Chapter 154 Old things

They gave me to you, and they gave you to me too.

The sound of the wind has died down, and the rainstorm is pattering on the ground.

In the room, except for the old man’s old and forbearing chanting, nothing else can be heard.

For these truths, Mu Qinglin and Zhou Yi had waited too long, and knew it so suddenly, they were forced to remain silent.

The reason of the former is occupied by “the woman who doesn’t even have a name on the windward slope”, while the latter…

“Mother-in-law, I’m here. I also ate the food you cooked for me.” Zhou Yi said softly, the lights reflected in her black pupils were like light spots floating on the water, illusory, “My parents didn’t Go back on your word.”

“You! You are Xiaojiu?!” The old man’s expression changed from shock to surprise in a moment. With tears in her eyes, she held Zhou Yi’s hand tightly and said, “You really are a beautiful girl.”

“Where are your parents? Why didn’t they come?” the old man asked anxiously.

Zhou Yi’s lips trembled, his eyes drifted away, “They can’t come.”

The excitement in the eyes of the old man froze, as if she had sensed something, she didn’t have time to speak, the hand she was holding had already been withdrawn by Zhou Yi, she turned around and strode out.

It was pouring rain outside.

Zhou Yi stared blankly for two seconds, and before Mu Qinglin finally came back to his senses and was about to speak, he suddenly closed the door again, walked quickly back to the old man’s house, and said, “The woman you helped bury, what are the characteristics of her? ”

The old man sucked in a breath of cold air, with overwhelming fear on his face, “Where is he still a person.”

Zhou Yi understood in an instant, and she continued to ask: “Is the windward **** you chose for her far from here?”

The most popular interpretation of windward **** is the **** facing the windward direction, which is just a general term and does not refer to any particular place.

Zhou Yi wanted to know the exact location.

The old man said: “Not far, just outside the village. Those who were killed by poaching are all there.”

Zhou Yi looked up, as if seeing the tombstones standing in the wind and rain through the closed doors and windows and the dark night.

The corpses under the tombstone have already decomposed and rotted in the soil, leaving only a pile of white bones, but their souls will always stand against the wind, guarding the creatures here.

Zhou Yi withdrew his gaze and stared at Mu Qinglin with his dark eyes, but there was no trace of her in his pupils.

As soon as she opened her mouth, her voice was unbelievably calm, “Yanyan, my parents don’t seem to be bad people. I’ve been looking forward to it for so many years, and it’s finally been confirmed. I should be ecstatic, and I should just say it to everyone. Why am I shaking? ”

Zhou Yi gave a short laugh, lowered her head, and rubbed her cold hands together vigorously like masochistically, the fair skin on the back of her hands was tossed out of shape in the blink of an eye.

Mu Qing stood still for a second, suppressed the earth-shattering vibration in her chest, walked up to Zhou Yi, pulled her hand away, gently pulled her behind her, hugged her stiff body tightly into her arms, and said softly: “Xiao Jiu, be good, cry if you want to cry, my sister is here.”

The coolness on Zhou Yi’s body quietly dissipated in an instant. She looked at the overlapping shadows on the ground in a daze, and it took a long time until she seemed to recognize it. She tentatively grabbed the clothes on Mu Qinglin’s waist, and tightened them bit by bit. .

“sister-”

With a monophonic voice as light as a feather’s wing, big hot tears rolled down from Zhou Yi’s eyes, hit Mu Qinglin’s shoulders, and fell into her heart.

She was extremely thankful that she had never vented her anger on Zhou Yi from the beginning to the end. If it weren’t for this, she must have been overwhelmed by regret now, so who else can help her coax Zhou Yi?

Mu Qinglin hugged Zhou Yi tightly, and the rampant emotions in his body gradually gathered and exploded, turning into a bottomless fear.

It’s a good thing that Mu Zhenghuai and Shang Ning didn’t teach her to be a person who doesn’t know right from wrong. Fortunately, she was independent since she was a child, and she has the ability to digest emotions and deal with problems.

fine…

Mu Qinglin was suddenly pushed away by Zhou Yi. Unprepared, she staggered two steps back and slammed her body against the corner of the cabinet.

The severe pain caused Mu Qinglin to instantly lose his ability to speak.

Zhou Yi stood under the shadow of the shaking lights, his scarlet eyes were full of anger, “It’s Guo Hong and Du Wenfei! They lied to me!”

Zhou Yi clenched his fists with both hands, and said in a sinister voice, “I’m going to kill them!”

