209. Mirage
When Yu Chenggong finished talking about the grievances and hatreds of the previous generation, the father and daughter stood in front of Mingxue's tombstone, shrouded in an indescribable layer of sadness. With no time to take care of his whole body that was wet by the rain, Yu Xia was so stunned that he couldn't believe this story. And Yu Chenggong is also uncomfortable, nearly twenty years ago
The memory is still so clear when I think about it now, as if it hurt my heart yesterday.
Yu Xia looked at his father's old body, and he blamed himself and felt guilty, but he didn't know what to say.
The shock was terrible for her.
Who is to blame? Blame my father for killing his brother to save himself? Or is it fate to blame people for this situation?
"Twilight, does he know?" Yu Xia asked in a slightly trembling voice.
"I shouldn't know, I hid this matter well." Even if you want to take it to the grave like this, you won't let the children know.
Yu Xia smiled bitterly at the corner of her mouth, she didn't know or not, she didn't even dare to imagine what Ye Duchen would do if she knew all this? Is it possible for them to be together if they know? But is it really good to hide it from him? Regarding the truth about his biological father's death, isn't it fair to him not to tell Ye Duchen?
"Xia Xia, don't say it, don't say anything, you know? Don't think about it too much, it's a debt owed by your dad and has nothing to do with you. He understands his daughter's complex contradictions, which is why even Yu Xia is reluctant to tell him.
"I see, Daddy." How to say such a thing.
"Well, let's go back."
The rain became heavier and heavier, and Yu Chenggong left the cemetery with Yu Xia.
Yu Xia thought on the way back that their father and daughter were really bad to Ye Duchen. killed his father, indirectly killed his mother, and now they hide him together after knowing the truth.
There is no worse person in this world than their father and daughter, but what to do? She'd rather be a bad person than say these things.
Yu Xia vaguely felt that their seemingly peaceful life would one day be torn off their masks.
Because of a heavy rain and a sudden impact, Yu Xia had a fever the day after worshipping her mother, and fainted in the studio with a fever of 40 degrees, but fortunately, the others in the studio noticed that something was wrong with Yu Xia and sent her to the hospital in time.
"How's Xia Xia?" Ye Duchen rushed over immediately after receiving the call.
"It shouldn't be a big deal, I heard the doctor say it's just a fever, and I took a film to make sure it's not pneumonia." The old employees of the studio knew that their boss was really in charge of Ye Duchen, so Yu Xia contacted him as soon as he had an accident.
"How could she pass out? None of you noticed her abnormality before? Ye Duchen's tone was not polite and asked the employee who sent Yu Xia to the hospital, knowing that his behavior was called anger, but he just felt uncomfortable!
"Yes, I'm sorry - Mr. Ye." The trained employees also felt aggrieved, and originally wanted to sell well in front of the big boss, but they got into trouble.
"Forget it, I've worked hard for you, let's go back first."
"Okay, Mr. Ye."
"By the way, did anything happen to Yu Xia today?" Suddenly thinking of something, Ye Duchen stopped the two again.
"It doesn't seem to be anything, Sister Xia Xia is still the same as before, but she doesn't seem to be in a good mood, she hasn't spoken much today, and she locked herself in her workshop when she went downstairs, and she didn't come out until lunch time to find that she fainted."
"I see, thank you."
After the two employees looked at Ye Duchen again and left the hospital, Ye Duchen hurriedly found the attending doctor's office, who was explaining Yu Xia's condition and prescribing medicine.
"Okay, thank you, doctor, I'll hang up some water later, and I don't have to be hospitalized." It's just a fever, and Yu Xia is not so hypocritical to occupy medical resources.
"Then wait for Miss Yu to go to the window and pay the money, just go directly to the infusion room on the first floor."
When Yu Xia walked out of the treatment room, it happened that Ye Duchen found her.
"What's wrong? Xia Xia, does it matter? Ye Duchen was in a hurry to find her, and he didn't have the patience to wait for the elevator, so he ran to the fourth floor in one breath, and the first thing he said when he gasped was to care about her.
"I'm fine, it's just a small fever, don't worry too much." Yu Xia was a little afraid to look at Ye Duchen's worried eyes, and lowered her head and looked at the doctor's list to divert her gaze.
Regarding the truth, she hasn't digested it properly, as if she is half asleep and half awake, she doesn't know whether it is true or false.
"What to do now? Do you pay for the medicine? Ye Duchen took the list in her hand and took her hand.
"I still need an infusion, and the doctor said that it would be better to hang water for two days."
"Then let's go, the infusion room is on the first floor."
"Aren't you busy today?"
"Where am I in the mood to work when I hear that you fainted?"
The more gentle Ye Duchen was, the more guilty Yu Xia felt, she hid so much from him.
