Re-engraving the Spring - Chapter 36

T/N: This is double update. If you haven’t read chapter 35, please go read chapter 35 first. Thank you!

Lu You’s eyes were stern, questioning him over and over again, “Why are you crying? Why are you crying?”

The young Lu Ming did not understand why, he cried out in pain and begged for forgiveness: “Mom, I was wrong! It hurts so much you don’t hit me…I was wrong, I will never call father again…I was really wrong…”

The mother in front of him had lost her usual tenderness. She screamed and went mad: “Do you want to leave me too?!”

Lu Ming desperately shook his head. He just wanted to call Lu Rongtian to come over and take a look at Lu You, he just wanted to make Lu You happy.

“…” Lu You was mute. She looked at Lu Ming who denied everything as her pupils shrank, and suddenly she didn’t seem to know him anymore.

She violently grabbed Lu Ming’s neck, widened her eyes and asked suspiciously: “What did you do with that woman? Did you have a baby? I know…I know everything! Lu Rongtian, why did you lie to me? Why did you lie to me?”

She thought of Lu Ming as Lu Rongtian.

This was the first time Lu You had gone so mad in front of Lu Ming that she couldn’t recognize anyone. If it was not for the kind nanny who rushed over to snatch Lu Ming, Lu Ming probably would have died in that room without a single ray of light.

Lu You cried out in surprise, “Don’t leave me—”

The nanny didn’t turn around even for a moment. She hugged Lu Ming regardless and rushed out of the villa; it was raining outside and the humidity swept away all the memory gaps. Seven-year-old Lu Ming was shivering with fear, the pinch marks on his neck conspicuous. He clung to his nanny’s arms, not daring to breathe a sigh.

Having escaped from death, he had a huge fear of this ‘home’ for the first time.

The nanny stroked his back and comforted him. “Young master, why don’t I send you to Master Lu’s place? Madam shouldn’t be doing this.”

Lu Ming didn’t speak. After a long time, he looked at the villa that had become eerily ghastly on the rainy day and mumbled, “I don’t want to leave mom alone.”

He thought that he couldn’t leave poor Lu You behind.

Lu You only had him.

But Lu You did not think so, and she finally chose to end it all with death.

Lu Ming wondered if Lu You had thought of him when she made this decision? Perhaps she thought of him and made this decision to punish Lu Ming for life.

Lu Ming’s memory began to become disgusting; writhing maggots were not as disgusting as it was.

He remembered.

When he was 17 years old, he accompanied Lu You to go abroad for treatment. On the way, he had an accident and got a big wound on his head.

Lu Ming was admitted to a small local hospital. At that time, Lu You, who was a little more stable, accompanied him, holding Lu Ming’s hand with her thin hand. She spoke to him in a rare and calm manner. “When my treatment here is over, we’ll go find your grandfather. Then we’ll never go back to China again and live here, okay? I’m finally divorced now. XIao Ming, we’re going to start living again, and we have to live a good life.”

She muttered to herself, her hands getting tighter and tighter.

There was a hint of trance in Lu Ming’s eyes, he still remembered his agreement with Chi Qiu: “Mom, I…”

Lu You instantly covered his mouth with one hand; her eyes were so gentle that they were breathtaking. Although she was haggard, it could be seen from her eyebrows that she was a rare beauty in her youth.

She smiled and spoke warmly, like a strong rope was strangled around Lu Ming’s neck: “Xiao Ming, you won’t leave mom behind, will you? You won’t be like your father and be with someone else, leaving mom alone, right?”

Lu Ming had no way to answer her, only silence as a response.

“If you go back to find him, mom will die for you.” Lu You was completely mad, and she did not get better.

Her gentleness was disguised, her jealousy took over the body. Under Lu Rongtian’s repeated trampling and Zhen Zhen’s repeated stimulation, Lu You was no longer the innocent Lu You back then.

Right now, she was in a strange mental state; her eyes were bottomless, full of terrifying unknowns.

For the first time, Lu Ming had the mentality of wanting to escape. He had lived with such a mother for seventeen years. He felt that his whole body was wrapped in thorns. The thorns pierced into his heart and tore him apart.

Having seen the spring days, he wanted to embrace those spring days.

As he grew up, he also became greedy and wanted to be happy.

The damp rain had soaked him for too long.

