Roommate split personality how to do?
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Li Dongxing was sad.Don't you feel sorry for him too?Then look, what have you done now!Li Dongxing's hands belonged to Li Dongxing's life, so why do you decide for him whether to live or not, and how to live? "
He could see that the man was struggling, maybe he guessed right, this personality who called himself Zheng Heping seemed to be a bit old, even if he had a serious tendency to self-harm, he still had a sense of responsibility towards Li Dongxing.
Sure enough, Zheng Heping was silent for a while, then said weakly: "Teacher Cheng, you are right. Dongxing is very strong, stronger than us. I can't let him down."
As he spoke, he raised his sleeves, wiped his face, and covered a deep sigh that he hadn't spoken yet.
Cheng Yan fell back to the table, sat for a while, and went to find some new gauze.
Li Dongxing, or Zheng Heping, refused to follow him out to the emergency department in the middle of the night, so he had to resign himself to wrapping up that troubled wound again. This time he purposely wrapped a few more turns of gauze, and waited until half the roll of gauze was used up. Li Dongxing's right hand was already wrapped like a mummy, and he could hardly move it anymore.
"Go to sleep." Cheng Yan pointed to the room, feeling a little tired himself, "I'll go to the hospital tomorrow."
It was a long enough night of anxiety.
Zheng Heping stood up with his right hand in his arms. He could tell that Cheng Yan didn't really want to talk to him anymore, and even showed some undisguised hostility towards him.So he didn't say anything more, and entered the room obediently.
Before closing the door, he looked back at Cheng Yan and said, "Mr. Cheng, thank you."
Cheng Yan waved his hand at him, not willing to look up.
Lying on the bed, Cheng Yan thought for most of the night, but still couldn't fall asleep, turned around and got up, and sent an email to Xu Mowen.
He typed a long paragraph first, talking about everything that happened to Li Dongxing during this period, including his own conjectures.After finishing writing, Cheng Yan read it twice, jumped up and opened the window, let the cool breeze blow for a quarter of an hour, turned around and went back to delete all the words.
In the end he wrote only one line.
"Does the teacher know Zheng Heping?"
After sending the email, Cheng Yan lay back on the bed, stared at the ceiling for two hours, and then waited for Xu Mowen's reply.
"know."
Ten seconds later came another one.
"Mu Mu doesn't know about this."
Well, even Mu Mu doesn't know about it, which means that only Xu Mowen knows about the entire mental health center, and now with Cheng Yan, that's two people.In the eyes of others, Li Dongxing is just an ordinary person, a good student, and a good teacher.
People who suffer from mental illness may not be unable to work and study normally. Jiangcheng University has absolutely no intention of discriminating against patients. Even if Li Dongxing really has that problem, it will not affect his future enrollment.But after getting along for a while, Cheng Yan understood Li Dongxing's temperament more or less, and knew that he definitely didn't want to live in the strange eyes of others.
It wasn't until this moment that Cheng Yan put together all the ins and outs, and after sorting it out, the original strangeness was answered.
Li Dongxing lives so cautiously and deliberately keeps a distance from most people in order to cover up this little secret.His efforts were fruitful. If Cheng Yan hadn't offered to ask Li Dongxing to come and live with him, he probably wouldn't have discovered the clues so easily.
Knowing that Li Dongxing had kept such an important matter from him, Cheng Yan didn't feel angry, but felt a little sorry for breaking the matter.
Everyone has a side that he doesn't want to show in front of others, why should he cross that line by talking to himself?
Therefore, after thinking about it, he still didn't discuss it with Xu Mowen.
Whether Li Dongxing was sick, Cheng Yan would ask him himself, if he didn't want to say it clearly, Cheng Yan didn't intend to force it, just pay more attention when getting along in the future.
Cheng Yan had almost done his calculations, and finally fell asleep with peace of mind.
When he woke up the next day, he found that Li Dongxing was no longer there, and there was an extra unread text message on his phone.
"Brother, I'm leaving, don't worry, I will go to the hospital by myself."
This seemed to be Li Dongxing's tone, Cheng Yan felt relieved and went to school by himself.
After finishing the experiment in the morning, Cheng Yan went to Xiaohonglou to take a look around, but Li Dongxing was not there.He thought it might be the delay due to the crowds in the hospital, so he didn't take it to heart, and wandered back to the biology building.
When Cheng Yan was about to go back in the evening, he still couldn't find Li Dongxing.
Feeling that the situation was not good, he quickly asked Mu Mu: "Where is the winter trip?"
Mu Mu has been working on his thesis recently, and he is a bit confused: "It seems that I haven't seen it."
Cheng Yan became nervous: "He hasn't come all day?"
Mu Mu nodded after thinking for a long time, looked back at Li Dongxing's table, and said in confusion, "Why are there fewer things..."
The table was cleaned up, and the books were still there, arranged in a row in order of size, except for a few notes that were usually placed on the right hand side.
Cheng Yan turned around and left without saying a word.
Mu Mu shouted from behind: "What's the matter, did you quarrel?"
Cheng Yan didn't have time to answer, so he ran all the way home.
Pushing open the door of Li Dongxing's room, he glanced at it and understood everything.
There was a bunch of keys on the dining table, which should have been there since the morning, but Cheng Yan was in a hurry to leave the house and didn't see it at all.
Cheng Yan held the bunch of house keys, his mind was empty, and a thought flashed through him.
Big trouble now.
☆、Four personalities ([-])
The first thing Cheng Yan did was to call Li Dongxing.
Not surprisingly, the phone was switched off.
He put down his phone, went to the kitchen and poured himself a glass of cold water, drank it in one gulp, and calmed down his mind.Cheng Yan told himself, first of all, this matter is not that bad, even if he knows that Li Dongxing may be a little bit wrong, it does not mean that he is not fully capable of criminal responsibility.Secondly, judging from the text message in the morning, at least the person who walked out of this room was quite normal, and it should be Li Dongxing himself.
But he still couldn't help thinking, what if?What if after Li Dongxing went out, he was walking alone, and suddenly that personality named Zheng Heping appeared again, thinking that what Cheng Yan said yesterday was unreasonable, and he was still thinking about dying, what should he do?
Li Dongxing only has one life, so this should never happen.
Cheng Yan put down the water glass, rushed downstairs and took a taxi.
It was his responsibility to lose someone. If it weren't for the lesson he taught last night, Zheng Heping might not have been irritated.Therefore, he had to get him back and explain everything clearly, otherwise, if something happened, he would not be able to feel at ease for the rest of his life.
I couldn't tell Xu Mowen about this beforehand, nor could I tell Mu Mu. Cheng Yan sat in the taxi and after thinking about it, he only had one place to go.
He went to the construction site yesterday again.
This meeting happened to be the time for the shift change. There were only a dozen or so people on the construction site, and most of them were packing up.As soon as Cheng Yan approached, someone waved at him and refused to let him in.
"Hey, who is that, didn't you see that this is a construction site?" The man looked at Cheng Yan after shouting, and was stunned for a while, "Damn it, why is it you again?"
In the dark at night, Cheng Yan recognized it by his voice, and it was the foreman from yesterday who called.
He walked across a brick floor and asked, "Have you seen Li Dongxing?"
The foreman quickly waved his hands: "No, no, you took everyone away, how dare we charge more? The wages have been calculated, and when your brother comes over, he will finish this job. I won't bother him to do this job."
His reaction was not surprising.As soon as he saw Cheng Yan's clothes and demeanor, he knew that the conditions were good. No matter what, he didn't seem like a younger brother who would come out to move bricks to make a living.The foreman must be afraid that Li Dongxing is a college student who wants to come out to experience life, or more troublesome, a reporter who intends to report in depth on the construction site environment. No matter what kind of situation they can't avoid, after yesterday's incident, they must just want to have a good time. Shake this hot potato away.
Cheng Yan didn't hold any hope of finding someone here at first, he just wanted to be a dead horse doctor, and then asked again, "Then do you know where he might have gone?"