"You don't have to worry about me, I'm okay."
"It's okay, I'll accompany you today." Touching Yu Xia's hot forehead distressedly, Ye Duchen hugged her into his arms.
Yu Xia leaned on him in the infusion room and slowly hung the water, Ye Duchen took out his mobile phone and kept looking through his work emails, occasionally pinching Yu Xia's face to let her know that he cared.
Probably because of yesterday's sequelae and illness, it didn't take long for Yu Xia to lean on Ye Duchen's body and fall asleep, and the tip of her nose was still lingering with his unique refreshing and clean taste, which made her familiar and reassured.
"Brother Twilight, why don't you speak?" In her sleep, Yu Xia seems to have returned to the time when she loved to revolve around her good-looking big brother at the age of 9.
"If you don't speak, I'll tell you jokes, okay?" The older boy was still focused on the book, oblivious to the noise in his ears.
"You don't want to hear my jokes, do you? Shall we play the game together? You're going to be in junior high school starting tomorrow, and we won't be able to go to school together since I'm still in elementary school, so annoying! ”
Ye Duchen sighed and glanced up at Yu Xia, he had lived here for almost a year, and gradually adapted to this home, Yu Chenggong invited the best psychiatrist for him, plus there was a person in the family who was too good to speak, he finally began to speak, although he didn't talk much.
"In a few years, you'll be in junior high school."
"But when I get to junior high school, you're going to be high school, and when I'm in high school, you're going to college." They are three years apart, and the period of their study will never be the same.
"But our elementary school ends early, can I pick you up from school?"
"Don't." Ye Duchen refused without thinking about it, the fat girl was too eye-catching, and he didn't like to be noticed.
"If you want it, I want it."
"Whatever you want." The fat girl was hot for three minutes, and Ye Duchen already understood something, so she didn't take Yu Xia's words to heart.
On the first day of the new semester, when Ye Duchen walked out of school, he was shocked to see a little girl with a backpack across the road and an ice cream ponytail in her hand.
"Brother Twilight." The moment the little girl saw him, it was as if the whole world suddenly brightened up and ran towards him.
"Xia Xia be careful."
ran to the middle of the road and suddenly jumped the green light, and the fat girl was mixed in the middle of the busy road, neither advancing nor retreating, watching her originally happy little face become frightened little by little.
"Brother Twilight."
Ye Duchen ignored the danger, and relied on his dexterous body to cross the road and grab her hand and lead her back to the side of the road.
"What are you doing!" His heartbeat was about to stop when he was frightened by her.
"Wow...... Brother Twilight. After being stunned for a few seconds, Yu Xia burst into tears after making sure that she was completely safe.
"Okay, don't cry, I won't kill you." Ye Duchen rubbed his temples, he couldn't stand the fat girl crying the most.
"I bought ice cream for you, but you haven't come out for a long time, and it's about to melt." Choked up and finished saying word by word. Ye Duchen was helpless against the little crying bag in front of him.
"Don't do such a dangerous thing next time, you know? And where do you get the money to buy ice cream? "The last time she ate ice cream and ate her stomach, Yu Chenggong had already deducted all her pocket money and didn't allow her to buy food, where did she get the money?
"I saved it from my canned piglets. Brother Twilight gives you something to eat! ”
Yu Xia in her sleep, constantly switching between those past fragments in her mind.
Yu Xia's way of being kind to Ye Duchen has always been very direct and single, giving him everything that he thinks is the best.
And then in the memories that were gradually stretched out by time, I watched my brother who didn't like to talk grow up and become more and more handsome and upright, and saw the back of his young self that he always followed, and love took root and sprouted between them little by little.
"Twilight, if, I say if......" opened her eyes and returned to the real world, the pungent smell of disinfectant water in the hospital reminding her of the real past.
"What if?" Ye Duchen still focused on business.
"What would you do if I hid something very important from you?"
"What are you hiding from me? Secretly looking for a man? ”
Suddenly, the man stopped what he was doing, and looked at Yu Xia with his head drooping meaningfully in a mocking tone, more like he was deliberately avoiding his sight.
What does it mean to "hide from him"? Was she hiding it from him, or did she find something?
Their relationship has been a lie from the beginning, and it has never been equal under the seemingly perfect exterior.
"Ouch, I'm just making an analogy, where is the man, you hurry up."
"I'm probably going to be angry with you, the kind that's very angry."
"Then when you're angry, don't ignore me! You can't be angry for a long time! Twilight ...... I'm most afraid that you'll be angry with me and ignore me again. ”
"No, there won't be this day." Their story is like a book, everyone wants to turn to the last page to see the outcome of the story, but no one wants to see the ending, maybe subconsciously they all know - the happiness in front of them is just a mirage.