Cheng Xiang was silent for a moment and then said, "I can't tell you more about Xin Chen. If you are friends, you can ask him directly if you have any questions."
Cheng Xiang's tone was cold, and the hope in Zhang Lin's eyes slowly dimmed.
"If there's nothing wrong, I won't let you have dinner." Cheng Xiang issued an eviction order.
Zhang Lin stood up slowly and walked out of the door. There was a hint of loneliness in her back.
She was stunned at the gate for a while, then turned back and said softly: "Did you know that Xin Chen has a sister?"
Cheng Xiang was stunned, how did she know? Is her relationship with Xin Chen good enough to share these things?
"Is your name Xin Huan?" Zhang Lin turned around and looked at Cheng Xiang.
Cheng Xiang looked at her silently, his mind a little confused.
"I am Xin Huan." Zhang Lin's words hit Cheng Xiang's chaotic mind, and he suddenly blossomed.
Zhang Lin heard Xin Chen's name by the river that day, and her mind was like thunder.
Xin Chen, she had been chanting this name in her mind for more than ten years. Looking at that delicate and thin figure, she seemed to see the handsome young man who carried her on his back and bought her candied haws.
"Brother, I want to eat candied haws"
"No, mom said you can't eat sweet things with your teeth anymore."
"Okay, okay, stop pouting. It's not pretty anymore. Brother will buy it for you."
"Brother doesn't like sweet things, so Xiao Huan eats them by herself."
"I can't walk anymore, brother, please carry me.
Even though her brother was reluctant, he still squatted down and carried her home slowly.
It was originally a happy family, with loving parents, docile brothers and sisters, a well-educated family, and many scholars.
Unexpectedly, overnight, the home was ransacked, the parents were arrested, their faces were smeared black with ink, and they were paraded through the streets wearing high hats with the words "Bulls, Ghosts, and Snakes" written on them, and everyone shouted for beatings.
They asked the elder brother to criticize his parents together. The elder brother disagreed and was arrested by them. He was tied to a stool and poured pepper water.
She cried heartbreakingly in the audience.
Later, her uncle and aunt took her home.
Later I heard that my parents were sent away, and my brother was also sent away.
She sneaked home in the middle of the night, trying to find her parents, but the home was beyond recognition and she cried on the street.
Someone came and told her to take her to her mother, so she left with him.
Since then, after several changes, she has been left in the hands of traffickers because she is a girl and has no value and no one will buy her.
Begging for food on the street, learning to steal, fighting with street gangsters, and even snatching food from dogs in order to have enough food.
The money stolen and begged every day should be handed over in full.
Later, the old man found a place for her to learn acrobatics. After practicing acrobatics for several years, she followed him around the streets and performed performances at weddings and weddings.
As she reached the age of 15, she became more and more beautiful. The performance clothes she wore on her body were smooth and smooth. Every time she performed, the men in the audience looked straight at her.
When she first learned about human affairs, she hated those naked and lewd looks.
Even the old man's eyes when he looked at her were no longer innocent. Every time he drank, his eyes looked back and forth on her body.
She dodged cautiously, but the old man never let her go.
She lay in bed for three days, dragging her aching body, and hit the old man on the head with a bench.
Blood flowed all over the floor, and she ran out in panic.
Climb on the coal train and run to Beijing and Hong Kong.
Being unfamiliar with the place, she relied on her ability to find a job in a theater troupe.
The troupe is full of people and snakes, and a little girl like her is undoubtedly a sheep in a wolf's den.
In order to live, she no longer cared about her broken body, and she found that she could get more opportunities with this broken body.
If you can eat well, wear well, you can earn more money.
After years of wandering around among all kinds of men, I can still count on having enough food and clothing.
After returning to my hometown many years later, I heard that my parents had passed away in the Northeast.
They said that her brother came back to see her a few years ago, but he never came back and no one knew anything about him.
Since the age of 10, I have been separated from my brother. The appearance of my brother in my dreams over the years has long been unclear.
Only that name was firmly remembered by her.
Thanks to God's mercy, I actually heard Xin Chen's name here again.
These days, when I look closely at his face, the shadow in my mind becomes clearer and clearer, overlapping with the person in front of me.
Moreover, Old Man Baishi's picture of red polygonum and the poem on it were hung in his father's study when they were children.
Both of them can recite the poem.
Xin Chen said that when he was a child, he had that painting at home, which made her even more convinced that the person in front of her was him.
In the past few days, she came several times, nominally to say thank you.
Xin Chen also wondered about her motives, but as a person who was indifferent to everything, he didn't care about her intentions at all.
Chatting and laughing with her, he looked so thin and pale now, and no longer looked like the bright and handsome young man he once was.
When his doctor examined him, his expression was solemn, but he said it was nothing serious.
He also smiled calmly, as if he didn't care at all. She asked him what was wrong with him.
He just said lightly: "It's just a minor problem."
The doctor was also very secretive and said nothing.
She thought of Cheng Xiang, so she inquired about the address along the way and came over to try her luck.
After hearing her words, Cheng Xiang's mind was confused. Is Zhang Lin Xin Huan? Xin Huan is Zhang Lin?
What kind of bloody plot?
She pinched her eyebrows and asked me to slow down.
"We know that he has a sister who has been separated for many years. He has been asking around all these years, but there is no news. You, don't make such a joke casually, Xin Chen, he can't help it." Cheng Xiang always knew, His sister is Xin Chen's only concern in this world. Although it would make him happy to see his relatives again, if it was just a joke from a boring person, it would make him completely devastated.
"If I wanted to make fun of him, I would have gone directly to meet her instead of wasting time coming to you." Zhang Lin said frankly.
"If you are really his sister, why don't you recognize him?" Cheng Xiang asked doubtfully.
Zhang Lin looked sad. She didn't want to share her past with others. Those unbearable memories were her own stain. She didn't want her family, which had been clean for generations, to be shamed because of her, and she didn't want her brother Jiyue Qingfeng to be shamed. Tainted by his own bad past.
"We all have our own lives and take different paths. He may not approve of my lifestyle. If we agree with each other, it will only increase our worries." Zhang Lin said lightly, "I see that he is very weak now and is a little worried. You Can you tell me what disease he has? I can take him to a big hospital for treatment."
"In what name did you take him to see a doctor? Are you an ordinary friend who has only known him for a few days? Xin Chen is not such a casual person. He will not accept charity from someone who has only met him a few times for no reason." He is such an indifferent person. People, it seems that only Zhou He has been able to get closer to him these years. Why does this woman think that she can take him away easily without being in the name of brother and sister?
