[Taozhi Yaoyao, Qi Ye Zhenzhen]: A slap, "No?" Ye Shaoyi smiled, but the smile did not reach his eyes, "Why did you say no when you pestered me before?"
Ye Zhenzhen opened her mouth and murmured a few times but no sound came out. Her face was pale and she looked extremely pitiful.
Sighing, Ye Shaoyi reached out and rubbed his temples: "Okay, just stay away from you. I won't embarrass you."
"Thank you." Ye Zhenzhen looked up with an apologetic look on her face.
"But -" Ye Shaoyi still had a cold face.
"What? You said."
"Don't call me eldest brother from now on. You know, I'm not your eldest brother."
Before Ye Zhenzhen could reply, Ye Rong's clear voice sounded again: "Brother, sister Zhenzhen, what are you talking about?"
Ye Rong came down from the stairs. She had changed her expensive clothes and shoes and was wearing comfortable home clothes. Ye Zhenzhen looked at the clothes and felt they looked familiar and couldn't help but squint her eyes slightly.
"Brother, you are all here today, why don't you call the second brother and the third brother to come back for dinner too." Ye Rong came to Ye Shaoyi, looking well-behaved.
Ye Shao translated: "I'm going to make a phone call."
Then he glanced at Ye Zhenzhen and walked outside.
Ye Rong pulled her to sit down on the sofa. Seeing her eyes lingering on her body, Ye Rong smiled and explained: "Sister Zhenzhen, this dress belongs to you, do you remember?"
Ye Zhenzhen nodded lightly: "You look good in what you wear."
"Since you moved away, my mother gave me your room to live in, and some of your clothes were originally planned to be taken out... well, thrown away. Later, I saw it and thought it was too wasteful, so I gave it to you.
Mom kept your clothes, and I'm about the same figure as you, so I don't have to waste money buying other clothes."
Ye Zhenzhen looked calm: "You are right to do this."
Ye Rong looked at her expression carefully, "Sister Zhenzhen, aren't you angry?"
"Why should I be angry?" Ye Zhenzhen asked.
Ye Rong looked at her for a moment and suddenly smiled: "Just don't be angry. Mom is very good to me now. She gave me your room, your clothes, and everything you owned before. I'm afraid of you, Sister Zhenzhen."
You would be angry if you saw it, but it’s best if you’re not angry now.”
Ye Zhenzhen looked at her exquisite makeup and smiled: "These things belong to you originally, I have nothing to be angry about."
Ye Rong smiled broadly and was about to speak when her mother's voice suddenly sounded from the stairs: "Rong Rong."
"Mom, I'm here...ah!"
Ye Zhenzhen and Ye Rong stood up at the same time. Tingrong stood up and walked outside. As soon as she took one step, her slippered feet tripped on something and she threw herself towards the ground. She couldn't help but
She yelled, and Ye Zhenzhen stood next to her. Her expression changed and she immediately reached out to pull her. Ye Rong waved his hands to avoid her hand, and he fell to the ground hard.
"How are you?" Ye Zhenzhen was stunned for a moment and then immediately went to help her.
Ye Rong took a breath. Looking at the bleeding knee, she shook her head despite the pain. She followed Ye Zhenzhen's strength and stood up. She smiled: "I'm fine."
Ye Mu heard the screams and rushed over. Her chest heaved slightly. She came to the two of them and without thinking, she raised her hand and slapped them away.
The "pop" sound was loud and bright.
"mom!"
Ye Shaoyi came in from outside, surprised and angry, strode over and pulled Ye Zhenzhen behind him, frowning: "What are you doing?!"
Mother Ye took back her hand and glared at her son: "What's your attitude!"
Ye Shaoyi pursed his lips: "She just came back today, why did you hit her?"
"Ask her why I hit her!" Mother Ye's face was ugly, showing that she was very angry, "I thought that with you here downstairs, nothing would happen to Rongrong, but as soon as I got off the stairs, I heard Rongrong
Rong's screams, ask her what she did? Look at your sister, her knees are broken!"
Ye Rong seemed to be frightened and hid timidly behind Ye Mu, "Mom, I don't blame Sister Zhenzhen. I heard you calling me, and then I got up in a hurry and accidentally fell."
