Chapter 61:

Chapter 61:

    When Li Mingxuan and Shen Xi entered the door, Shen Bixue was talking to Shen Ji.

    Hearing the greeting of the servant at the door, the two of them looked over at the same time. Through the tall green plants in the hallway, you can see that Li Mingxuan is reaching out to take the jacket that Shen Xi has taken off, with a smile on his face and a very intimate attitude.

    Shen Ji glanced at the movements of the two in silence, and quickly looked away.

    Shen Bixue glanced at Shen Ji hesitantly, then got up to meet her, "Mingxuan, Xiaoxi, are you here?"

    Li Mingxuan smiled at his mother, and Shen Xi politely called "Auntie."

      Thinking of the male daughter-in-law mentioned by Li's father, Shen Bixue forced a smile at Shen Xi.

     

    The three returned to the living room, only then did Li Mingxuan notice Shen Ji's figure, "A Ji?"

    Li Mingxuan was obviously very surprised that Shen Ji appeared in Li's house at this time. Shen Xi glanced at Shen Ji calmly, Shen Ji sat there with deep decadence on his body, and it seemed that he already knew that Shen's father was staying at Chu Qianqian's house. A trace of mockery flashed in Shen Xi's heart. She didn't know how long Shen Ji planned to deceive herself. The so-called true love of Fang Yun's father Shen was just that young and beautiful face.

    Shen Ji nodded at Li Mingxuan, his eyes swept across Shen Xi and became a lot colder.

    Shen Xi turned a blind eye to this, and said lightly, "Big brother."

    Shen Bixue and Li Mingxuan looked over at the same time, Shen Ji held their gazes and nodded as a response.

    Shen Bixue breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, turned to Shen Xi with a smile, "Xiao Xi came here once, and aunt doesn't know your taste, what do you like to eat, aunt ordered the kitchen to cook it for you. "Compared with knowing Shen Ji's taste like the back of the hand, Shen Bixue knows nothing about Shen Xi. Thinking of this, Shen Bixue sighed silently in her heart, and her eyes softened a lot when she looked at Shen Xi again.

    Before Shen Xi could speak, Li Mingxuan had already told her mother, "Xiao Xi likes spicy food."

    Shen Bixue laughed, "It just so happens that your uncle also likes spicy food, so you can eat together."

    Li Mingxuan smiled and looked at Shen Xi, and was about to speak when Li Mingfei's voice came from outside the door, "Hey, this is eldest brother's car, eldest brother is back?" Quickly pushed the door and walked in. When he saw the few people sitting in the hall, Li Mingfei's eyes suddenly lit up, "Cousin Shen Xi."

    Shen Xi smiled slightly and nodded at him.

    Shen Bixue was also very happy and greeted her, "Why did you come back suddenly? Didn't you say you want to live in school?"

    Li Mingfei obediently let his mother take off his coat and explained in a low voice, "The school's food is not delicious at all. I miss the boiled fish made by Aunt Wang."

    Shen Bixue laughed, "It just so happens that your cousin Shen Xi likes spicy food, so tonight you're going to make boiled fish, you're just a coincidence."

    "Really?" Li Mingfei's eyes flashed with surprise, he turned his head and showed a big smile at Shen Xi.

    With the return of Li Mingfei, the atmosphere in the living room became cheerful.

    There was still some time before dinner, Li Mingfei happily took Shen Xi to see his sculpture. Because of his reasons, Father Li deliberately separated a small half of the first floor of the Li family villa as his studio. The space separated is very large, and there are various small sculptures scattered in it. A corner of the space is neatly filled with the tools Li Mingfei needs. Different from the usual shyness, in the face of his beloved sculptures, Li Mingfei excitedly pulled Shen Xi to introduce them one by one.

    The two quickly walked to a naive puppy, and Li Mingfei felt inexplicably blushing. The original excitement became tense, and the whole person became quiet.

    Shen Xi faintly felt that this puppy seemed to have been seen before, and the scene when she saw Li Mingfei for the first time flashed in her mind. The dog smiled slightly.

    "Is that the one you're talking about?"

    Li Mingfei nodded, looking nervously at Shen Xi's expression. He has always wanted to find a suitable opportunity to give this puppy to Shen Xi, but he misses it with Shen Xi every time. At first, he went to the hospital several times but couldn't find Shen Xi, and he didn't want to pass it on to others, so he was ready to deliver it to Shen Xi himself. Later, when his uncle was discharged from the hospital, he went abroad to participate in exhibitions. When he returned to China, he heard the news that Shen Xi and his eldest brother were together. Li Mingfei was quite happy at first, but for some reason, he slowly became unhappy. So much so that the idea of ​​letting the eldest brother bring the puppy to Shen Xi gradually became unwilling to let the eldest brother touch the puppy. Seeing that Shen Xi seems to like the puppy, Li Mingfei feels that his mood has also improved.

