When Cao Yang came back at night, he called Xia Rou to his study.
"Do you remember what you were crazy about last night?" He asked while sitting behind the desk.
"Remember..." Xia Rou replied mutteringly.
With his head down and his back hunched, his hands were placed on his knees together, his fingers writhing uneasily.
Like dehydrated little mushrooms. Cao Yang felt happy watching it.
He held back his laughter, and scolded her with a sullen face: "Look at what you looked like yesterday! Girl, you're so drunk!"
Xia Rou was most afraid that he would reprimand her, her head drooped even lower, and her whole body shrank. There was a faint "hmm".
"I have to set up a gate control for you in the future, and you can't go home after eleven o'clock at the latest when you go out to play. Do you understand?" Cao Yang said with a straight face.
"Understood." Xiarou nodded.
The attitude of admitting mistakes is still good. Cao Yang was quite satisfied, and finally he was willing to expose the matter.
"Did Sister Yu tell you? Tomorrow." He asked.
Seeing that Cao Yang no longer pursued the matter of her being drunk, Xia Rou was immediately refreshed.
"I've said it." She nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, and said, "What do you want to buy? I'll go with you."
"Okay, let's go in the morning and go out at half past nine."
"Okay!"
The next day, the two of them drove out in the black Hummer that Cao Yang used to drive.
When she arrived at the place, Xia Rou let out a "huh". "Why are you here? What do you want to buy?"
Cao Yang dragged her to the furniture store, and it happened to be the one she had been visiting a few days ago.
"Buy the sofa first." Cao Yang said.
After entering the hall, Xia Rou pointed the way familiarly: "This side is the sofa."
Cao Yang was surprised: "How do you know?"
Xia Rou didn't want to tell him that she just bought a new sofa a few days ago, so she just said: "There is a brand over there."
When he arrived at the sofa area, Cao Yang lit a cigarette, touched the back of her head, and said, "Go, choose the one you like."
"What?" Xia Rou was confused.
"The sofa in your room is too old-fashioned." Cao Yang said, "I always think about finding time to change it for you, but I always forget."
It was true what he said. Indeed, more than once, when he went to Xia Rou's room by chance, he would feel that the sofa set was old-fashioned and thought it should be replaced, but every time he turned his head and forgot it.
Because I always feel that it is too small to be worth mentioning... small things...
"No, that set is very comfortable to sit on." Xia Rou said. The brown leather sofa was still very new, and she didn't feel the need to change it at all.
"It looks old-fashioned, it doesn't look like a little girl's room." Cao Yang said, "Go ahead, pick what you like, and it doesn't cost much."
Xia Rou actually didn't want to buy it. According to her plan, she would leave Cao's house soon. There is really no need to bother with that room because of her preferences.
But she hasn't told Cao Yang about this matter at all, and she is afraid that if she persists, Cao Yang will find out something. Besides, for Cao Yang, a set of sofas really doesn't cost much.
She obediently chose a set.
Only then was Cao Yang satisfied.
Xia Rou chose a beige sofa that also looks soft. When it was time to pay, she couldn't hold back and asked Cao Yang, "Why do you suddenly want to change the sofa for me?"
Cao Yang paused, and said: "Your house... I built it at the beginning, it doesn't look like a girl's house."
After swiping his card, he turned around and told Xia Rou frankly: "Xiaorou, you hadn't come at that time, and I didn't know you well. When I was decorating and choosing the menu, I didn't care too much. Now you are still in the room Living here, changing the wallpaper is a bit too frustrating... "
So at least... give her a sofa that she likes first...
There was a trace of apology in Cao Yang's eyes.
Xia Rou didn't expect that it was because of such a reason, and she didn't know what to say for a moment. Eye sockets turned red unexpectedly.
She wanted to say, no need, she is leaving soon...
But she didn't dare.
When she moved out of the Cao family in her previous life, she was much older than she is now. Wang Man's dislike and indifference towards her is obvious to all.
But even so, Cao Yang tried to persuade her to stay.
Now, she is still young, and she has no reasonable excuses that she can utter. She was afraid that if she said it, Cao Yang would not allow her to move away.
But she... made up her mind to leave the Cao family.
In this life, no matter what, she will never be an annoying little white flower again.
She will go to school well, work hard, and live her life in peace.
She will definitely not trouble him anymore and become his burden.
In this way, if he marries Wang Man, there will be no gap between the husband and wife because of her, which will eventually break down to the point of divorce!
Cao Yang, her big brother... treats her so well...
In this life, let her protect him!
After Cao Yang finished speaking, looking at Xia Rou who was looking up at him slightly, her dark eyes were suddenly filled with water vapor, and the eye circles were suddenly red.
Her light pink lips moved slightly, as if she wanted to say something, but she didn't say it.
Then, as if covering up, he hastily lowered his head.
Cao Yang felt a slight distress in his heart.
"It's my fault, too careless." He said while stroking her head.
Xia Rou sniffed, raised her head, and said with a smile, "What a big deal, is it worth mentioning?"
