This message contained no other text, only a photo.
It was a very well-taken photo -
the warm yellow light of the indoor lighting generously sprinkled on the man and woman looking at each other in the picture. Only half of the woman's face was in the picture. Under the light, the corners of her lips were slightly curved, and her entire attention was on the man in front of her.
And that man...
The light fell on the man's face, bringing out deep and shallow shadows. His overly strong and bold facial features fell half in the light, and half were hidden in the outline of the shadow, showing a mysterious color.
He held the wine glass in his hand loosely, looking at the woman in front of him with his eyes focused, while he curled his lips and raised his eyebrows in the soft warm yellow light, smiling slightly.
——This is a smile that Su Yunbai is used to seeing, but in this photo, it has a different charm.
Maybe the light is too gentle, or maybe the woman in front of him makes him happy, so that his habitual raised eyebrows and slightly upturned lips no longer appear careless, but suddenly become subtle and gentle.
This gentleness brings out the pulsating affection. So the man and the concubine are in love, and the atmosphere of the whole picture is beautiful and romantic. It's like a movie poster, and one glance can make people imagine a lingering love and hate.
Su Yunbai looked at the person in the picture quietly.
The man is Huo Qinian, her husband.
And the person who was "looking at each other affectionately" with her husband... Su Yunbai knew her, or should I say, she had "remembered her like thunder" - she was Huo Qinian's first love, Qu Qingyin.
An old friend is an old friend after all. With lowered brows and flowing eyes, there are stories.
It can't be covered up.
Su Yunbai almost indifferently closed the text message and clicked off the photo.
She exhaled heavily, as if to spit out all the inexplicable emotions in her heart, and then clicked on the memo and continued to write on the latest memo -
[0416
+1=15]
Su Yunbai's eyes fell on the latest number.
So fast?
It's already 15.
Her mood was a little complicated, and her fingers slid up subconsciously to look through the previous records.
【0401
+1=1】
【0403
+1=2】
…
【0409
-1=10】
…
Rows of strange numbers, mostly "+1" after another, only occasionally, there will be a "-1".
But after adding and subtracting, it is indeed 15. The
calculation was not wrong.
Su Yunbai put down the phone and sighed softly.
Su Yunbai did not get a good rest that night. But the next morning, she still got up early and left herself plenty of time to prepare.
——According to Su Yunbai's expectations, today's battle will not be easy to fight. No matter what, at least she cannot lose in momentum.
Su Yunbai took a leave of absence to come back in order to handle the transfer procedures of the inheritance left by her grandmother. The old man did not leave much property, and the largest one was this house.
The house was old, and the facilities were too old. From the perspective of conditions alone, it was not very good. But it was close to the No. 3 Middle School in the city, and it was a real school district house. In addition, the surrounding transportation and life were convenient, so the house was in short supply.
Even so, given the overall economic level of City C, this house was not worth much.
But some things are not just financially meaningful, especially for Su Yunbai.
What Su Yunbai found subtle was that this was not only true for her, but also for Zhou Yueran. The difference was that Su Yunbai was thinking about the family affection and memories of growth behind the house. And for Zhou Yueran, as long as she can make Su Yunbai unhappy, that is the greatest meaning.
Speaking of Zhou Yueran, we have to talk about the complicated family relationships in Teacher Su's family. Neighbors
gossip about Teacher Su, always saying that Teacher Su has a bad life. This is actually not unfair. Teacher Su's life is not smooth.
Teacher Su lost her husband in middle age, but she did not remarry and had a son and a daughter. She was both a father and a mother, and finally raised both children. After a sudden illness, the eldest son was gone.
Then, the younger daughter's family also encountered twists and turns. The younger daughter had just been married for three months, and for some reason she had a big fight with her son-in-law, and ended up getting divorced.
After the divorce, the younger daughter found out that she was pregnant. After ten months of pregnancy, she gave birth to a baby girl. This was Su Yunbai.
