Chapter 57:

The Li family has been preparing for Pei Xin's departure abroad. The time is scheduled for early June. He needs to go there and adapt for a while before officially registering for school at the end of August.

Pei Xin's grandfather Li Yanzhong was a powerful figure in the business world at a very young age. After the political and business marriage, he broke away from the family and moved to City A from City C. Once you build your own family business, you can retire early and enjoy yourself, so even if you are over sixty, you will still be in good spirits.

In summer, the mountain villa is a good place to escape the summer heat and live in. The air is fresh and the huge antique buildings are cleverly built. On a cliff, thousands of people stand leaning against the wall, and there are flocks of flying birds when you look up.

Li Yanzhong was sitting on a bamboo chair with glasses on. He thought slowly for a while before moving a move. He squinted his eyes and looked at Pei Xin, who was sitting opposite him: "You haven't played chess for too long and you have regressed."

Pei Xin was wearing a black suit. T-shirt, hair blown open by the mountain wind, he lowered his head and pushed a pawn forward without saying a word.

Li Yanzhong shook his head: "It would be strange if you are so absent-minded when playing chess. If you don't lose."

He swallowed a black chess piece obediently and clicked his tongue: "General."

Pei Xin slowly raised his eyes as if waking up from a dream. There was no expression on his face: "I lost."

Li Yanzhong smiled, slowly separated the red and black chess pieces, and took a sip of tea: "Are you ready to go abroad at the end of the month?"

Pei Xin sat up straight and stretched out his left hand to pick it up. Li Yanzhong handed over the chess box and said in a calm tone: "I don't plan to go abroad."

Li Yanzhong paused in passing the chess box and straightened his mouth: "Don't plan to go abroad? What do you mean?"

Pei Xin said: "I want to stay in A. City."

Li Yanzhong looked at him seriously and put the chess box aside. The wooden chess box hit the stone table with a crisp sound: "This matter was decided a long time ago, give me a reason."

Pei Xinyan . His eyes were dark, he didn't know where his gaze was falling, and he didn't answer.

Li Yanzhong's eyes were sharp, and after a long while, he sighed with a tone of regret: "You grew up in Pei's family, and you learned a lot from Pei Pingjin. I have never cared about what you do outside. But the matter of going abroad is yours. I promised you a long time ago that there is no room for negotiation."

"No matter how many women Pei Pingjin has had over the years, you will always be the only legitimate son. You can come back after you go abroad to study and gain experience. If you don't inherit the Pei family, you know how much you can get from the Pei family."

In the second half of this sentence, his tone gradually became colder, showing an unquestionable meaning.

Pei Pingjin and Li Su's relationship had broken down for many years, and the reason why they had not been able to divorce was that Li Yanzhong wanted to ensure that Pei Xin could successfully inherit the Pei family. If studying abroad is put on hold, everything changes.

Pei Xin listened quietly, with straight lips and dark pupils with sharp magnanimity: "I don't want anything from the Pei family at all."

"Don't want it?" Li Yanping smiled, and when he lowered his head, his glasses reflected a little light, as if Mocking Pei Xin's overestimation, "Everything on your body, every word Mr. Pei is called when you go out, are given to you by the Pei family and the Li family. Without these, do you think you have lived so many days?" Why are you so lawless and blocking people in City A?"

Pei Xin frowned, his face slowly turning ugly.

Li Yanzhong saw this and changed the subject: "The child you are looking for is named Li, right?"

Pei Xin raised his eyes, his eyes covered by long eyelashes gradually becoming colder.

Li Yanzhong did not look at him again, poured a cup of tea leisurely, and continued: "You think you can find him if you stay in City A, but if there are no Pei family and Li family, why do you find him? Even if you find him, you don't have the power to intimidate him, so why should you stay with him?"

Li Yanping has been retired for many years, and his image in front of Pei Xin has always been that of an old man who likes to drink tea and play chess, so explicit and indifferent. This was the first time he told Pei Xin if he had mercy. However, he had no intention of being soft-hearted at the moment. Looking at Pei Xin's gloomy face, he understood that Pei Xin had already listened to what he said.

