Resignation turned into a vacation, so Song Xuanhe didn't care anymore, after finishing all the formalities, he called Zhou Nan and Xiao Shenglin to have a party.
"Awesome, Song Er." Zhou Nan heard what Song Xuanhe said, touched the wine bottle with him, and said: "At this time, your father and grandfather are willing to let you take a vacation, or a long vacation, what did you say? If they agree, let the brothers learn as well."
Song Xuanhe resigned and relaxed, leaning on the sofa with his legs crossed, drank a sip of beer, with a flamboyant smile on his brows: "You can't learn this trick, Dad."
"Taking advantage of grandpa." Zhou Nan kicked him, but still curious, leaned his head and asked: "Really, let me tell you, I was being used like a donkey by my old man recently, and I was afraid that he might have someone outside. The illegitimate son wants to grind and kill a donkey on me."
Xiao Shenglin said lightly: "If your father has an illegitimate child, is there any business for you?"
Hearing this, Zhou Nan clicked his tongue, turned his head to look at Xiao Shenglin, and said, "Linzi, I found that you have really changed. You were not like this before. You were so gentle and gentle before. How can you learn from Song Song now?" The second one has such a poisonous mouth."
As he said that, he turned his head to look at Song Xuanhe again, frowned and looked up and down for a long time, shaking his head while saying: "You too, Song Er, I found that you have also changed. Before Xiao Yuanmu Gang When you left, it was as if you had changed souls with Xiao Yuanmu. It was frighteningly cold all day long. I thought it would be contagious if you didn’t speak. You didn’t reply to three out of ten sentences. Now you’re back to normal. , but brother, I don’t know whether to be relieved or worried.”
Song Xuanhe just leaned against the sofa, looked at him with lowered eyelashes, and waited for him to continue.
Zhou Nan raised his hand, pointed at Song Xuanhe's face and said, "Yes, yes, it is this incomparable mocking face, Song Er, you are so familiar with it before, after Xiao Yuanmu left, your mocking face is gone. , Facial paralysis, so I even went to Yu Yan for consultation, because I was afraid that you would hide your illness and avoid medical treatment, so I would not go to the facial neurology department."
Song Xuan and Erlang's legs dangled, looking too lazy to pay attention to him, and said to Xiao Shenglin: "Uncle Xiao was called back to Xiao's house and came back again, did you say anything?"
The faint smile on Xiao Shenglin's face disappeared a little, and he said: "The Xiao family is very complicated now, originally it was the decision of the direct branch of the Xiao family to transfer him, and it is unrealistic to transfer him back at this time. However, he was filled with a position and asked him to manage the construction of the factory in South Asia, and my uncle said that he wanted to take a break because he was getting old, so he came back."
Song Xuanhe lowered his dangling legs, sat up slightly and said, "You mean..."
"The water in the Xiao family is already messed up." Xiao Shenglin said: "Xiao Yuanmu's return home = broke most of the lines of the Xiao family's branches. He is not an incompetent empty shelf. Everyone can see how good his ability is. No matter how good Xiao Bocong was in school and practice before, he can't compare to Xiao Yuanmu who founded such a big company by himself. Uncle can avoid it if he doesn't want to participate in the struggle for power, but Xiao Yuanmu..."
Song Xuanhe's eyes trembled, he raised his lips and put his legs up, saying: "You should know his skills, we don't need to worry about it."
Zhou Nan shook his head and sighed: "There are many people, but there are many disputes. The change of the head of the Xiao family is like the change of ancient imperial power. Not to mention the intrigue, it may be life-threatening, let Xiao Shu avoid it. Xiao Ranyun, if you can't go to Xiao's house, then don't go, even if Xiao Yuanmu is really miserable, so what if you go home, so much shit, why don't you go back. "
"The Xiao family found him, it's not that he can't go back if he doesn't want to go back." Xiao Shenglin's voice was cold, and he looked down at the ice pucks in the cup that were making clinking noises as his wrists shook, "Xiao Yuanmu wants to live a good life. There's only one way to go now."
Zhou Nan frowned: "It's not so exaggerated. After all, he is the son of the head of the Xiao family and his wife. The paternity test has been done. Is it possible that I can't live without holding the Xiao family."
"Without RE, he might be able to." Xiao Shenglin raised his eyes, his eyes were cold and gloomy that neither Song Xuanhe nor Zhou Nan had seen before: "RE is not only the capital for him to gain a firm foothold in the Xiao family, but also the capital that is always forced The knife that he must die if he does not do it."
