straight to heaven

"Hello, is this Mr. Lin? I'm Hu Chunman."

Lao Hu's daughter is 30 years old and has just finished her Ph.D. in international law in Central Europe.She was wearing an off-white down jacket with a loose ponytail. Apart from the fatigue of the long-distance flight, she could even boast of her youthful beauty.

The other suitcase was with her husband, and she was holding the baby by the hand.The little boy with brown curly hair and amber eyes walked beside him step by step. According to Lao Hu, he was almost four years old.The age of less than one hand.

I took her suitcase and said, "Hello, Lin Xiaoshan."

Her husband is a tall Central European, 37 years old. He is an associate professor of environmental studies at a well-known university.The hair on his forehead is meticulously done, but he is not as untouchable as the stereotype. When he shook my hand, he used awkward Chinese: "Hello, Lin... the squire."

Hu Chunman couldn't laugh or cry: "Don't mind."

I led them to the exit, shook my head and said, "No."

Pei Yanlai's car was still parked in the parking space at Exit No. [-].

A group of people approached, the co-pilot's door was pushed open from the inside, and it was Xiaomi who stepped down.He nodded shyly, then opened the trunk and helped carry the luggage.

"This is?" Hu Chunman only listened to the old nonsense, and arranged for me to be alone.

I carried the box in before I came to introduce: "The intern at the institute, Xiaomi. He has time today, so he happened to come over to help."

Xiaomi followed my words and smiled cautiously: "Hi, Miss Hu, I, I'm Mi Xiaoshan."

Hu Chunman was taken aback when he heard the words: "You..."

I opened the door and saw the clean passenger seat.

The mud stains are stubborn.Before getting out of the car, I had already cleaned up the remaining dirt from the co-pilot, but Xiaomi carried a wet tissue with him, and after cleaning it a second time, there was no trace left.

"Different words with the same pronunciation." I knew what she wanted to ask, so I simply explained: "Get in the car."

I'm still driving.

It was quite funny to say that, in order to confront me, Pei Yanlai dialed Xiaomi's number and asked him to pick up the car.The Xiaomi man came, but Pei Yan came to give him the car keys, but he didn't dare to take it.It took me a long time to falter and say, Pei, Pei Lu, I haven't passed my third year of examination, and I don't have a driver's license.

Thinking of Pei Yanlai's brief silence after hearing this, I couldn't help laughing.After tossing all the way, the car finally fell into my hands.

Xiaomi seems to like children very much. He couldn't sit still, so he looked back at the child in the back seat frequently.

"He, what's his name?"

Hu Chunman touched the child's soft hair, and said, "The nickname is Nao Nao, so you can call it that."

Xiaomi twisted and turned sideways, the angle made me feel pain in my back, and she smiled with a strange innocence: "Nao Nao, Nao Nao." He raised his hand, wanting to touch the child's head: "Is that okay?"

Hu Chunman didn't have time to respond, but Nao Nao directly raised his head and rubbed his head against Xiaomi's hand: "Schönerbruder."

Her husband laughed loudly: "He is very, Xi Huan, you."

Although Hu Chunman couldn't hide his fatigue, seeing Nao Nao's naive look, he also laughed out loud: "He's calling you pretty brother."

Xiaomi's skin was thin, and a layer of red instantly evaporated.

I took advantage of the red light and looked back.Nao Nao saw my sight, but immediately hid in her mother's arms timidly, buried her face and stopped talking.

Hu Chunman was also a little surprised: "This child doesn't take birth very well." She then explained: "Maybe it's because he's in a strange environment, and the baby is a little scared. He's not in good health, and we haven't brought him back to China much."

I nodded and said nothing.

My face was reflected in the rearview mirror inside the car.

The eye shape is round, but the end of the eye is slightly down.Except for the eyes, the lines of other parts are cold and unhuman.

I have less soft tissue on my face, I don't like to smile, and I look a little gloomy.It's perfectly normal to be unlikable.

