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Qiao Du walked out of Qiao's house, Huang Xin stood next to a white car, walked over and greeted with a smile: "Morning." ”

"Morning, Uncle Huang." Qiao Du nodded slightly.

"Twilight, your face doesn't look great." Huang Xin stared at her face: "Have a nightmare?" ”

Qiao Du touched her face, her mental state was really not very good, last night she had a dream, in the dream there was Zhong Siyi's cute little face with a smile, and there were also Su Xuan and Zhong Yezhi, the picture is the three of them on vacation at the beach, Zhong Siyi happily sat on the beach with a sand shovel and played with sand, she wanted to lean forward, but was bounced back by an invisible wall and fell to the ground.

From beginning to end, she watched the three of them laugh and play like a bystander.

She actually had such a dream all night, repeating, repeating, repeating.

"Uncle Huang, this is something I want to ask you, please be sure to help me keep it secret." Jo Twilight approached him and carefully took out the fresh-bag children's cup from her bag.

Huang Xin nodded solemnly and put the children's cup into the briefcase in his hand, "Don't worry, Twilight, I'll help you get this right." ”

Joe Twilight nodded and slipped into the Audi.

A few hours later, Huang Xin came with the news that she had not extracted any NDA from the children's cup she gave him.

Qiao Du expected this result, she was in such a hurry that day, it was very likely that Zhong Siyi had not drunk water, or had been washed by the nanny, and there was also a possibility that she had not kept it in the right way.

In short, Qiao Du knew that Zhong Siyi's words that day had planted a seed of doubt in her heart, and she had to ask Zhong Yezhi for confirmation in person.

She called Midnight Zhi and turned off the phone.

In the next few days, his mobile phone was always turned off, she went to the Landsea Mansion, Zhong Siyi was also gone, and asked the nanny, but the nanny didn't know.

The next day, she received a WeChat message from Midnight Zhi on her mobile phone: "There is something in my hometown, go back and come back next week." ”

In a blink of an eye, the time slipped to the day before the new product launch conference, which was also Sunday, Qiao Du stayed up late last night to determine the entire process of Monday's press conference for the last time, and only fell asleep at one o'clock in the morning after repeatedly confirming that it was correct.

She inevitably got up late in the morning, and went downstairs at nine o'clock, and only Qiao Yun, who also slept late, was having breakfast in the restaurant.

Qiao Yun took a bite of toast, heard footsteps, looked up at Qiao Du and smiled: "Sister, it's rare to see you sleep lazy, and you actually got up later than me." ”

"I work late, naturally I get up late, can you compare with me as a little hairy boy?" Qiao Du glanced at her brother and pulled out her chair, and the nanny brought a hearty Western-style breakfast, a glass of hot milk, two slices of freshly baked toast, two slices of bacon, a tempting poached egg with sugar heart, and a bottle of butter and jam.

Qiao Twilight was hungry, picked up the knife and fork and ate it, and after a few minutes, she put down the knife and fork, smeared butter and jam on the toast, and then looked at Qiao Yun and said, "Did you play a game last night?" ”

"No, I'll go to sleep after I finish my homework." Qiao Yun shrugged his shoulders as if nothing had happened.

"None? Do you dare to show me your phone? Qiao Du snorted.

Qiao Yun immediately tightened his pockets and laughed: "Hehe, eldest sister, don't be like this, I'm not watching the holidays to relax and play games for a while." ”

"Slightly? I went downstairs to pour coffee at 11 o'clock last night, how can I see that the light in your room is still on? When Jian Pei bought Qiao Yun's mobile phone, she didn't agree with it, Qiao Yun was much older than her classmates, and she should spend more time on studying, and it was easy to be distracted when she had a mobile phone.

Now I look at it, and sure enough.

In addition to eating, sleeping, and going to school every day, Qiao Yun spends most of his time on mobile games.

For this younger brother, Qiao Du has placed a lot of hopes on him, she hopes that he can study hard, be a promising person, and succeed Qiao's in the future, it shouldn't be like now, playthings are demoralized.

