go the same way

Chapter 16

But what did he do?

After Li Yan's death, he was like a nail, taking over Li Pei's life. Every month, he sent Li Huisheng a simple report by email. The content was the same. It has come to a point of dependence.

When he was in Medellin, the woman who raised him smoked menthols and drank peach wine, but usually only a few drinks and never drunk.Later she was sick and left, and there was still an unopened bottle of peach wine left in the house. He tasted a small amount himself, and the taste in his mouth was light and sweet, with only a slight taste of wine. He thought she might want to drink it. , So she sprinkled all the rest on her grave.

He tried Li Pei's wine, strong and spicy.Li Pei's drinking method is very simple, he never mixes water and ice cubes in it, as if he is very afraid that the alcohol will be diluted, and he will not be drunk, and he must be confused before giving up.Later he found out that Li Pei actually likes sour cherries, likes sweet strawberry sparkling water, and likes to dig watermelons with a spoon in summer, throwing half of what he can't finish to him.

Li Pei doesn't like wine at all.

In the first few years, Li Pei let himself soak in wine, he was only responsible for being a bodyguard with many responsibilities, one of which was to take care of daily life, wake up Li Pei from his dream every day, and remind him to change the wine Strong-smelling clothes, and prepared good afterthought soup for him.

Li Pei has the determination to quit drinking, but the process is arduous, and the difficulty is no less difficult than quitting any kind of addiction. He has seen Li Pei wipe his tears in the mirror with clear water after a strong gastrointestinal reaction, and he knows that he will because of I often have nightmares at night and dread sleep, and my spirits are poor.

Cunhe obeyed Li Pei's order, took away all the wine in the house, and remembered Li Huisheng's words "give him a hand".

Perhaps, he thought, this was the necessary moment.

He turned on a small dim light beside Li Pei's bed, squatted down|squatted down, and guarded in front of the bed.

Li Pei's head was covered with cold sweat, and the dream once again simulated the night when his elder brother had an accident. He opened his eyes, and there was a generous shadow in front of his eyes. He is carried away from the whirlpool.

So he stretched out his hand and grabbed the man's sleeve.

"Stay with me for a while."

With the dim light, Cun He could actually see the confused and slightly timid expression on Li Pei's face.

He remembered that in Medellín, he had also held the corner of the woman's skirt. Would he also show such an expression, begging for a living with a prostitute he met by chance.

Cunhe didn't leave, he sat on the edge of the bed, held out his hand to Ren Lipei, and turned the light to the minimum with the other hand until their faces could not be reflected.He stared at the hazy and narrow halo, as if his heart was covered with a fine veil, and he couldn't even see the desolation clearly.

A step further is an ordinary night.

Li Pei walked into Cunhe's room with bare feet, like stepping into a long-abandoned garden.

With a full bouquet of flowers, trying to decorate with all of him.

Counting the time, Li Pei probably managed to quit drinking at that time, but entrusted his mental support to the real murderer.

In the fifth year, Li Pei suddenly proposed to move.

"Two people don't need to live in such a big house. I have taken a fancy to a house that is for sale. It is close to the company and the business district. Do you want to take a look?"

Cun He said: "You decide."

Li Pei muttered "boring", but he has known each other for a long time, and he will not be really angry. The next day, he negotiated the details with the original owner, and hired a first-class interior designer to personally design the new home. decoration.

While he was busy in his new home, Li Pei was also packing up old things. For the first time in so many years, he carefully and thoroughly counted and cleaned up his eldest brother's belongings, so much so that the sound of rummaging through boxes and cabinets was so loud that it could reach his ears downstairs.

Cunhe didn't know what Li Yan left behind, and how much it was related to Li Huisheng, so in the routine report of the month, he mentioned this matter in a few words and concisely. Even if he didn't say it, the other party still had a way to know Li Pei met with Zhu Fengjin and handed over some items to Li Yan's son Li Cong.

