I heard my daughter's voice, and by this time my hair was almost blowing, so I hurriedly straightened my clothes, then pushed open the bathroom door and walked out.

I saw my daughter standing in the hallway, looking around at my brand-new cottage, while Ye Xing was waving a big spoon of stir-fry in the kitchen.

Today's Tongtong is wearing a light pink bud skirt, with her snow-white skin, the whole person is like a lotus flower waiting to bloom in early summer.

"Mommy is here!" I smiled at my daughter and walked over to her.

"Mom!" Tongtong shouted happily when she saw me, threw herself into my arms, looked at the room again with some disbelief, and murmured to me, "Mom, is this really our original home?

I smiled and gently hugged my daughter's body, she had grown taller again, and was not much shorter than me, and I explained softly to my daughter: "Actually, it was just a painting and changing some curtains, and it didn't change much." ”

"But it's different!" said the daughter, her eyes wide and leaping with joy, "as clean as a fairy tale," she complimented heartily.

I think it may be that the curtains and sofa covers I chose are fresher, and the emerald green plants are in stark contrast to the snow-white walls, which is why it gives people such a big visual impact.

At this time, Ye Xing walked out with a plate of fried dishes.

The dining table and cutlery had been set up by me just now, and when I saw Ye Xing bring the dishes out, I hurried to help him, and brought out the chicken stewed wild mushrooms and pork ribs stewed beans that had been simmered in the kitchen in a large bowl, and at the same time softly told my daughter to wash her hands and come over to eat.

The daughter happily agreed and ran to the bathroom.

Ye Xing fried three dishes according to the vegetables and meat I had cut, there were fried meat slices with fresh bamboo shoots, fried meat with green peppers, and scrambled eggs with garlic sprouts.

I opened a bottle of locally produced champagne, my daughter happily handed me crystal glasses, I filled each glass with bubbling champagne, and all three of us sat down opposite each other at the round table with sweet smiles on our faces.

The daughter picked up the chopsticks, quickly took a bite of Ye Xing's fried dishes, put them in her mouth and tasted them slowly, Ye Xing looked at her expression attentively, and for a moment, Tongtong showed a satisfied smile on her face, and said sweetly to Ye Xing: "Brother Ye Xing's fried dishes taste good!"

Hearing Tongtong's praise, Ye Xing smiled happily, and Tongtong turned to me again and added, "Of course, it's a little worse than my mother's fried, huh?"

Ye Xing and I looked at each other and smiled, thinking that this little girl could really speak, and while praising the guests' cooking skills, she didn't forget to praise her mother.

The meal ended in this happy atmosphere.

After eating, I arranged for my daughter to go back to her room to do her homework, and I had already cleaned up my daughter's bedroom, with new bedding on the bed, new curtains, and a new small desk for her.

Ye Xing and I sat in the living room and watched TV for a while, I glanced at Ye Xing, thought, and asked him casually: "Ye Xing, I remember you said that your hometown is Sanye City, right?" Sanye City is a small city more than 700 miles away from the city, I remember Ye Xing once told me before, saying that he grew up in that city.

"yes, what's wrong?" Ye Xing turned his gaze from staring at the TV and asked me puzzled.

"Oh, it's nothing," I smiled at him, put a piece of cut fruit in his hand, and continued to ask nonchalantly, "Have you always lived in Sanye City when you were a child?"

Ye Xing nodded affirmatively at me and responded, "Yes, I've been in that city since I was a child." ”

I nodded lightly and didn't ask any more, but the suspicion in my heart became heavier and heavier.

Ye Xing grew up in Sanye City, and Du Fanghua has been living in Linhai City after returning to China, the two cities are at least hundreds of kilometers apart, so how did Du Fanghua become Ye Xing's enlightenment teacher? It stands to reason that the Ye family has no reason to hire a music teacher for their children from such a distance, and Du Fanghua has already passed away when Ye Xing became an adult, and the two have no chance to become teachers and students, so this question has always been a question mark in my heart.

It was not early, Ye Xing got up to say goodbye, and before leaving, he said to me: "Oh, you are not going to open a store in the city and village, and I am also ready to move out." ”

I was surprised to hear this, and immediately asked him, "Where are you going to move?"

Ye Xing smiled and said to me: "Move back to my roommate, originally after I moved out, his room has been empty, and I temporarily found a shared room, and the person didn't live long and moved out, so now I move back." ”

Seeing his calm appearance when he said this, I was stunned for a moment, and then muttered to him, "Did you move to the city and village purely for me?"

