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Gu Yan found this shabby nightclub based on Wen Qiyu's guess where Wen Qishan might go to find drugs.

Soon, the subordinates called the boss to come out to greet him.

"Mr. Gu, why did you come to such a small place like mine! Please come in, please come in!" After saying that, he gave Gu Yan to the circular compartment on the first and a half floors, where he could see the crazy crowd on the first floor, It can also avoid crowding.The boss nodded and bowed with a smile on his face, for fear of neglecting Gu Yan.

"I came here to find someone." Gu Yan opened his wallet and took out a photo of Wen Qishan, "Has this person been here?"

"Uh... no, no... haven't seen..." The boss's eyes wandered a little.

"Are you hiding something?" Gu Yan deliberately lowered his voice as he watched the boss hesitate to speak, sounding really dignified.

"No, dare not, Mr. Gu!" The nightclub owner looked at the subordinates behind Gu Yan and swallowed, "I haven't seen the person in your photo, but I've seen that one!" He pointed at Gu Yan's booth Wen Qiyu's photo was inlaid in the opened wallet, carefully observing Gu Yan's face.

Has Ayu... worked here?

Gu Yan turned his head and looked at the crazy crowd downstairs, those men and women in vulgar and revealing clothes, the cheap and old upright speakers were pouring out deafening music...

Ayu...

Gu Yan felt a little uncomfortable.

He looked at the boss and said, "You know him?"

The boss nodded: "I know everyone in this area, this kid has worked part-time in this area."

"Tell me about him." Gu Yan calmed down and asked in a deep voice. "I came here to check on the kid you mentioned."

Seeing Gu Yan's intentions, the owner of the nightclub immediately let go. While instructing the waiter to serve Gu Yan, he said, "This kid has worked here for more than half a year. He was 15 years old at the time. I didn't want him in the first place." Yes, I'm not of age, I don't dare to do illegal things!" As he said that, he looked at Gu Yan as if he had guaranteed a ticket, but Gu Yan just raised his eyebrows, expressing that he was not interested in whether he would do illegal things or not.

Seeing that Gu Yan didn't care, the boss let go completely: "When the kid came here, I really didn't agree to use him. But the kid begged me, alas, he still had injuries on his face at that time, and he couldn't walk easily." Not too neat, he said he wanted to earn some money for medicine. If the police came to investigate, he would say that he lied to me that I hired him when I was an adult, and that he would not implicate me. He also asked for less, as long as half of the others Salary, plus the need for manpower, I agreed."

"Later, the kid was not bad, probably because he was afraid that I would dismiss him, and he tried his best to comply with the excessive demands of the guests. You also know that there are no guests at this night show, and it is mostly difficult to deal with. In fact, I remember him because of Something big has happened!"

The boss was too busy talking, not paying attention to Gu Yan's expression.Gu Yan's eyes were already red at this moment, and he was trembling slightly as he held Wen Qiyu's photo tightly in his hand.

"Once, there was a table of guests having a high, and the kid happened to go over to serve the wine. The people at that table saw that the child was good-looking, so they pulled him over to drink. This is quite common, so I didn't care. But after a while, I waited When I looked at it again, the people at that table were already yelling to let the child stay on the bed. The child refused to agree with what he said, and kept struggling to resist. He angered the man who was yelling to have sex with him, so he beat the child."

Hearing this, Gu Yan clenched his fists: "Why didn't you stop?!"

The boss smiled: "Boss Gu, you have a big place. Of course no one dares to make trouble. In a place like mine, the guests are the ancestors! Besides, beating people with alcohol is quite common. It happens ten or eight times a day. Then Children are often fed and vomit in the toilet, if everyone stops me, how can I do business!"

Gu Yan suppressed his anger and asked, "What happened next!"

