Maybe Tang Zhi was really too tired and slept too deeply, so he didn't wake up, didn't continue talking in his sleep, and fell asleep again.
Xu Sheng stayed with Tang Zhi for a while, then left the guest bedroom and closed the door for Tang Zhi.
To walk back to Xu Sheng's bedroom from the guest room, you need to go through a long corridor.
Xu Sheng passed by the photos of family members carefully selected by his mother hanging on the wall.
As he approached the bedroom, he recalled the afternoon at the sanatorium.
He walked into the villa of the nursing home and saw his mother sitting in a wheelchair, with a lawyer he had met several times standing next to her.
The mother took care of herself very well, wearing a silk skirt and a thin blanket on her legs. There was an unconcealable weakness in her voice.
She implicitly said that she wanted to prepare early, and made a will in front of Xu Sheng, leaving her shares in the group to Xu Sheng, and her property and cash to Xu Keyu.
My mother has always been decisive in doing things. Xu Sheng listened to her quietly and watched her sign "Xu Yin" on the document. He said nothing and was only a little distracted.
Because he remembered that when she signed the divorce agreement with her father, her expression seemed not much different from now.
Of course, my mother is much older now than she was then.
After the first surgery, my mother began to lose weight, with wrinkles snaking up her neck and cheeks, but her personality remained the same.
Grandfather often said that Xu Sheng was most like him, but Xu Sheng thought otherwise. The person who looks most like Xu Hefu is Xu Yin. She was determined that nothing in the world could change.
The lawyer completed the procedure and left the room.
She was quiet for a moment and suddenly asked Xu Sheng: "I heard that you are dating a girl from the Zhao family."
Xu Sheng admitted: "Yes."
The sunlight moved to her feet, and she moved the electric wheelchair back a little.
Xu Sheng noticed that she still only liked to sit near the sun and was unwilling to bask in the sun.
"I saw her photo," her mother looked out the window and said to Xu Sheng, "She is very beautiful and matches you very well."
This sentence felt familiar to Xu Sheng, and he soon thought that Tang Zhi had also said it.
But his mother was encouraging and approving. Xu Sheng thought that Tang Zhi might be angry because Xu Sheng let him get wet in the rain, so he deliberately said angry words.
Tang Zhi doesn't want Xu Sheng and Zhao Shao to date.
"Do you like her?" Mother asked Xu Sheng a little abruptly.
Xu Sheng was stunned for a moment and realized that her mother's personality had changed slightly after she fell ill. She had never asked such meaningless questions before.
Xu Sheng didn't know what was wrong with him, so he looked into his mother's eyes, looked at her for a while, and said "I don't like it" that was even more meaningless.
His mother looked at him and smiled, looking at Xu Sheng as if she were a naughty child, and said to him, "I asked casually."
"Your marriage is different from Keyu. You must get value for money," his mother said to him. "The same goes for childbirth. You must have offspring as soon as possible."
Xu Sheng laughed dumbly, looked at her and said, "Really? Mom."
The mother was startled, perhaps realizing her gaffe.
Xu Sheng felt that Xu Yin and Xu Hefu were too similar.
In the eyes of outsiders, Xu Hefu is keen on charity and a kind-hearted person in Bingang Special Economic Zone. Xu Yin is generous and gentle, tolerant and considerate of his subordinates. She is Xu Hefu's most capable and approachable daughter.
Even Xu Keyu thinks that his mother is much easier to get along with than his brother.
However, for Xu Yin, Xu Sheng and Xu Keyu are just her money's worth.
After a moment of silence, she said to Xu Sheng: "Men and women are different. Maternal love is physiological."
Xu Sheng smiled again and said nothing.
She stared at Xu Sheng's face, as if studying Xu Sheng's mood, and continued to make amends: "I know you have resentment towards me."
"After returning to Bingang from the capital, I know you suffered a lot and changed a lot." She cast her gaze towards the garden outside the window and said with great nostalgia, "You were so outgoing and arrogant when you were a child. Do you remember that at that time? Every time you play a war game with other children, you must be a general, and everyone will let you... When you arrive in Bingang, everything is different."
Xu Sheng didn't have too many ups and downs because of what his mother said. He just said to her: "Bingang is good, and I'm not too hard-working."
"I will get what I want. I don't need anyone to ask me." He told his mother calmly.
The mother was stunned for a while, looked away, and became quiet.
After a short silence, she changed the topic and mentioned Xu Keyu.
"Your sister's life is very difficult," she said. "I haven't been with her since she was a child. I went to see her a few days ago and the doctor said she was showing signs of waking up. I don't know how happy I am."
"The person I feel most sorry for is Keyu."
The corners of his mother's eyes turned red. Xu Sheng wasn't sure whether she really regretted it, but unusually, Xu Sheng's mood was no longer so stable.
Because he had never felt so clearly that health and life were quickly escaping from his mother's body.
"The person who married her, do you think he likes Keyu?" Mother asked Xu Sheng as if talking to herself.
"I don't think I like him very much," she said to herself, "and he's a little... too good-looking. Standing with Keyu, they don't look like a couple. Although Keyu said that he had been secretly in love with him for a long time, I still don’t feel right.”
