Chapter 23 Summer is Collapsing - Chapter 23: The Bride at the Sad Funeral (Part 1)

Summer is Collapsing - Chapter 23: The Bride at the Sad Funeral (Part 1) Ding Chengcheng's funeral is over, there are still unused tin foils in the dark and shady kitchen, the smell of incense is lingering in the whole brick and wood building, and a bowl of unfinished instant noodles has gone cold , swelled up and placed on the table.The door of Ding Chengcheng's room was tightly closed, but everything inside remained as it was when he left, his dirty jeans were thrown in a ball in a corner, and a pair of clothes that collapsed during the dispute with Ke Ke The stack of CDs is still spread out on the table, but the electric fan has stopped, and the sun is still coming in through the gaps in the blinds.

Among the relics is the black notebook, which is now stained with blood, and placed on his mother's wooden table. It was on this table in the summer that Cheng Jianguo used to sit, drink rice wine, and eat rice cooked with pickles. Sprout beans, look at the bicycles coming and going outside the door, and the swaying sun shadows.The notebook has been completely soaked by the rain, and all the words have melted and become unrecognizable.But Ding Chengcheng's mother still recognized that it was her man's handwriting. Although it has been so long, her lie will never be erased. Their marriage was nothing more than a lie.

She knew that Cheng Jianguo had known Shen Yi when he jumped in the queue and settled down. After the policy was implemented, he and Shen Yi returned to Shanghai from Heilongjiang, but they temporarily lost contact due to the chaos of the situation at that time.Her father was a cadre-level figure at that time, and Cheng Jianguo was able to return to Shanghai thanks to her father's help.So in order to persuade Cheng Jianguo to marry this daughter-in-law, Cheng Jianguo's parents made up a lie, saying that Shen Yi died in an accident on the way back to Shanghai.Ding Chengcheng's mother and all of them used this lie to lie to him. He believed it and married her in desperation, hoping to start a new life. His wife is capable and virtuous, and he has a half-floor house in Yong'an , Later they also had a son, who was very cute and liked to stick by his side since he was a child.

But when Ding Chengcheng was seven years old, when Cheng Jianguo was buying rice with food stamps, he saw an unusually familiar figure, it was Shen Yi, who flashed across the road.So the lie was exposed. Although none of them admitted that they had lied at that time, Cheng Jianguo still left home angrily. He wanted to find Shen Yi, and he wanted to explain to Shen Yi clearly the eight wasted years. At that time, he said When he finds Shen Yi, he will come back, but Ding Chengcheng and his mother never thought that since then, he has never been heard from, and he can't be found in the huge city of Shanghai.She even remembered the day he left home in a khaki four-pocket top and carrying a leatherette purse.

If it wasn't for a lie that was spread across the sea twenty years ago, she would no longer be able to think about it. Although Shen Han was very reluctant to see that woman, Ding Chengcheng's mother, he still went. What he wanted to see was another woman who had a skin-to-skin relationship with his father and was married. He was conflicted, but The courage to face the truth made him walk into the alley at the bend in Yong'an Liquli again. Since the typhoon passed, the sewers have been turned over frequently, and the alley also emits an unpleasant smell, which makes people feel the ruined weather of summer. .

The door was not closed, Shen Han walked in by himself, and saw the woman sitting alone on the kitchen bench, picking up vegetables. He didn't know how to introduce himself, but he saw the black notebook on the wooden table at a glance. It was wet and dry after being wet by rain, and there were blood stains on the pages that had turned brown.So he said directly: "I am Cheng Jianguo's other son, and my mother's name is Shen Yi. I don't mean anything malicious, I just want to know something about the past." The woman raised her head. She had aged rapidly in a few nights, and the hair around her ear was mixed with a large silvery white: "How is Cheng Jianguo? His son is already that old, has he been with you all the time?" Please bring him a message, his other son is dead, tell him to come back and burn some incense for his son." She lowered her head and continued to pick up vegetables, speaking coldly.

"I've never seen him, and both he and my mother are dead. My mother has been dead for three years. He just committed suicide a few months ago." Shen Han didn't feel disgusted with the old woman in front of him, it was just Time is destroying them irresistibly.The woman kept silent and picked up vegetables more and more slowly. Finally, she suddenly knocked the whole basket on the ground with trembling hands, muttering: "He is dead, they are all dead, what should I do, they are all dead , what should I do." She was circling in the kitchen, holding the black notebook tightly.If you don't look at Shen Han standing there, it's as if he doesn't exist anymore.

