Chapter 10 Mei Qi's death

The god of death did not take Mei Qi away.Mei Qi tried her best to bring Zhou Ziheng back to Coral Garden. Seeing Zi Heng's face covered with injuries, Zhou Gong and Zhou Po were startled, thinking that his grandson had been injured in a fight with someone, or that he had crashed into a car.However, Mei Qi told them with tears that she hurt herself so much by herself. Mei Qi said: "Today, I accompanied Ziheng to see Uncle Zhou, and they recognized each other. I only found out today that Uncle Zhou is still alive, and he has been living in a mental hospital for the past twenty years."

Po Zhou sat down, crying.Duke Zhou stomped his feet again and again: "Injustice, he knows after all." Zi Heng was slightly startled, as if waking up from a dream, staring at his grandparents and asking, "You guys always knew, why did you lie to me? Why did you tell me that my father was dead? Why did you keep it from me for twenty years?" Zhou Po was already sobbing.Zhou Gong sighed: "This is your grandma's idea. She said, instead of letting you know that you have a crazy father, it is better to hide it from you and tell your father is dead, so as not to leave a shadow in your heart. Ah Heng , think about it, from childhood to adulthood, apart from not having parents, what other shortcomings do you have? If we tell you the truth, it will not help you in any way, but it will make you full of worries at a young age, and will Let your classmates laugh at you, let you grow up with low self-esteem and depression..."

"So you keep it from me!" Ziheng interrupted his grandfather painfully, "So let Hongchen bear all this. At a young age, he was full of worries, was ridiculed by his classmates, and grew up with low self-esteem and depression. All of this, I was supposed to take the responsibility, but now, Hong Chen has accepted it. Like me, she is an orphan. She was lonely and lonely since she was a child, and she has to carry such a heavy burden..." Ziheng cried, he didn't know whether the bursts of heartache were concern for his lover or pity for his sister. The feelings for Hongchen were originally very simple love, but at this moment, they became confused.Before today, she was his lover; after today, she became his sister.And no matter what kind of status she is, it should be his responsibility, his relatives, but he didn't help her in any way, only brought her too much suffering!What a useless man he is!

Zhou Po was confused, and almost suspected that she had heard it wrong. She coughed and asked, "Hong Chen? Cough cough, is that the girl you like? Cough cough, what does this have to do with her?" Seeing Ziheng's tears, Mei Qi felt more and more guilty. She answered Zhou Gong and Zhou Po on Ziheng's behalf: "Ziheng and I went to the mental hospital to find Luo Hongchen, but we saw Uncle Zhou. It turns out that Luo Hongchen is Uncle Zhou's biological daughter, that is... Zi Heng's biological sister." "Sister?" Zhou Po was startled, and coughed even worse, and almost lost her breath.

Mei Qi couldn't help crying: "I didn't expect it to be like that. Zi Heng seldom told me about Uncle Zhou. I didn't know that he was married twice, and I didn't know that he had a daughter. I don't even know that he is still alive and living in a mental hospital..." "Stop talking!" He screamed, his heart was full of powerlessness and guilt, and he almost wanted to kneel down again and pray to God: forgive me, end your pranks, if you want to punish me, you can use all your power to punish me. The most cruel method, but please let the one I love go!No matter, she is my lover, or... sister!

"Grandma!" Zhou Po sighed again and again, "Our Zhou family and Luo family, who owes whom?" "What's the grudge between the Zhou family and the Luo family?" Zi Heng grabbed Grandpa's hand and pleaded, "Grandpa, what are you hiding from me? Tell me. People have always said that Hongchen is the daughter of a murderer, Doesn’t that mean that my father is a murderer? What’s going on? My mother died when I was born, and Hongchen’s mother was like this. How could it be such a coincidence? Who caused these tragedies? " "It's the sky, it can only be the sky!" Zhou Gong sighed again and again, "The army your mother joined the army was led by Hong Chen's grandfather Luo Changming. Luo Changming was an old revolutionary. The commander-in-chief of the art troupe is your mother's leader. It is said that he killed your mother. We don't know exactly what happened. In short, when your father came back from the frontier, he returned to Nanjing with you who was just born. Tell us that Feiyan died because of Luo Changming, and that he will not let Luo Changming go, and must avenge Feiyan. But then, Hongchen’s mother Luo Xiu fell in love with you for some reason Dad, desperate to marry her. Luo Changming objected, so Luo Xiu severed ties with her father and came to our Zhou's house empty-handed."

