Chapter 65: Let's elope.

July day is like a child's face, changing at the drop of a hat. Just a moment ago the sun was blazing in the sky, but in the next moment the sky was sinking.

Yu Fan still kept his head down, staring motionlessly at the name he hadn't seen in a long time.

The old house seemed to be covered by dark clouds, gloomy. A muffled thunderclap sounded outside the window, Yu Fan blinked lightly and finally made a move.

He picks up Yu Kaiming's cell phone, fishes out Yu Kaiming's hand, which is hanging under the sofa, and presses his finger on it, which unlocks the phone with a click.

Hangovers don't wake up that easily, and Yu Kaiming frowned, grunted, and then went back to sleep.

Yu Fan opened the Alipay transfer screen and swiped up, all transfers, Fanfan's July living expenses, Fanfan's June living expenses, Fanfan's May living expenses ......

The transferor's avatar is an oil painting of a sunflower.

Yu Fan stared at the avatar for a while, licked his dry lips, and then freed his hand to pull out his cell phone.

I'm not going to the library today.

[s: Why?

Summer in the South City doesn't cool down with rain, Yu Fan replied smelling the damp, sultry scent in the air.

[-: It's raining.]

Throwing his cell phone back into his pocket, Yu Fan sat down on the low wooden stool next to the coffee table, holding Yu Kaiming's cell phone in his hand with such force that the tips of his fingers turned white. He stares somewhere, swallowing and breathing deeply in silence.

Some time later, he got up and went into the house to rummage around for his long untouched cigarette case and lit one up for a drag.

It had been so long since he had smoked it that he actually felt a little choked up. He took another drag before continuing to go through the records inside.

It took Yu Fan a long, long time to get to the end of the row, and the earliest message was in September 2014, when Yun Shan transferred three hundred dollars to Yu Kaiming.

Yu Kaiming: Three hundred dollars? Who are you kidding? How many times can you feed your son for three hundred dollars?

[Yun Shan: I can only give you so much now.]

Yu Kaiming: Get the fuck out of here, transfer 500 next month, or I'll let him starve.

The transfer of five hundred dollars lasted for four months when Yu Kaiming suddenly sent a photo.

Yu Fan clicked on it to see that it was him in the photo.

It was Yu Kaiming who beat him bloody in the ear one day in his second year.

Yu Kaiming: I told you, if you ever sneak in to see him again, I'll beat him up once.

Yu Kaiming: How dare you come back to see your son after running off with another man?

Yun Shan: I know, I won't. Don't hit him.

Yun Shan: Please.

[Yun Shan: I'll transfer you two hundred dollars, can you take him to the hospital?]

[Yu Kaiming: Transferred.]

Yu Kaiming: I'm warning you not to call the police, don't forget that the last time you called the police, I just went in and squatted for ten days. If you dare to let me in again, I'll come out and beat him to death, then burn down your house, even your husband's house, I'm not afraid of you barefoot, do you understand?

......

In the middle of 2015, Yu Kaiming said, [I heard that your mother's family has been demolished? From now on, give me 2,000 a month.]

At the end of 2016, Yu Kaiming said, [They said you opened a painting exhibition? Congratulations, from now on you'll give me 3,000 a month.]

Yun Shan: How's Fanfan doing?

Yu Kaiming: [photo] It's good!

Maybe he was satisfied with Yun Shan's on-time payments, or maybe he realized that he couldn't control Yu Fan anymore. Yu Kaiming's attitude towards Yun Shan has gradually eased over the past two years, at least in the chat logs.

Earlier this year, Yu Kaiming said, "Your family has emigrated? What the fuck, you're getting rich? Starting today, give me 5,000 a month. Your son's a big fucking eater in high school.

......

After going through all the messages, the cigarette case was half empty.

Yu Fan took a drag on the cigarette between his fingers and felt his blood run cold. His brain felt like it had been pierced with countless invisible arrows, and it hurt so much that it was hard for him to breathe.

