The guard paused when he heard this, and couldn't help but look up and look at her again.
Is this woman Director Wen's mother?
How come she looks so old? People would believe she is Director Wen's grandmother!
Cheng Xiuyun was looked at impatiently: "What else do you want to ask?"
The guard said cautiously: "Are you really Director Wen's mother? You...you look a little old."
A little old means that she is old.
Cheng Xiuyun was so angry that her face turned red and white: "What do you mean? Do you believe me or not, I will report you to your leader?"
The guard rolled his eyes in his heart: "Comrade, you misunderstood me. I am just following the rules. After all, pretending to be a relative has happened before. How old are you this year? Where do you live? Where do you work?"
Director Wen has a gentle temperament and treats people politely. This woman not only looks old, but also has an arrogant temperament. He doesn't believe that she is Director Wen's mother at all.
Cheng Xiuyun felt that the other party was deliberately making things difficult for her, and she couldn't help but feel angry.
But in order to see Wen Rugui as soon as possible, she had to fill in all the information honestly.
Seeing that she swore that she was Director Wen's mother and that she would make a scene if he didn't call, the guard had no choice but to pick up the phone and call Director Wen's office.
Wen Rugui answered the call from the guard and dropped the pen in his hand to the ground, with the tip of the pen tilted.
There was no sound on the other end of the phone. The guard took the phone away and asked again and again: "Director Wen, are you listening? Do you want to drive this woman away..."
Before he finished speaking, the phone in his hand was snatched away by Cheng Xiuyun.
"Rugui, this is your mother. I haven't seen you for so many years and I really miss you."
Wen Rugui clenched the hand holding the phone tightly, and the veins on the back of his hand were exposed.
Seeing that he didn't answer, Cheng Xiuyun was embarrassed and anxious: "Rugui, if you don't come out to see Mom, Mom will go find your dean. Anyway, I'm not leaving today!"
Wen Rugui's eyes flashed with an ambiguous look, and his voice was a little cold: "I'll go out now."
Hearing this, Cheng Xiuyun's heart finally fell down: "Okay, Mom will wait for you outside."
The guard wanted to scold this crazy woman, but when he heard what she said, he immediately swallowed back the words he was about to scold, and the whole person was stunned.
Could this woman really be Director Wen's mother?
How is it possible?
Cheng Xiuyun hung up the phone heavily, puffed out her chest like a victorious peacock, and snorted at the guard.
After waiting for about ten minutes, Wen Rugui's figure slowly walked out of the base.
Seeing him walking towards her with two slender legs, Cheng Xiuyun suddenly felt dazed.
She seemed to see Wen Yuanxin every time he came back from the army, with an upright posture and so handsome that all the surrounding scenery lost their luster.
At first, she also liked Wen Yuanxin, but the two of them were rarely together, and she didn't want to follow him to the army to suffer. It just so happened that Shi Xiuneng appeared in her life at that time.
When she was in college, she and Shi Xiuneng had secretly talked about love. The reason why I say secretly is that Shi Xiuneng was engaged early, so they were secretly together at that time.
Shi Xiuneng was also very handsome when he was young. The key is that he was very considerate to women, and his mouth was as sweet as honey, which made her happy every time, unlike Wen Yuanxin, who was as dull as a wooden stick.
Gradually, she could not control her heart, especially after sleeping with Shi Xiuneng, she fell in love with him completely, and for him, she was willing to sacrifice her own child.
Just when Cheng Xiuyun was in a trance, Wen Rugui walked up to her and looked her over.
His eyes were cold, without a trace of emotion. If there was any emotion, it was some surprise.
Before today, Wen Rugui could not remember what Cheng Xiuyun looked like. Now that he saw her face, one or two fragments of memory suddenly flashed through his mind.
In that fleeting picture, she looked young and beautiful, which was a world of difference from the haggard and old woman in front of him.
Cheng Xiuyun came back to her senses and put on a gentle expression: "Rugui, do you still remember your mother?"
