Chapter 46
If the year when I met Gu Yanzhi was used as the dividing line, my 22 years of life can be divided into two symmetrical halves.
In the 11 years before I met Gu Yanzhi, I lived in a village deep in the mountains in western China.For the first ten of those 11 years my life was pretty much the same.Of course, if we have to be serious, it is undeniable that my height has grown every year in the past ten years. I gave up the spoon and gradually learned to eat with chopsticks. I started to walk two hours to the elementary school in the town every day with my schoolbag on my back. , and I slowly learned to follow my mother to dig herbs in the mountains in early spring and late autumn.
But compared with the earthquake that happened when I was ten years old, such a change seems too ordinary.Even the mudslides that occurred during this decade add up to be negligible.
That year happened to be late spring, and the sun outside was light and warm, making people lazy.I was sitting in the classroom of the elementary school in the town, with my ears half closed, listening absently to my deskmate Yanyan stand up and read the text.I'm actually a little drowsy, but my father, the only Chinese teacher, math teacher, half-baked English teacher and principal of Hope Primary School, has a very helpless problem, that is, he is very tolerant to other students, I was always extra strict.As a result, even though I was staggering from sleepiness, and watched the front and back tables fall asleep soundly, I still didn't dare to lie down on the table and fall asleep.
When Yanyan read half of the six paragraphs of the text, I suddenly felt dizzy as if my head was stuffed with a stone and then shaken vigorously.
When I raised my head, I realized that I was too dizzy to see the ceiling above my head.There were clods of mud falling from the top of the head, and the face of the teacher on the podium, or my father, became blurred. He suddenly interrupted the recitation of the text, and his voice became a little anxious: " There's an earthquake, everyone wake up! Run out quickly! Run to the playground! Don't panic! Line up and run out one by one! Quick!"
The moment I learned of the earthquake, I was as dazed as I was when I was suspected of having bone cancer.So I am thankful that I have a good tablemate who is responsive and kind.Before I could figure out the situation, she had already pulled up my sleeve and led me out of the classroom.
However, among the twenty or so children sitting in this classroom, Yanyan and I are just exceptions.There is only one teacher in this Hope Primary School, the father. He has been teaching here for more than ten years, married a wife and had children here, and also works part-time as a barefoot doctor in the town. The teaching time is very limited, resulting in a large and young age difference between the children in a classroom. up to five years old.Therefore, when a few children had fled out cleverly, more children were dumbfounded and did not react at all, and even a few younger children started to panic and run around in the crumbling classroom. .
Through the dusty and broken glass window at one corner, I saw them running around in a mess in the shaking adobe house with their heads covered.Then one was grabbed by the back collar of his father and thrown out of the door.The father blasted the children out one by one, until there was only one kid who was hiding under the table and refused to come out. When he stretched out his hand to grab it, the fragile classroom began to shake violently.
I suddenly had a bad premonition, and I was anxious to rush in, but my father yelled and stopped my steps: "Take them to the playground!"
These were the last words he said to me.He was still holding the last child in his arms, and when he bowed up and was about to rush outside, the classroom was finally overwhelmed and collapsed.
The epicenter of that year was not at the primary school in the town, but closer to my village.My mother has always had the habit of sleeping in the middle of the day. When the earthquake happened, she was on the other side that I couldn't see, and she didn't have time to run out of the house.
It took me a whole year to slowly digest the fact that my parents died.The town took the same amount of time to rebuild after the disaster.Recovery is quick and results are much quicker than mine.A year later, a winding mountain road was built closer to the town, many villages were moved together, and many buildings went up, including a new Hope Primary School.It was rebuilt on the original site, this time with a beautiful red and white wall, a two-story teaching building painted with light orange paint, and clean and bright glass windows.
In the early summer when I was 11 years old, Gu Yanzhi visited Hope Primary School as a donor and brought a new batch of books and stationery along the way.When the mayor received him grandly, I was playing hide-and-seek with my tablemate Yanyan and others.
I have always been the king of children.Even a small game of blindfolded hide-and-seek, the rules are up to me.I made a strict rule of hide-and-seek. The original intention was to let everyone play tricks on one of the seven game-playing kids, Sun Rong, the fattest and dullest kid in the whole town, after we finished talking.However, it turns out that fate has played tricks on the four words. It not only means that I got terminally ill under the most unexpected premise, it also means that after I announced the rules, because of a temporary mutiny of a child, in the end, the person who lost in the rock-paper-scissors Just happened to be myself.
I had no choice but to grit my teeth and accept my fate under Fatty Sun's gloating eyes.
First she covered her eyes with a red scarf, then bent down, Yanyan turned me ten times to the left, then another ten times to the right, and then another ten times to the left, and finally they dispersed with cheers.I was dizzy and tottering like a spinning top. In the end, I couldn't hold on and fell twice, and my hands were full of clods.Then count from one to ten, and start scratching around without any rules.
Some daring children came up to touch me, and quickly retreated with a smile. I stretched out my hand to grab the air several times, and gradually became impatient.However, the more impatient he became, the less organized he became, the more he couldn't catch it, and his forehead was sweating in anxiety.It took a long time to finally hear clear footsteps, and they continued to get closer and closer, just like a frog that has taken a fancy to an insect, until the insect fell within the reach of it with the tip of its tongue.I calculated the time in my mind, then quickly ran two steps, and then I jumped together and hugged him tightly.
——Ten years after this happened, when I was having dinner, I suddenly remembered that I raised my head and asked another person involved in the incident: "Speaking of which, did you feel that I stained your clothes at that time? I'm so hateful, it's an unforgivable crime, I must cut the NPC into pieces to relieve my anger?"
"Why did it go to that extent?" In the restaurant with a good atmosphere, by the floor-to-ceiling windows, Gu Yanzhi's shirt cuffs exposed half of his suit. He was cutting the steak into small pieces, using the tableware in a slow and orderly manner, and his answer was careless. , "I'm just a little worried that the little girl turned stupid at the time, otherwise why would she look stupid and hold me for a long time without regaining her senses."
"..."
Then he handed over the cut steak, put it in front of me, and brought the steak in front of me to him. After thinking about it, he added: "However, it looks pretty For sake, everything can be forgiven, isn't it?"
"..."
——When it was almost dusk that day, in the depths of the continuous distant mountains, where it met the sky, there were clouds and clouds, thick and faint.The man I caught stood still, motionless.I tightly wrapped my arms around the other person's waist, still unwilling to let go.At the same time, he pulled off the red scarf covering his eyes.
The person I hugged in front of me was tall and slender, and looked like a young man in his 20s.A dark windbreaker is in my hand, and the light-colored shirt on my body has been clenched by me.There was a little smile on his face, as if it contained two points of tenderness, and he looked down at me with dark eyes and long eyelashes.Fengshen Ruyu is far from the "Fatty Sun" I read out loud.
The mayor uncle who was standing beside him covered his eyes with his hands and wiped his face in despair.After wiping his face, he winked at me again.I finally realized what a big mistake I had made.Then when I saw the dirty shirt that I had clutched, my face blushed more than half.
Let go immediately.
Teng Teng Teng took two big steps back, his cheeks were still burning when he stood still.But Fatty Sun let out a malicious smirk behind him, and I suddenly became angry from embarrassment, and turned to give him a hard look.
Fatty Sun refused to accept it, and immediately pointed at me: "Mayor, look at her still staring at me!"
The mayor was so angry that his lips trembled, and he pointed at us one by one, and finally his finger landed on my head, blowing his beard and staring: "Apologize now!"
It was always my fault, so I had to lick my lips and whispered, "I'm sorry."
The mayor's Mandarin, which was not very good at first, became even more sluggish because of his anger: "Apologize and look at me! Look at this brother apologizing! Louder! Bow and apologize to others! Hurry up!"
"..." I was suddenly reluctant, and discussed silently with the old man with my eyes, "Why do you still have to bow? Isn't it okay to just apologize instead of bowing?"
And what I didn’t reveal in my heart is, if I’m the only one here, I’ll bow if you ask me to bow, but now there are six little followers behind me, and you ask me to bow to this person in front of them, Where should I put my face in the future?
However, the mayor obviously has no intention of accommodating.His eyeballs are cloudy due to old age, but he is always so vivid when he loses his temper, so that I was forced to catch the words he wanted to express one day: "The whole town will lose face to you alone, What do you care about your little self-esteem? This time you are bumping into a distinguished guest in our town! All the schoolchildren in the town will send all the textbooks, stationery and clothes to him alone! I paid 10 yuan! I haven’t given it yet! If you mess up this God of Wealth, I will never end with you, uncle!”
I said:"……"
The line of sight froze for ten seconds.I silently turned my toes thirty degrees, and met the young man in front of me who was watching with nothing but a smile.Reluctantly bowed.Glancing at the mayor next to him, he bowed reluctantly.Looking at the mayor again, I really don't want to continue, but the mayor is even more angry than me: "What do you mean you only bow once when you look at me! You treat me as a pickle for dinner! Bow three times and quickly bow to me!"
I'm just helpless to the extreme.Just as he was about to carry out his words, the person in front of him suddenly burst out laughing.
He spoke slowly, speaking in perfect Mandarin, with a deep voice beyond that of a man of that age.But the words were quite teasing: "Okay, husband and wife only need to bow three times when they worship each other. Little girl, you just stained your clothes a little, so you plan to promise yourself with your body?"
There was a moment of silence in the audience, and the children behind burst out laughing loudly.
My face flushed instantly.
I absolutely hate this guy.Without him, I am still the most authoritative.I have always had the final say.I never lost my aura in front of the kids of my generation.But at this moment, he had to be speechless for a long time, and finally he could only let out a mighty roar: "...I don't want to marry you!"
When this sentence came out, it caused the mayor to stare at me fiercely.This time I made up my mind to refuse to admit my mistake, and turned my head hard.The mayor pointed at my trembling hand, turned his head to plead with Gu Yanzhi in desperation: "Mr. Gu, don't be as knowledgeable as this kid."
