Fallen

Chapter 13 The fog is heavy
Ye Yinfeng suddenly became very silent.

In the past, he didn't talk much, but there was always a sense of confidence and kindness in his eyebrows. He often encouraged employees to be proactive, and his care always made people feel warm and kind.

Now, no one can appreciate these unique charms of his.Gloom and impatience appeared on his face from time to time. During a meeting, if someone spoke poorly or could not answer his questions, he was no longer as tolerant as before, would lose his temper suddenly, and even walk away.

The staff shrank their heads when they saw him and avoided him, for fear that something would offend him.

He worked even harder, and often worked overtime until late at night. Several cronies, such as Feng Yuanzhe and Cui Youxin, were embarrassed to leave early when they saw that he was still there. unspeakable.

It was the same at home, after Ye Yinfeng lost his temper a few times because of trifles, neither his parents nor Wen Xuan dared to ask him any questions.

Ye's mother didn't know why, so she passed all her anger on Wenxuan, thinking that it was the daughter-in-law who made her son become what he is now.No matter how much Wen Xuan could bear it, there would be an end. After doing this a few times, she stopped going to Ye's house to socialize, and even brought Xiao Dong back to take care of her herself.

The surroundings of Ye Yinfeng gradually condensed into pieces of ice, and everyone kept a distance from him, which was exactly what he hoped.

At night, he drove back alone, the street lamps snaking forward, escorting him in the dark, and he speeded up to the depths of the night with full horsepower, hoping to melt into the vast expanse of black.

Whenever at this time, the ringtone of the mobile phone becomes the sound he hates to hear the most. Usually he ignores it and continues to enjoy the joy of soaring, unless there is a particularly persistent person, who is not afraid of his moody temper. Talk to him, like this time.

Ye Yinfeng was disturbed by the damn ringtone, slammed on the brakes and stopped on the side of the road, frowned and grabbed the phone, a string of unfamiliar numbers appeared on the screen, but they seemed to have known each other.

He collected himself, thinking of a person, his eyebrows frowned even tighter: "Hello?"

"Boss Ye!" As expected by Ye Yinfeng, it was that voice, like a nightmare of his, "Have you been doing well recently?"

"Why are you again?" He restrained his impatience and asked coldly.

"Hehe, it seems that you don't really want to hear my voice. But this time I want to tell you good news - I'm leaving Sanjiang."

Ye Yinfeng listened without any reaction.

"Boss Ye is a trustworthy person. So," the third child deliberately paused, "Before I leave, I want to make a deal with you. I wonder if you are interested?"

"Not interested!" Ye Yinfeng answered decisively.

The third child's laughter contained a taste of tolerance: "Don't you refuse so quickly! Don't you even have the interest to listen to it?"

Ye Yinfeng really wanted to hang up immediately, but his hands refused to move, and he couldn't move for a long time.

The third child restrained his smile, and his hoarse voice was much lower: "The sale this time is no better than those few photos, maybe it will kill someone. I thought about it for a few days before I decided to call you..."

Ye Yinfeng felt impetuous when he heard it, and couldn't help interrupting him: "Can you speak directly and don't be secretive?"

"Do you want to know how your cousin Ye Xiaoxiang died?"

The words of the third child hit Ye Yinfeng's chest unexpectedly, and he even forgot his hostility towards the third child in a daze: "What do you mean?"

The third child sneered twice: "Do you think he really committed suicide?"

"Isn't it?" Ye Yinfeng's heart tightened suddenly, and there was a chilly wind blowing from behind.

"If it's suicide, I can't do this deal with you."

Ye Yinfeng closed his eyes: "You mean...someone killed him?"

"Boss Ye, I really want to tell you now, but you won't let me go empty-handed, will you?"

"How much do you want this time?"

"50 million!"

"50 too..."

The third child cut him off and said: "Boss Ye, don't bargain with me, the price cannot be reduced! I will leave after taking the money, and I will never bother you again in this life. As for your purchase It has nothing to do with me what to do with that secret.”

"Can I meet and talk with you? Right now."

"Unless you come with money."

"I can't afford that much money now," Ye Yinfeng explained, "The bank has long been closed, so I have to wait until tomorrow morning."

"Then let's make an appointment tomorrow. Anyway, I won't talk about it until I see the money."

Ye Yinfeng gradually calmed down: "50 is not a small amount, how do you prove that your secret is really worth this price?"

The third child laughed again: "Boss Ye, although I'm not a good person, I know a little bit about the rules of the Tao. I won't do cheating and cheating. I won't come here to tell you this without full assurance and evidence." As for whether it’s worth it or not, you can judge for yourself when we meet tomorrow.”

