please save me save me

Chapter 20 chapter 20

On the way Qi Lin and Yu Zixuan took a taxi to the hospital together, Yu Zixuan told Qi Lin about another incident.

Another...an event that could shake Lu Xiumu's life.

Yu Zixuan started with this tone of voice: "Xiao Mu always smiles at us gently, but he actually has a very difficult life and is so tenacious that it makes people feel distressed. Sometimes I don't understand, his thin body , How did he bear all the oppression that fate brought him. Just now, I said that Xiao Mu became like this today because of you, but in fact... it is not appropriate... There is another reason..."

Yu Zixuan spoke very slowly, very slowly, suddenly, Qi Lin felt as if he was in that time.

At that time, Lu Xiumu was still a student in Xunnan No. [-] Middle School.

Being bullied by Qi Lin and the others was not the real reason for his transfer.

Because he didn't want to make himself appear cowardly, and he didn't want his parents to worry about him, he never mentioned this matter to the outside world.

Lu Xiumu thinks he lives in a harmonious family, and the family has a lot of assets, which is also the most enviable point of others.

Father Lu is very busy with work and rarely goes home.In Lu Xiumu's memory, what occupied his entire childhood was the company of his gentle and kind mother.

Mother Lu advocates charity. Although she is always busy, she has never neglected to take care of Lu Xiumu.

Lu's mother used to be a painter, and she had held many art exhibitions all over the country, so she was somewhat famous.But after meeting Lu's father, he gave up his dream.

Lu Xiumu's name was given by his mother, who hoped that he could "speak faith and repair harmony".This name contains his mother's good vision for him.

Lu Xiumu grew up in such an environment.

He felt that he had nothing to complain about, as far as he was concerned, this kind of life was already happy enough.

If there was only one thing that made him feel that something was wrong, it was the relationship between his father and mother.

They always act respectful to each other in front of Lu Xiumu, but as Lu Xiumu grows older, he gradually understands that the relationship between his parents is actually not very harmonious.

He also heard the term "commercial marriage" later, and after thinking about it, he didn't find it so strange.

It's not a big deal that father and mother didn't come together because of love.

It is enough for their family to live in harmony and beauty like this.

That incident happened three days before he transferred to another school.

The occurrence of that incident was enough to shake his life.

That day, his bicycle was stolen by someone and thrown into a stinky ditch near the school. He could only walk home.

When he was wondering how to explain to his parents that three bicycles were destroyed within a few days, he had already reached the door of the house before he knew it.

He took out the key and opened the door.

At first he thought that his parents hadn't come back because it was still early.

But he heard a loud noise.It seemed that the father was talking.

Lu Xiumu took off his shoes, stood at the door, and leaned in to have a look.

Then he saw a scene that he will never forget in his life.

He saw a familiar face.

That is his mother.

His mother was naked, her hands were tied, and she was hanging from the balcony.The smooth hair that was originally as black as satin seemed to have been torn off by force, and it looked messy at this moment.

The parts below the neck are all bloody and bloody, knife marks, blood marks, interlaced, vertical and horizontal.

At that time, my mother's eyes were wide open, as if she was expressing anger and unwillingness.

This scene can still clearly emerge in Lu Xiumu's mind.

Lu Xiumu wanted to retch at that moment, but he tried his best to suppress it.

And the figure shaking with his back turned was his father.

Lu's father held a kitchen knife in his hand, and chopped at his mother one by one.

Father Lu's face was splashed with blood, but he didn't realize it.The whole face looked ferocious and terrifying, like ghosts and gods that would only appear in hell.

Lu's father cursed angrily: "Let the fucker go! Stinky woman! Slutty woman!"

Every time he cursed, he slashed at Mother Lu's body.

Blood spattered, and the entire wall behind was dyed red, like a blood-colored sunset.

What a hellish scene this is.

Lu Xiumu covered his mouth, his legs could no longer support him, and he knelt down on the ground with a plop.

The movement was neither big nor small, but Father Lu immediately stopped yelling.

Lu Xiumu shrank himself into a ball, trembling constantly.

It was extremely quiet for a moment, and only the breathing of the two of them was left in the whole space.

After five seconds of silence, heavy footsteps slowly approached Lu Xiumu.

The father's voice was as gentle as ever: "Xiao Mu? Did Xiao Mu come home from school?"

The footsteps kept echoing, echoing.It kept magnifying and magnifying in Lu Xiumu's ears.

Neither light nor heavy, getting closer.

Lu Xiumu had to bite his palm tightly to keep himself from screaming.

