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before:

The camphor trees in early summer are lush and the forest roads are reflected. Cassia walks out of the school with her schoolbag and looks around.

Zhang Min did not come to pick him up. Cassin bought a bottle of soda at the convenience store at the door and drank the soda while fighting with a big yellow cat. The phone rang.

Zhang Min: "Dad has something to do, so I can't pick you up today."

Cassia: "Oh, then I'll take the bus home."

Zhang Min said: "Okay... have you eaten?"

Cassia: "Of course not."

Cassin could hear Zhang Min's voice a little hesitant, and another woman's voice on the phone said, "Is it your son?"

Cassin narrowed his eyes alertly and exuded a murderous aura.

"I don't know the way home, come and pick me up." Cassin said.

Zhang Min: “…”

Zhang Min's voice was smiling and said, "Can you take a taxi and come to the Central Ring Road in the development zone? Is there a home to go to the island coffee?"

Cassia slammed her schoolbag and went out to stop the car.

There were melodious piano music in the cafe. The scorching sun outside shone into the brown glass floor-to-ceiling window and poured on the plaid tablecloth. Zhang Min yelled out a sip of cigarettes and smiled: "Actually, I don't have any ambitions..."

The smoke was shrouded in the smoke. The woman sitting opposite ended with Zhang Min's bad habit of smoking and smiled faintly: "It's quite good. Now the business is not as easy as it was in the past few years..."

"My son is here." Zhang Min hurriedly greeted: "Zhang Jueming!"

Cassia came over with a expressionless face. Zhang Min pressed off the cigarette butt and asked Cassia to sit beside him, saying, "This is Aunt Sun."

"Hello, Zhang Jueming." The woman smiled and said, "My name is Sun Qing."

Cassia looked at her and said, "Oh."

Zhang Min asked: "How is the midterm exam? Have you taken out the score?"

"There is an afternoon holiday." Cassin looked up at Zhang Min and said, "One hundred and seventy-three."

Zhang Min said: "Well, when will the parent meeting be held?"

Cassia: "Next week."

Sun Qing smiled and said, "How many people are in your grade?"

Cassia: "One Hundred and Seventy Four."

Sun Qing: “…”

Zhang Min laughed and said, "I was not good at studying when I was a child, so I had to go to the army in the end." As he said that, he touched Cassia's head and said, "Children, just have to live a happy life."

Sun Qing nodded slowly, with a hint of sympathy in her eyes. After a while, her cell phone rang.

"I have to go back first." Sun Qing smiled politely.

Zhang Min said: "I'll send you back."

Sun Qing smiled and said, "It's okay, you take Cassia to play. I'll take a taxi back soon." She picked up her bag and got up, and Zhang Min hurriedly said, "I'll pay the bill."

Zhang Min went to the front desk to pay the bill. Sun Qing looked at Cassia and said with a smile: "Come on, study hard, don't let your father down."

Cassin looked up at her distrustfully. Zhang Min came back and sent Sun Qing out. Cassin was still sitting at the table, with a dirty expression and a cat with a grudge against others.

After a while, Zhang Min sat back, lay on the table, moved to Cassia, looked relieved, and pulled her fingers loosened her tie and said, "I'm finally leaving."

Cassia asked: "Who is that?"

Zhang Min replied with a smile: "It has nothing to do with you, you will not see her again in the future."

Cassia: "Who is it? Why does it have nothing to do with me?"

Zhang Min said: "Don't ask baby, come and see what do you want to eat? Do you eat here? Or go eat jumping frogs?"

Cassia did not answer, Zhang Min took the menu and glanced at Cassia from behind the menu, saying, "What? Are you angry?"

Cassin got up and left. Zhang Min hurriedly grabbed his coat and said, "Hey, you kid... wait!"

Cassia walked out of the cafe, Zhang Min chased him from behind, and held his hand on the street. Everyone around him looked at the father and son in a strange way. Zhang Min hurriedly put Cassia's shoulders and lowered his head to his ear and said, "Don't lose your temper here, I'll explain it to you later, get in the car first."

Cassia is still very obedient. Zhang Min drove the car and tied it up for him safely. He tied him directly to the passenger seat and drove by himself, laughing while humming.

"You explain!" Cassin said.

Zhang Min smiled and said, "It's nothing, do you know about blind dates?"

Cassia: "?"

Zhang Min said: "The uncle in my hometown wants to find a partner for my dad. The aunt was the uncle who asked me to meet me just now. Oh, what should I say... I'm afraid you are unhappy, so I haven't said it to you..."

