Chapter 154

Li Zhuiyuan picked up the chalk and wrote down the clue summary on the small blackboard.

“The girl who was saved from sleepwalking off a building by Runsheng and Yinmeng went to Luo Xin Island Amusement Park yesterday.

The wife-killing case file brought by Tan Wenbin, in which the husband insisted he only had a dream, is an employee of Luo Xin Island Amusement Park.

The Zhou family brothers will go to Luo Xin Island Amusement Park to perform a lion dance as a part-time job on weekends.”

They had already mentioned this when they ate with the Zhou family brothers last time.

The two brothers’ family background isn’t bad, after all, it’s a family with a heritage and craftsmanship, but unfortunately, their family’s thinking is somewhat rigid, ignoring the difference between being away from home and at home, and the price differences between the two places.

The family thinks the money given is enough for the brothers to eat well and live comfortably in Jinling, even touching the edge of a life of debauchery.

In reality, because the brothers practice martial arts, their food intake is far greater than ordinary people. The living expenses from their family are truly not enough for their meals, so they often take on external performances to supplement their food expenses.

Once, a certain city leader brought his family to Luo Xin Island Amusement Park on the weekend to play. Amazed by the wonderful lion dance performance, he stepped forward to inquire and chat. Learning that the brothers were university students, he arranged for them to participate in the upcoming city university student art performance.

When a leader speaks, subordinates work tirelessly.

But actually, it was such a simple matter. With the prior acquaintance from eating together, Lin Shuyou only needed to go to their school, sit down with the Zhou family brothers, and chat for a while to get all the clues.

He stubbornly went and inexplicably fought with them, then traced back step by step, successively going to the school department responsible for program selection and also to the program organizer. It just so happened that the former was organizing an exchange meeting with a martial arts school, and the latter was preparing for city martial arts association-related competitions.

It’s clear that Lin Shuyou, while doing undercover investigation, ended up in fights everywhere.

The three groups of people left the school at almost the same time in the morning. The others simply had one piece of paper with spare records, but Lin Shuyou’s experience was the most rich and circuitous.

If Li Zhuiyuan thought of Lin Shuyou as Tan Wenbin, he would think Tan Wenbin had clarified his intention, deliberately taking those detours to give that hand more to do, even if nothing came of it.

But since it was Ayou, Li Zhuiyuan felt he was just acting true to form, and putting in a lot of effort.

Li Zhuiyuan drew a circle around “Luo Xin Island Amusement Park” on the blackboard and tapped it:

“Very obviously, the clue trap that hand arranged for us is in this amusement park.”

Immediately after, Li Zhuiyuan’s gaze fell on the three records in front of him that had been converted into text.

“The fifth wave has already been taken over by me. The other side is Boqi’s form and spirit.

There’s good news and bad news.

First, the bad news: We currently haven’t received any Jiangshui from Boqi’s form and spirit.

Then the good news: Boqi feeds on dreams, and its form and spirit should also have the same characteristic.

So this time,

We don’t need to change the script content, we only need to change the script name.”

Li Zhuiyuan wrote “Meng Gui” and “Boqi” on the blackboard respectively.

The boy picked up the blackboard eraser, first erasing “Meng Gui”, then pulling a line from each of the three lines of clues originally written on the blackboard, pointing to “Boqi”.

Tan Wenbin understood and smiled.

This time is different from last time when they had to manufacture cause and effect clues themselves and through others. Because now they can directly use the fake clues that hand made for them and others.

The truth and falsity of something can only be confirmed when the cover is opened, and the one who opens the cover is Jiangshui.

That hand wants to guide them to find “Meng Gui”. They only need to shout about finding “Boqi”. Under the effect of Jiangshui, it doesn’t really matter whether it’s “Meng Gui” or “Boqi” in the end.

Because the black hand behind the scenes will naturally be defined as the evil black force manipulating the death and collapse.

Just like last time, the Xiong Shan team failed and their team went up. Here it’s the same. Stepping back ten thousand paces, even if they fail, then other teams will take over.

The hand that originally wanted to completely extract itself has now turned into sitting on the Jiangshui, forced to continuously endure wave after wave of its impact.

Tan Wenbin felt this move was truly wonderful. Using a borrowed knife to kill… this time, Xiao Yuan Ge is borrowing Jiang to exterminate a family!

Yinmeng thought about it and nodded silently.

