Xingchuan

Ling Yi opened her eyes again, it was already the afternoon of the second day.

Thick dark blue curtains, a vague pine wood smell, and tightly stitched velvet quilts.Such a quiet and stylish place is certainly not his cramped room.

The photo frame on the table looked familiar. Li Xingchuan and Xiaoshu were wearing thick down jackets, with their backs against the snow-capped mountains.

How could I be here, Ling Yi slowly sat up.

It took a long time before I gradually remembered what happened before.In the office with Xingchuan, I took the initiative, and then what?Then he seemed to pass out, maybe from a fever, maybe from exhaustion.

All the clothes on his body have been changed, and he is wearing the same home clothes as last time.Probably Xingchuan brought him back.

He got out of bed and went out, and saw someone was talking to Xiao Shu about a picture book, adults and children were sitting next to each other at the green building block table by the French windows.

Xiaoshu was the first to find him, dropped the book and ran towards him, hugging his legs with a happy smile, "Uncle Biscuit!"

Ling Yi rubbed his hair.

The one with the little tree is not a stranger, but the cleaning lady I have seen before.

"Mr. Ling is awake?" Unlike the bluntness of asking people to change shoes when they first met, this time her attitude was obviously gentle.

Ling Yi nodded lightly, "Hello."

She didn't say much, got up and brought the thermometer quickly, "Take the temperature again, I still have a fever in the morning."

"What's your name?"

"You can just call me Sister Tian. I am the long-term servant of Mr. Li's family. I usually cook for their father and son and clean the house. I come three or four days a week. Today, Mr. Li specially asked me to come and take care of you."

Listening to her speaking politely and addressing her with "you", Ling Yi felt a little embarrassed, "Call me Ling Yi."

Sister Tian smiled and nodded without changing, "Mr. Ling, is there anything uncomfortable?"

"No, I feel fine."

"Then do you want to eat something? There is scallop porridge cooked in the kitchen. I'll cut some side dishes and peel a hard-boiled egg for you. You can have dinner soon."

The little tree lay on his lap like a sloth, staring up at him.

Ling Yi took out the thermometer, and the fever had subsided.

"The medicine Mr. Li bought is really effective."

Did Xingchuan buy it?

I haven't seen him since I opened my eyes.Ling Yi asked, "Where are the Xingchuan people?"

"Going to work." While talking, Sister Tian had already walked into the kitchen, Ling Yi hugged the little tree and turned around, adults and children walked towards the kitchen leg-to-leg.

"He brought me back?"

The smell of porridge filled the kitchen. Sister Tian lifted the lid of the casserole and spooned it out, "I don't know, it should be. You were still asleep when I came. You know Mr. Li, and there is no need to add a word." Don’t want to talk about it, just let me take good care of you.”

"I'm sorry to trouble you, I just have a cold, just rest and rest."

"You should also pay attention to minor colds." She turned around and handed the porridge to Ling Yi, "Many serious illnesses come from childhood illnesses, and it's the worst thing to take care of yourself because you are young. Didn't do anything. Mr. Li didn't let me interfere in anything, even he took your body temperature for you."

Ling Yi was stunned when he heard that, did Xingchuan ever care about himself like this?Perhaps there is also some guilt that has been tossed too much.

Sister Tian took out two fresh-keeping boxes from the refrigerator, picked up three small pieces of pickled melon with chopsticks, and poured out a small dish of roasted bran, "Do you have any taboos?"

"You really don't have to be so polite, I can eat anything."

"You sit down, let me come."

After all, it is a person who is used to it. In less than 5 minutes, the porridge and side dishes are already arranged properly.

As soon as he sat down, Xiaoshu ran over with a fire truck model, and climbed onto him with hands and feet.

"Uncle, the little tree wants to eat too."

Ling Yi hurriedly pushed the hot bowl in, lowered her head and rubbed his face, "Little greedy cat, what do you want to eat?"

Sister Tian had a very winking look, and she took a bib and wrapped it around Xiao Shu neatly, "Don't eat it on your clothes, they just changed this morning."

"I want to eat that." Xiaoshu looked at the pickled cucumber, and pinched it with his fingers.

Ling Yi patted his hand lightly, "You can only eat after washing your hands."

