Chapter 35 The Madman is You
Ke Yanlou lost his mother during the Spring Festival of 2014. In the summer of 2014, a woman named Lin Xuerui moved into his house. Along with Lin Xuerui moved in was Ke Xingye, who was only one year younger than him.
When Ke Yanlou stood on the balcony and looked at Ke Xingye downstairs, the white light of summer made his eyes half-closed, and this light burned into his heart.
Ke Xing was only one year younger than him, which meant that Ke Zhao had just started hanging out with Lin Xuerui right after he got married to Ke Yanlou's mother.
That summer was unbearably hot. The latest Korean K-pop songs were playing in the streets and alleys. The small glass cabinets in the newsstands were filled with postcards and magazines. The girls who had just rushed out of the examination room after the high school entrance examination swarmed to buy magazines.
The boys put one hand in their pockets and hooked their hands on their friends: "Let's go! Let's play together!"
This was the first time that Ke Yanlou, who had been well-behaved since childhood, hadn't gone home for a week.
Does he think that can be considered a home?
A strange woman, a strange brother, and...
A father who is becoming more and more unfamiliar.
No one knew that Ke Yanlou, the most obedient and well-behaved student in his junior high school class, would spend a week in the Internet cafe.
The Internet cafe is called "King Night". The owner is a man with a fat belly and a round head, who looks like a person pierced by a ball.
He had just stayed up all night in the Internet cafe that day. The mixed smell of instant noodles and sweat covered Ke Yanlou's body. With his eyes half open and still not fully awake, he heard a series of "crackling" sounds.
"I let you touch me!"
The girl's voice was high-pitched but not harsh.
Ke Yanlou supported his temple with his right hand and looked in the direction of the sound.
The girl downstairs on the first floor was wearing an old man's shirt and had a ponytail. She was neat and tidy, with an oval face that looked a bit childish. She had a pair of watery eyes like a fox, and her thin body looked fragile, but she was very strong when she hit people.
The boy who was beaten by her with the instant noodle bucket looked young, with dyed blond hair, lip piercing, and his hand on the girl's butt.
The yellow-haired guy said, "Fuck, is it that serious just to touch you?"
The girl snorted and said, "It's a good thing I didn't chop you up!"
Ke Yanlou was still drowsy at first, but waking up early to watch the play woke him up immediately. He took out a cigarette from his bag, lit it, leaned on the railing on the second floor, lowered his head, and continued to watch the play with interest.
The girl was not afraid of not being able to beat the yellow-haired guy, and she even rushed to the front desk and took out the file bag from her schoolbag and hit the yellow-haired guy.
The yellow-haired man grabbed the girl by the collar and pulled her in front of him, saying viciously, "Are you looking for death?"
The girl stared at him defiantly.
The yellow-haired man slapped her in the face, causing blood to flow from the corner of her mouth.
"Damn it, aren't you supposed to not hit a girl?"
"It's okay if he's a man, right?"
"You were the one who touched me first."
Just when everyone stepped forward to help the girl, she suddenly lowered her head and bit the yellow-haired man's arm, biting off a layer of skin.
“Ahhhhh——” The yellow-haired man let go of her immediately due to the pain.
The girl uttered a "Puh!" sound, with her own and Huangmao's blood hanging from the corner of her mouth. She rubbed her face randomly, her face swollen like a pig's head still showing a stubborn look: "If you touch me again, I will bite you."
After saying that, he sat back at the front desk without looking back.
Ke Yanlou didn't know how long he watched the show. He only remembered that at the end, cigarette ash fell on his fingertips and burned him back to his senses.
His first impression of the girl was that she had pointy teeth.
The person is quite hot.
Ke Yanlou stayed in the Internet cafe that night. The people sitting on the computers around him were either high school students watching movies or fat otakus playing games. Ke Yanlou actually didn't have much to do after turning on the computer.
