…

Xu Li took Xu Kai to find a small bath and helped Xu Kai take a good bath with grapefruit leaves.

Changing into the new clothes that Xu Li specially brought, the moment he walked out of the bath, Xu Kai felt that the sun was much brighter.

Taking the step of regaining his life, Xu Kaixiang walked straight to the bus station in his memory.

But after taking a few steps, Xu Kai's confident pace became hesitant - it turned out that Xu Kai could walk through Hengdian with his eyes closed, but now he couldn't even tell the difference between east and west, north and south.

Xu Li, who had already guessed that Xu Kai was looking for the bus station, said softly: "Big brother, the bus station was picked up five years ago, and the International Trade Building, which integrates guest rooms, catering, entertainment, conferences, and business, has been built, and the car leading to our Furong Village has become Bus No. 12. ”

Ten years have passed, and although Hengdian is still called Hengdian, it has undergone earth-shaking changes.

The old gray houses and dirty streets of the past are gone, the old silk factory, the old pharmaceutical factory and other old state-owned factories that everyone in Hengdian knew in the past have not left any traces, and even the Nanjiang River, which used to be smelly, no longer exudes the familiar smell of Xu Kai.

Now Hengdian, with straight highways, bridges, garden-style streets, uniquely decorated buildings, neat industrial parks, scenic tourist attractions, brilliant and magnificent film and television shooting bases, complete supporting hospitals, hotels, schools, cinemas, libraries, gymnasiums, high-end shopping malls, hotels, and commercial streets, has become a metropolis.

"Time has passed!"

"I'm not the boy I used to be!"

Bus No. 12 carried Xu Kai and Xu Li through most of Hengdian to Furong Village.

As Xu Kai expected, the dilapidated and backward small mountain village in the past has now changed greatly.

Brick houses, small bungalows, and even large villas of different shapes have replaced the old small mud houses.

What was once a bumpy country dirt road has been transformed into a wide and neat concrete avenue.

In the past, the small soil bubbles where children played and frolicked in front of the village have become clear ponds, and you can see ancient corridors and pavilions everywhere, trees and shrubs are all over the pond bank, and the newly paved stone roads are winding and quiet, which is a southern scenery.

Xu Kai turned his head to look at his house: "Fortunately, there is not much change except that it is a little more dilapidated than ten years ago." ”

After walking along the muddy mountain road for nearly twenty minutes, Xu Kai finally returned to his home that he had dreamed of for ten years - No. 1 Furong Village.

As soon as Xu Kai and Xu Li appeared, the sound of "crackling" firecrackers sounded in front of Xu Kai's house.

Soon, Xu Kai saw Xu Yun and Cui Min, who were obviously much older than ten years ago.

Seeing that Xu Kaizhen was back, Cui Min's tears flowed down uncontrollably, and even Xu Yun's eyes were red.

Xu Kai wanted to say something, but he really didn't know what to say, he even had the heart to kneel down and his parents for so many years, but he felt that it was too contrived.

"Don't cry, let the kids laugh."

After speaking, Xu Yun lit the brazier that had been prepared a long time ago.

Then Xu Yun and Cui Min led Xu Kai across the brazier and into their house.

Without waiting for Xu Kai to ask why Xu Mai was not there, Xu Li took the initiative to say: "Mai Mai won the second place in the city in the Rubinstein Piano Competition, and she can go to the finals. ”

It was only at this time that Xu Kai remembered this younger brother who had silently accompanied him all the way.

After taking a closer look, Xu Kai found that Xu Li had also aged a lot, no longer the sunny and handsome half-grown boy he was back then, but a middle-aged man who had been baptized by life.

Yes.

Midlife.

Although Xu Li is two years younger than Xu Kai, he is only twenty-nine now.

But no matter how Xu Kai looked at it, he felt that Xu Li looked more than ten years older than himself.

The reason why this is the case is that in addition to Xu Kai's ten years of practicing qi and being good at health preservation, it is also because Xu Li has not had an easy time in the past ten years.

It is no exaggeration to say that Xu Kai was able to retreat in prison for ten years without distraction, all because he had this good brother who had been silently working for their family.

It was he who supported Xu Kai's parents.

It was he who raised his daughter for Xu Kai.

It was he who took on many responsibilities and obligations for Xu Kai that should have been borne by Xu Kai.

When Xu Kai was imprisoned, he was not yet nineteen years old, and he was only a half-grown child in high school.

It can be said that his current appearance is inseparable from Xu Kai.

If Xu Kai hadn't been imprisoned, he would never have dropped out of school early to become a group performer to earn money to support his family, and become as vicissitudes as he is now.

"Thanks to you and Tang Yun for helping me take care of Mai Mai all these years." Xu Kai said sincerely.

Xu Li gritted his teeth and smiled: "Brother, your daughter is my daughter, say no thanks." ”

Xie didn't say it with his mouth, so Xu Kai was not hypocritical, but asked: "When are you and Tang Yun going to get married?" ”

Hearing Xu Kai mention this stubble, Cui Min said: "They should have gotten married a long time ago, and they have been together for 8 years, but Tang Yun and her father are vampires, with a less 500,000 dowry, and they won't let Xu Li and Tang Yun get married. ”

"If you don't tie it, you won't tie it, anyway, it's just a form, with the relationship between me and Tang Yun, if you don't go through this form, you can't separate it." Xu Li comforted everyone.

"How can this work, Tang Yun has followed you for 8 years without regrets, and helped me take care of Mai Mai for 8 years, our family has to give Tang Yun a decent wedding for everything, which is not to live up to Tang Yun's efforts for you and our family, besides, 500,000 bride price is not much, a good girl like Tang Yun is worth giving 5 million bride price." Xu Kai said.

The Xu family knew that Xu Kai had 1.3 million compensation, but they had already discussed it, and none of them could touch the 1.3 million, so they kept it for Xu Kai to marry his daughter-in-law.

After all, compared with Xu Li, who has been living with his girlfriend for 8 years and has a stable relationship and his career has begun to start, Xu Kai, who has been in prison for more than ten years and has a daughter who is almost eleven years old, is in worse condition, if there is no 1.3 million, how can Xu Kai start a family?

Therefore, although Xu Kai had already led the conversation to money, Xu Li immediately changed the topic: "Big brother, you have to thank Officer Fan another day, if you don't have her, you will have to squat for at least another three years, and after three years, you will come out, and you will also have a criminal record, and you can't do a lot of work." ”

Xu Kai knew that he now said that it would not be difficult to make millions with his own skills, and no one would believe it.

And the 1.3 million that he is willing to take out on his body, it is estimated that these relatives in his family who have thought about how pitiful and hopeless they are will not want it.

Therefore, Xu Kai simply didn't mention this stubble, and waited for the future to speak with facts.

"Yes, I will definitely thank her if I have the chance."

……