Song Song

Lin Xiaosong didn't go to work, and lay at home for a whole day. The child obediently lay down on the bed to draw, and occasionally looked up at her father, afraid to say anything.

The manager of the hotel made a phone call in the morning, but the call didn't last half a minute, and the manager angrily told Lin Xiaosong to pack up his things and leave.

The reason is that Lin Xiaosong scolded someone, caught a living person and gave him a good meal.

At around six o'clock in the evening, there was a knock on the door, Lele dropped the paintbrush and ran over bumpily.

"who are you?"

Chu Yi stood outside, "I am Uncle Chu."

The little girl opened the door on tiptoe, with those innocent eyes, she said in a childish voice: "My father is not happy today."

Chu Yi led the little girl in, and held the vegetables he bought from the supermarket in the other hand. He lowered his head and asked the child, "Have you eaten yet?"

"Have not eat yet."

The room was too quiet, the bedroom door was opened a small gap, and the person could be seen lying on the bed in pajamas and pajamas, and the air-conditioning air also came out of the small gap.

Chu Yi glanced silently, raised his chin, and signaled the child to go into the bedroom, and he carried the vegetables to the kitchen by himself.

While washing vegetables and rice, Chu Yi had a premonition, wiped his hands, and turned around slowly.

Lin Xiaosong crouched his neck, staring blankly at the ground, "Why are you here?"

Chu Yi asked without answering, "What did you have for lunch?"

"takeout."

"Morning too?"

Lin Xiaosong rubbed his toes against the tiled floor, unable to pick up the strength, "I made the oatmeal in the morning."

Chu Yi pulled him closer and looked at his whole face. His lips were pale and his eyes were dark blue, as if he didn't sleep last night.The man was angry for no reason, he didn't know whether he was angry with himself or the fool in front of him, suddenly, he frowned and poked Lin Xiaosong's forehead, "Why are you so stupid!"

Lin Xiaosong covered his forehead, stared at him wrongedly, blinked, and cried.

Seeing him crying, Chu Yi was in a sad mood. He wanted to hug him into his arms and coax him into his mouth, but also wanted him to remember his gender and plunge into it when he met someone. In the end, his heart became cruel, and he pushed Lin Xiaosong out. "The kitchen is small, don't stand here, play with the children."

Lin Xiaosong came out wiping his tears and went back to the room. Seeing Lele kneeling and drawing on the small cushion beside the bed, he knelt down too.The father and daughter touched arms, shoulder to shoulder.

"Dad, don't be unhappy." Lele turned her head and held up her own painting to show him, "Look at my painting of Mr. Sun."

Lin Xiaosong sniffed and praised: "We draw really well obediently."

"It hasn't been painted yet."

"Papa paints for you."

Lele put down the painting, took out the golden watercolor pen from the crayon box, rolled her small eyes, and handed it to Lin Xiaosong worriedly, "You have to paint it well."

Lin Xiaosong added color to the circle stroke by stroke, and filled the hollowed-out part with a paintbrush bit by bit, treating it as meticulous work and doing it very seriously.

Lele watched and said "wow" a few times: "Dad, you draw better than me."

"Give me the black pen."

Lele took out the black marker and handed it over.

Lin Xiaosong wrote the child's name on the left side of the sun, and pointed to the words for her to recognize. On the right side, he wrote 26 English letters one stroke at a time, helping the child review what he had taught before.

From A to G, Lin Xiaosong read each letter more than twenty times, but the little girl just couldn't learn it, and stuttered on her tongue.

Lin Xiaosong simply divided the three letters into groups and taught ABC first.

He pointed to the black letters on the paper, with a heavy accent: "Ai, Bi, Xi."

Lele typed the scroll and repeated.

"No, no, love, Bi, Xi."

Lele rubbed her eyes blankly, typed the paper and repeated.

"Come on, look at Dad's mouth, Ai Bi Xi, you straightened your tongue."

Lele repeated it again, but it was still wrong, and she was so anxious that she almost cried.

Chu Yi knocked on the door twice, "Come out for dinner."

Lin Xiaosong stopped his "teaching work", stood up with the edge of the bed, and stretched out his arm to pull the child up.

"It's ci, not Xi. Your accent is a bit heavy." Chu Yi said with a teasing smile, turned and left.

Two dishes and one soup, Chu Yi served the father and daughter a good meal, and sat on the side to eat first.A wall calendar was placed on the side of the dining table against the wall. There were several blue and black circles on it, August 8 was also circled, and the word "sign up" was noted.

