Thinking of this name, his heart tightened, and he felt a sharp pain in his chest that spread throughout his body. His steps slowed down a little, which made him frown, stagger, and almost fall.
Bing Meng looked at her father who suddenly turned pale, walked forward anxiously to support him and asked: "Dad, what's wrong with you?"
Chu Shitian held back the severe pain in his chest, reluctantly shook his head and said, "It's okay!"
Xinhai said a little worriedly: "Should I take you to the hospital?"
Chu Shitian raised his head. The pain had slowly disappeared. Every time he thought of Aman, there would be a pain in his chest. He had been used to it for more than ten years. Maybe Aman was blaming him for leaving him.
Let her go, he thought to himself. He shook his head at them and said: "No, this is an old problem, there is nothing wrong with it. You are all hungry after you haven't eaten. Go and eat quickly, don't be hungry anymore."
"Dad, are you really okay?" Bing Meng asked worriedly. The moment she saw her father, she saw the wrinkles on Chu Shitian's face and realized that his father was really getting worse every year.
Maybe it's because they haven't lived together for a long time, so she doesn't seem to know her father very well except for the kind of affection that blood is thicker than water.
There was a wry smile on Chu Shitian's pale face. It looked like he was really old. Alas... he couldn't stand even if he thought about anything.
Bing Meng still looked at Chu Shitian uneasily. There was a trace of vicissitudes on his face, and there were already silver threads on his temples. His father was really old. After seeing so many things, he didn’t know whether he was doing well alone. His mother
She rarely comes back and always seems to be flying around the world, and she already has a family. If, if Ziyi can know her life experience, and her father and she can recognize each other as father and daughter, then there should be no regrets
Bar.
While Bing Meng was lost in thought, Xin Hai tugged on her sleeve. Bing Meng glared at him angrily, and was about to scold him. When she raised her head, she saw a group of men and women making noise in the lobby of the hotel.
They seemed to be arguing about something. Among them, a boy with an unruly look pointed arrogantly at the front desk lady's face and shouted: "I'm telling you! Don't pretend to be in front of me, please open a small door."
What kind of attitude do you have? My brother is half the boss of this hotel. You can be arrogant now, and then I will tell you to walk around without finishing your meal!"
The group of men and women were all young and wearing relatively fashionable clothes. When they heard this, they all cheered together: "Yes, yes, yes."
The lady at the front desk didn't seem to be someone to fool easily. She looked at the boy from right to left and said disdainfully: "Who do you think you are? You are so awesome! You treat me like a three-year-old child! I'll sue you."
You, this girl, are not scared!"
The boy stared at the receptionist who refused to do this. Seeing that he was speechless, the receptionist shouted provocatively: "If you have the ability, why don't you call your boss brother?"
"What? You don't believe it?" The boy pulled his collar and was about to say something when he glanced at Xinhai walking from the door and shouted: "Brother!" with a look of joy on his face, and then
He turned around and said to the front desk lady with a proud look on his face: "Ha, my brother is here!" When the front desk lady saw Xin Hai, her face suddenly turned pale, she lowered her head and shouted to Xin Hai: "Manager."
Xinhai only nodded from afar, frowned and said to the boy who was trying to please him: "Xinli, what are you doing again?"
Xinli said with a smile: "Today I have a classmate's birthday and I want a VIP room, but the front desk lady actually said there is no such thing! She asked us to go to a regular room. That's okay, doesn't it lower the style of my life?
What?"
Xinhai reprimanded: "You are only in your second year of high school. At a young age, you have been thinking about comparing yourself with others and living such a luxurious life. How can you afford it when you grow up? You should really have lived in a poor family."
"Brother!" Xinli shouted with his face flushed red and unhappy.
Xinli's friends stood far away, and I don't know what they said specifically, but from the looks of it, they knew that Xinli was being scolded by his brother. A handsome boy walked up to Xinhai, smiled at Xinhai, and said
: "Hello." Then he patted Xinli on the shoulder: "Forget it, Xinli, ordinary rooms are ordinary rooms. Let's go quickly. We won't keep Ah Yue waiting for a long time."
Xinli's neck stiffened, his eyes widened, and he said: "How can that be done? If the girls like Ah Yue know that I boasted about Haikou but didn't get the key to the VIP room in the end, then I won't be laughed to death by them!
