Looking back and smiling

Chapter 1 Fourteen: The End

At three o'clock in the morning, Li Xiaocai escaped from the KTV, remembering Xiaoyu holding his hand, crying with snot and tears: "Planning, keep going well, we will miss you, even if you are gone, we will always be there." Live in our hearts." Because Xiaoyu cried so sincerely, adding her words, it was like crying for a funeral, which made Li Xiao wonder if he was still alive?

But he finally escaped, otherwise the group of people would have yelled until dawn.

Li Xiao hailed a taxi and sat downstairs, gave the taxi money and was about to go upstairs when he found a woman in white standing in the middle of the stairs on the first floor.

The house Li Xiao lives in is an old house near C University, which was built in the [-]s. The street lights are flickering, and the lights in the stairwell are also on and off.The voice-activated lights in the corridor on the first floor of this building have been on strike for several months. If it weren't for the woman in white, she would really be invisible at night.

Rao Li Xiao has a good heart and atheism, otherwise, at first glance, it might scare people to death.

In fact, Li Xiao is also quite entangled. You said that you didn’t sleep in the house at three o’clock in the morning and came here to pretend to be a midnight bell. Are you dressed in white to cosplay Sadako, or to cosplay Sadako’s mother?

Li Xiao was complaining in his heart, but there was no expression on his face. He glanced at the woman in white and saw her standing in the middle of the stairs, so he leaned slightly to the right and went straight upstairs.

He didn't want to be troublesome, and he wasn't sure about the purpose of this woman, saying that it had nothing to do with him. These two appearances more or less appeared in front of him, and this second time was right in front of his eyes.Now he only wants to have one thing more than one thing less, and be with that child in a normal way.

The woman in white didn't seem to respond. If she hadn't blinked, Li Xiao once wondered who moved the inflatable/inflatable/doll from his house here.

Li Xiao just passed the woman, when she heard the woman suddenly say: "Li Xiao..." Her voice was very hoarse, as if she was seriously ill, and she felt a little bit out of breath.

Li Xiao paused, it seemed that this woman came here on purpose to wait for him.Although he didn't know her, it was obvious that the woman knew him.

Li Xiao looked back, and the woman in white also turned around slowly.At this time, Li Xiaocai took a closer look at the woman's face through the moonlight shining in from outside. When he saw the woman's face clearly, he was slightly surprised.

The woman's face was very pale, it can be said to be pale, and her lips were chapped. The first impression she gave was that she was terminally ill.She is very beautiful, with long hair reaching to her waist, coupled with the impression that she is terminally ill, it makes people feel that there is a sense of sight of Lin Daiyu.Taking a closer look, he found that she looked very similar to Yang Zhou, especially her pair of peach blossom eyes. Even though she was pale now, those eyes seemed to be filled with aura and a smile.

"You are..." Li Xiao asked.

The woman didn't answer, but just looked at him quietly.

The broken voice-activated lights in the corridor suddenly flashed twice, and then went dark again.Dark clouds came from nowhere, covering the only bright moon in the sky, and the entire corridor on the first floor was pitch black.

Li Xiao half-closed his eyes and looked at the woman in front of him, suddenly, he opened his eyes wide and looked at her in disbelief.

He thought of a person.

"It's you."

The moon in the sky poked its head out, and slowly, a round of bright moon hung high.

The bright moonlight shone into the stairwell, and the woman in white smiled slightly, her eyes were like crescent moons, and she was noncommittal here.

Yang Zhou's first reaction when he woke up in the morning was that his father didn't come home last night!

During this period of time, working in the coffee shop was quite tiring, and it was almost ten o'clock after get off work, so Yang Zhou didn't wait for Li Xiao to go home, and went to bed first, because he had to go to work the next day.

The long-term habit of getting up early caused Yangzhou to wake up at 07:30. He slept on the bed and sniffed, but there was no smell of breakfast.He changed his clothes and walked around the living room twice. Finally, he was sure that Li Xiao didn't come back last night.

Yangzhou was a little irritable, he ran to the sofa and pinched Baibai's cheeks, then tugged at its tail, so scared that Baibai hid in the kitchen before giving up.

Bai Bai hid behind the kitchen door, stuck out his head and looked at Yangzhou cautiously, it still didn't understand why this master just "tortured" him all of a sudden.

In fact, Yangzhou is hungry. He has already digested the barbecue last night. Normally, there will be a rich breakfast on the dining table in the living room at this time, but now, there are only Bai Bai and dog food in its special bowl in the living room.

Yang Zhou squinted at Bai Bai who was peeking at him from behind the kitchen door, hooked his fingers, and called it over.Bai Bai is hesitating, because it sees the light of hunger in Yangzhou's eyes.

