Chapter 160 He Might Be a Star
Yu Zehui's expression froze, and he looked gloomily at the reckless young man in front of him. He wore a Lucky Cloud Longevity Lock around his neck, and held a green apple with a big bite taken out of it in his hand. He had a pair of wet deer eyes, and his eyelashes were stuck together in clumps.
Yu Zehui sneered and thought of his crybaby brother.
He, who had killed countless people, rarely bent down and patted his crying face with his leather-gloved hands, "Where is your parents?"
The little boy looked at him in confusion and said softly, "My name...my name is Liang Jingxuan..."
Yu Zehui's expression turned cold. The kid in front of him was only about five or six years old, but he seemed different from other kids of the same age. To verify, he asked again, his tone still fierce, "Where are your parents?"
Liang Jingxuan thought he was going to snatch the green apple from his hand, so he took a big step back and said in a childish voice, "No, if you want to eat it, go get it yourself!" After saying that, he pointed to the main hall.
Yu Zehui's expression turned grim, and he became even more certain that he was a fool. He was too lazy to argue with him and planned to find a young master to ask why he was so stupid and still running around.
Just as she was about to pull him, an old lady with black hair came trotting over, wearing two silver bracelets carved with pear blossoms on her hands, "Xuanbao!" Liang Jingxuan saw her grandmother coming, lifted her clothes, and hid the green apple in her stomach.
Yu Zehui narrowed his narrow eyes, "If you put it in your stomach, how can you eat it?"
Liang Jingxuan didn't answer his question, and ran into the old lady's arms crying, "Grandma...Grandma!"
The old lady picked him up and said, "Tell me why you were running? I just burned some incense and you disappeared in the blink of an eye! You didn't fall, did you? What's this..."
I helped him smooth down his clothes, and the green apples hidden inside the clothes fell to the ground with two "bangs".
Liang Jingxuan stopped crying and hid in her neck with sobs. The old lady looked at the green apple that rolled to the side of Yu Zehui's leather shoes and immediately reacted, "Did you steal the fruit on the altar?! Why are you so disobedient? That's for the Buddha to eat, you little glutton, I bought it for you every day, but you insisted on stealing it!"
The old lady became angrier and angrier as she thought about it. She grabbed his hand, spread out her soft powdered palm and slapped him twice.
"What did your grandma teach you? You can't steal! Do you think no one knows? Even the Buddha is watching? And you still steal his food!"
Liang Jingxuan wanted to speak but couldn't, so she could only clench her fists and cry, her little face turning red.
Yu Zehui picked up the green apple at his feet and said, "No, Grandma, I gave him this green apple."
"You?" The old lady looked at Liang Jingxuan doubtfully, "Really, Xuanbao?"
Liang Jingxuan's head shook like a rattle, "No... the wizard gave it to me..."
Yu Zehui, "..." He coughed awkwardly. If he had known, he would not have been so mean.
The old lady understood. Liang Jingxuan had been staring at the green apples on the altar in the back hall just now. The master took one and gave it to him. She thought it was too offensive to the Buddha, so she didn't allow Liang Jingxuan to take it.
She grabbed his red palm and blew and kissed it, "Then why didn't you say anything just now?"
Liang Jingxuan's thin eyelids were filled with tears, and he said aggrievedly, "I can't tell... I only heard half of it."
When he started crying, the old lady felt as if her heart was being cut by a knife. "Okay, okay, don't cry anymore. When we get back to the hospital later, grandma will buy you some fried potatoes. Don't cry anymore, don't cry anymore, my darling..."
Liang Jingxuan hugged her neck and said in a low voice, "I don't want fried potatoes, I want green apples..."
The old lady smiled at him and said, "Okay, green apples, grandma will buy you ten!"
Yu Zehui just watched, his eyes misty. When his grandmother was still alive, she loved him very much, as did his aunt. Under their protection, he lived a normal life for a while, and he thought that this life would continue until his twelfth birthday. His aunt sent him to school and said she would pick him up after school and go to the cake shop to get a cake, but his aunt didn't come and jumped off the building. His grandmother couldn't bear it and followed her...
From then on, he hated celebrating his birthday...
Being forced to live on the edge of a knife, he rarely thought about them, but now, he missed them so much. He missed the very salty green pepper and pork shreds made by his aunt, and the smell of his grandmother's body that was like bread...
Liang Jingxuan looked at him with tears in her eyes, "Grandma brother is crying...why don't you comfort him first?"
The old lady held him and turned sideways. Yu Zehui lowered his eyes, and his wing-like eyelashes caught his tears, which quickly fell down and merged with the rain on the carved bluestone slabs.
The old lady hit Liang Jingxuan gently, "What nonsense are you talking about!"
Liang Jingxuan grabbed her shoulders and refused to let go. "I didn't...my brother just cried..."
The old lady looked at Yu Zehui embarrassedly, "Young man, don't worry about my grandson. He has had a high fever for more than a month and his speech is incoherent. Don't bother with him..."
Liang Jingxuan whispered back, "I didn't..."
The old lady said, "Tsk!" "What did your grandma teach you? If you don't listen, I won't buy you green apples anymore!"
Liang Jingxuan pouted, leaned on her shoulder and stopped talking.
Yu Zehui's eyes were full of smiles, but it looked like he was crying, "Grandma, it's okay... What happened to him? He has had a high fever for more than a month?"
