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The next day, I couldn't sleep until I woke up naturally. At 07:30 in the morning, the phone in the room rang, and I picked it up, saying that someone was looking for it at the front desk of the hotel.

Mu Qing gave a hache and said, "Let him come up."

Yan was still sleeping by his side, Mu Qing hung up the phone and got out of bed carefully, tied up his nightgown and went to the living room to open a bottle of mineral water to drink.

After 2 minutes, there was a knock on the door.

When I opened the door, I saw a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl standing at the door with a ponytail and red and swollen eyes.

"you are?"

The little girl saw his face turn red, and asked in a low voice, "I'm looking for Mr. Shiyan Shi, he's my brother's classmate."

"Shi Yan is still sleeping, so it's the same if you have something to say to me." Mu Qing opened the door, "Come in and talk, are you Meng Yun's sister?"

The little girl didn't enter the door, but knelt directly in front of Mu Qing.

Just when Shiyan woke up and came out to look for him, seeing this scene, she walked over and asked, "What happened? Are you?"

"Mr. Shi, please save my brother." He bowed his head and cried again.

Seeing that the shoes on her feet were broken, Mu Qing bent down to help her up, "What happened, please explain clearly."

The little girl shook her head and just cried, "Help my brother, he was imprisoned by his father and was about to be beaten to death."

Shi Yan grabbed the little girl anxiously and said repeatedly: "What happened to Meng Yun? What did your father do to him? He is still sick, how can you beat him?"

The little girl looked at him and burst into tears, "Father doesn't recognize my brother at all. You sent him back the day before yesterday, and you almost beat him to death when you got home at night. You also locked him in the yard yesterday, and you beat him if you didn't like it." Let it out. My mother and I dare not stop him."

Shi Yan looked at Mu Qing pleadingly, "Mu Qing—"

"Don't be afraid, let's go and have a look first." Seeing his panicked expression, Mu Qing quickly pulled him into his arms, and said to Meng Yun's sister, "Please wait outside for a few minutes, we will change our clothes and pack our luggage. come out."

The little girl nodded.

"Mu Qing, I—" After closing the door, Shi Yan hurriedly opened his mouth, wanting to tell Mu Qing what he thought, but Mu Qing covered his mouth, "Let's go and see the situation before making a decision, shall we?"

I knew what he wanted to say, but that was the last thing Mu Qing wanted to hear.

Shi Yan had to agree.

Quickly washed and dressed, packed their luggage, checked out, and the three of them hurried into the car.

"Why didn't you call us? How did you know we lived here?"

After getting in the car, Meng Xiaomei calmed down a little, and said: "My mother didn't give me your contact information, so I went to the hotel in the town to find you, and the people there said that you might have stayed in a hotel in the city. I just want to start with the best hotel and see if I can find it.”

"Thank you." It must have taken a lot of effort to find it. Shi Yan handed her a bottle of drink and asked, "Did you come here early in the morning?"

Meng Xiaomei nodded, "Well, my brother fell ill this morning, and my father beat him with a stick. I couldn't stand it, so I had to come out and find a solution."

Shi Yan's heart ached when he heard that, a tiger's poison does not eat its children, Meng Yun's father really hated him so much that he treated him like that regardless of his illness.

It was almost nine o'clock when the car drove to the small town. Meng Yun's house was crowded with people. As soon as they got out of the car, Meng Yun's mother begged hysterically: "His father, are you going to beat him to death? He is your father." Son, you raised him with shit and urine, why are you so ruthless?"

"I don't have such a son, he is a monster! My son is possessed by a monster!"

Shi Yan and the others squeezed into the crowd and saw Meng's mother dragging a middle-aged man to the ground. The man was blushing, slurring his speech, and holding a wooden stick in his hand, waving a threat to a figure curled up in the corner.

It's only been a day since I saw him, and he has become unrecognizable, the shirt on his body was smashed by a stick, and bloodstains are all over his back except for the old knife scar.

At this time, Meng Yun hugged his head and shrank in the corner, uttering an inarticulate cry of fear.

Shi Yan was heartbroken, and pushed away the crowd and rushed in.

At this time, Mother Meng also failed to stop Father Meng, and was pushed away forcefully. Father Meng rushed over, yelled and cursed, raised a wooden stick, and beat down like a storm.

Meng Xiaomei rushed over and knelt beside Father Meng and hugged his leg, "Dad, Dad! Are you crazy? This is my brother! How could you do this to him?"

"He's not your brother, he's a monster! The monster, I ate my son! The monster turned my son into a monster that only likes men! Monster, it's a monster, I'll kill him, kill him!"

"his dad!"

