CHAPTER XXXI
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This is a tea restaurant, the decoration is classical and elegant, it is in the afternoon, it is almost worth the meal, and there are many people in the store. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info Fen Qiao and Gao Ling are located by the window, with green vines climbing on the exquisite carved partition panels, and the shutters are placed, and the green barrier completely blocks the view of the outside world.
The heating was turned on in the room, but Fen Qiao felt much colder than just now, and the ten fingers in his gloves were cold.
Hot tea was placed in front of him, and the green tea leaves in the white porcelain cup were stretching and bubbling with mist.
The two were silent until the fog above the teacup cleared and Fen Qiao heard Gao Ling's voice in his ears.
"I'm sorry, Jojo." She said.
The voice was very deep, and Fen Qiao's heart was tightly pinched, and she couldn't tell if it was an innocuous apology or if Gao Ling really regretted it.
"I'm not a good mother." Gao Ling's fingers clenched the teacup, and his fingers turned white.
She is indeed not a good mother, and in the days she left, she missed Fen Qiao, who was her only flesh and blood in this world. Even though Fen Qiao gradually stopped being close to her, in Gao Ling's memory, she was still the little daughter who was lying on her shoulder and playing tricks on herself.
In the past year, she was glad that she didn't take Fen Qiao with her more than once. She didn't have much money left, but at least she could ensure that Fenqiao didn't have to worry about food and clothing, and she didn't have to follow her from place to place, have no fixed place, and be afraid.
She also saw Fenqiao's news and game broadcasts on the Internet in foreign countries. Fen Qiao has liked to swim since she was a child, she knows it, but after Fen Qiao's father left, Fen Qiao never went into the water once. The moment he saw the broadcast, Gao Ling almost couldn't believe his eyes. She didn't know who changed Fen Qiao, but at that moment, she was extremely grateful to that person.
When she left Diancheng, Fen Qiao was so silent that she almost didn't talk to anyone, she was almost alone, and even with her mother, there was almost no communication, and Gao Ling almost felt that she had autism. But after she left, Fen Qiao started swimming again and let go of himself again.
That was the only thing she felt happy about in those difficult days of fleeing in a foreign country.
However, back in the imperial capital, what Gao Ling didn't expect the most was that the person who changed Fen Qiao would be Gu Yan.
She used to hate Gu Yan so much that she gritted her teeth, Fen Qiao's father died because of him, and Feng's company was at his mercy, but in the end, it was Gu Yan who pulled Fen Qiao.
She hated him, but now that hatred was no longer pure, there was gratitude in it
She was also grateful to him.
I am grateful to him for letting Fenqiao have a normal life, regain his vitality and get out of the shadows and trauma.
She shouldn't have come back.
But she always held on to luck, always felt that she didn't disturb Fenqiao's life, and looked at her from afar. But now, she still broke Fenqiao's peaceful life.
Fen Qiao sat within her reach, and the little girl who would sweetly call her mother had grown into a big girl, her eyebrows and eyes spread, her skin was white, delicate and flawless, and she was carved out of the same mold as when she was young.
If all these changes hadn't happened, they would be like all ordinary families in the world, happy and complete, and now, Fen Qiao was sitting opposite her, her eyes were full of strange estrangement and alienation.
Fen Qiao may never forgive her.
Thinking of this, Gao Ling actually felt that he had been hit hard in his heart and was out of breath.
Fen Qiao listened to Gao Ling talking, but he didn't say a word. Her gaze always fell on Gao Ling's hands holding the white porcelain cup.
In her memory, it was a pair of pampered hands, slender and fair.
And now, there are large and small scratches on the hands, some of which have fallen off, leaving scars of different shades, and some of which are just beginning to scab.
"How did you get that?"
What the?
Gao Ling didn't know what Fen Qiao was asking, and followed her gaze to her own hand, only to understand that Fen Qiao was asking how her hand hurt.
Gao Ling retracted her hand uncomfortably, and she was in exile, so her life would naturally not be comfortable, but Fen Qiao's surprised gaze was more difficult for her to accept than those sad and painful eyes.
She's a wanted criminal, and there's nothing more than a child's disdainful gaze that keeps a mother up her head.
What's more, she is not a qualified mother either.
Gao Ling didn't speak, but Fen Qiao couldn't guess it.
She was silent for a long time, so long that even her brain began to ache and buzz. She used to feel that Gao Ling was really hateful, and felt that she would never forgive her for the rest of her life, but as time passed, when she appeared in front of her again, Fen Qiao actually felt that those things seemed to be very far away, and she couldn't remember, and she didn't want to think of the harm Gao Ling left her.
Why didn't she hate it so much? Maybe it's because Gao Ling, who abandoned her, is not doing well?
At this moment, Fen Qiao's psychology was strangely balanced.
raised her head, but saw Gao Ling staring at her neck in surprise.
After entering the room and turning on the heating, Fen Qiao took off his scarf. At this moment, I looked down and saw only a crystal slipper necklace hanging around my neck.
It was a relic that Gu Yan gave to her father. Why is Gao Ling staring?
"What are you looking at?" Fen Qiao frowned.
"Fen Qiao, how did this necklace end up with you?" Gao Ling's eyes were surprised and in disbelief
"This was originally the necklace I gave to my father, why can't it be with me?"
"The police handed it back to me, and I obviously refused......" Gao Ling shook his head, his face pale.
The necklace fell from the place where Fen Qiao's father was shot, and she was afraid of touching the scene, so she simply didn't want it and refused to return it to the police. But now, she actually saw this necklace around Fen Qiao's neck again.
