When the doorbell rang, Tan Jiaren was watching TV in the house.

Hearing the doorbell, Wu's mother happened to go out to buy vegetables.

Tan Jiaren put on her shoes and went to open the door.

Outside the door stood an old man with a gray beard and gray hair.

He carried an empty cane of mahogany in his hand, and wore a jasper wrench on his thumb, with a noble and graceful bearing, and his eyebrows were similar to Bai Yongzhen's.

However, Bai Yongzhen's temperament belongs to the literary temperament, and there is a domineering spirit between his eyebrows.

"Can I go in?"

The old man asked Tan Jiaren.

Only then did Tan Jiaren react, "Oh, yes, please come in." ”

The old man came in on crutches, looked around the room, and his eyes fell on Tan Jiaren.

"You're Tan Jiaren, right?"

Tan Jiaren nodded, "I am, are you Ah Zhen's father?" ”

The old man smiled, "Yes, I'm Ah Zhen's father." ”

Tan Jiaren suddenly had a feeling that her ugly daughter-in-law always wanted to see her in-laws.

It's just that Bai Yongzhen is not there, she is a little weak-hearted, a little scared, and a little nervous.

Tan Jiaren poured him a cup of tea, "I don't know what you like and what kind of tea you drink, Ah Zhen likes Yunshan Weicui, I also made you a cup, you can taste it." ”

"Okay, okay." The old man took it and took a sip of praise without stopping his mouth.

Tan Jiaren thought that Bai Yongzhen's father was still very easy to get along with.

This kind of harmonious attitude lasted until Bai Yongzhen returned.

Tan Jiaren was joking with Bai Yongzhen's father, and Bai Yongzhen almost thought that he was wrong.

"Dad, why are you here?"

Bai Yongzhen looked a little nervous, and stood aside for a long time without coming.

Tan Jiaren smiled, "Ah Zhen, you're coming over soon, your dad is so funny." ”

Bai Yongzhen was almost frightened by Tan Jiaren's words.

Dad, when is it interesting?

Bai Yongzhen looked at Tan Jiaren and sat down beside her.

Mother Wu was much more restrained than before, her voice was full of respect, more like a quail trembling with fright.

"Master, young master, miss, it's time to eat."

Old man Bai got down from the sofa on crutches.

happily said, "Listening to Mother Wu call me like this, it seems that we are a family." ”

Bai Yongzhen's face suddenly became ugly.

Mother Wu had dinner with Tan Jiaren before, and tonight, no matter what Tan Jiaren called, Mother Wu refused to sit down.

Bai Yongzhen's face is complicated, and the taste of a bowl of rice is the same as chewing wax.

After dinner, Mr. Bai called Bai Yongzhen to the study.

Wu's mother wiped the sweat from her forehead before picking up the bowl to eat, her hand holding the chopsticks was constantly trembling.

Tan Jiaren asked curiously, "Mother Wu, what's wrong with you?" ”

Mother Wu hurriedly shook her head, Mother Wu and Bai Yongzhen seemed to be a little abnormal today.

Is it because of the arrival of Old Man Bai?

But Tan Jiaren looks at him very kindly, and he is very easy to get along with!

In the study, Old Man Bai was on crutches and did not speak for a long time.

Bai Yongzhen didn't speak, and there seemed to be a silent tug of war going on between them.

"Tan Jiaren, it's very good, you have a good eye."

Bai Yongzhen's face was even more ugly.

"I really like beautiful women."

Old man Bai nodded, "I know, I can see it." ”

Bai Yongzhen's hand at his side clenched, slowly, hard, as if trying to grasp something as hard as he could.

"I really like beautiful women. I want to be with her, for the rest of my life. ”

Old man Bai turned around slowly, but the dragon head crutch in his hand suddenly hit Bai Yongzhen's body.

Bai Yongzhen suddenly felt a hot pain in his back.

Old man Bai's hand was very strong, and Bai Yongzhen was beaten and shook by him several times, but the belief in his heart was not shaken in the slightest.

"I really like beautiful women."

"I know you like it, but hiding her here for the rest of her life, not daring to expose her in front of everyone, nameless and pointless, this is the life you want?"

Bai Yongzhen raised his head, and an indescribable sadness appeared between his eyebrows.

"I won't treat my beloved woman like my dad does."

"You!" Old Man Bai's face was full of anger, and when he raised the dragon head crutch in his hand and was about to fight down, he suddenly stopped in mid-air.

Bai Yongzhen's eyes looked at him, awe-inspiring and fearless, his eyebrows and eyes were very similar to his, but except for his eyebrows, everything else was more like his mother.

Old man Bai suddenly felt a cramping pain in his chest, and the crutches in his hand fell weakly.

"I know you like her, but you also know that you have to marry someone else."

"I don't think so."

Bai Yongzhen looked at his father, "Why can't I rely on myself?" Other women are not the women I like, what is the difference between me and death if I marry them? ”

Old man Bai snorted, "Young people are young people, and they know that they have to die and live for love, but let me tell you, love can't die." ”

Bai Yongzhen's voice lowered, as if he was talking to himself, "But without love, life is worse than death." ”

Tan Jiaren put her ear to the door.

Of course, she knew that eavesdropping was not a good habit.

But what if you can't hold back your curiosity?

Tan Jia was like a little gecko, and she couldn't wait for the whole person to stick directly to the door.

"What the hell are you talking about?"

Tan Jiaren muttered, it's not a good thing that the sound insulation effect is too good!

After listening for a while, Tan Jiaren really couldn't hear anything, stomped her foot at the door, and left.

In the room, it took a while for Old Man Bai to come back to his senses.

"It's better to live than to die? Hey, it's better to live than to die? That's because you don't know that there are many things in this world that are more crazy than love, such as money, such as health, and that's because you are my son, so you don't know about people's suffering. ”

Bai Yongzhen looked at his father with a little more mockery in his eyes, "I don't know? As your son, I've suffered too much! The lack of paternal love, the white eyes of those around me, even my grandfather, when he was alive, never looked at me! My mother, who was scolded as a vixen and poked in the back, really didn't know about the people's suffering? I'd rather I really never knew! ”

Old Man Bai's body shook, the anger on his face was long gone, and his mouth moved several times, as if it was a sound squeezed out of his throat.

"I know, I'm sorry for you and your mother, but I didn't protect you."

Bai Yongzhen raised his head, he was already a head taller than the old man Bai who was beginning to be rickety.

He was what you longed for, and he was loved and appreciated and recognized.

And it still is.

He still longs for his love and appreciation, which is difficult to cut off under the blood of father and son. However, he no longer has the luxury of his approval.

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