"Mr. Ling, eat yours." Sister Tian came over and hugged Xiaoshu down to wash her hands, and soon Xiaoshu turned back like a spinning top, stretching out her hands to be hugged by him.

Ling Yi felt so soft in his heart, he picked up the child with both hands and put it on his lap, feeling his fluffy head against his neck.

"You can't hold it with your hands, you have to use chopsticks."

The children's tableware was on the side, but Xiao Shu curled his lips and rubbed his head in circles, "I want uncle to feed you."

"Don't you know how to eat by yourself?"

He had seen Xiaoshu eat by himself before, using chopsticks and spoons very easily.

"I want to feed." Xiaoshu knew that his uncle was conniving, so he ordered dishes when he saw someone.

"Hey, eat by yourself, the older children don't have anyone to feed them."

"What about my lord?"

"Of course adults eat by themselves."

"Uncle is lying," he opened his clear and innocent eyes, "Uncle doesn't eat by himself."

"Why didn't uncle eat by himself?"

"Dad fed uncle."

Ling Yi was slightly taken aback, and his ears exploded.Before he had time to think about what was going on, he glanced at Sister Tian hastily, and clarified in a low voice, "Don't talk nonsense, Xiaoshu, when did dad feed uncle? Uncle eats by himself."

"Father just feeds uncle." Xiaoshu insisted, "I saw that last night, dad fed it with a spoon, and dad even wiped uncle's mouth!"

The next moment, his mouth was covered with a hand.

"Uh, uh!"

Sister Tian turned a deaf ear to them, and took care of the cupboard and disinfection cabinet with her back to them, without looking back the whole time.After a while, Shi Shiran turned around again and went to work outside.

"Well—uncle—"

Ling Yi let out a sigh of relief, let go of her hands, and found that Xiao Shu's face was reddened by herself, so she hurriedly hugged her and said sorry.

"Uncle didn't do it on purpose."

Xiaoshu stared at him aggrievedly: "Father doesn't feed Xiaoshu, and uncle doesn't feed Xiaoshu either."

The pitiful little eyes made Ling Yi's heart twitch, "Hey, uncle."

After scooping up the porridge on the spoon, he put it in front of his mouth and blew a few times before feeding it to the little tree.Xiaoshu took a bite, then raised her head and smiled at him contentedly.He laughed too, and took a second bite.After going back and forth, half of a bowl full of seafood porridge went into the child's stomach, but he didn't eat much himself.

After a while, Xiao Shu pushed his hand away and said he was full, Ling Yi put down the spoon and wiped his mouth with paper.After wiping, he rested his chin on the top of the little tree, rubbed his soft hair and asked softly, "Is this how Dad wiped uncle?"

"No."

"Then how did dad wipe it?"

Xiaoshu turned over and lay on his chest, wiped his lips with his finger like a tissue, and then touched his forehead after wiping, "Papa wiped it here too."

Ling Yi's neck was red.

"And here." Xiaoshu stretched out his hand to touch his neck again, "Wipe here too."

Ling Yi grabbed his little hand, smiled and bit her fingertips, "Do not look at evil."

"what do you mean."

"It means that next time Dad is with Uncle, Xiao Shu will cover his eyes."

When Xiaoshu heard it, he blocked his eyes with ten fingers, with a slit on each side, funny and cute, "Is that so?"

Ling Yi buried her head on him and laughed.

"When did Dad come back and say so?"

"Hmm..." Xiao Shu hadn't finished chewing, "I didn't say anything, uncle, I want to eat chocolate."

"You can't eat anymore, your stomach is round." Ling Yi stroked his stomach, "Eating too much will make you uncomfortable."

"But Dad won't be able to eat when he comes back."

"Dad is doing it for your own good."

Xiao Shu pouts, "Why is it that I don't have a mother? Lei Lei's mother will buy him chocolates, and Xiao Shu also wants a mother."

"Has Xiaoshu ever seen her mother?"

Xiao Shu scratched his chin: "I've seen it."

Ling Yi lowered her voice: "At home?"

"In the picture."

"What about the photo?"

"Dad threw it away."

"why?"

"Father said..." Xiao Shu stretched out his hand to get the pickled melon again, Ling Yi wrapped his little hand in his palm, "What did Dad say?"

"Dad said it was dangerous."

Danger?

What's the meaning.

The little tree broke free from his arms and jumped down to play.

