After many years, I finally waited for Lu Qiao to see his "masterpiece" of decoration. Zheng Dongsheng had a good reason to laugh: "I can't compare with you, my level is too low, so just make do with it."
"Very good, I like it." Lu Qiao said sincerely: "You are not a decorator, but you are already pretty good at this level. Thank you."
Seeing her parents greeting each other politely, Lulu found it funny: "Mom, don't be so polite, and there's no need to thank you. You can just sleep in this room tonight. Dad and I won't disturb you. We'll go next door." Room to live in.¡±
Zheng Dongsheng¡¯s eyes widened: ¡°Lulu, do you want your parents to live separately?¡±
"Of course. This is mom's room, not your room." Xiaolu chuckled.
Zheng Dongsheng was helpless and looked at Lu Qiao dumbfounded. Lu Qiao smiled at Zheng Dongsheng and shook his head, then said to Xiaolu: "Okay. Your parents agree with your arrangement. Now you should take a shower and go to bed."
"I also want to help dad make a facial mask." Xiaolu said reluctantly.
"Let's do it another day. Today it's mom's turn to help dad make a facial mask, okay?"
"Okay then." After finally coaxing Xiaolu to take a bath, he went to sleep in the next room. Zheng Dongsheng breathed a sigh of relief.
"Dongsheng, I have never given you a bath before. Can I give you a bath today?" Lu Qiao asked.
"Well, that's so embarrassing." Zheng Dongsheng became embarrassed: "I'll do it myself, I'll do it myself."
Lu Qiao pulled Zheng Dongsheng to the bed and forced Zheng Dongsheng to lie down: "Come, let me massage your inflexible hands and feet first, then lie down."
Lu Qiao helped Zheng Dongsheng knead his numb arms and legs, and the tears fell again. This man who had been abandoned by himself was rolling in the mud and crawling in the water with pain, heartache, and hopeless grief. For several years, he planted flowers and fruits, raised chickens and collected eggs, and started a business from scratch, almost becoming paralyzed. I have never cared about him, even if it was to bring him a mouthful of hot soup, or even to help him wash his face. The feeling of debt in her heart made her do everything she did very seriously, wishing that all her guilt would be reflected in the massage she gave Zheng Dongsheng.
"Can I stay a few more days?" Zheng Dongsheng asked.
"I'll take Lulu back tomorrow and leave."
"Why are you in such a hurry?"
Lu Qiao did not answer.
"Is something wrong?" Zheng Dongsheng felt something was wrong. Logically speaking, Lu Qiao could not have driven nearly a thousand kilometers away from Shanghai alone while he was on bail awaiting trial.
"I asked for leave from the Shanghai police, and nothing happened. Don't worry." Lu Qiao even laughed.
"Why do you still have tears in your eyes?" Zheng Dongsheng asked.
Lu Qiao said nothing.
"I'm asking you, answer me, since you came back from leave, why do you look so worried?"
Lu Qiao cried out: "I'm sorry for you! I feel uncomfortable thinking about it."
Lu Qiao¡¯s reason cannot but be said to be the best reason. This reason is enough to convince Zheng Dongsheng.
"Stop pinching, come on, lie down, lie in my arms." Zheng Dongsheng made Lu Qiao lie in his arms obediently with just these few words.
"Dongsheng, if you treat me like this and make me feel dependent, I will never leave you."
Lu Qiao is also telling the truth. Looking at Lu Qiao's emotional experience, she is a person who really wants to be cared for and controlled by someone. Her surface lust and strength are all for others to see, but deep down she possesses the characteristics of all women - emotional dependence.
Zheng Dongsheng smiled bitterly: "Since we got married, you have never given me this opportunity to truly protect you like a man. In those days when we lived together, my role was always to obey your orders, If you say something east, I will go to the east, and if you say something west, I will go to the west. It makes you think that I am a man with no backbone, no knowledge, and no future, so you look down on me."
"I don't look down on you." Lu Qiao said.
Zheng Dongsheng still smiled: "This is your current opinion. It is a conclusion you made after making comparisons. You only said this after we separated and there was no mental burden on each other. If you had asked me to be The head of the family, let me protect you like a chicken. Even if you give me this chance, I think you will never leave me."
"So sure?" Lu Qiao raised his head and looked at Zheng Dongsheng.
