Chapter 73: I’m always so tired, can Mommy carry me? ...
By the time it was over, the sky was already turning pale. Yuntan slept until noon before waking up slowly, still feeling a little sleepy and numb.
Lu Wangshan got up earlier than him, had already fed Leo, and loaded all the luggage into the car.
They planned to go down the mountain and go home after their birthday.
After lunch, they got in the car.
The sun is shining brightly today. Yuntan pulled down the sun visor and leaned back in his chair, still feeling lazy.
Lu Wangshan noticed that she was very tired, and also realized that he had gone too far last night. He was afraid of disturbing her and getting scolded, so he quietly calmed down.
I just couldn't help but turn my head to look once, and then look again.
I don’t know how many times I glanced at him, but I happened to meet Yun Tan’s gaze.
Her narrow eyes were lazy and affectionate. Lu Wangshan felt that he was really poisoned by the "Yuntan" poison. He felt as if his whole body was electrified when she looked at him.
He used his free hand to stroke the back of her hand and said again, "Wife."
"I'm not your wife." Yun Tan said coldly.
Lu Wangshan thought she was so cute like this.
Thinking of her angry, scolding, crying and begging look last night, I couldn't help but want to rub her again.
"You should sleep a little longer. It will take several hours to get home."
Yuntan snorted in response.
The temperature inside the car was the most comfortable, with soothing light music playing. Lu Wangshan drove very steadily, and Yun Tan fell asleep again quickly.
Leo was also sleeping in the back seat.
Lu Wangshan turned his head to look at the man and the dog, and suddenly felt that this life was so good.
He wanted to live a long life.
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It was at the end of April. One morning, Yun Tan woke up and found that there were many unfamiliar calls and an unread text message on his mobile phone.
"Xiao Tan, I'm your father. Arong passed away unexpectedly. After all, you lived together for so many years. Please come back and see her off."
Yuntan was blank for a long time when he saw this text message.
She read it word by word many times, but still seemed unable to understand it.
Even though she hated Yuan Qinrong, all this happened too suddenly.
Yuntan even suspected that he was dreaming or that it was a prank played by someone else.
At the same time, Lu Wangshan suddenly pushed the door open.
Yun Tan looked up and saw that he looked hurried and dazed. Her heart suddenly sank, and she couldn't even explain why.
"Yuan Qinrong—" Lu Wangshan said, "She passed away last night."
…
It all happened so suddenly.
No matter who heard it, it would be hard to believe.
Although Yuan Qinrong was released on bail and returned home, she was also under residential surveillance.
She was in a daze all day, and only when she returned home did she wake up from that dream-like state as if she had been hit by a bolt of lightning. She didn't know how she could have done such a thing as if she had been possessed.
Even Yun Qihui, who was good-tempered to the point of being a coward, got angry with her and asked her why she did such a thing.
She tried to contact Lu Chengjun and Lu Wangshan, hoping they could persuade Yun Tan to issue a letter of forgiveness to get the lightest sentence, but she received no response.
Yuan Qinrong tried to contact Xiang Yin again - after all, they used to meet frequently at banquets or salons, and Xiang Yin was the most gentle and respectful.
But who knew that Xiang Yin would directly block her.
Yuan Qinrong had no other choice, and she finally felt scared at this point.
If she was really sentenced to a heavy sentence, who would take care of Yuan Hongren? She was worried no matter who it was.
So she finally placed her hopes on the Yuan family, but her father still didn't answer her calls, as if he wanted to completely draw a line between them.
She didn't know that the Yuan family had already been unable to protect itself, so how could they have the ability to protect her?
Yuan Qinrong encountered obstacles everywhere and was isolated and helpless.
It was also at this time that the evidence she had asked someone to investigate of Yuan Siliu's embezzlement of public funds was finally verified.
Yuan Qinrong used this as a threat and called Yuan Siliu to her home.
She looked at the elder brother in front of her and felt extremely unfamiliar.
When the evidence of embezzlement of huge amounts of public funds was neatly laid out before him, Yuan Siliu's expression changed drastically. He also felt that this sister who had never received any attention was unfamiliar.
