Rebel Demon King

Chapter 1080 The West of Timing (4)

When there were only five people left in front, Cheng Mo left the long and winding team with two copies of "Ouroboros-West of Time Series" in his arms, and walked towards the side door under the puzzled eyes of several people behind him.

Cheng Mo understands micro-expressions very well, so of course he can understand that those inexplicable gazes are saying: "This person is really strange, he will be here soon, why have you waited for so long, but you don't want to wait for the last few minutes?"

This reminds Cheng Mo of the last scene in "A Chinese Journey to the West", when the sun sets, the Sunset Warrior and Zixia Fairy, who look exactly like Supreme Treasure, stand on the city wall. .

The sunset samurai held his old sword that was a bit worn out, lowered his head and said, "It seems that I shouldn't come."

Fairy Zixia was full of resentment, "I only know now, it's too late."

The sunset samurai said frivolously, "Is it okay to leave some memories?"

Fairy Zixia said coldly: "I don't want to remember, if I want to keep your people."

The sunset samurai said: "This is only to get my body, but not my soul. I already have a lover, and we will have no results. You let me go."

Fairy Zixia said with a cold face: "Okay, I will let you go, but before you leave, you have to kiss me."

The sunset samurai still said in a frivolous tone: "No matter what I say, I am a sunset samurai. If you ask me to kiss, I will kiss. Then my image will be completely destroyed."

Fairy Zixia is also always cold, "You lie, you dare not kiss me because you still love me. Let me tell you, if you reject me this time, you will regret it forever."

The sunset samurai's voice became low and deep: "I regret that I can't kiss, I can only blame the meeting and hate for being late, and good luck playing tricks on others."

At this moment, the background music of "The Love of My Life" sounded, and after a gust of evil wind, Sun Wukong's Supreme Treasure had already occupied the body of the sunset warrior. He walked towards Fairy Zixia with strange steps on the city wall.

He kissed her.

Then said to her: "I will never go in my life, I love you."

Cheng Mo thought to himself: The world in the movie is really good, it is obviously a tragic ending, the screenwriter said that such an ending is too tragic, so it gave a reincarnation like a dream.Let Zhizunbao and Fairy Zixia get a seemingly happy ending.But in fact, Supreme Treasure can only turn into a gold medalist and follow Tang Seng, who is no longer verbose, to the west where he doesn't want to go.

It's a pity that he can become Monkey King, but he can't become the Sunset Warrior, because he can't promise Shen Youyi that he will never leave for the rest of his life.
If you really want to be with yourself, it will make Shen Youyi take too many unreasonable risks.There is a very literary saying that you meet the right person at an inappropriate time, and in fact, most of the emotional regrets are caused by this.

Not everyone can wait for the right time, or the right person.

Cheng Mo thought again: "waiting" is a very strange thing, probably all the most complicated emotions of human beings are produced in waiting.

Human beings cannot escape the fate of "waiting" from birth to death.When we were young, we eagerly waited to grow up. From kindergarten to high school and university, we waited for the report card, the summer vacation and the winter vacation, and the New Year’s money during the Chinese New Year. Marriage and children, or waiting for a different life; when we get old, we start waiting for death, we sit in the rocking chair, in the embers of the setting sun, in the final waiting, reminiscing about our life.

When you really recall it, perhaps the most exciting happy emotions and the most thrilling and dangerous experiences must have been born while waiting.

Nothing can be more beautiful than waiting, and nothing can be more tormented than waiting.

Especially in love.

Some people spend their entire lives waiting for only one person, which is "hundreds of times looking for him in the crowd";

We often like to use time to measure the scale of waiting, but in fact, in a relationship, what makes each other feel distant and unfamiliar is definitely not the length of time, but those two or three things that are big or small stacked on the timeline .It may be uncaring when you have a cold and fever, it may be unconsolable when you are troubled and sad, or it may be untouchable when you are lonely.
Waiting in love is an extremely fragile thread. No matter how carefully you take care of it, it may be because of unpredictable people or bad luck that this period of waiting will come to an abrupt end.

Probably the unpredictability of the result is one of the reasons why the waiting is sweet and touching and ecstasy.

Cheng Mo has been used to waiting quietly since he was a child. His experience from childhood to adulthood has made him unwilling to take the initiative in anything. Practical experience tells him that the pain of asking for nothing is far greater than waiting without fruit.As long as you don't have expectations, life may be full of surprises when good things happen.It was like he was waiting hard for a matching heart, like he was waiting hard for his mother who had no news.

Of course, reducing expectations in this way when he was powerless, certainly made Cheng Mo less painful, made him more realistic and rational, and avoided the huge loss of disappointing expectations.At the same time, it also keeps him away from the joy of chasing success and the joy of looking forward to the good things coming.
Especially emotionally, he can only walk slowly on the lonely road, passively waiting for the "surprise" that can't be met.It can only be said that Cheng Mo was lucky enough to meet Mr. Shen, Xie Minyun, and Athena. These are all unexpected surprises of Cheng Mo.

To put it bluntly, Bai Xiuxiu is the only person Cheng Mo takes the initiative emotionally, but he has indescribably complex motives for taking the initiative towards Bai Xiuxiu, and it is not simply driven by emotion.

This kind of passivity makes Cheng Mo feel indecisive when dealing with emotional matters.

But in fact, Cheng Mo is just habitually not letting himself face disappointment.No one believes in human nature more than Cheng Mo, and no one is more afraid of being abandoned than Cheng Mo.

This is the reason why he has the ability to find his mother now, but he didn't.It was also the reason why he could have found out about Mr. Shen's situation long ago, but he didn't.

If Athena hadn't taken the initiative to mention it, he would probably have waited until the information about Mr. Shen had reached his ears.

But at this time, because Cheng Mo didn't have too much expectation before, so at this moment, he didn't have too much sadness in his heart.Compared with losing Xie Minyun, Shen Youyi can find a happy home, even if the home is not him, Cheng Mo is still quite relieved, but he can't send blessings generously and calmly.

Right now, he is only thankful that he did not take the initiative to contact Shen Youyi, preventing the reunion of the two from turning into an embarrassing accident.

He didn't know that if he didn't do so much psychological construction, if he wasn't ready to accept that Shen Youyi was no longer waiting, he wouldn't collapse at the first touch, and be set up by the clumsy trap designed by the cheap father-in-law, causing ridiculous misunderstandings.

Therefore, the smarter and more powerful a person is, when he has already predicted that the result will fail, then he will almost certainly fail.

It's not that he can accurately predict the situation, but that he lacks the heart to fight to the end and never give up.

This is also the reason why in the younger group, there are various competitions. If there is no huge IQ crushing, the No. 1 will not be the smartest children, but the hardest-working children.

Cheng Mo accepted the reality as soon as he turned around, and quickly suppressed the surging emotions in his chest, completely not paying attention to the side of the rostrum, Shen Ping was watching him silently.He looked down at the cover page of "The West of Time Series". The male protagonist Zhou Ling and the female protagonist Si Caiwei stood back to back. The two people in the painting stared at the void with firm eyes, as if saying that they had the courage to face the cruel future together. .

