Chapter 73: Shock! Uncle San actually...
For example, whenever Wu Xie thought about his third uncle being a martial arts master who had mastered the "Sunflower Manual", and his uncle from the Jie family being a gentle and kind gentleman, he would have a strange feeling as if his own cabbage was eating someone else's pig.
Well, it's... very subtle.
At this time, the plot on TV has reached the point where the heroine is desperately acting as a canary in a small dark room. The hero goes out to tell the second male lead that the heroine is dead. The second male lead is deeply shocked and despairing.
Wuxie: ...
Damn! This is looking more and more familiar.
Wu Xie subconsciously put Jie Lianhao into the heroine's perspective, and the following scene emerged in his mind:
In a small dark room without even a window, Uncle Xie, with a delicate figure and pale face, lay on the bed with lifeless eyes, his body covered with mottled wounds.
Then, after an unknown amount of time, his third uncle opened the door and came in. Uncle Jie sat up with difficulty, hugged his poor self, huddled in a corner and shivered, biting his lower lip delicately, with two lines of tears of humiliation flowing from his eyes.
Uncle San's eyes were filled with love and pity, but he was sarcastic and said something like:
Give up struggling, you can only be mine/man, no one can save you now/There is no place for you in this world, where else can you go except me/You are just my plaything, my patience is limited...
“Puff——”
The imagination was so vivid that Wuxie couldn't help laughing out loud.
The main thing is that his third uncle's current unkempt middle-aged appearance is too comedic when compared with the handsome and elegant image of Uncle Jie in his vague childhood memories.
This is a naked mockery of his third uncle.
"My dear grandson, what are you thinking about? You are smiling so happily. Tell me and make grandma happy too."
Although the two were discussing the TV series, Grandma Wu's attention was focused on Wuxie.
"Hmm, um...it's okay, it's okay."
Wuxie didn't dare tell his grandmother about the bad things his third uncle had done.
Although grandma looks healthy, she is still an elderly person. What if after hearing his inference, she becomes overly excited and loses her composure, and something goes wrong?
"Grandma, I suddenly thought of another question. You see, the second male lead in the drama said that he could take the female lead abroad and away from the male lead, so why doesn't the female lead leave?"
Wuxie didn't want to say it, so he could only divert attention to the TV series.
Then he suddenly thought that the Xie family was also one of the Nine Gates, and Xie Lian was the only heir of the Xie family at that time. How could his third uncle succeed so easily?
"My dear grandson, you don't understand this."
Grandma Wu had an expression on her face that showed she had known this would happen, and she looked at Wuxie with a look of disappointment.
"Yeah, if you understood, you wouldn't be single now."
Wuxie was choked. How did this even relate to his being single?
Don't make such personal attacks!
"Hey, grandma is talking to you, and you're still not convinced, right? Do you know what sadomasochism is? Do you know what possessiveness is, and what it means to be crazy about love?"
Grandma Wu had a smug look on her face. After asking a few questions, Wuxie was stunned and speechless.
"Huh, really, you don't know anything, no wonder you can't please girls.
You're nothing like your grandfather was when he chased me. I'll teach you a few tricks later."
Grandma Wu showed a little disdain towards Wuxie, and then she started to recount the same old tricks that Old Dog Wu had used to pursue her.
Wuxie has been listening to those love stories of his grandparents since he was a child and he can almost recite them by heart.
But he still listened to his grandmother patiently and carefully, nodding in response from time to time, which made his grandmother feel particularly accomplished and became more and more excited as she talked.
In fact, Wuxie was still thinking about the relationship between his third uncle and the uncle from the Jie family.
His third uncle did not have the ability he has now when he was young. The head of the Xie family at that time was Xie Jiu, who was known as the person with the most eyes and the smartest among the Nine Gates.
It is not an easy task to make Jie Lianhao fake his death right under the nose of Mr. Jie, and then lock up Jie Lianhao, who has good means and a good mind, in a small dark room without leaking the news for so many years.
So Uncle Jie was locked up in a small dark room by Uncle San, actually voluntarily, right?
Thinking of this, Wuxie suddenly felt as if he had suddenly realized something.
After peeling off layer after layer of fog and sorting out all the clues, many of the previous doubts were answered.
He Wuxie has seen through the truth!
First, his third uncle was inhumane because of his family background, and then, just like Dongfang Bubai in the novel, he gradually fell in love with men.
And he happened to have a man who was on good terms with him, of similar age, handsome, and with whom he could meet often.
That person is his childhood sweetheart Jie Lianhuan!
Then, under the scheming of the young version of the old fox, Uncle San, the two began to secretly fall in love, but due to various reasons such as worldly and family reasons, the two could only look at each other with affection and tears in their eyes.
For the sake of their families and each other, they can only love but cannot get it, nor can they express their love.
Finally, the emotionally sensitive and fragile Third Uncle couldn't help it and designed a series of events in the Xisha underwater tomb, burying the name "Xie Lianhuan" there forever.
Jie Lianheng disappeared from the world.
At the same time, in a dark... cough, soft little dark room in the world, there is a nameless canary waiting for people's mercy.
And Jie Lian is Jie Jiu's only son. Mr. Jie is such a smart man that he must have noticed the relationship between Jie Lian and Wu Sansheng a long time ago.
It's only natural that he should be able to discover the things designed by his third uncle.
So when Xie Lian was taken away by his third uncle and disappeared without a trace, Grandpa Xie asked his third uncle to kneel in the Xie family's ancestral temple for a day and a night.
When the Xie family lost their only heir at the time, they just made the culprit kneel for a day, then lifted him up high and put him down gently. Outsiders might think that the relationship between the older generations of the two families was good, and this was the result of many exchanges.
In fact, it was because the old man knew that his son Jie Lian was not dead at all!
This is just the two of them...or rather, it was planned by Wu Sanxing a long time ago, just for the two of them to be able to live together!
Grandpa Xie made Wu Sanxing kneel in the Xie family's ancestral hall for a day. Maybe this was a disguised way of recognizing him as his "daughter-in-law"!
Agreeing with Wu Sanxing, this might be the last thing that Mr. Xie can do for Xie Lian as a father...
Wuxie sighed with emotion and couldn't help but be moved by Mr. Jie's deep love for his son.
With this background, the words on the stone wall in the underwater tomb are easy to explain.
Because homosexuality was definitely a shocking scandal at the time, the next head of the Xie family must not spread such rumors.
So it must be that when his third uncle was in the underwater tomb in the Xisha Islands, he threatened Jie Lianhuan with their relationship or the reputation of the Jie family, trying to force him to choose to hide his identity and follow him.
When Jie Lian was still thinking alone, all kinds of emotions such as injustice, bitterness and pain surged in his heart, and finally he carved the words "Wu Sanxing has left me with nowhere to go" on the stone wall.
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