Lin Shuyou had just finished reading what Xiao Yuan Ge wrote and was only familiar with the background outline. He still didn’t completely understand, but it didn’t stop him from nodding thoughtfully and adding, “Oh~”

Runsheng said, “Xiao Yuan, you don’t have to tell us these things.”

Tan Wenbin heard this and immediately nodded, “Right, it’s better not to tell us.”

Lin Shuyou: “Right, um, indeed.”

Runsheng’s meaning was that if Li Zhuiyuan didn’t tell them about “Meng Gui” and “Boqi”, he only needed to write “Boqi form and spirit”. Then, except for Xiao Yuan, everyone in the team would only know “Boqi form and spirit”.

They wouldn’t even need to change the script name, because originally there was no name, they just needed to add it and say that’s what it is.

This way, it would also be more convenient for everyone to push Jiangshui better.

In Runsheng’s view, being an unwitting tool isn’t a bad thing.

Li Zhuiyuan sat down and picked up a piece of cloth, wiping the chalk dust off his hands.

Runsheng was very right.

He really shouldn’t have told them. Telling them would easily spoil things and make things not perfect enough.

His fingertips were being rubbed red by the boy.

He wiped particularly hard because only this way could he transfer the possible pain on his face.

As long as he could get revenge, as long as he could overcome this wave, as long as he could achieve his goal, it was not wrong to treat his partners as tools to be used and sacrificed.

Everyone was waiting for Li Zhuiyuan to speak.

The boy could almost not maintain his expression. That kind of repulsion and abhorrence was rapidly rising from the bottom of his heart.

Self-consistent, self-consistent, self-consistent…

Li Zhuiyuan threw down the cloth, clenched his fists with both hands, placed them under the table, raised his head, and swept his gaze across everyone. He opened his mouth:

“Where are we now? Everyone has potential. Even if I were to treat you as tools, I’d have to wait until you’re more mature and valuable.

Killing the goose that lays the golden eggs, draining the pond to catch the fish, only idiots would do that.”

After saying these words, the discomfort at the bottom of Li Zhuiyuan’s heart suddenly subsided a lot. He also breathed a sigh of relief.

Tan Wenbin, Runsheng, and Yinmeng all laughed. Lin Shuyou also joined the group laughter.

If it were another boss saying such words, it would easily hurt morale. But it’s very rare that Xiao Yuan Ge can say such words and is willing to give a reason to explain.

You can’t let Xiao Yuan Ge say, “I’m letting you know even if it risks decreasing the success rate, because it’s to increase your survival rate.”

If he really said this, Xiao Yuan Ge would probably go mad with pain.

Li Zhuiyuan treats his partners as his own sand-fixing grass, and these grasses are actually already familiar with the sand they surround.

“Meng Gui is definitely very powerful.

Luo Xin Island Amusement Park is the main field chosen by that hand. There must be more arrangements, like powerful arrays and strange feng shui patterns.

But we still have to actively walk into the trap, and we must be fast.

It’s like we’re currently on fire. We have to seize the time to bring this fire to them. This is the only means we currently have confidence in to contend with them.

I won’t naively think that after this matter succeeds, we can exterminate a deep-rooted family or sect. That level of existence is absolutely not so easily said and done.

But at least, we have to make it hurt, make it howl, make it break an arm to survive!

This is the first claw that stretched out from the dark towards us.

Only by ruthlessly chopping it off,

Can we avoid possible future troubles to the greatest extent.”

After saying this, Li Zhuiyuan took out a stack of calming talismans from his pocket. Then he took off a pocket watch worn around his neck from under his collar, placing it on the talisman paper along with the chain.

The pocket watch was new, not precious. He had just taken it from the store. It was produced by the Jiangnan Watch Factory.

Finally, Li Zhuiyuan reached out and touched the shiny translucent bone ring on his fingertip. A Li had sent it to him as a gift. Not only was the intention good, but the craftsmanship was even more impeccable.

“Tan Wenbin stay, everyone else go upstairs and wait. After Tan Wenbin comes out, the next person goes in.”

…

The yellow small pickup truck was parked outside early. Tan Wenbin sat in the driver’s seat, and Lin Shuyou and Runsheng sat in the back.

Li Zhuiyuan and Yinmeng walked out of the store.

Yinmeng raised a hand to shade her eyes: “Today’s sunlight is so dazzling.”

Li Zhuiyuan: “Because we’ve been in the basement for too long.”

