give you joy

Chapter 22 Bet that your father loves you and me, and won't let you break up with me.

She sat on the bed in the master bedroom with her knees hugged, her face facing the front TV wall, her wet shawl, and her neckline was also soaked by water vapor, like a girl in a western oil painting, quietly listening to the sound outside.

There was the regular tapping sound of the keyboard in the living room, and the boy hadn't changed a place for a long time.

Yueyan didn't know what time she fell asleep, nor how she fell asleep.When I woke up in the middle of the night, even the light in the living room disappeared.

Subconsciously groping to the side, there was no one there.

Almost in the next second, his eyes were sore, and he grabbed the thin blanket on his chest, the grievances had been boundless and long in the darkness.

At this moment, it would be best if there was a thunder, or something earth-shattering, such as lightning, to have enough reasons for her to be "forced" to make a choice.

But life is never dramatic enough, and Xia Ye has never been so quiet at this moment.

The heart is a little bit gray, and the tears are falling one by one.

The sound of the door being pushed open was almost inaudible.

Like a drop of water, silently immersed in the sea, dissolved by the darkness.

It may also be surprising that the door of the guest bedroom was not closed, and the footsteps stopped outside the door, as if planning to flee at any time.

The invisible confrontation is like a string tightened in the dark night.

Finally Shen Ziqiao turned over and sat up, looking towards the door.

What kind of situation did he see at that moment?

The girl hugged a big white pillow with both hands, and her snow-white suspender nightdress only reached the heels of her legs. She stood at the door with bare feet.If the angle of the moonlight is clever enough, it may be able to see the tears in her eyes.

Her compromise also had the implication of offering a sacrifice, which broke Shen Ziqiao's defense in an instant.

He turned over and sat up, stretched out his hand, his voice was hoarse: "Yanyan... come here."

It seems that a wronged person has finally found a haven where she can rest, and it seems that a sad child has finally been embraced by her family who abandoned her.

She walked over slowly, with occasional pauses in the middle, but insisted on the purpose of this trip - the boy's bed.

Then, he hugged him to the bed with his body and pillow on the ground. No matter how hard to suppress the tears, she pressed against his chest and finally cried out.

When the person arrives, Daode will draw a closed circle in her life. Everyone lives in the circle all their lives, through birth, old age, sickness and death.

How could he do this to her?
There has never been such a huge grievance, and crying is just the sadness that secretes the surface, but the humiliation inside is hard to describe in words.

He made her bow her head voluntarily, and did things that exceeded her moral bottom line, he made her almost no longer herself.

At the end of crying, Yueyan's whole body was convulsed, and she almost lost her breath.

Except for the girl herself, no one of the opposite sex can understand that feeling, even if he loves her no matter how much he loves her.

Neither will.

"Why are you crying? It's like flooding..." Shen Ziqiao put her on his arm, stroked her back sobbing from crying, stopped occasionally, took out a few tissues, and wiped away her tears.

Shen Ziqiao couldn't understand a word she said, but he still had a quality conversation with her patiently and sentence by sentence.

"...bad,...you are bad." The crying sound was messy.

"I'm bad, I'm bad."

"You...you said, long-distance...relationship, love to communicate, you still...this...this...this way...to me..."

"I was wrong, Yanyan, it's all my fault, I'm jealous, please stop crying, okay? If you keep crying, your body won't be able to bear it."

"I, I... just... want to cry like this..."

"Yan Yan, let's cry tomorrow..." Holding her chin, he leaned over and kissed her lips lightly, even the tears on his face were dried by him, and murmured some words to coax her, In the end, she didn't listen to a word.

So sad and so sad.

Sadness and sadness are too prevalent in themselves, making people ignore the problem itself.

The dregs in my heart repeatedly surfaced, and that was the source of the conflict.

The retribution of crying a lot is waking up the next day, Yueyan's eyelids are so swollen that she can't see anyone at all, but after she came out of the bathroom in the morning four professional classes, Yueyan didn't even want to look at Shen Ziqiao, she took the bag Bao went straight downstairs.

Shen Ziqiao was at fault, so he only dared to follow her not too far or too close.

Follow her out of the community, into the school gate, up the stairs, into the classroom.

She arrived early, and the back row was still empty. She chose a seat by the window to sit down, took out her textbook and pen, and deliberately turned her phone to silent.

After a while, the number of people in the classroom gradually increased.

Classes are held in the large lecture hall, and boys and girls who do not know each other will deliberately keep a distance between them.No one came to sit in the empty seat next to Yueyan until the class was approaching. Tan Haizhen came in with three boys from their dormitory, and saw Yueyan sitting alone in the back row. For some reason, the three boys next to her suddenly lowered their Booed at him in a low voice.

Yueyan looked over, and from the corner of her eye she naturally walked through the corridor at the door, and she couldn't even see the shadow of Shen Ziqiao.

badass.

She looked away a little disappointed.

The upturned chair next to it was pushed down, and a book of economic law was placed on the table first, and a black gel ink pen was pressed on the cover.Tan Haizhen then sat down next to her. The boy made great efforts, and the entire row of seats was slightly shaken by his movements.

Tan Haizhen looked over and smiled at her: "It's so early."

Yueyan smiled a little forcedly: "You too."

