"What else could there be," Tang smiled playfully, "Isn't it just a few grains of sugar?"

"......" Pei Yuansheng wrinkled his handsome face, with an extremely unhappy but forbearable expression, "Tang Xiao, at such a critical time, you actually gave me such an unpalatable thing, congratulations, you have successfully been blacklisted by me." ”

Tang Xiao and Jin Xiaoyi were both amused by Pei Yuansheng's complaining tone.

Jin Xiaoyi said: "Mr. Pei, the medicine is bitter, and the smile is for your good." ”

Tang Xiao hugged his chest and said, "I don't know the hearts of good people." ”

Pei Yuansheng shook his head and said helplessly: "Sage Cloud, only women and villains are difficult to raise, and they are really right." ”

Xiaomei and Xiaomei's sister-in-law, who were sitting in the back, were stunned for a while, and they didn't know what these three people were playing, but thanks to this one, neither of them patronized and shed tears, and the depressing atmosphere in the car eased a lot.

Everyone wants to try to take it easy, but the truth is that in the near future, they will face a situation that is definitely much more severe than they imagined.

Like a lonely boat on a stormy sea, the car struggled to navigate the rugged mountain road.

Pei Yuansheng didn't ask Tang Xiao where he got the medicines he usually took, but after taking the medicines, the pains that were tightly wrapped around him were slightly alleviated.

He concentrated his energy, just wanting to rush to the small mountain village that must have been fierce and unlucky by this time before he could hold on.

Judging from the tremor just now, he could almost guess how the small mountain village had been destroyed.

Tang Xiao, who was sitting next to Pei Yuansheng, had been silently observing him, and seeing that his tightly knit brows had been stretched out after taking the medicine, her heart finally fell back to its original place.

Knowing that Jin Xiaoyi must also be worried about Pei Yuansheng, and even her worry must be no less than herself, Tang Xiao quietly turned around and made a "" gesture to Jin Xiaoyi.

"You two, what are you doing behind my back?" Pei Yuansheng suddenly asked as if he had eyes behind his back.

Jin Xiaoyi was startled, and hurriedly blinked and made a gesture to Tang Xiao to zip her lips, signaling Tang Xiao to help her keep her mouth shut, Tang Xiao smiled and made the same gesture, telling her "rest assured".

Jin Xiaoyi looked at Tang Xiao gratefully. Until now, she didn't want Pei Yuansheng to know that she already knew about his condition.

After all, he is the secret he tries so hard to hide, and if he is not willing to expose his vulnerability in front of others, then she can pretend not to know for the rest of her life.

She once swore to the old man who had spent most of her life taking care of Pei Yuansheng, not only as her master, but also as her own child, even if Pei Yuansheng still refused to accept her in the end, even if she could never become the mistress of the Pei family, she would definitely love him forever, take care of him and stay by his side.

"Will you regret it?" the old man stared at her with his vicissitudes of life, as if he could see through everything in the world.

"I don't regret it. Jin Xiaoyi said unswervingly, "Uncle Yan, you may not know that loving him has become the greatest belief in my life. I love him, and I love myself who loves him. ”

"Silly girl. Uncle Yan sighed and said, "Do you know, maybe, you don't really understand the truth of love, what you are chasing is just the shadow of love in your imagination." ”

Jin Xiaoyi raised her head and smiled and said, "Uncle Yan, I don't know if you have ever watched a movie called Millennium Actress, the woman in the movie has also chased a man who has only one side of the relationship all her life, but she has never regretted it until she died." I think, I'm the same as her, we only care about the person we love, whether we can get it or not, and you are the opposite, I don't think I don't understand love, in my opinion, not getting is the meaning of love, I love this love, I love him, and I love myself. As long as I can stay with him, I have nothing else to ask for, and I will never regret it. ”

Uncle Yan looked at her for a long time, and finally, with a sigh, said, "I thought that there would be no one like me anymore among young people now. Scold...... Silly boy, of course I know you won't regret it, but if you make up your mind to do what you like, how can you regret it, it's just ...... It's a very hard and long road, and I can't bear to see you so young and beautiful. ”

"Uncle Yan, what you can do, I can do too. Jin Xiaoyi's eyes met Uncle Yan's gaze, "You were so good back then, and there were so many admirers, but didn't you choose to stay in the Pei family just to be able to wait for the woman you love?"

