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The dinner party gradually dispersed.Xia Junlin really drank too much. Before it was over, his assistant carried the person away with the help of the reporter.Those who stayed at the end were not so much drunk as they were too happy to drink.

Of course, Hualingnan is an exception.

Hua Lingnan didn't drink too little, but he didn't drink too much.He always sat in a corner alone in a low-key manner, trying not to let himself be stalked by drunks.I always feel that according to the past practice, Qi Shaoqin should appear at this time.It was like this every time, when he was in a bad mood, Qi Shaoqin would come over.

However, this time the person walking towards him was Xiao Ding.

"Brother Lingnan, you drank a lot, shall I take you back to the hotel?"

Hua Lingnan tried to stand up, but failed. He looked up at his assistant and asked suddenly, "Mr. Qi was at the premiere today, right?"

Ding Kuan didn't show any surprise to this question at all, he replied calmly: "Yes, Mr. Qi specially came to City B before."

"What about him now?"

"About half an hour ago, Mr. Qi rushed back to City S due to urgent matters."

Hua Lingnan thought for a while and asked, "What's the hurry?"

"President Qi's grandfather accidentally fell, and the situation is very dangerous now."

"How do you even know this kind of thing? Could it be that you really have the ability to speak? Are you and Mr. Qi having a daughter-in-law affair?"

Ding Kuan shook his head with an unchanged expression: "I just asked Mr. Qi's secretary out of curiosity. She probably thought it was Brother Lingnan who asked, so she told me."

Hua Lingnan sat on the chair for a while.

When he finally stood up staggeringly, he walked directly to the door. "We're going back to City S now."

Ding Kuan reminded: "Now that the planes and trains are gone, it will take nine hours to drive back."

"Give more money, there will always be a driver willing to take this business." Hua Lingnan said nonchalantly, he was determined to arrive in City S in nine hours.

Nine hours later, Hua Lingnan did return to City S.

These nine hours were long enough for him to wake up from his drunken state, sober enough to ask himself, what is he planning to do when he returns to S City?

And what can he do?

When the car finally got off the expressway, the driver who didn't know the roads of City S asked him the direction to continue. Hua Lingnan wanted Xiaoding to show him the way home, but when he opened his mouth, he still said something that was not his original intention.

"Xiao Ding, do you know the nursing home where Mr. Qi's grandfather lives?"

"I'll just ask."

As a capable assistant, Ding Kuan was so efficient that he didn't have a chance to change Hua Lingnan's words at all. From calling to giving directions, he only took half an hour to send Hua Lingnan to his destination.

"President Qi's grandfather has left, but President Qi is still in his grandfather's room."

Qi Shaoqin was sitting by the bed in his grandfather's room.

When Hua Lingnan walked to the door, Qi Shaoqin slowly turned his head to look at him.The latter didn't say anything, but just stared at him with slightly tired eyes.

Anyway, after confirming that he was not driven away, Hua Lingnan walked over silently and sat down beside the other party.

"I have to thank you, Lingnan." Qi Shaoqin said calmly, "Although I haven't seen his old man for the last time, if it wasn't for telling you about the past, I have visited him a few times recently, and now I will definitely More remorse."

Hua Lingnan bowed his head, and after a brief pause, he spoke in a daze, "I have a stepfather, who was my mother's remarriage when I was four years old. We lived a peaceful life until I was six years old. At that time, my mother suddenly He ran away from home and was never heard from again.”

Qi Shaoqin looked at Hua Lingnan in surprise and bewilderment, but he didn't say anything more, and just listened quietly to Hua Lingnan's words.

"My stepfather was very kind to me, and he was probably the only one who made me feel affectionate. We lived together like that until I was in high school."

He didn't even want to tell others about his favorite food easily, let alone this secret that he swore to bury for a lifetime.But--

"When I was in high school," he finally let go, "I woke up in the middle of the night twice in a row to find my stepdad standing over my bed. I didn't think much of it, but I decided to investigate out of curiosity. My computer was right Put on the bed, turn on the camera to take pictures of the movement on the side of the bed. One night, I secretly recorded the room at night with the camera..."

Qi Shaoqin subconsciously turned his head to look at Hua Lingnan with concern.

"This is certainly not the first time my stepfather has done that. He came into my room in the middle of the night, looked at me for a long time, then touched my face, and finally... he just looked at me like that."

Maybe Qi Shaoqin thought it was his responsibility to make some comments, Hua Lingnan quickly continued: "I didn't understand his psychology at that time, because of disgust, and cowardly fear, right? I didn't say anything. My classmate was renting a house alone, so I moved to live with my classmate. I started to live on campus after I entered university. In short, I never went home to live for a day. It was probably when I was a sophomore. I found a photo of my stepfather besides my biological father. Out of curiosity, I did some research and found out that the person my stepfather liked was my father. The reason why he married my mother was just Because my mother gave birth to my father's child. My mother probably left because of this, and I, because I am my father's child, was raised by my stepfather with great care."

