"Grandpa, let me introduce you."
Qin Lou ignored Qin Liang's frightened expression. He raised his hand, took Song Shu's hand, led him into the main hall, and finally stood one meter away from Qin Liang.
Facing Qin Liang's trembling pupils, Qin Lou tilted his head slightly, with a crazy smile in his eyes -
"This is my assistant, Qin Qing."
Qin Liang stared at Song Shu blankly. After a long while, he finally opened his mouth, his voice trembling slightly, "Qin... Qing?"
"Yes, that's the name." Qin Lou turned around, took Song Shu's hand, and gestured to Qin Liang's direction, "Assistant Qin, let me introduce you - this is my grandfather, Qin Liang, the former head of the Qin Group."
Song Shu had already prepared herself mentally for the whole journey. Except for the fact that her eyes trembled slightly when she first saw the old man who looked much older than he was nine years ago, her expression had long been covered with a smile as calm, gentle and flawless as a mask.
Song Shu nodded slowly towards Qin Liang, "Mr. Qin, good afternoon. I'm sorry to bother you by coming to your house."
"Your name is really... Qin Qing?"
Qin Liang clenched the dragon-headed crutch in his hand, and the wrinkles on his old face were filled with sadness of vicissitudes of life.
Song Shu could tell the difference between true and false emotions, because real emotions could connect to real emotions - in the old man's cloudy eyes, which seemed to be filled with too many pasts and memories, every bit of the slowly flowing emotions could evoke her memories.
After all, he was the man Bai Song once regarded as a father. After all, he was the man who sat on the hospital bed, held her hand, and said that he would wait until her and Qin Lou's engagement party, and drank the first cup of tea she offered him.
The elder had treated her like her own grandfather, and she had called him "Grandpa" with all her heart.
It’s a pity that human feelings cannot withstand the passage of time, cannot withstand accidents and stories, cannot withstand the measure of family affection, and cannot withstand the test.
Because they can't resist, they can only stand here face to face, but they won't recognize each other when they meet.
Song Shu lowered his eyes and smiled faintly: "It's an honor to have the same surname as Mr. Qin. According to the old saying in China, Mr. Qin and I might have been from the same family five hundred years ago."
"A family... Yes, a family..." Qin Liang didn't know what kind of memories were evoked by him. He turned around in a trance and sat on the sofa, then stayed there motionless.
The main hall fell silent as Qin Liang muttered. When it was almost dead silent, Song Shu looked back at Qin Lou. She reached out and gently pulled Qin Lou's hand.
Qin Lou looked away.
Song Shu thought for a moment, glanced at the old man with his back to them, sighed softly, took Qin Lou's hand, and wrote stroke by stroke on his palm: "What on earth did you bring me here for?"
Qin Lou understood, raised his eyes to gesture at the old man's hunched back, then curled the corners of his mouth in a cold smile.
Qin Lou mouthed to Song Shu: "To stimulate him."
Song Shu was helpless and wrote: "Don't do useless things."
"Why is it useless? How much did he know about the incident after his investigation that made him so decisive to take Qin Fujun and Song Chengjun away from the country immediately? Since he was the one who covered up the facts, he deserves to bear such condemnation today. Don't you feel happy to see him like this?"
"… "
Song Shu's eyes paused slightly.
She looked at the old man's back and thought of the wrinkles and vicissitudes on his face.
Song Shu lowered his eyes and wrote slowly: "I know he did something wrong, and I probably can't forgive him. But I will seek justice for myself later. You are his grandson, and he has taken care of you sincerely for many years. You shouldn't let this matter tear the relationship between you apart."
Qin Lou didn't say anything.
He looked at the figure that was no longer as majestic as it used to be, and complex emotions rose in his eyes, which were rare for someone other than Song Shu.
After a long time, he suddenly said, "I will never be able to forgive you for what happened between Song Shu and Bai Song in my lifetime."
