"I'm not going back. Cheng Xunxun replied indifferently, put a piece of steak into his mouth, chewed for a while, and raised his eyes to look at Yu Xuejun. He looked at her with a smile and said, "Are you happy?"

Yu Xuejun was slightly stunned, smiled lightly, and said: "As long as you feel happy, I will respect your decision, I only hope that you can live a peaceful and stable life, and your grandfather also asked me like this back then." So, I actually don't approve of you going back. Now that it's all in the past, there's no need for you to get involved. ”

"I'm glad you're back. In the next few years, I will slowly retire from my position, and I will spend more time with you when I have more free time. What are your plans when you come back? Do you want to go back to the company, or do you want to do something else?"

Cheng Xunxun shrugged his shoulders and said, "I haven't thought about it yet, let's pass the New Year first." Dad, can you come and spend the New Year with me this year?"

"Yes. He nodded.

"That's great, I've been preparing for it for the past few days. ”

Yu Xuejun glanced at her, thought about it, didn't ask anything, and only responded with a smile.

Meal. The two walked together for a while, and Yu Xuejun sent her home and watched her enter the door. He just left. Cheng Xunxun stood against the door panel, and when she heard the sound of cars outside, she dropped her luggage and let out a long sigh of relief.

Inside the house, only the light in the entrance was turned on, and the whole room was dark and deserted. The smile on Cheng Xunxun's face slowly fell, and he stood in place for a while before changing his shoes, bending over to pick up the suitcase on the ground, going upstairs first, and putting the luggage back in the room.

Little by little, the house lit up. By the time she came down, it was already brightly lit, and she turned on all the lights in the house, then went to the living room and turned on the TV. When the voice sounded, she breathed a sigh of relief again, looked at the TV screen, smiled slightly, and finally was not so lonely.

She didn't stop, took off her coat and started cleaning.

When it sounded, she was kneeling on the floor with a rag and wiping the floor, wiping from upstairs to downstairs, and never stopped, she finally stopped what she was doing, stood up, walked to the table, and glanced at the screen.

"Hey. She pulled out her chair and sat down. I threw the rag in my hand on the table, and when I stopped, I felt tired.

The caller was Chen Yujian, "What are you doing?"

Cheng Xunxun sat for a while and felt a little thirsty, so he got up and went to the kitchen to pour water, and said, "Cleaning." ”

"After sitting on the plane for so long, do you still have the energy to clean up?"

"I'm young, I've slept enough on the plane, and I don't feel sleepy for the time being. I wanted to call you after cleaning and taking a shower, but I didn't expect you to call first. She smiled and picked up the cup and took a sip of water, then turned around and walked out of the kitchen with the cup, walked to the living room and picked up the remote control and started to change the channel, saying, "I'm home, you don't have to worry." ”

"I'm not worried. He laughs.

Cheng Xunxun raised his eyebrows, looked up at his watch, and said, "Really, then why are you calling me?"

Without waiting for Chen Yujian to say anything more, she chuckled lightly and said, "Okay, you are busy, I will go to the bath after resting for a while, and I will go to bed after taking the bath." When I go back to Edinburgh, you really don't have to worry. Except for one person who was a little lonely, everything else was fine. ”

"Hang up, goodbye. After that, she hung up the phone, threw it aside, and sat on the sofa to watch TV, but she didn't know what was on the TV, and after sitting for a while, she continued to get up and wipe the rest of the floor, and then took a shower and went to bed.

Zhou Yanqing recuperated in the hospital until three days before the Chinese New Year, and during the days he was hospitalized, He Jiali took good care of him, basically coming to the hospital every day, saying that he would let him recuperate in the hospital until he recovered from his injuries. He Jiali was very insistent on this, and Zhou Yanqing had no choice but to move her work to the hospital.

By the way, I handed over some of the bureaus that had to be entertained to Song Xihe.

Out of the hospital, the smell of the New Year outside was already very strong, An Yu came to pick him up and discharged him, and He Jiali had to prepare dinner at home.

An Yu said: "I want to go back to the old mansion on Chinese New Year's Eve, I have asked the doctor, your waist is recovering well, and the long-distance bus should not be a problem." ”

"Hmm. Zhou Yanqing answered and didn't ask more.

An Yu glanced at him sideways, and Zhou Yanqing was looking down at the documents, his expression was focused, and he didn't have any other extra thoughts. An Yu smiled and said, "Don't look at it in the car, it's too late to go home, with Xinhe's current status, there is no need to fight so hard." Besides, the people around you are all elites, and there will be no problem with them. ”

Zhou Yanqing stopped flipping, raised her eyes, glanced at her sideways, and said with a smile: "No matter how good Xinhe is now, if I don't have to work hard, others can easily surpass you." How can you relax when everyone is working hard?"

