Chapter 100 Live Well for Me
"Can……"
"Thank you……"
Zhi Yan took the wooden board from the staff, and crushed the bones lightly with his shaking hands. Yu Zehui was actually afraid of pain, but he was a male chauvinist and cared about his reputation, so he would not say anything even if it hurt, after all, this was related to his dignity.
How could Zhi Yan not know about this after sleeping in the same bed with him for so many years? Every time Yu Zehui made him angry, he would bite his neck very hard, causing him to burst into tears due to the pain.
After biting him, I deliberately asked him if it hurt. He stubbornly said it didn't hurt, just that it felt itchy when I pinched it.
Zhi Yan lowered his eyes and stared at the boiling ashes with misty eyes. He really wanted to ask him, did he feel itchy now?
But even if there was an answer, he would never get it.
After crushing everything, he and Yu Zeying carefully put the ashes into the urn. Such a strong and sturdy man, after cremation, only one pound of ashes were left. Zhi Yan held the urn with red and swollen eyes, and there was a dead silence inside.
"Have you chosen the cemetery?" Yu Zeying asked in a crying voice.
Zhi Yan held the urn tightly and said, "This has nothing to do with you. He will be mine from now on. Just take care of yourself!"
Yu Zeying turned sideways and wiped his tears several times before he wiped them away. "So what are you going to do in the future?"
Zhiyan held the urn, and his misty peach blossom eyes seemed to regain some clarity. "I want to take him back to my hometown, and Elvis, if you have nothing else to do, don't bother us."
Yu Zeying's voice was extremely hoarse, as if it was covered with gravel. "Okay... you have to take good care of yourself. You are the one my brother can't let go of the most."
"I know..." Zhi Yan held the urn tightly, stretched out a hand to take out a letter from the pocket of his windbreaker and handed it to him, "He asked me to give this to you."
Yu Zeying took over stiffly, "Didn't he leave me any message?"
"It's all in there, take a look for yourself, I'm leaving..." Zhi Yan stood up holding the urn, and Elvis on the ground stood up soon after. Zhi Yan took two steps before he remembered him, turned around and took his rope, "Let's go home..."
It was drizzling outside the crematorium. A funeral procession in mourning passed by them. The coffin blocked Yu Zeying's view. When the funeral procession came in, Zhi Yan and Elvis were gone.
The paper money in the incense pool was only half burned before it went out...
Yu Zeying retracted his numb and painful eyes, clenched the letter in his hand, hesitated for a long time, and opened it tremblingly. The handwriting was sloppy, and it could be recognized as Yu Zehui's handwriting at a glance.
"Idiot, I'm your brother! When you read this letter, the grass on my grave may be taller than you. You don't have to pull the grass for me. Just burn more paper money for me. Money is my fucking favorite thing..."
"Speaking of money, I left you a sum of money in a Swiss bank. It's clean money. It's what my friend and I earned from gold mining in Africa. Don't be a fucking idiot and pay it all to me. I won't let you go even if I become a ghost!"
"Also, Shengsheng, I really don't like her. I can't decide her birth, but since she came into this world, I have to be responsible for her."
"I have set up a growth fund for her in Hong Kong to ensure that she will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of her life. But she has lost both her mother and father. If you have nothing to do, please go and help me take care of her. Don't let others bully your daughter."
"Okay, enough of the nonsense, let's get down to business. Mu Xiliang's uncle is not dead. I saved him from the old man and hid him in our secret base. If you forgot, then go to hell!"
"I didn't have such good intentions to save Mu Xiliang. His uncle used the brick factory in exchange for me. As long as I saved Mu Xiliang, the brick factory would be mine. But I was too late. His legs had already been chopped off by the old man."
"Later, I hid him in the Feng Family compound, which was a haunted house. I knew that not many people would go there, but I never expected that you would get together with him. When I found out, I wanted to tell you, but I didn't know how to say it..."
"If I tell you, I'm afraid you won't be able to accept it. But if I don't tell you, I won't be able to keep it a secret for much longer..."
"And that brick factory, you fucking idiot! I put so much effort into it, and you just gave it to Lu Sui! You are such a good brother to me..."
"Forget it, it's not your fault. With that old fox Yang Qishan around, there's no way they'd give me this brick factory. Damn it! I can only blame myself for my bad luck..."
