The next day, Micai and I got up early in the morning. We had breakfast in the nearby morning tea shop, then went to the gas station to fill the car with oil, and then left Xuzhou, a city that gradually made us feel like we belonged. The destination was Suzhou 500 kilometers south. My emotions were a little complicated. I seemed to have lost everything in that city, but I gained love. Until now, I don’t know whether I abandoned a city or a city that abandoned me.

Because the Chinese New Year approaches, the traffic pressure suddenly increases, and our journey is not smooth. In the afternoon, we arrived at the Jiangdu section of the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway. We stopped in a service area and were unwilling to eat fast food among the crowded people. So we bought two buckets of instant noodles, so we soaked it in boiling water, and sat in the car and ate it simply...

Mi Cai didn't have a lot of appetite, so she only ate half of it, so she placed the bucket noodles on the center console of the car, looking at the car that was blocked on the highway with a blank expression. We will continue to join the crowded queue later, not knowing whether it is deep or shallow in front, and going to the destination that we are not looking forward to.

I said to Mi Cai, "I don't know when I will arrive in Suzhou. You should eat more."

Mi Cai shook her head and didn't say anything... I saw her heavy mind in her body movements, and she might have had some bad premonitions.

After a while of silence, I asked her again: "Do you think Mi Zhongde won't hand over his household registration book to us so easily? Will he use this matter to stop us from being together?"

"What he won't stop is someone else!"

I was a little surprised. After thinking for a while, I couldn't figure out who could control Mi Zhongde. Mi Cai finally said to me again: "It's my mother, Yan Zhuomei."

I looked at her with shock. This was the first time I learned the name of her mother and the origin of the Zhuomei shopping mall. There is indeed an unknown story here. At least I can guess that Mi Zhongxin loved Yan Zhuomei deeply back then, otherwise he would not have named his own group by her name.

It took me a long time to calm down and asked her, "Why did she stop us? Why should Mi Zhongde listen to her driving?"

Mi Cai's expression was filled with pain, as if she had recalled the past she had never been willing to face. She finally said: "Things are very complicated. If you have the chance, I will talk to you slowly. We have to set off and try to arrive in Suzhou before dark. Maybe I'm just too anxious and thinking too much!"

In fact, along the way, we have a lot of time to talk about the past of her mother Yan Zhuomei, but she is still avoiding it. I believe that only when she has to face it will she choose to tell me the truth of the matter. I know that the old things between her parents must have left her a deep shadow, so she has always looked very indifferent over the years, but in fact she is using indifference to hide her pain.

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As night fell, Mi Cai and I encountered intermittent traffic jams, we finally returned to Suzhou, a city that seemed to be entangled with us. After entering the city, the neon lights were still emitting trembling light in their fixed positions as before. The light passed through the glass window and fell into the closed car, shaking out a flash of light and darkness. In the building under construction, there were waves of metal friction during machine operations, which seemed to be roaring, as if telling us that this city has never changed. It can make us intoxicated by the spring scenery of the garden, and can also make us insomnia amid the roar of machines...

I finally asked Mi Cai, "Do you want to call them in advance to notify me?"

"No need, I hope that at this time, my aunt is the only one in the family. Maybe she will hand over the household registration book to us..."

"This is your lucky idea, isn't it?"

"Are you willing to face all of them... I really hope that they all went to Zhuomei's headquarters in Shanghai, and there was only my aunt in Suzhou. Although we were not related by blood, she was the person who understood me the most in the world. I think I am sure to convince her."

"Of course I don't want to face them. If you said this, it would be great... To be honest, Suzhou is a place that makes people feel tired. Here, all I see is the desire to boil the world. In my eyes, it is a desire under the cloak of beauty. The city of hope makes us constantly get and lose here... so repeated!"

"The essence of the city is the same. The key is what kind of people you meet in this city. Only people will boil desire... pursuing desire. The pleasure brought by desire!"

"Yes, you are objective, I am ideal!"

Mi Cai didn't say anything else. She speeded up the car, so the street light retreated faster with the intertwined light and shadow. In less than ten minutes, we would come to the rich area. Mi Zhongde's home in Suzhou was sitting in that rich area. The luxury cars everywhere would make people numb. No one would believe that there was a coffee shop called "west of the old city" to the west of the city. In a block behind the coffee shop, there were displaced beggars, treating trash cans with odors as the source of life...

The car stopped outside a villa, and the nanny opened the door for us. When we got out of the car, she looked at Mi Cai with surprise and shouted "Miss Mi" for a while. Perhaps in her consciousness, Mi Cai would no longer come to this place again.

Mi Cai asked her, "Auntie Li, is my aunt at home?"

"Well, she's here, but the chairman and the others are not there. They have a meeting to attend tonight."

Mi Cai nodded and signaled me to go in with her. So, under the guidance of the nanny, we walked into the villa. When we only had to face Mi Cai's aunt, I felt that my emotions were finally not so complicated, and borrowing a household registration book was just a few words.

When we entered the room, Mi Cai's aunt was sitting on the sofa in the living room and was looking at the newspaper. Suddenly, she found Mi Cai's arrival. Her expression was first surprised and full of surprise. She put down the newspaper and walked towards Mi Cai, then hugged Mi Cai, and said with a choking sob: "Xiao Cai, you are here!"

Mi Cai nodded and said "Yes" softly in her ear, but my eyes were still on the wedding photo of Fang Yuan and Mi Lan on the background wall of the living room. I felt a little nervous and even more reluctant to stay here for a long time. I wish Mi Cai would tell her about our purpose this time.

Mi Cai's aunt finally let go of Mi Cai and asked her: "Xiao Cai, have you eaten? If not, let's have a meal with us. Your uncle and Xiao Lan will be back later. They called me just now and said that the meeting had been held."
Chapter completed!