He's not a deity either

He Yu is standing far away, in a remote corner.

So not many people noticed him.

Right now, this alleyway that wasn't a famous site or a Netflix attraction was surrounded. So many people holding up their cell phones were yakking.

And not long ago, Xie Qingcheng returned to Stormy Lane.

Xie Qingcheng came back by taxi.

--

Because yesterday and He Yu crazy too long, when he woke up already early, plus the subsequent payment of quarrel entanglement, back to Stranger Rain Alley when the sky is already dark, under normal circumstances, this time everyone should be at home to eat dinner.

But that's not the case at the entrance to Stormy Lane.

Xie Qingcheng called the neighborhood to find a lot of police standing at the entrance of the alley, the police are some people holding up cell phones to take pictures and videos of the people blocked outside.

"This is the only place the car can be parked." The driver said, looking at the one-way street in front of him.

"Then stop here, please."

Xie Qingcheng settled the bill, long legs just stepped off the taxi, suddenly blinding flashing white light in front of him. He thought for a moment that his body is too difficult, blurred, and then realized that the police blocked the onlookers in his crazy photo and video. The people who didn't know it would have thought there was a celebrity.

"That's him!"

"Xie Qingcheng, can you answer what the Cantonment Tower murder case has to do with you?"

"Why were your videos put up by criminals? Why were yours released instead of others? Are you associated with the Cheng Kang psychiatric hospital?"

"Why aren't you going to clear the air when the Internet says you were also involved in a plot to impose house arrest and molestation on mentally ill women?"

"Xie Qingcheng , why are you insulting Prof. Qin Ciyan? He's the unrivaled scholar of the country! You have no conscience! You can still be a doctor and a teacher! Get your ass in jail!"

Xie Qingcheng already knew the situation before he came here, because of the case of the Huda Broadcasting Tower, their family is now the unlucky one standing in the limelight. Someone spread the address of Xie Qingcheng's house on the Internet, so the small netizens who make videos or the simple-minded passers-by all started to smell the blood pomfret, and flocked to Stormy Lane in a heap.

Not only was paint thrown at his house, but his neighbors were also involved.

Auntie Lai rushed out to argue with them, but she was videotaped and posted on the internet, saying that it was Xie Qingcheng's mom, the shrew, who was making a scene.

Xie Xue was said to be even more outrageous, and was directly identified as Xie Qingcheng's junior wife, a mistress.

The person who posted the video made a good chunk of traffic as a result.

Later, Xie Xue cried and reported to the police, the police came, Chen Man also came, and drove these people out of the alley, and the ones who made a lot of noise were directly sent to the police station by Chen Man to drink tea.

Other people see this, although they do not dare to splash paint to disturb the public, but there are still a lot of people gathered around the entrance of the alley and refused to disperse, they know that Xie Qingcheng will surely go home, see, this is not back?

"Shoot him!"

"Xie Qingcheng, look at the camera."

"......"

Look at your mom.

Xie Qingcheng simply ignored them, but also really like a big brother out of the street, threw on the door of the car and pulled open the police cordon to go inside with a calm face. The small broken cab of Huzhou was brought out by him to be the supercar of a gangster.

"Brother! Brother!!!"

The alley was quiet, Xie Xue sat on a small stool in front of her house, and as soon as she saw Xie Qingcheng, she leaped over, and with over ninety pounds of weight attached to acceleration, Xie Qingcheng's already painful waist was almost broken by her, and she took two steps backward.

If this were usual, her big brother would be able to casually catch her with one hand, and even carry her around several times, but now Xie Qingcheng couldn't even withstand this lunge, Xie Xue froze for a moment, and raised her red eyes, "Brother, what's wrong with you? Are you not feeling well?"

"...... It's fine." Xie Qingcheng coughed lightly, "Didn't stand still."

Chen Man also came over, "Brother Xie."

Neighbors are in the yard, masters and uncles, aunts and uncles, shaking bushels, chasing mosquitoes and flies, saw Xie Qingcheng returned, all looked at him.

No one's talking.

Auntie Lai was sitting under the old camphor tree in her flowery nightgown, wiping her tears, and a pair of old slippers were worn backwards, shuffling on her feet.

Xie Qingcheng hugged Xie Xue, soothingly patting the head and back of the girl in her arms, and looked around - because of the influx of netizens who had been making videos before, this alleyway, which had never been shabby but was quiet and elegant, was in a mess, with flower pots smashed at Master Liu's uncle's house, Aunt Zhao's fence lifted, and even the dog kennel of the son of the next-door king and elder sister, the Husky, was crowded into a pile of rotten wood. The kennel of the husky raised by Big Sister's son was squeezed into a pile of rotten wood.