Ye Yinfeng thought, when it comes to extortion and reselling news, the third child should be a veteran, and I can't get around him. Besides, the strengths and weaknesses of the two are clear at a glance, and the initiative is in the hands of the third child. No matter what, I had to say: "Okay, tomorrow morning at ten o'clock, I will wait for you at the old place."

The third child was very happy: "Boss Ye is refreshing! Then it's settled, see you at the old place tomorrow morning!"

After answering the call from the third child, Ye Yinfeng found that his hands were trembling unconsciously. Although it was slight, he still noticed it. It was a kind of trembling from the bottom of his heart. He was afraid that a long-standing conjecture would be confirmed. .

He didn't want to go home until the third child harassed him, and after talking on the phone with the third child, he lacked the courage to go home even more.

The family he set up in spite of his parents' opposition did not bring him much warmth, but gradually fell apart.Somewhere, there seems to be a more powerful force from the darkness, determined to smash it completely.

The phone rang again, dragging him back to reality from the abyss. The call came from Wen Xuan.

He stared at the name for a full ten seconds, but he wasn't thinking about anything, but suddenly felt that the name was very strange to him.

Finally, he adjusted his mood, picked up the phone, and tried to keep his tone as calm as possible: "Wen Xuan?"

Hearing his voice, Wen Xuan seemed to breathe a sigh of relief: "I called you several times but the phone didn't answer—didn't you say you'd come back for dinner today?"

"I ran into some trouble temporarily, and I won't be able to go back for a while."

Wen Xuan became worried: "Are you going to be late?"

"Well, maybe...you don't have to wait for me, go to bed with Xiaodong, I...may have to stay overnight."

Wen Xuan asked after a pause, "Are you still in the company?"

"Correct."

Wen Xuan was silent for a moment, maybe just a few seconds, but Ye Yinfeng suddenly realized that she must have figured out his not wanting to go home, and couldn't help but think, if she questioned him now, he would definitely put the pain in his heart Speak out both anger and anger - pour it out to her, even if their house will collapse in an instant.

However, Wen Xuan only chose to be silent for a short time, and then, as always, told him in a soft tone: "Try to come back as soon as possible, don't be too tired."

Ye Yinfeng took a deep breath, then exhaled softly, and then heard his gentle answer: "Okay." It seemed that the person talking to Wen Xuan was not himself.

He didn't go back to the company, but found a hotel to stay for one night like last time, but he couldn't sleep anyway, it didn't matter where he stayed.

In the early morning of the next day, Ye Yinfeng rushed back to the company to prepare the money first, and then he was not in the mood to deal with business, so he left the company early and went to the teahouse to wait.Based on his experience last time, he believed that the third child had arrived long ago, and he should show up immediately when he saw him.

He had many conjectures along the way, and most of the suspects in his conjectures were inseparable from Wen Xuan.The more he thought about it, the more he felt like an idiot. He didn't know much about Wen Xuan's past, yet he was so bewildered by her beauty that he was now in deep trouble.

But regret is useless, the motivation that can cheer him up is to find out the cause of Xiaoxiang's death.

However, he sat there from 09:30 to [-] o'clock, and the third child never showed up.Ye Yinfeng looked at his watch from time to time, telling himself to be patient, but when the hour hand reached eleven o'clock, his patience also reached its limit.

He realized he was being played.

He took out his mobile phone and dialed back the number of the third child. The voice prompts that the other party's mobile phone is turned off.

He carefully recalled the conversation with the third child last night, that scumbag's relaxed attitude and teasing laughter, the more he thought about it, the more he believed that the other party was playing a prank on him.

"Bastard!" he cursed under his breath.

When he left the teahouse, apart from the shame of being teased, the fog of doubts in his heart did not dissipate, but he obviously could not get the answer.

Does this mean that the current seemingly calm situation can continue?Thinking of this, after the disappointment, he actually felt a little bit relieved.

Sometimes people are just like ostriches. When they encounter trouble, their first reaction is to stick their heads in the sand. When they look up and find that the crisis has passed, they will continue with their original life without asking why.As for whether the trouble will come again, we will talk about it later.

It was another cloudy day with torrential rain in the evening.This day seems to be extraordinarily long - starting from the morning when I raised the money and went to the teahouse to wait for the rabbit.

Ye Yinfeng felt very tired and felt unable to hold on, so he decided not to confront himself anymore. After 05:30, he turned down all the affairs that required his participation and planned to go home early, but he was blocked on the road.

Six o'clock in the evening is the rush hour for get off work in this city.

His cars moved slowly in the long queue, with the wipers dangling in front of his eyes, monotonous and boring.

