During the Chinese New Year, Lu Yan and Lu Zhen returned to Beicheng for the winter vacation.
That afternoon, Lu Yan went shopping with Jian Yao to buy clothes for the New Year. The pedestrian street was crowded with people and it was quite lively.
In just a few years, people's consumption level has skyrocketed, and the real economy is quite prosperous now, but it won't be a few years before people's shopping tendencies will turn to the Internet. Lu Yan has been encouraging Lu Zhen to develop into the field of Internet e-commerce. No one is optimistic about this area now, but Lu Yan knows that there is a lot to do in the sea of stars.
Lu Yan went to buy a bottle of lemonade and handed it to Jian Yao. Jian Yao patted her head and said, "Thank you, good girl."
Lu Yan smiled sweetly: "No thanks, Mom."
"You really call me mom!"
"Yes!"
Jian Yao called Lu Yan's daughter a joke, but she didn't expect that little girl Lu Yan would like this kind of role-playing.
"Okay." Jian Yao unscrewed the lid of the lemonade bottle, and handed it to Lu Yan for the first sip.
At this moment, Lu Yan looked familiar to a man walking towards him.
The man was wearing a cool gray coat, his hair was permed in the most popular afro, and his bangs were very long, completely blocking his eyes, showing a sense of laziness and decadence.
This person... so familiar.
Lu Yan quickly poked Jian Yao with her elbow to draw Jian Yao's attention.
Jian Yao looked up at him and said, "Isn't this Wu Tianhan?"
"Who is it?"
"Wu Tianhan, we're from high school, by the way, isn't your sister Shi Ya dating him?"
It was only then that Lu Yan remembered that this person was Shi Ya's boyfriend. Shi Ya followed her boyfriend Wu Tianhan and studied at a private independent college in this province. The relationship between the two seemed to be very stable.
but... ...
Lu Yan looked up, the girl standing beside Wu Tianhan was not Shi Ya.
"Did you break up?" Jian Yao asked gossipingly.
Lu Yan shook her head blankly: "I don't know."
The two girls stared at Wu Tianhan intently, watching him take the girl beside him into a hotel opposite.
Jian Yao said "Yo~", took out Lu Yan's mobile phone, and took a photo with a "click".
Lu Yan smiled and said, "Don't gossip like that! You still take pictures."
"Take photos casually, it's rare to meet." Jian Yao took back her phone: "Let's go, continue shopping!"
Soon, Lu Yan put this matter behind her.
In the evening, during dinner, Shi Ya also came. Shi Xuexian begged Lu Jian for a long time, and finally agreed to let Shi Ya come to Lu's residence for the New Year.
Lu Jian asked her two sons and daughters one by one about their studies and life, and seemed very interested.
Lu Yan answered Lu Jian categorically, but Lu Zhen was more perfunctory. After all, boys are no more caring than girls.
Shi Xuexian saw that Lu Jian didn't ask Shi Ya, so she reached out and patted Shi Ya's back, and said with a smile, "We Yaya performed very well in school, and we even won the first prize in the school's singing competition."
But after saying this, no one at the table responded to her, and the atmosphere seemed a little awkward.
Lu Jian wiped her mouth with a napkin and said, "University is a process of training yourself. I hope you don't relax in your studies after entering, you know?"
Shi Ya immediately said: "I know Uncle Lu, I will work hard! I will not disappoint your expectations."
Lu Jian picked up a piece of beef and put it into Lu Yan's bowl. There was another long silence, and the atmosphere was so embarrassing that it almost exploded.
Shi Xuexian could tell that Lu Jian had no expectations for Shi Ya, and he was speaking to his two children.
She felt a little uncomfortable, but she still had a smile on her face and said: "This year, Yaya has really become a lot more sensible, keep up the good work!"
"I will, Mom!"
Shi Ya looked at Lu Yan, with some unkindness in her eyes, she pretended to be casual and said: "Lu Yan, when will you bring your boyfriend home and let Uncle Lu have a look."
