Chapter 101 Chapter 101

Gu Huai is a sensible and meticulous person, in this respect, he is more like Pei Li An’s own son than Pei Zheng.

So when he had just celebrated his sixteenth birthday with his family and woke up to find himself in an unfamiliar place with an unfamiliar man beside him who was talking to him in an anxious tone, Gu Huai calmed down and listened to the man without moving.

“Boss, I’m begging you, we really don’t need to go out of our way to break the law, there are a thousand ways to fix Xu Yuehua, why do you have to use the method that kills a thousand enemies and damages eight hundred?”

The man looked fierce, his expression was even more sinister, and he gritted his teeth with hatred when he mentioned Xu Yuehua.

Xu Yuehua? Gu Huai didn’t have the slightest impression of this name, and when he heard the man say that he had broken the law, he frowned slightly and said in a faint voice, “You go out first.”

Gu Huai’s bluffing expressions and gestures were learned from the old man, and people would generally be bluffed by his look, and sure enough, although the man was reluctant to try to persuade him again, he finally closed his mouth and didn’t dare to speak again.

“Yes, boss.” The fierce man bent down respectfully while retreating.

Gu Huai got up from his chair, looking around at his surroundings.

This is an immaculate office, marble floor light discerning illumination can be, solid wood table is placed in a neat folder, Gu Huai took out one of the flip, a ten-line read.

Date at the end – 1999.

Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, skyscrapers, traffic, in the distance is the winding flow of the river, such a bustling city, is more than ten years after the country of China.

Gu Huai was surprised and not surprised.

His mother, Lu Nong, had written a fairy tale book about the future, in which the world and novelties depicted in the book accompanied Gu Huai through his childhood, and in the era of material and cultural scarcity, Gu Huai’s vision was never confined to a single corner.

“Cough cough cough ……”

Gu Huai could not restrain himself from coughing, he subconsciously took out a handkerchief from his pocket to cover his mouth, the room was filled with muffled coughs, after coughing for a long time, Gu Huai held the table and sat down on a chair.

“This body ……” Gu Huai reached out to survey these pale, sinewy hands, and there was blood seeping out of the handkerchief.

After slowing down for a while, Gu Huai got up and pushed open the office cubicle, walking into the bathroom.

The person in the mirror was pale, with blood-stained lips and thickened features against the pale color of his face, like a sharp, pointed knife that pierced straight into one’s eyes.

It’s him and it’s not him.

This face in the mirror looks exactly like Gu Huai, but it is much more mature than he himself, like he has completely grown up after a decade or so, with a suit and a gloomy and morose temperament, but unfortunately it looks like his life is not long to go.

Is this what the hell he’s going to look like in a decade or so?

Gu Huai couldn’t suppress another cough.

At that moment, the phone in the office rang, and Gu Huai covered his mouth and returned to the office to pick up the phone.

“Gu Huai, it’s me.” A low voice came from the phone.

“Big brother?” Gu Huai was familiar with Pei Zheng’s voice, and even through the phone line, he could immediately distinguish his big brother’s voice.

There was silence on the phone for a while, and Gu Huai thought Pei Zheng’s side had disconnected and called out again, “Big brother?”

“Gu Huai, what kind of trick are you playing again?”

These questioning words caused Gu Huai to fall silent as well, reacting to the fact that after a decade or so his relationship with his big brother would likely no longer be as close as it once was.

Gu Huai wanted to know what had happened during these ten years or so, but there was no way to ask.

“What do you want from me?” Gu Huai tried to make his tone sound as cold as possible after a muffled cough.

Pei Zheng on the other end of the phone was obviously more familiar with Gu Huai in this attitude, “In two days it will be Auntie Lu’s death anniversary, you won’t be able to get into the cemetery, wait at the entrance and I’ll take you in.”

“What did you say! Whose death anniversary?” Gu Huai rose up with a start, his chest stifled with pain and erupted into a series of coughs.

“Gu Huai!” Pei Zheng frowned, thinking that Gu Huai was still thieving, wanting to move Lu Nong out of her grave alone, and warned, “This matter has been fought over for how many years, I’m telling you for the last time, move the grave you don’t want to, when the old man personally commanded a joint burial with your mom, it’s a national cemetery there, and even I don’t have the right to move your mom out of it. Don’t you forget, my own real mom is still out there.”

Pei Zheng onlookers for a lifetime did not understand the old man’s thoughts, said he cared about Lu Neng, Lu Neng alive for a few years, the old man almost not home, back home is also in the study to sleep, he has not even seen the two in the same room.