That dog stood stupidly by the side, probably still haven't slowed down until now, he thought to himself, isn't he the king of home demolition? How come these people are more animal than him, tearing down his kennel?

What's even more eye-catching is that the walls, doors and windows of Xie's house, along with those of the two neighboring homes, were splattered with blood-like paint, and a few distorted and shocking words, "Get out," were written in scarlet spray paint.

Xie Qingcheng's mental quality was really good, facing such a scenario, he was actually not crushed, and he didn't even suffer too much of a shock - also, after last night's events, what else could stimulate him now.

He just felt that he had dragged others over the top, and after a long silence, he turned back to the neighbors in the yard who did not say a word and said, "...... Sorry. Disturbing you all."

The evening breeze rustled through the compound, blowing through the loquat trees, the ivy, and the nightgowns and pajamas of old aunts and uncles.

After a while--

"Shay ah ......"

Grandma Zhang opened her mouth.

Xie Qingcheng did not respond, he thought it was calling Xie Xue. He has not been called Xie Xue by the neighbors for many years, people think he is cold and powerful, they call him Professor Xie Dr. Xie.

Shay was still the name they used to call him when he was in school.

It wasn't until Grandma Zhang came trembling over, stretching out her old bark-like hand and clutching his arm, that he realized it was actually him she was calling out to.

"That, Xiao Xie ah, you don't be afraid ah ...... we all put the cell phone in the head of the house, no one took it on the body, here won't be anyone to shoot you to harm you ......"

Xie Qingcheng was stunned.

It was only then that he saw some worried tears filling Grandma Zhang's cloudy old eyes.

"It s okay Good boy, go home and get a good night s sleep, there are police outside, they can t get in, the yard we will clean it ...... Don t think so much, it s okay, it s okay ah."

"Yeah, Shay, it's okay."

"That's all a bunch of ghosts in human skin, don't take those internet celebrities too seriously."

"Yeah, and I've had this fence up for over ten years, so it's just as well to get a new one if it breaks."

"Thank you brother, my kennel can also be replaced with a big kennel, this is still ah woo when he was a child to buy it, he now sleeps too crowded."

Xie Qingcheng just outside quite numb, nothing to feel, verbal violence for him is the most indifferent thing, but the dust floating chip, no need to mind, he even lazily share a look to the other side, as long as it does not hurt people is good.

But at this moment, when he looked at these old neighbors who had been together for more than twenty years, he suddenly felt something break open in his heart, rolling, but with a dull ache.

"...... I'm really sorry to have bothered you guys to this point."

He didn't know what to say, especially when he saw that the white orchid plant that Uncle Liu's family had raised in the yard had also been trampled, and the pavilion-like flowering tree had fallen between the messy mud and broken pottery.

His heart also looked like it had been cut by the shards of the clay pot, looking at Uncle Liu's already hunched figure, "...... This is still what Aunt Sun used to plant."

Aunt Sun is the old companion of Master Liu s uncle, got lung cancer, went away a few years earlier, she loved white orchids the most when she was alive, this one was planted by her own hands more than twenty years ago, when she was still a big sister with a loud voice it ...... was also Master Liu s uncle who was a big uncle with a straight body.

The flower tree, which had not been broken by twenty years of wind and rain, had its trunk snapped at the waist under the stampede of the crowds that had come in that one night.

Uncle Liu looked at the annual wheel in the trunk of the tree out of focus, each round is like the shadow of the past good years, is her smile ripples.

Xie Qingcheng is a tough guy, but this time, after he was silent for a long time, his voice was still unable to be suppressed, and it was a bit hoarse: "Uncle ......, I am sorry."

"...... ah ah, all right ah, Xiao Xie." After a long time, Uncle Liu froze back to his senses, he walked over on his crutches and patted Xie Qingcheng's back, just like the uncle who worked in the steel mill when he was a child, patting the teenager with his big, tower-like hands.

"It's okay, it's just a tree, it's good that people are okay, it's good that people are okay. The tree ...... tree can ...... be planted again well ......"

But the old man couldn't help but look down and wipe his tears as he spoke.

Everyone knows that it is not the same tree, the person who planted the tree has become the bones of the spring, and the tree has finally gone with the fragrance.

Uncle Liu wiped away his tears, and on his wrinkled face, he tried to primp out a smile: "This tree was bought back from the flower and bird market by you for Wan Yun at that time. Your parents helped her plant it, do you think I'm senile? I still remember it all."

