Fall in love with your enemy

Continuing from the last time, I went upstairs to look for Hui Xin and accidentally came across this scary scene.

It's not that there's anything wrong with chopping rats, the problem is this person. If it was someone like Ji Bing or Zhizhi squatting here doing something like this, I wouldn't think it's scary. But this is He Huixin, who has always been gentle and timid. She would probably tremble if others spoke loudly. Even now, she was startled by my sudden appearance and was suddenly at a loss.

What Shu Yi said came true. As a wealthy family with a large mansion, it was normal for one or two people to have problems occasionally.

After the shock, I was worried. I quickly stepped forward, took the kitchen knife from her hand and threw it aside, kicked the dead rat away, put out the fire, and took her wrist back to the bathroom. I turned on the faucet to rinse away the blood stains. The light red liquid disappeared down the drain, leaving only the residue on her clothes.

After staying with Hui Xin for a long time, she finally remembered to explain, and she began to tremble again: "Sister, sister, I... Shu Yi is most afraid of mice. This is how I used to scare mice at home. After seeing it once and getting scared, they would leave..."

"You only know that mice will be afraid, but do you know that mice will also take revenge? A nest of mice was burned to death in front of you, wouldn't those big mice bring more of their tribe in to destroy the house and steal things?" I lowered my voice to stop her, wiped her hands with a towel and sighed: "Huixin, I understand that you are doing this for Shu Yi's good, but this kind of thing is not something you, a lady from a wealthy family, should do yourself. Do you know what you looked like just now? Shu Yi is afraid, aren't you afraid?"

He Huixin was originally wiping away tears pitifully, but after hearing my last words, she suddenly became determined and said through gritted teeth, "Don't be afraid. I only have Shu Yi, and I can do anything for him."

Normally, I would think that being deeply in love is a good thing, but I find it a bit scary to let a person change so much in a short period of time. However, I can't interfere with the feelings of my brother and sister-in-law, and I feel pity for Hui Xin, so I had to stop and gently stroke her hair with my fingers: "But don't let outsiders see you like this now. Shu Yi can, but I think you can't bear to leave. I'll ask someone to send you new clothes later. Hurry up and change. I'll go down now. Just say you're not feeling well and I'll pretend nothing happened."

"Sister!" He Huixin suddenly called me again. I turned my head and the words she was about to say were stuck. In the end, she just uttered a low word of thank you.

I nodded, went out, closed the door gently, and sent a message to Cen Jiangying saying that Hui Xin accidentally splashed water on her clothes, and asked her to put the clothes at the bathroom door. Also, my brother and I found a mouse in the study, and my brother grabbed a kitchen knife and hacked it around. The scene was a bit bloody, so she cleaned it up. You can experience the details yourself.

Cen Jiangying is the one who knows the house best, and she would certainly not say anything nonsense. Except that my brother felt a little wronged for being used as a shield. I turned my head away, and my brother was still looking down on me. I had no choice but to hug his arm and act coquettishly: "Brother, Hui Xin is a girl, she has always been weak. If this kind of thing gets out, it will be a scandal for her..."

"Not to me? Is your brother so fierce in your heart?" My brother gave me a blank look.

I was so clingy that I rubbed my cheeks against him. After a long time, I came up with a good idea: "Brother! Although you are usually gentle, kind, graceful, open-minded, and humble! But if I were scared of a mouse, you would definitely pick up a knife and chop it to protect me, right? For you, this is called a matter of reason! This will only create the image of a great brother. How can it be bad for you? Moreover! Burning the baby mice and chopping off the mouse heads are actually reasonable operations. There is a saying that scares mice. I have seen you deal with animals in this way before. I have watched you do it many times. This will only show everyone that you love to observe life, have common sense, and are very down-to-earth."

My brother wanted to laugh as he listened, so he stretched out his hand and pinched my face hard: "You've said all the nice things, how can you bribe people so well? How dare you say nonsense to anyone?"

I saw that my brother was hinting at something, so I quickly leaned into his arms and acted innocent. It was funny! How could I deliberately recruit someone? How could a smart man like Qingyun be fooled by me? I was just expressing my true feelings! Then he just hugged me with a protective desire...

Nothing else, nothing at all!