Lu Yan's hand holding the spoon tightened suddenly, and her eyes turned cold when she looked at Shi Ya. Shi Ya greeted her generously, with a smug look on her face.
Lu Jian put down the knife and fork, and asked curiously, "Xiaoyan, have you got a boyfriend?"
"Uh, um."
"What's your name, where are you from, what's your character and family background, is he your classmate?"
Lu Jian attaches great importance to Lu Yan's relationship problem, and the problem is thrown out like a cannonball.
Lu Yan felt... a little stressed.
Lu Yan answered selectively: "He... His name is Shen Kuo, and he has a very good personality."
Lu Jian seemed to be about to start checking her household registration: "Are you from this province? What do your parents do?"
"parents... "
Before Lu Yan could answer, Shi Ya immediately interjected: "Uncle Lu, you don't know, they were together in high school, that boy has no mother, and there is only one father in the family who died of illness last year, the family is poor and white. .. "
The fork in Lu Zhen's hand was thrown heavily on the plate, making a crisp "bang", which made Shi Ya jump in fright.
Shi Xuexian immediately said: "Lu Zhen, what are you doing throwing the fork!"
Lu Zhen licked her lips, and said to Shi Ya in a lazy tone, "It's none of your business to be poor and useless."
"You speak really badly."
"This is my home. I just talk like this. If I don't like to listen, get out."
"That's enough, I didn't ask you two, shut up." Lu Jian stopped the two of them, and turned to look at Lu Yan: "His parents... are gone?"
Lu Yan nodded and replied frankly, "His father passed away a year ago."
"It sounds like the family background is not very good." A trace of worry appeared on Lu Jian's face: "Personality..."
Before Lu Yan could speak, Shi Xuexian said leisurely, "Boys from this kind of family usually have flaws in their personality."
Lu Yan clenched the spoon tightly, under the table, Lu Zhen patted her knee lightly, and said, "Shen Kuo is my buddy, he's fine, there's nothing wrong with him."
"Even if the personality is fine, the family background doesn't match. Although it's the 21st century, it's not right to say that the family is right, but it can't be too much difference. Xiaoyan's family background is so much better than his, so I don't know... He just picked high branches to climb."
Shi Xuexian covered her mouth and smiled: "Don't blame me for thinking too badly about people, but it's not impossible, right?"
Lu Jian's face gradually darkened, obviously, he had listened to Shi Xuexian's words.
Lu Yan is his most precious and beloved daughter, and he will never allow anyone to deceive her feelings.
Lu Jian said: "Yanyan, college should still put academics first, and the matter of boyfriend can be considered later."
"Dad, what are you talking about..." Lu Zhen couldn't listen anymore: "Isn't it strange that you don't let people fall in love when you are in such a good youth, and you will rush to get married after graduation in the future."
Lu Jian's tone became more relaxed, and she said, "It's not that I don't want Xiao Yan to fall in love. The older brothers in her uncle's family are all young talents. I think Ye Jiaqi is pretty good."
He had always admired Ye Jiaqi, and he was thinking of making him his son-in-law.
"It also depends on what Xiaoyan likes."
"We'll talk about this later." Lu Jian didn't want to argue with Lu Zhen.
Lu Yan looked at Shi Ya coldly, and Shi Ya was also looking at her with a victorious smile on her face.
"Speaking of boyfriend, Shi Ya, you're still dating Wu Tianhan."
"yes."
When Lu Yan mentioned Wu Tianhan, Shi Xuexian's face became even more complacent, and she said to Lu Jian: "Yaya's boyfriend is really good, the eldest son of the Wu family has all kinds of family background, if we get married in the future, maybe he will be right It will help you in business too."
Lu Jian didn't say a word, he never thought of relying on his children's marriage to consolidate the company's interests, not to mention Shi Ya has nothing to do with him.
Lu Yan said calmly: "Wu Tianhan and Shi Ya have always had a very good relationship. I saw them shopping together yesterday."
Shi Ya was stunned: "Yesterday?"
