Chapter 34
When Liu Minmin cried and threw herself into Mao Suiqiong's arms, Song Zhiyi also recognized her identity——
It was the girl who appeared in the hospital with Ren Xiuming yesterday.
At that time, Ren Xiuming and Liu Minmin both wore masks and hats. If Song Zhiyu had not been familiar with this senior in the music industry, it would have been difficult to recognize his identity at once. As for Liu Minmin, Song Zhiyi found her name from the character card book after they returned home.
Just as they guessed, Liu Minmin was Ren Xiuming's cheating partner.
[Liu Minmin, by doing this, are you worthy of the cultivation that Teacher Mao has given you?]
Song Zhiyi watched everything in front of her in silence, but she couldn't help but question in her heart. She should have told Mao Suiqiong everything about this matter. She had the right to know, but the story behind this matter was far from being so simple.
Song Zhiyi found it difficult to speak, and his heart fell silent at this moment.
Mao Suiqiong was somewhat confused after hearing this incoherent statement, but now was not the time to ask further questions, especially since her good friend had specifically reminded her that it was best not to ask Master Xiao Song about the "Voice of the Heart".
It is said that as mortals they cannot bear the consequences of praying into the secrets of heaven, so they just listen and it is best not to ask questions.
Liu Minmin still looked a little frightened, so Mao Suiqiong hugged her, moved for the others to leave first, and handed each of them a business card, saying that it would be convenient for them to contact him.
Everyone knows that what happens next should be left to the person on the business card to handle, including, of course, their hush money.
Song Zhiyi was distracted without noticing what was happening. When she came to her senses, there was no one in the lounge. Only the occasional sobbing and whispering could be heard from the room inside.
Judging from the voices, they should be Mao Suiqiong and Liu Minmin.
The door was half-closed, and Mao Suiqiong held Liu Minmin's hand and listened to her talk about the details of the incident. Although Song Zhiyi had just described it publicly, she had to hear the person involved again in order to feel at ease and better formulate the claim.
"...That's probably what happened," Liu Minmin's eyes flickered as she asked indirectly, "Teacher, is the person who came with you also an artist? Why haven't I heard of him before?"
When she heard those words, she wanted to tell Song Zhiyi to stop talking, but Mao Suiqiong stopped her.
"It's normal that you haven't heard of it. She is not an artist." Seeing that Liu Minmin did not suffer any irreparable damage, Mao Suiqiong's expression relaxed a little. Thinking that it would be a good idea to divert her attention, he repeated the story about Song Zhiyi that he had heard from his friends, and added a little bit of his own personal experience.
The effect was very good. Liu Minmin really stopped thinking about being raped by a pervert, but her brows wrinkled a little tighter. She couldn't help but ask, "Is this person really as powerful as you say? She doesn't look much older than me."
"What does age matter? Metaphysics is just like singing. Talent is what counts. When I first debuted, I was much younger than you are now, but I was still not a big hit." Mao Suiqiong smiled briefly, and one could vaguely see the rebelliousness of his youth in his eyes. "Come to think of it, you still want to thank her?"
Liu Minmin blinked blankly, then quickly reacted and said unhappily, "Should I thank her for telling her about my... affair in front of so many people? I don't want to, it's too embarrassing. This kind of thing can obviously be said in private, why in front of so many outsiders?"
Mao Suiqiong gently hit her hand and laughed, "Master Xiaosong was not considerate in this regard, but if it weren't for this, Zhao Xiaoguang would not have easily admitted his mistake. Besides, I'm not asking you to thank me for this. I came here today just to see her, otherwise I wouldn't be here. If I hadn't come, you would be alone and helpless. Wouldn't you have to endure being bullied?"
"She should be thanked." Liu Minmin rubbed her hands, rolled her eyes, and asked, "Teacher, what did you want to do when you saw her? Fortune telling?"
