Looking at Bai Ningxuan's facial features that were not much different from those of more than 20 years ago, Xu Zhenning's brain went blank for a moment. As people grow older, their childhood memories will be forgotten, but she still has something to do with Bai Ningxuan.
The incident is still fresh in my memory, perhaps because of the secret buried deep in my heart.
Especially the girl with her back turned to her, shouting "Mom" was like a poisonous needle piercing Xu Zhenning's brain.
Her hands slowly tightened the bag in her hands, and her face became increasingly ugly.
Over at the underwear counter, Bai Ningxuan was still choosing pajamas for her daughter. The girl turned her head with a dissatisfied look on her face, but her facial features were very similar to Bai Ningxuan's. Xu Zhenning wanted to walk away quickly, but her feet were like
It's fixed and can't move away no matter what.
Some memories from my childhood seem to be flashing before my eyes——
At that time, she lived outside with her mother, and her mother had to work in the hospital. She would go to the hospital to stay after school early, or on weekends.
One day, Xia Lan took her hand and went to a pregnant woman's ward.
"This is Aunt Bai. Mom is going to have surgery later. You should do your homework here first."
Bai Ningxuan's belly was already very big at that time, so she asked her to do her homework on the kitchen counter, touched her head and said, Aunt Xuan also wanted to have a daughter as beautiful as Ningning.
Before she went to Xu's house with Xia Lan, her name was Xia Ning.
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Xu Zhenning saw the girl put down her pajamas, said "I'm going to the bathroom" and headed towards the bathroom.
She found that a tall young man had been following the girl.
Bai Ningxuan took two sets of suitable underwear and asked the counter lady to issue a check. Xu Zhenning glanced at the bathroom, hesitated, and finally turned around and followed.
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When Yu Yiwei was about to reach the bathroom, she suddenly turned around and stretched out her hand to the bodyguard and driver who was following behind: "Lend me your mobile phone!"
The other party folded his hands in front of him and ignored him.
Yu Yiwei was furious. If she had been in that apartment, she would have started smashing things: "I want to call my uncle."
"..."
"Are you deaf?" Yu Yiwei gritted her teeth. Seeing that the other party ignored her, she turned angrily and entered the bathroom.
These days, although Yu Yiwei has no worries about food and clothing, her personal freedom has been restricted. Especially after Yu Shaoting warned the bodyguard, the bodyguard turned a deaf ear to her request. Su Manrong would come over to accompany her every day, but the most common thing he said was that sentence
'Go get the baby'.
She doesn't want to get rid of the child at all. If the child is gone, then she really has no connection with Pei Qiyou.
Since Pei Qiyou wanted to draw a clear line with her so much, she decided to give birth to this child. The relationship between them would never be clear!
After opening the door of the cubicle and coming out, Yu Yiwei went to wash her hands. Without paying attention, she stepped on something and was about to fall: "Ah!"
"Be careful!" A pleasant female voice sounded behind her, and she also supported Yu Yiwei.
Yu Yiwei stood firm, turned around, and saw a female officer, who was smiling friendly at her: "Are you okay?"
"It's okay." Yu Yiwei curled her lips and just lost her temper, but she still endured it and left the bathroom.
Xu Zhenning looked at Yu Yiwei's back, and the smile on her face softened. She turned her head and looked at herself in the mirror with a complicated expression.
Is this my father's daughter?
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Bai Xiao and Mrs. Yu looked at a lot of babies*, and when they came across one with exquisite workmanship, they liked it very much.
"After the gender of the child is determined, we will clean up the storage room and decorate it. If it is a girl, we will paint the walls pink, and if it is a boy, we will paint it blue."
The more Mrs. Yu thought about it, the more she felt that the future would be wonderful: "When you get bigger, you can move to the compound. Aunt Li can't take care of you three children by herself. If they don't want to, let them
Stay in Qinyuan, just come over."
When Bai Xiao heard what the old lady said, he obviously didn't know about Yu Shaoting's plan to settle abroad. Suddenly, he couldn't bear to interrupt the old lady.
This also made Bai Xiao re-examine her previous decision to go abroad.
Chief of Staff Yu and his wife are getting older. They long for their children and grandchildren to be reunited and enjoy their old age. Now, because of her, their son and grandson have to go abroad again.
