Chapter 179 Meeting Uncle Gen
While Chi Xia and Luo Xun were enduring the storm of love belonging to Lin Wenjue in the special task force, Heizi went to meet Uncle Gen according to the address given by Qu Bai.
It was a very old hotel, located at the end of the urban village. When he entered the door, the owner didn't even pay attention to him and just took out a door card and gave it to him.
The door card shows room number 201.
Heizi walked up the stairs with heavy steps.
When he stood at the door of 201, he felt the musty smell of the corridor in his breath. The door in front of him was very old and could be demolished with a little force, but he did not have the courage to knock it open.
From the time he arrived in Dongzhou, came to the village in the city, went upstairs, and even now standing at the door, he had countless moments when he wanted to turn around and run away.
But he couldn't control his feet, he knew this was a debt he owed.
Time passed minute by minute, and he finally raised his arm to knock on the door, but someone took the lead and opened the door from the inside.
He stepped back, looked over in panic, and met Chu Yonggen's eyes.
The musty smell became heavier and heavier, so heavy that he could hardly breathe. The heavy air turned into an invisible rope that bound him.
His face flushed, and his guilt turned into helplessness at this moment.
What should he do? How should he face the man in front of him?
Heizi fell to his knees in front of Chu Yonggen with a thud.
"Uncle."
He lowered his head and took out a knife from his body: "Even if you kill me today, I won't say anything. If you can't do it, I will do it myself."
He held the knife up with both hands.
Veins bulged on Chu Yonggen's face and neck. He looked at the child in front of him and saw his broken fingers amidst the pain all over his body.
He didn't know how long it had been, so long that Heizi felt his knees aching, when a pair of rough, dry and thick hands held his wrists.
Chu Yonggen helped the man up: "My son... do you... do you have a photo of him? I want to see... see what he looks like..."
With just these words, Heizi's eyes became tearful and tears fell to the ground one by one.
"Yes, there are many..." He choked up and said, "I brought them all to you..."
"Okay... okay..." Chu Yonggen turned around and walked inside, his back hunched: "Thank you."
With a creak, the door of the room was closed.
Heizi followed Chu Yonggen in.
Chu Yonggen sat at the head of the bed with his hands on his knees. The two of them sat and stood like this in silence for a long time.
It was Chu Yonggen who looked up at him first. Heizi didn't dare to meet his eyes. He lowered his head with his hands hanging at his sides.
In his past life, he had experienced separation from his loved ones, poverty, poverty-stricken areas, and even his life was on the verge of death.
But there has never been a time when he felt as tormented as he did at this moment.
"What's your name?" Chu Yonggen waved his hand: "Sit down, don't stand."
Heizi still stood: "Chu Jinbao."
"It sounds like he has the same last name as me." Chu Yonggen curled his lips: "My son, his name is Chu Ci."
Heizi didn't say anything. He had never had a name since he was a child, and didn't know what a name meant to a person.
The names of that group of kids were just casually given. If they saw a nail, they would call it a nail, and if they saw a cabbage, they would call it cabbage, or they would call it something like fly puppy.
More often than not, people call them little bastards.
They are just tools for begging and stealing. Their hands and feet can be cut off, their ears can be injured, and their eyes can be damaged, but they cannot have names.
The three words "Chu Jinbao" were given to himself based on Hammer's name. Unexpectedly, his real surname was Chu.
"Can I...can I see the photo?"
Chu Yonggen took out a yellowed photo from his pocket: "This is what he looked like when he was a child. I don't know what he will look like when he grows up..."
Heizi's throat ached. He took out his phone and found an exclusive photo album: "We are all grown up now. We couldn't take pictures when we were young. The management was very strict and we couldn't get the phones."
Chu Yonggen's arms were trembling, and the short distance seemed like a thousand miles to him.
It must have been very hard. His child, the child he originally wanted to raise with the apple of his eye, what a hard life he must have gone through during those years.