"You ......" Uncle Yan looked at Jin Xiaoyi dumbly, he didn't expect that the secret he had hidden all his life would be revealed by this young girl.

However, he was able to investigate this woman who was trying to stay with the young master, so why couldn't she investigate herself?

He has never deliberately concealed his past, and besides, before he dies, it may not be a bad thing for someone to know where his heart is in this life.

So, in the end, the old and the young reached a consensus, he helped her stay with Pei Yuansheng, she took his place and did her best to take care of him, unless Pei Yuansheng was willing to give, she was not allowed to ask for any status.

This sounds ridiculous and selfish, but for both parties, it couldn't be more satisfying.

Jin Xiaoyi withdrew from her memories and heard Tang Xiao say to Pei Yuansheng with a laughing voice: "The little secret between women, don't ask if you are a big man." You don't understand even if you ask. ”

Pei Yuansheng said dissatisfiedly: "Jin Xiaoyi is your good friend, and I am not?" Tang Xiao, who kept saying that he wanted to marry Jin Lan with me? You can't be so treacherous and turn your face and deny people so quickly, don't forget that we are good sisters of Jin Lan, huh?"

Pei Yuansheng, the "good sister of Jinlan", deliberately said a lot, and Tang laughed and cried, and at the end, he added a "um" word with a nasal tail sound, but the voice was already mixed with an obviously uncontrollable smile.

"Pei Yuansheng, I remember a few hours ago, someone told me that they would break off their friendship after I went back, hey, who is that person?" Tang Xiao sneered.

Pei Yuansheng was choked, he didn't expect that Tang Xiao, a little woman, would be no less fierce than Ji Xiaoru when she opened her mouth.

Jin Xiaoyi listened to it funny, although she didn't know why these two people were awkward in the afternoon, but seeing that Pei Yuansheng was forced to speak by Tang Xiao's words, she still couldn't bear it, and quickly pretended to be curious: "Xiaoxiao, when did you both marry Jin Lan, why don't I know?"

Tang Xiao was a little embarrassed, she remembered that night she had drunk too much and said nonsense through the intention of drinking, and couldn't help but shout in her heart that she had drunk and misunderstood. But now that Jin Xiaoyi asked, she had no choice but to bite the bullet and say: "That was a long time ago, I drank two more glasses of wine that day, talking nonsense." ”

Pei Yuansheng sneered: "Nonsense? I remember that someone was holding my hand at that time, and it was quite sincere......

Tang Xiao covered Pei Yuansheng's mouth and said angrily: "Hey, Pei Yuansheng, don't talk about this kind of black history, okay?"

In the afterglow, he caught a glimpse of Tang Xiao's red little face, and he could smell the unique sweet fragrance on the little hand that covered his mouth at the end of his nose, and a smile appeared in Pei Yuansheng's narrow and bright peach blossom eyes.

"Hmm...... Well. He nodded, and it was peaceful.

Tang Xiao let go of his hand, exhaled lightly, turned his head and said to Jin Xiaoyi with a serious face: "Xiaoyi, don't believe him, Pei Yuansheng is a big fool, you can't believe it!"

Jin Xiaoyi held back a smile and blinked, nodded heavily, and said, "Well, I believe you, I don't believe him." ”

Amid laughter and swearing, the car turned over a hill, and this section of the road was more difficult than when it came, because it was downhill, and if you were not careful, there was a danger of slipping down the mountain road.

