After Yu Mei returned to medical school, she restarted her work and life mode of teaching and research in medical school, and the days passed quietly in a busy and fulfilling way.

One day near evening, Yu Mei was still sorting out the experimental materials of a newly written scientific research paper in the office, and received a call from Ye Lina unexpectedly. Ye Lina told Yu Mei: "Professor Yu, what experiments are you busy doing?" Relax, relax, and don't make yourself so miserable. I'm already downstairs in the medical school teaching building, and I know you're still in the office, so I'll be waiting for you downstairs. ”

Yu Mei was a little surprised, she and Ye Lina hadn't seen each other for a long time, and she did feel a little tired recently, but she couldn't find a reason to let go of the work she was doing. Now, she felt that it would be better to take time to rest and clear her mind. Thinking like this, she put down the large pile of experimental materials in her hand, cleaned up the manuscripts on the table, and went downstairs.

Yu Mei went downstairs to look around but didn't find Ye Lina's figure, at this time, Ye Lina stepped down from a blue BMW car parked on the side of the road, stood there and looked at Yu Mei who was looking around blankly and waved, Yu Mei knew that she was driving by herself.

"Let's go, let's get together together." After Yu Mei got into the car, Ye Lina drove the car out of the medical school, and the BMW drove through the traffic and soon left the city. Yu Mei asked suspiciously, "Where are you taking me?" Ye Lina said while driving: "Can I still sell you, a scholar, or not, you will know when you arrive." ”

Half an hour later, at the first exit of the expressway, Ye Lina shifted gears and slowed down into a winding mountain road, and then drove more than ten kilometers before entering a misty valley, and the scenery changed significantly. In the flat part of the valley, there are faint rows of houses with red tiles and white walls, and on the surrounding mountains, there are patches of Chinese medicinal herbs planted everywhere, and they bloom with colorful flowers, which look colorful and naturally make people think about it.

Looking forward through the car window, in the valley, the nearby stream meanders and the spring water gurgles, the distant mountains are like daisies, and the gorgeous sunset is like a huge oil painting background, set off between the magnificent world depicted by the mountains and rivers, which makes people feel fascinated.

Ye Lina drove into a green courtyard, which was faced by a naturally formed boulder, on which were written in red paint in several vigorous cursive characters: "Medicine God Garden", which is the medicinal base of the medical school. Legend has it that Hua Tuo, a miracle doctor, once collected medicine in the mountains of this place, and left a lot of folk tales about hanging pots to help the world.

The forests in the courtyard are towering, the birds are chirping, and the fragrance of flowers is intoxicating. "What are we doing at the medicinal herb base?" Yu Mei asked suspiciously, looking at the misty mountains in front of her, smelling the air permeated with the unique aromatic smell of Chinese medicinal herbs, her eyes became foggy. With its unique geographical conditions, it is not only the base of medicinal materials for the medical school, but also a well-known health resort.

When Yu Meiji was in her second year of college, she and Ye Lina had both been here because of the need for elective courses, and more than ten years had passed in a blink of an eye. In the past ten years, although things are different from people, the Chinese herbal medicine base in front of me seems to be the original beauty. The same mountain, the same forest, the same stone path in the forest. It's just that there are a few more villas with exquisite architecture, hidden in the huge trees.

Ye Lina looked at Yu Mei who was puzzled and laughed: "You are still the same virtue as before, you only know work and study, and you don't know anything about life." Don't you know that this is not only a medicinal herb base, but also a good place for leisure? Let's go, I'll take you to the Divine Doctor's Villa. Tonight, we're staying here, and it's been more than ten years since we left school, and we haven't talked all night like we used to. Tonight, pour out all the words that have been accumulated for more than ten years, pour them cleanly, pour them thoroughly, otherwise, they will taste bad in the stomach. ”

Yu Mei smiled and said, "Okay, if you come, you will be safe." I'll leave it to you, a rich woman, tonight, whether it's leisure or leisure, whatever you want, whatever you want. Just don't let your husband who can't live without you be jealous. Thinking that after returning to work in medical school, she has been busy with teaching and scientific research, and it is difficult to have leisure time, so Yu Mei settled down and relaxed.

