The woman opposite the door

Going home at night, Yi Qingxuan invited Su Meng over for dinner as usual.

After the meal, the two stood side by side washing the dishes. Yi Qingxuan hesitated for a moment and said, "Today, I'm sorry."

Su Meng smiled: "It's fine, what kind of apology is this?"

"I asked you to go out and play with us, but you came back without even eating. Are you feeling uncomfortable?"

It turned out to be this.

Su Meng handed the washed bowl to Yi Qingxuan, and said, "No, I have an appointment with friends, so I couldn't have dinner with you in the first place."

The expression on her face was so natural that no one could see the slightest difference.

Yi Qingxuan knew that "dating someone" was just a cover, and she didn't mention it when she went out to play, and she didn't mention it when she was going to have dinner, and she didn't mention it until Zhihuan appeared. Isn't it too coincidental?

However, Su Meng said this in order not to embarrass himself, so why would Yi Qingxuan deliberately expose it to embarrass others?

"Take it as what I owe you, and I will have a chance to make it up in the future."

Su Meng smiled lightly: "It's just a meal, how can we talk about owed anything. Besides, how many meals have I spent with you?"

"How can this be the same..."

Yi Qingxuan argued: "I took the initiative to ask you out, but left you because of other things. It's so dishonest. Of course I should make up for it."

"As you like."

Su Meng just smiled and said nothing, Yi Qingxuan lowered her eyes and looked at it secretly, and after a while, she muttered to herself: "Besides, if you get angry this time, why don't you agree to my invitation again in the future?" manage?"

Um?Su Meng raised his head, but saw Yi Qingxuan shifting his gaze away. When he looked carefully, his ears turned red for some reason.

She froze for a moment before replying, "No."

Yi Qingxuan immediately burst into joy, and the uneasiness that had been hidden in her heart all afternoon suddenly disappeared.Holding the rag in his hand, he moved quickly, and in a short while wiped all the dishes and chopsticks back to their original positions.

After tidying up, Su Meng played with Xiaoroutuan for a while, then got up to leave.

Yi Qingxuan sent her out the door alone, with her hands behind her back, as if hiding something mysteriously.

Su Meng pretended not to know, said good night and turned to leave.Seeing this, Yi Qingxuan hurriedly called her to stop, and at the same time, she handed the things in her hands forward with some embarrassment: "I saw it when I was shopping in the mall today, and I thought it was suitable for you, so I bought it."

Su Meng looked intently, and Yi Qingxuan was holding a beautifully wrapped royal blue gift box with a bow tie in her hand.Apparently, the owner put a lot of care into preparing this gift, but couldn't tell what was inside.

"But the new year is not a holiday, and it's not my birthday, so why send a gift for no reason?"

It was rare for Su Meng to be in such a good mood. He smiled and joked at Yi Qingxuan.

Yi Qingxuan blushed slightly: "You do it, it's to make up for my negligence today."

Su Meng still didn't answer: "That's it, don't you make up for it after talking about it?"

"The future compensation will be in the future, today's compensation... anyway, you can accept it."

Su Meng finally regained his usual seriousness, and stretched out his hand to push the gift box in Yi Qingxuan's hand forward: "You don't get rewarded for nothing, besides, it's just a trivial matter, so you really don't have to worry about it. If you are suitable for this thing, you can buy it." Use it, if it’s not suitable, you’d better return it to the mall, and use it to buy some of her favorite snacks for Xiaoroutuan.”

In this case, if you hear it in the ears of others, you may feel unhappy: What do you mean?I bought you a gift with good intentions, if you don’t accept it, forget it, and persuade me to exchange it for money to buy things for my daughter.Why, is my family's life so difficult in your eyes?

That's definitely not what Su Meng meant. She could tell that it was not easy for Yi Qingxuan to earn money, and she could even more tell that Yi Qingxuan hurt her daughter so much.I just feel that they are all real friends and live a real life, so there is no point in spending money on these forms of things.

I really feel sorry for what happened today, Yi Qingxuan said I'm sorry, and Su Meng accepted it, that's all.

Of course, this passage of words may indeed cause others to think wildly, Su Meng also knows, but... Yi Qingxuan will never have such a misunderstanding, Su Meng is sure in his heart, but he can't say why.

Sure enough, Yi Qingxuan's expression remained unchanged, but she insisted on pushing the box into Su Meng's arms.

"This thing is specially bought for you, how can I apply it? Anyway, I bought everything, you have to accept it no matter what!"

After speaking, Yi Qingxuan said good night with a smile on her face, then turned and went back to her home.

Su Meng had no choice but to buy some other rewards in the future. With the gift box in his hand, he also stepped into the house.

After taking a shower and changing into loose pajamas, Su Meng nestled into the sofa with the computer and surfed the Internet.

Although Shen Tingwen repeatedly assured that the process of finding a child would be accelerated, Su Meng always felt that his words were more perfunctory.

A businessman pays much attention to profits, maybe he has other wishful thinking in mind.

Su Meng didn't know, and didn't bother to guess.In her eyes, she and Shen Tingwen are the simplest money transaction, not to mention feelings, even emotions should not be mixed.

