crown you

Chapter 44
1
Shi Yin endured desperately in the car.

I used to love someone so much, and said that if we separated, it would be the difference between killing her and making her alive. Now I walk quietly, without giving him a single greeting or a look, and abandoning him by the roadside like a child. My love is over as soon as it is over, the car roars all the way, and that's it.

It turns out that losing someone is harder than being lost.

Zhi Ai received a text message from Alan asking her where she was.

Shi Yin told her to turn off the phone.

The car had been driving on the dark road for an hour, and Zhi Ai hesitated for a long time before she was willing to turn it off. At this time, another text message was sent.

She looked at it for a long time, then called softly: "Sister..."

Shi Yin looked at her in the rearview mirror with red eyes.

"They said that Xi Wenle had a car accident."

Feeling the driver's speed slowing down, Shi Yin quickly replied: "Don't worry, that's his trick."

Zhi Ai stopped talking, the driver glanced at her a few times, Shi Yin was angry: "Concentrate on driving, hurry up!"

"Where do you want to go?"

"Keep going straight, I didn't say the direction and just drove forward!"

"Calm down." Zhi Ai said.

As soon as she said these three words, Xi Wenle's hoarse voice rushed into her mind, and Shi Yin pressed her forehead and shook her head.

There was another text notification sound, Zhi Ai looked down, and Shi Yin looked at her from the rearview mirror again.

"Alan sent me the address of the hospital and he's in that hospital," she said.

"Turn off the phone."

"Maybe he really..."

"Impossible," said Shi Yin biting the words, "I know him, he can do such a thing as making Alan send false news."

Later, when no one spoke, Zhi Ai turned off her cell phone, and the car kept driving until dawn, Shi Yin stared at the car in a daze, and Zhi Ai fell asleep.

The morning light was slightly visible in the sky, and the sea was along the road. The driver asked, "Do you want to confirm your destination?"

She took a breath and looked out the window: "No, you just keep driving."

The car drove along the coastal road, and passed the section where Xi Wenle and Xi Wenle once kissed passionately in the car. The sea wind was more piercing than that time, and the sea surface was also darker than then.

——Can you let Zhi Ai go?

- don't let go.

——If we are not husband and wife, we must not be friends, right?

--right.

Then we'll never see each other again.

The driver later drove the car to the most fringe area of ​​the city, where Shi Yin rented a low-cost apartment with three bedrooms and one living room in the coastal area there that morning, and placed himself and Zhi Ai temporarily.

To guard against Xi Wenle, you can't stay in the city center, you can't live in crowded places, and you can't take a plane to other cities. You can only settle in the most low-key and ordinary corner of the city without showing a trace, and then do it for half a month. Planning to go out.

This half month is the coldest month of the year, with heavy snow and hailstorms, and the winter sea seen from the balcony of the house is lifeless, without any color that attracts people to live.

Shi Yin didn't speak more than three sentences in the first week of her arrival. She spent the day sleeping, and at night she was insomnia and dazed, and she rarely communicated with Zhi Ai.This state continued until half a month later in the evening, when she came back from the canteen downstairs, carrying a bag of canned beer in her hand.

Zhi Ai was packing up the newly bought winter clothes. When she left the villa in a hurry, she only packed four or five pieces of clothes. Food and books, and a set of kitchen utensils for Shi Yin.

Shi Yin put the shopping bag on the dining table in the small hall and said, "Return the kitchen utensils."

Zhi Ai was putting the food into the cabinet, looking sideways at her.

"We are no longer in the previous economic situation. Spend as little as possible on me. There are old ones in the kitchen that can be used. Return the one you bought."

"Sister, you have always..."

"I don't have the high demands I used to have."

Zhi Ai didn't speak, and continued to put food in the cabinet, and it took a long time before she replied, "En."

At night, Shiyin took out the beer again, and she set up a small table in the middle of the bedroom where she and Zhi Ai slept together, put the beer on it, and pulled the tab.

Sitting across the table, Zhi Ai hesitated to speak, Shi Yin pulled the two tabs open, gave one can to her and the other to herself, and said, "Don't worry, I just bought two cans, just finish drinking it." No, no addiction."

After speaking, he raised his beer and looked at Zhi Ai: "Respect me... an independent future."

Zhi Ai took the can in front of her, Shi Yin touched her lightly, and then drank with her eyes closed, Zhi Ai watched her drink a third of the beer in one gulp.

It seems that he has really decided to come out of the shadows.

Zhi Ai took a sip, and Shi Yin put the half-drunk beer can on the table. It was cold and windy outside, and the glass of the door connected to the balcony was struck by the air-conditioning pipe.

"It's really noisy." Zhi Ai said.

