Chapter 508 Goodbye
The next day was the 26th of the year. Liu Wangxue didn’t go anywhere on this day. He stayed in the room and retouched pictures. Not only did he retouch, some of the pictures were also post-processed, which were taken by children. For the story, she added some foreground, background and special effects elements to create a four-frame comic, which is very childlike.
It was not until late in the evening that everything was completed. Liu Wangxue took the USB flash drive and rode on the battery car to prepare for the photo studio in the town.
Just as they were about to go out, Du Yunxiang and Anding came back from the studio with Chacha. Hearing that Liu Wangxue was going to the photo studio, Du Yunxiang said that it would be better to give her the photos directly. After she returned to Haishi, she asked the photography studio where Chacha took the photos to do it.
Liu Wangxue said: "It doesn't matter. I'm going to the photo studio anyway to develop the photos of Xiaotao and the others. I just happened to go over and have a look. If I find something suitable, I'll do it there. I'll pay some money. Hurry up and maybe you can get it before you go back.”
Du Yunxiang was not in a hurry. She was just worried that the technology of the photo studio in the town was not very good: "If the result is not satisfactory, wouldn't it be a waste of your efforts?"
"Okay." Liu Wangxue smiled, The photo album was not made in town, but she still had to print the photos.
The photo studio in town was not very busy. After the boss saw the photos, he started printing them immediately.
Liu Wangxue came over without the three little ones, so she sat on the small sofa nearby and waited. I also went out to buy two cups of milk tea and gave one to the boss. After a while, I received another message from Xu Qingsong, asking her which photo studio she was in. After she replied to Xu Qingsong, Xu Qingsong came over not long after.
It was getting dark and the street lights were on, so all these photos were printed and cropped. Xu Qingsong paid the money before her and carried her out of the photo studio with the paper bag containing the photos.
As he got on the battery car and was about to go home, Liu Wangxue asked Xu Qingsong: "Are you going to do anything soon?"
Xu Qingsong inserted the key and opened the lock and said: "It's okay, what's wrong?"< br>
Liu Wangxue raised his feet and landed on the pedal. He tilted his head and looked at Xu Qingsong: "Then you come with me to send the photos."
"Okay." Xu Qingsong also turned the handle, The battery car followed Liu Wangxue.
When the two returned home, Liu Nanshan’s dinner was already ready, so they ate first. After dinner, I heard that Liu Wangxue and Xu Qingsong were going out to send photos. Chacha was the first to raise her hand and said that she wanted to go together. Then it was time to take a walk. Du Yunxiang led Chacha, followed by three little ones and An Ding, and the group headed to the village.
Passing by the gate of Tao Huayu's courtyard, he saw him and joined in the fun and followed him. Fortunately, he knew the location of every household in the village, so Liu Wangxue and the others didn't need to ask anyone.
The first person to go was Leilei’s house, which was not long after dinner. The courtyard door was not closed yet, Liu Wangxue and the others stood at the door and took in the whole scene of the main room.
Grandpa Leilei is sitting on a small bench soaking his feet. Grandma Leilei is sewing Fengfeng’s pants. When he ran out to play two days ago, he didn’t know where he got scratched. Leilei and Fengfeng are watching TV.
Seeing someone coming, Grandma Leilei hurriedly put down her needlework. Grandpa Leilei also hurriedly wiped her feet and put on her shoes. Leilei and Fengfeng were the first to run out to greet them.
Liu Wangxue and the others wanted to give the photos to Leilei and his sister and then leave, but the two old people insisted on dragging them in to sit, made tea, and brought them snacks. Chacha stuffed the pockets on both sides of his down jacket.
Chacha has adapted well to this - since Haohao stuffed a handful of fried peas into his pocket the day before yesterday, and he even ate one - when he sees Xiaotao and Haohao again, as long as they have snacks in their hands , I will definitely give him tea or put a copy in his pocket. And Youyou, the little brother, seems to always have candies in his pocket, and when he sees him, he always puts one in his pocket.
