C8

After he left Jiang Prefecture, he had become a member of the flight family. Unless he had ample time, he would not take the train. After all, aircraft saved a lot of time. As for the Jiang Prefecture airport, he had always kept this special parking space for him.

The car sped towards Jiangzhou City on the airport's highway. Finally, spots of light from Jiangzhou appeared before his eyes.

He had walked the path of returning home for many years. Even at night, he would not go the wrong way.

Ye Zichen took out his key to open the door, but the room was completely dark.

He had long since told Sun Mann that he would be back today, but she wasn't at home. Huo Shuqing just turned on the light and walked into the house. She threw the keys into the small storage basket on the shoe cabinet and took off her jacket and went upstairs to change.

Looking at the time, it was already ten o'clock at night.

He took a shower, and when he came out of the bathroom, he heard his wife on the phone.

Still dripping from his hair, he grabbed one end of the towel that hung around his neck, wiped his hair with it, and went into his wife's study.

"?" "Mhmm, then that's it. You're going to the company there on Monday?" Sun Mann was standing in front of the bookcase with a folder in one arm, flipping through the documents with the other hand as she spoke into the phone.

Huo Shuqing stood beside her and looked at her, then sat down on the sofa and continued to wipe her hair.

Sun Mann hung up the phone and put the folder back in the bookcase. "What time did you come back?"

"Just a moment ago." "No," he said.

"Have you eaten?" There may be some dumplings in the fridge, you can cook some if you want to eat them. " Sun Mann said.

"I ate some on the plane, I don't want to eat anymore." Huo Shuqing said, "I'll go to my parents' place tomorrow morning. Are you going? Big Sis will treat you in the afternoon. "

"Oh, I have to go to the office tomorrow. There's a troublesome case recently, and I have to work overtime!" Sun Mann took out a thick book from the bookcase and placed it on the desk, flipping through it.

Huo Shuqing looked at her and said, "Tomorrow is Tong's birthday. Big Sis will treat the entire family for dinner —"

"Birthday? How could I have forgotten? " Sun Mann looked at him and said, "I even forgot to buy a present."

"It's alright, Tong called me to tell me that she's going to the Cloud City to see some singers' concert and to give her the tickets as a present. I'll give her the ticket tomorrow. You don't have to buy anything. "

His wife made an "Oh," then looked down at the book again. She took a pen from the pen holder on the table and began to mark the book.

"Can you come to dinner?" Huo Shuqing asked.

"It should be possible! I'll try my best. " Sun Mann said.

Huo Shuqing walked out of her wife's study and headed downstairs to the living room on the first floor.

This was the duplicate of the two hundred square meters that he and Sun Mann bought six years ago, and Sun Mann often lived alone.

He turned on the TV habitually and scanned the channel with the remote control.

Not long after, Sun Mann came downstairs. She went to the kitchen and got a bottle of milk before sitting beside Huo Shuqing.

"Why are you so busy these days?" he asked.

"My assistant is on maternity leave and I haven't found a new assistant yet. I have to do it myself." said his wife, watching the television.

Speaking of children, Huo Shuqing remembered her sister's phone call and turned off the TV. She wrapped her arms around Sun Mann's waist and looked at her face. "Are we going upstairs?"

Sun Mann glanced at him and pushed his hand away unnaturally. She smiled and said, "I've been feeling unwell these past two days. Forget it!"

Huo Shuqing did not seem surprised. It was as if these kinds of situations were common to her. She stood up and said, "Then rest early. I'll go upstairs first."

His wife smiled at him and said, "Mm, you can go!"

Huo Shuqing took a bottle of cold beer from the refrigerator and went upstairs. On the left was their bedroom, while on the right was a guest bedroom. It was Huo Shuqing's room.

The couple had slept in separate rooms for several years. It was not because of any conflicts between them, but because the two of them had been busy with their own work and would occasionally go home. If they slept in the same bed, it would affect their rest more or less. As time went on, it became more difficult to sleep in the same bed.

Although it was a guest bedroom, it wasn't considered small either. In the past few years, Huo Shuqing had already moved a lot of her books into her room, as he had the habit of reading them before bedtime. As a secretary to a leader, he couldn't afford to read too little.

As the door was closed, he didn't know when Sun Mann had returned to her room.

The next morning, Huo Shuqing woke up early to find her wife had left home, so he drove to his parents' home.

Huo Shuqing's parents lived in a district of Jiangzhou City's city council. In the 1990s, Huo Shuqing's father, Huo Zekai, served as the secretary of Jiangzhou City council for many years. After he retired, he stayed in this district.

At home, only her parents and nanny lived there. Her elder sister Huo Jiamin came over for the weekend.

When the mother saw her son, it was always this worry that made her worry. She talked about how no one in Cloud City cared about her son, and the more she talked, the more resentful she became towards Sun Mann.

