"Miss Tao, your ban has been lifted, and from now on, you can freely enter and leave N City." On the other end of the line was Team Zhang.

Tao Yaoyao answered the phone with one hand, danced on the keyboard with the other, and stared at the dense text on the computer screen.

"I see."

hung up the phone, Tao Yaoyao was into typing again, Yu Le's side had already started casting, and the progress of the script on her side was also catching up.

Writing and writing, I don't know what happened, my right eyelid jumped so hard that Tao Xiaoyao had to stop her fingers and rub her eyelids.

Old people often say that the left eye jumps wealth, the right eye jumps disaster, her right eye beats hard, there will be nothing bad to happen, right?

Just as he thought so, the phone rang again.

Tao Yao looked at the phone screen, it was Tao Ran's phone. She and Tao Ran haven't been in touch for a long time.

She hesitated, but took it anyway.

"Are you free?"

"Hmm."

"If you have time to go to your grandma's house with me, your grandma will ......"

Tao Yaoyao's heart tightened: "What's wrong with grandma?"

"Your grandma is dying, it's been a few days."

"Okay, I'll go now!"

Tao Yao turned off the computer, went to the shoe rack to put on shoes, saw the bloated gauze wrapped around his feet, carefully dismantled it, padd it with a sanitary napkin, put on shoes and socks, and went out with his bag.

Tao Ran still lives in the house that Yu Wenmu found back then, although the price has been rising in recent years, Yu Wenmu is gone, and the rent of this house has not risen, and the environment is good, even if Chen Lihua is not there, he still lives here.

In the past four years, Tao Xiaoxiao has not set foot here once, and this time, I suddenly remembered that there was something left here, that is, Yu Wenmu gave her a gift for her twentieth birthday - the pink and white Maserati with the license plate number NQT623.

The door of Tao's house suddenly opened, and Taoran came out neatly dressed.

"You're here."

"Hmm. Let's go!"

Tao Yaoyao said in the direction of the station, and Tao Ran stopped her: "Xiaoxiao, wait, let's go by car!"

Tao Yaoyao was puzzled.

I saw Tao Ran open the garage of Tao's house, and Tao Xiaoxiao also followed.

There was only a dark gray Toyota in the garage, and her Maserati, which she had never driven, was gone!

"Dad, did you buy a car? What about my car? ”

"Your sister borrowed it, didn't she tell you?"

"When did she tell me? We haven't been in touch for four years!"

"I'll tell her to give the car back to you as soon as possible." Tao Ran didn't dare to look at Tao Yao's eyes when he spoke.

Tao Yaoyao sat in the car and didn't speak, four years, Dad's mind is still more on Tao Yan than her, and even her things can be used by Tao Yan casually.

She didn't drive that car all the time, firstly because she was afraid of breaking it because of her poor skills, and secondly, she was reluctant, which was Yu Wenmu's birthday gift to her.

Along the way, Tao Ran never asked a word about Yu Wenmu, nor did she say anything about Chen Lihua.

Tao Xiaoyao felt that he was much more indifferent than before, no wonder his mother had been reluctant to reconcile with him in recent years.

But how loving they used to be, just because she had a wedding between Taoyan and Qin Hao three years ago? As for it?

Could it be that in his heart, Taoyan's happiness is more important than his mother and her?

-

After four hours of continuous driving at high speed and one hour on the highway, it was already nine o'clock in the evening when I arrived at Chenjia Village in County B.

Chenjia Village has changed a lot, the last time Tao Yaoyao came here was two years ago, and now the scale of Chenjia Village has expanded, and the fields used to grow rice have now been turned into homesteads, or houses with several floors, and even the one-story houses that used to be have become two-story and three-storey.

In today's rural areas, even if the economy is developed, there is still a lack of ideas, and they still like to compare, whose house has a high floor, whose license plate is famous, it proves that whoever is rich.

Tao Xiaoyao can't find the innocent and simple feeling before.

Before arriving at grandma's house, Tao Xiaoxiao heard a fierce firecracker, and his heart was in vain, and tears couldn't help but appear in the corners of his eyes.

"Why are you crying all of a sudden?" Tao Ran asked.

Tao Yao didn't answer, and ran wildly with his feet up.

There is also a custom in the countryside that once someone dies at home, once he dies at home, he will immediately set off firecrackers to guide his soul.

When Tao Yao was in junior high and high school, he liked to go to his grandmother's house to play during the winter and summer vacations, and he had seen someone pass away several times, and he had to set off firecrackers as soon as possible, but Tao Ran, who grew up in the city, never knew.

Sure enough, Tao Xiaoxiao ran to the door of Chen's house, which was deep in the village, and saw the red firecracker slag all over the ground, the hall was wide open, and a familiar cry was heard.

Tao Yaoyao hurried to the mourning hall and saw that her grandmother had already put on her birthday clothes and was lying on a stretcher covered with white cloth, and they were already preparing to send her to the coffin.

"Wait!"

The arrival of Tao Yaoyao, everyone is unfamiliar, in the past, the neighbors on the grandmother's side saw the chubby Tao Yaoyao, but now that she has lost weight, they don't even recognize it.

"Who are you? Do you know the rules, do you know that it is unlucky to delay the burial time!" Tao's second uncle, Chen Hong, roared.

"I'm dying! The peach is dying!"