For Luoxiu, Ziheng has an impression, that gentle and kind stepmother, often carrying his father to grandparents' house to visit him, buy him new clothes, buy toys, and take him out to eat delicious food.She was really a beautiful woman, Zi Heng had a very good impression of her, but never thought that she would be Luo Hongchen's biological mother! "If you want to talk about Xiuxiu, we really owe the Luo family." Zhou Gong continued, "Although your father married Luo Xiu, but because of Luo Changming, their relationship after marriage was not good, but no matter your father No matter how you lose your temper, how picky you are, Xiuxiu always bears it quietly. She never quarrels with your father and is very filial to us. She is really a good daughter-in-law. We have also persuaded your father several times to let him be good. Treat Xiuxiu seriously, especially after finding out that Xiuxiu was pregnant, and warned him twice severely. Your father also seems to have repented, no longer picks on Xiuxiu as before, and is willing to care about her body occasionally. Together When I went to the street, I also accompanied Xiuxiu to buy baby clothes. We all said that after having a child, their husband and wife relationship will definitely improve, but unexpectedly, Xiuxiu had a car accident before giving birth. He died, that child is probably Luo Hongchen."

"Why didn't you tell me about this?" Zi Heng asked painfully, "Are you also afraid that my childhood will be shadowed? But, that is my sister, your own granddaughter, how can you treat me for more than twenty years? Does she ignore it?" "No, we didn't know there was Hong Chen at all." Duke Zhou repeated, "What a crime. When we rushed to the hospital, Luo Changming and his wife stood there and didn't allow us to see Xiuxiu's body at all. They only said you Dad killed their daughter, and he never wanted to see our Zhou family again. And your father, at that time, had become so stupid that he couldn't speak clearly. We didn't even know that Xiuxiu had a life before he died. My child, I thought the baby was stillborn. It turns out that Hongchen is already this big, and he still...has an injustice with you!"

Zhou Ziheng suddenly felt chills, hatred, revenge, marriage, car accident, all these were simply not real.Could it be that this is the retribution grandma used to say?Because of retribution, Zhou Ziheng married Luo Changming's daughter, and tortured her to death; because of retribution, Luo Hongchen lost his mother when he was born, and his father went crazy; and because of retribution, he fell in love with his own sister !What a cruel retribution! Is this the heavenly cycle?This is retribution?Then, if heaven repays the people of the world in this way, who is repaying heaven? Sympathy.He pityed that she and himself were both people with deficiencies in their lives, but he didn't know that they had walked out of the same gap in the first place.

His tragedies and her tragedies have the same roots and origins, and they are not different from each other.And the mutual love lost in time and space for twenty years, not only cannot make up for the lack of love, but will only make the power of the tragedy ten times and a hundred times heavier. He howled again in pain, but his voice was completely hoarse, he opened his mouth wide, and only spat out a mouthful of blood. Poor Zhou yelled heartbroken: "Ah Heng..." Wept so hard that she almost lost her breath.Zhou Gong tremblingly supported his grandson with his old age, and he was also in tears.As for Mei Qi, watching and listening obsessively, the sense of guilt in her heart deepened and intensified every minute, as if there was an invisible vortex sucking her in forcefully, sinking deeper and deeper...

