After Bai Xiao made dinner, she received a call from Yu Shaoting, saying that there was something going on at the company and that she and Jing Xi didn't have to wait for him to have dinner.

She held her cell phone and glanced at Yu Jingxi. The little guy was sitting at the dining table peeling river shrimps hard.

Noticing her "resentful" gaze, Yu Jingxi raised his head and kept moving his hands: "I'm used to it, so hurry up and eat."

Bai Xiao sat down and watched him continue to destroy the seafood on the table, and asked: "Actually, you are the one who loves seafood, right?"

Yu Jingxi broke off the crab shell and hummed twice: "He won't come back to eat anyway, so we can't waste it."

Bai Xiao couldn't help but flick his forehead. Yu Jingxi glared at her pretending to be angry and continued to fight with the seafood with his head lowered.

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Bai Xiao had no appetite, so he ate half a bowl of rice and was done with it. However, the little guy ate two small bowls before he was willing to leave the table.

"You can't do this. My father is very busy at work. If you really marry him in the future, you have to get used to it, you know?"

Before Yu Jingxi went to the living room to watch TV with a can of coconut juice in her hand, she did not forget to give some guidance to the "lovesick" Bai Xiao.

Bai Xiao tapped his little head: "You still have more than ten pages of homework to finish, right? School starts the day after tomorrow!"

The little guy wailed, stared at her sadly, pulled up his big school bag and lay down on the coffee table to start doing his homework.

Bai Xiao cleared the dining table, and after thinking about it, she sent a text message to Yu Shaoting: "Have you had dinner?"

After a long time, until Bai Xiao tutored Yu Jingxi for two pages of homework, he replied: "We are in a meeting."

Three simple words, but they soothed her anxious heart.

Bai Xiao saw that he must be very busy. After hesitating for a while, he sent another message: "What time will he be back? I'll prepare a supper for you."

"No, it's too late and I might not go back. Go to bed early."

Yu Jingxi looked up from his homework and looked at Bai Xiao, who was staring at his phone: "Did he say he wouldn't come back? I had already guessed it."

Bai Xiao looked at his proud expression of "It's just as I thought," and pretended to point to a fill-in-the-blank question in his homework book.

The little guy curled up his lips and scribbled on it with a pencil.

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When the hour hand pointed to "10", Yu Jingxi yawned and sat on the small bench in the bathroom while Bai Xiao washed his feet.

He was playing with the toy gun he bought at a roadside shop in the evening, but his eyes occasionally glanced at Bai Xiao.

Fortunately, he was smart and knew how to "tune the tiger away from the mountain". He said he was going to the fifth floor and actually took Xiaobai and slipped away from the freight elevator, otherwise he would have been entangled by the guy named Gasoline!

When Bai Xiao took the towel to wipe his feet, she still couldn't help but said: "Well...it seems that your former husband is going to marry my cousin."

Bai Xiao nodded: "Yes."

"Then do you still like him?"

Bai Xiao raised her head, met his bright black eyes, and smiled: "Did you write the love letter to Xu Meimei yourself?"

Yu Jingxi suddenly felt guilty and turned his head away from looking at her.

Bai Xiao put his thick and soft little feet into slippers and patted his calves: "Get up."

Yu Jingxi did not go back to the bedroom, but followed her holding the toy gun that cost more than ten yuan, and said tirelessly: "I don't like that gasoline."

Bai Xiao smiled after hearing this: "It's not you who is engaged to him, as long as your sister likes it, that's fine."

"What about you? Do you still like him?"

Bai Xiao didn't expect a child to understand love and love so well, and she didn't know how to answer for a moment.

Seeing that she remained silent, Yu Jingxi felt a little unhappy and hummed on his face: "He's not as good-looking as Yu Shaoting!"

Seeing him calling Yu Shaoting's name seriously, Bai Xiao was amused by him, and heard him say: "Although he is a little worse than me, compared to ordinary men, Yu Shaoting is still very good, but he has a bad temper."

When Bai Xiao hugged him and took off his clothes, he was still saying: "You, since you are with Yu Shaoting now, you can't be careless anymore."

"Is this how water-based Yanghua is used?" Bai Xiao was speechless by his pretentious appearance.

"Isn't that what you mean?" Yu Jingxi rolled his eyes at her: "Anyway, if you want to see gasoline in the future, you have to take me with you, you know?"

"I didn't want to see him."

"Then he might want to come see you!"

Speaking of this possibility, Yu Jingxi suddenly lost his sleepiness and stared at Bai Xiao under the quilt: "You have to be obedient, otherwise something big will happen."

