Chapter 198: But I invite you to meet me again

Xie Qingcheng went back to Strange Rain Lane, sat down, and was out of his mind for a long time.

He didn't want to think about what Xie Lishen had just said to him, the words were constantly stinging him, sickening him, making him feel extremely uncomfortable.

Rationally speaking, to be able to like someone else, this for He Yu is itself a good thing worth celebrating ...... As for what he feels, how hard it is, for Xie Qingcheng seems to be no longer so important.

But that person should never have been Xie Lishen.

Xie Qingcheng knew too well what kind of person Xie Lishen was.

His eyes glanced over the walls to the almost unrecognizable traces of framed photographs - places where, more than twenty years ago, many photographs used to hang, a large part of which, featured Xie Lishen.

Xie Qingcheng lit a cigarette, took a drag, while coughing gently, with the dispersing smoke, hazy eyes, thoughts returned to many years ago.

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Xie Qingcheng's grandfather used to be a small buyer, or in today's terms, an interpreter.

In those years of poverty and turmoil, the buyer would live a better life than the ordinary bosses because he was mostly employed by foreign companies. He met a bourgeois lady at work, and they fell in love and got married. However, in the 1970s, the family's fortunes plummeted, and Xie's grandmother, unable to bear it, hung herself from a beam, while his grandfather never married again. With two children left behind by his wife, the man suffered a lot, tried to do a lot of things, and slowly revitalized the family.

The two children he brought with him were Xie Ping, Xie Qingcheng's father, and Xie Ping's brother, Xie Qingcheng's eldest uncle.

The two sons have become adults, encountered the land's most rapidly changing, all-encompassing good times, Xie Ping wanted to become a police officer, although the audit encountered bumps, but in the end, actually also passed.

His brother, Xie Qingcheng's eldest uncle, followed the old man to the city of Yi to do business, chicken feathers for sugar, business is getting bigger and bigger, and slowly became everyone's mouth "Xie boss".

The family days are prospering, and the grandmother s old face has always been grandpa long love in the hall, gentle and elegant lady never white head, peach blossom eyes smilingly, watching their days live red hot and smooth. Xie Dabo married, Xie Ping also married ...... children and grandchildren around the knees, the tragic pain of that year have become a light colored scab.

Until, that is, a woman shows up.

That woman is the mistress of Xie Ping's brother.

Xie Ping is a police officer with a very decent mindset, and after marrying Zhou Muying, he and his wife love each other so much that they don't even bother to look at the women on the side of the road. On the other hand, Xie is a businessman who is exposed to too many temptations and too few constraints, and slowly, he begins to fail the test.

He and the mistress secretly good for half a year, and then the mistress suddenly left, he did not care, anyway, the business world, play, what can be true?

But he did not expect is that another year, the old man's birthday feast, the family reunion, the mistress suddenly boarded the door, asked him to ask for a share of the money, still holding a child in his arms, is actually the seed he left.

This child is Xie Lishen.

Xie Dabo's wife has a very strong temperament, and can even be said to be impulsive, she is a woman who loves and hates like a blazing fire, and how could she tolerate such insults and betrayal at the family banquet? The woman was so angry that she beheaded her mistress a few days later, and then turned herself in, ruining her life for a man who could not stand her.

This incident was a huge blow to the grandfather of the Xie family, the old man's health was not very good for a while, the stimulus, and soon could not support. Before his death, this stubborn and upright old man set down a will, his entire property is inherited by the second son Xie Ping, did not give the eldest son half a share.

After the old man passed away, Dabu Xie changed completely.

His old man is angry at him for betraying his wife, while his son is angry at his old man for being a broken hearted man and for turning his back on him. Uncle Xie is a drunkard, a gambler, and every once in a while he goes to his brother Xie Ping for trouble, and when he comes back to his rented room, he beats and scolds Xie Lishen, calling him a "disaster".

Xie Ping couldn't stand it, and tried several times to have a good talk with his big brother, but he spat in his face-

"Talk? Talk about what? Your wife and kids are living a good life with the house and money the old man gave you, but what about me? If you really think of me as a brother, you can give me half of your property! Give me half the money!"

Xie Ping: "If I give it to you, you'll take it to gamble and whore around, and I'll have to arrest you. If you don't change your ways, you won't be able to spend six months with ten million dollars, not to mention one million."

"Bullshit you! If you don't want to give it to me, just say so! You're wearing a uniform and you've got so many good reasons, Mr. Xie, you still want to arrest me? Open your eyes wide and see clearly! I'm your brother! How many beatings did I take for you when you were a kid? You want to arrest me? How dare you say that!"

