I Just Came to Borrow a Light Chapter 16:

It was past nine o'clock when Lin Chengbu drove away from Shenqiao. The night in the countryside was extraordinarily dark, and the stars in the sky were densely lit.

When the car drove to Xiaojiang Town, it was already dark all around, and there was no nightlife in the town. There were people singing open-air karaoke in the town square, but it was all closed at nine o'clock.

Lin Chengbu parked the car on the side of the empty road and lit a cigarette.

It's kind of like a dream, I'm your boyfriend, and that kiss.

And the meal that followed, although there was not much talk, but nothing happened. The cake was not delicious, it was too sweet, and there was a lot of big talk. I kept eating and talking, but everything was comfortable.

After dinner, Yuan Wu didn't say anything, and Lin Chengbu didn't say anything. After he took the big head back to his boat, Lin Chengbu sat with Yuan Wu in the stern of the boat.

Yuan Wu said you should go back, and he drove out.

It's like a dream.

Lin Chengbu leaned on the seat and looked at the starry sky outside the window. Xiaojiang Town was as quiet as a barren town, making people feel that walking forward, through the silence and darkness, is another world.

He fought with Yuan Wu in this world, kissed and ate a meal, and when he returned to another world, he would return to reality as if he had woken up from a dream.

A little reluctant.

Lin Cheng took a long sigh, took out the cigarette and restarted the car.

When the car drove to the outskirts of the city, he stopped the car at a random on-street parking space, and called Jiang Chengyu: "Are you there yet?"

"Going to the east gate of the building materials market," Jiang Chengyu said vaguely, probably smoking a cigarette, "Where are you?"

"Just wait for me at the east gate, I'll walk over, two minutes." Lin Chengbu said.

Before he came out, he called Jiang Chengyu and asked him to drive over to pick him up. Jiang Chengyu was in the bar at the time, and he was quite reluctant. Lin Chengbu felt that he might have destroyed the prelude to his appointment.

"You look good." After getting into the car, Jiang Chengyu looked at him and said with a smile.

"Is that so?" Lin Chengbu glanced at the car window, but couldn't see his face.

"How much did you drink? You want me to pick it up." Jiang Chengyu turned the car around and drove into the city.

"Two bottles of beer." Lin Chengbu said.

"Fuck," Jiang Chengyu was amused, "Drinked two bottles after calling me all the way? You didn't even taste it."

"Is it delaying your business?" Lin Chengbu gave him a sideways glance.

"No," Jiang Chengyu said, "I don't think I'm in the mood to do the right thing when I hear that you are long and short all day."

"I didn't even talk to you about my long and short stories," Lin Chengbu leaned on the seat, "Is this pot on my back?"

Jiang Chengyu smiled: "How was your birthday today?"

"It's okay." Lin Chengbu thought about this night, and suddenly he was in a very good mood, feeling that he should indeed be looking good.

"Can you spend your birthday with me next month?" Jiang Chengyu asked, "Anyway, you have already passed by Yuanwu, and you don't dare to tell him that you passed it again."

"I won't be alone with you." Lin Chengbu said.

"Did I say I want to be alone with you? To be honest, I'm really bothered to be alone with you, it's hard to serve you," Jiang Chengyu clicked, "Call Yang Hui and the others to play. "

"Okay." Lin Chengbu smiled.

Jiang Chengyu took him downstairs. When he got off the bus, Jiang Chengyu stopped him: "I'll remind you."

"What?" Lin Chengbu looked at him.

"I feel like you're in a bit of a good mood today, maybe you've done something," Jiang Chengyu said. "If one day he's not in this state...you should be careful not to screw it up."

Lin Chengbu was silent for a while: "I know."

Jiang Chengyu's words are right, this is also the source of the unease that he wrapped in excitement and happiness all night.

Although Yuan Wu cannot be said to have amnesia, he does "don't remember" the past.

If one day he returns to his normal state, what he has now will become unknown.

He returned home, fell on the sofa and stared at the TV that was not on.

How should this measure be handled?

He hasn't been to Shenqiao for the past two days. He has to go to work, and there will be a lot of things to do on the weekend. Besides, he hasn't been back to see his parents for a long time. He has to go back to lead him to death.

