To rely on others is to promise each other

Chapter 56

Cheng Guo was not a motivated child since he was a child. When he was young, his parents would take care of him when his grades were poor. Later, when he grew up and grew taller, it was difficult to stretch out his hands and scold him. promising.

With peace of mind, he accepted the abuse from his parents, the bullying from his classmates, and his mediocre self until he met Jiang Yubai and Ji Xiao.

They are the strangest people Cheng has ever met.A deviant, but hard-spoken and soft-hearted.The other is glib, but kind-hearted.

Cheng Guo originally planned to live to be 20 years old and commit suicide. He used practical actions to prove to his parents that he did not accomplish nothing, at least his determination to commit suicide was very strong.

But with Jiang Yubai and Ji Xiao's company, he gradually developed his own hobbies, became good at talking and laughing, and even took the initiative to participate in after-school competitions and won awards.

Cheng Guo always thought he was out of his mind, but he clearly remembered the scene on the day he received the award.The sun hid behind the side of the teaching building, revealing a few rays of afterglow that hadn't been put away in time, and Ji Xiao stood in the audience happily as if he had won an award.

Holding the certificate of the first prize, Cheng Guo felt in a daze that it would be good to live like this with them around.He thought that before his 20th birthday, he would never have any thoughts of suicide, but Ji Xiao personally shattered his fantasy.

After they spent the night, Cheng Guo woke up in the morning and found that Ji Xiao had disappeared and was arrested by the police. It took only 10 minutes, and he didn't even have time to call Ji Xiao to ask what was going on.

Sitting in the interrogation room, Cheng Guo's eyes were sore and swollen by the incandescent light, the policeman's face gradually became blurred, his ears seemed to be soaked in water, and he couldn't hear clearly. Into his ears, cold all over his body.

Cheng Guo didn't say a word, and he didn't admit the so-called crime. When he was too frightened, he just trembled all over, and he summoned up the courage to ask, "Where's Ji Xiao? I want to see him."

Cheng Guo's parents quickly hired a lawyer, but he felt ashamed and never came. The lawyer asked him if he had any hidden illnesses and could help him get medical parole.

During the gap between Cheng Guo's denials, he caught sight of the documents scattered on the corner of the table. One of the copies of the indictment had Ji Xiao's signature on it.

That night, on the way to the detention center, Cheng Guo swallowed the metal buttons on his clothes one by one, and when the sharp edge scratched his esophagus, he didn't feel much pain.

When a large amount of blood gushed out of his mouth, and he was choked by the blood foam so hard to breathe, his mind seemed to be rusted. Before he passed out, he still hopelessly wanted to see Ji Xiao, and wanted to ask himself, what exactly did he do? What did I do wrong?

Cheng Guo was sent to the hospital, and he didn't know until he regained consciousness that his family members didn't come, and the police from the police station signed the surgery. When the lawyer was called in the middle of the night, his face was full of impatience.

"You are so young, how did you get into such a big trouble?" the lawyer said, "The plaintiff's father is a big official and is putting pressure on the police station. Even if he can't be sentenced, he will take you away from the hospital."

Cheng Guo's eyes lit up for a moment, and when he was noticed by the sharp-eyed lawyer, he taunted him, "Do you think it's a good thing to take you away? Paying your family hundreds of thousands is equivalent to buying your life. As for the future, how about it?" In this way, it all depends on your luck."

Cheng Guo was woken up by the scolding, accepted the facts, and no longer wanted to see Ji Xiao. He calmed down, analyzed the context and cause of the whole thing, and believed that Jiang Yubai could not be kept in the dark, let alone let him fall At this stage, he resolutely chose to run away.

He climbed out of the window, climbed the air conditioner unit down three floors, and finally fell heavily on the lawn. Enduring the severe pain, he ran out of the hospital and called Jiang Yubai.

Standing on the busy street, Cheng Guo suddenly felt a sense of pride, feeling that his vitality was so tenacious.He got up on the spur of the moment and returned home with a glimmer of hope, only to see his mother holding a baby in her arms, talking to his father kindly, just like every family of three in the world, enjoying themselves happily.

