Xie Qingcheng returned to Moyu Lane, sat down, and was in a state of mind for a long time.
He didn't want to recall the words Xie Lishen said to him just now. Those words kept stinging him, disgusting him, and making him feel extremely uncomfortable.
Rationally speaking, being able to fall in love with others is a good thing for He Yu in itself... As for how he feels and how uncomfortable he is, it seems that it is no longer important to Xie Qingcheng.
However, that person should never be Xie Lishen.
Xie Qingcheng knew too well what kind of person Xie Lishen was.
His eyes glanced at the wall, looking at the almost unrecognizable traces of photo frames on the wall - more than 20 years ago, there used to be many photos hanging in these places, and a large part of them had Xie Lishen's figure.
Xie Qingcheng lit a cigarette, took a sip, coughed softly, and followed the scattered blue smoke, his eyes dimmed, and his thoughts returned to many years ago.
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Xie Qingcheng's grandfather used to be a small comprador. In today's terms, he was a translator.
In those years of poverty and chaos, compradors were often employed by foreign companies, so their lives would be better than those of ordinary bosses. He met a bourgeois eldest lady at work, and the two fell in love and got married. But one comprador, one □□, will be treated in the subsequent pull/white/flag, ten years of turmoil, one can imagine.
In the 1970s, the grandmother of the Xie family was unbearably humiliated and committed suicide, while her grandfather never married again. After being rehabilitated and taking off the cap, the man took the two children left by his wife, suffered a lot, tried to do a lot of things, and slowly brought the family back to life.
The two children he brought, one was Xie Qingcheng's father Xie Ping, and the other was Xie Ping's brother, Xie Qingcheng's uncle.
The two sons have grown up, and they have encountered the most rapidly changing and all-encompassing good times in this land. Xie Ping wanted to become a policeman. Although the political/trial was bumpy, he finally passed it.
As for his brother, Xie Qingcheng's uncle, he followed the old man to Yishi to do business. The chicken feathers were exchanged for candy. The business was getting bigger and bigger. "Thank you boss".
The family is prospering day by day, and grandma's old face has always been placed in the hall by grandfather. The gentle and elegant ladies have never turned white, and their peach blossom eyes are smiling, watching them live a prosperous and smooth life. Uncle Xie got married, and Xie Ping got married... With children and grandchildren around their knees, the pain of those years has become a pale scab.
Until a woman appeared.
That woman is the mistress of brother Xie Ping.
To say Uncle Xie, it is completely different from Xie Ping. Xie Ping is a policeman and has a very straight mind. After marrying Zhou Muying, the husband and wife are so affectionate that women on the roadside don't bother to look at him. Uncle Xie was a businessman. He was exposed to too many temptations and few restraints. Slowly, Uncle began to fail the test.
He and the mistress had been secretly dating for half a year, and then the mistress suddenly left, and he didn't care. Anyway, business, fun, how could he have any sincerity
But what he didn't expect was that, after another year, the old man's birthday feast and the family reunion, the mistress suddenly came to the door and asked him to ask for money. .
This child is Xie Lishen.
Uncle Xie's wife has a very strong temperament, it can even be said to be impulsive. She is a woman who loves and hates like fire. How can she endure such insults and betrayals at the family banquet? In a fit of anger, the woman beheaded her mistress a few days later, and then surrendered herself. She ruined her life for a man who couldn't resist her.
This incident had a huge impact on the grandfather of the Xie family. The old man's body was not very good for a while. After being stimulated, he couldn't hold it any longer. Before dying, this stubborn and upright old man made a will. All his property was inherited by the second son Xie Ping, and he did not give half of the eldest son.
After the old man passed away, Uncle Xie changed completely.
His father was angry at him for being ruthless and unrighteous, for betraying his wife, and when he was a son, he was angry at his father's renunciation of righteousness, and turned his elbows out. Uncle Xie was drinking and gambling. He went to trouble his brother Xie Ping every three to five days. When he returned to the rental house, he beat and scolded Xie Lishen, calling him a "disaster star".
Xie Ping couldn't stand it any longer. He wanted to have a good talk with his elder brother several times, but he spat on his face—
"Talk? Talk about what? Your wife and children are on the kang head, occupying the house and money given to you by the dead old man, and living a nourishing and unrestrained life, what about me? If you really treat me as a brother, you will give me half of your real estate! half of me!"
Xie Ping hates iron for not becoming steel: "I give it to you, you can go back and gamble, take it for whoring, I have to arrest you, if you don't change like this, don't say a million, you can't spend 10 million. half a year."
