Unsealing old wine
"You're right." Yu Ran said seriously, "At first I thought all I had to do was remember you, and never thought about anything else. Now it seems that I need to figure out everything I've lost and missed bit by bit."
"The car accident, the cause of that person's death, the stumbling block at work." Jiang Liu tightened his circle with each name he listed, sharing weal and woe with him. "I'll investigate it with you until the end..."
"That man, to put it simply, died of anger because he had been ill for a long time."
"As I recall, his death and your car accident happened on the same day."
"Hiss, now that you mention it, I just remember that I ended up arguing with him before I drove away."
"What's the fuss?"
Yu Ran pushed open the dusty door with all his strength. There was a hidden weapon inside that could hurt someone. The cold blade was stained with the poisonous rust of time and almost brushed against Yu Ran's heartstrings.
A year and a half ago...
Zhang Qian was so excited that his skinny body trembled, as if he was in dire straits. "If you dare to have an affair with a man again, don't blame me for getting angry!"
"Don't lecture me with that tone of disappointment." Yu Ran said calmly, "You are a piece of iron, and you can't make steel yourself. Do you expect me to be like you?"
Zhang Qian was speechless and said, "If you are shameless, I can tell all the relatives in the Zhang family that there is a homosexual among the younger generation who violates the moral code!"
He was furious, as if he had pulled out a long piece of cloth to bind his feet, whether it was to wrap it, strangle it, or tie it, all he wanted was for his "son" to "behave properly" and not step into the new world.
In fact, even if Yu Ran was not in love with Jiang Liu, Zhang Qian would always find various reasons to interfere with his current choice and make use of the situation.
This selfish and vicious old man was only afraid that the secret he had carefully buried for so many years would be discovered, so he did not hesitate to interfere and destroy his current family.
Of course, the above was something Yu Ran could not have imagined at the time.
"My last name isn't Zhang. I thought so when I was little. Now that I'm grown up, I have the right to change it. But unfortunately, I can't change the blood in my body."
Yu Ran's expression remained calm, he breathed and paused freely, until he solemnly uttered the last full period, then he declared his victory completely in his heart.
"Sister, mother, did you hear what I said when I was a child..." he thought compassionately.
"@*#!$&... How could I give birth to a bastard like you!" Zhang Qian shouted angrily. He was a little older than a middle-aged man, and he had lived enough. He always had the concept of fearing losses. When he burst into tears and his words were full of accusations against his son's "crimes", Yu Ran had already driven away.
Later, Yu Ran drove a long way before he remembered that he had forgotten to take his cell phone. Before he could return to get his phone, he lost control of the car and hit the guardrail.
Jiang Liu and Yu Ran held hands tightly, trying to pull the person out of the abyss of memory.
"I'm fine." Yu Ran said.
Before they knew it, they'd cuddled together on the carpet, sharing their hearts all night. Yu Ran relished the numbness in his legs and feet after a long embrace, relished the cleansing light of the heavens. Weren't they like a pair of unwavering stone statues in a love legend? Last night's events, good or bad, were but a fleeting moment in their lives, forever and ever.
"Well, I suddenly found a clue. I called you during the day when you had an argument with that guy."
"I was probably too busy being mad at him during the day to notice your call."
"No." Jiang Liu got up, flipped through the text messages on his phone, and showed them to Yu Ran. "Now it seems that this sentence must not have been sent by you, because your love for me is very firm."
"Let's break up. Two men together is unethical. Stop contacting me, don't come looking for me, don't hold a grudge, and don't tell anyone about our relationship."
Each character was like a cold nail, firmly nailing the smoldering seven orifices. He could hardly think, and said with difficulty: "This... I don't know, but it definitely can't be me."
"I called you at the time, but you didn't answer. Considering you forgot to take your phone, I'm afraid it's that person again."
"Did he know your birthday? My phone password at the time was your birthday. Did he investigate you?"
The two of them recreated the scene of making a phone call. It is possible to answer a call when the screen is locked. At the same time, if it is not convenient to answer the call at the moment, you can also customize the text message reply.
The above operations do not require unlocking the phone.
To sum up, the text message must have been sent by Zhang Qian.