"!"
This sudden remark really took Song Shu by surprise. After being stunned, she subconsciously turned her head to look at Qin Liang who was sitting on the sofa.
Qin Liang didn't move, just stood there stiffly.
After a while, I heard the old man's hoarse voice, "I don't have a choice."
Qin Lou's forehead veins bulged slightly, "You did, but you probably didn't even hesitate!"
"On one side is a dead person, and on the other side is my biological daughter!" The old man knocked his cane hard, his voice painful and indignant, "I only have this one daughter left, how can I choose! Are you going to send my only child to prison with your own hands??"
Qin Lou's brows suddenly frowned.
Song Shu reached out to grab him, but Qin Lou dodged him. He walked up to Qin Liang without hesitation.
"You are so despicable that it's ridiculous. Even now you still refuse to repent and can't even admit your mistakes? It was Qin Fujun who did something wrong. She made a mistake and she deserves to be severely punished, regardless of blood relationship or human relationship!"
Qin Liang's face turned red and his eyes became more cloudy. It was unclear whether it was because of anger or sadness.
He stared at Qin Lou, "What if it was the other way around? If it was Bai Song who killed Qin Fujun, what would you choose? Would you ignore Song Shu and send Bai Song to prison to watch her suffer forever?"
Qin Lou’s figure froze.
Qin Liang laughed, and sighed sadly, "You hesitated even towards Bai Song, let alone me towards my daughter? Even if she is unforgivable, she is my daughter after all - I can't send her to her death with my own hands!"
"… "
The main hall fell silent again.
After a long time, Qin Lou suddenly laughed, and he was the only one who laughed—his eyes turned red from laughing, the servants outside the hall stared at him in panic, Qin Liang looked at him woodenly and sadly, and Song Shu turned his face away in pain.
He finally stopped laughing.
"What about me?" Qin Lou asked in a hoarse voice.
"What?" Qin Liang was stunned.
Qin Lou pointed his finger in front of himself, "She is your daughter, what about me? What am I to you? Have you ever thought about what I would do if I found out the truth one day in the future - I found out that it was Qin Fujun who killed Song Shu and you hid the truth from me?!"
Qin Liang froze.
After a while, he murmured in a hoarse voice, "I thought about it, but what can I do... The dead are gone, Qin Lou... The dead are dead, and the lost things can never be recovered. Do you really want to be entangled by a dead person and ruin your life?"
"What do you know? The life I am still able to live is given to me by her! Without her, I would have died long ago!"
Qin Lou stood up, his smile sad.
"What's more... are you really only considering family affection? Do you dare to say that you have not thought about the huge Qin Group that cannot be destroyed in your hands? Do you dare to say that you have not thought about the fact that this matter involves a lot of people, and several senior members of the Qin board of directors may be involved. Once it is exposed, it will be a complete blow to the bones and the people will be scattered?"
Without waiting for Qin Liang to speak, Qin Lou sneered, "What a good plan you have, Mr. Qin - you took on a huge amount of compensation, and even dispersed a small part of Qin's shares to silence the public. You only lost a part of the profits to save Qin and also got a good reputation. You let Bai Song die unjustly and you couldn't even clear your name!"
"I've said it before, is Bai Song really innocent? She's not!" Qin Liang could no longer bear it, and angrily banged his cane, "I trusted her and handed Qin to her, what did she do?! - If she really found out about the scam, why did she conceal it? Why did she have to be soft-hearted and trust Song Chengjun! If she hadn't concealed it first, then all of this, including her and Song Shu's deaths, would never have happened!"
Qin Lou's eyes were red with anger, and he gritted his teeth at every word: "Are you trying to push the blame onto a victim? Even if she was wrong to conceal the truth, was it her who committed a heinous scam? Did she kill herself wrongly? Or did she commit terrorism and destroy the evidence!?"
Qin Liang choked and his face turned red.
