all the mornings

Chapter 42 The Night Comes (1)
Yu Jin had just passed her 19th birthday when she met Le Congqian.

In the summer, she and Anzu traveled in England, driving a red Beetle, and said they would take a retro trip.Their so-called retro is the kind of mix and match, such as driving a retro car, such as visiting a famous city.

On the way to Bath, a car like theirs was walking with them, either in front or behind.Yujin wears headphones to listen to music, while Anzu drives, and sometimes when overtaking, he can see the people in the car through the window—they are also two people, and they are also young people.They occasionally looked at each other, and found that they were also Chinese, and they looked the same as students.

"It seems that they are traveling during the summer vacation, just like us." An Zu said.Yujin swayed his body in accordance with the rhythm, and gave him a smile back.

When they arrived in the city of Bath, when they parked at the entrance of the Royal Crescent Hotel, they saw the car they had seen earlier on the road parked in the parking lot.

An Zu booked two rooms early in the morning, and the two lived separately. They met in the restaurant during dinner, An Zu glanced around, and saw the two young people who were not traveling with him, and said casually: "I thought we would meet. "

Yu Jin hurriedly said: "Don't run into each other, I don't want to deal with this kind of young man."

An Zu smiled and talked about other topics.

Those who can live in this hotel will not be poor students who earn money from scholarships and part-time jobs.Yu Jin himself came from a wealthy businessman's family, so naturally he knew the details of people of the same class.

During dinner, they heard that there was a summer open-air concert on the lawn in front of the Crescent Building, so the two said they would go and listen to it after dinner.

Concerts range from classical music to modern rock.The band consisted of three Englishmen and two Chinese. As soon as the two Chinese showed up, Anzu said, "Oh! So they came to the concert." A song of my own composition.

After listening to a song, Yu Jin said, "I bet they won't be popular."

Anzu laughed loudly and said, "Maybe they didn't want to be popular, they were just college students playing in bands."

After speaking, the two left the concert and went for a walk on Pulteney Bridge.

The next day in the Roman Baths, they met the pair of Chinese youths again.Take a closer look this time, one is tall, with a handsome face, who plays the electronic piano in the band; the other is a bit shorter, who is a guitarist and lead singer.The two also saw them, so they couldn't help saying hello.The guitarist asked in English: "I saw you went to the concert yesterday. How did we sing?"

Anzu replied: "There will be no more Backstreet Boys."

The two people were not angry when they heard this, they just laughed and walked away.When he turned around, the keyboard player suddenly said: "We are performing in Bona tonight, come and listen."

Anzu said, "We'll talk about it later."

They didn't go to listen to their concert that night. There was only their red Beetle in the parking lot of the Royal Crescent Hotel.Those two Chinese compatriots don't seem to live here, but there was a performance here the night before, so let's take a break.

In the next two days, they can always meet when they visit places of interest.After meeting for a few more times, we became familiar with each other, and we were able to sit down and chat with each other.The guitarist said they traveled while singing in bars.Anzu hurriedly asked: "Why do you only see the two of you out to play during the day, what about the three ghost grandmas?"

The guitarist said: "Ghost, it's Dracula who drinks and sleeps during the day and gets excited at night. Besides, when can't you play with the local ones? Unlike us, you have to go back after reading the book. Think about it in a few years. Hurry up."

When they talked, Yujin listened to music on headphones and didn't talk to them.The keyboard player is not as easy to make friends as the guitarist, and only occasionally interjects a few words, asking Anzu once, "Why doesn't your girlfriend talk?" Anzu simply throws out "She is dumb", which shocked the guitarist to say sorry immediately.Before Anzu could say anything, the keyboard player said, "Why are you dumb and still listening to music?"

An Zu laughed out loud, and he didn't mind the lie being exposed.Unexpectedly, the keyboard player refused to let them go. He reached out to Yujin's earphones and said, "I'll listen to any music." Before Anzu tried to stop him, Yujin's earphones had already been torn off by him, and he put them in again. into his own ears.An Zu was furious, so he yelled violently, the keyboard player over there was already apologizing—it turned out that he put the earphones in his ears, but there was no sound at all, and Yu Jin was still looking at him with a smile.

The keyboardist took the earphones from his ears and returned them to Yu Jin. Yu Jin shrugged and simply pulled off the whole pair of earphones and put them in An Zu's hands. An Zu raised his hand and threw them into the trash can.The keyboard player was made uncomfortable by his actions, and said mockingly: "What does this lady mean, she doesn't want something that a stinky man took?"

An Zu said coldly: "That's right, that's what it means." After speaking, he left with Yu Jin on his arm.

After walking a long way, Yu Jin finally laughed.She has always used earplugs. Sometimes the surrounding environment is too noisy, and she doesn't want to be harassed, so she uses earplugs to isolate herself from her surroundings—she happens to be not listening to music at this time.

Having had enough of Bath, their next stop was Bristol, and then across the Channel to Wales.

While visiting the river valley in Avonmouth, An Zu happened to walk away. The keyboard player appeared out of nowhere, stood in front of Yu Jin, and called her name in Chinese: "Yu Jin."

