The doorbell rang, and the fourth sister went over to open the door.

The moment the door opened, the fourth sister was stunned for a moment - the delicate woman standing outside the door was the same as when the young lady was young. She opened her mouth and called out, "Little Miss." ”

Li Yaotang carried a fruit basket and stood on the carpet outside the door, and was stunned by the old lady in white clothes and black pants in front of her, she responded vaguely, looked behind the old lady, and saw Bai Zhiyun, and seemed to be relieved.

Bai Zhiyun beckoned Li Yaotang in. The fourth sister hurriedly took the fruit basket from Li Yaotang's hand, glanced at it, and said happily to Bai Zhiyun: "Miss, it's your favorite pomegranate." ”

Bai Zhiyun's heart moved, looked at Li Yaotang who bent over to change shoes, nodded to the fourth sister, and asked Li Yaotang: "Did the road go well?" ”

Li Yaotang raised his head. There was a moment of apprehension—she asked so naturally, as if she would come every day.

Bai Zhiyun didn't wait for her to answer, and asked again, "What do you drink?" Let the fourth sister prepare it for you. ”

Li Yaotang said, "Please give me a glass of warm water." Thank you. ”

The fourth sister responded.

Bai Zhiyun asked Li Yaotang to go in and sit down.

Li Yaotang looked at his surroundings. The apartment is understated and rustic in its décor. There is no such luxury as usual. Make her feel comfortable. The interior was well lit and warm. Her gaze fell on the huge portrait.

"That's your grandfather." Bai Zhiyun whispered, "He has always regretted not being able to see you." "When my father died, he bequeathed a portion of his property to his granddaughter, including real estate and antiques. And in the trust fund of the Bai family, a share is specially designated for the granddaughter. It's just that after Li Yaotang became an adult, they all gave up.

Li Yaotang looked at the portrait quietly and looked at it for a while.

The fourth sister offered bird's nest and warm water.

"Feel free." Bai Zhiyun smiled.

Li Yaotang has been tense since he entered the door.

Bai Zhiyun was also a little nervous at first. But now, Li Yaotang was in front of her, and she relaxed.

This is the kind of calmness that has a plan in the heart.

This is the kind of calmness that wants to speak your mind no matter what.

Li Yaotang picked up the water cup and took a sip of water.

On the surface, it was calm, but the ripples in the water glass betrayed her.

Li Yaotang bowed his head.

The diamond on his hand glowed a dazzling white light. It burned her eyes.

She closed her eyes.

My heart was beating fast. The mood is also restless.

With her usual slowness, she knew that her mood was not normal.

But she couldn't control it.

On the way here, she also asked herself, do you have to know the reason why her mother objected to her and Fu Gan being together?

Mother wasn't the only one against it.

It's just that others can put pressure on her in other ways, such as Aunt Shen. Aunt Shen just made her position clear: resolutely disagree. Then my father opened his mouth. And mother, in my memory, during that time, my mother couldn't see her face at all. Dealing with opposition from her family had exhausted her, and she didn't care about the extra force.

Now that I think about it, she resents her mother. Faintly, she had realized that in the matter between her and Fu Gan, it was also an indirect war between her biological mother and stepmother.

Thinking of this, Li Yaotang felt a sharp pain in his chest.

She was not afraid of such fierce opposition.

She wasn't afraid. It's because he's not afraid.

Yes, as long as they are together, as long as they can be together, they are not afraid of anything.

She was willing to go with him......

But he flinched. He let it go first. knew that as soon as he let go, she would fall into the abyss and be crushed, but she still let go.

They won.

Yes, they won.

After so many years, there is finally someone who wants to give her a reason to object.

She wondered.

Maybe life won't change anything.

But she just wanted to know.

She admitted that she didn't have the courage to face Fu Gan's eyes, and the desire in her eyes stopped. She thought she'd hold up an answer at least here.

So, here she came.

"Why?" Li Yaotang heard himself ask these three words. She raised her eyes and looked at Bai Zhiyun fixedly. "Please tell me why. As you said, you haven't even forgotten me for a moment in twenty-five years, so you should always want me to be happy, right? ”

"Tangtang, no one wants you to be happy more than my mother."

"So why? Since my happiness is only with that person. ”

Say it, and it's fine.

Able to speak up.

Li Yaotang's right hand held his left hand.

The palm of her hand touched something hard, and it hurt her. The pain spreads from the palm of the hand......

"You kid ......" Bai Zhiyun was calmed by the pain on Li Yaotang's face, and muttered distressedly, "Because of this, I, we have to stop you from marrying Fu Gan, you know?" ”

You can't be together...... You are not suitable...... He is the son of your stepmother, and rightfully your brother...... How can we be together? What will outsiders think of you and our Li family?

Those voices swept in from all directions, and the faces, grandmothers, grandfathers, fathers and aunts, and aunts and uncles, kept telling her no, don't, separate...... She's going crazy, she's really going crazy.

Li Yaotang smiled miserably.

