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Nanxi was still stunned, and a woman in her forties walked out of the small bedroom with a child in her arms: "Yijiang is back...... Zhuang Zhuang heard his father's voice and waved his hand excitedly. ”
The nanny brought the child over, pointed to Liao Yijiang, and said to the child: "Look, Daddy is here!" See Daddy Doesn't See? ”
The baby stared at Liao Yijiang's face, looked at it intently for a while, and suddenly grinned and laughed.
He smiled so happily, revealing his pink flesh that had no teeth, and his eyes were narrowed in one place, and he looked very cute.
Nanxi stared at his face, she didn't expect a premature baby to grow so fat, she still remembered that when she first saw him, he was covered in blood, like a clown monkey, curled up in the arms of the river, and his skin was purple.
Looking at him now, I can't imagine that he is the clown monkey.
The white and chubby face is so tender that it can pinch out the water, the eyes are black and shiny, the two chubby hands are clenched into fists, and the little doll is a little cute thing by nature!
Liao Yijiang had been observing Nanxi's expression, and when he found that her gaze had changed from sharp inquiry to tender love, he smiled: "Zhuangzhuang, look who's coming?" This is my mother, she was sick a while ago, she was recuperating at home, and there was no way to visit Zhuangzhuang. Now that she's well, she can't wait to pick up Zhuangzhuang, this is Mom, Zhuangzhuang get to know each other. ”
As Liao Yijiang spoke, he stuffed Zhuang Zhuang into Nanxi's arms.
Nanxi hurriedly caught it, and suddenly there was a warm and soft little thing in his arms, and he couldn't help but feel an inexplicable feeling of joy in his heart.
The joy had just come to an end, and Zhuang Zhuang glanced at her, and suddenly his mouth flattened, and he began to cry.
"Huh? What's going on? Why is he crying? She panicked.
Liao Yijiang calmly took the child, patted it a few times, and the crying stopped immediately.
"What's going on? Why do I cry when I hold him? You can hold him? Nanxi didn't feel good in her heart.
Liao Yijiang smiled at her: "Because he hasn't seen you, you are a stranger in his eyes, and children are afraid of strangers." ”
Nanxi was unconvinced: "I'm a stranger? I'm his own aunt, okay? Come! Let me hug! ”
As she spoke, she picked up the child again. Zhuang Zhuang didn't give her face, and immediately started crying. Liao Yijiang stood aside, holding his arms, making a gesture of standing by, looking at her flustered appearance, and laughing happily.
After a while, Zhuang Zhuang got used to this strange embrace and stopped crying.
Nanxi hugged him, and there was indescribable comfort in his heart. She pinched his little face for a while, pinched his little hands for a while, and chatted with Liao Yijiang: "I really didn't expect him to look like this, I thought he would always be as ugly as he was when he was born." ”
"Hey! Be careful when you talk in front of your child, you say he's ugly, and he understands! Liao Yijiang deliberately scared her.
As a result, Nanxi really believed it: "Really? It's amazing! Don't be angry, Aunt is praising you for being handsome now...... Although it is true that you were a little ugly when you were first born...... Okay, okay, don't cry, it's not ugly when you are born......"
Liao Yijiang expected that after she saw Zhuangzhuang, she would definitely become like this. He smugly touched his chin and asked her, "Are you still going to sell the house now?" Still want to leave the city? ”
"The house is for sale!" Nanxi replied.
"Huh?" Liao Yijiang frowned, "If you insist on leaving here, leave Zhuang Zhuang for me!" You go on your own! ”
"Did I say I was leaving? I'm just going to change houses...... That house is too much space, and I live with Zhuang Zhuang, it's too wasteful......" Nan Xi didn't look up, his eyes stared at Zhuang Zhuang's face, and explained......
Three years later, at the entrance of a kindergarten in D City.
Nanxi parked the car on the side of the road, got out of the car and hurried straight to the gate of the kindergarten, looking at his watch as he ran.
