"I thought I was healed, I wasn't afraid anymore." Mu Ning was trembling all over.
After Gu Zhiyin took her to the capital, he found a psychiatrist for her. After a period of treatment, the doctor said she no longer needed psychological counseling.
"Uncle Gu, this is my hometown, I want to take you to meet my mother..."
She choked up and spoke incoherently, and Gu Zhiyin took her back to the car.
When Lao Wang saw her crying, he opened his mouth to ask. Gu Zhiyin frowned and shook his head, and Lao Wang immediately closed his mouth knowingly.
Gu Zhiyin asked Lao Wang to drive around and stay away from that house. Mu Ning gradually stopped trembling under Gu Zhiyin's gentle words.
There were still tears in her eyes. She raised her head and asked Gu Zhiyin, "Uncle Gu, why didn't you leave that night?"
Gu Zhiyin observed her emotions and spoke in a calm tone, "Are you sure you want to continue discussing this topic?"
Mu Ning lowered his eyes, "I'm just a little curious. If you don't want to tell me, don't tell me..."
"Because you turned back."
Mu Ning was stunned for a moment, then realized that he was answering her question just now.
Because Mu Ning turned around when he got off the car.
She walked a few steps and then turned back. Gu Zhiyin originally asked the driver to drive away, but she didn't expect Mu Ning to come back again.
She knocked on the car window, looked at him with eyes darker than those on a rainy night, and asked with expectation, "Can I see you again in the future?"
Gu Zhiyin didn't give her an answer immediately.
She left disappointed.
After she left, Gu Zhiyin sat in the car for a long time.
The driver did not dare to drive away without his order.
He was thinking, a little older girl, why?
Why should you let him stay? Why should he keep thinking about her?
Distraught, he asked the driver to drive.
But at this moment, the driver saw Mu Ning running out in a panic, "Mr. Gu, that girl ran out again. She seems to be here to find you. She can't bear to leave you, right?"
Gu Zhiyin opened his eyes in excitement and turned around to see the little girl staggering towards him.
Where is her umbrella?
It was raining heavily and the street lights were dim, but he saw her little face was pale.
He seemed to sense in his heart that something had happened in an instant.
Gu Zhiyin got out of the car and saw her rushing towards him and falling at his feet.
She stretched out her trembling little hands and pulled his trouser legs, begging him for help.
Gu Zhiyin originally wanted to pull her up, but suddenly saw a figure rushing towards her.
That knife was meant to stab Mu Ning.
Gu Zhiyin didn't think much about it. At that time, he just wanted that man to die.
Mu Ning was in a coma for two days. He helped her mother take care of her funeral and accepted police investigation. He spent the rest of the time guarding Mu Ning in the hospital.
When Mu Ning woke up, the first thing he said was to ask her, "Do you want to come with me?"
Mu Ning hesitated for a moment and nodded slightly.
"You can't go back on your promise."
"No regrets."
"If you dare to run away, we will catch you from the end of the world."
"Don't run."
Gu Zhiyin touched her head, picked her up and put her on his lap.
At this time, he had already taken it as a promise.
In the last case, a drunken man followed him and demanded to have sex with the deceased. When the deceased refused to comply, he was so angry that he was convicted of murder.
In fact, there were still many doubts about that case, but Gu Zhiyin put an end to the matter once the murderer was sanctioned out of the desire to protect Mu Ning.
After taking care of the funeral, Gu Zhiyin took Mu Ning back to the capital. For a long time, Mu Ning could not speak.
Under the treatment of a psychiatrist, I slowly improved.
This is the crux of Mu Ning's fear of thunderstorm nights.
This is why Gu Zhiyin wants to put Mu Ning in a simple environment and treat her like a greenhouse flower.
Just to prevent her from being hurt again, she was raised to be ignorant of the world, innocent and silly, and her existence was never disclosed to the outside world for twelve years.
All this was done to protect her.
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Mu Ning sat on Gu Zhiyin's lap and hugged his waist, "Uncle Gu, let's go worship my mother."
"Has your mood stabilized?" Gu Zhiyin's expression was calm and his voice was gentle, "If we can't face it, we'll come back another day."
The scene that night caused serious psychological damage to Mu Ning. If Gu Zhiyin was not by her side on a thunderstorm night, she would be so frightened that she would have an emotional breakdown and even act impulsively.
This was a fear that Mu Ning could not face, and Gu Zhiyin was worried that she would not be able to bear it psychologically.
"It's been twelve years and I haven't come back even once. This time I have to go and worship her no matter what."
Mu Ning raised a sad smile, "I'm fine, don't worry too much about me, aren't you by my side?"
Gu Zhiyin stared at her for a moment and nodded, "Okay."
Mu Ning's mother was buried on a mountain near the river.
There was no cemetery hill in the town and it was impossible to buy a cemetery. Gu Zhiyin chose a place with beautiful scenery to bury Mu Ning's mother.
This incident was shocking at the time, and with Gu Zhiyin's influence, the mayor brought everyone in the town to express condolences, and promised that this piece of land would never be touched.
The strange thing is that when Mu Ning arrived at the place, he found that the tomb was very clean and the surrounding weeds had been hoeed. It seemed that someone came often.
"Uncle Gu, did you ask someone to do this?"
Gu Zhiyin shook his head. He looked at the flowers and worship objects placed in front of the tombstone, and whispered, "Someone came here just now."
Mu Ning was surprised, "Who will come to worship my mother?"
"My mother and I have no other relatives in this town. Even the people from the previous town have moved away so many years ago. How come there are still people here?"
"It seems like he comes here often."
Mu Ning looked at the camellias placed in front of the tombstone, "Moreover, this person also knows my mother's favorite flower when she was alive. He must be someone he knows very well."
Gu Zhiyin stared at the tombstone in deep thought.
Could it be that the first person that popped into Mu Ning's mind was her mother's old friend?
Her mother used to work as a hair wash girl in a small hair salon in the town. She often saw many men asking her mother to wash their hair. After washing, they went to the room inside.
She didn't understand it at that time. She often stood on the street corner and watched. After a long time, the man came out from behind the curtain and gave her mother some money. Her mother used the money to support the two of them.
"Stop thinking nonsense, go to the town and ask after we get down from the mountain." Gu Zhiyin held her hand, worried that she would think of bad things again.
Mu Ning felt that his palms were sweaty and squeezed her hand tightly. She smiled and said, "I'm fine. Why are you more nervous than me?"
Gu Zhiyin pursed her lips and never looked away from her.
Mu Ning stood in front of the tombstone, slowly opened his lips and whispered, "Mom, this is Gu Zhiyin, the person I like, and now..."
She was a little embarrassed to say it.
"Your prospective son-in-law." Gu Zhiyin stood next to her and answered.
Mu Ning turned to look at him. He lowered his eyebrows and had a very dull expression on his face, but he could see the respect in his attitude.
She pursed her lips and said with a smile: "I brought him back to see you today. If you were still alive, you would probably like him very much."
Under the silent sunlight, there was the chirping of insects and the rustling of leaves.
Mu Ning nestled in Gu Zhiyin's arms, and no one said anything.
Coming down from the mountain, they planned to go to the town to ask.
Just after passing the entrance of an alley, a figure suddenly rushed out.
"careful!"
Gu Zhiyin subconsciously took Mu Ning aside, but the young man still pounced on her.
