Up to You - C179

Xu Ze had said many times that he wanted me and Jiu Jiu to stay at his house, but I didn’t agree.

I immediately tensed up. They still came. Even after such a smooth journey, they still hadn’t lived for long.

“That’s all we can do now.”

He used to cook and take a bath at his house, so he was familiar with this place. Because it’s a bachelor apartment, there’s only one bedroom and one bed. Although Xu Ze felt a little embarrassed letting the two of us sleep on the bed, with a 90-90% room, I didn’t push it away.

This year’s Spring Festival came very late, and it was almost spring, and the first day of the new year had just arrived. The imperial city was very different from the Mu City, and in the past, when the Mu City was celebrating the new year, friends and relatives would all come back from all over the country, bustling with noise and excitement.

However, the imperial city was different. In a city where ordinary people were crowded, it became like an empty city on New Year’s Day. The subway, train station, and shopping mall were all empty.

Jiu Jiu and I followed Xu Ze and lived in a small house that was dozens of square meters. In the morning, we went to the market to buy vegetables and came back home. In the afternoon, we sat together to wrap the dumplings.

“Mommy! Mommy!” He waved excitedly at me. “Look out! “So beautiful!”

Mother and son stood by the bed. Xu Ze walked over with a plate of sliced fruits.

He fed Xiao Jiu Jiu fruit.

“I heard that making a wish on fireworks can make a beautiful dream come true.”

Hearing Xu Ze’s words, my face was filled with suspicion. “Shouldn’t it be a shooting star?

Xu Ze laughed.

“I’m telling my family’s 99.”

“If you have any wish, just say it now. The person who released the fireworks can help you achieve it.”

The person who released the fireworks …

The other party had just provoked him with a firework, yet he agreed to fulfill his wish for no reason at all…

Xu Ze this fellow, lied to children without even blinking.

“Can I make two wishes?” he asked him seriously, blinking.

“Of course.”

It won’t happen anyway…

“The first wish, I hope that Uncle Xu, Mom and Jiu Jiu will be safe and happy forever!”

How could this be like the wish of a seven-year-old child, so mature and touching.

“My second wish is that I hope to meet Mu Huainan one day. I hope that he can make me invest and stock, and make me into someone as powerful as him.”

The sudden mention of Mu Huainan by Jiu Jiu caused Xu Ze to be stunned.

“He …”

I looked at him and smiled bitterly.

Xu Ze did not ask any further, even if he asked too many questions, I would not say anything.

Talking too much was not good for him. On the contrary, it was easy for him to be in trouble.

The sound from the television was no longer audible due to the firecrackers. He could only see a row of men and women talking happily into the microphone, their ears buzzing, and Little Jiu Jiu in his arms shouting excitedly.

Previously, he had rushed back from abroad to spend the Spring Festival with Jiu Jiu in an orphanage, but it wasn’t as lively as here. There were many children in an orphanage, and the dean didn’t want to let off firecrackers in fear of an accident.

Today’s 9/9 was exceptionally exciting.

I held him and looked at the colorful lights flashing outside the window. Thinking back, it had been more than seven years since I last celebrated the Spring Festival with Mu Huainan.

He didn’t know what the rules were for the Spring Festival with Anfang, but he still liked to stay in the room by himself. He didn’t want to go out to eat with other people, so he held a pile of contract data and carefully studied it.

When he was young, he was always like that.

This year, this Spring Festival should have a different meaning to him than before. He had lived to the death and regained the right to set up his shop. After the surgery, he would no longer have to worry about that heart that would stop beating at any time.

But I think this is probably his loneliest Spring Festival.

Liang Yin, who had accompanied him for seven years, was no longer present. Fu Chen was also dead, and only Shen Xiuyuan, who was about to have fun, was left.

Just thinking about it made his heart ache.

Xu Ze and I sat on the sofa in the living room, watching the Spring Festival Gala that was locked up to silence.

He did not dare to open his mouth, afraid that he would disturb his bedroom.

Year after year, I’ve been through a lot, but at least this year, I’ll be able to get my son back and be with him forever.

It was also good to depend on each other.

Xu Ze turned to me and asked, “Are you hungry? I didn’t even see how you ate.”

I shook my head.

“My appetite is small, so I’m not hungry.”

Xu Ze laughed, “You female celebrities eat like that, eating as much as eating chicken. You guys are so little, yet you guys are so ruthless to yourself for the sake of being thin.”

I shook my head helplessly. “I’m different from them, I really don’t want to eat. There was a lot of pressure during that time, so I couldn’t eat anything. As time passed, my stomach got smaller.”

Xu Ze did not say anything else. He stood up and heated up the dumpling he wrapped in the afternoon and carried it to the plate.

“I’m hungry again.” He handed me a pair of chopsticks.

I took it.

“In the past, how do you celebrate New Year?” Xu Ze suddenly asked me, “Are all of you rich people very stylish for the new year?”

