Xiao Mufan married Liu Xinru and followed his mother's wishes, but after all, he failed to keep his mother's life.

In the second month after they got married, Mrs. Xiao passed away.

Xiao Mufan was very sad, but he wanted to cry without tears. First his wife and then his mother, the two people who loved him the most and loved him the most left him one after another, making his heart feel numb.

The departure of his mother made him feel that he had become a truly independent person, just like a silkworm baby that had lost the last layer of skin, completely completed its growth process, and then all he had to do was spin silk, make cocoons, and finally become a moth.

He suddenly felt that he was old, as if he had just entered middle age and had not had time to taste the taste of middle age, so he suddenly fell into old age, the old man had no passion for life, no desire, and the only thing left was the responsibility that could not be shirked. For this responsibility, he must live hard and struggle hard, so that he can leave a solid foundation for his son and future generations, and only in this way can he be worthy of his ancestors and worthy of his descendants.

Sitting in the house where his mother has lived for decades, Xiao Mufan completed the last peeling of his life. He stood up and looked one last time at the room filled with so many memories, from a porcelain vase to the old carved bed, all furnishings were exactly the same as when his mother was alive, and even the novels that his mother listened to every day were still in their original places. He walked out of the house and said to Hui Niang, who had been guarding the door, "No one is allowed to move the things in this room, and all the things are left as they are." Find a big lock to lock the courtyard door, and from this day forward, no one is allowed to enter this courtyard without permission. ”

After speaking, he strode out of the courtyard gate.

At the moment of walking out of the courtyard gate, he made a decision in his heart, he Xiao Mufan will not continue in this life. He already has two wives and two sons, and the sons also have a mother who loves them, and he has nothing to ask for but to do his best to raise his two children, treat his two wives well, carry forward the inheritance left by his ancestors, pass it on to the next generation, and complete his last mission in this life.

Since then, he has returned to his previous life, going out early and returning late every day, putting all his energy into the Xiao family's business.

Ten years, in the blink of an eye. Ten years of hard work made Xiao Mufan one of the wealthy businessmen in Beiping City. And his life is still like a pool of stagnant water without ripples, so quiet that there is no trace of life.

Until he met Dong Yaqing.

On his wedding night with Dong Yaqing, he said to her with infinite emotion: If he hadn't gone to that dinner that day, if he hadn't met her at that dinner that day, his life might have passed without taste. Then when he is about to leave this world, he will definitely feel unwilling because of regret.

But God is merciful after all, and sent Dong Yaqing to Xiao Mufan when he was 50 years old, so that his heart, which had been sleeping for more than ten years, woke up in an instant.

He felt his heart beating again, and regained his long-lost youth.

As he said to Dong Yaqing on the last day of his life: "Being able to know you is the greatest happiness in my life." You can marry me at all costs, and defend me so wholeheartedly, so that my life has life, desire, joy and passion again. It's like fireworks at thirty nights, so colorful, so exciting, so evocative. I, Xiao Mufan, have had you in this life, and after such a good four years, I have not come to this world in vain. ”

These are Xiao Mufan's heartfelt words, which fully express his sincere love for Dong Yaqing and the happiness and satisfaction he feels about their common life.

……

Pursuing Dong Yaqing is the most correct decision that Xiao Mufan thinks he has done in his life.

And this decision is also the most difficult decision he has made in his life.

He shut himself in his study and thought about it for three days.

In his heart, one thing is certain, Dong Yaqing is his last chance to be happy in this life. Her appearance is like a ray of dawn rising in the long night, which rekindles Xiao Mufan's long-extinguished emotional fire, and is like a drop of nectar after a long drought, moistening Xiao Mufan's already withered heart, making it fresh again, full of desire for a better life.

However, she was like a twinkling star in the night sky, and he didn't know how to pluck her to his side.

He thought of countless options and rejected countless ones.

He can't ask someone to be a matchmaker, and in front of a new-school woman like Dong Yaqing, this method will definitely not work.

He remembered his last chance encounter and thought it might be a viable solution. He can ask his friends where she often goes, so that he can meet her there often, and maybe she will fall in love with him after a long time? He looked left and right in the mirror, and in any case he did not have this confidence, and finally deflated.

He didn't know what to do anymore.

He sat there dumbfounded, thinking wildly, like a pot of paste poured into his head.

He had to admit that there were many obstacles between him and Dong Yaqing that could not be changed.

