brotherly innocence

"What do you want to say?" Boss Qin shook his clothes and sat on the sofa, patted the vacant sofa beside him, and signaled Chu Yaonan to come closer.

Chu Yaonan rubbed his left cheek and endured the pain, sobbed and knelt down to his knees, peeping at his father's expression with tearful eyes, and said, "It's my son who doesn't live up to expectations, he doesn't get sick early, he doesn't get sick at night, but he fell ill when he returned home. .”

After finishing speaking, he was crying in a low voice, with that aggrieved appearance, his originally fair cheeks, and his back twitching, Boss Qin gritted his teeth and said, "Look up!"

Chu Yaonan raised his face and felt a black shadow approaching him. When he closed his eyes, his right cheek was in severe pain, and he threw himself on the side of the sofa, crying even louder.

"Speak or not?"

Chu Yaonan was sobbing, bleeding from the corners of his lips, he leaned towards Boss Qin's knee and cried, "Father, please use your own methods to beat him, don't hit your son in the face, he is afraid."

The crying caused the old lady and aunts to come in one after another. The third aunt cried bitterly and rushed to embrace Yaonan and rubbed his cheeks, saying, "Bao'er, Bao'er, let mother take a look and see what's wrong with you?"

Weeping and scolding: "Why do you have such a hard life, with a son, you are a little cabbage."

"What are you doing? In the middle of the night, you hit one after another. If you are upset, go find a place to save the corpse! How many times have I told you, don't hit your face when you hit your son."

Boss Qin looked up at the ceiling, and asked Chu Yaonan coldly: "Fengtian, you are sick if you say you are sick? Where did you go?"

Chu Yaonan was startled, held back his crying, looked around, but did not see Qin Rong.

"Don't look for it. Your second brother always speaks good things for you, and doesn't mention those shameful things. Are you two brothers foolish to be parents?"

Chu Yaonan lowered his head, he choked up, his words were slurred, his cheeks were swollen: "Well, that's my son pretending to be sick."

Everyone was shocked, and countless astonished eyes turned to Chu Yaonan.

Chu Yaonan wiped away his tears, calmed himself down, sobbed and said: "Because the Tianhuang Society has a large number of people, the Blue Gang is hard to attack far away, and the art of war is taboo. My son set up a trick to lure the snake out of the hole, trying to pretend to be drunk, dreaming and dying." Illness, Tianhuang will take it lightly, wait for ten and a half months to ask him out to meet him on the river beach, secretly send troops in to seal the mine, and take down Li Laopi here. Who would want Ah Rong to be impatient and not listen to his son Tell me, take advantage of the few days when my son is away, and act alone."

The old lady seemed to understand better, and said angrily: "Should be hit, should be hit, hit hard! This Rong'er just doesn't worry. If we go out and don't obey orders, and act on our own, is it our Nan'er who can do it?"

Boss Qin was stunned and speechless, looking at Chu Yaonan's aggrieved appearance, his face was wet with tears.This is the kid who has always been naughty and glib, how can he trust him so easily?A smile gradually appeared on Boss Qin's face, and he approached Chu Yaonan and asked, "You are recuperating, and you are not in the hotel, where did you go? No one, no ghost!"

Chu Yaonan looked at his father awkwardly, and responded in a low voice, "I went to Xiaoluanling, Hukou Town."

"What did you do!" Boss Qin roared, Chu Yaonan lowered his head, his eyes rolled, could it be that the old man noticed something?

He looked up again, his eyes clouded with tears.

"Dad's sore arms have become more serious recently, and he always uses the sliced ​​old ginseng flowers in the northeast forest to soak in water to relieve it. Now that the stock is out, Dad's arms are always sore. My son heard Lou Bo talk about it. My son went all over the pharmacies in Fengtian, but he didn't see any for sale. He said that the Japanese collected them at a high price. The son followed the herb pickers to the nearby towns to buy them, and went to the forest to collect them. Who would have thought that he lost his way and found them in his pocket? The money was also touched. It was frozen in the streets and alleys at night, and almost died of freezing and starvation."

"Ah!" Everyone screamed, and the third aunt was crying so hard that she couldn't make a sound.

"It's a little doll with big eyes. When I came home from school and saw my dying son, I mistook it for his second uncle and called someone to save him. I'm afraid his second uncle looked a little like his son, so my son was lucky. I recovered my life. My son woke up and lay on the bed of a family named Zhuo. The baby who saved me was his youngest son, who said that I looked like his family. Seeing that his son was ill, he was coughing and panting from the cold. , it was also the doctor that the family found that saved the son's life."

