fall in love by chance

Bai Yun's probationary job got off work at five o'clock, and when Zhou Yan parked the car, she just came back and went to the restaurant with them.

After taking her seat, she first took Doudou from Jiang Sheng, asked if her daughter was well during the day, and then went on to chat with Liang Ruixi about their current situation.

When Liang Ruixi asked her if she was tired from work, Bai Yun only replied "not tired" with a smile, then turned to chat with Jiang Sheng about her new colleagues and customers she met during the day.Doudou, who was sitting in Bai Yun's arms, interjected from time to time, which also became the bond of intimacy between them.

Listening to the laughter on the table, Liang Ruixi felt that she was gradually excluded from their world.

While in a trance, Liang Ruixi suddenly felt that someone was holding the hand under the table. He turned his head to look at Zhou Yan, and saw Zhou Yan gave him a comforting look, as if telling him, "You still have me". The inexplicable loss in Liang Ruixi's heart was dispelled at once, and when he looked at Bai Yun and Jiang Sheng, there was only blessings left in his heart.

Halfway through the meal, Zhou Yan's cell phone rang. He didn't answer it, but the phone rang again. He got up and went to the side to answer it. When he came back, he said: "The law firm has something to ask me, I'm going back soon .”

"Is Ruan Yadong looking for you?" Liang Ruixi asked.

Zhou Yan hesitantly said "um": "Do you want to go with me or..."

"You go back first, I will talk to my aunt for a while, and I will go to see where she lives in a while, and I will take the subway back later."

"Alright." Zhou Yan quickly took two mouthfuls of rice and left.

Jiang Sheng still had to go to the bar to work, so he resigned after dinner.

The house Bai Yun rented was very close to Jiang Sheng's, only about [-] meters away, and they walked back after eating.

Before arriving at the place, Liang Ruixi couldn't wait to ask: "Auntie, did you and Zhou Yan know each other very early?"

Bai Yun turned her head to look at him, and said unexpectedly, "Did he tell you?"

The other party's undisguised reaction verified Liang Ruixi's conjecture, and he responded vaguely.In fact, just now when Zhou Yan claimed that he had something to leave, Liang Ruixi was relieved, thinking that it would be more convenient for him to ask his aunt alone these questions.If Zhou Yan was present, he would definitely know that he had discovered the secret under the bed, and he didn't want to be so straightforward.

"If you don't count this visit to Haicheng, I only met him once, so we don't know each other..." While talking, she arrived at Bai Yun's residence, and she whispered, "Let's go in and talk about it."

Bai Yun settled Doudou first, boiled some hot water, and then sat down to chat with Liang Ruixi.

"What did he tell you?" Bai Yun asked.

"I didn't go into details, so I came to ask you, when did you meet him for the first time?" Liang Ruixi frowned slightly, "Can you also tell me about your mother?"

Bai Yun was shocked: "You know everything?"

Liang Ruixi clasped her knees with her palms, staring closely at Bai Yun.The two looked at each other for a moment, before Bai Yun let out a long sigh: "Speaking of meeting you, a classmate, it's also because of your mother..." She began to talk about this past.

Back then, Bai Qian was working abroad, and she was encouraged by her friends to go to Guangcheng together, but she lost contact with her not long after she arrived there.It took about half a year before Bai Yun received a call from Bai Qian. The other party claimed on the phone that she was going to pursue her own happiness, that she didn't want to be burdened by her family, and that she didn't want to have Liang Ruixi as a son anymore, so that they wouldn't have to worry about her in the future.

Both my aunt and grandmother believed it was true, hated his heartlessness, and no longer took the initiative to go out to look for it.They were afraid that Liang Ruixi would be sad if he found out, so they kept the matter from him.

It wasn't until the year of Liang Ruixi's college entrance examination that someone from above informed Bai Yun that her sister had committed a crime in Guangcheng and was arrested.

Bai Yun was terrified, and immediately set off for Guangcheng, but at that time Bai Qian was still in custody awaiting trial, and she couldn't see her face when she went, only hearing from the public prosecutor that her sister was involved in fraud, the amount was huge, and the sentence would be the lightest Also more than ten years.

Bai Yun was heartbroken when she heard the words. She still had to work to support her family, and Liang Ruixi was waiting for the college entrance examination. She couldn't stay in Guangcheng for a long time to wait for Bai Qian's sentence, so she left a sealed letter for her sister, giving the prosecutor a chance to tell the other party " Renovate well," and returned to Changshui alone.

"At that time, I had a deep misunderstanding of my sister. I have ignored my family for so many years, and suddenly news came, and it was this kind of scandal. When I found out, I just felt that the sky was about to fall. It's early, but I taught our sisters to be good people... As a result, after a few years of seeing each other, she became a criminal. At that time, I wished that I didn't have such a sister, and I wished that you didn't have such a mother..." She looked at Liang Ruixi with red eyes Said, "Fortunately, you are upbeat, you were admitted to F University."

Fearing that Bai Qian's matter would cast a shadow over Liang Ruixi's life, after discussing with his grandfather, Bai Yun chose to keep hiding it from him.

She continued: "After that, about half a year later, it seems that in June and July, when you were on summer vacation, Zhou Yan suddenly took the initiative to contact me..."

Liang Ruixi was a little puzzled: "How could he have your phone number?"

Bai Yun: "I was also surprised at the time. I asked him. He said that he is the monitor of your class. He has the address book of all your classmates and family members. You filled in my number in the emergency contact."

Liang Ruixi: "..."

