Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Dry Well of Memory
His voice was low and slow, and he had been trying his best to hide the pain of the past, using his busyness and bitterness to divert it, but now, it seemed that he was about to peel off layer by layer.
Every time, it was a bloody pain.
"She's my stand-in?" This statement made Huang Ruirui a little surprised, how could it be reversed, wasn't she Meiling's stand-in? Why is Meiling her own stand-in?
Instinctively, she felt that Huo Jingwei was lying to herself again, obviously Meiling had known Huo Jingwei ten years ago, and she should have been only twelve or thirteen years old at that time, but she was just a yellow-haired girl, and she didn't know Huo Jingwei at all, so how could she make Meiling her stand-in.
Huo Jingwei seemed to see her doubts and puzzlement, closed his eyes slightly, and then he opened them again, and said solemnly: "Rui Rui, wait here, I'll take you to see a place." â
Since horizontal and vertical is a pain, it is painful to uncover, although labor pains are inevitable, it is always better than such a strong cover. Wounds, covered, does not mean that there is no zĂ i.
He made a phone call, and in a short time, someone had already driven his Lamborghini over and parked not far from the helicopter.
Huo Jingwei jumped out of the cabin, reached out and hugged Huang Ruirui, and just like that, hugged Huang Ruirui, whose face was full of stains, and put her in his car.
"Where is this?" Huang Ruirui asked in a low voice.
"Take you to a place, you will understand when you see it......" Huo Jingwei whispered, slowly starting the sports car.
The black Lamborghini drove away from the airport at a gallop, turned onto the highway, and headed forward, seeing that Huang Ruirui looked like he was about to vomit again, he was so frightened that he quickly braked and stopped to the side: "Ruirui, do you want to go to the hospital first?" â
"No......" Huang Ruirui shook her head, this morning sickness phenomenon, going to the hospital is useless, she is now, her attention is purely attracted by the place Huo Jingwei said, and she is also eager to know what Huo Jingwei wants to take her to see.
Huo Jingwei restarted the car, this time he didn't dare to drive too fast, for fear that Huang Ruirui would vomit again, and the car moved forward so smoothly and slowly.
Gradually, Huang Ruirui realized that something was wrong, and Lamborghini had left City A and headed in the direction of City B.
City B, but her hometown, when her grandmother died, she went back once, and since then, she has never been back.
She glanced at Huo Jingwei with a little doubt, worried about whether he was in the wrong place.
Huo Jingwei returned her with a reassuring look, signaling her not to be nervous, he didn't drive in the wrong direction.
After a journey of more than an hour, she soon arrived, and when she saw the familiar B city appeared in front of her, Huang Ruirui still had a little feeling, since she was a child, how eager she was to leave this place, this place that only gave her a miserable childhood.
Huo Jingwei's car did not stop, and continued to move forward, already passing through the lively urban area of City B and heading towards the suburbs.
The more she moves forward along the way, the more surprised Huang Ruirui becomes, how familiar this road is, and how old the road to her childhood home is.
In the past, the former residences of her ancestors were all here, but later Huang Conggui was too addicted to gambling, and the ancestral homestead was mortgaged by others, so Huang Ruirui had to follow her grandmother and move to another rented house.
She turned sideways, her eyes were full of surprise and puzzlement, if in the past, Huo Jingwei had been to City B with her, she could understand, but now, he could even find her childhood home, which surprised her too much.
She didn't know when Huo Jingwei had been here, and she could find such a remote place.
Huo Jingwei didn't speak, the closer he got to his destination, his heart was inevitably suffocating pain, his expression had completely calmed down from the fierce quarrel with Huang Ruirui at the beginning, at this time, his face was only solemn and heavy, the corners of his lips were tightly pursed into a line, and the hand holding the steering wheel also used extra strength.
It seems that there is always something bad that bothers him, Huang Ruirui didn't ask again, anyway, not far in front of her, is her childhood home, thinking about it, Huo Jingwei should stop there.
But Huo Jingwei didn't move further towards her old residence, and when he was a mile or two away, he had already changed his direction and drove in the direction of the back mountain.
In recent years, with the expansion of urbanization and the increase in the number of people working in the city, this rural area has gradually become a barren scene, and the fields are cluttered with weeds.
In a wasteland, Huo Jingwei finally stopped the car, he lay on the steering wheel, and was silent for a moment before jumping out of the car.
With a long leg and a step around the front of the car, he walked to Huang Ruirui's side, opened the car door, and hugged Huang Ruirui out: "It's here, Ruirui." â
Huang Ruirui stood on the ground, vomiting again, fortunately in his car, everything was ready, Huo Jingwei took out mineral water from the car, made Huang Ruirui cough, and asked in a low voice: "Can you still hold on?" â
He was a little puzzled, was Huang Ruirui's current situation suitable for her to know these things?
