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Chapter 23 Homecoming
1
Cheng Jiayang

I stayed at home to recover from my injuries. Most of the time, I took care of myself, eating, washing, and sleeping. I am very glad that my dad didn't beat me so hard that I couldn't take care of myself.

Two days later, Jofi came back.When she saw me, she asked what was going on, and I said that someone had beaten her, and she picked up the broom that we used to sweep the shed and was about to fight with people desperately.

I said, "It's my dad."

She stopped, looked back at me, and sat on the chair by the door.

I said, "It's better this way, and I'd love to talk it out with them."

I went over and put my bandaged arm around her.

She said, "Guess who I accompanied to Guangzhou this time?"

I thought about it: "My mother."

"How can you always guess?"

"I'm their son, and I'm your husband. How can I always guess it? Huh, divide and conquer is their usual trick. What did she tell you?" I asked.

Fei stood up and poured herself some water to drink, with an expression of indifference.

"Four words can sum it up: coercion and temptation. Tell me not to be with you. In one sentence, I am deeply impressed: 'Qiao Fei, you still have time to rein in the precipice.'" When she said this, there was a look on her face. Smiling, "Of course, I don't forget to remind me of my origin, family background, and my past activities."

She was still laughing, in a relaxed tone, and I couldn't laugh.

I was beaten by my father, and I faced their struggle with ease. I didn't think it was hard, but happy.However, once these things are added to Qiao Fei, I have a lot of resentment towards them; on the other hand, I am not sure about Qiao Fei, will she be the same as me?

She took off her boots: "It's really uncreative. Your original fiancée told me all these things, and I didn't bother to answer them. Finally, I got impatient, so I said to her: That's it. I know, but ,I can not."

She looked at me calmly and firmly: "Jiayang, I won't be separated from you. It's not easy for us."

I went to kiss her, but she stopped me: "No, you smell like iodine."

"Then I'll take a piece of chewing gum."

She reached out and hugged my neck softly: "No, it's just this time, you should take a good rest."

Qiao Fei took a bath and lay on the bed to rest. I lay on her soft belly and sniffed her warm and sweet body breath, which made me feel very comfortable.

The light of the setting sun casts on us from outside the window, but I feel that life will be worry-free from now on.

"Have you met Xiao Hua?"

"Ah."

"Have you spoken yet?"

"After the fire, I went to the hospital to see you, and she caught me and taught me a lesson."

"Did you go to the hospital?"

She glanced at me: "You were like that at the time, can I not go?"

"I said I seem to see you."

"You saw me, and you don't care if I want 'a nice word'."

"Really?" I sat up and looked at her, "I thought I was dreaming, how can I pinch myself without pain?"

"Of course you don't hurt. It was me you pinched."

I laughed.Fee laughed too.

"I've said everything to that point, why are you still worried? Why did you go to Africa later?"

jofi
Of course, Jiayang's mother knew more about me than just such a little situation. After counting all my bad deeds earnestly and carefully, she still poked my heart with one sentence.

"Qiao Fei, you love Jiayang, but ask yourself, can you give Jiayang a complete family? Can you give him a child? Such a handicapped family is actually only based on your own satisfaction. Basic, right? So, you're still selfish, don't deny it."

She is an elegant and beautiful woman, full of energy, good at attacking the heart, and patted me on the shoulder: "However, I like selfish people who think more about themselves, are more direct, and are more negotiable. So," she sat on the sofa opposite me Come on, "Qiao Fei, please make an offer. How can I let my son go."

I thought about it: "Why don't you make a price. Let's see how much Jiayang is worth."

The woman stares at me.I said: "Forget it, come here, I have given you enough time. Jiayang and I, we will not be separated."

I resolved the battle as soon as possible, but I was relentless and disturbed.All the way back from Guangzhou, I was shocked by the omniscience and omnipotence of Jiayang’s parents. On the other hand, her words also stripped away the most sensitive and caring things in my heart. , exposed to the sun: I can't give Jiayang a complete home.

