They hadn't traveled since that time, and not only that, but Xia Lei vaguely felt that her daily movements were restricted. My mother got her class schedule, and she never tired of sending her to and from class, and even knew how to interact with her classmates. In fact, Xia Lei was neither keen on clubs nor socially involved in school, so she didn't feel abnormal for a while. In addition, there have indeed been several homeless people hurting people in the urban area of Berlin, and Xia Lei is at most just a laughing woman, who is too mentally allergic.

Moms sigh more and more, and what they often say is, "Anything can be done, but it can't affect my daughter's life." "Actually, all my daughter's expenses come to China. And whenever Xia Lei asked worriedly, she shirked the past with a flickering look in her eyes, and only said, "It's not something you have to worry about." Xia Lei was suspicious, and finally met one afternoon, when her stepfather came to visit her mother to buy cooking materials at the market, and when she was alone, Xia Lei took the opportunity to ask if something was wrong.

The honest German man, who kept spinning his thumb and sat on the sofa sweating profusely, his rosacea turned even redder, said: "I am ashamed to be a father, and your mother will never agree with me telling you this, she just wants you to be happy by her side." Xia Lei took out a sunflower from the vase beside her and said, "You know, if she is not happy, I can't be happy." "Actually, that knife company owns half of your mother's shares, and it's her only source of income. During this time, business deteriorated and worsened, and two of the original three employees were fired, and later they couldn't even pay the rent. We have received an ultimatum from the real estate company and they will sue us. ”

Xia Lei put down the flowers in her hand when she heard this, straightened her posture, first asked about the basic business situation, and then frowned and thought for a long time, "Then how much working capital do you need?" A strange light flashed through the eyes of the stepfather-to-be, and he immediately looked at Xia Lei with the eyes of "thank God", and said excitedly: "Sixty thousand euros!" The basic costs of factory rent, steel, and wood are 60,000 euros! Xia Lei looked at the ceiling and said, "I only have 30,000 euros, and I will take it from the company's account, and you will bear the remittance costs." ”

At this moment, the biological mother just pushed the door in, holding a full shopping bag in her hand, and saw that the atmosphere was a little wrong, and asked her fiancé vigilantly, "What did you tell her when I was away?" The German man repeated it again and again, but the woman was furious, and before she could finish listening, she threw the shopping bag on the ground, the can of meat sauce cracked, and the brown gravy burst into Xia Lei's trouser leg, "Mom! ”

The woman paid no attention to it, rushed up and quarreled with the man in German, and the two men were red-faced. Xia Lei couldn't fully understand, so she hurriedly ran over and hugged the woman and begged her to calm down, "I forced him to say it, I just don't want to see you getting haggard day by day." I borrowed the 30,000 euros from you, no, from your grandfather's supermarket. The woman stared at the man and froze for a long time before covering her face and crying, while the German man kept saying "sorry" and "I love you".

It's another long winter, and ice cream flowers are blooming on the window edge. Xia Lei put on the thickest coat, brought a hat and a scarf, and carried a small square suitcase downstairs. "Leilei, where are you going?" The mother who was boiling milk tea held up the spoon and asked, Xia Lei doubted: "I'm going to Heidelberg, as I said last week, there is a very important design competition." The woman knocked on her head and immediately dropped what she was doing, "I'll stay with you, and I'll be right there." Want to stay overnight? ”

Xia Lei was a little confused, and spread her hands, "I'm with the classmates in the group, and the teacher, what are you doing?" The woman paid no attention to it, and in less than five minutes she was ready to stand in front of her daughter. Xia Lei's eyes widened and said, "I'm with my classmates, it's safe." The woman took her daughter's hand, "Then I just happened to meet your classmates!" This is even more unbelievable, "Why do you have to see your classmates when you usually strictly prohibit them from visiting your home?" The woman walked out of the door with a haha, and Xia Lei looked at her watch and had to take her with her.

Xia Lei, who usually doesn't seem to fit in because of her nostalgia for her family, was even ridiculed by her classmates this time. "Now, no one wants to come to the door to play! Anyway, I'm going to graduate, and we won't have any dealings with each other. Xia Lei rubbed her eyes and said, "I didn't seem to have lost my brain at the time, even if I found out that I didn't have a close classmate in the past four years, I didn't think it was strange!" Seeing this, Shi Jiaojiao asked, "It's almost two o'clock, why don't we go to bed?" Xia Lei asked rhetorically, "Can you sleep?" Shi Jiaojiao shook her head, "I'm just afraid that you'll be tired." "I'm not exhausted, I'm really tired, I must tell you." "Okay."

