Chapter 226 The Past
Huo Tingxiao looked quietly at Ji Huiying in front of him.
His face was clear and handsome, yet covered with a layer of darkness that no one could tell.
No answer was selected.
Ji Huiying looked at him, seemed deflated, and leaned back.
"I see."
As she spoke, Ji Huiying sat up straight, with something flashing in her eyes, and just looked at him quietly.
It seemed as if he was looking at someone through Huo Tingxiao.
"What do you want to tell me?"
Just as Ji Huiying was about to speak, the door opened.
Huo Jianyuan stood quietly at the door, with many people following him.
Huo Tingxiao was stunned for a moment.
Huo Jianyuan walked in and said, "I have something to say to your mother. Please go out for a while."
Ji Huiying looked at the people behind Huo Jianyuan, her eyes flickering slightly.
After everyone went out.
Huo Jianyuan sat aside.
He slowly took out a photo from his pocket and handed it over.
Ji Huiying looked at the person in the photo.
It was none other than Huo Jianchen and Ji Huifan, and behind her was the entrance of the university.
Huo Jianyuan's voice was low, "Do you remember where your sister went to college?"
He answered himself quietly, "It's a university in Shanghai. Jianchen and Huifan are classmates."
Ji Huiying looked incredulous, she had no idea.
Because her sister never mentioned it to her.
She never knew either.
Huo Jianyuan looked at her and said, "You can actually ask your mother-in-law about this matter. She should have some impression of it."
"At the beginning, your sister and Jianchen were classmates. They had a vague affection for each other, but they were not together because at that time, my father-in-law was introducing a blind date to my eldest sister."
“I am one of them.”
"However, I saw you on the day of the blind date. I remember you were wearing a pink plaid skirt and planting flowers in the yard. I thought you were very beautiful at that moment."
"Later, after meeting your sister, I rejected her. She readily agreed."
“This matter should have ended.”
Huo Jianyuan felt a little disappointed. This was his fate.
"That day, Jianchen happened to come to pick me up, and that was the first time I knew that they knew each other."
"After that, they gradually got along with each other, and before they knew it, they had established a very deep relationship."
"But at that time, your father didn't think highly of Jianchen. I think you know the reason."
Ji Huiying gritted her teeth. She vaguely remembered that her sister had a conflict with her father at that time.
The very intense kind.
Her sister was also slapped. She asked her sister about it at that time, but she didn't say anything.
But after that, he became even more silent.
She remembered that day when she passed by the study, his father yelled, "An orphan is of no use to our family."
So the orphan her father was talking about at that time was Huo Jianchen?
She remembered that Huo Jianchen's mother and Huo Jianyuan's father were siblings.
The simple thing is that Huo Jianchen calls Mrs. Huo aunt.
Because of the war, Huo Jianchen was the only one left at home.
After his grandmother passed away, he was taken to the Huo family by Mr. Huo.
The Ji family looked down on him.
Huo Tingxiao looked at Ji Huiying.
The voice was calm, "Although the conditions are limited, Jianchen still tried his best to create the conditions."
"I want to achieve something before I go to your house to propose marriage."
"So before he finished college, he followed me into the army."
"After joining the army, he was the one who fought the hardest and was always the first one to rush in."
Huo Jianyuan's eyes turned red as he spoke.
"That mission was very dangerous."
"It was Jianchen who took the initiative to come out and delay the enemy's time."
Huo Jianyuan clearly remembered that the operation took a long time to deploy.
The enemy had already surrounded their central area.
If no one had delayed the time at that time, the enemy would quickly discover the support from outside.
Then all their efforts would be wasted.
It was at that time that Huo Jianchen led three people alone, carrying ammunition bags and the last remaining guns, and lured those people to the shooting area they had planned.
At that time, in order to avoid being discovered by the enemy, they fought the enemy for an hour with their remaining ammunition.
That one hour bought them enough time to act.
But when Huo Jianyuan found them.
The person is no longer able to survive.
In the makeshift tent, he saw Huo Jianchen lying on the bed with a photo in his hand.
The person in that photo was none other than Ji Huifan.
When Huo Jianchen saw the person in the photo, he smiled gently.
