Wanqiu's longest and most monotonous memories were basically spent in that narrow space.
Darkness, open your hands and you can touch the edge.
He once thought that was the size of the world.
It was a fairly large and narrow space. I remember that when he was little, he could lie down and sleep peacefully.
But he grew up.
His body was growing and elongating, the world was becoming smaller and smaller and he could only curl up there.
The body has become accustomed to curling up, the body is deformed, and the legs and limbs cannot be stretched out at all.
His body was in pain all the time, and his skin was suffering from sores from years of oppression. Endurance was his daily routine.
He also had a father and a mother at that time.
It’s just that he seems to have many fathers.
Many, many people.
But there is only one mother.
All his activities were confined to that narrow space.
His mother would occasionally let him out to clean up the pungent, smelly, rotten things that came out of his body.
Cleaning is the only thing he knows how to do.
Occasionally my mother would bring some people.
Those people would bring him a different kind of pain, more than usual.
But mom is happy when he gets beaten.
The person who beats him will also be happy.
If he barks louder, others will be happier.
He didn't know why, but after a long time, he vaguely understood that it seemed to be related to something called money.
Wan Qiu suddenly seemed to understand what money was.
He already had an idea of money.
Money is what you need to buy food and survive.
As long as he was beaten, he and his mother could use the money to survive.
"What is this thing? Is it really a human? If this thing were released, it could be used as a performer in a curiosity show, right? This is too disgusting, hahahahaha."
"You are a big customer, you can do whatever you want to him. Don't worry, few people know of his existence."
"You're so ugly. Do you know you're so ugly? I'll kill you and help you get rid of it, okay?"
"Isn't he almost dead? He's motionless. Wasn't that person too cruel?"
"Brother, can you find a car to transport it out and dump it in a deep forest? It would be too disgusting to let it die here."
dad?
Mother?
Wan Qiu remembered these two sentences.
Wan Qiu suddenly understood that the meaning of these two sentences was to abandon him.
For the first time, Wan Qiu realized that besides his world and his parents' world, there was a wider and boundless world.
He was placed in an even smaller place, and when he curled up, he had no space to move around.
Has a strange smell.
Wan Qiu remembered that it was the car, and it was the trunk of the car that smelled of gasoline.
Wan Qiu was thrown away, and the feeling of his body hitting the ground was not that painful, it even felt soft.
The soft ground was snow, and he was thrown into it.
The cool snow would make his burning and painful body feel better.
While lying in the snow, Wan Qiu used his aching body to try to get rid of the sack that bound him.
And that was the first time he saw the starry sky.
It's not a dark and narrow place, it's very big here.
This was the first time he saw such a beautiful place.
It’s still black, but the sky is so beautiful.
Wan Qiu only now realized the last feeling, which was called coldness.
He couldn't resist the cold.
He curled up his limbs, unable to straighten them, and was unable to retain any warmth.
His body temperature was eroded bit by bit by the heavy snow.
He didn't know when he lost consciousness.
Wan Qiu suddenly reacted.
He originally.
Died once.
He was abandoned by his parents.
Frozen to death in the snow.
"Mom, don't do this to me."
"I love you mom."
"Mom, please don't abandon me."
Wan Qiu, who couldn't speak at that time, now suddenly remembered these words clearly in his mind.
The dark past that he dared not recall was understood bit by bit, and he truly understood the reason why he was avoiding looking back.
Wan Qiu was suddenly awakened by the sound of a loud door closing. He raised his head, his eyes full of fear.
"Mom? Mom?" Wan Qiu knocked on the bedroom door hard and kept calling Ning Qiaozhen, but got no response.
Is mom gone?
Did mom...abandon him?
Because he recalled the past when he was abandoned, was it a sign that he would be abandoned again?
Will he die if he is abandoned this time?
Just like his grandmother abandoned him and died, stiff and motionless, and then buried in the ground?
It’s okay, it’s okay, Mom will come back.
The mother in the past would come back, and the mother now would give him a place to live, a bed to lie down in, and would let him go to school. She is the best mother.
She will definitely come back.
