The narrow street was very busy with people coming and going. A kitten on the side of the road with a rope tied around its neck raised its head and called "meow" to Li Zhenruo twice. dawdling.
Li Zhenran stood beside Li Zhenruo and said to him, "Go around first."
Li Zhenruo nodded, stood up and left slowly with Li Zhenran regardless of the kitten's barking to stay. This county is not big, they don't know anyone, and they have nowhere to go, they just take a slow walk in an unfamiliar small city.
The thoughts in his head were too messy, and Li Zhen refused to try to sort it out. No matter what the truth was, he just accepted it now, and he couldn't have a better choice.
Li Zhenran reached out to wrap his arms around his waist, and put his palm on the back of his waist. After a long time, even through the clothes, Li Zhenruo could still feel the warmth of Li Zhenran's palm.
After a while, he turned his head and said to Li Zhenran, "I may lack love."
Li Zhenran was stunned because of his inexplicable words, and smiled: "I will compensate you."
Sweet words are always listened to, Li Zhenruo thought to himself, he is quite happy now, he has lost some things and gained some things, and they cannot be simply compared and measured, whether to lose more or gain more Much, he didn't know anymore.
After wandering around for a while, looking for a place to eat something, when it was almost time for dinner in the afternoon, Li Zhenruo knocked on Luo Yunguang's door again, but this time there was still no answer.
He wasn't sure if there was anyone in their house, the shop next door was closed, and the other one said he didn't know if they had returned.
So I waited for a while, and when I came back, the remaining shop was also closed, and the door of Luo Yunguang's house was still closed. Li Zhenruo knocked on the door, but got no response.
"Is there no one?" He was a little surprised, and stepped back a few steps to look at the two-story building inside the gate. He didn't see anyone, but there was a faint light, and he wasn't sure if it was the reflection from the nearby street lamps or the light in the room.
Li Zhenruo then made up his mind, and he said to Li Zhenran, "I want to go in and have a look."
Li Zhenran glanced around and made sure that there was no anti-theft grid around the iron gate, and then said to him, "Go, be careful."
Li Zhenruo reached out and took off his coat and handed it to Li Zhenran.
As a result, just as Li Zhenran reached out to pick it up, the coat left Li Zhenruo's body and disappeared out of thin air, leaving a cat hair floating in Li Zhenran's palm.
Li Zhenruo smiled embarrassedly. Although he knew it was meaningless, he rolled up his long sleeves habitually, then hid in the dark and transformed into a cat shape, and climbed up the brick wall next to the iron gate.
Standing outside the door, Li Zhenran saw him clinging to the wall with his forelimbs, and his buttocks wobbled for a while before he climbed up with difficulty, and suddenly smiled.
It became easier for Li Zhenruo to climb up the courtyard wall. He trotted along the courtyard wall until he came near the building and climbed up the pipe to the window on the second floor.
When he got close, Li Zhenruo heard the sound of someone walking inside. He was sure that there was someone in the room, so he climbed to the window of the room where he saw the light just now. Li Zhenruo looked in and saw the inside of the room. With the TV on, a couple in their forties sat beside the bed, and the man among them was Luo Yunguang.
Luo Yunguang was clearly at home, but he didn't open the door for them.
Li Zhenruo didn't have time to get angry, so he turned around and climbed along the pipe to the yard on the first floor, directly transformed back into a human form, walked over and unlocked the big iron gate from the inside.
Li Zhenran was standing outside the door, looking at him with some surprise, "Is anyone there?"
Li Zhenruo nodded, "There is someone."
The people upstairs heard the movement, Luo Yunguang rushed to the window and shouted loudly: "Who is it?!"
Li Zhenran and Li Zhenruo stood in place and looked up at the same time.
Luo Yunguang left the window at this time, hearing the sound as if he came downstairs in a hurry.
Li Zhenruo and Li Zhenran looked at each other, waiting for him quietly.
Luo Yunguang came down to the first floor, opened the anti-theft door from the inside, and cursed fiercely: "Who are you? Are you breaking in to steal something? I called the police!"
He held the mobile phone in his hand, as if he had already dialed 110 and was ready to dial at any time.
However, at this moment, Li Zhenran shouted first: "Uncle Luo, do you still remember me? I'm Li Zhenran?"
Luo Yunguang was stunned for a moment, he stood by the door, frowned and looked in this direction, carefully sizing up the slender and handsome young man under the street lamp, "Who do you say you are?"
Li Zhenran said: "I am Li Jianglin's second son, Li Zhenran."
Luo Yunguang put down his phone, walked towards them slowly, until he approached Li Zhenran, looked at his face seriously, and said, "Yes, you are really Zhenran."
Li Zhenran smiled at him, "Uncle Luo, I haven't seen you for many years."
Luo Yunguang looked a little dazed, "Why did you come here?"
