It was snowing and raining at the end of the year, and Erhua's Santana was splashed with mud.
There is an open space behind the department store with a pavilion built on it. It can’t really be called a pavilion, but more like a shed for growing cucumbers in the countryside. Wisteria trees climb along the shed, providing shade in the summer and allowing for sunbathing in the winter when the leaves fall.
Retired elderly people with nothing to do come here to bask in the sun, play chess and show off their talents.
Erhua parked the car in front of the pavilion and filled two buckets of water.
"Brother, it's cold, aren't your hands frozen?" Lin Yao walked over and sat under the pavilion.
He was just reaching into the bucket with a rag, and he got a chill from the cold.
"Forest……"
Lin Yao glared at him.
"Hey, Xiaolin, haha, look at me, I always forget." Erhua laughed, "My hands are frozen, of course they are frozen. But even if they are frozen, I feel warm inside. It's my precious baby now."
Lin Yao said thoughtfully: "Brother, what you said is true. As long as it is something you like in your heart and it is a treasure, even if you have to suffer a little for it, your heart will be happy."
Erhua felt a strange feeling in his heart, thinking back to when he first saw her, with her curved eyes and deep dimples. Now, the dimples seemed to have turned into two round wrinkles left by the years.
"Look at you, you seem sad just because of what I said casually." He couldn't bear to look at Lin Yao's face, and continued to wipe the car with his back turned.
“Hey, Xiaolin, I’ve watched you grow up over the years, like you were my sister. I’ve seen you and… your suffering.
Look, at least we're divorced now, isn't that a temporary victory? Let's be happy while we can."
Lin Yao actually laughed when she heard that. Kang Yuan came out of the building with a coat in his hand.
"It's cold outside. Why are you coming out dressed like this?" He put his clothes on Lin Yao and gently placed his hands on her shoulders.
Hey, Manager Kang, if you don’t consider Erhua an outsider, then the bunch of retired elderly people in this pavilion are not outsiders, right?
“Ahem!”
Erhua's throat was uncomfortable, Kang Yuan immediately understood and put down his hand.
"Hey young man, how much did you spend on this car?"
Erhua looked up and saw an old man squinting his eyes and coming closer to study his beloved Santana.
"Uncle, you know the value of things. You want this amount." Erhua gestured.
"Wow, seventy thousand!" the old man said with a sigh, "Seventy thousand is a lot of money, big boss!"
"But it's still cheap, young man. Where did you buy this car? Why is it so cheap?"
"Haha," Erhua said with a smile, "Uncle, you still call me young man, even though I'm already old. This car is a used one, and they gave it to me at a discount."
The old man nodded in sudden realization, walked around twice more, and saw that there was some dust on the rearview mirror. He blew on it, lifted his sleeve and wiped it hard.
"Uncle, do you know anything about this car?"
"Well, what kind of research is there? I can't afford it either. I just watched others drive it and asked a few questions."
Erhua poured water on the front of the car, splashing all over the ground.
"If you like, come sit in and have some fun."
"Really?" The old man was overjoyed.
"Can I still joke with you?"
Before Erhua could finish his words, the old man had already opened the door. Just as he was about to sit down, he paused, lifted his foot to look at the sole of his shoe, and patted it twice with his hands before going in.
"You go in first." Lin Yao patted Kang Yuan's hand.
Obviously, some people don't want to leave.
"You are different now. You can't be cold. If I'm not watching you..." Kang Yuan suddenly realized that he had let the cat out of the bag.
Lin Yao shook her legs and said, "It's okay, Brother is one of us."
Erhua was washing the car with his back turned, but his ears were very sharp. He turned around with a look of surprise.
Lin Yao covered her mouth and smiled, her small dimples were hidden, and happiness showed from her crescent-shaped eyes.
Before Erhua could ask in detail, the Empress Dowager's voice suddenly came from outside, and Lin Yao felt as if facing a great enemy.
The Queen Mother appeared from the back door of the department store and walked straight to Lin Yao, followed by five or six strong young men.
Seeing that the situation was not right, the old men left tactfully.
"Mom, why did you call so many people here?" Lin Yao's face turned pale.
"I'm asking you one last time, will you come with me to the hospital?"
The sun was blocked by clouds, and a cool breeze blew over. Lin Yao shivered and her body shook continuously.
"lady……"
"Shut up, you have no right to speak here!" The Queen Mother didn't even look at Kang Yuan.
Lin Yao took a deep breath and said, "Why doesn't he have a say? Mom, I'm not going to the hospital. I want to marry Kang Yuan."
"Marry him? Haha, do you think you've grown strong enough? Marry him, fine, but then get out of the department store, both of you, and be your own breadwinners from now on! Do whatever you want!"
"You said it, I'm going with him now!" Lin Yao pulled Kang Yuan and prepared to leave.
"Pa!" A slap fell heavily.
"Hey, why are you hitting her? This is your daughter. Don't you know how hard she's been through? Now she finally escaped from the hell..."
Before Erhua could finish, the Empress Dowager gave him a sharp look and interrupted, "Mr. Liang, although you are our good partner, this is my family affair. You don't seem to have the right to say anything here."
This one sentence completely blocked Erhua.
"Take her away!"
At a command, five strong men rushed over. Kang Yuan had no power to resist and could only watch Lin Yao being carried into the car.
Erhua saw that the situation was serious and that he would most likely be taken to the hospital. He decisively threw away the rag in his hand and pulled Kang Yuan into the car.
"Let's go, let's chase after him!"
When they arrived at the hospital, Erhua abandoned the car and the two rushed in desperately.
"Madam, Madam! You can't do this!" Kang Yuan rushed to Lin Yao to protect her.
"I can't? Then who can? You?" The Queen Mother looked down at him condescendingly.
"Who do you think you are? People call you manager, so you don't know who you are? If we didn't hire you, you would be nothing but an office worker.
I advise you to be sensible. Yaoyao is not someone you can afford to support. She has had such a good life since she was a child. I'm afraid you can't even imagine it!
If you really like her and want her good, just get out of here!"
Two strong men held Lin Yao on the left and right, with two more standing in the middle to separate them, and another one watching Erhua from behind.
"Mom, I beg you!"
Lin Yao was crying and shouting, and many people came out to watch the excitement, and the hospital was in chaos.
"Stop talking, just carry me inside!"
"Let me go!" Lin Yao was shaking violently, almost going crazy. "If I lose this child today, I will jump off the department store tomorrow, and you can get married holding my body!"
"Yaoyao, Yaoyao..." Kang Yuan broke through the two of them and hugged her tightly.
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