Jiayang asked me: "I've said everything to that point, what are you worried about? Why did you go to Africa later?"

"Jiayang," I plucked the hair on his forehead, "there is something I haven't told you all this time."

He looked at me: "You say."

"The two of us once had a little child, when I was studying at university before I went abroad.

"Without discussing with you, I took him out on my own initiative.

"During the operation, something happened, Jiayang, I may not have a chance to have a child again.

"Jiayang, I can't, I will give birth to a child for you.

"So I want to go far, I'm not good enough for you."

There are not a few words, but it is really difficult to say.I have a pain in my throat.

Jiayang didn't speak, sat up, looked at me, then leaned down again, and put his hand on my stomach, his hand was very warm.

He hugged me into his arms and asked gently: "At that time, did it hurt?"

"A little bit," I said.

"A little?" he asked.

Until now, I still seem to be able to feel the cold operating table against my back and the pale bright lights on it, as well as the overwhelming pain in my body.

But the deepest pain is in my heart. Whenever I think about the loss of Jiayang's child, my heart will ache.

Jiayang said: "You didn't tell me because you were afraid that I would make things difficult, right?"

"..."

He hugged me tightly and kissed my forehead: "Fei, I have made you suffer so much. So in the future, don't ever want to separate from me. Let me take care of you."

"I know, you like children..."

"But we are together because we want to be together, not to have children. You always understand this truth?"

I hugged him too, and put my face against his body: "Well, you're right."

"Also, I think that we are together like this, it's too perfect, such a small regret can prove that God is fair, and I feel more secure."

I nodded emphatically.

I finally told Jiayang today the secret I had kept for a long time, and I felt much relieved.It seems that he has trekked with heavy weight for a long time, and now the man said that he should carry this burden.

It turns out that the matter is so simple, this person, like a tree full of foliage and vitality, can be relied on by me.

"Besides, Fei, think about it, the two of us are knowledgeable and good-looking, and if we give birth to a big white and fat boy, will we let others live?" Jiayang said.

"That's right." I think he's right, we must leave some room for others, "This is also for the sake of ecological balance."

"And," Jiayang said seriously, "if we don't have to have children, we don't have to quit smoking. You know, in order to become a father, Xiao Liu hasn't smoked for three months, so he's starved to death."

"Yeah, we don't have to control drinking anymore."

"Hey, you don't need contraception anymore."

"Wahhaha, you can do it whenever you want." I said.

Jiayang's eyes were shining, and he slowly pressed on my body: "Can I do it now?"

"You're all hurt." I touched his face, kissed him, and kissed him again, "Does it hurt?"

He frowned and said to me, "It hurts even more if you bear it."

Although I was mentally prepared, I went to work the next day, and I was translating an official letter to the United Nations. When the director called me to the office and told me that I would be on leave from now until after the Spring Festival, waiting for the arrangement of the personnel department, I Still a little dazed.

I took my things and walked out, thinking to myself, what's the big deal, I seek benevolence and benevolence, and I have no regrets.

When I got home, Jiayang saw that I had taken things: "Suspended?"

"Ah."

"Me too." He said, "The Personnel Department called me today and told me that I don't have to go to work."

2
Cheng Jiayang

We ate at a restaurant and discussed future plans.

I said, "I really don't want to work here for a long time. Let's go to Shanghai or Hong Kong. Otherwise, go to Paris or Brussels. I have many friends there. With the two of us, we will have no problem going anywhere."

Fei ate the rapeseed and said, "I don't think we should be impulsive and stop calmly. The above said to suspend our duties, but not to fire us. Let's see the situation. Hey, you don't want to eat mutton. It's mine. It's your wound." not good."

In fact, after receiving the call from the Human Resources Department to suspend me, I was always a little excited.Really, it seems that the parrot holds the key in its own hand, and when to fly out, it is up to itself, which is very cool.On the other hand, I was really in a hurry to get out of here, and I was afraid that they would have other tricks on me and Fee to force us to submit.

"Then your parents really want to hate me to death, and really abducted their second son just like that."

