marriage [big family]

A new text message suddenly popped up on the screen of the phone. Yao Jinxi, who was about to turn off the phone, frowned immediately. It was still the strange number he had not saved: "Is wearing sunglasses in the cabin a special hobby of yours?"

He raised his head subconsciously, and the person beside him smiling and looking at him was indeed Lu Ming.

Yao Jinxi was a little surprised: "Why are you here?"

"Why can't I be here? This doesn't seem to be Mr. Yao's private charter plane?" Lu Ming asked back of course.

Yao Jinxi really didn't expect that he would run into Lu Ming when he was flying back to England, and he was sitting next to him, so much so that he suspected that Lu Ming checked his schedule and followed him on purpose.

This time Yao Jinxi wore a pair of light-colored glasses, which matched his complexion very well, so Lu Ming could clearly see his suspicious eyes behind the lenses. It was a little funny, but at the same time, he wanted to reach out and take off the glasses for him. He raised his hand After thinking about it, it seems that they haven't matured to this point yet.

"Don't get me wrong," Lu Ming explained, "I didn't go crazy enough to follow you. I went to London to discuss business with a partner. I didn't expect such a coincidence that I was on the same flight as you or seated next to you."

Yao Jinxi didn't pay attention to him any more. After the plane took off and flew smoothly, he finally took off his glasses and took out his notebook.

Lu Ming read the magazines on the plane for a while, feeling bored, turned around and saw Yao Jinxi staring at the computer screen intently, turned sideways and looked over.

It wasn't that he wanted to pry into people's privacy on purpose. What Yao Jinxi read openly on the plane would definitely not be any confidential documents, and he didn't seem to shy away from people. He could see clearly when he turned his side, so he read it and was surprised Then he blurted out: "You see this kind of thing?"

What was on the screen was a novel, and it was the most vulgar desktop romance, the president and the fiancée running with the ball, the corners of Lu Ming's mouth twitched, Yao Jinxi was bent like him, right?Even if he wasn't crazy, with his status, he wouldn't seem like someone who would like things that little girls like to watch, would he?

Yao Jinxi turned his head and glanced at him, didn't say anything, couldn't see any emotional ups and downs in his cold eyes, then turned back, typed a few times on the keyboard, closed and deleted the document he was looking at just now.

Lu Ming watched him put down his chair to go to sleep, touched his chin and wondered if Yao Jinxi was actually a coward?So I couldn't help calling him again: "Are you going to sleep now? Why don't you eat something first?"

After a long time, the person who was about to fall asleep under the blanket said slowly: "I can't eat, don't make noise."

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More than ten hours later, the plane landed at Heathrow Airport. The two people who got off the plane parted ways without even saying hello. The one who came to pick Yao Jinxi up was the housekeeper. His home was in a small town near London, and he drove there. It takes two hours, and the entire castle has a history of hundreds of years.

Most of the so-called aristocrats in this era have fallen into decline or even fell into poverty early in the morning. But the only one who stayed in the castle was Yao Jinxi's grandfather, the Duke of Brandon, who came here to retire after retirement.

But because it was a family reunion, the children and grandchildren scattered all over the world came back one after another in the past two days. Yao Jinxi was used to being indifferent to others since he was a child. People, most of them have no feelings, so when they meet people, they just deal with them hypocritically, and the only thing they think about is the reason why grandpa suddenly wants to hold this family reunion.

The whole family held a dinner party together, and everyone deliberately took care of their aristocratic etiquette in every move, and what they said seemed to have been rehearsed beforehand. This kind of atmosphere made Yao Jinxi feel very depressed. It reminded him of his mother.

At that time, his mother was an overseas student who came here from China. She married his father because of love and gave birth to him. As a result, within a few years, she was almost driven crazy by all kinds of inhuman harsh etiquette and indifferent human feelings in this ancient castle. His father divorced and went back to China. At that time, he was only three years old. His father thought that his mother had betrayed him and cut off all possible communication channels between Yao Jinxi and his mother after the divorce. He never saw her again until his mother died of illness six years ago.

Yao Jinxi's Chinese name was given to him by her mother back then, and his mother's surname was Yao.

After more than ten hours of flying, it was more than two hours of driving. Although she almost fell asleep along the way, because she hadn't eaten and the time difference, Yao Jinxi just felt uncomfortable and had a headache. It was terrible, even though his stomach was already singing empty plans, he really didn't have the slightest appetite for the so-called relatives of this big family, including those who forced his mother to leave.