"Yes." Lu Yan said casually: "Pedestrian Street, Wu Tianhan bought you a lot of clothes, what's the name of the hotel at the end of the street... Oh, Youyuan Hotel, you went in together, didn't you? "
Hearing this, Shi Ya's complexion changed drastically, she stood up and pointed at Lu Yan and said, "You framed it! No! I didn't! Bloody mouth!"
"Eh? Isn't this you?"
Lu Yan took out her phone, opened the photo album, and handed it to Shi Ya.
Thanks to my mother for changing her mobile phone with a camera function when she graduated from high school.
Shi Ya saw the two people in the photo, the man's back was Wu Tianhan, and the girl he was holding... was not her!
The two of them were very close together, with an intimate posture. Wu Tianhan was carrying large and small bags in his hands. Obviously, they were all bought for the girls around him.
This photo was taken by Jian Yao, and the most amazing thing is that she actually took a photo of the words "Youyuan Hotel" and used it as a background board.
This move was so lethal that Shi Ya's eyes turned red immediately.
Shi Xuexian snatched the phone away, looked at the men and women in the photo, and asked Shi Ya eagerly, "What's going on! Who is this girl!"
"How do I know!"
"Didn't you say that he likes you very much, why would he still be with someone else!" Shi Xuexian was also anxious, she was very satisfied with Wu Tianhan, a good son-in-law, and she was full of hope that her daughter would marry into the Wu family, and that she could also be able to support her in the Lu family. Straighten up so you don't get so pissed off.
Shi Ya finally choked up and cried: "I don't know, he... he seldom calls me recently."
"Bastard! This bastard..."
Lu Jian became a little impatient. A good reunion dinner was ruined by the mother and daughter. He said, "I want to ask you to go out and quarrel, so don't affect the meal."
Shi Ya wiped her tears, turned around and ran out of the room, and Shi Xuexian didn't care about anything, and chased after her to ask about the situation.
Under the table, Lu Zhen made an awesome gesture to Lu Yan, which could make her meet, and she just took a photo.
Sure enough, it was Chi who was close to Zhu, and Hei who was close to ink. After being with a scheming boy like Shen Kuo for a long time, the little girl's rank has also improved a lot.
Although the topic had been changed, Lu Jian was still a little worried. At night, he knocked on the door of Lu Yan's room.
"Please come in."
Lu Jian pushed the door open and entered: "Yanyan, are you still asleep?"
Lu Yan was lying on the table, watching a dance video on the computer: "No, I'll sleep right away."
"Yanyan, that boyfriend of yours, if you have time, let him come over to sit at home."
"Don't worry, Shen Kuo has treated me very well."
"Dad always sees people more thoroughly than you, let Dad check for you."
After all, she is her own daughter, and Lu Jian is still worried that the little girl will be deceived by others. If she meets someone who is not good, she will be the one who will be sad in the future.
Lu Yan thought for a while and said, "Okay, Grandpa, let me ask him."
"Okay, okay." Lu Jian rubbed the little girl's head: "It's still called grandpa."
"Well... "
It was originally grandpa.
Lu Jian didn't care either, as long as she was happy, she could call the little girl whatever she wanted.
When Lu Jian turned to go out, Lu Yan suddenly said: "I found that you have changed."
"What?" Lu Jian was puzzled.
Lu Yan smiled and said, "You have changed, you are not the same as before."
In the past, Lu Yan also got to know her grandfather from Lu Zhen's few words. From what Lu Zhen said, he is simply the tyrant of the family. No one dares to disobey what he is going to do. He thinks it is the right thing , who dare to say wrong.
Lu Zhen is a soft-hearted master, under Lu Jian's harsh patriarchal oppression, his temper became more and more fierce, and he became more and more rebellious, and finally ended up severing the relationship between father and son...
In fact, Lu Zhen loves his parents very much, he likes to make Meng Zhining happy, and he will even pretend to be silly and coquettish in front of his mother to make her laugh;
For Dad, he hopes to get his approval. If he can praise him, he can even be happy for many days...
