gentle fairy tale

When Yu Mian returned home, it was already dark.

Warm and dry spring night.The lights in the living room were turned on, and the incandescent lamps were dazzlingly bright. Occasionally, small bugs would bump into them with a bang, and soon fell to the floor, buzzing.

Standing by the window, Pei Songxi was talking on the phone. When he heard the voice, he buckled the phone in, said a few words in a low voice, and quickly hung up the phone.

She looked at the time and said in a calm tone, "Mianmian, why did you come back so late today?"

Yu Mian smiled at her, as always quiet and sweet: "After school, I discussed my homework with my classmates. If I came back after eating outside, it would be a little late."

Pei Songxi stared at her, as if to find some clues from her calm expression.But Yu Mian's mood is very stable, she can't see anything wrong, it's exactly the same as usual.

——If she didn't know that Yu Anqing had come to look for her just now.

Yu Mian walked in: "It's late, I haven't finished my homework yet, I'm going back to my room to study first."

Pei Songxi nodded slowly: "OK."

Back in the room, Yu Mian sat by the window in a daze.

She remembered a conversation that had taken place in a corner café that evening.

The strange woman introduced herself: "My name is Yu Anqing, and I'm your aunt."

"Your father had a small conflict with the family back then, and took your mother and you away, but was accidentally killed in a car accident."

"There was a second explosion at the scene, and the police found their bodies, as well as a bloody child's body. Your grandpa was old and passed out on the spot."

"You are only six years old, and it is almost impossible to survive... Later, a DNA test was done, and the test results showed that it was you. But your grandfather refused to believe it, and he couldn't believe it was you. He firmly believed that you were still alive, and he had been looking for you for many years. .”

"Xiao Mian, you are a child of our Yu family. Grandpa and grandma are getting old and they miss you very much. If they can go out, they will be here now."

Yu Mian listened to her calmly.

It was very strange, the story was complicated and complicated, but she didn't seem to have a big mood swing, so she calmly asked her: "What about now, why did you suddenly find me now?"

Yu Anqing lowered his head and smiled: "Actually, I shouldn't have come to you. Pei Linmao found your little uncle and wanted to hand you over to him. Unfortunately, your little uncle has someone from me, so I took the first step to see you gone."

"Little uncle is... my father's younger brother?"

"Well, he is in charge of the family company now."

The outline of the event has been formed, and the details are still missing, but they are more intriguing.

For example, what is the relationship between Pei Linmao and her little uncle; and for example, whether the car accident back then was a natural disaster or a man-made disaster.

"I see," she said softly.

Yu Anqing was a little surprised by her answer, but not so surprised: "I heard that you grew up with sister Pei Linmao?"

Yu Mian lowered her eyelashes and nodded slightly: "Yes. She treats me very well."

"Oh..." Yu Anqing's tone was somewhat complicated, "Is that so?"

Yu Mian stood up and picked up her schoolbag: "It's getting late, thank you for coming to see me today. I'm going home."

Yu Anqing was a little unexpected, and stopped her from behind: "Xiao Mian, if you want to go home, why don't you go back to your own home?"

Yu Mian smiled at her: "I'm going back to my home."

The doorplate reads 'Pei Songxi and Mianmian's Home', which has been hanging for so many years, and that is her home.

Later, she took a picture of the house number and secretly pasted it on the table. She usually covered it with a book, but she had to read it every night before going to bed.

The night was getting darker, and it was quiet outside the window.

A crescent moon hung in the sky, most of it was covered by clouds, and only a small half came out.

Yu Mian stared at the moon in a daze, she knew that Aunt Pei knew about it, but she didn't want to face it directly.

She wasn't as calm as she seemed at all.

When she was young, she had imagined that one day her family would appear in front of her, crying and saying that she should not have lost her, and would take her home—she had dreamed many, many times before, and it was always like this After waking up to such a scene, she only felt deeply lost, but she never told anyone, especially Pei Songxi, she didn't want Aunt Pei to worry.

But as time went by, she gradually stopped having such dreams.

She knew...that was because her heart was filled.

Because she met the best person in the world.

So now, she can vaguely touch the truth of the matter, and there is eagerness and anticipation in her heart, but there is another voice dissuading her, telling her to calm down and examine her heart.

...Is he going to leave here in the future, and leave her too?

The thick ink-like night on the sky gradually faded, and a little crab shell blue appeared in the distant sky.

Pei Songxi stayed up all night.

The first time she received a call from Wei Yi, saying that someone from Yu's family had been monitored in Mingchuan City, she immediately asked people to wait outside Yu Mian's school.

