under one roof

Seventeen

In the early morning, Li Lingyuan walked back to the hospital slowly.

Father Li set up a camp bed for the night in the ward, and before the doctor came to make rounds in the morning, the nurse told him to get up and put it away.He glanced at his wife, wondering what dream she had at night, or her body was in pain, and she also frowned when she slept, not very stable.Father Li sighed, and waited quietly until the doctor came, before going to the cafeteria downstairs to buy breakfast.When he came back, he saw his hesitant son outside the ward.

"Didn't you go back?" Father Li asked.Seeing that his son was covered with dust and his hair was messy, he asked again, "Are you fighting again?" There were so many people in the hospital that he was not prone to seizures, and all kinds of things were pressing on him, so he just asked him to look at his dirty little boy Son, he could only sigh heavily.

"Dad, I ran into something on the road." Li Lingyuan didn't know how to explain it, "But I didn't fight... You know, our family is like this now, it's good if I don't get beaten when I go out."

The father cared a lot about his son, so he asked calmly, "What happened?"

Li Lingyuan said: "I'm not sure...Is Mom awake? I won't go in to see him when I wake up, I'll leave later."

Father Li said worriedly: "I also know, it's probably ok to go back..."

Li Lingyuan was about to continue talking to his father when he heard his family's name mentioned at the nurse's station at the other end of the corridor.He looked back and saw that it was the person who made a scene at the funeral home that day.Li Lingyuan was already bored, so seeing a punching bag is okay? "Teng" stood up and shouted: "You still have the face? Why are you here?"

Yu Chen knew he was wrong, so he didn't even talk back, and said nicely, "I... I'll take a look."

Li Lingyuan said angrily: "What are you looking at! See if we are dead?" After he finished speaking, he said "peh pee pee" a few times, thinking that it was very unlucky for his mother to say such words when she was ill.

Seeing that Yu Chen was scolded for losing his temper, Yang Jian, who didn't want to get involved in the matter, stretched out his hand to stop Yu Chen behind him, raised his chin slightly and looked down at Li Lingyuan, not showing off his anger.

Li Lingyuan was bluffed by this man, and took a step back. He didn't dare to play tricks with Yang Jian, but looked at Yu Chen behind Yang Jian, and glared at him again.

Father Li was sitting on the chair with his back hunched, but when he saw that his son was in conflict with someone again, he didn't know how to persuade him, so he was at a loss and had to stand aside.Yu Chen pushed Yang Jian, and said to Li Lingyuan, "I have something to ask you."

"I have nothing nice to say to you." Li Lingyuan replied.

Yu Chen said: "Then you want to make your sister's death uneasy?"

Li Lingyuan choked, his eyes widened, as if Yu Chen mentioned something outrageous, he clenched his fists tightly, the muscles on the back of his hands were raised, Father Li patted him on the shoulder, Li Lingyuan gave up and said : "What do you want to say?"

"Let's go out and talk." Yu Chen pointed, "It's not convenient here."

After the two left, Yang Jian looked at Father Li beside him.He fits most of the settings of peasants of this age. He may have no education or experience in the world. The way he hesitated to talk to the two people who were arguing just now is enough to show that this person has no ideas and is afraid of causing trouble—— —Probably an honest man.Yang Jian made this definition in his heart, but he always felt that it was different from what Yu Chen described to himself.

Yu Chen and Li Lingyuan came to the small garden downstairs of the hospital. There was no one there in the morning, but the weather was very cold.

Li Lingyuan stood still, and said in a very irritable tone: "Speak."

"This..." Yu Chen organized his speech for a long time, "Tell me about your family."

"My family?" Li Lingyuan asked back, "My family is the family of ordinary people. How can it be different?"

Yu Chen said: "Then I'll ask you a question and you answer it, but you can't lie."

Li Lingyuan showed a look of disdain.

Yu Chen said: "Your sister supports your family?"

Li Lingyuan said: "My family's fields are also harvested. The money sent back by my sister is not only used for medical treatment for my parents, but the rest is saved."

Yu Chen said: "Save it for you to marry a wife?"

"How old am I?" Li Lingyuan said, "I don't know how to save it by myself?"

Yu Chen was puzzled, and then asked: "Then do you trouble your sister all day long? She told me before that she had a better relationship partner, and you found out and pestered her for a while. You are young Why don't you want to relieve your sister's pressure after studying hard? Is your family going to drink up your sister's blood?"

Li Lingyuan's face turned red in an instant, as if he was very angry. He clenched his fists and tried hard not to greet Yu Chen's face, and then paced back and forth angrily until he thought he was relatively calm before biting Grinding his teeth, he said to Yu Chen, "Yes!"

Yu Chen didn't expect Li Lingyuan to be so straightforward. He thought of Li Zhaodi's begging last night, and his temper became angry, and he said sharply: "Is your family human? How hard is she living? What sin did you do to be treated like this? Zhaodi, Zhaodi... If she was a boy, what would she do to you? If you give birth to a son, you are a treasure, but if you give birth to a daughter, you deserve to be dragged to suffer? You...you..." He was not good at speaking, and in a hurry There is not even a single bit of vocabulary in my brain, and I can't continue stuttering.

Li Lingyuan sneered and said: "The whole world knows that my sister was forced to death by this evil family, what about us? Who has asked other people in this family, who cares about the truth? As long as the truth meets your own expectations It’s fine, why bother with other people’s lives? What else do you want to ask, I can say what you like.”

"What do you mean?" Yu Chen looked at Li Lingyuan in disbelief. He suddenly felt that this young man was far more mature than he imagined. He didn't know what Li Lingyuan had experienced, but these words were definitely beyond the reach of a person of this age. of.

