Deer in deep forest

Chapter 19 Bloody Farewell

I don't know how much time has passed, Xi Guang opened his eyes, thinking that he had returned to Tong Town after a long absence.The memory in her mind slowly returned, and her first reaction was what happened to Gu Yanshu.

With a glance, Gu Yanshu was thrown on the ground at the other end, and his hands and feet were also tied.

Xi Guang looked at this dilapidated house, there was a figure shaking at the door, and there was a guard left behind.She moved slowly to Gu Yanshu's side, and whispered: "Yanshu, Yanshu..."

Gu Yanshu finally woke up and alarmed the people at the door. Lu San came in with a gun hanging on his waist.

"You'd better stay calm, otherwise..." Lu San glanced at Xi Guang, noticed Gu Yanshu, squatted down and looked closely at his face, "I heard—the young master of the Gu family can't speak, he's a mute, this Is it true or not?"

The strings in Xiguang's mind were tense to the extreme, Lu San stretched out her hand to break Gu Yanshu's jaw, and she rushed forward and bit his tiger's mouth.

Lu San kicked her away, saw two rows of teeth marks on his hands, dripping with blood, almost bitten off a piece of flesh, and took out his gun angrily.

"You don't want to exchange people for money?" Xi Guang asked pretending to be calm.

"What are you! With Gu Yanshu in my hand, I still worry about not being able to exchange money! As for you..." Lu San stared fiercely at Xi Guang, feeling that she was an eyesore.

"Lu San, what are you doing!" The kidnapper named Da Chuang suddenly appeared and slapped Lu San across the face.He spat and cursed: "Do you have any brains! Shooting at this time will alarm the Gu family!"

Lu San was puzzled, and punched and kicked Xiguang's head and waist.The hard leather boots hit the flesh and bones, and blood flowed from Xiguang's head, almost covering her eyes.

Da Chuang called Lu San aside, muttered for a while, checked the ropes on Xi Guang and Gu Yanshu's hands and feet again, locked the door and left, as if he was going out for something urgent.

Xi Guang couldn't open his right eye, and opened his left eye with great effort, rubbing his head against Gu Yanshu's shoulder.It's just like returning to the appearance when we first met, his dark pupils were as clear and empty as midnight, without a single focal point.

"Yanshu..." Xiguang cried, "Don't change back to your original appearance, we made it hard for you to get better..."

Lu San is ruthless and has a hot temper. When they continue to come back, they don't know what will happen to them.Xi Guang had no time to waste, she sniffed, and saw the abandoned steel in the house through the moonlight shining in from the window, there were a few sharp iron sheets in the middle, the kidnappers probably didn't notice it.

Xi Guang moved over, stretched out his hands on a steel plate, tried his best to reach the iron sheet, and sharpened the whip tied to his hand against the iron sheet.She gritted her teeth, every movement brought out the pain in her abdomen, and she even forgot to cry, just doing this thing desperately.

It was much easier to untie the feet after her hands were untied, but her strength was basically exhausted.

Xi Guang couldn't take Gu Yanshu away, so he hid him in a small triangular space made of steel. His back was bent into a difficult arc, and his head was squeezed on his knees, without any extra space.

When Xi Guang left, his hand suddenly moved, and he gently grabbed her trouser leg, refusing to let go.

Xiguang told him: "Yanshu, you hide here and don't move, wait until I find someone to rescue you..."

"Yanshu, I will definitely be back right away, I promise..."

"Yanshu, don't be afraid, don't be afraid..."

"Yanshu, you trust me..."

She shook the elk pendant she was wearing next to his eyes again and again, and became anxious, "Yanshu, be good, be obedient..."

The thin and pale fingers finally let go——

Xi Guang didn't hesitate any longer, smashed open a window with an iron bar, and climbed out.

She had just heard what Da Chuang said, and guessed that Grandpa Gu had been alarmed, maybe the rescuers were nearby, and she could find them first and bring them to rescue Yanshu.

It was in the suburbs, with large fields, large reeds, and one or two families scattered in the distance.Xi Guang ran along the path, the moon was missing a small corner above his head, and a few stars shone faintly.

When she heard Lu Wanliang's voice in the wind, her nose was sore from the great joy and gratitude.The reeds taller than a person blocked her figure, and she groped to approach, cautiously making no sound, and the deliberately low voice of the conversation came from inside intermittently.

"Mrs. Gu, your son is unscathed now, but if you continue to procrastinate, whether he will lose an arm or a leg, we can't guarantee..."

"How much do you want?"

"1000 million! Is it a good deal to exchange your son's life?"

"wishful thinking!"

