Zhou Xin returned to the office with half a cup of coffee, her mind was churning, she couldn't help it, she still dialed Zhou Xin's number, but no one answered there after being busy with the sound for a long time, and then she sent a few more WeChat messages, and it was still a stone.

Zhou Xin was also very busy in those days, he was sick some time ago, he recuperated at home for a few days, he had accumulated a lot of things in his hands when he came to work, and the Luyang Lake project plan needed to be readjusted, and the whole galaxy was busy day and night.

Although Zhou Xin has an unrestrained personality, she is very cautious in her work, so she put Zhou Xin's affairs aside for the time being.

During the lunch break, she didn't go out to eat, but asked her subordinates to bring her a sandwich.

After thinking about it, she took out the photo Fang Rushan sent to her and looked at it, the light was not bright, but the people in the photo could still distinguish it. Maybe it was the sensitivity of a woman, Zhou Xin vaguely felt that something was wrong.

She took her business card from the drawer, flipped through a few pages, and found a cell phone number.

"Hi Bella, how are you doing...... yes, it's been a long time...... I'm going back to the mainland, it's still the same...... No problem, I'll go to Hong Kong to find you when I'm empty, oh yes, the private detective you mentioned to me last time, Shanghai, right, can you still do it, give me a contact information?"

……

Chang An didn't sleep all night, so after the plane took off, he asked the flight attendant for a glass of red wine, and slept with a blanket after drinking, but he didn't sleep well, all kinds of intermittent dreams, dreamed of Xue Bing, dreamed of the family living in the family compound when he was a child, and dreamed of Chen Haodong.

He was only 9 years old that year and was led into the door by Chang Wangde.

"Xiao An, come here, this is Haodong, and he will be your brother in the future. ”

Chang An came out of the room with the doll in his arms, only to see a boy standing at the gate of the courtyard, lean, with a flat haircut, and his skin was so dark that it was almost shiny.

She obediently shouted, "Brother!"

Chang Wangde was very satisfied, but the boy was cool, raised his chin, and ignored Chang An.

Chang An's little heart was hurt, and according to her character, she should not like this brother who "fell from the sky", but it is strange that she pestered him more fiercely.

"Brother, what are you doing?"

"Brother, can you play with me for a while?"

"Brother, are you afraid to sleep alone at night, will I lend you my doll to hold?"

Chang An followed him like a little tail, at first Chen Haodong was really annoyed by her, but after a long time, she couldn't shake it off, and slowly began to get used to it, and what made their feelings "grow by leaps and bounds" was Xue Bing's death.

Mom is gone, and it was a violent death without any warning, which was a devastating blow to Chang An, who was only 7 years old at the time, for a long time she liked to stuff herself in the room, unwilling to see people, and unwilling to speak, it was Chen Haodong who changed tricks every day to make her happy.

Two children who have also lost a loved one may be able to empathize with each other and warm each other in a lonely and painful environment.

Chang An felt at that time that it was good to have a brother, but when did he start to be greedy in his heart?

Chang An sometimes feels that there should be a witch living in his heart, and he actually likes his brother at a young age.

She's not a good girl at all!

As for Zhou Wei, Chang An has never planned this man in his life, even a few months ago, the word "Zhou Wei" was just a person's name to her, if it wasn't for the Zhou family to "ask for marriage", and the Li family Gu family, maybe she would have married, so Zhou Wei just happened to appear at the right time and gave her a suitable opportunity.

But now the situation seems to be completely out of her control, Chang An woke up from her dream, alone at an altitude of 30,000 feet, the whole cabin was quiet, she was wearing an eye patch, no one could see the eyes that had been wet behind the eye patch.

You see, she is really not a good person, she dreams of one in her dreams, but when she wakes up, she thinks of another.

Chang An never thought that he would one day become the kind of person he hated the most.

After a fourteen-hour flight, the plane landed at Rawton Heathrow International Airport, and in the evening local time, Chang An picked up his luggage and cleared the customs.

And Yun Ling's side, it was late at night.

Zhou Xin returned to bed after taking a shower and touched his mobile phone, but the person still didn't reply, and it had been a whole day.

She simply called Xu Nan directly, and said bluntly, "Where is my brother?

Xu Nan didn't have any special reaction, and replied honestly, "No, Mr. Zhou didn't go to the company today." ”

"Didn't go to the company?"