After getting in the car, Li Zhuiyuan said to Tan Wenbin: “Drive a little slower, pay attention to safety.”

“Don’t worry, got it.” Tan Wenbin started the car.

Destination: Luo Xin Island Amusement Park.

The road isn’t too far, but to prevent driving fatigue, Li Zhuiyuan let Yinmeng and Tan Wenbin take turns driving halfway.

The amusement park is on a lake island. You can buy a ticket and take a ferry to the island, or of course, there’s a bridge you can drive across directly.

At this end of the bridge, there’s a security booth. An old security guard with white hair sat there, holding a white porcelain teacup.

Seeing the car coming, the old security guard shouted: “Park closed, not open today.”

An announcement board was placed outside the security booth. It read: Facilities maintenance, temporarily closed to the public.

Mainly because several unexpected accidents had occurred inside the amusement park recently.

Tan Wenbin stuck his head out the car window, reached out and patted the car door, saying: “Master, can’t you see we’re dispatched here for maintenance?”

“Oh, is that so?”

The yellow small pickup truck looked exactly like a construction vehicle, plus the two people sitting in the back indeed looked like capable workers.

“Then go in.”

The old security guard lifted the barrier, signaling them to go.

Tan Wenbin stepped on the accelerator and drove in.

But soon, Tan Wenbin saw in the rearview mirror that the old security guard was waving and staggering after the car, still shouting something. It was a bit windy outside the car window, so he couldn’t hear clearly.

“Xiao Yuan Ge, that old man seems a bit strange. Should I stop the car or not?”

“You go down and see.”

“Okay.”

Tan Wenbin stopped the car, opened the door, and got out.

Immediately, a heat wave that shouldn’t appear in this season rushed towards him, along with stinging sand and dirt.

“Beep!!!”

A large truck sped past from the front, raising dust. The sun was directly overhead, making him feel a burst of irritability.

“Hey, you’re not allowed to run, not allowed to run! School hasn’t ended yet, you little bastard!”

Tan Wenbin turned back and saw the old school security guard chasing him from behind. In the distance was the gate of Shi Gang Middle School.

He felt a little dizzy, as if he hadn’t slept well last night and had studied until late.

Immediately, Tan Wenbin laughed.

How could he study until late? Staying up all night reading Wuxia novels and comics was more like it.

Tan Wenbin scratched his head. He had just climbed over the school wall and run onto the road, almost getting hit by that arrogant large truck. He had actually somewhat forgotten his purpose for climbing over the wall.

Oh, he remembered.

Damn, he had to hurry!

“Old man, I’m not feeling well. Going to the hospital for an IV!”

After saying that, Tan Wenbin just sprinted away.

The old security guard panted, supporting his knees with both hands, watching Tan Wenbin who had instantly run far away, and cursed:

“That little bastard is lying. How can someone who’s sick run so fast?”

Tan Wenbin ran all the way to the door of a billiard room. Inside, several youths in black short-sleeved shirts with tattoos were playing billiards.

Standing in the corner by the wall was a crying Zheng Haiyang. Zheng Haiyang’s face had many clear palm prints.

Zheng Haiyang’s parents were sailors with very high incomes. Zheng Haiyang usually had a lot of pocket money, but because his parents were often not around and he lived with his grandparents, he gradually developed a timid character.

With a lot of pocket money and a soft character, he naturally became the prime target for gangsters’ extortion.

This morning, Zheng Haiyang hadn’t come to school. Tan Wenbin originally thought he was sick, but other classmates told him that they saw Zheng Haiyang being caught by Lin Sanhou and his gang on the way to school.

“Damn it, I said before that Zheng Haiyang is under my protection!”

Before this sentence was Tan Wenbin’s flying kick.

There were three of them on the other side, and only himself. He definitely had to knock one down first.

“Bang!”

A flying kick hit one person straight in the waist, kicking that person to the ground temporarily unable to get up.

Immediately after, Tan Wenbin grabbed a billiard cue and swung it at another person’s face with a “whoosh”.

“Bang!”

That guy let out a scream, covering his face and falling to the ground.

The third person was originally on the opposite side of the billiard table. Seeing this, he jumped directly onto the billiard table wanting to come over.

Tan Wenbin grabbed a billiard ball on the table and directly smashed it towards the opponent’s crotch.

“Pa!”

“Oh!!!”

That person covered his crotch and hopped on the table. The surface of the billiard table was also dented from being stepped on.

