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If it weren't for worrying that the sound would be transmitted to the ears of Zhang's family downstairs, Yuan Liu would not have patiently watched the elevator floor increase one by one, and finally stop at the 28th floor.

She stepped out of the elevator with an unsettling clatter of high heels and floorboards.She took out the key from the satchel and almost broke the key when she opened the lock.

Meng Wenjun followed closely behind Yuan Liu and entered the door. He freed an arm and gently closed the door.

The moment Yuan Liu pressed the light switch, the whole room burst into dazzling light.

Without giving Meng Wenjun the slightest time to react, Yuan Liu turned around and waved his hand vigorously.

The slap hit Meng Wenjun's face heavily, making a loud sound.

His face is tilted to the right rear.

He subconsciously hugged the kitten in his arms.

Without fighting back, without being surprised, Meng Wenjun used the silence he was most familiar with to fill the gap between him and Yuan Liu.

Even if the distance between the two people standing face to face is so close, he has already tried his best to fill up the feeling of suffocation.

For a long time, Yuan Liu never said a word.Her anger was on her slightly trembling shoulders, on her glaring eyes, on her fists that were almost unconscious due to force.

On the other hand, Meng Wenjun, her dearest son, just lowered his head, didn't make a sound, and didn't say a word.

In his arms, he held a wild cat he picked up from nowhere.

He protects it lest she hurt it.

In the end, it was Yuan Liu who broke the silence.

"Do you know where you went wrong?"

"It's my fault that I shouldn't have come home so late, I shouldn't have gotten myself so dirty, I shouldn't have picked up a kitten." Meng Wenjun answered smoothly.Answer like the standard answer on the test paper.

"So what should you do?" Yuan Liu continued to ask.

"If you take any action, estimate the time and go home before dark. Pay attention to cleanliness, don't go to dirty places, there will be germs." Meng Wenjun said.

Yuan Liu raised his eyebrows and said, "What else?"

"No more." Meng Wenjun replied.

Suddenly, the kitten in his arms seemed to wake up and squirm.Meng Wenjun quickly looked over.

"Are you going to raise it?" The anger that had finally calmed down was provoked by Meng Wenjun's words again.

Meng Wenjun was silent and said nothing.

"You want to raise it, what ability do you have to raise it? You want me to take on your responsibility for no reason, and you want to consume my material and energy greedily and unconditionally!" Yuan Liu raised his voice and shouted.

Meng Wenjun's heart sank.

"It's like this again." He said silently in his heart.

Like it or not, everything in the world has a price tag.One is one, two is two.To exchange at equal value and to trade fairly.

This is the educational creed that Yuan Liu is most proud of.

"I can do whatever you want." Meng Wenjun said.He felt the kitten drifting off to sleep again.

Yuan Liu was very surprised by his answer.I was very surprised by his rare sensibility.She stared vigilantly at the sleeping cat in Meng Wenjun's arms, a small, soft cat with raccoon-colored fur.Turn your back on her.

She didn't want to see him like this, she didn't want to endure him being so willing to give for nothing.What a great injustice and injury to him!

Yuan Liu slowed down his tone, and said, "Ah Ding, you have to know that when what you give is not proportional to what you get, the world will torture you."

"Is it like you tortured me?" He said silently in his heart.

"You don't regret it."

"I don't regret it." Meng Wenjun said lightly.

"Starting tomorrow, the training volume of all courses will be doubled, and at the same time, two courses will be added after class every day, and sleep will be reduced by one hour.

At the same time, you have to bear the time and energy you spend raising it, and you can't take up the original time. "

"Okay." Meng Wenjun replied.

"Is there anything else? If not, I'll go back to my room."

Yuan Liu didn't speak, and Meng Wenjun walked inside.

"Wait." Yuan Liu suddenly stopped Meng Wenjun.

He turned around, met Yuan Liu's gaze with those clear eyes, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Yuan Liu hesitated and said, "Just now... did it hurt, Ah Ding?"

"I deserve it."

With that said, Meng Wenjun turned around, walked straight into the room, and closed the door.

Yuan Liu was left standing alone, looking at his son's closed door, feeling a little sour in his heart.

"Isn't this what you want?" Yuan Liu asked himself in his heart.

I want Ah Ding to be mature and stable, I want Ah Ding to be extremely capable, I want Ah Ding to be extremely smart, I want Ah Ding to surpass everyone in the world, I want Ah Ding to tear that person off the seat that does not belong to him .

Everything is happening step by step.

Everything is going in the direction she wants.

"What else is there to be dissatisfied with?" She asked herself over and over again.

Suddenly, Yuan Liu heard the sound of the lock turning again on the door behind him.

She turned around and saw Meng Fan who had just entered the house.

Meng Fan and Meng Wenjun look almost exactly the same. At the age of more than 40, the look between his brows is still like that of a youth in his 20s.

His eyes are even better than Meng Wenjun's.Smooth without a trace of stagnant lines, a few strokes outline a pair of peach blossoms.The long and dense eyelashes are like grass tips breaking through the ground after the rain.It was like being kissed by the gods.

Seeing Yuan Liu, Meng Fan laughed, put the briefcase on the cabinet next to him, opened his arms, hugged Yuan Liu deeply into his arms, and seriously whispered in Yuan Liu's ear: "Liu Liu, I'm back .”

