Is Mr. Ling doing well today?

Sunday is a rare good weather in autumn.

When Liang Zhao got up to take a shower, the pure and gentle sunlight in the morning had just poured down from the floor-to-ceiling windows.

The man dragged his slender figure into the restaurant and was about to start making breakfast when there was a rhythmic knock on the door outside room 1201.

Outside the opened door stood a young man in a dark blue uniform, holding a cake in his hand and a bouquet of roses in his arms.

"Is this Mr. Liang Zhao? Please sign for it." The young courier smiled and handed over gifts.

"I am." Liang Zhao frowned blankly, raised his hand to take the cake and placed it by the entrance, lowered his head and wrote his name on the signature book.

As soon as the door closed, there was the sound of her boyfriend's wake-up greeting from behind.

"Good morning, Lianggong."

Ling Xuan was sleepy, rubbed his messy hair, then smiled and congratulated: "Happy first anniversary."

What anniversary?

Liang Zhao was a little puzzled, and after two seconds of being stunned, he realized that this was the beginning of the first meeting.

"Aren't there any activities arranged for such a commemorative day?"

The young man walked over lazily, took the whole bouquet of roses from Liang Zhao's arms, held them up to his nose and sniffed them gently, and raised his head full of anticipation.

Liang Zhao pushed him back to wash up, and responded gently: "I bought all the flowers, you decide."

"Um……"

Ling Xuan leaned his back against the glass door of the bathroom, and after thinking for a while, he came up with a suggestion: "It's been a long time since I went to Africa, and today was the first time I saw a child last year, why don't we go to the city welfare?" Please stay with him."

"Listen to you." Liang Zhao had already set the dinner plate by the kitchen counter when he spoke.

The man with messy hair was satisfied. He went to the mirror to sort out his image. After a while, he poked his head out again and said with a bright smile, "I need to add double egg liquid and ham to my breakfast pancakes."

Without raising his head, Liang Zhao replied coldly, "Today we are cooking wontons."

After a while, there was a muffled sound from the bathroom, and he reluctantly responded: "Oh... let's make do."

The Municipal Welfare Institute was built near the outskirts of the city, and it took about four to 10 minutes to drive from the shopping mall near my home.

When the two walked through the black gate together, Xiaomo, a volunteer whom they had known before, was in the yard, leading the older children to water the loose soil for potted plants.

"Hi, you're here, long time no see." The girl put down the rubber hose, wiped her palms with a towel, and came forward.

"I'm sorry I didn't say hello before I came, is it convenient to see Lielie?" Ling Xuan piled the gifts he brought on the stone table in the yard for the children to choose freely.

Xiaomo asked other companions to help take care of the front yard, and he led the visitors in, and replied with a smile while leading the way: "Of course it's convenient, you can come here, Lielie must be very happy."

The interior of this orphanage has an old-fashioned spiral staircase pattern. Although the decoration style is simple and simple, the surroundings are cleaned very well, and the spider plants arranged in the corner are also fresh and warm.

Because Lie Lie needed to recuperate before, he has always been isolated from other children, living alone in a room on the top floor, and being taken care of by the aunt in the yard.

"The brat was pestering someone to cut paper just now. I was too busy to play with him at the time, and I don't know if I was angry."

Xiao Mo brought Liang Zhao and Ling Xuan to a small black door, smiled and told what happened just now, then was about to knock on the door, but was stopped quietly.

"Shh, look what the little guy is doing."

Ling Xuan gently pushed open the shiny wooden door.I wanted to surprise the child, but I didn't expect to see him sitting quietly by the bed, as if staring out the window in a daze.

Lie Lie's two small hands are holding his cheeks, leaving only a thin and small back, and he is sullenly muttering to himself: "I really want to be sick."

"Why?" Ling Xuan heard the voice, and the doubts in his heart had already been asked.

Lie Lie turned her head back quickly, her white cheeks were pleasantly surprised for a moment, and then she became depressed, complaining cautiously: "Because you won't come to see me after you recover from your illness."

Tong Yan Wuji provoked Ling Xuan to chuckle, tilted his head and looked at Liang Zhao, and then gently coaxed him: "No, because my brother and uncle went abroad a while ago, so they came here."

"Really?" Lie Lie sniffed, rubbed off the edge of the bed, trotted all the way to Brother Ling Xuan, staring at the two people in front of him with black bean-like eyes.

"I thought you didn't like me anymore."

The child's tone was really aggrieved, and when tears fell from the corners of his eyes, his brows were still slightly frowning, as if he was trying to hold back, and his beautiful little faces were all pulled together, so well-behaved that it made people feel distressed.

Ling Xuan wiped away the two big tears on his face with the heel of his palm, and stretched out his hand to hug the child up and coax him: "Okay, okay, don't cry."