He stared at the computer with an indifferent expression, and suddenly felt that life was quite boring.
With a "click".
A coke lemon candy was placed on his desk.
Ke Yanlou turned around and saw the female network administrator who had caused a scene in the Internet cafe this morning.
The girl chewed some candy and put the cola lemon candy in front of him: "Have you been here for several days? Why haven't I seen you eat anything? Do you want a candy?"
Ke Yanlou has very fair skin and is now wearing a baseball cap, the brim of which covers most of his face, making him look cool and uncool.
He glanced at the cola lemon drop absentmindedly.
Miscellaneous brands.
Even dogs won’t eat it.
His second impression of the girl was that she was poor.
Ke Yanlou was not brave enough to eat food given by a stranger. After the girl turned around, Ke Yanlou threw the candy into the trash can with an expressionless face.
“Bang!”
The moment the candy fell into the trash can, the door of the Internet cafe opened and a burst of noise was heard.
"Go up, go up!"
"I'm going to win a game today!"
"Brother Qing, join us in the team!"
The boy named Qing Ge put his hands in his pockets and walked to the second floor with his younger brothers, but he stopped just before going up the stairs and turned to walk towards Keyan Building.
"Oh! Isn't this Ke Yanlou?" Luo Qing tilted his head to look at Ke Yanlou who was wearing a hat, and lowered his head to look for Ke Yanlou's face hidden under the hat.
"What the hell? Is he really the squad leader?"
The younger brothers behind Luo Qing responded immediately.
Luo Qing patted Ke Yanlou's shoulder with a lighter in his hand: "Class monitor, aren't you a good student? How come a good student is hanging out in an Internet cafe?"
“Ahahahaha”
Everyone laughed so hard that the dust in the internet cafe shook.
Ke Yanlou was wrapped in a black coat and a black baseball cap that completely covered his expression, making it impossible to tell whether he was happy or angry.
Seeing that Ke Yanlou ignored him, Luo Qing was so angry that his eyebrows were raised: "Damn, are you mute?"
Ke Yanlou just glanced at him coldly.
Luo Qing felt like a fist hitting cotton.
Usually, Ke Yanlou acts arrogant and ignores everyone in class.
Yes, he admitted that he was a mixed student. The teacher often compared him with Ke Yanlou, but was Ke Yanlou a good student? He didn't think so.
"I'm talking to you, squad leader?" Luo Qing pulled Ke Yanlou's collar, but Ke Yanlou just glanced at him lightly and said in a clear voice: "Let go."
She looked at him like a dog and didn't take his anger seriously at all.
Luo Qing bit the gum, chewed it, and narrowed his eyes into a crack: "What if I don't let go?"
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, isn't the class monitor a model student? Why is he spending the night in the Internet cafe? What? Does your mother not care about you anymore?"
This time, Ke Yanlou finally looked at Luo Qing straight in the eye.
Luo Qing paused, then tried to save face and said, "I heard that your father brought a woman home. Did that woman also bring a brother who is only one year younger than you? Hahahaha you——"
Luo Qing didn't even finish saying "you" before a fist hit him in the face, and the salty smell of nose blood flowed into the gaps between his teeth.
Luo Qing felt dizzy.
Ke Yanlou just stood there calmly, as if he was not the one who hit someone just now.
Luo Qing stood up shakily with the help of his younger brother. He pointed at Ke Yanlou's nose and said, "Do you want to fight?"
Ke Yanlou lowered his head and glanced at Luo Qing, whose face was covered with colorful tears, then turned and walked towards the stairs to the second floor.
Luo Qing was furious and cursed: "You want to leave after beating someone up?"
Luo Qing rushed forward and grabbed the corner of Ke Yanlou's clothes.
Ke Yanlou slapped Luo Qing's hand that was grabbing his collar with disdain, as if he was looking at some garbage.
The protruding brim of his hat covered half of his face, and his thin and sharp jawline was hidden in the shadow of the brim.