"Have you had breakfast?"

Yue Yan paused, shaking her head.

"I brought bread, do you want it?"

No matter how stupid Yueyan is, she can see that this boy is interested in her.When talking to her, he didn't dare to look at her for too long, and his eyes would always jump to irrelevant places in the middle of the conversation.

It wasn't like this when I sent her back yesterday, why did she change so much in one night, and Yueyan was embarrassed by him instead.

She shook her head: "Thank you, I'm not hungry."

The students came to the classroom stepping on their feet. When the class was approaching, the flow of people suddenly became dense, and the sound of shoe soles rubbing against the marble floor kept coming and going.

Tan Haizhen was still trying to find a topic, and suddenly a cold sentence was inserted between the speeches: "Let's go."

It was like ice water dripping on her heart, making her tremble and Yue Yan froze.Tan Haizhen turned his head and saw the tall and handsome boy in front of him clearly. He only regarded him as a student from another class, and said politely: "There are people here, classmate, please find another seat."

Shen Ziqiao looked down at him, standing like a fool, but his imposing manner gave people a sense of oppression.He looked at him with a half-smile and said, "I'm her boyfriend, where do you want me to sit?"

Tan Haizhen was stunned, and subconsciously turned her head to ask Yue Yan for verification, but she lowered her head and ignored no one, as if she was angry with someone.It was only then that Tan Haizhen realized that what was said in the class was probably true, and there was an awkward relationship between a couple.Tan Haizhen smiled, looking a little embarrassed, but he didn't talk nonsense, he happily packed up his things and left.

As soon as he left, Yueyan packed up her things and wanted to leave, Shen Ziqiao sat down first, the other side of the seat was a wall, the only way out was blocked by him.The problem is, she's still wearing a denim skirt!
She wasn't hypocritical enough to argue with him in public.

Yue Yan held the textbook in her arms, with a stern face, and lowered her volume: "Get out of the way."

He was leaning against the back of the chair, with his long legs stretched out under the table, his T-shirt belly was seductively sunken, and he was out of shape like a rascal: "I have no strength, I can't walk."

Many students looked back in front of them.

Yueyan gritted her teeth with hatred, sat down angrily, and only turned her face to him, when she heard Shen Ziqiao ask: "Are you hungry?" She still refused to talk to him, and after a rustling sound, the oil paper bag was torn apart Open, the aroma of food is overflowing.Yue Yan didn't pay any attention to it, she just felt a warm meat bun being stuffed into her palm.

She doesn't move.

He pulled her finger and said in a low voice, "I'll show you, and secretly bite."

The teacher has already stood on the podium, connecting a notebook and a projector.The voices around them also quieted down, but there were still people looking at them.

The girl lowered her head and took a small bite. After a long time, she took the second bite.

The boy sat next to her, took her pen, and copied the review range circled on the PPT for her.

It was the first time they saw Gao Yueyan's boyfriend. They didn't expect him to be so handsome. He had a handsome face and was tall. He looked like a male star.

Guo Jingjing glanced back when the other girls were discussing, feeling ashamed of being slapped in the face for some reason.

Thinking that she misunderstood that she and Sun Weiwei were a couple at the beginning, and came to question her aggressively, maybe she was still laughing at herself in her heart. Her real boyfriend is much more handsome than Sun Weiwei.

Guo Shu didn't have so many twists and turns in her heart, glanced at her, and then praised: "It's really handsome, and it goes well with Yueyan."

In the four classes in the morning, Yue Yandong didn't move her place. No matter what Shen Ziqiao said, she ignored him, and made him lose his way.

The bell rang for the end of get out of class, and the classroom gradually emptied.

Yueyan didn't leave, Shen Ziqiao sat still, and Han Ling walked through the middle of their row with her textbooks in her arms.

Shen Ziqiao casually glanced to the side, stayed on the girl for a few seconds, followed her out subconsciously.

During recess, I noticed that this girl’s dressing style is a bit similar to Yanyan’s. Maybe it’s popular among girls to wear it now. Pink chiffon cardigan with denim skirt, but Yueyan’s legs are thin, her lower body is long, and her thighs have an even skin tone. Translucent, so you will look beautiful in short skirts.

When her gaze reached the door, the girl suddenly turned her head and bumped into him.

The girl frowned and stared at him.

He looked away expressionlessly.

The girls then went out.

To be honest, if he knew the woman, he'd be tempted to advise her not to dress like that.

Gradually, everyone in the classroom emptied out, only him and Yueyan were left in the corner.

Yueyan looked down at her phone, with a sullen face, no matter how much he teased herself, she still refused to talk to him.

To touch her, the hand is pushed away, to hug her, the person is pushed away.

At the last moment, he didn't make the right move, so he slapped his hand on his face, the echo was crisp and the movement was not small.Before Shen Ziqiao could react, Yueyan was taken aback, and immediately turned to look at him, pursing her lips with a nervous expression.

His heart softened, he held her hand and let her touch the place where she had just been beaten.

Yue Yan tried her best to control her expression, and asked coldly, "Does it hurt?"

"It hurts to death." The corner of his mouth raised, and he quickly suppressed it again.

"It's best to hurt you to death." The words are so harsh, the eyebrows and eyes have gradually softened.

