After Bai Xiao made dinner, she received a call from Yu Shaoting, saying that there was something going on at the company and that she and Jing Xi didn't have to wait for him to have dinner.
She held her cell phone and glanced at Yu Jingxi. The little guy was sitting at the dining table peeling river shrimps hard.
Noticing her "resentful" gaze, Yu Jingxi raised his head and kept moving his hands: "I'm used to it, so hurry up and eat."
Bai Xiao sat down and watched him continue to destroy the seafood on the table, and asked: "Actually, you are the one who loves seafood, right?"
Yu Jingxi broke off the crab shell and hummed twice: "He won't come back to eat anyway, so we can't waste it."
Bai Xiao couldn't help but flick his forehead. Yu Jingxi glared at her pretending to be angry and continued to fight with the seafood with his head lowered.
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Bai Xiao had no appetite, so he ate half a bowl of rice and was done with it. However, the little guy ate two small bowls before he was willing to leave the table.
"You can't do this. My father is very busy at work. If you really marry him in the future, you have to get used to it, you know?"
Before Yu Jingxi went to the living room to watch TV with a can of coconut juice in her hand, she did not forget to give some guidance to the "lovesick" Bai Xiao.
Bai Xiao tapped his little head: "You still have more than ten pages of homework to finish, right? School starts the day after tomorrow!"
The little guy wailed, stared at her sadly, pulled up his big school bag and lay down on the coffee table to start doing his homework.
Bai Xiao cleared the dining table, and after thinking about it, she sent a text message to Yu Shaoting: "Have you had dinner?"
After a long time, until Bai Xiao tutored Yu Jingxi for two pages of homework, he replied: "We are in a meeting."
Three simple words, but they soothed her anxious heart.
Bai Xiao saw that he must be very busy. After hesitating for a while, he sent another message: "What time will he be back? I'll prepare a supper for you."
"No, it's too late and I might not go back. Go to bed early."
Yu Jingxi looked up from his homework and looked at Bai Xiao, who was staring at his phone: "Did he say he wouldn't come back? I had already guessed it."
Bai Xiao looked at his proud expression of "It's just as I thought," and pretended to point to a fill-in-the-blank question in his homework book.
The little guy curled up his lips and scribbled on it with a pencil.
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When the hour hand pointed to "10", Yu Jingxi yawned and sat on the small bench in the bathroom while Bai Xiao washed his feet.
He was playing with the toy gun he bought at a roadside shop in the evening, but his eyes occasionally glanced at Bai Xiao.
Fortunately, he was smart and knew how to "tune the tiger away from the mountain". He said he was going to the fifth floor and actually took Xiaobai and slipped away from the freight elevator, otherwise he would have been entangled by the guy named Gasoline!
When Bai Xiao took the towel to wipe his feet, she still couldn't help but said: "Well...it seems that your former husband is going to marry my cousin."
Bai Xiao nodded: "Yes."
"Then do you still like him?"
Bai Xiao raised her head, met his bright black eyes, and smiled: "Did you write the love letter to Xu Meimei yourself?"
Yu Jingxi suddenly felt guilty and turned his head away from looking at her.
Bai Xiao put his thick and soft little feet into slippers and patted his calves: "Get up."
Yu Jingxi did not go back to the bedroom, but followed her holding the toy gun that cost more than ten yuan, and said tirelessly: "I don't like that gasoline."
Bai Xiao smiled after hearing this: "It's not you who is engaged to him, as long as your sister likes it, that's fine."
"What about you? Do you still like him?"
Bai Xiao didn't expect a child to understand love and love so well, and she didn't know how to answer for a moment.
Seeing that she remained silent, Yu Jingxi felt a little unhappy and hummed on his face: "He's not as good-looking as Yu Shaoting!"
Seeing him calling Yu Shaoting's name seriously, Bai Xiao was amused by him, and heard him say: "Although he is a little worse than me, compared to ordinary men, Yu Shaoting is still very good, but he has a bad temper."
