Mother Lu cut into diced carrots, eggplants, and pork belly, and made two bowls of simple braised noodles. She brought them out. Lu Yinbing and Liang Shuyao were already sitting on the sofa chatting peacefully. Lu Yunzhang sat upright on the sofa.

Looking at international news, ten years of military service left an indelible mark on his bones.

Mother Lu felt relieved and greeted softly: "It's time to eat noodles."

Lu Yinbing and Liang Shuyao went to the dining table together and said in surprise: "Why are there two bowls? I can't eat that much."

Liang Shuyao silently moved one of the bowls over, sat down, stirred it a few times with chopsticks, and said, "Mine, I just arrived two hours earlier than you."

Two hours? In other words, if his flight had not been delayed, Liang Shuyao would have arrived at the same time as him. Lu Yinbing suddenly smiled and said in a teasing tone: "You said it was so easy for you to return to city B.

Instead of going back to your own home, you have to come to my house and hold my hand until you get home. What are your intentions?"

Liang Shuyao's eyes averted for a moment, only for 0.001 seconds, so quickly that Lu Yinbing didn't notice at all, and the other party replied calmly: "I miss Aunt Min and Uncle Min, can't I? Is it possible that I still miss you?"

"I still don't believe you when you say you miss me." Lu Yinbing shot back not to be outdone.

Liang Shuyao lowered her head and ate the noodles without saying a word.

Why is her cousin so slow? How could she have come back to her house just in time for her to see her? No wonder she hasn’t been in love for so many years. I’m afraid that besides yelling at her face to face, “I

"I like you", she will think that they are just friends and relatives. But that's okay, she can rest assured.

After dinner, it was time for the family of three to talk. Liang Shuyao went back to her room first - since she often came to the Lu family, there was a room specially prepared for her, so she would not disturb the three people in the living room.

Mother Lu looked at her and sighed: "Why have you lost so much weight? No wonder you haven't gone home recently. Are you afraid that we will see you?"

"Mom, you look like my own mother now."

Mother Lu said angrily: "Nonsense, I am! Can you not kiss the flesh and blood that was shed after ten months of pregnancy? Come here."

Lu Yinbing sat over and started calling her mother with a grin on her face. Mother Lu pinched her from head to toe. After checking her, she said, "You're not hurt at all?"

"No, this time it's mostly literary drama, and there's no need to get into the water." Lu Yinbing was honest, so honest that he was even very well-behaved.

"Is there any particularly heart-wrenching plot? I mean," Mother Lu said cryptically, "you know what I mean."

Lu Yunzhang also looked at her, with a hint of worry flashing in his eyes.

It is rumored that Lu Yunbing suffered from moderate depression a few years ago because she was too involved in dramas. The rumors are true. Although she has recovered, it still becomes a thorn in the hearts of Lu's parents and Lu's mother. Every time she thinks about it,

After a while, Lu Yinbing got up and sat down between his parents. He put his arms around each other's necks, held them close to himself, shook them forward and back: "I play the role of an ancient prince, the kind who raises chickens and ducks when he has nothing to do."

, I was picking eggs from the henhouse yesterday, it was very relaxing, it was really okay, you guys, please don’t worry about it unfounded."

Mother Lu was shaken by her and sighed: "Isn't Mom worried about you?"

Lu Yunzhang patted her hand and said gently: "Dad, too."

"I know, I love you the most and will love you forever, okay?" Lu Yinbing buried his face in Lu Yunzhang's neck. Lu Yunzhang narrowed his eyes in enjoyment. Not long after, he heard a slight cough. Lu's mother was looking jealous.

Seeing the deep love between father and daughter, Lu Yunzhang arched his shoulders and sent his daughter into his wife's arms.

After the "rain and dew" passed, Lu Yinbing sat on the single sofa and poured himself a glass of water.

Mother Lu asked: "How is the crew?"

"We have worked with Qin Hanlin before, and I know many of the crew members, so we have a tacit understanding when working together."

"Did you eat well and sleep well?"

"I eat well and sleep soundly. Even now, I am still getting used to living with others."

"Live with someone else?" Mother Lu and Lu Yunzhang looked at each other, and their voices suddenly rose an octave, "Since you were a child, except for your cousin, anyone who gets in your bed will be kicked out of the bed, but there is someone who can live with you.

Together? Not on the same bed, right?"

"Mom, can you please stop hurting me like this?" Lu Yibing laughed dumbly and started arguing with her, "It's just a bed, and I live with another leading actor. I guess you know her name is Xia Yitong. We

We have a lot of opposite roles, so Qin Hanlin asked me to live with her to bond with each other, and we stayed there for a few nights, except for the first night when we were a bit conflicted, but everything was fine after that."

"It's not that simple, right?" Mother Lu looked at her suspiciously and thought about it, "I still find it strange that you are not the kind of person who agrees to live with strangers."

Lu Yinbing said: "She is not a stranger, she is my friend."

"Friend? Isn't your friend that Lai Ying?"

"My new friend is five years younger than me. Children are quite fun. I like her." When Lu Yinbing said this, he suddenly touched his pocket and shouted, "Where is my phone?"

