Lu Xiaobei packed up his easel and turned a blind eye to the presence of concern.
Caring stepped forward and saw that his attitude was so bad. She didn't know what to say for a while. It wasn't until Xiaobei picked up her things and was about to leave that she hurriedly grabbed Lu Xiaobei's hand and said, "Xiaobei!!"
"Let me go!"
Lu Xiaobei looked at her with disdain, his tone full of disgust.
"Xiao Bei, listen to me. I didn't mean to hurt your sister. It makes me uncomfortable to see her in pain. She and I have been friends for so many years. Do you think I want to be like this?"
Hearing this, Xiaobei snorted coldly, "You don't want to? I'm afraid you're looking forward to it every day, right?"
"Stop acting in front of me, I'm not my sister, I won't believe a word you say!!"
As he said that, Lu Xiaobei tried hard to pull Xin Xuan's hand away.
When Caring thought that if she let him go, the operation would be ruined...
Then she herself...
"No, you can't leave now!!"
She grabbed him tightly, "You can't leave now!! Lu Xiaobei, can I give you whatever you want? Don't you and Tongtong like each other? I will never object to you being together in the future, okay?"
Or if you want to be with her now, that's fine,"
"Sister Caring, please stop objecting, okay? Think about it, if you go back so impulsively and tell your sister, who will be the saddest person?"
"I don't want to lose that friendship, Xiaobei."
Lu Xiaobei frowned, "Let go!!"
He tried hard to pull her hand away, but he didn't know that this woman would be so strong that he couldn't shake her off no matter what.
In the process of pulling, all the painting tools on his body were torn off by her and fell to the ground...
While the two were fighting, Xu Yizhong's car arrived shortly after. When he saw the two arguing, he immediately opened the car door and ran forward to pull Lu Xiaobei away.
Lu Xiaobei panted and stared with concern, "Crazy woman."
With that said, he pulled up his clothes that were scratched by her and was about to leave.
"Don't go!!"
Caring stepped forward again, grabbed Lu Xiaobei's clothes, and yanked him back.
Unexpectedly, Xiao Bei was caught off guard and was violently pulled by her. He lost his balance and took several steps back. He stepped on the edge. Unexpectedly, the stone under his feet had become loose and rolled down in an instant.
"Ah..." He shouted and slid down. Fortunately, he held the stone on the edge tightly with one hand, and his whole body was suspended on the edge, with the whole body's gravity relying on the stone in his hand.
"help me……"
Caring did not expect such a situation to happen, and was so frightened that he turned pale and hurriedly backed away.
Fortunately, Xu Yizhong reacted quickly enough. He immediately stepped forward, reached out and grabbed Xiaobei's arm, and pulled hard, "Xiaobei, hold me."
Lu Xiaobei was already afraid of heights. As soon as he looked down at the tens of thousands of feet high, his heartbeat accelerated and his entire face turned pale.
It's so high down there that if you fall you'll definitely die.
He held Xu Yizhong's hand tightly and tried hard to step on the stones to climb up, but the stones rolled with every step, causing Xu Yizhong to almost slide down too...
Xu Yizhong exhausted all his strength, his face turned red, and the veins on his arms appeared.
But Xiaobei weighed as much as an adult, and he was holding it with one hand. Xu Yizhong almost felt that his hand was about to be torn off, and a strong pulling force came from his arm.
Suddenly, there was a scream from behind...
Xu Yizhong was distracted, and the strength in his hand relaxed slightly. The arm he was holding in his hand a second ago just slipped down. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't catch it. He could only watch Lu Xiaobei shouting.
Roll down the mountain...
Xiaobei's screams still echoed in the air...
Xu Yizhong was stunned, while Tongtong hurriedly ran up and looked down the mountain with wide eyes...
Big tears fell from her eyes. She looked angrily at Xu Yizhong and showed concern, screaming hysterically, "Why did you kill him!! Why!!"
"Xiao Bei...Xiao Bei..."
At that moment, Xu Yizhong felt that his throat was stuffed with cotton, making him unable to breathe, and his chest felt tight and painful.
He couldn't even believe the scene just now...
Xiaobei, the boy who called him brother-in-law, at that moment, from his hand...
There was a sad smell in the air, and God seemed to sense the girl's sad cry, and it started to rain heavily...
Big raindrops wetted their bodies, and the drops hit Xu Yizhong's heart, as if he was sinking into water and about to be drowned. His chest was so depressed that he couldn't breathe, and the taste of blood surged in his throat.
************
Lu Haiyao felt that her right eye kept twitching.
Looking at the sudden heavy rain outside, she felt even more panicked and couldn't concentrate.
Gu Tingchuan put down the laptop in his hand, raised his eyes and looked at her for a moment, and asked, "Are you worried?"
"ah?"
Haiyao came to his senses and shook her head, "No, I just feel a little uneasy."
She sat down on the sofa weakly, covering her heart, "I always feel like something is going to happen."
As soon as he finished speaking, the phone rang.
