The car stopped in front of a six-story European-style building, and a young man in a high-end suit quickly greeted him from the tall steps, and walked in front of him almost at the same time as Shen Tong got out of the car. The two attendants in the car helped Zhang Meiya out of the car. The young man in front of him politely shook Shen Tong's hand, and Shen Tong looked at the black armband on his right arm and knew that he should be a family member of Li Rui's very close relatives.

"Thank you very much, Mr. Shen, for coming," the young man's expression was serious and a little sad, "and Miss Zhang," he bowed to Mei Ya, who nodded in return, "Your arrival is of great significance to my brother, and he also needs your support very much during this special period. ”

"Please mourn." Shen Tong said, "Didn't I hear Mr. Rui mention that he still has a younger brother, who is not yet famous? ”

"Li Zhi. I often hear my uncle and my brother mention you two, and my uncle cares about my brother very much, but my brother is not very willing to talk about family affairs with outsiders. He's waiting for you two in the back, please come with me. ”

Shen Tong nodded and took Mei Ya's hand behind him. Meiya grabbed Shen Tong's outstretched arm and followed behind Li Zhi together. They walked through the building's front porch, supported by tall Roman columns, and the hall was brightly lit, typical of neoclassical décor. Behind the hall is a plaza surrounded by two buildings on the left and right that have the same architectural style and number of floors as the front, and the three buildings are arranged in a U-shape. The square is facing the hall that I have just walked on, and the side of the hall has been erected with a black canopy, and the lawns on both sides of the passage are already neatly lined with rows of white folding chairs. Shen Tong counted it roughly, and there were probably hundreds of them. With so many folding chairs arranged in this square, it still looks loose.

Li Zhi didn't say a word along the way, and such a solemn atmosphere made people unable to say anything superfluous. Passing through the venue of tomorrow's farewell ceremony, and walking along the green isolation belt, there is a single-family building that is much larger than the villa seen on the way up the mountain. At the gate stood a doorman in uniform that was common along the way. Seeing Shen Tongtong and his party, he took the initiative to open the door, and Li Zhi nodded to him. Inside, the layout is more like a resident's home, with a clear layout of the living room, dining room and open kitchen. Go up the stairs next to the living room and walk to the door of the innermost room on the second floor. Li Zhi knocked on the door twice and opened the door. Inside is a small sitting room with a circle of leather sofas.

Li Rui sat on the sofa closest to the door with his back to the door, he turned his head and saw Shen Tong and Meiya standing at the door, and immediately stood up. There were four or five people sitting on the other sofas, and although they looked at Li Rui, they didn't seem to care who the person who came or what Li Rui was going to do. Everyone had tiredness on their faces and the resulting apathy.

The first time Shen Tong saw Li Rui, the uneasiness he felt along the way disappeared most of the time. Li Rui's face didn't show any sadness, but he looked tired, as if he hadn't slept after a few nights. But he still put on a happy smile the moment he saw Shen Tong. At this time, most of the answers to the questions in Shen Tong's heart had been answered.

Compared with Shen Tong and Li Rui's eyes, Zhang Meiya's way of expressing her feelings was much more direct, she opened her arms and took the initiative to hug Li Rui. She stroked the back of Li Rui's head, like a sister comforting her younger brother, and said comforting words such as condolences in Li Rui's ear.

"Thank you," Li Rui said calmly, "I miss you these days." ”

Li Rui let go of the arm holding Meiya, and Meiya also left his chest.

"It's still too late." Shen Tong said, holding Li Rui's shoulder with one hand. Li Rui hugged Shen Tong very hard, he closed his eyes, and rested his head on Shen Tong's shoulder for a long time. Shen Tong also hugged Li Rui very tightly, as if he was afraid that Li Rui would faint from fatigue as soon as he let go. In this way, none of them cared about the passage of time.

"Hungry, aren't you?" Li Rui whispered in Shen Tong's ear, "It's too late today, eat something, let's go back to the room and rest first." Please be by my side tomorrow, I need you. His voice was like that of a female classmate who was confessing to a senior who had been secretly in love for many years, almost pleading, but also as if he couldn't bear to be harsh.

Li Rui turned his head to Mei Ya again and said, "Lend him to me for a day tomorrow, and there is another very important task for the only person I feel can reassure me, please help me take care of my mother." Although Li Rui said it with a smile, Meiya felt extremely distressed in her heart, and she felt that Li Rui's smile was pretending to be strong.

Li Rui turned his head again, still looking at Shen Tong with a smile, and his hands gently held Shen Tong's two upper arms from beginning to end.

