Chapter 5252
Xue Ling sat opposite Wen Yi and placed the tablet in front of her.
This tablet was provided by Wen Yi. The screen is solid and clear, and it doesn’t have many fancy functions. You can only input words and choose to read aloud.
There are also many related words and quick phrases below, making it very convenient to input sentences, much more convenient than the tablet she used before.
It feels like it's for people in similar situations to hers.
Under Wen Yi's gaze, Xue Ling's movements were a little nervous and restrained as he picked up the tablet's built-in pen to type.
Apart from Wen Jiuze, she hadn't communicated with any normal human being who knew her identity as a zombie for a long, long time.
I was worried before but didn’t feel anything. Now that everything is fine for the time being, I feel a little uncomfortable.
Wen Yi observed her imperceptibly, and was actually quite curious about what she wanted to say.
I hope she won't be threatening or suspicious like her boyfriend, or decide to volunteer to be the experimental material for the other person's sake. That would be boring, and she would really be annoyed and ask him to leave.
"Can you tell me about Wen Jiuzhe's past?" a female voice came from the tablet.
This is a topic I didn't expect.
Wen Yi was a little surprised: "I'm not very familiar with him and we rarely interacted with each other in the past. What do you want to ask?"
She looked a bit aloof, but her attitude was friendly, so Xue Ling asked directly: "I want to ask what he was doing back at the Wen family a few years ago, before the zombie outbreak?"
Wen Yi: "Didn't he tell you?"
"I did, but I didn't tell you the whole story." Xue Ling got angry when she thought of Wen Jiuze's previous explanation that evaded the important issues.
He definitely wasn't telling the truth, Xue Ling had guessed it long ago.
"I'm not really sure. Maybe grandpa asked him to go back and do some bad things. He was also going to arrange a blind date for him, but he wasn't happy about it. Not long after he went back, grandpa died in his hands." Wen Yi said, with a terrifyingly calm expression.
Xue Ling's pen stopped on the tablet as she was shocked by the explosive news.
This... Wen Jiuze and Wen Yi, are they the same grandfather, right?
Wen Yi saw the shock in Xue Ling's eyes, and she felt so regretful that she wanted to take back what she had said.
"Don't worry about it. I don't like my grandpa that much. I won't take revenge on Wen Jiuze for this. I'm not even ready to settle accounts with him for harming my sister Wen Xiang, let alone my grandpa."
Wen Yi spoke extremely coldly, as if she were a killer.
She was the first child of the Wen family's generation. Before she was born, her grandfather had hoped that she would be the eldest son and grandson. Later, when he found out that she was a daughter, he was extremely disappointed.
From childhood to adulthood, no matter what grades she got, he would not feel happy, but would only feel more regretful: "It would be great if it was a grandson."
Her father was having affairs outside and her mother couldn't control her philandering husband. She could only blame herself for not being a son and for not being able to get her father to focus more on the family.
Wen Yi has been taken care of by different nannies since she was a child. Her mother is like a madman, desperately wanting to give birth to a son to prove herself, hoping that this will make her husband change his mind and satisfy her stern father-in-law.
In order to give birth to Wen Xiang, her mother almost lost half her life and also lost her fertility. From then on, she brought Wen Xiang up to complain and taught her only to please her cousin Wen Xuan, and made her follow Wen Xuan around since she was a child.
Wen Xuan is a fool, but he is a grandson, so grandpa thinks he is good no matter how he looks at him, and everything in the house is left for him.
Wen Yi didn't care, whether it was the father who couldn't even remember her name, the mother who blamed her for not being a son, the sister who was not close to her, or the grandfather who was extremely partial to her.
But she was really annoyed that her grandfather, who claimed to be the patriarch of the family, arranged her life on his own.
They obliterated her pride and love, belittled the honor she had won, believed that her only value was to get married, required her to marry the child of a leader, and required her to help support the Wen family business.
Although these annoying demands temporarily disappeared after she found a boyfriend with the same prominent family background, she still hated her grandfather's omnipresent desire for control.
So when she later discovered that Wen Jiu was going to take action against the Wen family, as the only one who noticed the clues, she even helped.
