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Dad was very quiet while sweeping the grave.

I stood behind him, watched him place the incense candles on the grave, and watched him stand silently in front of the grave, looking at the bluestone tombstones side by side.The photo of grandma was taken when I went to the photo studio with grandpa that time. Her hair has turned gray and was cut below her ears.I remember she told me that when she was young, she also had big black and shiny braids.Grandpa was already seriously ill at that time, he was so thin that he wore glasses, and still looked very serious.

Dad knelt down and silently kowtowed three times.

I also kowtowed.

Because grandpa had a last word, don't make the tomb too exaggerated and expensive, it's better to donate it to the school.He is a materialist who believes that everything is empty after death, and the rest is just a little comfort for future generations.So every year when I come here, a lot of grass will grow on the grave.Dad sat on the ground silently and pulled out the grass. He didn't want my help.

I stood behind him, watching his thin back.

When I was a child, I always felt that he was warm and radiant, and he always smiled and reasoned with me, as if no matter how big a mistake he made, he would be forgiven.It's just that time flies, he doesn't know when, he has become a thin and pale middle-aged man, he seems to have suffered a serious injury when he was young, so every rainy day will feel very uncomfortable.The Li family has a doctor of Chinese medicine who specializes in recuperation. He said that when he was young, he was injured at the root, and all he can do in the future is to repair it.

To put it more bluntly, do your best and obey the destiny.

He seemed to hold a title at the Institute of Physics, but he was unpaid and seldom went to work.I have seen the situation of those research groups. It is not worth mentioning that staying up all night for several days. There are several people who sleep in the research institute all the year round. How could it be possible to let him go.

The only things he has, other than the father and son of the Li family, are the whiteboards and stacks of drafts filled with equations in that study.

Science, Nature, Acta Physica, those are too far away from him.

I don't know if he ever regretted it.

When he came back, Li Zhurong came to pick him up in person.

Dad wants me to sleep at home for one more night. I am a little embarrassed because I have to go to work the next day. Li Xiu put his hands in his trouser pockets and snorted coldly at the side: "Isn't it just a bad shift? At worst, I will send you there tomorrow morning. Your company The roof of that building can park a helicopter."

There is a hot pot on the dinner table. My dad has been taking supplements for the past few years. In the rainy days in the south of the Yangtze River, the humidity is heavy. He sat on the ground all afternoon, so he had to drive out the cold.I don't know how many Chinese medicinal materials are put in a pot of milky clear soup, but it is very fragrant when boiled.Sitting next to me is Li Xiu. He has been a picky eater since he was a child, and he only picked a dish of beef fillet with black pepper.He didn't talk to me either, seeing that I was only picking up the dish in front of me, he pushed the beef tenderloin very upset.

I was planning to go to bed early at night, but when the phone turned on, Zheng Ao sent a text message, three words: so boring...

I asked him: where are you?

After a few minutes, he came back slowly: Hong Kong, meeting.

I didn't expect him to run so far, and I felt like he was doing business, so I quickly advised him: just hold the meeting and don't play with your phone.

He paused for a while, and when I was about to go to bed, he sent again: These people talk a lot of nonsense, it doesn't matter if you listen to it or not.

I don't know anything else, if Zheng Yehu sent him to the meeting, it wouldn't be the same whether he listened to it or not.Even if I don't care about current affairs and economy, I know from the long chats between Lawyer Su and Lawyer Huang that there are many things involved in the customs line. Whether it is taxation or foreign trade, it is so complicated that I don't understand it. Economics people's scalp is numb.Even if it is an insignificant small meeting, the things discussed will never be so simple.

I couldn't let him go on errands, so I had to persuade him one after another. He probably really answered text messages under the conference table, and only replied one after a while. I waited and waited. I was so sleepy. Fell asleep.

Li Xiu knocked on my door at six o'clock in the morning.

"Get up! Get up quickly! Take you to work!"

I was so noisy that I almost jumped out of my dream, picked up my phone and checked, it was only six o'clock in the morning.

The text message to Zheng Ao on the mobile phone was only halfway back, and a few characters were typed messily at the end, probably unconscious at that time.

"Xu Lang! Get up quickly! Otherwise, I will call your firm's lawyer and tell you that you are not going to work!"

I was afraid that he would really make a call, so I hurriedly replied loudly: "Understood, I'll be fine soon."

He stopped talking and presumably ran off to eat.

By the time I washed up, dressed and came out, he had already sat down at the dining table. The Li family had their own chef, and it was quite his style to call the chef up at five o'clock to make breakfast.When I sat down he was drinking milk and reading an English-language newspaper from Australia or somewhere with pictures of tennis players printed on it.

"Good morning." I greeted him.

He didn't know if he heard it, so he snorted.

The chef maintained his usual buffet style with a wide variety. There are salads, milk, toast, ham juice, and fried poached eggs on the table. There are also very good-looking scallops, mussels, seafood porridge and soy milk. I drank a bowl of porridge , Looking up, Li Xiu has been waiting for a long time with his hands folded beside him.

He was probably at home on vacation recently, dressed very casually, with a black T-shirt and overalls. He is more mixed than Li Zhurong, so his skin is fairer, his hair is browner, and his eyes are dark blue. Fortunately, the outline is deep and hard, otherwise it would be a bit beautiful.

It was very interesting to watch him and Zheng Ao quarrel when they were young. One was beautiful in western style, the other was exquisite in Chinese style.

At last, he was still a little scrupulous, so he didn't actually fly the helicopter over there—of course, it might be because the roof of our building is a bit narrow.

Although he is not as cold and arrogant as his father, he has also inherited the rigor that the Li family is used to. He didn't let the driver drive him, and he drove very fast. It wasn't until eight o'clock when I arrived downstairs at the company.This building is an office building. Many companies have not opened their doors at eight o'clock. There are not many people coming in and out, and it is cold.

Li Xiu looked at this scene, probably a little embarrassed.

He expressed embarrassment that he was fierce.

"What a broken company, the place is remote, and there is no one."

"It's okay, I'll go to a coffee shop to sit for a while, or I can catch up on sleep."

He became even more fierce, his brows were furrowed, his face was covered with frost, and he gave a menacing glance at a cleaner passing by in front of our car. If the cleaner could see the inside of the car, the broom would probably be scared off. .

"Is there anything interesting around here?"

"I'm not sure..." I glanced at his face: "There are probably bookstores or shopping malls."

But at this point, except for the breakfast shop, most of the shops are not open yet.

Li Xiu's face became even colder.

"You, sleep." He said concisely, "I'll call you at 45:[-]."

While talking, he kept his eyes fixed on a point on the windshield, without looking at me.

I had to lean on the back of the seat and pretended to fall asleep soon.

About 5 minutes later, I felt Li Xiu staring at me.

He watched me for a while, probably thinking that I had really fallen asleep.

Then he slowly, slowly, leveled my seat.

I also know that he must have a very unhappy and fierce expression now.

I smiled in my heart, pretending not to wake up.