Chapter 861

Luo Jiaotian handed over the phone.

Luo Binhan began to read the email displayed on the screen.Judging from the suffix and date of the receiving address, this email was sent to Luo Jiaotian's campus mailbox late last night, and Luo Binhan didn't even know that this mailbox existed before today.Its text is short enough to confuse anyone:

Luo Jiaotian:
I returned to Lihai City a few days ago, and now I am temporarily staying at Zhou Yu's house.You can come to meet in the near future, do not tell others.

Shun Xueqi.

Robin Han

Luo Binhan read this brief email a dozen times, as if he could dig out the clues of this puzzle from the monotonous print.He has no clue who sent the email.He couldn't help thinking about what he would do if he really wanted to notify Luo Jiaotian, of course it wouldn't be by email, but by phone or chat software.There are only two occasions for him to use e-mail, either to register a website account with his personal e-mail, or to use his company e-mail to deal with foreign-related organizations.

Using email to contact Luo Jiaotian would never be his way, and that would mean it wouldn't be Yale Liga or Jing Huang, if they really wanted to pretend to be him—but then again, they There is absolutely no reason to do so.And he couldn't imagine Nan Mingguang doing this.If Nan Mingguang really wanted to tell Luo Jiaotian, a phone call couldn't be easier, let alone using someone else's name to do it.

"Hmm..." Finally, Luo Binhan stared at the screen and said, "It's very interesting. I haven't sent you this before, and I can't think of who did it."

He secretly remembered the sender's email address, and then returned the phone to Luo Jiaotian.The latter looked quite disturbed, so Luo Binhan didn't take this matter very seriously.He said casually: "It's nothing, maybe someone is joking with you... When I went to your university to find Zhou Yu, I met a few people in your school. I think they might know from Zhou Yu that I am back, so Decided to play a joke on you. They are all jokers, and your school's internal email address is not difficult to guess at all, just know your name and student number. I guess that is the case. I I will ask Zhou Yu later."

Luo Jiaotian hesitantly agreed, but Luo Binhan thought that he didn't need to ask Zhou Yu at all.No, he actually didn't know Zhou Yu's college classmates at all, and Zhou Yu would never disclose his return to anyone who had nothing to do with him.What a strange thing, who would have known that he was back, that he was staying at Zhou Yu's place, and that he had written such an e-mail that was not worded like him at all?But somehow, he wasn't particularly worried about it, as if the odd email didn't mean anything malicious, it was just... a little too detailed.It was detailed enough to convince Luo Jiaotian that he wrote it himself, even though writing e-mails is not his style at all.

"Have you told others about this?" Luo Binhan asked him, "I...well, I have only been back for a few days, so I am not in a hurry to say hello to others yet."

Luo Jiaotian shook his head slowly.Luo Binhan didn't know if he was a little over-associated, but he felt as if he could see a sliver of understanding in Luo Jiaotian's expression.Unwilling to face the complicated, noisy and scary social world, he guessed that Luo Jiaotian had always had a deep feeling for this resistance.And yet—another voice inside him, a voice of reason said to him—you are two different kinds of people, and you face two different problems.

"I've been living on campus for the past two weeks." Luo Jiaotian said succinctly, "Preparing for the exam, I haven't been back yet."

This sentence might sound a bit out of date to outsiders, but Luo Binhan knew exactly what he wanted to express.Luo Jiaotian is a truly honest person—not the kind of honesty who pretends to be siblings with his high school puppy love and deceives the whole class of teachers and students.Luo Jiaotian's level of lying is disastrous, especially for those who are familiar with him, who have complete control over him.If Luo Jiaotian was still living at home now—to be exact, living with his mother, Luo Binhan didn't think he could keep such an important secret, Xie Zhenwan would know what was going on within three days.But now that Luo Jiaotian lives in the school, things don't seem so bad.

"To be honest," Luo Binhan said, "I thought you wouldn't live on campus, after all, you study in the city."

"I asked for it myself." Luo Jiaotian said.His voice was very calm at first, but after a few seconds he seemed to feel inappropriate again, and added a little unnaturally: "It is more efficient to study in this way, and it is convenient to go to the library and classroom."

"Ah, yes," Luo Binhan said, "You do have a heavy academic burden."

For a second or two, neither of them spoke, as if both were wondering whether what they had just said sounded plausible.In order to support his point of view, Luo Binhan added: "Zhou Yu also lived on campus. You know, in terms of his living habits, it is not easy to accept dormitory life. Fortunately, he never used his own hygiene. Standards require others, and I've always suspected that the dorms are just a place for him to sleep. Other than that he lives in the library, or the autopsy room or something."

Luo Jiaotian smiled hastily.Luo Binhan continued: "Actually, I guess you are all about the same...I see that all the people in his dormitory are extremely busy during the exam season, and now it's your turn to have a good day."