You know they really don’t give anyone any face when they laugh at you!”
Bing Meng always looked at Xinli coldly. She felt very uncomfortable the first time she saw Xinli. The off-kilter smell on his body made her feel very uncomfortable. She usually always felt uncomfortable.
She likes to go to their house to order something and enjoy the autumn breeze, but she turns a blind eye and lets him go. After all, she is just a child, and maybe she has some vanity. But since she saw how good she was to Zi Yi,
He has turned himself into a second Ziyi, taking whatever he likes and always trying his best to ask Xinhai to buy him brand-name clothes, brand-name shoes, and brand-name supplies. Ziyi is something she cannot recognize.
Sister, it’s natural to be nice to her. But Xinli, he’s just her husband’s brother, why should she have to let him use hers to eat hers? The old stubborns in their family are always partial to this little baby.
He always said that he wanted her to take care of him. Although she hated him so much, she said when she got married that she would treat his family well, including his brother studying here. So she could only dare to be angry.
I dare not speak anymore.
At this time, Bing Meng pushed away those who blocked her, walked to Xinli, pinched Xinhai lightly with her fingertips, and then said to Xinli: "You like to brag so much? Do you think this world is yours?"
You have the final say? You can do whatever you want? At such a young age, you are learning to live such a luxurious life! Do you know how hard it is to build a career? Do you think this hotel can be opened as soon as it is opened? Even so
Yes, it's open, but it's not opened by your family."
When Xinli has grown up, no one has ever scolded him like this, and it was in front of so many people. Because he is the youngest in the family, the family has always doted on him. He said that no one else has.
Meeting 2. He was so angry that his face turned red and his neck became thick, and his breathing began to become rapid. He shouted to Bing Meng: "I just came to ask for a room. Is this wrong?"
Bing Meng snorted and said calmly: "If you have made a reservation, of course it will work. But since you have not made a reservation and the room is temporarily unavailable, there is nothing you can do."
"Humph, there's no other way? I don't believe you want to make a reservation when you come!" Xinli snorted heavily and said the word "booking" very loudly.
"You..." Bing Meng was so angry that she couldn't hold her breath and couldn't even speak.
Xinhai patted her back and said to Xinli: "Why are you getting smaller and smaller? Hurry up and apologize to your sister-in-law!"
Xinli tilted his head and looked ahead without saying a word. His friend was pulling him, but he just didn't know what to do.
Chu Shitian had been quietly listening to their quarrel. He had been observing Xinli.
He wears a checkered T-shirt and has an arrogant look on his face. He seems to be someone who is not easy to say. It seems that he has been spoiled by his family since he was a child, so he has a very stubborn temper. But at least it is not bad to the core, because he still seems to be so stubborn towards his brother.
A little awe-inspiring. Maybe it's just because there are so many people and he can't afford to lose face. He really looks like himself when he was young.
Chu Shitian took a step forward and asked Xinli, "Do you really miss that VIP room?"
Xinli was stunned. His attention had been on Xinhai and Bing Meng, so he didn't notice Chu Shitian who came with Bing Meng. Moreover, he was always outside the crowd, so he noticed even if he wanted to.
Looking at Chu Shitian with a kind face in front of him, Xinli was stunned for a moment and didn't know what to say. He was always a soft-spoken person, and he said he wouldn't slap people's smiling faces. Facing such a kind-hearted person,
Even with his smiling face, he couldn't look fierce. Both Xinhai and Bing Meng looked at Chu Shitian, wondering what he was going to do.
"Yes! What?" Xinli asked after regaining consciousness, looking at Chu Shitian suspiciously.
Chu Shitian turned around and said to Bing Meng: "Is our room a VIP room? I gave it to this kid."
Xinli raised his eyebrows: "I'm not a kid."
Chu Shitian smiled: "Okay, that's little brother, okay?"
Xinli looked at Chu Shitian distrustfully: "Why did you give it to me?"
"Because you young people need it more than me!" After saying that, he patted the pouting Bing Meng and the helpless Xin Hai on the shoulders and said, "Dad still misses the 'Love Shack' that you liked to go to when you were a kid.
It’s a small shop. Let’s go there to eat. I wonder if it has been demolished.”
"No, I've done it a few days ago." Bing Meng's eyes lit up. It was a place where her father often took her when she was a child. So even though she has grown up now, he will always go there to eat something after a while.
