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Ye Duan has been trying to figure out a problem, that is, what does the word "forever" mean.

His mother passed away, and when Xiaosan and Xiaosan's daughter lived in his house grandly, he really wanted to drive them out.

His father told him to stop messing around, saying that life must go on.

Ye Duan sneered, scolding his father for being extremely dirty.

Back then, Ye Duan's mother was the daughter of the most famous local jeweler, while his father was just a poor boy.Regardless of the opposition and obstruction of the family, the mother insisted on marrying the father and severed ties with the family.

The husband and wife have worked hard for so many years, and finally managed to make the jewelry business flourish, and the power is so powerful that it can almost compete with the mother's natal family.

However, at the same time, the father also changed.

Ye Duan remembered that when he was a child, his father and mother quarreled every day, and his mother shed tears all day long.He was too young at that time to understand why his father and mother were arguing; when Ye Duan grew up and was able to protect his mother, her mother had been tortured by emotional pain to the point of passing away.

The father said to Ye Duan: "If you want to scold Dad, you can scold him. I am indeed ashamed of your mother forever."

Ye Duan thought, he likes the word "forever", but why is "forever" followed by the word "ashamed"?

He still couldn't bear to live under the same roof as the mistress, mother and daughter.

In the middle of the night, he casually packed a few clothes and money in his backpack, and ran out of his villa secretly.It was the summer vacation of the second year of high school. He was 17 years old. He didn't know where he should go. In short, he would never live with the three culprits who forced his mother to death.

It was too late, so he hid on the side of the street and waited for a taxi for a long time.

After getting into the taxi, the driver asked him where he was going, Ye Duan closed his eyes, he also wanted to know where he should go, he said softly: "Go to the suburbs."

The driver was a little confused, what was he doing in the suburbs so late?But judging by Ye Duan's clothes, appearance, and age, he looked like a young master from a rich family, the driver didn't ask much, and drove to the suburbs.

After driving for ten minutes, the driver still felt that something was wrong. He looked in the car mirror and said nervously, "Young man, don't you do something wrong? Why is there a car chasing us behind here!?"

Ye Duan immediately opened his eyes, turned his head to look, he recognized those cars, it should be the bodyguards sent by his father to chase him.

The driver was afraid and refused to drive again.

Ye Duan had no choice but to tell the story of his family in short and small terms. He described himself as pitiful, and the driver was quite nice. After hearing the whole story, he speeded up and drove to the suburbs.

The roads in the suburbs are rugged, and there are one or two small vendors setting up stalls in the middle of the night, and the streets are full of bicycles and electric vehicles.

The taxi couldn't get in here, so Ye Duan gave the driver the money, got out of the car and left.Before leaving, the driver poked his head out of the car window and shouted, "Young man! There's nothing hard to do, just stay here for a few days, clear up the misunderstanding, and go home!"

Ye Duan smiled, waved to the driver, and walked straight on.

It's just that he didn't expect that those bodyguards were still chasing after him. He had just walked into an alley when he heard footsteps behind him.

Ye Duan ran wildly, and those bodyguards chased after him.

Ye Duan ran out of breath, he hid in a big green trash can by the side of the road.There was a lot of rubbish in the trash can. At that time, he was wearing short sleeves in the summer and it was pitch black. He only felt a tingling pain in his arm, and he didn't know if he was scratched by something.

He hid in the trash can for a long time, the sound of footsteps stayed nearby, and the bodyguards still hadn't left.

After waiting for a while, Ye Duan heard the voice of the bodyguard asking: "Little brother, did you see a boy who is tall and about your age running past here?"

Then Ye Duan heard a boy's voice again, saying: "No, I didn't see it." The voice was trembling, soft and thin, probably frightened by those vicious black-clothed bodyguards.

The footsteps finally disappeared, Ye Duan lifted the lid of the trash can, and jumped out from inside.

His clothes were smelly and dirty from the rubbish, his head was stained with oil, and his arms were bleeding continuously.

Ye Duan has never been in such a mess since he lived so long.He was so angry that he kicked the trash can over, but looking at the sanitation worker's tricycle and broom parked in the corner, Ye Duan sighed, picked up the broom honestly, and put the garbage back into the trash can.

After collecting the garbage, Ye Duan realized that there was a person standing in the corner all the time.

Under the dim streetlight, he saw the boy was white and thin, looking very weak and hungry, holding a big gray schoolbag in his hand, standing there looking at him.This should be the person who was questioned by the bodyguard just now.

Ye Duan felt that the boy looked at him as if he was looking at a homeless hooligan.He smiled wryly, isn't that right, he is simply worse than the homeless people sleeping on the overpass.

"Is there any paper?" Ye Duan felt that his arm was bleeding and was about to die of pain, he asked, and took two steps forward.

"Yes, yes." The boy took out a roll of toilet paper from the big gray schoolbag, and seemed afraid to hand it over to him.

Ye Duan grabbed the toilet paper and sat down on the side of the road, wiping the blood on his arms and the stains on his face.