For the first time, Lu Ming waved away his mother’s hand and mustered up enough courage to refuse.”I will stay with you here for treatment and will not leave you alone. But after that, I’m going back to China. I’m sorry, Mom. I’m going to find him, I promised him.”

Lu You’s eyes gradually became icy cold, and she stared deadly at Lu Ming.

…………

Lu You appeared in Lu Ming’s nightmares countless times, until after Lu Ming began to force himself to forget many things. Only then, Lu Ming’s dreams of her were only slightly restrained.

Right now, Lu Ming curled himself up little by little. He was tortured by fragmented memories, painfully clenched his teeth and did not make any sound. Because he knew that even if he screamed for help, no one would come to help him.

Chi Qiu had never seen Lu Ming like this before, and his whole heart was tightly squeezed.

Chi Qiu mistakenly thought that the injury on Lu Ming’s back was serious, so he felt so guilty that he let Lu Ming lean on him with tears in his eyes. He could not continue to wait for help, he had to think of another way. But he knew that in this case, there might not be any better way at all.

At this time, the only one he could think of was Ji Yanchen, who was near City C.

He wanted to use Lu Ming’s phone to call Ji Yanchen, but he couldn’t unlock the screen. In the dim light, even Lu Ming’s face unlock was not working.

Chi Qiu tried to unlock the phone’s password. He tried Lu Ming’s birthday, all the lunar and solar calendars, but they were all wrong. His fingertips were trembling as he tried his own birthday, and the result was predictable; it was wrong.

In desperation, Chi Qiu hugged Lu Ming with difficulty and tried to ask the woman opposite to borrow her cell phone. Unfortunately, the woman’s phone was running out of battery, and it was automatically turned off just after picking it up. Their light source was only a mobile phone on Chi Qiu’s side.

Chi Qiu did not give up. He wanted to ask people outside to borrow mobile phones and ask them to call Ji Yanchen for help. He remembered Ji Yanchen’s number and could tell them. But it seemed like the whole world had become noisy, no one listened carefully to his needs at all, just kept repeating to him: “Hang in there! You guys hang in there!”

“…”

The crying child had quieted down, leaning weakly against his mother’s arms and sobbing softly.

Chi Qiu’s face was full of tears, he didn’t know what to do. He could only touch Lu Ming’s face, hold back his crying and talk to him softly, trying to wake Lu Ming up.

There was still dust rustling down above their heads. The dirty environment was very unfavorable to the wound.

Chi Qiu heard the woman shouting outwardly and anxiously. “The person with us is also injured, it seems to be serious! Can you guys hurry up, how come the rescuers are not here yet?!”

The theater staff was so anxious that they were like ants on a hot pot, not professional at all, repeatedly saying: “It’s only been ten minutes, it will take a while! Hold on a little longer!”

She looked down at the child in her arms, took out the wet wipes in her pocket, pulled out half of them and wiped the child’s face. The remaining half, she unstintingly threw directly to the feet of Chi Qiu.

“You can wipe it for him, maybe he will feel better.”

Chi Qiu couldn’t help thanking her. He bent down, leaned over and took the wipes.

He carefully wiped Lu Ming’s face. He dabbed the wet sweat on Lu Ming’s forehead, and couldn’t help choking: “Lu Ming, you don’t scare me, okay? In the future, in the future I will never ask you to go out again, you don’t scare me.”

Chi Qiu cried, and tears fell on Lu Ming’s face unknowingly. He wiped his face randomly, and wiped away these excess tears for Lu Ming.

Suddenly, Lu Ming moved slightly.

Chi Qiu immediately caught his movement, but did not dare to embrace him tightly.

Chi Qiu dumbfoundedly looked at Lu Ming, only to hear Lu Ming groggily speak: “It hurts…”

“Where does it hurt, on the back?”

“Cold…”

Lu Ming did not answer him, his consciousness was still wandering in the nightmare. The coldness of the rainy day, the pain of Lu You’s punches and kicks against him, each of them made him feel twice as lonely.

He did not want to make a sound, but he heard a voice constantly calling out to him, so he made a faint cry for help.

It hurts, it’s cold.

The current Lu Ming was no longer the twenty-seven-year-old Lu Ming.

His mask of indifference was smashed mercilessly, and tears fell from the corners of his eyes. He was Lu Ming who was afraid of many things; those things were his seven-year-old’s childhood and his seventeen-year-old’s hell.