However, in the past, Lu Jian would never praise Lu Zhen. In his eyes, Lu Zhen was just ignorant, useless, and completely useless.
Over the years, Lu Jian has also changed a lot subtly.
Regardless of whether a son is promising or not, he should be a loving father first, and a strict father second.
Lu Yan smiled and said to him: "Lu Zhen actually admires you very much, you are his idol."
Lu Jian exited the room, stood at the door for a long time, then walked to the door of Lu Zhen's room.
There was a bluish light from the gap in the door of the room, and he didn't lock it.
Lu Jian heard his friends talk about his own child, and he closed the door of the room as soon as he got back to the room, not knowing what he was doing in the room.
Lu Zhen didn't lock the door of his room, even most of the time, his door was wide open...
He never isolated himself from his family.
Lu Jian looked into the house through the gap in the door, Lu Zhen was lying on the bed, bent over, smiling like a dog—
"Go to bed early, baby."
"Yeah, I wrote code for a while and then fell asleep"
"Love you, give me a kiss."
"One more kiss..."
Lu Jian: ...
Sometimes it might be better to lock the door.
He knocked on the door, and Lu Zhen sat up defensively, hiding the phone behind him.
"Ah, Dad, what's the matter?"
"It's okay, go to bed early."
Lu Zhen was flattered: "Huh?"
"Let you go to bed early and don't stay up late."
"Oh!"
Lu Jian closed the door of the room.
Hearing the sound of his footsteps receding away, Lu Zhen's mouth curled up. At this moment, he felt overwhelmed with happiness.
This year's New Year's Eve, there was a lot of snow, and the temperature was getting lower and lower.
In the morning, the heating at home was broken. Shen Kuo went upstairs with a wrench to fix the heating, but the temperature of the room still couldn't rise.
He simply gave up, anyway, he only stayed at home for a few days before going back to school.
The house is deserted, and there is no New Year atmosphere. Although their house was not lively during Chinese New Year before, at least there are two people, Dad and him, watching the Spring Festival Gala, eating a New Year's Eve dinner, and always reuniting.
This year, he is the only one left.
Shen Kuo looked at the black-and-white photo of his father smiling on the wall. This man liked to laugh very much. Even the moment before he lost his breath in his arms, the corners of his mouth were smiling.
He asked the man in the posthumous photo: "Why can a dragonfly fly without its wings?"
Shen Kuo was still a little unaccustomed to the absence of father's cold jokes in his life. He replied, "Because it is very strong."
A gust of cold wind blew against the windows, making a bang bang sound.
It was cold enough.
He turned around and went out. No matter what, he bought some New Year's goods and came back to pass the New Year's Eve tonight.
Forty minutes later, he came back with a white plastic bag, only to see a bright red figure standing in front of the door.
The girl was wearing a bright red down jacket with white rabbit fur on the collar and brim, flying softly in the cold wind.
She put her plush-gloved hand to her mouth and exhaled a white mist. The tip of her nose was blushing from the cold, and a thin layer of frost hung on her curled eyelashes.
Standing in the cold wind, she kept rubbing her hands, looking a little dazed.
Shen Kuo walked over at a faster pace, took the girl into his arms, stroked her back gently, and warmed her up: "Why are you here?"
Lu Yan lifted the plastic bag in her hand: "I bought a lot of food, I'm here to celebrate the New Year with you."
Shen Kuo dragged her into the room and turned on the radiator, which was not particularly effective.
"Come here, why don't you call me, what if I'm not here tonight, how long are you going to stand outside and wait?"
Lu Yan put her pocket on the cabinet, took off her gloves and said, "I sent you a text message."
Shen Kuo took out his mobile phone and looked at it. She did send a text message and asked him what he was doing. Shen Kuo replied that she was out shopping for New Year's goods.
Lu Yan would send him text messages every day for trivial matters. Shen Kuo thought it was her daily greeting, but she didn't expect her to come over.
