Qiu Hu wondered if she should ask Fu Shen if she was no longer the person she was three years ago and wouldn't be so easily deceived and used by him.
She picked up her phone, held it between two fingers, and twirled it a few times on the table, struggling internally about whether to call him out and ask him what he wanted.
Just as she was still hesitating, the phone rang. It was an unknown number. Normally, she would have hung up immediately, but her sixth sense told her that she couldn't hang up this call.
She answered the phone, "Hello."
A familiar voice came from the phone, "It's me, Lin Ning. Let's meet." Then, fearing she might refuse, he added, "Qiu Hu, I have something you want here, I guarantee you'll want to know."
Thinking about the recent events, and that Lin Ning had also been involved, Qiu Hu agreed, "Okay."
Even if he doesn't call, sooner or later Qiu Hu will come to him to ask him about it after he has reviewed all these things.
Qiu Hu dragged his overwhelmed body out the door.
Forty minutes later, Qiu Hu arrived at the location designated by Lin Ning, where Lin Ning was already sitting and waiting for her.
Qiu Hu sat opposite him. "Speak, what do you want to say after you called me out?"
"Chou Hu, are you in such a hurry? It's been so long! I came here specifically to see you."
Qiu Hu glanced at him indifferently. What do you think?
Lin Ning understood her gaze, nodded, and his brown curly hair swayed up and down with his nod. "Your younger brother, Qiu Xi, is at my house."
This news truly shocked Qiu Hu. "What? He's at your house? My parents are there too?"
"No, they're not here. They brought your brother to my house seven years ago, but I don't know where they are now."
Why are you suddenly telling me this?
"Haven't you been investigating lately? I wasn't planning to tell you; it would only cause you trouble. Besides, your brother is fine and safe."
"His illness?"
"It's been suppressed, but he doesn't remember any of you."
Qiu Xi suffers from amnesia, which, as the name suggests, causes memories to disappear on their own. He doesn't remember anyone. Since he can remember, he has forgotten everyone every day without exception.
"..." It's normal not to remember; it would be abnormal to remember, for someone who suffers from amnesia every day.
How did he get better?
"You probably already know about the drug your parents are researching. In the Colin family's lab, as a trade, they have to develop a state-of-the-art and most powerful drug in exchange."
Lin Ning was speaking when Qiu Hu called again. It was Ning Yizhan. Qiu Hu, who was listening intently, hung up on him without hesitation.
Seeing that she had hung up the phone, Lin Ning became happy, pursed her lips, and smiled.
“Keep talking, what are you laughing at?” Qiu Hu urged.
“Initially, your parents developed a medicine to treat your brother, but it wasn't effective until two years later. Now he still needs to take the medicine regularly. Your parents used to visit him every year for the past few years, but they haven't been around for four years. We don't know why; they just suddenly disappeared.”
Lin Ning's words were all plausible for the time being, except for one point: "Then why did you steal my necklace?"
"Because your parents said that the contents of the necklace must not fall into the hands of people with ulterior motives, and coincidentally, the Colin family are those kinds of people."
"Doesn't your stealing of the necklace prove that you have ulterior motives?"
Lin Ning was misunderstood. "I was trying to protect you, okay? Can you hide the necklace properly?"
Why not?
"Then why was it stolen in the first place?"
"..."
"If you stole it, then why did you smash up my house?"
"Isn't that because he couldn't find it, and he was angry?"
"Hehe, don't bother looking, the necklace isn't on me. Don't ask me, I won't tell you." Qiu Hu felt there was no need to reveal everything.
"OK."
"Why do you know Mom and Dad? And why are you raising Qiu Xi for them?"
“My dad said that my family owes them a great debt of gratitude, and we are trying to repay that debt.”
"That's it? Does the Colin family know about the relationship between your family and my parents?"
"I don't know, at least I don't think I know."
Qiu Hu nodded in relief. "Then where is Qiu Xi now?"
"He was in Qincheng, 17 years old, of course he was in school."
"Studying in Qincheng?" Would it be safe to do so under the watchful eyes of Qiu Bing and Fu Shen?
"It's probably because of his attachment to his homeland. I brought him to Qincheng once two years ago, and he liked it very much. I couldn't persuade him otherwise, so I just transferred him to a school here."
That's reasonable.
"By the way, his name isn't Qiu Xi anymore. That name is a bit flashy. His name is Zhao Shi now. Here's his picture." He took out his phone, opened the photo album, and Zhao Shi's picture appeared in front of her.
She listened to the name, Zhao Shi, wasn't he just as flamboyant? She looked at the photo in front of her, a sunny boy with a cheerful smile, his eyes just like hers, like his mother's eyes. Neither of them looked much like their parents, but their eyes were like their mother's, bright and clear, with an innate intelligence. "Zhao Shi? This name sounds familiar, like I've heard it somewhere before."
She thought about it again, and Lin Ning didn't interrupt her. Slowly, she remembered that Wei Zhouyu's classmates, just like her, all called her "Wei Yuzhou" when they first met her. Was this the tacit understanding between siblings? Thinking of this, she smiled, "Qincheng High School? Class 1, Grade 11, Zhao Shi?"
"How did you know?" This time, it was Lin Ning's turn to be surprised.
Qiu Hu shrugged. "You don't need to know."
"Are you done talking? If you are, I'm leaving."
"Now that we've finished talking, can't we catch up a bit? Seriously, if you had accepted my proposal back then, you would have already reunited with your brother. Why did you have to wait until now to find out?"
"Ha, how ridiculous."
Why don't you like me?
Qiu Hu looked up at him and said slowly, "Your hair is too ugly. I'd be embarrassed to take it out with me."
Lin Ning touched her natural hair, "What do you know? My natural hair color and natural curls are something many people would kill for!"
"Yeah, I can't get it by begging, but it's really ugly." Qiu Hu didn't bother arguing with him anymore, picked up his bag, got up and left.
"Hey, don't you want to see him?"
"If we're meant to meet, we'll meet sooner or later. Besides, he doesn't even remember me." If we're destined to be together, we'll meet sooner or later.
Qiu Hu left and returned to his car. He had learned a lot of news today and hadn't had time to process it all. He hadn't expected Qiu Xi to be in the Lin family's third branch. He was still in Qincheng and might see him soon.
Then she thought of her parents, who hadn't come back to see her in all these years. Had they forgotten her? She really couldn't compare to a sick younger brother.
She chuckled self-deprecatingly, started the car, and drove back to Jinyinwan.
However, she forgot that Ning Yizhan had called her.
P.S.: The "Eliminating Billions Syndrome" is a fictional invention by the author.
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