Gu Mochen pulled Xiaobei and walked straight to the place that everyone had left for him, settled Xiaobei and sat down, and everyone moved a vacant seat next to his position to bring a chair, and he motioned for her to sit beside him with his eyes.

After taking his seat, a young man in a pink shirt with eyes directly opposite Tan Man suddenly said, "Miss Tan, this is not the first time we have met." ”

She was stunned for a moment, completely unable to remember when she had seen this person.

When the man with glasses spoke, there was a kind of smugness in his tone: "Once, Lawyer Gu was drunk, I sent him home, we met at Lawyer Gu's house, remember?" I still call you 'Mrs. Gu'!" ”

Tan Man suddenly realized that it was the first day she went to Gu Mochen's house, that's right, he was indeed a man with glasses at that time, but he didn't remember his appearance for a long time.

Glancing at Gu Mochen beside him, he was sipping tea, and he didn't mean to explain at all, Tan Man had no choice but to purse his lips and respond: "It seems that there is such a thing." ”

"Later, Lawyer Gu said that he was single, and I was still worried about my abrupt call for the wrong person, and I was uneasy for a long time, but I didn't expect that I was just calling early." He smiled evilly, and everyone agreed.

"No, no, I'm really not." Tan Man waved his hand and immediately explained, "I'm just Xiaobei's psychological counselor." ”

"You're Xiaobei's counselor?!" The man sitting in the middle raised his voice and exclaimed, "Then what Chen Hao said is right!" ”

Tan Man looked helpless, and threw countless eyes for help at Gu Mochen, but the other party was also like a melon eater watching a play, she was 'tormented' for a while in the ridicule and curiosity of everyone, and finally, Gu Mochen slowly reached out to help: "Okay, if you keep talking, she can't eat, can you talk about something else?!" ”

"The boss speaks, how dare we disobey, don't make jokes about the boss lady anymore."

"Xiao Zhi, next time you bring your family, I will definitely not be as polite as last time." Gu Mochen said with a smile.

It turned out that the man in the middle was Xiao Zhi, and she had heard this name on the phone from Gu Mochen.

During a meal, everyone took good care of her, the young female colleague also helped to serve her soup, and Gu Mochen also picked up some dishes for her from time to time, as if she was intentionally catalyzing the relationship between the two, which made Tan Man embarrassed in front of everyone.

After the meal, they shouted that the two bosses would invite them to sing K, Gu Mochen of course knew Tan Man's thoughts, so he said: "You go to play, Xiaobei has to go to bed early, let's go back first, and then bring the invoice over, and I will reimburse you!" ”

Everyone applauded.

Tan Man said goodbye to everyone with a smile, led Xiaobei, and kept up with Gu Mochen's footsteps.

When she got into the car, Gu Mochen opened the passenger door for her, Tan Man pouted and skipped him, opened the back door and sat in, sitting with Xiaobei, she heard Gu Mochen laughing.

Close the car door, and the world finally quiets down.

"Xiaobei, do you think my brother is a bad person?" Tan Man, who was sitting in a row with Xiaobei, said angrily.

"No, my brother is a good person!" Xiaobei replied resolutely.

"Why do I think my brother is bad sometimes?!"

"My brother takes the vines to eat, sandwich meat for the vines, open the door for the vines, and send the vines home, my brother is a good person!"

Unexpectedly, this child was meticulously observant, tried his best to defend his brother, and said a series of sentences in one breath.

Gu Mochen didn't know whether he was surprised by Xiaobei's progress or happy with what Xiaobei said, and suddenly laughed: "It is worthy of my younger brother, powerful and smart!" ”

When Xiaobei heard that he was praised, he also laughed.

"I feel like I'm on a thief ship, and you two brothers are in trouble!" Tan Man said hatefully, "Gu Mochen, you obviously said that there is no one else. ”

"It's no one else, it's just my colleagues." He glanced at her in the rearview mirror, looking innocent.

"......" she was speechless, and the lawyer was really clever.

Gu Mochen sent Tan Man back downstairs in the old community, the car just stopped, only to hear her say goodbye to Xiaobei, then got out of the car and left, without leaving a word to himself, he couldn't help but hook the corners of his lips.

Watching her leave through the car window, seeing Tan Man, who showed her true temperament to herself at this moment, is indeed very cute.

"The vine forgot to take something!" Behind him, Xiaobei carried a bag and stretched out his small hand to hand it to him.

Gu Mochen took it, saw a pile of wool from the open bag, and a few long needles for knitting sweaters, hesitated, turned his head and said to Xiaobei: "You wait for my brother in the car, I'll return the things to Manman and come back." ”

After getting out of the car, Gu Mochen strode towards the old staircase in the community, took out his mobile phone and dialed her, wanting to ask her what floor she lived on, when the iron door of the house on the first floor suddenly opened, and it was Aunt Lan who came out.

The second he passed by, Gu Mochen suddenly stopped.

