Chapter 9: Certain Memories
Yuan Lingling's mind was in a mess at the moment. Thinking about the topic that she had not finished talking to Shen Caisheng just now, she felt annoyed.
No one knew where that group of people came from, but it was clear that they were not good people. Since Shen Caisheng was protecting her just now, he must have known that the other party was a dangerous person.
Who knows what will happen when he goes there. He is a restless man. A man like him will probably go through many things before he settles down for someone and then says he has returned as a prodigal son.
She was full of thoughts, and just when she came to her senses she heard Aunt Yang say that Shen Caisheng had a hard life in the past. Yuan Lingling was puzzled, did he have a hard life?
He has money and freedom, he can do whatever he wants, and he is capable of doing what he wants. How can it be difficult for him?
"Are you talking about the death of his parents?"
Apart from this incident, Yuan Lingling couldn't think of anything else that could make Shen Caisheng's life miserable.
Maybe he has also been through the same period as the monkey?
Yuan Lingling also wanted to know what Shen Caisheng had experienced and why he became such a terrifying villain?
There is always a traceable development of anything.
"Him." Yang Ying sighed deeply, as if those were some past events that she couldn't bear to look back on, but they had nothing to do with her. She just felt sorry for what happened to Shen Caisheng.
What a good child.
"He was very well-behaved at that time. He was very popular in this area since he was a child, but his parents treated him..."
Yang Ying stopped here. She couldn't seem to say that the couple had done anything bad to Shen Caisheng.
In that era, if you can feed your children, clothe them and send them to school, what else can outsiders say?
Seeing that she was hesitant to speak, Yuan Lingling looked puzzled. Is there anything that cannot be said?
She was about to ask more questions when she saw Yang Ying's desperate expression, "Originally, it's not appropriate for me to say these words. I also know how difficult it is to be a parent..."
"I can't really say how badly his parents treated him, but I can't help but speak out..."
She stammered and it sounded like she was making things up. Yuan Lingling found it strange but did not interrupt her.
After a while, Yuan Lingling understood what Yang Ying described. It was actually very simple. To sum it up, it was about the abnormal control that Shen Caisheng's parents had over him.
For example, Shen Caisheng's parents did not agree with Shen Caisheng playing with other children since he was a child. He had to do most of the housework when he came home every day, and he almost always did all the work he could do.
Based on this, if we say that there is nothing wrong with the Shen family's parents, it seems that there is nothing wrong. They just want to cultivate Shen Caisheng's spirit of hard work. But to be honest, who doesn't want their child to be hardworking and simple? And which parents are really willing to let their children suffer?
For example, when children are young, they are very naughty. When other children have conflicts with others, parents will first care about whether their children are bullied and why they are fighting with others, but Shen’s parents will directly conclude that it is Shen Caisheng’s fault, every time.
Yang Ying looked at a small stone pillar outside the door, as if lost in memories.
"I remember one time someone's child lost money, and the money was eventually found in Caisheng's schoolbag. Caisheng was beaten badly that time."
"But he didn't take the money?" Yuan Lingling asked. Since she said that, she must have been wronged.
But this incident won’t make him a villain, right?
"Of course not." Yang Ying showed a look of disgust. "I heard from my Ma Jie that it seemed to be Xie Guanglian who did it. At that time, Shen Caisheng had a very good relationship with that ungrateful person. He was beaten for him a lot."
Yuan Lingling was surprised. She didn't expect there was this layer. She wanted to sigh again. This Xie Guanglian is really not a good guy.
"No one in the Xie family is good from top to bottom. You'd better not get close to them."
When Yang Ying said this, Yuan Lingling realized that she was reminding her.
Yuan Lingling was embarrassed.
"No, I'm not familiar with them. It's just that Xie Guanglian often comes to me to borrow money. He always says that he has a good relationship with Caisheng, and I really believed it." Yuan Lingling could only use the previous excuse, hoping to erase her bad reputation.
"Don't believe him!" Yang Ying was very relieved to hear her say that.
In fact, people of their age don’t care at all whether Yuan Lingling and Xie Guang had ever had any flirting with each other.
As long as we live a good life in the future, who doesn’t have a past?
When Yuan Lingling took Yuanyuan home, she was still in a daze.
We were originally talking about Shen Caisheng, but ended up talking about the Xie family.
She was a little full from eating the melon.
After getting engaged, the couple from the Xie family both had affairs outside.
Xie Guangan, the eldest son of the Xie family, was not born to Xie’s father.
Speaking of Xie Guangan, Yuan Lingling suddenly had an idea and recalled an old story that concerned her original self.
At the beginning, the original body and Xie Guangan seemed to have had a relationship, but the time was too short and many people didn’t know about it, including Xie Guanglian.
At that time, I don't know who spread the news that the original body's biological mother died early because her body was damaged when giving birth to her, and that she was a disaster star.
For a long time afterwards, the original body seemed to be synonymous with a disaster star. Children in their teens were curious and excited about such rumors, so the original body's reputation spread widely in the school.
Everyone of similar age, big and small, in the neighborhood knew about this. Many children in the neighborhood, even those who had no conflicts with the original body, would often come to her to seek a sense of existence.
It was at this time that the original body met Xie Guangan.
The original body actually didn't care about those people's ridicule. In her opinion, if her own relatives regarded her as an enemy, it would be strange for others to be truly kind to her.
However, the malice of some people will not disappear with the indifference of the original body, but will become more and more intense.
