Chapter 272 Hate or Not
What happened on the plane was not accidental.
Speaking of which, Rong Yuan hasn't been like this for a long time - no disguise, no layers of tightly guarded isolation, no serious and vigilant murderous black-faced bodyguards. After many years, he once again walked into the crowd without any disguise, and the welcome he received and the subsequent response were unimaginable.
Before the plane landed in City A, it was said that the airport was already blocked by people who had heard the news and even affected the normal traffic order. The special agents who had been following Rong Yuan secretly had to show up. They first explained the situation to Rong Yuan, and after obtaining his consent, they temporarily changed the landing location of the plane - fortunately, City A has more than one airport. With the help of the staff of this civil airport, they finally left in a low-key manner without causing any commotion. The special agents who had already appeared did not retreat in a pretentious manner, but followed Rong Yuan openly, and arranged a modified all-black stretched sedan for them, which was fully armed, and sent everyone directly to the downstairs of Rong Jing's house.
Rong Licheng used to live a life of luxury, with more than ten servants working in the Rong family for many years, and they would hire them for a short period of time when needed, which was very grand. Although he fell into decline later, after he got back on his feet, he immediately moved his residence from the small space of a two-bedroom and one-living room to this single-family villa, and even hired a Filipino maid. Although the villa was rented, located near the suburbs, and the decoration was not luxurious, for ordinary people, this was already a very luxurious life.
Rong Yuan stood downstairs, looked up, and after a moment of silence, he walked in.
Rong Jing invited Jin Yang and Fat Cat to go upstairs and sit for a while. Jin Yang shook his head and said, "You go first, we'll wait here." The implication was that he expected Rong Yuan would not spend too much time with his biological parents.
Fat Cat had already stood up, but after hearing what was said, he sat back down and said to Rong Jing in a serious tone, "Okay, go get the mirror! I'll be waiting here too." While speaking, he squeezed his already small eyes, with a weird look on his face.
Rong Jing's thoughts were in a mess along the way and he had no time to think carefully. In fact, he hadn't even reacted to what the two said. He just nodded randomly, hurriedly caught up with Rong Yuan, rushed up the stairs and opened the door for him.
As the lock made a light "click" sound, Rong Jing suddenly understood that Fat Cat was hinting that if Rong Yuan was not satisfied with the conversation and wanted to abandon them and leave, he could still stop him by sitting in the car.
Rong Jing couldn't help but smile bitterly. It's true that Fat Cat is very loyal, but his temper is inconsistent, which always makes people feel that he is unreliable. As soon as he entered the door, the Filipino maid who was mopping the floor came up to him first, greeted him in sweet words with a strange accent, and wanted to change his slippers for him. Rong Jing waved her hand to let her continue working, and squatted down to take out two pairs of slippers from the shoe cabinet, and almost flatteringly placed them in front of Rong Yuan.
The Filipino maid looked at the usually arrogant young master in astonishment, her jaw almost dropping to the ground. Then she looked at Rong Yuan carefully, as if she finally recognized who he was. The mop dropped from her hand with a "pop". She stared at him blankly, her eyes wide open, her mouth wide open, unable to speak. Her expression looked as if she had been struck by lightning.
The two people in the hallway ignored him. Rong Yuan looked at Rong Jing. They looked about 60% similar, but he would never have such an expression on his face.
Rong Jing seemed relieved when he saw Rong Yuan changed his shoes. He said hurriedly, "What do you want to drink? Red wine? Coffee? Tea? I remember there are still the Pu'er and Maojian tea that Dad bought last time in the cabinet..."
"Go see her." Rong Yuan interrupted him.
"Ah? Oh." Rong Jing stopped walking around in the living room, looked at his expressionless face nervously, and said, "Aunt Lu is on the third floor. I'll take you up."
The maid didn't dare to speak, and Rong Yuan didn't speak either. When Rong Jing stopped talking, he suddenly felt the room was terribly quiet, as if he could even hear the sound of dust falling. The irregular footsteps "tattoo" sounded, showing the master's troubled mood. Compared with the always calm person behind him, he almost couldn't even walk.
Rong Yuan was walking behind him. As soon as this thought came to Rong Jing, he felt that something was wrong with his body. Was his arm swinging too much? Was his walking posture particularly stiff? Was he looking at me?
The back of his head almost felt like it was burning as he imagined being stared at, and a layer of sweat broke out on his back in the blink of an eye. Rong Jing felt as if ants were crawling all over his body. Finally, when he couldn't help but turned around to say something, he found that Rong Yuan's eyes were not on him, but on a closed door of a room on the second floor.
Rong Jing let out a breath, and it was hard to tell whether he was relieved or disappointed. He cheered up and said, "That's the room reserved for my mother, but she went abroad for a trip and hasn't been back for a long time."
Rong Jing didn't know what happened between his parents and Rong Yuan's parents in the past. He only knew that since he was old enough to understand, his parents' relationship had always been "respectful to each other". If you say they had no feelings, then except for his father Rong Licheng's first love, there was no third person in their decades of marriage, not even a casual affair; but if you say they had feelings, even the words of concern between the two seemed like routine, and their distance was always so far, and no one had ever taken a step forward.
During the time when the Rong family collapsed, his parents had the closest relationship in his memory. They supported each other and never left each other. Rong Jing almost thought that the invisible ice between them could finally be broken, and he was secretly happy for a while. But after Rong's father regained his confidence, everything returned to normal. Then one day, Lu Yao suddenly appeared. Rong Jing's mother Du Qiaoxin packed her suitcase without saying a word and embarked on a journey that she didn't know when it would end. She didn't even say goodbye to Rong Jing.