Li Zhenran didn't answer him directly, but stretched out his hand to pull Li Zhenruo to his side, and said to Luo Yunguang, "Uncle Luo, do you remember? This is my younger brother, Zhenwei."
Luo Yunguang's expression became strange for a moment. He first walked to the wall and opened the lamp in the yard, looked at Li Zhenruo's face through the light, and then said: "He—isn't it..."
Li Zhenruo didn't know what Li Zhenran meant, but he still cooperated with Li Zhenran and said: "Uncle Luo, look at me carefully, you hugged me when you were young, why not?"
Li Zhenruo was still young when Luo Yunguang left, and he could recognize the grown-up Li Zhenran, but he might not be able to recognize what Li Zhenruo would look like now. But if you really think about it carefully, this Li Zhenruo looks too young now, not the same age as Li Zhenruo himself.
But for Luo Yunguang, it wasn't this that puzzled him. He just looked up at Li Zhenran: "I saw the news last year, Li Zhenruo is gone."
Gone means dead.
Li Zhenran was exposed by him, and he was not embarrassed at all, but smiled and said: "It turns out that Uncle Luo has been paying attention to us."
Li Zhenruo's case was reported by the media, but he is not a star himself, and the repercussions he can arouse in society are limited. The case is not a serious case, so it has not attracted a lot of media attention.
Luo Yunguang could know that if it wasn't that he was still in contact with Li Jianglin, it was that he was very concerned about the movements of the Li family.
Hearing what Li Zhenran said, Luo Yunguang didn't refute, but just looked at Li Zhenruo and said, "Who is this little brother?"
Li Zhenran put his hands on Li Zhenruo's shoulders, and said to Luo Yunguang: "My friend's younger brother, play a joke on Uncle Luo, don't be angry."
Luo Yunguang also smiled, "Why are you angry? You haven't said anything yet, why did you come here suddenly?"
As soon as he finished speaking, his wife's voice came from the window on the second floor: "Who is it? Do you want to call the police?"
Luo Yunguang responded: "Two nephews, just leave it alone, it's fine!"
Li Zhenran said to him: "Uncle Luo, won't you invite us in for a sit-down? It's really not easy for me to find it from such a distance."
Hearing this, Luo Yunguang seemed to have just realized it, and quickly said to them: "Look at my head, it's useless when I'm old, come with me to the living room and sit for a while."
With that said, he led the way ahead and asked Li Zhenran and Li Zhenruo to follow him in.
Li Zhenruo slowed down, and said softly to Li Zhenran, "His ears are fine, why hasn't he opened the door for us?"
Li Zhenran didn't say anything, and touched Li Zhenruo's head.
When Luo Yunguang arrived at this time, he was warm to them, let them sit on the sofa, and called his wife down from the second floor to pour tea for them.
The topic inevitably returned to the purpose of Li Zhenran and the others coming here. This time Li Zhenran no longer evaded, but said: "Uncle Luo, I accidentally learned something about more than 20 years ago, and I want to come to ask you some questions. Old things."
Luo Yunguang sat on the single sofa opposite them, frowning slightly, "What happened more than twenty years ago?"
Li Zhenran nodded, "At that time, you were Dad's closest brother, and I believe Dad would never hide anything from you."
Luo Yunguang picked up the cup, blowing the tea leaves and shaking his head with a smile, "Tell me what it is, if I know, I will tell you."
Li Zhenran said: "It's about my fourth brother Zhenwei."
Luo Yunguang slowly put down his cup, glanced at Li Zhenran, "Zhenwei is gone."
Li Zhenran nodded upon hearing this.
During this process, Li Zhenruo remained silent. He knew that he was a stranger to Luo Yunguang at present, and if he asked rashly, not only would he not get an answer, but would arouse the other party's vigilance, so he kept quietly listening to what Li Zhenran had to say.
Luo Yunguang once again mentioned that Li Zhenruo was dead. They all knew about it. Li Zhenran pretended not to understand him and asked, "So?"
Luo Yunguang said: "People are gone, what's the point of pursuing the past?"
What he said, on the contrary, convinced both Li Zhenran and Li Zhenruo that he knew something.
Li Zhenran then said, "Uncle Luo, the fourth child is not a matter of father's own son, you know that, right?"
Hearing this question, Luo Yunguang didn't answer immediately, but he didn't show any surprise either. He just reached out to pick up the teacup that he had just put down, and brought it to his lips to take a sip without haste.
Li Zhenruo observed his expression silently, seeing him staring at the teacup, he was obviously thinking about how to answer. Not only did he know about this matter, but he might not plan to tell them the truth until now, so he needed to delay his time. Consider what kind of answer to give them.
Luo Yunguang has been away from the Li family for so many years, it sounds like there is no news, but he has lived a very good life in this place, and Li Jianglin treats him well, so until now, he still wants to help Li Jianglin hide something, is that so