Case File Compendium

Chapter 198 But Invites You to Meet Again

Xie Qingcheng returned to Moyu Lane, sat down and was lost in thought for a long time.

He didn't want to think about what Xie Lishen said to himself just now. Those words kept hurting him, disgusting him, and making him feel extremely uncomfortable.

Rationally speaking, being able to fall in love with others is a good thing for He Yu to be thankful for... As for what it feels like and how uncomfortable it is, it seems that it is no longer so important to Xie Qingcheng.

However, that person should never be Xie Lishen.

Xie Qingcheng knew exactly what kind of person Xie Lishen was.

He glanced at the wall, looking at the almost unrecognizable traces of photo frames on the wall - more than 20 years ago, there were many photos hanging in these places, and a large part of them had Xie Lishen's figure.

Xie Qingcheng lit a cigarette, took a sip, coughed lightly, and followed the scattered green smoke, his eyes blurred, and his thoughts went back to many years ago.

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Xie Qingcheng's grandfather used to be a small comprador, in today's words, that is, a translator.

In those poor years, compradors were mostly employed by foreign companies, so their lives would be better than those of ordinary bosses.He met a bourgeois lady at work, and the two fell in love and got married.But it is conceivable how a comprador and a capitalist roader will be treated in the later pulling of the white flag and ten years of turmoil.

In the 70s, Xie's grandmother could not bear the humiliation and committed suicide by hanging, while her grandfather never married again.After rehabilitating and taking off his hat, the man took the two children left by his wife, endured a lot of hardships, tried to do many things, and slowly brought the family back to life.

Of the two children he brought with him, one was Xie Qingcheng's father, Xie Ping, and the other was Xie Ping's brother, Xie Qingcheng's uncle.

The two sons have grown up, and when this land is changing with each passing day, Xie Ping wants to be a policeman. Although the political trial has encountered ups and downs, he finally passed it.

And his brother, Xie Qingcheng's uncle, followed the old man to Yishi to do business, exchanging chicken feathers for sugar, and the business became bigger and bigger. The former "stinky old nine" gradually became what everyone said. "Thank you boss."

The family is thriving, and grandma's old face has been lovingly placed in the hall by grandpa. The gentle and elegant lady has never turned gray, and her peach blossom eyes are full of smiles, watching their days go smoothly and smoothly.Uncle Xie got married, and Xie Ping also got married... His children and grandchildren were around his knees, and the pain of that year has turned into pale scabs.

Until, a woman appeared.

That woman is brother Xie Ping's mistress.

As for Uncle Xie, he is completely different from Xie Ping. Xie Ping is a policeman, and his thinking is very correct. After marrying Zhou Muying, the couple loves each other, and the women on the side of the road don't even bother to look at him.Uncle Xie is a businessman, he has been exposed to too many temptations and few restraints. Slowly, Uncle Xie began to fail the test.

He and the mistress secretly got together for more than half a year, and then the mistress left suddenly, and he didn't care, anyway, it's business, fun, what kind of sincerity can there be?

But what he didn't expect was that another year later, at the old man's birthday banquet and family reunion, the mistress suddenly came to the door and asked him to ask for a share of the money. She was holding a child in her arms. .

This child is Xie Lishen.

Uncle Xie's wife has a very strong temperament, even impulsive, she is a woman who loves and hates like a fire, how can she endure such insults and betrayals at the family banquet?The woman was so angry that she beheaded her mistress to death a few days later, and then surrendered herself. For a man who failed her, she completely ruined her life.

This incident dealt a huge blow to Grandpa Xie's family. The old man's health was not very good at that time, and after being stimulated, he couldn't hold it anymore.Before he died, this stubborn and upright old man made a will, and all his properties were inherited by his second son, Xie Ping, without giving half of his property to his eldest son.

After the old man passed away, Uncle Xie changed completely.

His father was angry at him for being ruthless and unrighteous, and betrayed his wife, and the son was angry at his father for severing kindness and turning his elbows outward.Uncle Xie drank heavily, gambled, went to find trouble with his brother Xie Ping every now and then, and beat and scolded Xie Lishen when he returned to the rented room, calling him a "disastrous star".

Xie Ping couldn't stand it anymore, and wanted to have a good talk with his elder brother several times, but he spit on his face——

"Talk? What are you talking about? Your wife and children are hot on the kang, occupying the house and money given to you by the dead old man, living a comfortable and comfortable life, what about me? If you really treat me like a brother, you will give me half of your property! Divide the money Half of me!"