It was already past five o'clock in the afternoon, and she was in a meeting at the company, delaying the time to pick up Zhuangzhuang. Although she had already called the teacher and asked the teacher to take care of Zhuang Zhuang for a while, she was still in a hurry, for fear that Zhuang Zhuang would be in a hurry and cry in the kindergarten.
Before she could run into the gate of the kindergarten, she saw Liao Yijiang walking from the playground with Zhuang Zhuang in his arms.
When Zhuang Zhuang saw her, he happily opened his arms and shouted, "Mom! Mom! ”
Hearing his immature childish voice, Nanxi suddenly felt that the fatigue of the day had dissipated.
Two men, one big and one young, walked out of the door and threw themselves into her arms: "Mom, you're so late, I'm so hungry." ”
"Mom will take you to eat delicious food, what do you want to eat?" Nanxi kissed him on the cheek.
"Fried chicken nuggets!" Zhuang Zhuang raised his hand without hesitation.
"Don't eat junk food!" Nanxi also decisively rejected him.
"I want to eat fried chicken too." Liao Yijiang was on the side to help.
Zhuang Zhuang immediately came to the spirit: "Dad wants to eat fried chicken!" ”
Nanxi glared at Liao Yijiang: "You can't spoil him unprincipledly, he is now a ghost, if you are like this, I can't control him!" ”
Liao Yijiang smiled nonchalantly: "Eat it once in a while, and it won't be good." ”
"That's it!" Zhuang Zhuang nodded in agreement, "It's been a long, long time since I've eaten fried chicken nuggets, I'm hungry and thin......"
Nan Xi was happy: "Obviously I only ate it last week, okay?" You're obviously fat, okay? I'm hungry for you if I don't eat chicken nuggets? You little creature without a conscience! All right! I'm going to take you to eat fried chicken nuggets today, but I can say it in advance, this is the last time I will eat junk food this month, and if I want to eat it again, I can only ask for it next month, you know? ”
"Got it!" Zhuang Zhuang replied simply, he didn't care about this month and that month, anyway, he had to eat if he wanted to, and if his mother didn't buy it, his father would definitely buy it.
The three of them got into the car, Liao Yijiang was responsible for driving, and Nan Xihe sat in the passenger seat with Zhuang Zhuang in his arms.
On the way, Zhuang Zhuang suddenly asked a very sharp question: "Mom, the children in the kindergarten, their parents live together, why don't you and your father live together?" ”
"Oh......" Nanxi was stuck, not knowing how to answer for a while.
Liao Yijiang spoke: "That's because other children's parents are married, and your mother hasn't married your father yet." ”
"Then why don't you get married?" Zhuang Zhuang asked again.
Nanxi gets stuck again.
Liao Yijiang replied: "That's because my mother doesn't want to marry my father." ”
"Why not?" Zhuang Zhuang asked to the end.
Liao Yijiang was silent for a while and said, "Ask your mother!" ”
"Mom, why don't you marry Daddy? Zhuang Zhuang also wants his parents to live together! Zhuang Zhuang turned his head, looked at Nanxi very seriously, and expressed his opinion very solemnly.
Why don't you marry Liao Yijiang? Nanxi has thought about this question countless times.
In the past few years, Liao Yijiang has been by her side, helping her take care of Zhuangzhuang. In the eyes of outsiders, she, Liao Yijiang, and Zhuang Zhuang are like a family of three. Liao Yijiang also proposed to her several times, but she refused.
Why refuse? She couldn't tell. She couldn't think of a reason not to marry Liao Yijiang, but she couldn't think of a reason why she should marry him.
But today, Zhuang Zhuang gave her a reason, he grew up, he envied other children's parents living together, he needed a healthy family, with a father and a mother.
That man...... He hasn't heard from him for so long, and he won't be coming back.
She doesn't have to wait, just marry Liao Yijiang, in order to be strong.
"Mom, you speak! I want you to marry Daddy! I want mom and dad to live together! Zhuang Zhuang saw that Nanxi ignored him, and was so anxious that he pulled her face.