"Yes, you sent me a message in the morning, and it seems a little uncomfortable. ”

This surprised Zhou Xin, after so many years, workaholic Zhou Xin would be absent from work due to physical reasons.

"Got it, thank you!"

Zhou Xin hung up the phone, smoked another cigarette and lit it, swallowing the clouds and spitting out the fog, and a certain idea in his heart gradually became clear.

She has always been very good at making ideas, and she is not a hesitant person, but at this time, the mobile phone shook again, and a string of text messages from an unfamiliar number: "Miss Zhou, the information you asked me to check here in the morning has been sorted out and sent to your mailbox!"

Almost at the same time, the open notebook at the bedside dinged, and the lower right corner prompted that a new email had been received.

Zhou Xin bit the cigarette in her mouth, pulled it over the computer and opened it, three or four attachments, there were photos, and there were also materials organized into files, and she looked at them one by one.

In fact, it's not a major secret, but no one paid attention to it before, but now I have found a professional detective company to investigate, and in just ten hours, all kinds of cases have been filed, including the information of Chen Haodong's parents, when he entered Chang's house, when Chang An immigrated to London, and even the place where the two eloped and lived for a short time has been found clearly.

Zhou Xin finished browsing quickly, pinched the small half of the cigarette butt on his fingertips, and laughed out loud after a long time.

It can really be said that life is full of dramas, she and Zhou Wei, Chang An and Chen Haodong, entangled and ambiguous.

Brother... It's all my brother!

Liu Shulan and her old classmates went out for dinner, and after eating, they found a place to drink tea, and came back quite late, and it was past eleven o'clock when they got home, but they opened the door just to see Zhou Xin running out of the front hall.

"Eh, where are you going so late?" Liu Shulan shouted urgently.

"I'll go out to do something!" Zhou Xin replied, but before the words fell, he had already jumped into the car, started, the engine roared, and a white Wrangler rushed out after half a circle in the empty parking space.

Liu Shulan stomped angrily, "This kid!"

Zhou Wei took medicine in the afternoon and slept at home for a long time, only woke up after dark, couldn't sleep anymore, went to the study and turned on the computer, emails came in one by one, only a day did not go to the company, there were hundreds of letters.

He screened it, picked a more urgent treatment, and it was early in the morning, and he was about to take a shower when the doorbell rang.

At that time, his whole heartbeat obviously stopped, and he sucked his slippers to go to the front hall, only to turn on the video video, but it was not the face that appeared on the small screen.

That's right, she knows the gate code, and she won't ring the doorbell even if she wants to come back.

"Brother, open the door!"

Zhou Xin shouted at the door, Zhou Xin went over and opened the door, and the cold wind poured in.

"I'm freezing to death outside, what's the matter with you, delaying the door for so long!" Zhou Xin complained as he shrunk his arms and squeezed into the house, then turned around and closed the door.

The room was much warmer, and she shivered and took off her boots and coat.

Zhou Wei glanced down, and only wore a small leather skirt that barely covered his hips under the mid-length sweatshirt, bare legs, and no socks.

"You women aren't afraid of the cold?"

Zhou Xin was agitated and looked back at him.

Zhou Wei's face sank, "What's wrong?"

"Why is your voice so hoarse?"

“……”

Zhou Wei ignored it and walked to the living room.

Zhou Xin bowed to the cabinet next to him, and there was a row of women's slippers inside, but they were all powder, blue and white, with various fluffy cartoon patterns on them, which was Chang'an's style.

Zhou Xin was disgusted, but he had no choice, so he could only casually smoke a pair of light pink cotton drags with rabbit ears and step on them, and chased after them.

"I didn't answer your call, I didn't reply to your WeChat, I asked Xu Nan to know that you were sick, I thought it was just a common cold, and it turned out... Look at your decadent look...", she yelled and ran over to touch Zhou Wei's head.

Zhou Wei blocked it with one hand, "What are you doing?"

This action stabbed Zhou Xin a little, "Why, you can't even touch my forehead now?"

Zhou Wei didn't have the strength to argue with her, and pointed to the sofa opposite, "Sit down!"

Zhou Xin: "......"

She stood stunned, but obediently threw away her car keys and sat on the sofa opposite.

Zhou Wei was half paralyzed, his face was pale, and his chin was already stubble, he raised his hand and rubbed the lower half of his face, and asked, "What are you doing here so late?"

