When Li Dongye told me that Jiang Ling was standing alone at the door of my house, I was sure that it took me a long time to put my heart firmly back in my stomach.

The child on the other end of the phone cried like a loudspeaker: "Aunt Shu, please save my mother......

I told Ye Jinliang that I had to go home, but my dad hasn't come out of the operating room yet-

"Something happened to the leaves?!"

"I ......" I glanced at Andy, who was standing behind, and swallowed the second half of the sentence.

I couldn't figure out where my vigilance came from, Jiang Zuoyi obviously told me again and again that once I found out Ling Xue's whereabouts, I would notify them immediately. However, when I analyze her position with the mentality of a woman, I always feel that her motive for escaping is not simple at all.

Until the facts are figured out, I'm going to do it myself.

So I said, Andy, please stay here and help me watch my father, Jinliang, you go back with me.

As I drove back, my feelings were mixed. I love Jiang Zuoyi but I don't dare to believe him, I don't love Ye Jinliang anymore, but I can only believe in him.

Li Dongye didn't have the key to my house, so he was waiting for me at KFC downstairs with Xiao Ling.

The little boy has obviously experienced a lot of unimaginable suffering, and in just a few days, I don't even know the transformation of a pair of eyes.

"Little Zero!" I hugged the child: "Tell Auntie what the hell is going on?" What about your mother? ”

"Aunt Shu!" The boy threw himself on my shoulder and started crying, and the dependence and trust was comforting to some extent.

A five-year-old boy came running back alone on an early spring night and asked me for help. I can't imagine the depth of his desperation and the weight of his courage.

"My mother was sick, but she refused to go to the hospital and didn't let my godfather take care of us. Even Nan's mother can't come, she has been running away with me for the past few days...... We changed accommodations quite a bit. ”

When I heard this, my cranial nerves were stunned: "You said you Nan Mom?" Ling Nan is here too? ”

No, didn't Jiang Zuoyi say that Ling Nan had been dealing with the aftermath of Gao Shanfeng in Thailand, and that Ah Xue had a terminal illness and didn't let him know about it at all!

"Xiao Ling, you tell Aunt Shu seriously, when did you see your mother?" I put the child on my lap and coaxed and induced at the same time.

"I ...... Actually, I didn't see Nan's mother, but yesterday I leaned on the window and saw him coming to us with someone. So I called my mother, but my mother ran away with me, and I didn't take the elevator, but ran directly from the stairs. Jiang Ling was probably hungry, and the children's meal hamburger that Li Dongye bought for him was not enough, so he drank most of the cup of milk tea with a gurgling voice.

At that time, I understood that Ling Xue was not hiding from Jiang Zuoyi, but from ...... Her brother.

"Little Zero, let's go find your mother quickly." I asked Ye Jinliang to drive, and then I took the winter night with me.

Because I can imagine what Ling Xue must have become at this time, it is better to have a doctor with you than to be at a loss.

Along the way, Xiao Ling told me that Jiang Zuoyi had sent Ling Xue to a highest-level sanatorium in S City, but within a few days, Ling Xue left alone.

It was found three days later and brought back. As a result, he ran away again in less than half a day.

"I hugged my mother's leg and said if you run again, take me with you." Jiang Ling lay on my lap and cried, rubbing his nose while crying: "Aunt Shu, what's wrong with my mother?" In the past, although the godfather was strict, Nan's mother was very gentle. Even though I'm different from other children, I'm very happy every day.

I still have Ye Zi to be a good friend, and I can bear her beating me and biting me.

Aunt Shu, I don't want to run with my mother all day, please, help us. ”

"Little Zero ......" The child cried so much that my heart was about to break, and at that moment, I suddenly felt that even if Jiang Zuoyi was a powerful man, he would not be able to take care of everything.

He only knows what it means to kill and decide, and what it means to perish if he goes against me. He just wants to be in control and at ease.

But she didn't understand where Ling Xue's sense of crisis came from, and she couldn't appease Xiao Ling's fragile and sensitive child's heart. But at least he was lucky, he still had me. What a man can't do, often a woman can do it for her from a softer angle.

Following Jiang Ling's guidance, we came to the old town in the northwest corner of S City.

"Originally, we were staying somewhere else in the afternoon, but when my mother went downstairs to take me to the convenience store, she saw an uncle she knew. So we went back to the hotel to check out and took a taxi to this place. ”

I understand that the uncle Jiang Ling knew was referring to Wang Xiaofei, but just a friend who knew us could make her so frightened?

Oh, no, Wang Xiaofei and Ling Nan are also familiar. At least the time when the second child of Yulong was the one who was Ling Nan who found Wang Xiaofei.