Zhou Ziheng finally fell asleep, Mei Qi sat by his bed, looked at his sad face, and remembered that the last time he was with him like this was when he was drunk. At that time, she had just started raising Gu and had only fed it for three days.If time could be turned back, if she could let go graciously and leave with three years' salary, her life would not be more difficult than it is today. But she is not reconciled.She cocooned herself and insisted on tying him to her side, but she didn't know that such behavior was tantamount to tying herself to a big rock and sinking to the bottom of the sea.How stupid! If, if she gives up now, is there still time?Can you rewrite all the evils? She glanced at Zhou Ziheng again, gently opened his frowning brows with her hands, suddenly bent down and kissed his forehead lightly, wiped away her tears, stood up and walked out, saying goodbye to Zhou Gong and Zhou Po. Mrs. Zhou was still wiping her tears, and Duke Zhou sighed and said, "Miss Mei, it would be great if Ziheng could be with you, and I would not hesitate to be lucky." However, he suddenly looked at Mei Qi's face attentively, and wanted to say something. And stop. Mei Qi has always known that Duke Zhou likes to study Qimen Dunjia. Although it is just for fun, he has some experience.Can't help but ask for advice: "Grandpa Zhou, do you know how to read faces?" "Oh, oh..." the old man stammered, "Miss Mei, I know you are born in the year of the dragon. People born in the year of the dragon should not use wood, tie, earth, field, grain, sun, stone, knife, fire, etc. as names. The radical, your surname is Mei, with wooden characters, also known as Qi, with tie characters... If possible, why not change your name, it's good to use gold, moon, fish, and unitary as the capital... But, you are young People don't believe it." "I believe." Mei Qi replied softly, "Grandpa Zhou, I heard that you can pinch and count, and that I am a dragon in the sky, so he asked me if I was born in September. I checked, no September is October." Zhou Gong pondered: "Daughters of the Year of the Dragon, June is the broken moon, August brings peach blossoms, and October is the death god." "Death God..." Mei Qi murmured, "Grandpa Zhou, can I still be saved?" Her voice was so sad that Duke Zhou couldn't help but look at her again, vaguely seeing signs of bleeding on her face.However, even he didn't fully believe in his odd calculation skills, and he didn't dare to speak out casually. He just said vaguely: "Miss Mei, you are smart and kind-hearted. Turning bad luck into good luck." That is to say, if the heart is not kind, it will be invaded by evil, and there will be no place to die? Mei Qi smiled again, and suddenly asked: "Grandpa, if I were your grandson's wife, would you be willing?" "Yes, of course." Zhou Gong was a little at a loss. This young girl, with a sad face, smiled so strangely. What's wrong with her?He asked worriedly, "Miss Mei, are you okay?" However, Mei Qi was already unwilling to answer, turned around and walked out slowly. The "Locomotive Bar" is still as lively and noisy as ever. Whether sober or drunk, they all have the joy and indulgence of being drunk today, laughing vaguely, amplifying their voices, guessing fists, betting dice, and working hard. Find your own voice in the voices of others, and try your best to drown yourself in the hustle and bustle of everyone.This kind of searching and submersion brings a sense of stability to drinking buddies, believing that the country is prosperous and the people are safe, singing and dancing are peaceful. When Mei Qi, who was wearing a black see-through outfit, walked in, it caused quite an uneasy commotion. Some people whistled, some struck up a conversation, some pointed, some paid greedy attention, and some suddenly pointed at the TV and shouted: "Isn't that the promotion manager of the organizer of the Jinling Twelve Hairpins? The one who resigned suddenly before the competition started." On the TV, the highlights of the Jinling Twelve Beauties are being broadcast at the moment, and the clip of Mei Qi answering the reporter's questions flashes past, and then it is replaced by Luo Hongchen, forming a stark contrast: when Mei Qi is with the beauties of the beauty pageant, she looks gorgeous. Make-up, fancy clothes, and exaggerated manners, as if out of intention to compete; Hongchen, on the other hand, just plain-faced, nodded his lips politely, always smiled, listened, and nodded quietly, and only said a few words as a last resort, concise and to the point. But Mei Qi turned a blind eye to all of