Shi Lin seemed to realize what he had said. He waved his hands and denied, "No, it's nothing. How could my girl pick her up? You heard me wrong. I said her mother gave birth to her." At that time, I didn’t think that her mother might dislike her. I didn’t have much ability and was busy at work. I worked outside all day long and couldn’t take care of her, which caused her to suffer a lot when she was a child.”
He denied it with a natural expression, without any panic or erratic eyes. His calm look almost made Ke Chen wonder if he had heard wrongly.
He smiled awkwardly and poured another glass of wine for Shi Lin: "Look at my ears, they are not good at a young age. I thought you just said that Shi Yang was picked up by you."
"That's not possible. I guess I'm talking too much. I drank too much this morning and my mouth is no longer good." Shi Lin smiled "hehe" and tried to bring the topic away.
But Ke Chen followed closely: "Shi Yang is so annoying now, he must have been very well-behaved and cute when he was young, right?"
"Isn't that right... She has been well-behaved since she was a child, but she is annoying. She is beautiful and pink. She must have been about five or six years old at that time. In the middle of winter, she was frozen alone in the wild. His face turned blue and he didn't cry. He just hugged his knees and huddled up in a ball. He opened his big black and white eyes and looked at me with horror on his face. He didn't scream too loudly." I don't know. It was not the effect of alcohol. Shi Lin fell into a kind of nostalgia for the past. He picked up the wine glass and drank it in one gulp before continuing, "When I walked over, he asked me in a weak voice, uncle, you Are you here to take me home?"
Ke Chen's eyebrows moved, but instead of reminding him of the flaw in his words, he picked up the wine bottle and continued to fill a glass for him. He watched him pick it up and drink it, and then asked him in a soft voice: "What happened next?"
"Later, I saw that the child was really pitiful, so I rushed her to the hospital. She was obviously very uncomfortable along the way, but she didn't cry at all. She hugged me tightly, for fear that I would throw her away and look so pitiful. "." Shi Lin picked up the wine glass again and drank it down. "Her body hypothermia caused a series of problems, and later she developed pneumonia and had a fever for several days. When she woke up, she was confused and couldn't remember anything, except for Me, I was so scared that I would hold on to my clothes wherever I went, for fear that I would leave her. She was so sick at that time, and she had to be pricked and blood drawn every three days, and she had to be given injections and intravenous drips every day. She didn’t cry at all. I cooperated with the doctors and nurses obediently every time. No matter how uncomfortable the pain was, I could only let tears well up in my eyes but not cry. It was very distressing to watch."
After Shi Lin finished speaking, he seemed to remember something. He looked at Ke Chen with an embarrassed smile and said, "It's all my fault. She was still so young at that time. I didn't keep a close eye on her, so she got lost. I searched for her for several days." After a few nights, luckily we found him."
Ke Chen also smiled and did not point out the inconsistency in his words. He just poured him wine and said, "It sounds really pitiful. Such a young child has suffered such a big crime. I feel distressed just listening to it."
"That's right. And she's so good and obedient. What a wonderful child. Why doesn't her mother like her?" Shi Lin sighed, picked up the glass and took another sip, "It's all my fault for being cowardly and incompetent. , her mother had a bad temper and big ideas from the moment we met her. She would throw tantrums and throw things, causing a lot of chaos in the house. I was even afraid of offending her, so as not to keep my ears quiet. "
Ke Chen smiled and filled another cup for him: "Maybe my aunt has a short temper. She is pregnant with a daughter who was born in ten months. How can she not feel pain?"
Lin didn't respond to this sentence. He just shook his head and smiled helplessly: "Xiao Ke, you don't understand. Every family has its own scriptures that are difficult to recite."
Ke Chen followed the end of his words and smiled: "Yes, it's all the same. Each family has its own difficulties."
Then he asked him: "What happened next? After Shiyang brought her home, did she go anywhere else?"
Shi Lin: "Where else can we go? At that time, my family was poor, and her mother and I were both laid off. It was difficult to raise a child, let alone two children. Later, I had no choice but to find work in my hometown. , I can only bring my brother and sister here to make a living. But Yangyang is a well-behaved and sensible person. He knows that the conditions at home are not good, and he has been considerate of us since he was a child. He helps the family in various ways, never complains, and studies hard. In junior high school, She was admitted to a key junior high school in the city. Unfortunately, her mother and I didn’t have enough money to let her go to school. But this child was so good that she was admitted to a key high school in the city for such a bad school. I was with her at that time. Her mother talked about letting her go to school, but her mother wouldn't let her go. I couldn't resist, so I had to let her go to a school near where we worked. She went to school for about two years. Her mother and I were transferred to Xicheng for work. I was worried about letting her study there alone, so I thought of transferring her to Xicheng. She had good academic performance. When I asked at the school, they were willing to let her transfer. Even the Xicheng High School where she later studied was... The best high school in your west city, as soon as they heard that her family conditions were not good, they were willing to let her come here for free. Later, we transferred her to her school. Don't tell me, the principal and teachers of her original school were reluctant to part with her. I don’t want to let her go.”