Four or five years old is when a child develops rapidly, but the moment Ling Xuan picked him up, he felt that Lie Lie hadn't grown much in the past year, and was still a small one.

"Really, if you don't believe me, ask Uncle Liangzhao, he will definitely not lie."

Ling Xuan's voice was still gentle, Liang Zhao also leaned down, rubbed the child's hair gently with his palm, and said, "Well, what Brother Ling Xuan said is true, we have indeed just returned to China not long ago."

Xiao Mo, who had been standing behind Ling Xuan, suddenly smiled, and blinked at the little guy who was still wiping tears.

"Why are you still crying and acting like a baby when you are so old? Shouldn't your brother and uncle be very happy to see you, this is almost like a little cat."

It is really embarrassing to be ridiculed by my sister for crying, the little man obediently wiped away his tears.

"I'll take him out for a wash. The dean's mother-in-law is next door. You probably haven't seen each other for a long time. You can go talk to her first." Xiao Mo leaned over, took Lie Lie's hand, and led the child down the stairs .

Ling Xuan looked out the window following the cold gaze just now.Except for a clump of quiet flowers and plants, there is no other scenery there.

"Let's go." Seeing the people around him lost in thought, Liang Zhao raised his chin towards the next door while reminding him aloud.

"En." Ling Xuan then took a step behind.

The dean's office is a small sunny room with elegant and clean interior decoration.

"Here you are, sit down." Hearing the sound of footsteps, the dean of the orphanage raised her head from her working state.

Although she is over half a century old, she is as full of spirit as a young man.Seeing Liang Zhao and Ling Xuan appear, they warmly welcome them with new tea.

"You don't need to be busy, we just came to see Lielie." Liang Zhao raised his hand to support the movement of the dean pouring water by herself, and took the teapot to do it for her.

"Thank you for always thinking about him, that child..." Speaking of Lie Lie, the heartache in the dean's eyes flashed away.

Ling Xuan was a little puzzled at first, but when he saw the lady hesitated to speak, he wanted to ask more clearly. "What's wrong with Lielie? Is his health not good again?"

"That's not true." The dean shook his head comfortingly, "It's just that this child... I'm afraid it will be difficult to find a good family home from here in the future."

"How to say?"

The water temperature was just right, Liang Zhao poured a cup of tea for each of the three people in the room, leaned on the sofa and listened quietly in the steaming heat.

"When investigating adoption intentions, the orphanage will not conceal the child's situation." The dean sighed softly and continued.

"Lielie has undergone two major congenital heart surgeries. Although he looks healthy now, his physical fitness is far inferior to children of his age, so he will definitely need more careful care in the future."

"But most of the families who come to the orphanage to adopt their children are because of long-term longing. In other words, many people still have the idea of ​​raising children for old age. For them, 'grey-haired people send black-haired people' is too heavy and difficult. Accepted."

With her handsome appearance and well-behaved, even among a large group of children, she is extremely dazzling.But he suffered from such a serious congenital heart disease, so few adopters are willing to get close to him.

Because that would mean perpetual fear that, if the child's old illness relapsed, he might have to work hard and give everything he had.

"Although he is weak and sick, this child is very smart, and he fully understands his situation. Therefore, Lie Lie is more sensible than other children. Even if he is unhappy, he will not say it, and just stays quietly by himself."

It turned out that it was because of this that I was not happy.

Ling Xuan's eyelashes trembled slightly. Children with congenital diseases are very pitiful, but after finally getting over it, they still have to be treated differently.

"Brother, uncle, mother-in-law..."

When the atmosphere in the room was quiet, a child who had washed his face rushed in quickly, stood beside Liang Zhao and gently pulled the corner of his clothes with his hands.

Suddenly, an idea burst into Ling Xuan's mind.

The young man smiled and turned to the kind lady in front of him, and tentatively asked: "Dean, can we take Lie Lie out for a while? Today is the 365-day anniversary of the three of us meeting."

Hearing my brother's question, the short little guy suddenly raised his head, his bright eyes were full of surprise.

"Do you want to go outside the orphanage?" The dean was also taken aback.

Although this is not in line with the regulations, it is rare for Lie Lie to expect this. The gentle lady made a special exception after thinking about it for a while.

"Then you are allowed to take him out for a day, but you must come back before dark."

"Yeah! You can go out to play." Before saying where to go, the little guy was already extremely happy.

Before going out, Xiao Mo helped Lie Lie check her belongings twice, and ordered a bunch of them carefully.

"You can't do particularly strenuous activities, and you can't blow cold wind... If the brothers forget to drink plenty of water for you, Lie Lie must remind you."

Both Ling Xuan and the child nodded their heads, but the volunteer girl was still worried, and finally shifted her gaze to Liang Zhao.

"We will take good care of him." After Liang Zhao made a serious promise, he leaned over, held Lie Lie in his arms with one arm, and brought him into the car.