Seeing that it couldn't come over, Yang Zhou raised his eyebrows, hooked his fingers and called again.After thinking about it in vain, it passed.As soon as Bai Bai passed by, Yang Zhou hugged it, rubbed it for a while, then stared at it fiercely, and said, "Give me some of your dog food."

in vain:"……"

Of course, Yang Zhou didn't fight over the dog food with Bai Bai in the end. He saw the instant noodles bought the day before yesterday in the cupboard and eggs in the refrigerator, so he went to the kitchen to cook the instant noodles in a small pot and nestled an egg in it.

When Yang Zhou came out with the delicious boiled instant noodles, he saw that Bai Bai had eaten all the dog food left in his bowl.

Yangzhou blinked, even if you don't eat it, I can't really grab your dog food!

Sitting next to him in vain, he opened his mouth and smiled as a professional Samoyed angel.

Yang Zhou grinds his teeth, you petty dog!

Continue to smile in vain.

Yangzhou chooses to eat noodles.After eating the noodles, he drank the soup in one go.It was eleven o'clock in the morning to go to work, so Yangzhou didn't rush to go out, so he washed the clothes he changed last night in the house, picked up the garbage, and went out in a while to empty it.

He found that since he lived under the same roof with Li Xiao, his obsessive-compulsive disorder has improved a lot, or he likes Li Xiao, so he doesn't mind helping him with laundry and tidying up the house.

Yangzhou felt a sense of accomplishment after looking at the clothes that had been dried on the balcony.

It was already 10:30, and after feeding some turtle food to the old man sleeping in the fish tank, he went out to work.When he was about to leave, he did not forget to give Bai Bai a fierce look of contempt.

The part-time coffee shop where he lives is not far away. When he arrived, Bobo opened the door with a deep-fried dough stick in his mouth.

"Eat?" After opening the door, Bobo tore off half of the deep-fried dough stick and handed it to him.

After Yang Zhou looked at the greasy half fried dough stick and his greasy hands, he smiled decisively and shook his head.

"I'm just asking, and I don't intend to really give it to you." Bobo stuffed the half fried dough stick directly into his mouth.

"..." Yangzhou looked at his greasy mouth chewing the fried dough sticks, and he felt that he would never eat fried dough sticks again.

Yangzhou put on the apron first, and after Bobo turned on the lights in the shop, he went to grind the coffee beans, and Yangzhou simply wiped the tables and chairs.

He looked at his phone, it was almost twelve o'clock, Li Xiao didn't call, and Yang Zhou didn't know if he was home or not.But Yangzhou didn't call to ask. If Li Xiao didn't come home, it means he has something to do. If Li Xiao went home, then what he needs now is rest.

Thinking that in less than half a month, he would be able to leave here with his father, Yang Zhou suddenly felt a little empty in his heart.After his father passed away, both the Yuxing Group and the Yang family were headed by Yang Chengxian, so logically speaking, he should have no memory or reluctance for this city.

If you really want to say goodbye, it's my sister.During this period of time, the Yang family has changed a lot, and he is just an outsider in the eyes of the Yang family, and his sister is also distrusted by the Yuxing Group because of the city garden project, and has lost her original status.He called Yang Nisha several times, but the phone was always turned off.

He is not worried, what kind of person Yang Nisha is, he knows that even without the Yang family, she can make a fortune.

Yangzhou washed the handkerchief, and when he came out, Bobo brought him a cup of coffee.

"Come on, how about trying the coffee ground from the newly bought coffee beans?"

Yangzhou took a sip of the coffee, it tasted slightly bitter, with a bit sour color, and a strong coffee aroma.This is pure coffee without sugar or milk.

"Very fragrant." Yang Zhou commented honestly.

Bobo was very satisfied with this evaluation. He stared at Yangzhou with sparkling eyes and asked, "Do you think An Ziyu would like to drink?"

"In fact, his favorite is ice cream." Yangzhou added. "And he hates people who eat fried dough sticks."

"Why?" Bobo was puzzled. "The fried dough sticks are delicious!" Bobo is a person who prefers the European style of life. The decoration of the coffee shop is Gothic, and the dinner and lunch are also Western style. Only for breakfast, he likes fried dough sticks with soy milk. That feeling, that taste, is so refreshing!

"Because he gained weight after eating fritters, he doesn't eat them, and he doesn't like to see others eat them in front of him."

Bo Bo said: "But eating ice cream also makes you fat."

Yangzhou said: "So he eats less ice cream."

Bobo blinked, feeling a little confused.

Yangzhou ignored him and took another sip of coffee. He thought it would be better to add some milk and sugar.When Bobo came back to his senses, he saw Yang Zhou sitting beside him, chewing candy and drinking coffee.

