These days, it is better to seek help from others than from yourself!
Mrs. Yu gave a long sigh, took off her sunglasses and hid them in her bag. When a resident came out of the unit building, she hurriedly ran up and reached out to hold the security door that was about to close. The resident turned his head and looked at this fancy-dressed man.
The old lady’s eyes seemed to say: “Why haven’t I seen you before?”
Old Mrs. Yu raised her hand inadvertently and took down the silk scarf on her head: "My daughter-in-law is inside, and she is coming down to pick me up."
When the residents saw her extraordinary clothes, they didn't say anything and turned back to go to work.
Old Mrs. Yu held her bag, raised her chin slightly, and stood downstairs in a reserved manner until the resident disappeared around the corner. The old lady quickly entered the unit building, turned around without forgetting to close the door, and then held on to the wall and stepped on her high heels step by step.
going up.
As soon as she reached the second floor, the old lady was out of breath. As soon as she pressed her hand on the handrail, it bounced far away. She looked at the thick dust in her hand in horror.
Xingyu Capital is a real estate built in Fengcheng's early years. The property management is not as good as that of the newly built community, and the corridors are inevitably a bit messy.
A stench suddenly came. Mrs. Yu turned around and saw several garbage bags piled at the door of a house. By chance, the door of a house next to her opened. The old lady poked her head to see who lived there.
As a result, a hand holding a bowl stretched out, and there was a puddle of water at the old lady's feet.
Oh my God! The old lady couldn’t believe it. She was so angry that she was shaking when she saw the water stains on the back of her shoes. What kind of place is this!
"What are you looking at! Are you responsible for pouring water at the door of my house?" A tall and thick man held up a bowl and blew his beard at the old lady Yu, glaring at her.
What kind of barbarians live here! Old Mrs. Yu was angry, but under the man's ferocious eyes, she pursed her lips and turned around to continue climbing.
Haha, I’m too lazy to argue with you!
When she reached the third floor, the old lady remembered that she didn't seem to know which floor the woman lived on.
Her eyes wandered back and forth between the two houses on the third floor, wondering if she should knock on the door one by one to find them. Suddenly, her feet slipped and the world began to spin. The old lady let out a wail, and she rolled down like a rubber ball.
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When Bai Xiao woke up, He Huan had already gone to work. She washed up, had breakfast, tidied up the apartment, and then carried the garbage downstairs to take out.
As a result, as soon as Bai Xiao reached the third floor, she heard an intermittent groan of pain in the corridor. She looked downstairs——
An old man was lying on the walking platform between the third and second floors.
There were some orange peels at the door of a house on the third floor with footprints on them. Apparently the old man slipped on the orange peel and fell downstairs.
In the past few years, "touching porcelain" has been popular. No one can guarantee whether helping her will be slandered as the murderer who pushed her down. Bai Xiao first took out his mobile phone and took two photos of the old lady's weird posture, and then
He also took a photo of the orange peel on the ground and recorded the scene of the crime before going down to help others: "Are you okay?"
"Just roll down from the top and see if anything will happen!" The old lady was disheveled and had long lost her glamour.
Bai Xiao helped her up: "Can you stretch your waist and kick your legs to see if there are any injuries?"
As a result, one lowered his head and the other raised his head. When the two met each other, they were both startled and stunned for a moment.
What Bai Xiao was thinking was: "How could it be the old lady of the Yu family? What is she doing here?" Could it be that she knew about Yu Shaoting and herself?
The old lady looked at Bai Xiao in astonishment. Isn't this the little girl who met her in the East Palace? Why does she live in such a place?
Bai Xiao was deeply impressed by the old lady because of her relationship with Yu Shaoting. As for Mrs. Yu, she remembered Bai Xiao purely because of her face.
"Why are you here?" Bai Xiao broke the silence first.
Mrs. Yu rolled her eyes upstairs, then glanced at Bai Xiao and asked without answering: "Do you live here?"
Bai Xiao nodded: "I live on the fifth floor." Seeing that there was a lot of dust on the old lady's skirt, she took the initiative to bend down and dust it for her.
The old lady looked at her, and her extremely depressed mood improved a little, but she couldn't help complaining: "Your corridor is so dirty that I don't even want to say anything. Isn't there anyone cleaning it?"
"Maybe during the Chinese New Year in the past few days, the aunt in charge of corridor hygiene went back to her hometown."
Mrs. Yu nodded matter-of-factly, stood there without saying anything, and had no intention of going upstairs or leaving.
Bai Xiao stood with her for a while, then picked up the garbage at her feet: "I'm going to take out the garbage."
