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Turning into the alley of his house, apart from the trees planted at the door of each house, Jiang Yu saw the car parked at the door at a glance.

He has good eyesight and can see the license plate clearly.The alley is a bit narrow, and two bicycles cannot pass at the same time when one car is parked.Zi Luo rode faster, ahead of him.

The door of his house was unlocked, Jiang Yugang was about to speak to Zi Luo, when he saw a figure walking out of the corner of his eye.

Even if he doesn't look at the car, Jiang Dexing is obviously a "rich man" from the outside.He wears a watch on his wrist, his hair is meticulously combed and sprayed with hairspray, he wears simple short sleeves, his trousers are bright and not low-key orange, and he has a pair of expensive sneakers on his feet.

"Second uncle." Jiang Yu called out.

As soon as he was dressed young, Jiang Dexing looked much younger than his father Jiang Dezhi.Jiang Dezhi is the eldest, and Jiang Dexing is only one year younger than him.

Jiang Dexing was not as tall as him, but he never raised his head to look at people, he just stood there and raised his eyes to look at him with his usual expression, and answered through his nose, with a hint of interrogation in his tone: "You are back so late?"

"I played ball at school."

As soon as the words were finished, the familiar and not at all unfamiliar cursing voice sounded from the room. Jiang Yu lowered his eyes, and Jiang Dexing listened to him for a while, his face was a little unhappy.

He didn't seem to want to stay here any longer, looked up at Jiang Yu, and said, "Your father drank too much, I'll take him back. You too, go home early after school and accompany your mother to do some work and take care of your father. What's the matter with the ball?" Easy to fight?"

Although he was his father's younger brother and he called him Second Uncle, Jiang Yu didn't have any affection for Jiang Dexing.Because of the lack of contact, my grandfather was still there at that time, and the family would get together during the Chinese New Year, and we could see each other several times a year.Since the grandfather passed away a few years ago, their family had little contact with Jiang Dexing's family.

Jiang Dexing had two children, a boy and a girl, both a few years older than him. Jiang Yu went to his house to play from time to time when he was young.And he knew from a young age that Jiang Dexing's family didn't like him very much.

"Understood." Jiang met Jiang Dexing and went to drive, and added, "Second Uncle, slow down on the road."

Without looking back, Jiang Dexing nodded and drove the car out of the alley.

It was already dark, and the street lights outside the door were all on, and the silvery white light poured down. Jiang Yu lowered his head to look at his own shadow for a while, parked his bicycle, and walked slowly into the house.

The drunken scolding became louder and louder, and there were all kinds of ugly mantras.Jiang Yu has long been used to not changing his face. Jiang Dezhi has been like this since he remembered, and he hasn't changed until now.

The lights in the room were all on, Xu Meiyin ran out from the main room, was slightly taken aback when she saw him, and said, "You're back? There's no food at home, you go out and buy a bowl of noodles or cook instant noodles."

There were endless shouts and curses in the room, Xu Meiyin was receiving water, Jiang Dezhi's voice stopped for a moment, and then he raised his voice and shouted: "Jiang Yu is back?"

Jiang Yu walked into the room and called out, "Dad."

"Little bastard." Jiang Dezhi leaned crookedly on the head of the bed. He usually has dark skin, but when he was drunk, his entire face turned dark red.I don't know how much I drank, my eyes were bloodshot, and I cursed again, "What the hell... Come here, come here!"

After being scolded as soon as he entered the door, Jiang Yu didn't have much expression on his face. After putting down his schoolbag, he walked to his bed and sat down. Xu Meiyin came over with a glass of water: "What did you ask him to do? Xiaoyu still has homework to do." Do it, go back to the house."

"What are you going back to! Don't go back!" Jiang Dezhi was full of alcohol, and his voice was usually loud, and he couldn't suppress his drunken madness. He almost pointed at Xu Meiyin's nose, "I told him to sit here, he must Sit! Can't go anywhere!"

"Jiang Yu just came home from school, and he has a lot of homework every day. What's the use of calling him." Xu Meiyin turned to look at Jiang Yu, and said softly, "Go back to your room."

Jiang Dezhi yelled again: "It's useless to call him! It's useless to call you? What are you doing?! Drinking and calling after calling, what are you! I don't even want to talk to you!"

