A light rain disintegrated the restless heat of early summer, and the dew soaked the sandals and the corners of her white skirt, and Wu Jiao carried a large basket of fresh goose eggs up the lawn slope with limited mobility. A taxi turned around.

She put down the beautiful bamboo basket, tidied up her clothes and hair a little, and then pressed the doorbell.

Seeing a white-haired old man and two little nannies walking out of the building from a distance, Wu Jiao almost didn't recognize Uncle Paul. His beer belly has become smaller, but his back is more and more curved, his sharp forehead is coiled with gray-white curls like plaster, his originally ruddy cheeks have become sallow, his facial skin shows the strong traction of gravity and purrs vertically downward, only a pair of eyes have not changed, and they are still so warm and kind. Wu Jiao has changed even more, and has changed from an innocent little girl to a slim girl. The last time she was here was six years ago.

Uncle Paul was wearing a neat shirt, the cuffs of his overalls were pulled up in two ways, and the edges of his new black leather slippers were stained with tiny grains of mud. One nanny stopped the screaming huskies aside, and the other nanny opened the door and took the basket from Wu Jiao's hand. Uncle Paul hugged Wu Jiao loosely with both hands and patted her on the back: "You're finally back, kid!" ”

"Hmm! Uncle Paul. ”

Wu Jiao can fully understand the etiquette of Westerners at this moment, and will no longer hide behind her seniors and refuse anyone's overtures like she did at the beginning. Then again, the senior has lost herself now, and she has nowhere to hide even if she wants to.

The beautiful and wayward husky was put on a golden collar, the chain of which was directly connected to an iron pestle buried deep in the ground, and although its barking aroused the curiosity of a satsuma and a cat, no one could fail to see the eyes of its owner as it did.

The chairman's wife waved to her through the large floor-to-ceiling windows in the foyer. Wu Jiao looked up at her, it seemed that her change was the smallest, although the whole person had lost a lot of weight, her beautiful posture and soft complexion were still extremely inconsistent with her current age, Wu Jiao estimated in her heart that she should be fifty years old.

In order to welcome Wu Jiao, the chairman and his wife had long wanted to send someone to pick her up in the town, but she insisted on coming by herself, mainly because she wanted to wait for the goose eggs to save enough 100 eggs to fit a big basket, so that it seemed to be both sincere and face-saving. The huge fresh goose eggs weigh almost half a catty, and I really don't know what kind of faith she relied on to carry them all the way back with such a delicate physique. Although Wu Jiao looks delicate, she is actually very strong in her heart, when she was a teenager, she was admitted to a high school in the city because of her good academic performance, and she was able to live as frugally as an adult early on, and she has always been a worry-free child.

For seven or eight years, the chairman's wife has been sending money to the two children's overseas accounts to provide them with a single expense for their study and life, and in most cases they find that they still have a lot of money in their account balances, so the chairman's wife feels that Wu Jiao is a very simple and sensible child, and the prejudice against their early love is becoming less and less, and after three or four years, she completely accepted her, and even thanked her for helping her take care of her son who was far away from home.

Uncle Paul asked the kitchen to prepare a lot of delicious meals, and the chairman of the board of directors will also take time out of his busy schedule to eat at noon today, but Uncle Paul's call to Xingchen is still unanswered. Wu Jiao didn't rest for almost a minute, saying that she was not tired or tired, but in fact she was always silently wiping the sweat on her forehead, and she told the nanny in the kitchen how to pickle goose eggs to be the best. In fact, her parents are professional goose breeders, she grew up eating this stuff since she was a child, and the people in their town believe that eating more goose eggs for their children can be admitted to college, Wu Jiao's sister is the best example, and now Wu Jiao has returned from studying abroad, so their family is very famous in the town.

After the goose eggs were pickled, Wu Jiao rubbed her forehead and said, "Just marinate for half a month, and if you want to eat oil, marinate for a month." ”

The chairman's wife smiled and said, "So you can eat it in July?" When it's time to meet your in-laws, put the pickled goose eggs on a plate, and invite your father, mother, and sister to our house for dinner. ”

"Hmm." Wu Jiao agreed honestly and went outside to wash her hands.