Xiaomi is different.Although shy and easily nervous, his affinity seems to be innate.I'm not jealous of him most of the time, only...

"I heard that Dingrun has a new partner?" Hu Chunman asked.

I looked at her in the rearview mirror and she was not in a good mood.Although everyone knows that Lao Hu and his daughter have a bad relationship, I am a little nervous when she suddenly asks this question.

"Yes." I answered cautiously: "Pei Yan came to lawyer Pei and took He Lu's position last November."

Hu Chunman seemed to be distracted, and he paused every word: "Oh, Pei Yanlai——"

Xiaomi excitedly continued: "Pei, Pei Lu is very powerful, and he is also a very nice person. We are all..."

"Xiaomi." I gave him a cold sideways glance and interrupted him: "There is water in the car, let Ms. Hu and the others run it."

Before and after Pei Yan came to airborne, Lao Hu's abnormality was very obvious.Pei Yanlai has no intention of fighting for power, but Dingrun's rumors of factional disputes between Hu and Pei have not stopped.Hu Chunman returned home with his family at this time, what kind of attitude he had, and what his purpose was, is still unknown.

Too much to say.

Xiaomi noticed my attitude and froze in fright: "Mmm, yes, yes."

The water was passed to the back seat, and the child was moved into her husband's arms.

Hu Chunman seemed to be very interested in Pei Yanlai, so he didn't bring up the subject: "Pei, um, I remembered, I've seen him." She patted her husband's leg: "Remember? Five years ago in Yeda, old Hu wanted to offer an olive branch, but he met the one who had a bad nose. He really has a bright future. But why is he suddenly willing to enter the temple of Dingrun?"

The man raised his eyebrows and spread his hands to express his lack of impression.

I just happened to encounter a red light, my foot trembled, I braked suddenly, and blurted out, "Five years ago?"

The year before I joined Dingrun.

Hu Chunman nodded: "Old Hu mentioned it. Pei was the first genius to get a JD among overseas students in the past ten years. I didn't expect that after going around, he was abducted back to China."

I counted the time.

Pei Yanlai dropped out of Yanda at the beginning of the first half semester of her freshman year, and later went to North America.According to Hu Chunman, it only took him one and a half years to complete his undergraduate studies before he could get a JD in the three-year school system of Yeda.

... really not human.

"It turned out to be him, so I'm relieved." Hu Chunman whispered in the last two seconds of the red light.

After crossing the road, I looked in the rearview mirror again.

Hu Chunman was leaning against the window and rubbing her temples, her face was not very good, and her husband rubbed one hand on her shoulder, which was a standard comforting gesture.

My heart moved, and I tentatively said, "If Ms. Hu gets carsick, you can open the window."

Hu Chunman closed his eyes and said softly, "No, I'm just a little tired, thank you for your concern."

I've changed my mind.

Hu Chunman's return to China may not really be a problem with Dingrun's management, which is a good thing.But thinking of the various changes of Lao Hu in the past two months, another dark cloud floated in his heart.

Better not be what I think.

Send people home at twelve noon.

I asked Xiaomi if he needed to be sent home.But he waved his hand and said that he would go back to the law firm with me, and there was still work to be done yesterday, which needed to be cleaned up.

In the past few hours, I was physically and mentally exhausted, and when I drove back to Dingrun downstairs, my eyes began to pop.I asked Xiaomi to get out of the car first, then gave Pei Yanlai a call in a daze.

"Sorry, the number you dialed is turned off, Sorry..."

Oh yes.He was still on the plane and landed twelve hours later.

So I sent a text message and told him that I had already parked the car and returned to the law firm, and the keys would be returned to his desk later.

Message sent successfully.

But I know in my heart that the trouble between us has reached this point, and he will not reply again.

A mineral water bottle cap was left on the back seat. I guess it was accidentally dropped by the little boy after playing.