"Come and see you!"

"What's so nice about me?"

"I'm sick, I'm still a brother and sister, can't I come to visit the sick?"

Zhou Wei didn't speak, he looked very in bad spirits, as if he was annoyed to say more than half a sentence.

Zhou Xin sighed, after so many years, it seems that it is rare to see him like this.

"What, you quarreled with her?"

Zhou Xin looked over, Zhou Xin sneered, "Don't stare at me with this kind of look, your virtuous face is full of Lao Tzu's displeasure, isn't it a quarrel?"

Zhou Wei: "......"

He remained silent.

Zhou Xin smiled bitterly, "What about your ability to deal with me before, why did she stop all of her cooking?"

Zhou Wei: "......"

Zhou Xin: "Or do you have no way to deal with her at all?"

Zhou Wei: "......"

Zhou Xin: "Look at your appearance, if you are really reluctant, you will chase it back, don't you just go to London, and it will take more than 20 hours to go back and forth." She was still talking about the cool words, but Zhou Wei's eyes were cold, "What London?" finally gave a reaction.

Zhou Xin was stunned, "You don't know, she has already returned to the UK in the morning!"

Zhou Wei's eyes immediately sank as if he wanted to eat people.

Did she fly to England? Just go back to England without saying a word?

Zhou Xin slowly reflected on the changes in his eyes, and asked: "Why don't I help you book a ticket?" Now you can book it directly on your mobile phone, maybe there will be a flight tonight, do you want to ......?"

As a result, before he could finish speaking, the man on the sofa suddenly stood up, turned around and walked upstairs.

Zhou Xin was startled, "Where are you going?" but there was no response at all, Zhou Xin went upstairs directly, and soon heard a loud bang on the door upstairs, which shook the room as if it were shaking.

The corners of Zhou Xin's mouth tugged, heh... I thought that he flew to Hong Kong overnight, and in two years, he went to see her once when he was on a business trip to Hong Kong, and now Chang An flew to London without saying a word, Zhou Xin is sure that he will definitely not chase after him.

She knows this man's temper too well, domineering, machismo, and she is terrible selfish.

……

After He Zhaoxiong received the news, he rushed back from abroad overnight, and he didn't go back when the flight landed, so he went directly to the hospital from the airport.

He Ling had woken up and moved from the ICU to the general ward, almost with tears all day, and when he saw his father come in, he naturally hugged and cried again.

The child is gone, his leg is broken, and his face is still cut by glass shards to varying degrees.

He Zhaoxiong was also distressed when he saw it, he had always treasured this daughter, and kept patting He Ling's shoulder to comfort: "Okay, okay, don't cry, if you cry again, the wound will not be beautiful after it becomes inflamed, don't worry, Dad will make the decision for you, obedient ......" He was like coaxing a child, and finally coaxed people to stop, and stayed with him for a while, and only breathed a sigh of relief when He Ling finished taking the medicine and fell asleep.

Here Chen Haodong approached, "Uncle!"

"Hmm!"

He Zhaoxiong turned around, his face calm, "Come out with me!"

The two went downstairs and got into the car.

The driver was sent away, He Zhaoxiong touched the cigarette, Chen Haodong took out a lighter and lit it for him, and he didn't speak for a while, and waited for half a cigarette to go down, He Zhaoxiong spoke: "The accident has been handled?"

"Almost, the traffic police brigade has already said hello, and it will be handled as a general traffic accident. ”

He Zhaoxiong nodded, agreed, and asked, "What about the little beast?"

"I don't know, I'm in the hospital all day today, Lingzi is emotionally unstable, and I can't leave, but he was there last night, I couldn't help it, and I gave him a beating!"

He Zhaoxiong's face was slightly sick, but he didn't blame, he just patted him on the shoulder and said, "This kid bastard, you should also train him, in this matter, he owes you a favor again, you don't have to go to the company for the time being, stay in the hospital to accompany Lingling, and when she recovers, you can also take the piece in Binbin's hand, I don't have much hope for this little beast." ”

Chen Haodong licked his teeth lightly, but his face was unharmed, "Thank you, uncle!"