this and did not hear it.After coming out of the coral garden, she went back home, but the home was so quiet, full of the bloody smell that seemed to be there, it was the evil Gu worm celebrating arrogantly. She felt terrified, terrified to the point of madness.Can't wait to get out into the crowd. She stood on the balcony and looked down, seeing pedestrians walking up and down.But after such a long distance, those figures looked more like wandering spirits.So she put on her clothes and went downstairs, hoping to hear the most human voices and feel the most authentic popularity. But there are so many people in this world, but no one really cares about her or gets close to her. She walked the streets for a long time and finally came to the bar.He went straight to the bar and sat down, asked for a blood mary, grabbed it and drank it down, like a vampire seeing blood. She did look like a vampire, too.Wearing a black silk one-piece dress, scattered with a few hand-embroidered herbal flowers, red, blue, purple, and yellow, they are extraordinarily gorgeous against the background of the black ground, like a dress and pajamas. A gorgeous languid and decadent allure.Her shoulders and arms were bare, and she wore a hollowed-out silk shawl with dark flowers and tassels, which floated gently with her gestures, as if scratching her head for a pose. This kind of Jinyi Nightwalker has no makeup, and looks more and more like a nightingale who just finished business, or a ghost wandering the streets looking for a substitute on Halloween night.His lips were blue and his face was pale, and his eyes were confused. And on the hanging TV screen above the bar, there is a picture of her in the past, with bright eyes and white teeth, as beautiful as spring flowers. That was all in my previous life. She was alone then.A person who is in love. Now I don't know.Maybe it's just the husks that bugs feed on. Ah Qing was checking accounts backstage, and when she heard that Mei Qi was coming, she hurried out to greet her. Seeing Mei Qi's outrageous attire and crazy and miserable eyes, she was taken aback, grabbed her and asked, "Mei Qi, why are you here? What's the matter?" Mei Qi seemed to have never heard of it, she still patted the bar and shouted: "Have another drink, hurry up." Because her request was not met, she was very restless and annoyed when she was disturbed. Out of exaggerated joy, he grabbed his sleeve and cried: "They are brother and sister." "Who? What?" Wei Qing was puzzled, and forcefully lifted her off the bar stool and hugged her, "You drank too much." "They are brothers and sisters." Mei Qi said without thinking, she knew it was abrupt, so she had to explain clearly, "Zi Heng and Luo Hongchen are brothers and sisters." However, this explanation was tantamount to no explanation, and Ah Qing was even more at a loss: "Mei Qi, what's wrong with you? What's wrong? Are you feeling sick? I'll just tell you and take you home, okay?" It turned out that he thought she was drunk.Mei Qi firmly grabbed Ah Qing's hand: "I didn't drink, I was very sober, Ah Qing, listen to me clearly: Zhou Ziheng and Luo Hongchen, their fathers are the same person, they are brothers and sisters! Half father!" "How do you know?" Wei Qing was a little convinced. Mei Qi raised her head and laughed wildly: "How do I know? I saw it with my own eyes. I led Zhou Ziheng to the lunatic asylum to meet Luo Hongchen's father, but, but, that was also Ziheng's father, his biological father. , He and Luo Hongchen are brother and sister!" "You went to the lunatic asylum? Did you go to find yourself after all?" Wei Qing felt icy cold, even his eyes turned cold. "You promised me not to go to him, are you lying?" "I didn't want to go myself, but I couldn't help it. I didn't know why I called Zhou Ziheng. I was bewitched, Ah Qing, you believe me, it's not that I want to do this, I'm not By myself..." She cried and fell into Wei Qing's arms, longing for the last piece of pure land in this world. However, Wei Qing pushed her away: "Mei Qi, you go home, I don't want to talk now." Mei Qi was taken aback, and couldn't help but back away, as if she wanted to see Ah Qing more clearly.She understood that he didn't want to talk.It's that he doesn't want to talk to her.Or rather, he didn't want to see her again. She silently drank the wine in front of her, turned and walked away, walking out like she did when she came, her back was extremely lonely. Wei Qing stared at Mei Qi's back for a long time until she disappeared behind the door. Then he raised his head, looked at the hanging TV above his