"Rita......" Xuanxuan's hoarse voice sounded softly. Short English, with a glutinous meaning unique to children.

"Huh?" Zhou Jiyou stepped back a little and let her raise her head from her shoulder.

One big and one small look at each other.

The small snot flowed, and the wrinkled nose sucked in, but he couldn't suck it off, and his eyes were red, and he said rustlingly: "Drink, water." ”

She raised her cuffs and was about to rub them, but Zhou Jiyou stopped her, started directly, and wiped all her two lines of snot in her palm.

"Do you want to drink water?"

Xuanxuan's neck was a little, soft and glutinous: "Hmm." ”

"Come, you come down first, Rita will take you to pour water and drink."

Zhou Jiyou lowered his wet and sticky right hand and lowered the little girl from his lap with his left hand; Stand up, take her, and sort out her crumpled clothes by the way.

"Uncle!" After the little girl stood on the ground, she suddenly looked ahead and called out sweetly, and her red eyes instantly bloomed with the brilliance of meeting her relatives.

Zhou Jiyou was slightly stunned, remembering the sentence "Xuanxuan, look who is coming" at the front desk, and a white light suddenly appeared in his mind.

Who else could this "uncle" be besides him......

Xuanxuan broke free of her and ran forward on her short legs.

The moment Zhou Jiyou raised his eyes, his expression was calm.

But in the next second, when I saw the handsome man who was squatting down and gently hugging the girl, he still unconsciously pinched his palm.

Shen Feibai got up with Xuanxuan in his arms, his figure was tall and tall, so that a three-year-old girl could sit firmly in the crook of her arm, easily and effortlessly.

Xuanxuan wrapped her arms around his neck and whispered affectionately in his ear.

He listened with a smile, occasionally responding in a low voice, and his deep and quiet gaze turned and fell straight on Zhou Jiyou's seemingly calm face.

She was smiling at him, the kind of sincere smile she hadn't seen in a long time.

Black hair and snow skin, gentle temperament, and a mature charm of falling and generous precipitation between the eyebrows.

She's not the same as she used to be.

Zhou Jiyou hooked her lips indifferently and smiled lightly, and a dark light flashed in her amber eyes, which was quietly covered by her bowing posture.

"Rita, give." Just then, the front desk returned and handed her a pack of tissues.

She didn't have it in her hand, so she didn't answer, "Help me blow Xuanxuan's nose, I'll wash my hands." ”

The front desk was stunned for a second: "...... Good. ”

Turning around and taking a step, remembering something, she half turned around, looked at the man opposite, and said in a natural tone: "Wait for me." ”

Shen Fei's white eyebrows raised slightly indifferently and did not speak.

Zhou Jiyou's heart tightened, turned his back, and paced away.

She felt that there were things that needed to be sorted out quickly with the time to wash her hands. She waited for a month, and he showed up neither early nor late, but he was so caught off guard.

What to do next, she was a little at a loss.

***

Zhou Jiyou washed his hands and came back, passed through the stage area and didn't see anyone, walked all the way, and saw a small pink figure holding two round biscuits from a distance, standing in front of the front desk and sending them to his mouth with relish, and his cheeks were bulging.

Shen Feibai bent over and wrote on the side.

The higher end of the reception desk covered his bowed head, and he stood with his legs straight and his upper body bowed slightly, but even so, his figure still looked very slender.

Zhou Jiyou approached step by step, Xuanxuan turned her head to see her, her eyebrows and eyes were crooked, and she shouted in a childish tone: "Rita-!" ”

She squatted down kindly, and in the afterglow, Shen Feibai looked up.

"Have you drunk any water?" She pretended not to know, touched Xuanxuan's tender little white face, and asked.

"Drink, my uncle gave me a drink." Xuanxuan stretched out the half-bitten biscuit in her hand and shared it with her.

"Thank you Xuanxuan, you can eat it yourself."

Shen Feibai filled out the transfer slip and walked behind Xuanxuan, he didn't take another step forward, but slipped into his trouser pocket with one hand, and continued to look at her lukewarmly with those calm black eyes.

Her gaze flowed silently above her head, and she gradually felt the cheeks on both sides and the skin that connected to her neck begin to tingle at the same time.

