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Guan Zang has been missing for two days.

The guard room on the first floor was in a mess, everything that could be smashed was smashed, and there was not a single piece of glass left.There was a note pasted on the door, in Guan Zang's handwriting, neatly written, "Grandpa, please keep a distance from him and his family. One more step, one more corpse, please know. This is not a warning, it is Notice, thank you for reading—Gaisun Guanzang, on the night of December 12."

"He was quite polite. He knocked on the door first and asked if we had done anything to Yan Keji. I just wanted to send him back quickly—I didn't expect him to look so gentle, why are his hands so dark?" the injured His life was unharmed. He was lying in the hospital on a bottle, and several bones were broken. He still has lingering fears when he recalls Ma Qianjia. "It's like crazy, my eyes are red."

"So you did attack Yan Keji again."

"Then how dare we refuse to listen to the greetings from above. Besides, this matter has been done a lot before, and it's not murder and arson. Who would have thought that we would encounter such a mental illness?"

"Guan Zang is not mentally ill!" Ma Qianjia yelled, holding his breath after the yelling, and asked, "What else did he say?"

"He said it himself. He himself said that he is mentally ill! He said that there is no need to pretend to be a normal person, and it is meaningless anyway. If it is over, he will beat him, and he will beat him to death. Me, you didn’t give me much money, why do you still want me to be a martyr? Medical expenses and mental damage expenses can’t be missed, let me tell you.”

Ma Qian's family stopped asking, turned around and went out to find Guan Jingyuan.Holding back his anger, he said, "You can't provoke Guan Zang like this, he's obviously fine, why do you have to push him to the extreme?"

"You were fooled around by that flamboyant dancer, and you still have the nerve to ask me. This kind of person won't restrain himself unless he suffers a little bit. Guan Zang dares to threaten his grandfather to kill someone now because of him." Guan Jingyuan He said calmly, took a sip of tea, and didn't take it seriously, "When I get him back, I will go through the formalities to study abroad, and don't come back within three to five years."

"You haven't understood Guan Zang at all, and doing so will only make him rebound more severely! When he passes his enthusiasm, Guan Zang will naturally be separated from that person. He is not a child anymore, and his stubbornness is exactly the same as Le Hua—"

Guan Jingyuan dropped the teacup in her hand: "Don't mention my daughter's name! Ma Qianjia, what right do you have to mention her! I shouldn't have sent her to you in the first place! There wouldn't be so many bad things later !"

Ma Qianjia let the teacup explode at his feet, gritted his molars and said, "So you want to treat Guan Zang the same way you treated Lehua? Can't you talk to him and hear what he thinks? Can't you respect him a little?"

"You talk to him every day, do you know what he thinks? Is it the result of your chat that he has come to this point? I only want him to know, and I'm doing it for his own good!"

"For his own good?" Ma Qianjia repeated, "I can tell you very clearly—Guan Zang's mind is very clear, his mental state is very normal, he is fully capable of acting, and fully aware of what he is doing."

"Of course! He's mentally normal!"

"But he's mentally abnormal!" Ma Qianjia roared, his tone full of sadness, "He is not afraid of using any means to achieve any purpose, and he is not afraid of any consequences. This is precisely the most terrifying thing! You really think he is just talking , can’t you do it? The person who made him twisted like this is none other than you! You treat his grandmother, his mother, and those people you don’t want to see as non-existent! He knew from a young age that you would not save them, but would Separate them from their lives one by one, he has seen and experienced so many things, do you think his mentality will be the same as that of ordinary people?"

"Fuck your mother's fart!"

After Guan Jingyuan finished swearing, Ma Qian's family was kicked out of the villa by the security guards.

Instead of going home, I went to the upstairs where Guanzang was locked up. Iron fences were installed on the second and third floors, and the same was done on the third and fourth floors, but the installation time was different.He still kept the key, opened the door, and walked to the bedroom. There was already a layer of dust on the bed cover.

Ma Qianjia carefully lifted a piece, and slowly sat on the edge of the bed.

"Doctor Ma, you must help me protect Guan Zang, don't let anyone hurt him, please." At that time, Guan Lehua was skinny, and the palm of his hand almost hurt his flesh.

Guan Lehua is gentle and introverted, but also timid. She cries every day and has auditory hallucinations.When she got sick, she always said that someone had been chasing and killing their mother and child, and she huddled in a corner for a whole day without eating or drinking, begging the angel to take her away.Later, it got better, and my memory recovered a little bit. After getting familiar with it, I will tell Ma Qianjia a little about myself.

