Mr hell

Huai Qi tossed and turned all night, and when he woke up the next day, he heard movement in the living room—Hui Qi was no stranger to the fact that other people appeared in his room early in the morning—he thought it was Jian Yisu, Putting on her clothes in a hurry, she rushed out the door expectantly, almost stumbled.

"Wake up?" Wen Qian said while pouring a soft-boiled egg on Huai Qi's face.

"Taoist?" Huai Qi asked puzzled, "Why are you here?"

"You didn't see the message I sent you last night," Wen Qian said, "That's right, it was a bit late when I sent it."

Huai Qi looked at him.His long hair was disheveled, and the blue under his eyes showed a haggard look.So Huai Qi looked down at the message on the phone. The time of sending it was one o'clock in the morning, and the content of the message was: "Are you still awake? If it's convenient, can I go to your apartment tonight and sleep for a night?"

Wen Qian has the key to his apartment, of course Huai Qi doesn't mind Wen Qian living here, but he is very curious about his state and experience, and asked, "Master Dao," what's wrong with you. "

"I was dumped, kicked out in the middle of the night, and still penniless." Wen Qian said frankly, "I can only ask you for help."

"..."

"By whom..." Huai Qi asked incredulously, "That, the benefactor."

"Who else but him?"

Huai Qi asked strangely, "Then why don't you go home?"

"The house I live in is all his. I have rented out the house for two or three years." Wen Qian put on a qualified boy face, and educated Huai Qi earnestly, "You still have to be independent. young people."

"But you have been together for two or three years." Huai Qi grasped the point, hesitated for a while before asking, "Why did you break up suddenly?"

"Baby, time is not as affectionate as you think. If you don't have the heart for each other, it will be the same for many years." Wen Qian laughed, "Besides, falling in love and nurturing are two very different things."

Although Wen Qian said so, Huai Qi always felt that he was not as open-minded as he said, looked at his dark circles and said: "But Taoist, it seems that you don't care at all."

Wen Qian stopped for a moment.Glancing at him, sat down, simply brushed his long hair, and said: "What do you know, eat yours."

So Huai Qi stopped talking, and the two of them quietly ate noodles at a small dining table in the cold morning light.Huaiqi found that the brine in this bowl of noodles had an unusual taste, which seemed to be a unique taste specially prepared for a certain person.

"Master Dao, you can sleep in my room these days." Huai Qi looked at the small sofa that couldn't fully accommodate Wen Qian's height, and said, "I'm going to Brother Chen's house."

"Brother Chen? That policeman friend of yours?" Wen Qian said, "You don't need to make space, I'm fine in the living room. There's no reason for guests to squeeze the master into someone else's house."

"No, I have other business to go." Huai Qi said, "Don't worry."

……

Only a few months later, Huaiqi came to Chen Pan'an's house again.This time Chen Mingqian and Ting Xiaoya were waiting at the door early.

"You're here," Chen Mingqian carried a bag upstairs for him, and said straight to the point, "Did you bring a game console?"

"Well, I just bought it."

Chen Mingqian raised his eyebrows happily and said, "That's good."

He only climbed halfway through this "Xi", and was cut off halfway by Chen Pan'an, Chen Pan'an said: "I know how to play all day long, when can you ask Brother Xiao Huai about your homework?"

Chen Mingqian could not wait to shrug his shoulders and cover his ears, complaining: "I'm on vacation, can you stop talking?"

When the father and son quarreled, Huai Qi put down the luggage and took out the unopened game console from the bag. Since Jian Yisu gave it to him, he hadn't touched it a few times. With a thin film.Chen Mingqian retreated from the bickering, took a look at it, as if he wanted to reproduce this thing several times with his eyes.

"There are still words here." Chen Mingqian's English pronunciation was a bit crappy, and he said, "For Algernon." Is this given to you by someone else? "

"What?" Huai Qi frowned, took it back and took a look, and found cursive English written with a golden marker on the bottom of the box.

This should be written by Jian Yisu. Algernon is Huaiqi's social account ID, and it's not surprising that Jian Yisu knew about it, but he never mentioned it, so when he suddenly saw this signature, "Huaiqi will definitely think of Jian Shuo.

The idea of ​​"Jian Yisu and Jian Shuo are the same person" is like a piece of driftwood. Every time the two of them behave "unaware" they will push this idea to the bottom of the water, but some small details encountered in life But it would make it pop up in Huaiqi's mind from time to time, and it couldn't be completely eliminated no matter what.

