his mermaid

***

The caretaker who was in charge of shopping returned to the house.

About four hours had passed during this period, and it happened to be close to dusk according to the sky. After being trapped here, Chu Quan had no concept of time.

He was about to say something, but Pan Nian said first: "It takes so long for them to go shopping. It's impossible to walk for two hours. They should drive there. It's really far away from the city, and I don't know halfway. Is there a gas station?"

His analysis was correct, but before he had time to think about it, the guard opened the door, then locked it with the key, and put the key in his bag.

"Here, your cigarette."

He knelt down and handed out an open pack of cigarettes.

He was a man in his twenties, about the same age as Chu Quan.

I don't know why such young people are bewitched by Jiang Dewen, but there are not a few people who do these jobs in S City. Without proper jobs, they have to hire for rich people to do things. Even if it is dangerous, the commissions they get are very generous. After a few months, Ban Nian often does this kind of thing, so I know the value of it very well.

"Come here and untie it. How can you smoke if you don't untie it? Don't you want to feed me yourself?"

Chu Quan moved his body. He knew that he had a stench all over his body, but he didn't care about it so much, "I don't need my feet."

"I want to untie it too." Pan Nian looked at the guard man.

"Why are you untied? You don't smoke."

"How much money did you transfer me away, and you don't do this job? You don't have to worry about Jiang Dewen knowing that you have embezzled our money and killing you."

"Are you trying to scare me? I won't be finished until I'm untied."

He was obviously not fooled, Pan Nian gritted his teeth, and temporarily gave up the idea of ​​intimidating and luring him.

Probably because he took the money from himself, feeling sorry for himself, the guard man untied the rope that tied Chu Quan's hands behind his back in a daze.

"Thank you."

Chu Quan picked up the cigarette and lighter and put them into his mouth pretendingly.

It wasn't his intention to smoke, but it felt so much better, stuck here in the dark, and for the first time he felt a little bit happier in his life.

"Call me when you're done smoking."

The guard man stood by the window of the narrow room, and went to enjoy the scenery outside the window. There was a peculiar smell inside the room, which could not be smelled outside. Naturally, he felt uncomfortable when he came in, so he wanted to smell the fresh air.But after Chu Quan and Pan Nian got used to hearing about it, it didn't matter at all.

Chu Quan thought of a countermeasure, and he decided to attack the guard man, but the time was too short, and he only had one chance.

He couldn't get any more attention.While smoking a cigarette, he turned his other hand behind him, lit the lighter, and burned the knotted rope that bound Ban Nian's hands.

I don't know if his hands were burned, Pan Nian let out a patient deep breathing sound.

The rope was burnt, Pan Nian did not speak, and was extraordinarily calm.

Chu Quan looked back, and continued to burn the rope at his feet desperately, which inevitably burned his trousers. He could see that there was a hint of heartache in Ban Nian's eyes. The clothes must be very expensive, but he might not be able to escape , He will not wear this set of "prison uniform" again.

Fortunately, the watchman didn't look back to see him.

The short process lasted only tens of seconds. It turned out that the rope was not as strong as imagined. Although it really made their hands and feet feel numb, after they were untied, Ban Nian's hands and feet could not move freely because of the numbness.The only thing left that was not burned was the rope at his feet. Chu Quan had no choice but to continue pretending to smoke, which was delayed for a while.

Sure enough, as he expected, the guard turned his head back for the first time, and because Pan Nian sat behind Chu Quan motionless, he didn't notice anything unusual.

"Hey, are you done smoking?"

"almost."

Chu Quan pinched out the cigarette, and the guard man took the rope in his hand again to tie him up.

There are such obedient people in the world?The guard man showed a smug smile. He must have thought that his deterrent power had subdued Chu Quan. These two people are not only stupid, but also have a lot of money. , The guard man will wake up with a smile in his dreams.

At this moment, Chu Quan, who had been holding back for several seconds, suddenly spewed out a puff of smoke, which choked on the guard man's face.

"Ah!" he yelled, coughing continuously.

After all, the smoke is not a good one, and the smoke that comes out is even more choking.

He rushed forward to throw Chu Quan down, but Pan Nian stood up suddenly, pressed on the guard man's back, and pushed him down first.

The two cooperated to trap the guard man on the ground.

"Hey! Use that!" Chu Quan shouted at the lighter on the ground.

Pan Nian didn't know what Chu Quan meant, but he grabbed the cheap lighter on the ground and immediately turned on the flame to burn the back of the guard man's neck.