Mother Ye's chest was still heaving together, and she was obviously very emotional: "How come something happened to you as soon as she came back? How long have you been living peacefully?"
Ye Zhenzhen's face was burning with pain. She twisted her face to the side. She reached out and touched the slapped cheek. In fact, the slapped area didn't hurt at all, but she felt extremely uncomfortable.
Taking a deep breath, she raised her head and smiled: "Mom, do you think I pushed Rongrong on purpose? Ha, after all, I have a 'criminal record' and it's understandable for you to doubt me."
The old incident was brought up, and Mother Ye looked at her: "You feel aggrieved and unjust. That time Rongrong lay on the bed for several months. She loved dancing the most, and she almost couldn't dance. Did you know that?"
"Mom, this is all over. Don't mention it anymore. Sister Zhenzhen really didn't do it on purpose this time. It was really me who fell down."
Didn't she do it on purpose this time? The implication was that she did it on purpose last time? Ye Zhenzhen closed her eyes to endure all the emotions, opened her eyes again and said: "I'm sorry, it's all my fault, I bothered you, I'll go back today
.”
After saying that, she turned around and walked out.
"Sister Zhenzhen! Oh, mom, please say something. Don't let sister Zhenzhen leave. She just came back with great difficulty..." Ye Rong shouted from behind, but Ye Zhenzhen seemed not to hear it and buried her head forward.
Let's go. Mother Ye looked at her back and was about to open her mouth when her eldest son standing beside her quickly chased after her. Her face suddenly turned cold.
She had returned to the Ye family that she had always longed for, but she did not expect that she would be so unpopular. She never expected that Mother Ye, who had loved her since she was a child, would slap her.
It's not that she's not sad or that she doesn't hate her, but when she thinks of the scene when Ye Mu carried her to the hospital for an injection when she had a fever of 39 degrees, she can no longer hate her.
She can be sad, but she can't hate, because they raised her and gave her the best happiness in the world.
Her wrist was grabbed tightly, and Ye Shaoyi pulled her back: "Zhen Zhen."
Ye Zhenzhen's back was turned to him. Ye Shaoyi went over and pulled her shoulders to make her face him. He raised her chin and saw that she was crying silently.
He felt distressed and stretched out his hand to wipe away her tears. Ye Zhenzhen turned her face away and bit her lower lip with her teeth, leaving a mark. He said softly: "Does it hurt?"
Ye Zhenzhen knew that he was talking about the slap, she shook her head: "It doesn't hurt."
"Then don't cry, I'll feel bad."
There was warmth between his fingertips, and he rubbed her cheek slowly. Ye Zhenzhen looked up at him, and he was looking down at her, with tenderness in his eyes.
Ye Zhenzhen suddenly reached out and hugged him, "My face doesn't hurt, but my heart hurts. Brother, does mom hate me?"
The tears she had stopped flowed out again, soaking the clothes on his chest. He raised his hand and landed on her head, stroking her hair, "You were very naughty when you were young. Do you remember that time? It was also in this place.
That tree, yes, is the tree you saw. At that time, you liked to climb trees. Your mother stopped you more than once, telling you not to climb because it was dangerous, but you never listened. You said you climbed trees.
You have become very proficient in your skills. If you climb a tree, you will be a bird on that tree. You will not fall down. There is nothing your mother can do to you. But one time something happened to you and you fell off the tree. Butler Zhang called you.
At the company, my mother hurried from the company to the hospital. We all went there at that time. You fell asleep because of the injection. When you woke up, she gave you a hard lesson and you were wronged a few times.
God, I didn't talk to her for several days, but what you didn't know was that she rushed to the hospital that day and saw you lying there crying very sadly, and she didn't let go of your hand until you woke up.
Zhen Zhen, mother doesn’t hate you, I have never seen her cry for anyone, you are the first one.”
*
A car was driving slowly forward on the trail. The driver was a young man in his twenties. He stared at the man and woman hugging each other not far in front of him and looked carefully for several times before saying in surprise: "Boss, in front of you.
A lot of them are young masters and young ladies?"