"Oh," the old lady glanced at the pink garbage bag in her hand: "Then go ahead."
After speaking, he curled his lips as if to say: "I didn't stop you."
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Bai Xiao walked out of the unit building, but still looked back uncomfortably.
From the moment she got involved with Yu Shaoting, she had guessed that one day the Yu family would come to visit her. She had stayed in the Pei family for so many years, and she knew to some extent the taboos of these rich and famous parents on the marriage of their children and grandchildren. Like the Yu family,
I'm afraid I can't tolerate my daughter-in-law being a divorced woman.
Although she had been mentally prepared, Bai Xiao was still a little at a loss when she saw Mrs. Yu coming to her door.
The old lady's current attitude also makes Bai Xiao unpredictable. Could it be that the old lady wants to calm down and let her take the initiative to "admit her mistake"?
Compared to Bai Xiao's random thoughts at the moment, Mrs. Yu seemed to have a much simpler mind. She was looking downstairs from time to time. When the footsteps approached, she immediately straightened her slightly messy hair around her temples and then posed.
A rather high stance.
As soon as Bai Xiao came up, he saw Mrs. Yu who was still standing there: "You..."
"Have you finished taking out the trash?" The old lady gave her a faint glance, then walked straight upstairs carrying the Prada handbag.
Mrs. Yu was wearing the latest skirt and short coat from Louis Vuitton Lafayette last winter. She had seen these white hair in the magazine that Ye Hehuan brought back. The model who wore this outfit on the catwalk was only 23 or 24 years old at the time.
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After walking to the fifth floor, Mrs. Yu looked at the clean stairway and relaxed her frown. She looked at the apartment on the left and then on the right, then turned back and asked Bai Xiao who was following her: "Which one is it?"
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Bai Xiao went up and took out the key and opened the security door of the apartment on the right. She took off her shoes and changed into cotton slippers. But before her hand touched the slippers on the shoe cabinet, her other hand had already crossed over and took away the cotton slippers before her. Bai Xiao
Xiao turned her head and saw that the old lady had already put the pair of floral cotton on her feet.
Mrs. Yu was a little surprised when she saw Bai Xiao looking at her: "You don't have to entertain me deliberately. I can change my shoes myself. Just be casual."
"..."
The old lady walked in as if she were back at home. She walked around the apartment with her bag in her arms gracefully.
Bai Xiao had no choice but to put on the cotton slippers that her family specially provided for guests and followed behind the old man, like a little maid following behind the old Buddha.
Mrs. Yu didn't find it funny, she pursed her lips in a bored manner, and when she sat down in the living room, she said "ouch" and subconsciously touched her waist.
"Did you twist it just now? I'm going to get some potion to rub it."
"Come back!" the old lady shouted with a frown on her face, stopping Bai Xiao who was about to go back to the room to get the potion for bruises. "Put some hot water on me."
Bai Xiao didn't understand what she meant.
When Mrs. Yu saw Bai Xiao motionless, she glared at her: "You pushed me down. I'm so dirty now, I have to take a bath, right?"
"Did you misunderstand something?" Bai Xiao frowned slightly. The crime of pushing someone could be a big or small crime.
"I have no intention of suing you, what are you afraid of?" The old lady stood up holding her waist and walked to the bathroom on her own.
"I didn't push you, you stepped on the orange peel and fell it yourself. If you don't believe it, I still have photos here."
Bai Xiao had already taken out his phone and flipped through the photos. The old lady took the phone in disbelief. When she saw the indecent posture of herself lying on the ground with her butt stuck out in the photos, she said, "I didn't expect you to be such a little girl."
He's quite smart despite his age, and he still knows how to fake the scene after pushing someone away."
"..."
The old lady had already entered the bathroom and leaned out half of her body before closing the door: "Your home has an instant water heater, right?"
"..."
The old lady didn't intend to let her answer. She muttered "Today's young people..." and locked the bathroom door.
When the sound of running water came from the bathroom, Bai Xiao took her mobile phone and walked into the kitchen. She called Yu Shaoting, and the call was connected after one ring. Before he could speak, Bai Xiao got straight to the point and said: "Your mother is at my house."
There was silence on the other end of the phone for two seconds: "What did she say?"
Listening to his low-alcohol and magnetic voice, Bai Xiao felt relieved: "I haven't said anything yet, I'm taking a shower."
A chuckle came from the receiver, but Bai Xiao was not as relaxed as him: "Are all your family members so arbitrary?"
"Don't be afraid, the old lady is just a paper tiger."
"Who is scared?" Bai Xiao pursed her lips, but felt relieved by his words.
