Soon after, Zhao Xiangnon shuddered when she recalled the last day of November, she didn't know which girl with a delicate face who claimed to be called Ono Yan with her mother's surname, also called Zhu Yan, used what kind of extreme interpretation she used to make her, who has always been good at disguise, recognize such a set of statements, and with a feeling of love for the house and Wu, she did not hesitate to give the face that tears infinite sympathy.

On the last day of November, the girl sitting opposite Zhao Xiangnong rested her hand on the table, she was still holding the department store gift certificate she gave her, she lowered her eyes, and said lightly.

"I live with my mother, who is half Japanese, and I take her last name, my Japanese name is Ono Yan, and my mother is from a bad background," she moistened her lips, "so it became the way it is." ”

Raising her eyes, she looked at her and said, "I suppose such a case must be a cliché in your world, right?" ”

Indeed, Zhao Xiangnong didn't know what words to use to comfort the girl with lonely eyes, so he could only cover her hand and say, "Ono is very cute, just like the sweet Oriental girl in Japanese comics." ”

"Soon you'll think I'm not cute." She said.

Zhao Xiangnong exaggerated and gave her an impossible expression.

She smiled: "Mom gets a fixed amount of money from my brother's family every month, she will throw me at home for the first ten days of every month and go to the casino alone, and then for the remaining twenty days because there is no money to hide at home, use a small part of the remaining money to buy alcohol, and my mother beat me after drinking, she said that because of my relationship, decent men can't accept her, and then my mother cried to me after she woke up, she said Ono you can't leave my mother has nothing left, she said Ono Mama is only like that because of loneliness, Then I began to forgive her. ”

"I grew up in this environment year by year, when I was fifteen years old, we came to the United States, I thought that my mother would be better if I changed the environment, but the United States is more attractive than Japan, my mother in addition to gambling and drinking and dating all kinds of American men, she is becoming more and more greedy, she is no longer satisfied with getting a fixed amount of money from her brother's family every month, she has repeatedly opened her mouth, as long as it is not too much, my mother's requirements will be met, I know that the reason why my mother is tolerated is because of my brother's relationship, In that family, only my brother recognized me, and when it came to my brother......"

Speaking of this, she stopped, her eyes were shining, and she looked at Zhao Xiangnong with sparkling eyes: "I think the happiest time in my life is when I know that I have such an elder brother." ”

In an almost dreamy voice, the girl murmured: "Only he accepts me and comforts me, Ah Yan, all bad things will pass, believe me." ”

She lowered her eyes again, her eyelashes fluttering: "I'm grateful to my brother, we hid it from my mother, and my brother's family got together occasionally. ”

After saying this, she grabbed Zhao Xiangnong's hand in a panic like a frightened rabbit: "Will you hate me because of this, my brother's grandfather has long explained that I have no right to inherit property, and even if I have, I will automatically give it up, because I like my brother too much, and I don't want those messy things to ruin my relationship with him." ”

At that moment, the girl named Xiao Yeyan was pathetic and pitiful in Zhao Xiangnong's eyes, much like she was holding on to the pitiful love at a certain stage and guarding it carefully, for fear that she would lose it if she was negligent.

"Of course not." Zhao Xiangnong smiled softly with her, and touched her hair to express her intimacy in order to reassure her.

She smiled, like many girls who can't hide their thoughts at a bright age.

"Thank you." She thanked her, and begged her cautiously: "Sister-in-law, I ran away from home this time, please don't tell my brother about seeing me." ”

Zhao Xiangnong nodded, and she asked her, "Can Ono sue me why you ran away from home." ”

She didn't answer, she said she had to go back to where she lived, and she pointed to the snacks on the table and asked if she could take them with them.

Zhao Shannon was a little puzzled by her request, nodded, her hand crossed in front of her to take the pastries, the cuffs of her coat were large, and then ......

"Ono, what's going on?" Zhao Xiangnong grabbed her hand, and it was clear that there were a few scars on the hand that she saw coming sideways, and it looked like a ......

