Yu Qiu nodded to Xu Hong, then looked around again, "Where are the others?"
Xu Hong pointed to the heart with his chin.
Yu Qiu was surprised, "They... are all still inside?"
"That's right. This path should be difficult for most people." Xu Hong sighed, looked at Yu Qiu and said with a smile, "Junior Brother Yu performed really well this time."
Yu Qiu happened to be rubbing the corners of his eyes, and couldn't help but laugh when he heard this.
Only then did Xu Hong realize that the corners of Yu Qiu's eyes were red, and he was taken aback for a moment, then glanced away, and comforted him in embarrassment, "It's okay... You can count on it like this, sometimes someone crawls out crying bitterly..."
Because there were only these two people at the moment, it was too quiet, Xu Hong couldn't bear the loneliness, and after a while, he couldn't help asking, "What did Junior Brother Yu see this time?"
Yu Qiu looked at him, expressing with his eyes that he would not tell him even if he died.
Xu Hong coughed, and immediately pretended that he didn't ask anything just now, and continued to look straight ahead.
Then a cry finally broke the silence. Shen Qianlan covered her face with her hands, crying loudly came out of her heart, shedding tears on the ground as she ran.
"Xiaolan..." Xu Hong sighed, and pointed at Yu Qiu from the corner of his eye, "You've lost face in front of your junior."
Shen Qianlan was already crying. When she saw him, she probably didn't hear what he said clearly, so she raised her hand and slapped him again, and then continued to cry and ran forward, hiding in a place that no one saw. In the corner, only Xu Hong blankly pressed the newborn slap on his cheek.
Yu Qiu couldn't help laughing, "You are very popular!"
Xu Hong stretched out his hand to cover his cheek, still at a loss.
After a while, Xu Hong suddenly said to Qiu, "Junior Brother Yu, you are not treating me like before."
"What was it like before?"
"That's the kind..." Xu Hong looked at the sky, "It seems that he really doesn't want to talk to me, and he has to bite the bullet every time he talks to me, and he looks very reluctant. It made me think for a long time how I offended you..."
"Well..." Yu Qiu said, "It's actually nothing, but you look very much like someone I knew before."
"that is it?"
"Yes, that's all."
Xu Hong touched his knee: Why is it always me who gets shot.
The two stood at the intersection for a while, but no one came out for a long time, Shen Qianlan didn't come back, and Gu Ruxue was still drinking tea there, really bored.
"Actually, you can go down and rest." Xu Hong gave him a wooden sign.
"I'll wait for someone."
Okay... Xu Hong silently took the wooden sign back.
"Have you also gone through this mental path?" Yu Qiu asked suddenly.
"Of course." Xu Hongdao, "Xiaolan and I followed Mr. Gu over together, you should have seen it then."
"What did you see?" Yu Qiu asked again.
"Mother." Xu Hong replied without much hesitation.
"… Mother?"
"Why are you so surprised?" Xu Hong curled his lips and said, "It's usually the parents... Either the mother or the father."
Yu Qiu was even more surprised, "Really?"
"If you don't believe me, wait for a few more people to come out, you can ask them." Xu Hong said, "Seventy percent are parents, 20% are lovers or couples or children, and only the remaining 10% are other things."
Seeing that Yu Qiu was still dumbfounded, Xu Hong explained, "This road reflects the deepest part of my heart... so most of them are parents. After all, they are the first mentor in life. This kind of influence can't be overshadowed easily. of."
Yu Qiu nodded, as if he finally understood.
"Aren't you?" Xu Hong asked curiously.
"Uh..." Yu Qiu thought for a while, "From this level... it should be equivalent to being a father."
"Father?" Xu Hong chewed on these two words, feeling as if he had been hit by another arrow in the knee for some reason.
In the time of a few words, a few more people came out of the heart. One of them was pale, one was trembling non-stop, one was red-faced and gnashed his teeth, and the other one looked normal, after all, Yu Qiu didn't know any of them.
Yu Qiu couldn't help feeling a little worried: Why hasn't Xiao Chunmian come out yet
He couldn't help thinking again: what would Xiao Chunmian see? Could it be that they are also parents
Footsteps sounded again in his mind, and Yu Qiu took a quick look, only to see a person propping up the wall with his hands, covered in sweat, clenched teeth, trembling step by step, extremely difficult, but unwavering walked out from inside. Still not Xiao Chunmian, but another acquaintance, Gao Conghan.
