Chapter 6 Salty Lies! 6
Hua Jinghuan is actually Hua Likong’s biological brother!
I was a little confused by this sudden situation.
What is the reason that Hua Jinghuan and Hua Likong did not recognize each other at all? And Hua Jinghuan only treated Hua Likong as a member of the same clan?
When I was with Hua Jinghuan before, I just thought that Hua Jinghuan did look somewhat similar to Hua Likong. It turns out that they are really a pair of brothers.
"You... saw everything?" Hua Likong saw my shocked expression and looked at me in surprise, and asked.
I nodded blankly. Although I didn't understand why I could suddenly find Hua Likong's memory when I had never been able to find it before.
"Hua Jinghuan, he is my biological brother." Hua Likong said suddenly.
"What?" I looked at Hua Likong in disbelief. Before this, I even suspected that I had made a mistake in probing Hua Likong's memory, and thought that what I saw might not be true.
Since he is my biological brother, there is no reason for him not to know about his older brother's existence, right?
Besides, since they are brothers, why does Hua Jinghuan act like he is completely unfamiliar with Hua Likong and they only get along as brothers? This is really strange.
"I know you have a lot of questions now. I will tell you slowly when we get back." Hua Likong said this, perhaps because he felt that he should not hide it from me anymore, or perhaps for other reasons.
"Children born in our family of mind readers must learn our family's unique mind reading skills from a young age. However, mind reading is not as easy to learn as people say, or as beneficial as learning it. In fact, if you want to gain something, you must pay for it, and that's what happened to Xiao Huan and me."
"If you want to get something, you have to pay something?" I murmured, as if I understood it a little, but also seemed not to understand it quite well.
"Yes. Every child who practices mind reading will generally develop sequelae after the age of ten, such as my sense of taste being damaged. So no matter what the circumstances, I can only taste endless astringency. My situation is different from the customers in the curry house. They only show the taste corresponding to their mood after eating your special curry rice. And no matter whether I eat your special curry rice or ordinary food, I can only taste the extreme astringency. And if sequelae occur, the use of mind reading will be restricted. In fact, I didn't use mind reading during my time in the curry house, because I lost the ability to read minds a long time ago. But because we have been learning mind reading since childhood, our ability to guess people's psychology is more accurate than that of ordinary people. I think you have also thought about whether I might be from a mind reading family." Hua Likong explained seriously.
If Hua Likong developed sequelae after he turned ten, then he must have suffered from the loss of his sense of taste for many years. Thinking of this, I felt inexplicably distressed.
"What about Hua Jinghuan?" I was very curious about what the side effects of Hua Jinghuan's mind reading skills were.
"Xiao Huan..." Hua Likong hesitated to speak, and finally said lightly, "Xiao Huan actually has a very special physique. The sequelae of his mind-reading skills did not appear after he was ten years old, but only appeared last year. But I never expected that he would have a sequelae of memory confusion after practicing mind-reading. He even forgot his only relative, his brother..."
In my impression, Hua Likong has always been indifferent, sometimes even a little cold, and I have never seen him show the slightest helplessness.
"After his memory became confused, he wandered around and liked to stay in that strange place called Life Leaves. He always thought he was an orphan, so when I wanted to take him home at first, he was very disgusted and even didn't want me to contact him. Later, it evolved into a feeling of affection between us as fellow tribesmen."
Unexpectedly, this is also a story full of bitterness. From relatives who depended on each other for survival to only the affection of the same clan, the bitterness is not something that ordinary people can understand.
"So... you decided to look for a cure for your sense of taste? And that's how you found me?"
I never thought that a problem related to taste defect would lead to so many stories. When I was a child, I often listened to my father tell stories about this mysterious family.
"Yes." Hua Likong nodded.
"But how do you know I can cure your taste? We didn't know each other at all before we first met, right?" I have never been able to figure out this question.
"Actually, I found out with the help of Browning. Browning was my best playmate since childhood. He came from a mysterious family that kept a low profile and collected books on various mysterious families. I found in the books that there was a family that was good at searching for memories. The memory-searching bell passed down by the memory-searching family could help us get rid of the pain caused by the side effects of telepathy, but this family had long since fallen. It took me a lot of hard work to find you and the curry shop."
"So that's how it is..." I suddenly felt a little sad.
"If you can cure my sense of taste, then you will definitely be able to cure Xiaohuan's amnesia, so that we can resume our normal life as before." Hua Likong spoke every word seriously, and it was more like an expectation for a better life in the future.
"So in order to cure Hua Jinghuan and yourself, you deceived me from the beginning, right? You deliberately came to my curry restaurant to eat, deliberately attracted my attention, deliberately joined my curry restaurant, deliberately signed an agreement with me... All of this made me feel like a big fool, being manipulated by you..."
A strong feeling of grievance surged into my heart, my voice trembled a little, my eyes were dry, my nose was sore, and the stone in my heart became heavier and heavier.
I was like a wooden boat sinking to the bottom of the sea. I tried desperately to grab onto something in the darkness, but there was nothing I could grab. I felt completely powerless.
"I thought you were my savior. I thought you wanted to help me wholeheartedly. I thought I had found the best partner. I thought..."
My vocal cords were trembling so much that I couldn't make a normal sound. Tears suddenly poured down like a flood, passing by my lips, and a salty taste invaded me.
My body was suddenly hugged tightly by a warm embrace, and the warm breath sprinkled on my neck, it was itchy and hot, which seemed to give me the courage to breathe, but I was afraid that such warmth would be taken away at any time.
"Weiwei, I'm sorry." Hua Likong whispered in my ear, "I'm really sorry."
I gently pushed away this warm embrace.
Hua Likong, who had never said sorry to anyone, was actually apologizing to me at this moment. Yes, he was apologizing to me.
Haha... I gently wiped the tears from my face, turned around and left this suffocating place.
I hate the feeling of not being trusted, and I hate even more the feeling of someone giving me trust and then taking it away.
"Hua Likong, give me some time to think about it. I really can't calm down for the moment..."
What should I do? This has become a knot in my heart.
I have always believed in Hua Likong unconditionally. I really, really believe in him. However...
"Ok, I will wait for you."
