Xue Anbang specially took a half-day off to pick up his daughter and Xiao Yao home.
Yang Xiaoxiao felt strange when he heard the news that Xue Xue and Xiao Yao were coming back together.
"What's so strange?" Xue Anbang, who was watching the game, opened the beer and answered absently. "Both children are in Nanjiang. Although Yan Yan spends most of the time in the dormitory, he often goes to Xiao Yao's place on holidays. Isn't it normal to travel together now?"
This is also reasonable.
But the woman's intuition told Yang Xiaoxiao that something was wrong.
The last time we met during the New Year, she felt that Xue Xue had something to hide from herself.
The reason why she didn't think in the direction of her and Xiao Yao's relationship is that Yang Xiaoxiao has always felt that the two treat each other as brothers and sisters.
Once preconceived impressions are formed, it is difficult to reverse, and there are no signs of the past that can make people associate.
"She is on vacation at the end of June, why is she still staying in Nanjiang?"
"What's the matter, didn't we procrastinate when we got home from college?" Xue Anbang touched the fried peanuts and threw them into his mouth. "Don't think too much, young people's minds can't guess, it's just wasted."
"..." She shouldn't have discussed this with her husband.
However, once the seeds of doubt fall, they are not so easy to eradicate.
For this reason, Yang Xiaoxiao also specially called his brother to ask.
Since the parents and eldest brother have lived together in the past few years, the husband and wife are busy with work and have no time to go back to visit. It happened that their daughter was studying in Nanjiang, so Yang Xiaoxiao asked Xue Xue to visit her home more often and do her filial piety for herself.
Xue Xue naturally should be fine.
"Xue Xue? She's been here a few times, but she's all alone, what's wrong?"
"Well, it's okay." Yang Xiaoxiao changed the subject. "How are Mom and Dad doing recently?"
After talking on the phone with my brother, twenty minutes passed.
Yang Xiaoxiao rubbed her stiff neck and got up and went to the bathroom.
She looked at herself in the mirror.
On a well-maintained face, there are only light and fine lines around the corners of the eyes. As long as you don't stare at it, you can hardly see it. Although the skin is not as shiny and elastic as it was when you were young, it has no major flaws. Get a lot of admiring looks.
Yang Xiaoxiao remembered that when he went out to attend the class reunion last weekend, he rarely put on full makeup, and was approached by a passing boy at the subway station.
Compared with the hysterical and haggard woman in the dream, this self is like twins with different souls.
Is that really the same person
Yang Xiaoxiao couldn't help but think.
Although I haven't dreamed for a long time since Xue Xue went to Nanjiang to study, the dreams that appeared frequently before and after her daughter's college entrance examination and were so vivid that they seemed to be reality still made people linger in fear.
So after discovering that Xue Xue seemed to be trying to hide something, Yang Xiaoxiao began to feel anxious again.
She knows that this is wrong, and she can usually suppress her emotions well, but...
"Xiao Xiao?" Pushing open the unlocked bathroom door, Xue Anbang was stunned when he saw his wife standing in front of the sink. "So you are here."
Yang Xiaoxiao did not look back.
"I thought you weren't at home, but you probably didn't hear the several calls when I entered the door." Xue Anbang walked towards her as he unbuttoned his shirt. "Didn't you say before that there is a very good Chinese restaurant? I asked my colleague to get the membership card today, we can... "
The sound disappears.
After reacting, Xue Anbang anxiously stepped forward and put his arms around his wife's shoulders.
"Why are you crying? What's wrong? Do you want to see a doctor? I'll call right now..."
"No." Leaning on her husband's reassuring chest, Yang Xiaoxiao clenched his collar tightly, and his mood gradually calmed down. "I'm fine."
"But… "
"It's really fine." She raised her eyes and met Xue Anbang's. "Give me some time and let me clean up, okay?"
His wife's voice was gentle and peaceful, as if the image of the woman crying quietly in front of the mirror was just his own illusion, but the slightly reddish corners of his eyes could not deceive anyone.
Xue Anbang wanted to ask again, but Yang Xiaoxiao waved his hand and drove him out of the bathroom.
"Mom is weird?"
"Yeah." After the car drove up to the high speed and kept a safe distance, Xue Anbang turned on the intelligent driving assistance function before he was distracted and talked to his daughter, his tone full of helplessness. "She keeps saying you're weird, and I think she's weird."
"Am I weird?"
Xue Xue frowned, and then seemed to think of something, and a thoughtful look appeared in her eyes.
Xue Anbang didn't notice the change in her expression and was still chattering, but Xiao Yao saw that Xue Xue's face was not quite right, so he lowered his voice and asked, "What's wrong?"
Xue Xue shook his head.
"fine."
When the child came home, although he had something on his mind, Yang Xiaoxiao cheered up and prepared a table of good dishes, and asked Jiang Xiaotian and Xiao Yao to come over for dinner.
Xue Xue did not deliberately conceal her intimacy with Xiao Yao this time, and Yang Xiaoxiao watched it all the way.
When Xiao Yao and Jiang Xiaotian went back, Xue Anbang also went upstairs to wash up. Taking advantage of the time Xue Xue helped to clean up, she pretended to inadvertently mentioned: "You and Xiao Yao..."
"We're dating."