Chapter 82 The door opened, and it was a...
The door opened, revealing a similarly dilapidated house. Wei Yin was led into the inner room. Ji Jiayu and Lu Hun took their men to inspect other areas, while Old Master He accompanied them for a while before arriving here. Standing in the outer room, one of his men said, "Grandpa, these people are ungrateful, daring to investigate you. They should be dealt with..."
Old Master He raised his hand, “No, if something happens to the Ji family boy, it will definitely cause a stir in the capital. Imperial Censor Ji will never let it go. Let them investigate. After all these years, do you think I would leave any trace for them? I doubt they will find anything!”
The men below stopped asking questions and retreated with wicked smiles.
As Lu Hun followed Ji Jiayu past Old Master He in the courtyard, the previously composed Old Master He frowned slightly. "That boy following the Ji family brat..."
"What's wrong with him? Is something wrong with him?" someone asked.
No, that's not it.
Old Master He shook his head and said, "I think I've seen him before... Oh, I remember now, more than ten years ago, Wenqing's mother brought this child to the He family. At that time, the He family was still in the capital. I remember the child's surname was Lu. He was very handsome when he was young, so I called him to my room to take a closer look... He was really well-behaved. Just a little bit of sleeping incense was enough to bewitch him... I'm afraid he still doesn't know what happened."
"This boy looks very young; he was probably only a few years old more than ten years ago, so he can't remember anything."
"Yes, it saves the old man a lot of trouble."
Every word they said reached Wei Yin's ears. Although they were talking outside, Wei Yin heard it clearly. At first, she didn't realize that something was wrong. She just thought that Madam He had brought Lu Hun to the He family and that Old Master He had met him. But the more she heard, the more alarmed she became.
She took a few steps forward, her hands and feet trembling, and leaned against the door. There, she could see the lewd smile on Old Master He's face, and her mind was suddenly jolted awake by a thunderbolt.
Suddenly, the image of Lu Hun's extremely pale and fragile face after the appearance of that ghost child flashed before her eyes. So that's what happened.
She recalled that a couple of days ago, Lu Hun had told her with a gloomy and sad expression that he was in so much pain that his whole body ached.
He also asked her if she remembered feeding him noodles when he was little, and said that she was afraid he would be cold, so she gave him a white fox fur cloak to wear.
At this moment, the vague memories gradually became clear, and Wei Yin finally remembered.
She remembered that night. It was not long after her mother's death, and she was grieving. One stormy night, she happened to find Lu Hun hiding under the eaves of the Wei family's house. Lu Hun was only three or four years old at the time. Seeing that he was cold, she gave him her white fox fur cloak. He was too young, and the cloak trailed on the ground. Lu Hun carefully held the cloak in his hands, afraid of getting it dirty. Later, Wei Yin took him to eat noodles. Afterward, Lu Hun left the Wei family's house alone. She didn't know where he went that night until she found him on the road the next day. He was almost like a madman. She took him home. He was very ill and was trembling all over, refusing to be touched. Wei Yin coaxed him for a while before he agreed to let her feed him medicine.
Wei Yin noticed some bluish-purple marks on his body. By then, the fingerprints had already faded, and she assumed he had bumped or fallen somewhere, so she didn't think much of it.
But she remembered that Lu Hun hugged her and called her sister, crying very sadly and helplessly. Wei Yin had never seen a young child cry so heartbreakingly.
Only then did Wei Yin learn that Lu Hun had gone to his mother's place that night, but she didn't know what grievances he had suffered. Wei Yin wanted to ask, but Lu Hun bit his lip and stared at her crying, refusing to say a word.
Afterwards, Lu Hun rested at the Wei family's residence for a few days and gradually recovered.
She had a vague memory of these things, but now that she recalled them all, she understood everything.
That night at the He family home, Lu Hun suffered unbearable grievances at the hands of that old man, Old Master He. That's why he refused to utter a single word, even at the cost of his life. His birth mother, Madam He, clearly made him swallow this grievance.
That night, what he didn't want her to remember was this incident.
Wei Yin's palms turned completely cold. She sat down blankly by the door, while Old Master He in the outer room had already left. Ji Jiayu had finished her investigation, and the old man wanted to see them out.
Afterwards, Old Master He and his men left.
Before leaving, he told Wei Yin not to go to the place where those ghosts were.
Wei Yin couldn't hear anything anymore. She just stared blankly and shocked at the darkening night, her mind filled with the image of young Lu Hun holding her and crying sadly.
Previously, he thought that Lu Hun's increasingly gloomy and withdrawn personality as he grew up was because of Lu Mingli.
Wei Yin covered her face with her hands and sighed.
"Why are you sighing, sister?" A young man walked in and stood in front of Wei Yin.
Wei Yin looked up in surprise, "Lu Hun, you...you didn't leave with Ji Jiayu and the others...?"
“I saw the locust flowers that my sister threw on the ground.” Lu Hun spread his knuckles, revealing a handful of dried locust flowers, and explained, “I knew that my sister had been brought here by him, so I told Young Master Ji. Then, when they weren’t paying attention, I secretly hid. They didn’t know I was here.”
