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Chapter 25
Chapter 24 Getting Along
As night falls, the lights come on.

Wearing an apron, Su Xiaomu scooped up the thick soup that had been simmering all afternoon from the pot. As soon as she was serving the dinner table, she heard the sound of the lock being unlocked and locked. Xiao Yao, who had been sitting there waiting for dinner, immediately jumped off the chair and ran to the entrance While shouting: "Yeah! It must be that Dad is back!"

She shook her head with a smile, and went to the kitchen to bring out other dishes. They were all very simple home-cooked dishes, three dishes and one soup. The younger son of the aunt who was doing housekeeping got married and asked for a few days off, so she naturally took care of it. The family's three meals a day.Seeing Xiaoyao pulling Jing Yan in affectionately, she smiled and urged the father and son: "Go and wash your hands, we can start dinner."

When Xiao Yao came back after washing his hands, his smiling face suddenly drooped when he saw the dishes on the table, and it was the carrot he hated very much.His thick little eyebrows were slightly tight, he glanced at his parents secretly, and sat down in silence, but he just took two mouthfuls of rice, and suddenly had an idea, put down his chopsticks and said to his mother: "Mom, I have something to tell you." Say."

Su Xiaomu pushed the carrot balls in front of him calmly, raised her eyebrows and asked, "Oh? What's the matter? Tell me, I'll listen." She was already familiar with her son's little trick to avoid eating vegetarian dishes, so she was still patient cooperate with him.

Xiao Yao blushed, grinned and said flatteringly, "Mom, I found that you are very beautiful recently, and Xiao Yu praised you to me today, are you happy?" The little hand quietly moved the carrot balls out again Moved.

"Then... you mean that your mother and I used to be ugly?" Su Xiaomu responded relaxedly.

"Of course not! What I mean is that you have become more and more beautiful recently!" Xiao Yao retorted old-fashionedly, and turned his head unwillingly to ask for help, "Are you right? Dad?"

Jing Yan was called out suddenly, paused for a moment with his hand holding the chopsticks, then nodded quickly and said, "Well, your mother has always been beautiful."

Su Xiaomu's heartbeat was slightly out of alignment. It was the first time she heard Jing Yan praise herself so bluntly, and her face turned red.Xiao Yao seemed to have seen the dawn of victory, and said proudly: "Right, right, even my father said that! Mom, should you reward me with something? For example... Ouch!"

Before he finished speaking, Su Xiaomu tapped his head lightly with chopsticks, and said angrily, "For example, I reward you for eating all this plate of radish balls. Are you satisfied?"

"Ah? How can this be?" Xiao Yao stared at his mother sadly with wide-eyed eyes, and then yelled after a while, "Father didn't eat it, it's not fair! Children also have human rights!"

Su Xiaomu couldn't laugh or cry, I really don't know why children are so precocious nowadays, even human rights have come out.With a bright voice, she turned her head and said to Jing Yan: "Father, your son wants human rights, what do you think should be done?"

After hearing her words, Jing Yan picked up a ball without changing his expression, and ate it slowly, then raised his head and looked at his son, and said lightly: "Okay, eat well for me, don't talk about eating, sleep well." No words."

The father was very dignified, with a few simple words and an example, the little flame of Xiaoyao's resistance was extinguished at once, and he bit the meatball angrily while venting his anger and whispered: "When did you become so tacit, you just bullied me ..."

Su Xiaomu and Jing Yan were taken aback for a moment, looked at each other, and smiled faintly.

During the summer vacation, Xiao Yao went back to his room to play games after dinner, Su Xiaomu cleaned up in the kitchen, and Jing Yan went upstairs to the study to finish processing an urgent document and came back to see that she was still busy. In the past, the warm light shone on her, giving people a very warm and stable feeling.

He walked to her side slowly, poured a glass of water, took a couple of sips and said to her, "Why don't you invite another auntie, don't be too tired." Pale, but those black and white pupils were very energetic, and he unconsciously looked twice more.

Su Xiaomu shook her head and said with a smile: "Don't bother, and there isn't much work to do. I didn't take care of it all by myself before? But now I'm not used to being pampered. I just have the opportunity to practice my hands, and I like to take care of you. "But after she finished speaking, she wanted to bite her own tongue, as if she was a little shameless after being honest with him, she could say anything, so she had to lower her head again and again, not daring to look at his expression at this time .

Her awkward appearance made Jing Yan laugh, the corners of his eyes faded, and he suddenly remembered something, and asked her: "By the way, do you have any close relatives over there? Well, there are Friends count too."

"What's the matter?" He suddenly changed the subject. Before Su Xiaomu could react for a while, she wiped her hands and turned to face him with a puzzled expression.

Jing Yan smiled: "It's nothing, I plan to hold a private banquet in a while, ours, a wedding banquet."

Wedding banquet? !
Su Xiaomu raised her head abruptly, saw his calm and gentle smile, and stammered after a long delay: "Actually, uh, don't be so troublesome, I don't pay much attention to these forms, and I'm afraid that Xiao Yao will be put on The halo of the rich second generation has a bad influence on him."

The kitchen was a bit sweltering, and sweat broke out on her forehead. Jing Yan stretched out his hand to wipe it off for her without thinking, and the tall figure hugged the little girl under the light, and whispered: "No, At that time, no reporters will be arranged to enter the venue, but some familiar friends will be invited to participate.”

