Sitting on the plane, Xia Xiaobei still took the signature photo and looked at it repeatedly.

Xia Nan crawled over, looked around for a while, and made a serious comment: "This aunt is not as beautiful as my mother."

Xia Xiaobei finally raised his eyes. When he was young, he came to flattering him. He gave him a blank look: "What are you talking about? He is the actress queen."

"The actress queen is not as beautiful as my mother." The little guy raised his head, very confident.

Xia Xiaobei couldn't help laughing: "Who did you learn this from? You are so slick and unhonest."

So Xia Nan choked her to death with the next sentence: "I learned from my uncle!"

Sure enough, like a father, like a son.

Xia Xiaobei got angry: "There is an uncle on the left and the other on the right, how many uncles do you have?"

This time Xia Nan was very sure: "It's the uncle who bought me chicken wings just now."

Xia Xiaobei apologized to him: "A bag of chicken wings will buy you! What uncles are you? Next time you meet a stranger, don't call him uncle casually!"

Xia Nan is very innocent: "But uncle is not a stranger..."

"It's all from today!" Xia Xiaobei interrupted and warned again: "Remember, don't call him uncle again in the future! No, he doesn't think about the future..."

When Lei Yunze came back from outside, his shoulders were covered with thin wetness. Xiao Yuan took a dry towel to wipe him while looking at his face. Seeing that his lips were tightly pursed and he didn't want to talk, he said carefully: "Lei, you should be happy to see your son, why do you look depressed?"

Lei Yunze sat down in her VIP lounge, leaned against the sofa and pulled out a cigarette and lit it.

Over the years, she has slowly touched his habits. When she is in a bad mood, she will stop talking and keep smoking. She thought that he might be happy about the child. So she recalled the premiere at that time and said, "When the child rushed out, I really scared me. He looks exactly like you. I guessed it might be... Huh, Lei?"

Lei Yunze suddenly pinched the cigarette and stood up. Xiao Yuan hurriedly went up to him. He shook his suit jacket and put it on and wanted to leave.

"There are still many reporters outside now, are you leaving now?"

"Well. Let's go home to see my mom tonight." Seeing that her hand had already been put on the door handle, she suddenly stopped and looked at her again. From here, he had not looked at her carefully before he could look at her carefully. It was useless to dress up so brightly for the premiere.

"You got the Best Actress Award this year, and I haven't sent anything to celebrate yet." His eyes flashed like nothing, Xiao Yuan pointed to the eye-catching diamond ring, "Let's go to the jewelry store tomorrow. Call me if you like something, or ask them to send a bill."

Xiao Yuan's eyes burst into surprise in an instant. He hadn't given her a gift for a long time. Although he has always been generous to women, when it comes to dressing, he usually won't refuse as long as she mentions it to his secretary. However, it was the first time that she would let her choose casually. A long time ago, she received inside information that this year's actress queen must have been elected by herself. When she shared this wedding with him, he acted very indifferent, which made her happy and expectant gifts failed. So she had to go to the jewelry store to choose a gift for herself. In any case, she was the fifth actress queen, and her outfit should not be too shabby.

Among those dazzling necklaces and bracelets, she finally chose the most topical diamond ring. The three-five carat naked diamond inlay, color, cutting, and clarity are all first-class. The deposit alone cost her 50,000 yuan. It would be fake to say that she didn't hurt. Fortunately, she was full of popularity with this diamond ring at the award ceremony. She was the most eye-catching news in front of the camera for more than a month. In addition, countless people speculated that her wedding date with her mysterious boyfriend was approaching, and she invisibly saved her position next to Lei Shao. This diamond ring worth hundreds of thousands of yuan was finally worth its ticket price.

"Lei, thank you." Xiao Yuan stood on tiptoe, hooked his neck with both hands and was about to kiss him.

Her lips fluttered into a blank air, and the cold air made her a little shocked, and she slowly understood something. Lei Yunze pushed her away, but held her hand and wiped the ring as if it were nothing. "Since it's the last gift, choose a satisfying one. A naked diamond of more than five carats is more important. If you don't know anything, you can call an expert to help you choose."

The smile on Xiao Yuan's face was frozen, as if the lime had dried and peeled off the wall one by one. She grabbed his hand and was as cold as ice. She felt Lei Yunze's powerful big hand gradually escaped, and finally she shook her away with force.

He leaned against the door, still with a cruel smile on his face: "You are a smart person, but I don't like a smart woman."