Shen Ziqiao went to hug her again, but she shook her shoulders, but she couldn't shake her off. Instead, she let him embrace her whole body, with his arms around her shoulders. He lowered his face and gently sniffed at her temples, murmuring Said: "You are so angry, who used you to be like this, huh? Is it me? Is it because your brother is used to you?"

She had a sore nose, thinking that she had suffered so much wronged for him and done so many things that broke the moral bottom line, but forgave him again and again, and felt annoyed again.

But if she really wanted to break up, she couldn't bear it.

She patted his hand: "Don't touch me, I'm annoying you to death."

"Don't move you. Then tell brother, why bother me?"

Yue Yan raised her head, her eyes were fierce.If she could bite someone, she really wanted to take a bite out of this person.

"What do you say?" she asked.

"I'm jealous."

Yue Yan said "It's good that you know".

Shen Ziqiao smiled and pinched her face: "I'm jealous, so why are you crying?"

Yue Yan's nanny was fierce: "You still have a reason?"

Gao Zhiming did teach her very well, her empathy ability is stronger than that of ordinary girls, but this kind of goodness is not what Shen Ziqiao wants.

When you really love someone, you often hope that she can love herself more.

Shen Ziqiao's smile faded, and he looked at her seriously and said, "Yanyan, if you think I did something wrong, why are you crying? You cried so sadly that you almost lost your breath. I did something wrong too. When you say something wrong, you can scold me and teach me, but why punish yourself with other people's mistakes?"

She choked.After a pause, he said emotionally, "Do you also think you did something wrong?"

"Well," he said immediately without hesitation, "I shouldn't disbelieve you. It's a good thing someone sent you home. Would I be happy if something happened to you? I shouldn't be jealous of that mess, especially When the other party can't even match me with a single finger."

Yue Yan listened, and felt a little more comfortable. When he said that Tan Haizhen was not as handsome as him, her stinky tone made her laugh again.

I can't hold back my emotions when I smile.

Shen Ziqiao kissed her forehead and climbed up the stick: "Aren't you angry?"

Yueyan tried her best to keep her face down, but couldn't bear him, like a puppy, kissing her eyes, nose, and mouth again and again, as if she only had eyes, nose, and mouth, and her faceless appearance made her furious without a trace trace.

There were students who came to the classroom for self-study in the middle. When they saw their situation, they were taken aback, turned around and walked out.

Yue Yan shyly pushed him away.

"Still angry..." She pouted, her voice was soft and lingering, but it had nothing to do with being angry anymore, it was more like she was acting like a spoiled child to him.

"Tell brother, why are you still angry?"

There are many, many angers at him, but it seems hypocritical and petty to single out any one of them.

"After being with you, you made me not like myself..."

Shen Ziqiao held up her chin, and looked at her carefully: "Why doesn't it look like it, doesn't it look alike to me?"

After letting go for a while, Yueyan looked at him, and said in a low tone, "After being with you, I have done a lot of things that I would never do before..."

Shen Ziqiao froze while holding her hand, and asked as naturally as possible: "Oh, for example?"

Yueyan raised her head, her eyes were complicated and troubled: "I would never go to a boy's bed in the middle of the night... This kind of thing is really shameless, if my father finds out, he will scold me to death."

If Gao Yueyan is simple, she is indeed simple, but if she is complicated, Shen Ziqiao always feels that she cannot understand her.She does not reject intimacy in love, and she knows how to enjoy lust better than ordinary girls, and she is more open, which is based on the premise of loving each other-I love you, so I am willing.

But like last night, it was obviously not her fault, but in order to compromise, to save the boy's heart, and to keep the relationship from being broken, she abandoned the established values ​​and even used her body as a weapon of reconciliation. Speaking of it, it was almost the same as a "transaction". No one asked her to do this, but she did so, which made Yueyan feel so ashamed.

Shen Ziqiao vaguely realized this, and was moved by her innocence.

After thinking about it, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"What's the matter, thick-skinned, we are boyfriend and girlfriend, everything is for fun, understand? And if I don't talk about this kind of thing, who will know?"

She looked into his eyes, pointed to her heart, and said seriously: "But my heart knows."

There was something to do at school, so Shen Ziqiao took the high-speed train back to Hangzhou that evening.

The exam turnaround was fleeting, and their sophomore year slipped away without knowing it.

She packed her things and went back to Hangzhou. This time, she made an agreement with Shen Ziqiao that she would not let him pick her up at the station, and she would take a taxi home by herself.On the afternoon of the day when they arrived home, Shen Ziqiao also came back from school. They had a lot of science and engineering subjects, and their vacation was later than that of a science school.

Shen Ziqiao put away her luggage, and slipped directly to find her in Yueyan's room. After the two were intimate, Shen Ziqiao gave her the gift she had chosen - ever since that incident, she would tell him directly what she wanted, saving both of them a lot of trouble .

Of course, Yueyan will also give him something of comparable price, sometimes it is sneakers, sometimes it is clothes. Yueyan doesn't know much about sneakers, so she only buys the brands he likes.She has a good eye and likes to dress him up, thinking of ways to give him various styles. Shen Ziqiao once joked that he was her human doll.