The rain made people feel irritable, Ye Yinfeng clicked on the CD, trying to change his mood, but he turned off the CD after listening to half of the song, the singing did not please his body and mind.He then turned on the radio again.

At this time, the instant news is being broadcast, nothing more than the price of rice and vegetables has risen again, which country and which country are on the shelves again, and the head of the United Nations is busy flying around to mediate, but to no avail.

He listened to it with dissatisfaction, and when he was about to turn off the radio to keep his ears clean, a report of a local traffic accident suddenly came into his ears.

"Around 06:30 this morning, a traffic accident occurred at the junction of Huaqing Road and Yunqing Street. A muck truck accidentally knocked down a pedestrian crossing the road while driving, causing the pedestrian to die on the spot. After investigation , the deceased's surname is Chen, and he just came to Sanjiang a month ago. The police are still investigating the details..."

Ye Yinfeng's hand holding the steering wheel suddenly tightened, and a cold air rushed up from the soles of his feet. He began to understand why he couldn't wait for the call from the third child today.

A harsh horn sounded from behind the car, pulling him out of the shock, and he realized that he and the car in front had fallen a lot behind.

After finally passing the busy intersection, he turned and drove away from the main road without thinking, parked the car on the side of the road, then took out his mobile phone to make a few calls, and found the person he was looking for.

After talking on the phone, he threw the phone on the dashboard, restarted the car, and drove towards the police station in the west of the city.

After receiving the call of Ye Yinfeng's arrival, Police Officer Zhao met him at the door and told him straight to the point: "Let's go! The hospital is on the street ahead."

Ye Yinfeng nodded, and walked behind Police Officer Zhao towards the hospital.Officer Zhao asked him as he walked, "What's your relationship with Chen Zhiping?"

"He once went to our company to apply for a job." Ye Yinfeng lied calmly.

"Oh." Officer Zhao turned his head and glanced at him with sharp eyes, "What position are you applying for?"

"fitter."

Police officer Zhao said with a smile: "A fitter still needs to be interviewed by the general manager in person?"

"It just happened to happen, so I asked him a few words with the head of the department. There are always no suitable people for this position, and everyone is very anxious." Ye Yinfeng remained calm, "He looks a bit special, leave me some I made a deep impression on him, although I didn’t use him later. I listened to the radio and thought it might be him, so I wanted to take a look..."

"Why do you think he's special?"

"This...he is different from a group of workers in our workshop. It feels like something happened. This is the main reason why we didn't keep him."

Police officer Zhao's eyes showed a hint of approval: "You guessed right. He was imprisoned in Meiling once. I don't think he told you about it, did he?"

Ye Yinfeng made a suddenly realized expression, then shook his head.

Officer Zhao asked again: "When did he come to your company for an interview?"

"Just a week ago." Ye Yinfeng smiled apologetically, "During the interview, I heard that he came to Sanjiang alone to find a job, but we couldn't use him. Kind of...hope it's not him."

Police Officer Zhao looked at him again, but the sharpness in his eyes was erased a lot: "You are a very kind boss, and others will avoid such things with fear."

Ye Yinfeng smiled dryly and remained silent.

Chen Zhiping's body is placed in the hospital mortuary and has been processed.

Police officer Zhao lifted the white cloth covering the corpse's face and asked Ye Yinfeng, "Is that the person you know?"

Ye Yinfeng lowered his head and took a look. It was indeed the third child. Even though he was dead, his brows were still tightly furrowed, as if he was unwilling.He nodded heavily, unable to speak for a long time.

Officer Zhao covered the third child's face again, and Ye Yinfeng spoke again: "Is there anything I can do? Maybe I can..."

Police officer Zhao shrugged: "The construction company of the driver who caused the accident will bear all the expenses, mainly funeral and family benefits, but we checked, this man is a bachelor, he is the only one on the household registration, and now he is dead like this."

"What... did he leave, um, any will?"

"Dead on the spot, without any news. But it's also interesting, he paid off the rent of the house two days ago, it seems that he wants to leave Sanjiang..."

Before breaking up, police officer Zhao told Ye Yinfeng: "This was an ordinary traffic accident. The driver who caused the accident also took the initiative to report the incident, and his attitude was very cooperative. We will spend a few more days to verify the details. If there is no doubt, we will close the case like this gone."

Ye Yinfeng went home with a heavy heart, and along the way, his mind was filled with all kinds of wild thoughts.

At the door of the house, he absently took out the key to open the door, but before the key was inserted into the lock hole, the door was suddenly pulled open.

He shivered and dropped the key on the ground. When he picked up the key and straightened up, Wen Xuan's slightly surprised face appeared in his vision: "I'm back so early? Didn't you say you have a party tonight?"