head, and watched Mei Qi on the TV. That Mei Qi was wearing a silk suit, a Chanel necklace, and an LV cherry bag. Both the ring and the watch were shining brightly, they were diamonds. She herself shines like a finely polished diamond. A woman like Mei Qi is the ideal of a man like Wei Qing.He has always wanted to have a real white-collar worker as his girlfriend. Wei Qing's father was a train driver and his mother was a conductor.The most normal combination. As a child, he used to travel around in his father's train.Wherever the train goes, so does he.The train tracks were so long that he thought he could travel all over the world. But he soon discovered that his father actually took the same route every time, starting at the same time, making the same stop at the same place, and finally arriving at the same destination. He felt disappointed, as if he had been cheated by life.Still reluctant to get out of the car.When the train set off again, he still followed. Even if it is the same train, it carries different people.Perhaps he should have been very grateful - his father is not a freight driver.He likes to observe different people on the train.What he envies most is the person who can walk everywhere. Later, when he got older, he began to fall in love with traveling. Thanks to his father's benefits and connections, he didn't have to buy a ticket to go anywhere by train, and he always had a berth to sleep in. He finally went to many places, drank in bars everywhere, and felt that it was nothing more than that. Then he stopped and opened a bar.Make it look like a carriage, a train that never leaves.Just let the alcohol carry the soul around. Alcohol can take you anywhere you want to go. The wine also brought Mei Qi to him. He once greeted her with open arms with great joy, and was so excited to have her. He knew that being able to embrace her was completely a coincidence, and the probability was as small as winning the sports lottery. They were supposed to be people from two worlds.White-collar workers usually choose those who have a higher status than them and can help them go up, such as Zhou Ziheng; and the small bar owner should live with the bar girl, embracing each other and dreaming of life. He has a real white-collar girlfriend, but he thinks it's nothing more than that. Being mocked by life once again. The bar is empty.It was closed, and Wei Qing sat alone for a long time, and finally decided to take a trip to the "Plum Garden".last trip. As expected, Mei Qi was drinking again, looking at him drunkenly from above the glass: "You are back." "I came here because I thought I should explain something. Also, I will return your things to you." Wei Qing took out a small embroidered shoe from his pocket and put it on the coffee table. "I took it from your house." , and bring it back to you now." He returned all her things to her, even the souvenirs he stole privately, and he didn't want to leave any thoughts. It's over between them, he and her are over, and there is no kindness left. Mei Qi was crying, but she was smiling: "But, it's not mine, it's Luo Hongchen's." "what?" "That's Luo Hongchen's handicraft. I bought it from her when I saw her for the first time. Didn't Zhou Ziheng tell you? Luo Hongchen turned out to be an embroidered girl who sold embroidered shoes in the Confucius Temple On that day, I was so desperate that I went to the Confucius Temple with Ziheng and bought three embroidered shoes, three of them, each of which was not a pair... Mei Qi coughed, and the smoke and dust of the past came before her eyes. It was only a few months ago, but it seemed as if a century had passed. And Wei Qing also sighed, "Cut the purple velvet with a golden knife, and make shoes with Lang. I wish to turn into a pair of immortal cats and fly into the boudoir." What beautiful words and embroidery, he couldn't help it when he saw it for the first time, secretly Untie it and keep it for myself, just because it belongs to Mei Qi and is a testimony of love.It turned out that it belonged to Luo Hongchen. Everything is a misunderstanding, and love is just an illusion. He said in a calm voice: "Since Luo Hongchen is Zhou Ziheng's biological sister, it is impossible for the two of them to be together again. Isn't that as you wish? You can return to Ziheng's side." "It's late, it's too late." Mei Qi was still crying and smiling, "I'm already with you, you killed my worm, I can't be with other men anymore, never again." "Insect?" Wei Qing thought a little bit, "I seem to have seen a worm somewhere before, but I can't remember it." "It's the