Tan Wenbin took the opportunity to grab the opponent’s ankle, pull him down, and the other fell onto the table surface.

“Damn it, I’ll let you bully people!”

Tan Wenbin grabbed that person’s hair, lifted his head, and smashed it towards the edge of the billiard table, lifted, smashed, lifted!

The other’s nose immediately bled, and his consciousness also became somewhat scattered.

Just then, the two who had been kicked down also climbed up and rushed towards Tan Wenbin.

Tan Wenbin let go of the one in his hand, took an arrow step forward, leaned in forcefully with his shoulder, hitting the opponent’s chest. At the same time, he grabbed the opponent’s arm with his right hand, threw him back, then smoothly pulled down and reversed the hold. At the same time, he followed with a kick to his knee. This gangster just knelt on the ground, completely locked by Tan Wenbin.

“You like to bully people, right? I’ll let you bully people!”

Tan Wenbin used his knee to press against the opponent’s neck, towards the side wall.

“Bang!” “Bang!” “Bang!”

The wall was already stained with blood.

The third gangster, seeing this, started trembling with fear.

As Tan Wenbin lifted his head and glared at him, he was so scared he didn’t dare to come forward. He turned and ran away directly.

Those who bully the weak and fear the strong often cower the fastest when they encounter a truly fierce opponent.

Tan Wenbin let go, and the person under him fell forward directly, fainting.

He reached out and picked up a box of cigarettes from the billiard table, pulled one out, used the side of the match to light it, and took a puff.

“Hiss… exhale~”

In the corner, Zheng Haiyang asked in surprise: “Bin Ge, when did you become so powerful?”

Before, Bin Ge was also brave and dared to join in when protecting classmates, but more often it was a mutual fight. How could it be like today, where he solved these guys so quickly?

“Me, powerful?” Tan Wenbin looked at the two unconscious gangsters on the stage and below somewhat doubtfully. “Yeah, I do seem to have become powerful, or maybe they’ve become useless and can’t withstand a beating?”

Tan Wenbin took another puff of smoke. When he blew out a smoke ring, he looked at the cigarette in his hand: Huh, when did smoking start going into my lungs?

Before, he had practiced not less in front of the mirror at home, combing his hair to look like an adult.

He had also bought cigarettes and pretended to light up with great nonchalance, but he would cough and vomit after inhaling, so he only sucked into his mouth each time and then spat it out. This way it was thicker and easier to spit out shapes.

“Are you okay?” Tan Wenbin looked at Zheng Haiyang.

“I’m okay, Bin Ge, hehe.”

Tan Wenbin reached out and touched Zheng Haiyang’s face.

Zheng Haiyang’s face had been fiercely slapped. After being touched at this moment, he inhaled sharply, but didn’t dodge.

Tan Wenbin touched and touched, even making Zheng Haiyang cry from the pain.

“Bin Ge…”

“Oh, it’s good that you’re okay. Let’s go back to school.”

“You’re not allowed to leave! My billiard table, pay up, pay up!”

The billiard room aunt came down from upstairs and let out a scream.

She tried to stop Tan Wenbin, who wanted to leave, and reached out to grab the boy’s collar.

Tan Wenbin glared at her, and deliberately took a step forward. This aunt, for some reason, was so scared that she kept stepping back.

“Go find those two bastards to compensate! I didn’t break the table!”

Subsequently, Tan Wenbin just took Zheng Haiyang and left.

Going out of school required climbing a wall, but entering school was just walking through the gate. The security guard wouldn’t stop students wearing school uniform pants from going into school.

Just as he reached the classroom door, he saw the class monitor Zhou Yunyun walking out, hugging her homework.

Tan Wenbin raised an eyebrow at Zhou Yunyun and praised: “Class monitor, you actually have an inexplicably sweet beauty today.”

Zhou Yunyun’s originally tense face flushed red. Then she lowered her head, reorganized herself, glared at Tan Wenbin, and scolded: “Bah, a dog’s mouth can’t spit out ivory!”

“You are just very good-looking today, young, alas.”

Tan Wenbin sighed. He himself didn’t know why he was sighing.

“Tan Wenbin, if you talk nonsense again, believe it or not, I’ll report you to the teacher?”

Tan Wenbin frowned. What was wrong with him? Before, he just liked to argue with the cold-faced class monitor, acting as a troublemaker to annoy her. How could he say these words today?

He himself felt that the words he had just said were a bit too frivolous. If he fought, his dad would only use a belt to hit him. If he harassed female classmates, his dad would probably run him over with a police car.

