Ten Days End

"I don't have to take this path." I replied, "As long as I can follow you, I can take any path."

Grandpa Rong's face changed, and he said in annoyance: "Ajin, I don't need anyone to follow me anymore. I have enough money to spend until I die of old age! You are dragging me down, do you know?!"

"I..." I was very upset by what Grandpa Rong said.

Maybe I drank too much. After all, I have never felt so uncomfortable before.

Grandpa Rong no longer needs me, and Jiuzi doesn't need me either.

I became a fist floating in the air, without a body and a brain.

Where should I land? Where should I put it?

"I know." I nodded, feeling a little uncomfortable in my eyes and nose, "Grandpa Rong, I won't cause you any trouble. I will leave tomorrow morning."

Back at Grandpa Rong's house, I lay on the sofa and couldn't fall asleep.

What happened?

Why did everything change?

That stupid "brain" and "fist" are gone, won't he run away?

Why did he sacrifice himself?

Where did your usual intelligence go?

Damn, I think you are not a "brain" at all, you are just a fool.

The more I think about it, the more uncomfortable I feel. The night is getting deeper and deeper, but I can no longer calm down.

As soon as I close my eyes, Jiuzi's face appears in front of me.

At this moment, I remember all the nonsense he said like farts very clearly.

"Ajin, what would you do if you didn't have my "brain"?"

"Ajin, you should smile more often, now you look like a piece of wood."

"Ajin, learn to say "I lose" with me! It's more powerful to say it this way, "I lose"! Don't you like it? How about "Shovel of the House"?

"Ajin, remember to put on your clothes! Why did you come out like this again?"

"Ajin, protect me! I lose! If your "brain" is broken, you will become stupid!"

"Ajin, if one day I am gone, you can find another "brain". ”

“Ah Jin, if you can’t find the “brain”, just smile more, at least be a laughing ghost.”

I touched my cheek, and something was flowing down, cold.

“Damn…”

I smiled bitterly, it’s really hard to live in this world.

Thinking of this, I got up, took a bottle of beer from the refrigerator, gently opened the door, and went to the rooftop.

“Ah Jiu, do you keep smiling because you already know that living is so hard?”

I sat on the edge of the rooftop with my feet hanging outside.

Looking at the bright neon lights downstairs, at this moment I seemed to be stepping on the whole city, with an indescribable freedom in my heart.

Took a sip of wine and poured another sip of wine on the ground.

The breeze in the early morning made me cold, and I forgot to put on my shirt again.

“Jiuzi, let’s drink to our heart’s content today.”

“Ah! "I heard a scream behind me, and I almost jumped off the building.

I steadied myself and turned around, and saw an auntie slumped on the ground, holding a broom in her left hand and a stack of yellow paper in her right hand.

She looked at me tremblingly, as if she had seen something extremely terrifying.

I felt something was not good, so I immediately turned over and went to check on her: "Auntie, are you okay?"

"You...you..." The auntie frowned, but her expression quickly calmed down, "Young man, are you going to scare me to death? !"

"I...? I don't quite understand, I'm just sitting here drinking, how can I scare you?"

"You!" The auntie pointed behind me angrily, "Your tattoo! Who told you to do this? !"

I seemed to realize something and said, "Auntie, don't worry, I have a tattoo, but I'm not a bad person."

"Who said that? "The aunt stood up and patted the dirt off her body. "Why do you have to tattoo a line of words? I thought I saw a ghost."

Something suddenly flashed through my mind.

"Aunt... have you seen other people with a line of words on their backs?"

"That's right..." The aunt squatted down and spread the yellow paper on the ground. "There was a guy with a tattoo similar to the one on your back. He jumped off the building here last week. If you two didn't look different, I really thought I saw a ghost."

"What did you say? !"

"Why? Did I come here in the middle of the night to trick you?" The aunt spread the yellow paper carefully, then took out a lighter from her bosom. "Today is the seventh day after the death of that guy. Although I am a garbage collector, I still have to follow the rules. "

She lit the yellow paper, put her hands together, and said silently: "I am just a sweeper, I don't mean to disturb you, please forgive me, please forgive me..."

The flickering firelight swayed in the early morning, reflecting my eyes like a pool of stagnant water.

"Auntie, don't burn it. ” I turned around expressionlessly and showed her the tattoo on my back, “Take a closer look, are you sure it looks like mine?”

The aunt looked at me impatiently and said, “Similar, of course, but the characters are different. Yours is “天本” or something, his is “风啊花啊”, and the characters are more than yours.”

Hearing this, my heart was completely dead.

“Hey, the police said that the young man was not a resident of this building at all. Why did he jump off the building for no reason? It made me…” After saying this, the aunt knew she had said something wrong and slapped her mouth three times, “呸呸呸呸! I said the wrong thing, don’t blame me! ”

I finally understood.

Jiuzi jumped off the building here seven days ago.

So Master Rong lied to me.

I turned my head and looked at the edge of the rooftop, and I seemed to see Jiuzi's shadow standing there.

He was shirtless, and there was also a line of cursive characters on his back -

"The wind, flowers, snow and moon are originally leisurely, but the disturbing ones are redundant."

"But why did you jump off the building?" I asked.

Jiuzi's shadow smiled bitterly and said, "Ajin, live with my smile."

I blinked, and the shadow disappeared.

I don't know if I drank too much tonight, or Jiuzi really came back on the seventh day. At that moment, I seemed to really see him.

His expression was very sad.

I know Jiuzi. If he was hacked to death, he would not show such a sad expression.

He would only arrogantly ask me to help him get revenge.

But why is he so sad?

Because he doesn't want to die at all.

I imitated Jiuzi, showing that heartless smile, trying to think from his perspective.

"This time, lend me your brain."

Before, with Rong Ye and Jiuzi around, I didn't need to use my brain at all, but now it's different.

So...

What's the purpose of Tong Ye's pursuit of Rong Ye?

He wants money.

So Tong Ye can't kill him, otherwise he will lose both his life and money, and he will be the biggest loser.

What's more, the "hunt" was entrusted to Chong Ge, and Chong Ge wanted to take me in for Tong Ye.

Because even if he found out Rong Ye's location, he didn't send anyone to kill Rong Ye directly.

So the "hunt" didn't exist at all.

Jiuzi being hacked to death is even more nonsense.

I looked up at the moon and asked, "Out of moral or other considerations, you want Rong Ye to return the money to Tong Ye, right?"

The sky was very quiet.

"Rong Ye not only didn't listen, but also thought you wanted to rebel against him, right?"

I asked the moon again, no one answered.

"You didn't know that Master Rong wanted to kill you, so you followed him to the rooftop without any precautions, right?"

The moon looked fluffy, hidden in the mist in the early morning.