He will be looking forward to it when his phone rings in the past two days. No matter what the consequences are, he has already forcibly detained the person of "Yuan Wu's boyfriend" on himself. If I can accept this setting, I hope he suddenly gets through a certain line to call himself.

But the phone rang many times, none of which was Yuanwu.

This is actually not surprising. After Lin Chengbu took the phone to Yuan Wu, he never saw the phone again. He didn't know whether Yuan Wu hid it or threw it away.

And he didn't dare to fight over, for fear that something too sudden would frighten Yuan Wu.

This tangle has caught up with the Chinese knot.

Lin Chengbu picked the day when Lin Huiyu was away and went home, his parents would definitely scold him, and with Lin Huiyu, he was afraid he couldn't handle it.

"I don't go home for a few months. I don't know what you are doing." Sure enough, as soon as the meal was over, the mother started. "My son has married his daughter-in-law before he forgot about his mother. Our son is very good, and the daughter-in-law can forget her mother if she doesn't marry."

"I'm busy." Lin Chengbu took the TV remote and pressed it.

"What are you doing, you are a cook." Dad said on the side.

"The cook is also busy, I have to study the recipe." Lin Chengbu smiled.

"Come on," Mom sighed, "Don't think that if we don't say it, you just fool us every time we succeed. In fact, the success rate is 0. Do you know that the thief knows?"

Lin Chengbu twitched the corners of his mouth and didn't say a word. It took him a long time to realize what this thief mom was.

"It's not that I told you, you're just a bit of a nerd." Mom looked at him. "Just do things that normal people don't do."

"You don't care about the youth." Lin Chengbu said.

"Don't bully your parents for not reading enough books!" Mom raised her voice, "Besides, you're not a teenager! With such a big face, I'm too embarrassed to say that I'm still a teenager!"

Lin Chengbu continued to be silent.

"You're wandering around about that person every day, and I just want to ask you if this thing is over yet?" Mom started to get a little angry.

"No." Lin Chengbu said.

"You're just hooked up with this, aren't you?" Mom stared at him.

"I'm idle anyway," Lin Chengbu said, "I don't have anything else to do."

"How long are you going to be free?" Mom pointed at him.

"I guess I've been busy all my life." Lin Chengbu replied.

"Are you making it your mission to **** off your dad and me?" Mom picked up the cup and poured water on his slippers.

"Mom," Lin Chengbu sighed, "Long live, do you understand? I didn't kill or set fire, except that I didn't do well in school, I'm quite an honest person, and I always want to do something I want to do. What we do, let’s understand each other.”

"Your mother is worried about you," Dad said. "I'm afraid you'll be like a blind moth."

"I'm not stupid." Lin Chengbu said.

"No one dares to argue with you if you call me a fool!" Mom pointed at him again.

"It is said that a child's IQ is mainly determined by the mother." Lin Chengbu smiled.

"Don't fool me!" Mom yelled.

"Lai can only play with his parents." Lin Cheng stepped up and stood behind his mother, pinching her shoulders, "You said I'm not a teenager anymore, I'm embarrassed to find someone to play with."

Mom sighed heavily.

Come out from Mom and Dad, Lin Chengbu squatted on the street and smoked two cigarettes.

Is this thing over?

He also asked himself this question. If Yuan Wu was like this in his life, what would he do?

He likes Yuan Wu. There are admiration, infatuation, and unrequited * in this like, mixed together, he thinks it is quite strong.

It's just that if Yuan Wuzhen has been like this all his life, he doesn't know if this kind of relationship can last a lifetime.

But if he really doesn't care, will anyone care about Yuan Wu's existence?

He's heartbroken at the thought of this.

The struggle of a god-father fanboy.

After returning home, he turned on the computer, lit a cigarette, and entered Xing Tian's column.

Today's update has been uploaded, Lin Chengbu didn't click to read it, he knew what it was by looking at the chapter name.

There seems to be no light at the end of the road.

This kind of chapter name, which is full of dark and not like a chapter name, is the style of Xing Tian's novels. Many times Lin Chengbu thinks that the scary part of these stories is not the ghosts and ghosts, but more from the the author himself.

Where have you been?

Lin Chengbu was holding a cigarette and staring at the page.

After he finished smoking a cigarette, he opened the search page, typed in the words "Smile until a glass of wine", and looked at the page that popped up slowly.

