Chapter 61
He still slowly "hmm" a sentence, then opened his mouth, I heard Lin Jing said …… you looking for me?
I was busy answering a "yes", but this word out, suddenly do not know what to say to the good, earlier there is some urgency, but now the thought of Lin Tian's condition, and his father did not know what to say about this matter, the heart instead of a kind of unspeakable sense of loss. Pause for a long time, before asking him, how are you now?
He faintly laughed, said you look for me to ask this? I can still how, some no strength, other okay.
I "hmm" a sound, and asked him, I just heard Lin Jing said, your father told something about me …….
Lin Tian still lazily responded, and then said, "My father did say something, what do you think I should think?
I was busy saying, Lin Tian, I don't have the kind of meaning that your father said, I don't want anything to happen to you at all, I really wish that the person who is hurt now is me ……
He suddenly interrupted me and said Tan Xi, but every time you are safe and sound.
I did not expect him to say such words, a moment frozen in place, do not know how to respond.
The two of them were silent like this for a long time before I heard him sigh deeply and say, Tan Xi, hearing those words from my father, it is impossible for me to have no thoughts at all. My heart is in turmoil right now, you two are both very close to me, so I don't want to believe anyone's words right now, anyway, during this period of time just this body of mine, no matter what happens to you, even if I want to help, I can't help anymore.
I half a day before "hmm" a sound, in fact, in the heart also dare not look for Lin Tian to help me do anything. This time I was able to survive, but next time I don't know if I'll be able to escape. And I think I can understand his thoughts, you are sandwiched between two people, even if you trust one of them more, but still need to take into account the feelings of the other person.
Thinking about it like that, I suddenly felt again that it was probably a good thing that he got cheated on by his dad, because at least that way he was away from me, staying in his own home, which is much better than being around me.
I organized my thoughts for a moment before I told him that there was only one question I wanted to ask you on the phone, and that you didn't need to worry about anything else.
He asked me what it was, so I told him what I had just learned about Tintin and Mrs. Nine. Lin Tian was also surprised, he gave a slight eep and went silent, not continuing to speak.
I had been waiting for his reply, after a long interval, he said, Mrs. Nine and my mother have known each other for a long time, as for why the current situation has arisen, I don't know, my mother is afraid of ghosts, but she believes in Mrs. Nine, but I reckon that even if she comes to answer you by herself, you won't be able to get anything useful out of it.
I was more or less lost, after all, for now, this is kind of my only clue, right? But since Lin Tian said so, then I guess there really isn't much to play for.
I thought to myself that's it, and was about to say a few words like letting him get some rest, but Lin Tian changed his tone and suddenly added, Tan Xi, I'm not doing anything today, so I went through my old photos, and suddenly found something very interesting.
I am more or less a little curious, think if ordinary things, that Lin Tian should not be brought up again at this time, I busy asked. Lin Tian said don't be anxious, a moment I will send the picture to you, but whether you can find anything, I don't know. I really do not want to care about these things now, as a last help you.
I said "yes". I hung up the phone, not long after, my cell phone came to me, I opened it and found that Lin Tian had sent me a picture of an old photo, which was already a bit yellowed and old.
Lu Yao also came over and asked me what it was.
I shook my head and said I don't know, slowly enlarged the picture a bit, this look in my heart there was a thud, this photo is black and white, but the scene above can still be clearly seen.
There are six people on the picture, the one woman standing in the center is actually my mother!
And her hand tightly tugging what a man, I took a closer look, see this man with glasses, face smiling, as for whether it is my father, I simply do not know, I can say that I have no memory of his looks at all. It felt a bit pathetic, but after all, it was more than a decade ago that my mom and I were abandoned.
Then in this picture, the man and woman standing to the left of my mom were Lin Tian's parents. The look like they were both smiling very happily, and were unknown how much younger than they are now.
These were fine, after all, my parents and Lin Tian's parents knew each other, this was something I knew before. Even if this kind of picture existed, it wasn't unusual at all.
But the thing that most concerned me in this picture was that there was a man and a woman on my mom's left side.
This woman was dragging the man beside her with one hand and holding my mom's hand with the other, looking at the appearance, she was very close to her.
I enlarged the picture quite a bit, and after looking at it carefully for a while, I only felt that this woman looked somewhat familiar, but I couldn't recall where I had seen her before.
I held my chin in one hand, walking back and forth on the side of the road, thinking about her eyebrows, that sense of familiarity lingered. As soon as I turned around and saw the house that had been turned into ruins, my body suddenly shook with a jolt of recollection. This young woman on the picture was the Ninth Mistress back then!
In that case, as early as a long time ago, Mrs. Nine had known my parents and was obviously on good terms.
But what made me wonder was why she never showed in front of me that she was acquainted with my parents, and even simply had a stranger's posture, completely giving me a feeling of being an outsider.
I thought about it carefully, according to Lin Tian's father said before, should be after that, what happened among them, so that the final relationship rupture, Mrs. Nine and our family completely cut off contact, and even with Lin Tian's family, but also only maintain a relationship with her mother.
And after that incident, Lin Tian his father owed my mom a big debt, big enough for him to pay with Lin Tian's life.
It's impossible for me to guess right now when I'm relying on guessing. Considering for a while, I still looked towards the photo.
The man that Mrs. Nine was pulling, I guessed that he was Ding Ding's father. Just don't know why, alone his face that part, as if some overexposed look, the appearance of some blurred, I really can't see clearly looks.
I asked Lu Yao if there was any way to restore the old photo.
I thought that I might be able to restore it with some kind of cartographic tool. But Lu Yao said that she didn't know anything about these things, and she didn't think she had the technology now.
I sighed, my mood a little less favorable again.
Lu Yao laughed and said what's wrong with that.
She pointed to the man on the diagram and asked me, "Are you trying to find out what this man looks like?
I nodded my head. She took a close look at the photo and said that although it was a little blurry, but the general appearance of the features could still be distinguished, see sister to show you a hand.
I was delighted and asked her how to do it.
Lu Yao smiled, did not answer, but took out a pen and note paper from her bag and said look.
As soon as she spoke, she drew a picture with reference to the photo. I watched her draw very carefully, looking towards the photo from time to time, and then looking down to draw a few strokes on the paper.
Before long, a rough face appeared on the paper. I didn't expect Lu Yao to be able to do this, the drawing was really exquisite. When I used to watch TV, I saw those foreign blockbusters where the police could draw a portrait of a criminal based on a person's description. I never understood what kind of technology it was.
But now Lu Yao drew a slightly blurred face in reference to the photo, and although it was impossible to get a 100% resemblance, it was estimated that there were six or seven points that were almost the same.
Adding some of his own beliefs to what he couldn't see clearly could always fill in the blurred parts.
I waited for a while before Lu Yao looked up and said well, at least five points of the face can be seen.
I took that sticky note and looked at it, and my whole body froze. What was drawn on the picture was exactly the same face I had seen before, although it looked much younger and more spirited. Still, I could instantly recognize this man as the cripple I had seen earlier in the wasteland!
I was worried that the figure had been somewhat altered, and took the photo to compare it, and indeed the slightly blurred features should be the exact likeness that Lu Yao had estimated to have drawn, and it was not bad in the slightest.
My mind was spinning rapidly, as if I had grabbed a vine and was able to feel the melon along with it.
I recalled what I had once heard, both Lin Tian and Ding Ding had said that Ding Ding's father was a cripple, but both of them also said that his father had died many years ago? Then the one I saw at that time, was it a person or a ghost ……