Ye Lina booked a luxurious large suite of rooms with a courtyard and a hot spring bath on the ground floor in advance, and after the two entered the room for a short rest, Ye Lina picked up the phone on the desk to call for food: "A plate of roast boar, a plate of local pheasant roasted bamboo shoots, a spicy stream snail, a pot of streamed fish stewed tofu soup, a plate of vegetarian fried bean sprouts, a plate of cold bitter chrysanthemum, a pot of rice wine brewed by the villa, plus two platters of seasonal fresh mountain fruits, must be authentic fruits in the mountains." You write down the delivery time and room number, and the food will be delivered two hours later, and it will be delivered to Room 1026 on the first floor of Zhuxi Garden, Divine Doctor Villa. ”

Ye Lina took out two new cotton swimsuits from the commodity cabinet in the guest room, unpacked the bag and changed the skirt with Yu Mei, put those clothes into the automatic washing machine in the room, set the washing and drying program, and then put on a clean bathrobe on her body, the two laughed and walked to the courtyard across the door, Ye Lina tested the water temperature in the hot spring bath with her hands, and the two went down to the bath one after another.

It was the early autumn weather, and when I soaked in the hot spring water of about 400C, the meridians of the whole body seemed to stretch out, and the feeling of exhaustion suddenly dissipated without a trace. Yu Mei has also heard of the wonders of the hot springs in the medicinal material base, and now it has been developed by the Shenyi Villa Group to bring the water of the hot springs to the villa, so that this unique natural resource has been used more reasonably, and it is also a beautiful thing to make the best use of things.

After moving her hands and feet in the bath, Yelina said, "I like the hot springs here the most." Last year, I had the opportunity to inspect the hot spring facilities here with the CEO of a pharmaceutical group that has business dealings, the hot spring water of the villa is taken from the depths of the underground pollution-free bedrock, the water quality is colorless and transparent, containing fluorine, iron, manganese, metasilicic acid and other rich minerals and trace elements, among which the content of fluorine and metasilicic acid has reached the national medical value concentration standard after testing, which can effectively clean the skin, can soften the skin keratin, and often soak in the hot spring will make the skin very smooth. It also has a certain auxiliary effect on some chronic diseases, especially rheumatism. I take the time to soak a few times a month, and it works really well. ”

As the night darkens, the courtyard of each room is independent and private, separating the hustle and bustle of the outside. The small courtyard is not large, but it is planted with more than a dozen kinds of flowers and plants, exuding bursts of attractive fragrance. A rockery made of more than a dozen large and small rocks stands in a corner of the courtyard, which looks exquisite.

Under the lights, the hot spring baths are steaming. In a pool of gentle spring water, the body and mind were released transcendentally in an instant, and there was a different kind of warmth slowly flowing into the tired body, Yu Mei closed her eyes and lay down on the stone slab by the pool at will, feeling that she had never been so comfortable and quiet in her heart.

Ye Lina looked at Yu Mei's still slender figure, and asked with concern, "Is your man who studied for a doctorate back?" Yu Mei opened her eyes a little lazily, looked at the light coming from behind the rockery next to the hot spring bath, and said indifferently: "The doctor is real, the man is fake, he won't come back." ”

Then he turned his head to look at Ye Lina and said: "I broke up with him a long time ago, he has his new love after going abroad, and he is a rich woman, a rich woman in the real sense, how many times richer than your rich woman, I heard that she is a rich woman with more than 10 million dollars, it is the kind denominated in dollars, he himself said that he is the daughter of a billionaire, from now on, he can lie on top of the gold and silver mountains and be the king of the money mountain." ”

"This man is just unreliable, I saw that he was a very dishonest person at the beginning, but you didn't listen to the persuasion, thinking that he was just dedicated to scientific research and was not good at communicating. You're just too kind to see the sinister nature of people's hearts. This guy really has no conscience, I heard that the cost of his study abroad is still sponsored by you, is that so? Ye Lina was indignant for Yu Mei.