Uncle Paul came to the chairman's wife with his mobile phone: "Madam. ”

"Doesn't Xingchen still answer the phone?" The chairman's wife whispered.

"Do you think you sent someone out to look for it?"

"Go."

Wu Jiao came out of the bathroom and heard their deliberately low voices, she didn't avoid it, walked straight over, and said to the chairman's wife: "Auntie, I have been missing from Xingchen for several days, I have asked many classmates, and they don't know where he went. ”

The chairman's wife hurriedly smiled and said, "It doesn't matter, when his father comes back later, use his father's mobile phone to dial him, and he will come back obediently." ”

Wu Jiao suddenly lifted her spirits: "Really? ”

"I've definitely been out in the wild all these years, but you don't have to worry about it when you get home, what he's most afraid of is his father, hehe!"

The confident smile of the chairman's wife may be able to reassure Wu Jiao for a while.

In these years abroad, they have almost exhausted all their efforts to prove that love can be cultivated, and that is because there is a common island in their hearts, and they are the only men and women on the island.

I don't know when he fell in love with the "freezing" method of decompression, as if every time he froze himself for a period of time, he could use a corresponding period of time to wake up. It's just that in the next two years, he has been frozen longer and longer, and the time to wake up has become shorter and shorter, which has become disproportionate and out of balance.

He mingles with all kinds of fringe societies, which are full of hot-blooded young people with extreme beliefs, who don't know how decadent they are, but who think they are noble, who regard death as the ultimate meaning of life, and suicide as a wayward pastime.

Needless to say, he himself knew how dangerous that state was, and then he said that he wanted a child and wanted to name it after that person, and when his sperm and her egg were combined, an irreversible fact was born, and the island was given a new meaning, and he was willing to return to the normal track for it, and he was willing to believe that all the qiē was gone, and every qiē would start from scratch.

From the moment she was conceived, Wu Jiao meticulously implemented his plan, just like when she was at school, what she wanted to do most was never Chairman Gao Pan's family or the daughter-in-law of Chairman Gao's wife, he knew this best, and the plan between them was only understood by the two of them.

Once they looked at the stars in the sky together and talked about their future pictures, Wu Jiao said that she hoped to go to a good university, and then find a good job, and go out with Ai Mengmeng on weekends to travel, play cards, soak in hot springs, drink, kk songs...... Even if you mess with her like this all your life, you probably won't be bored, because she is such an "interesting" person.

Wu Jiao also asked him what love is, and he said that when you think it is interesting to do anything with this person, it is love.

When two people lose the "interesting" person at the same time, and the "interesting" person has been in their middle and has been inextricably linked or bit by bit with them, if they are willing to be together in order to keep common memories, and it is incumbent on them to play the "interesting" person of the other party, then their relationship can only be defined as a relationship "second only to lovers".

It's just that the subtle differences in this are not visible to outsiders, and this chaotic and absurd relationship cannot be understood by the previous generation in any way. The chairman's wife takes it for granted that Wu Jiao is in love with their family Xingchen, and according to the series of absurd actions her son made in Juli High School back then, the chairman's wife also has every reason to believe that her son loves this girl deeply. Although Zhizi Mo Ruo's father, the chairman of the board of directors' father has said many times, I think Xingchen has something to hide from us, how could they have thought that a girl as good as Wu Jiao would sink in this confused and dangerous relationship.

When it was almost noon, the chairman's father came back with Uncle Xiao Zhao, Wu Jiao and Uncle Xiao Zhao met for the first time, but she had heard the senior say a long time ago, this person was Dad's most trusted subordinate, but she didn't expect that he was higher than Uncle Paul's status at some point, for example, the seat in the dinner row, a large long table, the chairman sat in the middle, the left is the empty seat of the senior, the right is the chairman's wife, Wu Jiao is next to the chairman's wife, Wu Jiao is opposite Uncle Xiao Zhao, And later, when Uncle Paul is done, he will sit in the empty seat next to Wu Jiao.

