don't be cheap

When the two came out of the police station, Shen Bei looked quite helpless. It's an eventful autumn, and it's not autumn yet, so why are there so many events!

Originally, it was agreed to pick Gu Xiaoyan home as soon as he came out of the playground, but Qi Ao received a phone call saying that the company was in a hurry and left in a hurry, leaving Shen Bei alone to take a taxi to Ji Hong's house.

Ji Hong's family is in the suburbs, and he built a big villa by himself.The road here has been re-paved in the past few days, the taxi can only drive to the side of the road and stop, Shen Bei has to walk in by himself.

Just as he was complaining about how bad the road was, he seemed to hear a tiger roar in his ears.

Shen Bei stopped, looked around, and said to himself, "Are there still tigers here?"

After a while, a clear roar from behind confirmed his thoughts.

Shen Bei turned his head stiffly all over his body, and saw a big light brown tiger panting heavily at him, with large and small blood holes all over his body, bleeding continuously.A puddle of saliva flowed from his wide-open mouth, dripping at his feet, which looked particularly disgusting.

Shen Bei wailed in his heart, what happened recently, when did the new big tiger in the zoo come out?

The last time he met a wild dog, he was able to give it a fight. Now the one standing in front of him was the king of beasts. Shen Bei felt that if he didn't die today, he would be disabled for life.

He carefully moved the phone to his back and dialed Ji Hong's number, hoping that he could hear what was wrong on his side.Then he unwrapped the bulk flour in his hand, which Ji Hong wanted to make dumplings for Gu Xiaoyan in a convulsion, so Shen Bei went to the supermarket to bring it over.

The tiger's wounds were new, and it was obvious that it had just experienced a fierce fight. Shen Bei secretly prayed that the flour would last a little longer.

The tiger demon ran out from the Special Administrative Office with great effort, and ran to the suburbs here by mistake. The pain in his body made him very irritable, and he smelled the smell of living people when he was looking for food everywhere.

After looking for the smell, I found that it was the kid who was fed by the zoo. It had been watching him for a long time.The extremely hungry tiger demon salivated at the delicious food in front of him, thinking that he could finally have a full meal, so he threw himself towards Shen Bei.

The moment the tiger left, the hairs all over Shen Bei's body stood on end, and he immediately spilled all the flour in his hand. The tiger demon opened his bloody mouth, and was suddenly choked up. The wound on his body was covered by the flour. It became unbearable.

The tiger's movements slowed down, and when Shen Bei saw this, he immediately ran towards Ji Hong's house.

The tiger demon rolled a few times on the spot, and felt a little more comfortable after being covered in mud. It looked at Shen Bei running desperately ahead, sneered inwardly, and then chased him at an even faster speed.

Shen Bei kept turning his head, seeing that the tiger had already caught up, and there was nothing around him to resist, and ten thousand grass and mud horses galloped past in his heart.

He has been too weak recently! ! !

He could already feel the heat from the tiger behind him, Shen Bei's heart sank, and he simply squatted down with his eyes closed and his head in his arms.

The tiger demon jumped up in front of him, seeing Shen Bei waiting to die, he couldn't help howling, and the next moment, he found that his hind legs couldn't move.

***

Ji Hong couldn't wait for Shen Bei to come, so he carried Gu Xiaoyan to the intersection to pick him up. Halfway there, he received a call from Shen Bei. Before Ji Hong could speak, he heard a clear roar of a tiger coming from there.

He expected something to happen to Shen Bei, so he immediately sped up and walked forward, but Gu Xiaoyan jumped out as soon as he heard the voice on the other end of the phone, so fast that Ji Hong almost lost him.

Fortunately, they arrived in time, Ji Hong threw out a long whip, barely holding the tiger demon's feet so that it could not hurt Shen Bei.

Hearing Gu Xiaoyan's roar, Shen Bei immediately got up and walked around behind Ji Hong.Gu Xiaoyan has made a lot of progress in cultivation in the past few days, seeing that the tiger demon who despised it in the past wanted to hurt Shen Bei, his eyes were red, he jumped on the tiger demon's back and grabbed its head.

The tiger demon was entangled and unable to move, and Gu Xiaoyan made it suffer from pain. It angrily swung its long tail towards Ji Hong.

Ji Hong pulled Shen Bei away, and the ground slapped by the tiger's tail suddenly sank, and Shen Bei snapped, "Why is it so powerful?"

Ji Hong brandished his whip and wrestled with the tiger demon, saying, "Nonsense, it's a demon."

"Oh—" Gu Xiaoyan bit the tiger demon's head again, and it let out a scream, and Shen Bei couldn't hear Ji Hong's words.

Shen Bei took the opportunity to run to a distance to pick up a wooden stick as thick as a forearm, thinking that it would be of help to some extent.

The two men surrounded a big tiger with a leopard, and it was almost a tie.

Under Gu Xiaoyan's firm grasp again, the tiger demon was in extreme pain, and ruthlessly threw it off his body.