"Mom was probably so tired that she collapsed on the bed as soon as she entered the room. She said that this house was her previous ...... when she lived in it when she was very young" Jiang Ling cried while pointing to the road in front of her: "I can't remember the first few alleys, woo." ”

I said, then how did you find your aunt's house?

It doesn't seem easy for a five-year-old to find the exact name of the neighborhood, right?

"I remember the name of the kindergarten. The kindergarten is in the community, and I took the money from my mother's wallet and ran out to take a taxi. The taxi uncle didn't agree to pull me and wanted to call the police, so I gave him a tip of fifty yuan. ”

I was so nervous that I almost laughed when I heard Xiao Ling say this.

Sure enough, even the style is exactly the same as Jiang Zuoyi.

When we found Lu Zhaoxin, she was lying alone in a small low public house, and she was already thin.

At that time, I was so distressed that I was about to cry, what I thought was how distressed Jiang Zuoyi would be if she was by her side like this.

"Zhaoxin!" I called her name, but I didn't dare to put my hand under her snort.

Li Dongye gently pushed away me and Xiao Ling, and said to let her take a look first.

There were pill bottles at the head of the bed, and when I glanced at it, the contents of the treatment alone were already terrifying.

Li Dongye shook his head and said that these medicines were useless anymore.

"Shu Lan......" At this time, Lu Zhaoxin woke up and called my name very weakly.

I hurriedly leaned over, dragging Xiao Ling with one hand and holding her with the other: "It's me, don't worry Xiao Ling is fine." ”

"Don't tell Ah Yi, and don't ...... Let my brother find us. ”

I said don't talk yet, you're not in a good condition, and you can't continue to live here.

"Shall we take you to the hospital? I promise you, first...... Don't tell them yet. ”

"I don't believe you......"

As soon as I heard this, I was furious, and I said I don't need to fucking believe you! If it weren't for Jiang Zuoyi, for Xiao Ling, I would care about you?

Now my dad is still lying in the emergency room for rescue, and I am not staying by the side!

Ling Xue, you give me enough to stop, what are the grievances to say, do you really plan to bring everything into the coffin!

I admit that it is irrational for me to pour beans in front of my children, but can't I be wronged? I'm pregnant with my boy's child, but I'm still running around with all my energy for his ex-girlfriend.

Lu Zhaoxin didn't say anything, and rolled her eyes slightly when Li Dongye was helping her measure her blood pressure, and asked me, "Your father ...... him"

I said it was an acute heart attack, and it was dangerous.

"Retribution."

"You-"

I swallowed a mouthful of old blood silently, looked down at the teary-eyed Jiang Ling again, alas, I was really too lazy to see her.

I went out to find Ye Jinliang and wanted to ask him if there was a call from the hospital. only to find that he was standing alone in the simple corridor and looking east and west, as if looking at the scenery.

"What are you doing here? Why don't you go in? ”

I thought that Ye Jinliang would say that it was inconvenient for him to go into Yunyun, but I didn't expect him to look at me with a serious expression, and suddenly said, "Shu Lan, I feel as if I have been to this place." ”

I sighed and said you're not dreaming, are you?

My family is not very rich, but it is the best in terms of snacks and wearability. Most of the schools I went to and the friends I met were also middle-class.

With old houses like this, dilapidated cloisters, to be honest, we don't get much of a chance to get close.

"I mean, really, I want to...... When I was very young, my dad took me through once. Ye Jinliang stood at the railing, leaned on his body, and pointed to an old well in the alley outside.

"I still remember the well, and it was reversed. But I can't remember why my dad was passing by, and it seemed like he put me in the car for a while and went down on his own.

I was sitting by the window and looking down the alley. ”

I said Ye Jinliang, he put you down and went out by yourself, generally speaking...... I guess I came out to meet someone, right?

Ye Jinliang nodded, and then said uncertainly: "But there is more than one old town like S City, maybe the scenery and furnishings are similar."

I can't remember it too clearly—"

At this time, I heard Jiang Ling crying in the house, and I was so frightened that my blood rushed to Tianlinggai: "Little Zero! What's going on on a winter night? ”

As soon as I entered the door, I saw Li Dongye being splashed with blood, she told me that Lu Zhaoxin's condition was very bad, and I just turned over the medical record card in the bag to know that her glioma under the anterior lobe of her forehead had grown to seven centimeters in diameter, and it had collapsed to both sides of the lungs and pancreas more than a month ago.

Asphyxiation and coughing up blood are the most dangerous complications, and if you don't go to the hospital, she can't just treat her here without any equipment.

"Shu Lan, I can't go to the hospital, I can't... was found. Lu Zhaoxin pulled my sleeve hard: "You guys, take Xiao Ling away." I just want to die, and I just want to die here. ”

I suddenly remembered that Jiang Ling had mentioned it in a crying cry when I came over just now, saying that Ling Xue had told him that this was her home a long time ago......