But the person who came was not Yu Anzhou, the current head of the Yu family, but Yu Anqing, the daughter of Yu Mian's aunt who returned to the Yu family after losing her husband.

She knew that Yu Anqing had said something to Yu Mian, the specific content of the conversation was unknown, but she could probably guess it.Mian Mian has been a bright and intelligent child since she was a child, she must know something.

But she doesn't tell her.

She just smiled at her as if nothing had happened, and said to discuss homework with her classmates.

It was she who hesitated for too long and missed the best time... She had glimpsed the truth of the matter half a year ago, but she still didn't know how to speak... No matter how many times she missed it, she couldn't tell Yu Mian.

She wants to wait until her college entrance examination is over, until she becomes an adult... Looking at it now, it seems to be some kind of excuse, maybe she is avoiding something.

Pei Songxi gently rubbed the lower brow bone, smiling lightly like self-deprecating.

There was the sound of a door closing outside the corridor, followed by the sound of light footsteps.

Concentrating all her thoughts, Pei Songxi went down to the living room, just in time to see Yu Mian standing at the entrance changing shoes, and called her: "Mian Mian, are you going out?"

Yu Mian nodded: "I'm going to draw with Teacher Fang in the morning, and I'll be back in the afternoon."

"Come back soon, I have something to tell you."

"okay."

When the door was closed, Pei Songxi stood in the entrance and was lost in thought.

Yu Mian's attitude was beyond her imagination.She thought about her crying, making trouble, getting angry, and how she looked annoyed, but she never thought that she would be so calm.

There seems to be some kind of gap and obstacle between them, silent as water, but real existence.

Near noon, she received a call from Pei Linmao: "Songxi, are you free?"

Pei Songxi's voice was cold: "What's the matter?"

Pei Linmao smiled arrogantly: "Yu Anzhou and Yu Anqing are here, let's meet at noon."

Pei Songxi could see through his thoughts at a glance, it was simply because she had been suppressed by her for the past few years and couldn't stand up, so now she wanted to use the hands of the Yu family to deal with her.When his father brought Yu Mian back back then, he clearly said that she had no family anymore... But now he is so confident, probably because he is sure that as long as he and Pei Tiancheng agree with each other and point fingers at others, some stories can easily be told in another direction.

He bet that she couldn't refute it, after all, it was her father who brought Yu Mian back home.

No matter how much she hated Pei Tiancheng, she wouldn't kill him personally.

Pei Songxi didn't know who Pei Linmao had reached an agreement with. She hadn't had direct contact with the Yu family, and she didn't know what they wanted to do, so she had to go.

The dinner was held at a well-known private kitchen restaurant in Mingchuan City.

Pei Songxi arrived a little late.

Simple and elegant Chinese-style decoration style, two landscape screens stand facing each other, and bamboo leaves are blown by the wind outside the ice-cracked window, shadowy and shadowy.

Pei Linmao stood up and waved to her: "Songxi, this way."

Pei Songxi took a cold look, walked over, pulled out a chair and sat down.

There were two strangers sitting on the table, one was a middle-aged man with silver-rimmed eyes, handsome facial features, and a modest demeanor, and the other was a middle-aged man she had seen in photos, with an elegant demeanor and deep eye lines when he smiled Woman, her voice is also nice: "Miss Pei, I've heard of you for a long time. I'm Yu Anqing."

Pei Songxi nodded to her, and was about to say something when she saw another person on the table... a slender girl sitting in the corner, just sitting in the blind corner where the screens intersected.

Yu Mian seemed to notice her gaze, raised her head to look at her, and quickly lowered her eyelashes.

Pei Songxi frowned slowly, she didn't know that Yu Mian would come.She didn't even tell her... Why did she appear here suddenly, without any warning, disturbing her reason at this moment, and caught her off guard.

Yu Anzhou gently pushed down his glasses, and smiled softly: "I'm very sorry, because I have a temporary business and I have to catch a flight back later, so I made an appointment to meet today. I don't have much time, and I don't want to talk nonsense. I came here today to I would like to thank the Pei family for taking us, Xiao Mian, for so long. But now..."

Pei Songxi couldn't bear to listen to what he said, all she knew was that the Yu family meant that they were going to take Mianmian back.

But it was too fast, too hasty, and too sudden... At first she suspected that Pei Linmao and Yu Anzhou were colluding, but now it doesn't look like it... She can't judge who is the enemy for the time being, so she can't rest assured.

She couldn't let Mianmian leave at this point in time.

Pei Songxi frowned involuntarily, looked at Yu Mian, to see if she would nod.

— as long as she says no, she won't let anyone take her away from her.

never.