It’s Colder Today - Chapter 23

After Lin Fang was locked up at home for four days, he was finally able to breathe the air outside. On the first day of physical and mental liberation, he first went to a luxury store to buy the latest season’s bag, and then drove to his girlfriend’s school.

Looking at his girlfriend who was ecstatic because of the gift, Lin Fang was not very happy, thinking about when to break up.

Even Xiang Shaoyuan was able to come out for activities that day, so they decided to cheat him and rob him.

After all, the source is him. If he hadn’t fought and beat people who shouldn’t be beaten, they wouldn’t have been linked together.

It’s just that the names of the victims who ate this meal were incomplete, and no one was able to contact Wei Zongying.

In the box of the tea party, Lin Fang was knocking sunflower seeds while swiping his phone: “I don’t answer the calls, so I’m still in jail at home, right?”

Jiang Xuyang shook his head: “No, he sent me a message a few days ago.”

The melon seeds in Lin Fang’s hand were gone, and when he stretched out his hand to grab another handful, he found a blood bubble from the melon seeds in his lower lip, and threw the melon seeds in his hand back. Picking up the teapot and pouring some water into the cold teacup, I wondered why I had contacted him a few days ago, but why I couldn’t find anyone when I was about to release ‘Freedom’?

After drinking two sips of tea, Lin Fang thought about it for a moment, and suddenly his expression became a bit mean, and he raised his eyebrows: “I see.”

Hearing the sound, Xiang Shaoyuan and Jiang Xuyang looked up at him.

Lin Fang’s smile changed from a mean look to a bit wretched: “It must have been held back for too many days. Now that he’s out of the cage, I’m going to find his girlfriend.”

What a sentence without scientific basis, it all depends on the yellow waste in the brain.

Jiang Xuyang rolled his eyes at him, not knowing what justifiable words he was expecting from him just now.

Xiang Shaoyuan’s expression was similar to that of Lin Fang’s, with bad intentions, but Lin Fang’s words were full of loopholes after thinking about it: “It’s been two days, no matter how hard the fire is, you should also pay attention to protecting the trees. It’s not good to cut down like this. ?”

The two were joking incongruously, but they didn’t take it to heart at the time.

After two days, still no one could find Wei Zongying, Lin Fang began to worry: “The fire has been raging for four days, and a whole mountain will be burned up.”

So a group of people started calling the depot, but no one in the depot said they had seen him.

Lin Fang also went to Wei Zongying’s apartment and knocked on the door, but no one answered.

I always feel that it is impossible for Wei Zong to be locked up in their old house until now, but a group of people still drove there out of concern.

Unfortunately, it happened to be meal time when I arrived, and it always seemed like I came here on purpose to grab the meal.

Lin Fang waited for Jiang Xuyang to pull over and park the car, unbuckled his seat belt and was about to get out of the car. Just as the door opened, he leaned forward but was pulled back by a hand.

Lin Fang looked suspiciously at Jiang Xuyang, and the person in the driver’s seat looked ahead and reminded him, “Look.”

Outside the car, a girl about their age was wearing a stewardess uniform, holding a suitcase in one hand and a big-name shopping bag in the other.

They know that person.

Lin Fang watched the girl walk into the old house of Wei Zongying’s family: “Wow.”

Isn’t this the daughter of Wei Zongying’s father’s unforgettable first love?

Don’t think about it, Wei Zongying is definitely not in there.

But since he is not here, where can he go?

Jiang Xuyang put on the untied seat belt again, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong: “I can’t be affectionate until now, right? This will kill you, right?”

When Shi Yun received the call from Xiang Shaoyuan, she was sleeping in the dormitory. She was in a daze for a long time. Did she sleep for 24 days after staying up all night for 24 hours? As if there was a huge gap in memory, why did Xiang Shaoyuan call her?

And the voice on the other end of the phone still seemed not to Shao Yuan.

The roommate was woken up by her cell phone. Shi Yun was lying on the bed with the cell phone on the side of his face and his eyes closed.

The phone hangs up.

