Eighteen years later...

"Ding ding..." The phone in the living room rang, and the crisp ringtone attracted a young girl.

The girl's beautiful oval face, even her mother's eyebrows and eyes, which are exactly the same, are not inferior to those of her mother when she was young.

He picked up the phone with green fingers, put it to his ear, and said softly, "Hello..."

On the other end of the phone, a familiar and long-lost voice came.

"Qiaoqiao, it's me!"

After hearing this, Long Yongqiao stood up excitedly, "Brother, is that you?"

Long Yongjing, who was far away in a foreign country, laughed twice, "Qiaoqiao, I thought you couldn't recognize my brother's voice!"

"How could it be? It's just that I haven't heard you for a long time, are you a little unfamiliar? By the way, brother! When will you come back? Daddy and mommy miss you so much, do you know?" There was a little dissatisfaction in Long Yongjing's words.

, her brother, who studied abroad, would take a long time to call back, let alone come home to visit.

"You miss your brother, right?" Long Yongjing revealed her thoughts in one sentence.

Qiao Qiao smiled, "Yes! Qiao Qiao misses me too!"

Footsteps sounded, and a graceful and elegant woman came down the stairs.

Bai Yaoyu is forty years old this year. Although she is in middle age, there is not a single wrinkle on her fair face. Even the woman Qiao Qiao looked a little angry.

The last time we went out on the street, uninformed people thought they were sisters, but this made Long Yongqiao extremely depressed. This was her mommy!!!

Bai Yaoyu walked slowly downstairs, her steps slow but elegant.

Twenty years of living in a wealthy family has allowed her to develop good behavioral habits. She doesn't know why, but she looks like a woman in her early thirties.

I saw my precious daughter holding the phone and talking non-stop. I was very surprised. Who made this call? Why did Qiao Qiao look so excited?

Sensing someone approaching, Long Yongqiao turned around and saw that it was her mother. Without saying a word, she put the topic to Bai Yaoyu.

Bai Yaoyu was confused, why did he give her the phone?

Long Yongqiao explained, "Mommy, this is brother's phone number, answer it quickly!"

"Ah!" Bai Yaoyu exclaimed, quickly put the microphone to her mouth, and kept talking like Qiao Qiao.

"Xiao Jing! Is that you? Why did it take you so long to call home? Do you know that your mother misses you?"

Long Yongjing, "..." Is it necessary to be so excited? He seemed to have called back last month?

"Mom! I called you just to tell you that I will take a flight next week and pick me up at the airport~!"

Bai Yaoyu was extremely surprised, "Xiao Jing, do you mean you are coming back?"

"yes!"

After receiving the affirmative answer, Bai Yaoyu almost fainted with excitement. She blinked her eyes heavily, hinting that it would be better for her to calm down.

"Xiao Jing, when will that be? Will mom be able to pick you up?"

This son is the only one who is not with her all year round, but he is the one who reassures her the most.

Of her three children, the second one has limited mobility and has to rely on a wheelchair when going out, which makes her, a mother, worried a lot.

The youngest daughter Qiao Qiao is a very well-behaved director, but she is young and always worried that she will meet bad people or something.

Compared with them, her eldest son was mature and stable. Apart from missing him, she rarely heard bad news about her eldest son.

This time Xiao Jing is coming back, and she, as a mother, is more excited than anyone else. Although she knows that Xiao Jing will not live in City A when he comes back, she is already very happy to be able to see her son with her own eyes.

In the next phone call, Long Yongjing told her the specific time and also said that he would bring another person back as a surprise for her.

Before Bai Yaoyu could ask who it was, Long Yongjing hung up the phone mysteriously, leaving Bai Yaoyu confused.

Forget it, since it's a surprise, let's wait until the day when our son comes back.

Bai Yaoyu hung up the phone with some residual excitement in her heart.

A mother is about to meet her son, how can she not be excited?

Long Yongqiao covered his stomach and pushed Bai Yaoyu dissatisfied, "Mommy..."

Then he sat down next to Bai Yaoyu and acted coquettishly towards her.

"What's wrong?"

Long Yongqiao hugged Mommy's arm and said childishly, "Mommy, you said you were going to teach me how to cook today, have you forgotten?"

Bai Yaoyu slapped her forehead, oh! Yes! She almost forgot about this. There are a lot of Greek things recently, and she is also busy. If Qiaoqiao hadn't mentioned it, she would have forgotten it.

Long Yongqiao flashed her big watery eyes and looked at Bai Yaoyu eagerly, hoping to ask her mother to teach her how to cook.

She is sixteen years old this year, and this is not the first time she has asked her mother to teach her how to cook. In the past, Bai Yaoyu always said that she was too young and that it was dangerous to touch the stove or something, but it is different now, she has grown up

It's old enough to go into the kitchen.

