I want to see you for the
last time.
I went back to China and took the fifty thousand dollars that the Butterfly Club promised me at the beginning. This is paid for with my life.
I went to find Wang Hui first. When Wang Hui saw me, he immediately asked, “Where have you been all this year?”
I didn’t speak.
Wang Hui was silent for a moment and then said, “Ah Guo, she..” I drank the medicine and left.
I sat on the sofa, unable to say a word, so I sat in a daze. Wang Hui handed over the cigarette, and I smoked it hard, with a tearing pain in my chest.
Wang Hui said that a Guo had a mother in her hometown in Guizhou. Her mother had uremia and could only live on dialysis three times a week. When Ah Guo was a sophomore, her family had spent all the money for medical treatment. She had no choice but to go out of school and become a young lady. Later, he followed Li Ge in order to earn money for his mother’s treatment. Once she couldn’t keep up with the dialysis, her mother’s life was in danger. Less than half a year
after I left, Ah Guo was not feeling well and was found to have uremia, which the doctor said was hereditary. A Guo is very desperate, know this kind of disease will torment her for a lifetime, she does not want to endure, took a bottle of sleeping pills in a night. I
covered my eyes and was silent for a long time. “Tell me about Brother Li,” I said.
Wang Hui said that not long after the death of Ah Guo, the whole country began to crack down on the black storm. Li Ge originally wanted to disappear for a while to avoid the limelight, but the two guys surnamed Qin and Chen took advantage of this opportunity to bite Li Ge, got him in, and sentenced him to more than ten years. Later, the two men were drinking together, and the three guys, the little demon, the kidnapper, and the murder weapon, rushed in and stabbed both of them, injuring several others. The lives of these two people are great. They were rescued in the hospital, but they didn’t die. This case is done. The murder weapon ran to the northeast, and the kidnapper did not know where to go. A few months ago, the little demon was found by the local patrol, resisted arrest and was killed directly. When
Wang Hui finished, he took out a small box and said, This is a relic of Ah Guo. A Guo gave these things to the kidnapper before he died and asked him to give them to you. The kidnapper didn’t understand what was going on, and he didn’t know what it meant until Ah Guo died. Then the kidnapper ran away, and when he left, he gave it to me. Inside the
small box were some very fragmentary things, a Guo’s mobile phone, my bank card, one of my old wallets, and four movie tickets we had seen together.
I smoked another cigarette and told Wang Hui what had happened this year. “What are you going to do?”
He asked.
I said, I haven’t decided yet. I’m going to see Li Ge first.
As I was leaving, Wang Hui said, “Yang Meng is married.”
I paused and walked out the door.
I saw Li Ge in the visiting room. Brother Li was surprised to see me. He sat down, his voice a little hoarse. “Are you back?” He asked.
“Well, Brother Li, are you all right in there?” I think he looks much older.
“Not bad, not bad.” Brother Li grinned softly. “There are still a few of my old sidekicks in there.”. No one bullied me.
That’s good. I know you’re a heavy smoker, so I brought you two cartons. I took out my cigarette.
Li Ge saw the cigarette, smiled awkwardly, and first took the cigarette to the man standing next to him. I understand that sending things to prisoners requires the consent of the discipline.
“Brother Li, I’ll think of something outside..” I whispered. Before he had finished speaking, Brother Li interrupted him and said, “Don’t bother about me. It’s no use.”. Little demon, their business. I know everything, too. Leave me alone. It will only get you into trouble.
I didn’t speak.
“And, Ouyang, Ah Guo, she..” Brother Li hesitated to speak. I nodded and said, “I already know.” When I came out
of prison, I went to find Sister Xu, the Wenzhou rich woman who had business contacts with Li Ge. I haven’t seen her for
a long time. Sister Xu still knows me. Maybe I put down her favorite general with two legs in those years, which made her never forget. I explained the purpose of my visit to Sister Xu. When she heard this, she shook her head and said, “It’s not that I don’t help. It’s not easy to do this.”. The verdict has already been handed down, and there is nothing we can do.
“Sister Hsu, you’re so popular, you must have a way.” I took out the fifty thousand dollars I had brought back from Russia and gave it to her, saying, “Sister Xu, please help me.” With a sigh,
Sister Xu accepted my money and said, “I’ll try my best.” After I came out
from Sister Xu, I went to Guizhou. According to what Ah Guo had said, I found her home, a remote county town not far from Huangguoshu Falls.
A Guo’s mother was very weak, because she suffered from uremia for many years, and her eyes were almost blind. A Guo also has an uncle here to help take care of her mother. Her uncle already knew the news of Ah Guo’s death, but he was afraid that the old man could not stand the blow, so he never said anything.
I said to Ago’s mother, I am Ago’s friend. A Guo is too busy with her work, so I came to see you for her.
The old man was very happy and quickly invited me to drink tea and eat candy, saying that he wanted me to stay here for a few more days.
I said no, I have something to do, and I have to leave today. Before I left, I left all my savings, hundreds of thousands of yuan. I said this is what Argo asked me to bring you. After
returning to Tianjin, Wang Hui asked me if I had called home? I lied to your family that you went abroad.
I said I had really gone abroad, and I had called home.
Wang Hui asked your mother what she said?
I said my mother scolded me to death.
A few days later, Sister Xu told me that she had tried her best, and all the relationships that could go were gone, which was not very useful, but she finally lost a few years of her sentence, and there were still eight years left.