"There are some things I don't want to tell Wen Jiuze. Please tell him." Wen Yi said in a cold tone.
"As long as he is willing to cooperate and show his value, there will be no conflict between us. He can control his paranoia. I don't have that much time to plot against him."
Xue Ling replied dryly, "OK," and then typed, "I feel like you must be having a hard time in the Wen family."
Wen Yi picked up the thermos next to her and took a sip of water: "Only fools and idiots can survive in a place like that."
Xue Ling: Although I seem calm, I have a strong attacking power.
She was holding the tablet, and it seemed that the battery was leaking, which made her feel a little awkward and she didn't know what to say next.
After a moment of silence, seeing her eager eyes were a little pitiful, Wen Yi finally said: "You want to know about Wen Jiuze's past, but you are asking the wrong person. I am not familiar with him. We only met a few times in the past year."
"Oh ok, I'm just asking casually." Xue Ling replied.
Before she came, she just wanted to know about Wen Jiuze's previous life and find out a little about the relationship between Wen Jiuze and Wen Yi.
After all, she was not familiar with Wen Yi and this was their first time dealing with each other. Even if she wanted to ask her for something, she had to establish a good relationship with her first, or at least wait until they were a little more familiar with each other.
But! She was not ready to listen to some family tragedies and criminal records!
"Actually, you can talk about anything, just a quick chat." Xue Ling continued to type in order to ease the awkwardness, "I will be following your team from now on, so I came to say hello today."
Wen Yi understood why Wen Jiuze treated his girlfriend like the apple of his eye.
This kind of personality is indeed prone to being wronged. When feeling embarrassed, they like to explain for a long time, fearing that others will be angry.
Wen Yi didn't like chatting with people, nor did she like wasting time on worthless things, but seeing Xue Ling holding the tablet with eager eyes to relieve the embarrassment, she still gave him face and started talking about something she remembered.
"Wen Jiuze... Every time I came home, I found that he didn't sit at the table to eat. He stood in the kitchen and ate with a big bowl in his hand."
Xue Ling was surprised: "Is your family really like what's shown in the TV drama? Is there still a rule that bastards can't eat at the table?"
Wen Yi: "Grandpa asked him to sit in the restaurant to eat with us, but he refused, saying that he wanted to vomit when he saw the Wen family."
"..." Xue Ling, "Did he just say it so directly?"
Wen Yi: "Yes, just say it directly."
Grandpa was so angry that he broke two of his crutches. Wen Jiuze was unwilling to sit with them and pretend to be a family, so grandpa kept scolding him for not knowing the rules.
"Wen Xuan once told me that your family also wants to learn the six arts of a gentleman?" Xue Ling has been curious about this for a long time.
Wen Yi looked at her with a look of understanding: "Wen Xuan likes you too?"
Xue Ling: “…”
Wen Yi: "What truth can a man say when he's chasing someone?"
Xue Ling nodded in agreement.
Wen Yi: "But you do need to learn calligraphy, and you also need to know about antiques. There are family courses in this area."
"Wen Jiuze also learned it. He broke a Ming Dynasty vase and was beaten half to death."
Xue Ling was a little angry: "No matter how precious something is, if it is accidentally broken, you can't beat him to death!"
Wen Yi: "He smashed it in front of Grandpa, and then sneered and said he did it on purpose. If you have the guts, beat him to death."
Xue Ling: “…”
Wen Yi remembered that it was a collection that her grandfather liked very much, so she was so angry that she almost had a stroke. After that, Wen Jiuze no longer had to learn that.
Wen Yi suddenly discovered that she actually remembered a lot about this "unfamiliar" brother.
Although we didn't meet often, I would always hear news about him whenever I went back.
Generally, they were scolded for not following the rules set by their grandfather, and were bullied by Wen Xuan and Wen Xiang.
Occasionally, she would run into him in a corner of the mansion.
It was not mealtime in the kitchen, but I saw him cooking by himself. He stood in the kitchen with simple food in his hand and wolfed it down, with blood on his fingers.
Wen Xuan and Wen Xiang were furious and were looking for Wen Jiuze everywhere. She was annoyed by the noise and wanted to find a quiet place to read a book. She unexpectedly found him leaning against the back wall of the house, looking at the sky, with fresh wounds on his face.