Because of her excellent grades and the fact that she won several awards in the product design industry during her time in school, Xia Lei spoke at the graduation ceremony as an outstanding graduate. Xia's father originally said that he was coming, but he was persuaded by his ex-wife to give up, and Xia Lei didn't want to stir up the public, so he thought that he would be just as happy to send them the graduation video when the time came. After the graduation ceremony, Xia Lei wanted to enter the design institute where her graduate supervisor worked, and her job and visa could be solved at the same time. Who knew that my mother actually disagreed, just because the studio was in Munich.

The mother and daughter had their first fierce quarrel, and Xia Lei didn't know that she had so many grievances and grievances, and shouted: "Every time it's because of you, I haven't been back to China for three years!" I can't circle around you forever, I even want to leave here forever! The first emotion in the woman's eyes was panic, which made Xia Lei a little puzzled. But the other party soon burst into tears, saying that he just loved his daughter too much, and was too afraid that the void left by his previous departure could not be filled. Xia Lei relented at that time, hugging her mother and crying.

One day half a month after the quarrel, on the anniversary of the acquaintance of the mother and the man, they took Xia Lei to a high-end French restaurant for dinner. The violin with a low voice, the delicate roses in the wine glass, and the delicate dishes, the atmosphere was wonderful. The mother and fiancé looked at each other and smiled affectionately, and the woman wiped her mouth with a champagne-colored napkin, and said to Xia Lei: "Baby, I have discussed with your uncle, go back to China, let's go back together." Xia Lei's face changed, "What do you mean?" ”

The German man added a drink and, after the waiter left, said, "Your mother says you miss your hometown very much." Xia Lei still looked at her mother with puzzled eyes, and the woman's eyes were full of emotion: "Yes, we are Chinese after all, and we have to go back." "And what about the uncle, do you want him to throw everything from Germany?" The mother grabs the lover's hand and tells her daughter how deep and reliable their love is.

"Your uncle is willing to settle in China. I also thought about it, and when the time comes, I will go back to China with him to register. Mom said, Xia Lei nodded hesitantly, "This is great, in fact, I am really a little homesick." Hearing this, my mother laughed softly, "Yes, when the time comes, the family will be together, and I won't be afraid of anything." I thought about it, your uncle is from a management background, so I can go back and help you take care of the supermarket......" Xia Lei's heart had already drifted back to the town at that time, and she didn't pay attention to what the other party said, just nodded perfunctorily.

Xia Lei's visa was about to expire soon, but her mother did not immediately start preparing to return to China, and always mentioned from time to time that the knife company might go bankrupt. Xia Lei became more and more puzzled in her heart, she couldn't understand what her mother wanted to do. On this day, the German man's aunt in the south died, and he had to go to the funeral, and in order to show his loyalty, he also invited the mother and daughter of Charleigh. Of course, her mother, as her fiancée, wanted to attend, but Xia Lei resolutely refused to participate on the grounds that she was not suitable. "Then you wait for your mother at home, and we can come back the evening after tomorrow." Before they left, my mother told me uneasily.

After confirming that they were gone, Xia Lei went to the corner Chinese supermarket to make a call, and soon a boy drove up at the street corner not far from Xia Lei's house. "It's hard to imagine that you will become a canary with no phone and no money!" The boy was wearing a blue sweatshirt and had braces at the corners of his mouth when he smiled. Xia Lei rubbed her face, "I only found out today that I had become a baby girl in swaddling clothes." ”

Based on the business card left by their German uncle, they found the location of the knife company. It was an uphill street, and halfway up the ramp, the knife company had a straight building with a wall covered with triangular plums. "Is this a company? It's obviously a bakery. The boy grabbed his scalp and exclaimed, Xia Lei pouted and walked in, and after a while, he came out with a huge black loaf of bread. They rushed back to Berlin before dark, and Xia Lei happened to receive a caring call from her mother when she entered the door.

"This boy!" Shi Jiaojiao slapped the pillow in her arms suddenly, "Is it the person you said when you came back that time, the person who met twice but didn't leave a number?" "You have a terrible memory!" Xia Lei looked at Shi Jiaojiao in surprise, and then admitted shyly: "It's him." Shi Jiaojiao hurriedly asked, "How did you get in touch?" Xia Lei pursed her lips and replied, "It's an inter-school activity, and he is actually the leader of the opponent's group." "It's so fateful!" "It's good to have him." Xia Lei said softly.

I don't know where the news leaked, the pair of middle-aged lovers rushed back at noon the next day, and as soon as they met, they asked Xia Lei if she had been to the knife company? Xia Lei didn't speak, but looked at her biological mother sharply, the woman's eyes turned flexibly thousands of times, and finally said sadly: "I'm sorry, I lied to you." Mom really doesn't want you to worry about me anymore, in fact, our company was gone two months ago. Xia Lei shook her head and pointed to the paper bag in the corner of the dining table with an expressionless face, "The bakery owner is very nice, but the bread is as hard as a stone. He also said that his shop had been open for nine years, and he must have lied to me. ”

"Or has there never been a tool company? Mom, who the hell are you talking about me? ”