Chen Shan used to think that children were a burden, but after witnessing Xiao Su Li's growth, her thoughts began to shake faintly.
She thinks of her child more and more time, and sometimes even looks at Xiao Su Li and starts to be in a daze.
Xu Shilin was a little strange, but Xiao Su Li knew that his aunt Shanshan must be thinking about her baby.
After staying in the hospital for a month, the baby's condition was controlled after medication. After talking to the attending doctor, Xu Shilin took Xiao Su Li home.
On the day of discharge, Chen Shan, who promised to pick them up, didn't show up, and Xiao Su Li complained to her mother that the other party didn't keep her word.
Both of them thought that the woman just couldn't get away because of something and didn't take it to heart. When they got home, they found that the house opposite was empty.
Chen Shan left, no one knew where she went, except for the big bed that sunk slightly in the middle and Xu Shilin's mother and son opposite the door, there seemed to be nothing to prove that she once lived here.
"After Aunt Shanshan left, I never saw her again."
When the memory came to an end, Su Li took a sip of the slightly cold water in the cup, and looked up at the man sitting opposite, his face faintly pale under the light.
"Su Jianghai said that I killed Jin Yu's mother. Actually, that's true."
"Ali..." Shang Yi, who was sitting beside him, gently took his lover into his arms, feeling distressed that the other party recalled those bad pasts.
Gu Peilang always listened quietly, until after Su Li finished saying those words, he raised his eyes slightly to look at the other party.
"I found out that Chen Shan was infected with AIDS and finally died."
Su Li closed her eyes, and the tips of her fingers holding the cup were slightly white.
"No death," he let out a slow breath, then opened his eyes to look at the man in front of him, "but she didn't receive treatment."
If it is said that Xu Shilin is the regret of Su Li's life, then Chen Shan is the person Su Li is most sorry for.
He could never forget that musty and damp summer, his mother's eyes were red and swollen, dressed in serious black clothes, and took him by the hand to the cemetery in the suburbs.
Six-year-old Su Li saw the tombstone with the woman's name engraved on it among the countless standing stone tablets. The paint in the dent was still not dry.
His beautiful Aunt Shanshan, with a bright and dazzling smile, was frozen in a small black and white photo.
Xu Shilin told him that his aunt Shanshan went to a far away place and would never come back.
Xiao Su Li pursed her lips and didn't speak. Of course he knew, he was dead, how could he come back? Maybe one day, maybe in the near future, he will be like the other side, quietly lying here, mixed with many stone tablets...
It was probably because of his mood swings that Xiao Su Li fell ill very soon after returning home. He was lying in his cot in a drowsy state, and the voices of his mother and Grandma Li downstairs came from the crack of the door that was not closed tightly. .
"It's really gone?" Grandma Li lowered her voice.
"Um..." This is Xu Shilin's.
"What about her family?"
"Xiaoshan has a conflict with her family. She... doesn't want her family to know about her situation. I can only respect her decision." The woman's voice was hoarse after being overworked and sad.
"Hey..." Grandma Li sighed. She used to hate each other so much before, but if she really heard that someone was gone, she really couldn't tell how she felt at this moment.
"Then the money she gave you..."
Speaking of this, Xu Shilin's nose felt sour. The woman tilted her head and glanced in the direction of her son's bedroom with a confused expression.
"Such a large sum of money, even if the disease can't be cured, it can make her live a few more years... But she is for Ali... "
It was for me...
In the last second before Xiao Su Li fell into a coma, she seemed to see the woman's gorgeous and flamboyant smiling face again. The other party smiled and pinched his face with her manicured hand, calling him, "Little Ali, say How many times have you called me sister, not auntie."
The brightly lit living room was silent. Gu Peilang was silent and did not speak. He did not expect that behind the black and white words, there would be such a truth.
"I stole Aunt Shanshan's life-saving money, or the wife's book she saved for Jin Yu," Su Li gently curled the corner of his lips, "but it doesn't make any difference, robbing is robbing, Su Jianghai said. is right."
"Ali, it's not your fault." Shang Yi couldn't help hugging the person in his arms any longer.
The man twitched a pair of handsome eyebrows, and said the most objective and straightforward facts in a low voice: "Even if she has that money, it's just a futile extension of the time she has to endure the pain. For her, Death is the best way out."
Su Li opened her mouth and didn't speak. Shang Yi turned to look at Gu Peilang, who was facing him.
"Mr. Gu, you already know everything you want to know. If you have nothing else to do, please leave. We are going to rest."
The man spoke unceremoniously to drive people away, and Gu Peilang glanced over the two of them, turning around and leaving without saying a word.
Wang Qi dutifully sent the person out. Su Li stood in the living room and watched Gu Peilang and the others disappear. With a calm expression, no one knew what he was thinking.
"Ali..." Shang Yi called him cautiously from the side.
Su Li turned to look at the people beside him with a cold expression: "You know he is investigating the past."
Shang Yi: "… "
The man's silence made Su Li a little disappointed. His thin body swayed, and he grabbed the armrest of the chair beside him to stabilize.
"Shang Yi, you said you wouldn't hide anything from me again."
Seeing Su Li like this, Shang Yi panicked.
He took a step forward and took the man into his arms domineeringly, but his seemingly arrogant movements were filled with incomparable tenderness.
"I just don't want to upset you with these little things."
Su Li leaned on his arms wearily: "You always do this."
"I was wrong, I'll change it next time." The man lowered his head slightly and kissed him on the top of his head, his voice was gentle, "It's getting late, I'll take you up to rest, okay?"
Su Li didn't speak, Shang Yi leaned over and picked him up, and walked upstairs steadily step by step.
After entering the bedroom, the man gently placed the person on the bed, then knelt on one knee on the ground and took off the slippers on the person's feet.
The feet that have not seen the sun all the year round are too pale, and the pale blue blood vessels under the thin skin have a strange beauty.
Shang Yi held up each other's legs with both hands, bowed his head slightly, and dropped a pious kiss on the person's instep.
Su Li's body was slightly hot, and she stepped back uncomfortably, but was imprisoned by the man for half a minute, unable to move.
"Ali..."
Shang Yi called him in a hoarse voice, and Su Li directly softened half of his body.