Although Rong Licheng looked unhappy, he did not try to keep him.
So when talking about this, even though Rong Jing tried hard to appear relaxed, depression and sadness still emerged from his tone.
Rong Yuan glanced at him and asked, "Where is your room?"
"It's also on the second floor, the one next door. Do you want to take a look?" Rong Jing immediately became alert, his eyes sparkling, and he looked at Rong Yuan with great anticipation.
"...Forget it," Rong Yuan said coldly.
"Well, it's the same if I have a chance to see it again in the future." Rong Jing said regretfully, but because Rong Yuan took the initiative to "care" about him for the first time, the happy look brought by this still remained in the corners of his eyebrows and eyes, and he seemed much more excited. Thinking that Rong Yuan didn't understand the situation, he took the opportunity to go upstairs and said to him hurriedly: "I heard from my dad that Aunt Lu's situation..."
Rong Yuan listened to him in silence, but in fact, Noah had already told him all this.
In the past, Lu Yao resented Rong Licheng, abandoned her newborn Rong Yuan, and went abroad before she finished her confinement at home. Everything that happened afterwards was like an inspirational drama about Cinderella. She studied, worked hard to regain her figure, and worked hard to learn all kinds of knowledge and skills. She became more and more dazzling than before, and successfully passed the entrance examination to a famous university in the Nut Country two years later. Smart and beautiful girls are popular everywhere, not to mention that Lu Yao is one of the most dazzling people in that university full of talents. When she graduated from university, she chose the best one among her many suitors, and then was very "surprised" to learn that the man turned out to be the heir of a chaebol.
Lu Yao had gone through many ups and downs in his life before he could hold power and enjoy life. But just when everything was going smoothly, Baiselong appeared.
The losses caused by that disaster are still incalculable. Lu Yao's husband died after being infected, and the chaebol fell apart. Although she tried hard to save the situation after the virus was expelled, this effort was like a mantis trying to stop a chariot when more than half of her good friends and confidants had died and there were still jackals and wolves in the outside world eyeing them covetously. Seeing that the situation was not good, Lu Yao was also decisive. She immediately gave up most of her interests and prepared to return to China, but was ambushed at the last moment. Although she was lucky enough to survive, she had already entered the countdown of her life, and she lived one day less.
Lu Yao's parents had died long ago , and she had lost contact with her early relatives and friends. After returning to China, she had nowhere to go. When Rong Licheng heard about this, he dropped everything he was doing and traveled thousands of miles to pick her up.
Rong Jing deliberately slowed down his pace. When he whispered, they had already reached the door of a bedroom on the third floor. He knocked on the door and wanted to go in after hearing a "come in" from inside, but he shrank his neck under Rong Yuan's gaze and stood aside obediently.
Rong Yuan walked in, and the door was gently closed. The good soundproofing effect made Rong Jing unable to hear any sound. He leaned against the door for a while, but heard nothing. He walked back and forth in the doorway , looking at his watch anxiously from time to time, feeling that the seconds were passing like years.
But in fact, Rong Yuan didn't let him wait too long.
More than ten minutes later, the door opened again. When Rong Yuan came out, his expression had not changed at all. However, the moment the door closed, Rong Jing heard a suppressed sob coming from inside.
"What did you say?" Rong Jing couldn't help asking. He looked at the door hesitantly, but didn't go in. Instead, he turned around and followed Rong Yuan downstairs.
"Nothing." Rong Yuan still said calmly.
When he entered, probably because Rong Jing had informed him in advance, Rong Licheng and Lu Yao were both there. However, Rong Licheng focused most of his attention on Lu Yao. When he saw Rong Yuan, his expression was even colder than when they met more than a decade ago. Although the status of both parties was already very different now, his attitude had never softened.
As for Lu Yao, she was pale, weak, with fine wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, but she was still so beautiful that people couldn't take their eyes off her. She looked at Rong Yuan, but there was no deep love or hatred in her eyes. She just looked at him carefully, as if she had a thousand words to say, but she didn't say a word.
And Rong Yuan was never the one who took the initiative to start a conversation.
He didn't even go near the bed, but stood by the door for a while. Seeing that the other party called him but didn't say anything, he didn't bother to guess the intention and said directly: "If you don't have anything to say, I have something else to do, so I'll leave first."
"Xiaoyuan." A gentle voice came from behind him the moment he turned around and grabbed the door handle. Lu Yao asked him, "Do you hate me?"
Rong Yuan said without any hesitation: "No hatred."
Rong Licheng's fingers trembled slightly.
Lu Yao's calm expression seemed to be shattered by these two simple words . A huge sadness seemed to surge in his heart and tears couldn't stop falling.
Hate is also a kind of emotion. The fact that there is no resentment or disgust can only mean that although they are related by blood, the connection between them is even weaker than that between strangers.
Rong Yuan returned to the car, and Rong Jing got in right behind him. Feeling that their relationship had become much closer, he reached out and pushed the fat cat aside, asking, "Brother, where are you going now?"
——I’m so excited that I finally called out “Brother”. What should I do?
Looking at Rong Jing, whose face was red and smiling for no apparent reason, Rong Yuan thought that he could be happy about this. It seemed that he really disliked Lu Yao, so he said casually, "I have another place I want to go." He paused, looking at the group of people around him who had the words "wherever you go, we'll go with you" written on their faces. He was a little confused about how these two little guys got close to him, and then said, "...E County, Xiao's Library."
It's time to solve the last question.
