Chapter 33 Section Eleven

It has been a week since Xia Qing came back.During these seven days, he stayed in his own room all the time, and he did not allow anyone to contact him except his father—to be precise, no one even saw his face.Even the meal was prepared by Xia Lan himself for his son, and then asked the Filipino maid to bring it upstairs and put it on a small dining table at the door - he could not enter Xia Qing's room. On the second day after Xia Qing returned home, Xia Lan announced a series of unbelievable rules at home—— First, the master bedroom was relocated downstairs.In other words, only Xia Qing lives on the second floor now;

Second, the housekeeper and servants at home, including Shangguan Yun - no one is allowed to enter Xia Qing's room; Third, everyone in the family can't talk about everything related to Xia Qing at home or outside. All these regulations are completely mandatory and there is no room for negotiation.This is clearly hiding something. Shangguan Yun wanted to communicate and reason with her husband.However, Xia Lan hardly wanted to talk to her now.She didn't understand why her husband and the son who came back had to exclude herself?Why is my current status the same as that of a housekeeper and a servant?Aren't we family?All this, why?

Shangguan Yun looked at her husband every day, as if looking at a stranger.And the son upstairs is even more far away from him, as if there is no such person at all. This situation is even more painful and sad than the death of his son.Shangguan Yun felt as lonely and helpless as if he had been abandoned in a deep mountain valley.Her heart was bleeding. Who lives upstairs?Is it really my son?Or a shady monster? Shangguan Yun looked at the second floor in a daze every day, asking himself in his heart, and felt chills. Even so, she still misses her son very much, who pushed her away thousands of miles away.She wanted to see him, to talk to him, to know if he was healthy.But there was no chance, Xia Lan almost returned to her own room except when she was sleeping at night, and stayed in her son's room the rest of the time, as if she was guarding something.

And Xia Lan didn't allow Shangguan Yun to ask any questions about his son, as soon as he mentioned it, he would immediately go to his son's room to live.Shangguan Yun didn't dare to speak at all, he could only hold back his sadness and doubts, and swallowed his tears. This is so abnormal.Shangguan Yun was very clear. This son who returned mysteriously changed her husband and everything in the family, as if... secretly manipulating something.There must be something wrong here.However, she didn't know what to do. A few days later, the situation has not changed at all.Shangguan Yun realized that this could not go on, and she had to take action.

Recently, she had observed that her husband would always be away for an hour or so every day—it could be morning, afternoon, or evening.The time is not fixed.I don't know what he went out to do, but every time he came back, he would bring back a gift for his son.The gift was in a black pocket, and it was impossible to tell what it was. Shangguan Yun didn't want to care about the gift for now.What she wants to use is the time when her husband is away from home. What Shangguan Yun is most concerned about now is his son's health.She hadn't heard a word from him since his return—nor, in fact, had seen him again.She also doesn't know what her son's spirit and sanity are like.In particular, she always remembered - when Xia Qing just came back, when she hugged him, she felt his body was icy cold - this kind of cold was not the usual cold from the wind, but... a lifeless cold.

It's really... scary.However, I have to figure it out. Shangguan Yun came up with a plan.She quietly contacted a personal doctor. One night, Xia Lan went out after eight o'clock, apparently to buy gifts for her son again.After her husband went out, Shangguan Yun immediately dialed the private doctor's phone number, asking him to arrive within five minutes as agreed before. Be prepared in advance, and the private doctor waiting nearby will soon come to this mansion. Shangguan Yun greeted the young male doctor in his thirties at the door and led him into the house.She didn't dare to delay for a minute, saving unnecessary greetings, and said: "Doctor, you only have twenty minutes at most, I hope you can finish my son's physical examination in the shortest time, and then go downstairs immediately. After returning home , please tell me the result over the phone. In terms of cost, it will be calculated as three times your usual outpatient visits, please."

"Okay, no problem." The male doctor was carrying a large medical kit, "Is the child on the second floor?" "Yes, I'll take you to his room right now." The two of them walked towards the stairs and were about to go upstairs when Butler Jin suddenly appeared from the side: "Madam Shangguan." Shangguan Yun was taken aback, she hadn't noticed Butler Jin was in the living room at all before.Think briefly for a moment.She understood: "Butler Jin, Xia Lan told you to stay here and not allow me to go upstairs?" Butler Jin lowered his head: "...Madam, please don't make things difficult for me."