"Thank you, thank you, it's almost a family!" He Zhaoxiong also showed extreme trust in him, took another puff of cigarette, his eyes deepened, and asked, "Luyang Lake project, you have to pay attention to it in the later stage." ”

"Understand, everything is going well at the moment. ”

"Okay, Mr. Sun also gave the letter of approval, the bank is fine, he can let Li Meiyu handle it single-handedly, at most a month, we will see in a month, and then all we have to do is come forward to talk to Rong Bang." ”

Chen Haodong paused and asked hypocritically, "Will there be a problem on Secretary Chang's side?"

"You mean Chang Wangde?" a slight sneer swept through the car, "as long as it doesn't threaten his interests, he has always been wise to protect himself, so he won't do much in this regard." ”

The meaning is over, and the corners of Chen Haodong's mouth also gently pulled out a smile that is not easy to perceive, but it is fleeting, "Okay, I will start asking people to prepare a plan in advance." After another pause, he added, "Or is it still halfway up?"

He Zhaoxiong didn't know what he meant, his eyes lit up, and he suddenly asked: "Fang Rushan, that woman, has Bin Bin been getting closer to her recently?"

Chen Haodong paused deliberately and replied pretending to be uncertain, "I seem to have heard two sentences mentioned, but I didn't pay much attention to it." ”

He Zhaoxiong: "She used to be a member of Xinghe, and she also had a leg with Zhou Wei. ”

Chen Haodong noticed that He Zhaoxiong used an affirmative sentence, and his mind quickly turned, "What do you mean, change the family?"

He Zhaoxiong smiled, "Of course not, on the contrary, she is the most suitable!"

……

In the early morning of the second day, the part-time worker aunt came to Changhe to clean as expected, but when she entered the door, she heard movement from the kitchen.

She understands Chang An's work and rest rules, and she will definitely not be able to get up so early, which means that it is definitely not Chang An in the kitchen at this time, but someone else.

"Mr. Zhou, what are you ......doing today?" Before the words fell, a strange woman turned around with a frying pan, short hair, tall, and wide two straight and white bare legs under a sweatshirt similar to a man's style, but a pair of pink rabbit ear slippers were sucked on her feet.

Of course Aunt Wang knows those slippers, and they are what Chang An usually wears at home.

This change... Aunt Wang was so frightened that she couldn't make a sound immediately, but Zhou Xin greeted generously, "HI~ Morning, you are Aunt Wang, right?"

Aunt Wang opened her mouth dryly, "Eh...... Hello eh...... May I ask you ......" and realized that he didn't seem to be talking too much, so he immediately stopped talking.

At this time, there was a sound of footsteps on the stairs, and Zhou Xin immediately put the fried egg in the pan into the plate.

"Brother, I made breakfast!"

Zhou Xin heard the movement and calmed down, and soon saw Zhou Xin running out with an omelette.

This next week, Brain Ren will be more painful, with a cold face, and ask, "Why are you still here?"

"I didn't leave last night!"

As soon as the words came out, he saw Aunt Wang, who had an inquiring face, followed out of the kitchen, Zhou Xun didn't want to lick the sockets of his teeth, he didn't want to argue more in front of outsiders, so he went down the stairs and carried Zhou Xin directly to the guest room on the first floor.

The door slammed shut again.

Aunt Wang looked like a ghost, and then her mouth snorted, "Ouch, I actually brought a woman directly to the house for the night, the relationship between rich people is really messy!"

In this guest room, Zhou Wei roared, "What are you doing, why are you staying here for the night?"

Zhou Xin frowned, "Why are you so fierce, it's not that I haven't spent the night with you, and I slept together when I was a child, why, now..."

"Shut up!"

“……”

"Get out of here!" Zhou Yan hissed, pulling it in his throat and began to cough.

Zhou Xin saw that he was coughing badly and wanted to pat him on the back, but Zhou Xin raised his hand to block it.

She teased again, "Okay, you're sick like this, I know you have to avoid suspicion, but someone has to stay here to take care of you, I'm just ......"

"No, you don't!"

"Brother......" Zhou Xin tried to entangle.

Zhou Wei's eyes swept coldly, she glanced at her mouth, "I know, you have to avoid suspicion, but is it a bit of a feeling that there is no silver three hundred taels here?" Besides, she is not here, she has returned to the UK, what is the problem with me staying to take care of you for two days!"

Zhou Wei didn't bother to listen to her anymore, so she directly swept her shoulder and opened the door, but there was a "bang" on the side of the door, and Aunt Wang took a mop and pretended to be buried in work, "Ouch, why is it so dirty here, and it can't be clean!"

