Seeing Rong Ling, it is about a café, not a café in a prosperous area in the city. Instead, in a relatively remote building, only the bookstore and a café on the first floor opened, and the sound of decoration was heard from time to time upstairs.

Because when I called, I was the only one who told Rong Ling, so I didn't let Lu Jingzhong follow up.

Lu Jingzhong parked the car in a position where he could see clearly, I looked at the floor-to-ceiling glass window of the café, and pointed to a position by the window, "I'll just sit there." ”

This time I deliberately came half an hour early, and even if Rong Ling arrived early, he would not arrive before me.

The café is darkly furnished, with mahogany tables and smooth floors. There was a melodious and slow piano music in my ears, but this deliberately created atmosphere was destroyed by the occasional thumping sound.

After sitting down, I looked around the café, I don't know if it was because it had just opened, or because there were not many people drinking coffee at this time, and there were only three or five people in the whole café. Then, I looked out the window, on the side of the road directly across from the table, and landed in the black private car of Lu Jingzhong, and I could see that through the dark glass, a pair of eyes were watching me.

Come to think of it. My manic heart gradually quieted down a little, and I began to think about what I should say and ask when I saw Rong Ling. will make him acceptable.

After all, he and Rong Ling haven't seen each other for a long time, how much he has changed compared to the past, no one knows, if any sentence touches the taboo in his heart, I can bear it, but the ice cream that has been missing for a night can't bear it.

Privately, I still think this matter has something to do with Rong Ling. Because at least there will be a breakthrough in this way, let me know where to start, if it really has nothing to do with Rong Ling Zheng Rao, then ......

I couldn't think about it.

If I had to choose one of the two, I'd rather have a clue that I could follow the trail.

Because I didn't sleep all night, in order to save my mind, I first asked for a cup of black coffee, without sugar or milk, and drank it in one gulp, which was bitter and stimulated my taste buds.

didn't wait long, Rong Ling came.

Since I was seated next to the floor-to-ceiling windows, I basically had a panoramic view through the window, so I could see a black van slowly approaching. After the car stopped, Rong Ling opened the rear door and got out of the car, his eyes stopped on Lu Jingzhong's car for a few seconds before walking to this café.

Rong Ling was wearing a black coat, in the weather of early June, I still felt a little hotter, but when Rong Ling walked down, he actually tightened his collar.

Pushing open the door and coming in, he walked over to me and sat down, not asking for coffee, but just a glass of water.

I clasped my hands tightly and pulled the corners of my mouth to smile at this high school classmate, but I couldn't laugh at all.

Rong Ling pursed his lips, his lips were a little pale, and said, "Needless to say polite words, find me out, what's the matter?"

I nodded, and I really didn't have the energy to talk about other things, so I asked directly: "Did Zheng Rao really go abroad to raise a baby?"

Rong Ling looked at me with a little meaning, and he said, "What, have you seen her recently?"

What does this mean?

I squinted my eyes and threw out a bomb with a lot of weight: "Is Zheng Rao really pregnant?"

Rong Ling took a sip of water from the water cup, and was silent, he didn't panic, and I couldn't have stage fright, so he sat in his seat, stirring the coffee in his hand, and the sound of the spoon hitting the wall clanged.

In the end, it was Rong Ling who opened his mouth first: "I know what you want to say, I have investigated it before, so those things in Yunnan are clear." ”

I immediately didn't understand it, I don't know why Rong Ling would accept such a woman who still has other men in her heart since she has learned about Zheng Rao's past, but this is not what I want to care about now.

I said, "I'm sorry, but I don't have any other ideas." ”

Rong Ling nodded: "Jiayin, I know, four or five years have passed, after all, we are no longer the same us, now you are for the Lu family, and I am for the Rong family, we are originally on the same page, so there is no need to meet after this meeting, if it is really seen, it will affect each other." ”

"Then do you know about my kidnapping in X City?"

