As far back as Hua Nianping, the year he broke up with Lin Si'er, his father died suddenly in the winter, reportedly from pulmonary heart disease.

The 70-year-old mother now lives in a fourth-tier city in northwest Anhui with her youngest brother.

The mother was hit to the ground by a child who was running around in the same hospital because of an accidental accident, causing a femur injury, and the operation was not successful, and it was difficult to recover walking, so she has been lying in bed and relying on her younger brother to serve for many years.

If it weren't for this unfortunate fall accident, Hua Nianping firmly believed that his mother would have lived a long and healthy life.

Hua Nian usually returned home suddenly after several years, and saw her skinny mother lying on the bed, unable to speak for a long time.

It was hard for him to predict how many more years his mother would live.

The younger brother used to work in a subordinate enterprise of a power supply company, and once contracted to operate the unit's tertiary production enterprise, serving as the manager of a cosmetics sales company.

In recent years, together with the laid-off and unemployed wife, with their own children, the whole family has only relied on the pension expenses of the mother, and the life is very poor.

The electrical appliances used in my mother's house are still the TVs and refrigerators that my father bought when he was alive, and the four of them live in a two-bedroom apartment of less than 50 square meters.

Hua Nianping felt guilty that he had been away from home for a long time, and he had never taken care of his bedridden mother, nor had he been able to use the power in his hands to find an errand for his younger brother and sister-in-law, or to provide some help to the family.

His mother was a loyal veteran party member, who participated in the land reform at the age of 17, and served as the director of the rural women's committee and the head of the township in the early days of liberation.

Since she retired, she has never had a decent organizational life, but she still saves a few yuan a month and puts it in a small cloth bag at the bedside as the organization fee she has to pay.

More than ten years have passed, and the small cloth bag is bulging, and it has already had hundreds of yuan. No matter how financially strained the family was, the mother was not allowed to use a penny from the cloth bag.

Her mother's last wishes, after her 100 years later, were handed over to the branch where she retained her organizational relationship.

Hua Nianping sometimes thinks that the reason why he has developed a character of compromises and multiple contradictions is that in addition to the psychological inferiority complex because of physical defects, the father who has been honest all his life in the family and never lived up to others until his death, coupled with his open-mindedness and extremely firm belief in his mother, which brought him the personality influence of growing up when he was a child.

Since returning to his hometown in Anhui on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Hua Nianping took the entire seven-day long holiday, because of the shortage of tickets and delayed for a few days, until a few days after the end of the Spring Festival holiday, he said goodbye to his mother, took a train for more than ten hours, and returned to Huaishang at noon.

Hua Nianping got off the bus and found that at the door of the dry rest house, it was just a Spring Festival, and a sentry box was suddenly added, and there was an armed police soldier in full uniform, belt and gun.

He was unceremoniously stopped in his way and asked to show his ID to enter.

"I'm living here, and I've just come back from a family visit." Hua Nianping explained to the guards.

"Live here?"

The soldier stared at Hua Nianping with suspicion, expressing surprise at his unkempt hair and crumpled clothes after a night ride, "Are you the leader here, how can you prove it?" ”

"I'm Hua Nianping!" He had no choice but to give his name.

"Chairman Hua?" The soldier's eyes widened, neither wanting to believe it, but also not daring to disbelieve.

Because he saw very clearly just now that Hua Nianping was limping off at the bus stop not far away.

Probably no talkative person has told him that Hua Nianping, chairman of Enyuan Group and secretary of the Working Committee, will be lame.

At this moment, Tao Hailiang's newly equipped Audi car drove out of the yard, saw Hua Nianping stopped here, and immediately got out of the car to greet him.

"When did my brother arrive, this sentry box only started to be used yesterday, and you hit it today!"

After a while, he reprimanded the soldier with a slap on his face, "Arrange for you to stand guard and defend, why do you actually interrogate anyone!" ”

"I see the chief like this, and he got off the bus again, thinking to myself that the big leaders who live here are all cars in and out, how can they squeeze the bus!"

Although the soldier muttered in retribution, he was full of respect for the lame Hua Nianping from the bottom of his heart.

"Nianping, you are really, suddenly you want to come back, you should always make a phone call, so that I can send a car to pick you up." Tao Hailiang complained to Hua Nianping, and shouted into the car: "Xiangya-"

"Hey!"

With a crisp promise, Qiu Xiangya got out of Tao Hailiang's car and greeted Hua Nianping: "It's Chairman Hua who is back, give me a face, and wash the dust for you at night." ”

In fact, when Tao Hailiang got out of the car and opened the door just now, Hua Nianping had already noticed that Qiu Xiangya was sitting side by side with him.

"Thank you for your kindness, I'm used to the craftsmanship of the canteen master, and I don't have a preference for eating out." Hua Nianping waved his hand and refused.

"I've been here for more than a month, and the place where I want to live has finally been cleaned up, so I specially invited Xiangya to come over today to help me consult on the decoration layout of the new house."

Tao Hailiang saw that Hua Nianping's attitude towards Qiu Xiangya was lukewarm, and changed the topic, "After a while, I want to rearrange your residence according to my style." ”

"Yes, let General Manager Tao stay in the hotel, although it is a big suite, it is really not a home." Qiu Xiangya agreed. "I heard that Chairman Hua's house is less than 50 square meters, if it wasn't for Mr. Tao just pointed it out to me, I really can't believe it!"

When Tao Hailiang took office at Enyuan Group, he was at first the same as when Hua Nianping first came, and he also arranged to live in a guest house, but he really didn't like the environment of the guest house, so he moved to the five-star Seven Degrees Hotel the next day.

Hua Nianping personally selected Tao Hailiang's residence before, which used to be the room of Huang Chunrong, the former executive deputy general manager, a three-bedroom and two-living room suite, with a separate courtyard and twice the area of himself.

But Tao Hailiang was not satisfied after seeing it, and used the excuse that he had seen weasels there, so he chose a two-story activity center in the dry rest house, which has been overhauled and demolished the walls and windows, and renovated it for more than a month, and now the second wave of interior decoration has begun.

Without another two months of work, he is afraid that he will not be able to move in.

Seeing Tao Hailiang take Qiu Xiangya to the car and leave, Hua Nianping found it difficult to understand how the two of them could actually fight hotly, and when Tao Hailiang shouted the word "Xiangya" just now, his tone was very proper and smooth, just like a family.

"He's really gotten awesome!"

Hua Nianping thought of Hou Yiying's revelation of Qiu Xiangya's origin that day, and had a kind of worry that was not an omen.

He was really afraid that one day, Tao Hailiang would have a split of emotions and do something sorry for Hong Fang.

And this Qiu Xiangya has a good appearance, is good at socializing, can be regarded as young and beautiful, and will definitely be the first woman to pull Tao Hailiang into the water.