Chi Yan looked at Ye Yingzhi, bowed his head and said, "... I'll call again at night."
Ye Yingzhi didn't force him either: "Okay, owe it first, and remember to pay the interest at night."
After returning to Ye's house, Ye Yingzhi did not take him directly back to the small building, but signaled the driver to drive to the library on the west side of the main house.
Chi Yan knew that these places were the inheritance of various families, and no foreigners were allowed to come in. He didn't expect that Ye Yingzhi would bring him here directly to pick out books. Looking at Ye Yingzhi: "Brother Yingzhi, it's not good for me to go in? Isn't this place not allowing foreigners to come in?"
Ye Yingzhi didn't take it seriously: "Everyone has to follow my surname Ye, what can't enter a library." He directly led Chi Yan inside.
There are three floors in the library building, and there are no people in it. The rows of black wooden bookshelves are straight to the ceiling. After Chi Yan enters, he doesn't know where to look. Ye Yingzhi helped him pick out a few simple and practical books to take back, and after returning to the small building, he took out a copy of his own notebooks for him, and let him refer to them together.
However, Chi Yan couldn't calm down and study in the short term. After returning to the small building, he first accompanied Ye Yingzhi to take medicine, and after taking the medicine, Ye Yingzhi took him back to the bedroom. When he was carried upstairs, he was frightened all the way. He was afraid that Ye Yingzhi would suddenly fall ill due to lack of physical strength. Ye Yingzhi saw his round eyes and pecked his forehead with a smile: "What are you afraid of? ate."
I'm afraid your body won't be able to hold it. These words spun around in Chi Yan's mouth, and swallowed them back. Now that he's learned to be smart, he won't say those words that annoy Ye Yingzhi.
Dinner is eaten in the bedroom. After tossing with Ye Yingzhi twice in the afternoon, he fell into a daze and fell asleep. He didn't wake up until seven o'clock in the evening. The dinner was ready, Chi Yan and Ye Yingzhi were eating slowly, and they were finished at eight o'clock. , The housekeeper came over and said that he had something to report to Ye Yingzhi.
The banquet is late these days, if it wasn't for an urgent emergency that had to be handled by Ye Yingzhi, the housekeeper would not dare to come to the small building to disturb him easily. Ye Yingzhi and the housekeeper went to the study, and after a few minutes they returned to the bedroom, with the housekeeper following him.
Ye Yingzhi raised his chin in Chi Yan's direction, and said to the housekeeper, "You tell Chi Shao yourself, what happened, let Ah Yan decide for himself."
Chi Yan vaguely guessed that this matter had something to do with him, but could not guess what it was.
The housekeeper lowered his eyes and reverently repeated the news he had just received: "Tonight at the dinner at the end of the rewarding ceremony, Mr. Chi suddenly fainted, and now he has been sent back to Chi's house, what does that mean? Yes, I want Chi Shao to go back and see Mr. Chi."
Chi Yan frowned: "What do you mean?"
Mr. Chi in the butler's mouth was referring to his father, Chi Yuanshan. His grandfather is now in retreat, and his father participated in this sacrifice on behalf of the Chi family. But if it is said that the good-looking Chi Yuanshan suddenly fainted for no reason, and then told him to go back, he would have to suspect that there was some conspiracy or trap in the Chi family. Although he felt that he had nothing worth calculating, other than Chi Rong, no one else had any reason to want to kill him.
The housekeeper euphemistically said: "It's said that the situation is not very good, so Chi Shao must go back and take a look."
Ye Yingzhi waved his hand: "Just tell me, what is the situation in Chi Yuanshan now?"
The butler considered for a moment, then whispered: "...It may be the last time."
Chi Yan's pupils tightened. Chi Yuanshan is only in his early fifties this year, and he saw Chi Yuanshan from a distance during the morning sacrificial ceremony, and there was no last sign at all. But the housekeeper could not and would not dare to lie in front of Ye Yingzhi. The Ye family was very strict with the family, and the housekeeper was not an incompetent person. He said that, he should have sent someone to verify the news, not just listen to the Chi family. One-sided words.
Chi Yan looked at Ye Yingzhi and lowered his head: "I want to go back and have a look."
Ye Yingzhi didn't make any comment. Hearing that, he just nodded: "I'll go with you." Then he looked at the housekeeper: "Prepare the car."
Chi Yan looked at the sky outside: "No, Brother Yingzhi, you haven't rested much in the afternoon, so you should have a good rest. I... I'll come back after I take a look. Anyway, Chi Yuanshan has already terminated the father-son relationship with me."
Ye Yingzhi got into the car with him without any explanation: "Even if you break up with Chi Yuanshan, I don't need to dress him in filial piety, but it makes no sense for me not to accompany you when something like this happens. I'm in the car. The same goes for rest."
The car drove out smoothly, and the closer it was to Chi's house, the more familiar the surrounding scenery became. Chi Yan remembered when he was a child. In his vague memory, when he was three or four years old, Chi Yuanshan seemed to treat him well and would buy him toys. One of his favorites was the fashionable electric miniatures at that time. On the train, Chi Yuanshan took him to build plastic rails in the yard, sat patiently and watched him curiously staring at the small train running on the small rails.
But as time passed, he grew up, and he even suspected that the small yellow plastic rails and the small red train were all hallucinations made by himself.
His mother didn't tell him directly about the bad debt between her and Chi Yuanshan. After Chi Yan was sensible and remembered it, he vaguely heard about it from different people and gradually pieced together the events of the year. Among those people, Chi Yuanshan was a young man who was similar to Xu Rui. He hated the outdated Chi family. He won the opportunity to leave Chi's family to go to school by fighting with his family. He also met his mother in college and met his mother. Fall in love quickly.
