I don't know whether it's the aunt's craftsmanship or the host's preference, but the Li family's lunch is all Soviet-style dishes.

Squirrel mandarin fish, lychee meat... Vegetarian dishes are oil-intensive loofah, served with baked corn sprinkled with icing sugar.

Sheng Min was fond of sweets, but after knowing that Li Xuan didn't eat sweets, he always ordered them with it.Looking at the table full of dishes now, feel a little nauseous for a while.

Only him and Li Minger were sitting at the huge wooden dining table.Shu Xin felt that the soup was not hot enough, so she asked the auntie to heat it up, and she followed suit.

The dining table is next to the floor-to-ceiling windows, but the curtains are tightly drawn, not a single ray of sunlight can penetrate, only the not-so-bright lamp above the head shines coldly.

Li Mingge looked down at a newspaper on the opposite side. Sheng Min only glanced at his watch, but he was immediately noticed.

"You don't have to hurry." He didn't look up, and said slowly, "After dinner, I have something to say."

"I'm leaving at half past one. I have an appointment in the afternoon. Or you can say it now."

Li Mingge raised his eyes from the newspaper, and twitched the corners of his mouth with a fake smile: "Li Xuan, you are now..."

Footsteps came from the other side of the kitchen, Li Mingge didn't finish his sentence, he gave Sheng Min a warning look, then turned his head and changed his amiable expression.

"Put it here." Shu Xin instructed the auntie to put the soup in front of Sheng Min.

"Come." She sat down beside Sheng Min with a smile, stretched out her hand to take a bowl of soup for him, and pushed it over eagerly, "Your father said to pick you up today, and mother got up early in the morning to make it for you.Have a drink."

The soup in front of me has added a lot of medicinal materials, and added candied dates and red dates to enhance the freshness. The aroma and sweetness of the medicinal materials are mixed together, mixed with the fishy smell of animal offal, and the original taste of the food has long been difficult to distinguish.

Sheng Min pursed her lips, hesitated for a moment, and then reached out to pick it up.However, before touching it, Shu Xin's eyes flickered, she noticed something, and put the soup bowl on the table heavily.Shouted suddenly: "Sister Zhang!"

She had a seizure suddenly, Li Mingge on the opposite side didn't know what happened, but Shu Xin had already stood up, pointed to Sheng Min's chair and said to the aunt who hurried over: "How many times have I said that the child can'tSit on this kind of chair! He has a wound on his waist after surgery, and the backrest is too hard...why can’t I always remember?!”

She gasped and trembled all over.The live-in aunt looked a little confused, and murmured: "Last time I said it can be changed..."

"When did I say that?" Shu Xin obviously didn't remember, because the other party's defense was even more angry.With a wave of his hand unconsciously, he just hit the soup bowl on the table.The danger was about to hit the ground, but Sheng Min caught it quickly, and a small half of the bowl spilled out, and it all fell into his hands.

This sudden change finally diverted Shu Xin's attention, she screamed and grabbed Sheng Min's hand.

"It's okay, I didn't get burned." Sheng Min hurriedly said before she could speak.

"Show Mom..." She insisted on seeing it, and when she saw the red spot on her hand, she immediately showed an expression of extreme annoyance.

"It's all my fault..." Shu Xin repeated, almost bewildered.He kept rubbing Sheng Min's hand with a tissue, "It's all my fault, my fault..."

"How can I blame you..." Li Minge walked around from behind the dining table and put his arms around her shoulders, "It's not too hot, just apply some medicine and it will be fine."

Shu Xin just kept shaking her head, and even shed tears without warning: "I never took good care of him... If I didn't go to the base when I was pregnant with him..."

Sheng Min couldn't understand these words again, but Li Mingge's expression changed: "It's been so many years, don't think about it anymore, besides, isn't the child well now..."

