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Xia Man still kept his promise, sent away the last group of guests in the afternoon, and took Xia Zang and Xia Tong out.

"Go out to have a meal first, and then send you to school." Xia Man said.

On the third day of junior high school, there were still some open restaurants on the street.

Xia Man picked a house casually, and carried Xia Tong into the door curtain, Xia Zang followed behind without saying anything.

"Have you called your mother?" Xia Man asked casually as he flipped through the menu for Xia Tong to read.

Xia Zang poured himself a cup of tea, and replied, "Yes."

"Then did you tell her about the nasty things you did?" Xia Man curled the corners of his mouth in mockery.

"I want to tell her face to face, and bring Yang Sheng with me." Xia Zang replied calmly.

"Yo, I'm afraid you won't die of anger." Xia Man snorted coldly.

"You haven't been pissed off, so she certainly won't either. She has such a good temper." Xia Zang took a sip of tea and felt that there was a lot of trash. After putting it down, he saw Xia Man staring straight at him.

"Don't you order?" Xia Zang could only ask.

Xia Man turned around and called the waiter, ordered three dishes and one soup, none of which was the small dessert that Xia Tong asked for.

I knew it.Xia Zang moved the gauze on his forehead, thinking about taking it off when he got back to the rental house.

At noon, they received calls from Haoyue and Jiang Yanxu one after another. They both said that Yang Sheng had sent them a text message, but the phone was still turned off when they called.

"I can't figure out what kind of code word "Happy Chinese New Year" is." Xiao Jiang said, "The strokes have been counted, and the radicals have been removed, but a happy Chinese New Year is just a good Chinese New Year. What exactly does Sheng'er want to express! "

"It's just to wish you a new year." Xia Zang said in relief, "There is no other meaning."

"This is an opportunity to ask for help! Just let it go for nothing?" Xiao Jiang didn't believe that her best friend's IQ would be so offline. "Could it be that he was coerced? Or did he not send this message at all... "

Hearing the child's mind wandering further and further, Xia Zang hurriedly interrupted: "Don't think too much, Yang Sheng is fine, trust me."

Or trust Boss Lu.

Xia Zang received a message from his boss, and when he saw the phrase "Eat well, rest well, and study hard", he knew that Yang Sheng should have no major problems.

"His mother controls his phone watch, so don't worry too much if you can't reach him during this time."

So Xia Zang told Xiao Jiang and Haoyue that he had first-hand information about Yang Sheng, so there was no need to worry too much.

All he had to do now was to honestly accompany Xia Man to finish his last meal, and find the right time to slip away to meet the two elders surnamed Lu.

Eat about [-]% full, and you won't be tired when you run later.

Xia Zang also never imagined that the results of running with Yang Shengye during that period of time would be used in this situation.

"In the past two years, your mother gave you living expenses?"

While they were eating, Xia Man added a spoonful of diced carrots to Xia Tong's bowl, looking for something to say.

"Well, to be precise, she gave enough living expenses for three years." Xia Zang said.

"Then do you want to follow her?" Xia Man suddenly laughed, with a rare bit of self-mockery, "If you had a choice back then."

"If I had a choice..." Xia Zang paused, originally wanting to say that if he had a choice, he would choose not to be born in this world.

He didn't want his mother to marry Xia Man, he wanted his mother to find someone who could always love her, love her and understand her.

But he was still a little selfish after all, because if he hadn't been born in this world, he wouldn't have been able to meet Yang Sheng.

So he stopped talking and drank tea instead of wine. The broken pieces of tea made his throat itchy and bitter.

"If there is no such thing." Xia Zang said softly, "You will not give me a chance to choose. It used to be, and it is now."

It always has been.

Xia Man sighed and murmured, "I'm doing it for your own good, you will know it later."

But in the end there is no confidence.

"Do you really hate me?" Xia Man said, he had said this many times, only this time he seemed to have let go of all his strength, decadent and determined.

And Xia Zang only had one answer, he said: "What do I hate you for?"

"Park on the side of the road. It's not easy to park if you enter the community." Xia Zang put his backpack on his back and watched the scene outside the car window change to a street he was very familiar with.

He knows every step and every lane, as long as he wants to, he can reach his destination with his eyes closed.

He also hadn't been in Xiaman's car for many years, but he could feel that Xiaman was keeping a steady speed.

It's a pity now.

"En." Xia Man replied, looked in the rearview mirror, and then carefully parked the car in the marked parking space on the side of the road.