Qin Lou stared at Qin Liang, "I thought you still had a little compassion. I thought you were regretful. It seems I was wrong. How can you blame Bai Song for this?"
"Qin Lou!"
"Don't call me!"
Qin Lou was so angry that he lost his mind. With a fierce look in his eyes, he strode to Song Shu, took the briefcase from her, pulled out the piles of materials inside and threw them in front of Qin Liang.
"I have no hope for your conscience - I don't expect to persuade you to tell me the whereabouts of Qin Fujun and Song Chengjun. Just listen."
Qin Liang's face turned pale, "What is this?"
"This is the evidence that Qin Fujun used to seduce me! It includes all their call records and account transactions. If you don't want to tell me, it's okay. I will take these things back to the court to file a case!"
Qin Liang's hands trembled, "Are you crazy? She is your aunt!"
"Aunt?" Qin Lou sneered, "She didn't think about this when she committed the crime. It was you who forced me to do it. Since you won't give me a chance to find out more, I simply don't care about what others do. I want Qin Fujun to die in prison and never get out of prison!"
“You… you dare!”
"Do you dare me to try?"
“—”
The atmosphere in the main hall was tense, the grandfather and grandson were glaring at each other and almost about to fight.
Song Shu sighed silently in his heart.
She stepped forward and stopped between Qin Liang and Qin Lou, then Song Shu turned around and took the materials from Qin Lou.
After taking a quick glance, Song Shu looked up, calmly looking at Qin Liang whose eyes were wavering.
"Sorry, Mr. Qin." Song Shu smiled faintly, "Qin Lou doesn't have to do it, I'll do it."
"Wha…what…"
"I'm talking about these materials," Song Shu held up the documents in his hand, "These are just photocopies. I have the originals. If you don't tell me where you hide Qin Fujun and Song Chengjun, I'll be so angry that I'll lose my mind and bring her to court for murder and abetment of murder. At that time, I think the result will be ten thousand times more tragic than what you don't want to see."
"… "
Qin Liang's lips trembled, and it took him a while to spell out a sentence, "Who, exactly, are you?"
Song Shu smiled slightly and lowered his eyes.
"I'm Qin Qing. Who else do you think I am?"
"Song... Song..."
Qin Liang opened his mouth several times, but in the end he couldn't call out the name.
Song Shu chuckled and sighed. She poured a cup of tea from the table next to her, then squatted down and handed it to Qin Liang respectfully.
When you recover from your illness and come back, I will offer you the first cup of tea at the engagement party - please don't drink alcohol.
OK, OK! I will definitely drink the tea my granddaughter-in-law offers me! Don’t break your promise!
Well, we have a deal.
The somewhat childish figure and voice from many years ago once again appeared before my eyes and in my ears.
Qin Liang's eyes trembled and he raised his hand to take it.
When the old man's weathered hands touched the young girl's tender hands, the girl holding the teacup chuckled.
"Grandpa, I'm not her."
"… "
"Because Song Shu died a long time ago."
"!"
The cup, which no one caught, fell to the ground with a loud cracking sound.
In the evening, a car drove out of the manor where Qin Liang lived, went along the private road outside the manor, got on the avenue, and then drove farther and farther away from the manor.
In the car.
Qin Lou looked at the scenery outside the window that was quickly passing behind him, and a cold smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "I thought you would hide her in your own manor."
Qin Liang had calmed down by now, and he spoke slowly: "You are right about one thing. They made a mistake, and since they made a mistake, they deserve to be punished. I could take them to the manor, but I just... didn't do that."
Qin Lou sneered, "Don't try to flatter yourself now. If you were really as righteous as you say, you would have sent Qin Fujun and Song Chengjun to the police station a long time ago."
"Great justice... If everyone could do this, then the story would not have become a story but an idiom that has been used for thousands of years."
"… "
Qin Lou was speechless.
