Behind a truth, there is always an unknown story. Jane Jie has envisioned many scenarios and settled down to consider many possibilities, but she never thought about it. The past was all bloody and cruel.
The ferocious scar was like a cruel and ruthless piranha, blooming coquettishly and high-profile on Lin Xiaotian's back, just looking at it, one could feel the piercing pain.
The sharply contracted pupils revealed Jane's shock, Lin Xiaotian put on his clothes leisurely again, as if he just showed Jane a painting he had collected.
When the cigarette is lit, the bitter taste of nicotine spreads on the lips and teeth, leaving a trace of coldness passing through the throat and lingering in the lungs.
Jane Jie remained silent, still not recovering from the shock.
Lin Xiaotian smiled indifferently, picked up the cigarette case from the tea table, and put one in his mouth.
"Back then Gu Yan didn't teach you to smoke, when did you learn it yourself?"
The meaningless tone hit Jian Jie's heart one after another, and his eyes rolled slightly in the sore sockets. Jian Jie took a deep breath of smoke and said in a muffled voice, "It's been a long time."
"Actually, Zhongshi is not very big. If you want to find Gu Yan, you should have found it long ago." Lin Xiaotian yawned, feeling unbearably sleepy: "Gu Yan has been in prison and hurt others through negligence."
Although he was well prepared, Lin Xiaotian's clear words knocked on the eardrums, and Jian Jie stood up abruptly.
That kind of confusion, astonishment, disbelief, and even funny feelings ran through Jane's internal organs, and her heartbeat clamored, nailing into Jane's brain with the running second hand.
Time is frozen.
"… when."
Jane stood there, waiting for all the emotions to disappear, leaving only heartache and unbearable.
At that moment, all the complaints and anger in his heart turned into self-blame and regret!
Gu Yan in the end...
How many things did you hide from him
"Jane, I, Lin Xiaotian, live such a big life. The only thing I recognize clearly is fate. Since you joined me and Gu Yan, everything has gone against what I expected. I never thought that Gu Yan would accept it. People other than me, let alone you who are out of tune with Gu Yan." Lin Xiaotian squinted his eyes, his sharp cheeks were smudged with the light of the living room, and his body was covered with helplessness and sadness: "Some things You need to ask Gu Yan in person, I can only do this, it is the bond between the two of you, brother, it is hard for me, as a bystander, it is not good for me to participate too much."
Jian Jie frowned, with a look of disappointment on his face.
Puzzled, unbearable, mixed with sighs.
"Give him some time, Gu Yan is working hard." Lin Xiaotian pointed to the sofa, signaling Jane to relax: "It stands to reason that I shouldn't even tell you about Gu Yan's imprisonment, but I really don't want to see you detours Toss the road, click until the end... Fuck, I didn’t beat you when I came in!”
Jane sat down and stared at the empty coffee cup in front of her in silence for a long time.
"Is it because of Liang Qi?" Jian Jie turned around and asked.
Lin Xiaotian was at a loss for words.
"I should have thought of it earlier." Jian Jie laughed at himself, with unbearable pain on his face.
"This kind of person will inevitably get troubled if he walks around." Lin Xiaotian shook his head: "It can't be avoided."
"I know..." Jane lowered her head, her messy hair covered the upper half of her face, and she couldn't see her expression clearly.
"That's because I..."
Lin Xiaotian stopped talking, and his thoughts turned back to ten years ago.
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Only the afternoon is the longest of the day. With slightly swollen eyelids, Gu Yan lazily dragged out two large white tablecloths from under the bed. They were covered with dust and looked wrinkled and not very clean.
Sitting in the living room talking to Gu Li, Jian Jie chatted occasionally, but most of the time, he just smiled at Gu Li obediently and quietly.
"This is a photo of him when he was three years old." Gu Li's slender and callused fingers lightly slid across the yellowed photo, and said to Jian Jie peacefully, "Very naughty."
"I've seen all of these." Lin Xiaotian was squatting beside Gu Li's wheelchair with an apple in his mouth, smiling perfunctorily.
"Jane hasn't seen it yet." Gu Li said very slowly.
Jane Jie's eyes fell on Gu Li's photo album, which was only about one centimeter thick, and many places in the middle were blank, with no photos in it.
In the photo, there is only a boy with a round face and big eyes, holding a bunch of grapes in his hand, staring at something stubbornly, wearing a set of autumn clothes and long trousers with animation patterns on his body, the background should be in a farm yard.
"This is his grandma's house." Gu Li said.
"Why did it turn out again!" Gu Yan heard the movement from the room, popped his head up and shouted: "Mom, save me some face, just show me a few photos, and I'll catch you tomorrow while you're not around." threw!"
"This child..." Gu Li smiled.
"Didn't you take over a few handicraft jobs? Rest early when you're done—Lin Xiaotian! Come and help!"
Lin Xiaotian's mouth was full of apple juice, and when he heard Gu Yan calling him, he wiped his school uniform a few times with both hands, then got up and said to Jane: "Go! Go earn money!"
Jian Jie was surprised, her eyes widened.
To be honest, a rebellious adolescent high school student like him who is squatting at home and stretching out his hands to eat and open his mouth really has never thought about making money.
The last time I only heard Gu Yanshun say something, I didn't expect that the matter of making money was true!
"The two of them are selling small things in the night market, and they don't like to study very much, so let them go." Gu Li explained: "You go and have a look."