Taking what they need is the state they should be in.

Giving her only body, getting Shen Tingwen to sponsor her to go to college and help her find a child, that's all.

In the eyes of others, a woman who can be entrusted to a man as a mistress is despicable and despicable, but Su Meng doesn't care at all.

As long as she can successfully find her child, she can do anything.

Even, every time Shen Tingwen came to look for her, Su Meng felt relieved even though he was reluctant: If he could always be in a relationship with Shen Tingwen, after the child was found, the mother and daughter would be able to leave their hometowns immediately, within a minute. Don't delay.

Su Meng browsed the web while thinking: It is better to ask for help than to ask for yourself. It is impossible for her to pin all her hopes on Shen Tingwen. She has widely posted missing person posts on the Internet. With the attraction of a huge reward, she should be able to find her daughter sooner, right?

After reading the relevant information, the night outside the window was already dark.

Su Meng got up and was about to go back to his room to sleep, when he glanced at the royal blue gift box on the coffee table.

Reaching out to take it over and look at it casually, untied the ribbon for a while and took out the things in the box.

It's a silk scarf - white and bright yellow, decorated with patterns resembling peacock feathers. It looks simple and elegant, which is quite in line with Su Meng's usual aesthetics.

It can't be seen that Yi Qingxuan, who used to be plainly dressed, has a good eye for choosing gifts.

With admiration in Su Meng's eyes, he put away the silk scarf, wondering what kind of gift should he buy in return for another day?

Zhihuan's work efficiency is surprisingly high, and within two days she called Yi Qingxuan to inform Yi Qingxuan that she had found a cram school and paid for it, and she could go to class starting this weekend.

Yi Qingxuan said bluntly to the phone: "How much is it, I will call you later."

"Not much, you still care about what to do with me. You have been taking care of Xiaoroutuan by yourself for so many years, didn't I say nothing?"

"How can the little meat ball be the same as this one."

Having said that, Yi Qingxuan knows that even though they have been separated for several years, it is impossible for her and Zhihuan's lives to be clearly separated.Not to mention that there is still a little meat ball raised by the two of them. Even if there is no, she and Zhihuan have known each other for more than 20 years since they were young. They are not relatives but are better than relatives. There is always an inseparable friendship.

The degree of their familiarity with each other is even deeper than that of themselves in some cases. They even don't even need to be polite when they get along with each other. They speak and do things straightforwardly and simply.

Yi Qingxuan hung up the phone and went to Su Meng's house. The weekend will come in a blink of an eye. As for the little meat ball, she should make arrangements early.

As usual, Su Meng wore an apron and hurriedly prepared dinner in the kitchen—it was not a long-term solution, and it was more practical to acquire the ability to be self-reliant early.

When the doorbell rang, she didn't even have time to turn off the fire, so she hurried over to open the door, said "wait a moment", then turned around and hurried back to the kitchen.

Yi Qingxuan closed the door and followed, just in time to see that Su Meng was about to pour a bowl of yellow-orange-orange eggs on top of the fried tomatoes in the pot.

"Hey, wait."

Su Meng froze, tilted his hand, and some egg liquid rushed towards the pot after scrambling.

Yi Qingxuan went over to turn off the gas, Su Meng looked blank and asked, "What's wrong? What I did wrong?"

"Of course not. If you fry it like this, you still don't know what you will make in the end."

Yi Qingxuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and took the bowl in Su Meng's hand: "Let me do it."

"No, I'm studying. If you come, I won't make any progress today."

Su Meng insisted that Yi Qingxuan would not fight against her. She washed her hands and took the remaining two tomatoes from the vegetable basket next to her and cut them up. Then she poured out the dark food in the pot, washed the pot again, wiped it dry and put it away. on the stovetop.

"Then I'll direct and you do it. It's okay, right?"

This is really possible, Su Meng smiled and nodded: "Okay."

With the guidance of the chef, it took less than 5 minutes for a plate of bright and attractive tomato scrambled eggs to be served.

Su Meng was very satisfied, and invited Yi Qingxuan with chopsticks: "Would you like to come and try my handicraft?"

"Okay," Yi Qingxuan smiled, and took a mouthful of the sample for a long time, until Su Meng's expression changed slightly because of nervousness, then he nodded and said, "Not bad, the taste is very good."

Su Meng heaved a sigh of relief, turned around and went to prepare other ingredients.Yi Qingxuan was helping, and couldn't help but ask: "I said, why don't you go to my house for dinner for a long time today, are you planning to start a new stove?"

"If you take advantage of short hands and eat soft mouths, how can you always get away with it?"

Su Meng joked with a smile, and Yi Qingxuan also smiled, and replied after a while: "If you don't eat, then I won't be able to ask you to do something?"

"No. Although I don't eat it now, aren't the ones I ate before still there?"

Su Meng turned around and looked at Yi Qingxuan with a smile. Yi Qingxuan's head was a little dazed, staring at her smiling face like a flower, a sentence suddenly popped up in her mind: Looking back, a smile is a beauty.