you are so tender

Tian Xiaohui and Xu Man turned a sharp bend and met Yang Guangzhi's family head-on.Yang Guangzhi carried a simple rucksack on his shoulders, and walked in front with his mother, Chen Caixia, who held her grandson in her arms, who looked about two years old.Yang Guangzhi's remarried wife, Zhou Lijuan, walked behind her husband and mother-in-law, taking care of her stepdaughter Jiaojiao who was bouncing around.

Yang Guangzhi was surprised by Xu Man's sudden appearance and couldn't handle it all at once. Fortunately, Tian Xiaohui greeted him first, "Oh, what a coincidence, I didn't expect to meet you." Then he greeted Chen Caixia and asked Yang Guangzhi, "Old man Yes?" "This is my mother." Yang Guangzhi replied.Before he could introduce Tian Xiaohui to his mother, Jiaojiao had already rushed forward, "Aunt Xiaohui!" Tian Xiaohui immediately took Jiaojiao's little hand, "Let auntie see if you have grown taller again. Oh, really I've grown taller! I'm going to go to elementary school after the next summer vacation, just look at how fast it goes!"

Because of their common daughter, Xu Man knew that it would be impossible not to keep in touch with Yang Guangzhi after the divorce. She even thought that as Jiaojiao's biological mother, she might also inevitably contact her daughter's stepmother. The person Xu Man felt embarrassed was Chen Caixia, not Zhou Lijuan, whom she had never met.As for Chen Caixia, she always has more resentment than nostalgia for her ex-daughter-in-law Xu Man.Because Xu Man was originally not the woman she wanted her son to marry, so it was fine if she married, and not only did she not feel that she was negligent if she could not give birth to a son after marriage, she even dared to disobey her wishes, did not follow her arrangements, and refused to continue like the eldest daughter-in-law. Work hard to carry on the family line of the Yang family.Although Xu Man is quite sensible, he filed for divorce by himself, and thanks to Chen Caixia who woke up his cowardly and confused son in time, Yang Guangzhi had the opportunity to give birth to the only grandson of the Yang family.Although because of Jiaojiao, Xu Man still maintains a certain connection with the Yang family, but Chen Caixia does not think that there is any blood relationship between Xu Man and the Yang family after the divorce, and has already cleared Xu Man from her emotional world.

Chen Caixia heard Yang Guangzhi mention Tian Xiaohui, and her granddaughter also mentioned this aunt.Although seeing Tian Xiaohui standing with Xu Man made Chen Caixia a little unhappy, she showed enough enthusiasm for Tian Xiaohui. "Are you Tian Xiaohui?" Chen Caixia said, "I didn't expect you to be so tall, young and beautiful. I told Guangzhi several times to invite you to dinner at home, thank you for helping to take care of Jiaojiao."

"You don't need to be so polite, Auntie." Tian Xiaohui met Yang Guangzhi because she became best friends with Xu Man. After Xu Man and Yang Guangzhi divorced, she was also entrusted by Xu Man, so she paid more attention to and took care of Jiaojiao.But she knew she couldn't say that, so she explained to Chen Caixia: "Jiaojiao and my son Xiaolei are in the same kindergarten, in the same grade, but in different classes, and we are both parents of children. It is necessary to take care of each other, and it is not a big deal. thing."

"Auntie Xiaohui," Jiaojiao immediately called out upon hearing Xiaolei's name, "Auntie Xiaohui, has Xiaolei returned from Guangzhou?"

"Hey, Jiaojiao. Xiaolei hasn't come back yet. When he comes back someday, Auntie will bring you to play with him, okay?" Tian Xiaohui squatted down to talk to Jiaojiao.

"Okay." Jiaojiao said seriously, "If he comes back, you can ask him to call my mother, and I will ask my mother to take me to your house to play with him."

When Xu Man heard Jiaojiao's words, her heart ached.She is Jiaojiao's mother!However, she is not even as good as an aunt now.As soon as Jiaojiao saw Tian Xiaohui, she ran over to call Auntie, but when she saw her, she showed a familiar and timid look, and didn't say hello to her.