The foreman was puzzled: "You are his brother, you don't know where he is going, how can I know? He has been working here for a few days, we are working, not talking. Let me go, don't stick around This is in the way."
As he spoke, he pushed Cheng Yan, leaving a few dark finger prints on the gray shirt.Cheng Yan frowned, didn't say anything, turned around and walked out of the construction site, bought two packs of soft shell Zhonghua at a nearby canteen, and walked back to the construction site.
The foreman was instructing people to adjust the scaffolding, when he turned his head and saw Cheng Yan, he spat on the ground: "Damn it, why are you still haunted?"
Cheng Yan walked up to him as if he hadn't noticed, with a flattering and humble smile on his face: "Brother, I can't help it either, you see my brother and I are in a relationship, and he wants to play something and run away from home, it will be hard to find Seeing someone, the whole family is in a hurry. Look, he has been working with you for the past two months. He must have some friends who can talk to you? I wonder if you can give me an idea and help me with this?"
Before the foreman could speak, he put the cigarette in his hand into the other's hand.
The foreman touched Zhonghua, and said, "Take it back, smoking is not allowed here." But he squeezed his fingers for a long time, as if confirming the sign, and then pushed it into Cheng Yan's hand.
Cheng Yan approached knowingly, stuffed two packs of cigarettes into the pocket of the foreman's coat, and said with a small apologetic smile, "You can't smoke at the construction site, but you will always go home sometime."
The foreman smacked his lips, and gave Cheng Yan a sideways look: "I can't tell, it's pretty good."
Cheng Yan continued to laugh: "My brother was entirely dependent on you to take care of me."
The words are so high, the foreman probably feels sorry for not showing any more performance. While putting the two packs of cigarettes in his pocket more tightly, he turned his head and shouted: "Old Yu, come here!"
A person in the air above his head responded, slowly got off the scaffolding, and limped up to the two of them.
The foreman pointed at Cheng Yan: "This man is the eldest brother of the kid surnamed Li. He wants to find out something. Didn't that kid work with you before? Tell him anything you know."
After he finished speaking, he left first, and before he left, he grinned at Cheng Yan, and the two brothers seemed to put Cheng Yan's shoulders, leaving another dusty handprint.
Without changing his face, Cheng Yan called out to the worker named Lao Yu: "Brother Yu."
Lao Yu was a skinny, middle-aged man. Hearing Cheng Yan's call, he felt embarrassed and said, "Let's just call us Lao Yu. Are you really Dongzi's big brother?"
Cheng Yan nodded without revealing anything.
Lao Yu sized him up curiously, and as if he had suddenly realized something, he smiled naively: "Let's just say, Dongzi looks like a college student, very different from us, isn't there such a handsome guy?" Brother, you can see that he is also a cultural person."
As soon as he heard Li Dongxing's nickname, Cheng Yan felt that there was something interesting about it, and hurriedly said, "Brother Yu, do you know where Dongxing usually goes?"
"Let's think about it, think about it." Lao Yu frowned and muttered, "Dongzi is really at odds with you? He looks really good. But yes, I haven't heard much from him. Live at home."
Cheng Yan said casually: "A small conflict, the child will always have his own ideas when he grows up."
His face was calm, but his heart was pounding.Fortunately, according to Zheng Heping's opinion, Li Dongxing and his uncle's family have a normal relationship, and he probably wouldn't talk about the family situation with others, otherwise he, the big brother Xibei, might be out of help.
As expected, Lao Yu didn't see his flaws, so he slapped his head and said, "I remembered, he works four days a week with us, and one day he goes to the restaurant to wash dishes. He has a good relationship with the boss, so he won't go home If so, maybe I will go there and stay there.”
Cheng Yan hurriedly asked, "Where is the restaurant?"
"The road is not easy to find." Lao Yu gave up after making gestures, "Anyway, I'm off work, why don't we take you there?"
Cheng Yan felt a little sorry for Lao Yu's enthusiasm. When he passed by the canteen outside the construction site, he wanted to buy him a pack of cigarettes, but was rejected.
His will is very firm: "We don't smoke this thing, it costs money, and it's also disliked by our daughter-in-law."
After speaking, he rejected Cheng Yan's suggestion to take a taxi, and found his own mount, a crimson electric scooter that was half faded.
Cheng Yan had no choice but to sit on the backseat of this elderly little donkey, bouncing all the way through the streets.
Although Lao Yu spoke slowly, he was actually good at chatting. Within a few minutes, Cheng Yan found out that he had been married twice. The first daughter-in-law left her two-year-old child and ran away because she thought he had a broken leg and no money. , Now this daughter-in-law is five years older than him, but she is very kind and willing to endure hardships with him.
As for his leg, he just came out to work when he was in his twenties, and was smashed by a falling steel plate at the construction site.
"We are lucky. Back then, there was a guy about my age in the village who came out to make a living with us. After a few years, he fell off while working. I heard that his head was blown out on the spot." Old Yu said. He thumped his injured leg, and laughed a few times in a hoarse voice, "Our fate is good, our fate is good."
To Cheng Yan's ears, his two good fates sounded like great irony.
Just because someone else lost a life and he only lost a leg, can he be satisfied?
But that's the way some people live.If you don't think about the good things, you may not be able to survive this day.
Cheng Yan not only didn't think it was sad, but felt that when the man was laughing, his shriveled body grew taller.
To live is to live out a posture, whether it is suffering or not, it doesn't matter what others say.
Lao Yu talked about something else. When it comes to the current job, his words are full of gratitude to the foreman.He said that he was lame, and he was afraid to use him in many places except this construction site.This job pays a lot of money, allowing him to save enough money for his son to go to elementary school next year.
Cheng Yan suddenly understood.For some people whose life has become a problem, how much does it matter whether the construction site is safe or not, and whether the foreman is a bastard who is greedy for petty gain and bullying others?
After all, this is already the best way they can find to solve the problem.
The little donkey drove them left and right, went around to the back of a farmers' market, and got into a narrow alley.
There are snack bars or small restaurants on both sides of this road. The road is potholed and wet. At a glance, there are several pools of waste oil and waste water, shining in the moonlight that has just climbed up at the entrance of the alley.
It was the first time for Cheng Yan to come to this kind of place.
Lao Yu couldn't walk fast, but he was obviously familiar with the terrain, and he said as he walked, "A few weeks ago, Dongzi brought me and a few other brothers who worked together, and said that the boss is kind and willing to give us some discounts. .”
As he spoke, he stopped moving.
Cheng Yan looked up, and there was a restaurant in front of it, with a small facade, and the five characters "delicious home-cooked food" were pasted on red paper outside. I don't know if delicious is the name of the restaurant or an adjective.There are a total of four or five tables in the store, all of which can be seen at a glance. There are red New Year pictures hanging on the wall. At first glance, it looks a bit like the 80s.
What he couldn't ignore the most was that the store was still playing songs at the moment, and the song "About Winter" was still playing.
No need for Lao Yu to tell, Cheng Yan knew that Li Dongxing must have worked in this store.
Lao Yu raised his weak leg, stepped over the threshold, and looked inside: "Miss Boss, is Dongzi there?"
The proprietress is a fat woman in her 50s. She is sitting at the door, knitting a sweater and eating melon seeds. I can’t see how her hands and mouth move. The ball of yarn and the shell of melon seeds move rapidly at the same rhythm. They also occupy different territories clearly and clearly, and they are not mixed together in the slightest.
Hearing the question, she pursed her lips, as if she had no time to answer, but judging from the shape of her mouth, it was clearly an affirmative answer.
Cheng Yan was inevitably a little excited.
Lao Yu had already stepped in: "Dongzi, are you there, Dongzi? Come out and have a look, your brother is looking for you!"
"Brother Yu?" A familiar voice rang out, half of his face poked out from the back kitchen, a little confused, "I...brother?"
Cheng Yan followed into the lobby, cleared his throat, and said, "It's me."