I don’t know how long I have been watching my mommy cook since she was a child. Every time she sees brightly colored vegetables tumbling in the pot, she feels very itchy and wants her mommy to teach her. Mommy is willing to teach me. This news is better than

I feel even more excited when I know that my eldest brother is going back to China.

"Hurry up, hurry up! Mommy, hurry up and teach me!" As he said this, he pulled Bai Yaoyu and dragged her into the kitchen.

Two hours later, the doorbell rang, and it was Long Qingye who was back.

Long Qingye opened the door with a familiar and natural movement. Of course, this was his home.

As soon as I opened the door, the familiar aroma of food wafted over.

Long Yongqiao wiped her hands carefully with a rag and picked up a plate of dishes that she had worked hard for two hours and wasted a lot of ingredients to make. In her eyes, this was an extremely perfect plate of delicious food.

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Just when she was about to walk out of the kitchen door, Qiao Qiao turned to Bai Yaoyu and said pitifully, "Mommy, don't let the second brother and daddy know that I cooked this. I have to wait for them to finish eating."

What a surprise!”

Before Bai Yaoyu could speak, Long Yongqiao had already taken out the dishes and placed them on the dining table.

Isn't this... not very good? It's not easy to let Xiaohen and Qingye know that this dish was fried by Qiao Qiao.

As soon as Long Yongqiao put the fried vegetables on the table, she ran over, hugged her daddy's arm and said coquettishly, "Daddy, Qiaoqiao misses you so much!"

Long Qingye was helpless. This was his precious daughter. She had been acting like a spoiled child like this for sixteen years, and she didn't feel bored at all. On the contrary, this was the real feeling of returning home.

Long Qingye has entered middle age, but there are few traces of time on his face. On the contrary, his whole body exudes a mature atmosphere.

He is still strong and healthy. After working in the mall for decades, he has become ruthless and experienced a lot. A look in his eyes can scare outsiders out of their wits.

At home, he won't keep a poker face because this is his family, not the company.

Bai Yaoyu brought out the remaining dishes and called to Qiao Qiao, "Qiao Qiao, go ask your second brother to come down for dinner. If you want to read a book, wait until after dinner!"

"Yeah!" Long Yongqiao uttered a single tone, skipped upstairs, and asked her second brother to come down for dinner and try her handiwork!

Bai Yaoyu followed Qiao Qiao upstairs with her eyes. When she saw that Qiao Qiao was no longer at the deepest point of the stairs, she quickly winked at Long Qingye.

Long Qingye, "???" What happened to her eyes? Did something dirty get into her eyes?

See; Long Qingye didn't understand what she meant at all. He pointed at the dish Qiao Qiao fried and explained, "This is what Qiao Qiao fried! It's her first time cooking!"

As long as she wants Long Qingye to praise her a few more words.

Long Qingye understood that it was his youngest daughter who cooked the food. No wonder he looked a little different from... usual!

Qiaoqiao came down from upstairs, followed by a person.

Long Yonghen has difficulty moving and has been in a wheelchair since he was three years old. The reason is that he has grown up and does not want Bai Yaoyu to hold him all the time.

There is a special road in Yunhua Pavilion that allows wheelchairs to go up and down freely, making it easier for Long Yonghen to walk.

Long Yonghen is two years older than Qiao Qiao, and is the child who makes Bai Yaoyu feel most distressed.

Long Yonghen had difficulty moving and never went to school for a day because it was unnecessary.

He is very smart, it can be said that he is smarter than his eldest brother. When he was three years old, he could read Bai Yaoyu's postgraduate entrance examination book.

This surprised Bai Yaoyu. For a while, Long Qingye and Bai Yaoyu were busy and neglected to take care of Long Yonghen.

Just send him to city T and let Bai Jianguo educate him.

Bai Jianguo was originally a teacher, but he had to retire early because of a leg injury caused by a car accident. Bai Yaoyu sent his second son to him.

Bai Jianguo used all his lifelong educational experience on his grandson.

Grandpa was Long Yonghen’s only teacher.

Both the grandfather and grandson have mobility difficulties. One walks with a limp and the other is in a wheelchair. Therefore, the relationship between the grandfather and grandson has been particularly good since childhood.

After Long Yonghen came down, the first thing he saw was a table of people that aroused his appetite. After reading all morning, he was also hungry.

Qiaoqiao pushed the wheelchair to the dining table, which was her second brother's seat.

When the Long family eats, everyone has an exclusive seat. Long Qingye is the head of the family, so he naturally sits in the center.

On Long Qingye's left hand is Bai Yaoyu, and on her right is Qiao Qiao. Qiao Qiao used to be her second brother's seat.

Just past Bai Yaoyu is Long Yongjing's seat, but this seat has always been empty.
To be continued...