After Tian Xiaohui squatted behind her, Xu Man faced Chen Caixia and Yang Guangzhi's mother and son directly.Chen Caixia turned a blind eye to Xu Man in front of her eyes, and could not feel her existence like air.Xu Man really didn't know how to address this former mother-in-law?It is obviously inappropriate to continue to call "Mom", especially when the new daughter-in-law is present, and besides, it is against my wish.Calling her Auntie like Tian Xiaohui is completely acceptable in terms of etiquette, but the constraints of the past are too heavy, Xu Man can't get out of the shadow of her mother-in-law at all, and call Chen Caixia like an elder casually.At this moment, Xu Man was so embarrassed that she didn't know what to do, she was in a situation where she couldn't speak first and urgently needed someone to talk to her.Somewhat unexpectedly, Yang Guangzhi took the initiative to ask Xu Man: "Xu Man, haven't you been in Wuhan? When did you come back to Zhongshan? Are you here for vacation?"

"It's not a vacation. Our law firm in Wuhan plans to set up a branch in Zhongshan. Since I'm more familiar with the local conditions, I'll come back and make preparations." Xu Man replied.

Thinking about it carefully, Yang Guangzhi was the most suitable person to speak, and he adopted an appropriate method.He omits those pleasantries that exaggerate the surprise, and directly raises the issues he is actually concerned about.Since Xu Man returned to Wuhan, Yang Guangzhi has sentenced Xu Man to death. On this point, he is more decisive than his mother.Although he also wanted Xu Man to give birth to a son so as to satisfy his parents' wishes, he was not as concerned as Chen Caixia, and he had received a university education, knowing that the birth of a boy or a girl depends on both husband and wife, and no one can be blamed.If Xu Man hadn't filed for divorce, Yang Guangzhi would not have divorced his wife and married another just to carry on the family line.Although he understood his mother's consistent patriarchal style, especially after Xu Man rejected Chen Caixia's incense plan, Yang Guangzhi also guessed that his mother might propose a plan to throw pawns and save the car in the next step. At that time, he made up his mind to resist to the end. In my imagination, I saw Xu Man was deeply moved because of her righteousness, so I felt even more grateful for her husband's compassion, and devoted herself more wholeheartedly to the construction of a small family.When Xu Man suddenly asked for a divorce, he first lost everything like a thunderbolt, and then in the collapsed world, he couldn't find anything other than incomparable anger.And he succumbed to his mother's push in desperation, more like pouring the last layer of reinforced concrete on his anger, making the anger firm as iron from then on.For Yang Guangzhi, making Xu Man lose his daughter forever may be his permanent way of expressing his anger.As soon as Xu Man left Zhongshan, Yang Guangzhi announced the death of his biological mother to his daughter without hesitation. At that time, Jiaojiao didn't understand the meaning of death at all, and she was more dependent on her father than she was on her mother, so that Yang Guangzhi felt a little surprised , not only did there not appear any crying scenes, but Jiaojiao seldom questioned her mother, and Xu Man just disappeared from their father and daughter's lives calmly.When the new mother entered the family, it seemed that the mother returned after a long absence, but Jiaojiao and the young stepmother acted closer.

After his remarriage, Yang Guangzhi's career was stable and his family affairs went smoothly, but his anger did not disappear. If anger can be accurately measured by weight, it can be said that he did not lose weight at all.Jiaojiao's well-behaved and knowledgable skills have already made her out of the function of triggering her father's anger. He wouldn't let his anger spill over to his family, but he just felt angry, almost uncontrollable anger.He was tormented by this kind of anger to the point where he could do nothing, and over time he became accustomed to anger. Not only did he get used to it, but he even discovered a regularity similar to that of a woman's menstrual cycle, and the physiological mechanism is also very similar.Because his anger has nothing to do with external things in essence, but is caused by something in himself.For this reason, he spent a long time figuring it out secretly, concentrating as much as a scientific research, and finally found to his surprise: the cause of his periodic rage was not the divorce against his true will, nor the reasonably speculated Xu Man's betrayal, It was a thick fog of confusion in his mind.When a woman comes to menstruation, it is because the egg she longs for cannot be implanted, so she has to cry out blood, but he is filled with righteous indignation because the thick fog cannot be cleared, and he is confused and has no solution.Yang Guangzhi reviewed the whole process from holding hands in the Wudaokou cinema to the divorce more than once. With the most candid attitude and the most demanding spirit of introspection, he searched his own actions in the entire historical period, but he could not find even a single case that could The incident that caused Xu Man to criticize, simply put, not only did Xu Man never give him a reason to leave him, but he himself was unable to provide it to himself. "She has no reason to leave me." Yang Guangzhi said to himself countless times, "It's not that she cannot divorce me, but she has no reason to divorce me." Yang Guangzhi shook his confused head like one of the countless times, "She can't divorce me without a reason, she can't, she can't!"

