At dusk, lights overflowed from the balcony window, bright or dim, incandescent and dim, and occasionally there were other colored lights mixed in, scattered and scattered, forming a hive of human habitation made of reinforced concrete.
This is a residential area around the old street. Most of the buildings there are older affordable housing and resettlement housing from the last century. The overall living environment is average, there may be some properties, and some lower floors have no installations.
Elevator. However, the surrounding supporting facilities are quite complete, and the location is not far or close to the city center, so it is mostly used for rental.
Tang Chao stood on the edge of the rooftop. At his feet was a high-rise unit building in the community. What he could see was the short six-story building in front of him. Of course, even if he looked down from high to low, the distance between the buildings was limited.
, and could not clearly see the situation in the building opposite.
Fortunately, I was prepared and brought a pair of binoculars.
A plastic telescope with cartoon stickers on it looks like a toy, but it is actually a child's toy. I bought it from a roadside stall when I came here just now. It cost 20 yuan. I got it for 8 yuan, which is enough.
Wait for a few minutes, wait for something, pick up the telescope and put it in front of your eyes.
In the sixth-floor room on the top floor opposite, two figures walked into the living room one after another. The one walking in front should be the owner of the house, a woman wearing slippers and loose home clothes, with a casual manner. The guests following behind were slightly taller.
He looks thin and short, like a middle school student. He also wears a baseball cap on his head, which looks a bit strange in this hot evening.
When they came to the dining table near the balcony, the two sat opposite each other, and their facial features were immediately clearly exposed to the field of view of the telescope.
They are all acquaintances.
The former was Ye Zitan, whom the little girl had talked about many times. Because he had not shown up for a long time, the brother and sister once thought that this person had completed his graduation sketch and returned to school. They never thought that the other person was always nearby, but he just didn't come to the piano store.
And compared with the previous impression, she now looks pale and mentally tired. Her iconic dark green mountain-like eyebrows also seem to be shrouded in a layer of mist, blurred and empty. The whole thing looks extremely weak, as if she is at the beginning of a serious illness.
The more beautiful she looks. Coupled with the always cold and distant external temperament, the more fragile and ethereal she appears. Just like the floating clouds in the sky, they quietly disperse without waiting for the wind to blow.
As for another guest who had just entered the door, he was putting an insulated lunch box on the table and pushing it in front of Ye Zitan. Then, under the latter's playful gesture, he honestly raised his hand and took off his baseball cap, revealing his smooth head, and,
Wearing scars side by side... who is it if he is not the little monk from Dadu?
One thing to say is that today's modern society does not pay much attention to the feudal ideology of a single man and a single woman. However, a young woman and a handsome monk live together in the same room majestically... I have to say that this style of painting is a bit strange.
But at this moment, Tang Chao, who was watching quietly outside, did not change his expression at all, as if he had known it for a long time.
Well, it is indeed not surprising that these two people know each other. As mentioned earlier, the theme of Ye Zitan's graduation project is the style characteristics of Buddhist statues in various dynasties. The sketching location is the Old Street Museum. The young monk lives there, and there is even a
The position establishment of Zhenger Ba Jing is responsible for the research of Buddhist scriptures and Buddhist utensils in the museum... The location and attributes all overlap, so it is natural for them to communicate with each other.
Okay, all of this is just hindsight.
The actual situation is that before this morning, Tang Chao really didn't realize that these two people would interact. It's not that they didn't expect it, but they didn't think about it at all. To be honest, a college student who engages in art and a young monk who knocks wooden fish are normal people.
Who would connect these two?
Until the morning, when he saw the top-secret file in New Delhi...
It can only be said that the real world is so irrational and illogical.
At the dining table in the living room, Ye Zitan opened the thermos, took out small bowls, and poured out the food inside. Well, it was stewed black chicken soup with wolfberry and red dates... Although I couldn't taste it myself, judging from the appearance, the taste should be
good.
Naturally, it wasn't made by the little monk, but the crock pot soup from the nearby Shaxian snack bar. Ye Zitan made a reservation over the phone, and the little monk was just a voluntary takeaway boy.
As for why Ye Zitan didn't pick it up in person, or simply went to the store to eat in, that's another matter - the maternal and child health hospital that Tang Chao went to in the afternoon had a surgical record in it. About her, project
It was an induced abortion, two weeks ago...
Oh, don’t get me wrong, this is not done by the little monk. If I remember correctly, the little monk is not an adult this year. Well, this has nothing to do with whether he is an adult or not. The little monk is still very innocent.
Do you still remember that in June, Tang Chao delivered musical instruments to a customer and then met Ye Zitan by chance on the roadside outside?
At that time, he wanted to go up and say hello, but a car drove up and picked him up. When they passed each other, he saw the face of a middle-aged man behind the windshield who was lost in the honor and disgrace of the world (Chapter 510).
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According to the surgery information, extrapolating the time forward, it should be that time...
What? How did the Tang Dynasty determine it? Of course it was because of the top secret file in New Delhi!