I said thank you, sister Xu.
Sister Xu said you’re welcome. If you don’t have a boss, come and fight with me.
I said no, I don’t fight anymore.
I lay on the bed and stared at the ceiling. Wang Hui asked me, “Ouyang, what are you going to do in the future?”
I don’t know. I want to leave this city. I said aimlessly. What
you’ve been through all these years.. When I went to college, I’m afraid I didn’t even taste what college was like. I think you might as well go to graduate school and read it again.
“Where is the exam?”
Go to Qingdao. There’s a company there that wants me to go to work there. You can accompany me.
“Yes.”
In this way, I followed Wang Hui to Qingdao. The year in Russia honed my English level, and I reviewed for a period of time, and successfully passed the postgraduate examination of that year.
On the day of entering school, I walked into the campus with my backpack on my shoulder, and I had some memories of that year in a trance. Walking to the door of the dormitory, a song was played on the school radio. The melody was once familiar. It was the “Farewell Book” of the Dream Machine.
I stood and listened quietly. I wrote the lyrics of this song for my cousin. After so many years, they finally have some fame after signing the company. The grass has dyed half of the paper, and
when I look at it, the color may have turned yellow.
Do not hear the smoke of wolves everywhere beyond the Great Wall,
soldiers and iron horses thousands of miles of white frost.
I waited for the jackdaw to fly away and pick up the paper
, and I was heartbroken.
Tan Lang. The
spring smoke at the foot of the mountain rises again.
I wait for you to come back as before. The willows in the
wind are green again, and
I see everything passing by.
I slowly hesitated,
picked up the flying yellow leaves, and
pasted a piece of red makeup on the bronze mirror.
Looking back on the lane of parting,
I wish I could forget.
I continue the university life in Qingdao, all very good, step by step, free and undisciplined. I will get together with Wang Hui and have a drink when I am free. I have learned to smoke. I smoked and told Wang Hui that the sea breeze here is much more humid than Tianjin.
Wang Hui smiled and asked, do you remember what happened before? I
said I didn’t remember. I was just talking about the sea breeze. The
previous life did not leave me too many traces, except when it was cloudy and rainy, my chest and knees would ache. When I took a shower in the school bathhouse, they would look at my back and whisper. I know. They’re just curious about the fancy tattoo. In October of
that year, the tutor took us to the Mount Huang of Anhui to collect folk songs. In October, something always happens.
In Huangshan City, we are walking on the road. A black car drove past and then creaked to a halt behind it. From behind came a voice: “West Poison?”
I am stupefied, turn a head to look, a person sticks out a head to call me from car window. I didn’t see who it was for a moment. When he saw me turn my head, he immediately got out of the car and shouted happily, “West Poison, is it really you?”
Kidnapper.
It’s a kidnapper. I unexpectedly met a kidnapper here. He was much fatter than before and not as handsome as he used to be, but he still walked with a limp. I ran over and hugged the kidnapper fiercely. A woman got out
of the car with a kind smile on her face and a child in her arms.
I asked the kidnapper, do you have a child?
The kidnapper smiled and said that he had it if he was not careful.
I asked the kidnapper how you are now? Guaizi said that he changed his name, opened a small factory here, had a good life, married and had children. The kidnapper asked me to ask for leave from the teacher and go home with him. He had something to give me. What
do I ask?
Kidnapper just said something very important.
Sitting in the kidnapper’s car, I asked him if he had any information about the murder weapon? The kidnapper shook his head and said that he had never.
The car stopped in front of the kidnapper’s house. I said, kidnapper, you finally live in a villa.
The kidnapper opened the drawer and took out a book with a folded letter in it. The kidnapper said, “Ah Guo left this for you at that time.”. I put it on my body and left in such a hurry that I forgot to give it to Wang Hui. The
letter Argo left for me? When I took it, my hand suddenly began to tremble. Before I opened the
letter, I couldn’t stop my tears.
I quickly wiped my eyes with my hands and looked up in silence for a moment. I was afraid that tears would wet the beautiful font written in carbon ink.
Ouyang Wuai saw the letter and said, “
I don’t know if you can see this letter. There are too many uncertainties in the world.”. But I still have a glimmer of hope, just like hoping that all the movies we have seen will have a happy ending. I hope our ending will be better. I
‘m sorry I didn’t wait for you to come back. The time was too hard. When I am with you, I have never felt that time passes so slowly. It seems like ten thousand years have passed since the sun rose and the sun set. Only when I write to you now, I feel that time passes so fast. After writing this letter, time is a kind of torment. I’m sick, you know. I don’t want to leave you, but I can’t help it. My love, forgive me for being so cruel to you.
I always recall the past recently, a lot of things I have forgotten, the remaining memories are the time with you. Now I’m sitting here, writing a letter and thinking about what you look like. But don’t miss me too much. I’m leaving. Don’t think of me all the time.
In fact, I have been sitting here for most of the day, and I don’t know what to write to you. I have a lot to say to you, but I don’t know what to say. I just feel that the time with you is too short. I’d do it all over again if I could. The pain I have experienced is worth it.
In fact, I want to say that you just need to understand my heart.
I believe you will come back. I believe you will see this letter. I believe you. Live a good life, the one I love.
“Ah Guo.” When I finished
reading the letter, I couldn’t hold back my tears any longer and they poured down. Tears wet the handwriting, slowly melting, like clouds and smoke.
Finished.
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