"How could it be so..."
Zhou Nan lowered his voice, fell silent for a while and kicked the table, "Fuck, what is Xiao Yuanmu doing back home!"
The atmosphere fell silent in an instant, and the singer hummed softly on the balcony not far away, with a soft tone but could not blow away the stagnation here.
Among the three, Song Xuanhe, who had the closest relationship with Xiao Yuanmu, had the most natural expression on his face. He drank his wine quietly, and looked at Xiao Shenglin's emotional face from the corner of his eye in a not-so-bright environment.
[Xiao Shenglin's mood swings are very high, he may have thought of something negative.]
The voice of the system rang in his mind, but Song Xuanhe didn't pay attention, instead he remembered another thing.
He remembered the Xiao Shenglin he had seen in a photo before when he was in school. Indifference, aloofness, and quietness are completely different from his usual self, but they slowly overlap with Xiao Shenglin at this moment, and are also the same as the eyes he had when he mentioned the Xiao family a few times before.
What exactly happened to make a person's personality change so much.
Song Xuanhe was very curious.
Moreover, he always felt that the change in Xiao Shenglin's personality was related to his "accidental" death in a car accident not long after. He postponed his travel plan to prevent Xiao Shenglin's death, but now he doesn't know what is hidden in Xiao Shenglin's heart Song Xuanhe was a little uneasy about what made his mood fluctuate so violently.
He always felt that Xiao Shenglin's death might have something to do with the Xiao family.
"Lin Zi." Zhou Nan poured a glass of wine and handed it to Xiao Shenglin, poured another glass for himself, and said, "I don't know what you are thinking now, but I know you are unhappy. As a brother, I am a little worried, so I spoke a little fiercely just now, and I didn't mean it for you, I drank this cup."
Xiao Shenglin raised his eyes, Song Xuanhe pressed Zhou Nan's hand, and said, "What are you drinking? You don't usually speak violently? You just spoke violently. Besides, you were talking about Xiao Yuanmu. Tell Lin Zi What apologies, if you want to pour wine and apologize, it's for Dad."
Zhou Nan paused, then suddenly laughed, and stuffed the wine placed in front of Xiao Shenglin into Song Xuanhe's hand, with a big movement, spilled some, and said, "Yes, I just heard about you Feel free to play envious and depressed, say so much just want to drink, apologize to anyone, the brothers have nothing to apologize, come on, have a drink."
Song Xuanhe picked up the cup, shook it at Xiao Shenglin, and said, "Together."
Xiao Shenglin tightened his hands on the table, suddenly smiled relievedly, cast a grateful look at Song Xuanhe, casually took an open bottle of beer, clinked glasses with them and said, "Drink."
After drinking a glass of wine, the atmosphere became more relaxed.
Zhou Nan drank on his face, drinking one cup after another, and approached Song Xuanhe with a blushing face, "What's the matter with Yu Yan, he sees me for a while and sees me for a while, treats me better and sees me again It’s like seeing the plague, how did I offend him? Others say that a woman’s heart is a needle in the bottom of the sea. Yu Yan’s mind is deeper than the Mariana Trench. The needle is in the sea hook, let alone fishing. I'm going to have a heart attack just looking at it."
Song Xuanhe pushed his head away with a slap, and said coldly: "Go to the hospital and ask him, how do I know."
"Lin Zi." There was no answer here, Zhou Nan shifted the battlefield, moved towards Xiao Shenglin, and said while moving: "Tell me, what do you think Yu Yan is thinking."
Xiao Shenglin poured the new wine brought by the bartender just now, drank a glass in one gulp, lowered his eyes and did not speak, Zhou Nan pushed him, he swayed a few times, with a confused look on his face.
Zhou Nan was good at drinking, but at this time, he was drunk, no one paid attention to him, and he became more sober. Seeing Xiao Shenglin's appearance, he couldn't help being stunned, pointing at him and asking Song Xuanhe: "Isn't it Is he drunk now?"
Song Xuanhe had long noticed how much Xiao Shenglin drank one cup after another, but thought that he was in a bad mood and didn't ask any further questions. Xiao Shenglin had always restrained himself from drinking before, even if they were all drunk, he would not Will be drunk, this is the first time I saw him drunk.
Xiao Shenglin swayed and stopped himself, poured himself a glass of wine again, and drank it quietly, as if he didn't notice the movement around him.
Zhou Nan was a little worried, and said: "I've never seen him like this before, let him drink like this all the time, maybe something will happen later."