Nanxi held his hand and said with a smile: "Okay, since Zhuang Zhuang strongly asks for it, then Mom and Dad will get married." ”
"Great! Mom and Dad want to be together! Zhuang Zhuang clapped his hands happily.
Liao Yijiang turned his face hesitantly and looked at Nanxi: "You can't lie to children, adults will teach bad children if they lie." ”
"I'm not lying......" Nan Xi smiled faintly at him.
Liao Yijiang was still not sure, and said: "Since you didn't lie, then we have to really get married." ”
"Yes, of course it's really married. How? You don't want to tie the knot? Nan Xi glanced at him.
Liao Yijiang hurriedly nodded: "Of course it's over!" Hurry up! I'm going to make an appointment for a wedding photo shoot tomorrow! ”
"Do you still want to take wedding photos?" Nanxi had little interest in that activity.
Liao Yijiang immediately collapsed: "What do you mean?" Marry me and don't even take wedding photos? ”
Nanxi saw his disappointed look, so he said: "Of course I want to shoot, but I suddenly mentioned marriage, I have no psychological preparation, what to do and what not to do, I have no score in my heart." You say shoot it, which is the most expensive and luxurious photo studio in City D? We'll just go there and shoot ......."
Now that you have made up your mind to live with this man, let's try to invest as much as possible, Liao Yijiang is a good person, and she can't let him down.
Nanxi thought so in her heart......
A week later, on Sunday morning, it was rare to rest, and Nan Xi couldn't get up in bed, wanting to sleep lazy.
What a blessing it is to not have to go to work and not have to be woken up by the alarm clock.
But she had only been immersed in this happiness for more than ten minutes, and a small human alarm clock rushed into her room, jumped on her bed, and shouted at her in a high-decibel voice: "Mommy is up!" I'm going to take wedding photos with my dad today! Wake up! ”
Nanxi stretched out his hand and dragged the small alarm clock into the quilt and hugged it: "Don't be noisy, let my mother sleep for a while......"
"Don't sleep, Daddy is coming to pick you up, get up quickly!" Zhuang Zhuang writhed in her arms, persistently urging her to get up.
"It's noisy!" Nanxi threw him out of the bed, "Do you know what wedding photos are?" What are you excited about? Let me sleep! ”
"I understand! Dad said, take wedding photos, you can get married! Mom is up. Zhuang Zhuang didn't know how to look at his mother's face at all, so he was excited.
Nanxi was so noisy by him that she fell asleep, so she had to get up from the bed.
That day, she casually said that she wanted to shoot a wedding dress in the most expensive and luxurious photo studio in the city, Liao Yijiang took it seriously, asked people which photo studio was the best and most expensive in D city, and finally chose a scary expensive photo studio and made an appointment to take a set of frightening wedding photos.
Although Nanxi had ideas in her heart, she didn't want Liao Yijiang to feel that she had no enthusiasm for this marriage, so she didn't say anything and actively cooperated with him.
The costumes were picked yesterday, and today she wants to shoot the exterior scenes, and she made an appointment with the car from the photo studio to pick them up at nine o'clock.
They drove two cars, one carrying clothing and equipment, and the other carrying people, to the newly built lavender park in the north of City D.
Nanxi put on makeup and changed her clothes in the nanny car, and when she got out of the car, Liao Yijiang was already waiting there.
He is very happy today, his complexion is also very good, and his whole person is as bright as the sun today. He greeted her, took Nanxi's hand, and praised her sincerely: "You are so beautiful today." ”
"I'm beautiful every day." Nanxi boasted.
Liao Yijiang smiled, turned his head to see that the people in the studio had already set up the equipment, and asked, "Can we start filming?" ”
"Sorry, wait a minute, our photographer hasn't arrived yet." A young girl smiled apologetically and explained to them.
