"Alright. ”

The front desk lady handed the room card to Fang Bao and said, "Please take your room card, turn right and go all the way forward, and take the elevator to the sixth floor." ”

"Hmm. Fang Bao took the room card, nodded, turned his head to Tong Yao beside him and said, "Let's go, Mr. Tong." ”

Tong Yao didn't immediately raise her steps, but suddenly sighed, looked at Fang Bao, and said with a serious expression: "Fang Bao, you go up, I want to think about it, or plan to go home." ”

"Home?"

Fang Bao was surprised, "Mr. Tong, didn't you say that you were before..."

Speaking of this, Fang Bao suddenly closed his mouth, and instead of continuing to speak, he changed his mouth and asked, "Mr. Tong, why don't I go with you?"

Tong Yao shook her head and said, "No need." It's so close to Tong's house, I just sneaked back to see my grandfather. Soon back. ”

"Okay. ”

Fang Bao couldn't help but worry, "Then you should be careful. ”

Tong Yao pretended to smile lightly and said, "I'm going home, not going to Longtan Tiger's Den, there's no need to make the atmosphere so dignified." Rest assured, I'll be back soon. ”

After speaking, Tong Yao turned around and walked outside the door of the hotel. The moment she turned around, there were a lot of complicated emotions in her eyes.

The place that was supposed to be called "home" had not been back to in years. The mother is gone, the father is not the father, and the "home" is naturally no longer home.

Hongtu Hotel is less than a kilometer away from Tongjia Villa. However, there are three streets in between.

After Tong Yao walked out of the lobby of the Hongtu Hotel, he walked to the Tongjia villa.

Although it is only a kilometer away, because there are three streets with endless flow of people, Tong Yao walked for nearly half an hour before coming to the front of Tong's villa.

Standing in the open space five or six meters away from the gate of the villa, Tong Yao looked at the two closed doors that were close in front of her but seemed to be thousands of miles apart, and she was distracted for a long time, and she didn't take a step closer for a long time. It was as if she felt a strong repulsion from the two closed doors, forcing her to keep her from coming any closer.

This is her home.

This is where she was born.

There wasn't much warmth, and my mind was filled with icy memories of it.

"Forget it, maybe, I haven't seen each other for so many years, and grandpa has long forgotten about me. Whew..."

With a long exhale, Tong Yao took one last look at the Tong family's villa, and then, laughing at herself, turned around decisively, and prepared to stay away.

This place, in the future, she will never come again.

As soon as Tong Yao turned around, she ran into Yu Ziying, who was carrying a plastic bag full of vegetables in each hand.

The two looked at each other, their eyes froze at the same time.

Then, Yu Ziying casually threw the two plastic bags she was carrying on the ground, rushed to Tong Yao with an excited expression, stretched out her arms, and hugged her into her arms.

"Yaoyao, you're finally willing to come back, Yaoyao! Come into the house with me... Your grandfather thought about it day and night, and he longed for you to come back. He'll be so happy to see you..."

Saying this, Yu Ziying let go of her arms, took Tong Yao's hand, and pulled her towards the gate of the villa.

Tong Yao suddenly didn't know what kind of attitude to use to treat this second mother. To be honest, in her memory, the second mother has always been exceptionally good to her. It's just that when her mother's incident happened, her father ruthlessly kicked her mother out of the house, she begged her grandfather, begged her second father, begged her second mother, and begged everyone she could, but no one stood up to say a word for her mother. At that time, she was not mature enough, and naturally she was not too sensible, so she stubbornly thought that everyone was harming her mother. And so she began to hate everyone as much as she hated her father. Looking back now, everyone didn't mean to hurt her mother, but when her father was angry, they didn't have a position to intervene.

"Second mother. Tong Yao was suddenly relieved and called softly.

Yu Ziying's shoulders trembled slightly, turned her head, looked back at Tong Yao with a flickering gaze, nodded heavily, and responded: "Hey!"

Tong Yao pursed her lips and smiled, stretched out her finger and pointed to the two bags of vegetables thrown on the ground by Yu Ziying, and asked, "Second mother, don't you want those vegetables you bought?"

Yu Ziying raised her hand, patted her head, and said with a smile: "Look at my memory, if you want it, of course you have to, the second mother is still counting on using them to make a big table of dishes for our family Yaoyao!"

Saying that, Yu Ziying turned back, bent down, picked up the vegetables with one hand, and then walked to Tong Yao's side, took Tong Yao's hand again, and strode towards the door of the villa.

After Yu Ziying walked to the door, as if she was afraid that Tong Yao would suddenly change her mind and run away, she held Tong Yao's hand and refused to let go for a moment, but put the two bags of vegetables in her other hand on the ground, took out the key from her trouser pocket, opened the door, picked up the two bags of vegetables, and pulled Tong Yao into the villa together.

The hall of the villa was empty.

Yu Ziying casually put two bags of vegetables on the table, and pulled Tong Yao to Tong Honghai's room.

Tong Yao hesitated: "Second mother, why don't I sit in the living room for a while, and when grandpa gets up, I'll see him again." ”

Yu Ziying smiled: "Silly boy, when is it now, how can your grandfather be such a diligent person, how can he sleep and not get up until now?"

