It was still early, Li Rui took Shen Tong to a reception room upstairs in the hall, and the balcony of the reception room could overlook the entire square. Li Rui found a single sofa and sat down, and casually threw the gift money given by Yang Qingran on the coffee table. Some hot coffee, triangular tuna sandwiches, butter, small cubes of toast and small pots of caviar soaked in ice are already ready on the coffee table. Shen Tong knew that he might not have time to eat a normal breakfast this morning, so he took a sandwich and sat on the long sofa and ate it heavily.

Li Rui sat very relaxed, like a psychiatrist who was assessing the patient's condition, looking at Shen Tong who was sitting next to him eating. Shen Tong, who had been chewing for a while, found that Li Rui had been looking at him, but he didn't pay attention to it, anyway, Li Rui often stared at him in this way when he sat with him.

As the sky began to brighten, the cacophony of sounds in the square gradually broke the calm of the dawn. Rows of flower baskets are placed on both sides of the central passage of the square, and pairs of white couplets are stained with dew, giving the funeral a somewhat East-meets-West feel. Shen Tong and Li Rui leaned back on their respective sofas, making their last rests before being busy.

In fact, Shen Tong had a lot of things to say to Li Rui, but they were silent, meditating on their own things.

The ringtone of the mobile phone made the two of them straighten their backs all of a sudden, it was Li Rui's mobile phone, he picked up the phone, the call was Li Zhi, and they had arrived at the foot of the villa. The two men then got up from the couch and walked downstairs. After standing under the front porch for more than ten minutes, the car that picked up Li Rui's mother drove to the small square in front of the steps.

Only then did Shen Tong notice that this Rolls-Royce Phantom Long Range Edition was one of the several cars he saw covered with a rainproof cloth and parked in the corner of the parking lot at the foot of the mountain yesterday afternoon.

As soon as the car stopped, Li Zhi pushed the door and walked down, and before Li Zhi and Li Rui could open the rear door, Li Rui's mother Lin Wanjun pushed the door open by herself. Just like the last time Shen Tong saw her, it looked as if she was only a few years older than Zhang Meiya, but in fact she had seen fifty-five spring and autumn changes.

Mrs. Lin Wanjun's appearance is natural and delicate, which comes from extremely self-disciplined living habits, nutritious and professional reasonable diet, and expensive and rare various skin care products. If she walked into the group of models in the square now, she would not see any sense of disobedience.

Mrs. Lin first glanced at Li Rui, her gaze did not linger long, but crossed over to Shen Tong who was staring at Li Rui behind him. There was obvious anger in her eyes, but she couldn't see much sadness. Li Rui wanted to step forward to support his mother, but she pushed him away.

"Do I look old?" Mrs. Lin said calmly, she got out of the car in one step and walked straight to Shen Tong.

"Godmother, please mourn." Shen Tong's expression was thick and cautious, he knew that her godmother had a hot temper and would be furious if she didn't say a word, but being so cautious still provoked Mrs. Lin's strong punch, which was stuffed into Shen Tong's chest. The punch made him sick to his stomach and bent over and retched. Everyone present at this punch was at a loss, and they didn't know whether to come up to persuade Mrs. Lin or quickly pull Shen Tong away, so everyone was stunned. Only Zhang Meiya looked at Shen Tong distressedly, she wanted to go up to see if Shen Tong was okay, but was stopped by Mrs. Lin with one hand on her chest.

Shen Tong slowed down for a long time, and finally covered his chest and straightened up, except for Mrs. Lin, everyone was still surprised.

"Why are you abusing my daughter!" Mrs. Lin opened her mouth to Shen Tong and asked, but Shen Tong didn't understand what was going on now. He looked at Mei Ya, who was stopped behind by Mrs. Lin, hoping to get some clues from her face, but Mei Ya's face didn't contain much more than concern for herself and surprise at Lady Lin's behavior.

"Why don't you give Xiao Yuxin something to eat, make her so hungry!" Mrs. Lin was still angry, and Shen Tong began to feel that the punch was not worth it at all.

"Mom......" Li Rui wanted to relieve the embarrassment with Mrs. Fulin, but in exchange for her slap on his head. Li Rui quickly leaned back to dodge, but just hit Shen Tong's arms, so Shen Tong's chest was punched and hit hard, which made his whole face twist together. It's a good thing he didn't drink that cup of coffee upstairs, otherwise he would have vomited.