Jiang Yu knew that Jiang Dezhi couldn't listen to anything now, so he could only vent his grievances by talking when he was drunk.It was really useless for him to stay. He picked up his schoolbag and was about to go back to the house, but Jiang Dezhi called him behind him, wanting him to stop.

He stopped at the door and heard Jiang Dezhi shout: "Jiang Lai."

Jiang Yu went back to his room. The desk was clean and the books were neatly arranged. There was a group photo on the left above, a family of four, Xu Meiyin and Jiang Dezhi, Jiang Yu and Jiang Lai.

No matter how tightly the door was closed, Jiang Dezhi was too drunk to speak, and Jiang Yu heard him swearing and talking a lot, and finally Xu Meiyin seemed to be unable to hold back, and shouted: "Okay! !"

Xu Meiyin put the water on the table next to her, and made a "bang" sound with great force, and the water splashed out a little: "Go to bed when you're drunk! What are you crazy about!"

Jiang Dezhi sat up and said, "Yes! I'm the one who went crazy! I fucking think my own son is going crazy too! It's all my fault, so you just take care of me every day! That's all you can do, your own son is going crazy! If it’s not good, I’m born sick and still can’t keep it—”

Jiang Yu heard the sound of a slap, and he knew that Xu Meiyin couldn't take it anymore, so he could only use a slap to stop what Jiang Dezhi was about to say.

The group photo on the table had been kept for more than ten years. Although Jiang Yu had no impression of the boy smiling brightly in the photo, he knew that the boy was Jiang Lai and he was his brother, so when he saw the photo, he would always Give birth to a cordial feeling.

The "son" mentioned by Jiang Dezhi just now did not refer to him, but to Jiang Lai.As far back as he could remember, Jiang Dezhi got drunk every time because of this, and Jiang Lai was the name he blurted out the most every time.

Because of Xu Meiyin's health, she couldn't keep the child.That's how the first child died. The reason why Jiang Lai was able to give birth was because Xu Meiyin took medicine to save him. The consequence was that Jiang Lai had been in poor health since birth and always had tumors. Although they were not malignant, they did After the operation, it will take longer, and I have suffered a lot every time I come down.

Later, Jiang Lai died in an operation, and the other Jiang Yu didn't know anything about it.Because Jiang Yu was five years old that year, he was almost drowned by the lake, and after being rescued, he couldn't remember what happened before he was five years old.

Although Jiang Yu has no impression of Jiang Lai's elder brother at all, Jiang Lai in the photo is holding him, smiling brightly at the camera, very intimate and kind, judging from the tightly clenched hands of the two, Jiang Lai Yu thought, Jiang Lai must love him very much.

Jiang Dezhi lost his eldest son, and he has been unable to get out for 12 years now, thinking about Jiang Lai all the time, Jiang Yu understands.So every time Jiang Dezhi scolded him no matter how harshly he scolded him, although he didn't understand, he still swallowed it all.

Xu Meiyin and Jiang Dezhi were still arguing, and Jiang Dezhi was blocked by Xu Meiyin's slap before he could say a few words.This area is all courtyards, and such a loud sound can be heard clearly through the wall.

Zi Chengmin was cooking and came out of the kitchen. Xie Xiaoan was picking vegetables in the yard and said, "Are you drunk again?"

"Really." Hearing Xu Meiyin's high-pitched voice, Zi Chengmin sighed.

Xie Xiaoan took the dishes to the kitchen to wash: "What's so good about this wine? If you want me to tell you men, can you remember that it's useless to use alcohol to relieve your sorrows, it will only add to your sorrows, and it's embarrassing to be drunk!"

When Zi Chengmin heard that he was involved, he said unhappily, "I didn't drink to relieve my worries. I went to sleep directly when I was drunk."

This is true, Zi Chengmin's job is stable and steady, Xie Xiaoan works in a small company, not a particularly rich family, but here is already very good.

"Hey, it's been so noisy every day, how many years have passed since that happened." Xie Xiaoan shook the water off his hands, cut vegetables with a knife, wanted to talk, but didn't know what to say.

