There was no need to look back. The moment it hit his chest, Yu Chengsong knew that Yin Gu was coming.
He tilted his head and saw Yin Gu’s chest heaving violently due to gasping for breath. He didn’t know how he had run all the way here or if he was just frightened by the scene just now.
From Yin Gu’s perspective, he was almost stabbed in the neck by his mother just now.
“What’s going on?” Yin Gu looked at him, and the hand that was holding him was shaking slightly.
Yu Chengsong secretly pressed the back of his hand, took a deep breath, and was also frightened by the scene just now and broke into a cold sweat on his back. “I’ll tell you later.”
Yin Gu was too anxious to control the strength of his kick. His mother was kicked hard. She struggled on the ground for a few times but couldn’t get up. She just sat on the ground and pointed at them and cursed, “How dare you ask someone to beat me! Yu Chengsong! You dare to make friends! You unlucky guy, whoever gets close to you will die! The first to die is that brat, Zhou Zheyu, and the second one is him!”
Yu Chengsong’s heart skipped a beat, and his pupils contracted.
He never believed what his mother said, but at that moment, he was scared.
His actions preceded his reasoning. He rushed over, grabbed his mother, and grabbed her neck. He pinched her hard, clenched his teeth, stared at her, and growled, “Shut up!”
“You…” Fear flashed across his mother’s eyes, and she grabbed his wrist tightly. “Uh… you want to kill me! You want to… kill me! You really are, uh…”
“Let go!” Yin Gu ran over to grab him and twisted his fingers. “Chengsong!”
Yu Chengsong was startled, came to his senses, and slowly let go of his hand.
But he still kept his eyelids down and threatened in a low voice, “Say it again, and I will kill you and Yu Chengyuan.”
“Murder! Murder!” My mother covered her neck and pushed him away, crawling back in a panic, crying and shouting, “Yuanyuan, my Yuanyuan…”
Yu Chengyuan jumped down from the sofa, ran over, and hugged her, staring at them and shouting, “Mom, Mom…”
This scene of a loving mother and filial son overlapped with the scene from more than ten years ago. Yu Chengsong stared at it, feeling as if a jar of wine had been spilled in his head, making him dizzy and unable to see clearly.
Yin Gu pulled his arm and helped him up, and he held Yin Gu’s arm so that he would not fall down.
“You two get out! Get out!” Mom held Yu Chengyuan in her arms and looked at him warily. “Don’t let me see you guys again, get out!”
Yu Chengsong stared at them, unable to move as if his feet had taken root.
“Let’s go.” Yin Gu held his wrist, half-hugged him, and walked out, leaving the door ajar. He looked at him tenderly and asked softly, “The knife at home…”
“…There are only two.” Yu Chengsong felt suffocated and pinched his nose before speaking, “The other one should be in the kitchen.”
“I’ll be out soon.” Yin Gu rubbed his hair. “Wait for me a moment.”
“En.”
Yin Gu pushed the door open and went back in.
Yu Chengsong leaned against the wall in the corridor and suddenly felt tired—really tired.
He had experienced this situation countless times before and even had the knife fall on him twice. The scar is still on his waist.
It’s something he should have gotten used to long ago, but now his fingertips are shaking uncontrollably.
Maybe it was because he had lived such a good life that he couldn’t even imagine before, and now he suddenly returned to this rotten home where he had lived for eighteen years, and he couldn’t accept the fact that he was so spoiled.
The door was pushed open, and Yin Gu walked out.
He doesn’t know what he did or said in there either. There was no more shouting from his mother or crying from Yu Chengyuan in the house. It was so quiet as if nothing had happened.
Yu Chengsong turned his head.
Yin Gu held a kitchen knife and a fruit knife in his hands and gently closed the door. He looked up and saw him, but he didn’t say anything. He just walked over and hugged him. “Go home first, ok?”
Yu Chengsong hugged him back tightly, tightened his arms, gritted his teeth to suppress the moisture in his eyes, and said in a hoarse voice, “En, let’s go.”