"I..." Ye Yinfeng didn't remember when he gave this excuse at all, he didn't care to think about it, and said perfunctorily, "Oh, it's temporarily canceled."

"Then you haven't eaten dinner yet?" Wen Xuan closed the door behind him, "Can I cook dumplings for you? I didn't cook tonight, I ate at your mother's with Xiaodong."

"Are you going to see my mother?" Ye Yinfeng turned around too hard, almost losing his center of gravity.

"Yeah!" Wen Xuan smiled, and at the same time was a little surprised by his terrified expression, "I thought about it, but I still can't be too willful, after all, it's your mother, I have to take the initiative to get along with her. It just so happened that I went to the kindergarten today to meet her. Xiaodong met her when she was young, and she said she missed Xiaodong, so she stopped by to have a look. Then... why are you looking at me like that?"

"No, it's nothing." Ye Yinfeng withdrew his strange gaze and asked under cover, "Where's Xiaodong?"

"Playing in the room! Are you hungry? Is it enough for me to cook twenty dumplings for you?"

"enough."

Wen Xuan walked briskly into the kitchen, Ye Yinfeng suddenly felt confused, her serene demeanor and demeanor seemed to be completely ignorant of what happened to the third child, could it be that she was thinking wrong?
In the small room, Xiaodong played house-playing games with her many plush toys as usual, her expression was the same as Wenxuan's, peaceful and serene.

Ye Yinfeng stood at the door of Xiaodong's room and watched for a while, the tense emotions that had been tense all day finally eased.

Maybe he was wrong, what happened to the third child was indeed an accident, and his speculation about the cause of Xiaoxiang's death was nothing more than a whimsical fantasy.

He tried to persuade himself to go to Wenxuan again, but soon sadly found that he could no longer lie to himself.

In the dead of night, Ye Yinfeng woke up suddenly, he paused for a moment in the silence, there was an unusual feeling in the room, he raised his hand and turned on the desk lamp.

Wen Xuan is gone.

He was stunned for a while, then quietly got out of bed, opened the door and walked out of the bedroom.

The living room is also dark, but this home is not as peaceful as it appears on the surface.You only need to listen carefully, and you can catch the rustling movement from Xiaodong's room.

Ye Yinfeng walked quietly in that direction.

He put his hand lightly on the doorknob, and after hesitating for a few seconds, he pressed it down and quickly pushed open the door of Xiaodong's room. As expected, there was a faint light inside. Wenxuan was sitting in front of Xiaodong's bed when he heard the noise, and immediately Turning around, with a surprised look on his face, it seemed that Ye Yinfeng was very sneaky.

He was a little embarrassed, and asked in a low voice, "Why are you here?"

"Can't sleep, come and see her."

As Wen Xuan said, she tiptoed out, and when she got close, Ye Yinfeng vaguely saw her flushed face.She closed the door with her hands behind her back, and asked him by the way: "You can't sleep either?"

"I... want to go to the bathroom."

Wen Xuan smiled: "Then you go, I feel sleepy right now, so I'm going back to sleep."

In the management meeting early in the morning, Ye Yinfeng almost didn't care to listen. He kept looking at his watch, uneasy. When the clock pointed to ten o'clock, he finally interrupted Feng Yuanzhe who was talking non-stop: "Why don't we come here first today? Bar."

Feng Yuanzhe walked out of Ye Yinfeng's office together with the managers of the production, technology, and sales departments, and muttered casually, "What's wrong with Mr. Ye recently?"

This sentence immediately aroused several other people's emotions in unison, and they all speculated about Ye Yinfeng's recent movements, but no one could guess why. In the end, Cui Youxin said: "It's up to each of you to do your own work well." It's over, Mr. Ye can't be our nanny all the time, giving advice everywhere!"

Although Cui Youxin spoke for Ye Yinfeng, he felt quite uncomfortable in his heart. He always felt that this former boss who was so enthusiastic about his work somehow became so absent-minded.

In the office, Ye Yinfeng didn't care to understand the grievances of his subordinates. He called home three times in succession, but no one answered. Then he took the car keys and hurried out.

He rushed home in one breath, and Wen Xuan had already gone to the store, and the house was empty.

He started to search from the bedroom of the two of them, carefully inspecting every place, including every corner.

There are not many things that belong to Wenxuan. Except for her clothes, in order to show her trust in Ye Yinfeng, her passbook, jewelry and other assets were put together with Ye Yinfeng's and locked in the only safe in their bedroom. .

The study room is Ye Yinfeng's domain, and he believes that Wen Xuan will not be so stupid as to hide any secrets there.Except for the bedroom and study, only Xiaodong's room is left.

