The Queen of Romance: A Summer of Sweet Classics

Chapter 65

On the day Huo Xiyin went to L City, the sun was still shining so heartlessly.

The car went directly to the cemetery in the suburbs.The mountain was too quiet, even though the sun was shining, Huo Xiyin still felt cold.She went up the mountain with a large bouquet of calla lilies, and even her steps were deliberately light.

She finally stopped in front of a tombstone and stood still.On the tombstone is the most striking and clear inscription: Huo Changqing's wife Zhang Tong's tomb.

On the left side of this tombstone is the final resting place of her father Huo Changqing.

Huo Xiyin often wonders if her mother has endured for more than 20 years, is it worth it?If she were a mother, she would never compromise like that.

Her mother had fought all her life, but she probably never got anything except the position of a regular wife and the tombstone standing side by side after her death.

To die with someone like Huo Changqing is really a waste of one's own life.

On the palm of Huo Xiyin's right hand, there is a scar that has faded to the point where it is almost invisible.It was caused by Huo Xiyin accidentally breaking a bone china tea set when he was ten years old.

As long as she could remember, the bone china tea set seemed to have been placed there all the time, with elegant patterns, a delicate and transparent cup body, and a faint glow of warmth.The strange thing is that it is clearly placed in the most conspicuous position in the study, but no one can touch it except father.

She didn't believe in evil, and went to touch it secretly, but was startled by her father's scolding from behind, and retracted her hand, but she didn't expect to take away the tea set.

Huo Xiyin had never seen her father so angry, almost roaring, raising her hands high and then dropping them heavily; she had never experienced such pain, the blunt numbness, which spread densely through her back to her limbs. Muscle, she burst into tears almost immediately.

"Cry, do you still know how to cry? Do you know what kind of tea set that is?"

At that time, she naturally didn't know. She only remembered that she still held the bone china fragments in her palm, but she stood there and dared not move. She didn't let go until her father left. The fragments fell in response, and her blood Staying on it is like plum blossom petals dripping, tender and eye-catching.

Among the treasures collected by my father, the bone china tea set is obviously not the most expensive, nor is it necessarily the most eye-catching.At that time, Huo Xiyin only felt aggrieved. It wasn't until later that she realized that the reason why that thing is so precious lies in people's hearts.

This distant gift of love will be cherished more and more only because things are different.

Huo Xiyin inherited most of his father's looks, as well as most of his temper.However, in her impression, her father's love has always been stingy, without praise or attention, and Huo Xiyin didn't even see him for more than half a year.Since she was a child, she wanted to know why, but she couldn't ask her mother, because she only mentioned it to her once, which caused her mother to cry for a long time.

But even if the home was lifeless and lifeless, even if the father didn't care about it, even if the one thing the mother did most was to sit on the sofa in a daze, at least at that time the Huo house was still peaceful.Huo Xiyin tried her best to do everything she could by herself. Her requests were very few and small, and a bank card could be settled by one servant.Her grades are very good, even if no one goes to the parent meeting, it will not cause too much doubt from the head teacher.

The turning point happened when she was 22 years old.When Huo Xiyin came home from vacation that day, he dragged his luggage and only walked in the door, when he heard the quarrel from the hall from afar.

As far as she could remember, that seemed to be the first argument between her parents.In her eyes, her mother has always been dignified and elegant. Although she is depressed, she always behaves properly and never loses her temper.She had never heard such a decisive tone from her mother, she was almost hoarse: "Huo Changqing, let me tell you, as long as I live, Xia Yi will never even set foot here! If you want a divorce, you are dreaming!"

Then the father yelled loudly: "Then I'll tell you, you don't even think about getting half of the property from me. I will get back everything the Zhang family owed me back then!"

"Don't be ungrateful! When will the Zhang family ever owe you? How did your company be established in the first place? You voluntarily gave up on her to marry me because you fell in love with the Zhang family's backer! Xiyin and I can't get there yet." The point where I have to rely on you to help me, I don't even care about your little things!"

"What did you tell me at the beginning? Xia Yi was living a good life, heh, so good that she had a child out of wedlock, so good that she took the child and went away alone? If I hadn't met her in T City two days ago, were you planning to hide it? My whole life?"

"So what? Since she accepted the Zhang family's conditions back then, she naturally didn't lose money. She can still live well without you!"

"Okay? Is it good for a child to be born without a father? Is it good to take the child alone to survive in a foreign land?"

"So what if the child is born with a father? Xiyin is also your daughter, when have you cared about her?"

