Bai Xiao stood at the gate of the courtyard for a long time, staring at the direction in which the car was leaving, motionless.

Grandma opened the door and came out, followed Bai Xiao's gaze, and sighed, "Let's go in, it's windy outside." ”

Bai Xiao sat at the table but couldn't raise his appetite, and after eating two bites, he put down his chopsticks, "I'll go back to the house and sleep for a while." ”

The old man saw that she had red and swollen eyes, and knew that she was really in a bad mood, and he didn't force her, and nodded: "Go, I'll call you at dinner." ”

Really wrapped in the quilt lying on the bed, Bai Xiao was not a little sleepy, she picked up her mobile phone and almost called/called Yu Shaoting, if she used to pity Yu Jingxi because she didn't have a mother, then now her mood is complicated, she wants to take care of him, but she is afraid of facing the thorns ahead.

In the afternoon, Bai Xiao received a text message from Qin Shousheng, "Sisters, I finally turned over as a serf and made the master, don't forget the little ones in the future." ”

Bai Xiao grabbed her long hair, because of this text message, she was even more upset, got up, put on a cotton jacket and went out, the old man was sitting in the yard folding beans, she dragged a small chair and sat down next to her grandmother, and the old man didn't look at her, "Can't sleep?" ”

Bai Xiao said "um" softly, and wanted to help but was slapped away by her grandmother: "Don't toss my beans, go back to the house and watch TV." Hori"

"Grandma, my mother...... What kind of person is she? ”

Grandma's action of folding beans paused, and then returned to normal, "Why did you suddenly ask about your mother?" ”

"I miss her a little." Bai Xiao tugged at the corners of her mouth, looking up at the sunset on the horizon, "Grandma, did you say she was already ......?"

"Don't talk nonsense!" Grandma suddenly stopped her, and her tone was very stern, how could you curse your mother like this?

"Why else she never came to see you?" Even if you don't want me, why don't you come to see you, a mother?

Bai Xiao paused, then looked at her grandmother and asked, "Grandma, am I really like what my aunt said, my mother and the men outside......

Although her mother was taboo in the family, she still occasionally heard some gossip in the village when she was a child, and others only thought that she was a child, and she did not shy away from speaking, but she did not know how much she understood their words in her precocious nature.

They said that her mother was one of the few college students in their village at that time, but she came back with a child before graduating from college, and insisted that it was her own child, no matter how her grandfather beat her, she refused to change her words, but she did not want to say who the child's father was.

They also said that her mother later became insane and could not recognize anyone, but she was better than being beautiful, and there were singles who were willing to ask her mother to be his wife.

Later, for some reason, she was left in a cemetery in the mountains by her mother, and since then, her mother has disappeared.

As for what the truth is, Bai Xiao has never asked her grandmother for verification, and this is the first time she has talked about her mother.

Grandma's eyes were red, tears flashed in her eyes, and she sighed faintly: "It's only your mother's own youth and ignorance that she fell into this fate." ”

"Then ...... she now," Bai Xiao asked eagerly.

Grandma shook her head, "I don't know what to do, your grandfather went to the city that day, I was in the field, she was probably sick, I don't know where Lu Dao went." ”

Grandma's helpless words are enough to prove that those people in the village are not lying, and her mother was really crazy at that time.

The grandfather and grandson didn't continue, and the grandmother picked up the basket, "I'm going to cook, by the way, Jingxi, did they really go back?" ”

“…… I don't know what to do. Bai Xiao remembered Yu Jingxi's big black and bright eyes.

"Then go and make a call, you, follow your grandfather's bull temper, you are stuffy in your heart when you have everything, and you are not afraid of suffocating yourself!"

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Bai Xiao hesitated for a while when he returned to the room, but still dialed Yu Shaoting's mobile phone.

After a few rings, it was answered, "Hey? The very low magnetic voice is undoubtedly Yu Shaoting.

Bai Xiao held the phone, but didn't know how to speak.

“…… What's up? ”

“……”

"Speak!"

Bai Xiao bit his lower lip, "What about Jing Xi?" ”

“…… Sleeping. ”

"You ...... Back to Fengcheng? ”

"We can't go back, do you care?"

Bai Xiao's chest was blocked again, but he couldn't come up with words to refute him.

“…… Anything else? There's nothing to do...... Toot ......"

Bai Xiao threw her mobile phone on the bed, turning her face faster than turning a book, she tripped and fell to the ground carelessly when she got out of bed, a sharp pain in her knees, she rubbed her bruises, only felt that she had not been doing well recently, and not long after, the phone rang again, and she hurriedly crossed her feet to pick it up.

"Little white...... I miss you so much, I'm so hungry, I want to eat my grandmother's scrambled eggs with spring bamboo shoots! ”

Listening to Yu Jingxi's aggrieved sobbing, Bai Xiao's heart throbbed and hurt, "Have you returned to Fengcheng?" ”

"Nope." Yu Jingxi sniffed, "Dad took me to stay in the hotel." ”

"Which hotel?" Bai Xiao asked eagerly.

