Chapter 43: The Father-Son Struggle
"But there's one thing you have to promise me."
"Hmm." Knowing that he couldn't see his movements, Lin Qingmeng still nodded subconsciously.
"If you want to choose whether to keep big or small in the future, you must keep it big." His tone was full of compromise. Lin Qingmeng didn't know how determined he was to convince himself.
"Actually, if you don't want it, we can do without children." Lin Qingmeng was very distressed.
If you want to say why Lin Qingmeng didn't understand why he didn't like children before, now she figured it out. Xu Wen just didn't want his children to follow their own old paths.
"Hey, hey, can you pay attention, I'm still here." Shen Han really couldn't listen anymore and interrupted the conversation between the two.
Thinking about it, he doesn't even have a partner now, but the two people opposite have already talked about children, isn't this pure abuse of dogs?
"Get out." Xu Wen threw a word unceremoniously.
"Okay, you guys eat, I'll hang up first, remember to drink less." Lin Qingmeng said a few words and hung up the phone.
Shen Han, who was scolded, took a few mouthfuls in a row. Back to back, brother is still brother, I can't stand it anymore, Xu Wen snatched his wine glass.
"Still haven't heard you back?" Shen Han was silent, but the expression on his face said it all.
After Lin Chen left, for the first period of time, she would return to Shen Han's news. But it slowly became nothing, and it completely disappeared from Shen Han's life.
Xu Wen patted his brother's shoulder sympathetically, took his wine glass and touched Shen Han's wine glass, looking like he would not get drunk and not return.
Lin Qingmeng couldn't sleep at night, and kept repeating Xu Wen's words in his mind, saying that it was false if he wasn't moved. To be honest, she is very unconfident in the relationship between the two. It's just that he didn't expect that when she was not confident, he had already planned the future.
In the dead of night, everything fell asleep. The night was dark, and the deserted streets were deserted. There were two rickety shadows under the street lamp, moving with difficulty.
At four o'clock in the morning, Hongchuan lost the noise of the busy traffic during the day, and the splendor of neon lights in the evening, and only the street lamps shone coldly on the entire street.
If you're lucky, you'll be able to meet a few sanitation workers who get up early.
"If Qingmeng knew, I would be finished." Xu Wen muttered as he walked.
"Why are you so cowardly?" It is really love that makes people mentally retarded, and Xu Wen at this time is really disgusted by Shen Han.
"You don't understand." Xu Wen's words pierced his heart.
"Yes, I don't understand." Shen Han didn't bother to refute Xu Wen.
"Wait a minute." As he walked, Xu Wen suddenly stopped and shouted.
Shen Han was stunned in place, his big eyes carrying great doubts.
Xu Wen unhurriedly took out his mobile phone from his pocket and took a photo of the place where the sun was rising. "I don't see it, you still have this hobby." Shen Han Liangliang spoke.
"For Qingmeng." I knew that he didn't talk much. Isn't this purely looking for trouble?
In the early morning, Lin Qingmeng was woken up by the prompt sound of his mobile phone in a half-asleep dream.
"Good morning." Xu Wenshun took a few photos of the beautiful scenery of the rising sun.
The lonely streets stretch away. At the end of the road, a red sun slowly crept out of the horizon.
"You haven't slept all night?" This was Lin Qingmeng's first reaction.
"I'm getting ready to go home to bed." Xu Wen avoided answering, worried that Lin Qingmeng would be angry, and added later, "Shen Han was in a bad mood and stayed with him for one night." ”
"When you get home, remember to drink a glass of milk, which can relieve hangover." Lin Qingmeng's message replied very quickly.
"Got it." Seeing that she was not angry, Xu Wen immediately changed to the appearance of a pair of doglegs.
After the two chatted for a few words, Lin Qingmeng was completely sleepy, and clicked on one of the photos sent by Xu Wen to enjoy it for a long time.
Without the darkness of night, the land was bright, and the warm sunlight shone through the clouds. The morning glow on both sides spreads in all directions, and the sun is covered with golden clouds around it.
Thinking of something, Lin Qingmeng exited the chat box between the two and turned his head to click on a shopping platform. After searching for a while, I found what I was thinking of, but I realized that I didn't have a delivery address, so I had to put it on hold for the time being.
Thinking about asking Xu Wen, he would definitely not tell himself, Lin Qingmeng thought about it and came to another chat box.
said that when he went home to sleep, Xu Wenzhi really slept until the afternoon before waking up.
The first thing I did when I woke up reported the news to Lin Qingmeng, "I'm awake." ”
"Have you had lunch?"
"Not yet, I'm going to eat lunch and dinner together."
"Dinner is dinner, lunch is lunch, how can you go to eat quickly." Lin Qingmeng urged.
"There's a dinner party in the evening, and I'll eat later." Xu Wen replied patiently.
"Didn't you just get together?" Lin Qingmeng was puzzled, thinking that he was going to drink with Shen Han again, and he was concerned with some complaints.
"My dad let me have a meal with my stepmom and her daughter." Xu Wen didn't intend to hide it from Lin Qingmeng.
"Oh." Lin Qingmeng said some words to comfort him, but the words still didn't come out of his mouth.
Everyone sat for a long time, and only Xu Wen was late.