Li Huisheng's legs had no problems, but after the age of 65, he still ordered a crutch, made the inside hollow, and put a long bayonet in it, just for self-defense when meeting alone.Knowing that Li Pei was not as easy to control as he was back then, he adjusted his glasses and handed Cunhe a small bag of finely divided white powder.

"Put it in his water, he can't drink it."

Cun He knew that this was a new gadget processed in Li Huisheng's laboratory. His "business" was booming. After increasing his holdings of Li's shares, he had more ways to launder money. Over the years, he had never considered switching to other products. As a business, day after day, his researchers kept pondering those coca leaves, and a steady stream of new drugs was sent to all parts of the world.

He didn't accept the packet of powder: "Use this for him, and the matter will be exposed immediately. He never takes me to socialize. The only time I can give him water is at home, and the reaction is immediate."

Li Huisheng didn't really want Li Pei to die. After all, Li Pei was still the largest shareholder of the Li family, and he had the controlling power. He nodded: "That's right, the nail has been buried for so many years, it's a pity to pull it out all at once. Let's replace it with sleeping pills. Grind it up and mix it in a sweet drink. The kind with fibers shouldn't be visible. It's three-point poisonous. There will always be problems if you eat it for many years."

Not long after, Cunhe received several bottles of sleeping pills, which were in the form of flakes and looked ordinary.

He obeyed Li Huisheng's order, ground it up and put it into his daily black tea or fruit juice, and used sex|love to rationally explain his sleepiness.

The addiction to diazepam is not too high, but it is not without it. Li Pei couldn't understand the symptoms of withdrawal syndrome, so Cun He reduced the dose, stopped the drug every fifteen days, and recirculated.Six months later, Li Pei was plagued by insomnia all night again. He rushed Cunhe to the guest room, went to the hospital by himself, and brought back another sleeping pill.

Cunhe sees Li Pei's abnormality in his eyes, and lives in peace.

Perhaps Li Pei was really too stupid, and attributed his worsening insomnia to the huge pressure of tracking down the real culprit, and tried to relieve himself, but he didn't know that the culprit was the person beside him who had won his whole trust.

He didn't want to know what personal grievances Li Huisheng had against the Li family, but the matter should be settled.

This cracked, crumbling glass is time to break, too.

So when he made tea for Li Pei as usual, he crushed a sleeping pill into fine powder, poured them in along the rim of the cup, and let them scatter half a faint white circle on the table.

Early the next morning, he saw the cleaned table and table, returned to the guest room where he had lived for a long time, took out a gun from the corner of the bed, sat there, and quietly shot it with a dry cotton cloth. Wipe it over and over again.

It was with this gun that he killed Li Yan.

So even if you wipe it thousands of times, it will not be spotless.

In the evening, Li Yan got off work on time and called Li Pei when he left the office.

"I'm going to your house now. Is there anything you want to eat in particular? I'll bring it to you."

Knowing that his younger brother has zero attainments in cooking, Li Yan felt that it was too late to buy food, so he simply wanted to bring some light dishes from a restaurant.

Li Pei took the phone, opened the refrigerator and looked, and was about to take them out: "No need bro, I bought a lot when Dr. Nie came to see me in the morning, I can't do it, it's a pity to keep it, or you can take it away Bar."

"How could it be Dr. Nie... Sister Ping is really a person, she treats her like an employee," Li Yan said, "I'll come over and cook for you. I haven't cooked for you for a long time. How about it, brother is good to you Right? Today Chang Qing said to eat grilled fish at home, cheap since he was a child, and no father will grab food from him."

There was a bit of a pity in Li Yan's words, Li Pei nodded through the phone unconsciously, and said with a smile: "I know my brother is good to me. Write down the grilled fish first, and when I am ready, please go to the boat to eat freshly caught. Brothers go."

About a quarter of an hour later, Li Yan arrived as scheduled.