Said he didn’t care about Lu Nu, after Lu Nu died, the old man kept his whole life and didn’t marry anyone again, his own mother waited for the old man for her whole life, and the old man didn’t even bother to look at him.

When he was dying, his only request was to be buried with Lu Nong, not to be separated even in death, but to live as strangers.

Pei Zheng doesn’t understand, and he can’t explain it to Gu Huai, in fact he understands Gu Huai, after all, Gu Huai’s parents were in love when they were alive, and a big part of Lu Nu Yu’s unhappiness is because of Uncle Gu’s death.

On the other end of the phone, Gu Huai analyzed Pei Zheng’s words to find out that his mother and foster father had both died and were buried together, and that “he” had been trying to move his mother out of the house alone.

A great sense of loss and panic struck him, frightening him more than when he saw himself coughing up blood a dozen years later.

He doesn’t have a mother anymore.

What has happened in the last decade or so? Early death of parents, and brother against brother ……

Gu Huai quickly asked, “Where’s Grandma Wu and Xiao Xia? Are they going or not?”

“Who? Who is Wu Lou Lou Xiao Xia?” Pei Zheng narrowed his eyes, Gu Huai was just not right today.

“…… It’s nothing.” Gu Huai let out a light breath, realizing that things weren’t as simple as he thought.

Pei Zheng didn’t know Wu Lou Lou and Xiao Xia, his tone didn’t seem like a lie, under what circumstances would Pei Zheng not know two people who had spent decades together?

Amnesia or Grandma Wu and Xia both don’t exist at all.

Common sense told Gu Huai it was the first, but intuition told him it was the latter.

Parallel worlds? The parallel worlds his mom used to tell him about.

He went to a world where he didn’t belong.

To confirm his suspicions, Gu Huai put on his overcoat jacket and got up to go outside.

Just after leaving the office, a well-dressed woman stopped Gu Huai’s way, “Boss, the next part of your schedule is to go to the hospital to review your health, do you want to go now? I’ll arrange for a driver now.”

Gu Huai’s eyebrows twitched: “No need, take me home first.”

The woman hurriedly went to call the driver after hearing this, and Gu Huai walked towards the outside of the building, with people he met along the way stopping to greet Gu Huai.

Walking to the entrance of the building, a black sedan stopped at the entrance, the driver of the car walked down and opened the rear door for Gu Huai.

In the car, Gu Huai appeared to be chatting with the driver, but in reality, he was inquiring about his current situation.

The driver was also muttering in his heart, his boss usually wouldn’t say more than a word of nonsense, saying one thing, when did he like to listen to a driver’s speech?

To death he could not guess the boss changed, so the driver had to obediently allow the boss to condescend, he would like to say a few good falsehoods to fool the boss, but the moment he touched the boss’s piercing eyes, the driver shivered and told the truth.

Gu Huai set a lot from the driver, including the fact that he got into a top university in the world, started his own company, his parents died early, didn’t have any family friends, didn’t have Grandma Wu and Xia, and Pei Zheng was an immortal nemesis, and was so secretive about Pei’s family that no one knew that he used to be the Pei family’s adopted son ……

Knowing that was enough, Gu Huai coughed lightly and said, “There’s no need to go home, send me to the cemetery where my mother is.”

A house without family is nothing more than a shelter.

“Hey, okay.” The driver carefully glanced at Gu Huai in the rearview mirror, thinking that it was the old lady’s death anniversary coming up, no wonder the boss was strange.

When he arrived at the cemetery, Gu Huai was stopped by the security guard standing guard, who obviously recognized Gu Huai, and called Pei Zheng as soon as he saw Gu Huai in front of him.

The security guard handed the phone to Gu Huai, who took it, and Pei Zheng’s irritated voice came from the other end of the phone, “Gu Huai, can’t you understand human language? When I said two days, I meant two days later, what do you mean you’re going now? Do you want me to go with you now?”

Gu Huai grew up for the first time to hear his big brother angry at him, quite a novelty, he also wanted to meet his big brother in parallel time and space, so he said, “Fine, you come.”

Pei Zheng on the other end choked, and it was a long time before he spoke, “You wait.”

If it were any other time, Pei Zheng would certainly not pay attention to Gu Huai’s little trick, he had a bunch of things to do in the army, he didn’t have the time to pay attention to Gu Huai’s provocation, but in two days it was Lu Nong’s death anniversary, and Lu Nong was Pei Zheng’s stepmother no matter how he said it.

Gu Huai was Lu Nong’s biological son, and there was nothing wrong with a son wanting to visit his mother earlier.