"Is it because of yesterday's incident?" Su Xiaomu bit her lips and asked, yesterday she took her son to his company, but was stopped by the front desk staff, who refused to let her go upstairs, and finally called Wang Hao to pick them up It's okay, I think she was reckless, but in fact, she just had a sudden whim and wanted to go out for dinner with him and his son.

Jing Yan said lightly: "Yes and no, instead of letting outsiders make some unreasonable guesses, it is better for us to announce our relationship first and take the initiative. Moreover, this is also the ceremony I should give you."

He was so considerate that she suddenly didn't know what to say. After thinking for a long time, she said: "My mother passed away very early, and my father's relatives have not contacted him since he left. If you really want to please, please invite me." A few friends, I don't have many friends, in fact, there are only a few of them, Xiao Ran and Liang Xi."

"Okay, you give the list to Wang Hao, and I'll let him distribute the invitation letters. You can do whatever you want for the wedding banquet, and it's all up to you." He looked up at the wall clock, and reminded him lightly, " It's late, don't be busy, go to rest."

midnight.

Jing Yan had just finished a cross-border video conference. When he came out of the study and passed Su Xiaomu's room, he heard intermittent coughing from inside. He frowned and knocked on the door: "Xiaomu?"

There was silence for a while, and then she heard her ask him in a nasal voice, "Huh? What's the matter?"

He pursed his lips and said in a low voice, "It's nothing. I just finished the meeting and wanted to see if you were asleep."

"Oh, I'm about to fall asleep. You've been busy so late, so go to bed quickly."

"En." He responded, walked a few steps forward and opened the door of his own room next door, but he didn't go in, and quickly closed it again. After waiting for a while, he quietly stood at her door again. forward.

In the room, Su Xiaomu was short of breath and suppressed the feeling of wanting to cough. She couldn't help coughing again and again until she couldn't hear the sound outside. The dry cough made her throat very astringent. She reached out and touched the bedside to get a glass of water. , But the whole body was weak and weak, with a "clang", the glass fell to the floor, the mercury splashed on the bed cover, and the blossoming flowers fainted.

She stared at her hand in a daze, opened and closed, without any strength at all. She smiled wryly, lifted the quilt and got off the bed. Just as she squatted down to pick up the broken glass, a burst of warmth wrapped her wrist, Her icy hands are in stark contrast.She raised her head in astonishment, and bumped into his bottomless eyes, she stood up anxiously: "You, why did you come in?"

Jing Yan looked at her fixedly, restrained his emotions, and asked in a deep voice, "How long has this been going on? Why are you hiding it from me?"

Su Xiaomu looked away, looked at himself in a state of embarrassment and sickness on the vanity mirror, and simply put it off: "This look is too ugly, I don't want to be seen by you, no, you still praised me for looking good at night..."

"Su, Xiao, Mu! You try to perfunctory me again?" Jing Yan suddenly pulled her into his arms, a little annoyed at her indifferent appearance, and his tone became harsh.

The tip of her nose was filled with his breath, which was very warm and comfortable. She unconsciously leaned against his chest and said softly: "It was like this before going to the Maldives. It may be because of the weather. Not because I don't want you to be with me." Xiao Yao is worried, anyway, I'm used to it, and sometimes coughing and coughing will be fine."

How can anyone... get used to being sick?He clenched his fists: "This won't work, go to the hospital for a full-body examination tomorrow."

"I'm not going...cough cough..."

Just as Su Xiaomu was about to refuse, she coughed suddenly, and then gritted her teeth to hold it back. Tears kept rolling in her eyes due to the irritation.Seeing this, he pursed his lips, picked her up and placed her on the bed, patted her on the back and comforted her and said, "Don't bear it, I'll be with you."

I'll be with you--

These words finally made her unable to control herself, she grabbed his skirt and started to cry. How many nights, when she was so uncomfortable, she was alone, her body was uncomfortable, and her heart was even more uncomfortable. She would think wildly and be afraid of herself If he can't see tomorrow, what will Xiao Yao do?What if we never see him again?
Her crying pierced into Jing Yan's heart like an awl. He managed to stabilize his mind. After thinking for a while, he also sat on the bed, let her lean on him, and said softly: "Cry if you are really sad Come on, don't be afraid, I'm here." She didn't say anything, just hugged him tightly like a child, and she was really tired after holding on for so long.

After she fell asleep, he turned off the light, and the person in his arms shrank into a small ball in the darkness. He didn't dare to move for fear of waking her up. Showing his silent expression, he just hugged her quietly all night.

Su Xiaomu didn't know when she fell asleep. When she woke up, her consciousness was still a little fuzzy. She saw herself lying on Jing Yan's arm, and hurriedly got out of his arms. She lowered her eyebrows and said, "Morning, good morning." The voice Crying a little hoarsely, she didn't need to look in the mirror to know how ugly she was, and she was so embarrassing to rely on him all night.

"Morning." Jing Yan smiled, and helped her tidy up her messy hair before revealing her embarrassed face, then raised her chin and the two of them faced each other, their eyes met.

Then she heard him say, "From today onwards, you will move into my room."

(End of this chapter)