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"Fuck you! If you don't want to give it to you, just say it! There are so many high-sounding reasons for wearing a uniform. Xie second, you still want to arrest me? You open your eyes and see clearly! I am your brother! I helped you when you were young. How many beatings did you take? You caught me?! Thank you for being able to say it!"
Even if he scolded him himself, he even dragged Xie Lishen over and pointed at Xie Ping to show Xie Lishen: "Did you see it? Ah? This is your little uncle! Half of the money in their family's good life should belong to us! It's all your fault, you calamity! You and your mother's bastards! I've left me with nothing! Nothing!!"
As he spoke, he slapped Xie Lishen's face hard, the child's face was quickly swollen, and tears kept falling...
Xie Ping hurriedly stepped forward to stop: "What are you doing? We adults, what are you doing to beat the child?"
"What's the matter? Take care of your family's Xie Qingcheng! It's your turn to point the finger at me? People's servants are so lenient, Pacific Police, you! Stop talking and I'll tell you, and I'll beat him to death!"
Xie Ping had no choice but to leave in the end.
Before he left, he looked back at Xie Lishen, such a small child, his eyes were full of hatred, but he didn't know who the hatred was for...
Perhaps it was in response to the old saying that people are watching. Not long after, Uncle Xie had an accident on his way home because of alcoholism and gambling. He was drunk and fell into the river. It was late at night and no one saw him. It wasn't until the next day that he was hit by a yellow sand boat on the river - by that time, Uncle Xie was already swollen and completely lost his anger.
After a series of formalities, Xie Ping brought back the only son left in the world by his eldest brother.
"Lishen, you will treat this as your home in the future. We will take care of you. Okay?"
Xie Lishen was still very young at that time, but his eyes had a maturity that a normal child would never have.
He politely said to Xie Ping and Zhou Muying: "Thank you uncle, thank you aunt."
Then he turned his head and looked at Xie Qingcheng.
He stared at Xie Qingcheng longer than anyone else.
"...Thank you cousin."
Xie Qingcheng has been a big straight man since he was a child, and he doesn't have such a sensitive intuition. He didn't notice Xie Lishen's eyes at all, and nodded to Xie Lishen casually: "Don't be afraid, you can find me if you need anything, we are a family. ."
"..." Xie Li smiled deeply, "Okay."
In fact, looking back, Xie Lishen's hostility towards Xie Qingcheng was there from the very beginning.
Afterwards, they got along under the same roof, and the sense of hatred increased rather than decreased. Part of the reason was that Xie Qingcheng was too slow.
For example, Xie Qingcheng never cared about his origins. In his opinion, a person is an individual and has nothing to do with his parents or family.
So he wouldn't shy away from this to Xie Lishen. When watching TV, he saw the plot of the illegitimate child of the mistress.
He can be so calm because he thinks Xie Lishen is not such a person. He has not established any connection between the two, but Xie Lishen doesn't think so. deliberately mocking him.
Because Xie Lishen himself had put on a pair of colored glasses called the imaginary enemy, whatever Xie Qingcheng did was wrong and had ulterior motives, either to harm him or to mock him. Even if Xie Qingcheng glanced at him casually, Xie Lishen would be so sensitive that he wanted to dig out some deep meaning from this glance.
He hated Xie Qingcheng and liked to deduct the meaning he wanted from every word and every behavior of the other party.
The sad thing about people not being able to understand each other is that many times people are not because they don't have the ability or opportunity, but because deep down they don't have the will at all.
As a result, Xie Lishen's resentment against Xie Qingcheng became deeper and deeper... And a large part of this came from his own imagination. He believed that Xie Qingcheng stole his things and disgusted him. The more he thought about it, the more he hated him. .
The most typical example is that once, the community had a Chinese New Year stage performance.
In that stage performance, the organizer originally took a fancy to Xie Lishen, who was reading in the garden at that time, and felt that this little boy was born very beautiful and suitable for acting as the prince in the story.
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Little boy who doesn't like to play the prince? Xie Lishen was so happy at the time, his pride was on his face, and Xie Ping and his wife were also happy for him. After all, there used to be too few things to be excited about this child, and this was the first time they saw him so excited. A little guy who really fits his age.
Xie Qingcheng is also happy for him and thinks he is indeed suitable for this role.
On the day of the performance, Xie Lishen did his best to perform perfectly on the stage, His Royal Highness, an elegant gentleman, and won the applause of the audience.