Lin Chengbu felt that apart from the printed A4 paper, he hadn't stared at the words for a long time. After turning over a few pages, his eyes were a little dry, and he couldn't sit still. He felt uncomfortable everywhere. , the brain is still dizzy.

The sorrow of illiteracy.

Lin Cheng got up and went to the refrigerator to get a half can of yogurt that he didn't finish yesterday and took a few sips.

After wandering around the room a few times, he sat back at the computer and continued to flip through the pages.

Actually, he doesn't know what he is looking for. He only knows that this id is currently used by Yuan Wu, so this id may still be used elsewhere, and maybe he can find some clues.

After turning dozens of pages, Lin Chengbu finally stopped his hand holding the mouse and clicked on one of the links.

This is a message board. There have been no new messages for two or three years. It seems to be attached to a website that has been abandoned. The website cannot be opened, and no one enters the message board.

The latest message on the message board, the id is a glass of wine with a smile.

The following is a very simple sentence - I decided to leave.

Lin Chengbu stared at the message time of this sentence for a long time. It happened to be almost two years ago. He then looked down at other messages. The time was earlier than this one, and it was concentrated three years ago.

He moved the recipes in his head to another place, leaving room to think about the time.

This message board was suspended along with this website about three years ago. After that, it was no longer possible to enter directly from the website. If you want to come in and leave a message, it is estimated that you can only directly enter the address of the message board.

This message came in after a year and left it.

After Lin Chengbu came to this conclusion, he scanned the other messages again, and then felt a little chill on the back of his spine.

This is an anonymous message board, no registration required, anyone can leave a message by entering an id, and every single one, including those with happy words, seems full of... despair.

Even people like Lin Chengbu, who didn't go to school well, and who don't know anything about this aspect, can immediately judge, and in Xingtian's first ghost story, a similar place was mentioned. A secret meeting point for suicidal people.

"Fuck." Lin Cheng stepped on the table and the chair slid back.

He took out his cigarette and lit it, taking two hard puffs.

The heartbeat was a little unsteady, and he took the yogurt and drank it all in one go, overwhelmed by shock.

What the **** happened?

After calming down a bit, Lin Chengbu dragged his chair and sat in front of the computer again. He wanted to scroll forward again to see if there were any messages left by someone who would laugh out a glass of wine, but he found that the message board could only save the most recent ones. 5 pages.

Even the message boards are so desperate, they just wipe out those who existed before.

I don't know life or death.

Lin Chengbu didn't sleep well all night, his dream was full of Yuan Wu, he sat on the stern without a smile and looked at the water.

This scene woke him up several times a night.

Woke up in the morning as if I hadn't slept.

He didn't go to work today. After washing up quickly, he went out. He was going to Shenqiao.

After seeing the message board, he suddenly wanted to stay by Yuan Wu's side, without talking, without any form of communication, as long as he could see Yuan Wu.

When passing by the small vegetable market downstairs, he ran in and grabbed a bunch of fresh vegetables, meat, and fruit with a group of old ladies who were robbing breakfast dishes, and then bought a bunch of snacks in the supermarket next to him. , and then hurriedly got into the car.

After the car left the city, the speed limit was 80. He kept driving at 80 and slowed down when he approached Xiaojiang Town.

The air here became better, Lin Chengbu turned off the air conditioner and opened the car window.

After a few good breaths of fresh air, the phone he dropped on the passenger rang.

Glancing at him, he quickly pulled over and stopped the car, grabbed the phone and answered the phone: "Big head?"

"I'm Big Head's mom," came a female voice with a local accent, "Are you Xiao Wu's friend?"

Lin Chengbu was stunned and immediately replied: "Yes, I am!"

Big head mom? He suddenly felt scared in the daze: "What's wrong? Did something happen to him?"

Big head's mother is a straightforward rural woman. She speaks without turning or euphemism, and her voice is still loud: "He jumped into the river before dawn!"

This loud sentence made Lin Chengbu jump up from the seat like a thunderbolt, hitting his head on the roof of the car, and he roared: "What?!"

"It's not dead! Come and have a look, everyone is fine now! But I don't know what's going on!" The big head mother shouted.

"Alright, alright! Alright, alright..." Lin Chengbu also shouted in a series, and after hanging up, he drove to Shenqiao, "What's he doing now?"

