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Who were you having dinner with?
Yu Yao didn't even look up. "Just a friend."
Yu Cheng glanced into the shop. "Are you classmates? Do you need me to take you back to school?"
"No need, he has other things to do. You can take me back to school."
Yu Yao pointed her index finger upwards and said, "Let's close the canopy!"
Yu Cheng closed the car cover again and then focused on driving Yu Yao back to school.
After walking a few streets, she opened her handbag, took out a small mirror, and began to fix her makeup.
After a while, Yu Yao put away the small mirror and placed her handbag at her feet.
He then closed the file box and began chatting with Yu Cheng.
"Mom hasn't been resting well these past few days and isn't feeling well. When we video chatted today, she even said her tooth hurts!"
Qi Yuexi had a toothache, and Yu Cheng knew about it that morning.
Aunt Li specifically told him this.
Yu Cheng knew that it was Qi Yuexi who had instructed her.
Because of Jian Yu's illness, Yu Cheng and his family had some disagreements and hadn't spoken much in the past few days.
Qi Yuexi didn't come downstairs for breakfast in the morning. Yu Hao was away on a business trip, and Yu Yao and Yu Ze had returned to school. Only Yu Cheng was at the dining table.
Yu Cheng specifically asked Aunt Li what medicine Qi Yuexi had taken for her toothache.
Aunt Li hesitated before saying that she hadn't eaten.
Yu Cheng understood immediately and went upstairs to "visit the sick." Afterward, the mother and son went downstairs together for a meal.
"Then why don't you go home and stay here tonight?"
Yu Yao thought for a moment, "Okay, let's go back and see Mom!"
After reaching the intersection, Yu Cheng changed the steering wheel and turned around to go home.
By the time the two arrived home, it was already dark.
As soon as Yu Cheng parked the car, Yu Yao opened the car door, ready to get out.
Yu Cheng looked at her and asked, "How much have you seen?"
Yu Yao paused, "I didn't look at it much."
He casually handed the document to Yu Cheng, saying, "Here you go."
Yu Cheng took it without saying anything more, and followed Yu Yao into the house with a complicated expression.
Yu Hao wasn't home. Qi Yuexi was eating when she saw Yu Yao and asked, "Why are you back today? Don't you have class tonight?"
“Our teacher went to a seminar, and we had self-study tonight. I ran into my brother while we were eating, and remembering that you had a toothache during the day, Mom, we came back together.”
Qi Yuexi smiled and hugged Yu Yao, "You came all the way back for such a small thing. You have to leave for school early tomorrow. Aren't you tired?"
"How could I be tired when I come back to see my mother?"
"Okay, okay, would you like some more? This beauty soup has been simmering all afternoon."
Upon hearing about the beauty soup, Yu Yao's eyes lit up. "Of course I want it."
Qi Yuexi immediately asked Aunt Li to serve Yu Yao soup, and seeing that Yu Cheng was still standing, she invited Yu Cheng to eat with her.
Yu Cheng didn't want to eat, so he said goodbye and prepared to go upstairs.
Qi Yuexi wanted to stop him, but Yu Yao said, "Mom, my brother is waiting to go upstairs to see Jian Yu's new information! You should let him go back!"
"Jian Yu's recent materials? Did your classmate give them to you?"
"It seems to be information from before Jian Yu came to our house."
The maid came over to help Yu Yao with her bag, but Yu Yao waved her hand and refused. After sitting down, she put the handbag behind her.
"Didn't your grandfather give us those documents? Why are you still looking for them?"
Yu Cheng said, "I think the information on Grandpa's side might not be detailed enough."
"How can a person remember every single detail of their life from childhood to adulthood?"
"Grandpa gave us too little information, only a few items, and they were all negative examples."
Qi Yuexi didn't care. "No matter how much you remember, it's still the same. The roots are already rotten. Whether there are more branches or fewer branches, it doesn't matter anymore."
Yu Cheng didn't say anything more and started going upstairs.
Yu Yao said, "Mom, let's take a look too? Maybe there are things we don't know about?"
