Abyss of Rebirth

"Tingting... Tingting, you must save your brother this time!" Zhou Jianshan hid in a small alley, poked his head out and looked around nervously, until he was sure that no one was passing by, then squatted down Clutching the phone, he lowered his voice and said tremblingly, "If you don't help me this time, I'm going to die!"

Zhou Yuting inserted one hand into her hair irritably, and asked in a broken voice, "Help you? Help me! Haven't I helped you enough? Haven't you hurt me enough for so many years?"

Zhou Jianshan was crying and pleading on the phone: "This is really the last time, is the last time okay? One million, another one million is enough!"

"100 million? Why don't you grab it?!" Zhou Yuting said sharply, "What's wrong with playing and gambling like your shitty friends? Is that something people like us can afford? Don't say I don't , even if there is, if I give you this time, I won’t be able to give you the next time!"

"Please, Tingting, just this time, the last time!" Zhou Jianshan begged desperately, "They said, if I don't give it, I will chop off one of my hands...Tingting, I am your relative Brother, you won’t just ignore death, will you?”

"One hand? You won't die without one hand!" Zhou Yuting sneered, "And don't you still have a house? The set under your name is sold, don't you still have the set of your parents? Once you get that house, you can go to Macau to gamble again!" As he said, he hung up the phone with a "snap", then turned off the phone and threw it aside.

It was still early, just eight o'clock, and for the entire city of Z, the nightlife had just begun.Zhou Yuting lowered her head and took a deep breath, then slowly sat down in front of the vanity mirror and looked at her face carefully.

It was clearly a youthful face, but compared to before, it was obviously haggard and older.Zhou Yuting touched her jawbone with her hand. An Haicheng hasn't been home for a while, and the bruise he left on her face last time has almost faded away.But even though the pain was no longer there, the feeling of fear had been deeply imprinted in her mind, making her tremble every time she saw An Haicheng.

She sat silently in front of the vanity mirror for a while, then moved slightly, and slowly put on makeup for herself in the mirror.After putting on makeup, he looked at his face carefully, and suddenly screamed and smashed all the bottles to the ground.

After the Spring Festival, the weather gradually warmed up, and the old man's condition seemed to start to improve. Although he still couldn't get out of bed by himself, he could already communicate with others easily.

"Study... okay?" The old man turned his head slightly to look at An Rui and An Zhe, and asked slightly vaguely.

"The grades have already come down, and there will be no problem in being admitted to Shanghai Ning No. [-] Middle School." An Rui sat next to the old man, smiled and responded, "Grandpa, get well soon, and we will take you there in September this year." Go around the new school?"

An Zhe also came over, stood beside An Rui, and added with a smile: "I heard that there is a pond of water lilies planted in Haining No. [-] Middle School. In summer, there are patches of water lilies, and they bloom very beautifully."

The old man listened with a smile on his face, then nodded: "One... let's go together."

The two of them stayed with the old man for a while, until the old man couldn't bear it anymore and fell asleep again, then they slowly left the room.Outside, Mrs. An was sitting in the living room wearing reading glasses and knitting a sweater. Seeing the two people coming out, she looked up at them: "Is the old man asleep?"

"Yeah. Fell asleep," An Rui walked over with An Zhe, "but he looks much better than before."

Old Madam An smiled slightly, picked up the wool, and started to work again without saying a word.

"Grandma's vest is almost finished?" An Zhe glanced at the semi-finished product in Mrs. An's hand, "The pattern is very beautiful."

Mrs. An sighed: "I haven't touched these things for many years, and my skills are unfamiliar, otherwise I can go faster..."

"Don't worry, there's time." An Rui said lightly, "Even if you can't weave this year, you can wear it next year; if you can't weave it next year, you can wear it the next year."

"When I was young, I promised to knit one for him, but I didn't expect it to be delayed for decades... Now I can't delay it any longer." Granny An glanced at the two of them, but her hands kept moving, "Time It's so fast, it feels like it's only a blink of an eye, and he and I are both old..."

The school will officially start in two days, and An Rui and An Zhe will also pack up and prepare to return to school.The courses that should be studied have been almost finished before, and what candidates in the second semester of the third year of junior high school will face is intensive exam bombing and intensive study filled with tutoring on Saturdays.

Under such a wave of question sea tactics, the days quickly slipped to June.

June is an examination month. After the college entrance examination at the beginning of the month, the high school entrance examination will be ushered in immediately.The day of Anrui and Anzhe's high school entrance examination was a fine day, the sun was shining brightly, and there were no clouds in the sky—it was just that the temperature was a little higher.The two of them took the exam for two and a half days under the high temperature. After the last English test, they both felt a little bit like "relief".

"Don't forget, after this, there are still high schools and universities waiting." An Rui threw a can of herbal tea towards An Zhe from a distance, and said with a cold glance at An Zhe.

"At least we can have a summer vacation without homework before then." An Zhe took the herbal tea, held the cold soda can with both hands, and said with a smile, "But it's really going back, I remember that time , I wouldn’t be so tired of studying.”

"You've always been a standard 'child from someone else'." An Rui walked up to An Zhe and said plainly.

"Is this a compliment or a sarcasm?" Angela opened the tab of the can, raised her head and took a sip of herbal tea, then looked sideways at An Rui and asked.

An Rui ignored him, just drank the drink in his hand in one go, and casually threw the empty can into the trash can not far away: "The house of Zhou Jianshan and Zhou Yuting's parents has been sold, because they are in a hurry to sell , sold more than 300 million yuan.”

An Zhe let out a "huh" and asked, "Did Zhou Yuting help Zhou Jianshan this time?"

"She has helped him so many times, and now the total amount in her account is only more than 30. How can she have any spare energy to help him?" An Rui said coldly, pulling his lips.

"But if you say this, her brother probably won't believe it." An Zhe said with a smile, "Zhou Jianshan didn't do anything other than sell the house?"

An Rui looked up at him, bent his lips, and his dark brown pupils were cold: "I think, even if there is not now, it will probably be soon."