Yu Mei said a little indifferently: "That little subsidy should be regarded as the cost of studying for children from poor families, which can be ignored." People have their own aspirations, and it is understandable that he likes that way of life, and if it rains, you can only let it rain, and you don't have to care. As long as you have an umbrella in your hand, why should you care when it rains? ”

Ye Lina sighed: "Your kindness sometimes really hurts me, you are always so tolerant of people and think so openly." If I don't necessarily let him go, I will consume him to death, so that this negative man will not die well. ”

Yu Mei smiled gently: "Since he has changed and become an invisible rope, what can you do if you don't let him go?" If you don't let him go, you don't let go of yourself, if you want to kill him, you will also consume yourself, do you think this is still necessary? And why let a merciless rope strangle yourself? Does it matter who is who? ”

"You can always give your reasons. However, if you think about it seriously, what you said is right, such a person with no morality and no bottom line, what can you do if you don't let him go? It's better to shoot two times to be neat. Now that there is a suitable target, it is strange that such a beautiful Sister Mei is not chased. Ye Lina completely immersed herself in the hot spring, only revealing one head, and looked at Yu Mei with a little confused eyes.

Yu Mei was reluctant to mention this topic again: "You called me a few days ago and told me that you had a quarrel with Mu Aimin. In my impression, he is a good gentleman, it will definitely not be someone else's fault, you must be bullying someone again, right? ”

Ye Lina got up and sat on the stone slab beside Yu Mei, looked at Yu Mei and opened her mouth, but she wanted to speak again. Yu Mei saw that she didn't speak, so she asked with concern, "What can make it difficult for you, a hot girl?" Ye Lina shook her head and said: "It's not a difficult thing, it's a problem of concept, it's a problem of choice." There is one thing you don't know, I came to the villa with you today just to find an opportunity to tell you. Actually, you should have seen it a long time ago. ”

Yu Mei asked suspiciously, "I already saw it?" See what's coming? You're confused about me, what the hell is going on? What does it have to do with me? ”

"Xueqin, this child, is not our own." Ye Lina sighed, and then said: "Every time Mu Aimin's parents come to the house, they will tell him about it in private. A few days ago, Mu Aimin discussed with me, saying that it was reasonable for his parents to say that they wanted the Mu family to have a real bloodline, at least it can't be said to be an unreasonable request, we should listen to the old man. He said let's have another child, but I firmly disagreed, mainly because I was afraid that this matter would affect Xueqin's child in the future. ”

Yu Mei looked at Ye Lina apologetically, she remembered the first time she saw Xueqin's child that day, and she had inadvertently joked about it, but it made Mu Aimin and Ye Lina embarrassed: "I remember, that day I said that this child is neither like you nor like Mu Aimin." Oops, I was teasing the child, a sentence that was completely unintentional, I didn't expect it to be like this. ”

Ye Lina sighed and told Yu Mei about the origin of the incident: "I was still working in the obstetrics and gynecology department at that time, and one night when I was on duty, a pregnant woman came, who didn't look very old, just in her early twenties. The hospitalization procedures were all handled by herself, and she was about to give birth, but she did not see her family members to accompany her. I asked her with concern, "Why didn't your husband come?" But she suddenly fell to her knees, and I was so frightened that I quickly helped her up. I said you can tell my sister if there is anything, and if I can help, I will definitely help. She said, 'I am not married, and I have no husband. The boyfriend denied the account and denied that it was his child. I now know that he is an irresponsible coward who only wants to sleep with me and not the child. After knowing that I was pregnant, he cruelly said goodbye and never heard from him again. She told me in tears that she really couldn't cut the baby in her heart, so she had been reluctant to choose to have an induced labor. In order to avoid other people's gossip and give birth to the child smoothly, she left the company where she used to work and rented a house outside, thinking about giving birth to the child first. ”

