At 2 o'clock in the morning, the Ye Family Manor was sleeping under the moonlight. Several warm lamps were lit in the courtyard, and flying insects hovered around the lights, greedily absorbing the faint temperature.
But suddenly, an abrupt noise broke the cozy and quiet night.
It seemed like the sound of a heavy object falling, very dull and very small, it was hard to detect in the past, but Ye Ya just woke up from a nightmare, and even the slightest movement made her heart beat faster.
Ye Ya got up from the bed and searched around in the dark. It took a long time to find the cat nightcap. There were small light bulbs embedded in the cat's eyes. She shook it vigorously, and two beams of red light refracted from the cat's eyeballs.
Ye Ya walked out of the room wearing a hat.
Since the lamp of the nightcap needed to be shaken to generate electricity, she had to keep her body shaking all the time, so Ye Ya took two steps and shook her head, climbed a flight of stairs and shook her head again.
Climbing up the fourth floor staggeringly like this, Ye Ya saw two figures staying at the door of the bedroom through the cat's eye light, one of them was supporting the other, and the movements seemed to be quite strenuous.
"Mr. Ye, what's the password for your door?"
The voice belonged to Assistant He.
"Mr. Ye, why did you put a password on your bedroom? Mr. Ye, what are you talking about, Mr. Ye."
It was indeed Assistant He.
Ye Ya walked over two steps and greeted politely: "Good evening, uncle..."
The sudden child's voice made Assistant He and the drunk Ye Linchuan turn their heads to look at the past together.
The little girl standing at the top of the stairs was wearing a white nightgown, her pale face was covered with a thin layer of light, her pupils were dark, and her eyes locked on the two of them.
Slap.
The lights went out before his eyes.
In the darkness, the little shadow shook its head, and the cat nightcap on top of her head lit up.
"..."
Assistant He's pupils constricted, his body shuddered, and when he let go of his hands, Ye Linchuan lost his strength and fell to the ground. He only heard a muffled sound, and his head hit the door heavily.
"Ya, Yaya?" Assistant He's tone was still shaking.
Ye Ya came over shaking her head: "Uncle, are you here?"
"Ah... um." Assistant He stared blankly at the blue cat's eye lamp above her head, unable to respond, "You... your hat is quite unique."
"Zi Yu gave it to me." While speaking, the light went out again, Ye Ya shook her head to turn on the light.
Assistant He's heart skipped a beat, and he calmed down and asked, "Do you know the password to Dad's room?"
Ye Linchuan was already drunk, and he couldn't figure out why even if he asked him.
Ye Ya shook her head and said, "I don't know."
Assistant He sighed and muttered, "Who do you think will put a combination lock on his bedroom..." He really didn't understand the world of the rich.
Ye Ya didn't speak.
I heard from my brother that Ziyu would come to his father's bedroom to smash things when he was sick, and a few times he even tore up the contract he hadn't had time to accept. To avoid loss, Ye Linchuan directly locked the combination lock on the study and bedroom, and would lock it when he was not at home.
"This fingerprint can't be opened..." Assistant He pulled Ye Linchuan's finger and pressed it on the lock screen, but the door showed no sign of being opened.
Seeing Assistant He's troubled face, he immediately stood up as the kindest little monster in the world, and generously proposed: "You can let brother sleep in Ya Ya's room, and I can give him the cot."
So cute
Assistant He laughed, carried Ye Linchuan into the elevator and went directly to Ye Ya.
Her bed is very spacious, and another Ye Linchuan can sleep there. There are all kinds of plush toys on the bed, all of which were given to her by Ziyu and her brother.
Ye Ya turned on the small bedside lamp, spread out the quilt, patted the pink and white pillow with lace borders with her small hands, and made a gesture of invitation: "Come here, come here, put brother here."
Assistant He casually threw Ye Linchuan on it, heaved a long breath, rubbed his sore shoulders, and asked funnyly, "Why is Yaya called Papa and Brother?"
Ye Ya raised her head and said seriously: "Because he is young."
"Why?"
"Ya Ya is an elder." Ye Ya's tone became more serious, and she felt an unspeakable sense of pride for her hundred-year-old age.
Assistant He chuckled, and patted Ye Ya's head, "The elder must take good care of Dad, and Uncle has to go back first."
"Okay." Ye Ya felt the weight on her shoulders, presumably this is the sense of responsibility her father said, "Then I'll take uncle to the door."
Assistant He was amused by this serious expression again, and his mood improved a lot, "No, I'll just take the elevator down."
Ye Ya: "I mean to send you to the front door."
"..."
All right.
Assistant He left dumbfounded.
When he walked out of the bedroom, he stopped suddenly, turned around and squatted halfway in front of Ye Ya, and said: "Father may not be in a good mood. When he wakes up, Yaya should try not to make trouble with him."
Ye Ya didn't quite understand, her eyes flickered with doubts: "Are you ever in a good mood?"
Assistant He's throat was blocked.