"Why don't you want to, you have suffered so many crimes..." Shu Xin cried more and more, holding Sheng Min's hand tightly.Tears rolled down the back of his hand drop by drop.While trying to persuade her, Li Mingge secretly winked at Sheng Min, signaling him to avoid it first, so as not to arouse Shu Xin's emotions again.

It wasn't a big deal, but Shu Xin was crying so hard that she almost lost her breath. Sheng Min knew that she was in a bad mood, but with such ups and downs in her emotions, it wasn't good for him to watch as a bystander, so she smiled comfortingly: "It's really okay, I'll go take a shower." Withdrawing his hand, he turned and went to the bathroom.

After closing the door, could still hear Shu Xin crying, Li Mingge seemed to be persuading something again.But soon the quarreling sounded again accompanied by the sound of broken porcelain, noisy and restless.

The burning sensation came belatedly, Sheng Min hesitated for a moment, and did not go out to look.He unscrewed the bridle and washed the slightly red skin on the back of his hand.The sound of running water temporarily isolated the noise from the outside world, allowing him to breathe for a moment from the highly tense state. He didn't turn off the water until his fingertips were white and wrinkled.

It didn't know when the outside had become quiet, Sheng Min faintly heard a scream as he was washing his hands, but now he listened carefully to only slight voices and footsteps, and suspected that he had heard it wrong.

His head was a little swollen, and he didn't want to go out for a while.He stretched out his hand and took another cup of water to wash his face, carefully recalling everything that happened today.Fingers unconsciously circled on the cold marble countertop, trying to find clues from the chaotic situation...

His fingertips stopped.

wrong.

Sheng Min frowned subconsciously, and put his hands on his waist hesitantly.Through the soft cotton cloth of the T-shirt, he felt an inconspicuous but real bulge.

Sheng Min withdrew his hand as if being scalded, and in the next second, he still forced himself to lift up the clothes slowly, and then he saw the sutured scar on the side of his waist.

Not the first time I've noticed.The night when they met Li Xuan for the first time, after taking a shower, they applied medicine to each other, and Sheng Min saw this scar.It's just that there are too many old wounds on Li Xuan's body, and it's not uncommon for this one to be the longest.What's more, was not familiar enough to ask about it at the time, and couldn't find a suitable opportunity later, so never asked about it.

Operation.He remembered Shu Xin's words again.

Maybe it's a psychological hint, but looking at the scar again, really feel that the incision is neat, like a mark left after an operation.

But whose surgery Shu Xin was talking about.Reason told Sheng Min that maybe it was Li Xuan.But uncontrollably, he thought of another child who seemed to be in poor health.

If it's the latter, why would there be scars on the same part of Li Xuan's body...

Cold sweat climbed up his back again, Sheng Min hoped that he was just thinking too much.

He raised his eyes, and the light reflected on the light blue tiles, so the light also turned into a strange blue, reflecting the familiar yet unfamiliar face in the mirror.Sheng Min felt momentarily weightless.It's like walking a tightrope, and you can't see the shore at either end, but even if there is a tightrope, it's not him who is on it.

This thought did not comfort Sheng Min. On the contrary, after taking several deep breaths, he still felt out of breath. The crying sounded in his ears again, and it was from Shu Xin or someone else.shake.Sheng Min knew that this was just an illusion, but it was hard to suppress it.He supported the countertop and shook his head vigorously, took out the medicine box he was carrying with him from his pocket, took out a tablet of tandospirone and swallowed it dryly.

The effect of the medicine was not so fast, and the waiting process seemed extremely long.The only luck was that the people outside were too busy to take care of themselves, and no one disturbed Sheng Min until his breathing became easier.But it was impossible for Sheng Min to hide any longer. He took a sip of raw water, opened the door and walked out.

Sure enough, the original seat was replaced with a chair with a soft back, and several dishes were missing.There are water stains left on the wooden floor after cleaning.

Li Mingge was the only one left in the dining room, and Shu Xin and the live-in aunt had disappeared.