Not only did he scold himself, he also dragged Xie Lishen over to him and pointed at Xie Ping to show Xie Lishen: "See? See? This is your little uncle! Half of their family's good fortune should be ours! It's all your fault! You and your mom, that bitch! You left me with nothing! I have nothing!

As he said this, he slapped Xie Lishen's face so hard that the little child's face was quickly swollen and tears kept falling down ......

Xie Ping rushed forward to stop it, "What are you doing? What are you doing hitting a child when we're adults?"

"What's the matter? Go to your family's Xie Qingcheng! It's not your place to tell me what to do with my seed! The people's servants are so broad-minded. You're a Pacific police officer! Stop nagging and I'll tell you, I'll beat him to death!"

Xie Ping had no choice but to leave in the end.

Before he left, he looked back at Xie Lishen, such a small child, his eyes are already full of hatred, just do not know to whom that hatred is actually ......

Perhaps it should be the old saying that people are doing God is watching, not long after that, Xie Dabo because of alcohol and gambling, home on the road to the accident, he was drunk, fell into the river, it was late at night, no one saw, until the next day by the yellow sand boat on the river collided with - then Xie Dabo people have been blistered and swollen, completely out of life.

After a series of formalities, Xie Ping brought back the only son left in the world by his elder brother.

"Li Shen, from now on, you can treat this place as your own home. We'll take care of you. Okay?"

Xie Lishen was very young at the time, but had a maturity in her eyes that normal children simply don't have.

He politely said to Xie Ping and Zhou Muying, "Thank you, Uncle, thank you, Auntie."

Then he turned his head again and looked at Xie Qingcheng.

He stares at Xie Qingcheng longer than anyone else.

"...... Thank you cousin."

Xie Qingcheng was a big straight man since he was a child, not so sensitive to intuition, he did not notice Xie Lishen's eyes at all, and casually nodded to Xie Lishen: "Don't be afraid, if there's anything you need, you can find me, we're a family."

"......" Xie Lishen smiled a little, "Yeah right."

In fact, looking back, Xie Lishen's hostility towards Xie Qingcheng was there from the very beginning.

Afterwards, when they were together under the same roof, the feeling of hatred increased rather than decreased, more or less partly because Xie Qingcheng was too slow.

For example, Xie Qingcheng never cares about the issue of origin, in his view, people are individuals, and it has nothing to do with parents and family.

So he is not very likely to Xie Lishen avoid these, when watching television to see the kind of junior illegitimate child bridge, he also roughly do not change the channel, do not realize what the problem.

He was able to be so open because he didn't think Xie Lishen was like that, he didn't make any connection between the two, but Xie Lishen didn't think that way, he liked to take it personally, and would speculate that it was Xie Qingcheng's intention to be sarcastic.

Because Xie Lishen himself has put on a pair of colored glasses called imaginary enemies, whatever Xie Qingcheng does is wrong and has ulterior motives, either to harm him or to be sarcastic. Even if Xie Qingcheng casually glanced at him, Xie Lishen would be so sensitive that he would want to dig out some deep meaning from that glance.

He hates Xie Qingcheng and likes to deduct the meaning he wants from every word and every behavior of the other party, and if there is no meaning, he makes up a meaning, and Xie Qingcheng won't argue with him anyway.

The sad thing about the inability of people to understand each other is that many times people don't do it because they don't have the ability or the opportunity to do so, but because deep down they simply don't have the will to do so.

So, Xie Lishen to Xie Qingcheng accumulated more and more deep resentment ...... and a large part of this, even from his own imagination, he decided that Xie Qingcheng robbed him of his things and also disgusted him, the more he thought about it, the more he felt good hate.

The most typical was once when there was a Chinese New Year stage show in the community.

The organizers of that stage performance originally saw Xie Lishen, who was reading a book in the garden, and thought that the boy was beautiful and suitable for the role of the prince in the story.

Who doesn't like to play a prince? Xie Lishen was overjoyed and proud, and Mr. and Mrs. Xie Ping were delighted for him. After all, there had been so few things for the boy to be excited about in the past, and this was the first time they had seen him leaping about like a true little man of his age.

Xie Qingcheng is also happy for him and thinks he really fits the role.

On the day of the performance, Xie Lishen did her best to portray an elegant and gentlemanly prince on the stage and won the applause of the whole audience.

He thought he could win the Best of Show award ...... The contestants behind him were all too inadequate, and most of the kids didn't prepare too seriously for the fun, so they forgot their words and went out of tune, and Xie Lishen was so excited that he was just waiting to go on stage to receive his award.