After sitting at Leilei’s house and showing the other photos to the old couple, Liu Wangxue said to the Leilei siblings: “Chacha’s mother wants to make an album of all these photos. , one for each child, and I will send it to you after a while.”
Leilei and Fengfeng were very happy, and immediately thanked Du Yunxiang.
Leilei's grandparents were embarrassed, and repeatedly told Du Yunxiang that it cost her money, and thanked Liu Wangxue for taking photos of the child. Before leaving, I got some food for them to take with them and declined for a while.
After Leilei's house, the closest ones are Haohao's house, and then Xiaotao's house.
Haohao's grandfather passed away unexpectedly the year before last. Now he has only one grandma at home, and his parents are also working abroad. Despite Haohao's young age, he can do all the work inside and outside the house. His grandma loves this grandson very much. She doesn't ask him to do anything at ordinary times. She just lets him go to school and go out to play when it's time. There are snacks at home. His is never short of him.
So Haohao is young and has a worrying temperament. Last time, he was worried that Chacha could not find his home, so he told Xiaotao to wait for him at Youyou's house. Xiaotao's house was very close this time, and he was worried that Liu Wangxue and the others wouldn't be able to find them, even though Tao Huayu was there. So Haohao took them to Xiaotao's house.
As a result, Xiao Tao was not at home. Xiao Tao's grandfather said that the battery of the TV remote control was out of power, so he went to the canteen to buy batteries. Liu Wangxue gave the photo to Xiaotao's grandfather.
Then everyone returned the same way, said goodbye to Haohao, and came out of this path. Then turn left and walk for a short distance, then turn right into the small road, and you can reach the residences of Yaya, Xiaopang and Youyou.
When Yaya saw the photos, the first thing she looked for was the one with rapeseed flowers and Pengpeng. When she was choosing the photos, she liked the photo the best and thought it looked the best.
When we went to Xiaopang's house, he was watching TV and eating snacks when he heard a voice and came out with the adults to welcome him. Liu Wangxue and the others saw two new faces - certainly not new faces to Tao Huayu. They were Xiaopang's parents. They came back today and arrived before dinner. Little Fatty didn't even know that when his grandma called him back for dinner, he almost didn't dare to acknowledge her. Then he burst out in a fit of longing and cried for a long time, but his mother comforted her with snacks.
Liu Wangxue and the others also sat for a while and then left. Finally, they went to Youyou's house, where they became very familiar with each other. They also sat at Youyou's house for a long time. It was already past nine o'clock when they returned to the courtyard.
On the twenty-seventh day of the year, after breakfast, Liu Wangxue took the computer and went to the studio with Du Yunxiang and the others. She and Du Yunxiang sat on the small sofa in the rest area. She wrote the script and Du Yunxiang handled the work. Jinghe took Youyou and Chacha to play with the three little ones, while An Ding watched from the side. Sometimes they would go to the rest area in the office to play games, and sometimes they would come over. Tao Huaxin would give each of them a hot drink and a snack, but most of the time they would run outside the studio and chat with Xiao Tao and the others. Play together.
Du Yunkai also knew about these new friends Chacha had made, and invited them to come in and play, as long as they didn't go to the office. But Xiaotao and the others did not come in because the adults at home told them that this is a company, and the company is where adults work, and children are not allowed to enter.
When they ran over to find Chacha before, they were all waiting at the door for Chacha and Youyou to go out. Xiaopang also asked: "My grandma said children can't come in, why can Chacha and Youyou go in?"
Haohao said: "Because Boss Du is Chacha's uncle, this is his uncle's company, he will definitely be able to get in."
Yaya asked: "Then why did Youyou get in too?"< br>
Everyone was silent for a moment, Xiao Tao patted his thigh and said, "Because Boss Du let him in, and Boss Du also let us in to play."
Everyone looked at each other, and Leilei asked: "Then you want to go in?"
Little Fatty looked inside, hesitated a little, and said, "I don't dare."