After finally surviving the dinner party, Yao Jinxi went upstairs and returned to her room. After taking a shower, she just wanted to sleep quickly, but there was a knock on the door outside.

Yao Jinxi opened the door, and was a little surprised to find that the person standing outside turned out to be his grandfather with a food plate in his hand.

"I see that you didn't eat anything at the dinner just now. You must be hungry. I'll bring you supper."

Yao Jinxi hurried out of the way and invited grandpa in.

Yao Jinxi felt much more relaxed when only his grandpa was around. He was indeed really hungry, so he said thank you, sat down and began to settle the food on the plate.

Compared with his father, who is only strict with himself, this grandfather who has always loved him very much is the closest person to Yao Jinxi. In the whole family, only grandfather will forgive his willfulness and will not make too many self-righteous demands on him .

"Arthur, don't you like these people in the house?"

Arthur was his real name, and it was also the name his grandfather gave him. Yao Jinxi was surprised that he would say this suddenly, stopped cutting the food in his hands, and looked up at him.

Grandpa sighed softly: "You know those things, your mother was forced to leave."

Yao Jinxi really knew that his mother was just an international student from China with an ordinary background. How could these proud nobles value her? If her grandfather hadn't agreed, she would have never been able to marry into the Kurt family. It's just that his father has been busy with work after marriage. He didn't have much time to take care of his mother. She was thrown alone in this cold old castle and had to leave after suffering all kinds of inhuman difficulties and insults from those people.

"When your father said he wanted to marry your mother, I persuaded him to think carefully. It was he who insisted. I didn't want to see my children's love end without a problem, so I agreed to them. I didn't expect it to end in such a way. I was negligent," said the grandfather and sighed heavily again: "Your father has also followed my old path. After your mother left, he has never remarried. He has been unhappy all his life."

This Yao Jinxi also knows that his indifferent temperament is almost inherited from his father. He has rarely seen his father smile since he was a child. After the news of his mother's death came back, his father also died of depression not long after. He couldn't resent his father either.

"I know that you chose to work in China after graduation, but you actually wanted to go to your mother's hometown, so I didn't stop you..."

Yao Jinxi remained silent. He chose to work in China because of his mother, and of course he was unwilling to give up Qi Rui, but the latter reason is too ridiculous to talk about now.He actually knew about his parents, but what puzzled Yao Jinxi was what grandpa meant when he said his old ways. Grandpa and grandma have been husband and wife for decades. When his grandma passed away years ago, he remembered that his grandpa was always depressed and sad during that time.

"I called you all back for this family gathering this time because I'm afraid I won't have the chance to see you again. The doctor diagnosed me with a malignant tumor last week..." Seeing Yao Jinxi's words Surprised, his eyes turned red immediately, and grandpa waved his hand to interrupt what he wanted to say: "You don't have to feel sorry for me, I'm old enough to live to this age, the only thing is regret, not being able to see Xiao Min again."

"...Xiao Min?"

"He was my first love."

Looking at the yellowed photo that grandpa handed over to her hand, and listening to what grandpa said, Yao Jinxi realized that when grandpa went to the United States to discuss business 50 years ago, he met a Chinese girl named Xiao Min in New York. Because of the difference in identities, grandpa’s parents didn’t agree with them being together. In the end, grandpa was forced to give up this relationship and return to the UK. He never saw that girl again. Later, the family chose a lot of well-matched girls for him to choose. Although Yao Jinxi's grandmother is also Asian, she was adopted by a wealthy family. Grandpa finally chose her only because he saw the shadow of Xiao Min in her.

"For so many years, I have tried every means to find her, but found nothing. Now I just want to see her again before I die, but I can't move my body. Although it is very difficult, I want to ask Arthur to help me Keep looking for her..."

Yao Jinxi clenched the photo in his hand tightly. When he thought that even his closest grandfather would leave him, and he would really be the only one left in the future, his heart felt sore. He held back the tears that were about to burst into his eyes. He said: "Don't worry, I will help you find her back."

Grandpa thanked him non-stop, and Yao Jinxi comforted him with kind words. After grandpa left, he lay down on the bed with complicated emotions, and looked at the photos in his hand again.

The girl in the photo had a bright and sweet smile. Yao Jinxi looked at her in a daze, feeling a little familiar, especially those eyes, as if she had seen them somewhere before.

A certain person's confident and even irritatingly smug eyes flashed through his mind, Yao Jinxi frowned, why?