Chapter 17#
Crash.
The water glass shattered on the floor.
Hearing the noise, Lin Fengzhi came out and saw Yan Heqing frowning slightly, with broken glass shards and water stains at his feet.
Yan Heqing looked up, his pale and cold face showing apology. “I got your clothes wet.”
Only then did Lin Fengzhi notice that his coat was dripping water. He didn’t care; he had several wardrobes full of such cashmere coats.
It was just—
He asked with difficulty, “Without a coat, how can I go out and get your things for you?” He couldn’t let him go out wearing just a thin sweater…
Yan Heqing walked to the clothes box and took out a long padded jacket. “You should be able to wear this one.”
The padded jacket didn’t look like good quality. Lin Fengzhi hesitated again and again, but still took it.
“What is it?”
“ID card.” Yan Heqing said calmly, “I moved my household registration to the school and got a new ID card. Pick it up at the household registration office of the Security Department.”
Lin Fengzhi pursed his lips again. Obviously, Yan Heqing moving his household registration meant he was completely breaking ties with his adoptive parents.
But no matter how unpleasant things were, they were still family…
Lin Fengzhi felt that Yan Heqing was a bit too heartless. He silently put on the padded jacket. It was relatively thin and had a very pleasant smell of soap powder.
Lin Fengzhi was about to open the door. “Wait.” Yan Heqing came over and handed him a scarf. “Put on the scarf, it’s cold.”
Lin Fengzhi was stunned for a moment before taking it. “Thank you.”
Yan Heqing’s eyes brightened slightly. “I’m your brother. You can try not to be so polite.”
Lin Fengzhi didn’t reply. He couldn’t get over the hurdle in his heart for the time being, so he just nodded vaguely.
After going out, Lin Fengzhi didn’t wear the scarf. His skin was sensitive and would be allergic to ordinary wool.
Anyway, he was wearing a custom-made cashmere sweater inside, which was very warm. It wouldn’t be cold even if the padded jacket was a bit thin.
Upstairs, Yan Heqing silently watched Lin Fengzhi walk away. Lin Fengzhi was holding that scarf in his arms.
Yan Heqing turned back to the sofa and pulled out a copy of “Immunobiology”.
Lin Fengzhi probably wouldn’t be back until very late from this trip.
…
Yan Shengbing was guarding the main entrance of Peking University.
The wind was strong and mixed with snowflakes. Students came and went in an endless stream. Yan Shengbing didn’t blink, searching for Yan Heqing.
Snowflakes blurred his vision, and Yan Shengbing wiped his eyes.
Suddenly, a familiar padded jacket approached from afar.
Last year, encountering an unprecedented cold wave, Yan Heqing finally bought a padded jacket. When Zhao Huilin found out, she scolded him severely for being a spendthrift.
“You either stay at home or go to work every day, and you don’t have to be blown by the wind outside. How could you freeze to death! Might as well buy a pair of sneakers for your brother.”
Finally caught him!
Yan Shengbing was overjoyed. He took out his phone to notify Zhao Huilin at the other gate, then rushed over and grabbed the familiar padded jacket. “Good for you! I finally caught you today!”
Being grabbed by a stranger, Lin Fengzhi asked strangely, “Who are you looking for?”
Yan Shengbing didn’t remember Yan Heqing’s appearance very well. Lin Fengzhi’s eyebrows and eyes were similar to his, so Yan Shengbing was sure he was Yan Heqing. “I’m your father! Who the hell do you think I’m looking for!”
His voice was loud and his language was vulgar, causing many people to look sideways.
Lin Fengzhi had never been treated like this. He didn’t react immediately. “I don’t know you, let go first…”
“Son!” Suddenly, a loud female voice pounced on him.
Zhao Huilin hugged Lin Fengzhi tightly from behind, raising her voice and crying, “Mom finally found you! Don’t deny your mother!”
Yan Shengbing was also afraid that Lin Fengzhi would run away, so he stepped forward and grabbed him tightly with both hands.
Lin Fengzhi was completely dumbfounded. What on earth was going on?
Yan Shengbing smelled of greasy rancidity, and his hair hadn’t been washed for a long time. The top of his head was right at the tip of Lin Fengzhi’s nose. He was suffocating. He wanted to push them away. “I don’t know you! Let go of me!”
The scarf in his hand fell to the ground and was quickly trampled into a mess by several pairs of feet.
More and more people were watching.
