Xiong Dailing came out of the long-distance bus station and took a taxi home. It was dark. She didn't bring the keys from the house on her body. She looked at the lights exposed in the crack of the door, thinking that it was great to be at home. When she knocked on the door, she didn't notice anything abnormal before her mother could react. She hugged her mother and acted coquettishly: "Ah, I'm sorry, I didn't remember that today was your birthday until the afternoon. When I remembered, I took leave and rushed to the station to buy tickets. In order to catch the last long-distance bus, I didn't buy any gifts. Mom, don't you blame me for being unfilial, right?"

Xiong Dailing hugged her mother and walked into the room, and then she saw her sister sitting in the bedroom with her hair disheveled, her eyes were swollen and her face was still marked by the signs. Xiong Dailing noticed that her mother's eyes were also red, and she was so scared that she screamed: "Mom, sister, what's wrong with this? Where is Yueting, where is my father?"

"Nothing is wrong?" Bai Sumei calmed down her apron and said calmly, "Nothing is wrong, why are you yelling? When did the neighbors hear it, they thought something happened in my house? Do you remember that today is my birthday? When is the lunar calendar today? How do I remember that my birthday is the day after tomorrow?"

Xiong Dailing didn't have the heart to say that she would have one class at school tomorrow. She borrowed the fact that her mother skipped class two days in advance to go home for fun on her birthday. Her mother said it was okay, but how did her mother and her sister tell her to believe it's okay?

Xiong Dailing walked into the house as if she was jumping. When she saw Yueting sleeping well beside her sister, her face was flushed, she felt a little relieved and asked her sister with guilt: "Where is our father?"

There were still tears on Xiong Daini's cheeks, but she didn't want her sister to worry, so she wiped off the tears on her cheeks and said, "Our dad is still in the office, right? It's already dark now?" She turned her head and pretended to be useless and called her mom, "Mom, call dad's office and ask if he has to stay up late to write the materials again?"

Xiong Dailing was reluctant to believe that nothing had happened, and she didn't dare to ask questions, saying, "Let me call. My dad must know that his beloved little daughter is back and will definitely put down the materials and rush home." She walked to the living room, picked up the phone, but didn't dare to pull out his father's mobile phone number directly, and pulled it to the office.

The Political Research Office is responsible for the preparation of the main policy materials and documents of the municipal party committee and government, and the task is extremely heavy, and there are usually people on duty at night.

Xiong Dailing called and someone answered and told her that it had been an hour since her father left the office. Xiong Wenbin is the boss of the Political Research Office. He was not sure where he went and whether there were any other official arrangements or banquets.

Although the person who answered the phone did not know where her father was, his tone was very normal, and he also called Xiong Dailing to be more at ease. As long as the family is safe and sound, it’s fine.

Only then did Xiong Dailing notice that her sister and Yueting were in her room, and their own room was closed. She pushed the door open and saw the messy appearance of the collapsed bed that had not been tidied up. She was shocked. Thinking of her sister's appearance, she turned around and asked her mother: "Are we a thief?"

"It's okay that the thief broke in. The Public Security Bureau is not showing off the decoration, but I'm afraid that someone will open the door to meet the thief." Bai Sumei's anger was not yet gone, and she was cold and hard, not giving her eldest daughter any face.

Xiong Dailing then calmed down carefully and said to her mother, "Mom, you are really true. How old are you? Why are you still so fierce to her? You thought you were the same as when you were in love with your father. You even had to report to the organization before getting the certificate. You are too old. Only my sister and I can stand you two old stubborn. If you have a child in other places, you will have rebelled long ago..."

Xiong Dailing immediately stood up for her sister and scolded her mother.

"Give me some rules at school. If you have anything to do, you will be punished hard." Bai Sumei was not angry, and she didn't even have the face to tell her little daughter that the "thief" was not someone else, but Chen Huai. She threw the rag on the table and went into the kitchen to cook. When she entered the kitchen, she found that the rag was thrown on the dining table outside, and turned back to get the rag. She was so angry today.

Xiong Dailing pouted and ran to the bedroom to comfort her sister with dissatisfaction with her mother, and asked in a low voice: "Mom really hits you? Is she a manoeuvre and has such a weird temper? The most difficult thing for menopause is to serve an old woman. If she really can't do it, just help Yueting out and I support you."

Xiong Daini was also amused and crying. She didn't know how to help her sister "make justice" for her.

"I called my dad's office. The person on duty said that my dad had been off work for an hour and didn't know where he had gone. Why don't we go out to find him and let the old stubborn cook at home alone and take care of Yueting?" Xiong Dailing said deliberately loudly again. She didn't know where her dad went after get off work, whether there was any official arrangement, and she didn't want to call her dad's phone to ask, so she wanted to trick her sister out first, so that her sister and mother wouldn't get angry.

Xiong Daini also wanted to go out for a breath, so she went into the bathroom and sorted it out briefly. Knowing that her mother was not angry, she went out with Dailing and greeted her at the kitchen door: "Yueting is asleep in the room."

Bai Sumei snorted, and her body didn't turn around; Xiong Dailing grimaced at her mother and pulled her sister out.