Xie Ping hated that iron could not be made into steel: "I will give it to you, and you can use it to gamble or whoring later, and I have to arrest you. If you don't change your behavior, let alone 100 million, it won't take you half a year to give 1000 million. "

"Fart you! If you don't want to give it to you, just say it! There are so many high-sounding reasons for wearing a uniform, Xie, you still want to catch me? You can see clearly with your dog eyes! I am your own brother! I helped you when you were young. How many beatings did you take? You caught me?! Thank you for being able to speak!"

He didn't count on scolding himself, but he still pulled Xie Lishen over, pointed to Xie Ping and showed Xie Lishen: "See? Ah? This is your uncle! Half of their family's good life should be ours! It's all your fault! You and your mother that bastard! I have nothing! I have nothing!!"

As he spoke, he slapped Xie Lishen's face hard. The child's face was quickly swollen, and tears kept falling...

Xie Ping hurried forward to stop him: "What are you doing? It's our grown-ups' business, why are you beating a child?"

"What's the matter? Take care of your family, Xie Qingcheng! It's your turn to tell me what to do with me? People's public servants are really lenient, Pacific police! Don't talk too much and I'll tell you, if you talk too much, I'll beat him to death!"

Xie Ping had no choice but to leave.

Before he left, he looked back at Xie Lishen, such a small child, his eyes were full of hatred, but he didn't know who the hatred was for...

Perhaps it was in response to the old saying that people are watching the sky. Not long after, Uncle Xie had an accident on the way home because of drinking and gambling. He was drunk and fell into the river. It was late at night and no one saw him. It wasn't until the next day that he was hit by a yellow sand boat on the river - at that time, Uncle Xie was already swollen and lifeless.

After a series of procedures, Xie Ping brought back the only son left behind by his elder brother.

"Lishen, you will treat this place as your own home in the future. We will take good care of you. Okay?"

Xie Lishen was still very young at that time, but his eyes had a maturity that normal children would never have.

He politely said to Xie Ping and Zhou Muying: "Thank you Uncle, thank you Aunt."

Then he turned his head and looked at Xie Qingcheng.

He stared at Xie Qingcheng longer than anyone else.

"...Thank you cousin."

Xie Qingcheng has been a straight man since he was a child, and he doesn't have such a keen intuition. He didn't notice Xie Lishen's eyes at all, and nodded to Xie Lishen casually: "Don't be afraid, you can find me if you need anything, we are a family .”

"..." Xie Li smiled deeply, "Okay."

In fact, looking back, Xie Lishen's hostility towards Xie Qingcheng existed from the very beginning.

Afterwards, when they got along under the same roof, the feeling of hatred increased instead of diminished, and part of the reason was that Xie Qingcheng was too dull.

For example, Xie Qingcheng never cared about the issue of parentage. In his view, a person is an individual and has nothing to do with his parents and family.

So he doesn't shy away from Xie Lishen very much. When watching TV, he saw the scene of the illegitimate child of the third party, and he didn't change the channel in a rough way, so he didn't realize what the problem was at all.

He can be so calm because he thinks that Xie Lishen is not such a person. He has not established any connection between the two, but Xie Lishen doesn't think so. mocking him on purpose.

Because Xie Lishen himself has put on a pair of colored glasses called imaginary enemies, whatever Xie Qingcheng does is wrong and has ulterior motives, either to harm him or to ridicule him.Even if Xie Qingcheng glanced at him casually, Xie Lishen would be so sensitive that he wanted to dig out some deep meaning from this glance.

He hates Xie Qingcheng, and likes to deduce the meaning he wants from every word and every action of the other party. If there is no meaning, he will fabricate a meaning. Anyway, Xie Qingcheng will not argue with him.

The sad thing about people not being able to understand each other is that most of the time people don't have the ability or opportunity, but because they simply don't have the will in their hearts.

As a result, Xie Lishen's grievances towards Xie Qingcheng became deeper and deeper... and most of it came from his own imagination. He believed that Xie Qingcheng took away his things and disgusted him. The more he thought about it, the better he felt. hatred.

The most typical example is that once, there was a Chinese New Year stage performance in the community.

For that stage performance, the organizers originally took a fancy to Xie Lishen who was reading in the garden at that time, and thought that the little boy was born beautiful and suitable to play the prince in the story.

Who doesn't like to play the prince?Xie Lishen was very happy at that time, his pride was on his face, and Xie Ping and his wife were also happy for him. After all, there were too few things worth being excited about this child in the past. This was the first time they saw him jumping like a child. A real kid for his age.