Ling Yi sat in the restaurant silently for a while, but he still couldn't figure out the barrier between these two words.When I got up again, I suddenly remembered one thing——

Oops!

Forgot to ask the company for leave.

I ran back to the room and searched for a while, but it turned out that not only the briefcase, but also the changed clothes disappeared.When I asked Sister Tian, ​​Sister Tian said that she washed it for him and charged the phone in the living room alone.When I found the phone and turned it on, there were more than a dozen messages and missed calls.

"Ling Yi, what's the matter with you, it's ten o'clock, people."

"Don't you want to do it anymore, and you don't even ask for absenteeism?"

"I asked you to work overtime for a few days, so you just give me a pick, don't you think that if the company lacks you, you won't transfer?"

"I'll give you one last chance. If you don't give me an explanation before 12 o'clock, pack up and leave tomorrow!"

All the news and calls came from Jiang Hao, but there was no director.He hurriedly dialed back, and before he got through, Jiang Hao put him down before he could be fed.

beep - beep -

You can imagine how angry the other side is.

He sent a text message to apologize, and then called again, and Jiang Hao finally picked up the third time.

"Ken showed up?"

"I'm sorry, Manager Jiang. I'm really sorry. I had a bad fever yesterday and woke up in the afternoon. I didn't miss work on purpose."

There was three seconds of silence on the phone, and then a growl sounded.

"It's just you working hard? Who in the company doesn't work overtime? If you want to make money, don't be hypocritical. You can disappear for a whole day with a fever. Do you have any basic professional ethics?"

"manager……"

"If you can do something normally, I won't say anything if you make a mistake once in a while. One week is not enough for you to draw a broken picture. When you are anxiously waiting to go out to work, you will play with me and disappear. The trial period has no reason. If you are absent from work for more than six hours, I can tell you to leave immediately, don’t say I didn’t warn you.”

It is now three o'clock in the afternoon, clocking in from nine o'clock in the morning, and the lunch break is counted as one hour, and there is still one hour before he is "immediately fired".

Mom is still waiting to use the money in the nursing home, and she can't afford to lose this job again anyway.

"I'm going to work now, and I promise to arrive at the company before four o'clock. Manager, don't look for personnel."

Jiang Hao was already tired of cursing, and his speech gradually calmed down. He said in a cold voice, "Ling Yi, why did I invite you in at the beginning, you don't remember."

He remembered.

"If it weren't for the fact that you have such a poor mother, would I have hired someone with no work experience? In terms of age, you are older than me, why are you still absent-minded about everything? You are so muddled all day long, and you say something ugly In the future, if something happens to your mother, you won’t even be able to afford the medical bills.”

The moment the phone was hung up, Ling Yi seemed to be slapped across the face.

From the day he reunited with Xingchuan, something was wrong with his life, and something was wrong with him.It was indeed good to see Xingchuan again, but he couldn't help falling into the fantasy that the two could be together for a long time, as he did back then, deeply unable to extricate himself.

"Mr. Ling, Mr. Ling." Sister Tian called him, "What's wrong with you."

He came back to his senses and hurried to change his clothes, but his clothes were all washed and dry, so he could only bite the bullet and find a few cheaper ones from the closet, which were a bit too big.After getting the good things, he went to the porch to change his shoes, "Sister Tian, ​​I have to leave first, when Mr. Li comes back, please tell him for me."

Sister Tian immediately put down the vacuum cleaner and came over, "Wait! Mr. Li has ordered you not to leave until he comes back, otherwise I will be considered negligent of duty."

"Why can't you go?"

"I don't know about this either. He didn't say much. You'd better wait at home for him to come back."

Ling Yi didn't want to embarrass her, "I'll give Xingchuan a call."

Dial the number, it rings three times, and the call is through.

"What's the matter?" Li Xingchuan's voice was very cold.

"Xingchuan, I'm leaving, let me tell you."

"Xingchuan, come and see, is this place..." Someone on the other end of the phone spoke to Li Xingchuan, and Li Xingchuan said "wait a moment", and then the sound of getting up and walking.

After a minute, he seemed to have found a secluded place, his voice was colder than before, "What did you just say?"

"I'm leaving," Ling Yi said, "Thank you yesterday."

"Go? Where are you going?"

Ling Yi opened her mouth and was startled: "I—"

"How many more years will it take?"

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