Just thinking about his own dad, Tan Wenbin couldn’t help but shiver.

Tan Wenbin went around Zhou Yunyun and returned to the classroom.

Zheng Haiyang, who had returned first, had already told everyone about Tan Wenbin’s heroic deed. When the boys in the class saw him come in, they cheered.

Tan Wenbin raised his left hand, covered his chest with his right hand, and signaled everyone to keep a low profile.

Then, he flipped over the desk and sat in the first row by the window.

He turned his head to look and found a classmate sitting next to his desk. Tan Wenbin asked curiously:

“Why are you sitting here?”

This student was asked vaguely and replied: “This is just my seat.”

“Your seat?”

At this moment, a short girl who had just returned from the toilet walked over and timidly said: “Why are you sitting in my position?”

“Your position?”

Tan Wenbin looked towards the left side of the podium. The familiar desk, the familiar placement of books, and the familiar tin soldier legion placed in the drawer.

He had indeed sat in the wrong position.

Tan Wenbin got up and left, returning to his own throne.

Zhou Yunyun returned the homework, passed by Tan Wenbin, and smiled coldly at him: “The head teacher has already called your dad.”

“Oh.”

Tan Wenbin nodded, propped his chin with his hand, and started fiddling with the eraser.

Tan Wenbin basically didn’t listen to the following class, just continued to space out.

The teacher on the podium knew he was daydreaming, but in a class, there was always that small group of people. As long as they didn’t disrupt the teaching order, the teacher wouldn’t interfere with whatever they did.

The class bell rang, and Tan Yunlong’s figure appeared at the classroom door.

Tan Wenbin looked at Tan Yunlong, walked forward, took out a cigarette from his pocket, pulled one out, and handed it to him.

“Dad, open your mouth.”

Tan Yunlong’s mouth twitched, then he was so angry he laughed.

The others behind them all made “wow” sounds upon seeing this.

“Follow me home.”

“Okay.”

His dad’s motorcycle always drove very fast.

Today’s speed was faster than usual, revealing a kind of eagerness to return home.

Opening the door, Zheng Fang, who was wearing an apron, walked out of the kitchen. Seeing her husband and son back, she asked: “What’s wrong with son?”

Tan Yunlong didn’t say a word, just silently untied his belt.

Zheng Fang backed away.

They couple had already given up on their son’s studies, unless the top scholar could tutor him full-time, but how was that possible?

So, their son’s character was what the couple valued most now. It was okay to not do well in studies, but a person couldn’t grow up crooked and couldn’t not follow the rules.

Tan Yunlong took Tan Wenbin into the room.

Zheng Fang returned to the kitchen. She pushed away the green pepper that she had planned to cut from the cutting board. She originally wanted to make stir-fried shredded pork with green pepper, but considered that there was no need to fry two of the same dishes for one meal at home.

After the vegetables were fried, she was just boiling soup when there was a knock at the door.

Zheng Fang opened the door, and it was Zheng Haiyang.

“Haiyang.”

“Auntie.”

“Wait a moment, Binbin is busy right now.”

“Auntie, I came to tell uncle about today’s matter. Bin Ge was helping me.”

“It doesn’t seem to be about this today.” Zheng Fang looked at her husband’s expression when he came home. It should be that her precious son had, besides his daily mistakes, added some new trick.

However, out of maternal love, Zheng Fang still shouted: “Binbin, Haiyang is here to play with you!”

“Ah! Ah! Ah!”

Responding to her was a wave of screams.

But among them, there was still a cordial greeting to a good friend mixed in:

“Ah! Haiyang, there are apples in the living room, ah! Eat first, ah! I’ll play with you after I’m done, ah!”

The intimate activity between father and son ended.

Zheng Fang left Haiyang to eat.

Tan Wenbin habitually squatted in a horse stance, picked up his bowl and chopsticks.

His butt definitely couldn’t sit now.

“Beep beep! Beep beep! Beep beep!”

Tan Yunlong’s pager on his waist rang. He lowered his head to look and said: “There’s something at the bureau.”

He scooped a little soup into his rice bowl. Tan Yunlong quickly ate the rice bowl clean, got up, and left home.

Tan Wenbin said: “Mom, look at my dad, he’s not home all day. What do you get out of him?”

Zheng Fang: “What do you mean?”

Tan Wenbin: “I support you pursuing your own happiness.”

