Eight o'clock in the morning, Los Angeles time.

Yu Xinghe came out of the room.

Xu Cheng took a few slices of bread and milk out of the kitchen, saw her eyes red, sighed, "Cry again."

He turned around and went back to take a bottle of water and handed it to her, "Let's make up the water."

Yu Xinghe took it over and thanked him.

He just called and said he missed her, and then there was no sound anymore, only a steady breathing sound came from the other end of the phone.

He seemed confused.

She just stuck to the phone and listened to him sleeping for a long time.

Xu Cheng took a bite of the bread, "When will you two torture each other like this?" He thought, "It's not right, you tortured him and tortured yourself at the same time. With that said, Mr. He is kind of pitiful."

Yu Xinghe held the bottle of water and stood there for a while, remembering the sad and pitiful expression he looked at her window on the day he left. She hid behind the curtains, only taking a peek and couldn't bear to look again.

In front of her, He Youting was always two completely different appearances from others.

He will act like a baby with her, will be pitiful, will pretend to be angry, he likes her to coax him, every time it is very useful.

This is simply impossible in the eyes of outsiders.

All the good titles outside were thrown away. In front of her, he was always just He Youting.

Xu Cheng's hand shook in front of her eyes, "I'm lost again, whether I eat breakfast or not, and there is a cup of hot milk."

Yu Xinghe shook his head, "Don't eat it now."

Xu Cheng was quite worried, "It's not a way to keep you depressed like this. It has been so long, and others have forgotten it a long time ago."

She walked to the sofa in the living room and sat down, "I didn't think about that anymore."

Xu Cheng came over and sat across from her, "Then you still cry."

"I'm not crying because of this."

Xu Cheng understood and did not ask further. He glanced at Yu Xinghe, "You have been back for a few months, and you don't work or go out often. Don't get bored. It's better to find something to do."

Yu Xinghe twisted the water bottle and took a sip, curled his finger to touch the water mark on his lips, "I don't want to work anymore, I want to do something by myself."

Xu Cheng put down the milk and listened to her intently.

Yu Xinghe: "In fact, since returning to China last year, I started to work part-time in the kindergarten, and I have been thinking about things and doing some research."

"What kind of school is the children need."

"They are forcibly assigned to various interest classes by their parents every day, but few people care if they really like those things."

"Reorganized families, two-child families, single-parent families, children from such families, their mental health is not taken seriously, is it necessary to set up corresponding psychological counseling courses to relieve their pressure?"

"Education and practice are out of touch. Teachers are talking on paper, children are weak in manual skills, and homework is reserved for parents. How can these problems be improved."

"There is also the most important food safety issue, how to effectively protect the personal safety of children."

She talked eloquently and talked a lot, Xu Cheng was stunned when she heard it, so these days, she shut herself in the room, not sorrowing the Spring and Autumn Period, but thinking about these things?

Xu Cheng blinked, "So, what have you come up with?"

"I want to go back to China and open my own kindergarten, a kindergarten that the children really need and really like."

She lowered her head, her eyes slightly disappointed, "This is just a preliminary idea, and there are still many problems to overcome."

Xu Cheng said: "Is it funds? If you are, you can tell me that although I don't have money in your family, I have some savings, I can help you a little, and some friends can help."

Yu Xinghe shook his head, "Funding is not a difficult problem to solve. You can find a partner or take a loan. It's just—"

She lowered her head, "In my current situation, no one might be willing to send a child to me."

Xu Cheng said immediately: "Don't think about it so much. Really, people are not so idle, and there are so many things waiting for them to give pointers. How can you have time to keep staring at you."

"But the Internet has memories. Maybe it will be dug up anytime, and there are many parents who know me. If it is me, I don't want to give my child to someone with a stain, even if the stain is just 'possible'."

After all, no one dares to bet on their children's future.

This was correct. Xu Cheng was also a little silent. After thinking about it, he comforted her, "It will always pass. Maybe someday, things will turn for the better."

