The Bai family's manor is much more desolate than before.
Without anyone to take care of it, the yard was overgrown with weeds in just one month.
Yan Shouyi and the other two walked into the yard, and they actually felt like they were back after so many years. Long Feicheng walked carefully among the weeds and said:
"Brother Yan, if I hadn't learned some skills, I wouldn't have dared to come here at night! This place was so luxurious before, but now it looks like a haunted house."
Lin Zitong said: "With Uncle Zou here, the Bai family dare not come in, so naturally no one will take care of it."
"It's strange. My father left Uncle Zou to supervise the West Lake project. So many things happened before, why didn't he show up?"
Yan Shouyi thought of this problem and decided to come over to visit Blind Man Zou tonight.
Lin Zitong and Long Feicheng were also at a loss and could only look for Zou Xiazi in the Bai family manor. However, the Bai family manor was not small, and they searched every room without knowing whether they would find him in the Year of the Monkey or Horse in the Year of the Monkey.
Long Feicheng scratched the back of his head and said, "Why didn't Uncle Zou turn on the light? If he turned on the light, it would be easier for us to find him."
Yan Shou rolled his eyes at him: "Uncle Zou can't see, so what's the use of turning on the light?"
"Oh, that's right!" Long Feicheng smiled sheepishly.
The three of them walked inside and suddenly heard the melodious sound of the piano.
That melody is sad and full of longing. If there is no one who misses it to the extreme in his heart, as if his heart is broken, he will never be able to play such a flavor.
The three of them looked at each other and knew that the sound of the piano could only be played by Zou Xiang, so they followed the sound.
Outside a remote hut, they stopped.
The sound of the piano came from the hut in front of him. Blind Zou had left those luxurious rooms but lived in this shabby hut, which made Yan Shouyi feel an indescribable feeling of guilt.
They couldn't bear to interrupt Zou Xiazi's music, so they waited outside for a while.
A few minutes later, the sound of the piano suddenly stopped, and Yan Shouyi and others were almost "awoke" by the suddenness.
"Uncle Zou?"
Yan Shouyi stepped forward and knocked on the door: "I am Shouyi, I'm back."
However, there was no response from the room.
This made Yan Shouyi feel that something was wrong. He shouted a few more times and finally kicked the door open.
"It's so dark, I can't see anything!"
Long Feicheng walked into the house and turned on the light in the dark.
As soon as the lights in the room turned on, the three of them saw Blind Zou lying on the ground. There was a large pool of black blood on the ground in front of him.
"Uncle Zou!"
Yan Shouyi quickly stepped forward to check.
Today I saw Mr. Zou. He was much thinner than a month ago. He looked like a terminally ill patient. Even his eye sockets were deeply sunken.
"No, Uncle Zou's soul is a little scattered!" Yan Shouyi suddenly exclaimed.
Blind Man Zou was not simply ill, but his life was in danger. If Yan Shouyi and the others hadn't come over tonight, Blind Man Zou would have died in this unnoticed corner!
"let me."
Lin Zitong hurriedly shook the soul-calling bell and used the magic of Lushan Sect to temporarily seal Zou Xiazi's soul within his body.
Yan Shouyi's face looked very ugly. He didn't understand why such a thing happened.
After a while, Blind Zou regained his breath and slowly opened his eyes.
Long Feicheng hurriedly said: "I'll go find some water!"
After Long Feicheng left, Yan Shouyi frowned and asked, "Uncle Zou, what's going on with you?"
Blind Zou raised his eyelids with great effort. His empty eyes were looking at nowhere, and then he said happily: "You came back at the right time. I thought that I, the old blind man, was really going to die alone."
"Uncle Zou..." Lin Zitong said unbearably, "You are very ill, why didn't you inform us about this?"
Blind Zou shook his head: "I understand my body myself...it's useless to talk about it."
"How could it be useless? You are my father's good brother. He will definitely try his best to save you!" Yan Shouyi gritted his teeth.
"Your dad has more important things to do, so he can't waste time and energy on me..."
As he spoke, Blind Zou coughed violently again and vomited several mouthfuls of blood.
Fortunately, Long Feicheng came back in time with the water. After Zou Xiazi drank it, his face looked a little better.
Yan Shouyi didn't understand why his father was so important that he could ignore his brother who had been through life and death.
He took out his cell phone and said, "I'm going to call my dad to come back right now!"
"don't want!"
Blind Zou grabbed Yan Shouyi's hand and shook his head hard: "Don't let him come back... I deliberately didn't tell him this..."
"But……"
"I don't have a few more days to live. Even if you tell your dad now, he won't be able to come back in time...ahem..."
Yan Shouyi silently put down his phone and said uncomfortably: "What the hell is going on."
"This is my life, it is a debt I must repay."
"Don't say that!" Yan Shouyi said angrily, "You and my dad are brothers. To me, you are my other father. No matter what difficulties we have, we can find a way!"
It seemed that the word "father" touched Blind Zou, and he couldn't help but shed turbid tears from the corners of his eyes.
This made everyone confused for a while.
It doesn't matter if a child cries. At his age, Blind Man Zou is still everyone's senior and a peerless master. Suddenly, he sheds tears in front of three juniors. The three of them have no idea how to deal with it.
Lin Zitong said softly: "How about... let Uncle Zou cry for a while?"
Yan Shouyi hesitated for a moment, then nodded: "Yes."
They silently helped Blind Zou onto the bed and then retreated outside the house.
In the dark night, everything was quiet outside the hut except for the weak and deep cry of Blind Man Zou.
The cry was not heartbreaking, but it gave people a heart-breaking feeling, which contained exactly the same emotion as the song Zou Xiazi played before.
Long Feicheng lowered his head and said, "Brother Yan, I don't know what happened. When I heard Uncle Zou's music and crying, I suddenly thought of my parents who had never been masked before."
"I miss my mother a little bit too." Lin Zitong said sadly.
Yan Shouyi sighed: "Uncle Zou's piano skills have long been superb. He can control people's minds through the sound of the piano. His music just now was probably filled with true feelings and made us feel the same."
"So, Uncle Zou is missing his family?" Lin Zitong reacted, "You idiot, do you know what kind of family Uncle Zou has?"
Yan Shouyi shook his head: "I don't know Uncle Zou well either."
Lin Zitong sighed: "Perhaps Uncle Zou has some relatives who left him for some reason, and he is now terminally ill and his end is approaching, so he can't help but miss him."
The three of them stood outside the house for a long time. After Zou's crying gradually weakened, they heard Zou calling them in.
The three of them walked into the hut with anxiety and concern, and saw Blind Zou lying motionless on the bed.
If you hadn't seen that he was still breathing, he would have been no different from a corpse.
Yan Shouyi seemed to understand how Blind Zou felt now, which was a feeling of despair.