Leaning alone in the back seat of the car, Lu Yao turned her head and stared out the window in a daze. She remembered when she first came to Night City. Du Hui is the only relative around her. But Du Hui couldn't protect herself, let alone take care of her.
That was a very difficult time when I think about it now. No matter at home or outside. She seems to be a superfluous person. Unable to integrate into the new environment, I was always alone. most of the time. She could stay silent all day long, and some classmates mistakenly thought she had autism. Some girls simply said she was mute because she was so withdrawn.
But even if the school life is difficult. Lu Yao didn't want to go home from school either. Because she has no relatives at home. It was a family named Jian, and she and Du Hui were the only two people with other surnames.
It was the first time Jian Beibei said that three hundred yuan was missing from her bag, and she pointed out that Lu Yao had stolen it. That was after Lu Yao came to Jian's house. Showing anger for the first time.
She said excitedly that she didn't steal it. She won't steal other people's money.
But Jian Beibei said that her aunt at home saw it and went to Lu Yao's room. The familiar man took out three brand-new one-hundred-yuan bills from inside Lu Yao's coat.
At that time, one hundred yuan was not red. Instead, it was a large blue-gray note with four heads on it. Lu Yao will always remember that moment, her shock and irrefutable embarrassment.
She was only thirteen years old and really didn't know how to resolve this false accusation. She could only cry and said that she had not stolen. She cried until her voice became hoarse. Amidst Jian Beibei's ridicule and humiliation, she secretly Go and ask Du Hui to take you home, back to your own home.
At that time, Du Hui had just married Jian Hongfeng. She did not dare to have any direct conflict with Jian Beibei, so she could only apologize and try to calm the matter.
Lu Yao would never steal money, Du Hui still had confidence in this. Auntie was a servant of the Jian family, so she naturally listened to Jian Beibei. At that time, Du Hui took Lu Yao's hand and said to her with red eyes: "Yao Yao, if we don't leave, she just wants to drive us away." If we leave, wouldn't we be fulfilling her wishes?"
Lu Yao was angry and aggrieved. She didn't know how much Du Hui loved money, so she watched her being framed, but still refused to leave. So she called Lu Chi that night and said she missed home.
She thought Lu Chi would tell her to go home without hesitation, but he persuaded her to stay well in Ye City and she would also take care of Du Hui.
Lu Yao's luggage had already been packed, and she would leave at any time just waiting for Lu Chi to say a word. But Lu Chi's words disappointed her.
After hanging up the phone, she cried under the quilt all night.
She still didn't go back to Winter City, but it was three months or more after this incident. By chance, Lu Yao heard her friend in Winter City say that her father's factory had laid off employees a while ago, and it was very difficult. Unfortunately, Lu Baiquan is also on the list of layoffs.
Lu Yao understood immediately. It wasn't that Lu Chi didn't want her to go home, but that family really couldn't afford the expenses of a third person now, not to mention that she still had to go to school.
When Du Hui divorced Lu Baiquan and wanted to take her away, she said that she would give her daughter the best things, so Lu Baiquan didn't force her and let her mother and daughter come to Night City to live a good life.
It's just... happiness is what others want to see, but life is how you live it. only the guy drinking water knows it's cold or hot.
After this fight, Lu Yao no longer mentioned returning to Winter City. She only buried her longing deeply in her heart. She would not go back and cause trouble to Lu Baquan. Not only that, she would also work hard to go to school and strive to make money early, so that she could be filial to Lu Baquan and help Lu Chi.
She had faith in her heart, so in the days to come, no matter what Jian Beibei said or did, Lu Yao would just deal with it calmly. On the verge of collapse countless times, she silently recited the names of her father and brother. This was to support her in her journey. Go down, even have the courage to live.
I don’t know when I will grow up, let alone when I will end this life. Lu Yao thought this would be a long and protracted battle with no hope, until Jian Chengli appeared.
In fact, he has always been there, but Lu Yao used to think of him as a transparent person. Even if he was in front of her, she couldn't see him. But she doesn't know since when, he gradually became her reason for wanting to return to this home, and even made her feel that there was still a faint glimmer of light in the endless darkness.
He would speak for her, and he didn't reject Du Hui. He even said he understood.
To put it bluntly, we are all people with some emotional flaws, why should we hurt each other
Therefore, in the tacit consensus between the two, their relationship gradually became closer. After ten years of living together, they were on the edge of brother and sister, above Youda, and still unfulfilled lovers.
If it hadn't been for Ji Guanxin's appearance, I'm afraid Lu Yao would have gone all the way to the dark side, and she didn't know how long she would have persisted.
Ji Guanxin... his face suddenly appeared in his mind. Lu Yao felt a sudden pain in her heart.
When she recalled the Jian family before, even when she thought of Jian Chengli, she felt calm and slightly sad. But once she thought of Ji Guanxin, her heart, which had long been numb from pain, still struggled and fluttered.
