Chapter 63
The elevator door opened, and a man in a short down jacket and jeans walked down.
The man was startled when he saw that everyone in the corridor was staring at him. He retracted his legs and looked up at the floor.
After making sure that he had not gone to the wrong place, he walked down the elevator with a strange look on his face and quickly walked into his home.
Shen Tingzhou obviously felt that Yan Xun and Fox Eyes breathed a sigh of relief, as if they were afraid of someone.
The landlady looked at them and asked, "Are you all here to look for Xiaokang?"
Fox Eyes smiled at the old lady and said, "Sister, we are Xiaokang's friends."
The landlady was delighted by being called "sister", but she was not carried away.
"You are a young man who is quite reasonable in what you say, but your eyes are not good. They are narrow and picky. You look like you have bad intentions and are not honest at all."
Shen Tingzhou felt that the old lady and Xiao Xu's words "How can a person with squinty eyes be a good person" coincided with each other, and he couldn't help but smile.
Jiang Chengyan's expression froze slightly.
At this time, Yan Xun spoke up, "Could you please open the door? I will pay ten times the rent that the person inside pays."
The landlady gave him a look of annoyance. "You asked for ten times the amount right away. You must be scared to death. Do you think I have never seen a banknote?"
"Let me tell you." The old lady suddenly turned to Shen Tingzhou.
"The young man next to you may look cold, but the look in his eyes when he looks at you is not cold." The old lady pointed to her heart and said, "People like him are warm and considerate."
Shen Tingzhou felt a little embarrassed by what the old lady said and glanced quickly at Xu Xun.
Just as the old lady said, Xu Xun's face did not show much emotion, but the eyes that looked over at her were gentle and focused.
Shen Tingzhou's heart moved.
The old lady pointed at Yan Xun and madly criticized him, "He is different. He looks cold, speaks coldly, and his heart is definitely cold as well. You can't make close friends with people like him. You will suffer a great loss."
Jiang Chengyan chuckled, "You are absolutely right, he is just a money printing machine, what does he know about love?"
The old lady Zajiang Chengyan shot back, "You have thin eyelids and thin lips. This is a face that shows a heartless and disloyal person."
Jiang Chengyan smiled and did not refute the old lady's heartless assessment.
He pleaded obediently, "I'm really worried about Xiaokang. Please open the door. He hasn't come out for two days."
The old lady pursed her lips, as if she couldn't understand why a young man in his prime would stay at home all day.
"That's not good. Although Xiaokang doesn't like sports, I can't just use my key to open his door. What kind of person would I be? If this gets out, how can I rent out my house?"
Jiang Chengyan said sadly: "You don't know that he has depression, maybe he will..."
When the old lady heard this, she was shocked!
"You young people are always suffering from this or that disease, it's scary." The old lady took out her cell phone and said, "I want to tell Xiao Wu at the police station. You know what I mean? This is called filing a case. With the police's record, I will not be breaking the law if I go in. I will be doing good deeds. The state will issue me a certificate. I have a lot of such certificates at home."
Jiang Chengyan urged, "Hurry up and fight. Human lives are at stake."
The old lady squinted her eyes and pressed the dial button. "Isn't this calling now?"
The old lady had no problem with this process, but Shen Tingzhou was worried that Xiaokang didn't want to see them, especially Yan Xun.
Just when I was thinking about whether I should call Xiaokang, my cell phone suddenly vibrated.
Shen Tingzhou looked down and saw that it was a text message from Kang Qiqiao——
Please say sorry to the landlord for me. There is a bank card on the coffee table with the password 859752. Please give it to the landlord...
Shen Tingzhou was suddenly startled and had a vague bad guess.
He shouted to the old landlady, "Madam, please open the door quickly. Xiaokang may be in trouble!"
The old lady was horrified and said "What a sin", then took out the key tremblingly.
Yanxun got there first, snatched the key, opened the door, and rushed in.
Jiang Chengyan was the second one to go in.
Shen Tingzhou supported the old lady whose blood pressure was rising and followed her into the room.
Xu Xunhuan entered last, behind Shen Tingzhou.
