Chapter 54: Hidden past events, Shi Yun wakes up, Zheng Lin and the driver...
Zheng Lin said a few words to the driver.
"Where are we?"
"It seems to be on the edge of Changle County..."
While they were talking, they didn't notice that Tian Qiming, who had been quiet in the back seat for a long time, suddenly curled up and twitched a few times, his face turned blue, and he stared at Zheng Lin with dilated eyes.
His hands hung at his sides, as if he was holding something.
“It’s so desolate here!”
"We are quite poor. I say, when the time comes, just throw the child here and no one will be able to find him."
Zheng Lin whispered: "I just wanted to scare Shi Wei, I didn't really want to kill Shi Yu..."
The driver laughed sarcastically: "Boss Zheng, I don't care about this. Anyway, the deal is done. The agreed 300,000 yuan cannot be reduced by a cent!"
He raised his little finger and clenched his teeth, rolling his eyes, obviously disdaining Zheng Lin's indecisiveness. Just as he was about to say something else, the back seat suddenly moved, and then a warm spray hit his cheek.
Amidst the screams, he raised his hand, and fumbled around in front of his eyes. Wow - the bright red color deprived him of his entire vision!
He turned his head stiffly and found a hideous cut on Zheng Lin's neck with blood oozing out.
The culprit, Tian Qiming, seemed to be crazy, laughing shrilly and constantly cutting the wound with the tip of the sharp knife.
Blood splattered on the windshield and the head became more and more tilted.
As soon as Shi Yu quietly opened his eyes, he saw this scene.
He suddenly froze in place, his blood flowing back and his hands and feet becoming cold.
Tian Qiming dropped his long sword, his eyes were bloodshot, and his body was covered with Zheng Lin's blood. He must have been stimulated, and he fell into a state of madness.
"You are also Shi Wei's lackey. I should have killed you the first time I saw you! Damn it, I have wanted to do this for a long time. Shi Wei, you are the one who deserves to die the most! You are the cuckoo in the magpie's nest, give me back my things!"
He shouted a few random words, took a few deep breaths, and suddenly turned around to look at Shi Yu.
Shi Yu was too scared to react in time and was caught by him.
Tian Qiming laughed sinisterly a few times: "You're awake, good... Don't worry, I have a better way to deal with you. I will scrape you into pieces, grind your bones into powder, and send them all to Shi Wei. I want to see Shi Wei in agony, kneeling down and begging me!"
Tian Qiming tapped Shi Yu's cheek with the back of his knife.
Shi Yu was trembling all over, tears streaming from her eyes. Her look of fear made Tian Qiming feel much better.
"Xiao Shiyu, do you know that your face is almost exactly the same as Shi Wei's? Every time I see it, I want to vomit. From the first time I saw you, I wanted to strangle you to death..."
Shi Yu used to trust Tian Qiming very much. When he heard people say this, all the happy times in the past seemed to have turned into a feast for the devil.
He finally couldn't stop crying and let out a little from between his lips, whimpering like a kitten, which made Tian Qiming even happier.
While they were talking, the driver tried to minimize his presence as much as possible, but unfortunately, Tian Qiming had no intention of letting him go.
The driver glanced back secretly through the rearview mirror, but he didn't expect that it was this glance that caught him off guard and ran into Tian Qiming's crazy eyes.
The driver was so frightened that he stepped on the accelerator and drove the car out.
With a humming sound, the car drew a silver line in the air.
Feeling a push on his back, Tian Qiming lost his balance and fell backwards.
Although the driver reacted in time and turned the steering wheel sharply to try to save the car, it was too late.
He watched them crash into the rocks.
For a moment, the car overturned and exploded, and screams echoed.
The collision was so severe that the driver died instantly. Tian Qiming's head hit the glass and he fell unconscious in his seat.
Shi Yu was also injured, but due to inertia he was thrown into a safer gap.