Jiang Liu's psychological defenses collapsed, and he said dejectedly: "So, I have always misunderstood you... I'm sorry..."
After all, Jiang Liu is also a victim. He was forced to break up, forced to stay with his sick body, and forced to digest his emotional pain.
You and I, once back to back, leaning on each other, only to pass each other and go our separate ways, leaving each other with only our backs. We thought we would never see each other again, but the world is round, and when we meet again, our faces collide with each other's.
"You should blame me. No, let's not take the blame here..." Yu Ran laughed.
When we regain our sanity, there is actually still one problem to be solved.
Yu Ran was in a car accident at that time, and passers-by called an ambulance to send him to the hospital. So where did Zhang Qian, who was so angry, collapse?
A few clues twisted into a timeline. Cross the river along the rope.
Jiang Liu asked Yu Lei to come out and meet him. He said apologetically, "Sorry for interrupting your lunch break, sister."
"Haha, it's okay, it's okay~" Yu Lei cut the steak slowly and leisurely. If eyes could be visualized, then Yu Lei's sharp gaze would have woven a red silk flower between her brother and brother-in-law.
Yu Ran just felt that her eyes were quite creepy. Although there is a saying that goes "eating from the bowl and looking at the pot", the meaning of her sister's eyes was clearly "looking at the pot, and the pot is her brother".
"Sister, let me get down to business. What happened to Zhang...Dad?" Yu Ran suppressed the nausea.
Yu Lei's expression froze for a moment, then she quickly adjusted to the topic. Chatting about sorrow in the afternoon was like taking bitter medicine with honey. Was that a pleasant or unpleasant experience?
"I..." She pondered for a moment, then spoke slowly, "My mom and I received a call from the city hospital saying someone was in the ICU. We hurriedly called you, but your phone was turned off. So I called the hospital back and asked who took him there, and they said, 'The patient's son.'"
Yu Lei was busy cutting meat and didn't notice the unusual expressions of the two people opposite her.
She continued, "We thought your phone died after you took him to the hospital and arranged the admission process. But a moment later, a patient with serious injuries from a car accident came to the hospital, and we realized it was you... Mom and I thought the accident happened because you rushed back to report it."
Yu Lei raised her head and was affected by the shocked expressions of the two men. She shook their arms and asked cautiously, what's wrong?
"Are you sure the hospital's response to you at the time was, 'the patient's son'?" Yu Ran used up his last bit of consciousness to spell out this sentence.
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After a while, Yu Ran and Jiang Liu talked one after another, reconstructing the situation and timeline of that day.
Zhang Qian asked Yu Ran to meet her - the two broke out in an argument - Yu Ran left angrily - on the way back to get his phone, he was suddenly involved in a car accident - and he and the furious Zhang Qian were sent to the hospital at the same time.
The incident happened at the same time, but the time and space were staggered. Therefore, it was impossible that Yu Ran, the "patient's son", sent Zhang Qian to the hospital!
"I learned about his death after I woke up from the car accident. You told me..."
Yu Lei always thought that her brother knew the reason why Zhang Qian fainted, and she was just telling him the result of death.
Unexpectedly, Yu Ran was completely unaware of the whole thing.
"Who is the patient's son..." the three people asked in unison!
"I will also look into this matter." Yu Lei rubbed her sleepy eyes, the buzzing in her head lingering.
Jiang Liu also had a serious expression and had no mood to eat the pasta in front of him.
Yu Ran was the first to recover because he no longer had any feelings for that man.
If, when I open the jar of wine of the past, it is filled with bitterness, then fortunately, I have grown up. At most, at most, my younger self will choke on it.
He carefully unrolled the noodles for Jiang Liu, which were still hot inside, rolled them into a ball on a fork, and fed it to Jiang Liu's mouth.
"If things are really as we imagined, then his death is too light." Yu Lei said with a tone of venom, "He lied to Mom, he lied to all of us!"
Zhang Qian and Yu Qionglin are an older man and a younger wife.
Carrying her dreams, she journeyed far from home to pursue her career, where she received the care and attention of then-factory manager Zhang Qian. From courtship to marriage, they experienced the most loving years of their lives. At the time, everyone said, "Older men are more caring," and Yu Qionglin believed it.
