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    Chapter 42 Chapter 42 It’s really not me

    After sitting in silence for a long time, Shen Li’s consciousness returned and he regained some control over his hands and feet.

    “You know everything.” His tone was very sure.

    “Got it.”

    The lighter went up and down between Gu Yunzhao’s fingers, rolling round and round.From time to time, the light reflected off the metal shell and reflected onto Shen Li’s body opposite.”Is there anything you want to tell me?”

    “No.” Shen Li lowered his head, and now he became the expressionless person.

    I didn’t know what to say just now, but I don’t want to say it now.

    “Don’t say anything?”

    “Yeah.”

    Shen Li looked at him with a cold face, “Didn’t you read the information? You already know what kind of person I am, so why are you asking me?”

    Gu Yunzhao was so angry with him that he immediately wanted one Buddha to ascend to heaven and two Buddhas to leave his body. He felt that if he stretched out his hand and touched the top of his head, he could feel the smoke rising from the top of his head.

    “Shen Li, you’re not angry with me, are you? If you don’t say anything now, will you pretend to be mute when you see me?”

    “Then what do you want me to say!” Shen Li’s reaction was even greater than his. He stood up from the sofa and propped himself up on the coffee table, leaning down to look at Gu Yunzhao.

    His eyes were about to burst.

    Gu Yunzhao’s first reaction was these four words. From this distance, he could even hear the crunching sound of Shen Li clenching his teeth mixed in with the sound of talking and heavy breathing.His beautiful little face was pale, but his cheeks were red with great anger.He looked fierce, but his eyes were red.

    Hateful and pitiful.

    He raised his hand.Shen Li’s first reaction was that he thought he was going to hit her, but he still managed to hold himself up and did not hide or move, letting his outstretched hand slowly fall on her head.

    “Shen Li.” Gu Yunzhao closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths. He tried his best to calm down his mood before opening his eyes and looking at Shen Li. He spoke slowly, “I’ve been waiting for you to tell me.”

    What?

    Shen Li’s consciousness froze for a moment.Wait for him to say, what?

    He didn’t seem to understand what Gu Yunzhao was saying, but he only knew that the current situation was different from what he had imagined.

    Gu Yunzhao touched his head and stood up. His hand slid down the side of his face and touched his neck, skipping the jacket without pockets and touching his pants.

    Shen Li followed his movements and subconsciously covered his pockets, trying to hide the secrets on his body, but this move instead exposed the location of his secrets.

    “Is this just a butterfly knife?” Gu Yunzhao took out a black-shelled butterfly knife from his jeans pocket, swung the blade out a few times and then took it back.”It’s sharpened.”

    He looked at the blade and looked at Shen Li again in surprise, “Where did you buy it?”

    Gu Yunzhao really didn’t expect that Shen Li would be able to obtain tube/made knives and even carry them with him.

    “My own way.”

    “Your way.” Gu Yunzhao sneered, “Then your way does it tell you that it is illegal to stab someone with a knife?”

    “The Shen family threatens you, so you’re going to fight them with a knife, right? Why, just with your knife? Do you think they can give you a chance to fight hand-to-hand, right?” Gu Yunzhao said, unable to control his anger more and more, and the gradually rising pitch shook Shen Li’s courage away from his anger, and he subconsciously shrank his neck and tried to hide back.

    As a result, the back of my neck was still in someone else’s hands, and I shrank back so much that I became a stiff neck.

    “It hurts a little.” Shen Li complained softly.

    “Do you still know it hurts?” The angry man threw the metal butterfly knife to the ground and bounced it up again. It made a loud bang through the carpet, which was enough to show how much force Gu Yunzhao used when throwing it.

    “I’m not a dead person.”

    “You’re going to die soon.” Gu Yunzhao sneered, “Just grab a knife and fight to the death. You can’t even pass the test of being a bodyguard!”

    “I can get by.” Shen Li scratched his head and was very unconvinced that he had been underestimated.He didn’t do it on the spur of the moment. He had already made a plan when Mr. Shen threatened him, and he had perfected it in detail in the past few days.It’s absolutely impossible, as Gu Yunzhao said, that even the bodyguards can’t get through.

    If Gu Yunzhao didn’t come today, according to his plan, he would definitely send those two to the hospital to lie down.

    “Then what? What happens after you break through the bodyguards? Do you fight a group alone, or do you want to stab your biological parents alone? Even if you are lucky and your plan succeeds, you really send them to the hospital.” When thinking of the possible scenes in his words, Gu Yunzhao felt that his more than twenty years of cultivation was still not enough, and he needed to take a deep breath before he could continue.But even though he had calmed down, he still couldn’t control his tone when he spoke again, and his tone became more serious, “You still want to be treated as a suspect and sent to a juvenile detention center like you were six years ago, don’t you?”

    After saying this, the atmosphere in the room that had just relaxed a little became stagnant again.The air became more and more humid and heavy, making even breathing feel tiring.

    After a long while, Shen Li hummed softly.

    “You’re right, that’s the kind of person I am.” Shen Li’s face was cold, but his voice was very soft and thin, “As you can see, when I was twelve years old, I was released from the juvenile detention center for half a year because of a conflict with a knife…”

    “Juvenile delinquent.”

    Gu Yunzhao didn’t want to force him into this. He stared at Shen Li for a long time before reaching out and wiping away the tear that fell on his face.

    “Shen Li, don’t be so hard-spoken here.” He said seriously, “Being harsh will only push people further away.”

    “Yes.” Shen Liming understood what he meant, but his self-esteem did not allow him to beg for mercy to Gu Yunzhao at this time. He still raised his head and insisted, “I am just stating the facts.”

