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It was several days later that Pei Yiyao learned about his mother's visit from his roommate.

"You said, she knew that I went to Disney with Chen Ting?" Pei Yiyao asked.

"Yes." The roommate didn't realize the root of the problem, and replied with a smile: "Your mother said she was going to call you, didn't she?"

Silence means there is a problem.

Pei Yiyao is not sociable and keeps his own way. He is often considered to have low EQ, but this does not mean that he is really low.The so-called shortest straight line between two points, he is just used to choose the most efficient and straightest line.

Ruan Xin is his own mother, she understands him, and of course he understands her too.

This lady has so many minds like a sieve, she can cause intensive phobia, it is an extremely unwise choice to play tricks on her, so Pei Yiyao decided - stand still.

Chen Ting didn't realize it, because he was still busy with various exams.

He has already passed the most important exam in his sophomore year, the fourth year. He feels Pei Yiyao's hard work and progress, and is thinking about whether to give his second foreigner a certificate.Chen Ting's second foreign language study is Japanese, because he thinks it is the best one to learn among all the second foreign students.

But there are not many Japanese classes scheduled. If you want to take the exam, you have to find a teacher to teach you a little bit, and you have to spend more energy.

It is very difficult to get up once you are used to the life of salted fish.

He complained to Pei Yiyao and asked him for advice, but Pei Yiyao went online to help him find a bunch of original comic books and limited edition Blu-ray discs.

This move was very rough and rough, even if it was for the small money, Chen Ting couldn't let this pile of things moldy in the corner.But he still couldn't help muttering: "Don't you care if I don't make progress? Why are you so active this time, and the research is very hard..."

Pei Yiyao replied: "I want you to study with me."

Chen Ting blinked and thought for a while before he understood what he meant.Pei Yiyao has made it clear that he wants to take the Ph.D. exam, which means that it will take a long time to graduate.

Chen Ting is such an unambitious person, graduate students are not willing to take the exam, so they will inevitably go on different paths.Of course, everyone's life trajectory is different, even if they have different choices, they can still be together.

They can rent a house together outside the school, Chen Ting will go to work, and Pei Yiyao will study.Both families are in good condition, the Pei family is even better, besides, Chen Ting has hands and feet, so he shouldn't have to worry about financial resources.

The premise is that if they come out successfully.

Thinking about it, Chen Ting lost his mind. In just a few minutes, it seemed that he had already spent his whole life with Pei Yiyao.Looking back, I was a sophomore.

"It's still far away from graduation." Chen Ting felt that he might be stunned, paused, and said, "If I take the postgraduate entrance examination, I will go to graduate school. I'm not on the same campus as you."

"I can go find you." Pei Yiyao said.

"I might not be admitted to N University yet. Isn't there a saying that you should go out and walk more while you are young? I can go to the school in the north. How about a north-south connection?"

Chen Ting deliberately teased Pei Yiyao, seeing that he didn't have any special reaction, he lost interest immediately.

Pei Yiyao hugged him, resting his chin on his curly hair: "As long as you want, you can do it. You can go to any city, just wait for me to come to you."

Chen Ting was moved for a while, who said that Brother Ku has a low EQ, so how can he talk about love so casually?He put his arms around his waist and rubbed his shoulders to show his intimacy, but he still wanted to make a sincere suggestion: "Can I not use this posture next time, it will make me appear short."

Pei Yiyao: "...Okay."

Chen Ting nodded in satisfaction, then grabbed his arms and said, "Forget about studying, there is a new hot pot restaurant outside the school gate, let's go eat hot pot."

Pei Yiyao grabbed his hand helplessly and pushed aside his homework: "Let's go."

The two walked through the gourmet street, and Chen Ting stopped in front of a milk tea shop again, and looked up at Pei Yiyao: "I heard that hot pot goes better with frozen lemon tea."

There is no frozen lemon tea in the hot pot restaurant.

I heard that hot pot is better with frozen lemon tea, because I heard = Chen heard that there is nothing wrong with it.