"Of course." Zheng Dongsheng looked at Lu Qiao. "Our marriage was too hasty, really hasty. We didn't understand each other at all. Your situation at that time"You are not selective about what you eat when you are hungry." When I see you "like a flower and a jade," I come together "with my own agenda." "
"Hey, since when did I stop being hungry?" Lu Qiao stopped and patted Zheng Dongsheng's face gently with his hand.
"Do you want me to tell you?" Zheng Dongsheng stared at Lu Qiao: "Tell me what your situation was at that time? You only found me for the sake of the child in your belly. Then I can't use this 'hungry food' ?¡±
Lu Qiao covered his face with his hands and lay on the bed silently.
"Okay. I already said I was willing. It's too late for me to like such a good kid like Pengpeng, so don't worry about the past anymore."
Lu Qiao then turned over and lay flat on the bed. Zheng Dongsheng scraped Lu Qiao's nose and said, "Are you ashamed? You were only a little older at that time and you were already a mother. You still didn't admit that you're not selective about what you eat when you're hungry."
Lu Qiao smiled. He laughed forgetting everything. This kind of smile was something that Shen Fei couldn't see, and Zhang Junyi couldn't see. There was no pretense or subtlety in the smile, it was a smile of gratitude from the heart.
Lu Qiao changed his posture, resting his chin on his hand, looking at Zheng Dongsheng as if he had just met him today, his eyes fixed on him.
"Why are you looking at me like this?" Seeing Lu Qiao's eyes motionless, he said again: "What are you thinking about? Tell me."
"I think you are pretty good-looking." Lu Qiao didn't move his eyes, but this sentence came out of his mouth.
"It's so tragic. Xiaopeng has grown up, and this is the first time I heard you praise me." Zheng Dongsheng laughed happily.
Lu Qiao sat up from the bed and said, "Dongsheng, let me help you up and help you take a bath!"
Zheng Dongsheng used a strong hand to pull Lu Qiao back into his arms, "You are not in a hurry to take a shower. What is in a hurry is that I want you!"
All Lu Qiao¡¯s suffering seemed to have frozen at this moment. Just let the suffering freeze for a while.
Before dawn, Zheng Dongsheng quietly got out of bed, covered Lu Qiao with a quilt, and went to his daughter's bed next door. He wanted to see him and his daughter together as soon as she opened her eyes, so that her daughter could believe: his Mom slept in her room, and Dad stayed with her. Thinking of this, Zheng Dongsheng couldn't help but laugh again. Looking at his daughter who looked very much like Lu Qiao, he couldn't help but reach out and gently stroke his daughter's face. He sat on the bedside and watched, thinking about everything in the past.
When the lovely girl grows up, will she know that this is the first and last time in her life that she will live with her father and mother under the same roof? Will she know how her father and mother brought her to this world?
After lunch, the two caregivers, under the direction of Mrs. Zhang and her husband, put boxes of citrus, eggs, and local products into the trunk and back seat of Lu Qiao's car.
Lu Qiao helped Lu Lu fasten his seat belt, and then got into the car himself. Zheng Dongsheng walked to the car window and said, "Come back when the matter is over. I'll wait for you here."
"Of course, I'll help you grow citrus." After a while, he said, "Dongsheng, you also need to exercise more, take medicine on time, and the most important thing is to take care of yourself."
"Bring this with you." Zheng Dongsheng handed in four tangerines from the window, two large and two small, growing on a branch, with a few green leaves as a foil: "Qiao Qiao, these two older ones are me and You, these two little ones are Pengpeng and Lulu."
Lu Qiao seemed to be holding a treasure, placing it in the palm of his hand and looking at it carefully.
"Mom, I want to see it." Xiaolu's little hand grabbed the four tangerines at once, pointed at the tangerines proudly and said: "This is dad, this is mom, this is brother, this is me"
"Baby, when will you come over next time?" Zheng Dongsheng walked to Lulu's window and asked.
"New Year's Day. Uncle Xiaoqiang will send me here." Lulu said to Zheng Dongsheng while looking at the citrus in his hand.
"Well, I'll wait for you, baby."
With Zheng Dongsheng¡¯s reluctance, Lu Qiao¡¯s car drove away and drove far away. She didn't dare to look in the rearview mirror. She knew that Zheng Dongsheng was still standing in the cold wind looking at her, looking forward to her coming back again.
After sending Lu Lu home, Lu Qiao helped her aunt carry the things Zheng Dongsheng sent upstairs one by one. Mother said: "Qiaoqiao, please take some back to Shanghai."
