The atmosphere in the room was extremely awkward. Pei Leyao was alone feeling the inexplicable coldness and... a bit of dryness emanating from her brother.
After she asked, she didn't hear her brother's answer for a long time. After two or three minutes, she couldn't stand it anymore and asked again with courage: "What's wrong, brother?"
"You're not going to have a fight with Sister Qingyin, are you?"
After saying this, Pei Leyao felt that this guess was totally untrue. Her brother doted on Sister Qingyin so much, how could he have the heart to be angry with her.
But she couldn't think of any other possibilities, so she looked at her brother and waited for his reply.
She waited for half a minute, and just when she thought her brother would not answer, she heard a calm voice: "Stop worrying about us. How is your homework going?"
Pei Jingmo grabbed Pei Leyao's throat with just one sentence.
Talking about grades really hurts feelings.
Pei Leyao coughed twice and quickly looked away: "Okay, I won't say anything."
"Then brother, you take care of Xiaoyu first. I'll go downstairs to eat something."
...
...
She was woken up by her brother's ringing phone in the morning. She packed up quickly and rushed to the mansion without eating.
Pei Jingmo said "hmm".
After Pei Leyao left, the room suddenly became quiet.
After checking the time, he took out the thermometer and saw that it was thirty-eight and a half degrees.
Pei Jingmo frowned and tucked the quilt in again.
Perhaps sensing a familiar smell, Xiaoyu hummed and opened his eyes. When he saw Pei Jingmo, he pouted and cried out in grievance, "Dad..."
"I'm here, Xiaoyu, don't cry." Pei Jingmo touched his head.
"Dad, I miss Mom so much. I miss the seafood porridge she made..." Because I took medicine for my illness, my mouth was bitter.
Xiaoyu couldn't help but recall that when he was sick before, his mother would make him seafood porridge, which was rich and fragrant. He felt much better after eating it.
But now, his mother is not with him.
"Dad, doesn't Mom want to come back to see me... Doesn't she want me anymore..." Xiaoyu started to cry.
He just heard what his aunt said, his mother said she would not come back to take care of him.
Xiaoyu felt his head hurt even more. His mother was so cruel!
"Don't cry, Xiaoyu..." Pei Jingmo saw his son crying, and gently wiped the tears from his eyes, coaxing him softly: "If you want to drink mom's porridge, I'll contact mom and ask her to come back and make it for you, okay?"
"Is it really possible?"
Xiaoyu immediately looked at him with anticipation.
Pei Jingmo hesitated, he remembered the phone call he had with Shen Shuhe in the morning.
But now Xiaoyu is sick, and as Xiaoyu's mother, she should fulfill his wish.
Pei Jingmo was silent for a few seconds and then replied: "Of course, when you wake up, your mother will be back."
Hearing this, Xiaoyu smiled and said, "Okay! Then Dad, you have to tell Mom~"
"Hmm..." Pei Jingmo smiled at Xiaoyu and then coaxed him to sleep.
A few minutes later, Xiaoyu fell asleep again, and Pei Jingmo carefully got up and went out.
Liang Song had already been waiting outside the door.
"To the study."
Pei Jingmo threw down a sentence and walked towards the study, and Liang Song hurriedly followed.
As soon as he opened the door of the study, Pei Jingmo's cell phone rang.
After seeing the note, a complex look flashed across his eyes.
After a few seconds of silence, he finally picked up the phone: "Hello."
"Jing Mo." Song Qingyin's voice rang through the receiver in the quiet study.
Hearing her voice, Liang Song's eyes at the table changed slightly.
"Well, what's wrong?" Pei Jingmo replied in a calm voice while sitting in the chair.
Song Qingyin on the other side was silent for two or three seconds, still speaking softly: "Why didn't you tell me that Xiaoyu was sick? I just heard from Le Yao that Xiaoyu had a fever. How is he now?"
"It's all my fault. Why am I on a business trip at this time and can't be with Xiaoyu?" Song Qingyin's voice was filled with anxiety and nervousness.
Pei Jingmo stared at the computer screen, tapping the desktop with his fingertips, and said after a while: "You can come to see him when you come back. He will be happy to see you."
"Is the work not finished yet?" Pei Jingmo has changed the subject.
Upon hearing this, Song Qingyin stood in the restaurant corridor, staring at the dark night sky and was stunned.
How could Pei Jingmo say such things to her?
As was his habit, he would comfort her first.
Although he was not in front of her, after being with him for so long, she could feel Pei Jingmo's emotional changes from his eyes and tone.
So Song Qingyin was very sure that something had happened to Pei Jingmo, and it might be related to her!
But she was not in Nanlin at the moment, and she didn't know what Pei Jingmo had done during the two days she was away.
The call wasn't over yet, and even though Song Qingyin felt uncomfortable, she wanted to continue chatting.
She took a deep breath and said, "Yes, we were discussing the contract. I was worried about Xiaoyu, so I made an excuse to come out and talk to you on the phone."
"Then you take care of Xiaoyu first, I will rush back as soon as I'm done!"
"Okay, then you go ahead and get busy." Pei Jingmo said and hung up the phone.
Song Qingyin didn't even react.
She was holding her phone in a daze, but before she had time to think about it, she received a message from Geng Fan, urging her to go back.
This contract was very important to her subsequent business, so Song Qingyin had to put domestic affairs aside and quickly rush back to the box.
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The study room of the mansion.
Pei Jingmo put his phone on the table and looked up at Liang Song. "Go on."
"Okay!" Liang Song nodded and continued what he had not finished saying on the way.
"According to my investigation, the cleaner that Mr. Pei and Miss Song met in the restaurant that day was named Li Xiumei. Based on the information she provided, I checked and found that she does have a cousin named Li Hai."
"Due to health reasons, Li Hai and his wife had been married for four years and had no children, so they adopted a child."
"An adopted child?" Pei Jingmo frowned when he heard that.
"Yes." Liang Song nodded, but then said regretfully: "I only found out that it was a girl, but the rest of the information... I'm sorry I'm incompetent."
After Liang Song learned about this from Li Xiumei, he asked for the girl's detailed information.
But Li Xiumei said that she didn't know where Li Hai adopted the child, nor did she know how old the child was at the time. She only knew that the girl's name was Li Qingyin.
But she guessed that the girl should be about five years old.
Li Xiumei also said that because Li Hai had a strange personality and kept silent about the girl, everyone in her family guessed that the child might have a dirty background...
However, Li Hai only raised Li Qingyin for less than a year. Li Xiumei hadn't seen her since the Chinese New Year of the following year.
So this matter was quickly forgotten in their family. If she hadn't seen Song Qingyin in the restaurant that day, she wouldn't have remembered that there was a child in Li Hai's family.
Li Xiumei was too embarrassed to say that she took the initiative to build a relationship with Song Qingyin because she saw that she was well dressed and thought that she must be doing well.
Liang Song told Pei Jingmo everything.
After listening, Pei Jingmo asked a question: "How did she recognize Li Qingyin back then? Is there a photo?"
"No..." Liang Song replied: "Li Xiumei said that Li Hai has a bad temper and is not a person who really wants to live his life. She saw Li Hai beat and scold Li Qingyin and was not good to the children, so there are no photos left at home."
"She said that she just felt that Miss Song's features were familiar, so she pulled her back."
After he finished speaking, Pei Jingmo's expression suddenly became gloomy.
He tightened his fingertips, and recalled what Song Qingyin had said in his mind -
"When the house caught fire, everything turned to ashes. Even my childhood photos are gone."
How could it be such a coincidence?
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