Hearing Chen Fan's question again, the old woman finally stopped crying. Instead of wiping away the tears on her face, she took a deep breath, her eyes were hollow, her expression was dull, and she said softly: "Let's go, let's go."
Already..."
Gone?
Hearing these two words in shock, Chen Fan seemed to be electrocuted, his whole body stiffened, and he subconsciously asked: "Grandma Li, where have they gone?"
"I don't know." The old woman said softly, her expression was extremely painful, and tears flowed from her eyes again.
"Don't know?" Chen Fan's face changed wildly.
"Yes." The old woman gritted her teeth and nodded slightly: "Yingying's mother left two years ago. Once she left, she never came back. No one knows where she went."
Left two years ago?
Hearing what the old woman said, Chen Fan was dumbfounded, completely dumbfounded!
His eyes widened with an expression of disbelief on his face.
At this moment, he even suspected that there was something wrong with his ears.
"As for Yingying, she was at home last night, but she went out again in the afternoon. She said she was going to the city to borrow some money from her classmates to buy rice and vegetables, but she hasn't come back yet." The old woman said,
His eyes were full of worry.
Borrow money to buy rice and vegetables?
Although Chen Fan had been numbed by a series of changes before, but...after hearing the old woman say these words, he was shocked again.
Because... when Liu Meng was alive, Liu Meng sent home a small amount of his salary every month. Chen Fan also wanted to send it, but Liu Meng wouldn't let him. For this reason, Chen Fan sent it secretly every time.
, prevent Liu Meng from discovering it.
Later, after Liu Meng died, Chen Fan received a pension. Chen Fan did not dare to send it back to Liu Meng's home all at once. Instead, he mailed it bit by bit as before, but the amount he sent was three times as much as before!
Because... Chen Fan was afraid that Liu Meng's family would notice something if he mailed too much.
In addition, Chen Fan also deposited 10 million U.S. dollars in a Swiss bank. The 10 million U.S. dollars was obtained from a mission he took during the period of revenge for the Bloody Purgatory.
He planned to leave the money to Liu Yingying.
Now, the old woman told Liu Yingying to go out and borrow money to buy rice and vegetables. This made Chen Fan a little unbelievable, because he sent 10,000 yuan to Liu Meng's family every month, which was enough for the family's expenses.
While he didn't believe it, Chen Fan also knew that it was impossible for the old woman to lie to him. Moreover, when he entered the door just now, he could clearly see through the weak light that the furniture in the house was all the old and shabby ones, and none of them had been replaced.
Bai Ying.
The figure of Liu Meng's wife Bai Ying suddenly appeared in Chen Fan's mind.
She was a good wife and mother in coarse linen clothes. In Chen Fan's impression, Bai Ying held the bankbook at home.
The old woman said before that Bai Ying had been away for two years...
Suddenly, Chen Fan guessed what happened - Bai Ying probably left with the bankbook, leaving behind the helpless old woman and Liu Yingying!
This speculation made Chen Fan unable to believe and accept it, nor did he dare to believe it, but... reason told him that this was the only possibility!
"Alas..." Seeing Chen Fan's face changing, the old woman sighed heavily and said softly: "Two years ago, when Yingying's mother left, she didn't say what she was going out for, she just gave Yingying
I left 20,000 yuan and said I would come back after a while."
The old woman seemed to have understood something. There was no doubt in her tone. On the contrary, it sounded a little painful and sad: "But... I never came back after I left, and the family's money was spent in the summer."
Yes, Yingying has borrowed it from outside for the past six months."
Having said this, the old woman couldn't help but close her eyes: "She hasn't come back so late today, so I'm afraid she hasn't borrowed the money. Alas, she has borrowed it for half a year and hasn't paid back a penny. Who would borrow it again?"
Give it to her!"
As they talked, the old woman burst into tears.
The old woman's words rang in his ears. Seeing the old woman crying, Chen Fan felt as if his heart had been stabbed hard by a sharp dagger, dripping with blood, and a sharp pain surged through his heart.
As the center of the circle, it slowly spread, making his face look as pale as paper.
"Chen Fan, Chen Fan, if it weren't for you, would this once happy family become what it is now?"
"If, three years ago, you told them that Liu Meng died because of you, then even if they were in pain and they hated you, this family wouldn't be what it is now, right?"
"Three years. In the past three years, you just insisted that you could avenge him by eradicating the bloody purgatory. However, you never thought that what he needs most is not you to take revenge, but that his family can live a good life.
Get down!"
Under the light, Chen Fan's face was filled with self-blame.
Deeply remorseful!
"Crack!"
Without hesitation, Chen Fan raised his hand and slapped himself!
This slap was unusually loud. As soon as the slap came down, Chen Fan's face suddenly bulged up, and scarlet blood spilled from the corner of his mouth.
"Bang!"
The next moment, Chen Fan knelt directly in front of the old woman with red eyes and gritted teeth.
"Xiao Fan, you..." Seeing Chen Fan's actions, the old woman was so shocked that she forgot to cry, and her yellow eyes widened.
"Bang!"
There was no answer, and Chen Fan kowtowed vigorously to the old woman.
The old woman was stunned.
"Bang bang..."
Chen Fan kowtowed again and again. He kowtowed very hard. After several times, his forehead was dripping with blood.
He seemed to be repenting and atone for his sins in this way.
only--
He didn't notice that after the old woman saw his strange behavior, she was surprised at first, but then her expression changed drastically.
It seemed...she had guessed something.