Although this matter is said to be Lu Jingzhong, there is no impermeable wall in this world, plus the Rong family is also a big family, and there are eyeliners in many places, that thing, not to mention the Rong family, even if it is a large and small family in City C, I think they must have already known, plus the news that I became the acting chairman of the Lu family two days ago was too shocking, and the identity of the ice cream was exposed, which may have been the talk of those big families after dinner.

Sure enough, Rong Ling nodded: "I know." ”

I sneered: "Then do you know who instructed this kidnapping?"

Rong Ling had always kept his head down, but now that he suddenly raised his head, I found that his face was very white, it was miserable white, and it didn't match that sunny complexion at all, "I know." ”

"You know?" I smiled, this time, I didn't force myself to laugh, I laughed, the muscles in my cheeks were a little stiff, "Do you like Zheng Rao to such an extent? Can you even forget basic morality for her?! Even if you and I are not good friends, but at least the same table ...... in high school"

Rong Ling stood up directly, put a hundred-yuan bill on the table, and then called the waiter: "Pay the bill." ”

I glared at Rong Ling and said, "Rong Ling, I'm not here to set you up, now, just ask you, do you remember a question you asked me when you were at the same table? Do you remember my answer?"

Rong Ling's back froze as he turned to leave, but he still strode out without the slightest pause.

I know he remembers.

I also remember clearly, it was a sunny winter afternoon, Rong Ling was lying on the desk as usual, looking boneless, I was battling a difficult math problem, until Zheng Rao bypassed the podium from her seat and walked out, Rong Ling's eyes were glued to her.

Suddenly, he spoke: "You say, if Zheng Rao likes me one day, the premise is that I have to give up everything, then do I still want to accept it?"

At that time, Rong Ling was just a boy who didn't learn and didn't know how to do it, because the students in the school would not disclose their family background, so I naturally wouldn't know that he was actually a well-disguised son of a wealthy family, but I didn't discriminate against him at all, so I still answered his question well.

"It depends on what you think, whether it's worth it or not. ”

Now, nearly five years have passed, and my answer, as it was then, depends on whether you think it's worth it.

I looked at Rong Ling's back, I knew that he must remember this sentence, thinking that the day I went back to the dormitory a few days ago, I finally found a high school graduation photo from a few years ago in the cabinet, and now I still have it in my bag.

In that photo, Rong Ling stood behind Zheng Rao's side, his eyes kept staring at Zheng Rao in front of him, that kind of look is something that people can remember at a glance, full of affection.

However, if by now, he chooses to stand by Zheng Rao's side, then he will completely stand on the opposite side of me, I will not be kind, not at all, in the abandoned factory in X City, I will never forget, I will not let go of the harm to my children and Lu Jingzhong.

………………

Two more days passed.

Ice cream has been missing for more than 72 hours.

Lu Jingzhong and I basically drank a few sips of water, and were forced to eat a few bites of food by Zhou Yue, and Lu Jingzhong also said: "Eat something, eat something to have the energy to find it." ”

I bit my lip: "Then why don't you eat it, you have to eat it too." ”

So, the two of us drank a bowl of millet porridge under each other's supervision.

Zhou Yue, as a leader in psychology, naturally understands my state of mind at the moment, as long as Lu Jingzhong is not by my side, he must be within three meters of me, staring at my actions, sometimes I am a little nervous by Zhou Yue.

"I'm fine, I won't die until I see my son, don't worry. ”

Zhou Yue sat on the sofa and played with his mobile phone, "You know that your expression now, your slightly strained facial muscles and tightened lower eyelids all indicate that you are on the verge of collapse now, so it is right to find someone to accompany you now." ”

After listening to Zhou Yue's analysis, I suddenly felt interesting, so I asked him: "Then you say, Lu Xiaowu, what kind of state is it now?"

Zhou Yue helped the glasses on the bridge of his nose: "His ability to resist pressure is stronger than yours, so he will definitely not fall down before you fall." ”

It was also in order to divert my attention and stop thinking about ice cream in my head, so I talked to Zhou Yue about how to infer the psychology of this person from facial expressions, and I said that I had seen many small features on the Internet that could verify lying, such as thinking about looking to the side before speaking.

