Chapter 68 Escape

"Nonsense!" Liang Jianwei yelled at Liang Qi, who was lying on the bed receiving IV drips. "It's already late, why are you being so foolish?"

It was raining heavily outside the window. Today was the day Liang Qi had chosen, but in the end he was caught back. Because he had not eaten for some time and his immunity was reduced, he developed a high fever after being caught in the rain.

Liang Qi half leaned against the headboard of the bed, and faced with his anger, he simply closed his eyes and turned a deaf ear to him.

I really shouldn't have been so desperate and tried to find Liang Bohai to discuss cooperation. He was willing to sell himself for three million.

Seeing his attitude of resistance, Liang Jianwei knew that it was useless to say more. He had almost worn out his lips in the past month, but Liang Qi did not waver in his determination to run away. If Bohai had not told him in advance today, Liang Qi would probably have run away.

"You look at him." Liang Jianwei coughed a few times, turned his head and said to Liang Bohai behind him.

"Okay, Grandpa."

After Butler Qian pushed Liang Jianwei out, Liang Bohai sat down at the end of Liang Qi's bed without any hesitation.

"Get out of here." Liang Qi opened his eyes and stared at him sinisterly.

"Why are you so angry?" Liang Bohai knew that he was no longer a threat and wasn't frightened by him at all. "Who told you to trust me so easily? Besides."

He smiled smugly. "As Grandpa would say, I'm doing this for your own good. But you're so mean. You only told me you hacked into the security camera system, but you didn't tell me you even hacked the door lock. I thought you were going to climb over the wall and leave."

"I almost let you get away."

Liang Qi couldn't stand it any longer and grabbed a pillow and threw it at him.

Liang Bohai lowered his head and dodged it.

"Look at you, you're doing it again." He stood up. "But now grandpa is going to block all your communications. How about I help take care of your girlfriend on the phone? What's her name?" He pretended to think. "Chen Xiyu, isn't she? Has the same bad temper as you."

He tilted his head deliberately and said provocatively, "I like this."

"You like being beaten, don't you?" Liang Qi was too lazy to watch his performance.

"You should take care of yourself." Liang Bohai curled his lips, "Drenched."

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Since then, Liang Qi has been cut off from all external contacts, and even Qin Yiyan is forbidden to contact him.

Liang Qi knew that going on a hunger strike would not have any deterrent effect on Liang Jianwei, he would just ask someone to give him nutritional injections.

When Liang Bohai saw Liang Qi at the dinner table, he was shocked for a moment. He thought Liang Qi was a tough guy who would become weak after being hungry for a few days and would not run away again.

"That's good that you figured it out." Liang Jianwei wasn't too surprised. "Sit down and eat."

But not long after, when everyone let down their guard, Liang Qi avoided all the cameras and found a hidden escape door that was left in a secluded place in the backyard when the villa was built. Even Liang Jianwei had forgotten the existence of the door, but Liang Qi found it.

When escaping from the old house, Liang Qi pretended to be calm and walked out under the watchful eyes of the security guard.

The security guard ate the instant noodles in his hand and thought more and more that something was wrong, "Is that the Liang family? Their security has been very strong recently. I haven't seen anyone come out for a long time."

The other person was sorting out the recent entry and exit information. Hearing this, he looked up and saw the boy's back as he walked away.

"It seems to be their youngest son." He did not stop what he was doing. "Don't worry about it. There are eight families of theirs living here. They are all ancestors and very precious. Don't look too much and don't ask too many questions."

"No, no, their housekeeper came to give instructions a few days ago..."

He was halfway through his words when he felt something was wrong. He hurriedly put down his instant noodles and dialed the phone...

After Liang Qi went out, it was difficult for him to contact anyone because he did not have any electronic devices on him, but fortunately he still had a lot of cash in his hands.

However, in the current situation, it is not appropriate to contact Qin Yiyan or Pei Wei. They are all in the same circle. If they ask them for help now, the Liang family will inevitably put pressure on them, which will only make things difficult for them.

But I didn’t have any ID and couldn’t buy a ticket back to Jiangcheng.

Liang Qi's brain was working rapidly. At this moment, he felt powerless. Things seemed to have reached a dead end. Life is not a question of right and wrong, and there is not necessarily a perfect solution.

What to do, what to do, what to do...

Liang Qi sat under the bus stop on the side of the road, hitting his head repeatedly.

How is Shen Xiyu now? Has she contacted me? Will she blame me? How much does she know now?

Liang Qi couldn't help but regret why he made so many promises to Chen Xiyu, why he made vows to himself that he couldn't fulfill, and why he made her really believe in him.

He buried his face deeply in his palms, and the first part of his hands that felt warm was his palms. Tears unconsciously blurred half of his face.

He was wrong. He shouldn't have provoked Shen Xiyu and shouldn't have made such false statements. He was just a person who could do nothing.

After a long time, he raised his head and saw Butler Qian standing in front of him, just like when he met Shen Xiyu and Liang Qi at the airport that day.

"Go home, young master."

…

The accident happened not long ago.