Yaya also said, "I don't dare either."
Xiao Tao and Haohao asked Leilei: "Do you dare?"
Leilei didn't say anything, but Fengfeng answered , shook his head like a rattle: "I don't dare."
Leilei glanced at him: "I didn't ask you."
So everyone was still waiting at the door, Tao Huaxin knew Afterwards, I would give Chacha and Yuyouyou a few more snacks and ask them to take them out and share them with the children.
Occasionally during breaks, Xu Qingsong, Du Yunkai, and Richard would come to the rest area of the drinking bar. Xu Qingsong came to see Liu Wangxue. Du Yunkai and Richard would play with Chacha and Youyou for a while if they saw them. Colleagues from the studio would also tease these two cuties when they came to buy coffee or snacks.
After Liu Wangxue returned home, she asked Xu Qingsong if there was any news about Richard’s search for his relatives.
Xu Qingsong said: "It may not be optimistic."
After Du Yunkai sent an email to the new person in charge of the laboratory, he received a reply, but he refused to help check the donor's file. .
The original words are that the donor’s personal information is generally not disclosed to the buyer, and the person in charge does not believe that Richard and the donor are related, because no proof or authority was provided in the email. written report.
Richard thought that the proof was actually very simple, as long as he and Chacha did a kinship test, but Du Yunxiang had clearly asked him that night not to reveal any information related to Chacha to Edward Williams. If he used this report as proof and sent it to the person in charge of the laboratory, the person in charge would probably also inform Edward Williams of the specific situation.
Richard then did not ask Du Yunxiang for this request.
Du Yunkai didn't say anything either. He knew his sister, and his sister's ability to reveal her name was out of compassion. His sister would never agree to a kinship test.
"What should we do?" Liu Wangxue asked, "Is there any other way to find this Edward Williams? Now is the era of big data. As long as this person has appeared on the Internet, find It shouldn’t be difficult to get up, right?”
Xu Qingsong said: “The old method is to hire people to find people. Starting from F state in the east, we will search for people named Edward Williams one by one, and go further when we meet those who meet the requirements. Understand.”
This method is really time-consuming, laborious, and most importantly, expensive.
Richard was penniless when he came to Country Z. After joining the company, Du Yunkai gave him an advance of annual salary. Now he has room and board in the studio, so he can hardly spend anything. This annual salary is enough for him to spend The next time I get paid, I can go on a trip. This time, in order to find a relative, Richard invested almost all of the money and asked his former headhunting friend to help hire someone. It is said that this person has some skills and is much more capable than the people Richard hired before, but the fee is high.
It seems that the results will not be available in the near future.
Gu Xuelan was still thinking about the "unhappiness" that happened between Du Yunkai and Richard that night. She quietly found time to ask Liu Wangxue. After learning that it was such an incident, she felt quite uncomfortable. Moreover, Liu Wangxue also told her a few words about Richard's past experiences. She thought, this child has a really hard life. He is so old, why can't something good happen to Richard? She saw that the search for a family was starting to take shape, but it was full of twists and turns.
After Gu Xuelan found out, she talked to Liu Nanshan before going to bed that night. Liu Nanshan had always had a "poor" filter for Richard, but hearing this made it even worse. She thought to herself, what a good kid, why are he always so miserable? Suffer? So he unconsciously took more care of Richard. The most obvious thing was when it came to meals. As long as the small canteen at home didn't have it, he would definitely bring one to Richard, which made Jin Zhaofei grow old. Jealous.
Therefore, this Spring Festival, the only wish of Liu Wangxue and her parents is that Richard can get what he wants, and there is good news.
On the twenty-eighth of the year, the studio began to have a holiday.
Just like the New Year's Day holiday, Du Yunkai booked a car for everyone and took the studio employees to the city early in the morning. If the flight departure time or train departure time is early, he will go to the airport and train station first. Those who were not in a hurry also followed the car. Li Yu's family happened to be in the city, so everyone encouraged Li Yu to take them for a walk.