Shi Yan rushed to Meng Yun's side and hugged him whole, and protected him from the sticks that fell like rain from behind him. In an instant, he felt severe pain in his back, and felt that his bones were about to be smashed.

Meng Xiaomei and Mu Qing hugged their legs and grabbed their hands, dragging Papa Meng away.

The crowd sighed, "What happened? Isn't this Meng Yun?"

"That's right, it's the son of the Meng family, with good grades, No.1 in the city!"

"The one who was admitted to a prestigious university?"

"When did you come back?"

"I heard that he made a fortune in Binhai, tsk tsk, why did he become like this?"

"What's the matter? It looks like it's crazy."

"Uncle Meng, if you have something to say, please speak up." Mu Qing clasped Father Meng's hand behind his back, and persuaded him with nice words: "Please calm down."

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!! Dad, it hurts, Ah Zhou hurts! It hurts so much, Dad stop beating!"

Meng Yun huddled in Shi Yan's arms, trembling with fear, unkempt, and howling incessantly.

The drunk father Meng sat on the ground exhausted after hearing his shout, "Give me back my Azhou, give me back my son! He is so good, God, how can you bear it? , how could he bear to turn him into this. He became a monster, a monster!!"

Meng Xiaomei and Meng's mother helped Mu Qing drag Meng's father home, and Shi Yan let go of Meng Yun to look at him.

There was no good spot on his face and body, and his whole body was dripping with blood.

Shi Yan hugged him like a knife, and apologized hoarsely, "Meng Yun, I'm sorry!"

Meng Yun looked at him, his dull and confused eyes froze for a moment, and cried to him tremblingly: "It hurts, Ah Zhou hurts so much! Don't hit me!"

At home, Mother Meng and Meng Xiaomei managed to comfort the agitated Father Meng. Mu Qing hurried out to see Shiyan, and saw him crying heartbrokenly while hugging Meng Yun. At Meng Yun's feet, a chain was locked on him At the ankle, the other end is attached to a stone stake in the corner.

"Mu Qing, they didn't treat him as a human being at all, how could they treat him like this? I want to take him away, take him back to Binhai!" With tears in his eyes, Shi Yan looked at Mu Qing and said firmly.

Mu Qing couldn't say no to it, whether it was Meng Yun's tragic situation or Shi Yan's grief, it felt like the wind had leaked out of his heart, it was chilly, and he couldn't control any things that he desperately suppressed and denied.

After Meng's father calmed down, Mu Qing tried to communicate with him about Meng Yun's resettlement.

Meng's father refused to recognize his son no matter what he said, and told them to either take him away or send him to the police station. He was not even willing to pay for sending him to a mental hospital.

In desperation, in order to put pressure on the two parents, Mu Qing forced them to write down the written materials of severing ties. Whether Meng Yun is dead or alive, rich or poor in the future, he has nothing to do with them. Of course, if an accident happens, , they have no right to pursue responsibility.

Father Meng made a decisive decision, scribbled a few strokes, severed the relationship between father and son, and ordered Meng Xiaomei and Mother Meng to drive them away!

Mother Meng couldn't make up her mind, so she had to pack a few simple clothes with tears in her eyes and send Meng Yun to the car with Meng Xiaomei.

Under the sunshine in spring, amidst the flying dust, Meng’s mother was full of vicissitudes and grief, “Here,” handed the bank card to Shiyan, and said with tears, “I thought his father would let him return for the sake of money.” Home, who knows—”

After a pause, he took out another small bag wrapped in blue cloth and opened it to Shi Yan, "This is the jewelry I prepared for him—their husband and wife. I'm afraid I won't be able to hand it over to them in my lifetime. Please wait for him." Then give it to him, and tell me, Mom, don’t blame him, let him forgive himself, and live a good life.” He choked up several times while speaking, “Also, there is also the card, which was saved for him by my father and me. I don’t know if the money from marrying a wife in the future is enough to treat his illness.”

After thinking about it to Shi Yan, Meng's mother took a look at Meng Yun who was sitting in the car in a daze, then turned around and ran back to the house, crying bitterly.

Meng Xiaomei helped her brother put away his luggage, and begged Shi Yan in tears: "Mr. Shi, please take good care of your brother. If it is inconvenient for you, please let me know. I, even if I don't study, I will come to pick my brother up." The family takes care of him."

"Okay. I have given you my mobile phone number. You can contact me at any time to find out about Meng Yun's situation." Putting away the things sent by home for Meng Yun, and not wanting to stay in this sad place, Shi Yan bent over and planned to get in the car .

Meng Xiaomei took two steps forward and hurriedly said: "You, don't blame my father. My brother, my brother used to be too good. Before he graduated from high school and was discovered, he was always the pride of his parents. That incident hit them too hard , Their thinking is traditional, and they can't accept it for a while."