Shi Yun turned over, and the phone slipped down from his face. Shi Yuan, who was on the next bed, patted Shi Yun’s pillow through the mosquito net, raised her head, and said in a very weak voice, “Are you telling us to go to the laboratory again? Or what?”

Shi Yun felt her soul floating in a dream. Listening to Shi Yuan’s words, she felt as if she had answered, but the dormitory was quiet, and she suppressed her distress for a while, weakly, and reluctantly replied: “No.”

Shi Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, her neck could no longer support her head, she lay down heavily: “That’s good.”

Not a lecture, not a class meeting, not something in the laboratory, not something in the hospital…

It was her boyfriend who disappeared.

Hmm… Wei Cong should be gone.

Suddenly, Shi Yun’s sleepy bug ran away. She picked up the phone again and looked at the call records. A minute ago, Xiang Shaoyuan called her, not a dream, not a hallucination.

Yes, they said on the phone that Wei Cong should have disappeared.

It took Shi Yun three minutes from getting up to going out.

When she ran downstairs to the dormitory, she saw the car parked next to the roadblock at a glance. Lin Fang stood beside the car with his hips crossed, looking extremely anxious.

Shi Yun didn’t know where Wei Zong should go. How long had he not been in contact with Lin Fang and the others, and how long had he not been in contact with Shi Yun.

Lin Fang told Shi Yun to get in the car, and was going to go to the depot to look for it again.

When Shi Yun got in the car, he saw Jiang Xuyang who was playing with his mobile phone on the co-pilot. He tilted his head slightly and greeted Shi Yun in the back seat: “You don’t need to go to the car factory.”

Lin Fang: “Then where are you going?”

“The racing track.” Jiang Xuyang pointed the phone screen at Lin Fang, “The people in the car factory said that Wei Zongying drove away the modified motorcycle four days ago.”

Hearing the word “racing track”, Lin Fang’s head grew bigger.

“So, did something happen?” Shi Yun didn’t understand why he was playing well and disappeared.

The last time I saw him, he was called back by his grandma. Shi Yun was catching up on sleep in his apartment, but the person who said he would come back at night suddenly couldn’t say it.

The explanation given at that time was that Xiang Shaoyuan caused trouble, and his father told him to stay at home to avoid the limelight.

It happened that Shi Yun was also very busy those few days, she didn’t suspect him, so she didn’t care.

Besides, if Wei Cong shouldn’t talk to him anymore, Shi Yun would think that he wanted to break up more, so she really didn’t think about his disappearance.

When Shi Yun asked this question, neither of the two people in the front row answered him. Mainly, this matter involved the old affairs of Wei Zongying’s family, which was someone else’s private matter, and Lin Fang didn’t know if Wei Zongying wanted to tell Shi Yun or others.

But it’s not good to ignore Shi Yun, he secretly looked at Jiang Xuyang, and Jiang Xuyang noticed that gaze.

Jiang Xuyang glanced at him: “You can say what you want, and you have called people out.”

Lin Fang thought so too, if he didn’t make it clear that someone would be found by then, it wouldn’t be good for Shi Yun to jump repeatedly on the minefield. But it’s not good to say everything, so he revealed a little bit.

Taking advantage of the long traffic lights at the intersection, Lin Fang stepped on the brakes and turned around: “Wei Zongying’s father has a woman who can’t be forgotten. That woman died and left behind a daughter. Uncle Wei is taking care of that daughter now, and… that Now the daughter seems to have become Wei Congying’s… little mother.”

“Mom?” Shi Yun was taken aback.

“Mom?” Jiang Xuyang was shocked.

Hearing the two identical words, Lin Fang looked at Jiang Xuyang: “Didn’t you also see that woman enter the old house? Why are you so surprised?”

Jiang Xuyang cursed: “Do you understand an illegitimate daughter? What a **** little mother.”

When Wei Zongying was a child, he didn’t know that his parents had a bad relationship. He always thought that it was normal for his mother to stay in the room when his father didn’t come home.

It wasn’t until the first time he went to Lin Fang’s house to spend the night that he knew that parents in other people’s homes would joke with each other, and it turned out that his father could also stay at home for dinner.

