Prey [Zhu Chaoyang x Ye Chimin]

"The location is not good, the discovery is late." Lao Ma said to You Jingjing who was sitting on the sofa.

You Jingjing held a cup of steaming coffee in her hand. She received a call from Zhu Jiabei last night. She stayed up all night and took her daughter to Hangzhou on the high-speed train in the morning. Up to now, her mind is still muddled, and she listened blankly. Zhu Chaoyang's stepfather introduced to her how Ye Chimin fell ill at the grandson's [-]-day banquet. Zhu Chaoyang took her to the hospital and what the doctor said. Zhu Chaoyang didn't believe it. He took his wife to the United States and then to Vancouver, and finally returned disappointed. Finally, he decided to take a conservative approach. treat.

"It was too late," Ma sighed. "At first we didn't pay attention... Isn't it normal for a woman to have a headache, and her family doesn't have any genetic diseases."

You Jingjing mechanically agreed that yes, on the game mat in the other corner of the living room, her daughter Jiaojiao was playing with Zhu Aibao's one-year-old son Tie Dan. It's solid, the gene of grandfather Zhu Chaoyang can't be seen at all from the appearance, You Jingjing thinks that a legendary figure like Zhu Chaoyang can only live in memory.

"Too careless." The old horse was still blaming himself.Zhou Chunhong came out of the kitchen, put her hands in front of her apron, "It's ten o'clock for Chaoyang to finish her self-study class, let's eat with the teacher first." She asked Lao Ma for his opinion, "Yongping, go and set the table. "

The old horse agreed, and then winked at You Jingjing. You Jingjing put down her coffee cup and stood up, and glanced at the wall clock in the living room, pointing to 05:30.

Zhou Chunhong cooked four dishes and one soup, all of which were vegetarian. When she was cooking, she knew that Xiao Min and Lao Ma would eat vegetarian with her on the first day of the junior high school. After cooking, she went back to the time when Zhu Chaoyang was in junior high school. I want to go to college for self-study, but I think I haven't divorced Zhu Yongping yet. I think You Jingjing is the teacher who came to visit her home and praised her daughter for her beauty. Excited, already delirious.

Just as Zhou Chunhong was sitting at the table, she remembered something again, went to the refrigerator and took out a box of marinated chicken feet, and explained to You Jingjing that she forgot just now. taste.

You Jingjing picked one up and put it in her mouth, but she couldn't eat any taste. Zhou Chunhong's attitude was very natural, as if nothing had happened. She asked Lao Ma if the food was salty, Xiao Min's taste was light, and asked You Jingjing How is Chaoyang doing in school? Before You Jingjing could answer, she said that Chaoyang must be a worry-free child, and she was sensible since she was a child. You Jingjing said yes.

There was the sound of a car stopping outside the door, and You Jingjing finally breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that if she stayed with Zhou Chunhong for a while, she would become crazy.

Zhu Jiabei entered the living room and greeted Jiaojiao first. When Tie Dan saw the uncle, he jumped on him screaming. Zhu Aibao tore his son off and said that uncle was tired and let your dad hug him. Tie Dan was immediately carried by his father. Giggling happily on his shoulders, the atmosphere at home suddenly became lively. Zhou Chunhong and Lao Ma returned to the bedroom after dinner, and the Zhu family brothers and sisters sat in the kitchen with the guests and continued to eat.

"When will you go back?" You Jingjing asked Zhu Jiabei.

"Next week." Zhu Jiabei was so hungry that he went to serve another bowl of rice after eating it.

"Everything has been arranged here," Liu Beibei said for him, "The media's unified caliber is to die for love." "It was originally for love." Zhu Aibao raised his red eyes, looking very dissatisfied.

"Dad has too many project funds, and I'm afraid that someone will take the opportunity to make a fuss," Zhu Jiabei explained to her, "I had dinner with Principal Chai at noon today. The dean who replaced my dad is a classmate of my tutor, and they are all from my own family."

"Thank you, brother," Zhu Aibao burst into tears, "I can't do anything."

"What can you do as a girl, the most important thing is to bring Tiedan with you." Zhu Jiabei patted her stomach after eating the third bowl of rice, and asked her how her preparations for the teacher qualification exam next month were. Zhu Aibao said no problem , and then went upstairs with Liu Beibei to clean up the guest room for You Jingjing's mother and daughter, and took out two sets of unopened pajamas and bedding.

Zhou Chunhong came out and asked if Chaoyang was back. She also recognized two grandchildren, but they seemed to have nothing to do with her son Chaoyang. She just waited wholeheartedly for her son who was in self-study class to come back, and believed that he would come back sooner or later.

"Grandma doesn't know when she will get better." Zhu Jiabei sighed.

