The Taming of the Ruffian Hero

Shu Xiaoman's house.

Zhao Yuan went on a business trip.

When Chen Yuanxi arrived, Shu Xiaoman had already calmed down, but her eye sockets were almost horribly sunken, her dull and rough skin was loose, sticking to her face like a layer of wrinkled tree bark, and her temples were white. It can be seen that this made Chen Yuanxi secretly startled.

"Xiaoman, are you sick?" Chen Yuanxi asked.

"Probably, it will be better soon." Shu Xiaoman said hoarsely.

"What do you want from me?" Chen Yuanxi asked.

"It's nothing...just want to see you..." Shu Xiaoman said.

Chen Yuanxi shook her head: "And then?"

Shu Xiaoman frowned, she didn't seem to have thought about what she wanted Chen Yuanxi to do, probably, she just wanted to meet.Chen Yuanxi was speechless for a while, but more than a year ago, Shu Xiaoman's arrogant appearance and his eloquent words deeply impressed him.Since Zhang Dong left, Mo Qian was punished. Originally, he had already taken care of everything. Even Zheng Kai, he didn't plan to meet. He was going to start from nowhere and find nowhere to live. Meeting is just another round of disturbance to both parties.

"Father Lin!" The immature Tong Yin of a child was like a heavy hammer, smashing Chen Yuanxi's thoughts to pieces.A little boy, about two years old, ran out, excitedly holding a photo in his hand.

"No..." Another little girl wobbled and ran out together.

A middle-aged and elderly woman hurried out, one in each hand, looking very anxious.

Chen Yuanxi couldn't bear it, and pulled the twins over to watch them carefully.

The pair of beautiful eyes of a little boy and a little girl are very similar to Shu Xiaoman's. Although the eyebrows are not completely grown, judging from the lines, they are undoubtedly Zhao Yuan's sword eyebrows.Two pairs of clear eyes, half-moon-like eyes, stared at him curiously.

Zhao Yuan's child, Zhao Yuan and Xiaoman's child.

Endless tenderness suddenly rose in Chen Yuanxi's heart, and a pair of sharp eyes gradually melted from the ice and snow in the cold river, whispering in the deep silent stream.

At this moment, the little girl was holding the photos, comparing them, and babbling, "Oh... yes..."

Chen Yuanxi suddenly had the urge to cry, such a young child also knew who it was.

The little girl must have thought that the boy had guessed right, so she stretched out her hand to touch the boy's face. The boy suddenly opened her hand with an unhappy expression, and the girl burst into tears.

"Mengyuan, don't bully my sister!" Shu Xiaoman scolded softly.

"Father and you..." Zhao Mengyuan said suddenly, and then squeezed his little fingers together, as if he didn't know how to express it.

"It was playing games with mom, didn't you see mom was happy all the time?" Shu Xiaoman said with red eyes suddenly.

"Then... play games." Zhao Mengyuan smiled and pointed at the little girl.

Chen Yuanxi's heart tightened slightly, and she grabbed Zhao Mengyuan's little finger: "Mengyuan is still a baby, this is bullying my little sister."

"What is bullying?" Zhao Mengyuan asked.

"If you make your little sister cry, it's called bullying." Chen Yuanxi said.

Zhao Mengyuan pouted with a half-comprehension, and muttered, "Father, please bully (bully) mom..."

"Little baby, what's your name?" Chen Yuanxi pretended not to have heard of it, and looked at the little girl with a gentle smile. At that moment, Shu Xiaoman saw the afterglow from the window shining on Chen Yuanxi's face, so warm, The kindness, the familiar feeling, made her feel warm for a while, and half bitterly cold.

"Zhao Mengxi, stinky Mengyuan is my younger brother." Zhao Mengxi smiled sweetly.

"I'm my elder brother, I'm three points ahead of you (Zhong)!" Zhao Mengyuan discriminated unconvinced.

"I'm taller than you!" Zhao Mengxi said and pinched Zhao Mengyuan's face lightly, and the brother and sister rolled to the ground and became a ball.The nanny hurriedly packed up the brushes and paints where the two brothers and sisters were fighting, and hugged them inside with a loud noise.

"Why did you let her take this name..." Chen Yuanxi was a little puzzled.

"I'll show you, and you'll know." Shu Xiaoman said, getting up slowly.

When Chen Yuanxi saw Zhao Yuan's bedroom, she didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

Completely different from the extremely luxurious atmosphere of the living room, Zhao Yuan's bedroom is simple and clean. The color of the bed and the pattern of the bed sheets are exactly the same as his own small room back then. That small room was where Zhao Yuan once lived in his home to take care of himself. When I was my mother, I lived there for a while...

A pot of prickly prickly pear kept in the window has been crystal clear and emerald green for years, making this cold winter inexplicably full of vitality.After Zhao Yuan's father passed away, Chen Yuanxi silently put it in the window. Zhao Yuan immediately knew who sent it and who it was for.The cute husky alarm clock by the bed was also given to him when he was in college, one for each of them.Press it lightly, even the ringtone is exactly the same.