He understood that it was a matter of junior high school that his father raised a woman outside, and he also understood that such a family atmosphere in his home was rare.

At that time, instead of worrying about homework, what he often thought about was not unknowns such as x and y, but when his parents would divorce.

Their family is like a rubber band that is pulled from the head to the tail. One day it will break, and the husband and wife who are inconsistent and divorced will be separated one day, but before the separation, the woman died.

Originally, Wei Cong should have thought that maybe his parents could get back together because of this, after all, the woman was dead.

But the news of the death did not make my mother happy.

Wei Cong should not understand, until his mother told him hoarsely: “If I die, I will never be able to compete with her again.”

No one can beat a dead man.

Back then, his mother was also the reason why his father abandoned his first love, and now that first love has finally become a moon hanging in the sky. The question of ‘when will mom and dad get divorced’ that troubled Wei Zongying for a long time when he was a child was also answered when he was just getting promoted.

Mom walked very simply. A month later, he received a letter addressed to Singapore.

The letter is not long, and most of it is about the garden of my mother’s house in Singapore.

At the end, the sporadic words were asking him if he was doing well.

Wei Zongying did not reply to this letter until the end.

He has been eating and living near the racetrack recently, and he doesn’t want to go anywhere, and he doesn’t want to do anything except racing. Refreshing his original lap record in the racetrack over and over again, he turned the accelerator to 300 as if he was not afraid of death.

Leaving from his grandparents’ house that day, Wei Congying drove aimlessly for more than an hour. When he recovered, he had already driven on the expressway and parked in a service area nearby. He didn’t know how long he had been in the car in a daze , After smoking a pack of cigarettes, Wei Congying called his mother an international call.

There is no time difference here in Singapore, and it was afternoon in Singapore when Wei Zong called.

The call was answered very slowly, and it was only connected when it was about to hang up.

The voice of the person on the other end of the phone was very soft: “Hello.”

Hearing that familiar voice, Wei Congying leaned on the driver’s seat, holding the steering wheel harder and harder: “Mom, what are you doing?”

“Mom isn’t busy with anything.” She probably sensed that the son on the other end of the phone was in a bad mood, and asked again, “Is something wrong?”

Wei Congying told the story that he found out that the woman’s daughter was Wei Mingcheng’s illegitimate daughter, but the reaction on the other end of the phone was very flat.

Or he has been disappointed with Wei Mingcheng for a long time, so now it is calm.

Or maybe his mother already guessed it.

Wei Congying didn’t know which of the two reasons it was. Realizing that telling this matter would only hurt his mother again, Wei Congying just wanted to change the topic away when he heard a child’s voice calling his mother on the other end of the phone.

The sound of “Mom, Mom”…

The woman who was talking on the phone with him took the phone away: “Mom is on the phone with brother, have you woke up from a nap? Do you want to talk to brother…”

The child on the other end of the phone didn’t know what he said, so he couldn’t hear clearly. After a while of silence, the mother’s voice re-emerged in the microphone: “This matter is over for mother, so be it. Your sister is awake, I’ll go over and have a look, don’t worry about this matter , should it be yours or yours.”

The phone hung up.

Wei Cong should not know how long he sat in the service area, watching the vehicles coming and going and stopping in the service area for a while. The setting sun was slowly setting, Yuhui exhausted his last bit of strength, shining in the sky in the last ten minutes.

Wei Congying gradually came to his senses, and his mother didn’t ask him how he was feeling in the end, nor did he comfort him.

Like that letter.

Perhaps all his maintenance of his mother is to protect his previous self, and the injustice is to feel unfair for his former self.

The love my grandparents have for me is also because I am Wei Mingcheng’s son. If he is not Wei Mingcheng’s son, he will not get what he has now. If someone else is also Wei Mingcheng’s child, then that person can also get what he has.

Looking at the clouds in the sky, the rays of light are shining.

The afterglow was still dazzling, but it only lasted for a few minutes.

He got off the highway at a nearby intersection and drove all the way to the depot at high speed.

He took the keys of the modified motorcycle from Cheng Ge.