"That's about right," Mao Suiqiong lowered his eyes, thinking of his missing daughter. His expression darkened in an instant, and he pulled the corners of his mouth helplessly, "I want to ask her about Xiaochu's whereabouts."
Ren Chuchen, her daughter, was accidentally lost when she was two years old, and it has been nineteen years now.
In recent years, her health has been getting worse and worse, and she might suddenly leave at any time. At least before that, she has to find a way to find Xiaochu's whereabouts.
[If Teacher Mao knew that her daughter was actually by her side, she would be so happy.]
A familiar voice came through the open door. Mao Suiqiong was stunned and tried hard to understand the meaning of the words.
"Teacher, does she mean..."
"Xiaochu is still alive and right beside me!" Mao Suiqiong's face showed an irrepressible joy. Immersed in great surprise, she did not notice that Liu Minmin's expression suddenly changed.
——
The lounge was empty and quiet. Song Zhiyi sat in a corner of the sofa, sorting out the information in his mind.
She had gained a rough understanding of the complicated relationship between Ren Xiuming, Mao Suiqiong and Liu Minmin last night. Now that she had met the three parties involved in a row, the myriad of worries that she had tried hard to suppress came flooding back to her mind.
Song Zhiyi found Mao Suiqiong's character card and sighed again after reading the text on it. The amount of information in this matter was a bit too much for her.
[They were a happy family of three, how could it become like this? If only Liu Minmin hadn't gone missing. ]
A family of three, Liu Minmin, missing?
These three familiar words combined together were so strange that Mao Suiqiong almost couldn't react.
After two or three seconds, she suddenly pressed Liu Minmin's shoulders and said anxiously, "Minmin, let me see your back, quickly!"
Liu Minmin was startled and didn't know what to do. She just let her lift the clothes off her back.
"Strange, why isn't there anything? How could there be nothing?"
The thin fingers slid across her back, causing a shudder. Liu Minmin was made uncomfortable by this strange feeling and said shyly, "Teacher, what are you looking for?"
"Birthmark, you should have a crescent-shaped birthmark here on your back, Minmin, do you still remember it? Did the birthmark disappear when you grew up?" Mao Suiqiong spoke excitedly, and the other hand that was holding Liu Minmin's shoulder subconsciously tightened, causing her to hiss slightly.
"Sorry, Minmin, did the teacher hurt you?" Mao Suiqiong let go of her hand belatedly.
Liu Minmin shook her head and forced a smile, saying, "Teacher, I know what you are thinking, but I have never had a birthmark here. Maybe the guy outside made a mistake?"
"Did I miscalculate...?" Mao Suiqiong withdrew his hand abruptly, with an empty and confused look on his face.
No, maybe she misunderstood. The master was just talking about Minmin. She thought too much and connected the two things together...
[After Liu Minmin went missing, she was kidnapped by a trafficker. If the trafficker hadn't caught a fever on the way and was in a hurry to sell her, who knows where she would have been sold to.]
"Were you abducted?" In the room, Mao Suiqiong touched Liu Minmin's neck lovingly, "Why haven't I heard you mention it before?"
Liu Minmin didn't know how to answer, so she just smiled awkwardly. In fact, this was the first time she knew her background. Her adoptive parents had only said that she was an unwanted child they adopted, and they never mentioned that she was a human trafficker or anything like that.
If what Song Zhiyi said was true, then maybe she was not a child abandoned by her biological parents?
A hint of hope rose on Liu Minmin's face unconsciously, and she didn't even notice it.
[Her adoptive parents were originally quite good to her, at least they allowed her to fill her stomach and go to school. Unfortunately, this was not her biological child after all. Since Liu Minmin had her "little brother", she has not had a good day.]
She had no right to judge what Liu Minmin did afterwards, but thinking of her life experiences, Song Zhiyi still felt a little reluctant.
After returning from the hospital yesterday, Song Zhiyi couldn't stand her brother's pestering anymore, so she checked Ren Xiuming's character card, found the most recent timeline, and told him while reading it. As she was talking, she discovered a shocking secret - Liu Minmin is Ren Xiuming's daughter.