"We are also short of money and have no other choice. Mrs. Gu, the money you paid to hire us to make that car accident has long been spent. We are old acquaintances, and we have to discuss everything. If you don't pay us, we will murder you." If the matter of your husband is brought up in front of Commander Gu, your life will be over..."

"you shut up!"

"Of course you can shut us up, you can shut our mouths with money! As long as you give us the money! Let your son go, we will disappear automatically, and we will never say a word about your hired murderer until we die!"

"Who is there!"

Xiguang ran away, but staggered and fell to the ground.She looked up at Lu Wanliang who was walking over, one eye was blurred and the other was bright, a chill rose from the bottom of her heart.

"Did you hear everything?" Lu Wanliang asked her.

Xi Guang nodded in a daze.

"Then I'm afraid you won't be able to stay in Gu's house in the future," Lu Wanliang said lightly, as if slowly thinking about countermeasures, "I can't let you stay by Yanshu's side either."

Xiguang cried and shook her head.

"I can't let Yanshu know that my mother hired someone to plan a car accident a few years ago and killed my father. How cruel it would be to him..." Lu Wanliang sentenced Xiguang's future , "So you can only go, never let him know..."

Xi Guang couldn't feel anything except the pain, his internal organs were crushed, and he couldn't straighten his waist.She cried and begged: "I won't say anything, I really won't say anything to Yanshu... Aunt Lu, can you trust me, don't send me away..."

"I can't take any more risks." Lu Wanliang said.She rolled up her sleeves, revealing a snow-white arm, but there were still traces of burns on the flesh.There are also several ugly scars on her back, which cannot be restored even after several years.

"Yanshu's father has violent tendencies, especially after drinking too much, it will become more serious. When Yanshu was very young, he often caught his father hitting me. I was afraid that he would be hurt, so I told him to hide and not talk. Later I found that Yanshu often hid in the cabinet by himself, so he really stopped talking."

"During that time, I broke down and couldn't bear that kind of life anymore. I hired someone to create a car accident, and made his father completely disappear in this world..."

Lu Wanliang stared at Xi Guang with a frightening cold light in her eyes, "I only have one son left, and I have nothing left. I won't take him at risk."

The overwhelming sorrow piled up on Xiguang's chest, as if it made her unable to breathe. At this moment, she is a person who has reached a desperate situation and has no way out. She can only hug Lu Wanliang's leg and try her best to promise: "I will forget everything that happened today Yes, I will forget..."

"Yanshu is still waiting for me to go back and find someone to save him. I promised him that I will definitely go back and save him..." Xiguang sobbed.

"If you waste time with me now, Yanshu will be more dangerous. The kidnappers are impatient, don't you know? They can't wait that long. Didn't you keep saying that you want to save Yanshu?" Lu Wanliang said, Like a heavy and hard hammer, each word breaks Xi Guang's eardrums.

"When you arrived at Gu's house on the first day, how did you promise me that you would treat Yanshu well and take care of him. Now he has fallen into the hands of the kidnappers and suffered a lot. Who did it? You are Did you take care of him like that?"

"Or are you willing to drag him down until death?"

Xi Guang bent his back and fell on the ground.Her face was pressed against the dirt, her tears seeped into the ground, a dagger was cut across her heart, the evaporating mist filled her eyes, and even the last starlight was wiped out in the dim night, leaving only clumps of reeds.

When she ran out of the dilapidated house without looking back, she never thought that she would leave Gu Yanshu, who had been with her for six years, so easily without saying goodbye.

No matter how humble she was crying, begging, and persuading her, she was powerless to return to her natal world, and she was determined by fate.

She had clearly agreed to grow up together, but in the blink of an eye, he was no longer in her future.Obviously, he was still hunched over and hiding in that small hole, waiting for her to go back.

Have you ever experienced that kind of despair, the despair like the wind, blowing in your face, and there is nowhere to escape.

When Xi Guang was sent to the small town of Nanyao overnight, someone helped her treat the wound in the car. The warm and wet towel kept wiping the blood on her head and face, and the clothes on her abdomen were lifted to check her injury.

The cold liquid was injected from the veins on the back of her hand, with a hypnotic effect, she fell on the leather chair in the back row, without struggling, she calmed down, her eyes reflected the boundless wilderness receding all the way outside the car window, there was no more tears.

At this time, Gu Yanshu was surrounded by a large group of people, trying to pull him out of the triangular hole, but he couldn't do it.

Lu Wanliang had no choice but to ask someone to carefully remove the steel plates stacked on top one by one, but Gu Yanshu was still curled up, motionless.

To take him away, he reached out and grabbed the iron rod on the iron door next to him.

