Seeing the man he had been infatuated with for seventeen years looking at his true love so intimately, Cheng Yingzi only felt that his heart hurt as if it had been torn apart.

"Xiao Tian, I wish you and your sister-in-law ......"

In order to make Xiao Tian no longer think of her as a little sister, Cheng Yingzi did not call him "Brother Xiao Tian" a long time ago, but called him by his name.

At this point, holding a wine glass in her hand, she really couldn't say any more. She has always been as strong as a man, and for the first time since she was sensible, she shed tears in front of so many people.

When Cai Yue saw Cheng Yingzi for the first time, she felt an indescribable kindness, and at the same time, she immediately knew her intentions for Xiao Tian from the strange eyes she looked at Xiao Tian and herself.

In fact, she has known her for so many years in Country C. At that time, she hoped that Xiao Tian could accept Cheng Yingzi's love. Because she believes that there is no one else in this world except herself who can love Xiao Tian as simply and passionately as Cheng Yingzi.

If Xiao Tianru marries Cheng Yingzi, then the love between him and several generations of the Cheng family will be more fulfilled.

It's just that all of a sudden, things took a sharp turn. Everything has changed!

"Thank you, Sister Yingzi!" Cai Yue immediately raised her glass and drank the high number of liquor in the cup.

Cheng Yingzi's eyes looked at Xiao Tian.

Xiao Tian didn't look at her, just looked at Caiyue worriedly. He was worried that her suffocation might irritate her brain injury.

Cheng Yingzi turned around quickly, ran away from the table, and ran into his room.

Cai Yue looked at Xiao Tian, Xiao Tian deliberately looked away, pretending not to see it.

It's not that he doesn't know Cheng Yingzi's sadness, and it's not that he doesn't pity her, but this kind of pity is completely unsentimental between men and women. The most important thing is that he knows that Cheng Yingzi can't give him the comfort he wants. In that case, he simply did not give her any comfort.

Once, because of the ambiguity between him and Chu Mingzhu, Caiyue and him were constantly contradicted, and almost made Chu and Yuntian turn against each other. Later, thanks to Qiu Yan's intervention, a disaster that could have caused a heavy blow to Yuntian was extinguished. He resolutely didn't want to have a second time like this.

Mrs. Cheng saw her daughter like this, and she was really in no mood to sit at this dinner table.

She sighed, stood up, and said apologetically to Caiyue: "Caiyue, I made you smile." I'll go and see Yingzi, you are free, just be in your own home, don't be polite!"

Cai Yue naturally understood the mood of the mother and daughter, and immediately replied, "Auntie, you are polite! I already regard you and Uncle Cheng as my family in my heart." ”

"That's good!" Mrs. Cheng finished her hospitality and got off the table.

Cai Yue didn't meet Cheng Yingzi for the first time, and before coming to the banquet this time, she knew that she would definitely not be able to avoid meeting her, and she was already mentally prepared. So, she wasn't too surprised that this situation was happening now.

Moreover, the scene in front of her was much better than she imagined, at least, Cheng Yingzi just hid in the room by herself and cried, but she didn't mean to embarrass her at all.

There were only three people left on the table: Uncle Cheng, Xiao Tian and Cai Yue.

Uncle Cheng's mood was very complicated, he didn't eat much, but he drank a lot of wine.

The meal was extremely dull. Until the banquet ended, Mrs. Cheng and Cheng Yingzi stayed in the room and did not come out.

Sitting down from the dining table and sitting in the living room, Uncle Cheng asked about Cai Yue's growth when she was a child. He listened attentively, asked a lot of specific questions, and could tell from the look on his face that he was not pretending.

This made Cai Yue feel that Uncle Cheng was very kind, and it felt like he was really Xiao Tian's biological father.

"Xiaotian, it is not easy for you and Caiyue to get to where you are today. When do you plan to marry Caiyue?"

Xiao Tian looked at Caiyue and held her hand: "There is nothing going on in the army this time, I plan to leave in the next two days, go back to the city with Caiyue, and complete the formalities and weddings as soon as possible." ”

"Go back to the city?" Uncle Cheng obviously looked a little disappointed.

"Well, Caiyue wants to go back to the city for a wedding. Because it was there that we met and fell in love. ”

"It's okay, it's okay!" Uncle Cheng said a little stunned. Realizing that he was a little out of shape, Uncle Cheng immediately put away his emotions: "Caiyue, sit down, Uncle Cheng has a few words and wants to talk to Xiaotian alone." ”

It's been a long time since she returned to China, and Caiyue has already known the close relationship between Uncle Cheng and Xiao Tian with father and son, so she fully understands Uncle Cheng's mentality at the moment. There's no father who doesn't want to attend his son's wedding, right?

In the study on the second floor, Uncle Cheng opened the safe and took out the album that he had never shown to anyone and was numbered "three" by Xiao Tian. He gently rubbed the old photo album, slowly walked in front of Xiao Tian, and put the album in Xiao Tian's hand.

