The Haunted

Chi Yan looked at Ye Yingzhi, bowed his head and responded, "...Call back at night."

Ye Yingzhi didn't force him: "Okay, I owe you first, and remember to pay the interest at night."

After returning to Ye's house, Ye Yingzhi didn't take him back to the small building directly, but signaled the driver to drive to the library building to the west of the main house.

Chi Yan knew that these places were filled with the inheritance of each family, and people with foreign surnames were not allowed to enter. He never thought that Ye Yingzhi would directly bring him here to pick up books. He stood at the door and looked inside, but he did not dare to go in. Looking at Ye Yingzhi: "Brother Yingzhi, it's not good for me to go in, is it? Isn't it forbidden for people with foreign surnames to enter here?"

Ye Yingzhi didn't take it seriously: "Everyone will follow my surname Ye, there is nothing you can't enter in a library." He directly led Chi Yan into it.

There are three floors in the library building. There is no one inside. There are rows of black wooden bookshelves reaching the ceiling. After Chi Yan entered, he didn't know where to start.Ye Yingzhi helped him pick out a few simple and practical books and took them back. After returning to the small building, he took out a copy of his own notebooks for him to refer to together.

However, Chi Yan couldn't calm down and study in a short period of time. After returning to the small building, he accompanied Ye Yingzhi to take medicine, and Ye Yingzhi carried him back to the bedroom after taking the medicine.When he was being carried upstairs, he was frightened all the way, fearing that Ye Yingzhi would suddenly fall ill due to lack of energy. Seeing his round eyes, Ye Yingzhi smiled and pecked his forehead: "What are you afraid of? My brother won't treat you have eaten."

I'm afraid your body won't be able to hold on.These words lingered in Chi Yan's mouth before swallowing them back.Now that he has learned to be smart, he won't say these things that irritate Ye Yingzhi anymore.

Dinner is eaten in the bedroom.After tossing with Ye Yingzhi twice in the afternoon, he fell asleep in a daze. He didn't wake up until seven o'clock in the evening. The dinner was ready, and Chi Yan and Ye Yingzhi ate slowly. It was just after eight o'clock. , the butler came over and said that he had something to report to Ye Yingzhi.

These days when Chi Yan was here, if there was no urgent matter that Ye Yingzhi had to deal with, the housekeeper wouldn't dare to come to the small building to disturb him easily.Ye Yingzhi and the butler went to the study, and returned to the bedroom after a few minutes, the butler followed behind him.

Ye Yingzhi raised his chin in Chi Yan's direction, and said to the housekeeper, "You tell Chi Shao yourself, let Ah Yan decide what happened."

Chi Yan vaguely guessed that this matter had something to do with him, but he couldn't guess what it was.

The housekeeper lowered his eyes, and repeated the news he had just received respectfully: "At the dinner at the end of the reward ceremony tonight, Mr. Chi suddenly fainted, and has now been sent back to Chi's house. What does that mean?" Yes, I want Young Master Chi to go back and see Mr. Chi."

Chi Yan frowned: "What do you mean?"

The Mr. Chi mentioned by the housekeeper was referring to his father, Chi Yuanshan. His grandfather is currently in retreat, and his father participated in the Remuneration Festival on behalf of the Chi family.But if Chi Yuanshan, who was supposed to be fine, suddenly fainted for no reason, and then told him to go back, he would wonder if there was some conspiracy or trap in the Chi family.Although he felt that he had nothing worth calculating, other than Chi Rong, there was no reason for others to want to kill him.

The housekeeper said tactfully: "It is said that the situation is really not good, so Chi Shao must go back and have a look."

Ye Yingzhi waved his hand: "Just tell me, what's going on with Chi Yuanshan now?"

The butler pondered for a moment, then whispered: "...Maybe it's the last time."

Chi Yan's pupils constricted.Chi Yuanshan is only in his early 50s this year, and he saw Chiyuan Mountain from a distance during the sacrificial ceremony in the morning, and there was no sign of the last side at all.But the housekeeper can't and dare not lie in front of Ye Yingzhi. The Ye family runs the family very strictly, and the housekeeper is not an incompetent person. He should have sent someone to verify the news when he said so, instead of just listening to the Chi family. One sided words.

Chi Yan looked at Ye Yingzhi and lowered his head: "I want to go back and have a look."

Ye Yingzhi didn't make any comments, just nodded upon hearing the words: "I'll go there with you." Then he looked at the butler: "Prepare the car."

Chi Yan looked at the sky outside: "No need, brother Yingzhi, you didn't take much rest this afternoon, so you should take a good rest. I... will come back after going to have a look. Anyway, Chi Yuanshan has already terminated the father-son relationship with me. "

But Ye Yingzhi got into the car with him without any explanation: "Even if you and Chi Yuanshan terminated the relationship, I don't need to put on sackcloth and mourning for him, but it doesn't make sense for me not to accompany you when something like this happens. I'm in the car The same goes for resting."

The car drove out smoothly, the closer to Chi's house, the more familiar the surrounding scenery.Chi Yan recalled when he was a child, in his vague memory, Chi Yuanshan seemed to treat him very well when he was three or four years old, and would buy him toys. Among them, his favorite one was the fashionable electric toy at that time. For the train, Chi Yuanshan took him together to build plastic rails in the yard, and sat patiently watching him staring curiously at the little train running on the small rails.

But after a long time, he gradually grew up, and even suspected that the little yellow plastic rails and the little red train were all hallucinations made by himself.

His mother didn't directly tell him about the bad debt between her and Chi Yuanshan, but after Chi Yan was sensible and remembered, he vaguely heard about it from different people and gradually pieced together what happened back then.Among those people, Chi Yuanshan was a young man similar to Xu Rui back then. He hated the stale Chi family and won the opportunity to leave the Chi family to go to school by fighting against his family. Fall in love quickly.