Cheng Xiuyun's facial features are pretty, otherwise Shi Xiuneng would not have come to her for an affair after getting married. But now her cheeks are sunken and her face is sallow. She made such an expression, which made people think it was very deliberate.
Wen Rugui: "I don't remember, what do you want to talk to me about?"
Her voice was cold, and there was no joy of reunion after a long separation.
Cheng Xiuyun's heart was full of anger, but she quickly suppressed her anger: "This is not a place to talk, why don't we go to your office or dormitory?"
As long as they entered the base, if he didn't agree to her request, she would make trouble in the base.
Wen Rugui refused outright: "No, not everyone can enter the base casually."
Cheng Xiuyun dug her nails into her palms. She was his mother, and Tong Xuelu could go in, so why couldn't she?
But thinking that he would have something to ask of him later, Cheng Xiuyun nodded very considerately: "Then let's go to the nearby state-owned hotel. Mom hasn't had dinner with you for many years."
Wen Rugui didn't comment, but turned around and walked towards the state-owned hotel with long legs.
Cheng Xiuyun was delighted and hurried to catch up.
When the two walked away, the guard touched his chin with an incredible look on his face.
**
Arrived at the state-owned hotel.
Because it was not dinner time yet, there were not many guests eating at the state-owned hotel.
Wen Rugui sat in his seat like a sculpture, not saying a word or ordering food.
Cheng Xiuyun had no choice but to order two bowls of mung bean soup, two servings of red date steamed cakes, and one serving of steamed dumplings. The
waiter quickly brought the food up.
"Come on, Rugui, eat more. You look so thin."
Cheng Xiuyun was very eager and handed a pair of chopsticks to Wen Rugui.
Wen Rugui didn't take it: "I'm not hungry. Tell me what you want to talk to me about? I'll give you ten minutes. I have to go back to the base to work."
Cheng Xiuyun was choked and a feeling of anger blocked her chest.
She put down her chopsticks, sighed and said, "Rugui, mom knows that you hate mom in your heart."
"Mom has been sending you clothes and gifts all these years, just to try to see you. Your grandpa never told you that I sent you gifts. Well, they are just some little toys. Mom already knows it was wrong. Rugui, can you forgive mom?"
Wen Rugui: "My father passed away twenty-three years ago. It's too late for you to say sorry?"
Wen Rugui thought her sorry meant that she had an affair with Shi Xiuneng and did something that was not right for his father and the Wen family.
Cheng Xiuyun's old face turned red, and she clenched her hands on the table again: "Yes, I am also sorry to your father. These years, I have been tormented by my conscience. When I am dead in the future, I will go to apologize to your father in person."
"But what about you, can you forgive your mother?"
Wen Rugui pursed his thin lips into a line and said nothing.
Cheng Xiuyun knew that it was not easy to get his forgiveness, so it was not surprising to see him like this.
But if she wanted him to help her rescue Shi Xiuneng, she had to let him forgive her.
So she took a deep breath and decided to play the family card.
Wen Rugui was particularly attached to her as a mother when he was a child. No matter how she treated him, he still loved her very much. She believed that in his heart, he should have always longed for maternal love.
Now that she is back, she is willing to give him motherly love. As long as she says a few more nice words and gives him a chance, he will definitely forgive and accept herself.
Thinking of this, Cheng Xiuyun is full of confidence.
"I remember when you were little, you especially liked to eat steamed dumplings. You could eat one in one bite every time. I was always worried that you would choke. You said to me, 'Mom, I want to grow up quickly so that I can protect you and buy you lots of delicious food at work.' Do you still remember?"
Wen Rugui said expressionlessly: "I don't remember."
Cheng Xiuyun's loving expression was stunned for a moment: "It doesn't matter if you don't remember. Mom will tell you more about it in the future, and maybe you will remember it."
"You have really grown up. If I hadn't secretly visited you from afar, I would have worried that I wouldn't have recognized you if I hadn't seen you on the street."
