On the eve of returning home, Yi'an learned the news of Mr. Andre's critical illness from Mrs. Douris's phone call. She took the bad-eyed Duris to the hospital where she was, and standing in the ward was Bill, the son born to Mr. André and his second wife, he was tall and thin, but his exposed arms were very strong, and I heard that he was a professional athlete.

Yi'an helped Mrs. Duris to the door, and she had always been calm and hesitated for a moment.

"I need a little time, after all, we haven't seen each other in more than thirty years."

Yi'an saw the tears in Mrs. Duris's eyes and asked, "Do you need to go and take a break?" ”

"No, just a while."

Yi'an heard Mrs. Duris whispering something like a prayer.

Two minutes later, she pushed the door open. Yi'an accompanied her in, and finally met Mr. Andre in the mouth of Zhang Cheng and Mrs. Du Lisi, the once very famous reporter and unruly man.

Yi'an was a little surprised, because he was in his fifties

Less than sixty years old is not too old, but that person looks very weak, like he is more than twenty years old! His skin was wrinkled more wrinkled than the ripples on the water, his eyes staring at the ceiling, and his body seemed to be immobile.

"Organic lesions, advanced liver cancer, the doctor said it was a few days." Bill seemed accustomed to telling others about his father's illness, and when he said so, he spoke in a calm tone.

"Ann, I'd like to be alone with him."

Yean and Bill exited the room.

The two of them walked to the garden behind the hospital, and because they didn't know each other, they didn't have anything to say to each other.

"Are you the girl who has been reading letters to Mrs. Duris all year round?"

Yi'an shook her head, "That's my sister." ”

"Oh? So why ......"

Bill couldn't find an adjective, and felt it was rude to ask her why she was here.

"She's dead." Yi'an said.

"Oh my God, suicide?"

"Yes." Yi'an nodded, "Your father...... Is Mr. Andrey okay? ”

"It's not good at all." "He told me he missed Mrs. Duris a lot," he said. ”

"Do you know the story between them?"

"I didn't know it for the first ten years." Bill began the long explanation, "When I was eighteen years old, my classmates copied a report from the Internet that was more than 20 years old to me, in fact, I had already looked up the matter of my father and aunt on the Internet, although I was always reluctant to admit it...... But...... That's true, isn't it? When I was eighteen years old, I was with a girl from the same school, but suddenly one day she came to me and said to break up, because I was Andrei's child, and he thought I would ...... Derailment. ”

The last word Bill said very reluctantly, he loved his father, trusted him, admired him, loved to hear him tell stories from all over the world, and liked to play tennis with him. Even if the worldly people come to laugh at his mother as a junior, he still loves this family.

"I didn't fall in love during my whole college years, because the girls in the college always thought I was like my famous father. Fortunately, it was different when I entered the social work, they cared about your family conditions, so I continued to be favored......"

After saying so much, Bill turned the subject back, "Are you Chinese?" ”

"Yes."

"I don't know how long Mrs. Duris will be able to stay with Daddy."

Bill had an anxious look on his face, and he was a little worried.

Yi'an received text messages and phone calls from the embassy, and she said goodbye early to get her new passport back.

After getting it, she took a taxi back to the hospital non-stop, the elevator came up, she went out, and Bill was still waiting outside the ward.

"Still there?"

"Well, maybe they have a belly to say." Bill was helpless and sentimental, "After all, they missed out on this life." ”

The door was suddenly opened, and Ian and Bill saw Mrs. Duris come out, looking normal, just a little tired.

“Hua。” Mrs. Duris suddenly stopped and said, "Excuse me, Ann, can you take me home?" ”

It's only two or three o'clock in the afternoon, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like two people who have missed a lifetime, they should hug each other and cry for a day.

"Oh, good." That's just what Yi'an said.

Before leaving, Bill left his phone number for Yi'an instead of Mrs. Duris.

"If something hits me, I'll pass."

"Thank you."

I stopped a taxi at the entrance of the hospital, and after I reported the address, there was silence in the car, only the sound of the taxi engine. Yi'an was curious but didn't dare to ask more.

