Chapter 14 fourteen

During the recitation practice that night, Xiao Tong was suddenly distracted.The speeches that I have already mastered by heart are always read in fragments.The recitation teacher repeatedly emphasized that he was going to give lectures in other places soon, this was the last practice for Xiao Tong, I hope he can cherish it.But including Lu Lindong, none of them understood why the student was so uncharacteristically absent-minded tonight. Lu Lindong said that there is something in your mouth, why is it always rubbing your tongue? Xiaotong said that I was tired and sleepy. Lu Lindong said, haven't you finished all the exams? Did you fail the exam?

Xiao Tong's face was thoughtful, and he answered irrelevantly: "Mr. Lu, let's practice here first, okay?" The recitation teacher suddenly felt the contempt, packed up his things with a sullen expression, and said: "That's it, why should I bother." Then he walked out of the classroom.Lu Lindong repeatedly apologized and chased after him. Xiao Tong didn't apologize any more, just said "Goodbye, teacher." Then he lowered his head and packed his schoolbag and prepared to leave.Lu Lindong saw off the guest and came back, complaining on his face: "What's wrong with you today? Are you broken in love or have you fallen in love with someone again?"

Xiao Tong said no. Lu Lindong criticized bitterly: "Can you hide it from me? Now you have a rich woman or a sister who drives a limousine to pick you up every day. Many classmates have seen it. I have to remind you a little bit." Tong, you must not be sorry for Zheng Wenyan, she treats you so well and you can't hurt her." Xiao Tong said that it was all rumors, and I couldn't help you if you insisted on spreading rumors.He walked out of the classroom by himself, and heard Lu Lindong still shouting behind him: "Hurry up and memorize the words!" The first thing Xiao Tong did when he left the classroom was to run to the public phone downstairs in the student dormitory to call Ou Qingchun.But as soon as he finished calling, there were people queuing up to make calls.He discussed with them if he could call him later and wait for someone to call back.But people say that we also have urgent matters and we will finish it in a while.No way, he went to another building to make a call, but the phone there was also occupied.He walked forward again, before reaching the third floor, Ou Qingchun called him back.Judging from the phone number left, she is at home at the moment.

Called her home, Qingchun's tone on the phone was a little urgent: "Is there anything wrong?" She asked: "Is it convenient for you to talk?" Xiao Tong said: "It's convenient, no one is there. Are you not angry if I disturb you at such a late hour?" Qingchun said: "Why would you be angry? Didn't I tell you that if you need to contact me, you can do it at any time of night." Xiao Tong said: "It's okay, it's okay. I was a little bored, so I called. It's okay." Qingchun was silent on the phone for a while, then breathed out and said, "I thought you had something to tell me."

"Are you not allowed to call you without circumstances?" "That's not true. But if there is no situation, try to keep calls as little as possible. Now our contact is secret, just like the underground work in the past, we need to reduce unnecessary contact, you know?" Xiao Tong didn't answer. Qingchun asked again on the phone: "Have you met Ouyang Lanlan?" Xiao Tong said weakly: "Not yet, she might have been really angry last time, so she didn't come to me anymore." Qingchun said: "You can take the initiative to find her, and you should try to get acquainted with her father as soon as possible. You can go to her as soon as possible, okay?"

Xiao Tong was silent for a while, then let out a huff, Qingchun seemed to have nothing to talk about, and said: "That's it, you go to bed early." Xiao Tong said okay, I wish you good night.He hung up the phone in a mess and went back to the dormitory.There was no one in the dormitory, and the students probably all went to the library.Does he want to go too?Can stand up and sit down again, bewildered.He thought badly, could it be that the so-called "love" that people talk about at first sight really came? At this moment, his mouth was parched, and all the cells and nerves in his body fell into an uncontrollable convulsion. Damn, did I really fall in love with this person?Really in love with this woman who is older than me and so far away from me?

This night he went to bed early and fell asleep late.In the collective dormitory where several people share the same room, only in the bed can the space of fantasy be opened.But the result of the fantasy is low self-esteem and hopelessness, he faintly feels that Ou Qingchun has always treated him as a playful little brother.She didn't seem to feel the way he'd hoped for him. When he woke up the next morning, seeing the fresh sunlight on the window sill and a sparrow with aura standing outside the window, his mood turned high again.Thinking of the tasks Qingchun entrusted to him and the resulting need for him, he felt full and happy again.