At this point, she smiled bitterly: "You definitely didn't expect it? After Mom returned to Beijing, she went to your house and waited for you, just to see you from afar. On the day of your wedding, I stood near your house for a long time. I was so sad that I couldn't see you get married in person."
After saying this, she covered her face and cried softly, her shoulders shaking.
Wen Rugui still looked at her expressionlessly, without saying a word.
The waiter next to them looked at them with gossipy eyes.
Cheng Xiuyun saw that she had been crying for a long time, but he remained indifferent. She felt embarrassed and angry: "Rugui, what do you want to do to forgive Mom?"
Wen Rugui finally moved this time. He looked down at the watch on his left wrist: "You have four minutes."
Cheng Xiuyun gritted her teeth and almost couldn't help cursing.
She took a deep breath again, then lowered her head and reached out to take out a cloth-wrapped box from her military bag.
She opened the cloth, and there was another layer of cloth inside, which looked very cherished.
The second layer of cloth was opened, revealing the wooden box inside.
She opened the wooden box and took out a photo that was torn in half: "This is a photo of you and your mother when you were a child. It was torn by your grandfather at that time. I had a lot of trouble to get it back."
"This is my treasure. Every time I miss you, I look at this photo, as if you are by my side."
As she said this, she pushed the photo over and put it in front of Wen Rugui.
Wen Rugui had been indifferent to her words and looked at her as if he was looking at a stranger.
Seeing her push the photo in front of him, he subconsciously looked down.
His body froze immediately.
His eyes were fixed on the old photo on the table, which had turned yellow. The little boy in the photo was about four or five years old, wearing a small suit and smiling shyly.
Seeing him staring at the photo, Cheng Xiuyun thought he was touched, and asked again and again with a smile: "Do you remember this photo?"
Wen Rugui still didn't answer, and kept staring at the photo.
Cheng Xiuyun didn't care, and said to herself: "It was your fourth birthday. Your father was in the army and couldn't come back. You were very sad. Mom saw you so sad, so she agreed to let you make a request. You said at that time that you wanted to take a photo with mom."
"So mommy dressed you in the small suit your grandpa bought for you and took you to a photo studio to take pictures. At that time, the photographer in the photo studio said that you looked so cute and well-behaved, and wanted to use your photo as a promotional photo for their photo studio, but mommy didn't agree. Do you remember it?"
Wen Rugui raised his head suddenly, his eyes looked strange, and he pointed at the little boy in the photo and said, "Who is this person?"
Cheng Xiuyun was stunned for a moment when she heard this question, but still responded gently, "Silly child, it's you, it's a photo of you when you were four years old. Didn't you see your childhood photos at home?"
Wen Rugui's head seemed to be hit by something muffled, his head was buzzing, and the blood on his face faded.
If the little boy in the photo is him, then why does Xiaoxu look exactly like him?
No!
Something was wrong!
He grasped the edge of the table tightly, and because he was holding on too tightly, the veins on the back of his hand were bulging. You can imagine how much he was upset at that moment.
Cheng Xiuyun also noticed his abnormality and asked cautiously: "Rugui, what's wrong with you? Why do you look so ugly all of a sudden? Are you feeling unwell?"
Wen Rugui's eyes turned red and he looked at her like he wanted to eat her: "Do you know Xiaoxu?"
"Xiaoxu?" Cheng Xiuyun thought for a moment and shook her head, "Mom doesn't know him. Mom remembers that you had two friends in the compound, one named Xiaopang and the other Pu Jianyi, but no one named Xiaoxu."
Wen Rugui felt like someone had poured a basin of cold water on his head in the cold winter, and he couldn't help shaking.
He finally knew what was wrong.
Xiaoxu appeared when he was five years old. He had known him for more than twenty years. He had grown up, married and had children. Pu Jianyi had also grown up. Only Xiaoxu still looked like he was four or five years old. He
had not changed in the past twenty years.
