you are with the light

Chapter 27

Yu Zhongman raised his head and smiled at Chen Ke: "What do you want to talk to me about?"

Chen Ke said: "You don't like my mother!" He said it with confidence, and when he looked at Yu Zhongman, he didn't have the slightest fear.

Yu Zhongman didn't show the slightest embarrassment of being punctured, or any other expressions, he just chuckled and said, "You may have misunderstood me."

Chen Ke said, "I'm not blind yet." His attitude was aggressive, "If you don't like my mother, don't lie to her."

"I think you've misunderstood..."

"I didn't misunderstand!" Chen Ke said, his tone was firm and unwavering, "I can see it!"

Yu Zhongman said helplessly: "It's up to you. I have no malicious intentions."

Chen Ke stared at him, trying to overwhelm the other person with his eyes, but he could no longer say anything in words.He couldn't persuade Chen Wanran to leave Yu Zhongman, nor could he use words to force this guy back.

"Otherwise... let's go fight." Chen Ke finally said, "If you lose, leave our house."

Yu Zhongman shook his head: "Don't fight, it's not a good habit, and it's not a good way to solve the problem."

The two fell into a conversation.

Chen Ke couldn't sleep at night, his heart was very hot, and the blood in his whole body was boiling.He always felt that Yu Zhongman was hiding a secret, and if he didn't get a glimpse of this secret, he couldn't sleep peacefully.

Yu Zhongman's daily life is very simple. He seems to have no job and stays at his house all day, but he can always come up with a sum of money at the end of the month.Chen Ke followed his every move calmly, and gradually realized that this person paid special attention to Gu Jinbei's family.

Yu Zhongman would always mention Gu Jinbei's family intentionally or unintentionally, like a casual chat after dinner, just lightly, but because of his lightly, Chen Wanran would tell everything she knew.

Chen Ke would interrupt the topic and roughly move it elsewhere.

As time went on, Chen Wanran found out that something was wrong with him, and went to him specifically for this reason: "Uncle Yu...don't you like it?"

Chen Ke said: "No...just, I'm not at ease." He tried his best not to touch Chen Wanran's wounds with his words, "Do you think he really likes you?"

Chen Wanran was silent.She still understands men to a certain extent, and she is past the age of naive and romantic fantasies, it's just...

Even if she was cheated, at least at this moment she was loved.

"Only at your age will you care about these things. At my age, when two people are together, they feel comfortable, so they will live together as a partner." Chen Wanran finally said, "He is very nice, you have to like him, okay?"

Chen Ke said, "Okay."

When Chen Ke found time and said that he would take Gu Jinbei to take a bath, Gu Jinbei refused him for the first time.

"I'm afraid of water, so I don't really want to go." Gu Jinbei said, he wore tight long clothes and trousers in the hot summer, and his sweat left a big print on his clothes.

"Okay." Chen Ke didn't think much about it, but saw his clothes and asked, "Why are you wearing so many clothes?"

After he finished speaking, he seemed to think of a certain possibility, so he took Gu Jinbei's hand, rolled up his sleeve, and saw the bruise on his arm.

Big and small, new or old, glaringly fell on Gu Jinbei's white skin, making people feel uncomfortable.

"Knocked." Gu Jinbei withdrew his hand, lowered his head and pulled up his sleeve to cover the scar on it, "Don't ask, okay?"

One or two are like this, Chen Wanran is like this, Gu Jinbei is like this, they are all begging him, they try their best to cover up the truth that he has seen a corner, and make him pretend not to understand.

Chen Ke couldn't refuse them.

"If it hurts, you can come to me." Chen Ke said, "If you are kicked out again, don't squat at the door, go to my house, don't be afraid."

Gu Jinbei nodded: "Yes."

How could he give up such a good Chen Ke?This is the first meaningful friend in his life, an existence that no one can replace in the future.

It was probably because Yang Manguo lived next door, so Xia Yin didn't act quickly.Throughout the summer vacation, Gu Jinbei lived a full and happy life. He spent a few hours every day reading and writing homework, and the rest of the time went to Chen's house to sit.Yu Zhongman talked to him a few times, trying to find a breakthrough from him. He realized the importance of Chen Ke, so although the speed was slow, he did slowly open a gap in Gu Jinbei's strict heart.

