After Lin Yushan completed the leave procedures in the counselor's office, he got on the bus for the return trip.

She tilted her head against the window, watching thoughtfully at the sinking sunset.

Two hours ago, when she received a call from Xu Mengzhou, the person opposite only spit out two sentences hoarsely:

"My mother passed away last night."

"It's been three years... Go home. ”

When I arrived at the funeral home, the mourning hall was already crowded with unfamiliar faces. Lin Yushan struggled to shuttle through it, trying to find where Xu Mengzhou was. But the ears are keenly aware of the small chatter.

"Tsk... This is the specification of the funeral of the chairman's wife? It's a little shabby! Oh, look ahead! The person standing in front of the statue in a black shirt is Xu Mengzhou, the only son of the chairman of Xinneng Group. Guess the identity of this son, you will never think of it. ”

"I know the old Mr. Xu of Xinneng Group, but Mr. Xu's son... I've never heard anyone else mention it. But what's there to guess about this, the rich second generation. must spend all day long, is it possible that there is anything serious to do? ”

"Haha! You don't believe it, he became a high school teacher as soon as he graduated from graduate school! ”

"How is it possible to deceive people less!" The other party sighed, obviously not convinced, "High school teacher? Mr. Xu's only child! How much does he want to let go of the rich second generation and run to be a teacher? ”

"Look at you, it's small. On the contrary, I think this Xu Mengzhou is quite ambitious! Unlike his father, Mr. Xu, when he was young, he relied on his wife, but now his wife is dead and his daughter-in-law is developed, sucking women's blood! “

"This kid looks really talented, why don't you want to take over the family class, it's a pity ......"

Whispers kept drilling into the ears. Lin Yushan ignored these rumors, and she walked through the crowd to the coffin area.

In front of the mourning hall, there is a posthumous photo, in which the person is smiling very kindly, but he will never be refreshed again. Lin Yushan's eyes were red, and he solemnly walked to the spiritual position and knelt down, kowtowing three times.

Xu Mengzhou was standing next to him, greeting the guests who came to mourn. He had a small white flower pinned to his chest and a black armband around his arm. Standing silently in front of the coffin, he bowed to the crowd.

His pale and handsome face could not hide his tiredness, and under a pair of delicate rimless glasses, his bloodshot eyes were no longer as clear as they used to be. Strands of hair covered her haggard eyebrows, and the cyan stubble on her chin had already popped out.

I haven't seen each other for three years, and I don't want to meet again but at a funeral.

Although he often uses his mobile phone to communicate information, seeing a vivid Xu Mengzhou standing in front of him again, the impact on Lin Yushan is completely different from the feeling of typing on a mobile phone.

After receiving a group of guests, Xu Mengzhou returned to the side of the mourning hall and stood still.

Even after three years, his dress habits have not changed at all.

Xu Mengzhou stood alone. The neckline is slightly open under the slender neck, and the cuffs are half-pulled up to the forearm, revealing the strong and powerful muscle lines and cyan blood vessels. The well-cut suit trousers made his long legs stand taller. It's just that the shirt that is worn meticulously on weekdays is wrinkled due to the neglect of taking care of his mother's affairs.

His slender fingers caressed his mother's portrait, and his eyes were a little distracted.

"Teacher Xu." Lin Yushan plucked up the courage to call him.

Xu Mengzhou came back to her senses, she was stunned at first, and almost didn't recognize her, three years have passed, and she is no longer the childish little girl in her memory. has grown a lot taller, and compared with the well-behaved and silent appearance before, his expression is more stubborn and alienated.

He moved her a chair next to him and motioned for her to come over.

Lin Yushan picked up the chair and moved a little farther away from him. After sitting down, keep your hands on your knees.

Reuniting on such a serious occasion, both of them were a little awkward out of place.

Lin Yushan held back a sentence for a long time: "... Did Aunt Shen say anything at the end? ”

"She said she wanted to see you again, but she couldn't hold you over." Xu Mengzhou closed his eyes and didn't look at her. "She also hopes you don't want to be because of your father..."

He paused, and after a while, he spoke again: "You are strong. If you want to come back if you want to come back, this is also your home. ”

This is the third year that Lin Yushan has moved out of Xu Mengzhou's house.

In the past three years, she has reached adulthood and gone to college. Even though the school and Xu Mengzhou's family were in the same city, she never went back once, for fear that she would not be able to control her feelings for him.

Now that they met, she found that Xu Mengzhou was only thirty years old, and there was a tired look in his clear eyes.