"What could happen." Song Xuanhe drank his own wine and said lightly: "At worst, go to the hospital for a stomach wash and let him drink."
"Wash..." Zhou Nan licked his lips, his eyes lit up, and he said, "It's okay, let him vent, and he will go to the hospital for gastric lavage later, and I will ask Yu Yan for help."
Song Xuan and Chao Tian rolled their eyes and ignored him.
"Song Er." Zhou Nan came over again and asked him, "How long have you been here to play? I used to be a high school classmate who also went to travel around the world as soon as he graduated. His family didn't agree, so he just Playing and working at the same time by myself, I have traveled all over the world, but I have been playing like this for three or four years, so you are not going to come back for three or four years just like him."
Seeing the reluctance in his eyes, Song Xuanhe paused for the raised wine glass, put it back on the table, looked away and said, "Who knows, it's not sure if you go out to play."
Zhou Nan was a little drunk, and couldn't see Song Xuanhe's voice clearly, so he slapped him on the shoulder and said, "This is impossible, brother, you must come back for my birthday. If you don't come back, next time you step into the Imperial Capital, I will find someone to pack you up and send you to Xiao Yuanmu, and let him take care of you."
The reluctance in Song Xuanhe's eyes dissipated in an instant, and he pushed him away with a slap, "Get lost."
Zhou Nan giggled a few times, then suddenly became depressed again: "I always feel that we all seem to have changed..."
Song Xuanhe was startled, and turned to look at him.
"How good we used to be." Zhou Nan stared blankly at the empty wine bottles piled up on the table, and said, "I still remember that you had a mocking face all day long, laughing at whoever you saw, especially when Lu Chao that Damn that time you threw the swimming pool, it was so fucking amazing, I just thought that you finally knew what was good and bad, and it was rare for you to get involved in such a big circle, so I dragged you to play together, I didn't expect Song Er You kid really likes me."
"And Lin Zi, I have known him since we were very young. Although he has been studying abroad for a few years, our relationship is incomparable. Later, when you came, you will be more than you, but how good is the relationship between the three of us?" Ah, it's comfortable to drink and brag about everything, and I'm happy all day long, now that Xiao Yuanmu is gone, you've changed, Lin Zi has changed, Yu Yan and I... have a drink!"
Song Xuanhe clinked glasses with him, his gaze fell on Xiao Shenglin who was drinking in a dull manner, and he slightly lowered his eyes.
Zhou Nan finished drinking the wine on the table, waved for someone to clean it up, and ordered a bunch of wine, saying: "Drink, today I really come here and I won't go home without getting drunk. The three of us who are not drunk are not allowed to leave. "
Song Xuanhe had been drinking restraintly all the time, but when he heard Zhou Nan say this, he couldn't resist drinking a few more glasses. Xiao Shenglin even drank one cup after another. Although he drank slowly, he never stopped drinking.
"Song Er, tell me." Zhou Nan red-eyed, grabbed Song Xuan and said, "What's the matter with you and Xiao Yuanmu? I haven't heard that you like traveling before. After the Xiao family banquet You just want to travel around the world, is there something we don't know about, is it Xiao Yuanmu, tell me, I'll go to America to beat him up."
Song Xuanhe was thinking about something, he hummed when he heard what he said, and when he came back to his senses, Zhou Nan slapped the table and stood up, and said loudly: "I knew that kid Xiao Yuanmu was not a good guy!"
The music in the bar is soft, and most of the guests looked over after he drank a lot.
Some of the ordinary-dressed guests had the strangest expressions. After looking at each other, one of them coughed and asked, "Do I need to report this?"
Someone replied: "Report."
The other thought for a moment and said, "Is this a...safety issue?"
"Emotional safety is also safe." The mediocre man affirmed, "And I think Xiao always wants to know."
Several people changed their eyes and nodded.
Song Xuanhe and the others didn't know the conversation over there. Seeing Zhou Nan's drunken madness, Song Xuanhe grabbed him and sat him down. Neng asked with a blank face: "What are you doing?"
"Didn't you say that Xiao Yuanmu hurt you?" Zhou Nan's eyes straightened, and he wanted to stand up: "Wait for Dad to help you teach him a lesson."
"Who are you calling grandpa?" Song Xuanhe pressed his shoulders to keep him from moving, and said with a sideways look at him, "Don't let this drunken maniac, I know how much you drink."
Zhou Nan was discouraged, pouted and said: "I can't get drunk, even if I drink alcohol, I will go crazy."
Song Xuanhe looked away, not wanting to see his pursed mouth, and said in disgust: "Go out and spread, no one cares."
