Chapter 27 Section 12

At nine o'clock the next morning, Jiayu went to Yanjun Lane to meet Tang Yansheng. This deep alley has been the place where soldiers were stationed since the Song Dynasty.Jiayu is familiar with every gate and first floor, every plant and every tree there; he is familiar with the black eaves and blue tiles there, and the narrow paths are thick with shade;She likes the silence and gloom there.In the past, every time she walked into this dark alley, her heart would always calm down.Later, she had to force herself to forget about it. More than ten years ago, Jiayu and Tang Yansheng arranged a new house for their wedding, just in time for the rainy season at the turn of spring and summer.Everything seemed moldy.Accompanying her for a long time are two carpenters hired by Yan Sheng.They made a carved marriage bed for her.Jiayu lay on a bamboo chair all day long and read a book.Usually, she didn't read a few pages, and fell asleep in the aroma of camphor wood chips and wood shavings.At noon, the smell of sawdust mixed with the intoxicating aroma of neighbors cooking, she also felt very at ease.Looking at the misty rain all over the street, looking at the water droplets splashing on the bluestone boards, looking at the wind shaking the wall grass, and the rain green old moss, she suddenly felt that in this dilapidated old alley, the old alleys that were lost or grew or A short life is actually quite good.

She desperately resisted the urge to go to Shanghai.Force yourself not to think about Dragon Boat Festival.Forget the ponds, lotuses and moons of Zhaoyin Temple.It's a lifetime no matter what.She is just an unwanted girl from a foreign country, and she should live a normal life. After more than ten days of rain, it finally stopped.As soon as the sky cleared, Yan Sheng took Jiayu to Hualian Department Store to pick out rings.The wedding date of her and Tang Yansheng was set on May 1 Labor Day one month later.In the Chow Tai Fook Gold Store on the second floor, she saw the Dragon Boat Festival from a square mirror on the wall, like seeing a ghost.She turned around, and the man's shadow flickered and disappeared.The corner of the escalator was empty.

Yan Sheng asked her to try on the rings from the gold shop, but Jiayu said it was not suitable. Yan Sheng has a lot of patience.He wanted to take her to the Chenguang Shopping Center on Dashi Street, to see Chow Sang Sang.Jiayu suddenly pressed her chest in pain and squatted on the ground.She had an "angina pectoris" just in time.Tang Yansheng drove the police car with the siren blaring, and drove her to the hospital at high speed. On the way to the hospital, her angina, of course, healed without treatment. The next day, after leaving a few words, she packed her luggage and left quietly.

The strange thing is that Yan Sheng didn't even look for her again. Three years later, on Ching Ming Festival, she was holding her son who had just turned one year with Duanwu, and went to Helin Temple to see the peach blossoms, when she unexpectedly met him getting off a police car.Yan Sheng came over to strike up a conversation with her generously, with a kind of magnanimity that accepted all the price offered by fate.On the other hand, Jiayu was in a panic, and was in a hurry to hide in the crowd.For what Yan Sheng said just now, she found a place where no one was around and cried a lot.

He said: "Through things now, I just want to be brothers and sisters, I'm afraid it won't work, right?" She had an abortion for Yan Sheng. Jiayu parked the car on the side of the road outside Yanjun Alley, and walked into the alley alone.This alley is being transformed into a "folk custom street".The original gray brick building was painted and coated.Deep red, emerald blue or pinkish white.A pair of red lanterns are raised and lowered in front of each shop door. At first glance, there is a kind of glaring glamour.The tea, batik cloth, embroidered shoes, jewelry, antiques and silk sold in the shop are all local products.

It's morning, and there are still no tourists on the street.However, the public toilets are still in their original locations, as dilapidated and smelly.Under the tall door wall of the Hokkien Guild Hall, an old man was dozing off on the road sill with a cane in his arms.Next to it lay a big yellow dog.The old man watched her pass by without moving, his eyes were very obscure. Walking on this street that was somewhat unfamiliar to her, Jiayu felt that something was dead in her heart.However, this is also good.There are no branches that affect her feelings or stir her memory.At least don't worry, you will meet your past self on this long white street.

The grocery store next door to Yan Sheng's house has now turned into a liquor store.The courtyard door was ajar.In the narrow courtyard, there is a girl with a bow tie, who looks seven or eight years old, holding a shuttlecock in her hand, looking at her suspiciously.Standing beside the girl was a handsome woman in her early thirties, with a green hair rope in her mouth, combing her hair in the sun.As soon as she saw Jiayu, she turned her head and shouted into the room: "Yan Sheng, someone is looking for you." The woman quickly tied up her hair, then smiled and beckoned Jiayu to come in.Jiayu heard the sound of the toilet flushing coming from the house.

