Chapter 174: Dad, I'm Back!
*Today (April 21) is Shen Jie's birthday, scattering flowers.
*This chapter is also known as "My Two Worlds with Her"
At Shen Jie's request, Xiao Yao changed to another song.
"Because I dreamed that you were leaving, I woke up from crying; Watching the night breeze blow across the windowsill, can you feel my love? ”
The ceiling above him suddenly slammed.
"When you get old, will you still be with me? Look at those oaths and lies, with the past, slowly drifting away......"
Shen Jie quietly looked up at Xiao Yao's eyes.
"How many people have admired your youthful face, but who can withstand the merciless changes of time? How many people have come and returned in your life, but you know that I will be by your side all my life~"
"Wrong, that's brewing, uh old Bi!" A rather shrewd voice sounded upstairs: "A few bells, old booklet, looking for the west!" ”
Xiao Yao knew that he was wrong, stuck out his tongue, and put the guitar aside.
Shen Jie didn't seem to notice the scolding upstairs at all, but held her cheeks and immersed herself in her thoughts.
"Tonight, stay with me, right?" Xiao Yao made this request with trepidation.
"Dog, I don't believe what you said," Shen Jie did not answer this appeal positively, but opened up a new track: "You said that others admired my appearance when I was young, only you can withstand the ruthless changes of the years, right?" ”
Xiao Yao thought to himself, isn't this lyrics? He replied, "Yes." ”
"I don't believe it," Shen Jie'er smiled evilly: "I will be back in two days and 30 years, and when the time comes, you will accompany others, and I will believe you." ”
“?” Xiao Yao didn't turn a corner for a while, thinking that you can always give me a new job: "What do you mean?" ”
"Na," Shen Jie leaned forward with a smile: "When I go on a date with old age, I will believe what you just sang." ”
After saying this, the girl slowly opened the door of the closet: "The schedule to accompany you was used up in advance yesterday, and I have to go back today, but don't just think about yourself?" ”
Shen Jie returned to 2034, Shen Tianyun was indeed asleep, she couldn't see her fingers in the room, and she accidentally kicked the stool on the way to the bed.
"Shhh......h
"Little Mommy?" Shen Tianyun was awakened by this voice, staring at his confused eyes in the dark: "You're back?" ”
"Nan, I'm here." Shen Jie called softly.
"I thought you were going to accompany your little father over there today," Shen Tianyun muttered, moved to the wall, and left half of the blanket for Shen Jie: "Come on." ”
Shen Jie ran to the bed and hugged Shen Tianyun tightly in her arms: "Meow Ma Ma is here, Meow Cub~~~"
"Meow Ma Ma~" Shen Tianyun said.
The two girls hugged each other tightly, cheek to cheek.
Shen Jie felt Shen Tianyun's warm body, and her breath sprayed on her face, tickling.
She loves this intimate feeling and loves to share the moments and emotions of life with her daughter.
Her fingers gently brushed Shen Tianyun's hair, reluctantly rubbing her soft hair and smooth skin.
At this moment, she felt as if time had stood still, and everything had become quiet and harmonious.
"Mom," Shen Tianyun in his arms spoke: "Do you really want to leave 'that woman' with your little father?" ”
"Well," Shen Jie said vaguely: "The little mother has her own judgment, and the meow cub is obedient." ”
Fortunately, Shen Tianyun didn't continue to dwell on this issue: "I'll keep an eye on them—then you have to come back to see me often." ”
"Do you still need to say that? Meow cubs. Shen Jie smiled and pinched Shen Tianyun's face.
The mother and daughter fell into a deep sleep and slept until dawn, but Shen Jie did not hear the birdsong outside the window.
In the eternal fog, there is only a dead silence.
The surrounding environment has been slightly illuminated, and with the faint light of the morning light, she carefully looks at her daughter.
The girl's sleeping face was pure, and her short hair spread out on the pillow, forming a soft arc. Her eyelashes fluttered, and her lips opened slightly, revealing a hint of a smile that seemed to be dreaming.
Looking around, although the area of the room is not large, it is full of their life and memories.
And also......
And with "him".
In any case, she had to admit that being with him was not without moments of happiness and warmth.
The girl looked at her daughter, and she felt a strong emotion welling up in her heart—the continuation of life. As a mother, her blood, heart, and mind will be passed on through this girl, perpetuating her life and values.
