For men, love is never a must, in front of friendship. On the contrary, a person who would rather turn his back on friendship for the sake of love is a lover who is absolutely not trustworthy.

Mr. Owen felt sorry for Pei Yuansheng, but he was also more sure that the other party was a friend worth making and a business partner worth working with.

"Let's talk about something that makes people happy," Mr. Owen blinked his gray-blue eyes, "Yuansheng, how are you and that Miss Zhu?" She is as passionate and bold as a woman in our country, I know that you have been pursued by many women in our country during your study abroad before, but you have never been kissed like today, to be honest, do you feel good?"

Tang Xiao looked at Pei Yuansheng, Owen's question was also something she was curious about, but as a woman, it was inconvenient for her to ask.

Pei Yuansheng shook his head helplessly and said, "It's not very good." ”

"Oh, Yuansheng, are you sure?" Mr. Owen glared at his big gray-blue eyes again in disbelief, "I can't think of anyone who would think that a woman's fragrant, sweet, soft rose petal-like lips would make people have a bad experience of 'not so good', Yuansheng, why is that?

"Poof......" Tang Xiao almost squirted out a sip of red wine, and she had to admire Mr. Owen's imagination was really rich.

But...... Is it true?

To be honest, she was also curious about what made Pei Yuansheng feel "not very good".

"It's not bad breath," Mr. Pei said, "that the perfume smell on her body is too kitsch and doesn't belong to the type I admire." ”

"I see. Mr. Owen nodded approvingly, saying, "You don't 'smell' the same." ”

Pei Yuansheng bowed his head and said, "That's right, Owen, I found that your Chinese level has made a qualitative leap again." ”

"Really?" the compliment from his friend made Owen very happy, and it seemed that he cared very much about his Chinese being recognized, "You know, I've been working hard, and you Chinese people have a lot of old sayings that are very good, such as 'As long as the kung fu deep iron pestle is sharpened into a needle', 'There is a diligent path in the book mountain, and there is no end to the hard work of learning the sea', and 'the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold'...... These words have always been my motto. ”

Pei Yuansheng gave a thumbs up to Owen: "Owen, you are great." ”

Tang Xiao also smiled and gave a thumbs up to Owen: "Really, Owen, you are very powerful, I'm afraid some Chinese people don't remember these sentences." ”

"I appreciate Chinese culture, and for me, China is a second home. Mr. Owen said proudly, "If I have a child in the future, I will definitely let her learn Chinese, Chinese is broad and profound, rare in the world, I love Chinese." Mr. Owen raised his glass, "Come, friends, a toast to the great Chinese culture!"

"Cheers!"

The glasses of the three of them collided.

"By the way, what about Qiu Han and Ah Meng?" Tang Xiao suddenly found that he hadn't seen Min Qiuhan and Ah Meng for a long time, could it be that they had already left early?

"Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao. Pei Yuansheng turned sideways and said, "Look, aren't they here?"

Ah Meng and Min Qiuhan walked hand in hand, Ah Meng was tall and handsome, Min Qiuhan was a typical beauty, she looked haggard because of her bad situation when she saw her at the class reunion, but now with Ah Meng, she has regained her spirit, and even the quiet smile on the corner of her lips is as soft and moving as the spring water in the south of the Yangtze River.

Mr. Owen was stunned at the first sight of Min Qiuhan.

As a fan of Chinese culture, Owen is not only obsessed with Chinese ancient literature, but also especially loves Chinese costume dramas.

He has always dreamed of marrying a real classical Chinese beauty, but among the women of Huaguo today, there are few who have a classical temperament. As far as the eye can see, the beauties on the street are in line with international standards one by one, dressed in Korean, Japanese, European and American, but Chinese clothing such as Hanfu is rarely seen.

Not to mention the classical temperament of Huaguo that he dreamed of.

However, at this moment, he saw it in this young lady named Min Qiuhan.

In an instant, countless words erupted in his mind.

The moth eyebrows are swept lightly, the eyes are like horizontal waves, the eyes are like autumn water, the nose is like a hanging gall, and the lips are like a little vermilion......

He was going to be dizzy.

Isn't this Sister Lin who came out of "Dream of Red Mansions"?

Mr. Owen felt an emotion that could not breathe mixed with the extreme joy of wanting to scream.

"Owen, are you okay?" Tang Xiao asked with concern.

"I'm fine. Mr. Owen smiled.

