Chapter 71: Fang Yuan
The dense dark clouds and rain seemed to sing elegies in this city. The blood flowing out of Fangyuan's body was like scattered petals, dissolved by the rain. The world in my eyes was only two extreme colors: blood red and gray... I was so heavy that I could not breathe, I was stiff, and looking at Fangyuan's twitching Fangyuan, his shoes had fallen, sewage stained his face, and white socks... Is this still the brother who drank with me in college and lended me the money for working to play in a band?
Why can't I see his face clearly or hear the sound of his breathing?
Why?
Mi Lan was dragged out of the car by the security guard in the office building and controlled it. She did not rush to slap her face, as if she had hit Fang Yuan to death. Everything in this world had nothing to do with her...
Yan Yan held Fang Yuan's hand tightly, but was at a loss in the pain of collapse. She could no longer cry and subconsciously held Fang Yuan's hand tighter and tighter... Gradually, we all heard the sound of an ambulance coming from a distance...
But what they brought was the declaration of death. Fang Yuan no longer had his heartbeat. He said goodbye to the world without having time to leave a few words... and the city was so quiet!
My world is left with only a drop of confession and unfinished beer left... I really want to forgive him!
The body without soul was carried into the ambulance by the hospital staff. Mi Lan, who had been silent, finally got crazy. She roared: "Why? Why, I have decided to forgive you. You still have to be with that bitch?...Why!... Fang Yuan, you demon, you demon who plays with feelings...I can no longer have children, why do you have no guilt towards me, and you still have to be with that bitch..."
The sound of the sirens meant that everything would approach the result of the dust settled. Mi Lan was handcuffed and pushed into the police car... My heart was hurting. How should I tell this world? Tell her, what Fang Yuan said to me twenty minutes ago, and how should I tell this world? Tell her that Yan Yan and Fang Yuan were just walking together because of a coincidence?
If this scene hadn't happened, Yan Yan and Fang Yuan would part ways here and then face their own families...
Mi Lan is too impulsive!
But she had impulsive reasons, because her character was originally flawed and she was also a victim. She had lost the ability to think in the bad news that she could not get pregnant. She placed all her hopes for the rest of her life on Fang Yuan, but saw that coincidental scene. Yan Yan was a nightmare that she had never been able to get rid of, so she collapsed and lost control...
I finally sat on the ground powerlessly, lowered my head and let the rain wash my body... In this unwavering shadow, I was thinking about the rest of the brightness. Is everything that happened in this world happening based on cause and effect? No one can escape the cycle of good and evil? It will be different sooner or later!
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This evening, Qin Yan and I took back Yan Yan, who was cooperating with the investigation at the Public Security Bureau. She was in a daze, but refused to be with us. She wanted to be alone and quiet... I knew where she wanted to go, so I reassured Qin Yan and promised to look down on her.
Qin Yan might know Yan Yan’s mood better than everyone else. He chose to leave silently, leaving the largest space for Yan Yan. I finally endured the pain like a knife cut and said to Yan Yan softly: "Follow me, I want to go there too..."
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I drove the car to the alma mater of the university that carries our countless emotions.
Today is the last weekend before the winter vacation, so the streets on both sides are all those students who are restless in their youth. We used to be like them, afraid of final exams, but contradictory thinking that getting a graduation certificate would be considered as the whole world...
These familiar scenes made me red in my eyes. I leaned back on the seat and lit a cigarette for myself. Yan Yan beside me looked at everything in the car window in a daze. Her tears never stopped. I knew: she would be more here than I thought!
After smoking half of the cigarette, a cheer of "snowing" came from the car window, and the entire campus suddenly turned into a sea of joy... I looked back in a daze and found that our car had been flooded by the students coming one after another, and the sky was really floating in the first snow of the year.
I opened the car door and stood among the group of students. I saw some past events on their youthful faces. In this past event, there was such a similar snow, and Fang Yuan and I.
It was one night, and my band brothers and I walked towards the school after participating in the performance. We were very frustrated because we spent a lot of money on renting the venue, but we couldn't make much money in this performance. Such a long-term lack of income has already made us plan to break up the band...
The snow on that night was even heavier than it is now. In the snow, Fang Yuan rode his bicycle to catch up with us panting. He didn't say anything, took off his gloves and took out 1,000 yuan from his pocket and handed it to me.
I knew that he earned the money from working outside the school and it was not easy to come, so I didn't reach out to take it.
He smiled and stuffed the money into my pocket, patted my shoulder with his frostbite hand, and said, "Take the money to ask the brothers in the band to rub it well, and then cheer up and continue working... It's been this time, don't think about giving up..."
"I......"
Fang Yuan didn't give me the opportunity to refuse the money. He put on his gloves and rode his bike away. However, after riding for a few meters, he turned to me as if he remembered something and said, "By the way, Zhaoyang, I have sorted out all the notes for you these days and put them in your cabinet. The final exam is about to be held. Please take a closer look and don't take so many subjects like last semester...!"
"knew."
"Well, the world is very realistic and cruel. We have to stick to our dreams and studies... My buddy is gone, and I don't have enough money to spend, call me!"
"No need, you do this, why do you want your buddy to repay these favors in the future?"
"No need to say anything between us. When your band becomes famous, remember to sing a song "seasonsinthesun" for your buddies at the concert in the future. This song is good, and I have been listening to it recently..."
That night, his back as he left on a bicycle was deeply engraved in my heart. Later, I sang this song for him at a school anniversary party. It turned out that he still remembered it, so I hoped to have the chance to listen again!
Unfortunately, there is no chance anymore...
I raised my head and could no longer suppress the tears in my eyes. My body trembled and my crying so that everyone around me came to comfort me, but I couldn't stop until I cried until my lungs and heartache, and I fell to the ground and couldn't stand up anymore...
He is not a bad person, at least he was not a bad person before!
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In the school cafeteria, Yan Yan and I had the most simple supper of the year. There was only a plate of vegetarian dishes, a bowl of porridge and a few steamed buns in front of us... I endured the pain and finished them, but Yan Yan never stopped crying. On this campus, she and Fang Yuan only had more memories than me. They had sat in the cafeteria like they are now, eating the most simple supper, and talking about the thoughts of boys and girls.
This night, Yan Yan and I didn't go back. We sat in the study room that was opened before the exam for the whole night. We didn't say anything or do anything, just listening to the sounds of flipping books and taking notes... I finally knew that Yan Yan had never let go of the square in her heart, but she could not say anything and do nothing, because compared to this unwilling feeling, she needed the life in front of her more...
Chapter completed!