The guard man suddenly let out a painful cry. He did not expect to be attacked in this way. His hair and the flesh of his neck were glued together and he could hardly feel the existence of the back of his head.

This was not the most terrible torture. In the next second, Chu Quan, who was knocked down by him, kicked his Xia body hard with his knees. The back and forth attacks made it difficult for the guard man to speak normally.

Under such a violent attack, the accomplices outside rushed over and smashed the door.But the key was on the guard man's body, and the door could not be opened from outside.

Within a few minutes, the guard man was lying on the ground unable to move.I don't know whether he died or passed out. His neck and ears were burned black.

"Hey! What happened!?"

The accomplice was still banging on the door with his body.

"Hey!"

Pan Nian rummaged through the guard man, found his mobile phone, and unlocked it with his fingerprint.

"Let's go through the window..." Chu Quan whispered.

Without further ado, they kicked through the window and climbed out. After two days of observation, this place is a forest, and the hut has only one floor. When they came out of the window, they discovered that it was a huge abandoned factory.

Pan Nian appeared outside the door in a standing posture, and the suit he was wearing could already be described as tattered.

"Run, they will come after you, it's hard to guarantee that you have an accomplice."

Chu Quan reminded that Pan Nian ran away after him.Don't know where to run?How long are you going to run again?In short, instead of running into the forest, they ran along the factory to the road.

The watchman's accomplice reacted, and he turned around and rushed out of the factory gate to chase them. Soon, they felt that they were about to collide with the watchman at the door.

"Let's split up!" Chu Quan yelled, leading the guards to chase him first.

They seemed to have to run for a few more minutes before they could reach the nearest highway, and parting meant that Bannian was going in the opposite direction.

Pan Nian was running in embarrassment while dialing the phone, and escaped from the hut. He kept calling this number, but he couldn't get through.

"Hello? Hello? Yaochen!"

After two blind tones, the other party answered the call.

This is the only person who can turn to help right now, too much is too late.

Pan Nian ran in the opposite direction, and found an old-style pickup truck parked on the other side of the factory, with some goods piled up behind it.

"Please, help me." Pan Nian opened the door and got into the car, holding the phone by his shoulder to his ear.

He was working out how to start the old truck, and soon its engine was roaring and its body began to vibrate.

"What can I help you with?" He heard Yaochen ask suspiciously.

"Don't you know that I was kidnapped? Jiang Dewen will kill me. Didn't someone go to the police station to report the case?" Pan Nian shouted in despair.

Yaochen was surprisingly calm, probably because he was afraid that he would lie: "You and Jiang Dewen should be accomplices."

"Wait a minute, there is another person beside me. Are you sure you don't want to save us?"

"Who is the other person?"

"His name is Chu Quan!"

Pan Nian didn't know that Chu Quan and Yaochen knew each other, but after the name was blurted out, Yaochen's tone changed immediately.

"Where are you now?"

"Hurry up and ask the police to check the location, I don't know where it is! This is a factory in a suburban forest, the signal is very poor!"

Pan Nian turned on the hold call, and then threw the phone aside.

"Did you call the police?"

"Please help me, I can't let the police catch me."

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Yaochen asked in disbelief.

Pan Nian stepped on the accelerator, and he drove in the direction where Chu Quan was escaping. Chu Quan fought with the guard man on the side of the road.

Seeing his car being driven by Pan Nian, the guard man yelled in despair.They were so foolishly played by these two people. Taking advantage of his surprise, Chu Quan punched him to the ground, climbed onto the truck with all his strength, and drove towards the road buzzing with black smoke.

***

Yaochen hurried to the police station, but Yuhan was the only one who returned home to sort out his mother's belongings.

In a few days, it will be sent to the cemetery according to the old custom, and the staff there will burn it to show the dead to rest in peace.

So in addition to leaving the most precious things, try to send the personal belongings of the deceased to her for safekeeping, so that she can live with peace of mind in the world over there.Hearing this sentence, Yuhan asked someone to rummage through the boxes and cabinets, and found out all the things her mother had decades before her death.Including her textbooks, keepsakes, reading materials, and diaries from her youth, they were all stored in the warehouse, where there were still many things belonging to Brother Yaochen's grandfather.

"Put them here, and I'll check them one by one." Yuhan asked the moving company to leave first, and she had to come back the next day if something happened. She wanted to choose some worthwhile things from these relics and hand them over to the cemetery.