Gu Yanzhi casually said "um", and looked at me with a half-smile.The mayor said again: "This child is called Du Wan. She was only ten years old when the earthquake last year, and her father and mother were gone. Her father was a barefoot doctor in our town. If we went to the city to see a doctor, there would be no one in the past." It takes at least two days and two nights to get to the hospital. There is a minor illness and disaster that her father took care of. Du Sicheng, her father, used to be a teacher at our Hope Primary School. Our school is broken. He is also poor, and he is the only teacher in the whole town. He has stayed here for more than ten years and has not left. He has taught many children in the town to read. He even taught me how to read big characters. He is really a good person."
Gu Yanzhi's expression seemed to move slightly, and the mayor continued: "Du Wan's father would not have left if it hadn't been for saving a few students in the earthquake last year. It was all to save the child of Lao Xiong's family, and the house collapsed in the end... ...Hey, leaving such a child to eat a hundred meals for a year, and wearing this dress was sewn by my mother-in-law..."
When the mayor said these words, I stood up straight, held back the tears in my eyes, and did not cry out.
After the earthquake last year, the mayor personally erected a monument for his father.On the anniversary of his death this year, he took me to the grave and told me that I could proudly tell anyone that "Du Sicheng is my father" before my father was alive, and I still wear his aura after his death.This is the honor that my father left me for the rest of my life.So every time whether I am sad or happy, I have to straighten my spine, not to cry, let alone forget.
As the mayor said, he let me go with a wink.I left with a sigh of relief in my heart, and walked far away, Yanyan was still looking back.
I said, "What are you looking at?"
Yanyan exhaled and whispered, "Oh my God."
The other girl next to her nodded and said, "Yes."
Soon, even Fatty Sun, who had always had eyes above the top, began to sigh with emotion: "Is it?"
I couldn't help but say: "You are all big!"
Yanyan said: "Don't you think that person just now looks particularly good-looking?"
I said coldly, "I don't think so."
Fatty Sun chit-chatted on the sidelines: "And it looks very well dressed, better than my uncle who works outside. Compared with that guy just now, our mayor is just a short winter melon that rotted in the field."
I glared at him fiercely: "You are a short winter melon! You don't even look at your own winter melon face! Do you know what a short winter melon looks like, you idiot!"
In normal times, Fatty Sun would have jumped up and pointed at my nose and cursed back as soon as this provocative sentence came out.Fatty Sun's family is the only one in the town that is considered well-to-do. The result is that everyone in his family looks at others with their nostrils when they go out.The reason why I can become the king of children is because I established a public enemy like Fatty Sun in front of other children, and then centered on this, I did everything possible to woo and instigate, and finally achieved my status before today.
But today, Fatty Sun ignored me at all, and proudly showed off over there: "And did you see the car parked in front of the mayor's house? That person brought the driver over, and heard the mayor say whether , when he made a move, it was 10 yuan, [-] yuan, he must be very rich!"
After dinner, the lights in the village are gradually turned on.The power supply here is very unstable, like the water in the ravine in the deep winter, intermittent, and far more dry than abundant.However, if compared with a year ago, it is already a world-shaking difference.An old man who lived after the earthquake said that those who survived the earthquake stepped on the backs of those who died.Say it with awe.I didn't understand this sentence at the time, and I finally understood it after thinking about it many years later.
I have never noticed it before, or even if I saw it, I would not understand it. After the earthquake, our villages and towns are generally much richer than before.It is also a mountainous area that is electrified, and it is also a deep mountainous area. The villages that are not overturned by the earthquake four mountains away are fully electrified four years later than us.But we picked it up a year after the earthquake.Even at that time because it was too fresh, Yanyan and I did stupid things together.He secretly took a match to light glass bubbles, but Fatty Sun saw it from the window and laughed at him severely.
Suffer
After dinner, there is nothing to do.I was supposed to stay at the mayor's house today, but when a distinguished guest came to his house, I consciously just wandered outside the house.The moon that night slowly climbed up to the sky, very thin and thin, like a pear blossom.There are two or three fireflies fluttering in the grass.It was windy and cold at night, and the coldness in the mountains pierced through the spine.I wandered for an unknown amount of time, and sat down on a hill with my shoulders in my arms.Not long after, I heard someone calling my name from behind, and it was in Mandarin: "Du Wan."
Startled, I turned around abruptly.Gu Yanzhi stood not far away, he had already put on the windbreaker just now, and the shirt inside was still light-colored.I squinted my eyes carefully, thinking that he should have changed one, because the skirt of the shirt now is clearly scrupulously clean.
He looked at the sky, the sun had not completely set.There was a smile on the corner of his mouth, and he waved to me: "What are you doing again? Come here."
I looked up at him.He was already very tall, and at that time I could only reach his chest.And with the last ray of sunset behind his back, he looked more and more tall and straight.
But I still kind of hate him.So he said, "I'm not going there."
Gu Yanzhi raised his eyebrows slightly, as if smiling, then took a step and walked over.sit next to me.
I said, "Hey, what are you doing here if you don't talk to the mayor? Let me tell you, this is my territory, and no one is allowed to sit here without my permission."
He said, "Will you allow me to sit here now?"
I decisively said: "No."
He laughed, and then began to unbutton the windbreaker in a leisurely manner.I took a big step back alertly: "What are you going to do?"
He seemed to find it funny, stopped halfway, and asked me, "What do you think I'm going to do?"
"I'm telling you, you are not allowed to come here again."
"What are you going to do when it's over?"
I said viciously: "Then put mosquitoes in the room where you sleep tonight!"
He burst out laughing again, and he had already taken off the windbreaker and was holding it in his hand.I stared at him vigilantly, and soon I saw him stretch out his hands, and the windbreaker was put on me in the blink of an eye.
His shoulders suddenly felt much warmer.Listening to him laughing and saying: "Do you still want to feed me to mosquitoes?"
I was blushed again by him.I just hope it's dark so he can see clearly.Not long after, I heard him ask casually, "What grade are you in?"
"...Third grade." I said angrily, "What are you doing?"
"Do you like reading?"
"So what if you like it, so what if you don't like it." I continued to snark, "What are you doing?"
He still didn't think he was disobedient: "Then do you like to study mathematics or Chinese?"
He asked me many questions in such a casual manner.Starting from reading, I also asked about my mother, where my mother is from, and my life these years.If this is a conversation between an adult man and woman, it can be suspected to be a blind date scene.But the scene at that time was clearly dark and windy, a man and a woman who had no blood relationship or even strangers were sitting on a deserted hill, the underage girl was thin and small, and the adult man took the initiative to strike up a conversation, and surprisingly Being patient and gentle, it gradually reminded me of the case of dismemberment of a girl many years ago that an adult mentioned.She shivered suddenly, and even her voice became cold: "What do you want to ask so many questions?"
Gu Yanzhi seemed to have anticipated my reaction.Hearing this, he lowered his head and rummaged through the pockets of his trousers, took out a few candies, then held his palms in front of me, and asked calmly, "Do you want candies?"
I said:"……"
I looked at his candy, and there was a battle between mighty and unyielding and self-esteem.The question just now has long been forgotten in the back of my mind.After holding back for a long time, he finally shifted his gaze from the candy back to his face, and was about to say "I won't eat it" expressionlessly, when Gu Yanzhi suddenly remembered something, and reached out his hand to rummage through the other pocket. Turn it over, then take it out, and hand it in front of me together: "You still want to eat chocolate?"
I said:"……"
After a minute of confrontation, I stretched out my hand with a blank expression, reserved, and quickly took a piece of chocolate from his hand.
I know its delicious.Before that, I only ate half a grain.It still came from Fatty Sun.
Peel off the foil and put it in your mouth, the taste of cocoa is more mellow and sweet than expected.After eating, Gu Yanzhi asked me how it tasted, I raised my chin and said in a reluctant tone: "...is it alright?"
He laughed with a gentle voice, as if telling an understated story: "Du Wan, do you want to go outside the mountain with me?"
When I was 11 years old, I left the remote mountains in western China and went to T City with Gu Yanzhi.Sometimes I write to Yanyan about my affairs, but I forget when I get busy.But every year in the late spring, I will definitely come back to visit my father's grave unmoved.
I have always believed that even though my father has left, he still misses me.
He promised me during his lifetime that he would always be there for me until I didn't need it.Slowly, the years since he left me are getting longer and longer, and many memories have been painted with an old yellow layer by time, but the words he said to me during the Spring Festival when I was four years old, including what he said But I always remember clearly the voice and smile of that time.
Father gives the illusion that he is really there all the time.And a blessing as gentle as the tide.Whether it's before or after.I became an orphan after the earthquake, but I can still live comfortably, and I clearly understand why.Even when I left the mountains and started a new life, it was because of my father's shadow.
I have never tried to explore my father's life before teaching.He rarely mentioned it, and I have no way of inquiring about it.As long as I can remember, he has been poor and busy.Busy with treating villagers and teaching and educating people.I have been watching him gather herbs for the villagers for many years, and I am almost half a doctor myself.He also kept encouraging people to go out of the mountains, and he also wrote Spring Festival couplets from door to door during festivals.
At some point, the townspeople need him even more than they need the mayor.After all, the mayor takes turns to sit in the village, but Du Sicheng is the only one with no semicolon.At the same time, however, he did not ignore my mother and me.I grew up, studied, played, my mother cooked, washed, and harvested pasture. He never distinguished the inside and outside, and he was willing to participate in all of them.The only one he doesn't seem to care about is himself.
But in Gu Yan's mouth that night, he was quite another person: "Your father, Du Sicheng, used to live in T city. He had a biological brother who happened to be my uncle. Therefore, he can be regarded as my elder. He is a man Frankly, he is more open-minded than others, and he lived a wonderful life when he was in his twenties..."
I interrupted him: "What does it mean to be more open-minded than others and live a wonderful life?"
Gu Yanzhi wrote lightly: "It means that life is more colorful than some people."
"..."