In his happy and angry life, Yang Guangzhi constantly honed his heart of iron and stone, and his determination to let Xu Man lose his beloved daughter forever has become as hard as steel.He loves his daughter, just like any well-behaved man, he cherishes himself with his broom, and loves everything that belongs to him unconditionally.Therefore, it is impossible for him not to realize that the loss of Xu Man's daughter also means that the daughter loses her mother, which are two sides of the same coin.The reason why he was able to devote all his efforts to the cause of removing his biological mother from his daughter's world without distraction and without guilt, and doing so did not seem to make his daughter lose her mother, was entirely because of the kind-hearted Zhou Lijuan, she While becoming Yang Guangzhi's remarried wife, she also acted as Jiaojiao's stepmother without any gaps.However, Yang Guangzhi has vaguely realized from the anger that constantly disturbs his mind, and when he is in the perplexity that he can't understand, what he can't do is that he can't clear Xu Man from his own world.When Yang Guangzhi was obliged to ask Xu Man, thus saving his ex-wife from the coldness of his mother, he finally realized this tragically.And all of this is actually not because Yang Guangzhi loved Xu Man so much, and now he can't let go of his old relationship, but because as a sad man, he can't get rid of his stupid conceit and illusory self-esteem.

Awakening is not a good medicine, Yang Guangzhi feels ashamed because of shame.He immediately turned around and called Tian Xiaohui, as if looking for rescuers, "Tian Xiaohui, come here, let me introduce you to Zhou Lijuan." Zhou Lijuan put on a greeting gesture when she heard the sound, and Tian Xiaohui quickly stood up with a friendly face. "This is my wife, who works in the Human Resources and Social Security Bureau of the Development Zone." Yang Guangzhi then only explained the identity of Dr. Tian to his wife, because Zhou Lijuan already knew the background behind it.Of course Zhou Lijuan knew that Xu Man was her husband's ex-wife, but she had never met Xu Man.Just now, when her husband asked Xu Man, she already understood the identity of the other woman, but she was really not sure whether she was suitable to talk to her husband's ex-wife, so she chose to keep silent.Afterwards, Zhou Lijuan couldn't help admiring her husband's thoughtfulness, because after Yang Guangzhi introduced Tian Xiaohui to her, he pointed to Xu Man with standard polite gestures and said, "Lijuan, this is Dr. Tian's friend Xu Man." Zhou Lijuan nodded, and the two said hello to each other lightly.

Almost simultaneously, everyone present felt that an urgent goodbye was the only way to restore the flow of time.It's just that Xu Man still has a little bit of reluctance, because she has no chance to greet her daughter.Apart from Xu Man, there is another person who loves her who knows about this matter.Tian Xiaohui said goodbye to Jiaojiao, "Come here, Jiaojiao, Auntie is leaving first," then pointed to Xu Man, "Jiaojiao, do you still remember this auntie? She went to see you in kindergarten with me .”

"Hello, Auntie." This is the most heartwarming sentence Xu Man has heard at the moment, although it is not the address she most wants to hear.

"Hi Jiaojiao." Xu Man responded.

Xu Man couldn't say anything anymore, and felt that she was about to cry uncontrollably, so she hurriedly followed Tian Xiaohui to bid farewell to the family.Tian Xiaohui quickened her pace and walked towards the gate. During the time it just resumed operation, the two walked out of the park as fast as they could and got into the car.Tian Xiaohui knew that she must immediately provide Xu Man with a private space, allowing her to release the sadness in her heart to a limited extent.