"I took a sedative and went to sleep." Li Minger was a little tired, and his appearance was not very decent. There was a fresh scratch on the left side of his face.

Although he said it to Sheng Min, it didn't sound like an explanation, but more like an accusation.He stood up while talking: "Let's talk... Don't rush to refuse, even if you are in a hurry, it won't be half past one."

Li Minger's study is next to the storage room on the second floor.He wanted to chat again and again, but he didn't speak immediately after sitting down. He lowered his head and poured himself a cup of tea slowly, his eyes glanced at Sheng Min from time to time.

Sheng Min just acted ignorant and didn't look at him.After a long while, I finally heard Li Mingge speak, but the first sentence came in a weird way: "Your friend, he's about to be released from prison."

Sheng Min's eyebrows moved slightly.

"I remember my surname is Zhao? What's the name... I can't remember clearly." Li Mingge looked at him calmly.

"Zhao Jizhe." Sheng Min remembered the letter from the prison.

"Yes, it seems to be." Li Minge smiled without any emotion, "It's been these two months?"

Sheng Min didn't answer, and Li Mingge didn't need his answer either.

"Your director said that the school's postgraduate summer camp application should be submitted last month, but you haven't submitted it yet. Your current grades, and this school, just take a formality, so you won't be so unhappy?... Or youAre you really not going to continue reading?"

Sheng Min lowered his eyes, he and Li Xuan didn't know each other last month.

"Li Xuan." Li Mingge clasped his hands with a relaxed posture, "I see from your recent appearance, do you really plan to draw a line with our family after he is released from prison?...I ask myself if I treat you well., child, you can’t be unconscionable.”

Sheng Min was startled, and frowned subconsciously, he didn't know anything, thought for a moment, and could only test his intuition: "I thought, this is already agreed."

"You were only in your teens at the time, so what can you count?"

"I was more than ten years old at that time, but you were not." Sheng Min did not intend to provoke Li Mingge, so he softened his tone, "Or what do you want to do?"

"I think?" Li Mingge picked up the teacup and took a sip, "My requirements for you have always been the same. I have asked the head of the department to fill in the registration form for you, and you must continue to read the book...Don’t look at me like that. I know what you’re thinking. You don’t like physics, but you can’t help it. You’ve seen your mother’s current state. She wants you to go to graduate school and Ph.D. in the future to enter the Institute of Physics.Road, you just go on honestly, otherwise what will she do?"

"Then what should I do." Sheng Min calmly asked for Li Xuan, "She doesn't even know who I am, so I just want to be a puppet and cooperate with acting?"

I don't know which word touched Li Mingge's restricted area. He was leaning on the chair, but now he sat up straight with the table.

"She doesn't know who you are?" Li Mingge tapped the table lightly, "My child, it's boring to make some things clear. I thought you shouldn't be such an ignorant person. My wife recognizes you as her son.Just like when we found you back then, it was all your luck. I thought you should have understood this long ago."

His tone was so natural that Sheng Min couldn't help frowning.

"I've always thought that you're not such a naive person. Do you think I don't know about the little tricks you've been doing all these years? Do you really think that once your small company starts up, you're qualified to negotiate with me, so you can sit back and relax?"

Noticing his expression, Li Mingge smiled and dismissed it: "If a brick falls from the Pioneer Park and hits ten people and nine of them are engaged in the Internet, what future will your game company have? I admit, you areA little clever. But you are too young and have no capital. Your company didn’t make profits so fast, right? You need money to maintain it. How much do you have? How long can you last? I’ve been in N City for so many years, and I’ve always lost faceOne thing, if you confront me, I will make it impossible for you to find an investor."

"Li Xuan." He seemed to be summarizing his statement, "You are chic now because you bear the name of our family. Without me, you might still be a gangster, and you wouldn't even be able to go to school. Luckily, I don't know which black Internet cafePart-time job, bad luck, no one will know when you die. You have lived a good life for a long time, and you have forgotten the past. Do you really think that you are a genius and very valuable?"