Huo Xiyin stood at the door without saying a word.It's not that she hasn't guessed what the truth is, but she didn't expect it to be so simple and old-fashioned.His father's eyes widened with anger, his expression almost ferocious.The mother refused to budge, but there were two lines of tears on her face.The appearance of that person named Xia Yi was like the last straw that broke the camel's back. With just a slight poke, the calm of the house finally lost its balance.

A couple of more than 20 years can't match the shock brought by a reunion.Huo Xiyin watched coldly, only feeling sad.

Since then, there has been no peace at home, and even the servants are trembling.The dispute from morning to night seemed to have no end.The parents no longer forbear, they confront each other tit for tat, and their words are sharp as if they have been poisoned.Huo Xiyin couldn't sleep for three days, and finally left home on the fourth day dragging her luggage, making up her mind not to come back within a month.

Now Huo Xiyin recalls this past, and often thinks, if she hadn't left home at that time, if she could have stopped it a little bit, would the car accident have happened?

On the eighth day after she left home, her parents were on their way to the Civil Affairs Bureau when the car crashed into a railing on the side of the road, killing both of them.

That day is two full years from today.

No one knows exactly what happened at the moment of the crash.Before Huo Xiyin digested the complete facts, she learned that her dear father, who is famous as a Confucian businessman, really did what he said. After his death, all the property under his name will belong to Xia Yi and her daughter.

And her father left her with nothing but a huge scandal.

Even Huo Xiyin didn't expect that she would maintain calm from beginning to end, listen to the will calmly, accept all the facts calmly, arrange the funeral affairs calmly with the help of relatives and friends, and sleep obediently with the company of Shen Jing every night, Then sleepless nights.

Until she came back tired from outside that day, and saw the two people she least wanted to see in the hall of Huo Zhai.

Xia Weiyang kept lowering her eyes indifferently, while Xia Yi was sitting on her mother's favorite sofa, looking at her provocatively.The cold face, the mocking mouth corners, the leisurely sitting posture, and the hot tea in his hand, under the still gorgeous lights of the living room, all were so dazzling that she wanted to dizzy.

Huo Xiyin stared at her, snatched the tea from her hand, and in the blink of an eye, all of it was splashed on Xia Yi's face, and the swear words hovering around her mouth blurted out unprocessed for the first time in her life: "Get out! "

Xia Yi seemed to have heard a joke, she didn't move at all, her well-maintained hand was barely pointing at the door, she looked at her, with mockery and hatred on her dripping face: "It's you who should get out now."

Today's Huo Xiyin recalled these events, and the scenes were still very clear.She looked at the past as if she was watching a funny life farce. If the protagonist was not herself, probably Huo Xiyin would really think that what happened two years ago was a ridiculous TV series.But this did happen to her, and at that time, she could neither fight back intelligently nor reasonably. Her performance, apart from being calm, was no better than her peers.It can even be said that even she herself is not very satisfied.

Huo Xiyin knelt on her knees, raised her head slightly, and tried hard to hold back the tears she wanted to shed.She didn't dare to breathe loudly, but she still couldn't hold back after all, a drop of water slid down, giving a trace of coolness to her temples.

She stayed on the mountain for an extra long time this time, and it was two hours after Huo Xiyin went down the mountain.Ji Zhandong was listening to the phone. When he saw her get into the car, he said a few words and hung up. Then he stretched out his arm, put his arm around her shoulder, and asked softly, "Do you want to go for a drive? Or go to dinner first? Are you hungry?"

"No appetite, and no desire to go for a ride."

"That's it," Ji Zhandong patted her on the back lightly, tilted his head and thought for a while, "When girls are depressed, don't they have two ways to vent, one is to eat, and the other is to spend. How about going to the mall now Do you want to buy something?"

"Have you ever met a 24-year-old who still calls herself a girl?"

Ji Zhandong smiled lightly, not paying attention to her provocation: "Then what should I do? How about I tell you a joke? Or make a bigger sacrifice and let you hit me twice? It is said that this is the most let Female... Well, one of the top ten ways for women to get rid of troubles."

Huo Xiyin finally couldn't help laughing, and patted his handsome face lightly: "You are not vulgar."

"Vulgarity is the most effective." He helped her straighten out the shattered hair that was blown by the wind on her forehead, still smiling slightly, "What do you want to tell me?"

"I just want to sleep now." Huo Xiyin thought for a while, then added, "Or drink."

"Then do you want to drink more or sleep more?"

"I want to drink." Huo Xiyin looked at him without blinking, "Now, immediately, immediately."

(End of this chapter)