He went to the racing track and ran lap after lap, smelling the smell of burning tires in the air, and feeling the sudden wind on his side when the accelerator was unscrewed.

Some people say that this feeling is the feeling of chasing the soul.

He suddenly understood that what he wanted was to unconditionally choose a lover who loved him and stood by his side.

He doesn’t allow betrayal, and he can’t change for others. In the end, he finds that this person can only be himself.

He spends his days either at a nearby hotel or doing laps at the racetrack.

The time difference is reversed every day, the mobile phone is turned off and silent, no one’s calls are answered, and no one’s messages are returned.

There is a convenience store next to the racetrack. The convenience store’s main service targets are the residents in the suburbs behind who have not waited for the demolition, as well as the workers in the nearby factories.

Wei Zongying picked up a dozen beers from the shelf, lowered his head and opened the payment code with his mobile phone, and at the same time reported the name of a cigarette. Putting the beer in his hand on the cash register, he waited until he didn’t see any cigarettes brought over. He looked up and found that it wasn’t the boss he always saw a few days ago.

Standing at the cash register was a girl younger than him, looking at him blankly, as if she didn’t know which pack of cigarettes Wei Zongying was talking about.

Wearing a high school uniform, I probably came to help look at the store for a while on weekends. The childishness on his face was still intact, and he didn’t wear makeup, making him look younger.

Wei Congying pointed to the cigarettes on the shelf behind her: “The second row from the right, the one below…the one below.”

The shelf is quite high, Wei Cong should see her stand on tiptoe and take off the cigarette case: “How many packs do you want?”

Wei Congying turned on the phone with the screen darkened again, and raised his hand to make a gesture.

“A total of seventy-one yuan and six.”

Wei Cong should point the phone screen at her.

She pointed to the QR code pasted on the cash register, and continued, “Scan me and give me seventy-one.”

There is a plastic heat insulation curtain hanging at the entrance of the convenience store, and the heat insulation curtain looks a bit old. Because in summer the curtains are pulled aside and tied together with a rope. But it is estimated that it will be put down in two days, after all, winter in the capital comes early.

The crisp autumn season has passed, and winter in the capital may come earlier this year. Not far away, the camphor trees planted along the road shed an astonishing amount of leaves, and some of the leaves had turned red and yellow, hanging precariously on the branches.

The beer in his hand was still a bit heavy, so he still held it with one hand, opened the lid of the cigarette box with the other hand, pushed a cigarette up with his thumb, and then held it with his mouth. Throw the cigarette case back into the trouser pocket, and then take out the lighter.

The wind was blowing, and he had no spare hand to keep the lighter out of the wind. He simply turned his back to the direction of the wind. There might be no fuel in the lighter, so he hit it several times before he succeeded.

White smoke overflowed from the corner of his mouth, and when he looked up, he saw the little girl coming out of the convenience store.

She was holding a plastic bag and a lighter in her hand.

After seeing Wei Congying light up his cigarette, he ran back into the store.

It was fun to watch that way.

A few holes were punched in the plastic wrapping the eight cans of beer, making it easy to carry. Walking lazily towards the hotel, it was four o’clock when I left the racing track last night.

Early this morning, he was woken up by the movement of the main palace arresting mistresses in the corridor. After being woken up, he couldn’t fall asleep anyway. He went downstairs to have breakfast. Stomach pain.

When he walked back to the entrance of the hotel, the cigarette in his hand was not finished. He stood under the leafy camphor tree and looked up at the hotel with a no-smoking sign in the lobby.

Its appearance is not good, and it looks tattered from the outside.

There are only two people working at the front desk, and they work in shifts in the morning and evening.

Wei Congying actually met the person on the night shift more often, but he didn’t remember what the person on the night shift looked like, because every time he came back from the racing track, she would always sleep on the front desk, leaving Wei Congying always alone. overhead.

Almost out of cigarettes.

A leaf fell on his sleeve, he looked at the yellowing leaves, raised his hand and brushed the leaf away with the hand holding the cigarette, the soot fell on the black sleeve, the jacket made of waterproof material does not stain ash, the next gust of wind blows, The off-white soot is also gone.