"Police?" Fen Qiao asked.
"The necklace was given to me by Gu Yan," Fen Qiao frowned, "You should know him, he is a friend of my father." ”
"That's what he told you?" Gao Ling's eyes widened.
There was hidden anger in her expression, and Fen Qiao could see it at a glance.
"Are you angry? Why? Fen Qiao looked her in the eye and asked.
Gao Ling obviously knew Gu Yan, but why did Gao Ling have anger in his expression when he mentioned him?
Gao Ling's knuckles holding the white porcelain cup turned white, and her body stiffened for a long time, suppressing the anger in her heart.
She couldn't tell Fen Qiao......
Gu Yan seems to be very good to Fen Qiao, but if Fen Qiao knows the truth, she will definitely not be able to control her emotions, if she attacks Gu Yan...... Gu Yan is by no means a person overflowing with compassion, if Fen Qiao keeps messing with him, can she still live as peacefully as she does now?
Fen Qiao is very sensitive to people's emotions, and Gao Ling only hesitated for a moment, so that she could immediately see the clues.
"Did you have a holiday with Gu Yan?"
"Nope." Gao Ling suppressed the thousand thoughts in her heart and answered her calmly.
"You're lying to me." Fen Qiao is sure.
"Yes, I admit that I did have a holiday with him," Gao Ling took a deep breath and continued, "Feng was manipulated and bankrupt by him, and Feng An's imprisonment has nothing to do with him. ”
It was also because Feng An was imprisoned that she made up her mind to abscond with the money and was wanted until now.
Fen Qiao understood her subtext. Lowered his eyes and was silent for a long time, "What about the necklace?" ”
Gao Ling picked up the teacup, took a sip, and did not speak.
"Did you really see that necklace at the police?" Fen Qiao forced her eyes and looked at her aggressively.
"I haven't seen it, I just heard them mention it, maybe I misunderstood, the police didn't say this."
The heating was on in the tea restaurant, Gao Ling's words made Fen Qiao's head a little groggy, the pain was almost cracking, and it was running slowly, she couldn't think clearly, so she simply shook her head, trying to make herself sober.
Fen Qiao looked at the time on her wrist, it was almost time to eat, and Gu Yan would wait for her to eat in the old mansion.
"Mom." Fen Qiao suddenly opened his mouth to call her.
"Qiaoqiao......" Gao Ling was surprised, with sporadic tears in her eyes, she never thought that Fenqiao would be willing to call her like this.
"Where are you going to go in the future?" Fen Qiao paused for a moment, but then continued, "Have you been living in hiding all the time?" ”
This question embarrassed Gao Ling, the corners of her lips moved slightly, and she was almost speechless
"I have checked the sentencing of similar cases, and the maximum sentence is about three years, if you are willing to turn yourself in and return the money you took away, maybe the sentence will be shorter." Fen Qiao calmly analyzed.
Perhaps because he has been with Gu Yan for a long time, he has been more or less influenced by Gu Yan, and one side of Fen Qiao's personality has gradually been assimilated. In the past, she never dared to imagine that she would analyze so calmly and calmly say the words to let Gao Ling turn himself in.
But this is really the best way for Gao Ling, isn't it much better than going into exile and hiding?
She didn't expect that she had only been away for a year, and Fen Qiao had changed from a little princess who didn't know the world to what she is today.
Was it her departure that forced Fen Qiao to grow? Gao Ling's throat choked, and he felt that he couldn't say anything, and his heart churned for a while.
Gao Ling didn't understand what Fen Qiao said, the corners of her lips moved several times before she called out, "Qiaoqiao......"
If she can endure the gap and is willing to live so mediocre and miserable, why should she remarry, and why should she run away with the money?
From the first day she left Diancheng, she had been thinking about these questions repeatedly.
In the first days, she always felt that what she was pursuing was not wrong, and it would become today's situation, all because of the unfairness of fate.
But as she fled abroad for longer and longer, she had no identity, did not dare to contact her family, did not dare to call any friends, and even her only daughter could not see each other again, and she gradually began to have sporadic regrets.
She began to reflect, maybe she had made the wrong choice.
It was her stubborn pursuit of the life of the superior and pathologically concerned about the eyes of others.
The time is getting longer and longer, and those regretful thoughts are getting bigger and bigger like a snowball, she bought a ticket to return to China like a demon, and when she reacted, she had already arrived in the imperial capital.
She didn't dare to disturb Fen Qiao, she only dared to look at her from afar.
The tea in the white porcelain cup was completely cold, and the green tea leaves were floating in it, cold to the touch.
Gao Ling was silent for a long time, and finally raised his eyes, looked at Fen Qiao, and Zheng reopened his mouth, "Qiao Qiao, my mother will think about it seriously." ”
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Fen Qiao came out of the tea restaurant, and Lou Qing and his party were still waiting outside the door.
Lou Qing bowed, and he said, "Miss Fenqiao, your classmate has been sent home." Yuluo handed her the camera in his hand again.
Fen Qiao took the camera and tightened his scarf.
It was very windy outside, and her hair was blown rattling, and her drowsy mind was a little cleared up because of the cold. Fen Qiao remembered the necklace that Gao Ling said again.
Fen Qiao reached into the scarf and felt it.
She was sure that her father had never worn any other necklace other than this one.
She could feel that Gao Ling was still hiding something.
Now, what else does she have to hide from herself?