Chapter 227 Memories
"Am I going to die too?" he muttered to himself.
Looking at the small patch of sky above the cave dwelling, he felt a pang of regret for the first time.
The wind blows, rustling the grass outside the cave dwelling, like a mother whispering by the window, or like Zhong Chengyi crying out back then.
He tried to get up, but found that his limbs were already numb and powerless.
Death is approaching silently, like an invisible net, tightening ever tighter.
He finally realized that he couldn't wait for someone else to save him.
He closed his eyes, and the image of Zhong Chengyi as a child appeared in his mind—that little figure who always followed behind him calling him "brother," with a childish smile revealing a missing front tooth.
Zhang Chunxue's face reappeared in his mind.
Everyone says that Zhong Chengren is the one who looks most like Zhang Chunxue, and is the most handsome of the three sons.
But now, that face he was once so proud of has become his greatest curse.
The wound on his back was inflicted by her.
Without hesitation, she slashed at him with her knife.
Zhong Chengren smiled self-deprecatingly.
He doesn't blame Zhang Chunxue.
It was him, he was desperate and tried to rob his mother's money; he was the one who tried to kill Zhou Mingli before, his mother probably hates him to death long ago...
That night, he even wanted to teach Song Xingzhi a lesson.
Why should he?! Zhang Chunxue is his mother!
That's his mother!
It's all because of Song Xingzhi! It must be because of Song Xingzhi!
So his mother didn't want him anymore... Zhang Chunxue didn't want him anymore...
She didn't want any of her three sons, but only wanted Zhong Xiaoxiao...
It must be because of Song Xingzhi's instigation...
But those two stabs he made that night completely severed the last vestiges of the bond between mother and son.
He killed his own brother; Zhang Chunxue will never forgive him.
His consciousness blurred once again, and Zhong Chengren's thoughts returned to his childhood.
He seemed to see the three brothers again, stealing the brown sugar their father bought for their mother, and how their mother covered for them after their father found out.
He also saw his usually strong-willed mother weeping uncontrollably on the day she learned of his father's death.
He saw his mother arranging a marriage for his elder brother, and then arranging a marriage for him...
He could almost see his mother not letting his younger sister go to school, but instead marrying her off to a bachelor...
Later... later my sister was beaten to death by domestic violence...
He saw his mother's blank expression, which revealed the deepest pain hidden in her heart.
He saw Song Xingzhi leave Zhongjia Village, and saw his mother standing under the old locust tree at the village entrance, staring blankly into the distance.
Later, Zhong Chengyi got married and moved to the city.
Later, his mother also started doing business.
She's amazing, truly amazing. She single-handedly became a millionaire, her business grew bigger and bigger, and her family's life got better and better...
Countless memories that Zhong Chengren had never experienced flashed before his eyes, replaying scene by scene like a film reel.
Zhong Chengren began to feel cold, a bone-chilling cold.
He finally saw that Zhang Chunxue was sick, seriously ill. They were unwilling to treat her, and later took her home, but none of the three brothers were willing to take care of her.
They almost got into a fight before deciding that the family would take care of each other for ten days.
The mother, who was originally meant to shelter them from the wind and rain, has become a burden.
He saw him with his arm around Meng Wanshu, living a life of unparalleled comfort, yet unwilling to go back and see his own mother even once...
A tear rolled down Zhong Chengren's cheek and shattered into countless tiny droplets on the cold ground.
So, is this his retribution?
Zhong Chengren suddenly woke up with a start.
No, he didn't do those things... He didn't...
However, the next second, his consciousness once again fell into chaos, and Zhong Chengyi reappeared.
His appearance became increasingly terrifying and ferocious.
He seemed to emerge from the endless darkness beneath his feet, grabbing his feet and dragging him deeper into the darkness.
"Second brother, if I die, you should die with me...Second brother..."
"My dear second brother..."
"We should be together..."
Zhong Chengren's life was on the verge of collapse.
He felt his eyelids getting incredibly heavy, and in his daze, he heard a jumble of footsteps.
"Right here! I found it while herding sheep today!"
"Let's verify their identities first!"
Zhong Chengren felt that several more presences had suddenly appeared in the desolate cave, but he could no longer open his eyes. He could only feel someone calling his name, the voice sometimes near and sometimes far, as if it came from a distant place.
He seemed to hear his mother's voice, gentle and familiar, "Chengren, go to sleep..."
Zhong Chengren wept bitterly: "Mom...Mom...have you forgiven me? Mom..."
"I was wrong... I really know I was wrong..."
"Please forgive me..."
Zhong Chengyi's expression grew increasingly ferocious, relentlessly dragging him into the abyss of darkness.
"Mom will never forgive you! She will never forgive us!" it roared, it screamed, "Second brother! You must die! You can only die!"
Zhong Chengren was dragged down by his third brother, who had turned into a vengeful ghost.
The smoke vent above the cave turned into a beam of white light, growing smaller and smaller until it was completely swallowed by darkness.
Zhong Chengren's consciousness also fell into an eternal slumber.
The operating room door opened, and a doctor came out, shaking his head at Zhang Chunxue.
"The surgery failed, and the patient has no vital signs."
Zhang Chunxue's expression remained unchanged: "Thank you for your hard work, doctor."
She was notified by the police to come to the county hospital three hours earlier.
The police said they found Zhong Chengren, but he had fallen into a coma due to an infection of the wound on his back.
He was occasionally lucid. When the police questioned him, Zhong Chengren was unable to answer on his own and could only call out "Mom".
Upon seeing this, the police knew that Zhong Chengren's condition was not optimistic, so they immediately sent him to the county hospital for emergency treatment and also quickly sent someone to notify Zhang Chunxue.
When Zhang Chunxue arrived, Zhong Chengren had already been taken to the operating room for emergency treatment.
According to the police, early this morning, a shepherd drove the commune's sheep up the mountain to graze. One of the sheep got lost. When he went to look for the sheep, he came to the entrance of this cave dwelling and heard someone groaning inside. He was startled, so he cautiously went in to take a look and saw a person lying inside, who looked like he was already burned out.
The shepherd was startled and quickly ran back to the commune to tell the people there.
The commune had received a notification from the police in the past few days, knowing that an injured murderer had escaped to this area, so without any hesitation, they immediately reported it to the police.
They never expected that Zhong Chengren would refuse to go to the hospital and stubbornly endure the pain on his own, and as a result...
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