I quietly watch you play

"...Do you think there is a lot of time left for us?!"

Zhou Wei spread out a book of real questions on his knees, staring at the green qinyerong by the window, then turned his gaze back to his grandfather's pale face in a short while, under the quilt his old body could barely see any ups and downs, so quietly Lying down, it seemed as if the flesh and blood had been squeezed out together with the energy and spirit.

Why did Ji Qing only disclose the news to herself and not Zhou Lei?How could she be willing to throw away such a good opportunity to perform?Is it the mother and son who are running out of time or the grandfather lying on the hospital bed?

Presumably, she concealed the reason for her grandfather's serious illness from Zhou Lei, besides not wanting to interfere with his preparation for the exam, there was another important possibility, she was confident.

Ji Qing doesn't care about her grandfather's attitude towards Zhou Lei, even if he favors her as always, all she wants to fight for is the time that her grandfather can still rule Peony City.

What is Ji Qing holding in his hand that can make Zhou Chen choose Zhou Lei instead of himself at the last moment?

Then, all of this will go back to the original starting point, the paternity test with an unknown sample!

"Reading without turning on the light?" Zhou Chen turned his head from the hospital bed, his voice was soft because of his weakness, he seemed dissatisfied with his state at the moment, he cleared his throat vigorously, like a difficult groan.

Zhou Wei got up quickly, rang the call bell on the wall, and then leaned over to stand beside his grandfather's bed: "I'll just pretend to make you happy. Did you sleep well? The doctor said that everything will be done for you, no smoking or drinking It's easy to live through 99, if you work hard and stop scolding me, you will live a long life."

Zhou Chen coughed lightly with a smile: "With you here, I want to live another year, is it so difficult?"

After the doctors had finished their examination, Mr. Zhou invited him out of the ward again. Zhou Wei understood that he had something to say to him alone.

"Your father hates me," Zhou Chen sighed silently while leaning back on the bed, "your grandmother left early, leaving only this child, Shuzhi, who was so sick that she didn't make a sound, but she cried when she thought of your father." She was full of tears. I promised her to rest assured that no one would fight with Shu in the future, and I left everything in the Zhou family to him, but unfortunately...he doesn't want...you don't want to..."

A deep sadness welled up in Zhou Wei's chest, as if the seeds planted decades ago finally broke through the ground after three generations of wind and rain, and the flesh and blood that pierced his heart turned into twining vines, destined to trap everyone.

"Father doesn't hate you," Zhou Wei stood by the bed, the eyes of the grandfather and grandson turned upside down for the first time, "He is afraid of you, so he dare not come today."

If there is one person in this world who understands Zhou Shuzhi's fear, then there is no one else except Zhou Wei.

He was afraid that what he saw in the eyes of his closest relatives at the last moment of meeting was still hopeless disappointment, but there would be no chance to make peace again; Pierce the heart and drip the regret that can't be wiped away all year round.

No matter Zhou Shuzhi or Zhou Wei, no one is born rebellious, they are just suppressed for too long, alienation and avoidance become the instinct of the body.

Zhou Chen on the hospital bed turned his face, his lead-colored eyes flickered slightly, he might want to ask, then why did you dare to come today?

Zhou Wei squatted down and looked at Zhou Chen at the same level. This is a rare tame gesture for him.

"Grandpa, I promise you that as long as my surname is Zhou, I will guard Peony City well." "Let father go—"

The handsome young man tore open the thorns with his palm as a blade, and the dripping blood dripped from his fingers and turned into a raging fire that burned through this fateful cage. He is no longer a little animal running around in a panic in the forest, he will be the leader of the city. king.

Zhou Chen looked sideways at the young boy who had grown up in a day, and caressed his tender cheeks with his skinny fingers. At this moment, he couldn't compare the feeling of victory or gratification, but he really felt distressed.

He has already raised a Zhou Shuzhi...

"Maybe if you persist a little longer, I will be the one who bows his head in the next second."

"You won't." Zhou Wei affirmed, "Not only for my father, but also not only for the Zhou family, grandpa, I also have people I want to protect."

Zhou Lei followed Ji Qing over at night, just in time for Zhou Chen to have some liquid food after the operation.

Zhou Lei kept looking coldly all the way without even looking at Ji Qing, his eyelids were still stained red with lingering anger.Ji Qing was dressed in a professional suit, and she must have come directly from the company. The mother and son only had time to quarrel on the road, but she smiled decently and concerned as if nothing had happened.

"I'm going out to eat, I can't get enough of these watery soups." Zhou Wei glanced at the exquisite soups that Ji Qing had arranged one by one, and bumped Xia Zhou Lei with his shoulder, "Shall we go together?"

Zhou Lei squeezed out two words from his lips: "Don't go!"

Zhou Wei raised his hand and rubbed his head and walked out of the ward, looking down, there was a short black and hard hair lying in the slightly curled palm.He paused for a moment, then tore open the thin aluminum foil inside the cigarette box and carefully wrapped the hair with hair follicles inside.

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There were two cars parked on the Panshan Road late at night in Luyuan, with Zhou Wei's Koenigsegg in front and Jiang Xiaoqi's Volvo parked about 50 meters behind.

Volvo flashed double flashes as Koenigsegg's stop warning sign.

A quarter of an hour ago, Jiang Xiaoqi drove into the mountain, and only said one word to Zhou Wei: "Drive slowly, I'm coming to find you." Little Snow Leopard obediently pulled over and waited for him.

