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Misty water suddenly appeared in his eyes, Xia Yu blinked hard twice, held back the wetness, exhaled, and said, "I miss you very much, too."

"I always feel that your voice is not right."

Zhou Ding thought for a while, and then asked, "Is it... have a conflict with your father?"

Xia Yu lowered her head: "There was a few quarrels."

He never told Zhou Ding that his father was sent to the hospital because of his anger, and even now Zhou Ding thought he was sketching outside.

"Have you started?"

"That's not it."

Zhou Ding breathed a sigh of relief: "It's fine if you've heard what your father said, don't worry, it's normal for him to be too hard-headed at his age, so there's no need to be angry with him."

"I know."

"Know but can't do it?"

Xia Yu laughed: "Yeah, you guessed it all."

After finishing speaking, the smile on his face faded, he raised his head, looked out of the window, and said in a soft voice, "It would be great if people weren't so complicated."

Don't be afraid of the very good, or the very bad, just be afraid of both the good and the bad.

And his parents belonged to the category of both good and bad, and he even felt that they were much more good than bad.

His father forced Xia Zhao to death out of old ideas, and now he is forcing him again, caring about his love and marriage, pedantic and ignorant, just thinking about it feels disgusting and disgusting.

But apart from these, there is nothing else to criticize about my father.Since he was born, the resources of the family have poured into him unreservedly. When he was two years old, his father taught him to draw, and took him to perceive the world of painting by hand. After that, he took him to visit famous teachers and take him everywhere. Watch the exhibition.He went to the best school since he was a child, and his family hired the best teachers. A lot of money was spent on him, but his father never blinked.

Even though he was annoyed and suppressed by management, he could not achieve today's results without his father's training.

And the mother is also, she is always submissive, like a domesticated accomplice.

But she is not good at this point. At other times, she is gentle and virtuous, kind and kind, and takes care of all the trivial chores at home.Their family didn't even hire a nanny. For more than ten years since he could remember, the three meals, cleaning and other things at home have always been taken care of by his mother, and his sister-in-law will only help her by the side.She devoted herself wholeheartedly to her husband, son, and grandson. She never lost her temper, was always gentle and gentle, and was always diligent and careful.

Even Xia Yu occasionally felt that she was like a humble nanny who was always pleasing everyone, because he often saw her father shouting at her, but instead of being angry, she accepted it completely, and didn't think there was anything wrong at all.

Their family is such an extremely traditional family where the male is strong and the female is weak, and the male dominates the outside and the woman dominates the inside.

The father takes care of all the big things, while the mother takes care of all the small things. In such a family, as long as you don't do anything out of the ordinary, everything will go well.

It's just that he and Xia Zhao are out of line.

It is still extremely serious and intolerable to the parents.

So, everything turned upside down.

The father became the executioner, and the mother became the silent accomplice. They forced Xia Zhao to make a choice before, and now they are forcing him to make a choice.

Thinking of this, Xia Yu couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

In fact, he has made a choice long ago, and the voice in his heart has never changed, but he really can't say it, whether it is his original sexual orientation or the choice his father wants him to make now, he can't say it.

Because it was none other than his biological parents.

As their child, he received the grace of birth and support, plus the 20 years of getting along and accompanying each other, it was too difficult and ugly to suddenly tear up his face and sever the relationship.

If he could, he didn't want to go this far at all.

"Mr. Xia seems to be very entangled?"

"It's not like."

Xia Yu rested her head on her knees, "It's just very tangled, very, very tangled."

Zhou Ding said: "Then... Tell me to listen? Let me see if I can help you."

"Help me?"

Xia Yu smiled, "How can you help me when you are so far away?"

After finishing speaking, he said casually, "Then what if my dad wants me to choose between him and you? What can you do for me?"

"Choose me."

"Ok?"

"I said choose me."

Zhou Ding said with a smile, "I can force you to choose me, so that you didn't choose me on your own initiative. Your father can only blame me, not you."

Xia Yu was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but curled up her lips: "My dad doesn't like this."

"Teacher Xia." Suddenly, Zhou Ding's tone became serious again.

"Ok?"

"Be careful."

Zhou Ding said, "Choose whatever you want in your heart, listen to yourself and don't worry about others."

From the heart.

Xia Yu silently read these two words.

He already had the answer in his heart, but what was lacking now was the courage to speak it out.

After all, he is not cold enough or decisive enough, and he still has concerns about his parents. He is afraid of seeing his mother with a broken expression on his face, and he is also afraid that his father will be hit hard if he cannot accept his choice, so that his condition will worsen.

but……

"It's always a choice."

Zhou Ding seemed to know what he was thinking, and continued, "If you don't say it today, you will say it tomorrow. If you don't say it tomorrow, you have to tell them the day after tomorrow. Now that your father has brought it up Yes, you have to give him the answer."

Xia Yu pursed her lips: "I know."

"Teacher Xia."

"Ok?"

"Do not give yourself too much pressure."

Zhou Ding said, "You can be selfish, it's okay."

The ward was very quiet, and the sound of the equipment working could be clearly heard.

