Yu Liangmu

"Hey—boy! Your Coke! You paid for it, don't you want it?"

The proprietress called You Liangmu in a shrill voice, You Liangmu heard it, and felt sorry for the money spent, but he didn't turn his head, and ran quickly towards Cheng Kai's back in front.

"Hey! Wait...!"

You Liangmu chased after him and stopped him.

Cheng Kai stopped suddenly, turned around, and looked at the panting man in front of him unexpectedly.

There was noisy traffic on the street, and the sunlight was much brighter than the light in the convenience store, but it made the man in front of You Liangmu even paler.

This kind of paleness is not a morbid appearance, but a lack of energy, full of thoughts, completely different from the youthful and energetic appearance of the man back then, and it was obliterated by the accumulated thoughts and melancholy over the years.

Cheng Kai looked straight at You Liangmu like a wooden stake, he didn't expect the other party to follow him.

"you……"

"I..." You Liangmu gasped for breath, hesitating, "I just said it too aggressively, I didn't think about it for a while, I said whatever I thought... I, I didn't mean to provoke trouble on purpose. "

Cheng Kai was still a little overwhelmed, and it took him a long time to say, "It's okay."

"Hey……"

"Actually, Youliangmu, no matter what you say, I can listen, including you scolding me."

"..."

"Or like when we were young, we had a fight... No, no, you hit me, and I will never fight back."

Cheng Kai's expression, attitude, and tone all clearly stated the word "owe". You Liangmu was not used to others being so humble in front of him. For a while, he had nowhere to rest his hands and feet, and he felt very uncomfortable. Unaccustomed feeling.

It was as if, when I was a creditor once, I had to sternly criticize the debtor in front of me, demanding that the other party pay off everything owed to him at once.

But in fact, thinking about it, it is useless to pursue anything now.

There are many accounts that cannot be calculated.

Ever since he was a child, he didn't think Cheng Kai was a bad person.

To be honest, they grew up together, witnessing each other's past, although most of the time they were noisy, but in retrospect, Cheng Kai existed in many memories of his childhood, and it wasn't too bad .

He didn't want to blame too much, a person who participated in his childhood.

You Liangmu scratched his head, and said awkwardly: "Actually, even if I was the one who could go to school, my family might not have the money to keep me going... Those poor scholarships are too few, and the situation of my family ...I can't be too far away from home. Oh, I know, back then...that was your dad's idea, you are only 15 years old, what can you do, yes, you can't do anything, it's your dad's operation yes, so—”

"You Liangmu, you don't need to find excuses for me." Cheng Kai choked.

"..."

"You don't have to comfort me either."

"I didn't comfort you."

"..."

You Liangmu never felt that he was a magnanimous person, and he had the resentment and revenge of those normal people, "I'm just telling the truth."

Cheng Kai took a step closer to him, the man's face was clear and handsome, and the traffic coming and going behind him merged into white lines, hazy and indistinct, just like his experiences over the years, mixed with many unthinkable and unexplainable things. distracting thoughts.

He stared at You Liangmu, "You must not excuse me, this will only make me feel more guilty."

"Hey……"

"Three years in high school...every day, when I sat in the classroom seat, I felt that this should be your seat. When I opened those textbooks, I felt that your name should be written on the cover...I was there all the time. Thinking of you, thinking of the way you had hope, but was taken away by someone... all of this is because of me."

"what."

"You Liangmu, don't be too tolerant to me, I'm the one who took what you've worked so hard for."

"..."

"When I was in that school, I was the most guilty, because I felt like a thief... so I dare not work hard, dare not be diligent, I am completely different from before, really, no It's the same... I don't mess around anymore, I study and attend classes very seriously, I don't dare to be lazy, I don't dare to be distracted, I don't dare to waste every minute and second in high school... I know that everything about me is stolen , I don’t dare to squander these things, so I can only study desperately... I will go from the bottom one to the first place in the whole class..."

"..."

Cheng Kai, who thought he deserved what he deserved, clenched his fists tightly, making his palms ache.

At that time, he had no way to return the stolen things to You Liangmu. The 15-year-old boy was just panicked, knowing that if this matter was exposed, his father would be finished.

Maybe it was retribution, his father also went to jail later, but those owed to You Liangmu could never be repaid.

He can only live up to it, not in vain.

After years of separation, when he met again the victim whom he had always owed and remembered, Cheng Kai thanked God for giving him such an opportunity to confess to the other party.

