Cold, really cold.

Xie Yuyan curled up in the quilt and hugged the stove in his arms. She closed her eyes like a poor kitten.

After midnight, the cold moonlight came in from the window. She suddenly shivered and woke up from a long dream.

"Hiss." Xie Yuyan took a breath, gently turned over and glanced at the empty room.

Just then, she suddenly found a dark figure sitting by the bed, motionless.

Xie Yuyan suddenly changed his face, habitually stretched out his jade hand and touched it under the pillow.

"Do you sleep like this every night?"

The familiar voice came into his ears. Xie Yuyan was slightly stunned, and immediately blinked her beautiful eyes: "Li Qing?"

"Yes."

"You're crazy. You want to scare me to death?" Xie Yuyan drank angrily, lifted his little foot directly from the quilt and pedaled towards the dark shadow by the bed.

Li Qing caught her white and delicate feet and gently held them in her arms. The palm gently pasted on the cold skin. Li Qing couldn't help saying, "it's so cold. Why is it so cold?"

"You also have to take care of the natural cold?" Xie Yuyan pulled back, but failed. "What are you doing? You love your feet."

"Don't move, I'll keep you warm," said Li Qing. She put her hand into the quilt, caught her other cold little foot out and held it carefully in her arms. "Rain and smoke, I can do so much for you."

"If you have nothing to offer, you can steal unless you commit adultery." Xie Yuyan snorted coldly, raised his jade hand and lit the bedside lamp. "What do you want to do when you come to my room so late?"

"It's hard for me to touch the iron walls of your Xie family. Why aren't you surprised at all?"

"Oh, then you didn't run to me less." Xie Yuyan pulled the pillow over and held it in his arms. "Want to see the child? Haven't you just seen it during the day? You came to me in the middle of the night. What do you think of Lin Qiuqiu?"

Li Qing blinked and looked around the whole bedroom: "you didn't sleep with the children."

"Zhiyao is noisy in the middle of the night. I want to have a good rest, so I let the wet nurse bring it."

Li Qing left his mouth: "it's really not like your style."

Xie Yuyan stared slightly, picked up the stove and threw it away. But she hesitated a little. Maybe she felt that if the playfulness was too destructive, she put it down: "what do I want to do? Can you give me some advice?"

"No, no, no, you misunderstood. I didn't mean that." Li Qing gently waved his hand, "it's just that the child was born last week. You let her sleep in separate rooms with you. Why don't you feel like a real mother."

Xie Yuyan blinked her beautiful eyes and didn't speak.

"I remember one thing." Li Qing suddenly said, "I came to see you a few days ago. When I left, I saw a woman in her thirties. The old housekeeper told me that her husband died working in the Xie family. Do you know this?"

Xie YuYan's delicate body was slightly stiff, and a few pales appeared on her pretty cheeks.

Li Qing felt her little foot tremble in her arms and had a bottom in her heart: "I asked someone to check. The woman's husband is not dead, but her daughter born a month ago is missing. I also heard that the family has got a lot of money and is preparing to emigrate abroad."

Xie Yuyan moved away his eyes: "who found it first? Lin Qiuqiu or you?"

"Qiu Qiu."

"Sure enough, I can't deceive her."

"Qiuqiu is more experienced than you in giving birth and raising children. You are still a novice in this regard. Of course, you can't hide it from her."

"Why did you come to me tonight?" Xie Yuyan raised his lips slightly. "What do you want?"

"How can you make such a big thing so light?" Li Qing narrowed his eyes slightly. "Don't you think you should give me an explanation?"

"I know you came with a belly of fire." Xie YuYan's head was too small, "but that's my own daughter. Why should I explain to you?"

Li Qing stared: "can you be born without me?"

"Li Qing." Xie Yuyan leaned forward and stared at him. "That night in Longxi, the person you want is me, my body, not the child. Won't you deny it?"

Her eyes were so sharp that Li Qing could not help shrinking her neck with a guilty heart.

"This child is an accident to you, but it is the opposite to me, so it has nothing to do with you."

"What kind of messy logic are you? If we don't have feelings, will we have this child?" Li Qing shouted angrily, "Xie Yuyan! You know very well! If you only want a child, you don't have to come to me! There are many men in the world, do you want me? Even if you are disgusted with men, you can do artificial work..."

"Shut up." Xie Yuyan suddenly raised his jade hand and covered Li Qing's mouth. "Can you keep your voice down? How can you be like a bitch scolding the street."