"Also, maybe in a few years, when Dad figures it out, he will forgive and understand them."

She is a sensible little girl, Shi Yan smiled at her, "When your brother recovers from his illness in the future, you can talk to him well to untie his knot."

Meng Xiaomei nodded solemnly, and watched them get in the car and drive away.

Before the car left, Meng's father pushed open the door and Meng's mother chased him out, watching the shadow of the car fading away, with tears on his face, the grief in his eyes could no longer be concealed, and tremblingly said: "Sin! Sin! "

The neighbors who watched the heat asked curiously who they were. Some people checked the cars they drove online, and there were more than 800 million cars.

Meng Xiaomei just shook her head without answering.

Looking up, white clouds pass by in the blue sky, and the birds flying across the sky slowly disappear.

Brother, he seems to have made a very good friend.

He didn't leave for Binhai right away, but went to the hospital to see Meng Yun's injuries. The place on Shi Yan's back where he was hit was burning and painful, and it was already swollen.

The doctor prescribed some medicine for external application. Meng Yun kept yelling at Ula Ula and couldn't calm down during the treatment process. His condition was much worse than when he just came back. Obviously, Meng's father's actions stimulated his condition to worsen.

Before leaving, I gave him a dose of medicine, and after he fell asleep, Shi Yan was free to talk to Mu Qing who was driving.

It's been a bad, fruitless journey.

The atmosphere in the car was tense.

"I will take good care of him and not let him disturb you, Mu Qing." Shi Yan tried not to sound so humble, "I will insist on taking him to see a doctor and take medicine, and I will also counsel him psychologically. , Mu Qing, it won't be long, Meng Yun, he will definitely get better soon."

"Shiyan, I don't want to talk to you about this right now, can you let me be alone for a while?" Mu Qing was in a bad mood and refused to talk about this topic.

Shi Yan bit her lip, turned her head to look out the window, it was already dark, and she didn't know where she would stop to rest tonight.

After driving until twelve o'clock at night, he rested at a small hotel near the gas station on the way. He only needed a room, and Mu Qing rested in the car. He needed time to re-examine and sort out this relationship.

If Shi Yan didn't have feelings for Meng Yun, but just cared about and took care of him as a friend and classmate, Mu Qing could totally accept it.

However, the truth is not what Shiyan tries to show.

What Mu Qing saw in his eyes, and what Shi Yan was trying to express, was completely beyond the scope of rationality.

Mu Qing felt that he didn't understand Shi Yan, whether it was for Lu Wanyu or Meng Yun, he couldn't understand his dedication without expecting anything in return.

Between people, there must be something as the premise of exchange, and there is no affection for no reason.

Maybe I'm too petty.

Mu Qing doubted himself.

Shi Yan is undoubtedly harmless, but in this harmlessness there is a kind of persistence and persistence that cannot be ignored, which is scary.

Mu Qing still can't think of what it is.

It seems that I was attracted by that kind of thing in him from the beginning, and then fell in love with him.

Maybe after getting along with each other for a long time, we can gradually understand it.

After all, the two have only been together for a year, and Shi Yan is not the kind of person who is good at expressing and demanding.

After dinner the next morning, Mu Qing suddenly brought up the topic, "Half a year, Shi Yan, if his condition does not improve within half a year, we will send him to a specialized treatment institution for targeted treatment. This is As much as I can accept."

Shi Yan turned her head to look at him with strange and alienated eyes, then turned her head to look elsewhere without answering.

At that moment, Mu Qing heard a self-deprecating laugh from the bottom of his heart.

This man treated him—

Back in Binhai, what Shi Yan cleaned up for Meng Yun was the room where he and Jiang Keqing often lived when they came to play.

Although he can't remember anything now, what happened in this room is also a warm and beautiful memory for him, which must give him some comfort deep in his heart.

In terms of his condition, the doctor changed two kinds of medicines for him after a re-examination, so that Shiyan could give him some guidance in some details when getting along with him on weekdays, and try his best to let him organize his thoughts slowly without being stimulated.

After Mu Qing came back, he became even busier. Mu Hanshan was released after paying a huge fine. He still had a position on the company's board of directors, so he was naturally unwilling to lose like this.

The two suddenly and tacitly began to live apart.

Mu Qing would often find excuses not to go home, and he would live in the study when he came back. Shi Yan often waited in the room until midnight and couldn't wait for him to return to the room, and gradually understood in his heart.

The hotness and tenderness of the past seemed to be frozen overnight and disappeared.

The huge home became empty and deserted. When Meng Yun was emotionally stable, when he was not writing his thesis, Shi Yan would often stand on the balcony with a glass of water and look at the sky through the glass. I have already decided to accept it calmly.