Horrible and obscure thoughts were corroding his brain like bacteria, the thoughts had been there for a long time, only before they would soon be pressed back again. Yu Fan looked at the man on the couch like he was looking at a corpse about to go into the ground.

The summer rain was majestic, falling fast and hard. Yu Fan sat without expression, having rehearsed something over and over in his head.

With the sound of raindrops hitting the window, Yu Fan's cell phone vibrates quietly again.

[s: video?

Yu Fan woke up like a dream. He tensed his jaw, and his fingertips stiffened as he went to tap the phone.

[-: late]

Yu Fan screwed out the cigarette, hung his head and rubbed his face vigorously several times before picking up Yu Kaiming's cell phone again and sending a message to that sunflower avatar: [Don't call him for money again.]

He opened the transfer function, put in Yu Kaiming's entire balance, and then picked up Yu Kaiming's finger and fingerprinted it.

Yu Kaiming woke up from his dream.

The room was half-lit, half-dark, making it impossible to tell what time it was at the moment. He turned his head and was startled again.

Yu Fan stood beside him without saying a word, probably because of the lack of light, the picture looked like a horror movie.

"Why are you standing here? You want to scare people to death......" Yu Kaiming rubbed his neck and sat up, his eyes fell on Yu Fan's hand and then froze.

He subconsciously reached out to grab it, but Yu Fan easily dodged it. Yu Kaiming looked at him in shock, "What are you doing with my cell phone?"

Only after making sure the money was all transferred did Yu Fan look up from her cell phone and state, "Yu Kaiming, you've been asking her for money."

His voice was neither soft nor heavy, and it hit Yu Kaiming's ears like thunder.

If he was still drunk, or a few years ago, Yu Kaiming probably wouldn't be afraid of him. But now it was different. He couldn't beat him, his old wounds hadn't healed, and most importantly - Yu Fan wasn't looking at him the right way.

Yu Kaiming had never run so fast in his life. He almost immediately jumped up from the couch and ran into his room and unlocked it.

The violent heartbeat triggered by fear was especially clear in the darkness. The next moment, the door to his room was kicked in so hard that the underside of the door was tucked and bent inward for a moment before resuming its original position.

"You told me you didn't contact her, Yu Kaiming," the door was kicked in again, and the man outside said coldly and calmly, "I'll fuck you up."

Yu Kaiming relaxed a bit after a door. With his back against the door, he turned his head and yelled, "That's the fucking deal she and I made in the first place! Divorce is fine, you must pay your living expenses every month!"

"Say that again, whose living expenses?"

"...... Didn't that cousin leave you money when he left? And your grandpa left it, are you short of money? Who the fuck do you think pays all the utility bills in the house?!"

The door was vulnerable to another kick.

Yu Fan said coldly, "Try calling her that again?"

"What? Am I wrong?" Yu Kaiming was furious at the mention, "She was the one who fucking hooked up with that supermarket owner in the first place! That cousin cheated on her! She was in the wrong! How else could she have sentenced you to me? What's she if she's not a cousin? Everyone on the street knows your mom's a slut--"

Bang! There was a heavy thud from the door at the back.

Yu Fan said, "Taking a beating from you every day, only a fool would want to live with a rotten dog like you for the rest of his life."

Yu Kaiming's heart skipped a beat, and he even thought Yu Fan could really kick the door down.

"If you're so close to her, and you're so protective of her, why didn't she take you away?" Yu Kaiming questioned, "When she ran away from home and forced me to get a divorce! Why the hell didn't she take you with her?"

"I'm telling you, because that concubine of hers won't have you! Because he won't let her marry him with her son!"

The door was suddenly silent.

The sky looked like it was going to come crashing down with muffled thunderstorms and pouring rain outside the window.

Yu Kaiming breathed a sigh of relief and after a while, he said, "You understand now, don't you? Lao Zi and you are the ones on the same side ......"

"You think I don't know?"

No one knows better than him.

