23. Chapter 23

I think this is my responsibility and obligation to successfully drive away Pan Xiaoyan, pull back Xiaohai's heart, restore peace of mind to a family, let the elderly parents worry, and let the two young nephews enjoy the warmth and happiness of their parents again.

Although occasionally there is a trace of uneasiness in my heart: I racked my brains so hard and tried my best to break them up alive, is it a little unkind, is it not "beating mandarin ducks" - maybe Xiaohai and Pan Xiaoyan are truly in love, if I put myself in their position to consider, is it a bit too much for me to do this, if I change to me and meet a favorite object, what choice will I make.

I told my husband about my doubts, and when my husband heard it, he was immediately angry, "What, do you mean that they are justified in doing this, shameless things, they have wives and children, and they are still tossing this, why did they go to ······· earlier" My husband has been in a nest for a long time, and there is nowhere to vent his anger.

When my husband said this, I was relieved a lot, they may really love each other, but there are also worldly, moral, family responsibilities and obligations, all of which are not as simple as they imagined.

Sometimes people don't live for themselves, parents, wives and children, families, and all aspects of society are intricately entangled, and it is impossible to abandon everything to do what they want.

Fortunately, the days finally returned to calm, looking at Xiaohai silent like an extinct volcano that had been silent for many years, I felt a faint uneasiness in my heart, but after thinking about it, even if he was unwilling, what could he do, that woman left, and we clearly told him that it was impossible for us to accept Pan Xiaoyan, naturally she didn't want to take over Xiao Yi into this house, the most important ultimatum given to him by his father was severe and harsh: once he chose to leave, then everything in this family would have nothing to do with him.

Although this was an angry sentence, he could imagine the seriousness of the consequences.

"Don't worry, Xiaohai can't do this, if he really chooses Pan Xiaoyan, he won't leave early" is not so much to comfort my parents who have been panicking, but to comfort myself.

Early in the morning, my father called again, counting the signs of abnormalities in Xiaohai in the past two days.

"He didn't say that he went to work well, what are you worried about?"

"No, since Xiao Yi gave him a mobile phone, he has been secretive, I suspect that he has been in contact with that Pan Xiaoyan again"

"You will be blind and suspicious all day long, Xiaohai has come back obediently, don't be suspicious all day long",

"Alas, you think I want to, but it's strange, that text message hasn't come again in the past few days, it can't be that Xiaohai hooked up with that woman again, or there is no movement at all?" Father is still not at ease,

"Okay, don't toss, let's live in Ansheng, now that Xiaohai has gone to work, what else can he think, if you and Xiaoyi continue like this, won't it hurt Xiaohai's heart?" I persuaded my father with kind words, but in fact, I didn't know the bottom of my heart, but I still believe that this younger brother who grew up in front of my eyes will not do anything ruthless.

I seem pretty confident about that.

But creation makes people, and on the night when I swore to criticize my father and brother-in-law for being suspicious, a phone call from Damei suddenly plunged me into the abyss.

At six o'clock, I just arrived home and didn't have time to cook dinner, Da Mei called anxiously and asked me if I had seen Xiaohai, which made my second monk confused.

"Didn't he go to work, why did he come to me?"

"It's work, went at eight o'clock in the morning, took the key key of my house when I left, he called at four o'clock in the afternoon, said he was gone, the key was hidden in the crack of my door, I thought he said home, just now Xiao Yi called, asked Xiaohai why he didn't go home, I knew that he didn't go home at all, you said, what time is it now, don't go home, and didn't come to me, I thought I went to your house" Da Mei chattered, very anxious,

"Did you call his phone?"

"It's hit, it's been turned off, I'm in a hurry"

"Don't panic, maybe the factory is working overtime temporarily, or you and Xiaolu will go to his factory to have a look and ask again"

Da Mei went to look for it, and I was already panicking here: Did the things I have been worried about happen, but how could it be, maybe it was delayed by something, I deceived myself while comforting myself, and hurriedly called home.

The house over there has become a mess of porridge, and Xiao Yi told me with a crying voice that he has found that Xiao Hai is wrong in the past few days, because he has been asking for the bank card.

When Xiaohai came back from Zhejiang, they put a total of tens of thousands of yuan on Xiaohai's bank card for the stalls and small trucks that were sold there, and they were kept by Xiaoyi.

No one thought that Xiao Hai would disappear the next day, Xiao Yi pondered again and again, and always felt that this matter was not simple, "Xiao Hai must have gone to find Pan Xiaoyan" Xiao Yi said categorically,

"It's impossible, that Pan Xiaoyan has already returned to Zhejiang, besides, how can Xiaohai have a wife and children at home, maybe the factory has been delayed temporarily·······" I still hold on to a glimmer of hope, and I can't help but comfort my brother and daughter-in-law,

"What time is it now, how can the factory not get off work, even if he works overtime, he has to make a call, he must have seen the opportunity to run·······" Xiao Yi choked and couldn't speak,

"Okay, don't think nonsense, just wait" I still hold on to hope,

But the facts hurt me very internally: Damei inquired for several hours at the factory where Xiaohai worked, but there was no news at all, and it was already more than 9 o'clock in the night.

It was destined to be a sleepless night, Xiaohai never heard from me, I went to the phone from time to time to comfort my parents and sister-in-law, and kept dialing the familiar mobile phone number repeatedly, just the sentence "I'm sorry, the mobile phone you dialed has been turned off".

My eyes widened and I stared at the dark ceiling, sleepless, but my mind was turbulent.

I still don't believe in the fact that Xiaohai ran away.

More than 30 years of parenting, more than 10 years of husband and wife, and two lovely sons, for the sake of a woman, how can you choose to leave without hesitation, there must be something delayed, I thought.

"If he hadn't left on his own initiative, would he have been?" This terrible thought flashed over me, and was immediately rejected by me, "Impossible, impossible, how can it be, although Xiaohai is naughty, he is not a person who causes trouble, there can be no kidnapping or anything else" I comforted myself in my heart.

But what would it be if this is not the case, a person goes to work well, suddenly the mobile phone can't get through, and the person is gone, this is by no means a normal thing, usually Xiaohai goes out to work for three or five days without entering the house, but every time he will call to inform, or let others carry a message, it is the first time to disappear.

I lay on the bed and pondered over and over again, but I didn't have a clue at all.

Before dawn, my father's mobile phone called, and it seemed that he hadn't slept all night.

But what about anxiety, repeatedly calling Xiaohai's mobile phone is still in a state of shutdown, all the relatives and friends who can be contacted have called one by one to ask, there is no news, one night and a half, Xiaohai disappeared out of thin air.