torture to the end

Han Jingyu disappeared without a sound.

After waiting impatiently for a while, Shen Chen also resigned from his job.On the day he left, even the headmaster personally persuaded him to stay.For such a young teacher who is loved by his classmates, it would be a great loss for the school to leave, right?

Shen Chen's words are always so ironic, he never says heavy words to make others feel unhappy, after the principal accepted his resignation letter, he patted him on the shoulder and told him that if he wants to do education in the future Together, you can come to this school to seek a job again.Shen Chen put away the business card given by the principal, smiled and took it to the door and walked out. When he left the school and sat on the bus, he tore the business card in his hand to pieces.

Han Jingyu left and went to a place he didn't know.

Holding the last hope, Shen Chen went to Han Jingyu's house. When he knocked on the door, he kept thinking repeatedly that even if Han Jingyu wanted to leave, he would definitely feel a little bit reluctant to leave his family.Just like before, no matter how much Aunt Han beat and scolded him because of that accident, Han Jingyu was different from those children who were born rebellious.He doesn't want to leave home.

When he saw the girl in the sky blue pleated skirt who opened the door, Shen Chen was obviously taken aback.

The girl was well-bred, holding a watering can in her hand, and she seemed to be watering the flowers and plants in the yard. She used her hands to pull her hair from her temples behind her ears, "Who are you?"

She doesn't know Shen Chen yet, even though they live so close.

Shen Chen immediately reacted, and responded with a smile that was more appropriate than this girl's, "I'm here to find Aunt Han."

The girl hesitated.The boy who broke in a few days ago frightened her.

The two were still standing at the door, but the woman who was cooking in the kitchen saw Shen Chen through the window and greeted with a smile, "Ah Chen???" She wiped her hands on the apron and left Come out, with an elder's gentleness towards the younger generation, "Why are you here?"

Siya looked at Shen Chen curiously, "Aunt Han, who is he?"

"Oh. Achen is across from us, an old neighbor." The woman held Shen Chen's hand with a look of joy, as if she was looking at her own child, "Oh, Achen is getting more and more handsome the longer he grows." .???

Shen Chen already had some disgust in his heart, but he still pursed his lips and showed a suitable shy smile, "Aunt Han."

"Come in, don't stand outside." The woman pulled Shen Chen in.

Shen Chen is indeed very handsome, and with the warm smile on his face, it makes people feel very kind.

"Siya, go get a glass of water." Although the woman's tone was reproachful, she couldn't hide her intimacy.

Only then did Siya come to her senses, she glanced at Shen Chen again, put the kettle at the door, and went in to pour water.

The woman dragged Shen Chen into the room. Shen Chen asked for slippers at the entrance, but the woman stopped him with her hand, "Don't take it off, it's okay."

Shen Chen insisted on taking off his shoes, and when he wanted to change his shoes, he found that there was no pair of slippers in the cabinet.

The woman didn't feel any abnormality at all, she took off the cotton pads on her feet, "Achen, you can wear mine. There are not many people at home, so I didn't prepare too many."

Shen Chen paused when he bent over, and then he closed the shoe cabinet.

"No need, Aunt Han, you can wear it." After speaking, Shen Chen stepped on the white tiles and walked into the room.

The woman still wanted to hold him back, "Oh, Chen, you are a guest, how can you be barefoot???"

Shen Chen was wearing white cotton socks. His feet were more delicate than the average boy's. When he stepped on the beige tiles, he didn't feel too cold through a layer of cotton socks.

The woman followed Shen Chen into the living room, seasonal fruits and fresh flowers were placed on the table.All this shows the abundance of life in this family.

Shen Chen remembered that when he left, this family was not like this.Auntie Han doesn't have much education. When her uncle was still there, the work of the two barely supported the family. Now that her uncle is gone, Auntie Han's life is getting better and better.

The woman didn't notice Shen Chen's thoughts, and took a pink apple from the table. The apple was very fresh, and the leaves on it were still green, "Ah Chen, come, eat an apple."

Shen Chen took the apple down, "Thank you, Aunt Han."

"Oh, you don't have to be so polite." The woman really liked Shen Chen from the bottom of her heart.Shen Chen has been very obedient and sensible since she was a child. She always said, why is such a good child not mine.

Shen Chen held the apple in his hand for a while, then put it on the table again.

Naturally, the woman's eyes were no longer on the apple. She looked at Shen Chen, "Ah Chen, what have you been up to these days? I saw you coming back earlier, but I didn't see you coming to Auntie's."

"No, I've been busy with work recently, so..."

"Oh." The woman became more eager, "Where does Ah Chen work?"