"Yeah, something serious happened later. The man threw a plate on the ground, threw food and wine in a mess, stepped on it, and said that if the child ate it, he would let him go." The child didn't move at first, and the group of people started beating people again. The child vomited blood and refused to stop. I was afraid that they would die, so I went up to persuade them. The man said, either sleep with him, or eat that thing , otherwise... Well, I went to persuade the child, but the child didn't respond. The man saw that he still didn't agree, so he went up and laid his clothes on him. The whole night scene was quiet at that time, and the guests were watching the fun. Things don’t happen every day.”

"Don't be silly! Let's get to the point!!" Gu Yan felt that he was about to collapse, and stopped the boss's gossip. He felt that his heart was hanging in his throat, as if it might jump out at any moment.

"Hey, hey, the kid ate it later. Those people made him eat on his knees and licked the plate like a dog. If the child didn't move, they just pressed the child's face into the plate. Wait for those Everyone left, the child couldn't even get up, and it was a few waiters who helped him up, tsk tsk, what a tragedy! This story has spread all over our place, and everyone treats it as gossip after dinner. Later, those people I have been here several times, and the child was tortured enough every time. But the child is... but a fourteen or fifteen-year-old child, even if he was bullied like this, he never saw him cry, and he still came to work on time. Later, because of He escaped from the debt and left, and now I don't know where he is..."

With a "snap", the boss suddenly looked up at Gu Yan.

Gu Yan crushed the cup in his hand, and drops of red liquid dripped onto the fragments of the cup.

The boss fell silent in fright.

Gu Yan once envied Wen Qiyu's drinking capacity.It's just that I didn't expect that Wen Qiyu's good drinking capacity was actually the result of being frequently poured to vomit since he was a child.

What Gu Yan saw was the radiant Wen Qiyu in the courtroom, the Wen Qiyu who never bowed his head in the face of pressure, but such a Yu...

Gu Yan couldn't bear the sadness and pain in his heart anymore, and rushed out of the bar.

Gu Yan hid in the car and calmed down for a while, then readjusted his mood and continued to search.

According to the address written by Wen Qiyu, Gu Yan stood in the middle of a dirty road, in a dilemma.

This road is really dirty!

Gu Yan was born and raised in this city, he didn't know that behind this glamorous city, there was such a slum hidden in the shadows.

On both sides of the road, privately built one-story houses and two-story buildings that looked like abandoned construction were piled up and squeezed on both sides. There was no concrete road at all. The mud is mixed together, which shows that there is no complete water supply system here.

No matter from which angle you look at these houses, you can see the clothes drying and the garbage discarded in the gaps and cracks of the houses.

All the daily necessities and garbage mixed with taste, scattered and tangled in a Picasso-like abstract way, gave Gu Yan great stimulation.

Gu Yan didn't know that Wen Qiyu lived in such an environment for more than half of his time when he was young.

Gu Yan frowned, feeling extremely bitter in his heart.

He gritted his teeth, and led his men to walk deeper into the dirty water.

He parked the car outside because there was no way to get in.

The people in the slums in the city are not as simple as the real rural people, with a strong taste of the market, half shrewd and not smart, half confused and not confused.

Along the way, the slightly malicious probing gazes of the neighbors made Gu Yan feel uncomfortable all over.

Gu Yan was spoiled and spoiled since he was a child, and he came into contact with high-ranking and high-class society. The friends at home said some beautiful and euphemistic words, but at least they looked decent on the surface. How can the pressure of real life be like the scenery of the slums? Gu Yan was stimulated by such a sharp pain?

Gu Yan felt uncomfortable, but it was Wen Qiyu who made him feel even more uncomfortable.

When they didn't meet, Wen Qiyu wanted to live here, and even go out from here, how much effort and determination would be needed!

He didn't know all of this.

Pity for Wen Qiyu welled up in Gu Yan's heart, regret and guilt as well as a strong desire to protect almost overwhelmed him.

Finally, Gu Yan walked into a dilapidated small courtyard written on the note.

A few people were playing cards under the tree, so Gu Yan walked over.Those few people saw that Gu Yan was wearing a decent dress and had so many subordinates with him, so they all stopped to look at Gu Yan.

"You guys, have you seen this person?"