There was a lot of banging in the kitchen, and it sounded like something had fallen.
Old Yu said at the front: "Dongzi, it's not easy for your brother to come to the construction site and ask if you two have something to talk about, so I'll leave first. My wife is waiting for me for dinner."
After he finished speaking, he turned his head, smiled at Cheng Yan, greeted the proprietress again, and limped out.
Cheng Yan exhaled and walked towards the back kitchen.
Li Dongxing was bending over to pack his things. He only had one hand at the moment, so his movements were a bit clumsy, but he picked up all the knocked-out bottles and cans, put them back to the original place, and turned his head to wipe his sweat.
Cheng Yan caught a glimpse of the new gauze on his right hand, and thought that he had listened to the words, must have been to the hospital, and his face was not so tense.
"Senior brother." Li Dongxing stood on the spot, his eyes wandering left and right, "You...that, why are you here?"
Cheng Yan almost said, what else, of course he was worried about your life.
But he endured it, at least Li Dongxing looked pretty good now, he didn't lose any arms or legs, he didn't cry, make trouble or hang himself, he seemed to be completely back to normal.Then he saw a sleeping bag by the wall behind where Li Dongxing was standing, with a corner of a familiar dark blue blanket exposed inside, and a few notebooks on a small stool next to it, it seemed that it was not the person's All belongings.
"You plan to live here?" He pointed to the ground.
"En." Li Dongxing admitted, "The proprietress promised to let me stay temporarily, and it won't be too long."
Cheng Yan supported his head, picked up a chair and sat down.
After a while, he asked: "Retired as a research assistant?"
Li Dongxing frowned and said, "I didn't control it that day. I was afraid that something would happen after a long time, which would have a bad impact on the students and the center."
Cheng Yan was a little helpless: "What about the books, don't you read them anymore?"
Li Dongxing's face became even darker: "I'll take the exam after a few years to earn enough tuition fees."
Cheng Yan: "You are afraid of this and that. You dare not do a lot of work, and you have lost your undergraduate degree from Jiangcheng University. Even if you move bricks every day, work three or four jobs, and don't eat or sleep, how long will it take to save money?" ?”
Li Dongxing was silent for a while, then said sullenly, "Save as long as you want."
This temper is really stubborn.
Cheng Yan rubbed his temples, and said helplessly, "I didn't come here today to ask you anything, nor did I want to force you to go back. I just want you to know that what I said last night was a bit off-putting." You don’t have a backache while talking. You have suffered a lot, and others dare not even think about it. This road is not easy for people in good health, let alone you... In short, I blamed you, I must Apologize."
Apparently he didn't expect him to say this as soon as he opened his mouth. Li Dongxing was startled for a moment, and immediately said: "Senior brother, I'm not right..."
"I'm sorry to come and I'm sorry to go, it's boring." Cheng Yan didn't intend to let him continue, "I came for other purposes. Since you still call me senior brother, I want to ask you if you would like to help me busy?"
Li Dongxing agreed straight away: "Brother, just say it."
Knowing that the atmosphere is almost ready, it's time to attack, Cheng Yan solemnly raised two fingers: "The first thing. Teacher, he has always wanted to accept another student. He asked me many times before, but I still refused." Promise. He likes you very much now and wants you to do research with him as soon as possible, and I also hope that he can receive a student as soon as possible so that I can do my own business with peace of mind-will you help me with this favor?"
Li Dongxing was stunned: "I..."
"As for the second matter." Cheng Yan grinned, "I have never met a roommate with multiple personalities. I am a person with great curiosity, and my specialty is to study the human brain. Now there is such a unique, There is no reason for me not to be interested in the one-in-a-million human brain. I am really sorry to say this, but I still want to ask you shamelessly, are you—are you willing to wrong yourself again? I live together for a while, so that I can observe and observe?"
While talking, he stared at Li Dongxing intently, using the eyes that Mu Mu said he only had when looking at the monkey brain, how focused and how affectionate he was.
Li Dongxing really relaxed: "I...worry..."
Cheng Yan strikes while the iron is hot: "What are you worried about? My teacher and I are both professionals. Even if we may not be able to help you get better soon, we can always help you control it, right?"
Li Dongxing still frowned: "Brother, there are some things you still don't understand... The reason why I was evicted by the landlord before was because my...that person ran out and broke the water pipe in the house. He has violent tendencies. Afraid……"
Cheng Yan said calmly, "Oh, I've met that man before, he can't beat me."
Li Dongxing: "..."
Cheng Yan couldn't wait any longer, and slapped the table: "Say it, you should nod or agree!"
Li Dongxing: "..."
Cheng Yan finally couldn't hold it any longer. Just now, he moved a little harder, and his brain, which was already tangled in pain, was shaken again, and he completely rebelled. Retching started in the bowl.
He didn't have time to eat dinner, and he vomited for a long time without vomiting anything, and his stomach was also noisy.
Li Dongxing rushed up to help him: "Senior brother, what's wrong with you?"
"Headache, it's an old problem." Cheng Yan wiped his mouth, stood up straight, and began to talk nonsense in a serious manner, "Look, we are both sick, and we are both physically disabled. Do you think the teacher's vision is special? good?"
Li Dongxing: "..."
This hero Cheng Yan really couldn't hold on anymore. He hit Enter first this night, and then sat behind the small hair stove for a long time bumping around. As soon as he entered this alley, the messy and rich smell kept drilling into his nose. His brain was overloaded and was on the verge of explosion, as if clusters of sparks were constantly shooting out, causing his face to turn blue and white, and his body to be covered in cold sweat.
At this moment, he was sitting on the chair, completely silent, and he didn't have the air and energy that he used to force Li Dongxing to ask Li Dongxing just now.
Li Dongxing stood aside, helping Cheng Yan find hot water, and anxiously asking him if he wanted to go to the hospital, as if he was a caregiver. Compared with yesterday, their positions were completely reversed.
Cheng Yan huddled in his chair, thinking weakly, what a shame.
After sitting quietly like this for half an hour, his eyes did not blur and his legs stopped shaking, his breathing gradually became steady, and he finally had the strength to stand up.
Li Dongxing asked with concern: "Brother, how do you feel?"
Cheng Yan: "...Hungry."
The two were in the kitchen, and Li Dongxing asked naturally, "I can make something right away if I want to eat, although Zheng Heping may not be as delicious..."
Cheng Yan: "Yam Pork Rib Soup."
Li Dongxing said "OK" and wanted to get up.
Cheng Yan grabbed him, raised his eyelids, and whispered, "Can you go home and do it?"
☆、Four personalities ([-])
Li Dongxing actually obediently followed Cheng Yan home.
Cheng Yan weighed it in his heart, was it the persuasion plan he came up with after careful consideration that worked, or was it the bitter plan that was hit by mistake in the end?Either way, he felt like he took advantage of Li Dongxing's weakness.
He figured it out, that kid was stubborn, he was very high-minded, but also soft-hearted, and he couldn't stand others being nice to him.If he said a lot of big things as soon as he went up, not only would he not be able to persuade people to come back, but it might even be counterproductive.It's better to just put forward some demands directly. It's an option in the mouth, but it's a threat in reality.
It's not that they want to help Li Dongxing, it's that they want Li Dongxing to help them.His senior brother has already asked for someone. If Li Dongxing refuses to help, how can he be worthy of Xu Mowen and Cheng Yan?
Seeing that Li Dongxing's reaction was exactly as expected, with a embarrassed and unable to refuse expression on his face, Cheng Yan felt that he was a bit shameless, playing tricks on such a seemingly innocent protagonist, always a bit of a bully.But he still carried out the plan without hesitation, even though his headache had improved a lot when he walked out of the restaurant, he still acted weak all night, even going upstairs was helped by Li Dongxing.
Cheng Yan felt ashamed when he really had a headache, but he was more confident when he pretended to be a patient. He carefully watched Li Dongxing's expression, and found that this kid was very devoted to taking care of others, and his frown that was always frowning relaxed, as if finally For a moment, he was willing to put all his worries behind him.
