Fog clears from Hong Kong Island

Chapter 213 [if] Childhood sweethearts

Sang Yu hurriedly shook his head and said in a crying voice, "No, no...brother..."

Min Jiangyue patted her back to comfort her: "Did he bully you? Don't be afraid, Auntie will support you."

Sang Yu sniffed and his crying became quieter, "No."

"Then why are you crying?"

"I think...Mom..."

Maybe I had suppressed my emotions for too long and I just couldn't hold it back and let it out.

"She will be back in the afternoon. Don't cry, don't cry. Would you feel happier if you eat something sweet?" Min Jiangyue took a macaron from the plate and gave it to her.

Sang Yu wiped away his tears and said in a broken voice, "Thank you... Auntie..."

Min Jiangyue took her hand and said, "Come on, Auntie will take you downstairs to watch TV."

Sang Yu turned his head and glanced at Xi Jinbai, "Brother... aren't you going?"

"He doesn't like watching TV, leave him alone."

Xi Jinbai just happened to have some free time.

After going downstairs, Min Jiangyue turned on a cartoon for the little girl to watch.

After watching two episodes of Barbie Princess, Min Jiangyue found another storybook for her to read, worried that her daughter would damage her eyesight by watching it for too long.

The whole morning passed, and it was almost time for lunch when Xi Jin Bai came down from upstairs.

Sang Yu was sitting on a small stool in front of the coffee table reading a book. When he saw him coming down, he quickly ran towards him with the book in his hands, raised his innocent face and asked, "Brother, how do you pronounce this word?"

She pointed with her little hand at the English word for giraffe.

Xi Jinbai lowered his head and pronounced it accurately: "giraffe."

Sang Yu repeated it and pointed to another word, "What about this one?"

"leopard."

“And this one below.”

Xi Jinbai moved his gaze to her face, "Do you think I'm a reading pen?"

Sang Yu tilted his head and thought carefully, and came to the conclusion: "Brother, your voice is better than the reading pen."

"..."

She also commented on it.

Min Jiangyue came out of the kitchen and stared at the two of them with a grin. The more she looked at the little girl, the more she liked her. She couldn't help but say, "My daughter is still the cutest."

Xi Jinbai heard this and turned his head to suggest sincerely: "You can have another child with my dad."

Min Jiangyue said unhappily: "What if I give birth to another son?"

How boring.

Xi Jinbai understood her subtext and chose to keep silent.

Sang Yu asked him a few more words and sentences, and he answered them easily.

He started learning English at the age of three and attended bilingual international schools since childhood. English is like his second mother tongue and naturally has no difficulty for him.

"Brother, how come you know so many words?" Sang Yu looked at him with admiration.

"Read more books." He said lightly.

"But I can't remember."

“The early bird catches the worm. If you read it a hundred times, you will remember it.”

Min Jiangyue's mouth twitched, "Xi Jinbai, I advise you to think twice before you speak. With your mouth, which girl will want you in the future?"

"..."

Xi Jinbai was too lazy to refute and never told his family that he received love letters and gifts almost every day at school, and there were even girls who came to his class specifically to block his way.
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At one o'clock in the afternoon, Ji Wanning and Qiao Minghui and his wife rushed back.

"Yu Yu!"

Hearing the voice coming from the door, Sang Yu immediately put down the book in his hand and ran out, "Mommy, Daddy."

Ji Wanning squatted down and hugged her, still frightened, "How did you get out? Did you know that your family is looking for you?"

Sang Yu pursed his lips, knowing that he had made a mistake, and whispered, "I didn't mean to do that."

Qiao Minghui touched her head and warned her: "Next time, don't go out alone. What if you meet a bad guy?"

"I understand." Sang Yu came out of Ji Wanning's arms listlessly and asked, "Mommy, can you take me to find mom?"

"Okay." Ji Wan Ning just remembered this and apologized to her: "I'm sorry, Mommy forgot about it because she was busy. I'll take you there later."

Sang Yu was instantly happy, and said with curved eyebrows: "Thank you, Mommy!"

Min Jiangyue stood aside in confusion, "What's going on?"

Ji Wanning stood up and explained to her: "This is my daughter. I just found her not long ago."

Min Jiangyue was confused, "What do you mean? Then...what about that?"

"I was taken away by mistake at the hospital when I was born."

Family disgrace should not be made public; that is all Ji Wanning could say.

The Ji family is also a well-known and prestigious family in Hong Kong Island. If the news gets out and is widely publicized by the Hong Kong media, she, Ji Wanning, will become a laughing stock in the whole of Hong Kong Island.

Min Jiangyue was shocked, "Is there such a thing?"

This is so absurd. I always thought this kind of plot only existed in the cliché dramas at 8 o'clock.

