middle aged

Chapter 23 Chapter 23

Qi Yunze looked at the man in front of him who was wearing a slim khaki windbreaker, a cashmere plaid scarf, and light chestnut half-length hair slightly covering his forehead. After many years, his body still looked thin, standing far away in the autumn wind, As if it could be blown away when the wind was stronger, the silly full-rim glasses when he was in school disappeared, and they were replaced by half-rim glasses with gold wires. He looked like he was knowledgeable.The original flat cut is even more difficult to find. It is similar to the half-length hair in Bae Yong Joon's winter love songs in his early years, which makes him more elegant and calm.If it wasn't for those familiar almond eyes and that moderately thick lips, Qi Yunze felt that even if the boy in his dream stood in front of him like today, he would never recognize him.

The same early autumn is cool, the same school gate, the same people, the only difference is that the years are ruthless and time flies.

"Father?" Qi Beibei shook Qi Yunze's hand with the big mouth monkey in his arms. She didn't understand the world of adults, but felt that her father and this uncle had been stuck here for a long time, while Aunt Cotton Candy was waving at her all the time. .

"Ok?"

"I want to eat cotton candy..." Qi Beibei was a little aggrieved, and said sweetly, she felt that today's father was very strange, he had already agreed to buy cotton candy, could it be that he had to renege on his debt?

You can't let your father renege, Qi Beibei exhausted all his strength and dragged his father to the direction of Aunt Marshmallow, muttering "Marshmallow, marshmallow, I want to eat cotton candy!" sugar."

Qi Yunze had no choice but to be dragged by his daughter, and looked at Mo Fanfan with a helpless smile: "My daughter is naughty, and she has been arguing for cotton candy for several days. I had a cough a few days ago, so I didn't dare to buy it for her. It will be better in the next two days." If you don’t buy it, the house will probably be opened.” Picking up Qi Beibei, Qi Yunze walked to the small tricycle for making marshmallows, paid the money, and the daughter in his arms twisted and turned, looking at the aunt The marshmallow in my hand is getting bigger and fluffier round by round.

Qi Beibei, who got the marshmallow as he wished, was very satisfied. He wished that his little face could be stuffed into the marshmallow. Qi Yunze put her on the ground and held her with one hand. She was holding the marshmallow, and soon ate her whole face It's become a little cat.

"Look at the way this child eats, he doesn't look like a little girl." Qi Yunze smiled, and led Qi Beibei back to Mo Fanfan's side.

"When did you come back, and you didn't say hello to your old classmates in advance, so that you can meet you."

"Oh...it's been more than a month since I came back."

"Good boy, I have been back for more than a month and I don't know how to contact us. I am prosperous outside, forget about us little people."

"No way," Mo Fanfan was a little embarrassed: "It was also a very accidental opportunity to come back."

"Haha, just kidding, don't take it seriously. I haven't seen you for many years, let's have dinner together tonight."

"Oh... okay" The body is more honest than the brain, Mo Fanfan agreed without hesitation, and there was no time to worry about how he would face Qi Yunze's family.

Qi Beibei, who had finished eating the marshmallows, was still a little unsatisfied, carefully smacking the aftertaste on the small wooden stick, until nothing could be tasted, then shook Qi Yunze's hand, and handed the little stick out resentfully.Yunze casually threw the wooden stick into the trash can on the side of the street, took out a baby wet wipe from his backpack, squatted down, and wiped the little cat's face clean.

The sunset in the early autumn, the afterglow of the father and daughter, the beauty is unbelievable, Pingfan watched from the side, but his eyes were pierced and hurt, and there is more pain... Pingfan said to himself silently in his heart.

Indeed, there is more pain.

Sitting in an old Beijing hotpot restaurant not far from the school, the mutton cooked in a copper pot over a charcoal fire is extremely tender, and the warm charcoal fire also washes away the coldness outside his body, but what he sees in front of him makes Mo Fanfan feel uncomfortable from head to toe. suffer.

A happy family of four, Yunze's wife, Xiaoman, looks like a typical stay-at-home mother, holding Qi Beibei in her arms, carefully blowing the boiled potatoes to cool, and feeding them into her little mouth one by one .Yunze's eldest son, Qi Han, a young man, sat obediently by the side, picked up the meat Yunzelao gave him with his chopsticks, dipped it in sesame sauce, and ate it more deliciously.On the other side, the familiar stranger was looking at his son while holding a beer, yelling that he would not get drunk with him.

"Your family is so happy." After drinking the cold beer and mixing it with the warm mutton in his belly, Pingfan felt drunk.

"What, bringing these two children is not enough. It looks good. The days behind are hard. Look at me, I have a beer belly." Yunze took off his coat and patted his belly.

"Yeah, when the child was young, he couldn't even sleep through the night. Now that Beibei is a little older and Xiaohan has gone to school, we feel that we can have some time. Hey, ordinary, are you married?" With Xiaoman's inadvertent words, Yunze's hand that was holding the cigarette to his mouth suddenly stopped.

"I haven't... haven't met a suitable one yet."