"That's right, Xiao Xie, we've lived together for more than 20 years. What kind of people are you, what kind of people are your parents, don't you know? What's the word on the street? You and Xiao Xue are still neighbors, so don't be alarmed, okay? Quickly go inside and rest, wash up, you look like you're in good shape."

"That is to say ah, quickly go to wash it, face so ugly, hey, nong father and mother alive to heartache ah heartache dead ......"

Xie Xue raised her head from Xie Qingcheng's arms, looked at everyone with tears in her eyes, couldn't hold back any longer, and once again buried her head into her brother's arms, letting out a loud cry.

Xie Qingcheng repeatedly thanked and apologized, and finally took Xie Xue and the others back to the house.

Chen Man and Auntie Lai also entered their room.

Looking out from inside the house, the paint spattered on the windows looked more like hideously dancing blood.

Xie Qingcheng : "......"

Chen Man : "Brother Xie, don't worry too much, these people are just like locusts crossing the border, all of a sudden, they passed, they are considered to be provoking trouble, I invited my colleagues to properly find them one by one to settle the score. In these days, Stranger Rain Lane will be guarded by the police, there will not be any more problems ......"

Xie Qingcheng lightly coughing, he was already sore and feverish, at this moment is completely in the strong support, just the room lighting is dark, no one can see that he is obviously sick.

He knocked a cigarette out, tried to light it, saw Auntie Lai, and put the lighter down again.

"......"

"Brother, what do we do now ......"

"Xiao Xie, when the matter of Professor Qin, the middle is what misunderstanding, right? You ...... you have mentioned him a few times before from the former back, are very respectful, you say those words ...... that surely ...... that there must be some reason." Aunt Li wiped her tears, "Can you think of a way, to explain the explanation? Ah? So that there are some people will not be after you, difficult for you ......"

Xie Qingcheng : "......"

"Shay, say something."

Outside the house was a long, thick night.

A few of the closest people in the house were close by.

Xie Qingcheng Slightly trembling fingers unconsciously fiddled with the steel lighter, lit up, the light went out again, lit up, but the light went out again ......

Finally he tossed the lighter aside and closed his eyes, his voice raspy and tired but firm and stubborn: "No."

"......"

"No one has wronged me, I'm the one who said it, and it's all from my heart."

"I did not like the ridiculous things that Qin Ciyan did. I had a change of heart then, and he and I weren't on good terms. That's what I said in the heat of the moment, and I owed it to consideration."

"......"

"But brother--"

"I'm not perfect, Xie Xue.Your brother was just a human being, and would have been scared, and worried, and you were just so young, and I watched him get killed, and there was no way I was going to be able to hold on to the healthcare system anymore ...... I got scared, and I left my job. That's just the way it happened."

A few silences.

Xie Xue's voice was like a helpless kitten, "...... Brother, you even with us, you can't tell the truth?"

Xie Qingcheng was out of his mind for a long time, his eyes seemed to be flashing through the ghosts of the past, he finally closed his eyes and lowered his head, his hand closed and rested against the center of his brow, he whispered, "What I said, is the truth. I am sorry ...... that I have failed you."

The night's conversation ended in a long silence.

Xie Qingcheng is a very stubborn person, something that the three listeners in the room know all too well.

"There's thirty thousand dollars in this card, Auntie Lai, take it. There's no way we can say we won't pay for those things damaged by the neighbor's family. If it wasn't because of this incident with me, they wouldn't have suffered from this for no reason." Xie Qingcheng said, "I'll find a way to deal with the rest of the situation, so don't worry about it at home and don't go outside."

"Shay ......"

Xie Qingcheng's eyes are very similar to his mother's, exactly the same peach blossom eyes as Zhou Muying, exactly the same hardness as Zhou Muying.

Aunt Ri's heart pumped again.

She's an outcast from Keats Hall. When she was young, she worked as a hostess at a nightclub in Huzhou, serving towel-heads. People say she's a whore whose crotch stinks, and Zhou Muying interrogates this woman on a mission to combat pornography and illegal activities.

Li Miaoqing At that time, no one obeyed, holding a cigarette that he asked the police for, sitting in the interrogation room, refusing to give a word.

She said I'm just a bitch with stinky pants, what's the matter, you guys arrested me, I'll turn around and go out and sell it again, I want you to take care of it!

Zhou Muying said, "Li Miaoqing, you're only seventeen. I don't want to send you in. If you go in there, your whole life will be stained with ink when you come out.

I know you don't have parents, no family, here's my card, here's our office number, and this, my home number, private.

