Praise You
Because there was new progress in the kidnapping case, the police asked Ye Yuanyin to return to the police station to cooperate with the investigation and further confirm the identity of the suspect.
During the investigation, it was unexpectedly discovered that the suspect Lin Yi was closely related to Xiao Ruan's death, and the case became more complicated.
Lin Huamei seemed to have aged more than ten years. She wandered at the door of Aunt Long's house for a long time and was unable to take a step forward.
It was Duofu who grabbed the door knocker and knocked it several times.
Ye Yuanyin walked out of the house. As soon as she opened the door, Lin Huamei knelt down in front of her. "Ayin, I'm sorry. Can you please forgive Lin Yi this time for the sake of us growing up together? He's a deaf man. How can he live in a place like prison?"
Huamei was crying with tears and snot, and her aunt came out after hearing the noise.
It wouldn't matter if they didn't see each other, but once they did, she was bound to get angry again. My aunt looked at me coldly and said unyieldingly, "Hua Mei, it's not us you should beg for help. Go and appease that old fellow Tie San first. They say a close neighbor is worse than a distant relative. Lao Tie and our family have been friends for decades. It's only because our old man led the villagers out of that 'hard-to-reach' place that their lives have been getting better and better that he has held a grudge ever since. What kind of rotten idea did they come up with? They actually asked Lin Yi to kidnap our Ah Yin. Do you think this is something a human being could do?"
My aunt was so angry she had no place to vent it, and when someone happened to show up to help her, she started to curse, "God has his way. This person with bad intentions is finally getting his comeuppance! Xiao Ruan's death can't be blamed on our Ah Yin now, can it?! Look at how he made such a fuss back then. Our Ah Yin was so guilty that he didn't dare come home. Bah! What a jerk! He deserves his family to be destroyed!"
"Alright, alright, Auntie." Ye Yuanyin quickly grabbed the old woman and advised, "Stop talking. This has nothing to do with Huamei. She's already feeling bad, and you're still scolding her."
My aunt-in-law knew when to stop and turned around and went back without giving me a good look.
Ye Yuanyin pulled Huamei outside, and Duofu stood there, not daring to follow.
We are used to walking on mountain roads, and Huamei shed tears along the way.
"My mother died early, leaving behind this debt-collecting brother. Before she died, she forced me to swear that no matter what, I would take good care of him as long as I was alive. She also didn't let me go to school, and even sold me to marry someone to support him! Why? I'm only a few years older than him! I raised him with great difficulty, but how did this beast repay me? He's deaf and has a lot of tricks up his sleeve. He even took advantage of Xiao Ruan and killed her. Luckily, you're okay, otherwise how could I face you?"
"The investigating police officer said that Lin Yi did not cause any substantial physical harm to Xiao Ruan. He gave up on his own initiative. Therefore, he should be sentenced as an attempted crime."
Hua Mei cursed fiercely, "Let him die. This shameless beast, why don't you sentence him to death and let him die right away!"
Here, there are no professionals enough to guide a mentally handicapped girl to live a good life, nor is there enough correct knowledge to allow a physically handicapped young man to properly relieve his desires.
Once, thanks to her parents, Ye Yuanyin always thought Jiutao Village was a pure and beautiful paradise. Later, as she grew up and suffered setbacks in another world, Ancheng became nothing more than a living hell. Later, the Peach Blossom Spring became a nightmare from which she could never return, while the world of fame and fortune tempered her soul and became her second spiritual home.
Who could have known that during the most painful period of her life, she despaired and thought that the two worlds before her were taboos that could not be crossed unless the sky cracked. But when she actually mended the sky, she found that the distance between the two worlds was just that.
What is insurmountable in this world is never the distance in the physical sense, but whether there is the courage to start again and the determination to reach the other side after cowardly escape and hopeless giving up.
No matter how many years have passed, she could not forget the anger and desire lingering in her heart after the failure - those things that could not be given up and were bound to be achieved - beautiful love or the value of life, were all thorns in her heart that could not be touched or pulled out.
If her parents gave her a smart brain and a comfortable body not to let her ride the waves in another world, then what is the point of giving birth to her? It can be seen that the boundary is not outside, but in the heart.
Ye Yuanyin suddenly stopped. The setting sun was blood-red, and the mountains in the distance were rushing towards him. What caught his eyes was the majestic and grandeur of the rolling mountains.
"Hua Mei, stop crying and look up."
"What are you looking at! I don't even want to live anymore, what's there to see?!"
Huamei cursed and raised her head. The blood-red mountains in the distance seemed to stand right before her eyes. The clouds were moving quickly, swallowing up the sun and then the sky.
