Chapter 206 Chapter 206 Where is the Child?
But Xu Yunfan had no idea that Qin Run said he would bring him a chicken the next day, but he actually brought him a person, which scared Xu Yunfan out of his wits.
Today is market day in Qinghe Town. There are several times more people in Qinghe Town than usual. People are coming and going on the streets, and the sounds of hawking can be heard one after another. Qin Run stopped at the place where livestock and vegetables are sold, carrying a basket of persimmons on his back.
Persimmons are actually not much easier to sell than pears. It took half a day to sell only a portion of the neatly stacked persimmons in the sack.
Things that were not wanted by the villagers could basically not be sold at any price. After Qin Run sold persimmons for two days, he became familiar with the uncles and aunts who set up stalls with him. For those who did not have persimmon trees at home, Qin Run was happy to exchange persimmons with them for some vegetables that they did not grow at home. After Qin Run asked a waiter at a shop to put the vegetables under the eaves outside the shop, as he had no other place to put them.
There were still a few persimmons left to be delivered. Qin Run was just about to put them back into the backpack when the street suddenly became chaotic. A large group of yamen runners were like bandits entering the village. They stepped over any obstacles that they could not cross. Even Qin Run's row of stalls became chaotic. Everyone was attracted by the yamen runners and forgot to pay attention to the carriage running in front.
"What's going on?" To be honest, the yamen runners in Qinghe Town are actually quite nice, and it is rare to see such a "violent" side of them.
A man panted and nodded, asking them to look at the people crying and chasing after the yamen runners. "How can we not be anxious? They are human traffickers, and they have carriages. If they delay any longer, they will definitely not be able to catch up."
"What? Human traffickers? Damn it, these guys are so evil. If I had known, I would have knocked the carriage driver down with a carrying pole."
"Look at all the people here. I'm afraid a lot of children were abducted this time."
Qin Run was confused for a moment. When he heard this, he immediately thought of his two younger brothers.
Although Qin Run knew that Qin An and Qin Mu were in the academy, he was still scared and hurried to Qingfeng Academy.
When Qin Run returned to his stall, his backpack was still there, even the bamboo lid was intact, except for a few persimmons that had been trampled on by someone.
Qin Run finally breathed a sigh of relief that his backpack was saved in the commotion just now. Without the backpack, how could he carry so many things back?
However, Qin Run didn't know that he relaxed too quickly.
When he lifted the bamboo cover and met a pair of big black eyes, Qin Run's pupils suddenly shrank, he took a breath, and almost fainted.
Qin Run took a few steps back in shock. When did a child get into his backpack?
That’s right, a child must have escaped when the police were arresting the kidnapper.
But, it would be fine if the child ran away, but why did he hide in his own backpack?
After Qin Run calmed down, he walked to the backpack, squatted down, and cleared his throat. "Little boy, whose child are you from?"
Looking at the child, he should be about three years old and should remember where he is from, but the child just stared at Qin Run, holding the backpack tightly with his small hands, as if he regarded the backpack as his home, and seemed to be afraid that Qin Run would ignore his wishes and drag him out of this safe place and beat him up.
What happened on Qin Run's side quickly attracted the attention of the people around him, and everyone started discussing and speculating.
Finally, an old man suggested that Qin Run send the child to the yamen, and the officials would help him find his family.
An old lady selling vegetables saw the child with messy hair and a face so dark that it looked like a human. His big eyes with distinct black and white looked unexpectedly big. When his eyes stared at people, coupled with his black ghost-like face, he looked a bit scary, just like a little ghost. No wonder a strong boy could be scared.
The vegetable seller was old and couldn't bear to see a child suffer like this, so she took out a piece of cloth whose original color could not be identified from somewhere and wiped the child's face again and again.
At first, the child did not appreciate it. Perhaps it could be said that because he had been beaten before, he subconsciously hugged his head and whimpered in fear, trying to prevent the old lady from getting close to him.