But he soon regained his composure.
To put it bluntly, Yuan Qinrong is stupid and reckless. Even if she gets the evidence, what can she do?
"You want me to help you with Yun Tan's affairs, right?"
Seeing him strolling leisurely, Yuan Qinrong became subconsciously afraid again - she had long been accustomed to being afraid and compromising in front of her father and brother.
But at this moment she still straightened her back and said, "Yes."
"You've done something like this, and now you're feeling scared? Do you think Yun Tan is still the obedient daughter you used to be?" Yuan Siliu couldn't help but put on his lecturing look again, "What's the difference between offending her and directly offending the Lu family?"
He sneered, unable to hide his jealousy of Yun Tan's fate. "Yun Tan is so lucky! Even that old bastard Lu Kun didn't oppose her and Lu Wangshan."
Yuan Qinrong's eyes were red: "It was Dad who hinted at me to do this!"
"Arong, don't make yourself sound so innocent." Yuan Siliu said.
Even if Yuan Fang really wanted to sacrifice Yuan Qinrong in exchange for investment from Wanzhou Capital, Yuan Qinrong asked Lu Wangshan to transfer all the money to her personal account. In this case, no one should blame anyone else.
"I can shamelessly plead for you with Dad. After all, Yun Tan didn't really get hurt in the end."
Yuan Siliu picked up the evidence on the coffee table and asked, "How can you be sure that you won't go back on your word and let this information leak out again?"
All the initial files are in the USB drive.
Yuan Qinrong handed him the USB drive and kept the printed paper evidence for herself. "As long as Yuntan issues a letter of understanding, I will destroy this stack of papers as well."
"good."
In fact, Yuan Siliu was not sure either.
The Yuan family is no longer what it used to be, but now that he has obtained the USB flash drive, he has gained an advantageous position.
He stood up and shrugged to loosen his muscles.
"Then I'll go first, Arong." His voice was also very soft.
Yuan Qinrong nodded.
But he suddenly stopped at the door and turned to her and said, "By the way, I heard that you transferred the money that Lu Wangshan gave you to a fund for the disabled?"
Yuan Qinrong's alarm bells immediately rang: "Don't even think about that fund."
"What can I do?" Yuan Siliu laughed. "You can send people to investigate me, but why don't you think of investigating that fund?"
"What's the meaning?"
"That fund is just a cover-up by Lu Wangshan. He's the one actually operating it."
Yuan Siliu slowly admired Yuan Qinrong's astonished expression, as if finally satisfied. He shook his head and said, "Do you really think you have made sufficient plans for Yuan Hongren's second half of his life?"
He sneered, "Just like when you were a kid, you tried so hard to please your father. Ah Rong, have you ever realized that in the end, your life was all in vain?"
After saying that, Yuan Siliu admired her expression for a moment, then turned and went downstairs.
It was at this moment that Yuan Qinrong suddenly pounced on him.
Her eyes were red, and her heart was filled with boiling hatred that had accumulated over half a lifetime.
But when the earth shook that day, her feet suddenly slipped and she rolled down the long stairs. The back of her head hit the sharp corner of the wall heavily. There was a loud "buzzing" sound, and everything in front of her eyes turned gray and white.
She heard Yuan Hongren crying from the room upstairs, and the lingering words "Your life will be nothing in the end" kept eroding her consciousness, and eventually devoured Yuan Hongren's crying.
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Yuntan did not attend Yuan Qinrong's memorial service.
It's funny to say that even though the Yuan family was large and prosperous, only a few people went to pay their respects.
The Yuan family suffered a lot during that period. Yuan Qinrong fell down the stairs and was sent for emergency treatment, but was soon declared to have lost vital signs.
In his panic, Yuan Siliu had long forgotten whether Yuan Qinrong fell down by herself or he pushed her. He hurried to the airport but was detained by the police on the spot on suspicion of embezzling a huge amount of public funds.
Yuan Group's stock price hit the daily limit one after another, and it was investigated for various economic crimes.
