under the spotlight

Chapter 197
The spring is beautiful, and in the most gentle way, it quietly evaporates the coldness of the world and soothes the wrinkles of people's hearts. These words seem very literary, but Lin Fei at the moment feels this way.

"Xiaobei, after I lived here, for no reason, I felt that the world has become more open. In our line of work, we often encounter many heart-stopping things. I used to have to digest them for a long time, and sometimes I would suffer from insomnia. .”

The spring tea exudes a unique fragrance. Lin Fei took a sip of the warm green tea and said with a smile: "Since I moved here, really, all the depression and depression have never lasted for more than an hour. The other day I went to shoot this film and came back. It happened that there was thunder and lightning at night, and I was sitting here on the lake in the distance, holding a cup of hot tea and watching, after drinking a cup of tea, my whole body was comfortable, and I really felt that my heart has opened up a lot.”

Sitting here, looking at the infinitely open lake and the sky in the distance, I have to say that the little depression who was forced to fall in love by his parents in different ways seems to be really not that annoying, Lu Beicen couldn't help but nodded in agreement.

Lin Fei stroked his forehead: "Heh, do you think I'm getting old now, and I can get far away at any time? In fact, that child couldn't survive. She was born in the Affiliated Hospital of W University in the early morning of the same day, and she was determined to be seriously ill when she was born. Deformities, congenital loss of one ear, malformation of the great artery, biliary atresia, urethral atresia, anal atresia, there is no way to save them.”

Lu Beicen was surprised: "It's so serious? Didn't you have a prenatal checkup?"

Lin Fei smiled wryly and shook his head: "That's right, young people are ignorant, and they all feel that they are only in their early twenties, and there will be no problems. I did it, and the elders in the family felt that nothing was wrong, the pregnant woman could eat and drink, and was in good health, and the childbirth was still natural, so who knew it would end like this.”

"Then why did you throw it directly into the lake? Logically, the hospital should handle it."

"Generally, the hospital will ask the family members for opinions of this kind of baby. After giving up treatment, it is allowed to take it away, but if it is not taken away, it will be disposed of by the hospital. It may be placed on the crib next to the mother before it dies. Yes. The woman's parents feel that waiting for their daughter to wake up like this will make them unbearable."

"The man's relatives took the baby out of the hospital, and felt that it was unlucky and didn't want to take it home, so they gave a little money and asked a cleaner to take it away to help deal with it. The cleaner was not so clear-headed, so he threw it into the lake. Well, the baby wasn't actually dead at that time."

"In the end, the man's relative and the cleaner were sentenced for negligent death. The cleaner lived in a shed next to the garbage transfer station. The poor man was going to die. Hey, I saw the judge's expression on his face when he sentenced him." sigh, but what can be done, that's what the law says."

Lu Beicen was about to speak when the phone rang suddenly. When he opened it, it was Wei Ye. Although he was familiar with him now, he didn't seem to be familiar enough to call during the break, right?Picking up with doubts, the other side began to yell: "Boss Lu, where are you?"

"What are you doing, you want to invite me to dinner?" Lu Beicen asked directly without any hesitation.

"Ah, you are a clever planner. We gather together at night to celebrate. We are proud of ourselves. It is better to be alone than to be happy together. I just called Boss Wen and she asked me to ask you." Wei Ye's voice was full of Can't contain the excitement.

Lu Beicen glanced at Lin Fei, and simply turned on the speakerphone: "What's so good, so excited?"

"Didn't you petition me last time? Today, the client's younger brother said that the sentence was changed, and a vice president went to their house to apologize. The man gave 30 yuan. How about it? It's worth celebrating, right?"

"I thought you picked up 30 for nothing!" Lu Beicen said while looking at Lin Fei, asking for her opinion.

"Boss Lu is so arrogant, please come out before dinner, hurry up, give me a sweet word!"

Seeing Lin Fei smiling and nodding, Lu Beicen motioned for her to speak up, but Lin Fei didn't hold it up, and joked directly: "Boss Wei, it's such a good thing, the listeners deserve it, you can't just ask Xiaolu!"

Wei Ye immediately recognized that it was Lin Fei's voice, and quickly said: "Ha, sister Lin, so you two are together, come, come, come together, I was afraid that I would invite you not to come."

"Where are you going to eat?" Lu Beicen asked.

"Boss Wen wants to eat crayfish by name. Let's go to the shop downstairs from Teacher Du's house. I'll call Teacher Du and invite Teacher Li too." Wei Ye said directly.

"Hehe, Boss Wei is going to bleed a little today. The crayfish are not cheap at the moment, so don't make you cry." Lu Beicen joked with a smile.