Qin Rong heard that Chu Yaonan was beaten and scolded by the master when he came back, so he hurriedly pulled himself up and rushed back, just heard Chu Yaonan's cry, and finally understood why he persisted in going to that small town to find someone surnamed Zhuo, it turned out to be life-saving benefactor.

"However, my son still wanted to go back to the restaurant to get the money and thank him. When I got back, I found that my second brother had decided to act on his own, so he had to take care of this. Who would have thought that on the night of September [-], the Japanese bombarded the North Camp."

"What about the Zhuo family?" the old lady asked anxiously.

"Boom, it's gone!" Chu Yaonan wailed loudly, weeping like a concubine, with tears running down his cheeks, and everyone sighed.

The old lady said with red eyes: "Why is it so miserable, why is it so miserable. No wonder the child is unhappy."

"Didn't the sister-in-law say that she might have gone back to her hometown." Qin Rong comforted Chu Yaonan.

Chu Yaonan shook his head and cried: "No, she's lying to me. I'm afraid I'll be sad. That piece of leather is a treasure from the ancestral hall of his family, and he will definitely take it away. Something must have happened, but I dare not Go dig the bricks and rubble and see if there are any corpses inside, I dare not!"

There were cries in the room, and the old lady scolded: "Why is this little devil so bad! Such a good-hearted man, is this going to kill him?"

Qin Rong took a deep breath, and said tragically, "That town was bombed by a plane, and it was covered in rubble, bloody everywhere, and corpses littered the field."

The third aunt was so panicked that her legs were limp, she knelt on the ground, hugged Yaonan and patted him coaxingly: "Good boy, good boy, don't cry."

Chu Yaonan rubbed his eyes, and told Adan to get his package, and took out a silk bag from it, which was wrapped with his snow silk shirt, and when he opened it, it was a paper bag again, layer by layer, inside was A pack of ginseng flowers and an old ginseng were brought to my father with trembling hands and said, "Father, this is all I need. The ginseng digger and I waited two nights to get it."

The old lady cried and hugged Yaonan, patting and coaxing: "Good boy, thank you for your hard work, the thousand-year-old ginseng is not easy to come by, you have to tie a red rope at night and look for it the next day."

Boss Qin held the bag of ginseng flowers that his son had gone through all kinds of hardships and almost killed him, turned his head and moved his lips, not knowing what to say.

He patted the top of Chu Yaonan's head with a slap, rubbed it hard a few times, and cursed: "You are such a big kid, why are you crying? You just slapped him twice and you cried. Cry again! Daddy really beat me up."

After a while, he scolded again: "I know that I have the root cause of this disease. If I get sick, it will kill me. If I don't take care of my body, if there is something good or bad, how can Dad be at ease?"

Chu Yaonan murmured: "Without Yaonan, Dad will not be so angry."

"Raising you for 20 years, how can I be willing to give up on you? I didn't see you so angry that the roots of my teeth itch, but when I saw you, I really beat you, and my heart ached."

Only then did Chu Yaonan ask with a long sigh of relief: "Father, you are so angry, where do you think your son has gone?"

Boss Qin was startled, and hurriedly snorted and said, "Isn't Zuo going to fool around in Huajie and Liuxiang, forgetting about business."

It seems that the words are not right.

Chu Yaonan came out of the shower, saw his mother making the bed for him, and whispered: "Nan'er, your father cares about you, don't look at his hard mouth, but he loves you in his heart. No, that idiot Pei stole your money." That car, the new car your father ordered for you has arrived. Tonight, the idiot Pei insisted on begging for this car, and was severely beaten by your father."

Chu Yaonan rubbed his head and asked suddenly: "Mother, back then, when Dad handed Bao'er into Mother's hands, did he ever tell me about my origin?"

The third aunt was too stunned, shook her head and said: "Your father is not allowed to ask questions when he is doing things. At that time, mother also asked, but he yelled back, and dared not ask again. You know mother, how did you know at that time that the master will be in the future for nearly 20 years?" I don't have a son. At that time, my mother was just a dowry maid, looking around. Mother was not reconciled, but because your father liked it, she followed your father and raised her outside. She didn't have a status, but she enjoyed Wife's blessing. Who knows that your father suddenly bought a little thing of yours for me to raise. It was neither given to the eldest wife nor to the second aunt, but to me. Do you think mother can be unhappy? When your father thought your mother was lonely, he got a doll for her to relieve boredom and play with it. I also asked about your origin, and your father only said that you picked it up on the side of the road. Dad hasn't had a son in 18 years."