The glass of wine last night never disappeared

A day in the cold winter months 23 years ago

Shen Xingchen, who had just turned 6 years old, opened his eyes, and in front of him was a ceiling painted with little rabbits grazing.He blinked for a while, turned his head, and found a woman with a delicate face in her 30s, looking at him with a smile.

"Little friend, are you awake?"

Shen Xingchen supported the bed and sat up: "Hello, Auntie, this is..."

"Oh, this is where I work. Your parents are away on a business trip. Please let me take care of you for a while." Her voice was very gentle, and the smile on her face made the air extraordinarily warm.

"But, where's Mama Wu?" Shen Xingchen looked around in confusion, "I'm hungry."

……

The night before, a half-grown child was holding a sleepy toddler and knocked on the door of the orphanage.The dean took them into her room in a panic, and after putting the toddler on the bed, she looked at the half-grown child standing beside her.

"Aunt Zhou?" the child said softly.

"You belong to the Shen family..."

"Yes, the master is in trouble, let me send the young master to you." The child's eyes were very firm. Although he couldn't hide the embarrassment all over his body, there was no panic in his tone.

"What happened to them?"

"Bad people have entered the house. I tried my best to rescue the young master. Master and madam... I don't know what happened." The child lowered his head guiltily in the middle of speaking.

Zhou Ting hugged him into her arms, touched his head, and wanted to comfort the child, but her eyes turned red instantly.

He suddenly broke away from Zhou Ting's arms, raised his head and said, "Aunt Zhou, I'm fine, the master ordered, please protect the young master's safety."

After speaking, he turned around and walked out the door.Zhou Ting froze in place, and suddenly opened the door and chased him out, but there was no shadow of a half-child in the night, she didn't even have time to ask his name, and she didn't even have time to ask him where such a half-grown child would find shelter .

Zhou Ting and Shen Xingchen's parents were young, and the three of them grew up together. They have a deep relationship and have been mingling together.When Shen Yu and his wife were young, they were recognized as a pair of golden boys and girls. When they were 25 years old, they lived up to everyone's expectations and came together.So Zhou Ting, who has been secretly in love with Shen Yu for many years, can only bury this feeling deep in her heart.

Originally, all three of them worked in special government departments. Later, because Mrs. Shen was too academically capable, they were transferred to a secret chemical research institute, where they have been in charge of some state-secret chemical research work, and Shen Yu was in charge of leading the team to protect his wife. personal safety.Zhou Ting was also in Shen Yu's team before, but seeing the increasingly loving husband and wife every day, Zhou Ting couldn't bear it anymore, and finally left.

Until many years later, Zhou Ting, who had not been in touch with the Shen family, suddenly received a call from Shen Yu. It turned out that although these three people had never disturbed each other for so many years, they had never given up caring and thinking about each other.Shen Yu knew that Zhou Ting had become the director of a welfare home in the suburbs, so he asked her to take in his son.

Listening to Shen Yu's anxious voice on the phone, Zhou Ting guessed that something might have happened.Before he could open his mouth to ask, Shen Yu said, "If something happens to us one day, a boy will send my son to you, please... make sure to save his life", and then the phone line was suddenly disconnected .

Zhou Ting has been restless since she received the call, always worrying about Shen Yu's safety.So she looked around for her former friends to help locate Shen Yu's cell phone, and was hesitating whether to rescue them, when a group of men in black uniforms found her.They took out their documents, explained their identities, and told Zhou Ting that Shen Yu's family was in an extremely dangerous situation, and the organization could not find them for the time being.He knew that Zhou Ting had found their hiding place, and hoped that she could tell the truth so that they could save people.

Zhou Ting also suspected it, but at the time she was concerned, and the identity of the visitor did not seem to be faked, so she told them Shen Yu's location.She didn't think carefully about why they would find her, why they would know where they were.In the mind of a woman who is in a state of emotion and anxiety, the deception that may have been exposed with a second thought seems to have become a well-designed and flawless one.