Yu Jin was taken aback.

When she and An Zu were chatting with them, they never mentioned her name, how did the keyboard player know?Why did you follow their itinerary all the way here?She was still wondering whether to call her Anzu, but the keyboard player called her by her name in Hokkien: "Yujin."

Now Yu Jin knew that she had met a fellow countryman, but she remained silent.She didn't feel comfortable being entangled with him like this.The keyboard player said: "You really don't remember me? I'm Le Congqian, the eldest son of the Le family. Your uncle, Principal Jin, was my high school teacher. We both studied in Jinjiang Middle School. .My father and your father are old friends, why don't you know me? We met before."

Yu Jin blinked his eyes and thought about it, then shook his head, but still had no impression of this person at all.Le Congqian smiled and said: "No wonder, you are the princess of our Jinjiang, how can you put us ordinary people in your eyes. But I recognized you at the first sight, and you are still on the way to Bath. Since then, you have been I want to talk to you, but you pretend to be dumb."

Hearing him mention this, Yu Jin couldn't help laughing.She had been pretending to be reserved before, so she smiled tautly, with her lips pursed and her eyebrows lowered.The two millet nests around the mouth flickered, revealing infinite playfulness.

Le Congqian lowered his voice and said: "I followed you here from Bath, waiting for the opportunity to talk to you. Your brother always won't go away, so I have no chance. Seeing that you are going to cross the strait, I won't Said that there is no chance, just now I stole two packs of sugar from the coffee shop and put them in the fuel tank of your car, Anzu is now looking for someone to repair the car."

Yu Jin thought it was funny again, so she didn't turn her head away, she didn't want him to see her smile.Le Congqian turned to her side, forced her face to his, and asked, "Which school do you go to? I'll look for you when I return to London."

Yujin ignored him and turned his face to the other side.Le Congqian turned to this side again and asked, "Can you tell me your phone number?"

Yu Jin shook his head, walked around him.

Le Congqian followed her step by step, talking and making her laugh all the way, but Yu Jin ignored him no matter what.Le Congqian stopped, pointed to the bridge on the Avon River Canyon in front of him and said: "This is the Clifton Suspension Bridge, one of the top ten suicide sites in the world. It is said that more than 1000 people have jumped off this bridge. I Le Congqian swears here, if I owe you Yujin in this life, then my name will be on this long list."

Yujin was not moved by his vow.All vows are meant to be broken, but his sincerity at this moment still moved her somewhat.After all, she is just a 19-year-old girl, exactly the age longing for love.She stood in front of him, tilted her head and thought for a while, then hummed a piece of music softly.

After humming, she looked at him for a while, warned him not to catch up with her eyes, then turned and walked away to find Anzu.

It was a month before she and Anzu returned to London.On the first day of school, her cell phone rang, she looked at it, it was an unfamiliar number, she answered it.

On the opposite side was the voice of a young man. After hearing her "Hello", the man didn't speak, but hummed a tune.The tune was somewhat familiar, the first two bars were exactly what she had hummed on the Clifton Suspension Bridge, and it was the melody of the digits of her phone number.In order to facilitate her memory, she hummed her phone number into a tune.She hummed the little melody to Le Congqian, who was chasing from Bath to Avonmouth—if he was smart and careful enough, he could find her.

Sure enough, he found her according to the clues she left, and added many bars after the melody.These bars made up a whole piece of music, which was hummed to her in a clear voice.

After humming the song, Le Congqian said, "Yu Jin, this song is dedicated to you, and its name is "The Girl on Clifton Bridge."

Yu Jin smiled and asked, "When will you compose the lyrics and sing for me?"

Le Congqian also smiled on the other side of the phone and said, "Come here, and I'll sing it to you."

After that, everything was different.

From the beginning of the school year to Christmas, Yu Jin and Le Congqian, like all lovers, looked for every opportunity to be together, and called whenever they had free time when they were apart.Yu Jin fell into blind love, and for the first time in her life, she felt unparalleled happiness.She didn't have time for Anzu to ask her, so she hurriedly drove to date Le Congqian after class.

It happened to be the eve of the new century at that time, and people all over the world were enthusiastic about this once-in-a-thousand-year event. The closer the New Year was, the more enthusiastic they became. Don't let this millennium night go to waste.

Yu Jin also indulged a bit.She ran to get three pierced ears, put on three earrings, and pulled up her hair for Le Zhongqian to see.Le Congqian kissed her soft earlobe, and kissed her neck down to her chest.Yu Jin dodged, and Le Congqian said, "Let's get married, on the night of the Millennium. We swear in the school church to be faithful to each other. No matter if you are poor, rich or sick, no one in the world can do anything except death." separate us."

His eager eyes were fixed on Yujin, who almost melted under the ardor of love.She couldn't resist his enthusiastic offensive, and replied: "Okay."

Millennium, Millennium Night, church, mutual vows.Is there any love more romantic, more sincere and more eternal than these?

