"Can you stay with me for a few days?"
When Kuang Yiyang finished speaking, my eyes instinctively showed vigilance.
He looked at me without blinking, his expression unchanged, and after a few seconds he said: "Don't you want me to be well? Then stay with me for a few days, and I promise you will never take drugs again."
My heart was churning, and I couldn't tell whether it was pain or soreness. My fingers couldn't help but tremble slightly, and without hesitating for too long, I quickly said: "Where do you want me to go with you?"
Kuang Yiyang said: "When I was alone in the past, I often thought, if you were with me, where would we go and what we would play. I thought about it for a long time, and then I finally found out that I just simply wanted to With you, it doesn’t matter where I go or what I do.”
I looked at Kuang Yiyang, and my eyes turned red without knowing when because of his understatement.
He acted as if there was no one around and said, "Aren't you a tour guide now? You should know a lot of interesting places. Please take me out to play."
His voice was not loud, and the expression on his face was not as violent and angry as before. For a moment, he was in a trance, and I felt that he was the same as before. He's just a big boy who loves to play with me.
I slowly clenched my fingers without leaving any trace. I secretly held back my tears, took a deep breath, and then said to him, "Okay, I'll plan the route. When do you want to set off?"
Kuang Yiyang said: "Now."
Nowadays, I can no longer understand Kuang Yiyang's thoughts, and I am even a little afraid of him, afraid that my inadvertent look or action will trigger his dissatisfaction.
God is the fairest, and now he wants to use this method to let me pay back everything I owe Kuang Yiyang.
I said, "Are there any scenic spots in the city center that you would like to visit?"
Kuang Yiyang said: "I want to go back to school."
I was a little surprised, but I still nodded and responded: "Okay, I'll accompany you back."
Kuang Yiyang and I left Mansion No. 1 together. He walked towards the street and finally got into a white Jaguar. I walked around the front of the car, pulled out the passenger seat, got in, and fastened my seat belt.
We were silent in the car until my phone rang in the middle of the car. I took it out and saw that it was Luo Xiangdong calling.
I glanced at Kuang Yiyang in the driver's seat from the corner of my eye. I instinctively hung up and texted him back: What's wrong
Luo Xiangdong asked me: Are you not at the travel agency
I said: I am with Yi Yang.
Just as this text message was sent, Kuang Yiyang's voice suddenly came: "Whose call is it? Can't you answer it in front of me?"
My heart skipped a beat because I felt a bit guilty. Kuang Yiyang turned his head to look at me and asked, "Is that my brother-in-law?"
I always thought that I was good at lying, but I don’t know whether it was because Kuang Yiyang looked at me with too indifferent eyes or because I felt too guilty. In short, I paused obviously, and then I replied with three hundred taels of silver: " no."
Kuang Yiyang said, "Then show me."
I held the phone tightly and said nothing.
Kuang Yiyang seemed to have known this would happen, so he looked away and said while driving: "So you have always lied to me like this."
I felt extremely uncomfortable in my heart. I couldn't help but frown slightly and said aloud: "Yi Yang, your brother-in-law is very worried about you, and he also hopes that you will be well."
Kuang Yiyang said expressionlessly: "Okay? I regard him as my closest relative and elder. What's the result?"
There was a lump in my throat and I couldn't say a word.
After a few seconds of silence, Kuang Yiyang said again: "You won't remember the betrayal of your relatives and lovers until you are drunk and dreaming. If I am good, I will be sober Lingchi."
After hearing this sentence, I suddenly understood Kuang Yiyang's approach, or choice.
We can only speak in a high-sounding and extravagant way when educating others, but once things happen to us, all the bullshit truths about human nature and sophistication are not as satisfying as a pound of white wine.
No one wants to choose to live in a drunken dream, and no one wants to choose to deliberately escape. It is just too painful to just accept an unacceptable thing soberly.
I no longer want to blame Kuang Yiyang for his self-destruction, because if I were him, I might not live a calmer life than him.
Thousands of words came to my mouth, but I could only say softly: "Yi Yang, I'm sorry."
Kuang Yiyang didn't reply to me. I sat stiffly in the passenger seat. Not long after, my phone vibrated again. I knew it was Luo Xiangdong, but I didn't dare to answer it anymore, so I had to put the phone back in my bag.
It takes almost two hours to drive back to Night City from the center of Night City. I haven't been back for a long time. As the car passed by a familiar road, I looked sideways at the familiar layout and scenery outside the window, feeling as if I was in another world.
Kuang Yiyang parked the car at the school gate. I haven't gotten carsick for a long time, but I got carsick unexpectedly today.
I felt listless, and I got out of the car listlessly. Kuang Yiyang said to me, "I want to eat beef offal hotpot."
I said, "Is the previous one still open?"
He said 'hmm' and then said: "It's open now, we just changed the place."