After a few seconds, he turned around and looked at Song Shu, "Assistant Qin, come here."
Song Shu: “.”
Qin Lou: "I know you lawyers are very good at talking. You are my assistant now. You should help me when my boss can't win the argument. Tell me, how should I refute him at this time?"
"… "
Song Shu felt that Qin Lou was a little childish at the moment, but she really couldn't bear to refute him, so she could only say: "The reason why the great righteousness can be used for thousands of years is because of those who respect the great righteousness and are willing to practice it, not because of those who step on it and defend themselves with confidence."
Qin Lou nodded in satisfaction, then turned to look at Qin Liang in the back row, "Did you hear that?"
Qin Liang didn't say anything.
He just observed "Qin Qing" for a few seconds, sighed, and asked softly: "You later studied law?"
"Law was my major during college and graduate school." Song Shu answered with a smile, without looking away.
“You became a lawyer after graduation?”
"yes."
"Then how did you get into vio?"
“After returning to China, I worked in a law firm and initially joined VIO as a legal consultant.”
Hearing this, Qin Lou suddenly interrupted, "Just as a legal advisor? Why do I remember that there is also someone else's fiancée."
Qin Lou emphasized the word "others".
Song Shu glanced at him helplessly, but Qin Liang's figure trembled slightly. He turned his head to look at Song Shu, then looked at Qin Lou, and finally fixed his eyes on Song Shu.
After hesitating for two seconds, he spoke with some sadness: "That incident back then had nothing to do with Qin Lou. He tortured himself for you... He tortured himself for Song Shu's death. Even if you hate me, it's enough to hate Fu Jun. Don't blame him for this incident."
Song Shu felt mixed emotions after hearing this.
The "culprit" sitting in front pretended not to hear, so she could only face it alone.
After a moment of silence, Song Shu sighed softly, "I know. I know even if you don't tell me. Of course I won't vent my anger on Qin Lou. He didn't do anything wrong in the first place."
"and you… "
"Don't worry, the matter between him and me will not be affected by this incident - neither for me nor for him."
"…Okay," Qin Liang nodded and lowered his gaze. It was unclear whether he was sad or happy. He just sighed and said, "That's good, that's good."
The car eventually took the three people to the door of a closed nursing home.
After passing through the double-layer electronic access control and manual access control at the door, they successfully drove the car into the sanatorium.
As he watched the lush evergreens lining the avenue inside the sanatorium slowly being left behind, Qin Lou finally couldn't help laughing with a cold, mocking look.
"By locking them up in a place like this, with a bunch of lunatics or psychopaths, are you hiding them, or are you giving them a more terrible cage?"
After experiencing so many emotional ups and downs today, Qin Liang looked tired and numb.
Hearing Qin Lou's ridicule, he just said calmly: "I said, if they do something wrong, they will be punished. I don't want my daughter to be tried and punished, but there is always a price to pay for doing something wrong."
"… "
"Besides," Qin Liang added, "some of them do need to stay in this place."
Qin Lou raised his eyebrows, "Oh? Could it be that after doing so many illegal things, Qin Fujun finally felt guilty and drove himself crazy?"
Qin Liang was silent for a moment. He raised his head and glanced at Song Shu meaningfully. "It's not Fujun, it's Song Chengjun."
“…!”
Although he had a premonition in his heart, when he actually heard it, Song Shu's calm mood was still disturbed.
The car fell into silence.
The car stopped outside the inpatient building of the sanatorium, and Song Shu and the other two got out. As they walked into the building, Song Shu suddenly asked, "Is he crazy?"
Qin Liang paused, "It's a mental problem. Most of the time he is not conscious and talking nonsense."
Song Shu's pupils shuddered slightly. He opened his mouth and finally asked, "How much did Qin Fujun know before he did that thing?"
"… "
Qin Lou stopped moving, and after a moment he looked back at Song Shu reluctantly.
