Chapter 15

Quan Huachen arrived home at 6:10, not early but definitely not late.

If it is too early, it will appear that what he said to Kang Zhuo is not true; if it is too late, the chance of "accidentally" intercepting Kang Zhuo is really zero.

It was raining heavily outside, so Quan Huachen left his umbrella under the eaves of the door to drain the water, and opened the door with his fingerprints.

As soon as he entered the door, Lan Lan waited at the door, stuck his tongue out at him, and whimpered with excitement.

Quan Huachen reached out and stroked Golden Retriever's ears, quickly changed his shoes and walked into the living room. There was a lazy food bowl not far from the entrance, and Quan Huachen saw it without taking two steps.

The food bowl was empty.

Quan Huachen thought of a possibility that Kang Zhuo did come to add dog food in the afternoon, but he was lazy and ran out of it.

Thinking like this, Quan Huachen strode to the kitchen and opened the locker under the island. The position of the dog food and the position of the clip on the seal did not change from the morning.

Quan Huachen didn't give up, he returned to the entrance and observed the placement of the slippers.

Quan Huachen only prepared two pairs of slippers at home, one pair of gray for his own use, and one pair of blue for guests to spare. Currently, only Kang Zhuo wears them.

At this time, the pair of blue slippers were neatly placed in the top corner of the shoe rack. Quan Huachen put them on by himself after Kang Zhuo left last time, and was pressed by the leather shoes next to them.

Kang Zhuo really did not come.

Quan Huachen stood in front of the entrance for a while, shook his head and smiled at himself.

The rain outside seemed to be getting worse, smashing the window and cracking. At this time, Quan Huachen finally remembered his flowers. He rushed to the window in two steps and carried the flower pot outside the window sill in.

After being ravaged by the heavy rain all afternoon, a lot of white petals fell off, and Quan Huachen was very distressed. He put the flower pot on the coffee table and looked at it carefully, counting how many flowers he had lost.

The flowerpot turned around on the coffee table, and five of the eight flowers were bald. The petals of the remaining three flowers seemed to be unable to fall off. Fortunately, there were a lot of twelve flower buds, and they were still strong.

Quan Huachen breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at the potted flower and felt that it was very similar to a child who didn't speak well.

That was more than ten years ago. It was also summer. Not long after Quan Huachen's college entrance examination, Kang Zhuo was still a little bean with no legs.

At that time, Quan Huachen's mother, Zhou Yuan, relapsed, and was admitted to the hospital under the name of Quan's family for treatment and recuperation. The top floor of the inpatient department is the VIP ward, there are four sets in total, Zhou Yuan lives in one set, and Kang Zhuo's mother Aya lives in the other set.

Although the two of them were very close, they never had contact, because Quan Xiao often went in and out of Aya's ward, and she didn't like seeing their mother and son very much at that time. In order to avoid conflict, Quan Huachen never approached Aya. Aisle over the ward.

At noon one day, Quan Huachen took the meal he made at home to the hospital. While waiting for the elevator, a little boy came beside him. He was very short and only reached Quan Huachen's thigh. With a small sun hat and a large schoolbag on his back, he stood two steps away from Quan Huachen and waited for the elevator.

Quan Huachen couldn't see his face, he could only see the ridiculously large schoolbag behind him. He guessed that the schoolbag must be half the size of the child.

After the elevator got off, Quan Huachen deliberately slowed down for a moment in accordance with the principle of respecting the old and caring for the young, and let the boy go first. He saw that he pressed the number 32 on a row of buttons next to the elevator. This is also Quan Hua. The button that Chen wants to press, the floor where the VIP ward is located.

At this moment, Quan Huachen knew that this little boy was Aya's son.

This elevator does not lead directly to the VIP floor, so the elevator stopped and walked along the way, and the crowd rushed in and out. It's very different for children who cry and scream as soon as they enter the hospital.

The farther up the car went, the fewer people there were in the car, and in the end only the two of them remained.