She remembered that there used to be a family living in this small courtyard, a tofu grinder.Yan Sheng said that Lao Zhang, who grinds tofu, died of cancer the year before last.He bought the entire courtyard from Lao Zhang's son.After several small rooms were opened, a window was opened on the east and west sides.Even the glass tiles on the roof were replaced with plastic-steel skylights.The room is much brighter, but it does not have the gloom and ambiguity of the past. They sat down around a table of four immortals by the window. The west wind blows a blue sky.The sun is also quiet.

"The woman who occupies your house is named Li Chunxia." Yan Sheng said to her with a cigarette in his hand, "She is the director of the Nursing Department of the Special Needs Ward of the First People's Hospital." It turned out to be a doctor. When Jiayu met her, Chunxia hinted to herself unpredictablely that she had a smell of death in her body. I see. "This kind of person is the most difficult to get. The relationship is intricate." Yan Sheng said, "Leaders of all sizes in the city, including rich people, all treat doctors under her hands. It is obviously not an ordinary person."

Yan Sheng's wife has already brewed a pot of Tieguanyin for them.Then, I took another Wendan to peel it off.She made several cuts on the Wen Dan with a fruit knife, gritted her teeth and tore off the Wen Dan skin, but accidentally broke her nails.Yan Sheng grabbed her hand distressedly, looked at it in the sunlight, and smiled softly: "That's all you have." The woman also looked at him and smiled.There is a natural intimacy between husband and wife. "Will she keep occupying my house like this?" Jiayu asked.The voice is a bit dry and a bit stiff. "That's not it." Yan Sheng comforted her and said, "Don't be in a hurry. We have to discuss a solution slowly. You drink tea."

