scapegoat

Lang Zhongming was rarely so anxious in his life, and couldn't fall asleep with huge worries. He couldn't help getting out of bed at 6 o'clock in the morning on Sunday.

The entire Lang family was silent, and everyone else was still in a dream.

Lang Zhongming took a few mouthfuls of biscuits, went for a stroll in the backyard, breathed the fresh air and woke up his chaotic brain at the same time.

Unexpectedly, when he came back, Xiao Yang came out of the room.

Lang Zhongming looked at his watch, it was only after 7 o'clock, and he suddenly felt that he had an illusion.

Xiao Yang didn't expect to meet him so early, so he was taken aback for a moment, and then passed by him indifferently, as if preparing to go out.

Lang Zhongming was silent for a long time before he couldn't help reminding: "Xiao Yang, I don't go to work today."

Unexpectedly, Xiao Yang gave him a blank stare: "I have something to go out."

Lang Zhongming: "Huh? Let's eat something first, there are biscuits and fresh milk..."

Xiao Yang hesitated for a while, but still took the biscuits and milk, sat down and ate this simple breakfast.

Lang Zhongming knew that Xiao Yang was free to do whatever he wanted to go out, and he could no longer interfere with his current state of mind and position, but he still wanted to ask curiously.

It's a big deal and I'll just look at the knife again.

"Why is it so urgent, you have to go out so early?"

Xiao Yang paused and said, "Qin Zhanbin said he wanted to meet me alone."

At this moment, his face still maintains a blank expression, so indifferent that no emotion can be seen.

But Lang Zhongming's heart skipped a beat, his intuition was not good: "What is he looking for you for? Don't want to take risks... You'd better not go."

Lang Zhongming's worry is actually not unreasonable. Qin Zhanbin has been holding a grudge against Xiao Yang since his daughter's death. After so many years of backlog of such emotions, he is now in prison again, and he may never have the chance to come out again in this life.

To say that such a person wants to die with the enemy's family is really normal.

But Xiao Yang insisted on going.

In fact, he didn't care much about the harm Qin Zhanbin might bring him. If he could get through it, it wouldn't be a big deal.

He knew that Qin Zhanbin had always regarded him as the murderer who killed his daughter, and he had believed and hated him for more than ten years.

Such a pathetic father, he really couldn't refuse.

After finishing what he had in hand, Xiao Yang rejected Lang Zhongming's suggestion to drive him off, and went out to the first prison alone.

There are three prisons in City C, one of which is dedicated to detaining dangerous and serious offenders. The people inside are basically life imprisonment, and some soft-tempered prisoners have to hug the guards' thighs for protection when they enter.

Xiao Yang is a person with a criminal record, so he can't enter this kind of place logically, and I don't know what Qin Zhanbin went through to get him to submit a series of materials before he was allowed to enter.

The two met in what looked like an interrogation room, separated by bulletproof glass.

Qin Zhanbin was a little rounder than the last time we met, and his face was not so gray. After he seemed to have a fixed routine of life, his violence also faded.

He said, "I know I'm blaming the wrong person."

Xiao Yang was taken aback.

"One of my inmates was a driver for Lang Zhongming for a while. He said... Linlin was pregnant with... Lang Zhongming's child, right?"

Xiao Yang was silent.

Qin Linlin was still in school when she was pregnant, so she was really scared. She didn't even dare to speak up when her father questioned her, for fear that they would embarrass Lang Zhongming.

At that time, Lang Zhongming had deep conflicts with his family and was not as powerful as he is now. The girl knew that he was in trouble, and she didn't want to cause him trouble, so she listened to her father's advice and went to have an abortion.

No one expected that people would disappear so suddenly.

Qin Zhanbin also changed from anger to grief all of a sudden, and was completely collapsed by this unexpected bad news.

Everyone knew that Qin Linlin and Lang Zhongming were dating, so Qin Zhanbin always felt that since his daughter wanted to hide it from him, the father of the child must not be the real boyfriend on the surface.

Then, the Ling family pushed Xiao Yang out.

Everything made sense, Qin Zhanbin also believed this statement, and devoted himself to avenging his daughter until today's ending.

The funny thing is, it turns out all of this is wrong.

"Back then...Lang Zhongming didn't want Linlin to have an abortion...He even told the driver that he wanted to find a country where he could get a certificate in his teens and marry Linlin..."

The thinking of the minors is very simple and unrealistic. It is the immature actions and choices of the two that sent them together on an inappropriate path and to a broken ending.

Xiao Yang didn't know that Lang Zhongming still had such thoughts back then, but the girls were already dead, so what he wanted to do at the beginning was meaningless.

"That's what you wanted to talk to me about?"

Qin Zhanbin wiped his face, stabilized his emotions, and continued: "I have caused you a lot of harm, and I am sorry. So... there is something I must tell you. You and Lang Zhongming...be careful Lang Zhongjin .”

Xiao Yang looked up at Qin Zhanbin's eyes: "What do you mean?"

Qin Zhanbin seemed to have made up his mind, gritted his teeth and said, "He was the one who told me about your itinerary before. I had brief contact with him twice, and I feel that this person...is very dangerous...he not only I want to deal with you, and I want to destroy Lang Dewen and Lang Zhongming..."

Xiao Yang lowered his head and thought for a while, then asked, "Do you know the reason?"

Qin Zhanbin replied "I don't know", and then he felt that he was too calm: "You have always...? Then why didn't you say it?"

Xiao Yang said expressionlessly: "I have no grievances or enmities with him. Anything he does to me will only be related to the Ying family. I just don't have much to do. I have no obligation to take care of his relationship with the Ying family."