You have anything you need you come to me. I'm not just a cop, I'm a woman, a mom. I don't want to see a girl who's not even a teenager go down such a path.

You can call me Mu-ying. You don't have to call me Officer Chow.

I can help you. You don't have to be afraid.

At that moment, it was that pair of peach eyes that looked over at her from the interrogation room.

Li Miaoqing's body felt like an earthquake, and the source of the tremor was the heart that was already full of holes.

She later became one of Zhou Muying's friends from all three religions.

This relationship is maintained very stable, Zhou Muying has been caring for this missing girl, have pity on her on New Year's Day, let her come to their own home for dinner, never look down on her meaning.

When Zhou Muying and Xie Ping were down and out and couldn't find a suitable place to live, Li Miaoqing inquired about a second-hand house deal for them in his own neighborhood, Stormy Lane, and thus became their neighbors.

After twenty years, Li Miaoqing never touched the dirty, unsavory business of making cheongsams, working as a seamstress, and sewing one gorgeous gown after another for Zhou Muying.

Now Li Miaoqing has grown old, and Zhou Muying is a spring chicken.

The last cheongsam she made for Sister Zhou was Zhou Muying's birthday suit, a beautiful brocade, which she had specially sewn with long sleeves to cover Zhou Muying's broken arm.

Because Li Miaoqing knows that Officer Zhou is not just a police officer, she is also a woman, a mother, a wife.

She is in love with beauty.

She's the most beautiful ...... with those determined, bright eyes.

Now these eyes seem to look at Li Miaoqing, whose face has long been wrinkled, through the years.

Xie Qingcheng : "So much has come and gone, this is really nothing to me."

Li Miaoqing let out a sigh, and eventually said nothing more.

Xie Qingcheng settles the women and girls down for the night.

It started to rain outside.

The night is deeper.

Xie Qingcheng put on a fall jacket, took two umbrellas, and handed one to Chen Man.

"Go back early."

"...... Brother, aren t you staying here tonight?" Chen Man was a bit surprised, he thought that according to Xie Qingcheng's character, he would definitely accompany Xie Xue today.

But Xie Qingcheng just couldn't hold out any longer.

His forehead burned like fire and his body was limp and weak, not to mention the unspeakable pain and numbness somewhere.

If Chen Man had been more careful, he would have realized that Xie Qingcheng hadn't sat down much at all tonight.

"Don't live anymore. Something's come up at school, gotta get back to the dorm first."

"I'll give you a ride then ......"

Xie Qingcheng pushed open the door, and a cool autumn rain blew in from outside.

"No need." He palmed the large black carbon handled umbrella, wrapped his fall trench coat tightly around him, and stepped out into the darkness of the night.

There was no way he could disguise himself for much longer; he could feel a cold sweat seeping down his back, hot flashes coming up in bursts after bursts, his face was hot, his eyes dazzled, and half of his sanity seemed to have been taken out of his flesh alive.

Chen Man : "Then you ......"

"Let's go. It's been a hard day for you. You go home early too."

Walking outside the alley, it was already more than two o'clock in the morning, and there were still people waiting outside in the rain, Xie Qingcheng admired their perseverance. He hailed a cab within the cordon, and when it arrived, he put away his umbrella and got into the cab, shutting out the explosion of noise and flashing lights.

He couldn't hold it together once he was in the car, leaning back in the backseat wearily and lifting his hand to close his eyes, "......"

Brother: "Brother, where to?"

"......"

"Big brother?"

It took a second call from the other side for Xie Qingcheng to snap out of his burning blur.

He knew he should actually go to the hospital.

But he didn't want to go at all. What would he tell the doctor if he did?

What had happened in the little room of the clubhouse, with his pride and ruthlessness, he would have preferred to swallow his teeth and blood; he would have preferred to take it with him to the grave. How was he to explain the fever to the doctor?

He's a doctor himself.

Go back and take some anti-inflammatory medicine and forget about it.

Thinking this way, Xie Qingcheng replaced the hospital between his lips with, "Shanghai Medical Faculty Dormitory Building, trouble."

The cab went off in a cloud of dust.

Xie Qingcheng did not see Chen Man standing between the noisy crowd, stood for a long time, the small policeman's brow worriedly wrinkled, finally returned back first back to the stranger rain inside the alley, after a while followed out again.

He didn't even see He Yu sitting behind the glass window in the 24h convenience store across the road, sipping a cup of coffee.

And then He Yu threw his coffee away, pressed the brim of his hat, and walked out of the convenience store.