"You, are you being chased?" The boy looked at him hesitantly, took a small step towards Ye Duan, and asked in a low voice, "Do you want to call the police for you?"

The light from the street lamp illuminated Ye Duan's face indifferently, he sneered, "Then maybe there's no need to call the police, I'll be arrested first."

The boy looked at him, as if looking forward to it, and asked, "Will you fight?"

Ye Duan didn't answer, he threw the blood-stained toilet paper into the trash can and laughed.He remembered what his mother had told him. The first time his mother and father met was that his father was chased into an alley and beaten up, and his mother passed by and rescued him.Ye Duan finds it funny that fate always repeats itself with similar traces, leading to the same goal by different routes.

Ye Duan stood up and asked, "Is there a hotel near here?"

The boy shook his head.

"Is there a bar or Internet cafe, KTV or something like that?"

The boy still shook his head.

Ye Duan was speechless, what kind of place is this, "Is there no place for people to live here?"

"Yes, yes," the boy stared into Ye Duan's eyes and said seriously, "You, you can live in my house, but, but you have to work..."

Ye Duan followed the boy, walking under the pale streetlights, on the small road with seven turns and eight turns. It was already late at night, and there was no one on the road.

"You just finished school?" Ye Duan asked.

The boy shook his head and said, "Tutoring for junior high school students. Just finished the tutoring, get out of class is over, go home."

"Oh," Ye Duan elongated his voice, sneered, and complimented, "Good student, good student. You must be good at studying if you can give tutoring to others."

He didn't mean to praise others, but he didn't expect that boy to blush when he heard this, and while walking, he looked down at his feet and whispered: "No one has praised me so much, you, you can praise me a little more, is it okay... ..."

Ye Duan thought the little boy was so funny, he took two quick steps, walked in front of the boy, and then walked backwards facing the boy.

The boy said anxiously: "Don't walk backwards, be careful not to fall."

Ye Duan didn't care, and walked backwards, while teasing the little boy, he said: "How come no one praises you? You look white and clean, and you are cuter than the rabbit I raised when I was young."

The boy's face became more and more red, and he stared blankly at Ye Duan.

"Really. Look at you, you are good at studying, and you are cute," Ye Duan "spare no effort" in boasting, "You are still so kind, how come no one praises you?"

The boy smiled blushingly, revealing two dimples, and whispered, "Then I, then I can make you do less work, and you can just praise me for the rest of the time. Or...you don't have to work, Praise me, praise me as rent."

Ye Duanxin said that this little boy is really easy to deceive, he coaxed: "What's your name?"

The boy said his name was Wei Xiangfeng.

Ye Duan suddenly shouted at the top of his voice: "Xiao Wei is the cutest!"

Wei Xiangfeng opened his eyes wide, ran over to cover Ye Duan's mouth, and said anxiously, "Don't shout, everyone is asleep."

Ye Duan grabbed Wei Xiangfeng's wrist and said with a smile, "Praise Xiao Wei every day from now on, praise Xiao Wei every day."

Ye Duan walked into Wei Xiangfeng's house, and then slowly learned about Wei Xiangfeng.

Wei Xiangfeng lives with his mother.Wei's mother said that Wei's father had left, and they didn't want their mother and son anymore, and they never came back after leaving.Hearing what Wei's mother said, Ye Duan thought of his own mother, and he felt a little pity for Wei Xiangfeng.

Wei's mother opened a breakfast shop. She and her son usually don't spend much, and the business of the breakfast shop is not bad, which is enough for daily expenses.

Ye Duan knew that when Wei Xiangfeng brought him home, he didn't want him to work, but wanted him to "fight".

The thing is like this, Mother Wei is very beautiful, and she is also a single mother with a son, in a remote village, there are always some men who are not doing their jobs to harass Mother Wei.

Wei Xiangfeng rubbed his eyes and said that he was too cowardly to blame. If he knew how to fight and dared to fight, his mother would not be bullied.

Ye Duan rubbed Wei Xiangfeng's head and said that he came to drive those men away.

Ye Duan's fights were almost desperate. Although those men were adults in their 40s and [-]s, after being beaten by Ye Duan several times and running away in a panic, they never dared to harass Mother Wei again; Passing by the breakfast shop of Wei's family, seeing Ye Duan sitting in front of the breakfast shop, nodding and bowing, he was kicked away by Ye Duan, and never came again.

Ye Duan stayed at Wei Xiangfeng's house for a whole summer vacation.

During this period, his father still came to him several times, and it seemed that he really felt guilty towards Ye Duan, and he didn't dare to force Ye Duan to go home again.

At the end of the summer vacation, his father took the mother and daughter to settle abroad. His father asked Ye Duan if he would go with them. Ye Duan sneered and said, "I wish I could never see you again."

The father sighed and left lonely and helpless.After the father and the mother and daughter left, they gave Ye Duan money every month, and Ye Duan's old villa naturally belonged to Ye Duan alone, and he was finally free.

