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    Chapter 59 Which side is the truth?Cheng Cheng found a beauty salon…

    Cheng Cheng stayed in a small hotel near the beauty salon. The boss readily opened a room without even needing his ID card.

    After running around all day, he couldn’t wait to make a video call to Wei Zhi without even taking a shower.

    Soon, that delicate and cold face appeared in front of the screen, and the purple spot on the pale forehead was particularly conspicuous.

    “How are you?” Cheng Cheng hurriedly came closer and looked at the wound distressedly, “Did you fall seriously?”

    Wei Zhi pursed his thin lips, as if he was not the one who was hurt.

    After a while, he suddenly said: “Seriously, will you come back?”

    “I…” Cheng Cheng paused.

    He had just arrived after a day of tossing and hadn’t figured out anything. His father’s house was in danger and he couldn’t just leave like this.

    “Brother Wei, as long as the doctor is here, it will be of no use if I go back.” Cheng Cheng said helplessly as he buttoned a corner of the quilt.

    Wei Zhi turned his head and closed his eyes gently: “Then you can handle the matter and come back.”

    Cheng Cheng knew that he had been working particularly hard these past two days. The bidding meeting for the municipal government project was about to begin. He couldn’t think of anything at all and didn’t want his trivial matters to disturb him.

    “Then I’ll check it out as soon as possible. It’s about my uncle and my dad’s house. I’ll come back when I figure it out.”

    Cheng Cheng hung up the phone, but he was still worried. He always felt that Wei Zhi’s face in the video was not good, and he was not in a good mood.

    Before going to bed, he sent Wei Zhi a few more messages of concern, but Wei Zhi didn’t reply.

    Maybe he fell asleep, Cheng Cheng thought, and fell into sleep uneasily.

    In the dream, he did not sleep peacefully. One moment, his second uncle turned into a monster and ate the house. Another moment, Wei Zhi was sitting on the edge of the cliff. I don’t know what Shen Pingjun said to him. Wei Zhi looked back at him and jumped…

    Weird dreams attacked his brain one after another, causing his brain to be short-circuited when he woke up, and he could only brush his teeth with squinting eyes.

    Maybe the bed at home was too comfortable, but it was very unaccustomed to suddenly sleep on a creaky wooden bed.

    He turned on his phone, but Wei Zhi still didn’t reply to the message. Shen Pingjun took the initiative to send an apology emoji, explaining to him that he had an unexpected job yesterday and didn’t pay attention to the time.

    Cheng Cheng felt uncomfortable after reading the news. There were some things he couldn’t say clearly, so he could only say, “Okay, are you free today?”

    Shen Pingjun quickly replied and told him that he was free all morning.

    Cheng Cheng came to Meijun Beauty Salon again. Xiang Meili from yesterday was sitting at the door eating melon seeds. When he saw Cheng Cheng, he even gave him a wink.

    He pretended not to see it and walked straight in. Shen Pingjun was sitting on the old sofa, holding her head up and playing with her mobile phone with her legs crossed.

    Her hairstyle is still a ponytail tied at the back of her head, but it is not as dark and straight as it was when she was a child, and her hair has become blond and white, much less.

    Shen Pingjun was chewing gum in her mouth. When she saw Cheng Cheng, her eyes lit up and she pulled him to sit down.

    “What do you want to drink? I have tea and coke here.”

    His teeth are still as white as before, but his voice has become a little thicker, and there is a smell of cigarette smoke in his mouth when he speaks.

    Cheng Cheng shook his head: “No, I’m not thirsty.”

    He took out an envelope from his bag. This was the five thousand yuan he had just taken out. He put it in Shen Pingjun’s hand: “This is the thank you fee. No matter what the news you tell me is, I want to thank you for being willing to reply to me. Other people’s messages have been ignored.”

    Shen Pingjun didn’t refuse. He chewed gum and blew bubbles. He bumped the envelope in his hand and said with a smile, “What? You know what I do and you look down on me? Do you want to persuade me to be a good person?”

    She casually put the money on the low coffee table: “If I didn’t do this, how would I know about your second uncle?”

