Tears seeped through Gu Nianzhi’s fingers and rolled down her slender fingers. They flowed down her wrist and onto her snow-white arm. They dripped all the way to her elbow and then gathered into a shiny oval at the bottom of her elbow, it was like a teardrop-shaped pearl that dripped down gently and splashed onto the grass.

He zhichu stared at the direction where her tears were falling. After a long time, he took out a tissue and wiped her tears.

He continued,”… at that time, you did not speak. My mother consulted a child psychologist and gave you a psychological test and an IQ test

“They found that your IQ was very high, but your perception was selectively closed to the outside world

“In other words, you only hear what you want to hear, see what you want to see, don’t want to hear, and don’t want to see. Everything is automatically filtered

“Your IQ is very high, and your mental strength is very strong. Your self-control is far beyond that of a child of your age, but you refuse to communicate with others

“They said that you might have been frightened when you were young, so you used the tendency of autism to protect yourself. Therefore, my mother listened to the advice of the psychologist and talked to you nonstop every day, so that you could come out of your hard shell and see the world

“As long as you were awake, she would speak in front of you, and she spoke at a very steady pace, neither too fast nor too slow, and her voice was very gentle and pleasant.”

“Her efforts were not in vain. You finally reacted to her voice. As long as she spoke, your eyes would involuntarily follow her figure.”

“But as soon as she turned around, you would immediately lower your head and hide behind the curtains.”

He Zhichu remembered that day when he had returned home from school. He stood by the door, half of his body hidden in the shadows of the lights. He watched silently as his mother, Qin Suwen, tidied up Gu Nianzhi’s room and folded her clothes, he continued to ramble on to her.

“When you’re done with your children’s stories, I’ll tell you about the lawsuit she fought in the past. From logical reasoning to gathering evidence, from debating skills to reconstructing one’s worldview, she repeated it over and over again. As long as you have even the slightest reaction, she will be ecstatic. She will hug you and give you a big kiss.”

“… my mother’s throat was hoarse, her throat was inflamed, and her throat was swollen and painful, but she refused to give up for a day.”

“Half a year passed in a flash, and my mother couldn’t take it anymore. One day, she fainted in your room.”

“There were only the two of you in your room. You came out of your room alone and came to the door of my father’s study. You told the guards at the door that Susu was sick.”

Gu Nianzhi:”…”

“… SUSU? I called Your Mother Susu?”Gu Nianzhi was very surprised.

“Yes.”He zhichu nodded. “My father called my mother ‘susu.’You heard him say it too much and thought my mother’s name was Susu.”

“That was the first time you spoke. My father heard it through the walkie-talkie in the study and quickly opened the door. He saw you holding your doll and looked up at him. He said very clearly, ‘Susu is sick.'”

“My father understood. He immediately came to your room and saw my mother lying unconscious on the floor.”

“He called our family doctor and a specialist from the military general hospital to give my mother a consultation. He found that she was just overtired and had a high fever caused by an inflammation of her throat.”

He Zhichu remembered that day when he heard that his mother had fainted at school. He had rushed back from school in a hurry. In the end, he saw doctors in white coats walking in and out of the suite where his father and mother lived, they were all busying themselves anxiously. The Little Gu Nianzhi was alone with her little doll. She squatted by the door, her head lowered, staring at the patterns on the carpet in a daze.

No one was paying attention to her, and no one said a word to her.

At that moment, the sixteen-year-old he zhichu felt an indescribable pain and bitterness in his heart.

He walked over without hesitation and bent down to pick up the six-year-old Gu Nianzhi. He said, “I’ll take you in.”

Gu Nianzhi looked up at him and said, “Susu is sick.”

This was the first time she had spoken to he zhichu, but he zhichu immediately understood who she was talking about. He nodded. “Yes, Susu is sick. Let’s Go See Susu, okay?”

Gu Nianzhi looked at him in confusion for a moment, as if trying to determine whether he meant her harm or good.

In her six years of young life, she had met too many “People”who had coaxed her into doing cruel experiments on her.

She had shut herself off to protect herself.