"Mourning and change, little Ruizi." Shen Tong's expression was a faint sadness from beginning to end when he entered the villa.

"He's lived so long, he's seen everything, it's earned, there's nothing to be sad about. Let's go, let's go get something to eat. ”

The dining room resembles a small banquet hall, with eight chairs sparsely arranged on one side of the long table. So this table can easily seat 20 people together. Such a large dining table only sat Shen Tong, Meiya and Li Rui, which seemed very empty. Li Rui sat in the first place, and Shen Tong and Meiya sat on one side.

Li Rui was very talkative as usual, talking about the topics they usually talked about when they ate together. Meiya chatted with Li Rui, it was Shen Tong who was abnormal, he was unusually silent and quiet today, and he was either looking down at Li Rui or looking up at Li Rui sadly. Li Rui smiled very happily, which was very contrary to the atmosphere of his father's death.

"It's true that this mountain farm is one of the old man's properties, but it's not so deserted every day. This is a resort, because the old man's funeral has been suspended, and it will have to open normally after the funeral of the old man. Otherwise, hundreds of people here eat, drink, and sleep, and the landlord's family can't bear it. On the way back to the room to rest with Shen Tong, Meiya couldn't help but ask Li Rui about this villa. And Li Rui's answer was very bland, just as it was taken for granted.

From college to now, Shen Tong and Meiya just knew that this kid's family was rich, but neither of them expected that his family could be so rich. This made Shen Tong have to think about another question, since Li Rui's family is already so rich, what is the reason for Li Rui to start a business over the years. Thinking about it carefully, Shen Tong's originally relaxed nerves tensed again.

Li Rui sent them to the door of the guest room on the third floor of the house, and walked all the way, Shen Tong roughly counted, there were more than a dozen guest rooms on the third floor alone.

Li Rui pushed open the door of a guest room, and he could see that this room had been carefully taken care of, and Shen Tong and Meiya's suitcases had also been placed in the room.

"Old Shen, you live in this room," Li Rui stood at the door of the room and said to Shen Tong, he walked to the door of the room across the corridor, pushed open the door and said to Meiya, "Miss Zhang, you live in this room." ”

Meiya glanced at Shen Tong and walked to the door of the opposite room with some hesitation.

"Tomorrow will be busy, we all have to rest well tonight, and when tomorrow is over, I have something to say to the two of you. So," Li Rui said with a smile, "good night." ”

"Good night."

"Good Night ......"

The night was surprisingly quiet, Shen Tong, who was accustomed to "sleeping in three shifts and getting up in five shifts", thought that it would be difficult for him to fall asleep, but the fact was that Shen Tong fell asleep not long after lying down. Until he was woken up by a knock on the door. I thought I had slept a little, but when I raised my wrist to see my watch, it was just after 11 o'clock at night. He got up and opened the door, where Miya stood in her pajamas. Maybe she was used to sleeping with two people hugging each other, or maybe she really didn't like the atmosphere in the villa, in short, she only felt at ease when she slept next to Shen Tong.

Speaking of which, this is the ninth year that Shen Tong and Meiya have been together. Shen Tong had even used Meiya's name to buy the home of the two of them in Nanshan. Interestingly, they haven't slept with each other in the real sense of the word. On the day she graduated from college, Meiya said that she would give her first time to Shen Tong, and even they had already opened a hotel room, but when the two of them were really lying on the same bed, Shen Tong looked at Meiya's timid face, and his heart was shaken. Maybe it was the Virgin's heart, or maybe it was her appearance that really made him feel very distressed, and finally he kissed her lower abdomen and made a promise to her that he would restrain himself and protect her purity before marriage, and he would save this moment for the wedding night.

However, it has been more than six years since this stay. It is impossible for two people to be impulsive after six years of grinding their ears and temples, but in the end, they failed to get their wish for various reasons. So far, they have calmed down. even formed a tacit understanding, Meiya didn't care if Shen Tong was messing around with other women outside. And Shen Tong just asked about the various female sex toys that occasionally appeared at home. They are now like old husbands and wives who have lost their passion, but the marriage of the two has been delayed again and again.

And in addition to the two of them, there is only Li Rui who knows that they have not yet become husband and wife. Li Rui was indeed so careful in such a trivial matter, and prepared two rooms for them.

In the second half of the night, Shen Tong slept much later. Listening to Miya's breathing and feeling Miya's warm body, he didn't gradually fall asleep until more than two o'clock in the morning.