3. Chapter III

Huo Hui's father is an official, and he is also a big official.

In the 80s, his father and the leaders went south to inspect the coastal economic line, and Huo Hui's mother was her father

So after reporting to Huo Hui's father Xu Huaimeng, he organized a clapper, and after graduation, he sent her and a group of students to Beijing No. 2 Foreign Language to study the language of the Western European language department for two more years, which was regarded as a key training talent.

After completing his studies in the second foreign language of the north, in 87 years, Huo Mengdi was specially recruited and assigned to work in the secretary's office, which happened to be in Xu Huaimeng's logistics support department.

People who come out of a small place are very diligent and diligent in this job, Xu Huaimeng is busy with work, business trips from all over the world, Huo Mengdi is often a moon with bumps outside, and he never complains, as the days go by, not only the people in the secretary's office have a good impression of her, but even Xu Huaimeng also began to pay attention to this young girl.

For example, this girl is willing to study and work seriously, and the materials to be used the next day, even if it is a short notice the night before, she has to stay up all night to translate them word by word.

For example, she is careful, and she keeps in mind many things that he can't think of, and does it silently, without asking for credit, without publicity, and everything is appropriate.

On a business trip, it was rainy in Shenzhen, Xu Huaimeng had an old problem in her legs, she asked the waiter at the guest house for hot water in advance, laid out the medicine for him, and when she got up to leave, she accidentally collided with Xu Huaimeng, who came back halfway to get the text.

Xu Huaimeng was resolute and very aura, the two faced each other in the room, and Huo Mengdi, who was more than ten years younger than him, was a little overwhelmed. In the end, he only said hello to the chief with a red face, and hurried out.

Looking at the little girl's hurried cramped back, Xu Huaimeng smiled generously.

In the evening, he went to catch up with his old comrades-in-arms, he was very interested, he drank some wine, the driver sent him back, Huo Mengdi and the driver carried him to the room with great difficulty, the driver was a twenty-year-old young man, looking at the chief unconscious, scratching his head in embarrassment, this ...... What should I do......

Huo Mengdi was also embarrassed, stalemate for a while, and asked the driver to return the car back to the reception office first, and call Secretary Zhao, who came with him, but halfway through the call, Xu Huaimeng ran into the bathroom uncomfortably.

Huo Mengdi hung up the phone in a hurry, and also ran in, in fact, Xu Huaimeng drank a good amount of alcohol, but it was alternating between hot and cold, he was not used to the wet and cold weather in the south, the cold intensified, and he was a little nauseated.

She patted him on the back and handed him water, her tone concerned and anxious.

"Chief? Where are you uncomfortable? Why don't you have someone from the infirmary show you? ”

Xu Huaimeng washed his face and looked at her through the mirror in the bathroom.

Huo Mengdi was in a hurry, her cheeks were flushed, her eyes were dark and clear, she was wearing a plain white shirt, her long hair was braided and coiled behind her head, and her expression was really a little coquettish that she didn't have on weekdays.

Xu Huaimeng waved his hand, "No, you go get a clean piece of clothes, prepare a cup of hot water, and go back." ”

After speaking, he leaned back on the sofa next to the window and closed his eyes and rested.

After a while, there was a sound of rustling footsteps.

Xu Huaimeng opened his eyes: "Why don't you leave?" ”

Huo Mengdi held a glass of honey water, put on a beige military shirt that was still wet, bit his lip, and was about to cry.

"Your change of clothes was washed by the waiter in the afternoon...... Haven't done it yet......"

Xu Huaimeng smiled: "It's okay. ”

He got up and went to the cupboard to get another clothes to change, and looked at her while buttoning them, his eyes probing: "You seem to be afraid of me?" ”

She has been with him for more than a year, has a good work ability, and treats people very decently and generously, but when she is alone with him, she is always trembling.

Huo Mengdi bowed his head and honestly admitted. "Yes."

After drinking, Xu Huaimeng's expression was not as strict as usual, but like an ordinary elder.

"Tell me, what are you afraid of me?"

She still lowered her head and didn't speak, Xu Huaimeng remembered that there was a business before, because the person in the secretary's office was on a business trip when communicating with the other party, he was so angry that he casually dropped the teacup on the table next to him. Half of the hot tea was sprinkled on the ground, and half on the man's hands.

Later, he learned that the cup belonged to the foreign secretary who had just come to report on the first day, and before he entered the door, he encountered him losing his temper, and heard that the little girl's frightened face was white, and she didn't dare to say anything when she had three hot blisters on her hands.

"Last time, it wasn't for you, I couldn't travel for half of the business, I had a bad attitude that day, I was in a hurry, I didn't expect you to meet, and I apologized to you today."

His gaze fell meaningfully on the back of her hand: "I'm really sorry." ”

Huo Mengdi hurriedly shook his head: "It doesn't matter, chief." ”

This girl is a solid eye.

One of the buttons on the shirt was wrapped around the thread of the buttonhole, and it couldn't be buttoned in, because at the neckline, Xu Huaimeng couldn't see it, and after a while, he said to her:

"Little comrade, if you don't hold a grudge, can you do me a favor?"

Huo Mengdi followed his eyes, had an epiphany, and hurriedly went to get the small scissors on the table, Xu Huaimeng tilted her head, she stood a little down his chin, and cut the buttonholes with a serious expression.

There was a kind of fragrant fragrance on her body, a very youthful smell, and her cheeks were slightly pink and pure under the dim wall lamps of the guest house.

Xu Huaimeng suddenly felt that he had a feeling that he hadn't had for many years.

An impulse, a palpitation.

"Chief, alright."