    "I also made a bigger one. My father placed it at the corner of the corridor. I'll show you my cousin."

    Shen Xi smiled and nodded.

    The corridor of Li's house is connected to the first floor of the villa and leads directly to the back yard. Although it was early winter, because the corridor was very warm, Shen Bixue placed all kinds of green plants on both sides of the corridor, and the sight was full of lush green.

    The two walked quietly to the corner of the corridor. Li Mingfei pointed to one side and was about to motion for Shen Xi to look over, when Shen Bixue's voice came from the other side of the corner.

    "Aji, Auntie didn't say these things to you because Shen Xi and Mingxuan were together. The older Auntie is, the more she thinks that your father and I have done wrong all these years. We always I was worried that Shen Xi would be like this when he grew up, but he forgot that when Han Rou died, Shen Xi was only six years old, and he was so young, what would he know. If we were willing to teach him seriously over the years, things might not be different. ."

    Shen Ji's voice did not sound, Shen Bixue seemed to sigh, "A Ji, do you still remember what Han Rou did to A Cheng?"

     

    The opposite side of the corner seemed to fall into silence. After a long wait, Shen Ji's low voice sounded, "I know what you mean, Auntie, you think Shen Xi is innocent, but Acheng was even more innocent back then. He He's only less than two years old. If it wasn't for his father's discovery in time, I'm afraid Acheng would have passed away. In these years, every time I see Shen Xi, I will think of Han Rou's attack on Acheng for his sake. Aunt, you let me How do you like Shen Xi? How do you take care of him? "

    Shen Ji's words were very clear, word by word, talking about the past that Shen Xi did not know.

    Shen Bixue's voice immediately rang out, "I can't tell who is right and who is wrong in this matter, if it wasn't for the eldest brother who insisted on not letting Han Rou give birth to Shen Xi, she would not be crazy enough to want to kill her. Ah Cheng."

    Shen Ji sneered, "If Han Rou hadn't insisted on marrying her father, why would there be such a thing? The father loves his mother deeply, and he clearly promised to his mother that he will have only one wife in his life. ."

    Shen Xi stood there quietly, staring blankly ahead. Li Mingfei suddenly heard these words, and his first reaction was to look at Shen Xi worriedly. Carefully reaching out and holding Shen Xi, Li Mingfei was shocked to realize that Shen Xi's hand was extremely cold, revealing a chill to the bones.

    Shen Xi didn't pay attention to Li Mingfei's movements. At this time, the conversation between the two kept echoing in his mind. Because the father married the mother but refused to let the mother give birth to him, so the mother took anger on Shen Cheng, and Shen Ji blamed all the blame on the mother, and even took the anger on himself.

    Listening to Shen Ji's belief that Father Shen loves Fang Yun deeply, Shen Xi couldn't help laughing. Shen Xi's laughter interrupted the conversation on the other side, and Shen Bixue and Shen Ji looked over at the same time. Under the light yellow light, Shen Xi broke free from Li Mingfei, took a few steps forward and went around the corner, appearing in front of the two of them.

    Shen Bixue looked at Shen Xi in surprise, not knowing how much he heard just now, Shen Ji looked indifferent and looked at Shen Xi coldly.

    The corners of Shen Xi's mouth twitched, and she looked at Shen Ji with a hint of mockery, "You are so pitiful, you never want to face reality, and you always live in self-deception."

    Shen Ji's face became ugly, and the corners of Shen Xi's mouth were raised even higher.

    "Isn't it? You have to deceive yourself every day and convince yourself that your father loves your mother deeply. Since he loves your mother deeply, why did he agree to marry my mother? Since he loves deeply, what is Zhou Mingmei? What is Chu Qianqian? You actually know in your heart that even without my mother, there will be Li Rou, Tian Rou, and even Zhang Rou. My father can't have only one wife in his life, and his so-called promise is just a lie That's it.

    You just refuse to admit the fact that your father lied to your mother, even that your father does not love your mother as much as you think. You are desperately trying to create an image of a father who loves your mother deeply in your heart. You deceive yourself ridiculously. You are cowardly and refuse to face reality. In order to make your father's image perfect, you put all the blame on my mother. on the body. You hate my mother, you think it was my mother who broke your father's promise, and it was my mother who took Fang Yun's place. "

    Shen Xi smiled coldly, "Do you think my mother can marry into the Shen family without her father's nod? You think that without a father, my mother can give birth to me alone. Even without me , what do you think Shen Rong is?"

