Judgment

Zhang Ruhai answered the phone outside the house.

"Hey, hey! Yes, sorry to trouble you."

"No no no, I will never procrastinate, as soon as I have money, I will pay it back!"

"Yes, don't worry. Just borrow for a few days, and you will have money when you sell my house. Pay it back right away!"

A 60-year-old man, begging his grandpa to tell his grandma, begged the other party on the phone.In the corridor of the hospital, people coming and going looked at him with disdain, understanding, or numbness in their eyes.Zhang Ruhai didn't care about this at all, he just thought about how to borrow more money to save his child's life.

After hanging up the phone, he let out a sigh of relief.

He has already worshiped all kinds of gods and Buddhas here, and he has put down his face and begged for any relatives and friends who have a little relationship who can borrow money.But up to now, I have only borrowed more than 20 yuan, which looks like a lot. In fact, the money was wiped out after a serious illness in the hospital.

More money is needed to save Zhang Zixuan's life, and the only way left is to sell that house.Zhang Ruhai clutched the phone tightly, with pain and hesitation on his face, and in the end, everything turned into a determination, and he had made up his mind.After calming down his emotions, he pushed open the door of the ward beside him and walked in.

There is only one young man in this ward, with various catheters inserted in his body, and the catheters are connected to various instruments, lying on the hospital bed like a mummy.If you don't look carefully, you won't even notice that his chest is still rising and falling slightly.He's alive, at least, for now.

Noticing Zhang Ruhai coming in, the person on the bed moved his fingers slightly and turned his gaze to him with difficulty.That expression seemed to have something to say.Zhang Ruhai quickly moved his head to his ear. "Dad is here, here, what do you want?"

Zhang Zixuan's lips moved slightly, Zhang Ruhai held his breath and listened, only to hear his son say: How could this be?why?

I don't want to die yet.

Dad, I don't want to die.

Zhang Zixuan didn't have the energy to say more, so he could only look at Zhang Ruhai with his eyes.A few days ago, the eyes were full of longing and anticipation for the future, but now there is only despair and struggle.For him, the illness came without warning.When he was full of calculations and thought that he still had countless tomorrows, the god of death suddenly told him: Hey, it's time for you to go, you can't live anymore.

As far as Zhang Ruhai was concerned, he kept concealing his illness from his son, and he just hoped that Zhang Zixuan could live happily before it deteriorated further, and one day longer was just one day.Zhang Ruhai is even ready to deal with various situations.

But at this moment, looking at the tears flowing from the corners of his son's eyes, he felt his despair and unwillingness.Zhang Ruhai only felt that his heart was more uncomfortable than being torn. The greatest pain in life is that a white-haired person gives a black-haired person.He choked up and held Zhang Zixuan's hand tightly. "Dad will definitely cure you, definitely! No matter what method is used. You hold on, don't give up, ah."

Zhang Zixuan was tired, closed his eyes, and stopped thinking so much, but Zhang Ruhai still had a lot of things to think about.For example, how to raise more money, what should be the next step in the treatment of my son, and what should I do if there is no one to take care of me at home?And, tomorrow's court session.

He personally sued his old mother to court, intending to drive her out of the only residence and sell her only home.This seemingly ruthless, unfilial, and disgusting choice was to save Zhang Zixuan.

Sometimes, people are cruel to one person because they want to be gentle to another person.

How to evaluate such feelings?

Zhang Ruhai didn't know.He only knew that no matter how much blame, no matter how much insult and ridicule there was in the future, he would bear it alone.This is the punishment he deserves.And now he doesn't think about how to face the secular eyes, how to face the old mother, he just wants to save his son's life.How can we take the ownership of the house from my mother.

On the day of the trial, Zhang Ruhai hired a nurse to take care of his son, and went to the court early in the morning to wait.Wang Chen was in charge of receiving him.

The man who sat silently in the waiting room was almost sixty now.While others are waiting to take care of themselves, he is exhausting his energy for more things.Life is not fair.