"How did Ke Yu behave after his accident? Was he sad?"
Xu Sheng paused and said to her, "I'm very sad."
She thought for a while and didn't continue.
Then, she closed her eyes slightly. Xu Sheng saw that she was very sleepy and pushed her back to the bedroom. Before Xu Sheng left, she said again: "Have a good time dating the girl from the Zhao family."
The strange thing is that Xu Sheng forgot what his answer was at that time. It might have been "got it" or "ok".
He thought he started to forget it when his mother said he didn't like Xu Keyu very much.
Xu Sheng waited in the car for five minutes before he got out. Xu Sheng saw him from far to near through the brown glass.
Perhaps because of the heat, Tang Zhi took off his coat and wore a shirt. He walked a little eagerly, as if he was worried about Xu Sheng waiting in a hurry.
Like a butterfly determined to land on a stranger's chest.
The last small memory of talking about marriage with my mother seemed to be like a brick of cream ice placed in the heater, which began to melt continuously and gradually lost its original shape.
Of course, Tang Zhi did not have such ability, but Xu Sheng happened to forget it when he saw him.
With this in mind, Xu Sheng approached the bedroom.
Early the next morning, Xu Sheng went to the resort near the bridge club and met secretly with the group shareholder who had an appointment with him last time.
The resort is idyllic, with holiday villas and mountain resort restaurants scattered around the lakeside next to the golf driving range.
He and his shareholders made an appointment in a villa near the restaurant, and he asked the driver to park next to the restaurant building where there was a rest room.
The shareholder's name is Tang Hongzhe. His father is a banker. Twenty years ago, when the Xu family was in crisis, he took Xu Hefu's hand. His shareholding in the Xu family was not a lot, but it was not bad.
He and Xu Sheng have a good relationship and often communicate with each other.
Xu Sheng walked into the reception room of the villa, and Tang Hongzhe sat on the chair with a gloomy expression.
"Something happened to Xu Jin." He told Xu Sheng bluntly.
Xu Jin rarely had trouble-free times, but judging from Tang Hongzhe's face, this time it was a big deal.
"There is too much news about his futures debt and forced restructuring, and the Commercial Crime Investigation Bureau is investigating him," he said, "It's not an all-inclusive investigation."
Xu Sheng frowned slightly, and Tang Hongzhe asked again: "What exactly is Chairman Xu's plan? Do you really want to hand over your family property to this loser?"
"I don't know what Director Xu thinks," Xu Sheng said to Tang Hongzhe, and then the conversation changed, "But-"
Xu Sheng stayed in the villa for nearly an hour.
The conversation with Tang Hongzhe was complicated. When I walked out of the villa door, I felt a sense of relief.
He walked to the restaurant and found that Tang was holding a bowl of cut strawberries in his hand. He was sitting on a chair in the open air at the door of the restaurant as if bored, eating with a small fork.
The mobile phone was placed on the table, playing an unknown silent video.
Xu Sheng walked over and saw that Tang Zhi was watching a silent penguin documentary. A group of black and white chubby penguins walked around in the ice and snow.
Tang Zhi was so fascinated that Xu Sheng walked up to him without even noticing. He slowly forked the strawberry and stuffed it into his mouth, his lips shining brightly from eating it.
Xu Sheng felt that he had not seen Tang Zhi eating snacks for a long time, and thought that he should give Tang Zhi some strawberries in the Dunshi Airport lounge, so that Tang Zhi would be willing to eat at that time.
He thought Tang Zhi would prefer strawberries, but he ordered the wrong one.
Xu Sheng cleared his throat, Tang Zhi raised his head, was startled and said, "So fast."
He immediately put away his phone, stood up, and apologized to Xu Sheng.
Tang Zhi's flustered look was a bit funny. Xu Sheng pointed to the bowl with half of the strawberries left and said to him tolerantly: "You can finish it."
Tang Zhi seemed to be very touched by Xu Sheng's kindness and looked at Xu Sheng in disbelief: "Is it true?"
Xu Sheng said "hmm", Tang Zhi picked up the bowl again, ate a piece, and told Xu Sheng: "This is very sweet."
Xu Sheng thought that fruit was just fruit, and there was nothing sweet or sweet about it. Tang Zhi spoke as if he had never seen anything on the market. At this time, Tang Zhi suddenly asked Xu Sheng vaguely: "Mr. Xu, do you want to try it?"
The sun is still squeezed into a bunch of clouds, hanging dispensably in the sky.
Although Tangzhi is also very ordinary, the weather is bad and the color of the buildings is very gray. That's why Tang Zhi's eyes became perhaps the brightest thing in the resort.
Xu Sheng looked at Tang Zhi and said "Yeah", indicating that he was willing to try it.
Tang Zhi came to his senses after a while and hesitantly forked a piece of strawberry to Xu Sheng's mouth. Xu Sheng ate it and said to Tang Zhi, "Eat quickly. We have to go to the port after eating."
Tang Zhi lowered his head and ate the strawberry bowl as quickly as possible.