Zhou Nan spread his hands and shrugged his shoulders, and obediently nestled into the sofa, calming down his brain that was a little excited due to alcohol.
Following Zhou Nan's shutting up, the area finally became quiet again. Song Xuanhe leaned back on the sofa, holding his chin in one hand and holding the wine in the other, continuing to think about Xiao Shenglin.
However, within a few minutes, Xiao Shenglin, who had been drinking quietly all this time, suddenly raised his head and said, "I don't want to go to Xiao's house again in my life."
Song Xuanhe was taken aback, put down the hand supporting his chin, exchanged a glance with the bewildered Zhou Nan, and looked at Xiao Shenglin at the same time.
Xiao Shenglin didn't like drinking alcohol, so he was sitting quietly at this moment, his expression was the same as usual except that his expression was a bit colder, if it wasn't for his unfocused eyes, no one would have noticed that he was drunk.
He continued: "I don't want to go to Xiao's house, I won't go for the rest of my life."
Zhou Nan blinked, looked at Song Xuanhe, and asked in a low voice, "What's the matter?"
Song Xuanhe gave him a look to signal him to shut up, looked up at Xiao Shenglin, and said, "Why?"
Xiao Shenglin was stunned with a calm expression, and after a while he seemed to come to his senses, saying: "I don't like it there."
Song Xuanhe asked again: "Why?"
Xiao Shenglin looked dazed, his eyebrows furrowed a little bit, he seemed to be remembering, and he seemed to be organizing his words, so he didn't speak for a while.
"Song Er." Zhou Nan pushed Song Xuan and said in a low voice, frowning, "What are you doing, boy? You're talking nonsense."
Song Xuanhe stared at Xiao Shenglin's expression closely, and replied in a low voice: "I have a reason, don't worry about it."
"That's not going to work either!" Zhou Nan's voice was a little louder, he glanced at Xiao Shenglin's face, saw that he didn't respond, then lowered his voice, and said: "There must be a reason why Linzi doesn't want to say something, you Is it interesting to chase after him while he's drunk?"
Song Xuanhe ignored him, and asked again: "Xiao Shenglin, why?"
Probably because of hearing his own name, Xiao Shenglin's reaction was faster than before, and his eyebrows frowned even tighter, saying: "Because..."
"Song Er!"
Zhou Nan stood up, looked down at Song Xuan and said: "What the hell are you going to do? If he doesn't want to say it, he won't say it. Why are you talking to him? You may not be too curious, right?"
What Xiao Shenglin had just said was forced back by Zhou Nan's sudden increase in volume, and he closed his mouth again.
Zhou Nan interrupted him as soon as he heard the reason. Song Xuanhe also became angry, and his voice cooled down: "I have my reasons, you don't have to worry about it."
"What reason do you have?" Zhou Nan said, "If you force someone to ask you something that others don't want to say, tell me what your reason is."
Song Xuanhe opened his mouth and was about to speak, but seeing Zhou Nan's tense expression and the hurt in his eyes, he pursed his lips and lowered his voice: "I'm definitely doing it for the good of Lin Zi, if you believe me, don't Ask more."
Seeing Song Xuanhe's drooping eyelashes, Zhou Nan's impulsive mind due to alcohol calmed down. He has known Song Xuanhe for a long time. Although he thought Song Xuanhe was not very good before, but later he really had a heart-to-heart relationship. Brother, he absolutely believed in him.
It's just... for some reason, he always felt that something had changed since Xiao Yuanmu left the imperial capital.
Especially when he saw Song Xuanhe and Xiao Shenglin who were now entangled in the affairs of the Xiao family whether it was intentional or unintentional, he always felt that something was pulling the two of them into the circle of the Xiao family where power and interests were torn apart, and he As a friend, there seems to be nothing he can do, he can only stand aside and watch helplessly.
"Of course I believe you." Zhou Nan clenched her fists and sat down, covered her face with her hands and rubbed her hands, and said, "I just... drank too much."
Song Xuanhe patted him on the shoulder and said in a low voice, "I know."
Zhou Nan covered her face and nodded, without speaking.
After comforting Zhou Nan, Song Xuanhe looked up at Xiao Shenglin again, and asked softly, "Xiao Shenglin, why don't you like the Xiao family? Why don't you want to go to the Xiao family for the rest of your life?"
Xiao Shenglin didn't respond, he looked down at the empty wine glass in his hand where the ice cubes had already melted, wondering what he was thinking.
Song Xuanhe pursed his lips and asked again.
