Eye of Sin

Maybe there wasn't much business in the store right now, so the boss was extra free. As soon as the two of them sat down, he came over with the simple menu and put it on the table: "What do you want to eat?"

Huo Yan only glanced at the menu: "Let's have a bowl of family portrait."

"Me too." Ning Shuyi didn't know what was delicious in this store. Since Huo Yan brought him here, it shouldn't be a mistake to order from him.

The wontons were served shortly after. The bowl was very big and the wontons were also very big.

The reason why this wonton is called "Family Portrait" is because the fillings of each wonton are different. This bowl seems to have all the flavors of wontons in this store, and there is one for each kind of filling.

Ning Shuyi couldn't finish more than half of the bowl. This was probably the most comfortable and solid meal she had eaten in a while.

Huo Yan had been eating without saying a word since he sat down and ordered the meal. He ate so fast that Ning Shuyi couldn't help but wonder whether he had eaten the whole wonton. I swallowed it whole and didn't taste the filling inside at all.

When Ning Shuyi finished most of her bowl, Huo Yan already had an empty bowl in front of him. He sat there and watched Ning Shuyi eat quietly. When he saw her pushing away the bowl, he asked. :"I am full?"

Ning Shuyi nodded: "Has it been a long time since you finished eating?"

Huo Yan nodded and asked Ning Shuyi with his eyes if he was ready to leave. The two of them got up to check out.

"Fortunately, you are eating with me. If you are eating with Ren Yaya, she can eat one meal, which is enough for you to take a nap after the meal!" After walking out of the wonton shop, Ning Shuyi and Huo Yan opened the joke.

Huo Yan didn't say anything. Ning Shuyi looked at his slightly lost expression and then looked at the time: "Let's go and change your medicine first!"

Huo Yan did not refuse this proposal, but he did not speak during the whole process.

He is also a man of few words on weekdays, but he seemed particularly silent today.

Ning Shuyi pretended not to notice, and kept everything as usual. He accompanied Huo Yan to change the medicine. It was now past the evening rush hour. The two of them took the car home. There were not many people in the car, and there was no need to worry about Huo Yan's wound being injured. squeeze in.

When they arrived about two stops away from Ning Shuyi's house, Huo Yan gently touched her with his elbow: "Get off at this stop and take a walk."

"Okay!" Ning Shuyi raised no objection. The two got off the bus two stops early and walked slowly back along the roadside.

After walking for a while, Huo Yan suddenly said: "I haven't dared to go to that store for many years!"

"Then why did you want to take me there today?" Seeing that he was willing to speak, Ning Shuyi simply threw out the questions in his heart without any hesitation.

"I want to untie the knot in my heart, and ask you to help me be brave." Huo Yan said in a particularly serious tone and expression that anyone who heard it would think it was a joke or a joke.

"How about that? Have I emboldened you? Have you solved the knot in your heart?" Ning Shuyi didn't think he was joking and looked at him seriously.

"Untied, thank you." Huo Yan nodded.Arriving inside the community, there was no chill at night anymore. Ning Shuyi pointed to the pavilion downstairs: "Would you like to sit downstairs for a while before going up?
I am a very honest person. Your actions today make me very curious, but if you don’t want to say anything, I promise to control my curiosity and never ask a word! "

"Sit down for a while." Huo Yan was amused by Ning Shuyi's candid attitude. Although the smile was very light, it still added a bit of color to his dull face.

The two people sat down in the pavilion. Huo Yan looked up at the lights on the houses in front of him. Those lights were reflected in his eyes, seeming to flicker: "The person I met in the hospital before is mine. Former foster mother.”

Ning Shuyi was stunned for a moment: "I've heard of my ex-girlfriend. This is the first time I've heard someone say 'former adoptive mother'."

"I don't have an ex-girlfriend." Huo Yan shook his head after listening to her words.

"Is this the point?" Ning Shuyi couldn't laugh or cry. At the same time, Huo Yan's name to the woman just now made Ning Shuyi have a bad guess: "The point is, what does former adoptive mother mean? You were... She adopted and then abandoned her?"

"It's not abandoned, it's considered 'returned'." Huo Yan's lips moved, revealing a bitter smile, "After all, I was abandoned once as soon as I was born. If I was abandoned twice, it would be a disaster in my life. It’s a bit too miserable.”

Ning Shuyi didn't answer. This was the first time Huo Yan was willing to mention the past in front of her. She had always guessed that the origin of this guy's personality was closely related to his past experiences, but he didn't want to say it, and she didn't want to talk about it. I won’t go and get to the bottom of things out of curiosity and gossip.

Now that Huo Yan was willing to speak, he either looked away or couldn't hold himself any longer.

Anyway, it's always a good thing to speak up.

"I grew up in a welfare institution." Huo Yan's character, once he opened his mouth, would not choose to hesitate or hesitate. "Of the children who grew up together at that time, some had accidents at home, and some had family members who fell ill and died. , they all had to go to the orphanage because of helplessness.

I was the only one who was abandoned at the entrance of the orphanage when I was a baby. So since I was a child, I have always felt that maybe compared with other children, I am not that lovable, so I have low self-esteem.

When I was five or six years old, a couple came to the orphanage to adopt a child. I don’t know why, but they picked me and took me home. "

"Are they good to you?" Ning Shuyi tried to ask, although judging from the previous title of "former adoptive mother", the answer to this question did not seem to be that exciting.

"Fortunately, I can't say that I'm particularly affectionate, but he's not bad to me." Huo Yan nodded and didn't say anything to express his anger because of his own experience. He just took an objective attitude and said, "The conditions in their home are I had more than enough food and clothing, and the books I could provide were not many.

What's more, even though they adopted me, my relatives and friends always felt that the adopted child had no blood relationship, was not well-fed, and would not be as good as my own child after all, so the two of them were more polite than close to me.

I lived in that home for about two years, a peaceful two years. Then my adoptive mother suddenly fell ill. She lay in bed every day, and her adoptive father had to bring her meals to the bedside. I don’t know what happened to her. During that time, the two of them often closed the door to talk, and sometimes the adoptive mother would cry.

Then one day, my adoptive father said he wanted to take me out. The two of us went out to the mall. He bought me a set of sportswear, and then took me to the wonton shop I just visited. "

I wish you all a happy holiday and a happy reunion!