The door and the windows of the living room were wide open, and the oncoming air currents made the curtains rustle. Kang Qiqiao had already stepped one leg out of the window and looked at the person who rushed into the room in panic.
Seeing this, Yanxun shouted, "Come down!"
Jiang Chengyan was rarely serious and glared at Yan Xun, "What did you yell at him?"
He turned to Kang Qiqiao, his voice very gentle, with a bit of coaxing, "Qiaoqiao, come down, we have something to talk about. It's not a good look to fall from such a high place, you love beauty so much..."
The cold wind blew off a corner of Kang Qiqiao's scarf, revealing the conspicuous scar on the side of her neck.
Jiang Chengyan's pupils shrank and his steps forward paused.
Kang Qiqiao's eyes were filled with tears, and he said angrily, "Don't come over here."
Jiang Chengyan raised his hands and said, "I'm not going over there. Don't provoke Qiao Qiao."
The stimulated old lady refused to listen and walked forward quickly, feeling very disappointed.
"Get down from here! You are so young, what are you worried about? You are committing a sin, don't you know that? When you die, you will go to hell and be torn to pieces, put into a frying pan, and put on a mountain of knives."
Kang Qiqiao sat astride the window, the scarf around her neck was completely blown away, and her lips were trembling.
Shen Tingzhou held the old lady down and said to the emotional Kang Qiqiao, "Don't you want to see them?"
Kang Qiqiao said nothing, but her eyes were filled with tears.
Shen Tingzhou continued, "Can I let them go?"
Kang Qiqiao shook his head and said in despair, "It's useless. They just want me to die."
Hearing this, Yanxun's heart was deeply moved.
Jiang Chengyan also took a half step forward anxiously, "Why do you think so?"
Kang Qiqiao's face turned pale. "Don't lie to me. I know you are afraid that I will die and won't be able to transplant a kidney to Li Yang."
Shen Tingzhou was shocked. It is illegal to deceive people into giving you a transplant!
Jiang Chengyan said hurriedly, "No more transplants. Find him a new kidney source. We don't need yours. Come down quickly, Qiao Qiao."
Kang Qiqiao no longer believed what they said and began to explain his will.
"I gave Mr. Shen the password of my bank card as compensation for the landlord's loss. I looked up the information and found that kidneys may not be damaged when falling from a high altitude. If they are not damaged, you can transfer them to Li Yang. I owe him the money."
Jiang Chengyan's face changed suddenly.
Yan Xun suppressed his surging emotions, stared into Kang Qiqiao's eyes, and said softly, "No one wants your kidney, come down."
The tears in Kang Qiqiao's eyes finally fell.
He and Yanxun had known each other for such a long time, but she seldom spoke to him in such a gentle tone, especially after they got married, Yanxun became even more indifferent.
Seeing Yan Xun like this, Kang Qiqiao asked the question that he had been wanting to ask but never asked -
"Why did you let Jiang Chengyan take me away that night?"
This question stunned both Yan Xun and Jiang Chengyan.
Jiang Chengyan forced a smile, "He doesn't know. He left early that day because of something, but he left the driver to pick you up. Did you forget?"
Yan Xun didn't say anything. Kang Qiqiao's miserable gaze was like a silent whip, lashing him.
He left that day, but came back to get something, and then saw Jiang Chengyan dragging the drunk Kang Qiqiao into the room.
He knew that Jiang Chengyan disliked Kang Qiqiao and thought she was stupid, frivolous and mean. Yan Xun also thought so at that time.
So after just one look, he picked up his things and left the room, leaving his legal partner behind.
At that time, everyone thought that Kang Qiqiao, who loved vanity, had a messy private life, but after that night, he became less talkative.
Kang Qiqiao trembled, "I have always regretted drinking too much that day. I was afraid that you would know that I had a relationship with another man, that you would be angry, and that you would think I was not decent."
"…So you know everything, and you left me behind."
By the end of his speech, Kang Qiqiao's face was already covered with tears. He covered his face in pain, his body swaying in the cold wind as if he was about to fall.
