Chapter 63: Breaking Defense
Ling Xiao's grandmother Wu Chenliang has had a great influence on Ling Xiao.
Ling Xiao's father, Ling Zexuan, was a military general who could barely read and write, was uneducated and had a bad temper. He always looked down on the great Chinese medicine master Wu Chenliang.
In fact, he himself spoke in rough language and looked down on the great writers who were more elegant and literary.
Ling Xiao was an erudite child since childhood. He learned martial arts from his father and ancient poetry and traditional Chinese medicine from his grandmother Wu Chenliang. He had a very deep relationship with Wu Chenliang.
It can be said that Wu Chenliang is Ling Xiao's most beloved person.
Later, the situation became turbulent and Wu Chenliang was impeached.
Ling Xiao's mother Wu Dong'er could have lived a stable life under the protection of Ling Zexuan, but she refused to draw a clear line with her biological father Wu Chenliang. Instead, she voluntarily went to the countryside to undergo re-reformation in order to reduce her father's crime.
Because of this incident, Ling Zexuan had a huge quarrel with her.
Ling Zexuan failed to win the argument with his lover Comrade Wu Dong'er, so he wanted to keep Ling Xiao in the county, but Ling Xiao insisted on going to the countryside with his mother and was unwilling to follow his father.
Ling Xiao, who had always been afraid of Ling Zexuan, dared to confront Ling Zexuan for the first time, which made Ling Zexuan so angry that he simply made up his mind and ignored the mother and son.
Later, Ling Zexuan still couldn't bear to watch Wu Chenliang being impeached. After all, his wife and children had suffered to protect Wu Chenliang.
He bailed out the imprisoned Wu Chenliang on the grounds that Wu Chenliang had positive thoughts and that Wu Dong'er had been sent to the countryside for reform.
Wu Chenliang risked his life to protect the books he had treasured all his life.
In Wu Chenliang's eyes, those books are more precious than his own life.
After Ling Xiao and his mother Wu Dong'er were sent to the countryside, they became the key surveillance targets in the village. After learning that his grandmother was seriously ill, Ling Xiao had no way to get away to see her, so he asked Lin Hua to go.
After all, as a native rural person with a poor family background, Lin Hua would not be followed.
When Lin Hua met Wu Chenliang, Wu Chenliang was afraid that the books would be burned if they were left with him. He found that Lin Hua was also a bookworm. Lin Hua even promised him that he would protect the books with his life, so the old man gave all the ancient books to Lin Hua.
By the way, I told Lin Hua that his favorite set of books in his life was the one written by Wu Xiaoyun (Wu Jianren), which was actually a notebook.
Wu Xiaoyun spent twenty years writing this notebook, which was once listed as one of the four major denunciation novels of the late Qing Dynasty.
Wu Chenliang liked the book very much when it was published by World Book Company in 1926.
Later, the 1959 version was divided into two volumes, with punctuation added to the layout and the dense annotations deleted, making it easier to read, so he bought it.
Not long after Lin Hua brought the book to the countryside, Wu Chenliang passed away.
So those books became the last memories left by grandpa Wu Chenliang to Ling Xiao.
And the famous book that grandma loved the most became a treasure that Ling Xiao cherished with his life.
A few days ago, when Lin Hua brought Ling Xiao to the hospital, in addition to bringing his own favorite book, he also brought the upper and lower volumes of Ling Xiao's favorite book.
Because he was looking forward to Ling Xiao waking up, he thought that the first thing Ling Xiao would do when he woke up would be to see these two books.
And recently, Lin Li has been reading Ling Xiao's favorite books just for Ling Xiao. The problem is that Lin Hua only brought four books in total.
Two of them are Lin Hua's favorites, and Lin Hua reads them often. Lin Lu can't snatch them from him, so the remaining two are Ling Xiao's treasured books.
Lin Li had nothing else to read, so he could only read these two books. He read during the day and went to sleep with the books as his pillow at night.