Father Ye, who was sitting in the car behind, looked up when he heard this.
"It's Miss Zhenzhen." the driver added.
Father Ye was wearing glasses, with sharp eyes behind the lenses. He looked at the two people for a moment and then said, "Honk your horn, respectfully."
Zhou Jingshen nodded: "Yes."
"Didi——"
The horn sounded suddenly, startling the two people who were hugging each other. They looked towards the sound and saw a car slowly driving over and stopping in front of them.
The car door opened and Zhou Jingshen got out. He immediately went to the back seat and opened the door. Father Ye walked out.
"Dad." Ye Shaoyi called out.
"Yeah." Father Ye said lightly.
Ye Zhenzhen knew that her father Ye had seen the scene of her and Ye Shaoyi hugging each other just now, so she didn't dare to look at this stern father and looked down at her toes. Father Ye came to her,
Zhen Zhen opened her mouth and shouted: "Dad."
Father Ye didn't respond for a long time. Ye Zhenzhen couldn't help but look up. There was no expression on Father Ye's stern face. She felt uneasy. Father Ye suddenly smiled: "Zhen Zhen is back."
Then he sighed, reached out and patted her shoulder: "Go in, count the days, dad hasn't seen you in two years."
She just came out of the house in anger, and now she has the nerve to go in. Ye Zhenzhen shook her head: "I have already met my mother, and I am planning to leave..."
"Don't say anything. It's dinner time now. Shao Yi told me that you are back. It's just that my father has been busy during this time. It's rare that he is free today. Let's go to dinner with him."
After Father Ye finished speaking, he took the lead and walked into the house.
Zhou Jingshen passed by Ye Zhenzhen and smiled at her: "We haven't seen you for two years, Miss Ye has become more beautiful."
"We haven't seen each other for two years, and you are getting more and more handsome." Ye Zhenzhen replied with a smile. Zhou Jingshen is Ye's father's full-time driver. He is about the same age as her second brother. He is also good-looking. He is tall and has long legs.
Like a model.
Zhou Jingshen smiled slightly: "I'll go in first, Miss Ye, please come in quickly."
Ye Zhenzhen nodded, Zhou Jingshen turned around and followed Ye's father's footsteps into the house. Ye Zhenzhen turned back to look at Ye Shaoyi and asked him to make up his mind: "What should we do?"
Ye Shaoyi took her hand and led her into the house: "Let's go have dinner."
*
The dinner table was very rich. They sat down one by one. Ye Zhenzhen sat next to Ye Shaoyi, opposite her sat Ye Rong, and in the last row sat Zhou Jingshen. He had been in the Ye family for many years and was the only son left by Ye's father's old driver.
After his father's old driver passed away, Zhou Jingshen took his father's place in Ye's house and began to learn to drive for Ye's father, so he can be considered half of the Ye family.
The dinner table was extremely quiet, with only the clatter of bowls and chopsticks. Father Ye had always adhered to the rule of not saying anything when eating, but today he made an exception: "Zhen Zhen, have you graduated from college?"
Ye Zhenzhen swallowed the food in her mouth and nodded quickly: "Yes."
"Which university did you graduate from?"
"A big."
Father Ye nodded: "Are you planning to stay in City B?"
"this……"
Before Ye Zhenzhen finished speaking, Ye's father spoke again: "If you plan to stay, go to the company and help dad."
Ye Zhenzhen's eyes widened.
She really hadn't thought about going to Ye's.
Mother Ye frowned slightly, but Ye Rong was the first to say: "Really? That's great. With Sister Zhenzhen's help, Dad, your work will be much easier."
Father Ye smiled: "I don't expect her as a girl to be able to help. After all, she is a member of my Ye family, and it is hard to live outside. Now that she has returned to City B, are you afraid that there will be no place for her?
?”
"Dad...I'm afraid I'm not qualified." Ye Zhenzhen refused hesitantly.
"What?" Father Ye glanced at her, "Are you afraid that Dad will embarrass you when you get to the company?"
"No, it's not." Ye Zhenzhen waved her hand: "I have a job now. Although it can't be compared with Ye's, I like this job very much. It's free."