They drank tea and chatted for a while.Jia Yu secretly glanced at Yan Sheng twice, and found that his temples also had gray hair.The pores on the face are more enlarged under the sun, and there are more brown spots on the cheeks.People are much calmer than before.It wasn't long before the woman went out with the baby.They are going to the City Children's Palace.Learn Piano. Yan Sheng joked: "Since Lang Lang was born in China, all the policemen seem to have fantasies about the future of the child." The woman laughed twice, turned around, and said to Jiayu, "I'll have dinner at my house at noon, okay?" Her words, like her person, are clean.It seems that she knows about her past relationship with Yan Sheng.Jiayu just wasn't sure how Yan Sheng would tell her about the past experience.Seeing her walking across the patio with the child in her arms, Jiayu suddenly felt a strange sense of shame for some reason. Because last night, she had a dream. She dreamed that as soon as she stepped into this small courtyard, Tang Yansheng hugged her around the waist, handcuffed her to the bed frame with a pair of cold handcuffs, held her legs with both hands, and hit her deepest.It's like tamping, but also like pounding rice.She struggled desperately, and Yan Sheng said to her with a playful smile: Before talking about serious things, he needs to review his previous homework.After thinking about it, Jiayu put up with shame and let him manipulate her.But he "reviewed" endlessly.Just like the continuous spring rain in my memory. This is a crazy time, and her dreams are also crazy. But the current Tang Yansheng, regardless of whether it is true or false, has a very solemn expression on his face.He said: "What we do as a police officer is, after all, a body collection team. It's all an afterthought. You know what I mean?" Jiayu nodded.In fact, she didn't understand him at all.She pinched off a small piece of Vendan skin with her fingernails, and gently rubbed it into a small ball between her fingers.Seeing this golden ball slowly turn dark black under the action of sweat stains.Yan Sheng was much older than before, and the little bit of heroism in his brows had already faded away. "Our work, how should I put it? For example, it's like you have a sore on your body. There is a small lump under the skin, which hurts and itches, but you can't do anything about it, yes? You want a sore It gets better, you just have to be patient. Wait until it festers and has a pus head, you pull out the pus head, squeeze out the pus, and apply some medicine. I mean, before the poison comes out , Our criminal police have nothing to do with it. "Li Chunxia has occupied your house, but she also has a formal contract from the intermediary company in her hand. That is to say, her behavior is basically legal before the court's judgment. We have no reason to break into your house and harass you. If The two of you don't have any substantive contact, so you can only go through court procedures. If the criminal police team is to intervene, there must be some disturbance. Do you understand what I mean? To put it bluntly, if the two of you really fight Get up, if there are casualties, then you don't need to say, we will dispatch immediately and rush to the scene as soon as possible..." "You mean, let me bring someone to the door?" Jiayu said. "That's right. That's what I said." Yan Sheng said, "If you want to solve the problem immediately, this is the only feasible way." It sounds like Yan Sheng's "abscess theory" is not much different from her mother-in-law's "welding door plan".But what really made her palpitate at this moment was not the lump under the skin, but the melancholy that quietly grew in her heart.Yan Sheng has become another person.There is no smell of the past.Even the hippie smile that was so common on his face had long since disappeared. Yan Sheng told her that it is unrealistic to expect the criminal police to catch the boss of Yiju Company soon.However, if no one can be caught, the court will wait for a year and a half, and maybe the court will be held.In that case, you have to have the patience to accept it.Finally, he asked Jiayu: "By the way, do you know any gangsters?" "I don't know." Jiayu's heart skipped a beat twice, and she said with a smile, "How could I know those people?" "What about the gangsters on the street, the prisoners released from the labor camp, and the gangsters in the neighborhood?" Jiayu originally wanted to say: "Then it's only you!" But she wasn't sure if such a joke would cause the other party to suddenly turn against him (after all, they haven't seen each other for many years), so she just held it back. "It doesn't matter if you don't know each other." Yan Sheng thought for a while, and then said, "Next Sunday, I will settle this matter for you. You can find a few relatives and friends, the more people the better, it is best to find some young and middle-aged people You asked them all to wear black suits and sunglasses, first tricked Li Chunxia into opening the door, and then the group rushed in without any explanation. After entering the room, don't talk to them. Try to avoid physical conflicts. I What I said is try your best. Even if you do something, don't hurt anyone. Then, you call me immediately. That morning, I will lead people to patrol around Downing Bay, and I promise to arrive within five minutes. Don't worry about the next thing, we'll take care of it." "What will you do with it?" "Hi! It's nothing more than mediation." Tang Yansheng said. "What if the mediation fails?" "That's impossible." Yan Sheng said with a smile, "There are so many of you, if you look there, the timid ones would pee their pants in fright. According to my experience, they are also willing to let us mediate. When the time comes, They may ask for compensation, and you have to be mentally prepared for this. In my opinion, if their appetite is not too big, after you negotiate the price, give them a little money, and the matter will be settled, okay?" Jiayu couldn't help but smiled wryly, and murmured: "Then let's try this first. But where do you want me to find people in black suits?" She got up to say goodbye to Yan Sheng, but Yan Sheng didn't let her have lunch.His brows were tightly furrowed, and he had nothing to say.The two walked out of the courtyard and into the alley. The wind blows the lanterns on the street.Suddenly, Jiayu's heart skipped a beat and she almost shed tears. She remembered that afternoon when she left without saying goodbye, it was also a windy day.She stopped and walked alone in this deep alley.A tricycle driver saw her carrying a bag and followed her all the way.She had a thought in her mind, hoping to meet Tang Yansheng who was coming home from get off work on the street, and use his strong arms to make her change her mind.She knew that it was impossible - because of a phone call in the early morning that day, Yan Sheng went to Jurong to arrest the case. Yan Sheng didn't seem to notice Jia Yu's emotional changes.The two walked side by side for a while, Yan Sheng suddenly let out a long sigh, and told her that he really didn't want to wear this bullshit police uniform anymore!That's not what people do.commit crimes.It seems that there are some unspeakable difficulties.Jiayu didn't ask, so he didn't continue. Yan Sheng said that his greatest wish in this life is to buy a duplex apartment in the suburban "Splendid Jiangnan" and experience the feeling of living in a villa.Because the children go to school, and because the speed of saving money can't keep up with the house price, it's just a thought at the moment.Another plan of his is to transform part of this small courtyard into a tasteful coffee shop after he resigns, so that he can calm down and completely "release" his mood.He plans to build a grape trellis in the yard.Lie in the shade every day, drink tea, read Yu Dan or Yi Zhongtian, and listen to Richard Clayderman... He also said that there are thousands of roads in the world, but none of them can turn back.This was obviously meant for her.Jiayu didn't say anything. At the entrance of the alley, the two bid farewell silently.Yan Sheng suddenly touched her head. Laughed like a real brother.