Chapter 46: Lifting the Curtain on the Past

I remember when I first learned to speak. Play with the neighbor's children in the KTV box. The mother of the person who opened the KTV wanted to call her father by herself.

It was like my own birthday party. There were strange lights, broken beer bottles. Everyone seemed to be happy, and the smoke was so smoky that he couldn't open his eyes.

The wine is gone. There was no call bell at that time. Dad's friend had to get out of the box and ask the waiter to get the drink. Dad said no, picked up the empty bottle and smashed it against the door.

He was scared and cried. The waiter heard the noise and came in to pick up the garbage, and everyone was laughing. Dad asked the waiter to get the wine.

Laughter and singing continued.

He fell asleep in his mother's arms.

When I woke up, I found that my toy had been broken. The neighbor's children and neighbors are gone. He really liked the little robot, and now it had a broken foot. He felt very sad and started crying.

He looked for his mother, who was also drunk and told him to find his father. So he went to his father, who was still singing. He wrapped his arms around his father's hand holding the microphone, and was about to hang on it, and the cry followed the microphone through the box. Dad pushed him away a few times, as if no one in the whole world wanted to talk to him, and he cried louder and louder. Until he suddenly flew up.

Tumbling in the air and falling to the ground, glass residues smashing into his skin, he was speechless in pain, his ears ringing, and he looked up to see his father walking in the distorted light, lifting himself up, slapping himself in the face.

He couldn't remember how many times it was. He heard a furious cry telling him to kneel, so he knelt. Dad slapped him again and asked him if he knew he was wrong, and he cried and said he knew it was wrong. But he didn't know why he was wrong, he was just scared.

He was slapped again. Dad shouted not to cry, he said he wouldn't cry anymore, he couldn't stop sobbing, so he was beaten again. He was terrified, and when he looked around, there were so many colorful lights that he couldn't see a face looking at him.

This is Li Weiyin's earliest memory of his childhood.

After that, he grew up. He began to know that the person he called his father was not his biological father.

The stepfather's temper became more and more irritable day by day. He slept at home during the day and only woke up at night. I had to drink a lot of alcohol during my meal, and when I was done, I started scolding my mother. Mom was scared and cried many times, and he was scared too.

Until one day later, the gold chain around my stepfather's neck was gone. A few months later, his family moved from a 100-square-meter house to a small bungalow on the edge of the county, and he never saw the neighbor's child again.

He dropped out of preschool. But they didn't go on to primary school because they didn't catch up with the right time. He lived at home for half a year.

In those six months, more than once when he was up to urinate at night, he heard his mother's heart-rending cry in the next room. He once quietly opened the crack in the door and saw his stepfather riding naked on his mother's body, holding a belt in his hand.

Mom has more and more scars on her body, and she talks less and less.

His words are also becoming less and less.

After going to school, because of the acquired personality of not liking to talk, his classmates unconsciously alienated him. Some people started calling him mute, and everyone started laughing and calling him dumb. No one liked him, and he gradually got used to it.

Since the second grade of elementary school, my mother has not been at home at night. The stepfather also stopped beating the mother. But my mother's condition has not improved, I can only see my mother cooking in the kitchen when I come home from school every day, and occasionally when my stepfather is not at home, I will squat down and hug myself and cry. After dinner, she would tell herself to go to bed early, and her stepfather would open the door and send her out with a smile.

Stepdad doesn't have to work. He often saw his stepfather sitting at the table smiling and counting the bills.

Mom is getting better and better every day. His expression became more and more sad day by day.

When I was in the third grade of elementary school, each student had his or her own mobile phone. Whenever school is over, they get together to play games on their phones.

His stepfather didn't care what time he got out of school, so he always deliberately packed his schoolbag slowly, watched his classmates play games in the distance, and listened to them laugh and laugh. He thought it would be nice if he could make friends.

One Sunday, Mom didn't sleep at home during the day. She took herself out shopping, and when she passed by the electronics store, he stopped and stared blankly at the new mobile phone in the glass cabinet for a long time.

Mom couldn't pull him, turned her head, glanced at the glass case, and then looked at him again. Squatted down and buried his head in his chest.

When he got up again, he followed his mother.

When I got home from school the next day, I had a mobile phone on my desk. Not the latest, but also a smartphone. Mom came out of the kitchen and slipped her phone into her pocket.

"Don't tell Daddy." She said.

Li Weiyin looked at her. I don't know why, my mother's hair was messy that day, and her face was very haggard.