Even so, the strong impact still made his eyes go black. When he was about to faint, a few fragments suddenly flashed before his eyes:
His mother touched his head gently and said, "Xiaoyu, if you close your eyes, you won't be able to hear your mother telling you a bedtime story!"
Daddy took out a bag of snacks from behind him and said, "Xiaoyu, if you don't come back, Daddy will eat them all by himself!"
The elder brother pretended to be fierce: "Whoever bullies our Xiaoyu, tell me and I will beat him into a pig's head for you!"
An Huaixu sat at the table, solving advanced math problems seriously, and comforted him without emotion: "After you finish this, I can play with you for 30 minutes."
…
Voices of all kinds of people and emotions called out to him.
He could feel his heart beating violently, and his limbs, which had originally had no feeling, were struggling to regain his rights.
Rocks broke and hit the roof of the car with a loud bang. If you listen carefully, you can also hear the sound of splashing water.
Shi Yu woke up slowly. He had a head injury, and blood flowed from his forehead to one of his eyes. When he looked out through the broken window, the first thing he saw was—
The towering mountain stood in the deep night, and the scarlet full moon hung high in the sky, shining coldly into his heart.
He wanted to cry, but he didn't dare to. His little figure twitched in pain.
He stood up with difficulty and squeezed out through the twisted gap in the car door.
The cold wind was like a knife, scraping across his fragile body, but he felt redeemed in an instant.
Even the darkness that he feared the most in the past became a celebration of survival.
But these emotions only lasted for a few seconds. Faced with an extremely unfamiliar place, he had no idea where to go.
He thought, he remembered his father and mother's cell phone numbers, as long as he found them, he could -
"Bang!!"
Before Shi Yu had taken a few steps forward, he was suddenly blown away by a hot current carrying some metal fragments, and hit the stone hard.
Before he lost consciousness, he saw a group of people holding flashlights running towards him anxiously on the side path.
"Village Chief, there's a fire!!"
"Hey, there's a fainted child!"
"Save the children first!"
***
An Huaixu was alone, standing outside the operating room.
He looked at his hands with a dark look in his eyes, recalled the scene when he saw Shi Yun on the mountain, and took a deep breath.
He almost lost Si Yoon again.
Why.
Why is Shi Yun not obedient at all?
Just lock him up.
Locked in a place where no one knows.
Just as his thoughts were becoming increasingly darker, hurried footsteps sounded behind him.
Then, a slightly trembling voice said:
"Xiao An."
An Huaixu raised his head instantly and looked at the two faces that looked 50% similar to Shi Yun. He quickly stood up and said respectfully, "Aunt Shi, Uncle Shi, you are here..."
He himself didn't realize that he was actually afraid at this moment.
I was afraid that they would blame me, so why didn’t I protect Shi Yu like I did last year?
Over the years, Shi's mother has undergone several major changes, from her initial paranoia and unwillingness to believe, to her decadence in accepting reality, and then to her current relief.
She was dressed in simple clothes, her beautiful face was wrinkled, and even her expression showed fatigue and old age.
Looking back many years ago, this woman was generous, gentle, beautiful and charming. The way she held Xiao Yu could be called the moonlight of Jiangnan in a painting.
When Shi's mother saw An Huaixu, her eyes instantly turned red.
Like a kind elder, she raised her hand and touched the child who was already a head taller than her.
"The last time I saw you, you were only as tall as my waist. In the blink of an eye, you've grown so big..."
An Huaixu was unusually docile, with his head lowered, listening to people sighing for a long time.
He suddenly said in a deep voice:
"sorry."
Father Shi and Mother Shi looked at each other.
"Why do you say sorry?"
An Huaixu looked back at the red light of the operating room. He seemed emotionless, but his clenched fists revealed his uneasy heart: "I didn't tell you about Shi Yu's news right away."
Father Shi: “In fact, we already knew it on the day we returned home.”
Shi's mother: "The first time I saw Shi Yun through the live broadcast, I knew he was my Xiao Yu. If a mother recognizes the wrong child, she is unworthy of her job."