The flow of time in the novel is frozen.This is an extremely beautiful thing. Cheng Mo raised his head, and he saw vivid faces beside him. Some people were waiting and flipping through the books they just bought. Some people took photos of the scene and posted them on their social accounts. On the bookshelves that had been carried aside were numbered in red paint.The gray street and the gray sky can be seen through the glass wall with posters.Time in reality is passing irretrievably.He thought that Zhou Ling in the novel would definitely not have any emotional troubles. Si Caiwei was Shen Youyi's appointed heroine. As long as Teacher Shen was willing, no matter how tortuous their process was or how long the wait was, the ending would definitely be perfect.Cheng Mo thinks this is good, let himself live in the fantasy world with the Xijie and Nanjie in his memory, and it will be a very happy ending.

Cheng Mo smiled, put the book down, wandered along the memory without any regrets, and went against the flow of people to a certain waiting exit.

The security guard standing at the entrance is closing the entrance glass door, telling the waiting fans that today's signing is over.The readers holding the newly bought "West of Time Series" sighed, some were begging the security guard to let them in, and some no longer waited to turn around and leave.Regardless of persistence or giving up, the end is close at hand.

Cheng Mo stopped at the door. He thought this was a certain point in his life, just like when he stood on the stage of the school auditorium and admitted to the teachers and students of the school that those obscene chalk drawings were his masterpieces.He clearly remembered that Sister Xi was in tears in the audience; he also clearly remembered that Sister Nan hugged him by the Peach Lake and said not to make her wait too long.
Cheng Mo couldn't help but look back at Shen Youyi on the rostrum. A female fan presented her with a large bouquet of pink roses. She got up gracefully and took the bouquet. Her eyes were full of moist pink and soft. smile.

"I'm sorry, I kept you waiting for too long." Cheng Mo whispered, remembering that he hadn't even given a bouquet of flowers to Teacher Shen for so many years, the only time he bought flowers was to go to the Yangmingshan cemetery with her, " Obviously, sister Nan was very happy when she saw the flowers, why am I so stupid?"

For this reason, he has some regrets, but this is just a regret that can be easily made up, Cheng Mo thinks so.

The moment Shen Youyi took the flowers and sat down to look at the hall, Cheng Mo walked out the side door and disappeared into the crowd of people in the hall.

He walked out of the Xidan Book Building alone, and returned along the way he came. When he passed the corner of the Xidan Book Building and was about to reach the Civil Aviation Building, Jiang Jun got off the car ahead of time and opened the door for him.Seeing Cheng Mo who looked a little tired, Jiang Jun didn't ask why, but after Cheng Mo got into the car, he used the intercom to ask whether he was going back to Aman or where?
Cheng Mo lay on the seat with his eyes closed, and recalled in his mind the scene when Shen Daoyi held him and shook him gently on the Ferris wheel.He thought of the big luggage of "Hesheng Xiaoyun", and the famous painting of Salvador Dali that was auctioned for 1000 million euros at the charity auction held by Napoleon VII when he was in Europa.So he whispered: "Go to Hesheng Xiaoyun, I'll go there to get a painting, I'll wrap it up, and you can help me deliver it to the author Nanxi's publishing house later, say it's a gift from a book fan to Nanxi .”

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Shen Youyi took the bouquet of pink roses, and a sweet and astringent fragrance wafted into his nostrils, and the stuffy atmosphere in the hall immediately dissipated a lot.Shen Youyi closed his eyes and took a deep breath, then smiled and said to the female fan: "Thank you."

Just when she sat down holding the big bouquet of roses, she seemed to see a familiar figure passing away among the gorgeous petals, which made her dazed for a while, until the staff took the bouquet from her Pink Rose, she just rubbed her temples, thinking that it must be due to her high-intensity work during this time, which made her body too tired and led to hallucinations.

"Sorry, it's been a long wait."

Facing the book fan who was waiting quietly, Shen Youyi smiled and said sorry, then picked up the pen and continued to sign, but there was always a strange emotion in her heart, like a few sand grains fell into the shoe, it will not hinder you Walking always made her feel a little uncomfortable.

It's just that Shen Youyi has no time to take care of this uncomfortable emotion now. There are still hundreds of readers waiting for her to sign. Sign your readers.

Time passed quickly, and Shen Youyi finally signed the name of the last reader. She got up and bowed slightly to the readers who were still in the hall, and then expressed her thanks to the staff of the library and publishing house present one by one. After finishing all this, she was slightly relieved.

These days, Shen Youyi puts all his energy into such trivial matters as proofreading before publishing, layout design, and illustration communication. To delay the publishing plan of the publishing house, she can only do it herself.This has paid her a lot of energy, and she only sleeps for a few hours every day, just so that the book will not have any flaws.

For Shen Youyi, this story is not only her hard work, but also her life.

A life that is as important as real life.

"It's amazing! More than 4000 copies were sold in three hours this afternoon. This achievement broke the signing record of Xidan Book Building in the past ten years. Gu Xiaosi, the most popular book signing in the past, sold two to three thousand copies! "

Liu Yixiao's voice rang in his ears, Shen Youyi turned around and saw him standing beside the rostrum holding his daughter Shen Linglu.The name written in the household registration book is Cheng Linglu, but in order not to make people associate with Cheng Mo, Shen Youyi told outsiders that her daughter was called Shen Linglu.

After all, Shen Youyi has always been a face-seeking person, and the ancient moral etiquette deeply bound her soul, making it impossible for her to calmly face this kind of thing that violated social ethics and morals.The relationship between her and Cheng Mo was not only as simple as a teacher and a student, she was also a third party.

This is extremely cruel to Shen Youyi. She has been under tremendous pressure all along, some from the society, some from her parents, and some from herself. She is covered with shackles.So she didn't intend to tell her daughter everything about her and her father so early on, the daughter was too young to understand such a complicated story.

Duan Shiliang, the president of the publishing house standing aside, also said with a smile on his face: "This data is really invaluable in this era when paper books are about to disappear. Congratulations, Mr. Nanxi!"

Shen Youyi was a little surprised by this result, but he didn't really care about it, he just said indifferently: "Really!? It can only be said that Manager Duan, Editor-in-Chief Chi and Xiao Wu's promotion and marketing did it. Well, readers are also willing to join in.”

"Your writing is better. Now the market is full of fast food novels. There are too few novels like yours with gorgeous writing, ups and downs, grand layout, and suitable for students and young people to read." Liu Yixiao praised with a smile .

Duan Shiliang also said: "Yes! Teacher Nanxi is too modest. We have also published a lot of books, and only Teacher Nanxi's books can be sold at this level."

Shen Youyi smiled and said: "I just took advantage of the popularity of some of the chosen ones, and it is mainly due to the work of Mr. Duan and Sister Dai, as well as the hard work of colleagues from the publishing house." She bowed slightly, " Thank you everyone!"

The surrounding staff all started applauding.Some staff even yelled things like "Teacher Nanxi is the best", "Teacher Nanxi, come on", "The new book is definitely a hit".
Shen Youyi thanked again with a smile, and then looked at Liu Yixiao, "Thank you too, Yixiao, if it wasn't you, maybe my book wouldn't even have a chance to be published."

