Xiong Dailing came out of the long-distance bus station and rushed home by taxi, the night was dark, she didn't bring the key to the house on her body, looked at the light exposed by the crack in the door, and thought that it was so good at home, knocked on the door, didn't wait for her mother to react, she didn't notice anything abnormal, so she hugged her mother and coquettishly: "Ah, I'm sorry, I didn't remember that today is your birthday until the afternoon, and when I remembered it, I asked for leave and rushed to the station to buy a ticket back." In order to catch the last long-distance bus back, I didn't buy any gifts, Mom, you won't blame me for being unfilial, right?"

Xiong Dailing carried her mother to the house, only to see her sister sitting in the bedroom with her hair disheveled, her eyes red and swollen from crying, and her face still had slap prints. Xiong Dailing noticed that her mother's eyes were also red, and she was so frightened that she screamed: "Mom, sister, what's wrong, where is Yueting, what about my father?"

"Nothing?" Bai Sumei straightened her apron and said calmly, "It's nothing, what are you yelling about? So that the neighbors hear it, and think something happened to my family? Do you remember that today is my birthday? What time is the lunar calendar today, how can I remember that my birthday is the day after tomorrow?"

Xiong Dailing didn't have the heart to say that she would have one class in school tomorrow, and she used her mother's birthday to skip class two days early to go home to play, her mother said it was okay, but her mother and her sister looked like her, how could she believe that it was okay?

Xiong Dailing walked into the house as if jumping, and saw Yueting sleeping well next to her sister, her face was flushed, so she felt a little relieved, and asked her sister with a weak heart: "What about our father?"

Xiong Daini still had tears on her cheeks, but she didn't want her sister to worry, so she wiped the tears from her cheeks and said, "Our dad is still in the unit, right? What time is it, it's getting dark?"

Xiong Dailing was willing to believe that nothing had happened, and she didn't dare to ask, and said: "I'll call, my dad will definitely put down the materials and rush home if he wants to know that his beloved little daughter is back." "I walked to the living room, picked up the telephone, and didn't dare to directly dial his father's mobile phone number, and dialed it to the office.

The Political Research Office is responsible for the compilation of the main policy materials and documents of the municipal party committee and government, and the task is extremely heavy, and there are usually people on duty at night.

Xiong Dailing called, and someone answered, telling her that her father had been away from the office for an hour. Xiong Wenbin is the boss of the political research office, and the staff on duty are not clear where he goes, whether there are other official arrangements or banquets.

Although the person who answered the phone didn't know where her father was, his tone was normal, and he also told Xiong Dailing to feel at ease, as long as the family was safe and sound.

Xiong Dailing noticed that her sister and Yueting were in her room, and their own room was closed, she pushed the door open, and saw the messy appearance of the collapsed bed that had not been tidied up, she was startled, and then thought of her sister's appearance, and turned back to ask her mother: "Is our family a thief?"

"It's good that the thief broke in, and the public security bureau is not a decoration, so I'm afraid that someone will open the door to welcome the thief. Bai Sumei's anger has not subsided, and her speech is cold and hard, not giving her eldest daughter any face.

Xiong Dailing carefully settled down at this time, and said angrily to her mother: "Mom, you are also real, how old is my sister, why are you still so fierce towards her? My sister and I can stand the stubbornness of you two old people, and the other children would have rebelled earlier......"

Xiong Dailing suddenly hugged her sister and rushed at her mother.

"You give me rules at school, if you want to do anything in my hands, I will inevitably clean you up. Bai Sumei was not angry, she didn't have the face to tell her little daughter that the "thief" was no one else, it was Shen Huai, she threw the rag on the table, and went into the kitchen to cook, and when she entered the kitchen, she found that the rag fell on the table outside, and turned back to get the rag, she was really confused today.

Xiong Dailing pouted, with dissatisfaction with her mother, ran to the bedroom to comfort her sister, and asked in a low voice: "Mom really beat you? Is she in menopause, and her temper is weird like this? Menopausal old women are the most difficult to serve, it's really not good, you go out to live with Yueting, I support you." ”

Xiong Daini also couldn't cry or laugh, she didn't know how to ask her sister to help her "justice".

"I called Dad's office, and the person on duty said that Dad had been off work for an hour, and he didn't know where he was wandering, so why don't we go out and find him, and let that old stubborn cook at home alone and take care of Yueting?"

Xiong Daini also wanted to go out to take a breath, so she went into the bathroom and combed it briefly, knowing that her mother was still angry, and before going out with Dailing, she went to the kitchen door and said hello: "Yueting is asleep in the room." ”

Bai Sumei snorted and didn't turn around, Xiong Dailing grimaced at her mother and pulled her sister out.

didn't expect to come out to find her mother, Xiong Dailing and her sister walked along the road from their house to the city hall at will, the night was not much deep, the street lamps emitted a yellowish light, and when she walked to the small park around the corner, Xiong Dailing said to her sister, who was silent all the way: "Do you want us to go in and look for it, maybe our dad got lost in it?"

