Dad is here

Chapter 55

In the bustling city center, there is a small tea house hidden. In the simple and elegant box, the sound of the piano is clanging, and the fragrance of tea is refreshing.

Mu Fengying hung up the phone and returned to the box from the corridor. Bai Jin, who was on the opposite side of the table, was holding a pot of purple sand and poured herself a cup of green tea.

"Sorry, my friend's call." Mu Fengying put away her phone and sat down on the rattan chair, Bai Jin smiled modestly and said, "No, I should be the one who said sorry for calling Manager Mu out so late. "

Mu Fengying slowly turned the glass, and the tea leaves in the cup were flying in the water. She asked, "Mr. Bai, what can I do for you?"

"..." Bai Jin lowered his head, sighed heavily and then looked up at her with a sincere tone, "It's what I told you last time, Manager Mu, I really hope you can help."

Mu Fengying was a little surprised. It had been more than half a month since Bai Jin approached her last time. After discussing with Xu Luofeng, she called and declined Bai Jin. She had already forgotten about it, thinking that Bai Jin would definitely I looked for another wedding company, but I didn't expect that he hadn't solved this problem yet.

Mu Fengying said: "Mr. Bai, this matter has touched the bottom line of our industry. I really can't help. Actually, it is not difficult to hold a simple wedding. You can find a familiar friend to do it, or find Try other wedding companies in J City."

"I've already looked for it." Bai Jin pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose, and sighed again, "I found two more afterward, but... Manager Mu, I'm not afraid of your jokes, I really have no way to separate me and Tao. Tell Sakura's story to a stranger again. You may not know that I have been in J City for more than ten years, and you are the only one who has heard my story."

There was deep sadness in his eyes, Mu Fengying didn't know how to respond, Bai Jin said again: "The reason why I came to see you today is because the doctor next to Tao Ying told me that she didn't have much time. I don’t know if I can survive until the end of the month. The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and I’m very afraid that I won’t see her for the last time. I, I owe Yingying too much.”

Hearing "Yingying", Mu Fengying was startled, and then she realized that Bai Jin was crying.

This seemingly calm and wise middle-aged man shed tears in embarrassment in front of Mu Fengying. He took off his glasses, covered his eyes with one hand and wept silently, even his shoulders trembled slightly.After a while, he let go of his hand, and nodded to Mu Fengying with red eyes: "I'm sorry, I made you laugh."

Mu Fengying replied awkwardly: "It's okay."

Bai Jin took a few deep breaths before regaining his composure, and said, "Manager Mu, these days, I dream about the past every night. There are nightmares and sweet dreams. I often dream that I and Tao Ying are in Xi'an. The scene of living together. I am a superstitious person, so I would wonder if this is what Yingying is asking me. Manager Mu, I always feel that it is a kind of fate that I can know you, and it is God's secret Your wedding company is called Cherry Wedding, and there is a cherry in your name, you have heard the story of me and Tao Ying, does this mean that you are our noble person and will help us achieve our wishes?"

Mu Fengying was dumbfounded, and it took a long time before she opened her mouth: "But, Mr. Bai, I'm not a superstitious person. I used to believe in destiny, but now, I don't really believe it."

When Mu Fengying walked out of the teahouse, You Xinyang was already waiting at the door. Mu Fengying walked up to him and asked, "Xinyang, it's so late, what do you want from me?"

You Xinyang put his hands in his trouser pockets and stood by the side of the road with a gloomy expression. He slightly bent over and looked at Mu Fengying's face. Mu Fengying was so horrified when he looked at her.

You Xinyang asked: "I heard that you and Xu Luofeng are getting married?"

"Ah?" Mu Fengying frowned, "How can you hear everything? Have you installed an undercover agent beside him?"

"So you're really getting married?"

Mu Fengying closed her mouth, lowered her head and kicked the ground with her toes: "Probably, he asked me to register."

"you are not happy?"

Mu Fengying was confused for a while, and asked, "Why am I unhappy? Why am I unhappy?"