He thought he could win the best performance award that time... The contestants in the back were not enough to watch. Most of the children didn't prepare too seriously in order to have fun, so they forgot their words, and they were out of tune. Xie Lishen Very excited, just waiting to get on stage to receive the award.
But at the end of the show, Xie Qing presented it.
Of course he didn't do any stage play like his cousin, he sat down at a piano, his eyelashes drooped, and in the quiet beam of light, he played the theme song of Cinema Paradiso. The light falling on the keys was lightly shattered by him, and every note was like ripples scattered in the summer night wind.
At the end of the song, Xie Lishen heard someone whispering, "Wow, it's so beautiful..."
"He is the prince in my heart..."
Xie Lishen's face suddenly turned blue.
He didn't know that the reason why Xie Qingcheng would play a piano piece at the end was because the host of the show was his close classmate and needed his support - he couldn't listen to anything, he only knew his limelight It was all stolen by Xie Qingcheng!
He was so angry that his eyes were red, and when he returned home that day, he suddenly asked Xie Qingcheng in a shrill voice: "Why are you performing? Why are you doing the same thing as me?! Are you? Deliberately satirizing me?! Are you trying to compete with me on purpose?! You want to take my things!!!"
"..." Xie Qingcheng was stunned for a moment, "...it was a classmate looking for me...what's the matter with you?"
What's up.
He was too embarrassed to ask what happened!
If it wasn't for his elegant demeanor, dressed like a little prince, and pretending to play the piano, would he be praised as "His Royal Highness"? He did it on purpose! He deliberately pretended to be unknown! He is disgustingly hypocritical!
Xie Li gritted his teeth and said nothing, but Xie Qing's appearance of playing the piano became his nightmare for countless nights later. Later, when the Xie family was lonely and moved out of the original high-end community, he had to sell the piano at home and pooled money to operate on the sick Zhou Muying. Xie Lishen felt a burst of ecstasy in his heart.
He looked at Xie Qingcheng's hands that used to dance on the piano keys, moving rough wooden boards and cardboards, helping his parents organize things, scrub the table and wash dishes... The bad breath that had accumulated in his heart for many years was finally clear. go out.
Yes... Xie Qingcheng's family took away his normal life.
They took the money that belonged to his father, and they even appeared in front of him as a rescuer!
Xie Qingcheng stole his wealth and replaced his limelight... Now the feng shui turns and the family is going downhill, Xie Qingcheng can no longer take such expensive piano lessons and can't show his noble temperament, Xie Lishen They all thought happily—cousin, you took everything from me, and now, you are the same as me.
equally poor.
same hardship.
You are not a noble son, not His Royal Highness, you are just a poor child in a broken alley. Your parents made a mistake and were both demoted... Very humiliating, right? Your parents have also fallen to the altar, and you should be as ashamed as I am!
You should bow your head.
But Xie Lishen never thought that Xie Qingcheng's mentality had not changed at all.
Xie Qingcheng has even become more sensible and responsible than before, and he has grown up, his puberty has arrived, and his body has begun to be drawn. Girls, the girls followed him home all the time, and then when he looked up, they giggled and dispersed.
Neighbors began to call him "handsome guy", and Xie Lishen was also handsome, but as long as Xie Qingcheng was there, "handsome guy" would always be Xie Qingcheng's name, and it had nothing to do with him.
Xie Li hated him deeply. He looked at Xie Qingcheng's figure with hatred, at the gradually widening shoulders, the smooth back, and the tight legs. April's peach eyes.
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His heart trembled with hatred. He seemed to be afraid of every inch of Xie Qingcheng's light and growth. Xie Qingcheng's every move, in Xie Lishen's view, was the original sin.
Even when Xie Qingcheng was at home in the most difficult days, he left as much delicious food as possible to his younger siblings. In Xie Lishen's view, he was also playing a role and "giving charity" in disguise.
Did he think he was really a prince
No... no no! He's just a thief who stole his life! They are all thieves!
In junior high school, Xie Lishen finally didn't want to pretend.
He began to put his rebelliousness on the bright side. He often didn't go home, wandered outside, and caused countless troubles to Xie Ping and his wife. Although Xie Ping and his wife were in a hurry, because Xie Lishen was not his own child after all, this child was very careful. Delicate, so they did not dare to say too much words to him, and could only educate them with painstaking efforts.
Xie Lishen didn't listen.
This kind of innocuous situation lasted for more than half a semester, until one time, the school leaders publicly punished Xie Lishen because Xie Lishen was caught in puppy love.