"This matter is almost torturing me to death. Do you know that Jiang Chengyan is almost torturing me to death?"
Jiang Chengyan kept using this matter to harass him, forcing him to cheat again and again.
He lived in fear every day and felt guilty towards Yan Xun every day, but in the end the other party didn't care at all. Kang Qiqiao felt like he was a joke.
Shen Tingzhou thought that Yan Xun had done something wrong to Kang Qiqiao, so the other party didn't want to see him, but he didn't expect that the other party was such a bastard.
Listening to the sound of Kang Qiqiao being blown to pieces by the wind, Shen Tingzhou's heart ached and he felt inexplicably sad.
Being hurt like this by the person you love is really despairing.
Xu Xun seemed to sense Shen Tingzhou's emotions and grabbed his hand.
Jiang Chengyan looked at the painful and sad Kang Qiqiao, and felt that his blood was frozen and he could hardly breathe. He opened his mouth, "Qiaoqiao..."
After uttering only these two words, Yan Xun punched him in the face in rage.
Jiang Chengyan staggered back two steps and looked at Kang Qiqiao in a daze.
He hesitated for a long time, as if he was trying to explain himself, or rather, he was unwilling to admit that the relationship between him and Kang Qiqiao was so terrible, "You... had a physical reaction to me."
As soon as he finished speaking, Yan Xun punched him again.
Yanxun's eyes were bloodshot. He was the one who hit the man, and he was also the one who felt the pain.
At first Jiang Chengyan did not fight back, until he tasted blood in his mouth, like a carnivore pretending to be a herbivore, he finally tore off his disguise and started fighting back.
"What kind of good person do you think you are? You didn't care about him before, but now you pretend to care. I have never seen anyone more hypocritical than you!"
Yan Xun said nothing, his teeth were bleeding. He did not defend himself but attacked, and soon his face was covered with bruises.
