Chapter 83 Caught the Scumbag Dad
Chapter 83
Beep, beep, beep——
Without giving anyone time to react, Wen Guoqing hung up the phone.
Wen Xi's legs were weak and he could hardly stand. Yan Jue supported his shoulders and looked down at Wen Xi's dazed face. He unconsciously tightened his grip on his shoulders, but let go because he was afraid of hurting him. "What did Wen Guoqing tell you?"
Fear and anger accumulated in his chest. Wen Xi exhaled heavily, then looked up at Yan Jue who was worried. He pursed his lips tightly and then loosened them a little. He said in a hoarse voice: "Wen Guoqing wants to trade with me, one for one, using Wen Ran to exchange for money and the opportunity to go abroad."
After a pause, Wen Xi panted and continued to speak the threats with some difficulty: "Only I will make a deal with him, otherwise... drag Wen Ran to die with him."
Yan Jue's breathing stagnated, his throat tightened, "Where is he now?"
"It's in Yongning Town."
Ah Quan exclaimed in surprise: "What?"
The feeling of being monitored instantly came over everyone. Ah Quan quickly turned around and looked around. He saw that everyone around him was his people, and there was nothing wrong. "I have checked the whole town, there is no way anyone is hiding there."
"Not in town," Wen Xi said with an expression that no one could understand, and raised his hand, "He is right there."
Everyone followed the swollen and red fingertips that Wen Xi had not yet had time to treat and saw the towering and silent mountains behind the town.
"There is a wooden house on the top of the mountain, and he is there."
"I'm going to call the police right now and bring people up—"
"No," Wen Xi interrupted Ah Quan, "Wen Guoqing only wants me to go and trade with him alone, otherwise I will drag Wen Ran to die with him."
"grass!"
Ah Quan couldn't help but burst out, "Fuck, he's a lunatic!"
Yan Jue held Wen Xi's shoulder tightly, lowered his head, and looked into his eyes. Wen Xi's eyes suddenly turned red. His jaw tightened, his throat rolled, and he choked out his voice: "The mountain is very high, and there is a cliff right outside the cabin. I can't gamble Wen Ran's life on the humanity of a desperate demon."
The thin body trembled slightly, and the mobile phone hanging at his side was shaking. Wen Xi lowered his eyes, his throat was extremely dry, and he took a breath. The itchiness that had been silent all morning suddenly burst out at this moment, and his throat made a hoarse sound. Wen Xi covered his lips and coughed violently until the bodyguard hurriedly handed him some water. He swallowed a few mouthfuls and then raised his head with rapid breathing.
Yan Jue's anxious heart skipped a beat, "You——"
The violent coughing made Wen Xi's pale and sickly face appear falsely rosy, and his deep brown eyes revealed unprecedented personal emotions: calm, resolute, fierce, worried and nostalgic.
"I can't leave Ranran behind," Wenxi said in a hoarse but determined voice, "I have to go up."
The summer wind whistled past, and the boy's black hair was blown up, fluttering towards the boundless blue sky, like a footless bird flying against the wind towards freedom, never stopping.
*
Sanning Mountain is the mother mountain that has nurtured generations of people in Yongning Town.
For Wenxi, Lingshan is also a place of life enlightenment and childhood joy. When he was in kindergarten and elementary school, Wenxi was still the pampered only son in the family. Every day after school and on weekends, he would follow his wise father to explore the mountains and fields, get to know the trees hidden in the woods, and listen to him explain the value of inconspicuous weeds. Everything that was commonplace on the mountain was given extraordinary colors in Wen Guoqing's vivid explanations.
After walking and stopping, they arrived at the cabin on the mountain in the evening. This was the secret base of the father and son. When he was young, Wen Xi had a natural admiration for his tall father. He liked to lean on his shoulder to look at the stars, imagining that one day he would grow up and become a better person than his father, and live a good life in the big city with his parents. Until alcoholism and quarrels became the norm for his parents, Wen Guoqing's positive image of his father was finally shattered. He suddenly discovered that the father he had always regarded as a role model was actually a pool of smelly mud from the bottom of his heart.