Ye Rong was curious: "What is it?"
"Write some manuscripts or something."
"A writer." Ye Rong's eyes lit up, "Sister Zhenzhen, you can write a story, and then ask dad to invest in making a TV show. Maybe you can make a lot of money."
Ye Zhenzhen smiled: "I haven't reached the level of a screenwriter yet. I just write some things for websites and magazines to earn some royalties and support myself."
Ye Rong wanted to say something else, but Ye Rong coughed and Ye Rong stopped. Ye Rong said, "Since you don't want to go, let's do this for now. When you want to go, tell your elder brother and let him make arrangements."
Ye Zhenzhen nodded: "Okay."
"Let's eat."
"Um."
The dinner table became quiet again. After the main meal, the butler served the last soup. Father Ye leaned on the back of the chair and drank tea to moisten his mouth: "I heard from the boss, are you living at the old man's place now?"
After the main meal, Mother Ye Rong and Zhou Jingshen all got off the table. Ye Zhenzhen originally wanted to leave, but Father Ye stopped her and asked her this question.
Ye Zhenzhen replied ‘yes’.
"On the day the old man fainted, we originally wanted to see him, but he was too busy at work. The doctor called me and told me that it was nothing serious, so we didn't go in the end."
"Grandpa will understand."
Father Ye said 'hmm', put down the tea cup in his hand and looked at her. Ye Zhenzhen was sitting upright and letting Father Ye look at her. Father Ye finally sighed: "You must have suffered outside in the past two years."
Ye Zhenzhen smiled and shook her head: "It's not bitter."
"Good child." Father Ye stood up and patted her shoulder, "Stay here for a few days. I will ask your mother to decorate your room. I will call the old man to tell you."
Live here?
Ye Zhenzhen hesitated: "Grandpa has a place to live, I can live there."
"I asked you to stay just because I want you to get along with your mother. She still misses you very much these past two years."
"All right."
Father Ye left with satisfaction. Ye Zhenzhen sat on the chair for a while. Butler Chen came over to clean up the last tableware. Ye Zhenzhen stood up hurriedly: "I'll do it."
"No need to trouble Miss, I can do this."
"No trouble." Ye Zhenzhen smiled and put the things into the kitchen. She didn't know how to do these things before, but now that she has been alone outside for two years, those habits of the young lady have long since disappeared.
*
After leaving the kitchen, she met Ye Shaoyi. He was holding a mobile phone and seemed to have just finished talking to someone. Ye Zhenzhen asked casually: "Who called? Is it the second brother?"
Ye Rong suggested that they all come back for dinner, but Ye Shaoyi called everyone and said they didn't have time to come, so Ye Zhenzhen thought it was them calling again.
Unexpectedly, Ye Shaoyi didn't say anything after she asked. Ye Zhenzhen squinted and looked over. Ye Shaoyi sighed: "I don't want to lie to you, it's Bai Mei who called."
That's why he avoided her and went to answer the phone.
Ye Zhenzhen was stunned for a moment: "Is she looking for trouble with you?"
"Well, ask me out to watch a movie."
"You agreed?"
"How is that possible?" Ye Shaoyi put the phone into his pocket with a firm expression on his face, "I refused without thinking." After saying that, he stretched out his hand to pull her over. The two of them were in a remote corner. Who was it?
She couldn't see it either. Ye Zhenzhen was still frightened. She broke away from his hand and came out of his arms. She looked back in the living room and saw that no one was looking over. She breathed a sigh of relief.
Ye Shaoyi couldn't help but laugh: "Coward."
Ye Zhenzhen hummed: "You are a coward!"
"Where has the courage gone?" Ye Shaoyi leaned against the wall and looked at her, "Now we have nothing to do with each other. You are just a fake surname of the Ye family. What are you afraid of?"
The two of them are now completely opposite. In the past, Ye Zhenzhen always teased him before anything happened or was exposed. Now that everyone in the Ye family knows about her relationship with Ye Rong, she is actually afraid.
Ye Zhenzhen muttered: "In this critical period anyway, don't you see that our parents don't like us getting too close? So we have to keep a distance in front of them!"