The door of Xiaodong's room is locked like the other rooms, but Ye Yinfeng has the whole set of keys for this apartment, so he finds it out, opens it, and walks in slowly.

Xiaodong's bed is next to the wall. There is a colorful stool beside the bed, two rows of small bookshelves, and various colorful small tables and small sofas. The light pink walls are covered with all kinds of cute plush Toy.Wenxuan turned her daughter's room into a fairy tale world.

Ye Yinfeng carefully opened each drawer to check if there were any suspicious items inside, even though he himself was not sure what he was looking for.

Except for Xiaodong's graffiti, there is almost nothing for him to pay attention to.

Finally, his eyes fell on the wardrobe against the wall.

The wardrobe was about two meters high and divided into upper and lower layers. Ye Yinfeng remembered that Wen Xuan most often opened the lower layer, where Xiaodong's clothes were stored.

He opened the upper door of the cabinet, which was neatly stuffed with futons.He thought of Wen Xuan's rosy cheeks last night—that kind of color can only appear on a person's face after exercising.

He pulled out the quilts one by one, and when all the cotton quilts in the cabinet were cleaned up, the remaining things could be seen at a glance.

There was a mat under the layers of quilts, Ye Yinfeng lifted the mat, and two gray suitcases were immediately exposed in front of his eyes.

The box next to Ye Yinfeng was very old and had an iron lock on it. He picked it up and weighed it, it was very heavy.I can't guess what's in it, but the other one looks much newer in style and color, and it's also locked with a combination lock.

He tried a few numbers without success, so he had to dial back the original number in frustration. When he put it back, he inadvertently put his hand on it, and the lid of the box came off unexpectedly. Only then did he realize that Wenxuan hadn't set a password at all.

He opened the lid of the box, and there were a few pieces of clothes inside. He had never seen Wen Xuan wear them, so he didn't understand what Wen Xuan wanted to pack up a box of old clothes.

Before closing the lid, he put his hand under the clothes and touched it completely out of instinct, but this touch made him momentarily stunned, and then he opened the clothes to check—the piles of neatly stacked hundred-yuan bills were Appearing in his field of vision like this, after being shocked, he counted, exactly 20.

He stared at the box of money for a long time before closing the lid with a "snap", no matter how hard he was to stay calm.

If he guessed correctly, the money should be the fee he used to exchange for those indecent photos when the third brother blackmailed himself for the first time.

Now, they came back again, but instead of returning to his hands, they fell into Wen Xuan's hands.

As if his heart had been soaked in ice water, it instantly cooled down.The conjecture was confirmed—the death of the third child was related to Wen Xuan.

Ye Yinfeng sat in the office all afternoon in a daze, cigarette butts piled up like a mountain in the always clean ashtray.

His throat was so dry that he didn't bother to call the secretary. He took a big sip of the cold tea, and when he put down the teacup, he finally made up his mind.

He opened the drawer, found a business card book in the deepest part, found one of them, followed the contact information on it, took out his mobile phone, and dialed the number.

Soon someone answered, the voice was the one he was familiar with, and there was surprise in his tone: "Mr. Ye?"

"Hello, Li Ran, I'm Ye Yinfeng, I have something to ask for your help... No, no, this time it may be more troublesome, I need you to help me find someone..."

When Xia Xia met Ye Yinfeng in front of the fruit shelf in the supermarket, she was really taken aback, and she blurted out and asked, "Mr. Ye, what's wrong with you, why are you so thin?"

In fact, not only is he thin, but Ye Yinfeng's spirit seems to have weakened a lot.

Xia Xia remembered that Xiao Shuang complained to herself on the phone not long ago: "You haven't seen Mr. Ye yet, it seems like you have been possessed by a demon recently..."

She looked at Ye Yinfeng in front of her and couldn't help sighing secretly, Xiao Shuang's description was not exaggerated at all.

Ye Yinfeng just smiled at her without explaining anything, staring at the fruit in her hand and asked: "Do you like oranges?"

Thinking of her refusal to him in the teahouse last time, Xia Xia was a little embarrassed: "No, I'm going to visit Tian Ning's mother. She is sick and is in the hospital!"

"Oh, what disease?"

"Acute gastritis, you should be able to leave the hospital after staying for a few more days."

Ye Yinfeng nodded, without taking his eyes off her face: "Xia Xia, Tian Ning...does he treat you well?"

Xia Xia was a little embarrassed, but still replied with a smile: "It's pretty good."

After a while, Ye Yinfeng followed suit with a smile: "Then, I wish you happiness."

"Thank you!"

Xia Xia felt that Ye Yinfeng's expression was quite weird, and there seemed to be a bit of sadness in that smile, although Xia Xia couldn't think of anything he could be sad about.