Disgust and nausea filled Wen Xi's body, and he began to fear that he would become a despicable person like Wen Guoqing. Even when he first encountered a major change in his family, Wen Xi felt that his unusual bisexuality and deformed body might be God's punishment for the evil Wen Guoqing.
The carefree childhood in the small house on Sanning Mountain disappeared like bubbles.
Wen Xi looked at the dilapidated and deserted wooden house standing in front of him. The door was closed and the two windows were blocked tightly from the inside, so he could not see anything.
This place has been abandoned for many years and is surrounded by weeds. In a trance, countless scenes flashed before my eyes, both familiar and unfamiliar.
A wave of nausea surged up, and his stomach felt like it was tied up in a knot, entangled in pain. Wen Xi frowned, and his wrist was tightly grasped, and then he was pulled into a strong and powerful embrace. His arms contracted and exerted force, and Wen Xi was about to be embedded in Yan Jue's body in a few steps.
The man's calm and reassuring aura surged in the car. Wen Xi buried his head in Yan Jue's neck and took a deep breath. In the last peaceful space before the unknown fate, their skin pressed tightly against each other, drawing courage from him.
Silent and tacit.
The nausea in the stomach gradually dissipated in the man's body temperature and embrace. Three minutes later, the hand that was tightly wrapped around the back suddenly loosened.
Yan Jue pinched Wen Xi's jaw with his palm, lowered his head, and said slowly: "Wen Ran will be brought out safely by us. Act according to circumstances and be careful."
Wen Xi looked at him, turned her face, bit the man's neck, broke the skin and bled, and licked it, "You too."
*
Due to serious population migration and lack of forest protection, Sanning Mountain has become deserted.
Wen Xi stood in front of the closed wooden door and could not hear any sound from inside.
The top of the mountain was eerily quiet, with only the sound of the trees swaying in the wind and the occasional, slightly sad cry of a bird.
Based on his intuition, Wen Xi judged that Wen Guoqing was looking at the door and waiting for him to go in.
A tense mood spread in his heart. Wen Xi raised his eyes and looked at Yan Jue opposite him. The man nodded, and he raised his hand and knocked on the door of Fulou.
Bang, bang, bang——
Wen Xi's throat rolled over, and he said in a cold voice: "I'm here."
The crisp knock on the door was like the opening song of the silent gunpowder, echoing in the empty and quiet mountains.
The last knock came down, and the wooden door slid inward with a creaking sound, revealing a black line on the door, while Wen Guoqing's voice came out from inside.
"Come in and close the door."
Apart from this calm voice, the wooden door, which was opened only a small crack, still separated the two worlds inside and outside, and not a single sound from Wen Ran could be heard.
Yan Jue shook his head, Wen Xi raised his hand and touched the door panel, took a deep breath and pushed it open.
Creak.
The door swung open.
The two windows in the room were sealed tightly with wooden boards. The room was dim, illuminated only by an old-fashioned light bulb that flickered intermittently, as if the tungsten filament would break in the next second.
Opposite the door is a van, which takes up most of the room. In the corner is a table with various instant noodle boxes on it.
Wen Guoqing hid in a secluded corner behind the car.
The wooden door clicked shut.
Wen Xi and Yan Jue looked at each other, and they tacitly walked around the car from both sides. As they walked inside, Wen Guoqing, who had been hiding for several days, finally revealed his identity.
Wen Xi's heart suddenly tightened and his pupils contracted violently.
Wen Ran was wearing the clothes in the photo, lying motionless in Wen Guoqing's arms, her hair covering her face. It was unclear whether she was unconscious or had no breath at all. Wen Guoqing's hand was just pinching Wen Ran's thin neck.
"What do you mean?"
Wen Guoqing stared at Wen Xi with sinister eyes, his sight fell on Yan Jue, and he snorted coldly, "I want to ask you what you mean."
He said this with force, and Wen Ran in his arms struggled in pain, revealing a flushed face. Wen Guoqing said nonchalantly: "You said you could come up by yourself, why did you bring a second person? Aren't you afraid that I will kill her?"
Hearing Wen Ran's sobbing, Wen Xi's heart, which had been hanging in his throat, suddenly relaxed. Fortunately, he was still alive.
Wen Xi rubbed the anesthetic needle in his hand with his back, pursed his lips and said, "I can't drive."