There was sudden silence on the phone.
"...If nothing happens, I will hang up."
"I'll go there after the meeting." Yu Shaoting suddenly said.
Bai Xiao didn't answer the call. After hanging up the phone, he stood in the kitchen for a while. When he went out, he saw the old lady opening the bathroom door.
A burst of lavender essential oil fragrance hits your nose.
The old lady had her pink bath towel wrapped around her body, a dry hair towel wrapped around her head, and she came out wearing slippers.
Bai Xiao finally knew that Yu Shaoting's skin color should be inherited from his mother. The old lady had basically no wrinkles on her face. Only the fine lines at the corners of her eyes revealed her age. When the old lady saw her, she immediately asked: "Is the toilet inside broken?
It keeps leaking.”
Bai Xiao went into the bathroom and fiddled with it for a while, and the toilet stopped leaking. When she came out, the old lady was gone.
However, there was a slight movement in her bedroom.
Just when Bai Xiao wanted to go over and take a look, the old lady came out carrying a set of pink home clothes: "Um...can you lend me some?"
"..."
"My skirt was wet with water just now, so I can't wear it now."
"..."
Although Mrs. Yu is sixty-five years old, she actually still has a young heart and likes to hang out with young people, but she wants to act like an elder in front of her children and grandchildren. Except for Chief of Staff Yu, no one in the Yu family
I know that the old lady has a soft spot for Fense, almost to the point of being hopeless.
Because Bai Xiao and she had never met each other, and the wallpaper in the room and the clothes and bath towels were all pink, the old lady couldn't help but reveal her true nature in front of her.
Bai Xiao was originally waiting for the old lady to talk to her honestly, but she waited for about two hours without waiting for the old lady to say a word.
The old lady was sitting on the carpet in the living room, holding her laptop and wearing headphones while watching Korean dramas.
Bai Xiao looked at the clock on the wall. It was almost half past ten, and the old lady still had no intention of talking to her or getting up to say goodbye.
From the corner of her eye, Mrs. Yu caught sight of Bai Xiao coming out of the bedroom: "I'll go back after watching this episode. There's no need to prepare my share of lunch."
Bai Xiao connected the old lady's words and deeds before and after. After thinking about it for a while, looking at the old lady's concentration, her mind turned around. Did the old lady... not know about her relationship with Yu Shaoting? Otherwise, how could she have such an attitude? If it is true,
I don’t know, why are you here today?
Bai Xiao secretly sent a text message to Yu Shaoting: "It seems your mother still doesn't know about our relationship?"
He came back soon and said succinctly: "What is our relationship?"
Bai Xiao looked at his serious question and knew that he was doing it on purpose to catch the loopholes in her words, so she ignored him.
Almost at the same time she put her phone into her pocket, Mrs. Yu's phone rang.
Mrs. Yu answered the phone and didn't know what was said there. She said with a look of resentment: "Why can't I come? You hid her well, and even Aunt Li also deceived me and gave me the address."
I didn't write it clearly at all," he said, looking at Bai Xiao: "It even caused me to fall."
"Go home? No, I'm still there... You come here? Address? The apartment on the right on the fifth floor of Building 7, Star Language Capital."
After putting down the phone, Mrs. Yu turned to Bai Xiao and said, "My son is coming over, do you mind?"
Bai Xiao twitched her lips and did not answer.
The old lady frowned, but she was no longer in the mood to watch TV. She patted the place next to her and said, "Come here and talk to me for a while."
Bai Xiao didn't hesitate, but she didn't know what to say after sitting down. Instead, the old lady looked at her facial features carefully, and then asked her: "How old are you this year?"
"Twenty-five years old."
"So young?" The old lady's gaze fell on another bedroom with a closed door: "You live with your friend?"
Bai Xiao nodded, and the old lady asked again: "Who else is there in your family?"
"My grandma...and my uncle's family."
"What about your parents?" The old lady stared at Bai Xiao's profile, and a strange thought suddenly came to her mind. Could she be...
Bai Xiao was asked this question by many people when she was in school, and it made her feel lonely every time. The answer was vague at first, but then she gradually got used to it, and the reason she made up became more and more smooth, just like now she can also face it.
He replied calmly: "They work outside all year round and don't come back very often."
Her parents are both dead, but they have never come back to see her, so what she said is not entirely nonsense.
Mrs. Yu observed Bai Xiao's expression and saw that she was very natural and didn't look like she was lying, so she slowly gave up her suspicions.
There are more than a billion people in the entire continent, so it is not surprising to encounter one or two people who look alike.
