The Taming of the Ruffian Hero

Chen Yuanxi was going to go back with Zhang Dong, but Zhang Dong stood still, and several policemen came.

Chen Yuanxi turned around and looked at Zhang Dong with doubts, who was standing among a group of armed police. Chen Yuanxi looked at Zhang Dong with a smile. Zhang Dong was tall and powerful. Among these armed police, he was a Triton of the minnows and his temperament as a soldier was no worse than theirs. But why did not he come to Chen Yuanxi?

Zhang Dong smiled and said, “Yuanxi, I can’t accompany you any longer.”

Chen Yuanxi looked at Zhang Dong in disbelief, who was standing alone by the huge and solemn front door of the prison. It was dusk, and the lights had gone on. Zhang Dong’s face was covered with lights of different colors, which covered up his real expression.

“Why?” asked Chen Yuanxi.

Zhang Dong said with a smile, “I surrendered myself, so that I won’t be sentenced too severely. When I’m judged, you need to testify for me.”

“Zhang Dong…” said Chen Yuanxi.

Zhang Dong lowered his head slightly, then he raised his head again and said with a smile, “In fact, I should have done this early. During this period, I was too selfish and wanted to… accompany you.”

Chen Yuanxi looked at the calm smile of the man in front of him and still stood there in a daze, as if he did not know what had happened.

“Don’t you say goodbye to me?” Zhang Dong went to Chen Yuanxi and embraced him with open arms.

“Go to him,” Zhang Dong said in Chen Yuanxi’s ears, “He is the one you called when you had a dream.”

“Zhang Dong, you don’t know that he’s married.”

Chen Yuanxi left Zhang Dong’s arms and came to his sense, as if a strong cold wind had suddenly poured into his mind. He subconsciously ran forward for a few steps.

“Zhang Dong.” Chen Yuanxi called in a low voice.

“Zhang Dong! That thing…” Chen Yuanxi suddenly felt that it seemed superfluous to ask such a question again. On that day, he deliberately said to Zhang Dong in Beijing that Luo Yang and Mo Qian would be sentenced more severely if he turned himself in to testify against them. During those days in Beijing, he had a deep affection for Zhang Dong, at least half of which was sincere. However, he also felt lonely a lot. He even flattered Zhang Dong and urged him to surrender, but he dared not speak directly. That day, it was the first time he and Zhang Dong had had a formal sex, but he called Zhao Yuan on purpose.

But when Zhang Dong was jailed, Chen Yuanxi suddenly realized that he was the only one left in the vast world.

Zhang Dong waved with a smile, which looked like the rosy clouds in the sky. It appeared and disappeared.

Chen Yuanxi looked down at the mud floor and his tears dropped down, splashing the dust all over the world. It seemed that there were two men running forward. Chen Yuanxi wanted to catch up, but he did not know whether to go left or right.

Two months later, it was snowing heavily in Inner Mongolia.

Zhang Dong’s biological mother and adoptive father, together with Lin Wenxi, were surrounding the fire and talking about the past.

Zhang Dong’s parents once returned to the small town because of threat, and were monitored in Inner Mongolia. They had been driven desperate. Later, they were finally escorted to go abroad and lived a comfortable life. Then they were asked to come back to help investigate Mo Qian. Now their hardships had passed, so they warmly welcomed Chen Yuanxi.

Chen Yuanxi knew that Zhang Dong’s parents knew each other after they came to Inner Mongolia with army to construct Inner Mongolia. He also knew that for the sake of Zhang Dong’s education, they sent Zhang Dong to his grandparents’ home in Yangzi County when he was in junior high school.

Zhang Dong had a strong personality since he was a child. He was very independent, but he did not like learning. He was eager to become a soldier and make achievements in the army.

Chen Yuanxi knew that Zhang Dong once had run into a classmate who was beating on the street. He did not say a word and rushed to help. The opponent was a head taller than Zhang Dong, but he just wielded his small fists and beat him back.

Chen Yuanxi knew that Zhang Dong had been in agony for a long time. At last, he joined the army, which no one knew the reason, and then could not be contacted. Zhang Dong’s family later moved back to Inner Mongolia.

