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Quan Huachen arrived home at [-]:[-], a time that was not early but definitely not late.

If it is too early, it will appear that what he said to Kang Zhuo is untrue; if it is too late, the chance of "coincidentally" intercepting Kang Zhuo is really zero.

It was raining heavily outside the house, Quan Huachen left the umbrella under the eaves at the door to drain water, and opened the door with his fingerprints.

As soon as he entered the door, Lanlan waited at the door, sticking out his tongue at him, whimpering with excitement.

Quan Huachen reached out to caress the golden hair's ears, quickly changed his shoes and walked into the living room, there was a lazy food bowl not far from the entrance, Quan Huachen saw it before he took two steps.

The food bowl is empty.

Quan Huachen thought of a possibility, that is, Kang Zhuo did come to refill the dog food in the afternoon, but he was lazy and finished eating.

Thinking of this, Quan Huachen strode to the kitchen and opened the locker under the island. The location of the dog food and the clips on the seal remained the same as in the morning.

Quan Huachen didn't give up, he went back to the entrance and observed the arrangement of slippers.

Quan Huachen only prepared two pairs of slippers at home, a pair of gray ones for his own use, and a pair of blue ones for guests as spares. Currently, only Kang Zhuo wears them.

At this time, the pair of blue slippers were neatly placed on the top corner of the shoe rack, which Quan Huachen put on after Kang Zhuo left last time, and was pressed down by the leather shoes next to him.

Kang Zhuo had never been here.

Quan Huachen stood in front of the porch for a while, shook his head and smiled self-deprecatingly.

The rain outside the house seemed to be falling more fiercely, crackling the windows, Quan Huachen finally thought of his own flowers at this moment, he rushed to the window in two steps, and carried in the flower pot outside the window sill.

After being ravaged by the heavy rain all afternoon, a lot of white petals fell off, Quan Huachen was very distressed.He took the flower pot to the coffee table and looked at it carefully, counting how many flowers he had lost.

The flower pot was turned around on the tea table, and five of the eight flowers were bald, and the petals of the remaining three seemed to be hard to fall off, but fortunately, there were quite a few of the twelve buds, and they were quite strong.

Quan Huachen heaved a sigh of relief. Looking at the potted flower, he felt that it was very similar to a certain child who didn't speak well.

That happened more than ten years ago, and it was also summer, Quan Huachen had just finished his college entrance examination, and Kang Zhuo was still a little bean that was not as tall as a table leg.

At that time, Quan Huachen's mother, Zhou Yuan, had a relapse and was admitted to the hospital under the name of Quan's family for treatment and recuperation.The top floor of the inpatient department is the VIP ward. There are four sets in total. Zhou Yuan lives in one, and Kang Zhuo’s mother Aiya lives in the other.

Although the two of them are very close, they have never had any contact, because Quan Xiao often went in and out of Aiya's ward, and she didn't like to see their mother and son at that time. To avoid conflicts, Quan Huachen never got close to Aiya. The corridor over the ward.

One day at noon, Quan Huachen took a home-cooked meal to the hospital. While waiting for the elevator, a little boy came beside him. He was very short, probably only reaching Quan Huachen's thigh.Wearing a small sun hat and carrying a large schoolbag, he stood two steps away from Quan Huachen and waited for the elevator.

Quan Huachen couldn't see his face, he could only see the ridiculously big schoolbag behind him, he guessed that the schoolbag must be half the size of this child.

After getting off the elevator, Quan Huachen deliberately slowed down for a moment in line with the principle of respecting the old and loving the young, and let the boy go in first. He saw him press the number 32 on the lower row of buttons beside the elevator. The button Chen wants to press is the floor where the VIP ward is located.

Right now Quan Huachen knew that this little boy was Aiya's son.

This elevator does not go directly to the VIP floor, so the elevator stopped and went along the way, and the crowd swarmed in and out. It is very different for children who cry and scream when they enter the hospital.

The more people go to the top floor, the fewer people are in the car, and finally only the two of them are left.