Later, when the secretary sent the bill, he took a casual look. In the end, she did not choose a diamond ring, but a more expensive necklace with full diamond inlaid. When he and many women broke up, they would give a breakup gift. Most people chose real estate and cars, and only a few would choose jewelry. After all, in this bubble economy era, more people would choose real estate with more economical and practical properties and higher investment value. The women who chose jewelry would not look at small diamond rings, which are usually unique jewelry sets offered by auction houses. The ring is only suitable for people who love each other, and people can no longer keep it. Why should they keep that small ring? Xiao Yuan was mistaken for cleverness this time.

He signed his name on the bill in silence. Over the past five years, he has slowly faded out of the circle of fame and fortune and rarely appeared in magazines and newspapers publicly. The only time he reported was that Xiao Yuan's scandal was exposed. The newspaper had a very good method and even allowed them to take a photo of it. Although the editor-in-chief of the newspaper came to the door to apologize in person, he was still excluded a lot. Lu Ziming is the leader of the media industry. As long as he spoke tactfully while Ziming came back to have a meal, the newspaper naturally couldn't make it, and sooner or later he would have to be listed for rectification.

David sometimes laughed at him: "I really don't want to use the four words "clean yourself" to describe you, but your current behavior really makes me feel like a prostitute who was a good man in the past."

He sat in the office, too lazy to raise his head: "Get out, the dog can't spit out ivory."

"That's right, how can a dog spit out ivory? That's not a freak." Dr. David stopped doing it and ran to his office to make jokes.

He actually knew that David was also looking for Xia Xiaobei in private and used a lot of connections in his elder brother Dai Xiangrong. He knew it was useless, and he had already connected the relationship that could be connected five years ago, but he still had no choice but to point it out. Some things, although they knew they were useless, people always had to continue to persevere in order to feel that living is not a purposeless waste.

Just like him, in fact, on the afternoon when he knew something happened, Xia Xiaobei had met Xiao Yuan. This matter had nothing to do with Xiao Yuan, and he also knew that it was impossible to get Xia Xiaobei up with Xiao Yuan's ability alone. He chose to keep Xiao Yuan by his side, so that at least he could be the first to notice any action she had. So from the outside world, Xiao Yuan became his only girlfriend in the past five years.

Xiao Yuan is a smart person. Even though she knows that she can't get anything from him, she is enough to make it easier for her to do things in many aspects. So she also sticks to herself and acts her own drama well, without any small moves of overcoming the rules.

After five years of acting like this, I finally got tired. Since God asked him to meet Xia Xiaobei again, he would never let her slip from his nose no matter what he said this time. He remembered the conversation with David at the entrance of the hospital five years ago. "Fate" might really exist, but no matter whether it is fate or coincidence, he will not give it to anyone.

On this side, David was squishing in the blanket, "Ah sneezing", and suddenly he was sneezing again. It was just a little rain, so why did he catch a cold? Or who was cursing him behind his back?

He hadn't been home for several months, and today he was rare for his brother-in-law to come, so Qin Shulan called him and called him home for dinner.

At this season, the old man could hardly get out of bed, but fortunately he lay down in the sanatorium. The two old men followed the old lady to eat together, and they were a little weird, so they all kept their heads and didn't say anything.

Qin Shulan served a bowl of soup for Lu Ziming and said, "It's rare that you are filial and come back to see you from time to time. Look at my son-in-law, who has been born in Beijing, and he has not entered the house for ten days and half a month. People say that a son-in-law is equal to half a son. Look, this son is not as good as a son-in-law."

"Mom, don't say that. Yunze is busy with his career." Lu Ziming took the soup bowl and raised his eyebrows at Lei Yunze with some meaning.

He understands the meaning. The old lady has been using this trick for five years. He can guess the next one.

Sure enough, after a few words, he walked around his wife and grandson: "You said that our old Lei family is not alone, Yun Qing is like that, Shao Qian is also gone, but you are the only son who is in your thirties and doesn't want to get married."

Every time he talked about this, he felt upset, and held up his chopsticks and frowned: "Mom, are you still letting me eat?"

This time, the old lady refused to let him go easily, so she simply put down her chopsticks and said, "Looking at the people who have white and fat grandchildren, I don't even have a son. After two years, I'm so deserted. How many good girls have you introduced to you over the years, you don't bother with this or that, and you don't care about it. If you think I'm sorry to Zi Yan, you've been separated for so many years. I heard someone say that the Wen family is holding wine, and Zi Yan even brought her boyfriend back. You can't settle down and have a grandson quickly for me to hug you?"

