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Finally, just before night fell, the phone rang at home.

When it finally arrived, Gu Yi passed it to the old man.

"Hello?" The old man took it.

"Dad, I'm Zijun."

"Zijun, are you busy today? Why haven't you come back yet?" The old man heaved a sigh of relief when he received the call.

"Dad, Mo Yan came to the company to pick me up. We... are going to take Aze to live with my dad for a few days. You know my dad's temper. He's getting angry at home." Xiao Zijun said in a ninja trembling voice .

"...Well, then you can go there. I have nothing to do here. Your father probably just misses his grandson. Go back and spend time with the two elders and take care of them for me." Mr. Shen immediately agreed. , There was no displeasure in the tone.

"Dad, I'm sorry, I agreed to come to accompany you, and I will take Aze back in a few days."

"It's okay, you have to pay attention to your body when you go to work, let Mo Yan do what you need, don't be too tired, your voice is hoarse." The old man warned.

There was a reply on the phone without further greetings, and the old man hung up the phone first.

The part-time worker aunt had already left, and six dishes and one soup were neatly placed on the table, exuding a faint fragrance of vegetables. While cooking the rice, Gu Yi observed Master, and hadn't had a few sips of the porridge in front of him since it was served.

"Xiao Yi, Master is a bit sleepy, go back to the room and lie down for a while, don't worry about it after you finish eating, Master will clean up tomorrow morning." He smiled and said to Gu Yi, his eyes were really tired.

"Master, go and rest, just leave it to me." Gu Yi said naturally, but he had gone through the master's every move countless times in his mind, and he was sure that the master was still suspicious.

Before going to bed, he went to the master's door to have a look. There was no light leaking through the crack of the door, so he had to retreat.

That night Gu Yi kept tossing and turning in bed, living with his master for several years, he tried to remember the details he had overlooked, the clues about the three members of the Shen family, maybe it was something he thought about day by day and dream about at night, this night He fell asleep.

Surrounded by a messy basement, there are criss-crossed water pipes above his head, and the sewage channel at his feet discharges in a zigzag shape in an unknown direction. He squatted on the ground, and there were two large bowls full of oil stains in front of him. He looked down. He looked at his own hand, which was red and swollen with frostbite.

Everything that was real, he thought for a moment that his experience of twenty days was just a dream.

He stretched out his hand and pinched his swollen hand, but fortunately it didn't hurt; he stood up without any sense of fatigue in his body.

He walked in the direction of the exit, and heard the sound of employees moving the dishes from above. All employees were like this, and chatting outside of work was inevitable.

"Don't mention it, the kid in the basement is quite neat at his work. He has to wash more than a dozen bowls a day, and the washing is quite clean." Employee A said.

"Hey, it's also pitiful. My eldest nephew is still in school at such an age. Whoever does this kind of work can't run away. Before this kind of work manager hired two people and said it was tiring. Since he came, he has done it alone. Last time I saw his hands were so swollen that I couldn't look at them." Employee B sighed.

"The same person has different fate. I heard that this child was thrown by his father. The underage can only hide below to wash the dishes. Every month when the salary is paid, his father comes to collect it. It is also pitiful. What is the smell in the basement?" You can stay!" Employee A also gossips and reveals the information he has obtained.

"But speaking of pity, we also have one in the back kitchen." Employee A continued.

"You mean..."

"Yes, it's the chef who just arrived."

"Is it true?" Employee B questioned.

Gu Yi heard this slowly approaching, and intuitively told him that this chef is the master.

"Why can't it be true? He is from the imperial capital, and the neighbors in the vicinity know it. He lost his wife in middle age, but his son Zhengqi is a top student at Huaqing University or a talented researcher. His daughter-in-law also runs a company, and his grandson grows up So handsome, how many people would have envied her.

"But then the child didn't live to adulthood and died in the imperial capital. The couple came back overnight from other places and got into a car accident. The boy died at that time, and the girl didn't wake up even though she was rescued. She said she was in a vegetable state. The woman's family has money, and she has never given up on treatment."

"Don't look at our master who is so serious and indifferent now. I heard that people used to smile cutely. He always smiled at everyone. He has never blushed with anyone."

"So, no matter how hard this person can't hide from God!"

Gu Yi squatted at the entrance of the basement, with his back against the wall, his clothes soaked in cold sweat. He felt as if he was suffocated when he didn't feel any pain just now. He gasped heavily, tears covered his whole face, he finally knew Why did Master change so much? He endured the limit that a normal person can bear, and he endured great pain every day he was able to live.

The room was still dark, Gu Yi sat up suddenly from the bed, the suffocation in the dream did not dissipate, thinking of the conversation he just heard in the dream, his heart shrank together, thinking of Shen Zexiu in the hospital, and The silent and polite Shen Moyan, the beautiful and kind Xiao Zijun, these are the people who appeared in his life.

He was glad that he was peeking at the secrets of the sky and knew the future. If he was destined to be unable to escape, he would rather trade himself, at least he was alone, and there was no one worth thinking about.Shen Zexiu carried two families on his back.

At this moment, he was eager to know about Shen Zexiu's condition. Although he knew that according to the development of his previous life, this time he should not endanger his life, he still couldn't help but worry.

In the hospital, Shen Zexiu hadn't woken up yet. The doctor said that luckily the iron frame didn't hit his head when it fell down.

Shen Moyan sat in front of the hospital bed with his wife in his arms, and Xiao Yan rested on the bed next to him.

In reality, the three waited anxiously, while Shen Zexiu was having nonsensical dreams on the bed.

He dreamed that he dragged Yang Qien out and rushed out without being hit, but he didn't stop either.

He kept skating and skating until he reached the school, where he saw children squatting at the foot of the wall and wearing tattered clothes eating grass roots hungry; when he slid to the train station, he saw shivering children picking up empty bottles; Sliding into the alley, he saw a child in ragged clothes clutching his belly and looking longingly into the yard.

He did three different acts of kindness, the first he took out a bag of bread from his pocket and handed it over; the second he took out an unopened bottle of drink from his schoolbag and handed it over; He brought out a bowl of pointed rice and handed it over.

Suddenly they all raised their heads, and they all showed the same face, the same as the one he saw for the first time.

He woke up from fright, and saw the situation in front of him as soon as he opened his eyes. His mother was about to step forward to check with red eyes, and his father also frowned and pressed the bell beside the bed. He remembered that he should be in the hospital now .

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