love addiction

This is the second time Li Xinnian went upstairs.

The house in Manor No. [-] is already very old, and many places are beginning to be mottled and falling off. The wiring and so on are also aging, so that the second floor is gloomy and there is no light.

So as soon as a person walks up, there is a feeling of oppression, which makes people unable to breathe.

She went up the stairs to the second floor, and then walked through the long, dark corridor to the room.

That was the house where the old man lived. Last time she came here, she was frightened by the environment here.

She and Jun Che lived here during the Spring Festival, but they lived in the annex building on the right, which is completely different from here.

All the doors were closed, only the old man's room was open, Li Xinnian thought, Jun Anbai and Liao Xiuyun should be inside.

She didn't flinch, and walked over with her head held high. When the dim optical fiber in the house jumped into her sight, she saw Anbai and Liao Xiuyun.

At that moment, she had a feeling of traveling through time and space.

It was as if I had suddenly returned to the day when Shanshui Manor saw the darkness for the first time. It was also the same scene and the same arrangement. The only difference was that this time, Liao Xiuyun was sitting on a chair, not lying lifeless on the bed. .

"Miss Li, sit down." Anbai pointed to the mahogany chair beside him and said.

Li Xinnian looked at him, then sat down quietly.

Anbai admired her calm temper, and sat down on another mahogany chair. His eyes fell on his mother, and he said, "The old lady probably knows that today is a very important day." , so he looked in good spirits, and said he wanted to talk to someone, so I thought of you."

Li Xinnian nodded slightly, listening quietly.

Then Anbai shouted, "Mom, tell me, I'm listening."

Liao Xiuyun coughed several times before opening her mouth. Her voice sounded weak, and in this oppressive space, she became even more emptiness.

She said, "It's been 60 years, and I'm finally back, son, this is your home..."

Liao Xiuyun's tone of voice contained some vernacular, and if she didn't listen carefully, she might not be able to distinguish it. Fortunately, she was very bony and spoke very slowly, so Li Xinnian could still understand it.

"Ever since you were born, Momma has been thinking that she must take you to recognize your ancestors, but Momma is incompetent and made my son suffer a lot. Momma is sorry for you..."

Li Xinnian looked slightly at Jun Anbai, and found that his eyes were very calm.

In other words, from the time he appeared at the Jun's house until now, except for the moment when he was emotional at the toast, he was almost in a state of calm.

Li Xinnian judged in his heart.

"It's all right now. You have finally recognized your ancestors and returned to your family. Mommy can be regarded as worthy of the ancestors of the Jun family. My son, your surname is Jun, and you are the eldest grandson of the Jun family."

The old lady coughed a few more times before panting and said, "Originally you could live a life of prosperity and wealth like Jun Lun, it's all because of your cruel father, but my son and mother have suffered so much. bitter……"

As if recalling the past, Liao Xiuyun felt sad and burst into tears.

Anbai took a handkerchief from his clothes to wipe his mother's tears, and the black veil that had been covering his face was also lifted off.

When Li Xinnian saw Liao Xiuyun's face, it was even more exhausted than the last time he saw it. There was almost a layer of skin covering the skull, which was very scary.

It is more frightening than the dark and white hideous face.

Liao Xiuyun was crying and coughing, as if she wanted to cough up all her bones.

Jun Anbai fed her water several times before she calmed down a little. She gritted her teeth and said, "When I go to the underworld, I will definitely settle accounts with him. I want to ask him why he is so cruel!"

"Mom, you're not feeling well, you'd better rest." Jun Anbai tried to persuade his mother because he couldn't bear to feel so uncomfortable for his mother.

The old lady was a little exhausted, panting and struggling for a while, and finally nodded, "Okay, I'm sleepy too, please help me to sleep."

Jun Anbai carefully carried Liao Xiuyun to the bedside, and let her sleep.

That was the bed that the old man slept on before he was alive. Now, Liao Xiuyun is sleeping on it.

Li Xinnian saw a strange smile from the profile of her profile.

The room gradually became quiet, only the sound of Liao Xiuyun's even breathing when she fell asleep.

Anbai looked at it for a while, then took out the notebook he carried in his coat pocket, and recorded the time when his mother fell asleep.

After he recorded it, he carefully covered his mother with a quilt and checked the temperature before turning back and returning to the chair he was sitting on earlier.

Jun Anbai fell silent, and so did the room. Li Xinnian didn't speak, but was thinking about something while looking at Liao Xiuyun's sleeping face.

"Maybe I can tell the rest of the story." Jun Anbai finally spoke, breaking the silence.

He seemed sure that Li Xinnian would listen, so he started his story without asking.

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My mother, Liao Xiuyun, was born in a poor family. Because there were many children in the family, she was sold to a wealthy family as a servant girl when she was very young.

In the old society, women had no status, so my mother's childhood was almost sold around, and finally she was sold to a doctor's family.

