Balance beam

"That year I heard that you were going to get married," Li Jia said intermittently, with a dazed but innocent expression. "Sonia's father said that the date you set on April [-]th is the decision of both parents. Although I don't really believe it, I thought about asking you to confirm it, but it seems that it will be a matter of time before you get married."

Perrin didn't want to hear it, and the words that passed by his ears still disturbed his mind.

They are not lovers who are happy with each other, let alone big ups and downs, even the wind on the flat ground will make them crisis.

Li Jia sentenced him to death without even giving him a chance to communicate.

At first, you may not understand it, but after a long time, you will be indifferent.

Bringing up old things now will only add to the sadness except that it will not help the matter.

Let Palin think of the days when he was going forward bravely, he didn't feel hard at that time, but now he only feels embarrassing and exhausted physically and mentally when he thinks back.

At that time, he was like a romantic poet in the Middle Ages, and like a young man in the old days, who abandoned his family and career for love, thinking that as long as the two of them were together, they could travel the world.

For a moment, I was moved by the greatness of my love.So what?It's as if a person's one-man show is ultimately no match for all kinds of worldly things.

Confidence is of course given to oneself, but what is the difference between blind self-confidence and arrogance?

In fact, even the most basic trust is so fragile between them.Where is the reason to blame others?

Just like Sonia's confession when she was irrational, "Is love that cannot stand the test true love? I was blind and misjudged the wrong person. Who do I blame?"

After a little probing, Li Jia's state of mind is quite different from that of the past.

It's like saying that he was completely passive at the beginning, and his relationship would end if he didn't find him, so now Li Jia has learned to accommodate in addition to responding positively.

He didn't say anything, forbearing to put his first, even if it was sightseeing, Li Jia stared blankly in a daze, his mind drifted away, and he would not say "Let's go back!"

Li Jia was in a bad mood, Palin could tell, but he really wasn't interested in speaking for Jiang Jiang, and he was stingy with comforting him against his will.

At the end of the day, people are a bit haggard, and Li Jia, who has never been picky about his food, will also frown at the table of abalone and clams, "Why is it seafood?"

Palin smiled and explained, "It's a feature."

"I've been eating these days."

Seeing Li Jia poking the food on the plate with a fork, Palin rested his chin with one hand, watching with great interest, "Let's go back tomorrow!"

Li Jia looked at Palin in surprise.

The sea view hotel has a wide view, and behind Palin is a beautiful view.

Li Jia bowed his head silently and didn't say anything. Obviously, because his heart was not in the mood, Palin was disappointed.

Palin was not having fun and his son was not feeling well, and Li Jia remained silent in the dilemma.

Seeing him suffering there, Perrin still couldn't help but feel distressed, he was the one who forced him to this point.

It's really shameful to be self-willed and angry like a child to see who is more important, and it's too shameful to be as knowledgeable as a young person.

He reached out and patted the back of Li Jia's hand, "Did you buy a gift for Jiang Jiang?"

Li Jia looked up at him blankly, of course he didn't, and his heart was always in a state of agitation. Even if he saw a suitable gift, because Perrin walked forward, he just turned his head to look a few more times without stopping.

"You are a father, why do you seem to be afraid of your son?"

Perrin studied the expression on Li Jia's face.

Li Jia's eyes widened instantly, "That's not fear."

Of course, it wasn't fear. There was love to be afraid. He was worried that his son would misunderstand him, and he was afraid of losing Palin.He can't be in a daze all day long, but what should come will come sooner or later, and what should go will go sooner or later. Since he has awakened a long time ago, what is there to be afraid of?

Li Jia straightened his back and didn't say anything. His expression for a moment was like that of a suffering god.

Perrin felt that Li Jia also exuded an attractive aura, like a faint halo, making it impossible to divert one's attention.

He wanted to speak, but he didn't dare to startle rashly.

Li Jia seemed to have transformed in an instant. He was still him, but he seemed different.

It's him and it's not like him.

Time has endowed a man with more temperament, and the more you get in touch with him, you will feel his changes. Li Jia has become calmer than before, and knows how to suppress his emotions better.