"The photographer didn't come?" Liao Yijiang looked at the little girl in surprise, "What big-name photographer?" Running late? ”
The little girl blinked mysteriously and said, "Mr. Liao guessed right, this is the newly hired photographer in our studio, a big-name photographer with a considerable international reputation, your wedding dress is taken by him, it is worth it, wait a while......"
The little girls bragged as much as they could about their new photographer, and as Nanxi listened, her mind drifted away.
Big-name photographers of international repute? She knows one, too. He once told her that in the future, he would give up all his troubles and mundane affairs and take her around the world. He said he could support her by taking pictures because he was a big-name photographer with an international reputation.
The past is like smoke, and now he doesn't know where the wandering is, if there is a beautiful girl by his side...... There will definitely be! Because he is such a romantic person, and under the guise of a big-name photographer, he is handsome, and beautiful women are willing to stick to him.
And she will eventually return to her original life, find a man who is good to her, live a plain life, grow up and grow strong, and grow old slowly.
That dream of traveling the world was just a beautiful bubble he had created for her, and now it was time to burst.
Dressed in a white wedding dress and holding a bouquet of flowers, she walked slowly among the lavender-blooming ridges, thinking about her thoughts while waiting for the arrival of the "international brand" photographer.
At this time, she heard the roar of the car, and also heard the staff of the photo studio shouting: "He's coming!" He's coming! ”
She turned her head and saw a black Land Rover speeding towards her, parked on the side of the road.
The door opened, and a man stepped out of the Land Rover. As soon as he appeared, the little girl in the photo studio jumped up and shook Nanxi's arm vigorously: "Look at him, it's him!" Isn't it handsome? Wow! Sure enough, it's a big name! It's so stylish! ”
Nanxi didn't hear what she was talking about, she was dumbfounded!
Was she hallucinating because she was thinking too much just now? Why did the "international brand" photographer invited by this photo studio turn out to be him?
He's still the same curly hair, or timberland cowhide boots, still tucking his jeans into the boots, or hanging his thumb in the pocket of his jeans, and walking with a swaying and cynical look!
How could it be him? He's not in the UK? How did it end up here? When did he come back?
Nanxi seemed to have been immobilized, and stood there, not moving.
The moment Liao Yijiang saw Lu Ziyuan, he immediately turned his head to look at Nanxi. The turbulent expression on Nanxi's face, he saw it all in his eyes. His heart was sinking, and the happiness that seemed to be on the horizon was like an imsolid sand dune, being washed away by the flood little by little.
Lu Zaiyuan walked into the crowd, pointed to the guide tide, and asked the staff next to him: "Is this woman going to take wedding photos?" ”
The little girl let go of Nanxi, rushed to Lu Zaiyuan in one step, and looked up at him with her face: "Yes, they are going to take wedding photos, hello, I am your colleague, my name is ......"
Lu Zaiyuan didn't listen to her, glanced back at Liao Yijiang, and then said, "The groom is very handsome, but the bride is not very good...... It's so unmatched......"
All the staff were stunned! Even if you are a big-name photographer, you don't have to speak in this tone, right? People are going to get married, how can they say such ugly things to the newlyweds?
"Hey! Is the bride stupid? Do you want to shoot it or not? What does the pestle do there? If you want to shoot, move quickly, and if you don't shoot, clean up and go home! Lu Zaiyuan held a tripod and waved his hand towards Nanxi.
Nanxi couldn't hold back any longer, tears crawled out of her eye sockets, crawled onto her face with heavy makeup, blurred the eyeshadow, and blackened her eye sockets.
Lu Zaiyuan pointed at her and said again: "It's painted like a ghost, it's ugly and dead......"
Before the words fell, Liao Yijiang had already pounced on him from behind, threw him to the ground, and smashed his fist like rain on him.
Lu Zaiyuan didn't resist, he lay there honestly, and was beaten by Liao Yijiang. He was also pressed down by Liao Yijiang several times and gnawed on a mouthful of mud.
