silent age

In order to prevent black and white from being reversed, Bai Sihuan didn't dare to sleep for too long after returning home.

He now lives in a high-rise apartment in the city center, the place Jiang Yijue chose for him.

The security management of the high-end community is so good that it can be said that it is airtight. Generally, outsiders are not allowed to come in casually. If a guest wants to come to him, the security of the community will call him in advance to ask him, and then decide whether to let the guest in. .

If he refuses to see the guest, then the security generally will not let the guest in.Unless the guest is someone like Jiang Yijue.

But today is an exception.

When the doorbell rang, Bai Sihuan was taken aback for a moment, took out his phone and checked repeatedly, but he didn't see the security guard's phone.

When he came to the door and looked out through the peephole, Bai Sihuan saw a man in a crisp suit.He is quite old, with a gentle appearance, not like a bad guy, but a bit like someone from the property.

Before the man rang the doorbell for the second time, Bai Sihuan opened the door.

"May I ask who you are?" Bai Sihuan blocked the door and did not let him in.

"Mr. Bai, I'm sorry to bother you." The man bowed and stood aside.

Bai Sihuan froze for a moment, his whole body was shocked.Standing behind the man was a woman in black. The woman was wearing a mask, her hat was pulled up to almost cover her eyes, and a few strands of white hair leaked from her ears.

The woman raised her head slightly, and her hoarse voice came through the mask: "Long time no see."

It took a moment to calm down the violently fluctuating mood, Bai Sihuan said: "Cheng Sutang."

"It's been so many years, and you don't call me Aunt Cheng anymore."

Bai Sihuan didn't answer her, and still blocked the door, as if he didn't intend to let her in.

The man in the suit deliberately reminded Bai Sihuan: "Mr. Bai, Ms. Cheng is now a patient..."

She wore a tight mask and a low hat, revealing only a pair of wrinkled eyes at the corners of her eyes, and her complexion could not be seen. Looking at these eyes alone, her complexion must not be much better.

"Can I go in and say a few words? Just say a few words and I'll leave. It doesn't matter if you want to contact the Supervision Bureau or call the police." Cheng Sutang's voice now is like the vibration of a water pipe blocked by a pile of gravel and fine sand Noisy, without the sharp and sonorous before.

Bai Sihuan believed that she was really sick, and in order not to be caught by the relevant departments, she could not go to the hospital for treatment, so her condition had developed to a serious level.

After hesitating for a long time, Bai Sihuan finally stepped aside.

Cheng Sutang walked into the room slowly, and after sitting on a chair, she took out a thick document bag from her bag and put it on the table: "I hope you can keep it safe."

Bai Sihuan frowned, and took a look at the file bag.Suddenly, a chill surged up.With a chill in his heart, he asked, "Why did you give these things to me?"

"At this point today, I am most assured that these things are only on your side."

Bai Sihuan pursed his lips tightly, revealing complicated eyes.He never thought that one day, this Cheng Sutang, who hated him since the first time he saw him, would pour such heavy trust in him.

Putting the file bag back on the table and moving it in front of Cheng Sutang, Bai Sihuan withdrew his hand.

Cheng Sutang raised two slender eyebrows. "You won't accept it?"

"I don't trust you." Bai Sihuan said, "It's because of the impression I have of you in the past, because of everything you've done to me and your family."

Cheng Sutang understood, she stretched her two eyebrows, and sneered: "You think I did those things, right? I am a vicious mother, I harmed my daughter and son, and I let Ah Yan die unexpectedly. You think I'm a sinner, don't I deserve to die?" Suddenly she patted the table, and she said excitedly: "Go and check carefully, who is the mastermind of all this!"

Hearing this sentence, Bai Sihuan didn't show much shock, he knew everything faintly, but his hatred for Cheng Sutang, the "executor", has not diminished by half.

Even if the execution platform was built by others, Cheng Sutang was the one who sent her children to the execution platform with his own hands.Her hands were covered with blood, she was guilty, and she was guilty of a heinous crime.This is Bai Sihuan's opinion.

It may be that those words were too forceful, Cheng Sutang took a few breaths, and her voice became weak: "It doesn't matter what you think of me, and I don't care what you think. But you must take good care of these things. It's for me, and it's for..." At this point, Cheng Sutang coughed violently.She was lying on the table, coughing one after another, as if a water pipe was dry and cracked, and the stones stuck in it were repeatedly shaken, as if she wanted to cough up all her internal organs.

Suddenly throwing up, she hurriedly took off her mask, the blue mask and the corners of her pale mouth were bright red.

Bai Sihuan's indifferent eyes changed slightly, he looked down at the woman he was most afraid of.