Ke Yanlou stared at Luo Qing and curled his lips, as if to provoke: "Don't you want to fight?"
After saying this, Ke Yanlou went straight up to the rooftop from the stairs on the second floor.
He had his hands in his pockets, looking relaxed, with even a smile on his face. He suddenly thought of a good way to die.
The wind on the rooftop is always stronger than the wind downstairs, and the scorching sun hanging high in the sky unreservedly casts its hottest light.
Luo Qing stood in front of Ke Yanlou holding a wooden stick, and raised his chin to him nonchalantly: "I really didn't expect you to hit people."
The hot wind blew Ke Yanlou's wide sleeves. He slowly took a cigarette and put it in his mouth, lighting the butt. The burning flame made him look lonely.
Luo Qing frowned. Ke Yanlou actually smokes?
Ke Yanlou bit his cigarette and asked him casually, "Do you still want to fight?"
To be honest, Luo Qing felt that after Ke Yanlou took off his formal school uniform, he had a decadent aura, and he was a little scared.
But then I thought, what can a guy like Ke Yanlou, who can just read, do?
Luo Qing raised an eyebrow: "I beat you so hard today that your mother couldn't recognize you."
Ke Yanlou lowered his head and laughed. He didn’t even recognize his mother. Of course he didn’t recognize her. After all, she had passed away.
Luo Qing swung his stick at Ke Yanlou. Ke Yanlou was well-behaved even in a fight. He easily dodged Luo Qing's stick and kicked Luo Qing to the ground.
Luo Qing screamed in pain. The younger brother behind him saw that something was wrong and hit him with a stick, hitting Ke Yanlou directly on the back of the head.
Ke Yanlou was hit so hard that he paused for a moment.
Luo Qing was still lying on the ground cursing. Ke Yanlou touched the back of his head and shook it slightly. The feeling of dizziness was getting stronger and stronger.
Ke Yanlou squatted down and placed the lit cigarette tail in Luo Qing's palm.
"Fuck you, you're going to die!" Luo Qing frowned because of the burn.
Ke Yanlou kept punching him.
Luo Qing could still howl a few times at the beginning, but later he couldn't utter a word. His head was swollen and his face was as colorful as canvas.
"Ke Yan...Ke Yanlou you..." Luo Qing groaned twice and even found it difficult to breathe.
Ke Yanlou didn't stop his hand movements at all. He raised his eyebrows and asked Luo Qing: "You said I don't have a mother, right?"
Luo Qing shook his head painfully: "No... I won't say it again, it's me who has no mother, okay? Don't..."
Before he could finish his words, a fist hit his eye socket again, almost smashing his eyes.
"Is he crazy?"
"No, I think someone will die if this continues!"
Luo Qing's younger brother felt that the situation was becoming more and more serious. He twisted the stick for a long time and did not dare to get close to Ke Yanlou. Finally, he was really afraid of something happening, so he stepped forward and grabbed Ke Yanlou's clothes. It took two of them a lot of effort to pull Ke Yanlou away.
Ke Yanlou was dragged to the ground and sat paralyzed with his hat pressed down on him. He looked full of hostility and seemed to want to die together with his partner.
After Luo Qing was helped up, he was almost out of breath, but he still walked up to Ke Yanlou and wanted to take action.
The younger brother advised him: "Brother Qing, stop fighting. I think he is a lunatic. Don't fight him!"
When Luo Qing was finally helped away, he cursed in a low voice: "Bah, you are a bastard born by a mother but not raised by her!"
Ke Yanlou narrowed his eyes as he looked at Luo Qing's back. After Luo Qing's back disappeared, he stayed on the rooftop for a long time.
accurate.
Still unhappy.
In fact, Ke Yanlou really wanted to kill Luo Qing just now. If he killed Luo Qing, he would also die.
It's a perfect way to die.
Unfortunately, he didn't kill Luo Qing in the end.