I have to admit that, both from a professional perspective and in terms of detail, that personal file was almost to the extreme. As long as it involved Ye Zitan, basically all the information was recorded without any omissions.
It was in that file that Tang Chao roughly sorted out the context of all events, and by the way, he also observed Ye Zitan's bleak life so far from the perspective of a bystander.
Oh, it may not be accurate to describe it as bleak. In fact, before entering high school, Ye Zitan's life was extremely happy. Her family was well-off, her parents were loving, they loved her very much, and she lived a carefree life. Until the second half of her sophomore year in high school,
Her father, who was a businessman, got into the bad habit of gambling under the guidance of his business partners...
There is no need to elaborate on the subsequent development. It is said that happy families are similar, but each unhappy family has its own misfortunes. But this is a conclusion drawn from a macro perspective. If the unfortunate factors are classified into a specific category, such as drug addiction,
, such as gambling, domestic violence, etc., the routines and lessons are basically the same, with few exceptions... Well, let's just talk about the results.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! First, his mother could not bear the blow of the huge gap, and she could not bear the humiliation of creditors who came to her door every day to press for debts. On a gentle and drizzling morning, she made her last call with Ye Zitan, who was living on campus as a senior in high school at the time.
After the phone call, I chose to take the medicine and leave.
Then the father, who regretted it too late, sent Ye Zitan a brief apology message on the same day using the same method, and then left on a stormy night...
In less than a year, a beautiful family was wiped out.
No one knows how Ye Zitan felt after receiving the news, how he got out of that gloomy period or whether he never got out of that gloomy period. It is only said that his father entrusted Ye Zitan to a man before he died.
He went to his fellow countrymen from other provinces with whom he had the best friendship, and begged them to help him complete his studies.
I didn’t choose any relatives, probably because I had too much debt and I was too embarrassed to face it. I sent my daughter to another place, probably because I wanted my daughter to leave this sad place.
The consideration was quite thorough, but unfortunately, this last bit of kindness brought further harm to Ye Zitan...
That's right, the face of the middle-aged man who was oblivious to the honor and disgrace of the world that he saw before the Tang Dynasty was the "fellow fellow from the province with the best friendship" entrusted by Ye's father, and the person Ye Zitan called his uncle.
This person's information is also related to Ye Zitan's files, and the collection is quite detailed. His surname is Wei, he is from a neighboring province, he is mainly engaged in catering business, he owns several chain hot pot restaurants under his name, and he is rich.
According to the investigation of the files, the uncle surnamed Wei seemed to have taken care of him at first, including taking care of the funeral affairs of Ye Zitan's parents, trying his best to comfort Ye Zitan, who had not yet graduated from high school at the time, to study peacefully, and helping to contact beautiful women from all over the world after the exam.
College, and bear the tuition fees, living expenses, etc.
In addition, when I first met Ye Zitan at the piano store, the valuable Cartier women's watch on the latter's wrist was a 20-year-old gift from this uncle. Various details such as this indicate that this man surnamed Wei
In the beginning, it was really good for Pterocarpus foliata.
However, a beast is still a beast, and even if it is covered with human skin, it cannot hide its animal-like nature.
Around the third year of college, the relationship finally turned sour - this time point was the result of the analysis by the intelligence personnel of the Mighty Prison Court in the files. The clue was that one day a man named Wei suddenly transferred 100,000 yuan to Ye Zitan's bank card.
Although the money was returned on the same day, the time it came in and out undoubtedly meant something.
Ye Zitan herself didn't know clearly what she thought about this. She only knew that the relationship had continued like this since then, and she had reached an unspoken agreement - after graduating from college, it would be over.
The chance encounter on the roadside that day was the last time the two parties met.
Looking back now, since the day of the beating, the Cartier women's watch on Ye Zitan's wrist has disappeared, replaced by an ordinary and cheap Xingyue Bodhi... I think the other party at that time must be in a very relaxed mood, right?
Unfortunately, fate never follows the rules.
It was impossible to determine whether it was the man surnamed Wei who was harboring evil intentions, or whether it was just a simple trick of bad luck to pick on the poor again. In short, one day in July, shortly after he returned from a business trip to Tu'ao, this man who has been in the family since he was an adult...
The girl who used all her strength to climb out of the purgatory of life fell into the bottomless abyss again!
I still don’t know what she was thinking at that time, I just know that this time, she chose to give up. Just like her mother chose on that gentle and drizzly morning a few years ago.
But whether it was luck or misfortune, the pharmacy owner refused her request to buy a certain type of medicine because she did not have a prescription.
So after spending a whole day in a daze, she stepped out of her room late at night, walked across the street, away from the crowd, and walked towards the moat of the old city a few kilometers away...
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(PS: Sorry, I didn’t want to break the chapter here. Unfortunately, this chapter is a bit long and can’t be finished at the moment, so it can only be divided into two chapters. But don’t worry, the next chapter will be uploaded as soon as possible~!)