Before she had time to think about it, Tian Ning called. He told Xia Xia that he had just driven to the supermarket and was waiting for him at the door.Xia Xia hurriedly greeted Ye Yinfeng, and hurried to check out with the cart.

Ye Yinfeng looked at her back for a long time, the desolation in his eyes never retreating.

Not long after Tian Ning finished calling Xia Xia, she saw her running out of the supermarket with big bags and small bags, looking around while running, her short hair was messy, cute and fun.

Tian Ning hurriedly got out of the car to meet her.

"You are exaggerating, you don't need to buy so many things to see my mother, she has no appetite for anything she sees now!"

Xia Xia said honestly: "I just bought some fruit for your mother, and the rest are for next week's dinner."

Tian Ning opened it, glanced at it, and smiled: "Then I'm lucky!"

"You are so beautiful! If you want to eat, make it yourself!"

"I do it! Hey, tell me the truth, have my cooking skills improved recently?"

"Is there any progress? The rice consumption in my rice tank is three times greater than before!"

"What do you mean, call me a fool?"

"That's what you said yourself!"

The two arrived at the hospital talking and laughing.Tian's mother was chatting with the patient in the next bed in the ward. When she saw Tian Ning and Xia Xia coming in, she immediately beamed: "Oh! Xia Xia is here! Look at you, just come, why do you still buy things every time! Hurry up! Sit down, sit down!"

Xia Xia was dragged by Tian's mother to sit down by the bed, and Tian's mother kept praising her, which made her quite embarrassed, so she could only just smile silly.

Tian Ning asked her mother, "Where's my dad?"

"I was called by Director Fan to see the laboratory report."

Mother Tian turned her head to perfunctory her son and continued to hold Xia Xia's hand to ask for warmth, but Tian Ning became concerned and asked with a frown, "Mom, what did you test again?"

"I took a blood test and said it was a routine examination." Mother Tian didn't take it seriously.

"Have you had a blood test? Then I'll ask Director Fan as well." Tian Ning walked to the door, looked back and saw Xia Xia was blushing from being teased by two patients, and couldn't help but tell his mother, "Mom, don't keep talking Xia Xia was joking, she has a thin skin!"

"Tsk tsk, you feel so sorry for your girlfriend before you get married, Sister Tian, ​​just wait to hold your grandson!"

When Tian's mother heard this, she smiled until her eyes narrowed.

Tian Ning found his father in Director Fan's office. The latter looked serious and didn't notice his son calling him.It was Director Fan who reminded him.

Tian Ning went in and sat down on the empty chair. While looking at the expressions of the two people opposite him, he felt a little uneasy: "Is my mother okay?"

The father didn't say a word, Director Fan said to him slowly: "We did a routine examination on your mother yesterday afternoon, and found a small tumor-like foreign object in her stomach near the duodenum, further examination is needed to confirm benign or malignant."

"What?" Tian Ning seemed to hear a thunderbolt, "Is it so serious?"

"Your mother's illness this time is probably caused by this small group of tumors, but whether it is cancer cells or not will not be known until the biopsy is done. I told you in advance to let you be mentally prepared."

"Cancer?!" Tian Ning suddenly became anxious, "How is this possible? My mother has always been in good health, must have made a mistake?"

He looked at his father as if asking for help, but his father was more nervous than him, so he just kept silent.

Director Fan pushed the frame on the bridge of his nose: "Don't worry, you can't tell the extent of the situation until the test results come out."

"Then... when will the slice be done?"

"You have to wait for your mother's body to recover almost."

Tian Ning was burning with anxiety: "Then when will I know the result after the slicing?"

"About a week."

"Can you hurry up?"

"This one……"

"Xiao Ning!" His father stopped him, and his son's eagerness made him regain a sense of responsibility as an elder. He sighed, "Don't force the director, since this matter is settled, we can only take it step by step... the most urgent thing, Don't let your mother know."

"Yes, there is no need to let the patient know for the time being, your family members should try to let her relax."

The father and son walked out of the director's office with heavy hearts, but instead of going back to the ward immediately, they walked outside the hospital. The father took out a cigarette case, smoked a cigarette and handed it to his son.

Tian Ning hurriedly took out the lighter to help his father light the cigarette.

The father took a puff and sighed again: "I didn't expect your mother to be just over sixty, oh..."

Tian Ning felt uncomfortable: "Dad, isn't this a conclusion yet! It doesn't have to be...Didn't the doctor say that you can only judge by looking at the test results?"

"I hope!" Father looked up at the sky and smiled wryly, "Everything is fate!"