"Papa Lin is not as handsome as Papa." Zhao Mengyuan ran out of the small room again at some point, with Zhao Mengxi's last two paw prints on his face.

"No, Dad said that Dad Lin is the most handsome." Zhao Mengxi took out a solo photo of Chen Yuanxi during military training, on which she had drawn two red circles.

"Mother Liu! What do you think of the child! That photo..." Shu Xiaoman couldn't help but change his expression.Mama Liu immediately panicked: "Oh, Manniu! Sorry!"

"What is handsome?" Chen Yuanxi felt quite funny.

"Looks good, just like me." Zhao Mengyuan gesticulated with his hands indiscriminately, and his small mouth was stained with red again.

"Mom is pretty too." Chen Yuanxi said to Zhao Mengyuan.

Zhao Mengyuan stood at a loss for a while, and said for a long time: "Mom will cry."

Chen Yuanxi understood almost everything, and walked to the activity room of the two children. Inside, there were not paints for painting, but the keys of the simulated electronic piano all over the place. The one hanging directly above was impressively drawn by Chen Yuanxi when he went to the countryside to support education. Zhao Yuan's profile by the fire.

He has not forgotten anything.

But it's time to forget everything.

When returning to the living room, Chen Yuanxi held the two photos together: "Xiaoman, there's no need to hide it from A Yuan now. When he comes back, tell him that I took the photos away."

"No, don't..." Shu Xiaoman suddenly panicked.

The nanny observed the words and expressions, hurriedly entered the room and locked the door tightly, then turned around and said: "Wow! The old world will be crazy."

Chen Yuanxi didn't understand very well for a while, the nanny took the photo from his hand nervously, pointed to her head and said: "The old world will be stupid, it's upside down." Then she slowly turned back into the room.

"Xiaoman, like Wanxin, I don't believe in God or Buddha, but I believe in fate. I used to blame you and hate you, but I saw Mengyuan and Mengxi. If I were you, I would make the same choice. For the sake of these two children, I hope...you can take care of yourself," Chen Yuanxi said with a smile.

Shu Xiaoman slumped heavily on the seat.

She thought that Chen Yuanxi would come over and slap her hard several times, she even imagined that he might abduct a child, she thought that Chen Yuanxi would wait here for Zhao Yuan to come back, embarrassing her on the spot.She didn't expect that what he said was enough to make her feel ashamed and regretful to death.

"Wenxi, you said that I would regret it, you... said that I would not be happy... If time could be turned back..." Shu Xiaoman's tears filled her eyes, and Chen Yuanxi turned her face slightly.

"Wenxi, how did Zhao Yuan come here for so many years, do you know? He has been keeping that little mouse in his collection, and after it was accidentally lost, I actually saw this man cry! I have never seen Brother Yuan cry. , just because of that doll, he really cried, crying like a child! He went to the company to dig the garbage can, he chased the garbage truck to the garbage station, and finally found a statue... He will always keep that Nokia mobile phone for you , I keep the number of my hometown, I just hope you can contact him again...he...has...more than six years...never played basketball...he has no audience..." Big tears flowed down Shu Xiaoman's cheeks dropped.

"I have been with him for more than six years. I never thought that a man could treat another person like this. I have never been so close to such an excellent man. Wenxi, I was confused for a moment!" Shu Xiaoman pulled Chen Yuanxi's hand, sobbing and talking non-stop.

"That day, he asked me to talk about things, I knew what he was going to do, he wanted to make it up to me, he didn't want to get married...I know he was walking around outside, smoking there all the time...I don't know What happened to you, I just want to tell you all my thoughts at that time, I am afraid of two children, without a father, Wenxi..."

"Xiaoman, I hope you will take good care of your body for the sake of the two children. They are still so young, they look so much like Zhao Yuan, and they look so much like you. Everything will pass." Chen Yuanxi turned around, holding back Tears, lightly patted Shu Xiaoman's shoulder, seeing her haggard like a withered lotus leaf in the autumn rain, lightly flicking her forehead.

This movement of flicking the forehead is the same as before. When the two of them were playing in college, Shu Xiaoman suddenly felt that the innocent young man who stood upright in the past had crossed layers of time and space and returned to him, and he was still the one he loved as always. That figure that has never changed, the person for whom he is willing to give everything.

"Wenxi... can I play it again?" Shu Xiaoman asked tearfully.

Chen Yuanxi smiled lightly, raised her hand lightly, tapped Shu Xiaoman's forehead once, and then tapped harder again, just like he used to beat Shu Xiaoman in playing cards, always playing tricks like that. one time.

Bowl!

The two looked at each other and laughed, then wept and hugged each other deeply, a statue appeared on Shu Xiaoman's body.

I hope that after many years, we will meet each other by fate, not complaining to each other, nor being silent after years, but to have a good talk with you, long time no see, Zhao Yuan.

Shu Xiaoman silently turned on the music player.

"Does that person only exist in dreams? Why do I use up all my strength but get half my life's memories..."

Shu Xiaoman already understood that this must be the last meeting between the two.