Before coming to Nanwu, Yunli had contacted Jiang Yuan's parents in advance and would visit them this afternoon.
Yunli didn't stay in Jiangnanyuan for too long. She found an excuse to go to Nanjing University of Science and Technology to meet her female classmates. She borrowed Fu Shizhe's car and left.
Ever since Fu Shizhe told her about Jiang Yuan last time, the two had not discussed this topic again.
He always acts like nothing bothers him.
Yunli remembered that he had used up most of the sleeping pills in his drawer.
When she first arrived at the company, Zhou Tiao told her that Jiang Yuan was an only child and that the members of Unique were like brothers to him. After his death, Zhou Tiao and other members of Unique raised some money for his parents.
At that time, Jiang Yuan's parents and Zhou Tiao repeatedly confirmed that there was no money from Fu Shizhe before they were willing to accept it.
Fu Shi also knew about this matter.
Zhou Tiao also told her that someone had been secretly sending money to Jiang Yuan's parents for many years.
Yunli pursed her lips.
This is like Jiang Yuan’s parents couldn’t accept their son’s death and forcibly transferred the responsibility to Fu Shi Ze.
But what did he do wrong that he had to bear this guilt and the accusation from the other party for so many years?
The address Zhou Tiao gave her was only half an hour's drive from Jiangnan Garden. She was very nervous while navigating there.
The residential complex where Jiang Yuan lives was built in the 1990s. The old buildings are dilapidated, and the walls and old-style convex anti-theft windows are rusty. The community is located in another old urban area of Nanwu. After the relocation of industries, only the elderly live there.
After going downstairs, Yunli pressed the doorbell, and soon Jiang's mother opened the door.
The house was on the sixth floor and there was no elevator. When Yunli reached the third floor, she saw Jiang's father and mother coming down to greet her.
Jiang Yuan is a few years older than Fu Shi. His parents should be around fifty years old now, but they look like they are in their sixties.
The two of them warmly invited her upstairs and asked her about her well-being. Jiang Yuan was studying at Western University of Science and Technology, and when Yun Li first contacted them, she also told them that she was from Xifu, and they did not doubt her identity at all.
The house is not big. At first glance, it looks like a small two-bedroom apartment. The interior decoration is simple and plain, and the furniture is a bit old. However, there is a 27-inch LCD TV in the middle of the living room.
"It's been a long time since Yuanyuan's classmates came to visit us." Jiang's mother smiled and invited Yunli to sit down at the coffee table.
Hearing this, Yunli looked at her, and the wrinkles on his brows made her feel inexplicably sad.
There are already a lot of fruits on the table.
She turned on the TV for Yunli to see: "This TV was given to me by Yuanyuan's classmates two years ago, but his father and I have not been home, and we didn't receive a call. We still don't know who sent it."
Yunli: "How are you two doing?"
Father Jiang smiled and said, "It's fine. Days just pass by like this. When I miss my son, I go to his room and look at his things."
"Can I see your room, senior?" Yun Li did not directly state her purpose. Jiang's mother seemed to be used to it and stood up to take her to the room.
Jiang Yuan's room is not big. There is an old-fashioned window on the south side with two potted plants on the windowsill. The mattress is still made. Next to it is a wooden student desk, and the top is filled with various tutoring books for elementary, middle and high schools.
The furnishings in the house are as if someone is still living there.
There were several group photos on the wall, all simply covered with uneven tape at the four corners. The photos were not covered with plastic film and had oxidized, turned yellow, and faded.
She saw that Fu Shizhe was in several of the photos, showing Jiang Yuan's parents taking them fishing and playing ball.
Seeing Yunli looking at the photos, Jiang's mother said, "The photos basically show me, his father, and a friend who grew up with Yuanyuan. He is Yuanyuan's classmate, do you know him?" At this point, she sighed, "Yuanyuan treated him as his brother, and we treated him as our own son. But since Yuanyuan passed away, we haven't seen him for many years."
“…”
"He's a good boy, too."
Yunli: "Won't he come to see you two?"
The woman in front of him was silent for a while, her eyes dimmed as she said, "He has been here before, so let's tell him not to come again."
Yunli followed up the conversation and asked tentatively, "Did he do anything?"
"That child is innocent. He may have hurt Yuanyuan unintentionally with his actions, and he won't know it." Jiang's mother stared at the photo. "Yuanyuan was sick. He promised us to look after Yuanyuan, but he was busy at the time, so he probably didn't pay much attention."
Her tone was calm but firm: "As parents, we are not qualified to accept his compensation on Yuanyuan's behalf."
From the perspective of Jiang Yuan's parents, his last diary entry undoubtedly said that he was overwhelmed by Fu Shizhe's excellence, and they also could not accept that Fu Shizhe clearly said that he swallowed the medicine, but Jiang Yuan did not take it in the end.
Just like Fu Shizhe didn't take Jiang Yuan's affairs to heart at all, didn't supervise him to take medicine, didn't pay attention to his emotions, and only pursued his own development.
