Same crime

Boarding, taking off, arriving...

In Shanghai in winter, the sun is warm, the air is soaked with moisture and warmth, and the street trees along the streets are still full of greenery.This is in stark contrast to the winter in Zhangzhou, where the cold is often minus [-] degrees, and the eyes are full of haze in winter.Gong Yuechao only felt that he had come from the cold winter to the warm spring day, and his body, which had shrunk for the whole winter, suddenly stretched out.Still thinking in my heart, the winter in Shanghai seems not as serious as what Qin Zhengzheng said, what kind of bone-chilling chill, what kind of magic attack, but a little cute.

After getting into a taxi with Feng Pei, he remembered to turn on his mobile phone, and the ringing rang non-stop.It was Qin Zhengzheng who had a lot of chatter and messages, so he quickly replied and the call came in the next second.

"Teacher, is it cold in Shanghai? Have you eaten yet? Oh, it's a taxi, then you can tell me at the hotel..." He asked questions like a cannonball, making Gong Yuechao feel like an unweaned child, Qin Zhengzheng is a long-winded old woman.

Gong Yuechao interrupted him and said, "I'm fine, go get busy."

"Then you have to eat well, and call me if you have anything to do." Qin Zhengzheng was still worried.

"okay, I get it."

Driving towards the viaduct, Gong Yuezhao stared at the huge and bustling Shanghai through the car window, and actually felt a strange feeling about this strange city—the kind of mental ache that can be produced after living in a small and comfortable city for a long time. Burnout, once you come to this bustling big city, surrounded by strange temptations, you will yearn for it.Although Zhangzhou is the provincial capital, compared with Shanghai, it is more than one or two points worse, and the small city on the [-]th line of Suijiang is even less worth mentioning.

He seemed to suddenly understand the reason why Wei Jiangyuan broke up with Chen Yusheng after returning home. After all, a young man with some ambitions returned to the place that belonged to him from the small city that had no development in his career and stuck to the rules. Living in a big city, let’s not talk about the gap in my heart, the temptation that is full of eyes may be one of the reasons for choosing to give up the persistence in my heart.

Gong Yuechao couldn't help but feel sorry for his friend. After all, love is worthless in front of the material desires in his heart.

He didn't forget his friend's request, picked up his phone again, dialed Wei Jiangyuan's number, and the call was quickly connected. "Hello, hello." Wei Jiangyuan's voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Hello, I'm Chen Yusheng's friend, Gong Yuechao." He announced his family name.

After a period of silence on the other end of the phone, the young man's voice rang out: "Mr. Gong, hello, what can I do?" He asked cautiously.

"I came to Shanghai on a business trip. After Yusheng heard about it, please ask me to hand over something to you. Well, when you have time, if it is convenient, we can make an appointment so that I can hand it over to you in person."

"Have you arranged where you live? Do you need my help?" The young man asked him politely.

Gong Yuechao said: "Oh, I'm here to participate in a forum, and the organizing committee has made arrangements."

"That's good, how about this, I will drive to your hotel to find you at night, we can have a meal together. If you arrive, send me a location, oh, my mobile phone number is my WeChat number, you can add it. "Wei Jiangyuan spoke respectfully, and seemed very alienated, presumably because after breaking up with Chen Yusheng, the relationship between them became even more alienated.

"Okay, so be it."

"Ah."

Saying goodbye to each other, they each hung up the phone. Gong Yuechao added Wei Jiangyuan as a friend, and soon, he was verified. Wei Jiangyuan's WeChat profile picture was a gray color, and Gong Yuechao stared at it for a long time.

After arriving at the hotel and settling down, Gong Yuechao sent Wei Jiangyuan the location.

At this time, Feng Pei, who was in the same room with him, was yelling that he was hungry, and asked him if he wanted to order a meal. Gong Yuechao only asked him to order one, because he had a game at night, and then he leaned on the bed and continued to read the materials.

Dazed, Gong Yuechao fell asleep, and when she was woken up by the phone, she found that she had slept for three hours.After picking up the phone, Wei Jiangyuan said that he had arrived, Gong Yuechao hurriedly washed and changed, and waited for him at the hotel restaurant that he had arranged.

The young man whom he hadn't seen for a long time, his body was thinner, but he appeared more mature and stable. Compared with when he was released from prison and saw him a few months ago, his temperament had changed, and his melancholy eyes were filled with In a sad mood, a smile was forced out of the corner of his mouth, he stood up and shook hands with him.

Before Gong Yuechao came, he was still complaining in his heart that the young man betrayed his friends and abandoned him, but in this situation, he couldn't continue to hate this person, and even wondered what happened between them.

Gong Yuechao said apologetically to Wei Jiangyuan: "I'm sorry, I fell asleep as soon as I arrived at the hotel. You must have been waiting for a long time."

Wei Jiangyuan shook his head and said, "It's nothing, I just arrived." After that, he raised his hand, called the waiter, and asked him to serve the food.