"Hey, it's rare, my buddy is happy, that's all I said, I will continue to make phone calls to shake people."

Wei Ye hung up the phone, Lin Fei looked at Lu Beicen and said with a smile: "I think it's superfluous for him to invite anyone, the most important thing is to call Sister Changhong, I heard her call the other day, and she directly handed the materials to the high court It's..."

Hearing this, Lu Beicen immediately understood what was going on. It's no wonder that he couldn't help but chuckled and said, "Sister Changhong is really fierce. I guess Wei Ye wouldn't dare to call out. Look at his nasty scumbag!" With such a character, once in front of Sister Changhong, she becomes a little sheep."

"It's pretty good. The original producer of our news department was too face-to-face, so the editor-in-chief was jumping. If it wasn't for Mr. Qi's pressure, it would be like flying dogs." Lin Fei laughed.

"It's also very interesting. You see, Mr. Tang is like a literati. Mr. Yang matched him with a fierce female general. Your Mr. Qi has a relatively rigid personality, so the producer should be a little bit more." Lu Beicen thought of the two sides. Compatibility, I feel that Mr. Yang is the real person.

Lu Beicen called home to report, Jiang Yunjin hung up the phone and began to mutter to Lu Xusheng: "Look, you can't rush this matter, I finally came back, if you urge her, she might as well hide Go out and never come back at night."

Lu Xusheng comforted Jiang Yunjin: "Then don't rush, the child has his own ideas when he grows up, he can live as he likes, it's good to be married as long as he is married, it's no big deal to be single, now it's not the same as before. It's the same, if a big girl doesn't get married, people will gossip, people can take it easy now, the key is that as long as she is happy, we are mentally prepared to let nature take its course."

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Lu Beicen drove back to Fangjiaji according to his memory. His adoptive mother Yu Guoqin originally lived in the demolition and resettlement house in the city. For some reason, she suddenly moved back to the Fang family's old house.

The old house in Fangjiaji was about to collapse a few years ago. Yu Guoqin spent some money to rebuild it after much deliberation. Later, the factory area was expropriated, the houses in the factory had to be demolished, and the resettlement house would take two to three years to live in. , Yu Guoqin spent some more money to make a simple decoration of this old house, that is, as long as he can live in it, he moved back to the resettlement house and then moved back to the city.

According to what Yu Guoqin told Lu Beicen on the phone, the resettlement houses are all new buildings, with parks and vegetable markets, and convenient transportation. There are also a group of old men and women dancing square dances and playing mahjong together. Comfortable, I don’t know why I suddenly moved back.

As soon as Lu Beicen arrived at the intersection of his home in the market town, he saw Yu Guoqin sitting in a small shop at the intersection, craned his neck to look at the road, and finally saw his daughter's head sticking out of a car, and called out to her mother, she laughed so hard The wrinkles around the eyes are piled up...

When Yu Guoqin got into the car, Lu Beicen said angrily, "Mom, you told me to wait for me at home. I know the way, but you still don't believe me."

I haven't seen my daughter for almost a year, and Yu Guoqin couldn't think about it, so she just kept laughing: "Okay, it's good to know each other, let's go home quickly, the chicken soup at home is ready, and I'll cook another fish for you, by the way, today I will I also went to the pond to pick some soft hagi, and made soft hagi cake, stuffed with black sesame candy, which is your favorite..."

Lu Beicen listened to his adoptive mother counting what to eat today like countless times before, the endless warmth in his heart spread to his limbs and bones, it was a comfort, the love of his adoptive mother for her was reflected in such porridge and meal, It's heartwarmingly simple.

I drove the car to the road in front of my small courtyard, pulled over and parked. The location of this old house is really good. In the middle of this large village, there is a road at the door, which has been paved with cement. The small square is a sun-drying field during the busy farming season, with a pond beside it, and open fertile fields in the distance.

Going up from the back of the house is the mountain, and behind the small mountain is the big mountain, one layer after another. My adoptive mother likes to go to the mountain to pick wild tea and fry it before dawn. The tea she fry has a special fragrance. Lu Beicen No matter when you smell it, you can immediately recognize it. During the long time without your adoptive mother, the scent seems to recombine into the smell of your mother...

After Lu Beicen moved the luggage, the gifts from his parents, and the clothes he bought for his adoptive mother into the yard, Yu Guoqin had already brewed this year's spring tea and handed it to Lu Beicen: " Take a break, it's convenient for a girl to drive such a long distance by herself, but I'm always scared..."

"Mom, sit down for a while too. I'm proficient at driving, and I'm driving slowly, so don't worry." The fragrance of tea penetrated into Lu Beicen's nose, and he began to salivate when he smelled it.

