Chapter 34

When Pei Xin came in, Li Wenyu was washing his face at the sink. His lip was broken, red and swollen, and there was a dull pain when he touched the cold water.

"Why did you wake up so early?" Pei Xin stood by the door and talked to him.

Li Wenyu ignored it. He rubbed his hands until they turned red. The water droplets on his face fell along his jawline. There was only the sound of water running in the bathroom.

After a while, Pei Xin's face darkened impatiently, and his tone became colder: "Speak."

Li Wenyu turned off the faucet, the sound of rushing water suddenly stopped, and the whole house fell into a strange silence, while he was stunned. He stared blankly at the water stains on the mirror, witnessing the life and death of a drop of water, concentrating so much that he didn't speak.

Pei Xin stared at him for two seconds, and finally lost all patience. He held his shoulders and turned him around to lean against the sink. The smell of alcohol on his body had completely dissipated, and he could only smell a faint smell of sandalwood and cedar. Every time Li Wenyu takes a bath here, he will get it on his body. Pei Xin put one hand on the edge of the sink and pinched his waist with the other, threatening him fiercely: "If you don't speak today, you don't have to leave this house."

Li Wenyu raised his eyes to look at him. He was the one who saw the mental patient again. His expression and voice were as if they were tempered with ice: "What do you want me to say? You won't listen even if I say it."

Pei Xinyan tugged at the corners of his lips, and his tone was very light but serious: "Except if you want to leave, what do you say? I can listen to anything."

Li Wenyu sneered and pushed him away before striding out. His hands were stained with water, leaving a dark fingerprint on the shoulder of Pei Xin's black coat. His voice was very ethereal when he entered the bathroom. : "Then there's nothing to say."

He took his coat from the back of the sofa, put it on and walked out. Only when he reached the entrance did Pei Xin follow him. He pressed Li Wenyu's hand to open the door with a deep voice. : "You can't meet or talk to Ying Wei again in the future."

Li Wenyu didn't bother to pay attention to him and didn't even raise his eyes: "Get out of the way."

Pei Xin stared at him: "You promise me first ."

Li Wenyu immediately reached out and pried off the fingers that were holding his right hand and the door handle. However, veins popped up on Pei Xinshui's back, and he held on tighter and tighter without moving. In the end, his right hand was gripped until it hurt. He closed his eyes and was finally completely ignited with anger. He raised his head with red eyes and shouted at Pei Xin: "Why should I promise you? Am I your property? Why should you say what you say? Who do you think you are?" !"

His voice trembled, his dark eyes full of sarcasm and anger.

Pei Xin's face froze. He had rarely seen Li Wenyu really angry. Although this person was usually cold, he was not so cold as to hurt others. He was like a rose that resembled a rose. It seemed sharp all over, but no matter when or where it was, , will not hurt anyone. Pei Xin's tightly clenched hand slowly loosened unconsciously. He looked at Li Wenyu's red eyes and felt a surge of regret.

Seeing that he finally let go, Li Wenyu opened the door without hesitation and strode out.

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He was away from home all day on New Year's Day. Li Wenyu was already prepared to be scolded by Li Teng. In order not to notice the injury on his lip, he didn't even dare to raise his head when he returned. However, as soon as he entered the door, there was no one in the living room. There was only a puddle of broken glass shards from the water glass next to the sofa.

Li Wenyu glanced around in surprise. Through the glass door, there was no one in the kitchen.

"Aunt, grandma?"

No one responded. Li Wenyu guessed that he might have gone out to buy groceries, so he went back to his room first. He first put some ointment on his lips and prayed that he would recover quickly without being discovered, and then went to the kitchen to cook some noodles. He didn't know how to cook, but he learned how to cook Yangchun noodles from his grandma. Grandma said it didn't matter if he didn't know how to cook. He would never starve to death after learning how to cook this bowl of noodles. After he learned it, he found that it tasted pretty good, but he rarely had the chance to enter the kitchen.

When he came out of the kitchen holding noodles, Li Teng and grandma happened to come in from the door. Both of them looked bad. Li Teng was obviously angry, but Grandma was worried.

Li Teng glanced at Li Wenyu, but said nothing and still looked bad. After changing his shoes, he went straight back to the room, but grandma was still standing there.

Li Wenyu put down the bowl in a daze: "Grandma, I was at my classmate's house last night..."

Grandma nodded, with a loving smile on her originally pale face: "It's okay, you can go to my classmate's house to play. Come to the room with grandma. Grandma has something for you."

