From Pokfulam to Central

Wan Ziying sprained her foot when she went back to school after get off work on Friday to play ball. After Chen Shuo found out, he bought a dozen pairs of plasters made in Japan and active oil from Thailand at the duty-free shop at the airport. .

Hearing the aunt at home yelling that a friend came to see her, Wan Ziying hopped forward and opened the door, and saw Chen Shuo going upstairs with a big bag of things, and said in surprise, "Why are you here?" ?”

Seeing this, Chen Shuo hurriedly stepped up the steps step by step, helped Wan Ziying back to the room and sat down again, "Stop running around, be careful if you fall again, it's not a joke gone."

"Oh, I'm fine," Wan Ziying pulled a chair in front of her for Chen Shuo to sit on, "I just didn't stand firmly when I took off and landed when I was playing. I accidentally twisted it. It may have something to do with the hard outdoor court."

"You played in an outdoor venue?" Chen Shuo said while taking out all the medicines he bought in the bag, "It's so cold now, and if you don't warm up properly, you will definitely be injured easily. No, I remember that your school has an indoor volleyball hall, why do you want to play outside?"

"Oh, the indoor venues were full that day, so we went outside because we had no room." Wan Ziying replied casually, and it seemed that he didn't take the injury seriously.

Chen Shuo looked at Wan Ziying's disapproving look and became anxious, "Stop fighting when the venue is full. He's such a big man, how can he play with such a heavy heart? He doesn't know how to think about his body."

Seeing Chen Shuo, who was a few years younger than him, admonishing himself like an adult, how could Wan Ziying be willing to show weakness, and retorted, "Haven't you been playing football outside in the cold lately..."

"That's different," Chen Shuo wondered why he couldn't explain to her clearly, "Football doesn't have indoor courts, and besides, I was in the leagues of various courts in Beijing. It's a serious game, so it's fine if I don't play."

Wan Zi seemed to be serious when meeting Chen Shuo, pursed her lips and said, "Okay, okay, you're right."

Chen Shuo also realized that his tone was a bit harsh, so he stopped entangled in the question of whether he should play or not, and instead asked, "How did you deal with your sprain yesterday, did you go to the hospital, and what medicine did the doctor prescribe? "

"Cough, what hospital are you going to?" Wan Ziying was still careless, "I just applied ice after I got home."

Chen Shuo looked at Wan Ziying's still red and swollen ankle and sighed, "This injury can be big or small, it's best to let the doctor take a look, or you can come with me now, I happened to be driving here."

"Hey, don't, don't," Wan Ziying refused very neatly, "I've been afraid of the smell of the hospital since I was a child, if you insist on dragging me, I can show you dying on the spot right now."

"Bah, bah, bah," Chen Shuo couldn't bear Wan Zi's unrestrained attitude, "What are you talking about, what should I do? Why don't I call a doctor to come to your house to show you, don't make it a habit in the future?" sexual sprain."

"Oh, I'm fine," Wan Ziying looked helpless, and randomly took out a piece of plaster from the bag Chen Shuo brought, "Didn't you buy so many medicines for me, I just use two of them. "

Chen Shuo had no choice but to take the plaster from Wan Ziying, and then naturally put her injured foot on his own leg, "Okay, then remember to change the plaster on time and avoid walking. Put this leg up, and the diet must be lighter these days, don't eat seafood, you know?"

Watching Chen Shuo personally apply the medicine to herself, Wan Ziying suddenly became so nervous that her heart was pounding, even faster than when she recorded the program for the first time a few years ago. Fortunately, I repainted my nail polish the day before yesterday, and I just went to the spa for foot care the day before yesterday, and my cheeks were flushed unconsciously, and I tried to adjust my breathing for a while before saying: "I see, you brother, what do you say?" Talks like my dad..."

Chen Shuo just wanted to express his protest on the issue of age, but unfortunately, there was a dry cough behind him, and it was Wan Ziying's mother who appeared outside the open room, and she said very politely: "Who is that, You said you came when you came, what else do you bring, you have everything at home, so you don’t need to spend so much.”

Chen Shuo silently put down Wan Ziying's injured foot, stood up and respectfully said, "Auntie, those things downstairs are nothing but for nutritional supplements. She needs to eat better when she is injured."