If it were in the past, he would just use it as a slightest and just listen to it. But today, he didn't know where the strength came from, and opened his mouth and said, "You are not without a grandson!"

Qin Shulan's face turned pale in an instant, and a piece of flesh held in the chopsticks fell into the plate. Even Lu Ziming looked at him with some confusion.

He consciously said the wrong thing, but did not admit it. Instead, the chopsticks froze in his hand, like a statue, motionless.

Since Shaoqian's death, Xia Xiaobei disappeared, and everything in the past has become a taboo for this family. For so many years, no one dared to mention the word "Xia" in the Lei family, but Qin Shulan was eager to love her grandson. Every year, Xia Xiaobei came back to pay homage to Shaoqian, and she always had to take time out and play with her grandson in her private office all day.

Of course, this matter is very secret, especially from Lei Yunze. Before, Lei Yunze thought something was wrong and he could never imagine his mother's head. But this time he met Xia Xiaobei on Wangfujing Street. He seemed to have learned everything he couldn't figure out for so many years. In fact, as long as he recalled his mother's behavior and attitude over the past five years, it was not difficult to see that this matter was covered by his mother. Otherwise, Xia Xiaobei would have disappeared without a word back then, so how could she not even ask?

The atmosphere was stalemate for a long time, which made everyone feel depressed. He finally defeated first and picked up the other words and said: "Next week is Shaoqian's Day. How do you and dad plan to spend it?"

He knew that his father didn't say anything, but he missed his younger son very much. Every year on this day, he locked himself in the study and didn't eat. His mother was worried about his father's health, so she always stayed outside the door and heated the rice over and over again, and she was always crying on this day.

Qin Shulan also came to her senses: "Your father's health is getting worse every year, and it will be a problem whether he can get out of bed this year. Then I will go to the hospital to accompany him." He was a little sad and sad, "I am usually busy, and I can't go see him in person every year. I'm sorry, Shaoqian..."

Lu Ziming was afraid that the old lady would be sadder the more she thought about it, so he served a bowl of soup and handed it to her: "Mom, don't worry, Yunze and I will go to the cemetery together, and I will take you with me if you have anything to do. Shaoqian must also hope that you and dad are in good health."

Qin Shulan didn't say anything, but stared at the soup in the bowl and was stunned.

On May 6th, Lei Yunze drove to the cemetery in the suburbs early in the morning. When the car parked at the foot of the mountain, the entire parking lot was empty, with only a few cars that had not driven away overnight, and were filled with dust and silence.

He hiked up the mountain, and when he was about to reach the top, he suddenly stopped and leaned under a huge camphor tree and smoked half a pack of cigarettes. The sun slowly came out, and the coldness of the morning gradually dissipated. He got up only after he finished smoking the last cigarette.

I have seen the monument from afar. It was chosen by the hospital, with black marble. It has Shaoqian's name and Shaoqian's photo.

Every time he walked here, he would stop and smoke a pack of cigarettes. Time slowly calmed down in his mind, and he felt that he would have the courage to step forward.

He didn't feel sorry for Shaoqian, but he would still be discouraged.

Until now, he still insisted on meeting her first, and the world of love is not in sequence, and the real thing that can be grasped in his hands is real.

He was just unsure of himself.

He knew that if Shaoqian had not left, he and Xia Xiaobei would be the happiest couple, getting married, having children, and then having a beautiful, fat grandson to hug them for their mother. In fact, they had a child, and happiness seemed to be very close to them, just one step away, but they were turned away.

He knew that this tyrant was not only God's injustice, but also his.

It was him who indirectly caused the death of the child.

If you feel guilty, this is the only thing.

He stopped in front of the tombstone, habitually took off his suit jacket, and began to clean up the dust. Unexpectedly, in front of the monument, there was a handful of dry bouquet. The white flowers had withered, and the yellow petals were blown by the wind, floating around, and there was another petal, raised by the wind, embedded in Shaoqian's photo.

He bent down and brushed away the petals on the photo with his hand. The cold fingers were Shao Qian's smiling face.

He thought, he finally knew why she appeared in Beijing at this time and appeared in front of him.

She should have come to visit Shaoqian every year, and he also comes every year. But he has never met her. She was so cautious that she was almost half a month ahead of time. In the past five years, he has never found anything wrong in front of Shaoqian's tombstone. Maybe it was too long that the flowers she brought had been blown away by the wind, or the garden manager saw that the flowers had withered, so how many times did they missed when he came and left?

