Just one look and I'm sure no matter what happens in the future
Because of grandma's arrival, the villa was very lively in the dead of night.
Aunt Li has packed out a guest room for the elderly to stay in this afternoon.
Bai Xiao felt that the old man was old and weak, and a thin quilt was not enough, so he went to Aunt Li and asked for a blanket to put on the quilt.
Yu Jingxi pulled Xiao Mianmoo behind Bai Xiao. When he heard her talking to Aunt Li, he immediately turned around and ran into his small bedroom.
When he came out again, he held a ball in his little arms. It was a children's blanket with joyful patterns.
But when he diligently brought the small blanket to the guest room, Aunt Li and Bai Xiao had already covered the quilt with a large blanket!
Bai Xiao saw him: "Still not sleeping?"
The little guy was wearing a set of coral velvet cartoon pajamas, with a balled up blanket in his hand.
Bai Xiao glanced at the blanket on the bed and immediately understood the little guy's good intentions. He went over and touched his head: "Is this for grandma?"
Yu Jingxi hummed, glanced at Bai Xiao, and said disapprovingly: "I accidentally spilled water just now, take it out to dry in the sun."
Bai Xiao pinched his cheek: "Are you basking in the moon?"
"..." Yu Jingxi couldn't stop Bai Xiao, so she hugged the blanket and turned around to walk back to her bedroom.
Bai Xiao hugged him and kissed his face hard. The little guy wiped it shyly: "I just washed my face, and now I have to wash it again!"
"Thank you Jing Xi." Bai Xiao looked at the little guy solemnly.
After hearing her sweet words, Yu Jingxi's disappointment turned into pride, and she snorted, then swaggered back to the bedroom holding the blanket.
Bai Xiao stood up and looked at the little guy's leaving figure with a smile. Aunt Li said at the side: "The young master has really changed a lot."
"Really?" Bai Xiao handed the pillowcase a pillowcase.
Aunt Li smiled happily: "Of course, Teacher Bai, you don't know that the young master never lent his things to others in the past. If anyone uses his things without his permission, there will definitely be a big fuss."
One game, even the Third Young Master is no exception."
The men of the Yu family all seem to have big tempers, Yu Zhanming, Yu Shaoting, Yu Jingxi, except Yu Zhongxiao are relatively mild-mannered.
"When I was in Las Vegas, one day a neighbor's child came over to play. He took a fancy to the young master's airplane model and wanted to take it away. The young master turned his face on the spot and pushed him down and swollen his head. After the third young master came back,
I asked the young master to come to my door in person to apologize, but the young master was stubborn and refused to go."
"What happened next?" Bai Xiao missed Jing Xi's childhood, and she had no regrets about it.
"Later, the third young master dragged the young master outside and said that he would stay outside if he didn't want to apologize. After saying that, the third young master closed the door and went upstairs. However, an hour later, the young master didn't knock on the door. It was so cold at that time.
, how can a four-year-old child bear it? When I secretly opened the door, the young master was sitting on the steps holding a model airplane. His body was frozen. I asked him to come in and refused to listen. In the end, the third master personally let him in.
Drag it into the house."
Aunt Li sighed, looking at Bai Xiao, her eyes softened: "Teacher Bai, I have taken care of Jing Xi for so many years, and I have never seen him be so affectionate to a woman other than the old lady. I think, although he hasn't called you yet
I say "Mom", but in my heart, I'm afraid I have already acknowledged you."
Bai Xiao's nose felt sore after hearing this, and she smiled faintly, her voice a little low: "I know."
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Passing by Mrs. Yu's room, the door was ajar and her grandmother was also inside. Bai Xiao couldn't hear exactly what they were saying, but the atmosphere inside was pretty good.
Bai Xiao went to the study room. The door was open and the light was not turned on. Yu Shaoting was not there, so she returned to the master bedroom.
Just as he walked to the door, Bai Xiao heard Yu Jingxi's voice coming from the master bedroom: "Dad, why is your quilt so soft?"
"..."
"*Yes, much more comfortable than mine."
The door was not closed tightly, and Bai Xiao saw the little guy rolling around on the bed, wrapped in a quilt, mouthing non-stop, and with a pair of bare feet.
Yu Shaoting was sitting on the bed, after taking a shower, wearing a dark blue mercerized nightgown, with a notebook on his lap across the quilt. Today he moved his office from the study to the bedroom. He lit a cigarette and bit it in his mouth.
He was still holding a few pieces of paper in his hand and was reading them, not even shaking them off at the noisy Yu Jingxi beside him.
Bai Xiao occasionally couldn't figure out Yu Shaoting. He would go to Liyang without telling her to pick up her grandmother to surprise her, but after picking her up, he acted very calmly. He went upstairs to take a bath and work by himself instead of being attentive to her grandmother.