Zhou Yue rolled his eyes: "That's all the most superficial, not that it's absolutely incorrect, but now most people will pay attention to this kind of small details." ”

Then, Zhou Yue said that I was dizzy when I said very professional knowledge, and completely covered up the little face of ice cream in my mind with a series of professional psychology terms.

After a moment of silence, the police brought good news, saying that in a county town in a neighboring province, a case of child abduction and trafficking had just been cracked, and there were 178 children abducted and sold from City C.

As soon as I heard this, I immediately stood up from my chair: "Where?!

"You don't have to go over, your husband has already gone with a police car," the police officer said. ”

"I'm going too!"

After such a long time, if I don't see my son at first sight, my heart always hangs in my heart and I can't let go.

Originally, Zhou Yue said that he would drive over by himself, but there happened to be a police car to go to the scene of the accident later, so Zhou Yue and I got into the police car.

It may be that I have been physically exhausted for a long time, and when I went to the county seat of a neighboring province in a police car, I began to feel dizzy and nauseous again, but because I was driving on the highway and couldn't stop, Zhou Yue hurriedly handed me a bag, "Don't spit out the car." ”

But there is basically nothing in the stomach, and vomiting is just vomiting acid water.

After driving for more than two hours, the police car got off the highway and onto a rugged mountain road, and it was bumpy all the way, and by the time it arrived at the local public security bureau, it was already almost dark.

I rushed in, and a policewoman took me to the second floor and opened the door: "There are thirteen children in here." ”

As soon as I opened the door, I saw a lot of children sitting on the bench, on the ground and on the sofa on the side, and when they saw me come in, they all looked at me with a brush, and all the little faces were dirty, the small ones were two or three years old, about the same size as ice cream, and the older ones were ** years old, they were already very sensible, and they looked very pitiful.

However, there is no ice cream.

I looked carefully one by one, and there was really no ice cream.

I turned around and asked the policeman, "Excuse me, comrade, are these all the children?

"Well, it's all the kids. The traffickers did not confess, and besides, the arrest was particularly urgent from above, and they were arrested before they could do it. ”

When I came down from the second floor, I felt a pang of loss in my heart.

Finally, there was a little news, but it was still fake.

Although Lu Jingzhong's police car departed half an hour earlier than the police car where Zhou Yue and I were, because there happened to be a traffic accident on the road, I cooperated with the owner to deal with the scene, which was more than half an hour later than me and Zhou Yue.

In the half hour of waiting for Lu Jing to come back, two adults came over one after another, signed the formalities, and took the child away.

But what about my ice cream?

I have a deep premonition that the disappearance of ice cream is absolutely inseparable from Zheng Rao.

However, the only way to contact Zheng Rao now is through Rong Ling, who is not too cooperative at all.

I came up with a solution, which was to listen to all of Rong Ling's phone calls and check his emails.

So, I asked the local police, and the police said that if you want to listen to the phone, you must have permission from your superiors to contact certain case contacts and notify the parties.

However, if Rong Ling was notified, then why should I listen to his phone call.

Just thinking about it, Lu Jingzhong arrived.

When he saw me and Zhou Yue sitting outside, he understood by looking at his face and asked me, "Is it okay?"

I nodded, "No." ”

After getting my confirmation, I clearly saw a trace of disappointment flash on Lu Jingzhong's face, the same disappointment I had just now.

I couldn't help but squeeze his hand and support him, and support myself.

Yes, it's been three or four days, and the longer it drags on, the slimmer the hope......

At this time, Zhou Yue proposed a possibility.

"Because the news that Ice Cream is the heir of the Lu family has been announced recently, could it be that you Lu clan insiders did it?

When Lu Jingzhong heard this, his eyes narrowed.

Yes, we've all forgotten about it.