Now that the weather is getting warmer, it doesn't matter to drink some iced drinks once in a while, and Pei Yiyao is a qualified boyfriend, so of course he has to buy it, because a qualified boyfriend must be obedient.

Listen to the words.

While eating hot pot, Pei Yiyao finally received a message from his mother.

Gummy Candy: Are you free tomorrow afternoon? If you have nothing to do, come to Mom's studio. I have something to tell you.

Pei Yiyao: Good.

After replying, he calmly put away his phone and continued to blanch Chen Ting's beef, as if nothing had happened.

The next day was Sunday, Chen Ting went to work as usual, and Pei Yiyao didn't always go to the coffee shop to accompany him, so he went straight out of school to make an appointment without telling Chen Ting.

It was only one o'clock in the afternoon when we arrived at Ruan Xin's flower art studio.

The studio did not open in the busiest city center, but moved a little outside, and chose to be on a boulevard full of fawu, which has the charm of the old city.

The studio is not small, and there is a glass room inside. Green plants and flower pots are arranged in a patchwork order on wooden shelves. There is a white round table and two comfortable chairs in the middle—Ruan Xin is receiving guests there.

Seeing Pei Yiyao open the door and come in, she asked him to wait on the sofa outside.

There are two young girls employed in the store, and there are not many customers on weekdays, so they are happy to be at leisure, but seeing a handsome guy like Pei Yiyao come to the door today, the joy in his heart almost ran to his face.

"Hello, would you like coffee or tea? We have everything here."

"American, thank you."

"Are you here to see our boss?"

"Ah."

"..."

Ruan Xin always pays attention to Pei Yiyao's actions outside, because she has that matter on her mind, she can't concentrate 100% now, even if she talks to Pei Yiyao, it took more than two weeks.

In fact, she is still a little undecided until now. One side is her son, and the other side is her best friend. How can some things be so easy to measure?

Seeing the two little girls unconsciously looking towards Pei Yiyao, Ruan Xin sighed helplessly.

This son, unknowingly, has become so outstanding, but unfortunately, he is still cheating.

After about half an hour, Ruan Xin sent the guests away, and then she walked up to Pei Yiyao seriously, and said, "Come in with me."

The two entered the glass room and sat facing each other across the small round table, neither of them spoke.Ruan Xin brewed scented tea slowly, letting the diffuse mist rise gracefully between the two of them, her posture was still as elegant as ever.

After a long time, Pei Yiyao frowned slightly: "Mom..."

"I'm not discriminating against your sexual orientation." Ruan Xin interrupted him with an explosive opening remark.

Pei Yiyao tightened his hands suddenly, and was about to speak, but Ruan Xin raised his hand and pressed him down: "Listen to me first. Two weeks is enough for me to understand the matter clearly, and I know my son must not be a joke You are just a person, you will be responsible for what you do, right? Now the society is more open than before, and our family is not so conservative. You are an adult and have your own choices. Both your father and I can respect you."

Ruan Xin's words made Pei Yiyao relax.But what she said next made him frown deeply.

"But that person shouldn't be Chen Ting."

Facing Ruan Xin's increasingly serious expression, Pei Yiyao asked, "Why can't it be him? Don't you guys like Chen Ting very much?"

Ruan Xin waved the mist in front of her eyes, put a cup of tea in front of Pei Yiyao, and said, "That's the reason why you didn't think clearly about the problem, son, it's the same as you do a math problem, you really understand this Is it the subject of the question?"

Pei Yiyao was stunned.

Ruan Xin continued: "Have you met your Aunt Chen Su? Do you know their lives? I guess you have long forgotten the days when you played with Tingting when you were a child. You must be the one who chased after you when you were with him. He doesn't care about it, he does his own way. Listening to it, it is definitely impossible to agree to you immediately, he must have thought more than you, maybe he agreed because you chased him anxiously, right? "

Pei Yiyao remained silent, Ruan Xin was like the most brilliant prosecutor, with a pair of eyes that could see him through.