Even if he can't do anything, at least he can be beaten, and it doesn't hurt. He is not afraid of pain, he is used to it.
Wan Qiu stood up, took off his pants which were already somewhat dry, and threw them aside.
Find some scratch paper and wipe your body.
He wants it clean.
Mom hates dirty kids.
He wants to be clean and wait for his mother to come back.
——
Ning Qiaozhen was about to collapse.
No one helped her, and her former friends all refused to answer her calls one by one.
Ning Qiaozhen has no family. When she eloped with Ning Hai, she had cut off all ties with her family. She even thought that she seemed to be pursuing her own life and deleted the contact information of all her relatives.
Even her psychotic mother has long passed away.
She thought that since she had given so much, at least Ning Hai would not betray him.
But everyone in this world will take advantage of her when she is down.
Ning Qiaozhen lay on the table and cried. When she heard Wan Qiu knocking on the door and crying that he wanted to go to the bathroom, Ning Qiaozhen suddenly felt a sense of pleasure.
No one in this world can help her, and the same goes for Wan Qiu.
No one will help Wan Qiu.
No matter how Wan Qiu begged or cried, Ning Qiaozhen felt a twisted sense of relief when she heard Wan Qiu's fragile voice, which allowed her to ease her pain a little.
At least she wasn't alone.
She wouldn't be the only one who was miserable.
Look, without her, Wan Qiu doesn’t even have freedom.
Everyone can do whatever they want to her, and she can do whatever they want to Wan Qiu.
Time passed by minute by minute, from late night to the sky turning white.
Ning Qiaozhen was half asleep and half awake, feeling dazed.
She didn't know what she was doing or what she could do.
Suddenly, a call came to the silent phone.
Ning Qiaozhen didn't expect that she could still receive a call. The unfamiliar phone number on the broken phone screen made Ning Qiaozhen's heart beat faster. She wondered in her mind whether it was Ning Hai who changed his number to answer her call.
"Hello?" However, when the call was connected, a strange female voice came from the other end, which made Ning Qiaozhen's heart plummet.
Is it a salesman? A scam call? Such thoughts flashed through her mind. Ning Qiaozhen was about to hang up the phone, but a sentence on the phone suddenly made her pause.
"I am Wan Qiu's biological mother. Hello, Ning Qiaozhen, let's talk."
Wan Qiu’s biological mother?
The sudden and mysterious phone call made Ning Qiaozhen suspicious, but she responded: "What's the matter?"
"Do you want money?" The woman opposite directly exposed Ning Qiaozhen's predicament.
"What do you mean?" Ning Qiaozhen needed money the most, and this word immediately touched her sensitive nerves.
"Come out and let's meet. I need you to do something and I'll pay you one million."
One million?!
At this moment Ning Qiaozhen stood up suddenly, her heart filled with excitement.
What's going on? A million dollars falling from the sky?
"I'll send you my current address. If you're willing, come over as soon as possible."
The other party hung up the phone right after he finished speaking, and Ning Qiaozhen then received a friend request.
After looking at the address, Ning Qiaozhen determined that this was a store in the nearest busy neighborhood, so kidnapping would not occur.
Ning Qiaozhen heard her heart beating wildly. Wan Qiu’s biological mother?
He immediately put on his clothes again, opened the door and went to the address.
Ning Qiaozhen arrived at the location quickly and was led into a secluded box by a man in a black suit waiting at the door.
She saw a woman.
A woman of exquisite beauty, everything about her was luxurious, with high-end custom-made clothes, brand-name accessories and bags. In Ning Qiaozhen's eyes, she was like a woman wearing money on her body.
Even though she looked unwell and had no makeup on, she was still bright and dazzling.
"Are you... Wanqiu's biological mother?" Ning Qiaozhen's voice trembled.
Ning Qiaozhen never thought that the fool she adopted from her insane mother would one day bring her such a surprise.
Wan Qiu's biological mother looked very wealthy. All the clothes she wore were worth more than if she were sold herself, so there was really no need to lie to her.