    Shen Ji only felt that a fire was burning in his heart, and every word of Shen Xi's words poked into his heart. He didn't dare to listen and didn't want to listen, so he could only say sharply, "Shut up!"

    The ridicule on Shen Xi's face was even more obvious, "Don't you dare to listen? Because you know what I said is the truth, because I broke the lies you lied to yourself for so many years. Because in your heart Knowing that what my father loves most is always himself."

    Shen Ji looked straight at Shen Xi, his eyes were like knives, revealing a cold chill.

    Shen Xi looked back mockingly, her eyes full of pity.

    Under this kind of pity, Shen Ji's expression became more and more ugly, the words "self-deception" kept echoing in his mind, and the firm belief in his heart suddenly collapsed, thinking about his father today Where he stayed late, Shen Ji silently laughed at himself, he really was a joke.

    Shen Xi's heart surged with a strong sense of pleasure, feeling the despair in Shen Ji's body with satisfaction, Shen Xi smiled and turned and left directly.

    Behind him, Shen Bixue looked at Shen Xi's back with a wry smile and couldn't say a word.

    Turn around the corner, Li Mingfei stood there silently, saw Shen Xi's figure appear, didn't say anything, just followed gently, reached out and took Shen Xi's hand, Quietly accompanied Shen Xi all the way through the corridor.

    The hall was quiet, and both Li Mingxuan and Li's father were not there.

    Shen Xi turned to Li Mingfei, "I'll go first."

     "Where are you going, cousin?" Li Mingfei said subconsciously.

    "Go home." Shen Xi said casually.

    "What about Big Brother?" Li Mingfei blurted out.

    Shen Xi chuckled, "Let's stay with his good brother."

    "Cousin?" Li Mingfei said hesitantly, but finally let go and said softly, "Cousin, be careful on the road."

    Shen Xi smiled and left the Li family without hesitation.

    Li Mingfei turned his head and glanced behind him, his mother and cousin Shen Ji were still in the corridor and did not come out. Hearing the sound of the car starting in the yard, Li Mingxuan quickly ran towards his father's study upstairs. The eldest brother must be in the study with his father. Although cousin Shen Xi has been laughing all the time, he always feels that the cousin is actually very sad. At this time, he must hope that the eldest brother can accompany him.

    Thinking of this, Li Mingfei felt a dull astringency in his heart, if only he could accompany cousin Shen Xi.

    When Li Mingfei found Li Mingxuan, Li Mingxuan was discussing the next work plan with Li's father. Hearing the knock on the door, he thought it was the servant who reminded everyone to eat, and glanced at the time, it was already seven o'clock. To his surprise, it was Li Mingfei who opened the door.

    "Ming Fei?"

    "Big brother." Li Mingfei glanced at Li Mingxuan, his eyes signaled him to come out quickly, he felt that it was better not to let his father know about Cousin Shen Xi, he wanted to leave a good impression on his father for Cousin Shen Xi.

    Li Mingfei's expression was anxious, Li Mingxuan's heart jumped, he remembered that Shen Xi was always with Mingfei, what happened to Shen Xi?

     After greeting my father, Li Mingxuan followed Li Mingfei to the corner of the stairs.

    "What, Xiaoxi went back?" Li Mingfei's words surprised Li Mingxuan, and immediately asked, "When?"

    "Just now, my cousin said he was going home first." Li Mingfei said dully.

    Li Mingxuan didn't bother to ask what happened, and hurried towards the door. In the yard, the car he drove had disappeared, apparently driven away by Shen Xi. Quickly drove another car, Li Mingxuan supported the steering wheel with one hand and turned back to the Shen Xi community, and with the other hand took out his mobile phone and pressed Shen Xi's number.

    The sound of "DiDi" sounded, Li Mingxuan stepped on the accelerator hard, praying that Shen Xi would answer the phone quickly, but the next moment, the "DiDi" sound suddenly interrupted, and a mechanical female voice sounded , "The phone you dialed is off."

    Li Mingxuan's heart sank, what happened when he wasn't paying attention? Thinking that he didn't see his mother and Shen Ji when he went downstairs, was it Xiaoxi who had a conflict with them?

    After thinking about it, Li Mingxuan called Li Mingfei.

    "Ming Fei, do you know why Xiao Xi is leaving?"

