A few days later.
Kunshan Garden.
Lin Yue knocked on the door with a cat in his arms.
Not a one-eyed Xiahou, but a plump orange cat.
You must know that in order to get this cat back, he spent a lot of effort, buying toys, eating KFC with him, and even went to Disneyland, and finally got the owner of the scallion pancake stall.
"Why are you free today..."
Chen Yu opened the door and was stunned when he saw the plump ball in his arms: "Pikachu? Is this Pikachu?"
"After eating like this, it's a good thing you can still recognize him." Lin Yue said as he walked into the room.
Chen Yu limped behind with a cane under one arm.
"You are really good at finding it back."
Lin Yue found the cat cage near the living room, opened it and stuffed Pikachu inside.
"This is the last debt you owe Zhong Xiaoqin. If you pay it back, you two will be completely settled."
A few days ago, Smith called and told him that Chen Yu was injured while tracking and photographing a white rhinoceros. However, it was not life-threatening. He just had a broken leg bone in his right leg. After examination, the doctor said it was not serious and he would just need to rest for a while.
Naturally, we couldn't take photos of wild animals. Thinking that Chen Yu had been in Africa for almost three months and it was time to bring him back, Lin Yue borrowed Lu Jinwei's private plane to fly to Tanzania to pick him up from Africa. Come back to recuperate.
"Now that the cat has been found, why don't you send it to Zhong Xiaoqin?" Chen Yu slowly sat on the sofa and placed the crutches not far from him.
"I don't know where she lives."
"Then call her and ask her to pick it up herself."
"I think you'd better go there yourself and take the cat to her house."
"Why? With my legs and feet now, aren't you sincerely trying to make things difficult for me?"
"After you left, Zhong Xiaoqin's mother came several times to discuss the divorce."
"Didn't you say that she is already in love with Zhong Xiaoyang?"
"But her mother doesn't like that person, and she still misses you. Send the cat back and explain the matter clearly to them."
"..."
"You can't escape this kind of thing, you have to face it."
"You boy, now that your wings are strong, you have to teach your brother a lesson."
Lin Yue shrugged and looked at the scale on his watch: "The time is almost up, I have to go to the airport to pick someone up, let's go."
Chen Yu asked a lot: "Who to pick up?"
Lin Yue blinked: "Gu Jia."
After saying that, he left without looking back.
"This kid..." Chen Yu shook his head, with a helpless expression on his face.
…
The next afternoon.
Downstairs of Zhong's house.
Zhong Xiaoqin walked slowly. This was the first time she came back since she moved out. The closer she got to her house, the stronger her inner uneasiness became. Just now, Aunt Wang from the opposite door patted her on the shoulder and she almost died of fright.
After entering the house, what should my parents say if they ask about Zhong Xiaoyang?
Said that his father's company was investigated, his mother was sued, and he went abroad to hide from debts? I haven't contacted her in almost half a month, and there is no movement on WeChat. It seems that I am still angry with her.
In the past, Chen Yu's most cold-blooded behavior was that she didn't communicate, but she still did what she had to do. For example, she cooked meals for two people. As for whether to eat or not, that was her business.
In contrast, Zhong Xiaoyang's cold violence was even more extreme. He didn't even answer her questions about the progress of his father's case.
She was frustrated and angry.
Dong Dong Dong~
The knock on the door echoed in the corridor.
After the footsteps, the door opened with a bang.
"Xiaoqin, you are finally back."
"Can I not come back? You have threatened to sever the relationship between mother and daughter."
Zhong Xiaoqin took off her bag and hung it on the coat rack, put her coat away together, changed into slippers and walked into the living room. Before she could reply to her father who was sitting on the sofa, she saw at a glance that there was a cotton mat on the corner of the balcony. An orange cat is lying down.
"Hey, Pikachu?"
"Pikachu!"
The cat heard her cry of joy, opened its eyes and meowed twice.
It's really Pikachu, but a little fatter.
"Dad, why is Pikachu back?"
Father Zhong, who was sitting on the sofa, licked his lips at the TV. Zhong Xiaoqin turned around and saw a talk show being broadcast on the Shanghai TV Arts and Humanities Channel. The man on the sofa opposite the female host looked familiar.
Very familiar.
Because it is Chen Yu.
"Mr. Chen, I heard that you used to be the editor of our TV station."
"Yes, I used to work at a news channel."
"Then what made you decide to go to Africa?"
"Live life, life will always force you to make troubles or make mistakes."
"You are so funny."
"Thank you, I mean it, because few people praise me like this. In the past, the impressions of my relatives and friends around me were either stereotyped or boring."
"It seems that you stayed in Africa for three months. Not only did you take many amazing photos, but your personality also changed a lot."
"Yes, if you have the opportunity to be teammates with a group of people who are so bored that they play pranks on wild animals, you may be able to find some alternative happiness."
"..."
Zhong Xiaoqin looked at her ex-husband on TV: "Why is he on TV?"
Before getting married, Chen Yu had appeared on TV, but only as a front-line reporter. After getting married, he became an editor in Lu Xin's column group and worked behind the scenes. However, three months after their divorce, he not only returned to TV station and even became a guest on a talk show.
No house, car, or savings.
He was invited back to the TV station.
He interpreted his own success in this way.
"Chen Yu is in a terrible situation now." Mother Zhong put her shoes at the door and came over, picked up the mobile phone left on the sofa, opened a WeChat official account, pointed to the picture above and said: "See, these are all It was a photo he took, and it is said that it was published in some foreign BBC magazine, and this... CCTV's Science and Education Channel's latest public service announcement used this photo."
Father Zhong took off his glasses and put them on the coffee table, then pointed at the cat in the corner: "He was the one who found Pikachu."