I think my expression at that time could clearly show that I didn't understand the essence, but Gu Yanzhi didn't intend to continue to interpret, he continued: "Your father had a rift with your elder brother because of some things. You After your father's father, that is, your grandfather passed away, your father left T City and never returned. Later, someone said that he had seen him in the temple, and when he rushed to look for him, the abbot of the temple said that he had left. The reason for leaving It surprised everyone who knew him before. Because your father became a monk and then returned to the vulgar. The reason for becoming a monk is already unexpected, and the reason for returning to the vulgar is even more strange. Your father said that shaving your hair and taking the precepts can only save yourself, and it is great to redeem others. Love. Never heard of anyone finding him again. I didn't know his whereabouts until today."
I looked at him blankly for a while with my face in my hands, feeling unbelievable.It seems that a simple and dusty box was suddenly opened, and strange and strange clouds slowly flew out of it.Next to me, the manipulator of the clouds continued: "Does your father like painting? He especially likes painting landscapes and kittens. He used to be very good at fine brushwork and taught me when I was a child. And your father used to be in T City At that time, it was very good to use this trick to please girls. The girls in the whole T city hoped to date him, and there were rumors that whoever could get the five fine brushworks presented by your father, it meant that your father wanted to Marry her. It's a pity that your father has never touched a leaf, until he left, no girl got even a single painting from him."
I finally gradually understood the true meaning of the phrase "I live a wonderful life more than others can see it", and I suddenly glared: "You are clearly lying! How could my father be like this, so romantic!"
Gu Yanzhi smiled a little: "What a smart little girl, do you understand quickly?"
"Don't try to change the subject!"
"Then your father used to like to draw?"
"do not like!"
Facing the vast and dark night in front of him, Gu Yanzhi said leisurely: "Children who lie will be eaten by wolves that come out to hunt at night."
I said:"……"
There are really wolves and bears in the mountains in this area.My neighbor's aunt went to the mountains to graze last year, and even picked sika antlers.Although there may not be any near the village, it would be a lie to say that I am not afraid. In fact, I was not only afraid, but even very scared, and even my words became stammered. It took me a long time to force myself to calm down: "Hey, so what ? When he is free sometimes, he really likes to draw a few pictures at home, so, so what! That can’t just say that my father is like that, that kind of person!”
Gu Yanzhi chuckled lightly.His laughter was very nice, and it was in harmony with the rustling night wind. I suddenly felt less afraid in a moment.Then he got closer to me, with his arms through the windbreaker, and grabbed my shoulders tightly.
I stared at him: "What do you want!"
He said lightly: "I think there is a child who seems to be afraid of the dark. He almost cried when he heard the sound just now."
"..."
I was going to become angry again, he rubbed my hair along my shoulder, and said with a smile: "By the way, do you still have his calligraphy? If you have any, you can consider collecting or selling them. Your father's paintings are still It’s very marketable.” After thinking for a while, he added, “Don’t you really like chocolate? At the current market price, one of your father’s paintings can be enough for you to eat chocolate for many years.”
I looked at him and said, "..."
"how?"
"But, but," I almost burst into tears, "he used to say that those paintings were just for fun. Then every time my mother said that she needed to use paper to light a fire, he would just take a piece of paper, so, so very early I just smoked it..."
Gu Yanzhi said: "..."
He coughed lightly: "Okay, it doesn't matter if you don't have it anymore. Your father always has a reason for doing what he did. Let's go back to the question just now. If you leave here with me and go to T city, there will be many benefits .Do you want to leave here with me tomorrow? I have discussed it with the mayor at dinner time. If you are willing to leave, he will not make any other suggestions."
He kept looking me in the eyes as he said these words.The tone is always calm, with a little tenderness.
I no longer remember the reason why I agreed to Gu Yanzhi.
After all, for me at that time, such a thing was obviously a big thing.The mountain is very poor, after all, it is very kind.But if I go outside, I don't know anyone.I just heard a man tell a magical story, and then he asked me if I should leave the mountains with him.
I don't even know what it looks like outside.I am also not sure whether the facts are really what Gu Yanzhi said.My father never described the outside of Dashan to me, let alone everything about him in T City.But in Fatty Sun's mouth, people outside Dashan are well-dressed and well-off, but at the same time they are somewhat intriguing, and they are good at hiding their knives in their smiles.
However, the thinking and courage of children are very incredible things.Gu Yanzhi discussed with me with an attitude towards adults, and he was calm and downplaying.His attitude made it impossible for me to reply with words of doubt and rejection.My intuition told me that although the person in front of me was hateful, he didn't seem like he was going to lie.He does charity.He's kind of sweet.His clothes are elegant and decent.He was received by the mayor of the town.He didn't have to lie to me a kid.The side that gradually accepts Gu Yanzhi is full of majesty in his mind, while the side that rejects Gu Yanzhi collapses in his mind.
In the end, I was only silent for a short while, and then whispered, "...that's fine."
Many years later, I roughly talked about this scene with Yan Yu.Because I was in the excited state of just falling in love with Gu Yanzhi, my description was very optimistic: "Don't you think this is amazing? One second I was arguing with Gu Yanzhi about other trivial matters, and the next second I agreed to be with him Leaving such a big event. I rarely trust a person so much. So this fully shows that we are born to be destined."
Yan Yu was reading a medical journal, when she heard the words, she pushed her glasses and answered me without raising her head: "This only means that he is more likely to be deceived, while you are more easily deceived."
"..."
But no matter what, I sneaked to the cemetery to visit my father.It was already the time of parting when he came back, and the mayor was taking out the bacon that he had saved for more than half a year and was not willing to eat, and gave it to Gu Yanzhi.I also gave pepper, Cordyceps, Gastrodia elata and so on.They stood by the car talking for a long time, and then the mayor came to me with a serious face.
In fact, he has always been very serious, but we children are generally not afraid of him.Because he knew that he was just blowing his beard and staring, but his heart was actually very soft.He always picks up the mess we make.He has been the mayor of the town for nearly 20 years, and he has devoted himself to the villagers.The years in the mountains can easily leave traces on a person's face. At this moment, he is facing the sun and squinting his eyes slightly, making his face more and more rough and vicissitudes.Said to me: "Girl, when you go outside, you must be obedient and don't be so rude. Be polite to others, go to school hard, study hard, and then go to junior high school, high school, and university to win honor for the villagers, and for your father. Zhengguang, don't lose his face! If someone dares to treat you badly and you don't want to stay there any longer, don't be afraid, and don't think about anything else, just come back and act as if nothing happened It happened, your uncle and I will keep your place all the time!"
I had a sore nose, bent down, and bowed deeply to him.I will probably cry if I say anything next, so I can only say nothing, turn around and get into the car.After a while, Gu Yanzhi also stepped into the car.I looked at the gray-haired mayor outside the car, and my eyes were sore.The car started bumping, and slowly left the small house where I lived for a year. My tears finally failed to hold back, and fell on the back of my hand with a "slap".
I feel very embarrassed.What was even more embarrassing was that Gu Yanzhi was still sitting beside him, and he looked at me.He suddenly felt that he hadn't done a few embarrassing things in his life, but most of them were seen by him.So embarrassment naturally turned into anger again.However, there is nothing to do.In the end, he was discouraged and wanted to just jump out of the car. He turned his face away and asked slowly: "Where did you go this morning? When you woke up, you couldn't see anyone, and your hair was still running in such a mess."
I wiped away my tears, and at this moment I found a reason to criticize him: "You shouldn't have taken what the mayor gave you just now. Just forget about peppercorns. They dug up those Gastrodia elata and Chinese caterpillar fungus for a full year. It's not easy." , and plan to go over the mountain to sell it in two days.”
He said: "I confiscated it. I only took the bacon. Xiao Wu secretly put the rest back under the pepper tree in his house."
"..."
The fact that the person I hate happens to be such a tight-knit person is downright disheartening.Immediately, he lost the mood to bicker with him, held his chin and stopped talking, and when he looked out of the window depressedly, someone grabbed his shoulder and twisted him.
The corners of my eyes were gently held down with a soft handkerchief, and Gu Yanzhi wiped my crying face away little by little.He also told me to turn my back and smoothed my long hair with a comb. Finally, he buried a few thin braids inside.When Gu Yanzhi was doing this, I saw the eyes of the driver in front of me from the rearview mirror.He glanced back from time to time, he seemed very interested in Gu Yanzhi's braiding skills, and seemed a little frightened.
The road we're walking on is rough and full of potholes.I was terrified to see him so half-hearted.After a while, I still couldn't help reminding: "Do you want to learn how to tie braids or something? If you want, I can teach you in the future. But you always look back like this now, in case you hit a rock what to do?"
The driver coughed violently, and his face turned red when he withdrew his eyes.Gu Yanzhi said casually behind me: "Don't pay attention to him."
"But he..."
Gu Yanzhi interrupted me and asked, "What do you use to wash your hair when you're in the mountains?"
"Soap locust. What are you doing?"
The people behind me took my shoulders back.He smoothed the last bit of hair on his shoulders.His eyes narrowed slightly, and he looked a little smiling: "Has anyone ever praised you and said that your hair is beautiful?"
While saying this, he folded the used handkerchief and put it back in the pocket of the windbreaker.Then he took the sealed glass cup at hand and asked me: "Are you thirsty? Do you want a drink?"
"Ah."
He unscrewed the lid and put the mouth of the cup to my mouth.Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the driver's eyes widen inexplicably in the rearview mirror.Then suddenly there was a sudden brake, and we almost turned over into the ravine on the side of the road.
However, he returned to T City safely.For the first time in the middle, such as taking a flight to see the plain, I won’t repeat it.It's just because of the endless freshness on the way, I thought it was the many benefits of leaving the mountain that Gu Yanzhi mentioned.Until the flight lands in T City.Gu Yanzhi took my hand and walked out of the terminal building. There was already a person waiting to pick up the plane, who respectfully called Gu Yanzhi "Young Master".
In the first letter I sent to Yanyan, I described in detail the scene when we stepped out of the airport: When I set foot on the land of T City, it happened to be night.Gu Yanzhi walked out holding my hand, he was still talking and laughing with me on the plane, after getting off the plane, the person who came to pick me up was very respectful, and Gu Yanzhi behaved as if he had swallowed a sea magic needle.When I looked back, the airport in T City was full of lights, bustling and quiet.We sat in the car and saw the dome of the high-rise buildings on the side of the road. Under the pale golden light, they looked like slim girls with deep eye sockets. They were flamboyant and romantic, which made people dazzled.