After Aunt Lan gave her mother-in-law blood pressure medication, as soon as she went out, she met a handsome face in a straight suit, and it was inevitable that she would look back more.

But at the moment when they looked at each other, Gu Mochen quickly turned his head and ran upstairs in three or two steps, Aunt Lan looked inexplicable, glanced at his back twice, but didn't think much about it, and turned around and left as if nothing happened.

The phone was answered at the moment he fled, and Tan Man had already 'fed' it several times.

"What floor do you live on?" Gu Mochen came back to his senses and asked coldly.

"Sixth floor, what's wrong?"

As soon as the words fell, the tall figure had already appeared in front of her, and Tan Man's hand that had just taken out the key from his schoolbag was hanging in the air.

Gu Mochen handed her the bag of things in his hand: "Get out of the car." ”

When she saw the bag, she remembered that when she got out of the car, she was so angry that she forgot about it.

"Oh, thank you." Tan Man still didn't 'forgive' him, and thanked him insincerely, thinking that he would react a little, but the other party didn't plan to say anything more, he looked preoccupied, and turned around to leave.

Tan Man couldn't help but shout at him, Gu Mochen turned his head, his eyebrows frowned slightly: "Anything else?" ”

His face was gloomy and cold, and even the tone of his speech was not as soft as tonight, Tan Man was puzzled, but for a few minutes, who offended him?

"You...... What's wrong? ”

Gu Mochen, who was standing on the steps, raised his eyelids and glanced at her: "It's okay, Xiaobei is still in the car, I'll go first." ”

Gu Mochen didn't care about anything else at the moment, his mind was full of a hurried glance with the woman just now.

It's too similar, except for the slight fat figure, the temples are a little white, the charm between the eyebrows and eyes, and the breath on the body are exactly the same as in the memory, I never thought that I would see her again in this life. However, even in the dim lighting of the corridor, he could clearly see the strangeness in her eyes.

That night, Gu Mochen had that dream again, that broken dream.

He listened to the story in his mother's arms, and the warm and soft voice was his favorite lullaby, and the elongated shadow of the bedside lamp shone on the family portrait on the wall, leaving a shadow that obscured his father's appearance; In the next second, time and space changed, it was the picture he was frantically looking for in the amusement park, crying hysterically, never calling a response, his ears were filled with the mocking and vicious curses of the neighbor's mothers of children, 'He is an unlikable child, disobedient, so his mother doesn't want him', 'Because he is not well-behaved and not good enough, so we must not play with the baby', 'No mother's child, let's not play with him', 'She doesn't want you anymore, she doesn't want you anymore!' ’……

Gu Mochen woke up from the dream, sat in the center of the big bed, panting heavily, he hadn't had this dream for more than ten years, he rubbed his eyebrows hard, but there were still bursts of tingling pain in his head, repeatedly reminding him that he was a child abandoned by his mother.

At this time, the bedside clock showed 2:50, but he was already sleepy, got up and walked out of the room, took out the pack of cigarettes that had been opened for a long time but had not finished smoking in the coffee table drawer in the living room, lit one in his mouth, took a deep breath, and watched the starry firelight burn desperately, hoping to burn it along with this gray memory......

Early on Monday morning, Gu Mochen returned to the office and immediately took out a business card from the business card holder, which was printed with "Zhang Hongtai, general manager of Shanghai Hongtai Investigation Company", which was a party to an economic dispute case and ran a detective agency. Gu Mochen dialed the other party's phone without hesitation.

Over the years, he had never thought to find out a little bit about his mother, and he almost believed the excuse that he had used to convince him that she was no longer in this world, but the sudden encounter, the woman's unfamiliar expression suddenly aroused his resentment, and his grievances for more than twenty years exploded like a time bomb when she looked at him emotionlessly. At that moment, he suddenly wanted to know what a glorious and wealthy life she lived after abandoning her husband and children.

With less than three days left before the New Year, red, green, and green decorations have long taken over the streets, and on the last weekend of the year, Tan Man was pulled out by Qiao Ning to go shopping and pick up gifts, and she finally gave up the manual work of weaving scarves, which she was not capable of.

"Manman, I now know that I still have the talent to be a model, and I finally don't have to worry about losing my job and have nothing to do." Qiao Ning was in a good mood and excitedly told her about her experience as a temporary model last night, of course, most of them talking about how professional the driver was and how charming he was at work.

Tan Man was not interested, and responded to her without a word.

"Hey, I'll show you the original film I shot yesterday, oh, it's not retouched!" After sitting down in a bubble tea shop, Qiao Ning diligently took out her mobile phone and insisted on showing it to her.

Tan Man leaned lazily on her shoulder, biting the straw while looking at the photos in her mobile phone, not to mention, she really took Qiao Ning beautiful and sweet, quite a bit of the temperament of a girl's magazine cover girl.

"Well, yes, it seems that makeup, lighting, angles and equipment are really important!" Tan Man pretended to comment profoundly.

"What, if the model hardware is not good, what's the use of the post-production software!"