He is even more fortunate that he has become a qualified enough person, has the ability and confidence to try his best to compensate the other party.

"What I said last time, You Liangmu, I owe you too much, and I want to make it up to you... This sentence is always valid and will never expire."

"Hey?"

"No matter what you want from me, what you want me to do for you, I will promise you."

"Ah, this," You Liangmu listened, like a blank check.

Someone once told him forever, and he believed it naively, but later found out that it was just a verbal promotion by others, and he forgot all about it when he turned his head, only he, who was stubborn, kept remembering it. Like a cheated fool.

No one wants to be a fool all their lives, they have to learn to grow, You Liangmu feels that he has grown in the past two years, so he no longer believes in anything easily.

"I... have nothing to take from you." The man scratched the messy hair on his head helplessly.

There is nothing you want to ask for, nothing you want the other party to do.

Cheng Kai remained motionless, staring at You Liangmu in a daze, he punctured the wrapper of the bottle of coffee in his hand, and the tear became bigger and bigger.

"If you..." You Liangmu looked at the other person's guilty face and scratched his nose, "If you really want me to take something from you, then...then the bottle of coffee in your hand."

"Ok?"

Without further ado, You Liangmu took the coffee from Cheng Kai's hand, and quickly completed the request, and also finished the other party's urgency to give him something.

After all, in order to chase him out, he still didn't take his Coke from the convenience store, so now that he was thirsty, he borrowed it to drink.

The man shook the canned coffee worth a few dollars in his hand, and smiled innocently, "Hey, that's enough."

Cheng Kai's eye sockets were slightly ironed, and he moved his eyes down, looking fixedly at You Liangmu's hand.

You Liangmu felt uncomfortable, took a deep breath, thought that the other party was going to take it back, and couldn't help cursing, he didn't expect this domineering boy to become so stingy now, he didn't even give him a bottle to drink.

Unable to bear to be stared at by such deep eyes, You Liangmu was about to return the bottle of drink that he finally got, when Cheng Kai suddenly stepped forward and grabbed his hand.

Cheng Kai pressed the coffee back into You Liangmu's arms, held it for a while, and then let go of it reluctantly.

"Take it if you like it..." the man said with a choked throat.He knew that some things need not be said clearly.

You Liangmu wanted to say something, but it was swallowed when he reached his mouth. After all, the relationship between him and Cheng Kai seemed to be just a relationship of grabbing drinks, not a relationship of saying "thank you".

He was afraid that if he said it, both of them would get goosebumps from nausea, and then they would fight fiercely like they did when they were young, vowing not to give up until they got rid of each other from this world.

"Hey, good," You Liangmu replied, his feet moved unconsciously, and he turned and left.

"Wait," this time it was Cheng Kai's turn to stop him.

"Huh?" You Liangmu turned around.

Cheng Kai said to him, "I'm sorry."

The three words scattered and faint, mixed with the sound of traffic on the street and the noise of passers-by, reached You Liangmu's ears very clearly and were heard, conveying Cheng Kai's huge sense of guilt and guilt over the past ten years. guilt.

He longs to be forgiven by those he loves.

Cheng Kai, who was duplicitous and cowardly when he was young, was forced by fate to move forward. He had no choice but to become a perpetrator. He was forced to crush the most innocent person on the road and step on the lives of others. Move forward.

It wasn't until now that this man had grown up enough to have the capital and courage to apologize.

But Yu Liangmu said: "I will not forgive you."

He is cowardly, honest, and small-minded. He is not a generous, tolerant, kind-hearted person who has no principles. He will not forgive many things.

A certain person's face vaguely flashed in his mind, and he thought again, maybe, except for this one incident, he could not subconsciously forgive many things in his life.

Cheng Kai's expression was gloomy, but he still managed to hold up a smile, because the knot over the years seemed to be slowly unraveling, "Well, I know. I understand."

After a short moment of silence, You Liangmu scratched his head and said again: "But, if you want to eat small pickles from my hometown, I will make them, and you can come to me for them."

They call this kind of pickled vegetable grass melon seeds, and it is a unique specialty in their hometown. It can be used for stir-frying or soup, and it is also very good to eat alone.

Cheng Kai's eyes were swollen, "Okay, thank you."

"Hey……"

"Whether it was before or now."

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Kindness and forgiveness are two different things.

(PS: Tang Yungan may be the only one in the world who has no mouth