This time Xiao Shenglin raised his head, but he still didn't answer, just looked at him quietly.
Song Xuanhe frowned, and just about to ask again, Zhou Nan raised his head. He glanced at him, then sat down near Xiao Shenglin, and said in a low voice: "Linzi, tell me a secret, why are you Don't you like the Xiao family?"
Only then did Xiao Shenglin react. His brows that had been soothed just now frowned again, something flashed across his eyes, and he slowly opened his mouth: "After the young master of the Xiao family disappeared, the head of the family and his wife searched all over the world, but to find After two years without any clue, everyone told them that Xiao Yuanmu might be dead, so they had no choice but to give up... "
Zhou Nan turned his head and exchanged a glance with Song Xuanhe, at the same time he saw doubt in the other's eyes.
Xiao Shenglin didn't want to go to Xiao's house, could it be related to Xiao Yuanmu
Xiao Shenglin didn't look at their eye contact, and continued calmly: "It is impossible for the Xiao family to have no offspring, so after the head of the family and his wife sorted out their emotions, they wanted to have another child, but after two years, they didn't have any. They were pregnant with a child, so someone proposed to adopt a child from the branch first, the head and wife were originally unwilling, but they couldn't bear the pressure, and finally let go."
"Everyone knows that the young master's disappearance is not accidental, and the most suspicious one is my uncle's, but the person who suggested it said to adopt the child from my uncle, and the others agreed. I like it, but there is no other way, so I picked me who had already come to Huaguo at that time, and had a relationship with my uncle but had no connection with him."
Song Xuanhe was taken aback, Zhou Nan also looked shocked, they were not even in the mood to confirm each other's surprise at this time, they stared at Xiao Shenglin closely, and listened carefully to what he said next.
"Mom is not in good health, but she can't grab my uncle and the Xiao family, so she can only let them take me away. At that time, I was almost six years old and already sensible, so I didn't want to be separated from my mother, so I went to the main house After that, she was very unobtrusive and noisy every day."
"The servants who took me were very afraid that I would upset the master and his wife, so they often locked me in the room. Only the master and his wife would take me out when they wanted to see me. On my sixth birthday, many people came to the main house Children, they are all offshoot children, they came to celebrate my birthday and stayed for a while, my wife took me to eat the cake, and then let us play together, those children know that I am not the real son of the head of the house, so they like to bully me .”
"They did a lot of things... I didn't like talking anymore." Xiao Shenglin struggled across his face, and said, "Until one day, a man tricked me into a cave on the mountain behind the castle, and then left by myself." , and kept me there for two days."
"I had no water or food. The cave was very dark, and the sound of the wind blowing at night was terrifying, so I found my way back by myself. Halfway there, I was taken back by someone who was looking for me. After waking up, I wanted to find Ma'am, tell her I'm going back."
"I didn't expect to hear the servants talking. They said that I have a lot of life, but it's a pity that I would be better off dead. They said that I disappeared. No one in the entire Xiao family looked for me seriously. They all hoped that I would die. Some people said that I disappeared. It may not be a child's prank, there should be other reasons."
"I was very scared, so I just found a place to hide." Xiao Shenglin's voice became softer and softer: "I heard the conversation between Madam and the servant who took care of me. Madam said that when Xiao Shenglin disappeared, she I was worried, but after thinking about it, I thought it was a good thing, and said that it would be great if I didn't go back, this time I completely gave up, and decided to treat me well in the future."
"I was very scared, and I developed a high fever that night." Xiao Shenglin smiled: "I was about to die from the fever, but I kept calling my mother because I was afraid, so they sent it back. Unexpectedly, I got better after I came back."
After listening, Zhou Nan and Song Xuan couldn't hide the surprise on their faces, and even ignored the fact that Xiao Shenglin could speak so fluently and clearly if he was really drunk.
"Are those people from the Xiao family really human? They are so cruel to a child." Zhou Nan gritted his teeth and said, "The child we snatched back together doesn't have a life. If you want him to die, let him die."
Song Xuanhe pursed his lips tightly and did not speak. He was thinking about whether this matter had something to do with Xiao Shenglin's death, but he hadn't figured it out yet. Suddenly, he had an inspiration and looked up at Xiao Shenglin. No trace of drunkenness seen on the face.
Noticing Song Xuanhe's gaze, Xiao Shenglin smiled in relief, and said, "Thank you, if it weren't for you, I might never have told this matter, even my mother didn't know that I was in Xiao's house It seems much more comfortable to talk about my experience now.”