He didn't get an answer, but Luo Jiaotian didn't seem to care at all.Although two and a half years had passed, Luo Binhan still felt that the person standing in front of him was not an adult in the true sense, but still a high school senior.A very hard-working senior high school student, he thinks in his heart that there are various possibilities in the future, and the biggest and only difficulty that needs to be overcome is the exam.Sometimes he suspects that the fact of studying hard brings a sense of entertainment to Luo Jiaotian, a kind of concentrated experience that breaks away from reality through difficulties and tortures, rather it is a kind of penance.But he didn't know if the thought was real, because he had never felt that way himself.

Suddenly he had a strong urge to tell Luo Jiaotian what was on his mind.But he restrained himself in time - of course he wanted to say, this was one of the reasons why he called Luo Jiaotian out of Zhou Yu's house - but not in that instinctive way.To pour out all the most authentic emotions and thoughts, he has rarely done this kind of thing in the past, not to say that he didn't have that kind of urge.He often has such thoughts, but he has mastered a technique long ago.Just like people who are new to a certain sport must know how to actively pay attention to their own behavior, to detect and overcome those irregular and instinctive wrong actions, language and emotions can also be conscious and controlled in the same way.

He didn't say anything, but signaled Luo Jiaotian and him to walk a little further away, continuing their family walk that excluded Zhou Yu.The streets in the morning showed dark blue and pale tones, which seemed to indicate that there would be a period of rainy days in the near future.When two people in student uniforms walked past them, Luo Binhan suddenly stopped and looked left and right on both sides of the street.

"I remember that there is a scorpion leaf street nearby." He said, "It's a small commercial street, with bookstores, milk tea shops, stationery stores... Anyway, it makes money from the students nearby. Do you have any impression?"

Luo Jiaotian nodded in confusion.

"Still here?"

"Still."

"It's better to rebuild it." Luo Binhan said with a hint of resentment.His half-brother watched him with increasing blankness.But Luo Binhan couldn't explain to him why he mentioned an unknown school district street.Saying "unknown" may have wronged this street, because the last time Luo Binhan heard someone mention it was in billions of light-years, billions of star distances, and billions of stars (he actually didn't know if this word could be used) so used) somewhere other than .In the muddy purple alien night, the guitar-playing monster mentioned to him the bookstore on Quinoa Street, psychology and crime... and Quinoa Street, together with the planet that bears this street, this grain of universe Dust is nothing at all.Why did Zhou Wenxing mention Cuiye Street at that time?Was it all just his crazy imagination?Perhaps Zhou Wenxing never existed, that nightmarish scene never existed, and even Jing Huang never existed.He really just went to Africa, and what a ridiculous story he made up in the hallucinations caused by the heat and poisonous insects.

Luo Jiaotian still looked at him, waiting for him to explain why he was so dissatisfied with Yiye Street.When Luo Binhan looked at his face, nightmares and myths became thin and false.What he faced was a real human face, with dull eyes, swollen eye bags, bulging and fat from studying hard all day long, and puberty acne scars in the crevices of his cheeks—even so, Luo Jiaotian was far away Not ugly.This is not an ugly face, but a real face that exists in the world.As long as people are living in real life, whether they are weather-beaten or pampered, what they have is just such a face that cannot resist time and environment.

He turned his gaze away, and at the same time told Luo Jiaotian that there was a person he hated who once highly praised Yip Street.This undoubtedly aroused Luo Jiaotian's curiosity, but just as Luo Binhan thought, when things seemed to involve some kind of negative privacy, Luo Jiaotian always tended not to ask anything.He suggested that they go to Yiye Street, so they walked half a block forward to see the small commercial street that was once praised by Nightmare.And it was even more mediocre than what Luo Binhan remembered.The eaves that intend to move closer to the classical style, the students who sneak out during the break, the pet dogs that sneak around in the crowd, and the so-called special snacks and former residences of local celebrities.

This street may reflect the hope of developing tourism in some municipal planning, but according to Luo Binhan's eyes, it is really difficult to attract people.It certainly doesn't attract celebrities or influencer tourists, except for space-traveling super-criminals.He did find a bookstore, but it was not filled with crime and psychology books like what he had heard Zhou Wenxing said. He seemed to only see all kinds of supplementary materials, and those with colorful covers. Novels are mostly fantasy themes sold to adolescent students.Luo Binhan wanted to buy a few copies for Jing Huang and Mo Moluo to keep some precious records of aliens' contact with local culture, but he still resisted this desire because Luo Jiaotian was standing next to him.Anyway, he still has some image projects to maintain.