    Cheng Cheng’s eyes widened slightly, and his hand on his side clenched tightly: “You mean he…”

    “Haha, that’s right, he happened to meet me when he came to buy a girl.” Shen Pingjun spit out the candy in her mouth and took a sip of water to clear her mouth. “About three or four months ago, he came to this store with a happy face and said he wanted the most tender girl. As soon as I saw it, I thought this was your second uncle, and I became interested.

    He said that he got rich and met a noble man who took him into the wig business. He made tens of thousands of dollars without doing anything.Your second uncle was quite generous. At least he didn’t owe us girls the fare, and he also gave us a tip. My sisters and I went out to have a good time together.

    He came a few times later and was very generous. But he suddenly stopped coming a month ago. I called to ask, and he said that business was losing money and he couldn’t come.”

    After Shen Pingjun finished speaking, she looked a little tired. She lit a cigarette and smoked it. The smoke filled the small room and made Cheng Cheng unable to help but cough.

    Seeing this, Shen Pingjun put out the cigarette and said with a smile: “Why do you look more like a girl than me? You can’t stand the smell of cigarettes.”

    Cheng Cheng looked at the half-extinguished cigarette: “I used to smoke from time to time, but my wife couldn’t smell the smell of cigarettes at all, so I quit.”

    There was a flash of shock in Shen Pingjun’s eyes: “You are already married when you are only 23 years old?”

    “It’s my birthday soon and I’ll be 24.” Cheng Cheng said with a smile.

    “I really didn’t expect that when you contacted me, you thought you wanted to ‘rekindle an old relationship’ with me.” Shen Pingjun sighed, shook her head, and joked, “After all, we have a relationship through marriage.”

    “Haha,” Cheng Cheng didn’t know what to say, “I played house when I was a kid.”

    “Okay.” Shen Pingjun stood up and threw the stack of money into Cheng Cheng’s arms, “Since you are not interested in me and I am too lazy to talk anymore, I will tell you how this thing is worth so much money. It is not easy to make money, so you can take it yourself. By the way, I remember Cheng Xianggui told me that the wig factory seems to be on Guangping Road, go and find it.”

    After saying that, she touched her ponytail and turned to leave.

    Cheng Cheng stopped her: “Ping Jun, you can take the money and do whatever you want to do for a living. This business is illegal. If you are caught, you will go to jail!”

    Shen Pingjun was silent for a few seconds: “Cheng Cheng, but I have no choice.”

    “What do you mean you don’t have a choice?” Cheng Cheng stared at her closely.

    “Because I have already been in jail for theft, everything is transparent now. As long as people look at my resume, no one dares to hire me.”

    Cheng Cheng took a few steps closer and asked her eagerly: “Ping Jun, do you have something to hide?

    I have always thought you were the best girl in our village.In the past, everyone had playmates who acted as ‘mom and dad’, but I didn’t, so you came over and played with me.And that time someone had my shoes stolen. My feet were so stuck in the mud that I couldn’t walk. You were the one who carried me back, so you couldn’t have stolen anything!”

    Shen Pingjun turned her head and looked up at the ceiling. It seemed like something was slipping down from her face, making it wet.

    Her mother, stepfather, friends, and classmates all didn’t believe her. The only one who believed in her was a childhood friend she hadn’t seen in more than ten years.

    Shen Pingjun suddenly cried and squatted down, hugged herself, and said over and over again: “Yes, yes, I didn’t steal anything…”

    Cheng Cheng didn’t care so much, he pulled her up and helped her to the seat: “What happened?”

    Shen Pingjun smiled self-deprecatingly: “After my parents divorced, I lived with my mother. My mother married a man from the county town. My stepfather loved to drink and beat people when he drank too much.

    I couldn’t stand it anymore, so I dropped out of school and ran away from home to work. The owner of the small restaurant asked me to be his mistress. When I didn’t agree, he raped me.The beast was afraid that I would call the police, so he beat me up first and said that I had stolen money from the hotel. I had no one to turn to and he was imprisoned.”

    Cheng Chenggang was about to speak, but was interrupted by Shen Pingjun. Her tears fell one after another: “Do you know what is the most ridiculous thing? I was desperate and wanted to find that beast to die together, but I found that he had been killed in a car accident! It’s so ridiculous, hahaha!”