"You don't have to think about it. First, you are actually saving a child who fell into the water. You picked him up before he drowned. This is a good thing. Second," I put down my chopsticks and printed my mouth with a napkin." I made my father and mother so angry, I don't think they want to recognize me anymore."

She held my hand on the table: "Jiayang, will there be a day when you regret your decision at this time?"

"I regret it now," I said, "I regret the time we wasted."

She stood up and kissed me across the table, in full view.

I really have face.

"The question now is, it's almost Spring Festival, where are we going?" I said.

Fei thought about it and said, "Why don't you go to our house. I haven't seen my parents for a long time."

"Okay, it's settled, and then we will resign when we come back."

"Let them regret it."

"Yes, let them regret going."

jofi
On the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, I took Jiayang back to my hometown.

The Spring Festival in northern cities has added a strong festive atmosphere because of a heavy snowfall.

The wound on Jiayang's face healed a little, his face was fair and clean, but his lips were red from the cold.I help him tighten the collar of the down jacket: "Is it cold?"

"It's okay." He sneezed as he spoke, "Oh, it's cold."

We took a taxi back to my house. On the way, I told him, "I'm used to it. My high school is far away from my home. I rode to school. Halfway there, my feet, hands, and ears became numb. But Then guess what happened?"

"how?"

"Riding and riding, they slowed down by themselves again, and they weren't cold anymore."

"is it?"

"Yeah, I didn't lie to you, things must be reversed when they are extreme."

He smiled and hugged me.We are dressed bulgingly, like two Lantern Festival sticking together.

My parents were very happy to see Jiayang.

On New Year's Eve the next day, I made a table of delicious food with my mother.

Jiayang and my dad eat peanuts and play poker.I said in my heart, boy, it's over for you now, my dad is the champion of three residential areas in this street, and the legendary poker ghost is also sad.

I said to my dad in sign language: "Dad, you don't have to let him, win all his money."

My mother and I finished the fish, and I went to watch them play cards. Jiayang was smiling triumphantly, while my father was serious and went all out.

I said, Dad, what's going on?You let him go?

My dad said, no, this kid memorizes the cards, memorizing everything I played and what he played.I have lost 30 yuan.

Jiayang said with a sinister smile, "How can the father and son calculate me?"

I said: "You are too much, wait a moment, I will meet you personally."

My mother served dumplings, we sat on the bed to eat, my father wrapped Jiayang's and my legs in a dog fur blanket, and said, "It's so warm."

After we finished eating, we went to set off firecrackers to celebrate the New Year with our neighbors. When my aunt saw Jiayang, she said, "Okay, Feifei, this guy is really nice."

I said: "Oh, it's average." In fact, I was very proud.

In the next few days, we visited relatives and friends, and I discovered that Cheng Jiayang had a talent for entertainment. He was a master at poker, mahjong, and video games with children. He took care of my uncles, aunts, uncles, aunts, and cousins.

I said, "You might as well practice this well. In the future, let's stop working as translators and go to Macau or Monte Carlo to be professional gamblers."

"Forget about Monte Carlo, I'm also an Asian-level player." He said complacently.

Happiness is happiness, he bought firecrackers with all the little money he won for the children of his relatives.They like him very much.

On the fifth day, my parents went out to see friends.

It was almost noon when I woke up, and Jiayang was still sleeping.

Before my mother left, she prepared all the hot pot ingredients for us, including Little Sheep’s soup, hand-cut thin slices of mutton, vermicelli, green vegetables, blood sausage, and shrimp. I remembered that Jiayang likes to eat oysters, so I wore Go downstairs and buy a coat for him.

After returning home, Jiayang also woke up.He has set the table and is making the soup.

"Where have you been?" he said.

"I'm going to buy you oysters," I said.

But this guy is really difficult to serve. When we were eating deliciously, he covered his mouth with an "ah" and said in a vague voice, "You didn't wash the oysters well, I broke my teeth."

I ignored it and continued to eat the blood sausage: "Who made you dislike yourself."

However, after a while, he still covered his mouth with his hand and hummed.