Before coming here, Yun Li was more or less resentful towards Jiang Yuan's parents out of her love for Fu Shi Ze and her desire to protect him. She originally thought that she would be facing stubborn and resentful parents.
That way she might have a reason to convince herself to bring up the other person's sad story again.
But the other party was very calm, because from their point of view, this was the fact.
Yunli asked: "Can I take a look at his book?"
"Sure." Jiang's mother quickly came out of her previous emotion and said gently, "They are basically tutorial books. Here are a few of Yuanyuan's childhood diaries. You can take a look if you want."
She took out a few books from the bookshelf, and the covers were mostly about Ultraman.
Jiang Yuan did not write his diary at a fixed time, but about once a week, recording the major events that happened that week. Most of his diaries were innocent and carefree, and contained many interesting stories about his growth, as well as the figure of Fu Shizhe.
In these diaries, Yunli only read out one message.
——Jiang Yuan regards Fu Shi Ze as his younger brother.
Yunli flipped through it and found that his diary stopped at the end of his freshman year. At that time, there was almost no negative emotion in his diary.
She paused, looked up and asked them, "Seniors, have you stopped writing diaries since you went to college?"
Jiang Yuan's depression probably started during his doctoral studies.
"We brought back everything from his dormitory." Jiang's mother also looked a little confused. "His father and I didn't find any other diaries."
Yunli thought for a while and asked them, "Does the senior have a computer?"
"Yes." Jiang's mother immediately opened the drawer, inside which was a very thick notebook with some souvenirs neatly placed next to it. Yunli noticed that there was something with the Unique logo inside.
"This is the team that Yuanyuan joined. Yuanyuan won many championships with this team." When Jiang's mother mentioned Jiang Yuan's past and handed the things to Yunli, there was a hint of pride in her eyes.
After looking at it for a while, Yunli realized that it was a USB flash drive.
There are very obvious signs of use on the interface.
"Auntie, how about I help you look for it? Maybe I can find the diary of the senior from the last few years."
Jiang Yuan's parents didn't seem to be the type of people who often used computers or mobile phones. When they heard Yun Li say that she helped them find the diary, they thanked her repeatedly.
It took quite a long time to start up the computer. The old laptop was lagging badly. Yunli waited patiently for a few minutes. A picture of a drone appeared on the desktop. She was stunned. It was the drone that Yunye took away.
Without taking time to investigate further, Yunli directly plugged in the USB drive.
There was nothing else in the USB drive, only a word document.
Yunli clicked on it and found that it contained Jiang Yuan’s diary after his sophomore year.
His diary entry frequency decreased to about once a month, and Yunli quickly scanned the diary. The second half of the diary recorded his experiences since his senior year.
The huge gap and pressure came from his scientific research life, and Jiang Yuan began to become busier and busier. Despite the busy work, his mentor continued to squeeze his personal time and mocked and suppressed him several times, whether in life, scientific research or work.
At first, Jiang Yuan thought he could turn the situation around with his own abilities, but his tutor deprived him of his time and achievements in all aspects. He asked Jiang Yuan to help him take care of the children, buy meals and groceries, etc. He regarded all of Jiang Yuan's output as garbage, but turned around and snatched away the right to authorship of the achievements. If Jiang Yuan disagreed, he would threaten him with expulsion.
Jiang Yuan reported the matter to the college and wrote a letter to the principal, but to no avail and even further led to public insults from his tutor.
His confidence and high spirits were worn away step by step, becoming broken. However, his parents had high expectations for him, even hoping that he could become a professor and improve the family's ordinary economic environment and social status.
Every time he picked up the phone to talk, he had to hold it back after hearing his parents' earnest greetings.
"I'm fine with everything."
Since the first year, Jiang Yuan has found it difficult to accept. He is extremely distressed and wants to change everything. But everyone else in the lab endures it silently, and he is the one who resists the most fiercely.
He who resisted alone seemed like a clown.
Soon, he began to doubt his own incompetence, his inability to balance everything, and his inability to satisfy his mentor.
He occasionally mentioned to his parents that he wanted to drop out of school, but they strongly opposed it. He complained to Fu Shizhe in the early days, but later he was afraid that Fu Shizhe would think he was incompetent, so he kept everything to himself.
In the diaries of these years, there are occasional happy fragments, all of which are about participating in competitions, playing ball, and hiking with my good brothers.
…
[I feel that the two luckiest things in my life are that my parents love me very much and that I have a good brother named A Ze. ]
【After thinking for a long time, I decided to see a psychologist, and was diagnosed with depression. I felt even sadder and felt very sorry for my parents. But I was lucky to know that no matter what happened to me, Aze would help me take care of my parents.】
…
[Taking medicine is still useful. I rarely think about negative things. I will participate in the competition soon. I should be able to win the championship again this year.]