"Sleep now! Asleep!" Big Head Mom replied.

"Okay, thank you, I'll be there soon, I'm in Xiaojiang Town right now." Lin Chengbu bit his tongue three times after saying a word.

After hanging up the phone, his mind was buzzing, and there was all kinds of chaos in front of him. He had to park the car on the side of the road again, and wiped a few wet tissues on his face to calm himself down. .

Jumped into the river?

Jump into the river?

Yuan Wu is so afraid of water that people jump into the river?

But people are fine now.

Everyone is fine.

Still asleep.

How could he fall asleep after jumping in the river!

Are you jumping into a river or swimming?

After calming down, Lin Chengbu took the phone and called Jiang Chengyu.

"It's early in the morning," Jiang Chengyu was surprised, "I was just about to go to bed, what's the matter?"

"You have nothing to do these two days," Lin Chengbu said, "I just answered a call from my neighbor in Yuanwu, saying that he jumped into the river. I'll be there right now. I don't know if anything will happen. , you don't plan these two days..."

"I know," Jiang Chengyu responded quickly, "If you want to help you call me, I'll be at any time."

"Thank you." Lin Chengbu hung up the phone.

For the first time, he felt that the road from Xiaojiang Town to Shenqiao was so **** hard to drive, the road was narrow and bumpy, especially the dirt road after passing the tourist area, which made his neck sore.

It was easy to get to the old pier, and before the car was parked, he stuck his head out and stared.

Nothing out of the ordinary at the old pier, it looked the same every time he came here, no people, no cars, no sign that something had happened.

Even the big head who always plays on the dock with the gourd on his back.

It's just that the big head didn't squat today, but ran over as soon as he heard the sound of the car.

"Brother Xiaobu!" He ran to the car and shouted.

"Big head, what's the matter?" Lin Chengbu jumped out of the car and squatted in front of him.

"I don't know, I didn't see it," Datou frowned and looked anxious, "Mom won't let me go there, but brother Xiaowu is sleeping now."

"Is he alone on the boat?" Lin Chengbu stood up and ran over there.

"Uncle fool is here," Datou chased after him, "wait for me."

"Don't go over," Lin Chengbu knew that Datou wouldn't allow him to pass under such circumstances, "Just play here, I'll come and tell you, be obedient."

"...Oh." Datou hesitated and crouched on the edge of the pier.

Lin Chengbu ran between various boats and boards to the side of Yuan Wu's boat, and saw the fool sitting on the bow at a glance.

"Big idiot," he lowered his voice, "remember me? I'm Lin Chengbu, the one who was naked that day..."

The fool nodded, pointed to the cabin, and assumed a sleeping position again.

"He fell asleep?" Lin Cheng walked to the cabin door, not daring to open it, but just leaned into the crack of the door and looked in.

Yuan Wu was lying in the cabin, covered with a small blanket, wrapped tightly.

Lin Chengbu couldn't see his face, he could only see that his messy hair was still wet.

He didn't know whether to breathe a sigh of relief or to worry about Yuan Wu's current state, but Yuan Wu was asleep and he couldn't ask, so he could only turn around and ask the fool in a low voice, "What's going on?"

The idiot looked at him, made a diving motion, and couldn't express it.

He stood up, jumped onto the boat next to him, waved at Lin Chengbu, and Lin Chengbu followed him and jumped over.

The idiot pointed to the cage and walked over there along the staggered boats.

Lin Cheng turned back and followed him to the cage step by step.

The two workers guarding the cage were serving rice and eating noodles. As soon as they saw them, they stood up. One of them pointed at Lin Chengbu: "Are you his friend? Hey, you came very fast. ."

"What's the matter with him?" Lin Chengbu asked quickly.

"Hey, I don't know, I can't tell, I don't know what he's doing, I've never seen him like this, even if he's about to die, I've never seen him die like this." emotion.

"What did he do?" Lin Chengbu asked.

"I jumped into the water straight from the boat, and I couldn't get up. The fool saw that something was wrong and went down! I didn't get him up after such a good swim!" He went down quickly, and when he saw it, he was holding on to a handful of water plants! He couldn't even pull it away! I cut the water plants with a knife to get him up! If I didn't bring a knife, he would be finished! If the knife goes further, he will definitely choke! If one breath is not suitable, he will die! What do you think he is doing!"