Zheng Fang: “Do you want another beating? Your dad is just busy with work.”

Tan Wenbin: “No matter how busy he is, he can’t not accompany his wife. I definitely won’t be like this later.”

Zheng Fang glared at her son unhappily: “I hope you’ll keep your word to your future partner.”

After the meal, Zheng Haiyang stayed at home with Tan Wenbin for a while, then went back to school for class.

Tan Wenbin lay face down on the bed. In his hand, he first flipped through a novel, then threw it away after a while and opened a comic book. After just a few pages, he felt bored. Finally, he simply took out the yellow magazine under the bed. What he had previously found very stimulating suddenly felt tasteless now.

Just like this, the restless afternoon continued. By evening, there was an urgent knock at the door.

Zheng Fang didn’t have a shift this afternoon and had stayed at home all day. She just walked over to open the door.

After the door opened, a crying voice came:

“Sister-in-law, Tan team had an accident!”

…

Tan Yunlong sacrificed.

Tan Wenbin stood by the bed with a dull gaze. Lying on the bed was the body of his father, who had been pronounced dead after failed rescue attempts.

The fugitive, knowing he was surrounded, didn’t hesitate to hijack a hostage and try to die together. Tan Yunlong was shot by the fugitive while saving the hostage.

Tan Wenbin didn’t dare to uncover the white cloth on his father, afraid of seeing that terrible bullet hole.

The pain still lingering on his butt made him hope that his father on the bed could get up, that his skin still itched and he wanted to continue being hit.

After taut for a while, his mother lay by the bed and cried until she was soaked in tears.

Tan Wenbin took a deep breath. He also wanted to cry, but found that he couldn’t find any tears.

He could only step forward to comfort his mother, then wait for the bureau leaders and town leaders to come and visit, stepping forward to ask them about the martyr’s honor and funeral arrangements.

If it was a public affair, it wouldn’t be appropriate to have too elaborate folk customs. They had to prioritize solemnity and simplicity.

His grandparents and maternal grandparents also came. His grandfathers were okay, just silently stood by, forcefully holding back tears. His grandmothers, however, hugged his mother and cried bitterly together.

Time just passed by in a daze like this.

Tan Wenbin attended his father’s funeral. Many former leaders and colleagues from the police station and the city came to mourn.

Tan Wenbin accompanied his mother and returned the respects one by one.

During this time, his mother’s body was really too weak. Tan Wenbin just let her focus on accompanying her husband on his last journey. He would arrange the matters at the scene.

He arranged everything in an orderly manner.

The city bureau leader kindly grasped his hand, comforting and encouraging him.

His grandfathers stood by him, silently but resoundingly accompanying him.

The easy transfer of roles between father and son can sometimes invite social criticism, but there is one exception.

Many classmates also came to attend the funeral. Zheng Haiyang came, and Zhou Yunyun also came.

At the end of the funeral, Tan Wenbin brought Tan Yunlong to the crematorium for cremation.

He felt very surprised. How could such a big person as his dad be packed into such a small box?

He hugged the urn, sat in the car, and went home.

His father’s portrait was placed at home.

Tan Wenbin cooked some instant noodles and ate with Zheng Fang.

Zheng Fang: “Son, did you put salt? It’s bland and tasteless.”

Tan Wenbin: “I think it’s just right. Don’t believe me, ask Dad…”

Zheng Fang and Tan Wenbin subconsciously looked towards the empty seat at the table together. In a family of three, everyone’s eating position was often fixed.

Following the direction of the empty seat, it was the black and white portrait.

Zheng Fang lowered her head, crying while eating. Tears dropped into her bowl, so she didn’t need to add salt this way.

After the meal, Zheng Fang returned to her room to rest. Soon, suppressed crying could be heard from inside. She was hiding under the quilt.

Tan Wenbin stayed in the living room, changing his sitting posture. He really wanted to take advantage of this quiet night and chat with his dad for a while longer.

But after thinking about it, he found nothing good to say.

Because he felt that as a son, he was quite a failure. There was nothing he could show off to make his old man a little proud.

Finally, the long-awaited rain finally started to fall.

Tan Wenbin wiped his tears and said:

“Old Tan, you wasted the extra points you helped me earn for the college entrance exam. Your son is useless. Even with extra points, he can’t get into university, alas.”

He knocked his head against the edge of the table. Tan Wenbin was half-asleep and half-awake.

