Did Yan Heqing hide back then?
I want to hear it, but I'm afraid to.
A thought swirled in Lin Fengzhi's mind, and he was almost certain: if... Yan Heqing had gone into hiding, the reason wouldn't be that he disliked Mother Lin, but rather...
For him.
Yan Heqing loved him.
He knew.
Lin Fengzhi his hand, fearfully wanting to cover his ears.
Just then, he heard Yan Heqing's clear voice, "I can't remember."
Lin Fengzhi's hand slowly descended, pressing firmly against his rapidly beating chest.
He closed his eyes.
But blurry fragments still flashed through my mind.
There are two children.
One child was crying, "Brother, I'm so scared... I want to go home. When can we go home?"
Another child warmly embraced the crying child, saying, "Don't be afraid, your brother will always protect you."
The child was still crying, clinging tightly to his brother's clothes. "A brother told me that the family that adopted him was very mean and would beat him, so he ran away and came back. Waaah, brother, I'm afraid of getting hurt..."
"No." His brother wiped away his tears and snot. " Xiao Song will meet someone who will love you very much, definitely."
Xiao Song...
Yan Mingsong?
Lin Fengzhi as if his heart was being squeezed tightly by a hand, throbbing with pain.
Tears welled up and streamed down my face.
He doesn't want it!
He hates this feeling!
It's as if Yan Heqing gave him the chance to be adopted by his parents.
They clearly like him the most!
On the other end, Mother Lin sighed, "Yes, you were all so young then. Xiao Zhi waited for you until dark, but you never came. He cried so much that he fainted on the way home and had a fever for two days and two nights. I was so scared I almost had a heart attack."
Even now, recalling it, Mother Lin still feels lingering fear.
The little boy was burning up with fever, and it broke her heart to see him like that. She didn't dare leave his side for a moment and stayed by his side for two days and two nights without taking off her clothes. When Lin Fengzhi's fever subsided, she herself fell ill.
"I saw too many pitiful children at the orphanage. Xiao Zhi fell seriously ill on his first day back home. I vowed that since he lost his parents, I, his new mother, would love him countless times more."
After compacting the soil, Mother Lin patted the mud off her palms and then remembered something ridiculous.
"Because of this, the second son even threw a tantrum, crying and accusing me of only loving Xiao Zhi and not caring about him. He threatened to run away from home, staying in a hotel and refusing to come back, saying he wouldn't care if he died out there."
"Later, Xiao Zhi would run to his school after school, but he ignored her for about a month. Then one day Xiao Zhi was bullied, and he rushed over to fight them, carrying Xiao Zhi home with his face covered in blood. From then on, he treated Xiao Zhi better than anyone else."
This was the first time Lin Fengzhi had heard of this matter.
He doesn't remember anymore.
He couldn't stop a thought from popping into his head.
If Yan Heqing had been adopted by his parents, would Lin Fengyi have treated him well from the beginning?
No way.
Lin Fengyi was so good to him, how could he be good to someone else...?
Lin Fengzhi covered his ears tightly, but he could still hear Yan Heqing's voice, "Meeting you all is Fengzhi's good fortune."
shut up!
Stop talking!
He didn't want to hear it anymore!
Lin Fengzhi bit his lips. After a moment, he reached his limit, wiped his eyes haphazardly, and ran away.
Hearing a faint noise, Mother Lin looked towards the base of the wall, but saw nothing.
After transplanting the seedlings, her hands were dirty, so she got up and said, "Let's go back inside and wash them; the water outside is freezing."
Yan Heqing didn't miss Lin Fengzhi's running figure out of the corner of his eye, and he brushed the dirt off his fingertips.
*
After washing his hands and returning to the living room, Lin Fengxian and his Father Lin were indeed still studying the chessboard.
Mother Lin laughed and said, "I wasn't wrong, was I? Playing chess with those two is so frustrating!"
Yan Heqing smiled, "It's alright, I've already tried waiting two days."
Mother Lin exclaimed in surprise, "So long..."
"Mom." Someone suddenly called her.
Mother Lin stopped and looked towards the stairwell, where Lin Fengyi had just come downstairs. Mother Lin asked, "Are you going out?"
Lin Fengyi glanced quickly at Yan Heqing before casually going downstairs, saying, "Nothing."
He had changed into a suit and styled his hair. Mother Lin was puzzled; why was he dressing up if he wasn't going out? She didn't ask further, saying, "You're only getting up now? It's almost lunchtime. Have some snacks to tide you over if you're hungry..."
In the kitchen, the chef who came to prepare the family feast was already busy.
Lin Fengyi walked into the living room. There were nuts and biscuits on the coffee table. Lin Fengyi casually picked up a bag of biscuits, opened it, and took a bite. His gaze kept drifting towards Yan Heqing.
From the moment he entered, Yan Heqing never looked at him.
Focus intently on the chessboard.
Just a moment ago, he was clearly talking to his mother.
Lin Fengyi was extremely annoyed, grinding the crumbs of biscuit heavily in his mouth with his teeth.
After a while, Lin Fengxian finally had an idea, and the chess piece he was holding in his palm finally landed on the chessboard.
He looked up at Yan Heqing, but before he could feel any joy, Yan Heqing seemed to have anticipated his move and placed his piece with a crisp sound.
"Excellent!" Father Lin clapped his hands repeatedly. " Xiao Yan, your move was brilliant. Lin Fengxian is out of luck."
Lin Fengxian stared intently at the chessboard. After a few minutes, he adjusted his glasses, smiled, and shook his head. "I lost." He picked up the chess pieces. "Let's play another game!"
Lin Fengyi didn't understand Go. His gaze fell on Yan Heqing's face as he lazily chewed on a biscuit, "Is he really that good...?"
Father Lin glanced at him sideways, "You didn't learn when I taught you before, you only cared about playing games, and now you can't even understand a game of chess. What do you know? Xiao Yan is already a master among the common people."
Lin Fengyi then thought of the time at the bar.
He actually lost to Yan Heqing when he rolled the dice. Even though he won the second time, he always felt that Yan Heqing had let him win on purpose.
He was extremely annoyed by the way Yan Heqing seemed to be controlling everything.
Having watched Yan Heqing and Lin Fengxian play their second game of chess until it ended, Mother Lin suddenly exclaimed, "Huh? Fengzhi still hasn't gotten up?"