Gong Yuechao took off his coat and sat down, then asked casually, "Have you ordered?"

"Well, I don't know if it suits your taste."

Gong Yuechao smiled and said, "It's okay." He raised his glass and took a sip of water, then asked, "Are you doing well recently?"

"Hmm." Wei Jiangyuan's voice was very low, his fingers pinched the water glass in front of him, his nails turned white, "I'm okay, how about you?"

"I'm fine. It looks like you've lost some weight." Gong Yuechao said.

Wei Jiangyuan looked at him with a wry smile, and instead of answering his words, asked him, "Well, Yusheng...is he okay?"

Gong Yuechao nodded, "It's okay." He pulled the corner of his coat, took out the velvet box from his pocket, pushed it to Wei Jiangyuan from the other side of the table, and said, "Here, this is Yusheng asking me to meet you in person. Pass it to you, he said he forgot when he sent you something last time."

Wei Jiangyuan looked down at the small dark blue velvet box, and immediately understood what it was. The moment the box was finished, Gong Yuezhao noticed that his hands were shaking slightly.

He opened the box and stared intently at the shining silver platinum ring inside. When he raised his head again, his eye circles were red, and there were tears in his lower eyelids, as if they were about to drip down.He opened his mouth and took a big breath, trying his best to control his emotions, but in the end he failed, and two lines of tears fell down, quickly leaving a wet mark on his cheeks.

I saw him biting his lower lip with his teeth, turning his head away, as if he didn't want Gong Yuechao to see his sadness, but the window reflected all his fragility honestly, allowing outsiders to have a panoramic view.

Gong Yuechao couldn't bear it, and handed him a tissue. At the same time, the doubts in his heart became even bigger. He wanted to ask several times, but in the end he didn't ask, and said, "I don't know why you separated, but I just feel sorry. Yusheng, Yusheng Maybe he didn't want to give this ring to you at first...otherwise he wouldn't have kept it until now." Gong Yuechao didn't explain anything for Chen Yusheng, but felt that after meeting Wei Jiangyuan today, he felt that the two of them were in a state that was not complete. No emotion.

Wei Jiangyuan took a deep breath, wiped the tears on his cheeks, closed the lid of the ring box, put it in his backpack and put it away, saying: "It's my fault, I don't intend to ask him to forgive me, I just Hope he gets better in the future.”

"Well, he will." Gong Yuechao said, and Chen Yusheng's "work makes me rich" echoed in his ears to explain himself.

As soon as he finished speaking, the waiter began to serve the dishes. There were only two of them. The dishes Wei Jiangyuan ordered filled the table.Gong Yuechao was a little puzzled at first, but later found out that it was Chen Yusheng's favorite food, and he wanted to say something, but Wei Jiangyuan adjusted his mood in time, changed his smile, held up his chopsticks and said, "Mr. Gong, how much are you doing?" Eat something, you have worked hard along the way."

None of them had been drinking, and the two of them picked up some random topics to talk about, and avoided talking about Chen Yusheng in a tacit understanding. In other words, Wei Jiangyuan never took the initiative to mention Chen Yusheng.If it wasn't for Wei Jiangyuan's face changing drastically after he answered the phone at the end of the meal, maybe Gong Yuechao would never know the exact reason why the two of them broke up.

Wei Jiangyuan stood up with a pale face, and was about to leave with his things in a panic. Gong Yuechao sensed something was wrong, so he grabbed him and asked, "What's wrong?"

Wei Jiangyuan finally couldn't hold back anymore, hugged Gong Yuechao in public and started to cry, choked up, and Gong Yuechao just heard clearly: "My dad, my dad is lost again."

The word "again" shocked him.

In Shanghai at night, the whole city seems to be shrouded in neon lights, and there are some unique charms that cannot be seen during the day. However, Wei Jiangyuan, who is concentrating on driving, flashes a decline that is completely opposite to this lively city.

I called the police, and used my connections to find someone, but the elderly man disappeared without a sound in this huge city, and everyone could only run around like headless chickens.

Wei Jiangyuan said that his sick father was often lost, and he was very resistant to the anti-lost bracelet on his wrist, as long as he wore it, he would forcibly tear it off.He doesn't like to be followed, and often skillfully throws off those who follow him. Wei Jiangyuan even thinks that his father is not sick, it's just an illusion, because it can trip him up and prevent him from leaving home .

The last time Wei Jiangyuan went home was in May last year. At that time, his father was still in normal condition and did not show any problems.But this time when he went back, when he was about to explain everything to his family, he found that his father was ill, and in less than a few months, he had forgotten everyone in the family.

While the young man was talking, some tears accumulated in his eyes again, he gently wiped them away with his hands, and they were full again in a blink of an eye.He lowered the speed of the car and looked around in a panic, trying to find his father's figure in the night.

