He heard his mother's name from the mouth of his family.
"... You Ruo."
"Youruo she..."
"Why take the kids... over there!!"
He squatted in the corner, watching people walking around, all kinds of people. The sound of people arguing entered his ears, he licked his molars, and blocked his two ear holes with his fingers expressionlessly.
After a long time, a hand fell on his head... It should have fallen on his head, but it fell on his shoulder.
"Tianshu."
The boy glanced up at him.
The man is slightly embarrassed. He noticed that the boy noticed that his hand was in mid-air and changed direction.
The son who was the most lively and cheerful in the past, has been exceptionally taciturn these days.
He should only feel sorry for this child who lost his mother, and empathize with him with the grief of losing his wife. However... all the weirdness revealed in this incident made it seem like there was a layer of veil between him and the boy.
That layer of sadness cannot be passed through the gauze.
He suppressed the vague doubts in his heart, and said softly: "Tianshu, you must be tired."
After seeing the girl in the black dress in a blink of an eye, the man stood up and heaved a sigh of relief: "Tian Yu, take my brother back to sleep..."
The girl in the black dress pursed her lips and turned her face away after turning her head to see this side.
She didn't seem to find a suitable one to treat this child who indirectly "taken" her mother's life.
Although they are siblings of the same father and mother.
The man couldn't, so he could only pat his shoulder and say a few words without any pain, and ordered others to take the boy away.
The boy was rescued from the well, where he had spent three days before that. His mother's body lay by the well, and no one knew how the boy survived.
It's like... No one knows why this woman hugged her son and carried everyone on her back to arrive at a deserted county town that almost disappeared on the map.
Wen County.
Some people speculate that this may be related to the childhood experience of this orchid-like woman.
Mrs. Chu was lost once when she was a child, and she almost disappeared. The Gu family can't find it anywhere. Just when they were about to give up hope, Mrs. Chu, who was still a little girl at that time—Gu Youruo, came back.
Regarding this disappearance experience, the Gu family hardly mentioned a word. Even the Chu family who were married to her only knew that if Gu You had lost her back then and arrived in a place called "Wen County", she would only be able to return home thanks to the help of kind-hearted people.
This is just an insignificant episode in the life of Gu Youruo and even the entire Gu family. The only strange thing is that after this incident, the Gu family searched all over the map, but couldn't find a place called "Wen County".
And Gu Youruo himself forgot about this vague experience. She married Chu Xingkuo, the young master of the Chu family, and gave birth to a daughter, Chu Tianyu, with an indescribably happy life.
Until she unexpectedly... had a second child.
A child that no one ever thought would be born into the world. After all, after Chu Xingkuo and Gu Youruo gave birth to Chu Tianyu, they no longer planned to have another child.
It was from then on that Gu Youruo changed.
She became colder, more distant, more neurotic, and more yelling than before. She began to constantly search for news on the Internet. As the head of the family, Chu Xingkuo is really busy, but this does not prevent a man who loves his wife from accidentally discovering the diary that his wife writes every night.
Gu Youruo has the habit of writing a diary. When she was newlyweds, she once said: "It is to not forget the good things that happened in my life."
Chu Xingkuo has seen her write down Chu Tianyu's first walk, seen her write down the flowers on her wedding anniversary, and seen her write down the fireworks they watched together during the New Year. Husband and wife should always have a private space that respects each other, and he never thought of going through his wife's secrets.
Until that day, Gu Youruo forgot to put away the diary. And Chu Xingkuo, who was supposed to be busy working overtime, took a rare vacation at home and accidentally knocked over his wife's diary—
And when I picked it up, I accidentally saw the beautiful font inside.
With just one glance, all his hairs exploded.
There are only two words in the diary.
"Wen County"
Each page, each line, has only two words written on it.
"Wen County, Wen County, Wen County, Wen County, Wen County, Wen County, Wen County, Wen County, Wen County, Wen County, Wen County, Wen County"
He had tried to investigate, but found nothing. Except for this diary, his wife is business as usual. Out of this anxiety, their second child came.
After the baby arrived, everything seemed to be back to normal. Gu Youruo no longer frantically searches for information on the Internet, and no longer writes diaries with terrifying contents. It seemed that all the previous behaviors were just ordinary prenatal anxiety.
Chu Xingkuo also breathed a sigh of relief. As the leader of the top family of celestial masters in the country, it is hard for him to believe that there are secrets in this world that he cannot investigate himself.
So it's best to stop all this on "prenatal anxiety".