Li Wenyu saw that grandma looked bad and couldn't help but worry: "Grandma, did you take the medicine today? Why do you look so bad?"

"Yes," grandma said slowly. He slowly waved to him, "Come here first."

Li Wenyu helped grandma into the room. Grandma's room is the one at the back. It has plenty of sunlight, but the space is not large. There is only a single bed and a desk.

Grandma pulled Li Wenyu to sit at the desk, while she was rummaging for something on the bedside. After about half a minute, a bankbook was stuffed into Li Wenyu's hand. A passbook wrapped in red cloth, the red leather cover was brand new, and it had obviously been rarely turned over. Li Wenyu was stunned: "Grandma, what are you..."

Grandma was sitting at the end of the bed, very close to Li Wenyu, the sun was falling. On her face, the gray hair and fine wrinkles were clearly visible everywhere.

"Xiao Yu, I wonder if you still remember what happened to your parents?" Grandma held Li Wenyu's hand. The hand was dry and weak and had lost its elasticity. It was so clearly covered on Li Wenyu's hand that it was The feeling of aging is extremely real.

Li Wenyu didn't know why his grandma mentioned this. He felt a lump in his throat and nodded slowly.

Grandma sighed deeply, and her eyes that had lost their vitality became even more hollow, as if she was recalling something: "After your parents had a car accident, the driver escaped, but was later caught and sentenced."

Li Wenyu closed his eyes. Closing her eyes, her voice was very serious and she spoke almost word by word: "I know, if it wasn't for that person who ran away, mom and dad might still be saved."

Grandma's eyes had tears in her eyes: "Yes, if it wasn't for him, Yuanzhou There may be hope of rescuing He Xiaoyi, but, but..."

Li Wenyu knew that grandma's illness should not be irritated, so he quickly stood up and stroked her skinny back: "Grandma, don't think about this, it's all over. He has been brought to justice..."

"No, no," grandma held his hand tightly and warmly, her eyes flickering, as if she was hesitating, "There is something that your aunt and I have never told you."

Li Wenyu paused and blinked slowly: "What happened?"

Grandma lowered her head and choked with sobs: "At that time, the family members of the driver who caused the accident came to the house, hoping that we could sign a letter of understanding. They knelt at the door. I couldn't come in for several days, and then..."

Li Wenyu's eyes were red, and every word was full of hatred: "They actually want a letter of understanding, of course it's impossible."

But grandma shed tears and trembled. The body murmured: "Signed, I signed."

Li Wenyu was stunned, thinking that he heard wrongly, and it took him a long time to squeeze out his voice from his dry throat: "What?"

"I signed the letter of understanding. , the man's sentence was commuted and he was fined."

Li Wenyu's eyes were bright red and he couldn't believe it: "Grandma, why?"

"Your uncle, your uncle had gambling debts outside, and the creditors came to the house. I didn't. The solution..." Grandma wiped her tears, "The other party's family said that as long as I sign the letter of understanding, they will give us two million, which can pay off your uncle's gambling debt and give you a good educational environment. I really …”

Her old voice trembled and she burst into tears. Li Wenyu had completely froze. The hand on his grandma's back dropped and he fell back on the chair. The bankbook in his hand also fell to the ground. In the half-light and shadow, the red color of the bankbook looked extremely dazzling. .

Li Wenyu's eyes fell into tears without any emotion.

Grandma's words continued, but she was already trembling as thin as a mosquito: "Half of the two million was given to your uncle to pay off his gambling debts. Later, he robbed him of another three hundred thousand. Your aunt made trouble with him. He refused to agree to the divorce, so he had to separate first. The family has also spent some money over the years, and there is still 300,000 left. This must be left to you. I can't let anyone take it away anyway. , your uncle recently planned to come back and ask your aunt for money, I can only give you this money in advance..."

Li Wenyu's ears were blank, and he looked at his grandma with a blank look. Her eyes were full of tears, but every word she said It was like a sharp blade piercing Li Wenyu's heart. It took him a long time before he nodded numbly: "For money, it turns out it was for money."

Grandma stooped and tremblingly stretched out her hand to touch the back of his hand: "We were indeed... If we didn't have that money, your uncle would owe My gambling debt will never be repaid in my lifetime, and our whole family has no way to survive. "

What if nothing happens to my parents? What if the other party doesn't ask us to sign a letter of understanding? Do you know how hateful that driver is...

What if...

Li Wenyu cried like a child with trembling shoulders. He choked and opened and closed his lips, but he didn't ask any of these questions because it seemed to be meaningless. Everything seems to be meaningless in itself.