The object is a boy from the vocational high school next to him.
Still a male student! !
Xie Qingcheng and Xie Lishen were from a junior high school. Xie Qingcheng was stunned when he heard this in the audience, his eyes widened. No one knew the name of the boy reported by the school director. He was the worst male student in that vocational school. Both men and women played. Xie Lishen actually got together with him.
Xie Qingcheng was furious. After the morning meeting, he found Xie Lishen and asked him what was going on. Xie Lishen rolled his eyes: "I want you to be a man?"
Xie Qingcheng slapped him in the face...
The two cousins had a big fight. Xie Lishen spit out all the grievances that had accumulated in his heart over the years, scolded Xie Qingcheng and Xie Ping and his wife, and then left Xie's house that night to live with his "boyfriend" home.
This is an ignition lock, and what is hidden behind it is that Xie Lishen has been doomed to the contradiction between the two families since he was born. Since then, the relationship between Xie Lishen and their family has faded.
Later, when Xie Ping and his wife passed away, Xie Lishen didn't even attend the funeral. He even ran back to Xie's house while Xie Qingcheng was in a dreadful situation and stole the 30,000 yuan emergency fund that Xie Ping had hidden in the chest of drawers. He broke a jade pendant in the drawer. The jade pendant was Zhou Muying's favorite wish-fulfilling pendant... It fell on the ground and broke into two halves.
Xie Qing reported the case, but did not expect that the "prisoner" he saw at the police station would be an indifferent Xie Lishen.
Xie Qingcheng said: "...Do you know what you are doing!"
Xie Lishen said: "Of course I know that these should have belonged to my father. It was your father who took the money that belonged to my father, and you who took the life that belonged to me."
Xie Qingcheng was exhausted at that time, and he hardly had the strength to quarrel with Xie Lishen again.
The last sentence he asked Xie Lishen was: "Xie Lishen, you are such a fucking beast... How have we treated you badly all these years?"
After being quiet for a few seconds, Xie Lishen replied, "You guys took away what should have belonged to me, and then turned around and gave it to me, and what do you want to say to me?"
"It was your mother who did the wrong thing-"
"My mother was just pursuing her own happiness."
"...you shouldn't have that thought, you shouldn't be like her."
Xie Li stared at Xie Qingcheng deeply, peach blossom eyes facing peach blossom eyes.
Xie Lishen said: "Xie Qingcheng, I will choose my path myself. Even if I am a real villain, I will not be a hypocrite like you. Just wait for me, it doesn't matter if it takes ten or twenty years... One day, I will turn everything you have into mine, and Xie Ping will take the things from my parents that cannot be returned. In the future, I will come and pick it up in person! I will let you taste that everything you have is taken away from you. The taste of it. When the time comes, it will be up to me to show mercy or not to show mercy to you.”
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"Cousin, let's take a look."
Before I knew it, several cigarettes were exhausted.
Xie Qingcheng thought about all the things of that year, raised his hand to support his temple, took a deep breath, and only felt that his headache was about to split.
He got up and went to bed to take a pill, but at this moment, the phone suddenly rang.
The call came from a completely unfamiliar number.
Xie Qingcheng answered: "Hello."
From the other end of the phone came a familiar low and soft voice.
"Mr. Xie."
The pain on Xie Qingcheng's forehead became more pronounced, with a slight dizziness, which made him unable to breathe because He Yu's voice was on the other end of the phone.
"...what's the matter with you?"
"It's nothing, I just thought about it. I offended you a little bit at the cafe today. Although I just don't want you to do anything to my people, but..." He Yu gave a deep smile, "I think of your arm, It seems that he was injured. . . he was injured trying to save me."
"… "
"Give me a chance to apologize." He Yu said, "Have dinner together next weekend?"
Xie Qingcheng endured the headache: "No need."
"In my impression, you're not that careful." He Yu smiled, "Don't you even give me a chance to reconcile?"
Before Xie Qingcheng could answer, he said again: "You don't need to answer me right away, there are still several days until the weekend, you can think about it carefully. Maybe in the process, I'd like to reveal some of these two things to you. What about the secret that happened in three years?"
Xie Qingcheng: "…"
"Then let's do it first." He Yu laughed, "I'll send you the address, whether you come or not, I'll be waiting for you at that place on weekends."
His voice is very pleasant, and as he grows older, he gradually takes on a bewitching aura.
"Hopefully we can, see you soon."
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