Lai Yang's heart skipped a beat and he quickened his pace and rushed forward.
"Li Dian! Li Dian? Why are you so drunk? Where's your aunt?"
Li Dian looked at Lai Yang squatting beside him with drunken eyes, and then glanced at Yuan Shengda dazedly.
Suddenly, my eyes turned red.
"She's staying in a hotel, Laiyang... I... I... I had a falling out with her, and she said if I don't pay... she'll stay in the theater and won't leave..."
Lai Yang's hand that was supporting Li Dian froze for a moment.
When Li Dian talked about this matter in the afternoon, although Lai Yang felt a little depressed, he did not expect the matter to be so serious
"Let's take him back first. He'll catch a cold if he sits here for a while!"
Yuan Shengda interrupted Lai Yang's thoughts, and the two of them worked together to help Li Dian into the community.
After returning to his room, Li Dian just lay down on the sofa when he suddenly sat up and vomited on the ground.
Then his shoulders began to tremble, veins on his neck bulged, and he let out bursts of sobs.
Lai Yang and Yuan Shengda stood aside, stunned by this scene!
"You know... that money was given to me by my father. It was all the savings of our family, a total of 170,000 yuan. I took 100,000 yuan to come to Shanghai..."
Li Dian had never talked about this before.
Lai Yang asked, but he always smiled and passed it off.
When Lai Yang first started working with Li Dian, he thought he was also a rich second-generation, but he didn't expect that this was how he made his money.
However, given Li Dian's calm personality, how could he do such a thing
Tonight, Lai Yang saw another side of Li Dian, a strange side.
Yuan Shengda immediately brought a mop from the bathroom. After Lai Yang reacted, he also put a towel over to help Li Dian wipe his face.
"Does your uncle know about you taking the money? Does he support you?" Lai Yang asked while helping Li Dian wipe the wipe.
But unexpectedly, after asking this question, Li Dian took off his glasses, and tears welled up in his bloodshot eyes.
"My father died of nasal cancer."
Lai Yang and Yuan Sheng were stunned at the same time and stared at Li Dian blankly.
He suddenly curled up his legs and whimpered hoarsely.
"My mother is a heavy gambler and has a serious addiction to cards... When my father was in the hospital and had surgery, she couldn't even get down from the card table! She, she, she..."
Li Dian's emotions began to explode, and saliva in his mouth
They stuck together, their eyes filled with despair.
"She was still playing cards until the night my dad died. She didn't even look at him when he died!!"
Bang!
Li Dian smashed the water cup on the coffee table. The glass shards shattered into pieces, like falling tears, and landed all over the floor.
Yuan Sheng's shoulders trembled in fear, and Lai Yang opened his eyes wide in horror.
"My dad gave me his last savings and asked me to keep them safe. I... because of this incident, I stopped communicating with her completely. I... kept 70,000 yuan and came to Shanghai with the rest..."
"But, but she... now she wants me to return the rest of the money. I know, I know she must have lost money playing cards again. She gambles big! Sometimes she loses ten or twenty thousand in one night. One day, our family will be lost by her at the card table!! Lose, lose, lose..."
Li Dian was like a madman, punching the sofa again and again. Lai Yang rushed forward and hugged him.
"Li Dian! Calm down! Calm down!"
"Laiyang... What should I do?... What should I do?"
Li Dian's eyes were red: "You don't know her. If she didn't get the money, she would really sleep in the theater... She would do such a thing!!"
"Can I talk to her? Please make an appointment for me tomorrow and I'll come and talk."
Lai Yang's mind was a mess at this moment.
But if Li Dian does this, the conflict with his mother will only become more serious.
All I can do is to talk to his mother in detail tomorrow, and appeal to her emotions and reason.
I just don’t believe it. How can there be such a mother in the world
Li Dian was drunk and fell into a deep sleep.
Lai Yang helped him take off his coat and washed it, and Yuan Shengda cleaned the house silently.
After finishing the work, the two took a taxi back.
On the way, looking at the bustling street scenes and the neon lights that seemed to have no end, Lai Yang's eyes gradually lost focus.
The whole city seemed to have quieted down.
In a flash, Lai Yang and Yuan Shengda got out of the car. Only then did he realize that the two of them hadn't spoken much along the way.
"Are you in a bad mood?" Lai Yang lit a cigarette and walked into the community side by side with Yuan Shengda.
"Nonsense, how can I be in a good mood?"
After Yuan Shengda said something, Lai Yang exhaled a puff of smoke and said
: "I didn't tell you about Li Dian. Before I told you about this, I felt that you were in a bad mood."
"No, I'm just tired." Yuan Shengda replied firmly.
The wind suddenly became a little cold, with a slightly foamy feeling in the air. The fallen sycamore leaves on the roadside were blown gently, making a creaking sound as they scratched the ground.
"Laiyang, if we can't have a good conversation with Auntie, where will we get the 100,000 yuan?"
Lai Yang remained silent on this question.
Now he had less than 70,000 yuan left in his pocket (the money from selling the wedding house), and even if he gave it all to Li's mother, it would still not be enough.
Moreover, when I was running a theater, I also had an online loan and I paid it back on time every month.
But if the other party's attitude is very tough and the negotiations cannot be concluded, it will be unknown whether the theater can continue.
Yuan Shengda put his hands in his pockets and looked up at the sky.
"Laiyang, I remember when we were little, every time we looked up at the sky, we would talk about aliens and that there was a dragon hidden in the clouds."
Lai Yang smiled bitterly, thinking of the innocent scenes of his childhood.
"Haha, it seems like it's been a while since you said you saw a flying saucer, and the dragon just disappeared just like that..." Yuan Shengda said with his head held high.
"Oh, if I say I saw a dragon now, I'll definitely be considered a psychopath."
Lai Yang smiled bitterly, but Yuan Shengda did not smile. She lowered her head with burning eyes.
In the darkness, her eyes sparkled with a bright light, as if... tears.
"Now when I look at the sky, I only see whether it is cloudy or sunny, and what clothes I should wear tomorrow so I won't catch a cold. I am no longer as imaginative as before. Is this how adults change?"
While Lai Yang was confused, she strode downstairs to her building.
The slim figure looks like a lonely shadow in the wind, and her long hair flutters slightly in the wind.
Ding ding~
The cell phone suddenly vibrated. Lai Yang took out his phone and saw a message from Tian Jing.
Lai Yang, actually after watching your impromptu performance tonight, I feel that you have great creativity and are a great artist. I wish the theater great box office sales in the future and I also wish you a bright future.
Lai Yang was stunned for a while, then looked up at the starry sky.
The clouds seemed to move away a little, and the Big Dipper was faintly flashing silver light.
It hasn't changed at all, it's exactly the same as when I was a child.