When Bai Xiao hugged him and took off his clothes, he was still saying: "You, since you are with Yu Shaoting now, you can't be careless anymore."
"Is this how water-based Yanghua is used?" Bai Xiao was speechless by his pretentious appearance.
"Isn't that what you mean?" Yu Jingxi rolled his eyes at her: "Anyway, if you want to see gasoline in the future, you have to take me with you, you know?"
"I didn't want to see him."
"Then he might want to come see you!"
Speaking of this possibility, Yu Jingxi suddenly lost his sleepiness and stared at Bai Xiao under the quilt: "You have to be obedient, otherwise something big will happen."
"For example?" Bai Xiao wanted to tease him.
"It's terrible for Yu Shaoting to be angry. I won't be able to help you then."
Bai Xiao nodded in cooperation, and Yu Jingxi came over: "If you are lonely, you can come to me. I can still spare some time to accompany you."
A chestnut hit him on the head.
Seeing his grinning face, Bai Xiao stood up and said, "It's half past ten, go to bed!"
Just when she was about to turn off the lights and leave, Yu Jingxi poked his head out of the quilt again: "I will start school the day after tomorrow, will you take me to report or dad?"
Aunt Li used to take him to report when he was abroad. When he was a transfer student last semester, his grandma took him to the school.
Bai Xiao looked into his gleaming eyes: "How about we go with you?"
The little guy snorted and twisted around in the quilt. Finally, he huddled up and muffled a "good night".
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Bai Xiao returned to the master bedroom and lay on the bed for a while but was not sleepy.
I put on my coat and went to the kitchen. I took out the dumplings I bought in the supermarket from the refrigerator and put them on the sink to wait for them to melt. Then I sat down at the dining table.
She occasionally glances at her phone, occasionally gets up and walks around, and occasionally lies down on the table for a while.
When it was almost early in the morning, her eyelids dropped straight down. She turned her head and looked at the door, but there was still no movement.
The most taboo thing for people when they are busy at work is to be interrupted again and again. After thinking about it for a long time, I finally did not send a text message or make a phone call.
Bai Xiao stared at the name on the phone screen that lit up, and took out a steel pen from his coat pocket: "If the flower stays up, it won't come back."
She put the steel pen on her thumbnail, flicked it lightly, stretched out her hand to catch it, and then slowly opened her palm, with the flower facing upward.
I seem to have forgotten whether the flower will not come back or the character will not come back...
Throw it away again, with the word facing up, and come back. She put away the hammer, leaned on the table, looked at her phone, and saw it was midnight.
Bai Xiao couldn't remember why she fell asleep, and had a very complicated dream in a daze.
The first scene in the dream was of Pei's house, which was not as refined as today's decoration, but still full of atmosphere. Pei Jinyuan was sitting at the head of the dining table with a cane, with other members of the Pei family on both sides. A beautifully dressed little girl was being led by a nanny.
When he came down from the stairs, he had a timid expression on his face.
Pei Jinyuan smiled and waved to the little girl: "Xiaoxiao, come here, grandpa!"
The little girl was picked up and sat on Pei Jinyuan's lap, weakly calling "Grandpa".
Pei Jinyuan laughed, pointed to the boy in a small suit sitting on the left and asked the little girl: "Then what did you call him?"
The little girl opened her big black and white eyes, looked at the boy nervously and shyly, and called out: "Little brother."
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The screen rotated slightly, and the handsome boy turned into a heroic man.
In the dimly lit bathroom of the demolition house, it was very cold that year. She was twisting the bedsheets with her cold red hands because her mother Pei, who was sick the night before, vomited on the bed and soiled the bedsheets. Pei Qiyou came in and stood opposite her.
He helped her wring the water from the sheets, but in the end he held her hand.
"I will buy a washing machine when I get paid this month."