Sure enough... In the middle of the night that day, Shen Xingchen, who was asleep, was brought here.

……

"Mama Wu is not in good health. From now on, I will take care of you." Zhou Ting said softly, touching his face with one hand, "Are you hungry? Then I will make you something to eat."

Shen Xingchen was suddenly a little puzzled—how could Mama Wu be in poor health? !

After a while, Zhou Ting walked in with a bowl of steaming small wontons.Shen Xingchen was already very hungry, so he didn't want Zhou Ting to feed him, he just ate the bowl as soon as he was served.I don't know if it was because he was too hungry, but at that moment he felt that the bowl of small wontons was the most delicious thing in the world.

"Auntie," after eating, Shen Xingchen remembered something, "What should I call you?"

Zhou Ting was taken aback. The 6-year-old child in front of her actually acted like a gentleman, polite and calm.She couldn't help but reminded her of Shen Yu again, she smiled unconsciously - she was almost carved out of the same mold as Shen Yu, and she would always look like a handsome young man to others.

"My surname is Zhou," Zhou Ting took the bowl in his hand, "Just call me Aunt Zhou."

"Aunt Zhou," Shen Xingchen blinked, "My name is Shen Xingchen."

"I know," Zhou Ting kept smiling, "I also know that your birthday is New Year's Day, the fourteenth day of the twelfth lunar month."

Originally, Shen Xingchen had been thinking about whether this aunt who had never met said that she was a friend of her parents, and she was fooling him. After all, she didn't know who Wu Ma was, but when she heard her mention her birthday, she shouldn't have lied to her. he.He didn't know how he got here.The last memory before going to bed is that he asked his father why the cannons started shooting outside before the Chinese New Year.Dad said to play hide-and-seek with him and let him hide in the dark compartment of the closet. If Mom can't find him, he will cook braised pork for him.Full of anticipation, he hid in the dark cell for an unknown amount of time, listening to the sound of firecrackers and cheers outside.It's been a long, long time, and my mother didn't find him—now I finally had braised pork—Shen Xingchen smiled happily, and fell asleep after thinking about it, and he hasn't eaten braised pork all this time.

When I woke up again, I saw the little rabbit eating grass...

……

There are not many children in the orphanage, but there are children of all ages.

Zhou Ting found that Shen Xingchen was very easy to take care of. He never cried for his mother like some newly arrived children, and he was not like some picky eaters and sleepy. year old toddler.When the other children were not in school, they were chasing and fighting in the yard. After crying, Shen Xingchen often slipped into the kitchen to help the chefs. After a long time, he did all the washing, choosing, and side dishes. Very easy.The uncles in the cafeteria also liked him very much. He often gave him something to eat and cooked for him. He was also very polite.After eating, he left contentedly.

When a little girl was angry and cried, he would take the initiative to wipe her tears and comfort her.Zhou Ting found that he especially liked to comfort the little girl—putting his arms in his arms, stroking her head, patting her back, whispering something in her ear, sometimes holding someone's hand and kissing it on the back of the hand, after a while Yes, the little girl burst into tears.Every time she sees this scene, Zhou Ting will smile heartily - this little thing will definitely not be a fuel-efficient lamp when he grows up.

Every night, when Zhou Ting returned to her room, Shen Xingchen would knock on the door and ask her to teach her to learn anything, as long as it was something he didn't know.Zhou Ting began to think that it would be too simple to send children away, just find some English letters and Chinese pinyin, but things surprised her.

"Aunt Zhou, I already know these things," Shen Xingchen looked at her sincerely, "Can you teach me something else?"

Zhou Ting found some more English words and three hundred Tang poems, but the same words came to her ears again.

"You have learned so much?" Zhou Ting was very surprised.

"I'm already in the sixth grade of elementary school. I know a little about simple English conversations, Japanese conversations, mathematical calculations, and classical Chinese." Shen Xingchen still has a pen in his hand, waiting for Zhou Ting to impart new knowledge to him at any time.

"Are you... sure you are 6 years old?"