"Okay." Huang Ruirui responded a little weakly, this pregnancy is really a fortunate thing, even if she has such a good body, people who are used to exercising, are helpless in the face of this morning sickness.
Standing up straight, she looked around, she had played here as a child, and it seemed that the scene in front of her was not quite the same as in her memory.
She smiled self-deprecatingly, the memories of her childhood were all Huang Conggui's violence, and there was not much memory left. In my memory, I only recognize this as her old residence.
"Follow me." Huo Jingwei had already reached out and came over to hold her.
After a little hesitation, Huang Ruirui still followed her instinct and handed him her hand.
It seems that she has not been led by these powerful hands for too long, Huang Ruirui has mixed feelings in her heart, and originally planned to marry Li Wenchuan, but who would have expected that she would come to this place with Huo Jingwei's ghost.
Just as she was feeling, Huo Jingwei bent down, squatted beside her, and pulled the bridal dress on her body.
"Hey......" Huang Ruirui exclaimed, retracted that bit of nonsense, and glared at Huo Jingwei under him - what did he want to do? Brought her all the way to such a remote place and tore her skirt with his hands?
"This skirt is too long and too much of a nuisance to walk through this weed." Huo Jingwei explained, and then gritted his teeth, and there was a loud noise, the wedding skirt that originally had a long tail skirt was torn by Huo Jingwei with his bare hands, and the wedding dress that mopped the floor was changed to a knee-length puffy skirt.
Huang Ruirui rolled her eyes, a well-made handmade wedding dress, under his hands, it would be like this...... complained silently in his heart, if Huo Jingwei's violence was really not covered.
Huo Jingwei didn't say anything more, he pursed his lips, his usual well-defined handsome face, revealing tragedy and solemnity, took Huang Ruirui's hand, and just like that, he stepped on the messy grass and moved forward.
Without the fetters of the wedding dress and long skirt, Huang Ruirui walked a lot briskly, fortunately, because of pregnancy, Li Wenchuan asked her not to wear high heels at the wedding, she wore a pair of small leather boots with wedge heels, and it was not difficult to walk on this field at this time.
Walking in twists and turns, Huo Jingwei took a trip to identify the direction, and after more than half an hour, he took her to a dry well.
This dry well, it is no longer a dry well, it is full of rocks and weeds, only the periphery, there are a few bluestones around the wellhead, showing that this was once a dry well.
"Ruirui, remember here?" Huo Jingwei stopped and asked Huang Ruirui softly.
Huang Ruirui shook her head blankly, she couldn't even remember this old residence very clearly, and how could she still remember this well.
However, looking at Huo Jingwei's appearance, this well seems to have a particularly important meaning in his life, he is not from this B city, and he can still find this well.
Huo Jingwei said softly: "That's right, you were still young at that time, and it's normal that you can't remember." â
Seeing that Huang Ruirui had been looking at herself with a confused and puzzled look, Huo Jingwei closed his eyes in pain, and after a long time, he said faintly: "Fifteen years ago, I used to hide in this well for two days and two nights......
These words shocked Huang Ruirui too much, Huo Jingwei actually hid in this well for two days and two nights? Huang Ruirui blocked her mouth with her hand, so as to prevent herself from being too surprised and screaming.
However, it seems that this is not a lie, Huo Jingwei was able to find this place, not to tell her such a lie.
Huo Jingwei stood in front of the well, his eyes closed, still immersed in the painful past: "Back then, my mother and I were kidnapped by kidnappers and taken to City B to hide...... Afterward...... They killed my mom...... And I took the opportunity to escape...... In a panic, I fell into this dry well......" At this point, tears finally flowed slowly from the corners of his eyes.
After a pause, he controlled his feelings before he continued to tremble: "At that time, I fell into this well, and I didn't dare to cry out for help, for fear that the kidnappers would still be nearby and search for my whereabouts...... I hid down here, not daring to move or scream, and just like that, I hid here for two days and two nights......"
When Huang Ruirui heard this, her heart was tightly pinched, she didn't expect that Huo Jingwei's life experience was also so bizarre and turbulent, and she thought that he was born in a wealthy family, and he had everything he wanted, and he didn't have any worries at all, but he didn't expect that he had such a painful past.
"And then?" She asked softly, although Huo Jingwei was standing safely in front of her now, she was still worried about how he escaped this catastrophe when he was a teenager, falling into this deep dry well, and there were kidnappers searching for his whereabouts around him.
"Later...... And then you came. Speaking of this, Huo Jingwei's tightly closed eyes finally opened, and the eyebrows that had been frowning slowly relaxed: "I don't know why, you came here, you lay on the side of the well, and watched me for a long time." To this day, I can clearly remember the moment your little face was exposed by the well, when I was like seeing an angel, I can remember that you wore two pigtails and smiled at me with two little tiger teeth. â