Seeing her twinkling eyes, You Xinyang couldn't help blurting out: "Yingying, tell me honestly, did Xu Luofeng bully you? Did his family bully you?"

Mu Fengying was stunned, she found that You Xinyang seemed to know more than she imagined, she couldn't help asking: "What did you hear?"

"I heard some bad things, which are related to your happiness." You Xinyang no longer concealed Mu Fengying, "I know what those people said is not true at all, but you should know that there are some things that do not come without waves, or , If you talk too much, the false will become true.”

Mu Fengying couldn't keep up with his thoughts at all: "What are you talking about? Why can't I understand? Have you heard any rumors about me?"

"That's right!" You Xinyang shouted angrily, "Don't you know anything yourself? Are you still looking forward to marrying that guy?! Mu Fengying! How much do you like him! Just because he is Xiaotao's father! No matter how he treats you, you can bear it? The Mu Fengying I know is not such a woman! She has dignity! She has a bottom line! She has principles! She understands reason! Marrying a man who doesn't love her for her daughter to have a so-called complete family!!"

"You Xinyang! Speak Chinese!" Mu Fengying stopped him loudly, "What nonsense are you talking about? I don't understand at all! Tell me what did you hear?! Don't act like a woman Same!"

After being yelled at by her, You Xinyang calmed down a bit, and said, "Mu Fengying, I'll just ask you a question, and you can answer me honestly, okay?"

"Ask!" Mu Fengying waved her hands, "I will answer you concisely and clearly!"

"Okay!" You Xinyang raised his thick eyebrows, stared at him, and quickly asked, "Tell me, do you think Xu Luofeng loves you or not?"

A very simple question that really has a very simple answer.To love, or not to love, there is almost no third answer.

Mu Fengying was stunned for a long time, but couldn't answer.

You Xinyang kept staring at her without urging her. Mu Fengying blinked and said the third answer: "I don't know."

"I know."

He said.

Mu Fengying didn't know how she got home. After entering the door, she heard Mu Xiaotao's playful voice coming from the bedroom.Mu Fengying looked up at the wall clock, it was already past 10 o'clock in the evening.

She suddenly didn't want to worry about anything else, and went to the bathroom to wash her hands and face tiredly. When she turned off the faucet and opened her eyes, she found that Xu Luofeng was already standing by the door.

He was wearing the pajamas she bought him, a dark coffee color with fleece on the fabric, and he was dressed like a slender bear.His hair was a little messy, and Mu Fengying knew it was caused by him and his daughter fighting on the bed.

She suddenly felt powerless, very, very powerless.

"Why did you come back so late?" Xu Luofeng handed her the towel and asked, "What's the matter with you as a client? I still have to call you out at night."

Mu Fengying wiped her hands with downcast eyes: "I have something important to discuss."

Xu Luofeng noticed that she was in a bad mood, and asked, "What's wrong? Didn't you have a good time with the client?"

"No."

"..."

Mu Fengying went to the kitchen to pour water, and Mu Xiaotao ran out wearing a nightgown with bare feet: "Mom, mom! You're back!"

"Where are your shoes? It's so cold on the ground." Mu Fengying picked up Mu Xiaotao, kissed her on the cheek, and asked, "Why isn't Xiaotao sleeping?"

Mu Xiaotao pouted and played with her collar, saying sweetly, "I'll wait for mom to come home."

"Mom is back, you should go to bed."

"But, but I want to play for a while."

"impossible."

Mu Fengying turned her head and looked at Xu Luofeng: "Xiaotao is going to bed later and later, this is wrong, she has developed a habit of going to sleep between 8:9 and 10:[-] in the evening, but now she always delays it until after [-]:[-] , which will affect her growth and development."

Xu Luofeng said sullenly: "She can't sleep, and I can't help it."

"Why can't you do anything?" Mu Fengying smiled, "You are her father."

After Mu Fengying coaxed Mu Xiaotao to sleep, she never returned to her room. She sat on the edge of her daughter's bed, thinking quietly.

