Chapter 71 Sleepwalking like a shadow chasing light (twenty-four)(1/2)
Ever since Lin Zheng could remember, his mother didn't like him.
His mother's dislike of him was not expressed in disgust, but in complete disregard.
Even if Lin Zheng was standing right in front of her, her eyes would not change, as if she had never seen a child standing here before.
The person whose treatment is completely opposite to that of Lin Zheng is his twin brother, Lin Da.
The younger brother who looks exactly like him.
In front of Lin Da, his mother Wen Xueyao became the best mother in the world. Mothers in ordinary families were much worse than her. She was a painter and had a very leisurely job. Most of her time besides work,
She spent all her time accompanying Lin Da. She gave Lin Da the best companionship and the best education.
His father, Lin Chengzhuo, often quarreled with his mother. Basically, it was caused by his father blaming his mother for being too indifferent to his eldest son. However, his father didn’t criticize a few words, and his mother suddenly turned red and started crying. Dad
I couldn't speak any more.
Only at that time did Lin Zheng know that his mother knew about his existence. Many times he almost thought that his mother really couldn't see him.
He doesn't like Lin Da. I'm afraid there are few people in the world who can like a brother who has received all the favor from his mother. Lin Da is relatively close to him, but every time he comes to Lin Zheng, he will be stopped by Wen Xueyao.
Lin Zheng remembered that his parents' relationship should be relatively good, but when Lin Zheng was six years old, they had a violent quarrel. After that, his mother took Lin Da and left home, never coming back.
Apart from calling his father to greet him during the Chinese New Year, she had no other communication.
On Lin Zheng's birthday, only his father asked his secretary to bring him a gift and then called him to say happy birthday.
These memories are not good at all. Maybe everyone in this world has his or her own suffering, and people like Lin Zheng who were born to be the proud ones are not qualified to say anything. But this may not be considered too much suffering, but it is deformed enough.
Sometimes when Lin Zheng looks at himself in the mirror, he often wonders if he is some kind of monster that makes his mother hate him so much.
Later, when Lin Zheng grew up, he thought that maybe he was born with a cold heart. Once his fragile childhood was over, those things would leave no trace in his heart.
In his second year of high school, he met Lin Da, whom he had not seen for eleven years.
Twins are really amazing. Even if they haven't seen each other for ten years, he can still recognize this person at a glance because he has the same appearance as himself. This is his younger brother. Even after living apart in different countries for eleven years, his younger brother can still keep up with him.
He looks exactly the same, not bad at all.
Can genes really ignore the environment and execute flawlessly?
He thought about this question for a moment, but didn't take it to heart. After studying in high school, biological knowledge taught that the expression of genes is affected by the environment. After living in different countries for eleven years, even if they are twins, they should not look the same.
Not bad at all. But everything has an example. How to explain this kind of thing clearly? Maybe it's just a coincidence, or their family's genes are too strong - in short, there is no point in thinking about these.
After seeing him, Lin Da explained the reason for her visit - Wen Xueyao had lung cancer and did not have long left, so she wanted to see him.
This incident indeed surprised Lin Zheng. In his memory, Wen Xueyao had always been a very self-disciplined person, and he never expected that someone like her would contract a terminal illness at such a young age.
But Lin Zheng didn't plan to go.
It would be funny if he really went. A woman who had never fulfilled her duties as a mother for even a day or an hour came to see him when she was about to die - what did you think of him?
Lin Da seemed to really care about Wen Xueyao. He tried to persuade Lin Zheng for a long time, but Lin Zheng did not waver at all.
Another day later, Lin Chengzhuo also came to persuade him to go to Germany to meet his mother.
Lin Zheng also refused.
Lin Chengzhuo looked at him complicatedly. He wanted to blame him, but in the end he didn't say anything and could only sigh.
In the end, Lin Chengzhuo and Lin Da returned to Germany together to see Wen Xueyao for the last time.
Five or six days later, Lin Zheng received an unfamiliar phone call from overseas.
He turned it off.
But this number called him five or six times in a row, and Lin Zheng finally picked up.
"...Xiao Zheng, it's me."
"It's mom."
It's Wen Xueyao.
Sometimes the power of blood cannot be overestimated. At least when Lin Zheng heard this voice at first, he felt it was very strange. If Wen Xueyao hadn't told her who she was, Lin Zheng would not have been able to remember it.
Lin Zheng casually lowered his eyes at the exercises in his hand and asked, "What's the matter?"
Ironically, this was the first time since his birth that he had been called by this woman.
"Mom, there's something I want to tell you." The voice on the other end of the phone sounded very weak. Lin Zheng turned up the volume to the maximum and could barely hear it clearly.
"Then please speak quickly." Lin Zheng said.