Li Pei washed the cherries that he didn't eat much in the morning and put them on the table. While putting things away, his elder brother picked up two and tasted them. As expected, he was so sour that he squinted his eyes: "You bought these cherries too early."

Maybe it was bad luck, what Li Pei ate before was not sour.

"Let me see what Dr. Nie bought for you..." Li Yan unbuttoned his cuff buttons, rolled up his shirt twice, and stuck it on his strong arm, "It's quite a lot, you have to treat him to dinner another day. It's a favor. Xiao Pei, come, come and help me wash the vegetables."

Li Pei didn't go to the kitchen very much, and he was barely able to do it. He took off the sweater he was wearing, walked to Li Yan's side, took out a handful from the bag of Shanghai Qing, turned the water flow very small, and carefully panning.

Li Yan dealt with the fascia of the beef, and suddenly said: "Xiao Pei, I had a question before, I asked you after New Year's Day, what happened to you, but you were bypassed by Tai Chi, I think you are sad , and don’t want to ask.”

He lowered his voice: "But Xiao Pei, you must have forgotten a lot of things and gained a lot."

Li Yan didn't know how to word it, so he could only describe it as forgetting and gaining.

Hearing this somewhat solemn rhetorical question, Li Pei's washing of vegetables slowed down, his heart skipped a beat, and he went back to the work he was doing, trying to make himself look normal: "Brother, why are you doing so suddenly? ask?"

Li Yan put down the knife and wiped his hands with a clean towel.

"It's the key. I found the key to your door in your room. On the night of New Year's Day, you cried when you saw us. I felt a little weird," he said, "You said you wanted to go home, but you changed the lock directly. Yes, I find it even more strange, thinking that you may have lost the key carelessly, but then I found the key in your room, the location is actually not strange, I think another possibility is more likely, that is, you don’t know That iron box, and I don’t know the key either.”

Li Yan found the key in a small iron box. The iron box had a fake lock, and the lock was movable, and it would spring open when pressed down hard, but a small hole was made in a false appearance to let the key in. People mistakenly think that a key is needed to open it.

It was a small toy that he mischievously gave Li Pei when he was in middle school. He wanted to see if his younger brother would hide some chocolates and small notes from girls in it. Later, he found out that the child regarded it as a toy. The glove box, put all the junk in it.A small dried flower, a leaf with a special texture and color, and a cicada slough picked up in the yard at the end of summer, Li Pei has developed a habit of putting things in it, fearing that it will not be found by throwing it around, so he often puts the key in the box.

Li Yan continued: "The other thing is, Xiao Cong can't eat mangoes. You ate him before, his face was swollen, and he got a rash, only to find out that Xiao Cong was very allergic to it. It's impossible for you not to remember, but Xiao Cong Never tell me you forgot."

He patted Li Pei's shoulder with his hand, and asked gently: "Have you really forgotten?"

Li Yan raised doubts one after another, but his tone didn't sound like a pressing question.

Such a gentle inquiry caused Li Pei's gradually built psychological construction to collapse. He turned around, his eyes seemed to float to the endless distance, and then landed suddenly, facing those sincere eyes: "Brother, I also I don't know how to explain it, but...do you believe in parallel worlds?"

Parallel universes, an astronomical term, include everything that exists and is possible.

Choices are like branches of a tree. Every step taken by the same person at different times and spaces may be different, forming an infinite variety of combinations, intertwined and scattered, like a huge silver net, implicated in the vast and vast world inside.

The last time Li Yan heard this term was in a sci-fi movie, he was not very interested in physics, he only stayed at the classical mechanics learned in high school, and knew nothing about the quantum level.

But it just happened.

"According to common sense, I should have died in a shooting in 2009, but as you can see, I still appear in front of you as Li Pei, and I also know that you are my brother. There are second brother, third brother, and sister Ping. All of you have appeared in my life. I am sure that it is not a dream, because I have no memory of this world. Assuming there are tens of millions of Li Pei, then I should It was Li Pei who was reborn in this world after death, as for why he came here... I have no way to explain."