Zhao Huilin rolled her eyes, let go of Lin Fengzhi, and sat on the ground.
Pretending to be heartbroken, she patted the ground, lowered her head and wiped her tears. “Oh my! It’s Mom who let you down. Mom shouldn’t have come to your school to embarrass you. You can hit or scold me if you’re angry, boohoo, Mom will let you hit and scold. Just calm down and come home with Mom…”
Yan Shengbing habitually slapped Lin Fengzhi on the face. “What kind of thing are you! Daring to hit your mother! Relying on…”
Lin Fengzhi was slapped into a daze. He didn’t even feel the taste of blood at the corner of his mouth, standing there completely stunned.
It was the first time someone had hit him and spoken foul language he couldn’t understand.
While he was dazed, Yan Shengbing raised his foot and kicked him. A piercing pain came from his crotch, and Lin Fengzhi cried out in pain and squatted down.
Yan Shengbing didn’t stop kicking.
He was experienced, aiming his kicks at the most vulnerable parts of the body. “Bastard, pay back my money! My 4.9 million! If you don’t pay up today, I’ll fight you to the death!”
Lin Fengzhi didn’t know how to fight at all. Yan Shengbing’s kicking and beating were fast and painful. He clutched his abdomen and fell to the ground, his mouth full of bloody foam.
Several female students called the security guards and ran forward to stop it.
Zhao Huilin was throwing a tantrum on the ground. When the security guard came over, she pounced and hugged his leg, not letting him move. Yan Shengbing was kicking in a frenzy, his eyes bloodshot, cursing, “It’s only right for a father to beat his son! No way out if you don’t give me money! What a thing, an unwanted orphan, fuck! I’ll kick you to death!”
The snow was falling heavier and heavier, making it impossible to see clearly. Lin Fengzhi was in so much pain that his vision blurred. He could only mechanically hold his head. Just then, a cold voice sounded.
“What are you doing!”
Hearing the familiar voice, Zhao Huilin immediately wiped away her tears, let go of the security guard, and stood up. “Young Master Lu, he’s here!”
After receiving Yan Shengbing’s call, she immediately found Lu Muchi’s business card to notify him.
Money was coming!
4.9 million!
Zhao Huilin was secretly delighted.
Yan Shengbing didn’t dare to move anymore. Sweat broke out on his forehead, and he put on a fawning smile. “Young Master Lu, I’m helping you teach—”
“Fuck!”
Lu Muchi kicked Yan Shengbing in the abdomen, and Yan Shengbing flew directly to the ground.
There were gasps all around. Many people were scared back, secretly taking videos with their phones.
At this time, several bodyguards in black suits appeared and asked the students to delete the videos.
Lu Muchi’s expression was very complicated. Staring at the young man curled up on the ground, his chest felt terribly tight.
Unpleasant to the extreme.
Tough with him, but letting others beat and scold him at will?
Lu Muchi took a few steps forward and nudged Lin Fengzhi’s back with his toe. “Can you get up?”
In his daze, Lin Fengzhi vaguely heard Lu Muchi’s voice. His tears fell instantly. “Lu Muchi, it hurts so much…”
Lu Muchi’s expression changed slightly. This voice…
He squatted down and turned Lin Fengzhi’s face over, seeing blood foam at the corner of Lin Fengzhi’s mouth and his face pale and green. “Lu Muchi, it hurts to death…”
Lu Muchi was dumbfounded. Why was it Lin Fengzhi!
He quickly picked up Lin Fengzhi by the waist, stood up and walked quickly. “Don’t be afraid, we’re going to the hospital right away!”
It was also at this moment that Zhao Huilin finally saw Lin Fengzhi’s face.
Zhao Huilin was also dumbfounded.
Wait, he wasn’t Yan Heqing!
Very similar, but definitely not! Then why was he wearing Yan Heqing’s clothes?
Then where was Yan Heqing?!
…
Yan Heqing finished reading a section. He put down the book, rubbed his neck, and checked the time.
3:20.
It was less than a half-hour round trip. Lin Fengzhi hadn’t returned yet. Unless something unexpected happened, he had run into the Zhao-Yan couple.
Yan Heqing got up, put on his coat, took an umbrella, and went out.
It was still snowing heavily. Yan Heqing opened the umbrella as he left the unit building and walked unhurriedly into the snow.
A thin layer of snow had accumulated on the ground. No one had stepped on it; it was very clean.
