Lin Xiangwan's tone was full of ridicule, but Chu Di seemed not to hear it. He drove the car calmly, "You don't have to provoke me. I won't take anything you say seriously. Since you don't agree with me,
suggestions, then I have no choice but to act according to my own ideas."
"If you want me to agree, you have to say something that people can agree with. What you said is based on your own preferences. When have you ever considered my feelings?" Lin Xiangwan looked in the rearview mirror.
Looking over, Ye Nan was so angry that her little face bulged, and she began to calculate how likely she and Ye Nan would be to escape successfully if she and Chu Di went to grab the steering wheel.
As if he had figured out her thoughts, Chu Di pressed the car window and door lock at the same time, "I brought Aunt Zhang back. You can discuss with her about your future life, what you want to eat or what you want to buy.
I put the card in the drawer, and the password is still your birthday."
"Chu Di, you know that's not what I want!" He ignored her at all, and his self-talking attitude made Lin Xiangwan furious.
Chu Di raised his eyebrows and continued, "You can go to work if you want, but I hope you can come back on time after get off work. And Ye Nan, I will send someone to take him to school. If he doesn't mind, I can do it myself." .”
The child kicked the back of the car seat angrily to show his attitude.
"What if I don't come back?" Lin Xiangwan asked angrily.
Chu Di smiled slightly, "Then I'll go find you. I don't have anything to do now anyway. If you like to play, I don't mind accompanying you. But one thing is, do you know how good Ye Nan is at Go?
Very good? I have found a very good teacher for him. If he continues to practice, he may have great achievements in this area in the future. But if you don’t mind delaying his future, you can go ahead and satisfy him.
The world is running around, and I don’t believe you can let him practice with peace of mind while you are constantly escaping.”
If what Chu Di said before was all nonsense, then this sentence finally struck a chord.
Everyone who practices Go knows that if you don’t become a national player before the age of twenty, you will have no hope for life. Compared with those teenagers who started practicing Go at the age of four or five, Ye Nan started late, but he is talented and intelligent.
He is good at thinking and planning. If he really makes up his mind to go on this road, although I dare not say that he will be 100% successful, he will definitely not be mediocre. And the most rare thing is that he really likes Go. Lin Xiang
Wan didn't want him to be implicated because of herself.
"There are no good teachers, why does he have to stay here?" Even though he knew it in his heart, he still refused to speak easily.
Chu Di took out a business card from his pocket with one hand and handed it over, "Is there a better teacher than him?"
The name printed on the business card is familiar not only to the Go community, but also to ordinary people. He became famous at the age of fourteen, and defeated the Japanese ninth-dan professional master at the age of sixteen. Although he is not in his early thirties now, he is already a top player in the chess academy.
An elder-level figure, it is rumored that he never accepts disciples easily, but every disciple is a leader.
In this way, even if you throw a mountain of money at it, you may not be able to hit the teacher. Lin Xiangwan really can't find it.
"I don't want him! I can practice it myself!" Ye Nan was sitting in the back. Although he couldn't see Lin Xiangwan's expression, he clearly felt her wavering. He said loudly, "I can play chess myself! Watch the instructional video.
!I don’t need a good teacher! Mom, don’t listen to him!!”
"Ye Nan, stop talking. You don't understand." Lin Xiangwan replied in a stern voice.
A good teacher is more important to Ye Nan who is new to chess than money or other things. He can make Ye Nan do twice the result with half the effort. Although Lin Xiangwan doesn't understand chess, she understands that no matter how talented she is,
It is impossible for people to work hard in a certain professional field all by themselves. A good teacher is like a good guide. Maybe he can't tell you directly where the shortcut to success is, but he can tell you the steps to success.
The road to success is full of thorns and traps.
"We can go back with you, or we can live together, but you have to know, that's all. I won't agree to any of your excessive requests anymore. If you do something weird, don't count on me.
I will show you mercy." Lin Xiangwan made a decision very quickly. If Chu Di insists on stalking her, then he can find a way to stalk her when she escapes to the ends of the earth, instead of having to deal with such boring things with him.
It's a waste of time. She might as well do something more meaningful. "Say in advance that if you really do that kind of thing and I want to leave, you can't stop me anymore."
It's just living together. It's not like she can't accept it. For Ye Nan, she can consider it no matter how excessive the request is.
Chu Di smiled bitterly, "You are like a prickly hedgehog now. What do you think I will do to you? Don't worry, I won't touch you unless..."
"Unless what?"
"Unless you beg me."
"Stop dreaming. Can you save some face, please?! You can say this too!" The anger that had subsided was once again ignited by the man's shameless words. Ye Nan heard Lin Xiangwan promised him to go back.