After the banquet, Ah Meng was supposed to send Min Qiuhan back, but Min Qiuhan refused Ah Meng on the grounds that he was not on the way, expressing the hope that Tang Xiao's driver could give her a ride along the way.

How could Tang Xiao not see that Min Qiuhan had something on his mind, and hurriedly said: "It's not too early, you have all drunk again, let's go back early, I will go with Qiuhan, let me act as this flower messenger today." ”

"It's okay," Ah Meng nodded, "then I'm sorry for you." ”

"Don't bother, Ah Meng, don't forget, Qiu Han is my friend, isn't it what I should do to send my friend back?" Tang smiled and said.

"Be careful on the road. Pei Yuansheng looked at Tang and said with a smile.

"Hmm. The same goes for you. ”

"Ladies, I look forward to seeing you next time!" said Mr. Owen enthusiastically.

It wasn't until the two of them got into the car that Mr. Owen could be seen waving at them from afar.

"That foreign gentleman is so welcoming. Min Qiuhan sighed.

"Qiu Han, you are so dull. Tang Xiao shook his head and said.

"Hmm, why am I sluggish?" The two sat in the back seat, Min Qiuhan turned his head slightly open with his red lips, and his eyes widened, looking confused.

"You, can't you see that Mr. Owen is so enthusiastic about you?"

Such an obvious thing, except for Min Qiuhan, probably no one can't see it.

This little woman is really too simple.

"Is there one?" Min Qiuhan thought about it for a while and said, "I thought foreigners were like this." On TV, aren't they yelling and screaming at every turn, hugging and kissing people?"

Tang Xiao said helplessly: "Qiu Han, that's TV, normal foreigners are not so exaggerated, just like we Chinese people don't have as much sentimentality as in Chinese costume dramas." ”

"Oh......" Min Qiuhan nodded.

Tang smiled and said, "By the way, I forgot to ask just now, where did you go when you and Ah Meng were away?"

"We went for a walk in the garden. Speaking of this, Min Qiuhan's eyes gradually dimmed, "We talked a lot...... Xiaoxiao, in fact, I am always worried that I will cause trouble to Ah Meng, and I am worried that I will lose Ah Meng one day...... But Ah Meng has been good enough for me, it's me who is not good, it's me who doesn't deserve Ah Meng......"

"Silly girl, how can you say that?" Tang Xiao reached out to hold Min Qiuhan's hands, looked at her eyes full of sadness and said, "You are not unworthy of Ah Meng, Qiu Han, you are great and strong, you are better than many women, if it weren't for this, why would Ah Meng like you? A little confidence in yourself, a little confidence in A Meng, okay?"

"Laugh, but I'm ...... I still ......" Min Qiuhan sighed softly, lowered his black and soft eyelashes like butterfly wings, and turned his gaze to his bulging lower abdomen," Xiaoxiao, my child, he is getting older day by day, I used to look forward to his birth, I always feel that his birth can bring changes to my life of nothing, just like Pei Yuansheng said, I pin a lot of hopes on him, I fantasize that he is smart and sensible, not as slow as me, always causing trouble, I fantasize that he has excellent grades and can study abroad, unlike me who is limited to a small Chengbei all his life, I hope that his footsteps are all over the world, and it is best to become a traveler, unlike me who has never been anywhere and has no knowledge。 I also hope that he can love in a dashing manner, unlike me who gives so much for a man who is not worth it at all, and is abandoned in the end......"

As she spoke, tears welled up in Min Qiuhan's eyes, she thought of the failed relationship she had had, and couldn't help but ask herself, why was she so stupid at that time?

If you leave the wrong person earlier, will you be able to meet the right person earlier, will you not delay your life, will you not be in such a dilemma as you are now?

"Qiu Han, don't think too much...... Many things have passed in the past, and what we can't change is only acceptance. Tang said with a smile.

Min Qiuhan stretched out his hand to wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes, and choked up: "Xiaoxiao, in fact, what Pei Yuansheng said is right, I am so selfish, I live a mess myself, I fantasize that the child can replace me in the future and live the life I want." But children are children, and I am me, so why should I control other people's lives? Just because I am his mother? No, then my children will hate me. I can't be so selfish......"

Tang Xiao gently patted Min Qiuhan's hand and said, "Qiuhan, it's good if you can understand." Perhaps all parents will have expectations for their children, but parents only give birth to life, not the master of life, and when life has an independent consciousness, it should no longer impose its will on the other party. As human beings, we may have the responsibility to pass on life, but we do not have the right to drive a life to complete unfinished things for ourselves. ”

Min Qiuhan nodded and said, "So, Xiaoxiao, I want to open it...... I decided to be less selfish in my expectation. ”

Tang Xiao suddenly had a bad premonition: "Qiu Han, what are you going to do?"