After Su's mother gave birth to Su Yunbai, she left without waiting for her confinement and disappeared for three years.
Three years later, on a Spring Festival, Su's mother came back with another newborn baby girl in her arms and a middle-aged man named Zhou. It was also at this time that Teacher Su learned that Su's mother had remarried. The object was a rich middle-aged man named Zhou, who was divorced and had a son.
The story was complicated and Teacher Su never wanted to talk about it. In short, from then on, Su Yunbai had a half-sister named Zhou Yueran.
Teacher Su has a grudge against Su's mother, and has been indifferent to Zhou Yueran.
Zhou Yueran comes from a wealthy family and has been a little girl since she was a child. Naturally, she doesn't care about Teacher Su's love.
But not caring doesn't mean not minding.
Zhou Yueran even minds it a lot. Teacher Su loves Su Yunbai the most, so from childhood to adulthood, the person Zhou Yueran can't stand the most is Su Yunbai, and she has to make things difficult for her whenever she finds a chance.
Before Teacher Su passed away, she had verbally divided the family property. She directly allocated this old house to Su Yunbai. Su Yunbai immediately said that he would give Zhou Yueran half of the market value of the house as an equal division of the family property.
In front of the old man's bed, Su's mother agreed.
The agreement at the time was only a verbal agreement. Now that Teacher Su's funeral is over, Su Yunbai wants to fulfill the agreement.
Earlier, Su Yunbai called Su's mother to make an appointment, and Su's mother handed the matter over to Zhou Yueran. So now, Zhou Yueran is the one who is in contact with Su Yunbai.
According to Zhou Yueran's calm personality, today's trip may not be that easy.
Su Yunbai has been mentally prepared.
The two agreed to meet at a coffee shop in the city. The appointed time was at ten o'clock in the morning, and Su Yunbai arrived ten minutes early.
Ten minutes later, there was no sign of Zhou Yueran. Su Yunbai was not surprised by this. She took out her computer and began to work leisurely.
It was not until nearly eleven o'clock in the morning that Zhou Yueran arrived late.
Su Yunbai heard the sound of wind chimes at the door of the store and looked up.
This glance caught her.
Zhou Yueran did not come alone, there was another person following closely beside her. The person was wearing a brown long skirt, with her hair loose, and walked in from the door calmly, gracefully and generously.
Su Yunbai recognized her at a glance-Qu Qingyin.
Since receiving the first text message, Su Yunbai had a feeling that she would meet Qu Qingyin sooner or later. But she didn't expect that the opportunity would come so late and so unexpectedly.
It has been half a year since she first received that inexplicable text message. If Qu Qingyin really knew anything about the text message but kept silent...
then she is really patient.
Su Yunbai's eyes flashed across Zhou Yueran, ignoring the other party's overly brilliant eyes, which were even brilliant enough to look like watching a good show, and fell on Qu Qingyin.
Qu Qingyin nodded at her across a few tables and smiled slightly.
Su Yunbai is very familiar with this smile - it is a smile belonging to "people in the circle".
It is difficult to say whether this kind of smile has a template, but it does have a characteristic: polite but distant. In addition to being polite and calm, it also carries a bit of well-hidden scrutiny.
Calm and condescending.
Su Yunbai has always disliked this kind of smile, always feeling that the owner is both pretentious and pretentious. But to be fair, Qu Qingyin's expression is not that annoying to her.
Maybe it's because Qu Qingyin has the face of Zhang Guotai Minan, so even the arrogance that can't be hidden can be forgiven.
When Su Yunbai was looking at Qu Qingyin, Qu Qingyin was also looking at her.
In the circle of wives in City A, there have been many rumors about Su Yunbai, Mrs. Huo. Qu Qingyin has been back to China for more than half a year, and has also been listening to all kinds of rumors about Su Yunbai for more than half a year.