Xie Qingcheng is also happy for him, thinking that he is indeed suitable for this role.

On the day of the performance, Xie Lishen tried his best to perfectly interpret His Royal Highness as an elegant gentleman on the stage, which won the applause of the audience.

He thought he could win the best performance award that time... There were too many contestants in the back to watch. Most of the children were looking for something exciting, and they didn't prepare too seriously, so they forgot their words, and they were out of tune. Xie Lishen was very excited and was waiting to go on stage to receive the award.

But at the end of the show, Xie Qing submitted it.

Of course, he didn't perform any stage play like his cousin. He sat by a piano, his eyelashes drooping, and played a theme song of Paradise Cinema in the quiet light.The light falling on the keys was lightly shattered by him, and each note was scattered like ripples in the summer night wind.

After the song ended, Xie Lishen heard someone whispering: "Wow, it's so beautiful..."

"He is the prince in my heart..."

Xie Lishen's face turned blue all of a sudden.

He didn't know that the reason why Xie Qingcheng played a piano piece at the end was because the person who hosted the show was a classmate with a good relationship with him and needed his support-he couldn't listen to anything, he only knew his Xie Qingcheng stole all the limelight!

He was so angry that his eyes were red. When he came home that day, he suddenly asked Xie Qingcheng in a sharp voice: "Why do you want to perform? Why do you want to do the same thing as me?! Are you Deliberately satirizing me?! Are you deliberately trying to compare with me?! Taking away my things!!!”

"..." Xie Qingcheng was stunned for a moment, "...it was my classmate looking for me...what's the matter with you?"

What's wrong.

He had the nerve to ask what was wrong!

If it weren't for his elegant demeanor, dressing up like a little prince, and pretending to play the piano, would he be praised as "Your Highness"?He did it on purpose!He deliberately pretended to be ignorant!He is disgustingly hypocritical!

Xie Li gritted his teeth deeply and said nothing, but the appearance of Xie Qing playing the piano became his nightmare for countless nights afterwards.Later, when Xie's family was lonely and moved out of the original high-end residential area, he had to sell the family's piano to collect money to perform surgery on the sick Zhou Muying, Xie Lishen felt bursts of ecstasy in his heart.

He looked at Xie Qingcheng's hands that used to dance on the keys, moving rough wooden boards and cardboards, helping his parents organize things, cleaning the table and washing dishes... The bad breath that had accumulated in his heart for many years finally came out. out.

That's right... Xie Qingcheng's family took away his normal life.

They took the money that belonged to his father, and they ended up appearing in front of him as rescuers!

Xie Qingcheng robbed him of his wealth and replaced him in the limelight... Now that Feng Shui has changed, the family has also gone downhill. Xie Qingcheng can no longer take such expensive piano lessons, and can no longer show off his aristocratic temperament. Xie Lishen thought happily—cousin, you took everything from me, and now, you are the same as me.

same poor.

same hardship.

You are not a noble son, not His Royal Highness, you are just a poor kid in a broken alley.Your parents made a mistake and were both demoted... It's humiliating, right?Your parents have also fallen from the altar, you should feel ashamed like me!

You should bow your head.

But Xie Lishen never expected that Xie Qingcheng's mentality hadn't changed at all.

Xie Qingcheng has even become more sensible and responsible than before, and he has grown up, reached puberty, his figure began to twitch, he became more and more handsome, and even a group of chattering and flushed people would follow behind him after school Girls, the girls have been following him home, and then when he looked up, they broke up laughing and laughing.

The neighbors began to call him "handsome guy", and Xie Lishen was also handsome, but as long as Xie Qingcheng was there, "handsome guy" would always be Xie Qingcheng's title and had nothing to do with him.

Xie Li hated him deeply. He looked at Xie Qingcheng's figure with hatred, at the gradually widening shoulders, the smooth back, and the tight legs. Peach Blossom Eyes in April.

His heart trembled with hatred, he seemed to be very afraid of every inch of Xie Qingcheng's light and growth, Xie Qingcheng's every move, in Xie Lishen's view, was the original sin.

Even when Xie Qingcheng was in the most difficult time at home, he left as much delicious food as possible to his younger siblings. From Xie Lishen's point of view, he was just acting and "giving alms" in disguise.

Did he think he was really a prince?

No... no no!He was nothing but a thief who robbed his life!They are all thieves!

After entering junior high school, Xie Lishen finally didn't want to pretend anymore.

He began to put his rebelliousness on the bright side. He often didn't go home and fooled around outside, causing countless troubles for Xie Ping and his wife. He is delicate, so they dare not say too serious words with him, so they can only educate him earnestly.