Because he bit too hard, Lu Xiumu could feel a bloody smell creeping into the corner of his mouth.

Father Lu's legs appeared in front of his eyes.

He looked up along the line of sight and saw Father Lu's face with a gentle smile.

Everything just now seemed to be an illusion.Lu Xiumu felt as if he had returned home as usual, and his respectable father stood at the door to welcome him.

While his mother was preparing dinner, she would call his name in the next second and scold him for coming home so late today.

Then the three of them will have a hearty dinner together happily.

But this is only his fantasy.

The fresh blood on Lu's father's face and the kitchen knife in his hand reminded Lu Xiumu: Everything that happened just now was true.

Lu Xiumu wanted to escape, but he tried hard for a long time and found that he couldn't use his strength no matter what.

He tried his best to keep his voice calm and peaceful: "Why... why did you do that, father..."

"Ah..." Lu's father showed a look of pity, "You have seen it..."

Lu Xiumu lowered his head, hugged himself tightly, and sobbed.

Lu's father bent down and grabbed Lu Xiumu's trembling shoulders. He said slowly, "Xiao Mu, it's not my father's fault. It's your mother who betrayed us. If I didn't come back early today, I wouldn't have found out. Your mother is having an affair with that uncle."

"Uncle...?" Lu Xiumu raised his face and muttered.

A few days ago, an uncle did come to stay at their house.

That uncle is a college classmate of Lu's mother. He came here this time to hold an art exhibition, and hoped that Lu's mother could help him.

Mother Lu is a kind person, so she agreed immediately.

Uncle is a very kind middle-aged man.At least that's what Lu Xiumu thinks.

Even if he couldn't trust that uncle, at least he trusted his mother.

Mother has always been a very responsible person, it is impossible to be like what father said!

Lu Xiumu broke away from Father Lu's hand and shouted at him: "Mother can't be that kind of person! You must have misunderstood something!"

Father Lu's face changed immediately after hearing this sentence.He looked lost, disappointed, mixed with a little anger.

Like a wild beast, he slowly stood up straight, with reddish eyes, looking down at Lu Xiumu.

Lu Xiumu's intuition told him that he might have been in danger.

At this time, he is like a ready prey.

Father Lu slowly raised the kitchen knife in his hand, the sharp edge of the knife showed a cold light, and blood was still flowing down the handle of the knife.

Father Lu approached Lu Xiumu slowly: "Son, how can you oppose me? How can you turn towards your shameless mother?"

Then, as if he suddenly realized something, he stopped in his tracks, and his expression became a little weird at that moment.

He let out an inhuman roar from his throat: "Ah... ah... so that's the case. You are also a bastard! You must be the son of that woman who went around secretly! I raised you as my own son in vain So many years!"

Lu Xiumu shook his head desperately, he wanted to deny all this.

The man in front of him was obviously so kind and gentle.

He would stay up all night to make a kite for Lu Xiumu, even if he was injured, he never complained.

He would tell Lu Xiumu bedtime stories, but sometimes he would be laughed at by Lu Xiumu for not having a standard pronunciation.

He would let Lu Xiumu ride on his shoulders and take him to the park to play.

He will buy ice cream for Lu Xiumu, he will teach Lu Xiumu how to read and write, he will work hard without complaint or regret.

He can……

No, not right.

The man in front of him was no longer the father he remembered.

Maybe it was the survival instinct that came into play, Lu Xiumu somehow got the strength to stand up, waved away Lu's father's hand, opened the door and rushed out.

Father Lu sensed his intentions, quickly grabbed him back and threw him on the ground.

With such force, Lu Xiumu's whole body hit the floor with a loud "boom".

Father Lu raised the kitchen knife with a fierce look on his face, and he was about to chop off at Lu Xiumu.

Just now, a bone in Lu Xiumu's body seemed to be broken, and now he can't move at all.

He closed his eyes resignedly, waiting for the cold darkness to surround him.

If he died, would he be able to reunite with his mother?

Just at this moment, a neighbor who had just returned home from get off work noticed what was happening here, rushed over and snatched the kitchen knife from Father Lu.

The neighbor is a trainer in the gym, and his skills are exceptionally strong.

He subdued Lu's father in two or three strokes, pressed him to the ground, and sat on it.

He looked at Lu Xiumu who was lying on the ground with a terrified face, and asked worriedly, "Little friend, are you not injured?"

But Lu Xiumu just looked at him with dull eyes, his lips trembled, and he couldn't say anything.

Just now... the father who had been with him for more than ten years... wanted to kill him?