After saying that, Shen Youyi reached out to hug his daughter.Duan Shiliang's Huaxia Bookstore is under the direct management of Liu Yixiao. In the matter of publishing, without Liu Yixiao's help, in terms of the current publishing industry, it is indeed possible for Shen Youyi to fulfill his wish and publish this set of novels very low.Even if it can be published, the publishing house may not pay so much attention to it. Although Liu Yixiao didn't say it, Duan Shiliang told Shen Youyi that Liu Yixiao is very concerned about the publishing work of "East of Time Series", like a well-known illustrator , was invited by Liu Yixiao personally, and some of the big names in the literary world who recommended for "East of Time Series" are also related to Liu Yixiao, and so on, so Shen Youyi has always been grateful to Liu Yixiao.

But apart from being grateful, Shen Youyi has no affection in his heart, and has always treated his father's student as a junior. Liu Yixiao is modest and shy, and it is said that he has never even talked about love. For a woman like Shen Youyi who thinks she is already married The old people are like juniors at heart.Last time when he came to propose marriage, Shen Youyi was taken aback, and he flatly refused.They haven't seen each other for a long time after that time, it's not that Shen Youyi deliberately avoided it, she has a clear heart and naturally there is nothing to be embarrassed about, not to mention she always pays attention to never being able to get along with anyone who is alone and widowed, and avoids a lot of gossip.

At this time, Liu Yixiao's face was a little unnatural.Shen Youyi didn't think much about it, thinking that Liu Yixiao was still embarrassed about the confession.But he didn't know that just now, Liu Yixiao cooperated with his father and deceived the person he had been thinking about day and night.

"It's just a little effort, don't be so polite." Liu Yixiao said apologetically. Seeing that Shen Youyi wanted to take over his daughter, he gave way and said, "Just let me hug the deer! You have been tired all day too. .”

Shen Youyi stretched out his hand, shook his head and said, "It's okay, you've been playing with her for so long, how can you keep bothering you."

Seeing Shen Youyi's firm attitude, Liu Yixiao could only hand Shen Linglu to Shen Youyi.After taking her daughter over, she looked down at her daughter and said softly, "Xiaolu, how can you ask Uncle Yixiao to buy you ice cream again? Didn't we agree that we can only eat three sticks a week?"

Cheng Linglu shook his head, raised his tender little hand to point at Shen Ping and started babbling, but was interrupted by Shen Ping's dry cough, "I just ate one more ice cream, eat it." eat it"

Shen Youyi frowned, and it was not good to blame her father in public, she was just like this, she always wanted to save face for others when encountering something.Shen Youyi thought about finding another opportunity to talk to his father later, so as not to hinder others from getting off work.Her attention is still on educating her father not to let her daughter eat ice cream, especially after playing crazy.

As for Shen Linglu calling the wrong person, Shen Youyi didn't take it too seriously.The absence of Cheng Mo led to the words father, grandfather, and grandmother. Shen Linglu couldn't find a corresponding person at all, and no one taught her. It is impossible for someone to teach her.It's just that sometimes when Shen Youyi called his father, Shen Linglu would also call "Dad" blindly, and more often, Shen Linglu couldn't distinguish the words "Dad" and "Baba".So Shen Youyi didn't pay much attention to it just now, all her mind was on Shen Linglu jumping on the trampoline and eating ice cream, she was really worried about her daughter catching a cold.

As a single mother, the biggest fear is that your child will get sick.She will always remember that when Shen Linglu was more than one year old, one night she had a fever of 38.5 degrees, vomiting and diarrhea, which frightened Shen Youyi. After the daughter put on her coat, she could only wake up the bodyguard Qi Hui and drive them to the hospital. When she was in the car, she saw her daughter's face was pale and kept crying. The whole car was full of her heartbreaking crying. She was shaking all over. For the first time, she felt so helpless. She wanted to hold that person's hand, but there was nothing beside her. She didn't even know where that person was.

In the June weather, her heart was about to shatter into ice.In contrast, things like receiving Gao Yuemei's video are irrelevant.

Holding her daughter with cold hands and feet, she urged Qi Hui to hurry up over and over again, and prayed over and over again that her daughter would have nothing to do.She has never been in a hurry when things happen, and she is never so anxious. When she arrived at the Maternal and Child Health Hospital, she almost fell over and over again.When the daughter was taken to the emergency doctor, the nails were dug into the palm of the hand.It wasn't until the doctor said that it was acute gastroenteritis, that it would be fine to hang some water, and that it was nothing serious, Shen Youyi's suspenseful heart finally relaxed a little.

But she sat on a bench in the hospital corridor, still very sad.Sitting in the empty corridor at the time, she didn't know what she was sad about.When she was pregnant, she didn't have any relatives to accompany her, and she didn't have anyone she loved by her side. She went to prenatal class by herself, went for a pregnancy test by herself, and when she gave birth to Shen Linglu in the hospital, she didn't cry, but that night, She was crying so hard.

If it wasn't for the bodyguard Qi Hui, she thought it would be even more difficult for her.Probably seeing Shen Youyi taking care of the children alone and writing novels at the same time, it was too hard. Qi Hui helped once or twice, but it was not good to help if there were too many, and there was no way to help, not to mention that Shen Youyi wanted to extend the security time , replacing the original top-level eight-person team with the most common two-person team.Qi Hui, who has been with Shen Youyi the longest, is powerless even if she wants to help Shen Youyi.So Qi Hui informed her parents behind her back.

There was a period of quarrel with her parents, but for the sake of her daughter, Shen Youyi still compromised. After all, she had no job at that time, and her income depended on renting out the houses that Cheng Mo had given her.

If you really think about it, the rent is not low, and you can charge tens of thousands of yuan for more than a dozen houses, but the actual situation is that there are eight or nine houses that are partially unfinished, and five or six houses are hardcover. , but the area is relatively large, and it is not easy to rent the whole thing, because Cheng Mo is not in Huaxia, even if there is a power of attorney, he cannot trade, not to mention that Shen Youyi is not willing to sell Cheng Mo's things.After much deliberation, she handed over the house to the Volute Apartment to take care of, but unexpectedly, it exploded with thunder.

She hasn't received the rent for a few months, but the tenants have paid the loan for a year or even a year and a half.Those tenants were all young people who had just graduated, and Shen Youyi didn't have the heart to drive them away, so he agreed to live with them until the end of the contract without saying a word.For Shen Youyi, this really made life that was not well-to-do even worse. In addition, he had to send tuition and living expenses to several students he sponsored, so he was really a little short on money.So much so that when she gave birth, she had to live in a public hospital that was cheaper and could still apply for medical insurance.

It should be a unique experience to live in a multiple delivery room with bodyguards.If it weren't for the selfish desire to keep the two bodyguards, Shen Youyi wished he had retired the bodyguards and got the money back.At least it can make her daughter live better in the hospital.Shen Youyi had never been in such embarrassment since she was a child, but she still gritted her teeth and persisted.But that night, Shen Linglu's acute gastroenteritis really scared Shen Youyi terribly.This is also the direct reason why she had to reconcile with her parents. A good nanny is too expensive, and the daughter is not at ease to hand it over to the nanny, but it must be no problem if the mother helps.