    “Facts… Shen Li, I’ll give you a chance to explain now.” Gu Yunzhao said, “You explain, and I will believe you.”

    “You are sick.”

    “Explain, hurry up.”

    Shen Li thought that the world was nothing like he imagined.

    The document is clearly on the table and Gu Yunzhao has read it. Shouldn’t he be like everyone else six years ago?

    Force him to confess, make him admit his mistakes, make him atone for his sins, and then blame him from above, despise him, push him down and blame himself for his failure.

    Why should he explain?

    “Do you believe me when I say it?”

    “Yes.” Gu Yunzhao pressed his thumbs on the corners of his eyes, held up his face and looked at her, “I have been waiting for you to tell me the truth.”

    “It’s not me.” Shen Li’s tears flowed down the side of his face uncontrollably.

    He originally wanted to describe it as calmly as possible, but when he opened his mouth, the uncontrollable choking swallowed up all the words.

    “It’s not me, it’s really not me…” He was already sobbing. “You believe me, it’s really, really not me. I didn’t hurt him.”

    “I believe you.” Gu Yunzhao held his face and looked at him, and assured him seriously, “I will always believe you. As long as you say it, I will believe it.”

    Twelve-year-old Shen Li stood on the other side of the river crying, and finally shouted out the words he had been repeating six years ago.

    “It’s really not me…”

    Gu Yunzhao waited until he finished crying, then put him on the sofa with a half-hug and half-hug, then picked up Dahuang and placed him next to him, “Let Dahuang stay with you first, okay?”

    “Where are you going?”

    As soon as he moved, Shen Li stood up immediately and grabbed the corner of his clothes to prevent him from leaving.

    Gu Yunzhao understood his current situation very well, so he gently held him in his arms and comforted him for a while, “I went to the bathroom to get a towel to wipe your face. Your face is full of tears. If you don’t wipe it clean, it will hurt later.”

    “You’re not leaving, right?” Shen Li raised his head and confirmed again uneasily.

    “I won’t leave.” Gu Yunzhao lowered his head and touched his forehead, “I won’t leave you.”

    After receiving the guarantee, Shen Li let go of his hand, but only just.He still followed Gu Yunzhao step by step, all the way to the sink.

    Gu Yunzhao turned on the hot water to wet the towel, and wiped Shen Li’s face clean with the water.

    Shen Li’s skin was white and tender. He had just cried a lot. Now the hot towel was wiped on and soon his originally porcelain white skin turned red.

    Coupled with the eyes that were swollen from crying and the teeth marks on her thin lips, her pitiful eyes followed the movements of the person behind her through the mirror on the sink, which made people a little bit fanciful.

    “Cough.” Gu Yunzhao coughed lightly, suppressed some of his thoughts that he shouldn’t have right now, put the towel back on the shelf and led the person out.

    “After crying, can you tell me the truth about six years ago?”

    “Yes.” Shen Li hugged Dahuang and huddled half of his face behind Dahuang. After a pause to gather his courage, he recounted everything that happened six years ago.

    Six years ago, he was not called by his current name. He was originally called Shen Li.

    Not long after he was born, he was sent to the countryside by the Shen family to Mrs. Xu, and they didn’t even mention him by name when registering for residence.After thinking about it, Mrs. Xu simply chose the name Lidang.

    He grew up in the village until he was more than ten years old, and he knew very well that when he was bullied, he could not tolerate it, he could only fight it out on his own.

    The man deceived Mrs. Xu with the exercise tickets, so he rushed to the door with a knife.

    “He cheated me out of money, and I’m going to get it back. It’s only natural.”

    Later, he threatened a few more times, saying that if I come again next time, I will chop down your family members as well.

    It was just a casual threat, but no one expected that something would really happen to that family.

    That family had a precious son who was naughty at the age of six or seven. Basically everyone in the village had the same surname, so the family often left him outside without anyone taking care of him.

    But that day, the child fell into the water, and when he was fished out again, he was already taking in less air and outgoing more air.

    The family members were almost blinded by tears when they were not rescued.The child’s mother was unwilling to accept that he fell into the water accidentally. She searched the child’s body all over and found a wound on his leg.

    Confronted with the hatchet.

    Everyone knows that Shen Li came to the door with a hatchet before, and they all know what he threatened.

    The child’s mother was furious when she rushed to the door. When he opened the door, she started crying and scratching at him and Mrs. Xu. After a lot of tossing, she fell to the ground and cried out, “How can you do this to a baby?”

    People outside the door pointed, and Shen Li explained countless times that it was not him.However, Mrs. Xu bowed and apologized, confessed her crime, and took the initiative to send him to a juvenile detention center.

    This crime has been pinned on Shen Li, and he can no longer get rid of it.

    No one cares whether it is him or not.

    After speaking, Shen Li raised his head to look at him, “Do you still believe me now?”

    Gu Yunzhao looked thoughtful. There were too many loopholes in this matter. Everyone’s conviction and confession were too hasty. Even the documents on the table were full of loopholes and did not even conform to the format of a real official document. Everything seemed to be pushed forward.

    He tapped his fingers on the armrest a few times and asked a new question again and again.

    “If I remember correctly, the juvenile detention center was canceled more than ten years ago. Which juvenile detention center did they send you to?”

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    The author has something to say: Private settings are flying all over the sky, the timeline is different from reality, the storyline is purely fictional, do not substitute any reality, if there is a coincidence, I will kneel down_:(′□`‖ ∠):_

    Banxia novel, a lot of fun

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