Chapter 284: Torture with Bone and Blood
Jiang Chen went to see Old Man Liu before going to bed.
Liu Yutang's house looked like a Chinese medicine shop, with some medicinal materials to be processed and some not, and a strong medicinal smell.
When Jiang Chen entered, Liu Yutang was sitting on a small stool, processing medicinal herbs.
Hearing someone come in, he didn't look up and said with a smile: "You kid, why did you come to me instead of accompanying Xiaorou?"
After a long while without any answer, Liu Yutang raised his head. Jiang Chen frowned slightly, as if he was trapped by something that he couldn't solve.
He knew that it was a lie that trapped this kid.
He picked up the sieve and knocked it on the ground. "Are you here to ask me not to take Xiaorou to see her uncle tomorrow?"
Jiang Chen pulled the small stool opposite the old man and sat down. His legs were too long and the small stool was too short. He had nowhere to put his long legs, so he stretched them slightly.
"You know everything, and you still want to take Ye Rou with you."
The main lights were on in the yard, and the other three old men were playing chess and chatting outside. The lights in the house were dim, the light was dim, and there was a bitter smell in the air. Although it was quiet, it felt inexplicably lonely.
Hearing the brat accusing him, Liu Yutang said dissatisfiedly: "You shouldn't have kept it a secret from Xiaorou in the first place. Are you scared now?"
Logically speaking, Liu Yutang, as an elder, should not interfere in the affairs of the young couple.
But look at what this brat did. He didn't want a child, so he asked his senior brother to seal Xiaorou's meridians without telling her.
Thinking of Xiaorou thinking that Jiang Chen was "sick" and looking through medical books to try to cure Jiang Chen, Liu Yutang asked the question that had puzzled him for a long time in a puzzled voice.
"Why don't you want a child with Xiaorou?"
Liu Yutang is a doctor and is used to seeing men urging their wives to have children. After all, they don't have to endure the pain of ten months of pregnancy.
Liu Yutang was puzzled as to why Jiang Chen, as a man, didn't want a child.
He put down the herbs in his hand and planned to have a good talk with Jiang Chen with some research intention.
Jiang Chen had a cold face.
This brat has stubble and dark circles under his eyes. It's obvious that he's worried and hasn't slept for a long time.
Liu Yutang looked at him like this and sighed. The desire to watch the show was suppressed, and he felt a little distressed.
It wasn't easy for this brat to come this far. He married a good wife and had a stable family. Liu Yutang couldn't just watch him commit suicide and break up the family.
"Tell me the truth, old man. Is there anyone else here? What do you think?"
Liu Yutang tried to guess Jiang Chen's thoughts, "You think raising a child is troublesome, so you don't let Ye Rou have one?"
"It's not a problem." Jiang Chen said in a low voice.
His mind was stuck on the past.
Everything faded in the dim light, and the past came back to his mind. After he married Ye Rou, he hadn't thought about his previous life for a long time.
“The police are coming, the police are coming!”
In the underground mine, only the light of the flashlight flickered.
In the deepest part of the mine, a man was huddled.
He was as thin as a skeleton, his clothes were tattered, and the cloth wrapped around his ankles was soaked with blood and turned black.
When he heard the police coming, the man moved, but soon fainted again.
When he opened his eyes again, the world was still dark, but he knew that he was no longer in the mine.
There was a damp and smelly smell from underground lingering in his nose.
Seeing that he had woken up, the old policeman hurriedly asked, "Young man, you're saved. Where are you from? How were you abducted?"
The tall young man sat on the hospital bed, his head slightly lowered, his eyes bandaged. His exposed skin bore wounds from the whip, some already rotting and blackened from lack of immediate attention. His legs were stretched out, the clean gauze bandaged around his ankles oozing with bright red blood.
He looks disheveled, but still handsome.
Thinking of what the doctor said that he would never be able to stand up again, the old policeman felt even more disgusted with those illegal miners, and looked at the young man with some pity.
"Don't be afraid, I'm a police officer. Where are your family members? I'll contact them to pick you up."
Jiang Chen was silent for a while, then spoke in a hoarse voice, giving an address in Beijing.
This address is written on the envelope sent to Li Huifen every month.
Miners were taken away one after another.
Jiang Chen waited until his eyes had completely adapted to the light and until everyone had left before he saw someone come. It was Jiang Dehai's assistant.
The assistant was serious and silent, and did his work in a methodical manner. His task was to send Jiang Chen to Beijing City, and he did not talk nonsense on the way.
The train rattled on, and Jiang Chen arrived in Beijing.
The assistant left in a hurry, and was followed by a fat woman.
Because Jiang Chen is a disabled person and needs someone to take care of him.
The woman was brought by Zhao Yuyan. She was clumsy and often complained.
Rural women have no shame. In her eyes, Jiang Chen is just a moving food coupon, not a human being.
He waited from summer to autumn before his so-called parents remembered him.
Because the fat woman fell down the stairs for no reason and they couldn't find anyone to take care of Jiang Chen, they had to come and pick him up.