As soon as Yin Gu opened the door, Yu Chengsong entered the bedroom, threw himself on the bed, and didn’t want to move at all.
Yin Gu came into the room, hugged him, and comforted him for a while before going out. There was a lot of noise outside.
Yu Chengsong could hear his footsteps. He first opened the refrigerator and took out something unknown. Then he went to the kitchen and fiddled with it for a long time. Finally, he returned to the bedroom.
The bed sank, Yin Gu pinched his shoulder and asked softly, “Are you hungry? Didn’t you say you were hungry after school? I’ll order some takeout.”
Yu Chengsong grabbed his hand and hid it in his arms, saying in a muffled voice, “I’m not hungry.”
“Then get up.” Yin Gu smiled. “And give me a hug.”
Yu Chengsong sniffed and lay still: “What did you do?”
“En…” Yin Gu paused, coughed, and said seriously, “I call it egg tong sui1Egg tong sui is a classic tong sui within Cantonese cuisine, essentially a sweet version of egg drop soup., you can call it egg tong sui drop soup.”
“What?” Yu Chengsong laughed and looked up, his eyes red but his mouth curved. “Let me see what it is.”
Yin Gu wiped the corner of his eye with his fingertips, his eyes sank slightly. He picked up the small basin on the table and showed it to him, smiling helplessly: “I don’t know why it’s like this, eggs are so hard to boil, they don’t normally exercise? They are all fat, they fall apart when boiled, I remember they were all intact when you boiled them.”
“The eggs I take are those after working out.” Yu Chengsong sat up, took a spoon, and took a sip of the soup with an egg.
The taste was surprisingly good, quite sweet, but the egg white had all fallen apart, leaving only a lonely yolk, which showed that the egg was cooked over a high temperature.
“It’s delicious.” He counted the egg yolks, “You put five eggs in it.”
“I wanted to put two.” Yin Gu said, “But the white parts are all gone, and I’m afraid you won’t be full.”
“The white parts were scared away.” Yu Chengsong laughed so hard that he couldn’t hold the spoon. “It’s really delicious, but the egg is useless.”
Yin Gu laughed with him: “Ai, it’s too difficult. Cooking is so difficult. You must have worked hard before.”
The two laughed for a long time, and finally the laughter gradually died down. Yu Chengsong sighed: “F*ck, Gu Gu, I’m so angry that my liver hurts.”
Yin Gu held the basin in one hand and rubbed him with the other: “Your mother was in good condition before I left, and she didn’t say anything to me. I felt that she was—”
“She just wants to torture me. She will be normal when I’m not around.” Yu Chengsong drank some sugar water, and the sweetness spread in his mouth, and he felt a little better. “She is not happy when I’m alive, and she always remembers that Yu Chengyuan is dead. She actually knows that it was because she didn’t take good care of Yu Chengyuan that the accident happened. She has been having nightmares and can’t sleep well for so many years, so she told herself that I killed Yu Chengyuan, and if I die, Yu Chengyuan will feel relieved and won’t torture her anymore.”
“She is no longer normal and cannot be communicated with.” Yin Gu said, “Your father…”
“Coward.” Yu Chengsong sneered, “My mother can scare him to death just by taking a breath.”
“Actually…” Yin Gu looked at him, “This matter shouldn’t be resolved between you and your mother.”
Yu Chengsong looked at him.
Having always lived in the bureau, he couldn’t see things as clearly as Yin Gu, an outsider.
“You can’t reason with an unreasonable person. You should call your father back and discuss this matter together. No matter how much conflict there is between you and your mother, your relationship will not change legally, which means you will always be tied together.” Yin Gu explained.
“It’s f*cking scary.” Said Yu Chengsong.
“So we need to make a breakthrough with your father and let the two of them solve it. Leave or stay, how to leave or how to stay.” Yin Gu paused, hesitated for a moment, still looked at him, and said, “Only when the two of them are separated, can you separate from her… I have no right to say this, but today… you scared me. If I were late…”
“I was scared, too.” Yu Chengsong grabbed his hand and squeezed it hard. “I was stunned at the time, I’m sorry.”
