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It sounded like the sound of broken jade falling to the ground, like the sound of heavy rain, mixed and chaotic, including the screams of women and the cries of children, shrill and sharp, hitting the eardrums one after another.

Shen Qi heard Shen Qingzhu calling him "Qiqi", and heard Zhou Jingtang calling him "Shen Muxi". He felt a tight pain in his chest, as if something was about to collide, but it was as if it had been petrified. more and more distant.

He felt his heart tense up and down, breathing with his mouth open, and he couldn't breathe anymore.

"Sir, sir, wake up!"

His heart tightened suddenly at that moment, Shen Qi suddenly opened his eyes, and what caught his eyes was a strange face.

Seeing that he woke up, the doctor checked his pupils with a flashlight and said to him, "Sir, can you hear me?"

Shen Qi could hear her voice, but he couldn't organize the meaning of her words in his mind.

The doctor said to the nurse next to him, "Go and tell Mr. Xu."

Shen Xi looked around in a daze. This was a strange ward, and he still had an indwelling needle buried in the back of his hand, and a monitor was placed on the table next to him.

Not long after, the middle-aged man who hurried over from outside the ward stood in front of his bed. Seeing that he had woken up, he was obviously relieved, and hurriedly asked the doctor about his condition.

Shen Qi recognized this person almost at a glance. It was the man in Shen Qingzhu's pocket watch. Even though many years had passed, his appearance had not changed much except that he was more mature.

After the doctor went out, he sat on the chair beside the bed, calmed down for a long time, and said to Shen Xi in a gentle tone: "Qiqi, hello, my name is Xu Dongcheng."

He paused for a long time before saying the next sentence emphatically: "I am your father."

These words were the only words Shen Xi understood after waking up, and he didn't even have the energy to look at the man in front of him who was connected with his blood.

Xu Dongcheng said: "You have been in a coma for five days, take a good rest, and when you recover, Dad will tell you everything."

Seeing Shen Qi's lifeless look, Xu Dongcheng's heart felt like a knife was being twisted.When he arrived at Tangqin Town, Shen Qingzhu had already been buried. When he inquired about Shen Qingzhu's residence and rushed over, he heard people's cries for help by the Qinghe River.He was a good swimmer, and when he heard it, he didn't care how low the temperature was, so he immediately went into the water to save people.

For the rest of his life, every time he thinks about it, he feels lucky. Fortunately, he resolutely chose to save people.Because after he rescued someone, he knew that the person he rescued was his own child.

Aunt Zhou next door told him that she saw Shen Qi jumping off by herself, and she also said a lot about Shen Qi, she was raised as a girl since she was a child, and was bullied by her peers because she didn't have a father. Being looked down upon, and that sort of thing.Xu Dongcheng felt a dull pain in his heart when he heard it, and he secretly made up his mind that no matter whether this boy named Shen Qi was his child or not, he would take care of him.

Later, when Shen Qi was in a coma, he did a paternity test, which proved that Shen Qi was his own son.

Those old things slowly surfaced in his mind, and pieced together the cruel truth. Xu Dongcheng felt that Shen Qingzhu was a terrible woman. Her actions had ruined his child's life.

Shen Xi was physically and mentally exhausted, the moment the pain in his body returned again, he suddenly hated the person who saved him.The doctor didn't dare to give him painkillers, so he could only sigh when he was in so much pain that his physical tears fell down.

The doctor said that his leg was badly injured, and after soaking in such cold water for so long, the wound that had healed would be infected again, which would seriously affect the function of the steel plate on the lower leg.In other words, his leg injury has a poor prognosis.

Shen Qi didn't even lift her eyelids when she listened to him.

The young doctor sighed again and again, and after walking out of the ward, he said to Xu Dongcheng: "After the condition stabilizes, go see a psychiatrist."

Xu Dongcheng was stunned for a while, and then he understood. He was leaning against the wall, wanting to smoke a cigarette, but when he saw the no-smoking sign on the opposite side, he put the cigarette back.

After living in the hospital for more than half a month, Shen Qi was barely able to get out of bed and walk around. Accompanied by Xu Dongcheng, he walked in the corridors of the hospital while holding on to the armrests. Blow people away.

Xu Dongcheng found sadly that the number of times Shen Xi opened his mouth to speak during this period could be counted on one hand.

On the night before he was discharged from the hospital, Xu Dongcheng sat with Shen Qi until very late. Even though Shen Qi was still just sitting there blankly like a puppet, he patiently and gently told him a lot of anecdotes and stories about him. places I've been to over the years.

Later, he talked about Shen Qingzhu.

Xu Dongcheng said that he and Shen Qingzhu were classmates, both majoring in building materials at Tianjin University.At that time, being admitted to university was something that generations of people were proud of. Both he and Shen Qingzhu were born in small places, and they became friends because of mutual sympathy, and Shen Qingzhu loved Xu Dongcheng for many years in the name of a friend.

In the story about Xu Dongcheng and Shen Qingzhu, the protagonist is not Shen Qingzhu, but the woman from a wealthy family with good temperament and good looks. Her name is Ruan Changling.

Ruan Changling was an exchange student who returned to school from the United States that year. She and Shen Qingzhu became best friends at first sight. Through Shen Qingzhu, she met Xu Dongcheng, who is also an alumnus.The later story was extremely clichéd, Ruan Changling and Xu Dongcheng fell in love and became lovers.