Zhou Wei licked the root of her teeth and kicked over the bucket washing the mop next to her, and Aunt Wang was so frightened that she didn't dare to breathe.

Zhou Xin secretly grimaced at her from behind, "Don't pay attention to him, he's insane!"

When Xue Wenxiu was first diagnosed with liver cancer, he also stayed in the hospital for a while, consulted with experts, and gave several plans, first, surgery, second, chemotherapy to control the metastasis of cancer cells, and third, palliative treatment.

After the plan came out, I discussed it with Chang An.

At that time, Chang An was still in school, and after learning the news, he did not go directly to see the doctor, but went back to the ward to talk to his grandmother first.

The old lady was 103 years old at the time, but she was still wearing a handmade cardigan, her silver hair was coiled into a bun, and although her face was sallow and colorless, she still did not forget to paint her eyebrows and lipstick.

She has been particular about her whole life, and she has to clean herself up properly wherever she goes, and then said to Chang An in a wheelchair, "Nan, I definitely can't do the operation, I guess I won't have a chance to come down again when I get on the operating table, my grandmother hasn't seen you get married, how to explain to Bingbing when you go underground, so you can't leave so quickly, chemotherapy should hurt, and you have to lose your hair, anyway, I have to go horizontally and vertically, I can't let myself walk too ugly." ”

Chang An was stuffed with a ball of anger in his heart, but he wanted to pretend to smile, "Yes, then we will treat it conservatively!"

Conservative treatment means only taking medicine, but fortunately, the efficacy of targeted drugs abroad is good, and with the team of experts formulating a plan, with the careful care of nurses and family doctors, Xue Wenxiu's cancer cells were controlled for more than a year, and there were no signs of metastasis and deterioration until about two years ago.

The doctor recommended hospitalization, but Xue Wenxiu still did not agree.

"Your grandfather has been gone for more than 30 years, your uncle has been gone for more than 20 years, and even your mother has been gone for 14 years...... But the only regret is you, Bingbing entrusted me with my dreams, I must watch you get married, nan, or grandma will find someone to show you?"

Later, she returned to China and Zhou Wei to "go on a blind date", got married in a flash, and became husband and wife.

In almost two years, Xue Wenxiu's illness has reached the end of his life, and in recent months, he can almost only rely on sleeping pills and morphine to force himself to sleep.

The oil runs out and the lamp is dry, everyone knows this truth, probably Xue Wenxiu herself knows, fortunately, she has a good mentality, the pain is a pain, and she can survive the pain, she can always let the maid push her to sit in the garden, look at the sky, and look at the birds.

It was already dark when Chang An returned to her London residence, and the servants and nurses were shocked when they saw her.

"Why did you come back all of a sudden?" said the Chinese nurse.

Chang An smiled, "I miss my grandmother, come back and see, where is she?"

Sister Zhang, the nurse, booed, "I just fell asleep." ”

"Then I'll go in and take a look. ”

Xue Wenxiu's room had already moved to the first floor, facing south, Chang An pushed the door in, and the medicinal smell was mixed with a little floral fragrance.

The old lady really slept, a small bunch of shrunken beds.

Chang An took a closer look, she was much thinner than when she came back last time, she took a breath and turned around, and motioned for the nurse to go out.

When I got to the door, I asked, "How are you doing?"

"Sometimes it's good and sometimes it's bad, when it's good, I can drink a small half bowl of porridge at night, and when it's bad, I haven't eaten for two days, just last week, I came to hang a few bottles of nutrient solution for her, and I played globulin, so scared that I almost called you back. "Sister Zhang has been serving Xue Wenxiu for almost three years, so she naturally has feelings.

Chang An lowered his head and buried his breath, "It's hard work, I may stay for a while when I come back this time." She briefly explained a few words, carried her suitcase upstairs, and as soon as the bedroom door closed, tears welled up in her eyes.

She was always the most obedient, so Xue Wenxiu was not allowed to stay in London during her serious illness, so she obediently stayed in Yunling.

But when she was seven years old, her mother died suddenly, and she had always had a bitter fear in her heart about the death of her relatives, she couldn't imagine what would happen to her if even her grandmother was gone, but the parting was imminent, and she watched death approaching little by little, but it was another kind of suffocating Ling Chi.

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