Tao Xi was taken out of the school gate by Lin Qinhe, but did not go back to where they lived, but a wonton stall in the old town.
Because Wenhua University is nearby, there are many college students in the old streets and alleys. The night market has set up stalls on the roadside, and the cold air is filled with the aroma of cumin from barbecue stalls.
Under the red plastic canopy with the "Old Sun Wonton" sign, a gray-haired old man was placing wontons in front of a cauldron with white steam. Seeing that Lin Qinhe brought a boy in, he stopped and asked with a smile. : "Did you skip class again?"
"I didn't skip class, it's a holiday at night." Lin Qinhe said, letting Tao Xi sit at the dining table in the corner sheltered from the wind, and wash the disposable tableware with boiling water.
"It's very clean, what else do you need to wash, you are the one who pays attention!" The old man couldn't help scolding when he saw that Lin Qinhe was washing carefully.
Tao Xi sat on the plastic stool and watched them talk curiously. He didn't expect that Lin Qinhe would come to such a horny pimple in the market, and he seemed to be quite familiar with the old man called Lao Sun.
Lao Sun noticed Tao Xi's gaze, gave him a kind smile, and looked at him carefully. He didn't know what to say to Lin Qinhe, but Lin Qinhe smiled lightly and replied a sentence.
Not long after, Lin Qinhe put a bowl full of wontons in front of him and said, "The wontons here are delicious, try it."
Tao Xi took the bowl and smelled it, and the fragrance filled his nose instantly. He buried his head and took a few mouthfuls with the spoon that Lin Qinhe handed him. It was really delicious, the soup was delicious, and the whole stomach was warmly warmed up.
He asked Lin Qinhe, who was sitting beside him, "Do you come here often?"
Lin Qinhe was also eating a bowl of wontons, and was about to answer when he heard the old Sun who was serving wontons laugh and say, "He came to me when he ran away from home when he was six or seven years old!"
Tao Xi suddenly looked at Lin Qinhe in amazement: "Run away from home?" He was still so young.
Lin Qinhe looked a little unnatural, turned his face slightly and said, "I just walked here from home, ate a bowl of wontons and went back, it's not like running away from home."
Hearing that, Lao Sun smiled and said, "I invited him to eat that bowl of wontons. He also told me that he would definitely repay me in the future."
Tao Xi couldn't help laughing. Under the hanging incandescent lamp, a smile flickered in his dark eyes and asked Lin Qinhe, "Why did you run away from home at that time?"
Lin Qinhe said indifferently: "I don't remember much, maybe it was a quarrel with my family."
Hearing what Lin Qinhe said, Lao Sun only smiled and shook his head.
A few college students soon entered the canopy, and Lao Sun was busy greeting the business. The cold wind was whistling outside the plastic film, but the inside of the shed was warm and warm.
"Then did you go back by yourself? Or did your family find you?" Tao Xi asked curiously.
Lin Qinhe thought for a while and said, "My family took me back."
"That's good." Tao Xi rested his chin with one hand and recalled, "Actually, I also walked away from home, forgot something, and even walked to the mountain next door, but as soon as it got dark, I would go by myself. ran back."
Lin Qinhe asked, "Are you afraid on the way back?"
Tao Xi nodded and said, "It's very dark and quiet in the mountains at night, and I'm timid and afraid of the dark, and I'd be startled when I hear a dog barking. Don't be afraid to get out of there."
As he spoke, he felt that his fingers were held by Lin Qinhe into his palm, tightly wrapping him.
Lin Qinhe looked at him, raised his eyebrows slightly, and said, "You never seem to be timid in front of me."
Tao Xi was stunned, and recalled that when he first arrived at Wenhua No. 1 Middle School, he jumped up and down to lean in front of the iceberg-like Lin Qinhe.
"That's different." He smiled.
Running to Lin Qinhe was the bravest thing he had ever done.
But going back to an unfamiliar home is still scary, just like when I ran away from home when I was a child and went back by myself, I was afraid that my family would beat and scold me for this, and I was also afraid that they would not beat and scold me, and I was conflicted and uneasy.
Tao Xi stared at the soup bowl for a while, and Lin Qinhe held his hand and stayed silent with him. After a while, he spoke again, his voice was low, as if he was speaking to Lin Qinhe, but also like he was speaking to Lin Qinhe. Say it to yourself:
"You asked me why I didn't tell you earlier. I said it was because I promised Guo Ping, but it wasn't."
"Because I was a little scared, I was afraid that I imagined too well, but in the end things were not as good as I thought, I was afraid that they would be disappointed in me and would not accept me, and I was also afraid that they would do everything possible to treat me because of their guilt for me. Well, I'm afraid they will be in a dilemma for me and Yang Duole... "
He never said these contradictory and complicated ideas to Lin Qinhe. This was his cowardly side that he didn't want to show.
