Up to You - C191

When Jing Yu went missing, Mu Huainan suddenly lost connection with her. All of these things that suddenly happened felt like a pair of hands grabbed onto me back to the night and day a few years ago.

He quickly caught a taxi downstairs and threw the driver the money without asking for a single one. He rushed home and saw Xiao Jiu Jiu sitting on the sofa in the living room, watching TV without even getting a chance to change his shoes.

“Mom!” His legs dangled by the sofa as he said, “I’m hungry. Hurry up and cook for me!”

“I left early in the morning.”

I frowned. “You didn’t contact Aunt Lin to prepare lunch?”

Little Jiu Jiu shook his head.

It shouldn’t be, Mu Huainan had always pampered his own son to such an extent, how could he not forget to worry about his lunch?

This meant … ….

“Was Daddy in a hurry when he left?” I asked.

He shook his head.

“No, as usual.”

But thinking about it, he was right, he was Mu Huainan, he was never the type to show joy or anger.

“Alright, be a good boy and watch TV. Mom will cook for you.”

I went to the kitchen to pick and pick, feeling apprehensive as I picked, and the more I thought about it the darker it became, until my hands and feet were cold and I couldn’t stand anymore, my body leaning against the marble table behind me, my heart racing.

And so, without any forewarning, everything happened.

“Mom.”

Jiu Jiu’s voice suddenly came from beside his ear.

“Why did you take so long to pick a package of vegetables?”

“Ah!” It was only after Jiujiu had said this that I realized what had happened. Look at that pot of vegetables that I’m picking here and there, soon to be reduced to mincemeat.

“Mom, is there something on your mind?” Jiu Jiu was always smart. Like his father, he was able to see through people’s hearts. “Is it about dad?”

I shook my head, trying not to worry the child.

“It’s fine. Let’s go watch TV. Mom will be done cooking soon.”

He didn’t ask anymore and obediently returned to the living room.

That night, Mu Huainan did not return for the entire night.

I called Shen Xiuyuan and asked him about it. He didn’t know anything.

He called the company and said that Mubai had never been there before.

A living person disappeared just like that. I was about to go crazy.

After coaxing ninety-nine to sleep at night, I sat alone in my room and thought carefully about what had happened in the past few days.

One by one, things seemed to have gone wrong from the beginning of the family dinner.

It was hard to tell what was wrong, but that woman. Mu Huainan said that she was an old friend, and the hospital nurse also said that she knew Jing Yu.

Time flowed on and on. Thirteen years ago, before I met Mu Huainan, Jing Yu had temporarily become the Lu Family’s only daughter. Something must have happened in these years.

And yet my memory of it was completely blank.

What happened? If my guess is right, then what kind of grievances and grudges caused the events of thirteen years ago to occur so far? Why did they painstakingly seek them out?

I don’t understand.

The cold wind rustled in the night, and I couldn’t help but think of that woman’s ghastly eyes again. My whole body shuddered, as if a cold wind had suddenly entered my spine, making my scalp tingle and my whole body go cold.

I curled up on the sofa in the living room and looked out at the dark sky. There was barely any starlight, so I felt even more afraid.

Unknowingly, I lost consciousness. I don’t know if I fell asleep or if I passed out due to the nightmare.

When I woke up the next day, Mu Huainan was sitting on the sofa beside me, reading a newspaper.

I stared at him blankly for a few seconds, but soon after, I couldn’t help but call out: “Mu Huainan!”

He slowly put the paper down and looked up at me, gentle and calm as he had been every day and night for the past two years.

But I remembered how frightened I had been last night, and how mad I was.

“Mu Huainan!” I called to him again.

He just asked me calmly, “Are you hungry? I’ll cook some noodles for you. ”

When I heard him say that, my stomach growled.

“The beef noodle soup will be ready soon.”

He put away the newspaper and went to the kitchen. As he walked past the sofa, he patted my thigh and said, “Go wash up. It’s already noon. What a lazy pig.”

He actually still has the mood to joke around with me, could it be … Didn’t anything happen last night?

My heart was still in turmoil, but from Mu Huainan’s posture, it was clear that he did not want to say anything. I understood him, and it was impossible for me to find anything he wanted to bury.

After washing up, I came out of the bathroom and smelled the fragrant beef noodle soup. I followed the smell to the living room and my stomach growled even louder.

I wolfed it down, and he looked at me quietly.

“Eat slowly, don’t burn it.”

“What about 99?” I asked him.

“Aunt Lin sent him to school.”

I nodded. He could not help but ask:

“What about you?”

He laughed. “I’m here.”

I put down my bowl and chopsticks and stared at him. I believe he understood what I meant.

“An’an.”

When he calls me that, I’m screwed.

His heart was filled with thousands of restlessness. Being called like this by him so calmly and unperturbed, everything seemed to be going well.