That's right, their boss is in menopause for 25 hours out of 24 hours a day, it's like a firecracker, it ignites at one point, and explodes at one point.
But this time is special...
Thinking of the situation facing the company, Assistant He sighed heavily.
"Uncle, are you unhappy?"
Assistant He came back to his senses and smiled: "It's okay. When your father wakes up, you can comfort him well."
Ye Ya tilted her head.
The thirst for knowledge in the little girl's eyes was strong, so Assistant He, who was holding back his thoughts, found a vent, and poured out the things of these days without thinking: "The company invested in a big project before. It was originally a good thing. Who would have imagined..." Assistant He took a deep breath, "Today we received the document from the above, saying that the project violated regulations and ordered to stop the modification..."
In fact, besides the Ye family, there were several other companies that participated in the bidding for this project. One of them was a large state-owned enterprise. In the end, the order to suspend construction was stopped in the name of failing to meet environmental protection standards, but how to change it specifically, and whether it will pass after the change is another matter.
——In layman's terms, this is someone who can't understand Ye Linchuan's over-the-top limelight in the past few years and deliberately suppresses it.
Now the construction of the project has been suspended, the stock price has fallen, and the capital chain cannot be replenished. The bank and the company that participated in the investment are urging debts.
Not to mention that Ye Linchuan is in a bad mood, every employee in Ye's enterprise is in a bad mood.
"See what I'm talking to you for." Assistant He smiled wryly, "Uncle is gone, Ya Ya has to take good care of Dad." He waved at Ye Ya, and went into the elevator without looking back.
Ye Ya stood at the door for a while, and waited for the elevator to go down before she tiptoed to close the door and go back to the room.
Ye Linchuan was paralyzed on the bed like mud, his brows were tightly furrowed, and his breath had a pungent smell of alcohol.
Ye Ya covered his mouth and nose and walked forward, sizing up the unconscious Ye Linchuan as if looking at something new, his head was swollen with two big bumps, one was knocked just now, and the other should have been earlier.
I don't know if it will hurt...
Ye Ya stretched out a finger unconsciously to caress the bruise.
"Hmm..." Ye Linchuan snorted, his brows furrowed even tighter.
Ye Ya hurriedly withdrew her hand, and what Assistant He had said earlier came to mind.
That's right, she is an elder, and the elder should take good care of the younger generation.
Ye Ya was super mobile, and immediately took off the leather shoes and black socks on Ye Linchuan's feet, and even went to sniff them out of curiosity——
"Smelly!" Ye Ya held up her socks and pretended to faint.
After a while, I got up and sniffed again uncontrollably.
"Smelly!"
She rolled several times on the bed inexplicably excitedly, and after playing enough, she got up with a blushing face.
"Wipe brother's face~" Ye Ya picked up a small stool and went to the bathroom, drenched the wet towel and returned to Ye Linchuan's side, carefully wiping his drunken face and palms.
Ye Linchuan's hands are big, and against Ye Ya, they look like little thumb girls.
She raised her head, her eyebrows and eyes under the dim light were exactly the same as her biological father's. Drunkness covered up the coldness and seriousness of the man when he was sober, and there was actually a bit of gentleness like a father.
"Father..." Ye Ya called out a little, and leaned over to lie on Ye Linchuan's chest.
The heartbeat is strong, and the arms are generous.
――Same as Dad.
"Dad, Ya Ya misses you."
Ye Ya closed her eyes and whispered how she missed her father, "I'm very good. I bask in the sun every day, and I drink plenty of water, but, but the water got into my belly, not on my head, my uncle said it was on my head. Don’t water the small leaves of my head, otherwise I won’t be smart if my brain gets wet... But my mother has been pouring water on my head.”
She said: "Dad, Ya Ya is growing up well, when I see you... I can hug you."
Ye Ya's feet were dangling, and she already had a clear and beautiful blueprint in her mind.
In the picture, there is a father, a mother, thousands of flowers and trees, and butterflies flying; and she is in the arms of her father, holding him as before.
After hugging enough, Ye Ya reluctantly turned over and went down to wipe Ye Linchuan's hands.
It was late at night, but the little monster didn't feel sleepy, his brain was clearer than ever, and he even wanted to paint brother's nail polish.
Ye Ya thought and thought, and thought and thought, and finally couldn't hold back the eagerness to play mischief, and took two bottles of Barbie pink nail polish from the princess dressing table beside her. Ye Ya put Ye Linchuan's hands on her lap, and carefully painted his nails.
Barbie's pink eyes are dazzling, and Ye Linchuan's strong hand bones have a special charm.
After painting her fingers and feet, Ye Ya put on a mask and thoughtfully painted her toes green.
My mother said that red and green are as beautiful as jade.
So beautiful, like a princess~
"Good night, princess." Ye Ya covered Ye Linchuan with a quilt, yawned and fell asleep.
Early in the morning, bursts of bells pierced the silence of the morning.
