Chapter 37
The surroundings are very quiet, but the cicadas don't read the mood and keep chirping, which makes people angry and upset.
Xiao Yuncheng looked at the words above and then looked at Wu Tong. He found that since Wu Tong had talked to him about it, he had been losing control of his emotions more and more frequently.
Xiao Yuncheng quickly grabbed his hand and blocked Wu Tong's sight with his body, making the white cloth temporarily disappear from Wu Tong's sight. Xiao Yuncheng signaled them with his eyes to take the white cloth away, then lowered his head to meet Wu Tong's puzzled gaze.
"Tongtong, you again..." Xiao Yuncheng deliberately didn't say anything else. Wu Tong naturally knew what he meant. He lowered his eyes, his hands still shaking, and Wu Tong whispered "I'm sorry".
"There's nothing to apologize for, Tongtong." Xiao Yuncheng comforted him, gently stroking his back, accurately soothing Wu Tong's irritability.
Wu Tong laughed helplessly: "I didn't expect it to be like this this month. I didn't bring any medicine."
"How long has this been going on?"
Wu Tong paused and said, "It's been a long time since I last saw it."
“How early is early?”
Xiao Yuncheng chatted with him casually, and Wu Tong's attention was completely focused on Xiao Yuncheng's question. He thought carefully for a while before answering, "I guess it has been like this since I was six years old."
Xiao Yuncheng nodded in agreement and asked again, "Have you been taking the medicine until now?"
"You definitely can't eat it when you're a kid. You can only eat it when you're an adult."
In other words, this situation has long been deeply rooted. Xiao Yuncheng sighed secretly, regretting why he didn't meet Wu Tong earlier.
Wu Tong didn't know what Xiao Yuncheng was thinking. He just kept talking to himself. When he found that Xiao Yuncheng didn't respond, he reminded him: "What's wrong with you?"
"No." Xiao Yuncheng came back to his senses and hugged the man tighter: "I regret it a little."
"Why should I regret it?"
Xiao Yuncheng lowered his eyes to look at Wu Tong, and Wu Tong also raised his head slightly to look at him. Their eyes met and entangled together. Xiao Yuncheng lowered his voice a little: "I regret not meeting you earlier, then you might not be so uncomfortable."
Wu Tong wanted to laugh, but he suppressed it and asked, "Why do you say that?"
"Because I am... catnip." Xiao Yuncheng joked with him with a smile.
"Okay, catnip." Wu Tong placed his hand on Xiao Yuncheng's forearm and whispered in Xiao Yuncheng's ear, "Can you let me go now?"
In fact, Wu Tong is the catnip, Xiao Yuncheng thought. He really didn't want to let go. He really hoped that Wu Tong would be imprisoned by him forever, not go anywhere, and just stay with him. This way, Wu Tong would not go out to mess around with other girls all the time. He heard that someone in the police station wanted to add Wu Tong's contact information.
But now didn't seem like the time for them to flirt, so they finally let go of each other and walked out of the room side by side, only to make eye contact with everyone outside the door.
Others: “······” It’s okay, you guys continue.
The others waited outside for the two people in the room for a long time. Shi Qian couldn't help but find Lin Chen and complained: "Are all men in love like this? They stay together all day long..."
Lin Chen smiled speechlessly and said, "Who knows? We don't have a partner."
Is having a partner such a big deal? Does having a partner mean you can just show off your affection?! Have you asked us?!
"What are you doing?"
As soon as Xiao Yuncheng spoke, all the silent resistance was suppressed by invisible hands. Shi Qian immediately stood up and reported to Xiao Yuncheng: "Captain Xiao, we found Xu Ze's fingerprints on the candle. We can confirm that Xu Ze has been here within three days."
"Okay." Xiao Yuncheng glanced at the watch on his wrist, waved his hand and said, "Let's go back to the police station."
Fortunately, Captain Xiao didn’t find out that they were playing with crickets... The group of people thought with glee.
