Chapter Twenty-Four: The Disappeared Father

Under the stars.

The two thieves, big hair and small hair, are talking.

"Brother, what's the matter?"

"How do I know what's going on? Didn't you touch the wrong bag? ”

"Absolutely not!"

"Got the trick, these turtle grandchildren!"

"Brother, what do you mean that the brothers of the Xu family deliberately came to guard us with such a hand?"

"Hmm."

"But isn't it riskier to tie up a child?"

"Letter ball! How do you know they're not here for ransom? ”

"That's right...... Hey, brother, why don't we ask this kid what's going on. ”

"Boy's brain is spinning fast enough this time!"

Xiao Mao listened to the praise and grinned and tore the tape stuck to the child's mouth. The child was sweating profusely, as if he had just woken up after a long coma, his whole body shrunk into a ball and shivered, and he did not dare to look up.

Da Mao leaned over and asked in Mandarin, "Little friend, what's your name?" ”

The child may be frightened and never dare to look up.

Da Mao asked again: "Why are you in the bag?" ”

The child remained silent.

Da Mao glanced at Xiao Mao helplessly, then turned to the child and said, "Then I can only put you back again, where did you come from, and send it back." ”

The child saw Da Mao picking up the hemp rope and hurriedly shouted, "Don't, don't." ”

Da Mao was happy when he saw this: "Hey, you can talk!" ”

The kid glanced at the two men with a menaceous look on their faces, and then hugged himself tighter.

In the hospital room.

Ruan Jinhua hugged a photo frame embedded with Ruan Xiaohao's photo.

Since the accident, this strong woman in the business world and the female boss of the gold store has been stunned, crying for a while, making trouble for a while, and laughing for a while. Chen Nian said, is she crazy? Fang Jinyu said that no, it's just that the grief is excessive, and most people will go through the five stages of rejection, anger, negotiation, frustration, and acceptance when facing grief.

Sure enough, Ruan Jinhua cried enough, and finally gradually accepted the fact that the gold store was robbed and her son was kidnapped.

At this time, Fang Jinyu leaned down and asked softly, "Ms. Ruan, can you tell us about your family?" For example, why does Xiaohao have your surname, and where is the child's father? ”

Ruan Jinhua let go of the photo frame in her hand and let out a long sigh from between her teeth.

The frost flowers on the window began to melt.

Ten years ago.

A man and a woman walk arm-in-arm through the bustling city streets. A maple leaf fell on top of the woman's wavy head. The man who happened to be a head taller than her carefully plucked the leaves for her. At sunset, they looked at each other and smiled. The woman's red tweed coat was particularly showy in the autumn breeze.

They came to the window of the department store.

The woman rubbed her hands together and said, "Wow! This necklace is so beautiful...... This bracelet is also good-looking...... And this one is not bad......"

The man quietly looked at the woman's beautiful side face.

The woman seemed to sense something, took the man's arm and said, "I'll see, I don't want it!" ”

The woman was still smiling, but the man's eyes moistened: "I'm sorry, Jinhua, marrying me has wronged you!" ”

The woman replied shyly: "No, these things can't be eaten, I really don't want them." ”

The man hugged the woman into his arms, looked at the window, and said in a firm tone, "One day, I will give you the whole store." ”

The woman smiled evilly: "Then you can fix it!" ”

Six years ago.

A dilapidated old house. The hazy moonlight sprinkled in front of the window.

Men and women hugged each other and leaned against the head of the bed after doing the lingering things. The man lit a cigarette. The woman snuggled up to the man's chest with tears in her eyes. The hour hand ticked across the wall.

After a long time, the woman said, "Where have you been these two years?" ”

The man extinguished the cigarette butt: "Jinhua, follow me and let you be wronged!" ”

Hearing this, the woman happened to think of the conversation they had in front of the window of the department store in the autumn of the year they first got married, and couldn't help but whisper: "Hmm." ”

The man said, "Do you remember when I said that I would give it to you in the whole store?" ”

The woman said, "Yes." ”

"I did."

The woman said, "Yes." ”

"I said I did."

"Hmm."

"Aren't you happy?"

The woman sat up, put on her pajamas, and then suddenly said in a questioning tone to the familiar and strange man in front of her: "You didn't leave a word, you left for two years, and I don't even know if you are dead or alive...... Now, you suddenly appear in front of me and ask me if I'm happy, and you say I'm not happy? ……”

The woman said as tears fell from her eyes. The man embraced the woman again. The woman kept pounding the man's chest with her fist full of longing and hatred. The man felt deeply ashamed and said "I'm sorry" again and again.

After repeating this a few times, the man took the woman's shoulder and said, "It's time for me to go." ”

The woman looked surprised: "Why?" …… What exactly are you doing? ”

The man's words came to his lips and swallowed again. After turning around and completing the series of actions of lifting the suitcase, putting it on the table, and opening the zipper, the man looked at his tearful wife and said:

"I said that...... I did it! ”

The woman had never seen a box full of cash, and her eyes were full of fear: "Where did you get so much money?" What the hell are you doing? ”

"It doesn't matter what I do, the important thing is that you can use the money to open a gold store in the future and do what you like."

"If you don't make this money clear, how dare I use it?"

"Don't worry!" The man paused, "There's no problem with the money. ”

"What about you? Where else are you going? ”

"I still have some things to do, and I'll be back in a few days."

"How many days?"

"It's hard to say."

"You didn't do anything harm......

"No, absolutely no ......"

The man had already set up his clothes as he spoke. When the clock struck midnight, he hugged his wife tightly, and then resolutely said the last two words:

"Take care!"

The woman stood still for a few seconds, and when she came back to her senses and was about to run out to chase after her, a crisp gunshot rang out from outside the door. The woman hurriedly opened the door, and there was a clear moonlight outside, as if nothing had happened.

"Are you sure you heard gunshots?" Chen Nian asked as soon as he listened to Ruan Jinhua's narration.

"Sure."

"Did you call the police?"

"Nope."

"Also, the money ......"

Fang Jinyu glanced at Chen Nian, and then continued to ask Ruan Jinhua: "Did your husband come back later?" ”

"Nope."

"Not once?"

"Nope."

"Ms. Ruan, at this time, you can't hide anything from us anymore!"

"How could I hide it? My son, my gold shop...... I have nothing left......"

"Later, you used that money to open a Dayao gold store?" Chen Nian asked at his pace.

Ruan Jinhua nodded: "Not long after he left, I found out that I was pregnant." I didn't have any jobs in the first place, so I opened a gold shop...... I think that when the child is born, he may come back, and then our family will keep this property and live a good life...... But I didn't expect that after six years of waiting, he never came back......"

"Have you ever thought that he might have ......"

"Impossible."

"Why? Didn't you say that when he went out, you heard a gunshot......"

"It can't be, it won't...... I didn't see the body...... And ......"

"And what?"

Ruan Jinhua's mood has calmed down at the moment, she tilted her head, and said thoughtfully: "And in the past six years, I always feel that he is watching us from behind, from the opening of the gold store to Xiaohao's birth and kindergarten...... I always felt that he didn't go far, he was guarding us behind us......"

Chen Nian thought that Ruan Jinhua's thoughts and behaviors were a little strange due to the heavy blow, but the next question surprised him so much that he couldn't close his mouth for a long time.

He asked, "What's your husband's name?" ”

Ruan Jinhua replied: "Zhou Xiangrong." ”