"Hello, Mrs. Xiao."
"Hello."
The elegantly dressed lady outside the door nodded her chin lightly. She was middle-aged but still had a gentle smile on her white and beautiful face. She glanced at Song Xuanhe's face and spoke in a gentle tone: "May I come inside?"
"Of course." Song Xuanhe glanced at the convoy that had already driven away, then looked back and said, "Please come in."
"This doesn't seem to be the place where you and Yuanmu live." Mrs. Xiao walked to the sofa and sat down, looked around, and said with a smile: "I went to his apartment once before, although the conditions are not very good, and the place is somewhat It’s cramped, but he doesn’t want to move back home to live with us, presumably to wait for Mr. Song to live with him.”
Song Xuanhe smiled slightly, but did not answer. In front of Mrs. Xiao, she leaned slightly to put away the tea set that Xiao Bocong had just drank, and then said with a smile: "The guests have not had time to clean up after they left, please forgive me for entertaining you." Not a week."
"It's okay." Mrs. Xiao shook her head gently, "Sit down, don't be so polite."
Song Xuanhe just sat down.
"You are different from what I imagined or rumored." Mrs. Xiao said with a smile: "I knew you were with Yuanmu before, and at the banquet specially held for Yuanmu's return home, I thought I could be with you I met you once, but I didn't expect you to be unable to come because of something, and now I see you."
Song Xuanhe asked with a smile: "What do you imagine I look like?"
"The younger you are, the more impulsive you are." Mrs. Xiao said with a smile: "When I heard those rumors, I was a little worried that it would be inappropriate for you to be with Yuan Mu, but now it seems that I am overwhelmed."
Song Xuanhe smiled without saying a word.
"Just, Xiao Song, I wonder if you have heard of something about our family." Mrs. Xiao asked him with a smile on her lips.
"Xiao Yuanmu doesn't talk much about the Xiao family with me." Song Xuan said softly, "We are only in love for the time being, and we haven't talked about our respective families."
Mrs. Xiao paused, with a little scrutiny in her smiling eyes, and asked, "Aren't you planning to get married?"
"At least I haven't for the time being." Song Xuanhe said with a smile: "I don't think Xiao Yuanmu has either. His current focus is on his career. You should know that although RE is developing rapidly, it is still too young. Its growth The owner needs to use more energy to maintain it. Not only will the building collapse, but it will only happen in an instant. I also have my own career. I also think that my focus at this time is my career. On this point, Xiao Yuanmu and I A consensus has been reached."
After explaining, Song Xuanhe seemed to have just remembered what Mrs. Xiao said, and said apologetically, "You just asked me if I have heard of something about the Xiao family, what is it?"
Mrs. Xiao shook her head: "It's not something important."
"That's it," Song Xuanhe said with a smile, "I heard that Mrs. Xiao likes to drink scented tea, but I only prepare Tieguanyin here. If you don't mind, I'll make you a cup of tea."
Mrs. Xiao was stunned for a moment, and asked in surprise, "How do you know that I love scented tea?"
Like the Xiao family, which has a strict hierarchy and completely regards itself as a prominent family in ancient times, the family's true preferences are rarely revealed, so Mrs. Xiao was surprised by this.
"What Xiao Yuanmu said?" Song Xuanhe's eyes widened, and there was a trace of doubt in the clear and innocent eyes: "Could it be that he remembered it wrong?"
"No..." Mrs. Xiao lowered her eyes and smiled, her voice was not as soft as before, but there was a trace of real smile: "I didn't even know, but he actually knew that I love scented tea."
"Of course he knows." Song Xuanhe said with a smile: "He not only knows that you like scented tea, but also that Mr. Xiao Lin likes to drink black tea with milk, but because you don't like it, Mr. Xiao Lin often needs to drink it secretly. There is Xiao Bocong, he knows that he likes to drink Tieguanyin, so he always has Tieguanyin at home, and I brought this box from the apartment."
Mrs. Xiao's eyes fell on Tieguanyin on the table following Song Xuanhe's words, and a trace of moisture quickly flashed across her eyes, and she said softly: "I didn't expect Yuanmu... to be so careful."
"He is always like this." Song Xuanhe said: "Silently write down the preferences of the people around you, silently give, but don't say anything. I had many fights with him before, and I thought he didn't love me. , didn’t care about me, and later found out that he actually did a lot for me.”
Mrs. Xiao said: "He is actually a kind and considerate boy."
"It's just that the environment in which he lived since childhood made him not good at expressing." Song Xuanhe sighed and said, "Actually, he cares about you and Mr. Xiao very much, but he never said it out loud. Only by showing your preferences can I know how much he values you."
"I... never knew." Mrs. Xiao squeezed the bag tightly in her hand, and said, "I always thought, always thought..."
"What do you think?"
Mrs. Xiao forced a smile and shook her head: "It's nothing, I just thought he didn't care about us before, I didn't expect him to be so careful."
Song Xuanhe smiled, changed the subject on purpose, and asked, "Mrs. Xiao, I didn't ask you just now. What is the reason you came to see me today?"
"I just wanted to see you." Mrs. Xiao quickly collected her emotions, and returned to her gentle and elegant appearance before: "By the way, I want to ask you something."
"Where is Xiao Yuanmu now?" Song Xuanhe said.