Looking at the two people fighting, even the experienced landlady was stunned.
她扭頭跟沈亭州比比劃劃，“他倆是一對，但他把他丢下了，讓他把他帶走了？”
沈亭州點頭。
房東太太的聲音一下子拔高，“造死孽了這兩個人！”
滿身正義的房東太太，抄起裝飾用的藤條開始打他們倆。
“要不要臉，要不要臉！把老婆送出去，你是不是一個男人！你還敢睡別人的老婆，我打死你，我就說眼睛挑挑，嘴巴薄薄的人滿肚子壞水，愛偷人。真是氣死我老太婆了，小康遇見你倆倒八輩子血黴了！”
沈亭州不反對她打人，但是怕她把自己氣着。
老年人血壓飙升可不是鬧着玩的！
沈亭州趕緊摁住老太太，“您別動手了，再氣壞自己。”
他正勸着，一道急迫的聲音從門外傳來，“哥。”
一個穿着過膝羊絨大衣，氣質出衆的青年走了進去。
看到是他，嚴尋跟江承衍停了手，就連康棋喬的身體也緊繃起來，不願看見他似的，把臉別了過去。
青年身體似乎有病，急走了幾步就劇烈咳起來。
他忍着咳意，對康棋喬說，“哥，你看我把誰找過來了。”
“喬喬。”一個老人走進來，看到康棋喬此刻坐在窗戶上，嗓音發顫，“快進來，你這是要幹什麽。”
看到老人的模樣，康棋喬一股酸意從喉嚨沖上鼻頭，“爺爺……”
房東老太太盯着進來的老人，“哎呦呦，好俊的老頭子吼。”
從老太太突然裂起的嘴角，沈亭州能感受到她這句“俊”的含金量。
其實老人跟俊沒有任何關系，面相憨厚樸實，想來年輕時應該是一個木讷、周正的人。
老太太捂着嘴笑，“老實好，老實人知道疼人，你們年紀還小，不懂。”
沈亭州：……
老人雙腿發虛地朝康棋喬走過去，“快下來，你是想我這個糟老頭給你送終？”
康棋喬說，“我在您的卡上存了好多錢，房子也蓋成新的，您……”
老人雙眸淚光閃爍，極力克制聲音的哽咽，輕聲說，“我給你炒了瓜子，都剝好放布口袋，你老也不來看我，瓜子都泛潮了。”
康棋喬再也繃不住，從窗戶口下來，撲進老人懷裏，“我也好想您。”
所有人都松了一口氣。
房東老太太哭成淚人，“老咯，見不得這樣，我那小孫女也是一個壞東西，好久都不給我打電話了，奶奶都忘記了。”
沈亭州拍了拍老太太的肩，無聲安慰她。
老太太轉頭看到一表人才的沈亭州，覺得跟自己的孫女挺配，忍不住打聽，“小夥子多大了，家在哪裏，父母是幹什麽的？”
不等沈亭州回答，許殉握住沈亭州的手，看了一眼老太太。
老太太後退半步，“哎呦，兇得咧。”
沈亭州無奈，拽了拽許貞子的手，對方垂下眼睛。
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雖然房東老太太，覺得康棋喬可憐，他爺爺長得俊，但死活不讓他在這裏住了。
“我得找人把窗戶焊上鋼條，省得你們一個兩個來我這裏跳樓，不像話吼。”
被“趕”出去的康棋喬，暫時到許殉家落腳。
他現在很沒有安全感，要不是相依為命多年的爺爺過來了，康棋喬真的會跳下去，因為他覺得江承衍不會放過他。
老人坐了三四個小時的車，一路忐忑不安，如今終于見到心心念念的孫子，緊繃的神經放松下來。
康棋喬把人哄睡着，從樓上下來看到帶老人過來的青年，神色有些別扭。
青年站起來，關切地望着康棋喬，“哥。”
從青年口裏知道他的名字後，沈亭州能體會康棋喬內心的複雜，對青年說，“要不你也上樓休息一會兒吧。”
青年明白沈亭州的意思，咳了幾聲，點了一下頭。
走的時候，他看了一眼康棋喬，見對方還是不肯看他，神色黯淡地離開了。
沈亭州倒了一杯水給康棋喬。
康棋喬低聲說了一句謝謝，喝着水一言不發。
客廳只有他倆，對沈亭州，康棋喬是有一種信任的。比起江承衍能随時闖入的酒店，還是住在這裏更加安全。
沈亭州開口，“還有房間，你也去休息吧，好好睡一覺。”
康棋喬握着杯子，并沒有動，許久他出聲，“那個人是我弟弟。”
沈亭州知道康棋喬說的是誰，就是剛才那個青年，黎漾。
“當時我不知道他是我弟弟，他們那邊說去國外換腎可以給兩百萬，我答應了，後來發現我們是親兄弟，我反而不願意了。”
康棋喬投來迷茫的目光，“是不是因為我自私，為了錢可以做，為了親情就不願意，所以他們才這麽厭惡我？”
康棋喬跟黎漾是親兄弟，但他在很小的時候走失，後來被人販子拐走。
幾經波折，最後遇到現在的爺爺，對方收養了他。
沈亭州搖搖頭，“不能這麽說，就算是從小長大的親兄弟也可能會因為害怕，而選擇不捐。身體是自己的，還是以自己的意願為主。”
康棋喬輕聲說，“可我就是一個很自私的人，我讨厭黎漾，嫉妒他，仇視他，什麽東西都想跟他搶。”
因為他懷疑小時候走丢是黎漾故意設計的，所以他心安理得地針對黎漾。
他一點也不情願給黎漾捐腎，是江承衍告訴他，可以用這件事來要挾嚴尋跟他結婚。