Chu Xingkuo guessed that Gu Youruo remembered the lost memories of childhood. Because she was pregnant with her second child, she was afraid that he would be forced to go away just like when she was a child. With all kinds of anxiety gathered, she chose to keep searching Wen County—the place that had brought her great fear.
She wants to find here and create a safe environment for her children. Use this as...compensation for the shadow of my childhood.
This is the instinct of a mother to love her child. Chu Xingkuo thought.
As for why Gu Youruo didn't have such a situation when she conceived Chu Tianyu... Human psychology is a very mysterious thing. The same factors may not necessarily lead to the same result.
Everything is running healthy and stable. Husband and wife, children, a family of four. Bright and healthy, clean and beautiful.
Chu Tianyu is lively but not arrogant. Chu Tianshu has been smart and mischievous since he was a child. Although he is lazy, he is rough but fine. Life is so beautiful.
Yet wounds buried years ago are always uncovered. When Chu Tianshu was five years old, Gu Youruo's mental state suddenly became not very good.
Many people have also heard about Mrs. Chu's previous mental problems. They secretly discussed whether she was "ill" again.
It is the instinct of many people to try to mock people who are superior to themselves from the perspective of gossip with a mocking and lively tone.
Chu Tianshu would always argue about this. He is smart, in addition to playing tricks, he will also directly play pranks and prank people. Countless children have been made to cry by him.
Until later, Gu Youruo disappeared with Chu Tianshu.
They were found seven days later. The information technology after more than 20 years cannot be compared with the past, at least everyone thinks so.
Gu Youruo died. And people... found Chu Tianshu in the well.
He was alive, and that was the only good news of all misfortunes.
Just silence.
The child who used to be the best at telling wisecracks fell silent.
"...bringing children to this ghost place."
"It's weird, many maps haven't marked this place... how did she find it?"
"It's the traces of evil spirits... Are there strong evil spirits here?"
"She's just trying to kill herself. Not only did she hurt herself, but she also hurt her child. How could she have such a vicious heart..."
"Gu Youruo is really crazy..."
"I said she was sick, why don't you..."
"Mom isn't crazy."
These were the first words the child uttered after three days in the dark well, with the dead body of his mother.
His second sentence is.
"It was my mother who protected me. Facing the attack of evil spirits, she protected me with her life." The child stared at them with dark eyes, "She is not a lunatic."
Walking out of the memory, the clansman who was in charge of bringing Chu Tianshu back to the room took Chu Tianshu's hand.
When she took the child's hand, she hesitated a little, but she soon confessed her hesitation.
He was already very unfortunate, so why make it worse
The two walked all the way in silence, and the clansman remembered that this child used to be very talkative. She often saw this child walking, kicking things lazily along the way, not forgiving, turning his head to argue with other children.
But this time he didn't say a word.
After a long time, when the first drop of rain fell on the roof of the Chu residence, the boy finally spoke his first words.
"You said..." He seemed to be trying to disguise some of his emotions, "Do all mothers in this world love their children?"
The clansmen turned their heads and looked at the child who was about to reach her waist height.
—He is sad.
"How can there be a mother who doesn't love her children? Every mother loves her children and looks forward to their birth." She said subconsciously, rubbing her belly, thinking that she would be born in seven months children, "Even when they were not born,..."
A soft glow appeared on her face, and at this moment, she realized her slip of the tongue.
The child really lowered his head.
So she knelt down, hugged the child's shoulders, and said softly with compensation: "Your mother went to heaven, but she must love you very, very much, and will always miss you. She protected you with her life." .Even if she leaves, she will definitely miss you, miss you, and hope you have a good life... "
The child did not speak.
The second drop of rain, and the third drop of rain fell in sequence, and soon, the rain became a waterfall of raindrops.
The waterfall is blocked by the roof of the promenade, and the clansmen hold their children. Water drops fell on her shoulders.
What she didn't know was that these liquids were just raindrops floating in from outside the corridor.
There was a thunder.
It took a long time for the child to say "hmm".
like this moment.
…
"... a lie."
Lin Huai heard Chu Tianshu's voice.
His tone changed, from his usual lazy and frivolous tone to a frozen spring thunder.
It is the spring thunder that has been frozen for more than ten years and imprinted in the rain.
"First of all, I admire your courage..." Chu Tianshu covered the door with his hand.
The veins on the back of his hand popped.
"She won't miss me because..."
"How can a mother who wants to kill her own child miss her surviving child?"
It was clearly coming from the gray-yellow-blue fourth floor, but Lin Huai's ears sounded like thunder.
And the smell of endless rain.
He saw darkness, he saw rain, he saw a child.
He saw Chu Tianshu's hidden deep basement.