Chapter 261: Have you always had someone in your heart?
Qin Huayun looked at the graceful girl in front of him and felt a little dazed for a moment.
She rubbed her eyes, her voice trembling slightly: "Xiaoya? Is it really you?"
Lin Ya took a step forward and smiled widely: "Aunt Qin, it's me."
"Oh my god," Qin Huayun held Lin Ya's face with both hands and looked at it carefully, "I can't recognize you. Girls change a lot when they grow up. They really become more and more beautiful. The last time I saw you, you were still a yellow-haired girl with pigtails, and now..."
"Aunt Qin, I'm already in my twenties." Lin Ya smiled and held her hand. She noticed that the years had left many marks on Qin Huayun's face, but her eyes were still as bright as ever. "You haven't changed at all, you're still so beautiful."
"You just try to make me happy," Qin Huayun said, but her face was full of smiles, "You are an old woman now."
Seeing that the two were chatting enthusiastically, Ling Sheng interrupted them with a smile: "Mom, you two can chat while I go to the kitchen to cook. By the way, all these things tonight were bought by Lin Ya, and I didn't spend a penny. She said you used to love drinking tea, so she bought tea leaves for you."
"Oh," Qin Huayun glared at Lin Ya in pretended anger, "Come if you want to, but what are you bringing? You are so polite."
"It's my duty." Lin Ya said softly. When she saw Ling Sheng walking into the kitchen, she also said, "I'll go help with the cooking. I'm afraid Director Ling can't handle it alone."
Qin Huayun raised her eyebrows in surprise: "You can cook? I remember that when you were a kid, you could even boil noodles until they were mushy."
"It's different now," Lin Ya's eyes flashed with a hint of playfulness, "I can even cook squirrel fish properly."
"No need," Ling Sheng's voice floated out from the kitchen, "Just talk to my mom. She talks about you every day."
"Yes, yes, let him do it himself, and you talk to auntie."
"Okay." Lin Ya nodded.
Qin Huayun pulled Lin Ya to sit on the sofa. She naturally took Lin Ya's hand and rubbed it: "Why did you change your surname to Lin? You took your mother's surname. Does your father agree? By the way, speaking of this, are your parents okay?"
Hearing this question, Lin Ya's eyelashes trembled slightly, and a thin layer of tears appeared in her eyes.
She spoke in a very soft voice: "My parents...are gone. Later, my uncle and aunt adopted me. They didn't have any children, so I was their only child...so I took my uncle's last name."
Qin Huayun realized that she had touched Lin Ya's sore spot and hurriedly apologized to her: "Child, Auntie didn't know... I'm sorry..."
"It's okay." Lin Ya forced a smile. "It's been so many years since it happened. I don't feel as much pain as I did back then. But when I think about it... I still feel a little sad."
Qin Huayun hugged her in his arms distressedly and patted her back gently: "Poor girl..."
Suddenly, as if remembering something, he asked, "What about your brother Jian Rui? Don't you have a brother? Where has he been all these years?"
Lin Ya's body froze instantly. Her eyes turned red at a visible speed, and her throat seemed to be choked by something.
She swallowed a few times, trying to suppress the emotions churning in her chest.
"What's wrong?" Qin Huayun panicked, "Did something happen?"
"My brother..." Lin Ya took a few deep breaths to stop herself from crying, "He's gone too."
Qin Huayun gasped and tears instantly came down.
She hugged Lin Ya tightly and said, "Poor child... This will be your home from now on. If you have any difficulties, you must tell your aunt."
Lin Ya nodded gently and buried her face in her hands.
Qin Huayun handed her a handkerchief to wipe her tears, took out the photo album, carefully turned to a page, and took out an old photo with curled corners: "Look, this is a photo of you, your brother, and Lu Chen when you were six years old..."
In the photo, a little girl with pigtails is standing between two boys, her eyes curved into crescents due to her smile.
The boy on the left gently held her shoulders, while the boy on the right made mischievous faces.
The boy on the right is Lu Chen. Although he looks calm and composed now, with an icy face and no expression all day long, he was actually a sunny and lively boy when he was young.
Lin Ya's fingertips gently traced the photo, and suddenly stopped when she touched the boy who was making a face. Her eyes became unusually soft, and filled with unspeakable sadness.
"Xiaoya," Qin Huayun saw this and changed the subject, not wanting her to be immersed in sadness, "Do you have a partner?"
"Ah?" Lin Ya woke up from her dream and shook her head hurriedly, "No, no..."
"Auntie, can you introduce one?"
"No thanks!" Lin Ya declined politely, "I just want to work hard now..."
Qin Huayun smiled meaningfully: "I remember when you were little, I joked that I wanted you to be my son Lu Chen's wife."
Lin Ya also smiled, but the emotion in her eyes was hard to describe.
"It's a pity that you came back a little late, otherwise you would be my daughter-in-law." Qin Huayun said with regret.
No matter how you look at it, Lin Ya is better than Xu Nuo.
That girl really is... I really don't want to mention her anymore.
Not only did she, as a daughter-in-law, refuse to make every effort to mend the relationship between her and Lu Chen's mother and son, she also helped Lu Chen distance himself from her.
She is her real mother-in-law, but Xu Nuo treats Cheng Wanying as his real mother-in-law.
She had surgery a few days ago and Lu Chen came to the hospital. She didn't believe that Xu Nuo, as her daughter-in-law, didn't know about it.
But what?
No expression at all.
Fortunately, she thought that Xu Nuo was a good child at the beginning, but now it seems that she was really blind.
Lin Ya lowered her head, seeming a little embarrassed: "Aunt Qin, that's all in the past, please don't mention it again."
"I feel very sorry. You are such a good girl, but you can't be my daughter-in-law..." No matter how she thought about it, she felt uncomfortable. Although Ling Sheng had already expressed his feelings, Qin Huayun still asked Lin Ya, "What do you think of Ling Sheng?"
"Director Ling is great! But, but we are not suitable..."
A thought suddenly flashed through Qin Huayun's mind: "Silly child, have you always been thinking about someone in your heart?"
Lin Ya bit her lip, and a trace of difficulty flashed in her eyes.
How should she answer?
Qin Huayun looked at her and her heart moved slightly, and memories passed by like a spring breeze——
In the midsummer of that year, the two families sat under an old locust tree to enjoy the cool air. Lin Ya watched her two brothers wrestling nearby. Seeing that they were sweating profusely, she hurriedly handed them a handkerchief.
Seeing this caring scene, Qin Huayun half-jokingly said: "Let Xiaoya be Lu Chen's future wife."
Lin Ya's parents smiled and said that they had no objection and would be happy to have such an outstanding boy like Lu Chen as their son-in-law, but they didn't know whether Xiaoya was willing.
When the little girl heard her parents say this, she replied crisply: "I am willing to be Brother Lu Chen's bride!"
I guess Lin Ya is still thinking about Lu Chen?
"Mom." Ling Sheng poked his head out of the kitchen. He heard what his stepmother said just now and felt that it was not appropriate. "Lu Chen is already married and has a good life. Let's not talk about this anymore."
"Don't mention it?" Qin Huayun knew what Ling Sheng was thinking. She shook her head and said, "You...if you don't fight for it, some people and things will never be yours."
"mom!"
"Okay, okay, let's not talk about this. By the way, let's give Lu Chen a call? Lin Ya is here tonight, let him come over for dinner. It can be considered a reminisce about the past." Qin Huayun said.
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