Cheng Guo's room was converted into a study. He used his mother's birthday to open the safe, took all the cash in it, and ran away without looking back.

The lawyer's words are still engraved in his mind. Cheng Guo knew that he couldn't stay here for long. He wanted to go to the airport to buy a ticket but he was afraid of being caught. After hesitating for a long time, he decided to take a black car to T City. Maybe the ship at the port will be in charge. will loosen up.

Cheng Guo was lucky, he happened to be on a cruise ship to South Korea, but he was caught by a scalper halfway, looked him up and down, and said furtively, "What did you do, did you escape from the hospital?"

Cheng Guo was young and careless, and the expression on his face betrayed everything. The other party looked around and said furtively, "Then you can't take this cruise. This is a serious cruise ship. Someone will check it. You're on it." Didn’t the boat just happen to be caught right away?”

"Then which one should I sit in?" Cheng Guo humbly asked for advice, and took out a few hundred yuan bills to him, "Please don't report on me, I am really innocent."

Seeing that the money-eyed person didn't care about this, he waved him to another boat with a smile. Who would have thought of getting off again, and went round and round to G City.The lion on the other side opened his mouth, claiming that if he wanted to continue walking, he had to pay.

In this way, Cheng Guo, who was only eighteen years old, had been floating on the sea for more than three months, passing through two or three countries, before arriving at a relatively safe city, but correspondingly, the money he stole at home was also It's over.

The penniless Cheng Guo wandered on the streets of Los Angeles for half a month, picking up food scraps in trash cans to fill his stomach, drinking rainwater dripping from the eaves to quench his thirst, until he happened to come outside the university and picked up a set of other people's leftovers. of pigments.

After Cheng Guo smashed the pot and wrote and drew on the dilapidated wooden board, he suddenly thought of Ji Xiao who had encouraged him to pick up the paintbrush. Tears fell on it bit by bit, smearing colorful lakes.

"You are good at drawing, are you a UCLA student?" A strange man stood in front of him and said in English with a smile.

Cheng Guo probably understood everything, and replied, "No, I'm not a student."

The other party was very surprised, handed him a business card, and introduced himself: "I am engaged in art design, and I think your style is very suitable for my latest project. If you are willing, you can come to the above address to find me."

In this way, with the extremely small probability of a comet hitting the earth one in a billion, Cheng got a job that he was comfortable with, and even after several years of precipitation, he became famous all over the world.

It would be very embarrassing to tell such a tortuous and unbelievable story, so after seeing Ji Xiao, Cheng Guo kept silent, trying to maintain a superficial calm.

However, Cheng Guo overestimated his own support. Seeing Ji Xiao appearing in front of him gracefully, talking and laughing nonchalantly, the grievances, bewilderment, and anger accumulated over the years rushed forward, engulfing him with endless love. last shred of sanity.

He deliberately approached Ji Xiao, thinking that his carefree personality would be easy to get him, but since he noticed his vigilance, Cheng changed his plan.

He wanted to be the last ray of light in Ji Xiao's life, and then retreat cruelly, leaving him struggling in the endless abyss.

Just like Ji Xiao once did.

The ski resort was opened by Cheng Guo. When putting on the protective gear for Ji Xiao, he secretly manipulated his hands and feet. During the skiing process, he would deviate from the route, causing soft tissue bruises in mild cases, and bleeding in severe cases.

Cheng Guo was mentally prepared, but the moment he saw Ji Xiao fall, he couldn't help but step forward to stop him. How should he describe the pain in his heart?It's probably not too different from him curling up in a dirty and cold cabin and sleeping on the cold and windy streets.

The suffocating sadness swept along with the heart palpitations. It was obviously created by him, but he did not reap the pleasure he imagined.

When buying food for Ji Xiao, Cheng Guo found that he still remembered his taboos and preferences, subconsciously selected his favorite dishes, put the packing box into a thermal bag, and rode a motorcycle to his door.

Before ringing the doorbell, he would silently take out the packing box on the side of the street and put it in the plastic bag provided by the merchant, as if he could continue to deceive himself and pretend that he didn't care.

