hope and gift

After Mu Chengming came in, the two of them stared at each other completely, but it still meant that you walked your way and I crossed my bridge, and the two sides did not interfere with each other.

In fact, leaving aside the matter of Teng Jiangyan, the two brothers actually don't have much personal grievances, but why do they always fight afterwards?It may be that they simply don't like each other.But this dislike is not Mu Xiao to Mu Chengming, but simply Mu Chengming to Mu Xiao.After all, in his eyes, Mu Xiao was a rich man who was born with a golden spoon in his mouth.

After Mu Chengming came in, Mu Xiao knew nothing about the conversation between Mu Yueru and Mu Yuelou.Mu Xiao's intentional eavesdropping was only out of childish curiosity, but Mu Yueru was as calculated to guard against him to death.

In the end, Mu Yueru didn't know how much money Mu Yueru gave Mu Yuelou, but what he knew was that the money supported his second aunt for several years.He doesn't know how long these years have been, because he hasn't had a good day during this whole period of time, and he doesn't care about the question of what year it is.

Since Mu Yuelou left, Mu Chengming has often been sent to his home.Fang Shimei is busy managing the group's affairs every day, and doesn't go home very often. Instead, Mu Yueru often takes her two children shopping around after get off work.At that time, Mu Xiao really liked his father, and he even kept many essays titled "My Dad" at the bottom of the box, so that when Mu Yueru got close to Mu Chengming, he felt very uncomfortable.

Mu Yueru took the two of them to the playground one day when the weather was good.This playground is newly built. During holidays, people who line up to buy tickets at the entrance have to stand on the road, let alone the long queue at the entrance to check tickets.Mu Yueru asked them to sit in the shade, waited patiently in line to buy tickets, and brought them two identical ice creams when they came back.

"Father is the best!" Mu Xiao took the ice cream, and felt a lot cooler after taking a bite.But Mu Chengming took the ice cream obsequiously, and dared not eat it until Mu Xiao took a bite.

After the three people lined up to enter the amusement park, Mu Yueru accidentally knocked down a child on the way, and the child burst into tears as soon as he fell to the ground.Mu Yueru helped him up gently, patted the ashes off his body, and asked politely, "Does it still hurt? Uncle didn't notice you, I'm sorry."

The child glanced at the strange adult and cried even louder.

"Hey, don't cry, the tears that fall on your body and the dust will turn into mud. I'll give you the paper, and you can wipe it yourself." Mu Xiao squatted down and handed the child a piece of paper.

The child saw that Mu Xiao was about the same age as him, looked at Mu Yueru again hesitantly, took Mu Xiao's paper and wiped away his tears, without crying or fussing, and whispered: "Thank you."

"Thank you for what, my father helped you up." Mu Xiao was unhappy when he heard this, and quickly pulled Mu Yueru over, saying, "Thank him."

"Thank you, Uncle." The child smiled kindly at Mu Yueru, innocent as a piece of paper, "Can Uncle tell me where ice cream is sold? My father asked me to buy it."

After hearing this, Mu Yueru let go of Mu Xiao's hand, rubbed Mu Xiao's hair, and said, "You stay here with this little brother for a while, and I'll buy him ice cream."

"No need, uncle, tell me where it is, I'll just go buy it myself." The little boy politely declined Mu Yueru's offer.

Mu Yueru laughed, squatted down and looked at the little boy and said, "Uncle bumped into you just now, and it is uncle who should apologize. Besides, it's not safe for you to walk around alone. Uncle will help you buy it."

The child couldn't refuse when he heard this, so he sat on a bench with Mu Xiao and Mu Chengming and waited for Mu Yueru to come back.

The child was a little too quiet after Mu Yueru left. He had talked so much just now, but now he just lowered his head and scribbled on the ground with his feet.

Mu Xiao is not a person who likes to take the initiative to talk, especially when the other party is a male, let alone Mu Chengming, his whole face is full of reluctance, which makes Mu Xiao also I don't know where I wronged him.

The atmosphere among the three of them was very awkward for a while, Mu Xiao could only lower his head in a daze, but when he lowered his head, he realized something was wrong.Although the little boy's legs were shaking wildly, the movements would be exactly the same every time.Mu Xiao pretended to be in a daze and squinted for a long time, only to find that the child's dangling legs seemed to be repeating some words.

But that was really too abstract, Mu Xiao stared at it for a long time, he couldn't see any way to it, so that he didn't look at it for a while, he simply regarded it as his second-grade illness and didn't want to watch it.Mu Xiao raised his head with sore eyes, just in time to see Mu Yueru walking here from a long distance away, so he waved to him happily and shouted: "Father, we are here!"

Mu Yueru brought over three ice creams and said they were for a family of three.The child couldn't take it, so Mu Yueru asked Mu Xiao to take it too, and went to find his parents with the child.And Mu Yueru simply sat on the bench and began to deal with some company affairs, and waited for Mu Xiao to come back.