I sighed and slowly changed the subject: "You said Hui Xin too. Cen Jiangying said that someone would come to deal with it tomorrow. Why should she be anxious? Shu Yi can't stay here for half an hour. We will leave when the rain stops. By the way, what did she say just now... She only has Shu Yi. Why only Shu Yi? I remember that although she is a student of our family, she should not be from the inner house, right? I know all the orphans in the inner house. If she was sent out and only funded her studies but not her life, then she should have parents and relatives, right? Brother, do you know?"

"Whether to be sent to the inner house or the outer house depends on the specific situation. He Qingyun has parents, so he still lives in our house and is also a student of the inner house. It's just that his parents are in poor health and can't raise a child. They passed away a few years later, and the old house raised the younger child as an orphan. Maybe when Hui Xin lost her parents, she was already a teenager and no one cared about her? Isn't there a saying that it's hard to raise a child when he grows up... Hey, that's not right..." My brother paused here and shook his head. He took out his phone and looked at it before he was sure: "No, I forgot. My uncle told me that Hui Xin's parents are here, but they are in jail."

"Go to jail?!" I cried out in surprise and quickly covered my mouth. I looked back and saw that Hui Xin had not yet come out.

My brother held me tighter and lowered his voice: "Shishi, have you ever heard of Caishengzheqi?"

"Living organ harvesting? Trafficking children, artificially causing disabilities to beg?"

"Yes, that's right. Her parents are human traffickers. However, the money they earned from trafficking people was not spent on He Huixin. She was a victim. Her parents couldn't harm other people's children during the crackdown years, so they broke He Huixin's left hand. After her parents were imprisoned, the government came to our family and asked if we wanted such a child. We cured her. If you go and see it now, you can probably still see the mark on her hand."

"what?!"

"Anyway, this is what my uncle said. Our family doesn't care much about students who are sent abroad. They go to school for free. So when Huixin and I first found Shuyi, we didn't pay much attention to him. We thought he was just an ordinary classmate. Later, my uncle found that Shuyi's state was not right and thought that he might have fallen in love prematurely. So he took Huixin and I home."

I was stunned. It occurred to me that I might have wrongly blamed my aunt. Her most vicious words were those few words. How could they compare to the traffickers? But besides sympathy, I also had more worries in my heart. I didn't want to harm her, but I still loved my brother more! A child from such a family, even if she was a victim, wouldn't she inherit the genes of her parents? In other words, after seeing such a horrific scene, she could still remain calm and steady. If she was really gentle, it would be fine, but what if she was pretending? I saw the scene just now.

When I was sighing with worry, I turned around and saw that my brother didn't care at all. I quickly grabbed him and said, "Brother, aren't you afraid?"

My brother laughed and rubbed my head: "What are you afraid of?"

"And Hui Xin! After my uncle's investigation, is he just going to take her home so easily? Won't he worry about Shu Yi? No, no, what if Hui Xin is too paranoid? Won't the couple quarrel when they live together?" The more I talked, the more horrified and conflicted I felt. Gradually, more speculations got stuck in my throat and I couldn't say them. Suspecting a victim was not my choice. I finally sighed, "Then Hui Xin was disabled and her parents were in prison. Since her family was willing to treat her, why didn't they just take her to the outer courtyard of the old house? What's the difference between her and an orphan? How old was she when she was rescued?"

The brother shrugged and answered, "About eight or nine years old. Unlike Huixin, her family is not poor. They have a car and a house. Since her parents were arrested, three or two relatives have popped up in almost any alley, clamoring to raise her so that they can get a car and a house, and live off the whole family. After all, it is because of our family that she has good food and drink in school. Every year, except for holidays, she lives in the dormitory and does not go home. We have raised her well until she is this age."

I took a deep breath, feeling the blockage in my chest, and said, "Nine years old... that's not young."

My brother laughed: "Are you afraid that great kindness can be like great hatred? If the situation changes in the future, it will be bad, or is it not a coincidence that she met Shu Yi?"

I nodded. "I'm afraid that her parents' influence on her is still there. Besides, the relatives who raised her later weren't good people. Can such a family raise an innocent child?"

"If she was really innocent, she wouldn't be able to survive in our house." My brother leaned over and tapped my head, then took me to the glass staircase. Looking down, I could see the dining area. Shu Yi was still waiting, and He Huixin's plate was almost full. My brother patted my shoulder gently and said, "Shi Shi, people of our class can't just look at one side of things. A person who is willing to risk everything when faced with difficulties is actually hard to come by. He Huixin is a little paranoid, but she exposed herself for Shu Yi. If nothing happened, who in the family would see through her disguise? She is just a poor, cowardly and helpless little girl, but even rabbits bite when they are anxious, and little girls will also get stained with blood for the people they like."