Lu Kun had always looked down on Yuan Fang's dishonest methods and had long guessed that the Yuan family would not last long. Now that he really started to investigate carefully, who knew how many things he would uncover.
I just didn't expect that the result would be such a near-destruction and disintegration of the family.
Several brothers and sisters, fearing that they would be implicated, cut ties with each other, some selling their assets and some fleeing overseas.
…
It was also the first anniversary of my grandmother's passing.
Yun Tan went to the temple to worship, and Xiang Yin also helped prepare a lot of incense, scriptures and offerings. Lu Wangshan accompanied Yun Tan.
She knelt on the cushion, looking at the offering tablet behind the curling smoke.
"Grandma, I'm here to see you." She said softly.
Shortly after her grandmother passed away, she broke up with Lu Wangshan and left Beijing. Now she is back and has met Lu Wangshan's family and friends.
Time is an amazing thing.
Lu Wangshan knelt beside her.
This was not the first time he knelt in front of his grandmother's tablet. He had been with Yun Tan during his grandmother's funeral, but he did not have a legitimate identity at that time. Now he has one.
"Grandma, I'm Lu Wangshan. We've met before."
Lu Wangshan's voice was low and serious. "I am Yun Tan's boyfriend now. You may not know this, but Xiao Tan and I have known each other for many years. I will spend every day of the future with Xiao Tan. We will always love and be happy. I will not let her suffer any more. Don't worry."
There is a saying that the burning incense is like a telephone communication signal. In the flickering flames, the deceased relatives can see the younger generations on the other side of the incense.
So today Yuntan specially wore a black dress of the same color as Lu Wangshan.
She tied her long hair into a low bun, and through the curling smoke she seemed to really see her grandmother, and her eyes became moist.
Lu Wangshan held her hand silently.
They knelt together in front of the tablet for a while, and Lu Wangshan listened quietly to Yun Tan and grandma talking.
When I left, I heard a deep and distant bell sound.
Yun Tan looked up and saw Yun Qihui slowly walking up the stairs on the other side, holding a framed portrait of Yuan Qinrong. Two abbots stood beside him, clasping their hands together and muttering the "Infinite Life Sutra"—
"Remove the thorns of desire to bring peace to all living beings." "Remove the suffering of all living beings to bring them peace and happiness."
Buddhism says that the five desires of wealth, sex, food, fame and sleep are annoying, like a needle piercing the skin, hence the term "desire piercing".
Yun Qihui didn't see her, and Yun Tan didn't come forward.
It all still feels like a dream.
It was too sudden.
Yun Tan listened to the scripture and suddenly realized that these people had lived up to that sentence over the years.
Yuan Qinrong is, and so is she.
She hated Yuan Qinrong for so many years, and out of anger and greed, she did many ridiculous and wrong things, so that she would always feel guilty towards her grandmother and Lu Wangshan.
Just as this thought lingered in my mind, I heard a sudden "click" sound in my ear.
Yun Tan turned around and saw Lu Wangshan holding up his phone. He blinked blankly, "What's wrong?"
"The old man asked about you."
"ah?"
Lu Kun was more or less dissatisfied with Yun Tan's background at first, but after having a meal with her, he somehow liked her more and more. After learning about Yuan Qinrong's affairs, he couldn't help but worry about his granddaughter-in-law.
It's just that the old man has some baggage and is used to pretending to be serious all his life. He urged Liao Yinqiu to go and ask, but Liao Yinqiu scolded him back: "How precious is your face! You're so old and shameless! You're so afraid of losing face when you show concern. I wonder what you'll do if I make your granddaughter-in-law angry and she leaves!"
Lu Kun muttered to himself, accusing Liao Yinqiu of growing impatient with him. He then reluctantly took out his phone and sent a message to Lu Wangshan: "Are you and Xiao Tan together?"
"exist."
"How is she? Didn't Yuan Qinrong's incident make her sad?"
Lu Wangshan explained, "We didn't go to Yuan Qinrong's place. Today is the first anniversary of her grandmother's death."
