Chapter 432 The whole picture of the iceberg (asking for monthly tickets)
"dad."
The child who had been standing at the door in a daze suddenly shouted. His voice was childish and clear, without any fear at all.
The word "Dad" was like a ray of light that instantly illuminated the darkness in Zhou Le's heart and pulled him back from that endless darkness.
Zhou Le stopped and turned to look at the child.
The child grinned and said, "I don't want to take medicine, I want to eat candy."
The child seemed unaware of what was about to happen and suddenly made a request.
His development was much slower than that of other children. He usually looked dull and seldom spoke. But whenever he spoke, Zhou Le would feel very happy and would try his best to meet his requests.
For example, now, Zhou Le subconsciously agreed to buy candy for the child.
"Okay, Dad will buy you some candy."
After saying this, Zhou Le's mind went blank again, and he remembered what Tian Fenfen had just said that the child was not his.
At this time, his trowel was already against Tian Fenfen's neck. He asked in a deep voice, "Whose child is it?"
Tian Fenfen was so frightened that her face turned pale, and her lower body smelled of urine.
She trembled and said, "I...I don't know either."
Sometimes, a woman knows whose child she is giving birth to, but sometimes, she herself doesn't know whose child she is giving birth to.
It's just that Tian Fenfen dislikes Zhou Le from the bottom of her heart, so she has always believed that the child is not Zhou Le's. When the two were arguing just now, Tian Fenfen blurted out that in order to attack Zhou Le.
But when Zhou Le swung the trowel at her just now, she was still scared. She had never seen Zhou Le so crazy before.
Usually, Zhou Le is unkempt and always has a silly smile on his face.
But this time he had shaved his head and beard, wore new clothes, had cold eyes and tightly pursed lips, as if he had completely changed into a different person.
This made Tian Fenfen feel very unfamiliar and scared.
Zhou Le looked at Tian Fenfen coldly, as if trying to judge whether she was telling the truth or a lie.
Finally, he put down the trowel, turned around, took his son's hand, and said, "Let's go buy some candy."
After the father and son left, Tian Fenfen sat down on the ground. After a while, she was afraid that Zhou Le would beat her again when he came back, so she took some clothes and left in a hurry.
There was a small shop facing the street in front. Zhou Le held his son's hand and walked towards the shop.
"Youyou, you just said you were taking medicine? Are you sick? What medicine did you take?"
Zhou Le asked, feeling confused.
It’s just that the child is developmentally delayed and doesn’t understand what he says at all. He doesn’t give an immediate reply, but is completely immersed in his own world.
Zhou Le had no choice but to take the child to buy candy first.
Then I spent ten cents and bought him two pieces of fruit candies.
After getting the candy, Youyou smiled happily.
Zhou Le looked at the child's smiling face, feeling very complicated. At this moment, he wanted to know frantically whether this child was his.
When he returned home, he found that Tian Fenfen had taken the opportunity to leave.
He was not surprised by this, but went to his aunt's house next door.
The aunt next door saw him coming with the child and asked with concern: "Zhou Le, are you... okay? I heard you quarreling."
Zhou Le said calmly, "It's okay. Auntie, Youyou just said he didn't want to take medicine. Has he been sick recently? Have you noticed what medicine he is taking?"
Zhou Le often goes out early and comes back late, and is sometimes away from home for ten days or half a month, so he may not know as much about the child's situation as the aunt next door.
The aunt next door looked at Youyou and said in surprise: "He hasn't been sick recently... But your wife often uses the medicine pot to boil medicine, but she won't tell me when I ask her."
After getting this clue, Zhou Le returned home, turned on the kitchen light, and began to rummage through the medicine jars.
There are several herbal medicine shops in the county. Since herbal medicine is cheaper than Western medicine, many people will pick up herbal medicine to take when they are sick.
Soon, Zhou Le found the medicine jar in the corner. After opening it, he discovered that there were still some residues of medicinal materials inside.
But Zhou Le didn’t understand any of this and couldn’t tell what the medicine was or what its effects were.
After thinking for a while, he decided to take the medicine jar to ask the herbal doctor.
As for Youyou, he was naturally not taken away, but left at his aunt's house next door.
More than ten minutes later, Zhou Le found an herbal medicine shop. This kind of herbal medicine shop has a front shop and a back yard, and the medical skills are passed down from generation to generation.
The old doctor in charge of the shop took a look at the medicine residue, picked it up and identified it, and then said: "This is medicine for treating insomnia, but the quality of the medicine is not very good, it is cheap. Is it the medicine used by your family? You have to buy better ones, so that it is better for your health."
Zhou Le thanked him and then walked away in a daze.
Medicine for insomnia? But my son has always slept well!