Bai Yun: "Actually, I also have an impression of his name and voice. You may have forgotten that you called me several times after you went to college. He was always by your side. You even asked him to say hello to me. He Called my aunt, said his name was Zhou Yan, I remembered it all. So when I heard his voice, I didn't have any precautions, just curious that he had something urgent to call me, but I didn't expect that he would ask me on the phone if I knew How about your mother..."

Family ugliness should not be publicized, and Bai Yun was determined to hide this matter from Liang Ruixi at that time, and deliberately said that she did not know about it, but Zhou Yan said that he had found out some things himself, so he could tell her.

Bai Yun nervously asked him what he knew, Zhou Yan didn't backtrack, and bluntly said that Bai Qian joined an MLM organization in her early years, and after being brainwashed, she collaborated with others to defraud her. She was just sentenced in May and sentenced to 18 years.

"Multilevel marketing...?" When she first heard her aunt say that she had a "misunderstanding" about his mother, Liang Ruixi was still wondering what the misunderstanding was, but she didn't expect that there was something hidden behind it?

Bai Yun: "Well, I only realized it after I heard Zhou Yan talk about pyramid schemes. My sister might have been cheated too... I continued to ask him about pyramid schemes, but he said he didn't know the details, so I suggested that I If you want to know more about the truth, you can go to Guangcheng and meet Bai Qian in person..."

Liang Ruixi: "Have you gone?"

Bai Yun nodded: "Go, Zhou Yan asked me to go to the place of household registration to get a certificate first, he asked his relationship to bring a message to your mother, and Bai Qian needs to apply by herself, and I will be able to go by sending a "Meeting Notice" over there. It took two or three months to complete the formalities, and by the time I saw your mother, it was already October. It happened that Zhou Yan was on National Day holiday, so he also went, so we set off separately and met in Guangcheng."

Liang Ruixi was stunned. He never imagined that the first meeting between Zhou Yan and Bai Yun was not in Changshui or Haicheng, but in Guangcheng, the city where his mother was imprisoned.

"When I got there, I was unfamiliar with the place, and I was going to a place like a prison. I was very flustered. Fortunately, Zhou Yan was there. He treated me very respectfully, took me to a hotel with good conditions, and registered for me alone I went to a room alone. During the meal, I comforted me and said that I was visiting my relatives, so there was no need to be afraid..."

As Bai Yun spoke, her tone was full of admiration for Zhou Yan.

"My aunt knows that if you can be admitted to F University, you will definitely meet many outstanding classmates, but it is also the first time I have met someone as smart, stable, and capable as Zhou Yan. He was only 19 and 20 years old at the time. , but he speaks and acts like a mature adult, which makes people feel very at ease, and I trust him very much."

Liang Ruixi suddenly realized that the "he" that my aunt said that day when she went to the playground was referring to Zhou Yan!At that time, he even misunderstood Jiang Sheng...

Yes, in the eyes of his aunt, who else in this world is wiser than him?

I am afraid that Zhou Yan is the only one.

"In those two days, we also chatted a lot about you. He said that you went to watch the sunrise together. He learned about your experience on the mountain, and also knew that you were very sad that your mother left you for so many years. During his vacation He called me rashly, and he was also very nervous, afraid that he would be very abrupt if he did this. But he also felt that it would be more pathetic if we didn’t know the whole picture of the facts. He also said that after knowing the truth, he would choose whether to choose Let me tell you, the decision-making power rests with your close relative, and he will not overstep his authority, because he knows that this matter will also be a blow to you..."

So they kept it a secret from him for so many years...

If he hadn't lifted the bed board on a whim that morning, and hadn't seen the little note in Zhou Yan's notepad, wouldn't he have known it for the rest of his life?

Accompanied by Zhou Yan, Bai Yun meets Bai Qian.

She felt that there seemed to be someone who knew Zhou Yan there. After arriving there, the cadres in the prison opened a separate visiting room for them, but Zhou Yan did not follow in that small room, but stayed outside and waited.

The visiting time stipulated in the "Meeting Notice" was only half an hour, but Bai Yun and Bai Qian chatted for more than an hour, and the prison guards did not interrupt them. It was not until the two sisters broke down in tears and their past suspicions were cleared up that Bai Yun remembered going outside. Zhou Yan who was waiting was reluctant to say goodbye to her elder sister.

"Your mother was indeed deceived back then, and she called us after she was brainwashed. In fact, she felt something was wrong in her heart, but she was in the middle of the game and didn't know how to get out, and she was afraid that if she ran back, it would be a disaster. As for us, we were a little self-defeating at the time, but we hoped that we would think she died outside, until she was arrested later, she said that she felt a sense of relief..."

Bai Yun's eyes were red again when she said this, she immediately looked at Liang Ruixi, forced a smile and said: "It's okay, I talked to her and understood her, and I also told her about you, saying that you passed the exam After entering F University, she cried happily. You don’t know how much she misses you. She told me I’m sorry dozens of times, and she told me not to tell you about her, lest you resent her. Afraid that she will become your disgrace..."

How could he complain, Liang Ruixi thought, it was his mother.

But Liang Ruixi was already speechless. The moment his aunt told her that his mother missed him, he burst into tears.

Seeing him cry, Bai Yun held back the tears for a long time and couldn't stop the tears from flowing out. The aunt and nephew wiped each other's tears, and Bai Yun choked up and said: "When Zhou Yan and I left the prison, he said something to me, he Said, the law is unforgiving, and mistakes can be corrected. For your mother, as long as her own experience can be understood by her close relatives, she has actually received the greatest forgiveness. In recent years, I have also exchanged letters with her, and she said that she She’s doing pretty well there, no one bullies her, she’ll do a good job to get her sentence reduced, and I’ll come out to see you as soon as possible.”

"Well," Liang Ruixi raised her head, holding back all her tears, "I'll wait for her..."