"What a sin~" The old lady felt extremely distressed. She cursed those kidnappers for being heartless and wished them to go to hell. At the same time, she wiped the child's face five or six times before she finally wiped it clean.
Qin Run just watched from the side until the old lady wiped the child's face clean, and Qin Run gasped again.
What...what's wrong with this world?
There are actually two people who look so similar. Judging from the child's appearance, he doesn't believe that they are not father and son.
But unfortunately, other people don’t know Xu Yunfan’s background, so how could Qin Run not know it?
Could it be that this child also appeared out of thin air?
Qin Run had thought about sending the child away, but the child seemed to know him. After getting rid of his initial fear, he actually held on to the backpack tightly, staring at him with his big eyes.
The other person looked at him pitifully with a face that was too similar to Xu Yunfan, and Qin Run couldn't bear to do it.
Qin Run was carrying a backpack and holding a sack of vegetables on his chest as he hurried back, feeling uneasy.
He was eager to know the truth.
"Run'er, you're back. Did you buy the old hen?"
Xu Yunfan was still thinking about the old hen that Qin Run mentioned yesterday. When he saw Qin Run coming back, his eyes lit up.
Xu Yunfan looked too much like the child in the backpack. Qin Run shook his head and said, "No, I forgot. I didn't buy anything."
"You're lying, Qin Run. What's in that basket on your back? I can even hear snoring. Could it be that you bought a piglet?"
piggy?
Qin Run turned his head to look at the backpack, not knowing how to start.
He wanted to say that what was in the backpack was not a piglet, but a ghost that might be your son.
Xu Yunfan took a few steps forward, opened the bamboo cover, and saw the child sleeping in the backpack, curled up in a small ball with his fists clenched on the side of his face. His eyes bulged out, almost popping out of their sockets.
He blinked, rubbed his eyes, and finally put the bamboo cover back on. When he opened it again, his pupils shrank again.
Xu Yunfan was convinced that he was not seeing things, and that he had not mistakenly seen that the person sleeping in the backpack was not a little black pig, but a real, dirty child.
Wow, Qin Run is becoming more and more adept at doing business.
He was asked to go to town to sell persimmons and buy a chicken, but instead he brought back a child on his back and said he was giving him a surprise.
It's not a surprise at all, it's more like a shock.
Xu Yunfan forgot to replace the bamboo cover on his hand. He turned around and asked Qin Run, "What's going on? Where did you get this child? This is the surprise you told me about. I think you almost want to scare me to death."
Xu Yunfan knew at first glance that the child was dirty, his hair was tangled, and his clothes were so dirty that the original color was almost unrecognizable. So the child must be a beggar. Could it be that Qin Run was so kind that he picked up the child?
Qin Run stepped forward, staring at Xu Yunfan, his tone so stiff and difficult, "This should be your son!"
He looks so much like Qin Feiyu, which proves that they are father and son. Then Xu Yunfan looks so much like the child, so it is almost certain that they are father and son.
Xu Yunfan: “…”
The longer you live, the more you will encounter. How could a virgin who has never even held a woman's hand have a son?
Xu Yunfan said this was the funniest joke he had heard this year. "I doubt you're kidding me."
Seeing Xu Yunfan's expression of shock and laughter, Qin Run scratched his head and said, "Isn't he your son?"
“I…I…I…”
After hearing the word "I" three times in a row, Xu Yunfan didn't know what to say. Finally, he held his forehead and said, "Before I met you, I was still a virgin... a virgin. Where did the child come from? Didn't I reproduce asexually? Didn't I tell you everything? You don't have to imagine it. Having sex after drinking, that kind of thing depends on whether I can do it. According to science, it is generally difficult to have sex when you are drunk to the point of being unconscious. Besides, I have been well protected by my family since I was a child. Situations such as being drugged or accidentally ingested simply don't exist. No one has the courage to do that. So there is no possibility that I would have killed someone while I was unconscious."