What echoed back and forth in her mind was the unclear recording. Mu Fengying had no time to think about why there was such a recording. All she cared about was the content of the conversation between the man and the woman.

"Will you marry Miss Mu?"

"meeting."

"Because of what? Because of the child, or because of her mother?"

"If, I mean, if Miss Mu didn't give birth to your daughter, would you still be with her?"

"No, right?"

"You want to marry Miss Mu not because you love her, but because you have a child, is that so?"

A suffocating silence.

Then, she heard the man's usual indifferent voice: "It can be understood in this way."

At that time, she was sitting alone in You Xinyang's car, listening to this recording.You Xinyang got out of the car and went to the side of the road, smoking silently facing the cold wind.The doors and windows of the car were closed tightly, and the noisy sounds from the street could be vaguely transmitted into the car, making Mu Fengying clearly know when and where she was.

Her fingers clenched You Xinyang's cell phone tightly, her knuckles turned white, and the veins on the back of her hand burst out.After she listened to the recording once, she listened to it again, and when she finished, she listened to it again.

I can't count how many times I listened to it. From the beginning to the end, the man said very little, but the few words made Mu Fengying think of his appearance and expression, and she could even feel that he was a bit tangled when talking with Lin Weiwei. And a little impatient.

However, every time I heard the last paragraph, when Lin Weiwei asked that question, there was a long silence.

Time ticked by, and in the deathly silence, Mu Fengying's heart became very empty, her soul seemed to have been withdrawn from her body, she sat numbly on the seat, her whole body was stiff.

Then, she heard the man's affirmative answer over and over again.

Today's technology is really advanced. Just press a button on the phone to record real-time voice. This kind of recording records the situation at that time so objectively that she doesn't even have the extravagant hope of deceiving herself.

Mu Fengying thought that she would collapse and despair, but she didn't.

She didn't even cry, she just opened the door and got out of the car, and returned the phone to You Xinyang.

Mu Fengying walked out of Mu Xiaotao's room very late. She took a shower and returned to her bed.

It was already very late at night, and Xu Luofeng had already fallen asleep.Mu Fengying got into bed lightly, he felt it, turned over and leaned over.

He hugged her from behind, both of them bowed their bodies and bent their legs, and they fit together in a particularly intimate posture. There was a fragrance of shower gel on his body, and his arms were so warm, as were his hands and feet. Terrible.His feet rubbed against Mu Fengying's cold feet, and Mu Fengying kept her eyes open in the dark, motionless.

After a while, Xu Luofeng's voice rang in his ears, a little hoarse: "Can't sleep?"

"..."

"What's the matter with you these days? Have you encountered difficulties at work?"

"……No."

"...Well, go to bed, it's late."

"Xu Luofeng."

"Ok?"

"Tomorrow, you can move back to your own house."

"..."

He turned on the bedside lamp and sat up quickly: "Why?"

With his back to the light, his face was a bit gloomy, and his hair curled up a few tufts from sleeping, which made Mu Fengying couldn't help laughing.

"Why are you so nervous?" She folded her pajamas and leaned against the head of the bed. "I'm going on a business trip tomorrow, and I'll send Xiaotao to my parents."

"Business trip?" Xu Luofeng was a little puzzled, "Where are you going? How long are you going? Why do you want to go on a business trip when it's almost Chinese New Year?"

She answered him very seriously: "Go to Xi'an, about a week, that's what I told you last time, Bai Jin and Tao Ying."

He was even more puzzled: "You said you have already pushed."

Mu Fengying's expression was calm: "I still decided to go and have a look and talk to Tao Ying. I might not be able to pick up. Then I will visit my relatives by the way. My grandma is from Xi'an, and there are a few cousins ​​with whom I have a good relationship."

"..."

Xu Luofeng didn't know what to say, Mu Fengying lay down again, Xu Luofeng asked: "What time is the flight tomorrow?"

"3 pm."

"I'll take you there."

"no need."