A woman who used to be as fierce and beautiful as a dictator is no match for old age and sickness after all.Just like the epiphyllum she often admires at night, it flourishes when it is in full bloom, and it will fail when it declines.

"That's all I've said..." Wiping off the blood from the corner of his mouth with a tissue, Cheng Sutang stood up and swayed towards the outside of the house, "You must look after those things, it's... Lin Heng's life..."

After walking out of the house, she closed the door, and the smell of blood still remained on the file bag on the table.

Bai Sihuan always has a half-knowledge about some things, and has not thoroughly understood them.He certainly resisted Cheng Sutang, but maybe it was his sickness that moved him a little. The words she said before leaving remained in Bai Sihuan's mind.

He asked a private detective to dig out information about the Lin family. Within a day, the private detective learned the Lin family's dark secrets from a down-and-out rich man who had worked closely with the Lin family and was now fleeing.

Lin Huan and Cheng Sutang had done money laundering.At the last step of laundering a sum of money overseas, Lin Huan wanted to use his children's name to embezzle the money to do illegal business, so Cheng Sutang simply put all the money into Lin Siying's account.Lin Siying would be suspected in a short period of time, but as long as that long period of time passed, the money would be laundered by Cheng Sutang three more times and become legal funds that belonged completely to Lin Siying.

When Lin Musheng was 14 years old, Lin Huan asked Cheng Sutang to send her to a villa in Taiwan, saying that there he hired a ballet teacher to teach her how to dance.

Cheng Sutang believed it was true and took Lin Musheng to the villa in Taiwan.Within two days of moving in, Cheng Sutang was sent away by Lin Huan.That night, that cousin Shen Ying impatiently moved into that villa.This was later known to everyone in the circle that Cheng Sutang "sold his eldest daughter".

Many years later, Lin Huan tricked Cheng Sutang into taking Lin Xianyan to a private gallery in the name of letting Lin Xianyan go out to paint for Mr. Zhu.

At that time, Cheng Sutang raised her vigilance, personally sent Lin Xianyan to the gallery, entered the studio, and watched the gallery owner guide her to paint.However, when I went to the toilet, when I came back, the person was gone.The gallery owner said that Lin Xianyan was taken away by Mr. Zhu's car.

Cheng Sutang called to question Lin Huan, but Lin Huan pretended to be stupid.For the "big business" of the Lin family, Cheng Sutang held back his anger and refused to tear himself apart with Mr. Zhu.This is well known, Cheng Sutang's "selling his second daughter" incident.

Cheng Sutang thought about letting Bai Sihuan suffer these hardships instead of her children, and she really thought about it.

She hated Bai Sihuan to the bone, hated that he was that woman's son, hated that he was also Lin Huan's child, but he could avoid the fate of being a pawn.I hate that he lives too comfortably and happily, doesn't understand the pain of other people in this family, hates that he can get rid of this family and this identity at any time, and become a free poor man.

It was okay to hate him, but not for her and her children.

But the last thing she did, the only act of kindness to Bai Sihuan, was to drive him out of the Lin family.Drive away this evil seed that she hates personally, and give him extravagant freedom with her own hands.

How happy she was given this freedom, this happy freedom was also given to Lin Xianyan, but Lin Xianyan was still obsessed with going to the end of her tragic fate, which seemed to be the curse of being a member of the Lin family.

On the day of the birthday party, Lin Xianyan exposed the sins of the Lin family.After she left the hotel, Lin Huan went to the backstage and secretly made a phone call.

Not long after the phone call ended, an abandoned truck was suddenly driven out of the scrap yard, and it just happened to come to the door of this hotel, and it just happened to hit Lin Xianyan to death.

Lin Huan's phone call ended with his only biological daughter.

The private detective also brought Bai Sihuan a photo, saying that Lin Huan threw it away for fear of getting into trouble.

It was a group photo of them in the deer park back then, an incomplete family portrait.

The photo is still new, but the corners are a little yellowed.The people in the photos are young and smiling happily.

Now it seems that maybe only he and Lin Heng's happiness is real.

"Bai Sihuan, how happy you are. You will never know how happy you are now as Lin Huan's son."

Cheng Sutang's face when he left at the end seemed to be saying such words to Bai Sihuan.

Bai Sihuan raised his head, closed his eyes, and the photo in his hand was crumpled into a ball.

There is never anything that can be "past", only undiscovered, never known.

On the day when Qi's eldest son held the funeral, it rained heavily.

People who came to the funeral wore black clothes, held black umbrellas, and stepped on the wet floor tiles. The air was so quiet that there were only the slight sounds of rain, people walking, and people inadvertently rubbing their clothes.