    Shen Pingjun wiped away her tears: “I can only live like this…”

    Cheng Cheng’s heart was filled with mixed feelings. The cruelty of reality was like a basin of cold water poured on his head, and anger and sourness spread in his heart.

    “Ping Jun, I have saved more than 50,000 yuan of my own money, and I will lend it all to you. Isn’t it very popular to open online stores through live broadcasts now? You can sell clothes and food, but stop doing this. We have no way to choose the suffering we are born with, and we can’t let ourselves be imprisoned because of other people’s faults. It’s not worth going in again just for the resentment in our hearts.”

    Shen Pingjun leaned on the sofa with half-squinted eyes and looked at him with a searching look in her eyes: “Cheng Cheng, we haven’t seen each other for more than ten years. Aren’t you afraid that I’m lying to you?”

    Cheng Cheng shook his head: “I can tell truth from lies. There is no need for you to make up such a story to lie to me.”

    “You are really,” Shen Pingjun lowered her head, “You are still as stupid as before…”

    She did not refuse the five thousand yuan, and her mood finally returned to calm: “I’m sorry, my aunt came here this morning, and she is emotionally unstable.”

    Cheng Cheng waved his hands quickly: “It’s okay, it’s okay. I’m leaving then. You have a good rest.”

    “Wait!” Shen Pingjun stopped him, “I’ll pack up and go with you. You’re not familiar with that area, and the trails are very difficult to walk. It’s impossible to find the way without someone to guide you.”

    Cheng Cheng looked at her sincere eyes and nodded slightly.

    The name of Guangzhong Road sounds broad and majestic, but in fact it is not even comparable to a country road. It is in a rotten alley, with twists and turns of dirt roads, and the bungalows on both sides are so dark that it makes people breathless.

    Many small factories and workshops are hidden in these alleys. Renting here only costs a few hundred yuan a month, which can reduce the cost a lot.

    Shen Pingjun led the way, looking back to care about Cheng Cheng from time to time: “Be careful, there is a pit here.”

    Cheng Cheng followed her all the way to search, not missing every house, and finally saw a dirty red sign with white letters in an inconspicuous corner, which said “Shiqi Wig Studio.”

    “It should be right here. Go in and take a look. I’ll wait for you outside.” Shen Pingjun stepped aside.

    Cheng Cheng took a few steps forward and found that the door was ajar. As soon as he raised his hand halfway, he heard a scream coming from inside.

    The voice sounded like his second uncle.

    The screams did not stop, and the sound of punches and kicks came out one after another, which was shocking.

    “Please, please, let me go! My wife is half-dead in the hospital now, and my son can’t go to school. That house is mine… You can do whatever you want, use the house to pay off the debt!”

    It was Cheng Xianggui’s voice, intermittent, and one could imagine how bruised and bruised he was.

    There was the sound of several sticks hitting the flesh again, and a rough male voice sneered: “Haha, the boss told us that the house is not yours at all. You can’t even take out the house book, and you still want to lie to me?”

    Cheng Cheng looked in through the crack in the door and saw with his own eyes that Cheng Xianggui was being beaten by several strong men. The leader had a tattoo on his neck that extended from his clothes, and he looked fierce.

    When Cheng Xianggui heard the tattooed man’s words, he seemed to have found a backbone, and his eyes widened: “Shi, where’s Boss Shi!? Boss, I want to see Boss Shi! He must believe what I say!”

    The tattooed man flicked the ashes on his fingertips with contempt: “You still want to find “Boss Shi”, haha! What an idiot, think about it with your pig brain, how many times have you seen him?”

    Cheng Xianggui suddenly raised his head, blood spilled from the corner of his mouth, his eyes almost popped out of his bloodshot sockets, and he muttered to himself: “Boss Shi… Boss Shi…”

    From the beginning, these people helped him pay off his gambling debts. They said that their boss liked his business acumen and invited him to talk to him. However, Boss Shi did not show up. His secretary hurriedly came to convey the boss’s intention and told him the process of reselling second-hand wigs.

    To put it simply, Mr. Shi supplies the goods and asks him to sell the wigs as a middleman, and the profit will be deducted by 64 cents of the cost. He also agrees in advance that all the money will be placed with Cheng Xianggui, and a year later he will transfer it to an overseas account, so that it is not easy to be discovered.