After about an hour, Pei Zheng came.

He got down from the car, wearing camouflage regular clothes, holding a bouquet of flowers in his hand, and his aura was no worse than that of Pei Silk An at this age.

But that wasn’t what Gu Huai was concerned about.

Big brother is old.

This is Gu Huai’s most intuitive feeling, his big brother has always been stinky, a spirited young man, but now his big brother has gray threads in his hair, wrinkles on his face, and is nearly twenty years older than the big brother Gu Huai remembered.

Gu Huai opened his mouth and didn’t call out that big brother after all.

“Let’s go.” Pei Zheng spared no words, only giving Gu Huai an eye breeze, taking the roster from the security guard and signing it before leading Gu Huai into the cemetery.

Gu Huai followed him in silence.

The two of them turned around seven times and walked to a tomb, Pei Zheng squatted down and wiped the tombstone with his hand, placing the bouquet on top.

Gu Huai’s legs went weak as he looked at the picture on the tombstone and knelt down.

Pei Zheng could seldom see the out-of-control Gu Huai, this person was more intelligent than a demon, and it made people hate him every minute, while he still had an elegant and calm face, remembering the old grudges, Pei Zheng couldn’t help but stab Gu Huai.

“That’s honest this time.”

Gu Huai did not stab back, and Pei Zheng himself felt as if something was missing.

Seeing Gu Huai staring blankly at the photo on the tombstone, Pei Zheng somehow pitied him, the Gu Huai who appeared to outsiders to be young and promising, who was rich in his thirties, and who had fought and battled with himself for his whole life, and whose initial wish was only not to relocate his mother’s grave to be buried with his real father.

Maybe today’s Gu Huai is too different, with less of an aggressive aura, or maybe it’s those two sentences on the phone that have been long-lost for more than twenty years of big brother, Pei Zheng rarely wants to speak from the heart.

The old man is gone, in the end, Pei Zheng realized that he hid these words in his heart, actually do not know towards whom to tell, probably only left Gu Huai one person.

“Is it hard for you to understand what the old man did?” Pei Zheng said softly, “I don’t understand it either, people say that they should be born in the same bed, and die in the same cave, but they never loved each other, and I can’t figure out how to figure out why the old man had to be buried with your mother.”

“I understand.”

Gu Huai looked at the photo of Lu Nong smiling without haze will smile, this photo he knows, his father hid half a lifetime of photos, when he was young, he took Xia to play hide-and-seek, inadvertently cracked the safe in the study, from which he turned out this photo of his mother.

My father came home before my mother that day, and because of this photo, he and Xia had endless snacks all summer long.

It was only when he grew up that Gu Huai understood what kind of heart this photo hid.

I can’t imagine that I’ll still see it in a parallel dimension.

It’s not hard to guess that Pei Yinan in this parallel time and space is also deeply in love with Lu Nong.

It was so nice to be born to share a bed and die in the same hole, no matter what time or space they were in, they were always together.

“You understand?” Pei Zheng looked at Gu Huai unexpectedly, and Gu Huai’s expression told him that he really knew something he didn’t.

“Who was it that said they never loved each other?” Gu Huai wiped the photo for his parents with his sleeve.

Pei Zheng was silent and horrified, this was the first time he had seen Gu Huai treat the old man with respect, surprisingly similar to how he treated his mother.

And what did Gu Huai’s words mean? When did his father and Gu Huai’s mother ever love each other?

But if they didn’t love each other, how do you explain the old man’s request for a joint burial?

“Whether they love each other or not, don’t you and I know best? You hate me and the Pei family, in the final analysis, it’s all because of their irresponsible union.”

When he was young, Pei Zheng couldn’t stand the cold home, and left, leaving home for many years to work outside, while the young Gu Huai could only stay in that home, living the same life as he did when he was a child.

Even worse than him, Pei Zheng in the end is the Pei family bloodline, the next person to see the dish will not bully him, Gu Huai is different, no mother, the old man has always believed that if you have the ability to return that set, you can imagine how miserable Gu Huai’s childhood will be.

This was also the reason why Pei Zheng had tolerated Gu Huai for so many years, and he always felt guilty in his heart towards Gu Huai.

Gu Huai wanted to speak, the stifling pain in his chest stopped him, and after a fit of coughing, a blinding red color seeped out of his palm.

“You …… coughed up blood?” Pei Zheng knew that Gu Huai was in bad health, but he didn’t expect it to be this bad, coughing up blood in his prime.

