A foreign city, dear you

It's getting dark.

Cao Lanshan stood at the door of a store next to Xiangyang Middle School.

The Chinese teacher in the last class in the afternoon also brought a stack of test papers and said it was a Chinese mock test.

This test delayed the end of school by more than an hour.

God doesn't know what happened today. It rained all day long from morning to night, and the water on the road never had time to clear up.

Cao Lanshan looked at the heavy rain still falling outside, hesitating about how to go home.

It was raining heavily when he came to school this morning, so he didn't come to school by bicycle. His father drove him to school.

Now, how to get home?

It's raining heavily now.

Walking back, even if you hold an umbrella, you will get soaked all over, and you have to walk such a long way.

I wonder if dad is back from get off work?

As soon as Cao Lanshan thought this, Cao Xueqian called, as if he could hear Cao Lanshan's thoughts.

On the phone, Cao Xueqian said he was coming to pick him up and asked him to wait at the school gate.

That's good,

I am worried about how to get home.

After answering the call, Cao Lanshan put the phone into his trouser pocket.

Cao Lanshan's mobile phone is an elderly mobile phone assigned to him by Cao Xueqian.

In fact, many students in his class have their own new mobile phones, with full functions such as WeChat and QQ games. Only he and a few classmates are still using this outdated mobile phone for the elderly.

But it doesn't matter, he doesn't have time to play with his mobile phone anyway.

He also understands that his parents are afraid that his mobile phone will interfere with his studies.

Some students who were close to the school rushed back without hesitation, holding up umbrellas, and some were also waiting. Students who were a little further away or relatively far away from the school were almost all waiting, waiting for the rain to lighten or stop, or Wait for parents to pick you up.

There is a long line of cars at the school gate, some parked and some moving slowly, almost all of which are parents coming to pick up their children.

From time to time, a car beeps, accompanied by flashing lights. That is parents calling their children to get in the car quickly.

Cao Lanshan looked around from time to time, hoping that his father would come earlier.

Cao Lanshan waited and waited, seeing other people's fathers or mothers coming and then leaving, but his father hadn't come yet.

Cao Lanshan couldn't help but call Cao Xueqian again.

Cao Xueqian said it was raining and the road was blocked, so it wasn’t that fast yet.

Cao Lanshan heard this and simply took out the book to complete those memorization assignments.

Really wait till dark.

Cao Lanshan was no longer in the mood to endorse.

He put down the book and looked towards the road.

Through the night rain, he saw a car that looked like his own car in the long queue of cars.

The car was still some distance away from the store where Cao Lanshan took shelter from the rain. Cao Lanshan was not sure whether his father had arrived.

Cao Lanshan had been impatient for a long time and didn't want to wait any longer. When he saw the car, he held an umbrella and walked towards the car.

The rain has become lighter, but still relatively dense.

Cao Lanshan walked to the car and stood outside the passenger seat.

He is really a child who is eager to find his father and get into the car.

He didn't even look at the license plate and just took pictures of the car's window.

As soon as the car window was lowered to a narrow crack, he asked urgently: "Are you my father?"

A reply came from the driver's seat: "I'm not..."

Cao Lanshan was immediately disappointed.

But that voice was clearly my father’s.

It was dark and there was reflection from the street lights, so Cao Lanshan couldn't see clearly the face of the speaker.

Just as Cao Lanshan was disappointed and confused, another word "?" floated out.

The word "?" is like a straggler duck, slowly returning to the team, causing an immediate reversal in the semantics of the sentence.

Haha!

Cao Lanshan was happy.

At this time, Cao Xueqian had already opened the car door.

"Get in the car quickly." Cao Xueqian urged.

Cao Lanshan got into the car, pricked the dripping umbrella and placed it on the edge of the seat.

"See clearly, am I not your father?" Cao Xueqian teased his son.

It was funny to Cao Lanshan when he thought about it, and he responded to his father: "Why did you disconnect the word '?'? I almost turned around and walked away."

Cao Xueqian laughed loudly, started the car, moved forward slowly, and said:

"Silly boy, you can't ask like this in the future. The person I asked today happens to be your dad. If it wasn't your dad, if you were asking from car to car like this, others would think you have multiple dads."

"Haha, am I that stupid?"

"Don't you know yourself? You can be this stupid when you are stupid. You have been stupid since you were a child."

"Really? Was I stupid when I was a child? Don't you all praise me for being smart? You said that when I was five years old, I killed a bunch of kids much older than me and won the championship in that car racing game. "

"That was your highlight moment, so I often told you about it. You also had a lot of stupid things, but I just didn't tell you about them."

"Really?" Cao Lanshan became interested: "Let me tell you something."

"Once, you stupidly asked a question that I couldn't answer." Cao Xueqian could not help laughing.

"Oh? What's the problem?"

"You were about four years old at the time. One time you scratched the back of your head and asked me: 'Dad, I just wanted to ask you a question, but I forgot what it was. Do you know what question I want to ask you?'" After so many years, Cao Xueqian is still funny when he talks about it.

"Haha." Cao Lanshan burst into laughter: "I was so cute when I was a child?"

"Tell me, are the questions you had when you were a child something that only gods can answer? Or are you answering it yourself now? Do you know what your questions were back then?"

"This," Cao Lanshan scratched the back of his head, just like when he was a child: "Wait a minute, let me go back in time and see what the problem was in my head at that time."

"Haha, it's useless to ask you to go back in time. Your question will be an eternal mystery."

……

The two father and son talked and laughed all the way, and Cao Lanshan's tense heart, which was fighting in the sea of ​​questions every day, relaxed a lot.

Unknowingly, Fox also left the congested road at the school gate and drove towards Jinjinghua Garden. There was a splash of water behind the car.

*

Ye Lian has already prepared meals at home and is waiting.

Coming home from get off work today, when she was approaching the gate of the community, she saw the heavy rain outside, and Ye Lian suddenly remembered that Cao Lanshan did not ride a bicycle to school this morning.

So, she asked Cao Xueqian to drop her off at the door of her house, and then asked him to pick up Cao Lanshan, while she went home to cook.

But the meal was done and the dishes were put on the table, but the father and son hadn't come back yet.

The distance between school and home is less than two kilometers, but it seems like hundreds of miles apart.

However, Ye Lian can also imagine the traffic conditions on rainy days. Traffic jams are normal on rainy days, and there must be traffic jams today.

Ye Lian was worried that Cao Lanshan would come home too late and not finish her homework, so she couldn't help but look at the door.

At about half past seven, the voices of the two father and son finally sounded outside the door, as if they were talking about something funny.

Ye Lian hurriedly packed the rice and urged Cao Lanshan to eat quickly.

At the dinner table, Ye Lian asked why it took so long?

Cao Xueqian said that there was a traffic jam, and also mentioned that Cao Lanshan patted the window and asked, "Are you my dad?"

Ye Lian also found it funny and asked Cao Lanshan, "Don't you know how to read the license plate number?"