Chapter 76 Spell "I'm at the door"
"What right does the son of a mistress have to be in our family?"
"The master took you in because he felt sorry for you. Do you really think of yourself as a young master?"
While wiping the table, the aunt looked at the boy in school uniform next to her with disgust.
It is noon now.
I'm back from school.
Shen Ning'an pursed his lips. He didn't know how to refute. His palms became numb and he nervously grasped the strap of his schoolbag.
"A-Auntie...is there any food?"
"Who are you calling auntie?"
The woman stayed in Ruyan Garden for a long time, and the real mistress of the house was never at home, so she took care of the eldest son in the family.
She implicitly gave herself the role of a mother.
And the young man in front of him was obviously the aggressor.
"Because you, Master Yunxiao, didn't even come back. You are really annoying."
"What are you eating? This is your home!"
The boy was thin to begin with, and he stood very tightly. He had a study tour in the afternoon, and he was very hungry.
I'm so hungry.
"sorry……"
Shen Ningan finally ran upstairs, not daring to cry, and hid in the closet.
Small enough.
Dark enough.
The slender arms wrapped around me, and my heart ached.
Mom said Dad just wasn't available.
He has an older brother and another family.
His mother lied to him, she said she would come to see him after a while...
Mom is dead.
Shen Ning'an wiped her tears over and over again, not daring to make a sound, Mom... How could Mom be a mistress.
No one likes him.
The boy curled up nervously, as if he was small enough that he wouldn't be hated.
He takes up only a small space.
Very soft sobbing.
Until footsteps were heard outside.
"Where's An An?"
"Doesn't he have an activity this afternoon? The teacher told me there are things to sign, where is he?"
Seems to be a slightly younger voice.
"I don't know. This child is always running around. I don't know if it's a bad habit brought from the countryside..."
"Look, the food I cooked is wasted again."
The boy shrank back, wanting to find his brother and tell him about the injustice he had suffered.
When your fingers touch the gap between the cabinet doors...
Shrinking back again.
Warm tears flowed down his face, but he didn't dare to. He didn't want to be his brother.
Like a kitten's whimper, very short.
"Don't worry about it, Auntie. Just take a rest."
Gradually, only the footsteps of one person were heard in the room. Shen Ning'an panicked and bit his hand with his mouth.
Breathing becomes oppressive.
The cabinet door was rubbed open without mercy. The boy curled up into a ball, crying so hard that his nose and ears were red.
He thought he was going to be scolded again.
“S-Sorry…”
After all, Shen Yunxiao was a normal man who went to college. He had never seen such a scene before and was stunned for a long time.
He tilted his head to avoid eye contact.
The boy cried even harder, shrinking back into the closet, "I'm sorry... I didn't make any sound..."
He hates him.
Shen Yunxiao could only come back to his senses, put aside his distracting thoughts, and just reached out, "An An?"
"Stop crying."
For the first time, he didn't blame anyone, but just carried the person out.
Shen Ning'an was really thin, with very little flesh on his waist, and he was in the growth period, which made him look even thinner.
Like a feather.
“Wuwuwu…wuwuwu…brother…brother”
Shen Yunxiao felt like his hair was about to be pulled out by him, but he pursed his lips and said nothing.
Supporting the waist.
This might be the closest they've ever been.
Because after that, "Shen Ning'an" fell in love with other people forever, and every time they met, there were only quarrels.
Seven years, nothing but regrets.
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"Ah... this should be it!" Shen Lin fastened his seat belt and turned his head to look out the window.
He just remembered that it was a relatively remote animal rescue station.
Fortunately, there are only a few famous people in Rongcheng.
Shen Yunxiao can take him to check them one by one.
"Sit down."
Hearing this, the boy straightened his shoulders, held on to his seat belt and looked ahead.
Shen Yunxiao pulled himself out of his past thoughts. When he got out of the car, he suddenly thought of something and held the car door open and asked, "Lu Yuting didn't come to see you, did he?"
The boy shook his head without changing his expression.
"His family affairs are... more complicated."