"Ah-Yai, when I knew you were a younger brother, I was very happy and glad that you were a younger brother and not a younger sister. This way, you wouldn't be given away by someone else like my aunt...My aunt didn't commit suicide, she jumped off the building because she couldn't stand the torture..."
Yu Zeying's hands couldn't stop shaking, his narrow eyes were frighteningly red, almost bleeding, and veins bulged on his neck.
"My aunt was only 19 at the time. She was only 19, but the old man was a beast... My aunt died, and I knew I couldn't escape. Yu Qinghai and the old man were afraid that they couldn't control me, so they injected me... But the injection was too large, and I almost died..."
"Every time my drug addiction strikes, they lock me in a wolfhound cage and leave me to fend for myself..."
"They used... to control me for two years. During those two years, whenever my drug addiction took hold, I wanted to kill people. How many people died in my hands? I don't remember. The only thing I remember is that one night, I drove a Maserati out of the garage, and before I left the villa area, I hit and killed a mother and daughter..."
"You want to ask me how it felt to kill someone? I was very scared at first, but later I felt it was particularly enjoyable, like I was in heaven... The mother and daughter were not ordinary people, and this time the old man couldn't let it go, but he didn't dare to send me to a drug rehabilitation center, so he could only hide me in a nursing home."
"I quit drugs in the nursing home. I thought if I listened to my old friend, he wouldn't set his sights on you. Besides, he loved you so much. Unfortunately, I was wrong. So I had no choice but to chase you away and speak ill of you..."
"I let the wolfhounds bite you because I wanted you not to come back. But why are you so stupid? Why can't you understand? It's enough for us to have one poisonous insect in our family. You must not become the second one!"
"Your joining Team B is the best way I can think of to protect you, but I didn't expect Mom would use me to threaten you and force you to come back. I'm sorry... I'm really sorry..."
"After you came back, I had already decided to die with them, until you asked me to help you investigate that little fool. God, who had never been on my side before, stood on my side this time. I started to set up a plan to let the old man know that the little fool was a fox."
"Zhao Chongming has always wanted to play tricks on people. I didn't tell Lao Dong that Xiao Shazi was Qiao Yuan's son. I wanted to use Qiao Yuan to overthrow Lao Dong. The day before Xiao Shazi was sent away, I sent all the things that Lao Dong and Zhao Chongming had done over the years to Zhao Min."
"The development of the situation is just as I planned. Although I didn't overthrow the old guy, at least he was attacked from all sides. The Zhao family and the Qiao family will not let him go. And Lu Sui, I know he has people in the military. The old guy won't be able to hold on for much longer..."
"Lu Sui and that little fool, I know you will resent me, blame me, and hate me...but you are my brother, I have to do this to get you out of this snake den. It doesn't matter if I die, and it doesn't matter if they die, as long as you can live well."
"But I didn't expect that you would poison Lao Dongshi and the others for Mu Xiliang and Lu Sui. You are really brave! You are also a man of integrity and fearlessness, so you must escape from this snake den!"
"I'm already rotten, you can't be rotten again..."
"Ah-Ying, I'm not a good brother. I can only protect you up to this point. You have to rely on yourself from now on. And Dad, it's not that I don't recognize him, it's that I can't recognize him. With his idiotic appearance, it would be strange if Mom didn't trick him to death...
"If our family falls, he will definitely not ignore Mom. Just take care of yourself and don't worry about him. If anything goes wrong, it's his own fault."
"I have explained almost everything I need to say. When I was little, every time I saw Dad carrying you back home, I actually wanted to go back with you, but if I went, you would have to stay. I don't want you to be abused by them, so I'll stay."
"Ah-Ying, you have to remember that I exchanged my life for yours, so you have to live well for me..."
"I have committed many evil deeds and have committed many sins. Death is the best way for me to escape. But I still want to have an afterlife. Please go to the Bodhi Temple and light a long-burning lamp for me, even though I may not have an afterlife..."
Yu Zeying's eyes were fierce, and he lost control for a moment, and then his hot tears fell on the letter one after another, and the scribbled words were spread out. Yu Zeying wiped them off in a hurry, and he used too much force and tore them.
He held the letter, at a loss like a child who had made a mistake, and finally buried his hands in his chest, crying helplessly. There were many people crying in the hall, some even more sad than him, so no one looked at him strangely.
He cried uncontrollably, crying for the grievances he had suffered over the years, crying for the doubts he had experienced over the years, and even more crying for why he and his brother had to be born in the Yu family.