Gu Xiaoyan was never as strong as the adult tiger demon, and was thrown five meters away, Shen Bei immediately ran towards that side.

But the tiger demon is faster than it. At this moment, it doesn't want to fight with Shen Bei Jihong anymore. It just wants to tear up the leopard that is domineering on it, and suddenly throws Ji Hong's whip away, taking him with him. The whip was thrown to the other side.

The mere dragon clan may still dominate in the sea, but it is no match for the tiger monster on this land.

The furious tiger demon broke them free one after another. When Shen Bei just ran to Gu Xiaoyan's side, he pounced and slashed Gu Xiaoyan's stomach from top to bottom. A large amount of blood sprayed onto Shen Bei's face beside him. superior.

Shen Bei watched helplessly as the tiger's paws, which were bigger than Gu Xiaoyan's, pressed down on it, and the blood flowed in an instant.

There was a momentary blank in his head, and then he heard his heart-piercing roar, and then he inserted the wooden stick thick forearm deeply into the tiger's wound, forcing it to retreat again and again.

Ji Hong, who rushed over, saw the tragic situation in front of him, and immediately gathered all his strength to launch a fierce attack on the seriously injured tiger demon. The tiger demon couldn't dodge it in time, and he had a lot of new injuries on his body.

It felt that it was powerless to fight any more, and backed up again and again. Ji Hong lost the strength to fight again, so he just let it run away.

He hurried back to Shen Bei, and saw Shen Bei kneeling beside Gu Xiaoyan in a daze, his eyes glazed over, swallowing the blood in his mouth, and quickly took off his clothes to pick up Gu Xiaoyan, who had been disembowelled and lost his vital signs. Xiaoyan returns home.

***

When Qi Ao arrived with the doctor, he saw Shen Bei sitting in front of the door in a daze, with bloodstains all over his face and chest.

His heart ached suddenly, and he asked the doctors to enter the room, Qi Ao found a wet towel to clean his face, "Shen Bei."

Hearing the familiar voice, Shen Bei woke up suddenly. He stood up and wanted to rush to the door behind him.

"Gu Xiaoyan! Qi Ao, Gu Xiaoyan is inside!" Shen Bei became very excited, his eyes were bloodshot, and there was deep pain inside.

Qi Ao pulled him into his arms, and kept touching his head to comfort him, "Trust me, Gu Xiaoyan will be fine, he will be fine."

Shen Bei rested his head on Qi Ao's shoulder in a desperate manner, and murmured: "That tiger cut its stomach, there was a lot of blood, I called it for a long time, but it ignored me..."

Qi Ao frowned and looked at the closed door, feeling inexplicably heavy in his heart.With his arms around Shen Bei, he walked to the sofa and sat down, squatting in front of him and looking at him, "Shen Bei, I promise, Gu Xiaoyan will be fine."

"What guarantee do you have?" Shen Bei calmed down, and said with a wry smile: "Qi Ao, I'm not a girl, I can accept the reality, you don't have to coax me."

"Gu Xiaoyan, it..."

"Qi Ao!"

Ji Hong's voice came from inside the door, interrupting Qi Ao's about to tell the truth.

Shen Bei stood up and ran to the door, Ji Hong patted him on the shoulder, "Calm down, Gu Xiaoyan won't die yet."

Qi Ao came over and keenly smelled the bloody smell on Ji Hong's body, it wasn't from Gu Xiaoyan and Tiger Demon.

He pulled Shen Bei along and asked, "Are you okay?"

Only then did Shen Bei remember that Ji Hong was also knocked to the ground by the tiger just now, and he asked guiltily, "You...how are you?"

Ji Hong smiled and didn't care, "I'm fine, don't worry about me."

The three of them walked to the bed and saw that Gu Xiaoyan was lying on his back, his stomach had been tightly sewn up, and there was a big puddle of blood on the sheet.

Shen Bei turned his face away in discomfort, unable to bear to look any further.

Qi Ao hugged him tightly and asked the doctor: "How is the situation now?"

The doctor said: "For the time being, my life is saved, but the injury is too serious, and there is a lack of spiritual energy here. I have to go back as soon as possible to recover."

Qi Ao nodded, asked Ji Hong to send him out, and sat on the bedside, frowning and thinking.

Shen Bei was confused when he heard this, "What lack of spiritual energy? Where do you want to go back?"

Qi Ao held Shen Bei's hand, and said: "It's a long story, and now my son's injury is the most important thing, you wait for me for three months, and I will tell you everything when I come back." Then he pulled out a new towel Hugging Gu Xiaoyan to leave.

Shen Bei became anxious, grabbed his arm and asked, "Where are you going? Where are you taking Gu Xiaoyan? Why do you have to walk for three months? I'll go with you!"

Qi Ao sighed softly, supported Gu Xiaoyan with one hand, pulled Shen Bei into his arms with the other hand, kissed his forehead lightly, and said, "I'll take him home. I'm sorry I can't take him this time." You, you obediently wait for me at home, and I will definitely bring Gu Xiaoyan back to see you in three months' time."