Qiao Yun hurriedly raised his hand to surrender: "I was wrong, eldest sister, you must not accept my mobile phone, I was playing a game with my classmates last night, and if I said that if something good happens, I will be despised by him." ”

"You're getting along with your new classmates so quickly? Don't you think they're younger and more naïve than you? Qiao Du glanced at her younger brother, she remembered that he had come back from school a few days ago and shouted, the classmates in the class were several years younger than him, and they were very childish in their words and actions, and he was not rare to play with them, why did he change so quickly?

Mentioning this, Qiao Yun scratched his head and smiled: "Actually, there are one or two who are not so naïve, such as Fu Chengrui sitting next to me, that kid is young, but his thinking is quite mature, eldest sister, you don't know how perverted he is, he knows everything that the teacher has taught and has not taught, what Chinese, mathematics, English, physical education, he has no one who is not proficient." The day before yesterday, in the small test, he got a perfect score, you say that he is not perverted? ”

Qiao Du thought for a while, she knew early on that Fu Chengrui was very smart, and she had also seen that she could tinker with robots at such a young age, let alone computer programming, if she told Qiao Yun this, would it scare Qiao Yun's jaw off?

"You play games with Fu Chengrui?"

"Yes, he played very well, his hands were swishing, I fought with him, and he knocked him out at the beginning." Qiao Yun mentioned Fu Chengrui and seemed to be full of praise: "His level in the game is also quite high, many people call him a god, at first I thought he was a RMB player, everyone knew that his family had money, and later I played with him to know that he was not, that kid has two brushes to play games." ”

Qiao Dui: "......"

From Qiao Yun's mouth, she seemed to see Fu Chengrui on the other side, the last time school started, she saw his super popularity in the school, this time from Qiao Yun's mouth, she could hear her brother's admiration for the little guy.

It's a complicated feeling, both exciting and a little indescribably lost.

"Big sister." Qiao Yun suddenly walked over, her face came to her, she was stunned, startled, pushed her brother's face away, and said, "Something to say, what are you doing so close?" ”

"Hehe, eldest sister, can you give me some money?"

"Mom, don't you have an allowance every week?"

Qiao Yunlai didn't leave beside her, his elbows propped up on the table, and looked at her flatteringly: "Mom used to give a lot, but recently I listened to grandma's words, and I gave less, eldest sister, can you give some funding?" ”

Qiao Du had almost finished eating, smiled at his younger brother, picked up a napkin and wiped his lips: "It's almost gone, isn't it?" ”

Qiao Yun nodded like pounding garlic, looked at her expectantly, and stretched out his two hands in front of her, waiting for her to give her pocket money.

Qiao Du immediately put down the napkin, and the smile on his face disappeared instantly: "No need to talk." ”

"Stingy." Qiao Yun grimaced behind her back and muttered, "The richer you are, the more stingy you are, hum." ”

Qiao Du didn't bother to pay attention to her brother's complaints, and took her bag and went out.

Today, the company is closed, she naturally did not go to work, and after getting in the car, she instructed the driver: "Landsea Mansion." ”

After midnight zhi sent him back to his hometown on WeChat, she tried to contact him again, but to no avail, today is a week after what he said on WeChat, she plans to try her luck.

An hour later, she learned from the nanny that he and Zhong Siyi hadn't returned yet.

Qiao Du turned around and wanted to get into the car, but her eyes inadvertently aimed at the villa next door, which was similar in style to Midnight Zhi's villa, and it was quiet inside, if she guessed correctly, this should be Su Xuan's villa.

She hesitated for a moment, then pressed the doorbell, but no one answered the door for a long time.

The suspicion in her heart became bigger and bigger, and Qiao Du sat back in the car in a slight daze.

From the current point of view, there are two speculations, the first is that something did happen to Zhong Yezhi's hometown, it may be his parents, because she had heard him say once, his parents are old and not in good health, so it is understandable that he took Zhong Siyi away in a hurry, and second, Zhong Yezhi fled with Zhong Siyi due to his weak heart.

There are many doubts about the second possibility, he said that Zhong Siyi has mania, she saw it with her own eyes, there is no falsehood, he said that he married her for Zhong Siyi, she can see that he is not lying, he is really thinking about his daughter.

If he lied to her, why?

What is his purpose?

Is it because of Su Xuan?

And Su Xuan, what role does she play between father and daughter?

