After spending two days and paying 36 million Hong Kong dollars, Lin Chaoyang and his wife finally won the property rights of No. 75 Deep Water Bay.

In the next few days, Tao Yumo became the busiest person in the family.

No. 75, Deep Water Bay, is more than 20 years old and the house is in very good condition. However, even so, there are still a lot of things that need to be cleaned up after the house was bought.

Tao Yushu had to worry about the company's affairs, but Lin Chaoyang was too lazy to take care of it, so the matter naturally fell on her.

"Wow wow wow!" Maggie Cheung yelled crazily on the super large balcony on the third floor of the villa. Finally, she came to the balcony railing and looked up into the distance, her face full of excitement.

"Oh my God! When will I ever have the opportunity to live in a house like this in my life?"

She sighed excitedly, and before Tao Yumo could say anything, she pointed to the distance and shouted, "That's the Deep Water Bay Golf Course. Whose is that? Is it Superman Li? Or Charter King?"

Tao Yumo slapped her hand away, "Okay, please calm down."

"I can't restrain myself at all!" Maggie Cheung's tone was exaggerated, and her expression was even more exaggerated, "A mansion worth tens of millions.

This is the first time in my life that I have come in."

"Which of the hotels and shopping malls you usually go to is not worth hundreds of millions?"

"Can it be the same? Hotels and shopping malls are just like buses. Anyone can go there. But it's different here. It's destined to be exclusive..."

When Maggie Cheung said this, her eyes narrowed slightly and her brows couldn't help but twitch.

He obviously has the face of a female star, but he has a wretched air about him, like a big man who picks his feet.

Just as men have unscrupulous topics when they get together, the same goes for women when they get together.

Seeing Tao Yumo's disgusted expression, Maggie Cheung couldn't help but hugged her, imitating the tone and expression of the flower-picking thief in the TV series.

"Wow haha! I really wish that I was a man now and could marry you into my family so that I wouldn't have to fight for the rest of my life?

Of course what Maggie Cheung was talking about was that Lin Chaoyang was going to give Tao Yumo a million-dollar mansion.

Tao Yumo struggled to push her hands away and scolded her twice before Maggie Cheung calmed down.

"From now on, you will be neighbors with Superman and Ship King, and we will be people from two different worlds."

Tao Yumo ignored her weirdness and recorded the places that needed to be renovated and the things that needed to be added to the home.

After working for most of the day, when it was almost time, she asked Maggie Cheung to leave.

Before going out, Maggie Cheung reluctantly took a look at this super mansion worth tens of thousands, and said with nostalgia: "I have no hope of living in such a good house in my life."

After saying this, she thought of Tao Yumo next to her.

He immediately hugged his best friend's arm and rubbed it hard, "Sister Yumo, can you leave a bed for your little sister in your multi-million mansion in the future?"

Tao Yumo raised her chin and said meaningfully: "It all depends on your performance!"

"The little girl must—"

Maggie Cheung's charming eyes were as silky as silk, and she was getting into her act when a car suddenly drove by on the road.

The two of them were so frightened that they immediately covered their faces.

When the car was far away, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief and quickly got in the car and left.

I didn't dare to be skinny anymore, I almost died on the spot.

In the evening, as soon as Tao Yumo returned home, Adi told her that there was a call from Yanjing looking for her.

"Who?"

"Tell me about your classmate, whose surname is Guo."

"I said you were not at home and asked her to call later."

Tao Yumo nodded, having a rough idea.

My classmate, whose surname is Guo, must be Guo Jianmei, but I don’t know why she suddenly called me.

In the past two years, Yanjing has opened 20 two-way telephone lines to Hong Kong and Japan. International long distance calls have become much more convenient than before. She checked the time. The Telegraph Building is one of the few units in Yanjing that works 24 hours a day. Guo Jianmei thought she would come back later.

Call again.

About half an hour later, the phone rang at home, and Tao Yumo took the initiative to answer it.

"Jianmei, why did you think of calling me on your own initiative?"

"What?"

Tao Yumo was still smiling when he first answered the phone, but after hearing something said on the other end of the phone, his expression suddenly changed.

There is sadness on the face.

"What's wrong?" Lin Chaoyang, who was playing with the child, asked her.

"Okay, I understand."

Tao Yumo hung up the phone with a low voice and looked at Lin Chaoyang, "Hai Sheng passed away!"