Leave quickly after speaking.

Shen Bei was left with a dazed expression.

go home?Isn't Gu Xiaoyan's home his home?

Shen Bei wanted to wait for Ji Hong to come back and ask him carefully, but Qi Ao was so confused that he had no idea what he was talking about.

But he waited and waited. One day passed and he didn't wait for Ji Hong to come back, and he was still out of the service area when he called.

***

Three months has passed by too long.

Many times, Shen Bei felt that Qi Ao, Gu Xiaoyan and Ji Hong never existed in this world, as if all the people were illusions created by himself.

I can't get through the phone, and I can't wait for anyone to stay at Ji Hong's house.He didn't know about Qi Ao's company, so he went to various research institutes to find someone according to what he said, but the answer he got was that there was no such person.

Only then did he realize that he knew very little about Qi Ao, and the only information he had was still wrong.

Qi Ao never told him the truth from beginning to end.

What about the so-called love at first sight?Is it a lie to seriously want to be with yourself?

"But why did you lie to me!" Shen Bei slumped on the bed and stared at the ceiling in bewilderment, then sat up suddenly and smashed the pillow vigorously, "Qi Ao, you bastard!"

……

After cursing for half an hour, Shen Bei fell back on the bed and fell asleep muttering, "Tomorrow will be the fourth month, why are you still not coming back?"

It is true that time is the best medicine.

In the fifth month, Shen Bei was already very calm, he had already begun to accept the fact that he would never see Qi Ao and Gu Xiaoyan again.

He felt that the current situation was like halfway through a suspense novel, the author suddenly announced that he would close the pen, and then left him at the bottom of this pit, never knowing what the truth was.

All the questions can only be regarded as dreams.

The two months of scorching heat had passed, and the weather gradually became cooler. Shen Bei fed the beasts their last meal of the day before walking slowly towards home.

The temperature had started to cool down at night, Shen Bei felt the goosebumps on his arms and walked towards the house at a faster pace. It was getting dark very quickly today, and it was estimated that there would be a heavy rainstorm later.

When he was about to reach the gate of the community, Shen Bei saw a child sitting outside the gate of the community, about five years old, wearing a small dress that didn't fit well, shivering there.

Two big black beads were twirling around, and the chubby bun looked up in his direction, and immediately stood up with a smile on his face.

Then that little cute baby ran up to Shen Bei, hugged his leg and yelled crisply: "Daddy!"

Shen Bei immediately looked left and right, only to be relieved when he found no one rushed towards him and yelled that he was a human trafficker.

He knelt down and gently pinched the little cute baby's face, and said with a smile: "Little guy, you misunderstood the person, I'm not your father!"

Unexpectedly, the little cute baby hugged his neck, squeezed hard into his arms, and said childishly: "It's dad, you are dad."

Shen Bei guessed, maybe it was someone who looked like him, it was getting dark, and the child must have misread it.

He gently took off the little cute baby's hand and asked, "Do you know your father's name?"

"Shen Bei."

"..."

"What about your mother?"

"Mom is dead."

"..."

"Then what's your name?"

"Gu Xiaoyan."

Shen Bei lost his temper, why did he have the feeling that this kid made a special trip to investigate his family background to touch porcelain.

He looked around again, making sure that no one would come to beat him for a while, then carried the child to the side of the tree and sat on the bench, took out his mobile phone and prepared to call the police.

The child who called himself Gu Xiaoyan hugged Shen Bei's neck, and asked pitifully, "Daddy doesn't want me anymore?"

The corner of Shen Bei's mouth twitched slightly, "Little friend, I'm really not your father."

Gu Xiaoyan blinked, and tears quickly gathered in his eyes, making Shen Bei feel that he was a bad father who was about to abandon his child.

He put Gu Xiaoyan on the ground and hurriedly wiped his tears. Suddenly, Gu Xiaoyan was picked up in his arms, and a familiar voice rang in Shen Bei's ears.

"Who made our Xiaoyan cry?"

"Uncle Qi, Dad doesn't want me anymore. Wow..." Gu Xiaoyan was hugged by the visitor, and wept bitterly.

Shen Bei raised his head and saw Qi Ao hugging Gu Xiaoyan who was hiccupping from crying standing in front of him and smiling at him.

Seeing the man who said he wanted to pursue him five months ago standing in front of him with a child in his arms, Shen Bei was stunned.

"This is... your son?"

Qi Ao shook his head, "Didn't you hear him call me uncle, this is your son?"

Shen Bei immediately retorted, "I don't have a son!" After thinking about it, he felt wrong, "My son is a little leopard, not this child."

Qi Ao patted Gu Xiaoyan on the back lightly, "He is Gu Xiaoyan."

"..."

"He... is... my Gu Xiaoyan?" After a while, Shen Bei asked tremblingly.

Following Qi Ao's affirmative nod, Shen Bei felt that the materialist worldview he had accepted for 22 years was completely shattered into pieces.