Liu Heng had an appointment with Zhou Yian in the evening. When the kindergarten was over, he went to pick up the bean paste on time. Instead of going back directly, he ate at a small restaurant near the kindergarten.
Liu Heng went to order food, while Dou Sha climbed onto the high chair alone, looking weak. He sat on the high chair, propped up his chin, and watched the people coming and going outside the glass partition. Liu Heng came over with a children's meal, looked down at the bean paste, and touched the little kid's head.
Liu Heng pushed the plate of the children's set meal in front of Dou Sha. Dou Sha picked up a small spoon, opened the lid of the steamed egg and vegetable and tofu soup, and started to eat the few dishes on the plate without looking up to pay attention to Liu Heng, looking very worried. look.
Liu Heng sat aside with his suit straight, and many matriarchs with their children looked sideways at him.
Douzha turned his back to the restaurant hall and saw nothing. Liu Heng, with a strong and handsome face, sat aside like a doorkeeper. There was a parent next to him who happened to be feeding his child, who was also about five or six years old. The little girl sat Reluctant to eat on the chair, the parent put a spoonful of egg custard in front of the child, pointed at Liu Heng and the bean paste: "Look, my child is about the same age as you, and they don't want their father to feed them. Be good and finish eating." Mom will take you to the library to read children's books."
Liu Heng happened to hear it and turned his head to look over. The little girl who refused to eat happened to also look up and met Liu Heng's cold and serious eyes. She immediately opened her mouth to eat with tears in her eyes.
Liu Heng turned back and watched the bean paste being eaten silently by himself with a spoon. The six-year-old child did not want anyone to coax him or choose his food, so it was indeed a lot easier to worry about. But Liu Heng just watched silently, not knowing why. The little boy's tender bun face suddenly twitched in his heart.
He touched the child's head. Dou Sha raised his head and frowned at him impatiently: "Why do you keep touching me?"
Liu Heng silently took the spoon from the child's left hand, scooped out the food and fed the child like other parents in the restaurant.
When the food was brought to his mouth, the bean paste paused, and he opened his mouth to eat honestly. His long and thick eyelashes flickered, and he raised his watery tea-gold eyes to look at Liu Heng.
Father and son were speechless for a while.
Liu Heng rarely fed his children after Douzha entered the first class. Unless occasionally Douzha got into a temper and refused to eat, Liu Heng would feed them. Liu Heng has been taking care of children for so many years and is very skilled in feeding. For such a tall and handsome man to feed the children in a restaurant full of mothers and aunts, many parents looked sideways.
After taking a few mouthfuls of bean paste, he finally asked, "Are you busy tonight?" Liu Heng would usually bring bean paste over for dinner when he had something to do at night.
Dou Sha's eyelashes flashed and he didn't ask any more questions. He actually wanted to ask you if you were going to meet your boyfriend? But Liu Heng had a serious talk with him last time, and he promised to respect his father's choice.
In the past, when there was no mummy, Dou Sha couldn't help but wonder where his mummy was. Now that he has found Wang Yincheng, Dou Sha can't help but think a lot, such as why did that person only show up now? Why don't you drink daddy together? Are they not in a good relationship? Now that he is back and his father has a boyfriend, who will he follow in the future
Bean Sha's head is so big, especially after chatting with Ye Fei in the past few days, he started to think more and more randomly.
Liu Heng sent the bean paste home and told the children to go to bed early at night. Before leaving, he came back and said, "We will meet on Sunday. Don't use QQ, you know?"
Dou Sha looked at Liu Heng without saying a word.
Liu Heng squatted down and flicked the kid's forehead: "What if he is a bad guy?"
Liu Heng had his own considerations in this regard. Dou Sha was his son who was raised by himself, and he gave him the best material care. He never asked an aunt to take care of him even when he was going to and from school. He picked him up and dropped him off himself. Compared with other fathers, he may not be qualified, but he still does what he can for Dou Sha. If the child wants to give birth to him, he will bring him to meet him. As long as Wang Yincheng is a good person, if he is a bad person, the child will be very emotionally hurt.
He did not allow Dou Sha to be emotionally hurt within the scope that he could not see.
Dou Sha frowned: "No. If he was a bad person, you wouldn't take me to see him."
Liu Heng couldn't explain to his children that his concerns came from all the events in the past. Wang Yinchen himself seemed to be a very indifferent person towards things and people. Liu Heng was a businessman and was used to controlling things around him. Investments can be risky. , but when it comes to his son, he can't afford any risks.