Ye Shaoyi looked at her for a while and compromised: "Okay, I'll listen to you."
"Then back to the original question, why did Bai Mei still call you? Didn't you explain it clearly to her?" Ye Zhenzhen crossed her arms and raised her eyebrows at him, "I don't know who told me to make it clear.
Why haven't you made it clear after so long?"
"Jealous?" Ye Shaoyi not only did not reflect, but also looked happy.
"Go away, who is jealous? Tell me, when will you tell her clearly?!"
"If you want me to speak clearly to her one day, I will listen to you."
"The bad guy wants me to do it, right?" Ye Zhenzhen snorted coldly, "Okay, just do it. Didn't she ask you to go to a movie? You agree and then go tell her clearly."
Ye Shaoyi nodded thoughtfully: "Aren't you afraid that she will love me even more after watching the movie?"
"Do you want to die?" Ye Zhenzhen gritted her teeth: "Of course I'm not asking you to really see her, I just have an excuse to ask her out, and then make it clear that she should stop looking for you and stop calling you.
Otherwise I’m not done with you, do you hear me?!”
As soon as he finished speaking, he reached out and pulled her over and hugged her into his arms. Ye Zhenzhen lowered her voice: "Are you crazy? Let me go!"
He held her firmly with both arms, and a low and deep voice sounded above her head, with a happy smile: "I can foresee how painful my future days will be. You are so cruel, you will definitely take care of me in the future."
Very strict.”
Ye Zhenzhen's ears turned red and she muttered: "Who told you about the future? I said now."
A chuckle escaped from his throat, and he hugged her tighter.
The door was opened at this time, and a person walked in from the outside. The moment Ye Zhenzhen heard the movement, she immediately pushed Ye Shaoyi away, pretending to be calm and looked up, Wu Youyou pointed at the two of them: "You...you...
"
Ye Zhenzhen rolled her eyes at her: "Why don't you, are you stuttering?"
Wu You jumped angrily: "You're the one who stuttered!" After speaking, he glared at her again, "When did you come back? Didn't you say you left City B? You just left, why did you come back?"
"Why can't I come back? You, a foreigner, can live in the Ye family. My upright surname is Ye, why can't I come back?" Ye Zhenzhen asked calmly.
Wu Youyou is a relative from Ye's mother's family. In the early years, his parents came to work in a branch of Ye's company. She died due to a work-related injury and she was the only one left in the Wu family. Ye's mother saw her as pitiful, so
He left her at Ye's house.
Wu Youyou has a straight-faced personality and doesn't know what to say. Ye Zhenzhen often had verbal arguments with her when they were at Ye's house. The relationship could not be said to be good or bad. Anyway, there were no major conflicts.
"Above and aboveboard?" Wu Youyou sneered, "You said you were far from above board before, but now these four words should be placed on Ye Rong."
Ye Zhenzhen also laughed: "As long as my surname is Ye, I will be upright. What's the matter?"
"Hey, why are you so shameless? You used to be the rich daughter of the Ye family, but you are not now!"
"Am I not you?"
"Ye Zhenzhen, don't be too..."
"That's enough!" Ye Shaoyi interrupted the scolding between the two with a light drink. He glanced at Ye Zhenzhen and then at Wu Youyou, "If I don't stop you, are you going to start a fight after the scolding?"
?”
Ye Zhenzhen said nothing.
Wu Youshou curled his lips: "If she slaps me first, I will definitely return it..."
"Still saying that!"
He was not angry but glared at Wu Youyou with sharp eyes. Wu Youyou automatically silenced him.
The movement here had already alarmed the people in the living room. Ye Mu and Ye Rong came over. Ye Mu had been working in the mall for so many years, and her temperament had long been developed. She stood there and glanced at
, Wu Youyou and Ye Zhenzhen suddenly felt like rows of needlepoints were sweeping over them.
Wu Youyou: "I'll put things away."
Then he walked away with a big bag in his hand.
Ye Zhenzhen: "I seem to be very thirsty."
Then I found an excuse to drink water.
Ye Shao translated: "The phone is almost out of battery."
Then he also found such a not-so-clever excuse to recharge his batteries.