Cheng Yan received the signal and showed his "need" in a timely manner. After entering the door, he hugged the cushion Li Dongxing gave him and lay down on the sofa. After that, Li Dongxing made ribs soup, and he praised it several times while drinking it. .
Li Dongxing was a little embarrassed by the praise, and wiped his hands on the apron: "Really?"
Cheng Yan just put the ribs in his mouth, took another spoon and stuffed it into his hand, and said vaguely: "If you don't believe me, try it yourself."
Li Dongxing took a sip of the soup and said with a complicated expression: "It seems that I forgot to put salt."
Cheng Yan was stunned for a moment, a cleanly gnawed bone fell out of his mouth.He took out a tissue to wipe his mouth, coughed, and said, "I have always liked to drink water since I was a child."
In fact, he was so hungry that he couldn't stand it, and his head was still a little dizzy, and he couldn't distinguish the taste at all.
Li Dongxing held the bowl and said silently, "Actually, I am too."
The corner of Cheng Yan's mouth twitched, feeling a little bit of regret for a moment.
What if Li Dongxing really believed his nonsense and decided not to add salt when cooking in the future?
On second thought, did he really plan to let Li Dongxing cook frequently?He invited his younger brother to live with him, not an old lady who wanted to help with housework.
Cheng Yan strengthened his heart, today he is trying to show his weakness to retain talents, and he can't order Li Dongxing so shamelessly in the future.
After drinking the soup, Cheng Yan watched Li Dongxing move his belongings into the next room again, and then he expressed his willingness to go back and rest.
The next morning, Cheng Yan got up before five o'clock, went out for a walk, prepared the things he needed, and sat in the living room refreshed and waiting for someone.
There was movement in Li Dong's room after six o'clock.
Cheng Yan thought while reading the documents, luckily this kid didn't sneak out in the middle of the night, if he wanted to sneak out early in the morning, he wouldn't give it a chance.
When Li Dongxing came out, steamed buns, clear porridge, and a freshly opened bottle of fermented bean curd were already set on the table.
Cheng Yan said without raising his head, "Let's eat."
Li Dongxing finished his breakfast, and Cheng Yan also finished reading the remaining half of the literature.
He cleared the table, took out some papers, and put them in front of Li Dongxing.
"You can read the rental contract yourself, and sign it if there is no problem." After Cheng Yan finished speaking, he pressed a key on the paper, "Remember not to lose it again."
Li Dongxing accepted the key, looked at the contract really seriously, and looked up in surprise after a few seconds: "The rent will be paid in three years?"
Cheng Yan leaned lazily on the back of the chair, bent his knuckles and knocked on the contract: "Don't forget to read down, if Party B leaves early without saying hello, starting from this month, it will be fifty times Liquidated damages."
Li Dongxing was stunned.
Fifty times the rent, he can't afford to move the bricks for a year.
Cheng Yan still had no shame in writing such an overlord clause, and urged, "Sign it quickly."
Li Dongxing thought for a moment, picked up the pen, and really bowed his head to sign his name.
Cheng Yan picked up a few more sheets of paper, turned to the last page, and said, "Sign this too."
Of course, it was impossible for Li Dongxing to be coaxed into signing. He read it carefully from the beginning, and was even more shocked than before: "The research assistant contract...and it's from the Department of Biology?"
Cheng Yan folded his hands on his chest, and said in a straight voice, "I just came back, and I don't even have a student. Have you ever seen a teacher doing experiments by himself and running the administration? I'm quite demanding, and I don't like the good and bad outside , It’s really troublesome to find a research assistant. I don’t think you have a lot of free time? In addition to sorting out materials for the center and attending classes, you have to spend fifteen hours a week to work here. That’s it. "
Two research assistant jobs, if this kid still has the leisure to work part-time outside, he should go to heaven.
Moreover, the salary offered by Cheng Yan as a research assistant is higher than that offered by the Mental Health Center. It is called that the Department of Biology is richer. He had inquired with Lao Yu yesterday, and he calculated the amount correctly based on what Li Dongxing can earn by moving bricks. The amount goes up a little bit.
Li Dongxing hesitated: "But I'm not a biology major..."
Cheng Yan: "Just do some well-designed experiments, and trained monkeys can do it."
Li Dongxing couldn't act as if he was not as good as a monkey, and seemed to have no choice but to sign a contract of sale.
After buying and leaving, Cheng Yan would not give anyone a chance to go back on his word, so he pulled out the two contracts, put them in a drawer, and locked them with a click.
"And the resignation email you sent to the teacher, the teacher should reply to you, no." After he finished speaking leisurely, he patted Li Dongxing on the shoulder like a leader, and said earnestly, "In the future, you will have two bosses." , do a good job."
After Boss Cheng upgraded himself, the first thing he did was to give himself and Li Dongxing a day off.
He accompanied Li Dongxing to the construction site first, and asked the foreman to get all the money back.
The foreman saw Cheng Yan for the third time in three days, and his face was much better than the first two times. He stretched out his hand and tried to show the two brothers well, but Cheng Yan avoided it without a trace.
The foreman froze, knowing that there might not be Zhonghua to take today.
The payment at the construction site was in cash, which was packed in a torn envelope. Li Dongxing took it and wanted to keep it, but Cheng Yan snatched it into his hand.
"It's one hundred less." Cheng Yan counted the money and spread his hand at the foreman, "My brother still came to do some work on the last day, so it can't be counted."
The foreman stared at Cheng Yan like a class enemy, and his expression returned to the gritted teeth of the first day.
Cheng Yan begged for the 100 yuan, stuffed it into Li Dongxing's pocket, and went to the side sink to wash his hands.
"The hard-earned money of the working people cannot be used cheaply by these exploiting classes." He taught Li Dongxing a serious face, as if he forgot who just named himself the boss and forced Li Dongxing to sign a prostitution contract.
Today, Lao Yu didn't go to work, and they didn't see anyone at the construction site. Li Dongxing asked a construction worker from Lao Yu's hometown and asked about Lao Yu's residence. The two decided to visit since they were free. In case there is no chance to meet again in the future.
Before going, Cheng Yan turned to the supermarket and bought a box of milk and some fruits.
When Li Dongxing wanted to pay the bill, Cheng Yan stared back at him.
Cheng Yan: "It's a favor I owe, what are you going to grab?"
Li Dongxing had no choice but to put the 100 yuan back in his pocket, and he didn't say that the reason why he owed this favor was to find him.
Lao Yu's house is not far from the construction site, and it is the favorite place for many migrant workers in this area - the basement of a formal community.
The three of them shared a house of less than [-] square meters with two other families. The sites of different families were crudely separated by thin wooden walls. It took Cheng Yan and Li Dongxing a long time to confirm that Lao Yu Which compartment does the family live in.
When he arrived at the place, Cheng Yan was still thinking about knocking on the door, but when he looked up, he found that there was no door here.
In front of him was only a flowered cloth curtain, which was dirty, with a cluster of bright red peonies painted on it, swaying slightly with the airflow, but the New Year pictures hanging in the small restaurant yesterday had a sense of age harmony.
Suddenly the curtain swayed, and a person appeared from behind, shouting in surprise: "Hey, Dongzi, and Dongzi's brother! Why are you here?"
Cheng Yan was thankful that he didn't really hit it just now, otherwise he would have hit Lao Yu's head with few hairs left.
The two were very politely invited into the house.
This room of less than ten square meters has a lot of content, including a bed and a table, an old TV set in the corner, and various bottles and cans that occupy half of the country.
Lao Yu searched the room for a while, but he could only find a chair, so he pointed to the only bed: "Sit down."
Cheng Yan looked at it, but still didn't have the nerve to sit down, so he just passed the milk and fruit over.
Old Yu hesitated: "Why are you still spending money?"
Cheng Yan smiled: "For your children, eat more, and they will do well in school in the future."