Tian Ning was smoking a cigarette, thinking of the ups and downs of her parents' life, she almost shed tears, she quickly lowered her head, breathing heavily, and choked on the smoke several times.

It was inconvenient for the two of them to stay outside for a long time, for fear of arousing Tian's mother's suspicion, they went inside the building after smoking a cigarette.

Before entering the ward, his father told Tian Ning again: "Go in and see your mother in a while, don't be frowning, your mother is careless, but she is careful!"

Tian Ning nodded: "Dad, I know."

Back in the ward, Mother Tian was still laughing and laughing. There were five or six people sitting in the room, and she was the one who had the loudest voice, making others laugh from time to time.Tian Ning couldn't understand why such a healthy mother would be related to cancer.

Jiang was still old and hot, and as soon as his father entered the door, it was as if he had changed the channel. All the gloom was swept away, and he even made a few jokes with his mother.But Tian Ning couldn't show any flaws, so he sat awkwardly by the bed for a while and then found an excuse to leave.

Seeing that he was not in good condition, his father took the initiative to send him and Xia Xia out.

At the elevator entrance, Tian Ning persuaded his father to go back, and said, "Dad, I'll come back tomorrow morning."

"It's okay, you have something to do, I'm here." Father raised his hand and patted Tian Ning's shoulder. Tian Ning looked at him, hesitating to speak, but his father turned and left.

Xia Xia watched strangely from the sidelines. On the way to accompany Tian Ning to the parking lot, seeing him drooping his head and not making a sound, he also felt uneasy: "Did something happen?"

Only then did Tian Ning tell her what the doctor said, and Xia Xia was stunned after hearing it: "How could this be?"

Tian Ning shook his head, feeling sore in his heart.

When the two got into the car, Tian Ning didn't start the car right away. He lay on the steering wheel and said in a muffled voice, "I know it's purely a matter of probability, but I still can't figure it out. How could my mother happen to me?" gone."

Xia Xia was also very sad, and comforted: "It may not be true, you see Auntie's face is so rosy, if, if you get that kind of disease, don't you all have a sallow complexion? Nine times out of ten, the doctor made a mistake! "

Tian Ning suddenly turned around and hugged her, Xia Xia suddenly forgot what she was going to say, so she could only keep silent and let him hug her.

In the past, he was always dishonest when he held Xia Xia in his arms, but this time it was different. Xia Xia felt sadness from his behavior, and he felt distressed secretly.

The dinner was eaten in Xia Xia's rented room, and it was also cooked by Xia Xia. Tian Ning had been sitting on the sofa in a daze.

After dinner, Tian Ning had no intention of going home, and Xia Xia couldn't bear to drive him away, but it was always stuffy in the small room of more than 40 square meters in the hot weather.

"It's better to go for a walk." Xia Xia suggested.

Tian Ning obediently agreed.

The two walked hand in hand from one end of the Qingshi Road to the other, and then walked back again, until they both felt tired, and then found a path where no one passed by, and sat down on the cement edge of the flower garden.

On the way, Tian Ning was basically talking, while Xia Xia listened carefully, talking about Tian's mother.At this time, Tian Ning had already talked about his mother's illness to anecdotes about her mother's youth.

"My grandfather passed away when I was my mother. She was the eldest in the family, and she had two younger brothers. Her uncle told her to take care of the family and share the worries of my grandmother. My mother agreed, so she didn't marry far away. married my dad."

"Your father and your mother are neighbors?"

"That's right. Anyway, when I was young, I walked from my grandma's house to my grandma's house. It took less than 10 minutes." Tian Ning held Xia Xia's hand in his palm and played with it gently. "My dad has a good temper and never cares about anything with others." , my mother always said he was cowardly, so when I was young, when I fought outside, my mother never scolded me, she only cared about whether I won or not. If I won, she would carry eggs to others to make amends. If I lost , if I still cry to her when I go back, she will whip a broom and beat me up again."

Xia Xia couldn't help laughing: "No wonder you are so arrogant, it turned out that you were trained by your aunt."

"My mother said that my father was always bullied, and I can't do that anymore. In fact, she looks domineering, and her heart is softer than my father's!"

"I feel it too."

Tian Ning turned to look at Xia Xia and smiled: "I'm so glad I took you to see my mother. She really likes you. She always asks me when I will marry you home."

Xia Xia blushed.

"Don't worry, even if you marry into our family in the future, you don't need to be afraid of my mother. She once told me that she would raise her daughter-in-law as a daughter, and she would not make the relationship so rigid like many mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. The problem is , this daughter-in-law must be pleasing to the eye."

As Tian Ning said, he suddenly increased his strength in his hand and held Xia Xia's hand tightly: "Xia Xia, shall we get married?"