The two played and played around until Shen Xiner knocked on the door and told them to go down for dinner.

It was only when she got to the dining table that Yue Yan noticed that the atmosphere at home was not quite normal.

Li Huifen was not there, Gao Zhiming sat down and asked Yueyan to go up and call her.

There is a kind of tacit understanding between husband and wife. If something happens, they will take the initiative to find each other, and usually ask their children to go.

Among the three children, Li Huifen has always been very polite to this stepdaughter, and answered her at the door with a more nasal voice: "Eat first, I'm not hungry."

Yue Yan took the words down.Gao Zhiming didn't say anything: "Then let's eat first."

After the meal, Yue Yan went back to her room to practice the piano, and after playing for a short time, she heard the sound of arguing from the next room, and the sound became louder and louder.

Gradually, she couldn't sit still. It was not without friction between her parents before, but this time it seemed to be different from before.In the past, no matter how fierce the quarrel was, they would avoid the children.

The atmosphere became tense, and there were even sounds of things being thrown in the study.Gao Zhiming slapped the table violently, and his roar overwhelmed all the voices: "After all these years, have you ever treated Yanyan as your own child? Feel your conscience, I'm not dead yet, you just treat her like this! "

Li Huifen's voice was sharp, without showing any weakness: "What's wrong with me? I didn't starve her, and I didn't beat her. Go out and find out, how many stepmothers are there like me? Gao Zhiming, let me tell you, you And don't expect me to treat her as my own! If you want to blame, blame yourself for being heartless, you are the one who forced me to be like this!"

Gao Zhiming sneered: "Why did I force you? To force you to marry me, or to be Yanyan's stepmother, Li Huifen, you know what you think in your heart, don't blame me for speaking too harshly."

"Gao Zhiming, you bastard!" Li Huifen yelled hysterically.

Yueyan couldn't help but pushed open the door of the room and came to the corridor.

Shen Xiner was also at the escalator downstairs, looking up with her head poking around.

The two sisters asked each other silently.

--What's wrong?
--I do not know.

Something was broken, and Li Huifen's suppressed cry came again. After Gao Zhiming yelled, "Don't you want to be shameless", the two of them completely let go of their voices, and threw any curse words at each other.All those ugly and bad words fell into Yueyan's ears outside the door, and her heart was jumping with fear, and her hands and feet were cold.

She didn't even dare to think that those words would come from her father who was always gentle and gentle.

what happened?
what happened?

Yueyan lingered at the door of the study, trying to open the door several times to enter.Shen Ziqiao hurried up from downstairs to pull her up, telling her to leave it alone.

She stared blankly at him.

——Do you really care?

——What should we do then?Don't feed them, or stop their pocket money?They are adults and have their own world, and we can't control it if we want to.

Just as the two were tugging, the door of the study was suddenly pushed open from the inside.

Li Huifen held the doorknob, her chest heaved and her face flushed in embarrassment.His gaze was like a hook, and he gave Yueyan a cold stare.

Yueyan broke away from Shen Ziqiao's hand, called her mother in a panic, and looked in. In the dim study, Gao Zhiming was standing by the desk, quickly turning over a stack of photos.

Shen Ziqiao let go of her face, and calmly called her mother.

That sound of mother ignited a sneer on Li Huifen's mouth.

She turned around, straightened the messy hair on her sideburns, and said in a strange way: "Gao Zhiming, you said I was cheap, but don't forget, I divorced you, how about he is your brother, I love you now Who did you live with. What about your daughter, do you think she is so pure and pure, why don't you just crawl into my son's bed, and be so sleepy by my son that you don't want to sleep anymore!"

With a bang, Yueyan's brain exploded somewhere, and the blood flow in her whole body stopped in an instant.

Numb, cold, not even breathing.

After a few seconds, she began to tremble, as if someone had finally laid out her most unspeakable nightmare in front of her.

Shen Ziqiao was also startled, yelled at her mother, and stood in front of Yueyan: "What nonsense are you talking about!"

"You fucking fart," Gao Zhiming was startled and angry, the blood vessels in his neck bulged ferociously, he raised the stack of photos and threw them towards Li Huifen's face, his eyes were red, and he said hoarsely, "My daughter, She is innocent and well-behaved! Fortunately, she was not raised by you, so she can't do such a despicable thing like you!"

Photos fell in front of Yueyan one after another.

Li Huifen's face was framed on each of them, and her Uncle Tian was next to her. Some of them seemed to be in a hotel, and they were all covered with white quilts.

Shen Ziqiao's face turned completely cold.

In the rain of numerous photos, Li Huifen's breathing quickened, her face was as white as a ghost, and she struggled to pick up the last knife and plunged it into the opponent's heart: "I'm cheap, but at least a man will give me money, and your daughter is selling it by posting it upside down." ?"

Gao Zhiming's pupils were wide open, as if he couldn't breathe, he put his hands on his chest, stepped back several steps in a row, leaned against the stack of books, and fell slumped to the ground in front of his father who was crying with joy.

Sudden myocardial infarction, this is the preliminary conclusion drawn by the attending doctor after various examinations.

After Gao Zhiming was taken to the hospital by ambulance, Yue Yan stayed by his side every step of the way, and Shen Ziqiao ran up and down to go through the hospital procedures.Shen Xiner stayed at home with Li Huifen, cleaning up the messy home.