Yu Fan stood in front of the door of his room with his head bowed and his fists clenched tightly, his thoughts seeming to have been forcefully jerked back four years at once.

Yun Shan has been domestically abused by Yu Kaiming for seven years. In seven years, did she run away from home just that one time?

She had packed her bags countless times, countless times she had snuck out of her house late at night. Only she was tripped up by her son, who always cried her name, always held her clothes, always stood at the window watching her.

Then the woman would cover her face and come back again, carry him to his room, put him to bed with tears in her eyes, and call a strange man to explain.

Until the last time. It was also raining like it was now, and as he watched Yun Shan get up from his bed, pack his bags, push away from the house, and leave, the woman had gone back to her room to see him many times.

He'd been pretending to be asleep and hadn't gotten up.

Yu Fan watched her walk out of the neighborhood, and every time Yun Shan looked up, he'd quickly crouch down and hide, biting his fist and crying his nose off.

He knew he couldn't make a sound.

Or Yu Kaiming will wake up. Or his mom will come back.

Hearing his answer, Yu Kaiming froze, "How did you know?"

Yu Fan didn't bother to give him any more crap. He gave that door one last kick and then calmly informed him.

"Yu Kaiming, let me know you go to her again and I'll remove both your legs."

Yu Fan turned around and left.

He can't be in the same space as Yu Kaiming now, and he's not sure he'll do anything else.

"...... OK, got it. But I also have something to tell you." The room was silent for a long time, suddenly out of the blue, "In fact, I found someone this year to inquire about that b*tch ...... your mom."

Yu Fan took a deep breath and picked up a nearby wooden stick to try to smash the door.

"She has a child, born last year, also a son."

"Oh, in that case, no wonder she's emigrating to a foreign country with a better educational environment, much better than that shitty high school you're in now."

"Yu Fan, resign yourself to your fate, your mom didn't want you long ago."

"You just hate me as much as you can, I'm still your old man, and you have to stay with me for the rest of your life."

-

With the torrential rain outside and Yu Fan's frantic kicking at the door, the neighbors have locked their doors again.

The first floor of this dilapidated residential building installed a rain shield, soybean-sized raindrops hit the top, crackling and earth-shattering.

Yu Fan walked out of the house, closed the door, and stopped moving.

Obviously he had held back, obviously he hadn't gotten physical with Yu Kaiming, but he felt more tired than ever this time.

Yu Fan stood for a long time before turning to go downstairs. His mind was a blur, with many things and many words crammed into it echoing and playing. So much so that he was all the way down the last step before he realized there was someone standing in front of him.

Chen Jingshen stood there, leaning on an umbrella next to him.

Yu Fan froze for a long moment, wanting to ask him why he was here and when he came, but moved his lips before realizing that his throat was too dry and pronouncing the words was a bit of a struggle.

"When I was a senior in high school I saw you climb over the wall out of the school in a typhoon, I thought you shouldn't be afraid of the rain, so I came." Chen Jingshen, however, seemed to read it in his eyes, "Been here for a long time."

Yu Fan hmmm.

Chen Jingshen walked up and reached out to hug him. Yu Fan subconsciously blocked it, but to no avail, he was still taken into his arms.

"It's loose when people come." Chen Jingshen said.

Yu Fan then stopped moving and fell exhausted on Chen Jingshen's shoulder.

It was a pure hug. Chen Jingshen's broad, warm shoulders have a calming effect.

So Yu Fan closed her eyes and lowered her head to bury her face in his shoulder.

With the darkness in front of him, only rain and Chen Jingshen were left in his world.

"Yu Fan."

Yu Fan didn't move a muscle and responded with a very muffled, "Uh-huh."

"Let's elope."

"......"

"The last year of senior year, you study hard." Chen Jingshen said, "We take the same test."

"......"

"And then get married."

"...... roll."

It took a long time for the man on top of him to hold his tongue.

Feeling the wetness on his shoulder, Chen Jingshen raised his hand in silence and rubbed his hair very gently.