That Earring Reproduction
Rumors of Xie Qingcheng and He Yu's racy affair at the Wei family's wedding banquet are still spreading.
These people do not dare to say on the surface, behind the scenes but the lively discussion.
The secret eventually reaches Xie Xue's ears, and after her initial shock and anger, she falls into deep concern.
She didn't think that this incident was just a simple poisoning, after all, He Yu and her brother's reaction didn't seem to be just an accident, as Xie Qingcheng's younger sister, after she calmed down, she was most concerned about her brother's current emotional state.
Because the other people had kept it from her, she did not know that Xie Qingcheng had actually suffered such a thing, and now she thought back, and realized why Xie Qingcheng had been so depressed during this period of time, and was even more reticent than before.
She wanted to ask Xie Qingcheng the specific situation, but did not dare to ask, so she had to take Wei Dongheng angry: "I said at that time in that hotel in the person is He Yu and my brother, you said it is not ...... Otherwise, Otherwise, I would have been ......"
Halfway through the sentence, he bit his lip again and said no more.
She herself knew that even if she had been convinced that it was He Yu and Xie Qingcheng, she hadn't had the guts to go after them and ask more questions.
Now that she was uncomfortable all over, the more she thought about it, the more clues began to come to her mind.
--She had seen He Yu and her brother pulling and tugging their way out of an empty classroom.
On Chinese New Year's Eve, she came home to see He Yu and her brother standing disheveled in an unlit room with broken vases on the floor.
When she saw the cab loading, He Yu naturally put his arm around Xie Qingcheng's waist ......
In the heat of the day, Xie Xue's hands and feet were cold from thinking.
Were they together that long ago?
Xie Xue, who had been tortured by anxiety and had been tossing and turning for several nights, finally made up her mind to ask her brother.
It was already summer vacation, and Xie Qingcheng stayed at home instead of living in the janitorial dormitory.
She hesitantly carried a bunch of fruit supplements and appeared at the door of her own house on Stranger Rain Lane, stood on tiptoe and looked into the window, and found that Xie Qingcheng was not at home at the moment.
"Xiao Xue?"
Xie Xue turned back and saw Li Miaoqing just coming out of the next room, and busily said, "Aunt Li, where's my brother?"
"I don't know, something went wrong." Li Miaoqing put the clothes she was going to dry, along with the plastic basin, on the stone bench next to her, and wiped her wet hands on her apron as she surveyed Xie Xue's face and said with concern, "Come here, Xiao Xue, come over here."
She took Xie Xue's hand and asked, "Why are you so haggard? Why are you so haggard, with dark circles under your eyes? Did something happen to you?"
Xie Xue had endured for too long, and when she asked, she first cried out without thinking, "Auntie Lai, I, my brother, he's recently--"
The words were half spoken and then reacted.
Although Auntie Lai came to the wedding banquet, she had been following her around to help out, and Xie Qingcheng and He Yu's affair was a secret of the rich and powerful family, which was only rumored among the people, so Auntie Lai might not know about it.
Xie Xue then stopped his mouth, some words stuck in his throat.
Who knows that Auntie Lai heard the first half of the sentence, and then combined with Xie Xue's state of mind at the moment, actually trembled and asked, "You ...... also know about it? He Yu's matter ......"
Xie Xue's eyes widened and the two women looked at each other for a long moment, neither one picking apart the rest of the words, but they both saw the answer in each other's eyes.
Xie Xue suddenly jumped into Auntie Lai's arms and finally let out a loud cry.
"......"
"...... That's the way it is."
After Li Miaoqing finished telling Xie Xue how she discovered the secret between He Yu and Xie Qingcheng, Xie Xue was still wiping her tears, but she was more angry than sad and confused.
After all, what Li Miaoqing had seen and heard before had convinced her that He Yu was a scummy playboy who had abandoned Xie Qingcheng, and then felt sorry for him and came back to pull him back, causing Xie Qingcheng to be depressed and dejected.
She told Xie Xue about it, and Xie Xue brainstormed it, and it was even better--
That is He Yu PUA her brother, a slap to give a piece of sugar to eat, seduced the person to and then ruthlessly hurt, hurt and then sweet words to coax, the result in Xuange made a mess of things like that. He Da Zi is now too ashamed, simply Xie Qingcheng dumped, her brother had to digest this not only by the children deceived and abandoned, but also to face the pain of the damage to the reputation.
Xie Xue was furious and clenched his teeth, "That brute ...... he even dares to play with my brother? No ...... I can't stand it ...... I'll find him!"
Auntie Lai was a bit more sensible and said, "Don't let your brother find out! He has a good face, if he knows that we know about him, he will feel even worse."
"You don't worry, I only look for He Yu, I want to ask to see him, what kind of lard is he ......!"
Xie Xue is now, to put it mildly, He Yu's teacher.
To put it more seriously, she is the wife of the third son of the Wei family, she herself is not too concerned about the status of any status, Wei Dongheng also never take this kind of family gateway things to say things, but she went out into the store, those people have to call her a Wei Tai.