That night she specially wore a white dress skirt, a white fox fur shawl, her hair tied up, and a hairpin crown.Le Congqian drove the red Beetle to pick her up at school.They went to Mass first.The sacred atmosphere of religion enveloped them, which bathed their bodies and minds in a halo of holiness.When the priests of the church left, they would come back and make a promise for life while the candles were still burning on Millennium Eve.Exchange rings and kiss each other.

For Yu Jin, it was a formal wedding.Although there are no blessings and proof documents from relatives and friends.She never cared about these worldly things, all she wanted was loyal love, and she thought she had found it.

After the wedding, she and Le Congqian spent their wedding night at the Ritz Hotel.

After New Year's Day, Yu Jin told An Zu about her marriage.She knew that Anzu would stop her. In the past three months, Anzu said more than once that he didn't like Le Congqian, saying that she was too young and would be deceived; Believe his lie?Whatever he said, she just wouldn't listen.He said that love blinded her eyes and she couldn't see Le Congqian's true face.They broke up unhappy that day, Yu Jin insisted on going her own way, and held what she thought was a wedding with Le Congqian, without notifying Anzu to come to watch the ceremony.

Hearing what she said, An Zu was so anxious that he cursed.He said that this week he went to investigate Le Congqian's love history, and he yelled at her, "What kind of person do you think he is? Do you think the person who runs a rock band is a good person? Do you know the most beautiful person in the world? Are they the ones who cause the chaotic relationship between men and women? Do you know that there is a word called groupie? Do you think that it is guaranteed that he is from a famous family in Jinjiang like you? Do you think that he will not be a bad person if he has been a student of our uncle? Where did you get the confidence to allow yourself to act like this?"

Yu Jin was dumbfounded by his question, unable to answer for a long time.Anzu has always been amiable and pleasant, treating her like a princess on a rose petal, how could he swear so harshly?She has always respected Anzu, and knew that Anzu was doing it for her own good, so she would not fabricate such a lie to separate her and Le Congqian.But to make her believe it is to gouge her heart.

So, after a while, she said, "You're talking nonsense..."

She spoke weakly and terrified.

Anzu sneered and said, "Am I talking nonsense? I saw the truth with my own eyes. You know who I am and where I will go. Some people in this circle are also groupies. They told me that when they saw My sister is hanging out with the keyboard player in SOUL, and they can't wait for you to join them."

Yu Jin never thought that her love would be a dream.She just doesn't believe it.She pushed Anzu away and said, "I'm going to ask him."

She stumbled down the apartment building, got into the little red Beetle, ran over the slick streets where the snow had melted into water, and sped towards the school on the other side of the city.

She forgot that her car needed gas, and she drove very fast all the way.At the gate of Le Congqian's school, the car lost control and crashed into the roadside fence, denting the front of the car.The steering wheel dug hard into her ribs, squeezing the air out of her chest.She didn't feel any pain, and she could still move her hands.She took out her mobile phone and dialed Le Congqian's number, and said intermittently: "Le Congqian, if you deny it, I will believe it." After she finished speaking, she moaned loudly.

Le Congqian was frightened by her words, and asked repeatedly: "Where are you? What happened?"

A passerby on the side of the road saw a car accident here and hurriedly called an ambulance.Seeing that there was a mobile phone in Yu Jin's hand, and someone was asking a question, he picked it up and answered, telling him where the owner of the mobile phone was in a car accident.

Le Congqian was really scared out of his wits.He heard clearly that the car accident was right at the gate of his school, so he ran over in a hurry, pulled the people beside the car, jumped on the side of the driver's seat, looked at Yu Jin, who had no blood on his face, and said, "Honey, I'm sorry."

After hearing this, Yujin moved his eyes to the sky, and never looked at him again.

The ambulance came, dragged Yu Jin out of the car seat, touched it, and said that it had broken a rib.Followed by busy hands and feet onto the gurney and onto the ambulance.

Le Congqian followed behind the gurney and wanted to get in the car, Yu Jin moved his eyes back to his face, which was icy cold.

"What did you say to me on Clifton Bridge?"

Le Congqian turned pale and stepped back.

Enduring the huge pain in his chest, Yu Jin said, "Give me the phone, I want to notify my relatives."

An Zu rushed to the hospital and accompanied Yu Jin to complete the operation.The two never talked about Le Congqian.After the ribs were fixed, Yu Jin lay on the hospital bed, and when Anzu was not around, he whispered to the doctor, "Take an AIDS test."

Fortunately, the doctor said everything was fine after the examination, and Yu Jin felt relieved, but the unclean feeling surrounded her again.

As for Le Congqian, no one has seen him again.

It was later heard that he died in the River Avon.

When Yu Jin heard about it, he didn't cry or laugh, and only said softly to An Zu: "Why did you come here? If he doesn't come to provoke me, none of this will happen. He formed his band, and I live my life." .We were originally two people who had nothing to do with each other. I was hurt because of him, and he died because of me. He is dead, and I will never have anything to do with him from now on. One life is in my hands."

Anzu said: "You feel too much guilt. He committed suicide because he regretted the original dissolute behavior. He didn't want to drag you into his circle. In fact, he did so. He made atonement for his behavior."

(End of this chapter)