The night is like a quilt, covering the sky and the earth.
Huamei was stunned. She didn't know what the hell was so alluring about this shabby scenery she'd seen countless times that still gave her endless strength. As long as she had a shred of strength left, she would continue to fight the heavens, the earth, and everyone else. Her hysterical sobs gradually subsided.
Ye Yuanyin asked: "How are you? Are you feeling better?"
"What a bullshit!" Hua Mei gritted her teeth and said fiercely: "Look at this broken sky, it's blacker than my shit!"
…
Ye Yuanyin held her rough hand, and the two of them stood there, silently piercing their insignificant figures into the heart of the mountain.
They were born here, grew up here, and will eventually die here like their parents. This is their hometown, a place they both love and hate, a place they desperately want to escape and give up, yet they hide and cry.
Many times, the problem remains a problem, and no one knows how to solve it, but the humble and unyielding soul will find the next exit.
*
When I went back, the street lights were on.
Yan Chen was waiting for her at the door. Seeing that he was only wearing a white shirt, Ye Yuanyin shook his hands, and found them cold. So he scolded him, "Why don't you go in? It's so cold outside."
He sighed and said, "It's hard to put it into words."
After entering, he realized that his aunt was tidying up at home and he couldn't help at all. He just stood there, neither standing nor sitting. He was so useless.
My aunt is not my mother. She doesn't have such a good temper. If she is unhappy, she will be very mean. No matter how powerful you are outside, it won't work. No wonder he can't stand it.
Ye Yuanyin quickly took over the work in her hands and said obediently, "Auntie, let me do it. You've been busy all day. Go back and take a rest."
The eldest aunt glanced at Chen Di'an, nodded, called her out, and whispered, "This son-in-law you found is good-looking but useless. He can't do any housework and is worse than your uncle."
Ye Yuanyin was unhappy and defended him, "Why is it useless? You can't do what others can do!"
"What else can I say," said the aunt, pointing to Zhang Chang, who was writing code in the yard. "This guy who just came this afternoon is even more useless. He only knows how to hold a computer and type away. He has no eyesight at all. He's even worse than our son-in-law. He's neither good-looking nor useful!"
Ye Yuanyin quickly raised his finger and shushed, "Stop talking! It would be embarrassing if others heard it."
"What's wrong with what I said? Don't you have to live your life after getting married? What can you do? What kind of shit can you use to make a living?"
Ye Yuanyin pondered for a long time before realizing she was talking about the healing app. He explained to her with a mixture of laughter and tears: "Look at the people here. Zhizhi is one, Xiaoruan is one, and Lin Yi is one. If this app had been available earlier, they probably wouldn't have had any psychological problems."
"Nonsense! The problems they have are because their families didn't teach them well. What does that have to do with getting farted?"
"...It's because we don't have the ability at home that we need tools to assist."
"Alright, alright, stop talking! In this mountain village, even if your aunt is an educated person, I can't understand you. How can you expect those people to understand you? Your research is so useless here that it won't make any noise."
"Give me some time! I'm teaching you how to use it precisely because no one understands it. You didn't know how to watch short videos before, but now you find them quite enjoyable, don't you?" Ye Yuanyin argued. "Sooner or later, everyone will know the benefits of this software, and the people of Jiutao Village must also improve. Look at Youshan, they've started live streaming to sell white tea."
My aunt rolled her eyes when she heard this. "What the hell! There's no one in his live studio."
"Oh, I won't tell you anymore. Anyway, you should know that what they did was amazing." Ye Yuanyin pushed her out, "Go home and rest, go quickly."
The aunt was pushed out the door by her. After a few steps, she stopped and looked at her niece cautiously. She asked, "Is your aunt-in-law still so unreasonable? Has she given you a hard time again?"
After the Shen family split up, she hadn't seen anyone from that family for a long time. At first, Shen Lianxing would come over from time to time to make trouble, but later Shen Yanan bought a house and moved out with her. With both of them busy with work outside, the house became much quieter.
Business continued as usual, and the four branches of the Shen family achieved a delicate balance. Only once did Grandfather give one of his properties to Shen Dian'an, causing another upheaval in the family. Shen Yuheng, however, remained calm, seemingly accepting that he was his biological father and no longer glaring at him like a cockfighting rooster.
"No, I haven't seen her for a long time."
"That's good. If she dares to bully you again, tell me and I'll scold her for you."
*
In the evening, Ye Yuanyin arranged Maha in his own room, so she moved to her father's study.