Zhao Yuyan and Jiang Dehai are both good-looking and dress elegantly and luxuriously. Unlike Li Huifen and Jiang Dezhu in the countryside, they do not swear and speak with restraint and politeness.
But Jiang Chen did not miss the strangeness and deep-seated disdain in their eyes.
They came suddenly and left just as quickly. Jiang Chen was like a large piece of cargo, being carried and pushed by two people to another place to live.
The residence is in the military compound, a two-story villa with simple decoration but a sense of luxury.
He was trapped on the second floor and didn't come down for a year.
Jiang Chen's only role was to ask Jiang Dehai to go home when he was sick.
At that time, Jiang Dehai and Qu Wanning were in a passionate relationship, and Zhao Yuyan used Jiang Chen to frequently ask Jiang Dehai to go home.
But soon, this trick no longer worked.
The only role was ineffective, Zhao Yuyan was tired of playing the role of a kind mother.
What followed was Zhao Yuyan's long and groundless insults.
"I shouldn't have given birth to you!"
"Waste, what a waste!"
"If it weren't for you, your father and I wouldn't be in this situation today."
Zhao Yuyan no longer had the gentleness and charm she had when they first met. Like him, she was trapped in a two-story villa.
Qu Wanning is a very greedy woman. She and Jiang Zhao keep pressing Zhao Yuyan, forcing her into a desperate situation and collapse in despair.
Jiang Chen knew that Zhao Yuyan had thought about leaving.
One day, Zhao Yuyan suddenly treated him very well, like an ordinary mother. She cooked for him, pushed him out to bask in the sun, and changed him into new clothes that she had made.
Jiang Chen knew this was a farewell, so he didn't say anything to keep her.
But in the end Zhao Yuyan did not leave.
Zhao Yuyan said that she didn't leave because she was worried about Jiang Chen.
Jiang Chen knew that he occupied a very small position in Zhao Yuyan's heart, and the main reason why Zhao Yuyan did not leave was definitely not because of him.
Perhaps when Zhao Yuyan chose to stay, Jiang Chen's face only flashed through her mind for a moment.
Even at this moment, Jiang Chen couldn't accept it.
He didn't want to be the rope that trapped Zhao Yuyan.
If Jiang Chen wanted to trap Ye Rou, he could just do the same thing as Jiang Dehai did to Zhao Yuyan and let Ye Rou give birth to a child.
Ye Rou is not Zhao Yuyan. She is more gentle and responsible. If she really gives birth to a child, she will do her best to treat the child well.
From then on, the child became the chain that trapped Ye Rou. It was not a chain of gold but a chain made of bone and blood, which was invisible and tougher.
Compared to the gold chain and a marriage that can be divorced at any time, a child is the best way to trap Ye Rou.
The shackles made by the children could not be completely cut off.
After having a child, Ye Rou is no longer Jiang Chen's wife, but the child's mother.
From then on, no matter what excessive things Jiang Chen did, Ye Rou would endure it for the sake of her child and stay firmly by Jiang Chen's side.
Jiang Chen is selfish and domineering. He should give Ye Rou a child so that Ye Rou will never leave him for the rest of her life.
But Jiang Chen didn't want to.
He didn't want Ye Rou to become Zhao Yuyan.
If one day, Ye Rou is very tired and wants to leave.
Jiang Chen wanted her to have the freedom to choose to leave and not stop for anyone.
Even if Ye Rou chose to stay, Jiang Chen wanted Ye Rou to stay because she loved him, not because of the child.
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Ye Rou turned over and felt a slight chill creep up her shoulders.
She subconsciously hid in Jiang Chen's arms, but found it empty.
"Hmm." She was sleepy and reached to the side, her hand was cold and there was no one there.
Ye Rou opened her eyes and looked around blankly.
The man stood in front of the window, his back tall and lonely. He turned around when he heard the sound, his eyes deep and narrow.
Ye Rou sat up wrapped in a quilt. Her forehead was smooth, and her eyebrows and eyes looked like they were outlined in an ink painting. She was extremely beautiful without any vulgarity.
She stretched out her hand, "Jiang Chen, I want a hug."
Being looked at by her with such dependence, Jiang Chen's heart softened. He strode over and leaned over to hug her.
Ye Rou was like a big doll, wrapped tightly by Jiang Chen, with only her hands able to move. She rubbed Jiang Chen's head, and her technique was very similar to that of Snore Little Huihui.
"What time is it?"
He tilted his head slightly and looked at the alarm clock hanging on the wall.
The short, thick black pointer is between one and two.
"One thirty-five?"
Ye Rou looked at the time and felt sleepy in an instant.
She unconsciously slid towards the bed.
Halfway through the slide, Ye Rou was caught and turned over in the arms.
Ye Rou was picked up wrapped in a quilt, her long, thin legs spread out beside Jiang Chen, dangling in the air.
"Jiang Chen, I want to sleep."
Jiang Chen held Ye Rou's chin to prevent her from sleeping.
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