Maybe Wu Jiao thinks too much, maybe this just shows that Uncle Paul is just like their family, and Uncle Xiao Zhao is still treated as a guest. Wu Jiao was relieved to find that she was placed in the seat second only to the chairman's wife, and this was the position of the daughter-in-law, yes.

The chairman of the board of directors sat at the dinner table and called his son with his mobile phone, but there was still no answer. It's been almost half a month since I returned to China, and the father and son haven't seen each other yet, especially at such an important family banquet, the son has to ask his father to call and supervise, and the heaviest crimes are enough for him to drink a pot. Wu Jiao didn't know how strict the tutor of this family was, so she didn't pay much attention to the chairman's phone call at first, but when they were halfway through eating, a message came in from the chairman's mobile phone.

It turned out to be really sent by Liu Xingchen. He said, "Dad, I'll do my best to find time to call you back."

It was the first text message he sent in the week since he went missing. Wu Jiao almost cried. The chairman closed his phone very dissatisfied.

The chairman's wife asked eagerly, "What did my son say?" ”

"He's busy!" The chairman of the board of directors snorted in his throat, in order not to embarrass Wu Jiao, he was trying his best to endure it, he looked at Wu Jiao who was respectful next to him, and opened a gentle smile to her: "Hehe, this stinky boy, busy all day!" Let's keep eating, eat it all, and don't leave it for him. ”

Wu Jiao smiled politely, lowered her head and continued to eat.

It seems that he has received all the messages sent to him before, and he deliberately did not reply. Wu Jiao was a little angry, but thinking about it the other way, she was finally relieved to know that nothing had happened to him.

Wu Jiao knows that Ai Mengmeng will not lie to himself, if he is not with Ai Mengmeng, then Wu Jiao can't think of what he is busy with, maybe there is really something very important, since she was pregnant, he has never "frozen" himself, so that he himself feels that he has completely "woken up", in order to give birth to the child, he did everything that a husband-to-be should do, go out late and return early, follow all the obedience, quit smoking and drinking, take care of carefully, learn to cook, set a marriage date, and have no desires...... Ah, Wu Jiao suddenly bit her cheek, because she had just thought of an evil thought and was punished by God.

She licked her cheeks gently, trying not to let the people at the table see it.

It is said on the Internet that it is normal for a man of his age to cheat during his wife's pregnancy, but Wu Jiao can't imagine what kind of state the senior can't bear the physical needs, in her memory, his madness is limited to a few hours after getting drunk, and 99% of the time is done slowly and methodically in lazy gentleness. Wu Jiao now has a sixth sense, thinking that he must be doing something related to this, in fact, everyone at the table guessed this possibility, because there are very few things he can do in China, excluding what else can he do with his classmates.

The chairman's wife arranged Wu Jiao's lunch break in her son's room, which fully showed that she recognized Wu Jiao's daughter-in-law very much, after closing the door, Wu Jiao could finally taste this space exclusive to him, his birth and growth can be clearly seen on a photo wall, his childhood photos are brilliant and sweet, just like the chairman's wife described, he looked much more stupid when he was a teenager than when he was a child, all kinds of life confusion was written all over his neurotic gaze, and there were very few photos in high school, There is only one family photo, probably because he has his own opinions, and he no longer likes to take pictures.

Wu Jiao opened his drawer, saw many study plans and used papyrus, but did not turn over a love letter or anything like that, and then Wu Jiao opened his wardrobe again, only a few cold-colored suits, those clothes were preciously locked in a chest of drawers. She noticed a brand new earmuff hanging from the hanger, the size of an adult, but she never remembered that he had ever seen him wear it. Wu Jiao held it in front of the mirror and clamped it on her head, the high pigtail with this earmuff goes well, if it is winter, she will wear it away, but unfortunately it is summer.

Finally, she finally found an inescapable piece of evidence in the drawer of his bedside table, half a box of Moore cigarettes.

She dared to say that this was the only souvenir that Ai Mengmeng left him.

She suddenly realized that she was rummaging around his room a bit excessively, and she put the half box of Moore cigarettes in the drawer untouched, and then carefully put the qiē item back in its place, and she found that she had never entered his life, just as he had never entered hers.