Chapter 52: The Bond of Three
Tao Tao was finally dragged to a small café on a street corner by her senior sister.
"Senior sister, you, you slow down......"
Tao Tao panted and let go of Xiao Lan's hand and sat down on the chair in prostration.
Xiao Lan on the opposite side was also sweating.
"No, no......"
I saw Xiao Lan glance out the window, and then took Tao Tao's hand again and took her to a corner of the café that could not be seen from the outside.
The waiter looked at the two men in amazement.
"Senpai......"
Tao Tao was tired and was about to go out of her body, and she felt that Xiao Lan was a little too exaggerated.
However, Xiao Lan shook her head at Tao Tao, and then beckoned the waiter to order two glasses of juice.
"No, you don't know, you wait for me to tell you slowly......"
After Xiao Lan finished speaking, she calmed her heartbeat with Tao Tao.
Fortunately, the juice came up immediately, and the two of them picked up the juice and took a big sip.
"Let me tell you Tao Tao, our house, you must not go."
Xiao Lan took out a tissue and wiped the sweat on her forehead, looking at Tao Tao's serious face.
"Why?"
Tao Tao was very puzzled.
"Because Li Huan definitely didn't want to meet you this time, she already had a conspiracy waiting for you."
Xiao Lan said categorically.
"I, I know, just ......"
Tao Tao actually knew that the woman would not be so kind to tell herself the truth, but she still wanted to hear it, or rather, she wanted to see what kind of medicine was sold in Li Huan's gourd.
"So you can't go!"
Xiao Lan frowned and looked at Tao Tao's little face that was flushed because of running.
"What do you want to know, I can tell you, so you don't have to risk your life, they're all too dangerous."
Tao Tao looked at Xiao Lan in surprise.
"You, will you tell me?"
Tao Tao didn't expect Xiao Lan to say such a thing, after all, she and Xiao Qiong are brother and sister, and Li Huan is also a half-sister, how could she be an outsider like herself?
"Yes, I'm willing to tell you all the truths I know."
Xiao Lan looked at Tao Tao and said firmly.
"Anything you want to know, I can tell you."
Tao Tao looked at Senior Sister Xiao Lan's serious face in a daze, and she didn't know what to say for a while.
"But you are not afraid ...... like this"
Xiao Lan suddenly laughed when she heard Tao Tao's words.
"I'm not afraid, after all, I still have my brother to protect me."
Tao Tao heard Xiao Lan's trust in his brother Xiao Qiong.
Tao Tao struggled for a while, but finally nodded at Xiao Lan.
"Thank you, Senpai."
Xiao Lan smiled when she heard it.
"You don't have to thank me, after all, we really have a fate."
Tao Tao listened to the senior sister say this sentence in surprise.
"We ......"
Tao Tao thought about what the fate in the senior sister's mouth was.
Xiao Lan shook her head slightly, and then said.
"This matter, let's wait for Jiang Jinchen to tell you."
"Jiang Jinchen?"
Tao Tao was stunned, senior sister also knows Jiang Jinchen?
"Yes, I think you should prefer to listen to Jiang Jinchen tell you in person about this truth."
Xiao Lan looked at Tao Tao and smiled softly, then picked up the juice on the table and took a sip.
"Okay, don't mention this, then I'll tell you the secret about Li Huan."
Xiao Lan put down the cup, and her expression gradually became solemn.
Tao Tao also swallowed nervously after hearing this, and looked at Xiao Lan seriously.
"My brother should have told you before that Li Huan came to the Xiao family when he was about two years old."
When Tao Tao heard this, she recalled the things that Xiao Qiong told her a few days ago.
She nodded.
"Life at that time has always been very peaceful, although my father always doesn't come home, and my mother always stays in that room alone, but Li Huan, as my sister who is four years older than me, still takes care of me very much."
Tao Tao looked at Xiao Lan suspiciously when she heard this.
"In other words, when Li Huan was young, he wasn't that bad, was he?"
"Yes."
Xiao Lan looked at Tao Tao and nodded firmly.
"When I was a child, Li Huan took very good care of us, and at that time my brother was very rebellious and often injured, and it was Li Huan who drugged my brother."
Tao Tao suddenly felt that Li Huan was at least a good sister when Xiao Lan was young.
"But...... Suddenly, one day, she and her mother had a particularly fierce quarrel, and my brother and I were terrified, and that was the time when Li Huan completely moved out of the house. ”
Tao Tao looked at Xiao Lan's somewhat sad expression and frowned.
"Quarrel...... What kind of quarrel? ”
Tao Tao asked suspiciously.
"I don't know the specifics, I only know that there was a sound of things breaking from my mother's house that day, very loudly, and then when Li Huan came out of the house, his face was still bleeding."
Tao Tao was stunned for a moment, how could such a thing happen.