I put down my chopsticks and walked over: "What's wrong? Jiayang, where is it? Let me see."

He was still humming, and I was anxious, so I took off his hand: "Let me see."

His hand was open in mine, and inside was a small red velvet box, I was shocked and thought, no way!
"Phi," he couldn't help laughing with a mischievous smile on his face, "let's get married."

I have to see if the diamond is big enough.

I slowly opened the box to find an emerald that lit up a face.

"Wow, wow..." Even if you look down on me, I'm so vulgar. When Jiayang put it on for me, I couldn't control it. I laughed and ran around the house several times. Which movie said Come on, gems can drive any woman crazy.

I put my arms around his neck: "Just because of your ring, okay, I'll follow you."

"When do you sign up?" he asked.

"As soon as possible, register when you get back."

"That's it. Let's eat hot pot."

"it is good."

For a long time afterwards, I often looked at my emerald ring repeatedly, it was so beautiful, looked at the moonlight, looked at the sun, looked at the mirror, looked at it from left to right, and smirked look.

On the plane back home, Jiayang said, "If I knew you liked it so much, I would have bought it for you."

"But it makes a lot of sense," I said.

"That's right." He squeezed my hand tightly.

At the end of the Spring Festival, my senior sister called me and said that I couldn't find some information I gave her years ago. I planned to go to help her find it and find out the truth by the way.Jiayang resolutely refused to go, and wanted to contact us to register at the registration office.

"I'm not going, I'm busy with so many things," he said confidently, "I still have to contact my friends in Shanghai, so go yourself."

This person was really stubborn, so I had no choice but to go back to the ministry by myself.

I copied the file on my computer and gave it to the overwhelmed senior sister. She said, "Feifei, if you don't come back now, you will exhaust me to death."

"I think so too, but the Human Resources Department hasn't notified me of my reinstatement yet." I saw that she was making documents and sending faxes without looking up, and it was quite strange. "What's the matter? Why are you so busy just after the Chinese New Year?"

She looked up at me from among the stack of letters: "Something has happened."

3
jofi
I went back in the afternoon.Jiayang was surfing the Internet at home, saw me and said, go to the balcony and see how the Brazilian turtle I bought is like.

I slowly went to the balcony and saw two little turtles with red lines on their heads that Jiayang kept in the fish tank. I walked back slowly and sat on the chair opposite him. He smiled and asked, "How is it? I like it." ?"

"Well. That goes without saying."

He looked at me: "What's wrong with you?"

I leaned on my head with my hand, looked at his ruddy and handsome face and said, "The Spring Festival is over, and you don't call your home."

He didn't speak, his fingers were typing quickly on the keyboard.

I went to pour water for myself, and heard him say outside: "What did I say, New Year's greetings? Why is it necessary to do such a hypocritical thing? Tell me, Fei.

"No, at least for now, I don't want to see them."

The resentment in this belly can be heard from every word.

"Jiayang," I said to him outside after taking a sip of water, "I went to the ministry today and heard something about the armed conflict in Africa, where two of our senior railway engineers died in the line of duty, and your father went to Fuling Come back, he is alone except for the bodyguards."

He came out and looked at me: "What did you say?"

"Your father, such a big official, went to Africa by himself, without a clerk, a secretary, or an interpreter. He went by himself." I repeated clearly.

He sat down on the chair next to me.

Jiayang has been in this line of work for a long time, and of course he understands what it means for an official of his father's level to reduce the visiting delegation to such a small number of people. This is a dangerous itinerary and a difficult mission for a diplomat.

I stroked his hand: "Aren't you going to take a look at him? Maybe he needs you now, Jiayang."

He stood up, sat down again, and looked for a cigarette in the pocket of his pajamas. I lit one for him and put it between his lips.

I saw beads of sweat streaming down his forehead.

Jiayang was a little dazed.

After he finished smoking a cigarette, he went back to his room and continued to play on the computer.

I followed in: "Did you hear what I told you?"

He doesn't speak.This is the man's forte.Protect yourself and piss others off.