Wei Yin gazed silently at the gentle and obedient young man before her.
"What's wrong?" Lu Hun finally realized something was wrong with her, took her hand, and asked with a frown, "Sister, were you frightened? It's okay, I will protect you."
"Lu Hun".
Wei Yin wanted to speak, but hesitated.
She dared not say it.
He desperately wanted to forget her and didn't want her to remember.
Wei Yin suddenly stood up from the ground, tilted her head back, and took the initiative to kiss his lips. The boy's lips were cold and dry, but also soft.
"elder sister……"
"Wh...what happened?"
"Um?"
Wei Yin did not answer him. She gripped his chest tightly with both hands, so tightly that her whole body trembled. The boy was forced to let her push him against the wall and forced to let her kiss him.
He dared not speak again to disturb her; he was too tall, and it was too difficult for her to climb. He could only bend down to make it easier for her.
Wei Yin kissed him as she whispered.
"Lu Hun, don't be sad."
"My older sister is here."
"I'm not feeling unwell." Lu Hun chuckled, puzzled. "What's wrong with you, sister?"
Wei Yin shook her head and hurriedly tried to pull at his clothes.
She kissed his neck.
She was about to pull at his chest again.
Amidst the panic, tinged with a sigh.
Lu Hun was startled, as if he had discovered something from her actions and understood why she had become so proactive and gentle.
Lu Hun's face was as white as paper, and he was completely listless. His body was trembling uncontrollably, just like back then. His mind was in turmoil, and he dared not look into her eyes.
After a long while, he finally asked, tremblingly, about something he never wanted to talk about in his life.
"Sister, do you know about what happened when I was little?"
Looking at the boy's lowered eyes, Wei Yin nodded with difficulty, "Yes."
Lu Hun suddenly placed his hands on her shoulders, using so much force that Wei Yin almost sat down. However, in his mental turmoil, he quickly regained his senses and immediately stopped using force, gently pressing on Wei Yin's shoulders to push her away slightly.
Then, he abruptly turned his back and walked out.
Wei Yin called out to him, "Lu Hun, where are you going?"
"Sister... I need to catch my breath."
The voice that came through was very restrained and dry.
As if afraid that Wei Yin would call him again, he walked away silently. Wei Yin stared at his increasingly hunched and weak back as he walked away. How could a young man have such a weathered back like an old man? Her eyes reddened.
Wei Yin calmed down in the room for a long time. As dawn broke, the surroundings were a hazy bluish-white, like the eyes of a person with cataracts.
She hadn't slept all night, but showed no signs of fatigue.
Seeing that Lu Hun hadn't returned for a long time, Wei Yin went outside worriedly, only to find him under the eaves of a house not far away.
He sat there hunched over, his back hunched, the dark clouds hanging low, lonely and silent.
Wei Yin breathed a sigh of relief and walked towards him. The usually perceptive man was completely oblivious, sitting there motionless, staring up at the sky as it gradually brightened, but his expression remained utterly devoid of any emotion.
Wei Yin sat down beside him. The boy was already cold, and now he was as cold as a block of ice. Wei Yin frowned and took the boy's hands in his own.
The boy shuddered, but when he saw it was her, his shoulders relaxed again, letting her hold his hand, while he continued to stare at the sky.
Seeing his silent, dazed expression, Wei Yin felt even more distressed. She reached out and hugged him, and Lu Hun didn't struggle, obediently leaning on her shoulder.
Wei Yin couldn't hold back any longer, "Lu Hun, don't do this."
Lu Hun lowered his head and remained silent for a long while before speaking softly, "I'm not sad. I've slowly made myself forget these things. I'm just... just afraid that my sister will find out, afraid that she'll think I'm... dirty..."
Wei Yin was stunned and quickly cupped his face in her hands.
"Nonsense! Sister wouldn't do that. No matter what, sister likes Lu Hun."
Lu Hun stared blankly, forced to meet her gaze.
Wei Yin said earnestly, word by word, "Lu Hun, you know your sister. I'm not a very patient person. To be honest, after witnessing my mother die beside me while my father was taking a concubine that night, I lost all feeling for love. I only married He Wenqing because he happened to be good-looking, from a good family, and had academic achievements. But I have a rare patience for you because every time I see you, I think of you always being a little girl, walking alone in the school. I remember the scene of me curled up on the ground with my mother's corpse beside me."
"My sister's attitude towards me," Lu Hun said, his face deathly pale, "is because of my sister's mother that she pities me..."
"no."
Wei Yin smiled and said, "It's not pity. I feel like I'm seeing myself again that night, so I don't want to see her suffer. Later, I realized that Lu Hun is very well-behaved and obedient. He's especially good to my sister and never treats her like He Wenqing does. He's also very fun and I really want to tease him. So my sister realized that she seems to like Lu Hun quite a bit."
Lu Hun stopped trembling and pursed his lips in disbelief.
"Sister, do you like me?"
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