She pursed her lips and straightened up, calmly staring at him. The corners of his lips hooked, revealing a sudden look, and asked knowingly: "You are Xuanxuan's uncle, then her mother will not be ......"

Shen Feibai raised his eyebrows slightly, looked at her, and followed her words and said, "It's Xinyu." You haven't met? ”

"Nope. The few times I met, it was her father who picked me up. "Honestly.

Shen Feibai was thoughtful, a pair of small hands hugged his right leg, and the small figure leaned on it.

lowered his eyes, and saw Xuanxuan looking up at him pitifully with her little head up, "Uncle, what about my mother, I want my mother." ”

Shen Feibai leaned over and picked her up, the child was stunned, his pink mouth opened, and he yawned.

"It's nine o'clock, she's a little sleepy." Zhou Jiyou stepped forward and reached out to wipe away the tears that appeared in the corners of Xuanxuan's eyes after yawning.

Suddenly, the distance between them was less than half a step.

Shen Feibai looked at the person in front of him quietly, her appearance did not change in any way, what changed was her expression and temperament.

If she used to feel like a thorny rose, bright and indifferent, then now, she treats Xuanxuan more like a bouquet of rich carnations, her eyes show pity and love, and her body shines with a layer of maternal brilliance that cannot be ignored.

"What's wrong?" Zhou Jiyou raised his eyes and looked at him, calm and calm.

Shen Feibai hooked his lips slightly, and his tone was understated: "It's okay." Instead, he coaxed Xuanxuan softly, "Uncle will take you home to find your mother, okay?" ”

Xuanxuan said crisply: "Okay." ”

Shen Feibai touched her hair and smiled, about to ask Zhou Jiyou a question, his lips moved slightly, but Zhou Jiyou spoke before him: "Wait for me." ”

Wait a minute. It's the same sentence again.

She turned around and returned along the same road, wearing a red sports overalls on her upper body, a pair of tight black pencil pants on the bottom, and a pair of solid-colored canvas shoes on her feet.

Judging from the back alone, she still has the same straight waist as in the past, as if she will never bow her head and always walk firmly.

Not far away, a parent who had not yet left held up his mobile phone to take pictures of him, the corner of his eye moved, and he turned his back to block Xuanxuan in time.

Zhou Jiyou quickly came back with a schoolbag and handed it to him, "Xuanxuan's schoolbag." ”

The schoolbag was very light, and she could hardly feel the weight in the empty hand, Shen Feibai looked at her and asked what she wanted to say before: "When will you get off work?" ”

Zhou Jiyou's heart jumped faintly, pursed his lips and smiled: "It's already off work now." ”

She motioned for him to look around, and the parents were gradually taking their children home, leaving only two young mothers who were still exchanging parenting experiences with their teachers, and their two playful sons.

The other teachers also went to the locker room to change their clothes and prepare to clock out of work, but the girl at the front desk needed to stay on duty for an hour and was still sitting upright at the reception table. It's just that the body is upright, but the eyes are secretly slanted, and the thief is looking at them brightly.

Shen Feibai raised his wrist to look at the time, and said nonchalantly: "I'll send Xuanxuan back, and I'll pick you up in fifteen minutes." ”

It's not an opinion, it's a straightforward tone of your own decision.

Zhou Jiyou felt a trace of indescribable feeling in her heart, as if there was a screaming little beast grinding back and forth on her heart with its soft claws, itchy and unable to start.

"No need, I made an appointment with someone to get off work together, and you don't have to pick me up." She saw Xuanxuan's little mouth open and yawn again, and touched her warm little face lovingly, "Send her back quickly." ”

Shen Fei stared at her coldly, with an incomprehensible look in his eyes.

Zhou Jiyou beat the small drum in his heart, and his endurance lasted to hide his expression meticulously.

He is becoming more and more cold and introverted, more stable and self-controlled than five years ago, and his mind is deeper.

The current shape is a bit tricky, and she hates this kind of passivity that is not accurate.

***

Shen Feibai walked out of the Super Baby Early Education Institution with Xuanxuan in his arms and waited at the elevator entrance.

He turned his head to look, his eyes passed through the glass curtain wall, and Zhou Jiyou's figure was no longer visible where they were standing.

His dark eyes darkened, and he felt a breath in his chest, unable to find an outlet to spit out.

There was no child safety seat in his car, so he sat Xuanxuan in the back seat and fastened her seat belt.

