Not long after the blunder on New Year's Eve, Xiao Yan took action and adopted a pair of brothers.
The two children came from the disaster area. Their parents died in the disaster and they had no other relatives, so they had to be sent to a local welfare home.
Xiao Yan's company donated a sum of money to the disaster area. Assistant Huang mentioned this in the report and he paid attention to it.
Originally, he was only going to adopt one child, but the older brother of the pair, who was only four or five years old, held his younger brother's hand tightly after learning that he was going to be taken away. His dark eyes were full of fear and stubbornness. No matter how the adults coaxed him, he would not let go. The other child, who was less than two years old, probably sensed the tense atmosphere and began to cry loudly.
The scene was noisy. The welfare staff tried to coax him anxiously while keeping an eye on Xiao Yan, fearing that he would get impatient and leave.
Later, when Xiao Yan left, there were two more children in the car.
Xiao Xing had no opinion on his behavior, and Su Wanting and Mrs. Qu would not object. Only the two elderly people in the Xiao family were not very happy at first.
However, you can't force a cow to drink water, let alone a living person?
Besides, the two children were really pitiful and well-behaved. Grandpa Xiao came to visit them twice, and then moved back with Mrs. Xiao. The two of them happily teased their great-grandson and didn't bother to care whether Xiao Yan wanted to find a girl or a boy.
In order to take care of the children, the family hired a nanny, and the house, which was a little deserted, suddenly became lively.
Children have short memories. Although they always cried because they missed their parents at the beginning, the memory and pain gradually faded over time, and they became close to the Xiao family again. Except for occasionally asking where mom and dad went, they rarely cried.
Since they were born, when Su Yi came back from abroad, she was greeted by Mimi and two little guys who kept calling "Auntie".
Su Yi never thought that she could handle children, nor did she think she had enough patience to endure their fighting and noise, but in fact, reality was much better than she imagined.
She sat in the yard with Mrs. Qu and the two elders of the Xiao family, watching the two little guys chasing and playing around with Mimi in the yard. Night was about to fall. The house behind them was lit up with warm lights, and the aroma of food drifted out of the window. Outside the yard, Su Wanting and Xiao Xing's car was slowly stopping. Somewhere in the city, Xiao Yan might have just turned off his computer and was ready to go home.
At this moment, the stars and the family were all there.
She was in a trance for a moment, thinking that this moment could last forever.
Mimi was the first to leave.
For a dog, it was indeed old enough.
But for Su Yi, it seemed like it was just yesterday that she was jealous of that little puppy and competed for her grandmother's attention. She still remembered that she hid a little snowman in the refrigerator, which made the little stupid dog itch and whine.
But now, it just lay there, its hair turned white and its limbs were stiff. No matter how hard she tried to coax it, it would never be fooled again.
The two children in the family cried loudly, and the others were more or less sad, but Mrs. Qu, who had raised Mimi the longest and was closest to it, did not cry.
She knew this day would come sooner or later.
Su Wanting wanted to take another puppy to raise, but Mrs. Qu refused, saying that she wanted to move back to the small fishing village.
Fallen leaves return to their roots, and people return to their hometowns when they grow old.
Although Su Wanting and the Xiao family tried to persuade her to stay, Old Lady Qu was determined to stay this time. Xiao Xing had no choice but to have the two-story building in the small fishing village renovated before sending her back in person.
More than a decade later, the outside world has changed dramatically, but the fishing village seems to have not changed. The sea is still the same sea, and the wind is still the same wind, but there are fewer familiar faces and more strangers.
Su Yi and Old Lady Qu came back together. First, her grandmother is old and needs someone to take care of her; second, even if she doesn't want to think about it, she always has a bad premonition.
When she first returned to the small fishing village, Old Lady Qu was still very strong. Every day, she would go out to visit old friends or go to the cemetery to weed and talk to her husband's grave.
One night when Su Yi came back from a walk with her, she suddenly said: "Yi Yi, grandma is going back."
Going back is a way of saying that the old people here are approaching the end of their life and are about to leave.
More than half a month later, Mrs. Qu left in her sleep.
Su Wanting cried and fainted several times. Su Yi stared at the rising sun outside the window. It was so bright and dazzling. She closed her eyelids and a drop of water fell from her eyes.
Mrs. Qu and Su Yi's grandfather were buried together. The lovers who had been separated for more than forty years finally reunited three feet under and were buried together on a hillside facing the sea.
After the funeral, Su Yi neither returned to S city nor traveled around the world. He still stayed in the small fishing village.
Xiao Yan came to see her. It was almost winter. The sea breeze was cold and the waves were rough. The two stood on the reef and blew the sea breeze quietly for an entire afternoon. When night fell, Xiao Yan returned to the city alone.
Su Wanting also called her, which was very rare. Su Yi knew that they were all worried about her, afraid that she was too sad.
She didn't think she was very sad. No one had ever felt more sad than she did about the separation of life and death. She just... needed to slow down for a while, and it would be fine after she got over it.