"How do we know your mobile phone? It's in your bag, right? Don't worry, I'll get it for you." Mother Lu took out the silver mobile phone from the side of Lu Yinbing's satchel on the corner of the sofa and handed it to her.

Lu Yanbing turned on her phone and entered the password to unlock the screen. There was 99+ in the upper right corner of the WeChat icon. She clicked on the app. Xia Yitong's message had fallen to the end of the first page. There was a solitary 1. Click on it. There were four Chinese characters with a

punctuation.

【are you home yet?】

The time is 6:30 pm, three hours have passed.

Lu Yinbing stood up, pointed at the phone and said, "Mom and Dad, can I go upstairs and make a call?"

Lu Yunzhang: "Go."

Mother Lu looked at her daughter's back and asked Lu Yunzhang: "Don't you think our daughter's walking steps are a bit big? She looks very anxious. When have you ever seen her walk so fast?"

Lu Yunzhang was watching from behind. Lu Yinbing strode two stairs in one step and nodded in agreement: "It's a bit urgent."

"I have a wild guess."

"What?"

"Our daughter won't be able to fall in love, will she?"

Lu Yunzhang couldn't help laughing and said with a smile: "Don't be ridiculous, our daughter is as nervous as rice noodles crossing a bridge in this regard. She doesn't even know when others are chasing her, and she automatically rejects them thousands of miles away."

"That's right." Mother Lu said thoughtfully, "Otherwise she wouldn't have known that Shu Yao had liked her for so many years. She would always squeeze in with someone every day, but then the two sisters would get along with each other."

Mother Lu added: "When it comes to choosing a son-in-law, I still like Shu Yao. I know the details. When the time comes to get married, everything will be fine."

"Hey, have you excluded the majority of gay men?"

"The quality of most gay men today is so inferior. Even if we can't find someone better than you, at worst they will be on the same level as you."

"But this kind of gay man has become extinct."

"Yes, so I'd better choose Shu Yao."

"I agree."

…

The call Xia Yitong answered in the bathroom was from the director of the welfare home. The director said that he hadn't spoken to her on the phone for a long time and missed her a little, so he called to ask.

Xia Yitong held the phone in one hand and slowly wiped the water droplets on his body with a bath towel with the other hand. He sniffed and shouted muffledly: "Mom."

"Hey, Tongtong's good daughter." The dean responded solemnly. It was a little noisy over there, but the sound was very far away. I think it was not the rest time for the children, so they were noisy and laughing. Xia Yitong used to call the dean

After being discharged from the orphanage, she changed her name to mother.

"I'm sorry." Xia Yitong listened to the familiar yet unfamiliar voice for a while. After finishing this sentence with a choked voice, he took a deep breath to suppress the heat in his eyes.

What are you sorry for? I'm sorry that she hasn't called back for half a month; I'm sorry that she promised not to cry easily; I'm sorry that she promised the dean not to put all her joys, sorrows, sorrows and joys on others, but to live her own life; I'm sorry that she promised

She is weak again; I'm sorry that she failed to live up to her expectations; I'm sorry that she is still worrying her at this moment.

The dean didn't say anything. He waited for her quietly for a while and asked, "Are you feeling better?"

Xia Yitong breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's much better. I'm taking a shower."

"It's really good."

Xia Yitong laughed again: "Just wait for me, two minutes, and I'll start the video for you."

"Wait while I turn on the computer."

"I told you to change your smartphone."

"I don't know how to use that, and it's too expensive. With that money, I might as well buy something delicious for the children."

Xia Yitong raised his eyebrows: "...The money I make now is enough for the children to eat abalone, ginseng, wings and tripe every day. Don't save what you shouldn't. Don't spend the money I sent you. Keep it for me. I don't need it."

Money, really! You won’t be able to use a smartphone like other children, so you let them teach you. Forget it, someday I will go back to see you? I will teach you how to use it myself. It is too laborious to turn on the computer every time."

The dean still said: "It is always better to save money, just in case anything happens."

Ten minutes later, the dean's old-fashioned computer slowly turned on. Xia Yitong's beautiful face could not be transformed into something magical in the computer with an astonishingly poor resolution, and her eight-point appearance dropped to a five-point.

The dean looked at the computer screen for a long time and said, "It's beautiful again."

Xia Yitong knew what kind of dignity he looked like there. Facing the dean who had a three-foot-thick filter, he smiled brightly and said with rare narcissism: "That's right. It doesn't matter who raised him."

…

After finishing the video with the dean, Xia Yitong opened WeChat again, and saw that the WeChat message that had been sent for nearly three hours without a response was as calm as water. She might still be a little sad, but that sadness could be ignored.

Work is important.

She sat by the bay window and read the script, with her cell phone placed far away on the bed to avoid distraction.

Not long after watching, the cell phone on the bed rang.

Xia Yitong suddenly had an inexplicable intuition that the call might be from Lu Yinbing, but her rationality told her that Lu Yinbing had never sent her a WeChat message, so why would he call her? Even so,

You should reply to WeChat first.
To be continued...