Chapter 8

    Every night after get off work, the city becomes lively. During the day, the roads that are considered smooth are crowded tightly, vehicles are constantly flowing, pedestrians are rushing on the ground and underground, and street lamps are lit one by one. Prepare for the coming night.

    This is also the beginning of nightlife. During the day, the sparsely populated shopping mall gradually gathers people. The underground parking lot is so full that even finding a parking space has to go around ten or eight times.

    It took You Qian a long time to find a parking space. When he was in graduate school, he mostly stayed at school and rarely went out. Even if he did go out, he used public transportation. He had never experienced the hell of parking during peak hours.

    "Hey, Mom, I'll go back later, I'm out shopping for clothes now!" Holding the phone in one hand, he locked the car door and followed the flow of people upstairs.

    After listening to Mei Qianxi's words today, he put more clothes in his heart. He recalled the clothes in the closet. The most formal ones in it were the ones he and his roommates used to defend their graduation thesis. I bought a full suit with free shipping for 200 yuan, and even the pair of shoes are three or four years old. I really feel that it is not suitable to wear it to the company.

    "What? Are you going to buy clothes?" Lin Shujing, who had just returned home with her husband, asked her phone in disbelief. She waved her hands to deal with her husband's puzzled expression. The son who doesn't pay attention to grooming, where did he go and what medicine did he take today?

    You Ganjun was always very patient when facing his mother. He explained seriously: "Mom, don't you know that I went to work in the company my father introduced today? Everyone in the company is dressed very formally. I don't have any in my closet. It takes a little longer to buy suitable clothes online, so I thought about going to the mall to buy a pair of clothes first.”

    "Okay, okay! Son, don't buy too cheap clothes, buy some good quality clothes!" Lin Shujing ordered repeatedly, afraid that her son's single-line shopping thinking would be overwhelmed, "Also, you must wear them to see the effect. Touch the fabric, and look at the threading..."

    As she spoke, she couldn't help patting her forehead. She was stupid to talk about this with her son. After all, the other party never knew how to shop around when buying things. Bao search is ranked according to sales volume, either buying the first or buying the second, how do you know the quality of the brand.

    "Forget it, don't buy too much, just buy two or three sets, and mom will buy it for you tomorrow, understand?"

    Mr. You Gan couldn't understand what his mother said. The phone answered yes, and hung up.

    In the time it takes to make a phone call, he has already reached the third floor of the men's clothing store. Facing the row upon row of shops, he has fallen into unprecedented confusion. Except for a few well-known brands that advertise on TV and mobile phones every day, he can't find any of them. Can't recognize it.

    But Mr. You Gan is not stupid. He stood near the railing, compared the brand names on the small map of the shopping mall, and started searching on the spot. The omnipotent search gave him the exact answer within a short while, and he found I found a men's clothing brand with all English letters that was the most recommended and least badly reviewed above, and went straight in, ready to make a quick decision and start shopping.

    ...

    In the spacious house, only the master bedroom on the side is lit, and the large space outside is still shrouded in darkness. If the lights are turned on, people can clearly see the decoration that almost looks like a rough room.

    "Mom, let's eat." Mei Xixi moved a folding table from the bedside, spread it out on the side of the bed, and placed the simple meals that were just prepared on it, with a soft voice, trying to attract Mom watching TV seriously.

    "Well, eat, you eat too, Qianqian, you are almost starving." Wang Shuyun finally regained her eyes fixed on the TV temporarily, and beckoned her daughter to have dinner together, "Really, your dad doesn't even know you come back for dinner." , call, and tell me that I’m busy now, I’m really angry.”

    Mei Xixi’s hand holding the chopsticks trembled a little, and tried to hold it still, her eyes looked down, and the bright light hit her eyelashes. Cast the same long shadow: "Dad may have forgotten to tell you. He was on a business trip recently, and you know that he is busy."

    She doesn't like to lie, but she lives in lies every day.

    "Mom, why didn't you eat more at noon? I just saw that there was a lot of food left." She adjusted her mood and asked worriedly.

    For the past four years, before she goes to work every day, she has prepared lunch for her mother and put it in the refrigerator in the room. There is also a microwave oven in her room, so she can eat as long as it is hot. Recently, for some reason, her mother eats less and less .

    Wang Suyun looked at her daughter with gentle eyes, and her voice was extremely soft: "Mom is not very hungry, I can't eat so much."

    Mei Qianqian looked at her mother with a slightly shifted look, every time she saw her mother's gentle eyes, She always felt that she was back in the past, when her mother was "normal", but these thoughts were all dreams.

    Looking at her mother's slender limbs, she felt several worries in her life. She couldn't tell whether her mother's eating less was due to gastrointestinal discomfort or not going out all the year round, and her appetite decreased due to too little exercise. She frowned and recalled the past few days. According to my schedule, I plan to find some time to accompany my mother to see a doctor.

