pupil mirror

The slender girl's fingers fumbled in the drawer a few times.

"Huh? Where did you go?" 14-year-old Cao Lin tilted her head and rummaged through Cao Wanhong's desk looking for her things. Her long hair fell on the desk and swept the thin dust.

Cao Lin's finger touched a square piece of cardboard, and she hesitated to take it out and glanced at it. There was a public phone written on it, and Cao Wanhong's pencil handwriting marked the word "Shen" beside it, and Cao Lin's heart skipped a beat.

In her memory, her mother Lin Jiayi said that she was kidnapped in Qingshui Hospital when she was just born, and she vaguely remembered that there was indeed a card with a contact number in this story.It's a pity that Lin Jiayi fell ill because of the twists and turns after giving birth, and passed away early. Cao Wanhong was always busy with business and didn't care about home. Cao Lin rubbed the card and sat lazily in the chair, facing the card The window lighted it again and again, and it was a piece of paper that was slightly stiffer than ordinary paper, and there was nothing special about it except for the line of numbers.

The halo penetrated the cardboard to emit a faint transparent light, piercing through the curious thoughts in the girl's eyes.In the past 14 years, in addition to providing her with a luxurious and luxurious life, the desire to control and conquer in her heart has also grown out of control along with the giant Yuanhong Group.There was a meandering thought in her heart, she wanted to know who was the person who kidnapped her, and this person Cao Wanhong obviously knew, Cao Lin didn't want her father to know that she was struggling with this matter, so she decided to investigate secretly by herself .

So, after Cao Lin finished junior high school, she asked her family to go back to Qingshui County to study on the grounds that Wuzhou’s academic pressure was too great. Cao Wanhong felt that it didn’t matter. Stuffed into Qingshui Vocational College for several years while reading and playing.However, Qingshui said whether it was big or small, how to independently check the source of this call baffled Cao Lin.

Until the dance in the first grade of Vocational College, she met a girl named Xiaoyue.No, it should be said that it was a boy.When Li Xiao introduced himself as Xiaoyue, Cao Lin was so scared that she squatted down on the ground.Li Xiao was also admitted to Qingshui Vocational College later. When most people dreamed back at midnight, he liked to pretend to be a girl, swaying on the dance floor, but this was not unacceptable to Cao Lin. She found that this boy Not only does she not have any extravagant thoughts about herself, but she is also a very caring girlfriend—especially when Cao Lin asked about checking the phone number.

In early summer, the temperature in Qingshui was already mixed with some annoying hotness. Cao Lin took the address of the public phone that Li Xiao had found out to a canteen near the shantytown in Longwan.Places like Longwan belonged to a completely unfamiliar alien planet in Cao Lin’s first 16 years of life. The ground was full of colorful garbage and black and dirty water.The glamorous Ms. Cao is standing here at the moment, really like a perfume lily that has entered a messy vegetable market. No matter in appearance or smell, "I went to the wrong set" is written all over her forehead.

Cao Lin leaned her heels against the glass counter in front of the canteen, and unconsciously kicked the stones on the ground with one foot.She tried to find out something, but she opened her mouth and didn't know where to ask. It has been 16 years since she was kidnapped. It is a miracle that this canteen is still there. How could she find any clues related to that incident.

Suddenly, a pair of washed white sneakers appeared next to her pair of white leather shoes worth more than a thousand yuan.

Cao Lin raised her head, and in the slowly setting sun, a clean and pleasant face occupied her line of sight in the backlight, with a blurred golden spot attached to the back of her head, looking at her curiously.

"Do you live nearby? Why have I never seen you before?" Shen Li glanced at Cao Lin's expensive attire from top to bottom, and felt that the style of the shantytown in Longwan was really not on the same planet.

Cao Lin smiled: "I don't live here, I'm here to find a friend, surnamed Shen."

Shen Li's eyes widened suddenly: "My surname is Shen? Coincidentally, my surname is Shen, and our family's surname is Shen. Hello, my name is Shen Li, may I ask who you are?"

Cao Lin suddenly stood up straight, suddenly a little embarrassed: "Ah? You, hello..."

Shen Li went to the canteen to buy a bottle of soda, and then turned to Cao Lin: "Do you want soda? Please drink it."

Just as Cao Lin was about to wave her hand, Shen Li stuffed a glass bottle of Coke into her arms.

Shen Li: "You said you were looking for me? Is there something wrong? I don't seem to know you very well."

