Invade the World

   Chapter 264 Not every first love has a happy ending

   "How could things..." Xu Xiangyang muttered to himself in disbelief, "How could it develop to this point?"

  "Why did she do this?" Lin Xingjie's eyebrows were tightly curled, "She and you are obviously lovers--"

"who knows."

  Zhao Le let out a cold snort from his nose.

"It can only prove that I have never known her. This is the true face of this woman. When I was with her, I still felt that other people looked at her wearing colored glasses because they had never understood her difficult situation. I don’t know how she works hard to live, she doesn’t know how painful it is for her to live in such a family, and she even feels aggrieved about it..."

   "Think about it now, everything is because I was too young at that time. People like her who are willing to fall, should stay away!"

  Xu Xiangyang and Lin Xingjie stopped talking, just listened silently.

As he said, Zhao Le's emotions became agitated, and he complained a lot, until he vented all the anger in his heart, he sighed deeply, the whole person was like a deflated ball. He was generally discouraged, and continued speaking slightly tired.

"At first, she told me that she was borrowing money, saying that she had been thinking of ways, hoping to save enough funds for her to run away from home and go to another city to live a new life, and then as long as she accumulated a certain amount, she would be able to match the current situation. The environment that made her feel painful said goodbye."

  "At first, I looked at her pitifully and felt very sympathetic, so I borrowed it and gave her almost all the pocket money I saved on my hands..."

   "The result is just a drop in the bucket, right?"

  Sir, the squad leader said.

"Yeah. I didn't expect that she didn't think it was enough, she kept pestering me." The young man shook his head, "Where else can I go to make money? I can't steal my parents' money. I can't do this kind of thing. out."

  "That is to say, from then on, Chen Hongying and I were torn apart, and then it became a blackmail altogether."

   "Xiao Le, you can eat now!"

  The cry of the old lady came from the room. Teacher Zhao, who was sitting in the living room reading the newspaper, put down his reading glasses and walked towards the kitchen.

   "Let's stop here for this matter."

  Zhao Le patted his knees, got up from the chair, and prepared to go back to the room.

   "You guys come together too."

  He smiled as relaxed as possible and sent out invitations to the high school students.

"etc!"

  Xu Xiangyang couldn't help but stopped the other party. Compared with appetite, the most important thing at this time is to satisfy curiosity.

  He wants to know the results of these two people, and eagerly wants to hear the next story, even if the sad ending is already doomed.

"and after?"

   "Later..."

  Zhao Le stopped, looked up at the ceiling and thought about it.

"What happened later, even I found it a bit strange... Of course, I couldn't agree to Chen Hongying's request. I couldn't give in to threats or blackmail. I even planned to be dropped out of school. Thinking of what happened, Chen Hongying dropped out of school one day, and did not pester me anymore."

  "Have you never seen her since then?"

"Yes." Zhao Le nodded, "Listen to you, Chen Hongying has been missing since then, right? I don't know the specific situation. As I said before, since I didn't see her, I have been Relaxed, it is impossible to have this mindset to take care of her nosy."

  Xu Xiangyang and the girls looked at each other.

  It seems that the process and truth of the matter are already very clear.

Presumably when the two turned their faces, Zhao Le showed a different anxiety from the past. The two teachers noticed the strangeness of their children, and finally learned about the whole incident from Chen Hongying, and wanted to find this. Girl negotiating.

  And Chen Hongying woke up late at night and saw the parents of her ex-boyfriend who had been blackmailed standing by the bed, naturally thinking that they were here for revenge, afterwards...

  However, if you want to confirm this speculation, more precise evidence is needed.

  "After she left, my life finally returned to the right track. Study hard, make progress every day, and finally get admitted to a university." Zhao Le sighed, "My studies were not affected, so it is a blessing in misfortune."

   "I want to ask."

  At this time, Zhu Qingyue suddenly interrupted and asked.

   "Sister Chen’s change started when you first proposed to break up, right? Then why did you break up in the first place? Is there any conflict between the two of you?"

"Didn't I just say it?" Zhao Le shook his head, "because I found out that she and I weren't the same people at all. I still want to study hard, what does she do every day? I am idle and do not do business? Anyway, I can't go together. It's better to make a decision sooner. Doesn't the woman's later actions just prove that I was right?"

   "...That's it."

