"You're welcome, on the point of protecting Qingche, I think we should be the same."

Li Mengnan took out a crumpled cigarette case, poured out the last cigarette from it, and held it between his fingers to signal to Haitang, "I want to smoke a cigarette, don't you mind?" I'm sorry, I'm a bit addicted to cigarettes......"

"You smoke it."

Although Hai Tang said that it didn't matter, his brows furrowed slightly.

"To be honest, for my age, it seems more appropriate to call you eldest sister, but it's messed up with Qingche's generation, so I'll call you 'aunt', I hope you don't blame me for calling you old."

Although Li Mengnan didn't know the specific age of this woman named Hai Tang, he inferred from Qingche's age that the other party should be in her thirties, and it is difficult to say whether she has been over thirty-five, with his age, it is indeed a little embarrassing to call him.

"It's okay, you're Qingche's friend, or call me Auntie...... Although women never want to bow to the years, the years are not forgiving, and I am still old after all. ”

Hai Tang poured himself a cup of hot tea, supported his cheek with one hand, and stroked the subtle wrinkles that could not be concealed at the corners of his eyes with well-maintained fingers, looking quite embarrassed.

"To be honest, Auntie is not what I imagined."

Hai Tang smiled self-deprecatingly: "In your imagination, I should be a very affectionate and cold-blooded woman, right?" In order to seek his own happiness, he would rather abandon his children ruthlessly......"

"I've heard everything that happened to Auntie, and although I don't agree with what you did later, I can understand it...... In this world, some people choose to live for others, and some people choose to live for themselves, but no matter how they choose, they should not be shackled by morality, which is inhumane. ”

Although this woman named Haitang brought deep harm to Qing Che, and even greatly affected Qing Che's later life, but from the source of the whole thing, this woman was actually a victim, and what she did was just a poor woman trying to escape from the nightmare that haunted her.

"Thank you for your understanding."

Hai Tang didn't think that Li Mengnan's age and experience could really understand her hardships back then, and felt that the other party was just polite comfort, so this thank you was a little stiff.

"Speaking of which, we can't be regarded as strangers, I was also familiar with your mother Xiao Hui back then, I have to call her Sister Xiao, your mother is a good person, I believe you should also be a good child......"

The more Li Mengnan heard this, the more wrong he became, so he quickly stopped, waved his hand and said: "Auntie, if you have anything to say, don't give me so many big hats, I know very well what the situation is, not to say that I am a bad person has already given me a lot of face, but I must not be related to good people." ”

Regardless of whether Li Mengnan is good or bad, at least at this moment, Haitang can already be sure that the other party is definitely a smart person, so there is no need to talk in circles carefully.

"Okay, then I'll get straight to the point! You and Qingche...... Has that relationship already happened? You know, you know what I mean. ”

Li Mengnan let the other party get straight to the point, but he didn't expect this Haitang to be so direct, and was asked by a mother to face if he slept with her daughter, Rao is Li Mengnan felt a little unbearable no matter how thick-skinned he was.

"Qing Che told you?" Although Li Mengnan did not answer directly, this sentence was actually a tacit acquiescence.

Although the pactmaker is a profession that relies on lies and deception to eat, it does not mean that Li Mengnan does not have the responsibility that a man should have.

"You...... How can you do that? ”

The long-term speculation was admitted by Li Mengnan himself, and Hai Tang's face was ugly and a little dark.

"From a legal point of view, sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of 14, whether the girl is willing or not, can be considered rape...... Auntie, do you need to call the police? I know a police officer with a strong sense of justice, and if you need this, I believe she will be happy to take your case. ”

Li Mengnan also poured himself a cup of tea, and tasted it slowly in his hand, a few yuan a pound of inferior tea, and he was forced to drink the best red robe.

Now I come to ask, why did you go in the first place?

Li Mengnan didn't have to say such cool words, but he really couldn't get used to this Haitang's "I am Qingche's mother" face.

It's understandable to get into the role quickly, but you always have to consider whether others can accept it.

But fortunately, this woman named Haitang still has a certain degree of cultivation, not the kind of shrews who mess around, take a deep breath, and calm her excited feelings.

"Well, I admit that I am not qualified to say such a thing, and I will not pursue this matter, but I hope it will not happen again...... Of course, it's unlikely that you'll ever see Qingche again in the future. ”

Haitang actually knows very well that even if she wants to hold Li Mengnan responsible, it is impossible, with her precious daughter's obsession and attachment to the other party, it is impossible to testify against Li Mengnan in front of the police.

Li Mengnan smiled indifferently, waved his hand to signal Haitang, who was angry, to calm down for a while, and said: "Auntie, don't say it so absolutely, although you are indeed the first guardian of Qingche in the legal sense, but after all, you have a history of abandoning Qingche in the first place, and it is still possible to ask the court to cancel your guardianship......"

Hai Tang's face suddenly changed greatly, his hands clenched unconsciously hard, and said coldly: "What do you want to do?" I can give you ...... amount of money you want."

