Chapter 7 Nothing is warmer than the human heart
Perhaps darkness can easily devour people's hearts, but light will always come.
Perhaps darkness can easily devour people's hearts, but light will always come.
Although Chen Kai's case caused a sensation, it faded from the public eye in just three days. Only Yu Qianlin and others were still working on the aftermath of the case.
A few days after the case, Cheng Lisheng threw him a summary report. A total of 23 children were rescued this time. According to the confessions of the arrested people, this group of had eight or nine dens across the country...
Looking at the shocking numbers above, Yu Qianlin wanted to eat these people alive, but he regretted letting Chen Kai escape from him even more!
Afterwards, based on the information confessed by others, they joined forces with other local police and successively destroyed several dens. However, they did not feel any excitement. Instead, they felt heavier and heavier each time. Those poor children and grieving parents made them want to catch Chen Kai as quickly as possible and catch all the human traffickers.
After a period of intensive work, Yu Qianlin planned to spend more time studying, so he applied for annual leave.
He asked Wen Shu where he wanted to go, and Wen Shu said it was up to him. The two finally decided to return to Ancheng.
Wen Shu calculated the time and found that it had been several months since she and Yu Qianlin reunited. Apart from occasionally calling Grandpa Yu to greet him, she had not done anything else for the old man.
The two bought tickets back to Ancheng the next day. They arrived in Ancheng in the afternoon and Grandpa Yu came to pick them up in person. The moment Wen Shu saw him, his eyes turned red and he choked up and called out "Master".
Grandpa Yu's eyes also turned red, and he responded with satisfaction, saying, "Silly child, you are finally back!"
Yu Qianlin stood aside in silence, but his heart was filled with sadness. He said, "Let's go, go back."
"Let's go home!"
Grandpa Yu has grown old and become sentimental. He held onto his son's hand tightly and no longer looked like the energetic old man he used to be. He was half hunched over and seemed to be trembling.
She remembered what Yu Qianlin told her, that the master had a serious illness a few years ago, and his health has been worse since then. He no longer runs the martial arts school, and lives alone in Ancheng. Thinking of this, her nose was sore again. Everyone knows how much the master loves the martial arts school, but now that he is getting older and unable to do it, this should be the saddest thing for him.
A few people returned to the martial arts hall, and the sign of "Yide Martial Arts Hall" was still hanging high, looking majestic.
Wen Shu closed her eyes, as if she had returned to six years ago and saw them six years ago. Although their faces were young and immature at that time, the stubbornness in their bones would not allow them to bow their heads easily. She left too many traces here, and she could remember every bit clearly, like the deepest mark left on her by the years.
When she stepped into the martial arts hall, the familiar feeling that came over her made her nose sore again. She turned away embarrassedly, not wanting to be seen.
Grandpa Yu smiled gently, and someone happened to come out from the kitchen. It was Lu Sining, who arrived a day earlier than them.
Yu Qianlin greeted warmly: "Auntie! You're here!" He secretly called Lu Sining yesterday and invited her to go to Ancheng together, but he didn't expect Lu Sining to arrive before them.
"Mom?" Wen Shu was also surprised and forgot all the sadness.
Lu Sining smiled, holding a spatula in his hand, full of the atmosphere of fireworks: "Take a rest first, we can eat later."
After putting away the luggage, Yu Qianlin took Wen Shu to the room she had stayed in. It was almost exactly the same as when she left, which moved Wen Shu beyond words. The two of them sat casually and chatted for a while, then they heard Lu Sining calling for dinner outside.
When Wen Shu saw the steaming hot pot on the table, his eyes widened. Grandpa Yu laughed: "Come on, come on, sit down! Today is our first reunion dinner in six years. Let's live in harmony and be happy from now on!"
Yu Qianlin was touched and raised the glass in his hand: "Yes! Cheers!"
"cheers!"
The four of them clinked their glasses together, and in the aroma of the hot pot, time seemed to go back to that year, and nothing had changed.
Grandpa Yu took a sip of the liquid in the cup and threw the cup on the table in disgust: "You little bastard, you lied to me! What you gave me was a drink!" He acted like an old child.
Yu Qianlin's evil plan succeeded, and he said happily: "Grandpa, don't think about it. The doctor said that you can't drink."
"You!" Grandpa Yu was unhappy. He looked at Wen Shu and said, "Wen Shu, tell me if I can drink it."
"Grandpa, don't even think about asking for reinforcements. It's useless."
"You little brat, you're not cute at all..."
Wen Shu sat aside and watched the grandfather and grandson bickering. Her heart was warmed. She smiled and took another sip of wine. It burned her throat a little, but she was happy!
She wanted to drink more, but Yu Qianlin stretched out his arm and snatched the glass from her hand: "Don't drink anymore, little girl!"