However, when this letter was about to be sent, Gu Yanzhi, who had just returned, accidentally saw it squarely. At the same time I quickly grabbed the letter in my arms, he raised his head and said, "What do you mean I swallowed the sea magic needle?"
I said, "Are you disrespecting people? This is my letter, my privacy! Do you know my privacy? How can you be so shameless as a human being?"
He hummed, and remained motionless: "Tell me, what is it like swallowing the Sea God Needle?"
I said:"……"
When he said this, he was still carrying a small box of chocolate-flavored ice cream cakes in his hand.Pointing on the box with his fingers, he tapped it regularly.My eyes flicked slightly with the slight shake of the box.He swayed for a long time and still had nothing to say to me.I couldn't help reminding him: "The ice cream will melt!"
"Huh?" He looked down, "Has it melted? Then I'll take it out and throw it away."
I finally couldn't hold on anymore, and hugged his arm tightly at the same moment he turned around: "I said, I said, what that sentence means is that you are wise, powerful, calm, wise, and omnipotent in the world, just like Monkey King. hero!"
While talking, I thought sadly and angrily in my heart, if my father Jiuquan knew that one day I used all the compliments he taught on one person, just for a box of ice cream in his hand, I don’t know if he would be angry with me. , I was so angry that I had never given birth to a daughter like me.
Later, two months after the letter was sent out, I received a reply from Yanyan.She only mentioned one thing about my compliments: the second half of the literary talent is not like yours, which book did you copy this passage from?
It can be seen that at that time, the person who knew me best was Yanyan.However, it is undeniable that the night view of T city is really as luxurious and beautiful as described in the book.I came to T City when I was 11 years old with a tail left, and my life since then has been completely different from before.
On the second day after arriving in T City, I was taken to a party by Gu Yanzhi at night.The box is at the back of the clubhouse, and I was led by Gu Yanzhi through the flower corridors and rockery.He had never seen such a scene before, but he didn't dare to look around, trying to be as indifferent as Gu Yanzhi showed, but subconsciously gripped his cuffs tightly in his hands.Probably because he was holding him too tightly, Gu Yanzhi stopped at the door of the box, lowered his head and looked at me.Then he said, "Feel scared?"
I pretended to be calm and said, "No."
He looked at me again for a moment, then smiled, and pushed open the door of the box.
The cool air-conditioning came out, and the inside was magnificent and lively.One of them turned around first, took a look and then smiled: "Oh, Gu Yanzhi, you said your little girlfriend is young, but you didn't say that Xiaocheng is like this. She is underage at first glance. Are you ten years old? You are really shameless for abducting and selling in the mountains to T city."
I took half a step back from the laughter of the audience, and my face flushed all of a sudden.Being dragged back by Gu Yanzhi's arms: "Don't pay attention to him. He was joking."
Na na I can't speak.Gu Yanzhi's fingers landed on the people, and he slowly identified them one by one: "Your brother Yanyu. He is a doctor. In case of a cold or fever in the future, just call him and find him. You brother Chuyu, an architect. In the future Once you have a house, you can ask him to design it." Pointing to the one who was joking just now, "Jiang Yannan, he is in finance. He is useless. If you see him in the future, just ignore him."
Jiang Yannan laughed until she patted the table: "Hey, do you have someone like you? Anyway, I'm only a few years older than her, and I might just get a childhood sweetheart in the future. Can you make her first impression of me better? "
"You are so old that you can double Du Wan's age. You have the face to say this." Gu Yanzhi's hand finally fell on a man in an iron gray suit, "This is your cousin, Du Chengchen. From now on you will be in T City He is responsible for food, clothing and housing. If there is anything wrong with you, just tell me later. "
The room was full of people, but Du Chengchen was the only one in formal attire.He looked at me with a quiet look in his eyes.I yelled to them one by one according to the instructions of taking care of Yanzhi, and when I met Du Chengchen's eyes, I couldn't help but pause.Yan Yu pushed his glasses aside, and interjected softly: "Gu Yanzhi, you are shameless again, brazenly robbing someone of his cousin's job."
Jiang Yannan laughed and said, "That's right, you see that the little girl sticks to you so tightly, you have only been with her for a few days, and you have tricked her into being so obedient." After finishing speaking, she looked at me, "Hey , you are so beautiful, follow me, okay? Don’t bother with your cousin, and don’t even talk about your brother Yanzhi, they are not good people. Especially the one standing next to you, don’t look at you Brother Yanzhi smiled very gently, but he has a kind face and a cruel heart. How many people have been blackmailed by his smile. Your brother Yanzhi used to be the chairman of the high school student union back then, but it made the monitor of the next class spit out blood in anger , You were forced to transfer to another school. Now that you are in his hands, sooner or later you will be swallowed by him until there is nothing left of your bones, okay?"
My suspicious eyes swept towards Gu Yanzhi.The latter remained motionless, just pointing at Du Chengchen: "Don't listen to anything. Call brother, he will give you a greeting."
I remembered when I saw elders who didn't fit my eyes when I was young, and when my father instructed me to call someone, I always turned my head decisively and refused to open my mouth no matter how coaxed.My father took my finger and never forced it. He just laughed it off when he told others that his daughter was shy.This can no longer be the case.In the end, he still said "brother", the voice was much lower than when he called someone else just now.The environment here is too strange, and the people in front of me are too expressionless.Even though Gu Yanzhi said hello in advance, my timidity still follows me like a shadow.
Du Chengchen hummed heavily, temporarily restrained his eyes, and took off the string of beads on his wrist in silence.Simple dark color, with a little luster of years.I counted the number of beads later when I was bored, and it was one hundred and eight.He stretched out his hand and handed it over: "Things that have been opened in temples are said to bless people with good health. Du Wan, we are a family."
I don't know what mood he was in to say those words at that time.It's just that looking back now, I always feel that this sentence is like a joke.Even then, it was hard for me to think of him as family.Children always have subtle and precise intuitions. At that time, I felt that Du Chengchen had a deliberate indifference towards me.So very reluctant to form a relationship with him.But no matter what, after that night, I still left Gu's house where I was temporarily staying, and followed Du Chengchen to Du's house in the east of T city.
My father's elder brother, Du Chengchen's father, died two years ago.His mother is recuperating abroad.In Du's huge house, he was the only one who really lived in it for the past two years.I didn't want to go.After the party ended that night, I kept tugging at the corner of Gu Yanzhi's clothes, hesitating to let go.However, it was probably because he seldom did such a move in the past, so that this move was very unskilled, and the corner of his clothes would come off his hand if he didn't pay attention.When he was about to pull it again, Gu Yanzhi stopped buttoning his windbreaker, looked down at me, and said to me, "Wanwan, you can't do this."
I looked up at him.
He stood under the lights in the lobby, his face was like a crown jade, and he was wearing beige casual clothes.There is something careless and noble in every gesture.Then he squatted down and said in a low voice, "Your cousin is waiting for you outside the door. I brought you back to T City, but he is your real relative."
I didn't want to give up like this, so I raised a finger and whispered, "I'll stay with you for the last night."
He didn't know how much courage it took me to say such a sentence.
I have always been unwilling to give in easily, and I have never begged anyone.I really don't want to go to Du's house with Du Chengchen.I didn't have a good impression of Du Chengchen's cold face at the party, even though he gave a string of prayer beads.I even repelled the Du family who had never met before.Standing in the lobby of the clubhouse, I even regretted that I should not have been so reckless when I decided to leave the mountain.
I was very nervous and hoped that he would say hello.During the past few days of getting along, he always feels very kind to me, and with a little tenderness.However, that night, Gu Yanzhi looked at me with some embarrassment and rejection in his eyes: "But I'm not going home tonight, I have something to do. Wanwan."
Suddenly I felt like my lungs were filling with cold air.
He looked at my expression and reached out to adjust the new hat on my head, but I turned my head away.His hand was empty, and after a while, he retracted it as if nothing had happened: "I called your cousin last night, and he promised that I would take good care of you. You don't have to be afraid of him."
After a while, I said, "I see."
He looked at me: "Are you angry?"
I looked past him and landed on the wall lamp in the lobby: "No."
"Look at me and say these two words."
I turned my head and walked away.
He called my name twice from behind, but didn't catch up.I walked faster and faster until I reached the front of Du Chengchen's car, opened the door and got in by myself.Du Chengchen next to me glanced at me, turned his face away, and said in a calm tone: "When you are sitting in the passenger seat, you must wear a seat belt."
I do what I say.I thought about the scene where Gu Yanzhi helped me fasten my seat belt when the flight took off a few days ago.After a while, I finally couldn't help but turned my face away and looked out of the car window.
Gu Yanzhi has not left yet.He was standing at the door of the lobby, answering the phone.He was so tall, and in the half-light, he cut out a slender silhouette.Not far away, a girl in a long lake-green dress seemed to have seen him suddenly, and waved her hand to greet him.I watched the girl walk towards him, her fingers lifted the hem of her skirt, she was wearing high heels, but her steps were as fast as a trot.Finally, at the last step, he stumbled and was hugged loosely by Gu Yanzhi.
After I saw the girl stand firm, she raised her head and said something.Then Gu Yanzhi lowered his eyes slightly, with a slight smile on his face.
For a moment, I seemed to suddenly understand the meaning of Jiang Yannan's phrase "kindness in face and cruelty in heart".
There is a kind of person in this world who is gentle to everyone, but it is just a habit like the politeness and politeness of others.He gave someone a handful of candies in his pocket, but forgot about it in a blink of an eye.He didn't care.He didn't feel that he should care.His self-cultivation is just an appearance.He just did it casually, but he didn't want others to really rely on him.
However, for such a person, he didn't even have the obligation to take me away from the mountain.He had nothing to do with me.So what about Du Sicheng's daughter, he could obviously pretend that he didn't know anything.Therefore, in fact, he has been very kind to me by doing this now.
But that night, I suddenly started to hate him again.