"Why don't you talk," Chen Mingqian called him, and said, "Is it someone else's gift? My deskmate likes to write For so and so at the bottom when giving things to others."

"Yes." Huai Qi said.

Chen Mingqian asked curiously: "Who is it? I don't think this set is cheap."

Huai Qi put the box back in his hand absent-mindedly, and said, "I know how to play all day, go back and do my homework."

Chen Mingqian: "?"

Chen Pan'an said that Huaiqi's grandmother had already been buried.Although the second aunt who asked for money didn't want to see Huai Qi, she didn't just make fun of the funeral.How much of the money transferred by Huai Qi was used for grandma's funeral, and whether the second aunt took it for herself, Huai Qi didn't care about these things at all.He didn't tell Chen Panan about the money transfer, Huaiqi told him that he just wanted to go back to the cemetery.

It happened that the elders of the Chen family also wanted to see Huai Qi, and Chen Pan'an's hand was almost healed, so he personally drove Huai Qi back to his hometown.

Huai Qi didn't come here because he wanted to miss the old days. He had seen his grandma for the last time, and at least fulfilled one of his many wishes. He was quite satisfied. He came here just to confirm one thing with Chen Pan'an.

Grandma’s black stele is still stained with black and yellow stains from the unburned rice paper. The light rain a day ago made the place damp and cold, like the tears of a dead soul resting on the rain, seeing the world for the last time.Huai Qi carefully wiped the tombstone over and over again.

Chen Pan'an worried about him and followed him all the time. When Huai Qi faced the tombstone in silence, he said something reassuring: "Xiao Huai, I'm sorry."

Huai Qi suddenly asked: "Brother Chen, did grandma pick me up?"

Chen Pan'an was as silent as the sky.

"I want to hear the truth. You must know that after grandma leaves, you won't be able to hide it from me." Huai Qi added, "I want to hear the whole truth."

Until the light rain started to fall again, Chen Pan'an didn't speak any more.After a long time, Huai Qi heard the sound of fallen leaves being trampled away, turned to Chen Pan'an and said, "Brother Chen, I won't leave until I know the truth."

"Come here," Chen Pan'an finally compromised, "It's cold outside, let's talk in the car."

……

Chen Panan and Huaiqi are far behind.Huaiqi was born in the year when Chen Pan'an was admitted to university. Huaiqi lost his mother right after birth, and his father didn't care about their grandparents and grandchildren. So Chen Pan'an, who had just grown up, was sent by his parents to help Huaiqi's grandma. They all alternate between raising children and working part-time.So later, Xiao Huaiqi regarded Chen Pan'an as his own brother, and was very clingy to him. When Chen Pan'an came back from vacation, Xiao Huaiqi would remember clearly, and would always wait for him at the gate of the old station in the old county.

Huai Qi curled up his fingers quietly, because just this paragraph of Chen Pan'an's description already conflicted with the "first memory" he had sorted out.The stupid Huai Qi, the gentle father, and the cold mother are all absent from this story.

But what Chen Pan'an said is probably true.He can even remember the details of his childhood clearly, so he has no reason to weave such a large and detailed lie to deceive him.

Huai Qi wanted to hear the whole truth, so Chen Pan'an told him year after year.When Huaiqi was 16 years old, Chen Pan'an was already in his current position.When he said this, he paused for a long time, and opened a bottle of mineral water for himself and Huai Qi.He stared closely at Huai Qi's eyes and said, "You had an accident that year."

Huai Qi had already made preparations and calmly let him continue.

"Do you remember how my arm was hurt?" Chen Pan'an shook his bandaged arm a few months ago.

"Listen to the unspoken rumors of "hunting a gang mission slander." "Huai Qi is not very clear either.

"It was a human trafficking gang with a large scale and suspected consortium support behind it. It used to be a chronic disease in this area. Many years ago, he was rampant in the old county for a while, and was caught by the government's special raid, and then fell silent for ten years. For a few years, everyone thought that the root of this gang was removed, but in recent years it has appeared again like a ghost. Because I have been participating in the mission about it, I know clearly that the time when it revived was four years ago .”

"The 16-year-old me is the victim of that gang's 'comeback' crime?" Huai Qi guessed.

"Ah."