He knew that Yu Zehui had done a lot for him, but he didn't expect that he had done so much for him.
In fact, he never hated him. He was just angry that he could have escaped, but why didn't he?
Now he knows that if he had escaped, this would be his fate.
So he did it for him...
"elder brother……"
Others could hold their heads and cry, supporting each other, but he could only curl up in a corner and cry alone, with the tears on his chest wrinkled. He no longer had a brother, he had nothing.
He became a real orphan...
From now on, no one will risk their life to protect him anymore... He wants to hate them, but they are all dead, so what's the point of hating them?
He stood up dazedly holding the letter. The rain had stopped, and the golden-red afterglow crept in through the window sill and shone on him, dispersing the biting coldness in his body bit by bit, and carefully wrapped him up, warm and soft.
He lowered his eyes to stare at the paper money on the ground, his eyes were dim and difficult to read, and he walked out suddenly.
Zhiyan had already left. His eyes and brows were gloomy. He clenched the letter in his hand and ran after him with his long legs!
The extinguished paper money in the incense pool was rekindled in a gust of strong wind...
The night was long and deep, with a faint moonlight in the sky and no clear outlines. Liang Jingxuan was wrapped in a blanket embroidered with little rabbits and sobbed on the sofa. Her eyes were red and swollen, and her long eyelashes were stuck together in clumps. "Hubby, it hurts... I need a hug..."
Lu Sui half-knelt beside the sofa with a thermometer in hand, "Let me take your temperature first."
Liang Jingxuan pouted aggrievedly, "Okay..." Lu Sui pulled down the bunny pajamas on his shoulders, put the thermometer under his armpits, and crossed his arms, "Clamp it!"
Liang Jingxuan hugged his arms weakly, "Okay~"
Lu Sui smoothed his sweaty hair that stuck to his forehead and asked, "Are you hungry?"
Liang Jingxuan stared at the moldy beams with her clear little deer eyes, "I'm not hungry~" She hugged her arms and turned sideways, "Hubby, I just had a dream. I dreamed that the bad guy turned into a ghost. After a gust of black wind, he turned from a ghost into a human again!"
Lu Sui frowned, "Bad guy?"
Liang Jingxuan tilted his head and said in a low voice,
"That's right. Last time we went to the hospital to see Brother Ye, Ye's brother. There were a lot of ghosts around him... He came to me in my dream and asked me why I was here. I said I was here to begin with, but he kept telling me to go back and called me an idiot..."
Lu Sui's face suddenly turned gloomy. Yu Zehui was already dead. He had originally planned to go with Yu Zeying to the execution this morning, fearing that Yu Zeying would be depressed and do something stupid. But when he was about to leave, Liang Jingxuan suddenly had a high fever, so he didn't go.
Ling Lie's eyebrows slightly curved, "Did you curse back?"
Liang Jingxuan pouted, "He was so fierce, I didn't dare to curse him, but I cursed him quietly. I cursed him for being a bad guy, a big bad guy. He poked my forehead like Brother Ying and told me to go back quickly..."
Lu Sui closed his eyes quietly. It was just a dream. It was nothing but a dream.
"So what else did he say?"
Liang Jingxuan sat up, "He also said... I'm sorry. He said sorry to me, and he also said sorry to you. Then he left, came back, and seemed not to have come back. I don't remember..."
Lu Sui looked at him with his dark and deep eyes. Why did he have such a dream?
"Xuanbao!" Lu Jun pushed the door open in a hurry, took his hand, and put a string of copper coins on his wrist.
Lu Sui narrowed his eyes, "What is this?"
The army touched Liang Jingxuan's forehead.
"Five Emperors' Coins, to ward off evil spirits... Xuanbao would have a high fever every year after the Qingming Festival. The year he first came, your aunt and I took him to the provincial hospital but it was useless. On the way back, we passed by the Bodhi Temple and your aunt suggested that we go in and pray. It was really magical. After praying that day, he was fine when he came back that night."
"When your aunt was bathing him, he was wearing a string of Five Emperors' Coins on his wrist. When asked how he got them, he said that a master from the Bodhi Temple gave them to him..."
The corners of Lu Sui's raised mouth gradually dropped, and his eyes became strange...
A faint light shone into the dilapidated hut. Yu Zeying fell drunk on the bed. Suddenly, there was a rapid and violent knock on the door, as if someone was chasing after his soul...