Lincheng.
In late summer, dark clouds gather and the air is humid and hot.
There was no business in the coffee shop, it was too deserted.
A cold and slender figure stood behind the bar.
The dim light shone like moonlight, covering her with shadows.
She lowered her head halfway, a strand of forehead hair fell, and she could vaguely see a straight nose bridge and two eyelashes like thick black crow feathers.
Her skin, which was as white as jade, was somewhat pale, but it was still incredibly delicate and clear, and her whole body seemed to be glowing.
A baby face finished collecting the tableware and came over:
"Xiao Li, I heard you're leaving tomorrow?"
Ning Li nodded lightly:
"Um."
"Then it will be difficult for us to meet again."
Babyface sighed, hesitated to speak.
They all knew that Ning Li grew up with her grandma since she was a child.
But half a month ago, Grandma Ning Li died of a heart attack.
Therefore, Ning Li's custody rights fell to her mother.
——No one knew that her mother was still alive and married into a wealthy family. Moreover, it is in Yunzhou, which is only an hour's drive from Lincheng.
"However, since I haven't seen you for so many years, your mother must miss you very much." Babyface said dryly.
Ning Li paused and raised her eyelashes slightly.
They were a pair of extremely beautiful peach blossom eyes, hooked outside and curled up inside, clean and clear, but the pupils of the eyes were extremely black, as deep as the hazy night, which added a bit of desolation.
The corners of her lips were bent, and there seemed to be a small shimmer of light in the depths of her eyes, and her voice was light:
"Maybe."
As long as there is a little miss, it is not impossible to never show up for so many years.
Her father, Ning Haizhou, came from an ordinary family. When he was young, he coaxed Su Yuan into marrying him with his good looks.
But the good times didn't last long. After marriage, Ning Haizhou had nothing to do and didn't seek to make progress. The proud and arrogant Su Yuan couldn't bear this kind of poor life. In a fit of anger, she divorced and left when Ning Li was six years old.
One month after she left, Ning Haizhou was sentenced to life imprisonment for his death in a drunken hit-and-run.
Since then, Ning Li has lived with her grandma.
If it wasn't for the unexpected death of her grandma, Ning Li felt that she might never see Su Yuan again in her whole life.
No one would like such an oil bottle.
Everyone understands this truth, but in her previous life, she yearned for family affection. She was so naive and stupid that she was disfigured, slandered, lost everything, and became notorious. In the end, she was imprisoned in a nursing home for a year and died unexpectedly.
When she woke up again, she found that she was seventeen years old again.
Well, it's just the beginning.
Babyface was a little surprised.
When Ning Li talked about this before, her eyes were always full of joy, why is it that today
For some reason, Ning Li seemed to have become a little different since she had a high fever three days ago.
The phone in Ning Li's pocket vibrated.
She took it out and took a look. On the screen was a string of phone numbers from Yunzhou.
She focused her eyes slightly, then cut off the phone quickly and set it to silent.
Babyface asked curiously:
"Who is it?"
Ning Li didn't take it seriously:
"I don't know, it may be a harassing call."
The baby face nodded clearly, turned around and went to the cubicle to change clothes and come out.
Originally, she was on the evening shift today, but because of family problems, Ning Li took the initiative to change shifts with her, and she was very grateful.
"Ning Li, I'm leaving then! Be careful when you go back later."
Ning Li smiled and waved goodbye to her.
It was getting darker.
There was a bang of thunder, and the bean-sized raindrops slammed down.
Ning Li stayed in the store for another two hours, and the hour hand pointed to ten o'clock.
She sat on the high stool, tore off a post-it note, and wrote something casually.
Suddenly, a piercing car horn sounded from outside the door.
She looked up and saw a black Cayenne parked outside the door.
She sat up slowly.
The driver got down, opened an umbrella, and came to the back door.
A well-dressed woman walked out of it, and then walked into the coffee shop.
The light and shadow interlaced, reflecting the woman's well-maintained face.
But at this moment, the expression on this face was not pretty.
She stared at Ning Li with slender eyebrows. She had seen Ning Li's photo before, and this was the first time the two had formally met each other in eleven years.
The girl in front of her was wearing a simple black T-shirt, with a delicate collarbone looming, and smoky gray pencil pants, outlining her straight and slender legs.
She has a clear and beautiful appearance, and there is an indescribable unrestrained unrestrained expression between her eyebrows and eyes.
The driver, Zou Hua, stood on one side, looking at Ning Li with a look of disdain.
When Madam came in, Ning Li didn't even have the intention of standing up to say hello, her whole body was full of alienation and indifference.
Is this how you treat your mother
How uneducated!
Su Yuan also felt this, and felt that her face was dull.
But years of living in a wealthy family have made her used to maintaining her posture at all times.
She paused, trying to make her voice sound calm:
"Ning Li, I just went to school. Director Zhang said that you haven't been to school for the past few days. You don't go to school, why are you here?"
She found this place after inquiring many ways. It really took a long time to go back and forth.
Ning Li closed the pen cap and said lightly:
"I had a fever for three days, and I got better today. In addition, I owed a debt for grandma's funeral. I came here to work to pay it off."
Su Yuan choked.
"I called you so many times just now, and you didn't answer—"
Ning Li raised her eyebrows, took out her mobile phone, and saw that there were more than a dozen missed calls on it, and suddenly said:
"So that's it. I thought it was a harassing phone call."
Of course, there is no Su Yuan's number in her mobile phone.
Su Yuan closed her eyes.
When she left Lincheng without looking back, she never thought about coming back.
The previous marriage, and this daughter, are all pasts that she doesn't want to mention.