But Ye Duan was unwilling to spend his father's money. He vowed that one day, he would surpass his father in the jewelry business.

After freedom, Ye Duan sometimes lived in the Ye family's villa, and sometimes went to live with Wei Xiangfeng.

Sometimes, Ye Duan would take Wei Xiangfeng back to Ye's villa.At first, Wei Xiangfeng refused to come, Ye Duan coaxed and hugged, kissed and rubbed, Wei Xiangfeng finally agreed to go to Ye's house.

Ye Duan took Wei Xiangfeng to the handicraft room on the fourth floor where his mother used to make jewelry during her lifetime. Ye Duan asked, "Xiao Wei, whichever do you like, take whatever you want."

Wei Xiangfeng blushed and said he liked them all.

Ye Duan laughed loudly, pinched Wei Xiangfeng's face, and said, "Why is Xiao Wei so greedy?"

Dim lights were on in the jewelry room, and the fourth floor was high, but also very low, never reaching the clouds, but at that time, that year, at that moment, in the purest and best years of a young man, everything was still there. Change.

Mother Wei left early in the morning.

Wei Xiangfeng said that when his mother got up early in the morning, she put on beautiful makeup and put on the most beautiful clothes. He was still asleep, as if he heard his mother say that she was going to the mountains and seas, to the world of mortals, and when Wei Xiangfeng woke up, Mom has left.

Wei Xiangfeng cried while talking, Ye Duan hugged him into his arms, patted his back to coax him.Don't be afraid, there are only two of them left, neither of them has a home, and they can live well if they depend on each other.

There is no other way unless it is a last resort, Ye Duan really doesn't want to spend his father's money.

He and Wei Xiangfeng opened a bank card together, and they usually put their odd jobs into it, and then they could go out for a big meal every now and then.

When they first started their business, the heating in the small house they rented could not be heated.In winter, Ye Duan lined up to buy a sweet potato, and took it home to Wei Xiangfeng. Wei Xiangfeng said that the two of them were "poor and happy", and peeled the sweet potato with a smile, and each of them had half.

The very miserable years will not be forgotten, and the very happy years will not be forgotten either.But there are always some vague years between suffering and happiness in life, and these years are the easiest to forget.

Ye Duan forgot those fuzzy years between misery and happiness. When he suddenly realized, he finally fulfilled his vow when he was young. He can already compete with his father and many famous jewelers.

When he was on his way to the top, he was actually heading towards a luxurious life.

Wei Xiangfeng said that Ye Duan has changed; Ye Duan said that people can change.

Wei Xiangfeng said that he missed the time when he was young; Ye Duan said that he almost forgot those years.

Wei Xiangfeng said that there must be people in this world who, even at the top, still have the pure quality and heart of a young man; Ye Duan sneered, saying that you should find such a person.

Ye Duan forgot when Wei Xiangfeng left, he forgot whether Xiao Wei cried again that night, he forgot how he dealt with the few dragon fruits he bought back...

Ye Duan was still walking in the world of luxury and money, people around him came and went, he said to himself, it doesn't matter who they are.

That day, their company received a big business. The kind of jewelry to be made required special molds.

But their company's mold was broken, so Ye Duan had to go back to Ye's old house.The handicraft room on the fourth floor where my mother used to make jewelry during her lifetime had that mold.

Ye Duan hasn't been to the fourth floor of the old house for many years, and the jewelry room on the fourth floor is still lit with yellowish lights.

Ye Duan suddenly remembered that year, he brought Wei Xiangfeng to the jewelry room on the fourth floor. After so many years, he changed and Wei Xiangfeng left, but the shining and crystal jewelry has not changed for decades.

Ye Duan suddenly burst into a startled laugh, tears streaming down his face.When he was young, he hated his father the most, because he felt that his father had failed his mother. However, as the years passed, in the end, he turned into the person he hated the most. What is the difference between him and his father? !

Ye Duan remembered that when he was young, his father said that he would "forever be ashamed" of his mother, but he didn't understand at that time.It's just that he didn't expect that he would use his own life to do the same experiment.

Always be ashamed, always be ashamed, Ye Duan finally understood the meaning of this sentence.

He went back to his home in Yunjin Mountain Villa. He had lived with Wei Xiangfeng for so many years, and now, there was not even a trace of Wei Xiangfeng left in this family.

Ye Duan lay on the bed silently, he was in a daze, not knowing where to look or what to do.

Lying on the bed, Ye Duan finally found the envelope on the top of the wardrobe.

He stood up quickly, like a person in the desert seeing the sweet spring.

With trembling hands, Ye Duan took down the envelope from the closet.He thought that inside the envelope would be the words Wei Xiangfeng left him, or something that could represent their past, but there was none.

Inside the envelope were three bank cards!It's just three bank cards!

Ye Duan collapsed on the bed with a horrified laugh. He tightly clutched the bank card and the envelope, and coughed from laughter.

An envelope of dust, a thousand jewels.

It is the unfulfilled dream you promised when you were young.