Women often ask, do you love my person or my body... Such a question seems really silly to a man, but in fact it is just a very common state of mind. In the emotional age, such confusion is not only experienced by women, but also by men.
Do you love my money, or my people? Do you love my status, or my charm? And so on, just like Li Rou's current mentality, he thinks that the Li family's attention to him is only because he is Li Cunshan's son, but it doesn't mean that he has much affection and love for Li Rou.
Li Rou's most important thing is the accumulated feelings in life, so he naturally has no family affection for the Li family, let alone a sense of belonging.
Of course, Li Shishi is an exception, Li Rou likes her very much, but it has nothing to do with the Li family.
Years ago Li Cunxi asked Li Rou to go to celebrate the New Year, but Li Rou did not agree because of this reason, but today Qiao Niannu's mother came.
In any case, there is no reason for the elders to come to the younger generation's home to pay New Year's greetings. Today is the second day of the Lunar New Year. How can it be said that it is just a normal walk when visiting at this time
Li Rou stood there in a daze. The identity of the person in front of her was actually a bit complicated. She was Qiao Niannu's mother, and she was also the person I should call my aunt. At the same time, she was Lin Jiangxian's younger sister, and I should call her my aunt.
Lin Jiangxian's younger sister is not surnamed Lin, but Qiao, Qiao Ruoyu. She has a name like the heroine of a romance novel, but even though she will be called aunt or aunt, in fact, it doesn't make people feel awkward to match her with this name. With that young face, it's hard to imagine that she already has a daughter in her early twenties, and she and Qiao Niannu will only make people feel like two sisters when they walk together.
Li Rou has also vaguely heard some rumors. Although Qiao Ruoyu is very low-key, let alone appearing in public, and even rarely leaves the municipal committee yard, many people know that Li Cunxi, the secretary of the Zhonghai Municipal Committee, is not only proud of his officialdom, but also his wife. The number one beauty in Zhong Hai's officialdom.
A woman of this age can still overwhelm a large group of young women. With such a title, one can imagine her beauty.
"Li Rou..." Qiao Ruoyu stood outside the door with a stiff expression. She seemed to want to laugh, but she couldn't. After a few moments, he turned his head away, clenched his fist against his lips, and then turned his head again, "Happy New Year."
"Happy New Year..." Li Rou hurriedly said, "Please come in."
Li Rou kicked away the slippers at the door. There were too many slippers at home, and the girls often changed into beautiful slippers. It was a bit messy to change them. I apologized embarrassedly, but noticed that Qiao Ruoyu's eyes were extraordinarily bright, There is no turbidity or blood color of a middle-aged person at all. When you look closely, it turns out to be moist, like a puddle of autumn water.
Qiao Ruoyu walked in, looked at the three little girls sitting on the bed, stopped involuntarily, then took a deep breath, showing an unnatural smile: "It's very lively at home... Shishi, you Are you planning to go back?"
"No, I've only been here for a day! I'm not going back!" Li Shishi was taken aback, thinking that her aunt was here to pick her up, so she quickly sat on the bed, as if she was afraid that her aunt would drag her away.
"Whatever you want, I'm not here to pull you back..." Qiao Ruoyu smiled, stretched out her hand and shook her hand to greet the other two girls: "Hello."
"Hello, Aunt Qiao." Concubine Mi said obediently. Concubine Mi is many years old, but she still has to follow Li Rou to call for someone. But she knew that this Aunt Qiao didn't really like her very much. The last time she went to play with Li Shishi, this Aunt Qiao had more conversations with An Nanxiu who always ignored her.
"Hurry up, I'm going to roll a six, and then I can let you eat arsenic!" An Nanxiu turned a blind eye, urging Concubine Mi and Li Shishi to roll the dice quickly.
New Year's Eve... Glancing at Li Rou, Qiao Ruoyu smiled awkwardly, but the other two little girls didn't care at all. Li Shishi yelled that she had the "Herbal Classic" to detoxify, and Tang Bohu's smiling half-step, but she Concubine Mi expressed her admiration for Li Shishi's Yiri Sangming San, and wanted to exchange Wei Xiaobao's corpse powder with her.
"Half-stepping with a smile, one day's death powder, corpse powder... What are these?" Qiao Ruoyu knew about arsenic and "Herbal Classic", but not about other things.
"They're playing games and fooling around." Li Rou felt that Qiao Ruoyu should go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, and the living room was noisy, and it didn't seem like a place to talk, so he stood up and said to the three girls: "Go to Concubine Mi Go play on the bed and make a mess of my bed."
"I'm not going..." An Nanxiu said immediately.
Li Rou walked over and hugged her in his arms. An Nanxiu held onto her prop card tightly, but she didn't struggle. Concubine Mi and Li Shishi didn't want Li Rou to hug her, and followed her to play.
Li Rou went back to the living room and found that Qiao Ruoyu was looking at the room. Li Rou sat down and said with a smile, "Aunt Qiao, what do you want to come here today?"