When Yu Zhongman was looking for a way to talk to Gu Jinbei, Chen Ke also had a deeper understanding of this man. He once found an opportunity to say to Gu Jinbei: "Stay away from him, that is...that Uncle Yu. "

Gu Jinbei said, "Okay."

Gu Jinbei's point is very good, he didn't ask why, he just agreed like this, even if it was just a verbal promise, it made Chen Ke feel happy: Look, this person believes in me.

When the summer vacation was about to end, Chen Ke was blocked on the road by Lu Weijian. They hadn't met each other seriously for a long time. The days of talking and laughing together were like a gust of wind, blowing away gently, not in their hearts Leave half a mark.

Chen Ke originally wanted to pretend that he didn't see Lu Weijian, but Lu Weijian stopped him: "Chen Ke!"

Chen Ke didn't want to stop, but his feet were against his will.

Lu Weijian said, "Sun Jiani...something happened."

Chen Ke said: "Oh." He didn't quite understand what Lu Weijian wanted to express, or he didn't care about these things.

"Is there only one? You gave her money to have an abortion. Now that something happened to her, do you only have one?"

"Then what do you want me to do?" Lu Weijian's voice attracted the attention of people around him, and the eyes of passers-by scanned them like searchlights, making Chen Ke feel uncomfortable.

Lu Weijian stepped forward, grabbed Chen Ke by the collar, and raised his arm to punch him. Chen Ke subconsciously blocked it, but Lu Weijian still didn't strike.

His hand stopped in mid-air, with veins on his arm, but finally fell down as if he had let go of his strength.

Chen Ke suddenly discovered the tattoo on his arm.

"She...she went to a small clinic to have an abortion, and the result was heavy bleeding. After entering a large hospital, the doctor said that she would not be able to give birth again..." Lu Weijian said, his eyes were burning with anger, "That's us First and only child!"

Chen Ke felt that he might really have read too little, and he didn't even realize it: "Your?" He asked in confusion, "Isn't it Liu Wu's?"

These words sounded like thunder, and Lu Weijian was stunned as if he had been slashed. It took him a long time to move his five sense organs stiffly. When he opened his mouth, his voice was hoarse: "What did you say?"

Chen Ke went to break his hand that was grabbing his collar. Lu Weijian strangled him so hard that he couldn't breathe: "You...you loosen it first."

I don't know why this time, but Lu Weijian's hand was full of strength. Chen Ke tried several times, but failed to free his collar.Only when a circle of onlookers surrounded him did Lu Weijian slowly let go.

Chen Ke's collar was crumpled, but he didn't have time to care about it.He turned around and left, and Lu Weijian behind him didn't follow.

When going up the stairs, Chen Ke heard Yu Zhongman talking to someone: "...if you feel pain, why don't you resist?"

The voice that answered him was familiar, and Chen Ke knew it was Gu Jinbei as soon as he heard it: "It doesn't hurt."

Chen Ke walked up, and the two people above turned their heads to look over. Gu Jinbei smiled when he saw him: "Brother Chen."

Yu Zhongman smiled and nodded at him.

Chen Ke only smiled back at Gu Jinbei.

"Are you going to my house for dinner?"

"Okay." Gu Jinbei stood up from the ground, furtively put his finger on his trousers and wiped it, leaving a few gray marks.

Chen Ke opened the door, and Gu Jinbei followed him in. When he entered, he glanced at Yu Zhongman, and he clearly disliked him.

But Yu Zhongman went in anyway.

Although both of them don't like Yu Zhongman, but because of their affection, they will not behave too much.Yu Zhongman took advantage of his thick skin and ate a meal without Chen Wanran's company.

After dinner, Gu Jinbei said that he was going back too, and Chen Ke said to him, "Goodbye."

"Goodbye."

After Gu Jinbei closed the door, Chen Ke asked Yu Zhongman, "Where's my mother?"

"She said she had something to do and she was going out for a while. I saw that she didn't want to talk about it, so I didn't ask carefully."

Chen Ke thought about it, guessed that it was probably about Mrs. Chen, so he didn't nod, and planned to go back to his room after washing the dishes.

But Yu Zhongman stopped him.

"I think you should stay away from that kid next door." Yu Zhongman said, "I don't think he...is a good kid."

He tried to keep his words as tactful as possible without revealing too much.He couldn't say that Gu Jinbei was likely to help his mother kill people at the age of six, and he couldn't say that such a young child was actually scarier than an adult.