Ke Yanlou's back was slightly hunched, and he was a little tired, leaning on the edge of the railing. There were cuts on the corners of his mouth and forehead, and blood was dripping.
He looked at the people coming and going below the building. The wind from the high platform blinded him, making the figures of people below the building blurry.
Ke Yanlou felt dizzy and groggy. He closed his eyes and felt that the surroundings suddenly became very quiet, so quiet that he wanted to jump down to make some noise.
Just as he was about to turn around, he suddenly heard a complaining "Hey!"
When Ke Yanlou opened his eyes, he just happened to see the female network administrator standing on the clothes drying platform with a pile of clothes in her arms, and her thin figure was hidden under the white sheets.
Her face was a little red from the sun, her eyebrows were wrinkled, and her ponytail was a little loose, with some loose hair on her forehead and temples.
The evening wind still blew over with the temperature of the heat wave, lifting the girl's hair. Her smooth and full forehead looked like a piece of moist jade in the sun, watery and full of light.
Ke Yanlou looked at her with an indecipherable expression.
He narrowed his eyes and sneered in his heart: Meddlesome.
The girl walked towards him holding clothes and biting a 50-cent lollipop in her mouth. Her clothes probably cost no more than 100 yuan. There were some unwashable black pen marks on her whitish short-sleeved shirt, and some yellow oil stains on the white surface.
Ke Yanlou's hands were covered in blood and he frowned slightly. For the first time, he didn't want to pretend in front of anyone. He lit a cigarette, passed it through his lungs, and blew out a smoke ring. The black hat and black clothes made him look like a bad boy on the street.
He glared at the girl and warned her, "Don't mind your own business."
The girl folded the clothes that were hung out to dry in her arms and stood in front of Ke Yanlou.
She looked malnourished and short.
Ke Yanlou didn't even want to look at her.
The sky was very blue that summer, as if the sea had turned upside down and become the sky, blue and transparent and bright. The blue curtain was filled with rosy sunset and golden afterglow, as if covered by a layer of film filter.
The girl raised her head and stared at Ke Yanlou: "Do you want to die?"
Ke Yanlou pressed down the brim of his hat to block out some of the glaring light. He asked back in a somewhat rogue manner, "Does it have anything to do with you?"
The girl rolled her eyes at him and raised her chin to him: "I want to ask, can you die somewhere else? Not here? If anything happens here, it will be my fault. Can you please not kill me?"
Are you sick?
Ke Yanlou was rarely amused by others. He shook his head and bent down to move closer to the girl.
The girl shrank her neck back like a turtle, as if she was disgusted with him and wanted to keep a distance from him.
Ke Yanlou wanted to tease her, so he deliberately smeared the blood on his hand on her face, and said in a lewd tone: "What should I do... I want to die here, do you want to die with me?"
The girl slapped his hand away and said in a cold voice: "Sorry, I don't have the hobby of committing suicide with others for love."
After she said that, she left with a pile of clothes.
But when he turned around, he dropped a plastic bag on the ground.
The plastic bag contained alcohol, cotton swabs, and a bag of cola lemon candies that were obviously three-no products. There was also a note in the bag, and from the handwriting you could tell that the person who wrote it was a little impatient.
The note read: "I want to die and go somewhere else!!!"
Ke Yanlou half-closed his eyes and leaned against the railing. The evening breeze blew the boy's blood-stained hair. He bent down and picked up the bag. Next to the plastic bag was a blue star hairpin.
He picked up the blue hairpin as well.
Ke Yanlou suddenly felt that something more interesting than death had happened.
He was born in a dysfunctional family and knew about the little things between men and women very early on. When he was in junior high school, many girls sent him love letters and confessed their feelings to him.
But they like him because he is clean and a good student.
No one likes him without blood.
After returning home that day, Ke Yanlou was inexplicably drawn a picture, and the person in the picture was that girl.
