It was drizzling in the port city for a whole week.

Even if it rained, Xia Li still visited the characteristic places in the port city, and the mobile phone album was already filled with the materials of this collection.

Early on Sunday morning, Xia Li came to the front desk with his packed luggage.

Just happened to meet Qi Zhou, who was still wearing black short sleeves and drinking water at the front desk after morning exercise, Qi Zhou's eyes fell on the white suitcase in her hand and paused, and then slowly put down the cup in her hand.

He stood up with a smile: "Gone?" ”

"Hmm," Xia Li handed the key card in his hand to the bar, and his voice was soft, "Check out." ”

Qizhou took the room card that Xia Li put on the table of the bar, bent down on the computer to process the check-out procedures, and then returned the 100 yuan in cash as a deposit to Xia Li.

"I'll come back when I have time."

Xia Li glanced at the hazy drizzle outside the window, smiled and nodded: "Yes." ”

Check out, Xia Li's taxi has not yet arrived.

There are always a few traffic jams in rainy weather, not to mention tourist destinations like Lamma Island. Xia Li looked at the long red on the taxi navigation page and sighed secretly in his heart.

"The car hasn't arrived yet?"

Qizhou poured Xia Li a glass of water, and looked sideways at the gradually heavier rain outside: "It's normal for traffic jams to be in this weather. ”

Xia Li answered in a low voice, she sat down in front of the bar, holding the suitcase beside her with one hand, and looked down at the slowly approaching taxi in her hand.

Qi Zhou took out a pen and a stack of sticky notes from the bar and put them on the table.

"If you're happy, you can write something and post it on the wall over there."

Xia Li raised his head and looked at Qi Zhou's line of sight, where a blackboard hung on the wall not far away.

There are a lot of sticky notes on the blackboard.

She got up and walked to the blackboard, looking at the sticky notes and photos pasted on the blackboard, many of which were left by tourists who came to play, and some of them were taken by Qizhou himself to record the bits and pieces about the private room.

Xia Li turned around and returned to the bar and picked up the pen on the bar.

She pulled out the cap of her pen and stared at the incessant rain outside for a long time before she lowered her head and wrote seriously on the pile of sticky notes.

She tore off the sticky notes and walked over to the blackboard and pasted them in a not-so-obvious corner.

When the sticky notes were pasted, the taxi also happened to stop at the door of the guesthouse.

"The car I've been waiting for has arrived." Xia Li's gaze shifted from the freshly pasted sticky note to Qi Zhou's body.

She took the suitcase and greeted Qizhou: "I'll go first." ”

"Okay, have a nice trip."

Xia Li pushed open the glass door of the homestay, and the wind chimes hanging on the doorknob shook softly with the action of opening the door and made a pleasant sound.

The crisp wind chimes sounded in the house, and Qi Zhou, who was standing at the bar, looked at the back of Xia Li pushing the door out.

Xia Li stepped out of the homestay, and the oncoming wind ruffled her hair, and the dense drizzle blew on her face with the wind.

She let go of her grip on the doorknob, raised her hand above her head to try to block out some of the raindrops, and dragged her suitcase into the car.

When the door was closed, the damp summer breeze blew slightly across the pale yellow sticky notes on the blackboard, and the hem of the paper that was not stuck was slightly curled with the breeze.

The pale yellow sticky note paper hiding in the corner reads-

"May all the best.

See you again.

——2023.6.Xia Li"

It wasn't until the taxi on by Xia Li drove away from the front of the B&B that Qi Zhou retracted his gaze.

He sat back in the soft chair he had bought and was about to turn on his phone, when he caught a glimpse of the black umbrella at the bottom of the bar.

As if remembering something, he tapped his fingertips on the camera......

Red and white taxis driving in the rain.

Xia Li, who got into the car, looked at the bay of Lamma Island that slowly disappeared behind him little by little, and the music in the headphones happened to be playing the prelude to Zhou Huimin's "Favorite".

"The sky is blue."

"The breeze adds romance."

"The tenderness in my heart is like the sea."

"Infinite."

"Intentionally or unintentionally met in that far away."

"Who hasn't had a reverie when you meet for the first time."

.......

When Xie Yin saw the news from Qizhou, he had just finished a meeting in the conference hall of Tan Palace.

He clicked on the message sent by Qi Zhou on the screen, and the picture was the umbrella he gave Xia Li at the temple that time, and next to the umbrella was a black and white gift box.

Xie Yin exited the picture and clicked on the voice sent by Qizhou:

"That sister entrusted me to you, when will you have time to get it?"

Xie Yin's gaze fell on the picture again, and an unknown smile appeared on the bottom of his eyes.

The door of the conference room was pushed open, and Xie Yin walked out with his feet raised.

"Sir, the car is ready."

When the driver saw Xie Yin walking out of the conference room, he immediately greeted him respectfully.

Xie Yin replied to Qizhou with a message, closed the phone, and put the phone in the suit pocket.

"Yes, let's go to the private room first."

-

It was four or five o'clock in the afternoon when Xia Li returned to the capital, and it was dusk.

The blood-colored red sun slowly hid under the western mountain, and the wisps of afterglow in the sky were no longer as dazzling as in the daytime.

Originally, before getting on the plane, Su Jing told her that Qi Du would come to pick her up and go back to dinner with her.

But after getting off the plane, she didn't see Qi Du at the exit.

Xia Li pushed her luggage and stood at the exit, facing the occasional hot summer breeze, blowing her hair scattered over her shoulders slightly.

She looked at the long line of taxis parked in front of the door, and then looked down at the chat page between her and Qi Du.