"You sit, you sit, I'm cooking, are you hungry? How about I fry two soft hagi cakes for you first." Yu Guoqin began to stuff pine branches into the stove to heat up the fire.

"Mom, I'm not hungry, I'm not in a hurry, take your time, didn't you hear Ah Hao say that you sprained your ankle a few years ago, why did you go to the mountain to pick tea again?" Lu Beicen looked at his adoptive mother who was covered with fire. face, walked over consciously, and sat down next to the adoptive mother.

The adoptive mother always has a pure sunshine like sunshine, and a little warm taste, which is hard to describe, but just like her, she dresses simply and plainly, but neatly and generously.

"I'm fine. I'm fine. I just accidentally stepped on my foot while dancing, and sprained it. After a few days, I'll be fine. Are you still burning fire? Don't burn yourself." Yu Guoqin Seeing the fire burning, he handed the tongs to his daughter, and stood up by himself to cook.

"Mom, it's not convenient for you to use gas by yourself, and you have to collect firewood every day. How inconvenient." Lu Beicen moved his buttocks to the small stool in the middle to watch the fire as he did when he was a child, and chatted with his adoptive mother by the way. staring at the sky.

"I'm simple alone. It's not that you're back. I want to make you some soft hagi cakes and rice porridge. Where can I get them outside? Seeing that Nizi has worked hard all year, her chin is so thin and sharp." Yes, people are also dark..."

Yu Guoqin suddenly stopped talking, and Lu Beicen looked up, only to realize that the little old lady started blinking violently. She felt sad, and she was holding back her tears.

Lu Beicen's heart was burning in an instant, as hot as the fire in the stove, it was about to flow out.

The two of them buried themselves in their own moods. Lu Beicen sometimes thought that she was not very good at expressing her emotions in words. She was exactly the same as her adoptive mother Yu Guoqin...

After a long while, there was a sound of thorns in the pot. It was white fish in the pot. Lu Beicen liked to eat brine white fish made by Yu Guoqin since he was a child. Taste, one fish, Lu Beicen can eat two bowls of rice.

One of the mother and daughter cooks, the other feeds the fire. They cooperate tacitly as they have for many years, and the dishes are ready quickly. Yu Guoqin puts the soaked rice in the pot and steams it, and pulls Lu Beicen up to let her go to the dining room Drink the chicken soup first, and go to the fire by yourself.

The fire for steaming the rice is very particular, the key is to get the crispy crispy rice, then shovel up the rice, pour the rice soup down, and suffocate with the residual temperature, after a while, there will be a pot of fragrant rice porridge, accompanied by Eating soft hagi cake is really the most lingering childhood delicacy...

Lu Beicen held a chicken leg in one hand and a spoon in the other. He took a mouthful of chicken and a mouthful of chicken soup. It was delicious and sweet. The pot of chicken soup stewed by his adoptive mother was limited to a daily limit when he opened the restaurant. The soup is thick but not greasy, so delicious that you want to swallow your tongue...

Yu Guoqin came out of the kitchen, saw Lu Beicen eating with gusto, and started laughing silently again, as if watching her daughter eat deliciously, she would be full and happy.

"Mom, come and eat. It's delicious. I want another bowl of chicken soup." Lu Beicen was not polite, and greeted his adoptive mother as before. She knew that her adoptive mother never paid attention to who should eat first and who should eat second. Things, as long as you eat well, your adoptive mother will be happy.

"Hey, you eat, you eat more. Mom is getting old, and the chicken soup is not easy to digest. Mom will just have a bowl of rice porridge later. You are not at home, and Mom can't eat it by herself. I will take advantage of you. Let’s also eat rice porridge..."

Lu Beicen watched his adoptive mother turn around and go into the kitchen to serve porridge, and her eye circles couldn't help turning red again. How lonely her adoptive mother must be alone...

Seeing his adoptive mother bring out the porridge bowl, Lu Beicen began to talk aside: "Mom, do you still have some friends when you live in the city? Come back to the old house, and you don't want to deal with people in the village. Lonely!"

"I'm not alone, it's good, it's clean, there's no such mess!" Yu Guoqin shook her head, with a bit of discomfort on her face, Lu Beicen saw that there was a story!

In the blink of an eye, Lu Beicen held back his laughter and began to tease his adoptive mother: "Mom, someone is chasing you and chasing you back to the old house to hide, right?"

"It's Moti, eat your meal quickly!" Yu Guoqin said a little embarrassed.

"Ha, I guessed it all, Mom, tell me quickly, what's going on?"

(End of this chapter)