When he was young, the lover who would slap him whenever he felt dissatisfied, now sitting across from him with his head slightly lowered and holding hands tightly, makes people even more excited.

Whether it is a man or a woman, it is true that a good temperament is needed.

In the past, no matter how tired I was, I could grit my teeth and face everything alone.

Now that I am really old, I just want to have such a person by my side. When I am tired, looking at his face is like eating the holy medicine for healing. This kind of Li Jia makes him feel distressed, reluctant, and can't help but want to bully, confirming again and again He is really back.

Emotional one-way giving can never be compared with the back and forth battles in the market.

Jiang Jiang should follow his mother, right?Palin didn't have any affection for Li Jia's ex-wife, so he naturally didn't think Jiang Jiang would be the same as Li Jia because he inherited Li Jia's blood and appearance.On the contrary, he felt that he was the evidence that Li Jia had loved others, and that he was the existence of the dark side.In fact, the word Aiwujiwu has a little empathy factor in it.

It is often derived from loving someone to take care of everything around him.

Rather than saying love because of people, it is better to say that it is to capture someone's shadow, and the people or things related to him become amiable and lovely.

Mixed with ingredients that are less than lovers and more than family affection, but they cannot replace the original.

For Jiang Jiang, Palin couldn't find the slightest such feeling.So he felt that such a word was so incredible that he couldn't understand it anyway.

Neither hostile nor close, he admits that Jiang Jiang and Li Jia have an inseparable relationship, and he will not erase his existence, but he really can't raise the feeling of caring for him and cherishing him.

Li Jia kept calling his son's number.

The call that no one answered finally got through.

Jiang Jiang's lazy voice was still the same "Where are you?"

"Cape Town" Li Jia's dry answer

Jiang Jiang snorted coldly, "What are you doing there? Ah? Just run away without saying a word. If grandma asks me, where are you going? Grandma, isn't my dad on your side?"

Not facing Jiang Jiang's yin and yang aura directly, Li Jia took a deep breath.

The big nanny said not to be serious with children in the rebellious period, and Li Jia has never been serious about her precocious son.

After cheering for himself, Li Jia asked him boldly, "I'll buy you a gift, is there anything you want?"

There was no sound on the phone for a long while, and after a long time, Li Jia thought that Jiang Jiang would hang up on him, so he whispered "What's there?"

Li Jia's heart softened instantly. "I'll be back tomorrow~"

"Father~, my back hurts." The son murmured weakly, and Li Jia wished he could fly back to his son immediately and hug his head and feathers to cover each other, like penguins who can only comfort each other after being hurt.

"Where is the pain? Have you taken any medicine? How does it hurt?" His son suffered from nephritis in his early years, and Li Jia couldn't imagine the recurrence.Why did he forget that Jiang Jiang needs more rest and less anger, Jiang Jiang is like a housekeeper who doesn't care about anything, so he treats him like an adult.

In fact, the son is just a child, how can he bear so much?

Perrin noticed that Sonia had changed, even a little hypocritically flattering.

Speaking of it, it should be me who has done something wrong, and I should be the one who feels guilty.She has no evidence, so what if there is evidence?

He is Qian Peilin, even if he steals it, he will be frank.

However, Sonia's performance is not as if she is pursuing but as if she is deliberately bridging, a bit like her attitude when she was just married.

Although it wasn't a headache, it was a bit ironic after all. At this age, he was not comfortable enjoying himself frying eggs and setting up the restaurant.

At the end of the previous year, Sonia's emotions were most likely to lose control.

And this year's self-indulgent behavior, not only did not intensify the conflict, it seemed to have a windfall.

So when he saw his innocent son, he felt a little bit of shame, and he was kind and considerate towards Sonia Palin.

The most ardent desire of human beings is to be valued by others.It is also because there is not enough love that the other party will not take it to heart.

He didn't enjoy the feeling of being cherished from head to toe, and gradually became a kind of joke in his eyes. Although such a fate is sad, it cannot be changed.

People always have to pay a price for willfulness.

Sonia has Sonia's heart knot. After careful investigation, I found that Palin actually has a lot of things to do. If it was her, she would have already done it.