“It takes eight hours to hike up from the bottom of the mountain, and five hours by electric bike.”
Wen Xi looked at Wen Guoqing and asked, "You can spend five hours to come here, but when you call me, I'm on the street, and I can hear you on the loud speaker. Can you handle it?"
The hand that was tightly around Wen Ran's neck loosened, and Wen Ran coughed violently. Wen Guoqing looked at Wen Xi and Yan Jue and sneered.
"Of course I can't afford it," Wen Guoqing looked at him sullenly. The pride he had when they met again had long since been wasted. "Thanks to you, I have nothing left again and have become a wanted criminal."
Wen Guoqing looked at Wen Xi expressionlessly, and suddenly said, "Take off your coats."
Wen Xi's heart suddenly jumped up, and the hand holding the anesthetic froze: "Why?"
Wen Guoqing stared at him with bloodshot eyes, exhausted from running for his life. "How do I know if you came with a gun or a needle to kill me by surprise? If you kill me, you can get away with it, right?"
Wen Xi showed a sneer at the corner of his lips, and said in a low voice: "You think too much."
"Then take off your clothes," Wen Guoqing began to look impatient, "Stop dithering."
"Okay." Yan Jue spoke first. He took off his coat and threw it on the ground, then turned around to show his whole body. "I didn't bring anything with me. As long as you return Wen Ran, I will not hold you accountable and send you abroad."
Unexpectedly, Wen Guoqing was so cautious and alert. Wen Xi pursed her lips and could only take off her coat. The moment she threw it on the ground, she calmly put the anesthetic needle in her palm into her coat pocket to avoid being discovered by Wen Guoqing.
He followed it around, "Is it okay now?"
Wen Guoqing nodded, and Wen Xi looked at Wen Ran who was motionless again and asked: "What did you do to Ran Ran?"
Wen Guoqing kicked the bottle on the ground, and the glass bottle rolled to Wen Xi's feet. He picked it up and said, "xxx highly effective sleeping pills. Have you been drugging Wen Ran these days?"
"That must be it," Wen Guoqing raised his hand in dissatisfaction. There was a deep tooth mark on it. He said, "I'm so annoyed. You're always thinking about running away. I don't like disobedient children the most. You're an ungrateful person, and so is your sister. You dare to bite her father."
Being kidnapped by a strange man, constantly threatened and intimidated, and drugged, this was a huge physical and mental blow to a five-year-old child. Wen Xi couldn't even imagine how panicked he felt when he opened his eyes and saw a strange man.
Wen Guoqing looked at Wen Xi's angry eyes with amusement, his eyes were red, and his tone was fierce, "You don't think I really came back for the bone marrow, do you?"
Wen Xi looked at Wen Guoqing's crazy appearance and suddenly felt cold all over.
"What do you mean?"
"Julia, that ugly and cruel woman, almost killed me in the sanatorium. She used electric shocks and beatings to torture me for more than a month and I almost died in there. I had to persuade her to believe that I would really return to China to look for bone marrow. I finally escaped after shedding a layer of skin. Do you think I will help her save the child?"
Wen Guoqing tore off his disguise completely and growled viciously: "I wish they all died! Joseph, that useless thing, if he wasn't sick, I would have lived a life of wealth and glory, why would I bother looking for you? You're a dying sickly bastard. If I couldn't get money from Julia with him, I wouldn't care if he lived or died. He just cries all day long, it's so noisy."
"Although your mother worked to raise money for my tuition, I later married her and raised her. I also fed and fed her well for so many years. All the grudges have long been paid off. She got cancer by herself. What does it have to do with me? After getting married, she didn't work to earn money, so she just asked me for money. What does it have to do with me if she doesn't have money for treatment?"
"I have raised you for more than ten years, and you have sucked my blood. Now I ask you for even a bit of bone marrow, and you won't even give me any. You have ruined the good life I worked so hard for! I have already given you 10 million, and you gave me the bone marrow back then, and now nothing has happened to you. It's all your own fault!"
Even though Wen Xi was mentally prepared, he was still disgusted by Wen Guoqing's unreasonable and shameless remarks.
He looked at Wen Guoqing who was getting more and more excited, and could only suppress his anger, trying his best to stay calm, and took a deep breath: "If it's not for the bone marrow, why did you kidnap Wen Ran?"