Mrs. Yu saw that Bai Xiao was silent and thought she was unhappy because of Xu Zhenning. She looked around and said in a low voice, "Don't worry, mom is on your side."
"..." Bai Xiao reacted for three seconds, understood the meaning of Mrs. Yu's words, smiled, and nodded: "I know."
After ordering food from Yufulou and coming to the mall to buy baby products, Bai Xiao saw that the old lady was constantly sounding the alarm to Xu Zhenning, otherwise Xu Zhenning would not be so angry.
Over there, Xu Zhenning came back. As soon as she got closer, she saw Mrs. Yu and Bai Xiao talking and laughing, which made her mood even worse.
"Have you finished the phone call?" When Mrs. Yu saw Xu Zhenning, who looked unhappy, she smiled so much that flowers bloomed on her face.
Xu Zhenning reluctantly pulled the corners of her lips.
Old Mrs. Yu showed Xu Zhenning two sets of baby onesies: "I said the cream-yellow one looks good, and Xiaoxiao said the off-white one looks good. What do you think?"
Xu Zhenning wanted to say that none of it looked good, and she wished that Bai Xiao couldn't give birth to this child!
But on the surface, she took two sets of clothes, looked at them pretendingly, and pointed to the creamy yellow one: "This one looks better."
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On the other side of the mall, Yu Yiwei and Su Manrong came out of the underwear counter. When they turned their heads, they saw Bai Xiao in the maternal and infant area!
"Where are you going again?" Su Manrong grabbed her daughter to stop her from getting into trouble again.
Yu Yiwei glanced at Bai Xiao over there, "I just wanted to go over and say hello to grandma. I haven't been home for a long time."
The bodyguard also took a step forward. Mr. Yu said that Yu Yiwei should not be allowed to come into contact with other members of the Yu family, for fear that she would talk nonsense.
"What are you doing? I'm going abroad soon. Can't I even see my relatives?" Yu Yiwei felt aggrieved. She held Su Manrong's arm and said to the bodyguard: "I asked my mother to accompany me. My mother is here.
Next to me, if I talk nonsense, let her cover my mouth."
The bodyguard looked at Su Manrong in embarrassment.
Last night, Mrs. Yu also asked about Yiwei's whereabouts. She only said that her daughter was willful and could not bear the blow. She had been living outside recently. Thinking that they were going abroad at the end of the month, Su Manrong was not as strict with Yu Yiwei as before, so she told the bodyguard
He nodded and took Yu Yiwei over to say hello.
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Mrs. Yu finally bought both sets of jumpsuits. Bai Xiao didn't want her elders to spend money, so she grabbed the order and went to the cashier to pay.
"Grandma!" Yu Yiwei called Mrs. Yu from a distance.
Xu Zhenning also turned around. When she saw Su Manrong, she couldn't hide the surprise on her face. Yu Yiwei had already ran over and hugged Mrs. Yu.
Mrs. Yu hasn't seen her granddaughter for a long time. Although she thinks this granddaughter is ignorant, she is her eldest son's only child after all.
"Where have you been living these days? Why haven't you gone home?"
Yu Yiwei received a warning look from her mother, but she still said with gun and stick: "I also want to go back, but some people don't want to see me..."
"Weiwei!" Su Manrong shouted to her daughter in a low voice.
Xu Zhenning stared at Su Manrong with her eyes fixed on her. She couldn't figure out many things.
Perhaps her gaze was too direct. Su Manrong noticed it. She turned around and saw Xu Zhenning in military uniform. She had never seen her before, but she still nodded as a greeting and then said to Mrs. Yu: "Mom, you continue shopping.
, we still have some things to do, let’s go first.”
Mrs. Yu nodded: "Go."
After Su Manrong and Yu Yiwei walked away, Xu Zhenning came back to her senses and asked Mrs. Yu: "Who were those two just now -"
"My eldest daughter-in-law, and my granddaughter." Mrs. Yu said while looking at the baby's diaper.
Xu Zhenning was in charge, as if a basin of cold water had been poured down on her. The one just now was clearly Bai Ningxuan, how could she be the daughter-in-law of the Yu family?
She liked Yu Shaoting, and of course she had some knowledge of the members of the Yu family, including the deceased Yu Zhengdong, and his wife and daughter who were far away abroad.
Yu Zhengdong's wife is Su Manrong, and his daughter is Yu Yiwei...