"It doesn't need to be like this, Dad doesn't ask you too much. ”

He turned his head, looked at her deeply, was silent for a moment, the corners of his lips twitched slightly, and said: "What I work hard for is what I want, what does it have to do with my father? ”

The two looked at each other for a while, and after looking at each other for a while, An Yu nodded with a smile and said, "Well, but you also have to take care of your body, don't work too hard." ”

"Of course, to make so much money, you have to keep your life to spend in order to live this life in vain, right?"

An Yu sneered, reached out and took the document in his hand, and put it aside, "So, don't look at it in the car." ”

Zhou Yanqing raised her eyebrows and said with a smile: "Okay, then don't look at it." ”

The company had a holiday two days before Chinese New Year's Eve, and after He Jiali's careful arrangement, the Song house was festive, and red lanterns were hung.

The weather was good, Zhou Yanqing sat in the courtyard and drank tea, Song Jing went out shopping with Chen Flai, An Yu went out after lunch, I don't know where he went, Song Xihe didn't come back.

Song Peili played chess with the old housekeeper, and Zhou Yanqing sat on the side alone, occasionally looking, occasionally watching them play chess. At this time, the maid came to pass the word, Zhou Yanqing took a sip of tea, said a word to Song Peili, and got up and entered the house.

He Jiali was in the room, he slowly went upstairs, the door of the room was open, he stood at the door and knocked lightly, He Jiali heard the sound, looked back at him, and said with a smile: "Come in, don't knock on the door, I don't have so many courtesies here." ”

Zhou Yanqing smiled slightly, walked in on crutches, He Jiali hurriedly pulled a chair over, and said, "Sit down first." ”

When Zhou Yanqing sat down, He Jiali came over with a set of clothes and said, "This is what I prepared for Dou Lanying, you can give it to her for me, just say that you prepared it." ”

He Jiali took the clothes out of the bag and held them up in front of him, "You see if she likes it, if not, I'll call Song Jing, she is in the mall now, I'll go over and pick and choose with her." ”

Zhou Yanqing glanced at it, his eyes fell on He Jiali's face, and said with a smile: "It's good, since you are ready, why don't you go over in person?"

He Jiali smiled lightly, walked to the side of the bed, folded the clothes, put them back in the bag, and said: "You are more suitable than me to do this, after all, she raised you with her own hands, I have inquired, she has always loved you." ”

"That's because she didn't know I wasn't her biological son, and if she had known earlier, I might have died. ”

"That's not necessarily, if she knows that you are not her real son, she will definitely keep you and keep you to find her biological son. She is so good to you, which shows that she really loves her little son, when she gave birth to her little son, she was really dead, she will love you so much, I also thought about it. As she spoke, she stuffed the set of clothes she had carefully selected into Zhou Yanqing's hand, and said, "I don't want to go to her for the New Year, so it's better for you to send it over." ”

Zhou Yanqing looked at her for a moment, looked down at the clothes in his hand, squinted slightly, thought about it, and asked, "Mom, will you regret it?"

When He Jiali heard this, she paused slightly, and then laughed dryly for a moment, "What?"

"Would you regret your decision? If you were asked to choose again, would you exchange?"

Her eyes moved slightly, Zhou Yanqing's expression was calm as usual, there was nothing unusual in her eyes, she looked at her intently, waiting for her to answer.

He Jiali pursed her lips, turned her eyes away after a while, took a step forward, bent over and sat on the sofa on the side, smiled faintly, and said, "If you choose again, I won't, I will let you stay by my side." ”

"But without my last step, what will we do with our revenge plan?

"Hate, of course hate. Even if Tang Shijin is dead, even if Zhou Jingyang is now in our hands as good as death, I still hate it, and I hate it to the core. I watched my eldest son crushed under the beam and burned alive, and I was a toddler by then, and I was one step slower. In just one step, he fell in front of my eyes, his eyes full of pain, and he stretched out his little hand and called me mother. He would only call Mom. ”

He Jiali said, her hands clasped tightly, her eyes were slightly red, that scene, even if she died, she couldn't forget it, she would never forget it, "It's me who should die, not him." The living are always the most painful. ”

She reached out and held Zhou Yanqing's hand, held it tightly, looked down at their hands together, and said, "I'm not a competent mother, when I was my son, I made you suffer, I'm sorry." ”

Zhou Yanqing's brows frowned imperceptibly, and glanced at her sideways, He Jiali had a faint smile on her face, but her eyes revealed infinite sadness, and she was silent for a long time, He Jiali raised her hand to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Go, I won't have time to see her tomorrow, and we will leave for the old mansion after lunch tomorrow." ”

Zhou Yanqing saw it clearly, in this world, some resentments can never be released, even if they take revenge, that resentment will not disappear because the other party gets retribution, the pain they have branded on her heart is too deep to heal in this life.