But he is the son of the Chi family, and he must inherit the Chi family in the future. After graduation, the family began to put pressure on him to force him to go home.In the end, the two sides took a step back, and Chi Yuanshan agreed to go back to Chi's family, and Chi's family agreed that he should marry Chi Yan's mother who was an ordinary person; Chi Yan's mother was still very young at the time, and after hearing about her lover's life experience, she resolutely decided for Chi Yuanshan. Abandoning everything she has outside and marrying into the Chi family, even if it means sacrificing her career, future, and even rarely going home to visit her parents.

At the very beginning, everything was fine, and Chi Yuanshan did his best to protect his wife. Even though they were in an unusual family of celestial masters, the two of them still had a warm and sweet life.But the good times didn't last long, just when Chi Yan was about to give birth, his mother found out that Chi Yan's father had someone else outside, and that woman was already pregnant, only four months younger than the child she was about to give birth to.The reason she knew about this was because the Chi family did not allow the Chi family's blood to flow outside, so they took the woman back and placed them in a yard outside the main house.

Chi Yuanshan cried bitterly and begged for forgiveness. He said that he was fascinated by ghosts and suddenly lost his head. He didn't know that the woman was pregnant and was taken back. Yang, he and the other party will no longer have contact.Chi Yan's mother forgave him.

Chi Yan's name was given by his mother and Chi Yuanshan together, but the name of the child who was born four months later than him was chosen by Mr. Chi himself.Chi Rong, he wants Chi Yan's mother and son to take care of this child.

The situation in the future is quite different from what Chi Yuanshan promised at the beginning.At first, it was just rumors that he went to visit Chi Rong's mother and son in another courtyard. Chi Yan's mother would question him and quarrel with him; Chi Yuanshan came home less and less often; when Chi Yan was six years old, Chi Rong and his mother moved into the main house; when he was 16 years old, his mother and Chi Yuanshan finally divorced, and even he He also terminated the father-son relationship with Chi Yuanshan, and he and his mother left Chi's house completely.

They can tolerate others, but others may not tolerate them.

In the end, the car stopped outside the gate of Chi's house. Ye Yingzhi didn't ask to go in with him anymore, but sat quietly in the car and waited, signaling him to go in with his eyes.

This is the first time he has returned since leaving Chi's house when he was 16 years old.The old butler of the Chi family stood waiting for him at the door, and when he saw him arrive, he couldn't wait to lead him to Chi Yuanshan's house.

Chi Yuanshan was lying on the bed, covered with a quilt, his face was sallow, his eyes were closed, it was impossible to tell whether he was alive or dead at a glance.

There was a young man standing in front of his bed, tall and thin, with Chi Rong.Other than that, there was no one else in the room, after the old housekeeper brought Chi Yan to him, he closed the door gently and retreated out.Chi Yan vaguely heard him sigh very lightly.

Chi Yan stood by the door without moving for a moment. To be honest, he was still wary of the father and son, after all they were the ones who wanted to kill him.Chi Yuanshan may not have participated in that incident, but he did not believe that he would not know what Chi Rong did.

If he hadn't suddenly thought of the little red train when the butler of the Ye family mentioned the news, he probably wouldn't have come back to take a look.

People are like this. If you have never had it, you may not have too much hope, nor will you be too eager.But once you get it and then lose it, you can't help but lie to yourself that it's all fake, it's all an illusion, that you haven't lost it yet, that thing still belongs to you.But Chi Yuanshan was never willing to cooperate with his self-deception, and always told him with facts time and time again that his beautiful fantasies about his father were all false, until he no longer had any hope.

However, when he heard the butler say "may be the last time", he still chose to come.

He may not have given up as completely as he thought.

Hearing the sound, Chi Yuanshan opened his eyes as if he had sensed something, looked at Chi Yan, and let out a "ho ho" sound.

The housekeeper didn't talk nonsense, nor did he exaggerate the facts. Chi Yuanshan's condition was indeed beyond his reach, he was already so weak that he couldn't even utter a complete sentence.

Chi Yan looked into his eyes and took two steps closer.That look reminded him of when he was a child, when Chi Yuanshan accompanied him to watch him play with the train, it was focused, calm, and full of love for his cubs.During this period, he didn't glance at Chi Rong.

Chi Rong took two steps aside, he walked over involuntarily and squatted on the head of Chi Yuanshan's bed, heard the other party struggling, and desperately uttered a few vague syllables: "...you..."

What he asked was "how is your mother?"

Chi Yan looked at him fixedly: "She has already left in my second year of college."

Chi Yuanshan closed his eyes, a palpable sadness appeared on his sallow and haggard face.His withered fingers moved.

Chi Yan noticed that the four fingers of his left hand were slightly lifted up except the thumb.He was counting, counting how many years his mother had been gone.

As if infected, Chi Yan's heart suddenly surged with great sorrow.He didn't understand how Chi Yuanshan, who was still high-spirited and normal in the morning, suddenly turned into this look of dying; he didn't understand why Chi Yuanshan suddenly became like this.

Chi Yuanshan opened his eyes again, looked at Chi Yan intently, as if he was seriously remembering his current appearance, his lips moved, but he only made two breathy sounds.Chi Yan could only tell from the shape of his lips that he called, "Son".

He tried his best to raise his body and get closer to Chi Yan, but he couldn't do this simple movement. In the end, Chi Yan couldn't stand it anymore, and leaned over to get close to him, and then heard Chi Yuanshan utter two vague words in his ears. Syllable: "Go quickly."

Chi Yan turned to look at him without knowing why, Chi Yuanshan lowered his head, his eyes were tightly closed, he was already out of breath.

The last thing he said was "Son, let's go".