Recently, it seems that the slow pace of life has made my body and mind relax. Frequent vomiting and nausea no longer occur, but my body is tired and sleepy, and I often fall asleep without knowing it.

There was no one to talk to, and Shi Yan occasionally even wondered if she was suffering from depression, and her mood never got better. Every time she saw Mu Qing's cold and reticent back, she wanted to cry, but she stubbornly refused to bow her head and beg for mercy.

There is a very strange premonition in my heart, and I always feel that such days will not be long.

In the afternoon, I took Meng Yun to the hospital for a follow-up visit. The doctor told him that his condition was improving and that he could be properly stimulated to slowly divert his attention from his own world.

On the way home from the illness, he went to the supermarket to do some shopping. When he passed by the flower shop next to the movie theater, he suddenly remembered that today seemed to be the first anniversary of him and Mu Qing being together.

Already in May, the weather in Binhai is getting hotter and hotter, and the phoenix flowers along the road are in full bloom. Every rainy night, the gardens in the residential area will be covered with blood red, beautiful and beautiful.

Asked the florist to help wrap a bouquet of red roses, and then ordered a cake at a nearby cake shop, intending to surprise Mu Qing.

When they got home, Meng Yun was left alone in the living room watching TV and playing games, and went to the kitchen to prepare dinner by himself.

I sent a message to Mu Qing in advance, asking him to go home for dinner at night.

What I cook is Western food, there are not many things, but it is a bit cumbersome to prepare.

After seven o'clock in the evening, I checked the phone information again and again, but I didn't get a reply from Mu Qing.

Fortunately, the appetizers prepared on the table were cold dishes, so he was not afraid of getting cold. Meng Yun ate the dishes in front of him and kept staring at Shi Yan and Mu Qing's drooling. Eating, he just lay on the table like that and glanced at the beautifully arranged dinner plate from time to time.

Worried that he would eat too many cold dishes and spoil his stomach, Shi Yan endured the loss in his heart and forced himself to go to the kitchen to fry a lamb chop for him, and served him the cooked vegetable soup for him to eat first.

He sat at the dining table and waited silently.

At nine o'clock, I sent a message to Mu Qing, asking him when he would arrive home, but there was still no reply.

Meng Yun was already dozing off, and Shi Yan asked him to wash and sleep by himself.

"Brother is also here." Probably sensing that he was in a bad mood, Meng Yun's expression became uneasy.

Shi Yan smiled and rubbed his hair, "Hey, go and wash, brother will blow your hair for you after washing."

Meng Yun's eyes lit up when he heard the words, he grinned and nodded vigorously, and said in a childish voice, "Okay, I like brother blowing my hair the most."

"Go." Shi Yan got up and sent him to the door of the bathroom, and then went to the room to help him find out the pajamas he was about to wear.

When Meng Yun came out of the shower, his hair was so wet that he didn't use a towel to wipe it off. Seeing Shiyan sitting on the bed with his hair in a daze, he didn't notice him, so he walked over and put his wet head into Shiyan's arms as a prank, " elder brother?"

Shi Yan was taken aback by him, looked down to see his disheveled hair, if not for his haggard look, he would have looked more youthful than before, couldn't help laughing, "Naughty!"

Meng Yun stuffed him with the hair dryer in his hand, then got on the bed and lay on his lap, "Brother blow it."

Shi Yan's fingers gently ran through his hair, blowing it slowly with the smallest amount of wind.

"Meng Yun, your hair has grown, let's go cut it another day."

"Hair cut!! Cut hair with brother!"

He clapped his hands happily, turned over and lay down to look at Shiyan intently, and couldn't help sighing: "Brother is so pretty."

"The back has not been dried yet, so turn around." Shi Yan smiled lightly and pushed him.

Seeing his slightly melancholy smile, Meng Yun froze for a moment. He opened his mouth to say something, but a blank expression appeared on his face. He raised his hand to cover his chest, "Brother, I'm in pain."

"Where does it hurt? Show me." Shi Yan put down the hair dryer nervously, and took his hand, wanting to have a look.

Meng Yun shook his head, hugged his waist and put his head in his arms, "It won't hurt to hug him."

"Okay." Shi Yan didn't pursue it, fearing that he would get nervous, hugged him and patted his back, "It's okay, Meng Yun, brother is here, brother is with you."

Meng Yun hugged him so reliantly and refused to let go until he fell asleep. During this time, Shi Yan carefully helped him dry his hair, put him on the bed, and covered him with a quilt.

Maybe it reminded Jiang Keqing.

Shi Yan is clear about his occasional abnormalities.

Probably, Meng Yun himself was also struggling, and he still couldn't accept Jiang Keqing's death.