Huai Qi thought, could it be that he was sold into that family?That's even more wrong, I was 16 years old four years ago, and the time of the end of the first memory has not yet reached this age.

"Then I..."

"You died," Chen Pan'an interrupted him suddenly, as if he was afraid that he would regret it, and said quickly and decisively, "In that accident, you died."

These three words were too harsh, almost beyond the scope of Huaiqi's preparations, but they catered to his absurd guess.Huai Qi's heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and he said, "Dead?"

"Yes." Chen Pan'an stared at Huai Qi intently, as if afraid that if he looked away, Huai Qi would take the next words as a joke—because even Chen Pan'an himself didn't believe this memory, This simply challenges his atheistic worldview."You were found in a laboratory, you were on the operating table, and the organs were almost all removed. I saw it with my own eyes," he said. "

"..."

Some fear and disbelief appeared on Huai Qi's face, he didn't dare to imagine that scene, let alone this scene was placed on himself.But he still held back the turbulent mood, and continued to ask: "Then?"

"I claimed your body back, but I didn't dare to show it to my aunt" because your grandma would definitely not be able to bear it. It was a little strange to say "your corpse" to this big living person in Huaiqi, Chen Pan'an continued with a complicated mood, "So I discussed with a few of your relatives and cremated you first.But not until we've got our words ready to face your grandma.I went back to Lao County, at your house, and saw you lying on the bed resting—a complete you, and my aunt was making medicinal soup for you by the stove. "

Chen Pan'an reluctantly let the corners of his mouth twitch: "Do you know, I was holding your urn in my arms at that time."

Huai Qi laughed dryly at this black humor that wasn't funny.

"Auntie said that she picked you up from the field - you were almost ragged and passed out in the grass at the time. At first you were very unconscious, like a young child with dementia, but after a long time, I gradually became conscious." Chen Pan'an said, "You two look so much alike that you are almost the same person, but I can see that you are different from the former Huaiqi in many ways, but I asked you Name, you said, you are also called Huaiqi. You don’t know who your parents are, let alone where you come from. If I hadn’t seen Xiao Huai’s body with my own eyes, I would really think you didn’t die, you just Amnesia."

Chen Pan'an's description is very consistent with Gu Qian's "Second Life" in the early stage of recovery.Combined with his own chaotic memory, Huai Qi confirmed that he was the second life.But the time between the death of "Huai Qi" and the recovery of the second life was too close. According to Chen Pan'an's description, it was less than a month at all.In theory, the reshaping time of Second Life is at least ten years.

"Then Brother Chen, what do you think I am?" Huai Qi asked confusedly.

"Someone leaked the fact that you were dead to auntie, but auntie didn't believe it, she always thought you were Huaiqi." Chen Pan'an still insisted on his own thoughts, he shook his head and said: "I don't believe in the theory of rebirth, and my intuition tells me , you are not the younger brother I used to be."

Although they are not relatives, but years of getting along with each other made Huaiqi a very important existence for Chen Pan'an, even though the identity of this person in front of him is obscure.Chen Pan'an still chose to hide it for his "brother", and he still treats him as kindly as a family member.

"I've been searching for your information and investigating related missing persons cases, but there are no clues. You seem to have appeared out of nowhere, without any identity in the world, and you are here to replace Xiaohuai." Chen Pan'an leaned on Seat, said, "Sometimes I doubt my persistence, I think, is Xiaohuai really 'reborn'? Plus you do some unexpected behaviors from time to time, you can say you can see Criminals, predicting death" This made me even more confused. "

After Chen Pan'an finished speaking, he scratched his hair, and said, "Do you remember living in the old county when you were a child?" "

Huai Qi shook his head.

The air in the car was so quiet that it was almost frozen.Huai Qi didn't know what kind of posture and identity he should use to communicate with Chen Pan'an now. The bridge of family affection built by time between them who had no blood relationship seemed to be completely destroyed in this story. Keep.Huai Qi wanted to speak, but no word dared to come out of his mouth.

But Chen Pan'an suddenly started the car, he patted Huai Qi's left shoulder, and Huai Qi leaned to the left unexpectedly.Chen Pan'an said: "If you can't digest it, just pretend I told a joke to scare you."

Huai Qi pursed his lips and said, "I..."

"Don't care who you are" even if you find your identity later. "Chen Pan'an smiled to ease the atmosphere, and said, "As long as you want, I will still be your brother from now on. "