Cao Lin took a sip of Coke, and a burst of carbonic acid rushed straight to her forehead, choking her to cough. In the moment of clutching her chest, she thought of a way of saying: "I am Cao from Qingshui Vocational College. Lin, I heard that there is a beautiful girl named Shen in your school, I want to invite her to our school dance, so it seems that it should be you. Do you want to?"

As she spoke, Cao Lin stretched out the glass bottle in front of her.

Shen Li was stunned looking at her, she really didn't know what was going on with the school belle, since she bid farewell to the boy who made her dream at Wuzhou Public University during the winter vacation last semester, she never opened her heart to anyone , the girl's heart scalded by ice and snow has not yet healed, so she really doesn't want to go to the dance party to join in the fun.However, Cao Lin's gaze was very sincere and enthusiastic, which was a kind of ardor completely different from the indifferent Shen Li. Shen Li hesitated for a while, and then slightly touched her glass bottle with Cao Lin's, and the air There was a crisp sound of "铛" in the air, and Shen Li smiled at her: "Okay!"

A seed called "Friendship" suddenly fell into the moist soil of Longwan and germinated, but it took root in Shen Li's heart alone.

Shen Yong is a worker in a paper mill in Qingshui. He often picks up some discarded and unqualified cardboard boxes to pack sundries.Cao Lin gradually went in and out of Shen Li's house, and saw a cardboard box made of the same material as the cardboard with the public phone in Shen Li's house, reconfirming that Shen Yong was the one who kidnapped her.

The seeds of "friendship" gradually start a prairie fire, burning into a handful of fireworks blooming in the girl's heart.

Shen Li told Cao Lin that she was an abandoned orphan, and she was brought back from Qingshui County Hospital by Shen Yong to treat her sister, but her sister was dead and could not be revived.

When the girl said this, she seemed to vomit blood from her heart, but Cao Lin felt that there was something wrong with the familiar story at this time and place. She kept an eye out and looked through Shen Li's medical report. Li's blood type is Rh negative type A blood.Cao Lin vaguely remembered that her mother had this rare blood type, but she herself had type B blood.

Cao Lin went home and read the inspection report of Cao Wanhong's car accident that year, and suddenly found that her father had type A blood.

Where did my type B blood come from?

The smart Cao Lin seemed to understand what happened at the first moment.As for Shen Li, it seemed that her life experience was only limited to the fact that Shen Yong carried her back to give her child a kidney transplant.

Cao Lin persuaded Shen Li not to go to the hospital for follow-up visits to take those useless medicines, and volunteered to order expensive imported health care medicines for Shen Li.

The seed of "friendship" finally peeled off its beautiful shell, revealing its true colors.

It turned out that it was a beautiful poppy that grew into a poisonous pill.

Three years ago, at the end of the Longwan shanty town, the dense leaves of the ginkgo tree supported half of the golden sky.

The girl stood at the door of Shen Yong's house, watching Shen Yong from a distance carrying a vegetable basket as he came from the narrow corridor of the shantytown. The dark eaves blocked half of Shen Yong's face, like a clown with half of his makeup on, looking Very weird.

Shen Yong glanced at the person standing in front of the door, and asked suspiciously: "Little girl, who are you looking for?"

The girl squinted her eyes and smiled: "Mr. Shen, my name is Xiaoyue, can I lend you a moment to talk?"

When Shen Yong heard Li Xiao's voice, he was so startled that he stepped into the pond that had accumulated all year round at the door: "You, who are you?!"

Li Xiao took out Shen Li's favorite hair accessory, as well as Shen Li's childhood medical records stolen by Cao Lin, and raised his eyes slightly: "How is it, do you have time?"

There was a trace of sadness in Shen Yong's horrified eyes. He looked at the hair ornament that Shen Li often wore on his head, and the vegetable basket in his hand fell into the dirty stagnant water with a clatter. : "Come in and talk."

When the two turned around and entered the house, the neighbor's aunt not far away took back the clothes and bamboo poles that were drying outside, and said to his wife in the house for fear that the world would not be chaotic: "Hey, look, Lao Shen has a young man here today. Girl, do you think they are related? This old Shen's wife has been running away for so many years, and he is still looking for such a young one."

In the room, Li Xiao cut straight to the point: "Mr. Shen, we all know that you dropped Shen Li and Cao Lin. Mr. Cao is very upset. He loves Ms. Cao very much. He doesn't want Ms. Cao to know about this and suffer for no reason." Misfortune. After so many years, you should also make atonement for what you have done, Shen Li's life is in our hands now, whether she lives or dies is up to you."

Shen Yong was sitting on the sofa, his eyes were dull, he was thinking about the way he saw Shen Li waving her little hands on the extra bed in the neonatal ward of the hospital, fingering the only photo taken with Shen Li over and over again.