It was his eighth birthday. From that day on, he decided that he wanted to hide all his emotions from then on. Joys, sorrows, and sorrows are no longer shared with anyone.

He has understood a lot of things. He also tries to do a lot of things. His grades have always been very good, so he applied for financial aid for poor students behind his family's back. All the money was hidden under the bed. He felt that sooner or later he would be able to use it.

He's very smart, and he can learn everything a little bit. The teachers at the school liked him very much, but he never spoke to the teachers either. Students in the same class will always find a variety of mobile games to play together after school.

He also downloaded those games, no matter what type of game, and in a short period of time, he was able to play to the point where he was perfect. But he never took the initiative to find those classmates to play games together. He never even took out his phone in front of anyone.

He met a netizen online. That netizen played a bad game, and after being accidentally brought by himself, he took the initiative to throw a friend application. He unconsciously nodded in acceptance. From then on, every time I met that person online, that netizen would always throw a team application to me.

I don't know why. He always subconsciously accepts it. Even though that guy played the game badly, he was probably his only friend.

The dull days didn't last long. From the third grade of elementary school, there are always a lot of strange guests coming to the house. They sat in the living room chatting with their stepdad and looked like the same bunch of jobless vagrants.

Pots and jars began to appear on the table, as well as white powder.

The family began to struggle to make ends meet.

The stepdad starts getting more and more irritable.

He often quarreled with his mother and beat her with his hands. Every day after dinner, my mother was still scarred, crying, picking up a small bag and being kicked out of the door. He often woke up and washed up when he heard a woman's pant from the next room, which was not his mother's voice.

He counted the money he had saved under his bed. Although I skip breakfast and lunch every day, I save money on food, but after adding the cost of school funding, it is still very little.

He began to find ways to make more money. He thought that maybe when his grades were better, he could get the tuition fee waived. So he began to devote his energy to reading. Find a variety of free academic competitions on the Internet, whether it's math Olympiad, English, or essays, and then read a variety of books according to the requirements of the competition. His grades soared in the school, and his fame grew, until everyone knew that there was a rare genius student in that third-rate local school, and he had less and less time for himself.

A few months later, he happened to remember a mobile game he had played. When I reopened the game, I saw the familiar figure of the friends list, and the same party application as always.

He pursed his lips and nodded in acceptance.

Ice Crystal Dream Butterfly: Wow, God, why haven't you been online for so long?

Li Weiyin was silent for a while, and typed out a few words.

User 24568535485: I probably won't be online in the future.

Ice Crystal Dream Butterfly: Uh...... Why?

User 24568535485: Learn

Ice Crystal Dream Butterfly: Wow! So you're still studying, huh? I always thought you were an adult......

Ice Crystal Dream Butterfly: God, are you already in your third year of high school? Busy with school?

User 24568535485: No

Li Weiyin paused and continued to knock.

User 24568535485: It's to make money

Ice Crystal Dream Butterfly: Uh...... Can you still make money by reading?

User 24568535485: If you have good grades, you don't need to pay tuition

Ice Crystal Butterfly: Are you poor?

User 24568535485: Sort of

The Ice Crystal Dream Butterfly suddenly went silent, and after a while, a message prompt sounded on the mobile phone.

Ice Crystal Dream Butterfly: God, how old are you this year?

Li Weiyin was stunned, and then smiled a little frustratedly.

User 24568535485: 9 and a half years old

He also understands the personalities of these people on the web. The reason why he confessed his current age is because he knows very well that as long as the other party knows that he is a child, then the other party will probably not have much interest in him. He intends to take the initiative to cut off the relationship.

Sure enough, there was silence for a long time before a string of ellipses was sent.

Ice Crystal Butterfly: Isn't it?

User 24568535485: It's true

Ice Crystal Dream Butterfly: That's an exaggeration, isn't that? It's so much younger than me, and the little kid is so good at playing games......

Li Weiyin smiled. This netizen named Bingjing Dream Butterfly is a chatter when he plays games, which is more or less the reason why he is willing to take this person to play games, at least he won't feel lonely during the game.

He exhaled softly.

User 24568535485: I'm going to get down

Ice Crystal Butterfly: So fast?

User 24568535485: Hmm

Ice Crystal Dream Butterfly: Will you fight with me again?

Li Weiyin was stunned, hesitated for a while, and still knocked down "OK".

After playing the last game, when he decided to go offline and uninstall the game, the friend message window popped up again.