This continuity is not only physical, but also psychological and emotional. Her daughter will inherit her genes, love, and way of thinking, and become her deepest continuation of life, an eternal existence and hope.
Shen Jie took a deep breath, and this feeling made her extremely happy and satisfied.
"Did the girl you always talk about in those days give you her headband?" Xiao Yao's singing voice sounded in the girl's ears again.
Literary youth is romantic.
It's a pity that Shen Tianyun neither uses a hairband nor a hairpin.
Shen Jie casually picked up a fallen hair on the pillow and held it up in the morning light to look at it.
The hair was soft and smooth, shimmering with a faint golden glow, like a silky piece of gold.
Shen Jie gently wrapped the hair around her fingers.
Ah, yellow hair, I actually want to dye it too.
It's a pity that no one will allow either a "father" or a "husband", right?
Shen Jie opened her glasses case, gently put the hair in, and closed it.
Let's keep it as a souvenir.
She leaned down and dropped a kiss on her daughter's cheek, then got up and got out of bed and began to change clothes.
Shen Jie woke up Xiao Yao, dragged him for a morning run, and then attended Mass in the Sacred Heart Church.
Yu Luying and Daiyu also came, and after the mass, the five of them went to the mirror under the bridge and tunnel, and went deep into the fifth floor of the subway to start today's exercise.
"Ribbon fish," on the way, Shen Jie asked Ribbon Fish, "How did you talk to Xiaoran?" ”
"It's good, it's good," Daiyu smiled and said, "We made an appointment to go to the aquarium tomorrow." ”
"Then you have to do your homework in advance and memorize some information," Shen Jie nodded to him: "Pretend to be knowledgeable." ”
"There are a few of them!" Ribbon fish made an "OK" gesture: "Thank you, sister-in-law!" ”
Aquarium, Xiao Yao thought. "Bringing fish" to the aquarium is like returning home, like a fish in water.
Since there was no carry from Shi Hui today, the pressure of the battle increased dramatically, not to mention that they still had the oil bottle of the ribbon fish, so they didn't dare to go too deep.
Daiyu's fist and foot kung fu is actually okay, at least together with Zhang Jialong, he can beat the judo master Wang Ming, but in this world of consciousness, it obviously can't play too much positive role.
Fortunately, although it was a bit difficult, the experience gained from it also became more experienced.
After leaving the "palace of everyone", Yu Luying accompanied Xiao Yao and Shen Jie home to pick up their luggage.
After officially saying goodbye to her daughter, Shen Jie dragged a suitcase, Xiao Yao dragged another suitcase, and the three of them walked in the narrow alley with a hint of coolness.
The houses on both sides are old, some of the walls are slightly mottled, and the clothes drying on the roof are bathed in sunlight, and the breeze blows down and sways slowly with the flow of air.
The three of them, as usual, walked under their neighbor's pants.
The old lady of the Jin family greeted Xiao Yao loudly while splashing the filth in the spittoon into the groove surrounding the building.
A few scrawny old men in vests were lazily lying on the chaise longue in front of their house, enjoying their leisure time.
A group of bear children noisily ran past the three of them and knocked the suitcase in Shen Jie's hand.
"I'm sorry!" The child at the head said loudly, and before Shen Jie could answer, he chased his friends away.
Xiao Yao returned the four glass bottles of "Meinian Answer" to the counter and took back the deposit of 2 yuan.
The three of them stood at the door of the alley waiting for a taxi, and no one spoke.
The taxi slowly stopped at the door of the alley, the driver opened the trunk in the driver's seat, Xiao Yao stuffed the two suitcases in turn, and closed the trunk hard.
Xiao Yao used a little too much force, made a loud noise, and received a roll of the driver's eyes. Then, the driver honked his horn and signaled the passengers to hurry up and get into the car.
"Then ......" Xiao Yao spread his arms.
Shen Jie hugged Yu Luying and Xiao Yao in turn.
"Call me when I get home and say I'm safe." Xiao Yao put his thumb and little finger to his ear.
"Okay," Shen Jie pretended to smile lightly: "It's like parting with life and death, let's go back and make up for the class quickly." ”
Shen Jie got into the taxi, the car started slowly, and left the alley.
Xiao Yao and Yu Luying stood silently at the entrance of the alley, watching the slogan "Be a cute Modu person" posted on the back window of the taxi gradually disappear at the end of the road.
