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Chapter 18

The next morning, after Ye Xingzhi picked him up from the bed and sent him to the airport, he turned around and went to Zheng Qingchuan's house for lunch.

Zheng Qingchuan contacted him yesterday and asked him to have dinner together, saying that he wanted to talk about his previous job search.

"There is a pretty good company, and my dad has friends he knows. If you want to go together, I will tell my dad."

Ye Xingzhi thanked him for his kindness, "I plan to look at the work after a while."

Zheng Qingchuan nodded knowingly, and didn't ask too much. One of the principles of getting along between him and Ye Xingzhi is not to interfere too much in each other's life.

"Let's talk about it later."

The road from Zheng's house to the suburban nursing home was passing a road renovation site. The bus was bumping badly. City A has developed rapidly in recent years, and everywhere has been renovated. Ye Xingzhi smelled the familiar dusty smell again.

At this moment, Zhou Weixia had already got off the plane and sent him a long voice.Ye Xingzhi leaned against the edge of the car window to listen, and smiled at the bare concrete floor outside the window.

The source of people's sense of belonging to the city is always complicated. The reason Ye Xingzhi insisted on coming back was his relatives.

But now in City B, he has a Zhou Weixia.

When he arrived at the nursing home, the doctor had just finished examining the old man.Seeing Ye Xingzhi coming, the nurse said a few words to him, "It's okay to eat these few days, but I started talking nonsense again."

Ye Xingzhi thanked him politely, moved a chair, sat in the courtyard, held the old man's hand and called him softly, "Grandpa."

The old man's expression was dull, staring at the nurses who were drying clothes on the opposite building, without saying a word.

Some of the nurses were drying the hospital gowns, some were drying the sheets, and they were busy shuttling among the layers of white curtains that were blown up by the wind.Ye Xingzhi glanced at the blank gaze, then turned his head and sighed.

When Aunt Hui entered the police station, my grandfather was already a little confused and often misidentified people.Later, Shen Zhang's lawyer came to the house to quarrel several times, and naturally became more seriously ill, and gradually even he could not recognize him.

Ye Xingzhi lowered his head, seeing the protruding blood vessels and some dark age spots on the back of his grandfather's dark hands, he felt mixed feelings.

His thoughts drifted far away, Zhou Weixia forced him to face up to the problem of getting along with Shen Zhang that he had been avoiding before.Shen Zhang is his biological father. Although he doesn't like Aunt Hui and is mad at his grandfather, at least he pays for the recuperation expenses.

Ye Xingzhi had originally made up his mind not to bow to that man, so he would rather work part-time than cost him a penny.But--

"Xiao Jing, Xiao Jing!"

He was suddenly drawn back by an urgent shout from the old man beside him. The old man even stumbled to his feet and kept shouting towards the top floor opposite, "Xiao Jing, don't jump! Xiao Jing, don't jump!"

Ye Xingzhi didn't realize it for a while, Xiaojing, it's his mother Ye Jing... It's been a long time since his grandfather mentioned his mother.

But at this moment, he obviously couldn't allow him to think too much, so he could only stand up in a hurry to help.The nurse on the top floor opposite seemed to have noticed the movement downstairs, stopped what he was doing and looked this way.

"Grandpa, what's the matter? It's okay, it's okay." Ye Xingzhi comforted him while supporting him to prevent him from falling.

But the old man still stubbornly stared at a female nurse holding a hospital gown on the edge of the roof railing, pointing tremblingly and shouting, "Xiaojing, don't jump! Don't jump!"

He was so anxious that the phlegm was stuck in his throat, he couldn't stop coughing, and begged hoarsely, "Don't jump! Dad, I beg you..."

Ye Xingzhi patted him on the back to help him calm down, "What did you say?"

While talking, the nurse on the opposite top floor who had finished drying the hospital gown also walked away. The roof was empty, only the sheets blown up by the wind.

Seeing that there was no one there, the old man raised his finger in confusion, "Where's Xiaojing?"

Ye Xingzhi looked back, helped him back to sit down, and explained, "My mother is not here, grandpa."

