Beijing.

After Du Cheng and Chu divorced, I came here directly. It was only more than three months since I left last time. I never thought I would return to this jungle wrapped in steel and concrete so soon.

But I have to come here again.

Because of Meng Yang.

There are some things that Du Cheng can't tell me, so I have to ask him personally. After all, we used to be very good friends. We got drunk together in Sijiu City, and then talked about our dreams on Chang'an Street, hoping that one day we could have great luck and settled here.

later......

What happened later has become a story.

Qincheng Prison.

Meng Yang was detained here.

Du Cheng said that he was sentenced to three years. As usual, three years in prison should not be a serious crime, and there is no reason to be detained in this "famous" prison.

I arrived here in the afternoon with doubts along the way.

......

After passing the process of applying for prison visits, I saw Meng Yang through a thick layer of glass. I haven't seen him for a long time. He lost a lot of weight, had a round buzz cut, his face was a kind of sick white, and the stubble on his chin made him look very sloppy. I had never seen this on Meng Yang before.

We met each other, and after a moment of silence, we picked up the phone at the same time.

"You look bad," I said.

"Not many people who come here can be in good condition." He smiled self-deprecatingly.

"Yozi, what happened?"

Meng Yang did not answer my question, but instead asked, "Are you here to condemn me from a moral level? Or just come over and see how I am in a down-and-out manner?"

"I'm so unbearable?"

"Yes." Meng Yang shook his head again. "Actually, it's me that is unbearable. If we two turn around, I will definitely do this, but I won't show anything on my face."

As he said that, he pinched his face, "I don't know when, when I face you, I put on a mask, and I can't even take off my mask."

"Why? We are not enemies."

"Yes, why bother... To be honest, I don't know why... When we were together in Leping, I regarded you as a competitor."

"Don't look at me like this." Meng Yang grinned a curve and continued, "It's just that Lao Wang is biased and insisted on accepting you as his disciple. But, if you ask yourself, he gave me a lot of resources at the beginning, but I just couldn't help but be jealous of you."

"Later I left." I spoke at the right time, "After I left, you quickly took over my original case. Lao Wang really valued you."

"That's different, I'm not pursuing this."

"Yozi..."

"It's better to call me my name. This title makes me feel guilty."

"Okay, Mengyang."

I called out, pondered for a moment, and asked him: "Why did you lie to me in that case of Li Zheng, and why did you find someone..."

"The person was found by Sun Linhai, the old guy. As for lying to you, it's not for money?...Do you think I want to do something that goes against morality? But how many people are moral? In addition, at that time, my mother had some physical problems and needed surgery."

"You can tell me."

"Tell me? Chen Mo, ask yourself, is it useful to tell you?"

"...... Sure, even if there isn't, isn't there still Lao Wang?"

"I, Meng Yang, just want to rely on myself."

Meng Yang interrupted me, the stubbornness in my eyes was like a substantial light, "I rely on myself to take the exam from a barren village, and I rely on myself for four years of college scholarship... I am still relying on myself to join Leping, stay there, and make a name for myself... Because I know that in this world, no one except my parents are reliable.

But my parents are farmers facing the loess and facing the sky. They can’t give me any favorable resources, so I can only rely on myself. Fortunately, I did it and did it very well."

Extreme selfishness or extreme inferiority?

I can't see through Meng Yang's ideas, because in this regard, I am completely opposite to him. The fact that I can achieve the current results are all the help of my friends. It can be said that without those friends, without Tong Xue and Zhang Yao, I, Chen Mo, would still achieve nothing.

Perhaps, this is the essential difference between me and Meng Yang.

After letting out a sigh of relief, I finally said to Meng Yang: "So, what you call relying on yourself is like now? ...I know this evaluation is wrong, but I have to say that, Yoko, you still have friends."

"I don't regret it, let alone, it's worth it to spend these three years in exchange for a lifetime in Beijing."

“…”

"If you have too much, I won't tell you. It's not that I don't trust you, but that I'm telling you, it's not good for you." Meng Yang smiled, very bright and crazy, "Chen Mo, thank you for thinking about me, and thank you for coming to see me. In fact, you have known some things for a long time, but you just don't want to believe them.

The text message is mine, because I am jealous of your luck and I am also jealous of the girl you are willing to fight with in the city of Beijing; Li Zheng's case was when I was with Sun Lin and finally got money from his conscience. If you want me to apologize, I can only say sorry to you."

"Don't talk about these things, from your point of view, you are not wrong, what is wrong is life."

Let’s go through those things that have been gone.

Even then, I was hurt.

But, what is wrong with him?

As he said, in this realistic and cruel world, everything depends on himself. This does not mean that I forgive him or agree with his actions.

Everyone has his own way, and I am not him anyway.

"Life is right, fate is fair."

"It's really rare, you still have this kind of thought."

Meng Yang said lightly: "This is what I have figured out here in the past few months. Do you believe it?"

"letter."

"Idiot, you are still the same Chen Mo. I believe everything I say."

"Because you are my brother."

"Are we still brothers?"

"We are brothers."

From the moment you decided to help me, you still treat me as a brother in your heart.

I didn't tell Meng Yang this sentence. I thought he knew what I mean.

......

The city of Beijing has left many people and left many people.

Meng Yang and I are both one of these people. We were crazy about our dreams, and we were also confused about the future. In the end, we took two completely opposite paths, which had nothing to do with life or destiny, but only with our own choices.

Standing outside the iron gate of Qincheng Prison, I couldn't help but look back.

Before hanging up the phone, Meng Yang said to me: "Mo'er, wait for my buddy for three years. In three years, I will see you in the old place."
Chapter completed!