Is there another secret? "

Li Lingyuan said: "You can put everything I said on the Internet, and you can also take photos. You can make up the rest of the matter as you like. It's just that this matter has passed for a while, and it may not be enough to gossip. Anyway. When my mother recovers from her illness, I will take them back to my hometown, and the neighbors in the neighborhood can gossip, and if they still can't make it through...just leave."

Yu Chen heard some helplessness and despair from Li Lingyuan's tone, he grabbed Li Lingyuan and said, "What happened, tell me!"

Li Lingyuan let out a "huh": "What are you pretending to be?"

"What is said in the news is false?" Yu Chen asked tentatively, "It's not like that, is it?"

Li Lingyuan bowed his head in silence, and then said like a broken jar, "I don't know what happened, I just know that overnight the originally harmonious family suddenly turned into a feudal hell in what other people call. What do we do?" I have never done it before, but I became a demon who oppressed my sister. My parents are honest country people, how could they do such a thing? I only hate that I haven’t read many books, and I can’t write such wonderful books. There is nowhere to appeal... How can I speak? Those people on the Internet who see opinions that differ from theirs will pounce on you like locusts and stop you from speaking. I dare not call me on those news. Parents know, just like that, my mother always asks me, son, what's the matter, why do people look at us differently? What can I say? I can't do anything..."

Yu Chen couldn't accept the amount of information, so he immediately asked: "Then...then you are chasing the company and asking for compensation? Can this matter be false? And your sister complained to me, you are not good Going to school to pester her blind date..."

"When did we chase after it?" Li Lingyuan said, "It was the representative of the company who came to us and gave us tens of thousands, saying it was a condolence money, and there will be corresponding compensation later, but there are too many procedures and have not been completed. There is no news... I want money, my mother is sick, how can I still go to my hometown to borrow money? The blind date, he just wanted to take advantage of my sister, my sister is too stupid to see it, I will replace it What happened to her teaching that man?"

"Then..." Yu Chen was speechless.It was Zhang Jun who told him about it, and he never doubted the authenticity. When Li Zhaodi told him, he was also vague. play way.Then psychologically demoted the Li family into the moral abyss and ruthlessly reprimanded them.

But he never, never heard anything from any of the parties involved.

Li Lingyuan squatted down in pain while talking, covering his eyes with one hand: "My family has two children, and others will think of my brother drinking my sister's blood; My sister wants to find a stable man to marry and live, and others will think of getting married early to reduce the burden on the family... Even her name is not spared, there are thousands of words in just three words Malicious interpretation. My sister is so kind to me, how could I have the slightest thought of hurting her? If my parents don’t care about her, why do they want her to go to school? Wouldn’t it be better to marry early? My sister is the pride of our family, Everyone in the village knows about this. But in the end they don’t believe what they have seen with their eyes for so many years. No one wants to listen to me. They just like to hear the wind and rain, as if the plot should be like this, Then these strangers can stand on the commanding heights of morality and point fingers at others or even viciously abuse them... Do those people care about our life? Are they trying to force us to death?" He said sadly, and even sobbed, "We Dead, after a few days... Who still remembers this? Will those strangers know that their hands are bloody?"

Hearing what he said, Yu Chen felt mixed feelings in his heart, like a lump in his throat.He probably figured out what happened, he didn't know what to say, and he didn't know how to comfort Li Lingyuan.Because he is one of the thousands of people who flaunt morality, if it weren't for Li Zhaodi's weird behavior last night, he would never have the idea of ​​finding out the truth.He just listened to others, listened to the Internet, and even the news said so, how can this matter be false?If he hadn't come to ask Li Lingyuan today, then he would always believe that Li Zhaodi died at the hands of this family, and that this family was all villains.

Forever repeating what others say, in front of an anonymous executioner.

Yu Chen exhaled, and it seemed that there was a cloudy fog in his chest, and he whispered: "I'm sorry."

"What's the use of being sorry?" Li Lingyuan raised his voice, "I was the one who pleaded guilty, the one who poked my spine and scolded me, the one who punched and kicked me..."

"I..." Yu Chen wanted to pat Li Lingyuan on the shoulder, but he pushed him away, shouting: "Get lost!" but he ran away first.

Yu Chen stood where he was, feeling completely bewildered.

It was a while before he went back outside the ward, Yang Jian was sitting there waiting for him, but the man's aura was too strong, no one dared to approach him in a daze.The little nurses at the nurse's station were greedy for his beauty, so they dared to hide in the corner and chatter.Li Lingyuan leaned against the door of the ward and looked in. Father Li was taking care of Mother Li who was awake.

"Are you finished talking?" Yang Jian asked.

"En." Yu Chen nodded in a low voice.

"Know what?"

"...Let's go back and talk about it."

Yang Jian got up to leave with Yu Chen, Yu Chen stood still for a while, then turned back, fumbled in his pocket for a long time to find out the wallet, and then pulled a card to Li Lingyuan.

"What are you doing?"

"Maybe an apology is useless." Yu Chen said, "But at least let me make some compensation."

Li Lingyuan flicked his card and said, "I don't care."

Yu Chen touched his waist, picked up the card and forced it into Li Lingyuan's hand: "Your sister and I were good friends, but I feel sorry for her, and I'm sorry for you too... The card doesn't have much money, but it's enough for emergencies Now, you don't need to care about it, but what about your mother?"

Li Lingyuan was a little moved, holding the card in his hand without moving.Yu Chen hurriedly dragged Yang Jian away.Seeing him in such a hurry, Yang Jian didn't ask until he got into the car: "What happened? Why did you give the card to someone else?"

Yu Chen was lying on his back on the co-pilot, looking very tired: "I seem to have done something wrong." After a while, he asked again: "Yang Jian, you have lived longer than me, what do you think... what is human nature like? "