"I don't know those words, but there's a big fountain at the door, and there's a RT-Mart supermarket next to it."

Bai Xiao immediately thought of the five-star hotel where she spent the night with Yu Shaoting last night, and as Yu Shaoting, she would only choose there.

"Xiaobai, I'm so hungry, I want to see you."

"Where's your dad?" When Bai Xiao heard that he was hungry, he was as anxious as if he hadn't eaten for three days.

Yu Jingxi blew his nose with a tissue, "He went out just now, so I secretly called you." ”

Before Bai Xiao could answer, she suddenly hung up over there, and when she dialed it again, the person who answered the call/call had already changed.

"In the future, Jingxi won't worry about Miss Bai, so be it." After speaking, the other end snapped the phone/phone.

hung neatly, hung decisively, and didn't give her a chance to open her mouth at all.

In the morning, there was a small light on the left, and now it is Miss Bai again......

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Grandma was stir-frying, and it was exactly what Yu Jingxi called "scrambled eggs with spring bamboo shoots".

"How so? Are you still coming back for dinner? ”

Bai Xiao sat behind the stove and lit the fire, "I shouldn't be here." ”

Grandma glanced at her and guided her carefully: "Did you quarrel with Xiao Shao?" Young man, what can't you say in the open? ”

Bai Xiao wanted to say that it was because he spread it out that he got to this point.

There was a sudden knock on the door outside, and my grandmother wiped her hands and was about to open the door, Bai Xiao hurriedly got up, "I'll go, you look at the dishes." ”

Pulling open the old-fashioned wooden door with the vermilion paint removed, Bai Xiao looked up, and his heartbeat stopped for a moment.

Pei Qiyou stood at the door, about to turn around, as if he heard the sound of the door opening, turned around again, and a shallow smile appeared on his lips when he saw her.

"I thought there was no one." His handsome facial features are reflected in the halo of the dusk and setting sun, and his eyes are gentle, as if he is looking at an old man he has not seen for a long time.

But Bai Xiao was not immersed in this beautiful artistic conception, because she remembered that she had just met him at noon, and his fiancée.

"Is there something wrong?" Bai Xiao asked very plainly, without any emotion, but with some politeness.

Pei Qiyou glanced behind her, "Are there any guests at home?" ”

His inquiry was tentative, and Bai Xiao didn't have time to speculate on his intentions, "No, what's the matter with you?" ”

Pei Qiyou, who was outside the door, looked at Bai Xiao who was calmly facing him, and there was a moment of emptiness in her heart, she didn't have any resentment towards him between her eyebrows, without the slightest ups and downs, as if the past entanglements between them had never existed, this kind of discovery made Pei Qiyou's heart unspeakably lost.

For some reason, he was still vaguely uneasy in addition to the loss, and he wondered if Bai Xiao should forget about him after a while?

The text message was still lying quietly on his phone, and he had read it no less than ten times on the way here.

But when I really saw her, I couldn't open my mouth to question her...... Because he was afraid that her answer was not what he wanted to hear.

Pei Qiyou glanced at the kitchen and smiled at her in the afterglow of the sunset: "Is grandma cooking?" ”

"Xiaoxiao, come in and bring all the dishes." Hearing his grandmother's shout, Bai Xiao didn't care about Pei Qiyou, turned around and went into the kitchen.

When she came out with the dishes, Pei Qiyou hadn't left yet, but he didn't come in either, standing outside the threshold.

One step outside the door and one step inside the door, but it seemed to be separated by a light year.

Bai Xiao didn't open his mouth to invite him in, he did whatever he wanted, and completely regarded the man outside the door as a transparent existence.

However, when my grandmother came out of cooking, she noticed Pei Qiyou and greeted her with a smile, "Pray? How did you get here? ”

Pei Qiyou was stunned for a moment, facing the old man's kind smile, he didn't dare to look at her eyes, and pulled the corners of his mouth, "Grandma." ”

"Come in and sit down."

Bai Xiao looked at Bai Xiao in confusion, but her grandmother didn't look at her, and said to Pei Qiyou: "You haven't eaten dinner yet, come in." ”

Pei Qiyou glanced at Bai Xiao's position and really came in.

Almost as soon as he stepped in, Shirahiro turned and entered his room, the door closing in front of him.

Bai Xiao was wearing the sweatshirt from seven years ago, also in winter, he accompanied her to Liyang's hometown, and seven years later, Bai Xiao wore that set of clothes again, almost overlapping with the girl in his memory, holding her long hair, and her plain and fair little face, but there was no longer a happy smile on her face.

Pei Qiyou stared at the closed door steadily, unable to take his eyes off.

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Bai Xiao found that he couldn't do the calmness of Mount Tai when he collapsed in front of him when facing Pei Qiyou.

He was going to drive her out of Fengcheng, and now he appeared in front of her again, did he want to see if she felt nostalgic for Spring and Autumn in the festive atmosphere of the New Year?