Sure enough, after reconciling with my parents, life became much better and people became much more relaxed, but other troubles arose again.That is, her parents always feel sorry for her and feel that she has committed crimes. She guesses that maybe her parents know something, so they keep urging her to get married quickly, and they keep introducing her to blind dates.

For the sake of her daughter and her novel, she had to endure her parents' nagging, and she carefully declined, but no matter what she said, her parents still went their own way.Physical fatigue is reduced, but mental fatigue is increased.Shen Youyi could only endure silently.

When he learned that she was serializing novels, his father was very happy and supportive. He immediately contacted Liu Yixiao, who works in the cultural department. Liu Yixiao has always had her WeChat account, and immediately asked her why she was not writing novels. Say it early.However, Liu Yixiao didn't take care of everything as soon as she opened her mouth. First, she read her novel seriously, and then gave a lot of pertinent suggestions, such as not using too gorgeous and complicated words, but speeding up the pace. This made Shen Youyi feel that Liu Yi Xiao is a nice person.Later, when Liu Yixiao said that she would help with the publication, Shen Youyi didn't take it too seriously, but everything went much smoother than she imagined.

The days gradually improved, and her parents didn't urge her so much to find one.I don't know what my father and mother are thinking, they have been vaguely matching her and Liu Yixiao.Especially my father, he couldn't be more satisfied with Liu Yixiao as a student. Speaking of which, Liu Yixiao was indeed the most outstanding of his father's students.He is polite and polite. He worked hard when he was studying in Changya. He is tall and handsome, but he only knows how to read, so he can be regarded as a top student.Her family background is not bad either. Liu Yixiao's father is considered a not-so-small official in a certain department, and she knew her father. Now that he has been transferred to the capital, Liu Yixiao and his father work in different departments of the same system.

At the beginning, she was in the same grade as Shen Youyi and Liu Yixiao, but they were not in the same class. Later, she went to Beijing Normal University, while Liu Yixiao was admitted to the National People's University majoring in Chinese Language and Literature.The two schools were not too far away, and my father always wanted the two of them to keep in touch. At that time, they used QQ to chat. They added QQ, but Shen Youyi didn't use QQ very much.Later, Liu Yixiao also sent text messages to Shen Youyi, but Shen Youyi didn't look at his phone very much when he was reading, so it often took two or three hours to reply to a text message.

When Liu Yixiao was a student, she had a thin skin and only sent a text message to say hello.And there are really too many people pursuing Shen Youyi, so they have never shown their love for Shen Youyi, and he is his father's favorite disciple, so Shen Youyi and Liu Yixiao have always maintained a fairly good relationship.

In fact, Shen Youyi maintained a lukewarm relationship with everyone at that time, but no matter who it was, it could basically only reach such a level, and it was difficult to make any progress.Because of Liu Yixiao's alumni and father, Shen Youyi should be more friendly, but the friendliness is limited, and many people may not reply to messages. Liu Yixiao's greeting message, she will still reply politely.

At that time, if Shen Youyi was a normal person, maybe he really wouldn't have a chance to become silent.Even though there are many beauties in Beijing Normal University, Shen Youyi is the one who is famous all over the world. When she walks out of the school, people often think that she is a student from Nortel diagonally opposite. Many talent scouts come to ask for her phone number.Even Beiyou, which is across the street, has many students who know that Beijing Normal University has such a superb stunner.
In the era when BBS was popular, the Beijing University Forum organized by Shen Youyi in the Beiyou Student Union was also a well-known goddess, and it was the business card of the Beijing University Forum. If it weren't for the popularity of Shen Youyi's photos, maybe the Beijing University Forum would have no chance to compete with Weiming BBS and Mizuki BBS. on a par.

However, Shen Youyi herself doesn't like the fame brought by this kind of appearance, especially the proud figure, she is very low-key, otherwise she would definitely become an Internet celebrity.Just this little traffic made her have to face a plethora of suitors, among whom there are many boys with outstanding appearance and excellent academic performance.

However, when Shen Youyi was in college, he really had psychological problems. He was not interested in dating, but rather resisted the approach of other people. He even gave up the opportunity to stay in Beijing Normal University and returned to Xingcheng.Because of this decision, Shen Youyi and her family had already had a very unhappy fight, so when she returned to Star City, she didn't want to live at home. Instead, after two years of shifting, she put together things by herself and paid the down payment to buy a small apartment alone. live.It was also thanks to the low housing prices in Star City that she could afford it.

After returning to Star City a few years ago, Liu Yixiao also occasionally contacted Shen Youyi, but it was some polite text messages sent during the Chinese New Year, and when he came to Star City on business or to visit relatives, he would visit Shen Ping.And Shen Ping would ask his wife Zhang Rujie to call Shen Youyi back for dinner.

This is roughly the whole picture of the relationship between Shen Youyi and Liu Yixiao.To this day, if it weren't for Liu Yixiao's sudden confession, she always felt that in Liu Yixiao's heart, she should be just an aunt who gave birth to a child.Shen Youyi always only thought that she was pretty good-looking, and seriously underestimated the lethality of her own beauty, especially after giving birth to her daughter, and often stayed up late to work. Li Na is Xizi holding his heart, I still feel pity for it.

After finishing everything and walking out of the book building, Duan Shiliang arranged to have a meal at Jiangxian Yaju not far from Financial Street, which was a celebration banquet for the success of the new book's first book signing.This was a dinner party that had been arranged at the beginning, and it was with some employees of the publishing house, Shen Youyi naturally would not refuse.

However, after taking the commercial vehicle of the publishing house to Jiangxian Yaju and entering the box, Shen Youyi realized that the atmosphere was a little bit wrong. There were already two kind-hearted middle-aged men and women sitting in the box, and all the employees of the publishing house went to another place. A box, only their family of four, the publishing house's general manager Duan Shiliang, editor-in-chief Chi Xia, and Liu Yixiao walked in.

When Shen Youyi hesitated, his father, Shen Ping, stepped forward and greeted with a smile: "Oh! Old Liu, it's been a long time! You have been in the capital for a few years, and you and your wife are getting younger and younger!"

Between the eyebrows and Liu Yixiao, the middle-aged man stood up and said politely: "Where, where, to be honest, the weather in Beijing is really bad, and the water and soil of Star City support people. I plan to retire." , move back to Star City to live!"

"That's a good relationship. Then we can be together again." Shen Ping made a mahjong gesture.

A group of people laughed.

After the laughter, there was another round of greetings, and the atmosphere quickly became warmer.Shen Ping pulled Shen Youyi over and introduced: "Xiaoxi, this is Yixiao's father, Uncle Liu Zheng. We studied together in school X back then, so we can be regarded as classmates."

Liu Zheng let out a "hey" and joked, "What do you call it a classmate? You are clearly a classmate, and you are still a classmate and comrade with revolutionary friendship!"

Shen Ping quickly shook his head and said: "It can't be compared with you, you are now a serious XX-level leader, and I am just an idler who has retired from the second line."

"Old Shen, you! I said that your pen is still excellent, but you are too noble. If you didn't want to be in the same dust as the light, how could you have retreated to the second line so early?"