We ate dinner, watched TV, and lay in bed at night, and he didn't talk.

I turned off the bedside lamp, and felt Jiayang approaching my body, and I put my arms around him.

"What's wrong with you, Jiayang? Are you upset?" I asked.

"No." His face was close to mine, "I'm getting old, I think about my childhood."

"Tell me about it."

"At that time, my father was not a big official and had free time, so he put me on the head, took my brother, and we went to Beihai to play.

"He is very good at spinning tops. Every time, my brother is very angry.

"Now that I think about it, really, in fact, my brother and I are not as good as my dad, not everything. I haven't even learned a little.

"He has translated for many leaders, worked in Europe, Africa, and the United Nations, and he has the highest reputation in the industry.

"Foreign universities still use his translated materials to assist teaching.

"I remembered that when I was two years old, he taught me to pronounce the uvula. I grew up and began to study French formally. He was also busy, but he still checked and corrected my studies when he found time.

"But, later, someone was sent to watch me."

"But, he attaches great importance to you." I said, "This father is different. If he is an ordinary person, he will be more reasonable than anyone else. Moreover, he wants you better than anyone else."

"Really?" Jiayang raised his head and looked at me, I saw his bright eyes.

I nodded: "That's right. Jiayang, in fact, you know it yourself.

"Jiayang, do you want to accompany him to Africa?"

"I think." He said, his face was as white as jade under the moonlight, "but I can't ignore you."

I hugged him tightly, Jiayang has always lived so exhausted, in any conflict, he longed for both, for his parents, and for me, so he was in a dilemma and worked hard on himself.

"What do you mean?" I said, "You go to him tomorrow, and you have to accompany him. When you come back, we will go to register. Except for this matter, I won't allow you to delay another minute." I said.

"Where can I find such a good wife like you?" He nodded heavily in my arms, "Do as you say, lady."

4
Cheng Jiayang

I told his secretary at the door of my father's office that I wanted to see him.

The secretary said the minister was not there.

"I saw his car downstairs just now," I said.

He looked at me with embarrassment: "What do you want me to do, Jiayang?"

I pushed the door open regardless and went in. My father was reviewing documents on the table. He raised his head and saw me with a cold and hard face: "Don't even knock on the door. Your politeness for so many years is gone."

I looked at him and said nothing.

"Are you coming here to beg me for forgiveness, or to ask for another beating?" He came over and looked at my face, "I recovered so quickly, I was merciful last time."

"You want to go to Africa by yourself?"

"Who allowed you to intervene in my affairs?"

"None of the entourage?"

"...The relevant documents are all ready in the country. When we get there, we just meet with the president, perform the procedures, and accept the remains of our compatriots. There are no other tasks."

"This is not in line with the rules and your identity. Why don't you even bring a translator?"

He snorted: "Did you forget what I did? I taught you some tricks of yours."

"Dad," I looked at him, "I, I'll go with you. I'll translate for you."

My father suddenly raised his head, fixed my eyes, and did not speak for a long time.

I continued: "I know that the mission is risky, and you don't want to take too many comrades there. However, for senior officials of a great country, there must be at least some ostentation. I will go with you."

He walked slowly to the window, looked out, and said to me in a low voice: "You know that I don't want to take anyone else, let alone my own child? You can go. Don't expect to exchange favors like this. Let me forgive you."

"I won't go. One size is one size. I didn't do anything wrong, and I don't need anyone's forgiveness. However," I walked to him, "I don't have anything else from you. I have learned this persistence."

He smiled a little: "Yes, this, I have learned it before." He looked back at me and looked carefully, "Or did I not hit hard enough? Are you here to play tricks on me today?"

"Remember to use a baseball bat next time," I said.

"Okay, I'll remember." He returned to his desk, and gave me the approval document, signature, and seal, "Go and apply for the approval document, Jiayang, we will leave by special plane the day after tomorrow."

I was about to go out, but he stopped me: "Jiayang, this trip is to bring back the remains of our compatriots, which is very important."

"Yes, Dad, I understand."

(End of this chapter)