After discovering this secret, both of them were stunned. Finally, Song Zhiyi took out Liu Minmin's character card again, trying to figure out what was going on.
Since most of the information on the character card booklet is described from the protagonist's first-person perspective, the first thing Song Zhiyi saw was the story of a girl struggling in pain.
As far as she can remember, she has lived in a dilapidated tile house, with compacted yellow soil under her feet. When it rained, rainwater fell through the cracks in the tiles, forming small puddles. When life was hard, the puddles were irritating to her throat, and her parents said she was spoiled, but at least she could eat her fill during that time.
Later, my mother's belly became bigger, and my father said that she would have a brother or sister. Later, my mother's belly sagged, and there was a little baby in the family who cried shrilly every day. They said that was her brother, and they said she was actually picked up.
Overnight, she gained a younger brother and lost a pair of parents. That year, Liu Minmin was seven years old.
It was also on that day that her adoptive parents told her that her biological parents no longer wanted her and that they had picked her up and raised her, and that they were her benefactors.
So, in winter, she had to wash clothes and cook with her hands full of frostbite, which was a way of repaying her parents. During adolescence, she had to eat less and save the good things for her younger brother, which was what an elder sister should do. As for going to school? She was not their child, so why should they spend money to support her? The financial aid from kind people could not be taken for nothing, and at least a large part of it had to be handed over.
If that's the case, then why is the younger brother her younger brother? She asked this question and was beaten with a stick. So Liu Minmin said nothing, swallowed all the bitterness and tears, turned them into lyrics, and wrote them down in a draft book full of words.
Later, the notebook appeared in the stove at home and disappeared completely with the fire.
The quarrel was caused by her going to school. Something happened to her sponsor and she could no longer provide financial support. After high school, the government no longer paid for her tuition. Her adoptive parents were unwilling to continue to support her education and instead urged her to go out to work, save money for a few years and then come back to get married.
Liu Minmin knew that resistance was useless as she was still a minor, so she "obediently" followed her family's advice, did not go to high school, and went out to work with her neighbors and fellow villagers using an adult ID card that her parents had obtained from somewhere.
Working as a pieceworker, Liu Minmin behaved well in the first few months, sending money home on time every month, and was always timid when talking to people, looking easy to bully and not resisting. The villagers who were watching her gradually relaxed their vigilance, so in the eighth month of working, she returned to her hometown and disappeared quietly.
That was also her last time to go home. She did it to bribe her brother to steal the household registration book.
Things were going smoothly. The boy had been spoiled by his parents. He would do anything for a few dollars or some candies. Stealing a household registration book was just a way for him to wail and shed a few tears. Who could blame him?
After Liu Minmin disappeared, her adoptive parents thought about calling the police. However, the ID card she was holding at the time belonged to someone else, and that person was still at home. Therefore, even if they called the police, nothing would happen and they would not be able to find Liu Minmin's whereabouts.
A year and a half later, Liu Minmin finally came of age and used the household registration book she had stolen earlier to apply for an ID card that truly belonged to her. In the same year, she began to perform in various bars.
Later, she was lucky enough to meet Mao Suiqiong, who took her away from those mixed places, but she also met the man who ruined her life.
Ren Xiuming.
*
Liu Minmin's experience only floated in her mind for a moment before sinking. Song Zhiyi calmed herself down and continued to look at Mao Suiqiong's character card. As she looked, she suddenly found something strange.
[This is strange. Why did Teacher Mao write that the child was lost because she walked away? Or was it because she was sick and didn’t take good care of the child?]
Isn't it? In the room, Mao Suiqiong's expression was blank for a moment, and then Song Zhiyi's inner voice sounded again.
[I really remembered correctly. The reason why Ren Chuchen got lost was because Ren Xiuming took her out to play, and ended up flirting with his old lover. He didn't keep an eye on the child for a moment, and lost her in a shopping mall with a lot of people.]
