Chapter 36: The Wounded City
Lin Xiangwan's tone was full of ridicule, but Chu Di didn't seem to hear it, he drove calmly, "You don't have to provoke me, I won't take anything you say now, since you don't agree with my suggestion, then I have to act according to my own ideas." ”
"If you want me to agree, you also have to say something that people can agree with, what you said is based on your own preferences, when have you considered my feelings?" Lin Xiangwan looked in the rearview mirror, Ye Nan was also so angry that her little face puffed up, and she began to calculate what the chance of her and Ye Nan successfully getting out would be if she and Chu Di went to grab the steering wheel.
As if to figure out her thoughts, Chu Di pressed the car window and door lock at the same time, "I took Aunt Zhang back, you can discuss things with her in the future, what do you want to eat or what you want to buy, I put the card in the drawer, and the password is still your birthday." ”
"Chu Di, you know that's not what I want!" He didn't pay attention to her at all, and his self-painting attitude made Lin Xiangwan angry.
Chu Di raised his eyebrows and continued, "It's okay if you want to go to work, but I hope you can come back on time after work, and Ye Nan, I will send someone to pick him up and drop him off at school, if he doesn't mind, I'll send it myself." ”
The child angrily kicked the back of the car seat to show his attitude.
"What if I don't come back?" Lin asked with a huff.
Chu Di smiled slightly, "Then I'll go to you, I don't have anything to do right now anyway, if you like to play, I don't mind accompanying you." But there is one thing, do you know that Ye Nan plays Go very well? I have found a good teacher for him, if he continues to practice, maybe he will have a lot of achievements in this area in the future, but if you don't mind delaying his future, you can go around the world and run around, I don't believe that you can let him practice with peace of mind in the process of constantly escaping. ”
If what Chu Di said before was nonsense, then this sentence finally hit the heart.
Anyone who practices Go knows that if you don't become a national player before the age of 20, you will have no hope for life. Compared with those teenagers who started practicing chess at the age of four or five, Ye Nan's start is already late, but he is talented and smart, and he is good at thinking and planning, if he really makes up his mind to go down this road, although he dare not say that he can get ahead 100%, but he will never be a mediocre person, and the most rare thing is that he really likes Go, Lin Xiangwan does not want to let him be implicated because of himself.
"Where is there no good teacher, why does he have to stay here?"
Chu Di took out a business card from his coat pocket with one hand and handed it over, "Is there a better teacher than him?"
The name printed on the business card, not only in the Go world, even the general public is very familiar, he became famous at the age of fourteen, defeated the Japanese nine-dan professional master at the age of sixteen, and now although he is not in his early thirties, he is already an elder in the chess academy, and it is rumored that he never accepts apprentices easily, but every apprentice is a leader.
In this way, even if you take the money mountain to smash it, you may not be able to hit the teacher, Lin Xiangwan really can't find it.
"I don't want him! I can practice it myself!" Ye Nan sat in the back, although he couldn't see Lin Xiangwan's expression, he clearly felt her wavering, and he said loudly, "I play chess by myself! Watch teaching films! I don't need a good teacher! Mom don't listen to him!!"
"Ye Nan, don't say it. You don't understand. Lin Xiangwan replied in a stern voice.
A good teacher is more important than money or other things for Ye Nan, who is a beginner in chess, and he can make Ye Nan do half the work. Although Lin Xiangwan doesn't know Go, she understands that even if she is a talented person, she can't work hard in a certain professional field by herself, a good teacher is like a good guide, maybe he can't directly tell you where the shortcut to success is, but he tells you that on the road to success, where are there thorns and traps.
"We can go back with you, we can live with you, but you know, that's all. I'm not going to grant you any more excessive requests, and if you've done anything weird, don't expect me to show you mercy. Lin Xiangwan made a decision very quickly, if Chu Di had to fight to the death, then he would have a way to entangle her if she fled to the ends of the earth, instead of wasting time with him on such boring things, she might as well do something more meaningful. "Say in advance, if you do do that kind of thing and I'm leaving, you can't stop it. ”
It's just that they live together, the well water doesn't interfere with the river water, she is not unacceptable, for Ye Nan, even if it is too demanding, she can consider it.
Chu Di smiled bitterly, "You are like a hairy hedgehog now, what do you think I will do to you?" Don't worry, I won't touch you unless ......"
"Unless what?"
"Unless you beg me. ”
"You don't dream less, please have a face, okay?!You can say this kind of thing!" The anger that had been calmed down was ignited again by the man's shameless words, Ye Nan heard Lin Xiangwan promise him to go back, and tossed like a little donkey in the back to express his anger, Chu Di was protested by the two of them in various ways, but he was not angry at all, but laughed loudly, "Go back, this is not only my hope, but also other people's ......"
