summer drowning

. "

Unexpectedly, Zhou Ziming didn't respond, just nodded slightly, as if he didn't care about this matter.

She was a little surprised, "You already knew the answer?"

Zhou Ziming shook his head, "It's not important."

Xiaoyuan was silent, she also heard about what Li Qian did to save Zhou Ziming, she really didn't expect him to be able to do that, before that, she even suspected that everything was just fabricated by Zhou Ziming Mulholland said, the truth is that Li Qian never loved him.

Now that I think about it, it’s not true. Some people’s love is hidden too deep, buried underground like magma. If it weren’t for the eruption of a volcano, no one would know how powerful it is.

She still couldn't really understand their story, couldn't touch the core emotion in it, and in the end, she could only be a bystander.

"You must be happy." This time, she was happy.

Zhou Ziming also smiled as always: "Okay."

……

Pushing open the door, Li Qian was lying on the hospital bed and fell asleep. Next to him was Xing Songhe, Li Qian's old boss, who was also his father-like figure.

Xing Songhe glanced at Zhou Ziming, but did not say hello.

Xiaoyuan felt that they didn't have a good relationship, so she heard Zhou Ziming say, "Xiaoyuan, go get busy first."

"Well, call me again if necessary." Xiaoyuan closed the door and went out.

There was a moment of silence in the room, only the sound of the instrument.

Zhou Ziming pushed the wheelchair over by himself, and got a little closer to Li Qian, occupying the right side of his hospital bed.

Sitting across from him, Xing Songhe took out a cigarette from his pocket, and being concerned about the rule of no smoking in the hospital, he didn't light the fire, just clutching the cigarette case irritably.

So Zhou Ziming took the initiative to speak: "Just say what you have to say, it's not good to hold back."

Xing Songhe glared at him, the kind of eyes an adult would stare at a child to tell him not to talk.

It's a pity that Zhou Ziming is not the kind of child who is disciplined, "I know you have wanted to scold me for a long time."

"Not only do I want to scold you, I also want to beat you!" As he spoke, he glanced at Li Qian on the bed with a guilty conscience, worried that he would wake up suddenly, and opened his deep eyes.

"I'm already like this, you can do it." Zhou Ziming said slowly.

Xing Songhe felt that Zhou Ziming was a lack of discipline, so he couldn't help but get angry, "You are really different from Li Qian."

His words hit Zhou Ziming like cannon balls:

"I've always felt that the two of you are not suitable."

"If you can't stand this kid, you are dead-hearted. I like you."

"Now I'm still tossing myself into this look for you."

"Do you think you are worthy of him?" He questioned Zhou Ziming.

Zhou Ziming reached out to hold Li Qian's hand, as if he wanted to give him some more warmth, "I'm not worth it, but he just likes me."

"You..." Xing Songhe was speechless again, "Are you determined to harm him again?"

"You can't say that harm is so ugly," Zhou Ziming didn't dislike the old man who was eager to protect the cub, "it's just getting back together."

"Aren't you ashamed?" Xing Songhe himself felt shameless for him.

"It's not that you said I was thick-skinned before."

"Hmph." Xing Songhe turned his back, and after a while he couldn't help getting up and wandering in the room, "Zhou Ziming, are you serious this time?"

"Of course it's serious." Zhou Ziming felt like a son-in-law who came to express his determination to his father-in-law in order to marry his wife. "He is willing to die for me, and I am willing to die for him. I really can't think of any reason why we should die." separate."

Xing Songhe went back to the stool, put his hands on his straddled legs, and sighed heavily, "This kid is so stupid, he has been let down by you once, and he is like a moth that knows no pain." To be honest. Seriously, if you fail him one more time, let alone him, I, Lao Xing, will clean you up for him first."

"I will not."

"You'd better do what you say." Xing Songhe sighed again, "otherwise his life will be too hard." Having said that, he looked at Zhou Ziming, "He told you that his parents thing?"

"No, he just told my parents that they passed away a long time ago. You took care of him and gave him money to go to college."

Xing Songhe nodded, "I don't think he would say, this kid is like this, how bitter he is, he will never take the initiative to tell others." He stopped, seemed to be lost in thought, and said for a while: "These words , If he didn't say it, I shouldn't have said it, but I thought, you should still know, don't make the same mistake, don't break his heart."

"You mean about his parents?"

"Well, there's no need to hide anything about his father. He was a good man who worked hard to support his family. Later, he died in an accident while digging coal. At that time, Li Qian was still young, so he probably doesn't have much memory."