Therefore, when we returned to City C that night, Lu Jingzhong and I rushed to the Lu family's mansion without a moment's rest.

In fact, even if I am married to Lu Jingzhong now, the number of times I have walked into the Lu family's mansion can be counted on one hand.

I don't have a good impression of this seemingly gloomy mansion at all, and I never felt that this mansion had a sense of home.

This time, it was very complete, and Lu Gaofeng's wife, Su Ling, was also there.

It's really rare, a few days ago I heard that Su Ling was handling the family business in S City, and now she is back, and she should come back, once she hears that her husband's company is going to fall into the hands of me, an unknown woman, she will definitely panic, but looking at her current appearance, she is sitting firmly in Diaoyutai.

Although Su Ling is not Lu Jingzhong's biological mother, the father-son relationship between Lu Jingzhong and Lu Gaofeng has just eased, so he can't be too tough, so he still said hello.

Su Ling asked Lu Jingzhong to go to Lu Gaofeng's study to talk, and I wanted to follow behind, but was stopped by Su Ling: "What are you talking between other people's father and son?"

I was so angry by this sentence that I immediately retorted: "I am Lu Jingzhong's wife, Chairman Lu's daughter-in-law, are you qualified to ask me." ”

Su Ling probably didn't expect me to refute her, she was stunned by what I said, raised her hand high and wanted to slap me, but Lu Jingzhong blocked it with her arm and threw it back fiercely: "Aunt Su, please respect yourself." ”

Su Ling stood firm against the wall behind her: "That's how you treat your elders?!" ”

I said, "Yes, any person you see on the street is an aunt, a cleaner aunt, a nanny aunt, what kind of aunt do you want to be?"

Su Ling was really angry, just as the door of the study opened, Lu Gaofeng walked out two steps with a cane and said, "Jingzhong, you come in." ”

Lu Gaofeng's study, I still didn't follow up.

Maybe the father and son have something more important to say, I just waited in the living room, Su Ling asked the nanny to pour me a glass of water and put it on the coffee table, I just said thank you to the nanny, and didn't drink it.

Su Ling sneered: "Afraid that I will poison you?"

I replied expressionlessly, "Well, I'm afraid you'll poison me." ”

"You ......"

Maybe it's because I gave people the impression of being too dull and wooden in the past, so now I have become sharp-tongued, so that women like Su Ling have not adjusted their attitude towards me, so that they are repeatedly choked and speechless.

When she finally regained the graceful and luxurious face of a noble lady, she just opened her mouth to call my name and said, "Du Jiayin, do you really think that if you marry into the Lu family now, you will fly on the branches and become a phoenix? Don't say that you follow Lu Jingzhong, a wild seed outside, even if you ......?"

"Mom!"

At this time, from the door of the early morning light, a black figure suddenly walked in.

Judging from the body shape, I can tell that it is ...... Mr. Lu.

Lu Zhengqian walked over, his eyes swept over my and his mother's faces, and finally fell on my face, his gaze had softened, and said, "Jiayin, come out for a walk with me." ”

If I had to choose, I would definitely choose Teacher Lu instead of sitting here with this half-crazy woman and listening to her cold words.

But, indeed, I hesitated.

When I got up, Su Ling said: "Zhengqian, you yourself are a little measured, this woman is already married to Lu Jingzhong." ”

"Mom, I see. Lu Zhengqian didn't directly refuse, but his slightly frowning eyelids, I could already see his impatience.

It seems that I have been with Zhou Yue for too long recently, and I will use this bullshit psychological appearance to analyze my heart.

Walking out behind Mr. Lu, I walked behind me and he walked two steps ahead of me, passing a long cobblestone path.

I don't know how to speak, because after all, it's been so long, except five years ago, when I was the flower hidden in the corner, I had direct contact with Teacher Lu, and now, I haven't seen Teacher Lu for almost several years.

The reason why I say almost is because when I came to Lu's house before, I had met twice, but I had never been alone like now.