Min Qiuhan said with determination: "Xiaoxiao, I decide...... Give up this child. ”

Tang Xiao was stunned. I don't know why, as a friend of Min Qiuhan, she knows very well in her heart that giving up this child is an extremely correct choice for Min Qiuhan, because only by giving up this child can Min Qiuhan truly abandon the past and move towards a new life in the future, and if this child exists, as long as he exists, he will always remind Min Qiuhan's past and become an indelible obstacle between her and Ah Meng.

However, she never thought that Min Qiuhan would really give up this child, perhaps because in her heart, even if people all over the world told Min Qiuhan that she had to give up, she would grit her teeth and insist on keeping this child.

Therefore, when Min Qiuhan clearly said that he was going to give up, Tang Xiao didn't know whether to breathe a sigh of relief or if his chest was blocked by something.

"Qiu Han, have you really thought about it?" Tang Xiao felt that her voice was a little difficult, she didn't even dare to look at Min Qiuhan's bulging abdomen, after all, there was a small life there, it would move, it had its own emotions, and perhaps, it could still hear their voices.

Thinking of this, Tang Xiao was terrified, what were they doing?

Like executioners, they are discussing the killing of a small, fragile life that is close at hand.

"I figured it out. Min Qiuhan's eyes carried a calm cruelty, "I think, I can't guarantee what kind of life it will have in the future, I'm not sure if it will live happily, it's a child born without a biological father, even if there is a Meng...... But I can't be so selfish with Ah Meng, and Ah Meng's family...... They won't accept it. ”

"But......" Tang smiled and moved his lips, but he didn't know what to say.

What could she say?

Do you persuade Min Qiuhan to keep this child? But what qualifications does she have?

What's more, before Min Qiuhan opened her mouth to say this decision, she thought in her heart that Min Qiuhan should give up the child.

Min Qiuhan just followed everyone's wishes and made this decision that might make her very painful and entangled.

And when Min Qiuhan made this decision, she was the first to sit still as a supporter.

The deep sense of guilt for the child in Min Qiuhan's womb caused her to barely be able to speak, unable to look directly at Min Qiuhan.

"But...... Autumn cold, I ...... I don't know if you're right or wrong. Tang Xiao said heavily and dejectedly.

She hung her head, her eyes looking at the pair of fingers she had placed on her knees.

It was a pair of slender, white, powerful fingers.

It is a pair of fingers that hold a sharp weapon that can kill, but fight to save lives under the shadowless lamp.

She was proud of her chosen profession, proud of what she did, and the thrill of saving lives was the driving force behind her life.

Now, she's talking to her friends about murder.

Tang Xiao, should you really be like this?

She gripped her hand in frustration and slowly released it.

A sense of powerlessness struck her heart.

Min Qiu's cold hand held her: "Xiaoxiao, can you support me...... If you don't support me either, I really don't know who to ask. ”

"Or, ask Xiaoyi?" Tang Xiao thought of the resolute Jin Xiaoyi, she was always so confident, if it was her, she should be able to help Qiu Han get an idea, right?

As soon as Tang Xiao took out his mobile phone, he was held down by Min Qiuhan: "Xiaoxiao, Xiaoyi has gone abroad for further study these days, and I don't want to distract her because of my affairs." ”

Tang Xiao looked at Min Qiuhan, this weak little woman is always so simple, kind and considerate, and it is really too difficult for her to make a choice between giving up her life or staying.

People are sometimes too kind, but they can become weak.

"Qiu Han, have you really decided? If you really make up your mind, then I support you. Tang Xiao held Min Qiuhan's hand tightly and said, "I'll help you find a hospital and accompany you in three days." ”

At this time, she can only become Min Qiuhan's pillar.

"Thank you. Min Qiuhan said with tears in his eyes.

"It's been an old classmate for so many years, what else do you say thank you?" Tang Xiao pretended to be angry.

Min Qiuhan burst into tears and smiled: "Well, then I won't talk about it." ”

"That's right. Tang Xiao patted Min Qiuhan's hand and said.

Although he was relaxed in front of Min Qiuhan, comforting Min Qiuhan all the way until he sent Min Qiuhan into the house, as soon as he left Min Qiuhan's sight, Tang Xiao's expression became confused.