In Lin Hua's mind, he mistakenly thought that his sister was still the person who got a headache when she saw a book.
Even though he was a very careful person, he didn't realize that his sister used to have a hunched back and a bad figure. In the past few days, after Lin Li's brutal self-training, she has improved her figure.
But what he didn't discover, Ling Xiao discovered.
He remembered that Lin Li had a very bad body shape before, but now he had beautiful lines, a straight back, and exuded confidence from head to toe.
Lin Hua talked non-stop. Not only did he talk about Lin Li's hard work in reading, he also talked about how Lin Li worked hard to learn Chinese medicine, acupuncture, and prescribe medicine in order to help Ling Xiao cure his illness.
Lin Hua is usually not a talkative person, but now that his sister is involved, he has a lot to say.
He had never seen his sister so attentive to anyone before, so he was overwhelmed.
Ling Xiao listened quietly, without any rebuttal or any thinking activity, just like a wooden man.
Lin Li felt tired for Ling Xiao, and she finally interrupted her second brother's story.
"Brother, listen to me. Take a break first. Take a break." Lin Li pushed his brother to sit on the chair. "Let's not engage in moral kidnapping, okay?"
"What? What does that mean?" Lin Hua said he didn't understand.
Ling Xiao didn't understand either.
"What I mean is, whatever I did for Ling Xiao was my business, my choice...it has nothing to do with him. But if I insist on forcing him to be moved, that's called moral kidnapping..." Lin Li explained patiently.
"You like him, so how can you have nothing to do with him?" Lin Huacai didn't have such great ideas, "You have done so much for Ling Xiao, if Ling Xiao is still not moved, then he is ignorant and doesn't know how to be grateful."
"Brother, this is called moral kidnapping..."
"I don't understand, and I don't need to understand," Lin Hua stood up from the chair again and said angrily to Ling Xiao, "Ling Xiao! I understand, you are still thinking about Tan Weiwei, right?"
Speaking of Tan Weiwei, Lin Hua had even more to say, "Do you know? After you became a vegetable, Tan Weiwei pretended to go see a doctor. In fact, she didn't go to see a doctor at all. She just wanted to avoid you! She didn't want to take care of you at all!"
Lin Li came to pull Lin Hua again and advised: "Brother, don't say anything... We have no evidence for these things..."
"I will say it even if there is no evidence!" Lin Huayi was filled with anger. "It was Tan Weiwei who said it herself not long after Liuli married you. She said that she had arranged a chess game so that Liuli would remember her words. She just used our Lin family to take care of you. In the future, as long as you wake up, you will return to her side, and Liuli will end up with nothing. Not only will you not be grateful for Liuli's care for you, you will also hate everyone in my family. But if you never wake up, Tan Weiwei will also have a way out. She will find a home, and she will not be the loser from beginning to end. I don't know what chess game she arranged, but I can hear from her words that she doesn't love you. As long as you wake up, she just wants you to serve her for the rest of your life."
Seeing that Lin Hua was really angry when talking about these things, Lin Li stopped resisting.
Because it seems that even if Lin Hua did it not for Lin Li, but just for Ling Xiao, he would say this.
Lin Hua continued, "Ling Xiao, maybe you think I lied to help Yu Yu, or maybe you think I was just picking on Tan Weiwei. But I still want to remind you seriously, whether you believe it or not, Tan Weiwei is not the gentle and virtuous girl she appears to be. Her mind is very complicated. Her feelings for you are more like a transaction."
"Are...are you done?" Ling Xiao asked with difficulty.
Without waiting for Lin Hua to answer, he coughed and said, "Lin Hua, you... are becoming more and more long-winded... it gives me a headache... it's so noisy..."
Lin Hua finally got a response from Ling Xiao. Even if it was just disapproval, it was at least better than him chattering here all by himself.
So Lin Hua asked again in a clear voice: "Ling Xiao! I will give you one last chance. Tell me, do you still want to leave?"
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