There are also many problems that were discovered and made decisions that happened unexpectedly.

Palin is the real superior, and many crises have been nipped in the bud.Some responses may feel inexplicable at the beginning. Pull out all the records and look at it macroscopically. Sonia found that Palin is a person who really deduced and practiced on the sand table, and the victory was determined from the first step. .Even if there is a mistake along the way, Palin will turn things around.How far the company can go depends on how far he goes. She has to admit that she doesn't have the talent.

When Mother Qian came to deliver pickled pickles, Sonia's enthusiasm and generosity surprised Mother Qian and she was happy that their relationship between husband and wife was bridged.

Palin is someone who is used to drama, and the intimacy between them is easy and effortless.Superficial skills are of course perfect.

It was obvious that his son was in a good mood recently, so Mother Qian naturally wanted to inquire about it in private.

"The relationship between you and Sonia seems to have improved a lot. Is there any new progress?" The first thing the old man thought of was whether it was possible for her to have another grandson or granddaughter.

Palin shook his head and denied, "Mom, you seem to like her a lot, don't you think it's too affectionate to tie a red string on the sauerkraut?"

Sonia attaches great importance to what she eats. Of course she doesn't know how to pickle pickles that look dirty and are troublesome to handle, and she doesn't allow the servants at home to pickle them.

Because the chef made miso once by himself, when she happened to see him smashing the pile of white maggots with a wooden stand, Sonia almost wanted to fire him.

And when Mother Qian delivered sauerkraut to her door for the first time, the jar of rotten cabbage still had suspicious substances floating on it, and Sonia couldn't accept it.

The sauerkraut she had eaten before was a finished product, and it was fried and placed in a small ceramic pot with a unique shape, and then roasted carefully on the grill, together with the fat beef.

It is refreshing and delicious.

Missy has really never seen this kind of rough-processed semi-finished product.

When Mother Qian delivered something to her door, she would process it carefully. The radish was shredded and the cucumber was cut into small pieces, which were placed in a delicate crisper box. The sauerkraut was neatly sliced ​​and tied with a red string.

Of course he is dissatisfied with his daughter-in-law's pickiness, but that is a high branch that has climbed up, and he can't talk about swallowing his anger, but he can't play a little bit of prestige.

When Li Jia’s mother was picky about her daughter-in-law, she told her in private, “You are so lazy at such an old age. When you wake up in the morning, you only care about grooming yourself. You don’t even fold the quilt. Look at the socks and underwear hanging there. Once, like the national flag, is it ashamed to lose it?"

"Cooking is not good. When frying fish, I have said not to use a shovel to pull it back and forth like cooking. She turned it like that. Then she fried the fish to pieces, and even asked me, Mom, how come?" so?"

At that time, she nodded together and said "yes", but now she can't even complain in private, because her daughter-in-law's brother, she doesn't even understand the facilities in the kitchen, and many small electric parts look weird and don't know how to use them of.He only said with a half-smile, "We need an electric sieve to squeeze the garlic, and we can cut everything with a knife in less than an hour." Every time I talk about those stupid and high-end facilities, it seems to be showing off.

Helped cook a grilled steak once, and was almost ordered by Sonia as a Filipino maid, "Mom, you forgot to insert the heat probe." "Mom, don't pour soy sauce, use red wine."

And behind the scenes, he had to put gold on his family's face. "Sonia is very capable. She is indeed a person who has seen the world. She has cooked dishes that I have never seen before. I learned a lot of new tricks from her."

"Look, Sonia bought my clothes. Well, she also gave me the face cream. I said no, but she insisted on giving me a bottle of 9XX. I'm not picky at all. We went shopping and tried underwear and tucked it in for me. .”

He laughed so hard in front of people that his teeth could not see his eyes, but he was so angry at the back that he couldn't help complaining to his son again. "Look at the attitude she spoke, really, disrespectful, are you scolding me?" "I didn't say anything when the jeans were so short. I didn't fasten the trousers, and I still tied the keys on the buttons, and told me It's popular, oh my god, no one ever said it was hooliganism?"