(End of this chapter)
If the year when I met Gu Yanzhi was used as the dividing line, my 22 years of life can be divided into two symmetrical halves.
In the 11 years before I met Gu Yanzhi, I lived in a village deep in the mountains in western China.For the first ten of those 11 years my life was pretty much the same.Of course, if we have to be serious, it is undeniable that my height has grown every year in the past ten years. I gave up the spoon and gradually learned to eat with chopsticks. I started to walk two hours to the elementary school in the town every day with my schoolbag on my back. , and I slowly learned to follow my mother to dig herbs in the mountains in early spring and late autumn.
But compared with the earthquake that happened when I was ten years old, such a change seems too ordinary.Even the mudslides that occurred during this decade add up to be negligible.
That year happened to be late spring, and the sun outside was light and warm, making people lazy.I was sitting in the classroom of the elementary school in the town, with my ears half closed, listening absently to my deskmate Yanyan stand up and read the text.I'm actually a little drowsy, but my father, the only Chinese teacher, math teacher, half-baked English teacher and principal of Hope Primary School, has a very helpless problem, that is, he is very tolerant to other students, I was always extra strict.As a result, even though I was staggering from sleepiness, and watched the front and back tables fall asleep soundly, I still didn't dare to lie down on the table and fall asleep.
When Yanyan read half of the six paragraphs of the text, I suddenly felt dizzy as if my head was stuffed with a stone and then shaken vigorously.
When I raised my head, I realized that I was too dizzy to see the ceiling above my head.There were clods of mud falling from the top of the head, and the face of the teacher on the podium, or my father, became blurred. He suddenly interrupted the recitation of the text, and his voice became a little anxious: " There's an earthquake, everyone wake up! Run out quickly! Run to the playground! Don't panic! Line up and run out one by one! Quick!"
The moment I learned of the earthquake, I was as dazed as I was when I was suspected of having bone cancer.So I am thankful that I have a good tablemate who is responsive and kind.Before I could figure out the situation, she had already pulled up my sleeve and led me out of the classroom.
However, among the twenty or so children sitting in this classroom, Yanyan and I are just exceptions.There is only one teacher in this Hope Primary School, the father. He has been teaching here for more than ten years, married a wife and had children here, and also works part-time as a barefoot doctor in the town. The teaching time is very limited, resulting in a large and young age difference between the children in a classroom. up to five years old.Therefore, when a few children had fled out cleverly, more children were dumbfounded and did not react at all, and even a few younger children started to panic and run around in the crumbling classroom. .
Through the dusty and broken glass window at one corner, I saw them running around in a mess in the shaking adobe house with their heads covered.Then one was grabbed by the back collar of his father and thrown out of the door.The father blasted the children out one by one, until there was only one kid who was hiding under the table and refused to come out. When he stretched out his hand to grab it, the fragile classroom began to shake violently.
I suddenly had a bad premonition, and I was anxious to rush in, but my father yelled and stopped my steps: "Take them to the playground!"
These were the last words he said to me.He was still holding the last child in his arms, and when he bowed up and was about to rush outside, the classroom was finally overwhelmed and collapsed.
The epicenter of that year was not at the primary school in the town, but closer to my village.My mother has always had the habit of sleeping in the middle of the day. When the earthquake happened, she was on the other side that I couldn't see, and she didn't have time to run out of the house.
It took me a whole year to slowly digest the fact that my parents died.The town took the same amount of time to rebuild after the disaster.Recovery is quick and results are much quicker than mine.A year later, a winding mountain road was built closer to the town, many villages were moved together, and many buildings went up, including a new Hope Primary School.It was rebuilt on the original site, this time with a beautiful red and white wall, a two-story teaching building painted with light orange paint, and clean and bright glass windows.
In the early summer when I was 11 years old, Gu Yanzhi visited Hope Primary School as a donor and brought a new batch of books and stationery along the way.When the mayor received him grandly, I was playing hide-and-seek with my tablemate Yanyan and others.
I have always been the king of children.Even a small game of blindfolded hide-and-seek, the rules are up to me.I made a strict rule of hide-and-seek. The original intention was to let everyone play tricks on one of the seven game-playing kids, Sun Rong, the fattest and dullest kid in the whole town, after we finished talking.However, it turns out that fate has played tricks on the four words. It not only means that I got terminally ill under the most unexpected premise, it also means that after I announced the rules, because of a temporary mutiny of a child, in the end, the person who lost in the rock-paper-scissors Just happened to be myself.
I had no choice but to grit my teeth and accept my fate under Fatty Sun's gloating eyes.
First she covered her eyes with a red scarf, then bent down, Yanyan turned me ten times to the left, then another ten times to the right, and then another ten times to the left, and finally they dispersed with cheers.I was dizzy and tottering like a spinning top. In the end, I couldn't hold on and fell twice, and my hands were full of clods.Then count from one to ten, and start scratching around without any rules.
Some daring children came up to touch me, and quickly retreated with a smile. I stretched out my hand to grab the air several times, and gradually became impatient.However, the more impatient he became, the less organized he became, the more he couldn't catch it, and his forehead was sweating in anxiety.It took a long time to finally hear clear footsteps, and they continued to get closer and closer, just like a frog that has taken a fancy to an insect, until the insect fell within the reach of it with the tip of its tongue.I calculated the time in my mind, then quickly ran two steps, and then I jumped together and hugged him tightly.
——Ten years after this happened, when I was having dinner, I suddenly remembered that I raised my head and asked another person involved in the incident: "Speaking of which, did you feel that I stained your clothes at that time? I'm so hateful, it's an unforgivable crime, I must cut the NPC into pieces to relieve my anger?"
"Why did it go to that extent?" In the restaurant with a good atmosphere, by the floor-to-ceiling windows, Gu Yanzhi's shirt cuffs exposed half of his suit. He was cutting the steak into small pieces, using the tableware in a slow and orderly manner, and his answer was careless. , "I'm just a little worried that the little girl turned stupid at the time, otherwise why would she look stupid and hold me for a long time without regaining her senses."
"..."
Then he handed over the cut steak, put it in front of me, and brought the steak in front of me to him. After thinking about it, he added: "However, it looks pretty For sake, everything can be forgiven, isn't it?"
"..."
——When it was almost dusk that day, in the depths of the continuous distant mountains, where it met the sky, there were clouds and clouds, thick and faint.The man I caught stood still, motionless.I tightly wrapped my arms around the other person's waist, still unwilling to let go.At the same time, he pulled off the red scarf covering his eyes.
The person I hugged in front of me was tall and slender, and looked like a young man in his 20s.A dark windbreaker is in my hand, and the light-colored shirt on my body has been clenched by me.There was a little smile on his face, as if it contained two points of tenderness, and he looked down at me with dark eyes and long eyelashes.Fengshen Ruyu is far from the "Fatty Sun" I read out loud.
The mayor uncle who was standing beside him covered his eyes with his hands and wiped his face in despair.After wiping his face, he winked at me again.I finally realized what a big mistake I had made.Then when I saw the dirty shirt that I had clutched, my face blushed more than half.
Let go immediately.
Teng Teng Teng took two big steps back, his cheeks were still burning when he stood still.But Fatty Sun let out a malicious smirk behind him, and I suddenly became angry from embarrassment, and turned to give him a hard look.
Fatty Sun refused to accept it, and immediately pointed at me: "Mayor, look at her still staring at me!"
The mayor was so angry that his lips trembled, and he pointed at us one by one, and finally his finger landed on my head, blowing his beard and staring: "Apologize now!"
It was always my fault, so I had to lick my lips and whispered, "I'm sorry."
The mayor's Mandarin, which was not very good at first, became even more sluggish because of his anger: "Apologize and look at me! Look at this brother apologizing! Louder! Bow and apologize to others! Hurry up!"
"..." I was suddenly reluctant, and discussed silently with the old man with my eyes, "Why do you still have to bow? Isn't it okay to just apologize instead of bowing?"
And what I didn’t reveal in my heart is, if I’m the only one here, I’ll bow if you ask me to bow, but now there are six little followers behind me, and you ask me to bow to this person in front of them, Where should I put my face in the future?
However, the mayor obviously has no intention of accommodating.His eyeballs are cloudy due to old age, but he is always so vivid when he loses his temper, so that I was forced to catch the words he wanted to express one day: "The whole town will lose face to you alone, What do you care about your little self-esteem? This time you are bumping into a distinguished guest in our town! All the schoolchildren in the town will send all the textbooks, stationery and clothes to him alone! I paid 10 yuan! I haven’t given it yet! If you mess up this God of Wealth, I will never end with you, uncle!”
I said:"……"
The line of sight froze for ten seconds.I silently turned my toes thirty degrees, and met the young man in front of me who was watching with nothing but a smile.Reluctantly bowed.Glancing at the mayor next to him, he bowed reluctantly.Looking at the mayor again, I really don't want to continue, but the mayor is even more angry than me: "What do you mean you only bow once when you look at me! You treat me as a pickle for dinner! Bow three times and quickly bow to me!"
I'm just helpless to the extreme.Just as he was about to carry out his words, the person in front of him suddenly burst out laughing.
He spoke slowly, speaking in perfect Mandarin, with a deep voice beyond that of a man of that age.But the words were quite teasing: "Okay, husband and wife only need to bow three times when they worship each other. Little girl, you just stained your clothes a little, so you plan to promise yourself with your body?"
There was a moment of silence in the audience, and the children behind burst out laughing loudly.
My face flushed instantly.
I absolutely hate this guy.Without him, I am still the most authoritative.I have always had the final say.I never lost my aura in front of the kids of my generation.But at this moment, he had to be speechless for a long time, and finally he could only let out a mighty roar: "...I don't want to marry you!"
When this sentence came out, it caused the mayor to stare at me fiercely.This time I made up my mind to refuse to admit my mistake, and turned my head hard.The mayor pointed at my trembling hand, turned his head to plead with Gu Yanzhi in desperation: "Mr. Gu, don't be as knowledgeable as this kid."