[I said it, a two-year-old child, how could he open the door and run out by himself? He couldn't even touch the door handle. Why didn't Mao Suiqiong suspect it?
[It turns out that she felt the child being taken away, but after the child was lost, Ren Xiuming insisted that she was dreaming in order to shirk responsibility. He even told the police that? ? ]
[I'm not saying I'm impressed, this is your daughter! Your own daughter! The surveillance coverage back then was not as good as it is now. Did you know that providing wrong information would affect the efficiency of the police in finding the child? What on earth is in this person's head!]
Bang!
Suddenly, there was a sound of a chair falling over in the lounge. Song Zhiyi asked loudly, "Teacher Mao, are you all right?"
After a few seconds, Mao Suiqiong's voice came from the room, trembling a little: "It's okay, I kicked it accidentally."
After making sure they didn't need help, Song Zhiyi continued to look at the character card in his hand. This time he looked at it very carefully.
After all, she was not a pervert, nor was she someone who loved to pry into other people's privacy. She was teased by her brother for a long time yesterday, and she only found out about the affair between Ren Xiuming and Liu Minmin. If she hadn't accidentally seen the identity problem of Liu Minmin, she would not have gone to see the whole story of Ren Chuchen's disappearance.
[Tsk, so that's how it is. No wonder it's like that. At that time, Ren Xiuming was having a hot affair with the actress he was filming with, and he was regretting that he got married at such a young age and had a child. Although Ren Chuchen's disappearance was an accident, he could just use this opportunity to get a divorce and then marry the actress. Disgusting.]
After Song Zhiyi finished cursing, he patiently continued reading.
[On the second day after the child was lost, he bought a bunch of notices about how devastated he was after losing his child, and privately contacted a lawyer to draft a contract, even trying to use the fact that the child was lost due to Mao Suiqiong's negligence to get her out of the house?! ]
[Have some shame! Have some shame! ]
It has been a long time since I have seen people more hateful than the Liu family. Song Zhiyi could only stop reading and take a few deep breaths to try to save his lungs that were about to explode.
[No, I'm still angry. If Mao Suiqiong is willing to divorce Ren Xiuming now, I will be the lawyer and guarantee that Ren Xiuming will leave the house with nothing and no one will be found in the circle in the future.]
Song Zhiyi cursed a lot in his heart, then picked up his phone to call his coach to arrange a boxing match before continuing to look at the character cards.
[It has come to this, why didn't they get divorced in the first place? Oh, the actress hooked up with a rich man these days and ignored him, she deserves it...]
The more her inner voice revealed, the paler Liu Minmin's face became. She pulled Mao Suiqiong's hand and said almost pleadingly, "Teacher, let's go. Don't listen. Let's leave here."
Mao Suiqiong's expression was not much better than hers. She firmly and slowly pushed Liu Minmin's hand away and said, "No, I want to listen to it."
Even if it was heartbreaking, she wanted to hear what Ren Xiuming had done. And what had she been doing all these years? She was confused and muddled along.
Liu Minmin bit her lower lip in embarrassment, closed her eyes, and blinked out a string of tears.
If we continue talking, we might end up talking about her, the thing she least wants the teacher to know.
Song Zhiyi felt a nameless anger in her chest. She continued to look down, but the fire in her chest inexplicably weakened a little, and instead a feeling of sadness rose up.
【Liu Minmin……】
Is it coming? Liu Minmin closed her eyes and raised her chin slightly, looking like she was ready to be beaten or scolded.
[It would be great if Liu Minmin knew that she was abducted. Then, through DNA comparison, they would know that she is actually Mao Suiqiong's child.]
"......!" Mao Suiqiong's eyes widened in surprise and joy, and he forgot his words for a moment.
Liu Minmin was also stunned by the news. Her brain almost turned into a mess. She could only mumble in a dream: "But I don't have a birthmark. You have seen it too."