I opened the locker in the car, trying to find the trash bag and clean it up.But the garbage bag was not found.There was only a bottle of perfume in the locker.

Black cube glass bottle.

"Straight to Heaven" stands quietly in front of you.Only for a moment, but I thought a lot.

The good, the bad, the embarrassing, the more than 500 days from the day I first met, I thought I was the only one resisting the torrent and stopped moving forward.

Where is Pei Yan coming?

Staring at "Straight to heaven" for a long time, it said to me that he went too far, but the earth is round.

It's a ridiculous expectation, and I think I'm a little funny.

The window of the car was knocked suddenly again, the sound was not loud, I turned my head, and it turned out that Xiaomi had gone and returned.

I pulled away from the past, closed the cabinet tightly, rolled down the car window, and asked him, "Why are you back?"

Xiaomi lifted the plastic bag in his hand: "Hmm... Assistant Lin, I just went to the convenience store to buy sandwiches and rice balls, you... see which one do you want to eat?"

"..." I only drank a cup of iced latte in the morning. To be honest, my stomach is regurgitating, and I am really hungry.

When I got out of the car, I locked the car.Because in my impression, Xiaomi often gnaws on sandwiches, so I picked up the rice balls of Orleans Chicken Chop.

It has been heated in the microwave, and there are a few paper towels carefully placed under the rice ball package.Wrap the onigiri in a paper towel so your hands won't get burned.In addition to these, each person also has a soft-boiled egg and a box of sweet cereal milk.

Xiaomi narrowed his eyes and smiled shyly: "Brother Lin, this... this time I will treat you."

I quickly realized that he probably wanted to repay the favor he had given him to eat rice noodles.

Considerate, careful, good tempered.

I sighed, and the last bit of non-embarrassing prejudice was also forgotten by me.

"Thank you." I tried my best to smile: "Don't be so polite next time."

Xiaomi was stunned: "Brother Lin..."

"Xiaoshan!" A woman's voice came from behind.

I turned my head suddenly like a conditioned reflex, and saw two middle-aged women shopping together.With a big bag in his hand, he quickly stepped towards the two of us with smiles on his face.But I don't know any of them.

"Mom? You, why are you here?"

It wasn't until Xiaomi hurried past me that I realized it wasn't "Xiaoshan" but "Xiaoshan".

My mom is back home with a husband and a new kid.Counting from the time I went to college, I have been in the capital for almost ten years, and she has never come to this city to find me.

I pinched Yamagen, only to feel that I was really tired and dizzy.

"The shop is closed today. Aunt Zhang and I went out for a stroll." The woman took Xiaomi's hand and said, "By the way, I just bought you a tie, come and try it on."

Xiaomi was shy again: "Mom, don't...my senior, my senior is still here." He turned around and called me: "Brother Lin!"

I was called to get closer, only to realize that I didn't know each other.

Looking at it this way, the capital is too small, throwing a piece of orange peel may hit the old friend who met by chance—Xiaomi’s mother turned out to be the owner of the flower shop that night, but Pei Yanlai didn’t know that the bunch of "Mr. which litter box.

We met once, and the light was very dark at that time, and she could no longer recognize me.

"Hello. Thank you for taking care of Xiaomi." She smiled softly, like a white magnolia: "Hey, the young man is so handsome, do you have a date?"

Xiaomi glanced at me, embarrassment was almost written on his face, he let out a long sigh and had a headache: "Mom..."

I shook my head at him, saying it was nothing, and then told the truth: "Auntie, don't worry."

After that, I exchanged a few pleasantries, but I couldn't remember it when I turned around.

It was just that when I opened the warm rice balls and filled my mouth with salty and sweet sauce, Mommy Xiaomi's words "remember to go home to eat at night" were replayed in my mind many times.

I don't miss my mom anymore, but I do want a home every once in a while.Not a rental house, a home without flirty roommates and mean landlords.

Different names with the same name.

People who grow up in love are really different.