Cassia said: "Oh."

Zhang Min's car drove out of the city and got on the highway. Cassin said: "I don't like one more person at home."

Zhang Min pondered for a moment, then said, "Baby, my dad has no choice. People of my age are already married and have children in the countryside. The old man is enthusiastic, so I can't help it."

Cassin said: "Then do you want to marry her?"

Zhang Min turned his head and glanced at Cassin and said, "What do you think?"

Cassia's eyes were a little red and she didn't say anything. Zhang Min stopped the car and lined up outside the toll station. She pinched his face and smiled and said, "It's nothing. Look, she doesn't like me at all. I asked you to come, just show her, bringing a bottle of oil..."

Cassin said: "Dad, have I dragged you down?"

Zhang Min did not answer, drove the toll station, and finally stopped at the stop on the side of the road.

"Listen." Zhang Min said: "Baby, dad doesn't mean that."

Cassin started crying, but did not answer, just caring about crying by himself. Zhang Min was really messy, put his hand on the steering wheel and said, "Baby, don't cry, listen to me."

Zhang Min sighed, leaned against the Cassia sideways, and whispered: "Dad just didn't want to get married, so he asked you to come here. This kind of thing is difficult to deal with. Uncle must ask me to meet you. If I refuse, he will be angry. The old man is old and prone to high blood pressure, so he has to think of a way to make her leave a bad impression on me...."

"I really don't want to get married." Zhang Min said: "Baby, if you cry like this, your dad will be angry. The pressure is already great, and you are still... angry with dad, why do you feel like you really take out a heart and feed the dog..."

Cassia: "…"

Cassin smiled and said, "Feel the dogs sincerely."

Zhang Min was completely out of temper, tilted in the driver's seat, and was listless.

"It's funny?" Zhang Min asked inexplicably: "How funny is it?"

Cassia still had tears on her face, and she seemed to think this sentence was very interesting. When she looked up at Zhang Min, Zhang Minjun's face turned red and she stared at him, and she was silent for a long time.

The two looked at each other, and Zhang Min came over and moved his lips, as if he had something to say.

Zhang Min said: "Baby."

Cassia: "?"

Zhang Min had deep eyes, and when he turned his head, his nose bridge was very close to Cassia's face, and both felt each other's breathing.

Cassin stared at Zhang Min in a daze.

This silence is as long as a century, and as short as a second.

Zhang Min wiped Cassia's tears with his fingers, sucked a tissue and wiped him randomly. His expression was melancholy, he sighed and started the car.

"Where to go?" Cassia asked.

"Take you to play," Zhang Min said: "Isn't it true last month? After the exam, I went fishing with Uncle Wang, Xiao Shan and the others."

Cassin said: "But you didn't say that you can only get into the top 150. I got the last one..."

Zhang Min said: "You still know that you are the last one, huh?"

Cassin laughed again, and Zhang Min said, "I can't do anything to you, let's go."

Zhang Min drove for two hours and took Cassia outside the city. This was the middle of the two cities, and there was a farm stay in the suburbs. Wang Bo and his family arrived early and greeted Cassia. There were also several young veteran officers who came out for vacation and followed Wang Bo on an outing.

Cassia greeted them, and everyone was having their own fun. Wang Bo's wife was preparing to barbecue in the evening. Wang Bo took his daughter to raft on a kayak and asked, "Is Cassia here?"

Cassin said: "I'll be with my dad."

Zhang Min said: "You guys go, I'll go fishing."

Cassia took Shanshan's hand and went on the speedboat.

Wang Bo looked back at the Cassia in the distance, walked over to hand Zhang Min cigarettes, and smiled and said, "Why is Xiao Zhang so nauseous today?"

Zhang Min didn't answer, took the cigarette and said, "I'm not in a good mood, I want to be quiet by myself."

Wang Bo said: "How is the Cassia exam?"

Zhang Min sighed and said, "No, he can't understand, he always ranks at the bottom. I want him to stay one level."

Wang Bo said: "It's okay, are our buddy's children still afraid that they won't be able to find a job?"

Zhang Min said: "That's not the case. Look at Cassia, what should I do in the future? Don't talk about gaining a foothold in society... he can't take care of himself at all if he finds a girlfriend, gets married and starts a family, finds a job and goes to work."

Wang Bo patted Zhang Min on the shoulder and smiled, "I told Shanshan that if I don't want to get married in the future, my buddy will support her for the rest of my life. What's the trouble with this?"
To be continued...