Sheng Min didn't speak, Li Mingge's superior attitude made him feel a little disgusted.Seeing that he was silent, Li Mingge slowed down his tone: "Actually, there is no need to make such a fuss. You are a child who understands what is best. You know your mother's physical condition. We can't have another child, and we don't plan to have another child."Adopt one. Be obedient and close your company. Your mother wants you to study physics and inherit her unfinished dream, so you just do it. From now on, my money, company, everything will be yours, you are tossing about these things nowIsn't it just for this - as long as you are obedient, I can give it to you. We are also old, and we have a few years to live? You can't even think about this?"

"I can't figure it out clearly." Li Minge's tone was not too turbulent from the beginning to the end, only carrying a sense of complacency.He looked down on Li Xuan, Sheng Min thought, but why.

He regretted it, he shouldn't sit here and listen to this person insulting Li Xuan like this: "I have my own life, it doesn't matter what you say, I know it myself. What I promised you at the beginning will be done, you can't be itDon’t count. Others, I have nothing to say, and there is no need to discuss any conditions. Let’s take a step first.”

He didn't look at Li Minger again, turned around and opened the door and went out.

"Oh." As soon as the door opened, the live-in aunt took two steps back.I don't know how long I stood here, maybe I heard their quarrel, and my face was embarrassed: "My wife is awake, I want to see you."

Sheng Min thought about it for a few moments, and glanced at Li Mingge who followed him: "Okay."

The sedative injected by Shu Xin seemed to be quite heavy. Although she woke up, she was not in a good mood.Seeing Sheng Min walking in, his eyes lit up: "Are your hands okay?"

"No." Sheng Min said softly, before she could say anything, "I'm going back to school first."

"Why are you leaving now? Isn't there no class in the afternoon?"

"There is no class." Sheng Min gave her a hand to make it easier for her to sit up. "There are club activities temporarily."

"So..." Shu Xin said in frustration.

"One more thing..." Sheng Min pretended to be embarrassed.

"What?"

"The head of the department asked me to participate in a project. I may be a little busy during this period, and I probably won't be able to come back every week."

"Why haven't I heard of this?" Shu Xin asked.

"I just said it today." Sheng Min looked at Li Mingge with a smile, "If you don't believe me, you can ask."

Sure enough, Shu Xin looked at Li Mingge inquiringly.It was impossible for Li Mingge to argue with Shu Xin in front of him, and he didn't expect to be put together in such a way all of a sudden, he paused: "That's what I mean, I said I would come back and ask for your opinion."

"Let me go." Sheng Min gently held Shu Xin's hand.The latter showed reluctance, "That's not too busy to come back, you don't have many classes now. Originally, you come back less, I mean, let you live at home..."

A woman's hand is always soft, holding it in Sheng Min's palm, as if the touch of tears sliding, Sheng Min couldn't bear it for a moment, but he still hardened his heart and threw out the last piece of weight: "I am also for you,You asked me to study physics at the beginning because I wanted to inherit your career. I want to make results earlier, and it will definitely take more time."

From the corner of the eye, I could see that Li Mingge's face turned blue when he heard the words, and Shu Xin was really shaken: "Okay...you have talent, mom can't delay you."

"Yeah." Sheng Min nodded obediently, "Then I'll go first, and you have a good rest."

Shu Xin responded, but was reluctant to let go.Sheng Min pretended not to notice, stood up and walked out.

"Li Xuan!" He walked down the stairs, Li Mingge chased him out and called him sharply.

Sheng Min stopped in his tracks.

"Mr. Li." He hurriedly said before Li Mingge opened his mouth, "I don't need to worry about my company. It's not so easy to cover the sky with one hand, or even if there is no investment, I can get the money."

"Don't take you too seriously, and don't take others too lightly." Sheng Min recalled Li Xuan sitting in front of the computer, frowning and typing on the keyboard, and unconsciously changed his name.It's really worth the money."