If we only look at the rumors, the impression Su Yunbai gives to outsiders can be simply described in one word - bland.
But Qu Qingyin didn't expect it to be this "bland".
It's not that Su Yunbai is not good-looking. In fact, Su Yunbai has a very classical and elegant appearance. Her facial features are very delicate when taken alone, and what's rare is that they are just right when combined, which is a kind of non-aggressive pleasing to the eye like spring breeze and drizzle.
She is certainly beautiful. But when you see her, it's hard for you to think of adjectives like "beautiful", and you will feel that such words are too trendy and too jumpy - Su Yunbai gives people such an impression.
She is not cold and arrogant, but her whole temperament is a bit clear and unique. When she looked at people, her eyes revealed a sense of aloofness. It was like the mist that shrouded the mountain after the rain, a kind of fleeting, light and coolness that was hard to tell at first glance.
Precisely because it was hard to tell, she gave people a vague impression, and only felt light.
It turned out to be so "bland".
Qu Qingyin's heart couldn't help but lift a little.
The distance between the two people quickly shortened.
Zhou Yueran took Qu Qingyin's arm and sat down opposite Su Yunbai in a swagger.
She threw the bag in her hand aside, looked up at Su Yunbai with a provocative look, "This broken house is full of troubles, luckily Qingyin helped me. She majored in law in college, so she can help us with this 'contract'," Zhou Yueran paused and rolled her eyes in disdain, "Please give me an eye. Don't say that I'm greedy for your broken stuff when the time comes..."
Before Su Yunbai could say anything, Qu Qingyin had already frowned slightly and said disapprovingly, "Yueyue!"
Zhou Yueran curled the corners of his mouth downwards, snorted coldly, and didn't say anything else.
Qu Qingyin smiled apologetically at Su Yunbai, "Hello, I'm Qu Qingyin. Yueyue has no experience in handling this kind of procedures, so she dragged me along. She thought that since I had handled it, she would follow it from beginning to end."
Su Yunbai nodded, neither saying whether he believed it nor not.
Knowing that they were familiar with each other, she went ahead and introduced herself, "Hello, Miss Qu, I'm Su Yunbai." She paused, then said, "Excuse me, should I talk to you or her about the next thing?"
Zhou Yueran got angry, "Who are you talking about? Qingyin won't act as an agent for anyone. Of course she talked to me! Don't you understand what I'm saying? I told you Qingyin is just here to help."
Su Yunbai glanced at her indifferently, and didn't argue with her. She turned around and took out a card and a document from her bag, pushed it over, and said, "This document is a valuation of my grandmother's house that I asked a special agency to do. The market value is around 900,000. According to the agreement, I will give you half of the house at a discount. There is 500,000 in this card..." As
she spoke, she looked at Zhou Yueran, waiting for her reaction.
Although Teacher Su made plans for the estate before he passed away, he did not formally establish a will. Now Su Yunbai wants to sort out the ownership of the house, so the procedure is relatively passive.
Su's mother is still alive, and Su Yunbai, as Teacher Su's granddaughter, is actually not eligible to inherit the estate. Now in order to implement Teacher Su's idea, Su's mother needs to inherit Teacher Su's house as the first-order heir, and then transfer the house to Su Yunbai.
Of course, it is not a difficult thing in terms of procedure, but since the matter has been handed over to Zhou Yueran, whether she is willing to cooperate depends entirely on the mood of the eldest lady.
Su Yunbai was prepared for Zhou Yueran to make things difficult for her, but she didn't expect that Zhou Yueran would be so happy this time.
She took out a stack of documents from her bag, "I won't play those nonsense with you. I have all the documents you need here, and they are all signed..."
As she spoke, she looked at Su Yunbai and said slowly, "After all, we are sisters, and we are still connected. I won't make it difficult for you. Next weekend, Qingyin will move, and you can go there in person to congratulate Qingyin, and I will take care of this matter for you.
"Isn't it too much?"