“It has nothing to do with you.” Yin Gu hugged him and pressed him tightly in his arms. “You don’t have to apologize to me. It’s not your fault. It has never been your fault from the beginning to the end.”
“Gu Gu.” Yu Chengsong rested his chin on his shoulder, knocked his head, and closed his eyes. “I am now drawing the bow, I will soon draw it to the full length, and when the arrow is shot out, it will be the end.”
“Stop now.” Yin Gu pressed the back of his neck. “Don’t push yourself too hard. Do what you want to do now after you’re stretched to your limit. Make decisions when you are rational, so you won’t regret it later.”
“…I have to discuss this with Chengdi.” Yu Chengsong clenched his fingers. Yin Gu’s few words had enlightened him, cleared the fog, and revealed a path he could still take. “I can’t decide what he thinks.”
“I just dropped him off at Zhou Zheyu’s house.” Yin Gu said, “Let’s discuss it with him as soon as we have time. The sooner the better.”
“Now.” Yu Chengsong frowned. “Right now, let him come back immediately.”
“Okay.” Yin Gu responded, patting him on the back. “I’ll go pick him up. Finish your meal. If you want to eat anything else, I’ll buy it for you.”
“Buy another ten yuan worth of eggs.” Yu Chengsong said, “I want to eat them tomorrow.”
“Okay.” Yin Gu smiled and kissed the corner of his mouth. “I’ll make it for you tomorrow.”
……
Yu Chengdi didn’t know what had just happened. He sat quietly next to Yu Chengsong, pinching his fingers nervously.
His elder brother’s eyes turned red; he saw it.
Yin Gu handed each of them a glass of honey water, sat on the other side of Yu Chengdi, and put his arm around his shoulders to comfort him.
“Chengdi.” Yu Chengsong broke the silence.
Yu Cheng sat up straight and looked at him nervously: “Ge.”
“Mom almost stabbed me to death with a knife again today.” Yu Chengsong looked at him and calmly recounted an uneasy event.
The moment he said the word “again”, he almost laughed out loud. Now thinking back, what kind of life had he lived before? Was that how a human being should live?
Yu Chengdi’s face turned pale with fear, his eyes widened. “She’s crazy! Let’s call the police, Ge! Take her away!”
“Let me ask you a question. Think about it carefully before answering.” Yu Chengsong rubbed his head. “If… Our parents divorce, who will you live with?”
“…Ah?” Yu Chengdi was stunned, looking confused. “I…”
Yu Chengsong didn’t give him time to hesitate and directly gave the alternative answers: “With dad, with mom, or… with me and your Brother Gu?”
Yu Chengdi said without hesitation, “You and Brother Gu!”
“Think about it carefully.” Yu Chengsong said. “I’m serious.”
“I’m not stupid, I’ve thought it through.” Yu Chengdi twisted his fingers. “I don’t like them both, I like you and Brother Gu.”
Yu Chengsong was happy and glanced at Yin Gu: “It seems that part of your IQ is mine.”
Yu Chengdi looked up at him, his expression showing a bit of helplessness: “Ge, are they getting divorced?”
“They have to even if they don’t want to.” Yu Chengsong said.
“Ah?” Yu Chengdi didn’t understand and was dumbfounded. “Then where are we going?”
“You will stay at Zheyu’s house for the next two days.” Yu Chengsong said, “And where you are now is where you will be next.”
“Oh…” Yu Chengdi thought for a moment and looked up at him: “Ge, don’t go home to find mom by yourself, she killed people.”
“Don’t worry, I’m not as stupid as you.” Yu Chengsong said happily, “I’ll call the police and go with them.”
Yu Chengdi still looked at him worriedly, and seeing that he had a joking look on his face, he looked at Yin Gu.
“I’ll go with him.” Yin Gu smiled, “Don’t worry.”
Yu Chengdi then nodded.