"Well, it's rare that you have a heart." Mrs. Wan showed a kind smile that couldn't tell the truth or the fake, "You see it's almost noon now, but unfortunately the aunt at home didn't know you were coming, so she just did me and Yingying." Welcome meal, why don't you wait for a while, I'll let her go out and buy some vegetables and come back to make another one, so you can stay and have dinner with us?"

"Yes, yes," Wan Ziying echoed, "You can stay and eat whatever you want."

Chen Shuo turned his head and glanced at Wan Ziying, making sure that the two people didn't mean the same thing, turned around and politely declined: "No need, Auntie, I have an appointment with a friend at noon, so don't bother me, seeing her is fine, I'll just leave not worried."

Only then did Mrs. Wan show a sincere smile, "Okay, then Auntie won't delay you."

Seeing Chen Shuo come out of the gate, Mrs. Wan returned to her daughter's room, and blatantly asked, "Who is this boy? I remember seeing him at the dinner party in Hong Kong. Why did he come to Beijing?" ?”

For some reason, Wan Ziying suddenly didn't want to reveal too much about Chen Shuo to her mother, so she said ambiguously, "He, Zhou Mi, is a classmate, and he came back after graduation."

"Then why did he come here uninvited today?" Mrs. Wan's tone was somewhat defensive, "This is the first time I've seen a boy come to your house specifically to look for you."

Wan Ziying pouted at the bag on the table, "Didn't you hear that I was injured?"

"Is it just because of this?" Mrs. Wan took the seat that Chen Shuo had just sat on, "I think he changed your medicine with his own hands just now. What's the relationship between the two of you?"

Wan Ziying recalled what happened between herself and Chen Shuo, although it was not a thousand times, but it was also a bit complicated, so this question was really unclear, so she could only falter: "No, it doesn't matter. ..."

Mrs. Wan glanced at her daughter critically, "Let me tell you, it's best that it doesn't matter. Although your father postponed the engagement date, Zhou Mi is still your fiancé after all. It's not easy for you to get along with other boys." It's too close."

Wan Ziying frowned silently, and said in an impatient tone that she didn't even realize: "Oh, well, Mom, I understand, so don't worry about what's there and what's not."

Speaking of the graduation ceremony, after Zhou Mi saw the ring hanging around Qu Zhi’s neck, he stayed up all night and went to Zhao Dong the next day.It's a pity that Zhou Xianli's military order was like a mountain, Zhao Dong didn't dare to let go, instead he turned around and begged Mr. Zhou, don't embarrass himself, this little guy.

A few days later, when Zhou Mi was at a loss, he suddenly received a call from Zhou Xianli, asking him to go back to Beijing immediately.Zhou Xianli didn't specifically say what was going on on the phone, but his tone sounded very cold.The second after Zhou Mi hung up the phone, Zhao Dong knocked on the door of his office and returned all the documents.

Zhou Mi bought the latest flight and rushed back, but it was already dark when he got home.As soon as he entered, Aunt Zhu told Zhou Mi that his father was waiting for him in the study upstairs, but he was stopped by his mother on the way.

Mrs. Zhou pulled her son into a corner with a dignified look, and said nervously, "Zhou Mi, tell me the truth, you didn't want to stay in Hong Kong even after you were beaten to death. Is it because someone has already returned to Beijing?"

Zhou Mi was taken aback, what his mother said was endless, but he half understood something.

Seeing her son like this, Mrs. Zhou understood the general idea, and said angrily and regretfully, "You son! I'm so stupid, I even helped you persuade your father at that time. Fortunately, he didn't agree with you in the end—"

"Mom," Zhou Mi interrupted anxiously, "What happened?"

Mrs. Zhou didn't have time to explain to her son, so she could only continue to ask at her own pace, "What about the two of you now? In the past few months, one of you and him should be in Hong Kong and the other in Beijing. Are you together? Or have you lost contact? Huh? Are you talking?"

"Did my dad know something?" Looking at his mother's expression, Zhou Mi began to realize the seriousness of the matter, "Mom, just tell me, or I don't know what to do."

"I don't know either." Mrs. Zhou tried her best to restrain the anxiety in her heart, and said in a low voice, "I just asked what there is between you and that person because I don't know what your father knows!"