"You...you just said that you want to give me one million?" Ning Qiaozhen went straight to the point. What she needed most now was money, and she had no interest in arguing with others about other things.
Yang Xiaoyu gestured to the man who had been standing next to her, and the man immediately placed a small box in front of Ning Qiaozhen.
Ning Qiaozhen watched the man in the suit open the box in front of her, and there were actually thick stacks of cash inside.
Ning Qiaozhen widened her eyes, picked up the money and looked through it, selected a few stacks of money to count, they were all real money, and she was instantly overjoyed.
"It's only 500,000?" Ning Qiaozhen's voice was trembling as she counted the stacks of money one by one. But even if it was only 500,000, it was enough to make her extremely excited.
"After the deal is done, that box will be yours too." Yang Xiaoyu pointed with her slender and beautiful fingers at another box on the man in the suit. The man opened it respectfully to show her, then closed it immediately.
"What do you want me to do?" Ning Qiaozhen asked impatiently.
Yang Xiaoyu faced Ning Qiaozhen. Ning Qiaozhen's haggard face made those greedy eyes look even more terrifying.
"I want you to tell Wan Qiu that you don't love him and you want to abandon him."
Yang Xiaoyu's voice was calm, as if he was reading a science article without any emotion.
"Be resolute and don't drag your feet. I will arrange a vehicle for you. When the time comes, you can take Wan Qiu in the car and leave him where you park."
Ning Qiaozhen was stunned: "Is it that simple?"
Yang Xiaoyu's sunglasses shielded her gloomy eyes: "So simple? It's easy for you to abandon Wan Qiu? Isn't that your child?"
"How can he be considered my child? First, I didn't give birth to him. Second, I didn't raise him. Third, he's a ..." Ning Qiaozhen didn't feel any reluctance or cherishment towards Wan Qiu. But when she mentioned that Wan Qiu was a fool, Ning Qiaozhen stopped talking.
If this woman knew that Wan Qiu was a fool and didn't want him anymore, then wouldn't she lose her money?
"After raising it for three years, I've developed feelings for it even if it's just a dog." Yang Xiaoyu's tone was filled with coldness, sarcasm, and an anger that seemed to be crushed and not easily detected.
"That must be a dog. Dogs are better than him."
Yang Xiaoyu tightened his fingers on his legs, and his nails dug deeply into his palms.
"Oh, I'm sorry, that's your son, isn't it?" Ning Qiaozhen realized belatedly that the person in front of her was Wan Qiu's biological mother. "My mother raised him for so long, and I also worked hard to raise him for three years."
"That's why I gave you this one million." Yang Xiaoyu said coldly.
Ning Qiaozhen's mind became active. He was so rich, and could give money so easily. It seemed that he valued Wan Qiu very much.
"One million is not enough, right?" Ning Qiaozhen said tentatively.
"Your mother abducted my child back then." However, Yang Xiaoyu said, "If I use conventional means, he will still come back to me. Letting you throw him away is just to save some time. Or do you want to just not pay?"
Ning Qiaozhen was silent for two seconds. If Wan Qiu had wealthy parents, she could go find Wan Qiu later and maybe they would be able to have a long-lasting relationship.
But now we have to get that one million first.
"Okay, no problem." Ning Qiaozhen agreed readily.
"He will be watching you. If you succeed, the money will be given to you." Yang Xiaoyu gestured to the man in a suit and tie next to him, "You'd better do a good job and don't have any bad thoughts."
Ning Qiaozhen's steps were brisk. The heavy expression on her face seemed to be washed away by the box full of money. The cloudy sky turned sunny and she looked very happy.
"Why did you bring Wan Qiu back to raise him?" She shouldn't have asked too much. Even though Yang Xiaoyu knew that she might not get a good answer, she couldn't help but mind.
Ning Qiaozhen was stunned for a moment: "It was the villagers who asked me to take the child away. They all thought it was my child, otherwise they would sue me. Ning Hai and I can't have children, so I just wanted to raise one."
Yang Xiaoyu looked out the window in silence. In the cold box, she heard complete indifference from Ning Qiaozhen's mouth. It was not ice and snow, nor a prairie fire, but an endless desert.