Looking at the photo in Gu Yan's hand, these people shook their heads hesitantly.

"Then... what about this." Thinking of what he heard at the night market before, Gu Yan took Wen Qiyu's photo out of his wallet, stroked it lightly in his palm, and showed it to these people.

"Ah! I've seen this before," a middle-aged woman said, "It's just the kid who lived here before, about fifteen or sixteen years old, the one who was often punished by his father to kneel in the yard all night."

The others looked at the photo again, with a look of understanding.

"What do you want to know? He hasn't been here for a long time!" The man at the card table was eager to continue playing cards, but seeing the group of men behind Gu Yan, he didn't dare to speak to chase them away, so he urged impatiently.

"Everything about him is fine."

Those people looked at each other, and the woman just said again: "We don't know much, we only know that the child is studying in the high school over there, and he should have good grades. Um... the man in that family said it was his father, Always beat him. Although beating children is quite common, but that man is so cruel..."

Another man also echoed: "Well, that man is an alcoholic. I drank with him once, and he was quite good at drinking. He beat the children when he drank too much. Eh? It seems to be quite similar to the man in your photo!"

"Do you remember that once the parent of the child's classmate came to find him, saying that the child beat his classmate and wanted to ask for an explanation, but the man dragged the child out and beat him without even looking at it. It's right here," the speaker said. The man patted the big tree they were using to enjoy the shade, "Here, I took off my clothes and hung them on the tree for beating. The parents who came to find fault later couldn't stand it anymore, and they wanted to leave in desperation, but the man stopped me." Said to beat the child like that, at least give some medical expenses. The parent must have a guilty conscience. After all, his own child is taller and stronger than the child of this family. No one believes that he was bullied, so he hurriedly dropped the money and left. The man took the money and went to buy wine. He didn't care about the child who was hanged here. That child is also pitiful. He was hanged there with injuries and blood all over his body..."

"Why didn't you call the police?!" Gu Yan felt that the anger in his chest was about to burn out his rationality, and he yelled violently.

"Why are you so excited." The card players looked at each other and smiled, "Why do you want to get into trouble? It's not a common occurrence for this child to be beaten. Besides, that man is so cruel to his own children. Why should we go to that trouble! Debt collection When he came, there were many times when the child was treated even worse, I guess he is used to it, and I have never seen him cry."

Gu Yan turned around and left quickly. He clenched his fists tightly, and quickly walked out of the yard. He punched the tree at the gate of the yard. The tree shook, and there was a trace of dark red blood on the trunk just hit.

Gu Yan cried.

He squatted at the gate of the courtyard, as if he saw Wen Qiyu hanging from a tree with injuries all over his body. No one called the police, and no one even released him. Gu Yan could imagine Wen Qiyu trembling in despair in the wind.

Now, Gu Yan finally understood why Wen Qiyu had never dared to let Yan Xin or Wu Zhixing come to Wen Qishan.

Because, once you come to these places where Wen Qishan may go, you will know Ayu's past.

How much courage does A Yu need to dare to confess his heart to himself and show everything completely in front of him?

"Gu Yan, no matter what you see or hear, don't...I, I love you, don't abandon me..."

Gu Yan suddenly remembered what Wen Qiyu said while holding his hand before he left.

I have hurt you too, Ayu.How could I be more merciful than these people in what I did?

Ayu, why am I willing to abandon you?

Gu Yan looked at the setting sun that was about to set in the sky, his heart clenched into a ball.

At this moment, Gu Yan felt that he had lost his ability to think, and there was only one sentence left in his mind and heart:

Protect A Yu, protect him with your whole life!

Gu Yan wants to see Wen Qiyu, immediately, immediately!

He had just opened the door when the phone rang.

Caller ID: Mom.

Gu Yan hesitated for a moment or pressed the answer button.An angry female voice came from the other end of the phone:

"Ah Yan! The police refused to let your dad go! They said Cui Yi was going to sue the Gu family! As Cui Yi's lawyer, Wen Qiyu just submitted a witness statement! Come back soon!"