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 replaced him.
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 give to Jiang Yuan when questioning him 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, that destined death will eventually come in other forms, like the sword of Damocles hanging over your head.
Now that the weakened Z01 is unable to save the opponent again and again, what accidents will happen?
But what was beyond his expectation was that after Jiang Yuanshi survived in this world, he lost his memory. After repeated requests from his parents and multiple diagnoses from doctors, he became a truly ordinary person. He no longer had exaggerated mental arithmetic and learning abilities, and his memory was even fluctuating due to a concussion. Sometimes his memory even stopped at a few years old.
A genius fell from grace overnight to become an ordinary person, even mentally retarded. This was terrible news for his parents. They were still hoping for a lucky break, but when they saw that Jiang Yuan knew nothing about the game knowledge they once loved, and that he studied hard to satisfy them but made extremely slow progress, they were completely desperate.
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, this showed their parental consideration, and on the other hand, they hoped that the news that their son had become a fool would spread later.
They gave Jiang Yuanshi a return ticket, a ticket 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 Jiang Yuanshi left home, he only carried a large backpack. No one knew what he brought, or perhaps they were too lazy to find out.
Just a discarded pawn.
Jiang Yuanshi finally returned to his grandmother's house, which he had been longing for. But as soon as he got off the train station, he saw an old figure standing at the station exit, looking around with the help of a cane. When his eyes focused in a certain direction, he walked towards him with a staggering gait.
Grandma looked a little different from what he remembered. She had aged. Jiang Yuanshi poked her wrinkles like a child and said innocently, "Grandma, why are you getting shorter and suddenly wrinkled? 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 my fault, I was 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 head is damaged."
The old man and the child chatted for a while at the station. Grandma had bought a new car, a car with a roof, 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 the convertible is better."
Grandma, who was driving, said: "The weather forecast says it's going 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, still green and unripe. 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 children?"
"I think so."
"That's not bad." Jiang Yuanshi didn't seem sad at all about the dog running 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 some sense, "Grandma, I'm not sad. Xiao Huang has a new home, and his children must be very happy. You are allergic to dog hair. How many puppies in the world don't shed hair like Xiao Huang?"
Grandma didn't say anything. The air was quiet and a little damp.
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 throughout 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, looking like he had autism.
The village was not big, so 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 boy 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 relationship between the neighbors. The grandmother often gave small gifts to the nearby villagers and asked them to take care of her grandson.
At first, everyone was reluctant to accept it, but later on, they 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 a junk collector to collect some usable parts and installed a second-hand speaker-shaped external speaker. The aunties and uncles were more enthusiastic about dancing in the square because the sound was loud, they could hear it, and it saved electricity.
Everyone also raised funds to buy a banner for him and hung it at his grandmother's house so that he could see it as soon as he entered the door.
At the age of 19, Jiang Yuanshi, who had lost his memory, was surrounded by kindness here.
Z01, who had been watching, 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 I 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 as a child, and she has only seen her grandson as a child with her own eyes.
So when the child in front of her became a little unfamiliar, the grandmother knew that her grandson had regained 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 still her grandson no matter what.
When Jiang Yuan heard this, he was stunned at first, 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 another dog.
Grandma was quiet for a moment, then sighed, "I'm kidding. Xiao Huang is missing. On the day you were five and a half years old and were sent to the city with a fever, I asked the villagers, but 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 deep breath and smiled, "Being stimulated is a good opportunity to change back. It's good to be a fool, without any worries."
"You kid, you're so annoying."
"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, and I only 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 a dark yellow color, and looked exactly like our dog. I had wanted to go look for it that night, but it snowed so heavily that night, and when I went to look the next day, there was nothing there... Or maybe it wasn't our little yellow dog. After all, there are a lot of dark yellow puppies, and I haven't seen one with my own eyes."
"...Yeah, maybe he really did put his love before his friendship and ran off with his wife."
"yes……"
The topic of Xiao Huang ended just like that and was no longer mentioned, becoming a thorn in their hearts.
After recovering his memory, Jiang Yuanshi still pretended to be a fool when there were outsiders around. He was trying to escape back, but his parents came back to find him. There was no reason, just that his work was not going well, and they heard that he hit his head on a rock, so they came back with the hope that he could recover 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 played games with Jiang Yuanshi, practicing calligraphy and writing the names of his father, mother and Jiang Yuanshi himself.
Really...