"Xiaotian, look at this. ”

Xiao Tian solemnly took the album and slowly opened it.

Although he was already mentally prepared, but when he really saw the real photo, Xiao Tian couldn't help but raise his head in surprise and looked at Uncle Cheng. Uncle Cheng had already sat on the sofa chair, looking very tired and sad.

The first photo on the album is a photo of Caiyue's mother Xiao Ling and Uncle Cheng when they were young, which is also the only photo of them in their lives.

Xiao Tian continued to flip back, and behind him were photos of Lin Wanyun when he was a child, all the way to the photo of him and Lin Wanyun when they were together.

Further back, there are photos of Caiyue from childhood to adulthood, including a photo of Caiyue when she was with him.

Seeing that Xiao Tian finished reading the album, Uncle Cheng opened his mouth angrily.

"Xiao Tian, take good care of Caiyue! The debt I owe to Xiaoling's mother and daughter in this life cannot be made up! In my eyes, Caiyue is the same as my biological daughter. Don't treat her badly, don't do her!"

Uncle Cheng said, already in tears.

Xiao Tian slowly stood up, walked in front of Uncle Cheng, and knelt down with tears in his eyes: "Dad!"

Uncle Cheng's hand was on Xiao Tian's shoulder, and he also burst into tears.

More than 40 years have passed, and the past can no longer be chased. The former vows and the heartache have become a thing of the past with the years that will never return.

Now he is in his twilight years, and only occasionally when a person or thing that affects the past appears, he will still feel a faint pain in a corner of his heart at that moment. That regret is no longer available in this life!

At that time, he went down to the grassroots army to exercise and fell in love with Xiao Ling. But his mother always wanted him to marry the daughter of a high-ranking official in the capital, so he didn't dare to make this relationship public. Because with what he knew about his mother, she would definitely plant eyeliner around him. His three older brothers all died in different battlefields before liberation, and he was the youngest son left of his mother, and he could not ignore his mother's feelings.

Fortunately, he and Xiao Tian's father Xiao Feng are good friends, and there are many words and things that he passed on to Xiao Ling through Xiao Feng.

Soon after, the famous self-defense counterattack broke out and lasted for many years. The unit he and Xiao Feng were in were both sent to the battlefield when the battle was at its most anxious. On the eve of the troops' departure, he met with Xiao Ling. The two didn't know if this side would be a dead parting, and finally they didn't hold back, or broke through the last boundary.

Two months later, Xiao Feng died on the battlefield in a foreign country to cover the evacuation of his comrades. He was also discharged from the line and admitted to the hospital due to his injuries, and was later transferred to the 301 Military Hospital in the capital due to his injuries. After treatment, his injuries were brought under control.

At that time, communication was very backward, direct dial telephones were scarce, and the main means of contact were written communication. The few letters Xiao Ling sent to him were all intercepted by his mother, and his relationship with Xiao Ling was finally known by his mother.

When his mother forced him to die, he had to call Xiao Ling in front of his mother and propose to her to break up.

For five years, he refused to associate with every girl his mother liked, and seeing that he was getting older, his mother finally relented. He was extremely excited, and after a lot of twists and turns, he found Xiao Lingxin's address, only to see her being helped out of the house by another man, and her abdomen was obviously bulging.

"I later learned that when I broke up with Xiao Lingti, she was already pregnant with my child. But she has always been strong, and she has never mentioned a word to me. If I had known that she was pregnant with our child, I would have asked my mother for permission to be with us anyway. ”

mentioned this unknown tragic love affair when he was young, Uncle Cheng was in tears again.

After Xiaoling's unmarried pregnancy was known to the troops, the people of the organization took turns to investigate who the biological father of her child was, but she still didn't say a word. Because I often ask your father to take care of Xiaoling, everyone suspects that it is your father. Because of this incident, your father was almost disqualified as a martyr. ”

Xiao Tian listened quietly to this past of more than thirty years ago.

He knew that Xiao Ling had an old relationship with his father for a long time, because he had done a detailed investigation of Caiyue's identity and background before he officially decided to date Caiyue, and Xiao Ling, as Caiyue's mother, would of course be the focus of the investigation.

Perhaps it was because Xiao Ling almost damaged her father's reputation after his sacrifice, so she has always been ashamed in her heart, so she will regard him as a parent from the bottom of her heart. But at the same time, his existence reminds her of the first love that once made her miserable.

Xiao Ling knew the relationship between his father and Uncle Cheng better than anyone else, so Xiao Tian thought that perhaps from the beginning, she guessed his dual identity of light and dark. She has always been resolutely opposed to Caiyue being with him, perhaps in addition to her disciples, another important reason is this.

"After knowing that Xiaoling is married and has become a mother, I agreed to my mother's request and soon married your aunt. Later, I learned that my child with Xiaoling was not dead. Later, I found Wanyun with great difficulty. But by then, your aunt was already pregnant. I really don't know how to talk to her about it. ”

The strong guilt made Uncle Cheng keep shaking his head as he spoke.