His fingers kept stroking the person in the photo.
Will she cry?
Will it be sad?
He felt sad just thinking about her crying.
Huo Jianyuan looked at him and called out softly.
"Achen."
"elder brother......"
Huo Jianchen turned and looked at him.
“You’re here.”
Huo Jianyuan looked at his bloody body in front of him and his face turned pale.
The voice was tinged with trembling.
"Where's the military doctor? Where's the military doctor?"
The little soldier who was in charge of taking care of him burst into tears.
"Platoon leader..."
"Go find the military doctor!"
Huo Jianchen said weakly, "Brother, don't be fierce. I asked the military doctor to save others."
Huo Jianyuan's body kept shaking.
"No, don't be afraid. I'll help you find a doctor."
"Brother, I, I can't do it anymore. Don't look for me anymore. Let me finish what I want to say."
Huo Jianyuan's eyes were red and tears were gathering in his eyes, but he couldn't hold them back and they fell.
"Huo Jianchen, don't die, she is waiting for you!"
Huo Jianchen smiled, weakly and helplessly.
"Brother, she can't wait for me. I, I...cough cough."
A torrent of blood continued to flow out of his mouth.
"Brother, tell Afan that I will marry her in my next life. I, I feel so sorry for her."
"Brother, am I a little ugly now? Will Ah Fan be scared?"
Huo Jianyuan reached out and kept wiping his cheek with a handkerchief.
He suppressed the pain in his heart and said, "Brother will help you clean it up. It's not ugly."
Huo Jianchen let out a muffled groan.
"Brother, I want to sleep for a while."
The pain made his whole body tremble, but there was no way to stop it.
He stared blankly into the sky, as if he saw someone.
"The greatest luck in my life is meeting you, Afan. I like you very much."
Huo Jianyuan watched his pupils slowly dilate and lose focus bit by bit.
Until I completely stopped breathing.
Huo Jianyuan knelt down in front of the bed.
"Jianchen......."
The whimpering sound was like something was completely broken.
Huo Jianyuan's tears fell to the ground, tangled with dust and blood.
Choking with sobs, "I'll take you home."
My thoughts seem to have become filled with sadness at this point.
Huo Jianyuan buried Huo Jianchen in their family's ancestral tomb.
Family reunion.
That day, Ji Huifan also came.
She knelt there quietly and calmly burned the paper in her hand.
It seemed as if there was no change in emotion from beginning to end.
No sadness, no sorrow, no fluctuations.
Huo Jianyuan thought everything was over, but he didn't expect that on the third day of the funeral, she sent him a message saying that she wanted to see him.
That day, Huo Jianyuan went to the Ji family.
The two found a corner at the back of the garden.
Ji Huifan's voice floated over gently.
"Huo Jianyuan, what did he say at the end?"
Huo Jianyuan was stunned for a moment.
He raised his eyes, looked at her dimly, and finally spoke out Huo Jianchen's words.
He said, "The greatest luck in my life is meeting you, Afan. I like you very much."
Ji Huifan's eyes moved slightly for a second.
There was something gleaming in his eyes.
A breeze blew by, and Ji Huifan seemed to see the young man in a Zhongshan suit standing against the wind on the campus.
"Afan, I like you."
Ji Huifan smiled and said, "Thank you, Huo Jianyuan."
When Huo Jianyuan returned, he found out that Ji Huifan had been ill since that day.
The illness was so serious that he couldn't even get up.
He wanted to go and see her but didn't have the time, so he could only ask his mother to take better care of her.
Old Mrs. Huo also came as agreed.
However, I didn't expect that everything turned out to be a coincidence.
Huo Jianyuan suddenly looked at Ji Huiying in front of him.
He thought she understood everything, but he didn't expect that everything was wrong.
It was wrong from the beginning.
He stood up silently and looked at Ji Huiying in front of him.
She was silent, her back hunched, as if she had suffered a great blow.
Huo Jianyuan said coldly, "You can still explain this matter. You misunderstood."
"But, Huiying, how are you going to argue about the report?"
Ji Huiying was suddenly stunned and her pupils contracted violently.
Huo Jianyuan continued to speak.