When the elevator finally stopped, Quan Huachen still let him go first.

Quan Huachen doesn't like children, he thinks they are stupid and noisy, but this one in front of him looks good, Quan Huachen likes to observe him for a while, so he slows down and follows him, watching him walk with two small children. Short legs walked out of the aisle with a crisp sound of "clicking", a bit like a penguin cub walking alone on a glacier in the animal world.

In front of Zhou Yuan's ward, Quan Huachen stopped to push the door to enter the room, and the accident happened at this moment.

It was probably because the floor was too slippery that the child suddenly fell to the ground with a thud.

Quan Huachen didn't plan to go up to help him. He didn't want to do much trouble, and was going to sneak into the house before the child could cry. However, as soon as he twisted the door handle, he saw the child opened his schoolbag and got up, quietly, without crying.

The corridor of the VIP ward was empty and silent, so Quan Huachen could clearly hear him talking to himself.

The boy bent down and rubbed his knees, muttering softly, "It doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt, Kang Zhuo doesn't hurt."

Boom————

The thunder was so close that it seemed to be overhead, and even the fluorescent lamps in the laboratory flickered, causing all the students in the laboratory to scream strangely.

The new equipment has greatly improved the efficiency of the experiment. Everyone wanted to try it out for themselves. When everyone was woken up by the thunder, it was almost dark.

"Oh, it's almost six o'clock, how do you eat at night?"

"Go to the cafeteria? But it's raining heavily outside..."

"Then order takeout?"

...

Kang Zhuo wasn't hungry, so he didn't join their discussion until his auditory nerve suddenly caught a familiar word. He turned his head and asked Cai Tong, who was talking just now, "Did you say 'Quanhe' just now?"

"Yeah, it's because their family is so wealthy that they donated so much equipment to our laboratory at once." Cai Tong fiddled with his phone, "I want to eat fried chicken, do you want to eat it? If you do, I'll order two more. "

Kang Zhuo abruptly ended the experiment in his hand, quickly cleaned the console, took off his goggles, picked up his bag, and ran out. After running halfway, he rushed back and took off his white coat.

Chu Weilin shouted at him from behind, "Where are you going?"

"go home!"

"You can go back when the rain stops!"

A bright light suddenly flashed through the dim window, and after two or three seconds, the thunder came as expected, and the windows were blown to the point of humming.

Quan Huachen got up from the sofa, went to the bedside table in the bedroom upstairs and found a box of white pills, he raised his head and swallowed it directly, then went downstairs to the kitchen to find water to drink.

This time, the migraine was menacing, and he hoped that the symptoms would subside on their own.

Even now, Quan Huachen is very used to half of his head acting strange from time to time. When he first suffered from migraine in his third year of high school, Quan Huachen was still very scared. He once thought he might have a terminal illness, such as a tumor in his brain or something. , but for the college entrance examination, in order not to worry Zhou Yuan, he kept gritting his teeth and never said anything.

Later, although the college entrance examination was over, Zhou Yuan fell ill. Quan Huachen was afraid that she would be worried, let alone talk about it.

When Zhou Yuan was in bed at the hospital, one night, Quan Huachen had a headache and couldn't sleep, so he sneaked out of the ward, squatted in the corridor outside and gasped in pain while covering his head.

He was in so much pain that he didn't notice when Kang Zhuo came to him, all he heard was a childish voice suddenly sounding beside him.

"What's wrong with you? Does it hurt?"

The pain made people irritable, and Quan Huachen impatiently told him to go away.

But Kang Zhuo insisted on reaching out to him, touched the top of his head lightly twice, and said, "I'll give you a rub, and it won't hurt."

Quan Huachen clicked his tongue, raised his head and looked at Kang Zhuo fiercely, hoping that the child would walk away by himself.

Quan Huachen didn't know what he looked like at the time, but he guessed from Kang Zhuo's later reaction that he might be as white as a ghost, so Kang Zhuo asked him in a panic:

"Are you dying?"