The old lady changed her arm and held Liang Jingxuan. "He has had this disease since the beginning of his life. It has lasted for almost three months since the Qingming Festival. At first, it was just a cold. I thought it would be fine after taking some medicine, but I didn't expect that he would have a high fever for more than a month. His ears have become deaf. Sometimes he can't hear clearly when I talk to him."
Yu Zehui thought about what he had just asked Liang Jingxuan, and Liang Jingxuan seemed to not understand. It turned out that it was not that he did not understand...
“Is this disease incurable?”
The old lady raised her hand and covered Liang Jingxuan's right ear. "It's very difficult to cure the disease that he has had since the womb. I took him to no less than ten major hospitals. At first they said it could be cured, but later they all said it couldn't be cured..."
Yu Zehui raised his hand and pinched Liang Jingxuan's face, "Where are his parents?"
The old lady's face turned very ugly, "Dead!"
Liang Jingxuan muttered softly, "Not dead..."
The old lady laughed in anger, wondering if he was pretending to be deaf. "I was talking to you just now and you said you couldn't hear me. Now you can hear me?"
Liang Jingxuan tilted his head and kissed her, "Your ears were naughty just now, but now they are good!"
The old lady didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "You blame your ears for being naughty?"
"Yes, it's just that my ears are not behaving well. I want to come down, grandma, I want to play with water ears..." Liang Jingxuan pointed at the rain bell on the eaves. The old lady let him down, zipped up her open coat, and whispered to him, "You are not allowed to go out in the rain, you can only stand under the eaves and play!"
Liang Jingxuan nodded heavily, "Okay!"
Then he slowly walked towards Yu Zehui, "Brother, can you return the green apple to me?"
All the coldness on Yu Zehui's face faded away. "This is dirty and can't be eaten. I'll ask grandma to buy you something fresh later."
Liang Jingxuan pointed at a bunch of ants under the threshold of the main hall that no one would notice, "I won't eat them. I'll give them to the little ants."
Yu Zehui handed him the green apple, but the old lady was still a little worried. Last time, he said he would give the leftovers to Qin Xiang's dog, but he ate half of it secretly. "We agreed to give it to the little ant, so you can't eat it secretly. If you do, I'll slap you in the mouth!"
Liang Jingxuan covered his mouth, "I don't eat secretly!"
The old lady hid the longevity lock that he had dropped into her clothes and said, "Go!"
Liang Jingxuan took the green apple, broke it into small pieces, and placed it on the path that the ant must pass. The ant ran away in panic at first, and then shook its tentacles when it was no longer dangerous, and cautiously approached the green apple. After confirming that there was no danger, it called more friends. The small ant carried the green apple that was ten times larger than it and moved slowly.
Yu Zehui hated children, but when he saw the soft and tender Liang Jingxuan, he wanted to have a child for the first time in his life. If Zhiyan could give birth, with his ability, he would have given birth to a football team long ago. But if Zhiyan's belly was empty for five months, it was his incompetence.
Seeing that the little ant was struggling to move, Liang Jingxuan tried to help him but ended up scaring the little ant away. He shouted anxiously, "Come back! I was wrong, come back! I was wrong!"
Yu Zehui was amused. The old lady followed his line of sight and looked over. "We don't even know each other. I'm not afraid of you laughing at me if I tell you this. The greatest sin I've committed in my life is giving birth to a pair of jackals, tigers and leopards. If I had known they were jackals, tigers and leopards, I would have strangled them to death when they were born!"
Yu Zehui retracted his gaze, "Was he born like this?"
The old lady smiled bitterly, "No, I didn't teach him well. He became a mistress in Hong Kong. When he was about to give birth, his wife found out and beat him up. He gave birth prematurely. They beat him so badly, but they couldn't kill him! The umbilical cord was entangled around his neck, and he suffocated in the womb. He's been like this all his life..."
"His parents, I told outsiders that they were dead because it was too embarrassing. I heard that they were a wealthy family in Hong Kong, and they had a quarrel with their family. Now they have fled to the United States... I have never seen them until now, and I don't want to see them. I am afraid that they will stain my eyes and I will die with regrets."
After she finished speaking, not a single tear fell from her cloudy eyes. It's not that she didn't want to cry, but it would be useless to cry for a daughter like her!
Yu Zehui looked at Liang Jingxuan. He was different from all the fools he had met before, but he couldn't tell what the difference was.
"He's stupid, so be it. I've raised him all my life, but I'm almost 65 now. How many more years can I spend with him? What will happen to him if I'm gone?" There's nothing to be afraid of for a man whose neck is half buried in the earth. It's fate that has given him a beloved child at this time.
"Grandma, he is not stupid. He is not from the same world as us. He comes from another world. It is also possible that he is a star and is now slowly learning how to be a human being." Yu Zehui didn't know why he said that, but after he finished speaking, the old lady looked much more energetic.
"I always hear people call him a fool, but this is the first time I hear someone say that... Thank you, young man..."
Yu Zehui shook his head, "I should be the one to thank you..."
"What?" The old lady looked at Liang Jingxuan and didn't hear clearly.
Yu Zehui put down his umbrella, took off the pen pinned to his chest, took out a hundred yuan from his wallet, wrote his name on it, and said, "Grandma, if you have any difficulties in the future, go to the police station and report my name, Yu Zehui."