One time, the original body's schoolbag was secretly thrown into the river. It was a very cold day, but the original body had to go into the river to fish it out. Otherwise, she would be left without her books and schoolbag, and would not only be beaten when she returned home, but she would even be deprived of the opportunity to study.
But if she went into the river in winter, she might freeze to death, so she resisted for the first time and started fighting.
The original person had been a soft-hearted person since childhood, and there was no way she could beat those naughty kids. When she was about to be beaten, Xie Guangan appeared.
I don’t know what the other party’s mentality was. He knew that his sister didn’t like the original body, but he still helped the original body fight.
Later, Xie Guangan often stayed with the original body. They were not very close, but he really wanted to protect her, and he did help the original body.
With someone protecting them, those bullies became more restrained, but at the same time, rumors spread that the original body and Xie Guangan were having an affair.
Perhaps for this reason, Xie Guangan quickly distanced himself from her.
"Sister-in-law Lingling." The child suddenly spoke up, interrupting Yuan Lingling's thoughts, "Shall we have egg custard?"
Just now Hou Yuan didn't want to go home, and Yuan Lingling coaxed him back by telling the child that there was something delicious.
Shen Caisheng asked her to take care of the child, and she couldn't just ignore him.
"Yuanyuan, go to the kitchen with your sister-in-law and warm yourself by the fire while she cooks, okay? You will be able to make delicious egg custard yourself in the future."
"Me?" Hou Yuan pointed at himself with his eyes wide open.
Yuan Lingling was instantly healed. "Of course. Yuanyuan, do you want to learn?"
"I have to learn." The child pulled Yuan Lingling and ran to the kitchen, as if he suddenly forgot that he didn't like the person in front of him when he first met him today.
While teaching the child how to cook, Yuan Lingling rubbed his little hands several times.
As expected of a child raised by a man, there is nothing good about her except her face.
"Wash your hands clean, otherwise long worms will grow in your stomach after eating." Yuan Lingling gestured and watched the child's eyes widen and widen until they became round. Then, without Yuan Lingling's urging, he rubbed his hands carefully again.
So cute.
With a child around, Yuan Lingling always paid attention to his emotions and communicated with him, so she didn't have the time to think too much.
Yuan Lingling learned her cooking skills from many Internet cooking masters. Those food bloggers are best at making food look beautiful and have a unique taste.
Yuan Lingling didn't want to make something with a very unique taste. Of course, she had to cater to her own taste, but Yuan Lingling was still very confident about making some red pandas and puppies.
The little guy was completely obedient after one meal.
However, the child is obedient but not well-behaved when sleeping.
There was only a kang in the main house in the yard. Yuan Lingling was worried about the child sleeping alone, so she took him with her at night. However, he started to lift the quilt as soon as he lay down. Yuan Lingling covered him, but he lifted it again after closing his eyes for a while.
After several times, Yuan Lingling woke up from dozing off and tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep. She didn't suffer from insomnia like she does now when she first came.
Yuan Lingling's thoughts were in a mess, and she suddenly recalled what Aunt Yang had said.
Since coming into this world, many things have been developing in directions that she is not familiar with.
Her impression of Shen Caisheng is also constantly changing.
Yuan Lingling didn't know whether she really noticed his kindness and beauty, or was deceived by his external charm.
It seems that Shen Caisheng is not as bad as she imagined.
It is normal for a child to develop character defects because of his or her original family.
It is very likely that Shen Caisheng's childhood growing environment led to this situation. It also seems reasonable that he later encountered something even more unacceptable that led to his darkening.
But Yuan Lingling felt that it was no longer possible to correct him now, after all, he was no longer a child.
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Shen Caisheng headed in the direction where the group disappeared and caught up with them in a short while.
If he was not mistaken, the first person to escape was Hu Ziyang whom they were looking for.
They all thought he had already run away, but they didn't expect that the man was still in Jingshi.
Shen Caisheng followed the people all the way to the west of the city.
There is a main road in the west of the city leading to Hebei Province, and another small road leading to a county town under the jurisdiction of the city. There are some houses scattered along the two roads.
When the group arrived here, the other party disappeared, and Shen Caisheng couldn't see clearly as he followed behind them.
"Damn, someone slipped away again."
"Where are the errands, Boss? Are you still looking for them?"
"Looking for shit, let's go!"
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Looking at the group of people leaving, Shen Caisheng hid in the bushes by the roadside.
I don’t know which group these people are from. I was worried about them before, but now they left so easily.
If Hu Ziyang wasn't so important, Shen Caisheng would definitely chase after him to see for himself.
Hidden in the darkness, even though his hands and feet were so cold that they were stinging, Shen Caisheng did not dare to let down his guard. The wind blowing through the trees made him more awake and also relieved a lot of his inexplicable irritability.
An unknown amount of time had passed, but just when Shen Caisheng felt he was about to freeze to death in the woods, a faint figure finally appeared beside an abandoned cowshed in front of him.
Shen Caisheng stared at that place.
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Yuan Lingling didn't know how she fell asleep. She just felt that she was about to fall asleep when she heard a faint scream. She suddenly sat up from the bed.
It was pitch black all around, and the little guy next to me was breathing evenly and sleeping soundly.
Yuan Lingling thought she was dreaming, so she let out a breath and prepared to go back to sleep. Then she heard voices coming from outside, and there really were people there.
Since coming here, she no longer has to go to work and there is no one else at home, so Yuan Lingling has always slept until she wakes up naturally. Now she is a little annoyed by being disturbed, but it is so noisy outside at this time, so something must be happening.
Suddenly, Yuan Lingling's heart skipped a beat.
Could it be Shen Caisheng?
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