There was a broken sound in his lines, Hua Lingnan straightened his vocal cords and breath, and then told the story——

"I never saw my stepfather again. He once came to school to look for me, but I avoided seeing him. He died of illness in my senior year, and I never saw him again."

Qi Shaoqin stood up slowly, and then sat down on the right side of Hua Lingnan.

After being tormented by Qi Shaoqin, Hua Lingnan realized that he had just sat down casually and let Qi Shaoqin be on his left.Speaking of which, since his ear was injured, Hua Lingnan paid special attention to this detail, including Xiao Ding who knew the inside story, he never let the other party be on his left.Unexpectedly, in front of Qi Shaoqin, he was so relaxed that he completely forgot about it.

Trying to recover, Hua Lingnan calmly said: "Until now, I still don't know whether my biggest regret is that I didn't scold him face to face, or that I didn't see him when he came to school when he was seriously ill and wanted to see me for the last time."

Qi Shaoqin pointed to the tea table on the other side of the room, and started from the beginning in a low voice: "Grandpa would put a stack of melon seeds on that tea table every day. The last time I came to see him, I took a melon seed. Grandpa saw it, Immediately let me put it down, saying that this is for his little grandson, and that his little grandson likes to eat sunflower seeds when he goes to the teahouse. When I heard him say that, I don’t know if I am more happy or sad. "

"I remember last time you said that everyone will have a dilemma. After all, there are no correct answers to most things in this world."

Qi Shaoqin nodded slowly: "Yes, I'm right."

"You are indeed very self-aware."

Qi Shao and Qin Rou lowered their expressions and turned to look at Hua Lingnan: "Lingnan, I really appreciate you. Thank you for telling me these things. Thank you for sitting by my side now."

Hua Lingnan replied lightly: "When you are a friend of gentlemen, you should be each other's storyteller."

Qi Shaoqin finally showed a light smile.After a while, he became solemn and deep again: "I was sitting here just now, and suddenly I wanted to understand a truth in my heart-death is irreversible. Today, grandpa is gone, and maybe one day, I will go too..."

Hua Lingnan interrupted the other party, "Tong Yan Wuji, you pooh." He felt that this behavior had a more academic name called Li Flag, but he deliberately used Qi Shaoqin's previous rhetoric.

Qi Shaoqin slightly raised the corners of his mouth, and also imitated Hua Lingnan's casual chanting, "I am."

Hua Lingnan solemnly reminded: "Next, talk carefully."

Qi Shaoqin nodded cooperatively, and adjusted his rhetoric: "In short, I figured out what is the most important thing in this world. I won't force it anymore, as long as you are happy."

"I'm pretty easy to be happy."

Hua Lingnan said casually, but he didn't expect to be strongly questioned by the other party immediately.

"It's not good."

Hua Lingnan squinted at the past: "What do you think of my character?"

Qi Shaoqin said with a smile: "Your fans say you have a high sense of humor, and I think your happiness is even higher."

"What the hell is being happy?"

"I don't know, I'm looking for it." Qi Shaoqin wasn't joking, he seemed quite serious, "But it doesn't matter if you are happy, this kind of happiness must be priceless."

"Say it as if happiness can be sold for money." Hua Lingnan uttered something casually.

Qi Shaoqin smiled nonchalantly, and after the topic came to an end, he stood up slowly: "I want to pack my grandfather's things, Lingnan, can you help me?"

"of course."

An old man who doesn't know anyone well will naturally not leave too many personal items.Apart from clothes, there is not much to pack, and the drawers of the cabinets in many rooms are basically empty.Hua Lingnan walked to a half-person-high floor-to-ceiling closet, and opened the door casually.

Then, he froze.

In front of him was a cabinet full of melon seeds.

But no one with any sense of sanity would do such a thing.

But only this confused old man remembers most clearly that his little grandson likes melon seeds.

For a moment, Hua Lingnan wanted to close the door of the cupboard, and couldn't bear to let Qi Shaoqin see the dusty melon seeds in the cupboard; What to give to your little grandson.

Everyone will have a dilemma, after all, there are no correct answers to most things in this world.

Hua Lingnan just stood there without doing anything, just looking at the entire cabinet of melon seeds in front of him.

Then, he felt Qi Shaoqin hugging him from behind.

He thought this kind of action was too ambiguous, but he didn't break free for a while.Just standing there, facing the cabinet, he heard Qi Shaoqin repeat in a low voice in his right ear: "Don't cry, Lingnan, don't cry."