"Then grandpa, he..."

Tong Yao wanted to ask her grandfather why he stayed in the bedroom during the day and didn't come out since he had already gotten up. But when the words came to her mouth, she couldn't ask anymore, so she had to give up.

"Yaoyao. ”

Yu Ziying stopped in front of Tong Honghai's bedroom door, did not knock on the door immediately, but turned her head, looked at Tong Yao with a serious face, and said, "No matter what, your grandfather always loves you, so, you..."

"Second mother, don't say it, I understand. ”

Tong Yao interrupted Yu Ziying's words and said, "I was ignorant and misunderstood you back then, but now that I have grown up, I am no longer the little girl who didn't understand anything before." ”

When Yu Ziying heard Tong Yao's words, she had a relieved expression on her face. At the same time, he raised his hand and knocked on the door in front of him.

Knock knock!

"Who?" Tong Honghai's inquiring voice came out of the room, revealing a strange and familiar sense of vicissitudes, which made Tong Yao's nose suddenly sore, and tears began to roll in his eyes almost instantly.

"Dad, it's me. Yu Ziying replied.

Tong Honghai immediately said: "Ao, Ziying, Dad is not hungry yet." ”

He thought that Yu Ziying was going to ask him to come out for dinner.

Yu Ziying turned her head, glanced at Tong Yao beside her with a smile in her eyes, and said again: "Dad, when is it now, I'm not asking you to eat, I'm asking you to come out to see someone." ”

"Who are you seeing? Dad isn't in the mood right now..."

"Dad, come out and have a look! This person, you will definitely be in the mood to meet him. ”

"Hey, one or two of you don't let me be idle all day..."

Before the words fell, Tong Honghai had already opened the door, and then, he stood on the spot, and an object in his hand also fell to the ground, making a sound of glass breaking.

Tong Yao held back the tears that kept rolling in her eyes and didn't let them fall. Hurriedly lowered his head, hiding his emotions at the same time, bent down to pick up the object that fell at his grandfather's feet.

When she bent down, she realized that it was a picture frame. The glass on the surface of the frame has shattered. The picture in the frame shows her arms around her mother standing in the sun and smiling happily.

Seeing this photo, the tears in Tong Yao's eyes finally flowed out uncontrollably, like a broken faucet.

"Grandpa..." Tong Yao raised her head, looked at Tong Honghai in front of her with teary eyes, and screamed in a trembling voice.

Tong Honghai burst into tears, hugged his granddaughter tightly, and kept repeating: "Yaoyao, Yaoyao, it's good to come back, it's good to come back..."

Yu Ziying stood aside, looking at the scene in front of her, she couldn't help but wipe the corners of her eyes a few times, and said, "Dad, Yaoyao, you talk first, I'll cook." ”

When Tong Honghai heard this, he stopped her and said, "Ziying, don't cook by yourself today, let Mother Liu and the others go to work, Yaoyao has only come home for so long, and you, who are the second mother, have to accompany her well." In addition, to Liwen and Wan..."

Speaking of this, Tong Honghai suddenly paused, and after a little hesitation, he continued: "Let Liwen come back early and have lunch together." ”

"Okay, Dad. Yu Ziying nodded with a smile on her face.

Tong Honghai asked again: "What about Jiajia? Jiajia doesn't go to school today, hasn't she gotten up until now?"

Yu Ziying's face showed embarrassment, and she said, "Jiajia, she... She slept too late last night, and probably hasn't woken up yet, so let her sleep a little longer..."

Tong Honghai was excited, so he didn't see Ziying's abnormality, but Tong Yao saw it at a glance. She was about to ask, but saw Yu Ziying secretly shaking her head at her, so she swallowed the words that had reached her mouth back into her stomach.

"It's fine. ”

Tong Honghai smiled, "Then let Jiajia sleep a little longer." ”

"Hmm. ”

Yu Ziying nodded and said, "Then I'll send these dishes to the kitchen first, explain them to Mother Liu, and then come over." ”

"Okay, let's go. Tong Honghai waved his hand.

Yu Ziying went to the kitchen with the dishes.

Tong Honghai took his granddaughter's hand and went to the living room. The grandfather and grandson sat together, as if they had endless words.

Yu Ziying cut the fruit plate in the kitchen and brought it out.

The three of them sat together, no matter what topic they talked about, they would carefully bypass Tong Yao's father, Tong Wanli. Because Tong Honghai and Yu Ziying both know that their father is a thorn in Tong Yao's heart, over the years, it is too deep, and the slightest touch will hurt his heart.

"Yaoyao, do you have any other important matters to do this trip to Yanjing?" Tong Honghai peeled off a petal of orange, handed it to Tong Yao's mouth, and asked with a smile.

Tong Yao opened her mouth, took the orange into her mouth, chewed it slowly, and the sweet and sour juice teased her taste buds, as if she could easily take Tong Yao back to many years ago.

At that time, my grandfather was always so kind, peeling out petals of orange with his own hands and bringing them to her mouth.