Hearing this, Qin Run's eyes lit up. What Xu Yunfan meant was that he really had never had a woman or a boy.
In the past, he thought that Xu Yunfan was not married yet, but didn’t those big families have maids who would warm the young master’s bed when he reached a certain age?
But Xu Yunfan said he didn't.
But when he saw this child, Qin Run still believed Xu Yunfan, but what if he had the same situation as Xiao Hengzhi and had sex after drinking?
Xu Yunfan said again that there was no such situation, so it definitely didn't happen. Realizing this, Qin Run smiled and was so happy that he couldn't suppress his joy.
However, he did not forget that there was still important business to do.
"But," Qin Run pointed at the child and said, "He looks a lot like you, I thought he was your child." So, because he loved the child so much and couldn't bear to see Xu Yunfan's bloodline living like this, he put the child in a backpack and brought him back.
"ah?"
Xu Yunfan became interested. How much more like him must this child look for Qin Run to have such an absurd idea?
Besides, is there anyone who looks like him when he is so handsome?
His older brother looks about 70% like him, but he's still not as handsome as him.
Xu Yunfan didn't quite believe it. "Impossible. I look like this, like a slender orchid, a jade tree, one of a kind in the world. How can anyone look like me? I tell you, in this world, there is no one else with a face as handsome as mine, except for my father and my eldest brother. But none of them look like me..."
As Xu Yunfan spoke, he cruelly took the curled up sleeping child out of the backpack.
Perhaps because he had been kidnapped, the child woke up when Xu Yunfan touched him. When he found someone was trying to catch him, the child's reaction was to resist. However, when he looked at Xu Yunfan, all the resistance disappeared silently.
Xu Yunfan stopped talking before he could finish his words and was dumbfounded.
No, this kid was born to slap him in the face?
Xu Yunfan is good-looking and he is obsessed with looks. In modern times, he has to look in the mirror every day when he wakes up. Naturally, he knows what he looks like.
Damn, these days all the handsome guys are so similar, are there so many of them looking the same on the street?
Isn't he uniquely handsome?
In the main room, Xu Yunfan was slumped in a chair, his head tilted back, looking as if he was in a trance, as if his soul had left his body.
The child that Qin Run carried back in the basket huddled at his feet, hugging his calf tightly. He looked as if he was afraid that Xu Yunfan would kick him away, or pull his foot away and leave him. So, the child was very scared and hugged Xu Yunfan's calf tightly, weakly, and from time to time he cried, "Father~"
Xu Yunfan was so startled by this childish voice full of affection and dependence that he shuddered all over again.
I have to say that Qin Run’s surprise was really great, and it directly brought his life to its peak.
Just think about it, at the age of seventeen, you already have a wife and a three-year-old child. Do you dare to imagine this is the pinnacle of life?
Anyway, Xu Yunfan, who grew up under the national flag and has a good family background, dared not think about it. If he dared to think about it, or had any idea, his father would kick his third leg to pieces.
Xu Yunfan really wanted to tell the child again, I am not your father, but when he thought of the child's tearful look after hearing his denial and being refused a hug, he became so soft-hearted.
It shouldn't be.
Xu Yunfan knew that he was not a person who would be easily moved by tenderness. Every Chinese New Year, there were relatives who would bring their children to visit him to pay New Year's greetings. To be honest, he had an average impression of those children, but when it came to this child, he was soft-hearted. Somehow, he felt that this child gave him a sense of intimacy, which made him reluctant to say anything, for fear of making the child cry again.
It was precisely because of this realization that Xu Yunfan was so distressed.
After the incidents of rejuvenation and inexplicable time travel, he began to doubt, could it be that this child was really his?
Although, in his memory, he had never done anything wrong, but... what if... suppose he had lost his memory, or lost a certain part of his memory, or, maybe he had traveled to a certain time and space, created a child, and then traveled back, and then forgot everything that happened before?