Shi Yin said, "Ask Kanxi Dodge if he has the ability to help you with the transfer procedures quietly."

The topic came up suddenly, and the sound of the air-conditioning pipe seemed to be quieter. Zhi Ai caught the point and asked: "Sister, is it only mine? Not yours?"

"It's too eye-catching to do mine, but you have to study, you have to get a degree to gain a foothold, and you will have the capital to do things in the future."

Faintly hearing the meaning in her words, Zhi Ai reached out to shake her hand: "Then what about yours? Sister."

"I'm working."

Shi Yin spoke calmly, and Zhi Ai asked: "You don't want to go to university anymore, don't you need a degree?"

"How can I still go to school? I'm almost ready for you. This way, you don't have to be confused after graduation. I'll help you accumulate social experience directly."

"Sister, your grades in professional courses are higher than mine."

"I earn more than you."

Zhi Ai was at a loss for words for a moment, but Shi Yin shook her hand instead: "That's it."

A life decision was made quietly like this, and just as the words fell, the air conditioner on the top suddenly let out a sound of deflation, and the heating supply stopped.

Air conditioning is broken.

It happened to be broken at this time, the coldest time of the year, Shi Yin got up to pack the beer cans, and Zhi Ai said, "I'll go to the landlord."

"Go with you."

The landlord lived on the upper floor, Shi Yin and Zhi Ai put on their coats and came to the door, knocked twice, but there was no movement.It was already cold outside the building, and it was even cooler in the corridor. After standing for half a minute, my hands and feet were completely frozen. Shi Yin knocked on the door again: "Mrs. Jia?"

There was still no movement, she looked at the time, it was 09:30 in the evening, people in the suburbs went to bed early, and the landlord's family was probably asleep, but when she looked down, she saw the crack in the door with light, Shiyin sighed: " Mrs. Jia, the air conditioner in our bedroom is broken, can your husband take a look for us?"

The door next door was opened, and the light came into the corridor. The woman half-wrapped in the quilt poked her head out to remind: "Hey, little girl, please speak softly. My daughter just finished her homework and was woken up. My husband works night shift. Okay? Take it easy, your landlady usually goes to bed at 08:30, don’t look for it if you can’t find it after yelling a few times, and look for it tomorrow during the day.”

"Our heating is out, think tonight..."

"It doesn't matter if the heating is bad, put on a few more quilts, it's too late, little girl, let the young people get over it."

The landlord refused to open the door, and was advised by the neighbor, Shi Yin and Zhi Ai had nothing to say, they were about to leave when the neighbor said, "Wait a minute."

After waiting for half a minute, I saw the woman bring out a thick quilt from her house: "Here, I think you two are quite delicate and afraid of the cold, right? I'm sorry to ask you not to fix the air conditioner tonight, but I will lend you one." Cover with a quilt, is this okay?"

"……thanks."

In the end, the heating was not repaired, so I brought a quilt back.The door was closed but it was still cold, even colder than in the corridor just now. Zhi Ai found the reason when she entered the bedroom. The upper right corner of the glass door leading to the balcony was hit by an air-conditioning pipe, and the wind was rumbling through the hole and crack The earth poured in, filling the whole room with northwest wind.

Shiyin rummaged through the cabinet and found transparent glue to stick the gap. It was not so tight, and the side of her palm was scratched by quickly rubbing the glass crack. She fixed the window without saying a word before coming back to wipe the wound. Give her the tissue.

"Zhi Ai," she said after treating the wound, after a long silence, "maybe we are really too delicate."

Zhi Ai didn't speak, because of some inexplicable sadness at this time, she didn't know what to say.

That night, the room had no heating and was poured with cold wind. No matter how thick the quilt was, it was only weight but no warmth. Shi Yin closed her eyes and hugged Zhi Ai in her arms, and the two absorbed each other's warmth.

I fell asleep in the cold until early morning.

2
After leaving the villa by the lake, the source of income was suddenly cut off. Parents left one after another. Grandpa and grandmother were dragged down by debts when they were young. No one can rely on their relatives who have not been in touch for so long. Even Mumu's funeral Shi Yin and Zhi Ai are really the only two people in this world who depend on each other. She didn't call Captain Mu Xi, and the rest of her life depends entirely on self-improvement.

Another half month passed, and the school was about to start. Xi Wenle didn't move at all, but Shiyin received a call from Mr. Bai.

She didn't know how Mr. Bai got her new mobile phone number, and she recognized his voice as soon as she connected, so she said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Xi, I didn't do what you expected. I'm a little bit concerned about Wen Bofu's matter." I can’t help you at all, and I’m afraid I won’t help you in the future.”

"Oh," Mr. Bai replied, "it's okay, Bo Fu has already returned."