“Xiao Jiu!” Mu Qinglin ran away, and suddenly hugged Zhou Yi’s body from behind, “It’s not them! I’ve already confirmed that it wasn’t their hands and feet!”

The furious Zhou Yi couldn’t hear any sound, she stepped on Mu Qinglin’s feet with all her strength, while bumping her head back at the same time.

Mu Qinglin felt pain in both upper and lower places, and subconsciously let go.

Zhou Yi opened the door like crazy and ran out.

The old man shouted anxiously, “You can’t go out this day!”

Mu Qinglin has already followed.

Outside, the rain was too heavy to keep my eyes open.

Mu Qinglin stood on the side of the road where there was no light and shouted, “Xiao Jiu!”

The only response to her was the earth-shattering thunder.

Mu Qinglin’s body was icy cold for a moment, and he sternly said, “Zhou Yi! Come back to me!”

Suddenly the headlights came on.

Mu Qinglin turned around quickly, subconsciously turned her head away from the stabbed light, and blocked it with her hands.

With just one movement, she immediately turned back, staring straight at the driver’s seat as if she lost her mind.

Zhou Yi slammed on the gas pedal.

The old man was so frightened that he screamed, “Be careful!”

The car rushed towards Mu Qinglin like an arrow leaving the string.

Mu Qinglin just stood there, motionless.

Zhou Yi stared at her with empty eyes.

She looks familiar…

Zhou Yi yelled in horror, “Yanyan!”

Mu Qinglin stood in the rain with his back as straight as a pine.

Zhou Yi slammed to the right, the car almost brushed Mu Qinglin’s clothes and stopped five or six meters away from her.

There was a dead silence in the carriage.

Zhou Yi held the steering wheel with a pale face, gasping for breath.

She almost killed Mu Qinglin just now.

She almost knocked Yanyan to death!

This scene was replayed repeatedly in Zhou Yi’s chaotic mind.

Every repetition was like a sharp knife piercing into her heart.

She let go of the steering wheel like an electric shock and wanted to get out of the car.

As soon as he touched the ground, his legs became stiff and weak, and he fell down in embarrassment, but Mu Qinglin who had already walked over firmly caught him and hugged him into his arms.

The sudden warmth made Zhou Yi tremble all over. She froze for a moment, then lay on Mu Qinglin’s shoulder and cried bitterly, “Sister, I’m sorry, I can’t help it… It’s all my fault. I said I believed them, but I Nothing was done for them, it was my fault, it was all my fault…”

Mu Qing felt like a knife cut her heart, resisting the pain in her throat that was about to burst, stroking Zhou Yi’s back with one hand, and rubbing her head with the other, her voice was unprecedentedly gentle, “Xiao Jiu, it’s okay, no one will Blame you. We all love you so much, how can we blame you. ”

“sister-”

Zhou Yi hugged Mu Qinglin tightly, standing in the heavy rain facing the windward slope, howling like a seriously injured trapped animal.

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The two stood in the heavy rain for half an hour.

Tenzin had already come back while the rain had eased, and was talking softly with his mother in the room.

In the middle of the night, Mu Qing settled down with Zhou Yi, and came to find the old man to get the things left by Zhou Ming and Ruan Zhongyi.

Before leaving, the old man asked worriedly, “Is Xiao Jiu alright?”

Mu Qinglin said: “It’s okay. The woman you helped bury is my mother, and I’m Xiaojiu’s girlfriend. That girl is stupid. She helped her girlfriend find her mother. She was so happy that she couldn’t hold back.”

Mu Qinglin’s words contained too much information, and the old man couldn’t react for a while.

Mu Qinglin didn’t stay for long, and walked back quickly carrying two heavy bags.

Walking to the door, he stopped suddenly.

She wasn’t sure what was in it yet, but the truth was mostly stark.

Zhou Yi’s emotions have just calmed down, and if she shows it to her now, the psychological impact she will bear will double, but if she doesn’t watch it…she will also be tossing and turning tonight.

Mu Qinglin calmed down a bit, opened the door and walked in.

Zhou Yi huddled on the couch by the window, with her slender arms wrapped around her knees, bent over it, and looked at the dark rain outside the window.

Hearing the sound of the door, Zhou Yi’s body shook, and he turned around and said, “Have you got it back?”

“Hmm…” Mu Qinglin put the bag on the table, and said as softly as possible, “Do you want to see it now?”