Wang Chen put the tea in front of him, Zhang Ruhai, who was always polite, didn't move, as if he didn't notice him.But Wang Chen was looking at Zhang Ruhai carefully, and he could clearly feel this person's emotions.Even if it is not a monster, at this moment, any ordinary person can detect Zhang Ruhai's mood.

Zhang Ruhai is waiting for this trial, looking forward to victory, but he will not be happy even if the result comes true.It will only be more painful, and then take this painful victory to save his son.

Wang Chen put down his teacup and waited.According to Xu Shen, if nothing else, Zhang Ruhai will win the trial.Yet humans are such complex creatures that even when they win the victory they want, they are not happy.Because victory does not mean happiness.

At this time, Wang Chen thought of the ongoing trial of the monsters. If the monsters finally got their wish and punished humans, would they be satisfied?No one knows.

"Xiao Wang." At the door, Xu Shen, who was about to start the court, suddenly came over and waved to Wang Chen.

"Something unexpected happened." Xu Shen's expression was a little unpredictable, as if he was sighing and expected.

"What happened?" Wang Chen asked.

"Neither the defendant nor the defendant's attorney is going to attend. Just now Zhang Sufen's attorney called and said that they have given up the ownership fight." Xu Shen said: "To put it bluntly, the old lady is going to give up the house to her son. That's it, let me go in and tell Zhang Ruhai."

Wang Chen thought for a second, then suddenly said to Xu Shen: "Xu Shen, I'm asking for leave! I have to go back because of something urgent."

"Ah? Where are you going? What's the hurry?"

"My wife is happy!"

Wang Chen ran away in a hurry, looking for a place where no one was around, and using the monster's ability to quickly transfer to the hospital.As soon as he arrived at the hospital, William appeared beside him like a shadow.

"Why are you here?" Wang Chen was a little surprised.

"I can feel your aura." William said, "There are other candidates' auras here too. I am worried about your safety, Your Highness."

"Sure enough, he is here too." Wang Chen was not surprised.When he knew that Zhang Sufen was not present, he guessed that Ji Xuan would definitely come to the hospital.No, Zhang Sufen will definitely come to the hospital, and Ji Xuan will follow her.

When they found Ji Xuan, they were a little surprised.Only Ji Xuan was alone, and Zhang Sufen was nowhere to be seen.Wang Chen went up to ask directly. "Where are people?"

"gone."

"You just let her go back alone?" Wang Chen was slightly taken aback.

"I sent her back." Ji Xuan said sullenly: "She said she would cook her grandson's last meal and then give her soul to me. But suddenly, I don't really want this human soul."

Ji Xuan still remembered what happened when he brought Zhang Sufen to the hospital.

The old lady sat on the bed and looked at the drowsy Zhang Zixuan, and suddenly laughed.

"Xiao Ji." Mrs. Zhang said: "People say that older people can be confused. I didn't believe it before. Looking at it now, it's true."

Ji Xuan looked at her inexplicably, "It's normal for human beings to lose their IQ when they get old."

Mrs. Zhang shook her head, "No, I'm just laughing at myself. Why are you angry with the children? When I was young, I would do anything to feed them. Even if Yaya died, I wouldn't allow it. Someone else move her."

"Little Haizi saving his son now is exactly the same as I was back then."

"I'm confused. I thought the children would at least not forget me by being there. But I didn't understand that it would only make them hate me." Mrs. Zhang stretched out her hand and touched her little grandson's pale face .

"Looking at him is like seeing Xiao Haizi when he was young. The two of them really look alike." Mrs. Zhang looked at Zhang Zixuan with a smile, and suddenly asked Ji Xuan: "Tell me, it's better for people to live or die. good?"

"Of course it's better to be alive." Ji Xuan said without hesitation.

"why?"

"People have feelings when they are alive, but they are just bones when they are dead." Ji Xuan only answered according to the values ​​of monsters.Living humans are food, and dead people are worthless.