The notes and diary written by Shulan alone are two thick boxes.It turned out that my mother loved reading so much when she was young, otherwise she would not have inherited the family business so smoothly.

After the car accident caused high paraplegia, my mother still insisted on studying, and there were various medals, which logically should be kept as souvenirs. Yuhan sorted them out and put them aside. This side is not going to be burned.

Yuhan casually flipped open the notebook that looked like a diary, and there were more than a dozen thick volumes underneath, all of which were products of the last century. The pages were yellowed and difficult to read.

Shu Lan studied in the Department of Finance and Economics, but wrote prose and romance novels, and published them in magazines, all of which were included in sample magazines.These words carried the style of that era, and Yuhan sorted them out and put them aside.

April 9

He is still the chief of the school band performance today.

The teachers in the audience said that he was brilliant and the pride of the whole school, and they had already trained him as a top student.

He is very handsome, and almost all the girls in the class have a crush on him.It's a pity that he is famous and beautiful, I only found out after I asked someone to inquire.

What is that girl from?

I wish she hadn't appeared in front of me.

……

What year is this?Yuhan looked at the cover.

It should be when Shu Lan was in college. It turned out that when she was in college, her mother had a crush on someone.After reading several pages, she finally realized that the outstanding young man who attracted the attention of Shu Lan and all the girls in the school was Jiang Dewen. According to the description, he had a western taste in school and could speak English very well.

Apparently, Yuhan regretted peeking at Shulan's diary.

But there was no one at home, so she unconsciously became curious.Mother rarely mentioned Jiang Dewen, only that he had a bad relationship with brother Yaochen.But it shouldn't be the case at first, after all, the two have conceived a child.

April 11

I got to know him officially.

It turned out that he had already heard of me.

This book is written until December, and the next book will follow the previous year.

It is not difficult to understand the minds of girls of that era, Yuhan opened the next book.It's like watching a series, and occasionally some fearless thoughts.

April 3

Today is my father and mother's wedding anniversary, they have a banquet with many friends, invited the band.

He came too, and he played as a violinist.

His father admired him very much, and his mother also liked his music very much.It seems that the matter is settled.

……

Sunny September 5

Dad invited him over to see him moping, and we went out to see a movie, which I heard he had never seen.

This is my happiest day.

April 5

Unexpectedly, I saw his lover at school today.

That girl is tall and tall, but her temperament is not as good as mine.

I really don't understand what's so good about her?

……

April 6

I am so sad.

……

This book rewrites many feelings of lovelorn, and Shulan lost love this year.

The admirer she repeatedly mentioned rejected her, that is to say, Jiang Dewen rejected her.Moreover, Jiang Dewen has a girlfriend.

Yuhan plucked up the courage to read on. She read very quickly and felt a burst of disbelief at the same time.

Because in Shu Lan's description, Jiang Dewen is clearly a gentle, gentleman and kind man, while Shu Lan is a willful, savage, unreasonable young lady.In order to pursue Jiang Dewen, she did a lot of extreme behaviors. She offered flowers at school, asked the driver to pick him up, invited him to dinner, asked the bodyguards to stop him, and found someone to humiliate his girlfriend.This kind of liking is too exaggerated, even if it is not fully written in the diary, the relationship can be guessed from the lines.No wonder Shu Bowen didn't agree with them being together, this was supposed to be a relationship that ended without a problem.

How did they come together?With such curiosity, Yuhan urged himself to read on.

……

April 9

His family is short of money.

I heard from the students in their class that he couldn't pay the tuition this year, what's going on?

I've asked people to inquire about it, but there is no result.

……

April 10

His father is seriously ill.

It turned out that his mother was a stepmother, which he had never mentioned before.

Now his parents are divorcing, that woman is a typical new-style woman, she has already found a wild man to elope, how could everything happen so quickly?I want to help him.

……

April 10

He returned all the money.

……

April 10

I cried and said to my father, help me.It worked very well today, my mother felt distressed, and my father reluctantly agreed to it.

It depends on what he thinks now, as long as he agrees to marry me, we will graduate next year, and he must give me an answer soon.

……

In the diary after October, several pages were torn out.Yuhan felt a chill.

……

April 11

His father died.

Don't even need to know, it's all their own doing.

These are the pages that the link tore out.In these few pages, the story changes a lot.

No, this is not a story.This is true. It turned out that Shulan had the habit of keeping a diary. After she became disabled, she stopped writing a diary and never touched the old diary. Her father, Yaochen's grandfather, took it to the warehouse.