Isn’t that how it’s written in novels?
Xu Yunfan felt that he had discovered the truth.
If this is true, how should he tell Qin Run? He is sorry for Qin Run, sorry for the child's mother, and even more sorry for the child.
Thinking of this, Xu Yunfan slowed down, sat up straight, wiped his face, and then tried to pick up the child who was curled up at his feet and lying on the ground, regardless of the dirt.
Xu Yunfan's sudden action scared the child. The child seemed to be afraid of being chased away by Xu Yunfan. He hugged Xu Yunfan's calf tightly in fear, and even ignored the persimmon Qin Run used to coax him. He pressed his head on the surface of Xu Yunfan's shoes, looked up at Xu Yunfan cautiously, and shouted weakly again, "Father~ I won't leave, Father~"
The word "father" made Xu Yunfan's heart soften.
"Be good, let go, daddy will pick you up, okay?" Although the weather was not too cold and it was okay to lie on the ground, Xu Yunfan felt extremely uncomfortable when he saw the child curled up like this and hugging his legs.
He is a human being, not a dog that loyally guards his master's feet.
Hearing this, the child raised his head, as if thinking about whether Xu Yunfan's words were credible. Finally, the child tried to stretch out his hand, and he decided to try to believe it.
Xu Yunfan picked up the child and walked into the kitchen.
In the kitchen, Qin Run was boiling water. The child was too small, weak, and dirty to be washed with cold water, so Qin Run boiled a pot of water while Xu Yunfan was accepting a child who appeared out of nowhere.
"Brother Run." Xu Yunfan called Qin Run and then stopped talking.
What should he say?
That he had a special feeling for the child and wanted to keep the child regardless of whether his suspicions existed?
However, leaving a child behind was not something they could easily decide on their own.
This is like raising a child, not raising a poultry. If you don’t want to raise it, you can just not raise it.
He has to be responsible, responsible for the children, responsible for Qin Run, and responsible for this family.
If he keeps the child, he will have to be responsible for the child for the rest of his life, raise him, teach him how to behave, and give him the best life he can.
Xu Yunfan was also annoyed. He didn't know how to start. Should he say that he might have a woman, or a brother, or should he be responsible for them, mother and son, or father and son?
But he couldn't say these words.
Whether it was amnesia or something else, he was sure that now, he liked Qin Run. He didn't want anyone else, and he had no intention of trying to develop a relationship with anyone else.
These words, whether spoken or not, are ultimately hurtful to Qin Run.
If he doesn't say it, he will feel uncomfortable. Will he feel uncomfortable for the rest of his life because of this matter?
Xu Yunfan thought about it and decided to forget it. He didn’t want to live like that.
So, Xu Yunfan told me his guess, and finally, "If not, I really don't know how to explain that this child looks like me, but I still have that kind of feeling towards him without telling him."
Qin Run paused in fetching water, lowered his head and remained silent for a long time.
Just when Xu Yunfan couldn't wait any longer, Qin Run looked up with red eyes, "Then will you leave? Just like you left her, will you leave me one day and leave me alone?"
Seeing Qin Run's red eyes, Xu Yunfan felt distressed and anxious. He put the child down and let the child hug his calves again.
After coaxing the younger one, Xu Yunfan started to coax the older one. "No, Qin Run, I won't. Only you. I won't be moved by anyone else. No matter if I have lost my memory or what, for me, being moved is being moved, liking is liking. No matter what, no matter who, can't stop me from liking you. As long as you always like me, I won't change my mind."
"Even though I feel really sorry for that person, I really don't remember doing anything like that. I'm not making excuses for myself, and I'm not a heartless person. I don't want to give up on someone I'm attracted to because of a hypothesis that might not exist."
Xu Yunfan is afraid of missing out, and he is also afraid that he will regret it when he is old because of missing out.