But at the end of the program, Xie Qingcheng went up.

He certainly didn't go on to perform some stage show like his cousin; he sat down at one of the pianos, lowered his eyelashes, and played the theme song from Cinema Paradiso amidst the serene beams of light. The light that fell on the keys was gently nudged and shattered by him, each note scattering like ripples in the summer night air.

As the song ended, Xie Lishen heard someone whisper, "Wow, that's pretty ......"

"He's the prince of my heart ......"

Xie Lishen's face turned blue.

He didn't even know that Xie Qingcheng would end up playing a piano piece on stage because the person hosting the program was a close classmate of his and needed his support - he couldn't listen to anything, he only knew that Xie Qingcheng stole all the limelight from him!

He was so angry that even his eyes were glowing red. When he returned home that day, he suddenly asked Xie Qingcheng in a shrill voice, "Why did you go to the show? Why are you doing the same thing as me? Did you deliberately satirize me? Did you purposely try to climb over me? To take away my things!!!"

"......" Xie Qingcheng froze for a moment, "...... It's a classmate looking for me... ...What happened to you?"

What's going on.

He had the nerve to ask what was wrong!

If he hadn't primped and preened and dressed like a little prince and pretended to play the piano, would he have been praised as "His Highness"? He did it on purpose! He deliberately acted like he didn't know what was going on! His hypocrisy is disgusting!

Xie Lishen gritted his teeth and said nothing, but the way Xie Qingcheng played the piano became his nightmare for countless nights. Later, when Xie's family fell into despair, moved out of the original upscale neighborhood, and had to sell the family's piano to raise money to pay for the sick Zhou Muying's surgery, Xie Lishen's heart actually felt a burst of ecstasy.

He watched Xie Qingcheng that pair of hands that used to leap on the keys, moving the rough boards, cardboard, helping his parents to organize things, wiping the table and washing the dishes ...... The bite of bad gas in his heart that had been stagnant for many years was finally able to penetrate out.

It was ...... Xie Qingcheng's family that took away his normal life.

They took the money that belonged to his dad and fell back on appearing as rescuers!

Xie Qingcheng had robbed him of his riches and taken his place in the limelight ...... Now that the wind and water had turned, and the family had gone downhill, and Xie Qingcheng could no longer take the expensive piano lessons and pose with his noble duchess's air, Xie Lishen thought with no small amount of joy --Xie Lishen thought without joy: "Cousin, you took everything from me, and now you're just like me.

Just as poor.

As sleepy as it gets.

You are not a noble son, not a prince and highness, you are just a poor child in a broken alley. Your parents made a mistake and were both demoted ...... very humiliating, right? Your parents have also fallen to the altar, you, too, should feel as ashamed as I do!

You should keep your head down.

But Xie Lishen never thought that Xie Qingcheng's mentality hadn't changed for the worse.

Xie Qingcheng even became more understanding than before, more responsible, and he grew up, puberty arrived, the body began to draw stripes, he became more and more handsome, even after school followed by a group of chattering full of red-faced girls, the girls have been trailing him home, and then when he raised his eyes to look out, and then giggled and dispersed.

Neighbors began to call him "handsome", Xie Lishen is also handsome, but as long as there is Xie Qingcheng, "handsome" will always be Xie Qingcheng's name, and has nothing to do with him.

Xie Lishen hated it, he hated looking at Xie Qingcheng's figure, looking at the gradually broad shoulders, the smooth lines of the back, the tight legs, the old acacia tree when he turned back to raise his eyes, the pair of peach blossom eyes that seemed to hide the April day on earth.

He hated it so much that his heart trembled, and he seemed to be afraid of every inch of Xie Qingcheng's light and growth, and Xie Qingcheng's every move seemed to Xie Lishen to be the original sin.

Even if Xie Qingcheng tried to leave as much delicious food as possible for his younger siblings during the most difficult days of the family, it seemed to Xie Lishen that he was putting on a show, "giving alms" in disguise.

Does he think he's really a prince?

No ...... no no! He's nothing but a thief who robbed him of his life! Their whole family is thieves!

In middle school, Xie Lishen finally stopped pretending.

He began to put the rebellion to the surface, he often does not come home, outside the ghost, to Xie Ping couple to find countless trouble, Xie Ping couple although anxious, but because Xie Lishen after all is not their own child, the child is especially delicate, so they do not dare to talk to him too heavy words, can only be educated in a painstaking manner.

Xie Lishen doesn't listen.

This painless situation lasted for more than half a semester, until one time, the school leadership publicly disciplined Xie Lishen for being caught in an early love affair.