Wan Qiu struggled to survive in the desert, but he was grateful that the desert gave him a foothold.
"Really?" Yang Xiaoyu's sigh sounded like nothingness.
"Wan Qiu is really good at pretending. He pretends to be so normal. I adopted him for three months before I found out that he is a fool. What use is a fool? Can he make money to support me in the future? If I had found out earlier, I would have..."
However, Ning Qiaozhen suddenly realized that she had actually said the word "fool" and she became speechless for a moment.
"Do you want to ask me about Wan Qiu?" Yang Xiaoyu asked. She herself didn't even know why she bothered to ask such a question.
"No." Ning Qiaozhen didn't want to know anything.
"Go away and fulfill your promise quickly." Yang Xiaoyu closed his eyes and didn't want to listen anymore.
Yang Xiaoyu turned on his mobile phone, which showed the surveillance of Wan Qiu from the floor opposite to Wan Qiu's home.
Through the blurry glass, you can vaguely see a thin child sticking to the door, leaning as close to the outside as possible.
Wan Qiu said he was very happy.
That child never felt the feeling of being cherished from beginning to end.
But I thought I was very happy.
Ning Qiaozhen left very quickly, looking very happy.
It was a windfall for her when she was at her wit's end, not to mention that she had never received such a large sum of money as one million at a time.
Ning Qiaozhen couldn't wait to take the cash box home to "carry out the mission" and quickly get the remaining 500,000 yuan.
Yang Xiaoyu sat in his seat and took off his sunglasses.
Chu Jianshu pushed the door open and saw a depressed Yang Xiaoyu.
"She doesn't have any love for Wan Qiu." Yang Xiaoyu saw Ning Qiaozhen's lack of hesitation and impatience, and he clearly saw Ning Qiaozhen's indifference towards Wan Qiu.
Ning Qiaozhen didn't even doubt why she asked her to abandon Wan Qiu.
Ning Qiaozhen didn't care about Wan Qiu at all, nor did she think about Wan Qiu's feelings, let alone the reasons why they did this.
Her child, her Wan Qiu, gave all his love to someone who didn't deserve it.
Even until the end, Yang Xiaoyu did not miss the calculation in Ning Qiaozhen's eyes at all.
She will come again.
She hugged a cash cow named Wan Qiu.
Chu Jianshu held his wife in his arms and comforted her: "Wan Qiu will go home with us tonight."
"We will hurt him." Yang Xiaoyu closed his eyes.
She is such an incompetent and despicable mother, Yang Xiaoyu thought. She always hurts every one of her children.
"This is the last time, it won't happen again." Chu Jianshu patted Yang Xiaoyu's arm gently, rhythmically soothing his wife's emotions.
The most important people to Wanqiu are Ning Qiaozhen and Ning Hai.
Ning Hai ran away.
Abandoned Wan Qiu with actions.
Even better than they planned.
Only Ning Qiaozhen was left.
If Ning Qiaozhen wasn't desperate now, she would definitely continue to make trouble for them in various ways after knowing that they were rich.
But now that she is at her wit's end, abandoned by Ning Hai, isolated by her friends, penniless and eager to get the money, Ning Qiaozhen will not spend more time to think about it.
They single-handedly pushed Wan Qiu to a situation where he was completely abandoned.
They will use dirty means and abilities to block all the filth around Wan Qiu.
The process of digging out the tumor will definitely be painful, but it must be dug out at the root.
They cut off the inappropriate dark thoughts connecting Wan Qiu and washed away the filth with their own hands.
They will then help the child reconnect and forge a healthy, loving connection.
——
When Ning Qiaozhen returned to the door, Wan Qiu had been locked in the room by her for a day and a night.
"Wait here for a moment. I'll go get him out."
Ning Qiaozhen said to the man in a suit who followed her.
After all, he might be her cash cow in the future, and she couldn't let people think that she was abusing Wan Qiu.
"I have to hear all your conversations." The man in the suit said coldly.