The cigarette was burning, and he slowly accumulated the ashes on the cigarette butt.

Looking at the fragile ash in boredom, he wondered how long the ash would last, but just as he finished thinking, Wei Congying heard the sound of a whistle, shook his hand, and the ash fell.

It was Jiang Xuyang who first saw Wei Zongying standing on the side of the road.

When Lin Fang stepped on the brake, he didn’t worry about being rear-ended by the car behind him. He turned on the turn signal to stop the car to the side of the road, and then honked the horn in frustration.

It’s a pity he wasn’t so frightened.

Wei Congying turned around and found that it was them, and there was not much joy on his face.

Looking past the two people who were responsible, they fell on Shi Yun who was moving slowly from the back row and just got out of the car.

She also has a sense of confusion about being out of things. After looking around, he slowly pulled up the knitted jacket that had slipped off his shoulders.

Wei Congying still ignored Lin Fang’s repeated words that never changed, and pretended to be deaf and dumb.

Ignoring Lin Fang who came to the front, he watched Shi Yun walk over slowly, raised his hand and pressed the cigarette in his hand to the lid of the trash can, and stretched out his free hand towards Shi Yun who came to the front.

Lin Fang was still there asking: “What’s the matter with you? Do you know how worried we are about you?”

Wei Zongying kept all the chatter out of his ears.

When she handed Wei Zongying her hand, hearing Lin Fang’s concern, he just nodded to Jiang Xuyang calmly, and said with the most irritating calmness, “You guys go back first.”

Nothing else to say.

He didn’t explain why he was here, and he didn’t tell them how he was.

Of course, Shi Yun was not included in the subject of “You guys go back first”.

Lin Fang became even angrier when he heard the order to evict the guest. After worrying about him for so many days, I almost called the police.

But compared to Lin Fang who was not calm, Jiang Xuyang wanted to be calm and not angry, so he looked at Shi Yun and Wei Congying: “Okay, if you need something, call me.”

Then he greeted Lin Fang who hadn’t gotten out of the car for a minute, got in the car and left.

“Leave now?” Lin Fang was stunned.

Jiang Xuyang ignored him and opened the door to get in the car.

Seeing Jiang Xuyang getting into the car obediently, Lin Fang moved his mouth and cursed silently. After kicking the wheel hub, he opened the driver’s door and got in the car.

Look at the person in the co-pilot wearing a seat belt.

Lin Fang looked past Jiang Xuyang, and then looked at the two people standing together outside the car, Lin Fang always felt that the trip was in vain: “Are we going back like this?”

“It’s fine to see that he’s not dead. He’s twenty-five years old, and he’s in his fifties. You don’t have to control him like an old mother. If he wants to obey discipline, he won’t be able to do this kind of thing, so if you talk about it, he won’t be able to do it.” It’s annoying. Send me to work now, drive slowly on the road, or I can still catch up with the meeting.” Jiang Xuyang folded his arms and closed his eyes to rest, “Besides, they are going to start cutting trees on the mountain now. The two of us It’s in the way.”

Watching Lin Fang’s car gradually disappear at the intersection of traffic lights, Shi Yun realized that he hadn’t gotten into the car yet. I have to say that Lin Fang’s driving skills are still very good, she drives very steadily, and she feels sleepy along the way.

Her gaze was still on the intersection where the car disappeared, until the feeling of kneading and pressing came from her fingers, which made her bring her fugue attention back to her body.

Wei Congying pinched her fingers and saw that she had regained her concentration before saying, “Are you busy recently?”

“That’s for sure.” Shi Yun glanced at him, hurting him, “Anyway, it’s not as free as you, and you still have time to make a disappearance.”

The tone is yin and yang.

Seeing her and Lin Fang coming to find him together, Wei Cong should be very happy.

Because I was happy, I heard her eccentricity, but I thought she was cute: “Your heartfelt words really hurt my heart.”

Shi Yun raised his hand, clenched his hand into a fist, and punched his chest: “It deserves it.”

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