She's looking for He Yu, who's good enough in any capacity.
So she didn't expect that He Yu would not answer her calls.
She called 17 or 18 times, but He Yu finally turned off the phone.
"Damn you! Scum!" Xie Xue angrily slammed down her cell phone, stopped a cab and reported the address of the He Residence, and the taxi drove her away.
When they arrived outside the He residence, they were greeted by a flustered Guan Jia.
Guan Jia did not think much of this little Xie girl before, but now she treats Mrs. Wei with respect.
"I want to see He Yu." Xie Xue said, suppressing a surge of anger, "Please speak to him and let me in."
Guan Jia didn't dare to be slow, and immediately went back.
But not a moment later, he came back trembling, his face full of uneasiness, as if he had something to hide.
"Mrs. Wei." Guan Jia said apprehensively, "Mr. He ...... Well, he is ill, there is really no way for him to receive you today, do you think it would be better to do it another day?"
No matter how angry Xie Xue was, it didn't make sense to break into a house.
She glared in exasperation at the brightly lit main building in the distance, and after a moment she realized that there were several figures of medics coming and going from that side of the main building.
One of them still seems to be ......
She froze, rubbing her eyes as the somewhat familiar figure disappeared around the corner.
--That man wouldn't be a doctor either ...... She guessed she was seeing things.
Xie Xue asked Guan Jia, "Why did he suddenly fall ill?"
Guan Jia only smiled sarcastically, with a helpless look on his face that he was not at liberty to say more.
Xie Xue was not the kind of person who would bully a servant once she had gotten her way, and seeing that Guan Jia was in a real dilemma, she did not pursue the matter any further, and instead turned her gaze back to the main floor. This time, she saw the boy standing in front of the third floor landing window.
"He Yu--"
He Yu was talking to a nurse, because of the distance, Xie Xue could not see the expression on his face, but saw him holding his arms in a completely defensive posture, while the nurse kept her head lowered and seemed to be apologizing to him. He finally turned his face away from the nurse and saw Xie Xue's figure at the front door of the villa from a distance.
A few moments of stillness.
He Yu suddenly raised his hand and closed the curtains.
Xie Xue anger and feet, but there is nothing to do, and finally had to leave in anger. Along the way the more she thought the more sad, really do not know their own brother so pure hearted people, how will be He Yu this little beast cheated to the hand, and now also be bullied into such a person is not a ghost appearance.
...... Her brother never treated He Yu badly, and after so many years, he didn t care about him to take care of him. That level of concern, in Xie Xue's opinion, had far exceeded Xie Qingcheng's care for an ordinary patient.
While He Yu clearly knows that Xie Qingcheng is in a bad marriage and has been living a lonely and cold life for many years, he still wants to seduce him and ruin him, doing things that are even more outrageous than Li Ruoqiu's cheating on his wife.
What does her brother owe him?
How could he do that?
Xie Xue would like to go back to Stormy Lane to be by Xie Qingcheng's side, to talk everything out, to comfort him. But she also knows that Li Miaoqing's approach is the right one, Xie Qingcheng is not the kind of person who has a strong desire to talk to, he is accustomed to encountering things with a person, a cigarette to quietly endure and digest.
He didn't want anyone to touch his sores, even to heal him.
With that in mind, Xie Xue pulled out a Kleenex from her small bag, wiped the tears from her eyelashes, and was about to put the rest of the tissue back when her cell phone suddenly rang.
"Hello ...... brother?" The call was from Xie Qingcheng, and Xie Xue tried her best to maintain the calmness in her voice so that she wouldn't let him notice the difference.
"You've been to Stray Rain Lane this afternoon?"
"Yeah, yeah. How do you know?"
"...... You left the fruit on your doorstep."
Xie Xue slapped herself hard on the head silently - she's a pig brain!
"Where are you now?" Xie Qingcheng's voice was as light as cold water, no ripples could be heard.
Xie Xue said, "I ...... saw that you were not there, I went to the nearby mall to shop ......"
Xie Qingcheng said, "Buy fewer unnecessary things."
After a pause, he added, "Coming back for dinner? Or go home?"
"Back-" Xie Xue choked.
When he used to ask her if she was coming home, he was referring to the little house on Stormy Lane that belonged to their brother and sister.
And now, when he asks if he's coming home, he's referring to her new home with Wei Dongheng. When she becomes a family, he will be the only one left in the hut on Strange Rain Lane.
Xie Xue clutched a tissue as her tearful reflection blurred in the cab window.
"Hello?" Xie Qingcheng's voice was still calm and magnetic, with some thinly veiled confusion, "Why aren't you talking."
Xie Xue held back the choking, held back until the mouth of the throat was sore and astringent.
She said, "...... No, the signal was bad just now."
And again, "I came back. Brother, I came back to both of our homes for dinner."
"Oh ...... then when will it arrive?" Xie Qingcheng's voice was still quiet, only that kind of composure that perfectly hid all emotions was causing Xie Xue to ache in her heart at the moment.
