Chapter 150 I hope you live a long life.

The weather improved the next day, Shen Zhiyi's fever completely subsided, and she felt more energetic than the day before. She basked in the sun on the balcony for a while and replied to some messages. When she looked up and saw the houses in a row at the foot of the mountain, she suddenly felt very familiar.

It seemed that the place where she lived when she was a child was among those houses.

Could it be such a coincidence?
Shen Zhiyi returned to her room and went to the study to find Pei Yu.

He came here on a whim. Ever since Shen Zhiyi's fever subsided, Pei Yu had to deal with some work matters from time to time.

He was in a meeting, absentmindedly switching screens and looking at documents, and did not hear the sound of the door opening until Shen Zhiyi walked up to him.

Not knowing whether he had turned on the camera, Shen Zhiyi didn't get too close. She gently put down the coffee and planned to come back to see him later.

Pei Yu raised his eyes and reached out his hand to her.

"Ok?"

Shen Zhiyi handed him his hand and sat down under his guidance. He glanced at the computer screen and said, "You are in a meeting."

"Well," Pei Yu rubbed her fingers, "It won't delay."

Shen Zhiyi looked skeptical and didn't quite believe what he said. She pushed his shoulder and said, "Go to the meeting first."

"You have something to tell me?" Pei Yu didn't let her go. "Just say it."

"I don't have anything important to do," Shen Zhiyi was held by his waist, so she just sat quietly. After all, she was not Pei Yu's leader, so she didn't care whether he was serious in the meeting or not. "I was on the balcony just now and saw the houses in the distance at the foot of the mountain. Do you know where that is?"

The villa is located on a high terrain, with a panoramic view of the scene below the mountain. When Shen Zhiyi came here the day before yesterday, he had no time to appreciate the scenery. Only when he took a look did he realize the ingenuity of the location here.

Pei Yu lowered his eyes, his long eyelashes covering half of his pupils, making it difficult to see his expression. He asked in a flat tone, not quite paying attention, "Where is it?"

"It's my home," Shen Zhiyi whispered, blinking her eyes. She even thought it was too much of a coincidence. "I lived there when I was a child. I grew up there."

"What a coincidence?" Pei Yu remained silent, lowering his eyes to study her expression. There was nothing else on her face except some surprise and curiosity. There was no suspicion as he had imagined.

He couldn't tell what he felt at the moment, was he glad that she had completely forgotten about him, or... regretful.

"Do you want to go back and take a look?" he suddenly asked.

"Now?" Shen Zhiyi nodded at him, but seemed a little hesitant.

She didn't have any good memories of that home. She dreamed of escaping from there, so once she really escaped, she never thought of coming back.

However, when Pei Yu asked her this, she didn't seem to be completely resistant.

The memories there were not fond ones, but it was still where she grew up.

"I don't even remember the way," Shen Zhiyi leaned on Pei Yu's shoulder, his tone hesitant, "I haven't been back for too long, I don't know if there have been any changes there."

Are the people who watched her grow up still here?
"Go and see, and you'll know," Pei Yu gently stroked her back, "Go, show me where you grew up."

Shen Zhiyi made a decision, "Let's go in the afternoon."

In the afternoon, after lunch, facing the blue sky, the car took a detour to the village at the foot of the mountain.

It has been several years since she left, but not much has changed here. Shen Zhiyi thought she hated this place, but when she really stood on this land, she could still remember who lived in which family. "When I left here," Shen Zhiyi pointed to a locked door, "the grandmother of this family just celebrated her 80th birthday."

Now it is deserted and looks like no one has lived here for a long time.

It's not just this house. Most of the houses in this village are empty. The young people don't want to come back once they leave, and the old people age with these houses and then disappear.

"This is my home," Shen Zhiyi stood beside a stone wall. Because of the age, most of the wall had collapsed. She stepped on two stones and looked at Pei Yu with a smile, "Mr. Pei, have you climbed over the wall?"

Pei Yu raised his head slightly, looked at her slender figure with her back to the sun, and smiled faintly, "No, Miss Shen, can you teach me?"

"It's very simple," Shen Zhiyi was glad that she was wearing pants when she came out. She jumped to the top of the wall lightly and jumped into the yard along the pile of stones. "Come here quickly."

Pei Yu did not appear on the wall like her. Just as he was wondering, the door next to him rang a few times and was then pushed open.

Pei Yu walked in leisurely, "Ms. Shen's teaching is too poor, I'd better go through the main entrance."

"Huh?" Shen Zhiyi looked at the door lock, "Isn't it locked?"

She locked the door when she left, and threw away the key when she reached the village entrance, preparing herself never to come back.

"Really?" Pei Yu quietly hid the key, "It opens with just one touch."

When the holiday villa was being built a few years ago, he came once and asked someone to re-lock and re-key it. However, he didn't find an identical lock at that time. Fortunately, Shen Zhiyi had no impression of this.

"Maybe it's been left there for too long and the lock is broken," Shen Zhiyi believed him easily and didn't dwell on it too much. She took his hand and walked inside, "Let me show you my room."

Her room is the smallest room in the house. There is very little furniture in it, not even a wardrobe. The most eye-catching thing is a solid wooden table placed next to the bed.

"I didn't take a lot of things with me when I left," Shen Zhiyi pulled out a wooden box from under the bed, which was filled with a lot of scattered things.

Pei Yu leaned against the desk, his eyes lowered, and saw that there were many shallow scratches on the table. Most of them were simple drawings, and the handwriting was childish. It should have been left when she was very young, but there was also a series of messy handwriting. These scratches were much deeper.

He rubbed off the dust on the surface with his fingertips and slowly read the content of the handwriting.

It was Shen Zhiyi’s handwriting. Sometimes she wrote “I’m so tired”, sometimes she wrote “He hit me again”, and sometimes she wrote “I will die here” over and over again, as if the young her was predicting her current situation.

"Found it," Shen Zhiyi's voice attracted Pei Yu's attention. She was holding a red bracelet with a small silver lock pendant hanging on it. "It's a longevity lock my mother made for me. I couldn't wear it when I grew up, so I thought I had lost it."

The small silver lock was very delicate, but not valuable, otherwise it would have been sold by her father to buy wine.

Pei Yu was silent for a while before he spoke, with a barely noticeable muteness. He looked at the small silver lock with the words "peace" engraved on the back.

"can you give me?"

Shen Zhiyi was surprised, "You want it?"

"Yes," Pei Yu nodded, "I want it."

"Then I'll give it to you," Shen Zhiyi handed the small silver lock over and looked at him with a smile, "I hope you live a long life."

His fingertips moved slightly, and he slowly closed his palm, tightly grasping the small silver lock. Pei Yu smiled silently.