Xiong Wenbin was a cadre in the Municipal Planning Commission at the beginning, and the dormitory of the municipal government office was on the east side of the small park.

Later, Xiong Wenbin was transferred to the city steel mill as the director, and their family lived in the family area of the city steel mill, and then moved to the city, Wenshan Park was expanded, and they wanted to visit the park, usually going to Wenshan Park, and almost never walked to this corner park.

Listening to her sister comfort herself with the events of her childhood, Xiong Daini felt warm in her heart, put her arm around her sister's shoulders, cheered up, and said, "Okay, let's go in and find out ......" As soon as he walked down the cement slope, he was dumbfounded, and the gray-haired man in the corner pavilion who was leaning over to pick up the chess pieces on the chessboard was not their father.

"Dad!" Xiong Dailing was also deeply surprised, his father didn't come home for an hour after work, and actually ran to the corner park to catch passers-by playing chess in the small corner pavilion!

When her father kicked him to the political research office as the deputy director a few years ago but couldn't get any business, he was addicted to books and chess, but he also restrained himself from hiding at home to study, and did not let outsiders see that he was indulging in it.

When her dad came home from work, he turned into a corner park and played chess for an hour, forgetting that he wanted to go home for dinner?

Xiong Dailing was in disbelief, and suddenly realized that what happened at home was not as simple as she imagined.

"Ah, why did Dai Ling come back?" Xiong Wenbin turned around, looked at the two sisters, and asked in surprise, as if he was surprised to see his little daughter return to Donghua at this time.

Xiong Wenbin pushed away the chess pieces and stood up, and said to the old man sitting opposite: "No, no, my two daughters have come to me for dinner." ”

The old man on the opposite side muttered: "Ten chess pieces don't let the family win a game, and they don't let the family go home for dinner, as if I want to play chess with you......" put the chess pieces into a small cloth bag.

Xiong Daini burst into tears, and at this moment she realized that her father was the most bitter in her heart.

It's not that her mother doesn't want to believe her explanation, but her mother and her father have been through ups and downs for so many years, and they have long realized that once this matter spreads, no matter what the truth is, it will be ruthlessly used by people with intentions to attack her father, and the matter has already been spread...... Seeing the tears on the cheeks of his eldest daughter Dani, Xiong Wenbin reached out to wipe the tears off her cheeks and said, "Our family of five is all fine, what are you crying about, what grievances do you have to tell your father, your mother is murdering you again?" ”

Seeing her father like this, Xiong Daini cried even more sadly, and cried: "I have nothing to do with Shen Huai. ”

"Don't cry, don't cry, I believe in you. Xiong Wenbin persuaded.

Xiong Daini was about to tell her father in detail about today's misunderstanding, when her sister blew up next to her, and jumped up with the monkey who stepped on her tail: "What, that thief is Shen Huai!"

After eating, Sun Yalin helped Chen Dan pack up the dishes and chopsticks to the kitchen to wash, leaving Xie Zhi to sit in the living room dry and hungry, and Shen Huai and Cheng Yi went to the balcony outside the study to talk.

Looking at the green lake in the west, it is slightly glowing in the night, and the decorative light strip by the lake is embellished with pieces of light, and there is no moon tonight, and the night scene is also a little interesting.

"I shouldn't be a good lover," Shen Huai stretched out his hand and said, "but I believe that I am qualified to be a friend." ”

Shen Huai knew that Cheng Yi didn't mean to treat him as a lover at all, otherwise it would not have been possible to say just now that he didn't mind facing Chen Dan eating at the same table.

Everyone also had a tacit understanding before, but they were all procrastinating and perfunctory at home. The so-called invitation to Cheng Yi to come to Donghua, and Cheng Yi was invited, also to maintain a false impression of "getting along very happily".

In this case, everyone will want the other party to have problems first, so that they can reduce the pressure.

Shen Huai didn't know if Cheng Yi's performance just now was purely because he didn't want Xie Zhi to succeed, but no matter what, he had to thank Cheng Yi for not taking advantage of this opportunity.

Although Shen Huai was unwilling to make Chen Dan sad to leave alone in order to cover up, he couldn't do this kind of thing, but he also knew in his heart what the consequences would be if the responsibility of Song Cheng's marriage was asked to be borne by him alone.

Although Meigang's new factory has been completed, what about Meigang's next development? Even his next layout of the inverted Tan will have to be overturned and weighed again.

Looking at Shen Huai's outstretched hand, Cheng Yi smiled, reached over, shook hands with Shen Huai and then separated, and said: "I almost have to study in the UK for two years, so let's be friends for two years first, and when I return to China, I will consider what time is right, and then I will be an 'enemy'......"

Xie Zhi was in the living room, she could see Shen Huai and Cheng Yi shaking hands, she hated her teeth, she knew that Cheng Yi must have formed an agreement with Shen Huai at this moment.