Song Song

In the eyes of many people, except for the divorce of his parents when he was young, Chu Yi’s life is quite smooth: he was the class monitor in elementary school, studied in a local famous school in junior high school, performed well in the college entrance examination, 985 medical undergraduate and master, published several papers, and participated in the compilation of two teaching series , and now is the deputy director of the department of a tertiary hospital.

At this point in life, there is basically nothing lacking, and Chu's mother thinks so, the only regret is that his son has not yet married and started a family, let alone children.

Sometimes when she went downstairs for a walk, she would meet a neighbor who had come back from a walk with her dog. The two women would chatter in the hallway. What were they talking about?On the surface, people praised "your son is promising and can make money", but behind the scenes, she might not know what she was thinking, so she could only smile wryly, and went home, "You are still lucky, and you have grandchildren."

Chu's mother was so unwilling to think about it, she often sulked at home alone, angry at herself, why did she give birth to such a strange son.Thinking about it, he couldn't help but blame Chu Yi's father, that their old Chu family's genes were not good from the root, and they were useless in other aspects except being handsome.

She should have listened to her parents and married a well-matched local, instead of marrying a poor boy like his father.

As soon as Chu Yi got home, before he changed his shoes, he saw his mother turning her white face gloomily, holding her chest and screaming "It hurts".

"Is there any food at home?" Chu Yi asked while changing his shoes.

Mother Chu stood up clutching her chest: "You still want to eat without a wife, who will cook for you?"

He sighed twice, "Sooner or later, I will be mad at you to death."

Chu Yi didn't say a word, took off his coat and threw it on the sofa, planning to go to the kitchen to cook two dishes casually.Usually in the evening, he only has one dish and one soup. If he is really not happy to cook, he goes to the noodle restaurant downstairs to order a bowl of noodles.

It's good to have no wife and children, and it's easy to get along with anything.

"I cooked the rice for you. I brought the food from home. You can heat it up and eat it." Mother Chu said looking at her son's back.There was still a trace of helplessness in the voice.

Chu Yi walked back to the dining room, took the two glass lunch boxes on the table to the kitchen, put them in the microwave and heated them for 2 minutes each.

In just a few minutes of free time, his fucking mouth was not idle, babbling and babbling.

When the dishes were ready, Chu Yi sat down on the dining table to eat, and Chu's mother simply pulled out the chair and sat next to her son, and asked openly, "Tell me, what exactly are you planning?"

Chu Yi knowingly asked, "What are you planning?"

Chu's mother stared at him for a long time, then held her chest and stroked again, "Let me ask you, have you contacted the nursing home? Soon, 40 years, not 40 years, a childless child like you Old bachelors with no daughters and no wives, that place is your destination! Hurry up, contact a better one, and I won't worry about following you."

Chu Yi was directly amused by his mother's words, and looked at Chu's mother helplessly: "This is where it is, it shouldn't be."

"Why not!? Very much! In a few decades, old bachelors like you will either go to a nursing home, or you will be a drag on the country. Just wait, you will know when the time comes, the country has to give you people like you Number, Bachelor No. [-], Bachelor No. [-], by the time it gets to you, there may be tens of thousands of No.! The country has locked you all in the Bachelor’s Institute, just like sitting in a prison. Unified management, how good do you think? Woolen cloth."

Chu Yi's brows and eyes were indifferent, as if he didn't listen very much, Chu's mother saw it, and she was even more angry, "I don't understand, what's wrong with Xiao Chen, he's been together for so long, go Getting a certificate from the Civil Affairs Bureau can kill you, don't talk about 'I don't feel it', I have feelings for your father back then, look how your mother is doing now."

The clock on the wall was ticking, Mother Chu looked up, it was 18:37, like an invisible sign, she thought of an event many years ago.

Over the years, she has often thought that one should not be too aggressive and strive for perfection in everything. That is not a human being, but a natural masochist.

"Didn't you also have a small object before? I didn't force you back then. If I knew you were twisting like this now, I would..."

Chu's mother wanted to keep talking, but Chu Yi interrupted her: "What time are you going back?"

"I'll be leaving in a while." Mother Chu looked at her son and said hesitantly, "Is your little partner still in Beishi?"

Mother Chu's idea is so simple now, it doesn't matter whether he is a foreigner, whether he has studied in college or not, as long as his son likes it.

Chu Yi was chewing a piece of bamboo shoot, feeling a bit tasteless, he pursed his lips and put down his chopsticks, and said to his mother, "It's getting late, I'll take you home."

Mother Chu's face turned cold: "You don't need to see me off, I'll go back by car."

She put her small bag on her shoulders, and before leaving, she was still chattering, "Sooner or later, you old Chu family will be pissed off to death, who will kill me, I will be disgusted wherever I go..."

As soon as Chu's mother left, the room immediately became quiet. Chu Yi rolled up his sleeves, piled the dishes and chopsticks on the table into the sink, turned on the faucet, froze for a few seconds, and then turned it on again.

He put on his coat and went out with the car keys.

When he went downstairs, his mother hadn't left yet, she was standing downstairs, talking to a woman about her age.

When Chu's mother saw him, she turned her head and asked, "Where are you going?"

"It's something to go out."