Led by Xiao Yuncheng, the original team was divided into two teams. One team would rush back to the police station to conduct trace examination of the evidence, and the rest would follow Wu Tong to continue looking for clues. Xiao Yuncheng waved to them, turned around and led a group into the darkness.
Xiao Yuncheng looked to his right. Wu Tong had no expression on his face. He followed Xiao Yuncheng so stiffly until Xiao Yuncheng hooked his fingers, and then he came back to his senses.
As if accusing him of daring to do this in front of so many people, Wu Tong poked his palm with his finger, and then pulled his finger out without any wiggle room. Xiao Yuncheng didn't say anything when he saw that Wu Tong was unhappy. He just raised his eyebrows at him with a smile and walked side by side with him.
Wu Tong had said before that Xu Ze wrote this sentence to let Wu Tong find the place where he and Xu Ze had sneaked out to watch the moon. They walked out of the small village, and it was completely dark. The flashlight shone in a random manner. Wu Tong took the small flashlight that Xiao Yuncheng handed to him and turned it on with a "click".
"Xu Ze and I once ran out of the village and came here. Going further ahead, there was a river covered with reeds. He and I hid in the reeds and secretly watched the moon..."
Wu Tong's voice became smaller and smaller, and Xiao Yuncheng could only see Wu Tong's face in the dim light. When Wu Tong said this, his eyes were dim and emotionless, like a bystander, stating a fact without any emotion. But he knew that Wu Tong was also the protagonist of the incident.
"arrive."
Everyone stopped with Wu Tong. The riverbed here seemed a bit high. They didn't see the river, but heard the sound of flowing water. Xiao Yuncheng walked forward and looked down. There was indeed a river.
"This river may have dried up a lot of water because it has been here for too long. Do you have any ideas?" Xiao Yuncheng said as he looked at Wu Tong again. Wu Tong also looked up at him. Their eyes met, and Wu Tong looked away after a moment.
Wu Tong thought carefully about the sentence "The moon peeked at us for the first time". Only Xu Ze and he knew what happened that day. Wu Tong roughly guessed what Xu Ze was referring to, but...how to tell them?
Xiao Yuncheng seemed to be searching for clues seriously, but he was actually secretly observing Wu Tong. His intuition told him that Wu Tong must be hiding something, but now was not the time to speak. Xiao Yuncheng pretended to know nothing and approached Wu Tong and asked him, "What did you find?"
"Maybe... there is something hidden under the riverbed? I just remember that he said that he would hide the secret in the river, and if it flowed out, he would do the same." Wu Tong rested his elbows on his forearms, lightly tapped his cheeks with his fingertips, and his brows began to frown again. He looked like he was thinking very seriously.
Xiao Yuncheng nodded, indicating that he should go down and look for it himself. Unexpectedly, Wu Tong grabbed his hand and said, "Don't go down yet."
"What's wrong?" Xiao Yuncheng pretended to be confused, his eyes fixed on Wu Tong's face.
Wu Tong didn't say anything. Xiao Yuncheng noticed that Wu Tong's hand unconsciously rested on his left wrist. This action was a clue to Xiao Yuncheng - Wu Tong was suffering from stress again.
Wu Tong's grip on his left wrist began to increase in strength, and in the end he pinched his wrist tightly, and his whole body began to tremble. There were still too many things in this place that Wu Tong could not accept. In just two hours, Wu Tong didn't know how many times this had happened. He only knew that if he continued like this, he would go crazy, so he forced himself to hold on to the last bit of his sanity and looked to Xiao Yuncheng for help.
Xiao Yuncheng noticed his gaze, walked quickly to his side, and held Wu Tong's arms and waist steadily, allowing him to put all his weight on Xiao Yuncheng. Wu Tong smelled the familiar, safe smell and slowly calmed down. Xiao Yuncheng did not urge him, but silently helped him without any impatience.