When Bai Xiao came back after paying the money, Xu Zhenning was gone in the maternal and infant area, only Mrs. Yu was left: "Mom, why are you alone?"
"Who knows." Mrs. Yu curled her lips and said, "She said there was something important and left in a panic."
In fact, Bai Xiao was not happy to go shopping with Xu Zhenning. Since they left, it was okay. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law went shopping for a while, and then took a taxi to Bai Xiao's bookstore together.
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Bai Xiao took the tea set and went upstairs. Mrs. Yu was standing in front of the bookshelf, touching this and that. She seemed to like this place very much.
"How did you find such a place?"
Bai Xiao sat down in the booth, planning to make tea and perform a tea ceremony. She had been involved in the tea ceremony a little bit before: "Shaoting bought it, I don't know the details."
The old lady also sat back in the booth and muttered: "Before, I didn't know that mistresses were so good at pleasing girls."
"Before?" Bai Xiao was very interested in what happened to Yu Shaoting when he was young: "In the past, what was Yu Shaoting like?"
"When Xiaosan was a teenager, a beautiful female classmate once stuffed a love letter into his drawer. That day happened to be the midterm exam. Xiaosan didn't do well at that time, so he only wrote cheat sheets for the exam. He dug into the drawer and found out
A letter, but those cheat sheets are missing..."
"You should also be able to see that Xiao San has a bad temper. He is still restrained now, but it was even worse before. At that time, he didn't find the cheat sheet, and he immediately got angry. He didn't care that he was still taking the exam, and shouted, 'Who the hell is going there?
I've stuffed scrap paper in my drawer, but where's my cheat sheet? I've memorized this word for word!"
Bai Xiao suddenly wanted to laugh. She didn't expect that Yu Shaoting was so confused about the style, but she felt inexplicably comfortable in her heart.
"The person who handed over the love letter was the daughter of the principal of their school. She stopped taking the exam on the spot and ran out of the classroom crying. Later, the teacher asked the parents to invite the parents. I went and had to apologize to them. Alas, at that time, there were many
I worry about him, and when I get home, I have to stop his father's feather duster to prevent him from being maimed."
"You really can't tell." Bai Xiao felt that Yu Shaoting had changed a lot: "Now he has a very calm personality."
I’ve never seen him say bad words. Even at that time, his words were a bit explicit...
Old Mrs. Yu kept exposing her son's shortcomings: "It wasn't his father who beat him. Before he was eight years old, his father came back from the army every day. Everyone in the compound could see me chasing after him with a feather duster.
, the scene of the boy running in front with his butt naked, the tempers of the father and son are more intense than the other."
All afternoon Mrs. Yu also told many interesting stories about Yu Shaoting's childhood.
Before Mrs. Yu left, she said with emotion: "Soon, the house will be lively again. His father is very fond of his grandson."
After sending the old lady to a taxi, Bai Xiao returned to the study room. It was already evening. She closed the study room with Xiao Zhao and went to pick up Yu Jingxi from school.
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When Bai Xiao arrived at school at 4:47 pm, she heard the little guy mention that they had to rehearse the chorus before school recently.
When she walked to the door of the auditorium, Bai Xiao heard the singing inside. She didn't go in immediately. She walked around nearby. When the singing was almost done, she was about to go in. She met Wu Liaoming on the way. The little fat man was carrying a bag of drinks.
Seeing Bai Xiao's eyes shining: "Jing Xi's mother!"
These little guys called her different names every time they saw her, which made Bai Xiao a little uncomfortable.
"Let me carry it for you." Bai Xiao said, going to take the bag in his hand.
Wu Liaoming tried his best to protect the bag and prevent Bai Xiao from taking it away: "Jingxi's mother, just let me get it. Jingxi said you have a baby, so you can't be affected."
"Is this what Jing Xi told you?"
Wu Liaoming nodded, turned his head as he walked, and looked at Bai Xiao with a naive expression: "He is so happy that he even invited us to drink soda."
Bai Xiao touched his head.
"However, one time I went to the toilet and saw Yu Jingxi hiding in there crying. He even argued with me, saying it was sand in his eyes." Wu Liaoming frowned: "Jingxi's mother, actually I know, he is afraid
If you have a younger brother, it will be bad for him."
"..." Bai Xiao really didn't expect that Yu Jingxi cried about this. She thought that he really thought about it.