To please someone else, she would probably think that he looked down on her relatives.
At noon today, when he made that phone call to himself, did he want to take her to see her grandmother who had just come from Liyang?
Yu Jingxi got tired of scrolling on the bed, so she came to Yu Shaoting's notebook and stretched out her little finger to press the keyboard, but was scolded: "What are you touching?"
"I want to play a game."
Yu Shaoting pushed his little head away: "What time is it? Go back to the room and go to bed."
Yu Jingxi's bright black eyes rolled around as she curled up in the bed and sat side by side with Yu Shaoting: "I want to sleep here tonight."
Yu Shaoting took the cigarette away from his mouth, raised his eyes and noticed Bai Xiao at the door. The hand that was going to lift the quilt on Yu Jingxi changed to caressing Yu Jingxi's head. His eyes fell on the computer screen again, and he said: "This
*The quilt is not enough to cover three people..."
"Then I'll go bring my own quilt over here." Yu Jingxi said, got up, put on cotton mops and ran out excitedly.
As soon as the door opened, Bai Xiao was standing at the door. The little guy ignored her and went directly into his small room.
The master bedroom was filled with a faint smell of cigarette smoke. Just smelling this smell was not pleasant.
Bai Xiao walked in and saw him wiping out a cigarette butt. There were messy papers everywhere on the cabinet, and Yu Jingxi's roll just now made it even more messy. He walked over to help him sort it out, but heard him say
: "Don't move around, I won't be able to find you later."
"How can you sleep at night like this?" Bai Xiao half-knelt beside the bed and looked at the clock on the wall: "What time is it?"
Yu Shaoting took out another cigarette and lit it. Bai Xiao grabbed the lighter directly and refused. He looked up at her, as if he was dissatisfied with her move.
"From now on, you are not allowed to smoke after dinner every day." Bai Xiao noticed that there were more than one or two cigarette butts in the ashtray.
"What do you want me to do if I don't smoke?"
Bai Xiao thought of the way to quit smoking that she had heard at the company before: "You can chew gum or eat other snacks."
Yu Shaoting let out a gentle belly laugh.
Bai Xiao thought he was laughing at her "childishness", so she glared at him feigning anger, stood up from the bed, took a change of pajamas and went to the bathroom.
After briefly washing up, I came out and found that the person on the bed was no longer there, and the papers piled randomly were also gone.
Yu Shaoting was sitting on the sofa looking at the laptop screen. The papers were spread out on the coffee table. Occasionally he picked up one to look at it and then put it down again.
Bai Xiao stood at the door of the bathroom, looking at his focused expression quietly. The glass window behind her opened a crack, and the smell of cigarette smoke in the room had dissipated a lot. Her eyes fell on him, and the fabric of his nightgown
It's very close-fitting, and the muscle lines on the chest and arms are relaxed, thin and full of strength.
Suddenly, the man suddenly raised his head. Bai Xiao couldn't dodge his gaze, and he happened to catch him.
Her cheeks were red, she turned away her eyes, and walked out angrily, muttering: "Where did the lotion in the travel bag go? Why didn't I see it?"
The man behind him said nothing, and Bai Xiao found her skin care products next to the TV.
As she poured the toner into her palm, she turned around and said, "I want to sleep with my grandma tonight."
Yu Shaoting looked over, his eyes straight, but he didn't say anything.
"I have a lot to say to grandma." Bai Xiao was a little shy, like a primary school student asking for leave from his strict class teacher.
Yu Shaoting lowered his head and continued working: "There is plenty of time to talk during the day."
Bai Xiao frowned: "That's different."
"What's different?" He looked up at her again.
"The atmosphere, the atmosphere is different."
"..."
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Bai Xiao lay on the bed, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep even with her eyes closed, and had to sigh secretly at the terrible habit.
Grandma, who was breathing softly and falling asleep, suddenly opened her eyes, turned to look at Bai Xiao who was moving around beside her, and smiled: "If you really can't sleep, go back."
With the old man seeing through her thoughts, Bai Xiao closed the quilt in embarrassment and refused to admit: "I drank a cup of coffee in the evening to refresh myself."
Grandma looked at her cheeks that turned red when she lied: "I can't sleep even if you move around like this. I'm old and I can't stand your torment like this."
"I agreed to sleep with you tonight and not go back." Bai Xiao gestured and hugged the old man, just like he did when he was a child.
Grandma patted her arm: "You are already the mother of the child, why is it still as if you haven't grown up yet?"
"By the way, Shao Ting sleeps with Jing Xi at night, and the child sleeps at different times. He is a grown man, and I don't know if he will wake up at night and cover the child with a quilt."
Bai Xiao said that Yu Jingxi slept alone when he was very young, so the old man felt relieved.
