Lin Zhiheng then looked up at them.
He saw that mother's embrace, the soft, warm harbor he had once longed for and desired most.
That father's embrace was the place he had longed for most, the place that could protect him and shelter him from the wind and rain.
"Dad, Mom."
He murmured the two names, then suddenly gave a self-deprecating laugh.
"Do I deserve it? Do I deserve it? It's not that I don't deserve it, it's that I don't need it anymore."
"Xiao Heng!"
Yi Mingjun and Liu Xiangrong were both surprised when they heard his words.
Lin Zhiheng actually didn't want to acknowledge them.
They all panicked.
Liu Xiangrong quickly explained, "Xiao Heng, I know why you refuse to acknowledge us. You must be blaming us. It's our fault for coming here only thinking about acknowledging you and not explaining what happened back then."
After I gave birth to you, I fainted due to exhaustion. Your dad happened to be out buying me food, and there was no one else in the ward. I don't know which heartless person took you away. Mom was devastated to lose you and didn't even have a proper postpartum recovery period. I still have ailments to this day.
Your father also felt extremely guilty. Since then, we have been desperately searching for you, but we haven't been able to find any news about you. I know it's our fault. We didn't take good care of you, which led to you being taken away by someone else.
We don't know how you've fared all these years, my child, how much hardship and suffering you've endured. Now you have a mom and dad, a home, and we'll cherish and protect you, giving us a chance to make it up to you.
Liu Xiangyun said a lot in one breath. She didn't have time to carefully consider her words. She wanted to coax Lin Zhiheng back first. After they arrived in Beijing, they and Jin'er would play the victim in front of him. She and Mingjun would also put in more effort to treat him well. He should not abandon his twin brother.
The more Lin Zhiheng listened, the more his head ached. He looked at the two people in front of him; they didn't seem like angels with a benevolent glow, but rather like demons from the abyss of hell reaching out their claws at him.
He was very clear that he no longer needed his parents and had no filial piety towards them, but he also didn't think of them as demons.
Why does he have this feeling, that they are dark and evil?
"child."
"Child, come home with us."
The two men approached Lin Zhiheng again, still with their arms open, as if they truly wanted to give Lin Zhiheng a warm home.
Lin Zhiheng shook his head vigorously as he looked at their outstretched, evil claws.
"I don't want to, I don't want to. I don't want to go with you."
An indescribable pain gripped him tightly.
He dropped the hoe and ran away like a madman.
He ran very fast, as if afraid of being caught up by the devil behind him.
As Yi Mingjun and Liu Xiangrong watched Lin Zhiheng escape, Yi Mingjun felt conflicted, while Liu Xiangrong felt as if the duck she had just caught had flown away.
She stomped her feet in anger: "Mingjun, Mingjun! Look at him, he's just like any other wild child. When he sees his own parents, he doesn't want to be close to us. When we try to be close to him, he refuses."
What can we do to him? Are we going to eat him? Look how scared he is, like we're some heinous monster. This kind of child is naturally distant from his parents; he's practically a jinx. Humph!
Yi Mingjun advised her, "Xiangrong, you need to be patient. This child didn't grow up by our side. He's been a homeless person, a beggar, and has suffered a lot. He must have experienced many setbacks, so it's normal for him to be wary of people. Since he can't accept us right now, let's take it slowly."
What child doesn't long to be with their parents? We need to be patient, spend more time with him, give him more care and comfort, and slowly, he'll be willing to be close to us.
Even so, Liu Xiangrong still complained.
“I think he’s different from other children. If it weren’t for our Jin’er, I wouldn’t even give this jinx a second glance. Oh well, I won’t argue with him anymore. I’m willing to do anything to coax him back.”
“He ran away. Let’s hurry and follow him to see where he lives so we can find him again.”
"Walk."
The seedlings in the fields are not very tall and there is nothing to cover them. When they saw Lin Zhiheng run into the village, they quickly chased after him in the direction he had fled.
But when they arrived in the village, they couldn't find Lin Zhiheng anywhere.
So he asked two more people from his hometown and found out where Lin Zhiheng was living now.
Lin Zhiheng ran home in one breath. Lin Qingyan had already returned from the clinic and was feeding the rabbits with grass by the rabbit hutch with her grandmother.
"Sister, mother-in-law."
Hearing the anxious shouts, Lin Qingyan turned around and saw Lin Zhiheng running back in a panic.
She immediately went up to Lin Zhiheng and found that he was not only flustered, but also looked frightened and uneasy, as if he had been frightened.
He quickly asked Lin Zhiheng, "Xiaoheng, what's wrong? What happened?"
"Sister, they, they've come. I, I'm so scared."
"Who? Who came looking for you? Why are you so scared?"
“Them.” Lin Zhiheng pointed outside: “They say they are my biological parents, and they want to take me back. Sister, I don’t want to go back, I don’t want to be with them.”
Lin Qingyan was shocked to hear this news.
Lin Zhiheng's parents actually came looking for him.
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