"It's time for you to buy a child seat." Xia Zang said, "Xia Tong can't even fasten the seat belt."

He could see his sister huddled in a small group in the passenger seat, her seat belt loosely covering her shoulders.

But this girl is also good, and Xia Zang hasn't seen her crying in the two days since she came back, she is either sleeping or giggling, and she is pretty easy to feed.

"It's not that particular." Xia Man said, and he leaned over to unbuckle Xia Tong's seat belt, "Anyway, I'll grow into a big girl in just two years."

"You should be blowing up a balloon." Xia Zang said, moving his body to the car door.

"Sit down, wait until Tongtong and I get out of the car." Xia Man was still worried about him.

Xia Zang pulled the strap of his backpack, "It's up to you."

The lanterns are on, it is the end of winter, and it gets dark early.

Xia Zang closed the car door, Xia Man had already hugged Xia Tong firmly, and said, "Let's go."

"Have you ever been here?" Xia Zang looked for a topic, and moved obliquely in front of Xia Man without a trace.

Slightly scanning the surrounding environment, walking up the road, you can go directly to the back door of the school and near his residence; at the same time, hidden in the alleyway of the building, there is a section of stone stairs leading to the inner side of the community where he lives .

Go to the location of the building about 100 meters away, walk along the path, and you can find the stone steps.

"I've been here before, but I just went to see the main entrance of your school. I haven't been inside the school." Xia Man said.

Walking uphill, Xia Zang was a few steps ahead. When he looked back, he felt that Xia Man was a little shorter. The little dumpling in his arms was thinking about something, and his eyes were still bright when the street lights were on and off.

"You walk steadily, it's dark and the road is going uphill, don't scare (hei) Xia Tong." Xia Zang said.

"Hmph, you didn't know where I was when I was running all over the mountains and fields!" Xia Man retorted unconvinced, but he was indeed much more careful on his feet.

The tree shadows swayed and whirled with the night wind, which was not friendly enough to the eyesight of middle-aged and elderly people.

"But I'm here, and you've passed the time of running all over the mountains." Xia Zang said, "Be careful, if you fall (da), I won't be responsible."

"I don't even expect you to burn paper money, and I certainly don't expect you to have other Moli (what)." Xia Man said, and when he finally climbed a small slope, Xia Zang had already gone to the higher place without looking back. Far higher place, "You stand up! Xia Zang!"

Xia Zang turned a deaf ear to it, he used to walk fast, but now he has changed to trot.

He ran, ignoring the missing floor tiles under his feet, the swaying tree shadows in front of him, and the heavy burden on his back.

Not to mention the shout of Xia Man who was far behind him, he finally regained his freedom, in exchange for panting and irregular heartbeat.

It was really a big problem that I couldn't keep up with the physical strength, so after climbing the dozens of stone steps, I almost knocked myself on the stone bench placed in the community.

Supporting the smooth and cold surface of the stone bench with both hands, Xia Zang turned around and sat down, staggered by the backpack behind him.

Huh, saved.

The cold wind rushed in along the narrow path, Xia Zang squinted his eyes against the wind, and a transparent street lamp above his head distinguished the boundary between light and darkness.

He remembered that he had walked from that dark place... Well, in the daytime, the dark place is bright, and the bright place is dark.

Anyway, he came over from the other side and picked up a little hamster with bright eyes.

It happened last summer, but for some reason it seemed to take a lifetime.

Xia Zang sat on the bench for quite a while, looking up he could only see a line of black space between the buildings, and looking down was the warm lights from every balcony lattice on every floor.

The nearby canteen was not open, and the small voice-activated light at the door was extinguished; the wind gushing into the narrow duct smelled of sulfur, and red firecracker confetti rolled around his feet.

saved……

Your heart rate calms down, your breathing slows down, and your scars and bruises fade as the days go by.

He didn't care about these, he just ran forward with all his might.

Because he knew that there was Yang Sheng ahead, and the future they both expected.

It's just that the part of my heart that was inexplicably vacant was aching because of the cold wind at this time.

He could imagine Xia Man's dismay, and he should have laughed nonchalantly at this, as a complete farewell to the autocratic king.

But he was still hopelessly sad.

Not for anyone, but for himself.

So he never liked to plan himself in the scope of being worried about by himself, otherwise there would be no one to comfort his emotions.

The little heartless Yang Sheng was not there either.

Is it useful to just say "eat well"?Talk about watering that weed...but I just, just want to see you.

Yang Sheng, I now... have no home.

