Searching for "Jiang Yuanshi" (Part 6)
This is just one of the parallel worlds. In this world, Jiang Yuanshi should have died in childhood, but because of the intervention of Z01, the ordinary little yellow dog changed the ending of Jiang Yuanshi being hit by a car on the way home from school, or it could be said that it was a replacement.
But because of this, unknowns and deviations appeared in the subsequent timeline. For example, Jiang Yuanshi in this parallel world did not pick up the puppy on a rainy day when he was ten years old, but even so, the car accident when Jiang Yuanshi was 19 years old still happened.
When Z01 agreed to cross the river, he would not change his ending, but when the fire started and the flames licked the human's skin, Z01 changed his mind. After a quick attempt, he succeeded at the cost of consuming an arm, which brought a heavy rain.
When watching Jiang Yuan being rescued from the car by paramedics in the crack, Z01 had already thought of the explanation he would use when questioning Jiang Yuan in the future.
That was Jiang Yuanshi from the parallel world, not the host Jiang Yuanshi who was bound to him.
But you must know that if the trajectory of your life is changed, the destined death will eventually come in other forms, like the sword of Damocles hanging over your head.
Now that the weakened Z01 cannot save the opponent again and again, what accidents will happen?
But what was beyond his expectation was that after Jiang Yuanshi in this world survived, he lost his memory, and after repeated requests from his parents and multiple diagnoses from doctors, he became a truly ordinary person. He no longer had the exaggerated mental arithmetic and learning abilities, and his memory even became unstable due to a concussion. Sometimes his memory even stayed at the time when he was a few years old.
A genius fell from grace overnight to become an ordinary person, or even mentally retarded. This was bad news for his parents. They were still hoping for the best, but when they saw that Jiang Yuan knew nothing about the game knowledge they once loved, they were completely desperate after studying hard to satisfy them but making extremely slow progress.
After being tempted many times, Jiang Yuanshi was abandoned.
Because of his injuries and amnesia, they simply arranged for Jiang Yuanshi to take a leave of absence from school. On the one hand, it showed their consideration as parents, and on the other hand, they hoped that the news that their son had become a fool would not spread out until later.
They gave Jiang Yuanshi a return ticket, a ticket to go back to his grandmother's house.
They removed the locator given to Jiang Yuanshi, stopped monitoring him, and let him go back on his own.
When leaving home, Jiang Yuanshi only carried a large backpack. No one knew what he brought, or they were too lazy to know.
Just a discarded pawn.
Jiang Yuanshi finally returned to his grandmother's house, but as soon as he got off the train station, he saw an old figure standing at the station exit, looking around with a cane, and when his eyes were focused in a certain direction, he walked towards him with a staggering gait.
Grandma looked a little different from what she remembered. She had gotten older. Jiang Yuanshi poked her wrinkles like a child and said innocently, "Grandma, why are you getting shorter and suddenly have wrinkles? Did I make you angry again?"
It was just a very ordinary sentence, but tears welled up in the grandmother's eyes. She hugged her grandson and patted his back, saying repeatedly: "No, no... It's grandma's fault, grandma is wrong, why is my Yuanyuan so thin..."
"I don't know. Mom and Dad said I fell and hit my head. I don't understand why I can grow taller after sleeping if my brain is damaged."
The old and the young chatted for a while at the station. Grandma bought a new car with a lid, but it was a little small. Jiang Yuanshi, who was curled up in the back seat with his legs hugged, said blankly, "Grandma, I think a convertible is better."
The grandmother who was driving: "It's forecast to rain today, if it's sunny we'll take a convertible."
"Oh, okay." Jiang Yuanshi looked out the window. The fields on both sides of the road were full of wheat, not yet ripe, still green. He felt like something was missing. He paused for a moment and asked, "Grandma, where is Xiao Huang? Is he home? Why didn't you come to pick me up?"
Grandma paused and said, "Xiao Huang, he...he found a wife, but he didn't have time to get sterilized, so he eloped with his wife."
Jiang Yuanshi blinked and said "Oh", then asked, "Does he have a child?"
"I think so."
"That's good." Jiang Yuanshi didn't seem sad at all that the dog had run away. He just said that because his grandmother was afraid he would be unhappy. "How about we get another one?"
"No need." Jiang Yuanshi shook his head, and suddenly he responded with reason, "Grandma, I'm not sad. Xiao Huang has a new home, and his children must be very happy. You are allergic to dog hair, and there are not so many puppies in the world who don't shed hair like Xiao Huang."