"Shanghai doesn't have anything, it has everything." Lu Qiao smiled easily: "The road is long, and the car is heavy with too many things, so driving is very tiring."
The old lady believed what Lu Qiao said.
After saying goodbye to his mother and daughter, Lu Qiao set off. Just like when she said goodbye to Zheng Dongsheng in the orange garden, she did not see Lu Lu waving to her frequently in the rearview mirror, and she did not dare to look at her mother's white hair being messed up by the cold wind. She stepped on the gasDoor, like escape, like escape, like escape.
Lu Qiao did not leave the city. She drove the car along the road to the Sihai Hotel and drove directly into the underground garage. After parking the car, she took off a platinum necklace around her neck, took off her watch, and placed them on the passenger seat. She then placed her driver's license, wallet, and other items on the passenger seat, and then put her cell phone He took out the card and put his cell phone on the passenger seat.
Opening the door, taking out the bag from the trunk, and throwing the car key on the driver's seat, Lu Qiao exhaled, gently moved the automatic door locking system, and put the tangerine branches Zheng Dongsheng gave her into the bag. , and then closed the car door without hesitation, as if closing the prosperity of this world and closing his own forever closed heart.
After doing all this, she walked towards the elevator in the underground parking lot without looking back. Suddenly, a bright red Buick Regal came into view. It was her car. She walked over, touched the car body with her hands, smiled, and then walked forward. The red Buick did not evoke any memories of Lu Qiao, because she No need to recall.
Coming out of the elevator is the hotel lobby. Lu Qiao broke the mobile phone card into two pieces and threw it into the trash can at the entrance of the elevator. After walking through the lobby and walking out of the hotel's main entrance, she raised her hand, stopped a taxi, handed the driver the only 20 yuan she had, and said a few words to the driver before getting ready to get in the car.
The moment she got into the car, Zhang Junyi's car came back from outside. He seemed to see Lu Qiao standing next to the taxi in front, but he couldn't believe his eyes. Maybe he was someone who looked very similar to Lu Qiao. . With this thought in mind, he no longer paid attention to the taxi.
The driver Xiao Ma parked the car at the door of the hotel, and Zhang Junyi said to him: "You go and park the car. It's still early, go take the Buick for cleaning." After that, Zhang Junyi entered the lobby and walked towards the elevator. .
At this moment, Shen Fei was on his way back to Shanghai from Zhouzhuang. He really wanted to call Lu Qiao, but it was inconvenient because the driver was around, so he gave up.
Zhang Junyi, who had just entered the office, received a call from the driver Xiao Ma: "Chairman, I saw your Mercedes-Benz transferred to Shanghai has returned."
"Where?" Zhang Junyi asked.
"In the underground garage. Right next to this Buick."
"Wait for me there, I'll come down right away." Zhang Junyi closed the phone cover and walked towards the elevator. As he walked, he called Liu Daqiang: "Daqiang, do you know that your brother Qiao is back?"
"No. When did my brother Qiao come back?" Liu Daqiang asked doubtfully.
"My car is back. I'm going to the underground garage to take a look."
"Okay, let me know if anything happens." Liu Daqiang also felt strange: "Hey, why don't you call Shen Fei and ask and it will become clearer."
"Okay, I'll fight right away."
Shen Fei's call went through: "Who is this?"
"Let me ask you," Zhang Junyi said: "Did Lu Qiao return to n city?"
"How is that possible?" Shen Fei looked at the driver, "We talked on the phone last night."
"You're not in Shanghai?" Zhang Junyi asked.
"I went to Zhouzhuang for a meeting, which lasted three days."
"My driver said he saw the Mercedes-Benz." Zhang Junyi had already arrived at the underground garage. "I'll check the situation and call you."
Shen Fei also felt strange. He looked up and saw the gate of the education group in front of him. He said to the driver: "You drive the car into the education group compound. You get off the car and go home. I will drive the car."
When Shen Fei saw the driver walking away, he quickly dialed Lu Qiao's cell phone. The reply was: "The user has left the service area. The user has left the service area" The mobile company's computer platform repeatedly made this mechanical sound. Shen Fei panicked, so he quickly dialed the villa's landline, but no one answered. He called again, but still no one answered.
At five o'clock, Shen Fei's cell phone prompted an unread email. Looking at the email address again, it¡¯s Lu Qiao¡¯s email address!
He drove the car out of the education group¡¯s compound like crazy, flashing the emergency lights all the way, and drove towards the villa in Pudong.