After she finished speaking, she raised the corners of her lips and smiled, but it was a very bitter smile.
Perhaps it is because the child who has been searched for for many years cannot be recognized.
Or perhaps there were other unspeakable secrets that prevented them from recognizing each other.
Anyway, no matter from which angle you look at it, Shi Yun’s biological parents have been missing them for a long time through the live camera.
Just as An Huaixu was about to say something, several footsteps were heard.
He looked in the direction of the voice and saw a hurried man coming with several doctors.
He keenly noticed that among them was a psychologist from the First Mental Hospital of City A.
An Huaixu pursed his lips, shifted his gaze and looked at the man walking in front.
The man looked a few years older than him, tall, with a mature and elegant temperament, and his eyebrows and eyes were about 60% similar to those of Shi Mother.
But his expression is very similar to Shi's father. Even when he saw An Huaixu and smiled, he looked very much like Shi Yun.
Or rather, Shi Yu is like his father, and his temperament is like his mother.
But his elder brother, Shi Cheng, is the opposite.
Shi Cheng has a very good relationship with An Huaixu's brother, and they get together every time he returns to China.
An Huaixu was forced by his brother to eat with him several times.
Because Shi Cheng was worried about Shi Yu's affairs and had to manage the company at the same time, he was not in a very good condition for a long time, and his dark circles under his eyes were so dark that they reached his chin.
An Huaixu's brother always wondered if he was about to die suddenly.
And now, although the dark circles under Shi Cheng's eyes are still there, the gloom in his eyes has been swept away, and he is now filled with the obvious concern and anxiety of an elder brother.
He first glanced at the red light in the operating room, frowned and said something to the doctors behind him. After the doctors turned and left, he put on his usual smile.
"Huai Xu, long time no see."
An Huaixu hummed.
Shi Cheng invited An Huaixu to go to the rooftop to smoke.
An Huaixu followed him up, but refused his cigarette and asked directly, "What's wrong?"
Shi Cheng: “What?”
An Huaixu frowned: "You know what I'm asking."
Shi Cheng held the lit cigarette but was hesitant to put it into his mouth.
He looked at An Huaixu for a while, and suddenly laughed twice: "When it comes to Xiaoyu, I really can't hide anything from you."
Shi Cheng looked into the distance: "You want to know why we knew Xiaoyu was still alive, why didn't we come to find him?"
An Huaixu didn't say anything.
Shi Cheng was already used to his behavior. He put out his cigarette, and white smoke rose up, blurring his face.
He said, "You should know what happened back then. Because of the grudges of my father's generation, Xiaoyu was kidnapped in an attempt to force my father to give up his throne. Since then, the two men have disappeared with Xiaoyu."
"My father quickly identified Zheng Lin, but he didn't expect that Tian Qiming, who had been missing for a long time, was involved. This was his mistake. After investigation, it was found that Tian Qiming had escaped from a private mental hospital. He suffered from severe paranoia."
Tian Qiming was discharged from the hospital after a period of treatment. He looked no different from ordinary people in his normal life, but once he was stimulated, he would be out of control.
He is an extremely dangerous person.
An Huaixu nodded. Now that things had come to this, he no longer concealed anything and revealed the entirety of his investigation.
"After confirming that Shi Yun was Xiao Yu, I checked and found that the Fugui Village Police Station did receive a fire alarm around that time. It was caused by a car explosion. After the fire was put out, everything was in ruins. It was impossible to distinguish the license plate number and the person. In addition, there were occasional tourists passing by that place, so they registered the incident as an accident and hastily dealt with it."
What An Huaixu was able to find out, Shi Cheng already knew.
He regretted missing out in the past: "Changle County has a complex terrain and scattered villages. I didn't expect there was a village deep in the mountains. Fortunately, my Xiaoyu can grow up safely."
An Huaixu: "The people there are nice."