Grandma didn't say anything. The air was quiet and a little humid.
It's raining.
Jiang Yuanshi returned to his grandmother's house. Xiao Huang's things were still there, but they looked very old.
He volunteered to help put the things into the utility room.
The news that Jiang Yuanshi had returned to the countryside quickly spread in the village. Many people came to see this talented grandson. He looked thin and handsome, but sometimes he did not respond when asked questions, as if he was immersed in his own world and looked like he had autism.
The village was not big and the news spread quickly.
Many people came to visit and express their condolences, but there were also many who came to watch the show, including many children.
There is a new fool in the village. Sometimes he acts like an adult and sometimes like a child. But the only difference is that this time Jiang Yuanshi is no longer interfered with by anyone. He becomes the king of children and a kind-hearted young man in the village.
His intelligence is unknown, but he is kind-hearted and can help any family in the neighborhood who is in trouble. Even the children who originally wanted to tease this fool were defeated by his powerful gaming skills, especially Pia Jika. No one can beat him at all.
The grandmother saw it all but did not stop him. If her grandson wanted to do it, he could go ahead. It would also help to improve the neighborhood relationship. The grandmother would often send small gifts to the nearby villagers, asking them to take care of her grandson.
At first, everyone tried to refuse and then accept it, but later on, they gradually changed their minds and often brought things to my grandmother. They all praised Jiang Yuanshi for his kindness and said that thanks to this young man from the city, the communication equipment in the village has become more convenient.
Repairing broken TVs has become a common occurrence in the village. A few days ago, the speaker for the village square dance broke down, and everyone was reluctant to spend money to buy a new one. Jiang Yuanshi passed by and simply went to the junk collector to collect some usable parts, and installed a second-hand speaker-shaped external speaker. The aunties and uncles became more enthusiastic when dancing in the square dance because the sound was loud, they could hear it, and it saved electricity.
We also raised funds to buy a banner for him and hung it at my grandmother's house so that it can be seen as soon as you enter the door.
At the age of 19, Jiang Yuanshi, who had lost his memory, was surrounded by kindness here.
Z01, who had been watching all the time, was also happy for him. Although he no longer existed in the other person's world, Z01 hoped that Jiang Yuanshi could be happy.
If things could continue to develop like this, perhaps Jiang Yuanshi could be reborn.
But the seeds of death had already been planted, and the accident eventually happened.
After the rain, Jiang Yuanshi was walking home when he slipped and fell down the slope into the field. He hit his head on a rock and was found by the villagers, who hurriedly sent him to a small clinic.
Fortunately, the person woke up and nothing serious happened. His appearance and way of speaking were still the same as before, sometimes dazed and sometimes normal. Grandma felt relieved but also felt a sense of inexplicable loss.
Perhaps having no memory is a good thing for Jiang Yuanshi.
It was not until we returned home that my grandmother discovered something unusual. A person's eyes can see the changes in experience.
Even though Jiang Yuanshi still gave her an innocent smile, there was no emotion in his eyes.
Grandma can still tell the difference between Jiang Yuanshi when he was a child and Jiang Yuanshi when he grew up, because the one that is most familiar to her is her grandson in his childhood, and she has only seen her grandson in his childhood with her own eyes.
So when the child in front of her became a little strange, the grandmother knew that her grandson had recovered his memory.
That night, grandma laid her cards on the table and told Jiang Yuanshi that if he recovered his memory he wouldn't have to pretend, because he was her grandson no matter what.
When Jiang Yuan heard this, he was stunned at first, and then he smiled helplessly and with some sadness. There was no more innocence in his eyes, but full of fatigue.
Grandma asked Jiang Yuanshi what his next plans were, whether he wanted to go back to school or something.
Jiang Yuanshi shook his head and said he hadn't thought about it yet, then asked when Xiao Huang ran away with the other dog.
Grandma was quiet for a while, and finally sighed: "I lied to you, Xiao Huang is missing. On the day you were five and a half years old and had a fever and were sent to the city, I asked the villagers, and no one knew where Xiao Huang was. It was as if he had evaporated from the face of the earth..."
Jiang Yuanshi felt a little strange when he saw his grandmother hesitate to speak. The wrinkles on his grandmother's face seemed to deepen at this moment. He closed his eyes, looked at Jiang Yuanshi and said, "Child, there is something I don't know whether I should tell you. I'm afraid that if I tell you, you will be upset and unable to accept it."
Jiang Yuanshi lowered his eyes, then raised them again, took a breath and smiled, "It's just right to change back after being stimulated. It's good to be a fool, without any worries."