"Of course it's for money. It's all because of you. Because of you, all the things I worked so hard for are ruined. You expect to start over? Impossible! You have to be responsible for paying me!"
Wen Xi clenched his fists. "You could have just asked for the money directly. Why did you take Wen Ran with you and even create a fake car accident?"
Wen Guoqing asked Wen Ran to stand on the ground with her head across her neck, facing Wen Xi. He stretched out his hand to push aside the hair that blocked his face, staring straight into Wen Xi's red eyes, looking at his face that was very similar to his own. His tone was too light, but it contained extreme malice: "Since you can pay off my debts for me, then you have to share my pain with me."
"You hit your father with a bottle. I still remember it." He raised his leg and kicked the bed leg. There was a loud bang. Wen Guoqing's tone suddenly became vicious. "If I don't teach you a lesson, you still remember that I am your father who gave birth to you and raised you?"
Wen Xi's chest rose and fell violently, and his trachea seemed to be on fire. He bit his lips tightly, swallowed his saliva to suppress the cough that was about to come out, and breathed in pain. He tried his best to speak calmly: "Then let's make a deal now. If you return Wen Ran to me, I will have someone send you down the mountain immediately and give you a large sum of money. If the case is dropped, you can go abroad smoothly."
"How much can you give me?"
"I'll return your 10 million and give you another 200 million. This is enough for you to live in any country." Wen Xi closely observed the changes on Wen Guoqing's face. The man calmed down a lot after hearing about the money. In order to convince him as soon as possible, Wen Xi continued to increase the stakes, "If you don't trust me, you can change me--"
The silent Yan Jue suddenly interrupted Wen Xi and said, "If you are worried, you can take me away."
Wen Xi suddenly turned his head and saw a tall and steady figure standing in the shadows. His heart sank and he clenched his knuckles. The wound hurt from his fingers to his heart.
"Compared to Wenxi, you have a better chance of succeeding in holding me hostage. I'll arrange a car to take you to the border, and you can let me go after you've completely revealed yourself."
Wen Guoqing's eyes wandered between Wen Xi and Yan Jue. After a moment, he threw a pair of handcuffs at Yan Jue and sneered, "You really love him... handcuff your hands to the car."
Click, click.
After two crisp lock sounds, Yan Jue's hands were handcuffed to the steering wheel of the van. He struggled with his arms, but the handcuffs rattled. He couldn't escape at all. He turned to look at Wen Guoqing and said, "It's your turn."
Wen Guoqing looked at Wen Xi's pale face, slowly loosened his hand around Wen Ran's neck, and pointed to the empty space, "Stand there."
Wen Xi turned around and looked at Yan Jue. The dim light shone on the side of his face. The man's eyes were dark and heavy. In this anxious and tense atmosphere, they had the power to penetrate fear and anxiety. He looked at Wen Xi quietly, raised his chin slightly, and his dark and deep pupils moved slightly.
Wen Xi pursed her lips, turned around, and followed Wen Guoqing's instructions to stand in the open space, suddenly forming a triangle between the three of them.
Wen Xi heard Yan Jue's calm discussion: "It's your turn to make the switch, Wen Guoqing. Everyone down the mountain is my bodyguard. If you go back on your word, the consequences will be something none of us want to see."
Wen Guoqing sneered, but did not continue arguing. He picked up a steel rod beside the bed, held Wen Ran in one hand and slowly moved forward.
The distance between Wen Xi and Wen Guoqing gradually narrowed. The air flow in the room slowed to an extreme.
When he was just one step away, Wen Guoqing suddenly turned around, raised his hand quickly, and swung the stick at Yan Jue's leg.
Bang--
The steel rod hit his leg bone and Yan Jue let out a dull groan of pain. The blood drained from his face instantly and he broke out in a cold sweat. His body instinctively couldn't support him and he half-knelt down.
Wen Guoqing's move was too sudden and out of the ordinary, and Wen Xi had no time to react at all.
"Banquet Decision——"
He screamed with all his might, almost breaking his voice. Wen Xi subconsciously ran towards Yan Jue, but Wen Guoqing attacked again at this moment, gathering his strength to throw Wen Ran out.