Their aimless wandering ended in a sugar shop.At this time, Luo Binhan was still thinking about the charm of this street in his head.He found strangely that the more the street was presented in front of his eyes, the less meaning the name Zhou Wenxing brought.He didn't even remember that face that seemed docile and agreeable.If Zhou Wenxing walked into the store at this moment, sat in front of him and said, "Long time no see", would he really recognize him?Maybe he will take this person as an ordinary student.What a strange thing, a few days ago he still felt that the world under his feet was false, but now he felt that only Lihai City was real, the whole universe no longer existed, only here, this closed, real, boring place A small place, not from his imagination but shaped and dominated him.Nightmares and myths have disappeared forever, and Zhou Wenxing will never appear in this story again, and he will never walk into his room one day in student-style clothes to remind him that the world is far bigger than he imagined.But what about Jing Huang?And Momolo and Yale Liga?Did they also vanish into thin air?No, he found that he didn't want that...not really...

Luo Binhan shook his head violently.Luo Jiaotian on the opposite side probably interpreted this behavior as an evaluation of the dessert on the table. He put down his spoon nervously, as if he felt that he shouldn't eat half of his smoothie before Luo Binhan agreed.Luo Binhan really wanted to open his mouth and ask him what law he violated after eating his smoothie, but he still held back.He would never ask that, because it would only make Luo Jiaotian more nervous.Why is Luo Jiaotian always so panic-stricken?What was it that frightened him so much?The answers to these questions he may never know.Sometimes he even suspects that Luo Jiaotian hates him very much, which is not completely impossible, but that doesn't explain everything.And then he came to a conclusion that might be closer to the truth: Luo Jiaotian didn't hate him, but just hoped that he would completely disappear from his life.

"I've always had a stubborn stereotype of doctors," said Luo Binhan, scooping his own smoothie. "Doctors are the kind of old-fashioned and serious people who live completely out of modern society and don't know the ways of the world. Don't care about any entertainment."

Luo Jiaotian hesitated whether he should agree.Luo Binhan immediately continued: "But then I noticed that I was actually only familiar with the personal situation of two doctors, that is, Zhou Yu and his father. I don't think the two of them can be regarded as typical at all, can they? You What do you think of your classmates? Are they easy to get along with?"

"Everything is fine." Luo Jiaotian said slowly.He held the spoon cautiously, as if he was trying to figure out whether these words had other meanings.Luo Binhan said happily again: "Look, most of the medical students are... ordinary people, I mean they don't have any eccentricities, just like all people in other professions. You heard about the old man Did you ever have a craniotomy? That was done by Zhou Yu’s father. But in fact, it was a coincidence, because our brain surgery expert is usually not in China. The old man originally found another doctor, and his The personal asking price is six figures. In fact, it is not too expensive, is it? Paying a sum of money can avoid queuing, and promises to do his best. If he had performed the operation at that time, I think the situation would not be too bad. In fact, I I am quite curious about this matter. The old man actually chose a doctor who refused to charge him instead of the most qualified and famous doctor in the local area. He would not be reluctant to pay such a small amount of money. I really want to know what made him believe Zhou Yu Zhou Yu's father is a better choice. Don't you think that the actual clinical performance is more reliable than the academic results? What if Zhou Yu's father made a wrong cut on the operating table?"

He laughed casually.Confusion began to appear in Luo Jiaotian's eyes.Robin Han still said happily: "Don't take it seriously. I guess asking an offer is very common in their line of business. After all, there are so many people who are eager to save your life, and some of them feel that their lives are worse Others are more expensive. They will look for favors that you cannot refuse, just like what the old man did to Zhou Yu and his father, but when the favors are not so difficult to refuse, you must have a standard to measure who is more urgent."

"I think," Luo Jiaotian said in a low voice, "that's something the hospital is responsible for."

"That's also an arrangement." Robin Han said, "Yes, I'm not saying that all doctors do it. Everyone has their own way of life, isn't it? Some people don't want to do hard work for nothing, and some people suffer. I can't enjoy the temptation. I heard that the director of the hospital where Zhou Yu practiced was once murdered. He made a deal with a young and beautiful medical representative. I don't know exactly what happened, maybe it was forced, In short, this medical representative took an overdose of sleeping pills one night, and her mother came to the hospital with a long-handled fruit knife after seeing the suicide note. It is said that there were more than 30 knives on the body in the end, and Zhou Yu was with the murderer at the time Passed by. He was supposed to be one of the first people to see the crime scene, only half a minute behind a terrified nurse. Did he mention this to you? Another time he was at the practice hospital The leader organized a party, and the next day he was the only one sitting in the duty room and eating mangoes, because everyone else was locked up in the police station. Well, the unexpected impact of cracking down on underground ktv activities, and a few more people were diagnosed later Sick... Confused isn't it? No one is more professional than their line of business yet they still get caught like any other idiot. I first heard about it from my friend at the police station and I immediately I called Zhou Yu to ask how he was doing, and he said he was eating mangoes in the duty room—he was a real atheist, and I admired that too. There was also that duty room, where a nurse once hanged himself because She owed gambling debts and blackmailed patients. Before she committed suicide, she had a long talk with Zhou Yu all night, but she didn't talk about her own affairs, but talked about a lot of scandals in the industry. She may have completely collapsed at the time, so Zhou Yu asked her to go back to sleep Get a good night's sleep and keep your emotions stable so that you don't make mistakes in important operations the next day."