He knew that this question must have been hidden in Song Shu's heart for many, many years. At the same time, this was a question that neither he nor Song Shu dared to find out.
-How much did Song Chengjun know about that incident? Did he know that Qin Fujun wanted to force Bai Song to death, and even hired someone to cause a car accident to kill his biological daughter Song Shu
They dare not ask because they are afraid the answer will be yes.
If that was the case, Qin Lou didn't dare to imagine how sad Song Shu would be in her heart - even if she had long been disappointed with the so-called father, even if she refused to look him in the eye or even refused to admit that he was her father, but she once longed more than anyone else to hug the arms of the man who rubbed his stubble against her daughter's face. She once used numb silence to hide all her emotions of wanting care.
If he really knew...
"He doesn't know." Qin Liang suddenly spoke.
Just like she was suddenly pardoned before her execution, Song Shu took a quick breath, and the air rushing back into her lungs made her feel alive again.
She turned her head to look at Qin Liang, her eyes trembling slightly.
Qin Liang said: "He probably knew about Bai Song's injustice, but those people might have been afraid that he would make mistakes, so they even hid the truth from Fu Jun. After he knew the truth about the car accident, he and his wife broke up, and he was sent here not long after. Later, I simply sent Fu Jun here as well. She should pay for the sins she committed herself."
“…” Song Shu’s eyes dimmed.
Qin Liang walked a few steps and said, "I was very opposed to Song Chengjun's plan to marry Fujun. I think he is too cold-hearted and greedy, so I am very dissatisfied with him. But what I am really dissatisfied with is that he is obviously cold-hearted and greedy, but he can't be a real man and act without being fussy - he can't be ruthless and has no decisiveness."
Song Shu lowered his eyes and followed, "What does Mr. Qin want to say?"
Qin Liang sighed, "At that time in the Qin family, he was very mean to you. In the end, he was afraid that you would affect his future. But you are his daughter after all, and he would never have the heart to take your life."
"So what?" Song Shu laughed, "Bai Song died because of their affair. The car accident was caused by his wife. Even before that, the Qin family incident, his harsh treatment of me, I want to forget them but I can't. No matter how pathetic and pitiful he is now, I will never forgive him, and he doesn't deserve to be forgiven."
Qin Liang said nothing more after that.
After entering the building, Qin Liang explained his purpose to the people in the hospital, and they immediately called two nurses.
After a conversation, Qin Liang came back and said to Song Shu and Qin Lou, "The couple are not together, how do you arrange it?"
Qin Lou thought for a few seconds and looked at Song Shu: "You don't have to rush to see Qin Fujun. Save your trump card for the last."
Song Shu's eyes moved, "I'm not going to see him."
Qin Liang hesitated, "After all, he is yours..."
"He doesn't deserve it." Song Shu said without hesitation.
Qin Lou sighed.
He took Song Shu's hand and walked to the side, hiding him in the corner, "Don't be sad."
"I don't."
"If you didn't, you wouldn't be so emotional."
"… "
"You really don't want to see him at all? You don't even want to see what happened to him after he treated you so harshly in the past?"
"… "
Song Shu turned his face away, with a slight blush at the corners of his eyes.
Qin Lou leaned over and kissed the corner of her eye distressedly, "Don't cry for others, little clam."
Song Shu clenched his fingers and turned back, "I have sworn to myself in my heart that I will never shed a tear for this person in my life - not until he dies."
"Yes, I know." Qin Lou hugged her gently and kissed her long hair soothingly, "Then go and take a look, one last look. From now on, until he dies, we won't come again."
"..." Song Shu lowered his eyes and remained silent for a long time, then said softly, "I will go by myself."
"good."
So Song Shu separated from Qin Lou and Qin Liang temporarily, and she followed a nurse alone and took the elevator to the upper wards.
After coming out of the elevator and walking around for dozens of steps, the nurse led her to a single room.
"We're here, Miss Qin."