Some of the cigarette ash fell on the table, and the corners of Yunze's stiff mouth loosened a bit, and he took a hard puff of the cigarette brought to his mouth, and said with a smile: "You have high vision, you haven't found any suitable ones in Japan for so many years? Didn't you say Are Japanese girls the most suitable to marry back home as a daughter-in-law? Haha”

"The Chinese are better at communicating. After all, they are not Japanese. Many cultural habits are still difficult to adapt to."

"There are quite a lot of Chinese girls in Japan, don't you like any of them?"

"Not yet..." Mo Pingfan pursed his lips and shook his head lightly.

"Why are you in such a hurry to find a partner? I guess Pingfan would not dare to marry and have children easily when he sees us procrastinating children?" Xiaoman fed Beibei a mouthful of well-cooked beef, and looked at Mo Pingfan jokingly.

"Sister-in-law is really good at joking, it's too late for me to be envious." Calling sister-in-law, Mo Pingfan's throat and eyes hurt.

"Do you still have contact with your former classmates these years?" Xu said that the topic of marriage and having children was too heavy, so Mo Fanfan changed the subject.

"It was just Li Wei and the others. Li Wei failed the college entrance examination at the time. Later, he went to Guangdong with his father to learn how to open a restaurant. He started to help in the kitchen. After studying for a few years, his father gave him a sum of money to let him go back to his hometown. Poisoning fathers and old folks, no, there are several Cantonese restaurants and seafood restaurants in our city. In recent years, the people are decent. Hu Yi studied at Z University after the college entrance examination, and was admitted to the university after graduation The civil servant got married in a few years, and now there is a son in the family, who is a little older than Xiaohan in our family. I don’t know if you still have any impression of other people.”

"Indeed, I didn't stay in our school for long at that time, I left after more than half a year..."

"I'm sorry..." Yunze suddenly realized that his unintentional words had just caused Pingfan's sad things back then. Looking at the gradually dimming light in those familiar eyes, his heart couldn't help but entangle himself. for a moment.

"Hey, how many years ago it happened. It's long gone." Mo Fanfan picked up the cup and said, "Respect our youthful years!" He raised his head and drank it down.

Satisfied with food and drink, Xiaoman hugged Beibei who had already fallen asleep, Qi Yunze led Qi Han, and Mo Pingfan, who was a loner, walked out of the restaurant. People shuddered greatly, disregarding Qi Yunze and Xiaoman's evasion, Mo Pingfan forced the two of them and brought their two children into the only taxi waiting at the entrance of the hotel.

"Pingfan, you...you... are a guest from afar, you should go first, this... we go first, what's the matter?" Qi Yunze, who was a little drunk, began to slur his words.

"Take the child, hurry up, if the cold wind blows the child, you can bear it, but the child can't bear it." Pressing Yunze's head, he was pushed into the passenger seat of the taxi, and Pingfan closed the door, Looking at the car window, she told Xiaoman: "He drank too much, take good care of him."

When the taxi left in the dust, Mo Pingfan realized how ridiculous and superfluous his words were. "Take good care of him..." When was it his turn to say these words, that gentle and watery woman was his wife in the first place, so it was natural for him to take care of him, so why should he talk so much.

A taxi just got off the bus, the master saw Mo Fanfan standing alone by the curb, flashing the lights, as if asking him if he wanted to take a taxi, Mo Fanfan shook his hand at the windshield of the taxi, The master speeded up and drove away on his own.

Taking advantage of the cool night, taking a walk may not be a bad thing.

Ordinary is walking alone in the small alleys of Z City, looking at his watch, it is just past nine o'clock in the evening, and the remaining old town of Z City has already rested early. This place seems to be the last piece forgotten by the reinforced concrete Just like the pure land of the country, it still preserves the way of life at the end of the last century, working at sunrise and resting at sunset. Focus interviews are the last entertainment for the elderly living here every day. No matter how many young people are working overtime or partying all night in the glass-walled main road a few streets away, it has nothing to do with this small old city.Mo Fanfan walked silently on the quiet path of the old community. The old people in the community had already returned home, and there were only a few wild cats laughing and rummaging through the trash cans in the newly built fitness plaza next to the community.Mo Fanfan sat on a small swing in the fitness plaza, smacking every picture of this evening bit by bit.

He never knew that his memory could be as good as this. He remembered how many pieces of beef that Yunze gave to Qi Han, how many times Beibei called Dad coquettishly, how many times he remembered, and Xiaoman, who hugged Qi Han with a smile. Looking at the child, he remembered it clearly.That man really lived the happiest life in the world. His wife and children are on the bed, a sensible son, and a lovely daughter. What else is he dissatisfied with in such a life?Isn't this kind of life the life I once hoped he would live.More than ten years later, the hope of that year has come true, but why...

Mo Fanfan touched his cheeks that were already drenched with tears, but why... his heart hurts like this, as if someone dug out his own heart, chopped it up with a knife, Then stuff it back into his chest, let himself watch his heart drain the last drop of blood donation little by little.

After all, Mo Pingfan still burst into tears. From the initial choking to baby-like wailing, he suppressed his feelings for 18 years, but finally his dream was broken. At this moment, maybe only tears can accompany him through the broken dream. The first long night.

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