In the middle of the night that day, Tian Tianzhen drove to the old house. Although Liang Jianwei restricted Liang Qi's travel, Tian Tianzhen knew very well what was more important, so she had always allowed the old man to do so.

Her appearance woke up everyone in the mansion.

Liang Jianwei, wearing his nightgown, was very dissatisfied with his daughter-in-law's sudden intrusion in the middle of the night. "Tianzhen, if you have something to do, why don't you come during the day? You woke everyone up and made the whole family restless. It's not decent."

Tian Tianzhen didn't care about the dissatisfaction in his words, "I want to take my son away."

"What are you doing?" The old man felt like he was being tormented to death by this mother and son. There was no peace for a moment. The younger one had just rested for a few days, and the older one came to make things worse. "Chenming has been waiting for you overseas for so long, and he's about to leave."

When she heard her husband's name, Tian Tianzhen was not shaken at all.

"Shengrui committed suicide."

…

After a long silence.

"Three days," Liang Jianwei said. "I'll go abroad directly after three days."

*

Yu Xie sat on one side of the mourning hall. Almost all the mourners had come in the past few days. The funeral was held according to Fu Shengrui's will. He didn't like crowds, so it was very quiet and not many people came.

He bent one leg, quietly looking at the man in the portrait, who was smiling brightly. However, it was a group photo. Fu Shengrui on the left, who still had long hair at the time, was hooking his arm around the man's shoulder. The man on the right had a serious expression, but he also stared obediently at the camera, their cheeks pressed together.

If you look closely, you will find that the other man looks very similar to Yu Xie, with the same eyebrows and eyes, and even the expression is almost exactly the same.

"You can take his ashes away." Liang Qi came over at some point and sat down on the chair next to him. He also followed his gaze to look at the color photos on the altar. That was what Fu Shengrui had instructed in his will: no black and white photos, no white roses and chrysanthemums.

So this strange scene was created. It was clearly a mourning hall, but there were very few black and white elements. Colorful flowers surrounded the two people in the photo. It didn't look like a funeral, but more like... more like a wedding for two people.

Liang Qi felt a little tired and leaned against the wall. "Let's scatter his ashes and Yu Wei's ashes into the sea together."

"He told me a story." Liang Qi's voice was steady, recounting distant memories. "Legend has it that people are reincarnated after death, living forever, through the ages. But those who die in the sea are different. They enter a void world and never need to return to the human world. They live there forever, carrying their memories with them."

Yu Xie raised the corner of his lips. "That's probably what my brother told him." This is a legend he has heard since he was a child. "It's a story that's circulated in our village, but not many people really believe it. They seem to prefer staying in the reincarnation world to the world of the void."

"I thought he would let it go." Yu Xie continued.

"How is that possible?" Liang Qi knew Fu Shengrui. Although he didn't expect him to leave in such a decisive way, he knew that his uncle had never forgotten his deceased lover. "When Yu Weige first left, he attempted suicide several times, but he was found and rescued every time."

Yu Xie didn't know what to say. Perhaps when Yu Wei left, he had already taken a part of Fu Shengrui with him.

Liang Qi patted Yu Xie's shoulder and picked up the cigarette box beside him. He'd been smoking like crazy these past few days, and he couldn't quite put his finger on what he was feeling. Things were like a tangled mess, one after another, catching him off guard. Every time he tried to sort things out, he found it was impossible to figure it out. There was no correct answer to what to do. He'd even lost the ability to grieve. The pent-up emotions sat deep inside, and he didn't know how to express them to others.

When he went to Fu Shengrui's house to pack up his things that day, he saw half a pack of cigarettes that he hadn't finished smoking. For some unknown reason, he picked it up, but was choked and tears came out unconsciously. The cigarette was so strong that he didn't know how he could put it down.

In a trance, Liang Qi heard someone say in his ear, "The number of times you smoke can be counted on one hand. Are you a real man?"

…

Strangely, after that day, Liang Qi himself became addicted to the smell and would smoke it unconsciously.

He turned and walked out of the house, lowering his head to light a cigarette as he walked, but the figure in front of him blocked his way.

Liang Qi raised his eyelids and stood there in a daze.

"You, why are you here?" His hands were still blocking the wind.

The person he hadn't seen for a long time suddenly appeared in front of him. Liang Qi was a little subconsciously panicked. Seeing her staring at his hand, he immediately crumpled the unlit cigarette into a ball and stuffed it into his pocket.

The more Chen Xiyu didn't speak, the more panicked Liang Qi became. He could see that Chen Xiyu had lost weight, with no flesh on his cheeks, and the color of blood that he had worked so hard to maintain was gone.

Liang Qi reached out his hand to touch her face, but froze halfway. He didn't know how Shen Xiyu felt about him. What if she resisted? What if she hated him?

Qin Yiyan looked at the two people facing each other and knew that they must have a lot to say now, and his main purpose of coming today was not them.

"I'll go in first."

Liang Qi seemed to have just noticed Qin Yiyan at this moment. He didn't expect him to come over. Liang Qi knew that Aunt Can had not intended to tell him.

"In the innermost room, Brother Yu Xie is guarding it."

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