The Hope You Gave Me: 39-watch

Half an hour later, Min Hui returned the computer to Xin Qi: "It's fixed."

"Dropbox?"

"It's ready to use, it helped you over a wall."

"Yeah." He quickly closed more than a dozen windows and returned the computer to Min Hui, "Thank you."

He sat beside her, still smelling the faint citrus scent, and in a trance, she felt like she had walked into the fruit grove again.

However, he didn't plan to talk to her much, typed like a fly, and focused on answering emails. After a while, he turned around and glanced at her, and found that she was silently dazed by the side, and handed her his mobile phone: "Can you fix this?"

"I'll try."

"Power-on password 0627," he said casually.

Min Hui's face turned pale, and a chill went down her spine. She imagined the number repeating countless times on his fingertips, and what flashed at the same time was the back of Su Tian taking off the lifebuoy and jumping into the Mushui River.

The two monitors that captured Su Tian were so far away from her that she couldn't see the front face at all. The most clear thing was the back. He must have watched it back and forth many times, just like her. Find clues.

The day Su Tian disappeared was June 27th.

It seems that Xin Qi doesn't plan to forgive her for the rest of her life.

She glanced at him quietly, determined that she was thinking too much, and that reporting the number was just an unintentional act. Xin Qi was concentrating on replying to work emails, typing fast, never pressing the delete button.

His iPhone is silver-gray, the latest model, with no protective case, no film, and it feels very thin and slightly heavy, with his body temperature remaining on it. She touched the screen with her hand, and two cracks were thrown from it by him. She pressed it lightly, and a blue screen appeared. Insert the USB into the Itunes mode, after the machine restarts, the screen lights up and enters the normal page.

"It's ready to use." She returned the phone to him. He took it and threw it next to the computer. He continued typing and asked, "It's late. Go back."

After speaking, he glanced at his watch: "It's almost eleven o'clock."

"It's twelve o'clock," she corrected. "Is your watch on North American time?"

He took another look and said, "It should be Beijing time, but it looks like this watch is broken too."

"Mechanical watches can also break?"

Everything on Xin Qi is not cheap, and the watch is no exception.

"A few times." He took off his watch and put it in her hand, "Take it."

Su Quan likes clocks. She thought he didn't want them anymore and gave them to Su Quan as a toy. She was about to thank him, but he said, "You can fix it."

Seeing that she didn't say a word for a long time, he said, "Since you can repair computers and mobile phones, you must be able to repair watches, right? You are the descendant of craftsmen and artists, and you must be very hands-on."

"I've done a few... classmates' forms before."

It was an ordinary watch, with a silver dial and a black leather strap, with four small dials inside. She had never heard of the brand. The hands stopped, and she patted the case hard: "Maybe it's stuck somewhere. There's no screwdriver, just go home and fix it."

"Slowly repair, don't rush."

"This watch...isn't that expensive?"

"Not expensive."

"If you take it apart and can't put it back together, you won't get angry, right?"

"I'm sure I'll be pissed," he said coldly.

"Then...then you should hire a professional to fix it."

"I want you to fix it."

“…”

"If you can't fix it, buy an identical one to compensate me."

"Xin Qi, you are a bit unreasonable," she said aggrievedly, "I didn't break this watch."

"This watch is the day I found out that I had a son, and I threw it when I was thinking about the toilet."

Min Hui was stunned for a moment, then asked with concern: "Xin Qi, are you constipated?"

His face suddenly became blue: "If you want to repair a watch, why is there so much nonsense!" After that, he continued to type.

Min Hui sat silently for a while, suddenly remembered something, and said softly: "By the way, I have a few photos of Su Tian's life, which I got from her circle of friends. Have you seen it?"

The sound of the keyboard suddenly stopped, and he suddenly came over with a chair: "Su Tian's life photo? I haven't seen it. Where is it? Let me take a look."

Among the fifteen Moments photos, only five have Su Tian's headshot, two full-body photos, and three selfies, all of them high-definition. Min Hui wanted to send these photos to Xin Qi on the day they broke up four years ago, but Xin Qi blocked her and never sent them. I thought that with Deng Chen's investigation ability, I should be able to get it, but Xin Qi didn't expect to see it.

She sent all the photos to his phone, and he immediately held them in his hands, looking at them hungrily.

"Before Su Tian disappeared, he used to work in Lanjin Pavilion. Have you been to that place?" Min Hui asked.

"I've been there. One summer three years ago." He said, "Deng Chen took me there. It's a pity that the Rankin Pavilion has been demolished."

"Dismantled?"

"It has become a Cantonese restaurant. The proprietress married a Brazilian Huaqiao and settled in South America. The population in Guangzhou is fast, and there is no list. The former working girls can't be found. Xiao Wan of Xunqin.com I also asked and said that I mainly communicated with Su Tian through private messages and phone calls. I don’t have WeChat myself, so I know that the circle of friends is a matter of the last two years…”

Sure enough, when he talked about Su Tian, ​​he talked a lot, and he soon realized it. Seeing Min Hui supporting Yi and listening intently, he suddenly lost interest and stopped before he finished speaking. end. He lowered his head and looked carefully at the photos on his phone.