Liu Heng could only say: "I will take you to see him on the weekend. You promise me not to contact him yourself these days, do you understand?"
Dou Sha's mind was spinning rapidly: "There are conditions!"
"explain."
Dou Sha: "I don't want to go out to see him! I want him to come home."
Liu Heng was stunned. He didn't expect that the child was thinking this. According to Liu Heng's original thoughts, he still needed to observe Wang Yincheng again, but since he was at home, it was within the scope of Liu Heng's control.
Liu Heng nodded: "Okay."
The date was set by Zhou Yi'an. Liu Heng arrived on time. Zhou Yi'an had already arrived in advance and had ordered all the dishes.
The two of them ate carelessly and occasionally chatted about their recent lives. Most of the time Zhou Yian was talking about how many students he had brought, what projects he had taken on, and how he was attending undergraduate classes. There were a few special ones among the students. Excellent and so on. Liu Heng spent most of the time listening and occasionally said a few words.
"By the way." Zhou Yian suddenly raised his eyes and said, "How is Xiaodousha doing recently? Are you still losing your temper?"
Liu Heng said: "The bigger the temper, the weirder the temper. It will be better in two days."
Zhou Yi An smiled: "In two days? How do you know he will be fine in two days?"
Liu Heng lowered his head to eat and did not answer Zhou Yi'an's words. He had never thought about discussing Wang Yincheng's matter with Zhou Yi'an. He could see clearly that Dou Sha didn't like Zhou Yian, so in his heart, he had divided the lives of Zhou Yi'an and Dou Sha. Well, in fact, two years ago when Dou Sha was only four years old, Liu Heng had already separated the two people's trajectories.
Zhou Yian didn't pay attention and continued: "Are you busy this week?"
Liu Heng: "Yeah."
Zhou Yian: "Are you taking Douzha out to play? Unfortunately, I have something to do this week, otherwise I could go with you."
Liu Heng wiped the corner of his mouth: "You should be busy with your business, and your career will be stable. Don't be distracted."
Wang Yincheng's indifferent face flashed through Zhou Yi'an's mind. He let out a sigh, lowered his head and continued eating, saying: "It's nothing, just leave it like that."
Liu Heng sent Zhou Yian back as usual in the evening. When the car stopped, Zhou Yian said with emotion: "It seems that spring has really passed." The two looked at each other. They were both men, and they knew what it meant.
Although Zhou Yian sighed with emotion, he was actually not in the mood. On the one hand, he had just returned to China and had to focus on his career. On the other hand, he had been thinking about Wang Yincheng recently.
Maybe you really have been abroad for too long? Or is the relationship with Liu Heng currently on a gentle slope? He is not a person who likes to reminisce about the past. One has to look forward. If he had had concerns at the beginning, he would not have broken up with Wang Yin for the sake of his studies and career after going abroad. When he was faced with the choice between his studies and Wang Yincheng, he gave up the latter and ran decisively for the former. He needed love, but as a man, career and material money were more important.
He gave up on Wang Yincheng back then, and now only Zhou Yian could understand the panic and palpitations he felt when he encountered him again. He woke up several mornings with a hard and swollen feeling between his legs. He didn't need to lie to himself about who he was thinking about, the answer was so obvious.
Zhou Yian hesitated for a moment, then dialed Wang Yincheng's number. After a few calls, the call was answered. The voice on the other end sounded a bit lazy: "Hello?"
Zhou Yian took a deep breath: "Yin Cheng is me."
"Oh." Wang Yincheng said, "Is something wrong?"
Zhou Yi'an: "I didn't even say a few words to you when I met you during the day. I just wanted to ask if you are free on the weekend? Come out and meet."
Wang Yincheng said quietly: "I don't have time on weekends."
Zhou Yian was stunned: "The newspaper office works overtime on weekends?"
"I have some personal matters."
"Oh." Zhou Yian didn't know what to do. The last time he called to make an appointment for the weekend, Wang Yincheng agreed. Now when he made the appointment, he directly said that he had personal matters. Zhou Yian inevitably felt that Wang Yincheng was trying to shirk. "Yin Cheng, do you still hate me?"
The other end paused for a few seconds, and a chuckle came from the receiver casually, hitting Zhou Yi'an's nest. Wang Yincheng said: "Zhou Yian, my understanding is that it is best to say hello and chill when we meet like this, and not to contact or interact with each other in private."
Zhou Yi'an's palms were a little sweaty: "You still blame me for breaking up with you after I went abroad, right?"