康棋喬當時蠢得要死，以為江承衍是真的在給他出主意。
也不怪這麽多人厭惡他，康棋喬覺得自己糟糕透了。
他們之間的關系錯綜複雜，沈亭州捋不清楚，不知道到底誰對誰錯。
現在追究這些也沒有意義，康棋喬都是死過一次的人了。
沈亭州：“找個機會跟你弟弟好好談一談，如果他不是真的關心你，是不會那麽遠把你爺爺請過來。”
康棋喬不說話了，腦袋浮現出海上那幕。
當時他的摩托艇意外着火，其實也不算是意外，是康棋喬自己弄出來的。
那個時候他剛得知真相，內心被一種巨大痛苦包裹，因為他是真的喜歡嚴尋，不是為了跟黎漾搶人。
可能是內心自毀傾向，讓他總是無意識地做一些危險的事。
摩托艇發生爆炸，只有他一人在上面，被爆炸的氣流沖到海裏時，他看到黎漾跳下水，拼了命地朝他這邊游。
在很長一段時間裏，他都是讨厭黎漾的。
因為對方除了健康，擁有他羨慕的一切。
在他被其他小朋友欺負的時候，黎漾坐着豪車開心地上學。在因為貧窮而自卑時，對方是家境優渥的黎家少爺，在他為生計向人卑躬屈膝時，對方享受着別人的卑躬屈膝。
明明都是從一個肚皮裏爬出來的，境遇卻天差地別。
康棋喬一直不覺得自己有錯，他只想自己跟爺爺過上好日子。
他這樣社會底層，除了拼命鑽營，拼命朝錢的地方擠，還有別的出路嗎，為什麽要看不起他？
當看見黎漾朝他游過來時，康棋喬覺得不可思議。
他慣性思維地覺得黎漾是在作秀，黎漾經常在外人面前做這種秀，顯得他更加刻薄，素質低下。
但他生了那麽重的病，一場重感冒甚至都能要了他的命。
康棋喬不明白，黎漾為什麽要冒着這麽大的危險沖過來。
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看康棋喬心事重重，沈亭州進廚房準備給他煮一些安神的東西。
黎漾從樓上看下來時，就見康棋喬一個人坐在沙發上，抱着茶杯發呆。
黎漾走了過去。
康棋喬看到黎漾的衣角，把眼睫垂下。
他的哥哥從小就漂亮張揚，像一朵帶了很多尖刺的野玫瑰，現在刺沒了，花也謝掉了。
黎漾蹲在康棋喬腿邊，仰頭看着他。
康棋喬有些不自在地挪了挪，但手被對方捉住。
黎漾氣質柔和，嗓音也柔和，還有一雙沒有操勞過的細長手指，他撫摸着康棋喬手上的疤。
“哥，我一直覺得對不起你，小時候我們一塊出去，但只有我一個人回來了。”
這種話，康棋喬不是第一次聽。
不過這次他沒有挖苦黎漾，只是平靜聽着。
聽到客廳動靜的沈亭州走出來，看到他們兄弟在談心，露出欣慰的笑意。
但黎漾接下來的話，讓沈亭州皺起眉頭。
“其實我是想過接受你的腎。”黎漾望着康棋喬，“我想我的身體裏有你的器官，這樣我就不會再把你弄丢了。”
沈亭州：？
怎麽感覺怪怪的。
如果是過去康棋喬早破口大罵了，現在他很平和，好像也沒什麽不可失去的。
“我們也算一場兄弟，我給你一顆腎，但你能不能不要讓江承衍打擾我的生活？我會跟我爺爺回去，不會再摻和你們的世界。”
黎漾抓緊了康棋喬的手，“你不說我也不會讓他們再打擾你。”
“我也不要你的腎，一想到你少了一顆腎，體質會變差，我就不想要了。哥，我希望你長命百歲，希望你健康，希望你快樂。”
康棋喬問他，“那你怎麽辦？”
黎漾笑了笑，攤開康棋喬的掌心，在上面寫了一個字“道”。
"Let nature take its course. Over the past decade or so, doctors have given me many critical illness notices, but I am still alive and well, aren't I?"
Li Yang's gentle smile reflected Kang Qiqiao's appearance, "And I feel that since you came back, I have been sick less often."
Seeing that their conversation was becoming normal, Shen Tingzhou didn't want to eavesdrop and was about to go back to the kitchen when he saw Jiang Chengyan's figure from outside the French window.
Li Yang saw the same thing, and the tenderness in his eyes faded away.
He stood up and said to Kang Qiqiao, "Brother, I'm going to go out and take a look."