"Li Xuan!" Sheng Min was startled and subconsciously wanted to chase him. But at this moment, the traffic light turned from red to green, and the car horn behind him kept beeping to urge him to go.
Sheng Min had no choice but to step on the accelerator and drive the car across the intersection and stop. He hurriedly got out of the car, but Li Xuan was no longer visible on the street. It seemed that in this moment, he really melted into the rain.
The sky was covered with dark clouds. This area was close to the subway station and the flow of people was dense. Sheng Min looked around in the crowd. Pedestrians holding umbrellas passed by him one after another, and he staggered when he was not paying attention. Sheng Min subconsciously didn't want to be recognized, but then he remembered that he was now against Li Xuan's face. He shook his head and said it was okay, and continued to chase in the direction Li Xuan had just left.
Li Xuan stood in a small alley opposite, and watched Sheng Min walk away before walking out. He put on a mask and went to the convenience store next door to buy a pack of cigarettes.
Sheng Min probably doesn't smoke. Li Xuan returned to the alley, found a random house and sat down at the door, lit a cigarette, and took the first puff, and he started coughing violently, which was not what he was used to.
It took him a while to stop, but he could still hear the echo in the narrow alley, and the spicy smell in his throat was still there. Li Xuan did not hesitate at all and put the cigarette into his mouth again.
He was not addicted to cigarettes, but he smoked this one very quickly. The ash fell to the ground and was quickly wet by the rain. Li Xuan took out another cigarette and lit it, then took out his cell phone, logged into the online banking account, entered the card number and password, and transferred all the money in it to the city orphanage account.
Sheng Min was right, he wasn't going there for the money, so he didn't plan to keep it.
But did he really want to kill him? Li Xuan himself was not sure. In fact, how could a man like Zhao Yi be killed? He was timid and cowardly, but a scoundrel. He had seen many such people before... He really wanted him to pay with his life, but he also knew that it was too difficult for such a person. However, no matter what he had planned before entering the door, Sheng Min finally disrupted it.
Li Xuan leaned against the door behind him and sighed. Sheng Min didn't know that this matter was over. So what if they signed a written agreement? Zhao Yi was a rogue but not a fool. He was scared today and couldn't get it over with in one go. From now on, it will be delayed month by month. As long as they don't call the police, it will be impossible to get a penny from his pocket in the future...
No, Li Xuan thought again, no, Sheng Min actually knew. So he said he would give it to her.
Because the little girl is pitiful.
Li Xuan sneered unconsciously and blew out a smoke ring.
The white smoke slowly spread out and hit the mottled wall on the opposite side covered with moss. It was raining, and insects and ants crawled out from inside, washed by the rain, and fell to the ground, struggling in vain.
Li Xuan looked at the ants on the ground and somehow remembered that he had also been asked to pay back debts. But he didn't seem to feel that he was that pitiful. Maybe he didn't have time to think about these things. How old was he at that time? Fourteen or fifteen, and how did he solve it later...
Li Xuan shook his head and saw that the cigarette in his hand was about to burn between his fingers. He didn't count how many cigarettes he had lit.
In the past. Li Xuan took another puff, letting the stimulating breath slowly seep into his lungs. He hardly thought about the past. So he didn't know why he told Sheng Min those things.
There was no emotion at all when I said it.
So why did you say it out loud
Li Xuan frowned. He couldn't figure it out, so he gave up thinking about it.
He raised his hand and threw the cigarette butt into the trash can not far away. The unextinguished spark drew a beautiful parabola in the air. When he wanted to touch another cigarette, he suddenly found that the cigarette box was empty.
It turns out that the dark sky was not just because of the rain, it was already night.
Li Xuan came back to his senses. He heard someone preparing dinner for their family. The aroma of food drifted from afar. The rain was already very light, with only light raindrops blowing in the wind.
He glanced at his watch and found that he had been sitting here for more than two hours as if in a trance.
He was so angry that he sighed. With so much time left, how many things could he do? Would Sheng Min commit suicide again? Li Xuan thought it was impossible, but who could say for sure. As someone who just wanted to live a good life, how could he understand the thoughts of someone like Sheng Min who insisted on committing suicide
He was still angry when he thought of Sheng Min, but after two hours of being in the wind, he calmed down. In fact, if you think about it carefully, there is not much reason for him to be angry with Sheng Min in the afternoon. He was doing what he thought was right, and Sheng Min was the same, just with different positions. As for Sheng Min accidentally stepping on his reverse scale, it was indeed not Sheng Min's fault. He was not a person who liked to vent his anger on others.
Li Xuan felt somewhat annoyed as he thought about this, but no matter how he struggled in his mind, given Sheng Min's history of committing suicide, it was more important for him to find the person.
