The Emperor of Meiqiang and the Shadow has grown a pair of bunny ears

When Qi Jiu received this WeChat message, he was helping Qi Yan chop vegetables.

There were several inquiries in the dialogue box without reply, but Yan Shiqing's irrelevant content alone gave Qi Jiu goosebumps all over his body.

He understood Yan Shiqing's meaning almost instantly, and he didn't know whether it was a little more sad or a little more excited.

The previous late-night topic seemed to have finally been heard, and Yan Shiqing finally poked his head cautiously towards him.

"Mom—" Qi Jiu respectfully held the phone, pointed to Yan Shiqing's chat history and asked Ms. Qi, "He's asking for help."

"Can we help him?"

Qi Yan shook the hand holding the spoon, and turned to look at Qi Jiu who was begging.

My son was pitiful, with anticipation and apprehension on his face, his toes were twitching nervously, waiting for her answer with hope and fear.

Qi Yan's heart felt weak, but she told him: "No."

The light in Qi Jiu's eyes dimmed instantly.

"...Do you know what you're doing?" Qi Yan took his phone and put it down, watching Qi Jiu carefully.

The son grows up a little too fast, Qi Yan needs to raise his head slightly to look at him:

"You meet a stray cat on the road, feed it regularly, and build a cat bed. I have no objection to these. I advocate this way of expressing kindness."

"But if you want to bring a cat home, if you want to develop a relationship with the cat, it's different," she said. "You have to have enough ability, you have to have enough responsibility."

Ms. Qi said word by word: "Qi Jiu, as we all know—"

"People can't keep cats because of overflowing compassion."

Qi Jiu was shocked, frustrated and embarrassed.

Qi Jiu was in this mood when Qi Yan stopped letting him raise anchovies because he overwhelmed the goldfish when he was a child.

He wanted to refute, he wanted to say that it was not because of his overflowing sympathy, he wanted to say that he would look after Yan Shiqing, and would not let him starve, nor would he make him starve to death.

But Qi Jiu pinched the hem of his clothes, but what he stammered out was the wrong words: "Yanyan is very good."

He added: "I'll be good too."

Qi Jiu's face flushed very red, and he didn't care how naive he was just now, so he eagerly found more convincing words to move Qi Yan:

"I went to the place where he lived... It was terrible, it was not a place to live at all, I don't know how long he was there, but I was depressed for a second."

"He has never relied on other people. This is the first time he has asked me for help. I think something big may happen to him."

"I'm not flooded with compassion, I'm just, I'm just..."

Qi Jiu suddenly became hoarse.

just what?He tilted his head and thought, worried, concerned, distressed?

He raised his head slowly, and murmured to Qi Yan, "I just don't want him to be wronged."

Qi Yan sighed, hooked her fingers to Qi Jiu to make him bend down, and rubbed his head on her feet.

"Usually, I don't allow you to do this kind of thing alone."

"...But this time I agree with you to raise a cat." She didn't know if her voice was gratified or melancholy, "After my divorce from your father, this is the first time you have asked for something."

After all, Qi Yan smiled with her lips bent: "Besides, I'm still here."

"But I also have requests." Seeing Qi Jiu's suddenly relaxed expression, she immediately added.

"I want to know his past, I want to be responsible to him, at least I need to know what he went through."

Yan Shiqing's message disappeared, and Qi Jiu didn't send any message for half an hour after that.

He leaned on the railing to watch Yu Hui turn from red to purple and then to black, and Wang Liulin's screams rose and fell behind him.

Someone in the factory poked his head out to watch the excitement, but when he saw Yan Shiqing's appearance, he turned his head away angrily.

Sun Yong carried Wang Liulin, who was already in a trance, out the door, and raised his chin at Yan Shiqing: "Do you have anything else to say to him?"

Yan Shiqing's eyes only stopped at the intersection, and it took him a while to look at his uncle with blue nose and swollen eyes with drooping eyelids.

"Then I'll take him away." Sun Yong smiled threateningly, "Don't worry, he won't be killed."

Yan Shiqing also expected a little reaction from himself, but his heart was as calm as water, and there was no sign of sadness, guilt or self-blame.

Just like what Wang Liulin scolded, Yan Shiqing seemed to be a man made of stone.

Yan Shiqing finally only asked: "What will you do to him?"

Sun Yong smiled ambiguously, waved his hands and left, his voice came from the stairs: "You first figure out how to deal with it yourself, your little brother has come to the door."

Yan Shiqing was taken aback, turned his neck and looked downstairs, only to see Qi Jiu waving his hands and bouncing towards him.