  Sir squad leader nodded noncommitantly, she was calm and did not speak any more.

  Until Teacher Sun called out again, Zhao Le quickly responded, and then sent out an invitation again with a smile.

"Let's go in."

  *

  Xu Xiangyang originally thought Xingjie would refuse, but she didn't.

  Because there are six people, a kitchen can't fit, so the round table can only be placed in the living room. After they sat down around the edge of the small table, he quietly glanced at the Rapunzel sitting beside him, and found that her expression was a little confused.

  He suddenly realized: Did Xingjie originally intend to wait for her to refuse?

  As a result, no one spoke, and it became a situation where everyone sat down to eat in silence.

He glanced at the squad leader on the left again, and found that Zhu Qingyue was serving the rice in the rice cooker for the two old people, and then after she picked up the chopsticks, she unceremoniously moved towards the plate of braised fish placed in the center of the table. .

  The old lady has cooked home-cooked dishes for decades. The craftsmanship is definitely not bad, but Xu Xiangyang’s mental state is a bit wrong. The delicious food tastes like chewing wax in his mouth, not the taste.

  After lunch, Xu Xiangyang helped clean up the dishes.

  He originally wanted to take this opportunity to find one of the two old people to confirm the truth, but he didn't expect the other party to take the initiative to tell the truth.

  Xu Xiangyang just put the washed dishes and chopsticks in the cupboard, and the old lady's arm was firmly grasped.

  She has a serious expression.

   "You asked me about Chen Hongying today."

"right."

  Xu Xiangyang shook the drops of water on his hand and glanced at the living room behind him. Teacher Zhao was still having a family relationship with his son, and the atmosphere was very lively. It seems that the other party came here without telling his wife.

  "How much do you know about her?"

   "Basically all know."

  Xu Xiangyang replied.

  "About her family background, about her later disappearance. She once had a relationship with Le Ge, I believe you may have heard of the teacher. There is also a crucial point..."

  He thought about it, and finally decided to speak out.

   "——She is dead now."

  The old lady stared at Xu Xiangyang in shock.

  "Would you like to talk to me?"

   he asked.

  "You and Teacher Zhao, have you heard about Chen Hongying and Le Ge a long time ago?"

"Yes." The other party nodded with a heavy expression, "I know she was asking Xiaole for money, and threatened him with the two of them. In fact, the girl took the initiative to tell us these words, and she said everything that threatened Xiaole. Say it to both of us."

   "Then she died?"

   "...This is our fault."

  The old man’s face is full of sadness.

After   , Mr. Sun’s narration was exactly the same as their guess. After listening to Chen Hongying's words, the old couple was shocked and began to think about what to do.

   is different from the stubborn son. In order not to affect Zhao Le's study and future, they have the idea of ​​taking money to eliminate disasters and calming things down.

  Of course, no matter what, they still have to find a way to talk to Chen Hongying, so the old couple waited at home anxiously while hiding the word from their son.

  Wait and wait, finally one day, the couple waited until the night when Chen Hongying returned to the rooftop room, so they took the initiative to find the door.

  And just in this dark night of wind and rain, a tragedy happened.

   "It has nothing to do with Xiao Le, he doesn't know anything about it."

  At the end, she has not forgotten to eagerly excuse her son.

"If you are all true, then this is just an accident, no wonder you. Of course, you still did something wrong," Xu Xiangyang's tone is very sincere, even though he is an elder, he still has to say what he should say, "then. After this happened, you chose to hide it."

  The old man was silent for a moment, and sighed deeply, his appearance seemed to be a few years old again, and the wrinkles on his face looked deeper.

"I know this is wrong, but at that time we were afraid that after the incident was exposed, the impact would be very bad, and maybe... it might be treated as a prisoner. At that time, Little Lego was in his third year, and it was at the most critical moment of preparing for the college entrance examination. Neither my wife nor I want him to be affected."

   "Indeed, I can understand the two elders' worries."

  Not everyone can have his retrospective memory ability. But Xu Xiangyang's attitude is still very clear:

"However, concealing the death of the deceased from others is by no means a wise choice. Have you not considered the feelings of the deceased's relatives and friends? Chen Hongying's family has been searching for the girl's whereabouts and is repeatedly disappointed. In the process, how anxious and sad they should be. In addition, it is not a good thing for a dead person like this to not enter the soil for safety. To be more serious, it can be said to be insulting the corpse. Nothing will happen in the future. good……"

  Xu Xiangyang deliberately lowered his voice, and then saw the guilt in the eyes of the old lady from the beginning to the panic and fear later, he knew that he was right.

