PLTRSC Chapter 35

 

[That old bastard Gou Sun said he was going to break your legs, but you ended up breaking your own legs first.]

Li Hu sent several messages in a row, most of which were ridicule and abuse. His words and sentences were incoherent, but they could not completely conceal his excitement.

He was still young and illiterate, so he must have sent the message by voice-to-text conversion. Jiang Tang could imagine what he looked like just by looking at his message.

A boy who was much taller than other children of the same age pressed the voice button on his mobile phone with his thumb, whose nail was half bitten off. He became more and more excited as he spoke, and there was no trace of childish innocence on his flamboyant face.

Then a call came from this number.

Jiang Tang didn’t answer.

[Say it if there’s anything to say.]

[I checked your wheelchair. It’s high-functioning and very valuable. You must be very rich now, right?]

The person who sent the message had changed.

Jiang Tang pursed his lips habitually, without any surprise in his heart.

This was the adoptive mother who claimed to have raised him for so many years.

[If you don’t want to come back, then don’t come back. But you hurt someone, so we can’t just let it go. Gou Sun wants us to pay compensation.]

[As for the matter with your brother, he was only five years old and it wasn’t intentional. As the older brother, you should take responsibility!]

[We’ve raised you for five or six years, and our family has spent a lot of money on you. You can’t just walk away and not care about anything now.]

[Didn’t I buy you clothes last year? And the year before last, I bought you new shoes. I spent a lot of money on them. And didn’t I buy you that cell phone? You must remember these favors.]

[After all, if it weren’t for us, you would be crippled and begging for food somewhere, or even dead…]

Pop-up windows appeared on the phone one after another, and Jiang Tang watched silently.

Mother Li almost had never spoke to him in such a peaceful tone.

The clothes he wore last year… He was working in a restaurant on a very cold day, and a customer saw that he was wearing too thin and couldn’t stand it anymore, so he bought it for him.

It was a cotton coat, and he wore it carefully, fearing that it would get dirty. But when he got home, his mother saw the coat and forced him to take it off. She sold the coat and bought him a thin cotton coat from a second-hand stall for 30 yuan.

The shoes are new, but they only cost about twenty dollars.

The cell phone was discarded by Li’s mother, and Jiang Tang replaced it when he arrived in Wuyuan.

The room was quiet. Jiang Tang could feel a hand grabbing him, trying to pull him back into the darkness.

Mother Li was wrong about one thing.

It wasn’t that the group of human traffickers didn’t want to sell him for a higher price, but the twelve-year-old Jiang Tang was already very good-looking and was easily recognizable in the crowd.

Those people were afraid that the situation would worsen if the night went on, so they got rid of him as quickly as possible.

Jiang Tang looked outside.

It was still bright outside the window, with clear moonlight, almost the same as the night he escaped.

That night when he stuffed the rag into Gou Sun’s mouth to muffle the man’s screams of pain, he felt that his own life was over.

When Jiang Tang left, the man could no longer make a sound. He opened the door with his blood-stained hands, and was greeted by the pale moonlight.

The whole village was very quiet, with only the moonlight illuminating the road ahead of him.

He washed his hands in the stream behind the mountain and without any panic changed into the bloodless old clothes he had taken with him when he left.

Perhaps because he had reached a dead end and knew what was at the end of the road, Jiang Tang was not afraid at all. He only knew that Lu Yinghuai was in Wuyuan.

Before he died, he wanted to see Lu Yinghuai again.

Jiang Tang always thought that Gou Sun was dead, but it turned out that he was not. He just lost his dignity as a man and lost an eye.

Under the light, Jiang Tang lowered his head, his hair hanging down to cover the madness in his gloomy eyes, and his fingers trembled slightly uncontrollably due to some kind of excitement.

The dark fog rose from the bottom of my heart, and then became more and more, and thicker and thicker.

Let’s die together.

Let’s perish together.

Jiang Tang was trembling all over, thinking confusedly, maybe it was time.

A very faint cold fragrance entered Jiang Tang’s nose, and the glands on the back of his neck felt slightly hot. It was like an invisible snowfall, and Jiang Tang woke up almost instantly.

It was the pheromone that Lu Yinghuai left which had not yet completely disappeared from the quilt.

Jiang Tang collapsed against the head of the bed as if he was melted ice.

There was still some warmth from Lu Yinghuai’s body in the quilt, and Jiang Tang’s cold heart seemed to soften.

He didn’t want to die.

At least not now.

[Are you dead? Why aren’t you replying to my messages again?]

The hostility in Jiang Tang’s amber eyes gradually dissipated.

[How much do you want?]

[One hundred thousand.]

Jiang Tang looked at the number with self-mockery.

Li’s mother wanted to take the opportunity to blackmail him, but her inherent thinking obviously made her think that one hundred thousand was an astronomical figure.

[Give me two months.]

[No! Half a month at most!]

[I don’t have that much money right now. You have to give me some time to raise the money. One hundred thousand is not a small amount.]

[One month at most.]

Jiang Tang was silent, asked for the card number and transferred two thousand yuan.

[Don’t bother me again during this time.]

This was the first time, but it wouldn’t be the only time. Jiang Tang knew that once the extortion started, there would be no end to it.

But fortunately, their purpose was just money.

Finally, no more messages popped up on the phone.

Jiang Tang took the puppy pendant that Lu Yinghuai had specially placed next to his pillow and stroked it gently.

“I’ll sleep next to you…”

Jiang Tang rubbed his sore eyes and checked the time.

It’s almost midnight.

Mr. Lu should be asleep by now, right?

Jiang Tang carefully moved onto the wheelchair and moved slowly towards the door.

Lu Yinghuai in the next room keenly noticed a slight noise.

When his gland was injured, he lost hearing in his left ear. With the spread of pheromones, he hasn’t felt S-level super-sensitive hearing for a long time.

Almost immediately, he recognized the sound as that of a wheelchair rolling.

He stood up, took a few steps toward the door, and then stopped.

He could tell that the wheelchair was moving very slowly. Jiang Tang obviously didn’t want him to hear it and that’s why he moved so slowly on purpose.

Lu Yinghuai sat back on the bed somewhat frustrated, and restrained himself from paying attention to Jiang Tang’s movements.

Jiang Tang held the puppy pendant in one hand and pressed the door handle with the other hand. He leaned his head out to look into the corridor before closing the door and coming out.

After leaving the master bedroom, Jiang Tang became more careful. The wheelchair could not move loudly, so it took him a long time to reach the door next to his.

He don’t know if it’s an illusion, but there seems to be more pheromones here.

Jiang Tang was already feeling sleepy, and now he was completely relaxed.

He had a bad sleep quality and was always waking up from sleep. So he didn’t worry about being discovered at all, as long as he went back to the room as soon as he woke up the next time.

Mr. Lu would not have discovered that he had gone back on his word.

Fatigue completely consumed Jiang Tang. He closed his eyes and held the puppy pendant in his hand.

In his dream, he saw the moon again, and himself traveling under the moonlight.

Only this time, there was someone waiting for him at the end of the road.

Jiang Tang didn’t notice, but the bedroom door in front of him opened.

 

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