Then I took a photo of Yuntan.
She stood on the high steps of the temple, the bright sunlight shining on her face, reflecting her almost transparent skin. Her expression was calm and no strong emotions could be seen on her.
Lu Kun: "That's good. Tell her that people like Yuan Qinrong don't deserve to die. Even if I became her mother for a few years, it can only be considered as my blindness. It's not worth shedding tears for her now."
Lu Kun has a tough heart and he comforts people in an extremely tough manner, but he is not good at saying soft words. As soon as the text message was sent, he felt uncomfortable and got goose bumps all over his body.
He added dryly, "If you two have nothing to do, come back for dinner together."
Lu Wangshan was raised by Lu Kun since he was a child, so he knew the old man's temper and chuckled immediately.
Yun Tan looked at the chat records for a long time.
When she heard the ethereal words "Pull out all the thorns of desire to bring peace to all living beings", she seemed to have become the Yun Tan again for a moment, returning to that humid and hot rainy season.
In fact, her feelings towards Yuan Qinrong are really complicated.
Even in the end, she never showed up at her memorial service or funeral.
But the first kindness that little Yuntan encountered after being abandoned by both parents came from Yuan Qinrong.
Yuntan believed that Yuan Qinrong's concern and care for her at that time were real, and her hugging her and happily saying "good daughter" were also true.
She just loved Yuan Hongren more, so everything changed after Yuan Hongren was born.
She had no extra love to share with her, and because of Yuan Hongren's special circumstances, he continued to deprive her of her freedom and future.
As the deep and distant bell sounds, Yuntan seemed to be enveloped in the airtight words "remove all thorns of desire to bring peace to all living beings".
"The old man asked us to go back and eat."
Lu Wangshan's voice came through the bell cover in a turbid voice.
Immediately, Yuntan's hand was held by a hot and firm force.
She raised her head, and the bell covering her gradually became transparent. The sunlight once again shone on her, and Lu Wangshan's voice became clear again: "Do you want to go?"
She smiled and suddenly burst into tears.
But she knew that these were not tears shed for Yuan Qinrong.
But, it's all over.
The source of her tangled love, hate, anger and infatuation all ended here.
In the days that followed, she could finally be free to live the life she wanted and live forever with the one she loved.
"Why are you still crying?" Lu Wangshan bent down and gently touched the corner of her eye with his fingertips. "Is it because of grandma, or Yuan——"
Yun Tan took a step forward, raised his head, and kissed Lu Wangshan.
Lu Wangshan stopped where he was, and after a moment he raised his hand and pulled Yun Tan's neck close, his nose touching, creating a kind of intimacy like rubbing ears together.
Yun Tan looked at the long staircase and hugged Lu Wangshan's arm, saying coquettishly, "I'm so tired, can Mommy carry me?"
Lu Wangshan chuckled and squatted down in front of her.
The sky was filled with fiery clouds, orange-red light was dancing among the clouds, and the birds on the telephone poles were returning to their nests in the afterglow.
Lu Wangshan walked down the stairs holding Yun Tan lightly, and the setting sun stretched their reflections very long.
Yuntan hugged his neck and never looked back.
"Mommy."
"Um."
"Mommy."
"Here I am, babe."
Yun Tan tilted her head and rested her cheek against his shoulder: "I just suddenly felt that I seemed to have seen the end of my life."
"What are you talking about?"
Lu Wangshan pinched the base of her thigh gently, "Your life has just begun. You can go and see how wonderful your life will be without any burdens."
Yuntan's eyes gradually became hot again.
When she was a child, she was always curious about the ending of the princess and the prince when she read fairy tale books. If they are together, then what?
It's not written in any fairy tales.
She seems to be born lacking in romanticism and has a natural pessimism about human nature and the future.
But now she clearly sees the ending for her and Lu Wangshan.
Just like Lu Wangshan said to her before, you can always believe that I love you.
Yuntan knew that this was not easy for her, and only the grand and vast love could make her believe in the word "forever".
And she is the same.
She will also always love Lu Wangshan with certainty.
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