The old lady looked at Bai Xiao's face, remembering her eldest son who died young, her eyes were slightly red, and she sighed helplessly.
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Not long after, the doorbell rang, and Mrs. Yu glanced at the door: "It should be my little son." There was pride in her expression.
Yu Shaoting stood outside the door, holding a pair of black sheepskin gloves in his hand, with slender fingers and fine bones. His coat was stained with cold air. The chill hit Bai Xiao when she opened the door. The old lady had already left.
Standing up on the carpet: "Are we here?"
Yu Shaoting looked indifferent, pursed his thin lips, and looked over her shoulder to the old lady.
"You come in and sit for a while, I'll go change my clothes." The old lady greeted her son warmly like a host.
Bai Xiao saw that he was pretending not to know her just now and thought he would refuse. However, Yu Shaoting had already started to take off his leather shoes. When his feet hit the cold floor, Bai Xiao squatted down and took out a pair of men's cotton slippers from the shoe cabinet.
When I got next to him, my movements were very natural and indescribably harmonious.
Old Mrs. Yu was leaning over to turn off the computer and didn't pay attention to the situation at the door, otherwise she might have discovered something fishy.
Yu Shaoting walked to the sofa and sat down. Mrs. Yu looked at him with some dissatisfaction: "You really dare to come, that woman, where did you hide her?"
"Didn't you find it already?" Yu Shaoting's careless words made Bai Xiao's heartbeat freeze as he was closing the door.
"I found her? Where should I find her?" Old Mrs. Yu hummed: "Aunt Li also helped you fool me."
Yu Shaoting didn't respond, so he casually opened the drawer of the coffee table, took out a magazine, folded his long legs on his knees and flipped through two pages.
Bai Xiao was very frightened when she saw this action.
Old Mrs. Yu also glanced at the magazine and curled her lips: "You are very familiar with it. You even know where other people's magazines are."
"If you come here often, you know where people leave their bank checks."
Bai Xiao absolutely believed that Yu Shaoting was intentional. Every word he said when he entered the room reminded the old lady that she was the woman she was looking for?
How come you didn't know he talked so much before?
Before he said something more straightforward, Bai Xiao poured a glass of boiling water and brought it over, standing between the mother and son. While Mrs. Yu was tinkering with her notebook, she glared at Yu Shaoting, who looked back indifferently.
She squeezed the back of her hand when she took the cup.
"Xiao San, why can't this computer be turned off..."
The sudden voice of Old Mrs. Yu behind her scared Bai Xiao and quickly pulled his hand away, as if he felt guilty, and his heart beat faster.
Bai Xiao took two steps back without leaving a trace.
Yu Shaoting tilted his head slightly, and cast his eyes on her face with a very ambiguous look, as if there were thousands of words hidden in his eyes.
Bai Xiao felt that if this continued, he would really have nowhere to hide in front of the old lady.
The old lady turned her head and looked at her: "You haven't had lunch yet, right? My family today consists of my youngest son, my grandson, my eldest daughter-in-law, her daughter, and my son-in-law. Why don't you go home with me to eat, and you can save one?"
It’s troublesome if people do it.”
Bai Xiao didn't expect that the old lady would invite him so kindly, and how many of the people the old lady mentioned did she not want to see?
"Xiao San, will you go back to the courtyard to eat at noon?" the old lady asked Yu Shaoting next to her.
Yu Shaoting didn't respond but didn't refuse either. The old lady had already made up her mind: "Let's do it. I'll go change my clothes and I'll be fine in a while."
The old lady took her clothes and entered Bai Xiao's bedroom and locked the door. Bai Xiao looked at the man sitting on the sofa leisurely flipping through a magazine, and then looked at the bedroom to make sure the old lady wouldn't come out suddenly and said: "You guys
Is everyone in the family so free to do whatever they want?"
"Are you going to dress like this when you go to dinner?" Yu Shaoting raised his head and glanced at her.
"Don't you want to go back to the compound? Let's just have dinner together at noon."
He answered casually: "Didn't the old lady just ask you to go back to the compound for dinner together?"
"...How could I go?" She simply couldn't imagine the embarrassing scene: "Besides, when the time comes...how should I explain to your mother?"
"Tell me the truth." Yu Shaoting didn't realize at all that he was talking about a serious issue. Bai Xiao felt that he was a little unreasonable today. He looked up from the magazine and looked at her with a pair of black eyes: "If you don't know what to say,
, then I’ll say it.”
"I'm not mentally prepared yet." Bai Xiao stopped beating around the bush with him. This man just wanted to see her panic.
