Lin Yuxia looked at the silent devil girl across the table: She was looking out the window quietly. There seemed to be some connection between the black night and her hair and eyes of the same color, both attracting attention and curious about what was hidden in them. .
"what are you thinking about?"
Shen Mo seemed to be interrupted by Lin Yuxia's question, and Shen Mo's momentary confusion made her look more like a girl. Perhaps the successive visions in her life in the past two days made her spirit extremely fragile, or perhaps Has she shed the cold shell that protected herself? Is this her true appearance?
Shen Mo shook his head slightly and said, "No, it's nothing. It's just that when I think that all of this started from a person who went out on the street wearing only underwear, it starts to feel a little unreal."
"...After all, reality also needs some sense of dream." Lin Yuxia raised her eyebrows. She could guess who this person was, but she had the experience of being seen by Shen Mo wearing only a pair of underwear, which made her laugh out loud. Come. Trying to suppress her urge to laugh, she turned the topic to Shen Xuan, who was sleeping soundly on the sofa on the other side.
"Where is Xiao Xuan? What are your plans next?"
Shen Mo looked at his younger sister who was curled up in a small ball on the sofa, who was already in high school and sleeping with her fingers in her mouth. She sighed a little helplessly, "I don't know if I can make money now in time for the start of school in the fall... She is It’s time to go to school and exercise. She doesn’t have any friends of the same age, which is really worrying..."
Well, you're almost done with this. Lin Yuxia drank tea and complained softly in her heart: This sister doesn't feel that she has communication difficulties at all. I'm afraid she still has a long way to go to return to a normal life.
"Jiang Shao...will he be okay?"
Lin Yuxia did not answer the question. She poured the tea again and handed it to Shen Mo. What she needed was not an answer, but some sense of security.
The waiter behind him walked forward quietly, bent down and whispered to Lin Yuxia, "Miss, your Lordship's matter has been settled - everything is over."
...Really? Lin Yuxia rubbed her tea cup with her fingers. At this time, she didn't know how to speak to Shen Mo.
She called her new friend's name and said softly: "Shen Mo, there is something...something, and now it's finally time to hand it over to you."
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Brush blah blah blah -- Jiang Yan turned on the faucet at the street entrance and carefully took off his clothes, but he still inevitably got some blood stains. If the table hadn't been a bit small, he would have really wanted to lie down on it. Go up.
In order to find this faucet, they went all the way from the slums to the city.
He washed the stains on his body, and the burning sensation produced by the painless wound the moment it touched the water made him feel familiar. The life that seemed to have gone away came back to him, and this sense of relief came over him. At the same time, the singing not far away attracted his attention.
"... He"s givin" you the blues (it was he who gave you these sorrows)..."
"...Here"s what you gotta do,Pick up the phone, I"m always hom,(And all you have to do is pick up the phone: I'm always there)"
"Y time, Just ring 36 24 36 hey (anytime, just call me, call 322436)"
"I lead a life of crime—(My life is a crime)—"
Tieju's rich voice sang this rock song acapella, and for some reason this brought back a trace of Jiang Yan's memories. Watching Jiang Yan finish washing up, Tieju grinned, opened the simple cigarette case, and took a cigarette in his mouth.
While hesitating, the song had reached the chorus. Jiang Yan casually pushed his wet hair to the back of his head. On this hot and humid summer night, he did not want to put on the wet clothes he had just washed, but just held the shirt in his hand.
Walked to Iron Arm's side.
The two walked side by side in Longmen City at night, and the empty streets carried the singing into the darkness of the night. Smelling the pungent smell of smoke, Jiang Yan also began to softly hum the chorus of this song:
"...Dirty deeds and they"re do cheap(those dirty things, some people do it too easily)..."
It's not always easy to do good things, isn't it?
"What do you want to do, kid? Eat?"
"It's not quite yet. Do you...want to go see the sea?"
"You can take a look if you want..." Tieju looked into the distance and squinted his eyes, "Oh, forget it, I'm not suitable to go. I'll go and get busy first, and I'll give you the check first." After that, he put Jiang Yan's hand in his hand.
The check he earned with the money was given to Jiang Yan, and he ran away without looking back.
What was he doing... Jiang Yan looked at it in confusion for a while, then looked back and found a girl waiting for the traffic light late at night standing not far from him - wasn't that Shen Mo? Jiang Yan was about to raise his hand to say hello, but then
Realizing that she had no clothes on, she raised her hands to cover her breasts, making Shen Mo speechless for a while.
Shen Mo came to him, "What are you doing? It's not like I've never seen you before. Are you acting like a gangster in Longmen City in the middle of the night? I'm not afraid that people from the Guards Bureau will arrest you."
"It's bad. If you get caught, why don't you go pick me up?"
Shen Mo gave him a roll of his eyes. Seeing that her eyes were a little red and swollen, Jiang Shao stopped playing tricks and scratched his head. He didn't know whether he was wearing these clothes or not. He didn't know what to say. The two of them just stood side by side.
After standing for a while, Shen Mo spoke,
"Can you accompany me to see the sea?"
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"Who was that person just now?"
"That person just now?"
"That's the tall and strong man."
"Ah, you're talking about him." Jiang Yan realized that Shen Mo was talking about Iron Arm, "That's my colleague - don't walk like this, it's very dangerous."
Shen Mo brushed back her hair that was messed up by the sea breeze, and ignored Jiang Yan's words, still standing on the seawall. She looked at the other end of the sea, closed her eyes as if to hug something, opened her arms, and listened to the waves.
There was a sound of slapping against the rocks, and the two fell into silence.
Jiang Yan suddenly said, "...This is not the real sea."
"Yeah?"
"Well, no."
"But there's sunrise here - and it's very close."
"There is sunrise everywhere, as long as you wait, there will be one. There is no night that will not pass."
"I know. But my sunrise is right here: so close, you can see it right away."
"Yeah?"
"Yes."
So the two fell silent - but after a while, Jiang Yan's stomach growled at an inappropriate time, and he was so embarrassed that he asked, "Let's have tea together later?"
"Don't you only have a check in your hand, and you still want people to drink tea?" Shen Mo's voice was as cold as the sea breeze but gentle, "I invited you, please remember to come back next time."
"Then go at sunrise?"
"Go at sunrise."
——Soon, the sunrise will not be very late. Every night will end, and the sunshine will finally drive away the fog and darkness, bringing gentle sunshine to the earth.
It won't be too late, the sound of lapping the shore is still there. Boys and girls, look to the end of the horizon——