Every time they met, her eyes would always sweep over him indifferently, and Wen Jiuze would also look at her vigilantly, and then they would quickly look away, neither of them taking the other seriously.
From the time he entered the Wen family at the age of eleven or twelve to when he grew into a tall and strong teenager, Wen Jiuze had always been rebellious against everyone in the Wen family.
Just like what he said to his grandfather on the first day he walked into the Wen family: "Even if you take away my mother's job and force her to bring me to the Wen family, it will be useless. I will never regard this place as my home."
Wen Yi is an unexpected eldest daughter. When the Wen family talked about her, they said with regret: "What's the point of being so good at studying? You are not a man."
When talking about Wen Jiuze, he was contemptuous and defensive: "No matter how powerful he is, he is still an illegitimate child. He was born in an ignominious way and is not liked by the old master. He will never be better than Wen Xuan in this life."
They may have some sympathy in some aspects, but their relationship is worse than that of strangers.
Xue Ling took a long time to organize his words before expressing his opinion: "He, he might have really broken it accidentally, but he is just being stubborn."
Wen Yi: "You are quite protective of your shortcomings."
Xue Ling: "Although he can be irritating sometimes, he is actually a very well behaved, considerate person with a good temper. It's just that sometimes he doesn't express it in the right way."
Wen Yi was speechless, and she couldn't help showing confusion and a little shock.
She looked at Xue Ling's dark red eyes. Unlike the cloudy eyes of other zombies, her eyes were very clear and red, which made her look sincere, as if she really believed it.
Wen Yi looked at her arms and saw goose bumps on them.
I feel a little uncomfortable and don't want to talk about Wen Jiuze anymore.
"You have asked all your questions, it's my turn." Wen Yi decisively changed the subject.
"I remember that Wen Jiuze took away a quarter of the Tai Sui. You must have eaten all of it. Did you eat the Tai Sui before or after you were infected?"
"I ate it before I was infected." Xue Ling answered honestly.
"How did you get infected? Can you tell me?" Wen Yi picked up a notebook and took notes.
"I don't know. I wasn't bitten by a zombie. It just changed suddenly. At first I thought I was sick."
"Oh? You are the first batch of naturally transformed zombies." Wen Yi was obviously interested when she heard this and looked at her carefully again.
She thought for a moment and suddenly said, "Wen Xuan ate half of Tai Sui. The zombie he turned into is very different from ordinary zombies. His appearance is closer to that of a normal person."
"The liquid medicine extracted from his body made Wen Jiuze different from ordinary zombies. He can now speak some simple words."
Xue Ling was shocked: "What? Wen Jiuze can still speak?!"
Why was he pretending to be dumb just now? He only howled at her twice, and used the tablet to communicate the rest of the time! He didn't say a single word!
Wen Yi felt no guilt at all for revealing Wen Jiuze's secret. She said:
"I see that you are not in good condition. Perhaps Taisui's extract can help you."
"I have another test subject who has taken a quarter of Tai Sui. I can extract the liquid medicine for you again to make you better. In exchange, how about you cooperate with me in some research?"
Xue Ling: “…”
"Didn't you just promise that you wouldn't trick me into going into the lab to do research?" Xue Ling asked.
Wen Yi: "This is not a lie."
Xue Ling discovered that Wen Yi and Wen Jiuze were really a bit alike, and they both felt justified when they said such things!
"Don't you want to be like Wen Jiuze? I don't think your condition is very good." Wen Yi asked again.
Xue Ling still shook her head.
She had promised Wen Jiuze not to let Wen Yi do research, at least not before the end of their first collaboration.
The future is too far away, let’s put the present things in the past first.
The car door was slammed open with a bang, and Wen Jiuze stood at the door with a murderous look on his face. His ferocious expression eased when he saw Xue Ling sitting opposite Wen Yi.
He placed one hand on Xue Ling's side, almost covering her with his arms, and took the pen from Xue Ling's hand to type on the tablet.
"Why are you here? I couldn't find you for a long time."
Wen Yi turned her swivel chair back and said to the guests, "You can leave if you have nothing else to do."
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