Liu Yixiao's mother, Shu Wanrong, has been looking at Shen Youyi, her eyes are bright, and her surprise and approval are beyond words.It is true that in this age of plastic surgery, a gentle and warm face like Shen Youyi's, like a spring breeze, is really amazing.Shu Wanrong had been staring at Shen Youyi intently, and when she heard the awkward conversation between the two old men, she immediately jokingly said, "I said, Old Liu, you think everyone is an official fan like you!"

Liu Zheng nodded quickly and said: "Yes, yes, I am an official fan, Madam is right! In our family, Madam is right!"

Everyone laughed again.Anyone who knows the Liu family knows that Liu is a strict wife.And Shu Wanrong is a genuine lady of the family. During the period of the Republic of China, her family was a member of the upper class, and she was not in the same breath as the Shen family, a scholarly family that did not have a long inheritance.

Taking advantage of this gap, Shu Wanrong pulled back the main thread, stared at Shen Youyi and stretched out her hand and said, "Xiao Shen! I am Yixiao's mother, I have heard your name many times."

Shen Youyi also observed Liu Yixiao's mother, not because of anything else, but because of Shen Youyi's occupational disease, every time he saw someone, he always wanted to try to describe it with pen and ink.Liu Yixiao's mother, Shu Wanrong, has a very gentle face and looks easy to get along with. Compared with her mother's rigidity, she is also more fashionable and western. Wearing high high heels and a slim long skirt, she also looks very enlightened.In short, at first glance, it looks like the kind of middle-aged people who can chat with young people. Unlike their parents, they seem to still live in the old era and are out of touch with the current society.

"Hello, Auntie, I'm so glad to meet you. I didn't expect you to be so young and beautiful." Shen Youyi smiled and shook hands with Shu Wanrong. Originally, he just wanted to shake hands and then let go, but Shu Wanrong would hold her to sit like this. next to it.

"That's right, my mother and I talked about siblings when we went out." Liu Yixiao said proudly, and he also took the opportunity to sit beside Shen Youyi, and Shu Ya sandwiched Shen Youyi between them.

Shen Youyi said calmly: "Junior brother, sit over there and have a drink with your teacher, your father, and Manager Duan. Let my mother and Xiaolu sit here. I'll watch her eat later."

Hearing the title "Junior Brother", Liu Yixiao froze for a moment. It turned out that Shen Youyi always called him "Yixiao". Everyone called him "Yi Xiao", but Shen Youyi called him "junior brother" at this time, but it seemed to be a clear identity. After all, they were in the same grade, so it was a bit far-fetched for Shen Youyi to call him "junior brother".

But what Shen Youyi said was impeccable, Liu Yixiao was really a bit dull, and he didn't think too complicated.Immediately got up and respectfully invited Shen's mother Zhang Rujie, who was holding Shen Linglu, over. When her mother sat down, Shen Youyi brought the topic to the parenting scriptures again, completely treating herself as half a generation younger than Shu Wanrong and her own mother. people.

Under the attentive persuasion of his father, Liu's father and son, and Manager Duan, the drink was very pleasant.The atmosphere was really pleasant, only Shen Youyi always felt that something was wrong.So she explicitly and secretly emphasized that she was a mother, but Shu Wanrong didn't seem to mind that much, she was very talkative and talked a lot about Liu Yixiao's childhood on the topic of Shen Youyi, and she also loved the lovely Shen Linglu.Interspersed with these highly skillful conversations during the period, Shu Wanrong inadvertently figured out Shen Youyi's hobbies, poetry and songs, flower arrangement, making snacks, and some embroidery, which suits Shu Wanrong's appetite, which is everyone's favorite. Necessary skills, the two chatted about these can be regarded as a very happy conversation, and can exchange a lot of experience.

Liu Yixiao saw that her mother and Shen Youyi got along well, not to mention they were congenial, and immediately became happy, and said with a smile: "Xiaoxi, my mother has rarely talked so happily with others! You can. "

Shen Youyi immediately realized that he had talked too much, so he stopped talking about these more personal topics with Shu Wanrong.And reduce the frequency of chatting, and focus more on her daughter.

But when Shu Wanrong saw Shen Linglu's well-behaved and obedient appearance while eating, Shu Wanrong highly praised Shen Youyi's goddaughter.Then he praised Shen's mother for giving birth to a good daughter, who is beautiful and intelligent.

At this time, Shen Youyi smiled and said, "Aunt Shu is really absurd. My parents don't think I'm a good daughter. After all, things like getting pregnant before marriage are completely inconsistent with their traditional values."

The unexpected sentence made everyone's smiles froze, especially Shen Ping's entire face collapsed, so dark that everyone could see it.

After Shen Youyi gave birth to a daughter out of wedlock, Shen Ping almost severed the father-daughter relationship with Shen Youyi. If it wasn't for the fact that there was only such a daughter and the granddaughter was so cute, Shen Ping really couldn't accept Shen Youyi doing such a thing.Acceptable does not mean complete forgiveness and let go, Shen Ping always has such a lump in his heart.Therefore, his biggest wish now is to let Shen Youyi get married as soon as possible, so that his granddaughter can have a father.

When she knew that Liu Yixiao didn't mind Shen Youyi's past and wanted to be with Shen Youyi.Shen Ping put all his heart into bringing Liu Yixiao and his daughter together. In his opinion, an excellent man like Liu Yixiao didn't care about Shen Youyi's past, and didn't even ask about it. He really liked them, Shen Youyi's mother and daughter. Big luck.But every time Zhang Rujie and Shen Youyi were asked to beat and destroy their marriage, Shen Youyi said that at the moment, she only wanted to write a good novel and raise the deer well, and she would never consider emotional matters until the deer came.

This made Shen Ping and Zhang Rujie very anxious, and gave Liu Yixiao all kinds of tricks, and also made Xiaolu recognize Liu Yixiao as a godfather to bring their relationship closer.

Seeing Cheng Mo appearing just now, Shen Ping was really like a thunderbolt, and in a hurry, he made such a bloody drama like a Qiong Yao drama.Even if he saw Cheng Mo getting off that special license plate car just now, he must have a different identity, and he couldn't accept that Shen Youyi and Cheng Mo were together.

In his opinion, even if Shen Youyi doesn't get married, he can't have anything to do with Cheng Mo. After all, Cheng Mo's double champion in the exam, thanks to his daughter as a teacher, is well known to his relatives and friends.If people really wanted to let people know that Shen Youyi's daughter was the illegitimate child of his student, Shen Ping felt that he would never have the face to see others again, and in the modern term it would be "community death".

What's more, Cheng Mo is still having an affair with Shen Youyi's best friend Gao Yuemei, it is even more impossible for Shen Ping to hand over his daughter to that kind of scum.Shen Youyi didn't mention this matter, but Shen Youyi's bodyguard, Qi Hui, accidentally revealed it when chatting with Zhang Rujie in private.That day Qi Hui was beside Shen Youyi, Shen Youyi saw the video and immediately bled non-stop, Qi Hui hurriedly sent Shen Youyi to the hospital, the doctor took a B-ultrasound and told Shen Youyi not to get angry anymore and lie down at home.