Recall the past memories. Because her mother did not allow her to live with her father. The city has changed a lot in the past few years. Most of the places where she and her parents used to go and play have been changed beyond recognition. Only that small shop remains.
It is still in full swing and stands proudly in so many shops and restaurants.
Xinli looked at Chu Shitian who was about to walk out the door and said, "Thank you! Uncle!"
His friends also shouted to Chu Shitian: "Thank you!"
Chu Shitian nodded to him, smiled and walked out.
After Ziyi finished the phone call, she discovered the clothes that had fallen off her body.
She opened her eyes wide and looked at the dress in surprise.
It was a gray casual jacket. It looked like the wrong fabric, and it felt good to hold. There was a fragrance on it, very light, but it lingered on the tip of his nose. It looked like it should be worth a few dollars, she tilted her head.
Thinking about it.
She held the clothes, looking left and right, but she couldn't figure out where the clothes fell from. Could it be the sky? She raised her head and looked up at the hair board, thinking around, but she couldn't figure it out.
Just when she was concentrating on thinking about where the clothes came from, Shishi let out a startling scream. Ziyi jumped up in fright, opened her eyes wide, and looked at Shishi in horror.
He snatched the clothes off Ziyi's body and looked at the coat with eyes as wide as bells.
"Hello!"
Ziyi pushed her.
No movement...
"Shishi!"
Ziyi roared like a lion and shouted in her ear.
"Ah? The manager is looking for me?" Shishi jumped up and asked as if she suddenly came to her senses.
"What the hell, why are you holding on to these clothes?" Ziyi rolled her eyes.
"Where did your clothes come from?" Shishi's face almost touched the tip of Ziyi's nose.
"I was wondering, too. When I woke up, it was covering my body." Ziyi held the piece of clothing in her hand, looked at it again, and said.
"Oh mygod!" Shishi looked up to the sky and shouted.
"What's wrong with you? Is there something wrong with this dress?" Ziyi looked at Shishi's shocked expression. It was really strange. She seemed to think this dress was amazing.
"Do you know what brand this is?" Shishi asked Ziyi holding the clothes.
Ziyi looked stunned: "I don't know, what's wrong?"
Shishi gasped: "Did you know? This is a 'Summer Night' casual jacket released at the 'Fashion' conference just held in Germany this summer."
"So what?" Ziyi still looked at her inexplicably.
"Are you really not aware or are you pretending not to know? This piece of clothing is not something that ordinary people can afford. It is worth hundreds of thousands of RMB. Besides, the clothes haven't been released yet, so why are they here?"
"Ah! Is it so expensive?" Ziyi was shocked. A piece of clothing costs hundreds of thousands. What the hell is this? If the world is equal, why do some people cost tens of thousands for a piece of clothing?
Tens of thousands, but some people are still using their light and heat to satisfy their own food and clothing problems for a few yuan a box of fast food.
Shishi pinched the clothes and sighed: "Ah, the quality of these clothes is really good!"
"Okay, you don't have to sigh there, these clothes are not yours anyway." Ziyi said sarcastically.
"Hey, can't you let me dream?" Shishi turned pale at Ziyi and said unhappily.
"Do you want to daydream? Then I won't disturb your daydreaming." Ziyi said to Shishi with a smile.
"You're looking for death!" Shishi was so angry that she took the clothes and tried to cover Ziyi's head.
"I don't want to grow up. When I grow up, there will be no fairy tales in the world..." Ziyi's phone started to vibrate with colorful lights on the table.
"cousin?"
"Zi Yi, can you come over tonight? My uncle is here and wants to see you."
"Uncle?"
"Yes, he came here from Singapore today to congratulate you on your eighteenth birthday."
"It's still early for my birthday." Ziyi drew circles on the table with her fingers.
"
"But of course I have to come and see my uncle when he comes. Then I'll come after work in the evening."
"Well. Then I'll hang up first."
"Bye-Bye."
Gently closing the phone cover, a tall man's face appeared in front of Ziyi's eyes: a tall nose, hard lines, and his eyes were always looking into the distance, as if his heart had been left in the distance. She was only here
I met him when I was eight years old, but he was very kind to her, as if she was his other daughter. But, why did my cousin say that he came specially to celebrate her birthday? This is strange.