After finishing everything, Yueyan was wiping Gao Zhiming's face and hands when she returned to the ward.He wanted to help her in the past, but Yueyan didn't let him touch her.

He didn't say anything, just stayed by the side.

The nurse came to ask about the situation and said some things about the hospitalization, and he wrote them down one by one.

Gao Zhiming's condition was not stable until the early hours of the morning.

Shen Ziqiao had been sitting on the bench in the corridor, and when Yueyan came out of the intensive care unit, he stood up and sat down slowly.

She glanced at him, looked away again, and said to the air: "You go back first, if Dad wakes up and sees you, he will be angry."

She was standing and he was sitting. For the first time, Shen Ziqiao felt that she was actually tall too, making him unable to lift his head.He went to hold her hand, but she avoided him.

He coaxed her patiently: "Yanyan, sometimes adults quarrel just like children, they will say outrageous words."

Knives can hurt people, but words can't?
Yueyan's heart was in a mess, this family is still broken up.

The look of desolation mixed with despair on her face is really distressing, but even if Shen Ziqiao has the ability to reach the sky, it is impossible to bear the slightest bit for her in this situation.

"Are you blaming me, Yan Yan?"

Blame him?
Resentful.

But she blamed herself even more. If she had told her father earlier, he might not have refused to agree, but the fact is that she must have been pissed off by herself if she let him know in such an embarrassing situation.

Didn't the doctor also say that sudden myocardial infarction often occurs when encountering stimulating emotions.

She lowered her head to stare at the toe of her shoes, put her hands behind her waist, and said with a dull expression: "My father used to be in good health. He didn't tell you, right? When he was young, he often went to run green horses."

Shen Ziqiao went to pull her again, this time, she didn't hide, and she didn't have the strength to hide from him again.

"Dad is not sick because of us, we all know it in our hearts, don't we?"

Yue Yan tried her best to keep her eyes wide open, but she couldn't control the tears rolling out of her eyes: "He is."

Shen Ziqiao patiently corrected her point of view: "He is not."

A line of tears ran across her slightly trembling lips, she insisted: "He is!"

"He's not, Yan Yan."

Shen Ziqiao pulled her and skillfully pulled her towards him.Reluctant to let go, she staggered and was led by him to sit on the bench beside him.

Dad is so sick, if she is a bit more stubborn, she should cut off contact with this person, and it will have nothing to do with him from now on.

But she couldn't be so cruel, but she still had so much lingering and reluctance for him.

"I... I'm sorry Dad, I'm really not filial... I'm the one who should be sick, and I'm the one who should be lying there.”

"Speaking stupid again." Squeezing her hand, Shen Ziqiao kissed her hair affectionately, "The two adults quarreled and said something angry, what does it have to do with you? Even if there is a relationship, it's just teaching us to tie the knot in the future Don't become like them when you get married, what things can't be communicated and discussed properly, are you right?"

Yueyan couldn't listen to a word of those words, she was completely and completely immersed in her own emotions: "Dad loves me so much..."

Shen Ziqiao wiped away her tears with his fingertips: "I know."

"You don't know." She choked out.

Shen Ziqiao is obedient to her now, and he is afraid that she will break up with him if she doesn't turn around, "Okay, I don't know."

Under his gentle comfort, her mood gradually turned to peace.

"From childhood to adulthood, he promised me no matter what I wanted. He never suffered from me in the most difficult time. Grandma said that every time my father came back drunk from a party, he would wake me up and hold my hand. I said, Dad really loves you. My grandma said that when other children learn to speak, they always call Mom and Dad first, and only me, the first sentence is, don’t touch me..."

Shen Ziqiao had never heard her say these things before, he just felt his heart softened by her words.I knew she was good before, but now I know why she is so good.

"I have always called him dad. When I was a teenager, I called him dad together with my sister. It scared him. He must let me call him two words. He said I was his little princess. , only when you are married can you call him dad with your husband..."

"My father gave me everything. He treats me so well, but I'm so unfilial. It makes him angry. I'm really ignorant."

"Yan Yan."

Shen Ziqiao stroked her hair.

With tears in her eyes, she looked over.

"Your father never blamed you."

"Let's make a bet," he said.

Yueyan wiped away her tears and asked, "What are you betting on?"

"Bet your father loves you and me, and won't let you break up with me."

When Gao Zhiming woke up, the first thing he saw was Yueyan.She didn't sleep all night, her eyes were red and bloodshot, her double eyelids, which were originally folded just right, became wide and deep, her face was pale, she stared blankly at her father, and when she blinked, tears came down .

Gao Zhiming vigorously raised his hand to wipe away the tears on her face. As he spoke, a large cloud of mist rose from the oxygen mask worn under his nose.

"Why are you crying? I'm afraid your father will scold you."

"Dad..." she shouted timidly, like a child who came home with zero marks on the test paper, or worse than that.

Looking at his daughter, he was still so tolerant and gentle: "Yanyan, do you remember that when you were in high school, you secretly went to watch a concert with your classmates at night, and stayed out until late before returning home. That time Dad ever scolded you?"