After Yang Zhou finished his last sip of coffee, he stuffed another piece of candy into his mouth, chewing and chewing.

Bobo said: "You are planning to wait until the coffee and candy are in your stomach, and then jump up and down a few times to let them melt together in your stomach."

Yang Zhou nodded and said: "Good idea." As he spoke, Yang Zhou was about to jump up and down.

"I won't give you coffee!" Bobo despised him. "waste."

Yang Zhou stuck out his tongue at him, and ran to the back to wash the coffee cups.

Bobo gave him another look of contempt.

At this time, the door of the coffee shop opened, and Bobo immediately returned to his smiling face, "Welcome... Yangzhou's husband?! Wait, I'll call Yangzhou." Bobo saw that the person who came was Li Xiao Finally, he ran to the back and dragged out Yang Zhou who had just finished washing the cups.

"Daddy, why are you here?" Yangzhou was very happy to see Li Xiao.

"Can I ask for half a day off?" Li Xiao should have been up all night, with a tired face.

Yangzhou looked at Li Xiao, then at Bobo, he felt that Li Xiao should have something to say.

Bobo looked at those two people, sighed and said: "Okay, please leave, you two go to sleep and fly together, let me alone in the coffee shop to guard the vacant room!"

Yangzhou grinned at Bobo and said, "Thank you, Bobo."

Yang Zhou and Li Xiao went out of the coffee shop together, Li Xiao walked in front without saying anything, Yang Zhou wanted to speak several times, but the words came to his lips, and suddenly he couldn't speak.

It wasn't until he walked downstairs of a tea restaurant that Yang Zhou realized that he couldn't speak because Li Xiao gave him a depressive atmosphere along the way, which made him breathless and unable to pronounce at all.

Li Xiao entered the tea restaurant, and Yang Zhou followed him. He didn't know why Li Xiao brought him here, and he followed him in without asking.

There were not many people in the tea restaurant, and when he entered, he immediately saw a woman in white sitting by the window.

"Sister." Yangzhou was a little surprised, but it was mostly a pleasant surprise.He ran to sit opposite Yang Nisha. "Sister, why are you here?"

Yang Nisha smiled slightly.

Yangzhou said happily: "By the way, let me introduce you. This is my boyfriend Li Xiao, the Lingyun Tianjun who rules the world. I call him Daddy. Daddy is very gentle and good at cooking..."

Yang Zhou pulled Li Xiao to make an introduction, and Yang Nisha kept looking at him with a smile.

After a while, Yang Zhou vaguely felt that something was wrong, he let go of Li Xiao's hand, Li Xiao took a look at him, and sat next to Yang Nisha.

"You... know each other." He said affirmatively.

Yang Nisha nodded with a smile, and Li Xiao looked down at the teacup in front of her.

Yang Zhou didn't speak, he knew that Yang Nisha should have something to say.

Sure enough, Yang Nisha spoke slowly, but the first thing she said was—Yang Lei finally died.

Yang Nisha's voice was hoarse, but she could hear the joy and excitement in her tone.

"Sister, what did you say?" Yang Zhou didn't seem to hear clearly, so he asked again cautiously.

"I said... Yang, Lei, finally, Yu, died." Yang Nisha spoke every word clearly, even though her voice was hoarse.

"What's wrong with your voice? Are you uncomfortable?" Yang Zhou ignored what Yang Nisha said, but found that her voice was wrong, and asked with concern. "Have you caught a cold? I'll accompany you to the hospital."

Yang Nisha was taken aback by Yang Zhou's sudden concern, her eyes were touched, and her heart felt a little inexplicable pain, but soon her touch was buried in her eyes.

She looked at Yang Zhou with half-closed eyes, and asked with a half-smile: "Seeing your father die in front of you, doesn't it feel good?"

……

Yang Zhou blinked, licked his lips, and pretended to laugh and said, "Sister, you're teasing me again."

Yang Nisha took a sip of tea and said softly, "How could I tease you?! How is it? Seeing my own father fall in front of me with a bang, isn't it nice."

With a "boom", Yang Zhou's mind suddenly went blank. Yang Nisha's words were like needles stuck in his heart. The things he had forgotten in the past few days passed through his mind like a revolving lantern. The moment it fell, the blood and brains were like tofu brains with chili sauce, knocking him over.

"After so many years, I finally destroyed the Yang family." Yang Nisha smiled sweetly. "Mother, her spirit in the sky can also rest in peace."

Yang Zhou looked at Yang Nisha with his eyes wide open, and Yang Nisha's sweet smile made him feel scared.There was a chill down his spine, and he vaguely understood what was going on.