Gu Huai took out a handkerchief and wiped off the blood stains on his palm, saying in a faint voice, “It’s fine.”

“Brother, sometimes what you see isn’t always the whole story.”

Although Gu Huai didn’t know what was happening in this world, just by seeing this picture of his mother, he was 100% sure that his father loved his mother as much as ever.

He then had the bottom line.

“What did you call me?” Pei Zheng was more concerned about what Gu Huai called him.

Gu Huai smiled faintly, like the warm winter sun, sweeping away the gloom, “Big brother, let me tell you a story.”

He didn’t know why he had come to this world, but he had a feeling that he would eventually be a passerby, a world where he was seriously ill, had no family, loved ones, or friends, and walked alone, walking on the edge of the law.

One wrong step into the abyss, and if his arrival could change anything, he wanted to try.

“Where to begin? Let’s start with this photo, which I’m guessing was put on the headstone at Dad’s request ……”

Gu Huai sat down on the floor and patted the seat beside him, signaling Pei Zheng to sit down, and began to tell the story of what had happened in his world in detail.

Gu Huai tells a warm and loving story about a dignified and benevolent father, a lively and narrow-minded mother, a hilarious and generous elder brother, a younger sister who is just like his elder brother, and a kind grandmother who is good at making all kinds of food.

That’s nice.

The family lives happily ever after, the beauty of it is like a dream, Pei Zheng did not want to believe it, but Gu Huai said so true, so true that looking back on the past, constantly if, if at first Lu Nong like in Gu Huai’s story, no longer dwell in the past to pull himself together, if he did not run away from home, if ……

Unfortunately there are no ifs.

Gu Huai is the only one who walks alone in this world. Pei Zheng, who is only half a hundred years old, also has no family, no children, and he only has one brother left.

The brother who’s been fighting for half his life.

Pei Zheng was complicated beyond words, “You’re not Gu Huai, are you?”

“I am, brother, I’m Xiao Huai.” Gu Huai spread a smile.

……

Gu Huai was pushed awake.

“Second Brother! Quickly take out the gift you received last night and show it to your old sister me, come on, big brother gave you a big parcel yesterday, what exactly is inside? Mysterious.”

A pretty little girl wearing a flowery dress with a ponytail “da da da da” three steps and two steps pounced on Gu Huai, Gu Huai stifled a grunt, if it was according to his broken body in the past, had to cough a shocking not.

But strangely enough, he was breathing like never before, as if he had returned to a time when he hadn’t been sick more than ten years ago.

Gu Huai realized that something was wrong, and he quietly surveyed his surroundings and himself.

First of all, he has these hands, the skin on his hands is delicate, not like a person in his thirties has hands, but like a pair of teenager’s hands, and the touch is real, never like a bystander mischief.

Moreover, the little girl on top of him called him “second brother”, but Gu Huai never had a sister.

He pushed the little girl out of the way and stepped out of bed, going straight to open the secret door to the bedroom, which was indeed the restroom.

“What are you doing, Ergo?” The little girl behind her muttered unhappily as she was pushed away.

Gu Huai touched his face in the mirror, the man in the mirror, no, I should say the boy was exactly the same as Gu Huai when he was sixteen or seventeen years old, except that there was a hint of less hostility and more calmness than him.

Gu Huai turned around, looked down and straight at the little girl who called out to his second brother, and asked with a different kind of compulsion in his voice, “Sister, what’s your name?”

The little girl tilted her head and approached Gu Huai, nuzzling her toes to try to put her hand on Gu Huai’s forehead, which was subconsciously dodged by Gu Huai, ”Second brother, you’re not sick, are you? What’s my name? My name is Xia Cub, your cute and beautiful little sister.”

After squatting for a few moments, the little girl suddenly erupted into a shout of surprise, “Wow! Great, Second Brother’s smart brain is finally broken hahahahahaha, now I’m the smartest cub in the whole family, hahahahahaha I’m going to tell Grandma Wu and Papa ……”

After saying that, the little girl who called herself Xia Cub didn’t care to ask for another gift from Gu Huai, jumped and ran out of Gu Huai’s bedroom, shouting all the way.

“……”

Gu Huai rubbed his brow, if someone this was someone teasing him, making a play was too real.

Or is this one of his dreams?

But it is said that daydreaming and nightdreaming, Gu Huai has never fantasized about any family sister, nor does he need a family, he has always lived a sober life.

Gu Huai walked out of the bedroom and picked his way down the stairs.