At night in the mountains, you can see stars twinkling in the sky.
Chen Yan rested his head leisurely on his raised arm, staring at the person sitting behind the desk without blinking.
“Who are you texting back?”
Ye Yuanyin said without even looking up: "The patient's parents."
"Which patient? Is the parent a boy or a girl?"
Ye Yuanyin raised his eyes and glanced at him, "There are many patients, including male parents. Do you want to take a look at the chat history?"
He nonchalantly said to her, "I am a rarity."
She pursed her lips and smiled, then lowered her head to continue replying to the message.
Chen Dian waited for a while, and seeing that she was still not done, he stood up and walked to the bookshelf behind her.
His hand slid along a row of book spines and saw a thin card in an inconspicuous small compartment on the far right. In order to prevent the card from being worn, she had carefully put a layer of transparent protective cover on it.
Chen Di'an picked it up and looked at the front. It was the ID card he had lost.
Eighteen was such an awkward age. His face looked eager to try, but inside he was only restless and confused. Those years between youth and adulthood were painful times that he never wanted to look back on.
Seeing that he didn't move for a long time, Ye Yuanyin turned around to look, and was so scared that he quickly stood up and blocked the bookshelf.
He was also startled and asked, "What are you doing?"
"How could you look at my things without my permission?"
He twirled the ID card in one hand, handed it over, and said with a half-smile, "Here's what I'm giving it back to you. Seeing how precious it is to you, it must be something really valuable."
Ye Yuanyin thought, this person is so annoying.
She reached out to take it, but her body still did not leave the cabinet.
Chen Dian was a shrewd man, and knew that she was deliberately hiding something, so he smiled and walked away. He then casually asked her, "Where did you settle Zhang Chang?"
"next door."
Ye Yuanyin didn't bother to reply to the message. He just followed him closely, his expression tense: "Why did you call him over?"
"Oh, nothing. I just wanted to do something funny to please you."
She curled her lips in disapproval, "What? Are you so kind?"
"Hiss..." Chen Yan sat on the bed and suddenly flicked his finger at her, "Come here." He looked like he was going to teach her a lesson.
"what?"
"I see you've been really disrespectful lately. How about I ask you to recall the past when you were at least a little afraid of me?"
Ye Yuanyin snorted and said in a low voice, "I won't."
Yan Chen stared at her beautiful face, which was like a pink, clear cloud. It was as if a few pebbles had been dropped into the lake of his heart, causing ripples to form. He grabbed her wrist and pulled her toward him. Ye Yuanyin struggled to get out, but was ultimately defeated and was pinned down by him.
Her hair was messed up with anxiety. "No, no, there are people next door."
"Then keep your voice down."
She bit her lip and scolded him, "Shame on you."
The room was filled with clouds and the air was filled with panting. When she was at her most vulnerable, he forced her to say some obscene words that she would never say normally. Seeing that she was really unable to bear it, he kissed her lips and swallowed all the sounds between his lips and teeth.
The spring water in the house is deep and thick, but outside there are thousands of mountains and a bright moon hanging high in the sky.
When she fell asleep, Yan Dian put on some clothes and got up.
He walked to the wall of books and found a few more photos from the secret compartment where the ID cards were kept. They were all old photos of the male members of the Shen family when they were young. He wondered what was there to hide, why were they keeping them from him?
I just don't know where she got these antiques from. I thought that since even my grandfather's photo was there, it must have been given to her by my grandmother.
Chen Yanan casually glanced at the few photos in front of him, his eyes swept over Shen Huafeng, and then picked up Shen Yuheng's photo and compared them carefully. Suddenly, his hand froze, and his eyes finally fixed on Shen Wentian.
So that's how it is.
What my grandmother had painstakingly concealed for half her life was not the past love between Shen Yuheng and her eldest sister-in-law, but the fact that her husband, whom she had gone to live with alone, had married and had children with another woman without her knowledge.
The past that had been deliberately ignored finally became clear bit by bit. He was the worst fruit produced by the Shen family, and the thorn that constantly reminded grandma of her failed marriage.
He was born under someone else's name, recognized a couple who were not in harmony with each other as his parents, but did not even know who his biological mother was. He was a person who was completely outside the orthodox world.
Ye Yuanyin suddenly turned around, his eyes half-closed, and looked at him drowsily: "What are you doing? Why aren't you sleeping yet?"
Chen Yan put the photo back in, as if it had never been taken out. He didn't have any thoughts of giving up on himself. The Shen family was already a sure thing, and from now on, he would make good use of this relationship to gain the greatest benefit.
