Chapter 12
Chapter 12
may we die well
"Grass." Xia Qianchen gritted his teeth and cursed, "You really know how to pick places!"
Zhong Su clicked his tongue, "I didn't know it before I came in."
Xia Qian glared at him, "Then how do you know now?"
Zhong Su looked around vigilantly, lowered his voice, and moved closer to him, "Because the two girls next to me who were buying milk tea with the bartender were...kissing."
"Girl, what's the matter with a kiss?"
"But they kissed for five seconds." Zhong Su said.
Xia Qianshen calmed down and asked him, "I rely on you to peek at other people's kisses?"
Very poor quality!
Zhong Su: "What can I do, the tissue box is in that direction."
After finishing speaking, Zhong Su wiped off the wine stains from the corner of Xia Qianchen's mouth with the tissue paper in his hand.
"Then what should we do now, will we be forked out as heretics?" Xia Qianchen asked sincerely.
Zhong Su said: "Don't be so panic, we are consumers, business is difficult these days, his bar is willing to sell milk tea, and he won't fork the straight man out."
The young man who just came to strike up a conversation returned to his friend and said very disappointedly: "That handsome guy has a boyfriend."
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Zhong Su said to give him some time, and Xia Qianchen patiently did not go to the restaurant where he worked during the whole vacation.
On the night of the last day of the holiday, Xia Qianshen found a pair of old racing gloves from the bottom of the storage box.There are three characters embroidered on the inside of the glove, Lin Anye, his father's name.
Director Xia burned all his father's things about racing, and Xia Qianshen still took this road.
Xia Qianchen sat cross-legged on the ground, and put on the gloves in a strange way.
Like the hot-blooded comics he has read, this kind of thing seems to be able to transmit some power in the dark, or to resonate...
However, it was his own doorbell that answered him.
Zhong Su bought some drinks, beer, and some snacks such as potato chips and chocolates. In short, he took some of what was still available in the convenience store at this time.
Xia Qianchen: "What's wrong?"
Zhong Su's eyes were on his gloves, "You are..."
"Oh." Xia Qianchen said, and took it off, "It's nothing, uh...an old thing, do you have anything to do?"
"Let's talk?" Zhong Su asked, "Tell me why I am so poor, and why I must run to the ring tower with you."
Xia Qian smiled deeply, and stepped aside, "Please come in."
"It doesn't look poor." Xia Qianchen picked up the things Zhong Su brought, "Can I drink this?" He took out the only box of chocolate milk.
Zhong Su took off his coat, "Drink."
Xia Qianchen's home is decorated without partitions, a large flat floor of 270 square meters, located in a high-end community in City A, with panoramic floor-to-ceiling windows on the 16th floor.
He thought for a while, opened the curtains, then walked to the sofa and sat down, poked on the straw, "Let's talk."
"You remember I told you that Jing Ran retired because of some pain." Zhong Su opened the can of beer with one hand, turned sideways, and clinked a glass with Xia Qianchen's chocolate milk.
Xia Qian nodded, "I remember."
"He...he didn't want others to know, but I asked for his opinion two days ago." Zhong Su paused, took a sip of beer, and continued, "He said he could tell you."
"It's okay." Xia Qianchen said, "I'm not too curious, don't be so serious, if he wants to keep this secret, don't tell me."
Zhong Su looked at him calmly for a while.
Until Xia Qianchen felt a little weird.
"Jing Ran retired because he had a tumor in his head." Zhong Su said, "We were on the SS9 Kunlun Sky Road around the tower, and I made a command error."
"When Feipo landed, the car body was uneven, and Jing Ran hit his head hard...Although he kept telling me that the tumor had been there since before the ring tower..."
"The doctors said he only had two to eight years, and I felt like I couldn't watch him die, whether it was because of my misdirection or not."
After Xia Qianchen listened, he licked his lips, "Do you think...the impact of Feipo's landing made his condition worse?"
"Yeah." Zhong Su nodded, "Thinking about it later, it's a slope where you can't fly. The altitude is too high. If people are deprived of oxygen, the car will also be deprived of oxygen. I was negligent."
Xia Qianchen put down the milk and turned to open a can of beer, "Then what?"
"Jing Ran doesn't want to be cured anymore, as you know, once the craniotomy is done, he will never be able to go on the track again in his life." Zhong Su clinked glasses with him, and the two took a big gulp each.
Zhong Su continued, "But I have been forcefully taking him to the hospital. I have seen many experts in different cities and hospitals, but the tumor is located near the cerebral artery. Among the doctors I have seen, none of the doctors dared to open it. skull."
Director Xia is a surgeon, and Xia Qianshen also knows a little bit.
"But even if he doesn't have a craniotomy, he won't be able to... go on the track again." Xia Qianchen said, "But he still needs to see his illness."
"He's quite stubborn, and his whole mentality is a bit distorted after the diagnosis." Zhong Su sighed and leaned forward.
Xia Qianchen suddenly remembered the day when he was surveying the road for the first time in Huique Mountain, when the Land Rover almost slipped, Zhong Su loosened his seat belt and rushed over to cover his head.Maybe it triggered some of Zhong Su's fears, "You didn't want me to hit my head that day on Gray Bird Mountain?"
"A little."
The two drank two cans of wine in silence, Xia Qianchen said: "So you need money, let Jing Ran see a doctor."
"Well..." Zhong Su smiled wryly, "He went to travel around the world, and he didn't want my money either. He canceled the card number I kept transferring money to. I'm not really poor, I have savings, I'm I want... I want to save more money, in case he wants to be cured one day and wants to continue treatment, then I can take out how much money he needs at that time."