“Xiao Huai is awake, come and have breakfast, let’s not wait for that lazy bastard of your mom, let her sleep, we’ll eat by ourselves.” A kind-looking old woman saw Gu Huai coming downstairs, scooping up congee while rambling on.

The main seat is sitting on a man who is reading the newspaper, Gu Huai see the man’s appearance pupils crinkled, is long dead years Pei Silent An, now Pei Silent An face is not young, but there is not the slightest bit of old, is still handsome, calm and deep.

On the side of the Xia cub sat on Pei Silk An’s hand, tugging on Pei Silk An’s arm and chirping, “Dad, grandma, you guys listen to me, the second brother, he’s confused, just now he can’t even remember what my name is. Do you guys think his head is broken?”

Not waiting for Pei Yin’an and Wu Lou Lou to speak, the Xia cub stroked his chin and continued without taking a breath, “Ha, second brother’s head is broken, the smartest cub in the family is not second brother, it’s me, Pei Xiaoxia!”

“Your big brother was eaten by you!?”

With the sound of a melon crashing, Pei Xiaoxia covered her head with an “Aigoo”, “Big brother! You’re bullying me again.”

Pei Zheng let out a “humph” and walked over to Gu Huai and put his arm around his shoulders, “Lao Er, what are you gawking at, hurry up and sit down to eat, if you don’t eat, there won’t be anything left to eat, it’s all been eaten up by Lao San.”

Gu Huai froze, so his big brother was Pei Zheng.

Pei Xiaoxia followed Pei Zheng’s tone and “grunted” twice, “Big brother, let’s share the same with each other, you don’t eat less than me.”

Pei Zheng:”…… you compare with me?”

“Hmph, can only compare this,” Pei Xiaoxia said smugly, “than IQ I want to compare with the second brother, not with you, you can not even ranked in the family intelligence list of the top three!”

Pei Zheng was speechless, “What kind of list is this? How come I don’t know?”

“Oh, I ranked it myself, dad first, mom second, second brother third, grandma Wu fourth, me fifth, little black sixth, you, barely at the bottom.” Summer cub patted his chest and said.

“Excluding the adults in the family, that leaves Ergo and I to tell it like it is.”

Pei Zheng:”…… “This life is considered to be lost to Lu Nong this pair of mother and daughter.

Well, even a dog is ahead of him.

“Heh, you were originally female.” Pei Zheng grabbed the loophole in Pei Xiaoxia’s words and mocked her.

Pei Xiaoxia huffed and glared at Pei Zheng.

Pei Zheng smiled smugly, nearly thirty years old, fighting with his sister smiling with a sunny face.

Gu Huai looked really horrified, how could he have such a dream?

“Alright, stop it, no big deal, eat.” The old woman that Pei Xia Cub called grandma softly scolded Pei Xia Cub.

Pei Xiaoxia is not afraid of the summer, mom is used to father pain, the most afraid of is Wu Lou Lou, she moved to her father’s side, poking pops for help.

Pei Silian received a signal from his daughter, put down the newspaper in his hands, the silver pair of rings on the ring finger is conspicuous, Gu Huai purposely looked at it more, the wedding ring ……

“Grandma” had just said that their mother was still sleeping, so had his mother not died in this dream?

Gu Huai’s heart shook.

Pei Jingan patted the little summer cub’s head, “Go and call mom to come downstairs for dinner.”

The quirky Pei Xiaoxia laughed evilly, “I know, grandma said that skipping breakfast is not good for your health, daddy cares about mommy, right?”

After saying that, Pei Xiaoxia “stomped” up to the second floor.

“What’s the matter with you today, Er? Why haven’t you said anything all morning? It’s not true that your head is broken like Lao San said, is it?” Pei Zheng cornered Gu Huai.

Gu Huai didn’t move and said, “It’s fine, just a little dizzy.”

“Dizzy? Can you still go out and play a game then? It’s hard for me to find time to play with you, you won’t pigeonhole me, right?” Pei Zheng peeled an egg and put it into Gu Huai’s bowl.

Gu Huai stared blankly at the eggs in the bowl, how could he not expect that in his lifetime he would sit with his nemesis and eat breakfast together, and his nemesis himself even peeled the eggs for him personally.

“…… won’t.”

Pei Zheng: “That’s good, it’s been a long time since the two of us brothers had a fight, did you kid secretly practice every day?”

Behind him came Pei Xia cubs young cat pampering voice, “Mommy big brother bullied me.”

“It’s not bad if you don’t bully your big brother.” A nice female voice sounded behind Gu Huai.

Gu Huai, who had always lived recklessly, froze for the first time, and he didn’t even dare to look back.