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Baizhu's surgery completely messed up Xia Xiaoli's winter vacation plans. Of course he couldn't go to Africa. He hastily refunded his air ticket and hotel. His mother has such a serious illness, so of course he can't carelessly chase men all over the world. .

At the same time, I was glad that I told Qiao Yu early in the morning that I was going to go.

When Baizhu finished the operation, Xia Xiaoli was already on vacation. He stayed with him in the hospital every day. Xia Xiaoberry helped him solve the problem of coming out of the closet, but he didn't tell Xia Xiaoli. I blamed myself for causing my mother to be hospitalized.

So much so that Xia Xiaoli didn't know why his mother had a sudden illness and was hospitalized, and he didn't know that his parents had known about his affairs for a long time, and he himself carefully kept it a secret every day.

For example, when I received a phone call or video call from Qiao Yu at night, I would go to the end of the corridor to answer it calmly, for fear that my family would hear it.

Qiao Yu also knew about Baizhu's surgery, and had informed Xia Yunhan and Xia Xiaoberry over the phone in detail. The surgery was successful, and now the heart bypass surgery is very mature. In the future, as long as you live a regular life, lose weight moderately, and reduce the burden on the heart, There will be no legacy issues.

Xia Xiaoli hid in the corner of the corridor and talked on the phone for about ten minutes. Qiao Yu urged him to go back to the ward. Xia Xiaoli dawdled for another 3 minutes before hanging up.

When he returned to the ward, he couldn't bear the longing in his heart. He sat beside Baizhu's bed, buried his head in his mother's lap through the quilt, and sighed deeply.

Baizhu touched the top of Xia Xiaoli's head with one hand, and said softly, "Mom ruined your travel plan."

Xia Xiaoli explained again and again: "No, no, it doesn't matter, Mom, the most important thing is that your health is better."

"Mom knows that place. It's the place written on your ticket. Teacher Qiao is there too, right?"

Xia Xiaoli was startled, but did not say a word. Bai Zhu looked at the melancholy expression of her youngest son, and said, "Mr. Qiao is a good man, but it will be hard to be together, and my mother loves you too."

Xia Xiaoli's eyes widened in an instant, it turned out that her mother already knew about it!

He didn't make any excuses, but he was a little flustered, but seeing Baizhu's calm and gentle eyes, his heart gradually calmed down again, and he felt that his mother seemed to be a different person after this illness, and her hot temper was completely wiped out?

"It's not hard," Xia Xiaoli thought of something, and said, "Mom, didn't you and Dad come here the same way?"

"That's right." Bai Zhu said softly, "I have loved your father all my life, and I have waited for him all my life."

"Then mother, do you regret it?" Xia Xiaoli still had her head on the quilt, her face turned to Bai Zhu who was leaning on the head of the bed.

Baizhu smiled: "Of course I don't regret it, if I do it again, I will still choose to marry your father."

Xia Xiaoli also smiled: "Me too, I will wait for Brother Qiao, and I will try my best to make myself stand with him."

Baizhu rubbed his head again, Xia Xiaoli's expression darkened, this time she can say with confidence: "But Mom, I really miss him."

It so happened that Xia Yunhan came to replace Xia Xiaoli at this time, and asked him to go home to sleep, and change his bed to accompany him at night. When Baizhu saw him, he said casually: "Old Xia, you have been engaged in projects for so many years, so you can't be with the thirteenth bureau. With cooperation, work on that African project with them? This way we can take care of our little Qiao."

Um?Our little Joe?When Xia Xiaoli heard this new title, it was really fresh and pleasant to her ears.

Xia Yunhan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and patiently explained: "That's a national key project, how could I, a small private construction company, get involved in it?"

Baizhu sighed again: "Then you should work hard, at least take on a few big projects in this city, and at least in the province, and cooperate with Hongda Design Institute, so that at least after Xiao Qiao returns from Africa this time, besides teaching, she will By doing your project, you can keep people in the country.”

After Xia Yunhan thought about it, this is feasible, so he nodded: "I promise to work hard to complete the task and live up to the expectations of my wife and my precious son!"

Xia Xiaoli was immediately amused. Although Xia Yunhan said so, he was also getting old. Xia Xiaoli thought that she would grow up quickly, and work hard with Qiao Yu on projects so that her father could retire early.

