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Qi Yubai's schedule today was less than usual, and he deliberately set aside time for the evening.

He needs to go home.Today is President Lao Qi's birthday party, there are a lot of old relatives and friends in the family, the old house must be very lively.Regarding Qi Yubai's going home, Zhang Hong had already greeted the people in Qi's house in advance. After all, it was extremely rare to go back, so it was best not to cause any unpleasantness.

At seven o'clock in the evening, he drove to the old house by himself.Not too far apart, a few 10 minutes away.

He hadn't driven this car for several days. As soon as he got in the car, there was something familiar on the passenger seat.Qi Yubai looked at it expressionlessly for a while, and instead of stepping on the gas pedal, he stayed in the parking space and made a call.

There was a familiar voice on the other end of the phone, "Mr. Qi?" There was a little surprise and a little cautious, but the background sound seemed to be noisier than before.

Qi Yubai didn't realize it himself, when he heard these three words, the unknown fire that had been suppressed all day because he wanted to go home inexplicably subsided a lot.

"Where are you? Why are you so noisy." But he still spoke in that indifferent tone.

"Me?" Lin Nan raised his voice a little, and said anxiously: "Wait for me, I'll go to the stairs and tell you."

After a burst of intensive footsteps, the other side was really quiet.

"Mr. Qi," Lin Nan was still panting slightly, "I'm at the crew's finale banquet. There were a lot of people talking around just now, so it was a bit noisy."

"Didn't you finish the finale a long time ago?" Qi Yubai felt strange. It was obvious that Lin Nan had been back from the base for half a month, and the two had met twice, so why are they still attending the finale banquet.

"It's because all the leading actors have wrapped up, that's why the wrap-up banquet is held, it's not for me." Lin Nan calmed down, and said with a good attitude, "What does Mr. Qi want from me?"

It was only then that Qi Yubai remembered his original intention of making this call. He turned his head from the driver's seat to stare at the scarf on the passenger seat and said, "You're playing tricks on me again."

"Ah?" Lin Nan's heart skipped a beat. He was a little flustered when he heard these harsh words. He couldn't think of what he had done wrong for a while, so he asked slowly, "What's wrong with me?"

"Leave the scarf on my car on purpose." Qi Yubai raised his eyebrows, he didn't seem to be disgusted by such a scheming, and said with a light snort, "Once it was careless, and twice it was hopelessly stupid ,do you know."

Lin Nan's eyes were wide open, and the ear on the side of the phone turned red quickly. He glanced at the corner of the safe passage where he was in a guilty conscience, and said, "I..."

"You still want to lie to me?"

"I..." Lin Nan himself had forgotten about it. After the last time we met, Qi Yubai sent him home. He kept an eye out and thought he was smart enough to leave the scarf on the seat again. I think Qi Yubai will contact him again when he sees him.

Unexpectedly, Qi Yubai was so smart that he could see through his thoughts at a glance.

In fact, where is Qi Yubai smart? It is obvious that Lin Nan's method is too stupid. He would not be so obvious if he changed his glasses and watches.It is only to blame that he has no talent in this area, and everything depends on his own thinking.

"I really forgot, it wasn't on purpose." Lin Nanyue lowered his voice, and the more he spoke, the more empty his heart became, and even he himself felt that this refutation was too weak.

Qi Yubai thought about it, paused for a while and said, "I'll find you later."

Lin Nan quickly said happily: "Okay!"

Qi Yubai heard his joyful tone of surprise, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and was about to say something more, but he heard an unfamiliar voice on the other end of the phone.

"Lin Nan, are you in there?"

Lin Nan turned his head in fright, and saw Qi Jiawen opened the door of the safe passage and walked over. His tall stature almost blocked the lights in the corridor.

"You are really here. I have been looking for you for a long time. The director is waiting for you." Qi Jiawen obviously came to pull him back to fight against the army of persuasion. After saying this, he glanced at his hand and asked, "Are you Call up?"

"Yes." Lin Nan subconsciously covered the microphone, nodded hastily and said, "You go first, I'll be right there, in 2 minutes."

"Well, I'll go back first, and you should stop beating quickly, and come back quickly, I can't stand it anymore." Qi Jiawen came frizzy, and then left in a noisy manner.

Lin Nan exhaled, picked up the phone again and said, "Mr. Qi, are you still there?"

"Yeah." Qi Yubai's face returned to calm and indifferent.

"I have to go back. The actors from the crew came to look for me just now."

"Ah."

"Then I'll wait for your call tonight—"

Lin Nan was a little dazed when he heard the beeping sound coming from the receiver. Before he could ask what time he said, Qi Yubai drifted away like a cloud.

He stared at the screen for a moment, put away his phone and walked out of the stairwell.

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Half an hour later, Qi Yubai drove back to the Qi family's villa.Although the location of the old house is not biased, the decoration is a bit outdated, but Mr. Qi does not agree with the renovation. There is no other reason. The decoration of the villa has Qi Yubai's mother's thoughts from the inside to the outside, and it is the crystallization of Qi's mother's aesthetics.