Indeed, it was Ou Qingchun's need for him that aroused his enthusiasm and interest in doing this.Taking advantage of the morning sunshine and vitality, he ran downstairs to make a phone call before washing up, and called a line on Ouyang Lanlan's BP machine: "Please come and pick me up in the evening." At night, he still walked out of the school gate at that time, He saw the familiar "BMW" parked in the old place.He walked over slowly as usual, imagining that she was still looking at him in the mirror as usual.But instead of sitting in the front seat of the car as usual, he opened the back door. He thought it was better to keep a little distance from her at first, not to get too close.

But as soon as he got into the car, he felt something was wrong. Ouyang Lanlan was not in the car.Sitting in the driver's seat was a man of unremarkable appearance.Before he had time to react, the doors on both sides opened at the same time, and two big men got in, one from the left and the other from the right, and the car roared and started to move quickly.He just struggled subconsciously for a second before giving up.The two men hugged him tightly, and he knew that he was not an opponent without needing to estimate. Fear filled my mind for an instant.He thought that there must have been a mistake in the public security, or an insider had reported the news.He also thought of the danger when he promised to do this for Qingchun, but he didn't expect it to come so soon and be so realistic.His mind suddenly went blank, and his heart beat as fast as he had just sprinted a hundred meters, but his voice managed to maintain the fearlessness on the surface.

"Who are you and what are you going to do?" There are two people on the left and right, who is saying: "Sit down honestly, don't make yourself uncomfortable!" He raised his voice, both courageous and desperate: "Where are you going, tell me clearly!" His waist was punched heavily, and the severe pain made his eyes gleam: "Be honest with your mother, I will tell you!" He suspected that his ribs seemed to be broken. The car was heading to the suburbs, and it was driving very fast.It was getting late and night was falling.As night fell, the atmosphere of death filled his heart even more.At this time, his thoughts became more and more pure. He only thought about how they would torture him, and whether he could see death as home at the last moment of his life.He thought that these people would be caught one day, and the Public Security Bureau would interrogate them. If Ou Qingchun could know that he died heroically and bravely, wouldn't she be a little surprised and sigh for him in her heart?