The panicked look of the person who was caught made her feel even more suspicious, and Zhao Xiangnon opened her sleeve without saying anything, and after that, Zhao Xiangnon gasped, but there were dozens of new and old scars on such thin hands, so the scars and Xiao Yeyan's fresh and sweet face were linked to achieve a shocking effect.

There were seven wounds on Xiao Yeyan's hands, five of which were old and two were new scars, and Zhao Xiangnon carefully observed those scars, because Zhao Xiangnong had been in contact with many problem children, and she could be 80% sure that those wounds were self-harming.

"You made it yourself?" Zhao Xiangnong asked tentatively, she was still reluctant to associate words like self-harm with Ono Yan.

"It's not." Her voice was firm, but her gaze was avoiding her.

Zhao Xiangnong put out a soft voice: "Ono, I won't ask about the old wounds before, because I think you must have survived that difficulty, but I must know about the new wounds." ”

If the two new wounds were to be observed by Zhao Xiangnong, they would have happened in this month.

Ono Yan was looking at her, those eyes were defensive and observant.

"From the time you came to the department store to ask for gift certificates to the time you were just about to take those pastries, I guess you must have not had much money left with you when you ran away from home, and running away from home is not a long-term solution, Ono, let me help you."

A few minutes later, tears poured down as she and Zhao Xiangnon cried about the stress and pain her mother had put her through.

A month ago, Ono Yan's mother threatened the Song family to give her a large sum of money at the instigation of her new boyfriend, otherwise she would make public what the Song family had done to her, and the old man Song was not threatened, but laughed at her mother for being as stupid as a pig, which made Ono Yan's mother angry and angry, and she decided to poke the matter out.

Her hand landed on the two new scars: "And then there was this, and my mother dispelled her thoughts." ”

Later, given that she had done something similar before, her mother, under the advice of her new boyfriend, planned to send her to the psychiatric observation unit, and then she ran away from home.

"I'm not sick, I just need some outlet to vent myself. And now, I just want to hide in a quiet world without being disturbed for a while. In this way, she looked at Zhao Xiangnon with a tearful face.

She left her seat and sat next to Zhao Xiangnong, very quiet, but tears kept falling from her eyes on the back of her hand.

The cunning enemy came prepared, and three points of innocence and seven points of Chu Chu were pitiful, so Zhao Xiangnong stupidly went to hold her hand: "Xiao Ye, I'll help you." ”

Her words made her eyes look defensive, like a frightened bird.

Chicago's winters were extremely cold, and the humidity of the Mississippi River always made the city frosty in the wind, and she hugged the girl with her little tiger teeth and a sweet smile.

Zhao Xiangnon knew that she had never been a kind person, but she felt that when she hugged Xiao Yeyan, her heart was so soft, and when she thought back to this moment, she understood, because the girl in front of her had a sister named Zhu Run, and it was that kind of involvement that made her subconsciously hide a wisp of selfishness, similar to making up for it.

And Zhu Yan has obviously been hiding in the dark and peeping at her for a long time.

She said to her, Ono, do you believe me?

The girl said to her, I want to believe you.

Zhao Xiangnon took Xiao Yeyan to the house near the Mississippi River that Zhao Yanting bought for her, she handed over the house, her car and card to Xiao Yeyan, she said to her in a relaxed tone: "You can stay here for as long as you want, I guarantee that you can enjoy the hot cocoa and stove fire this winter." ”

Sweeping away the haze not long ago, the eyebrows under Xiao Yeyan's eyes are clear, and in anyone's eyes, they are the kind of people who write everything on their faces.

Before leaving, she also filled her with honey: "I know why my brother likes you so much." ”

"Why?" Zhao Xiangnon asked her.

"Because ......," she tilted her head and thought for a moment, "You see that you are so cute in my eyes, let alone my brother." ”

Hearing such words from a girl younger than herself made Zhao Xiangnong a little crying and laughing.

