Chapter 115 "Looking for your mother at three, looking for your wife at thirty"
"Xu Si'an, how could you go to the bridal shop with her? You said we were going to the bridal shop together."
"I'm sorry, Xu Si'an, it's not that I don't love you."
"But for Dad's sake, I have to separate from you. It's not that I don't love you, it's not that I don't want you!"
"Xu Si'an, Dad is gone. He told me to find you and bring you back!"
"Xu Si'an, I'm going back to Luocheng. Will I still be able to find you? Xu Si'an, do you miss me?"
"I miss you so much!"
'Plop,' a tear fell onto the paper and blossomed into a flower.
Xu Si'an covered her eyes and sobbed softly.
He threw off the covers, got out of bed, hastily put on his clothes and pants, and left without even taking his coat.
Besides paying respects to Qiao's father, Meng Zhe and Ye Yurou also had to prepare for their wedding.
At this moment, Qiao's mother went out with her brother and sister-in-law to buy some things.
Chang Yi, who was playing with his dog on the sofa downstairs, looked at the man rushing down the stairs in a panic and asked, "Brother, where are you going?"
"Brother, put on your coat."
On the pedestrian street in the small town, Qiao Xu and Ye Yurou had just started queuing to buy milk tea when Xu Si'an called.
"Ah Si? Why aren't you taking a nap?"
"Baby, where are you?"
Qiao Xu pointed to the peach oolong tea on the menu to Ye Yurou and then left the crowd.
"What's wrong? Why is your voice hoarse?"
Xu Si'an's breathing became rapid, as if he were running: "Baby, I miss you, I want to see you, where are you?"
Qiao Xu glanced around.
"It was during that Chinese New Year last time, when you came to my house to visit me, that was the pedestrian street where we went on our date, we were buying milk tea."
Ye Yurou handed her the milk tea: "President Xu keeps such a close eye on you."
"I don't know, it must be something urgent."
Fearing that Xu Si'an wouldn't be able to find her, the two stood by the roadside and waited.
Not long after, the man's flustered figure appeared.
"Hey, over here."
Qiao Xu waved to him, and the next instant, Xu Si'an suddenly pulled Qiao Xu into his arms: "Baby."
His face was buried in Qiao Xu's neck.
Qiao Xu raised her hand just as he pounced on her, otherwise the milk tea she had only taken two sips of would have been ruined.
"What's wrong with you? Weren't you sleeping?"
"Yeah, I can't sleep without you."
Qiao Xu noticed his emotions, but with Ye Yurou present, she didn't dare to ask.
He simply patted him on the shoulder and said, "Xu Si'an, you're almost thirty, not three."
Xu Si'an nuzzled her neck: "You look for your mother when you're three, and you look for your wife when you're thirty."
"Pfft! Cough cough cough cough..."
Ye Yurou gave a thumbs up: "Great job, President Xu, you deserve full marks for the summary."
Xu Si'an released Qiao Xu and held her hand tightly: "Whatever you buy, I'll pay for it."
Ye Yurou rolled her eyes: "President Xu, do you have to be so nervous? This is Xuxu's hometown, Xuxu won't get lost."
Xu Si'an refused to leave, and Qiao Xu couldn't do anything about it.
Fortunately, Xu Si'an doesn't usually act like a boss, and Ye Yurou isn't intimidated by him. Besides, she's now his girlfriend's cousin-in-law.
There are many craft shops in the town, and Ye Yurou finds everything fascinating.
Xu Si'an followed behind them, carrying the items and paying the bill.
"Xuxu, it's not really appropriate to let President Xu pay the bill."
Qiao Xu turned around and glanced at the man holding her bag at the cashier, who was scanning a QR code with his phone to pay.
"Whatever, he's got money."
Qiao's mother and Meng Zhe's family of three went to the city to buy things, and they simply ate out before going home.
Meng Zhe's house was only a few hundred meters away from Qiao Xu's house. Ye Yurou said goodbye to Qiao Xu and then left.
Pushing open the courtyard gate, Chang Yi sat on a recliner, holding a dog: "When they're having a good time, have they forgotten something?"
Qiao Xu glanced at the man beside her.
Why didn't you say that A-Yi was home?
"If he's home, he's home. If he's not home, where would he go? He's in his mid-twenties, and he still can't find something to eat."
Chang Yi was displeased with this: "You're in your mid-twenties, and you're still going out to find a wife."
"Go upstairs and take a shower, Yi. Have you eaten?"
Chang Yi shook his head, and Qiao Xu went into the kitchen to cook him a bowl of noodles.
When I brought the dog out of the yard, I saw him holding the dog, staring blankly: "Why do you look so lost?"
"Sis, I'm going back to Washington in a few days."
Qiao Xu took the dog from his arms and put it on the ground.
He recalled what Xu Si'an had told him a while ago: "Ayi, Mom, this place, and I will all be your home from now on. We will all be your family."
"I know."
"I'll go back and take a look. I'll be back."
In the bedroom, Xu Si'an was wrapped in Qiao Xu's light blue bath towel.
The way he sat on the sofa making a phone call was simply unbearable to watch.
It's drafty!
Qiao Xu closed the door, and as she walked past him, her wrist was grabbed, and she fell into his arms.
Xu Si'an continued his phone call, his arm encircling her waist.
Qiao Xu glared at him, pinched him, and squeezed his waist.
"Hiss~"
He moved the phone away from his ear: "Needs to be disciplined, huh?"
"Let go, I'm going to take a shower."
Xu Si'an hurriedly hung up the phone: "I'll help you wash."
When he was carried into the bathroom, Qiao Xu was even mentally prepared for him to "do work" in the bathroom.
As a result, he washed her from head to toe as if she were a rag doll.
"Xu Si'an, something's wrong with you."
"Um!"
He carried Qiao Xu back to bed, took the diary out from under the pillow, and placed it in her hand.
Xu Si'an noticed the panic in Qiao Xu's eyes.
"I'm sorry, baby, I didn't ask for your permission."
Qiao Xu gripped the notebook tightly: "How come... you've already seen it?"
Xu Si'an nodded and unlocked the password in the notebook in front of Qiao Xu.
Qiao Xu was slightly shocked: "How did you know the password?"
She had never shown this notebook to him, and it had been under her pillow for four years.
When she left home and returned to Los Angeles, working on her internship while preparing for graduate school entrance exams, this notebook was under her pillow.
"It's like there's a voice in my head telling me it's this day."
"Baby, do you remember when you confessed your love to me on New Year's Eve?"
That day, students from several departments were celebrating the New Year together at a bar. Qiao Xu stood on the stool behind him and whispered in his ear.
"Xu Si'an, Qiao Xu likes you!"
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Qiao Xu sat cross-legged on the bed and opened the first page of her diary.
Xu Si'an suddenly remembered something: "One weekend before graduation, you suddenly went home?"
Qiao Xu gave a soft "hmm" and continued flipping through the notebook.
She read through her handwritten diary: "Xu Si'an, when the doctor said that Dad couldn't be cured, I hated myself. If I had taken the money back then, maybe Dad could have lived a little longer."
Qiao Xu knew in her heart that her father's illness was incurable.
Spending money is just to let Dad live a little longer.
But her father said she did nothing wrong.
Later, she was the one who took off the oxygen mask from her father's face.
Rather than living a painful life on a ventilator, she would rather her father pass away peacefully.
When they turned to the last page, Qiao Xu's tears fell on the spot where Xu Si'an's tears had fallen not long ago, overlapping with each other.
“Dad said you are good and asked me to find you and bring you back.”
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