Yueyan nodded, then shook her head again, she couldn't remember anymore.

Gao Zhiming asked again: "But you also cried that day. Dad asks you now, why are you crying?"

Yue Yan whispered, "I...I'm afraid you'll be angry."

"Why should I be angry?"

"I don't listen to you. If you don't go home so late, you will quarrel with your mother."

Gao Zhiming shook his head: "No, Yanyan, Dad is not angry with you. What Dad is angry with is why you want to hide from Dad and refuse to tell Dad anything. Yanyan, what's the matter? You are a teenager At that time, I was willing to tell my father everything, why did I still want to hide such a big thing from my father?"

Yueyan's heart was flustered, and she couldn't speak a word because of his words, she finally opened her mouth, but there was no sound.

"Why, Yanyan? Is Dad so unworthy of your trust?"

With tears in her eyes, Yueyan kept shaking her head, no, that's not the case.

"I'm still worried that I won't accept Ziqiao, right?" Gao Zhiming smoothed his daughter's hair and said softly, "Yes, Dad still hasn't been able to accept him, but Dad knows you like him very much, so I I will try hard to accept him, Yan Yan, you have to give Dad some time, okay?"

She nodded, and when she nodded, tears came down.

"Okay, okay, don't cry. Dad didn't blame you, and he wasn't angry with you. You are just too simple. No matter what happens at home, you must talk to Dad first."

He looked at her tiredly and smiled.

Yueyan didn't have the face to ask her father if she wanted her to break up, for fear of making him sad again. He had just finished the three tests of myocardial enzymes, and the doctor told him not to worry about it.

Now Yueyan doesn't want anything, she just hopes that her father will get well soon.

The situation was fairly stable, and Yueyan went home to get him a change of clothes.After Shen Ziqiao came back from the hospital, he went straight back to school to take the final exam. Shen Xiner was busy with the graduation ceremony, and there was a WeChat message from her sister in her phone, asking her to call her if she had something to do.

Looking at the empty home, Yueyan's tears fell for no reason.

She knew from a very young age that this family would break up sooner or later, and she even regretted it a little. If she had agreed to let her parents divorce earlier, maybe they would not have quarreled so much, and her father would not be so angry that she was hospitalized .

As for her and Shen Ziqiao, it was a matter between the two of them, Yueyan believed that he would handle his mother's situation well.From the looks of it now, he didn't handle it badly, at least Li Huifen didn't come to her, and didn't go to the hospital to embarrass her father.

She couldn't help thinking that if she really married Shen Ziqiao in the future, she wouldn't be able to get along well with a mother-in-law like Li Huifen.

But when she thought about it, she felt ashamed. Now that her father was still lying on the hospital bed, she had already thought about marrying Shen Ziqiao.

Yueyan wiped away her tears, ran to her father's room and dragged out the largest suitcase, and went to the cloakroom to pack his home clothes and toiletries.

There was movement downstairs, and the door was pushed loudly.

Yue Yan thought that Shen Xin'er had come back, walked to the corridor, and looked down while leaning on the railing.

It was Shen Ziqiao, who supported Li Huifen, who was obviously drunk, and stumbled to the sofa to sit down.

Li Huifen collapsed on the sofa, drinking like crazy, talking incoherently.

"Actually, Mom already knew about you and Yanyan... No, I'm not afraid to scare the snake... Gao Zhiming is her only daughter, and you marry her, and everything in her house is yours... Coax her well..."

Shen Ziqiao stood on the edge of the sand and looked at Li Huifen steadfastly. This was his mother. He felt extremely embarrassed and deeply disgusted with him in his heart, and then felt distressed for the girl in his heart.

With his back to Yueyan, Yueyan couldn't see his expression clearly, and quietly backed out.

Li Huifen went to hold his hand, drunkenly: "Mom is so mad, listen to what Mom says, you have to coax her..."

"Don't worry about it," Shen Ziqiao broke free from her hand, "My own girlfriend, can't I coax her?"

After finishing packing her clothes, according to Gao Zhiming's instructions, Yueyan found the notebook in his study, put it in her clothes, and took them to the hospital for her father.

He had a sudden myocardial infarction and had no family cause. After coronary angiography, the doctor suggested that interventional stents or coronary artery bypass grafting should be performed as soon as possible to restore the blood supply to the blocked area.Yueyan quickly made an appointment with the hospital for the operation, and the aunts planned to fly over from Jilin next week to visit her.

All of these were Yue Yan's ideas and her signature on the paperwork.

The little girl who seemed to be acting like a baby in front of her father's knee yesterday has taken on all the heavy responsibilities overnight.

All the heavy and rough work is done by a nurse. Even if she doesn't need any help, Yueyan still stays by her father's bedside, even if it's just helping him move the pillow, or peeling a piece of fruit, even pulling a tissue. They are all rushing to do and scrambling to do.After Gao Zhiming was admitted to the hospital, he didn't ask a single word about the relationship between her and Shen Ziqiao, as if his sudden illness had nothing to do with them. Yueyan knew that it was her father's love for her, but it would only aggravate Yueyan's pain. guilt.

She would rather her father scold her, and then force her to break up with Shen Ziqiao, it will make her feel a little better.

But he didn't.