Lu Xiumu felt that something must have gone wrong to make this happen.

Let's hope it's just a nightmare.

Neighbors yelled for help from others.

Others who lived in the building opened their doors and were stunned by the sight.

But they quickly found a rope, tied Lu's father, and called the police.They also comforted the frightened Lu Xiumu, and rushed to invite him to the house to drink some water first, so as to ease his emotions.

For the next few days, Lu Xiumu spent in a daze.

As long as he can remember, he has been running back and forth in various places.

The Public Security Bureau... being interviewed by reporters... facing the sympathy of various people for him... and then the funeral of his mother.

He felt tired after dealing with various occasions.

But he didn't cry.

He has no more tears to shed.

This accident is like a joke that fate made on him.

He still can't believe how fate can be so cruel to him.

Later, he changed schools, left the city, and joined Qiao's family.

Qiao Lianjian's parents were close friends with Lu's mother during his lifetime, and they were very close when they were young.

Lu Xiumu remembered that it was raining continuously on the day of his mother's funeral. He gave up wandering among all kinds of people, but stood quietly and looked at the monotonous black and white portrait of his mother.

The mother was smiling, smiling at him.

The surrounding voices were very noisy, and a strange emotion surged in his heart.

People looked at him with sympathy and a little regret.

He clearly heard what people said about him: "What a poor boy, all his happy life was ruined overnight. His mother was hacked to death by his father, and now his father is in prison, and his mother's so-called college classmate It also disappeared, and even the mother's innocence can't be proved."

Lu Xiumu covered his ears.

I don't need your sympathy!

He growled inwardly.

Just as he raised his legs and was about to leave, a tall woman dressed in black broke into his eyes.

With tears in her eyes, the woman approached him slowly.To be honest, the moment the woman approached him, he felt a little scared.

The woman just hugged him tenderly into her arms.

She smelled so good that Lu Xiumu gave up struggling at that moment.

The woman rubbed his face with her fingertips distressedly: "Xiao Mu, I am Aunt Chen, your Uncle Qiao's wife. Do you remember me? You came to our house to play when you were young."

Lu Xiumu looked up at this haggard woman carefully, feeling that his breathing had been disrupted.

The woman put her chin on his shoulder carefully, and whispered in his ear: "Xiao Mu, it's okay. You will live with us in the future, and we have an older brother who is not a few years older than you. You can definitely follow him." He gets along well."

The woman let go of him, looked straight into his eyes, and said firmly, "We will definitely protect you, and you will not be hurt again."

Lu Xiumu was stunned for a moment, then felt a warmth on his face.

Is it tears?

He no longer has the energy to distinguish.

After Yu Zixuan finished speaking, both of them fell into a long silence.

After a long while, Qi Lin felt that he had lost his voice.

He felt a little unacceptable for a while.

So for a long time, did Lu Xiumu carry such a heavy memory alone to the present?

Qi Lin felt his heart throbbing in pain.

He remembered that this murder case had been a sensation.It was the headline in the newspapers for several days.

He had also heard about Qi Lin, but he never related it to Lu Xiumu.

Yu Zixuan thought for a while, and then continued: "That's why Xiao Mu became like this. He always thought that he survived by luck, so he was hurting himself in the way his father hurt his mother. He felt that In this way, he can atone for his sins, and he feels that this can relieve his sense of guilt. Although...he obviously did nothing wrong..."

Yu Zixuan raised his face and wiped away his tears quietly: "When Xiao Mu is upset, he really can't help it, and he will wander around. But he is a person who gets lost very easily." Speaking of this, Yu Zixuan Xuan smiled: "But I want to thank him for being easy to get lost. Because he got lost, he walked into that alley and got lost to me."

She went on to recall: "When I first met Xiao Mu, he liked to go to a nearby park. There were people flying kites in the park, and he liked the carp kite the most. He went to see it every day and saw the kite flying freely in the sky. Soaring. But one day, the kite fell and plunged into the ground without hesitation. I saw him stand up immediately, with an eager look on his face, as if he wanted to pick it up. But a group of children running in the park Stepped on it and trampled the kite into the soil. When Xiao Mu rushed over, the kite was already in tatters. Since then, I have never seen him go to that park. But he will often ask me "Axuan, am I just like that kite, which is actually gradually rotting away?" Although his tone was brisk, as if he was joking, I have never seen such a sad expression on his face."

Just as Yu Zixuan finished his last sentence, the taxi stopped steadily at the door of the hospital.

Qi Lin looked at the night outside the car window, lost in thought for a long time.