Wang Yincheng's voice was still calm: "You are wrong about Zhou Yian. I just think that for people like us, we can't expect to make an appointment to sit down and chat and reminisce about old times. It would be best not to meet. If nothing happens, I will hang up."
"Wait." Zhou Yian's intuition was wrong. The last phone call was not like this at all. Wang Yincheng's tone was not as calm as today, and there was some room for content. Otherwise, Zhou Yian would not have been so sentimental that he made this call again. "Last time I called you, you were nothing like you are today! Yin Cheng, what happened? Is it..." Could it be that the Liu Quangen I met this afternoon said something behind his back
Last time, Wang Yincheng wanted to talk a little bit about his relationship with Liu Heng. Of course, his tone was much looser and made people think a lot.
Wang Yincheng felt that there was no need to say anything more and said: "It's nothing. Last time you called, I was a little polite, but you thought too much. Hang up." After that, he hung up the phone directly.
The receiver beeped continuously. Zhou Yian sat at the table and stayed for a while before putting down the phone and getting up to pour a glass of water and drink it. This is the hopelessness and emptiness after the expectation is broken. Zhou Yian himself would laugh at his own pretentiousness for so many days. But he still couldn't help but think of Liu Quangen's provocative look this afternoon. He was suspicious and overthinking. Was it really because of that old Liu
After Wang Yincheng hung up the phone, he wrote some film and television reviews, contacted his editor again, and confirmed that two additional articles would be posted in the near future.
[Daxi’s Mom: Baozi and Mama meeting by chance in a dimly lit place are so cute~~ considerate] [Cheng Yin: I’ll send it to you next week, you can figure it out.]
[Daxi’s Mom: The thoughtfulness is great. By the way, I’d like to inform you that the manuscript has been passed and you can start revising it.][Cheng Yin: No time. In two days.]
[Daxi Mama:_]
Wang Yincheng had previously registered and left a message on an early childhood education website. He logged into the website and found a private message. An early childhood expert on the website replied to him. After reading it, he found that although the expert gave some suggestions, they did not seem to be applicable, because according to the gender perspective in the family, parents play the roles of all parties. Obviously Liu Heng is already a father, so he... I can only play the role of mother. But the starting point of expert opinions is the "father-son" relationship.
Of course Wang Yincheng doesn't mind playing the role of mother, responsible for the children's emotional communication, psychological counseling and other aspects. He made the bean paste himself, so calling him mom is not an exaggeration.
So he continued to leave a message and asked what to do if it was a "mother and son".
When Liu Heng returned, Dou Sha was already asleep. He didn't play with the computer or watch TV. He just slept and rested.
He went downstairs to smoke a cigarette in the study, and finally made the call: "Help me check the agency that was responsible for surrogacy."
"You still want to investigate that person? Are you crazy again? Back then, there were seven million surrogates. How many confidentiality agreements were involved and how many people's mouths were sealed. The surrogacy finally succeeded in getting the child. You want to investigate that person? What are you doing!? He signed a series of agreements and gave up all rights and obligations. Why are you so crazy? Can't you just take care of the bean paste? "
"Don't worry about it, go check that person's background and past."
"I'll do it! Okay, I'll go."
"As detailed as possible."
"Don't worry, there are surrogacy agencies. When they were looking for a surrogate mother, they checked the eighteenth generation of their ancestors! I'll get it for you!"
"Okay, thank you." Liu Heng hung up the phone and smoked another cigarette. Checking Wang Yincheng's background was just to confirm that there was no big problem with him, but now he had a vague expectation in his heart, wondering what Wang Yincheng was doing back then. Why would you think of surrogacy
People who give surrogates to others are usually short of money. Why was Wang Yincheng so anxious for money back then
The country has not taken a stance on gay marriage laws. Although society has become very tolerant and the technology of male surrogacy has become relatively mature, male surrogacy has always been on the fringes and is a black industry. Liu Heng can’t remember when male surrogacy became popular, but so-called experts have always emphasized the impact of male chromosomes and DNA on children’s intelligence and appearance. Countless wealthy people flock to it. The national law is blank here, and male surrogacy will A huge loophole has been exploited to create a huge profit industry.
The buyer's market and the seller's market are seriously unequal. Liu Heng still remembers that he was shocked when the price of 7 million was announced. The surrogacy agency only responded with four words - excellent value for money.
Is it good value for money? Liu Heng was actually quite skeptical at the time, but since he had money, he naturally didn't care. What now? Liu Heng curled his lips with an unclear smile.