"You kid, you're annoying again."
"I dare not." Jiang Yuanshi pulled back the upward arc of his mouth and said naturally, "Xiao Huang...is dead, right?"
Grandma nodded heavily.
"Do you know how he died?"
"...hit by a car. The ambulance left on the road through the fields the day you fell ill. Your parents asked me to look after the house, but I heard from people who had just come back from watching the excitement that there was a dog on the road that looked like it had been hit by a car. It was earthy yellow in color, and looked exactly like our dog. I wanted to go look for it that night, but it snowed too heavily that night, and when I went to look for it the next day, there was nothing... Maybe it wasn't our little yellow dog, after all, there are a lot of earthy yellow puppies, and I haven't seen one with my own eyes."
"...Yes, maybe he really valued women over friendship and eloped with his wife."
"yes……"
The topic of Xiao Huang ended just like that and was no longer mentioned, becoming a thorn in their hearts.
Jiang Yuanshi, who has recovered his memory, still pretends to be a fool when there are outsiders around. He is trying to escape back, but his parents come back to find him. There is no reason, just that work is not going well. They also heard that he hit his head on a rock, so they come back with the hope of recovering his memory.
But unfortunately, they were not familiar with Jiang Yuanshi and could not see through his disguise. It seemed that he still had not recovered his memory and had even turned into a child. While his grandmother was out, his parents suddenly started playing games with Jiang Yuanshi, practicing calligraphy and writing his father, mother and Jiang Yuanshi's own name.
Really...
Jiang Yuanshi looked at the accident insurance they took out and a suicide note. The handwriting was very similar to Jiang Yuanshi's. Jiang Yuanshi looked at the two documents and the heavy stone in his heart finally fell. He signed the two documents under his parents' noses and followed their instructions to take a video to certify that these things were signed voluntarily.
Jiang Yuanshi looked at his parents who were satisfied after packing up their things, then called his grandmother and said he had to go back for something at school. Then he left without looking back, leaving Jiang Yuanshi alone to look after the house.
Jiang Yuanshi watched them get into the car. The ordinary sedan had long been replaced by an off-road vehicle. This time, it was black, so even if it was stained with blood, it should be difficult to see.
He watched the black car disappear from his sight. He looked up at the corner of his ceiling and saw a red dot flashing.
The grandmother hurried back home and looked at her silent grandson. She didn't know what had happened, but she knew it wouldn't be pleasant.
Jiang Yuanshi did not hide anything and told his grandmother the whole story. The old lady did not say a word, but just stood there leaning on her cane.
"Grandma, I'm sorry, I think I will do something excessive, and maybe then, you won't want to see me anymore."
The grandmother looked at the young man with a smile on his face but sadness in his eyes.
"Tap, tap, tap." The crutch made a sound when it hit the ground.
Grandma came to Jiang Yuanshi and raised her hand to signal him. Jiang Yuanshi then bent down and lowered his head, waiting for punishment, but in the end, he was caressed gently. Grandma said calmly: "No, Yuanyuan will always be grandma's baby. And... Grandma also signed that thing. After all, grandma is old. But I originally thought that accident insurance was just to reduce the medical expenses if I fell to the ground one day... It seems that I am still old and don't understand."
Grandma pulled Jiang Yuanshi's face and said, "Do whatever you want to do. The worst thing you can do is mistreat yourself. Go and ask for what they owe you, but remember to ask for it in an open and aboveboard manner. Do you understand?"
Jiang Yuanshi was stunned, his throat dry, and it took him a long time to utter a few words: "But mom...she is your child."
"Yes, my child. I divorced your grandfather for her. But I still remember what she said. When I asked her whether she wanted to live with her father or mother, she said she wanted to live with her father because her mother was useless and had no money... I couldn't bear to let her go at that time, so I snatched her away for fear that her father would beat her and treat her badly. In the end, she became like her father. Too much like him. Since she went to college, she has only come home to see me 19 times... I am tired of my child. If she really did something wrong, then let her get what she deserves."
Grandma returned to the house with a cane, leaving Jiang Yuanshi standing there alone.
Z01 looked at this development and wondered whether Jiang Yuanshi could bring himself to do it. After all, Jiang Yuanshi, with whom he had been together, valued relationships very much. If others were kind to him, he would return the favor double, even without hesitation.
But this time, Jiang Yuanshi refreshed Z01's point of view.
Watching Jiang Yuanshi's parents driving happily towards the city, it took a whole day to drive from the countryside to the city. While they were driving, an anonymous post appeared on the Internet. There was no words, just pictures.