In a daze, he seemed to hear a “thump” sound from inside the room.

He immediately struggled to stand up, walked towards his parents’ bedroom door, knocked on the door, and asked: “Mom, are you okay, Mom?”

There was no response from inside.

He continued knocking and shouting, but there was still no response from inside.

Tan Wenbin tried to open the door and found it was locked from the inside.

“Mom! Mom! Mom!”

Tan Wenbin realized something was wrong and started ramming the door.

“Bang!”

The door was rammed open.

Tan Wenbin turned on the light and saw his mother lying on the ground, with foam at her mouth. Beside her was an empty pesticide bottle.

“Mom!”

Tan Wenbin bent down and hugged his mother. He had to quickly send his mother to the hospital now. As long as she was sent to the hospital in time, there was still time, definitely time.

As he moved, his foot kicked over the empty bottle. The empty bottle hit the bed leg and bounced back.

Tan Wenbin’s line of sight fell on the pesticide bottle label, and his eyes immediately widened.

He knew clearly that after drinking this pesticide, even with timely gastric lavage treatment, people could temporarily recover to normal for a few days, but in the end, they still couldn’t be saved.

It could give you time to regret, but not a chance to live.

Tan Wenbin’s body trembled, and his face began to contort, but he still strongly supported hugging his mother, woke up the neighbor with a motorcycle, and begged them to drive him and his mother to the hospital.

At the door of the operating room late at night, Tan Wenbin sat there.

Just now, the doctor had come out, hesitant to speak, wanting to explain some situations to him.

He told the doctor that he knew the result in his heart.

The doctor nodded, sighed helplessly, and left.

Tan Wenbin knew that after dawn, his mother would wake up. She would be able to eat and laugh, and she would also be able to hug him, stroking his face and head.

She might say she regretted it, that she wouldn’t try to die again, that she would properly accompany him, accompany him until he grew up completely, accompany him at work, accompany him when he got married, and then help him bring up his child later.

These imaginable gentle words and expressions would turn into the most painful sharp stabs not long after.

Tan Wenbin hugged his head, lowered his head, opening his mouth wide without making any sound. Snot and tears dripped down nonstop.

A figure walked over in the corridor. It was Zheng Haiyang.

He sat down beside Tan Wenbin, reached out and lightly patted Tan Wenbin’s back: “The doctor said the rescue was very successful, aunt will be okay.”

Tan Wenbin turned his head and looked at Zheng Haiyang.

Zheng Haiyang looked into his eyes and said to him: “Bin Ge, don’t worry, no matter what happens, I will be by your side.”

Tan Wenbin shook his head and said: “I just figured something out.”

Zheng Haiyang smiled: “It’s good to figure it out, it’s good. Whatever happens will pass, really.”

“My mom is very strong. She won’t commit suicide. My dad is gone, she will take on the responsibility of accompanying me. She’s been a police wife for so many years, she has this psychological resilience.”

Zheng Haiyang: “Even the strongest person may have times when they can’t hold on, Bin Ge. This is not aunt’s fault.”

Tan Wenbin: “That bottle of pesticide, who put it in her room?”

Zheng Haiyang was surprised: “Bin Ge, you suspect someone deliberately…”

Tan Wenbin leaned his face towards Zheng Haiyang, very close, very close. He carefully looked at Zheng Haiyang’s eyes and asked: “Besides calling the neighbor to take me, I haven’t told anyone about Mom’s situation until now. Why are you here so timely?”

Zheng Haiyang was stunned for a moment, then immediately retorted: “Bin Ge, are you suspecting me?”

“Otherwise? Shouldn’t I?”

Zheng Haiyang said angrily: “Bin Ge, how can you think of me like this!”

The next moment,

Zheng Haiyang’s aggrieved and angry expression transformed into an extremely mocking sneer in an extremely smooth manner:

“It was exactly me who personally put the pesticide there, and I even wrote a suicide note to aunt in uncle’s tone, ha ha ha ha!”

Tan Wenbin grabbed Zheng Haiyang’s arm and shook it desperately: “Why did you do this, why!”

Under the violent shaking, Zheng Haiyang’s head started swinging back and forth. A small turtle, he didn’t know when, climbed onto Zheng Haiyang’s head.

The turtle’s mouth and Zheng Haiyang’s mouth opened simultaneously,

And laughed:

“Because I’m unbalanced inside, ah. Why do you have a dad and mom by your side, while I don’t, ah?”

(To be continued)