The child's "good grades" seemed to be a great temptation to Lao Yu, he reluctantly accepted the gift, and shouted outside the room: "Zhu!
He could see that the man was struggling, maybe he guessed right, this personality who called himself Zheng Heping seemed to be a bit old, even if he had a serious tendency to self-harm, he still had a sense of responsibility towards Li Dongxing.
Sure enough, Zheng Heping was silent for a while, then said weakly: "Teacher Cheng, you are right. Dongxing is very strong, stronger than us. I can't let him down."
As he spoke, he raised his sleeves, wiped his face, and covered a deep sigh that he hadn't spoken yet.
Cheng Yan fell back to the table, sat for a while, and went to find some new gauze.
Li Dongxing, or Zheng Heping, refused to follow him out to the emergency department in the middle of the night, so he had to resign himself to wrapping up that troubled wound again. This time he purposely wrapped a few more turns of gauze, and waited until half the roll of gauze was used up. Li Dongxing's right hand was already wrapped like a mummy, and he could hardly move it anymore.
"Go to sleep." Cheng Yan pointed to the room, feeling a little tired himself, "I'll go to the hospital tomorrow."
It was a long enough night of anxiety.
Zheng Heping stood up with his right hand in his arms. He could tell that Cheng Yan didn't really want to talk to him anymore, and even showed some undisguised hostility towards him.So he didn't say anything more, and entered the room obediently.
Before closing the door, he looked back at Cheng Yan and said, "Mr. Cheng, thank you."
Cheng Yan waved his hand at him, not willing to look up.
Lying on the bed, Cheng Yan thought for most of the night, but still couldn't fall asleep, turned around and got up, and sent an email to Xu Mowen.
He typed a long paragraph first, talking about everything that happened to Li Dongxing during this period, including his own conjectures.After finishing writing, Cheng Yan read it twice, jumped up and opened the window, let the cool breeze blow for a quarter of an hour, turned around and went back to delete all the words.
In the end he wrote only one line.
"Does the teacher know Zheng Heping?"
After sending the email, Cheng Yan lay back on the bed, stared at the ceiling for two hours, and then waited for Xu Mowen's reply.
"know."
Ten seconds later came another one.
"Mu Mu doesn't know about this."
Well, even Mu Mu doesn't know about it, which means that only Xu Mowen knows about the entire mental health center, and now with Cheng Yan, that's two people.In the eyes of others, Li Dongxing is just an ordinary person, a good student, and a good teacher.
People who suffer from mental illness may not be unable to work and study normally. Jiangcheng University has absolutely no intention of discriminating against patients. Even if Li Dongxing really has that problem, it will not affect his future enrollment.But after getting along for a while, Cheng Yan understood Li Dongxing's temperament more or less, and knew that he definitely didn't want to live in the strange eyes of others.
It wasn't until this moment that Cheng Yan put together all the ins and outs, and after sorting it out, the original strangeness was answered.
Li Dongxing lives so cautiously and deliberately keeps a distance from most people in order to cover up this little secret.His efforts were fruitful. If Cheng Yan hadn't offered to ask Li Dongxing to come and live with him, he probably wouldn't have discovered the clues so easily.
Knowing that Li Dongxing had kept such an important matter from him, Cheng Yan didn't feel angry, but felt a little sorry for breaking the matter.
Everyone has a side that he doesn't want to show in front of others, why should he cross that line by talking to himself?
Therefore, after thinking about it, he still didn't discuss it with Xu Mowen.
Whether Li Dongxing was sick, Cheng Yan would ask him himself, if he didn't want to say it clearly, Cheng Yan didn't intend to force it, just pay more attention when getting along in the future.
Cheng Yan had almost done his calculations, and finally fell asleep with peace of mind.
When he woke up the next day, he found that Li Dongxing was no longer there, and there was an extra unread text message on his phone.
"Brother, I'm leaving, don't worry, I will go to the hospital by myself."
This seemed to be Li Dongxing's tone, Cheng Yan felt relieved and went to school by himself.
After finishing the experiment in the morning, Cheng Yan went to Xiaohonglou to take a look around, but Li Dongxing was not there.He thought it might be the delay due to the crowds in the hospital, so he didn't take it to heart, and wandered back to the biology building.
When Cheng Yan was about to go back in the evening, he still couldn't find Li Dongxing.
Feeling that the situation was not good, he quickly asked Mu Mu: "Where is the winter trip?"
Mu Mu has been working on his thesis recently, and he is a bit confused: "It seems that I haven't seen it."
Cheng Yan became nervous: "He hasn't come all day?"
Mu Mu nodded after thinking for a long time, looked back at Li Dongxing's table, and said in confusion, "Why are there fewer things..."
The table was cleaned up, and the books were still there, arranged in a row in order of size, except for a few notes that were usually placed on the right hand side.
Cheng Yan turned around and left without saying a word.
Mu Mu shouted from behind: "What's the matter, did you quarrel?"
Cheng Yan didn't have time to answer, so he ran all the way home.
Pushing open the door of Li Dongxing's room, he glanced at it and understood everything.
There was a bunch of keys on the dining table, which should have been there since the morning, but Cheng Yan was in a hurry to leave the house and didn't see it at all.
Cheng Yan held the bunch of house keys, his mind was empty, and a thought flashed through him.
Big trouble now.
☆、Four personalities ([-])
The first thing Cheng Yan did was to call Li Dongxing.
Not surprisingly, the phone was switched off.
He put down his phone, went to the kitchen and poured himself a glass of cold water, drank it in one gulp, and calmed down his mind.Cheng Yan told himself, first of all, this matter is not that bad, even if he knows that Li Dongxing may be a little bit wrong, it does not mean that he is not fully capable of criminal responsibility.Secondly, judging from the text message in the morning, at least the person who walked out of this room was quite normal, and it should be Li Dongxing himself.
But he still couldn't help thinking, what if?What if after Li Dongxing went out, he was walking alone, and suddenly that personality named Zheng Heping appeared again, thinking that what Cheng Yan said yesterday was unreasonable, and he was still thinking about dying, what should he do?
Li Dongxing only has one life, so this should never happen.
Cheng Yan put down the water glass, rushed downstairs and took a taxi.
It was his responsibility to lose someone. If it weren't for the lesson he taught last night, Zheng Heping might not have been irritated.Therefore, he had to get him back and explain everything clearly, otherwise, if something happened, he would not be able to feel at ease for the rest of his life.
I couldn't tell Xu Mowen about this beforehand, nor could I tell Mu Mu. Cheng Yan sat in the taxi and after thinking about it, he only had one place to go.
He went to the construction site yesterday again.
This meeting happened to be the time for the shift change. There were only a dozen or so people on the construction site, and most of them were packing up.As soon as Cheng Yan approached, someone waved at him and refused to let him in.
"Hey, who is that, didn't you see that this is a construction site?" The man looked at Cheng Yan after shouting, and was stunned for a while, "Damn it, why is it you again?"
In the dark at night, Cheng Yan recognized it by his voice, and it was the foreman from yesterday who called.
He walked across a brick floor and asked, "Have you seen Li Dongxing?"
The foreman quickly waved his hands: "No, no, you took everyone away, how dare we charge more? The wages have been calculated, and when your brother comes over, he will finish this job. I won't bother him to do this job."
His reaction was not surprising.As soon as he saw Cheng Yan's clothes and demeanor, he knew that the conditions were good. No matter what, he didn't seem like a younger brother who would come out to move bricks to make a living.The foreman must be afraid that Li Dongxing is a college student who wants to come out to experience life, or more troublesome, a reporter who intends to report in depth on the construction site environment. No matter what kind of situation they can't avoid, after yesterday's incident, they must just want to have a good time. Shake this hot potato away.
Cheng Yan didn't hold any hope of finding someone here at first, he just wanted to be a dead horse doctor, and then asked again, "Then do you know where he might have gone?"
The foreman was puzzled: "You are his brother, you don't know where he is going, how can I know? He has been working here for a few days, we are working, not talking. Let me go, don't stick around This is in the way."