When the elevator finally stopped, Quan Huachen still let him go first.

Quan Huachen doesn't like children, he thinks they are stupid and noisy, but the one in front of him looks very good, Quan Huachen is more happy to observe him for a while, so he slows down and follows him, watching him walk with two small The crisp sound of short legs walking out of the aisle is a bit like a penguin cub walking alone on a glacier in the animal world.

In front was Zhou Yuan's ward, Quan Huachen stopped and was about to open the door to enter the room, when the accident happened.

Probably because the floor was too slippery, the child suddenly fell to the ground with a "boom", and the whole person fell forward on the floor, with the big schoolbag behind him weighing heavily on him, like a five-fingered mountain.

Quan Huachen didn't intend to go up to help, he didn't want to be troublesome, and was going to sneak into the house before the child cried out.However, as soon as he turned the doorknob, the child opened his schoolbag and got up, quietly and without crying.

The corridor of the VIP ward was empty and silent, so Quan Huachen could clearly hear him talking to himself.

The boy bent down and rubbed his knees, and muttered softly: "No pain, no pain, Kang Zhuo doesn't hurt."

Boom————

The thunder was so close that it seemed to be right above the head, and even the fluorescent lights in the laboratory flickered, scaring all the students in the laboratory to scream.

The new equipment has greatly improved the efficiency of the experiment. Everyone wanted to try it out for themselves. It was almost dark when everyone was awakened by the thunder.

"Oh my god, it's almost six o'clock, how do you eat at night?"

"Go to the cafeteria? But it's raining heavily outside..."

"Then order takeaway?"

……

Kang Zhuo wasn't hungry yet, so he didn't join their discussion until his auditory nerves suddenly caught a familiar word. He turned his head and asked Cai Tong who had spoken just now: "Did you say 'Quanhe' just now?"

"That's right, their family is so rich and powerful, they donated so much equipment to our laboratory at once." Cai Tong fiddled with his mobile phone, "I want to eat fried chicken, do you want to eat it? If I do, I'll order two more. "

Kang Zhuo suddenly ended the experiment in hand, quickly cleaned up the operating table, took off the goggles, picked up the bag and ran out, and rushed back halfway to take off the white coat.

Chu Weilin shouted at him from behind: "Where are you going?"

"go home!"

"You can go back when the rain subsides!"

A flash of light suddenly flashed outside the dimly lit window, and two or three seconds later, thunder came as expected, making the windows buzz.

Quan Huachen stood up from the sofa, went to the bedside table in the bedroom upstairs and found a box of white pills, he swallowed it straight up, then went downstairs to the kitchen to find water to drink.

This time the migraine was violent, and he didn't know how long it would take to expect the symptoms to subside on their own, so Quan Huachen had to take medicine as a last resort.

Even now that Quan Huachen is quite used to having one side of his head behaving strangely from time to time, when he had a migraine for the first time in his third year of high school, Quan Huachen was still very scared. He once thought that he might have a terminal illness, such as a tumor growing in his brain or something. , but for the sake of the college entrance examination, in order not to worry Zhou Yuan, he gritted his teeth and endured it without saying anything to anyone.

Later, although the college entrance examination was over, Zhou Yuan fell ill. Quan Huachen was afraid that she would be worried, let alone talk about it.

While accompanying Zhou Yuan in the hospital, one night, Quan Huachen had a headache and couldn't sleep, so he sneaked out of the ward and squatted in the corridor outside, covering his head and panting in pain.

He was in so much pain that he didn't notice when Kang Zhuo came to him, he only heard a childish voice suddenly sounded beside him.

"What's wrong with you? Does it hurt?"

Pain makes people irritable, Quan Huachen impatiently told him to go away.

But Kang Zhuo insisted on reaching out to him, touched the top of his head twice, and said, "I'll rub it for you, it won't hurt anymore."

Quan Huachen clicked his tongue, raised his head and looked at Kang Zhuo fiercely, hoping that the child would be more sensible and go away by himself.

