In the golden cage

The flight between Li Chen and Ji Shaoting landed on a Saturday morning. When Chen Pei went to pick him up, he met Ji Shaoting's brother in the terminal.

She took the initiative to say hello, and the two asked each other about their temperature, and then stood side by side waiting for someone to get off the plane.

Ji Shaoting didn't tell his parents about coming back with Li Chen, but Ji Linzhang helped hide it.

This time I came back in summer, unlike the last time I had to carry a lot of bags and bags, my luggage was much lighter.Li Ji and Li Ji only have one suitcase, which Li Chen is pushing, and two backpacks, which are hung on Li Chen's left and right shoulders.

With both hands empty, Ji Shaoting walked briskly, rushed to his brother, and first gave him a big hug according to the Ji family tradition.

Ji Linzhang patted Ji Shaoting's back lightly, his pupils moved all the way to Li Chen's face, and caught the momentary crease between his brows in time.

In fact, Ji Linzhang knows everything, his heart is like a mirror.

Li Chen is too possessive, he will be jealous of all kinds of messes, and the hug between brothers is also regarded as a first-level alarm for him, and he returns a stern look.Ji Linzhang has shaved his eyes too many times, and he knows it better than anyone else.

But he and his younger brother have been getting along with each other for 27 years, and they are both used to it. It is a matter of course, and they have no intention of avoiding Li Chen's silly conjectures.

But this time, Ji Linzhang didn't see the hostility in Li Chen's eyes.Li Chen frowned quickly, then looked away, and answered Chen Pei's question "Is the thing heavy?"

Ji Linzhang slightly relaxed the tension in his heart, and heard Li Chen say, "It's not heavy."

Ji Shaoting rested his chin on Ji Linzhang's shoulder, and turned to Chen Pei behind him to argue: "I want to take it, but Ah Chen won't give it to me."

"I said it," Li Chen emphasized again, "it's not heavy."

The four of them went to lunch first, and everyone at the dinner table tacitly avoided the same topic: why they separated and why they got together again.

Unless the person involved actively mentions such an overly sensitive topic, don't ask, not even a single word.

The city's signature dish is sweet-scented osmanthus fish. Ji Linzhang ordered two, one steamed and the other braised, and they were served at the same time.Chen Pei picked up a piece of steamed one, and when he was about to send it to Li Chen's bowl, Ji Shaoting had already picked up a piece of braised one in the past, and the fish bones were removed very quickly.

Chen Pei kept this in mind, and later she found out that whenever Li Chen moved his chopsticks, he would not touch the steamed fish.

Ji Shaoting is more familiar with Li Chen's taste than anyone else, even better than her biological mother.

A sense of frustration sprouted and swelled in Chen Pei's heart—she simply didn't understand Li Chen as well as Ji Shaoting did.

It turned out that she hadn't looked at life and death at all, and she still hated Li Chen's biological father deeply, and buried this hatred in Li Chen's body in an extremely secret way.

Does she love Li Chen?

Before this second, she was sure of it, but after this second, her answer suddenly began to swing from side to side, and she could no longer make a final decision.

After lunch, Ji Linzhang received an urgent call and needed to go back to the company immediately.After he hung up the call, he looked a little unhappy.Originally, he specially spared this afternoon to take Ji Shaoting away for a chat.

Seeing his dissatisfaction, Ji Shaoting turned his head from the passenger seat and offered to accompany his brother for a stroll at night. "Just like before," he said, "like when I was a kid."

Ji Linzhang glanced at Li Chen in the back seat from the rearview mirror. He was facing the computer on his lap, and seemed to be concentrating on his mobile office, but it only seemed.

The doubtful cloud between Li Chen's brows gathers and disappears at times, and at a glance, he knows that he is pulling himself in his heart again.

That's all there is to it, Ji Linzhang thought, it is impossible to make Li Chen completely innocent, just like him, Ji Linzhang, will never completely forgive what Li Chen did to Ji Shaoting.

So the arrangements for the afternoon were empty, and Chen Pei suggested that it is better to go to the university where she teaches.Now this season the cosmos is blooming, you can have a look.

