"I just met the old man and his wife at the old house and had dinner with them." Bai Yeqing explained, glancing at the sleeping child, "Does he have to go to class tomorrow?"
"Yeah. Today is the last day of the holiday."
Bai Yeqing lifted the quilt and picked up Xia Dabai. Xia Xingchen looked at him suspiciously, and he whispered, "Take the clothes and send him back. Let the driver pick him up from there tomorrow morning."
The hospital is quite far from the school, so it is not very convenient to get there from here.
Anyway, the nursing staff and doctors in this hospital are very good, so she doesn't have to stay here all night.
Xia Xingchen had no objection. She took Xia Dabai's coat and wrapped him tightly. She looked at her mother again to make sure she was sleeping soundly before following Bai Yeqing out of the hospital.
Bai Yeqing didn't let Leng Fei and the others follow him. He drove himself and sent her back to the small rental house. Xia Dabai sat in the back seat, fastened his seat belt, and slept soundly all the way. Xia Xingchen sat in the passenger seat, lazily curled up in the corner.
The neon lights of the city lightly swept across the faces of the three people, and there was a hint of warmth in the carriage.
Occasionally, she would glance at the man beside her, and then at the child who looked so similar to him, and she would think that they were just an ordinary family of three...
However, this man is the most extraordinary man in this country...
He gave her a lot of security invisibly in many things, but in terms of identity, he gave her more insecurity.
"Today, the old man and the old lady said that they wanted to meet you." Just as she was thinking about it, Bai Yeqing suddenly spoke.
Xia Xingchen was stunned for a moment, and looked at him in disbelief, "Why did you suddenly say you wanted to see me?"
Bai Yeqing controlled the steering wheel steadily with both hands, turned around and looked at her.
"Curious, right? You gave birth to Xia Dabai for me, and they both want to meet the mother of the child."
It's not surprising that the two elders knew of her existence. Since Sister Su Ye knew about it, the elders would definitely have heard about it.
"What's your impression of me, two elders?" Xia Xingchen asked casually.
Bai Yeqing didn't say anything for a while and just drove in silence.
His silence made her feel more nervous. After looking at him for a while, she understood and continued, "It's not convenient for my mother to have surgery now. Besides, you are very busy. Let's talk about meeting them later. Besides... as long as the children like them, I don't have to see them."
There was still some disappointment in her tone. Getting pregnant before marriage was not a glorious thing in anyone's eyes, especially since his family was not an ordinary family.
"Don't think too much. The old man and the old lady don't know much about you, so they have some misunderstandings. They want to meet you to clear up these misunderstandings."
Xia Xingchen remained silent and did not say anything else.
She knew he was comforting herself.
But what was she missing? Even if he really took her to meet the old man and old lady right now, it wasn't like meeting the parents when dating, it was just meeting the mother of the child! The meaning was completely different.
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After walking for dozens of minutes, I arrived outside the small rental house. It seemed like a long time had passed since I last came back.
Xia Xingchen asked him to hold the child while she took out the key and opened the door. She changed her shoes first and then gave him the men's slippers she bought at the supermarket last time, "Put them on first and come in."
He turned on the light and looked back. The empty house across the street was now filled with furniture. From this side, he could see the living room and a bedroom over there. Xia Xingchen looked back at him, "So efficient? It was empty when I left."
Bai Yeqing put the child on the bed in her small bedroom, tucked the child in with a quilt, and turned around to say to her who had followed him in: "This room will be left as his child's room in the future."
"Where do I sleep then?"
Bai Yeqing walked out of her room and pointed at the room opposite with his chin, "When I don't live here, you live over there. When I live here..."
At this point, he paused for a moment and looked at her meaningfully, "You have to go live with me."
"…" There was a particularly obvious hint in the tone. Xia Xingchen blushed and her heartbeat quickened, knowing how dangerous the situation between the two of them was. She pretended not to understand and raised her eyebrows, "I live well here, you can go back to live where you are!"
He pushed her and drove him away. She deliberately ignored his expression and ran back to her bedroom to get her pajamas. She went into the bathroom for a long time, her heart still beating wildly. In this case, they were living together, weren't they? She lived in the presidential palace before, but she didn't feel like she was living together. After all, her heart was as calm as water at that time, and nothing had ever happened between them. Now... It's completely different...
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Xia Xingchen came out of the shower and sat in the living room wiping her wet hair.
She turned on the TV and curled up on the sofa. Occasionally, she would glance at the house next door, but there was no trace of him in the living room that connected the two houses.
I don’t know if there are any clean clothes for him to change in his room, or if he has already fallen asleep
While she was daydreaming, her cell phone suddenly rang. In the middle of the night, the ringing sounded so sudden that Xia Xingchen was startled and quickly got up to take the cell phone from the bookshelf.
The last photo of her, her parents and the three of them is placed on the bookshelf. When she looks at it now, she still can't help feeling sad.
Times have really changed, things are no longer the same...
When she looked at the word "Dad" flashing on the screen, she was still stunned for a moment. Why did her father call her so late at night
"Hello, Dad." Xia Xingchen put the phone to his ear.
Xia Guopeng was silent for a while. She waited for a while before she heard him say, "Has he returned yet?"
"Yeah, I came back early in the morning."
"…" Xia Guopeng was silent again. She could hear the forbearance and contradiction in his father's breathing. She didn't speak to break the silence. She only heard Xia Guopeng say, "Forget it. It's getting late. You should go to bed early."
Xia Xingchen held on to the phone and didn't hang up. As expected, Xia Guopeng didn't hang up either. The two of them were silent on the phone for a long time. Xia Guopeng sighed and asked directly: "Is that man... good to your mother?"
She sighed. She didn't know how her father would feel if he knew that her mother had never remarried in all these years. However, her mother didn't want him to know, and she didn't dare to say anything. She just said, "Everything is fine. The people there are simple and honest, and life there is very comfortable."