Tang Xiao didn't take the initiative to talk to Pei Yuansheng like that just now, he deliberately made a fuss like that just now, in order to enliven the atmosphere and make everyone's mood not so heavy, although in the end he was angry by someone who spoke cannons, but finally attracted the attention of Xiaomei and Xiaomei's sister-in-law, so that everyone's mood would not be heavy and nervous because of the proximity to the mountain village.

But now, she didn't dare to bother Pei Yuansheng anymore, everyone saw how dangerous this road was, even a skilled old driver may not be sure to pass through safely and smoothly, not to mention the young master Pei Yuansheng, who is used to being pampered and pampered, and has someone to pick him up wherever he goes.

In fact, Pei Yuansheng is also tense at the moment, this section of the road can be said to be the most dangerous section of the whole journey, a slight mistake, the whole car will be buried in the lush jungle deep in the cliff.

He was a dying man, and it didn't matter if he died, but the others were different.

If you think about it, everyone has a reason why they have to live.

Tang Xiao is still very young, she has unlimited potential in medicine, and has a sincere and kind heart to treat diseases and save people, as long as she has the opportunity to be a doctor again, she will definitely return to the position of a doctor, have greater attainments in medicine, and save more patients who are tormented by diseases. In addition, she also has a husband who loves her deeply, and with his understanding of his good brother Cheng Lie, he thinks that Cheng Lie will definitely laugh at the fact that he still loves her in his imagination, but this stupid woman can't feel it yet. Cheng Lie and Tang Xiao are essentially people who take saving people as their own responsibility, are warm-hearted, and are very noble in spirit. There is no better match than the two of them.

Therefore, people like Tang Xiao must live.

Jin Xiaoyi is a stubborn and intelligent woman with outstanding work ability, and she will have a bright future in time. She is ambitious, and she does not hesitate to spend a huge amount of plastic surgery for her life goals to change her fate, what reason does such a person have not to continue to live.

Xiaomei, who is not yet twenty years old, has a husband who loves her and lives a happy little life as an ordinary woman. She should also live with Hemei and have a big fat boy with her husband.

Xiaomei's sister-in-law, who is so simple and kind, lives peacefully with her husband and children in a small mountain village, and generously sacrifices food that is absolutely not abundant for her own family for strangers who come from afar. There is no reason for such a good person not to live for a long time.

Only he Pei Yuansheng, who has been running a family business since college, has forced many peers to go bankrupt for the Pei family's huge business empire, how innocent those people are, but to make a living in this flashy vanity fair, but he Pei Yuansheng is decisive and never shows mercy to competing companies, yes, over the years, he has not only made Pei's enterprises not only not lose money in various industries, but have grown several times, but, he did not kill Boren Boren because of him, these years, he has heard of entrepreneurs who have lost in his hands have wives and widows, some who committed suicide by jumping off buildings, some are down-and-out vagrants, and some are sent to prison by his own hands。

His hands were already stained with the blood of those people. Are they innocent? Some may indeed be self-reaping, but does he dare to say that there is not a single innocent among them?

Even if one or two innocent people out of ten people died because of him, it was a sin created by him Pei Yuansheng......

Pei Yuansheng suddenly felt a sharp pain in his heart, and he couldn't help coughing lightly. The trembling hands tightened hard.

Pei Yuansheng ...... Are you alright?" Tang Xiao looked at Pei Yuansheng with a nervous face.

At this look, she was suddenly shocked, I don't know when, Pei Yuansheng's face turned pale, and there was a trace of blood on his bloodless lips.

Like a red plum falling on the snow, the blood stain on his handsome and extremely pale face looked particularly thrilling.

"What can I do?" Pei Yuansheng held back his palpitations and said nonchalantly, "Don't make a fuss, just a little cough, it won't be okay." Xiaoxiao, you really don't have to treat me like Sister Lin, I'm also a big man, and I'm not so weak. ”

Tang Xiao thought to himself, Pei Yuansheng must not know that his lips were stained with the blood that he had just accidentally coughed up, if he knew, could he still pretend that everything was okay and joke with her?

