mayfly era

"You know I used to be a second lieutenant, do you want to know what happened before that?" Chen Li asked again.

"Ah."

"I... probably don't have a father, and I haven't seen my second mother. There is a woman who raised me. Her name..." Chen Li didn't say the name directly, but wrote two words in the smoker's heart. Character.

Smoker froze for a moment and stopped in his tracks. He frowned, his face full of astonishment, "You write it again."

"It's the one you thought of."

"Are you her son?"

Yan Qiang guessed that Chen Li's life experience must be unusual, but he never thought that Chen Li was the son of that person.

The word "legendary" is not worthy of being an adjective in her life. The last general, with outstanding achievements during his lifetime, predicted the person in the Mayfly Era——Chen Ming.

"Or maybe not, she never let me call her mother."

"Then how did you... run into the sea."

Chen Li was fished out of the sea by the counter-revolutionaries. He was there at the time and witnessed the miraculous scene.

"She died. Soon after she died, her younger sister, who I should call auntie, asked me to leave the army and go back to marry and get married. She announced my gender and everyone in the regiment knew about it."

"I couldn't stay and I didn't want to go back and get married, so I jumped off the train."

Talking about such a tragic past, Chen Li remained calm, as if he was telling someone else's story.

Smoker unconsciously tightened the hand on Chen Li's shoulder, his eyes were full of emotions, full of pain.

"Then do you miss her? Your mother." Smoker asked in a deep voice.

Chen Li shook his head, "No, compared to her, I think her sister is much gentler."

"That's the person who forced you to jump into the sea." There was a hint of anger in the voice of the smoking gun.

"She is a lunatic. The first thing she did after gaining power was to drive her own sister out of Central City and let her go to the border for ten years. So compared to her cruelty to her sister, her sister is not cruel to me. .She just told me to go back and get married."

"Your big family is really...complicated." Yan Qiang didn't know what to say for a while.

"Her sister told me that she is dead, so you should stop hating her, but I can't do it." Chen Li shook his head.

"Is it because she did something that disappointed you?" Smoker asked cautiously.

"Disappointed?" Hearing this word, Chen Li's eyes suddenly became a little lax.

"I don't have parents. I don't understand the relationship between mother and child. Maybe you expect too much from her and you will be disappointed. Parents don't necessarily know how to treat children." Smoker said incoherently.

"No, I have no expectations of her, nor am I disappointed."

"I was not born like this." Chen Li suddenly smiled, thinking of his past self, he found it funny, "I was also so soft that I was stumbling around and couldn't walk well, and I was also afraid of the dark and hungry. But I’m afraid that it’s of no use, what should come will still come.”

"People say she is a genius, and she is indeed a genius. You know that geniuses think differently from ordinary people like us."

From this moment on, Chen Li's tone suddenly became brisk, but the content of the words was even more shocking.

"Once, I don't remember the exact time. Anyway, I was still very young, and I forgot the reason. I only remember that my legs were broken, with three pieces in my left leg and four pieces in my right leg. That was the first time I broke a bone. It hurts, I can't sleep, if I can't sleep, I can't get up in the morning, if I can't wake up, I will be late for training, she is very angry, she thinks I shouldn't be late."

"I haven't shown weakness to her for a long time, but that day I couldn't take it anymore and told her that my legs hurt and I couldn't sleep, so she took me to the 'hospital'... Later I realized that it was not the hospital, but her laboratory, She told the 'doctor' that he cut his pain nerve."

Smoker's face was filled with horror, "So you don't have pain nerves?"

Chen Yue was amused by him, and shook his head, "The doctor didn't dare, he wouldn't be able to survive if he cut it out."

"But she insisted on doing this, and even went to put on the surgical gown by herself, and then her sister ran out to stop her for some reason, and the two of them almost fought in the laboratory. Think about it, two prominent women Cursing and pushing, it's very funny." Chen Li did indeed laugh, and his smile was flying.

However, the smoking gun felt his scalp tingle and his chest hurt so much that he couldn't speak.

"She probably hated me at that time, because I was cowardly, soft, and I didn't know anything, and I didn't look like her son at all... So in order to make her like me, I worked hard to train and study, but she never Satisfied, but disappointed, probably because she was disappointed in me."

"I thought she was born with a cold and bad temper, and was unreasonable to everyone, but she liked that little girl from Wen's family very much. Once, that little girl stepped on her new shoes and made her look ugly in public, and she didn't Angry, he hugged her and kissed her to comfort her."

"I'm so fucking jealous. I feel like I'm an idiot. I should go to the media to expose her and say that she abused children. Maybe she will be suspended for investigation for a few days." Chen Li said angrily.

The smoking gun stopped walking.