As he spoke, he pushed Cheng Yan, leaving a few dark finger prints on the gray shirt.Cheng Yan frowned, didn't say anything, turned around and walked out of the construction site, bought two packs of soft shell Zhonghua at a nearby canteen, and walked back to the construction site.
The foreman was instructing people to adjust the scaffolding, when he turned his head and saw Cheng Yan, he spat on the ground: "Damn it, why are you still haunted?"
Cheng Yan walked up to him as if he hadn't noticed, with a flattering and humble smile on his face: "Brother, I can't help it either, you see my brother and I are in a relationship, and he wants to play something and run away from home, it will be hard to find Seeing someone, the whole family is in a hurry. Look, he has been working with you for the past two months. He must have some friends who can talk to you? I wonder if you can give me an idea and help me with this?"
Before the foreman could speak, he put the cigarette in his hand into the other's hand.
The foreman touched Zhonghua, and said, "Take it back, smoking is not allowed here." But he squeezed his fingers for a long time, as if confirming the sign, and then pushed it into Cheng Yan's hand.
Cheng Yan approached knowingly, stuffed two packs of cigarettes into the pocket of the foreman's coat, and said with a small apologetic smile, "You can't smoke at the construction site, but you will always go home sometime."
The foreman smacked his lips, and gave Cheng Yan a sideways look: "I can't tell, it's pretty good."
Cheng Yan continued to laugh: "My brother was entirely dependent on you to take care of me."
The words are so high, the foreman probably feels sorry for not showing any more performance. While putting the two packs of cigarettes in his pocket more tightly, he turned his head and shouted: "Old Yu, come here!"
A person in the air above his head responded, slowly got off the scaffolding, and limped up to the two of them.
The foreman pointed at Cheng Yan: "This man is the eldest brother of the kid surnamed Li. He wants to find out something. Didn't that kid work with you before? Tell him anything you know."
After he finished speaking, he left first, and before he left, he grinned at Cheng Yan, and the two brothers seemed to put Cheng Yan's shoulders, leaving another dusty handprint.
Without changing his face, Cheng Yan called out to the worker named Lao Yu: "Brother Yu."
Lao Yu was a skinny, middle-aged man. Hearing Cheng Yan's call, he felt embarrassed and said, "Let's just call us Lao Yu. Are you really Dongzi's big brother?"
Cheng Yan nodded without revealing anything.
Lao Yu sized him up curiously, and as if he had suddenly realized something, he smiled naively: "Let's just say, Dongzi looks like a college student, very different from us, isn't there such a handsome guy?" Brother, you can see that he is also a cultural person."
As soon as he heard Li Dongxing's nickname, Cheng Yan felt that there was something interesting about it, and hurriedly said, "Brother Yu, do you know where Dongxing usually goes?"
"Let's think about it, think about it." Lao Yu frowned and muttered, "Dongzi is really at odds with you? He looks really good. But yes, I haven't heard much from him. Live at home."
Cheng Yan said casually: "A small conflict, the child will always have his own ideas when he grows up."
His face was calm, but his heart was pounding.Fortunately, according to Zheng Heping's opinion, Li Dongxing and his uncle's family have a normal relationship, and he probably wouldn't talk about the family situation with others, otherwise he, the big brother Xibei, might be out of help.
As expected, Lao Yu didn't see his flaws, so he slapped his head and said, "I remembered, he works four days a week with us, and one day he goes to the restaurant to wash dishes. He has a good relationship with the boss, so he won't go home If so, maybe I will go there and stay there.”
Cheng Yan hurriedly asked, "Where is the restaurant?"
"The road is not easy to find." Lao Yu gave up after making gestures, "Anyway, I'm off work, why don't we take you there?"
Cheng Yan felt a little sorry for Lao Yu's enthusiasm. When he passed by the canteen outside the construction site, he wanted to buy him a pack of cigarettes, but was rejected.
His will is very firm: "We don't smoke this thing, it costs money, and it's also disliked by our daughter-in-law."
After speaking, he rejected Cheng Yan's suggestion to take a taxi, and found his own mount, a crimson electric scooter that was half faded.
Cheng Yan had no choice but to sit on the backseat of this elderly little donkey, bouncing all the way through the streets.
Although Lao Yu spoke slowly, he was actually good at chatting. Within a few minutes, Cheng Yan found out that he had been married twice. The first daughter-in-law left her two-year-old child and ran away because she thought he had a broken leg and no money. , Now this daughter-in-law is five years older than him, but she is very kind and willing to endure hardships with him.
As for his leg, he just came out to work when he was in his twenties, and was smashed by a falling steel plate at the construction site.
"We are lucky. Back then, there was a guy about my age in the village who came out to make a living with us. After a few years, he fell off while working. I heard that his head was blown out on the spot." Old Yu said. He thumped his injured leg, and laughed a few times in a hoarse voice, "Our fate is good, our fate is good."
To Cheng Yan's ears, his two good fates sounded like great irony.
Just because someone else lost a life and he only lost a leg, can he be satisfied?
But that's the way some people live.If you don't think about the good things, you may not be able to survive this day.
Cheng Yan not only didn't think it was sad, but felt that when the man was laughing, his shriveled body grew taller.
To live is to live out a posture, whether it is suffering or not, it doesn't matter what others say.
Lao Yu talked about something else. When it comes to the current job, his words are full of gratitude to the foreman.He said that he was lame, and he was afraid to use him in many places except this construction site.This job pays a lot of money, allowing him to save enough money for his son to go to elementary school next year.
Cheng Yan suddenly understood.For some people whose life has become a problem, how much does it matter whether the construction site is safe or not, and whether the foreman is a bastard who is greedy for petty gain and bullying others?
After all, this is already the best way they can find to solve the problem.
The little donkey drove them left and right, went around to the back of a farmers' market, and got into a narrow alley.
There are snack bars or small restaurants on both sides of this road. The road is potholed and wet. At a glance, there are several pools of waste oil and waste water, shining in the moonlight that has just climbed up at the entrance of the alley.
It was the first time for Cheng Yan to come to this kind of place.
Lao Yu couldn't walk fast, but he was obviously familiar with the terrain, and he said as he walked, "A few weeks ago, Dongzi brought me and a few other brothers who worked together, and said that the boss is kind and willing to give us some discounts. .”
As he spoke, he stopped moving.
Cheng Yan looked up, and there was a restaurant in front of it, with a small facade, and the five characters "delicious home-cooked food" were pasted on red paper outside. I don't know if delicious is the name of the restaurant or an adjective.There are a total of four or five tables in the store, all of which can be seen at a glance. There are red New Year pictures hanging on the wall. At first glance, it looks a bit like the 80s.
What he couldn't ignore the most was that the store was still playing songs at the moment, and the song "About Winter" was still playing.
No need for Lao Yu to tell, Cheng Yan knew that Li Dongxing must have worked in this store.
Lao Yu raised his weak leg, stepped over the threshold, and looked inside: "Miss Boss, is Dongzi there?"
The proprietress is a fat woman in her 50s. She is sitting at the door, knitting a sweater and eating melon seeds. I can’t see how her hands and mouth move. The ball of yarn and the shell of melon seeds move rapidly at the same rhythm. They also occupy different territories clearly and clearly, and they are not mixed together in the slightest.
Hearing the question, she pursed her lips, as if she had no time to answer, but judging from the shape of her mouth, it was clearly an affirmative answer.
Cheng Yan was inevitably a little excited.
Lao Yu had already stepped in: "Dongzi, are you there, Dongzi? Come out and have a look, your brother is looking for you!"
"Brother Yu?" A familiar voice rang out, half of his face poked out from the back kitchen, a little confused, "I...brother?"
Cheng Yan followed into the lobby, cleared his throat, and said, "It's me."
There was a lot of banging in the kitchen, and it sounded like something had fallen.
