Chapter 061
He still said "um" slowly, and then he said, I heard Lin Jing say... Are you looking for me?
I hurriedly answered "yes", but as soon as I said this, I suddenly didn't know what to say. I was a little anxious before, but now when I think of Lin Tian's condition and what he said to his father, I feel an indescribable sense of loss. After a long pause, I asked him, how are you now?
He smiled faintly and said, "You came to me to ask this? What else can I do? I have no strength, but everything else is fine."
I said "hmm" and asked him again, I just heard Lin Jing say that your father told me something about me...
Lin Tian still responded lazily, and then said, My dad did say something, what do you think I should think?
I hurriedly said, Lin Tian, I didn't mean what your father said. I don't want you to get hurt at all. I really wish I was the one who got hurt now...
He suddenly interrupted me and said, Tan Xi, but you are always fine.
I didn't expect him to say such a thing. I stood there for a moment, not knowing how to respond.
The two of them were silent for a long time, and then I heard him sigh and say, "Tan Xi, after hearing what my father said, it is impossible for me to have no thoughts at all. I am very confused now. You two are people I am very close to, so I don't want to believe anyone now. Anyway, with my current body, no matter what happens to you, I can't help you even if I want to."
It took me a long time to say "hmm". In fact, I didn't dare to ask Lin Tian to help me with anything. I was able to survive this time, but I don't know if I will really be doomed next time. And I think I can understand his current thoughts. When you are caught between two people, even if you trust one of them more, you still need to take the feelings of the other person into consideration.
When I thought about it this way, I suddenly felt that it might be a good thing that he was deceived by his father, because at least he would be away from me and stay in his own home, which was much better than being with me.
I sorted out my thoughts and then told him that the purpose of my calling was just to ask him a question, and he didn't need to worry about anything else.
He asked me what was going on, and I told him what I had just learned about Ding Ding and Mrs. Jiu. Lin Tian was also surprised. He uttered a small "eh" and then fell silent without continuing to speak.
I was waiting for his reply for a long time before he said, "Mrs. Jiu and my mother have known each other for a long time. As for why the current situation happened, I don't know. My mother is afraid of ghosts, but she believes in Mrs. Jiu. However, I guess even if she answers you herself, you won't get anything useful."
I felt somewhat disappointed, after all, this was my only clue right now. But since Lin Tian had said so, I guess there was really no hope.
I thought that was it, and was about to say something like asking him to have a good rest, but Lin Tian changed the subject and suddenly said, "Tan Xi, I have nothing to do today." I flipped through some old photos and suddenly found something very interesting.
I was somewhat curious, thinking that if it was an ordinary thing, Lin Tian would not mention it at this time, so I hurriedly asked. Lin Tian said, "Don't worry, I will send you the picture later, but I don't know whether you can find anything. I really don't want to care about these things now, just treat it as the last time I help you."
I said "yes". After I hung up, my phone rang soon after. I opened it and found that what Lin Tian had sent was a picture. It was an old photo, and it had already turned yellow and looked old.
Lu Yao also came over and asked me what this was?
I shook my head and said I didn't know, and slowly enlarged the picture . My heart skipped a beat when I saw it. Although the photo was in black and white, the scene on it was still clearly visible.
There are six people in the picture, and the woman standing in the middle is actually my mother!
Her hand was tightly holding a man. I took a closer look and saw that the man was wearing glasses and had a big smile on his face. As for whether he was my father, I had no idea. I had no memory of his appearance. Although it felt a bit sad, after all, my mother and I were abandoned more than ten years ago.
Then in this picture, the man and woman standing on the left of my mother are Lin Tian’s parents. They look very happy and much younger than they are now.
These are not so bad, after all, my parents and Lin Tian's parents know each other, which is something I already knew. Even if such photos exist, it is not surprising at all.
But what caught my attention most in this picture was that there was a man and a woman on the left side of my mother.
The woman held the man next to her with one hand and my mother's hand with the other. She looked very close to her.
I enlarged the picture a lot and looked at it carefully for a while. I felt that the woman looked familiar, but I couldn't remember where I had seen her.
I held my chin with one hand, walking back and forth on the side of the road, thinking about her features , the familiar feeling lingered. When I turned around and saw the ruined house, my body suddenly shook, and I suddenly remembered. The young woman in the picture was Mrs. Nine back then!
So, Mrs. Jiu had known my parents for a long time, and they apparently .
But what puzzled me was why she never acted as if she knew my parents in front of me, and even acted like a stranger, making me feel like an outsider.
I thought about it carefully. According to what Lin Tian's father said before, something must have happened between them after that, which led to the breakdown of their relationship. Mrs. Jiu completely cut off contact with our family, and even with Lin Tian's family, she only maintained a relationship with her mother.
And after that incident, Lin Tian's father owed my mother a huge debt, so big that he had to pay it off with Lin Tian's life.
I can't guess it now by guessing. After thinking for a while, I looked at the photo.
I guess the man that Mrs. Jiu was holding was Ding Ding's father. But for some reason, his face seemed to be overexposed and blurry, and I couldn't see his appearance clearly.
I asked Lu Yao if there was any way to restore old photos?
I thought that it might be possible to restore it with some kind of mapping tool, but Lu Yao said that she didn't understand these things, and she probably didn't have the technology to do so now.
I sighed and felt a little bad again.
Lu Yao smiled and said that was nothing.
She pointed at the man in the picture and asked me, "Do you want to know what this person looks like?"
I nodded. She took a closer look at the photo and said that although it was a little blurry, the facial features could still be roughly distinguished. Let me show you how to do it.
I was delighted and asked her how to do it.
Lu Yao smiled and didn't answer. Instead, he took out a pen and a notepad from his bag and said, "Let's see."
As soon as she finished speaking, she started to draw according to the picture. I saw that she drew very carefully, looking at the picture from time to time, and then lowering her head to draw a few strokes on the paper.
After a while, a rough face appeared on the paper. I didn't expect Lu Yao to have this skill, the painting was so lifelike. When I watched TV before, I saw those foreign blockbusters where the police could draw a portrait of the criminal based on a person's description. I never understood what this technology was.
But now Lu Yao is painting based on the slightly blurry face in the photo. Although it is impossible to be 100% similar, it is probably about 60% to 70%.
If you add some belief in yourself, you can always fill in the vague parts when you can't see clearly.
I waited for a long time before Lu Yao raised his head and said, "Okay, at least I can see 50% of her appearance."
I took the note and looked at it, and was stunned. The face on the picture was exactly the same as the one I had seen before, although he looked much younger and more energetic. But I could still recognize at a glance that this man was the cripple I saw in the wasteland before!
I was worried that the picture might have been altered, so I took a photo to compare it. Indeed, the slightly blurred facial features should be the appearance that Lu Yao estimated to have drawn, without any mistake.
My mind was racing, as if I had grabbed a vine and could follow it to reach the melon.
I recalled what I had heard before. Lin Tian and Ding Ding both said that Ding Ding's father was a cripple, but they also said that his father had died many years ago? So, was the one I saw at that time a human or a ghost?