Quan Huachen didn't know what he looked like at that time, but he guessed from Kang Zhuo's later reaction that he might be as pale as a ghost, so Kang Zhuo asked him in panic:

"Are you dying?"

Quan Huachen laughed angrily when he heard this, thinking that this kid can really talk, he deliberately lied to him: "Yes, I will die soon, after I die, I will become a ghost and go to you every night .”

As expected, the child was frightened and cried, and the small mole directly under the left eye was soaked with tears.

Quan Huachen wanted to tell him to shut up, but he saw Kang Zhuo grabbed his clothes and cried: "Don't die, please, don't die..."

At first Quan Huachen thought he was afraid of ghosts, but later realized that he might have misunderstood something.

Because a week later, Aiya's rescue was ineffective and she died on the hospital bed.Quan Huachen took a look to express his condolences. A beautiful and haggard omega withered and died on the hospital bed, his face pale as paper.

Kang Zhuo lay on the bed and cried: "Mom, wake up, please don't die..."

The rain was so heavy that the wipers had no time to clear the rain from the front window. Driving on the road in this weather was a great safety hazard.

In rainy weather, when it is difficult to improve sight with wipers, you should immediately slow down and choose a safe place to stop—this is a question that appeared in the first course of the subject. Kang Zhuo still remembers every rule in the exam. I have been driving for a year since I got my driver's license, and I haven't been deducted a single point.

There were a lot of vehicles on the road, all rushing home after get off work, Kang Zhuo wiped off the mist from the car windows with a rag, and did not start the car for a long time.

Lazy has been following Quan Huachen all the time, although it is big, it is very timid, when it is frightened by the thunder, it will only shrink to Quan Huachen's legs with a whimper.

The effect of the painkiller came on, and Quan Huachen felt much more comfortable. He squatted down to comfort Lanlan for a while, and then took out a bag of dog food from the cabinet to feed it.

The spherical particles crashed and fell into the stainless steel bowl, and Quan Huachen began to lose his mind again.

For so many years, Kang Zhuo was almost fostered by Quan's family.His mother died early, and his father didn't care about him at all when he was working outside. Quan Xiao felt sorry for Kang Zhuo, so he brought him to his home to raise him with Yin Dongfan.

Even if Quan Huachen didn't know Kang Shicheng's identity, he knew that his position in the city hall was not low, because on New Year's Eve, when every family had a New Year's Eve dinner, if they turned on the TV to watch the live news, eight out of ten times they would see him walking. grassroots.

This also means that Kang Shicheng is rarely able to go home for the New Year.

Quan Xiao didn't want Kang Zhuo to be wronged, so when the family of three went back to the old house for the New Year, they would bring Kang Zhuo with them.

Kang Zhuo is very obedient and obedient, and he is a beautiful mixed-race kid. No one doesn't like him.

After the New Year's Eve dinner, when the adults gathered to talk, Yin Dongfan and Kang Zhuo were playing and playing in the yard.Occasionally, some collateral relatives of the Quan family passed by, those who Yin Dongfan didn't need to care about, but Kang Zhuo wanted to stop, and his uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters called over one by one.

They teased Kang Zhuo like a cat, pinching his nose, pinching his face, even if it hurt him, he would not speak, and would just obediently say to all the adults: Happy New Year, Gong Xi Fa Cai.

Then he finally walked in front of Quan Huachen, raised his head timidly, and called him like Yin Dongfan: "Uncle..."

The spilled dog food fell to the ground, Lalan eagerly went to lick it.

Only then did Quan Huachen come back to his senses, and put away the dog food bag.

The room is very quiet, there is no other sound except the sound of torrential rain, but if you listen carefully, there seems to be the sound of Didi's password button. Quan Huachen suspected that he was hallucinating. He was about to get up and take the dog food back to the kitchen. The door not far away suddenly opened.

The strong wind rushed into the room with a damp dusty smell, and there was also a faint scent of jasmine hidden in it.

Kang Zhuo stood at the door wet, out of breath, looking at Quan Huachen with bright and clear eyes like a baby bird.

"uncle……"