"He probably didn't tell you?"
Shen Yunxiao guessed this almost instinctively. How old is An An? How old is that person? He couldn't possibly -
"Yes."
Shen Lin looked up and said, "But Uncle Lu is very good."
Almost pure trust.
Shen Yunxiao was stunned for a moment, pursed his lips uncomfortably, and opened the door for him, "Okay, come down."
Shen Lin got out of the car obediently, and then looked at the place in front of him. This animal rescue station is now quite large.
As I recall, it seemed to be in the village in the city, with low-rent housing everywhere, because that was the only place in Rongcheng where the land was cheaper.
Shen Lin saw the puppy in the fence, a dirty Samoyed, and he couldn't help but want to point his finger.
But his wrists were restrained.
"dirty."
The puppy in the door whimpered.
Shen Lin felt his heart melt.
He also whimpered, as if responding to the puppy.
Shen Yunxiao stared at it for a long time.
But at this moment, the person in the gate suddenly said, "Hey, An An! It's you!"
Shen Lin was stunned. It was quite impressive that someone still remembered him.
"You're here, who is this?"
Shen Yunxiao frowned and was about to speak when the person next to him said, "My friend."
"Your friend is very handsome, come in!" The female volunteer opened the door with a smile, and a bunch of puppies came up.
Chen Lin looked at the dog heads around his waist in panic, not knowing which one to touch for a moment. Fortunately, the girl opposite waved them away.
"Come to the cat house."
Shen Yunxiao seemed to have stepped into a space he had never entered before. This was the younger brother he had never seen before. It turned out that he could talk to people so freely.
"I'm going to tell you, I heard that a wealthy man with the same name as you died. I was shocked, but you are not him."
Shen Lin shook his head and said guiltily: “No, no, you are kidding.”
"Is your friend good-looking?" the girl came closer and whispered.
"Come to introduce someone to me?"
There was an extremely large Maine Coon on Shen Lin's legs, as heavy as a weight.
“…”
The girl laughed again: "Are you still unable to let go of your secret crush?"
Shen Lin was stunned for a moment, "Who is it?"
If the classes and names in the diary were altered, then the animal rescue station could not be wrong.
He remembers...
"Oh, you're here to see someone? He hasn't been here for years, you forgot, and you only ran into him once."
Shen Lin said anxiously, "There is a list, he should have left his name and phone number."
The memories were always a little vague and overly embellished, so much so that Shen Lin was not sure whether that person was Rong Mingzheng.
If that was the case...why would he pretend to be a high school student to tease himself?
The girl snapped her fingers. "Oh, yes. You didn't come back just to see this."
"It seems that person only came once, donated money, and then didn't come much."
Shen Yunxiao stood behind the man with a frown on his face, but never interfered.
Until the girl came out from the back room, took out a yellow file bag, raised her hand to lift the hair beside her ear, "These are all former volunteers, who came here in a scattered manner, some are older and some are younger."
"Like An An, you haven't been here for a long time. It's been a year."
The tone of the latter part was very gentle.
The girl crossed her arms and said in an exaggerated tone: "I was scared to death when I saw the news. I thought you were really dead. Look, you are still alive and well. You are really not the same person."
He glanced at Shen Yunxiao beside him.
Light.
Shen Yunxiao simply ignored the gazes from those around him and just lowered his eyes to look at the boy's hair whorls. One year ago... He had also been here a year before he had a car accident.
He didn't know it was so close.
The boy sat on a chair, the sun shining on him, the folder resting on the cat in his lap.
"Meow~"
The pages of the archives were constantly turned forward.
"Lily, what are you doing? The dogs in the yard could form a band with their food bowls hanging from their backs! It's so noisy."
Another slightly older woman walked in.
He was stunned after seeing Shen Lin on the chair.
"An'an?"
The information on the file is simple.
Name: Rong Mingzheng
Number: xxxxx
Shen Lin was stunned for a long time. Could it be that after all the twists and turns, nothing had changed, and the hazy illusion in his memory was also false?