Ji Guanxin is a person who occupies a high position and is not young yet, but he is always careless and playful. When necessary, he will do whatever it takes to achieve his goals through hard work and pressure. Although there haven't been many tidbits about him in recent years, in the past few years he was also a prodigal son in love and a celebrity in the gossip entertainment pages.
Such a man is really far from the good match Lu Yao had in mind, but Yue Lao wants to involve two people who are incompatible with each other.
She thought she wouldn't like him, but in fact she didn't understand herself. It turned out that a man who dotes on a woman can dote her to the sky, make her forget herself, and of course make her lose her true heart.
If it hadn't been for his blow to the head, she would have almost forgotten how someone like him could feel at ease with a woman's company, and how could he willingly own a home with her
She originally planned to meet him when she came back from school and go to the shopping mall with him to buy some small objects and furnishings for her home. She felt that his home was like a well-decorated model house without the atmosphere of life.
But he still failed to give her a chance, and she finally gave in. She might not be so lucky to have a home of her own.
For Lu Yao, the word "home" is a scar in her heart that may never be healed in her lifetime.
Forget it, just don’t touch it again. If you don’t touch it, it won’t hurt.
With her eyes closed, Lu Yao fell asleep thinking about it. When she opened her eyes again, it was Lu Chi in the front seat calling her softly. It was already dark outside the car window, and a soft light was shining inside the car. Jiang Rui also turned around and said, "Don't catch a cold, get out of the car and have a meal, and sleep well in the hotel at night."
Lu Yao didn't know until she got off the car and listened to Lu Chi's explanation that they would not take the expressway back to Winter City directly because Jiang Rui had to go to several places for business, so wherever he went, he would stay in any city. Take a walk.
Seeing that Lu Yao was very quiet, Jiang Rui asked aloud: "Yao Yao doesn't get car sick, does she? If you feel uncomfortable, we will drive back to Winter City first. Anyway, I don't have anything to do in a hurry."
Hearing this, Lu Yao quickly replied: "It's okay, I don't get car sick, you can do your business."
Lu Chi walked beside Lu Yao, put his hand on her head, and said with a faint smile: "Let's just treat it as a side trip. Is there any place you particularly want to visit?"
Lu Yao said softly: "I can do it, it's up to you."
Lu Chi said: "We can go anywhere, you are the only lady, ladies have priority."
Lu Yao smiled and told the truth: "I have been in Night City these years and have never been anywhere. I don't know where there is fun."
Lu Chi said: "Then it's up to Jiang Rui to make the decision. He has been running around doing nothing else in the past few years."
Jiang Rui asked Lu Chi: "What does Yaoyao usually like? Let me see if there are any suitable places in the nearby provinces."
Lu Chi thought for a while and then said: "She was quite naughty when she was a child. She didn't talk about going to the house to uncover the tiles, but she also followed me and ran over the wall."
As he said that, he glanced sideways at the well-behaved Lu Yao beside him, his eyes full of love, "Now that she has grown up, she probably doesn't like the same things as when she was a child."
Jiang Rui also laughed, and said aloud: "Even if I really like her, can you still go crazy with her? There are some things that are innocent when you are a child, but you are crazy when you grow up."
Lu Chi smiled nonchalantly, "What's wrong with the madman? As long as my sister likes it, it doesn't matter if I act like a lunatic."
Lu Chi put his arm on Lu Yao's shoulders, and Lu Yao was very casual, just like when she was a child.
Jiang Rui suddenly felt envious in his heart, and couldn't help but whisper: "It's great to have a sister."
Lu Chi said: "Yes, you are the only one in your family. Once you leave, the godmother will be the only one left in the family. Why don't you find a wife to go home as soon as possible, so that when you go out to do business, there will be other people at home?" Stay with the elderly personally.”
Jiang Rui blushed again and said with a faint smile: "Come on, I'm not sure where I will live or what kind of partner I'm looking for right now. It's a waste of time."
The three of them walked towards the hotel in front while talking. Lu Yao slept until about eight o'clock in the evening. After the three of them booked a room, they sat in the hotel restaurant.
Jiang Rui asked Lu Yao to order. When Lu Yao thought about her face, she was afraid of scaring them. She shook her head and replied softly: "You guys can eat. My mouth is broken now and I can't eat. I will just drink some milk later." ”
Jiang Rui said: "How can this be done? You haven't eaten for several hours, and your body can't bear it without eating."
Lu Chi was about to persuade him when his cell phone rang. It was an unknown number and it showed that the call was from Ye City.
He connected and said 'hello'.
A man's deep and pleasant voice came from the phone, "Is it Lu Chi?"
"It's me, who are you?"
"I'm Ji Guanxin, please pass the phone to Lu Yao."