Lin Qinhe kept his eyes on him, and said to him warmly, "I understand."
Tao Xi nodded. He hasn't spoken much since he came out of school. He seemed to have opened the chat box at this moment, as if he wanted to pour out all the things in his heart, and continued:
"Today I saw... They actually knew what they came to me for. Although the letter of understanding was a bit unexpected, I could actually understand what they were doing. If it were me, I think they would also be there for me. did so."
He felt the temperature of Lin Qinhe's palm, and the warmth seemed to give him the courage to continue to open himself up.
"But unfortunately, I still couldn't control my emotions, and I didn't know what was going on. At that moment, I suddenly felt a little aggrieved. I wanted to tell them the truth out loud, but I couldn't say it."
Tao Xi felt that when he said "grievance", the strength of the person next to him seemed to be heavier. His eyes were full of bright smiles.
"But I don't seem to be afraid now," he said.
All the uneasiness stemmed from expectations, and then disappeared in greater expectations. When he saw Lin Qinhe in the conference room, he suddenly realized that he had more expectations for his own future and life.
"You're not afraid anymore?" Lin Qinhe looked at him and asked.
Tao Xi nodded and said in a relaxed tone, "I'll stay with you all the time if it's a big deal. I don't have to stay in that house. I'll have to go out sooner or later if I study abroad or work."
Lin Qinhe raised his eyebrows and said, "Is it a big deal to live with me? You have to continue living with me when you go home."
Tao Xi asked amusingly, "What if they insist on letting me live at home?"
"Isn't this your home too?" Lin Qinhe asked rhetorically.
Tao Xi was stunned, his eyes fixed on Lin Qinhe, Lin Qinhe looked at him, and continued, "Maybe there will be no evidence to prove it for a long time in the future, but this will never change. You don't need proof, you know?"
They can't have a legally recognized relationship in the country, and they can't have a household registration book, but what if they don't
Home does not need proof.
Tao Xi looked at Lin Qinhe for a long time before he regained his senses. His eyelashes drooped slightly, but the corners of his mouth turned up, and said, "I see."
He held Lin Qinhe's hand instead, scratched his palm, and whispered, "Then don't be angry, okay?"
Today, Lin Qinhe was obviously a little rude to those elders before taking him away. After taking him away, Lin Qinhe restrained all his emotions, but he knew that Lin Qinhe might still feel uncomfortable.
After being silent for a while, Lin Qinhe said, "I'm not angry."
He was just disappointed by his powerlessness in this matter. How could Tao Xi not need relatives? He hoped more than Tao Xi that he could have a complete family relationship.
After Lao Sun greeted a table of guests, he came over and asked if he wanted to add more wontons. Tao Xi nodded and thanked him. He ate another half bowl, and in the end he couldn't stand up.
The two were about to leave after eating wontons, but Tao Xi suddenly smelled the smell of the barbecue stall outside, so he pushed Lin Qinhe out to buy it for him.
"Can you still eat?" Lin Qinhe asked, but he still went out to buy barbecue for Taoxi. The barbecue stall was doing well at night. He waited in line for a while before it was finished. When he came back, he saw Taoxi. Just listening to what Lao Sun was saying, the two stopped talking when they saw him come in.
Tao Xi saw that Lin Qinhe's expression was a little serious. Just as he was about to ask what was wrong, Lin Qinhe came over and whispered to him that Fang Zuqing had passed out.
While waiting for the barbecue, Lin Qinhe received a call from Su Yun and learned that Fang Zuqing had fainted in the conference room and was sent to Hannan Hospital. come over.
Tao Xi's heart throbbed in panic when he heard the news, followed by a surge of fear, he couldn't imagine what happened to Wan Fangzu Qingzhen and what to do.
Lin Qinhe took his arm and reassured him, "Grandpa Fang will be fine."
At this time, another call came from Lin Qinhe's mobile phone. He took it out and saw that it was Yang Zhengming.
Yang Zhengming rarely contacted Lin Qinhe. He had a bad relationship with Luo Zhengyin, but occasionally contacted Lin Qinhe because of his son. This time he called Lin Qinhe, but it was for his real son. Lin Qinhe couldn't help but feel a little bit. Satire.
On the phone, Yang Zhengming's voice was hoarse, and after a few words of greeting, he still asked Lin Qinhe euphemistically if he could talk to Tao Xi.
Lin Qinhe looked at Tao Xi on the side, Tao Xi said to Lin Qinhe softly, "Tell him, I will go to Hannan Hospital tomorrow."