"Grandma Li, I'm sorry!" Chen Fan buried his head deeply on the ground and said this in a hoarse voice. He had thought about it countless times but could not muster the courage to say it.
There was no answer, the old woman just sat quietly and cried silently.
Under the light, she seemed to have had her soul taken away, and there was no longer any luster in her eyes.
The abandoned tile-roofed house fell into a deathly silence for a while.
This kind of silence burned Chen Fan's heart like the fire of hell.
After a few seconds, he gritted his teeth, raised his head, and looked at the old woman.
"Grandma Li..." When he saw the old woman's empty eyes and expression of neither happiness nor sadness, his face changed drastically. He quickly moved forward, grabbed the old woman's withered hands, and expressed worry.
Trying to say something.
"Xiaofan, tell me, Xiaomeng, did something happen to him... did something happen to him?" When she said the word "Xiaomeng", the old woman couldn't bear it anymore, and her thin body shook wildly.
Tears rolled down Chen Fan's resolute face. His face was full of guilt and self-blame, and he nodded with pain.
This time, it's very simple.
It’s also very difficult!
Although she had already guessed this in her heart, but... when she saw Chen Fan nodding his head in recognition, the old woman's pupils still widened, and her body that had been shaking gradually stopped.
"Grandma Li..." Seeing the old woman's abnormal behavior, Chen Fan's heart clenched.
The old woman shook her head gently and said softly: "My child, I'm fine, I'm fine..."
Hearing what the old woman said, Chen Fan instinctively wanted to say something, but before he could say anything, he heard the old woman muttering to herself: "Although Xiaomeng has a special job and can't take care of his family, he even hasn't been able to take care of his family for a year or two."
I can’t come back even once. However, he will call back often.”
At this point, tears welled up from the old woman's eyes again.
"But, in the past three years, he hasn't made a single call. This is very abnormal." The old woman said slowly, her tone was calm, as if she was talking about something that had nothing to do with her, but that plain
The tone contained pain that ordinary people could not understand.
"At first, Yingzi was very confused and said: Mom, why hasn't Liu Meng called back recently? I comforted her: Yingzi, Xiaomeng has a special job and is probably busy during this period. Please be considerate and considerate to him."
"Although I say this, I also feel that something is wrong. In fact... I also really hope that he can call back. For no other reason than to report that he is safe."
"The days went by like this day by day, and Xiaomeng still didn't call. Yingzi turned from doubts to complaints, saying: What about other men? Xiaomeng didn't come back for a year or two as soon as he left, and he didn't feel like it at all.
This home.”
"To be honest, listening to Yingzi say that, I, as a mother, feel very uncomfortable. I really want to tell Yingzi that Xiaomeng actually loves and misses this family very much, but he has no choice but to do so."
"Later, Yingzi seemed to complain a lot and felt bored. Gradually she stopped nagging. At the same time, she seemed to have changed. She no longer focused all her thoughts on the family. Later, she simply
Left this home."
"I know that she felt aggrieved and left. I don't blame her. Even when Yingying told me later that she took away the family's discount, I didn't blame her because... I have always felt that our old Liu family
Sorry for her."
"It's just that the child Yingying suffered a lot."
At this point, the old woman's body twitched violently, and then she said: "Yingying has been a very well-behaved child since she was a child. Although Xiaomeng is away from home all year round, she has never complained about anything."
"Even if Xiao Meng didn't call back at the beginning, she still missed Xiao Meng very much, but she just buried it in her heart and didn't say it out loud."
"Later, when Yingzi changed, Yingying secretly wiped her tears several times and asked me what happened to her mother. Alas, at that time, I didn't know how to explain to her. I felt bad, I felt bad for Ying
This child Ying."
"Two years ago, after Yingzi left, Yingying cried, crying very sadly. She cried and begged me, saying that she wanted her parents. I cried and said to her, Yingying, don't worry, your father and mother are
Will be back."
"From then on, Yingying never mentioned this matter again, but...she told me that she didn't want to study anymore and wanted to work to earn money to support me. I told her that studying is important, and your father's biggest wish is for you
If you can get into college, you must study."
"Later, she listened to my words and did not go to work. Half a year ago, Yingying's teacher came to the house and said that Yingying had not paid tuition for two consecutive semesters. If she did not pay tuition again, the school would not let her study."
"I told the teacher: Yingying's father is in the army and is supported by the state. She gets a salary every month. Can you wait until Yingying's father comes back to pay it? The teacher said: No, he always thought that we
When my family was in trouble, I applied to the superiors, and Yingying was specifically approved to postpone her payment for one year, and there was no way to postpone it any longer."
"That day, Yingying once again proposed to work. As a result, the village chief came over and helped Yingying pay the tuition. He said that the villagers had contributed together and gave us a thousand yuan in addition to the tuition."
"After the one thousand yuan was spent, Xiaomeng still hadn't come back, and Yingying didn't mention dropping out of school to work. Instead, she tried every means to borrow money from her classmates..."
The old woman spoke slowly, seeming to have forgotten the time and place.
Chen Fan did not interrupt the old woman's words, but listened quietly. Tears had already stained his face. His heart felt like a knife, his body kept twitching, and his hands were clenched in fists.
Hold it very, very tightly!
suddenly--
Just when Chen Fan felt that the old woman was going to continue talking, the old woman's body suddenly twitched rapidly, and her face was as pale as paper!
Then, the old woman closed her eyes and fell back weakly.
"Grandma Li!"
Chen Fan's face changed wildly, he stood up and hugged the old woman, and his hoarse roar suddenly echoed through the quiet village.