I shook my head.

“On advanced level television, once the firecrackers go off outside, we won’t be able to hear what the host says either. It’s all the same.”

Xu Ze said something again, but the firecrackers outside became louder, and he could not hear anything clearly.

The nearby Securities companies opened its doors on the seventh day of the new year. When I went to the seventh day of the new year, there were no seats at the train station.

As the weather got hotter, I bought a new T-shirt and jeans for 99 and put them on as well as I could.

The mediocre, there is no time to indulge in wild thoughts, the ordinary life finally sees the true meaning of life.

Spring had come. It was really coming.

Last winter all the tragic memories, the pain, the despair, along with the new spring-growing petals, was covered in the soil, they all said time is the cure for everything, I finally believed it.

All suffering will eventually pass.

I watched the news occasionally, and it was reported that when the perfumery was established for the centenary celebration, I sent someone to give him a solid portrait that was as tall as a human being, which was priceless.

The media had speculated that this was probably the beginning of the war between the two biggest maritime trade monopolies in the country.

As I read the report, I felt a sense of relief.

The decision to leave is indeed the right one. Without me in the middle, the only thing that remains between them is a relationship of mutual benefit. Furthermore, a joint venture with a win-win situation is the best way for them to earn a lot of money.

Everything seemed to be moving in a good direction.

Xu Ze, as a nurse, practically even works during holidays. When I finished cooking every day, I brought along 99% of the food to deliver to him. He always said with a smile that he was so happy that he felt like he was in a dream.

He was the one who helped me and Jiu Jiu to protect us from being captured by the people from He An. Give it back to our house so we don’t end up on the streets, and now he says he’s the lucky one.

There are many kind people in this world.

Every time I buy food at the supermarket, I look like an old lady in a glass mirror, my long hair tied up in a clip and a huge shopping bag on my back, pushing my way through a crowd of old men and women.

99 likes beef noodles, beef is a special price today, I want to buy a few more pounds of it to be worth it.

After picking all the items, I broke away from the group of grandpas and grandpas. As I looked at the beef in my hand, I couldn’t help but look up.

Why do I always feel like someone is watching me? Was it my imagination? I turned my head doubtfully, but there was nothing suspicious about me.

I must have been thinking too much.

Returning home, as usual, he first went to school to pick up Jiujiu and brought him home. After that, he would cook dinner at home and deliver the meal with Jiujiu Xu Ze.

However, a colleague from the hospital said that Xu Ze did not come to work today.

Weird, he left at the usual time. As usual, why didn’t he go to the hospital?

I took out my cell phone and called him. It was close.

“Hello.”

When I heard this sound, blood rushed all over my head, like a bucket of ice water poured over my head, making me feel cold from head to toe.

“Wangfujing Hotel, Room 7, 13th floor. I want to see my child.”

The hand that I was holding onto my phone couldn’t help but tremble. “Don’t hurt Xu Ze, he’s innocent.”

“Let me see the child, and he’ll be all right.”

“Mu Huainan, you are such a bastard.”

I hung up.

Wangfujing Hotel.

Mu Huainan had still come looking for him.

Xu Ze was only taken away because of us, mother and son. I know what that cold-blooded and heartless man will do to him, and I cannot ignore him.

“Ninety-nine.” I squatted down to look at him. “Uncle Xu Ze is in danger now, so mother is going to help him. Can you go with mother?”

He nodded without hesitation.

“Are you afraid?”

He pursed his small lips and shook his head.

“If mom is here, I won’t be afraid.”

I was asking the hospital doctor for a mask. Holding it in his hand, he carried Jiu Jiu out and stopped a car.

“Wangfujing Hotel.”

Along the way, Jiu Jiu buried his head in my arms and didn’t say a word.

He’s the bravest, most sensible kid I’ve ever seen.

I got out of the car, and before I got into the elevator, I put the mask I was holding on to Little Jiu Jiu’s eyes.

“In a while, if mom doesn’t want you to pick it, you have to keep your eyes closed. You’re not allowed to look at it, understand?”

“Got it.”

On the thirteenth floor, as soon as they stepped out of the elevator, there were people welcoming them. Most likely, even this floor was reserved by Mu Huainan’s people.

“Madam.” That person respectfully came over and extended his hand. “Madam, please follow me this way.”

There was no sound but the child’s breathing, and I followed the man to the room at the far end.

He hid his head in my arms, and when he came in, I told him again.

“You’re not allowed to speak in a while, so you’re not allowed to look at anything. Do you understand?”

Jiu Jiu’s voice was slightly trembling as he softly replied, “En. It was obvious that he was still afraid.”

entered the large, white, and clean house and sat on a bamboo chair on the balcony with his back facing me.

“Where’s Xu Ze?”

I looked around but didn’t see him.

Mu Huainan slowly turned around, and I saw that he had a gun at his waist.