But he had never noticed it before and never felt that something was wrong.
So does Xiaoxu really exist?
If he really exists, why does he look exactly like himself when he was a child, and why has he never grown up in the past twenty years?
Wen Rugui's head hurt so much and was so confused. He felt like he was in an ice cellar, so cold that even his teeth were chattering.
If Xiaoxu didn't exist, then why did he always see him in the past twenty years? He was the one who kept him company and talked to him, and he was the one who helped him deal with Shi Xiuneng last time.
Shi Xiuneng!
Maybe Xiaoxu does exist. Tong Xulu also greeted him that day, and Xiaoxu praised her for being very beautiful.
But this still couldn't convince him. It would have been good if he hadn't noticed something was wrong before. Now, no matter how he tried to convince himself, he couldn't sort out the logic here.
There are no two identical leaves in the world, nor are there two people who look exactly the same, let alone this person who has remained four or five years old for more than twenty years.
Wen Rugui's head was in pain, as if it was about to explode.
He stood up with the help of the table and ran out crookedly.
He had only one thought in his mind, he wanted to find Xiaoxu and ask him why he had not grown up.
But when he rushed outside, he was stunned, because he didn't even know where Xiaoxu lived.
Cheng Xiuyun in the hotel was frightened by his appearance. When he ran out of the hotel, she came to her senses and chased after him.
The waiter hurriedly grabbed her hand and asked, "Do you want more food on the table?"
After ordering so many things, she only drank a sip of mung bean soup. Wen Rugui didn't eat anything. It would be a waste if he didn't eat it.
But now she was anxious to chase Wen Rugui, so she had to say painfully, "No."
After saying that, she pulled back her hand and chased after him in two steps.
When she chased outside, she saw Wen Rugui standing in the sun, his face as white as a piece of paper, without a trace of blood.
"Rugui, what's wrong with you? Tell mom if you feel uncomfortable." Cheng Xiuyun continued to play the family card, "How about mom accompany you to the hospital?"
Wen Rugui seemed not to hear her words, and suddenly pushed her away, striding forward with long legs.
Cheng Xiuyun staggered and almost fell to the ground.
Seeing Wen Rugui's back without looking back, a string in her mind broke with a "bang", and her patience was declared exhausted.
She gritted her teeth and chased after him, grabbed Wen Rugui's arm and started to curse: "You unfilial son, even if I was wrong back then, as a mother I have already apologized to you."
"Our country has always flattered 'a filial son is born under the stick', I was just a little harsh to you, scolded you a few times, hit you a few times, wasn't I beaten by your grandparents when I was a child, do you want to hold a grudge for decades?"
"Do you want me to kneel down and beg you, then you will forgive me as a mother?"
When people on the road heard what they said, they stopped to look over and pointed.
Cheng Xiuyun saw everyone watching, and suddenly spoke more vigorously, crying.
"Everyone, please be fair. This child was very naughty when he was young. I was worried that he would grow up to be a bad person, so I beat him several times. I didn't expect that he would hold a grudge for decades. As a mother, I personally apologized to him, but he refused to forgive me. I am really sad." When
everyone heard this, they immediately pointed at Wen Rugui and started to persuade him.
"How can you be like this? There are no parents who are not right. Your mother educated you for your own good. You look like a decent person, but why are you so narrow-minded?"
"That's right. Who hasn't been scolded and beaten by their parents when they were young? Do we have to stop talking to them until we die? Then can our country still be called a country of etiquette?"
"That's right, comrade, don't be stubborn anymore. You are dressed so brightly and beautifully, and your mother is so old. Do you have the heart to watch her live in distress and torment for the rest of her life?"
Cheng Xiuyun almost vomited blood when she heard the last sentence.
But the other party was speaking for her, so she had to endure it and continued to act like a kind mother who was deeply hurt by her child.
Wen Rugui looked at the crowd, then turned back to look at Cheng Xiuyun, and suddenly a lot of memories flooded into his mind.
