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After finishing speaking, Mr. Mou squinted his eyes and nodded, saying that he had gone back to report, leaving only Xu's father and son and Yu Yao.

Xu Zhenping said coldly to Xu Zhiyuan: "Go home now, your mother has been looking for you for two days."

"I won't go." Probably stimulated by the phrase "solve it with my own hands", Xu Zhiyuan had the guts to contradict his father, and said, "You are so capable, why don't you lock me in too."

Xu Zhenping: "What did you say?"

"I won't go, just stay here with my uncle."

"Zhiyuan," Yu Yao grabbed Xu Zhiyuan's wrist and pulled him back, Xu Zhenping, who was so angry, didn't make a move with him.

Yu Yao looked at Xu Zhiyuan and persuaded him personally, "Do you still remember what I said just now? Go back and report to An Rong first, don't be willful."

Xu Zhiyuan looked into his gentle eyes and kept silent.

"I'm not talking nonsense with you, you bastard." Xu Zhenping suppressed his anger, but Xu Zhiyuan's retort and his low-browed and obedient appearance beside Yu Yao only added fuel to his fire. He said, "Are you going back or not?"

Xu Zhiyuan felt the tension on his wrist gradually tighten, and took another look at Yu Yao, so he walked out of the cell silently and slammed the iron door with a bang.

After the sound of footsteps disappeared, Xu Zhenping spoke slowly and said, "He has caused you trouble."

Although it was an "apology", the coldness and anger in Xu Zhenping's tone did not melt away.He was dissatisfied with Yu Yao's absurd connivance, but he didn't want to talk to his son so embarrassingly.

Yu Yao said, "Sorry."

Xu Zhenping took a deep look at him.Yu Yao thought he would ask if he had joined the fellowship, but Xu Zhenping didn't. The two of them seemed to have an unknown membrane, and they were silent to each other through a blurred perspective.

"The police need to go through procedures to cancel the case. If you are wronged and you stay here for a day, I will pick you up the day after tomorrow." Xu Zhenping left after leaving this sentence.

The prison was empty, and Wu Xiaofeng, who was afraid of being caught stealing the key, quickly slipped back and locked the lock. After looking around, he asked quietly: "Mr. Yu, just tell me if you need anything."

"No need," Yu Yao rested his forehead, sat down on the stone bed tiredly, looked up at him and said, "Please help me pay attention to Zhiyuan these days."

Wu Xiaofeng nodded and said, "Okay."

……

When Xu Zhiyuan left the public prison of the Ministry of Industry, he was in a state of confusion. The sun burned the scars on his face, and his eyes were blurred. He was still replaying the situation in his mind.

He was used to being pampered by Yu Yao, and he was too naive to imagine the "project" of persuading his parents, but the reality woke him up with a slap.

The ordinary life he was looking forward to, being tolerated and supported by his parents and friends, suddenly became an untouchable fantasy when this innocence was broken.The more Xu Zhiyuan thought about it, the colder his heart became, his eyes seemed to be crowded with complicated emotions, and he could only see the path he was walking on.

He bumped into someone and said sorry hastily.The man's jewelry was knocked to the ground, Xu Zhiyuan picked it up and returned it, only to find that the other person was a woman who was equally distraught.

She stretched her neck and looked towards the Ministry of Industry Bureau, her expression was urgent and confused, Xu Zhiyuan called "Ma'am" several times before she came back to her senses.

She was a middle-aged woman, dressed in brocade clothes and embroidered skirts, but she was slovenly. Her haggard face made it obvious that she had lost her soul because of other things and had no intention of repairing her makeup.

The woman took back the bracelet that Xu Zhiyuan handed over in a daze, nodded her thanks, and walked towards the Ministry of Industry Bureau while muttering words.And the patrolling soldiers seemed to be surprised, and skipped over the woman directly.

Xu Zhiyuan just paid attention to it, without thinking too much, and walked home alone.

Li Anrong's eyes were red when he opened the door. Seeing that it was Xu Zhiyuan, he raised his hand to slap him, but his son's downcast appearance came into view, so he was not willing to slap him.

"You still know how to come back!" Li Anrong withdrew his hand and said angrily, "It was the same last time, you always played disappearance with me at the most dangerous time, Xu Zhiyuan, when will you have a long memory!"

Xu Zhiyuan only said "I'm sorry".

His mother could spare him, but Xu Zhenping couldn't let it go - the housekeeper and Li Anrong stopped him from making a big fight, but Xu Zhiyuan's wayward behavior had to be punished, so Xu Zhenping had no choice but to make the best of it and let the rebellious son die in the old man's house. place to kneel.

Xu Zhenping walked back and forth in the living room, scolded him for nearly half an hour, and finally asked with difficulty: "Tell me the truth...how are you and Yu Yao?"

Xu Zhiyuan seemed to feel that it would be a pleasure to bite through the healed wound again, and said: "We have done what you think should be done and what should not be done."

Li Anrong always thought that the relationship between his uncle and nephew had returned to normal long ago, but when he heard Xu Zhiyuan's own confession, his heart trembled and he opened his mouth empty.

Xu Zhenping raised his eyebrows angrily, and shouted: "You bastard, that's your uncle!"

"He's not your real brother," Xu Zhiyuan said hoarsely, "Even if he is, the two of us don't have children."