Xia Xia's heart twitched suddenly, feeling a little empty, and she didn't know how to answer for a while, and said in a low voice: "But I... I'm not ready yet."

It was less than a year since they knew each other and fell in love, and most of the time was spent on verbal confrontation.

In fact, Tian Ning also understood that he was a little too hasty, and stretched out his arms to gently hug her: "I won't force you, when you are ready, tell me... I will always wait for you."

Xia Xia leaned her head against his chest. Although her thoughts were still chaotic, deep down in her heart, she felt that she and Tian Ning had taken another step closer.

The next day, Tian Ning was driving to the client's company when he suddenly received a call from his father on the way, and immediately became nervous.

The father only said briefly on the phone: "Your mother knows."

When Tian Ning heard this, without further ado, he turned around and rushed to the hospital.

He rushed to the fifth floor in one breath, and the door of his mother's ward was closed. He pushed the door eagerly and went in. Only his parents were inside.

The mother sat on the bed, her eyes were red and swollen, and she had obviously cried, while the father sat on the wooden bench by the bed with his head bowed and said nothing.

"Mom!" Tian Ning walked over anxiously and worriedly, "What are you doing!"

Seeing her son coming, Mother Tian shed her tears just now: "Xiao Ning, tell me, is it possible that Mom won't live long?"

"Who did you hear that from? It's all nonsense! You've got nothing wrong!"

"Even you lied to me!" Mother cried and raised her voice, "I have been with your father for more than 30 years, and I can tell what he is thinking when he frowns! You are too! Yesterday you two ghosts Don't think I didn't see it! I just asked your dad, and he told me everything!"

Tian Ning knelt down in front of his mother: "Since you've heard all about it, you should also know that it's too early to draw conclusions. We won't wait until the inspection is over..."

Mother Tian shook her head and stopped him: "You don't need to comfort me. If it wasn't almost the same, why did the doctor inform you! I told your father just now, this is fate, and if it is fate, you can't escape!"

"mom……"

"Ning Ning, mom is quite content with this, the only one I can't let go of is you. Xiao Xia is a good girl, if you can marry her earlier, I can close my eyes even if I die .”

"mom!"

"Really, mom isn't joking with you! Mom wants to see you get married. As for whether you can hold a grandson, it depends on whether God gives me this blessing."

Tian Ning felt sad and couldn't stop crying: "Mom, stop talking! You will be fine."

Mother Tian was silent, sobbing intermittently, crying like a wronged child, hearing Tian Ning's heart breaking.

On this day, Tian Ning didn't go anywhere, turned off her mobile phone, and spent the day with her mother in the ward.

It wasn't until dusk that Mother Tian felt tired and took a nap on the bed. Tian Ning slipped out of the ward and turned on her cell phone. At the same time, he received a call from Xia Xia asking where he was. Called him numerous times already.

"I'm in the hospital." Tian Ning stood by the window at the end of the corridor to answer her phone.

Xia Xia actually guessed it a long time ago, and still couldn't help complaining: "Then you should tell me, many people are looking for you today!"

"My mother knew she was sick."

"Huh? Then, will she not be able to bear it?"

"I comforted her for a day, and she looked okay." Tian Ning looked at the slowly setting sun outside the window, and said with some difficulty, "But she insisted on seeing us...we got married."

There was no movement on the phone for a long time.

"Xia Xia, I'm not forcing you with this, but when I look at my mother like that, I really..."

"Stop talking." Xia Xia's tone suddenly became hard.

Tian Ning's heart turned cold, and at the same time, a dull pain flooded in his chest. It turned out that his feelings for her had unknowingly reached an unshakable level.

He didn't know if Xia Xia rejected him again, would he still maintain his demeanor like last night, even though he knew that a girl like Xia Xia could not be conquered by force.

For the first time he felt his own powerlessness.

"Xia Xia, if you don't want to, I..." Tian Ning took a deep breath, trying to suppress the growing pain.

"I did not mean that."

Tian Ning closed his eyes, as if waiting for a certain trial.

"I...promise you." Xia Xia's voice became lower and lower with shyness.

This happiness came a bit unexpectedly, Tian Ning was stunned, holding the mobile phone without moving for a long time.

Xia Xia waited for a moment, then hesitated: "You, are you still there?"

"Yes." Tian Ning woke up like a dream, the great joy dilutes the sorrow that has shrouded his heart for the past two days, he doesn't move, just to think carefully about her shy answer just now.

"Xia Xia," he said in a hoarse and affectionate voice, "I love you."

Xia Xia listened here, lowered her head shyly, and a touch of sweetness slowly flooded her heart.

(End of this chapter)