The son laughed, "Why do you have the same knowledge as her? She has no intentions and no calculations. Forget it, our husband and wife can't distinguish so clearly. Sooner or later, everything in her house will belong to ours."

After listening to her son's rogue theory, the mother naturally felt a lot more balanced, and smiled and patted his thigh, "Don't let others listen to it."

After so many years, even if he was dissatisfied, he digested it by himself, leaving only an amiable look.In the words of Sonia to her father, "My mother-in-law is really a good person, she never picks things up."

Suddenly thinking of Li Jia, Qian's mother asked tentatively, "I heard from Li Jia's mother that Li Jia is back?"

Perrin murmured ambiguously, "Really?"

While hesitating whether to ask "Have you seen him?" Palin handed his mother a present, which was an ostrich egg.The spray-painted images on it were artistic, and Palin's mother frowned, "Hey, there are several of them at home, and they can't be eaten or used. What do you buy them for?"

Palin laughed, "The face cream that Sonia gave you seems to be very good. My mother has become younger and younger after using it. I asked my assistant to buy a set for you. Have you received it?" Palin's mother smiled and nodded." Received." "Shh, quietly, don't tell her." "I know, you don't need to tell me about such things." "Ah, Ms. Huang, you have become more beautiful, has Mr. Qian expressed any emotion?" Palin's mother Smiling and patting his son's head, "Really, at such an age, I still make fun of my parents."

A trial ended in vain.

The daughter-in-law keeps food, and the mother-in-law will of course test her skills.

Even the eldest lady who doesn't touch the spring water with her ten fingers will always have a few dishes to show her face, so as to prove that she is a virtuous group who can go out of the hall and into the kitchen.

Of course, Palin's mother is not used to Shanghai-style baked shrimp pizza.

But the time when mother-in-law and daughter-in-law gossip is very warm.

After dinner the two women chatted over coffee, while Palin wandered out onto the balcony to talk on the phone.

The son puts one hand in his pocket, sometimes laughs brightly, sometimes whispers, and the mother is in a trance for a while, such a son both makes her happy and worries her.

Sonia complained, "Aunt Xue hired a music teacher for Songsong. We only went there once a week, and even arranged one-hour lessons for the children, as if we Songsong didn't usually learn. Really, I don't know what she was thinking. What, it’s so messed up that Songsong doesn’t even want to go to grandpa’s place now, she’s scared whenever she sees the piano.”

Palin's mother had heard about Aunt Xue's affairs, and what Sonia said was obviously a complaint against her stepmother.Another mother-in-law?Mother Qian couldn't help feeling anxious.

Seeing Qian's mother carefully inquiring and making suggestions for herself, Sonia sometimes had to sigh, "It's nice to have a mother. If my mother is still there, how would I have such troubles." But some worries are really difficult to explain clearly to her mother-in-law of.

"Then what does your father think?"

"I don't seem to have any idea."

"Actually, people always need a companion, especially the elderly." Sonia was stunned, "Always need a companion" seems to have been said by her father.It's a pity that she never thought that her father would also have needs. Her father's happiness is based on her happiness. Her father is hers, and she cannot do without it.

Sonia resented, "That woman better keep her tail tight. I will catch her sooner or later, so I won't let her snatch my dad away." ,Never.

Palin and Sonia stood in the courtyard, watching the driver take their mother home.

The car gradually disappeared at the door, Sonia turned around halfway, and the skirt drew a beautiful arc in the air.

"That coat you gave my mother is beautiful."

Hearing her husband's praise, a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, "Of course, I have always had taste."

Perrin laughed happily, half leaning against the pillar, looking at Sonia with a smile on his face.

Sonia was dissatisfied, "What are you laughing at? It should have been."

Palin looked Sonia up and down, and the way he smiled made her heart move, "What are you looking at me for?"

"You seem to be different."

Sonia's ring finger gently slid across her lower eyes, trying her best to smooth out the barely visible fine lines.No matter how many marks there were on her face, it would be impossible to see clearly in the dimly lit front porch.