Shangguan Yun pondered for a while, and said to the doctor, "Please wait for me." Then he pulled Butler Jin aside and said, "Butler Jin, after so many years, I know that you are very loyal and dedicated to this family, especially sir. However, I believe you also feel that something is wrong with what happened recently. Isn’t it? Xia Lan is very abnormal now. Butler Jin, if you really think about our family, you should let me save him instead of blindly Help him, protect him. What do you think?" Butler Jin clenched his jaw and frowned deeply. Shangguan Yun said in an almost begging tone: "I don't want to say anything else, even if it's because I, a mother, haven't seen my son for more than ten days, just let me see him. As long as If you don't tell me, and I won't tell you, Xia Lan won't know." She pointed to the doctor behind her, "This is my personal doctor, and he will come down after the physical examination with Xia Qing. Butler Jin, I just want to Know if your son is healthy, please!"

"Madam Shangguan, please don't say that, how can I bear it?" Butler Jin finally compromised, "Hurry up and go up. Hurry up, sir will be back at some point!" "Okay, I know." Shangguan Yun gave Butler Jin a grateful look, and led the private doctor upstairs. The two came to Xia Qing's door.Shangguan Yun knocked on the door and shouted, "Xia Qing." no respond.This is what Shangguan Yun expected.She didn't waste any more time, took out the room key she had prepared, and opened the door. As soon as she pushed the door open, she froze for a moment.Xia Qing stood in the middle of the room, looking straight at her with eyes as cold as stone.Shangguan Yun tried to get closer to his son, trying to force a smile on his face: "Qingqing, it's mother, I'm here to see you."

Shangguan Yun opened his arms, intending to hug him.But Xia Qingchao took a few steps back, and like last time, stretched out his finger and pointed at his mother, which clearly meant - don't get any closer. The finger pointing at her pierced Shangguan Yun's heart like an ice pick. She stopped on the spot and burst into tears: "Son, what's wrong with you? Don't you remember Mom? Look at me carefully, think about it, I It's mom..." Shangguan Yun spoke tearfully to his son for a long time, but he couldn't move him at all.Xia Qing pointed at the woman in front of her coldly like an ice sculpture without any emotion or body temperature.There was obvious alertness and hostility in his eyes.