Chu Di was tossing around like a little donkey to express his anger. Chu Di was protested by the two women in various ways, but he was not angry at all. Instead, he laughed loudly, "Go back, this is not only mine."
Hope, there are others..."
"who?"
"You'll know when you get back."
*Although the apartment's code lock has twelve digits, it is not difficult to remember them. They are Ye Nan's birthday, Lin Xiangwan's birthday, and Chu Di's birthday.
After the door opened, the familiar aroma of chicken soup wafted from the room. Aunt Zhang, whom she hadn't seen for a long time, appeared in the living room. When she saw Lin Xiangwan and Ye Nan, she immediately cried with joy.
After Lin Xiangwan returned to China, Aunt Zhang had been taking care of her daily life. Although she was only a part-time worker, Lin Xiangwan always regarded her as a family member. Aunt Zhang hugged Lin Xiangwan and patted her shoulder vigorously, "You...
Silly girl, why do you do such a dangerous thing? Do you know how worried everyone is..."
Aunt Zhang also attended Lin Xiangwan's funeral, shed a lot of tears, and was sad for a long time. Later, when Chu Di went to pick her up, she told her that Lin Xiangwan was still alive, but she didn't believe it at all.
She thought it was some kind of prank, but it wasn't until Chu Di told her the truth and asked her to come over to help reconcile their relationship that Aunt Zhang agreed.
"I'm sorry, Auntie, I didn't want to make you worry." Lin Xiangwan couldn't help but feel bitter when he saw the old man crying, and his tears fell. Ye Nan stood aside, silently hugging the two women,
My heart is sour and bitter, I can't describe what it feels like.
Aunt Zhang saw that adults and children were sad with her, so she wiped the corners of her eyes and said, "Look at me, as we get older, we shed more tears, and I'm forcing you to cry with me. Stop crying now. You're fine now."
, Auntie was more happy than anything else. She quickly took Ye Nan to wash her hands. She hasn’t had breakfast yet, right? I made chicken soup and steamed dumplings, which are your and Ye Nan’s favorites. Ah, by the way.
, Xiao Lin, that Miss Xu, what special preferences does she have?"
"Miss Xu?" Lin Xiangwan raised her eyes blurred from crying and looked at Aunt Zhang with some confusion. Then she thought of what Chu Di told her about someone else waiting for her at home, and immediately turned to Chu Di and asked, "Xu Mingfei
?!"
Chu Di nodded, and Lin Xiangwan immediately wiped his face with the back of his hand, "Where is she?"
Chu Di pointed to the room upstairs. When Lin Xiangwan was about to run to the stairs, he reached out to block her, "You... don't be too surprised when you see her. Her current condition is not very good."
Chu Di was not usually a hesitant person, but looking at his expression at this moment, he seemed to be in a dilemma. Lin Xiangwan's heart sank, "What's wrong with her?"
"In the two years since you were away, she has gone through some things, and now she has become... Anyway, you'd better go and see for yourself, but I remind you, you'd better be mentally prepared."
The upstairs was divided into two parts by Chu Di. One part was used as a chess room for Ye Nan, while Lin Xiangwan looked at the other part for a long time but could not see what its purpose was.
The walls of the room were covered with thick sponge mats, and all exposed metal or corners were also covered with special sponge more than ten centimeters thick. Even the places where windows should have been were completely sealed.
It formed a soft wall, and there were very few furnishings in the room. All the furniture was firmly nailed in place with rivets. Lin Xiangwan looked in at the door of the room, but did not find Xu Mingfei.
She looked at Chu Di doubtfully, and Chu Di waved his hand to her, telling her not to make a sound. The two of them almost tiptoed to the coffee table at the end of the room.
Chu Di knelt down and pointed inside, and Lin Xiangwan followed his movements and knelt on the floor - at the end of the coffee table, in the darkest corner of the room, curled up was a slender and thin figure, her long
The hair was spread out, and the originally black and waterfall-like hair was now like rotten grass, yellow and dry. The woman's face was hidden behind her hair, and she stared outside with a pair of frightened eyes.
"Ming Fei..." If Chu Di hadn't told her in advance that this was Xu Mingfei, Lin Xiangwan would not have been able to believe that the woman in front of her, this ghost-like pale and thin woman, was the once so bright and beautiful Xu Mingfei.
When someone called her, Xu Mingfei did not respond. On the contrary, she seemed to have seen something terrible. Her body trembled and she stepped back. But she had already retreated to the limit, and there was only the wall behind her, so she tightened her arms with her arms.
Holding her body tightly, trying to make herself smaller and more inconspicuous, Lin Xiangwan saw that her arms exposed outside her sleeves were covered with terrible scars, large and small.