She was greedy for the warmth in his palm and held his hand instead. His hand was much rougher than before: "It's so good to wash it by hand, it's cleaner than washing it in a washing machine."
Pei Qiyou looked down at her, his eyes apologetic but also moved. He held her in his arms and kissed her forehead.
"It won't last long, Xiaoxiao, believe me, when I get rich, I won't let you suffer anymore!"
She leaned on his shoulder, hugged him back, and smiled brightly: "I believe you."
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The camera suddenly changed again, and she saw herself lying on the hospital bed with a big belly undergoing examination.
Through the curtain in the partition, she heard Secretary Zhang saying to the doctor: "It's better to have a natural birth. A caesarean section is not good for the baby."
When she returned to the villa, she was greeted with a nutritious meal for pregnant women and the sound of gentle music in the house.
She was like a puppet, obeying their instructions and doing the same thing day after day, month after month.
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As soon as the scene turned, everything she had dreamed about was instantly shattered, and she saw Pei Jinyuan again, sitting in the study room with a cane.
She heard Pei Jinyuan say: "I have raised you for so many years, and finally you raised a white-eyed wolf. Have you forgotten all you promised me?"
The study door opened, and a beautifully dressed young woman walked in. She couldn't see her face clearly, but her voice was very soft.
That voice she heard every day during her pregnancy, through the phone.
"I asked you to be a surrogate mother, but you took my money, and in the end you even took away my husband and son!"
At some point, Mrs. Yu appeared on the sofa with tears on her face: "Teacher Bai, actually you are Zhengdong's daughter, you and the third child cannot be together."
Xu Shuyuan, who was standing gently aside, suddenly transformed into a giant python, opened its bloody mouth and pounced on her.
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I'm not trying to steal your husband, Jingxi is my son...
Bai Xiao wanted to argue loudly, but her throat was blocked and she couldn't make a sound. Someone seemed to be calling her name in her ears.
In the dream, Su Manrong suddenly walked towards her with a ferocious face, raised one hand and slapped her down hard: "I told you to seduce my brother-in-law!"
Bai Xiao only felt a dull pain in her cheek. It was not a dream, but a real pain. It seemed like someone was really patting her face, but the force was much lighter than that of Su Manrong in the dream. A deep and powerful male voice sounded through the fog:
"Bai Xiao, Bai Xiao..."
Her eyelids were so heavy that she tried to open them, and what she saw was Yu Shaoting squatting at her feet, frowning and patting her cheek.
He still held the car keys in his other hand, and he had not changed the leather shoes on his feet. The hem of his coat was dragged to the ground, looking dusty.
The light in the restaurant fell on Yu Shaoting, so real that she couldn't believe it. She looked at him blankly, but the fear in her heart dissipated a lot.
"What did you dream about?" Yu Shaoting's low voice was very gentle, and his fingertips brushed the corners of her eyes.
Shiro Shinomoto's distracted eyes gradually focused, and he noticed that the apartment door was still wide open, and the light from the corridor leaked in, illuminating the entrance.
She shook her head, her face was a little pale, and there was sweat on her forehead, but she said softly: "It's okay, are you hungry?"
Yu Shaoting said nothing, picked her up by the waist, took her back to the master bedroom, put her on the bed, and covered her with a quilt: "Go to sleep."
Bai Xiao looked up at his slightly tired brows: "Did you not have dinner?"
It's true that Yu Shaoting didn't eat dinner, but looking at her watery eyes, he said mysteriously: "I've eaten."
"Then I'll make you a midnight snack." Bai Xiao gestured to get up.
But Yu Shaoting pulled her and sat down beside the bed. He didn't take off his shoes, and put his slender legs on the edge of the bed, which was an uncomfortable posture.
There was only one headlight on in the bedroom, and the light was soft but dim.
"What did you dream about just now, making you cry and shout?"
He asked casually, but Bai Xiao's heart felt like it was being pressed by a boulder: "It's nothing. I dreamed about a snake trying to eat me."
