CHAPTER XXIII

The second aunt made the soy milk, but she didn't see Song Li come down from upstairs, picked up the rag on the table and wiped her hands, so she went up and knocked on the door, the door was not locked, but Song Li was not there.

I thought I would forget the rape flower field, but that memory always came back to me vividly.

"Chang'an, why can't I always see the sea of rape flowers you said?" Song Li stood in the middle of the land, the early autumn wind blowing in her face, and she thought that it was Chang'an who was responding to her sadness.

As soon as the front foot entered the yard, the second aunt was sitting under the big tree in the yard picking the vegetables she had just bought in the morning, "I'm back." The second aunt smiled, got up and entered the house with a bamboo basket.

"She's back." The second aunt said to the people in the house.

He walked out of the back room and stood at the door where the sunlight was shining, and Song Li could see his dusty servants.

She was stunned when she saw Chen Xi at first, but she reacted immediately. Because of the one who knows that she is here, maybe there is only Chen Xi in this world.

After lunch, Song Li went downstairs with his bag from the second floor, and the second aunt stood in the courtyard and handed Chen Xi a plastic bag.

"It's not anything valuable, it's all grown by yourself, there are no pesticides, take it back and eat it with your parents."

Song Li went over and hugged her second aunt, she wanted to cry, but she couldn't cry.

"Okay, kid, the second aunt knows that you like Chang'an, and if a girl like you likes him, that stinky boy is worth it. It's just a child, Chang'an he is still gone, you still have to live your life, I think this child is good, I think Chang'an he also hopes that you can be happy. The second aunt patted Song Li's back to comfort her, let go of Song Li, she looked at the pair of young eyes, a pair of rough hands gently touched Song Li's face, and said softly, "Say to the second aunt when you get married, let the second aunt be happy for you." Don't wait for that stinky boy, he doesn't have this blessing in his life. ”

Song Li still couldn't hold back, she fell into the arms of her second aunt again, crying like a child.

Chen Xi's car drove out of the county seat, and Song Li lowered his head, wanting to say something to Chen Xi.

"Why are you here?" Song Li asked.

Chen Xi first smiled, and then said self-deprecatingly, "I seem to have been able to find you all the time, but you never seem to have looked for me." ”

Song Li lowered her head again, but she never told Chen Xi after that, that morning, she squatted in a sea of rape flowers and cried and told Chang'an, saying what to do, she seemed to be in love with someone.

When he returned to work in the design office, Song Li heard Li Juan's voice as soon as he entered the office.

"I don't know what's wrong with Xiao Song, I took such a long time off...... Yo, Xiao Song is back, where are you going to play, it's been so long, you have to go abroad. Li Juan saw Song Li enter the office and smiled busily.

Song Li squeezed out a little smile, sat in front of the computer, and pressed the power on.

The days go by little by little, but there are some things that you don't really forget that never happened. Chen Xi came to pick up Song Li that day, and he told her that next Wednesday, the case of no custody will be held.

That night, Song Li didn't sleep all night.

The next day, Saturday, Song Li called a person.

At about three o'clock in the afternoon, Song Li waited for Liu Jinyan in a coffee shop.

"I was surprised that you would call me." Liu Jinyan sat opposite Song Li and said with a smile.

"No, no, no, where?" Song Li pursed his lips and asked.

Liu Jinyan was a little surprised by Song Li's attitude, but it was also within her expectations, she smiled, looked at the coffee on the table, it was the Americano she drank when they first met.

"I want to know, what kind of posture did you ask me this question, or did he ask you to come over as a lobbyist?"

Song Li shook his head and took a sip of the ice water in front of him.

"He doesn't know, I haven't contacted him."

Song Li's attitude was something Liu Jinyan didn't expect, she looked at Song Li, speechless for a long time.

"You, what do you mean." Liu Jinyan smiled a little embarrassed.

"I just want to ask you, are you here to ask Xiao Pei this time, or are you here or not." Song Li asked again.

Liu Jinyan watched the ice cubes in the cup melt little by little, and then said firmly, "I want it." ”

Song Li looked into her eyes, but didn't say a word.

"Do you know Song Li, in fact, as soon as I saw you, I had a feeling," Liu Jinyan changed to a comfortable position and sat on the sofa chair, "To be honest, I think you are a good girl, so you will definitely have a lot of opportunities, besides, as far as I know, there is a very good boy next to you who is pursuing you now." ”

Song Li looked at Liu Jinyan and didn't say a word.