Lin Xiaosong didn't say a word, just picked up the white rice with his head sullen, and rarely stretched out his chopsticks to pick up vegetables, as if he was in someone else's house, afraid of embarrassment.

Chu Yi picked up a chopstick of scrambled eggs with tomatoes and threw them into his bowl, his eyes were amused, "Why don't you hide for a meal, come to my place on weekends, I'll cook a meal for you two."

Lin Xiaosong said sullenly, "I have something to do on the weekend."

After a while of silence, Chu Yi didn't force it: "Let's talk about it when you are free."

"I've been very busy recently."

Chu Yi still didn't know his awkward temper, so he was patient and tried his best to cooperate, "Then wait until you finish your work."

"It's not very busy, just a little bit busy, and I can't rest."

Chu Yi smiled: "Then tell me, what are you busy with?"

Lin Xiaosong fell silent.

Lele's eyes flicked between the two adults, holding a small spoon, eating his mouth full of oil.

"Yesterday you said that you wanted to marry me..." Lin Xiaosong paused, buried his head in eating a mouthful of rice, his cheeks bulged round and sizzled loudly, "You must be lying."

Chu Yi paused, and from the look of lowering his head, he vaguely discerned the stupidity of the once ignorant, his heart seemed to be severely pulled by someone, and his voice was hoarse, "I'm serious."

Lin Xiaosong buried his head lower, his cheeks were still agitating to chew, "Then I will think about it."

It was already August 8th, and he didn't think about it for a few days, it was nothing more than pretending.After tossing and tossing for seven years, most of the motherland was gone, and now he is still alone, with no companion by his side.

Chu Yi scooped up a bowl of soup for the child, and the small porcelain spoon was stuck to the side of the bowl, "There is a new real estate building over Heqiao. It is a dual school district and the environment is not bad. Let's take a look when you have time."

Lin Xiaosong raised his eyes: "You want to buy a house?"

Chu Yi looked at him: "I bought it for you."

Lin Xiaosong was stunned, and said inarticulately: "I was talking nonsense yesterday..."

"I took it seriously." Chu Yi also served him a bowl of soup, "Take it as a wedding gift." The man's eyes sank, and memories stirred into his mind, "I didn't have a lot of money before, and I didn't give you anything. I feel wronged together."

Lin Xiaosong drank his soup sullenly, and secretly glanced at the man.

Chu Yi caught a glimpse of it out of the corner of his eye, but pretended not to see it. It might take a long time for this little idiot to look at the world with his head held high and his chest held high with self-respect and confidence.

"Are you free this Friday?" Lin Xiaosong put down the bowl and licked the soup from the corner of his mouth.

"Ok?"

He seemed reluctant to say it, but he had to say, "The Civil Affairs Bureau is not open on weekends, so let's go get the certificate on Friday."

Chu Yi rolled his Adam's apple heavily: "Have you thought it through?"

Lin Xiaosong nodded, wiped his mouth and stood up, "I'm done." Pushing the bowl and chopsticks away, he walked back to the bedroom to stay.

Lele ate soup and rice with a small spoon, and when the door closed, she asked Yi with a half understanding: "Uncle, are you going to marry my father?"

Chu Yi smiled: "Children can't ask about such things."

"You two will live together when you get married." Lele thought for a while, full of expectations, "Will my mother come and live with us?"

Chu Yi was stunned, he had already forgotten that there was another incident, an unknown woman left a seed for the little thing.

"My father said that my mother will come back when I finish reciting many ancient poems, but I can't recite them."

Chu Yi asked in a low voice, "Where is your mother going?"

Lele shook her head in confusion: "I don't know, my father said that my mother went far away."

Chu Yi looked at the child carefully, but he couldn't even find a trace of Lin Xiaosong in his appearance. Was it all inherited from that woman?He scooped up the soup and rice in the bowl, and fed it to Lele bite by bite, "When you grow up, mom will come back."

Lele was dubious, lowered his eyes a little disappointed, and looked up again after a while, "Strange, that Uncle Zhou is also going to marry my father, what about others?"

Chu Yi put down the bowl heavily, startling the child, and pursed his lips not daring to speak.

"I won't mention that Uncle Zhou in the future."

"why?"

Chu Yi couldn't explain clearly to this little guy. After thinking for a long time, he could only tell her this way: "It's like Lele took ten pieces of candy in his hand, and lost one and was picked up by other children, then we will eat it." Don’t think about that piece of candy anymore, because it has already been eaten. Uncle Zhou is that piece of candy, he has been eaten by others, so we can’t mention him anymore.”