"Be a teacher at the University of Science and Technology." Shen Chen deliberately emphasized the word "Science and Technology University", wanting to see the expression on Auntie Han's face.

But there was no moving expression on the woman's face, and she still praised earnestly, "Ah Chen is really promising. My family, Ah Heng, has been with you for a year, so he is not as promising as you."

Aheng is Aunt Han's child. In the first year of junior high school, he skipped class to go swimming and drowned in the reservoir.

"Aunt Han." Shen Chen couldn't help it anymore, why did she still remember the dead child for so long, what about the child she is living now?Why does it seem like an insignificant person, "I saw Jing Yu at school."

The woman's face froze, and even her movements were a little awkward. She held her temple hair with her hands, and her eyes rolled a little uneasily. She tried her best to avoid topics related to this child, "Ah, really."

Shen Chen unconsciously remembered the last time, when he told Aunt Han about Han Jingyu, the mother seemed relieved...

Shen Chen suddenly felt that the suppressed irritability was stirred up again. He knew that he shouldn't say something that would make others feel uncomfortable, but he felt that if he didn't say it now, he would feel sad for Han Jingyu in his heart, "Jingyu still It's the same as when I was a child, when I mentioned Aunt Han, he laughed very happily."

Shen Chen also laughed.There was always a deceit to his smile.

The woman was already a little restless, she didn't know how the smiling young man in front of her was desperately suppressing the beast that was about to break out of the cage in her heart, and how he looked at her uneasy expression with cold eyes.

"Oh, which school did you meet?" She said something indiscriminately, trying to divert the topic away.

"Science and Technology University." Before Shen Chen finished speaking, the woman interrupted him hastily, using a clumsy sneer to conceal the extreme anxiety in her heart at the moment.

"Oh, I know, Jing Yu said he was going to see you, did you tell him the address of your work?" The woman's eyeballs unconsciously glanced at the table, and there was still a fake smile on her face , "Your relationship is really as good as before."

Shen Chen's always perfect smile finally cracked as if painted on his face.

The woman in front of her, who claimed to be Han Jingyu's mother, didn't even know which university her child was studying in.

Is this... a home?

Siya, who was pouring water, came out, and she poured two glasses very considerately, one was placed in front of Shen Chen, and the other was placed in front of the woman.

When the woman saw Siya approaching, she finally broke free from that state of extreme anxiety. Although her complexion was still not good, her demeanor had returned to its original state.

"What is Auntie talking about?" Siya sat down naturally, putting her hands on the woman's shoulders, as intimate as a mother and daughter.

The woman smiled, grabbed Siya's hand on her shoulder, "Talking about the past, you definitely don't want to hear it."

Shen Chen only felt that this scene was very dazzling.The dazzling feeling made him tear up the mask he had maintained for many years.

"If you don't tell me, how do you know if I'm willing to listen?" Siya smiled, it was the kind of gentle, deliberate smile that moved the boy's heart.

Shen Chen turned his head while turning a blind eye, and looked around the entire decoration of the room. The place was bathed in sunlight, but the other person fled coldly.

Here, everything is the warmth of the family, except that only one person is excluded.

Shen Chen thought of Han Jingyu last night. Yesterday, what kind of mentality did he have to escape from this 'home'?But in the end, he almost collapsed in pain outside, and this 'home' didn't turn on a light for him.

It must be so cold for Han Jingyu to live here...

"Eh, Ah Chen?" Seeing Shen Chen standing up suddenly, the woman froze for a moment.

The smile on Shen Chen's face has collapsed. His expression now is the same as when he was 16 years old. He uses this expression to face everyone who wants to punch Han Jingyu. Han Jingyu grabs his arm behind him, panicking. Trembling helplessly.

"Aunt Han." Shen Chen's tone was very light, without any mixed feelings, "Han Jingyu is dead, are you happy?"

The woman who had never heard Shen Chen speak like this looked terrified, she opened her mouth again and again, but she didn't say a word.

If that person died, she would definitely be happy... But as a mother, facing that person's childhood best friend, she couldn't say the word happy.But her expression had betrayed her inner thoughts.

The purpose of Siya was revealed at this time, she stopped in front of the woman with a fierce expression, "How do you talk?"

Shen Chen blinked his eyes, and his cold and blunt lips curved together with his brows and eyes.He was that gentle look again.

"Aunt Han, I'm sorry." He bent down at a standard distance of ninety degrees.There is no more honest angle than that.

But his eyes were cold.In his eyes, there are monsters who choose to eat people.

In the end, Shen Chen didn't wait for anyone to speak, he walked to the entrance, put on his shoes, then took another look at the empty shoe cabinet, turned his head and left.