After Wu Tong's breathing gradually returned to normal, Xiao Yuncheng said, "Did you think of something bad?"
"Well, that's about right..." Wu Tong's hand was still on Xiao Yuncheng's forearm. After a while, he almost calmed down, so he withdrew from Xiao Yuncheng's arms, smiled at him, and said that he was fine.
No matter how worried Xiao Yuncheng was, he didn't want to force Wu Tong. His eyes glanced at Wu Tong's left wrist intentionally or unintentionally. Then he realized it was strange. It was only the season before autumn, but Wu Tong always wore long sleeves. Since he knew him, he almost never saw him wearing short sleeves. Now it seemed that Wu Tong wore long sleeves just to cover up some unspeakable scars.
Wu Tong felt Xiao Yuncheng's gaze, but for a moment he didn't know what he was looking at. He just smiled back. Xiao Yuncheng walked up to him, patted Wu Tong on the back, and whispered, "Did something happen between you two here?"
Wu Tong lowered her head and answered him after a while: "Yes, I said before that Xu Ze wanted to take me with him to escape. This is where we first discussed the escape plan."
At that time, the two children did not know what the consequences of running away would be. They just fantasized that they would succeed in one go. However, when they implemented the plan, they were caught as expected and endured three days and two nights of painful torture. At that time, Chen Xiuping looked at the dying Xiao Wutong lying on the ground like looking at a dog, and kicked Xiao Wutong hard. The pain suddenly exploded, and the Xiao Wutong who was almost fainted was kicked awake again.
"Run? Where do you think you can run to?!"
Chen Xiuping kicked Xiao Wutong again. Xiao Wutong had no strength left and rolled to the corner of the wall. Xu Ze was tied up and hung on a wooden pillar. His body was covered with marks from whipping. Every part of his body was torn and his skin was exposed. Blood was slowly dripping from the tattered corners of his clothes. The whole room was filled with a strong smell of blood, and people couldn't open their eyes.
Chen Xiuping took the bloody whip, slowly raised his eyes to look at Xu Ze, then swung his hand violently and whipped him. The wound splattered with blood, mixed with Xu Ze's whimpering, and he couldn't rest all night.
Wu Tong shook her head, trying not to think too much about those things. Xiao Yuncheng didn't scold Chen Xiuping for being a good-for-nothing, nor did he comfort Wu Tong. He didn't say anything, but just sat there as a silent listener, listening to Wu Tong's childhood in a few words.
"After that, I didn't dare to escape, but Xu Ze still didn't give up. I thought if he wanted to escape, I would just follow him. I'm timid and incompetent, but Xu Ze deserves to escape more than me." Wu Tong slowly exhaled and looked at Xiao Yuncheng who was silent on the side.
Xiao Yuncheng tightened his fingers and took a step towards Wu Tong. He lowered his head and looked at Wu Tong, his eyes full of heartache. His voice was a little hoarse: "So, back then, you would rather be caught and beaten than protect Xu Ze from getting out?"
"That's what I thought at the time. There was nothing good to live for anyway." Wu Tong shook his head in self-mockery, as if complaining about unfairness.
Xiao Yuncheng took Wu Tong's hand and rubbed it gently. Wu Tong liked physical contact with Xiao Yuncheng very much. This feeling made him very comfortable. Wu Tong narrowed his eyes slightly.
The two of them stood there silently for a while. Just as Wu Tong was about to turn around and look at the bottom of the river, his body suddenly shook violently!
Xiao Yuncheng touched the scar on his left wrist!
"Tongtong," Xiao Yuncheng took Wu Tong's reaction in full view. He pulled her into his arms, but the hand holding Wu Tong's left hand had no intention of letting go. Wu Tong was hugged from behind by him. At this moment, he clearly felt the coldness emanating from Xiao Yuncheng from the inside out. A chill spread to his heart with Xiao Yuncheng's touch.
Xiao Yuncheng leaned close to Wu Tong's ear and whispered, "What is this? Huh?"
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