"The scariest thing is not bloodshed, but the desire for bloodshed and the greed for it."

"We don't have such people in our family. Think about it yourself. Today, Ji Bing is the one who took over. Does that mean he will hurt you? Ji Bing is much more pretentious than Hui Xin. Before he met my aunt, he was just a cook. Can you still tell who he was before?"

I was silent, but I felt like laughing. What are you talking about? He had a full face plastic surgery! He also lost weight from a fat man of over 200 pounds to 140 pounds. I would be surprised if I could recognize him...

My brother understood what I was thinking and couldn't help laughing. He suddenly remembered something and leaned close to my ear: "It's not just plastic surgery, he knew that everyone would recognize him, but he still burned his face with fire, wasting the millions of plastic surgery money... He and William who stabbed his own leg with a fire hook, isn't our family crazy? Are you afraid of another one? Compared to him, Hui Xin is so normal."

I gently patted my brother to stop him from gloating. This kind of hellish joke always makes me feel strange. I want to laugh but I feel that morality is condemning me. William is fine. Although Uncle Ji is a bit fierce, he is still very nice to me...

I covered my mouth and coughed to calm down, but my brother was very calm from beginning to end. It turns out that people over 30 are a little different, right? Under the disguise of "deepness", his smoking gestures were like an old father with a melancholy look: "After all, it's for his own son. Before marrying Hui Xin, my uncle still had some considerations. As brothers and sisters, we can't control marriage. Let's see them weigh it by themselves. And look at Shu Yi's current state. I guess my uncle can't stop him even if he wants to. He is a spoiled young master. He has learned to take care of others and is rebellious. It's impossible to break away from the budding of puberty. It's better to let them be together. Anyway, they are still in their own home, under the eyes of hundreds of people. It's okay."

"That's right. If Hui Xin is really that paranoid, she should have collapsed from being scolded by her aunt over the years..." I paused, gritted my teeth and let it go: "Forget it, Shu Yi has to live here every day to study painting, and he can't go out very often. I will take care of Hui Xin for a few years, and we'll deal with it if there is any problem later."

I heard the sound of a door opening and closing behind me. I turned my head and saw that it was He Huixin who had changed into new clothes. Cen Jiangying, holding the blood-stained clothes, also understood what I meant. She nodded at me from a distance and left. He Huixin walked timidly towards me step by step. I pressed her shoulder and told her in a very calm tone to go downstairs to eat. She was surprised and grateful. At that moment, her eyes were like a little rabbit that had been lost and found.

It was not until he and Hui Xin left that my brother remembered something else: "By the way, why haven't I seen Lingling and Yunyun in a few days? Where are they?"

"They live in the Gao family manor. Gao Xinci raised a pony, and the two of them stayed because they wanted to keep it fresh. They can still play with it for a while if someone holds it." I said casually, but when I looked up, my brother was looking at me with a strange attitude, with a slight smile on his face.

"You dare to ask him to help take care of the child? Are they really going to become a family of four?"

I pulled the corners of my mouth to show a "polite" smile, and couldn't help but lower my head again: "This kind of thing, it depends on fate."

Fortune-telling is a rather vague term, just like what my brother is asking me now, as vague as whether he really agrees with Gao Xinci or thinks I am plotting against Brother Qingyun.

I stared at him without saying a word until we both laughed, but there was no kindness in my laughter. I thought that if I failed, the price would be just going back to the past. He wouldn't help me but he wouldn't hurt me either. It didn't matter to me. I was very touched, but I never thought that God would favor me for a moment. I suddenly felt like vomiting, so I left my brother and rushed to the bathroom. I lay in front of the sink for a long time, feeling uncomfortable. My eyes were black.

My brother didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He leaned against the wall, not knowing whether he should help me calm down. But given the atmosphere just now, he was just angry with me. He took his hand back and handed me the towel after a while: "Are you pregnant again? If so, He Qingyun can't marry you."

I felt much better after dry heaving twice and laughed off the remark. But just when I was about to leave, a fishy-sweet taste rushed up my throat. I rushed back and saw stars again. When I opened my eyes again, I saw a pool of dark red blood diluted by the water.

I remained calm, wiped my mouth to remove the traces and turned off the faucet. I turned around to face my brother's confusion and put on that "polite" smile again.

Well, thanks to Lao Hou, the antidote and blood stasis were handled just right...