Ice Crystal Dream Butterfly: Great God, add a QQ, the game won't be played if you don't play, so we've known each other for so long! My QQ is 328154......

User 24568535485: I don't have QQ.

Ice Crystal Butterfly: That! You! Only! Under! Carry!

User 24568535485: ......

Ice Crystal Butterfly: What are you doing?

User 24568535485: I don't want to go down

Ice Crystal Dream Butterfly: Down

Ice Crystal Dream Butterfly: Down

Ice Crystal Dream Butterfly: Down

Ice Crystal Dream Butterfly: Down, down

Ice Crystal Dream Butterfly: Down, down......

Li Weiyin smiled bitterly and sighed, quit the game, uninstalled the game directly, thought about it, and downloaded QQ.

The game was just an episode for him, and no matter what he really thought in his heart, he still couldn't spend much time in it.

His life is getting worse and worse, and his stepfather's attitude towards his mother and him is getting worse and worse, like a ship about to capsize. He had to hurry.

After that, almost half a year later, his life took a turn for the better.

The reason turned out to be because of that inexplicable netizen.

After he uninstalled the game, the two also contacted QQ intermittently a few times, and Li Weiyin didn't pay too much attention to it, until one day half a year later, that netizen found himself again and wanted to take that person to play a new game together.

The game became popular all over the country during this time, and people could be seen playing everywhere on the street, and it almost became a new means of socializing.

But Li Weiyin was not interested in this and decisively refused. Subsequently, the netizen proposed again that if he could help train the level and score, he could collect money like other boosters.

"Aren't you trying to save money? Give it a try! ”

The price of the "boosting" given by the man is quite substantial. After weighing it, Li Weiyin found that it was a very good idea. First, at his current age, it is impossible to find an opportunity to work part-time to make money, second, the money earned through the Internet is not easy to be discovered by his family, and third, if he further compresses his life time, he does still have free time to play games.

Li Weiyin didn't know if the reason why he wanted to play games with that chattering netizen was really because of these, but he finally convinced himself and agreed to the request.

He started downloading the game, and unsurprisingly, it only took half a day to get started. In the first few games, he even had some difficulty walking and turning, and when he got to the back, it was often the netizen who was killed and babbled, and he showed the audience by himself.

received his first pot of gold, Li Weiyin also began to get acquainted with "Ice Crystal Dream Butterfly" in the form of a substitute training and employer, and the two opened their voices in the game, only to find out that the other party was a girl who was a few years older than herself.

He immediately recalled that when he first played that game, "Ice Crystal Dream Butterfly" always wore the most expensive fashion, and he loved to play, he must be a rich second generation, and it was understandable to find himself to level up, and he couldn't help but sigh a little about the importance of life and reincarnation.

"Hey, seriously, why don't you give yourself a game name, you can't read this username 2 or 3 or 4 now, and you won't tell me your real name......"

"There's no need."

"It is necessary! You're so much younger than me, and I still have to call you one by one, and I always feel like I've taken advantage of you. If you think about it, you'll just take that name......"

She typed a line in the chat box, and Li Weiyin looked at it and smiled bitterly.

"You have terrible taste in naming."

"What's the matter, it's obviously cute!"

"The Ice Crystal Dream Butterfly is also terrible. It's too non-mainstream. ”

"You know what! Brat! At that time, I took that name because most of the people who played that game were non-mainstream, and when I saw people, I talked about people, and I talked about ghosts, understand? Otherwise, how can I get a gold fashion......"

Li Weiyin was stunned, and then recalled the routine of those ladyboy online dating cheats on the Internet, and was speechless for this guy. But out of respect for the owner, he still changed his game ID.

Since then, he has found time every day to play games with Jin, and over time, he has made more and more money. He was also as strict with his life as an ascetic, skipping lunch for hundreds of days, and due to his lack of nutrition, he always looked yellow and thin, much shorter than his peers.

Two years later, 12-year-old Li Weiyin relied on the money he saved for food, tuition, and training to save enough for a down payment in the county.

The year I was 13 years old. Something very serious happened in the house. After the stepfather got drunk, he violently beat his mother, who had just returned home in the morning, and the latter was seriously injured and was taken directly to the hospital.

After hearing the news at school, Li Weiyin immediately rushed to the hospital and saw his mother lying on the hospital bed dying. He sat on the edge of the bed and clenched his fists.

He stayed with his mother all afternoon in his hospital bed. When his mother gradually regained consciousness, Li Weiyin finally made up his mind and said to his mother:

Divorce him.