"Who?"
"You'll know when you go back. ”
* Although there are twelve combination locks in the apartment, it is not difficult to remember, which are Ye Nan's birthday, Lin Xiangwan's birthday, and Chu Di's birthday.
After the door opened, the familiar aroma of chicken soup wafted out of the room, and Aunt Zhang, who had not seen her for a long time, appeared in the living room, and when she saw Lin Xiangwan and Ye Nan, she immediately cried with joy.
After Lin Xiangwan returned to China, Aunt Zhang has always taken care of her daily life, although it is only a part-time job, but Lin Xiangwan has always treated her as a family member, Aunt Zhang hugged Lin Xiangwan and patted her shoulder vigorously, "You stupid girl, how to do such a dangerous thing, do you know how worried everyone is......"
Aunt Zhang also attended Lin Xiangwan's funeral, and shed a lot of tears, and was sad for a long time. Later, when Chu Di went to pick her up, he told her that Lin Xiangwan was still alive, she didn't believe it at all, and thought it was some kind of prank, until Chu Di told her the truth and asked her to come over to help reconcile their relationship, Aunt Zhang agreed.
"I'm sorry, Auntie, I don't want to, I'm worried about you. Lin Xiangwan saw the old man crying, and he couldn't help but be bitter, and tears fell. Ye Nan was on the side, silently hugging the two women, her heart was sour and bitter, and she couldn't tell what it was like.
Aunt Zhang saw that adults and children were sad with her, so she wiped the corners of her eyes, "Look at me, when I'm old, people have a lot of tears, and it hurts you to cry with me, don't cry, you're good now, Auntie is happier than anything else, hurry up and take Ye Nan to wash your hands, haven't you eaten breakfast yet? I made chicken soup chaos, and I also wrapped xiaolongbao, which you and Ye Nan like to eat the most, ah, by the way, Xiaolin, that Miss Xu, what special preferences does she have?"
"Miss Xu?" Lin Xiangwan raised her crying eyes, and looked at Aunt Zhang with some puzzlement, and then she thought of what Chu Di told her that there were other people waiting for her at home, and immediately turned her head and asked Chu Di, "Xu Mingfei?!"
Chu Di nodded, and Lin Xiangwan immediately wiped her face with the back of her hand, "Where is she?"
Chu Di pointed to the room upstairs, and when Lin Xiangwan was about to run to the stairs, he stretched out his hand to block her, "You...... Don't be too surprised to see her, her current state is not very good. ”
Chu Di is usually not a person who is stumbling, but looking at his expression at the moment, it seems to be extremely embarrassed, Lin Xiangwan's heart sank, "What's wrong with her?"
"In the two years that you have been away, she has gone through some things, and now she has become ...... Anyway, you should go and see for yourself, but I warn you, you'd better be prepared. ”
Upstairs was divided into two parts by Chu Di, one part was used as a chess room for Ye Nan, and the other part, Lin Xiangwan looked at it for a long time, but he didn't see what it was.
The walls of the room were covered with thick sponge cushions, and all the places that exposed the metal or edges and corners were also covered with special sponges more than ten centimeters thick, and even the place that should have been a window was completely sealed into a soft wall, and there were very few furnishings in the room, and all the furniture was riveted firmly in place, Lin Xiangwan looked in at the door of the room, and did not find Xu Mingfei.
She looked at Chu Di suspiciously, Chu Di waved her hand at her, motioning for her not to make a sound, and the two almost tiptoed to a coffee table at the end of the room.
Chu Di squatted down and pointed inside, and Lin Xiangwan also knelt on the floor with his movements - in the innermost part of the coffee table, in the darkest corner of the whole room, there was a slender and emaciated figure curled up, her long hair was pulled out, and her hair was originally black like a waterfall, but at the moment it was like rotten grass, yellow and dry, the woman's face was hidden behind her hair, and a pair of eyes full of horror stared at the outside.
"Mingfei ......" If Chu Di hadn't told her in advance that this was Xu Mingfei, Lin Xiangwan wouldn't have been able to believe the woman in front of her, this woman who was as pale and thin as a ghost, was Xu Mingfei, who was once so bright and beautiful.
Hearing someone call her, Xu Mingfei didn't respond, on the contrary, she seemed to see something terrible, her body trembled and retreated straight back, but she had retreated to the limit, there was only a wall behind her body, so she hugged her body tightly with her arms, wanting to make herself smaller and more inconspicuous, Lin Xiangwan saw that her bare arms outside her sleeves were covered with large and small terrible scars.