Song Shu seemed to have just come to his senses and raised his eyes in a daze.
Through the observation glass of the ward, there was only one bed in the empty room of dozens of square meters. The man on the bed had disheveled hair and a dull and crazy look. He held two pillows in front of him in his arms. He lowered his head and said something to the pillows, his eyes dodging in panic from time to time, as if he was hiding from some ghost that was asking for his life.
The nurse found the key, opened the door, and walked in in front of Song Shu.
Song Shu felt as if his legs were filled with lead, and every step he took was heavy and difficult.
But she walked into the room anyway.
The nurse said to the man on the bed in a gentle voice: "Mr. Song, someone is here to visit you."
The man turned a deaf ear to her and continued to whisper to the two pillows in his arms. Those words came into Song Shu's ears intermittently.
"You are daddy's babies. Daddy has hidden some delicious candies for you... Daughter, this one is yours. No, no, I can't give it to you. This one belongs to your brother. You can't bully him..."
"Don't like this one? Then daddy... Daddy will change one for you..."
"No! You can't go out! There are man-eating monsters outside! They will eat you! Daddy must protect you!"
"… "
The man desperately retreated to the corner of the wall next to the bed, holding the two pillows tightly in his arms. He seemed to see Song Shu, and the look in his eyes with disheveled hair was so frightened that he looked as if he had seen some ferocious beast. He desperately shouted in a hoarse voice.
"Don't come over here! Don't come over here... Go away! Stay away from my child!"
The nurse stood beside Song Shu. He didn't know the relationship between Song Shu and the man on the bed, so he just smiled apologetically: "Miss Qin, please don't mind. Mr. Song has been like this since the year he was sent here. I don't know what he has been through, but I can see that he loves his son and daughter very much. It turns out that he is also a good father."
Song Shu froze in place.
After a moment she came to her senses, slowly let out a breath, and then she smiled softly.
"Yeah, probably a good father."
He has always been a good father to Song Ruyu and Song Shuai.
He was driven mad, still fearing that his evil daughter would not let go of his beloved children after her death.
Song Shu turned and walked out.
The nurse was stunned for a moment, "You won't stay for a while?"
"No."
Song Shu walked to the door, reached out to open it, and was about to step out.
In the corner of the room, the man huddled in the corner seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.
He reached out and rubbed the pillow in his arms, leaned his face against it, and a gentle and foolish smile appeared on his crazy and dull face.
"Be good, don't be afraid... Daddy will protect you well this time... Daddy is..."
“—”
Song Shu suddenly froze.
The author has something to say: I suddenly broke down in tears when I got to the end. It’s obvious that his father is a scumbag, alas.
I saw someone asked this in the comment section, so I’d like to say this: I’m not forgiving or whitewashing, I’m just writing a complete story and complete characters in it.
I would like to recommend another article by my diligent friend Momo: "Whisper in the Ear" by Moxi Ke
The main text has been completed, and the extra chapter is being updated...
When Gu Ruo and Shen Qing met officially for the first time, she was pressed against the wall by Shen Qing.
Shen Qing was a well-known bully in the sports school next door, so she took out her wallet and handed it to him.
On the day Shen Qing confessed his love, his brain suddenly short-circuited and he said "I won't give up on you" instead of "I won't let you go".
Then, Shen Qing received the wallet that Gu Ruo handed over to him for the second time.
The neighborhood where Shen Qing and Gu Ruo live is well-known for its good school district. The house is old and dilapidated, which makes them very frugal after they fall in love and save money for each other.
As a result, when Gu Ruo followed the property staff of the community and cooperated with the gas inspection with a bunch of keys, he met Shen Qing who also had a bunch of keys.
Shen Qing asked her: "Where is your home?"
Gu Ruo pointed and said, "That one... all of them, where's your house?"
Shen Qing was still nonchalant, and answered in a lazy bass voice: "Except for that one, all of them."
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