"I thought everything was fine, but I just forgot who I was, but within a few days, he ran away from home. It took a lot of manpower and material resources to find him, but he was like a child, wanting to break free from those people With his hand, he pulled his throat to ask people to let him go, crying and saying that I am going to find Xiaoyuan, you let me go." Wei Jiangyuan said, accompanied by the faint light, Gong Yuechao saw the tears sliding down the corners of his eyes. "I was by his side at the time, and only then did I realize that he only remembered me."

Gong Yuechao felt uncomfortable, and didn't even know who was right and who was wrong in the relationship between him and Chen Yusheng.

"After I graduated, I went to Suijiang to look for him, chased him, and even ignored my parents. Every time I went home, I thought they were okay, and they would allow me to enjoy the happy days with him for a few more years. I I dare not tell them about the relationship between me and Yusheng. I am afraid of destroying the beauty of this balance. But... I don't know, but my dad... hey, my mother wants to take care of him at home, and the family business is It has been hanging out like this for a long time and no one takes care of it. My mother thinks that I am doing well in Suijiang, or that my father is still doing well. She can't bear to disturb me and wants to focus on my career. But I saw this picture at home Look, how can I bear it, so selfish, so selfish, only thinking about myself..."

"Then maybe, Yusheng..."

Gong Yuechao even wanted to defend Chen Yusheng, but was interrupted by Wei Jiangyuan, "Is it right to let him come to Shanghai? He has a daughter, he has a career, and parents... I can't... let him be so selfish again for me , let go of everything that was so hard to come by. I weighed it for several days before making this decision. I didn’t tell him why, because I think this kind of explanation is unnecessary. Rather than procrastinating, it’s better to make a decisive decision .”

While speaking, he skillfully turned the car into a sparsely populated street. Under the old houses, there were several taverns that were still open. The signboards were dusty, and there was a dim light shining through the windows. Wei Jiangyuan said again: " I'm not sure if it's here." He parked the car on the side of the road, and the two got out. "I found him in some old places several times."

The night air became damp and cold, only then did Gong Yuechao realize how cold Qin Zhengzheng was talking about. He tightened his coat and followed Wei Jiangyuan's footsteps.

"Oh?" Gong Yuechao also looked around, trying to find the person they had been looking for all night. "What is this place?"

"It used to be an old factory building. My dad was the factory manager here before he went to sea. I grew up near here. When my mother was pregnant with me, they were all young. My dad spoiled me like an eyeball. Yes." Wei Jiangyuan's mood seemed to recover a bit, and he talked about the past while walking. "Later he went to do business and was very busy, so he spent less time with me. I went to college, went to Suijiang, and left them. My dad always felt that he owed me. Probably because of this, after he got sick, Only me will be remembered."

Gong Yuechao patted Wei Jiangyuan on the shoulder, trying to comfort him, the young man turned his head and smiled at him, then looked forward, and found a figure of a man beside a stone table under a tree.

The man was sitting on a stone bench, looking into the distance, motionless, almost turned into a statue.

Wei Jiang stood looking at him from a distance, and finally adjusted his emotions and collapsed again. He stood there looking at the back for a long time, then walked over slowly, squatted beside the man, and softly shouted: " dad."

The man who was not tall, wearing a black padded jacket, with gray hair, pushed his glasses to look at his son, and asked, "Who are you?" There was a trace of intimacy with this "stranger" he was familiar with. There is no other emotion besides the panic that I don't want to hide.

"I'm Xiaoyuan." Wei Jiangyuan looked up at his father.

"Don't be kidding, my Xiaoyuan hasn't finished school yet, I have to wait for him here, look at how late it is."

Wei Jiangyuan couldn't hold back anymore, he hugged his father vigorously, and in the man's struggle, he forced himself into that generous embrace, and kept repeating: "Father, I am Xiaoyuan."

Gong Yuechao stood, feeling for the first time that he was so powerless, he was powerless to change the relationship status of his friends, he could only watch helplessly as they drifted away due to this reason...

On the way back, the man fell asleep in the back of the car, defenseless like a child. Wei Jiangyuan made a round of phone calls to report that he was safe, and finally turned around at a red light to look at his father.

"Mr. Gong, I want to ask you one thing."

"what?"

"Don't tell Yusheng about my father's affairs. I don't want him to know that I'm in such a mess."

Gong Yuechao didn't want to agree, because he felt that this kind of thing could be resisted by two people, so he asked him: "Then do you still like him? Is it just the relationship after so many years?"

Wei Jiangyuan was silent for a while, lowered his head, and said in a low voice, "It's useless to like it. As far as my family is concerned, I can't change anything."

Gong Yuechao was speechless.

Young people don't want to leave room for this relationship and shoulder the burden and responsibility of the family on their shoulders.The current situation is that he can't go to Suijiang, and Chen Yusheng will definitely not come to Shanghai because of him.

People who like each other can't be together, so it's better to end it and have nothing to do with each other.

"In this way, he can quickly forget about me and find someone new to accompany him." The red light turned green, and Wei Jiangyuan drove his car into the night ahead. "There are many people who are better than me. I am sorry for him."