"The heating here is broken." He turned to her and said, "Sit down for a while, and I'll take you back."
"Is it broken? I didn't feel it at all." The little girl was sincere.
Shen Kuo said: "Your acting class was very effective."
Acting is very online.
Lu Yan curled her lips and said dissatisfiedly: "I came here to accompany you to celebrate the New Year, and I will drive you away before my butt is hot."
Shen Kuo is also very helpless, if it is normal, forget it, but today the heating is broken, he dare not let her stay for too long.
"Stay and eat, and then I'll take you back." After Shen Kuo finished speaking, he went to the kitchen with two plastic bags.
Lu Yan walked slowly to the door of the kitchen, and suggested, "Shen Kuo, why don't you come to our house to celebrate the New Year, my grandfather...my dad said he also wants to see you."
Shen Kuo paused his hand, and then said: "No need."
"You... don't want to come to my house?"
With his back to her, he replied, "it's a little early."
He was not yet mentally prepared to meet his parents.
Lu Yan put her head on the door frame and said in a muffled voice, "Yes, it's still early. If we break up one day, the parents will be in vain, right?"
Shen Kuo could hear the displeasure in the little girl's tone, and threw a small garlic seedling backwards, and it hit Lu Yan's forehead firmly and impartially.
Lu Yan covered her head and said angrily, "What are you doing!"
"Don't say those two words lightly." Shen Kuo turned around and said, "I will be angry."
"I'm still angry!"
Lu Yan walked to the living room angrily, sat cross-legged on the sofa, turned her back and ignored him.
Ba Badi came all the way, and the cold wind blowing for a long time before entering the house, and before she could sit down in the house, she was ordered to evict; she managed to pluck up the courage, and tentatively suggested that he should go back to meet her family, But was rejected...
Is this feeling good? Not at all!
Shen Kuo walked out of the kitchen and sat beside her, Lu Yan immediately moved to the side, away from him.
Something was handed to her hand, and stuffed into her palm again, it was hard.
Lu Yan couldn't restrain her curiosity, and looked down—
Several colorful hard candies.
Hmph, she's not a child, she just wants to cheer her up with a few candies, but there's no way.
Lu Yan pushed the sugar away: "I don't want it."
There was a crisp sound of candy wrapping in her ear, Shen Kuo slowly peeled off the candy wrapper, and then fed the hard fruit candy into her mouth.
"Don't eat! I don't like sugar!"
The backbone Lu Yan was about to spit out the fruit candy, when Shen Kuo suddenly came over, kissed her lips, and sealed her mouth at the same time.
"Well!"
The sweet and sour taste of fruit candy permeated between the lips and teeth, Shen Kuo kissed her for a long time, and swept away the fruit candy from the tip of her tongue.
"If you don't eat, pay me back."
"Hey you... "
why is it like this!
Lu Yan embraced his neck, kissed him actively, and asked for the fruit candy back.
"I want to eat."
Shen Kuo rubbed her nose lightly, and said softly: "First, I'm not driving you away, because it's really cold at home; second, I said it early, not referring to our relationship, but I have nothing now, It's not good to see your family."
Lu Yan hugged him tightly: "I don't mind, neither does my family..."
"But I don't mind."
Lu Yan shut up, she understood his pride and his persistence.
"Wait for another half a year." Shen Kuo assured her: "Half a year is enough."
Lu Yan nodded obediently: "I'm sorry Shen Kuo, I shouldn't lose my temper, I won't do it in the future."
Mutual understanding is the prerequisite for two people to get along.
Shen Kuo let go of her, rubbed her head, and said with a smile, "You can also lose your temper in the future."
"what?"
"Because you are easy to coax." A piece of candy can coax you back.
Pressing the tip of her tongue against the sweet and sour fruit candy, Lu Yan said, "Someone is very lucky to have such a good-tempered girlfriend."
"Yes, I'm lucky."
Shen Kuo took Lu Yan's hand, fiddled with her tall and beautiful fingertips, and said slowly: "I'm not in a good mood today, but now I'm very happy, thank you for coming to accompany me."