"I don't know if it's polite to come early, and I want your aunt to wait for you." Seeing Xu Wen at the door, Xu's father blamed him mercilessly.
"I don't have my mother to teach me, so of course I'm not polite." Dad Xu was angry, but Xu Wen's words completely angered him, and he didn't care too much, so he raised his hand and prepared to hit him. Xu Wen's eyes didn't blink, and he looked at the slap that was about to fall.
"Lao Xu, the child is still young, what are you doing here." Hearing the sound, the woman had already grabbed Xu's father's arm.
"Okay, I can't eat yet." Grandma couldn't stand it and came out to stop it.
"Xiao Wen, come to grandma." With the joint efforts of several people, the situation was finally alleviated.
"Hello." The girl, who had been silent from beginning to end, said hello to him. Xu Wen passed over as if he hadn't seen it.
"Your sister greeted you, are you blind?" Dad Xu's emotions that he finally calmed down were on the verge of breaking out again.
Xu Wen still didn't say anything, and walked slowly to his grandmother's side, "I think you have itchy skin." Although Xu's father has a successful career, he really has little experience in educating children. If you want to say that Xu Wen has any deep feelings for him, it is really a joke, I am afraid that even Xu Wen has a closer relationship with his classmates who are now repeating his studies for a year than him.
"Lao Xu, let's order, everyone must be hungry." The woman persuaded her.
Xu saw that Xu's father was not lightly angry, and after a meal, Xu Wen didn't look for much trouble. After eating a few bites, excuse yourself and leave.
In line with the principle of not seeing out of sight and not having a clean heart, Father Xu didn't say anything and let him go.
At the beginning of the day, the downtown is on the scene. The sun was still shining during the day, but the clouds were already rolling. He wanders aimlessly through the streets, stopping to stop when he encounters stray dogs.
Looking back on the past, I think they were also a happy family of three at the beginning, but this family gradually changed at some point. What this house has is no longer laughter, but endless quarrels.
Since the two divorced, Xu Wen has never seen his mother face-to-face, and he will only meet on mobile phone video when it coincides with his birthday.
I don't know whether to say that he is lucky or unlucky, just arrived at the door, the heavy rain poured, habitually to dig out the key in the pocket, but after looking for a long time did not find it, I think it should have fallen somewhere.
came to the third floor and knocked on the door of Shen Han's house, but no one answered, so he had to give up. Sit on the steps in front of the door and wait for them to return.
Torrential rain flashed from time to time outside the window, and thunder followed. The already dark corridor looks even more gloomy.
"Knock knock." Downstairs there was the sound of shoes rubbing against the stairs.
Xu Wen didn't seem to feel scared, and still stared down at the steps.
As the sound approached, the light of the flashlight became more and more obvious.
A hand followed the light and stretched out in front of Xu Wen, and the next second, a bunch of keys were lying quietly in the palm of the person's hand.
Looking up, isn't this his titular sister?
"Your key was dropped in the hotel, and my uncle asked me to bring it to you." No matter how angry you are, you won't be at fault with your keys. After Xu Wen said thank you, he took it.
Enter the door and turn on the lights in one go. Through the light, Xu Wen looked at the girl in front of him, soaking wet and looking very embarrassed.
"Come in." With a softening of heart, let her in.
"Hello, my name is Du Yulin." Before, at the dinner, she didn't have a chance to introduce herself, but now the girl said her name generously.
"Xu Wen." With a few words, he went back to his room.
As early as the day after Xu's father came back, he had already arranged his daughter's room, but Xu Wen put down his cruel words, and with them, he didn't have himself. Helpless, Xu's father had to live outside with his mother temporarily.
Now that she got this look in order to give herself the key, Xu Wen couldn't help but put the bottom line on hold.
Fortunately, before coming, Dad Xu told Du Yulin where her room was, and guessed that she was walking in that direction.
As soon as Xu Wen returned to the room, Lin Qingmeng's video call came.
"It's home." Looking at the surroundings, Lin Qingmeng asked.
"Just got home."
"It's raining on us here, have you been raining anywhere, how is it, it's not wet." The heavy rain came unexpectedly, and the first thing Lin Qingmeng thought of at that time was Xu Wen.
"Nope." When speaking, he also closes the camera to show the truth of what he is saying.
As the two spoke, a bolt of lightning swept through the window, and Xu Wen fell into endless darkness.
"Are you alright?" Xu Wen didn't have time to take care of himself, and was concerned about Lin Qingmeng's condition.
When it was windy and rainy, Lin Qingmeng was afraid of thunder. Every time there was thunder, she always liked to curl up and snuggle up at the table.
When I was at school, once Xu Wen came in from outside, I happened to see her trembling back. Obviously scared to death, but still stubbornly refused to express his fear.
Lin Qingmeng thought that he had hidden it well enough, but he didn't expect Xu Wen to find out.
"It's okay, how do you know I'm afraid of thunder." She was full of curiosity, how could she feel that Xu Wen knew everything.
"You always like to shrink up when you thunder, I'm afraid you didn't even pay attention to it."
"Yes?" Lin Qingmeng scratched her head, when it was thundering, where could she take care of so much.
"Well, like a little hedgehog."
The two were chatting, and Du Yulin's shouts came from outside the door.