"There's no need for that. It's just some petty theft or fighting anyway."
Yu Yao wanted to persuade him further, but Yu Cheng had already strode up the steps and reached the second floor.
Yu Yao had no choice but to give up!
Qi Yuexi glanced behind Yu Yao and asked, "Why didn't you have someone put your bag away for you?"
"It's full of my study materials, I can just carry it myself."
"You can take it yourself at school, but once you get home, you don't have to do it yourself."
"I know, it's not heavy," Yu Yao chuckled.
Qi Yuexi shook her head, "Hurry up and drink the soup!"
After finishing her soup, Yu Yao picked up her bag and went back to her room.
After entering the house, lock the door from the inside.
He opened his briefcase and took out a stack of documents.
Many of these materials were not even available to Qi Yuexi.
It seems that even Qi Yuexi was unaware of the things recorded inside.
After quickly flipping through the documents, Yu Yao sneered and stuffed them back into her bag.
In the next room, Yu Cheng was holding a file box and looking at its contents.
Yu Cheng read very slowly, and as he read, his eyes couldn't help but redden.
It's the same thing, but from the family's perspective, it's all flaws.
The information provided by the Prime Minister had a clear cause and effect.
From this perspective, Jian Yu is not beyond redemption.
I had to stop several times to calm myself down.
By the time I finished watching everything, it was already 11 o'clock.
Feeling stifled, Yu Cheng went to the window, opened it, and let some fresh air in.
The moon outside the window was big and round, much like the one when Jian Yu first came home.
When she first returned, Jian Yu didn't sleep well, probably because of the unfamiliar environment.
Once, Yu Cheng got up in the middle of the night to go downstairs for a drink of water.
By the floor-to-ceiling window in the living room, through the dim nightlight, I could see a small figure sitting on the floor with his knees drawn up to his chest, gazing up at the moon in a daze.
Hearing his footsteps, she was terrified, like a frightened bird.
Yu Cheng was also startled by Jian Yu and quickly turned on the headlights.
The bright crystal chandelier illuminated the entire living room, and Jian Yu breathed a sigh of relief when she saw who had come in.
Startled, Yu Cheng was very annoyed and his tone was rather unfriendly, "What are you doing sitting here?"
Jian Yu trembled slightly but did not speak.
"Speak?" Yu Cheng emphasized.
Jian Yu lowered her head and whispered, "I'm looking at the moon."
"Why aren't you looking at the moon from your room? What are you doing sitting here? And why aren't you turning on the light? Don't you know it's scary?"
"I......"
Yu Cheng didn't give Jian Yu time to explain, "Go back to your room quickly."
Jian Yu didn't dare to explain anymore, quickly ran back to her room, and closed the door.
Later, when Yu Cheng went out again at night, he didn't see Jian Yu again.
Yu Cheng stared at the moon and suddenly realized a problem he had never been aware of before.
Jianyu's room window faces north. Can he see the moon at night?
Even though he already knew the answer in his heart, Yu Cheng still went downstairs to Jian Yu's room.
The room was very simply furnished, even less so than the servants' room.
Although Yu Cheng had never been inside Aunt Li's room, he had seen her WeChat Moments and knew that her room was bigger and more luxurious than this one.
I walked to the window, looked up, but there was no sign of the moon at all.
There is no moon at night, and no sun during the day.
The servants in the house also live in rooms facing the sun, so why is Jian Yu's room completely devoid of sunlight?
Are all the sunny rooms occupied by the servants?
Yu Cheng thought back carefully. In his memory, the room had always been empty, but it was later used to store miscellaneous items for a period of time.
Yu Cheng had no recollection of when the groceries were moved.
The clutter must have been moved away a long time ago, right?
When Jian Yu returned, the place happened to be empty, so they let her stay there?
Yu Cheng thought this was more reasonable; it couldn't be that the storeroom was deliberately converted into a bedroom, could it?
Regardless, Yu Cheng frowned deeply; the storeroom did not have a private bathroom.
Living in this house, Jianyu's life must be so inconvenient.
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