Luo Binhan paused for a moment, took a few mouthfuls of melted smoothies, and then said thoughtfully, "It's really not Zhou Yu's fault, because she's doomed no matter what. But to be honest, sometimes I feel that Zhou Yu's head There is a problem. Or should I say it is his talent, always passing by some kind of murder scene. What will happen if he becomes a criminal policeman?"

Luo Jiaotian was already restless.He looked at Luo Binhan with almost frightened eyes, like a baby bird facing the first thunderstorm in its life.Luo Binhan also looked at him calmly, and said with a cheerful tone: "These are just exceptions, some appalling and weird things. But it's interesting to think about it? You see, even these groups closest to death, their Life isn't so... Shall I say serious? Pure? Their way of life is no different from the rest of us. I guess studying medicine doesn't really teach them anything other than pure knowledge, it's just a technique. What kind of life to live, doctors are not so different from us. Zhou Yu is a weirdo first, and a doctor second. But if all doctors automatically become weird like him, it will be a wonder... Ah, This will definitely not happen. People will not change their nature because of their occupation, and they cannot turn themselves into a pure occupation. Having said that, I have always felt that such things as nature cannot be imitated. Maybe you will Feeling that someone has a chic life, but you can't make yourself into that person, wearing similar clothes and doing similar things. Some people think it's natural to do this, but for imitators, I Guess that wouldn't lead to a happy life. It's kind of like... wanting a dog to live like a cat? Don't you think?"

Luo Binhan finally stopped talking.He put his head down and concentrated on the smoothie in the bowl.When he was about to finish his bowl, he heard Luo Jiaotian calmly say, "Yes."

"I heard that your results in the college entrance examination are very good." Luo Binhan said, "The one you got in was your first choice. It was [-] points higher than your second choice in the business school."

"Yes."

"Congratulations." Luo Binhan said, "I really should give you a present. But it's not too late, let me think about it... Maybe you would like to go abroad for a stroll during the summer vacation? Wouldn't it be a little boring to be alone? Ah, I forgot that you like to be alone. Then I think you may also want to have a small apartment for living alone, a study room where no one will be disturbed. After all, learning requires atmosphere and environment. "

"but……"

"I'm going to talk to the old man about it." Luo Binhan resumed his cheerful tone, "After all, he has to pay for it, right? Actually, I think you might as well study abroad for a while after graduation. Lihai Medicine The hospital can only say that it is not bad in China.”

Luo Jiaotian didn't say a word, a strange light flickered in his black eyes.He seemed to say tentatively: "My mother..."

"Ah, well." Luo Binhan said, "Of course, there may be some twists and turns, but I think Aunt Xie will agree with me in the end. After all, I will take over the family affairs in the future, and my arrangement will of course be the most suitable. "

They never mentioned it again.Luo Jiaotian buried his head in eating the smoothie, and Luo Binhan kept asking him about the school affairs.He also seriously suggested that Luo Jiaotian had to find time to exercise, otherwise sooner or later he would fall into the nightmare of sudden death of staying up late to prepare for the exam.

"You still can't find a girlfriend." Luo Binhan said solemnly, "Medical students are not easy to find a partner, do you understand? You may not even be able to provide a full-time date once a month. Rely on your handsome face and hot body to save the situation."

Luo Jiaotian choked on the smoothie and coughed.He said weakly: "I should go back and review."

"Go." Luo Binhan said, "Remember to go to the playground and do laps."

Luo Jiaotian quickly left through the store door.Luo Binhan sat in the shop and watched him go to the street, walking silently through the crowd with his head down.He felt that from this angle, Luo Jiaotian was really out of place with other passers-by, like a cloud floating alone in a sunny day.But he didn't know whether it was more comfortable to be a dark cloud than to blend into the bright sun.Blending into the sun, this metaphor reminded him of Nan Mingguang.Perhaps in the period just now, Luo Jiaotian saw him as another version of Nan Mingguang.Isn't that true?As Zhou Yu pointed out, he and Nan Mingguang have some things in common.And this thought made him close his eyes at once, furious in secret.

 Alive, I went to the final exam
  
 
(End of this chapter)

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