"Hey, what are you going to do with this dress?" Shishi held up the dress and interrupted Ziyi's memory and asked.
Ziyi frowned, and really didn't know what to do: "I don't even know where I flew out from, what do you think I should do?"
"How about we take it out for auction?" Shishi said enthusiastically: "For this person to throw such an expensive piece of clothing here like this is really revealing."
"What? Going to auction?" Ziyi was startled.
"Yes, yes. Maybe we can buy it for hundreds of thousands. Haha, then we will have pocket money. You know my mother always only gives me a little pocket money, so I came here to work
.”
"Shishi, what are you doing here? There will be a meeting today, Ziyi, go help me sort out some information." Jiang Qin hurriedly walked in and said to Ziyi.
"Oh." Ziyi stood up in response and put the matter of the clothes aside.
After get off work in the afternoon, Ziyi thought about it and took the clothes back, planning to wash them first. As for how to return them to others, it depends on when the person comes to ask her for them, because she doesn't know who the clothes are. Yes. Shishi said she wanted to take it back and study it carefully. Ziyi slapped her on the forehead and said, "What kind of research? This is someone else's thing, you have to give it back."
"Then you don't know whose it is now, so why can't you 'research' it?"
"Anyway, just don't move."
"What a sweetie? Is there any handsome guy who likes you, so..." Shishi said with ill intentions.
"Fuck you, let's go." Ziyi hit her head again.
When Chu Shitian saw Zi Yi, the corners of his eyes were wet. He accidentally dropped his chopsticks on the ground while eating. This is the daughter he has thought about for more than ten years, and now she has grown so big. She looks really good.
Like her mother, especially when she smiled, she seemed to be created in the same mold as Ah Man. A sense of comfort surged in his heart. In any case, the decision made back then was still correct. If Ziyi really wanted to
He would definitely not be able to forgive himself if he died of such an illness.
Ziyi was very surprised why her uncle always looked at her with such loving eyes, and there was a deep guilt in his eyes for her.
After eating, Chu Shitian stopped Ziyi. He wanted to have a good talk with her. Bing Meng and Xinhai went out after eating, leaving time for the two father and daughter who could not recognize each other.
"Xiaoyi, how have you been these years?" After a long silence, Chu Shitian finally found a topic and asked.
"It's okay, my cousin takes good care of me." Ziyi smiled a little shyly.
Taking a deep breath, Chu Shitian said to Ziyi seriously: "I heard that you don't want to study anymore? This is not possible, do you know?"
"Huh?" Ziyi looked at Chu Shitian strangely. Is this the real reason why her cousin came back to her?
"Xiao Yi, if you feel that the money you owe your cousin is not good, can your uncle pay you? As long as you are successful in the future, just pay it back to me."
"I don't think so. I'm already eighteen years old and can live independently, and I've also found a job."
"You have found a job, but it is only temporary. You can't always be that data clerk, right?"
"Uncle, I don't want to trouble you anymore. I have always been a child who was not loved by anyone. You adopted me and gave me food and drink. However, I always made my aunt unhappy. I don't want to live in this life again.
Those days of living under someone else's roof." Ziyi's eyes looked ahead a little melancholy. She unconsciously felt a sense of intimacy towards the person in front of her named uncle. She had never said these words to anyone, but she
Naturally, I said it to this uncle whom I had just met not long ago.
Chu Shitian was shocked to see the heartbreaking loneliness and the shocked look in her eyes. How could this happen? How could Yifang treat Ziyi like this? Didn't she treat Ziyi as she promised?
Really? His heart felt like he had been stabbed hard, and he was in pain. Could it be that she was just making a superficial appearance to show him?
"Xiaoyi, just listen to me, just this once. Don't worry, I won't let your aunt know. Okay?" Chu Shitian asked cautiously.
"Uncle." Ziyi called, she was really wondering why her uncle was so careful with her and yet so nice to her.
"Okay, you promise uncle that you will go to school after the summer vacation. I have already identified a school for you, and you can go there to study in your senior year of high school."
Ziyi raised her head and wanted to refuse, but looking at Chu Shitian's eyes that were full of love and pleading, she actually softened her heart and couldn't say no.
Chu Shitian stared at her closely, fearing that she would not agree, and his eyes were full of prayers.