Extra: I miss you, do you know? 04
It's another rainy day.
I remember it was the same weather when I watched her walk into the prison gate. I held an umbrella and watched her walk in step by step. The heavy iron door slammed shut, isolating her from everything in the outside world.
After thirteen years, I finally waited for this day, the day when Li Wei stood in the sun again.
Not far from me, there was another person waiting like me.
When he was nineteen, Ji Yusheng told me that he had never thought that this was the first time in his life that he would truly like someone and wanted to have a relationship, but before he could even talk about it, the ending would be so grand and tragic. It was only thirteen years, wasn't it? He, Ji Yusheng, was nineteen years old now, and he could afford to wait. If the person in the story really dared to go crazy or die, he would never believe in love again.
At that time, I thought that this was the determination of a young man. Maybe he would not be able to hold on for less than five years, let alone thirteen years. But thirteen years later, I saw him here. He was holding an umbrella, standing straight, and his eyes were fixed on the direction of the gate. He never moved away.
"Ji Yusheng." I called his name and walked to his side.
He shuddered, turned stiffly and looked at me, and said in a trembling voice: "Ai Ye, it's been thirteen years." A grown man was trembling in front of me. I could see the tears he was trying hard to hold back, and I could also think of the sadness he had felt over the years.
"Bang." Two prison guards slowly opened the door. With the sound of the pulley rolling, Li Wei in a white sweatshirt walked out. With every step she took , my eyes became more sore.
The moment he saw her, Ji Yusheng rushed forward like crazy. How could he not be excited when the girl he had been waiting for for more than ten years appeared in front of him? But just as he approached, his steps suddenly stopped, and time seemed to stand still at that moment.
The rain hit the umbrella with a muffled "tapping" sound. From the moment Li Wei came out, her eyes were always on me, without the slightest deviation.
I went over to help her block the rain, and we passed by Ji Yusheng.
"Li Wei——" Ji Yusheng behind him shouted heartbreakingly.
We didn't look back and didn't stop.
"Ai Ye, it's so cold outside..." After getting in the car, she refused to wipe her hair with the towel I handed over. "But, for the first time in thirteen years, I feel like I'm alive, not a zombie."
"I'll take you to a place to welcome you." I drove her to the bar, opened the door, and saw a charcoal brazier blocking the door. Behind the brazier were smiling faces that she was very familiar with.
Li Wei stared at me blankly, then looked at the people in the bar, tears rolling down her cheeks: "Ai Ye, thank you, thank you for not letting them continue to fight and kill on the streets, thank you for giving them a home."
Xiaoba took the lead and shouted: "Hello, Sister Wei!"
In the second year of my business, with the help of Shen Anzhi, I found Xiaoba and most of Li Wei's former brothers, and then opened this bar. In addition to wanting them to have a place to settle down, more importantly, I wanted to give Li Wei a home.
"Sister Wei." Xiaoba came over, pulled Li Wei across the brazier, sprinkled grapefruit leaf water on her, and said, "Welcome home."
The table was full of food and wine, and full of people, just like in the past, everyone was eating and drinking, talking about things around them. They wanted to tell Li Wei everything that had happened in the past thirteen years, their love, their marriage, their children, they... have been waiting for their sister Wei to come back...
Li Wei lowered her head, holding the bowl in one hand and shoveling rice into her mouth with the other. I was the closest to her and could see her tears falling and her trembling shoulders.
After dinner, Xiaoba and his friends left early to let Li Wei have a good rest, and suddenly there were only two of us left in the bar.
Li Wei pulled me out of the door, the rain hitting our bodies, wet and sticky. She spun around in the rain like a child, laughing and shouting, "Ye Zi, it's so good to be alive... It's so good to be alive..."
"Yes, it's great to be alive. It's great to see you running and laughing safely." I ran into the rain, circled around with her and laughed. It didn't matter even if I would be scolded by Shen Anzhi tomorrow.
The raindrops fell one by one, and a string deep in my memory was plucked by the raindrops. When we were young, when we were a group of three, we also laughed wildly in the rain like this.