The subject was a boy from the next vocational high school.

It was actually a male student!

Xie Qingcheng and Xie Lishen is a junior high school, Xie Qingcheng at that time in the stage after listening to this matter, the whole person froze, a pair of eyes wide open. The school director reported the name of the boy no one does not know, is the vocational school's worst male students, both men and women play, and Xie Lishen actually got together with him.

Xie Qingcheng was furious. After the morning meeting, he found Xie Lishen and asked him what was going on. Xie Lishen rolled his eyes, "What do you care if I fuck a man?"

Xie Qingcheng A slap in the face ......

The cousins had a big fight, and Xie Lishen spat out all the grievances that had been pent up in his heart all these years, and scolded Xie Qingcheng and Xie Ping and his wife, and then left Xie's house that night and stayed at his "boyfriend's" house.

It was a fire lock, and hidden behind it was the conflict that had been destined between Xie Lishen's two families from the moment she was born. From then on, the relationship between Xie Lishen and their family faded.

Then later, Xie Ping couple died, Xie Lishen did not even attend the funeral, and even ran back to Xie's house while Xie Qingcheng was worried, stole Xie Ping's thirty-thousand yuan hidden in the cupboard for emergency expenses, in the panic, he also broke a piece of jade pendant in the drawer, which is the favorite ruyi pendant of Zhou Muying's life! ...... smashed on the ground, into two halves.

Xie Qingcheng reported the case, but did not expect to see the "criminal" in the police station, will be a face of indifference Xie Lishen.

Xie Qingcheng said, "...... Do you know what you're doing!"

Xie Lishen said, "Of course I know that all of this was supposed to belong to my dad, and it was your dad who took the money that belonged to my dad, and it was you who took the life that belonged to me."

Xie Qingcheng was so exhausted that he hardly had the strength to argue with Xie Lishen.

The last words he asked Xie Lishen were, "Xie Lishen, you are a fucking animal ...... These years, where have we treated you badly?"

Xie Lishen was quiet for a few seconds before replying, "You took what was rightfully mine and then came back to me with a handout, and you're going to talk to me about treating me poorly?"

"It was your mother who did the wrong thing in the first place-"

"My mother was merely pursuing her own happiness."

"...... You shouldn't have to think like that, you shouldn't have to become like her."

Xie Lishen stares at Xie Qingcheng, peach blossom eyes to peach blossom eyes.

Xie Lishen said: "Xie Qingcheng, my road, I will choose myself, I even when a true villain, do not want to be a hypocrite like you. You give me to wait, no matter spend ten years, twenty years ...... one day, I will make what you have all into what I have, Xie Ping take away from the hands of my parents do not return things, later, I will personally come to take! I will let you taste the taste of having everything you own taken away from you. Whether I have mercy on you or not at that time, it's all up to me."

"......"

"Cousin, we'll see."

Without realizing it, several cigarettes were smoked.

Xie Qingcheng thought about all the things that happened back then, raised his hands to support his temples, and took a deep breath, only to feel that his head hurt like it was about to crack.

He got up, ready to take a pill and go to bed, however at that moment, his cell phone suddenly rang.

The caller was a completely unknown number.

Xie Qingcheng answered: "Hello."

On the other end of the phone came a familiar low magnetic slow voice.

"Mr. Shea."

The pain on the side of Xie Qingcheng's forehead became more pronounced, with some slight dizziness, making him breathless, because the voice on the other end of the phone was He Yu's. The pain on the side of Xie Qingcheng's forehead became more pronounced, with some slight dizziness, making him breathless.

"...... What can I do for you?"

"Nothing, just thinking about it, today at the cafe, I offended you a bit. Although I just don't want you to make a move on my people, but ......" He Yu smiled sullenly, "Come to think of it, that arm of yours, it seems that you are still injured. ...... once injured to save me."

"......"

"Give me a chance to apologize." He Yu said, "Next weekend, let's have dinner together?"

Xie Qingcheng held back his headache, "No need."

"I was under the impression that you weren't that careful." He Yu smiled slightly, "You won't even give me a chance to reconcile?"

Before Xie Qingcheng could reply, he added, "You don't have to answer me right away either, there are still several days before the weekend, so you can think about it carefully. Maybe in the process, I'm willing to reveal to you some secrets that have happened in the past two or three years?"

Xie Qingcheng : "......"

"That's all for now then." He Yu smiled, "I'll send you the address, and I'll be waiting for you at that place on weekends whether you come or not."

He had a beautiful voice that gradually took on some compulsion as he grew older.

"I hope we can, without seeing each other."