Looking very slowly, fifteen photos for thirty minutes. Wherever Su Tian appears, zoom in and out repeatedly...

"Has she changed from before...?" Min Hui asked.

"How do I know?" He gave a wry smile. "I had poor eyesight and never saw her face clearly. Sometimes I couldn't even tell the face from the face."

"She is lively and chatty."

"She was originally very introverted and didn't talk much. Because I couldn't see, she treated me as a blind person. She was used to using her voice to describe everything, and gradually she became a talkative girl."

"She complained about your bad temper in her diary."

"That's because she has a good temper." He said lightly, "If a person has a good temper, the sharks around him will come to take advantage of it by smell."

"So you're one of them?"

"I'm a dog by her side. Anyone who dares to treat her in the slightest, I'll immediately rush to bite."

Min Hui felt sad: "You are right, I stole her life."

He sighed: "I also stole it, it's a conspiracy."

She froze.

"I learned very late that the Browns who adopted me originally wanted to adopt a girl. Because they already had a son who was also adopted from China, my brother Eric. The Chinese government's adoption procedures are very strict, They waited a whole year to see Su Tian, ​​who was recommended by the orphanage. Unexpectedly, when they met, Su Tian suddenly changed his mind and said that there is a boy who needs to be adopted. She is reluctant to go to the United States because she was abducted and sold. Stay here and wait for Mom. The Browns changed their minds."

"Foreigners to adopt Chinese children, can't they just pick them?"

“It takes a long time to wait in line to adopt a healthy child, but it will be much faster to adopt a disabled child with heart disease. The teachers in the welfare home all say that I am lucky, because the medical conditions in the United States are good, and the Brown family has I am very wealthy, and they will definitely cure my eyes. Of course, improving my eyesight is a good thing for me, but I also do not want to be separated from Su Tian. We had a big fight over this. Su Tian persuaded me over and over again, The breakup is temporary, she will always wait for me and let me go back to China to find her when I grow up. I am afraid that I will be sad, she will avoid seeing her on the day she leaves..."

"So you wrote that letter."

He nodded, his eyes were slightly red: "For more than ten years, I have been thinking day and night that if she was the one who went to the United States, she would definitely live a comfortable life like me and suffer from good health. Education, you don't have to work hard for a living and do things you don't like. She left me a precious opportunity and let me have everything I have now. When I can repay her, she is gone... "

"I don't think so."

"Huh?"

"It's important for you to have her eyes healed. It's also important for her to see her mother. You were very happy in America, and she was happy when she finally got her mother. She stayed with her mother with all her heart and soul. She took good care of her until she died, with no regrets. You each got what you deserve, and none of you owe anyone."

"No one owes anyone?" He raised his head and sneered, "This is your conclusion? Min Hui, why did you die in the first place?"

“…”

"Isn't it because of Cheng Qirang?"

Her cheeks were suddenly hard and her chin was sore: "Yes, it's because of Cheng Qirang."

"Then you're sitting on someone's lap now?"

"Not what you think."

"I'm too lazy to think about you!" His fire came up again, "I'm not worth it for Su Tian! Look what she got for saving your life! You go to Cheng Qirang again. Tie, Su Tian is dead for nothing."

"I'll never post again, but how did you know him?" Min Hui asked back, "Don't do business with this kind of person, he's not a good person! A liar with no bottom line! "

"A liar with no bottom line, um, are you talking about yourself?"

"I..."

He ignored her again, turned off the phone, and continued to reply to emails.

"Xin Qi, I have something to discuss with you." Min Hui said cheekily, "My team has a product that will be officially launched next month, and some work has not been completed, so you need to work overtime for 15 days. Can you take care of Su Quan for me?"

This is a job where she can't leave for 24 hours. The first person she thinks of is Zhou Ruji. After all, she has the closest relationship with herself. But Zhou Ruji had countless surgeries in the hospital and had to take care of his wife when he got home.

She thought about Chen Jiajun, and it would not be difficult for him to ask for half a month's leave to do a favor, and he would definitely be willing, but Chen Jiajun has no experience in taking care of children at all, and he doesn't know much about being a parent, and he still has some " "Street boy" has the habit of being brave and ruthless. She is afraid that her child will learn badly, and she is not very relieved.

Cao Mu's husband, Yin Xu, is at home full time, but he has two children himself. Occasionally helping for half a day or a day is no problem, and handing Su Quan to him for half a month... I must not care.

It's not difficult to hire a carer or nanny, and it's not bad for the money, but Su Quan is more receptive, and it's difficult to get acquainted with strangers if he's not there.

The only thing I can do is to ask Xin Qi.

"I said I would take care of him until he was discharged from the hospital. If you are too busy these ten days, don't use it."

"It's fifteen days."

"I live in Beijing, and I often go back to New York. If you agree to let the child live with me—" He paused, "let alone fifteen days, it doesn't matter if it is fifteen years."

"Sorry, Su Quan can't leave Bencheng."

"What do you mean? Let me give all my heart and get nothing?"

"Yes."

"How dare you make such an unreasonable request—"

"Because you're his father." Min Hui looked at the sky, "That's how responsibility is. Once you carry it, it's on your shoulders. You can't throw it away if you want to."