"For example?" Bai Xiao wanted to tease him.

"It's terrible for Yu Shaoting to be angry. I won't be able to help you then."

Bai Xiao nodded in cooperation, and Yu Jingxi came over: "If you are lonely, you can come to me. I can still spare some time to accompany you."

A chestnut hit him on the head.

Seeing his grinning face, Bai Xiao stood up and said, "It's half past ten, go to bed!"

Just when she was about to turn off the lights and leave, Yu Jingxi poked his head out of the quilt again: "I will start school the day after tomorrow, will you take me to report or dad?"

Aunt Li used to take him to report when he was abroad. When he was a transfer student last semester, his grandma took him to the school.

Bai Xiao looked into his gleaming eyes: "How about we go with you?"

The little guy snorted and twisted around in the quilt. Finally, he huddled up and muffled a "good night".

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Bai Xiao returned to the master bedroom and lay on the bed for a while but was not sleepy.

I put on my coat and went to the kitchen. I took out the dumplings I bought in the supermarket from the refrigerator and put them on the sink to wait for them to melt. Then I sat down at the dining table.

She occasionally glances at her phone, occasionally gets up and walks around, and occasionally lies down on the table for a while.

When it was almost early in the morning, her eyelids dropped straight down. She turned her head and looked at the door, but there was still no movement.

The most taboo thing for people when they are busy at work is to be interrupted again and again. After thinking about it for a long time, I finally did not send a text message or make a phone call.

Bai Xiao stared at the name on the phone screen that lit up, and took out a steel pen from his coat pocket: "If the flower stays up, it won't come back."

She put the steel pen on her thumbnail, flicked it lightly, stretched out her hand to catch it, and then slowly opened her palm, with the flower facing upward.

I seem to have forgotten whether the flower will not come back or the character will not come back...

Throw it away again, with the word facing up, and come back. She put away the hammer, leaned on the table, looked at her phone, and saw it was midnight.

Bai Xiao couldn't remember why she fell asleep, and had a very complicated dream in a daze.

The first scene in the dream was of Pei's house, which was not as refined as today's decoration, but still full of atmosphere. Pei Jinyuan was sitting at the head of the dining table with a cane, with other members of the Pei family on both sides. A beautifully dressed little girl was being led by a nanny.

When he came down from the stairs, he had a timid expression on his face.

Pei Jinyuan smiled and waved to the little girl: "Xiaoxiao, come here, grandpa!"

The little girl was picked up and sat on Pei Jinyuan's lap, weakly calling "Grandpa".

Pei Jinyuan laughed, pointed to the boy in a small suit sitting on the left and asked the little girl: "Then what did you call him?"

The little girl opened her big black and white eyes, looked at the boy nervously and shyly, and called out: "Little brother."

…

The screen rotated slightly, and the handsome boy turned into a heroic man.

In the dimly lit bathroom of the demolition house, it was very cold that year. She was twisting the bedsheets with her cold red hands because her mother Pei, who was sick the night before, vomited on the bed and soiled the bedsheets. Pei Qiyou came in and stood opposite her.

He helped her wring the water from the sheets, but in the end he held her hand.

"I will buy a washing machine when I get paid this month."

She was greedy for the warmth in his palm and held his hand instead. His hand was much rougher than before: "It's so good to wash it by hand, it's cleaner than washing it in a washing machine."

Pei Qiyou looked down at her, his eyes apologetic but also moved. He held her in his arms and kissed her forehead.

"It won't last long, Xiaoxiao, believe me, when I get rich, I won't let you suffer anymore!"

She leaned on his shoulder, hugged him back, and smiled brightly: "I believe you."

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The camera suddenly changed again, and she saw herself lying on the hospital bed with a big belly undergoing examination.

Through the curtain in the partition, she heard Secretary Zhang saying to the doctor: "It's better to have a natural birth. A caesarean section is not good for the baby."

When she returned to the villa, she was greeted with a nutritious meal for pregnant women and the sound of gentle music in the house.

She was like a puppet, obeying their instructions and doing the same thing day after day, month after month.

…

As soon as the scene turned, everything she had dreamed about was instantly shattered, and she saw Pei Jinyuan again, sitting in the study room with a cane.

She heard Pei Jinyuan say: "I have raised you for so many years, and finally you raised a white-eyed wolf. Have you forgotten all you promised me?"

The study door opened, and a beautifully dressed young woman walked in. She couldn't see her face clearly, but her voice was very soft.

That voice she heard every day during her pregnancy, through the phone.

"I asked you to be a surrogate mother, but you took my money, and in the end you even took away my husband and son!"
To be continued...