The factory was facing a difficult time and was doomed to fail. Zhang Qian used up all his savings to pay off his debts, and the family of three could only rely on Zhang Qian to buy newspapers on the street to make ends meet.
The man never recovered from the blow, and Yu Qionglin realized that Zhang Qian's talent and ambition were just a flash in the pan.
During those years, Yu Lei only ate porridge and couldn't afford milk powder.
Life was tough, but once Yu Lei was old enough, she could send her to kindergarten. Yu Qionglin no longer had to worry about her child all day, and could go out and work. A magazine had already noticed the stunning work she'd created during her downturn, and had written several times asking when she'd be free to meet them.
Unexpectedly, all the letters Yu Qionglin sent were intercepted by his partner.
Zhang Qian knows that the world is full of temptations. He can be without a job and without money, but he cannot "lose" a "wife" again.
Getting pregnant with Yu Ran was a surprise to Yu Qionglin.
Poverty-stricken, four mouths to feed, what else can one do besides eat the bare bones of the house? Cry, quarrel.
Disheartened, Yu Qionglin decided to take her child away from the devil's den. Zhang Qian said, "Okay, go ahead and see how far you can go!"
He was confident because he refused to divorce and had confiscated her ID card and household registration booklet.
Fortunately, Zhang Qian's younger sister, Zhang Tian, came to the rescue, contributing money, effort, and manpower. Zhang Han, the older sister who had come to visit during the New Year, wasn't a bad person at first, and although she was reluctant, she did help out a bit by running errands.
Zhang Tian stole her sister-in-law's ID card and household registration book, but she was powerless to help with the divorce.
Moreover, if they insist on getting a divorce, it will be a long battle. The mother and son will always be exposed under the eyes of the scumbag, and the three of them will never be able to live a stable life.
Yu Qionglin knew this well, so she changed the names of her two children and started a new life. Yu Lei, a new bud, and Yu Ran, burning away the flames of suffering.
She worked her way up to the position of partner in the magazine, which was then renamed Qiongju Magazine.
After graduating from university, Yu Lei continued to work at Zeng Hua.
During this period, the eldest sister Zhang Han tried every means to contact the mother and son of the Yu family, saying that her younger brother Zhang Qian had been in poor health in recent years. They did not come to ask for money, but only hoped that the two children could always fulfill their filial piety and not sever their kinship.
Yu Qionglin naturally refused, but Zhang Qian knew that the aunt and sister-in-law had been keeping in touch for many years. She ignored the relationship between sisters and often made things difficult for her younger sister Zhang Tian. Even though Zhang Tian's family was troubled by it, they never tried to persuade Yu Qionglin to give in.
Zhang Tian's family had done her a favor, so Yu Qionglin gritted her teeth and made three rules with the scumbag: he could visit and communicate, but as for whether the child recognized him as his biological father, he had to respect the child's wishes.
Zhang Qian was sickly and had lost a lot of weight. He had changed his previous bad temper. In fact, Yu Qionglin later found out that it was just a mask for his cruelty.
In short, Zhang Qian and the three of them have always maintained superficial harmony. When he is in a good mood, he will take out some of his savings to give to the children as pocket money. He even helped Yu Ran with his college entrance examination application, and he applied for a university that is not inferior to Peking University and Tsinghua University.
Yu Ran was a little disappointed because that double-first-class university was not a top institution in the field he was good at.
Time passed and it came to the time when Yu Ran went to college.
At a fraternity party held between the two universities, Yu Ran met the talented Jiang Liu, and for the first time, he felt the same kind of heart-pounding feeling.
That night, Yu Ran, who was walking with Jiang Liu, happened to meet Zhang Qian smoking downstairs.
Seeing the man's earnest eyes, Jiang Liu whispered to Yu Ran, "Who is he?"
I'm his father! Zhang Qian's brief, morbid boasting completely disappeared after he saw Jiang Liu's appearance clearly.
At first, Yu Ran just thought that the old man was feudal and couldn't stand Jiang Liu's beautiful dress.
He deliberately went against this person by growing his hair long and getting his ears pierced.
The man was always nagging and didn't allow his son to have any contact with Jiang Liu.
Everything erupted when Yu Ran came out to his family.
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