Jian Jie stood up, followed Lin Xiaotian curiously, and entered the room.
Gu Yan lay on the ground with his ass pouted, his upper body got under the bed, and he yelled at Lin Xiaotian in a muffled voice: "Do you deserve a beating! Last time I asked you to put it outside and you fucking stuffed it inside, how can you take it out!"
Lin Xiaotian covered his mouth and kicked Gu Yan's ass with his bare feet.
Gu Yan cursed, and wanted to crawl out, but he didn't expect to be nearly 1.8 meters tall, and the moment he raised his head, he knocked hard on the bottom of the bed.
With a muffled sound, Lin Xiaotian laughed even more exaggeratedly.
"Grass!"
Gu Yan climbed out backwards, made a leap, and smashed Lin Xiaotian's shoulder with a clenched fist.
The two took advantage of the situation to fight into a ball.
After hearing half of Gu Yan's words, Jian Jie still hasn't figured out what the two of them are talking about.
After struggling for more than ten minutes, Jian Jie didn't say a word.
"Stop making trouble—" Lin Xiaotian was pressed on the bed by Gu Yanfan, the veins on his neck popped, like a duck whose neck was about to be chopped off.
Gu Yan let go of him, sweating profusely, and only realized that Jane was still in the room when he turned his head.
"Hurry up!" Gu Yan said.
"Grass, your hands are really strong!" Lin Xiaotian said.
"Should have known about being beaten so many times?"
Lin Xiaotian pursed his lips, rubbed his shoulders, and fled under the bed numbly lying on the ground.
In just a few seconds, a few ugly puppets came out from below, as well as some large and small, diamond-encrusted and non-diamond-encrusted headwear, brooches and so on.
"What is this?" Jane still couldn't help it.
"Goods." Gu Yan explained simply and succinctly.
"There are not many things left, and I have to buy a batch. The morning market opens at four o'clock, should you go or should I go?" Lin Xiaotian got out from under the bed.
Gu Yan swiftly stuffed those things into a large tablecloth and carried them on his shoulders: "I will."
"Then I'll go next time." Lin Xiaotian said, putting his arm on Jian Jie's shoulder: "I'll show you how my brother makes money!"
The night market that Lin Xiaotian mentioned is not far from the secret base. I didn't expect that besides eating, there is a row of small street stalls in that street.
Gu Yan found a place, spread out one of the white cloths, used it as a seat for three people, and put down the huge bag, then kicked Lin Xiaotian: "Tidy up, I'll go buy food."
Jian Jie is like the crane among the chickens, with his head on his head like a fool.
"What to eat?" Gu Yan turned his gaze to Jian Jie.
"I..." Jian Jie was taken aback, "Anything is fine."
"barbecue?"
"Put more chili!" Lin Xiaotian buried his head in his hard work and still forgot to say, "Slices of steamed buns! Brush the sauce!"
Gu Yan took out money from his pocket, counted it, pulled out a few ten-yuan notes, and handed the remaining loose change to Jian Jie: "Take it."
How can I pay back the money if I haven't made any money yet
Jane stood there.
"Here, the change. The doll is fifteen yuan, and the price is reduced by at least five yuan. It is specially selected for couples, and other card issuances... The big ones are ten yuan, eight yuan, six yuan, the small ones, nine yuan, seven yuan, five yuan, and the long ones are specially selected. It’s not good-looking to sell.”
Jian Jie took the money, before Gu Yan could say anything, he turned around and ran away.
"Some girls like these bright things, bows, pearls and so on..." Lin Xiaotian roughly arranged the things, looked at the falling night, and sighed leisurely: "I have a little wink, and I will say a few more compliments, If not, just use your beauty."
Jian Jie smiled suddenly, the small pile of change in his hand still had Gu Yan's warmth, which made this deserted night market a little more novel.
The two of them were talking, Jian Jie listened intently to Lin Xiaotian teaching him how to sell things, a few pavements around him had been quietly set up, the streets that were originally empty, but after a while, they came one after another It was full of people.
"By the way, it's about Miao Zhengnan! You must never tell Gu Yan... I'm telling you this secretly. Gu Yan is very sensitive to these things, and I'm afraid that something will happen."
"Yeah." Jane nodded, hiding her doubts in her eyes, then turned around and raised the corners of her mouth to a girl who was picking hairpins in front of their booth, showing a confident smile: "It's very suitable for you, very beautiful."
Seeing Jian Jie's handsome face, the girl blushed immediately, randomly picked a relatively large hairpin with a bow studded with diamonds and handed it to Jian Jie, and stammered, "How much...how much?"
"Twenty." Jane Jie showed a harmless smile.
Lin Xiaotian was just about to correct him, but before he could say "fifteen yuan", he watched the little girl take out the money from her bag and hand it to Jane Jie, and ran away without looking back.
After a while, Lin Xiaotian opened his mouth wide in shock.
"What the hell?"
Jian Jie put the money into the pile of change and said, "It's very simple."
It's not easy for you to sell your hue!
Lin Xiaotian silently rolled his eyes enviously.
"Yo... what a coincidence."
A teasing male voice came, Jian Jie and Lin Xiaotian turned their heads, and stood up quickly after a few seconds.
Miao Zhengnan was following Liang Qi, and was staring at the two of them with malicious intent.
The temperature suddenly dropped to the lowest point, and the battle was about to start!
The author has something to say: The memory chapter begins.
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