why is this world so bad? fair!"

I asked in a daze, "What do you mean?"

The woman's weak chest rose and fell like a dove: "That woman has a brain problem! Ping Yan always said that she was delusional, and always felt that she was forced into this fate by others. Which choice was forced by the company? His mother signed it clearly by herself."

Only then did I truly understand what Tangling meant when Chen Wumian just liked being watched.

Four years ago, the short-term contract of the girl idol group she was with expired. Some people chose to leave because they felt that they could not see the way forward. There were only four people left. Even a small number of fans can't be retained.With no announcements and no performances, Chen Wumian felt that he had returned to the predicament when he first went to Beijing.

At that time, Liu Pingyan asked her after thinking for a long time, if she would like to accept a photo request from a well-known photographer, but the scale would be larger.

Chen Wumian couldn't understand, the first time she had a dispute with Liu Pingyan, she said that she came here to sing, and this was completely contrary to their previous image, to do this would mean throwing away everything that was once glamorous .

Liu Pingyan only asked her to think about it carefully, but if she still wanted to keep some attention, this might be a turning point.

Surprisingly, Chen Wumian didn't seem to struggle for a long time, and agreed the next day, after all, she had no way out.

A turning point came, and the girl idol who had been dormant for a long time appeared in people's field of vision with another attitude, and another kind of attention was refocused on Chen Wumian, and she was also fascinated by it.After the explicit photo shoot, more and more taboo-breaking notices came to the door. Chen Wumian always accepted everything while struggling and making concessions.

Liu Pingyan couldn't see it, and privately rejected her directly, but it didn't seem to have any effect, it was too late.Every time he went to pick Chen Wumian home, she would start crying in the car, saying that the company forced her to do these things.Liu Pingyan couldn't figure out which part of Chen Wumian's crying and laughing was real, but he would always think of her standing on the stage receiving applause and focus. She has always been the most qualified girl idol that the company has ever trained.

After knowing the past and the event, the saddest one turned out to be Lao Xu.

Old Xu turned to me and asked me, if Chen Wumian had not encouraged her to go to the other side to do what she wanted to do when Chen Wumian came to work in Lanlianhua, would all this not have happened.

I have no idea.I think I really don't get it.

It might rain again tonight, but the dark clouds haven't invaded the city yet, only lying heavily on the mountains.

I helped Lao Xu close the store, and I walked under the cloud alone, but I felt that the distance between us didn't shrink at all.

Can you walk to Xingxing Bay along the road in one night?Then you can take the shuttle bus back to the city the next morning.I suddenly thought so.

The phone was howling in my trouser pocket, and I picked it up a little annoyed, but it turned out to be Team Wang again.

"Is your partner at home now?"

That's a good question, I just wanted to report this to the police.

"Probably not here." I said, "Anyway, he didn't come back before I went out just now, and he couldn't get through the phone."

"Just now a young monk called and said that someone had been standing by the Peacock Mountain stand for a whole day, but they refused to listen. They were afraid that they would commit suicide. I happened to be helping the police station. I always felt that after hearing that description like you."

My scalp was numb for a while, but I couldn't drive without a shuttle bus, so I didn't know what to do next.

"Where are you?"

"Sanlin Square."

Then Wang Dui said he would come to pick me up, and we would go together. In case it was really suicide, at least I would bring an acquaintance to catch me and come back.

My heart wants me to catch it, but I really think highly of me.

This time, I made it to the co-pilot of Team Wang without thinking too much. I kept my mind blank for more than an hour's drive, because I always felt that I couldn't stand any more thoughts.

Just after crossing the bay, the windshield was filled with raindrops, and the sharp smashing sound was like hail.

The road only leads to the middle of the mountain, and an off-road vehicle was thrown at the narrow mountain pass. I saw the license plate clearly with sharp eyes, and it was Chen Xing's car.

"Fuck." Team Wang's car stopped moving suddenly, and I heard the heavy muffled sound of the wheels exerting force.

"what happened?"

"It seems to be stuck."

Team Wang fired again several times, but still couldn't get out of the mud.

I was so anxious that I called the police station for him and ran up the mountain alone.

The winding mountain road is made of bluestone blocks, and it is terribly slippery when it rains. I don't know how many times I stumbled along the way.

There is a small section of mountain road behind the abandoned temple on Kongque Mountain, and there will be a stand at the end of the winding road. Although it is not the highest point on the top of the mountain, it is indeed the clearest position for people to see the opposite bank.

Zhang Yong told me before that there used to be a lot of people there, and the incense was lingering.

But now there is only one person standing there.

"Tang Ling."

I called out to him, my voice was a little weak because of shortness of breath, I wondered if it would be drowned out by the sound of rain.

There was no reaction, Tang Ling just stood quietly on the semi-circular stand, her wide shirt was soaked and limp.

I don't know how long he stood there, but I saw many dead cigarette butts on the lid of the trash can next to him.

Taking a few steps forward, I stood on his right side.

The drizzle was misty, and the water mist covered the distant vision, leaving only the gray-green mountains, so that we could no longer see the other side clearly.

I tried to shake his hand, but I didn't expect him to hold me back so hard that my five fingers hurt.

I seem to be a little out of breath, the urgency in my chest is scratching me.

Tang Ling looked back at me slowly, and said calmly: "As soon as I turned my head, she disappeared."

He took me a step forward, and then he said, "From here."

I looked at him, only hearing the wind.

This is the first time I have faced death, a death with temperature.

Some people who live in the past are still hanging at the mouth of heaven, while some have chosen to jump down, and the memories they depend on suddenly disappear.

I hate Chen Wumian for taking away Tang Ling's only past so vaguely.

At the same time, I also began to realize that the complicated and weak voice of the last ten generations of Tangling might have been locked into his closed teeth ever since.