When Mrs. Zhang heard his answer, she was suddenly stunned. "It's good to live, it's good to live. Why didn't I understand this truth before?"

"Yeah, I can talk to you only when I'm alive, and I can see you only when I'm alive. Dead?" She touched the iron box on her chest, "Don't talk about talking, I can't even quarrel with you or play pranks. "

"Little Ji, you really are my nobleman." Mrs. Zhang looked at Ji Xuan, "I won't regret it, and I know what I should do. I'm so old, my sons and daughters are married, I What else is there to be dissatisfied with? I should be content, and I don’t ask for anything.”

Granny Zhang smiled, no longer the loneliness and tranquility she had before, but a kind of satisfaction that suddenly dawned on her.

"You wait a little longer until I go back and ask them to cook the last meal. Then you can scoop what you want from me."

Afterwards, Ji Xuan let Mrs. Zhang go back.He stood alone in the hospital alone, thinking for a long time, but he still didn't understand.

"Why didn't she complain all of a sudden?" Ji Xuan said, "What's the point of wanting her soul?"

Wang Chen thought for a while and replied: "I know that human beings will complain and hate, and most of the time they are very narrow-minded. But there is only one situation where they don't care about all of this."

Ji Xuan stared at him closely.

"When people start to love, hate becomes insignificant."

"Love?" Ji Xuan murmured. "It sounds terrible."

"That's right." Wang Chen nodded, "Human love is something more terrifying than hate. It makes people risk everything."

"Monsters don't devour love." Ji Xuandao: "Zhang Sufen loves her child, I can't eat her."

Wang Chen smiled, "I can eat it, but I don't want to either."

Wang Chen is the only monster that can devour positive energy, and many monsters know this.So Ji Xuan wondered, "Why?"

"because……"

"Mother? Mother!" The sudden shout interrupted the conversation between the two demons, and Zhang Ruhai hurriedly came from the other side. "Where's my mother? Where is she? The people in the court told me just now that she..."

"She's gone back." Ji Xuan replied coldly.

"Where did she go? She is alone? My mother is so old, what should I do if there is an accident on the road?" Zhang Ruhai was anxious like an ant on a hot pot, and saw Wang Chen asking repeatedly as if he was seeing a savior. "Little judge, you must know where my mother has gone, and you also know why, why she..."

Seeing that Zhang Ruhai was silent, Wang Chen told him to finish. "Why did you suddenly decide to give up the house to you?"

Zhang Ruhai blushed and stopped talking.

At this time, Ji Xuan, who was on the side, said imitatively: "Because she loves you."

A monster talking about love to humans?William, who was on the sidelines, felt that there was no scene more unbelievable than this scene.

Zhang Ruhai stuttered, his face turned from red to blue, and then pale again.Now in his heart, surprises and astonishments are intertwined, and the strongest feeling among them is guilt.When he was calculating about his mother, Mrs. Zhang had already chosen to give in.The person he decided to be indifferent to, gave him a tenderness that he could never repay.

Just because, that is the mother.

"I want to go back and see my mother." Zhang Ruhai said in a low voice, "I want to take my mother over to live with me, and kowtow to her a few more times!"

"Your mother doesn't need..." Wang Chen was about to say something when Ji Xuan's expression suddenly changed. "What's wrong?"

"Something happened to that human being." Ji Xuan clenched his fists tightly with a worried expression on his face. "I'll go first."

Before Wang Chen could react, Ji Xuan had disappeared.He even teleported away in the open, regardless of being seen by outsiders.Fortunately, there is no one here now, Zhang Ruhai is also excited, no one noticed this strange.

"What happened?" Wang Chen turned around and asked William.He knew that no matter when, William would have the answer.

The monster steward closed his eyes for a while, and when he opened them again, his expression was a little bit wrong. "Emperor Capital, another candidate has come."

Wang Chen's heart skipped a beat, only to hear William continue: "The place where he just appeared is Zhang Sufen's neighborhood."