Jiang Yuanshi looked at the accident insurance and a suicide note they took out. 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 down. 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 that he had to go back because of 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 home and looked at her silent grandson. She didn't know what had happened, but she knew it wouldn't be a pleasant thing.
Jiang Yuanshi did not hide anything and told his grandmother the whole story. The old lady did not say anything, but just stood there with her cane.
"Grandma, I'm sorry. I think I'm going to do something extreme. Maybe then, you won't want to see me anymore."
Grandma looked at the young man with a smile on his face but sadness in his eyes.
"Da, da, da." 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 gently caressed. Grandma said lightly: "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 tugged at Jiang Yuanshi's face and said, "Just do whatever you want. The worst thing you can do is mistreat yourself. Go get what they owe you, but remember to do it in an honest and upright 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, so I snatched her away for fear that her father would beat her and treat her badly. In the end, she became just like her father. Too much like him. Since she went to college, she has only been home to see me 19 times... I'm tired of her. 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 if Jiang Yuanshi could bring himself to do it. After all, Jiang Yuanshi, with whom he had been together, cherished relationships very much. If others were kind to him, he would return the favor doubly, even without hesitation.
But this time, Jiang Yuanshi refreshed Z01's point of view.
Watching Jiang Yuanshi's parents driving happily to 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 text, just pictures.
Those were photos of abused animals after their death. There were only two hands in the photos, holding each other, like proof after a carnival. The erotic photos were quickly taken down, but were captured by quick-handed netizens, censored, and reposted. There were constant condemnations below, and no one could find the poster's information. Many people began to dig up the owner of the photos, and found that the rings on the two hands were a pair.
Netizens looked for the brand based on the appearance of the ring and dug deeper. Some students reported under their real names that a high school teacher seemed gentle and friendly, but actually bullied students verbally in private and accepted gifts in disguise, causing the student to become depressed and drop out of school. Another student reported under their real names that a university professor took his own 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 exposed in the photo was exactly the same as the one in those photos.
A single stone caused 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 classmates, and his good parents never showed up. After digging through the family, they found the company registered by Jiang Yuanshi's parents. The registration alone cost one million, so they were very rich. Then there was the new car and new house they bought, but the strange thing was that there was no share of their son in them. It was all in their own name. Logically, shouldn't they at least leave one set for their child as a guarantee?
The farce continued late into the night, when a talented alumnus emerged and said he had run into this genius and his parents in an office building one day. The parents looked kind and were curious about what they were doing when they saw the uncle and aunt start smashing their computer, shouting, "I told you not to learn how to play games, and I'm smashing it all for you!"
The scene was so terrifying that he was frightened and ran away without daring to look or take any video.
There is no video, but there is the building address. 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 from that day.
The video that was once circulated of parents of university faculty members kneeling and begging their rebellious child to come home has been dug up again and criticized. At that time, there were actually voices questioning its authenticity, but they were drowned out. Now, when watching this video again, the excitement of 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 didn't bring a charging cable, and their phones ran out of battery after they finished using the navigation system. They went straight to the insurance company, took out the signed insurance policy, handed it to the staff, and began to verify the handwriting.
Everything went well today, but I felt like someone was always looking at me. Is it because my image is so bad after staying up all night?
They took turns going to the bathroom, looked in the mirror and found that there was nothing wrong, so they felt relieved, thinking that they were probably overthinking it.
The staff had just finished their work and were about to call it a day when they heard the staff member say seriously, "Hello, I've checked the handwriting, but it doesn't match the name of the signer. You need to re-sign it."
"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?"
"The handwriting is wrong. The signer wrote 'Yuan' as in 'Grievance'."
"Isn't that his name..." they blurted out, and then they realized something was wrong. Jiang Yuanshi was named by them personally. Even though the name was changed due to obstruction, in their hearts, this child was born at the wrong time, and they resented the timing of the child's arrival.
Even in their later addresses, when they affectionately called the child's nickname in front of others, others heard it as "Yuanyuan", but they called it "Yuanyuan".
It is because of this deeply ingrained perception that they are confused.
They went home angrily with the discarded 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 the Yuan that means resentment? Mom and Dad, you always say that this is the name I should be called. 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 nothing serious would happen. They turned on their phones, the screen lit up, but there was no message.
fine.
Just as I thought 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 come over and a colleague had forwarded some news to them.
They clicked on it.
…
It's over.
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