[It doesn’t really matter if I don’t know. If her birthmark hadn’t disappeared due to a burn when she was a child… her parents are really not human to let a 4 or 5-year-old child drink hot water.]
Mao Suiqiong trembled slightly and asked in a stammering voice, "Did you ever get burned when you were a child?"
"...It seems so." Liu Minmin thought hard and finally dug out such a small connected memory from the long-forgotten memory. She seemed to be very young, standing topless in a dimly lit room, and her foster mother was scolding her while applying medicine to her.
After hearing what she said, Mao Suiqiong could no longer hold back his tears and cried softly: "Like, you and I are really alike, no wonder I liked you so much the first time I saw you. My Xiaochu, you have suffered, you have suffered..."
Warm tears dripped onto her clothes, making them wet and cool. Liu Minmin listened to Mao Suiqiong's crying and felt her whole body light, as if she was dreaming.
Is she dreaming? She must be dreaming.
Liu Minmin, you are so ridiculous. If you are Teacher Mao’s daughter, then what do the things you did before matter?
Mao Suiqiong was still crying and saying something, and Liu Minmin let her hold her with a tragic smile on her face.
"Xiaochu, why are you so cold?" Mao Suiqiong felt the temperature under his hand, let go of her hand and looked at her face, "Your face is so pale...ah, you are bleeding! How can there be so much blood!"
"Someone come quickly! Call an ambulance!"
*
After a moment of chaos, the unconscious Liu Minmin entered the operating room, and Song Zhiyi finally got some time to clean the blood on his hands and body.
Liu Minmin's condition just now looked like a miscarriage, but the child should have been saved, right? After all, in the character card storyline, it was because of the deformed child that Liu Minmin and Ren Xiuming found out that they were father and daughter.
Outside the operating room, Mao Suiqiong paced back and forth like an ant on a hot pot. Song Zhiyi was afraid that she would collapse first, so she quickly helped her sit down.
Mao Suiqiong thanked her, but still looked at the closed operating room door with a worried look: "How could such a small person bleed so much? Xiao Song...Xiao Song, do you think she will be okay?"
"Don't worry, nothing will happen." Song Zhiyi didn't know how to comfort her. She looked at the time and said, "It's already evening. Are you hungry? Do you want to eat something?"
"Forget it, forget it. How can I eat?" Mao Suiqiong waved her hands, and then thought of Song Zhiyi who was still hungry with her, so she said embarrassedly: "You go eat first, I'll be here."
"It's okay. I'll go with you and someone can look after you." Song Zhiyi didn't force it. She winked at Yu An who was standing by the side, indicating that he should go out and buy some food.
…
"Sui Qiong," Ren Xiuming appeared in a suit and leather shoes, his feet spotless, as if he was not in a hospital but on the runway of some fashion show, "What happened? Why can't I understand the message you sent me?"
Liu Minmin had completed the operation and was resting in the ward. Mao Suiqiong tucked the quilt in for her and took Ren Xiuming outside.
Song Zhiyi completed her escort mission, but unexpectedly found Song Zhiyu peeking behind Ren Xiuming with a familiar blue notebook in his hand.
Song Zhiyi: “…”
It was true that she asked her stupid brother to pick up the notebook for her, but she also didn't let him come to the hospital to join in the fun!
She walked forward, took the book and whispered, "Why are you here too?"
"Isn't it because I'm worried about you?" Song Zhiyu said sternly, if there wasn't a gleam of gossip in his eyes, "Sister, what happened today?"
"Let's talk about it when we get back." Song Zhiyi gave him a warning look, then turned to look at Mao Suiqiong and Ren Xiuming.
[Liu Minmin and Ren Xiuming lost their child. Although there was no need to keep the child, why did the character storyline deviate again? Did I run too fast when I held her? No way, my hands were steady...]
Song Zhiyi pulled his brother farther and farther away, and did not notice that behind him, Mao Suiqiong stood there, as if struck by lightning.
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