Fang Zuqing fell ill, and he should have gone to see him. Sooner or later, this matter should be made clear, there is nothing to avoid.
After Lin Qinhe told Yang Zhengming, Yang Zhengming seemed a little unbelievable. After saying a few words "good" incoherently, he told Lin Qinhe the ward number in detail, and asked if he needed him to come tomorrow. Picking up Tao Xi, Lin Qinhe refused.
After hanging up the phone, Lin Qinhe said to Tao Xi, "I'll take you there tomorrow."
Tao Xi nodded in agreement.
After they went back that night, while taking a bath in Taoxi, Lin Qinhe called his father Lin Zeshi. Before hanging up, Yang Zhengming told him that his mother Luo Zhengyin was in a bad state and had been picked up by Lin Zeshi.
He knew that after the truth was revealed, not only the second elder of the Fang family, but also his mother would be most affected. The children who have spent more than ten years to raise them are not the children of Fang Sui. For Luo Zhengyin, this matter is more difficult to accept and more painful than Yang Zhengming.
Lin Zeshi obviously already knew about Tao Xi through Su Yun. He told Lin Qinhe that Luo Zhengyin had indeed relapsed from depression. Now he is with her in the nursing home, so that Lin Qinhe should not worry.
Tao Xi came out of the shower, wiped his hair with a dry towel and walked to the bedroom. He saw Lin Qinhe sitting in front of the floor-to-ceiling window and looking at the neon outside the window with a calm expression, as if thinking about something.
Aware of Tao Xi's footsteps, Lin Qinhe regained his senses, put his arms around Tao Xi's waist, let him sit on his lap, and then picked up the hairdryer that had been set aside to blow his hair.
I don't know why, Lin Qinhe seemed to be very keen on doing this, Tao Xi yawned and lowered his head weakly, feeling the warm air and the slender fingers running through his hair.
After blowing his hair, Tao Xi raised his hand and touched his head. Unsurprisingly, he felt a mess of hair. He sighed silently, closed his eyes and leaned against Lin Qinhe's chest. After a while, he asked:
"Are you going to tell me something?"
Lin Qinhe was still trying to fix his hair with his hands. Hearing this, he stopped his movements and said after deliberation, "You... your adoptive mother is hospitalized."
Tao Jian's former colleague reported the incident to Su Yun after seeing Tao Jian at Hannan Hospital, and soon found out that Tao Jian was hospitalized with Guo Ping at Hannan Hospital. After Lin Qinhe found out, he hesitated. For a long time, Tao Xi has not been told.
In his original plan, he never wanted to let Tao Xi tell the truth to the Fang family, he couldn't bear it.
After knowing that Guo Ping came to Wenhua City, he planned to let the initiator of all things uncover everything. Guo Ping agreed, and even offered to apologize to Fang's family. Because Guo Ping was inconvenient to move on the hospital bed, only one video was recorded in the end.
He just didn't expect that Yang Duole's incident happened later, disrupting his plan.
After hearing that Guo Ping was hospitalized, Tao Xi's body stiffened for a moment. After a long time, she asked calmly, "What's wrong with her?"
Lin Qinhe said: "uremia, late stage."
Tao Xi closed his eyes tightly and rested his chin on Lin Qinhe's shoulder. At that moment, he didn't know what he was feeling, it was dull and confusing, and it was hard to describe.
He tried hard to recall the symptoms of Guo Ping in the past, but in the past two years he had rarely returned home, and Guo Ping's always sad face was a little blurred.
Does he hate Guo Ping? Of course I hate it, but.
Tao Xi buried his face beside Lin Qinhe's neck and took a deep breath. Lin Qinhe raised his hand and gently stroked the back of Tao Xi's neck, kissed his hair, and whispered, "Go to sleep."
This time, Tao Xi didn't sleep well. He had a long dream. Sometimes it was Guo Ping, sometimes it was Tao Jian, and finally it was Tao Le. The little girl hugged him and cried. He didn't hear what he said. He was woken up by Lin Qinhe.
In the morning, Tao Xi and Lin Qinhe went to Hannan Hospital. He bought some fruits near the hospital, like all juniors who visit their elders.
It's just that he didn't expect to meet Tao Jian at the entrance of the inpatient department.
Tao Jian was pulling a pair of slippers, his beard seemed to have not been shaved for a few days, and he looked so sloppy that Tao Xi almost didn't recognize it.
His adoptive father was carrying a plastic bag in his hand, which seemed to be breakfast. He was stunned when he saw Tao Xi, his eyes fell on the fruit basket in Tao Xi's hand for two seconds, and then he glanced at Lin Qin, who had a cold look on the side. millet.
