Chapter 73(1/2)
Li Lan, you are so disgusting.
Other people's mothers are a warm harbor, able to provide care and comfort to their children.
As for his mother, as soon as they met, Li Zhuiyuan felt that the skin on his face had a vague tendency to fall off.
They are both mother and son, and fellow patients.
From a certain perspective, they should be the mother and son who know each other best in the world.
But precisely because of this, when the two of them face each other, the disguises they create will become ineffective, but they rely heavily on this disguise to survive.
Because they are both so smart.
Li Zhuiyuan closed his eyes.
Over the past six months, his condition has been well controlled, especially in the past few months, and he has not had another illness.
He can clearly feel his own changes. When facing outsiders, he no longer observes words and expressions in order to play his role perfectly in front of everyone.
When facing outsiders, he gradually became too lazy to act.
When facing people close to him, he often deliberately refrains from performing and happily feels every instinctive emotional reaction, even just a little bit.
But this is a seedling, and he firmly believes that under his careful care, it will grow into a towering tree in the future.
However, when the building is built higher, the fall is often more severe.
It's funny, just a simple meeting, my "treatment effect" in the past half a year has been loosened, and what will happen after the loosening is likely to be a landslide.
Because when facing Li Lan, all your postures, movements, and expressions will be mobilized. Knowing that disguise is useless, when people are stripped naked, they will subconsciously grab everything around them that can cover their bodies.
Fortunately, now is not the time when I was answering the phone at Aunt Zhang's canteen. I had to endure the vicious ridicule from Li Lan while pretending to be a warm mother and son in front of Li Weihan, Cui Guiying and others.
He came to the family home to ask Grandpa Zhang to help him "decipher" the location of the remaining locations. This had nothing to do with whether he was Li Lan's son or whether the relationship between mother and son was good. He understood some of these old professors too well.
It's a hobby, old friends have new research topics together, and that is fun in itself.
Therefore, he no longer needs to perform here with Li Lan, and he does not need to care about the eyes of the people around him.
This is Li Lan's social network, not Li Zhuiyuan's.
The mother opened her arms, but failed to wait for her son to fall into her arms.
Li Zhuiyuan calmly moved his eyes away. He did not grab the hands of Wu Xinhan or Teacher Yan and asked them to take him out of here quickly.
This is his home, and the woman in front of him is his mother. It is not convenient for two old people to do this. Of course, they can do it with explanation, deception and a tough attitude, but it is a bit troublesome.
Things can actually be very simple.
For example...run.
However, Li Lan took the lead.
After all, we have been acting friends for so many years, and even though we haven't seen each other for so long, the tacit understanding is still there.
When Li Zhui Yuansheng thought of running away, Li Lan had already taken action.
Everything happened in a flash. When Li Lan found that her son would not throw himself into her arms, she bent down and trotted towards her son.
The two actions connected very quickly, so quickly that outsiders would hardly feel anything was wrong.
It's not just the son who falls in love with a script, it's also normal for the mother to run over and hug her child.
As for the child, he has not seen his mother for a long time and is a little timid, which is understandable.
Li Zhuiyuan was hugged by Li Lan.
The boy didn't find it strange. Senior is a senior after all.
There were tears in the corners of Li Lan's eyes, and her expression was just right. She hugged the boy's back with her right hand and held his head with her left hand, and first kissed the boy's face.
Li Zhuiyuan wanted to laugh a little, she could actually endure the physical nausea and continue the kiss.
I feel like I'm being wrapped around deathly.
But then, Li Lan's words in his ear after the kiss made Li Zhuiyuan regain the familiar feeling of being dominated and blindly followed.
Normally, mother and son are each other's weaknesses, but they are each other's knives poking at each other's weaknesses.
She said softly:
"Want to know about that seabed?"
Immediately, she increased the volume:
"Come, son, go home with mom, and mom will have a nice talk with you."
Li Zhuiyuan showed an innocent smile on his face, raised his hands, and took the initiative to hug "Dead" in front of him.
After a while, Li Lan stood up and apologized to Principal Wu and Teacher Yan. She wanted to stay with her son for a while.
