I didn’t know how to reply Leon’s question. So that I just stared at him, he also looked at me.
“Okay, I would not interrupt you. Go on as you planed.” Leon waved his hand.
“It seems that’s all. Roughly that’s it. I’m Nan Lin and Nan Lin told me this. I didn’t think of anything.”
It was like a tongue twister. “Nan Lin told me I was Nan Lin.” I knew that I was getting my words muddled up.
“Then why she is Nan Lin? And why you are Nala Yao?”Leon went straight to the heart of the matter.
I was hesitate that if I shall tell him my biggest secret.
“you have something hard to tell me? We already talked clearly. It means we know each other from long ago, it’s a good thing. Why you feel so embarrassed now?” Leon looked at me and asked.
“Fourth brother, will you hate me if I did something bad to you before?” I asked cravenly.
“It depends on what you do. Everyone has a limit for his tolerance. But I will try not to hate you.” Replied Leon.
“I dare not to tell you if you say that.” I said quietly.
“But you already began it. I would be upset if you don’t finish it.” Leon said.
“I’m just thinking to tell you all my secrets in such a difficult situation. But our last time would be full of hatred if you hate me. Then it would be too mournful. So I’d better not to tell you.”
“Firstly, it’s not proper to say it’s our last time. It’s not our last time. I promised you that I would take you out. We will get out of here alive. Don’t worry about that. I will keep my words. Secondly, as long as you didn’t betray me, I will not hate you. Are you satisfied with my answer? I know you are not a girl who would betray me, so I will not hate you. Just tell me what did you do. Otherwise both of us will feel bad. ”
But I was still hesitate to tell him that he was blind before because of me. He really would not hate me?
“Nan Lin told me that we were close friends before and we talked everything before. I told her before that I poisoned you so that you became blind.”
I dared not to look at Leon after I told him the truth because I was afraid he would turn against me.
Leon kept silent for a while and asked “Nan Lin told you that? Do you believe in her? Could you tell me more details?”
“I don’t know. In a word, Nan told me that. She said you were blind because I poisoned you. I was sorry for that so I asked a Chinese doctor to treat you. You are right, It was me who asked the doctor to come. Because he knew me. It also identified what Nan told me was real.” I lowered my voice again.
Leon was silent again. I peeped him that he was not angry. He was just thinking about something.
“Did she tell you why you poisoned me? How did you make me blind? And why you did that?” Leon asked.
“She didn’t mention that. Because she didn’t know, either. She said I didn’t tell her the details. I just told her that I poisoned you and you were blind because of it.”
“It couldn’t hold water. What if what Nan Lin told you was false? You don’t remember anything now, so she made up the story. You are not even sure if you were her. I mean it was you who took care of me and asked a doctor to visit me. But maybe it was another person who poisoned me. For example Nan Lin. She lied to you by saying you poisoned me. Will you believe that?”
I suddenly realized one important thing speaking of this.
We talked so long about what was true and what was false. But we didn’t realize there was a party involved in this. Leon. He knew the best who poisoned him.
“Then tell me if I was the one who poisoned you? I was thinking to tell youor not all the time, but I forgot that you must knew it if I poisoned you.”
Leon shook his head and said “I don’t know, either.”
“How could you don’t know? You could see before you were poisoned. How could you don’t know who poisoned you?”
“You were here this time when I couldn’t see anything. But do you know who did that? When and where did they poison me? ”
I shook my head, I really didn’t notice that. He could not see anything after we came back from the cocktail party that day. I knew that later, I didn’t know what’s wrong with it until now.
“See? You don’t know that. Neither did I. I don’t even know that, it means it might not be true. It happened so many years ago, don’t think about it anymore. Let’s change a topic.”
It surprised me. I thought Leon would be furious if I told him this. But on the opposite, he was not worried at all but as calm as it never happened.
“Fourth brother. I’m surprised you are so calm.”
“It might not be you who poisoned me. Even though it was you, it already passed many years. Why shall we mention it again? We should move forward, not backward. You can never make progress if you always look back.”
His words were easy but I could hardly understand. I didn’t think it was a trifle, let alone a trifle that no need to face.
But I could do nothing since he said so. He didn’t care about it, why shall I?
We leaned close to each other and no one talked. It was already twelve at night when I took out the phone to check the time.
I turned my cellphone off because there was no signal.
“If you were second brother, what would you do first?” Leon asked suddenly. I realized that he was thinking about that.
I thought for a few seconds and answered “I would find a puppet to be the Group chairman. And I would control the puppet. It was not possible to be a chairman as a disabled person. I don’t mean he is not capable. I mean outsiders may not be optimistic for him. And I believe he would not want to be the chairman because others would be suspicious if he came out suddenly.”
Leon completely agreed with my point of view. Then he said “Yes, so he would pretend he would not compete with anyone. He would control the puppet to work for him. He would tell everyone he was the boss behind when it was the right time.”
“Then who would be the most suitable person to be his puppet? A person second brother could help to be the chairman and control him.”
“It’s difficult to choose. If the puppet was too strong, second brother couldn’t control him. The directors of the board would not allow him to be the chairman if he was too weak. I couldn’t figure out a suitable person.” said Leon.