When was it? Why were there three people? I frowned, and suddenly found that my memory was blurred. I could only see a white figure, but I couldn't see the person's appearance clearly, and I couldn't even remember her name.
It seemed as if a nerve had been severed.
"Leaf, Li Wei."
A woman in white was sitting in a wheelchair and was pushed in front of us by an ordinary-looking man. The lost memories were restored a little when I saw that face.
Li Wei's smile froze on her face. She lowered her arms and clenched her fists. The anger she felt at being betrayed had not faded after thirteen years in prison. Instead, it had become even deeper.
"I know today is the day Li Wei is released from prison, so I brought a bottle of red wine to help her celebrate." Wang Meiwen bent down and took out a bottle of red wine from the bag at her feet and asked me carefully, "Can we have a drink together?"
"Ms. Wang, there's no need to drink this glass of wine. This is not the place for you to come." I pulled Li Wei to my side and held her clenched fist. "Li Wei and I have other things to do. Please go back."
"I'm sorry... I know I shouldn't be in this place. I also know you haven't wanted to see me all these years. I just wanted to come and apologize in person. I..." She moved down from the wheelchair with difficulty, and knelt down in front of us in a tragic way. The man behind her wanted to help her, but she stopped him.
I looked at Li Wei. She took a step forward expressionlessly and said to the person kneeling in front of her, "Okay, I forgive you."
Wang Meiwen: "Li Wei... don't be like this, I am here to sincerely apologize to you... I..."
Li Wei: "I know you are here to sincerely apologize to me! I said, I forgive you, please leave."
The man pushing the wheelchair finally couldn't help but put Wang Meiwen back on the wheelchair. He looked at us like we were enemies and asked loudly, "Why did you treat her like this? Do you know how much mental struggle she went through to apologize? Do you know how much pain she felt when she went out in this weather? She knelt down, why don't you forgive her?"
Hearing this question, I laughed, and as I laughed, tears started to flow. I repeated the key words in the man's words and pulled Li Wei, who wanted to rush forward, behind me: "Why? On what basis? What a saintly face, but why do I feel so disgusted? Mr. Saint Father, please tell me, is there any law that tells us that if we do something wrong, we will be forgiven as long as we apologize? Which law says that we must magnanimously forgive those who have hurt us?"
The man looked at me in disbelief for a long time, and finally said two words - cruel.
"Yes, I am very cruel, I admit it. Because my kindness towards this woman was exhausted thirteen years ago! She sent my best friend to prison, you know? If she had been a little more cruel back then, maybe I could only go to burn incense for Li Wei every Qingming Festival. Because of her unwillingness, Li Wei was imprisoned for thirteen years, and Li's mother couldn't stand the stimulation and went crazy, and finally had a car accident . Thirteen years, thirteen years and a life! Do you know how desperate it is for a nineteen-year-old girl to spend the best years of her life in prison? Do you know how tormented it is for me to wait outside the prison? Every year, every month, every day, I worry that she will be driven crazy, and when I go to see her next time, will she no longer remember me? And..."
Also, can I wait until she comes out alive?
“Anyway…” The man wanted to struggle.
"Since she's already out and she's not crazy, should we forgive her? Should we be generous and give the woman you love peace of mind? Let me tell you, it's impossible! I have already paid off what I owed her, and now, she owes us!" I looked at them and shouted hysterically the last sentence.
Thirteen years later, Mosquito stood up again. She had a man who loved her deeply and adopted a lovely little girl named Weiwei.
In fact, my hatred for her was buried when I buried Mother Li with my own hands, leaving behind our best memories.
I hope she is a happy woman. I hope she can see my determination and never have friends like Ai Ye and Li Wei again. I hope she can just live in her own little happiness.
I know I won't live much longer, and there will always be a thorn between Li Wei and her. In this case, why should I forgive her? Why should I let another person suffer for my death?
An umbrella was covering my head. I turned around and wanted to see who was coming, but my vision was blurred.
It felt like something in my head broke, the world was dark, and I only vaguely felt myself falling into an embrace with the familiar scent of cologne.
"Shen Anzhi... take me... away..."
Shen Anzhi, take me away and don’t let anyone know about my illness, please.
I think he understands it even without having to explain it clearly.