The two chefs in the small canteen got up earlier than usual to make breakfast for everyone. There are not too many ingredients left in the canteen. They have strictly controlled the quantity of their recent purchases. Breakfast was very simple, just steamed buns, porridge, and two fried side dishes. As a result, the buns were not even finished, so Tao Jiahong asked Tao Jiahong to take some of the rest back, and Du Yunkai took the other part to Liu Wangxue's house.
When Du Yunkai arrived, Liu Wangxue's family had just finished breakfast. After Du Yunxiang and Anding had packed up, he drove them to the airport.
Originally Xu Qingsong was going back to Beijing today, but when he heard that Liu Wangxue's aunt, uncle and others were coming today, he changed his ticket and would leave tomorrow.
Liu Wangxue was worried that it would be difficult to book air tickets at this time. If he was not allowed to change his ticket, it would be bad if he would delay his return home for the New Year.
Xu Qingsong feels that he can go back no matter what he wants. If the air tickets are gone, there are still high-speed trains and high-speed trains. If they are gone, he will drive himself.
Liu Wangxue told him not to joke. It was snowing so heavily on the way back to Beijing that it was difficult to walk. What if he was stuck on the road.
Xu Qingsong said: "The main reason is that your relatives are coming over. I can't just leave without saying hello. It seems that I am too rude." If he really left, it would appear to be rude on the surface, but in fact It would also make others think that he didn't really care about Liu Wangxue.
Fortunately, the ticket change was successful. Xu Qingsong also refreshed the interface many times before it came out, but it was on the morning of New Year's Eve.
Liu Wangxue’s aunt and uncle’s family came to live here for a long time, and they brought a lot of luggage, so Liu Wangxue and Xu Qingsong each drove a car, so that whether they were delivering or picking up Everyone can sit more spaciously.
As soon as the luggage was loaded into the car, a few little carrot heads suddenly appeared in front of them, shouting loudly for Chacha while running this way. Everyone followed the sound and saw that it was Youyou and Xiaotao. These children knew that Chacha was going home, and they felt really reluctant to part with him. They seemed to have developed a revolutionary friendship in just a few days of getting along with him, so they came over to see him off early in the morning.
The children were all out of breath from running. Xiao Tao and Haohao, who were slightly older, ran over first.
Xiao Tao said: "That's great Chacha, you haven't left yet."
Haohao said: "It's all Xiaopang's fault, he took so long to get up, I felt like it was too late."
< br>While he was talking, Fatty ran over, breathing loudly and speaking intermittently, holding his hand A red cloth bag was stuffed into Chacha: "This is what my parents brought back from the sea market. They are snacks. You said that day that they were delicious and I would give them to you."
Yaya's parents She came back last night and brought delicious food. She ran over and gave Chacha a portion.
Seeing that all the friends were running over, Youyou reached out and asked Jinghe to hug him: "Brother, hug me, hug me and run, hurry up."
Jinghe picked up Youyou and trotted a few steps to follow. Youyou gave Chacha a doll angel pendant. Shen Nian'an passed by a boutique when she went shopping in town yesterday. She saw it in the window and bought it. She also teased Youyou and said, "Look, does it look like Chacha?" Youyou liked it very much. Bring it over and give it to Chacha.
Leilei and Fengfeng were still running behind. Fengfeng was the youngest. No one could run away or catch up. Seeing Youyou being picked up by his brother and running over, he let Leilei hug him too. he. Leilei couldn't hold him, so she refused and let him run away by himself while she stayed by her side. Fengfeng was so anxious that he almost cried again. He finally ran closer, tripped his left foot and his right foot, and fell down with a "snap".
Xu Qingsong was close, and he immediately bent down and picked up the little guy with one hand. Fengfeng curled his lips and was about to cry. No one helped him run away. He was very sad.
Chacha, Youyou and Xiaotao saw Fengfeng’s face and immediately shouted to him: “Don’t cry!”