The next morning, when Xu Luofeng went to work, Mu Fengying packed up Mu Xiaotao's usual items and called Mu Yang.Mu Xiaotao was already on winter vacation, and when Mu Yang came to pick up Mu Xiaotao, Mu Fengying tidied up again before leaving home.

At noon, Mu Fengying called Bai Jin in the office to confirm some things. After putting down the phone, she found Xu Luofeng standing at the door of her office.

"Have you had lunch?" he asked.

Mu Fengying shook her head.

"Let's eat together." He cleared his throat, looking a little unnatural, "I'll take you to the airport after eating."

The two ate a bowl of noodles together in the small noodle shop next to the cherry wedding. After eating, Mu Fengying took Xu Luofeng's car to the airport.

She didn't speak a word along the way, she rested her elbows on the car door, resting the back of her hand on her forehead in a daze.

Xu Luofeng couldn't understand Mu Fengying during this period of time at all, she always seemed to be preoccupied, even if she was asked, she was unwilling to tell.

He didn't know what went wrong, he speculated, asked, flattered him, but he didn't get an answer.Xu Luofeng even asked Mu Xiaotao why her mother was unhappy recently?
How could Mu Xiaotao know the answer, but she still felt that mom and dad didn't seem to be on good terms recently.

Before leaving with her grandfather, Mu Fengying carefully instructed Mu Xiaotao. Mu Xiaotao didn't understand that Mu Fengying was going on a business trip for a few days, so she just held Mu Fengying's hand and said, "Mom, Xiaotao will listen to grandpa and grandma, and she will go to bed early in the evening." sleeping."

On the way, Xu Luofeng said, "Have you booked your hotel yet? If not, I'll help you. I know a client over there, and I can even provide you with a car."

"No, I've made a decision, thank you."

Her tone was very alienated, Xu Luofeng became more and more puzzled, and said: "When you get there, pay attention to your own safety."

"Ah."

"Call me if you need anything."

Before she answered, he added: "You can call if you have nothing to do."

Mu Fengying turned to look at him and smiled.

He was still saying: "If you don't want to be this client, you should come back quickly. It's very chaotic outside during the Spring Festival."

"Ah."

"For Xiaotao, I..."

"My parents will take care of Xiaotao, you don't have to worry about it."

"..."

At the airport, before Mu Fengying dragged her luggage into the security check, Xu Luofeng held her hand: "Yingying."

He was wearing a khaki coat, delicate and clean, with a tall and straight figure, a handsome face, and his eyes were as indifferent as ever.For so many years, he appeared in front of Mu Fengying, and he always looked like this, but this time, Mu Fengying felt that he was very strange.She lived with him in Taohuayuan for more than a month, but she felt that he was even stranger than a few years ago.

She gently broke free from his hand, lowered her head and took two steps back, and said calmly: "Go back, I'm going in."

"You..." Xu Luofeng really wanted to ask what's wrong with you, but he swallowed the words, thinking that she was only on a business trip for a week, so we can talk again when she comes back.

He thought she was probably angry because Xu Pingchuan didn't arrange to meet her parents.Xu Luofeng felt that this was really not an important matter. The relationship between him and Xu Pingchuan was very weak. Sometimes when they met, they couldn't find anything to talk about except for company affairs.

Mu Fengying didn't expect him to say anything at this time, even if he said, she wouldn't believe it.

The thought of being able to leave the city for a while, even if only for a week, made her feel a little easier.In my heart, I was even grateful to Bai Jin for giving her such an excuse to separate from Xu Luofeng at this time, so as to settle my heart well.

Raising her head, she finally gave him a smile. Mu Fengying's eyes were unusually soft, and she said, "Goodbye, Xu Luofeng."

When Xu Luofeng was walking towards the parking lot, he suddenly received a text message from Mu Fengying: Please go to Taohuayuan, thank you.

He was inexplicable, and when he called her, she had turned off the phone.

Xu Luofeng drove to Taohuayuan, and when he opened the door, he froze.

All his luggage that he had left in Taohuayuan over the past month was neatly placed at the entrance.

(End of this chapter)