For some reason, Xiao Yao's ears sounded that familiar melody again.
"I look at you in the sunset, you carry the sadness of flowing water, I remember the way you waved to me; Don't ask me if my love will change, who can predict these things, please give me an answer, just like you looked into my eyes when you first ......"
……
About an hour later, Shen Jie's taxi pulled into a quiet tree-shaded road.
There were no other vehicles, no pedestrians, no shops, not even fallen leaves.
Behind the side trees on the side of the road is a villa area under the shade of greenery.
Before the taxi appeared, there was only a cicada chirping.
The driver turned around and asked Shen Jie: "Girl, I'll park you at the gate?" ”
"Let's go inside." Shen Jie looked out the car window a little carelessly.
After a few days away, it was still the same as when I came back every day—full of life and lifeless at the same time.
"Uh, okay." The driver wanted to say something, but still didn't say anything.
The taxi stopped in front of the gate outside the gate of the villa area, and a young man wearing a mental security uniform walked out of the sentry box next to him, waving his hand at the driver and shouting: "Hey, hey, the taxi is not allowed to enter." ”
"Look, people won't let them in." The driver didn't look back this time, but his tone was full of "I already knew".
Shen Jie didn't pick up the driver's stubble, silently shook off the glass of the car on her side, took off her sunglasses, and looked at the security guard who was looking at her life and pointing fingers with an expressionless face.
When the security guard saw Shen Jie's face, he froze for a moment, and then hurriedly ran back to the security booth, raised the barrier, tidied up his hat again, ran to the car, held his breath, and saluted.
He was relieved when he saw Shen Jie retract her gaze, rolled up the window again, and the taxi slowly drove in.
Shen Jie explained the next route to the driver.
She saw in the rearview mirror that the security guard had gone back to the guard box to make a call, but ignored it.
This "Xijiao Waterfront Garden" villa area is the father's company development and construction, the construction grade is very high, the location of the lot is quite hidden in the city's taste, which is naturally rare in the magic capital of every inch of land, the price is expensive, and the owner is naturally not rich or expensive.
His father left the most central location of the plot to his family, so these wealthy customers not only had to pay him a lot of money, but also personally acted as the moat of the Shen family's city wall.
Of course, all the services such as property and security are also handled by my father's company.
In other words, his eyes and ears are all over the park and outside, and he can know everyone's every move.
The taxi pulled up slowly in front of a courtyard.
Shen Jie looked out of the front window, and Johns was already standing at the door with two servants waiting.
As soon as the driver stopped, he hurriedly got out of the car and went to open the trunk, but was politely stopped by Johns.
Johns handed out two bills and paid for the car, while a maid opened the car door for Shen Jie and helped her out of the car, while the other maid had already taken out Shen Jie's luggage from the trunk and gently closed the door.
The taxi drove away, and the two boxes were carried in by the maid first, and only Shen Jie and Johns were left in front of the door of this courtyard.
"Uncle johns~~~," Shen Jie shouted affectionately.
"Your father is waiting for you." Johns's voice didn't rise or fall.
"I thought he was still in the company today." Shen Jie showed a cynical look.
"He should be busy with the company's business, come with me."
Shen Jie followed behind Johns and walked through the garden in front of his house. This excessively large, classic and symmetrical European-style garden really amazed Shen Jie when she first walked in, but soon after, she began to miss the old bungalow she lived in before. Although it is relatively not very spacious, the environment is noisy, and there is no such large courtyard, but in comparison, it has more life atmosphere.
The seedlings in the garden were apparently freshly pruned and angular, but it was strange to see any sheared foliage on the ground. The gardener, who was busy in the garden, saw Shen Jie come back, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and showed a relieved expression.
"Miss." "Miss." "Miss." ……
In just one hour, it was like traveling through a time tunnel, Shen Jie thought.
Just now, I felt like I was walking in an alley in the 80s of the last century, but now I have come to a place that seems to be from abroad.
Two different worlds with such a strong contrast are, for the size of the city, just a "wall" apart.
The place was familiar, because it was the home she had lived in for years, but it seemed a little strange at this moment, because there was a feeling of tension in the air. All the servants were in a state of nervousness and busyness, but they couldn't understand what they were up to.
The maid Lao Li saw Shen Jie and smiled: "Miss, come back!" ”
"Uncle Li, how are you doing?"
The news of "Mademoiselle is back" soon spread among the employees of the house, and it spread from top to bottom.