The water in the teapot is boiling again, and the fragrance of tea is filled with the ancient charm.

Pei Xin frowned silently, but still refused to give up: "Then I will find him first and take him with me."

Li Yanzhong snorted coldly and took a sip of tea with an unchanged expression: "The time at the end of the month cannot be changed. "You can take care of the rest yourself."

This was an almost commanding tone, without giving in.

Pei Xin was silent for a long time, then he stood up from the bamboo chair and walked out with his hands clenched. His slender and tall figure was cast on the bluestone. The mountain breeze whistled in from the courtyard door, mixed with the clear fragrance of bamboo.

"Wait a minute."

Pei Xin's footsteps stopped in the corridor with complicated patterns. He heard Li Yanzhong's plain voice coming from behind: "Last time on your birthday, I apologize to you on behalf of your mother about the cake."

Pei Xin turned his back on the light . , with a cold voice: "No, she won't want to apologize to me."

He walked around the corridor neatly and walked out. The cicadas chirped loudly in the mountains and forests, and the hot wind swirled around the cliffs and rustled the leaves in his ears. It sounded a bit like pattering rain.

The air-conditioner was on in the black car, driving along the winding mountain road.

Pei Xin glanced at the cliff outside the car window. There were entangled rocks and steep branches, and the lush greenery at the bottom of the cliff was vaguely visible.

He rolled down the window, lit a cigarette, took a deep breath and exhaled the white mist. The clear chirping of birds and the sound of wind lingered in his ears. Pei Xin suddenly twitched the corner of his mouth lightly. He probably understood why Li Wenyu ran away.

Li Wenyu may also be waiting for him to leave City A. Only when he leaves City A will Li Wenyu appear.

"Uncle Wang."

Pei Xin tightened his knuckles, and the cigarette burning with sparks slowly wrinkled.

Wang Ting slowed down the car and glanced at the rearview mirror: "Master."

"Even if I leave, you will continue to keep an eye on City A." Pei Xin put out his cigarette, and the white mist that lingered when he spoke made his eyebrows twitch. Not really, but his throat was strangely hoarse, and he said word by word like sandpaper, "I must, must find him."

In the past few months, Wang Ting has turned City A upside down in order to find someone. Who this "he" is, no one knows better than Wang Ting.

He nodded solemnly and said solemnly: "I understand."

The car entered the tunnel, and the road ahead instantly became dim, with only the long lights on the top winding, circling, and finally intersecting along the tunnel.

*

The end of June was the hottest season. On the day Pei Xin went to the airport, neither Li Yanzhong nor Pei Pingjin showed up, but Li Yanzhong specially sent someone to see him off. Pei Xin had met this man before, and he was regarded as Li Yanzhong's right-hand man. He not only sent Pei Xin to the airport, but also followed him to the plane. The meaning was self-evident.

But Pei Xin didn't pay too much attention. He sat in the business class and rested with his eyes closed and a blindfold on.

There was no dream, and he didn't even know that he wasn't asleep after all. When he opened his eyes again, he had entered a foreign realm.

The skyscraper windows were like mirrors, and the whole city was glowing, drizzling in a blinding white light.

Pei Xin lives in a high-floor apartment. When it gets dark, the lights in the building go out and the lights in the apartment are not turned on. There was exotic neon outside the window, and Pei Xin was sitting on the sofa in front of the window.

Zhao Shenwen called him and talked nonsense on the other end. It was rare that there was no noise on the other end, but he soon realized that Pei Xinxing was lacking, so he hung up the phone.

Pei Xin turned off the screen, threw the phone on the coffee table, and looked straight at Li Wenyu opposite, who was nestled in the corner of the sofa, his face close to the glass window admiring the night view. He smiled slightly, with a little moisture on the bridge of his nose and lips. fluorescent.

Pei Xin's throat rolled, and he raised his hand to press the switch next to him.

The overhead light was bright and fell all over him.

Pei Xin blinked slowly, his black and white pupils flashing with tiny light: "Li Wenyu, you came with me, right?"