Old Yu said at the front: "Dongzi, it's not easy for your brother to come to the construction site and ask if you two have something to talk about, so I'll leave first. My wife is waiting for me for dinner."
After he finished speaking, he turned his head, smiled at Cheng Yan, greeted the proprietress again, and limped out.
Cheng Yan exhaled and walked towards the back kitchen.
Li Dongxing was bending over to pack his things. He only had one hand at the moment, so his movements were a bit clumsy, but he picked up all the knocked-out bottles and cans, put them back to the original place, and turned his head to wipe his sweat.
Cheng Yan caught a glimpse of the new gauze on his right hand, and thought that he had listened to the words, must have been to the hospital, and his face was not so tense.
"Senior brother." Li Dongxing stood on the spot, his eyes wandering left and right, "You...that, why are you here?"
Cheng Yan almost said, what else, of course he was worried about your life.
But he endured it, at least Li Dongxing looked pretty good now, he didn't lose any arms or legs, he didn't cry, make trouble or hang himself, he seemed to be completely back to normal.Then he saw a sleeping bag by the wall behind where Li Dongxing was standing, with a corner of a familiar dark blue blanket exposed inside, and a few notebooks on a small stool next to it, it seemed that it was not the person's All belongings.
"You plan to live here?" He pointed to the ground.
"En." Li Dongxing admitted, "The proprietress promised to let me stay temporarily, and it won't be too long."
Cheng Yan supported his head, picked up a chair and sat down.
After a while, he asked: "Retired as a research assistant?"
Li Dongxing frowned and said, "I didn't control it that day. I was afraid that something would happen after a long time, which would have a bad impact on the students and the center."
Cheng Yan was a little helpless: "What about the books, don't you read them anymore?"
Li Dongxing's face became even darker: "I'll take the exam after a few years to earn enough tuition fees."
Cheng Yan: "You are afraid of this and that. You dare not do a lot of work, and you have lost your undergraduate degree from Jiangcheng University. Even if you move bricks every day, work three or four jobs, and don't eat or sleep, how long will it take to save money?" ?”
Li Dongxing was silent for a while, then said sullenly, "Save as long as you want."
This temper is really stubborn.
Cheng Yan rubbed his temples, and said helplessly, "I didn't come here today to ask you anything, nor did I want to force you to go back. I just want you to know that what I said last night was a bit off-putting." You don’t have a backache while talking. You have suffered a lot, and others dare not even think about it. This road is not easy for people in good health, let alone you... In short, I blamed you, I must Apologize."
Apparently he didn't expect him to say this as soon as he opened his mouth. Li Dongxing was startled for a moment, and immediately said: "Senior brother, I'm not right..."
"I'm sorry to come and I'm sorry to go, it's boring." Cheng Yan didn't intend to let him continue, "I came for other purposes. Since you still call me senior brother, I want to ask you if you would like to help me busy?"
Li Dongxing agreed straight away: "Brother, just say it."
Knowing that the atmosphere is almost ready, it's time to attack, Cheng Yan solemnly raised two fingers: "The first thing. Teacher, he has always wanted to accept another student. He asked me many times before, but I still refused." Promise. He likes you very much now and wants you to do research with him as soon as possible, and I also hope that he can receive a student as soon as possible so that I can do my own business with peace of mind-will you help me with this favor?"
Li Dongxing was stunned: "I..."
"As for the second matter." Cheng Yan grinned, "I have never met a roommate with multiple personalities. I am a person with great curiosity, and my specialty is to study the human brain. Now there is such a unique, There is no reason for me not to be interested in the one-in-a-million human brain. I am really sorry to say this, but I still want to ask you shamelessly, are you—are you willing to wrong yourself again? I live together for a while, so that I can observe and observe?"
While talking, he stared at Li Dongxing intently, using the eyes that Mu Mu said he only had when looking at the monkey brain, how focused and how affectionate he was.
Li Dongxing really relaxed: "I...worry..."
Cheng Yan strikes while the iron is hot: "What are you worried about? My teacher and I are both professionals. Even if we may not be able to help you get better soon, we can always help you control it, right?"
Li Dongxing still frowned: "Brother, there are some things you still don't understand... The reason why I was evicted by the landlord before was because my...that person ran out and broke the water pipe in the house. He has violent tendencies. Afraid……"
Cheng Yan said calmly, "Oh, I've met that man before, he can't beat me."
Li Dongxing: "..."
Cheng Yan couldn't wait any longer, and slapped the table: "Say it, you should nod or agree!"
Li Dongxing: "..."
Cheng Yan finally couldn't hold it any longer. Just now, he moved a little harder, and his brain, which was already tangled in pain, was shaken again, and he completely rebelled. Retching started in the bowl.
He didn't have time to eat dinner, and he vomited for a long time without vomiting anything, and his stomach was also noisy.
Li Dongxing rushed up to help him: "Senior brother, what's wrong with you?"
"Headache, it's an old problem." Cheng Yan wiped his mouth, stood up straight, and began to talk nonsense in a serious manner, "Look, we are both sick, and we are both physically disabled. Do you think the teacher's vision is special? good?"
Li Dongxing: "..."
This hero Cheng Yan really couldn't hold on anymore. He hit Enter first this night, and then sat behind the small hair stove for a long time bumping around. As soon as he entered this alley, the messy and rich smell kept drilling into his nose. His brain was overloaded and was on the verge of explosion, as if clusters of sparks were constantly shooting out, causing his face to turn blue and white, and his body to be covered in cold sweat.
At this moment, he was sitting on the chair, completely silent, and he didn't have the air and energy that he used to force Li Dongxing to ask Li Dongxing just now.
Li Dongxing stood aside, helping Cheng Yan find hot water, and anxiously asking him if he wanted to go to the hospital, as if he was a caregiver. Compared with yesterday, their positions were completely reversed.
Cheng Yan huddled in his chair, thinking weakly, what a shame.
After sitting quietly like this for half an hour, his eyes did not blur and his legs stopped shaking, his breathing gradually became steady, and he finally had the strength to stand up.
Li Dongxing asked with concern: "Brother, how do you feel?"
Cheng Yan: "...Hungry."
The two were in the kitchen, and Li Dongxing asked naturally, "I can make something right away if I want to eat, although Zheng Heping may not be as delicious..."
Cheng Yan: "Yam Pork Rib Soup."
Li Dongxing said "OK" and wanted to get up.
Cheng Yan grabbed him, raised his eyelids, and whispered, "Can you go home and do it?"
☆、Four personalities ([-])
Li Dongxing actually obediently followed Cheng Yan home.
Cheng Yan weighed it in his heart, was it the persuasion plan he came up with after careful consideration that worked, or was it the bitter plan that was hit by mistake in the end?Either way, he felt like he took advantage of Li Dongxing's weakness.
He figured it out, that kid was stubborn, he was very high-minded, but also soft-hearted, and he couldn't stand others being nice to him.If he said a lot of big things as soon as he went up, not only would he not be able to persuade people to come back, but it might even be counterproductive.It's better to just put forward some demands directly. It's an option in the mouth, but it's a threat in reality.
It's not that they want to help Li Dongxing, it's that they want Li Dongxing to help them.His senior brother has already asked for someone. If Li Dongxing refuses to help, how can he be worthy of Xu Mowen and Cheng Yan?
Seeing that Li Dongxing's reaction was exactly as expected, with a embarrassed and unable to refuse expression on his face, Cheng Yan felt that he was a bit shameless, playing tricks on such a seemingly innocent protagonist, always a bit of a bully.But he still carried out the plan without hesitation, even though his headache had improved a lot when he walked out of the restaurant, he still acted weak all night, even going upstairs was helped by Li Dongxing.
Cheng Yan felt ashamed when he really had a headache, but he was more confident when he pretended to be a patient. He carefully watched Li Dongxing's expression, and found that this kid was very devoted to taking care of others, and his frown that was always frowning relaxed, as if finally For a moment, he was willing to put all his worries behind him.