"Yeah." Ji Wanning thanked him: "Thank you for helping me take care of Yuyu today." Min Jiangyue shook her head, "What are you talking about? It's just a piece of cake. She is very well behaved and very lovable."

Ji Wanning raised her lips, "Then I'll take her back and meet you later."

Min Jiangyue nodded, "Okay."

Sang Yu suddenly remembered something, let go of Ji Wanning's hand and said, "Mommy, wait a minute, I'll go upstairs and tell my brother."

Ji Wanning: "Okay, go ahead, we'll wait for you."

Sang Yu ran to the study on the second floor to find Xi Jinbai, holding the baby in his arms.

Seeing her come in, Xi Jinbai put down the book and pen in his hand and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Brother, I'm going home. Thank you for bringing me back and teaching me to read words. I'll give you my doll!" As he said that, Sang Yu stuffed the rag doll into his hands.

Xi Jinbai: "..."

What should he say? He didn't really want to.

But Sang Yu didn't give him a chance to refuse. He left with a simple "Goodbye, brother" and ran away.

After returning downstairs, Sang Yu said goodbye to Min Jiangyue before leaving with Ji Wanning and Qiao Minghui.
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I saw Xi Jinbai again at the end of this year.

Sang Yu went on a business trip to Sucheng with Ji Wanning, and Min Jiangyue invited them to her home.

It happened to snow those days. It was the first time Sang Yu saw it and his face was full of excitement.

Arriving at Xi's house, Min Jiangyue happily took the little girl's hand and said, "Long time no see, Yu Yu, do you still remember me? We've met before."

Sang Yu nodded, "Remember, you are the mother of the handsome brother."

This made Min Jiangyue laugh, "Brother is upstairs, do you want to go play with him?"

Sang Yu blinked, "Is it okay?"

"Of course." Min Jiangyue turned around and told Aunt Mei to take the little girl upstairs.

Xi Jinbai was writing homework in the study.

"Knock Knock-"

There was a knock on the door.

Without looking up, he said, "Come in."

Aunt Mei opened the door and let Sang Yu go in by himself.

"elder brother."

A clear and childish voice was heard.

Xi Jinbai stopped writing and looked over.

The little girl in front of me was wearing a light pink down jacket and a creamy white beret on her head. Her cheeks were rosy and her curled eyelashes were like two small brushes, fluttering gently.

He had a good memory and remembered immediately, "It's you."

Sang Yu smiled, his eyes curved into crescents, "Brother, do you still remember me?"

"Of course, a little guy with poor direction." Xi Jinbai not only remembered it, but also had a deep impression on it.

Sang Yu pursed her lips. She couldn't refute the nickname because she was indeed always getting lost.

Ignoring the title, she walked closer to Xi Jinbai and said, "Brother, can you take me to play in the snow?"

"Aren't you afraid of the cold?"

"I'm wearing warm clothes." The little girl added, "I've never played in the snow before."

Xi Jinbai was silent for a moment, his eyes met hers full of expectation, unable to say no, he sighed softly, closed the book, and said, "Let's go."

Sang Yu's eyes suddenly became clear.

In the living room downstairs, Min Jiangyue and Ji Wanning were sitting at the coffee table in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, drinking tea and chatting.

Xi Jinbai talked to them and only took Sang Yu out to play after getting their permission.

It had been snowing for several days in a row, and the garden was already covered with snow, with footprints everywhere on the road.

Xi Jinbai was just about to remind Sang Yu to walk slower and be careful not to fall, but before he could finish his words, she slipped and sat down in the snow.

He quickly pulled the man up and asked, "Are you wet?"

Sang Yu shook his head, not caring at all, giggling to himself, brushing off the snow on his clothes, and finding a place with plenty of snow to start making a snowman.

She wore thick gloves and with the help of Xi Jinbai, built two little snowmen, and put the "branches" that served as hands together, like two little people holding hands.

Sang Yu was very satisfied, "Thank you brother for accompanying me to build a snowman."

I kept calling him brother and forgot his name. "By the way, brother, what's your name?"

"Xi Jinbai."

"Which three words? Can you write them out?" Sang Yu handed him the branch in his hand.

Xi Jinbai took it and wrote his name in the snow.

There was a character that Sang Yu didn't recognize. "Is the character in the middle pronounced jìn? It looks so difficult to write."

She learned to write his name again and memorized it carefully.

The handwriting was square, small and exquisite, forming a sharp contrast with the large characters he wrote, but it inexplicably revealed a sense of harmony.

The two ladies in the room took their figures in.

"Childhood sweethearts, what a delight to the eyes." Min Jiangyue took a sip of coffee and suddenly thought, "If we become relatives in the future..."

Ji Wanning stopped talking, "No, I can't bear to see my daughter marry far away."