Although Qi's mother's health has been poor since she was young, she has persisted in the study of interior design for 20 years.As soon as Qi Yubai's Rolls-Royce drove to the gate of the courtyard, someone came to greet him.He slowed down and walked in, only to see the bright lights of the three-story old house tens of meters away, the hall seemed to be dining, and through the glass, two or three servants carrying trays could be vaguely seen walking back and forth carefully , very busy.

The car parked in the garage, Qi Yubai got up and got out of the car, a young man beside the car door took the handbag for him, and led him to a place full of people.

"Mr. Qi, you arrived at the right time. The food is being served in the front hall. We thought you would be late for a while, and the seats have been reserved for you."

Qi Yubai walked slower than usual, feeling a little reluctant to approach the house.He asked, "Where's Dad?"

"Director Qi is talking to guests on the first floor."

In the past, the servants of the Qi family called him Young Master, but after the accident, Father Qi refused to recognize him when he was angry, and insisted on not allowing everyone to call his only son like that, so everyone referred to them as "Boss Qi" and "Dong Qi" Two father and son.

Qi Yubai nodded, "How many people come?"

"A lot! There's a lot. Director Qi is very excited, he should..." The young man smiled, "I should be very happy."

"En." Qi Yubai was calm on the surface, but his heart was already over a thousand catties.In the past two years, as long as he was close to this house, he was basically in this state, bored and helpless, angry in his heart but had no one to vent.

After a while, the servant trotted forward to open the door for him, stood by the door and waited for him to enter, then shouted inside with a smile on his face: "Boss Qi is back."

Twenty or so relatives and acquaintances around the long table turned their heads to look at the door after hearing the words, and the scene was quiet for a moment.

Qi Yubai stood at the door, feeling that he lacked the courage to go in.He took a deep breath through his lungs, as if he wanted to retain the fresh air outside as much as possible, and then walked in the door facing the glare of the crystal ceiling and the overheated heating inside.Looking inside, he saw his father sitting at the end of the long table.

Qi Yubai looked very much like his father when he was young, his mother had told him this.It's just that Qi's father's hair has gradually turned gray in the past two years, and his spirit is not as good as before, so he doesn't look like him anymore.

Sitting on his father's right is Mother Qi's own sister, Qi Yubai's aunt, Bai Shaorong.

"My nephew is back—" Bai Shaorong half stood up from the seat, and waved to Qi Yubai with a smile on his face, "It's cold outside, come and sit."

The place on Father Qi's left was still empty, apparently reserved for Qi Yubai.

After hearing these two intimate words, everyone regained some of the enthusiasm before Qi Yubai entered the door, and greeted Qi Yubai loudly.

Qi Yubai nodded and said hello to the relatives and friends he had known for many years, but his face was extremely tense, and he slowly moved to the main seat, and stood by the table and called out to his father who hadn't moved the slightest expression since he entered the door dad.

Qi's father's icy face was not moved by the word, he only glanced at Qi Yubai, then turned to greet his relatives: "You can do whatever you want."

Father Qi has always been the most dignified person in the family, but he was also a loving father at the same time.He protected the childhood Qi Yubai to take the first unsteady steps, taught Qi Yubai to write with a pen, and when he sent him to study abroad, his eyes were red because he was reluctant to part with his only son.

It's a pity that all this was different two years ago.

Of course it was Qi Yubai's fault, he understood that.That's why Qi Yubai didn't dare to go back to this home, and didn't even want to see his father again.Therefore, he understands why his father doesn't want to see him again.

They are the people in the world who understand each other's feelings the most.

Qi Yubai was used to being treated like this, so he sat next to Father Qi without changing his face.Undoubtedly, he was the one who ruined the whole atmosphere. Since his arrival, everyone present laughed somewhat unnaturally.

Only Bai Shaorong felt sorry for him as before, kept standing up to put food in his bowl, just like he was still in high school, and urged him to eat more.

"Thank you, aunt." Qi Yubai gently blocked the bowl with his eyes, "That's enough."

"You see you've lost weight." Bai Shaorong's eyes unconsciously showed great love for her nephew, "Is it because the company has too many things to do and is too tiring? You should pay more attention to your health. You live alone and have no one to take care of you." , I can't eat Mrs. Zhou's craftsmanship."

Mrs. Zhou is a servant of their family. She has been in the Qi family for decades and has been responsible for cooking for the family.Bai Shaorong's elder sister, Bai Shaoyin, has never been in the sun since she was a child, especially after marrying Qi's father, she doesn't know anything about cooking.

Father Qi, who had been silent all this time, snorted softly when he heard this, and said in a volume that only the three of them could hear: "Shao Rong, you worry too much, how could he live alone. "

Bai Shaorong's hand holding the chopsticks stopped, and an ugly smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Brother-in-law, I won't talk about that today."