"I know you don't necessarily want to hear that, but I think there's something that maybe you're interested in." Liu Jinyan paused deliberately, and found that Song Li was really looking at him, so he continued, "Do you know when I met Xiao Pei?" ”

Liu Jinyan looked at the passers-by walking outside the window, and in those hurried backs, she seemed to see the young and handsome figure more than ten years ago.

Xiao Pei always thought that his encounter with Liu Jinyan was after he went to the United States to study, but only Liu Jinyan knew about this matter, in 2000, she and her mother went back to Beijing to visit her seriously ill grandmother, and on the university campus where her grandmother had been working, Liu Jinyan saw the 22-year-old high-spirited teenager for the first time.

Perhaps it was the arrangement of fate, Liu Jinyan found out that Xiao Pei was a student of his grandmother during the month he was in Beijing, and the classmates in the class spontaneously organized to go to the affiliated hospital to visit the eighty-year-old old professor who was still sticking to the podium, Liu Jinyan stood outside the ward and saw Xiao Pei again through the crack in the door.

Grandma's body gradually improved under the careful care of the hospital and relatives, and with the consent of the hospital, Liu Jinyan accompanied her mother to take her grandma out of the hospital and live back in the original old house. During the recuperation period, people of all kinds of identities have always come to visit the elderly at home, and a few times, Liu Jinyan heard the leaders of the college coming outside the door to ask for the opinions of recommending international students for next year, and coincidentally, she heard Xiao Pei's name again.

Maybe Liu Jinyan really cares about him, sometimes chatting with grandma will inexplicably mention the students in grandma's class, she said, those students who came to see you in the hospital last time, I think the boy who stood in front of him and spoke to you on behalf of you is so clean, is he very good. Grandma nodded and said that her grades were not bad, and she was the class president. Just like this, that day with grandma walking on campus, Liu Jinyan looked at the straight figure that came out of the teaching building in a daze, grandma looked at the granddaughter on the side, and then said, the list of recommended international students in the academy has not yet been decided, I think Xiao Pei is still good.

At the age of 23, Xiao Pei went to the United States, and at school, the first Chinese he met was Liu Jinyan.

At the age of 25, the two took graduation photos together in master's uniforms. At that time, Xiao Pei rejected Liu Jinyan's recommendation, bought a ticket back to China after graduation, and returned to his hometown alone. At that time, Liu Jinyan didn't know what happened to Xiao Pei, but a year later, she finally got a reply from the countless emails she sent to Xiao Pei, and Xiao Pei's mother died.

Liu Jinyan had a big quarrel with his father, and then bought a plane ticket and flew to Xiao Pei's hometown.

It turned out that Xiao Pei's mother was diagnosed with cancer after graduation, and Xiao Pei's mother originally hid it from him, but later the family couldn't afford the cost of treatment, and there was really no one around who could take care of him all the time, so Xiao Pei's aunt called Xiao Pei. A year later, Xiao Pei's mother still couldn't get through this hurdle in life, leaving Xiao Pei with a debt of more than 200,000 yuan and then died. Xiao Pei's father divorced his mother when he was very young, and a woman with a son never remarried. When Xiao Pei went abroad, his mother and the unit bought out the seniority of the company and sent her son abroad, thinking that there would be a day when the clouds would open and the moon would be bright, but God always seemed to not see the hardships of the world.

Liu Jinyan asked Xiao Pei if he would like to go back to the United States with her, but Xiao Pei hesitated. But in the end, it was a gathering of college classmates in June that made Xiao Pei make a decision. It turned out that the secretary of the Youth League in the class called Xiao Pei, and from the mouth of his classmates, Xiao Pei knew that the classmate he had squeezed out when he went abroad had become the boss of a listed company two years later, but he could only watch the graduation certificate full of foreign languages at home and repay the debts of relatives and friends little by little. At the end, the secretary of the Youth League also half-jokingly said that people wanted to see you by name.

Maybe it was because of his self-esteem, and after hanging up the phone, Xiao Pei asked Liu Jinyan if he still had a chance for the American company.

Xiao Pei didn't go to the class reunion that year, and followed Liu Jinyan back to the United States to work, when Xiao Pei was 26 years old.