Haiyao quickly took out her mobile phone and answered the call. It was actually a call from Xiaobei's class teacher, saying that Xiaobei went on a picnic with his classmates today. It was now four o'clock in the afternoon and no one could find him. Did he go back?
When Haiyao heard this, she was so upset that she quickly said, "No, Xiaobei hasn't come back."
She had an intuition of what was going to happen to Xiaobei, so she put down the things in her hands, grabbed her bag, and said, "I have something urgent and I need to leave right away."
After saying that, before he had time to ask, she swung the door open and disappeared from his eyes.
Sensing that her expression was not normal, Gu Tingchuan dialed Zhang Wei's number and said, "Go and check where Lu Xiaobei is?"
"Something might have happened to him"
******
Haiyao sat alone in the police station waiting, every minute and second was torture.
She couldn't imagine that something would happen to Xiaobei...
He talked to her like a man last night and opposed her decision. How could it happen today...
She was caught in the rain when she came here just now. She was soaked and sitting here felt so cold, so cold...
She hugged herself, her head hung low, and she kept suppressing her emotions vigorously, her eyes swollen with tears and turned red.
At this moment, a pair of men's leather shoes appeared in front of her.
And crutches...
Hai Yao raised her head and looked at Gu Tingchuan standing in front of her with a cane.
At that moment, when she saw a familiar person, her suppressed emotions burst out. She stepped forward and threw herself into his arms. She could no longer hold back her tears and cried like a child. "I'm really scared. Xiaobei will go there."
No, he has never been like this, never shutting down his phone so that no one can find him."
Gu Tingchuan held a crutch with one hand and patted her back gently with the other. He held her in his arms and comforted her in a low voice, "It will be fine. Don't think too much, eh?"
At this time, a police officer came anxiously, "Who is Lu Xiaobei's family member?"
Hai Yao quickly wiped away the tears from her eyes and said, "I am."
The police officer handed Xiaobei's painting tools into Haiyao's hands, "These were found on the top of the mountain. It is possible that the missing person lost his footing and fell down the mountain. Our police will do our best to search, but... you must be mentally prepared."
, the chance of survival is low.”
"What did you say……"
Lu Haiyao's heart skipped a beat, her eyes widened in disbelief, and big tears rolled down silently.
The police officer sighed, turned around and left silently...
Lu Haiyao's suppressed emotions were overturned at that moment. Thinking of Xiao Bei, who was afraid of heights, falling down the mountain, she felt like her heart was being pricked by needles...
"No, I don't believe Xiaobei will leave me. I want to find him."
She was about to leave as she said this, but Gu Tingchuanjin held her arm tightly. She struggled, "Let me go, I'm going to find Xiaobei."
"Where are you going to find it at this time!!"
Gu Tingchuan shouted loudly, hoping to wake her up.
Seeing that she still didn't give up, he could only throw away the crutch in his hand, hold on with his left leg and stand with all his strength, open his arms and hug her tightly, no matter how sad she cried, he would not let go,
He said distressedly, "Don't be like this? I'll help you find it, I'll help you."
"It's so late now. You can't find it even if you go to the mountain. Haiyao, please calm down."
He used all his strength to hug her tightly, but when he tried harder, his left leg ached...
Fortunately, she listened to Jin's advice and didn't think about looking for someone else, otherwise his legs might really be too much and he wouldn't be able to catch up with her.
He wanted to send her back, but she shook her head and said, "No."
She was afraid to go back to that home and be alone...
She was afraid that Xu Yizhong would not come back tonight, leaving her alone in pain and loneliness.
She didn't dare to go back and face the empty room, only herself...
But she didn't know that Xu Yizhong had already returned home and was staying in the study, smoking non-stop...
There are countless cigarette butts in the ashtray.
My throat hurts from sniffing, and every nerve in my body hurts when I cough.
The whole house was dark, and he didn't turn on the lights. He came back here in the afternoon and sat at his desk until it got dark and it was twilight outside.
In the darkness, I could faintly see the cigarette in his hand, glowing with sparks and filled with smoke.
Whenever he thinks about Xiaobei, Xu Yizhong becomes even more flustered.
He didn't know how to face Hai Yao, and when he faced her, he felt a heavy guilt in his heart.
Putting his cigarette in the ashtray, he reached out and rubbed his eyebrows, the moonlight shining on his face filled with pain and annoyance.
People always regret after something happens. Why didn't they try their best?
Maybe he stopped caring, maybe he didn't let go at that critical moment, and Lu Xiaobei wouldn't have fallen down the mountain.
But things have already happened...
Xu Yizhong could never forget the expression on Xiaobei's hand tightly clinging to his. He could never forget it.
*******
Aunt Zhang walked out of the room. Gu Tingchuan stood at the door and looked in. He saw that Hai Yao had fallen asleep, so he asked in a low voice, "Are you okay?"
Aunt Zhang sighed, "Just sitting there in a daze, I talked to her a lot, but she ignored me."