After hesitating for a while, he asked, "Did he escape by himself?"

"Ale sent him over."

"Oh." Shi Yin responded softly.

Then there was no conversation between the two ends of the phone for a long time, and she didn't know whether to hang up, but when she was about to hang up, Mr. Bai said, "Shiyin, I'm sorry to make you sacrifice your feelings to rescue my son."

"I didn't really do anything."

"Ale is influenced by you."

"Mr. Xi, you don't need to say such a thing, I didn't mean to help you," Shi Yin paused, "Do you mind if I ask you a question?"

"You said."

"Which of the two sons is more important in your heart? Why do you have the idea of ​​giving Wen Bofu your property?"

Mr. Bai smiled: "I never had the idea of ​​giving property to anyone other than Ah Le, Shi Yin, what I gave him was decisive judgment and wise decision-making ability, which he has learned from me since he was a child. I took it here, and now I have finished it, and the property is a gift of adulthood left to him by his mother. I only keep it for the time being, and it is absolutely impossible to move it without permission. The incident you heard is just a misrepresentation. "

"What about the status?"

"A Le is very good, because he has a very good mother, everything he has now matches him, I don't have to worry about him. And Bo Fu, when his body is hurt, I have to be a father to him Responsibility."

"I understand Mr. Xi, I have no doubts." She said at the end, and said softly, "At least I know that you are not taking sides with anyone, and I feel a little better."

"Shi Yin," he continued, "I want to help you and your sister to study, will you accept it?"

She listened to it, but before she could speak, Mr. Bai said later, "It's not a free donation. How about returning the tuition fee to me in installments after you graduate and work?"

Mr. Bai was very considerate and took care of Shi Yin's self-esteem and temper. This condition was also very attractive. It sounded like he was helping Wen Bofu to solve her problems in order to thank Wen Bofu, but he really didn't want to rely on Xi Wenle any more. After hesitating for a long time, she replied: "Mr. Xi, I want you to do me a favor. Can you help my sister complete the transfer procedures without anyone knowing? For the rest of our lives, we can Solve it by yourself, that's all I want, thank you."

Zhi Ai's delay in completing the transfer procedures was quickly completed two or three days after asking Mr. Bai. Zhi Ai was transferred to a key university near the coast. The major was still the same, and there was no need to wait for any troublesome procedures. Not to mention leaving files and records in the main school—this way, no one will know where she disappeared.

They completely disappeared in the world that Xi Wenle could control.

3
Zhi Ai applied for a scholarship at the university, and Shi Yin found a temporary job in the cafeteria of the university where Zhi Ai was studying before finding a formal job window, eighty a day.

She was good-looking, and within a week, there were regular diners in front of the table she served, mostly boys, and some girls from the art department of the school. They wanted her to be the heroine in their graduation works.

"We paid for it," they said.

"Will it be posted online?"

"Yes, it will be posted online after the filming is completed."

Shi Yin recorded the dishes they ordered, and shook his head: "Find someone else, I can't act."

"You are very photogenic!"

Shi Yin kept smiling lightly, still shaking his head.

At the end of February, the cold has not subsided, and it has been snowing.

Soon, boys who pursued her sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

No one in this university now knows who she is or who she once belonged to. They only know that she is the same age as them, has no relationship, has a bad family background, has a quiet personality, has a younger sister who receives a scholarship, and that both sisters are not ordinary beautiful. .

At the beginning, when someone invited her to a party, or to sing K, or watch a movie, she shook her head.Someone thought of some literary tricks, wrote songs for her, collected 520 praises from passers-by for her, or wrote their own heptadic poems on the guest book in the cafeteria, and implicitly invited her to read a book or listen to a book for an afternoon. She didn't appreciate a niche concert.

Later, someone thought he had found the way, and put a few hundred yuan folded into a rose shape into her pocket at the checkout, and said, "Tip."

Among all the suitors, they are the ones who tend to be from rich families, and they are also the ones who are awake during the day just to pick up girls. Shi Yin mostly doesn't talk to them. That time, he took a few hundred yuan out of his pocket and put them on the table. , Tell them: "The canteen stipulates that tipping is not allowed."

"Take it, that girl also took it last time."

There was a table of girls and several tables of boys watching, Shi Yin went back to the kitchen and called another aunt to take charge of that table.

There was a work-study female student working with Shi Yin in the cafeteria, named Bai Li. After this happened, she asked Shi Yin curiously: "Do you know Luo Zihao's group?"

"What Hao?"

"Luo Zihao, the guy who tipped you just now is a bit handsome."

"I don't know." Shi Yin handed the list to the kitchen and dealt with it casually.

(End of this chapter)