"That's right, I started to read and memorize the phonetic symbols of Tang Poetry since I was 2 years old." Shen Xingchen looked at Zhou Ting.He has a good habit of looking at the bridge of the other's nose when he speaks, which makes people feel respected but not embarrassed.

Zhou Ting suddenly felt that there was a flash of lightning in front of her eyes. She also grew up on milk. Could this be the child of someone else's family in the legend?

"Who taught you all these...?"

"Mother Wu!"

"Your dad found you a college student as a nanny?"

"No, she is not a nanny, she is my mother's assistant, she often comes to take care of me, she is a very beautiful sister."

"...Then why did you call her Mama Wu?" Zhou Ting asked in surprise.

"I want to call her sister, but she won't do it. If I insist on calling her that, after a long time, I will get used to it."

Zhou Ting couldn't help laughing out loud, thinking, "Sure enough... Lin Jing's personality is rather weird."

"No wonder I often see you reading alone in the library. At first I thought you were reading a small picture book." Zhou Ting patted his head in relief.

"I stopped watching cartoons when I was 3 years old. It's too boring." Shen Xingchen said solemnly, like a little adult. For a moment, Zhou Ting felt that the person in front of her was not Shen Xingchen, but returned to her childhood. , sitting opposite Shen Yu and chatting with him.

"Xingchen," Zhou Ting said thoughtfully, "do you like Auntie?"

"I like it," Shen Xingchen nodded heavily, "Aunt Zhou is so beautiful, so gentle, and such a nice person, how can anyone not like you, when I grow up, I will also find someone like you Be a wife."

Zhou Ting's eyes were moist in an instant, and she hugged Shen Xingchen tightly in her arms.

Shen Xingchen was still very calm. He didn't know that his father rejected this aunt who was good at everything and chose his mother; Seven or eight punks.

Childhood is really a wonderful time. The experiences and memories at that time may seriously affect the preferences and choices of a lifetime.

"Then..." Zhou Ting let go of Shen Xingchen, "May I give you a nickname, a nickname that only those closest to you will call?"

"Okay!"

"Your birthday is the fourteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, so let's call it fourteenth." Zhou Ting looked at the child in front of her, her face had already become the appearance of her sweetheart, and his every move carried his shadow.

"Yeah!" Shen Xingchen smiled, thinking to himself——what Mama Wu said was indeed right, a smart and sensible child is likable.

From that day on, the courtyard reverberated with the principal's call every day—"Shisi, come here." The name, I only know his name is "Shen Shishi".

Zhou Ting also made no secret of her love for Shen Xingchen. She wanted to use Shen Xingchen as a model to make the children become polite, sensible and self-cultivated people. However, not all children are very sunny psychologically. Several small groups appeared, trying to resolve the jealousy in their hearts.

For example:

"Accidentally" sprinkled sand into Shen Xingchen's meal in the cafeteria;

"Accidentally" kicked muddy water onto Shen Xingchen's trouser legs on a rainy day;

"Accidentally" stepped on Shen Xingchen's new sneakers in the playground;

and many more……

Shen Xingchen never gets angry, and always smiles and says "It's okay, I can eat less" "It's okay, I can just wash it myself".While laughing, staring at the other person's face, it seemed that he wanted to keep it firmly in his mind.That night, every "accidental" child will be stuck in the buttocks by a needle in the mattress without exception; locked in a cubicle when going to the toilet, with a basin of cold water poured on his head; showered from the bathroom When I came out, I found that my clothes were gone, and even the locked cabinets disappeared.No one saw who did it, only Shen Xingchen smiled every time he heard similar news.

After a few times, everyone is no longer so "careless" in doing things.

After being guarded by Zhou Ting in the compound for more than half a year, she was finally about to go out.In September, the start of school came, and Shen Xingchen was going to the first grade of elementary school.