Ye Xing lowered his head, smiled awkwardly, and did not speak.

Seeing his silence, I wanted to stop talking.

Thinking about my daughter doing her homework next door, I'm afraid it's not very convenient to say anything in the living room, so I whispered to Ye Xing: "Anyway, I want to go to the supermarket to buy something, it's cool outside at night, I'll accompany you downstairs to go around, right?"

Ye Xing looked at me, there was no objection, I walked to the door of my daughter's room, gently pushed the door open, and whispered to her: "Tongtong, mom went to the small supermarket outside the community to buy something, and by the way, sent Ye Xing's brother downstairs, and he will be back in a while, ah?"

My daughter nodded at me obediently, so I put on a dress and accompanied Ye Xing downstairs.

It's already the beginning of the lights outside, and in the early autumn, the evening breeze has brought a little coolness, but fortunately I have a dress.

Seeing that I hugged my shoulders slightly, Ye Xing asked with concern: "Is it cold?"

I smiled faintly at him and whispered, "It's okay, it's not cold at this time." Then I looked ahead and said to him, "Let's go further." ”

So, we silently paced along the street in the neighborhood to the front.

Ye Xing was taking the train on a platform in front of him, and when he was about to reach that position, I stopped and said to Ye Xing: "Ye Xing, don't come to me again in the future." ”

Hearing my words, Ye Xing was slightly stunned, and then asked softly, "Oh, is there anything inconvenient?"

I smiled bitterly, pondered, and then said solemnly to Ye Xing: "Look, now that I have moved back to my own house, the next step is to demolish the urban village, and I will not open that store, and then I will find a better store in the city to open a fast food restaurant, and then I will ask someone to operate it, I am only responsible for the overall management, and I will no longer get up early and work overtime like before, so you don't have to ...... Worry about me as much as you used to. ”

Ye Xing listened to me silently, he lowered his head slightly, and when I finished speaking, he let out a soft "oh" after a long time.

Seeing that he had a reaction, I said to him again: "Ye Xing, although I ...... I can't completely forget the past, but you've been good to me during this time...... I also see it in my eyes, how to say, I still thank you for accompanying me through the lowest ebb, now that I have gradually passed that period, I also hope that we can each other return to their original life tracks, you should have your own life, and I will also have my future plans. ”

I think that my above paragraph has been made very clear, after Ye Xing heard it, he raised his head and looked at me, and after a moment, he asked softly, "Do you have someone you like?"

I laughed a little, said no, "Not at the moment," and then explained to him, "I just want to get my fast-food restaurant up and running as soon as possible, and leave everything else aside for now." ”

Ye Xing put his hands in his pockets, lowered his head, was silent for a long time, and then raised his head and said to me slowly: "You don't want me to intervene in your life, I understand, but I think we can still ...... before you meet someone you like Be friends, right?"

His eyes lit up under the streetlights, and I knew he meant it, but I didn't want to drag the mud down like this again, so I said to him lightly, "Don't you want to?"

Ye Xing stared at me blankly and didn't speak for a long time, and then, he nodded helplessly and replied hoarsely: "Okay." ”

At this time, the car that Ye Xing was going to sit on came, and I hurriedly reminded him: "The car is coming, you go quickly!"

Ye Xing nodded at me, fell backwards, waved at me, and finally turned around and ran towards the bus that was slowly stopping.

I watched him get on the bus, and he sat at the back of the bus, still waving at me, and I waved at him, and then turned around and walked towards my place without hesitation.

In the days that followed, my small shop in the city and village was largely closed.

Because the demolition is already a sure thing, in those days, every day in the demolition and relocation office to mobilize the landlord to accept the resettlement conditions as soon as possible to move, many foreign merchants are panicked, are making plans in advance, the number of tenants in the city and village is getting smaller and smaller, of course, the sales of Malatang are no longer as hot as in the past, only a few individual customers come to the door every day.

So, I left Xiaomei to help look at the store and greet the few individual customers, while I walked around the main commercial sections of the city to find a suitable location for the store.

In the end, I chose a shop location that was being rented in the suburbs of the city, although it was relatively remote, but it was surrounded by a newly built science and technology park, with a large number of office buildings and office workers, and I had a hunch that the effect of opening a fast food restaurant here would be very good.