She didn't expect to find her mother, so Xiong Dailing and her sister walked casually along the road from their house to the municipal government. It was not too late at night, and the street lights were radiating yellow light. When she walked to the small park around the corner, Xiong Dailing said to her sister who had been silent all the way: "Would we go in and look for it? Maybe our dad is lost in it?"

Xiong Wenbin was a cadre in the Municipal Planning Commission, and the dormitory of the Municipal Government was on the east side of the small park. At that time, Xiong Daini was only a year old. Xiong Dailing was still a little girl who was dragging tears and often got lost in this street corner park that was too small to be even smaller.

Later, Xiong Wenbin was transferred to the city steel factory as the director, and their family lived in the city steel factory's family district, and then moved to the city to expand Wenshan Park. If they wanted to visit the park, they would usually go to Wenshan Park and almost never go to this small park in the corner of the street again.

Listening to her sister comforting herself with childhood events, Xiong Daini felt warm in her heart. She hugged her sister's shoulders, cheered up and said, "Okay, let's go in and look..." As soon as she walked down the cement slope, she was stunned. The gray-haired man who was hunched over in the corner pavilion to pick up chess pieces on the chessboard was their father.

"Dad!" Xiong Dailing was also deeply surprised. His father didn't go home for an hour after get off work, but actually ran to the small park in the corner to catch passers-by and play chess in the small corner pavilion!

Her father was kicked to the Political Research Office as deputy director but couldn't get involved in any business. He was addicted to book chess, but he also restrained himself from hiding at home to study, and did not let outsiders see that he had signs of indulging in it. Xiong Dailing thought of what her father said to her, saying that he would actually retreat one day and would not think about anything. In another 10 or 20 years, the retirement life of catching birds and catching books and watching fish is also freehand.

Her father came home from get off work and turned to the corner park in the street. He played chess for an hour and forgot to go home for dinner?

Xiong Dailing was incredible and suddenly realized that what was happening at home was not as simple as she thought.

"Ah, why is Dailing back?" Xiong Wenbin turned around, looked at the sisters, and asked in surprise, as if he was surprised to see his little daughter return to Donghua at this time.

Xiong Wenbin pushed away the chess piece and stood up, and said to the old man sitting opposite him: "I can't get off, I can't get off anymore. My two daughters are coming to me for dinner."

The old man opposite muttered: "No one can win a game of ten chess, and they won't let them go home for dinner, as if they were saying that I wanted to play chess with you..." He packed the chess pieces into a small cloth bag.

Xiong Daini burst into tears, and at this moment she realized that the most painful thing in her heart was her father.

It’s not that her mother is unwilling to believe her explanation, but that her mother and her father have been experiencing ups and downs for so many years. They have long realized that once this matter is spread, no matter what the truth is, they will be used to attack her father ruthlessly; and the matter has been spread... Seeing the tears falling on the cheek of her eldest daughter Daini, Xiong Wenbin reached out to wipe off the tears from her cheek and said, "Our family of five is fine, why are you crying? What are you wrong to tell your father, your mother is raped you again? I'll go back and scold her."

Seeing her father like this, Xiong Daini cried even more sadly and cried: "I have nothing to do with Shen Huai."

"Stop crying, stop crying, I believe in you." Xiong Wenbin advised.

Xiong Daini was about to tell her father about the misunderstanding today, but her sister was furious next to her, and then the monkey who stepped on her tail jumped up: "What, that thief is Shen Huai!"

*******************After eating, Sun Yalin helped Chen Dan pack the dishes and chopsticks in the kitchen to wash, leaving Xie Zhi alone sitting in the living room with dryness and hunger. Shen Huai and Cheng Yi talked to the balcony outside the study.

Looking at the Cuihu Lake to the west, it was wafting under the night, giving the decorative lights by the lake a shimmering light. There is no moon tonight, and the night view is also a little interesting.

"I shouldn't be considered a good lover," Shen Huai stretched out his hand and said, "but I believe I am qualified to be friends."

Shen Huai knew that Cheng Yi had no intention of treating him as a lover at all, otherwise he would not have said that he would not mind having dinner with Chen Dan’s deskmate.

Before, everyone had a tacit understanding, and they were just procrastinating and perfunctory at home. The so-called inviting Cheng Yi to Donghua, and Cheng Yi was invited to maintain the illusion of "getting along very happily".

In this case, everyone will hope that the other party will have problems first to help them reduce the pressure.

Shen Huai didn't know if Cheng Yi's performance just now was just to not want Xie Zhi to succeed, but he would thank Cheng Yi for not taking advantage of this opportunity no matter what.

Although Shen Huai was unwilling to hide something that made Chen Dan leave alone, he couldn't do such a thing, but he knew in his heart what would happen if the responsibility of the Song Cheng family's marriage was to be taken down by him alone.

Although the new Meigang factory has been completed, what is the next development of Meigang? Even his next layout of the reverse Tan has to be re-overturned and then weighed.

Looking at Shen Huai's hand stretched out, Cheng Yi smiled, reached out, shook with Shen Huai and separated, and said, "I have to study in the UK for about two years. Then we will be friends for two years first. When I return to China, we will consider what time is right and then be an 'enemies'..."
Chapter completed!