When Mu Xiao followed the little boy to meet his parents, he always felt that something was wrong.His parents were abnormally thin, and both of them were wearing sunglasses that covered most of their long faces, so they couldn't see their faces clearly.The little boy looked weird, without even calling his parents, he just reached out and handed the ice cream to the two people in front of him.Mu Xiao noticed that his hands were shaking like a sieve, as if the two people in front of him were not his parents, but wolves, tigers and leopards.

"uncle……"

Before Mu Xiao finished speaking, he saw the two people take the ice cream from the child's hand and stare straight at the ice cream in his hand.

"Xiao Qi, take the ice cream from this little brother, and then thank this little brother." The woman's voice was a little superficial, but she was still ordering the child loudly.

The child turned around to look at Mu Xiao, stretched out trembling hands for the ice cream in his hand, took it with great difficulty, and then said to Mu Xiao as if about to cry: "Thank you..."

Mu Xiao is indeed somewhat curious about this weird family, but this does not mean that he will really investigate other people's family affairs, after all, as the saying goes, every family has a difficult scripture to recite.He stretched out his hand and scratched the back of his head, and said with a smile, "You're welcome, it's easy."

Unexpectedly, the child suddenly threw the ice cream on the ground, grabbed Mu Xiao's hand, and whispered: "Help me, please, take me away."

Mu Xiao was shocked for a moment, he didn't know what happened, and he froze in place because he was at a loss.

But the child's parents walked over in three steps at a time, covered the child's mouth, and said to Mu Xiao apologetically, "I'm sorry, my child's brain is not working well, I scared you."

Mu Xiao is not so easy to deceive, after he looked the two people up and down, he frowned and asked: "What does he mean by calling me for help just now? Don't cover your children's mouths."

"We are going to send him to a mental hospital. This is the last time we bring him to the playground. I didn't expect the child to resist so much. Okay, I'll let go. Ask him if he is." After speaking, the man let go of the child in his hand , hating iron but saying: "Why are you lying so much, tell this little brother the truth."

The child changed his demeanor just now, his eyes were dazed and confused, and after the tears in his eyes stained his eyelashes, he even looked at Mu Xiao and laughed foolishly.He stumbled and ran to the man's side and hugged his trouser legs tightly. He also tried to reach out to grab the ice cream in the man's hand, and his saliva rubbed all over the man's trouser legs.

Now Mu Xiao truly believed that the child was a psychopath, and after sighing with regret, he turned around and said goodbye and left.

Later, he never saw the boy again. He just saw a news report about "Parents feeding children drugs and causing children to overdose and die" in the news report the next day, but the fact of "taking drugs" Now that it was too far away from him, this kind of news could only bring him a sigh.

In the next few years, I went to the playground with Mu Yueru many times, and Mu Xiao always met new children. Mu Yueru liked to buy ice cream for those children every time, and even bought it for the parents of the children. From then on, in Mu Xiao's heart, he felt that his father was really a kind person.

But when Mu Xiao got older, he didn't like going to the playground anymore, he would rather stay at home and watch TV every day.Mu Chengming is still often sent to Mu Xiao to accompany him, but Mu Xiao and him really don't see eye to eye, and it's good if they don't fight when they meet.

It was rare for Mu Yueru to cook when she came back that day, and she squeezed a glass of lemon juice for the two of them.The juicer is not in the kitchen but on the dining table. Mu Xiao has been waiting there for a long time to watch Mu Yueru squeeze the juice with great interest, while Mu Chengming sat on the sofa and glanced at this side before getting up to go go here.

Mu Yueru skillfully peeled off the lemon peel with a knife, and then threw two into the juicer. Mu Xiaoguang felt the sour smell in the air and felt the root of his tongue drooling. He pointed to the small jar beside him and said excitedly: " Add more sugar!"

"Well, but I can't add more." Mu Yueru said and handed the spoon to Mu Xiao, and asked him to scoop a small spoonful of white crystals from the small jar into the juicer, and after closing the lid, he began to wait quietly The juicer is ready.

Mu Chengming always had some suspicions that didn't know where it came from, and Mu Xiao was very thorough, so when he took the juice that Mu Yueru handed over, he took the lead in demonstrating how to drink juice.

Sure enough, after he drank it, Mu Chengming also drank it.

The lemon juice is really sour, the sugar that Mu Xiao personally added has no effect at all, and there is no trace of sweetness.But once the sourness was over, Mu Xiao felt a strange feeling.A burst of pleasure like an electric shock rushed straight to his brain, making him top-heavy like walking on clouds. After this feeling spread to his limbs, every pore in his body stretched as if it was completely open.He even looked at the things in front of him with a bit of a double image, and saw himself in a garden full of flowers, and his whole body became inexplicably excited.