Ye Yuanyin stretched out her arms to him again in confusion, and Chen Di'an walked over quickly and hugged her tightly in his arms.
There has never been anything in this world that has belonged to me completely. If I have to say there is one, it is probably the person in front of me.
*
The next morning, Chen Dian was no longer in the room. She pushed open the door and walked out. She saw Maha in the yard and excitedly raised her hand to greet her, "Hey, Xiaoye, come here quickly, I have something good to show you."
"What good stuff?"
Maha protected the tablet mysteriously, and kept it a secret, "You'll probably thank me for the rest of your life if you see it."
Ye Yuanyin lied to him, "Don't hide it, Chen Yan'an told me everything."
When Maha heard this, he felt as if a bucket of water had been poured over his head. He said angrily, "Are you two interested? Can't you leave me with a sense of mystery? Although he came up with the idea, I'm the one who works like a slave."
"What on earth is that?"
Maha was too lazy to keep her in suspense any longer, so he handed the tablet to her, unlocked the screen, and handed it to her.
Inside, her mother, the third daughter of the Long family, was looking at her with a smile, happily calling out, "Ayin, you're back."
"Ah..." She suddenly screamed and tears fell instantly.
How many years had passed? She deliberately avoided thinking about her mother. Those happy, blissful years were gone, never to be regained. For her, her mother's death marked the end of an entire youth, nearly shattering her spiritual world. Hidden within the folds of time were too much tenderness to bear recalling. She tried hard to forget, using illness as a way to escape the reverberations of reality.
Aunt Long's expression was so lifelike, almost the same as when she was alive.
Ye Yuanyin couldn't help but call her, "Mom..."
Maha said, "You should talk to her more often, preferably with happy things. The boss has programmed many inherent characteristics of the character. If you keep training her, you'll be able to connect more and more dots. Eventually, she'll become an integrated anthropomorphic AI. While her thinking style won't be comparable to a real person, it's more than enough for daily conversation."
She just kept nodding.
"Well," Maha instructed her with a purpose, "it's already breakfast time. Why don't you ask your mother for advice on making some delicious food first?"
Ye Yuanyin followed his advice.
Maha crossed his legs contentedly and waited in a good mood.
The Diamond Sutra states, "One should dwell on nothing, yet give rise to the mind." The Buddha's message isn't about completely eradicating deep-seated suffering, but rather about cultivating the wisdom to pursue inner contentment and peace. Xiaoye, for example, still struggles with the pain of her mother's death. But even a small moment of conversation can provide her with the comfort and strength to move forward.
Only those who have experienced despair can understand the importance of hope.
*
There was a pot of soup stewing on the stove, the flames licking the bottom of the pot vigorously, making a gurgling sound.
Ye Yuanyin took a photo of the kitchen and typed it in. Sure enough, the "mother" on the other end responded. She still discussed with her in that melancholy tone, "This door should be repainted."
"Mom, what color do you like?"
"Green is still the best. It makes me feel good just looking at it."
"OK."
She cut the vegetables into pieces and put them into the pot one by one, then covered it tightly, just like her mother used to do.
Aunt Long asked, "What time of year is it now?"
"It's spring."
"Is it still snowing in the mountains?"
"Well, the last spring snow is coming."
Facing her mother's face after a long absence, her eyes were filled with joy as she asked cautiously, "Mom, are you doing well over there?"
"Well, what's good or bad about it? Isn't that how life goes?"
Facing her mother, Ye Yuanyin became as spoiled and uninhibited as a little girl again. "Who said that? How can life be the same no matter who you live with?" After saying this, she felt a little sad again: "Mom, I haven't had a good life in the past few years. I can't get the person I want, and I can't do what I want to do. It feels like life is so difficult."
Aunt Long was silent for a while, and suddenly asked: "Didn't Mr. Shen come back with you?"
"He's back."
Aunt Long breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "That's good, Yin. As long as you are doing well, I will be relieved."
After all, it was a machine; if she didn't make any valid input, it wouldn't respond. A brief silence fell between mother and daughter.
Ye Yuanyin looked at the still gloomy weather outside, sighed and said, "You don't know, it has rained several times in a row in the mountains, and the weather is cold. People who are cold feel very irritable."
"Then open the window and take a look."
Ye Yuanyin opened the window as she said. Outside, Chen Di'an was standing not far away, looking at her with a smile on his face.
The mother asked again, "Did you see that? Are the crabapple blossoms at home already in bloom?"
She looked at his bright face, her heart boiling like hot soup on the stove. She said with tears in her eyes, "Yes, Mom. Spring has really come."
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