Gu Yanzhi casually said "um", and looked at me with a half-smile.The mayor said again: "This child is called Du Wan. She was only ten years old when the earthquake last year, and her father and mother were gone. Her father was a barefoot doctor in our town. If we went to the city to see a doctor, there would be no one in the past." It takes at least two days and two nights to get to the hospital. There is a minor illness and disaster that her father took care of. Du Sicheng, her father, used to be a teacher at our Hope Primary School. Our school is broken. He is also poor, and he is the only teacher in the whole town. He has stayed here for more than ten years and has not left. He has taught many children in the town to read. He even taught me how to read big characters. He is really a good person."
Gu Yanzhi's expression seemed to move slightly, and the mayor continued: "Du Wan's father would not have left if it hadn't been for saving a few students in the earthquake last year. It was all to save the child of Lao Xiong's family, and the house collapsed in the end... ...Hey, leaving such a child to eat a hundred meals for a year, and wearing this dress was sewn by my mother-in-law..."
When the mayor said these words, I stood up straight, held back the tears in my eyes, and did not cry out.
After the earthquake last year, the mayor personally erected a monument for his father.On the anniversary of his death this year, he took me to the grave and told me that I could proudly tell anyone that "Du Sicheng is my father" before my father was alive, and I still wear his aura after his death.This is the honor that my father left me for the rest of my life.So every time whether I am sad or happy, I have to straighten my spine, not to cry, let alone forget.
As the mayor said, he let me go with a wink.I left with a sigh of relief in my heart, and walked far away, Yanyan was still looking back.
I said, "What are you looking at?"
Yanyan exhaled and whispered, "Oh my God."
The other girl next to her nodded and said, "Yes."
Soon, even Fatty Sun, who had always had eyes above the top, began to sigh with emotion: "Is it?"
I couldn't help but say: "You are all big!"
Yanyan said: "Don't you think that person just now looks particularly good-looking?"
I said coldly, "I don't think so."
Fatty Sun chit-chatted on the sidelines: "And it looks very well dressed, better than my uncle who works outside. Compared with that guy just now, our mayor is just a short winter melon that rotted in the field."
I glared at him fiercely: "You are a short winter melon! You don't even look at your own winter melon face! Do you know what a short winter melon looks like, you idiot!"
In normal times, Fatty Sun would have jumped up and pointed at my nose and cursed back as soon as this provocative sentence came out.Fatty Sun's family is the only one in the town that is considered well-to-do. The result is that everyone in his family looks at others with their nostrils when they go out.The reason why I can become the king of children is because I established a public enemy like Fatty Sun in front of other children, and then centered on this, I did everything possible to woo and instigate, and finally achieved my status before today.
But today, Fatty Sun ignored me at all, and proudly showed off over there: "And did you see the car parked in front of the mayor's house? That person brought the driver over, and heard the mayor say whether , when he made a move, it was 10 yuan, [-] yuan, he must be very rich!"
After dinner, the lights in the village are gradually turned on.The power supply here is very unstable, like the water in the ravine in the deep winter, intermittent, and far more dry than abundant.However, if compared with a year ago, it is already a world-shaking difference.An old man who lived after the earthquake said that those who survived the earthquake stepped on the backs of those who died.Say it with awe.I didn't understand this sentence at the time, and I finally understood it after thinking about it many years later.
I have never noticed it before, or even if I saw it, I would not understand it. After the earthquake, our villages and towns are generally much richer than before.It is also a mountainous area that is electrified, and it is also a deep mountainous area. The villages that are not overturned by the earthquake four mountains away are fully electrified four years later than us.But we picked it up a year after the earthquake.Even at that time because it was too fresh, Yanyan and I did stupid things together.He secretly took a match to light glass bubbles, but Fatty Sun saw it from the window and laughed at him severely.
Suffer
After dinner, there is nothing to do.I was supposed to stay at the mayor's house today, but when a distinguished guest came to his house, I consciously just wandered outside the house.The moon that night slowly climbed up to the sky, very thin and thin, like a pear blossom.There are two or three fireflies fluttering in the grass.It was windy and cold at night, and the coldness in the mountains pierced through the spine.I wandered for an unknown amount of time, and sat down on a hill with my shoulders in my arms.Not long after, I heard someone calling my name from behind, and it was in Mandarin: "Du Wan."
Startled, I turned around abruptly.Gu Yanzhi stood not far away, he had already put on the windbreaker just now, and the shirt inside was still light-colored.I squinted my eyes carefully, thinking that he should have changed one, because the skirt of the shirt now is clearly scrupulously clean.
He looked at the sky, the sun had not completely set.There was a smile on the corner of his mouth, and he waved to me: "What are you doing again? Come here."
I looked up at him.He was already very tall, and at that time I could only reach his chest.And with the last ray of sunset behind his back, he looked more and more tall and straight.
But I still kind of hate him.So he said, "I'm not going there."
Gu Yanzhi raised his eyebrows slightly, as if smiling, then took a step and walked over.sit next to me.
I said, "Hey, what are you doing here if you don't talk to the mayor? Let me tell you, this is my territory, and no one is allowed to sit here without my permission."
He said, "Will you allow me to sit here now?"
I decisively said: "No."
He laughed, and then began to unbutton the windbreaker in a leisurely manner.I took a big step back alertly: "What are you going to do?"
He seemed to find it funny, stopped halfway, and asked me, "What do you think I'm going to do?"
"I'm telling you, you are not allowed to come here again."
"What are you going to do when it's over?"
I said viciously: "Then put mosquitoes in the room where you sleep tonight!"
He burst out laughing again, and he had already taken off the windbreaker and was holding it in his hand.I stared at him vigilantly, and soon I saw him stretch out his hands, and the windbreaker was put on me in the blink of an eye.
His shoulders suddenly felt much warmer.Listening to him laughing and saying: "Do you still want to feed me to mosquitoes?"
I was blushed again by him.I just hope it's dark so he can see clearly.Not long after, I heard him ask casually, "What grade are you in?"
"...Third grade." I said angrily, "What are you doing?"
"Do you like reading?"
"So what if you like it, so what if you don't like it." I continued to snark, "What are you doing?"
He still didn't think he was disobedient: "Then do you like to study mathematics or Chinese?"
He asked me many questions in such a casual manner.Starting from reading, I also asked about my mother, where my mother is from, and my life these years.If this is a conversation between an adult man and woman, it can be suspected to be a blind date scene.But the scene at that time was clearly dark and windy, a man and a woman who had no blood relationship or even strangers were sitting on a deserted hill, the underage girl was thin and small, and the adult man took the initiative to strike up a conversation, and surprisingly Being patient and gentle, it gradually reminded me of the case of dismemberment of a girl many years ago that an adult mentioned.She shivered suddenly, and even her voice became cold: "What do you want to ask so many questions?"
Gu Yanzhi seemed to have anticipated my reaction.Hearing this, he lowered his head and rummaged through the pockets of his trousers, took out a few candies, then held his palms in front of me, and asked calmly, "Do you want candies?"
I said:"……"
I looked at his candy, and there was a battle between mighty and unyielding and self-esteem.The question just now has long been forgotten in the back of my mind.After holding back for a long time, he finally shifted his gaze from the candy back to his face, and was about to say "I won't eat it" expressionlessly, when Gu Yanzhi suddenly remembered something, and reached out his hand to rummage through the other pocket. Turn it over, then take it out, and hand it in front of me together: "You still want to eat chocolate?"
I said:"……"
After a minute of confrontation, I stretched out my hand with a blank expression, reserved, and quickly took a piece of chocolate from his hand.
I know its delicious.Before that, I only ate half a grain.It still came from Fatty Sun.
Peel off the foil and put it in your mouth, the taste of cocoa is more mellow and sweet than expected.After eating, Gu Yanzhi asked me how it tasted, I raised my chin and said in a reluctant tone: "...is it alright?"
He laughed with a gentle voice, as if telling an understated story: "Du Wan, do you want to go outside the mountain with me?"
When I was 11 years old, I left the remote mountains in western China and went to T City with Gu Yanzhi.Sometimes I write to Yanyan about my affairs, but I forget when I get busy.But every year in the late spring, I will definitely come back to visit my father's grave unmoved.
I have always believed that even though my father has left, he still misses me.
He promised me during his lifetime that he would always be there for me until I didn't need it.Slowly, the years since he left me are getting longer and longer, and many memories have been painted with an old yellow layer by time, but the words he said to me during the Spring Festival when I was four years old, including what he said But I always remember clearly the voice and smile of that time.
Father gives the illusion that he is really there all the time.And a blessing as gentle as the tide.Whether it's before or after.I became an orphan after the earthquake, but I can still live comfortably, and I clearly understand why.Even when I left the mountains and started a new life, it was because of my father's shadow.
I have never tried to explore my father's life before teaching.He rarely mentioned it, and I have no way of inquiring about it.As long as I can remember, he has been poor and busy.Busy with treating villagers and teaching and educating people.I have been watching him gather herbs for the villagers for many years, and I am almost half a doctor myself.He also kept encouraging people to go out of the mountains, and he also wrote Spring Festival couplets from door to door during festivals.
At some point, the townspeople need him even more than they need the mayor.After all, the mayor takes turns to sit in the village, but Du Sicheng is the only one with no semicolon.At the same time, however, he did not ignore my mother and me.I grew up, studied, played, my mother cooked, washed, and harvested pasture. He never distinguished the inside and outside, and he was willing to participate in all of them.The only one he doesn't seem to care about is himself.
But in Gu Yan's mouth that night, he was quite another person: "Your father, Du Sicheng, used to live in T city. He had a biological brother who happened to be my uncle. Therefore, he can be regarded as my elder. He is a man Frankly, he is more open-minded than others, and he lived a wonderful life when he was in his twenties..."
I interrupted him: "What does it mean to be more open-minded than others and live a wonderful life?"
Gu Yanzhi wrote lightly: "It means that life is more colorful than some people."
"..."
