Listening to the child's words, I leaned into Liu Kunsheng's embrace, even though his embrace was also ice cold, but the cold atmosphere in the air made me afraid.
"Why are you looking for me?" Liu Kunsheng looked at the child, his eyes revealing a smile, an extremely understanding smile.
"My name is Hu Guyue." The child's eyes were no longer empty. He looked at Liu Kunsheng with a fiery gaze: "I want to go with you."
"You? Go with my mother? " He was only eight or nine years old.
After killing his own mother, he was calm as if nothing had happened and told Liu Kunsheng that he wanted to follow him.
I held onto Liu Kunsheng's hand tightly and looked at him, quietly shaking my head.
Even if he didn't kill his mother, how could I explain why I suddenly brought back such a big child? In this age of technology, if I wanted to find him, I would definitely be able to do so.
"Sure." But Liu Kunsheng suddenly responded, he looked at the child and said: "Then you have to tell me, why did you kill your mother."
"Alright!" Hu Guyue nodded towards Liu Kunsheng, then led us to the inn.
Once inside, I didn't expect that there would be someone staying in the inn. A cashier aunty ignored Hu Guyue when she saw him and asked him if he wanted to stay in the inn.
"My relatives." Hu Guyue glared at the aunt and brought us directly upstairs.
His room was tidy, not like a child's room.
He opened the cabinet and took out some clothes. Then he removed the bottom shelf and put a large stack of money into his bag.
He was as calm as if he were not a child, calmer than I was.
"My mom divorced my dad not because my dad gambled, but because my mom likes to hook up with the guys who live in the store." Hu Guyue's voice was as calm as his expression.
Putting the money away properly, he took a glance at the house next door: "People are like this, they can easily be brought in by the environment. They pull pimps all day and take these things lightly. As long as they have money, nothing else matters."
"After her divorce from my dad, she couldn't start a business by herself, so she had to drag a few guests to sleep with her. She was in a bad mood so she started scolding me. My dad wanted to bring me over, but she even scolded my dad for being useless. Fighting with my dad had broken my dad's head. She thought I was young and stupid, but I remember everything. " Hu Guyue spoke as if he was telling the story of someone else.
After packing his things, he turned around to look at Liu Kunsheng and said: "Last night, I smelt the smell of blood coming from next door. She beat me up until I was tired, then let me take off my clothes and kneel in the washroom.
He spoke as if he had just killed a chicken. He spoke calmly and indifferently, while I trembled all over.
"Where's the body?" Liu Kunsheng looked around the room, stuck out his tongue, and then retracted it in vain.
Hu Guyue smiled at him mysteriously: "None of you can find her, no one knows how she died. If I didn't say that no one would know that she died, they would only think that she went missing."
Such a strange expression revealed itself on the face of a originally cute child. I was so scared that my hair stood on end, as I tightly held onto Liu Kunsheng's hand.
"I'm done." Hu Guyue carried his backpack as he stared at Liu Kunsheng with his glowing eyes and said: "You want to take me with you."
"Your mom has gone missing. Aren't you having a good life in the future?" Liu Kunsheng patted his head.
I looked at him, my heart throbbing with fear.
"And then? Who am I to? I was born different. " Hu Guyue stared at Liu Kunsheng, then looked back at me and said, "For example, I can see that this auntie has a little snake on her body, with white and long horns."
Hearing his words, I was shocked and immediately went to cover it up, but Little White wasn't so obedient. After being forced to stay with the Fourth Young Master by Liu Kunsheng these past few days, it had already been holding back its anger. When it heard someone talk about it, it hissed like a snake and scurried out of my neck.
With its black tongue out, it looked at Hu Guyue with extreme pride, as if it was very happy that he was able to see through its existence.
I covered the little snake with my hands and looked at Hu Guyue. "You are still an underage, you still have a long way to go. Your mother —"
Speaking to that, I felt that I couldn't even speak anymore, I just glared at Liu Kunsheng and replied, then continued to speak towards Hu Guyue: "Since she is no longer here, and no one can find her corpse or how she died, this shop is yours, in the future you will be –"
"My uncle will come to receive it. I want to see how they are going to live." Hu Guyue abruptly cut me off and took over: "Since my own mother is already like that to me, who else do you think I can trust?"
"But this is the first time we've met, aren't you afraid that I'll beat you up?" I was really worried. The matter with Yuan Dao's Wu Clan had already troubled me enough.
On the other hand, he had killed her daughter so that he could marry her and take away her family property.
Hu Guyue ignored me, and stared straight at Liu Kunsheng: "I promised you, I did it, you take care of your woman yourself."
He then confidently carried his school bag and left without even giving me a glance.
I glared at Liu Kunsheng a little anxiously. From the moment he saw this child, his eyes had always been smiling, and he reached out to hug me tightly: "They already said you're my woman, give me some face."
"He —" I sighed, unable to finish my sentence.
I can't tell him that the kid is a murderer, we can't take him with us, but we heard about his mother beating him up last night.
"I will conceal his appearance well. Just say that he is the child of a friend." Liu Kunsheng slapped my face, coaxing me out as if I was a child.
Outside, Yuan Daowu's parents were still burning paper money. The two of them were not young anymore, and in a blink of an eye, their son's entire family was gone. The old lady's eyes were red and swollen from crying, but it seemed like she was already numb to it.
Still holding back, I pulled some paper from the old man and burned it to Yuan Lele, Yuan Daowu, and Luo Xuemei.
Even though she didn't die now, she was not far from death. Even if she didn't sentence him, she probably didn't want to live anymore. When she killed that man with her own hands, she didn't want to live anymore.
That man was really ruthless. He killed someone and hid their body inside the doll, then gave it to Luo Xuemei.
I can't imagine how Rosemei would have collapsed if she hadn't remembered the happy dolls and slept with the bear in her arms while holding the corpse of the happy bear.
Hu Guyue watched us from afar, and when he saw that I had finished burning my spirit, he walked towards the train station. He was already mature, and from time to time, he would turn his head and wave at us, signalling us to follow. After entering the train station, he watched from afar as I took my ticket, and also bought his own ticket, which was two stops away from me.
We weren't in the same carriage, so when we got in the carriage, Liu Kunsheng and I couldn't see him at all. But in the end, he was still a child, and I had vented my anger for a long time. In the end, I gave Liu Kunsheng a glare and walked towards the carriage Hu Guyue was in.
He bought late, it was a ticket, the little child was holding his bulging schoolbag, watching a child his own age jump in the middle of the seat across from him. His parents scolded and pulled him, but they did not seem to be afraid of him.
Looking at the longing that flashed past Hu Guyue's eyes, I hugged my bag tighter and tighter, and suddenly felt pain in my heart.
I am already unable to save Yuan Le Le, but even though Hu Guyue did something wrong, I hope that he can —
I don't know how to describe my feelings at that time. All of my vigilance and fear towards Hu Guyue turned into heartache when I saw his thirst for family and love.
"Come with me to sleep over there for a while." I smiled at the couple and caressed Hu Guyue's head. I hugged his head tightly and pulled him towards us.
When I pulled him to his feet, I realized that his neck was covered in sweat and his hands were shaking badly.
When I came to look for him, my mouth trembled a few times, but I couldn't speak.
"Let's go." I took out a tissue to wipe his sweat, then pulled out the backpack from his embrace and carried it on his back. Under Liu Kunsheng's meaningful gaze, I pushed his neck away and walked towards our carriage.
Hu Guyue had a very stiff neck. After walking past two carriages, he suddenly turned around and looked at me quietly: "I know you are a good person. I saw you helping Yuan Le the other day, so I killed my mother."