He straightened his back suddenly, and before he could lift it up half a breath, he saw another woman with a dignified manner appearing behind him.

Qi Yan and Qi Jiu came together.

Qi Yan explained her purpose to him, explained her identity to him formulaically, and hoped that the other party would believe her.

"As the vice chairman and Qi Jiu's mother, I think I will do my best to help you." She had a smile on her face, but her whole person revealed a sense of alienation, "But I need to make sure you don't pose any safety hazard to my son."

Behind her, Qi Jiu hesitated to speak, and finally just stared at Yan Shiqing wistfully.

Yan Shiqing understood what they meant, and only wanted to covertly glance behind him. The room was dirty and smelly, and Wang Liulin's blood was still there.

"My car is downstairs, if you don't mind, you can chat in the car." Qi Yan built a ladder for him with great insight.

The small light inside the car was still on, and the orange light blended into the air, making it feel warm just looking at it from a distance.

Yan Shiqing nodded and closed the door tightly.

All the stench was blocked there, the room was dark and dirty as usual, but Yan Shiqing followed Qi Jiu to a better place.

When Yan Shiqing was six years old, his parents died in an accident and he was sent to a local orphanage.

No one wants this oil bottle, and relatives are afraid to avoid him.

When Yan Shiqing was lonely and grew up to the age of seven, his uncle Wang Liulin waited for him.

Little Yan Shiqing didn't have the slightest impression of this simple-looking beta, but the other party showed a lot of documents, proving that his wife was a distant relative of Yan Shiqing's mother, and took Yan Shiqing away with only a little blood relationship.

That day, Wang Liulin rubbed his shiny face against Yan Shiqing, with a flattering smile on his face, and told him in front of the dean: "I will call you uncle from now on."

Yan Shiqing refused to call, he felt that this uncle was quite different from his parents.

Wang Liulin would buy Yan Shiqing a lot of toys, and after Yan Shiqing had played them all, he would tell him the price of them all.

Wang Liulin knew how to make a lot of food, and while feeding Yan Shiqing, he told him that although he had eaten these things, he would return them in other forms in the future.

Wang Liulin is indeed very good to Yan Shiqing, but every time he treats him well, he will force Yan Shiqing to say what is good about him.

Let Yan Shiqing promise that he will take care of him like this when he gets old.

He even used a recording pen to record what Yan Shiqing said.

"Everyone has a purpose." Wang Liulin said this most often to Yan Shiqing, who was only eight years old, "Uncle treats you so well because I hope you won't forget me in the future. Uncle hopes that the hard work will be rewarded." .”

But Yan Shiqing later found out that Wang Liulin not only wanted to have something to depend on for his old age, but also wanted to use himself to save his wife.

In the year when Yan's father and Yan's mother had an accident, Wang Liulin had conflicts with his wife again.

This beta stays idle at home all day, goes to the street to watch other people play cards and fights, gnaws on the family's house, and spends his wife's money.

The wife couldn't stand the contrast between her pre-marriage and post-marriage, and argued for a divorce during that time.

Wang Liulin is a shrewd softie, who has always been good at crying and selling miserably. His wife finally understood after being tricked a few times, and dragged him to get a divorce.

After the divorce, Wang Liulin immediately found a job, and then set his mind on the unadopted Yan Shiqing.

He thought that his superficial skills would definitely be seen by his wife, and that pulling an orphan to accumulate some virtue would also soften his wife's heart, let everyone spread the word of mouth, and make him a great kind person in the hearts of the village.

In this way, his wife will come back, and he can still live the happy life before.

His method actually works.

When Yan Shiqing was eight years old, he met Wang Liulin's wife for the first time.

The wife stared blankly at the child who had a little blood relationship with her, and then looked around Wang Liulin's well-organized home, and agreed with the three of them to have a meal together.

Afterwards, she appeared more often at Wang Liulin's house.

The speed of the resurgence of the old relationship was very fast, from dating and living together to reuniting, it only took ten centimeters for Yan Shiqing to grow.

Wang Liulin seems to have become a model husband and legal lover in his wife's heart, but the biggest problem lies in this misfit child.

"If you take that kid from the Yan family for a day, we won't be able to remarry." That's what the wife said.

Yan Shiqing, who has not yet entered puberty, is unexpectedly precocious, and can understand that he is not pleasing, so he reduces his appearance time, looks at his wife's eyes and acts, and tries to avoid intersections as much as possible.