"Jingxi's mother, will you still treat Jingxi well when you have your own baby?"
Bai Xiao's eye circles gradually turned red. Facing the child's pure gaze, he nodded and said in a dry voice: "Yes, he is also my son."
"I just said that Yu Jingxi's worries are unfounded!" Wu Liaoming laughed and scratched the back of his head.
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Wu Liaoming took the drink and ran into the auditorium. Bai Xiao stood at the door, watching the children inside disperse in a hurry, and gathered around to get the drinks.
Bai Xiao saw Yu Jingxi at a glance. Because of his small stature, he was crowded around by other children.
Wu Liaoming stretched his neck and shouted to Yu Jingxi: "Jingxi, your mother is here, she is at the door!"
For a moment, all the children turned their heads and looked towards the door. Bai Xiao blushed when they looked at her, raised her lips and gave a friendly smile.
Yu Jingxi took a bottle of drink, scratched his head and scratched his head, and then ran towards Bai Xiao. He had been singing hard just now, but now he was running too fast. His face was flushed, and there was sweat on his forehead. Bai Xiao subconsciously
Squatting down, holding the little guy’s hand: “Are you done singing?”
"Yes." Yu Jingxi nodded, looked back, took Bai Xiao's hand and walked out: "Let's go over there."
Bai Xiao sat with the little guy by the pond next to the auditorium. Yu Jingxi held a drink and drank half of it. He took the tissue handed over by Bai Xiao and wiped his face casually. He was not in a very high mood. Bai Xiao expressed concern
Ask: "What's wrong?"
"It's nothing." Yu Jingxi pouted, slumped his shoulders, and the expression on his face didn't look like "it's nothing."
"If you are unhappy, tell me and I will help you find a solution together." Bai Xiao took the little guy's hand and wrapped it fleshly in his palm.
Yu Jingxi raised his head and looked at her with hesitant eyes: "Am I singing out of tune?"
"..."
Bai Xiao was stunned for a moment, and the little guy sighed: "They all said that I didn't sing well. There will be a competition soon. If it still doesn't work, I'll replace it."
"Jing Xi likes to sing?" Bai Xiao squeezed his little hand.
Yu Jingxi nodded heavily, "If you like, you can play with everyone. If I treat them to food, they will also bring me food."
"There is still more than a week before the competition. From now on, when I get home from school every day, I will practice singing with you."
The little guy looked at her suspiciously, Bai Xiao reached out and flicked his forehead: "Don't doubt my ability, I'm a music teacher."
Yu Jingxi's mood improved a lot instantly. She took her big schoolbag and couldn't wait to pull Bai Xiao: "It seems that there is no microphone at home. Let's buy one first."
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When Yu Shaoting returned home, he opened the door and heard a howl of ghosts and wolves, accompanied by music. He frowned and looked towards the living room.
Yu Jingxi was standing on the sofa, holding a microphone and singing the song "Let's Swing the Oars" with a dedicated expression.
Yu Shaoting's brows furrowed even more tightly. Yu Jingxi's singing was off-key. He had known it for a long time, and he didn't know who inherited it from him. He just loved singing. Everyone in his family admired him, so he didn't point out the off-key thing. But every time he sang,
He would always keep a straight face, and over time, Yu Jingxi sang less.
"Come back?" Bai Xiao turned her head and smiled when she saw him standing at the entrance.
Yu Shaoting's face softened, he hummed lowly, put on his slippers and came up. Over there, Aunt Li had already prepared dinner.
He went to the kitchen to drink a glass of water, and when he came out, he saw his son still singing mesmerically. Yu Shaoting frowned, took the water glass, and was about to go over and press it with the remote control. As a result, Bai Xiao stood up as soon as he walked into the living room.
, stopped him, and he looked sideways at her.
Bai Xiao's voice was very low: "Jing Xi is going to participate in a singing competition. She needs to practice more at home these days."
"..."
Yu Shaoting also lowered his voice and looked at her, but he said to Yu Jingxi: "It's not embarrassing either."
"How could you say that about your own son?" Bai Xiao feigned displeasure and glared at him. Now that she was pregnant, her eyebrows were a little more charming.
After Yu Jingxi finished singing a song, he turned his head and looked at Bai Xiao eagerly, with big watery eyes, as if he was waiting for praise.
