It started snowing after nightfall in Yanjing. Cheng Yi was wearing her coat and stood on the terrace, watching the heavy snow covering the small buildings in the municipal party committee’s family compound with snow white, and the world was quiet.

Seeing her father's car parked at the door of the yard, Cheng Yi was about to call her dad when she saw the deputy director of the General Office of the Municipal Party Committee, Tian Yongjun, the old follower of her father, got out of the car first and helped her dad open the door. Then she saw Lu Baoming, secretary of Huaixi County Party Committee, get off the car from the other side, and she stopped.

She had no disgust to Tian Yongjun, Lu Chengming and other officials in Yanjing City, and could not have any disgust or good feelings. When they saw that they were getting off the bus with her father at night, they wanted to go to her house to continue talking about the matter...

Cheng Yi was very confused. It was so late. What else should I discuss today?

Cheng Yi went back to the house to write some work materials. I don’t know how long it took, but she was a little dry. She went downstairs to pour water in the kitchen. When she passed by Dongwu’s study, she saw that there was still light in the crack in the door. There was no car just now, so she thought that Tian Yongjun and Lu Chengming were still at her house.

Cheng Yi didn't care about her father's work. She poured water and was about to go back upstairs when she heard someone in the study vaguely say, "Xu Cheng is sinister..."

When Cheng Yi's curiosity was aroused when she heard her father locked in the study and talked about Xu Cheng's affairs. She didn't know what happened to Xu Cheng, so she told her father that they thought Xu Cheng was sinister.

At this time, the door opened. When Cheng Yi saw her mother come out, she was puzzled again. When was her father talking to Tian Yongjun, Lu Chengming and others about business, her mother also came over to listen?

When Liu Xuemei saw Cheng Yi standing at the door with a water cup, she asked, "Why haven't you been sleeping yet?"

"Sleep after drinking water." Cheng Yi said.

"Drink less water before going to bed, otherwise your eyes will be swollen again when you wake up tomorrow." Liu Xuemei said.

"I know, no one is watching at home," Cheng Yi laughed at her mother, leaned over to look into the study in Dongwu, and greeted Tian Yongjun and Lu Baoming, who were sitting at the desk, and said, "Uncle Tian, ​​hello Uncle Lu..."

"When will Cheng Yi go to Xucheng?" Lu Baoming asked with a smile.

"It'll be over after New Year's Day." Cheng Yi said, wondering what happened in Xu Cheng that her father and the others gathered in the study late at night to discuss, but when they landed, Tian and the others asked directly. Seeing Lu, Tian and both stood up and seemed to be leaving. She politely walked out of the living room, stood under the eaves of the corridor and watched them leave the yard and get on the bus.

Seeing her father enter the study, Cheng Yi whispered to her mother: "What happened to Xucheng? Dad even called Uncle Tian and Uncle Lu at home to discuss things when he was in the middle of the night?"

"It's nothing," Liu Xuemei said in a pretext, "Have you called Shen Huai today?"

"Who calls him every day without any trouble?" Seeing his father standing at the door of the study, Cheng Yi realized that what happened in Xucheng was related to Shen Huai, and asked worriedly, "Why, what happened to Shen Huai in Xucheng?"

"It's nothing," Cheng Wenguang said, "By the way, you're going to work in Xucheng, call your brother to tell you..."

"..." Cheng Yi was slightly stunned and nodded and said, "Oh, Cheng Xing is afraid that he hasn't gotten up early yet, so I'll send him an email later," muttered, "Dad, what's wrong with you today? Didn't you drive your brother out of the country and cut off the father-son relationship? Are we not allowed to contact him? Why did you take the initiative to call me again?"

Cheng Wenguang said: "You can't have my sister working as a partner. You don't know if you are a brother..."

"Who is about to get married?" Cheng Yi said unhappily, but when she thought of the hidden meaning behind her father's words, she widened her eyes in surprise.

"Don't think about it, nothing happened." Seeing that his daughter had realized something, Cheng Wenguang ordered and went into the study to close the documents.

Cheng Yi suppressed her voice and asked her mother uncertainly: "Does my dad let my brother go back to China as long as I marry Chen Huai?"

Liu Xuemei only said, "Your question is strange. How can you get married? When your brother doesn't come back abroad?" Cheng Yi asked again, Liu Xuemei just asked her to go upstairs to sleep, and refused to say another word.

Of course, Cheng Yi knew that things were not as light as her mother said, otherwise her brother would not have been able to go back to China in the past few years. She looked at the study room where lights leaked out from the crack of the door, and really didn't understand what happened today, and it made her parents mysterious?

She went upstairs with a cup of water and went back to her room with a puzzled cup; sat down at the edge of the bed, picked up the microphone, dialed two numbers and hesitated, not knowing whether she should call Chen Huai to find out what happened in Xu Cheng, thinking that her parents are strange today, or what happened in Xu Cheng.

At this time, another phone rang at home, and Cheng Yi listened with her ears.

She has three phone calls at home: one is a confidential phone for her father's official business; the other is a normal home phone; the other is a telephone set up in her room to prevent her from interfering with other people in her family when talking on phone with classmates and friends. After having a cell phone, she rarely uses it.