The tense and busy atmosphere just now seemed to have disappeared with the spread of the news, and this family gradually returned to the way Shen Jie remembered.
Shen Jie pondered in her heart, it stands to reason that at this point in time, her father should be in the company. I didn't say exactly when I would come back, didn't he go to the company recently?
It can't be that he was targeted as soon as he went out from Xiao Yao's side, right?
If that's the case, maybe he has already accepted Xiao Yao.
With such an ostrich fantasy in her heart, Shen Jie followed Johns into the main entrance of the bungalow.
She was greeted by a Filipino maid, because she was young, her language was not very proficient, and she did not have particularly complicated interpersonal relationships, Shen Jie had a good relationship with her.
“Lisa!” Shen Jie greeted the little maid warmly.
Lisa's eyes were filled with a hint of worry: "Lady, the Master is waiting for you in the studio."
She saw Johns' face on the side and closed her mouth again.
"Uh......" Shen Jie's heart tightened.
She sat down on a chair in the doorway, and Lisa squatted down with ease, resting Shen Jie's right foot on her knee and untying her shoelaces.
Then, Lisa helped her take off her left sneaker and put it neatly in the shoe cabinet.
Shen Jie, wearing only white cut-out socks, stepped on the spotless hall floor.
The design of this house was made by his father, and he said that his own family was in charge of his own affairs.
The ornate hall with three floors in front of him is his rather conceited so-called wonderful pen. Although it is true that with the extravagant crystal chandeliers, sculptures and other decorative elements, it does present a palace-like grandeur, but Shen Jie feels that the reason why her father is most satisfied is that he can overlook most of the public areas of the house from the third floor, which fully meets his core need to control everything.
There is only one viewing elevator in one corner of the house, which is mainly used for entertaining guests, and usually the family takes the stairs to go up and down the stairs, even the father himself.
This was my father's own rule, and his exact words were, "I don't welcome laziness here."
The escalator upstairs is a rotating structure, and although this staircase is magnificent, it also takes up a lot of space in the house - there is enough space for Xiao Yao at the bottom of the stairs. Shen Jie always felt that this was unnecessary, and even secretly suspected that her father had made the house like this, just because she didn't want her grandmother to live there.
As she spiraled up the stairs, Shen Jie asked Johns, "Johns, how does my dad look?" how is his mood?”
John replied, "I think that's hard to say."
Lisa pushed open the door to the study for the eldest lady and stepped aside.
Shen Jie took a deep breath and walked in with Johns.
"Dad, I'm back." Shen Jie said in a pretended well-behaved voice.
The walls of the study were covered with dark wallpaper and stripes of golden threads, emitting a shimmering light, and on the ceiling was another crystal chandelier that shimmered with white light, illuminating the room.
My father stood behind a beautifully carved hand-carved wooden table, with his back to him, looking at the spine of a book on the bookshelf with all kinds of foreign languages printed on it.
An antique wall clock ticks on the shelves, and next to my father is an antique chair with woven horsehair cushions that add texture.
On the wall hangs a large oil painting, showing a woman in a gorgeous long dress, leaning over a writing desk, contemplating.
"Dad, I'm back." Seeing that the other party did not react, Shen Jie said again.
"It's good to be back." Father spoke, in a gentle voice.
Shen Jie called out with some emotion: "Dad." ”
Dad turned around, and the girl saw that his hair was really slightly graying.
"You've lost weight - why did you cut your hair?" The father held up his gold-wire glasses, and then changed his words: "It doesn't seem to be thin." Lost weight? Johns. ”
Johns replied in fluent Chinese: "In my opinion, I am still a little fatter." ”
Are you sure? Shen Jie lowered her head nervously and examined her figure.
So, Xiao Yao really took good care of himself?
“Johns.” The father called the butler's name again.
“Sir.” Uncle Johns stood up straight and pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose.
The father did not speak, but waved his hand slightly.
“Sir!” Johns's eyes were filled with a hint of love and forbearance, and this time the "Sir" was like an admonition to the master.
“Do what I told you.” Father insisted.
“I beg your pardon,My lady.” The amiable Uncle Johns had turned around and bowed deeply to himself.
Then, Johns reached out and clicked the door of the study and locked it.
? Only then did Shen Jie realize that something was wrong with the situation.
Or rather, a big deal.
Daddy, come here.
(End of chapter)