The driver originally drove the car faithfully and turned a deaf ear to the conversation between Tang Xiao and Min Qiuhan, but after sending Min Qiuhan away, seeing the expression on Tang Xiao's face, he couldn't help but persuade: "Young lady, you are a good person." The kid ...... It won't blame you. ”

"Really?" Tang Xiao muttered, "But I will blame myself...... I can save it, and if I change my mind, I'll see it born next year, and maybe the year after next it will call me Auntie......"

"This ......" the driver thought for a while and said, "Young lady, you can't get over it with your conscience, but the person who decided this matter is the child's mother, not you." ”

Tang Xiao sighed and stopped talking. I kept looking out the window in a daze all the way, and I sighed when I looked at the driver.

Tang Xiao returned home, did not go upstairs directly as before, but slowly walked to the living room sofa and sat down, holding a long-necked glass in a daze, his fingers rubbing around the smooth cup wall, but after thinking about it, his mind was still empty, and there was no answer.

It happened that Cheng Feng came down from downstairs to take the iPad he left on the table in the living room, and when he saw Tang Xiao's dejected appearance, he hurriedly sat down next to Tang Xiao and asked, "Sister-in-law, what's wrong with you? Why are you unhappy, shouldn't someone bully you?" ”

Tang Xiao was amused by Cheng Feng's righteous tone: "Come on, how are you going to settle the account?"

"How else can you settle accounts?" Cheng Feng said seriously: "Roll up your sleeves and go straight up, whoever bullies our sister-in-law, I will beat him." ”

Tang Xiao glanced at Cheng Feng, who was wearing a fine-checked home dress with a cashmere texture, a pair of flat-light radiation-proof black-framed glasses on his face, and a very finely trimmed hairstyle, and shook his head: "You don't look like the kind of person who can use violence to solve problems." ”

"Isn't it like that?" Cheng Feng pushed his glasses and asked thoughtfully, "What kind of person do you think I look like, sister-in-law?"

Tang Xiao thought for a moment and replied, "You, like the kind of person who will throw money in other people's faces. ”

Cheng Feng listened to it and said with a look of approval: "It's really like ......"

Tang Xiao thought to himself, aren't you such a person? Fortunately, the family is big and the business is big, and the money is not bad at all.

"Sister-in-law, you haven't told me who bullied you?" Cheng Feng came back to his senses and asked again.

"No one. Tang smiled and said, "Don't worry about it, go back to sleep quickly." ”

Cheng Feng's eyes rolled, glanced upstairs, leaned over to Tang Xiao and said, "I heard that Ren Feilin and my mother came back ahead of schedule, saying that Ren Feilin was weak, could it be that she made some moths?"

"You're well-informed, huh?" Tang Xiao teased.

"That is, the people who went there today are all in this circle, and it is estimated that most of them are my classmates, so can't this matter be spread?" Cheng Feng said: "I also heard that the reason why Ren Feilin is like this is because Pei Yuansheng is angry." ”

"It's not ......" Tang Xiao was afraid that Cheng Feng and they would charge Pei Yuansheng with something, so he hurriedly explained: "They just said a few words, and then Ren Feilin suddenly fainted, and I watched from the side." It has nothing to do with Pei Yuansheng. ”

"Sister-in-law, why are you helping him talk so much, shouldn't the two of you have anything to do with it?" Cheng Feng looked at Tang Xiao with a strange look.

"What are you talking nonsense?" Tang Xiao frowned and said, "Pei Yuansheng is your eldest brother's brother and my friend. ”

Cheng Feng said "oh" and said, "I'm not worried that you will be harmed by him." ”

Tang smiled and said, "How can I be harmed by him?"

"Who in Chengbei doesn't know that the famous Pei Gongzi is a scourge? How many girls think of spring for him, how many young women cry for him night and night, how many ......" Cheng Feng said and laughed himself: "Damn...... I can't make it up......"

Tang Xiao said speechlessly: "You arrange your eldest brother's friends like this, does your eldest brother know?"

"He doesn't have to know, you just know. Cheng Feng said, "Sister-in-law, let me remind you, don't get too close to Pei Yuansheng, that guy is a blue-faced disaster, I heard when I was in junior high school that a girl in the school committed suicide by cutting her wrists for him." ”

Tang Xiao was stunned for a moment and said, "Is it really fake? ”

"Really. Cheng Feng said mysteriously: "There are still people who have seen the girl's soul in the girls' dormitory during the evening self-study at school, shouting 'Pei Yuansheng, why don't you love me, Pei Yuansheng, why don't you love me'......"