The white roses next to the ice coffin in the church are in great contrast with the "black" of these comings and goings. It seems that only the dead are worthy of this pure white without a trace of complexity.

Jiang Yijue sat in the second row and third from the left, Bai Sihuan sat on his left, and a man wearing a black hat sat on his right.

Bai Sihuan paid attention to who were the guests on the field, Jiang Yijue was talking with the person on his left.

"Laz's market value is so high, and it just fell into the hands of such a yellow-haired girl. If I were you, I would find a way to buy this company." Jiang Yijue's eyes fell on a young girl with red eyes who was crying in the family. The daughter of the Qi family, Qi Mingyun.

"Mr. Jiang, don't underestimate this girl, she's not that easy to deal with." The man wearing the hat said in a low voice, "She broke off the engagement with the second son of the Zhao family back then, and in order to pass her father's test, she robbed the old man of two dollars." High-priced land. Girls these days don’t have easy means, isn’t your sister the same?”

Jiang Yijue looked at Qi Mingyun who was crying and red-eyed, and suddenly sneered.

No matter how difficult Qi Mingyun was to deal with, he couldn't be more difficult to deal with than his younger sister Jiang Ningyou who just came out.Qi Mingyun's brother was lying in it, and she would still cry here.If it was him lying here, his younger sister who came out to grab the family property would only laugh louder than anyone else.

Bai Sihuan didn't listen to what they had to say, he was distracted from the moment the familiar person appeared on stage.

As Jiang Yijue said, the Lin family is here.But only Lin Siying came alone, together with his good friend Kingsley.It seems that after these recent events, it is not convenient for anyone in the Lin family to attend any public events except Lin Siying.

Having not met Kingsley a few times, Bai Sihuan recognized him immediately.The boy who surprised him at the beginning is no longer an immature boy.Coming to the funeral, this man didn't have any sad look on his face, but his expression was always tense, as if he was distracted by other things.

Bai Sihuan wanted to tell Lin Siying about Cheng Sutang, but he didn't know when to choose.

The ceremony was complicated and lengthy, during the break time, the funeral was not over yet, the person beside Lin Siying

Someone asked Lin Siying: "Mr. Zhao is not in a good state recently?"

"Looking for someone is crazy." After answering the person, Lin Siying rushed to ask, "Kingsley, the funeral is not over yet, are you leaving?"

"I'm in a hurry to catch a plane." After saying this, Kingsley left the church.

The voice gradually became chaotic, Bai Sihuan's hearing was unexpectedly sensitive at this moment, Jiang Yijue and the man in the hat whispered in his ears, Lin Siying who was paying attention was also talking to other people, Qi Mingyun's voice in the family area was also very obvious.

Qi Mingyun, the former assistant of Qi's parents and sons, said: "Master Qi didn't make the last call that day."

Qi Mingyun asked with a whimpering voice, "Who did you call?"

"I don't know, the German number."

Qi Mingyun scanned around the church with red eyes, saw Kingsley leaving the church, and immediately whispered something in the assistant's ear.

"Mr. Zhao!" The assistant stood up instantly, rushed out of the church, stopped Kingsley who had just walked out of the church, and said, "Master Qi's last will said, don't let Mr. Xiao know about this."

The little pity on Kingsley's face disappeared, and he cursed without any scruples: "There are so many things to do when you die."

He is probably No.1 who dared to "speech disrespect" to the deceased at this funeral.

Bai Sihuan was hesitating whether to take this opportunity to talk to Lin Siying, the rest time was over, and the ceremony started again.

After the funeral, those present got up and prepared to leave in an orderly manner.

Bai Sihuan and Jiang Yijue said they wanted to talk to their acquaintances, and Jiang Yijue agreed.

He walked in the direction of Lin Siying, passed by Qi Mingyun, and heard Qi Mingyun pretending nothing happened to be on the phone with someone: "Hello... huh? My brother can't find you, he...he's been sick recently ..."

Bai Sihuan lost his eyes on Lin Siying after just listening to such a sentence.

A group of people in black came and went, and it was hard to tell who was who.

Standing at the place where she saw Lin Siying, she couldn't see anyone else.

Bai Sihuan was a little disappointed and was about to leave.

At this time, a voice came from behind: "Sihuan."

Turning his head, seeing that warm and gentle smiling face, Bai Sihuan, who hadn't smiled for a long time, curled his lips and called, "Brother."

"Do you have time?" "Are you free?"

The two said similar words at the same time, stared at each other, and smiled at each other.

"Find a place to talk."

"it is good."

The author has something to say

"Kingsley", "Qi's eldest son" and "Qi Mingyun" in this chapter are all characters in my other article "Nowhere to Go", and the plot can be traced in "Nowhere to Go".