Who says adults don’t make choices? Xu Yunfan just made a choice. He wants both the child and Qin Run.
As the young master of the Xu family, he is so greedy.
He will raise the child, and he also wants Qin Run. As for the child's father, or mother, he really... If they have the chance to meet in the future, he will find a way to make it up to them.
Otherwise, what else could he do?
It's impossible to let him wait for someone who might not even exist!
Moreover, he would probably be inseparable from this place for the rest of his life, so as for building a spacecraft, that was even more ridiculous.
Actually, Qin Run was not without some doubts when he heard Xu Yunfan had a biological child. However, when he saw the child calling him daddy in a naive manner, he suddenly had a bold guess. "Yunfan, is there a possibility that the child just looks like you and calls you daddy because you look familiar? Otherwise, why would he call me daddy? Could it be that I also look like his daddy? So, is it possible that he is young and recognized the wrong person?"
Xu Yunfan was stunned.
What Qin Run said makes sense. The world is so big that there are no two leaves that are exactly the same, but there can be several people who look similar.
Besides, this little brat is still so young. Xu Yunfan wiped his face and thought it was all in vain to think so much.
Therefore, compared to the fantasy that he had traveled through time before, or the melodramatic amnesia, what Qin Run said, that this child just looks like him but is not his offspring, is the most realistic possibility.
Xu Yunfan suddenly felt a little unhappy.
It’s not that he’s unhappy that the child isn’t his, but he’s unhappy that he has such a handsome face but still has an ordinary appearance!!
Xu Yunfan had a headache. He firmly believed that with his ability, it would be no problem for him to raise a child. After all, he even raised Qin Mu. The problem was, could Qin Run accept raising a child who called him dad?
Qin Run looked at the child's arms, which were like lotus roots, and smiled as he washed the mud off the child. "I like him very much. He looks so much like you. If you don't raise him, what will happen to him? Keep him."
Qin Run sometimes thought that if he had children in the future, it would be great if the children looked like Xu Yunfan.
Now that there is such a child in the family, Qin Runxin was very happy and once guessed that God had heard his voice, so after giving him a husband, he gave him another child.
Qin Run was able to accept this child, on the one hand because he did look about 70% similar to Xu Yunfan, and on the other hand, he didn't know where to send this child. His pregnancy mole was dark, and in this life...
Before coming back, he went to the town hall to report the situation, but the yamen runners told him that the human traffickers they were chasing today were committing crimes across prefectures and happened to come here to transfer the child out. Fortunately, they were reminded in advance by other prefectures that the child in his arms was most likely from another prefecture, so it would take time to find the child's family.
In other words, they still have a chance to find the child's family. The yamen runner told Qin Run that there was another possibility, that is, the child's parents sold the child. In this case, it would be even more difficult to find the child's parents. If Qin Run was willing, he could leave the child with them. Qin Run refused. He knew that if they left the child in the town hall, their child would only be sent to other places for centralized management.
Even though it cannot be confirmed that this child is Xu Yunfan's, Xu Yunfan's special feelings for the child cannot be faked.
Wasn't he the same when I met Xiao Hengzhi before? It was clearly the first time we met, but I inexplicably developed such an inseparable emotion.
If you put yourself in his shoes and ask him to choose between Xu Yunfan and Xiao Hengzhi, he will choose the former without hesitation, but making this choice does not mean that he has no regrets.
He didn't want Xu Yunfan to have any regrets, not even a tiny one.
A person like Xu Yunfan should be heartless and happily be his little master.
Therefore, Qin Run would never let Xu Yunfan make a choice. When being with him, Xu Yunfan did not need to make any choice. Whatever he gained, he had to give up. Why couldn't Xu Yunfan have both?
Qin Run heated up a large pot of water. He originally thought that this amount of water would be more than enough to wash a little guy, and that this large pot could easily wash three people. However, he underestimated how dirty the little guy was.
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