Could it be the medicine that Tian Fenfen took?
But then Zhou Le thought that Tian Fenfen might have been fooling around with someone last night, so how could she take this kind of medicine for insomnia?
As for himself, he was sure that he had not eaten, because he slept very well and could fall asleep almost as soon as he lay down.
This is because he is too tired from working during the day, so he falls asleep quickly.
Suddenly, Zhou Le felt a strong sense of uneasiness in his heart. He turned back to the herbal medicine shop, his body shaking with excitement.
"Doctor...what would happen if the child took this medicine?"
The old doctor looked up at him and asked calmly, "How old is the child?"
"Six years old... maybe even younger?" Zhou Le said uncertainly.
The old doctor's face changed and he cursed, "Medicine is poisonous. How can you give this medicine to a child? This is for elderly people who can't sleep. They pick up herbs and boil them. After eating a bowl, they will feel better. Why should a child take medicine to calm his nerves? You are so stupid!"
"What will happen if the child takes this medicine?" Zhou Le asked again. He stubbornly wanted an answer.
"That will definitely have a lot of impacts! This medicine is of poor quality and highly toxic. If a child takes it, in serious cases, they will die! If they take less, it will also easily affect their development and they won't grow up as well as other children. As for the specifics, I can't say for sure."
The old doctor's words were like a bolt from the blue, striking Zhou Le's heart.
He remembered that his son was different from ordinary people, often acting dazed and like a fool. His peers all went to preschool, but his son could not go. The teacher said that Youyou understood nothing and asked Youyou to go back to school two years later.
Zhou Le just felt bitter in his mouth, but he still asked: "Doctor, do you know how to check if my son is my son?"
The old doctor looked at Zhou Le's appearance and heard his words, and he knew there must be something going on.
Just in this aspect, Chinese medicine cannot compare with Western medicine, so the old doctor pointed him in a clear direction.
"I don't understand this either. Take your child to the People's Hospital and ask."
Zhou Le thanked him again, then left in a daze.
After walking for an unknown amount of time, someone suddenly called him.
"Zhou Le, why haven't you gone home yet?"
Gao Mingcheng was holding little Xuxu and playing at the door of the store. Inside the clothing store, everyone else was watching TV.
But Gao Mingcheng is not addicted to TV, and he knows that children cannot watch TV, otherwise it will damage their eyesight. Therefore, he holds the child for a walk outside, and after a while, he can give the child a bath and put him to bed.
Seeing that Zhou Le was in a trance, he couldn't help but call out to him.
At the same time, a doubt arose in my heart.
No way...has what was supposed to happen already happened?
He looked at Zhou Le's clothes with sharp eyes and found that they were clean and not stained with blood, so he breathed a sigh of relief.
"Gao...Boss Gao." It took a while for Zhou Le's pupils to focus on Gao Mingcheng and he recognized him.
As he spoke, his whole body trembled, as if he was under a lot of pressure.
This appearance made Gao Mingcheng dare not let him go easily. After all, he was not an ordinary person! Maybe he would turn evil in advance and do something. Gao Mingcheng would not be surprised.
"What's wrong? Sit down and talk!" Gao Mingcheng pointed to a stool and motioned Zhou Le to sit down.
"Hey." Zhou Le sat down obediently.
In fact, he and Gao Mingcheng were not familiar with each other at all and had only known each other for less than two days.
But Gao Mingcheng gave him a job and a discount on clothes, which made him feel that Gao Mingcheng was a good person who could help him.
So Zhou Le, who was eager to find someone to talk to, told everything that happened today.
Because of his excitement and lack of education, his words were a little incoherent, but fortunately Gao Mingcheng understood him.
After understanding, Gao Mingcheng and Zhou Le had the same terrible guess.
In his previous life, he learned about Zhou Le from other people, but what others said was just the tip of an iceberg and did not give him the full picture.
Even Zhou Le in his previous life might not have known these hidden secrets.
At that time, he caught a woman cheating in bed and found out that the son was not his own. He went to extremes and killed someone, then quickly escaped.
And never came back.
Whether Youyou is his son or not, and whether Youyou’s abnormal development is man-made or not, these are all unsolved mysteries.
Gao Mingcheng recalled the time when paternity testing could be done. He had not paid much attention to this aspect, but the technology should be available now, but he didn't know whether it was easy to do.
But if you want to do it, you have to go to the provincial capital to inquire, because the county definitely does not have the conditions.
However, if you are lucky, you can roughly know whether the child is yours by testing the blood type. However, this is not very accurate, and you also need to know the blood type of the adulterer.
Friends, it’s the last day for double monthly tickets. If you have tickets, don’t keep them. Give them to me!
(End of this chapter)
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