Yu Shaoting stood up straight, his face darkened, and he looked quietly at the two people hugging each other across from him.
Pei Qiyou held Bai Xiao's hand tightly, as if his own territory had entered an invader, and the two men looked at each other silently.
Bai Xiao thought the scene in front of her was very dramatic, and what she didn't expect was that Yu Shaoting would be squatting at the door of the apartment.
When did he stand at the door? Why did he come here? How long had he been waiting?
Several questions came one after another, and Bai Xiao felt her brain was swollen uncomfortably, and she couldn't think of a reason.
Over there, Yu Shaoting had already pinched off his cigarette butt. When he came over, Bai Xiao's heartbeat couldn't help but speed up. He slowed down less than one meter away from Pei Qiyou. They almost rubbed shoulders, but he...
He stretched his long legs and crossed them towards the corridor.
When they passed by, because they were so close, a crisp breath brushed across Bai Xiao's cheeks, mixed with a very light smell of tobacco.
Bai Xiao looked at the entrance of the corridor, and there was no one there. It was as if he accidentally walked into the wrong door. After realizing that the host was not the person he was looking for, he turned around and left without any hesitation or a word of nonsense.
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Pei Qiyou carried Bai Xiao into the bedroom, carefully placed her next to her bed, and then squatted down to take off her socks.
Bai Xiao retracted her feet and said, "Can you go now?"
He squatted beside the bed and lowered his head, "I'll look at your feet first. If there's nothing wrong, I'll leave."
Bai Xiao refused to let him touch her, and went straight to bed, rolled up the quilt and covered her body, turned her back to him and closed her eyes.
Pei Qiyou looked at Bai Xiao's back curled up on his bed, and the dim light stretched his figure.
Bai Xiao knew that he hadn't left, but she didn't want to face him. She wanted to be out of sight and out of mind, but she found that she was very upset. After an unknown amount of time, the bedroom door was gently opened and then closed slowly. She opened her eyes.
I opened my eyes and stared at the floor lamp next to my bed. My eyes felt uncomfortable, as if they had been drilled into fine sand.
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When Pei Qiyou walked out of the apartment building, he suddenly felt weightless and couldn't find a sense of belonging.
He did not leave immediately, but sat on a bench by the lawn and looked for the apartment where Bai Xiao was located, but all he saw was pitch black.
The phone vibrated in his pocket.
As soon as Pei Qiyou picked up the phone, Li Jing's voice sounded from the other end.
"Brother Qiyou, my old man said that the matter in Hengzhou is quite involved. I guess it won't last long. Many people have been involved and asked to talk. No one has been released yet. If this continues, I'm afraid...
...You'd better make all preparations to avoid being implicated when the time comes."
Pei Qiyou has achieved what he has achieved today in just a few years. Naturally, there are shady parts in the company's business.
Li Jing suddenly fell silent, and after a long time he said: "Actually, it's just a small problem. If you act quickly, the matter can be solved satisfactorily. If you really can't hide it, just go to the detention center and stay for a few days. Then I'll let you know
My old man can talk to me through some connections and he will come out soon..."
Pei Qiyou leaned over, holding the mobile phone in his right hand, resting his left elbow on his knee, and stroked his face with his big hand, finally stopping at his mouth.
He raised his head and looked at the room with the lights out. The light from the street lights hurt his eyes.
"Li Jing, do you think I'm such a fucking bastard?"
"Didn't we have a good discussion before?" Li Jing's voice was a little anxious, "Brother Qiyou, don't tell me that you changed your mind?"
Pei Qiyou said nothing.
"Can this kind of thing be changed casually? If you regret it, then what you did before will be..." Li Jing took a deep breath: "This is better than going in by yourself, unless you want to watch it happen."
Mr. Pei fell down again."
Pei Qiyou immediately cut off the phone call. He slowly leaned back in his chair and suddenly felt colder than ever before.