"It's true that you leaked Yuxing's bid price and drove father to death?" Yang Zhou asked in disbelief.Soon, he hinted to himself, all this was impossible. "No, you won't do this, you are my sister, the young lady of the Yang family, how is it possible... Impossible..."

Sitting next to Yang Nisha, Li Xiao didn't dare to look up at the child in front of him. If he was sad about his father's death, then he is now in despair.

despair of the world.

"How is it impossible?" Yang Nisha chuckled. "The Yang family owes me too much. It wasn't Yang Lei who found your mother outside. How could my mother have passed away so early. After all these years, the person I hate the most is you!"

The person I hate the most is you...

This sentence was like a rope, tightly strangling his throat, making it impossible for him to breathe.He found that Yang Nisha hated him, and he couldn't refute it.

Yangzhou lowered his head. He knew that Yang Nisha's mother actually died of depression. She was the eldest lady of the Lin family of Xin'ao Group. She was beautiful, arrogant and self-willed.But Yang Lei has another woman outside, this is undoubtedly a slap in the face for her.He remembered that when he first arrived at the Yang family, the beautiful and arrogant Mrs. Yang never smiled at him, and she passed away not long after.

He thought that Yang Nisha would hate him too, but she treated him very well and cared about him everywhere.Today, the elder sister who has always cared about her told herself that the person she hates the most is you.

From the great joy of being admitted to school, to the great sorrow of his father's death, now his sister's resentment and betrayal have plunged him into despair.

He only felt that there was darkness in front of his eyes, and the original ray of light disappeared without a trace, and he was the only one in the world.In a lonely journey, you can't see the starting point, you can't find the end point, maybe there is no end point at all.

"Now, it's finally back! Hahaha...cough cough..." Yang Nisha suddenly coughed violently. She covered her face with her right hand, turned her head, and searched for a napkin in her bag with her left hand.

"Here, tissue." Li Xiao handed over a napkin and patted her on the back.

Yang Nisha calmed down, took the napkin, and put her right hand under the table. She didn't spread her right hand, and the sweet smell in her mouth let her know that she was coughing up blood again.Because the fingertips touched the cheeks, a thin layer of foundation stuck to them.She wiped off the blood on her palm with a napkin, and looked at Yangzhou with a smile.

Yang Zhou didn't notice Yang Nisha's right hand, but looked at Li Xiao quietly, seeing Li Xiao pat Yang Nisha's back lightly just now, he seemed to know something.

"When did you meet?" Yang Zhou asked calmly.He thought that his voice would tremble when he asked this sentence, but he didn't expect to ask it so calmly.

Li Xiao opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but when he saw Yang Nisha who was sitting next to him with a thick foundation covering his bloodless face, he felt that all the words were stuck in his throat.

Yang Nisha smiled and said, "Are these important?"

"You won't lie to me again, will you?" Yang Zhou still looked at Li Xiao quietly, but his eyes were a little red, and he tried his best to hold back his tears, not letting himself cry.

"I..." Li Xiao had nothing to say for a moment.

Yang Nisha said coldly: "Instead of asking if others have lied to you, it is better to let others not lie to you again. Your cowardice really makes me want to destroy all your dependence."

"Destroy..." Yangzhou repeated this word, "Destroy...hehehe..." He laughed lowly, when he raised his head, two lines of clear tears flowed from his eyes, but his smile was brilliant.

Yangzhou looked at Li Xiao with tears in his eyes, he couldn't pretend he didn't care, he could only try his best not to cry.

"Did you love me?" he asked in a low voice.

Li Xiao knew that Yang Zhou misunderstood that his appearance was deliberately arranged by Yang Nisha, but he couldn't tell everything, but he couldn't go against his heart either.

like him……

Love……

Li Xiao didn't answer, but Yangzhou laughed again, but the laughter was a bit sad.

"Is everything fake?" Yang Zhou continued without waiting for Li Xiao's answer. "I said before, as long as you leave me, I will never appear in front of you again. The first time you left, I acted as if nothing happened. This time, I will not come back!"

Yang Nisha lowered her eyes.

Yang Zhou slowly took off the ring on his ring finger, put it in front of Li Xiao, and said expressionlessly: "I'll return this to you, and..." He looked at Yang Nisha, with tears still in the corners of his eyes , but those tears turned cold. "I don't need any support at all. Yang Nisha, one day you will regret everything you have done."

Yangzhou had never felt so peaceful before, and he seemed to understand something.After experiencing great joy, then great sorrow, and finally despair, he found that the only person in this world he could trust was himself.

Helplessness and hesitation are just the cry of the weak, and he will not let himself be the weak.

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