Cheng Yan received the signal and showed his "need" in a timely manner. After entering the door, he hugged the cushion Li Dongxing gave him and lay down on the sofa. After that, Li Dongxing made ribs soup, and he praised it several times while drinking it. .
Li Dongxing was a little embarrassed by the praise, and wiped his hands on the apron: "Really?"
Cheng Yan just put the ribs in his mouth, took another spoon and stuffed it into his hand, and said vaguely: "If you don't believe me, try it yourself."
Li Dongxing took a sip of the soup and said with a complicated expression: "It seems that I forgot to put salt."
Cheng Yan was stunned for a moment, a cleanly gnawed bone fell out of his mouth.He took out a tissue to wipe his mouth, coughed, and said, "I have always liked to drink water since I was a child."
In fact, he was so hungry that he couldn't stand it, and his head was still a little dizzy, and he couldn't distinguish the taste at all.
Li Dongxing held the bowl and said silently, "Actually, I am too."
The corner of Cheng Yan's mouth twitched, feeling a little bit of regret for a moment.
What if Li Dongxing really believed his nonsense and decided not to add salt when cooking in the future?
On second thought, did he really plan to let Li Dongxing cook frequently?He invited his younger brother to live with him, not an old lady who wanted to help with housework.
Cheng Yan strengthened his heart, today he is trying to show his weakness to retain talents, and he can't order Li Dongxing so shamelessly in the future.
After drinking the soup, Cheng Yan watched Li Dongxing move his belongings into the next room again, and then he expressed his willingness to go back and rest.
The next morning, Cheng Yan got up before five o'clock, went out for a walk, prepared the things he needed, and sat in the living room refreshed and waiting for someone.
There was movement in Li Dong's room after six o'clock.
Cheng Yan thought while reading the documents, luckily this kid didn't sneak out in the middle of the night, if he wanted to sneak out early in the morning, he wouldn't give it a chance.
When Li Dongxing came out, steamed buns, clear porridge, and a freshly opened bottle of fermented bean curd were already set on the table.
Cheng Yan said without raising his head, "Let's eat."
Li Dongxing finished his breakfast, and Cheng Yan also finished reading the remaining half of the literature.
He cleared the table, took out some papers, and put them in front of Li Dongxing.
"You can read the rental contract yourself, and sign it if there is no problem." After Cheng Yan finished speaking, he pressed a key on the paper, "Remember not to lose it again."
Li Dongxing accepted the key, looked at the contract really seriously, and looked up in surprise after a few seconds: "The rent will be paid in three years?"
Cheng Yan leaned lazily on the back of the chair, bent his knuckles and knocked on the contract: "Don't forget to read down, if Party B leaves early without saying hello, starting from this month, it will be fifty times Liquidated damages."
Li Dongxing was stunned.
Fifty times the rent, he can't afford to move the bricks for a year.
Cheng Yan still had no shame in writing such an overlord clause, and urged, "Sign it quickly."
Li Dongxing thought for a moment, picked up the pen, and really bowed his head to sign his name.
Cheng Yan picked up a few more sheets of paper, turned to the last page, and said, "Sign this too."
Of course, it was impossible for Li Dongxing to be coaxed into signing. He read it carefully from the beginning, and was even more shocked than before: "The research assistant contract...and it's from the Department of Biology?"
Cheng Yan folded his hands on his chest, and said in a straight voice, "I just came back, and I don't even have a student. Have you ever seen a teacher doing experiments by himself and running the administration? I'm quite demanding, and I don't like the good and bad outside , It’s really troublesome to find a research assistant. I don’t think you have a lot of free time? In addition to sorting out materials for the center and attending classes, you have to spend fifteen hours a week to work here. That’s it. "
Two research assistant jobs, if this kid still has the leisure to work part-time outside, he should go to heaven.
Moreover, the salary offered by Cheng Yan as a research assistant is higher than that offered by the Mental Health Center. It is called that the Department of Biology is richer. He had inquired with Lao Yu yesterday, and he calculated the amount correctly based on what Li Dongxing can earn by moving bricks. The amount goes up a little bit.
Li Dongxing hesitated: "But I'm not a biology major..."
Cheng Yan: "Just do some well-designed experiments, and trained monkeys can do it."
Li Dongxing couldn't act as if he was not as good as a monkey, and seemed to have no choice but to sign a contract of sale.
After buying and leaving, Cheng Yan would not give anyone a chance to go back on his word, so he pulled out the two contracts, put them in a drawer, and locked them with a click.
"And the resignation email you sent to the teacher, the teacher should reply to you, no." After he finished speaking leisurely, he patted Li Dongxing on the shoulder like a leader, and said earnestly, "In the future, you will have two bosses." , do a good job."
After Boss Cheng upgraded himself, the first thing he did was to give himself and Li Dongxing a day off.
He accompanied Li Dongxing to the construction site first, and asked the foreman to get all the money back.
The foreman saw Cheng Yan for the third time in three days, and his face was much better than the first two times. He stretched out his hand and tried to show the two brothers well, but Cheng Yan avoided it without a trace.
The foreman froze, knowing that there might not be Zhonghua to take today.
The payment at the construction site was in cash, which was packed in a torn envelope. Li Dongxing took it and wanted to keep it, but Cheng Yan snatched it into his hand.
"It's one hundred less." Cheng Yan counted the money and spread his hand at the foreman, "My brother still came to do some work on the last day, so it can't be counted."
The foreman stared at Cheng Yan like a class enemy, and his expression returned to the gritted teeth of the first day.
Cheng Yan begged for the 100 yuan, stuffed it into Li Dongxing's pocket, and went to the side sink to wash his hands.
"The hard-earned money of the working people cannot be used cheaply by these exploiting classes." He taught Li Dongxing a serious face, as if he forgot who just named himself the boss and forced Li Dongxing to sign a prostitution contract.
Today, Lao Yu didn't go to work, and they didn't see anyone at the construction site. Li Dongxing asked a construction worker from Lao Yu's hometown and asked about Lao Yu's residence. The two decided to visit since they were free. In case there is no chance to meet again in the future.
Before going, Cheng Yan turned to the supermarket and bought a box of milk and some fruits.
When Li Dongxing wanted to pay the bill, Cheng Yan stared back at him.
Cheng Yan: "It's a favor I owe, what are you going to grab?"
Li Dongxing had no choice but to put the 100 yuan back in his pocket, and he didn't say that the reason why he owed this favor was to find him.
Lao Yu's house is not far from the construction site, and it is the favorite place for many migrant workers in this area - the basement of a formal community.
The three of them shared a house of less than [-] square meters with two other families. The sites of different families were crudely separated by thin wooden walls. It took Cheng Yan and Li Dongxing a long time to confirm that Lao Yu Which compartment does the family live in.
When he arrived at the place, Cheng Yan was still thinking about knocking on the door, but when he looked up, he found that there was no door here.
In front of him was only a flowered cloth curtain, which was dirty, with a cluster of bright red peonies painted on it, swaying slightly with the airflow, but the New Year pictures hanging in the small restaurant yesterday had a sense of age harmony.
Suddenly the curtain swayed, and a person appeared from behind, shouting in surprise: "Hey, Dongzi, and Dongzi's brother! Why are you here?"
Cheng Yan was thankful that he didn't really hit it just now, otherwise he would have hit Lao Yu's head with few hairs left.
The two were very politely invited into the house.
This room of less than ten square meters has a lot of content, including a bed and a table, an old TV set in the corner, and various bottles and cans that occupy half of the country.
Lao Yu searched the room for a while, but he could only find a chair, so he pointed to the only bed: "Sit down."
Cheng Yan looked at it, but still didn't have the nerve to sit down, so he just passed the milk and fruit over.
Old Yu hesitated: "Why are you still spending money?"
Cheng Yan smiled: "For your children, eat more, and they will do well in school in the future."
The child's "good grades" seemed to be a great temptation to Lao Yu, he reluctantly accepted the gift, and shouted outside the room: "Zhu!
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