"I'm already such a big person, do I have to be afraid of being unable to take advantage of myself?" Huo Shuqing put her arm around her mother's shoulders and smiled. "Mom, you're in bad health. You're always thinking about these things, and you're going to turn our family into a hospital."

"When are you going to carry this grandson of mine in? There's nothing wrong with my body anymore." His mother, Xue Yuping, said.

"What's so difficult about that?" Isn't it easy for your son to have a child? " Huo Shuqing laughed.

"As you speak, there's no point in being serious!" "I warn you, you mustn't learn from the people outside. I can't have such a son! "

Huo Shuqing smiled but did not speak.

"When will your appointment be made?" Huo Zekai suddenly changed the topic and asked his son.

"Next week." Huo Shuqing said.

"Then, you'll be staying in the Cloud City?" the mother asked.

"Yes, at least one term of office has to be completed," Huo Shuqing replied.

"What about Sun Mann? Why aren't you going?" the mother asked.

"She's busy here, depending on the time," Huo Shuqing said.

His mother was about to say something else, but his father cut her off.

"That Zhao Qiming seems to be a troublesome person. Chunming also told me that it might not be easy for you to work with him now. " Father said.

Tan Chunming had been an admiring subordinate to Huo Zekai, and often called him "Chunming."

"Cloud City's team doesn't get along well, the province has no other choice. Zhao Qiming's foundation is too deep, he can't move at all. Right now, there's nothing we can do about it. " Huo Shuqing continued her father's words.

"If you are going to take on the position, there will definitely be difficulties. As for you, do your best to think of ways to deal with things on your own. You will have to walk your own path in the future. No one can protect you for the rest of your life. " Father said.

"Yeah, I know, Dad."

"Old granny, why is the food gone? Where's the new one? " Huo Zekai suddenly realized that he lost his fish food and asked his wife.

"Didn't you put this thing on yourself? "Why did you come here to ask me?" Xue Leeping stood up and walked to a small cabinet next to the tank. She took out a box of fish food and said, "Your memory is getting worse and worse. Do you remember anything about the fish that I placed in there yesterday?"

Huo Shuqing sat on the sofa, looking at her elderly parents standing by the fish tank, talking to each other. Young married couples would grow up together, living to the age of their parents. It was also a kind of happiness to have someone arguing like this!

Around 4 PM, Huo Shuqing received a call from Sun Mann, saying that she was going to Xuzhou on a temporary trip and couldn't come to eat. Huo Shuqing hung up the phone and returned to the living room, explaining to her family that Sun Mann was on a temporary business trip. As the words left her mouth, the expression on her mother's face turned serious again. Fortunately, his niece Yang Zitong soon made his mother happy, and the family no longer talked about Sun Mann's absence.

"Grandma, I'm going to the Cloud City concert on the 15th next month. Do you want to come with me?" Yang Zitong said coquettishly as she hugged Xue Leeping's neck.

"Why did you run so far?" Xue Leeping asked.

"Uncle has already given me the tickets. At that time, let Uncle accompany you to the concert. " Yang Zitong said to her grandmother.

"Aren't you going to accompany Tong?" Xue Leeping asked her daughter and son-in-law.

"If a parent comes, then we won't be going." Huo Jiamin said.

"One adult shouldn't be enough, but what about three children?" Xue Leeping asked worriedly.

"Oh, I found a colleague to accompany Tong. Don't worry. In addition, there would be no congestion if the VIP seats and the other seats were separated. The concert organizer also promised to do a good job on security. " Huo Shuqing said.

"Uncle, send a handsome brother to be our bodyguard! It's better to be like the Origin. " Yang Zitong said smugly.

"Origin?" "Then who is it?" Huo Shuqing asked, puzzled.

"A singer from some Korean group with a sissy personality. I don't know why kids like that nowadays," replied Huo Jiamin's husband, Yang Wenquan.

"Don't say that. You are all old and don't understand that kind of beauty!" Yang Zitong interrupted her father.

The whole family laughed.

"Uncle's so handsome. If he went to join the entertainment industry, he would be even more popular." Yang Zitong looked at Huo Shuqing and said.

"Foolish child, a man must look at his inner self, not his outer appearance. Although your uncle's outer appearance is not bad either." Huo Shuqing replied with a smile when she heard her niece's words.

"Alright, alright, your uncle and nephew are not upright at all. I'm going out to eat, or I'm going to be stuck in a traffic jam. " Huo Jiamin said.

After dinner, because Sun Mann was not at home, Huo Shuqing stayed with her parents. The next afternoon, she flew back to Cloud City.

On Saturday morning, Su Fann went to her brother's school to ask him about what had happened at the bar that night. Every time, she would call her brother to get him to come down. But since it was this early in the morning, before Su Zijie's phone had been unplugged and switched off, Su Fann could only wait in the cold wind. He finally met one of his brother's roommates, so he told him to go up and call Su Zijie down.

After a long time, Su Zijie walked out of the dorm door.

"Sis, I haven't eaten yet. Let's go eat first." The younger brother said.