He looked around at the clean and tidy house that Shen Li had tidied up. The simple one-story house was full of green plants full of vitality. On the coffee table was written a piece of white paper on which Shen Li should stay at home before going back to school, telling Shen Yong to go to bed every day. Check the water, electricity and gas, don't be fooled by the three meals on time, and remember to add clothes when it's cold.Shen Yong smoothed the paper and stuck it under the glass of the coffee table.

Forget it, Shen Yong suddenly felt as if some kind of burden had been unraveled in his heart, if it wasn't for Shen Li, he would have made atonement long ago.

He said softly: "Is it because I disappear and make this secret a secret forever, and you promise to let Shen Li go."

Li Xiao: "Of course, but I still need you to hand over something."

"You can ask for anything, but I want you to know that I have left evidence, as long as you don't touch Chen Li, no one will know, but if something happens to Chen Li, the evidence will be made public, and you can't escape! "

Li Xiao smiled and agreed, but he thought softly in his heart: He would never let Cao Lin know that Shen Yong was the backer, otherwise... how could he make Cao Lin decide to do it...

Half an hour later, Shen Yong handed over all the family medical records and the fund-raising agreement to Li Xiao.

Li Xiao patted his skirt and stood up, and said softly: "Death should be clean and tidy. It's best not to let Shen Li and the police have any suspicion. Weisu car rental company, you can rent a car at any time, understand?" ?”

A few days later, Shen Yong consolidated all the deposits into a passbook opened in Shen Li's name, and called Shen Li, who was studying at Wu Normal University, back home.

Shen Yong put the 6 yuan passbook in front of Shen Li: "You are already an adult, this family owes you too much, you take this money, and you can live well in the future, I am sorry for you, it is too late to pay it back in this life... "

Shen Yong originally wanted to say that in his next life he would pay you back like a horse, but he remembered Li Xiao's warning, and bit the tip of his tongue: "It's too late in this life... I hope this money can be used as a little bit of compensation."

Shen Li didn't seem to be surprised by Shen Yong's confession: "Dad, it's been so many years, you still can't let it go, can you? I won't go anywhere, if I want to go, I can go long ago!"

Shen Li pushed the passbook back in front of Shen Yong: "I didn't blame you, you and grandma thought I was still young at that time, and thought I was talking nonsense when I said that I voluntarily saved my sister. I'm an adult, I'll tell you again, donating a kidney to my sister was voluntary, and failing to save her was the most painful thing in my life, no less painful than yours, understand enough?"

Shen Li's voice echoed in the empty room, trembling slightly: "I never blamed you for bringing me back from the hospital. You gave me a home, and you let me live for my sister. You thought I I don't know what you did after my sister died in order to let me live with a normal identity!"

Shen Yong suddenly stood up and shouted loudly: "Stop talking!"

You are the daughter of the Cao family, if I hadn't kidnapped you back, if I hadn't selfishly wanted to replace my daughter's kidney, your current life would be a level of happiness and joy that you couldn't believe, and more importantly , you will be whole and healthy, not as you are now.

Shen Yong couldn't help crying, he couldn't say a single word of these words, he couldn't tell Shen Li, he couldn't let her know the truth, only if she didn't know, could she live.

Shen Li looked at Shen Yong who was standing, lowered her head and said softly: "When I was young, my sister and I liked playing peek-a-boo the most. Until now, I don't think she's gone. I just think that I haven't found her yet." It's just her."

She took the girl out from behind the moldy old box, played boring games with her over and over again, and treated her like jewels. For the first time, she understood that fragile objects should be handled with care and gentleness. also the same

Shen Yong glanced at Shen Li, and said softly: "Father and daughter, but there is no choice, sister, don't blame dad."

In Shen Li's clear eyes, a selfish and ugly conspiracy had already been turned into a cloud of nurturing grace and brotherhood.

Shen Yong once wanted to exchange this girl's life for his daughter's, but in the end he used Shen Li's name to give this girl a family, a family relationship that could not be chosen.But at this moment, Shen Li's life was being threatened. All he could think of was to give Shen Li his life back. Among the poor, exchanging lives for lives was the most equal compensation he could think of.

However, Shen Yong would never understand that Shen Li had a choice, and she had already chosen it.

Shen Yong didn't have time to think about these things, and he didn't have the energy to think about them again. Nothing is more important than keeping Shen Li alive.

A day later, he walked towards the car rental company without looking back.

The third volume "Taming to the Way, to the Hard Ice"