This rainbow wandering road seemed endless, and he took a deep breath, feeling a little dizzy.He couldn't bear Chen Li's story for a while, how painful it must be for the protagonist of the story.

"Later I joined the army. I was 15 years old. My gender and age were all faked, and my name was not made public...but in the end it was all made public by her sister, damn it." Chen Li's statement became more and more rude.

"I have good grades in the army, no matter where I am, I have good grades. I have never been No.2."

"I thought she would gradually accept me, but when I came home, everything was the same as before, no difference, she hated me, it was clearly written on her face."

"The last time I went home was eight or nine years ago, and I remember I got into an argument with her again that day, then slept in, and went back to camp early the next morning. Six months later, rumors spread throughout the regiment that she The news of his death, and probably my death later... I never thought that I wouldn’t die if I jumped from such a high place.”

After Chen Li finished speaking, seeing Yan Qiang stop with a white face, he also stopped.

He patted the back of the smoking gun, "Are you feeling sick again?"

Smoker shook his head painfully.

"This is the version of the story I've always thought of." Chen Li said calmly.

Smoker opened his mouth in surprise, and it took him a long time to finish his sentence, "Is there a worse version?"

Chen Li looked at the night sky outside the window, as if thinking, "Maybe."

"Could it be worse?"

"perhaps."

"Then can I choose not to listen?" Smoker made a bitter face.

"No."

"……All right."

"The second version, I met her sister's son a few days ago, and he told me that it was not his mother's intention to force me to jump into the sea... His mother's intention, he said it was to give me freedom."

"Bullshit."

"He also said that the woman did not hesitate to kill herself for me. He showed me a video of her experimenting on herself. In vivo experiments, she dissected herself and used her own experiment report to discuss the conditions."

Smoker calmed down, he suspected that he had just had an auditory hallucination, "What?"

"I watched the video and it was very real. If it was completely fictional, how could it be so in line with the logic of her own behavior, how could it be so similar to what she could do... I am so fucking familiar with her words and deeds."

Smoker remembered what Chen Li said to him that day, which was probably the prologue of this story.

True and false are the most distressing, and even less enjoyable than straightforward tearing. Smoker doesn't know how to help Chen Li solve his distress. Shame, anger, and pity are mixed together, causing sour heartache.

Chen Li continued to talk on his own, "He and his mother told me that because I am her seed and inherited her genes, just like her, they want to protect her blood, so they pester me... …the fucking ghosts will linger even after death.”

"So you can also see..." Smoker suddenly thought of something, and hesitated to speak.

"No, I can't see anything." Chen Li shook his head.

"What about her?" Smoker felt that he had never been so hesitant in his life.

"She is indeed the same as in the legend, so many people have been wanting to open her brain to see what kind of brain is inside, but she preempted it by herself."

The Rainbow Roaming Road finally came to an end, and no expected danger came.

The temperature is so warm and comfortable, but the smoker feels as if he just finished a tough battle, sweating all over his body, his legs are heavy, his knees are weak, and the aftertaste of shock is still buzzing in his head.

"The mother and son have a high position and authority. I think they can probably hold the umbrella for RC and allow us to obtain more resources. I think it is possible to take risks."

Smoker nodded.

"Old Yan. You have to keep a secret for me, everything, not a single word." Chen Li turned his head and looked seriously into Yan Qiang's eyes.

"I will." Smoker firmly promised.

"Except for you, I only told the boss, but I only told you about these messy things," Chen Li said, shaking his head, his voice became softer, "...I don't seem to hate her so much now, time really Good medicine."

"She..." Smoker asked carefully, "did she treat you very badly?"

After saying this, he felt that this was nonsense, it must be bad, and it might even be bad.

"She has done everything you can imagine, and there may be many more that you can't imagine."

Chen Li simply sat at the end of Rainbow Road, with his back against the glass wall, looking up at the bong.

His eyes were still so dark and calm, as if he was telling someone else's story from beginning to end.

There were no tears, no voice and physical trembling, and no description of the degree of pain, perhaps because of those cowardices that he couldn't look directly at.

Yan Qiang remembered when he first met Chen Li, an eighteen or nine-year-old child with thorns all over his body and a sharp and indifferent expression on his face.

He can hardly smile, and he doesn't kill himself.

"Fuck, what kind of life did you live in the past..." Smoker frowned.

"Let's wait a little longer. If such a good opportunity can't wait for those cowards from the business, it will prove that they are really cowards." Chen Li changed the subject, and he patted the seat beside him, indicating that the smoker would also sit down. Down.

Yan Qiang sat down, rubbed Chen Yue's hair, couldn't help but hugged him in his arms, and rubbed his cheeks.

There was a faint smell of laundry detergent on Chen Li's body. It was not fragrant, but it smelled very clean.