The Liuhua Lake in Yangcheng Liuhua Park is an artificial lake that Ye Shuai decided to excavate when he was in charge of Southern Guangdong after liberation. Tangyuan Restaurant, half of which is built on the surface of Liuhua Lake, is a well-known high-end restaurant in Huacheng. Because of its unique geographical location, Liuhua Park is the earliest park in the old urban area, and it is a place for citizens in the LC area to breathe fresh air in the morning exercises.

The whole building of Tang Yuan Restaurant is like the shape of the White House in the United States, with a white exterior wall in European style, just like a small White House located on the lake, which is very magnificent. And along the lake, the towering ancient banyan will stretch its branches into the lake, forming a green and verdant embrace, the seasonal flowers on the shore of the lake, blooming red, yellow, white and all kinds of unknown flowers, the clean and calm lake surface will form a mirror reflection, that is really "still shadow sinking wall". The reflection of the white building and the green banyan tree complement each other, and any silhouette feels like a beautiful ink painting. This is the most beautiful park in the old city, and the Tang Yuan Restaurant, which can do catering on the lake in the park, is indeed a first-class environment. Every morning to go to Tang Yuan Restaurant to drink morning tea, have to rush to get the number of positioning, generally before the door at ten o'clock, Tang Yuan's door, there are a lot of people waiting to open the door, as soon as the door opens, the tea seat is basically full.

On the weekend, I made an appointment with Xiaoyan to have morning tea in Tang Yuan, and I chose the table by the window with the best view of the lake on the second floor, where I could see half of the lake.

The decoration of Tang Yuan Restaurant is magnificent and the style is very elegant. Most of the tea drinkers here are more qualified, so they will not drink morning tea like ordinary restaurants outside, people's voices are mixed and loud to affect appetite, and they have to raise their voices when they say a word, which affects people's mood very much. The quality of the waiter is also the service quality of a five-star hotel, polite and enthusiastic, very measured, so the conversation environment is relatively good. Of course, the authentic Cantonese morning tea culture is more authentic than those restaurants for mass consumption, where one or several people each hold a newspaper, sit down to drink tea and chat in the teahouse, read the newspaper and chat about the short of the parents, ask for a few refreshments, and often sit for a few hours, which is also a kind of culture.

Xiao Yan came to the second floor of Liuhua Lake Tang Garden on time.

The old classmates, whom I hadn't seen for a long time, were familiar and strange to each other, so I got up gentlemanly, invited her to sit down, and poured tea for her, while asking for a few refreshments. Then I looked at Xiao Yan: the eyes behind the myopic glasses are still beautiful and a little profound, they are a pair of eyes that have insight into the various situations of society! The profession of a journalist without a crown requires keen insight. Xiaoyan is very thin, but she looks capable, not weak, and she is still neat and tidy without makeup, although it is just a hemp gray cotton crewneck knitted top and jeans, it is also clean and sunny. After she sat down, I said to her:

"Yanzi, I haven't seen my old classmates for a long time, and sometimes I'm really worried, it seems to be getting more and more attractive, and I'm still so beautiful. ”

"I know that you will praise people, your mouth is sweet, it seems that you are a bad person! I don't know how many women's hearts have been hunted? I will be moved and heartfelt when I hear it! No wonder Xue'er ...... He really looks like a bad guy. Xiao Yan glanced at me and said. Then she smiled and said, "Just kidding, just kidding, big painter, when did you come to Guangzhou? Where did you come from? You must be running around, sketching, activities, publicity, right?"

"No, no, in front of our swallow squad leader, I, Hanzhe, will always be ashamed and ashamed. It's not as good as you, with the society and people's livelihood in your heart, with the lens and the pen in your hand, doing all kinds of reports and articles with positive energy, and you have won the Zou Taofen Journalism Award, admire and admire!"

"It's a profession, a livelihood. Alas, it is too difficult to be a journalist with a conscience and not to tell lies in China! There is a saying that is very good, news is fake, and fiction is true. Although everyone knows that novels are fictional, many novels may come from life, so they have their authenticity, and life is to love to joke with others. I stopped being a journalist for a long time, and then I taught at the university for a few years, and then I moved to the city daily newspaper as a supplement editor for the next two years, because I didn't want to go to that sad place anymore! You should know my marital problems, right? Alas, to put it bluntly, I just eat with a mouth, it's all the same there. Hanzhe, I don't have the same practice and spirit of vigorously reporting on social issues and digging deep into disclosure. People, as they get older, they change themselves!"

Xiao Yan's tone of voice was a little regretful and helpless, but it was resolute. Or the setbacks in life and marriage make Swallow a little pessimistic about life.

Life can change a lot sometimes! A lot! I feel the same way.

Because I already know a little about Xiao Yan's situation from Da Niu, I don't think it's strange for Yan Zi to say this. On the contrary, I still feel sorry in my heart for Yanzi's unhappy marriage, and she is really a little alone in front of me. If she had gone back and married Da Niu, or would it have been another result? It's a pity! There are no ifs in life! I myself am not like this, if I can turn back time, maybe I and Xue'er or Ah Zhen will not end up like this......

"It's not your style, your fighting spirit has always been an example for me to learn, in my impression, the swallow is beautiful and sunny, full of positive energy, perseverance, ambition and perseverance, and a strong woman with responsibility!