Gu worm that Pan Daxian gave me. Love Gu. Love Gu fed with my blood. Plant it on any man, and that man will become one with me. I was originally raised for Zhou Ziheng, but Ruined by you..." "Gu?" Wei Qing recalled that Mei Qi once told him about the scourge of witchcraft during Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and she said: It's not evil, it's magic.Could it be that there is such a thing as witchcraft?And the witchcraft has survived to this day, and it happened around me? "Pan Daxian gave it to me..." Mei Qi talked intermittently about the whole process of seeking help from witches.That nameless town, wizards who don't distinguish between male and female, that giant jar, and the poisonous insects that devour each other's bodies in the jar... She raised a Love Gu.Gu is gone, maybe it has already melted into her life, like a shadow, always dependent on each other, until death. She uses her life to serve love. Love is a huge conspiracy. Steal the beam and switch the post.The man who stayed by her side became Ah Qing. Empathy.Zhou Ziheng fell in love with his own sister. They are all hopeless people in the end. The more Wei Qing heard it, the paler his face became, and he almost felt sick. He couldn't believe it, but he couldn't believe it.Following Mei Qi's narration, he had slowly remembered that he had indeed seen a worm kept in a bottle and placed under Mei Qi's bed. After taking it off, it was trampled to death, and thick blood flowed all over the ground. Even now, when I think about it, I can still smell the faint smell of blood. It turned out that he and Mei Qi were not together of his own will, not because of love, not even sexual attraction, but because of a worm!He can't control his love!This is so wicked and so ugly! Wei Qing shouted: "Where is that wizard? Let me find him." "I want to find him too, but he's dead!" Mei Qi yelled, "I know, you want to find him to solve the curse. Do you think I don't want to? I don't even know what I should do after the Gu worm dies, What would happen again, I was so scared, scared to death, so I had to drink like hell to keep myself from thinking about it." She wept bitterly in despair, lying on the coffee table, her shoulders trembling from crying. However, Wei Qing looked at it, and there was no pity and intolerance in his heart, but only indifference, disgust, and anger.He was manipulated by her, manipulated by a worm, how can a bloody man be controlled by a worm? He said in a deep voice again: "Mei Qi, I came today to tell you that we are finished. Now, I think more clearly. Don't say that I don't believe in witchcraft at all, it's just that it's so evil. Don't be afraid. We're done!" "Wei Qing—" Mei Qi cried, and murmured, "If I say, I'm really in love with you, do you believe me? Will you forgive me?" Wei Qing couldn't help turning her head back, looking at Mei Qi bitterly, her heart felt as if a sharp knife had been cut across her heart. However, he doesn't believe her.Such a vicious, mean and hateful woman, does she still know how to truly love someone?Even if she really fell in love with him, who would know if it was from the heart or because of the power of witchcraft? Mei Qi said weakly: "Wei Qing, I am really..." However, he had turned around resolutely and strode out without looking back. He didn't take the elevator, but walked all the way downstairs, as if deliberately prolonging the process of breaking up with Mei Qi. He had been secretly in love with her for so long, but they were only together for dozens of days.It never occurred to him that he would be the first to propose a breakup. In the darkness, I vaguely heard Mei Qi singing. Wei Qing stopped, hesitating for a moment, wondering whether he should turn around or not.He carefully identified the song as "Black Sunday" by Sarah Brightman.It was an English song. He didn't understand it, but he knew it was a song that was said to make anyone want to commit suicide. He sighed and continued walking. As soon as he walked out of the door, he heard a shrill cry from the sky: "Wei Qing——" Looking up, she saw Mei Qi standing on the balcony on the twelfth floor in fluttering wide pajamas, with her arms outstretched like a bird, about to fly, shouting with all her strength: "Wei Qing, I'm real..." Wei Qing was terrified, and instinctively took a step forward, as if he wanted to catch the falling flowers from the sky.However, it was already too late, he watched Mei Qi jump down like a big bird, and fell in front of him with a "bang", her heart was shattered, and the sprayed blood stained his head and hands...