Mom was stunned, her eyes were soaked with tears, and she shook her head.

Li Weiyin asked why.

He said, "He's beaten you like this."

He said: All day, he didn't even think of coming to the hospital to see you.

He said: He has no intention of making money, how long do you plan to let us be bullied by him?

Li Weiyin became more and more excited, and his speech was also nasal, his fists were clenched, he pursed his lips, and continued:

"Mom, I have money. I can take you with me. Let's leave here and go to another county, I have 90,000 yuan on me, enough for us to live for a few months, and then we will find a way to ......."

Mom was stunned, struggled to get up from the bed, and asked worriedly:

"Kid, how do you have so much money?"

Li Weiyin gritted his teeth, and explained to his mother that he hadn't eaten lunch for the past few years, secretly hid his tuition fees, and explained everything to his mother. Mom was stunned and couldn't speak for a long time.

Li Weiyin continued:

"Mom, we can live well without him, let's go with me......"

Mom didn't speak, just kept looking at Li Weiyin blankly, her eyes full of tears, constantly flowing down her cheeks. It was a long time before she leaned down and hugged Li Weiyin, crying silently.

"Xiao Yin...... Mommy loves you...... Mom loves you very much......"

"But...... Mom loves you dad too......"

Li Weiyin, who was held tightly in his arms, his pupils suddenly contracted, as if he had been struck by lightning.

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Dejected, Li Weiyin staggered out of the hospital, took a taxi, and returned home directly.

He opened the door. The stepfather was still lying on the couch in a trance, and there was a residue of white powder on the table. Without saying a word, he walked to the table, took out his mobile phone, took a photo, picked up the chili jar on the table, and slammed it into his stepfather on the sofa.

The glass jar shattered, and the stepfather let out a scream, rolled off the sofa, pulled the chili sauce off his face in pain, and staggered to his feet, copying a mouth full of vicious swear words and about to pounce on Li Weiyin.

Li Weiyin took a few steps back, made him pounce, held his mobile phone indifferently, and said:

"I want you to leave our house right now, and not touch a single hair of my mother's hair again. Otherwise, I'll call the police and arrest you right away. I have here a photo of you sucking DU, the evidence is conclusive. It has been kept since a few years ago, and now there are hundreds of them, enough to jail you for life. ”

The stepfather kept swearing in his mouth, crawled to the edge of the pool, washed his eyes, his eyes were bloodshot, and rushed to Li Weiyin angrily. The stepfather smoked DU all day long, and his body was already much worse than before, except for the hot scolding, he couldn't catch up with Li Weiyin at all, and after more than ten minutes, he fell to the ground panting and tired.

Li Weiyin came to his side, took out his mobile phone, and looked indifferent.

"I'm going to call the police now, you're done."

The stepfather raised his head and his eyes were split:

"You dare!"

Li Weiyin didn't say a word and pressed 110.

Hearing the sound of buttons, the stepfather's expression was instantly distorted, and he hurriedly sat up:

"Wait, wait! I was wrong, I'll go now, right away, absolutely go! ”

Li Weiyin put down his phone and looked at his stepfather.

"Really?"

"Really...... Really ......"

The stepfather replied in a panic, and asked cautiously, "What...... I've got to at least go home and get something, right? ”

Li Weiyin looked at the phone silently, pressed the call button, and put the phone to his ear:

"Hello? 110 ......"

Stepdad stands up:

"Don't! Other! I'll go now! I'll go now! ”

Sweating profusely, he retreated and said in a panic:

"I'm really gone! I'm really gone! ”

Li Weiyin hung up the phone and watched indifferently as his stepfather squeezed out of the crowd and left in despair.

Li Weiyin breathed a sigh of relief and left the downtown area.

Walking into the door that could be closed in the future, he glanced around at the cramped and messy room and said nothing.

He silently walked into his stepfather's and mother's room, looked left and right, and saw the wedding photo on the bedside table, and the mother in the photo smiled as gentle as moonlight.

He slowly stretched out his hand, took the picture frame, threw it on the ground suddenly, the glass shattered, he stretched out his foot to step on it, stepped on it a dozen times, the remaining hatred was not gone, and suddenly opened the wardrobe, ripped off all the male clothes in it, hugged it and threw it into the kitchen sink, took the lighter left on the table by his stepfather from the living room, swiped the roller a few times, and set the clothes on fire, and the thick black smoke rose in the kitchen, he ran out of the kitchen with a dry cough, closed all the doors and windows, and picked up his stepfather's slippers and leather shoes under the sofa, Throwing it out of the balcony, he ran back to the living room, forcefully pushed away the white powder left on the table, and kept slamming his fist against the wall, until his fist bleed, and he was panting, and then collapsed on the sofa.