The car stopped in a deserted place.He was pushed out of the car by them.In the full moonlight, he saw piles of bricks all around him.He thought it must be a brick factory.But here the machines have stopped, and the workers are off work, so quiet that no sound can be heard.They pushed him on a row of piles of mud that had just been removed, and grabbed his clothes by the chest.He didn't resist or struggle, and didn't even say a word. He only heard a voice with a bit of an accent asking: "You son of a bitch, what did you do to Ouyang Lanlan, huh? You don't even look at the threshold when you're playing a hooligan!" Then he shouted: "What did Ouyang Lanlan say! What did she say?" He was punched in the face immediately, and this punch once again made his eyes full of gold stars, he didn't know why he desperately covered his eyes, he only wanted to protect his eyes, and let them punch and kick him on his body.They kicked and beat them and cursed at them, and they cursed all kinds of things.But what Xiao Tong heard most clearly was the scolding voice with a foreign accent, and the scolding voice kept repeating: "Call you a hooligan! Call you a hooligan! Call you a hooligan!" Every time he cursed, he kicked him until He collapsed on the ground, and the pile of billets behind him collapsed. After beating and scolding, they clapped their hands and dropped him to the car, turning their heads to warn him not to think that the calculation was over. "If you dare to pester her again, try it! Next time I see you, I will castrate you!" Xiao Tong leaned against the brick pile and sat up straight. He wanted to scold but he couldn't open his mouth.His mouth was full of blood, and half of his face was swollen. The beautiful "BMW" rolled up the dust with its headlights on, and drove away imposingly.Xiao Tong sat there exhausted, he didn't even have the strength to shake off those mosquitoes that smelled blood.After sitting for a while and recovering his strength, he stood up, staggered out of the brick factory, which was inevitably desolate under the moonlight, and walked onto the main road when he came.On the road, there were occasional cars passing by, and he raised his hand to stop them, but all of those cars suddenly accelerated and roared past him. This was the first time in his life that he suffered flesh and blood, and it was also the first time he was subjected to such humiliation.He walked along the road without stopping cars, only knew that his face was swollen and bleeding, but he didn't know exactly what it looked like, why no car dared to stop to pick him up. After walking crookedly along the road for a long time, he finally found a small town with bright lights. There was a signboard of a public telephone hanging at the door of a small shop in the town.The owner of the store was a kind-hearted middle-aged woman. Seeing that he looked pitiful and not like a villain, she fetched water for him to wash off the blood and asked him if he wanted to report the crime to the nearby police station.He shook his head, all he wanted to do was call Qingchun. Qingchun's voice when answering the phone was not as eager as the first time.She asked him if he was okay and where he was now.He said that even if something happened, can you come out.Qingchun asked what was the matter, and you said it was convenient on the phone.He said you better come out I want to see you.The other party was a little hesitant, not sure what was going on with him, but finally agreed. The meeting place was about at the door of a shop near Qingchun's home. Xiao Tong followed the female shopkeeper's guidance and quickly got on a bus in the suburbs.He got off at the third ring road and changed to "noodles". When he arrived at the agreed place, Qingchun had already been waiting for a long time with an unhappy face. Xiao Tong got out of the car, his face surprised her, and the dissatisfaction on his face was swept away.She asked who it was.He said they did it.She immediately felt the seriousness of the problem.Immediately led him to his home, and asked him to apply medicine to check his injuries, and let him take a shower in his bathroom, and went to his father's room to ask for clothes, and asked him to change the clothes stained with blood and mud. underwear.During this process, he intentionally let her see his half-naked body. His body was well-proportioned and healthy, and he firmly believed that the bruises on it would make him look more sexy.He secretly watched Qingchun's eyes, feeling secretly disappointed.Because there was no avoidance in that look, she looked at him like his sister, even like a loving mother, completely different from Wen Yan and Ouyang Lanlan's eyes. After taking a bath, put on clean, loose and loose clothes, sit in Qingchun's small living room, and drink a cup of hot tea made by herself, Xiao Tong was drunk by the warmth.This put him in a very good mood as he described what happened tonight.Qingchun listened, memorized, and asked questions—the time, place, process, number of people, everyone's appearance, what they said and scolded, whether they had a murder weapon, all detailed and specific.After asking, she breathed a sigh of relief. "Don't be afraid, I think you haven't exposed it. Maybe Ouyang Lanlan is really angry with you, so find a few friends to teach you a lesson. It doesn't matter. " Xiao Tong said: "I can't let them fight like this for nothing!" Qingchun said: "You can call Ouyang Lanlan again tomorrow. You can use this opportunity to question her. I think she