Zhou Yi said, “Now…”

Mu Qinglin and Zhou Yi looked at each other for a moment, opened the bag in silence, and took out the camera, portable recorder and computer that had been dusty for ten years.

After so many years, the battery of the machine has long been exhausted.

Mu Qinglin only took out the memory card, exported all the photos and videos, and then turned on the computers of Zhou Ming and Ruan Zhongyi.

Five minutes later, the computer booted successfully.

Mu Qinglin walked over and pinched Zhou Yi’s bare back neck, sat on the side of the bed, and asked her, “Can I watch it with you?”

Zhou Yi looked at Mu Qinglin, stretched out his arms towards her for a while, was hugged by her and sat on her lap, laying on his shoulders for a while and said: “I must watch it with you.”

With this look, they have been seeing the dawn from the middle of the night.

The computers of Zhou Ming and Ruan Zhongyi recorded in detail the reasons why they left the newspaper office, and the jobs they did during the years when they left the newspaper office.

It is true that they left the newspaper because the work within the system was done step by step. Every day, they either expressed their thoughts on trivial matters and moaned about nothing, or bluntly praised the leaders and policies.

This kind of work can see the end at a glance, and after a long time, the xinxing will be completely smoothed out.

But when they chose the profession of journalists, they had the purest thought—respect for the truth and the public’s right to know the truth.

The news has lost all its sharpness and weight, so where does the truth come from?

After weighing it, they decided to leave the crowded cubicle of the newspaper office and do something worthwhile.

What they do is very dangerous – human trafficking, trafficking, organ trading, surrogacy, shady marriage… They are trying their best to expose those gray industries that cannot be completely cracked down by laws.

In essence, they are investigative reporters who have gone further than Mu Qinglin, and they are always in danger. That’s why I lied about going to Geographic Magazine. Firstly, I didn’t want Zhou Yi to worry. Second, the reporter of Geographical Magazine had to travel all over the world and couldn’t go home often.

If they don’t go home, they won’t cause trouble to Zhou Yi because of their status as an investigative reporter, and cause her to be retaliated against one day.

At the same time, they are also using their own power to dig out the moving stories buried deep in the depths – the guardians on the border, the educators deep in the mountains, the corpse collectors who lead the way for the dead… and the unfinished Southwest Wildlife Conservation Team .

Their photos and articles were published by newspapers, which once revived the newspapers that had lost their enthusiasm and were gradually being replaced by new media.

That’s why they left the newspaper, but didn’t really leave: For the survival of the newspaper, the old president needs those photos and articles with weight to stimulate the public’s attention.

Zhou Ming and Ruan Zhongyi were cultivated by the old president, and decided to continue to contribute articles to the newspaper as members, which is their principle of life;

The second is for the daughter’s life, only if the relationship with the newspaper is constant, they have a reason to put Zhou Yi’s household registration under the name of the old president and his wife, so that they can give her a peaceful and stable childhood, so as to make up for the fact that they left her for work fact.

In those years, they have been hiding in the dark, but their souls have always stood in the light.

Then, it stopped abruptly.

Cameras are a journalist’s life.

Mu Qinglin doesn’t know other people’s habits. With her, as long as conditions permit, she will export the original film from the camera once a day, and then delete the one in the camera. That way, even if the camera is lost, not too much important stuff will be revealed.

The habits of Zhou Ming and Ruan Zhongyi seem to be the same as hers.

The content she exported from the memory card was only for one day – the day Shang Ning died.

Not long after Zhou Ming and Ruan Zhongyi came to the Southwest, they heard Shang Ning’s story in the volunteer patrol team. They couldn’t wait to interview the woman who was the first to engage in wild conservation, but she firmly refused.

Shang Ning said: “You can interview anyone here, except me. I am responsible for collecting anti-poaching intelligence, and I can only live behind others. Any step forward may kill me.”

Ruan Zhongyi asked: “You know the danger, but you still insist on doing it?”

Shang Ning smiled and said, “Someone has to do it. Aren’t you here too?”

Zhou Ming and Ruan Zhongyi were moved, and it was even more impossible to give up this story. Not only do they do it, they do it as a headline.

So, like what Guo Hong wrote in the materials obtained from the newspaper, they began to find ways to persist in collecting materials in their own way.

But their persistence was not at the cost of Shang Ning’s life, insisting on photographing her, but relying on a pair of legs, they traveled all over the southwest, collecting hundreds of touching stories related to wild conservation.

It was unexpected and reasonable to encounter Shang Ning being killed.