Shi Cheng's mind and eyes were now filled with Shi Yu's affairs, and he didn't react at all. The usually vicious-mouthed and cold boy, not only did he lose his strong attack power when they met this time, he even said nice things.
Shi Cheng continued to recall: "When my parents first knew that Xiao Yun was Xiao Yu, they wanted to rush over to see him the next second... So many years have passed, we are overwhelmed by longing and self-blame, even I almost forgot what Xiao Yu looked like, but the first time I saw Shi Yun, my memory told me that he should look like this when he grows up."
"We are very relieved that he is still alive and happy. We are also grateful to Uncle Shi and Aunt Shi. I have contacted the best hospital to treat Xiaomei Shi's condition. Now that Xiaoyun has woken up, we can rest assured."
Shi Cheng was not a talkative person when he grew up, but he said a lot today, even - An Huaixu caught the sob in his voice that he tried hard to hide.
Missing, being thankful, being happy...all these emotions materialized in him, as if pulling him back to many years ago.
An Huaixu is not a very sentimental person, or rather, he simply does not know how to deal with this kind of emotions.
So he turned his head and pretended not to see it.
Shi Cheng adjusted his mood, sighed, and mentioned another thing:
"Regarding the issue of his memory, I have invited someone - this person, perhaps you are more familiar with him."
An Huaixu looked away, obviously not wanting to mention this matter.
But Shi Cheng didn't intend to let him go today.
"Doctor Lin said that you don't look quite right. Are you sick again?"
"No."
Shi Cheng snorted and laughed: "You are still stubborn."
He felt much better. He glanced at An Huaixu and scolded him with a smile, "I don't know who prayed to the gods for Xiaoyu back then. He almost had a falling out with his family... In the end, he was sent to Doctor Lin for treatment and only then did he get better?"
An Huaixu didn't have the patience to talk to him about these useless things: "So, what happened?"
"You still have such a bad temper." He sighed: "Only Xiaoyu can cure you."
Their whole family saw their interaction on the show.
Whether when he was a child or now, An Huaixu is very fond of Xiaoyu's tricks.
These two people...
Shi Cheng looked An Huaixu up and down, with indistinguishable emotions in his eyes.
After receiving An Huaixu's unhappy glare, he curled the corners of his lips and turned to the main topic: "With the means of the Shi family and the An family, it is impossible that they could not find any trace of the car. So my father suspected at the time that there was someone behind them, and this force was bigger than they imagined."
An Huaixu raised his eyebrows, as if he had thought of something, and sneered, "Wang family."
Shi Cheng nodded: "To be more precise, it was the Wang family back then."
Shi Cheng: "Their top power was overthrown by my father and Uncle An, but it was this action that allowed a small branch of the An family to develop behind the scenes, which is today's Wang family."
An Huaixu seemed to understand: "Are you afraid that the Wang family will know Shi Yun's background and will harm him?"
Shi Cheng hummed: "Although they are just ants now, I will not allow anything that can hurt my brother to happen."
An Huaixu raised his eyebrows: "What did you do?"
Shi Cheng leaned against the railing: "What can I do? I just added fuel to the fire."
He turned on his phone and swiped through several screens——
Wang's stock price plummeted.
The chairman of Wang Group cheated on his female secretary and molested multiple women, which made the headlines.
The chairman's wife met a mysterious man at night and engaged in indecent behavior in the underground parking lot.
…
With multiple pieces of negative news coming out at once, there was a huge turmoil within the Wang family.
The major shareholder ran away, the project was urgently stopped and many other things made Wang's company a complete shell.
Shi Cheng slid the interface of his phone and switched to an acquisition contract.
Shi Cheng smiled nonchalantly, with the attitude of a powerful superior: "The way to eliminate danger is to make the dangerous place your own property, right?"
***
Shi Yun was trapped in darkness and unable to escape. From all around him came the sound of people talking.
He couldn't hear clearly, but he could feel the longing.
Is it mom and dad?