To be honest, Bai Xiao hated Pei Qiyou like this, when he smiled at her as if nothing had happened, she really wanted to pick up the broom specially used to sweep chicken manure and shoot it on him, how could nothing have happened, her relationship for so many years has become a joke.

Now the man will hang the joke like a carrot on a branch, and swing it in front of her, and play her like a donkey.

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When Bai Xiao came out of the room, he found that Pei Qiyou hadn't left yet, and was sitting in the main room chatting with his grandmother.

"For the Chinese New Year, you still have to come to Liyang on a business trip, you haven't been here for so many years, are you still used to it?"

Pei Qiyou was a little absent-minded, and when he sat with the old man, a wave of shame rose from the bottom of his heart, and he also regretted entering the house a little.

"How are your grandmother and mother doing?" Grandma never mentioned his divorce from Bai Xiao, and asked him like a family chatter.

"Well, it's all good," Pei Qiyou didn't know how to continue, "What about you?" How's it going? ”

Grandma smiled, the folds on her face wrinkled together, "It's not the same as before, it's good." ”

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Bai Xiao actually didn't understand why her grandmother would leave Pei Qiyou to come down for dinner, since the old man asked for it, she had no way to drive people out.

But Pei Qiyou didn't have the consciousness to leave, and when she brought the food, he really took it and said in a low voice, "Xie Luxie." ”

Although there was a grandmother at the dinner table to greet Pei Qiyou, the meal was still dull.

Bai Xiao's appetite was not good, so she only ate a little bit of rice, and the plate of scrambled eggs with spring bamboo shoots was protected by her and did not let people move a single chopstick.

After the meal, Pei Qiyou still didn't mean to leave, Bai Xiao didn't want to waste his energy to entertain him, so he simply went to wash the dishes, and didn't want to stay in the main house for a moment, grandma looked at Bai Xiao's rather willful behavior lovingly, smiled, and then looked at Pei Qiyou opposite and said, "Pray, let's talk." ”

Bai Xiao was washing dishes in the kitchen, she deliberately washed very slowly, and I don't know how long later, Pei Qiyou's voice sounded behind her: "Xiaoxiao, I'm leaving." ”

The action of washing the dishes stalled, and the person behind her did not leave, and she had to turn back, as if she had just heard his words: "Are you leaving?" ”

Bai Xiao felt that he was also a little hypocritical, obviously not waiting to see him, but he insisted on putting on a face of "I can still be friends even after separation".

Pei Qiyou looked at her slender figure under the light, her eyes flashed brightly and darkly, and she answered softly, but she still didn't move her steps.

Bai Xiao saw a little bit of what he meant, he wanted her to send him, no matter what he thought, Bai Xiao definitely didn't have this idea.

So she just said lightly: "Then you pay attention to safety on the road, I won't send it." ”

Pei Qiyou was embarrassed to be seen through his heart, and he didn't stay anymore: "Then I'll go, Xiaoxiao." ”

Bai Xiao didn't say anything more, and stood quietly next to the sink.

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Pei Qiyou didn't park the car in front of Bai Xiao's house, he walked for a while to get to the place where he parked.

When he got into the car, he didn't drive away immediately, but sat in the driver's seat, and what lingered in his mind was the conversation with his grandmother.

From the moment he entered, the old man did not even say a word of reproach to him, but continued to treat him as usual.

But such treatment would only make him even more unable to hold his head up in front of her.

"Although Xiaoxiao didn't tell me in detail about your affairs, I probably understood, I don't blame you, pray, really, everyone has their own fate, if Xiaoxiao is destined to have no fate with you, it's good for you to be separated like this, it's better than dragging it out for a lifetime."

"I heard you have a girl you like? Actually, you don't have to feel sorry for me, I only have one request, don't come to Xiaoxiao again in the future. ”

"Now that you've decided to live with another woman, don't be half-hearted."

Pei Qiyou covered his face with his hands and leaned on the seat, as if he had been drained of all his strength, and there was a faint confusion on his face.

Pei Qiyou, who is about to be twenty-nine years old, is dominated by money and status, but at this moment, his cold heart feels a faint desolation, and there is a kind of sadness of "only frowning, but going to the heart".

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In front of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the hotel's Presidential Suite.

The man in a white bathrobe stood in front of the window, with a glass of whiskey in his hand, looking at the night view of the small city of Liyang.

His legs are longer than those of most men, his lines are straight, his slightly open neckline exposes his strong chest, his texture is distinct, strong and graceful, his fair skin presents a sexy light wheat color in the orange light of the room, and his three-dimensional and deep facial features are faintly reflected by the light.

He raised his glass and took a sip of wine, and there was a sucking/sucking sound of a straw around him.

On the floor-to-ceiling window in front, another small figure beside him was reflected-

Wearing a children's version of a bathrobe, with a straight belly, a pair of big slippers, and curly hair from fireworks burning, almost the same posture as the man next to him, except that the whiskey in his hand was replaced by a glass of banana milk, and he also had a straw upright, occasionally lowering his head to take a sip.

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