Why did Zhong Siyi say that her mother was a great writer?

Was it taught by Su Xuan?

Why did Su Xuan tell Zhong Siyi about this?

Did Su Xuan know that she was Zhong Siyi's mother and deliberately targeted her? Stir up a relationship between her and Zhong Siyi?

Su Xuan confessed to her so much in the hospital that time, was it all hypocrisy?

These questions popped up in Qiao Dui's mind, and they couldn't get rid of them anymore.

She took a deep breath, lowered her head and subconsciously rummaged for Su Xuan's phone, that time in the hospital, she deleted all of Su Xuan's contact information and couldn't find it.

Fortunately, she sent a text message and asked Qi Shuang, and Qi Shuang sent her Su Xuan's number.

Staring at the string of numbers, Qiao Dui pursed her lips, sent a text message, and went straight to the point: "What is the relationship between you and Midnight Zhi?" ”

On the screen, this line of words hung for a long time.

"It doesn't matter." Su Xuan's reply.

"So far, you still want to lie to me?"

"If you have to talk about it, he was my former neighbor, the male protagonist of my first movie." Su Xuan's tone was as light as the wind.

Qiao Dui's gaze stayed on this line of words, and replied with his hands: "You'd better not lie to me." ”

"If I lie to you, I won't die a good death." Su Xuan's tone was resolute.

"Why did you tell Zhong Siyi about that?" Qiao Du finally asked the question.

For a long time, Su Xuan did not reply.

The Audi car drove down the elevated road, and the driver asked in front: "Miss, do you want to go back to Qiao's house or to Qiao's?" ”

Qiao Du bit her lip and stared at her phone: "Liuliwan." ”

The driver turned right at the T-junction in front of him and drove towards the most famous villa area for the rich in Licheng.

Su Xuan didn't reply again, Qiao Du was about to send another message, the phone vibrate, she didn't hesitate, and slid down the answer button.

"Hey, Twilight." Su Xuan's voice sounded hoarse and nasal on the phone.

"Where are you?" Qiao Du asked, "Is it at the Landsea Mansion?" ”

"I'm not in Licheng, I'm in the Imperial Capital's Shuiyang Garden."

Qiao Dui's hand holding the phone turned white: "Why did you say that to Zhong Siyi?" Don't tell me, you didn't tell her that her mom was a great writer. ”

"What great writer?" Su Xuan's voice was full of doubts: "I returned to Shuiyang Garden last week, Xixi is sick, I take care of him at home every day, how can I have time to see a neighbor's child." ”

Qiao Dui's mind was in a trance for a moment, one hand pressed his forehead, and he gasped lowly: "You lied." ”

"I'm not lying." Su Xuan quickly said: "The day before the Han Emperor announced the suspension of filming "Yuanhai", I returned to Shuiyang Garden and stayed by Xixi's side, the entire Fu family can testify, and the second uncle is in the Fu family, and he can also testify to me. ”

Second uncle?

Fu Jingchao?

Qiao Du slowly bit her lip and was silent for two seconds, then asked, "How is Xixi?" ”

"The high fever has subsided, the person is still uncomfortable, often crying for no reason, it will be better to hold it, I just fell asleep, I came out to rest."

It sounded like there was a look of tiredness in Su Xuan's voice, Qiao Duan didn't ask anything more and hung up the phone.

Imperial Capital, Water Garden, 3rd floor.

Su Xuan listened to the busy sound in her ears, put the phone in front of her eyes and smiled bitterly, she still refused to forgive her.

It is said that karma, such a bad mother-daughter relationship, is it called retribution?

Putting down the phone, Su Xuan leaned on the balcony and turned around to breathe in the fresh air, Fu Zhongxi fell asleep on the small bed in the room, and the smell of potions wafted in the air.

She turned her head to see a majestic man standing on a terrace on the second floor on her right, a cigarette between his fingers, and the smoke was carried by the wind and into her airways.

Su Xuan looked at it for a while, then turned around and entered the room.

Downstairs, study.

Fu Jingchao was smoking on the terrace, his face as hard as a carving was a little blurred in the smoke, and there was a hint of coldness.