Yu Xinghe smiled and said nothing.

Xu Cheng glanced at the time, stood up, "Stop talking, I'm going to work now, how about you."

"Go to my father's in a while."

"Okay, you clean up, I'll take you for a while."

"Um."

...

He Youting slept until dawn.

He drank alcohol last night, and now his mind is still dizzy, the phone has only 10% of the power left, he rubbed his temples, remembering that he had called her when he was confused.

He turned on the phone and clicked into the call log. Sure enough, there was one, and the call time was over forty minutes.

But he can't remember anything except the phrase "I miss you so much" that he said.

He stared at her name on the phone for a while, then took the phone downstairs to charge, then turned to the bathroom to wash.

There is still one day to be busy.

There was a morning meeting. At noon, He Youting asked Sha Rui to help him get a few bottles of good wine from the small warehouse. Sha Rui took it and put it in the trunk. "He, are you going to Xiaoyu's house again?"

He Youting smiled faintly and shook his head, "A friend's birthday, I won't be back this afternoon, you tell me the location in the evening, and I will go directly to the hotel."

In the evening there is a social entertainment that cannot be pushed away.

Cao Yi has his birthday today.

Two or three days ago, he kept calling to ask He Youting to eat.

He also knew about Yu Xinghe. He had seen He Youting’s desperate work in the past few months, and he was really distressed, so he called him over from the beginning and asked his wife to cook He Youting’s favorite home-cooked food. .

When He Youting arrived, Cao Yi was holding a banana fan and sitting at the door to enjoy the cool.

He always said that the wind of the air conditioner is too hard, and it is easy to blow out diseases, and it is not as comfortable as the natural wind outside.

Seeing He Youting, he smiled and waved his banana fan, "Come on."

He Youting got out of the car, walked around and took out a few bottles of wine, and motioned to him, "You ask me, or wine?"

Cao Yi stood up and Le Dian took the wine over, "Of course I asked for wine. Come in, your Auntie Zhuang made a lot of good dishes today."

Cao Yi’s son lives at school and can’t come back. There are three people on the table. Aunt Zhuang made eight dishes. He Youting swept around and laughed, "Aunt Zhuang, I have a good meal today. They are all my favorites. of."

Aunt Zhuang pushed the plate toward him, "Eat more. He is old and can't eat so much."

Cao Yi was unhappy, "This eldest sister, you seem to be three years older than me."

Aunt Zhuang raised her eyebrows, "Who is your eldest sister? Am I okay?"

"Your son is in his teens."

"Your son is not a teenager?"

He Youting got a headache because of the quarrel, "Stop—"

He looked helplessly at two people like cockfighting, "Shall we eat first."

The two blanched each other and ate their own dishes.

After touching a few glasses of wine, Cao Yi mentioned Yu Xinghe, "That girl is also pitiful, why did she encounter such a thing."

Aunt Zhuang: "It's fine to stay abroad for a while, clean."

She looked at He Youting, "But when will she stay? It's not a problem that you two always separate like this. When will you pick her up?"

He Youting's eyes sank. After a few seconds, he seemed to answer her, and also seemed to say to himself: "It's coming."

When it came to this, the atmosphere at the dinner table became inexplicably dull. Today is Cao Yi’s birthday. He Youting didn’t want their mood to be ruined by him, so he smiled and filled the two of them with a glass of wine, pretending to be relaxed, "Okay." , Don't talk about me, let's eat."

Drinking with people close to you is a pleasure.

The state of contentment and moderation is the most comfortable. After a while, the liquor He Youting brought was empty. Cao Yi was still going to open it, but He Youting stopped him, "I really can’t drink anymore, there will be another one later. Dinner."

Aunt Zhuang was very distressed: "Why do you still have to go to party? Then eat more food, and you won't be able to eat anything serious when you get there."

After dinner, He Youting played two chess games with Cao Yi. It was already late, and Sha Rui happened to be nearby, so he came to pick him up.