Ning Qiaozhen thought about the money and gritted her teeth. Isn't it just a lockup? Who hasn't put their children in solitary confinement as a punishment?
"Okay, come in."
Ning Qiaozhen was actually a little glad that Wan Qiu had cleaned the room, otherwise her current embarrassing situation would probably be discovered directly.
The strange man followed in. Ning Qiaozhen entered the room and walked two steps to Wan Qiu's door. She turned the bedroom door with the key in the door lock.
Ning Qiaozhen observed the man's expression intentionally or unintentionally. The man was indifferent and didn't seem to care about her behavior of locking Wan Qiu up.
The bedroom door was opened, and suddenly a fishy smell came towards her, and Ning Qiaozhen's face changed.
Wan Qiu was half-kneeling on the ground at this time, looking up at her. Her face was pale, half of it was swollen, her lips were dry and chapped, her cheeks were sunken, and she looked dazed. She was a thin ball, as if she had been abandoned by her spirit.
The first thing Ning Qiaozhen saw was traces of dried urine on the ground.
"You're so stupid..." Ning Qiaozhen subconsciously raised her voice to curse, cursing this damn idiot for actually peeing at home, but before the words came out, she was swallowed back.
The man also looked at Wan Qiu and frowned.
He glanced at Ning Qiaozhen, but Ning Qiaozhen didn't want to think about what that glance meant.
"Go to the bathroom and wash yourself. Can't you tell me if you can't hold it anymore? I put you in solitary confinement, not asking you to go to the bathroom. Are you protesting against me?"
Ning Qiaozhen put all the blame on Wan Qiu for his current situation in her words.
"You just know how to be stubborn with me all day long. If you weren't stubborn, would I put you in solitary confinement?"
Wan Qiu looked up at Ning Qiaozhen who was chattering away. All those angry words poured out like beans, too fast, and Wan Qiu could not fully understand what Ning Qiaozhen meant.
Wan Qiu knew that Ning Qiaozhen was unhappy.
But the moment he saw Ning Qiaozhen, all his fears suddenly disappeared.
Wan Qiu was kneeling on the ground, and Ning Qiaozhen, who came back to open the door for him, seemed to be covered with a layer of light.
He was not abandoned by his mother.
Mom will come back.
Mom has always been good to him, she won't abandon him.
"Mom." Wan Qiu involuntarily stretched out his hand, holding the hem of Ning Qiaozhen's clothes with his thin fingers. The boy, who was not very good at expressing his emotions, had a bright look in his clear eyes, which was full of expectation of being satisfied. "I'm sorry, I was wrong."
Wan Qiu couldn't understand why Ning Qiaozhen was unhappy.
But it was all his fault.
"Go take a shower and find some nice clothes to change into." Ning Qiaozhen immediately instructed Wan Qiu and pulled her clothes back.
Wan Qiu immediately got up from the ground, found clean clothes in the closet, and ran to the bathroom to take a shower.
The man peeked into Wanqiu's closet. There were almost no clothes in it, and the colors looked dull and old, but each piece was neatly folded.
If these clothes are just piled there in a mess, it will look more like a pile of garbage than a pile of clothes.
Ning Qiaozhen immediately closed the bedroom door, isolating the smell in the bedroom inside.
Wan Qiu stood in the water, tilted his head back and opened his mouth, so that the warm water from the shower head could enter his thirsty mouth faster.
His body was almost exhausted from not having any water for such a long time. When the water entered his mouth, his confused brain became much clearer.
The water temperature was not high, but Wan Qiu felt that the coldness that had been like a maggot in his bones was gradually fading away from his body.
The fact that his mother was still alive made Wan Qiu feel extremely relieved.
When I go out later, I have to apologize to my mother again.
Then he can tell his mother that he will help her and ask her not to worry.
Wan Qiu carefully washed her legs with nice-smelling shower gel, wiping away all the unpleasant smell from her body.
Because his mother said he wanted to find something nice to wear, even though the weather was very hot, Wan Qiu still took the hoodie his mother gave him, which he treasured the most.
Scent, warm water, clean clothes.
And there's my mother outside the door.
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