"Whether it's worth it or not, tell me." He bowed his head and said softly to her, "Xiao Rou, if you have any thoughts in the future, don't hold back, tell your brother... you know?"
His voice was right next to her ear, low and gentle...
For some reason, Xia Rou couldn't hold back her tears. Hastily bowed his head.
Cao Yang looked at the top of her jet-black hair, his heart softened, and he couldn't help but bowed his head and kissed her softly: "Don't cry. Just know later."
Kissing the top of the head, with family affection, with pampering, does not exceed the boundary. Xia Rou didn't feel strange, but felt indescribably sad.
Two lifetimes, big brother... loves her so much...
For such a big brother, how...how can she tell him that she is about to leave
After buying the sofa, Cao Yang wanted to buy her a new desk.
Xia Rou grabbed him: "My desk is an antique, I like it. And I'm used to it."
So let it go.
Xia Rou pulled his wrist and walked out: "Go eat, eat! I'm hungry!"
Her long hair was curly and waved behind her back.
Cao Yang watched with a smile on the corner of his mouth.
Let her pull.
But he suddenly remembered that the reason she insisted on drinking so happily that day was because she thought that if she was admitted to a foreign university, she would be able to fly high.
He couldn't help grinding his teeth secretly.
There are still a few days before the results of the college entrance examination come out...
You'll know when the time comes, girl film! It's so beautiful!
They got into the car and were ready to forage. When the car drove out of this intersection, it would pass by the car coming from the opposite side.
In that car, Wang Man suddenly turned his head, but the black Hummer had already turned the corner, and he couldn't see the license plate clearly...
"What's wrong?" asked the mother sitting next to her.
"I see a car that looks familiar," she said.
Very familiar. Although she couldn't see the license plate clearly, Wang Man was sure that the man in the driver's seat she saw when meeting the car just now should be Cao Yang. A young long-haired woman was sitting in the co-pilot, and she passed by without seeing her face clearly.
Cao Yang said that he has something to do on the weekend...
Wang Man pursed her lips and said nothing.
Before the scores of the college entrance examination came down, Cao Yang got another thing first.
Xia Rou was drunk that day and mentioned Liang Zihuan again. Although what she said was obviously nonsense, Cao Yang asked someone to check it out for the second time. This time, something really came out.
He looked at the results of the investigation, and there was no emotion on his face.
Cao Yang's city mansion is getting deeper and deeper, he thought to his friends in the police station.
"It's really unexpected." He said, "When you told me the first time, you only checked the contacts between Zha Liang and Xiaorou, and didn't check the people around him. This time you said it specifically , I just noticed, I didn't expect that there would be such a relationship between them."
"What's the matter, do you want to tell that girl?" He asked.
"Tell her why?" Cao Yang stuffed the paper back into the leather file bag and lit a cigarette. "Since she entered our house, she has been a child of our family."
"..." My friend sighed, "Your family really cares about her."
"My father regards her as his own daughter." Cao Yang said.
"Then hide it from her? After all... connected by blood..." the friend persuaded.
"Blood connection?" Cao Yang sneered, "Ten years of indifference. If I hadn't met my father, girl and her mother, I don't know where it is now. This kind of blood connection is worse than a clean cut."
He returned home, in his study, and took out the paper from the kraft paper bag.
It was beyond his expectation that such a result would be found out.
In the afternoon, he said it firmly in front of his friends, but now he calmed down and looked at the name written on the paper again, but he couldn't help becoming irritable.
Lighting a cigarette, he remembered what his friend said... connected by blood...
The Cao family are all people who value blood and family ties. What kind of relationship is the blood connection, Cao Yang is very clear.
Can…
"Tuk Tuk Tuk" knocked on the door.
"Come in," he said.
Xia Rou probed her head: "Brother, it's time to eat."
"Well, right now, you go first."
Xia Rou agreed, and just retracted her head when she heard Cao Yang call "Xiao Rou", poking her head in again: "Huh?"
Cao Yang sat behind the desk and watched her from afar.
Her long hair hung down from her shoulders, and the ends of her hair dangled in the air... Her dark eyes blinked a few times, and she looked at him with doubts.
Cao Yang took two puffs of his cigarette and asked abruptly, "Are you happy now?"
"Happy. What's the matter?" Xia Rou was puzzled, her eyes widened.
Cao Yang looked at her for a while, then suddenly smiled.
"Wait for me, let's go down together."
He stood up, picked up the piece of paper on the table, and stuffed it into the shredder at the foot of the table.
Then go downstairs to eat with Xia Rou.
At the dinner table, the family talked and laughed, and the atmosphere was relaxed.
Cao Yang glanced at Xia Rou from time to time.
Before he knew it, he was used to seeing her with a soft smile on her white face at the dinner table.
Since she came to the Cao family, she is a child of the Cao family.
He grew up under the careful care of the men of the Cao family. So well-behaved, so obedient.
No one...don't try to take her away...
In the study room, the paper shredder hummed, and the white pages were slowly twisted in.
The name Xia Hongjun was shredded into confetti...