Zhong Xiaoqin looked at her radiant ex-husband on TV with mixed emotions.
After the divorce, he changed his life trajectory, embarked on the path of pursuing his dreams, and achieved enviable achievements.
What about her? She wants to be glamorous, want to be relaxed and happy, wants to be free. Three months have passed, has she got it?
"You asked me to come back just because of Pikachu?"
"Xiao Qin." Zhong Ziyu said earnestly: "Do you know why Chen Yu came back from Africa?"
"Why?"
"His leg was injured. The doctor said it was fractured and he had to stay at home."
Zhong Xiaoqin looked surprised: "His leg is broken?"
"Yes." Father Zhong said, "You even brought Pikachu over in person after your leg was broken. What a good character he is. He had to get divorced in the first place. He was really smart."
Zhong Mu said: "What your dad and I are saying is that since he has reached this point, why don't you go over and see him so that we can be a couple."
Zhong Xiaoqin sat on the sofa and thought for a moment: "Then... I'll go see him in the afternoon?"
"That's right." Father Zhong said, "This is called reciprocity."
Zhong Mu glared at him from the side.
What a courtesy! She and the old man knew very well that in addition to sending the cats, Chen Yu also meant to remind them not to go to Kunshan Garden to look for him, because he would not have much time at home in the future, and running there would be a waste of effort.
There is also a euphemism here to express the unwillingness to get involved with the Zhong family.
After Chen Yu left, the two of them became anxious. If such a good son-in-law didn't do something, the marriage between his daughter and him would be completely over, and there would be no possibility of getting back together.
So there was a phone call from Zhong’s mother to force her to go home, severing the relationship between mother and daughter, and the double act just now, in order to create an opportunity to meet, hoping that the two of them could rekindle their old relationship.
…
evening
Zhong Xiaoqin came to Kunshan Garden carrying two bags of fruit and knocked on the door of her former home.
Dong Dong Dong~
"coming."
Chen Yu's response came from inside the room. After a few breaths, the door opened, and a face that was much darker than he remembered appeared on the opposite side.
"Zhong Xiaoqin?" He seemed surprised. He was stunned for a while before he realized what he was doing. He stepped aside to let her enter the room.
"I heard you were injured, I came to see you."
Zhong Xiaoqin walked into the house, put her things on the table in the living room, looked at her ex-husband who was limping over and said, "How are your legs?"
"It's not a big problem. The doctor said that after a few months of rest, I'll be back to normal."
"Thank you for Pikachu."
"You're welcome, you should." Chen Yu said, "Do you want to drink water? If you do, I'll pour it for you."
This was very polite, but it was a bit harsh in Zhong Xiaoqin's ears, because before the divorce, she always said, "There is freshly boiled water in the pot. You have to drink it and pour it yourself."
“Is Africa fun?”
Chen Yu slowly sat down next to the sofa: "Africa is not fun."
"If it wasn't fun, why would you stay there for so long?"
"People, you can't be idle, you have to find something to do."
"Too."
Zhong Xiaoqin suddenly thought that she had been idle for almost two months: "How have you been lately?"
Chen Yu said: "It's okay."
"..." Zhong Xiaoqin didn't know what to say. The atmosphere in the room was strange. He always talked to death before he was divorced, but he didn't feel so alienated.
The silence lasted for almost half a minute.
There was a soft click in the corridor, and the door opened from the outside. No one was there yet, and a female voice in very unstandardized Mandarin was heard from a distance: "Chen Yu, the sauce I asked Emily to send has arrived. Today How about making your favorite tacos tonight?"
The sound of a door closing.
The sound of changing shoes.
"By the way, will Chen Xu come? If he comes, he will need to prepare food for three people."
"He said he wanted to have dinner with Gu Jia tonight, but he won't come."
"Oh, that's right."
A woman walked into the living room with a round face. Zhong Xiaoqin thought she looked a bit like her, but her eyes and nose had the characteristics of a Caucasian, and when it came to her mouth, she became delicate and unique to Asian women.
"Hey, are there guests?"
Upon hearing Jane's question, Chen Yu quickly introduced them: "Oh, this is Zhong Xiaoqin, her name is Jane, she is... uh, I met her in Africa..."
"I've heard about you." Jane walked over and extended her right hand to Zhong Xiaoqin generously.
…
Zhong Xiaoqin escaped.
Escape!
From the way Chen Yu hesitated when introducing Jian, she could also guess the relationship between the two, but the ex-husband still wanted to take care of her feelings and did not say it directly.
Although he knew that the two of them were divorced and it was his private matter for Chen Yu to find a girlfriend who was younger, more beautiful, and had the same hobbies, he still couldn't help feeling frustrated, frustrated, and angry.
Why did he get a new girlfriend in just three months?
At the same time, in a Lincoln Aviator parked opposite the entrance of Kunshan Garden, Lin Yue looked at the one-eyed cat squatting on the passenger seat and said: "Yes, I did it on purpose, so that I completely cut off him, her and her family." Thoughts."
…
One month later.
Shanghai is about to enter winter, showing an unbearable coldness.
The corridor of the obstetrics and gynecology department of the hospital was crowded with people. There were men accompanying their wives for prenatal check-ups, nurses walking as fast as flying, and some holding babies waiting for screening.
Wang Manni took the ultrasound examination report sheet and walked out of the stairs, walked to Zhong Xiaoqin who was sitting in the waiting chair and asked: "How is it?"
Shaking her head with a pale face, Zhong Xiaoqin handed the phone forward.
In the middle of the screen is a WeChat dialog between her and a person who uses a motorcycle as his avatar. There is a transfer pattern near the lower edge, with "88" followed by two zeros.
"How could he do this!"