The little girl blinked: "Is it eaten by you?"

"Yes, I ate it up." Chu Yi held his forehead helplessly. Like a father, like a daughter, it's the same for stupid people.

Lele didn't think much about the piece of "sugar". He jumped off the chair and ran back to the room. He put the dishes on the table into the sink and washed them.

Lin Xiaosong stood at the door of the kitchen wearing sandals. He changed into a sleeveless vest and shorts, and his white and thin arms were exposed. "There is an air conditioner in the bedroom, come in and cool off."

Chu Yi saw that his breathing was stagnant, probably due to the heat, and his heart was burning hot, and he wanted to grab something to relieve the fire.He washed his hands, walked to the bedroom in a few steps, and closed the door behind him.

Lin Xiaosong handed him a plastic fan, "If it's too hot, fan it." After saying that, he climbed onto the bed, crossed his legs and watched cartoons with the child.

"Dad, I want to have a poop." Lele rolled out of bed like a little seal, put on her shoes, and ran to the bathroom.

Lin Xiaosong shouted loudly: "Slow down, do you want a mobile phone?"

Lele voice transmission through the wall: "You wait for me to come back and see."

Chu Yi locked the door, walked slowly to the bed and sat down, turning the handle of the fan calmly.

Lin Xiaosong glanced at him, then moved in, trying to put some distance between them.

"Songsong." The man called out softly.

"what?"

Chu Yi supported the bed with one hand, approached him with half of his body, turned the handle of the fan, and finally stopped with the side with big characters facing up, "Where did you pick up the fan?"

Lin Xiaosong slowly rolled his eyes, and saw the words on it - "XXXX Hospital, specializing in andrology diseases."

"Walking on the road, someone posted it." Lin Xiaosong blushed, this time really embarrassed.

Chu Yi pinched his arm, dragged him to his side, buried his head in the little thing's neck and sniffed, "Is it toilet water again?"

Feeling itchy, Lin Xiaosong twisted his body a few times, "Mosquito repellant, there are mosquitoes at home."

Chu Yi teased: "Male or female?"

Lin Xiaosong was not used to this, so he twisted his body and wanted to escape, "Don't do this."

Slender arms and waist, it's not pleasant to pinch in his hands, Chu Yi wanted to put his arms around Jiang Jianghuo, but Lin Xiaosong refused a little, shrank his feet and moved to the other side.

After a welcome and a refusal, the vest on her body was pushed up a few centimeters, revealing her white and tender belly.

The man's expression froze suddenly.

Lin Xiaosong followed his line of sight and looked down. A thin centipede-like scar cut across the middle of his stomach. He pulled his clothes to cover it.

The burning desire gradually subsided, Chu Yi tugged at his arm and asked, "How did you do it?"

Lin Xiaosong bowed his head and said nothing, clicked on the video that was paused just now, and watched cartoons with his mobile phone in his arms.

"How did you get this scar?"

Lin Xiaosong still didn't raise his head, and his voice was much lower: "There is something growing inside, it was left during the operation."

The man's hand was strong, and he subconsciously lowered the gravity, "When did you have the surgery?"

The air outlet of the air conditioner was facing them, and the air was rustling. Lin Xiaosong shivered, "I don't remember, you scratched me."

At this time, Lele shouted in the bathroom, "Dad, there is a knock on the door outside."

Lin Xiaosong responded, put on his slippers and ran out of the bedroom, ran to the cat's eye to look, his face turned cold after just one glance.

Zhou Yubin heard the movement across the door, "Xiao Song, I can't get through to you."

Lin Xiaosong didn't speak.

"I know you're listening. I haven't been in touch with him for a long time, and I'm waiting for a divorce. I don't know where he got the news. Xiaosong, I really never wanted to hurt you."

Lin Xiaosong said, "Don't come here, I don't want to see you."

Zhou Yubin still tried to redeem himself: "Listen to me, this week, next week at the latest, I'll sort out all the shit, we'll go get the license, and you will decide the venue of the banquet."

Chu Yi came over, pulled Lin Xiaosong behind him, and opened the door.

Zhou Yubin was surprised for a moment, then looked at Lin Xiaosong again, he already had a bottom line in his heart.

Chu Yi raised one eyebrow, not showing a trace of cruelty or displeasure, but calm and intimidating, "Go out and talk?"

Zhou Yubin was silent.

Chu Yi took the lead to step out of the door. When he turned around, he saw that the man was still standing there, took out a cigarette and lit it, and said in an impatient tone, "Let's go."