Feeling that Qiao Ruoyu is not a sociable person, Li Rou took the initiative to ask.
"I'm just here to take a look." Only she and Li Rou were left in the living room, and Qiao Ruoyu became more natural.
"Then you can look at it as you like." She didn't say anything, and Li Rou couldn't have to ask someone to explain his purpose, although Li Rou felt that Qiao Ruoyu's visit on the second day of the Lunar New Year was definitely not just a casual look.
Qiao Ruoyu really just looked at it casually, and felt a little embarrassed when she looked at Li Rou, because although Qiao Ruoyu's eyes wandered, she always looked at Li Rou's face from time to time, and gradually she stopped pretending to look around Looking west, he kept looking at Li Rou, the water vapor in his eyes became thicker and thicker, and the tears flowed down unstoppably.
"Aunt Qiao...you are..." Li Rou felt his eyes a little sore for no reason, and Qiao Ruoyu's tears were not fake, and the emotions contained in them made Li Rou's heart tremble.
"Child..." Qiao Ruoyu stretched out her hand, and that hand, which was no different from that of a young woman, with skin without a trace of wrinkle, gently stroked Li Rou's cheek.
Li Rou doesn't know why Qiao Ruoyu is like this... If it is said that he lost control of his emotions after meeting his long-lost relatives, Li Rou is a little hard to understand, because this is not the first time they met, and Qiao Ruoyu was not like this last time.
But her tears were so clear and pure, falling drop by drop, her eyes were trembling, but her eyes were fixed on Li Rou's face.
After a long time, Qiao Ruoyu seemed to realize that she moved her palm away from Li Rou's face.
"Here." Li Rou took a tissue to Qiao Ruoyu. Compared with Qiao Ruoyu who seemed to be very restrained but still unable to fully express his feelings, Li Rou was calmer after all, or just a little dazed.
"It's okay... Are you a little strange?" Qiao Ruoyu cried for a while, her mood seemed to be better, and finally a slightly natural smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.
Li Rou nodded. If Qiao Ruoyu looked like an ordinary middle-aged woman in her 40s or 50s, Li Rou might be more touched. It’s just that such a young elder, her current appearance brought Li Rou more. What is doubtful.
"I only recently found out that you are in Zhonghai... have you lived here all this time?" Qiao Ruoyu didn't seem to know much about Li Rou's affairs.
"No, this is the house I only rented when I was in college." Li Rou shook his head, a little puzzled. If Qiao Ruoyu really paid attention to him, Qiao Niannu could have found out about these issues, but if she was just pretending Well, that's unlikely, although women are born with the ability to act, but the emotion Qiao Ruoyu showed just now really doesn't look like acting.
"Your mother... your mother... did you live with you before?" Qiao Ruoyu asked again.
"No...my sister and I live together, Lin... my mother seldom cares about us." Qiao Ruoyu really didn't know at all, and Li Rou became more and more confused.
"Seldom cares about you? You mean... she didn't take care of you?" Qiao Ruoyu couldn't help showing anger in her eyes, but she quickly suppressed it. Helpless cowardice.
"Take care?" Li Rou smiled, "Actually, we can be said to be orphans."
"Ah..." Qiao Ruoyu just picked up the teacup and put it down again, looking at Li Rou in surprise: "Orphan..."
Qiao Ruoyu was silent for a moment, then looked at Li Rou in a daze.
"Don't cry..." Seeing that big tears were about to flow from her eyes again, Li Rou hurriedly smiled and handed the tissue over.
Qiao Ruoyu wiped away her tears, and then began to ask Li Rou about big and small things when she was a child.
Qiao Ruoyu sat for three hours before leaving.
Li Rou sent Qiao Ruoyu downstairs, but found that there was no pick-up car, and she seemed to have come here alone.
Back upstairs, Li Rou frowned. The three-hour conversation was enough for him to see many things. Qiao Ruoyu really cared about his nephew, but the paradox was that when Li Rou had been in Li Cunxi's field of vision for so long Since then, Qiao Ruoyu knows very little about Li Rou.
If she is pretending, as an aunt or aunt, such emotions are a bit too exaggerated, not to mention that in the face of long-lost relatives, normal people should not only care about his past, but also comfort, or Some words about what will happen in the future, but Qiao Ruoyu didn't say a word. She didn't seem to be in the mood to think about the future at this time. She just wanted to know about Li Rou's life in the past twenty years. It was as if life filled her heart.
Li Rou also noticed that Qiao Ruoyu didn't take the initiative to ask about Li Banzhuang from the beginning to the end. Basically, when Li Rou talked about Li Banzhuang, she responded absent-mindedly, and then turned the topic to Li Banzhuang. go.
Is it patriarchal? That shouldn't be the case either.
Li Rou shook his head, Qiao Ruoyu's attitude was not something he had to figure out, but he noticed that Qiao Ruoyu brought a bag over and opened it, but it was a sweater.
Li Rou took it out and touched it. The sweater was soft and warm, and it was heavy in his hands.