Li Xuan wiped the rain off his hands, stood up and began to think about where to look. However, when he looked up, he suddenly realized that he didn't need to go anywhere.
Sheng Min was standing not far ahead, holding a black umbrella.
On the stone slab under his feet, raindrops gathered and flowed into the cracks where weeds grew, and soon disappeared. The not-so-bright street light shone on his face, and they stared at each other quietly from a distance of three or four meters.
How strange. Li Xuan thought, in less than a day, when he saw his face again, he no longer had that feeling of soul dislocation.
He understood very clearly that the person in front of him was Sheng Min.
But who is Sheng Min? He actually doesn't know.
No one spoke for a long time, until a black cat meowed and flew over the mottled wall. The rain gradually got heavier. Sheng Min came over and gave him half of the umbrella.
"Are you still angry?" he asked softly.
"We are not familiar with each other."
That means it's not worth it. Sheng Min hummed and pursed his lips: "I just went to the hospital."
Only then did Li Xuan notice that there was indeed a hospital logo on the bag in his hand.
"I couldn't find you at first, and there was no one when I got home. I didn't know where to look for you, so I passed by the hospital and went for a check-up and got some medicine." Sheng Min said softly, "After I got the medicine and went back, there was still no one. I thought you might not know the way, so I came out again..."
He paused for a moment, and did not say how long he had been looking for him or how he found Li Xuan. He just said, "I didn't even know there was an alley here."
With the weak light around him, he could vaguely see the medicine box in the plastic bag. Li Xuan carefully identified the names on it: paroxetine, sertraline...
Then I heard Sheng Min say, "I'm really sorry for today... Before we get back, I will definitely be alive and won't cause any trouble for you. Don't worry."
"Don't you want to go?" Li Xuan automatically ignored his apology.
Sheng Min pursed his lips: "You can go."
Li Xuan was silent for a moment, then pulled the corner of his mouth and moved closer to look at Sheng Min: "Are you starting to sympathize with me again?"
"No." Sheng Min denied.
"I don't need it."
"I know."
Li Xuan's Adam's apple moved: "Everything I said was a lie to you. I just wanted to embarrass you."
Of course he didn't think so, and there was no causal relationship between the two events, and both of them knew this. But he really wanted to say this.
"Oh." Sheng Min was stunned, looked at him for two seconds, and scratched his hair, "Then... Then I'm really embarrassed."
Li Xuan didn't expect him to say such a thing, and he was both amused and confused. He looked at Sheng Min, the rain soaked half of his shoulders, and the light grass-colored windbreaker turned dark green. Sheng Min was stared at by him for too long, and his expression gradually became a little confused. He lowered his eyes and avoided his gaze. Li Xuan suddenly smiled. He reached out and gently supported the tilted umbrella: "Can you stand the rain?"
"What?" Sheng Min was puzzled.
"Aren't you a transformed Bodhisattva?" Li Xuan said, "You like saving people so much, but you can't even protect yourself. I guess you're made of clay. You can't get wet in the rain, right?"
His tone was calm, without any hint of sarcasm. Sheng Min didn't know what to say, and his Adam's apple moved. The first thought that flashed through his mind was, according to this comparison, Li Xuan's mood swings, maybe he is a Yaksha in disguise
Sheng Min lowered his eyes and saw Li Xuan's blurry face reflected in the water on the ground.
But there is no Yaksha so beautiful, he thought absentmindedly.
Then I couldn't help but think, in what kind of environment was Li Xuan's character developed
Sheng Min didn't ask any of the two questions. He was silent for a moment and finally said, "I went to the hospital for a check-up, but the doctor said that the problem is not very serious. I also think that it seems to be getting better, so I should be able to control it and not die... Really, I'm not trying to comfort you."
"It's probably due to hormones." Li Xuan said, "You moved into my body, and my hormone levels changed."
Sheng Min frowned slightly: "Will you be influenced by me?"
"No." Li Xuan said indifferently, "I am determined."
Sheng Min couldn't explain why, but she found this sentence very funny, and her eyebrows curved. Fearing that Li Xuan would be unhappy, she quickly stopped laughing: "Give me your phone number. I just wanted to find you, but I found that I don't have your number yet."
Li Xuan did not comment, took out his cell phone and exchanged numbers with him.
"Are you going back?" The light from the cell phone screen tore a thin crack in the dark alley.
"Let's go." Li Xuan put away his phone, then added formally after remembering something, "I know the way."
Sheng Min raised an eyebrow in surprise, then realized that he was a little childish, pursed his lips, and nodded: "Okay. I understand."
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