A ray of sunlight penetrated through the gaps in the curtains, gentle and charming.
Ye Linchuan's head hurts badly, and he woke up from the hangover with his brows frowned. He felt something pressed against his arm in a drowsy state, which made his shoulder sore and painful. Omens burst into view.
The little girl had messy hair sticking to her shoulders. She was obviously fat, her face was rounder than when she first came here, and she was chubby like a Q-version character in cartoons.
Ye Linchuan was taken aback for a moment, but after realizing it, he pushed the child away from him not too gently.
He sat up, confused by the unfamiliar layout of the room.
――Is this the bastard's room
Ye Linchuan has never been here before, so he has no impression of everything.
In the muddle of thoughts, there was a small dream talking next to him.
“Can't find the toilet...”
Um? ?
"See you!" Very happy.
! ! !
Ye Linchuan's heart skipped a beat, he picked up Ye Ya and ran to the bathroom.
"Little Yaya, it's time to get up and get ready for kindergarten."
The door opened, and the nanny walked in with a smile.
Ye Linchuan heaved a sigh of relief, pointed at Ye Ya, who was half asleep and half awake, with a sullen face: "Take care of her."
"?"
The nanny was in a trance.
Ye Linchuan picked up the leather shoes on the ground and left the room expressionlessly.
The phone in his pocket kept ringing, and he picked it up impatiently. With a glance, he suddenly noticed the changes in his fingers and toes.
This is nail polish.
Pink is still painted out.
The leaf buds are dry! !
Ye Linchuan's face was distorted, and his eyes were filled with anger.
"Boss Ye, are you there?"
Ye Linchuan took a deep breath: "I'm here, tell me." Maybe it's because of drinking too much, and his voice is still hoarse today.
The secretary's voice was tense: "We have received a court summons."
Ye Linchuan choked for breath.
"Shengjiang Bank and four companies are suing you, and now Director Zhao and the rest of the directors are waiting for you to come."
Ye Linchuan said nothing, his lips were pressed into a straight line because of the gloomy mood.
His left hand, which was holding the mobile phone, couldn't stop tightening due to the force, the back of the hand was bulging, and the phalanx was slightly red. He only said five words for a long time: "I'll be there right away."
After hanging up the phone, Ye Linchuan went back and changed into a suit, and hurriedly boarded the elevator.
"Dad! I'm going to school today!"
The moment the elevator opened, Ye Ziyu ran towards him with bright eyes, and hurriedly said, "Dad, won't you see me off?"
Ye Linchuan lowered his head and rubbed the nail polish on his fingers. He had something on his mind, and his ears automatically blocked all sounds from the outside world.
"Dad?" Ye Ziyu stood beside Ye Linchuan, "Why are you ignoring me? Can you send me to school? It won't take you long."
The call came again like a reminder, Ye Linchuan was upset and answered.
"Mr. Ye, there is a problem with the fund, if you don't make up the funds..."
"I see." Ye Linchuan interrupted, "I'll deal with it right away."
"dad… "
"I told you, I know!!" The endless chatter completely broke his nerves that had been tense for a long time. Ye Linchuan waved away Ye Ziyu's hand on his arm, and strode away without even giving a glance.
Ziyu fell to the ground, staring at his father's distant figure in astonishment.
buzz
Ears began to ring, loudly.
Ye Ziyu covered his ears tightly to block the sound, but it didn't work, nothing at all.
His heart was beating fast, like drumbeats falling in disorder.
"Zi Yu?"
"Ziyu, are you okay?" Ye Qinghe, who had just come down from downstairs, rushed to Ye Ziyu's side, "Ziyu, look at me."
His eyes were empty, and he didn't see half of the joy before.
Morning is the period of high incidence of illness, Ye Qinghe knew that he started again.
"Auntie, Auntie is going to get the medicine..."
As soon as Ye Qinghe finished speaking, Ye Ziyu, who was squatting on the ground, reacted. He gently stroked his brother's hand, and stood up from the ground indifferently: "I'm fine, really."
"Ziyu..." Ye Qinghe murmured, but couldn't say a word of comfort.
In this family, no one needs his father's company and a hug more than Ziyu.
He is lonely, and illness always consumes him when he is alone.
"Today... why don't you go to school today?" Ye Qinghe sat next to Ziyu, staring at him tenderly, "We'll be..."
"Well, I'm fine." Ye Ziyu looked at him with calm eyes, "Brother, thank you for taking care of me."
Ye Ziyu didn't expect him to say that suddenly, and was startled.
There was a smile on his beautiful face, which was bright and clean, which had never been seen before.
"Brother has to study hard at school, so I won't go today." After speaking, Ziyu went back to the room with his schoolbag.
No matter what Ye Qinghe thought, he couldn't feel at ease, and when he left for school, he gave instructions to everyone in the family, and he took Ye Ya and left the house until it was too late.
But at around 5:30 in the afternoon, Ye Qinghe received a call from his nanny——
[Ye Ziyu is missing. ]