"You think no one knows everything, but some things, no matter how covert they are, will be discovered by others as long as you do them. If you don't want others to know, then don't do it."
"When you used the Huo family to secure the safety of the Ji family, did you ever think about me and the two children?"
Huo Jianyuan sighed, "In all these years, I have never understood you."
“Huiying, you make me doubt myself.”
Ji Huiying's lips trembled and she opened and closed her mouth, but she couldn't utter a word.
"No, it's not..."
What she wanted to say was that the Huo family had a solid foundation and someone to protect them, so they wouldn't be in such a miserable state.
But if the Ji family has no one to protect them, they will be in great trouble.
She, she just didn't want anything to happen to the Ji family.
That is her confidence. A woman is worthless without the support of her parents.
"Jianyuan..."
Huo Jianyuan looked at her in front of him.
His voice was extremely cold and hard. "If you do something wrong, you have to pay the price. Back then, you reported the Huo family for smuggling for the Ji family. Now, I can't help you with this matter."
Ji Huiying swayed all over and tears fell down her face.
But Huo Jianyuan did not waver at all.
He reached out to pull out the chair and turned to open the door.
The people at the door were still there, even Old Mrs. Huo came in a wheelchair.
She looked at Huo Jianyuan, her sharp eyes directed at the people in the ward.
As the two looked at each other, Old Mrs. Huo sneered.
"You are just being selfish."
"Xiao Fan is so good to you, but you are so cruel as not to save her? Ji Huiying, don't make excuses for your cruelty!"
Then he glared at Huo Jianyuan and said, "He should take his status into consideration and not go too far."
"But I'm not afraid."
"Our Huo family has done nothing wrong to you. Why did you report the Huo family for smuggling? You just mind that I didn't hand over the Huo family's business to you."
"These are just your attempts to intimidate an old woman like me."
"I'm afraid that you've hypnotized yourself all these years and you've come to believe in your own explanations!"
Under the pressure of the old lady's eyes, Ji Huiying's evasive eyes were filled with a bit of panic.
"I, I didn't." Such a weak voice sounded more like a guilty conscience.
Mrs. Huo paused, her eyelashes trembling, "Ji Huiying, you and your heart are rotten to the core."
Old Mrs. Huo's voice was so powerful that it made people feel ashamed.
The room and the outside were in silence, with only the sound of people breathing.
Finally, the woman on the hospital bed raised her head and laughed a few times.
There was hatred in his eyes.
"So what? I'm already married into the Huo family, why are you unwilling to hand it over to me?"
"You just don't think highly of me. You just look down on me."
Mrs. Huo said in a cold voice, "Give it to you, so that all the things of the Huo family can be renamed Ji?"
Old Mrs. Huo's sarcasm made Ji Huiying look embarrassed, as if she was stabbed by something.
"What about him? What about my child?"
Everyone looked in the direction where Ji Huiying pointed.
Is that Huo Tingxiao?
What does this matter have to do with Huo Tingxiao?
Old Mrs. Huo was a little confused.
"What did you say?"
Ji Huiying became agitated and looked at Huo Tingxiao with some resentment.
The look in his eyes didn't seem like he was looking at his own child, but rather like he was looking at something he didn't like.
She said to herself, "I almost lost my life giving birth to him."
"What about you? Turn around and ask him to call Ji Hui Fan Ma?"
Old Mrs. Huo was stunned for two seconds, then she turned and looked at Huo Jianyuan suspiciously.
“When did this happen?”
Huo Jianyuan stared at Ji Huifan and explained in a gentle voice, "When Ting Xiao was born, Dad had the idea of letting Ting Xiao be adopted by Jianchen. However, Comrade Ji Huifan got into trouble later, and we never mentioned it again."
He didn't expect Ji Huiying to know.
"So what? As soon as he could speak, he called Ji Huifan's photo "Mom". That's his real mother, not me. He's just a debt collector. Yes, it was Ji Huifan who came to me to collect the debt."
Ji Huiying seemed to be possessed by a demon, and there was something wrong with her expression.
Mrs. Huo's lips trembled for a long time. "Is this the reason why you disliked him since he was a child?"
"I think you are really crazy!"
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