This study belongs to Fu Jinwei, because he refused to allow his subordinates to come in and clean it for a long time, it was a mess, and the floor was full of empty wine bottles, beer cans, cigarette butts, and clothes......

On the same messy sofa, Fu Jinwei was lying there drunk, asleep, muttering something from time to time, it could be seen that he was having a very bad dream.

Fu Jing flicked the cigarette ash on his fingers, and said in a deep voice after hearing a knock on the door of the study: "Come in." ”

Su Xuan appeared in the study, she first glanced at Fu Jinwei, who was asleep, lightly picked up a barely clean blanket next to her and covered her husband, and then looked at her husband's young and decadent face several times before quietly coming to the terrace.

"Mr. Fu." Su Xuan had an invisible smile on his face, and he didn't call him second uncle as usual.

Because of this sentence "Mr. Fu", Fu Jingchao turned his head to look at her, raised his eyebrows, and asked in a deep voice: "What do you call me?" ”

"My name is Mr. Fu." Su Xuan repeated it again, and a wry smile gradually appeared on her well-maintained face: "Although you broke up with Twilight and didn't make it to the end, I made this 'Mr. Fu' with a request. After saying this, she turned her head to look at Fu Jinwei's figure in the room: "I know that he has a deep affection for me, and it is precisely because he is full of hope for my marriage to him that he is so disappointed." I don't defend anything in the past, I know it's me who is not good enough, but our child is still young, Xixi is less than a week, I don't want to wait for him to grow up and find out that his father is such a person, so I want to ask Mr. Fu you to help me find a way to persuade him well, let him sober up, and cheer up again. ”

Fu Jingchao lowered his eyes, the lines between his eyebrows and eyes were very cold, and he flicked the cigarette ash in his hand again: "The bell must be tied to the bell, what do you think I can do if he is like this?" ”

"You have it." Su Xuan eagerly took a step beside him: "I heard Jin Wei say that Fu Sichen was very muddy in the past, he was a famous prodigal child in the imperial capital, lawless, and didn't cause much trouble, just when everyone thought that he would make a mess for the rest of his life, it was you who cleaned him up and made him a successful entertainment industry boss today, then you should have the ability to transform Jin Wei well." ”

"What do you think of me?" Fu Jingchao's gaze looked through the smoke, very deep and sarcastic: "Picking up garbage? ”

"He's not trash, he's my man, he's your nephew, you must save him." Su Xuan unconsciously added an honorific title, although the man in front of him was higher than her, he was seven years younger than her in age, and the majesty and strength exuded by his gestures were even more convincing.

The smoke between Fu Jingchao's fingers was burning slowly, he didn't speak, his eyes swept over Su Xuan's face with multiple bruises, it should be Fu Jinwei's drunken madness on her when she was drunk, it seems that this woman has been tortured a lot recently, she didn't say a word, and carried it all down.

Perhaps it was unbearable, she hid in Licheng on the grounds of work and refused to come back, the Fu family was furious and asked Fu Sichen to stop the movie, and she was forced to return to Shuiyang Garden.

This woman's past is full of disdainful things, but what she is experiencing now is only a cold sigh.

Su Xuan saw that Fu Jingchao didn't make a sound, thinking that she saw hope, and what she wanted to say was interrupted by the vibration of his mobile phone, she didn't continue, watching him take out his mobile phone from his pocket, and clearly saw the name on the screen: Qiao Dui.

Su Xuan turned his head to look at the scenery of the Shuiyang Garden outside the balcony, just after the Lantern Festival, the entire Shuiyang Garden was full of red lanterns, which was very good-looking, and waited quietly for him to finish the phone.

Fu Jingchao leaned against the delicate patterned fence, hung up the phone after only one glance at the mobile phone screen, raised his head, the familiar silhouette of the woman's figure was reflected on the floor-to-ceiling window glass, his deep eyes dimmed, and then he narrowed the cold temperature slightly, almost thinking that the person beside him was the little woman.

At the same time, reason told him that it was not.

……

Five minutes ago, after ending the call with Su Xuan and holding the mobile phone, Qiao Duan fell into an unprecedented confusion.

Did Su Xuan lie to her, or did Qiao Xinyi lie to her, or were these two people lying?