This gesture made Principal Wu and Teacher Yan a little flattered, and they quickly waved their hands to indicate that they did not need to ask for their opinions.
Several retired old professors from Jiangsu nearby invited them to drink tea and play chess, and Principal Wu and others immediately agreed.
Li Lan held Li Zhuiyuan's hand, and the mother and son walked toward home.
Along the way, many grandparents and grandmothers took the initiative to say hello, and the mother and son responded naturally.
No matter what kind of questions they asked, their answers and cooperation were all very appropriate, without slowing down their pace at all.
When they opened the courtyard door and walked in, the mother and son were still warm and affectionate.
Because the courtyard is very small and is in a row, people in the courtyard next door can still see here while standing on the steps.
Li Lan opened the door to the inner room and walked in.
Li Zhuiyuan came in and closed the door.
The moment the "click" sound was heard, the temperature in the room seemed to drop several degrees.
This is not an illusion.
Because mother and son both lost their humanity together.
Li Lan must have been hungry. After she sat down at the dining table, she took out a few small bags from the box under the table, and then slid one of them to the boy sitting opposite.
Li Zhuiyuan picked up the bag and opened it. There were compressed biscuits inside.
He came here after the exam in the afternoon. At this moment, he was indeed hungry, but he didn't want to eat this. He put down the biscuits and wanted to save his stomach. In the evening, he had to accompany Principal Wu and others to eat Quanjude roast duck.
He actually doesn't like eating greasy duck that much, but now, he is looking forward to it very much.
The boy did not ask how Li Lan knew that "that seabed" was related to him, because it was easy to investigate.
He was Zheng Haiyang's classmate. Tan Yunlong visited Zheng Haiyang's mother in a mental hospital, and he and Tan Wenbin bought tickets to go to the mountain city together.
For a long time at the dinner table, the only sound was the sound of a woman chewing.
Li Zhuiyuan turned his head and looked at the hot water bottle placed there. It was covered with a layer of dust and there was no hot water in it.
He looked at the pool again. There was still red and black stain on the edge. The faucet that had not been used for a long time would be rusty when the water was first drained. It would take a while to drain the water.
Li Lan also just returned home.
Li Zhuiyuan put his hands on the table and played with his fingers. He also recalled a few chess games he lost to Ali from his memory to review them.
Li Lan got up and left the table, first walked into the study room on the first floor, which was originally closed, and then walked out. She held a briefcase in her hand, took out a document bag from it, and threw it to the boy.
Then, she picked up the water glass and drank a glass of tap water.
Li Zhuiyuan opened the document bag, and inside was an investigation report titled "Investigation Report on the 841 Freighter Incident."
It's the ship where Zheng Haiyang's parents work.
Li Zhuiyuan read page after page. Some places had been daubed, which should be information that even Li Lan could not access.
The report details the past history of the ship, its crew, its smuggling history, and the subsequent collective insanity of the remaining crew members.
For a long time at the dinner table, the only sound was the boy turning pages.
After reading it, Li Zhuiyuan put the document bag away, closed it with a thread, and pushed it towards Li Lan.
For Li Zhuiyuan, this report was very important, but very useless because it did not record what happened on the seabed.
Li Lan did not rush to get the document back, but took out another copy from his briefcase and placed it in the middle of the dining table. Along with this document, there was a small stack of blank report paper and a pen.
Li Zhuiyuan stood up, pulled the second document bag in front of him, opened it, and glanced at the title: "Investigation Report on Strange Phenomena in Fengdu".
The file has been extracted, is not very thick, and has color differences. It should be a summary of multiple eras.
Li Zhuiyuan did not turn the second page, but put the document aside first, then stood up again, dragged the pile of report papers in front of him, picked up the pen, and began to write down what Zheng Haiyang's mother had described to him.
Undersea experience scenarios.
Li Lan's secretary Aunt Xu came to ask Zheng Haiyang's mother first, but she left before the results were available.
Therefore, only you know this section.
Li Lan is obviously not an idiot like Aunt Xu.
After finishing writing, Li Zhuiyuan tore off the two report papers and pushed them to the opposite side.
Then, at the dinner table, the woman held the report paper and the boy held the document, reading quickly together.
To be continued...