The girl's head was facing the ground. If it hit the ground, the consequences would be disastrous. Wen Xi could only go to catch Wen Ran, and then under inertia and gravity, she would fall to the ground.
Bang Bang——
The oppressive atmosphere was ignited.
In a flash, Yan Jue, who was originally kneeling on the ground exhausted, suddenly broke free from the handcuffs and kicked Wen Guoqing hard on the back of the knee. Wen Guoqing knelt on the ground in pain. He struggled to get up, but the next second his neck was clamped by the cold handcuffs, and his neck was strangled tightly by Yan Jue.
His breathing was blocked, his brain was deprived of oxygen, his eyeballs bulged out, and Wen Guoqing struggled with his legs kicking the ground, but the arm around his neck was like an iron clamp, motionless. He drooled and gasped: "Fuck you - you are pretending -"
He was holding a child weighing dozens of kilograms and fell on the cold concrete floor. He was wearing thin clothes and his back hit the wooden sticks that were randomly placed on the ground. His ribs ached with every breath.
Wen Xi's mind went blank for a moment, but the pain all over his body quickly sobered him up. He propped himself up on the cold ground and looked at Wen Guoqing, who was struggling with his neck strangled. The man's distorted face became even more hideous, his eyes were red, and he cursed: "Wen Xi, you liar——"
"I shouldn't have been so soft-hearted just now. I should have hit your lover to death with a stick! How long have you been fucked by him to make him work so hard for you?"
"Doesn't he feel disgusted when he sees your deformed body? A boy with a pussy, so disgusting - ah -"
Yan Jue's brows were full of anger, and the arm that was strangling his neck became more and more powerful. The feeling of suffocation pressed on his head. He raised his feet and kicked Wen Guoqing's knees behind his legs. Wen Guoqing knelt down in pain, and his shin bones hit the steel rod on the ground. Wen Xi saw Yan Jue quickly and fiercely remove Wen Guoqing's arms and handcuffed him behind his back. As if he knew that the situation was hopeless, Wen Guoqing screamed and struggled, kicked the ground with his legs, and even twisted his body to spit at Yan Jue.
Disgusting, groaning and struggling like a dead dog.
Wen Xi took a deep breath, his back ached badly and cold sweat broke out on his forehead. After making sure that Wen Ran was okay, he put her on the ground. He endured the pain, got up from the ground, found his coat and touched the anesthetic needle in the pocket.
Wen Xi clenched the anesthetic needle in his hand and walked towards Wen Guoqing step by step. Enduring the severe pain in his ribs, he bent down and grabbed his hair, inserted the anesthetic needle into his neck, and pushed the liquid medicine into his body, but only pushed it halfway. He pushed the sharp pillow in front of Wen Guoqing's eyes and said coldly: "You have no right to interfere in my affairs."
The fear of being injected with unknown liquid and having his eyeballs pierced and exploded froze Wen Guoqing, but he still gritted his teeth and said, "If I had known you were such an ungrateful person, I should have strangled you to death when your mother gave birth to you, a monster!"
Wen Xi threw away the anesthetic, with no expression on his face, and only said: "It's a pity, you don't have a chance now."
"You fucking—"
Snap——
Wen Xi raised his hand and slapped him.
The movements were crisp, the sounds were loud, and the force was great.
The back of Wen Xi's hand turned red, and she shook her hand nonchalantly, "Guess what I called you."
Wen Ran lay motionless on the ground. Yan Jue looked at Wen Xi's pale face covered with cold sweat, frowned, leaned over, grabbed Wen Guoqing's hair, pulled him up, and made him kneel on the ground.
"Just hit it with your hands. It hurts. There's a stick on the ground."
Wen Xi looked up, and Yan Jue saw a pair of angry and aggrieved eyes. Wen Xi shook his head and said stubbornly: "It's different, do it yourself."
The pain from having his arms and legs removed made him cramp, and his clothes were soaked with cold sweat. Wen Guoqing heard the conversation between Wen Xi and Yan Jue and looked over uneasily, but the next moment, he met Wen Xi's indifferent, calm eyes, which were terrifying. There was no emotional fluctuation in his expression, and he looked at him indifferently as if he was looking at a dead person.