She lowered her eyes, looked at her fingertips, and said softly, "Okay, I don't think of you as Sister Lin." But, Pei Yuansheng, do you want to drink saliva? I see that your lips seem to be a little dry. ”

Since he wanted to pretend that nothing had happened, then, at least for now, she satisfied him.

Pei Yuansheng was stunned and said, "Okay." ”

Tang Xiao took out a bottle of water, unscrewed the cap and sent it to Pei Yuansheng's lips, and with Tang Xiao's hand, he drank two sips of water, and the blood stains on his lips became so faint that they couldn't be seen.

Tang Xiao breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, in this way, even Jin Xiaoyi would not find out about it.

It's just that when she withdrew her hand holding the mineral water bottle, she suddenly saw that the mouth of the bottle was stained with a faint trace of blood.

Pei Yuansheng ...... Did he see it?

Tang Xiao slowly looked at Pei Yuansheng, only to see that his face was calm, as if nothing had happened.

She couldn't help but feel lucky, but she didn't know that Pei Yuansheng had already penetrated her actions.

Still, he was grateful to her, willing to help him hide it, willing to pretend he didn't see anything.

Thank you, smile.

He owes her so much affection that he can't pay it back in his life.

If he dies one day, what should he leave to her to make up for what he owes her?

The car passed through the most difficult part of the mountain road without danger, and soon left the mountain road and drove onto the path leading to the mountain village.

In other words, there is less than half an hour left to reach the destination.

Xiaomei's sister-in-law began to prayed with her hands folded: "Bodhisattva bless...... The Bodhisattva blesses Leizi and his father with peace and security...... As long as Leizi and Leizi's father are well, I am willing to live 20 years less, no, I can die, as long as they live...... Bodhisattva bless, Bodhisattva bless......"

Except for Xiaomei, no one in the car understood the local dialect, but it was strange that everyone understood Xiaomei's sister-in-law's prayers.

Tang Xiao's eyes quietly moistened.

Is there really a bodhisattva in the world? Can a bodhisattva really hear people's prayers?

But there are so many people in the world who want the Bodhisattva to bless, and everyone has so many wishes, can the Bodhisattva really hear them one by one?

She remembered that when she was very young, she once knelt alone in a temple near her home, and prayed to the Bodhisattva to bless her father and mother from quarreling again, to pray that her father would not come home again, and that the family of three could live happily ever after.

"Bodhisattva, as long as my parents can be with me, I am willing to live twenty years less. The skinny little girl looked at the solemn Bodhisattva in the main hall with burning eyes.

I don't know the suffering, I don't believe in gods and Buddhas.

When people really encounter things that they are powerless, when people understand that no matter how hard they try, they can't change something, they can only pray to God and the gods for protection.

However, are there really gods in the world?

Immortals, if you really existed, did you hear my prayers many years ago?

Tang Xiao knew that even if time repeated, even if she was given another chance to choose, she was still willing to pay for twenty years of her life in exchange for the family to be together happily.

It's just that there is no such exchange in the world. It doesn't matter if there are gods in the world, whether the gods can hear it or not.

Tang Xiao stretched out his hand and gently wiped away the tears that had slipped down his eyes.

The car turned a few corners, and suddenly, a distant scene appeared in front of the eyes of the people in the car.

Xiaomei and Xiaomei's sister-in-law cried loudly "wow".

Although it is not yet close, everything in the distance is no longer what it was when it left a few hours ago.

As they left, the winding path was lined with large date-covered trees, and in the distance low houses could be seen, and the green village was staggered.

The sky was so clear that even the dark clouds could not hide its blueness, and the green smoke rose from the chimneys and gradually dissipated in the vast sky.

Time has passed through this ancient and quiet village.

Until, a brutal earthquake accompanied by mudslides struck it.