“I’m fine.”

He told me, “Don’t let your thoughts run wild.”

I didn’t want to listen, and I didn’t have the mood to eat any more of the remaining half bowl of beef noodles.

“Jing Yu was taken away, you know.”

He didn’t hide it, and he didn’t answer. He just got up and took my glass away and poured some fresh milk from the kitchen and brought it over.

If a Mr. Mou was enough to become a Mr. Mou, then he would never have to burden his own life with external matters.

His originally anxious heart had become a lot more relaxed after he had made such a quick effort to bring peace to this peaceful and prosperous world.

But he refused to let go.

“Jing Yu knew that she was born because of it. If she went out and got sick, the consequences would be unthinkable.”

She finally heard Mu Huainan sigh with a deep and complicated expression.

“An’an.” He helped me put the milk in front of me, walked over and gently hugged me and said, “With me here, nothing will happen, do you understand?”

“But I also want you to have nothing to do with it.”

“Huai Nan.” As I spoke, I choked up and said, “It’s been so many years. You have me now and I’m at 99. Can you please stop carrying everything by yourself?”

He laughed again, as if he were laughing at me for making too much of it.

“Nothing happened, why are you so nervous?”

“Then tell me, why did you leave in such a hurry when you clearly agreed to take 99% of the time to play at the company? Why aren’t you taking your phone?”

I added before he could say anything.

“For the past few years, this is the only thing that has made you feel anxious.”

As one might imagine, this was no small matter.

“Who said I was in a hurry?” Mu Huainan asked me: “Did 99 say it?”

I nodded.

He said softly, “I just went out to relax. 99% of the time, he was playing with my phone. I didn’t want to interrupt him. I just took a walk. I didn’t even bring my phone and went out.”

I was skeptical.

“Really?”

“I don’t dare to lie to Madam Mu.” As he spoke, he picked up the chopsticks on the table and stirred the noodles in the bowl.

“I’ll cook you some more.” He picked it up and headed for the kitchen.

I reached up and grabbed his wrist.

“Forget it, I can’t eat anymore.”

He couldn’t help but ask again: “The one who took Jing Yu away was that old friend of yours. You must know something, right?”

He turned back to me.

“An An, do you believe me?”

I nodded. “Of course.”

“This matter has nothing to do with you, I will take Jing Yu’s safety belt back, and everything will return to normal.

I still can’t help it.

He started for the kitchen, and I couldn’t sit still for a while, so I got up and followed him.

“Uncle Huainan.”

I called him that again.

“What did you say? Then why aren’t you willing to tell me what happened?”

However, he still used the same excuse: “The events of many years ago didn’t have anything to do with you.”

“How can it be? This matter involves Jing Yu. Jing Yu is my sister, how can it be that I have nothing to do with her!”

I held him from behind, my voice soft and soft.

“I don’t want you to carry it yourself. I’m Lady Mu now. I’m no longer that little brat who needs your protection every day.”

He puts the dishes in the dishwasher, then switches on the dishwasher and turns to hug me.

“In my eyes, you have always been a child.”

Mu Huainan will never change, it’s something that he doesn’t want to say, no matter how you ask him, he won’t say it.

Since he said he could solve it, I could only try to convince myself that calmness didn’t add to his troubles.

I am a woman of the Mr. Mou, I should be able to bear everything, I think.

“That’s right, tomorrow night there will be a parents’ discussion meeting, requesting both parents to come together.”

“Alright. I’ll pick you up at the company tomorrow night. ”

“Yes.”

My nose was sour and astringent, in the end, I could only forcefully suppress my worry. I was hugged by Mu Huainan by the waist and directly returned to the bedroom.

“I must have slept badly on the sofa last night.”

I pursed my lips.

“The reason I didn’t sleep well was because you suddenly lost your connection. It’s not because of the sofa, it’s because of you!”

Mu Huainan laughed, placed me on the bed, and leaned over to kiss me. “Good, good, good, this is all my fault.”

Feeling the familiar warmth, I couldn’t help but feel my hair stand on end and let out an uncomfortable sound.

“Don’t forget that you’re a person with a wife and children right now. Don’t bear all the responsibilities towards us.”

He pressed against me, his eyes meeting mine, very close, breathing through his nose, hearing his voice.

“I know all about it.”

He said, “Since I have chosen to give up An Mang and hand it over to Shen Xiuyuan, I just want to leave this place far behind for you all.”

When I was a child, I was ignorant and lived in the utopia he had built for me. The cruelty and the blood of reality were hidden from his sight. Now I grew up, came out of the world he gave me, walked to the real world once, saw too many people, was not an accident, he is old, can not give me fake world, can only leave me a little warmth in the real world.

In fact, I know all his intentions.