Yang Sheng felt his heart palpitate for no reason, and sat up from the bed, his heartbeat was not normal.

But he just took a nap and didn't have any nightmares.

Mother knocked on the door again, through the door she whispered, "Xia Zang has escaped."

Yang Sheng almost fell off the bed.

run away?In other words, brother went back to the rental house?

"Later you...uncle will come over, he has something to ask you."

But Yang Sheng just laughed and rolled on the hard bed.

But the restlessness in his heart was still there, and he could guess what Xia Man was asking him for.

So he replied to his mother, "Well, I see."

Originally thinking that he would meet an angry Xia Man, Yang Sheng kept a small book of knowledge points in the comprehensive literature, planning to recite the knowledge points to suppress the shock while being scolded bloody.

But Xia Man calmly handed Xia Tong, who was sleeping in his arms, to his mother. After his wife and children entered the back room, he looked at Yang Sheng standing beside the coffee table, his shoulders collapsed a lot at that moment.

If you compare a person to a mountain, then Xiaman at this time has encountered a landslide, old-fashioned and decadent like clouds and fog, climbing and lingering around this man, it is completely impossible to see how high and triumphant this man was two days ago.

"Sit." Xia Man casually leaned back on the sofa and nodded to Yang Sheng.

Yang Sheng hesitated for a moment, then picked up the kettle on the coffee table and poured Xia Man a cup of warm water.

But Xia Man didn't answer, so Yang Sheng had no choice but to put the water cup on the coffee table, and sat down on the sofa diagonally opposite Xia Man as he said.

"Don't be so nervous." Xia Man squinted at Yang Sheng, and took out the cigarette lighter in his pocket, "I know that no matter what I ask, you won't tell me where your brother lives."

Yang Sheng kept sitting upright, and did not let down his vigilance: "It's not that I'm nervous, I'm just used to it."

The sound was piercing, piercing, like sandpaper sharpening a knife, not pleasant but rather dangerous.

Xia Man lit a cigarette, and the green smoke curled up to smoke the cracked lines around his eyes.

"How old are you this year?" Xia Man asked.

Yang Sheng didn't realize it, "Well, he will be eighteen in June this year."

"Eighteen...your brother's is in April, so it's not full..." Xia Man sat up and flicked the ash into the plastic plate above the coffee table.

A little yellowish black spots were added to the red disk instantly, and Yang Sheng felt his eyelids twitch.

"You are only so old, how do you know what is love and what is liking!"

Resisting the urge to take the plate away, Yang Sheng gritted his teeth: "Then you are so old, it's not like you don't know what love is and what liking is!"

He was too excited, and the ending sound was muted again. Yang Sheng guessed that this was a stress reaction, and anger and sadness would suppress his vocal cords, preventing him from expressing it happily.

"I don't know as much as you young children." Unexpectedly, Xia Man was not as angry as before. Of course it was obvious that he was not convinced, but it was more of a collapsed decadence.

"Both of you are capable and talented, don't take me seriously, and make me angry with these things..." Xia Man muttered, raised his hand and pressed the cigarette butt into the plastic plate, and a black spot instantly Spreading out, he turned his face away to look at Yang Sheng, his eyes were cloudy as if dyed yellow.

"Do you want to slap me in the face, so you are together to make me sick?"

"Okay, now that you have won and I admit defeat, can you return my son to me?"

Xu Shi was really about to cry, but Xia Man turned his eyes away, his shoulders trembling.

"Uncle." Yang Sheng paused before making up his mind and said, "First of all, my brother and I are our business, and it has nothing to do with you or anyone else."

"Secondly, I didn't snatch my brother from you. I always think that family affection and love are equal and do not interfere with each other. It doesn't mean that he is not your son if he falls in love with me. He is still, but you pushed him away. It's just opened."

"In the name of his good, I pushed him away many times."

After talking for a long time, Yang Sheng's mouth became parched, making his already spoiled throat even worse.

He poured himself a glass of water, and heard Xia Man say: "I've never heard you say such ignorant words before."

Yang Sheng only focused on drinking water. Out of the corner of his eye, his mother was standing leaning against the door frame of the master bedroom.

He put down the glass and looked away from the corner of his eye.

He said: "In the past, I had to take care of someone, but now I don't need it."

It's long gone, and she doesn't need it, does she?

"After all, I can even say the bastard words that I want to kill your daughter, so there's nothing I dare not say."

"Yang Sheng!" The mother screamed angrily.

Yang Sheng got up, walked a few steps to his cell, turned the doorknob without looking back.

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