The coldness on Meng Fan's body from the outside also stuck to Yuan Liu's body along with his embrace.She could even smell the faint smell of alcohol and tobacco on his body.Even if Meng Fan dealt with it deliberately, she could still smell it.

Yuan Liu embraced Meng Fan with both arms, and asked, "How is today?"

"It's okay." She buried her face in the crook of Yuan Liu's neck and said in a low voice.

Yuan Liu patted Meng Fan's back lightly twice, and comforted him, "Thanks for your hard work."

Meng Fan straightened up and smiled at Yuan Liu, his eyes bent into the moon: "For you and Ah Ding."

"Also for you and Ah Ding." Yuan Liu repeated Meng Fan's words.

But they didn't understand that what they said to each other were two opposite meanings.

Yuan Liu told Meng Fan the story about the cat, and deliberately concealed the conditions between her and Meng Wenjun.

"It's great. Ah Ding has to do so much homework every day, and it's great to have a small animal to accompany him." Meng Fan swallowed and commented seriously.

"Hope he doesn't waste too much time on it."

Meng Fan put his hands on Yuan Liu's shoulders, and said in relief, "It's not that you don't understand this kid, Ah Ding, he works very hard. These extra-curricular classes and his own homework are the same."

Yuan Liu was a little annoyed by her husband's attitude: "Now he has a downward trend."

Hearing this, Meng Fan laughed instead: "Do you mean to drop from 98 points to [-] points?"

Yuan Liu shook his hand away, glared at him, picked up the milk on the table, and walked back to the room.

Meng Fan looked at his wife who wanted to be strong, shook his head helplessly, and secretly sighed in his heart: "Liu Liu is really too stubborn sometimes." Then he changed his mind, "This is also where Liu Liu is cute." A smile appeared.

What Yuan Liu likes the most is Meng Fan's simplicity, and what he hates the most is also Meng Fan's simplicity.I hate his attitude that everything is fine and everything is okay.

Meng Fan has long since lost the desire to pursue desperately, and everything he wants to have is already lined up by his side one by one.Liuliu, Ah Ding.healthy body.happy family.He just wants to guard this small home, everything else is fine, and it has nothing to do with him.

Yuan Liu lay anxiously on the bed, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep, recalling the conversation just now in his mind, and regretting the time he raised his hand to hit Meng Wenjun.

"What's wrong? Why can't I fall asleep?" Meng Fan put down the book in his hand, turned to look at Yuan Liu, and asked.

Yuan Liu threw off the quilt abruptly, stuck her feet into the cotton slippers next to the bed, muttered: "You don't understand." After saying that, she walked out of the room.

Push open the door of Meng Wenjun's room.

His room has been dark for a long time.

Yuan Liu tiptoedly turned on a small warm yellow night light in front of the desk. The light hit Meng Wenjun's sleeping face and also illuminated the small cardboard box next to Meng Wenjun's bed.

Yuan Liu walked to Meng Wenjun's bed and looked into the cardboard box. The kitten inside was curled up into a small ball, tightly sticking to the doll that Meng Wenjun stuffed for her.

Meng Wenjun worried that it would be scared when it woke up, so he released a little bear and pretended to be its mother.

Yuan Liu squatted down gently, stretched out his hand, and gently stroked Meng Wenjun's face.The place where she exerted force when she was angry just now.

"Ah Ding, you have to become excellent, you have to become someone that no one else can be, and you have to get back everything that Zhang Yeqiu owed your father."

"must."

"You must not forget, you must not forget your hatred for Zhang Yeqiu, and don't be deceived by his hypocrisy. My dear Ah Ding, you must tear off his hypocritical face for your father."

"You must, you must get it all back."

Yuan Liu said many more words at Meng Wenjun's bedside.

When she went out and closed the door smoothly, Meng Wenjun opened his eyes.

I don't know when Meng Wenjun's sleep became very shallow.When Yuan Liu spoke the first sentence to him, he was already woken up by her.

He reached out from the bed and touched the kitten in the cardboard box beside the bed.

When he confirmed that the kitten was still sleeping soundly, he lay down under the quilt again and started the long sleep process again.

The next day came quickly.

Totally different from yesterday.

Yuan Liu took Meng Wenjun to the closed training ground, and Zhang Ailin could only see his shadow through the frosted glass window.

Compared with yesterday's single standing posture, Ah Ding's body has many more movements today.

Suddenly fell to the ground.

was pulled up violently.

His arm trembled like a bow after firing an arrow.

Shaky puppet-like body.

Zhang Ailin stood here, waiting anxiously.

Suddenly, Meng Wenjun opened the door of the training room.

He was drenched in sweat, like a man who has just climbed ashore from drowning.

"Ah Ding?" Zhang Ailin tentatively called his baby name.

Meng Wenjun opened his legs, originally intending to fetch water.Suddenly, the muscles in his legs were pulled violently, and he staggered, and his body, which lost its center of gravity, fell uncontrollably to the ground.

Without the slightest hesitation, Zhang Ailin immediately stepped forward, carrying the weight of Meng Wenjun with her own body, barely supporting him so that he would not fall to the ground.

Meng Wenjun leaned limply on Zhang Ailin's body, still struggling to get up.

His lips were parted and closed, and the pain in his throat was like a burning fire, blocking the transmission of his voice.

"Ah Ding? Are you okay?" Zhang Ailin asked eagerly.

After a long time, Meng Wenjun said with all his strength:

"A Lin, I have a cat. Her name is Xiao Man."