"Yes." Mrs. Xiao frowned slightly, her face was covered with worry, she said: "Yuanmu left suddenly three days ago, without telling me or his father, now we can't contact him, very anxious .”
"He seems to be in China now." Song Xuanhe looked at Mrs. Xiao and said, "Mr. Xiao Bocong also came to ask where Xiao Yuanmu is at this time, but unfortunately I don't know, even he is now In Hua Country, they all heard about it from Mr. Xiao Bocong."
"Cong Cong has been here?" Mrs. Xiao was surprised for a moment, and asked, "What did you say?"
"Some things related to Xiao Yuanmu, most of the time he is expressing his concern about Xiao Yuanmu's disappearance."
"He has always been like this." Mrs. Xiao said with a smile on her lips, "This child has been kind and considerate since he was a child, and sincerely cared about everyone around him. When he heard that he had an older brother, he didn't know How happy he is, even if Yuan Mu's return may not be to him... "
"But he is always like this, looking at everything optimistically and gently." When Mrs. Xiao spoke, her eyes showed the pride and deep love of all mothers who love their children when they talk about their children with others. Bent, with a soft and loving smile: "Because of this, his father and I are always worried that he can't face everything that may not be so friendly in reality, although he has proved to us that he is smart and intelligent enough Cope with everything...”
Song Xuan raised his eyebrows slightly, and the system said in his mind: [Do you think Xiao Yuanmu's mother knew about Xiao Bocong's visit from the beginning or did she only know after you said it.]
[You can use your data analysis. ] Song Xuan said condescendingly: [Your data doesn't know everything.]
[I did not collect her data, and even without data analysis, I can accurately calculate that she has long known that Xiao Bocong was the last visitor, because I know the number of Xiao Bocong's convoy, the speed of the entire convoy, and the speed of this street. The overall length, before Xiao Yuanmu's mother arrives, it is absolutely impossible for his motorcade to leave completely, and those are all Xiao's cars, it is impossible for Xiao Yuanmu's mother not to know them.]
[You are really smart.]Song Xuanhe gave a flattering compliment, and then said: [More likely, she rang the doorbell after watching Xiao Bocong's motorcade leave.]
The system thought for a while: [Your guess is very likely.]
"... Cong Cong is always worried about the people around him. Even if he sometimes ignores himself, he doesn't care. I remember when he was five years old, he heard his little friend Angus say that the servant would wake up every morning and give him a hand. When he prepares breakfast, he will..." Most mothers talk about their children, and Mrs. Xiao is the same. She told Song Xuanhe many things about Xiao Bocong's childhood, and then said with a smile: "He was sent to me by God. and his father's cherub."
Song Xuanhe listened quietly with a smile on his face, without saying a word from the beginning to the end.
The smile on Mrs. Xiao's face faded, and she sighed inaudibly: "It's a pity that Yuan Mu doesn't seem to like him very much."
Song Xuanhe raised his eyes, Madam Xiao saw him looking over, and sighed: "Compared to Bo Cong, Yuan Mu is actually more suitable to inherit this family, no matter his character or anything else, he is more suitable to be the manager of the Xiao family. It's just this point, which is a little hard for Bo Cong to accept. He was instilled with the idea that when he grows up, he will inherit the family and sacrifice everything for the family. He has regarded the Xiao family as his responsibility since he was a child, but when he After Yuanmu came back, he was still willing to give all of this to Yuanmu, even though it was different from the ideas he had accepted for more than ten years, but he still did it because he was always such a child... "
Mrs. Xiao looked at Song Xuan and said: "But even so, Yuan Mu is not willing to get close to him. I can see how worried he is about Yuan Mu, and I can also see how much he wants to be close to Yuan Mu. Yuan Mu He... grew up in such an environment, it was his father's and I's mistakes, we will try our best to make up for it, but all this should not be borne by Cong Cong, he was not born when Yuanmu's accident happened, and he was even ready The Xiao family gave Yuanmu as compensation... Auntie knows that Yuanmu likes you very much, and he is willing to listen to you, Auntie wants you to persuade him to get along with Congcong well, okay?"
With every word of Mrs. Xiao, Song Xuanhe clenched the hand on his lap, and when Mrs. Xiao said the last sentence, he finally couldn't bear it anymore.
Song Xuanhe stared straight at Mrs. Xiao and said, "I can't comment on what kind of person Xiao Bocong is, but with all due respect, I think it's ridiculous for Xiao Bocong to say that he gave up the Xiao family to Xiao Yuanmu. Xiao Yuanmu is also your son. , if there were no mistakes at the beginning, he is the only truly legitimate heir of the Xiao family. Like Xiao Bocong, he will grow up under the love of you and Mr. Xiao Lin, and he may also be as generous as Xiao Bocong to give all Give things to my younger brother, because he never lacks anything."
"But even without these, even though he has encountered so many difficult and painful things growing up, he is still a warm and gentle person. In my opinion, these are more worthy of respect than the innocent warmth in the greenhouse."
"I'm sorry." Song Xuanhe got up and put on a posture to see off the guests: "I'm afraid I need to stay quietly for a while at this time."
Mrs. Xiao's expression changed slightly. She was about to speak when she saw Song Xuan and the people behind her. Her face turned pale instantly, and she took a step forward and said, "Yuan Mu..."
Song Xuanhe turned his head suddenly, and met the eyes of the tall man standing not far away.