In 2005, spring was long delayed.

These days, Gu Changlong always feels weak and weak, and he has to go to the toilet three times a night. I didn't expect that people are such fragile animals, they will grow old almost overnight, and maybe one day they will die if they are not careful.

But I had never thought of the word "death" before.

"Dad, I want to talk to you about something."

Gu Qiusha walked into the study, the winter had not completely passed, and her chin was already fat.

"Is it important?"

"Yes, I want to adopt Si Wang as my son."

"You're not kidding, are you?"

"No, I'm very serious, I've been thinking about this matter for two months, I've thought it through, I have to adopt Si Wang, I love this child!"

Looking at his daughter's persistent expression, Gu Changlong sighed: "Qiusha, you are still so willful, just like when you made up your mind to marry Shen Ming." ”

"Please don't mention that person again."

"Okay, let's take another example - just like you have to marry Lu Zhongyue, don't you regret it now?"

"I don't regret it."

Gu Changlong knew very well in his heart that his daughter's marriage had long existed in name only, and now he was just smiling.

"He's nine years old, it's impossible to really treat you as a mother, why don't you adopt someone who is two or three years old and hasn't remembered?"

"I'm going to turn 10 this year." As soon as Gu Qiusha mentioned Si Wang, her eyes were full of light, "It's not difficult to adopt a child, but no one can predict what kind of material it will become in the future?" If it becomes like Lu Zhongyue, it is better not to! But Si Wang is different, he is a ready-made jade, extremely intelligent, and empathetic, with an IQ and EQ that surpasses that of adults. ”

"Adults - well, you're adults, I don't interfere with your decisions, but have you consulted with your husband?"

"A few years ago, when I told him the secret that I couldn't get pregnant, I said that I wanted to adopt a child, and he didn't object to it." Gu Qiusha approached her father and squeezed his shoulder, "Dad, you don't know how much I want to have a child." ”

"After all, it's someone else's blood."

"Do you want your son-in-law to take over? Dad, I know you have women out there, and if you can give me a brother, I won't object. ”

This sentence made Gu Changlong angry: "Shut up! ”

"Si Wang's child is my last chance, the first time I saw him, there was a familiar intimacy in my heart, as if I was the person I loved the most in my last life - I can't do without him, I can't sleep if I don't see him, I really want to hold him every night."

"Crazy!" Gu Changlong got up and wandered a few steps, "Adoption is not wishful thinking, don't people have parents?" ”

"I have long investigated Si Wang's family background, his father's name is Si Mingyuan, a long-term unemployed laid-off worker, who disappeared three years ago, and has recently been deregistered and is legally dead. Within a year, Si Wang's grandparents died one after another, and his grandparents died before he was born, and his mother He Qingying became his only guardian. ”

"Is she willing to give up her biological son to you?"

Of course she didn't want to, but I think she would agree in the end, this woman originally worked as a salesman in postal savings, with a monthly income of only two or three thousand, and her family owed a lot of debts, and loan sharks came to her door every day. She had just been fired from her employer last month and was unemployed, so she couldn't last long. ”

"So you're a poor boy who dreams of living a rich life, and maybe that's why you're getting close to you! Qiusha, you are too simple, you have the experience of the past, do you want to repeat the mistakes of the past? ”

"You are not allowed to mention that name!"

The daughter suddenly screamed and slammed the door.

For ten years, the word "affirmation" has always been a no-go area for this family.

He was short of breath again, and he hurriedly opened the drawer, put on reading glasses, and finally found a few pills and water from a large pile of pill bottles and swallowed them. I fell into my chair and took a few deep breaths, but my mind was still the same face, the face that had appeared in nightmares countless times in the summer of 1995.

State.

If it weren't for that incident, how could Gu Changlong agree to his daughter marrying him? This poor boy from a humble background, his father killed his mother and was shot, which is simply a lonely star who killed the whole family.

In the summer of 1994, Gu Changlong's secretary went back to give birth, so he seconded the highly talented student who graduated from Peking University from Nanming High School to the university president's office. He worked very hard, and the speech he wrote for the president was particularly beautiful, and the response after the graduation ceremony was enthusiastic, and the university students regarded him as a model for the first generation. He also helped Gu Changlong receive foreign guests, his fluent English is surprising, from booking hotel restaurants to sightseeing tours, all aspects are arranged in an orderly manner, and everyone praises him.