Bai Xiao clapped hurriedly, "It's much better than before. There are still a few notes to pay attention to."
Yu Jingxi cast her eyes on Yu Shaoting, who had remained silent.
Bai Xiao winked at the sullen man, and Yu Shaoting moved his eyes away from her, looked at his son, and nodded: "Very good."
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Before going to bed at night, Yu Shaoting expressed his opinion on Bai Xiao's behavior of indulging his children. He felt that the children should not be coaxed in this way.
Bai Xiao disagreed with his statement: "Children are still young and need encouragement and praise from adults. Otherwise, it is easy to develop an inferiority complex."
Yu Shaoting smiled, and Bai Xiao felt that his smile was mostly sarcastic.
She pushed his arm: "If you have an opinion, say it. What does it mean to sneer?"
"..." Yu Shaoting lay down and turned off the light: "Go to sleep."
Bai Xiao couldn't help but mentioned Xu Zhenning's matter to him again. She was just being petty. She just couldn't bear to see a beautiful woman hanging around Yu Shaoting all day long.
"Is this why you ignored me when we were eating just now?" Yu Shaoting reached out and took her into his arms.
Bai Xiao lay on his chest, and his indifferent attitude made her a little distressed: "Can't you pay more attention to it?"
"How do you pay attention to it?" Yu Shaoting slid a hand on her soft waist.
Bai Xiao didn't answer. After a while, he said in a muffled voice: "I'm a little worried..."
"What are you worried about?" he asked.
"My current life is so happy for me that it makes me forget about the potential crises and the past that has been deliberately concealed."
The matter of surrogacy and her marriage are all time bombs.
"Next month, I will take you out of here."
Yu Shaoting's simple words cost Bai Xiao a lot of money, but she still couldn't ignore the throbbing in her heart at this moment.
She also wanted to follow him regardless of everything, take Jing Xi and fly away.
"If you don't like Las Vegas, you can go elsewhere, but for the time being, you have to live in Las Vegas for a while."
Bai Xiao raised his head and said jokingly: "Yu Shaoting, you are quite old, why do you still think so simple? We left without caring, what will your parents do? And my grandmother, they are already old,
All I want is to have my children by my side in my old age."
Yu Shaoting frowned and grabbed her moving hand: "If you don't want to leave, do you want to stay here?"
"..."
Bai Xiao fell silent and stayed here, meeting the Pei family without looking up. She lived her life in fear.
Yu Shaoting hugged her tightly: "Don't worry about these things. I have already got my visa processed. We will leave when the company's affairs are handed over."
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On one side, Bai Xiao hugged Yu Shaoting and fell asleep full of thoughts. On the other side, there was someone standing in front of the window of the hotel room, feeling confused.
Xu Zhenning held her mobile phone in her hand and hurriedly came down from the mall in the afternoon. She caught up with Bai Ningxuan. Later, she drove behind them and drove all the way to a community. She did not have a pass for the community and could not enter, but she also stayed outside for a long time.
He didn't come back until dark.
On the way back, she thought a lot and became even more certain that Su Manrong was Bai Ningxuan. There were no two identical people in the world.
Xu Zhenning hesitated again and again and dialed the number at her home in the capital. The person who answered the phone was the nanny.
"Where's my mother?" she asked.
"My wife is taking a bath upstairs. Miss, please wait a moment and I'll call her."
After a while, the call was transferred to Xia Lan. Before Xu Zhenning could speak, Xia Lan was already scolding: "Xu Zhenning, now, I, the mother, can't control you, can I? What's in your head
Are you pretending to be a pig brain? He actually went to the art troupe of the Fengcheng Army."
"Do you think Yu Shaoting will look at you more like this? Xu Zhenning, I'm not afraid of hurting you. If it were me, Yu Shaoting, I wouldn't look at you twice. I would never be as impressive as what I strive for.
Cherish it, if you are stubborn, don’t come to me to cry in the future."
The words he was about to say were swallowed because of this angry rebuke.
Xu Zhenning choked: "Are you still my mother? I just like him, what's wrong? You can risk everything for love, why can't I pursue my love? Don't worry, even if I die in Fengcheng, I won't
I want to cry with you!" After saying that, he put the phone down directly.
Smashing the phone on her chest, Xu Zhenning fell down and went to sleep. She thought of Xia Lan's words and became angry, suddenly not wanting to tell her what she saw and heard!
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