Family? Ling Xue's home, isn't it Ling Nan's home?

Standing in this gloomy house, I only felt that all the pores of my body were singing big operas, as if something invisible, pulling my ears and blowing into it.

"Lan Lan, she fainted." Li Dongye only had a few common medical supplies in her hand, which she had just brought from her trunk: "What should I do, do you have an idea?"

Her condition is in relatively perfect medical conditions—"

Glancing at poor Jiang Ling, my sister stopped.

"Why don't I take her back to my house first?" I thought for a while: "It's not Tianchi Jiayuan, it's my villa in the suburbs." It's more secluded there......"

When mentioning the villa, Ye Jinliang, who was standing at the door, turned his face away in embarrassment.

Hehe, that was the first time I caught rape in bed.

"But your place is too far from the city center, and the surrounding infrastructure is not good. If there are really three long and two short, the ambulance will be too late. ”

Li Dongye raised her concerns, and then persuaded me: "Lan Lan, I just didn't understand why you wanted to hide her?" At this time, shouldn't you call Jiang Zuoyi quickly? ”

"I ......" I hung my head and said I didn't know either.

For a terminally ill woman to escape with her young son, there must be a last resort.

Maybe she has a lot of things that she can't even say to Jiang Zuoyi, maybe she has the mood to protect something...... It's like when I concealed Ye Jinliang.

"Maybe it's because I see her today like I'm looking at myself."

I know that my answer is quite irresponsible, but no one can deny that Ling Xue and I are clearly the front and back of a mirror, reflecting the straightest male cancer and the most irrevocable original sin in every man's soul one by one.

"But Lan Lan, do you know her current physical condition, maybe someday—

To put it mildly, few people dare to help the old man when they cross the street. You're just going to get her on like that? I'm afraid that you will make your own decisions, will Jiang Zuoyi have a dislike with you at that time? ”

I sneered and said that I had a clear conscience, and took 10,000 steps back to say, I am now pregnant with his child, can he still kick me off for his ex-girlfriend!

"Anyway, I'm in charge of Ling Xue's affairs. Even if it's for the sake of Little Zero,......" I lowered my head and touched the little head of the boy who had fallen asleep crying.

It's pitiful, more pitiful than my leaves......

At least Ye Zi still has me, and Ye Jinliang who 'reformed the evil and returned to the right' can be counted on, but who is Jiang Ling......

"Shu Lan, otherwise, you can send her to me. I'm near the hospital, it's easy to get in and out, and there's not a lot of neighborhood. Besides, no one could have imagined that she would be there for me. ”

Ye Jinliang's proposal simply surprised me and Li Dongye.

"What did you say?" I closed my chin silently, I said Ye Jinliang, do you know who she is?

"Didn't you all say it, Jiang Zuoyi's ex-girlfriend."

I said Ye Jinliang, these things have nothing to do with you, why are you wading into troubled waters with me?

"I'm Jiang Zuoyi's woman, I can't escape, but you ......"

"What you get into trouble is my business. What's more, now that I can't see that someone is coming for the Shu family?

Towards the Shu family...... Isn't it equivalent to targeting the Ye family? Shu Lan, do you think I can stay out of it? ”

Ye Jinliang's words made me unable to refute, so I glanced at Li Dongye, and I said why don't you take her away first. Xiao Ling and I packed up some daily necessities for her.

No matter where she goes, she can't be left alone in such a humble place.

I sent Jiang Ling to the next bed to sleep first, and walked around the room twice by myself. The furnishings here are simple, but there are no signs of the past.

After packing up a little bit of things, I thought about it, and the rest of the clothes could help her buy new ones. It's getting late, so let's get over early.

But just then, I heard a tuk knock outside.

Pushing the door open, I saw an old lady in a coat and pajama pants.

"You're from this family, huh?" He asked me with a chaotic yawn.

I shook my head and said it was my friend's home. I'll get her something to take with her.

"It's a big night, it's noisy, and I think it's haunted."

Hey! How do you speak?

I didn't mean to complain about the poor mountains and bad waters, anyway, the atmosphere here is not very good, so it's better to leave quickly with Xiao Ling, and it's better to cause less trouble.

I packed my things and prepared to find the key to lock the door before waking Zero from next door.

I didn't expect the old lady to have to inch in: "Girl, do you lock the door when you go in and out?" No one has dared to enter this house for many years—"

"What?"

When I heard it, I felt that there was something in it. And this old lady is about seventy, and the folds on her face can't hide her horror.

I said, Auntie, what do you mean? This house...... Can some say?

The old lady waved her hand, and her lips that had taken off her dentures were directly slit.