Ji Linzhang acted as a responsible driver, first detoured to the hotel where Li Chen and Ji Shaoting were staying, settled their luggage, and then drove the three of them to the university before leaving.Ji Shaoting waved at his brother and shouted, "See you later!"

Looking back, Chen Pei pointed to the boulevard and said to go here.

There are few people on the university campus on Saturday, mostly students.Although the cosmos bloomed beautifully, it was only a view of the campus, and there were very few pure tourists like them who came here for this purpose.

Or to be more precise, they are not pure tourists who come here for the scenery, each of them has their own worries.

After noon, the sun became more and more intense, Ji Shaoting opened an umbrella for Chen Pei, so he opened a short distance from Li Chen.

Li Chen took out a baseball cap from his backpack, and after wearing it, he looked much younger.Ji Shaoting joked and whispered to Chen Pei, saying that Ah Chen's attire was very deceptive, and that anyone who said he was a college student would believe him.

Then Li Chen in front turned his expressionless face back and asked, "What?"

The maturity on that face is at least thirty.

Ji Shaoting looked at his stubble and replied, "It's nothing, boss."

The three of them walked in the shade of the trees, most of the time it was Ji Shaoting who chatted all over the world, and sometimes there was silence.The small field of cosmos flowers is near the lake, not far away, only about 10 minutes' walk away, and when I arrived, I saw many young girls posing for pictures.

The flowers bloom in clusters, mainly purple, followed by white, with small white butterflies flying among them.The surface of the lake is sparkling, and the air has the unique smell of summer, the smell of watermelon, ice cream, and love.

You can't hear the cicadas chirping, but you can hear Ji Shaoting boasting repeatedly: "It's so beautiful."

Li Chen looked down at Ji Shaoting, from his point of view, the most noticeable thing about Ji Shaoting was the mole at the end of his eyebrows, and then his long and dense eyelashes.

"It's so beautiful." Li Chen repeated, obviously the object of description was no longer flowers.

This scenery is the one Chen Pei is used to, and he has all the corners and corners in his heart. It is inevitable that he will be bored, so he retreats to the bench, sits, and waves to Li Chen and Ji Shaoting, letting them go around the lake.

After seeing them walking a certain distance, they held their hands together.

Then Li Chen smiled at Ji Shaoting.

When Li Chen grew up, he was very filial. Filial piety in the worldly sense would not only meet all the material needs of her as a mother, but also respond to her requests in other aspects: if he was asked to find someone to accompany him quickly, he said a few days later that he would take someone with him. Come back and show her.

But he has never been intimate with Chen Pei, even his smile is very stingy.

Chen Pei thought: It took so many years for her to see herself clearly.

Some hurts are permanent, and she thinks she has forgiven, but she hasn't.She will never forgive Li Chen's biological father, never, because she loves him so much.

And this kind of strong love and hatred is also inherited by Li Chen as a dominant inheritance, and it is fully manifested in a way that is infinitely close to the disease.

It took a little longer for the couple to circle around than others, and when they came back, Ji Shaoting's lips were a little red.

Chen Pei didn't see it when he saw it, and asked them if they still wanted to take a look, Ji Shaoting of course said yes.

They idled around in the university all afternoon, and when they got into the taxi, Chen Pei stopped Ji Shaoting.At that time Li Chen had already sat in the back seat, and when he heard the voice, he leaned out again, and Chen Pei responded with a gesture of "don't come out", although he was unwilling, he still followed suit.

"What's the matter, mom," Ji Shaoting called his mother all afternoon, and he couldn't get enough of it. "Even Ah Chen can't listen to what I want to say."

Chen Pei smiled and got straight to the point: "I don't know about your affairs, and I won't force you to tell me, and I won't make more comments, but there is one thing, Ting Ting, I think I should tell you .”

Ji Shaoting immediately straightened his back, waiting for Chen Pei's novel.

But Chen Pei doesn't have a novel, she only has one sentence:

"Some wounds can only be healed by the person who left the wound, otherwise it will not heal in this lifetime."