After leaving Shanghai, I did not return to Suzhou. I rushed back to Xitang overnight. After returning to the inn, I immediately knocked on Leyao's door. No one responded for a while, so I found a spare room card and opened the door of her room. I saw her lying on the bed, eating potato chips, and watching a TV series.

I floated the room card to her with dissatisfaction, and happened to knock off the potato chips in her hand. She said angrily: "Zhaoyang, you are wrong!"

"I knocked on the door for a long time, why did you ignore me?"

"I thought it was a knock on the door in the next room. Besides, don't you have a room card? You need to knock on the door?"

"Why don't you knock on the door? If you change clothes in the room or something, how embarrassed I will be when I bump into you!"

Le Yao didn't care about the so-called embarrassment at all, so she ignored me and turned her attention to the TV series she was watching. I found the remote control and turned off the TV with dissatisfaction.

Le Yao suddenly smashed all the potato chips she held onto me, and then scattered all over the ground in a mess, but I couldn't tell whether she was really turning against her or joking. If she really turned against her, it would be too inexplicable.

I found a broom and cursed while sweeping, "Are you sick? Why am I doing this?"

"Who asked you to turn off my TV!"

"Just for this?" I said and threw the broom on the ground, and said angrily: "Cleaning it yourself."

Le Yaoli ignored me, picked up the remote control and turned on the TV and started watching it. But I felt more and more that something was wrong with her. God knew what disease she was doing, but I didn't plan to spoil her. I unplugged the power of the TV and said, "Stop watching, talk to you about the important things."

Le Yao raised her hand and smashed the remote control hard at me. I dodged sideways, and then watched the remote control fall to pieces. Le Yao seemed to have not given up yet, and picked up the phone at the head of the bed and wanted to smash me.

I shook off my shoes, jumped onto the bed in one step, then held her hand, pressed her under me, and said in a fire: "Can you say something well? Why do you smash things?"

Le Yao "aggressively argued": "I learned from my mother. I grew up watching her smash things since I was a child!"

"Then do I have to learn from your father and give you two feet?"

Le Yao burst into tears and said incoherently: "You men are all beasts, they like to hurt women who love you deeply. Both you and Robben have this kind of destiny!"

I thought about the deep meaning of this sentence, so I was a little distracted, and then I was kicked off the bed by Le Yao. With a "thump", the room seemed to be shaking!

I lay motionless on the ground. Le Yao, who was still crying, suddenly panicked, rolled and crawled down from the bed, pushed me and said, "Zhaoyang, are you okay?... are you okay?"

I glanced at her sideways and said with a grin: "If you have something to do, you're about to fall to death!"

"I'm sorry, you just need a kick, so I can't help it!"

"Your uncle, is there anyone who apologized like this?" I said and touched my waist and abdomen, and suddenly felt a pain, probably because of blood stasis.

......

Le Yao helped me to the bed and sat down. She found a blood-activated plaster to help me stick it to my waist, and then rubbed it gently, but I said angrily: "Don't you owe this? After kicking me, I still have to rub it for me!"

"I am a big star, I will help you, this little bastard. What else do you have to complain about?"

"You just owe it!"

Le Yao pinched my sore spot and glared at me and said, "Are you finished?"

I couldn't bear the pain, so I kept saying, "It's over, it's over, I won't say it anymore, you can show mercy."

Le Yao let go of me, then put down the clothes I lifted down, and sat on the sofa beside the bed without saying a word, which made me unable to tell at all what she was thinking now, and why did she have those irritable actions just now.

After a long time, I spoke to her and said, "You should know why I came to you, right?"

She calmed a lot and said softly: "I know."

"Then can you tell me now, is Wei Manwen's whereabouts?"

Le Yao didn't say anything, but took out two photos from her handbag and handed them to me. I took them from her hand in surprise, and then looked at them carefully.

The background of the photo is in a remote and backward mountainous area. In the photo, there is a group of school-age children wearing simple clothes sitting on the open-air valley ground. The one who teaches them is a woman with a headscarf. She looks not very clear, but her skin is very rough, and there is even a striking plateau red on her cheeks, which looks like a woman who has been in the mountains for a long time.

I pointed to the woman in the photo and asked Le Yao, "Who is this?"

Le Yao said after a moment of silence: "...She is Wei Manwen you and Robben are looking for."

I looked at the photo carefully again, but no matter what, I could not connect the rough woman in the photo with Wei Manwen, who had shown me the photos and was born in the scholarly family. So I became more and more shocked as I looked at it, and confirmed to Le Yao again: "It's really Wei Manwen!"

Le Yao nodded and said, "It's Wei Manwen."

"What the hell is going on? What happened after she left Robben?"

Le Yao sighed and paused for a long time before saying, "She suffered from strong depression after returning to Beijing from Suzhou. She lasted for half a year. After slowly recovering, she went to a poor mountainous area in Jinping County, Guizhou to teach... I can now use a hundred words to express her experiences over the past three years, but Zhaoyang, you should be able to imagine what kind of pain she has experienced, right?"

I nodded, and felt a sensation of unhealthy grief in my heart. I was sad for this woman named Wei Manwen. I also knew that when Robben learned the news, he would definitely feel sad in his own blame. No wonder Le Yao would delay it again and again, because this was the most cruel result for Robben. He gave up with endless pain at the beginning, but only the more painful Wei Manwen!

Robben was wrong, it was too wrong! He underestimated Wei Manwen’s feelings for him! And who should pay for the endless pain in the past three years?

Is it Wei Manwen's insistent push to each other, or is it the self-righteous Robben? Or Wei Manwen who is obsessed with it?

"Zhaoyang, what do you think you should do now? Do you want to tell Robben about this result?"

I felt so sad that I had no idea for a while, but just pulled out a cigarette from my pocket and lit it, and then stared at the smoke that was constantly being sucked...

Le Yao picked up the two photos from the bed again and looked at them, and she burst into tears for the poor Beijing woman in the photo!

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Chapter completed!