You Jingjing also felt sad, and asked him if he bought a cemetery, and if the ashes were brought back, Zhu Jiabei shook his head, "The place my father chose specially, was swept away after the low tide, leaving nothing behind." eye socket.

"The most important thing is to have you here," You Jingjing comforted him, "You two are the most precious thing he left behind."

"Nothing was left," Zhu Jiabei repeated as if he hadn't heard it, "we arrived in the afternoon, and there were many people on the beach, but there was nothing on the ground, nothing... I We persuaded the baby that it was a relief for Dad to leave like this, and it was suffering for him to live, but we were still sad in our hearts."

"You're right." You Jingjing said softly.

Zhu Jiabei endured and endured, and finally began to choke up. He lost his parents overnight. He had to deal with everyone, take care of his father, comfort his sister and take care of his grandmother. Of course, it was relief; on the one hand, he fell into deep self-denial: there is really no one or anything in this world that father can miss, including his sister and himself?

Then what's the point of his existence!

"I tried my best to be like my father, just to be his pride, but..." A tear fell on his knee, he wiped it with his hand, and another drop fell.

"Your father didn't want children, do you know that?" You Jingjing wiped her eyes with a tissue, "When we were in college, he said that we could get married in this life, but he was determined not to have children. If he couldn't raise them well, he would bring trouble to the society. "

Zhu Jiabei smiled, "At that time, my father didn't know my mother."

"I know, he was a sophomore when he said this," You Jingjing recalled that hot summer, "the two of them met in the first semester of freshman year."

"Aren't they middle school classmates?" Zhu Jiabei always thought that his father was afraid of his puppy love so he refused to tell the truth, but he didn't expect it to be true.

"The fate of people is very strange. I was there the day they first met," You Jingjing looked ahead, her voice dreamlike, "Your father, how should I put it, is different from others. At that time I didn't understand, I just thought he was stage fright from a small place and came to a big city, so I took him around to see the world, but later found out that he was only like when he was with Xiaoye."

"What kind?" Zhu Jiabei asked curiously.

"I can't say it well," You Jingjing smiled, "It's just...very childish."

There is a beautiful girl standing at the gate of the library, she is a bit out of tune with the surrounding environment, not only because of her clothes, but also because of the supermarket shopping bag in her hand, and the look on her face, that kind of look sounds nice It's too much to say it's simple, but in You Jingjing's eyes, it's just a doll with a simple brain.

The light rain in March splashed a few drops of water on Ye Chimin's white sheepskin ballerina shoes. She took out a tissue and bent down to wipe it. Her upper body was almost touching her thighs. Her movements were so natural, and her waist was so soft. All the boys couldn't help but take a second look.

Ye Chimin caught a glimpse of a pair of white sneakers parked beside him, then looked up and saw You Jingjing's face.

"Hello." Ye Chi greeted her enthusiastically.

"Waiting for Chaoyang? He didn't come to the library."

Ye Chimin looked calm and composed, "He asked me to wait here."

The plastic bag jumped a few times on the ground, You Jingjing tilted her head and looked at it, "The fish you bought? Can you cook?"

"I can't do it well." Ye Chimin felt awkward talking to You Jingjing, she always looked at herself in a condescending manner, as if every conversation was an interview, maybe because she was afraid that she couldn't take good care of her students Lord bully.

"My aunt always marinates with ingredients for two hours first." You Jingjing talked about her nanny's best method. Ye Chimin thought, isn't this a routine operation of Xiaohongshu? Why is it so tall in You Jingjing's mouth? She has an easy-going personality, so she said to try it at home, and You Jingjing became more and more proud, and taught her that Chaoyang's mother is very good at cooking fish, and he is too talkative when he is used to it.

Ye Chimin listened to her lesson for no reason, and felt a little annoyed. He saw that Zhu Chaoyang was nowhere to be seen half an hour after the appointed time, and You Jingjing was still chattering here. Just as he was about to take out his cell phone to make a call, Zhu Chaoyang said Came around from the right.

"Why are you still here?" Zhu Chaoyang looked annoyed.

"Huh? Didn't you tell me to wait here?" Ye Chimin picked up the plastic bag, nodded to You Jingjing, and ran down the steps with small steps.

"Didn't you see the WeChat message I sent you?" Zhu Chaoyang said with a dark face, "I didn't bring the key, so I waited for you at the door for a long time."

"I didn't watch it," Ye Chimin stood in front of him lightly and deftly, "You're hungry, I'll go home and cook."

"Don't bring your mobile phone with you next time, and you won't even look at it." Zhu Chaoyang opened an umbrella to cover her, then took the plastic bag from her hand, "I'll buy fish again."

"Fish fills the brain."

"That can't be eaten every day."

"How can I eat every day, the lotus leaf chicken I made yesterday." "Is that called lotus leaf chicken..." "Don't talk about me!"