When Quan Huachen heard this, he laughed angrily, thinking that this child can really speak, he deliberately lied to him: "Yes, I will die soon, and when I die, I will become a ghost and come to you every night. ."

As expected, the child was frightened and cried, and the small mole just below the left eye was soaked with tears.

Quan Huachen wanted to tell him to shut up, but saw Kang Zhuo grab the corner of his shirt and cry, "Don't die, please, don't die..."

At first, Quan Huachen thought he was afraid of ghosts, but only later did he realize that he might have misunderstood something.

Because a week later, Aya's rescue was ineffective and she died in the hospital bed. Quan Huachen took a look to express his condolences, a beautiful and haggard omega withered and died on the hospital bed, his face was as pale as paper.

Kang Zhuo lay beside the bed and cried: "Mom, wake up, please don't die..."

The rain is so heavy that the wipers have no time to clear the rain from the front windows. Driving on the road in this weather poses a great safety hazard.

In rainy weather, when it is difficult to improve the sight by the wipers, you should immediately slow down and choose a safe place to stop - this is a question that appeared in the first subject. Kang Zhuo still remembers every rule in the exam. I've been driving for a year since got driver's license, and haven't been deducted once.

There were a lot of vehicles on the road, and they were all rushing home after get off work. Kang Zhuo wiped off the water mist from the window with a rag, and did not start the car for a long time.

Lanlan has been following Quan Huachen all the time. Although it is very big, it has little courage. When frightened by the thunder, it will only cry and shrink to Quan Huachen's legs.

The efficacy of the painkiller came up, and Quan Huachen felt a lot more comfortable. He squatted down to soothe Lanlan for a while, and then took out the dog food bag from the cabinet to add food to it.

The spherical particles fell into the stainless steel food bowl, and Quan Huachen began to lose his mind again.

Kang Zhuo had been fostered by Quan's family for several years. His mother died early, and his father couldn't take care of him when he was working outside. Quan Xiao felt sorry for Kang Zhuo, so he took him to his home and raised him with Yin Dongfan.

Even if Quan Huachen didn't know Kang Shicheng's identity, he knew that he had a high position in the city hall, because when every family had a New Year's Eve dinner on New Year's Eve, if they turned on the TV and watched the live news, eight times out of ten they could see him walking. grassroots.

This also means that Kang Shicheng rarely goes home for the New Year.

Quan Xiao couldn't see Kang Zhuo being wronged, so their family of three also brought Kang Zhuo with them when they returned to their old house for Chinese New Year.

Kang Zhuo is very well-behaved, obedient, and a beautiful half-blood, and no one dislikes him.

After the New Year's Eve dinner, when the adults gathered to talk, Yin Dongfan and Kang Zhuo were playing in the yard. Occasionally, some collateral relatives of the Quan family passed by. Those who Yin Dongfan didn't need to care about, Kang Zhuo had to stop, and the uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters called one by one.

They teased Kang Zhuo like a cat, pinched his nose, pinched his face, even if it hurt him, he would not speak, but would just say to all the adults: Happy New Year, Gong Xi Fa Cai.

Then he finally walked in front of Quan Huachen, raised his head timidly, and imitated Yin Dongfan to call him: "Uncle..."

The spilled dog food fell to the ground, lazily and eagerly licked it.

Quan Huachen finally recovered and put away the dog food bag.

The room was very quiet, there was no other sound except for the pounding rain, but if you listened carefully, there seemed to be beeps of the password keys. Quan Huachen suspected that he was hallucinating. He was about to get up and bring the dog food back to the kitchen. The door not far away suddenly opened.

The strong wind rushed into the room with a damp and dusty smell, and there was also a faint scent of jasmine hidden in it.

Kang Zhuo stood at the door wet, panting, looking at Quan Huachen with bright and clear eyes like a chick.

"uncle……"