His fragile expression made Lin Yushan feel endless pity. "Don't talk about this, Mr. Xu." She digressed the subject. "What about my wife? Why are you the only one greeting guests, and she is not with you. ”

Xu Mengzhou's eyes darkened even more, and he said coldly: "Over there." ”

Lin Yushan got up and looked around, and finally found Xu Mengzhou's wife, Huang Ying, on the other side of the mourning hall.

With a bright smile, Huang Ying was chatting with a group of guests. The hands that had done the ornate manicures rose and fell exaggeratedly with the tone of her voice.

Xu Mengzhou, who was twenty-four years old at the time, obeyed his father's arrangement and married the woman his father fancied. It's just that since Huang Ying entered the door, the light in his eyes has dimmed a little.

Lin Yushan has an indescribable feeling about Huang Ying, but he has still been able to maintain a polite relationship with this master and wife for many years.

She stared intently in Huang Ying's direction. I saw Huang Ying answer the phone, his eyes became erratic, Shaoqing stood up and hurried to the direction of the bathroom.

"Teacher Xu, I have something to go out." Lin Yushan noticed Huang Ying's strange appearance, and her intuition told her that something was wrong, so he got up and followed.

"Go ahead."

The bathroom was empty, there was no one, and it was so quiet that you could hear the sound of water dripping from the faucet.

"Obviously coming in this direction......" she muttered to herself, suspecting that she had lost it, and was about to leave when the sound of someone whispering to her ear came from her ears.

The nerves suddenly tensed, and the instantaneous stimulation made her hold her breath and dare not move.

After trying to calm herself, she cautiously shifted her steps forward, poking her head to carefully discern the source of the sound.

The sound came from the men's restroom. As her footsteps deepened, she could hear the full picture of the conversation.

"Shhhh Be careful, what will happen when you will be heard. ”

"Then we'll solve it quickly."

"Hurry up? It was because you couldn't bear it for a moment that I was brought to this place by you. ”

"Then don't stop." The man flattered, "It's so fresh here, haha." I haven't tried it in this kind of place. ”

The woman snorted, "You can figure it out......

The man tried his best to please the woman, "I know, although you are married, you don't like him at all." ”

"How can you be sure I don't like him?"

The woman's rhetorical question seemed to irritate him, and he sped up. The woman passively cooperates with the man, and her voice gradually loses control.

It was Huang Ying's voice, and she couldn't get it wrong.

Lin Yushan turned his back. Her heart was beating faster, fine beads of sweat were oozing from her forehead, and her breathing was getting faster, and she covered her mouth to prevent herself from making a sound.

It's a pity that I didn't bring a mobile phone, so I couldn't record the secret scandal of this man and woman.

She stayed in Xu Mengzhou's house for almost five years, so she naturally saw earlier than outsiders that Xu Mengzhou and Huang Ying's magnetic fields did not match, and they were not as affectionate as they showed to the outside world.

But let her really be in this kind of unsightly scene, Lin Yushan was still scared into a cold sweat.

She quickly left the bathroom while the two who had stolen the joy had not yet discovered the existence of a third person.

The scene just now was so shocking that it took her a long time to gather her thoughts before returning to the mourning hall. I saw Xu Mengzhou standing at the door of the empty hall smoking a cigarette.

It was drizzling outside, and Xu Mengzhou stood under the eaves like that, standing tall like a fragile and beautiful sculpture. The rain drenched his back, crushing against the skin on his back. The sparks flickered between his fingers, he was surrounded by a faint smoke, and his back in the rain looked a little lonely.

Lin Yushan approached him and patted him on the shoulder.

Xu Mengzhou turned to look at her and asked, "Where did you go just now?" ”

She replied slyly: "I'm a junior, and Mr. Xu is still so lenient." ”

As if realizing that something was wrong, Xu Mengzhou lifted his glasses and said after a while, "Have you seen your master, she was still chatting with the guests over there just now." ”

"Nope." She almost blurted it out.

Huang Ying's matter was too sudden, and she didn't have time to digest it, so she changed the topic and said: "It's very hard for Mr. Xu to do so many things alone, the two of us will take turns in the next two days, you rest tonight, and I will keep vigil." ”

Xu Mengzhou's eyes showed a little relieved.

Lin Yushan took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, took one out and put it in his mouth, and stretched out his palm to him. "Teacher Xu, borrow your lighter for use."

Xu Mengzhou's mood changed instantly, and he looked at Lin Yushan in disbelief. The girl, whom he had been raising since he was thirteen, had learned to smoke.