In the afternoon, Shen Ziqiao finished the last final exam and hurried to the hospital.Yueyan in the ward didn't let him in, and Shen Ziqiao didn't argue, the two stood in the corridor a little far away from the ward, next to the nurse's station, a round-faced nurse was leaning on the information desk and making a phone call, occasionally looking at them.

Not seeing her for just a day, Shen Ziqiao felt that Yue Yan seemed to have lost a lot of weight, and the end of her eyes always seemed to be a little red, looking at people with a sleepy look.

Before she could speak, her hands touched her eyes.Yueyan turned her head to hide, and when she realized her actions, her expression froze a bit.

Shen Ziqiao didn't seem to feel it, and brushed her bangs: "Don't worry, I asked the doctor, it's a minor operation, and the cure rate is very high."

She hummed without emotion.

"Have you eaten yet? I'll accompany you down to have some food."

"Not hungry."

"I'll get you some takeaway."

"I said I'm not hungry." The voice soared angrily, and the nurse on the phone glanced at them again.

Shen Ziqiao was silent for a while.Just when Yueyan thought he was going to get angry, he was still the same, calm and gentle, with a smile accommodating her.

He clasped her shoulders and gently pulled her into his arms. Her hands rested on his chest, keeping a distance from him in resistance.

"Yanyan, don't worry, my brother is here."

Yue Yan twitched the corner of her mouth lightly.

He's always been good at coaxing her, hasn't he?

"Yan Yan?"

She raised her head and stared at the man without focus for a moment.

He just thought she was so cute and pitiful, so he kissed her hair distressedly: "Don't be afraid."

"Shen Ziqiao."

Holding her quietly, he responded.

"Do you like my dad?"

Shen Ziqiao didn't even hesitate, and said directly: "I like it."

"Really?"

Shen Ziqiao nodded: "He loves you the most, and I like him."

"Is he nice to you?"

He smiled: "It's enough for him to be nice to you, I don't want him to be nice to me."

Yueyan frowned: "Then do you think it's unfair? Have you ever blamed him?"

Shen Ziqiao couldn't figure out what she meant by asking this question, so he answered her honestly according to his thoughts: "I don't think so, maybe boys don't care about such things. When I was young, I had an extra dad for no reason, and I also had conflicts. Myself, when I grow up, I have more friends, so I don't have time to deal with these things, and your father is very good to me and my sister."

Yue Yan remained silent.

Shen Ziqiao pinched her face: "Just talk about me, how about you, have you ever blamed my mother?"

She looked at him worriedly for a while, and said at the moment when his heartbeat was disordered: "Weird."

Breathing suddenly tightened, and then gradually exhaled slowly, Shen Ziqiao sighed secretly, yes, he should have known it a long time ago.

Treat yourself as if you were born, the four seasons are like spring, and if you are harmonious, they are all just images.

Girls are inherently more sensitive than boys. She can feel how a person treats her and whether he is sincerely kind.She just doesn't say it, pretending to be a child in a normal family, with double parental care.

Shen Ziqiao's heart ached even more, he hugged her tightly, and whispered in her ear: "You can't start life from scratch, I believe that brother will treat you better in the future, and make up for everything my mother owes you."

This is really nice.Yueyan smiled, the corners of her mouth tugged slightly, but her eyes were indifferent.

Soon the day of Gao Zhiming's surgery was approaching, and the sky became hotter, like a big steamer, and Yueyan became restless day by day, as if something was about to happen.

It wasn't until the day before Gao Zhiming's operation that a group of uninvited guests came to the house, they were loan collectors from the bank. Shen Xiner welcomed them into the door, and the other boot hanging in Yueyan's heart fell off completely.

There were men and women in that group, all under forty years old, very young, and they were not dressed as viciously as in the TV dramas.They wore uniforms of the bank, their shirts were clean and crisp, and their attitudes were gentle and polite.

The pledge agreement, loan contract and other documents were spread out on the coffee table one by one, and a man who looked like the team leader stated the purpose of the trip.

Yue Yan sat and listened in a daze.

As a sophomore in the finance department, Ke Yueyan found that she couldn't understand a single word of the proper nouns and legal clauses that came out of his mouth, and Li Huifen turned pale. Sitting on one side, Shen Xiner was negotiating with the other party throughout the whole process: "...You mean, my father mortgaged the first phase of the factory building to the bank for a loan. If he can't repay the loan on time, the factory building as collateral will be put up for online auction right?"

"It can be said that if the bank fails to negotiate with the borrower and fails to perform the court judgment during the performance period, the court will also inquire about the real estate, vehicles, securities, etc. under the name of the lender in accordance with the law."

Yueyan looked blank: "Dad never told us."

The man smiled, probably used to hearing such lame excuses, took out a stack of documents, turned to the signature page, pointed his finger everywhere, Shen Xiner's eyes followed him.

After seeing clearly, she suddenly gasped.

After seeing off the bank staff, Shen Xiner comforted Yueyan a few words, probably feeling that her comfort was so weak, but people are always used to grasping at straws as a chance of survival in desperate situations.

They pinned their lives on Gao Zhiming.

"It will be fine when Dad recovers from illness."

Yueyan told herself the same in her heart.