He sat with He Jiali in the room for a while, and then left with the suit of clothes and went to the small building in the back.

The small building is also decorated with joy and full of New Year's flavor, but the house is still deserted and lifeless. Zhou Yanqing pushed the door in, and a cool air blew out from inside, and the heating was not even turned on.

Meihua heard the movement, walked out quickly, and immediately shouted respectfully when she saw Zhou Yanqing.

"Where's the old lady?"

"In the tea room. ”

Zhou Yanqing nodded, and walked straight to the tea room, Meihua did not follow the past, but went to do her own thing. Zhou Yanqing walked to the door of the tea room, and wanted to raise his hand to knock on the door, but his hand was raised, but he didn't knock down, but held the doorknob, the door was hidden, he pushed it gently, and a gap appeared, and from here, he could just see Dou Lanying.

She didn't sit still like before, she looked like she was making wool, Zhou Yanqing stood at the door for a while before pushing the door in. From the time he entered the door to the time he walked to her, Dou Lanying didn't look up at him during the whole process, only lowered his head and focused on knitting.

"It's me. Zhou Yanqing said. Wooden fork happy garbage.

He waited for a while, Dou Lanying didn't have the slightest intention of responding, Zhou Yanqing lowered his eyes and smiled silently, then took a step back, bent down and sat down, took a cup by himself, and poured tea. By the way, he put the bag in his hand on the table and said, "It's the New Year, I bought you a new set of clothes, you can see if you like it or not." ”

Although he knew that Dou Lanying would not have any response, he still finished what he had to say, and then began to meditate, drinking tea by himself, the location of the tea room was good, the sun was abundant, sitting by the window to bask in the sun, drinking tea, it was very pleasant. He sometimes looked out the window, and sometimes looked sideways at Dou Lanying playing wool.

Her technique seems to be quite skilled, Dou Lanying would not have done this kind of thing before, at least in Zhou Yanqing's memory, there has never been such a picture. She has a pair of glasses perched on the bridge of her nose that look like reading glasses. Such Dou Lanying looks like an ordinary old woman, but it is easier for people to get close.

When the sun was setting, Dou Lanying finally stopped beating the wool in her hands, and reached out to take a few scarves of different colors from the seat next to her, which should have been knitted by herself. She put the scarf on her knee, then pushed the wheelchair and slowly moved it to Zhou Yanqing.

Zhou Yanqing squinted his eyes slightly, and slowly sat up straight, this was the first time in four years that Zhou Yanqing had seen Dou Lanying have such a look, and his eyes were a little focused. She put a big red scarf on the table and said, "This is for my daughter Zhou Chan." ”

And then there's a black one, "This is for the old man." ”

After that, there were five scarves, the eldest and the second, the third and the sixth, and she said, "Please help me give them to them." ”

Zhou Yanqing looked at her for a long time, glanced sideways at the colorful scarves on the table, each one was not heavy-colored, he didn't speak, and there was a smile on his lips. He had seen that there was still one on her lap, navy blue, and he naturally didn't want to be rare about these things.

The old lady picked up the last one, shook her hand slightly, brought it to his eyes, and said, "This is what I gave to the fifth child." She spoke word by word.

Zhou Yanqing raised her eyebrows, turned her head, and met her gaze.

"You know who I'm talking about. She added, as if she was afraid that he would misunderstand something.

Zhou Yanqing snorted, reached out and held her hand, then took the scarf in her hand, put it on the table, and said with a smile: "Of course I know who you are talking about, I will let people bring your heart to your child." ”

Dou Lanying didn't say anything more, and after a while, she lowered her head and began to play yarn, her hand speed was very fast.

Zhou Yanqing didn't have any thoughts, and after drinking the tea in the cup, he stood up, sorted out the scarves on the table, and said, "I'm leaving." ”

Dou Lanying frowned slightly when she heard this, and said, "Wait." ”

Zhou Yanqing tilted his head, clasped his arms with both hands, with a trace of doubt in his eyes, and did not ask why. He sat down for a while, thought for a moment, and said, "I'll go upstairs and see the old man." ”

This time, she didn't react, just focused on the matter at hand. Zhou Yanqing went to the attic, the door of the attic was made of iron bars, and there was a dog hole underneath, which was specially reserved for the servants to deliver food.

Zhou Yanqing took the key and went upstairs, and Zhou Jingyang, who stayed in the attic and did not see the light of day, heard his footsteps from far and near, and then stopped in front of the door.

His voice was old and hoarse, coming from inside the door, "Who?"