Li Qing held her hand and took a hard breath: "is it interesting for you to play this set? I'm the child's father. I should always let me meet and let me have the right to know?"

"Not all the same." Xie Yuyan took back his hand, put his jade arm around his chest and leaned against the wall beside the bed. "Even if you know, can you stop it?"

"You..." Li Qing heaved a sigh. He didn't know whether he should be angry or pity her.

After a pause, Li Qing asked again, "where is the baby?"

"Sent abroad." Xie Yuyan replied faintly, "wait until the situation is stable in a few years and then pick her up."

"Such a small child, you mother have the heart to send her away?"

"What else? You raise it?"

Li Qing sighed helplessly on his face. After a while, he said, "what about the child?"

"Keep it."

"Keep it? It's easy for you to say that you haven't considered the child's feelings. She's young and doesn't understand anything, but once she grows up, how to explain it? Because of the adult's self-interest, does she get used to be a puppet?"

"What's wrong with being a puppet? Miss Xie of the golden branches and jade leaves, many people can't hope to come." Xie Yuyan said carelessly, "if she is really sensible, thank me for being too late."

"You let her take all the risks instead of our own daughter. It's okay..."

"Li Qing!" Xie Yuyan drank coldly, "you are a big man. How can you have such a pretentious woman's heart. The child's parents don't want her for money. What are you doing with her?"

Li Qing put down Xie YuYan's small feet and stood up unsteadily: "you have just given birth to a child. Have a good rest. I don't want to quarrel with you."

As the voice fell, he turned and walked out.

"Come back." Xie Yuyan stared at his back and shouted angrily.

Li Qing turned around and spread his hands: "what else do you have?"

"It's all coming." Xie Yuyan tooted his small mouth, "come and hold me. It's cold."

Li Qing couldn't help twitching in the corners of his eyes: "can you have a better attitude?"

"No." Xie Yuyan glared, "who let Lin Qiuqiu meddle? Since you're here tonight, stay until dawn."

"If I have to go."

Xie Yuyan was silent for a while and suddenly threw the stove out: "get out!"

Li Qing leaned back to catch the stove, held it in his arms and grinned: "ouch, it's still warm."

He walked back to the bed, put down the stove, and then went to hug Xie Yuyan. The latter moved aside and asked angrily, "aren't you going to go?"

"You look so angry that I can't bear to go."

"Hum, do you belong to a donkey if you don't walk and go backwards?"

Li Qing stretched out his hand around Xie Yuyan, held her and lay down on the bed. He raised his hand and pulled out the bedside lamp: "there are still a few hours before dawn. I'll accompany you and sleep."

Xie Yuyan said nothing, but he arched his small head in his arms and soon fell asleep.

Li Qing stared at the darkness in the room and couldn't help sighing. He only felt that a strong sense of insecurity was surging towards him.

Xie Yuyan in his arms is sleeping sweetly, but he is completely sleepless. Forced by the current situation and the ups and downs of the world, Li Qingzhen doesn't know when he can meet his daughter he has never met.

He stayed at Xie's house until 4:30 a.m. and saw that the sky was about to dawn. Only then did he tuck in the quilt for Xie Yuyan, who was still sleeping, and reluctantly walked away.

Li Qing sneaked out of Xie's residence, climbed over the wall and landed steadily on the empty street.

He looked around and didn't see anyone else. Then he turned and walked along the street.

Not long after, he came to his car. When he just opened the door and was about to sit in, his body suddenly stiffened.

Li Qing turned his head and stared at Jiang Yu sitting in the back of the car. He smiled and asked in a deep voice, "Why are you in my car?"

"Mr. Li, we've been waiting for you outside for several hours. It's so late that the brothers are really hard." Jiang Yu leaned forward and grinned. "Should I ask you why you showed up outside Xie's residence in the middle of the night?"

"Can you manage my business?"

Jiang Yu smiled again, raised his hand and patted the position beside him: "Mr. Li, come back and talk. I'll find someone to drive for you."

"No," said Li Qing, "what the hell are you looking for me?"

"I'm not looking for you." Jiang Yu's smile suddenly converged and his face became extremely serious. "Mr. Li, come with me. Director Zhong invited you to tea in the inspector's office."

"For what?"

"You'll know when you go."

Li Qing gently picked at the tip of her eyebrows: "what if I don't go?"

"Gee, well..." Jiang Yu raised his hand and scratched his ears. "Our director said that if you don't come, she will invite you in person."

"It's hard to refuse." Li Qing breathed out, stretched out his hand, opened the rear door and sat in.

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