Xie Lishen didn't listen.

This painless situation lasted for more than half a semester, until one time, the school leaders publicly punished Xie Lishen because Xie Lishen was caught in a puppy love.

The object was a boy from the vocational high school next door.

It's still a male student! !

Xie Qingcheng and Xie Lishen are from the same junior high school. Xie Qingcheng was stunned when he heard the incident in the audience, his eyes opened wide.No one knew the name of the boy reported by the headmaster. He was the worst male student in that vocational school.

Xie Qing was mad with anger. After the morning meeting, he found Xie Lishen and asked him what was going on. Xie Lishen rolled his eyes: "I want you to deal with men?"

Xie Qingcheng slapped him across the face...

The two cousins ​​had a big fight, and Xie Lishen vomited out all the grievances accumulated in his heart over the years, scolded Xie Qingcheng and Xie Ping and his wife, and then left Xie's house that night to live with his "boyfriend" home.

This is a fire lock, hidden behind it is actually Xie Lishen, who has been doomed to conflict between the two of them since he was born.Since then, the relationship between Xie Lishen and their family has faded.

Later, when Xie Ping and his wife passed away, Xie Lishen didn't even attend the funeral, and even ran back to Xie's house when Xie Qing was in a state of desperation, and stole the 3 yuan emergency fund that Xie Ping hid in the chest of drawers. He smashed a jade pendant in the drawer, that jade pendant was Zhou Muying's favorite wishful pendant when he was alive...it hit the ground and broke in two.

Xie Qing reported the case, but he did not expect that the "prisoner" he saw at the police station would be Xie Lishen with an indifferent face.

Xie Qingcheng said: "...do you know what you are doing!"

Xie Lishen said: "Of course I know that these should have belonged to my dad. It was your dad who took away the money that belonged to my dad, and you took away my life."

Xie Qingcheng was physically and mentally exhausted at the time, and he hardly had the energy to quarrel with Xie Lishen again.

The last thing he asked Xie Lishen was: "Xie Lishen, you are such a fucking beast... How have we treated you badly these years?"

After a few seconds of silence, Xie Lishen replied: "You took away what should belong to me, and then turned around and gave it to me. What do you want to tell me about treating me badly?"

"It was your mother who did it wrong—"

"My mother was just pursuing her own happiness."

"...you shouldn't have that kind of thinking, you shouldn't be like her."

Xie Li stared deeply at Xie Qingcheng, peach blossom eyes to peach blossom eyes.

Xie Lishen said: "Xie Qingcheng, I will choose my own path. Even if I am a real villain, I will not be a hypocrite like you. Just wait for me, no matter it takes ten years, 20 years... always One day, I will turn everything you have into mine. Xie Ping will take away the unreturnable things from my parents. In the future, I will come to fetch them myself! I will let you taste that everything has been taken away from you The taste of it. I will have the final say on whether to have mercy on you or not."

"..."

"Cousin, let's wait and see."

Before I knew it, several cigarettes were exhausted.

Xie Qingcheng thought about all kinds of things that year, raised his hands to support his temples, took a deep breath, only felt that his head hurt like it was about to burst.

He got up and was about to take a medicine and go to bed, but at this moment, the phone rang suddenly.

The call came from a completely unfamiliar number.

Xie Qingcheng connected: "Hello."

A familiar deep and slow voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Mr. Xie."

The pain on Xie Qingcheng's forehead became more obvious, with a slight dizziness, which made him short of breath, because He Yu's voice was on the other end of the phone.

"... What's the matter with you?"

"It's nothing, I just thought about it. I offended you a little in the coffee shop today. Although I just don't want you to do anything to my people, but..." He Yu smiled deeply, "I think of your arm , seems to have been injured before....I was injured in order to save me."

"..."

"Give me a chance to apologize." He Yu said, "Shall we have dinner together next weekend?"

Xie Qingcheng endured the headache: "No need."

"In my impression, you are not such a narrow-minded person." He Yu smiled, "Don't you even give me a chance to reconcile?"

Before Xie Qingcheng answered, he said again: "You don't have to answer me right away, there are still a few days before the weekend, you can think about it carefully. Maybe in the process, I would like to reveal to you some of these two things. What about the secret that happened within three years?"

Xie Qingcheng: "..."

"Then let's do this first." He Yu laughed, "I'll send you the address, whether you come or not, I will wait for you at that place on weekends."

His voice was very pleasant, and as he grew older, he gradually took on a bewitching aura.

"I hope we can, see you soon."