When Shi Lin mentioned this, there was unconcealable pride on his face.
Ke Chen also listened with an apologetic smile. This experience sounded very similar to that of ordinary people. There was not much specificity. If there was anything special, it was the time when she transferred to Xicheng High School. Ke Chen remembered that Fu Jingchuan was also the same. This is a high school graduate.
"What about when she was a child?" Ke Chen tried to bring the topic back, "It's up to you to pick it up..."
When he wanted to say "picked her up", he was afraid of arousing Shi Lin's suspicion, so he coughed slightly and changed his words: "Just before you accidentally lost her, how was she then? She was just as well-behaved and sensible. ?"
Shi Lin brought her over with a "hehe" smile: "That's for sure. This child has been very well-behaved since she was born. She has never cried or fussed since she was a child. She is very obedient. Her neighbors, teachers and classmates all like her very much."
"Haha, she's pretty, well-behaved and sensible. Who wouldn't like her?" Ke Chen said with a "haha" smile, "Do you have any photos of her when she was a child? I'm quite curious about what she looked like when she was a child."
"No, in those days you couldn't even eat. How could you have any spare money to take photos?" Shi Lin waved his hand, picked up the wine glass and took another sip, "You see you like her too, right?"
Ke Chen smiled and didn't dare to follow his words and say that he also liked Shiyang. He was secretly recording a voice on his cell phone. If he submitted it to Fu Jingchuan, he might know how Fu Jingchuan would teach him.
Ke Chen didn't forget that Shiyang called him after returning the money to Fu Jingchuan's card before leaving and asked him to tell Fu Jingchuan about it. At that time, Fu Jingchuan looked at him with a look that wanted to kill someone, and the strange and sinister tone was enough for him to drink a pot. .
Shi Lin didn't care whether he responded or not, he just talked about his sorrows over wine: "Obviously she has a temperament that everyone likes, but why doesn't her mother like her? Is there really such a thing as mutual support in this world?"
Ke Chen smiled and poured him another glass: "Maybe there is such a thing as eye connection."
One glass after another of strong drinks was consumed. Shi Lin also drank a little too much. He didn't care about what Ke Chen said and just vented to himself: "You said it's great for a family to live in harmony. Yangyang has not been a love child since she was a child. Her temper is quite filial and sensible, but your aunt loves to cause trouble, so she has to make this family very upset. As for the money they got back a while ago, Yangyang insists on sending it back to you, Mr. Fu, you Auntie still holds a grudge and is clamoring all day long to sever the mother-daughter relationship with Yangyang and not let her go home. What do you think this is all about?"
Ke Chen looked at him but didn't answer. He remembered this and only knew that Shiyang returned the money, but he didn't know that there were so many twists and turns behind it.
"Although, I also know that our family shouldn't take your Mr. Fu's money. This will make it difficult for Yang Yang to be a good person in the middle. But I don't care what I say in this family. No one listens to me." Shi Lin After finishing the depressed nagging, he picked up the wine glass and wanted to drink it directly.
Ke Chen raised his hand to stop him: "Uncle Shi, come and have some food. Don't drink so much. Drinking will harm your body."
As he spoke, he took some food for Shi Lin and chatted with him for a while. It wasn't until Shi Yang's brother Shi Fei came back that he handed him over to Shi Fei and left Shi's house.
On the way back, Ke Chen made a video call to Fu Jingchuan.
Fu Jingchuan is busy in front of the computer.
This weekend, he didn't go to work, so he worked in the study room of the hotel's presidential suite.
When Ke Chen's video call came through, he pressed the answer button without moving his eyes from the computer screen to Ke Chen on the phone. He simply replied: "Say."
His long fingers were still dexterously typing on the keyboard.
Ke Chen looked at Fu Jingchuan's serious and busy handsome face: "I went to talk to Shiyang's father Shilin today."
Fu Jingchuan: "Let's talk about the key points."
Ke Chen: "He accidentally let out one thing. He picked up Shiyang from the wild."
Fu Jingchuan's hand on the keyboard paused for a moment, and he looked at Ke Chen on the phone: "When?"
Ke Chen: "He said that Shi Yang picked it up in the winter when she was five or six years old. She was alone in the wild and was so cold that she turned purple all over."
Fu Jingchuan's dark eyes suddenly looked into Ke Chen's eyes: "Are you sure it's winter?"