will contact you after this incident. You must take advantage of this opportunity and don't talk to her." Fighting." Xiao Tong said: "Then who is this meal I suffered for?" "For work." Xiao Tong pouted and said, "You entrusted me with the work, and I did it for you, so it should be said that it is for you!" Qingchun pointed out his rascal: "I can't accept this love. Before you worked for us, Ouyang Lanlan had already fallen out with you. If I give you a job or not, you won't be able to escape this old punch. Besides, even if you Me, then who am I for?" "You are for yourself and for your career. You can be promoted if you solve the case. You will be rewarded. Am I right?" Xiao Tong looked at Qingchun slyly, Qingchun simply smiled, not taking this seriously. "Then if I win an award in the future, I will give it all to you." Xiao Tong said: "One word from a gentleman!" Qingchun said, "It's hard to chase a four-horse horse." Relieved for a while, Xiao Tong said again: "Tell you, when they beat me, I didn't care about anything except to protect my eyes. As long as I keep my eyes, I can do whatever I want." Qingchun asked, "Why?" Xiao Tong said, "Because you gave me the eyes." Qingchun smiled appreciatively this time, and immediately became serious again, she said: "Xiao Tong, you must tell me the truth about something. As long as you tell the truth, I will not criticize you, but you must It's true." Xiao Tong asked suspiciously: "What's the matter?" "You and Ouyang Lanlan, what's going on between you, is there such a thing between you?" "What kind of thing?" "It's that kind of thing." "Me and her? Absolutely not." Xiao Tong immediately paid attention to this issue, and he was very aggressive about rehabilitating Zhaoxue and vowing not to give up. "I can swear, with my personality, with the personality of my parents." "Then why do they call you a hooligan?" Xiao Tong was taken aback by this question, he couldn't help gnashing his teeth with hatred, "This Ouyang Lanlan, I haven't touched her with a single finger, how could she spout such blood!" "Okay." Qingchun said reassuringly, "I believe in you, but I have a request, and I don't know if you can fulfill it." Xiao Tong said: "What request, you say!" "You and Ouyang Lanlan, if you resume contact in the future, you must establish some kind of relationship with her father as soon as possible. To Ouyang Lanlan, don't pretend to be in love, and don't let her develop in this direction. Not to mention In the end, if you really have this relationship with her, then you can't extricate yourself." Xiaotong was pleasantly surprised that Qingchun would actually taboo such things between him and Ouyang Lanlan.He wished he could take out his heart and show Qingchun. "I will never do that kind of thing with her. As long as I have someone I like in my heart, I won't be moved by anyone else. I can't be sorry for the person in my heart." Xiao Tong very much hoped that Qingchun could ask: "Who is the person in your heart?" But Qingchun didn't ask.She closed the notebook and said, "It's getting late, you should go back early, while there are still taxis on the street. Besides, you must go to the hospital tomorrow to see if you have any broken bones." Xiao Tong reluctantly drank the tea in the cup, and when he put the cup on the coffee table next to him, his eyes were stabbed: he saw the crystal photo frame he gave her on the coffee table , with a picture of a man in the frame.He knew who that old-fashioned man was.The bright mood just now turned dark again. He stood up to bid farewell, Qingchun looked at him in his father's fat sweatshirt and knee-length pants, laughed and said, "You can wear this to go home, don't think it looks ugly, save the dirty clothes and I will wash them for you." Xiao Tong said goodbye.He didn't leave right away, but stood downstairs in Qingchun's house for a while, until he saw the light in Qingchun's room turned off, and took note of the surrounding characteristic marks, in case he couldn't find it when he came next time here. In class the next day, almost everyone asked him what happened to his face.He said he got into a fight with someone.If you ask him further, he will talk about it without going into details.Well-informed, Lu Lindong also came to inquire about his injuries, seeing his bruised and swollen appearance made his forehead anxious. "What's the date? It's not many days until the July 1 speech contest. Why are you on stage like this?" Xiao Tong said, "Hurry up and change." Lu Lindong said: "Don't talk nonsense, you should take good care of it!" Indeed, the pain in his body didn't feel anything yesterday, and it just started to flare up today. The pain made him want to lie on the bed whenever he was free, and he didn't want to get up when he lay down.At noon, Ou Qingchun called his BP machine again. Only then would he forget the pain all over his body, jump up from the bed, and run downstairs in three steps and two steps to make a phone call.Qingchun asked him on the phone if he had gone to the hospital, what the doctor said, and whether he was all right.He said that I haven't gone yet, and my classmates and teachers have already talked about everything, and I don't want to miss class because of this.Qingchun said, no matter what, you still have to go, and in case something happens that delays the treatment, don't be disabled at such a young age.He smiled and said: I will go, but the disability is not enough. If I am disabled, I will be single at most and will not marry anyone. If