Tang smiled: "...... You'd better wash up and go to sleep, seriously. ”

Cheng Feng said: "Sister-in-law, don't believe it, this is all true, if you don't believe it, you ask Mengmeng, this matter has become one of the top ten strange talks in our school, Mengmeng and me, as well as the eldest brother and Pei Yuansheng, the middle school we studied in is the same, you ask Mengmeng She also knows." ”

Tang Xiao compromised: "Can't I believe it? I believe Cheng Feng...... So go back to sleep. ”

Cheng Feng spread himself out into a large font and leaned on the sofa: "I won't leave, unless you tell me what happened." Otherwise, I'll just sit here and nag you to death. ”

Tang Xiao looked at the trickster helplessly and said, "Cheng Feng, how old are you this year, seven years old, or five years old?"

"Eight years old. Cheng Feng replied with great integrity.

Tang Xiao didn't know how to tell Cheng Feng about his troubles, and people of Cheng Feng's age might not be able to understand it at all.

"I really haven't been bullied by anyone, Cheng Feng, I'm glad that you are willing to stand up for me, but I repeat, it's really not what you think, I really haven't suffered any grievances. Can you rest assured now?"

Before Cheng Feng could speak, a voice came from behind the two: "Who bullied whom?"

When I looked back, I saw Cheng Lie in a military coat standing at the door.

Cheng Feng subconsciously sat upright: "Brother, you're back." ”

Cheng Lie said "um", took off his coat and put it on his arm, and walked over to Tang Xiao.

Tang smiled and said, "Why did you come back so late?"

"It's a bit busy in the army during this time. Cheng Lie said, reached out and naturally took the glass in Tang Xiao's hand, raised it and drank it all.

Cheng Feng saw his brother coming back, and instantly decided to leave: "Big brother and sister-in-law, you talk slowly, I'll go back to sleep first." ”

Tang smiled and said, "Don't sit for a while?"

"No, no, no. Cheng Feng waved his hand: "I'll talk about it tomorrow." ”

After speaking, he ran away as if someone was chasing after him.

As soon as Cheng Feng left, the smile on Tang Xiao's face subsided, and he didn't know what to say when he sat there.

Cheng Lie looked at her, Tang Xiao thought for a while and said, "Ren Feilin fainted today, you should go and see her." ”

Cheng Liejun's brows furrowed: "Besides this, don't you have anything else you want to tell me?"

Tang Xiao shook his head and said, "No." ”

Cheng Lie straightened up and said, "Okay, I'll go see her." ”

Tang Xiao nodded, not knowing what to say again.

Cheng Lie asked, "Are you together?"

"What?" Tang Xiao didn't react for a while.

"Why don't you go with me to take a look?" Cheng Lie repeated, then stared at Tang Xiao and said, "What's going on?" you look a little absent-minded. ”

Tang Xiao thought to himself, is it so obvious? Even Cheng Lie could see it.

He said, "What can happen? It's not me who has something, it's Ren Feilin." ”

Cheng Lie's eagle-like sharp eyes looked directly at her and said, "Xiaoxiao, you have something in your heart, if you don't want to say it, I won't force you." ”

After speaking, he walked upstairs, Tang Xiao followed behind Cheng Lie, and the two came to Ren Feilin's door, Cheng Lie rang the doorbell, and a voice came from inside and asked, "Who?"

"It's me, Cheng Lie. Cheng Lie said in a deep voice.

Footsteps approached, and soon the door was opened, and it was a young girl in a nurse's uniform.

"Cheng Da Shao, please come in. The little nurse has followed the personal doctor of the Cheng family a few times, and the faces of the Cheng family are particularly impressed by Cheng Lie and Cheng Feng, and every time she goes back after seeing them, she will gossip with her colleagues.

However, relatively speaking, the little nurse prefers Er Shao, because Er Shao likes to laugh, although Da Shao is handsome and compelling, he is not smiling, he always has a tiger face, and he looks a little scary.

Once she had the courage to take a selfie, but was discovered by the two young masters, the eldest young man of the family said with a straight face that she would delete it, but the second young man smiled and asked her if she wanted to take a few photos in the garden by the way, the little nurse was so happy that she went to the garden to take a lot of photos to show off, and finally secretly took a silhouette of the second young man of the family.

Even if it's a silhouette, it's crazy enough, the little nurse went back to communicate with her colleagues, and everyone said that the second young man in the family was really romantic and noble, such a look and posture, those noble sons in the TV series couldn't compare to him at all.