Chapter 299, Father's Revenge
He said he wasn't sad, Jiang Ran nodded and didn't continue the topic.
Huo Lingyin had already finished examining the corpse and ordered someone to drag it to the crematorium.
She turned around and found Jiang Ran standing behind her without her knowing when, like a ghost, silently.
Huo Lingyin's heart skipped a beat and she angrily said, "Jiang Ran, do you know that scaring people can kill them?!"
Jiang Ran apologized insincerely: "I didn't expect you to be so timid. Sorry, sorry~"
Huo Lingyin stepped aside and asked her, "Why are you here instead of staying with Si Xu? Are you here to see if she's dead? Or do you want to whip her corpse to vent your anger?"
"Si Xu doesn't need me to accompany him." Jiang Ran rolled his eyes at Huo Lingyin. "I'm not interested in doing anything to other people's corpses."
"Then what are you doing here?" Huo Lingyin said angrily, "Just to scare me?"
"Let me ask you something."
She spoke softly, and Huo Lingyin's heart was alarmed: "What do you want to ask?"
"Who is the murderer behind Si Xu's death that Si Nian mentioned?" Jiang Ran lowered her voice, "Tell me, I won't tell Si Xu."
Huo Lingyin was furious: "I don't know."
Even if I knew, I wouldn't...
"If you don't tell me, then I can only guess." Jiang Ran didn't force her.
When she heard her want to guess, Huo Lingyin couldn't help but think of her previous "guesses", and in the end, without exception, she always got the truth.
It can be seen that when she asked to guess, she actually already had the answer in her mind.
Huo Lingyin surrendered: "Don't guess, don't guess. Come to Pei's house tonight and find me. I will tell you the truth about those disgusting things that happened back then."
"Why not tell me now?" Jiang Ran glanced at the western sky. "Anyway, it's getting dark soon."
It makes no difference whether you say it now or at night.
Huo Lingyin pursed her lips and glanced at Si Xu with a complicated expression: "He...his aunt was his mother. She passed away, and she died right before his eyes. You...you should comfort him more."
Jiang Ran followed her gaze and looked back at Si Xu.
The man was standing in the twilight glow, his tall figure blurred by the light and shadow.
He lowered his head slightly, not knowing what he was looking at, and his gaze did not move for a long time.
People were coming and going around him, but they all tactfully avoided him.
He stood in the crowd, yet also isolated from it.
It looks like a little animal that has been ruthlessly abandoned by its owner, lonely and alert.
Huo Lingyin patted Jiang Ran's shoulder heavily and sighed: "Go."
"He told me that he was sorry about Huo Zhiju's death, but he wasn't very sad."
After Jiang Ran finished speaking, Huo Lingyin clenched her fist and punched her shoulder gently: "He said he's not sad, but that's not easy to lose face. You have to show your gentleness and consideration, so naturally you can't listen to his arrogant words."
Jiang Ran shook his head.
No, Si Xu is a person who never does anything to show off. If he says he is not sad, then he is not sad.
Without waiting for a response, Huo Lingyin put her arm around her and pulled her to Si Xu's side: "You two go back and rest first, we'll contact each other in the evening..."
Jiang Ran nodded in agreement.
Before leaving, Huo Lingyin glanced at the place where Si Xu had been staring at - a group of ants were crawling with difficulty carrying a dead insect, trying to bypass a stone.
She paused.
Si Xu took Jiang Ran's hand and said disdainfully: "Jiang Ran, look at these ants, they are so stupid - I moved a stone over here, and they didn't know how to get home."
Huo Lingyin: “…” Maybe Jiang Ran is right—if this person says he’s not sad, then he really isn’t sad.
She left with a blank expression.
Jiang Ran used her toes to push away the stone that Si Xu had moved to block the road, and said helplessly: "Why are you bullying them? If they could talk, you would be scolded to death right now."
Si Xu said confidently, "I'm bored." He looked at Huo Lingyin's back as she left, "What did she say to you?"
"She told me about the murderer of your father." Jiang Ran didn't intend to hide it from him. "She told me to go to Pei's house tonight and find her. She will tell me the truth."
Holding the man's hand, they walked towards the apartment. On the way, the psychics coming and going automatically avoided the two of them and made way for them.
"Si Xu, do you want to go with me?"
The man was silent for a moment, then said seriously, "Jiang Ran, if I say I don't want to know who that person is, will it make me seem heartless?"
He has always followed his own will and never thinks about such issues. He never cares about what others think of him.
But today, when Huo Zhigui died, those people, including Jiang Ran, all looked at him with sympathy and pity...
Afterwards, he realized that he should have shown a little sadness, but he really wasn't that sad.
I just feel sorry.
If possible, he hoped that the woman could live to witness with her own eyes how far he could go in the apocalypse, and see with her own eyes how far he could go in the apocalypse, and bring his beloved little girl home...
"I don't have any memories of my father in my mind." Huo Zhigui had left a mark in his life, but his "father" was an existence whose name he didn't even know.
Si Xu looked conflicted: "Even if I knew who the real culprit was, I wouldn't have the desire to avenge him."
He could not feel the anger of having his loved ones hurt. When he heard Si Nian talk about the mastermind behind his father's murder, he felt like a bystander, watching other people's love, hate and vengeance with cold eyes.
"Would that be heartless?" he murmured, "I actually... don't even care about my father's revenge."
"If the person who died was me, Chu Yuan, Gu Yunqing, or Pei Xiao." Jiang Ran hooked his finger and looked at him sideways. "Will you avenge us?"
Si Xu tilted his head and remained silent.
"Look, Pei Wan'er, Min He... didn't you avenge them?"
Is he heartless? If he was truly heartless, he wouldn't have become enemies with the Yu and Shen families because of Pei Wan'er.
The revenge for killing one’s father… The revenge for one’s parents is greater than heaven. Perhaps in the eyes of many people, this is an obligation that children must fulfill.
However, for Si Xu, that father never appeared in his life.
He knew nothing about him, let alone any other deep feelings.
He had no obligation to avenge a stranger who was related to him by blood.
"Si Xu, if I were you, I would do the same." Jiang Ran said, "Perhaps in the eyes of others, our choice is unfilial, but who cares what others say."
The corners of his tense mouth lifted unconsciously, and Si Xu nodded slightly: "Don't worry about what others say."
He paused and added: "If you feel it is necessary, you can tell me who that person is."
This is necessary, as it involves many things—that person's identity, position, the current situation...
Jiang Ran understood what he meant: "Actually, I have some guesses in my mind, but let's hear what Huo Lingyin has to say."
If this "mastermind" was really that person, she could understand why Huo Lingyin didn't want Si Nian to reveal that person.
(End of this chapter)
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