I couldn't imagine that Swallow was in this state of mind now, so I could only say to her in an encouraging tone. I didn't understand how Xiaoyan was discouraged and negative at the slightest setback, so I continued:

"Yanzi, have you ever thought about being transferred back to Haiyang? Isn't there a big cow waiting for you?"

Xiaoyan scalded the teacups, bowls and chopsticks I had washed for her, and then scalded them again with boiling water, before putting a small refreshment in the bowl, she ate the refreshments and said slowly:

"Let's look at the situation in the future, yes, Da Niu is very good to me, and I am very grateful to my mother! You are also a person from the past, and emotions are really reluctant, and feelings cannot be tied to gratitude or gratitude, so in my heart, I have always felt very sorry for the big cow. ”

After Xiao Yan said this, she looked at the Liuhua Lake in the distance. I looked in the direction she was looking, and saw a pair of little lovers, rowing a goose-shaped boat on the water, and Xiaoyan seemed to be thoughtful. She pulled her gaze back to look at me, and continued:

"Don't talk about me, talk about you, great painter, how have you been all these years? This time you came to Guangzhou, it doesn't seem that you came specifically to find me, right? Woman... Woman, right, what do you need me to do?" Xiao Yan changed the subject and pointed to my chest, probably meaning to know my thoughts. Seeing that I didn't answer immediately, she said seriously: "Xue'er called me and said that my daughter came to Guangzhou to study and asked me to care more." ”

"Xue'er's daughter? Xue'er really has a daughter?! That's right, it's good, you're an aunt, you have to care. Did you say anything?" I asked Swallow in surprise.

"No, that's it, what's the matter, don't you know that Xue'er has a daughter? You don't care about Xue'er's daughter? Her name is Han Xin, Han Xin, Han Zhe's Han, you know? Xiao Yan also said in surprise.

"Oh, I really don't know, and I'm not sure Cher has a daughter. I replied seriously.

"Really?!" Xiao Yan looked dazed. At this time, she was also asking herself in her heart: Why didn't Han Zhe know that Han Xin was Xue'er's daughter? .

"It's true, but I had a one-sided relationship with Han Xin, and I also estimated that she was Xue'er's daughter at the time, but I couldn't be sure. If I'm not mistaken, it should be her, she also said that she came to Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts to study Chinese painting. After I said this, I smiled wryly, and Xiao Yan also opened her eyes wide, covering her mouth and looking at me with a surprised expression. I continued: "I haven't been in touch with Cher for twenty years, and I don't know anything about her, so I really didn't know she had a daughter. ”

"Oh, I thought you knew. Yes, Xue'er also closed herself, and I lost contact after I went to Pengcheng, if she hadn't taken the initiative to contact me half a year ago, I wouldn't have any information about her, and I don't know her situation. It's no wonder that a woman who gives birth to a daughter without getting married is really not easy! Xiao Yan also put away her smile after speaking, as if these words were reproaching me, and then she looked at me with an embarrassed face in front of her and said:

"This little girl is very smart, just like her mother back then. If only I had a girl like that!, but ...... However, Han Xin said that I was recognized as a godmother, and I was very happy and honored. I like her very much, this little girl is very sensible and very cute, her tutor is very good, a great painter, do you agree? You came to Yangcheng, I guess you came for this little girl? She has the same word as you, can't it be such a coincidence?" Xiao Yan said this, it really showed her love for Han Xin from her heart, and of course Yan Zi also knocked on the ground.

I forced a smile and said:

"Coincidence, coincidence. "I can't be sure that Hanxin is mine......

"Is it really a coincidence? Hanxin, Hanxin? I think there is a lot of article in this. Don't you want to talk to Han Xin? She asked me about you. She also said that she had the opportunity to ask me to help find you, and she wanted to see you again and worship you as a teacher. The swallow kept looking at me, as if to find the broken ingot in my expression, but she didn't directly pick out the doubts in her heart.

"To be honest, Yanzi, before I met Han Xin once, I really didn't think that Xue'er had a daughter, and I guessed from the conversation with Han Xin. And I haven't had any information about Cher, so to this day, if you hadn't told me personally, I'd not be sure that Hanxin was Cher's daughter. I said to the swallow very seriously.

"It's also possible that Cher's personality is not strange. Han Zhe, to be honest, is Han Xin also your daughter?" Yan Zi finally said the sentence she wanted to ask the most in her heart. She looked squarely at the man sitting in front of her, hoping that he would give her a satisfactory and surprising, or expected, answer.

I stood up at this time and poured tea for the swallow, relieved my anger, and then said to the swallow with a smile and self-deprecation:

"Do you think it's possible?"

"I think it's impossible, a one-night stand can also have a result, and it's not surprising that one hit it. You're amazing!" Xiao Yan smiled evilly after saying this, and made a grimace. Then he said: "The more I think about it, the more I think it is, but I have never been able to figure out why Xue'er stopped going to college after she went to Pengcheng? ”

"Alas, fate sometimes plays tricks on people!" I said with a wry smile.

"Han Zhe, can you tell us the story of you after Xue'er arrived in Pengcheng? What went wrong in the middle? Can you tell me?" Yanzi used her unique professional sense of smell to dig up some of the past between me and Xue'er.

"It's a long story, Swallow, I'm a bad person, a very bad person. "I began to tell Yanzi the story between Xue'er when she arrived in Pengcheng.

I feel like I'm going back to the old days—