Moreover, she once again realized that she had stayed in this world for too long.
Su Yi leaned on the windowsill, gently stroking Maotuan's fur with her fingers, and suddenly asked: "In the original book, after Su Yi committed suicide, what happened to Su Wanting?"
During this time, Maotuan had been quietly accompanying her. Such a noisy ball could endure the loneliness.
It was not until Su Yi asked now that it quickly flipped through the original book, read for a long time, and said: "There is not much description, but there is a sentence that says that Xiao Yan's stepmother was in poor physical and mental health because of her daughter's suicide. "
Su Yi nodded.
Maotuan said anxiously: "Yi Yi, do you have any plans?"
Su Yi did have plans, she was ready to leave.
Human life is limited, and she has lived too long, the difference is only a matter of time.
However, no matter how many times it happens, it always makes people feel sad and lonely when the song ends and everyone leaves. She just thinks that she is too weak and unwilling to be the last one to stay and watch the people around her leave one by one.
But she can't just leave like this. Su Wanting has just lost a relative. If she loses her daughter, even if the relationship is not very close, she may not be able to bear it.
There is also Xiao Yan, the Xiao family, and her friends. She can't bear to make them sad.
Su Yi sat on the windowsill all night, and made a decision when the sky in the east was slightly bright.
"Yi Yi, do you really want to do this?" Mao Tuan said in surprise, "This may be a big loss for you."
Su Yi smiled, touched its head and said, "It may be a bit tiring, but the damage is not considered. Don't underestimate me."
Maotuan knew that he could not persuade her, so he could only sigh secretly.
The sun finally jumped out of the sea level, and a new day has begun.
In the Xiao family mansion in S City, it was just past six o'clock, Xiao Yan opened his eyes, and stepped out of the door at six twenty.
He was adjusting his tie, and inadvertently looked up at the room opposite, and was slightly stunned.
He was the only one living on the entire third floor. The room opposite had been empty for decades. Usually the door was closed, but today it was slightly open. Did the aunt forget to close it when she was cleaning?
This was just a trivial matter, but it seemed as if something was forgotten, which invisibly led him to walk through the living room.
Xiao Yan grabbed the doorknob and glanced into the room before closing it. The furnishings in his room were not much different, with a bed, a wardrobe, a desk, and a string of wind chimes made of shells hanging on the windowsill. When he looked more closely, he found that the white curtains were blown up by the wind, which dazzled him.
"Click--" The door closed tightly, and the curtains slowly fell down.
In the master bedroom downstairs, Su Wanting woke up early and was packing up her mother's belongings.
She found an iron box in the old man's cabinet. There were many small objects and a not very clear photo inside. She took it under the light and looked at it carefully. Then she found that the people in the photo were Old Lady Qu and a little girl. The girl was only three or four years old, with short arms and legs, a small round face, and dark eyes that flickered.
Su Wanting stared at the photo in a trance.
She naturally knew who the girl was. It was the daughter she didn't want to give birth to or see. She died when she was five or six years old. She had deliberately forgotten about it a long time ago, but today, for some reason, perhaps she thought of her mother who had passed away not long ago, or she was just blinded by the wind, she looked at the photo and shed a line of tears without knowing it.
Farther in the city center, in a high-end apartment, Zhang Jiajia was awakened by a phone call. She picked up the phone impatiently, "...Who is it?"
"Lazy pig, are you still not up? Didn't we agree to go shopping all day so that we can make a shining appearance at the class reunion?" Fang Yingying urged from the other end.
"I know, I know..." Zhang Jiajia got up with a painful look on her face.
She sat on the bed for a while in a daze, and caught a glimpse of the graduation photo placed on the bedside table last night. She picked it up casually, intending to take another look at the class flower of that year.
"Huh...is there one more person here?" She rubbed her eyes and counted again, making sure that she was not awake and had seen it wrong just now. There were only twenty-nine people in their class, not thirty.
She threw the photo away, yawned and went to wash up.
In the small fishing village, Su Yi leaned against the tombstone of Old Lady Qu and watched everything.
The fur ball was beside her, wiping the corners of his eyes furtively. He wanted to take back what he had said about the devil. Who said the devil was inhuman? He had never seen a more merciful devil than her.
In order not to make others sad, she chose to change other people's memories. Now everyone has forgotten her, but she herself cannot forget.
Is there anything more sad than this?
"Why are you crying?" Su Yi saw Maotuan wiping his nose, and picked him up with a smile. She took a last look at the sea, turned around and said, "Grandma, I'm leaving."
Thousands of miles away, Xiao Yan finished breakfast and was about to go to the company. The moment he opened the car door, countless pictures flooded into his mind, the blue sea, the girl on the windowsill, the white wind chimes, and... the figure bathed in fire, the woman on the throne, her fiery red flying clothes...
Xiao Yan opened his mouth, but what came out was a strange, hoarse voice, "...My Lord."
Volume 2 The Villain's Pretentious and Beautiful Mother
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