April 12

Sure enough, his family fell into an economic crisis. Thanks to my dear father, I saved my loved one again.

……

Soon, this book was also finished.

A question quickly popped into my mind: Where is the next book?Yuhan knew that the story behind was unusual.Jiang Dewen's father died because he missed the best treatment period. He began to regret not agreeing to Shulan's conditions earlier, and soon the family went bankrupt.Afterwards, Shulan's family repaid Jiang Dewen's debt on the condition that he marry Shulan and break up with that girlfriend.

If he did not agree again, Jiang Dewen would really be cornered.

But that girlfriend, could it be...

Yuhan analyzed, the next diary has already appeared in her hand.She didn't need to search at all, because they were neatly arranged one by one.

After casually flipping through a few pages, Yuhan stopped.

April 2

He spent the New Year at my house.

……

April 2

His ex-girlfriend came to the door, but unfortunately he was not here.

I found someone to clean her up today, and I hope she won't come again.

……

April 2

She sent a letter of congratulations, and seemed to give up.

It seems that she must have been heartbroken when she received the invitation.

……

April 3

Today is our engagement party.

Everything went well, but there was some unhappiness in the background, why did that stalker come again.

……

The story after that was not smooth, and Shulan vented a lot of depressed emotions.

Because this marriage is not free love, but forced.From Shulan's unilateral venting in the diary, it was difficult for Yuhan to determine what other people were thinking at that time.

All she knew was that Jiang Dewen and his girlfriend were still inseparable, which made Shu Lan extremely unhappy.Obviously, those two were the couple who fell in love at first, and Shu Lan intervened between them.

……

April 5

When I ran into her on the street today, I found out that she was pregnant.gosh.

She was kicked out of the house and lived in a small house he rented.

……

April 6

He said that she had aborted the child, and we are getting married soon, so I hope nothing will happen.

But with such a big belly, is it okay to kill the child?I heard that there will be sequelae and infertility.

……

April 7

Today will always be our wedding anniversary.

……

April 8

I had a serious fight with him and I really didn't expect him to go out to see that woman and they actually had the baby.

April 8

I negotiated with him that as long as he brought that kid back and we raised it, it would be fine.

Otherwise, I will never let that woman go!

……

April 9

How could this be, she died.

It must not be my fault...

She must have committed suicide...

……

April 9

How is the child doing now?

He said it has nothing to do with him anymore, really?He looked really desperate and angry.

……

April 10

He actually joined the police to question me.

Good thing I had proof that I wasn't there at all.

It's really scary——Yuhan found herself sweating when she read.

Part of the content is obscure, but it points to a theme. Jiang Dewen and his girlfriend gave birth to a child, and Jiang Shu was married at this time.This is undoubtedly the illegitimate son of Jiang Dewen who has been hyped recently. It seems that this child really exists, and it is still a boy. It is likely to be Jiang Dewen's eldest son Yaoxi. From the perspective of time, the age is also very consistent.

Another doubtful point is that the cause of death of Jiang Dewen's girlfriend is unknown.Although nothing was written in the diary, it seems that the police came to the house to investigate and suspected that Shu Lan had done something wrong, but unfortunately nothing was found, and the relationship between Jiang Dewen and Shu Lan was at an impasse.

If you integrate the events in the diary, you will know that Shu Lan once took her love with a knife. Not only that, Jiang Dewen's real lover died tragically after giving birth to a child, his father died of illness, his family went bankrupt, and there were even more tragedies that happened to the Shu family. Because of this, Jiang Dewen suffered so many blows in a row and had to rely on the help of the Shu family. Would he feel pain and hatred?But he had to bear the burden of humiliation and endured all this, and finally tore his face.

Is everything so?

I really want to question Jiang Dewen, but if Shu Lan, who has raised her for so many years, really did so many wrong things in the first place, Yu Han's heart will be hit hard.

She continued to flip through the diary blindly. In Shu Lan's diary, Jiang Dewen was no longer mentioned a few times, but what she had seen and learned.

Finally, a few years have passed, and it seems that life has become ordinary again, similar to ordinary people's diaries, full of daily trivialities.

……

In the past few years, Jiang Dewen's fame has grown and he has attracted a lot of international attention.At the same time, a new name frequently appeared in Shulan's diary, but it appeared as a code name, and Yuhan didn't know who it was.

April 1

This year's New Year, of course, the violinist will not be at home.

……

April 2

He is now an internationally renowned violinist, and thanks to my father, he would never be able to do without the help of our family.