Chacha’s impression of Fengfeng was that he loved to cry. "From the day they made lanterns, Fengfeng would cry once when they played together. Xiaotao and Haohao said that Fengfeng had to cry once a day. Haohao even said exaggeratedly: "If he doesn't cry one day, it will be a miracle."
I don’t know who suggested it to help Fengfeng get rid of his crying habit, so in the past two days, whenever Fengfeng showed signs of crying, everyone stopped him together.
Every time Fengfeng was yelled at by everyone, the expression on his face would freeze for a moment, and then he would become extremely confused. Sometimes he would shed a few tears if he couldn't help it, and it was the same this time.
Seeing that he was about to cry again, Haohao said, "Chacha is going home, do you still want to cry?"
Fengfeng didn't understand that Chacha was going home and he wanted to cry. This matter has nothing to do with it, but seeing everyone looking at him, he felt a little embarrassed, so he sniffed and said, "Okay, I won't cry."
Youyou patted Feng like a big brother Feng's shoulders: "Fengfeng, stop crying, you are awesome!"
Chacha also praised Fengfeng, followed by Xiaotao and the others, so that Fengfeng had an illusion in his heart that as long as he didn't cry, he was the best child in the world.
The children all brought small gifts to Chacha, including things to eat and things to play with. Chacha accepted everyone's gifts, but he had nothing to send back. After thinking about it, he asked Du Yunkai to take his small suitcase out of the car.
When this small suitcase arrived, it contained not only gifts for the three little ones, but also some of his favorite toys and picture books. Chacha took these out and gave them as return gifts. There were only three picture books in total, which were given to Youyou, Yaya and Leilei, and there were only three toys, which were given to Fengfeng, Xiaopang and Haohao. When it was Xiaotao's turn, there were none.
Xiao Tao stretched out his hand and returned it, scratching his head, feeling a little embarrassed.
Chacha took off the small sunglasses on her chest and handed them to Xiaotao: "This is for you."
Xiaotao was so happy that he took it and put it on, and asked everyone: "Am I handsome?" He really liked Chacha's small sunglasses. On the day of the photo shoot, he was so envious when he saw Chacha wearing them, and even borrowed them from Chacha. After a while, I took photos. Now that Chacha gave him sunglasses, he felt that he was almost beautiful.
The adults waited for the farewell session of the group of children to exchange gifts to end. Du Yunxiang looked at the time and realized that it would be too late if he didn't leave, so he called Chacha to get in the car. Now he really wanted to say goodbye.
Xiao Tao took two steps forward and asked Chacha: "Will you come again in the future?"
Haohao also asked: "Chacha, when will you come again?"
Leilei and the others also asked.
Youyou answered for Chacha: "He is a little angel. If he wants to come, he can come." Just fly, how simple!
Chacha stopped holding the car door and stepped up, turned around and said to everyone: "I'll come next month." Mom said that when the rapeseed flowers bloom next month, she can let her uncle go. I picked him up to play with, but he didn’t know the specific day, so he added, “Next month, when the rapeseed flowers bloom, I will come and see the flowers.”
Youyou was the first to clap: "That's great!" Then she looked up and said to Jinghe, "Brother, I want to see the flowers too."
Jinghe knew when the rapeseed flowers bloomed. They have already started school, and he said: "You might not be able to come, you have to go to kindergarten."
Youyou hugged Jinghe's legs: "Why can't you come? Little angels can come."
>
Jinghe pinched his face: "Then you go home and ask dad, and if dad agrees, you can come."
Youyou was happy, and he felt that dad would definitely agree.
The children got Chacha’s “positive message”, so they waved goodbye to him, watched him get in the car, and then watched the car slowly drive out, and unconsciously ran after him for a few steps.
Chacha turned around and saw it through the car window. She suddenly felt a little sad and threw herself into Du Yunxiang's arms, hugging her.
Du Yunxiang touched his head and said, "Don't be sad, you can meet again next month, very soon."
Chacha responded dully: "Yeah."