So, Gu Changlong chose Shen Ming to solve the matter - he handed Shen Ming a small package, saying that it was a magic weapon invited from Putuo Mountain, specifically to ward off evil spirits. At that time, the vice president's surname was Qian, a professor of academics, and he didn't have much contact with officialdom on weekdays, and the past two years were not smooth, and he was often sick and hospitalized, because the feng shui of the house was not good, as long as he quietly put this treasure in the big vase in his living room, he could suppress all the evil qi and make all aspects of the body, career and family prosperous. However, President Qian is a famous scientist and staunch materialist, and has always rejected the theory of feng shui, and if he gave it to him in person, he would definitely be turned away. Therefore, he can only let Shen Ming stuff a small package into a big vase in the name of doing things at the door, so that Principal Qian himself doesn't know, but his fortune can be reversed unconsciously. Shen Ming believed that it was true, so he went to Principal Qian's house to visit once, and successfully completed the task assigned by Gu Changlong.

A few days later, President Qian was prosecuted by the Commission for Discipline Inspection and the procuratorate on charges of accepting bribes. It turned out that someone reported him for corruption and hid the bribes in a large vase in the living room, but a package was found, and it turned out that there were 20,000 US dollars. Principal Qian was a real nerd, and he couldn't stand such an insult, so he hanged himself in the cell of the detention center.

It was only after the statement that he learned the truth - President Qian and Gu Changlong have always been at odds, and on the issue of contracting the university canteen, President Qian thought that Gu Changlong was suspected of enriching his own pockets, so he had been reporting with his real name and attracting the attention of his superiors. Gu Changlong was almost in a desperate situation, so he sacrificed this ruthless move, but it was inconvenient for him to come forward, and the only person who could deceive and use it was Shenming.

Finally, the marriage between Shen and Gu Qiusha was approved by his father-in-law.

The following year, the daughter's wedding date was approaching, and all kinds of negative news came one after another, until she became a murder suspect. Coincidentally, at this time, the newly transferred Youth League Committee of the Education Bureau presented him with the handwritten letter of the statement. Gu Changlong was shocked into a cold sweat, he understood what the "despicable secret" mentioned in the letter meant, and he was even more afraid that in the future, after he affirmed that he would use this secret to control himself, he would become a puppet of his son-in-law instead.

So, with his own hands, he destroyed the future of the statement.

Accompanying his daughter back from a trip to Yunnan, Gu Changlong did not feel chilled when he heard the news of Shen's death, but breathed a sigh of relief, and finally ruled out this *, and the secret was rotten in the depths of the grave forever.

Recently, Gu Changlong has often been flustered - he dreamed of Shen Ming again.

After the start of school, Gu Qiusha often brought Siwang home. She rented a tennis court and taught the kid to play tennis every week. Si Wang seemed to enjoy it too, and he had a lot of fun every time, and finally after eating a hearty meal, the driver sent him home.

When the boy saw Gu Changlong sitting lonely in the study, he would come to accompany the old man, play a game of chess or chat about national affairs, which was how he was close to his father-in-law ten years ago. Gu Changlong has collected a lot of rare books, and the nine-year-old boy is very interested, including Yuan Zhenji's "Huizhen Ji" annotated by Jin Shengsi. After all, Gu Changlong was the president of the university, but he was a person who loved talents, so he generously gave him a set of embroidered portraits "Six Talents in the World".

One weekend, Si Wang accompanied the old man in the study to do crossword puzzles in the newspaper, Gu Qiusha and Lu Zhongyue had something to do and went out separately, and even the Filipino maid temporarily took sick leave, and there were only this old and young in the huge villa. Gu Changlong was marveling at this child's cleverness, and even he couldn't fill in the anagrams, and Si Wang got it all done in the blink of an eye.

Suddenly, his heart went into a spinning - a heart attack.

Gu Changlong fell to the ground in pain, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, but he couldn't say a word, his hand trembled and pointed to the drawer.

Si Wang opened the drawer in a panic, and it was full of all kinds of medicine bottles, all imported medicines, densely written in foreign languages, and he didn't know which one was the one that saved heart disease. He lowered his body to ask the old man, but Gu Changlong was about to roll his eyes. In the ten seconds of life and death, Si Wang scanned all the medicine bottles, quickly found the correct medicine, and understood the description, took out two pills and stuffed them into Gu Changlong's mouth, untied his clothes, pressed his chest for heart recovery, and saved this old life from the ghost gate.

That night, Gu Changlong agreed to the plan to adopt the child.