"Then you just let it bite you?"
Bai Xiao was still frightened, and Xu Shuyuan's questioning voice could still be clearly heard in the dream.
She leaned closer to Yu Shaoting and felt a little relieved when she smelled the smell of tobacco on his body. She said gloomily: "I can't beat her."
The living can never defeat the dead...
Yu Shaoting looked down at her with lowered eyelashes, hugged her shoulders and leaned into his arms: "If it's okay, just teach Jing Xi to do her homework. Don't think about it all day long."
"I'm not thinking wildly." Bai Xiao couldn't help but retort. She didn't think about it, but those people and things kept bothering her.
Yu Shaoting let her go: "I'm going to take a shower, you go to sleep first."
Watching him go out and hearing the sound of the bathroom door closing, Bai Xiao huddled up in bed, feeling a little scared in her heart.
It is said that she thinks about things day by day and dreams about things at night. She didn’t think much about it, but she still dreamed about it. Was it a bad omen?
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Yu Shaoting came out from the shower. There was a bowl of freshly cooked dumplings placed on the dining table, steaming hot.
He stood by the table, wiping his hair with a towel, and then turned his head to look in the direction of the bedroom. The person inside was already asleep.
He stared down at the bowl and slept for a long time, then turned and returned to the room.
Bai Xiao was probably exhausted from the nightmare just now, so he lay on his side wrapped in a quilt and fell asleep soundly.
Yu Shaoting sat down by the bedside and looked at her tired sleeping face quietly. He slowly leaned down and touched the corners of her eyes softly with his thin lips. When he straightened up, he lifted her hair and took the mobile phone from his coat pocket.
He drank cigarettes and lighter and went to the balcony. He didn't forget to turn around and close the sliding door separating the master bedroom.
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When Yu Zhanming received the call from Yu Shaoting, he was dreaming about his youthful dream of scolding Fang Qiu on the Sino-Vietnamese battlefield.
But I was woken up in the middle of the night, especially when I picked up the landline and heard Yu Shaoting's voice. Without saying anything, I put the phone down, unplugged the phone line, lay back on the bed, and cursed: "You bastard, don't make me mad to death."
You have to torture me to death!"
Not long after, there was a knock on the door of the room.
Yu Zhanming, who had just fallen asleep, was suddenly woken up. He took off his blindfold angrily and sat up: "Who?"
The door opened, and the secretary in pajamas came in with his cell phone: "Old chief, the Third Young Master said he wants to see you for something."
"I don't know him!" Yu Zhanming waved his face, turned around and lay back on the bed.
The secretary couldn't help but smile. The old chief's temper was such that even his relatives would no longer recognize him.
Yu Zhanming was lying with his back to the secretary. He heard the secretary say a few words to the other end of the phone, and then the secretary called him again: "Old chief, the third young master said it's really urgent."
"He has something urgent!" Yu Zhanming snorted coldly, "Tell him, let alone calling him in the early morning, even if he kneels in front of me right now, I won't agree!"
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Yu Shaoting stood in front of the balcony window. He opened the glass window and the cold night air thinned out the choking smell of cigarettes.
Without the secretary to relay it, he had already heard the loud voice of Chief of Staff Yu. Instead of directly putting the phone down as usual, he said: "Secretary Liang, ask him for me if he still wants to know who Jing Xi's mother is.
Already?"
Instead of Secretary Liang's polite voice, Yu Zhanming's roar sounded: "At least you threatened me. Do you think I rarely know those things about you?"
"Okay, since you don't want to know, I'm too lazy to tell you." Yu Shaoting pretended to press the phone.
But Yu Zhanming suddenly said: "Who is the mother of the child?"
"It's getting late, let's rest."
"You bastard! You're playing with me!"
Yu Shaoting took another puff of cigarette, and white smoke slowly rose from his eyes: "I'm afraid I told you that you would have to go to the hospital immediately."