His mind was chaotic, but he remembered so deeply that he had to wait for someone to come back.

The pale and lonely boy held him tightly with strength from nowhere, and two or three grown men couldn't pull him away.Until the skin of the palm was worn away, the palm was bloody and bloody, exposing the white bones.

Lu Wanliang couldn't stand it anymore, and would rather have someone knock him out than torture him like this.

Lu Wanliang said: "Yanshu, Xiguang is gone. You are so cowardly and need her care and protection everywhere. She is too tired. She just wants to leave and will never come back."

Gu Yanshu was awake for a moment before he fell into a coma.

At that time, he thought that even she had abandoned him in the end.

Nanyao Town.Tang Su lives here.

Xiguang didn't have much impression of this grandma at first.Her mother, Lin Ping, had run away from her hometown when she was a teenager, and her relationship with her family was never close, and she rarely greeted her during the New Year.

And Tang Su is an open-minded old lady who spends her whole life teaching and educating people in a small town. She has her own world in her heart and doesn't care about those. She thinks that her children and grandchildren will have their own blessings.

It's just that I was a little surprised when I suddenly received an injured granddaughter.He didn't say much or ask anything, he just turned around and tidied up a room and came out.

Lu Wanliang investigated carefully and arranged cleverly.She didn't send Xiguang back to Hetong Town, where Lu Jianxin's family didn't get along very well with Xiguang. The more conflicts in Lu's family in the future, the more Xiguang would want to return to Gu's family.On the contrary, here in Nanyao, Xiguang, a grandmother who has never met before, is more suitable to take care of her and make her feel the warmth of home. She may gradually forget everything about the Gu family.

Xi Guang stayed in the house all day long, neither going out nor speaking.

Tang Su moved the bench and sat in the yard basking in the sun, cut the notebook paper on his lap into long pieces of paper, twisted some tobacco with his fingers and put it on it to make cigarettes.She struck a match and lit one, put it near her mouth and took a puff. She looked very happy, and the wrinkles on her face were particularly vivid.

Later, Xiguang sighed from time to time, her grandmother was really a bohemian little old lady. When she was young, she didn't know what kind of character she was.

But at this time, her whole body was filled with a kind of tiredness, like someone who had traveled for a long time, was forced to stop unexpectedly, lost her direction, her head suddenly went blank, and became in a state of sluggishness.

In fact, she also wanted to go out, take a look at the water lilies that were sprouting long leaves in the water tank under the eaves, touch the smooth and delicate aquatic plants, and pinch the opening and closing mouths of a few goldfish.But she didn't want to move, her bodily functions seemed to be on strike, and she fell into a long silence.

A cigarette between Tang Su's fingers burned to the tail, and seeing the granddaughter of Cyclops with one eye wrapped in gauze through the window, she secretly thought, it would be fun to draw a panda's eye on it with a colored pen.

When I woke up the next day, when I saw the panda eyes in the mirror, Xi laughed, and finally showed a happy expression.

Tang Su was grinding beans with Aunt Qin from the house next door. The old stone mill was composed of two flat round stones. Aunt Qin threw a handful of black beans into the small hole on the upper floor every half a minute, and kept grinding. The crushed powder oozed along the boulders and fell into a large wooden basin lined with old newspapers.

The two sat opposite each other, holding wooden handles, and each pushed the grinder half a circle, chatting about their parents' short stories at the same time.

Xi Guang looked at the peaceful smiles on their faces, and quietly realized that he had begun to like the plain and peaceful life here like running water since some day.There is no Gu family here, no shuttle traffic, no flashing neon lights of the emergency tube. She stood on the field row all afternoon, with the blue sky, green mountains, and wild grasses in front of her eyes.

It's fine here.

Only, there is no extension tree here.

The first ray of sunlight in the morning pierced through the clouds and came in through the cracks in the curtains. Xiguang huddled on the sofa in the ward as if he heard the morning bell from the temple in the distance.She recalled the scene she had seen in the movie, the appearance of a small novice worshiping in front of the Buddha, kneeling on the futon, clasping his hands, bowing his head, and throwing himself on the ground.

Slow and sincere movements, the heart of a child lasts forever.

Xiguang also learned to do that.Tang Su would sometimes take her to the temple in Nanyao, where she would help sell incense, sweep the fallen leaves in the courtyard, and work voluntarily for a day.

Xiguang also took the opportunity to secretly make a wish in front of the Buddha. She prayed that the young man who was thousands of miles away from her would experience less suffering, face less separation, and never know the cruel truth back then.Even if the road of life is bumpy and muddy, and the world is impermanent, he will finally be able to have a bright future and be safe and sound.

(End of this chapter)