As we walked side by side with Kuang Yiyang on the familiar streets, the students walking towards us turned sideways when they saw us. I have graduated for a year, but Kuang Yiyang is still in school, so many people know him. Seeing us walking together, they couldn't help but take a closer look.
I have always loved to eat and was a glutton, so when I was in college, I knew all the restaurants within a kilometer of the school. Kuang Yiyang said he wanted to eat beef offal hot pot, and I brought him here in the first place.
The hot pot restaurant was originally located on School Front Street, but now it has been moved to the newly built commercial street behind it. The store is twice as big as before. Now it is not a meal, so there are not many customers in the store.
When we walked in, a waiter wearing a small apron came over to greet us. We were given an order book, and I asked Kuang Yiyang to order, and he said, "I want a big pot, a plate of beef and a piece of ham, a vegetable platter, and a potato."
I listened to what he ordered, and it was all standard fare when I used to come here.
I lowered my gaze slightly, tears welling up in my eyes several times. Things are really different now, and I don’t know how to face him.
Because of motion sickness and the strong smell of oil in the hot pot restaurant, I soon felt sick in my stomach, so before the hot pot was served, I picked up my bag and stood up and said, "I'm going to the bathroom."
Kuang Yiyang didn't speak before, but now he looked at me and asked, "Are you going to call my uncle?"
I really hadn't thought about it, so I instinctively showed a hint of shock on my face, and then said, "No."
Kuang Yiyang said: "You are with me, can you concentrate a little more? I don't want to see you contact him."
Sometimes actions are always more useful than explanations, so I took out my phone in front of him and turned it off.
"I'm going to the bathroom." This time, I didn't even bring my bag and left empty-handed.
There was a small mirror in the bathroom. I saw myself in the mirror with an ugly face. I was really defeated.
Kuang Yiyang is extremely sensitive now, fearing that I will have contact with Luo Xiangdong again, and I just want Kuang Yiyang to get on the right track as soon as possible, so that the guilt in my heart will not be so great.
When I went back from the bathroom, there was already a hot pot on the table. The hot pot was already stewed and I just needed to heat it on the alcohol stove below and eat it at the same time.
Kuang Yiyang didn't move his chopsticks. He only said after seeing me sitting down: "Eat."
There are some things that even if he wants to become bad, the habits he has developed in his bones will not allow him to do so, such as his good upbringing.
Kuang Yiyang's eating appearance is also very good-looking, but he is not delicate but elegant. He can't eat anything too spicy, but because he accommodates me, he always adds a lot of chili peppers to the hot pot, so he only eats a few bites of beef and eats more than half a bowl of rice.
Every time I think about the details of his kindness to me, and then think about what he looks like now, the guilt in my heart is like a scourge, trying to swallow me up in minutes.
I was motion sick, had a headache, and was nauseous, but Kuang Yiyang was sitting across from me. Seeing that I didn’t move my chopsticks very much, he said, “Can’t you even eat with me?”
I said, "I feel a little motion sick."
He didn't say anything at first. He lowered his head and took two mouthfuls of rice. When I lowered my eyes to taste Tong Jue Wa, I only heard a 'pop' sound. When I looked up, Kuang Yiyang slapped his chopsticks on the table and stood up. Go outside.
I was startled, thinking he was unhappy, so I turned to look at him.
Kuang Yiyang walked towards a pharmacy opposite the hot pot restaurant with long legs. I finally knew what he was going to do. Sure enough, when he came back not long after, he put a box of motion sickness pills in front of me.
My eyes were filled with steam from the hot pot, and I whispered, "Thank you."
Kuang Yiyang said in a low voice: "Sometimes I really hate my own habits."
Yes, he is used to being nice to me and taking care of my every feeling.
I took motion sickness pills, and then held my chopsticks and forced myself to take two more bites even if I didn’t want to eat. When it was time to pay the bill after the meal, Kuang Yiyang gave me the money before me, and then walked out.
We have nothing to say, I just follow him wherever he goes.
He took out his mobile phone and made a call. I heard him smile lightly and say, "Guess where I am?"
"It just so happens that I haven't been in class for a while. Come pick me up at the school gate and I'll go to class with you."
After Kuang Yiyang finished speaking, he hung up the phone and the smile on his face disappeared immediately.
We walked from the back street to the entrance of Night University. A few meters away, I saw a familiar figure. He turned around and saw us, so he ran over quickly.
"Senior, are you here too?"
The person standing in front of me with a surprised look on his face was Zhang Ke.
I smiled and nodded. Kuang Yiyang said to Zhang Ke: "Let's go, don't delay your class."
Zhang Ke secretly looked at me without leaving a trace, then walked around to Kuang Yiyang and said loudly: "You kid hasn't come back to class for so long, and you haven't even listened to your professional classes. Why are you joining in the fun with us?"
Kuang Yiyang smiled with an unconcerned look on his face and said, "That's it anyway. Do you think a diploma or a degree certificate has any meaning to me?"