    Li Mingfei nodded, and immediately thought that his eldest brother couldn't see his movements, and immediately said, "I know. There is a little conflict between cousin Shen Ji and cousin Shen Xi."

    Li Mingxuan originally just had the attitude of giving it a try, but he didn't expect to hear the answer from Mingfei's mouth, especially the expected answer, Li Mingxuan asked, "What conflict? What? when?"

    Li Mingfei bit his lip and tried his best to tell the situation at that time.

    It was over, Li Mingfei said in a low voice, "Brother, I don't think Cousin Shen Xi said anything wrong, it's obviously my uncle's fault, why is Cousin Shen Ji all blaming Auntie Han?"

    Li Mingxuan didn't know how to speak to Li Mingfei, so he could only smile bitterly, "These things are very complicated, I can't explain a word clearly, you stay at home obediently, and when my father asked, he said that I went home with Shen Xi. "

    Hang up the phone, Li Mingxuan let out a long sigh, no wonder before Han Rou died, most of Shen Ji and Shen Cheng lived in Li's house, he always thought that his mother was worried that they were in Shen's house Aggrieved, it was because of this reason. His mother never mentioned to him what Han Rou had done to A Cheng, nor did A Ji mention it. Is this the real reason why A Ji doesn't like Xiao Xi?

    Li Mingxuan reluctantly pressed Shen Xi's phone again, and a mechanical female voice came out. A trace of worry flashed in his eyes, and Li Mingxuan stepped on the accelerator hard. Li Mingxuan had no way of judging right or wrong for the grudges in the past life, but Shen Xi was very right about one thing, the source of many things was uncle, not Han Rou.

      Shen Xi didn't go home as he said, where did he go?

    Li Mingxuan stood in the living room, panic spread everywhere, he tried to recall where Shen Xi might go. But since the two were together, Shen Xi basically stayed at home all the time, with nowhere to go.

    The cold wind in the corridor poured in from the open door, Li Mingxuan was blown by the wind, and suddenly thought of Fang Luowei.

    Fang Luowei's phone number was quickly found, Li Mingxuan dialed it and said, "Did Xiaoxi contact you?"

    "Xiao Xi? What's wrong with Xiao Xi?" Fang Luowei hurriedly asked.

    Fang Luowei's tone disappointed Li Mingxuan, obviously he didn't know where Shen Xi was.

    "Xiao Xi is not at home, I can't find him, do you know where he might go?" Li Mingxuan asked patiently.

    Fang Luowei hesitated for a moment, and soon seemed to think of something, "Wait, let me ask Wang Xinghai, he and Xiaoxi are more familiar."

    "Wang Xinghai?" Li Mingxuan vaguely remembered the name, and said simply, "Give me his mobile phone number."

    Fang Luowei did not hesitate, and quickly reported 11 digits, Li Mingxuan repeated it, and immediately hung up the phone after confirming that it was correct.

    Fang Luowei listened to the blind tone in the receiver, a trace of worry flashed in his eyes, not knowing where Shen Xi is now. After thinking about it, Fang Luowei started to dial Shen Xi's phone over and over again, trying to contact Shen Xi.

    When Lao K received a call from Li Mingxuan, he was stunned, listening in surprise to the person on the phone asking where Shen Xi might go, but Lao K didn't respond for a while. It wasn't until the person on the phone repeated it impatiently that Old K asked hesitantly, "Are you Li Mingxuan?"

    Li Mingxuan gave a quick "um" and immediately asked, "Do you know where Xiaoxi might go?"

    Old K subconsciously asked, "Did you quarrel?"

    Li Mingxuan frowned and repeated, "Do you know where Xiaoxi might go?"

    Old K thought for a while, then hesitantly said, "Xiao Xi used to go to the cemetery to visit her aunt when she was in a bad mood."

    "Cemetery?" Thinking of what Ming Fei said, Li Mingxuan suddenly realized something, Xiaoxi must be there now. After hanging up the phone in a hurry, Li Mingxuan quickly went downstairs and drove his car towards the cemetery.

    After half an hour, looking at the familiar car parked on the side of the road, Li Mingxuan finally let go of the heart he had been holding.

    Quickly jumped over the wall and jumped into the cemetery, Li Mingxuan carefully searched along the rows of tombstones. The lights in the cemetery were very dim, and Li Mingxuan vaguely saw that someone was leaning against the monument not far ahead, and hurried over there.

    "Xiao Xi!"

    The person who was leaning against the tombstone slowly raised his head, under the light, Shen Xi's expression revealed indescribable sadness.