Before leaving, Xiao Yeyan chased after her, and she just grabbed her hand like that and didn't say anything.

"What's wrong?" Zhao Xiangnon asked.

Under Zhao Xiangnon's repeated questioning, she asked hesitantly this time: "Can I trust you?" ”

Zhao Shannon patted her on the shoulder.

"Are you sure you won't tell my brother about seeing me? I didn't have the face to see my mom after he did that, and I don't look good now, sister-in-law. She grabbed her hand tightly, and her voice was pleading: "I beg you not to sue him yet, I promise you to go to him myself when I have figured it out myself." ”

Zhao Xiangnon nodded, but it seemed that she still didn't believe her, so Zhao Xiangnon raised her hand to make an oath, and she let go of her hand with satisfaction.

At the same time, Ono Yan also asked: "Sister-in-law, can I see you often, can you come and accompany me when you are free." ”

"Good!" Zhao Xiangnon agreed.

On the same day in France, Song Yuze received a phone call from Canberra, which was the second time that Zhu Yan's doctor had called his mobile phone, and a week earlier, Song Yuze had received a call from Zhu Yan's doctor, who roughly said that since the time he saw him announce that he was married, Zhu Yan had locked herself in her room and refused to see anyone except her mother. Song Yuze called Song Xueru, Song Xueru was busy with the acquisition of Australia's largest iron mine recently and had no time to pay attention, and then Song Yuze called Zhu Yan's mother, but the response was that Zhu Yan didn't want to answer her phone, from the background of the phone call, Song Yuze also heard Zhu Yan's voice from time to time, one big and one small, all repeating the same content: He is a liar, mom, you sue him, I will never answer his phone, mom, you ask him to return his passport to me, I want to leave this ghost place.

After listening to the doctor say that Zhu Yan still locked himself in the room this week, and no one was seen, Song Yuze was silent, and in the silence, he heard the doctor on the other end of the phone Zhu Yan propose several plans similar to forced intervention.

After thinking about it, Song Yuze gave a hand to deny.

Some of the former love and hatred have become bittersweet and bitter at this moment, when the sweet ingredients become more and more, Song Yuze feels more guilty about Zhu Run, and those guiltes are grafted onto Zhu Yan's body at this moment, making him start to tie his hands, knowing that he can't let Zhu Yan go on like this, but he still can't do it.

After hanging up the phone, Song Yuze called Zhu Yan's mother, he knew that Zhu Yan's mother was dealing with Zhu Yan's affairs these days, Song Yuze had seen Zhu Yan's mother a few times, and it was a very typical kind mother.

Zhu Yan's mother told Song Yuze on the phone that Zhu Yan's love in the past few days was not so excited, and after telling him some of Zhu Yan's condition, she said, "I'll try to let her answer your call." ”

Through the earpiece, Song Yuze could hear the simple conversation between the two mothers and daughters, and the vague voice of Zhu Yan was revealed from the bed, this time it was replaced with another word, let him get out, I don't want to hear his fake words, his voice made me feel disgusting.

In the middle of a few successive shouts, the phone was slapped on the ground.

When the phone was connected again, the mother's voice was tired: "Mr. Song, now I ask Mr. Song, as a mother, not to call again at this stage, and not to let those doctors torture Ah Yan, because my relationship has already made her suffer a lot." ”

After a pause, the voice over there carried a faint mockery: "Also, although it is a little late, I still want to say happy newlyweds to Mr. Song." ”

After that, the phone was hung up.

Song Yuze gloomily put the phone back to its original place.

The author has something to say: If you still don't understand the paragraph later in this chapter, there are sometimes friendship spoilers: Didn't you say before that Zhu Yan left a recording when she left Australia, Zhu Yan took advantage of Song Yuze's guilt about Zhu Run and used those recordings with her mother to create the illusion that she was still in Australia. This is the first step in Zhu Yan's plan.

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