Zhou Yanqing took the key and opened the door, waved the black curtain, bent over and walked in, and said with a smile: "It's me." ”

The attic was dark and gloomy, and Zhou Jingyang was hiding in the dark, and after a while, he smiled sullenly and said, "You still have the face to see me?"

Zhou Yanqing searched for a long time before turning on the light, the moment the miserable white light came on, Zhou Jingyang couldn't help but close his eyes, his hands and feet were heavily shackled, he sat on the bed with his back hunched, living like a thousand-year-old demon, the moment he opened his eyes, Zhou Yanqing could clearly see the anger and hatred in his eyes.

He smiled, went over and pushed open the small window, and a cold wind blew in, and said with a smile: "It's all like this, the temper is still so hard, is it useful?"

"You beast! I should have skinned you alive!" suddenly the sound of chains mopping the ground sounded, and he stood up, looking like he wanted to pounce, but his range of movement could not touch Zhou Yanqing.

Zhou Jingyang became very thin, his cheeks were sunken, and when he stared at his round eyes, he looked very terrifying.

"You wait, you wait! My son will come back sooner or later, so that you people will not be as good as death! You will not be happy for long! The things of the past, if any of you were different, you will do the same! You can't blame me! If you want to blame, blame Song Xuejin for deserving to be injured! Song Peili should thank me for not killing everything in the first place and let him survive! He is revenge!"

"It's the same with you, I've raised you for so many years! You actually treat me like this, you white-eyed wolf, a dog with no conscience! I shouldn't have spared your life! If it weren't for you, our Zhou family wouldn't be like this! Who can move me Zhou Jingyang! Ah! I dare to eat people, who can move me! You group of people will definitely die a bad death!"

Zhou Yanqing leaned against the window, clasped his arms with both hands, and in the face of his evil words, he was calm and calm, and he was not half annoyed, he said these words many times, and he could hear them almost once, and said with a smile: "It's the New Year." ”

Zhou Jingyang's eyes moved slightly, his thin body shook a little, and he pounced again, pulled hard under his feet, bent his knees, and knelt on the ground on one knee. Holding one hand on the ground, he slowly stood up again, "Beast, you will be punished for doing this to me." ”

"Yes, then I want you to see the day of my retribution. He smiled slightly and said, "Happy New Year, Uncle Zhou." ”

As he spoke, he also took out his wallet from his pocket, took out all the cash in it, and smashed it directly at him, "This is my filial piety to you." ”

After speaking, he turned around and left, ignoring Zhou Jingyang's cursing behind him, and his voice became softer when the iron door slammed shut.

Zhou Yanqing didn't expect that when he went downstairs, Dou Lanying was sitting on the edge of the stairs, as if she was waiting for him, she held all those scarves in her hands, and waited quietly for him to come down.

Zhou Yanqing slowly walked downstairs, stood in front of her, and said, "I promised you to help you, I won't forget it." ”

Dou Lanying didn't pay attention to his words, just took out a jujube scarf from it, and then waved at him, as if to signal him to bend over. Zhou Yanqing raised her eyebrows, thought for a moment, and walked over, bending down to meet her gaze. Dou Lanying hung the jujube scarf around his neck and circled it, just right.

She made only one gesture and said nothing, then held the other scarves in front of him and said, "Thank you." ”

The woolen scarf was very soft and warm, the smile on Zhou Yanqing's face faded a little, and after a moment of distraction, he stood up straight, called Meihua over, and asked her to take a bag to pack up the scarf and mark them separately.

When Zhou Yanqing left the small building, it was already dark.

Back at the main house, the living room was lively, and Zhou Yanqing handed the bag to the servant.

He Jiali saw him and said with a smile: "I'm back, your father has something to look for you, in the study." ”

"Oh. Zhou Yanqing nodded.

When he went upstairs, He Jiali came over to help him and asked about Dou Lanying's situation, and before Zhou Yanqing came in, he had put the scarf around his neck into the bag.

He said: "That's it, she doesn't speak, where does Dou Lanying care about whether the clothes look good or not." ”

He Jiali was stunned, smiled lowly, and said, "You're right, I'm thinking too much." ”

Zhou Yanqing pursed her lips and smiled, and went to the study, An Yu just came out of it, saw him smile slightly, and said, "It's here." ”

"Hmm. ”

"Daddy is waiting for you. ”

"I know. He smiled, knocked on the door, and then pushed the door and walked in, but An Yu didn't follow up, so he closed the door with his hand. He walked to his desk and said, "Dad, you're looking for me." ”

"I thought about it for a long time, and I decided to accept Song Nuo and let him recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors. ”

Zhou Yanqing was stunned for a moment when she heard this, raised her eyes and glanced at him, Song Peili said: "Originally, I wanted An Yu to take him over, but An Yu said that Xiaonuo was not at home and could not find anyone. Then it's up to you to bring him back yourself. ”