He knew that Chen Ke wouldn't believe it, so he changed his method.

But this still angered Chen Ke.

For a long time, Chen Wanran's son has been very indifferent to him, always with an attitude of nothing to do with himself, almost indifferent to mean, but this time his face showed an angry color , and even the tone became a lot heavier: "I think, compared to Gu Jinbei, you don't look like a good adult."

Chen Ke raised his hand and gave him a middle finger: "You are not my father yet, to take a step back, even if you are my father, don't insult/humiliate my friend."

Gu Jinbei closed the door, but failed to isolate the quarrel outside.

Everything seemed to go back to a few years ago, when he also locked himself in the room, trying to isolate the sharp scolding outside, but failed.

If he had to choose, he would rather have Xia Yin beat and scold him than hear the quarrel outside.Because after the quarrel, Xia Yin will definitely get hurt.

After a while, the quarrel outside stopped with the sound of a heavy object reaching the bottom. Gu Jinbei didn't go out. He stayed in the room calmly, but his heart was churning like boiling water.

His stepfather opened the door of his room, his face covered with sweat, and he said, "Xiao Bei, stay indoors, I... I will go out with your mother." His fat body blocked the door, but Gu Jin Bei could still see the clutter in the living room through the gap.He chooses not to see it.

"it is good."

The stepfather closed the door again, Xia Yin scolded in the living room, and the stepfather coaxed in the living room, the voices of the two faded away with the opening and closing of the door until they disappeared.Gu Jinbei stayed in the room for a while before opening the door and going out.

The room was very chaotic, with broken bowls, fallen chairs, pillows thrown on the ground, and a ball of blood that hadn't clotted and turned black.

What Xia Yin said is right, the heart will become numb after experiencing too much.Gu Jinbei numbly walked across the living room, walked to the opposite side, and knocked on the door of Chen's house.

Chen Ke opened the door after a while, and the moment he saw Chen Ke, Gu Jinbei's numb heart suddenly came back to life, and his eyes felt a little uncomfortable for a moment, and tears fell into his eyes without his permission It rose up, blurring his vision.

He thought the tears would come, but they didn't.

His voice was very calm, with restraint in his calm: "Today my stepfather and mother are not at home, can I sleep with you?"

When Chen Ke came back from the shower, Gu Jinbei hadn't slept yet.He was a little different from usual, his eyes were staring at nowhere, they were empty, like a black hole, sucking away all the light and heat.

Maybe it was beaten by my mother.

Although Chen Ke was angry about this matter, he was helpless.Here, it is only natural for a mother to beat her child. Whoever says it is wrong is unfilial.When things like this happen to ordinary families, even the police can't control them.

Chen Ke is not good at comforting people, and he doesn't know how to relieve Gu Jinbei, let alone bear all this for Gu Jinbei, so he can only say lamely: "Tomorrow will be a sunny day."

Gu Jinbei nodded: "Yes."

Chen Ke went to bed after taking a shower, and saw that Gu Jinbei's exposed arm was covered with bruises, as well as the scar on the collarbone, which seemed to be a whole piece of skin, and no one part was intact.

"May I see—your wound."

Gu Jinbei's eyes turned to Chen Ke's face.Chen Ke's expression is serious, and there is a little distress in the seriousness. Gu Jinbei likes and enjoys this look, so he said: "Okay."

He took off his vest, exposing his upper body.Whether it is the front or the back, it is covered with scars.His expression was calm, but Chen Ke frowned. He really wanted to reach out to touch it, but he stopped in midair.

"You can touch it." Gu Jinbei said, "It looks scary, but it doesn't hurt at all."

Chen Ke tentatively stretched out his hand, and gently landed on his body.

Chen Ke's hands are hot, and Gu Jinbei's body is also hot, but the two always feel that the other party will be hotter than themselves.Chen Ke didn't dare to press it, so he stayed on it for a while, then took his hand back.

Gu Jinbei put back on his vest to cover most of the scars, but those few scars were still unbearable to look at. Chen Ke couldn't understand how a mother could bear such a cruel hand on her child. .

"Why did your mother beat you?" Chen Ke asked a little too far, but he didn't realize it at all.

Gu Jinbei didn't realize it either.

He said: "Because her heart is hurt." He explained, "If she doesn't vent the hurt in her heart, she will explode like a balloon."

Gu Jinbei's tone has never been more serious: "I don't want her to explode."