Chapter 76

At 5 PM, Hongzhi walked out of the Shaxian snack shop downstairs in the residential area slowly. This time he didn't owe money, but paid back all the bills he had escaped before at once. When he came out, he felt that the landlady's eyes on him were a few points gentler.

When he went out, the owner of the snack shop chased after him and patted him on the shoulder lightly.

"What's wrong, do I still have any bills that haven't been paid off?" Liu Liu Hongzhi asked with a smile.

The snack shop owner was happy: "Heh, did you win money? Even your tone of speaking is different?"

"That's it, money is a man's spine. Now even that thing below is cast in gold, so the waist can't be hard even if you want to." Liu Liu Hongzhi said with a smile: "Tell me, what's the matter?"

"Nothing much." The shop owner wiped his hands on his apron, his face was slightly serious, quite like an elder who was earnest and well-meaning: "It's not a day or two that you owe money at my place. You suddenly came to pay it all back today, I guess you won money.

I won't ask how much you won, you keep it all yourself, it's best to pay back your gambling debts, don't go gambling again, go find a decent job... Don't let your parents worry."

"Okay, okay, I know." Hongzhi waved his hand and left the Shaxian snack shop.

The owner looked at his dashing back as he left and sighed heavily. The landlady behind him stepped forward: "This person is like this, he gets cocky when he wins a little money, doesn't remember the pain, and it is estimated that he will lose it all soon and owe a debt."

"Poor his old mother, who is over eighty years old and still has to do housekeeping for people..."

The couple chatted at the door for a while and then went back to the shop to get busy. Liu Liu Hongzhi in the distance gradually walked away, the dashing smile on his face gradually disappeared, leaving only a face of lingering fear and hesitation.

The young couple in the snack shop thought he had won money by chance and ran to squander it, but only Liu Liu Hongzhi himself knew that he hadn't won money at all. The reason he had money to pay back the previous debts and gambling debts was because he... sold his life yesterday.

With bone-deep palpitations and fear, Liu Liu Hongzhi walked into a high-end restaurant and ordered a table of the most expensive dishes and the highest-grade wine without looking.

The dishes were on the table, the wine was opened, and the tempting aroma was pungent, but he couldn't raise any appetite. It is difficult for a dying person to be interested in enjoying the happiness of the living.

The waiter standing on the side saw this and stepped forward, asking politely: "Sir? Is there anything you are dissatisfied with?"

"Hmm..." Liu Liu Hongzhi shook his head: "I'm going to the bathroom."

"Okay, the bathroom is in..."

Liu Liu Hongzhi, dressed in rough clothes, walked through the magnificent corridor of the high-end restaurant and walked straight into the bathroom door. That was the cleanest and tidiest bathroom he had ever seen in his life.

Liu Liu Hongzhi didn't go to the bathroom, but walked straight to the sink and turned on the faucet to wash his face with cold water.

Raising his head, the water droplets hanging on his eyelashes blurred his vision. The mirror on the wall reflected a haggard man with a sallow face and thin body. The stubble on his face was sparse and messy, and the canvas jacket on his body had suspicious oil stains. The waiter didn't call him a beggar, which was purely because of the high service quality.

Looking at his hazy self in the mirror, Liu Liu Hongzhi's mouth shriveled, and he cried, unable to stop.

"Mom..."

Liu Liu Hongzhi covered his face with both hands, sobbing so that his crying would not spread outside the bathroom.

He still remembers 'that thing' he encountered last night.

Last night, Liu Liu Hongzhi had just lost the five hundred yuan he got from stealing an electric bike at the gambling table. Because he hid cards in his crotch, he was beaten black and blue and driven out.

He was cold, hungry, and in pain. He walked down to the bridge hole along the sidewalk by the river in a daze, intending to ask the guys under the bridge for something to eat.