Yes, everything will be fine when Dad is sick.He has always been their reliance, always has been.

During the relative silence with each other's thoughts, Yueyan's cell phone rang suddenly.

It's from the hospital.

She sat up abruptly.

Shen Xiner raised her heart and looked at her: "What's wrong?"

"The doctor said Dad was missing."

gone?
Shen Xiner followed her out quickly, and when she was hurriedly changing shoes at the entrance, she suddenly thought of something and looked back.Li Huifen was on the phone in a low voice with someone in the corridor on the second floor, looking anxious.

Her heart tightened suddenly, and she said to Yueyan: "You go first, I'll call Ziqiao and ask him to look for you, I'll go get something first."

Yueyan always listened to her, nodded repeatedly, took her mobile phone and went out.

Shen Xiner didn't even change her shoes, and went straight to her parents' master bedroom on the third floor. Since they divorced, Gao Zhiming spent most of his time sleeping in the study room, but he still kept the three younger ones away, thinking they didn't know.

Li Huifen was awakened by the wind blowing in front of her eyes, and ran up with Shen Xiner, watching her rummaging through the cabinets, every drawer in the master bedroom was pulled out.It should be obvious why something is so hard to find.

Li Huifen didn't stop her, just watched her rummaging around like a headless chicken, with a blank expression on her face.

Until she found the safe, Shen Xiner got up from the ground as if she had found a treasure, pointed to the number pad, and asked her mother word by word: "What's the password?"

The way she looked at Li Huifen was too cold.

Li Huifen was displeased: "Is this the way you talk to your mother?"

Shen Xiner's tone was cold and firm: "If you still want to be my mother, just open the safe for me."

Li Huifen was ashamed and indignant, she raised her hand, a slap did not fall, Shen Xiner intercepted her on the spot, in the air, her five blood-red fingernails trembled slightly, Li Huifen was so angry that even her voice changed: "Shen Xiner, you are crazy Is it? I am your own mother!"

Shen Xiner turned up her volume: "I wish you weren't!"

And tears also fell down my cheeks along with this duplicity.She wished so much that she wasn't, then she could blame her and annoy her just like Yan Yan, without having to fight with the moral sense in her heart for a long time.

She made a good home like this.

But she was the one who gave her life, but she was the one who shaped her.

Li Huifen was temporarily softened by her daughter's tears, and sighed: "What are you looking for?"

"Divorce certificate." Shen Xiner also slowed down, raising her arm to wipe her tears.

"What do you want a divorce certificate for?"

Shen Xiner insisted: "Prove to the bank that you are not a legal husband and wife. The contract mortgaged to the bank will have no legal effect. You are not qualified to sign that. Ask Tian De for money. My father is still lying in the hospital. He has a penny." I can't even get it out."

"Your father?" Li Huifen's usual sarcasm appeared on the corner of her mouth, "If you don't have milk, you are your father. Who is your father?"

Shen Xiner's expression was stubborn, but there were tears in her eyes: "Gao Zhiming is my father, who raised me from the age of six. In my heart, he is better than my own father."

Li Huifen turned a deaf ear to it, and turned her eyes to the void, as if she was weighing the weight of what she just said.

I have to say that the fate between people is indeed wonderful, it is not a fixed number, nor can it be simply calculated by a formula.They have been married for more than ten years, and they can't even talk about being inseparable. However, their respective children have not been affected, and they have developed a friendship that goes far beyond brotherhood.

And one thing she didn't want to admit to death was Gao Zhiming, a man who was indeed a good father, with strict self-discipline and a high sense of morality. Count as a disadvantage.

Why is she still dissatisfied.

Gao Zhiming gave her ideal secure marriage, but never gave her ideal romantic love.

And her negligence and contempt for Yueyan also tore away the mask of the relationship between husband and wife.

But these, how should she tell this daughter who questioned her?

Will she understand?

Yue Yan had just arrived at the hospital, and Shen Ziqiao also rushed over from the school. The ward was empty. They immediately went to check with the nurse in charge of the ward, only to find out that someone had come to him at noon today. During this period, the two had a dispute. The doctor rushed to pull him away, but Gao Zhiming disappeared in the afternoon.

Yue Yan called her father, only to find that he didn't even bring a cell phone.

Shen Ziqiao has been with her and comforted her.

She ran out of the inpatient department of the hospital.

The sun is in the sky, like a huge fire wheel, roasting the land in a violent way, and the street trees droop their leaves sluggishly, and they do not give in to the scorching heat.

She kept asking herself, "Where is Dad, where is he going?" She couldn't listen to a word of Shen Ziqiao's words, and the thoughts that came to her mind became more and more terrifying.

Suddenly, an indescribable fear seized her, and a chill came to her heart.

She ran downstairs to the inpatient department, bypassing the flower bed was the outpatient clinic, which was always crowded with people.

In the dense crowd, someone suddenly yelled for the first time, and Disorder's sight finally had a clear focus.

They all looked up to the third floor.

The passage connecting the buildings is an open-air corridor, and a person appears by the railing with his back to them.

There were suddenly more white clouds in the sky, and the sun didn't know where it was hidden.

A shadow passed by.

The second Yueyan covered her mouth, the man suddenly fell off the railing.

"dad--"

(End of this chapter)