Chen Yuanxi knew that there were many girls liking Zhang Dong.

Chen Yuanxi saw many photos of Zhang Dong’s honor hour. At that time, Zhang Dong had a pure and serious smile. However, now his face was full of maturity and vicissitudes of a man in his thirties, there were crow’s feet on the corner of his eyes, and there seemed to be wrinkles on his forehead.

“We don’t know what had happened so that he was wanted at that time, but we got a lot of gifts from him every year. We all know it was he who prepared the red packets and special purchases for the Spring Festival for us.”

Chen Yuanxi lived in the guest room where Zhang Dong had been living when he was a child.

It was still hard to sleep at night. He turned on the stereo, which emitted a wide and distant sound.

“Drink up the alcohol and refill the cup. Let’s drink until we are thoroughly drunk…” It was played again and again.

When Chen Yuanxi first heard this song that night, he did not have such clear feelings. When Lin Ziwei’s case had not been clarified, Chen Yuanxi was regarded as a disloyal and unfilial son by the people in his hometown. Later, he even received numerous anonymous letters from his hometown, which were full of scorn and abuse. During that time, he could not go home. Even if he could return, what could he do? Chen Yuanxi knew that he had no hometown. Those memories in the homeland only existed for one’s existence.

Zhang Dong had wandered alone for a long time and had not gone home to have a look. It seemed that he had once mentioned that his hometown was full of his photos because he was wanted.

“The sky is vast. Where are the geese going? The north is my hometown in my heart…”

Later, there was another song, whose lyrics made Chen Yuanxi feel sad and almost cry.

“The place people can’t reach is called the dream place, and the place people can’t return is called hometown.” Zhang Dong did not mention any of his miss to his hometown to Chen Yuanxi. In the face of Chen Yuanxi, Zhang Dong only had two kinds of expressions, smiling face and anxious face. He smiled and felt worried both because of Chen Yuanxi’s affairs. It seemed that there was nothing about himself. Now, the man who always centered on him, in order to testify against Luo Yang and Mo Qian, entered the prison.

Chen Yuanxi could not help but slap himself hard. In the past two years, all his gains could not hold a handle to what he had lost.

Zhou Nannan had left and lived in seclusion, and there was no news about her from then on. Wang Zhengjuan had married into a rich family. Although she was grateful for her husband’s love and had given birth to a son, she began to believe in Buddhism. No one knew her sadness and happiness. Zhu Hui died suddenly because of Chen Yuanxi’s neglect, so Zhao Yuan lost two relatives again in one night, but he did not say what kind of suffering he had had? When they said goodbye, Chen Yuanxi found that his chin was full of disordered stubble and his body was thin, which greatly tortured Chen Yuanxi. Zhang An’an had devoted a lot to Chen Yuanxi. Although he had his own reasons, because of his incompetence, she had been raped by three people and later lost Wang Xiang. Could she live a happy life with her daughter in the future? Because he wanted to catch Luo Yang and destroyed the rescue plan of Captain Cao who fully trusted him, Gu Xi became a scarred patient from a beautiful young man. Because of his incompetence, they failed to catch Luo Yang in time, causing Zheng Kai to be seriously injured. Would his sequelae be more serious? In order to save Chen Wanxin, Wang Xiang… at that time, he was present, but he just rushed inside, and did not notice that Wang Xiang had rushed downstairs…

Once Hong Xuan caught all the people of the Mo Family, he might turn himself in. He had killed many people, so it was inevitable that he would be sentenced to death.

How many years would Zhang Dong be sentenced in prison?

His biological father Chen Tianjiao, who he hated the most, knew that he would die if he did not go abroad, but still stepped down from the plane.

His adoptive father Lin Ziwei, who he respected the most, had raised him for 19 years, but was the founder of all that year. He had framed Chen Tianjiao and robbed his wife and child…

Life was like a joke.

Chen Yuanxi slowly walked into the snow, and the snow soon covered his back. The world was in endless whiteness.