He is not looking forward to going to school like most children, and can have a new environment and have new friends to play with.Shen Xingchen doesn't like the new environment, nor does he like to meet new people, and even the new knowledge he will learn in the next 6 years has already been memorized by heart.Zhou Ting even once thought that not being good at getting along with others might be the only shortcoming in Shen Xingchen's character.

But it's okay not to go to school, so on the first day, Shen Xingchen went awkwardly...

In the first class of the school, the class teacher Chinese teacher asked everyone to introduce themselves.She thought that these children were nothing more than telling their names, how old they were, and what their parents did.So she sat leisurely by the podium and listened quietly.Sure enough, every child's routine is the same, and the whole class of more than twenty children will probably be finished in less than half an hour.However, she ignored that there was a maverick in her class.

Listening to the same self-introduction, Shen Xingchen felt that the study was simply too boring, and he really didn't want to be like these childish little ghosts.So, when it was his turn, he stood on the podium and completed a two-and-a-half-minute self-introduction in English, Japanese, and French. After speaking, he went back to his seat regardless of other people's reactions. straight.

In an instant, the air was suddenly quiet... His tablemate was a little girl with braids, she turned her head to look at him in horror, and said, "Shen... Xingchen?" That was probably the only word she could understand .

"Correct."

"Ah! You are Chinese!" The little girl let out a long sigh.

Shen Xingchen thought to himself—"Nonsense", but because the other party was a girl, he smiled back with a warm and sunny smile.

The teacher on the podium was completely confused. She could barely understand the first few sentences in English, but she didn't know what she was talking about at all. A classmate." Then, the cycle mode of "My name is xx, I am 6 years old, and my father is xxx" started again.

Shen Xingchen became famous in the school, and soon all the teachers and students in the school heard that there was a strange thing in class one (1). From time to time, someone would look in from the window of their class, and sometimes point and point.Shen Xingchen is still very calm, apart from often providing help to girls within his ability, he rarely talks to others.Therefore, his aloof image is also deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Zhou Ting often went to parent-teacher meetings, and the teachers thought she was Shen Xingchen's mother at first, and every time she went, they would flock to her.Later, as soon as Zhou Ting showed up, the teachers could no longer squeeze in, and the innermost three floors were occupied by all kinds of anxious parents.Some asked about their work and rest time, some wanted to study notes, some took a small notebook and prepared to write down the super-mysterious formula, and even more, they said that their children's grades were too poor, and they wanted a photo of Shen Xingchen to take home for reference. Get up and pray every day.

Zhou Ting didn't know what Shen Xingchen's secret was, so she could only tell them that he never did his homework when he went home, and he liked to watch TV dramas. After listening to it, the parents collapsed instantly... The fact is true, Shen Xingchen was teaching in the teacher's class. When listening to the class content with your ears, you write your homework below. When the class is over and school is over, the homework will be finished.

One day, he heard a classmate in the class talk about his experience of traveling to Hong Kong. When Shen Xingchen returned to the courtyard, he asked Zhou Ting to watch a Hong Kong TV series.In those days, being able to go to Hong Kong was more difficult than going to heaven for ordinary families, but Shen Xingchen felt that there was nothing unusual about it. Isn't it the same for watching TV?

He was looking for film sources with original Cantonese soundtrack and Chinese subtitles. At that time, TVB and ATV were already very popular in Hong Kong, but there were not many resources in the mainland. Zhou Ting tried her best to find him some popular films nowadays. Every day after school, Shen Xingchen sat in his room and watched TV dramas with great interest. It was probably from then on that he fell in love with watching TV dramas.

And because of an opportunity, Shen Xingchen became popular again three months after he became famous on the first day of school...

That was when the school was preparing for the New Year's party, and each class had to present a program.Shen Xingchen never liked to be involved in these boring activities, if it wasn't because every student was forced to go, he would definitely be very happy to have half a day off to watch TV in his room.However, Shen Xingchen has long been famous, how could the head teacher let go of such a good opportunity to show his face.After coaxing Shen Xingchen several times, but being gently rejected, the head teacher found Zhou Ting.Zhou Ting didn't want him to show his face at first, because it was for his safety after all.But then the grade directors came forward and told Zhou Ting that even a small poem in a foreign language was fine on stage.In the end, Zhou Ting was forced to be helpless and asked the grade director to agree that he could not report his name, fearing that the child would be too young, and if he became proud in the end, it would not be good for his growth.Seeing Zhou Ting, the grade director was relieved and agreed to any conditions.