The fingers painted with Dan Koo lightly slid across the face, looking extremely coquettish and moving, and Palin praised sincerely, "It has become beautiful."

As women age, easy maintenance will shorten the age gap by a few points, and they will become more and more charming.

Recently, perhaps because of the irrigation of fresh love, Sonia exudes a mature beauty from the inside out, with a kind of gorgeousness of various styles.

Perrin was suddenly startled, and inadvertently, the people around him were changing a little bit.

They didn't meet at the right time, and they didn't have the right relationship. They were so misplaced that they didn't even bother to correct them.

There are occasional moments, like now, where Palin feels guilty for not being bisexual.

She should have been happier than she is now.

Mistakes again and again, except that Sonia's persistence was still due to her unwillingness to let go. When she had an affair for the first time, she tried her best to suppress, seduce, and win over her.

One person's misfortune is very bitter, and the happiness of others is very dazzling.

Even if a woman who loves to get into the horns is sometimes hateful and hateful, she still has a cute side.

It would be great if she raised it by herself!

If possible, he would also like to have such a daughter, who will be pampered like a princess.

Sonia approached Palin, "Then have you been tempted again?"

Palin smiled lightly, raised his hand to stroke her cheek, and said in a teasing tone, "I've always been fascinated?"

Sonia turned her face sideways and rubbed lightly from the back of his palm, "Palin, I know you have your own plans, but you really don't mind people saying that people make their fortunes from their wives." Looking up into Palin's eyes, "But you really have the ability A good man doesn't have to start a business with nothing to prove it, and they won't say anything if you have the strength."

Palin sighed. "It's not like that."

It seems that they have never talked so intimately before, but now they have a desire to express themselves.From the idea of ​​a new company, to the stagnation of an old company.Obstacles from the veterans, accumulation of years of addiction, of course, a large company that is stable and seeking to win is not willing to make drastic innovations, but also has to worry about their dividends, and how can it be so easy to adjust the structure?It's like a person who wants to do a big job but has his hands and feet tied.

Palin's words are true and false. If he insists on reform, he will have another argument.But considering the prospect of personal development, of course we should talk about it based on our own interests.On the premise of a win-win situation, more understanding is more support.

Standing at the door of their own house, talking about their own business, both of them are extremely serious.

There are consensuses and disagreements, and no one will break it, so it seems to be a happy one.

After more than half an hour, neither of them felt tired, but felt that they were really close to each other.

Looking at his wife, who was a bit transsexual, Palin had a vague hope that their relationship might have another improvement.

The man's flickering eyes made Sonia couldn't help thinking about it again, and she mustered up the courage to ask Perrin with a wry smile, "Why don't you like me?"

Palin scratched his head, "It's not that I don't like it."

They have discussed this kind of problem countless times many years ago, and it seems that they have drawn many conclusions, but in fact they have come to nothing.

"Palin, do you want to touch it?" Sonia asked with a bit of aggrieved half-smile, although she comforted herself, she didn't really expect him to do anything.Still thinking about luck, maybe there may be changes.

Palin smiled wryly, and after so many years, he was somewhat immune to it, "Don't make things difficult for me anymore."

The woman's weeping expression was unbearable, so she had to poke in through the neckline of the low-cut dress. Although thinking about the hanging object, there was still a sense of repulsion deep in her heart, but it was not as serious as nausea. situation.

Sonia asked cautiously, "How is it?"

Perrin withdrew his hand shyly.

Sitting on the stone chair in the corridor with two elbows and legs, looked up at her, "I still don't like it."

Townsend privately said that his wife put silicone in it, and it felt terrible to the touch.Of course Sonia is genuine, but to Palin, even though she might be suspected of being violent, she really can't tell the difference between having and not having it.They are all like rubber dolls, which is uncomfortable.

Sonia leaned weakly on the stone pillar, "I knew it a long time ago."

Of course, I knew it a long time ago, but I just didn't try again and didn't give up, so I hurt myself again and again.

The phone placed in Palin's trouser pocket was vibrating gently, with a special ringtone and a gentle melody, which was Li Jia's favorite rhythm.

Perrin quietly pressed the mute button through his pocket.