He ran forward anxiously until he was exhausted, but still couldn't find the way out.
He did not give up. He struggled to get up and continued running forward.
I don’t know how long it took, but the sound in my ears faded away and the surroundings returned to silence.
He was a little flustered for a moment.
Did they leave, are they disappointed in me?
Tears flowed down his cheeks and fell into his palms.
Suddenly, he felt someone using fingers to gently and carefully trace his eyes, nose tip, lips...
Just when he was confused about the situation, a familiar voice sounded clearly:
"When are you going to wake up? I finally managed to build up some weight for you, but now you're almost gone again... Shi Yun, you're really cruel to be able to sleep for so long..."
"Aunt Shi and the others missed you so much... You know, the first time I saw Shi Cheng... your brother cried..."
"Director Lin is here too. He scolded me for not telling him that you are Shi Yu... If you were here, you would definitely not say good things about him after seeing him like that."
"Uncle Shi and Aunt Shi are here too. Please forgive me. I was afraid they would worry, so I told them about your life story without your consent."
"The doctor said your injuries weren't serious, so why don't you want to wake up? Are you angry because I lied to you and became your friend with a purpose?"
The last words he said seemed a little aggrieved, and his voice lowered.
Finally, Shi Yun felt someone resting his head on his palm, rubbing it gently, and heard a voice as soft as a mosquito: "Can you please stop hating me..."
Shi Yun struggled to open his eyes, but it was in vain.
He never gave up and continued to struggle to wake up from the abyss.
Suddenly, he felt a strange warm touch on the corner of his lips!
He was stunned immediately.
This, this is...
An Huaixu kissed him!
Why did An Huaixu kiss him?
After a while, there was a click of a door closing.
If he looked back at this time, he might find that Shi Yun's fingers moved.
The sound around him returned to silence. Shi Yun was already lacking in energy, and now he was deeply confused. After a while, he fell asleep again with so many questions in his mind.
***
An Huaixu was not in a good mood, so he went to the rooftop to get some fresh air.
However, he had only stood there for a few minutes when he heard two footsteps behind him.
"Huai Xu."
An Huaixu turned around and met the gaze of his brother An Mingli and Shi Cheng.
An Huaixu frowned subconsciously, and his eyes seemed to be saying - what are you doing here?
Every time An Mingli saw his beloved brother, cracks would appear in his perfect mask: "Don't look at me like that. My parents are here too. They're just behind us. I estimate they'll be here in an hour or two."
An Huai preface: "..."
He turned around and was about to go downstairs.
After An Mingli confirmed with the corner of his eye that An Huaixu had gone far away, he shifted his gaze to Shi Cheng.
He refused the cigarette that Shi Cheng handed over, and scolded him with a smile: "Smoke less, your brother's lungs are hurt, and I can't ask you, a heavy smoker, for the taste."
Shi Cheng obediently withdrew his hand and threw the cigarette box into the trash can: "Quit it." He walked forward side by side with him.
An Mingli sighed: "That child has lost a lot of weight and looks a lot like Aunt Shi."
Shi Cheng hummed: "He inherited all the good qualities of my mother."
An Mingli joked: "Then uncle will be very happy."
Shi Cheng smiled bitterly: "He has blamed himself for more than ten years, and now he can finally take a deep breath. In the days to come, let us make it up to Xiao Yun."
An Mingli: "What did Dr. Lin say after examining him?"
Shi Cheng: "Xiao Yun's amnesia is not a psychological problem. He had a head injury before."
An Mingli understood and patted his shoulder: "It will be fine."
Shi Cheng didn't say anything.
The two stood there in silence for a while.
Suddenly, Shi Cheng rolled his eyes at An Mingli and said, "When did your good brother take away our cabbage?"
When Shi Cheng said this, he found it hard to believe, yet at the same time he felt that this was how it should be.
The two conflicting emotions made his tone somewhat funny.
An Mingli laughed out loud: "No wonder you still can't find a wife."
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