Before leaving the Southwest, Zhou Ming and Ruan Zhongyi wanted to go to the hinterland—the place where sheep flocks gather—to take a group of photos as part of the project.

It was also that day that Minh, who already knew Shang Ning’s true identity, used a fake poaching plan to lure her back to the southwestern hinterland.

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Jungle in heavy rain.

Zhou Ming and Ruan Zhongyi were hiding in another direction not far from Mu Qinglin. Behind the camera, the always gentle Ruan Zhongyi calmly took pictures of every frame of the crime.

By the time the filming was over, they could have gotten out unscathed.

Ruan Zhongyi looked at Zhou Ming, who was also reluctant to leave, and said: “People from the patrol team said that Shang Ning also has a daughter. Like Xiao Jiu, she was kept at home since she was a child, and she couldn’t see or touch her. We There is no way to rush out to protect this child’s mother, at least we should do everything we can to make her life easier for the rest of her life.

The death of a mother without a whole body is too cruel for a child. She is eight years older than our little nine, and she is still a little girl who has just stepped into society, and she will have a long life in the future. ”

Zhou Ming held Ruan Zhongyi’s hand tightly, and his eyes were full of heat that could not be quenched by the cold winter rain, “Ruan Ruan, his parents died early, and Zhou Ming, who has no relatives and no reason, must be lucky in his life to meet you who share the same goals.”

Although Zhou Ming didn’t say it clearly, the meaning couldn’t be more direct.

The two immediately packed up their bags and followed Minh’s people. On the way, taking advantage of their unprepared drinking and celebrating, they snatched back more than half of Shang Ning’s bones, and ran forward with all their might, but in the end they could only win a little of Shang Ning’s body. No matter how long the bones and evidence are properly preserved, those who can preserve themselves and not implicate Dai Yong are not.

At the end of the video, the faces of Ruan Zhongyi and Zhou Ming appeared in the camera.

Ruan Zhongyi choked up and said to the fifteen-year-old Zhou Yi: “Xiao Jiu, without your parents by your side, you still let yourself grow into a warm and honest boy. You must always be like this, you know? Mom and Dad will always love you .”

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Love her, but still choose to put work ahead of her?

Zhou Yi’s mind was filled with too many truths beyond her ability to bear, and she couldn’t calm down to think about why, so she could only turn her head to ask Mu Qinglin for help, “Sister, what is worthwhile?”

Unable to recover from the shock, Mu Qinglin was stunned for a long time before hugging Zhou Yi, who was streaming down his face, with a hoarse voice, “Things worthwhile are like ideals, and people who have ideals can live a real and fulfilling life .”

“But ideals are so selfish.”

“There have to be a few selfish people on whom most other people’s lives depend to be happy.”

Zhou Yi hugged Mu Qinglin’s neck tightly, and asked her stubbornly, “What about us? Who will give us back what we lost?”

Mu Qinglin raised her head, forced the uncontrollable tears from her eyes back down her throat, as she promised in that narrow fitting room, and patiently coaxed the disobedient Zhou Yi, “Your parents , My mother, they have already paid it back. Xiao Jiu, think about it carefully.”

Zhou Yi said, “I can’t think of it.”

Mu Qinglin chuckled in the dawn, “You really are a fool. They gave me to you, and they gave you to me too.”

Time freezes in an instant.

All kinds of things after meeting Mu Qinglin flashed through Zhou Yi’s mind one by one.

——When Zhou Yi met Mu Qinglin in Hongmen Alley, a ray of light finally penetrated her closed life, and later, this ray of light also helped her open the heavy heart door.

—When it was covered by haze again, it was Han Qiu who helped. The reason she did that was Shang Ning, so, can it be considered that Shang Ning saved Zhou Yi’s life?

—And in the southwest, Zhou Ming and Ruan Zhongyi exchanged their lives for half of Shang Ning’s body.

—They exchanged this half body to save Mu Qinglin who had never met before.

—Mu Qinglin, after their death, used everything in her to bring their daughter back to life, and was the first light in her closed life.

Is this somewhere, or a causal loop?

Zhou Yi couldn’t figure it out, she held Mu Qinglin’s face in her hands, rushed into her mouth impatiently, and tangled with her tongue.

It hurts to the root of the tongue, but it still doesn’t feel real.

Zhou Yi rudely pushed Mu Qinglin onto the bed, looked down at her with red eyes, and said, “Yanyan, Jinlai.”

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