Gao Conghan was closing his eyes tightly, as if to avoid being discovered in case of being possessed by a demon. After all, his mood fluctuates a lot now, and he doesn't know how long it will last.
"Look." Xu Hong muttered in a low voice, "It's definitely childhood abuse, do you believe it?"
Yu Qiu Fu forehead: Dude, do you want to gossip like this.
Then Xu Hong saw his face clearly, and was surprised again, "Isn't this the little devil?"
Yu Qiu coughed.
"Speaking of..." Yu Qiu asked, "Haven't you checked him recently?"
"Because you all said it wasn't true." Xu Hong replied, "So forget it, maybe I really got it wrong..."
After Yu Qiu paused, that subtle strangeness came again. Xu Hong's appearance that is too easy to compromise now makes him very uncomfortable.
When Gao Conghan was about to reach the intersection, his whole body was shaken suddenly, and he trembled violently. Then he leaned his back against the wall and adjusted his breathing quickly. If he could hear Xu Hong's whispered words before, he would definitely laugh three times: Yes, it's so damn accurate!
Gao Conghan's phantom is exactly the family he lived in when he was young.
To be honest, he really didn't know why the family adopted him. After all, the family was very poor, and it would be too wasteful to simply raise a plaything for abuse. But other than a plaything purely used for abuse, he really couldn't think of what else he could be in the eyes of that family.
That family has a biological son, and he took pleasure in kicking and beating him since he was a child. He couldn't resist, and the result of his resistance was that his adoptive parents used a cane to beat his back. What he was taught since he was a child is that everything in this family does not belong to him, and he can only wait for the charity from his family, and he cannot dream of getting anything on his own initiative. He once caught an extra piece of meat in front of the biological son of that family, and was splashed by a pot of boiling water. In the end, he scalded his entire arm and almost died of high fever.
He had to flee.
Then, the first thing he did after gaining power was to return to that small town and kill the family of three with his own hands. His grievances must be repaid, and the roots have been planted from the very beginning. But this hatred, which had been retaliated a long time ago, appeared in his illusion at this time, and it still made it so difficult for him to move forward.
While Gao Conghan was still struggling for the last few steps approaching the intersection, Yu Qiu finally saw the person he wanted to wait for.
With gentle steps, Xiao Chunmian slowly emerged from the depths of her mind.
His steps are light and slow, but flat and steady. Xiao Chunmian had a strange look on his face, his brows were furrowed, and there was a smile on his lips.
Xu Hong couldn't help but let out a sigh: He had observed his mind for so long, but he couldn't see what Xiao Chunmian's phantom might be.
In reality, however, Xiao Chunmian's visions are the most unsurprising of all: parents.
To be precise, it was his aunt.
For many years, Xiao Chunmian thought that it was his biological mother, so a problem naturally brewed: his mother didn't like him at all, but he didn't know why.
Is it because he's clumsy, is he ugly, or is he unlikable
Thinking about it now, the reason why Xiao Chunmian tried to be a good person at the beginning was only based on a very selfish motive: he wanted to be liked by others.
But reality will never satisfy a child's naive ideal. No matter how hard he tries to become a great good person, he still cannot be loved by everyone, at least his aunt will never like him.
This is really a strange phenomenon, no matter how kind a person is, he will always be deeply hated by some people while being loved by some people, and no matter how evil a person is, he will always be hated by some people while being hated by some people. loved by others.
Maybe it's because people are multi-faceted, and people are so fickle.
For example, Xiao Chunmian himself, after he became a kind person because he wanted to be liked, and found that the facts were not always as ideal, he resolutely abandoned the original motive of wanting to be liked. Although his aunt still didn't like him, but he was detached, he didn't stick to it anymore, because he found that he didn't like his aunt that much.
To be precise, there is nothing he "likes that much".
From then on, Xiao Chunmian began to pursue his way of doing good deeds based on another more selfish motive: he felt good.
Nothing in the world could give him the same pleasure except the good itself.
— until he met Yu Qiu.
Just like that, Xiao Chunmian used the illusion of his aunt to think about his way.
A way that was originally firmly rooted in his heart, but recently unexpectedly encountered obstacles.
Before Xiao Chunmian had time to think further, he had already reached the end of the road. Xiao Chunmian opened her eyes in astonishment, with a look of regret.
Yu Qiu greeted him eagerly at the crossing, and couldn't laugh or cry when he saw this, "Why, you still have more to say?"
Xiao Chunmian stared at Yu Qiu for a while, then suddenly raised his lips and smiled.
He found his heart barrier.