Bai Xiao used her own body to be a surrogate mother in exchange for 10 million to do business for him. The truth is often so ridiculous.
A new text message came in on my phone. It was an unfamiliar phone number.
——I have finished traveling around the world and plan to return to China the day after tomorrow. Do you want to pick me up? I’ll be at the airport at about 3:30 pm.
Pei Qiyou looked at this text message intently, and what he recalled in his mind was the encounter he had during a business trip in South Korea not long ago——
The girl who was as beautiful as an elf, wearing a big red coat, like a child who had stolen an adult's clothes, and a cute Lei Feng hat, got into his car, put her white and tender little hands together on her lips, and looked pitifully.
She looked at him and said softly, "Please, please."
Countless nights after that, that beautiful and innocent little face always appeared in his dreams.
She followed him childishly, jumping up and down: "So you are the charterer..."
Facing the cold look he gave her, she pressed her cherry blossom-like lips aggrievedly and whispered: "Okay, okay, I'm in the real estate business."
Pei Qiyou thought about that girl, but her face gradually overlapped with that of Bai Xiao, or it overlapped with that of sixteen-year-old Bai Xiao. She smiled so happily at him, just like Bai Xiao when she was sixteen years old under the boulevard.
Xiao smiled while putting a band-aid on him.
Before he returned to China, the girl forcibly took away his business card. She walked backwards while shaking the business card between her fingers, smiling broadly: "If I plan to go back to China one day, I will call you."
After saying that, she jumped on the tour bus carrying a big luggage bag.
But suddenly he couldn't tell who he was thinking about now, the girl he met accidentally...or Bai Xiao?
The heartbeat at that moment in Jeju Island made the twenty-eight-year-old man feel like he had returned to that summer when he was willing to fight for Bai Xiao.
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Yu Shaoting returned to Qinyuan with a straight face. Yu Jingxi was sitting on the sofa, occasionally poking his head towards the door.
Hearing the sound of the door opening, he threw away his pillow and ran over, "Dad, where is Xiaobai?"
Yu Jingxi is no longer wearing the cotton-padded jacket he wore when he went to the "East Palace" for lunch at noon. He has changed into a small suit, which fits well. His face is tender and tender, his lips are red and his teeth are white, as if he is wearing makeup, and his curly hair has also been waxed.
She also wore a British-style woolen coat with large lapels.
In the afternoon, Yu Jingxi specially invited Qian Yue over to design her look for tonight, with a small red bow tie hanging around her neck.
This was his first official date with Xiaobai.
"Dad, why don't you say anything?" Yu Jingxi followed Yu Shaoting. Unfortunately, his short legs were no match for his long legs, and he quickly fell behind. However, he was not discouraged. He ran over and raised his head and asked, "Aren't you going to pick up Xiao Ting?"
Is it white?"
Yu Shaoting stopped and turned his head to see how his son, who looked serious, didn't like it, especially the red bow tie, which was like a drop of dazzling mosquito blood: "Why are you dressed like this at night? Have you finished your homework? Are you still here?
Don’t go back to your room.”
"But we agreed to have dinner with Xiaobai tonight!"
Yu Shaoting said nothing and went directly upstairs to his room. When he came out again, Yu Jingxi was already waiting at the door with a big schoolbag on his back.
He immediately frowned: "Don't stand at the door."
Yu Jingxi looked at his little watch and said sweetly: "It's a little late, but there should still be food to eat."
As he said that, he discovered a problem. Yu Shaoting had already changed into home clothes.
"Dad, how can you go out to eat dressed like this? Although I don't dislike you, you will be stopped outside."
Yu Shaoting didn't even glance at him. He went back downstairs to the kitchen and poured a glass of boiling water.
Yu Jingxi had already followed, standing behind and looking at him with his lips pursed. Yu Shaoting turned back and asked, "Why are you staring at me?"
"Dad, are you lovelorn?"
Yu Shaoting's movement of raising his head to drink water stagnated slightly.