Yan Heqing left a row of neat footprints. When he arrived at the gate of Peking University, the crowd had long dispersed. It was deserted, with only the sound of falling snow.
There were many people coming and going at the gate of Peking University. The white snow had been trampled into ice slush, a faint black, very dirty.
A black scarf lay quietly in the ice slush. Yan Heqing went over and picked it up.
He patted it, fully able to imagine the previous battle.
Yan Shengbing punching and kicking, Zhao Huilin crying and throwing a tantrum—the usual routine.
A month had passed. With Yan Shengbing’s habit of gambling whenever he had money, that hundred thousand yuan should have been spent quickly.
Once it was spent, it would be their turn to be dealt with.
Yan Heqing walked calmly into the school.
When receiving a new ID card, the old one had to be discarded. If one wanted to keep it as a souvenir, just a small corner needed to be cut off.
Yan Heqing expressionlessly cut it into several pieces and threw them all into the trash can.
Leaving the school, the snow fell even harder, dancing all over the world, making it difficult to see the road clearly.
Yan Heqing took out his phone and dialed Lin Fengzhi’s number. “Fengzhi, where are you? You haven’t come back for so long, and I didn’t see you at school.”
In the hospital room, a nurse was treating Lin Fengzhi’s wounds.
The smell of disinfectant was pungent, making Lin Fengzhi uncomfortable. Glancing at Lu Muchi, who was sitting on the sofa with his head down and silent, he lowered his voice guiltily. “I had something to do and left first. I’ll pick it up for you in a few days.”
Yan Heqing’s tone was gentle. “Go ahead with your business. I’m at school now, I can pick it up myself.”
“I sent your clothes to the dry cleaner. Come get them when you have time.”
Lin Fengzhi didn’t want Lu Muchi to know about his adoption yet, so he hummed a few times and quickly hung up the phone.
Lu Muchi was also speechless.
He knew that Lin Fengzhi knew about his background, but since Lin Fengzhi didn’t take the initiative to say it, he had to pretend not to know.
Staring at the padded jacket folded on the back of the sofa, Lu Muchi recognized at a glance that it was Yan Heqing’s clothes.
Lin Fengzhi didn’t wear off-brand clothes.
The Yan couple recognized the wrong clothes and beat the wrong person.
Lu Muchi looked up at Lin Fengzhi, who was grimacing in pain on the hospital bed, and his mind wandered.
If it were Yan Heqing who was beaten today, with his thin body, he would definitely be injured more severely…
“By the way. What were you doing at Peking University?” Lin Fengzhi suddenly called him.
Lu Muchi had already thought of an excuse. “The president of Peking University invited my uncle to give a lecture.”
Hearing Lu Lin, Lin Fengzhi immediately stopped hurting. His eyes brightened as he asked, “When?”
Lu Muchi thought for a few seconds. “The day before the holiday.”
…
Yan Heqing returned home, washed the scarf carefully, wrung it very dry, and hung it outside the window to dry.
Night fell, and the lights of thousands of homes lit up. The whistling wind carried large flakes of snow.
With such heavy snow, the lake water must be very cold.
Tomorrow…
Yan Heqing closed the window.
He hoped Lu Lin would go fishing.
At 2 AM the next day, Yan Heqing went downstairs on time.
The pre-booked car was waiting downstairs. Seeing Yan Heqing’s equipment, the driver clicked his tongue and started a conversation. “Going fishing in the mountains in such cold weather?”
Yan Heqing smiled slightly and didn’t answer.
The driver shut up, started the car, and drove into the sky full of wind and snow.
At the foot of the mountain, Yan Heqing swiped his membership card. The gatekeeper opened the barrier to let the car in and instructed, “Come out immediately after dropping him off.”
The driver muttered, “What kind of place is this, so high-class…”
After 4 AM, the mountain road was silent, with only the sound of the vehicle moving. The driver was a bit creeped out. He stepped on the gas and sped to the lake. After waiting for Yan Heqing to unload his things, the driver turned around at light speed and left the valley.
Yan Heqing looked at the parking lot not far away.
Compared to the last visit, there were only a few scattered cars in the parking lot.
The snow today was too heavy, so very few people came.
Leaving his things by the roadside, Yan Heqing walked to the parking lot braving the snow.
The first one, no.
The second one, no.
The third one—
Jing A1111.
Yan Heqing’s eyelashes moved very, very lightly.