It was drizzling by the river that day. Liu Liu Hongzhi looked at the river with rolling white waves, and suddenly had an urge to jump down. He bit his lip and walked a few steps towards the shore. Suddenly, a voice came from behind:

"Don't be in a hurry to jump, buddy."

Liu Liu Hongzhi turned his head and saw a tall and thin man wearing a well-tailored high-end windbreaker and a ferocious and terrifying ghost mask on his face.

The masked man stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder. The low and hoarse voice seemed to come from hell: "Is it that you can't live, or you don't want to live?"

Liu Liu Hongzhi was a little confused: "Is there any difference?" "The difference is huge." The masked man hugged Liu Liu Hongzhi's shoulder without any disgust, raised his hand and pointed to the wide river ahead: "Not wanting to live is that people don't want to live in the first place. Just like someone who has depression, even if he is given brocade clothes and jade food, he feels that living is meaningless. He just wants to die.

Not being able to live is that life is too bitter, so bitter that it is better to die than to live.

Just being bitter is not the most terrible thing. The most terrible thing is that this bitter life cannot be seen at a glance. You don't know why you suffer, and you don't know when this bitterness will end. People have no hope for the future. Instead of struggling to survive and suffering for a lifetime, it is better to die early."

Which one are you?

Liu Liu Hongzhi thought seriously: "I... both."

"You seem to be a bit hopeless." The masked man smiled: "Don't think about jumping into the river, buddy. Anyway, you don't cherish this rotten life of yours. Do you want me to name a price and you sell this life to me?"

"Ah?" Liu Liu Hongzhi was stunned: "You, who exactly are you..."

"Knowing too much is not a good thing, brother." The masked man shook his head and said: "You only need to answer whether to sell or not. Sell this life to me, I will help you write off all your gambling debts, and there is another large sum of money for you to squander and enjoy a rich life, how about it?"

"Decide as soon as possible, otherwise I will find someone else..."

The rain that day was not heavy, and Liu Liu Hongzhi didn't drink much wine, but the outline of this masked man of unknown origin was so blurred and chaotic, like a wisp of ethereal smoke.

Ghostly, Liu Liu Hongzhi nodded.

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When he came back to his senses, he was already lying in the cold bridge hole. There was no masked man in a windbreaker, and no deal to sell his life. Everything he experienced just now felt like a dream, and what awaited him was still the next day in a daze.

Until this afternoon, when he paid with WeChat at the Shaxian snack shop, it showed insufficient balance again. Hongzhi clicked on bank card payment with some joking thoughts.

He knew there hadn't been a dime in his bank card for a long time.

But unexpectedly, the payment was successful.

Liu Liu Hongzhi frantically used the shop's wifi to re-download the bank client. When he logged into his account, he failed face recognition several times because of his stubble... When that incredible balance appeared on the screen, a thunderbolt passed through his brain.

He really sold his life.

"Will I die..." Thoughts flew back to the present, Liu Liu Hongzhi wiped the water droplets on his face with trembling hands, looked at himself in the mirror who was like a madman, and his mouth twitched pathologically.

He left the bathroom and returned to his private room to gorge himself on a table of delicacies.

A few minutes after Liu Liu Hongzhi left the bathroom, a beautiful butterfly landed quietly on the sink.

"Okay, got another life." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe stood in Liu Liu Hongzhi's original position. The outline of twisted organs began to rise on his face in the mirror. This was a sign that he had acquired too many memories in a short time, and his self-cognition was shaken again.

"I am Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe." He stared at his eyes and said.

"I am also Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe." He said again.

"We are all Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe..."

After branding himself with the Thought Steel Seal again to stabilize his mind, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe turned into a butterfly and left the hotel.

He is going to do a dangerous thing next, and needs to be prepared to die there in advance.

And the reason for buying a life from Liu Liu Hongzhi has no high-sounding legitimate reason, simply because this rotten gambler has been soaking in the smelly swamp on the edge of society for many years, and no one will care even if he dies at any time.

Maybe his old mother would care? Who knows.

(End of chapter)