I was in a hurry, and said Auntie, look at it, my friend was also fooled by the intermediary, and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy such an old apartment-

"Hundreds of thousands?! It's too late! Who is so bad...... I don't dare to live in this house, give my old lady a coffin. It's been empty for almost 20 years, and I heard that someone bought it not long ago, and I can't believe it.

I didn't think about it, the world is really full of wrongs. ”

I said, Auntie, this house used to ...... Did you ever die?

Since it was the former residence of Ling Xue and Ling Nan, it was not difficult for me to catch the slightest clue from before. Jiang Zuoyi told me that Ling Nan's leg was crippled before he came to Jiang's house. What kind of destruction did he encounter, allowing him to witness his parents die in front of him, and accidentally suffocated his young brother in helplessness and helplessness.

The old lady looked at me and said that it was more than 20 years ago, and no one knew why. Anyway, it's an unsolved case, and it hasn't been solved yet.

"The family was new to the house, and it looked like they were hiding from someone. I don't greet my neighbors much on weekdays, and the men occasionally go out to work, and the women don't show up when they see the sky.

We don't know exactly how many children there are. ”

I think that if Ling Nan's family is really hiding from someone here, then it can be explained if they are wiped out later.

"Later, I remember it was the eve of the Chinese New Year, and there were firecrackers rolling everywhere, so no one knows how many shots were fired in this room that night.

Anyway, when the police came in the morning, the corpse dragged out, tsk, rotted like soaked honeycomb coal. ”

I gasped a few times with palpitations, and weakly asked the eldest lady if this family was originally surnamed Ling?

The eldest lady shook her head and said no, but she couldn't remember anything about her specific surname.

Later, I thought about it, if the Ling Nan brothers and sisters really escaped in a desperate situation, it was unlikely that they would use their real names.

"What a sin," the old lady said to herself as she trembled downstairs: "The unsolved case for more than 20 years has not been solved, and I don't know if those lonely ghosts have been lost." ”

Actually, I really want to tell my aunt that lonely souls and wild ghosts are not terrible, but what I am afraid of is those Shura who survived from hell...... If you don't dye the world blood-red, you won't stop.

I pulled Jiang Ling and staggered downstairs all the way.

I asked him if he was cold, and he shook his head sensibly, but I could feel the cold fingertips in his sleeves.

Squatting down, I held his frozen red face. I said Xiao Ling, don't be afraid, Aunt Shu will take you to find your mother.

"My mom...... Is it dead? Aunt Shu, don't lie to me......"

My chest was about to explode with tears, and I put my arms around the child's little head and said, "Little Zero, be strong." Mom has walked for so long, and it is very bitter to be alone.

She's just trying to be able to stay with you for an extra day or even an extra minute. ”

"Aunt Shu, I understand, my mother has a hard time, but she can't bear to let me ...... Woo, if her illness doesn't get better, I'd rather not see her in such pain......"

"No, my mother will be very relieved to have Xiao Ling by her side. Let's go with Auntie, let's go see my mother, even if time is running out, we have to be an obedient and good child, okay? ”

"Yes." I hugged Xiao Ling and got into the car that Li Dongye left for me before.

I told Xiao Ling to sit down obediently in the back row, and just as I wanted to turn on the accelerator, the phone rang.

"Jiang Zuoyi?"

"Shu Lan, where are you?"

I'm not good at lying in front of this man, and when I lie, I want to cry, even without staring into his eyes, it's already a conditioned reflex.

"I ...... Nowhere is it......"

"Andy just called me and said that your father suddenly had a heart attack and is now on medical parole in the emergency room-"

I said yes, the situation is somewhat critical, I ......

"But you and Ye Jinliang left the hospital suddenly, where are you, Shu Lan?"

I let out a sigh of relief, reached out and wiped the nervous tears from the corners of my eyes, and then made a boo gesture to tell Jiang Ling not to make a sound.

"I ...... I went to see the leaves, and the kindergarten teacher said that she was a bit annoying. It just so happened that Ye Jinliang was also there, so he passed over together. ”

"Shu Lan." In my impression, Jiang Zuoyi rarely called my name in such a serious tone.

I was stunned and almost choked up with a cry.

"Shu Lan, I'm ...... now I really have to trust you. ”

"Jiang Zuoyi, am I not? You...... When will I come back, I can't hold it anymore......"

"Three days at the latest, Shu Lan, give me three more days."

"I can...... I can give you as much time as you want, but ......" My tears are getting more and more, and I am almost submerging the entire mobile phone earpiece: "Jiang Zuoyi, let me ask you something, okay?" ”

"Yes."

"Back then, when your stepfather first taught you to shoot and kill...... Isn't it almost the New Year, isn't it...... Is it also a heavy snowfall? ”

There was silence on the other end of the line, except for my sobs echoing back and forth between the two microphones.

"Yes." He finally answered.