When he went home to say goodbye to his mother, his mother seemed to have grown up for ten years overnight. He knew that he was unfilial, and that he was the only son left in the family, and now he is leaving. When Shaoqian passed away, he thought about this and moved the company headquarters back to Beijing, thinking that Chenghuan could always spend more time with the elderly.

Now that he is leaving again, his mother just holds his hand and is stunned for a long time before asking, "Have you seen her?"

Of course he knew who the mother said "she" refers to. For so many years, his mother had hidden him for so many years. When he first found out, he had complained. Now that he is about to part, he can no longer hate him and nodded silently.

"Oh..." Qin Shulan sighed long, "Is this a sin or something? The child came to beg me back then and cried pitifully. I thought it would be a big deal to continue like this, so I took her away. Who knew that she was gone, and your heart also followed her. How I advised you over the years, you just refused to start a family and start a business. I know you are agitated with me, Xiao Nan's child is smart and likable. I couldn't help but want to tell you to take the child back several times. But Yunze, you can't make mistakes again and again. Your father is so sick. If you get her and her mother and son back, your father will not be angry to death."

The old lady wiped her tears and sighed repeatedly: "I know it's not easy for Xiaobei. Xiaonan is nine years old this year. She has been with her children alone for so many years. Our Lei family has treated her badly. She also knows that when she comes back to see Shaoqian once a year, she is in a hurry and dare not stay for a moment. She is really united with Shaoqian. Yunze, mom advises you, just forget it..."

My mother's words were engraved in her heart, as hot as a soldering iron. Yes, the child is nine years old, but he has never fulfilled his father's responsibilities for a moment.

He stood up, held his mother's shoulders, and said, "Mom, the same thing, you advised me once five years ago. At that time, I didn't understand my heart, made a mistake, and delayed Zi Yan for so many years. Now you advised me to forget it, how could I forget it? That's my child, my flesh and blood... If you and dad can't accept her, then you should think that your son is unfilial. I will find her... I won't come back again!"

After saying a word, he had turned around and walked out the door, leaving decisively.

"Yunze! Yunze..." Qin Shulan even called him behind her, but she couldn't keep him.

After Xia Xiaobei returned to S City from Beijing, he began to feel restless. His left eyelid kept twitching, and he couldn't tell why.

Xiao Gao from the same office asked her: "Your son is still early after school, is he absent from this early morning?"

Xia Xiaobei is a single mother, which is nothing new in the company. Even publicly known to everyone. The director always takes care of her and asks her to get off work early to pick up her son from school.

She rubbed her eyebrows and stuffed the printed documents to Xiao Gao: "I don't know, I haven't had a good sleep. The director of this document wants."

Xiao Gao took the document and stared at Xia Xiaobei: "No, since you came back from Beijing, you have been like this for several days. Tell me quickly, have you had any romantic encounters in Beijing?"

Xia Xiaobei felt guilty and blocked the table with a magazine: "I won't be able to find a mother of a 19-year-old child even if I have an affair? Go and work!"

Xiao Gao sat back in awkwardly and jumped up again. After a while, he jumped up again: "Did you hear that our company has received a new big order? I heard that it is a big developer in Beijing. He is interested in our broken place and is going to carry out real estate construction. What's the name... a million square meters of urban complex! By the way, you said that if all the international brands are brought in after the construction is completed, I won't have to drag you to bring them from Beijing if I buy cosmetics in the future!"

Xiao Gao said happily, as if the place had been built, and was waiting for her to go shopping. Xia Xiaobei couldn't help but pour cold water on her: "Who do you think a place like us, where birds and chickens do not lay eggs, is a developer who has a bad brain to invest? Now there is a real estate bubble economy everywhere, maybe it's just a gimmick, it's a big deal, and then you can't afford to live in a house after getting married, just wait and cry."

Xiao Gao heard this and slapped his head and said, "Yes, why didn't I expect it! Alas, I forgot that Sister Xia, you used to be a real estate agent, right?" Xiao Gao praised Xia Xiaobei for a while and suddenly asked, "By the way, Sister Xia, they all said that you had worked in a big real estate company in Shanghai before. The salary of that big company is at least tens of thousands per month. Why did you go to our small place when your mind was hot?"

Xia Xiaobei was speechless for a moment, and was silent for a moment, and used her work to perfunctory words: "What are you guessing nonsense? You love gossip all day long. You believe whatever others say! Sooner or later, you will be cheated and sold!"

Xiao Gao stuck out his tongue and went to work. Unexpectedly, the director called her to the office alone in the afternoon and said, "I'm going to meet a big client tonight. You go and prepare and go to the table together tonight."
To be continued...