Suddenly, Teacher Lu in front of me stopped, I didn't pay attention, I hit his back all of a sudden, and took two steps back.

Lu Zhengqian turned around and helped me with a smile: "Be careful." ”

Without a trace, I pulled my arm away, bowed my head and silently took a small step back.

Lu Zhengqian shook his head: "Jiayin, look, since I have changed my name to you Jiayin, it means that I have completely accepted you now, and you don't have to reject me all the time." ”

I glanced up at him, noticed his gaze, and hurriedly lowered my head again.

Whether it is or not, in front of Lu Zhengqian, I have always been like a student, whether it was when I was young and ignorant in the past, or when I am a wife now, I am like a primary school student who has done something wrong, I am afraid that it is really from the beginning to define the gap between teachers and students, one day as a teacher, and a lifetime as a teacher.

Lu Zhengqian didn't force me to look up at him, but took two steps forward, walked to a stone bench under the shade of green trees, and sat down, "Come here, you sit down too." ”

This is a small forest in the west of the Lu family compound, it is early summer, the sun is not strong, the morning light is faint, and the wind in the early morning is not too hot.

I sat down and stared at the tip of my shoe.

Lu Zhengqian broke the silence and said, "You will have more opportunities to see me in the future, do you have to keep your head down like this?"

Only then did I raise my head, purse my lips, and say, "Teacher Lu, I'm sorry." ”

Lu Zhengqian smiled: "What did you say sorry to me, the original thing should have been that I said sorry to you, at that time, I just wanted to save a breakthrough point to divorce my wife, and it just so happened that because of your trouble, I fought a divorce lawsuit, and I used you before...... I'm sorry for telling you. ”

"No, no," I hurriedly waved my hand, "If my wife hadn't found me in school, I might not have been able to see ......."

Lu Jingzhong's name rolled around the tip of his tongue and didn't say it.

However, this is the case, if it weren't for Mr. Lu, then in this life, I would not have met Lu Jingzhong, and I was destined to be a flower that grew in the corner, blooming unknownly, and then decaying.

However, in the final analysis, Mr. Lu used me at that time, and Lu Jingzhong didn't borrow me to act in a play.

It's just that I was fortunate to have Lu Jingzhong really do my fake show.

At this moment, it was Mr. Lu who resolved my embarrassment, he said: "It has been four or five years since the incident, even if there is a grievance, forget it, you should forget it." It was my own fault at the beginning. ”

Looking at Mr. Lu's expression as before, I felt as if I had returned to the dark life of high school, Mr. Lu was like a cluster of flames, and I was destined to see the flames for the first time, and then there was a love of moths fighting the fire.

However, I later realized that I was wrong.

I mistook Mr. Lu for a flame, but in fact, when I met Lu Jingzhong, I realized that he was the flame that attracted me, and led me to rush to the flame again and again, even if I burned myself, I had to get the warmth.

"That Lady ......"

"There is no master yet," Lu Zhengqian smiled, "You also know that it is difficult for a second-married man like me to find someone." ”

Lu Zhengqian's words made me laugh, and the original embarrassing atmosphere suddenly disappeared.

Since I have said everything, I am not so embarrassed about Teacher Lu, and when I went out of the woods and walked towards the main building, I walked side by side with Teacher Lu, and talked about Qiao Chu.

"Qiao Chu was diagnosed with leukemia last year, and in March this year, he ...... "Tuan Dongtou."

I choked up for a moment, and I couldn't go on anymore.

"I've heard about Qiao Chu," Lu Zhengqian sighed, "Qiao Chu is a good girl, but she's young, so I'm ...... now."

I froze, then gasped.

Lu Zhengqian shouted: "Jiayin, what are you doing?!"

I didn't have time to answer Mr. Lu's words, because, just after coming out of the woods, only for a moment, I saw a figure, bypassing the rockery next to the artificial lake, although it was only a flash, the moment I reacted, I pulled my legs and chased after it.

I will never admit that figure!