Tao Jian sneered: "Finally know to see your mother?"
Hearing this, Tao Xi frowned, Tao Jian reacted very quickly, he knew he was wrong when he saw Tao Xi's expression, he quickly squeezed out a sneer, and said yin and yang strangely: "Yo, it seems that he has recognized his own father. , are you in a hurry to do your filial piety?"
Lin Qinhe's eyes darkened when he looked at Tao Jian.
Tao Xi didn't respond to Tao Jian's words, but calmly said, "I don't have time to argue with you now."
After speaking, he and Lin Qinhe turned around and continued to walk towards the elevator, but after walking a few steps, Tao Xi heard the sound of his slippers coming from behind, and he paused.
Tao Jian stretched out his hand to grab Tao Xi's arm, but Tao Xi was hugged by Lin Qinhe and took a step back, leaving his hand empty.
He didn't make any more moves, he just raised his eyebrows and asked Tao Xi, "Do you know where that boy Yang Duole is now?"
Tao Xi asked back: "Didn't you keep asking him for money? How could you not know?"
Tao Jian's face suddenly turned blue, and his throat was burning: "I am his father, his mother is sick, shouldn't I pay for his mother's treatment?!"
Tao Xi frowned and said, "I don't know, you can find him yourself."
Tao Jian fell silent. At that moment, Tao Xi seemed to see a lot of exhaustion and depression in the man he had called his father for many years.
Tao Jian finally waved his hand and turned away by himself, but he turned around abruptly before taking a few steps, and said impatiently to Tao Xi, "Go see her when you have time, she wants to see you", and then did not wait. Tao Xi agreed and walked away completely.
Tao Xi stood there and did not move for a while.
Lin Qinhe held his hand amid the rushing crowd, put it in his palm, pulled him into the elevator, and told him about Guo Ping's condition.
Guo Ping is already in the late stage of uremia, and has been doing dialysis in the hospital during this time, but the doctor said that it is better to get a kidney transplant. Tao Le is too young and suffers from lupus erythematosus. Tao Jian is in a hurry to find Yang Duole. is for this.
Tao Xi felt that this might not be what Guo Ping meant.
Guo Ping is willing to hand him over to others for the sake of this son and keep secrets for more than ten years. Will he bear to let him replace his kidney
But that has nothing to do with him either.
After the elevator door opened, Tao Xi saw Yang Zhengming standing not far from the exit looking at him, apparently waiting for his arrival.
Yang Zhengming is still wearing the clothes he wore yesterday, the crisp and expensive fabrics are already wrinkled a little, the handsome face that used to be warm in the past is full of exhaustion, and there is still the smell of cigarettes on his body. Obviously he didn't get much rest this night, but When he saw Tao Xi, he still smiled quickly.
It was just when he was calling Tao Xi's name, Yang Zhengming felt unnatural for a moment. This unnaturalness was more obvious when he wanted to take the fruit in his hand for Tao Xi, but Tao Xi said "No, Uncle Yang".
Yang Zhengming withdrew his stiff hands, a smile stuck at the corner of his mouth, and turned to lead the way for the two of them. He has always been good at conversation, but at this moment, he didn't know what to say to the child who was his own but unfamiliar in front of him, so he had to say that Fang Zuqing had woken up and let him Don't worry about words.
Tao Xi naturally followed Yang Zhengming's words without showing any resistance, but he didn't mean to get close either.
To be honest, he doesn't have a good impression of Yang Zhengming. Just a stupid Guan Fanyun who is similar to his mother is enough to make his impression of this father extremely bad.
The road from the elevator to the ward is not far. Tao Xi quickly followed Yang Zhengming to the door of the ward. Lin Qinhe stopped and whispered to Tao Xi, "I'll pick you up later."
After all, this is the family affairs of the Fang family and the Yang family. Lin Qinhe knew that it was not suitable to participate in it. He held Tao Xi's hand and squeezed it lightly.
Tao Xi nodded, shook Lin Qinhe's hand back and let go.
Yang Zhengming saw the hands that the two had just held, and without saying anything, pushed the door of the ward open.
Tao Xi looked at the door that was opened, and suddenly remembered that night in the hospital, he hid outside the door of the ward, watching his grandfather and grandmother wipe Yang Duole's tears on the hospital bed, obviously only a door away, But it seems like a world away.
At this moment, outside the door of the same hospital and the same ward, he took a deep breath, took a step, and walked towards the two old people inside.
The author says:
Sorry for the delay of four months before resuming the update. The previous chapters have been revised to some extent, which does not affect the general plot.