Those were photos of abused animals after their death. There were only two hands in the photos, holding each other, in every photo, like proof after a carnival. The photos were quickly taken down, but were captured by quick-handed netizens, who censored them and posted them again. There were constant condemnations below, and no one could find the poster's information. Many people began to dig up the owners of the photos, and found that the rings on the two hands were a pair.
Netizens tried to find the brand based on the appearance of the ring, and as they dug deeper, a student reported under his real name that a high school teacher seemed gentle and friendly, but in fact verbally bullied students in private and accepted gifts in disguise, causing the student to become depressed and drop out of school. Another student reported under his real name that a university professor took his thesis and gave it to another student to publish in a journal, etc.
Coincidentally, the two teachers who were reported were a couple, and there were photos. The corner of the ring revealed in the photo was exactly the same as that in those photos.
A single stone can cause a thousand ripples. They were also the parties involved in the genius who died in a car accident that was previously reported in the news. After everyone found out the truth, they started to curse crazily, including the "genius". As the saying goes, like parents, like son, some netizens began to dig up the genius's black material.
Then the truth was revealed that the genius had been a lone wolf since childhood, often bullied and isolated by his classmates, and his good parents never showed up. After digging around the whole family, they found the company registered by Jiang Yuanshi's parents. The registration fee alone cost one million, so they were very rich. Then they bought a new car and a new house, but the strange thing was that there was no share of their son in them. All of them were written in their own names. Logically, shouldn't they at least leave one set for their child as a guarantee?
The farce continued until late at night, when a genius alumnus popped up and said that he met this genius and his parents in an office building one day. The parents looked very kind and were just curious about what they were doing when they saw the uncle and aunt smashing the computer, shouting, "I told you not to learn how to play games, so I smashed it for you!"
The scene was so horrifying that he was frightened and ran away without even looking or taking any video.
There is no video, but there is the address of the building. However, according to the reply from enthusiastic netizens, the surveillance camera was broken that day and there was no record. What a coincidence that there was only the video of that day.
The video of parents of college faculty members kneeling and begging their rebellious children to come home has been dug up again and criticized. At the time, there were actually voices questioning its authenticity, but they were drowned out. Now, when we watch the video again, the excitement over discovering the defects of the "genius" has turned into silence today.
There is no reason, because the perspective of that video is no different from the surveillance perspective.
Jiang Yuanshi's parents drove home overnight. Because they left in a hurry, they forgot to bring a charging cable, and their phones ran out of battery after they used the navigation. They went straight to the insurance company, took out the signed insurance policy and handed it to the staff, who began to verify the handwriting.
Everything went well today, but I felt like someone was always looking at me. Did my image become so bad after staying up all night?
They took turns going to the bathroom, and after looking in the mirror and finding that there was nothing wrong, they felt relieved, thinking that they were probably overthinking it.
The staff had just finished their work and were about to finish when they heard the staff say in a serious tone, "Hello, I have come to confirm the handwriting, but it does not match the name of the signer. You need to sign it again."
"How can it be wrong? I watched him sign it."
"The signatory's name is Jiang Yuanshi, but the name he signed is Jiang Yuanshi."
"That's the name, what's wrong with that?"
"The characters are wrong. The signer wrote "Yuan" (resentment)."
"Isn't his name this..." they blurted out, and then they realized something was wrong. Jiang Yuanshi was named by them personally, even if the name was changed due to obstruction, in their hearts, this child was born at the wrong time, and they resented the timing of this child's arrival.
Even later on, when they affectionately called the child by his nickname in front of others, others heard it as "Yuanyuan", but they called it "Yuanyuan".
It is because of this deep-rooted cognition that they are confused.
They went home angrily with the scrapped insurance book, called Jiang Yuanshi on the landline and scolded him for not being able to even write his name.
The child on the other end of the phone said in confusion: "My name is Jiang Yuanshi, isn't it Yuan which means resentment? Mom and Dad, you always say that I should have been called this name. Don't you like it? I really practiced hard."
They were speechless, but had no place to vent their anger, so they continued to scold the child before hanging up the phone.
They finally calmed down, charged their phones, took a few days off, and hoped that nothing serious would happen. They turned on their phones, the screen lit up, but there was no message.
fine.
Just as I was thinking this, I heard a "ding", a message, and then another message.
The dinging sound continued, and information came in one after another.
Having a bad feeling, they opened WeChat and found that their leader had called them and a colleague had forwarded some news to them.
They clicked on it.
…
It's over.
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