It was rare for Zhou Mi to see his mother so flustered, so he finally decided to tell the truth, "We, we haven't contacted each other for a long time, but we just met at the graduation ceremony a few days ago, nothing else really happened."

Mrs. Zhou felt that her son did not seem to be lying, but for a moment she couldn't figure out what would make Zhou Xianli furious all of a sudden, so she could only tell him: "Forget it, no matter what, if your father asks about this matter later, you must stop him." Don't admit you know it? As long as you bite to death, there should be room for things to turn around."

"Since you're back," Zhou Xianli's gloomy voice came through the study door, "what are you still doing standing outside?!"

Mrs. Zhou was taken aback by the sudden growl, Zhou Mi had no choice but to pat his mother on the shoulder, then reluctantly gave her a comforting look to tell her not to worry, turned around and entered the study.

Only a small light on the desk was turned on in the room, and Zhou Xianli sat behind the desk, with half of his face hidden in the night, it looked as if he had been sitting here since it was still dark.

Zhou Mi closed the door and locked it. Without the light leaking in from the corridor, the room was even darker. He walked carefully to the desk, and just as he was about to sit down, he heard his father yell: "You stand there for me!" !"

Zhou Mi shuddered and stood up again.

Zhou Mi didn't know the specific situation and didn't dare to talk nonsense, while Zhou Xianli seemed to be still angry, so he couldn't speak immediately. In the closed and dark room, only the ebb and flow of the father and son's breathing could be heard.

After an unknown amount of time, a recording pen was suddenly thrown onto the table in front of Zhou Mi, and Zhou Xianli commanded in a hoarse voice because he hadn't spoken for a long time: "Listen yourself."

Zhou Mi fiddled with the weak light for a while, and finally figured out how to play the audio, but in the next second, he heard his familiar yet unfamiliar voice coming from inside: "Qu Zhi, I was wrong,... Qu Zhi, I want to You swear, I will never get engaged to Wan Ziying, and I have never liked her... Qu Zhi, I beg you, can you stop saying things that have never had anything to do with me? I like it You, so I really can't hear this..."

The audio playback automatically stopped at the end, but Zhou Mi's mind was still blank.

After Zhou Xianli listened to the recording again, the anger that had just been suppressed inevitably flared up again, and he endured for a long time before speaking again: "If I remember correctly, Qu Zhi is the boy you specially introduced to me at the dinner that night. "

Zhou Mi lowered his head and did not speak, this action is equivalent to acquiescing in his case.

Zhou Xianli closed his eyes forcefully, and then continued in a chilly voice: "Okay, Zhou Mi, you are really capable, and you have learned how to play with men? But these are not important anymore, what is important now is that you know Where did I get this recording?—Oh, you must not have guessed it, because it was given to me by Wan Zhenting!"

Zhou Mi looked up in shock, but the darkness made it impossible for him to see the expression on his father's face.

"Zhou Mi," Zhou Xianli gritted his teeth for the first time pronouncing these two words, "Do you know how ugly Wan Zhenting came to my office and said in front of all my staff? Huh? He Wan Zhenting said You, Zhou Mi, don't like Wan Ziying but you still want to get engaged to her. This is cheating her feelings. You obviously like men but marry their family. This is taking advantage of the entire Wan family. Oh, these are actually not What is it, the point is that he even threatened to cancel the engagement of the two of you. If his wife hadn't caught up with her and kept stopping her, saying that she didn't believe that Zhou Mi was such a person, and that there must be some misunderstanding in it, then you and Wan Ziying's marriage is completely over!"

If it is said that at the beginning, Zhou Mi felt ashamed because what he had been hiding from his parents was finally revealed, then at this moment, when he understood that Zhou Xianli was still focusing on the word "interest" from now on, he felt ashamed. I didn't want to endure it any longer, and finally yelled out what I had been holding back in my heart for several months: "It's over, it's over! Anyway, this matter was originally manipulated by you, without my consent at all!"

"What did you say?!" Zhou Xianli was furious, and his voice became weird and horrifying.

"Dad! I don't want to marry Wan Ziying, I want to be with the person I like!"

Zhou Xianli smiled angrily, "What did you say? I heard it right, right? You are going to put my Zhou family in an unrighteous way for a man? You are going to put the company that I have worked so hard for decades into ruin for a man. situation?!"