Ye Chimin walked under the umbrella with both hands empty, Zhu Chaoyang held the umbrella in one hand and carried a plastic bag in the other, and You Jingjing stood at the brightly lit gate, watching the two talking and laughing figures gradually go away.

"We made a private bet at that time, how long it would take for them to break up." You Jingjing returned to reality, her eyes fell on the large photo hanging on the opposite wall, Ye Chimin was wearing a wedding dress, Zhu Chaoyang was standing beside her, and the two of them were standing behind each other. This is the villa, a wedding photo with a lot of fireworks.

"Why?" Zhu Aibao walked into the kitchen at some point, and it was the first time she heard You Jingjing tell the story of her parents when they were young, and she was fascinated.

"Why, it's very simple, the conditions of the two are not equal," You Jingjing said, "We all thought that Zhu Chaoyang was in a daze for a while, your father never took her to dinner parties with everyone, and he never mentioned the future when chatting. What will happen to them two, so we thought they were just playing around."

"But......"

You Jingjing smiled tolerantly, "But everyone is equal before love, right?" She touched the baby's face, "You really look like your mother."

The baby blushed, "I'm not as beautiful as my mother, what happened next?"

"Later...in your junior year, your dad went back to his hometown, and then that happened."

Zhu Aibao wanted to ask something, but was pinched by his brother, and immediately understood, so he didn't ask, and heard You Jingjing say that Xiaoye was helpless and pregnant with a child, Zhu Chaoyang had to take her to the United States.

"Beibei knows how hard it is to go abroad. She has to rent a house and a car, adapt to the environment, adapt to various rules, adapt to their hellish dialects and slang, and have heavy homework. Zhu Chaoyang works so hard by herself, she just stays at home. If you don’t do it, you can’t even drive a car, and then the child is gone, and Zhu Chaoyang has to take care of her and catch up on papers, and he is busy until midnight every day, which has caused dark circles under his eyes for a whole year.”

Zhu Aibao was very unconvinced. She wanted to defend her mother, but she also felt that it was really difficult for her father at that time. You Jingjing saw her mood, smiled and shook her head, "Later, I found out that I was wrong. Zhu Chaoyang never regarded these as things Burden, on the contrary, I, an outsider, are the ones who worry about it. He is so kind to your mother... Although I still don't understand why, but a man can give a woman anything, loyalty, property, status, respect , he gave her everything he could, . . . and life."

"Life." Zhu Aibao's eyes gradually turned red.

"It wasn't this time, it was the time in Alaska, you don't know yet," You Jingjing took out her wallet, and there was a folded newspaper clipping in it, Zhu Jiabei took it and read it with her sister, it was a simple report about a mountaineering accident .

A Chinese couple came to Juneau by cruise ship. When the wife was taking pictures on the top of the mountain, she accidentally fell off the cliff. At the critical moment, her husband held her hands and persisted on the edge of the cliff for five hours until the staff found out that the two currently injured are out of danger.

"This is my dad?" Zhu Jiabei flipped through the little piece of paper.

"Yes," You Jingjing said affirmatively, "They didn't return to school on time after the accident. I called your dad and told Xiaoye to recover in Vancouver, and I matched. Xiaoye may have suffered from depression at that time, but luckily Your dad exercises regularly, otherwise most people wouldn't be able to last that long."

"My dad reacted so quickly." Zhu Jiabei sighed.

That's because he focused all his attention on her, You Jingjing thought, Zhu Chaoyang has changed since then, he was an extremely conceited person before, but he wasn't annoying at all. The kindness and humor are refreshing, but there is one more thing behind it, which is inferiority complex.

"My dad is a person with low self-esteem?" Zhu Jiabei showed suspicion.

"Maybe not, I can't describe it well, it's just a feeling of fear that something will slip through my fingers," You Jingjing recalled carefully, "It was most obvious after returning from Alaska, when he talked with Xiaoye carefully. It's like a licking dog." She laughed at herself, remembering that she went to Vancouver to look for him, she really couldn't see the reality clearly, as her classmates said, she didn't understand men at all.

Zhu Jiabei felt that although his father cared deeply about his mother, it was a bit too much to talk about dog licking, "My father is a famous machismo."

"He has always been like that. When he was in school, he often expressed contempt for us girls. We didn't have the same knowledge as him at that time," You Jingjing said with a smile, "I said he licks dogs because he has fear in his heart. Xiao Ye will make some decisions that will make him unable to live."

"Is it a breakup?" Zhu Aibao asked.

"This is also what I find strange. Xiaoye doesn't seem to want to leave him. It's not because of material things. Although she is completely dependent on Zhu Chaoyang materially, she has no relatives, no one. The relationship between the two of them is difficult to describe in words. Qualitative, it is a bond that transcends emotion, blood, and everything, he is afraid, because he has done something wrong to Xiaoye, and I don't know the reason."

