Night.82
Zhong Mang was beaten before his death, but the injuries were not particularly serious and the cause of death was still drug overdose.
Did he get into an argument with his fellow skating buddies? Or did he offend a drug gang?
After that night, Chen Shanye called Long Bei and wanted to ask him if he knew the name of the gang that Zhong Mang worked for, but Long Bei refused to tell him.
Those are not things or people you can touch, don't be stupid, Long Bei said.
Chen Shanye was about to bite his teeth off. He knew that compared to those people, he was an egg and they were stones.
But Zhong Mang died because of drugs, which can be linked to the drug trafficking gang.
In the end, perhaps because Long Bei was afraid that he would insist on jumping into the quagmire, he told him that it was only a matter of time before such a gang would be targeted, but it would take a certain amount of time to completely break down such a large organization. As for Zhong Mang's matter, he would ask if anyone knew about it.
Chen Shanye told Chen Hechuan what he knew truthfully. After discussing it with each other, the two decided to tell Grandma Zhong only part of the story and hide the other part, sewing the secret into their pockets and letting it rot inside.
Zhong Mang did something wrong and went astray, but Chen Shanye didn't want the old man to be hurt again.
Zhong Mang’s farewell ceremony was simple. Not many people came. A few good friends from the village and his designated driver came to see him off.
But Luo Rui didn't come.
The night Zhong Mang was sent to the funeral home, Chen Shanye returned to the urban village and called Luo Rui out at the door of the pink goldfish bowl-like hair salon.
Chen Shanye's eyes turned red as he looked at the girl, and tears fell one by one. He stood there crying quietly without saying a word, rubbing his empty left wrist with his right hand until a faint red mark appeared.
He asked Luo Rui if she wanted to come and say goodbye to Zhong Mang. Luo Rui didn't say anything and swam back to the pink glass fish tank like a lost soul.
After finalizing the time for the farewell ceremony, Chen Shanye still asked someone to convey a message to Luo Rui, telling her the time and place.
But until the end of the brief farewell ceremony, Chen Shanye still hadn't seen Luo Rui.
Because the relationship between Zhong Mang and Luo Rui is not a simple boyfriend-girlfriend relationship, Chen Shanye can understand why she is unwilling to come.
A few days after the body was cremated, Chen Hechuan took Grandma Zhong back by high-speed rail. The old lady was very old, and taking the high-speed rail was much more comfortable than taking a long-distance bus.
Regarding the ashes, Chen Shanye originally planned to drive Zhong Mang home himself, but when Grandma Zhong learned that the car belonged to Ruan Mei, she said that it was unlucky to pull the urn and it would affect the two young people. Although Ruan Mei said that she had no taboos or religious beliefs in this regard, Grandma still insisted on spending some money to entrust a professional funeral company to transport the ashes, and Chen Shanye had no choice but to follow her wishes.
In the evening, Ruan Mei accompanied Chen Shanye to the rental house to deal with Zhong Mang's belongings. Zhong Mang's things looked messy, but after packing them all up, they could be packed into just a few cardboard boxes.
When I was moving my things, I ran into the female anchor who lived across the street in the corridor. The heavily made-up girl asked timidly, "Is the big brother in this room moving out?"
Chen Shanye smiled and replied, "Well, he went home."
The next day, they got up early and drove all the way up. Boxes of Zhong Mang's belongings were placed in the trunk of the car, and the entrusted funeral company also sent Zhong Mang home on the same day.
The road they took did not pass through Chen Shanye's county town, but took another detour to Grandma Zhong's village. The entire journey was nearly 1,500 kilometers, and it would take 17 hours to drive non-stop.
The highway was covered with a thin mist in the early morning, the sky was blue-gray, and the mountains, forests and rice fields on both sides of the highway were blurred by the fog. The blurry and wet picture made people feel chilly.
Ruan Mei retracted her gaze, turned her head to look at Chen Shanye's chin, which had become thinner in the past few days, and gave an order: "Chen Shanye, you can't stop not eating. Look at you, you've lost weight."
"I'm not skipping meals, I just eat a little less."
Chen Shanye looked back at her. Ruan Mei had been eating less these days, so her face, which had been fattened up by him, had become pointed again.
They had no time to have sex these days. They were busy with various things every day and did not return home until midnight. They would wash up and go to bed. When Chen Shanye woke up this morning, he pinched Ruan Mei's belly, and the soft, cotton-like belly had quietly disappeared.
He whispered, "You've lost weight..."
The journey was not short. Although Chen Shanye said he could drive the entire distance, Ruan Mei did not agree with him driving while tired, so Chen Shanye drove for a while while Ruan Mei caught up on some sleep, and then they took turns when they arrived at the service area.
The sky slowly changed from blue-gray to other colors, azure, gray-blue, orange-red, purple-blue, like an endless ribbon.
But the two were too tired this week and spent a lot of time resting in the service area. When it got dark, they had only traveled three-quarters of the way. The road ahead near the village was a winding mountain road, which was not suitable for night driving.
Seeing that there were bloodshot in Chen Shanye's eyes, Ruan Mei suggested that they take the next exit, find a hotel to stay for the night and continue on their journey tomorrow. Chen Shanye agreed.
The town they randomly chose was too small, so they chose a small hotel with a cleaner facade and a less remote location to stay in.
The receptionist casually registered the two people's information, threw the key on the counter, yawned, and said, "It's the room at the back of the third floor. The hot water will be a little slow to come out, but you'll be able to wait a while... Do you want condoms?"
Ruan Mei was dizzy after sitting in the car all day, and her mind was confused for a while. She answered the elder sister seriously: "No, the size may not be suitable."
"Oh, that's awesome..." The eldest sister whistled and looked up and down at the tall man.
Chen Shanye's ears turned red when he was stared at. He grabbed the key and dragged Ruan Mei upstairs. When they reached the corner of the stairs, he slapped her butt hard: "What nonsense are you talking about to others?"
Ruan Mei leaned against him limply, as if she had no bones: "I'm not talking nonsense, am I not telling the truth?"
The shameless and shameless look drove away some of the haze that had been weighing on his heart these days. Chen Shanye couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth and smile, his tone finally relaxed a little: "You..."
Hearing the change in his voice, Ruan Mei's heart, which had been hanging in the balance for several days, slowly settled down. She also smiled, and the fatigue accumulated over the past few days faded away a lot.
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