"What are you looking at?"
The lady next to him came over, frowned and took the things in Shen Lin's hand.
"Tsk...how do I read this...let me see the code..."
"Everything has been changed to electronic filing, why hasn't Lily done it yet? I checked this one, but I made a mistake. This is a list of people who came to adopt, not a list of volunteers."
"Take it back."
The lady then looked down and asked, "Who is An An looking for?"
Shen Lin looked up at the person, stunned, "Adopted?"
A very small misunderstanding.
The woman tilted her head and said, "Yes, the yellow folders are not organized, just dated. I wrote this one by hand, and the printer was broken, so I used the volunteer form."
Shen Lin's disordered memory began to reorganize, and he stuttered: "So, this is the list of adoptive parents?"
His thoughts raced back to his senses, and the boy hurriedly tried to stand up.
"Meow~"
The large weight on the leg disagrees.
"yes."
Until another stack of files was brought to him, "Are you looking for volunteers?"
Lily came over just in time, "Yes, yes, there was a very good-looking one, and it was raining that day and the power was out."
The lady frowned, "Something nice?"
"An An..." A helpless tone.
Shen Lin didn't dare to move the cat on his knees, he just raised his head and looked at people anxiously.
"Tell me the date." The woman compromised.
The files in the blue shell were flipped over and over again, and even Shen Lin's diary was flipped through, with the dates remembered clearly.
It was only about two days.
"Oh, these two pages, you decide for yourself."
Shen Lin took it and looked down. The cat on his lap had its tail erected high and meowed several times.
The woman took him away and threw him on the ground, "He's so heavy, have you gained weight again?"
She glanced at the man beside her.
He frowned.
There are many people with the last name Chen, but there is only one who dresses so formally and drives a Maybach.
What did An An experience this year?
Why are you looking for someone again?
Shen Yunxiao said in a deep voice: "No need to look for it."
The boy's wrist was pulled up, and there was not a single name he recognized, almost all of them were strangers.
"You made a mistake anyway."
Shen Lin looked up at the person in fear, his slender wrist hanging in the other person's palm, "I, I want to know who that person is."
He thought it was ridiculous. If the person he met at the beginning was wrong, then his natural affection for Rong Mingzheng later on...
These past few years have been full of ups and downs.
Isn't this a joke?
Although a lifetime had passed, Shen Lin still felt the tight suffocation spreading from his heart layer after layer.
I feel like a clown.
Those fragmented emotions float in the air, without any object to attach to, like the dust in the air in an old house.
A black spot inside a beam of light.
"An An? It would be great if you confirmed it wasn't him, but how long will it take you to find so many names?"
Shen Yunxiao was a little bit confused, but when he saw the boy's empty eyes, he felt distressed.
Weiwei leaned forward and squatted, holding the person's hand. "Okay, what are you going to do? Call? Or let me find them all for you to identify?"
Finally, choose to make a phone call.
Shen Lin didn't know why, but his soul seemed to have left his body, and he was overwhelmed by a feeling of confusion and bewilderment.
"Hello, who are you?"
“Beep, beep, beep… The number you dialed is not answered…”
"The number you dialed is unavailable..."
A variety of sounds.
There are both men and women.
Shen Lin felt empty, his shoulders slumped, and his face turned slightly pale.
——What kind of scene is that?
—Did you see his face?
He just numbly entered the number, immersed in that gloomy life, just thinking over and over again, has Shen Ning'an ever had a good day?
It turns out that he is Shen Ningan.
Shen Ningan is him.
The call wasn't over yet.
Until my finger entered a string of numbers, a contact popped up automatically.
The boy was stunned and checked it over and over again.
Until tears fell on the screen, the call was connected...
"An An?" Shen Yunxiao called.
People around were also asking, "An An, what's wrong?"
Ann...
Ann...
It seems like a curse that cannot be escaped.
"Shen Lin."
The boy held the phone in a daze, his broken personality seemed to be reconstructed, bringing back his original self.
The surrounding reality also becomes clear.
"I'm at the door."
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