play house

"I don't know if you still remember the summer vacation of the second year of high school."

Shen Yichi habitually took out the cigarette case from his pocket, looked at Chu Xian and put the cigarette down again. Seeing this, Chu Xian frowned, and handed the candy that Chu Lingze had given him to Shen Yichi,

"of course I remember."

That was the most intimate, purest and last time he spent with Shen Yichi.

"It was the last week of that summer vacation. Those male students in the class called me to play ball."

Shen Yichi peeled off the candy wrapper, and the watermelon-flavored hard candy wafted a faint fruity aroma between his lips and teeth, like the cool and sweet wind breaking into the dry and hot rainy season, blowing away Shen Yichi's faint agitation caused by the scar being lifted scattered.

He still remembers that it was a sunny day after a heavy rain, the accumulated water on the court was dried up, and the smell of rubber paint that belonged to summer was evaporating. Shen Yichi had just finished his lunch when he received a message from his classmate.

He still remembered that after accepting the appointment, he immediately sent a message to Chu Xian. He said that he was going to play at school in the afternoon and asked Chu Xian if he would come to see him.

Chu Xian didn't see the message in time, and only asked him where it was in the evening.

But no one thought that the phrase "where" would be the last message Chu Xian sent him before he deleted Shen Yichi's contact information.

The cicadas are making noise, and the Qingyang pierces the clouds.

After Shen Yichi helped clean up the dishes, he went to change his clothes and was ready to set off with the basketball in his arms, but Ye Mei stopped him before leaving.

"Yichi, the sun is so bright today, if there is no shade on the court, you will definitely suffer from heat stroke, why don't you go?"

Ye Mei seldom disciplines Shen Yichi. She is busy with work and often travels on business. Compared with Ye Mei, Shen Yichi spends more time with her father, Shen Su.

"I made an appointment with my classmates, and I'll be back after a while."

Shen Yichi didn't take Ye Mei's reminder to heart, thinking it was just the usual nagging from parents to the child, but somehow Ye Mei went uncharacteristically and blocked the door reluctantly, unwilling to let Shen Yichi go out.

"Xiao Chi, why don't you listen to your mother? Do you also think that your mother doesn't care about family affairs?"

"Mom, you think too much..."

"Your dad only has his stocks in his heart. He won't discipline you. Mom will take care of you in the future. This time, listen to mom and play games and read books at home obediently. Don't go out."

Ye Mei really didn't have any experience in educating children. Shen Yichi was brought up by the couple in a free-ranging manner since he was a child, but he was considered to be a young man, and he even attended key classes in key high schools.

Shen Yichi has long been used to their indifference to him, Ye Mei did not know what kind of stimulus this time, and the sudden restraint made it difficult for him to accept it for a while, so he argued with Ye Mei for a while without controlling his tone. In the end, Shen Su, who was still nestled in front of the computer, heard the movement and came out to persuade him to fight.

"It's normal for boys to go out to play ball. Your son is strong and will not suffer from heat stroke. Just leave him alone and go back to the bedroom with me to take a nap and rest, okay?"

Shen Su's youthful handsomeness still remained on Shen Su's face at that time, his sweet tongue could coax people, he persuaded Ye Mei back to the room with a few words, and whispered to Shen Yichi who was changing shoes,

"Your mother must have not had a good rest these two days and is more sensitive. Don't bother with her."

"It was because my voice was a little anxious just now that my mother thought I was going to quarrel with her."

Shen Yichi sighed, "Mom likes to eat duck neck, right? I'll bring her some when I come back."

"Good boy, is the living expenses still enough? I'll give you a little more. You can invite your friends out for dinner tonight. I'll take your mother to a two-person world tonight to relieve her stress."

Shen Su smiled softly, Shen Yichi nodded, and went downstairs with the ball in his arms.

Now when he thinks back on Shen Su's smile, he only feels shuddering, it is that smile that hides a sharp knife that kills without blood, and has deceived Shen Yichi and Ye Mei for decades.

Shen Yichi didn't go far down the stairs, and wanted to see if Chu Xian had replied to him, only to realize that he had forgotten his cell phone, and that he hadn't brought the study materials that he promised to play with his buddy later, so he turned back to Home.

He still remembered that when he came home, he saw some unfamiliar little girls playing and making noise by the fitness equipment downstairs in his house. There was a little girl wearing a sky blue tutu skirt with black hair and bright eyes. Like Chu Xian, Shen Yichi looked at her for a few more seconds.

When he got home, the TV and the air conditioner in the living room had been turned off, and the door of his parents' room was tightly closed. Shen Yichi knew that they should be taking a lunch break, so he tiptoed into his room with his shoes on.

He conveniently put the study materials in a certain test book, but he couldn't find them for a while, so Shen Yichi put on his earphones and sat down at the desk and began to search carefully.

The most popular Beats of the year was playing in the earphones, the sound of the air conditioner and the rustling of the pages filled his ears, so that Shen Yichi didn't hear the quarrel between the walls, and the last cry of his mother left in this world Voice.

It wasn't until a loud bang interrupted the beat in the earphones that Shen Yichi slowly took off the earphones, but this time only the crying of the little girl downstairs came to his ears.

Shen Yichi thought it was the little girls arguing when they were playing, but he didn't find anything unusual. When he was about to put on the earphones again, he suddenly heard the door of the parents' room next door being opened.