Last New Year's Eve, the two were separated by about a hundred kilometers. This New Year's Eve, the two were separated by nearly 7 kilometers, and there was still a [-]-hour time difference. At zero o'clock in China time and zero o'clock in Morocco time, they exchanged with each other twice New Year's Eve.

In the second half of the semester, there were more professional courses, and he spent more time with Chen Ke, and he grew up very fast. Chen Ke's first assistant resigned because of the postgraduate entrance examination, and Xia Xiaoli was successfully promoted. Now his professional level has far surpassed that of his peers. grade students.

In a blink of an eye, it was the summer vacation of the freshman year, and before the holiday, Baizhu urged Xia Xiaoli: "Have you booked the air ticket? Is the hotel booked? What date are you going to leave? You have to be careful, Mr. Qiao is such a good boyfriend. Hurry up and grab it in minutes..."

Urging her son to chase after her boyfriend, this mother is No.1 in the world, Xia Xiaoli is still not used to it, she waved her hands repeatedly and said, "No hurry, summer vacation is long, I have my own arrangements."

As early as more than a month before the holiday, Xia Xiaoli couldn't wait to tell Qiao Yu that she was going to see him, and Qiao Yu couldn't hide her joy on the other end of the phone. She hadn't seen him for a year, and the accumulated longing almost overwhelmed her.

But he still told Xia Xiaoli: "University summer vacation is very precious. It is worth going to see the outside world when you have time now." He told Xia Xiaoli the story of his summer vacation when he was in college. Years have affected him. To put it bluntly, people need to have a lot of knowledge, enough knowledge, and enough knowledge to avoid superficial, narrow, and biased evaluation of many things.

When you are young, the human heart is a sponge that can absorb anything.

So under Qiao Yu's suggestion, Xia Xiaoli made a long travel plan. He wanted to see many things, and the most precious one was saved for the end.

His first stop was the United States. The first place he went was Columbia University, where Qiao Yu had studied and worked. Experiment, where was the dormitory at the beginning, where did it move to later, and even a lot of deeds in the second year, where the courtyard wall was climbed, where the small square had a "group fight" with classmates with a laser sword, got drunk and slept in the open air Where are you...

Xia Xiaoli followed the place names he wrote down and searched for each of them. Qiao Yu didn't have time to participate in the first half of his life. Now he saw the places in these stories and was very excited. He took many photos and sent them to Qiao Yu. Looking at these pictures, Yu felt nostalgic in his heart, after all, almost his entire youth was there.

They tacitly didn't mention Lin Zhihua. Xia Xiaoli thought that if he met here by chance, he would greet each other openly and show his current identity openly. He had never hated Lin Zhihua before. In their hearts, the two of them just loved the same person at different stages.

But I didn't meet him. There were many people in Columbia University in the summer, but I didn't meet Lin Zhihua.

Then went to Chicago, Seattle, Southern California... Xia Xiaoli experienced all the great buildings and bridges that Qiao Yu had mentioned to him, including those designed by Qiao Yu himself. After leaving Florida, he went to see the "Piana in the Sky" that he had been thinking about for a long time in the Gulf of Mexico.

It was a huge Pangran Bridge extending from the mainland and spanning several islands. Xia Xiaoli rented a car and drove across the main bridge in the evening. The setting sun filled the sky, and the green sponge reflected the golden color. The light, everything is beautiful.

Although this is not the best perspective to look down on the "Qin of the Sky" from a high altitude when looking at the pictures before, Xia Xiaoli feels that it is another feeling when he is in it. This is his boyfriend's work. He feels like being surrounded by a pair of huge and Gentle hands wrapped and comforted.

After this trip to North America was over, Xia Xiaoli felt that Qiao Yu's first half of life, which he had not participated in, had no regrets for him.

So far, 20 days of summer vacation have passed, and then it was another long flight directly from Florida to Morocco, but Xia Xiaoli did not feel tired. When the plane landed at Casablanca Airport, he looked out the porthole at the dawning sky, and his mood suddenly changed. Got nervous.

The young man didn't even have a suitcase when he went out, so Xia Xiaoli carried a big backpack. After getting off the plane, he ran all the way in the hall. After passing the security check and getting the customs stamp, his heart beat faster and faster. He rushed to the hall exit, waiting in red. From outside the line, I saw Qiao Yu's dusty face and the extraordinarily bright eyes looking at him.