After a while, Bai Xiao asked her grandma why she didn't call him before she came. The old man smiled and said with emotion: "I was shocked myself. A young man drove to the door of the house and said that Mr. Yu asked him to pick her up.
Damn it, I was in such a hurry that I forgot to inform you."
"Why, didn't Shaoting tell you that I was coming?" Grandma was surprised.
Bai Xiao shook his head, he was tight-lipped, and no matter how much she pried about things he didn't want to talk about, it would be in vain.
Grandma smiled: "Maybe he wants to surprise you."
The grandfather and grandson chatted for a while, and grandma suddenly said: "Shaoting's mother told me a lot just now. After Qi You's incident, I have been thinking for a while that the words passed down by our ancestors are indeed right.
, If the family is not the right one, no matter how interested the man is in his concubine, he will not be able to last long."
"Before Shaoting took you away, he promised me that he would not let you be wronged one day."
Bai Xiao couldn't imagine Yu Shaoting saying such emotional words, and his face felt slightly hot: "You trusted him so much back then?"
"Haha, it's not that you won't miss someone if you've been together for a long time. The main thing is the way you look at people. When he said this to me, his eyes were very straight. With just one look, I was sure that no matter what happened in the future,
Whatever happens, at least he can protect you."
Bai Xiao's eyes were red and she didn't know what to say.
"Shaoting's mother is a very good person. In a family like that, it's very rare that she doesn't look at people with nose in her nose." Grandma sighed, inevitably thinking about the Pei family, and shook Bai Xiao's hand.
: "Grandma doesn't know where to start talking about your mother."
"Your mother is studying in college away from home, and she only comes home a few days a year. Your grandfather and I don't know many things. I just heard what Shaoting's mother said, and I thought of something. Your mother has just gone to college.
When I came home on the first New Year's Eve, I mentioned in conversation that I had found a military partner."
Grandma paused and then said quietly: "If my guess is correct, that person should be Shaoting's brother."
Bai Xiao was confused after hearing this. If Su Manrong and Yu Zhengdong were first lovers, what happened to her?
"Later, your mother suddenly returned home when she was at school. She locked herself in the room and cried. She didn't say what happened. She stayed there for a few days and then went back to school. After more than half a year, she suddenly wrote a letter saying that she wanted to
She got married when she was still in college, so of course your grandpa and I didn't agree."
"Who would have known that there was no news from your mother for more than half a year. Your grandfather was thinking about whether to go to school to find her, and she came back with you in her arms..."
When I mention the past, bitterness comes to my mind one after another.
At that time, it was not as open as it is now. If you had children out of wedlock, everyone could drown you with just a spit of saliva.
Bai Xiao knew something. Her grandfather was originally a cadre in the village, but he lost his job because of his mother's affairs, and the family's reputation was also ruined.
This is why Bai Qiuhua and Wu Xiumei hate her so much.
When she was a child, she still vaguely remembered Wu Xiumei scolding her. If it weren't for her and her mother, Bai Qiuhua would probably take his grandfather's place when he gets old. If he was lucky, he could be promoted step by step. Although Bai Xiao felt that Bai Qiuhua
Hua doesn't have this ability, but there is still hope.
But because Su Manrong gave birth to a child out of wedlock, Bai Qiuhua missed the chance without even scratching the edge of this hope.
Bai Xiao hugged her grandmother tightly and said in a low voice: "She hasn't come back these years. Have you ever blamed her?"
"She has things she doesn't want to face. Maybe seeing us will trigger those bad memories." The old man touched Bai Xiao's face with his wrinkled hands like old tree bark, and sighed: "I feel sorry for you, if I knew
She is still alive and well, and grandma will definitely try her best to send you to her."
That way, you don’t have to suffer so much...
Bai Xiao shook his head: "I never thought that my life was miserable. If I had a different growth environment, maybe I wouldn't be Bai Xiao."
The old man glared at her and pretended to be displeased: "That's better than suffering with us."
"How can you know the joy of fish if you are not a fish?" Bai Xiao rested her head on her grandmother's shoulder: "At least, grandpa and you have always loved me. You have to think about it, if you really sent me to her side,
Then will you still have such a lovely and smart great-grandson?"
Grandma laughed and scolded: "Now you are still talking nonsense to me!"
The grandfather and grandson joked for a while, then turned off the lights and took a rest. Bai Xiao nestled in the quilt, thinking about what her grandmother said, but couldn't figure out a clue.
Her father...
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The next morning, Bai Xiao woke up and found that her grandmother had already gotten up.
When he came out of the guest room, he met Yu Jingxi coming out of the master bedroom, hugging his own quilt and pillow, with a smelly little face.
As he walked, he turned towards the bedroom and hummed: "I'm too lazy to sleep with you, I don't care about you, I don't like you!"