Qi Hui, who witnessed the whole process, was so angry that he exploded, cursing and saying that if he saw that pair of dogs and men, he would shoot them to death with two shots.However, Shen Youyi said that she was not angry, but just worried.Qi Hui said that Shen Youyi was really crazy, and he was worried about that scumbag.Shen Youyi shook his head and replied: No one can understand.

Shen Ping felt that his daughter was really bewildered, she must have been PUAed by a scumbag without knowing it, and she was anxious to find a good home for her daughter.Seeing that the Liu family loved their daughter very much, Shen Ping was so angry that he almost had a heart attack when his daughter suddenly said this.

Fortunately, Shu Wanrong was able to smooth things over, she smiled and fooled this rhythm that ruined the atmosphere, and the atmosphere became lively again during the toast, but it was not as harmonious as it was at the beginning.Halfway through the banquet, Shen Youyi found an excuse and went directly to the front desk to buy the bill, because he drank several bottles of Moutai and spent tens of thousands of yuan, which made Shen Youyi feel a little bit pained. She asked for her daughter to study and save for her daughter. What about the dowry?But this money cannot be saved, so Shen Youyi began to think about how to save this money, buy less skin care products, and not buy clothes and other consumer goods.
Thinking that the manuscript fee can be settled again in half a year, although the publishing market is not good, it can still be divided into hundreds of thousands, plus the copyright has been sold, even if the website and the intermediary have to take the big money, it will be several million, Shen Youyi is at ease She didn't care about it, but she wanted the best for her daughter. She wanted to send her daughter to the best kindergarten, the best elementary school, junior high school, high school, and university. After graduation, she must go abroad to study as a graduate student. Look, she wants her daughter to eat well, dress well, have fun, and let her learn an additional subject related to art, such as piano, painting, guzheng, etc., as long as her daughter is interested
You can't let Cheng Mo and his daughter suffer a little bit, even a little bit.

Thinking of Cheng Mo's surprised expression when he came back to see such an older daughter, Shen Youyi wanted to laugh and cry at the same time.

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When Shen Youyi returned to the private room, he played with Shen Linglu after eating for a while, and the celebration banquet came to an end. After drinking the reunion wine, Liu Yixiao rushed to call the waiter to pay the bill, only to learn that Shen Youyi had already paid the bill. After buying it, there was another burst of complaints, insisting on transferring the money to Shen Youyi.

Shen Youyi was determined not to accept it.Duan Shiliang and Chi Xia went to the private room of the employees of the publishing house, and the Shen and Liu families walked to the door of the restaurant amidst the noise of arguing over who should pay. , Master and Xiao Lu had another good meal, Shen Youyi directly refused before his father even spoke, saying that he would take Xiao Lu to Universal Studios and go to Shanghai to start a new round of signings the day after tomorrow. time.

Liu Yixiao is not very good at persuading people, her expression is very resentful, as if she wants to give up but is reluctant to give up.

Shu Wanrong walked up to Shen Youyi's side, took off the glass bracelet on her wrist, and kindly took Shen Youyi's hand, "Xiaoxi, I hit it off with you, and I didn't prepare any gifts when we first met. This bracelet is for Liu Yi Xiao’s grandma left behind, although it’s not a particularly valuable thing, but it still has a little commemorative meaning, I’ll give it to you today as a meeting gift.”

Shen Youyi looked down at the jade bracelet in Shu Wanrong's hand, it was as clear and transparent as crystal, it was obviously an expensive glass jade bracelet, and he waved his hand in fright.While the two were sending and refusing to go back and forth, the clear glass bracelet fell to the marble floor in Shu Wanrong's exclamation, and with a "ding", it shattered into three pieces under the bright light.

All the people at the door looked over, and many people who knew the goods shook their heads and whispered regretfully, "What a pity! What a pity!"

Shen Youyi, who was full of guilt, immediately bent down and picked up the jade bracelet, and said softly: "Auntie, I'm sorry, I was too careless, I will compensate you how much, or I will buy you a similar one."

Shen Ping and Zhang Rujie who were holding Shen Linglu also leaned over, and they also complained about Shen Youyi's carelessness.On the other hand, Liu Yixiao kept saying that it was okay, and also said some auspicious words like "destroying money and eliminating disasters".

Shu Wanrong waved her hand and said, "What are you paying for? It was originally meant to be given to you, but it's a pity that I've carried this bracelet for so many years!"

Shen Youyi said without hesitation: "No, no, there must be compensation."

Shu Wanrong still shook her head, "There is no need to pay for it." She looked at the three-section jade bracelet in Shen Youyi's hand, and said with a smile, "Why don't you find a good craftsman and repair it with gold, anyway, the bracelet's The commemorative significance is greater than its value."

Shen Youyi had no choice but to say, "Then I'll find a craftsman to try it out first, repair it first, and then see how I can compensate you."

Shu Wanrong closed Shen Youyi's hand holding the three-section jade bracelet, "I really don't need to pay, I really just like you, so I gave you the jade bracelet, it has nothing to do with my Xiaoxiao."

"Auntie, I'm really sorry, no matter what I say, I will find a way to compensate." Shen Youyi replied still resolutely.

Shu Wanrong pushed Shen Youyi to the commercial vehicle, "Okay, okay, let's talk about this later, you've been tired all day, go back and have a good rest, tomorrow you have to take Xiaolu to Universal Studios."

Seeing that Shen Youyi had no choice but to hold the broken jade bracelet and get into the car first, followed by Zhang Rujie, and when Shen Ping was standing beside the car greeting Liu Zheng and Liu Yixiao, Shu Wanrong interrupted again: " This year we will go back to Star City for the New Year, and the two families will have a good time together in Star City."

Liu Zhengxian showed a surprised expression, but Shu Wanrong twisted his arm, and said quickly: "Yes, yes! Let's get together, and we can make a few mahjong tables."

Shen Ping agreed very readily, Shen Youyi who was sitting in the car had no room to intervene at all, and it was not easy for her to intervene at this time.

Liu Zheng and Shen Ping said a few more words of affection, then pushed Shen Ping into the car with a look of reluctance.After the commercial vehicle of the publishing house left, Liu Zheng's driver also drove over in his Audi A6.

After getting into the car, Liu Yixiao who was sitting in the front seat complained: "Mom, why are you so careless!? How dare you ask Shen Youyi to fix it."

Shu Wanrong said angrily: "You have not married a wife yet, so you turned your elbow?"

"No," Liu Yixiao said, "It was obviously because you forced it to others that it broke."

Liu Zheng shook his head, "Idiot son, your mother did it on purpose!"

"On purpose?" Liu Yixiao was surprised, "What is this for? Did you drop the bracelet left by grandma to blackmail people?"

Shu Wanrong raised her hand and tapped Liu Yixiao's forehead, "Is your mother that kind of person?"

Liu Yixiao shook her head in doubt, "Of course not."

"Not for you."

"for me?"

"Believe it or not, if I don't do this, you will never see her again!"

"Isn't it?"

Shu Wanrong sneered, "With your three-legged cat's ability to chase girls, it's no wonder that others reject you so directly."

Liu Yixiao blushed immediately, and said eagerly, "Mom, how did you know?"

"What can't your big-mouthed cousin say?"

"Hey!" Liu Yixiao sighed, "I really don't know how to chase a girl, and I don't know how to impress her. I think I'm already sincere enough!"

