Settled in the sweet spot

When He Zheng arrived home, he didn't see An Xu. When he walked to the bedroom, he found that he was in the "princess room" opposite. He pushed the door open and went in silently.

An Xu crossed his legs in front of the pink single bed, holding a thick photo album spread out on the mattress, turned his head and raised his face to meet He Zheng's calm gaze.

"I think this room should also be cleaned and ventilated or something. I came in without saying hello to you."

He Zheng wore a pair of soft black long sleeves today, which removed the seriousness that he usually couldn't hide. He leaned over and sat beside An Xu, almost wrapping him in his arms from behind.

"My home is your home, and you can come and go freely in every corner of the home."

An Xu moved his lips towards him, and his gaze followed He Zheng to the photo album page on the bed. The place where his thumb touched was a birthday photo of He Zheng when he was a child.

It looked like he was only three years old, and there was a boy doll with a small face and a chubby face printed on the film-like photo paper, wearing a birthday hat made in that era.

With both hands propped on the table, although his big eyes are staring straight at the cream cake in front of him, it is not difficult to see that there is a seriousness that children of the same age will not have on his immature face.

An Xu raised his eyebrows and asked the person in the photo behind him, "You were so cool when you were young, you are such a young adult."

He Zheng didn't have many memories of being three years old, and vaguely remembered that it was one of the few families that gathered together to celebrate his birthday in the next ten years.

"perhaps."

"All right."

Turning to a new page, there is already a family photo of the four members of the He family on it, An Xu looked at the photo in surprise.

Father He was wearing military uniform, with sword eyebrows and star eyes, regular facial features, and a stern and stylish face that was almost copied and pasted to He Zheng.

Mother He has an oriental beauty face that is all over the country and the city, she is graceful, with mountains and dew between her eyebrows and eyes, and her smile is like the warm March spring breeze.

The little sister of the He family was still being held in her arms, with a cute baby face. If she could grow up safely, she would definitely be able to inherit the perfect looks of her parents.

But when he thought of the death of a family of three, An Xu felt so sorry for He Zheng. He didn't dare to look at the expressions of the people behind him. Knowing that He Zhenggang was extraordinary, no one would stimulate him, so he quickly turned the page.

With a quick hand, the photo embedded in the transparent pages fell out. It was the family portrait. An Xu frowned, blaming himself for being so clumsy. When he approached the photo with his fingers, He Zheng's hand also leaned over.

An Xu let go and let He Zheng stuff the photo back, but saw a layer of gold attached to the back of the photo.

He Zheng also seemed to have sensed it, flipped through the photo between his two fingers, and the two of them stared at the back of the photo together.

"Let me see." An Xu took the photo, looked at it for two seconds, and took out a one-yuan coin from his pants pocket after laying it flat on the album.

Holding the coin like scratching a small lottery ticket, the thin golden color was scraped off. Gradually, An Xu's eyes lit up, and He Zheng also came over without turning around to tell.

There is a word on the back of the album, which was written with a ballpoint pen. When An Xu was handling a case in Canada, he had seen someone use this trick to pass a code. It was actually used to prevent the photos from fading over time.

He Zheng stared at the gentle writing on it with deep eyes, "My precious daughter is safe and sound for a hundred days, I hope she grows up safely under the protection of her loving parents and brother."

A line of small characters was added under the two lines, "My son Xiaozheng, who has made me proud all my life, will also be safe, healthy, and happy."

An Xu's throat choked up, and at the same time he couldn't feel He Zheng's breathing behind him. He anxiously checked the man's condition and saw a frozen face.

He Zheng remembered that this family photo was one of the relics he had collected after his parents' accident when he rushed to Africa to pack up. After growing up, the four of them rarely reunited, and when they got together, they would take pictures to commemorate it.

The conditions in Africa are difficult, and parents don't take them there, so they can only take the cherished photos to entrust their concern for their children. This word is also the sorrow left by his mother in thousands of days and nights.

An Xu touched He Zheng's face, carefully observed him as if he was looking at a fragile object, and tried his best to smooth his wrinkled sword eyebrows with his fingertips.

"This is what your mother expects from you, be happy, be happy, okay?"

Despair flashed by, and An Xu saw a dull pain in his heart. Fortunately, He Zheng came forward, wiped his face, touched the back of An Xu's neck and replied, "It's okay."