Huo Mengdi put away the scissors and called him. Somehow, there was always a smell in her eyes when she looked at him, half awe, half innocence.

That's for young girls, unsophisticated, not sleek, pure, unpretentious.

The two looked at each other and did not move for a long time.

Xu Huaimeng didn't know what was wrong with him, it was pouring rain outside the window, the sound of rain was dripping, knocking on the windowsill, his brain was hot, and with the strength of wine, as soon as he lowered his head, he grabbed Huo Mengdi's lips.

That was the most ridiculous thing he ever did in his life, and the thing he didn't regret the most.

The trembling of her young body, the whispered sobs in her ear, the look she looked at him when she was helpless, including the thin figure of her silently dressed and running out at dawn the next day.

are all memories that Xu Huaimeng is deeply rooted in his mind and can never erase.

That year, he was forty-two years old and she was twenty-four.

He has a wife who has been married for ten years but has become a divorced wife, and a five-year-old son.

Finally, Huo Mengdi still left.

Hurriedly, and silently.

People say that she met some great rich businessman on a business trip in Shenzhen, and she was in a hurry to be Mrs. Kuo for others, otherwise, why didn't she even want such a good job?

The transfer report was typed, Xu Huaimeng didn't approve it, and went to look for her in the evening, the door of her dormitory was closed, and he didn't respond to anything. He promised, I will marry you, and you will give me time.

After screaming for a long time, a tearful face appeared behind the door.

As soon as she cried, Xu Huaimeng knew that it was over, she had to go.

On the day Huo Mengdi left, the first spring rain fell in Beijing, and the green jeep who sent her to the train station gradually moved away in sight, as if taking away a past that no one knew.

Xu Huaimeng knew that she didn't want to disturb his family and didn't want to ruin his future, his heart ached, and he also knew that he might have to bear this guilt for the rest of his life, but he didn't know that when Huo Mengdi left, he still had a child in his womb who was already three months pregnant.

At that time, getting pregnant out of wedlock was a very shameful thing to be on the table. Huo Mengdi's mother died early, there was only one father, she took her belly back to her hometown in Jiangnan, her father was sad and angry at first, and then sighed, that's it, the job is gone, if you want to give birth, we can't afford to raise it, but there is only one, we have to give birth to backbone.

Huo's father meant, no matter whether the child is male or female, it has nothing to do with Beijing or the person in Beijing.

In this way, in 198/9, Huo Hui was born in Suzhou.

At first, Huo Mengdi took his daughter to live a very difficult life under the guidance of everyone, and a kind neighbor came to the matchmaker, the other party was a widowed boss in his forties, no children under his knees, and he was very honest, as long as Huo Mengdi was willing to marry and have another child with him in the future, he was willing to hand over the family business to Huo Mengdi to take care of together, and he would definitely be able to treat this daughter as his own pain.

But after Huo Mengdi found out, he politely refused the other party's kindness, and still lived alone with his daughter behind closed doors.

When asked why, she just looked out the window and didn't speak.

Others don't know, Huo Mengdi knows it himself, saying that he will treat his daughter as his own pain, but anyway, he is not her father.

She rejects the kindness and affection of others, raises her daughter alone, and gives her the best life within her ability, she has pride in her bones, and she also has the kind of obscure and persistent dedication in her heart.

Later, Huo Mengdi died of illness.

Left behind seventeen-year-old Huo Hui and an eighty-year-old father.

Later, I don't know how the news of her death spread, and within a month, someone suddenly came from Beijing.

The person who came was very polite, standing at the door of Huo's house, polite and decent.

The other party said that the child's father wanted to take the child away and take it to Beijing to raise.

The old man Huo refused to agree to anything, and his voice was loud, and the other party stood politely at the door, laying out the facts one by one, and finally the old man was angry, rolled his eyes, and was admitted to the hospital.

At that time, Huo Hui hid behind the house in the old courtyard, and when he saw his grandfather fainting, he ran out and pushed the man away, crying hoarsely.

She said you go, I won't go anywhere, I don't know you, I don't have a father, I only have a mother, only grandpa.

Seventeen-year-old Huo Hui, because of the death of his mother, suffered from severe physical and mental blows, suffered from depression, and did not speak to anyone for a whole month.

She cried almost breakdown, and her words were incoherent.

Someone arranged for Mr. Huo to be admitted to the best hospital in Suzhou, and Huo Hui stood at the door of the hospital, listening to the man's persuasion to his grandfather at a loss.

Old man, you are over 80 years old, even if you want to take care of her, but also lack of strength, besides, now she is still young, take her to Beijing, one is to have a good life for her, and the other is to let the child broaden his horizons and seek a good future in the future.

The old man didn't move at all and snorted coldly.

Our daughter of the Huo family doesn't want to be rich and rich, it's good to be safe.

The other party said, you don't want this child to live a lifetime as an illegitimate child, don't you?

The old man stopped talking this time.

The other party grasped the weakness of the old man, and then relieved, you also saw that the child does not like to talk now, the state is very problematic, the death of her mother is a blow to her, you let her go to Beijing, live with her father, it is not a good thing for her. You can rest assured, everything is arranged over there, so that the child can finish high school and then go to a good university.

The old man was a little shaken.

The other party gave him the last word.

Moreover, the name Xu Huaimeng itself is a kind of protection for children, you don't have to worry about her being bullied and looking at other people's faces.

The ward was silent for a long time, and for a long time, the old man sighed faintly, just let the child take it away if he wants it, but there is only one, if you want Huo Hui to leave, he has to pick it up in person.

In the middle of summer in 2007, a black car quietly stopped in front of Huo's house.

That was the first time in Huo Hui's life that he had a cognition of the word father.