In [-], when they were about to graduate, the three of them entered a company dealing in foreign trade building materials as an intern at the same time.Unexpectedly, that company was just a leather bag company, and when the legal person ran away, it was only an empty shell. When the public security organs intervened, the real illegal fund-raisers ran away, but Xu Dongcheng, who was in charge of a large number of fake and shoddy building materials became a scapegoat.

That was the most difficult time for Xu Dongcheng. The huge financial case weighed on him, exhausting all the ideals of an inexperienced young man.And the person who was finally sentenced to prison in this economic case was Shen Qingzhu.

She changed all the information, and Ruan Changling also paid money to clear up the relationship, and all the charges were placed on her.Xu Dongcheng was picked clean, and she was sentenced to five years in prison.

During Shen Qingzhu's five years in prison, her parents in Tangqin Town both passed away, and she was unable to see the two elders for the last time, which became the greatest regret in her life.After she was released from prison, she asked Xu Dongcheng to break up with Ruan Changling and marry herself.

She had no relatives and no home at that time, and Xu Dongcheng was the only person she could hold on to, and it became the last straw for her to live.

Later, she married Xu Dongcheng as she wished and became pregnant.

When talking about this, Shen Qi looked at Xu Dongcheng, and continued: "After all, the person you love is not her, so you broke your promise and abandoned her, right?"

Xu Dongcheng didn't answer, he just looked at Shen Qi quietly, this man who was extremely successful in his family business, his eyes were red with pain at this moment.

Shen Qi felt that this story was extremely clichéd, but the more clichéd the story, the heavier it was. It is not a sin to love or not to love, but it is a mistake to have a child and live up to something.

Xu Dongcheng gave Shen Qi a longevity lock, which was golden, small and exquisite, engraved with Sanskrit, and inside was his zodiac.

Shen Qi didn't want it, and couldn't shirk it, so he let him wear it around his neck, against the bully, and felt chills intermittently.

Xu Dongcheng looked heavy when he put the longevity lock on him, and finally patted his shoulder heavily, without saying anything, but seemed to say a thousand words.

On the day he was discharged from the hospital, Xu Dongcheng's assistant had already packed up and completed the discharge procedures. When he was about to leave, the doctor and nurse hurried over and stopped them.

The doctor flipped through the medical records, because he came in a hurry and was still out of breath, he said: "Mr. Xu, something is wrong. The results of Shen Qi's examination seem to be not right."

He explained something, it seemed that there was something unreasonable, Xu Dongcheng and Shen Qi didn't quite understand, so he could only say: "Don't be in a hurry to leave the hospital, let's check it first."

Xu Dongcheng asked: "What are you looking for?"

The doctor said, "Hormones."

The discharge plan was interrupted. Accompanied by Xu Dongcheng, Shen Qi went for some more examinations. He followed the doctor in a daze throughout the whole process. He checked six hormone items, and finally went to the Andrology Department.

Xu Dongcheng was stunned, and stood outside the examination room and asked the nurse, "Please explain clearly what's going on!"

The nurse was a little embarrassed and said, "Let's wait for the test results to come out."

After tossing back and forth all morning, the assistant went out to buy lunch, and Xu Dongcheng accompanied Shen Qi in the lounge waiting for the result.

He was extremely anxious and worried about Shen Qi, and kept looking for something to talk to him, even though Shen Qi didn't respond to him.

It was already afternoon when the doctor came out with the test results, and he asked, "Shen Qi, have you... ever taken estrogen?"

Shen Qi moved when he heard the sound, and raised his head to look at him in a daze.

The doctor said: "All six of your hormones are abnormal. Estrogen is several times higher than that of ordinary men. You have no underlying disease. The only explanation for this happening is that you usually take estrogen."

Shen Qi was nailed to the spot, he could understand every word the doctor said, but he couldn't understand the meaning of his words.

He felt his blood froze, and a terrible idea slowly emerged.

Xu Dongcheng was anxious: "What will happen if estrogen is too high? Can it be cured?"

The doctor sighed and said: "The male estrogen is too high, it will be feminized, and... will lose fertility. That's why I asked if you have taken medicine. Generally, men who take estrogen drugs are late-stage men. I plan to do... sex reassignment surgery. Think carefully about whether you have any long-term medication and what went wrong."

What went wrong?

Shen Xi couldn't control his body and kept trembling. He suddenly squatted under the chair as if frightened, covering his ears, not wanting to hear any sound.

Xu Dongcheng was frightened by Shen Qi before recovering from the doctor's words. He quickly squatted down and asked anxiously: "What's the matter? What's the matter? Qi Qi, tell Dad, okay?"

With a hoarse voice, Shen Qi screamed one after another, desperate and shrill, like a dying cat, who could only curl up, not daring to approach Xu Dongcheng in the slightest.

Doctors and nurses hurried forward to help, hurried to the pharmacy to get medicine, and gave him a shot of sedation.

Until the effect of the medicine took effect and Shen Xi fell asleep, Xu Dongcheng was still sweating profusely from the torment. He carried Shen Xi back to the hospital bed with distress, and tucked the quilt for him.