As always, Wang Liulin treated Yan Shiqing with his own extreme educational methods.

——Until the age of 11, his wife became pregnant.

So far, Yan Shiqing seems to have a sword of Damocles hanging over his head.

Every day when he wakes up, he starts to feel nervous, fearing that the moment when he will be abandoned is coming.

He even packed his luggage prematurely, waiting for his wife to order him out.

The wife did.

Her demands are constantly specific and extreme.

"You send him back to the orphanage, and say that you have no money and can't afford to support him. The orphanage will give him food and drink, and there will be subsidies at every turn. The welfare is very good." His wife encouraged him, "Maybe he got it. The subsidy will still be given to you."

Wang Liulin thinks this method is very good.

So he was too kind to Yan Shiqing, couldn't hold back his mercenary face, and recited the "Disciple Regulations" by his bedside every day in a hoarse voice, cultivating his moral values ​​radically.

On the day Yan Shiqing was 12 years old, Wang Liulin transferred all his assets to his wife, took him back to the orphanage, cried and told the director that he had no money, and that he couldn't afford to take care of his children.

Yan Shiqing was sent back, Wang Liulin was satisfied, only to find his wife was gone when he came back.

After seeing Wang Liulin's parenting style, the wife realized that she would never be able to raise the same child with such a person, so she borrowed Yan Shiqing to set up this situation, and she took Wang Liulin's money and walked away without hesitation.

It was true that she didn't like Yan Shiqing, but before she left, she felt that this helpless child was a bit pitiful, so she gave him a few hundred dollars.

Wang Liulin has never been so angry. He questioned his wife's parents when he couldn't contact him, but was scolded severely.

His wife spread rumors at home, saying that Wang Liulin was a beast, who was violent and promiscuous all day long, who picked up other people's children and didn't take good care of them, and even sent them back to suffer.

This is true mixed with false, and Wang Liulin became the scum that everyone scolded again.

After several months of ignorance, he realized that he might really grow old alone, so he immediately changed some money and asked Yan Shiqing back.

Wang Liulin believes that his actions are correct.

Yan Shiqing was a good tool. He got a lot of donated clothes from the orphanage, so that Wang Liulin didn't have to worry about buying sundries.

And the special status allows Yan Shiqing to receive a lot of subsidies in the school, which means that Wang Liulin can only do a little work.

——Even without working, relying on Yan Shiqing, who was still a junior high school student, to eat and wait to die.

He started to become the slovenly look his wife disliked again, but this time it was even worse, and his behavior became more indulgent without any intention of chasing his wife.

He smoked and drank heavily, and he also participated in gambling with others.

Sometimes when Yan Shiqing came home, he saw the house full of smoke mixed with the smell of alcohol, and he just wanted to escape.

Such days continued until Yan Shiqing was in high school.

After the compulsory education passed, the tuition fees began to become more expensive.

Wang Liulin had no choice but to stop, and while going to earn money, he told Yan Shiqing cursingly that he must remember his kindness.

Wang Liulin hadn't done hard work for a long time, he just wanted to get entangled in ways to make quick money, rushed into the road of gambling, and lost everything in the end.

He was forced to sell the house given by his parents to pay off the debt, and moved into the factory with Yan Shiqing.

Life was hard and the pressure piled up. Wang Liulin desperately wanted to divert his attention, so he drank more and more alcohol, and sometimes he coughed up blood when he smoked until his lungs.

After alcohol failed to numb his nerves, he turned to violence.

In his eyes, Yan Shiqing became the sinner who caused all this. Wang Liulin was so angry that he beat him, scolded him, and muttered:

"—Why don't you die, you god of plague."

But after the drunkenness ended, looking at Yan Shiqing, who was covered in blood and bruises, Wang Liulin became afraid again.

He knelt down and begged Yan Shiqing to forgive him with his usual tears.

He was afraid, afraid that Yan Shiqing would really leave him alone in the future, and also afraid that Yan Shiqing would go to the police station to sue him.

In fact, Wang Liulin is not a person with a very good personality. He advocates the theory of male A supremacy, likes to boast, and always bullies the weak and fears the hard.

But when he cried, it was extremely miserable, earth-shattering, Yan Shiqing couldn't cope with this battle, and panicked for a while.

Besides, Wang Liulin's bewitching words kept circling in his mind——

He said: "I am your uncle, your only family member, and your great benefactor."

After being unable to attack Yan Shiqing frequently, Wang Liulin also found another solution.

He began to use the little money he earned to enter the prostitution industry.