"When did you learn to smoke?" He didn't know when she had contracted the habit. A nameless fire rushed to his head, and he snatched the cigarette from her mouth and threw it away, suppressing his anger and asking.

"I don't know, I probably learned it from you." She replied lazily. Seeing Xu Mengzhou's face with anger, she did the same, reached out and grabbed the half-smoked cigarette between his fingers and put it in her mouth.

It was the smell of tobacco mixed with Xu Mengzhou's own breath, and she raised her head and took a breath, fantasizing about the taste of intertwining with his lips and teeth.

Xu Mengzhou felt an indescribable emotion rise in his heart, and he only felt that the person in front of her was like two people before.

Before Lin Yushan became an adult, he was very quiet and well-behaved in front of him and his wife. This girl, who carefully lowered her head and called him Teacher Xu, seemed to have been rebellious for no reason since the first day she became an adult, as if she had unlocked some kind of seal.

He was amazed at her rebellion, and even more powerless at this uncontrollable change.

"Yushan, I'm your elder." Xu Mengzhou is up. "Put the cigarette down." He had changed his tone.

Lin Yushan was most disgusted with Xu Mengzhou's use of his status as an elder to suppress himself. She has always called Xu Mengzhou Teacher according to the rules, and it is too cruel for her to use the word elder to characterize Xu Mengzhou's status in her heart.

"Teacher Xu, you're thinking too much." She stared straight at him. "You're my dad's student, and we're peers. You're only eleven years older than me, and you don't have any children yet......" She choked impatiently, but regretted it before she could finish speaking.

Did he poke Xu Mengzhou's sore spot?

I have been preparing for pregnancy with my wife for many years, but there is no result, which is the last straw that crushes a man's self-confidence.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have been at this time..."

Xu Mengzhou didn't take her words to heart, nor did he give any reaction to her transgression. He just reached out again and snatched the half cigarette and threw it on the ground, stepping on it.

"It's been a hard time for you to help keep vigil these past few days. After my mother's matter is over, come home with me, there are still things at home that you didn't have time to take away before the start of school, you can see which ones you want and which ones you don't, let's take them together this time. ”

Xu Mengzhou didn't look at her, turned around and walked into the mourning hall.

Got it. She silently replied in her heart. Not disturbing each other may be the best outcome for him and for himself.

Lin Yushan followed in. She took the initiative to pick up the return gift and helped Xu Mengzhou hand it to the guests one by one. Yu Guang caught a glimpse of Huang Ying finally returning to the mourning hall, she was lazily leaning against the wall, and her face still had the blush left behind after the incident. The two looked at each other and exchanged a conventional smile.

Lin Yushan walked up to Huang Ying and shouted, "Master." ”

Huang Ying greeted her very politely, "Yushan is back, and I haven't seen her for three years, and it's getting more and more beautiful." ”

"Master, do you know where the bathroom is?" She asked.

Huang Ying's smile froze on her face for a moment, but it quickly returned to normal. She looked up and pretended to be relaxed and said, "What are you going to do in the bathroom?" ”

"Going to the toilet, of course." Lin Yushan stared at her with a smile.

Huang Ying was shocked that she had said such outrageous words, and soon, she responded with a bigger smile: "The bathroom is on your right, just go to the end and turn the corner." Her gorgeous face changed to a friendly and soft expression, and she took Lin Yushan's hand. Yushan, if you come back this time, you will stay at our house for a few more days, and we miss you very much. ”

Lin Yushan didn't know if anyone missed her, but Huang Ying definitely wouldn't miss her.

The voice of the funeral master of ceremonies came to my ears, and it was time to hold a farewell ceremony for the remains.

The people in the mourning hall all put down their things one after another, and the people who exchanged their heads and ears also separated, greeting the deceased with their eyes.

Xu Mengzhou also stood up, his eyes were red, he held the script of the family's speech in his hand, and walked to the microphone to prepare to speak.

The only person in the world who really cares about Xu Mengzhou has left after all.

Lin Yushan reminded Huang Ying, who was still distracted. "Teacher Xu is waiting for you."

Huang Ying reacted and turned around hastily, she walked towards Xu Mengzhou, took his hand under the gaze of everyone, and looked at her husband with a pair of affectionate eyes. The husband and wife carried out the funeral procedures step by step according to the process, performing a harmonious scene to the outside world.

Lin Yushan didn't follow suitably. Here, she doesn't have a clear identity, just an outsider who is sheltered by the Xu family.

Her heart is also not visible.