……

April 4

He saved me today, but luckily I'm fine.

I hope my father doesn't dismiss him.

……

April 5

We went out on a date and no one knew about it and thought he was just driving me to work.

Actually went for a drive.

……

driver?

Could this man be dad?Yuhan repeatedly opened the previous article for review.It turned out that after Shulan and Jiang Dewen got married, their relationship was not going well, and Shulan had already moved on. Jiang Dewen went abroad to further his studies and study music. But she didn't care about it, and she couldn't control it. The marriage existed in name only, but she never went through the divorce process.

In this way, Shulan should have empathized with someone else and called it by a code name.

Such an extramarital affair, the husband and wife seem to be indifferent?Yuhan sighed.

But she ignored a very important issue.After reading for a few more minutes, she had to stop.

Her heart was beating violently.

April 11

Yaochen was born on November 11rd and everything is healthy.

This was the year Yaochen was born.Except for the day of his birth, Shu Lan kept few records of the pregnancy.

Are Jiang Dewen and Shu Lan reconciled?Or is Brother Yaochen not their child at all?

She quickly flipped through the previous article again, almost tearing the book.

No reconciliation, no reconciliation, otherwise, Shu Lan would definitely record it.She likes Jiang Dewen so much, how could she not record this matter?

Of course, it won't be easy to reconcile, their marriage is full of hatred.

Yuhan thought of Brother Yaochen's attitude towards his parents since he was a child, and his personality that was completely different from ordinary people.

Did he already know himself... Did he really know?

Yuhan hurriedly flipped through the pages, and quickly turned to the next one.

April 4

He finally stayed at home for a long time, and this time he started a quarrel with me.

How could I lie to him?

That's right, it was after Yaochen was born that Jiang Dewen also realized that something was wrong. This child was not the crystallization of him and Shulan at all. Of course he would doubt it, so they quarreled, domestic violence, and endless troubles at home.

Brother Yaochen grew up in such a family environment.

I saw with my own eyes the description in Shulan's diary, the long-term violence she suffered.After watching it for a while, Yuhan realized that brother Yaochen had also been abused by his father. Of course, he was not beaten severely, but locked in a dark room. Once, he almost fainted due to lack of oxygen.Shu Lan didn't dare to call the police, why?Is it because he is afraid that the police will find out that brother Yaochen is not the child of his parents, but the child of his mother's extramarital affair. He will live under such a shadow all his life, and the Shu family will also be destroyed.

Is that right?

Yuhan was not yet sure that his judgment was correct, so he could only continue to read the diary.

Then, after a few years, Jiang Dewen's violence intensified.

These violence, of course, cannot happen for no reason!The reason lies in these diaries.

Jiang Dewen hated this family so much that he wanted to ruin everything.

Finally, brother Yaochen also mentioned that in the year when he met his half-brother, Yaoxi's name appeared, and Jiang Dewen lived with Shulan again, but their relationship was still on thin ice, and they could be in danger at any time. A war breaks out.

……

April 7

The child had grown so big that he insisted on taking it home.

……

April 8

I was desperate, he never forgot everything.Yaochen is already so old, the doctor said that the damage he suffered has been fully compensated, and Yaochen can't accept that he has an extra brother recently.

……

April 9

All the maids at home were his eyeliner, and they quarreled with him, and the maid fell downstairs.

none of my business.

……

April 3

Officially separated from him, but it was a pity that Yaochen could not be taken away, he had to continue playing the violin, playing the violin, playing the violin.

This has to be repeated every day since he was five years old.

April 4

It turned out that it has been 2 months, and I went to the doctor, and the doctor said that it is very healthy.

April 9

The baby was born and I am recovering well.My birthday is September 9th, but I must forget this day.I have to give up raising this child.

I thought of several good names: Yuqing, Yuhan, Yuhan.But I still can't make up my mind. Maybe none of these names will be used.

……

I stared at this sentence for a long time.

Yuhan closed the diary, tears welling up in her eyes.

Mother……

Seeing this, she instantly understood everything.

The code name that appeared frequently was clearly his father, but he told himself since he was a child that he only met Aunt Shulan after she was paralyzed, and that her mother abandoned the family after she was born, and she didn't even know who her mother was.In fact, her father had been working in the Shu family for many years, and had two children with her.

It turned out that she was also a victim of this deformed family, but it was a pity that it was too late, no one would ever admit who her parents were, and never ask the real truth.This secret has been dormant in the ground forever, and there is no point in asking.

☆、Chapter 46