In terms of age, he was a full 11 years older than her. Will she fall in love with a man who is 11 years older than her?

In terms of portals, with his family business and social status, he shouldn't be too wronged by her.

In terms of family, she has a sixteen-year-old daughter, which may well be the reason why she does not want to remarry. And he has two aunts and two sons and a daughter, which may be difficult for a woman like her, who has lived in Europe for four years, to accept.

In addition, it has been less than a year since her husband died, and it may be difficult for her to consider remarrying in such a short period of time.

If it was just the last one, Xiao Mufan didn't care very much, he could wait until she could accept him. But the others are unchangeable, and they are part of their lives that they can't let go.

So he suddenly figured it out. Since it is a fact that cannot be changed, there is no need to hide it, instead of being so hesitant and looking ahead, he simply came to the door himself, picked out the words clearly, stretched out his head with a knife, and shrunk his head with a knife, both horizontally and vertically. He doesn't believe that true emotions can't move the heavens and the earth, as long as people don't blow him out, they will accept him one day.

He didn't wait for a minute, and directly called Dong Yaqing's house, saying that he wanted to visit her, I don't know if he welcomes her?

Of course, Dong Yaqing remembered this Mr. Xiao, he was the person who left the deepest impression on her at the dinner that day. Not only because of his funny demeanor and witty conversation, but also because he belonged to the type of person she was not very familiar with, an authentic businessman. He was different from the literati politicians she was familiar with, and he did not have the hypocrisy and artificiality characteristic of politicians; He is also different from those literati, and he does not see the false innocence of most literati in him; But at the same time, she did not find in him the treacherous and greedy nature inherent in a businessman. He seems very natural and casual, neither deliberately acting nor echoing, he does not hide his own shortcomings and some intellectual poverty, he is full of strong interest in new topics, and in him, Dong Yaqing sees an innate self-confidence that is inadvertently revealed, and a domineering spirit that defies everything, which makes her feel very surprised.

However, Dong Yaqing was more or less surprised by his sudden request to visit. Since returning to Beiping, she has been living a very simple but very peaceful life with her daughter. Aside from the occasional gathering of friends, or entertaining close friends at home, there are few social activities, and there are no unfamiliar friends at home. But she knew that Xiao Mufan was a friend of one of her dear friends, which made it inconvenient for her to refuse, so she politely agreed to his request and welcomed it very much.

Xiao Mufan put down the phone, he had already seen hope. Without wasting a minute, he hurriedly prepared the gift and went straight to Dong Yaqing's house.

That afternoon, Dong Yaqing had already gotten up and was reading a book in the living room. Lilac poured her wife a cup of tea, saw that everything was wrong, and ran out into the yard to wipe the bicycle again.

A few days ago, Chu Yun's uncle came to Beiping from Changsha and gave Chu Yun a bicycle. Chu Yun is nothing, but the cloves are rare to death. This little girl has never seen this kind of two-wheeled car, she will circle around the car whenever she is free, but she doesn't dare to ride, Chu Yun dragged her up, and before the car moved, she screamed like a pig. was so angry that Chu Yun couldn't care about her anymore. Although she didn't dare to ride, she just liked this car and wiped it bright every day.

When Chen's mother saw that she was wiping the car again, she couldn't help but shake her head.

"Little ancestor, don't wipe it again, go back and wipe off the paint on it."

"Mother Chen, you don't know this. The young lady said that this paint is not brushed up, but sprayed with a gun, as long as you don't scrape it with hard things, you can't wipe it off. ”

"I haven't heard that guns can spray paint. You must have heard the difference. ”

"I didn't hear it, Miss just said that it was sprayed with a gun, if you don't believe it, you can ask Miss."

"Sensei, it's a moment that you've heard wrong. The family I used to stay in was a soldier and a battalion commander. I've seen guns, and they're all so long, how can there be a place for paint, and they are loaded with bullets, which are used in war, and if people are caught on them, they will die. ”

Lilac stared and listened, and she was a little unsure, she muttered in a low voice: "Miss just said that it was sprayed with a gun, I can hear it clearly." ”

At this moment, there was a knock on the door. Chen's mother said, "Come on, Sensei muttered, go and see, someone is knocking on the door." ”

Lilac jumped up from the ground all of a sudden, ran to the gate, opened the small window on the door, and saw Xiao Mufan standing outside the door.