The aunt in the factory can see him bringing different people into the house every day, the youngest is only 18 years old, mainly beta and omega, occasionally mixed with a charming female A.

The factory building is not soundproof, and the crap he did can be heard clearly upstairs and downstairs.

Yan Shiqing stood downstairs after school, heard the shameful and dirty voices, and saw the mocking eyes of the factory residents looking at him, and felt that he didn't know where to go for a while.

He began to rebel against the sofa bed at home, and rummaged in the open space behind the factory to build a canopy bed.

Standing in the open space littered with rubbish in front of the baggy bed, he would think, why not just live here.

Don't go back again, don't listen to annoying voices again, if you die in the wind, food and dew, maybe it will be a kind of salvation for yourself.

Kind of...hate being alive.

When Yan Shiqing thought about this, his fingers tightly grabbed his arm.

The nails sank deep into the flesh, blood flowed out, and the pain temporarily made him forget the thought.

Yan Shiqing finally dragged the tattered bed back to the place where he was so desperate.

When there was no money for whoring and even eating was a problem, Wang Liulin's attention returned to Yan Shiqing.

He is a mud that cannot be supported on the wall, a lingering PUA master.

Yan Shiqing was covered with wounds for a month, which was pinched by his uncle who claimed to love him the most.

Realizing that this situation will never get better, he found the Minor Protection Association one winter night, hoping that he could get so-called help.

He failed, so Wang Liulin begged him to go back.

"Why are you leaving? What are you doing there? Did your uncle treat you badly? Or do you want to sue your uncle over there!"

Wang Liulin, who brought Yan Shiqing back to the factory that night, crushed Yan Shiqing's head into the bone-piercing pool while thinking about it.

Ice water was poured into the nasal cavity and eye sockets, and the roots of his hair were pulled so painfully. Yan Shiqing coughed continuously, but the frequency of breathing could not keep up with Wang Liulin's speed of burying him in the water.

Wang Liulin drank a lot of wine to warm up to keep out the cold, and paranoidly believed that Yan Shiqing's rebellion was due to his improper management and lack of dignity, so he intensified.

The excitement brought about by the violence was transmitted to his brain, which made him feel unsatisfied.

He looked at the 15-year-old Yan Shiqing with fear and anxiety in his eyes, like a rabbit whose ears were pinched.

The ladies who paid for it before didn't think of him that way.

Wang Liulin licked his lips, and with perverted thoughts, grabbed Yan Shiqing and threw him onto the canopy bed he built himself.

"I'm uncle, you want to repay your kindness——"

Wang Liulin's eyes lit up, and he murmured, he didn't know if he was ordering Yan Shiqing, or he simply thought that this would bring more pleasure that violated morals and ethics.

Yan Shiqing realized what Wang Liulin would do.

He resisted violently, and his arm was caught on the screw that jumped out of the canopy bed, causing a deep wound.

He pushed Wang Liulin onto the nail, and ran away stumbling.

Wang Liulin was hit with blood all over his head, but at the same time he regained some sense, realizing that he had attempted to violate him, so he absconded in fear of crime.

It wasn't until another half a year later that he took back Yan Shiqing who had been detained for violence from the juvenile prison.

"You can't escape, Xiao Qing." He hugged him extraordinarily happily that day, and there was a little gloating in his joy, "The shelter doesn't want you, you can only live with your uncle."

Yan Shiqing took out a small knife from his pocket, pointed it at Wang Liulin's abdomen, and coldly warned him not to get even a step closer to him.

......

Yan Shiqing deleted and deleted these disgraceful contents, and only gave a rough idea.

There was a moment of silence in the car.

It was the first time for Yan Shiqing to tell others about his past, and he was worried that his expression would not be appropriate, and also panicked whether the content was too unacceptable.

His nails were deeply embedded in his flesh, and he didn't dare to look up at Qi Yan's expression.

Yan Shiqing had even reached the doorknob, ready to leave when he should.

But the scenery outside the window gradually began to reverse, and Qi Yan drove the car away.

Qi Jiu moved over to get close to him, rolled over Yan Shiqing's hand and opened it, caressing the crescent-shaped mark on the palm, and gently put down a candy.

Grapefruit-flavored candies with ugly smiling faces painted on them.

Qi Jiu's outline was softened by the warm yellow headlights, and there seemed to be a cloud of fireflies in his eyes that couldn't go away. He might want to find some words to comfort him, but in the end he frowned and showed a not-so-perfect smile.

He pushed Yan Shiqing's fingers to hold the candy, and said:

"We're going home, roommate."