"Another half hour." Xie Xue said softly.
"Good."
She called out to Xie Qingcheng again before he hung up, "Brother."
"Hmm? What's going on?"
Xie Xue With tears on her face, she smiled unsightly, "I ...... want to eat the Yangzhou fried rice you made. You don't have to prepare much, just fry me a bowl of Yangzhou fried rice, okay?"
Xie Qingcheng brought Xie Xue up from a young age and knows exactly how to take care of people.
When Xie Xue returned home and pushed the door, he had just finished the Yangzhou fried rice with the peas removed and set it on the small table. In addition, the soup in the electric stove was also ready. When he saw Xie Xue come in, he nodded his head as a greeting, and then went back to serve her soup.
As soon as the lid was off the pot, a pungent aroma emerged from the soup can.
Xie Xue didn't even have to look at it to know it was tomato brisket chowder. When she was growing up, Xie Qingcheng didn't have a lot of money, but he'd make her brisket soup twice a week with the best beef he could buy, and then he'd give Xie Xue all the beef, and he'd just have a little bit of the tomato soup himself, and a few chunks of potatoes to go along with the soup.
Xie Xue looked at his still tall, but apparently already thin figure, heart sour, three steps and two steps behind him, reached out and hugged him.
Xie Qingcheng was slightly surprised and put down the spoon to look back at her, "What's wrong? Did someone bully you?"
Xie Xue shook her head in his arms and whispered, "I want to hug you."
"......"
Xie Qingcheng's body has a faint smell of tobacco, disinfectant, and even some slightly bitter medicine, which is not a good smell, too cold, but Xie Xue smells, but feel very at ease.
Some of this is the kind of nostalgic behavior that occurs when a new bride returns to the house.
Xie Qingcheng therefore didn't think much about it, he sighed and coughed gently, letting Xie Xue hold him for a while before saying, "Let go, the rice is getting cold."
The siblings sat down at the table.
Xie Qingcheng was indeed a bit disoriented, and Xie Xue's feeling of disorientation was even more pronounced now that she was pregnant and he could not smoke in front of her at all.
He was still handsome and beautiful, though, and instead of his shirt collar being buttoned up as tightly as it usually was, it was loosely buttoned three times, so that you could see the beautifully defined collarbone underneath, and a small slice of his jade-colored chest.
He hadn't been looking at Xie Xue much during the meal, he was so preoccupied that his fingers would unconsciously tap on the table, it was his habitual motion of knocking on the ashes of his cigarettes, and I could see that it was hard for him to endure.
Xie Xue whispered, "Brother, you should eat more too."
She chucked several pieces of beef from the soup into Xie Qingcheng's bowl.
"You've lost weight."
Xie Qingcheng wanted to ask her to take the meat back, but suddenly realized that Xie Xue was no longer the little girl who looked forward to the good meat every week, so she put down her chopsticks.
He collected himself and finally dropped his gaze to Xie Xue's face, ready to talk to his sister for a while about the family business she'd been doing since she'd married.
However, with just one look, Xie Qingcheng was stunned, and his hands and feet went cold--
A brand new earring hangs from Xie Xue's earlobe.
Bone-shaped cross in solid gold, with a ring in the center, set with crushed diamonds, the color of blood, surrounded by three letters: R.I.P.
--
Before the parents of the two of them died, they finally went to meet a mysterious person ...... in the Yanzhou clubhouse The earrings left behind by that mysterious person were this!
Exactly the same!
Xie Qingcheng stood up with a huff, "Xie Xue, this earring, where did you get it?"
It is important to know that the year Xie's parents died, Xie Qingcheng traveled alone to Yanzhou to conduct an investigation, and was fortunate to get a tip from a waiter at the clubhouse at the time, who passed him a photo of the R.I.P cross earrings, saying that he went into the box to clean up after his parents met with the mysterious man in the clubhouse and picked up the earrings.
At that time, everyone's cell phone was usually a Nokia, and to receive pictures, we used MMS, which was as slow as a snail's pace of download.
To this day, he still vividly remembers how the photo slowly opened up, bit by bit, to reveal the face of the mysterious earrings to him.
The waiter and he agreed to meet at the hot pot restaurant, originally wanted to give the pendant to him, but who would have thought that the hot pot restaurant fire, the waiter died, Xie Qingcheng himself was hit by a car and injured, and the Nokia cell phone with the photos was taken away.
For nineteen years after this, he had only seen the eerie gold cross in his dreams.
The R.I.P on top of the earrings was like some kind of profound irony, mocking him in his nightmares--
Rest in peace, Xie Qingcheng, don't look into it anymore.
You are like a mayfly, and death will be as close to you as the man behind the curtain wants it to be.
But now this earring had broken out of the dream and appeared in front of him at a completely unexpected moment, swaying above his newlywed sister's earlobe.
Xie Qingcheng's bones and blood were cold as he looked at her and repeated in a trembling voice, "Where did you get that?"
Xie Xue was startled and touched her ear, "This? My mother-in-law put this on me."
Published at: 11/24/2024 03:00