He is still Li Pei, and Li Yan is still Li Yan, and everyone's identities have not changed.

It's just that people in each world have their own thoughts, their fate is roughly the same, and they made different choices at important time nodes, so many tragedies in that world did not happen, and none of them were left forever people in the past.

Their father did not go to the Golden Triangle in desperation, but he worked hard all year round and could not take care of his family. He returned countless property to his wife and children, but died young because of exhaustion; Depressed, after the eldest son became an adult, he sat in the room holding Li Huiyong's photo, smiled and took a nap, and never woke up again.

There are no complicated conflicts of interest, and Li Yan doesn't need to confuse his love deeply. He falls in love and gets married with Ji Changqing in an open and honest manner.

As if being carefully cared for and kissed by the years, it has come all the way to the present.

Li Yan pursed his lips slightly, saying that there was no impact, it was a lie.

The current Li Pei is another Li Pei who was reborn after death, so what about the one he grew up watching from childhood?

Was it driven away?Or just disappear?

If, as the child said, he also went to an unknown world, would Li Yan treat him well and give him warm clothes and enough food to live?

Li Yan felt sad for a while, but he knew that he could not blame the person in front of him, and Li Pei was just a small ring of fate.

His lips trembled slightly, and he asked, "Then, how is Changqing doing in your world? How about him, did he grow up healthy and healthy?"

"I grew up and became a very good adult," Li Pei choked up, tears falling uncontrollably, "That world was very chaotic, in order to protect them, you couldn't stay with your sister-in-law, she got sick and left very early , I failed to watch you grow up, you found out that your uncle was committing a crime and was involved in danger, just on New Year's Day this year... I couldn't wait for you to come back. "

Li Yan looked at this "new" younger brother who had been with him for a long time.

He was still as thin and good-looking as before, and everything seemed to be the same, but it was a heart and soul that was burdened with many pains.

He said he died in a shooting in 2009 in that world.

He said that Li Yan of that world left them in 2003.

How did Li Pei get through the years after Li Yan left... Li Pei was alone?

He thought of his innocent and innocent younger brother in his memory. He was not obedient, and his temper was far from obedient, but that child would take good care of the stones he picked up by the river when he was a child, treat everything with a gentle and kind attitude, and liked to make people happy. The elder brother carried his back, walked two steps and was afraid that he would be tired, so he stretched out his little hand to beat his shoulder.If he has something delicious, he will take a bite and leave all the rest to his younger brother, but Li Pei never takes it for granted, but divides it unevenly, keeping the small ones for himself, and the big ones stretched out his hands Come on, smile and say "brother eats too".

How did you spend the time you came to this world?

Li Yan's throat choked, and he finally understood why Li Pei's tears fell twice on January [-]st: "What about you, how about you, how could you be so young..."

"I was deceived by the murderer, and I was mediocre for six years. After that, I finally avenged you, killed my uncle in front of him, and then committed suicide." Li Pei said sadly. I’ve been here before, and I stood where you were and made me a bowl of egg custard. Dr. Nie, his name was Cun He before, and he also came to this world.”

Putting Li Pei's various anomalies together, Li Yan had a rough answer in his mind.

Dr. Nie would move suddenly, and the person who almost became a neighbor was Dr. Nie. He also confessed to him that he might like boys.

Li Pei probably had some trouble with Dr. Nie.

And since that person has a memory, he still came to the door like this, maybe out of wanting to make up for it.

After a long time, Li Yan took a deep breath.

"Xiao Pei, I can't forgive the murderer for your elder brother who died, but my brother feels very sorry that he wants you to be a sanctioner himself, and even sacrificed his life for it, and he doesn't think it's worth it.

"Brother wants to say, since everything is in the past, let's go. You have been deeply enmeshed in hatred. Your dead brother doesn't want to see it, and I don't want to see it. I told you once, I think He should also have told you that brother's wish is very simple, that is, he wants you to be happy. We must look forward."