Shu Wanrong said confidently: "According to your mother's arrangement, I guarantee that you will bring this good wife back."

"Really?" Liu Yixiao asked in surprise.

Shu Wanrong nodded, "Of course it's true, but you have to be prepared for a long-term war of resistance. This girl looks gentle and gentle, but she is actually very tough inside, so it's not so easy for you to chase her down."

Liu Yixiao swore: "No matter how long it takes, I'm willing to persevere."

But Liu Zheng focused on Shu Wanrong, and asked hesitantly: "Honey, do you really think the girl from the Shen family is okay? She has given birth to a child before. Is it really appropriate to get pregnant first before marriage? Could it be that the girl from the Qi family Isn’t it good? I think she is also very beautiful! The family background is even more incomparable, and she is still unmarried.”

Liu Yixiao said full of resentment: "Dad! I'm not interested in Qi Jiayi!"

"The girl from the Qi family doesn't look like a good woman who knows how to live a good life. Look at that woman with heavy makeup and luxury clothes, and she can't speak well. She insists on mixing Chinese and English. I'm afraid others won't know that she has drunk foreign ink. Look at the Shen family again. Girl, I wear luxury brands for my daughter. The sweater she wears is handmade, the bag is also made by herself, the clothes are cheap, and the high heels are old, but they are all clean and well-maintained. Wearing it on her doesn't look cheap at all, she looks like someone who knows how to live. She is neither soft nor hard, neither humble nor overbearing, even if she refuses people, the hint is just right. Before the meal is finished, I bought the order first, I'm afraid of being indebted to you. It's a lifetime blessing to marry such a girl. Even if something happens to our family, she must be the kind who will never leave and can take care of the house in an orderly manner. Really want to change If you lose Miss Qi's family, you will probably divorce Liu Yixiao immediately."

Liu Zhengyi said sternly, "What are you talking about? I am not corrupt, not corrupt, and not lustful. I am righteous, so how could anything happen to me?"

Shu Wanrong pushed Liu Zheng down, and said with a smile: "Don't I want to use a metaphor! I know you are a peerless good man."

"Okay! Alright! You two stop showing your affection in front of me, okay?" Liu Yixiao said depressed.

Shu Wanrong and Liu Zheng laughed at their son again, before Liu Zheng asked seriously: "Son, you really don't mind, the other party has a daughter?"

Liu Yixiao shook her head, "I don't mind. I also like Xiaolu very much, she is sensible. Otherwise, I wouldn't agree to the teacher to be Xiaolu's godfather."

Liu Zheng looked at Shu Wanrong again, "You don't mind either?"

Shu Wanrong thought for a while and said: "I just want to know, what kind of man doesn't even know how to cherish such a good girl?"

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(BGM——"Wang" Zhou Shen)
Contrary to the situation in the harmonious Liu family, both Shen Ping and Shen Youyi in the car suppressed a burst of anger. Shen Ping felt that Shen Youyi shouldn't have said that at the dinner table, and Shen Youyi felt that his father interfered too much in his life, and even indulged Shen Linglu on the trampoline. eat ice cream.But when they were in the car, neither of them spoke, and they had a silent cold war, but the quarrel started as soon as they got back to the hotel.

In order not to scare Shen Linglu, Zhang Rujie carried the sleeping Shen Linglu to Shen Youyi's room.As soon as Shen Youyi closed the door, Shen Ping said angrily: "I don't understand what's wrong with Liu Yixiao! Do you just hate him like this? You even use self-defilement to escape!"

Shen Youyi said lightly: "I'm not escaping! I'm just telling the truth." After a pause, she said solemnly, "Besides, I don't think Liu Yixiao is bad, but I don't want to get married right now! I hope Dad doesn't Do this useless work again!"

Shen calmly walked back and forth in the room, and after a while, he pointed at Shen Youyi and said sharply: "Are you still thinking about that shameless scum?"

Shen Youyi's warm, fragrant, soft, jade, and blue-hearted face sank, she shook her head, frowned, and said slowly but firmly: "Father, I don't think anyone has anything to do with you."

"You can think of anyone! You just can't think of him! But he is..." Shen Ping's face also showed a twisted pain, and he said as if he was about to cry, "What crime did I do! What a crime I have done!"

Seeing her father like this, Shen Youyi didn't know what to say. Her heart was already a mess of seaweed with nothing to rely on, and she could only drift around with the crazy waves. She didn't know when she was drawn into the bottomless vortex.

Seeing his daughter bowed her head in acquiescence, Shen Ping finally burst into tears, "Do you really want Dad to kneel down and beg you?"

Shen Youyi felt helpless, her face was as pale as a sheet of white paper soaked in water, as if it would break if touched.She gritted her teeth to hold back her tears, choked with sobs and said in a low voice, "Father, if you don't like it, you can leave me alone."

"You are really..." Shen Ping sat down on the bed, and murmured weakly, "You are hopeless. You are hopeless."

Shen Youyi turned and walked out of the room, she was unable to talk to her father about conniving Shen Linglu to eat ice cream after trampoline.I also completely forgot to teach my daughter not to shout at people.She stood alone in the corridor for a long time, until she completely controlled her emotions, then rubbed her red eye sockets and returned to her room.

The mother was watching her daughter sleep, and when she saw Shen Youyi coming in, she sighed and said, "We all hope that you and Xiaolu are well, how could we harm you?" Zhang Rujie stared at Shen Youyi and said earnestly, "If he is a good person, then it's fine. Now, you go to live in a foreign country, we can't see it, but don't you know who he is?"

"Mom, I know, I know." Shen Youyi said, looking at her daughter's petite body, she shook her head and said, "You won't understand, you won't understand"

Zhang Rujie stood up from the bed, and said with a cold face: "If you must insist on going your own way, then you can do it yourself!"

Hearing the suppressed quarrel, Shen Linglu still woke up, waving his chubby hands and rubbing his eyes, calling "Mom, Mom". Shen Youyi didn't go to see the leaving mother, but hurried over and picked up her daughter.

Shen Linglu murmured sleepily: "Don't quarrel, don't quarrel"

Shen Youyi stroked Shen Linglu's forehead, and her voice choked up again, "Okay, okay, good baby, mom doesn't quarrel."

Shen Linglu put her little hands around Shen Youyi's neck, "Mom, don't cry, mom, don't cry. The little deer grows up. When he grows up, he will help his mother beat bad guys."

"Okay, mom, mom, wait for the baby to grow up." Shen Youyi smiled through tears, holding her daughter's petite body and murmured, "Mom may admit defeat one day, but not today."

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The next day, Shen Ping and Zhang Rujie left the capital without saying anything.Shen Youyi took Shen Linglu to Universal Studios to play, Liu Yixiao's cousin Liu Jinyu ran over to play with Shen Youyi's mother and daughter for a whole day, Shen Youyi knew about Shu Wanrong's arrangement but couldn't refuse.Early in the morning of the third day, Shen Youyi took Shen Linglu to see Tian'anmen Gate and watched the flag raising, then went straight to the airport, went to Shanghai to start the second signing, followed by non-stop tours of major cities across the country, in January At No. 30, he returned to his home in Star City after a tiring journey all the way.