Ruan Xin couldn't help sighing, she was telling Pei Yiyao to get along with Chen Ting and take care of him at school, but she didn't expect this precious son to take care of him on his bed, what's the matter?

"You." Seeing Pei Yiyao's expression, Ruan Xin could guess the rough relationship between the two of them. Hearing that such a sensible and cute child was kidnapped?

It happened to be Chen Ting, Chen Su's son, who was a fool.

Pei Yiyao doesn't justify, he never justifies such a matter that has already made up his mind, he takes full responsibility, diss is free to diss, and he will not change if he is beaten to death.

Ruan Xin was well aware of his temper, and he didn't come to beat mandarin ducks today, so she took a sip of tea and said, "I don't want to persuade you, but I'll tell you a story, do you want to listen?"

Under the pressure of his mother, Pei Yiyao nodded of course: "Listen."

Ruan Xin felt her head hurt when she heard him say the word "listen", but she still had to cheer up and tell the story.After straightening out her train of thought, she used an extremely old-fashioned beginning: "A long, long time ago..."

In fact, more than [-] years ago, a young guy on a boat drifted from the north with his father to a small town in the south of the Yangtze River. People here live in every household by the water, and there are rows of houses beside the river.

The place where this young guy's boat docked was a "river beach" of a certain family.The river beach is a dialect, which means the stone steps by the river.

The girl washing rice on the stone steps is the only child of this family. She looks about eighteen or nineteen years old, wearing a little white dress, with almond eyes, oval face, blue hair and waist. She looks like a typical water country girl with a soft temper. Also looks very beautiful.

The young guy fell in love at first sight, goodbye, and gave people fish and rabbits every day, working as free labor.

This family has a good family background. There is a big fence outside the house, and a big wolfhound is tied to the fence.He has been chased by this dog more than a dozen times, and the dog was released by the future father-in-law.

"Are these Chen Ting's parents?" Pei Yiyao asked.

"Of course, I also helped hand over the love letter, but you, Uncle Zhao, did not graduate from high school, and your writing style is really not very good. Your Auntie Chen Su is a college student. You know that college students in those days were still very valuable. In fact, including me, just now At first, I didn't like you, Uncle Zhao. But Chen Su couldn't help liking her, they got married and lived a good life, and after a few years, our family moved abroad because of your father's work relationship. "

Pei Yiyao nodded, he still remembered something about the move.

"Your uncle Zhao died in the second year, cancer, terminal. At that time, your father's job had just stabilized, and you had to go to school, so I went back twice alone."

No amount of words can express the pain at that time.It's hard for Ruan Xin to recall what happened at that time. All these years, she just hopes that Chen Su can think about it, and the scar can be left uncovered. Once she mentions it, she will feel infinitely sad.

"Sometimes parents love each other too much, so it's easy to neglect their children. Do you understand?" Ruan Xin's voice was a little low, "Chen Su never reported good news but not bad ones. I only learned about some things later. That year, someone saw him rowing a boat to collect fishing nets by himself. He was too small and the fishing nets were too big, so he almost drowned in the river. The two of them lived on the boat all the time. Chen Su thought that Zhao Ping refused to move. I don't know if Chen Ting is doing well or not."

Hearing this, Pei Yiyao's face darkened slightly, and his hands on his knees were clenched even more suddenly.

"You don't remember. I heard that when I was a child, I was so skinny. I brought you into many troubles. Every day I walk like a little crab with arrogance. How can I be as good as I am now."

"Da." The cup was lightly placed on the table, and the crisp sound caused ripples in Pei Yiyao's heart.He suddenly remembered the scars and calluses on Chen Ting's hands.

Ruan Xin looked at him and said, "If it wasn't for hearing that something almost happened, Chen Su might not be able to get out. It was like a dream. Her husband was gone, and her son was almost gone. Now, I Both I and her hope that I can live a simple and happy life, but are you sure you really think clearly about what you will bring to him?"

"I don't want to break you up, but you have to think carefully about it for me."