The Ye family has a head and a reputation in Yunzhou, and she really spent a lot of effort in order to stand on her feet.
It was not easy for Ye Ming's daughter Ye Ci to accept her, and she gave birth to a son Ye Cheng. She thought she could live her life with peace of mind, but Ning Li stepped in again.
She didn't want to come, but there was nothing she could do.
Moreover, as soon as she saw Ning Li, she couldn't help but think of the embarrassing past, which made it impossible for her to get close to Ning Li anyway.
"You don't have to worry about these things, go back and clean up, and go back to Yunzhou with me tonight."
Su Yuan's tone was unquestionable, and she turned around to go out after speaking.
Ning Li suddenly said:
"I can't finish packing, and I can't leave at night."
Su Yuan turned around, a little impatient:
"What is there to clean up in your house? Everything is prepared for you in Yunzhou, you—"
"I'm not used to using other people's things."
Ning Li interrupted her.
Su Yuan was stunned.
But before coming, she had already agreed with Ye Ming that she would definitely go back at night, and if it wasn't for Ning Li, she wouldn't have delayed until this time.
Crash!
It was raining harder and harder outside.
Zou Hua glanced at the phone, his face changed slightly:
"Ma'am, because of the heavy rain, the expressway back to Yunzhou is closed."
"What?" Su Yuan was startled.
Now, I'm afraid I really can't go back.
Ning Li rested her chin in one hand.
There was indeed nothing to pack, she just didn't want to leave tonight.
On this day in my previous life, it was raining heavily in Yunzhou, and more than a dozen cars were rear-ended in a row on the highway, resulting in three deaths and seven injuries.
And Ning Li was one of the wounded.
In that accident, both Zou Hua and Su Yuan were lucky enough to only suffer from scratches, but Ning Li suffered a broken right hand and had to rest for three full months.
Most importantly, since then, her right hand has lost part of its function.
At that time, she felt that there was something wrong with the car, and she wanted to check it out, but was told that the car had been scrapped and there was nowhere to check it.
If she did it all over again, she wouldn't take the risk again.
Seeing that the situation had changed, Su Yuan could only say:
"Then I'll call home and stay here tonight. Zou Hua, go book a hotel."
"yes."
Ning Li said:
"I'm going home to live."
Su Yuan was on the phone, when she heard this sentence she frowned and glanced at her.
Since Ning Li insisted, she had nothing to say, but she would never step into that crappy place again.
She gathered her shawl.
"Zou Hua, take her back."
Half an hour later, the black Cayenne drove into an old town.
In recent years, the east of Lincheng City has developed rapidly because it is adjacent to Yunzhou.
In comparison, the west side of the city is much more crowded and dilapidated.
Finally, the car stopped in front of an alley.
At this time, the rain had lightened a lot. Under the dim street lights, potholes were faintly visible on the narrow road, and the tube building next to it was mottled and dilapidated.
Su Yuan only glanced at it, then looked away in disgust.
She sat there motionless:
"I'll pick you up at eight tomorrow morning."
Ning Li picked up her black backpack, got off the car neatly, turned and left.
Under the dense night, she held an umbrella in one hand, her back was slender and thin, straight and proud.
A white car drove by.
Cheng Xiyue drove the car and asked lazily:
"I really don't know what's so good about this small Lincheng. It's worth your visit once a month. After you come here, you don't do anything else, just hang out on this road. It's been almost a year, and I really think of you as you Are you a professional driver?"
The man sitting in the co-pilot looked sideways out the window.
His skin is fair, his black hair hangs down, the curve from the brow bone to the bridge of the nose is almost as perfect as a sculpture, and the jaw line is clean and sharp.
He was wearing a black shirt, with two buttons on the collar undone casually, revealing his sexy Adam's apple.
The two extreme colors of black and white are distinct, yet they blend perfectly.
It is clearly a very lazy and casual posture, but the eyebrows and eyes are noble and cold, revealing the ultimate sense of abstinence.
He spoke, because he didn't sleep well last night, his deep voice was a little hoarse.
"Um."
Cheng Xiyue: "."
People are really beautiful, but with this ancestral temperament, I don't know who can serve them.
He remembered what the old man of the Lu family had said before, coughed, and said:
"If you want me to say, there's no way for you to always be like this. It's been a year since that happened, I'd better see a psychiatrist—"
Before he finished speaking, he found that the man sat up slightly and was staring outside.
He looked down and saw a familiar license plate.
"Huh? Isn't this the Ye family's car? It seems that they are here to pick up the little girl."
Lu Huaiyu looked at the back figure hidden in the alley, and it took him a while to regain his senses.
"Ye family?"
Cheng Xiyue shrugged:
"Ye Ming's current wife has a daughter born to her ex-husband, who is not yet an adult and has no one to take care of her. The Ye family said they want to take her back. There has been a lot of trouble recently. That little girl will have a hard time in the future. .”
Lu Huaiyu thought for a moment, then suddenly asked:
"Grandpa Cheng's 70th birthday will be in a few days, have you sent the invitation to the Ye family?"
Cheng Xiyue shook his head: "No."
"I'll accompany you to deliver it tomorrow."
Cheng Xiyue turned the steering wheel violently, and looked at him in disbelief:
"It's just a Ye family—wait a minute, you didn't go after the little girl, did you?"
Illuminated by the lights, his face was half-bright and half-dark, and there seemed to be a stream of light flashing across the depths of those thick, sea-like pupils.
He laughed lowly:
"Didn't you say that the little girl has no one to take care of?"
Second brother: I raise it.
The little ancestor has signed a contract to publish,
(end of this chapter)