    Suddenly, a few cold fingers touched her forehead.

    "Sissy, don't frown. Girls who frown all the time will suffer." Wang Suyun was not very happy, and carefully smoothed her daughter's brows. Mom will be worried too."

    Mei Qianqian lowered her eyebrows and let her mother caress gently between her brows: "I will frown less in the future."

    She often felt that it was not her mother who got sick, but her.

    Her heart and body always seem to be divided into two halves, one half is relaxed and the other half is struggling.

    When eating, Wang Suyun loves to chatter. After all, there is only such a time a day to be with her daughter: "You are so strong, and my mother knows it, but what is more important than your body? You can look for it when you lose your job. Can I come again if I'm gone? Promise mom, take care of your health, okay?"

    "Okay."

    "Do you stay up late every night? Look, your eyes are blue and black. Girls can't stay up too much. "

    "Okay."

    "If you want to be good to yourself, money is not as important as your body and happiness? Mom, as long as you are happy, money is not important at all."

    This time, Mei Qianqian didn't answer. He nodded in embarrassment with some doubts in his eyes.

    After the meal, Mei Qianqian didn't ask Wang Suyun to help her, she neatly cleaned up the things in the room by herself, even packing away the trash.

    "Mom, I'll go to my room to take a shower and tidy up. Can you take a good rest at night? I'll come and have dinner with you tomorrow morning." Mei Qianqian quickly walked to the door, carrying the garbage bag, and turning her head with a smile on her face.

    The TV series Wang Suyun was watching had just aired an advertisement, she looked up at her daughter, she didn't find it strange at all, and replied as usual: "Okay, Mom is not a child, I want you to think about it every day, go, don't go to bed too late at night. "After speaking, she continued to devote herself to the TV.

    Mei Qianqian walked out of the door, and when she turned around to close the door, she could see the large family portrait hanging on the wall behind her mother's bed from her angle. It was taken by the family of three at the digital camera studio in front of her house when she was in elementary school. , she was wearing Uighur costumes provided by the photo studio, painted a red lipstick that seems a bit funny now, with a red dot in the middle of her forehead, and smiled, showing her front teeth that leaked, carefree, with one hand on her mother Wang Suyun Not thin, with fleshy cheeks and neat short hair, he looks very refreshing, while his father, Mei Zhonghua, is hugging his wife tightly, and he is in high spirits in the photo.

    Mei Qianqian carefully closed the door, the sound in the room was cut off by this door, as if two worlds were separated, she took out the key and locked the door with a cold face, ready to go back to her empty room, but her heart once again Full of that, she had dreamed countless times, trying to catch the question that the man asked.

    Dad, do you regret it?

    Will you regret leaving me and my mother in this world like this?

    Mei Qianqian still didn't turn on the light, and after changing into her pajamas, she curled herself up in a corner, motionless. She had a busy day, and only this time was the only time she had for herself.

    She leaned her head on her knees, opened her eyes, and didn't know where her eyes fell. There was a smile on her lips, but it was a wry smile.

    It's been four years, and it's not just my mother who can't get out, but also her.

    For a long time, Mei Qianxi lived like a winner in life, good-looking, motivated, good academic performance, excellent family background, loving parents, always happy.

    She was sent abroad by her parents to study abroad when she was in junior high school. Her father mentioned to her several times that she planned to wait for her to graduate from university and find a job before deciding whether to move abroad in the future.

    But life is not so smooth.

    In her senior year, when she was applying for offers in major companies, she suddenly realized that something was not right at home. The living expenses that would be called on time in the past were always delayed again and again. When contacting her parents, they often could not be contacted. She questioned him several times, but my father was very persistent. He only said that the foreign exchange policy was strictly controlled, and his memory was not good.

    But the two of them could hide it, and others would not cooperate with them. Later, my aunt made a long WeChat call to her. During the call, she collapsed like hysterics, and confided to Mei Xixi something she didn't know at all. story.

    Mei Xiqian's father, Mei Zhonghua, opened a large-scale decoration company and was well-known in S City. He has saved a lot of money over the years, and his family has lived a good life. Like most of them, he has a heart. With lofty ideals, he always wants to continue to make progress. He met a friend in the business field, and the other party talked to him about the current financial situation and the development of the future era, and gradually made him walk into the pit dug by the other party.

    He put all his family's money into that person's company, which is a large-scale financial company, which is responsible for helping other companies with financing and loans. In other words, it is private lending. If it happens now, it can also be called P2P. Of course, it wasn't called that name then.

    Investing this money can make more money than Mei Zhonghua has done in decoration and construction for more than 20 years. It didn't take long before the high returns began. And disappeared without a trace in front of the money that actually arrived.

    At this very moment, the originally happy family finally and completely embarked on the road of no return.

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