At the same time, a solemn voice reached his ears,

"Yue'er, I've already dealt with that woman as planned. When I get rid of the traces, I'll go downstairs to cry for the funeral. It is estimated that the police will come to your company tomorrow at the latest. Remember to convince the police that she is really sick." .”

"Oh, you don't feel at ease when I do things? Besides, that woman is really sick, okay? Haven't you seen the medical certificate? What are you afraid of?"

A strange woman's voice came faintly, compared to Ye Mei's steady, broad and gentle voice, Shen Su seemed to be cleaning up something, he didn't know that Shen Yichi had returned home, so he unscrupulously turned on the speakerphone.

"When this matter is finalized, I will take you and your wife to live at home. Lili is about to go to high school. Doesn't he want to go to an international high school? Once Ye Mei dies, the insurance company will just use it to pay his tuition fees, and the rest I will save the money for him to go to college.”

"Won't you save some for your eldest son?"

The mistress's voice visibly jumped up, as if what she had just been involved in was not a murder, but just a small stumbling block on her way to a better life.

"Ye Mei opened a separate account for him a long time ago, and left him a lot of money. Besides, that kid is smart and conceited. He is too precocious. How can we be likable?"

The solemn voice was like snow stained with frost, with rough barbs whizzing into Shen Yichi's ears, blowing all the freshness in his mind into a dead silence without a blade of grass.

He couldn't believe it, and couldn't believe it.

The parents who were sitting at the dining table laughing and laughing a few hours ago changed in a blink of an eye. One showed the fangs of the beast and was triumphant, while the other fell into a pool of blood and fell apart.

"You all say that kid is smart, do you think he will find out? What if he sees you if you don't clean up, and he goes to the police?"

The mistress laughed while cracking the melon seeds and urged Shen Su to get rid of Shen Yichi together, but Shen Su vetoed it outright.

"Ye Mei suffers from depression, and it is only reasonable to pretend to be suicide. As for Shen Yichi, I sent him out. When he came back, he found out that he was disobedient and bickering with his mother, which stimulated his mother so much that she jumped off the building and was too busy crying. , how can there be time to think about other things? And it's not me bragging with you, this kid is closer to me, who makes his mother always go on business trips. "

Shen Yichi gritted his teeth and stuck to the door, hearing Shen Su proudly showing off his superb acting skills with his mistress, and hearing Shen Su wanting to blame all of this on him, Shen Yichi wanted to rush out and kill the mistress for a moment. The impulsiveness of a hypocritical man, but what Shen Su said next made him feel as if he had fallen into an ice cave, no matter how hard he was to move,

"Of course, if he really finds out, I won't keep him. Not only him, but also Ye Mei's old lady who is still in the hospital. If it wasn't for the fear that the police would suspect me, I really wanted to put his grandma's The oxygen line was pulled out."

In Shen Su's tone, there was a bit of a smile to make his mistress happy, this smile entered Shen Yichi's ears, and it only made him feel sick and shudder.

After hanging up the phone, Shen Su immediately brewed up his emotions, pretending to be a poor man who just woke up and found that his wife had committed suicide, knelt down next to Ye Mei's body with snot and tears, and cried earth-shatteringly. Neighbors and friends They all said he was pitiful and felt sorry for him, what's more, they even went to accuse Shen Yichi of being ignorant.

But as Shen Su said, even if the 17-year-old Shen Yichi knew all the truth, he couldn't really touch him, not only for himself, but also for his grandmother who was still sick in bed at the time.

Afterwards, everything went as Shen Su wished, he pretended to be an innocent father, and put all the blame on Shen Yichi. When Ye Mei's body was still cold, he married his mistress Wang Mengyue into the family, nominally for the good of Shen Yichi , in order to find someone to take care of Shen Yichi who is about to take the college entrance examination. In fact, the two of them and the "brother" Shen Li who was born a long time ago have never given Shen Yichi a good look.

The only accident was that when Shen Su pushed Ye Mei down, he didn't notice that there were a few little girls playing downstairs, which caused Chu Yi's death in vain.

It didn't take long for Chu Xian to digest or confirm its authenticity after listening to it. He claimed to know Shen Yichi well enough. Others said that Chu Xian was arrogant, but in fact Shen Yichi was also like this.

He and Shen Yichi are the same person, so he understood that Shen Yichi would not bother to fabricate such a story in order to avoid responsibility.

"what about now?"

Chu Xian's voice was cold, not only because of his sister who died unexpectedly, but also because of Shen Yichi, who was destroyed by Shen Su and his mistress, who was once in high spirits.

Shen Yichi has grown up, and his grandmother passed away the year before last.

"You don't have to be subject to him anymore, do you want to just let it go, or let him kill for his life?"

Shen Yichi took a deep breath,

"I will not let him continue to be at large, but there was not enough evidence left at that time. It will take some time for me to collect enough materials."

"I'll help you."

Chu Xian said decisively,

"Not for you, but for my sister."

"……Thank you."

Shen Yichi didn't expect that Chu Xian would still believe in him now, but Chu Xian didn't intend to accept his gratitude,

"You don't need to thank me, I said it for Chu Yi."

After nightfall, the TV tower is like a silver moon projected in the black sea, and the lights of the bustling urban area in the distance are mixed into a gentle mist, which slowly flows into Chu Xian's eyes, dyeing his cold facial features with a soft warm color.

If Shen Yichi was willing to tell him everything like this at that time, he would also try his best to help him like now, and he would not need to use others as an excuse, but would be straightforward and passionate, just for Shen Yichi.