Wen Guoqing finally got scared. He retreated trembling, but the man behind him restrained his limbs. Wen Guoqing had nowhere to retreat and could only watch helplessly as his hair was grabbed.
Wen Xi grabbed Wen Guoqing's right hand and the moment he reached for Wen Ran, his fingertips scraped the ground, and two nails were lifted up and his curled fingers were bleeding. It could be said that his body was covered in blood, but Wen Xi pursed his lips and did not feel any pain. He used force with his fingers, grabbed Wen Guoqing's head and slammed it hard on the van.
Bang, bang, bang——
Wen Guoqing was hit so hard that he felt dizzy and dazed. He opened his eyes with great effort and cursed in a trembling voice: "You are also a lunatic - you are just like me -"
Wen Xi pursed his lips and watched Wen Guoqing's dying struggle indifferently. Violence was not something Wen Xi would do, but he had to go crazy for once. Only in this way could he vent the torture he had endured innocently for so many years.
Although his ears were buzzing, Wen Guoqing could clearly hear Wen Xi's voice, which was very low and calm.
"The injection you received was not poison, but anesthetic."
Wen Guoqing stopped cursing suddenly. He looked in shock at Wen Xi, who was looking at him with cold and indifferent features.
"Congratulations, Wen Guoqing."
"You'll live another thirty years."
In an instant, Wen Guoqing felt as if he had fallen into an icy cave.
He suddenly understood why Wen Xi didn't just kill him outright. Wen Xi wanted him to atone for his sins alive, just like he was in a sanatorium, being tortured to the point of being worse off than death.
The light above my head flickered on and off, blurring my vision.
Wen Guoqing opened his mouth, drooling, and wanted to say something with sobs, but the anesthetic took effect, and his eyelids became heavier and heavier. The moment the filament of the light bulb above his head broke, he fell to the ground and fainted with a face full of resentment and defiance.
“It’s like a dream.”
Even breathing hurts. Despite this sense of reality, Wen Xi still has a floating feeling as if his feet cannot touch the ground, swaying as if he is flying in the sky.
"It's true. Catching Wen Guoqing is true, and rescuing Wen Ran is true."
Her wrist was gently held. Wen Xi looked up, but couldn't see Yan Jue's face in the darkness.
The door was pushed open with a clang, and the sky became bright, with the backlight blinding.
Yan Jue lowered his head and saw that Wen Xi's nose was red. Big tears were falling from her red eyes, leaving obvious tear marks on her dusty cheeks. The tears continued to fall.
"Feast Decision...We succeeded."
"I haven't let anyone down—"
There are no words to describe Wen Xi's expression at the moment. She was crying so hard that she couldn't make a sound, but her eyes were bright. The surging tears were like a lake bursting its dam, washing away the dust on her face and the pain that had accumulated in her body for many years.
Yan Jue's throat rolled violently, and he raised his hand to gently touch Wen Xi's wet cheek. Tears flowed to his fingertips, and he gently touched his wet eyelashes, "What a great Wen Xi, everyone will be proud of you."
Wen Xi was talking incoherently with excitement. He felt dizzy and as if he was floating in the air, unable to stand. He raised his hand and touched the back of his head, and there seemed to be something wet on his hand.
Wen Xi froze as he heard Yan Jue's panicked voice, "You hit the back of your head. Are you dizzy and nauseous now?"
Wen Xi looked at the wet bloodstains on his palms. With every breath, his ribs and the back of his head began to hurt violently. All the sounds around him began to distort and become dull and blurry, as if they were separated by the cold lake water.
"doctor--"
Wen Xi felt that he was being held horizontally and his body was moving. No wonder he fainted so badly, it turned out that he hit his head.
Wen Xi tried hard to stay awake, but his eyelids were getting heavier and heavier. He tried his best to stay awake. He grabbed Yan Jue's collar and wanted to say to Yan Jue, "Yan Jue, I'm so happy. I've never been so happy—"
"I can finally live without fear."
But his body had reached its limit and could no longer make any sound.
The daylight flashed before his eyes, and the last thing Wen Xi saw before he lost consciousness and passed out was the endless blue sky, branches swaying in the wind, stretching white clouds, and a bird flying freely.
He thought confusedly that flying in the sky was fake, but freedom was real.
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