Yu Jingxi has already said clearly: "Actually, it's okay, Dad, I have gone through many detours before. Now that I meet Xiaobai, I know who is the most suitable for me. I believe you will meet yours one day."
noob."
Before he finished speaking, Yu Shaoting had already passed him and left the kitchen without even shaking him off.
When Yu Jingxi came out, she heard Yu Shaoting asking Aunt Li to make dinner, with a look of hurt and disbelief on her face, "Dad, shouldn't we go out?"
The "meatball" on the side also screamed "ouch" to express his dissatisfaction.
Yu Shaoting glanced away with an impatient look——
"Meatball" suddenly stopped barking, and swooped behind Yu Jingxi, looking out with a pair of bewildered eyes.
Seeing that Yu Shaoting didn't look like he was joking, Yu Jingxi's heart sank to the bottom of the lake, but he still wanted to fight for it: "Dad, Uncle Lu said that you have to pay to cancel the reserved box in the East Palace, and it is very expensive.
"
Yu Jingxi responded with the bedroom door slamming shut.
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Bai Xiao woke up from the pain of a sprained ankle when she turned over.
It was bright outside, so she sat down from the bed and lifted the quilt, only to find that her left ankle was red and swollen, and it hurt so much that she couldn't walk even after she got off the ground.
"He Huan!" Bai Xiao knocked on the door next door, but there was no response.
At this moment, the landline phone in the living room rang.
"Xiaoxiao, Qin Shousheng and I are going to attend a birthday party for a rich second generation. We went out to sea last night and will be back in three days!"
Bai Xiao looked at his injured leg and felt a little headache, but he still said something to ask them to pay attention to their safety, and then hung up the phone.
She limped to the refrigerator to get some ice cubes, wrapped it in a towel and pressed it on the red and swollen area until the pain was numb. Then she got up and went back to the room to change into a sweatshirt and loose yoga pants, put on her coat and took it.
Bag, put on sneakers at the entrance and go out to the hospital.
Star Language Capital is a low-rise apartment building, so there are no elevators.
Bai Xiao held on to the handrail, crossed one leg and was struggling to walk. He jumped down step by step with one foot, which was a bit funny and very difficult.
As soon as she finished walking one floor, she was so tired that a thin layer of sweat broke out on her forehead.
Bai Xiao held her breath and continued to walk down. Perhaps because she had exerted too much force just now, her right foot suddenly became weak. When her face was about to hit the sharp cement steps, her whole body was held up, which was unbearable.
I fell into a generous embrace.
Pei Qiyou half held her in his arms, and the breakfast he originally carried in his hand spilled all over the floor, and a fragrant smell of soy milk filled the corridor.
"Are you injured?"
Bai Xiao stood up forcefully by holding on to the ground, holding on to the wall, and pushed him away.
"I called He Huan, and she said she was not at home." Pei Qiyou looked at Bai Xiao, who was leaning on the wall to stand steady.
Bai Xiao didn't look at him, dragging his injured leg to go downstairs.
But he took her arm, then turned around and squatted down in front of her: "You sprained your ankle, I'll take you to the hospital."
"Pei Qiyou, can you stop doing this?" Bai Xiao didn't move: "Actually, I really don't want to see you."
"Are you going to walk lamely from the fourth floor to the gate of the community?"
"That's my own business." Bai Xiaobei began, "It has nothing to do with you."
Pei Qiyou had already stood up, staring at her with eyes that seemed to have indescribable emotions, "You are my wife, why do you have nothing to do with me?"
The familiar words made the corridor suddenly quiet.
Bai Xiao didn't let him carry her and walked stubbornly from the fourth floor to the first floor. Pei Qiyou didn't force her anymore and just followed quietly.
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When Bai Xiao came out after seeing the doctor, Jiang Yingmei was sitting on a chair in the corridor. When he saw her, he immediately came up to her worriedly.