Xia Yuanhang woke up again. He opened his eyes and opened his mouth. His wife wiped his lips with a cotton swab soaked in water, and then put the straw into his mouth so that he could drink water.

After drinking the water, he sighed comfortably.

The wife asked again: "Are you hungry? I made bone broth, and the meat was so bad that it melted when you sipped it. Do you want some?"

"Eat some."

He had a craniotomy and his whole head was numb.

The head of the bed was raised, and he signaled his wife to put two more pillows behind his back. After sitting down, he waited for his wife to set up the small dining table, and then fed the stewed bone soup into his mouth one mouthful at a time.

"Delicious, right?"

He blinked twice in response.

The bone soup without any seasoning is a bit tasteless, but the fire is well controlled. Although it is not delicious, it is better than the mellow soup, which is quite comfortable to eat.

After eating for a while, he asked, "What about him?"

Xia's mother said, "Yu'er? I didn't see him when I went out. I guess he went out to eat."

"He's gone." Zhao Peilu raised his head from the book and interrupted abruptly.

"gone?"

Mother Xia looked at her, "Where did he go?"

Xia Yuanhang also looked at his daughter-in-law.

"Didn't Dad let him make a choice? He's done choosing."

Speaking of which, Zhao Peilu stood up, and put a bank card on the small table on the hospital bed, "He asked me to give it to you, saying that it contained all his savings, and he will deposit money into it regularly in the future."

Xia Yuanhang stopped chewing, and he lowered his eyes slightly, looking straight at the small piece of card on the table.

After a while, he said, "What else did you say?"

Zhao Peilu said: "No more, he just left after giving the card."

Mother Xia shut her mouth, not daring to say anything.She kept looking at her husband's face, and seeing that his chest was heaving, she immediately reached out and ran along his back: "Don't be angry, don't be angry, you can't have too much mood swings right now."

Of course Xia Yuanhang was aware of his situation. He closed his eyes and kept taking deep breaths.

After a while, the breath in his chest finally eased. He didn't ask any more questions, but beckoned to his wife: "Call a lawyer over here, record and video, I want to make a will, and you too, and sign together later. "

Mother Xia was stunned: "Yuanhang, you are..."

"go."

Xia Yuanhang said impatiently, "Go."

At this time, Zhao Peilu said again: "Father, what will do you want to make?"

"I don't give him a penny of my things."

Xia Yuanhang took a deep breath, "It's all for Xiaoyi."

"Dad, this is not good."

Zhao Peilu looked straight at the old and frail man on the hospital bed, and the hand holding the book was so hard that the skin on the hand was stretched tightly.She added, "There should be a share of Xiao Yu."

"My things, I have the final say."

Xia Yuanhang closed his eyes and urged his wife again, "Call the lawyer, hurry up."

"Dad, I suggest you think again and don't be so impulsive."

The hand clenched on the book became tighter and tighter, and Zhao Peilu's gaze became deeper and deeper. She looked at the man who looked like a paper tiger on the hospital bed, and then looked at the side beside her without thinking like a headless fly searching for law firms on her mobile phone. The woman took a deep breath, and said, "It's really not good to give all the property to outsiders."

Xia Yuanhang frowned impatiently: "What outsider, I'll give it to Xiaoyi, not..." To you.

He swallowed the last two words back in his throat.

Zhao Peilu put her hands behind her back, she looked at Xia Yuanhang and said, "But Xiao Yi is an outsider, he's just like me."

"How could he be a foreigner..." The voice stopped suddenly, and Xia Yuanhang suddenly realized it!

He stared at Zhao Peilu in shock, and after a long time he said with difficulty as if he had recovered his voice, "What are you talking about? How could Xiaoyi be an outsider?!"

Xia's mother was also confused by this sudden turning point, and her mobile phone fell to the ground: "What's going on, ah? What's going on?!"

Zhao Peilu didn't look at her, but fixed his eyes on Xia Yuanhang, paying attention to all the changes in his expression: "If Xiaoyu and Xiaoyi are half of each other, then I won't say anything, but if I give them all to Xiaoyi, I think it's a bit too much." Yes. You are willing to give it, but I am too embarrassed to let Xiao Yi take it."

Xia Yuanhang pursed his lips tightly, and the muscles on his cheeks twitched.

Looking at the daughter-in-law in front of him, he suddenly felt very strange, especially the pair of eyes that were always gentle and obedient, which were exactly the same as his wife's, looked extraordinarily dark at the moment, looking dark, with faint light spots reflected in them, just like her eyes. Like a poisoned bow and arrow.

His temples started to throb and hurt, and the numb back of his head suddenly tingled. His face was flushed, and veins burst out on his neck. He pressed his heart with one hand, and raised the other hand tremblingly, pointing at Daughter-in-law: "You, you..."

"Dad." With his hands behind his back clenched even tighter, Zhao Peilu resisted the trembling of his body, looked at Xia Yuanhang with burning eyes, and his voice was colder than Xia Yuanhang's had ever heard before, "Xiao Yi is not Ah Zhao's son, so Dad, you better stop being a lawyer. Are you really willing to give all your property to an 'outsider'?"