I am disabled, I will not have that dream. Qingchun paused on the phone for a while before saying, "Don't be in a dream all the time. A dream is a dream, and you have to wake up. The most realistic thing is not sick." Xiao Tong asked: "Do you really love me, or are you afraid that my disability will delay your work?" Qingchun's tone was obviously a little unhappy: "You can think whatever you want, I've reached the point, whether you go to the hospital or not is up to you." Before Xiao Tong had time to say sorry, he hung up the phone over there.He held the microphone in a daze, until someone called him: "Xiao Tong, someone is looking for you." A passing classmate pointed to the door of the building, and he pointed to the building by the way.Under the red and green blackboard in front of the building, Ouyang Lanlan, who was dressed smartly, was looking at him with burning eyes.A surge of anger burst into his heart, he turned around and walked back.Ouyang Lanlan rushed over and blocked his way.He yelled at her: "What else do you want to do!" Ouyang Lanlan hugged him and cried bitterly. Instead, Xiao Tong was at a loss what to do, and all the students passing by around him looked sideways.Xiao Tong thought that he was going to be a scandal figure in school.He pushed Ouyang Lanlan away and said coldly, "Why are you crying?" Ouyang Lanlan looked up at the scar on his face, she wanted to touch it with her hand but Xiao Tong avoided it.She stopped sobbing and said, "Xiao Tong, you should listen to my explanation." Xiao Tong looked left and right, there was an endless stream of people coming and going.He said harshly: "Okay, I'll listen to your explanation." He took the lead and walked out of the building.He wanted to lead her to the lake, but changed his mind halfway.The lakeside was the place where he and Qingchun talked for the first time, and it has become a landscape in his heart, which has the meaning of commemoration.So he changed the way and led Ouyang Lanlan to the school library. There were dozens of extremely wide steps in front of the library. Only the side door was opened at noon, so there was no one on the steps. Before she could open her mouth, Xiao Tong said the first sentence: "Tell you, I won't let you fight for nothing, just let those boys wait!" Ouyang Lanlan said: "I didn't ask them to go, it was my father who asked them to go. I didn't know they were looking for you. " Xiao Tong looked at her viciously: "If you don't talk nonsense with your father, how could your father let them find me!" Ouyang Lanlan's eyes were red again, and she shouted with red eyes: "He doesn't agree with me being with you, but I want to be with you, I want to be with you, I love you!" The phrase "I love you" made Xiao Tong unable to dodge, he was most afraid that Ouyang Lanlan would say this later.Facing this sentence, he seemed a little at a loss, not knowing how to react.Just yelled at her without thinking: "You love me, so I have to learn from your father! Don't you!" Ouyang Lanlan calmed down a little, and said: "Because he won't let me associate with you, he said that I should find someone who is stable, with better conditions, and older. He wants that person to take me abroad Go. My dad is rich and he can make me live well abroad, but there must be a reliable person to take me there. But I only like you. I can't forget you from the first day I saw you. " Xiao Tong looked at the sky, the sky was blue, so clear and saturated, and the fluffy white clouds were just right.He thought, he was the same way, since the first day he saw Qingchun, he couldn't forget her. Ouyang Lanlan said: "I told my dad that I must be with you. My dad has been persuading me for the past few days, but no matter how I explain it, it doesn't work. When I was in a hurry, I simply told him that I have a relationship with you... " Ouyang Lanlan stopped, and Xiao Tong's forehead almost burst into flames. He stared and asked, "What's there? What have you and me?" Ouyang Lanlan said straightforwardly: "With that kind of relationship, I told him that we already have that kind of relationship, and I don't want to be with another person!" Xiao Tong was so outraged that he could hardly speak: "You, you, why do you hold this bucket of dirty water on my head? What right do you have!" Ouyang Lanlan defended loudly like a quarrel: "If I don't say that, what can I say, and I don't mean any harm when I say that!" Xiao Tong cursed helplessly: "You bastard! You must, you must go and make it clear to your father that I have nothing with you, not in the past, not in the present, nor in the future, never in the future!" Ouyang Lanlan couldn't speak, she just looked at him with red eyes and hatred. Neither of them spoke anymore, both were tired and a little bit drained.After a long silence, Xiao Tong's anger gradually calmed down. He said in a muffled voice, "I'm going to class." Then he walked down the steps.Ouyang Lanlan called him from behind. "Xiao Tong, I'll pick you up after class." Xiao Tong turned around and said, "I won't learn to drive anymore." "It's not learning to drive, it's my dad who wants to meet you!" "Will you beat me up again?" "No, he agreed to our relationship, so he wants to see you." Xiao Tong just waved his hand to refuse, but he opened his mouth and closed it again, and just waved his hand in vain.Because he suddenly realized that the task Qingchun gave him seemed to be ready to start, and realized that his opportunity to get close to Ouyang Tian was definitely in front of him!