The reason why the old man took the initiative to tell the truth, apart from the temptation of the squad leader, made her feel uneasy and realized that the truth might have been exposed; another reason was that she was frightened by the evil spirits in the kitchen the night before. , I thought it was Chen Hongying's wronged soul.

  Although in a sense, the mechanism of evil spirits' actions can indeed be understood in this way.

  "Chen Hongying...that girl, she, she now..."

  The old lady's voice trembled. Speaking the truth, or even remembering that terrible night, was a big challenge for her.

On that stormy night, when the couple saw that Chen Hongying fell to death by accident, how panicked the two were, and what complicated psychological struggles did they have to do before they finally came to the conclusion that they wanted to throw the corpse into the water tank. And the conclusion of the destruction...

  All these words are another story. It is difficult for Xu Xiangyang to guess, and there is no need to guess.

   "She is on the rooftop now."

  Speaking, the old man stretched out his thin fingers and pointed upwards.

  ……

  After coming out of the kitchen, a few people sat or stood, chatting for a while in the living room, Xu Xiangyang finally could not sit still, and took the initiative to say goodbye to the family.

  Lin Xingjie breathed a sigh of relief, the whole figure felt freedom as if he had just been released from prison, and followed him lightly.

  The squad leader smiled as always, and politely bid farewell to Zhao Le and the others, and gently closed the iron door.

"boom".

  All the storms of the past few days have been blocked behind this door.

  *

  After the trio walked out the door, they did not go to the stairs immediately, but stopped in the corridor where the tenants came and went.

  The sun falling from the eaves was warm and comfortable. The boys and girls put their arms on the railings in a tacit understanding and looked down or forward. No one spoke for a while.

   Standing in the middle of Xu Xiangyang, no matter if he is going to the left or right, he can see the flying lacquered black hair in his field of vision.

  At this time, he heard Lin Xingjie speak softly.

  "If...if Zhao Le didn't break up with Chen Hongying, would things be different..."

  Her voice was like a dream, floating as if she was completely weightless, and she ran away as soon as she was blown by the wind. Halfway through the conversation, the girl shook her head.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't say such things. In any case, the wrong person is Chen Hongying, and no matter how loving couples, it is normal to break up, it is wrong to stay forcibly, I...I shouldn't think like this ."

"maybe."

  Xu Xiangyang said.

  Perhaps, the breakup proposed by her boyfriend, for Chen Hongying at the time, happened to be the last straw that crushed her.

  That’s why she made up her mind to leave the city. She needed money, and she didn’t even do anything to achieve this goal.

  Of course, they can go deep into the truth, but they can’t really understand the person’s thoughts. The fickle hearts behind all this are no longer known.

  All they can know is that things have become irreparable...

   "Wow, look, there is a dandelion flying up! There turned out to be a seed next to the patio downstairs."

  Sir squad leader suddenly shouted.

"Where?"

   "There! Ah, flew away..."

  The girl’s voice sounded a bit regretful.

  Xu Xiangyang narrowed his eyes and looked carefully in the blazing sun, but in the end he found nothing.

  The wind is so strong, the little pompon has been blown away long ago and I don’t know where it went.

  The lost dandelion, once it blooms and flies into the sky, it will never be seen again, just like not every first love has a good ending...

   "Look!"

   Just as Xu Xiangyang had such a rare thought of hurting the spring and sad autumn, he was patted twice on the shoulder. Turning his head, he found that Rapunzel was squeezing one hand tightly, and the fluff of dandelion appeared from the inside.

  "——I caught it."

   Lin Xingjie shook her white and tender fist towards herself, and the smile that bloomed for a moment was bright and dazzling.

  Xu Xiangyang was amused and couldn't help but grabbed her little hand and held it firmly in the palm of her hand.

  Yes, maybe not every first love has a happy ending, but...

   Theirs, there must be.

  　 Tanabata Special! ...Well no, it just happened to be written.

  　　 also recommend a new book "My Wife is a Paper Man", the introduction: "This is a book for taking a wife."

  (End of this chapter)