As soon as he got in the car, Cao Yi chased him out. Holding He Youting's wallet in his hand, he knocked on the window of the car and said, "I always lose things like this."

He Youting smiled and took it over, "I will see you in a few days."

"Go, go, drive carefully."

The car drove away.

In the rearview mirror, Cao Yi stood on the side of the road and had not left for a long time.

The restaurant is about half an hour away by car. Sha Rui looked at him through the rearview mirror, "Mr. He, take a rest first. I will call you when I get there."

He Youting said, "Yeah," he didn't sleep well last night. Today, he drank alcohol again and his stomach was a little uncomfortable. He squinted his eyes and took a nap.

When he opened his eyes again, before he reached the destination, he glanced out of the window. It was very familiar here. It was the street of Xiaoyu's house.

I have been very busy recently. I haven't been there for more than ten days. He glanced at the time, before it was too late, and told Sha Rui, "Go in and take a look."

Sha Rui glanced at the rearview mirror, "Mr. He, the time is coming."

"Just take a look and don't delay."

Sha Rui had to turn around and drove the car to the gate of the community. He Youting got off the car and said, "I will go by myself, you are waiting for me here."

He has been to this place many times. He walked downstairs to Xiaoyu's house and looked up. The window was lit and there should be someone in the house.

Walking in the corridor, I heard noises upstairs as soon as I arrived on the fourth floor. I don't know who was arguing, and there was the sound of smashing dishes.

The higher the sound, the louder the sound.

Until he stopped at the door of Xiaoyu's house.

With the sound of women screaming and roaring, and the crying of children, He Youting frowned, went straight to chisel the door, and knocked ten times, "Xiaoyu, Xiaoyu! Open the door!"

No one paid attention to him at all. He realized what was happening inside, and smashed the door five or six consecutive times, "I will call the police if I don't open the door again!"

The door finally calmed down. After a while, the door was opened and a strong scent of alcohol came out. A man with a flushed face and a big waist leaned out half of his body. Seeing He Youting, he suddenly sneered, "It's you again. , Ran to my house in two days, and even instigated my wife to report me, what happened, when I was dead?"

He Youting looked in through the crack of the door, Xiao Yuma sat on the ground with her head disheveled, and Xiaoyu's face in her arms was blue and purple, and she was too scared to speak.

He was furious in an instant, grabbed the man by the collar, and directly stuck him on the shoe rack in the hallway, "You are still not a human being, that's your son!"

Xiaoyu’s dad hurt his back and gritted his teeth, "Should be nostalgic, that’s my son, I’ll fight if I want!" He drank alcohol, irrational, and the rolling pin in his hand directly hit He Youting’s head. I smashed it up, "I not only beat him, I'll beat you fucking!"

Xiaoyu's mother screamed. He Youting reacted extremely quickly, and his head tilted to hide, but the rolling pin still hit his shoulder heavily. He suffered from pain and was completely angry. He pushed Xiaoyu's father to the ground and beat him violently, but Xiaoyu Dad is stronger than him, alcoholic and courageous, and quickly scuffles with him, and no one has the upper hand for a while.

Xiaoyu's mother was about to collapse. Suddenly she saw that Xiaoyu's nose in her arms began to bleed.

She collapsed completely and yelled with all her strength: "Don't fight!!!"

"I want to call the police, I want a divorce!"

...

That night, He Youting was injured completely, did not go to the dinner, and did a transcript at the police station until late at night.

He told the truth, and even told about what happened to Yu Xinghe a few months ago, to prove that Xiaoyu's father has been violent and child abuse for a long time.

Xiaoyu's mother finally agreed to testify in court, accusing her husband of child abuse.

That night, He Youting still didn't sleep well.

But his spirit is more than every day.

Shari said: "Go to the hospital for medicine."

He shook his head.

Shari said, "Go home and rest."

He shook his head.

Shari: "That?"

The corner of He Youting's mouth was blue and purple, and it hurts when he smiled, but he couldn't help but smile.

"I'm going to pick up my wife."

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