"It's strange that my father has changed so much." Zhu Aibao leaned on his chin to think, Yang Yan put the child to sleep and came to the kitchen and sat next to her.

You Jingjing told them about the last dinner in the United States. When she learned that her wife was pregnant again, Zhu Chaoyang was so excited that she jumped into the swimming pool with clothes on and swam several times. Everyone thought he was crazy.

"He has changed since then. I used to think he was like Julien Sorel in Red and Black, smart, calm, selfish and inferior. When I saw him after returning to China, he was simply a successful person who came out of Baidu Encyclopedia. I thought, They are all taken care of by Xiaoye."

"My mother is really capable." Zhu Jiabei agreed.

"It's not about taking care of your life, it's about... placing your soul." You Jingjing said softly.

It was late at night, You Jingjing went back to the room to rest, Zhu Jiabei was sitting in the kitchen drinking red wine, Zhu Aibao walked in, "Brother, are you still awake?"

"Love does not necessarily mean devotion, but it also means being willing to do things that cannot be understood or forgiven for this relationship," Zhu Jiabei said.

"What can't be forgiven?" Zhu Aibao also poured himself a shallow cup, sipping it in small sips.

Zhu Jiabei didn't answer, and didn't plan to answer her sister's question, she knew how much counted.He stared at the cup of red viscous liquid in his hand, this ecstasy-like essence of the world, how like blood.

What did You Jingjing know?Or did he see through his father's nature with a woman's intuition?

He has never believed Yang Rui's nonsense, thinking that it was a crazy frame-up after a frustrated love. Now he believes it. Judging from the timeline and his father's emotional changes towards his mother, what Yang Rui said is true.

So what, if you had no choice at the time, then it was right, and if you didn’t regret it afterwards, then it was even more right!Zhu Jiabei drank the rest of the wine, patted his sister's head as usual, "I'm going to sleep."

Zhu Aibao raised his tear-stained face, moved his mouth, but finally said nothing.

Zhu Jiabei turned around at the door, "Baby, don't think about anything, if you are happy, your parents will be happy in heaven."

"Dad is very happy to be with mom," Zhu Aibao wiped away tears, "Are you disappointed?"

"Why?" Zhu Jiabei's heart fluttered.

"Dad was so happy when he heard that he had us because he knew that his mother would not leave him. Now he decided to go with his mother without considering our feelings at all, so what are we to Dad?"

"Women just love to think wildly," Zhu Jiabei suppressed the bitterness in his heart, "Do you think Dad doesn't love you? Doesn't he love us?"

"That's not true," Zhu Aibao sniffled, "Besides, there is no rule that parents must love their children above everything else."

"It's right to think so." Zhu Jiabei turned his face away, and wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes calmly.

"Brother, will you come back when you and your sister-in-law finish their PhD?" Zhu Aibao asked from his back.

Out of good intentions, Zhu Jiabei chose a clean water room from the two houses, and left this set of living room for the whole family to his younger sister, including his mother's cloakroom filled with various limited-edition luxury goods, but Zhu Aibao never had the old one. Yearning, every time she sees those things, she wants to cry.

She gave some of the unused bags to her sister-in-law Liu Beibei, and there are many left. When she was a child, she wanted to have one of them so much. Now all of them are hers, but she is not happy.

Especially the Juliet brooch, You Jingjing said, it was a gift from her father the day her mother had them, and finally, she also gave the brooch to her sister-in-law.

"This looks like a crab." Zhu Jiabei made a lame joke.

"We will come back," Zhu Jiabei assured her solemnly, even though he knew that his major would have better employment prospects abroad, but people always want to go home, and home is where there are relatives.

"I'll keep your room for you," Zhu Aibao smiled, "waiting for your return."

"I'll definitely be back." Zhu Jiabei nodded.

The train was speeding towards the north, and the field outside the window was receding. Her daughter was lying on the upper bunk and fell asleep, but You Jingjing was not sleepy. Last night, she chatted with the children until midnight, and when she got up at six in the morning, Zhou Chunhong made her a sumptuous meal. After breakfast, I apologized to her that Chaoyang left early in the morning and didn't have time to say hello to the teacher.

You Jingjing didn't know if she was really confused or if she was lying to herself. Maybe the latter was better. She opened the browser and turned to Today's News, but she couldn't find the article about the dean of Z University. She turned forward again, and finally Found it, a very small one, drowned in all kinds of sky-high price gifts, celebrity weddings, internet celebrity cheating posts,

Dean Z was devastated by his wife's death, so he took his wife's body to the beach to kill himself with gasoline. Naturally, the two old people's twilight romance is not as attractive to the world as the popular fried chicken, but this is what Zhu Chaoyang hopes for, right? , he likes to live in peace, just him and Xiao Min.

Zhu Chaoyang, treat Xiao Min well over there, since you have chased her so far.