After Mu Xiao woke up, he found himself lying in the hospital, and the person sitting next to him was Fang Shimei, whom he rarely saw once a year.Fang Shimei's eyes were red, and she was looking at him with shame.

But when Mu Xiao woke up, his mind was extremely calm. After sorting out what happened, he turned his head and asked Fang Shimei beside him: "Mom, where is Mu Chengming?"

"I was sent home." Fang Shimei reached out and touched Mu Xiao's forehead, and Mu Xiao could feel her hand still trembling slightly.He showed Fang Shimei a comforting smile, but when Fang Shimei saw him like this, her expression suddenly became distorted, and tears flowed out like a gate opened.

"I'm sorry." She held Mu Xiao's hand and said, "Mom didn't protect you well."

After hearing this sentence, Mu Xiao panicked, as if a big stone was pressing him down and he couldn't breathe.He quietly listened to Fang Shimei's sobbing, and after a while he asked a little dullly: "Father... what did he give me to drink? Is it drugs?"

Fang Shimei looked at the almost collapsed expression on Mu Xiao's face, she couldn't bear it but she still told the truth: "Yes, and it's a very addictive one."

After hearing this sentence, Mu Xiao was so angry that he wanted to sit up from the bed, but found that his limbs were tightly fixed and he couldn't move at all.He used so much force that the needle in his vein returned blood, and the veins on his wrist burst out, but he kept muttering: "Impossible, this is impossible... You lied to me!"

Fang Shimei was wiping her tears, but she didn't know how to tell the whole thing to the person in front of her, so she chose to remain silent in the end.She knew that Mu Xiao was not an ignorant person, and would always calm down and accept the reality.

The bursts of pain in his body and the sudden hollowing out of his heart made Mu Xiao lose his mind for a moment, he gradually calmed down, tears ran down his cheeks and onto the pillow, but he bit his lips tightly and refused to let go.

Mu Xiao lay limply on the bed like a puppet with broken strings, and asked Fang Shimei with the last bit of strength: "Will I be arrested like him?"

"No, you don't know anything at all, it's just unintentional." Fang Shimei took out a handkerchief from her backpack, wiped away Mu Xiao's tears, and gently persuaded him.

Mu Xiao suddenly remembered the last appearance of the first and only boy who asked him for help, and inexplicably hated and loathed him.

He suddenly turned his face away from Fang Shimei's handkerchief, and asked in a weary voice, "How many people have I harmed? I know, and it must be not just Mu Chengming."

Fang Shimei bowed her head silently and folded her handkerchief, apparently unable to answer this question.

"When did it start?" Mu Xiao tightly grasped the bed sheet, questioning Fang Shimei in front of him, "Why didn't you call the police?"

Fang Shimei sighed when she heard this: "It's useless, there is no evidence, and I can't find any evidence. Why should I call the police? I was thinking about 'a tiger's poisonous wall doesn't eat its children', but I never thought that he would kill you to achieve his goal. Don't let it go."

Are those so-called parents really the children's parents?Mu Xiao suddenly remembered the phrase "Take your son in exchange" that Mu Yueru mentioned in the conversation with Mu Yuelou.Yes, children are naturally the least suspicious objects, but how could these children be abducted here, and how are they willing to obediently assume the role of drug transporter?

As soon as Mu Xiao closes his eyes, he will recall the trembling hands of the little boy who asked him for help and the half-stupid look at the end, and the question of what kind of thing was on the hand of the man who covered the little boy's mouth. Intertwining and weaving Mu Xiao's never-ending nightmare.

When Mu Xiao woke up in the middle of the night, with tears all over his face, he called out to Fang Shimei beside the bed, saying: "Mom, go and see how Mu Chengming is doing, please, save him..."

Fang Shimei covered his eyes with her hand, held back her crying and said, "It's okay, it's okay, he will be fine for sure."

Mu Chengming is indeed fine, but Mu Chengming's mother is dead after all, as for how Mu Xiao died, he doesn't want to know, nor does he want to know.

Because Mu Xiao didn't drink much, the process of withdrawal therapy was not too difficult, and Mu Xiao was discharged from the hospital not long after.But Mu Xiao's most serious problem now is not his physical problem, but his psychological problem. Mu Xiao's mental problem is very serious.He is now extremely negative and world-weary, and even has very extreme thoughts. He tried to commit suicide several times, but he failed because Fang Shimei discovered it in time.

What happened later was similar to what Han Zi and Teng Jiangyan said, Fang Shimei probably knew more than Mu Xiao.But for so many years, Fang Shimei's attitude towards Mu Xiao's these matters has always been rather hidden than revealed, and more details about it are not only unknown to Han Zi, but also to Mu Xiao.

The author has something to say:

_(┐「ε:)_It’s over, it’s impossible to end in this life, I think every day to finish writing quickly, but I feel that the end is completely far away.