Wen Shu: "How old are you? "
Yu Qianlin: "At least it's older than you!" As he said that, he tilted his head back and gulped down the rest of Wen Shu's wine. After that, he turned the glass upside down to show her, as if he was showing off.
The two elders watched the children 's interaction and ate the food on the table intently, as if they did not hear the two children's childish interactions, but the smiles on their lips betrayed them.
After dinner, Wen Shu was called into a practice room by Grandpa Yu, and Yu Qianlin was ordered to help Lu Sining clean up the kitchen.
Grandpa Yu ordered Wen Shu: "Come on, show me two moves!"
Wen Shu was ashamed. In the early years, in order to ensure the safety of Lu Si Ning and herself, Wen Shu would practice the tricks she had learned diligently. Later, when she was busy with work, she became lazy in this regard. Now that the master asked to see it, she was even more nervous than when she took the college entrance examination. After a while, sweat broke out on her palms.
Seeing that Wen Shu was dithering and hadn't made any move, Grandpa Yu shouted, "Why are you still standing there? Hurry up!"
Wen Shu was shocked and could only bite the bullet and go ahead, hoping that he still remembered these moves. However, he was stopped after less than three moves: "What are you doing? The force is not enough and the moves are not proficient."
"I'm sorry, Master." Wen Shu lowered his head, his voice muffled.
"Alright, alright," seeing how she was doing, Grandpa Yu couldn't help but feel soft-hearted. He wasn't here to check her homework. He sat down cross-legged and asked, "How have you been these years?"
Wen Shu also sat down and answered, "Not bad."
"Yours is not bad, but it's very bad!" Grandpa Yu saw her stubborn character and couldn't help but said, "You girl, you still have the same temper! You didn't ask us for help back then, you had backbone, I can't blame you, but you have to learn to be submissive, if the sky falls, not only will there be tall people to hold it up, but we will too!"
"master……"
"That brat went crazy looking for you, searching every street and alley. In the end, he couldn't find you, so he locked himself in his room and refused to eat. It was the first time I saw him like that. Later, there was really nothing I could do, so I told him that maybe you were just in a bad mood and wanted to find a quiet place to rest for a while. If you didn't want to show up, he could come find you later. Only then did he recover little by little."
"It's my fault!" Wen Shu's heart ached because of these words, as if half of it had been cut off and was bleeding.
Grandpa Yu sighed, "Silly child, Qianlin is my grandson, I know him best, and what happened in his childhood hurt him a lot, so he values feelings very much. He is sincere to you, otherwise he wouldn't have been looking for you for so many years."
"I never thought about it. I felt abandoned by the whole world."
"No one abandons you except yourself."
"I know I was wrong, Master." Wen Shu admitted his mistake again.
Grandpa Yu didn't say anything else. He knew that Wen Shu had heard all these words. He sat for a while, then stood up and left. When he reached the door, he said again: "Wen Shu, don't underestimate yourself, and don't underestimate us."
"I understand, Master."
Wen Shu watched Grandpa Yu leave, then sat there for a while before he stood up, straightened his clothes, and walked out of the practice room as if he had made some kind of decision.
When she walked to the martial arts hall, she saw Yu Qianlin looking at her with a smile. When he saw her come out, he said, "Would you like to go out for a walk?"
"Yeah, okay."
As if it was intentional, or as if it was purely accidental, the places Yu Qianlin took Wen Shu to were all places where they had left memories.
Every time he passed a place, Wen Shu could almost immediately remember what they said and did there. He didn't remember it deliberately, but it was deeply rooted in his bones.
Passing by a shop, Yu Qianlin stopped and said, "Here!"
Wen Shu was puzzled.
"This is the place where we first met, but over the years, this area has been turned into a commercial street."
"Ah..." The previous desolation was replaced by prosperity. Wen Shu felt a little lost, but she also felt that the atmosphere suddenly became a little different. She lowered her head and didn't look at him.
But Yu Qianlin had no intention of letting her go. He gently lifted Wen Shu's chin with his fingers, forcing her to look at him.
When their eyes met, Wen Shu suddenly understood the true meaning of the phrase "A million stars cannot compare to your eyes and eyebrows". Yu Qianlin had always been a shining presence to her, and now that her image was reflected in his star-like eyes, she suddenly had the illusion that there was only room for her in his eyes.
She closed her eyes and tried to break free from him but failed.
Yu Qianlin's Adam's apple rolled, and his clenched fists at his side revealed his nervousness. The fragrance of the girl beside him permeated his heart and spleen, completely disrupting his thoughts.
It wasn't the first time he was so close to her, but it was the first time he was so nervous. Wen Shu seemed to sense something, and his heart began to beat wildly with nervousness.
"Study..."
"Study!"
Two voices sounded at the same time, interrupting what Yu Qianlin wanted to say. His hearing has always been sensitive, and he reacted almost instantly to find out who the person was!
Wen Shu was also curious, why did Qi Qianchen come?
She didn't want to pay attention to him, but she had to.