It was not her father’s official phone number, but her mother answering the phone. Cheng Yi looked at the wall clock in the corner. After twelve o’clock, who would call home?

Cheng Yi changed the number of overseas numbers and pulled it out. His brother was busy. He vaguely heard her mother hung up the phone downstairs. Cheng Yi dialed it over again and answered the phone there. He confirmed that the phone call was indeed her brother who called back.

"Why haven't you been asleep yet? I remembered to call me?"

Listening to the slightly hoarse voice on the other side of the phone, Cheng Yi tilted her head, lifted the hanging bangs behind her ears, and said, "I will go to Xucheng to work this month. Dad asked me to call you and tell you... You called your home just now?"

"..." The other end of the phone was silent for a while before another voice came, "Don't listen to your parents. It doesn't matter whether I return to the country or not. The Song family really doesn't have many good things..."

"I'm just going to work in Xucheng." Cheng Yi knew that she insisted on saying this was to cover up her ears, but some unexplained emotions could not be told to others.

"You don't have to sacrifice anything for me, and you don't have to sacrifice anything for your father's official position. If you are uncomfortable in the country, you should go back to London and find a normal man to marry yourself - Chen Huai is definitely not a good person."

"What happened back then? Dad must drive you out. We are not allowed to contact you?" Cheng Yi asked.

"I'm a bastard. If you do something wrong, you will naturally have to punish me. Don't ask too much. The things that happened back then are too complicated, and you won't understand if you say it."

"I'm on the 25th day of the Chinese New Year, why do you all treat me as a little girl?" Cheng Yi raised her tone in dissatisfaction.

"Even if you are eighty-five, in my eyes, you are a little girl running around the yard with snot. Okay, I won't talk to you anymore, I have to rush out if I have something to do..."

Listening to the busy voice on the other end of the phone, Cheng Yi could only helplessly put down the phone: Everyone kept her in the dark.

The sound of wind and snow outside was tight, and it hit the glass window. Cheng Yi turned off the lights and pulled them on the curtains. She was fascinated by the dark snowflakes outside the window.

Cheng Yi lay down at the head of the bed, tossing and turning, couldn't sleep, so she took her phone and pulled out a string of numbers, but she didn't know whether to press it down, and she didn't know if Chen Huai would use the same words to fool her.

Cheng Yi wanted to put her phone back to the bedside table, but accidentally splashed the water cup. She was so scared that she quickly threw the phone away and ran to the bathroom mop cloth to dry the floor...

At this time, the phone rang. Cheng Yi picked it up and saw that it was Chen Huai calling it. She was wondering: Why is it such a coincidence?

"You dial my phone, why did you hang up after it rings?" Chen Huai asked in confusion on the other end of the phone.

Cheng Yi realized that when she threw her phone away just now, she accidentally touched the call button. She clamped her phone around her neck and said while wiping the floor, "I want to call you, think about it, you may be asleep. You haven't fallen asleep yet?"

"No. I'm upset, waiting for someone to call me to relieve my boredom..." Chen Huai smiled at the other end of the phone.

"What trouble?" Cheng Yi asked.

"I did something unpleasant, but I don't know what the result is..." Chen Huai said.

"What the hell is it?" Cheng Yi said, "If you don't say it, how can I help you relieve your boredom?"

"I'll relieve my boredom after listening to your voice..." Chen Huai said nonsense.

"Nonsense, do you think I'm a four-year-old girl so easy to cheat?"

"You are really only four years old, it's enough to lie to you with a lollipop," Chen Huai smiled. "This afternoon, because of Mei Gang's incident, my second uncle and I had a little unhappy. It's even a sunny day or a bolt from the blue. Do you think I should find someone to relieve my boredom at this time?"

"..." Cheng Yi didn't expect that the "Xu Cheng sinister" that her father and others said in the study was actually this matter. She didn't know what the reason was that Chen Huai and Song Qiaosheng had a quarrel. She asked with concern, "It's not that serious; it doesn't sound like your tone?"

"I am just a heartless person. When the mountain falls, it is like a pillow, and when the sky falls, it is like a quilt. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been doing things that offend people. However, this time the matter is a little more serious than I imagined," said Chen Huai. "But, if it turns out to be a bolt from the blue, it is good news for you. You don't have to be full of grievances and come to Xucheng again; your father will definitely not fall in love with me, a poor son-in-law, again..."

Cheng Yi couldn't understand why her father asked Chen Huai to go to Xucheng after he knew that Chen Huai had a falling out with his second uncle Song Qiaosheng. He seemed to insist on her marriage with Chen Huai. Does her father think that Chen Huai had a falling out with his second uncle was an opportunity?

Cheng Yi couldn't understand these problems, but she couldn't explain these strange things in detail to Chen Huai.

Maybe after hearing Chen Huai say so much frankly, but he concealed the situation and didn't tell Chen Huai anything, he felt a little guilty, and Cheng Yi felt inexplicably gentle: "I didn't say that I felt wronged when I went to Xucheng, and I didn't go for you..."
Chapter completed!