He Zhichu looked at her quietly, his eyes filled with undisguised pity and pity.

Gu Nianzhi’s tiny body slowly softened. She leaned her head on his shoulder and said,”… Go See Susu.”

“… I’ll take you to my mother’s room to see her. You see her lying motionless on the bed, with needles stuck in the back of her hand, and a bottle by the side of the bed. You immediately scream and desperately try to reach her to remove the bottle, as well as the needle on the back of my mother’s hand.”

“The doctors in the room were shocked…”he zhichu paused. He did not say that his father immediately berated him and asked him to carry Gu nianzhi away, instead, he continued, “I was shocked too. I quickly carried you away, but you were so angry that you slapped me across the face.”

Gu Nianzhi:”…”

She said shyly, “I was too young and insensible then…”

She did not remember anything, but she was not unfamiliar with what he zhichu had said. She listened with relish.

He zhichu rubbed her head. “You hated needles when you were young. You Were Afraid of Needles.”

Gu Nianzhi touched her arm and said sheepishly, “I’m afraid now.”

He zhichu smiled, his almond-shaped eyes flashing with a strange light. He looked away and looked up at the sky.

The moonlight was separated by the slanting branches of the trees, like an ancient lattice window.

“… my mother was ill. You went to see her every day, stayed by her bed, covered her with a blanket and carried water. You could even wake her up to take her medicine on time.”

“My father heard you call my mother Su Su, and was both angry and amused. He asked you to call her auntie, but you refused and stubbornly called her ‘Su Su’.”

“But my mother protected you and said you could call her whatever you wanted. What does it matter? It’s just a form of address.”

“My father joked that it would spoil you.”

“But my mother said that she could take care of her when she was sick. No matter how much she spoiled a child like that, she could never spoil her.”

Gu Nianzhi pressed her hand against her chest, suppressing her pounding heart. She muttered,”… did mother really say that?”

He zhichu nodded slightly and whispered, “Everything About You is still fresh in my memory.”

He Zhichu’s heart was filled with emotion. It was because during the years when he had lost her, he had brought up these memories over and over again, and they had sustained him through his entire decadent period.

Gu Nianzhi was touched. She gently held he zhichu’s hand and said with admiration, “Young master he, no, brother, is our mother the best mother in the world?”

He zhichu smiled. “In our hearts, she is indeed the best mother in the world. Everyone’s mother is different and irreplaceable. I feel very lucky to have the same mother as you.”

It seemed that he really did not mind.

Gu Nianzhi nodded. “Then, please let me do one last thing for my mother. I want to get justice for her.”

He Zhichu looked at her silently for a long time before closing his eyes, “Okay, do what you want to do. Don’t worry about my father. He’s not an unreasonable person. All these years, he only wanted to find out the truth and give my mother an explanation.”

Gu Nianzhi collected her thoughts and turned her head to look at the lawn not far away. She said in a low voice, “I remember you saying that I came to your house when I was six years old. For the first six months, it was your mother… it was mother who personally took care of me.”

He zhichu nodded. “After six months, you were able to speak, but you only spoke to my mother and me. You ignored everyone else.”

“After two years, you were almost fully recovered, but in that year…”he zhichu paused, trying to hold back the sobs in his throat, “Your father suddenly came to my house to see her. The two of them had a secret talk in the study for more than an hour.”

“After your father left… my mother was found dead in the study.”He zhichu lowered his head, his shoulders seemingly unable to bear the weight. “Her heart was not very good to begin with. She could not be stimulated, and she could not be too tired.”

Gu Nianzhi listened to he zhichu’s words. He zhichu must have said something or done something to provoke Qin Suwen, which led to Qin Suwen’s sudden death.

Gu Nianzhi’s eyes dimmed. She didn’t want to bring up the topic of Lu Jin. She thought for a moment and asked quietly, “Why is mother’s heart not very good? What caused it?”

“… the doctor diagnosed it to be congenital.”

“So it’s hereditary?”Gu Nianzhi was deep in thought. “Then we need to check whether there is a history of hereditary diseases in the maternal grandparents’family.”

He Zhichu:”…”

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