As a result, on the day of the party, the audience was full of teachers, students, and parents. Shen Xingchen did not read aloud, recite Tang poems, or calculate linear equations in two variables. Instead, he sang a Cantonese song.

No one knew how he did it, even Zhou Ting was baffled.A few adults who have heard that song recognized it as the theme song of a very popular Hong Kong drama, but most teachers and students only know that it is in Cantonese... I don't understand it... The key is that it is as good as the original song .

So... became famous after singing... There was thunderous applause from the audience.

Everyone doesn't know the name of this god-like child from other people's family. They only know that Class One (1) is a treasured place of geomantic omen for outstanding individuals.If it wasn't for the headmaster's intentional obstruction, it is estimated that the entire first grade can only be merged into one class.

Shen Xingchen's life has not been affected in any way, and he still goes to and after school as before, and seems to have no interest in anything - except helping female classmates.His only hobby is to buy a very small fried chicken drumstick from the small shop next to the school every day after school, of course... Zhou Ting's pocket money.

In that era, people who could buy snacks after school every day were considered rich, but Shen Xingchen didn't have such complicated thoughts. He just thought that the chicken drumsticks were delicious, but he could only eat a little bit every day because it was oily. Fried ones are bad for your health.

Finally, one day, Shen Xingchen lived up to everyone's expectations and was blocked in an alley.

"Hey, isn't this the little child prodigy who is popular in the whole school!" Four sturdy boys who looked eleven or twelve years old stopped Shen Xingchen's way. Wanting to pick his chin, "Little beauty, you are so beautiful, are you male or female?"

Shen Xingchen turned his head to the side, quickly took a few steps back, dodged his hand, and dodged to a place three meters away from him.

"What are you going to do?" Shen Xingchen said coldly, without a hint of fear in his tone.

Those boys were stunned for a while, they have been running rampant in this area for a long time, every child who was stopped would cry in fright at this moment, or simply sit on the ground to wake up What's more, he turned around and ran away.But the child in front of him, who looked only six or seven years old, was so calm, with a hint of indifference.

"What are you doing?" The fat man at the head smiled sinisterly, "Brothers are short of money recently, and they want to borrow some money to spend, but it's not much. It's enough for you to eat less chicken legs for a week, and it's also for your health."

"It's gone." Shen Xingchen put his hands in his pockets and grabbed the pepper spray in his pockets. Zhou Ting asked him to put the pepper spray in his pockets since the day he went to school. "I just bought chicken legs and spent all of them."

His tone was still indifferent, as if the four in front of him were not robbers, but vulnerable groups who wanted him to help the poor.

"It's gone?" Fatty didn't give up, "Then let's pay with the flesh. Seeing that you are so beautiful, and you have a good time with my brother, it will be considered that you have given me the money."

"Ha——" Shen Xingchen smiled disdainfully, "Has your hair grown? Has your hair grown and become strong? What can you do?"

This sentence seemed to have suddenly angered those few people. He probably felt that Shen Xingchen was too weak to pose a threat to them. The fat man waved his hand to stop the next three, and walked towards Shen Xingchen by himself, with a fierce look on his face. Want to overwhelm him in momentum.

Shen Xingchen tightly clenched his hands in his pockets, just waiting for that person to approach...

The fat man walked over step by step, and the air was filled with tension... Who knows, he had just walked halfway, when his footsteps suddenly stopped, and he fell straight to the ground with a "bang"... He didn't even say a bad word. I didn't have time to say it...

Shen Xingchen was taken aback for a moment, his eyes were very good, at that moment just now, no one else noticed, but he vaguely saw a very thin object flying in the air...