"That'...... And then? ”
"Later...... Later, when Li Huan came out of the room, he glanced at my brother and me, and then left without looking back. ”
The look in her eyes...... I'll never forget it for the rest of my life. It's very resolute, and it's sad, as if it's the despair of losing everything about yourself. ”
When Xiao Lan said this, she seemed to have returned to that day, and there were some tears in her eyes.
Tao Tao sighed deeply, she couldn't imagine that Li Huan hadn't been a bad boy since she was a child, she still had a kind side.
"After Li Huan left, my brother and I went out several times to look for her secretly, but found nothing, and was even found by my mother and taught her a hard lesson."
Xiao Lan shook her head regretfully.
"In this way, we lost all contact with Li Huan."
"But ......"
When Xiao Lan said this, she glanced at Tao Tao meaningfully, and then she continued to speak in Tao Tao's puzzled gaze.
"However, things took a turn when I was eleven years old, and Li Huan had been away from home for two years at that time."
"Wait, wait."
Before Xiao Lan could continue, Tao Tao suddenly stopped it.
Li Huan...... Did you leave home when you were old? ”
Tao Tao suddenly remembered something, but she wasn't so sure.
"Huh?"
Xiao Lan was confused by Tao Tao's sudden question.
"When I was nine years old."
No, it's not right.
Tao Tao shook her head at Xiao Lan.
"But Xiao Qiong said that Li Huan left home when she was fifteen years old......
"What, what?"
Xiao Lan was also stunned for a moment.
"No way, I remember clearly, Li Huan left home when I was nine years old, and she should have been thirteen years old at that time."
Tao Tao looked at Xiao Lan's very affirmative expression and fell into deep thought.
"Why did Xiao Qiong lie to me?"
Xiao Qiong actually played a time game with himself, why did he hide the blank space of the past two years?
However, Xiao Lan also shook her head suspiciously.
"I don't know ...... either"
Tao Tao rubbed his aching forehead and sighed.
"It's okay senior sister, you can continue."
Xiao Lan looked at Tao Tao's slightly pale face worriedly and nodded.
"Well, then I continued, the turning point of events happened when I was eleven years old."
"One day in that year, I found out that my brother had a secret connection with Li Huan behind everyone's back."
"Sneaky contact?"
Tao Tao looked at Xiao Lan in shock.
Xiao Lan nodded with great certainty and continued.
"Yes, at that time I stumbled upon my brother sneaking out alone every night and running back the next day before everyone got up."
"I was so curious that I quietly followed him to see where he went every day."
"Then I found out that he went to someone's house every night."
Tao Tao seemed to suddenly understand something.
"That person, referring to Li Huan?"
"Yes, that's right, it's her."
Xiao Lan nodded.
"I secretly remembered the address of that person, and then during the day one day, I squatted near her house, and it wasn't until that person returned home at night that I found out that that person was Li Huan, who had disappeared for a long time."
Although Tao Tao thinks it's incredible, it's also reasonable.
She had long expected that the relationship between Xiao Qiong and Li Huan would not be so simple.
"They might be plotting something in secret, but I don't know."
Xiao Lan sighed, and then continued.
"But I can tell you that this matter they planned has something to do with you and Jiang Jinchen."
Tao Tao raised her head suddenly and looked at Xiao Lan with wide eyes.
"With, what does it have to do with us?"
A terrible thought suddenly appeared in Tao Tao's mind.
Jiang Jinchen, Xiao Qiong, Li Huan.
These three must have seen each other when they were young, and something happened.
And those things are very likely to be related to themselves.
Although Tao Tao didn't know what the memory she lost was about, and she didn't know the time and place where the story happened, she was very sure that there must be evidence of the simultaneous existence of these three people in her lost memory.
Cold sweat oozed from Tao Tao's forehead.
Li Huan's hypnosis.
That's right, Li Huan's hypnosis.
"Senior sister, do you know whether Li Huan's hypnotism was learned by her since she was a child or acquired?"
Tao Tao leaned forward and looked into Xiao Lan's eyes without blinking.
"Yes, since childhood, after all, this is handed down from Li Huan's ancestors, it's just ......"
"It's just that when I was younger, I wasn't very skilled."
Tao Tao understood it all now.
At that time, there must have been something going on between her, Jiang Jinchen and Xiao Qiong.
Then Xiao Qiong should have made a deal with Li Huan, wanting to use hypnosis to tamper with her memory.
However, because Li Huan's skills were not very skilled at that time, she failed and accidentally erased all her memories.
It's just that...... What happened to the three of them before, so that Xiao Qiong took advantage of this method?
And most importantly, she had been to this city before.
So, even with his mother, is he hiding himself for them?
Thinking of this, Tao Tao turned his head to look at the wall in front of him, as if he wanted to look through the wall to this city that hid infinite secrets.