He had just taken two breaths when he smelled the thick stench of smoke billowing out of the kitchen. He hurriedly opened the kitchen door, rushed to the sink with a dry cough, turned on the faucet, took a large basin of water from the next bathroom, hurriedly held the basin and poured it into the clothes in the sink, his pants were burned by the burning rags, and he slammed them a few times before extinguishing them. When he had done this, he sat down on the floor panting, leaned against the edge of the cupboard, and closed his eyes in despair.

After regaining his senses, Li Weiyin made a phone call and called the locksmith to change the door lock at home. Then he made another phone call.

"Mom."

"Can you be discharged tomorrow?"

"Hmm. I'll pick you up tomorrow from school. ”

"Hmm. It's okay at home. He didn't say anything. Well. It's going to be fine. ”

“…… You pay attention to rest. ”

Hanging up the phone, Li Weiyin walked back to his bedroom, dragged out a toolbox from under the bed, opened it, counted the bits and pieces of cash inside, there were 28,000, plus the 60,000 in the phone, he began to think about what to do next.

The next day, the unexpected happened.

During class, Li Weiyin received a message from the teacher again: his mother had an accident in the hospital and was now transferred to the emergency room.

Li Weiyin ran out of the school in a hurry, took a taxi to the hospital, and just rushed to the entrance of the hospital, he was hugged around the corner, and a moist linen cloth covered his mouth.

When he woke up, what he saw was his stepfather's hideous smiling face.

"I said where did you come from so boldly, and you dare to mess with me like this, it turns out that you have hair and wings, and you will make money by yourself."

Li Weiyin's eyes widened suddenly, staring at his stepfather, and his eyes were about to split. He looked around, and there was a deserted wilderness with no people.

"Don't you understand what I mean? Your mother's stinky framer, just went to her hospital last night and threatened a few words, and she recruited everything, tens of thousands of yuan! Hehe...... You're really capable. ”

The stepfather opened the door of the van next to him, took out a toolbox from it, and shook it in front of Li Weiyin's eyes:

"There are twenty-eight thousand, and where are the others? Do you have it in your phone? ”

Li Weiyin's eyes were about to be shattered:

"Keep it for your grave!"

The stepfather laughed hysterically, and a few people got out of the van, it was the fox friend who was sucking DU with the stepfather, and several of them beat up mercilessly against Li Weiyin, who was tied up by five flowers.

"Fuck you! Fucking hard ...... when you're dying."

Li Weiyin was beaten to death, foaming at the mouth of the mouth, and his stepfather grabbed his hair and picked up his head:

"Well, are you willing to tell us now?"

Li Weiyin spat on him a mouthful of blood.

The stepfather's face turned pale, and he brushed the blood stains off his face.

"Keep fighting!"

"No, Lao Liu, if you continue like this, you will really be killed."

"Whoever told you to be killed, just take your breath and breathe."

Another beating.

Li Weiyin lost consciousness for a while, and when he came back to his senses again, he seemed to be able to hear his stepfather's voice in a blur.

"What is the phone password? Say it! ”

Li Weiyin took a few breaths with difficulty, and his breath was like a gossamer.

"You'd better ...... Don't let me go back alive......"

"Don't worry." The stepfather smiled coldly: "I won't let you go back alive." ”

He jerked Lee up and stuffed him into the van.

"Any idea where we're going to take you right now? I asked a friend about a school that would be a good fit for you, hehe......"

"After throwing you over, as long as we don't come to pick you up, you can't get out. When I'm done with your business, I'll go to your mother to settle the account and have a good time with her......"

With a smile on his face, he put it to Li Weiyin's ear and whispered:

"Do you know how loose your mom is right now?"

Li Weiyin screamed hysterically, raised his head sharply, and bit his stepfather's ear, and the stepfather let out a miserable scream, and his ear was bitten off by Li Weiyin. He was furious and fought violently at Li Weiyin......

In the chaos, the van staggered around and drove towards the mountains of Jiangxi.

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On the 17th day that the "Abyss Demon Horror Sect Star" was no longer online, Liu Yanshi began to investigate the incident about Li Weiyin.