Still stuck in the sentence on the day of coming to Hong Kong City [remember to get the certificate at half past nine tomorrow. 】

She hesitated for a moment, remembering the gossip she heard on the plane that the two little girls next to her were discussing about Qi Du's tryst with a female Internet celebrity in a bar, and finally she chose to exit the chat page with Qi Du, pushing her luggage and walking towards the taxi parked in front of her.

As soon as she got in the car, she received a call from Su Jing.

Su Jing's voice on the other end of the phone was a little helpless:

"Li Li, I heard Uncle Qi say that Qi Du may not be able to go if there is something, and Mom and Dad are going to pick you up now?"

"No need Mom," Xia Li replied as she turned her head to look at the sunset outside the car window, "I'll just take a taxi back by myself." ”

"Okay, be careful on the road."

"Got it, Mom."

As soon as Xia Li got home, he pushed open the door, and saw Xia Youming running out of the kitchen without even having time to put down the spatula.

"Li Li is back," Xia Youming's eyes were full of doting when he looked at Xia Li, and his tone couldn't hide the excitement, "Have fun in Hong Kong City?" ”

Since the Xia family's capital chain was broken, they could only dismiss all the servants in the family, and all the housework in the family fell on them since then.

"I'm super happy," Xia Li put the suitcase at the entrance, "I also went to the temple to burn incense for the Bodhisattva, and begged it to bless us." ”

Xia Youming smiled: "Our Li Li is really too sensible. ”

Xia Li looked around the house for a week, but did not find Su Jing's figure: "What about Mom?" ”

Xia Youming turned around and said to Xia Li as he walked into the kitchen:

"She heard that you were coming back and went to buy your favorite roast duck, and she has been out for a while, so she should be back soon."

Xia Li followed Xia Youming into the kitchen, and his eyes fell on Xia Youming's slightly clumsy back of the stir-fry, and he felt a little uncomfortable.

There was the sound of the door lock turning in his ears, and Xia Li turned his head when he heard the sound and saw Su Jing coming back.

I haven't seen her for just a week, but Su Jing seems to be a lot haggard again.

After seeing Xia Li, Su Jing, who was tired, showed a smile on her face, and wrinkles piled up at the corners of her eyes:

"Li Li is back."

"Mom."

Looking at Su Jing's tired but reluctant smile, Xia Li didn't know why, he only felt that his nose was a little sour.

She watched Su Jing slowly walk in front of her, and she had always been careful to see that a lot of white hair appeared on Su Jing's head at some point.

Xia Li suddenly remembered that the day after the accident, she watched Su Jing, who had not slept all night, hand over all kinds of jewelry from the dressing room to the auction house, and even sold the pearl necklace that she had brought with her for half her life.

The money that could be exchanged still couldn't make up for the company's losses.

During the meal, Xia Youming and Su Jing vigorously served Xia Li vegetables.

Xia Li looked at the bowls that were about to be piled up into a small hill, and hurriedly covered them with his hands: "Enough is enough, I can't finish eating." ”

"Li Li, you have lost weight, you need to eat more."

While speaking, Su Jing wrapped another slice of roast duck for Xia Li, dipped it in sweet sauce and put it in Xia Li's bowl.

Xia Li looked at the dishes in the bowl that he couldn't eat a little helplessly, and sighed.

"That's right, Mom and Dad." As if he suddenly remembered something, Xia Li raised his eyes to look at Xia Youming and Su Jing who were sitting opposite him.

"Then our marriage contract with the Qi family...... Do you still count? ”

Xia Youming's movements paused, and he lowered his eyes and did not speak.

Su Jing was silent for a moment before she spoke: "Li Li, do you really want to marry Qi Du?" ”

Not long ago, the Qi family came to talk about getting the certificate, and Su Jing and Xia Youming learned that Qi Du released Xia Li's pigeons.

They have always loved Xia Li, and they can also see that Qi Du doesn't attach importance to that marriage contract.

Su Jing's words slowly came into Xia Li's ears, Xia Li lowered his head silently, and poked the rice in the bowl with chopsticks.

Do you really want to marry Qi Du......

She hadn't even met Qi Du a few times, and she knew very little about him.

Of course, she didn't want to marry someone who didn't know each other at all, but now she had to choose this for the sake of the Xia family.

The warm atmosphere at the dining table was instantly quiet, and the cold incandescent lights of the dining room reflected in the glass windows.

Xia Li's hand holding the chopsticks tightened a little, as if he had made up his mind, and his tone was calm:

"I thought."

As long as I can contribute to the Xia family, it's good.

Su Jing's voice trembled a little:

"Li Li, marriage is a major event in life, you don't have to ...... reluctantly"

"Mom," Xia Li raised his eyes to Su Jing's slightly reddened eyes, only feeling sad, "I know that you all have a headache for the company's affairs, and you can't eat and sleep well all day." ”

Her eyes were a little moist, and even her voice trembled slightly when she spoke:

"Since I was a child, you will satisfy me no matter what I want, and now that I have grown up, there is an accident at home, and I also want to help you share some of the pressure."

Xia Li will never forget the whole garden of constant temperature white roses prepared for her by Xia Youming and Su Jing in the port city where the first snow fell that year.

Xia Li took a deep breath and held back the tears that were about to burst out of his eyes: "I don't feel reluctant, as long as I can help you, I am willing to do anything." ”

Xia Youming, who hadn't spoken for a long time, sighed, and his tone was heavy:

"But Li Li, Mom and Dad don't want the happiness of your life to be exchanged, you can earn it again when the money is gone, even if you are bankrupt, then your mother and I can find a way to live, but ....."

"If you want to trade the happiness of your life, Mom and Dad would rather live like this."