…
[I've been feeling better lately. My boss seems to want to let me go. He told me to write my article well. I can't concentrate after taking the medicine. I plan to stop taking the medicine for a while, submit the article I have, and continue taking the medicine after I meet the requirements for doctoral graduation. My parents and A Ze will definitely not agree. A Ze stands at the door of the office every day and watches me take the medicine, like a door god. If he finds out that I didn't take the medicine, he will immediately turn hostile. Well, everyone cares about me, so I don't want to disappoint everyone. ]
This is the last entry in Jiang Yuan's diary document.
Yunli looked at the diary and when he came to his senses, he found tears on both sides of his cheeks.
Just like what Fu Shizhe said, Jiang Yuan was gentle to the world and loved the people around him, but he was treated unfairly.
Seeing her crying, Jiang's mother, who was carrying fruit, panicked. Yunli wiped her tears with the back of her hand. Her phone just happened to vibrate. It was a message from Fu Shize: [Lili, when will you be back? ]
"I found the senior's diary. I just read it." Yunli sniffed. Upon hearing this, Jiang's father immediately ran into the room. For both of them, after their son's death, they could only frantically search for things related to him in the past.
Yunli found six years' worth of diaries for them.
The two wore reading glasses to read. Their eyes were not good. After looking at the screen for a while, they felt sore and painful. Seeing this, Yunli told them the basic operation and went downstairs to a nearby printing shop to print two copies.
On the way back to the community, Fu Shi called her. There was some noise on the other end of the line, and he said casually, "Take me with you to the supermarket when you come back?"
"Aze." Yunli paused for a long time before saying with difficulty: "I am not going to South China University of Technology to see my tutor today."
"..." Fu Shi was silent for a moment, "You are in Heyuan?"
"Yes..." Yun Li lowered his eyes, "I found Brother Jiang Yuan's diary from his last few years. Do you want me to drive over to pick you up?"
"No, I'll take a taxi."
Fu Shize did not ask why she was in Heyuan, nor did he ask about the contents of her diary. Instead, he asked, "Did it cause you any trouble?"
"No……"
"Well, you're outside?" Hearing the noise on her phone, Fu Shi naturally inferred that Yun Li hummed, and he said calmly: "Stay outside and wait for me to come over."
Yunli hung up the phone and stood there in a daze.
She thought that at this time, Fu Shi would be more concerned about the contents of the diary rather than her.
But he didn't mention it at all. The purpose of his coming seemed to be that he just didn't want her to encounter any trouble, so he asked her to stay outside.
Yunli didn't listen to Fu Shizhe. She went back into the house and handed the two printed diaries to Jiang Yuan's parents.
She patiently accompanied the two old people in looking through the books.
By the end, Jiang's mother's face was full of tears. She covered her face and cried bitterly, "So many things happened, why didn't you tell mom? Why didn't you listen to the doctor..."
She suddenly felt numb. Jiang Yuan had mentioned to her that he was not adapting to the life of a PhD student and wanted to drop out and find a job directly.
Like many parents, they didn't listen and were only concerned about their son's bright future.
But……
Jiang Yuan just needed to say one more word to her.
No matter what happens, what she cares about most is that her son can live in peace.
Yunli stayed beside them silently, and waited until both of them calmed down before saying softly, "Uncle and aunt, don't be sad. Senior loves you so much and doesn't want you to be like this..."
She paused, then mustered up the courage to say, "Actually, I came here this time because of Fu Shi Ze. Because of what happened to the senior, A Ze has always felt guilty and has been absent from school for a long time because of this."
"Uncle and aunt, you really can't blame Aze for what happened back then. He is such a sentimental person that he almost treated the senior as his own brother. You can see that it was written in the senior's diary that Aze watched him take medicine, and he also hoped that the senior would survive."
Yunli told them about Fu Shize one by one, and her phone kept vibrating. A few minutes later, someone knocked on the door.
Jiang's mother went to open it, and was visibly stunned when she saw Fu Shizhe. He walked into the room silently, and when he saw Yun Lipingan sitting on the sofa, his slightly frown relaxed.
Fu Shize hasn't seen Jiang Yuan's parents for more than three years.
I haven't been to this house for a few years.
The lives of the two elders seemed to be normal.
Out of habit, Fu Shi thought that the other party didn't want to see him.
For so many years, the endless guilt towards Jiang Yuan and the other party made him breathless. When he reappeared in front of them, Fu Shi didn't know what to say for a while.
Yunli looked at him with his head lowered, his hair partially covering his eyes. In this cramped and gloomy space, his thin shoulders were a little stiff.
"You guys go first." Jiang's mother was still standing at the door, her voice full of ups and downs.
“…”
Yun Li was suddenly ordered to leave, and his voice trembled a little: "Uncle and aunt, the senior didn't blame A Ze, so you shouldn't blame him either, okay?"
The two looked heavy-hearted and said again: "You go first."
"Uncle and aunt..." Yun Li repeated in a daze. Fu Shi walked up to her, took her hand and walked outside.
When he reached the door, he stopped, tilted his head and said the only sentence.
“Please take care of yourself.”
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