Jiang Xiaoqi thought, such a soft heart should be spread on the canvas, gathered colorful colors, dried in a bright place, carefully framed and stored well, how could he be willing to let him go to fight and fight in the battlefield where there is no gunpowder smoke? Life?

Zhou Wei's soft hair was scrunched up, like a dispirited cat.

Jiang Xiaoqi smiled and asked him: "Why, you regretted making the military order?"

Zhou Wei lit a cigarette sideways, bit her lips loosely, leaned against the backrest and replied vaguely: "The market value is over tens of billions, so it's not a loss anyway."

"The old man asked me to follow the old grandson after the exam. You know who the old grandson is. He has been his secretary for 30 years. He is like a supervisor of ceremonies!" Zhou Wei squeezed the cigarette and licked his lower lip with a weird expression. , "Just let me learn from doing odd jobs and serving people... It's not impossible, I always feel chilly down here... The question is, even if I dare to serve, will they dare to bear it?"

He turned to look at Jiang Xiaoqi: "How do you train your successors of socialism? My mind may still be a bit feudal, no, I may still have social phobia, and I will have to talk to Dr. Lin in detail later..."

Jiang Xiaoqi stretched out his hand to rub him again: "Little Weizi——"

"Chabai," Zhou Wei didn't mind this kind of joke very much, and couldn't laugh, "Peony City is such a beautiful river and mountain, why should I not be a comfortable and stupid king, but insist on being an eunuch to serve thousands of people's jobs, It's too heavy, I can't stop shaking..."

"Don't be afraid," Jiang Xiaoqi felt sorry for his responsibility, but also his weakness, "You still have... and Zhou Lei."

You still have me.

Jiang Xiaoqi felt that his fiancée was complacently standing in front of the jewelry counter to try on a beautiful wedding ring. Looking left and right, he couldn't put it down, but he was too shy to pay the price on the label, so he could only stand awkwardly, helpless, After all, I don't have the confidence to say "buy whatever you want" to export.

That person weathered the wind and rain, standing on the cusp of the storm, if he wanted to protect him, he had to be strong enough.

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When Jiang Xiaoqi returned to the apartment, there was a large cowhide envelope on the wooden dining table, which was mailed from Bitan.

Jiang Zhen brewed a pot of agate-colored Assam, took it out and sat down at the dining table, pouring a glass for himself and his son each in a leisurely manner.

The tea set uses a new set of frosted glass, the warm yellow light casts a layer of oily luster on the table, and the white porcelain bottle is replaced with a delicate Phalaenopsis, with its slender waist hanging down.

This picture seemed so beautiful that it would break at the touch of a touch, Jiang Xiaoqi slowly sat down opposite her, and saw the big red stamp of "retired from illness" printed on the envelope that had been torn and twisted.

"Is everything done?"

"Hurry up," Jiang Zhen nodded, took a sip of tea, his face was kind and gentle in the dark light, "I'm finally retired, I still feel very young!"

She gave a relaxed smile and stretched her thin shoulders wrapped in a cardigan with her arms stretched back.

"I told you to have a good rest a long time ago." Jiang Xiaoqi swallowed a big mouthful of hot tea, and it boiled from his throat to his heart, evaporating a bitter taste.

Jiang Zhen helped his son add tea, put milk and sugar and stirred it together.Jiang Xiaoqi raised his head looking at the strange suspension in front of him, and frowned: "Assam milk tea is not made like this..."

Jiang Zhen smiled mischievously, covered his lips and coughed lightly.

It seems that it is not bad to live like this. When you go to any day, wave your hand freely, and the moment of giving up and not giving up is at that moment.

"Wait another two months, I'll go out with you." The hot milk tea seemed to be stuck in his throat, and Jiang Xiaoqi felt that the bitter taste was set off by the sweetness and milk fragrance, making it more clear.

Jiang Zhen still looked at him with a smile, and asked deliberately, "Why two months?"

Because there were still two months left for the college entrance examination, and because he had already made a promise to someone before, Jiang Xiaoqi choked, because he didn't want to break his promise to that person.

"I won't go out," Jiang Zhen brushed his temples, "You can change your heart, lungs, liver and kidneys anywhere, and the domestic medical level is not bad. Mom knows that you want to stay with me for a while, I listen to you, in fact, I also want to stay longer." For a while, when you see someone by your side, you feel at ease when you look up and see him, and whatever he does seems to make you happy... You wandered here and there with your mother and suffered a lot, Someone should give you a home, the luck you have accumulated for so many years, Xiao Qi, it is time for you to redeem the big prize."

Jiang Xiaoqi met his mother's eyes full of smiles, and at that moment, he was almost convinced that Jiang Zhen had seen through the secrets in his heart, and almost pushed away the chair and fled.

Immediately he realized that the side of himself that he showed to his mother since he was a child has always been well-behaved. Jiang Zhen never knew that he pushed his senior classmate who called him a bastard to gnaw mud in the pond, never knew that he She imitated her mother's handwriting and signed and gave up the school's fee-paying winter camp receipt. She never knew that he took the exam for a few hundred dollars... There are many, many more, she never knew.

Therefore, when Jiang Xiaoqi put back the suspended heart, Jiang Zhen would not know, he would not know that he had hidden the whole person in the depths of his heart.

Jiang Zhen leisurely turned the teacup in his hand, and continued: "There should be someone who will continue to watch you from behind for me, and watch you walk on the path you should take under the sun—"