But he is the son of the Chi family, and he must inherit the Chi family in the future. After graduation, the family began to put pressure on him to force him to go home. In the end, the two sides took a step back. Chi Yuanshan agreed to go back to Chi's house, and the Chi family agreed that he would marry Chi Yan's mother, who was an ordinary person. Chi Yan's mother was still very young at the time, and after hearing about her lover's life experience, she resolutely decided for Chi Yuanshan's sake. Abandoning everything she is outside and marrying into Chi's family, even if it means sacrificing her career, her future, and even having little chance to go home to visit her parents.
In the beginning, everything was fine, and Chi Yuanshan did his best to protect his wife. Even in an unusual family of heavenly masters, the two of them still lived a warm and sweet life. But the good times didn't last long. When Chi Yan was about to be born, his mother found out that Chi Yan's father had someone else outside, and that the woman was already pregnant, only four months younger than the child she was about to be born. The reason why she knew this was because the Chi family did not allow the blood of the Chi family to flow out, so she brought the woman back and placed it in a yard outside the main house.
Chi Yuanshan cried bitterly and begged for forgiveness. He said that he was fascinated by ghosts and suddenly lost his head. He did not know that the woman was pregnant and was brought back. He promised that the child would be taken from the clan. He will no longer have contact with each other. Chi Yan's mother forgave him.
Chi Yan's name was named by his mother and Chi Yuanshan together, but the name of the child who was born four months later than him was chosen by Mr. Chi himself. Chi Rong, he wants Chi Yan's mother and son to accommodate this child.
The situation in the future is very different from what Chi Yuanshan promised at the beginning. At first, it was just rumors that he went to another hospital to visit Chi Rong's mother and son, and Chi Yan's mother would question him and argue with him; later, Chi Yan's mother no longer cared about him, and was unable to do so, and accordingly. Chi Yuanshan went home less and less; when Chi Yan was six years old, Chi Rong and his mother moved into the main house; when he was sixteen, his mother and Chi Yuanshan finally divorced, and even He also broke the father-son relationship with Chi Yuanshan, and he and his mother left the Chi family completely.
They can tolerate others, but others may not tolerate them.
In the end, the car stopped outside the gate of Chi's house, Ye Yingzhi did not ask to go in with him, but sat quietly in the car and waited, using his eyes to signal him to go in with confidence.
This is the first time he has returned since he left Chi's home at the age of sixteen. The old housekeeper of the Chi family was waiting for him at the door, and when he saw him, he couldn't wait to lead him to Chi Yuanshan's house.
Chi Yuanshan was lying on the bed, covered with a quilt, his face was sallow, and his eyes were closed. At first glance, one could not tell whether he was alive or dead.
There was a young man standing in front of his bed, tall and thin, Chi Rong. Apart from that, there was no one else in the room, and the old housekeeper gently closed the door and exited after bringing Chi Yan. Chi Yan vaguely heard him let out a very light sigh.
Chi Yan stood by the door and didn't move for a while. To be honest, he was still vigilant about the father and son. After all, they were both the ones who wanted to kill him. Chi Yuanshan was not necessarily involved in that incident, but he did not believe that he would not know what Chi Rong did.
If he hadn't suddenly thought of the little red train when he heard the news from the Ye family's butler, he probably wouldn't have come back to take a look.
That's how people are, if they never get it, they probably won't hold too much hope, and they won't be too eager. But once you get it and then lose it, you can't help deceiving yourself that it's all fake, it's all an illusion, you haven't lost it yet, that thing still belongs to you. But Chi Yuanshan never cooperated with his self-deception, and always told him with facts time and time again that his wonderful fantasies about his father were all false, until he could no longer hold any hope.
However, when he heard the housekeeper say "it may be the last time", he still chose to come.
Maybe he didn't give up as completely as he thought.
Hearing the sound, Chi Yuanshan opened his eyes as if sensing something, looked at Chi Yan, and made a "hoho" sound from his mouth.
The housekeeper didn't talk nonsense or exaggerate the facts. Chi Yuanshan's appearance is indeed not good. He is so weak that he can't even say complete words.
Chi Yan looked into his eyes and took two steps closer. That look reminded him of when he was a child, when Chi Yuanshan accompanied him to watch him play with the little train, focused, calm, and poured out his love for his cub. During this period, he did not look at Chi Rong.
Chi Rong took two steps to the side, he involuntarily walked over and crouched on the head of Chi Yuanshan's bed, and heard the other party struggling, desperately spitting out a few vague syllables: "...you..."
He asked, "How is your mother?"
Chi Yan fixedly looked at him: "She left in my second year of college."
Chi Yuanshan closed his eyes, and there was an obvious sadness on his sallow and withered face. His dry fingers moved.
Chi Yan noticed that the four fingers of his left hand except the thumb were slightly lifted up. He was counting, counting that his mother had been gone for several years.
As if infected, Chi Yan suddenly felt a great sadness in his heart. He didn't understand how Chi Yuanshan, who was still in high spirits in the morning and everything was normal, suddenly turned into this look like he was running out of fuel and dying, and he didn't understand why Chi Yuanshan suddenly turned into such a demeanor.
Chi Yuanshan opened his eyes again and looked at Chi Yan intently, as if he was remembering what he looked like now. His lips moved, but only two airy sounds came out. Chi Yan could only tell from the shape of his lips, what he called, "son".
He tried hard to raise his body and get closer to Chi Yan, but he couldn't do this simple action. In the end, Chi Yan couldn't stand it anymore, so he took the initiative to lean over and approached him, and then heard Chi Yuanshan spit out two vague words in his ear. Syllable: "Come on."
Chi Yan turned to look at him for no apparent reason, Chi Yuanshan lowered his head, his eyes were tightly closed, and he had lost his breath.
The last words he said were "Son, let's go".