The little guy looked very angry and didn't even see Bai Xiao. A corner of the quilt fell off his little arm and he dragged it all the way back to the small bedroom.
Bai Xiao didn't know what happened to the father and son, so he entered the master bedroom out of curiosity, but there was no one there.
Yu Shaoting came out of the dressing room, wearing a formal suit, but his complexion was not very good, he coughed twice, and his voice was a bit hoarse.
Bai Xiao was surprised: "You have a cold?"
Yu Shaoting glanced at her out of the corner of his eye, then passed her, took his notebook and documents, and went out directly.
I don't know if it was an illusion, but Bai Xiao seemed to see resentment in his eyes...
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Bai Xiao changed her clothes and went downstairs. Yu Shaoting was sitting in the restaurant with his back to her. Yu Jingxi was also there, sitting far away from Yu Shaoting, as if he was angry.
Grandma made the breakfast, and Aunt Li did it, while Mrs. Yu watched with interest.
Grandma makes Liyang’s specialty breakfast.
Mrs. Yu sat down and said, "Why are you so embarrassed? My grandma asked you to cook on the first day she came here..."
"This has become a habit for me. If you don't let me do it, I will feel uncomfortable." Grandma said with a smile. The atmosphere in the restaurant was very harmonious.
After Yu Jingxi had breakfast, she asked driver Liang to take her to school. It was rare that she didn't waste time and asked Yu Shaoting and Bai Xiao to take her to school. Mrs. Yu was worried and followed her.
Aunt Li put away the dishes and went into the kitchen to wash the dishes.
Grandma suddenly said to Bai Xiao: "Xiao Xiao, my stomach feels a little uncomfortable. Go buy me some digestive tablets."
Bai Xiao nodded, there is a large pharmacy next to Qinyuan Community.
Yu Shaoting sat in the restaurant and did not leave. He glanced at Bai Xiao and said nothing until she took the money and disappeared at the door of the villa.
The old man was sure that Bai Xiao had gone far, and then he smiled and said to Yu Shaoting, "It's so hard for you to keep waiting."
Based on Yu Shaoting's life experience, how could he not see that his grandmother had something to say to him? He got up and went to the kitchen to make a pot of tea, took a clean tea cup and put it in front of his grandmother, poured a cup of hot tea, and poured himself a cup too.
, and then sat back to the original position.
"Did you not sleep well last night?" When Yu Shaoting came downstairs, she noticed something was wrong with his voice. She probably caught a cold.
Yu Shaoting didn't say anything, so he acquiesced.
Grandma sighed and looked at him kindly: "My granddaughter is sometimes willful. I'm afraid you will have to be more tolerant in the future."
The old man also said similar things to him, but at that time, he was the fake Pei Qiyou.
Now when I hear these words again, my mood is naturally different.
The old man took out a handkerchief from his trouser pocket, wrapped it tightly, put it on the dining table and slowly opened it.
"This is the dowry that her grandpa prepared for Xiaoxiao when he was still alive. There were a few more items, but her uncle saw them and stole them. I discovered these two in time and hid them quietly." Inside the handkerchief were two items.
This piece of jewelry is very old at first glance and can be considered an antique.
Yu Shaoting paused while drinking tea, and his eyes stayed on the jewelry.
Grandma: "You also know the conditions of our family. We can't afford the millions of dowries from those wealthy families. I don't hide some things from you, and I guess I can't hide them from you. These two things, when Xiaoxiao and Qi You first got married, I
I wanted to give it, but I never had the chance.”
Yu Shaoting didn't answer.
"Some things may be destined. Only now do I realize that it wasn't that I couldn't find opportunities at that time, but that it was just not the right fit."
The old man sighed and said: "If you keep these two pieces of jewelry, they are not worth much, just treat them as a formality."
Yu Shaoting clenched the teacup with his hand, stared at the jewelry, and said slowly in a calm tone: "Put these away."
But the old man pushed the jewelry towards him gently: "If you don't accept it, I'm afraid I'll die without peace of mind."
"I won't live for a few more years. My only wish is to see my poor granddaughter find a good home. It's her blessing that you like her. It's not easy for two people to live together. There is an old saying.
Well done, after a hundred years of cultivation, we can cross the same boat, and a thousand years of cultivation, we can sleep together. She is still young and doesn’t understand many things. If she makes a mistake, I hope you can teach her well..."
Bai Xiao stood at the door of the villa, listening to her grandmother's earnest voice inside, while warm water drops fell on the medicine box in her hand.
Last time, she felt sad when she heard her grandmother pleading with Yu Shaoting as Pei Qiyou outside the ward; this time, it was a different emotion.
She heard Yu Shaoting's answer. It was very simple, with only one word: "Okay."