At that time, my mother had reached the age of Jiji, five years older than the children of Langzhong's family. Seeing that my mother was born in a beautiful appearance, Xu Langzhong paid attention to my mother and asked her to marry his son.

At that time, it was all the orders of my parents, the words of the matchmaker, and my mother was so humble, so I could only agree, and I married Xu Jienan who was five years younger than me back then.

Xu Langzhong gave all his medical skills to his son, but there was no such thing as science at that time, and Western medicine had not been introduced to China, so the profession of doctor was still very popular.

Not long afterward, Langzhong Xu died of the plague, leaving only his mother and the underage Xu Jienan to depend on each other.

Xu Jienan's half-hearted medical skills could not support a family at all, my mother had to go out to work to earn money to support the family.

She washes clothes, cooks and takes care of children, and does all kinds of hard work, so Xu Jienan was almost raised by my mother.

Xu Jienan was unwilling to stay in such a poor place like a small town for the rest of his life, so he wanted to go out and learn real medical skills. In order to save enough money for him, my mother sold herself to a rich family, signed a contract of sale, and exchanged money for money. Xu Jienan went to study medicine.

It's been several years since he left.

The mother does the hardest work in this family every day, and there is never enough food for a day. It is common for her to suffer from cold and hunger.

Every time at this time, she would think and hope that her husband would come back from school and redeem herself from this place of hell, so that she could live a good life with enough food and clothing.

That is to say, with this hope, she gritted her teeth and persisted.

About six years later, Xu Jienan came back, learned half-baked medical skills, and began to show off his medical skills to others, saying that he was the latest in Western medicine.

Small towns are not like big cities, where news spreads so quickly, so everyone is curious and seeks him for medical treatment.

He also managed to cure some people, but the money he got was not used to redeem my mother. In the end, my mother secretly ran out from that house to find him.

He didn't appreciate it very much, and told her to go back so that he wouldn't hurt himself, but before my mother could go back, the family found out and sent thugs to hunt her down.

The mother didn't want to go back to live that miserable life anymore, so she begged Xu Jienan to take her out of here. I don't know if Xu Jienan found out from his conscience or what, he agreed, and the two left the town overnight to a new place.

In my mother's words, the period after leaving the small town was probably the happiest period of her life.

Xu Jienan opened a small pharmacy to sell some medicines and make money by treating people.

Although he can't be rich and prosperous, he can barely support his family.

And Xu Jienan's ambition is naturally not satisfied with this status quo, he often mentioned to his mother, but he has seen the world in the past few years of studying medicine.

What kind of dance party in Shanghai at night, what kind of red wine and French food, these are things that my mother has never heard of in her whole life.

Facts have proved that Xu Jienan is not a law-abiding person, he has a restless heart in his bones, and he has no feelings for my mother.

In his eyes, only a woman is a woman who wears a cheongsam, puts on exquisite makeup, drinks red wine and eats French food.

And my mother is not a woman at all in his eyes.

He wanted to quickly enter the upper class that he dreamed of going to, which meant that he needed a lot of money, and there was no way to make that much money just by opening a pharmacy.

He began to tinker with the research and development of medicines by himself, wanting to try what kind of medicines would be developed by the integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine.

It's just that he overestimated himself too much, and he was not good at Western medicine, and he was an entry-level doctor, so the result of such a random combination would only result in failure waiting for him.

This failure was too much for him, he couldn't take it, he started drinking and getting drunk every day, and even punched and abused my mother.

Women in the old society had no status, and it was normal to be beaten by their husbands, but my mother's bun character just tolerated all of this.

But Xu Jienan didn't accept it as soon as it was good, but intensified it, and even smashed his own laboratory.

The next day when Xu Jienan sobered up, he found that the laboratory was full of stench, which came from the medicines that had been mixed indiscriminately.

Even the chickens and ducks raised by my mother were poisoned to death. He insulted my mother, saying that she didn't clean up.

Mother had no choice but to pack up these things and quietly find a dry well and throw them away.

The business of the pharmacy is getting worse day by day, Xu Jienan's temper is also getting worse day by day, and it coincides with the year of drought, no grain harvest, every family's life is stuttering, and the pharmacy has no business .

The basic maintenance of the family is only supported by the mother going out to work to earn money.

Xu Jienan's sweet dream has not yet woken up, and he still counts on himself to live that kind of luxurious life.

The drought spread to the whole small town. Everyone looked for water sources everywhere, and finally found the dry well where the mother discarded the garbage, and there was water there.

So many people come here every day to carry water and go home. After more than a month, it started to rain and the drought gradually eased.

But at this time, a very strange disease appeared in the small town. People suffering from this disease were very lethargic at first, unable to wake up no matter what, and then slowly began to experience muscle atrophy, and the whole person had no strength, even if they were tall and strong. Infinite people, after suffering from this strange disease, will also be like talking about ooze, unable to exert energy.