"Cheng Guo, do you still like watching horror movies? Can I play this movie?"

Ji Xiao's voice pulled his thoughts back to the present, Cheng Guo didn't even look at the screen, forced a smile, and said, "It's okay."

Ji Xiao turned off the ceiling light, leaving only the projector at work, the fan-shaped light shining brightly on his side face, Cheng Guo took a sip of red wine, barely able to suppress the soreness in his throat.

Accompanied by the eerie and eerie prelude, Ji Xiao glanced at Cheng Guo's still-possessed face, secretly wondering: He used to be very timid, and every time he went to the cinema to pick out a horror movie, he would move to his side. Grab a hem.

It's completely different now, Cheng Guo's movements are like a robot that has been programmed in advance, following the trajectory one by one.It is completely opposite to the previous process of being suppressed, but still yearning for the light in the heart.

Ji Xiao lowered his head and rubbed against Cheng Guo by standing up to take the biscuit, and "accidentally" touched his hand on his lap when he retracted his hand.

"Your hands are so cold, are you cold?" Ji Xiao justified himself, and gave him part of the blanket, "I'll cover you with a blanket, don't blame me if you catch a cold."

The warm blanket wrapped his legs, and the soft fluff scraped against the back of his hands. Cheng Kuo curled up his fingers, and Ji Xiao stuffed a small biscuit under the blanket.

Ji Xiao's eyes were extremely bright, filled with tiny specks of light, his lips curled into a smile, and he poked his arm as usual: "Try it, it tastes like caramel."

The sour tears of grievance welled up again, Cheng Kuo stuffed the biscuit into his mouth expressionlessly, then raised his hand to wipe the water from the corner of his eyes in the next second.

Ji Xiao stared at him with great interest for a long time. It was strange to see him silent, and whispered: "I didn't take it wrong, it was the one with chili powder, why didn't there be any reaction?"

Except for being a little wary of him after the reunion, Ji Xiao hasn't changed at all from before, which made Cheng Guo very displeased, he swallowed the spicy biscuit residue, and took a few sips of red wine.

The movie happened to be staged at the first chase scene. Ji Xiao had watched this movie once, and remembered that there would be a red-clothed female ghost in the face after the end, so she silently moved to the side of Cheng Guo.

Cheng Guo didn't respond, his eyes fell on the screen, and he didn't respond after being rectified by Ji Xiao, not even a slight ups and downs at the corners of his mouth.

He wasn't like this before.

Ji Xiao thought, could it be that she was thinking too much?In fact, Cheng Guo has no feelings for him. The two of them were just close friends before?

After that incident, no matter how good the relationship is, it is inevitable that there will be a rift between them. Is it true that someone is so nice to ordinary friends who have broken up?

Ji Xiao's fingers holding the goblet tightened, his nails embedded in the palm of his hand, his arm hanging by his side trembled imperceptibly, and he took two deep breaths, as if silently cheering for himself.

Cheng Guo glanced at him sideways, and after the heroine in the movie screamed, Ji Xiao closed her eyes and plunged into his arms, while covering his eyes tightly with her hands.

Ji Xiao's chest rose and fell with his breath, and when his body was pressing against each other, Cheng Kuo half-hugged him, put down his wine glass, touched the remote control to mute the movie, and his voice was calm and composed, like Xing Shi asking a crime: "What are you doing?" ?”

Without the blessing of the scary sound effects and atmosphere, Ji Xiao raised his head in embarrassment, with a gap between his index finger and middle finger, revealing Cheng Guo's eyes, and smiled embarrassingly: "I'm not...afraid you're afraid?"

Under Cheng Guo's calm gaze, Ji Xiao's heartbeat gradually slowed down and returned to a normal controllable range. He vaguely had an answer, biting the tip of his tongue, retracted his hand, and sat back quietly. own position.

But as soon as his back touched the sofa, Cheng Guo suddenly grabbed his shoulders and hugged him back again. The distance between the two broke through the lower limit again, and the mellow aroma of wine permeated his nose. Ji Xiao stared blankly at him. to his eyes.

In the next second, warm lips pressed against her.

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