The crowd around the stretcher made way for Taoyao.

"You're finally here!" Chen Lihua seemed to have just reacted to Tao Yaoyao's arrival, wiped her tears and walked to Tao Yaoyao's side, "Your grandma has been talking about you, but ...... She didn't make it to you. ”

"Mom, grandma is sick, why didn't you tell me earlier?"

"I'm afraid that you are worried that it will affect your work, you have just graduated, and now it is getting more and more difficult to find a job, and you finally came to Yule to be an editor, in case you lose your job because of this matter...... Your grandmother is worried about this, so we are not allowed to tell you. ”

Tao Xiaoyao stopped talking to Chen Lihua, and stepped forward to shake her grandmother's hand, which was still warm.

Seeing that grandma was so peaceful that she seemed to be asleep, there was no pain in her heart just now. Grandma worked hard for her mother and several uncles before her death, and the uncles were not very filial, so they left Grandma alone in the old house, and she left like this, but it was a relief.

"Okay, okay, don't delay time, unlucky!" Chen Hong was already very impatient.

Tao Yao looked at the hall, everything was ready, as well as bamboo for funeral, paper money, yellow smoke......

"Second uncle, are you planning to go out of the funeral tonight?"

"Or else? Waiting for ZF's people to come, forcing us to spend money to send your grandma to cremation, and spend hundreds of thousands of yuan to buy a cemetery of less than one square meter in the cemetery? How can we have so much money!"

Tao Yaoyao was very angry: "Second uncle, you didn't filial piety to her when grandma was alive, and now that she is gone, you don't bury her well!" Has your conscience been eaten by dogs? ”

"Okay, you girl, you have grown up and become fat, I dare to scold even your second uncle, see if I don't teach you a lesson for your father today!" Chen Hong was furious, raised his hand and called Taoyao.

Tao Yaoyao was ready to take the move, but before Chen Hong's slap came, a person inserted between Tao Yaoyao and Chen Hong blocked the slap for Tao Yaoyao with his back.

Chen Hong was stunned, this person's speed is inevitably too fast, right? No one noticed how he got in, as if he appeared out of thin air and was caught between them.

His hand was protecting Tao Yaoyao, and Tao Yaoyao's hand that was about to take the move was just on the left side of his chest.

Tao Yaoyao raised her head and met Qin Hao's tense face, her light brown eyes full of worry.

This look is all too familiar......

"Where did you come from! Give me less nosy!" Chen Hong scolded.

Qin Tian turned around and protected Tao Yao behind him: "If you have something to say, start beating women, are you still a man!"

Chen Hong saw that Qin Tian was wearing a high-end suit, nervously protecting the peach, and smiled sarcastically: "I said how dare I get fat, it turns out that I hugged a lot of money outside!"

Tao Yaoyao stood up from behind Qin Tian: "Second uncle, the old man is a big deal, I don't want to quarrel with you today, grandma's funeral must be handled well, and all the expenses will be paid by me!"

"Well, that's what you said! Don't regret it!" After Chen Hong finished speaking, he shook his hand and left.

The rest of the neighbors helped to send the grandmother into the coffin, and after taking care of the trivial matters, they left.

Chen Lihua's face was embarrassed: "Young, how to deal with this matter?"

"Auntie, I'll do it!" Qin Tian said.

"You are?"

Qin Tian glanced at Tao Yaoyao and was about to introduce himself, but Tao Yaoyao grabbed words and said, "He is my boss!"

"Hello Auntie, my name is Qin Tian, although I am the boss who died young, but after work, we are very good friends."

"Oh." Chen Lihua looked out the door and suddenly asked, "What about Xiaoyu?" Don't you know about this? ”

Qin Tian unexpectedly looked at Tao Yaoyao, and Tao Yaoyao lowered his head very low. It seems that the aunt doesn't know about Yu Wenmu, or rather, she doesn't want her to know.

"Auntie, Wen Mu is on a business trip, he doesn't know about this yet, he went abroad, even if he knows, he won't be able to come back for a while."

"Then don't tell him, just come and worship later."

Chen Lihua saw that Qin Tian and Tao Yaoyao were very close, and Qin Tian just slapped Xiaoxiao and protected her behind him, such a move had crossed the boundary of ordinary friends, so she was a little cold to Qin Tian.

"Boss Qin, it's not too early, and there are no rooms in this old house, or you can go to the hotel in the village for one night!"

Qin Tian's expression froze, but he still kept smiling: "Auntie, then I will come to help tomorrow morning, and I will arrange for someone to invite you if you need to handle the funeral."

"Thank you then!"

Tao Yaoyao and Qin Tian went out together, Chen Lihua asked, "Xiaoyao, where are you going?!"

"Take my boss to the hotel, he's not familiar with it here."

"Come back early!"

Many of the street lights in the village are broken, the road is a little bright and a little dark, Tao Yaoyao and Qin Tian are walking side by side on the road.

"Thank you tonight!" It was rare for Tao Yaoyao to speak to Qin Tian so sincerely.

"Thanks what! Bosses care about their employees, and that's how they should be. ”

Tao Yaoyao no longer continued the topic, but asked with some curiosity: "How did you know that I went back to Grandma's house?" And it came so at such a timely time. ”

Qin Tian stopped, looked at Tao Yao for a long time through the dim street lamp, and said, "Secret."