The whole process went extremely smoothly. Thanks to the hard-working marketing of the publishing house, and being identified as one of several promotional books by the Ministry of Culture, the sales of "Ouroboros-West of Time Series" hit new highs repeatedly. It is certain, and it has a super cast cast, and the popularity on the Internet is also high, and the name "Nanxi" has become familiar to the public all of a sudden.

Liu Yixiao hasn't been in touch with her these days, but Shu Wanrong has added her WeChat to chat with her from time to time. I have to say that Shu Wanrong is a master at handling people's hearts, and I don't talk to her about emotional matters, so I just discuss it Flower arrangements, recipes for making desserts, and sharing some parenting experiences.

Since the jade bracelet has not been taken away, Shen Youyi has no way to refuse such an overture.Based on this situation, Shen Youyi knew that it was inevitable to meet the Liu family during the Chinese New Year.She thought to herself that she might have to express her attitude more clearly.

After returning home for a day of leisure, Chi Xia, the editor-in-chief of the publishing house, called and asked that there was a nationally famous talk show "Extraordinary Talks" and wanted to invite Shen Youyi to do a program. Chi Xia thought it was an excellent way to help Shen Youyi expand. Shen Youyi rejected the opportunity to gain popularity and boost book sales without thinking too much.

She didn't want to be on TV, and she didn't want people to know that "Ouroboros-West of Chronology" was written by her, as long as the person who should see it knew.

Chi Xia didn't force Shen Youyi either, she knew that Shen Youyi couldn't force her to come, so she told Shen Youyi to think carefully before making a decision.Shen Youyi just smiled and said, you know me, you definitely won't go.Chi Xia didn't say anything else, she just told Shen Youyi Publishing House that she had received a lot of gifts sent to her, and they had already packed them and delivered them to her home, so she should remember to sign for them.

This Shen Youyi agreed very readily. She has always cherished letters and gifts from readers, and even set up a special room for letters and gifts. In her spare time, she would reply one by one, and all of them were written by hand, not typed.

The next day, Shen Youyi received the package sent by Chi Xia. Every time she opened the package, Shen Linglu would obediently sit on the sofa and watch her take out gifts and letters.Shen Youyi will also tell Shen Linglu what it is one by one. When Shen Linglu sees Shen Youyi smiling, he will also slap with a smile.

It was the same today, Shen Youyi first put the strong cardboard box glued with tape on the glass coffee table, then carried Shen Linglu who was jumping on the bed to the sofa in the living room, Shen Linglu immediately fell silent when he saw the cardboard box Come down, sit cross-legged on the sofa and stare at the cardboard box with "handle with care" written on it with a smile.

The weather in Xingcheng in winter is extremely unpredictable. The past few days were still cloudy and rainy, wet and cold, which was tiresome. Today, the sun came out. Although I didn’t feel much warmth, the sun was shining brightly and transparently outside the window. The light poured in through the venetian blinds, and the old gold phonograph was new and cheerful.Shen Youyi walked to the window, looked at the faint Yuelu Mountain outside the window, and the distant river view, turned on the gramophone and started playing music, the sound of gurgling water lingered in the room, Shen Linglu who heard the music was sitting on the sofa giggled.

Shen Youyi walked back to the coffee table, picked up the scissors, and suddenly had a secret joy that she was about to open the pirate's treasure chest.She bent down, and a wave was rippling in front of her.With the voice of "Sand! Sand! Sand!", she cut open the cardboard box, turned her head and smiled at Shen Linglu who slapped her: "Open the box!"

Shen Linglu also cheered in a childish voice, "Open the box!"

Shen Youyi put the cardboard box at her feet, leaned against the sofa and sat on the carpet, and began to randomly take out the gifts that readers sent her from the box.

For the first item, Shen Youyi deliberately took a relatively large one, which was soft and could be recognized as a puppet at the first touch.Shen Youyi opened the packing bag, and inside was a beige Akita dog puppet. She picked up the puppet, which was not much bigger than a palm, and shook it in front of Shen Linglu, "Little deer, look at what this is!"

Shen Linglu jumped up happily, "It's a puppy! It's a puppy!"

Shen Youyi handed the puppet to his daughter, and Shen Linglu rolled on the sofa with the puppet in his arms, "Puppy! Puppy!"

"Say thank you."

"thanks, thanks!"

"Who does the deer want to thank?"

"Thank you." Shen Linglu's tender little face blossomed into a smile, "Thank you, book friend!"

"Yes, thank you book friend."

Shen Youyi took out another box-shaped gift, opened the package and saw that it was a rubber duck. She took out the yellow rubber duck and pinched it twice, and there was a sound like air leakage in the music.Shen Linglu screamed, dropped the puppy and reached out to get back the little rubber duck that made the sound.Shen Youyi took his hand back, not letting Shen Linglu get it.

"What did mother tell you?"

Shen Linglu immediately turned around obediently and picked up the puppet puppy that rolled into the corner of the sofa, "Treasure every gift."

Only then did Shen Youyi hand the little yellow duck to Shen Linglu, touched her forehead and said, "Yes, we must cherish every hard-won thing we have."

Shen Linglu hardly listened to what Shen Youyi was saying, took the little yellow duck and squeezed it to make noises, and smiled happily "heck, heck, heck"
Shen Youyi also felt very happy, she thought that if that person was here, it would be the most perfect thing in the world.She continued to take out gifts from the box like a lottery. There were mobile phone cases of "East of Time Series" made by book friends, posters hand-painted by book friends, letters, spicy sticks, and "Bitter" written on it. The fan of Snake - East of Timing, of course, and "Blade".

Shen Youyi laughed helplessly, and put the blade in an iron box with a combination lock.She doesn't expect to make a fortune by relying on blades, but she also cherishes this sharp weapon for reminders with her heart.
When the sun went down and the skyline outside the window appeared a brilliant sunset, there was not much left in the cardboard box.Shen Youyi took out something that looked like a book, but it was much lighter than a book.This gift was wrapped in thick kraft paper, and a few thin twine tied the kraft paper firmly.

Shen Youyi did not choose to cut the hemp rope with scissors, but carefully untied the knotted hemp rope, and then unwrapped the onion-like kraft paper layer by layer.

On the petal-like kraft paper, a book-sized oil painting appeared before her eyes.

In the center of the painting is a bright red rose floating in the sky.This rose has no leaves or thorns, it is so wanton and delicate, floating quietly, with a drop of water like a tear.

Below the roses, there is a small oasis town looming in a vast desert.

sunset.

A pair of small people are looking up at this miraculous flower.

Shen Youyi stared at the backs of the two villains stretched by the twilight, shed tears inexplicably.
She remembered the poem "A Red Rose" by Robert Burns.

My love is a red rose,
Opened in early June.

My love is sweet music,
Sweet as nature.

You are beautiful, girl,

I have a lot of love for you.

i will always love you darling,

until the sea is dried up.

(PS: I really hope that everyone will cherish women like Shen Youyi a little bit. It will continue to be updated tomorrow, and the plot will continue to follow the bloody style. Of course, it will also be pretentious. Maybe Lao Zhao’s cool writing may not be cool, but it will definitely be very sweet. )

(End of this chapter)