"Then how did his mother die?"

Xing Songhe grasped the cigarette case more tightly, "His mother's affairs are more complicated. When Li Qian's father was still alive, Li Qian's mother took Li Qian away to do things at home. Later, when his father died , The pension will run out soon, and the mother must go out to find a job."

"It's hard for a woman to raise a child."

"It's more than difficult. At that time, not only Li Qian had to be taken care of, but Li Qian's grandparents had to spend money on everything. She was a woman working in a restaurant with her child on her back. She was busy from day to night... "

Zhou Ziming was fascinated by what he heard, and was a little worried: "Exhausted?"

"...That's not true. Li Qian's mother was young and beautiful at that time. The manager of the restaurant took an interest in her and sent her a lot of things, and asked her to leave Li Qian and his family behind and live with me. Go to City A."

"!"

"She said no, but not outright."

Xing Songhe's words directly shattered Zhou Ziming's fantasy. He thought Li Qian's mother was tortured to death, or killed himself unwilling to humiliate himself. "What do you mean by not completely rejecting it?"

"It's so difficult for a woman to support a large family. She is just a woman. If someone gives money and warmth, can she not be moved? The two of them were in private like this. When Li Qian was four years old, Li Qian's grandfather Grandma passed away due to illness. The restaurant manager told Li Qian to go with him."

"She went with him?"

Xing Songhe took a meaningful look at Zhou Ziming, "If she left at that time, Li Qian would at most feed his relatives and send him to the orphanage. But she didn't leave, so it dragged on for another two years, waiting for the hotel manager After falling in love with other women, Li Qian's mother regretted it. On the day she agreed to go with the man, Xiao Li Qian came back to take a shower after playing football outside. She rushed into the bathroom to drown him, but was watched by the neighbor's aunt. to be rescued."

Zhou Ziming frowned, "Isn't she his mother? How could she do such a thing."

"This matter was published in the Legal Daily of City B. At that time, many people were discussing that she had a heart of snakes and scorpions. She had a man outside and wanted to kill her own son. It had a great influence and was sentenced to ten years in prison. Li Qian The relatives at home said that the child did not belong to the Li family, and they were unwilling to adopt him. I was in charge of the case at the time. My wife said, since we have no children, we should adopt him. I agreed. He was unwilling to talk or go out for two years, and we didn’t force him. One day, he suddenly said that he wanted to go to school, and everything gradually got better.”

Zhou Ziming remained silent, he never knew that Li Qian's childhood was so bitter.

Xing Songhe: "Probably because of what he experienced when he was a child. He matured much earlier than ordinary children. Now that I think about it, why he suddenly proposed to go to school is probably because he realized that my wife was pregnant. As early as when he was so young, He is about to leave us... The house you live in now was left to him by his father. Although it has been remodeled a lot, the basic design is still there. Li Qian moved there as soon as he entered university, and later passed the police examination. Then I met you..."

"Me?" Zhou Ziming was caught off guard when he heard that he had appeared in Li Qian's troubled life.

"Yeah, I watched him grow up, and I've never seen him have much contact with that boy or girl. You know, he has a rather boring temper. For a while, I even thought he would get over him like this So you can imagine, one day, he asked me hesitantly, saying that he seemed to like a boy, but what should he do if the boy ran away, can you imagine how surprised I was?"

Xing Songhe continued: "I'm not against homosexuality. To be honest, I think it's not easy for him to fall in love with someone. I'm happy for him. So I encourage him to pursue and strive for his own happiness. He was silent. For a long time, he said that he was not sure whether he could be happy, whether he could bring happiness to others. I said that he would definitely be able to. It was at that time that I discovered that under his precocious and silent appearance, there was always a shadow of the past hidden I had never seen you at that time, and I was very curious about you, until he went to the police station to bail you out, and I saw him talking to you there, and I had never seen him so serious and caring about a person, so I thought that person must be You. At that time, how much I hoped that you could accept him and bring him happiness. "

Hearing this, Zhou Ziming realized that not only Li Qian was let down by his willfulness, but also the old man in front of him. He desperately hoped that he could bring happiness to Li Qian, but he lost his faith.

"sorry."

His sincere attitude won him a little favor from Xing Songhe. "It's useless to talk about the past. You have to remember what you said today and what you promised."

Zhou Ziming was in a turbulent mood, "I will remember it, if I do something wrong again, I will die a terrible death, and I will never be reborn..."

speaking his voice