Licheng is approaching the rainy season, and despite the soundproofing effect of the car windows, I still hear the dense raindrops hitting the glass, and all at once, almost the same rhythm as the beating heart.

She closed her eyes and leaned back in the soft and comfortable seat, as if many images and conversations were flooding in one by one.

"Daughter, huh...... A piece of DNA paper has scared you, do you want me to show you another piece of paper? ”

Fu Jingchao's voice echoed abruptly and repeatedly.

At the time, it sounded mocking in his voice, and there was not much reliability, but now I take it back and think about it carefully, and the more I taste it, the more I feel that the words in it are meaningful.

Did he know something she didn't know?

She quickly picked up her phone and dialed his.

"I'm sorry, but the call you made was busy." The cold female voice said mechanically on the phone.

She opened WeChat, dragged his name out of the blacklist, and sent a voice message, "Fu Jingchao, let me ask you a question, what do you mean by 'do you want to show me a piece of paper'?" Do you know something? If yes, please let me know. ”

Send it to the past.

Five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen minutes, no response.

She sent another voice message to the past: "I apologize to you for releasing your pigeons, but you can't blame me entirely, I have repeatedly emphasized that I don't want to have anything to do with you, it is you who have repeatedly forced me." ”

The stone sank into the sea, and there was still no reply.

Somehow, I remembered his warning: "Good! That being the case, I have one more message to give you, and in the near future you will come to me and beg me, and then I will not be so good at talking. ”。

Qiao Du thought for a while, looked down at WeChat on her phone, and was even more convinced that he had given her a lot of hints, but she ignored them.

How much does he know?

She had no way of knowing.

Zhong Yezhi and Zhong Siyi were nowhere to be found, and she could only wait for the moment.

The car was parked outside the Liuliwan villa, and she rang the doorbell to ask Fu Sichen about the situation, and asked Su Xuan about the specific time she spent in the imperial capital, so as to verify whether Su Xuan had gone out on vacation with her beloved father and daughter in the middle of the night.

Remembering that Su Xuan said that Fu Jingchao was in Shuiyang Garden, Qiao Duan sent a WeChat message to Qi Shuang, confirming that Fu Sichen took her back to the imperial capital early this morning, and it was the Fu family who urgently summoned them back, saying that they were discussing the matter of Fu Jinwei and Su Xuan.

She didn't want to care about Su Xuan's affairs, but what happened recently always revolved around Su Xuan, and it became the crux of the problem that she couldn't get around.

Qiao Dui's head hurt very much, and she was about to call home, when Qiao Yun suddenly called: "Eldest sister, eldest sister, help......"

"Yun'er, where are you?" Qiao Du was frightened and hurriedly asked.

"I'm in the alley next to Linjing Road, come and save me, remember not to call the police."

"Okay, you wait, I'll go over right away."

Qiao Duan asked the driver to drive the car to Linjing Road, and hurriedly found a narrow and dark alley next to it, and saw Qiao Yun being surrounded by several black-clothed people in the corner from a distance.

Qiao Dui was in a hurry, holding the baseball bat he took from the trunk of the car, and unexpectedly slammed the backs of the black-clothed people, shouting: "Yun'er, go quickly." ”

The driver who followed behind Qiao Du also took the guy and beat the group of men in black violently: "I'm impatient, dare to kidnap our young master......"

The black-clothed men were stunned at first, and then they began to resist, they were all practitioners, and they took away the weapons in the hands of Qiao Du and the driver in three or two clicks, and threw them into the corner.

"Miss Qiao, it's us, we're not gangsters." One of them is a man in black wearing sunglasses.

Qiao Du heard this voice a little familiar, and carefully recognized, "Are you ...... Fu Jingchao's bodyguard? ”

"Yes, we are Mr. Fu's bodyguards, and we have just been assigned to protect the little young master recently." The bodyguard wearing sunglasses said, pointing to the small figure beside Qiao Yun.

Qiao Duan looked at it again, but no, he rushed over just now and saw so many strangers thinking it was a kidnapping, and he didn't bother to take a closer look and started to do it, and when he was quiet at the moment, he saw Fu Chengrui standing next to Qiao Yun, and the little guy's pink and handsome little face had no expression, so he leaned against the wall and watched coldly a group of them panting and embarrassed.