Nanxi lowered his head and saw Liao Yijiang beating him far away, tears flowed down, his fists were clenched tightly, and his nails had sunk into the flesh of his palms, but he still couldn't step forward and pull the two of them away.
The people in the photo studio can't stand it, although their photographer is disrespectful, but they can't just be beaten to death by the groom!
A group of people hurriedly stepped forward to pull the rack, and two young men dragged Liao Yijiang up and put him aside, and Lu Zaiyuan had to get up from the ground.
He patted the dirt off his body and spat out the mud that had gnawed in his mouth. Then he turned around and looked at Liao Yijiang: "Have you fought enough?" If you don't fight enough, let's change to a place where no one will persuade you to fight, and I'll let you continue fighting. ”
"You did it on purpose! You obviously know that it was me and Xiaoxi who took wedding photos today, and you deliberately came out to stir up the situation at this time! Liao Yijiang accused the road of being far away.
Lu Zaiyuan didn't deny it, he nodded and said: "Yes, as soon as I returned to China, I heard that Xiaoxi was going to marry you, how could I be willing to marry my wife to you?" You're going to shoot your wedding dress, okay! I'll shoot you guys! If Xiaoxi can calmly finish the wedding dress with you in front of me, I will admit defeat and give my wife to you. ”
"You bastard! You say you can go, you say come back, what are you? Liao Yijiang was so angry that he scolded that the road was far away.
Lu Zaiyuan pursed his hair, nodded again and admitted: "Yes, I said I would go, and I would come back when I said I, I am indeed not a thing." But the twists and turns in this story, I just want to explain to Xiaoxi. As for the two of you, let me ask once, do you still take this wedding photo? ”
Liao Yijiang moved his gaze to Nanxi's face and looked at her.
Nanxi had already spent her makeup crying, her heart hurt so much, she hadn't felt this heartache for a long time. The man is back, and she has agreed to marry another man. What was she going to do? What to do?
She looked at Liao Yijiang's expectant gaze, gritted her teeth, and said one word in a crying voice: "Shoot!" ”
Liao Yijiang's eyes dimmed, and even the fiery anger just now was extinguished. He saw Nanxi's tangled and painful eyes, and saw how many tears she shed after her "slap". He has always known that Nanxi loves Lu Ziyuan very much, and now that the damn Lu Ziyuan is back, can he still ignore Nanxi's feelings and tie her to his side with a not very firm promise?
If he was like that, then Nanxi would have been his wife a long time ago, and he didn't have to wait until today.
He slowly raised his hand, ripped off the bow tie around his neck, and then took off his white dress jacket and threw it to the studio staff.
Then he said: "Don't shoot, don't shoot, I suddenly regret proposing to you, it's too late for me to regret it now, right?" ”
With that, he turned and walked out of the lavender field.
"Yijiang ......" Nanxi picked up the complicated skirt of the wedding dress and wanted to chase Liao Yijiang.
Lu Zaiyuan grabbed her: "Xiaoxi, you only have one chance to choose, if you go after him, I will rush to the airport immediately, fly back to the UK, and never come back!" ”
Nan Xi waved the bouquet in his hand and smashed it hard on his face: "You bastard!" You go, go, go! Go back to your UK! Never come back! ”
The bouquet spreads, and the petals fall in the distance.
The staff next to them were dumbfounded, thinking to themselves what the hell did this photographer do? Why is it so hated?
Nan Xi beat him with a bouquet of flowers, and he was not angry, so he ripped off the flower crown on his head and threw it on his body.
Then, she turned and ran towards the depths of the lavender field!
Lu Zaiyuan took the petals on his head and body, and chased after her when he stepped forward: "You stop!" You're justified! Did I tell you to wait for me to come back! You've taken my words off a deaf ear! I've only been gone for three years, and you want to get married! You don't keep the way of women! Don't you know you're someone else's wife? I'm not dead yet! Do you want to remarry? No way! You stand still......"
Nanxi ran faster, and the skirt of the long white wedding dress floated and danced among the purple lavender flowers...... 166 Reading Network