prefer silence

"What are you thinking?"

Chen Zheng was driving the car, when he suddenly turned his head and glanced at me, I came back to my senses, subconsciously said: "No, I didn't think about anything."

"Yuanyuan, you have been very anxious for the past ten days, do you know that? You yelled twice when you were watching a movie the night before yesterday, but you didn't realize it at the time. Also, you have insomnia. Think about your tossing and turning sleep this week. Have a good night's sleep?"

"You think you are like this, I can believe that you don't think anything?"

I looked at him in surprise, am I so obvious?

Chen Zheng's worried expression told me the answer.

"Now you are driving, let's talk about it when we go home." I pulled the muscles on both sides of my cheeks and smiled.

When we got home, Chen Zheng and I sat face to face, the atmosphere was weird.My mind was in a mess, and I didn't know how to organize the mess and tell him in a decent way.

Until Chen Zheng gently patted my head, "Speak."

Just this action, I was stunned, and tears poured out like a torrent of venting.I was sobbing and wanted to speak, but it seemed that I suddenly lost the function of speech, and I couldn't utter a word when I opened my mouth.

"Don't be afraid, don't panic." Chen Zheng embraced me, patted my back for comfort, "I'm here."

I cried a lot, and obviously I haven't said anything, but I have already unloaded a big burden in my heart, and I feel much lighter.

"Don't tell me, let me ask you, okay?" Chen Zheng whispered in my ear, "You've been like this since you came back from Mom. Is it... about Mom?"

I nodded.

"is it serious?"

I hesitated, then continued to nod.

Chen Zheng: "Is it related to Mom's body?"

I shook my head.

Chen Zheng: "Then... has something to do with Dad?"

I nodded.

Chen Zheng rubbed my hair, "Is there something wrong with their relationship?"

"It's more serious than this." My agitated mood calmed down, I grabbed a tissue to wipe away my tears, and turned half of my face shyly, "Dad wants to have a baby with another woman."

"Ah?" Chen Zheng said, "Does this... mean he cheated?"

"I guess it's almost the same. I can't tell you the specifics. Anyway, Dad wants to have a biological child, but he and my mother can't have one, so he wants to find another woman to give birth to him. What they do is test tube .”

"What is Mom's plan?"

"She wants her father back, and she doesn't want to raise a child born to someone else. So, I want to find my brother, the child who was sold."

I explained the situation I found so far to Chen Zheng in detail, "I may go to X province during the Spring Festival, brother Zheng, sorry, I can't go on a trip."

"It doesn't matter, we still have many years." Chen Zheng picked up the water glass and handed it to me, "Drink some water. I will go with you then."

"Go together?" My heart was sweetened, and I couldn't help but smile, "Really?"

Seeing that I didn't take the water glass, Chen Zheng put the mouth of the glass to my mouth, "You are hoarse, drink water first. I must go with you this time. I didn't accompany you to Liantang last time. I'm already very sorry."

……

I was very busy and lonely in the group.

Guan Yue left after the internship, and there was one less person who kept talking about Yuan Jie in my ear all day long. I was still a little uncomfortable with my ears being quiet.

Speaking of which, Yuan Jie is also surnamed Yuan, which should be considered a small surname in China, and I only know two of them.

The same surnames are Yuan, Yuanjie, and Yuan Sihua. Why is there such a big difference?

I don't know if Yuan Jie has found a job. Anyway, he also graduated with a master's degree and is a boy. In the talent market in city A, he is quite competitive.

I haven't seen him for a long time, I rubbed my aching forehead, and I will go to his live broadcast room to "visit" him after all these troublesome things are resolved.

Now, I'm really not in the mood.

When I was lying on the bed at night and scrolling through Moments, Chen Zheng leaned on my shoulder and watched silently.

Our phones have nothing to hide from each other.No, Chen Zheng didn't know that I watched Yuan Jie's live broadcast.

Slide your finger down, and you will see Song Zhiyuan's activity.

He posted a photo of the bar, along with a sentence and a location.

[Friends in city A, come here, today's discount. 】

I rowed over without changing my expression, Song Zhiyuan is not like me, he always has no shortage of friends.

"Want to go?"

Chen Zheng grabbed my earlobe, and bit it lightly.

I shuddered after being bitten by him, and retorted: "I can't be friends with him for a while, don't you know?"

Chen Zheng didn't say anything, and I continued to scroll down.

I turned to a post by my mom!This is very strange.

She posted it last night, posting a picture of the necklace, which is a romantic pink-gold color, with a finely crafted rose on the chain.

The accompanying text is: [Unexpected gift, my old Li spent a lot of money! 】

I felt sad for a while, and said to Chen Zheng: "My dad gave her more expensive and better ones before, and she didn't post them on Moments."

My mother is not a person who likes to disclose her privacy and show off her life on social platforms. I don’t remember when, every year on her birthday, my father would give her an expensive accessory, sometimes a ring with various gemstones, sometimes a A huge pearl bracelet.

She kept it well and never wore it out.

Now it's just such an ordinary necklace - at least it's too ordinary compared to the previous ones, and she still has to post a circle of friends.

I looked at the date again. Yesterday was not Dad's birthday, nor Mom's birthday, nor their wedding anniversary. Why did Dad give Mom such a gift that can't be put on the table?

There is a row of mothers replying to other people's words at the bottom.

[Mom replied "everything is fine": Thank you for your blessings, and I wish you and Lao Zhang a long time! 】

If I remember correctly, Aunt Zhu Cong's husband seems to be surnamed Zhang, and this "everything is fine" should be Aunt Zhu Cong.

Then the next four or five are all my mother's reply, thank you, etc., only one reply is out of place in the "thank you" of Yiqingshui, which makes me feel that something is not right.

[Mom replied "People are as clear as blue": That's a coincidence, we are so destined, I will treat you to dinner next time you come to City A. 】

What a coincidence, what a coincidence, what did that "Renqing Rulan" say to make mom reply too coincidence?

My first reaction was that she said she had the same necklace as Mom.

Click on the avatar on the homepage of "Renqing Rulan", it is a pot of pale yellow orchids, nothing can be seen.

I patted Chen Zheng and pointed out that sentence to him, "Do you think this sentence is not right?"

Chen Zheng read it again, clasping his knuckles on his chin as if thinking, "Looking at what Mom replied, it's a coincidence to infer what another person said to her... I guess the biggest possibility is that person and Mom Has the same or similar necklace. No, this is not strict, it should be—whether she has it or not, but she told Mom that she has it."

"That's what I thought."

The author says:

Yuan Yuan has a keen sense of smell~