The young Cheng Xiuyun threw a bowl on the ground, breaking it into pieces, and then she put her hands on her waist and asked "Xiao Xu" to kneel on it. "Xiao Xu" knelt down, and his knees were pierced by the fragments and bleeding
. The scene changed, Cheng Xiuyun suddenly picked up "Xiao Xu", brought him to the kitchen, and then pressed his head into the bucket. The water in the bucket poured into his nose and mouth. "Xiao Xu" struggled wildly and almost died in pain.
Then the sky changed, it got dark outside, and a man sneaked into the house.
The man took out a prepared rope, and together with Cheng Xiuyun, they tied up "Xiao Xu" and stuffed his mouth, then hung him under the eaves. "Xiao Xu" was hung like this for most of the night, barely breathing.
Countless images of "Xiao Xu" being abused and bruised came flooding in, and finally the face of the young Cheng Xiuyun overlapped with the Cheng Xiuyun in front of him.
He shuddered, "Xiao Xu" was him, he was "Xiao Xu"!
The bruised Xiao Xu he had seen before was all his past self.
Seeing that he was indifferent despite being criticized by so many people, Cheng Xiuyun gave him another strong warning: "Rugui, you still won't forgive your mother?"
"Don't you think about how naughty you were back then? If I hadn't been strict with you, would you be a scientific researcher at the base now? Would you be the director of the Institute of Mechanics?"
When everyone heard that he was a scientific researcher at the base, they immediately criticized him more harshly.
Cheng Xiuyun was very proud of everyone standing on her side, but she made a sad expression on her face.
"I was pregnant with another child at that time, who was already more than six months old. Because I neglected him once, the child got angry and pushed me down. I fell to the ground and the child died."
"It was a fully grown boy. The child's grandfather and father were very sad. If he hadn't died, he would have grown up now. I also had a heavy bleeding because of it, and I didn't have any more children for many years."
"If it wasn't him, how could his brother die? If the child wasn't dead, how could his father and I get divorced?"
Everyone screamed and pointed at Wen Rugui and cursed.
"He actually killed his own brother and caused his parents to divorce. Could he be a debt collector who has come back to life?"
"If I had a child like that, I would probably beat him to death. He is worse than an animal!"
With the endless curses, all the sealed memories were unsealed at this moment.
He saw that he accidentally knocked down Cheng Xiuyun, who fell in a pool of blood. His brother was gone, and his father rushed back from the army, hiding in the corner of the hospital with tears in his eyes. Later,
Cheng Xiuyun divorced his father, and his father never smiled again. His hair fell out in clumps, and his grandfather sighed every day. Later, the fighter plane driven by his father crashed.
The plane was destroyed and the people died. Grandpa's hair turned completely white in one day.
"You killed your own brother, you caused your parents to divorce, and you caused your father to die young!"
Cheng Xiuyun saw his face change drastically, and hit him again and again.
"No, it's not me!"
"It's you..."
Before Cheng Xiuyun could finish her words, her throat was grabbed by Wen Rugui, who had a sinister look on his face. He
looked like an Asura from hell, which made people shudder.
Everyone screamed in fear: "What do you want to do? Let go!"
Wen Rugui came to his senses, suddenly let go of Cheng Xiuyun, turned around and ran away.
Cheng Xiuyun saw that he was about to run away, and regardless of the pain in her throat, she immediately chased after him, but she kicked a stone.
With a "bang".
Her head hit the ground heavily, blood gushed out, her eyes rolled back, and she fainted.
Someone screamed -
"Someone's dead! Someone's dead!"
Tong Xulu saw Wen Rugui covered in blood, running forward with bare feet, and she chased after him closely.
"Rugui, wait for me."
Wen Rugui seemed not to hear her, ran to the edge of the cliff, suddenly turned around and smiled sadly at her, then jumped down.
"Ah——"
Tong Xuelu suddenly woke up from her dream, covered in cold sweat.
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