"And you! Why did you let Xiao Yuxin pick me up so early? I didn't use it earlier! ”

"Godmother, I didn't let her eat it, she had to lose weight herself, and she couldn't stop her from exercising and dieting."

"Fuck off! You young people have flowers in your belly, I don't have to pull them out, I know how long it is. Godmothers are not stupid, look at godmothers. Do you think your godmother looks the same way she looked decades ago at her age? Is godmother a goblin? Let me tell you, if it weren't for you men who were unreliable, wouldn't we want to wear wine and meat through our intestines? Are we willing to go hungry? At the end of the day, it's all because you don't give us a sense of security, and we have to turn ourselves into what you men like. After Mrs. Lin finished teaching Shen Tong a lesson, she moved her gaze to Li Rui again.

Li Rui was a little ashamed, and he began to feel that letting Meiya pick up Mrs. Lin was the biggest mistake he made today.

"Let you take care of your family, that's how you take care of it." Mrs. Lin's anger gradually subsided, she looked at Li Rui's slightly drooping eyelids, and Li Rui's silent appearance was the same as when he was a child. She gently patted Li Rui's face, which was considered to have punished her son.

Mrs. Lin turned to Li Zhi next to the car door and said, "Ah Zhi, help Aunt Yu Xin prepare some breakfast, we are all hungry." Her tone was devoid of the anger she had just had, only the kindness and gentleness of her aunt towards her nephew.

"Yes, auntie. It's ready, come with me. ”

Li Rui stepped forward, and finally held his mother's arm, and after walking up the steps, Mrs. Lin pushed Li Rui's hand away again, and said, "Do what you should do, Yuxin and I don't need anyone to take care of you." Then she took Mei Ya's cold hand. Before entering the hall, she set her eyes on Shen Tong again.

Shen Tong saw the sadness flashing on his godmother's face, this sadness made Shen Tong hug his godmother from the bottom of his heart, and Mrs. Lin also hugged her godson firmly, her head rested on Shen Tong's shoulder, and there were tears in the corner of her eyes.

"Mourning, godmother." Shen Tong patted Mrs. Lin's back.

Mrs. Lin used the little finger of her left hand to quickly and lightly wipe away the teardrop hanging from the corner of her eye. She took Miya's hand again and walked into the hall. Before going up to the second floor, Meiya glanced back at Shen Tong, but Shen Tong didn't notice.

Zhang Meiya is the name Meiya gave herself, and her real name is Zhang Yuxin. Zhang Yuxin is a real person, and Zhang Meiya is the character she set for herself. What makes people sad is not that she keeps calling herself Zhang Meiya, but that Shen Tong has always called her Zhang Meiya, not even Miss Zhang.

Miya's mother had her before she got married, and her mother let her into this world despite everyone's opposition. It is not that her mother is trying to bring her up alone, as in inspirational literature, on the contrary, her existence seems to be to bear her mother's resentment towards her father, whom she has never met. When she was sensible, she was passed on to her aunt by her mother, and her life with her aunt was not much better than that by her mother's side, her sister-in-law was an alcoholic, and the cowardly aunt became the object of his drunken venting, and verbal insults, punches and kicks were commonplace. This environment taught her to hide her true feelings, which didn't end until she was in middle school. But the way it ended wasn't rosy, one day her sister-in-law cheated on another man she knew in the bar, and his brother-in-law found out about it, and of course violence happened. The aunt was stripped naked and beaten beyond recognition by the sister-in-law, but the anger of the sister-in-law did not subside, he saw Zhang Yuxin in the corner, so he pressed Zhang Yuxin next to the dying aunt and tore off all the clothes on her body. The reason is that he has been spending money to support the two of them, and everything on his body is his, so he strips everything from the two of them and then drives the two of them out of the house.

The sister-in-law's behavior obviously went beyond the scope of family conflicts, and the neighbor called the police, and he was taken away by the police. And Zhang Yuxin also died that day.

Life is fair in the end, and Meiya's strength and forbearance have become her best weapons. And in the nine years that she and Shen have been together, she has been healed by the warmth and sunshine of the man in front of her every day.

After Mrs. Lin knew Meiya's life experience, she seemed to see her past in her, and she felt that no matter how many layers Meiya wrapped Yuxin, Zhang Yuxin, who would sympathize, be sad, be afraid, and be very cowardly, was Meiya. She always called Meiya Zhang Yuxin, because she believed that Zhang Yuxin would one day overcome the past and release herself hiding behind Meiya. Make a settlement with yourself.