When he took the painting to the Internet cafe, he didn't see the girl, so he had to give the painting to the boss.
Two months later, Ke Yanlou was promoted to Nancheng No. 1 Middle School. He lived like a walking corpse during his first year of high school.
Later, he and Wu Yue went to a DVD store and saw the girl he met during the summer vacation after the high school entrance examination.
The girl’s homework book was placed on a yellowed glass cabinet, with the words “You Wu” written on it.
She asked him if he wanted to buy anything.
Actually, he didn't want to buy anything, but he took the CD for some unknown reason.
Not only him but also his younger brother Ke Xingye knew You Wu.
He also knew that Ke Xing had made a deal with You Wu, which was about him.
He didn't want to play any cat-and-mouse game with these two people, so he deliberately lost a watch in the snack bar, deliberately let You Wu approach him, deliberately helped You Wu up, and took the opportunity to put a cigarette box there.
There was a card he gave to You Wu in the cigarette box.
It was just unexpected that Huang Laowu was checking cigarettes and unexpectedly caught You Wutou.
Many years later, Ke Yanlou still remembered the day when You Wu, whose eyes were swollen from crying, wiped away his tears neatly, pushed him against the wall, and hit him in the face with a cigarette box.
After hitting his face, he said he would chase him.
Like being sick.
He suddenly decided that he could play this cat-and-mouse game with her.
In the bustling campus, the dark purple haze exudes a dreamy halo, covering the girl's stubborn face, which is unwilling and unconvinced, with an upward tenacity.
The face lost its childishness and became more charming as it appeared before Ke Yanlou's eyes.
So it was never You Wu who took the initiative to lure him, but Ke Yanlou who had planned to take the bait.
You Wu listened to Ke Yanlou's narration calmly, and her mind gradually pieced together an image of Ke Yanlou who was dressed in black, covered in blood, and full of hostility.
That decadent Ke Yanlou is the real him without the mask.
"So it's you. So that hairpin is mine too." You Wu didn't know what to say for a moment, but felt that the sentence "It's you" gave him a sense of disappointment as if he had discovered a secret after many years of separation.
Ke Yanlou's lips were a little dry, and his voice was a little hoarse from not having had water for a long time: "You just recognized me? I'm a little sad..."
Ke Yanlou started to use his flirty tone again.
You Wu's nose was still tearing up, and he made her laugh out loud. She raised her hand and punched him, "How do I know it was you? Who cares about you? I'm just afraid that you'll die there and I'll have to take the blame."
Ke Yanlou smiled helplessly: "Oh, you don't worry about my life or death."
"Who cares whether you live or die?" You Wu gave him a blank look and carefully put away the yellow cigarette box.
"Ah..." Ke Yanlou sighed thoughtfully in You Wu's ear and made an "ah" sound. His voice was very pleasant and just this one sound made You Wu's ears feel numb.
"Is that so? Then why did you take my cigarette box? I remember you cried when I was stabbed that day?" Ke Yanlou suddenly turned his head and approached You Wu: "You really don't care?"
You Wu admitted that Ke Yanlou was really seductive when he spoke softly.
You Wu avoided his gaze and didn't want to answer the question. However, as soon as she turned around, she didn't expect Ke Yanlou to predict her movement and change direction to directly seal her lips.
"You!" Before You Wu could finish her words, Ke Yanlou gently rubbed the corner of her lips.
Ke Yanlou's kissing skills were getting better and better, so much so that You Wu felt dizzy after being kissed for just a short while. She raised her hand to push him away: "What are you doing? Isn't your wound not healed yet?"
Ke Yanlou actually just wanted to kiss her and didn't want to do anything else.
But You Wu has brought up this point, it would be pointless to just drop the topic.
Ke Yanlou gently rubbed her lips, not even bothering to open his eyelids, and deliberately used a panting sound to seduce You Wu: "What are you afraid of? I'll let you be on top later, can't you just move?"
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