I think my expression at that time could clearly show that I didn't understand the essence, but Gu Yanzhi didn't intend to continue to interpret, he continued: "Your father had a rift with your elder brother because of some things. You After your father's father, that is, your grandfather passed away, your father left T City and never returned. Later, someone said that he had seen him in the temple, and when he rushed to look for him, the abbot of the temple said that he had left. The reason for leaving It surprised everyone who knew him before. Because your father became a monk and then returned to the vulgar. The reason for becoming a monk is already unexpected, and the reason for returning to the vulgar is even more strange. Your father said that shaving your hair and taking the precepts can only save yourself, and it is great to redeem others. Love. Never heard of anyone finding him again. I didn't know his whereabouts until today."
I looked at him blankly for a while with my face in my hands, feeling unbelievable.It seems that a simple and dusty box was suddenly opened, and strange and strange clouds slowly flew out of it.Next to me, the manipulator of the clouds continued: "Does your father like painting? He especially likes painting landscapes and kittens. He used to be very good at fine brushwork and taught me when I was a child. And your father used to be in T City At that time, it was very good to use this trick to please girls. The girls in the whole T city hoped to date him, and there were rumors that whoever could get the five fine brushworks presented by your father, it meant that your father wanted to Marry her. It's a pity that your father has never touched a leaf, until he left, no girl got even a single painting from him."
I finally gradually understood the true meaning of the phrase "I live a wonderful life more than others can see it", and I suddenly glared: "You are clearly lying! How could my father be like this, so romantic!"
Gu Yanzhi smiled a little: "What a smart little girl, do you understand quickly?"
"Don't try to change the subject!"
"Then your father used to like to draw?"
"do not like!"
Facing the vast and dark night in front of him, Gu Yanzhi said leisurely: "Children who lie will be eaten by wolves that come out to hunt at night."
I said:"……"
There are really wolves and bears in the mountains in this area.My neighbor's aunt went to the mountains to graze last year, and even picked sika antlers.Although there may not be any near the village, it would be a lie to say that I am not afraid. In fact, I was not only afraid, but even very scared, and even my words became stammered. It took me a long time to force myself to calm down: "Hey, so what ? When he is free sometimes, he really likes to draw a few pictures at home, so, so what! That can’t just say that my father is like that, that kind of person!”
Gu Yanzhi chuckled lightly.His laughter was very nice, and it was in harmony with the rustling night wind. I suddenly felt less afraid in a moment.Then he got closer to me, with his arms through the windbreaker, and grabbed my shoulders tightly.
I stared at him: "What do you want!"
He said lightly: "I think there is a child who seems to be afraid of the dark. He almost cried when he heard the sound just now."
"..."
I was going to become angry again, he rubbed my hair along my shoulder, and said with a smile: "By the way, do you still have his calligraphy? If you have any, you can consider collecting or selling them. Your father's paintings are still It’s very marketable.” After thinking for a while, he added, “Don’t you really like chocolate? At the current market price, one of your father’s paintings can be enough for you to eat chocolate for many years.”
I looked at him and said, "..."
"how?"
"But, but," I almost burst into tears, "he used to say that those paintings were just for fun. Then every time my mother said that she needed to use paper to light a fire, he would just take a piece of paper, so, so very early I just smoked it..."
Gu Yanzhi said: "..."
He coughed lightly: "Okay, it doesn't matter if you don't have it anymore. Your father always has a reason for doing what he did. Let's go back to the question just now. If you leave here with me and go to T city, there will be many benefits .Do you want to leave here with me tomorrow? I have discussed it with the mayor at dinner time. If you are willing to leave, he will not make any other suggestions."
He kept looking me in the eyes as he said these words.The tone is always calm, with a little tenderness.
I no longer remember the reason why I agreed to Gu Yanzhi.
After all, for me at that time, such a thing was obviously a big thing.The mountain is very poor, after all, it is very kind.But if I go outside, I don't know anyone.I just heard a man tell a magical story, and then he asked me if I should leave the mountains with him.
I don't even know what it looks like outside.I am also not sure whether the facts are really what Gu Yanzhi said.My father never described the outside of Dashan to me, let alone everything about him in T City.But in Fatty Sun's mouth, people outside Dashan are well-dressed and well-off, but at the same time they are somewhat intriguing, and they are good at hiding their knives in their smiles.
However, the thinking and courage of children are very incredible things.Gu Yanzhi discussed with me with an attitude towards adults, and he was calm and downplaying.His attitude made it impossible for me to reply with words of doubt and rejection.My intuition told me that although the person in front of me was hateful, he didn't seem like he was going to lie.He does charity.He's kind of sweet.His clothes are elegant and decent.He was received by the mayor of the town.He didn't have to lie to me a kid.The side that gradually accepts Gu Yanzhi is full of majesty in his mind, while the side that rejects Gu Yanzhi collapses in his mind.
In the end, I was only silent for a short while, and then whispered, "...that's fine."
Many years later, I roughly talked about this scene with Yan Yu.Because I was in the excited state of just falling in love with Gu Yanzhi, my description was very optimistic: "Don't you think this is amazing? One second I was arguing with Gu Yanzhi about other trivial matters, and the next second I agreed to be with him Leaving such a big event. I rarely trust a person so much. So this fully shows that we are born to be destined."
Yan Yu was reading a medical journal, when she heard the words, she pushed her glasses and answered me without raising her head: "This only means that he is more likely to be deceived, while you are more easily deceived."
"..."
But no matter what, I sneaked to the cemetery to visit my father.It was already the time of parting when he came back, and the mayor was taking out the bacon that he had saved for more than half a year and was not willing to eat, and gave it to Gu Yanzhi.I also gave pepper, Cordyceps, Gastrodia elata and so on.They stood by the car talking for a long time, and then the mayor came to me with a serious face.
In fact, he has always been very serious, but we children are generally not afraid of him.Because he knew that he was just blowing his beard and staring, but his heart was actually very soft.He always picks up the mess we make.He has been the mayor of the town for nearly 20 years, and he has devoted himself to the villagers.The years in the mountains can easily leave traces on a person's face. At this moment, he is facing the sun and squinting his eyes slightly, making his face more and more rough and vicissitudes.Said to me: "Girl, when you go outside, you must be obedient and don't be so rude. Be polite to others, go to school hard, study hard, and then go to junior high school, high school, and university to win honor for the villagers, and for your father. Zhengguang, don't lose his face! If someone dares to treat you badly and you don't want to stay there any longer, don't be afraid, and don't think about anything else, just come back and act as if nothing happened It happened, your uncle and I will keep your place all the time!"
I had a sore nose, bent down, and bowed deeply to him.I will probably cry if I say anything next, so I can only say nothing, turn around and get into the car.After a while, Gu Yanzhi also stepped into the car.I looked at the gray-haired mayor outside the car, and my eyes were sore.The car started bumping, and slowly left the small house where I lived for a year. My tears finally failed to hold back, and fell on the back of my hand with a "slap".
I feel very embarrassed.What was even more embarrassing was that Gu Yanzhi was still sitting beside him, and he looked at me.He suddenly felt that he hadn't done a few embarrassing things in his life, but most of them were seen by him.So embarrassment naturally turned into anger again.However, there is nothing to do.In the end, he was discouraged and wanted to just jump out of the car. He turned his face away and asked slowly: "Where did you go this morning? When you woke up, you couldn't see anyone, and your hair was still running in such a mess."
I wiped away my tears, and at this moment I found a reason to criticize him: "You shouldn't have taken what the mayor gave you just now. Just forget about peppercorns. They dug up those Gastrodia elata and Chinese caterpillar fungus for a full year. It's not easy." , and plan to go over the mountain to sell it in two days.”
He said: "I confiscated it. I only took the bacon. Xiao Wu secretly put the rest back under the pepper tree in his house."
"..."
The fact that the person I hate happens to be such a tight-knit person is downright disheartening.Immediately, he lost the mood to bicker with him, held his chin and stopped talking, and when he looked out of the window depressedly, someone grabbed his shoulder and twisted him.
The corners of my eyes were gently held down with a soft handkerchief, and Gu Yanzhi wiped my crying face away little by little.He also told me to turn my back and smoothed my long hair with a comb. Finally, he buried a few thin braids inside.When Gu Yanzhi was doing this, I saw the eyes of the driver in front of me from the rearview mirror.He glanced back from time to time, he seemed very interested in Gu Yanzhi's braiding skills, and seemed a little frightened.
The road we're walking on is rough and full of potholes.I was terrified to see him so half-hearted.After a while, I still couldn't help reminding: "Do you want to learn how to tie braids or something? If you want, I can teach you in the future. But you always look back like this now, in case you hit a rock what to do?"
The driver coughed violently, and his face turned red when he withdrew his eyes.Gu Yanzhi said casually behind me: "Don't pay attention to him."
"But he..."
Gu Yanzhi interrupted me and asked, "What do you use to wash your hair when you're in the mountains?"
"Soap locust. What are you doing?"
The people behind me took my shoulders back.He smoothed the last bit of hair on his shoulders.His eyes narrowed slightly, and he looked a little smiling: "Has anyone ever praised you and said that your hair is beautiful?"
While saying this, he folded the used handkerchief and put it back in the pocket of the windbreaker.Then he took the sealed glass cup at hand and asked me: "Are you thirsty? Do you want a drink?"
"Ah."
He unscrewed the lid and put the mouth of the cup to my mouth.Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the driver's eyes widen inexplicably in the rearview mirror.Then suddenly there was a sudden brake, and we almost turned over into the ravine on the side of the road.
However, he returned to T City safely.For the first time in the middle, such as taking a flight to see the plain, I won’t repeat it.It's just because of the endless freshness on the way, I thought it was the many benefits of leaving the mountain that Gu Yanzhi mentioned.Until the flight lands in T City.Gu Yanzhi took my hand and walked out of the terminal building. There was already a person waiting to pick up the plane, who respectfully called Gu Yanzhi "Young Master".
In the first letter I sent to Yanyan, I described in detail the scene when we stepped out of the airport: When I set foot on the land of T City, it happened to be night.Gu Yanzhi walked out holding my hand, he was still talking and laughing with me on the plane, after getting off the plane, the person who came to pick me up was very respectful, and Gu Yanzhi behaved as if he had swallowed a sea magic needle.When I looked back, the airport in T City was full of lights, bustling and quiet.We sat in the car and saw the dome of the high-rise buildings on the side of the road. Under the pale golden light, they looked like slim girls with deep eye sockets. They were flamboyant and romantic, which made people dazzled.