To satisfy the little ones, the anniversary lunch for three was served in a mall-themed restaurant.

The children's set meal ordered for Lie Lie didn't touch a few mouthfuls at all, but the matching toy blind box was taken out of the whole table.

"Do we have a doll in this shape?"

Ling Xuan tore open a new lucky bag, took the clay figurine inside, and compared it with the crowds of "companions" on the table.

"Yes, there are four of them." Lie Lie pointed at a corner of the huge team.

Sure enough, several identical toys had already been disassembled.

"Which one is missing?" Ling Xuan spread the half-meter-long illustrated book on the dining table again, and carefully implemented the elimination method.

Lie Lie lowered his head and pondered for a while, pointing to a certain pattern on the picture, and said in a milky voice: "It should be the last hidden model, I haven't seen this one with rabbit ears yet."

"It's so difficult." Ling Xuan said so, but he unpacked five bags of blind boxes in one breath.

In the sight of countless diners watching, Liang Zhao leaned on his head with one arm, glanced at the table full of blind box models, and finally couldn't bear it anymore: "Ling Xuan, do you want it for the child, or do you want to play?"

"We both like it." Mr. Ling, who almost wrapped up all the blind boxes in the store, concentrated on unpacking without even looking up.

"Are they rabbit ears?" Before the doll could reveal its true colors, Lie Lie stood up curiously from the seat.

"No, it has no ears." Ling Xuan replied regretfully.

"Ah, here it is here! Brother, look!" A pair of cute big blue ears were exposed in a certain package that Lie Lie opened casually.

The childish and cheerful voice attracted more people to follow the sound.

There were three people sitting at the table covered with toys, one of them was tall and indifferent the whole time, speechless for a few times.

Liang Zhao sighed silently.

Collecting is obviously one of the joys of playing blind boxes, but these two guys actually dismantled dozens of illustrated books in one go.

"I'm exhausted." Ling Xuan leaned back slowly because his hands were sore from unpacking, and leaned to the side lazily.

"Brother, can you go play the game console?" Lie Lie put the last doll into the toy line, raised her bright eyes and asked.

Hearing the sound, the young man who had already run out of battery cheered up again, and nodded in agreement: "Let's go." He took the child a few steps away before remembering to turn around and tell him: "Lianggong stay and watch things."

Looking at the large and small figures that were quickly buried in the parent-child play area, Liang Zhao had not had time to think when a voice suddenly sounded beside him.

"Sir, our store manager said he would give you a toy box so that you can organize and store these figures." The waiter in the themed restaurant put an oversized box on the table.

"Thank you."

Although the other party had a friendly smile, Liang Zhao still rubbed the space between his brows with a headache.

After a lunch of "drunkard's intention lies in toys", the three of them went to the shopping mall to digest food.Ling Xuan matched several sets of new autumn clothes for Lie Lie. The cool and cute style is really eye-catching.

When he came out of the clothing store with big bags and small bags, his eyes fell on the shop selling popsicles opposite. The child looked at the sign for a while but didn't speak.

Ling Xuan took the initiative to lean down and asked gently: "Do you want it?"

The little guy nodded.

Mr. Ling recalled Xiaomo's instructions before he left, and he didn't seem to mention ice cream. After hesitating for a moment, the young man turned to Liangzhao.

"Can I eat it?"

Liang Zhao raised his eyebrows gently, "The whole portion is too much, you two should each have half."

"Take it, I'll take him in." Hearing this, Ling Xuan stuffed the paper bag in his hand to his boyfriend, and led the little guy into the cold drink shop empty-handed.

When he came out again, he already had an extra box of peach-flavored ice cream in his hand.

After shopping and eating for a long time, the sky outside the mall has gradually darkened.Both Liang Zhao and Ling Xuan remembered Madam Dean's exhortation, and were going to take their tired children back home.

Walking to a slightly remote corner of the elevator, Ling Xuan suddenly paused, and put the sweet and cold ice cream in front of Liang Zhao.

"It tastes good, Lianggong, do you want to try it? The three of you can eat it together."

The corner of her boyfriend's clear mouth was raised within a short distance, Liang Zhao took advantage of the fact that there was no one around, covered the small half of Lie's face with the palm of his hand, and pressed it against him for a quick kiss.

From Ling Xuan's lips, he tasted the softness and coolness of that box of peach ice cream.

Letting go of the children who had been covered in a daze, the boyfriend's snort sounded in his ears.

"Hooligans."

Liang Zhao's expression remained the same, and he didn't respond.

Finally back in the car, Ling Xuan sat on the back seat with Lie Lie in his arms and ate the leftover ice cream. He suddenly felt a light vibration in the pocket of his trousers. With a small wooden spoon in his mouth, he took out his mobile phone with one hand and answered the call. .