The little guy is too sleepy, has no strength to make a fuss, and is rarely obedient and obedient. Before she could get home, it was only five minutes before she fell asleep with her head down.

Shen Feibai rang the doorbell with the sleeping little girl in his arms, and it was Shen Xinyu who came to open the door.

"Sleeping?" She looked at her daughter, said something in a breath, and raised her arm to take it.

Shen Feibai didn't let him, stood in the hallway, handed her the schoolbag, used both feet together, changed his shoes neatly, and then crossed her, walked straight to Xuanxuan's room, and put Xuanxuan on the bed.

Shen Xinyu followed all the way, holding the wrist of the other hand with one hand, standing behind him and watching him cover Xuanxuan with the quilt and wrap the corners of the quilt tightly, biting his lip without saying anything.

He turned and walked out of the room, and she came out too, shutting the door softly.

"Brother-!" Hurriedly chased to the living room, "Are you going to go now, don't you sit down for a while?" ”

Shen Feibai stopped his steps, looked at her and couldn't hide her feelings in front of her, and her tone was unwavering: "Call Jinyang out, don't hide." ”

Shen Xinyu's face froze: "...... Do you see that? ”

Shen Feibai didn't speak, his eyes turned, and he inadvertently saw the pattern on the hollow partition in the living room.

He suddenly felt like that partition wall, and Zhou Jiyou was a painting engraved in his body.

The shadow of the sun flies, and he always stands, in order to protect the painting, in order to prevent her from falling to the ground and shattering.

Shen Xinyu was entangled for a second and said, "Brother, you should have seen her, right?" ”

Shen Feibai paused, retracted his gaze, and looked at her silently.

Shen Xinyu pursed her mouth, but she didn't hold it back, and her years of silence prompted her to be a little hesitant when she asked: "Brother, do you have a sense of victory now, a daughter-in-law who has been a mother-in-law for many years?" looked forward to it, and finally brought her back. ”

Shen Feibai's dark eyes were deep and quiet: "Me and her are not what you think." ”

Shen Xinyu immediately asked, "What is that?" You haven't been in love or married for so many years, haven't you just been waiting for her? ”

He frowned slightly without a trace, not denying it.

Shen Xinyu felt a little uncomfortable in her heart, her eyes swelled with a sourness, and she lowered her head and said, "She is the new director of the Super Baby Sub-center, I asked the front desk, she was transferred from the New York headquarters two months ago. Brother, how do I think, she hasn't been home once in a foreign country over the years, and she hasn't let us know for two months after returning to China, and she clearly doesn't plan to want this home. ”

Shen Feibai recalled the ups and downs of the past, was silent for a moment, and said to Shen Xinyu: "Don't tell Grandpa Sù and Aunt Hui about her coming back for the time being. ”

Shen Xinyu sighed: "I know. ”

Shen Feibai tapped on her shoulder, staggered around her, "Rest early." ”

Shen Xinyu remembered something, turned around suddenly, and called him: "Brother, Xuanxuan is going to make up for the missed class in the afternoon after tomorrow, if you are free, send her for me." ”

Shen Feibai's back was slightly stunned, and he didn't look back, "What time is it?" ”

"Half past three."

After Shen Feibai left, Xiao Jinyang appeared from around the corner, shook his head and sighed: "You really spare no effort to create a meeting opportunity for him." ”

Shen Xinyu knew that he had heard it, and expressed his thoughts: "I just want to provide him with a reasonable excuse to come to the door, lest he have to go back and think for himself." ”

Xiao Jinyang hugged her into his arms and smiled: "She deserves to be a caring and good sister." ”

Shen Xinyu wrapped his arms around his sturdy waist, his cheeks pressed against his chest, lowered his eyelids, and was silent.

After a while, Xiao Jinyang's head moved slightly, glanced at her, and asked, "What are you thinking?" ”

Shen Xinyu closed his eyes for a moment and said slowly: "I want to know, now that Xiaoyou is back, will my brother continue to watch her and bless her as before, or will he pursue her with all his might, even if he fails in the end, it will not be a pity." ”

Xiao Jinyang's heart moved, and he thought, "Didn't he just say that it wasn't what you thought?" ”

"I don't know." Shen Xinyu shook his head, "I don't know much about them. But it's not what I thought it would be......"