"Qiyou called me and said you sprained your leg. What did the doctor say? Is it serious?"
Pei Qiyou disappeared in the corridor.
Bai Xiao did not push Pei's mother away, and allowed her to help her walk slowly step by step, "It's not a big problem, just rest for a few days and it will be fine."
"Is there anyone at home to take care of you?"
"I can take care of myself for this little injury, mom, don't worry."
But Jiang Yingmei heard the implication: "Your roommate is not here? How can I trust you to live alone with you like this?"
"I'm really fine..."
Jiang Yingmei's expression turned serious and she stared at Bai Xiao: "Since you still call me mom, you have to listen to me on this matter."
Bai Xiao opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but Jiang Yingmei raised her hand to interrupt her.
"Even if you are not my daughter-in-law, you can still be my daughter. You were only that old when my father-in-law came back. I have watched you grow up over the years. Do you want to refuse even the thought of taking care of you?"
"no……"
"Since it's not the case, then just listen to me and go back to Pei's house to stay for a few days."
Jiang Yingmei did not tolerate Bai Xiao's refusal, "If you don't want to see Qiyou, I will let him live outside."
For Bai Xiao, Pei Jinyuan is her weakness.
The kindness of nurturing is greater than the kindness of giving birth. Although Pei Jinyuan's reason for taking care of her is not pure, it is undeniable that he is really good to her.
Without him, he and his grandmother might have been killed in a car accident, and they would not have been able to live a well-fed life.
As long as the matter involves Pei Jinyuan, Bai Xiao will still look at the Buddha's face even if he doesn't look at the monk. Jiang Yingmei feels that she is a bit despicable, and she even thought of using her father-in-law to control Bai Xiao, but there is nothing she can do for her son.
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Bai Xiao packed up a few changes of clothes in the capital of Xingyu and returned to Pei's house with Jiang Yingmei.
She still lives in her old bedroom, which has been cleaned very clean, and the sheets and quilts are all new.
"Do you still like it? I just asked Aunt Rong to arrange it in a hurry." Jiang Yingmei stood by the door with a smile.
Bai Xiao: "Mom, there's actually no need to go to such trouble. I'll go back to live when my feet are healed."
Jiang Yingmei didn't say much, but smiled and asked Aunt Rong to prepare lunch.
Bai Xiao sat beside the bed, touching the cold new quilt cover with her fingers, but she felt a little confused in her heart.
As Jiang Yingmei said, Pei Qiyou never came back to sleep after she moved in, but she vaguely felt that Pei Qiyou should have come back.
When Bai Xiao woke up in the morning, she saw some cigarette ashes on the floor beside the balcony, which proved that what she saw in her sleep last night was not a hallucination. Someone entered her bedroom, sat next to her bed and looked at her, and then went to the balcony to smoke.
Apart from Pei Qiyou, there is no other person in the Pei family.
Bai Xiao stayed at Pei's house for three days, and her feet were much better.
In the morning, she went downstairs and saw Pei Qiyou sitting in the dining room talking to Pei's mother.
After not seeing him for a few days, his spirits improved a lot, and the gauze on his head was removed. Although he was losing weight, his facial lines became more three-dimensional and sharp.
"Xiao Xiao, come back." Jiang Yingmei waved happily as soon as she saw Bai Xiao, "In the afternoon, Qi You will play golf with Mr. Liu of Puxing Group. Do you remember? It was the one who liked you very much and pulled you over last time.
Mrs. Liu shopping."
Bai Xiao glanced at Pei Qiyou, and Jiang Yingmei continued: "Mr. Liu will bring his wife there today. I think it's not good for Qiyou to go alone. My age and status are not suitable. You go there with him."
Just play and think of it as relaxing."
When Bai Xiao was Pei Qiyou's assistant, she often dealt with the wives of the bosses, but she has resigned now and doesn't like to socialize anymore, and Pei Qiyou has always been surrounded by female companions. When will it be her turn?