Yu Mei looked at Ye Lina intently: "Then what should I do in the future?" She didn't seem to think seriously about it at all, the difficulty of an unmarried girl with a child is not the kind of difficulty in life, but the kind of difficulty in the world's eyes, she is so young, can she withstand the kind of worldly eyes that hurt people more than knives? ”

"yes, I asked her right then, have you thought about it? What to do in the future? You will encounter unimaginable difficulties. Ye Lina sighed again: "Alas, I looked at the thin woman at that time, and I felt that she would be crushed by the little life that was about to come into the world. Her eyes were full of tears: 'I don't know what to do, sister, can you help me?' I haven't been home to see my parents for more than two years, and every time I celebrate the New Year, I have to make up all kinds of excuses to coax them, and if my parents find out about this, they will definitely be mad at me. I looked at her and was really speechless, not because I didn't want to help her, but because I didn't know how to help her. ”

"The child was born naturally, and Xueqin's child is really well-behaved, and she has been a little different from other children since she was born. Don't cry, don't make trouble, I haven't heard her cry, you look at her, she will look at you and smile, it's the kind of laughter that makes people pity at first sight. Her young mother, however, watched her cry silently all the time, crying and swollen her eyes. The next day, the young unwed mother left me a note, folded and pressed under the glass top of my desk. There are only a few short lines: Sister, I know that you must be a good person, this child will be handed over to you, you can help me send her to the welfare home, if there is a kind person, you can also help me find a home for her. Please, I'm sorry for you. ”

Yelina continued to recall: "No one cared about this lonely and overwhelmed young mother, and no one knew when she quietly left the hospital. When I got the note, it was still wet, and she must have written it in tears. ”

Yu Mei quietly listened to this somewhat pitiful story, and couldn't help asking, "Later, you brought this child back?" ”

Ye Lina sighed: "I discussed it with Mu Aimin, he liked this child when he saw it, he went to our dean to discuss, and the dean said: 'In this way, we will nominally send this child to the welfare home, and then, you will go through the procedures from the welfare home to adopt it legally.'" The director personally called the person in charge of the welfare home, explained some information to him, and asked him to look at the child, and the person in charge of the welfare home was also very understanding, so he made an appointment with us on the spot, and then we went to the welfare home to go through some adoption procedures, but the child had never been to the welfare home for a day, never left me for a day, and I would not let her leave me again. ”

Yu Mei looked at Ye Lina: "In this way, Xueqin, this child has never left you, the real mother, since he was born?" ”

Ye Lina nodded: "Yes, she never left me again." You say, is there any difference between this child Xueqin and my own child? I never thought she wasn't my child, she was my child and now our only child. ”

More than ten years have passed, and Yu Mei remembers the conversation with Ye Lina that night is still in her ears. Looking at Mu Xueqin, who had grown into a big girl in front of her, she couldn't help but sigh that the years had passed quietly, everything seemed to be just yesterday, and everything seemed to happen in the blink of an eye.

Mu Xueqin wiped away the tears on her face and raised her head to look at Yu Mei: "Aunt Mei, you said that I did this, does it mean that I am a child without conscience?" I was thinking about this on the way here, and I was thinking, how am I going to talk to you about this? Now, I finally say it, and I feel relieved when I say it. ”

Yu Mei flashed back to the somewhat confused young face in front of her from the fragments of the past, shook her head and said: "No, Aunt Mei doesn't think so, and she never thinks so, what you do has nothing to do with whether you have a conscience or not, because you have the right to know the truth, and you also have the right to make your own choice." I hope you don't have any psychological burden, and any choice you make, Aunt Mei is understandable. ”

Mu Xueqin's eyes returned to their original clarity and confidence: "Thank you Aunt Mei for your trust, I know that DNA is cold, but family affection is warm." True family affection is to love me like my parents love me, they gave me everything they can give me, this is family affection, it is family affection that nothing can replace. I hope this incident will become a secret between me and Aunt Mei, and I don't want to hurt any relatives around me because of my impulsiveness. ”

Yu Mei looked at the teary-eyed Mu Xueqin and smiled with relief, she stretched out her hands again and hugged Mu Xueqin into her arms, and her tears flowed quietly.

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