"What is this?" Xiang Ziyuan stared at the key in confusion.
The key was stained with rust, as if it hadn't been used for a long time. Xiang Ziyuan didn't understand what the old man meant when he asked Leng Ran to hand over this old key to her.
"It looks like a key to an old house. I heard from Mo that the Zuo family has an ancestral house in the countryside that has a history of hundreds of years. This is probably the key to the ancestral house in the countryside." Leng Ran
He also looked puzzled, not understanding what Mr. Zuo meant by doing this.
Holding the key and staring at the closed door of the emergency room behind her for a long time, Xiang Ziyuan already had a plan in her mind. The old man would give her the key to his ancestral home, and I'm afraid he would only have one meaning.
Reminding her to let her two children recognize their ancestors.
Her pink lips pursed into a tough but pale line, she tightened the key in her hand, and Xiang Ziyuan said silently in her heart with tears in her eyes: "Grandpa, don't worry! I will definitely fulfill your wish as soon as possible.
Children will always be the inheritance of your Zuo family."
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The old man left in such a hurry that Aster didn't even find a chance to sit down and have a good chat with him, and she didn't have time to seriously say sorry to him.
Even the two children only said a few words to each other.
Since Zuo Zimo held the old man's funeral, he started to go out early and come back late, as if he could escape from something. Although the two of them live under the same roof and work in the same company, they can't talk about it every day.
A few words.
Xiang Ziyuan had a vague feeling that he was deliberately hiding from her.
This situation lasted for a full week, and Xiang Ziyuan finally couldn't bear the deliberately cold atmosphere anymore. If he planned to continue like this, then she would rather take the child back to live in the previous place.
As usual, Zuo Zimo did not return home until midnight. These days, he has been blaming himself for his grandfather's death. He always felt that if it were not for the wedding, his grandfather would not have a cerebral hemorrhage, and it would not happen so quickly.
Leave yourself.
Whenever he walks into this home, he will think of his grandfather. Whenever he sees Xiang Ziwan, he will always hate himself unconsciously.
He knew that he was escaping.
However, apart from this, he really has no way to face himself.
Pushing open the study door, I was surprised to find that there was a light on inside, and a soft figure was sitting on the sofa in the study. When I heard the door opening, I immediately raised my head.
Xiang Ziyuan deliberately waited for him in the study. She knew that he always slept in the study when he came back late these past few days.
Seeing Aster, a hint of struggle flashed across Zuo Zimo's face. Then, he turned his back and walked to the desk beside him, pretending to be calm and said: "Why aren't you sleeping yet?"
"I want to talk to you!"
Zi Yuan had not slept so late for a long time, and she was a little tired from trying to hold on, but her eyes when looking at Zuo Zimo were firm.
"oh!"
Zuo Zimo was afraid to see the doubt in her eyes. He knew that she must be blaming him. However, he really couldn't pass his own test.
It's not that I don't want to see her or talk to her, but every time I see her, I unconsciously think of the old man. I remember that I was so unfilial that I didn't even see her for the last time.
Zi Yuan held the old key in her hand, handed it to Zuo Zimo and said, "Grandpa asked Leng Ran to give it to me before he left. I think grandpa should use this key to remind me to let the two children
Recognize your ancestors and return to your clan."
Zuo Zimo also recognized that it was the key to the Zuo family's ancestral home, and could not help but frown slightly and said: "Then what do you think?"
"I have asked the two children and they have no objections to changing their surname. If you have time, you can find a lawyer to handle it. There is also the issue of the household registration of the two children. Since it is grandpa's wish, I also hope that it can be done as soon as possible.
Finish it for him."
"I know!" Zuo Zimo's face turned pale again when he mentioned the old man.
There was a look of indescribable pain in his eyes.
Xiang Ziyuan couldn't help but her heart began to hurt, as if being pricked by needles. She felt sorry for the other person and said: "I know you are very sad about grandpa, and everyone is the same. You... My condolences, by the way.
!" After thinking for a long time, I could only come up with the simplest words of comfort.
After saying this to Zi Wan, he planned to leave. When he turned around, he hesitated in his steps. He turned his back to him and paused: "Also, if there is any inconvenience for me to stay here, you can
Just bring it up and I will move it out or move it to another room, so you don't have to deliberately stay until you come back so late."
In fact, I still had many questions to ask him, and many, many things I wanted to say. However, seeing him like this, I suddenly couldn't say anything.
"Don't go-"
Zuo Zimo suddenly hugged her from behind, put his head on the crook of her neck, and said in a low and hoarse voice, "I'm sorry." He also knew that what he did was wrong and that it might make her sad.
For someone as sensitive as her, she would not be unaware of her own abnormalities.
However, he really didn't mean it, he just... couldn't help it. He didn't know how to face her, he didn't know how to face himself, and he didn't know how to face the old man who had just passed away.
Inexplicably, Xiang Ziwan suddenly felt aggrieved and wanted to cry.
She didn't want something like this to happen. She didn't want to see the old man die, and she didn't want everyone to be unhappy. If she had known it would be like this, she wouldn't have come back no matter what.
However, no matter how much you say now, it will be useless.
After all, people cannot be resurrected after death, and time cannot be repeated.
After sniffing, Xiang Ziwan tried to pull away the other party's hand around her waist and said: "It's very late, you should go to bed early!"
Who knew that Zuo Zimo not only didn't let go of him, but instead hugged her tighter. The hand around her waist used all his strength, as if he wanted to rub her into his own bones and blood, and he kept mouthing
Said: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."
Urgent apologies came one after another, accompanied by hot liquid falling into Xiang Ziyuan's neck. Every drop, the skin on her neck was burned, and it also burned her heart. Zuo Zimo's voice
It was low, hoarse, and full of pain, as if whispering in her ear: "Wife, don't leave me."
There has never been a moment when I felt so vulnerable.
He has lost too many relatives and too many people he loves. Now, only she and the children are left. If even they leave him, he really doesn't know what to do with the rest of his life.
Go ahead and continue.
The grievances and dissatisfaction of the past few days have all disappeared with his words "Wife, don't leave me", and what is left is only full of sadness and heartache.
Xiang Ziyuan couldn't help but shed big tears. Even when she left, she had never felt so heartbroken.
Turning around, Xiang Ziyuan hugged him tightly, crying like a child in his arms. While crying, he said: "You will never do this to me again, and you will not be allowed to hide from me.
Ignore me, and you are not allowed to neglect me on purpose, otherwise, I will really leave with my children and never come back again!"
She only has a broken heart that has not been completely repaired, and she is really not that strong.
If she had to continue to speculate like this, feel so anxious, feel so wronged and uncomfortable, she would rather live alone with her child. Although it is more miserable, although sometimes she will think of the other party and feel regretful, but at least it is simple and comfortable, at least there are not so many entanglements.
At least, I can have some peace and quiet.
"Okay, I promise you, I will never avoid you, ignore you, neglect you, never let you leave me again, never." Zuo Zimo looked at her very seriously.
He nodded his promise, then leaned over and kissed away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and then kissed all the way down the soft lines of her face until he completely covered her lips.
Outside the window, the night is getting thicker, and inside the house, the mood is full of spring.