Huo Zheng was anxious, these days were the most critical time, Lin Xiaowan had to be placed in the greenhouse, so that he could be a little relieved, but once she walked out by herself, once something happened, he was really afraid that he would not be able to protect her.

"No, you just stay here obediently, and you are not allowed to go anywhere." Huo Zheng's hard temper also came up, and what he said was like ordering her, which was really not good.

It's kind of like house arrest.

Lin Xiaowan glared at him: ", you are violating my personal freedom!" ”

Huo Zheng lowered his head and said sorry to her, but he refused to give in, but in the end, Lin Xiaowan really couldn't accept it, so he reluctantly said that he would arrange two fewer people.

"Just two, I'll leave two people to watch you, okay?" This is Huo Zheng's bottom line, "It's not that I won't let you go home, you wait for two days, and when the matter is over, I will personally send you back." ”

He sent it back and stayed with her for a few days, so naturally he had to bring people back again.

Lin Xiaowan got his assurance, and just vented again, and finally felt a little better, and had dinner with Huo Zheng.

The meal was prepared and delivered by the private chef of the old house, and there was also a chocolate strawberry cream cake, which was Lin Xiaowan's favorite style, celebrating her twenty-third birthday, and even the candles were delicate little animals.

After eating the small cake, her face in the face of Huo Zheng finally got a little better.

Her expression relaxed, and the man breathed a sigh of relief.

It's good that it's not all messed up.

In the next few days, Lin Xiaowan was not really a vexatious person after all, she was considerate of Huo Zheng, and knew that he must have his own reasons for arranging this, so she forced herself to live obediently for a few more days.

That afternoon, Lin Xiaowan always felt panicked, and she was in a trance for a long time when she got up from a nap.

She looked at her calendar, and there was still a week left until the marked day.

She was restless in the house, always feeling as if something was hanging in her heart, and she was a little overly anxious, and she wanted to cry, and inexplicably wanted to eat the puff pastry and pepper dim sum made by the Huaiyang pastry shop at the intersection of Yuhu North Road.

Huo Zheng didn't say that she couldn't go out, and in the past few days, when she went downstairs to throw out the garbage, she did feel that the gaze staring at her was not so urgent and strong, but it still gave her goosebumps.

She changed her clothes and walked straight out of the community.

She stood on the side of the road for a few minutes, wondering whether to call an online car-hailing car, when a black low-key Volkswagen slid in front of her and stopped.

The driver is an ordinary young man, a very ordinary face, belonging to the kind that you will forget when you see it.

"Miss Lin, where are you going?"

Lin Xiaowan grabbed her mobile phone and didn't dare to speak.

Seeing her vigilance and fear, the driver showed his ID, dialed Huo Zheng's phone in person, and signaled to her: "I am Mr. Huo's person." ”

The phone rang twice, and the driver handed the phone to Lin Xiaowan, who hesitantly said "hey".

Huo Zheng: "You go out and take his car, don't talk to strangers casually, you don't pay attention to someone who calls you, you know?" ”

"Where are Qingqing going?" Huo Zheng asked her gently.

Lin Xiaowan had already put her mind at ease at this moment and replied, "I want to go shopping." ”

"You wait at home, I'll let someone else buy it, okay?"

“…… I want to buy it myself. ”

"Okay, then buy it and go back?"

"yes, got it."

"That's good."

Hanging up the phone, Lin Xiaowan got in the car and arrived at the Huaiyang pastry shop, in addition to the puff pastry and salt and pepper, she also weighed a pound of walnut date cake and custard coconut cake, and went back with it, and ate a lot of stomach, but she still felt that her heart was not in decline.

She checked the date of the calendar again.

In her previous life, her father passed away during this time.

Lin Xiaowan has no contacts in her mobile phone, her parents divorced very early, and the two of them have already formed families when she can remember, she was placed at her grandparents' house, grandma is very patriarchal, she is not good outside, and she scolds her at every turn at home, scolds her mother, and picks thorns at her everywhere, she can't hold her head up outside since she was a child.

At first, her grandfather was fine when he was there, but when she was in junior high school, her grandfather died, and after that, her situation was not very good.

Her father was bent on her new family and didn't have time to care about her, and her aunt couldn't look down on her, and the fruits, vegetables, eggs, milk, biscuits, and grandmothers she bought were all hidden in her house, Lin Xiaowan often had no food, and her father had no contact except for paying her tuition.

Although her mother occasionally gives her pocket money, her mother's temper is very weird, their mother and daughter rarely meet, but when they meet, their mother will beat and humiliate her, so that Lin Xiaowan doesn't know what she is thinking.

But that's about it.

Lin Xiaowan began to work part-time part-time at that time, her mother died of cancer when she was in high school, and when she became an adult, she moved her household registration, and then went to college and came to Shengjing, and never went back.

Her kinship is too shallow.

Because she hasn't been together for a few days since she was a child, she has never had any feelings for her parents and relatives.

Although she always told Huo Zheng that she wanted to go home, Beicheng actually didn't have her home at all, and after the household registration was moved, Beicheng didn't even have a place for her, so it was better to Sheng Jing, but Sheng Jing's house still had her name written on it.

It can be said that when she grew so big, Huo Zheng was the only one who lived in her heart and was treated by her with heart.

Lin Xiaowan ate a snack and was full, and she still couldn't sleep after tossing and turning at night, so she found a high-scoring movie in a foreign language to watch, and after only half of watching it, a call came in from her mobile phone.

She has always refused to answer strange calls, but this string of familiar numbers is from Beicheng.

Lin Xiaowan suddenly had a premonition.

Her dad's business was ahead of schedule.

She answered and cautiously and carefully "hey" it.

There was a somewhat tired woman on the other side of the phone, and Lin Xiaowan immediately heard that this was her aunt Lin Mei.

"Lin Xiaowan, come back, your father is no longer good."

Lin Xiaowan didn't feel shocked, after hanging up the phone, she got dressed and went out.

Xu was because it was already early in the morning, and the people arranged by Huo Zheng relaxed and didn't notice that she was going out, she took a taxi, took the train ticket she just bought from her mobile phone, and arrived at the waiting hall.

Nothing happened, no accidents, Lin Xiaowan really didn't understand what Huo Zheng was trying to protect when he said about protection.

The most recent trip was 2:15 a.m., and with more than half an hour to go, she continued to use her phone to watch the unfinished movie.

But she didn't look into it, and she began to think about the past again.

A long time ago, she was looking forward to the Chinese New Year, especially from the first day to the seventh day of the new year, because at the end of the year, only these days, her stepmother took her daughter back to her parents' house, and she could have dinner with her father these days.

Later, she found out that her father had no relationship with her, and after being disappointed, she gradually stopped looking forward to it.

She really hadn't seen him in years.