However, when this letter was about to be sent, Gu Yanzhi, who had just returned, accidentally saw it squarely. At the same time I quickly grabbed the letter in my arms, he raised his head and said, "What do you mean I swallowed the sea magic needle?"
I said, "Are you disrespecting people? This is my letter, my privacy! Do you know my privacy? How can you be so shameless as a human being?"
He hummed, and remained motionless: "Tell me, what is it like swallowing the Sea God Needle?"
I said:"……"
When he said this, he was still carrying a small box of chocolate-flavored ice cream cakes in his hand.Pointing on the box with his fingers, he tapped it regularly.My eyes flicked slightly with the slight shake of the box.He swayed for a long time and still had nothing to say to me.I couldn't help reminding him: "The ice cream will melt!"
"Huh?" He looked down, "Has it melted? Then I'll take it out and throw it away."
I finally couldn't hold on anymore, and hugged his arm tightly at the same moment he turned around: "I said, I said, what that sentence means is that you are wise, powerful, calm, wise, and omnipotent in the world, just like Monkey King. hero!"
While talking, I thought sadly and angrily in my heart, if my father Jiuquan knew that one day I used all the compliments he taught on one person, just for a box of ice cream in his hand, I don’t know if he would be angry with me. , I was so angry that I had never given birth to a daughter like me.
Later, two months after the letter was sent out, I received a reply from Yanyan.She only mentioned one thing about my compliments: the second half of the literary talent is not like yours, which book did you copy this passage from?
It can be seen that at that time, the person who knew me best was Yanyan.However, it is undeniable that the night view of T city is really as luxurious and beautiful as described in the book.I came to T City when I was 11 years old with a tail left, and my life since then has been completely different from before.
On the second day after arriving in T City, I was taken to a party by Gu Yanzhi at night.The box is at the back of the clubhouse, and I was led by Gu Yanzhi through the flower corridors and rockery.He had never seen such a scene before, but he didn't dare to look around, trying to be as indifferent as Gu Yanzhi showed, but subconsciously gripped his cuffs tightly in his hands.Probably because he was holding him too tightly, Gu Yanzhi stopped at the door of the box, lowered his head and looked at me.Then he said, "Feel scared?"
I pretended to be calm and said, "No."
He looked at me again for a moment, then smiled, and pushed open the door of the box.
The cool air-conditioning came out, and the inside was magnificent and lively.One of them turned around first, took a look and then smiled: "Oh, Gu Yanzhi, you said your little girlfriend is young, but you didn't say that Xiaocheng is like this. She is underage at first glance. Are you ten years old? You are really shameless for abducting and selling in the mountains to T city."
I took half a step back from the laughter of the audience, and my face flushed all of a sudden.Being dragged back by Gu Yanzhi's arms: "Don't pay attention to him. He was joking."
Na na I can't speak.Gu Yanzhi's fingers landed on the people, and he slowly identified them one by one: "Your brother Yanyu. He is a doctor. In case of a cold or fever in the future, just call him and find him. You brother Chuyu, an architect. In the future Once you have a house, you can ask him to design it." Pointing to the one who was joking just now, "Jiang Yannan, he is in finance. He is useless. If you see him in the future, just ignore him."
Jiang Yannan laughed until she patted the table: "Hey, do you have someone like you? Anyway, I'm only a few years older than her, and I might just get a childhood sweetheart in the future. Can you make her first impression of me better? "
"You are so old that you can double Du Wan's age. You have the face to say this." Gu Yanzhi's hand finally fell on a man in an iron gray suit, "This is your cousin, Du Chengchen. From now on you will be in T City He is responsible for food, clothing and housing. If there is anything wrong with you, just tell me later. "
The room was full of people, but Du Chengchen was the only one in formal attire.He looked at me with a quiet look in his eyes.I yelled to them one by one according to the instructions of taking care of Yanzhi, and when I met Du Chengchen's eyes, I couldn't help but pause.Yan Yu pushed his glasses aside, and interjected softly: "Gu Yanzhi, you are shameless again, brazenly robbing someone of his cousin's job."
Jiang Yannan laughed and said, "That's right, you see that the little girl sticks to you so tightly, you have only been with her for a few days, and you have tricked her into being so obedient." After finishing speaking, she looked at me, "Hey , you are so beautiful, follow me, okay? Don’t bother with your cousin, and don’t even talk about your brother Yanzhi, they are not good people. Especially the one standing next to you, don’t look at you Brother Yanzhi smiled very gently, but he has a kind face and a cruel heart. How many people have been blackmailed by his smile. Your brother Yanzhi used to be the chairman of the high school student union back then, but it made the monitor of the next class spit out blood in anger , You were forced to transfer to another school. Now that you are in his hands, sooner or later you will be swallowed by him until there is nothing left of your bones, okay?"
My suspicious eyes swept towards Gu Yanzhi.The latter remained motionless, just pointing at Du Chengchen: "Don't listen to anything. Call brother, he will give you a greeting."
I remembered when I saw elders who didn't fit my eyes when I was young, and when my father instructed me to call someone, I always turned my head decisively and refused to open my mouth no matter how coaxed.My father took my finger and never forced it. He just laughed it off when he told others that his daughter was shy.This can no longer be the case.In the end, he still said "brother", the voice was much lower than when he called someone else just now.The environment here is too strange, and the people in front of me are too expressionless.Even though Gu Yanzhi said hello in advance, my timidity still follows me like a shadow.
Du Chengchen hummed heavily, temporarily restrained his eyes, and took off the string of beads on his wrist in silence.Simple dark color, with a little luster of years.I counted the number of beads later when I was bored, and it was one hundred and eight.He stretched out his hand and handed it over: "Things that have been opened in temples are said to bless people with good health. Du Wan, we are a family."
I don't know what mood he was in to say those words at that time.It's just that looking back now, I always feel that this sentence is like a joke.Even then, it was hard for me to think of him as family.Children always have subtle and precise intuitions. At that time, I felt that Du Chengchen had a deliberate indifference towards me.So very reluctant to form a relationship with him.But no matter what, after that night, I still left Gu's house where I was temporarily staying, and followed Du Chengchen to Du's house in the east of T city.
My father's elder brother, Du Chengchen's father, died two years ago.His mother is recuperating abroad.In Du's huge house, he was the only one who really lived in it for the past two years.I didn't want to go.After the party ended that night, I kept tugging at the corner of Gu Yanzhi's clothes, hesitating to let go.However, it was probably because he seldom did such a move in the past, so that this move was very unskilled, and the corner of his clothes would come off his hand if he didn't pay attention.When he was about to pull it again, Gu Yanzhi stopped buttoning his windbreaker, looked down at me, and said to me, "Wanwan, you can't do this."
I looked up at him.
He stood under the lights in the lobby, his face was like a crown jade, and he was wearing beige casual clothes.There is something careless and noble in every gesture.Then he squatted down and said in a low voice, "Your cousin is waiting for you outside the door. I brought you back to T City, but he is your real relative."
I didn't want to give up like this, so I raised a finger and whispered, "I'll stay with you for the last night."
He didn't know how much courage it took me to say such a sentence.
I have always been unwilling to give in easily, and I have never begged anyone.I really don't want to go to Du's house with Du Chengchen.I didn't have a good impression of Du Chengchen's cold face at the party, even though he gave a string of prayer beads.I even repelled the Du family who had never met before.Standing in the lobby of the clubhouse, I even regretted that I should not have been so reckless when I decided to leave the mountain.
I was very nervous and hoped that he would say hello.During the past few days of getting along, he always feels very kind to me, and with a little tenderness.However, that night, Gu Yanzhi looked at me with some embarrassment and rejection in his eyes: "But I'm not going home tonight, I have something to do. Wanwan."
Suddenly I felt like my lungs were filling with cold air.
He looked at my expression and reached out to adjust the new hat on my head, but I turned my head away.His hand was empty, and after a while, he retracted it as if nothing had happened: "I called your cousin last night, and he promised that I would take good care of you. You don't have to be afraid of him."
After a while, I said, "I see."
He looked at me: "Are you angry?"
I looked past him and landed on the wall lamp in the lobby: "No."
"Look at me and say these two words."
I turned my head and walked away.
He called my name twice from behind, but didn't catch up.I walked faster and faster until I reached the front of Du Chengchen's car, opened the door and got in by myself.Du Chengchen next to me glanced at me, turned his face away, and said in a calm tone: "When you are sitting in the passenger seat, you must wear a seat belt."
I do what I say.I thought about the scene where Gu Yanzhi helped me fasten my seat belt when the flight took off a few days ago.After a while, I finally couldn't help but turned my face away and looked out of the car window.
Gu Yanzhi has not left yet.He was standing at the door of the lobby, answering the phone.He was so tall, and in the half-light, he cut out a slender silhouette.Not far away, a girl in a long lake-green dress seemed to have seen him suddenly, and waved her hand to greet him.I watched the girl walk towards him, her fingers lifted the hem of her skirt, she was wearing high heels, but her steps were as fast as a trot.Finally, at the last step, he stumbled and was hugged loosely by Gu Yanzhi.
After I saw the girl stand firm, she raised her head and said something.Then Gu Yanzhi lowered his eyes slightly, with a slight smile on his face.
For a moment, I seemed to suddenly understand the meaning of Jiang Yannan's phrase "kindness in face and cruelty in heart".
There is a kind of person in this world who is gentle to everyone, but it is just a habit like the politeness and politeness of others.He gave someone a handful of candies in his pocket, but forgot about it in a blink of an eye.He didn't care.He didn't feel that he should care.His self-cultivation is just an appearance.He just did it casually, but he didn't want others to really rely on him.
However, for such a person, he didn't even have the obligation to take me away from the mountain.He had nothing to do with me.So what about Du Sicheng's daughter, he could obviously pretend that he didn't know anything.Therefore, in fact, he has been very kind to me by doing this now.
But that night, I suddenly started to hate him again.
(End of this chapter)
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