    Cheng Xianggui did make tens of thousands of dollars at the beginning, but gradually he only started to make a few thousand or a few hundred.

    Finally, quality problems with the wigs were discovered. A customer developed widespread allergies after using them, and the police came to the door.Boss Shi was missing at this time and could not be contacted.

    Cheng Xianggui had no choice but to lose money, and in the end he lost all his money, let alone Boss Shi’s six shares of profit.

    Thinking that the matter would be over just like that, he just thought that he had suffered a dull loss, stealing the chicken but losing the rice.

    “Boss Shi” unexpectedly appeared at this time, and these people began to continuously ask for profits from him. He couldn’t get it out, so they forced him to pay back the gambling debt he had filled in before.

    Their family’s reputation was ruined by buying fake goods. No one wanted to get close to them, and no one wanted to borrow money. The only way out was a house…

    But now… Cheng Xianggui understands everything!

    He tried his best to open his walnut-like eyes wide, straightened up half of his body and gritted his teeth: “You are all found by my good nephew! You want to take revenge on me! Okay, Cheng Cheng! Even if I am a ghost, I will never let you go!!!”

    Cheng Xianggui roared out Cheng Cheng’s name, and his muscles and bones were broken again and he fell to the ground, his voice was drowned in the sound of sticks.

    Cheng Cheng clenched his fists tightly and tightened his nails on his palms, wishing he could rush up and beat Cheng Xianggui.

    He kicked open the rusty iron door and walked towards Cheng Xianggui step by step, looking at him resentfully.

    “This is the fruit of what you sow. Cheng Xianggui, your family are all cruel beasts. My father was so kind to you, but you ruined him and ruined the things he left! You should have thought of this day when you kicked me and my mother out!!!”

    Cheng Xianggui recognized the person in front of him, lay motionless on the ground, and suddenly let out a roaring laugh: “Cheng Cheng, it is indeed you. If I had known at that time, I should have killed you directly to prevent you from having such a chance.”

    Cheng Cheng punched Cheng Xianggui hard on the cheek, which had no intact flesh, and grabbed his collar: “Why on earth did you do this?!”

    Cheng Xianggui moved his yellow eyes, opened his mouth full of blood, and his broken teeth exuded a foul odor.

    “Why? Ask your dad. Growing up, his grades were very smart, he was hardworking and capable, he had a fish belly and fish eyes… He is so outstanding in everyone’s eyes. In the eyes of my parents, he will always be Cheng Xiangfu, and there is no such thing as me! I hate him, I hate him! But fortunately, God can’t stand it, so he accepted him for me hahahahaha…”

    Cheng Cheng broke his nose with another punch, and his knuckles were covered with blood. He stood up expressionlessly, took out a tissue from his bag and wiped his hands, and said to the leader of the man with the flowery arm: “You continue.”

    “Squeak,” the iron door opened and closed, and Cheng Cheng walked out, feeling depressed and his eyes sore.

    Seeing how badly he looked, Shen Pingjun guessed something based on the conversation inside and quickly threw the cigarette on the ground and crushed it with her foot.

    Cheng Cheng reluctantly smiled at Shen Pingjun: “Are there any more cigarettes? Give me one too.”

    The two found a corner to squat and smoke. Shen Pingjun rubbed her heels and a piece of the wall fell off. She moved forward a little disgustedly and asked, “Aren’t we going back?”

    Cheng Cheng took a puff of cigarette, squinted his eyes and shook his head: “Waiting for someone.”

    “Your second uncle?”

    “No, I’ll wait for the group of beaters.”

    Cheng Cheng lowered his head to look at the tips of his shoes, and the smoke rings he exhaled lingered in front of his eyes.The original white running shoes had turned gray. Wei Zhixin bought this pair for him.

    He suddenly remembered that he had not reviewed today’s vocabulary and had not memorized the content he should have memorized.

    He turned to look at Shen Pingjun. Shen Pingjun smiled at him. Her smile was still the same as before, unchanged at all.

    Cheng Cheng felt a strong sense of separation. On one side was the swamp where he grew up, and on the other side was the mountain he seemed to have stepped on. The solidity and softness tore him apart.

    Is it true that he enjoys everything Wei Zhi brings to him as a matter of course?Is his hometown the final destination for him?

    Which side is the truth?

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