At this time Mrs. Zhou came from the kitchen with the dishes, her eyes lit up when she saw Qi Yubai, she was about to call out young master, she endured a bit and put down the dishes, "Boss Qi is finally back." She glanced at Qi Yubai With his father's expression on his face, he approached Qi Yubai and said softly, "It's hard to come back and eat more dishes cooked by Zhou's mother. I heard that you are going to come back this afternoon. I specially added this mutton stew. Eat two more bites while it's hot. Don't go back hungry." His voice was choked with sobs.

After saying this, tears flashed in her eyes, and she turned and went back to the kitchen.In her heart, Qi Yubai was no different from her own son.I only see him so few times a year, and every time I want to make him something he likes to eat.

Unexpectedly, as soon as she left, Father Qi's expression became even colder.

This lamb brisket stew is not only Qi Yubai's favorite dish, but also one of his mother's favorites.Father Qi was so saddened by a dish that he couldn't calm down for a while.He took a deep look at Qi Yubai, with countless sadness, longing, disappointment, and heartache in his eyes, which finally turned into a long sigh.

Before taking two bites, Qi's father went back upstairs with the excuse of feeling unwell.

Qi Yubai, who was silent from beginning to end, also put down his chopsticks after Qi's father turned around, and then his right hand was tightly held by Bai Shaorong on the table.

"Yubai, don't leave yet, listen to your aunt. At least talk to your father before leaving. How can there be any overnight feud between father and son?"

"Aunt." Qi Yubai's voice sounded very tired, completely different from his usual decisive and decisive voice, "We are not enemies."

But it's not like father and son.

Bai Shaorong stood up, pressed the back of his hand again, and comforted him: "Wait a minute, I'll go upstairs to persuade your dad. In fact, your dad misses you very much. He doesn't mean he doesn't want to see you. Wait for Auntie Come down and ask you to go up, okay?"

Qi Yubai could only nod in agreement.

Bai Shaorong went upstairs, opened the door, and saw Father Qi sitting at the table alone, holding a photo frame in his hand.She didn't need to look, she also knew that the photo frame was a tourist photo of her sister at the seaside when she was young.Bai Shaoyin was proud that the dress in her photo was made by herself, so she washed it out and put it on the table.Ever since her sister passed away, Bai Shaorong often saw Qi's father holding this photo frame in a daze, sitting in the room for a long time.

"Brother-in-law." Bai Shaorong called him from behind, "Why are you looking at this photo again?"

Father Qi turned his head and saw her, and slowly put down the photo frame in his hand: "It's here, if you see it, pick it up and look at it for a while."

Bai Shaorong sat on the chair beside her, frowned and said: "Didn't it be agreed, let's not talk about my sister today, and talk to Yubai well?"

As soon as Father Qi heard those two words, the gentleness he had just faced towards the photo frame evaporated, and he said with annoyance: "When I saw him, I remembered Shaoyin's death and the things he usually did. How do you make me Have a good chat with him? He has the face to chat, but I have no face to mention it."

"Hey." Bai Shaorong sighed, "It's been two years, and we have to move forward. If you two father and son continue to stalemate like this, when will you grow up? Do you just want Yubai to hang around like this for the rest of his life without getting married? Won't you go home if you don't stay?"

Qi's father clasped his knuckles on the table twice, and even this habitual action was exactly the same as Qi Yubai's: "Is it because I forced him not to go home? It's because he feels ashamed and dare not come back. "

"As for not getting married or staying..." Father Qi's voice became even colder, "You don't have to worry about it. As long as he is still a person and remembers that he is Bai Shaoyin's son, this marriage will be married sooner or later. Otherwise, he might I can't sleep well, so I worry about Shaoyin appearing in my dream every day!"

"Brother-in-law—" Bai Shaorong's heart trembled when she heard it, she turned her head and glanced outside the door, and said anxiously: "Don't say such scary things, my sister loves Yubai the most, how can I let him sleep unsteadily."

Father Qi seemed to have thought of something, but with an extremely disgusted expression on his face, he waved his hand to signal her to stop talking.

Bai Shaorong's conversation with Qi's father was fruitless, so he went downstairs to do Qi Yubai's ideological work, but Qi Yubai was nowhere to be found on the first floor.She ran into the kitchen and asked Mrs. Zhou, "Where's Yubai?"

Wiping her tears, Mrs. Zhou said, "I went to deliver food just now, and saw the young master coming down from the stairs. I asked him if he could stay at home tonight before leaving. He couldn't say, let me pay attention to my body, and then Just went out, and should have driven out of the yard by now."

Bai Shaorong was panicked, guessing that Qi Yubai had heard the conversation between himself and his father, and he didn't know what it was like at this moment, he must be sad and powerless, he had no face to stay at home, so he left directly.

Thinking of this, she looked at Mrs. Zhou, with tears welling from the end of her eyes.