Bai Zhiyun endured the pain in her heart and looked at her daughter, "Tang Tang, the truth is cruel. I wish you didn't know it for the rest of your life. But if you hate me because of it, if you can't love anyone because of it, if you don't have a happy life because of it, then I should tell you. Why do we want to stop, why will Fu Gan leave. ”

Li Yaotang looked at her for a moment.

Yes, this moment, she has been waiting for a long time.

Bai Zhiyun said word by word: "Tang Tang, listen up - Fu Gan, he is your half-brother." ”

A buzzing voice sounded in Li Yaotang's ears.

Bai Zhiyun's voice, in this buzzing sound, began to get bigger and smaller, far and near.

"He is the son of your father and Shen Peiyi. They fell in love when they went to the countryside. In 73 your father joined the army and left Shaanxi. We got married in the winter of '75. Before getting married, he had returned to southern Shaanxi to see Shen Peiyi. Tang Tang, Fu Gan was born in the summer of 76. ”

Li Yaotang could almost hear the "clucking" sound made by clenching his teeth.

"This is what Shen Peiyi said to me personally. Ever since she divorced her husband under the guise of her and returned to Beijing, she has been appearing in front of me constantly. Tang Tang, the details of it, my mother won't tell you. Because mom doesn't want to remember at all. But Tang Tang, don't think that their union ten years ago was a simple marriage. Their marriage has never been broken for more than 30 years. I admit that I was wrong, and I shouldn't have forced it in the first place, but that doesn't mean they did it right. Not everything is true in the name of love. ”

Li Yaotang shook his head.

This is absolutely impossible.

How is that possible?!

"You can go and ask your father. You can also ask Shen Peiyi. You can even ask Fu Gan. Why did Fu Gan leave you behind? Because I found him. I told him why his mom couldn't agree to the two of you being together. ”

"I don't believe it!"

She couldn't believe it.

More than 30 years...... No, it won't.

That's her father, a father who has lived alone for more than ten years after divorcing her mother; Aunt Zhao...... Aunt Zhao, the Aunt Zhao she knew...... How come?!

How ridiculous is that?

Fu Gan ...... Is it her brother? Her father's son?!

That's impossible.

"Liar." Li Yaotang shook his head, "You lie." ”

"Tang Tang, my mother won't lie to you, let alone hurt you."

It was as if a rope was strangling Li Yaotang's throat, and she glared at Bai Zhiyun, but she couldn't speak. The paralysis in the heart gradually spread to the limbs of the body, and the pain was no longer known.

Bai Zhiyun knew what kind of consequences her words had caused. She looked at Li Yaotang and sighed.

"Tang Tang, these words shouldn't have been said until today. Your father and Shen Peiyi," Bai Zhiyun paused, "I don't know what the two of them think, they can have the courage to love for forty years, but they don't have the courage to tell the truth to their children?" And it's a pair of half-brothers and sisters who are kept in the dark and clamoring to get married. What kind of danger is this? Bai Zhiyun almost gritted her teeth.

For more than 20 years, she cared about her daughter and saw that she was protected and safe and sound; But maybe just such a mistake missed such a key - thousands of calculations, less than two children, will fall in love under Shen Peiyi's nose.

When she thought about it, she still felt chills.

"I gave Fu Gan a plane ticket. I said to him, you go and ask Gu Yueyi, ask whose son you are. I asked clearly, whether to leave or stay, it has nothing to do with me. ”

Bai Zhiyun's words exploded in Li Yaotang's ears like a bomb.

Fragments of the cannonball pierced her body, leaving her skin blank.

Her whole body trembled like a leaf.

Fu Gan's face dangled in front of her eyes, smiling him, frowning him, happy him, distressed him...... Stacked on top of each other, like a net, it came over her, and held her in the center, tightening and tightening. She was so tight that she couldn't breathe......

Bai Zhiyun looked at Li Yaotang. That face is the same as that of Fu Gan back then.

Her heart swooped.

Run in the same groove...... They are all distressing children.

So sad, so painful, but still so forbearing.

When she left, she looked at Fu Gan, who was standing by the moat with a ticket tightly in her hand, and at that moment, she was as distressed and heartbroken as she is now.

She knew she was cruel.

All of this should not be borne by two innocent children.

Whether it was then or now, she hated herself for being cruel, and she hated the two people who caused all this.

But none of this can be changed.

'Tang Tang ......"

"How can it have nothing to do with you...... How can it have nothing to do with you? Li Yaotang muttered, she stared straight into Bai Zhiyun's eyes, "Why didn't you tell me earlier?" Why didn't you tell me sooner! She gasped for breath, almost using all her strength, and shouted at Bai Zhiyun.

Then, there was dead silence in the room.

Li Yaotang's eyes were red and red, but there were no tears, and there were no tears.

At this moment, the sun is shining, and through the floor-to-ceiling windows, the sun is running freely in the air, without restraint.

Li Yaotang felt that his whole person seemed to have become transparent in such sunlight, and he could no longer feel his existence.

I can't wait to die.

I want to die.