Xia Qian nodded, "I understand."
"Qian Chen." Zhong Su turned around and looked at him, "Jing Ran is my only brother since I was a child. His family is kind to me. I don't have parents. Jing Ran's parents raised me. Ran's family members... still don't know about it."
"Then." Xia Qianchen asked in astonishment, "Then how can I hide this kind of thing?"
"Jing Ran said let's procrastinate." Zhong Su clinked glasses with him again, "Two to eight years, this year is already the second year."
Xia Qianshen moved his position, moved closer, and patted him on the shoulder, "You...you should be optimistic. You haven't had a craniotomy, you haven't had a biopsy, and you don't know the nature of the tumor. Anything is possible."
Zhong Su nodded, "I'm sorry, I kept it from you for so long, but the reason why Jing Ran didn't disclose it was because he didn't want the news to reach his parents' ears."
"Oh, it's okay, I can understand." Xia Qianchen smiled, "Let's run around the tower once, answer all the advertisements that can be answered, and tie up all the surgeons in the world to Jing Ran for consultation."
Zhong Su let out a chuckle, "Sit in prison, my friend."
"Actually..." Zhong Su leaned back on the sofa, "It's much easier to say it."
"Really?" Xia Qianchen only sat on the front of the sofa and looked back at him.
Zhong Su nodded, "I thought I wouldn't care what other people think of me, but actually... I'm quite embarrassed to be caught working part-time in a restaurant by you."
"What's the matter? I still drive online car-hailing."
Zhong Su sat up and slapped Xia Qianshen's cheeks with a beer can, "You use a Porsche to drive an online car-hailing car."
"Hiss." Xia Qian frowned deeply, "Donglian, I mean neither stealing nor robbing, so I'm not ashamed to make money."
"I don't know either." Zhong Su seemed a little dazed from drinking, "That's right, it's okay if other people you know see, such as Nana and Lao Hu, but I don't want to be seen by you."
Lao Hu is their maintenance worker.
"Oh, I haven't kissed Lao Hu in your heart yet." Xia Qianchen pretended to understand and continued to drink.
Zhong Su rushed over to snatch his beer, "Stop drinking it, start talking nonsense."
"Is it really easy to say it?" Xia Qianchen asked again.
The moon to mid-day outside, the panoramic floor-to-ceiling windows have been wiped clean, and the night view of the city outside is like a movie lens.
Street lights, car lights, neon lights.
Looking at the city from the night sky is also like looking at the Milky Way.
Xia Qianchen put down the beer can, walked over, took the pair of racing gloves, and handed them to Zhong Su.
Zhong Su also put down the wine and took it. This racing glove looked old, and Zhong Su didn't even dare to hold it too hard, holding it in his hand.
"This is my dad's, open it and have a look." Xia Qianchen picked up the wine and took another sip.
Zhong Su lightly opened the mouth of the glove, and the words Lin Anye made his whole body freeze, and he sat still for a long time.
Zhong Su didn't recover until Xia Qianchen had opened another can of beer.
"I met you in the restaurant with my mother that day, and we went to visit my father's grave." Xia Qianchen said.
Even after drinking, Zhong Su suddenly understood.Director Xia didn't want Xia Qian to drive the car again, because Lin Anye died in the Dakar Rally.
More than 20 years ago, Lin Anye was a famous figure in the rally industry, and even today, Lin Anye is still talked about.But at the end of the conversation, it is often a "too bad".
"I have my mother's surname because I was born more than two months after he died in the Dakar Rally." Xia Qianchen said, "My mother hates him very much and doesn't want me to have anything to do with him."
Zhong Su carefully put the gloves on the coffee table, "I understand."
"Didn't expect that." Xia Qianchen said with a smile, "Did you say this is the power of DNA? My family has never had anything related to racing, but now I have become a rally driver."
"Maybe." Zhong Su clinked glasses with him, "This world is quite mysterious."
Xia Qian sighed deeply, and lay down halfway, "Please, go and turn off the light, it's so dazzling."
After the lights in the living room were turned off, there was only city light coming in through the floor-to-ceiling windows.
Cities are greedy, letting themselves shine while hoping that the stars will do the same.
Xia Qianchen turned his head and looked out of the window. After the light in the living room was turned off, he could see clearly outside.
The 24-hour non-stop traffic flow, people are always running around, the city is always busy, people go their own way, people are smiling politely and working hard every day.
Dreams have become unattainable in this era, and the dreams of many people are crushed by the city from the first step out of the campus.This glamorous, murderous city.
So Xia Qianchen could understand both her mother and her father.
Mom wants family and responsibility, Dad wants a lifelong dream.
Mom hopes to live a stable life in the city, and Dad hopes to gallop in the desert wasteland.
He suddenly wanted to cry, then he turned around, his drunken cheeks flushed slightly, and looked at Zhong Su.
He asked: "If one day I die on the track, my mother will hate me like my father."
Zhong Su couldn't answer this question, he could only say: "I don't know, because if you die on the track, I can't live."
"Then you don't have to face my mother, it's a good thing." Xia Qianchen said, "My mother is so fierce, when the time comes, you will be dissected alive, and your kidneys will be used as kidneys, as well as your liver, The heart, cornea, and skin can also be cut off and planted for others."
Zhong Su was helpless, "That's still... I hope we all die well."
"May we die well." Xia Qianshen raised his glass.
"I wish us a worthy death." Zhong Su clinked glasses with him, and finished it all with his head raised.
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