When Wang Chen and Zhang Ruhai rushed to the room converted from a dilapidated garage, they saw Ji Xuan standing quietly in the night.He didn't speak or move, but Wang Chen could feel the overwhelming anger on his body.

"What, what's going on?" Zhang Ruhai wondered, "Where's my mother?"

Ji Xuan turned around, and Wang Chen noticed that he was still holding an old lunch box in his hand.There was some mud on the outside of the lunch box, which seemed to have fallen to the ground.

Seeing Zhang Ruhai, Ji Xuan suddenly stepped forward and put the lunch box into his hands.

"She came back and said she would cook another meal for you." Ji Xuan said.

Zhang Ruhai opened the lunch box, and inside was a box full of stir-fried shredded pork with green peppers, the best green peppers, and the freshest shredded pork. This was probably the most expensive dish for Zhang Sufen in the past few years.Zhang Ruhai suddenly remembered that his mother had kept him for dinner when he left last time, but he didn't even look at the food on the table at that time.At that time, he hated her in his heart.

"Where is my mother?" Zhang Ruhai asked with trembling hands, "Where is she? Why didn't she come and hand over the lunch box to me and watch me finish eating?"

Wang Chen closed his eyes, already having guesses in his heart.

"She's inside." Ji Xuan said, "When I came back, I couldn't come..."

Before the words finished, I saw Zhang Ruhai rushing in.Within a few seconds, there was a burst of heart-piercing crying in the room.Those howls and howls, with hoarse pain, were the deepest sadness and despair in my heart.

Zhang Ruhai shouted, mother, mother!hoarse.

Over and over again, just this one word.However, Mrs. Zhang has been out of hearing, forever.

"Who is it?" There was silence outside, Wang Chen suddenly asked, "Did you see it?"

"...I watched him take Zhang Sufen's soul with my own eyes." Ji Xuandao: "In front of me."

"You didn't stop?" Wang Chen was surprised.

"I can't beat him."

The two demons are silent, a candidate that even Ji Xuan cannot defeat.Wang Chen thought, he already knew which one was the one who made the move.

"He moved my things, and I will definitely seek revenge from him." Ji Xuan said bitterly: "She said she would give me her soul. Even if I don't want it, other demons are not allowed to snatch it."

William said: "Even if you don't allow it, there will always be monsters chasing her. She is the only human being who can maintain her heart after falling into the devil's way. Even if she can't be used as food, other demons will want to take her soul away." .”

This is the greed of monsters.They don't understand human emotion, yet they covet the soul of a human being who possesses emotion.He even wants to take it away at all costs.

"I don't care." Ji Xuan's eyes were ruthless, "I will definitely make him regret it."

"Count me in." Wang Chen said suddenly: "I have eaten a few meals from her anyway, and I always have to repay the favor of a meal."

"Repay the favor?" Ji Xuan looked at him strangely, "It's fine if you don't want to eat her, why do you want to repay the favor?"

William on the side also looked over.To the gaze of the two monsters, Wang Chen didn't answer directly, but just smiled.

"Because I still remember the taste of her dishes."

Why not devour Zhang Sufen, why repay her kindness?These are questions that don't need answers.

Wang Chen thought to himself, because you all don't remember, I was also raised by my parents.

Last quote:

Wang Chen left the court again.

But even if he is not in the court this time, he will have many opportunities to "exercise".More and more candidates and monsters came to the imperial capital, and the final judgment was approaching every second.The gluttonous gluttons in the sky of the imperial capital are still devouring their greed—of humans and monsters.

A lot of things happen every day, and a lot of things happen every day.And Wang Chen will always remember everything that happened that day.

Zhang Sufen died, and made the last meal for her son before she died.Once a person dies, he never knows what will happen afterwards.Everything has nothing to do with them.

Did that house end up selling?Can Zhang Zixuan's illness be cured?How should Zhang Ruhai survive, does he regret it?

The living, and the dead.

In addition to white-haired people sending black-haired people, there is a deeper pain in this world.

——The son wants to support, but the relative does not wait.