It was already afternoon when I came out of the airport, and the sun was scorching.

Li Yanqing didn't feel sunburned at all, she looked up at the blue sky with her eyes squinted, took a few deep breaths greedily, and suddenly felt an indescribable relief.

It seems that as long as you leave City C and stay away from Lu Yuanzhou, even the air you breathe in at this moment has a sweet smell.

After Li Yanqing told the taxi driver the address, he immediately took out his mobile phone.

As soon as the phone was turned on, there were messy text messages pouring in, almost from Lu Yuanzhou, insulting, scolding, and threatening, and Li Yanqing couldn't help but delete them one by one.

I really don't understand, it was Lu Yuanzhou who destroyed himself at the beginning, but he regarded himself as an enemy instead! It's really shameless!

However, now that he is scolding, she doesn't need to pay attention to him at all.

Looking out the car window, looking at the high-rise buildings that are rapidly receding outside, Li Yanqing can't help but sigh that the city is changing with each passing day, and after only two years of leaving, many places are almost unrecognizable.

She has not been back since marrying Lu Yuanzhou, and now she is revisiting her hometown, looking at the familiar scenery that flies by from time to time outside the window, thinking that she is about to see her parents, and her heart is surging with a throbbing of reunion after a long absence.

When she was about to get home, she couldn't help but call her mother Lin Yun.

After receiving Li Yanqing's call, Lin Yun was very surprised, "What? Qing'er, are you back? ”

Li Yanqing said happily, "Yes, Mom, I'm almost home, what are you busy with?" ......”

There was silence on the phone for a while, and suddenly I heard my mother's eager voice, "Ah no, Qing'er, don't go over, I, me and your father are no longer there, and I don't live there......"

Li Yanqing was stunned, "Mom, what did you say?" ”

Lin Yun sighed, "Since your father's accident, those debt collectors have gone to the house every day, disturbing the neighbors...... I just moved out...... Your dad and I now live at 12 Health Avenue......"

"Daddy's got into an accident? Health Avenue? Li Yanqing hung up the phone and repeated blankly.

I have the impression that there is only one place in this city called Health Avenue.

After hearing this, the taxi driver said strangely, "You want to go to Health Avenue?" Isn't it near the temple? It's getting dark, what are you doing there? ”

Li Yanqing came back to his senses and urged the taxi to hurry up.

The taxi driver reluctantly said, "That place is far and remote, and I have to come back with an empty car if I go......"

Li Yanqing threw out two old man's heads, and the taxi master immediately shut up and galloped away.

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The mountain is full of greenery, and taxis make their way along the narrow and winding mountain road, and occasionally you can see the Baoling Temple under the dense forest on the top of the mountain.

Baoling Temple is said to have been built in the Ming Dynasty and has been rebuilt after several dynasties after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Because the temple is on a suburban mountain, the location is remote, not to mention the road, only a narrow winding mountain road can be reached, and few people will go to pray to God and worship Buddha on weekdays.

Through the car window, Li Yanqing looked out in a daze, and only the lush greenery of the season greeted, and there was no figure except for the deep and light greens along the mountain, but occasionally through the mountains and forests to see the scattered villages living in the mountains.

The mountain wind was very strong, blowing the short hair in front of Li Yanqing's forehead, and there was some hot pain on his face.

The taxi only knew an approximate location, and after walking in the mountains for a short time, it stopped in front of a yard near the road, stretched out its head to look out, and said it.

Li Yanqing looked around and saw a sign standing at the door, "Farmer's Rice".

She wondered, "Master, you're not mistaken, are you?" ”

The taxi driver pointed to the inconspicuous place at the bottom of the sign with a "12" written on it, "Everyone here knows that the road leading to Baoling Temple is called Health Avenue......"

Li Yanqing got out of the car in disbelief.

Standing in the open space outside the door, he looked around.

This is the bend of the winding mountain road, and a vacant lot extending outward has been used to build such a small brick courtyard.

At this moment, the sun is setting, in the mountains and forests, the surroundings are silent, only occasionally hear the strange sound of the mountain wind blowing through the trees, it is indeed a somewhat eerie and terrifying feeling, otherwise the taxi immediately turned around and ran down the mountain.

Li Yanqing smiled bitterly.

If it weren't for the sound of dogs barking inside the high walls at this moment, it would be hard to imagine that there would be people living here.

She was about to bang on the door when it opened.

The moment he saw his mother Lin Yun, Li Yanqing was stunned.

After being stunned for a while, she moved her steps, stepped forward a few steps, and hugged Lin Yun with tears pouring down, "Mom, you, what's wrong with you?" ”

I haven't seen her for two years, and my mother's original black and oily hair is no longer shiny, and her gray hair is very obvious, and even her original smooth face has become densely wrinkled, and she looks more than ten years older at first glance.

Lin Yun hugged his daughter who had not seen him for a long time, first he couldn't believe it, and then he was in tears, "Qing'er, is it really you?" You've lost a lot of weight, too......"

The mother and daughter hugged their heads and cried for a while, and Li Yanqing followed Lin Yun into the courtyard.

The entrance is an ordinary four-room tiled house, which is taller than the average dwelling. It's just gray walls and gray tiles, which is dull. Although the yard is not very spacious, it is full of seasonal flowers, especially the pomegranate blossoms, which are bright and dazzling, adding some life to this gray yard.

Entering the room, the living room is spacious, clean but shabby with freshly painted walls.

The room on the right is the parents' room.

Li Yanqing, who was anxious about his father, was about to step in, but was pulled by Lin Yun, "Qing'er, you wait-"

Li Yanqing's heart sank, "What's wrong?" ”

"Your father, he-he hasn't woken up yet......" Lin Yun's eyes flickered.

"Oh, I'll be careful not to wake him up." Li Yanqing said and entered the house.

The change in her mother has made Li Yanqing feel an ominous feeling in her heart, and although she is mentally prepared, she is still shocked by her father lying on the bed.

Thin, gray-haired, and withered, his eyes were closed at the moment, and only the slight undulation of the blanket covering his body showed his shallow breathing.

Is this his father?

"Dad, Dad......" Li Yanqing knelt in front of the bed, calling with trembling lips.

Li Qingcheng didn't react.

"Mom-dad, what's wrong with him?" Li Yanqing turned back in horror.

Lin Ning leaned against the door, his expression was dull, his eyes were gloomy, "Your father, he-most likely won't wake up......"

Li Yanqing stared blankly at the unconscious old man on the bed, no matter what, he couldn't connect the high-spirited successful business man back then with the vegetative person who was lying unconscious on the bed now.

She hadn't heard her father's voice for more than half a year, and that was it.

Li Yanqing was stunned for a long time, then suddenly covered his mouth and turned around and ran out quickly.

It wasn't until she rushed out of the courtyard that she cried out "wow".

Lin Yun stood in front of the courtyard gate, listening to the earth-shattering crying outside, watching the thin shoulders shrug up and down, and his heart was like a knife.

At that moment, she suddenly felt a little in a trance, if she hadn't decided so back then, would it still be like this today?