Liangzhao could only vaguely hear the meeting and the like, Mr. Ling held something between his teeth, and said in a vague voice: "Yeah, I see, I'm outside, maybe half an hour late."

"Have work to do?" Liang Zhao turned the steering wheel and drove the car onto the main road.

"It's okay, don't be in a hurry, send Lie Lie back first." Ling Xuan finished answering in a deep voice, then smiled and lowered his head, teasing the child in his arms.

"Little guy, feed me a bite."

After sending the little boy back to the orphanage and chatting with the dean for a while, it was already the time for the first visit to the neon, Liang Zhao and Ling Xuan bid farewell to their acquaintances and left.

Sure enough, as soon as he got home, President Ling nestled into the study and started a video conference.After returning from Africa, his work has become more and more busy.

While his boyfriend was busy, Liang Zhao squeezed soybean milk for him and put it on the corner of the table, then quietly read a book on the side.

Ling Xuan never had the habit of wearing earphones when he held a meeting with Liang Gong, so occasionally work-related content would come to Liang Zhao's ears.

Since the beginning of September, No. [-] Institute's anti-inflammatory drugs have started a new round of cooperation with Yanxing Pharmaceutical.And now the medical project of the Dr Group has officially started, and Transcript Star, as the mainstay of the rookie, has also participated.

Among all the competitors, Ling Xuan has always been the most optimistic about Jiang Zheng's company, but from the recordings of these meetings, the DR directors seem to disagree.

The online call finally ended. Ling Xuan, who sat for two hours, had a sore back and a sore back. He stopped working and stretched his muscles in the study.

"The work is not going well?" Liang Zhao raised his eyes slightly.

Ling Xuan smiled, thinking that the rebuttals between himself and the directors probably disturbed Liang Gong.

"It's okay, I often have disagreements with them. But in the end, I will let them see the correct result." He shook his shoulders, responded softly, and then added another sentence.

"Oh, by the way, I'm going on a business trip during the National Day holiday, so I can't stay with you at home."

Liang Zhao had already heard about this arrangement when the meeting was just held, he nodded, and responded with a low voice "Yeah".

Ling Xuan, who was slumped in the chair, squinted his eyes wearily, and suddenly sighed softly: "It's too miserable. Sometimes I think about it, why do I work so hard? I don't have my own children, and after a hundred years, my property will be only Leave it to my nephew."

Liang Zhao calmly flipped through the book, and sneered teasingly: "Boss Ling, raising a child is not an easy task. You can't even take care of yourself, so you better not have one."

"Cut." Ling Xuan let out a voice of dissatisfaction between his teeth.

After a moment of silence, the young man's voice resumed.

"However, a child without parents to take care of it is really pitiful. When I see Lie Lie, I will think of the days when I was alone and helpless. Will he really grow up in the orphanage?" Ling Xuan's eyes fell unfocused. in the vicinity.

Seeing Lianggong shook his head slightly, the bewilderment on his face turned into a comfortable smile, and he shook the empty cup on the table, signaling for another cup.

Liang Zhao got up and went to the kitchen to add soy milk to Ling Xuan, and after passing the cup over, he leaned close to him.Seeing that the man was still in a daze, he asked in a low voice, "What are you thinking?"

The young man lay lazily on the table, poked a small figure on the table with his fingertips, shook his head and responded, "I can't tell, boyfriend guess?"

"Do you still need to guess? You are feeling sorry for Lielie, and hope that the child will have a home."

Being accurately told in his heart, Ling Xuan only raised his eyebrows, and asked softly: "What does Liang Gong think?"

"Accepting a child is not a trivial matter. Anyone who has such an idea will be willing to plan far-reaching things for him."

Liang Zhao's slightly serious tone made Ling Xuan smile and nod, and after a pause for a few seconds, he listened to him continue.

"So sometimes waiting is not a bad thing. If you feel that Lie Lie is living too hard in the orphanage, we can go to talk to the dean and have more opportunities to get along with him, or occasionally pick up the children to play. Then In two years, if the relationship is stable and both parties are ready, I can also go through the legal adoption procedures."

Ling Xuan didn't expect the people around him to say that, suddenly raised his head, and met a pair of clear black eyes.

"Good job?"

Many words of the young man choked in his throat and he didn't say it out. After a while, he joked: "Then if we break up again in a long time, we will all be single fathers."

Liang Zhao gently stroked his lover's shoulder, and added with a smile: "Not only that, it may also involve the raising of the son, so Mr. Ling has to think carefully."

Ling Xuan remembered that he once joked with Liang Gong because of the title, but now he even considered the matter of being promoted to be a father, so he couldn't help sighing: "I'm an older brother!"

Although he said so, at the same time, his heart was inexplicably more stable.

son.

In the future, his good worker is willing to have a common son with himself.