Mother Chu told him to drive carefully, then turned around and said to the woman, "That's my son, he's a good-looking guy, he's in his 30s, and he hasn't dated yet."

Middle-aged women have always been keen on gossip, the woman said interestedly: "No, what do you do?"

"Doctor, I work in the Provincial People's Hospital. I'm very picky. I don't know how many people I have introduced to him."

Chu Yi accidentally drove to Lin Xiaosong's residence, stopped at the garage door without knocking, took out a lighter and a cigarette, and lit it.

The corridor was dark and there was no light. There were footsteps on the stairs, approaching from top to bottom, and the voice-activated lights were turned on one by one.

Chu Yi stopped, and glanced at the man. It was a middle-aged man in his 50s, who was passing him with a large stack of crushed cardboard boxes, which seemed to be transported to the garage so that he could save Sell ​​the scraps later.

The middle-aged man felt that Chu Yi's eyes were unfamiliar, so he couldn't help but take a second look. When he came out of the garage after putting away the waste, Chu Yi was still standing in the corridor, not moving much.

"Who are you looking for?" The middle-aged man looked Chu Yi up and down, saw that he looked gentle and didn't look like a bad guy, thought for a while, and asked, "Did you come here to find that single father, with a girl by her side? The one that's not tall?"

Chu Yi flicked the cigarette ash, and said "um" very lightly.

The middle-aged man said in a regretful tone: "He moved away a long time ago."

"Where are you going?"

"I didn't ask about that." The middle-aged man scratched the itch on his nose a few times, and said in a low voice, "He is a foreigner, so he may have returned to his hometown. I heard him mention the child going to school before."

The sound of footsteps came from upstairs again, and the two looked up at the same time. It was a curly-haired woman in bloated pajamas.

Seeing the landlord, the woman said with a sharp voice, covering her head and face, "I told you to take the garbage down. I've finished my shower, and the garbage is still there."

After discovering Chu Yi, the woman asked again, "Who were you talking to just now?"

The landlord glanced at Chu Yi, and said to the woman, "He's here to find someone, just the man who rented our garage, and there's a little girl by his side."

"I remember, it's the man who is not tall." The woman walked out of the corridor carrying the garbage, her slippers rubbing against the concrete floor, making an annoying sound.

The landlord watched his wife go out, and continued to say to Chu Yi: "I have rented this garage from him for more than half a year, and it is only one thousand a month. There is no place in this area that is cheaper than my place."

The woman came back after throwing out the garbage, and said casually: "It's not that people think it's expensive, but that it's too crowded here. I heard him say last time that he wants to change to a one-bedroom apartment. It's not easy to be a father. If you have to work during the day, you have to live in a one-bedroom apartment." Lock the child at home alone." The woman stopped and looked at Chu Yi, "Who are you?"

Chu Yi's eyes darkened: "I'm his friend, do you know where he moved?"

The woman replied: "I don't know about that, he didn't say anything."

"Thank you." Chu Yi bit his cigarette and walked out of the corridor.

There was a green leather trash can a few meters away from the door of the unit building. He walked over to the side of the bucket and stubbed out the cigarette, then threw it in casually.

He wasn't in a hurry to go back, he sat alone in the car for a while, closed his eyes, and let his mind go blank, but it gradually became clearer and more precise than any language.

The speaker is playing a song that has been heard several times, his favorite band M83, the title of the song is "wait": sendyourdreams/wherenobodyhides/giveyourtears/tothetide...

Lin Xiaosong huddled by the sink, rubbed some foam with soap, and washed the long johns that the child was wearing next to his body. After washing and rinsing, he stepped on the small bench and dried them on the clothes rail on the balcony.

Lele leans on the door frame next to her and looks at her father.

"Hey, what are you looking at?"

Lele raised her head: "Last time, you said to ask the teacher for me, why hasn't the teacher called me yet?"

Lin Xiaosong picked up the red laundry tub on the ground, put it under the faucet and ran it through the water to wash away the last layer of foam, "The teacher has already called Dad, the teacher praised you for being a good baby, wait until you grow up a little, We can go to school happily."

"You say that every time! Liar!" Lele pursed her lips and was about to cry. Lin Xiaosong hurriedly pulled her aside, knelt down and rubbed the little girl's face: "Why are you crying again? , Dad didn’t lie to you, didn’t I buy all the schoolbags for you.”

"It's a lie. Grandma Sun said that I can go to kindergarten already."

The little girl refers to the old lady living alone opposite them, who asked Lele's age before.

Lin Xiaosong coaxed "Oh oh oh": "Grandma Sun doesn't understand this, the teacher has already said, we Lele will be able to go to school after another half a year."

"Half a year..." Lele burst into tears, and the tip of her nose turned red from crying, "How long is half a year?"

Lin Xiaosong wiped away tears for the little girl, "Soon, when you go to school, Dad will buy you a new schoolbag."

"Pull hook."

"Okay, Lagougou, Dad won't lie to you."

The next day, Lin Xiaosong quarreled with the old lady across the door because she put the shoe cabinet on the corridor, occupying half of his house.

When the old lady got angry, she ran downstairs to the flower garden and pulled off a small piece of red pepper planted by Lin Xiaosong by the root. The family made a meal of mashed garlic and rapeseed for the child.

The relationship between the two of them was completely settled.

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