"you……"

Li Anrong grabbed her husband ahead of time and said, "Forget it, let him make trouble."

Xu Zhenping frowned and looked at her.Li Anrong said with a pale face: "Ah Yao is a sensible person, he has his own decision. This is a matter between the two of them, let them discuss it."

Xu Zhenping stared at her puzzledly, and Xu Zhiyuan's eyes seemed to light up with a gleam of fire. Just as he was about to speak, his mother extinguished the flames for him: "But I won't agree. Xu Zhiyuan, you Whatever you want, I will not agree with you and A Yao." She finished speaking without any ups and downs.

Her figure was slightly staggered by days of worry and insomnia, but she refused the support of the housekeeper and her husband, and slowly went upstairs alone.

Xu Zhenping couldn't scold anything anymore, he sighed bitterly, and said to the butler, "Just let him kneel for half an hour like this, and watch, don't let him take a step away."

The butler nodded in agreement.

Xu Zhiyuan heard footsteps gradually leading upstairs, wanted to laugh at himself, but couldn't even lift the corner of his mouth.

Half an hour later, the housekeeper wanted to remind him, but someone seemed to be coming outside the door, so he went out for a while, and came back after a while, and said to Xu Zhiyuan who was kneeling still: "Young Master, get up and rest .”

His knee was so numb that he couldn't feel it, Xu Zhiyuan lay down on the sofa for a while, and asked, "Who was it just now?"

"fine."

"You don't have to hide it from me."

The butler is an old man with many acquaintances and sources of information. He sighed deeply and said, "It's Liao De's wife from the Ministry of Industry Bureau. Ever since I saw Master Liao's tragic death at the door of the house, I have some mental problems. Everyone said that she Crazy...but still able to talk and communicate normally."

Xu Zhiyuan frowned, staggered a step with numb legs, walked to the window, and saw the woman's figure.Coincidentally, this thing is really mysterious - when he came back from prison, the woman he ran into today was Mrs. Liao.

Xu Zhiyuan asked: "What is she doing at our house?"

"I don't know. I asked Madam, and she didn't have any appointment with Madam Liao." The housekeeper said, "Before Master Liao died, our two families had no contact. On the contrary, Madam Liao has been visiting frequently these few days. Today is the third time, but she didn't come in when she got to the door, she just asked if the master was at home, and she left after I finished speaking... It seems that she is really a little crazy. "

But Xu Zhiyuan felt that something was wrong, thinking back to Mrs. Liao looking eagerly at the gate of the Ministry of Industry Bureau, there was always some bad premonition behind her.

Sure enough, his guess was right - in the evening, he saw Dong Yibai who came to report the news at the old place outside the fence wall in his backyard.

Dong Yibai grabbed the rusty iron rod with both hands, and shouted softly: "The surname is Xu! Xu Zhiyuan!"

Xu Zhiyuan was keenly aware of his voice, turned over and went downstairs, hurried over and said, "What's wrong."

"You must tell Yu Yao..." He seemed to be running over, his voice was panting, and he said, "Tell him to beware of Liao De's wife."

When he woke up at this point, Xu Zhiyuan's heart was lifted by a big stone, and he said, "What?"

"My father saw her often a few days ago. I didn't think it was a big deal. Uncle Liao and him were good friends who met each other often..." Dong Yibai said, "...But you know what? That woman is crazy."

"know."

"I just overheard the conversation between the old housekeeper and my father today. They brainwashed that lunatic woman... Yu Yao killed Uncle Liao! They want to instigate her to seek revenge from Yu Yao."

Xu Zhiyuan's face became gloomy, he couldn't control the strength of his hand, he broke off a piece of rust in the palm of his hand and twisted it into pieces, he cursed: "...Damn it."

"You must tell Yu Yao to go now," Dong Yibai pleaded in a rare tone, "Tomorrow Sishan will invite Yu Yao as a guest. This is the condition for clearing his charges and canceling the case... Mrs. Liao and my father will be there at the time."

Xu Zhiyuan: "Understood."

Dong Yibai heaved a sigh of relief, patted the rusty debris in his hands, and was about to leave when Xu Zhiyuan called him: "Wait a minute."

"What's wrong."

Xu Zhiyuan opened his mouth awkwardly: "Thank you." As he spoke, he threw an iron box, and Dong Yibai recognized it at the same time as he caught it. It was the candy that Yu Yao tried to give him in the office but was rejected by him.

"Take it, your teacher Yu's."

"..."

In that not-so-official "contact place", the previous suspicion between the two seemed to have been somewhat thawed out.

And in the night that was about to envelop Huai City, neither of them noticed that there was an inconspicuous jeep parked in a bustling place across the street.

The old housekeeper and Dong Jianshu in the car watched their young master condescendingly stuff the simple candy box into his pocket—Dong Jianshu, as a father, knew best that his son was obviously happy under his disgusted surface.

Seeing Dong Yibai's figure, he secretly ran back along the path.The old butler said to Dong Jianshu, "Sir, shall we go?"

On the one hand, Dong Jianshu achieved his "purpose", but on the other hand, he also found out that his son had been tipping off the news—even though he had already noticed it, he was still angry.So a distorted expression appeared on his face, and he snorted sullenly, "Let's go."