Although she didn't believe that Li Mengnan had the ability to cancel her custody of Qing Che, she knew Qing Che's feelings for the other party very well, if Li Mengnan insisted on not letting Qing Che go, even if she said that she would go to the sky, Qing Che would never leave this man.

"How much can you give me?" Li Mengnan touched his chin playfully, and a layer of green stubble grew on his sparse beard, and it seemed that it was time to shave again.

Is it really for the money......

Hai Tang sneered, showing obvious disdain on his face, but it was a pity that Qing Che was not here, otherwise she would have let Qing Che see the true face of the man in front of her.

"500,000, this is my personal private money, if you want more, you can only wait, I need to call my husband, he is outside to talk about business, he may not be able to reply to you immediately......"

Hai Tang took out a blank check from the leather wallet he was carrying, put it on the table, and pushed it in front of Li Mengnan with his fingers.

Li Mengnan picked up the check and looked at it curiously.

He had only seen this thing on TV a lot before, and it was all something that the rich young master used to pretend to be forced, and he knew that the general effect was similar to that of ancient silver tickets, although it was valuable, but it could not be spent directly as money.

"This shouldn't be the legendary empty check, right? I don't read much, don't lie to me......" Li Mengnan stared at Haitang suspiciously.

Haitang was immediately laughed angrily, and snorted lightly: "You can rest assured, as long as the number you fill in is less than 500,000, you can get the money." ”

"Well, I believe you." Li Mengnan smiled, and suddenly pushed the check back untouched.

Hai Tang was stunned, she couldn't understand why Li Mengnan suddenly acted like this.

"In fact, even if you don't take the money, you will always be Qingche's mother, and you are willing to take so much money out to 'buy out', which proves that you really have remorse for your past mistakes, and you really want to renew this mother-daughter relationship, I have no reason to stop it, and I am sincerely happy for Qingche...... Qingche is a very emotional, and at the same time very sensitive girl, I hope you can treat her well this time and don't let her get hurt again. ”

Seeing Li Mengnan's expression become solemn, Hai Tang realized that the qiē just now was just a test of her by the other party, and then looked at Li Mengnan's gaze couldn't help but become complicated, as if he was getting to know him again.

"I left Qingche at the beginning, but I didn't want her to follow me around, but now that I have the ability to give her a rich life, it is naturally impossible for her to suffer anymore."

Li Mengnan could see that Hai Tang was really sincere when he said this, and he was also very confident, it seems that this woman should have mixed well outside these years.

"Just now you mentioned your husband, and you took the liberty of asking - have you remarried?"

"I remarried seven years ago." Hai Tang knew that marital status was an inevitable problem, so he didn't intend to hide it from the beginning, "I know that there are rumors that I ran away from home when I got along with other men, but in fact, there is no such person at all, I just want to escape from that home...... Later, I met my current husband, a man who really loved me and didn't mind my past, and the two of us started from scratch and supported each other step by step to get to the present. ”

"I can see that Auntie, you are living happily now." Li Mengnan sighed, although the first half of his life was a tragedy, but in the second half of his life, he was able to meet the right person, and this woman named Haitang was already very lucky.

"Also...... All right. Hai Tang smiled, but it seemed a little reluctant, which made Li Mengnan feel a little puzzled.

Inadvertently saw Hai Tang's mobile phone on the desktop when he came in, a thought suddenly flashed in Li Mengnan's mind, and said to the other party: "Auntie, do you mind if I look at your mobile phone album?" ”

Although the photo cannot represent the whole of a person's life, it can be seen that there are many problems, Li Mengnan does not believe in this woman, but he must be responsible for Qingche's future life.

"Uh...... There's nothing wrong with that. ”

Haitang hesitated slightly, and handed the phone to Li Mengnan casually, anyway, it was full of things she usually took casually, and there was nothing unsightly.

At her age, it is impossible to take those over-the-top private photos like today's young people.

Probably because of his age, this Haitang doesn't seem to know how to send photos to the Internet album to keep backups, and almost all the photos are stored in the zài mobile phone.

Although there are a lot of photos, the things taken are very monotonous, basically just some group photos of people, even the landscape photos are very few, it can be seen that this woman is still the kind of traditional home woman in her bones, and she is not very keen on traveling.

This is surprisingly similar to Qingche, a small family is all they have in their lives, and sure enough, there must be a mother and a daughter.

In these photos, a middle-aged man with a slightly chubby figure and a slight bow frequently appears, from the analysis of the frequency of appearance, standing, interactive expressions and other aspects, it should be Haitang's current husband, the stepfather that Qingche is about to face.

As the saying goes, the face is born from the heart, although Li Mengnan doesn't know much about the tricks of the soothsayer, he can still feel some deep things from a person's temperament.

This person may not be very easy to speak, but his eyes are upright, and he is definitely a decent man.

Li Mengnan suddenly noticed a strange photo, which was noticeably different from the bright colors of the other photos in the album, and the pixel resolution was quite blurry, as if it was a remake of an old photo.

In addition to Hai Tang and her current husband, there is also a boy about five or six years old, who looks very similar to the two and should have some kind of close blood relationship.