Who said that a woman must be strong and brave alone? Ding Chengcheng's mother, in the first summer after Cheng Jianguo left, she was helpless in the face of the excrement poured out of the toilet. Year after year, she She can repair the toilet by herself, move the bucket of the water diversion machine, paint the room, and she can resist all the things that men do. But now the son and husband are both dead, and finally went mad.She carries a black notebook with her all day, and asks everyone in the alley, "Auntie, how do you pronounce this word?" When Ke Ke knew that Ding Chengcheng had died, it was a sweaty afternoon. She had woken up from her dream in that workshop. The soft shell yellow camel smoke flavor.She was woken up by a piercing ringtone of the phone. After listening to it and hanging up the phone, she turned over and forgot all about the dream in an instant.Ding Chengcheng's death made her so dull that she was almost suffocated. She couldn't breathe, feeling that she couldn't breathe in the crowd, and she longed to stick her head out.According to the news, a ferris wheel in a country collapsed, and a couple of lovers who were sightseeing in the ferris wheel died.And the Ferris wheel in Jinjiang Amusement Park is not open at night, they can't finally see the city dotted with lights in the dark, and the love in the sky is incomplete, fleeting, but she can't feel the sorrow, her sorrow has been taken away.

Both Ke Ke and Xiao Qiao went to Ding Chengcheng's funeral. When they came out of Longhua Crematorium, they walked a lot, silently, without making a sound.At the funeral, they all saw Mizi again. Mizi had dyed her hair all black, and it was long and curled to the waist. With golden makeup, the whole face is shining.She was the only girl with a golden face painted at the funeral, without any other unnecessary decorations on her body, so the thick scar on her wrist looked particularly abrupt, and everyone turned their heads to look at her.When she saw Ke Ke, she nodded, then looked at Xiao Qiao beside Ke Ke, and smiled slightly.During the whole funeral, Mizi didn't cry. She stood calmly behind the crowd and was blocked by people around her from time to time. Indeed, many girls came to Ding Chengcheng's funeral, and many of them were young and sad. But Mizi was the most eye-catching one in the whole funeral. She was like a solemn bride, making all the other girls pale in front of her.Ke Ke and Xiao Qiao also suddenly realized that this girl who was rescued from suicide, lost a child, and left permanent marks on her wrist is the real protagonist of Ding Chengcheng and the real bride.

Neither Ke Ke nor Xiao Qiao cried, and all sorrows became insignificant in the face of death, so there was nothing to mourn.Neither they nor Mizi left before the funeral was over, because most of Ding Chengcheng's relatives began to cry, and some elderly people were already a bit broke, so they all waited outside the door. Xiaoqiao said to Mizi: "I used to see you often, you were with him at the intersection in front of the pizzeria." "Well, I didn't expect this day to come so early. I used to watch him skateboard in People's Square and kept falling off. I was always worried that he would leave me suddenly. But when this day really came, I also It's not as sad as I imagined, this time it's a complete departure, it's not as big a blow to me as last time, probably because everything is over."

These three girls have all fallen in love with Ding Chengcheng in their own ways, and now they are standing together, the doorway is lined up with wreaths, and the paper flowers are fragile in the wind, surrounded by four seasons Evergreen pines and cypresses and solemn stone sculptures, squinted faces shining in the sun. Ke Ke and Xiao Qiao walked a lot that day, passing by the viaduct painted beige, they all raised their heads at the same time. The upper part, the huge billboards, and the houses in the upper half are all completely different from the bottom of the city. When flying close to the ground on the elevated road, you can never imagine what a noisy scene is underneath.They didn't know which corner they were at. Ding Chengcheng was lying in the rainy night of the typhoon. Before that, did he see that the entire elevated road was empty, and all the street lights were turned on only for him? , the road of light, even fear is easily knocked down. In this way, when the two of them finally sat on the waiting seat of the subway, the feet of Xiaoqiao's red high-heeled shoes were worn out. She took off the high-heeled shoes and held them in her hands, and stepped on the cold ground with her bare feet. With a small bloody wound, she suddenly said to Coco: "I used to like him a lot." "I know, there is nothing you can hide from me, and I can't hide anything from you, and I also liked him for a short time, and it passed in an instant." Ke Ke said with a smile.They no longer mentioned Ding Chengcheng's name. For the young Xia Tian, ​​many people passed by in a hurry, and they had to go forward. Death was so close to them, but the two of them sat side by side. When we were together, I felt fearless, and Ding Chengcheng had finally left completely.