Afterwards, they rummaged through all the photos, but they couldn't find any hidden surprises. After closing the photo album full of sadness and joy, An Xu noticed that the plush bear placed alone by the bed looked like an old toy.

"That doll is placed on the bedside, does it have any special meaning?"

The man picked up the plush bear with his long hands. This was the first gift his parents gave An An. An An always liked to hold it, especially during the time after her parents' accident. The doll almost never left An An's hands.

He squeezed the little bear's right paw, and the little bear grinned and made a childish sound.

"Hi, bear, my name is An An, nice to meet you."

He Zheng closed his heavy eyelids in pain.

An Xu's nose was sore, "Why does it still ring?"

"There is a battery memory card that can record, and I change the battery every year."

But He Zheng never dared to listen to the recordings there, as if he was torturing himself with a thousand cuts.

An Xu clutched his stuffy chest and said worriedly, "The electrodes of the toy battery have a lifespan. Is the memory card separate? Otherwise, the recording will be gone after the electrodes are degaussed."

He Zheng rarely expressed his helplessness. He couldn't hold back his self-blame and grief, holding his head that was about to burst, "Huh——I don't know."

An Xu helped He Zheng out of An An's room. He kept the recording bear in mind, and went to the living room to pour water for He Zheng.

Living under the same sky, Shen Long and Xie Xiaoshan, who are also in dire straits on the other side, are also very troubled.

The botanical garden has not made much progress in the past few days. Shenlong, who was "long" monitoring the back door of the botanical garden on the mountain, received a call from his parents at noon, saying that he must be let out for dinner.

With question marks on his head, Shen Long took Xie Xiaoshan all the way back to the city, and sat down in this coffee shop to wait for someone according to the address his father sent him.

He was fooled by his parents!

Shen Long frowned and called his unreliable parents, but the two blocked him tacitly...

Fortunately, the WeChat family group can reply to his messages——

[Life is safe] "The older one, the younger one, your aunt Zhang, the eldest girl, came to work in Zhongshi. The family urged the marriage, and the girl is very nice. Mom and your aunt are thinking that the fat will not flow to outsiders, so first Arrange for you to come and meet me.

Don't ask for things to happen, get to know each other first, let's get to know each other, big son, come on, mom is optimistic about you^_^"

Shenlong: "Mom doesn't want to find a partner at this time!!! You let the water flow out, it's a bitch!"

[The old dragon is not old] "You don't know how to cherish the stinky boy, don't call me a father when you hit a bachelor in the future." With a bloody expression on a knife.

Shen Long: "But I really don't want to, the work unit is busy with important matters, can I just leave?"

[Life is safe] "Little bastard, if you dare to run away, it's a girl from Mafa Xiaoer's family. If you dare to let others go, Mama will let you see why the flowers are so red ╰_╯"

Afterwards, no matter how Shen Long tried to persuade the couple, they didn't get a single word of response. Shen Long had no choice but to put down his phone, and ordered a cup of milk tea for Xie Xiaoshan and others.

Shen Long had seen that girl when she was a child, and the two mothers had a close relationship, and the two children were half playmates, but Shen Long never felt that he liked her, and he was impatient waiting for others, even Xie Xiaoshan was a little impatient.

"Brother Xiaolong, isn't the person we are waiting for coming yet?"

If it wasn't for his mother's "slutty prestige", Shenlong would have taken Xie Xiaoshan to dinner long ago, but it's really not manly to put a girl who came here to work and he had known since childhood, so Shenlong had to waste time here.

"Hurry up, hurry up, let's go eat when she comes, wait a little longer."

Shen Long snorted at Xie Xiaoshan, who drank milk tea obediently, Shen Long was attracted by the black pearls in the milk tea.

He actually doesn't like sweets, but seeing Xie Xiaoshan sucking pearls very seriously, he was so greedy that he wanted to have a bite too.

"Is the pearl delicious?"

Xie Xiaoshan raised his face, his eyes were always innocent, "It's delicious."

Shen Long broke a habit and sucked pearls into a ceramic cup. Xie Xiaoshan didn't think so, and kept his head down and sucked milk tea in his own way. The two heads were intimately brought together.

At this moment, a pair of high heels appeared in Shen Long's sight. He and Xie Xiaoshan looked up at the person coming together as if they were having milk tea with each other.

Hei Changzhi, who was also deceived by her elders, looked at the two drinking milk tea intimately, and thought she had found the wrong person...