Chapter 13: Affection
Li Yuanxiang told me a story that happened two months ago.
To understand the story deeply, you need to start at an earlier point in time......
I already know from Xu Wen that Li Yuanxiang and Xu Wen are childhood sweethearts, but Xu Wen told it relatively simply, in fact, he just used the words "childhood sweetheart", but in Li Yuanxiang's mouth, this word has a more profound and specific meaning.
This word is like a strip of pig iron, which is deformed and extended under the hammer hit by Li Yuanxiang's words......
I am happy to see this change, and I am a very patient listener, but I feel that crime can continue to happen at any time, and I am deeply pressed for time, so in order to avoid Li Yuanxiang's description being too protracted, I first remind her that she needs to get to the point.
Li Yuanxiang nodded, she agreed with my opinion, and she also said that these things are closely related to the "Million Dollar Jackpot Human Wolf Game".
So, Li Yuanxiang sat down with her back against the wall and began to speak, while I sat on the floor next to Li Yuanxiang's unconscious father—although the atmosphere was a little strange, but I couldn't care about it much.
"I like Xu Wen." As soon as Li Yuanxiang opened his mouth, he caught me a little off guard, and, as if he had guessed my thoughts, Li Yuanxiang added, "Well, it's the kind of 'like', the kind of ...... between men and women."
Li Yuanxiang likes Xu Wen and has been since junior high school.
At that time, it was also the time when Li Yuanxiang's mother eloped with someone and her father began to drink heavily.
At first, Li Jiquan just wanted to get himself drunk to paralyze himself, but it didn't take long for him to vent his resentment about his wife's abandonment on his daughter, Li Yuanxiang.
Li Yuanxiang still remembers it very clearly: it was a thunderstorm night, Li Yuanxiang stayed at home alone, because he was afraid of thunder, so Li Yuanxiang had to bring the quilt, wrapped the quilt and sit on the sofa in the living room, waiting for his father who returned late. Not surprisingly, Li Jiquan once got drunk, Li Yuanxiang helped his father into the house, and then obediently turned hot water to wash Li Jiquan's face. But Li Jiquan suddenly shook off Li Yuanxiang's hand holding the hot towel and grabbed Li Yuanxiang's throat!
"What are you doing here? Do you want to come back with your concubine and demonstrate to me?! Ah, you say—why are you following that bastard? Li Jiquan roared hoarsely, he almost stunned Li Yuanxiang, and then he gave Li Yuanxiang a very heavy slap with his backhand.
"Get out!" Li Jiquan punched his face full of hot water away.
The next day, Li Yuanxiang had to go to school with a red and swollen slap print on the left side of her face.
The bruises on Li Yuanxiang's face caused whispers from classmates. The news of Li Yuanxiang's mother's elopement with someone has long been known to the whole school, so it didn't take long for someone to expand to Li Yuanxiang's father according to the red palm print on Li Yuanxiang's face to beat her madly, and said that he had a nose and eyes, as if he had seen it with his own eyes.
Because what they guessed was not much different from the facts, Li Yuanxiang, who was powerless to refute, could only lie on the desk and cry.
There are always some people in life who rejoice in the pain of others, and get pleasure by sarcasm and mockery, while more people, when they see others being bullied, will choose to stand by and even join the bullying side......
Imagine that Li Yuanxiang was helpless at that time.
Only Xu Wen stood up.
Not only did Xu Wen stand up, but he even got into a fight with one of the boys who had the most heckling - even though Xu Wen had always behaved very quietly, never even speaking loudly.
The fight was fierce, both sides hung up, and even afterward, the school gave the two of them a warning.
Li Yuanxiang, who was teary-eyed, looked at Xu Wen's back as he rushed up and pressed the other party under him, and while he was frightened, an ignorant and vague feeling began to sprout in Li Yuanxiang's heart......
At Li Yuanxiang's most helpless moment, this was the first to stand up for her and fight for her...... Man.
It was also from this moment that Li Yuanxiang felt that he fell in love with Xu Wen.
"That day, I swore that if one day, Xu Wen encountered danger, I would stand up for him desperately - even if there was a bullet coming in front of me, I would be willing to go to the stall for him."
Li Yuanxiang said this to me, her eyes flashing with determination.
On the other hand, although the first violence against a daughter was caused by drunkenness and mistaking a daughter for a wife, with the first, there will be a second ...... In the end, every time Li Jiquan was drunk, he would inevitably be rude to Li Yuanxiang, but Li Yuanxiang later learned that as long as she saw her drunk father enter the door, she would flee into her small room, no matter how her father abused, threatened, and even smashed the door outside, she would never open the door.
And every time he sobers up after drinking, Li Jiquan will apologize to his daughter, and if Li Yuanxiang is injured, he will even cry and kneel down to scold himself.
Since learning about Li Yuanxiang's father's evil deeds, Xu Wen has helped Li Yuanxiang fight - he and Li Jiquan have quarreled face-to-face, and they have also called the police. Although Li Jiquan would regret and apologize every time afterwards, Xu Wen did not believe that Li Yuanxiang's father would change his ways, and in fact, his alcoholism had indeed been retained.
"Xu Wen is really a very quiet boy in normal times, but when he conflicts with others for me, he is like a different person...... It's like ...... Have you watched Animal World? At that time, he was like an angry lion. Li Yuanxiang's tone was full of nostalgia and attachment, "So, I'm willing to do anything for Xu Wen, even if it is to accept 10,000 'Paradise Travel Tickets'." ”
"Wait!" Hearing this, I finally couldn't help but interrupt, "What is the 'Heaven Ticket'?" ”
"A booklet that can grant wishes." Li Yuanxiang said, and took out a booklet with a black leather shell from his personal pocket, "This is it." ”
I suspiciously took the black booklet, which still carried Li Yuanxiang's body temperature and the girl's unique slight fragrance, opened it, and printed on the title page four large characters in black art "Heaven Travel Ticket", and on the second page it was written in a slightly childish girl's handwriting:
【Wishes:
I hope Xu Wen's illness will get better. 】
Turning to the next page, it is the same handwriting, but the content is a little weird:
【Sacrifice:
Yan Qin
Hu Hengyi
Chu Weiyuan
Zhan Xide
Ming Qian】
Looking at these five familiar names, I was suddenly shocked!
Because, I suddenly remembered, aren't these five people the five students who were found dead in Seongnam Yucai High School this morning?!
What is the word "sacrifice" written here?!