"who?"

"Zha Haisheng, my classmate, we are also colleagues at the University of Political Science and Law, the one who writes poetry.

Tao Yumo said these words in one breath, not so much to explain to Lin Chaoyang, but to persuade himself to accept this reality.

She was still so young, her parents were still alive, and it was the first time she experienced the departure of a familiar peer. You can imagine the impact she felt in her heart.

On the afternoon of March 26, on a section of slow-moving railway track from Shanhaiguan to Longjiaying, Zha Haisheng, whose pen name was Haizi, committed suicide by lying on the track.

Beside the railroad tracks, there are four books he carried with him: "The Bible", "Walden Pond" and "A Raft on the Ocean"

"Selected Novels of Conrad".

Tao Yumo recalled what Guo Jianmei said on the phone, and there seemed to be a huge roar in her mind, making her unable to think or speak.

Tao Yumo and her generation of college students have very good relationships with each other. Moreover, she and Zha Haisheng have been colleagues for three years and they get along very well.

After receiving this news suddenly, she needed a process of acceptance.

After a long while, she looked at the teacup with white mist on the coffee table, and then she gradually regained consciousness.

"Brother-in-law, Hai Sheng committed suicide by lying on the train." Tao Yumo repeated the news.

"I know, it's such a shame."

"You said he was so promising and good, how could he commit suicide?" Tao Yumo's eyes were full of confusion.

"Maybe he is jealous of the talent." Lin Chaoyang consoled him.

Since Zha Haisheng graduated, he has lost contact with Lin Chaoyang.

The last time they met was in 1983 when he and Tao Yushu sent Tao Yumo to work in Changping. At that time, Zha Haisheng was still a high-spirited young man.

Zha Haisheng is a genius, both in terms of IQ and talent.

At the age of 15, he was admitted to Yanda University from a rural village in Huaining, Anhui Province. He was truly from a poor family. His talent in poetry writing was already revealed in school, but this was also the problem.

He was too young, and before he had time to establish his own world view, values ​​and outlook on life, he was already overwhelmed by the new knowledge and things that came in like a tide in the 1980s and lost his direction.

In him, purity, simplicity, paranoia, and sensitivity were brought together, which are the character problems that most poets have, but these were not enough to make him lose his life.

After Zha Haisheng committed suicide, doctors diagnosed his death as "died from schizophrenia." The University of Political Science and Law also handled his suicide accordingly.

How could a good, talented student and talented poet be mentally ill?

The reason is very simple, Zha Haisheng practices Qigong.

He first practiced Qigong because he heard from his friends that it was helpful for writing and could give people an extraordinary feeling.

One time he vowed to his friend Xi Chuan that he had opened Xiao Zhou Tian.

Then he began to have auditory hallucinations. He always felt like someone was talking in his ear, and felt that his lungs were rotten. Various physical hallucinations made him suffer mental torture.

Before committing suicide, Zha Haisheng wrote several suicide notes, calling his colleagues Taoist scum, saying that someone wanted to harm him, and asking his parents to avenge him.

In his last suicide note, he said, "My death has nothing to do with anyone."

Many people in later generations romanticized Zha Haisheng's death and attributed the cause to his character and mental shock from the outside world. However, the fact that he suffered from mental illness due to practicing Qigong is irrefutable, and it was also the most direct reason for his suicide.

Tao Yumo rambled on about many of his past experiences in school, his words full of sadness.

After saying these words, she decided to go back to the mainland and attend Zha Haisheng's funeral to express her friendship with her classmates.

On the third day after Tao Yumo left, Li Shifei suddenly ran to Xiangjiang and appeared in front of Lin Chaoyang with a grimace on his face.

"Chaoyang, how could you do such a thing?"

Li Shifei's expression was heartbroken.

Ever since the manuscript of "Enter the Master" was released, he knew that Li Shifei would definitely come to visit him.

"We have been in a relationship for so many years, and I actually heard the news that "Enter the Master" was going to be published in "Harvest" from someone else's mouth!

If you want to publish it, why don't you come to us at "Flower City"?"

"It's a long story." Lin Chaoyang said perfunctorily.

"Then keep your story short." Li Shifei refused.

Lin Chaoyang ignored his bluff and changed the subject: "I asked Sister Xiaolin to send you a copy after finishing the manuscript. Have you received it?"
To be continued...