Ma Qianjia said that she looked like Alice going down a rabbit hole when she went into the flowers for the first time.She smiled shyly and said, "I won't mess around when I'm done. Besides, I'm so old, I'm not like Alice."

On her birthday, she didn't want to wear a hospital gown and wanted to wear a skirt to take pictures, so Ma Qianjia asked her relatives to buy a printed skirt.But I felt that it was against the rules and etiquette to give it to her, so I said "lend it to her to wear it". When I was about to change it after taking the photo, I mumbled for a long time and found several excuses to say "I gave it to her".

Guan Lehua took the new skirt and happily accepted it without exposing him.

Her mother fell ill very early and was locked up at home all the time.When I was in a relationship in my 20s, my father disagreed and locked her up for several days to force them to break up.She smashed the window at home and wanted to jump, saying that someone downstairs called her, but fortunately she was found in time.

Rumors gradually spread in the factory that the factory director's daughter was crazy and that she would not be able to get married now.Only one month later, she was arranged to marry an advanced worker that Guan Jingyuan liked. The other party married and became a door-to-door son-in-law in the Guan family.The man has no father and no mother, he is hardworking and willing to work, he never complains about dirty work, he is an honest person, he has a good reputation in the factory and is popular with others, he has advanced for several years, and he has never held hands with a lesbian in his 30s .Guan Lehua soon became pregnant and gave birth to a healthy and beautiful boy, Guan Zang.

Her condition has been stable for three or four years, and Guan Jingyuan bought them a separate building so that the couple would not have to live with her natal family. At that time, Guan Lehua's mother had already been locked upstairs, crying all the time.Guan Jingyuan felt that it would have a bad influence on her daughter and grandson.

Out of Guan Jingyuan's sight, the son-in-law showed another look.

He felt that the child came too soon, and always suspected that Guan Zang was not his own, but the seed left by Guan Lehua and her former boyfriend, and Guan Jingyuan came to find him as a cheap father.When he lived in Guan's house, he didn't dare to get angry. After moving out, he beat Guan Zang at every turn. He was afraid that Guan Lehua would protect him, so he locked him in the hut and beat him. Later, he even beat Guan Lehua.Guan Zang was very quiet, and he didn't cry much when he was beaten, and he couldn't make a sound when he cried. The more he was like this, the angrier his husband became, and the harder he beat him.

Guan Lehua cried and begged, and scratched the door until there were blood spots. The husband was afraid that others would hear her, so he tied her up and gagged her.One night in early winter, Guan Lehua stabbed her husband once, and led Guan Zang out of the house, running to her mother's house.Later, Guan Jingyuan picked up the couple from the police station, and then Guan Lehua was sent to a nursing home.

"Guan Zang is really his child..." Guan Lehua said with tears in her eyes, "It's his own, why doesn't he believe it?"

She showed Ma Qian's family a photo of Guan Zang. The little boy was gentle and quiet, and he looked very much like her.She was thinking about the child every day, so she cried and said, "It would be great if Guan Zang didn't have a mother like me, and he wouldn't have to suffer so much."

Guan Jingyuan came to visit her every now and then, and peeled her favorite shrimp and lychees one by one.Once, Guan Lehua cried and said, "Dad, please let me go home. I'm fine. I won't stab him anymore. Let me see the child." Then he touched her hair lightly and said, "Papa will pick you up in a few days." When returning home, Ma Qian's family saw Guan Jingyuan covering her face in the car alone, her shoulders trembling. .

Later, Guan Jingyuan bought a small house next to the nursing home, facing the sea, with a particularly nice view, and hired a nanny to let Guan Lehua move in, and Guan Zang was also taken over.Before moving out, I specifically consulted with Ma Qianjia, asking if I could visit her regularly to check on her condition, whether to prescribe medicine or not.Guan Lehua's condition was relatively stable at that time, and she insisted on taking medicine, and her auditory hallucinations have disappeared, basically no different from ordinary people.Ma Qianjia agreed.

"If I don't agree at that time, it will be fine." Ma Qianjia slowly lay down on the dusty bed and murmured.

After that incident, Guan Lehua was taken back to her hometown immediately, and when Ma Qian's family saw her again, she had been locked up in this room for several years.She never left until she died under the age of 40.