Zhou Mi was so angry that if the light in the room was brighter, he could be seen trembling and his eyes were red, "Dad, I don't want to do anything that is bad for our family or the company, but you Don't you understand? The reason why things have developed into such a situation is entirely caused by you!"

Zhou Xianli slapped the table and nearly shattered the table, "Say it again!"

Zhou Mi was really frightened by this. He had never seen his father like this before. After struggling in his heart, he realized that if the two of them just kept fighting, it would only make the situation more unmanageable, so he had to force himself to let go of his emotions and calm down He said with an attitude: "Dad, things are already like this now, and it won't help the two of us to quarrel in the dark, so let's think about how to end it? This recording will not appear out of thin air. It is most likely the Wu family's ghost. They want Disintegrate our power by destroying our relationship with Wanjia."

Zhou Xianli's face was livid at first, but he softened a little when he heard Zhou Mi's words, but his tone was still harsh, "It's not possible, it must be them, we broke up with the Wan family, and they are the biggest beneficiaries. So Zhou Mi, we can now What I do is to try my best to repair the rift between the two families. Other things can be left to me, but there is only one thing that you must do yourself: I want you to go to Wanjia to express your opinion and tell them that This recording was forged on purpose, you never said those words yourself, Wan Ziying is the only one you have liked since you were a child."

Hearing this set of solutions without any essential changes, Zhou Mi finally realized that he and his father had nothing to talk about, so he refused very straightforwardly: "Dad, don't think about it, I won't go, I don't want to No matter how much I cheat Wan Ziying's feelings, I don't want to be sorry for myself. If you insist on me going, I will only beg Uncle Wan and Aunt Qing to forgive me for not being able to express my attitude towards engagement from the very beginning. Bright."

"You're dreaming!" Zhou Xianli stepped from behind the table to Zhou Mi's side, pointed at him and scolded, "How did I give birth to you such a shameless bastard, I think you were seduced by that man!"

"Dad!" Zhou Miteng turned around to face Zhou Xianli, because the distance was too close to give the illusion that the two of them were ready to strike at any time, "You can scold me, but why do you say that about him?!"

Zhou Mi has surpassed his father in height since high school, and at this time, Zhou Xianli also clearly felt the sense of inversion brought about by the height of the two. He squinted his eyes and took a step back, pointing to a small window by the window. The place was illuminated by the moonlight that went around the curtain, condescending like an executioner: "You kneel there for me."

Zhou Mi immediately understood what his father was going to do.

In fact, Zhou Xianli hadn't hit Zhou Mi since he became an adult.If I remember correctly, the last time Zhou Mi skipped the district-wide exam for someone who wasn't worth it was the last time he got into a fight with Wu Haolong when he was in his third year of high school.It's funny to say, the causes of these two times are actually similar, but the last time, Zhou Xianli didn't touch the most fundamental thing, but this time, he finally knew his son's secret.

The moment his knees touched the ground, Zhou Mi was no longer the same as when he was a teenager, and even a trace of fear had long since disappeared from his heart.

Zhou Xianli took out the heaviest iron club from the golf bag standing by the wall, the veins in his hands were still as strong as they were many years ago, "I'll give you one last chance to break up with that bitch, and then to Wan Jia clarified."

"Dad," Zhou Mi said surprisingly calmly, "I still say the same thing, you can scold me, but you have no right to slander him."

Zhou Mi heard the hunting sound of breaking wind in the air, and in the next second, the place on his back where the club rolled over began to burn with pain.Zhou Mi didn't want to deny that he was really in pain, but it wasn't because of the stick behind him—for the sake of clinging, it didn't matter how much he suffered.Zhou Mi's pain was because he was afraid that even if he went against the rules, he would not be able to get Qu Zhi to come back to him.

Mrs. Zhou heard the sound in the room, but because Zhou Mi locked the door when she closed it, she couldn't rush in to stop it, so she slammed on the door outside and cried.Zhou Mi looked out from the gap in the undrawn curtains, raised his head to let the cold moonlight shine on his flushed face from the pain, and suddenly felt that this house was like a gorgeous prison cell, even if he could hide in it Enjoy everything, and can't stop your desire to break free.