The old man seemed unable to understand this sentence, he lowered his head in a daze, "Not here? Xiaojing is not here." He suddenly grabbed Ye Xingzhi anxiously and said, "Xiaohui, Xiaojing jumped off the building and cannot be rescued." alive."

The young man squatting beside him felt as if he had been struck by a thunderbolt. He froze for a long time, holding the man's hand and asking, "Jumping off a building? Who are you talking about?"

The old man ignored his words, and just went to find the crutch beside him, "Where is the child? We can't let that Shen surnamed take him away... No...Xiao Hui, let's go and bring the child back."

On the way back to the city, Ye Xingzhi kept opening a number in the address book repeatedly, and returned to the main interface.There was a severe traffic jam at that section of the road, and there was a dull sound of drilling.He frowned impatiently and dialed the phone.

Shen Zhang answered quickly, and he could even hear the joy of receiving his call, "Xingzhi, what's the matter?"

"I'm going to see Aunt Hui," Ye Xingzhi said.

He knew that Shen Zhang could do it, the question was whether he wanted to do it or not.

Hearing his request, Shen Zhang's voice was obviously displeased, "Didn't you go there a few days ago?"

"Can I go today?" Ye Xingzhi had a bunch of questions, and his tone was almost aggressive.

Shen Zhang has always been tolerant of him, so he didn't get angry. He took a sip of tea and said slowly, "What do you have to go to see that woman?"

Ye Xingzhi got out of the car, stood on the roadside steps and looked up at the station not far away, "I have something to ask." He paused, as if he had come to his senses, and said coldly, "It should be the same to ask you."

"How did my mother die?"

Shen Zhang didn't seem to plan to talk to him on the phone, and only wanted him to come to the villa.

Ye Xingzhi reversed the bullet train for several hours and returned to City B at [-]:[-].Shen Zhang's driver had already been waiting for him at the exit of the station, and politely took him back to the villa.

Strictly speaking, this is the second time Ye Xingzhi has set foot in Shen's house. The last time was when he was brought here at the age of sixteen or seventeen.

He followed the servant expressionlessly, his brows furrowed ugly.

Every time I come to this villa, there is always nothing good.

The Shen family's villa is not too small, there is a long corridor after the entrance and the hall.Ye Xing didn't know how Shen's family usually lived, but felt that every time he came, it was no different from an empty exhibition hall.

There was only the sound of footsteps one after the other on the clean floor, Ye Xingzhi felt a little palpitation in the long and empty corridor, and faintly gave birth to a bad premonition.

In front of him was the door of Shen Zhang's study room, the servant sent it here, turned around to do other things, and left him standing here alone.

Ye Xingzhi didn't push the door right away, he suddenly remembered the last time he came here.

Before the age of 16, Ye Xingzhi's greatest worries in life were all related to material things.When Aunt Hui first entered the police station, Shen Zhang inexplicably appeared in his life, which was not a bad accident.

When he was young, Ye Xingzhi asked a question about his parents once, and he couldn't remember the answer he got.Probably because seeing my aunt and grandfather silent and sad, I wisely refused to ask any more questions.

Aunt Hui's accident made the family's situation even more difficult. Ye Xingzhi never thought that a man would come to him at that pass, claiming to be his father.

He also said that he had been looking for him for so many years.

He was in a trance for a while, Aunt Hui was away, and his grandfather soon became seriously ill because of the custody dispute.It seems that besides accepting Shen Zhang's arrangement, he has no other way to go.

Shen Zhang is generous and treats him well.It's just that I don't like Ye Xingzhi studying painting and want him to prepare for the business exam, and I don't like Ye Xingzhi mentioning other members of the Ye family.

It wasn't until he returned to City B that he said he would take Ye Xingzhi back to the villa to see his paralyzed grandma that Ye Xingzhi saw the wife that Shen Zhang had never mentioned for the first time.When the woman saw him in the study, she fought with Shen Zhang like crazy, accusing him of bringing back the illegitimate child outside.

The real world is that his parents' past is not a romantic romance, and for the first time the 16-year-old learns that he is the product of a shady affair.

Ye Xingzhi didn't dare to think about what would be waiting for him behind this door this time.

The author says:

It's quite uncomfortable to be stuck here, let's update it every few days.