Lu Yan looked at Uncle Shen's photo on the wall, then at the empty home, and understood why he was in a bad mood.
"It's just too cold at home."
"It doesn't matter, I'm here, at least I have to eat, right." Lu Yan pushed Chen Kuo to the kitchen: "Cook quickly, I'm so hungry."
Shen Kuo smiled, took off his coat, wrapped her little feet, then got up and went to the kitchen.
The clothes were warm, with his body temperature and his smell, Lu Yan's cold feet immediately warmed up.
Looking at his back busy in the kitchen, she felt warm in her heart.
At this time, Shen Kuo, although his temper was well controlled, was more or less youthful, unlike him after middle age.
Lu Yan suddenly remembered that she had a New Year's Eve experience with the middle-aged Shen Kuo.
It was three months after she moved into Shen's house, at the age of thirty, all the servants in the family had gone home, and only she and Shen Kuo were left in the empty Shen's house.
Shen Kuo was busy at the company until 9:30 in the evening before returning home. He was dressed in a suit and leather shoes, and looked extremely cold and cold in the wind and snow.
Even the driver had already gone home for a reunion, so he drove back by himself. On the way home, he stopped by the market to buy two barrels of fireworks.
Because... there is a little girl at home, and he wants to show her fireworks.
As soon as the man entered the room, he saw the little girl crouching on the sofa with a pillow in her arms, secretly wiping her tears.
Lu Yan wants to go home, wants to go back and celebrate the new year with her father...
Shen Kuo's originally warm heart was suddenly poured with a basin of cold water. Looking at the cold pot and cold stove at home, and looking at the poor little girl, his heart ached.
He took off his coat, threw it on the sofa casually, sat opposite her, and asked in a deep voice, "Do you want to go?"
Lu Yan nodded cautiously: "Uncle Shen, I...I miss my dad."
"Then let's go."
Lu Yan looked at Shen Kuo in surprise.
The man looked out the window, under the faint light, his well-defined features were covered with a layer of nobility and coldness.
"I won't keep you anymore. It's 30th today. Go back and reunite with your family. After you go back, you don't have to come."
After he finished speaking, he got up and went upstairs.
Lu Yan looked at the door, then looked at Shen Kuo: "Then...Uncle Shen, you promise to let my dad go..."
"no sooner said than done."
Lu Yan didn't even have time to pack her luggage, fearing that Shen Kuo would change her mind, she hurried to the door, changed her sneakers, and left Shen's house.
After walking a hundred meters, she heard the sound of fireworks exploding behind her. She turned her head and saw clusters of beautiful fireworks rising above Shen's house, illuminating half of the night sky.
Shen Kuo set off fireworks on the roof alone.
Lu Yan looked at the brilliant fireworks in the sky, and at the lonely figure of that man standing on the top of the building, an inexplicable sadness suddenly poured into her heart, she turned around in a daze, wanted to go back, wanted to go back to be with him. ..
At that time, a high beam light swept over, and Lu Yan's eyes were filled with white light, followed by a car accident that turned the world upside down...
She lost consciousness and left that world.
Shi Xuexian really couldn't stand it for a day. As long as there is Lu Yan in this family for a day, she will never have a bright future.
She didn't believe that Lu Yan was Lu Jian's daughter at all. The little girl who got lost back then couldn't come back. How could she come back...
That afternoon, while Lu Yan was not at home, she tricked the servant out to buy something, and then sneaked into her room.
After looking around in the room, Shi Xuexian came to Lu Yan's window, put on white plastic gloves, and picked up a strand of hair she left beside the pillow.
Looking at the strand of hair, a malicious look appeared in the corner of her eyes.
As long as it can be proved that Lu Yan and Lu Jian are not related by blood, that they are not their biological father and daughter, a man who values blood in Lu Jian will definitely drive her out of the house.
Shi Xuexian carefully bumped the strand of hair into the film bag.