"This ......"

"This boy is the child of my current husband, and he was born in the second year of our marriage." Hai Tang seemed to have guessed that Li Mengnan would definitely ask this question.

"Where's this kid now?" Li Mengnan raised his head and stared at Hai Tang's face.

Hai Tang didn't expect Li Mengnan to be so keen, his expression revealed a trace of bitterness, and he shook his head and said: "He died in a sudden car accident, this is the last photo left by that child and the two of us......"

Li Mengnan nodded thoughtfully, returned the phone to Hai Tang, crossed his chin with his fingers, and asked, "You want to take Qing Che, there should be a reason for this, right?" ”

Hai Tang was surprised again, and after a while, he lowered his head and smiled bitterly: "I really didn't expect that Senior Sister Xiao would have such a shrewd son as you, as if she couldn't hide anything from you...... Yes, I did have something to do with this incident, but I can assure you that we are not trying to use Qingche as a substitute for our original child. ”

Li Mengnan shrugged noncommittally and motioned for Haitang to continue.

"At first, my husband didn't know that I had children, and I was afraid that he would have a bad heart, so I didn't dare to sue him until we got married...... Later, when our child was born, he always told me that he wanted to have another girl, and that he wanted to have both children and daughters, and then I had the idea of telling him the truth, and if he could accept it, he would take Qingche over and live with us...... And then our kids were gone......"

Speaking of this, Hai Tang's tone suddenly became low, even after many years of the incident, she still couldn't completely get out of that shadow.

"Since that incident, my husband and I have been depressed for a long time, and he is even more focused on his career, wanting to use his work to forget the pain of losing his child...... After about three years, we finally accepted this fact and planned to have another child, but after examination, it was found that my husband could no longer get me pregnant.

A childless home is incomplete, and my husband is a person who likes children very much, and after the test results came out, he was very depressed and even moved the idea of using sperm from a sperm bank for IVF...... Later, I confessed to him about Qingche, not only did he not blame me for concealing it at the beginning, but he also seemed very happy, and asked me to bring Qingche back to live together. ”

Hai Tang's explanation finally solved Li Mengnan's last doubt.

No man would want to raise a child of his own woman's ex-husband, but if the man has no children of his own and cannot have children, that's a different story.

Both horizontally and vertically are children who have no blood relationship with themselves.,A docile beautiful girl who has grown to half-maturity is better than a strange thing that doesn't know what kind of alien will grow into in the future.。

At this moment, Qingche pushed open the door and walked in from outside, unpacked the cigarettes he bought and handed them to Li Mengnan, sat next to the two, patted the snowflakes on his head, and sighed on his red little hands: "It's actually snowing outside, when I bought cigarettes, I listened to the weather forecast on TV, this snow will fall until tomorrow morning, and then you can build a big snowman......

"Auntie, is the ticket back booked?" Now that Qing Che is back, Li Mengnan is naturally inconvenient to continue the previous topic.

Haitang also understood what Li Mengnan meant, shook his head and said, "Because I couldn't be sure of Qingche's meaning before, I haven't decided exactly when I will go back." ”

"Then book a ticket for the morning after tomorrow, tomorrow you and Qingche will have a good day in Sanshan City, and when you go back to the south, I'm afraid it will be difficult to see the snow."

"yes, I really haven't seen snow like this in ten years."

Li Mengnan's words evoked Haitang's memories of the past, looking at the white floc flying in the sky outside the glass door, and his heart was full of mixed feelings for a while.

went to the bar to settle the bill, Li Mengnan reflexively walked back and said, "Okay, it's not early, where do you live, Auntie, I'll drive you back." ”

"You're coming by car?" Only then did Hai Tang notice that what Li Mengnan took out of his pocket was actually the car key.

Li Mengnan doesn't pay much attention to his own clothing image, coupled with the embarrassing impression of the Xiao family, Haitang never thought that Li Mengnan was also a car owner.

"Just stop at the intersection on the east side of the one-way street, a yellow car, Auntie, you should have seen it when you came."

"That Chevrolet Camaro is your car?"

Haitang was really surprised this time, if it was just an ordinary business car, it might have been rented by the other party to fill the façade, but then an almost brand new sports car could obviously only belong to him.

No wonder he is still calm in the face of a check of 500,000 yuan, and it seems that he still underestimates this young man.

Li Mengnan smiled slightly, sure enough, it was right to drive today, and it feels good to be able to pretend to be b.

"Then please take us back to the hotel." Hai Tang got up and took Qing Che's hand.

"We?" Qing Che noticed that his mother used a special plural quantifier, glanced at Li Mengnan, bit his lip and said, "Mom, you go back to the hotel, I'll ...... Would like to go home for another one last night. ”

"Home?"

Hai Tang was stunned for a moment before realizing that the "home" Qing Che was referring to her current residence, then looked at her daughter's flustered eyes, and then looked at Li Mengnan, and suddenly seemed to understand something.

Sure enough, this little girl doesn't send herself out to let people eat and wipe clean, and she doesn't plan to stop......