This is not Han Jingyu's home, he doesn't want to stay here anymore.

There is no one on the street outside. This is a very old residential area, and most of the residents are elderly people. The children of those old people who are promising are abroad, and those who are not have gone to change early A bustling place, but those children finally remember who raised them, and some money will be sent every month, so that these old people will live alone here to the end of their lives.

There is no one else here, so Shen Chen no longer has to put on that face that others like.

His lips were pursed tightly, his eyes were fierce, and his hands on both sides were pinched crisply.

There is another beast inside, desperately trying to rush out.

"Meow-"

On the wall of the old courtyard, there is a big cat with mottled fur. This cat has lived for a long time. The brown fur is sparse, just like those yellow eyes, and the flesh on its body is loose. Can't like it.But it is such an ugly cat, but it is raised by the old people and children in this area.

The old people here are so lonely.

The cat was no longer afraid of people. It licked its paw on the fence, and then jumped down.He walked to Shen Chen's feet and dawdled.

It also remembered that as a child, this person used to always like to bring another person to feed him.Although it has been too long, some things will always be remembered.

"Meow??????" Even the yelling has revealed the old state of twilight.

Shen Chen bent down, just like before, and patted the cat's head.

The old cat leaned forward and made a 'woo-woo' sound from its throat.

Shen Chen's lips suddenly moved upwards, and the split arc made his entire gentle face extremely weird.His white hand suddenly grabbed the cat's neck, and he picked up the fat old cat.

"Meow! Meow??????!"

The claws scratched frantically, drawing many fine bloodstains on Shen Chen's wrist.

Shen Chen raised his head, his face was under the sun, his smile was distorted, and his eyes were so confused that he lost his mind.But he happened to be sober.

He grabbed the cat, and then slammed it out. The cat hit the gray wall all of a sudden, only let out a heart-piercing sharp cry, and then fell to the ground.

Little by little, the bright blood seeped into the gray dust, dyeing it into that solidified dark brown.

Shen Chen tilted his head, his right wrist was covered with blood from the cat's paws, he stretched out his tongue to lick the blood stains, and suddenly laughed out loud.

"Ah Chen! Ah Chen!" The woman who had just walked to the yard to dry the clothes saw her son standing at the door, and ran out suddenly. She saw that Shen Chen's hands were covered with blood, "What did you do? Ah Chen, why are your hands covered in blood?"

It was as if Shen Chen didn't hear it at all, as if he had fallen into a kind of magic barrier.

Shen's mother also noticed that there was something wrong with his expression now, as if it was a rainy night a few years ago, when Shen Chen had a fight outside, he also looked like this now, but at that time he was covered in blood, holding the same young man by the hand. Young Han Jingyu, he walked away from the gate of the yard, raised his head with a smile, and called her??????

"Mom." At this time, Shen Chen also called out suddenly.

It coincides with that scene many years ago!

Mother Shen looked terrified, with tears glistening in her eyes.

"Achen! Achen! Don't scare mom!" She grabbed Shen Chen's arm with such strength that she seemed to be pinching her into the flesh.

She knew that Shen Chen had fallen ill.Just like the doctor said.

Only this time, Shen Chen didn't wake up from the nightmare as soon as he was called by her like many years ago, but continued to maintain that kind of smile that made his mouth shudder.

Shen Chen raised his foot and walked outside.

Shen's mother pulled him to prevent him from leaving. Shen Chen's movements were too big, causing her to fall down.

Without any image, Mother Shen's face was full of tears, and she held Shen Chen's hand tightly, "Ah Chen, please don't do this??????Mom, please???"

Big drops of tears kept falling down.

Shen Chen, who had been persistently walking outside, finally stopped. He lowered his head to look at the crying woman who was trembling all over, and hesitation finally broke through his gloomy eyes.He reached out and touched the woman's face, "Mom, why are you crying?"

His expression finally softened, no longer the gloomy and paranoid look just now.

"Ah Chen!" The woman crying on the ground was helped up by Shen Chen, with cowardly tears still on her face, "You scared me to death, you scared me to death..."

Shen Chen helped her wipe away tears, with real guilt and self-blame on his face, the guilt and self-blame swallowed up all the gloom in his eyes, he held the woman's arm, lowered his head and said, "I'm sorry .???

"As long as you're fine, as long as you're fine." Shen's mother looked around the alley, and there was indeed no one around, so she breathed a sigh of relief, and pulled Shen Chen into the yard.

The old cat on the ground still had a breath, struggling to get up, but before its front legs supported its body, it tilted its head and fell down again.

The blood on the ground was a bit darker...