There was silence on the other end of the phone for a moment. I don't know whether he was trying to organize his words or was hurt by Lin Zheng's too cold attitude.
"...Have you ever complained about your mother? Why does she only love your brother but ignore you?"
Lin Zheng was amused by her: "If you have something to say, there is no need to say these words."
Is Wen Xueyao too well protected by her family and Lin Chengzhuo? Otherwise, how could she ask such a stupid question?
But gradually, Lin Zheng's expression changed from mocking to gloomy.
Wen Xueyao told him that the reason why she turned a blind eye to Lin Zheng was because she could not accept him.
I can't accept that he and Lin Da... are actually the same person.
When he and Lin Dai were born, the couple were very happy. They were a pair of healthy and good-looking twin baby boys.
But gradually, Wen Xueyao discovered that her child... was a little different.
They spend most of the time doing the same movements, and these movements are not controlled by their space and sight.
If one of them accidentally bumps into each other, the other one will burst into tears. If one person laughs, then the other person will burst out laughing even if he is just sitting in a daze, even if he doesn't see it at all.
His brother was laughing - which ruled out the possibility of being infected by laughter. They never had one person fall asleep while the other was awake, they always woke up and fell asleep at the same time.
These things may seem inconspicuous, but once they occur more often, they become extremely obvious and strange.
There may really be telepathy between twins. Wen Xueyao and Lin Chengzhuo also visited many experts - but there has never been that kind of telepathy like Lin Zheng and Lin Da.
Sometimes Wen Xueyao came home from outside, entered their room, and saw her two sons sitting on the floor. They were playing with each other, but suddenly they all looked towards her.
The expression on his face and the movements of his hands were not bad at all.
In addition, they have exactly the same appearance and green eyes.
Wen Xueyao often felt a chill running down her spine.
Finally one day, Lin Chengzhuo told Wen Xueyao that maybe their two sons were really the same person.
This is because Lin Chengzhuo's ancestors have this precedent. Their ancestors came to the Central Plains from other lands when they were young and built a huge family business alone. In addition to the excellence of the ancestors themselves, a large part of the reason is because of the ancestors.
It's...two bodies and one soul.
Two bodies, but sharing one soul. They can know what their other body is seeing, doing, and thinking at any time.
Even if one body is dying, as long as the other body is intact, that body will recover quickly.
In the following hundreds of years, there was only one example in their family two hundred years ago. But compared to the huge population of the Lin family, this was too small. And this was a secret, and it was his ancestor.
It was passed down as the most confidential secret of the Lin family before his death. Only the head of the Lin family of each generation is qualified to know it. Lin Chengzhuo was not the head of the family at the time. This matter was told to Lin Cheng by Mr. Lin after he found out about Lin Zheng and Lin Da.
carved.
Wen Xueyao couldn't accept it.
In ancient times, such things could be covered with a mysterious cloak, but for Wen Xueyao, who had received modern higher education, this incident was simply terrifying, not to mention that such a thing happened to her own child.
Is it possible that there really is a so-called soul in the world? But even if there is, what does it mean if two bodies share one soul?
Wen Xueyao didn't know how to face her children when they made exactly the same movements and expressions towards her.
Those two pairs of green eyes made her extremely flustered.
Later, Mr. Lin came to see Lin Zheng and Lin Da. From that day on, the strange connection between the two of them disappeared.
But Wen Xueyao still couldn't face them both at the same time. In the end, she chose Lin Da and raised Lin Da as her child, while completely ignoring Lin Zheng. It seemed that in this way, she could forget that her two children were from the same person.
fact.
"Mom said so much, just to tell you...Mom was wrong. Xiao Zheng, I'm really sorry." The person on the other end of the phone seemed to be crying.
Lin Zheng had no time to appease her emotions. The pen he had been spinning had stopped at some point. His emerald green eyes were staring at the blank space on the paper, and his face gradually darkened.
This incident was indeed more unexpected than he imagined.
After taking a while to digest, Lin Zheng had the extra emotion to share with Wen Xueyao.
"You are telling me this, do you want me to forgive you? Or do you want to repay a sin before you die, so that you can feel at ease?"
"No, Xiao Zheng..." Wen Xueyao seemed to be muttering, "It doesn't matter if you don't forgive mom. Mom just wants to say... mom loves you."
"Oh. It turns out that you don't even intend to get forgiveness after you've done the wrong thing. As long as you say a fake love, you can feel better." Lin Zheng's expression had completely turned cold, and he tapped the cap of his pen on the table.
, echoing in the empty and silent room.
"no!"
Wen Xueyao was a little anxious and wanted to explain something, but was interrupted by Lin Zheng: "Do you think you have been wronged? Do you think you really love me?"
"Then let me ask you - have you told Lin Da about this?"
To be continued...