It wasn't until she got home that Mrs. Duris said, "He still hasn't changed his nature. She seemed a little disappointed.

Yi'an didn't dare to say much, but simply responded.

"More than thirty years, too long...... "Mrs. Duris said again. She took the money for the round-trip fare and returned it to Yi'an, but Yi'an wanted to refuse, but she felt that it was not right, so she took it and said, "Are you hungry?" I can cook noodles. ”

Next, Yi'an went to a nearby supermarket and bought a bag of Chinese egg noodles, two tomatoes and two eggs. Tomato egg noodles are what she fell in love with when she was at Tsinghua University, simple and delicious, and the only thing she knows how to make.

"Your sister also cooks noodles, but hers is very vegetarian, with only a little lettuce on top."

While eating the noodles, Mrs. Duris recalled Yihua.

"Did she mention her family?" Yi'an asked.

"Very little, very little."

"She must hate us." Yi'an was sad, "She just didn't want to go home, so she stayed in New York and refused to come back." ”

"It's all over, baby, don't cry."

Mrs. Duris reached out to wipe the two tears that had fallen from her face.

"What about Mr. Zhang? I haven't seen him in days. ”

"I don't know, we met on the train, I don't know him well."

"He always reminds me of someone."

"Really? There are always similarities between people and people. ”

"Maybe."

When Mrs. Duris had finished eating, she put down her fork and sat down at the piano in the drawing-room.

"Haven't heard me play the piano yet?"

After saying that, she immediately played a melody, which should have been a song of sorrow and longing, but when Mrs. Duris played it, she was full of hope.

"This is your sister's favorite Chopin waltz."

Yi'an's heart was touched at once, and Mrs. Duris continued to play down, and then changed a few other tunes, and Yi'an was a little sleepy and fell asleep on the sofa.

It was already dark when she awoke, and she searched all the rooms, and Mrs. Duris was not there. So she reluctantly made that call—Bill's.

"Yes, in the hospital."

On the other end of the phone, Bill spoke eagerly.

"Are you coming over? Or I can pick you up. ”

"No thanks, I'll just take a taxi myself."

The two chatted politely for a few more words, and Yi'an then hung up the phone and went to look for him, and met Zhang Cheng who had just gotten out of the car downstairs.

"Why are you here?"

"I'm looking for you."

"What's the matter?"

"I don't, you have something right now?"

"I'm going to the hospital." "Mrs. Duris is at her ex-husband's, I'm going to go over for a while." ”

"I have something to tell you."

"We'll talk about it later."

Yi'an turned back after leaving him and asked, "Do you want to go with you?" You can say it on the road. ”

Zhang Cheng went, but he didn't say it on the road, he was silent all the time, which made Yi'an feel a little strange.

Yi'an had seen Mrs. Duris and was going to stay for the night, but Bill asked her if she wanted to go to dinner together, she refused and went downstairs to find Zhang Cheng who was waiting in the garden.

"You...... What do you want to say? ”

"Actually, I've been lying to you all along." He said.

The sudden words disturbed Yi'an's thoughts.

"What?"

"I ...... Actually, I ......"

"I tell you that my name is Zhang Cheng, this is my Chinese name that I rarely use, my parents live in the UK, I have British nationality, and my usual English name is "Jay". ”

He didn't dare to look up at Yi'an's eyes again, for fear that she would be as excited as Yihua.

A long silence froze the air in the back garden, and after a long time, he heard her only words: "I see." ”

It's not sad, it's not happy, it's just that trance.

"I'm sorry, but I still think I have to make it clear to you."

"I see." Yi'an said, "I should hate you, you hurt my sister." Why should you be half-hearted like Andrey. ”

He hid his face, not knowing if he was crying, she didn't hear the voice, he said, "It's not so much love, her love, it's too tired......"

From afar, she heard him say this.

"But I can't hate it, you seem to have changed. Maybe... We're all wrong......"

There was a glimmer of hope in Jay's eyes, "I don't want to hide it anymore, I don't want to pretend, I hope you can see clearly who the person in front of you is." If you don't want to see me because of Yihua, I can leave. ”

"What about Selena? I want to know the story between you, otherwise I can't tell right or wrong. ”