Qin Zhanbin looked at the thin man for a long time, and said, "I'm sorry for disturbing you today."

Xiao Yang lowered his eyes: "It's not an interruption, you know the truth, and I feel less stressed."

He was always terrified in the face of this father's anger and hatred before, and felt unable to hold his head up.Now, it's all over.

Qin Zhanbin broke down in tears suddenly: "I'm sorry... I'm really sorry... I hurt you... I still... I still..."

Prison guards came to pull people away.

Qin Zhanbin covered his face and pressed his forehead against the glass: "I still prevented you from coming out earlier...You could have had your sentence reduced...I made them remove your name...I..."

Xiao Yang sat there, staring coldly at the absurd scene in front of him, seeing how an emotionally broken person was forced to sit up straight, and then ordered to stop "going crazy".

It's just that the sense of absurdity in Xiao Yang's heart is stronger than the picture.

He always thought that the Lang family was preventing him from commuting his sentence, but it turned out... This was also a misunderstanding.

But what's the difference?

If the Ling family had had the heart to visit him once or twice, it would have made his situation better.

Ten years of indifference, in Xiao Yang's mind, almost means being a stranger for life.

Qin Zhanbin couldn't help crying, and the meeting couldn't go on.

Xiao Yang got up and left.

When I walked out of the prison gate, the gloomy weather outside seemed to be holding back a heavy rain.

Lang Zhongming's car was parked across the road, and the lights flashed twice at him.

Xiao Yang walked over.

Lang Zhongming opened the car window: "I think it's going to rain, I'm afraid you didn't bring an umbrella... get in the car."

Xiao Yang raised his head and glanced at the sky above the dark clouds, and a gloomy feeling enveloped his whole body.

He walked to the other side, opened the door silently and got into the car.

The atmosphere was tense along the way.

Xiao Yang didn't want to speak, and Lang Zhongming didn't know how to speak.

When he was about to get home, Lang Zhongming couldn't help but ask, "What did he tell you?"

Xiao Yang looked at himself in the rearview mirror, and felt that this face was very strange, as if he hadn't seen it for a long time: "Didn't you install a tracker? Don't you have a bugging device?"

Lang Zhongming was taken aback for a moment, and then coughed twice in embarrassment: "I was thinking too much that time... I'm sorry, I haven't pretended since that time, really... I won't do it again..."

For some reason, all the explanations and guarantees seemed particularly useless to Xiao Yang——

He won't believe it at all, and doesn't even care what you say.

Xiao Yang remained silent until the end, closing the bedroom door, blocking all Lang Zhongming's questions from the door.

Now he finally knew the real intention of what Lang Dewen said before his death. Maybe the old man didn't ask him to forgive Lang Zhongming at all, but... Lang Zhongjin.

Of course he can forgive Lang Zhongjin, after all they have no direct grievances.

When the relationship between him and the Ling family comes to an end, he will leave. At that time, if Lang Zhongjin wants to kill his brother himself, it has nothing to do with him, and it will not hurt him at all.

Lang Zhongming, who was standing blankly outside, was even more preoccupied.

He really wanted to know what Qin Zhanbin and Xiao Yang had said.For some reason, he was particularly disturbed at this time.

But if he was asked to ask Qin Zhanbin face to face, he couldn't do it.

He owed the Qin family too much, Qin Zhanbin became so extreme in the end, wasn't it also caused by him?

If he had withstood the pressure from his grandfather and father back then, and the child was born, the Qin family would not take it if they were willing to raise him.

At that time, he thought about marrying Qin Linlin, and he could go to another country to get a certificate immediately, or wait until he reached the legal age to do it immediately... It's just that such an idea doesn't seem to be a good idea now.

However, if he had been tough from the beginning, if he and Qin Linlin could have communicated earlier and made things clear...

Not only was he in debt, but he was also unwilling to face Qin Zhanbin.If he hadn't asked his daughter to have an abortion, everything would have turned around, and there was a possibility of developing in a good direction.

Didn't Qin Zhanbin make such a choice for his own face?

Lang Zhongming's thoughts were confused for a while, and he thought about it again and again, but he couldn't do anything in the face of Xiao Yang's closed door.

Is it time to think of a way to repair the relationship between the two?

Lang Zhongming suddenly had a flash of inspiration and remembered a small advertising poster on the table, which was brought back by Xiaofeng casually and placed there.

The poster shows a nearby themed botanical garden. On Valentine's Day, February 2, two people who travel together can receive a bag of mysterious flower seeds. The varieties and colors are random.

This is a festival for young couples. Lang Zhongming and Xiao Yang are neither young nor lovers.

But he saw hope.

In my impression, Xiao Yang liked to visit the botanical garden very much, and he played with many flowers and plants in high school, but after Lang Quan asked him not to keep them in the house, those precious potted plants of his were moved to the balcony on the first floor and handed over to Butler Gong take care of.

Lang Zhongjin was playful when he was young, and he broke countless pots, and filled up all kinds of flowers and plants when they were missing. The ones Xiao Yang raised at that time had long been mixed in and he couldn't tell them apart.

Since he likes it, why not take him to the botanical garden and bring back some flowers by the way.

Now that Langquan is gone, he can raise it wherever he wants.

With these soft small leaves and slender stems, I hope that the thorns in Xiao Yang's heart can also be softened.

The author has something to say:

In reality, Xiao Yang has a criminal record and is not a close relative of Qin Zhanbin, so he probably never met Qin Zhanbin, so this is a bit unscientific_(:зゝ∠)_