After taking the phone, he could only vaguely see the outline. He could no longer suppress his grief and anger, and he covered his face and burst into tears.
It is said that men do not shed tears easily, but since seeing this man, Heizi has knelt and cried, and his tears have fallen to the ground along with this man. In such a guilty and sad situation, he suddenly thought inappropriately: How nice it would be if this was his father.
But he must have done all kinds of unscrupulous things in his previous life, and the person who gave him life was the one who pushed him into the fire pit.
Chu Yonggen's crying gradually subsided. He stared at the black screen of his phone in shock, then looked up at the child in front of him and asked, "Do you have a password?"
Heizi pressed his fingerprint and the screen lit up again. Chu Yonggen lowered his head again and looked at his child in the photo.
His eyebrows and eyes are like his mother's , and his face and mouth are like mine.
The child was born fair, so fair that people couldn't let go of him. Everyone said that the child would be a handsome boy when he grew up. But look at his skin, it was some kind of cold white skin that he didn't understand.
How could he, a rough man, understand these things? He just hoped that his children would grow up safely and behave themselves.
He hopes that he will grow up obediently, and that he and his wife will work hard to make money so that they can help him with whatever he wants to do in the future.
He doesn't seek to be rich or famous, he just wants to live a good life.
But the child in the photo has dark skin and is very thin.
"Yes... there are videos..." Heizi said, "He likes taking photos very much. This phone is full of his photos..."
Chu Yonggen lowered his head, gently traced his son's face with his fingertips, and said over and over again: "Thank you... Thank you... Thank you..."
The following time seemed to fall into silence. The air in the house stopped flowing. There was only a father, looking at the photos of his child over and over again, watching him talking in the video. He smiled foolishly, and sometimes cried foolishly.
That was his child, who had existed in this world alive.
Heizi stood in front of him like a sculpture. He looked at the father silently . For many moments, he wished that the person on the phone was himself.
If someone loved me like this, I would rather leave this world early.
Let this person without relatives or friends and without any ties become a handful of earth and return to the countryside; let the child live and find his family as soon as possible, so that their family can be reunited and live a long life.
But he survived.
Until Chu Yonggen's eyes began to hurt and his phone ran out of battery and shut down automatically, he looked at the child who was standing in front of him stubbornly and asked him: "Child, you have had a hard time these years, haven't you?"
Just this one sentence seemed to stir up a huge wave in Heizi's heart. The grievance, fear, grief and anger hidden deep in his heart all found the right opportunity and came out of his limbs at once.
Chu Yonggen stood up, touched the child's head, and said with a sob: "I don't blame you, I don't blame you, and don't blame yourself either."
Heizi raised his face, tears rolling down from the corners of his eyes. In the end, he couldn't hold back and burst into tears.
Chu Yonggen held his head and comforted him like a child: "Cry, it will be better if you cry."
He didn't know when he cried all the tears he had shed for more than twenty years in front of a strange man.
The man's rough fingertips brushed across his eyes and he said, "Xiao Bai told me everything..."
"Uncle."
Heizi grabbed his hand and said, "I will go and avenge Hammer. You... don't worry about it. Just live your life well. Really, I will take care of the revenge."
"Silly child." Chu Yonggen looked at his hand: "That's my child, how can I let you take risks?"
"He did it for me."
Heizi said: "I was injured during that time and was half dead. They thought I would not survive, so they brought him over."
"Be sincere and loyal to others." Chu Yonggen smiled with tears in his eyes: "It's my seed."
"Uncle." Heizi knelt down, as if begging: "You must listen to me on this matter."
Chu Yonggen looked at him and remembered what Qu Bai had said to him.
He said: "Uncle Gen, the enemies we are facing cannot be eliminated quickly by just passion, so there are some things that I beg you to not be impulsive."
"I know what's going on." Chu Yonggen said, "I won't cause you any trouble. Don't worry, I won't cause you any trouble."