Finally, Shangguan Yun realized that all this was meaningless.She wiped away her tears and said to Xia Qing: "Son, it doesn't matter if you don't accept mom for now, take your time later. But now mom wants to ask an uncle doctor to check you up. As long as you are healthy, That's enough for mom, okay?" Xia Qing didn't respond to these words, Shangguan Yun could only understand that he acquiesced.She turned around and said to the private doctor waiting at the door: "Please come in, my son may be a little bit resistant, I hope you can find a way to get him to cooperate with the examination, please." The male doctor said confidently: "No problem, I am very good at coaxing children to have a physical examination. I will make them feel like they are playing a game." "That's very good. Doc, please hurry up." "I know. Please wait for me downstairs." The male doctor walked into the room and closed the door. Shangguan Yun stood at the door for a while, and heard the doctor say like a kindergarten teacher, "Little friend, look, uncle brought you a lot of interesting toys..." After waiting for a while, there was no voice of resistance.Shangguan Yun breathed a sigh of relief, and walked downstairs slowly. She checked the time. It was twenty-five past eight—twenty minutes late.Before 8:45, the physical examination must be completed and the doctor should leave before Xia Lan returns. Shangguan Yun sat in the living room, waiting anxiously.Butler Jin stood aside, equally worried and restless.Both of them kept looking at the wall clock on the wall, counting the time. 8:45 came quickly, but the doctor did not come down from the second floor.Butler Jin couldn't help but said, "Madam Shangguan, do you need me to call him?" Shangguan Yun stood up and sat down again: "Wait for five minutes." At 8:50, Shangguan Yun couldn't bear it any longer. She walked quickly to the second floor, followed by Butler Jin. Coming to Xia Qing's door, Shangguan Yun knocked on the door: "Doctor, are you alright?" Waited a while, no response.Shangguan Yun suddenly had a very ominous feeling, and she pushed the door open suddenly. Shangguan Yun came to Xia Qing's door and knocked: "Doctor, are you alright?" Waited a while, no response.Shangguan Yun suddenly had a very ominous feeling, so she pushed the door open suddenly. "Ah!" She exclaimed, covered her mouth with her hands, and her brain exploded. The young male doctor was lying motionless on the ground at this moment, with his eyes wide open and his mouth open, it seemed that he was——dead! What was even more shocking was that Xia Qing squatted next to his corpse, nonchalantly playing with the equipment in the medical box.Seeing Shangguan Yun and Jin Guanjia standing in front of him in utter horror, he just glanced at them lightly, with mockery and provocation in his eyes. Butler Jin took a few steps forward, observed the doctor carefully for a while, then turned his head and exclaimed palely: "Oh my God...madam...something really happened! He's dead!" Shangguan Yun's legs were weak, and she felt creepy. She shook her head violently and looked at her son in fear: "Xia Qing, what... did you do?" Xia Qing ignored her at all, fiddling with the stethoscope in his hand, a horrifying corpse was in front of him, it seemed like a puppet to him. This is not my son! Shangguan Yun looked at the child in front of him, and his buzzing mind could only come to one conclusion. I was right, he really is a monster! Butler Jin walked up to Shangguan Yun and said in horror, "Madam, what should we do now? Sir...maybe soon..." Having said that, he stopped with his mouth open, his eyes staring straight ahead. Shangguan Yun turned his head and saw Xia Lan standing behind him. Xia Lan stared at Shangguan Yun for a few seconds, then at Butler Jin, and then moved his gaze to the corpse on the ground. After a few seconds, he became furious and shouted, "What did you do?!" Shangguan Yun and Jin Guanjia were shaking with fright. Shangguan Yun was already speechless, so Butler Jin had no choice but to bite the bullet and explain: "Sir, madam invited a private doctor...to examine Xia Qing, but...he..." Xia Lan quickly glanced at the dead body on the ground, as if he wasn't surprised at all.He just stared at Butler Jin and said, "Didn't I tell you? When I'm not around, no one is allowed to enter Xia Qing's room! Butler Jin, why don't you listen to me?" Butler Jin lowered his head and murmured, "Yes... sir, it's all my fault..." "No, I begged Steward Jin to let me come upstairs." Shangguan Yun walked up to Xia Lan and stared at him, "Yes, we violated your rules. But Xia Lan..." She pointed at the dead body on the ground , suddenly the blood all over the body rushed up, "This doctor died in our house! In Xia Qing's room! Why are you not surprised at all? You told me not to ask anything related to Xia Qing. But now If you lose your life, do you want me to ignore it?" Xia Lan looked at his wife, and gradually lowered her gaze, speechless. "Look at me." Shangguan Yun held her husband's face, "Tell me, what's going on?" Xia Lan shook her head and turned her face to the side.After a moment's pause, he said, "Let's not talk about that now, let's deal with this corpse first." Shangguan Yun shivered, and asked in horror, "What do you mean by 'handling'?" Xia Lan sighed: "Where did you think you were? I mean. Tell Butler Jin to call the police and take this corpse away." "How do you explain it to the police?" "There is no need to explain. He died of a sudden myocardial infarction, which is not our responsibility." Shangguan Yun stared into her husband's eyes: "How do you know he died of a myocardial infarction?" Xia Lan didn't even avoid his wife's gaze, he also looked directly at her: "I can't explain it to you. But, you should know this matter, why did I tell you all not to come near this room?" Shangguan Yun suddenly felt a chill down his back: "You mean... you know, people who get close will..." "Stop talking." Xia Lan turned her head and glanced at Xia Qing who was still playing with medical equipment.He looked at his wife again, and after looking at her for a long time, he approached her ear and said softly, "Yun, remember—if you want to survive, just do as I tell you." Shangguan Yun met Xia Lan's eyes again. She couldn't read anything, but felt the chill return to her bones.