Zi Chengmin said: "Hey! I have a knot in my heart. You can see his attitude towards Xiaoyu. How can anyone scold his son like that?"

"My own son—"

After Zi Luo came out of the house, he stood outside the door, looking at the starry night sky above the yard, stood for a while and heard the quarrel next door sounded again, he went back to the house and picked up his mobile phone next to the open book.

Jiang Yu couldn't calm down and do his homework.

Xu Meiyin and Jiang Dezhi were arguing one after another in their ears, no one would let the other, if you raise your voice, I will be higher than you, there is no reason at all.Every time you quarrel, you can find out what happened more than ten years ago, and Jiang Dezhi's dissatisfaction goes beyond the loss of Jiang Lai 12 years ago. He resents Xu Meiyin in his heart. Injustice the other party.But while he was talking, his mouth was always hurt by Xu Meiyin's slap, and his mouth was bleeding, so he didn't talk much about it.

The homework in front of him had only done a few questions, and he probably made mistakes. Jiang Yu put down his pen heavily, leaned back on the chair and closed his eyes.

He wanted to use the earphones to listen to the song and forget it, but before he opened his eyes, he heard the Wechat notification beeping.

He stretched out his hand to glance at the screen, and the corners of his tensed mouth moved.

Luo: Come to my house?

Meet: right now.

Jiang Yu opened the cabinet next to him, poked his hand hard, found a small box, took out one and stuffed it back, put the lighter and chewing gum in his pocket, packed his homework and books, and walked out of the room.

The main room seemed to be tired from the noise, and the maddening and irritable scolding finally stopped, only Jiang Dezhi's drunken moaning and chirping came into his ears from time to time.

Jiang Yu's heart was filled with irritability, and his footsteps were as anxious as fleeing. After walking out, he didn't go to the next yard, but walked to a dead end where no one went, squatted down and took out a lighter.

The fiery red light was reflected in the eyes, and in the next second, an inconspicuous smoke floated in front of him.

A few minutes later, Jiang Yu chewed gum and went to Zi's compound with books and homework in his hand. Zi's always eats later than other houses, so Jiang Yu could smell the aroma of rice as soon as he stepped in.

Xie Xiaoan came out of the kitchen with a plate of dishes, saw Jiang Yu who was parked at the door, and greeted him, "Come on? Come in quickly, we'll be eating now."

Jiang Yu rubbed his nose and said shyly, "Aunt Xie, do you know I'm coming?"

"I know." Xie Xiaoan entered the room with him, and put the dishes on the table, "Luoluo told us, don't worry, eat more later."

The two parents have known each other for 20 years, and they are not unfamiliar at all. They play cards together, and Xie Xiaoan often goes shopping with Xu Meiyin.She has always been aware of the Jiang family's situation, but outsiders can't interfere, they can only persuade them to be better.

The only time she intervened was when Jiang Yu was six or seven years old, when she rushed into the Jiang family compound and stopped Jiang Dezhi.

Jiang Lai died when Jiang Yu was five years old. Since then, Jiang Dezhi has changed his personality, becoming alcoholic and manic.Jiang Yu made a mistake, he was irritable like a beast that had been trapped for many years, Jiang Yu didn't quite understand, felt aggrieved, chose to speak stubbornly, in exchange for Jiang Dezhi's beating and scolding.

Xie Xiaoan guarded Jiang Yu behind him, Jiang Yu heard Xie Xiaoan say that Jiang Dezhi was crazy, Zi Chengmin pulled Jiang Dezhi into the house, Jiang Yu didn't cry from the beginning to the end, and when he looked back, his little friend was standing at the door.

Seeing that he turned around, Zi Luo was afraid that he would be unhappy, so she raised a smile and shook his hand.

He didn't let go of Jiang Yu's hand until Xie Xiaoan rubbed the medicine on his scar.

In the corner stood a piano, brand new and gleaming.Jiang Yu pointed and said, "Luoluo, can you play another song for me?"

"Okay." Zi Luo led him over, sat down and asked, "What do you want to hear?"

Seven-year-old Jiang Yu rested his chin and thought for a while, but couldn't figure it out, and said, "I don't know either, play it, I love to hear everything you play."

Zi Luo lowered his eyes, sat upright, his tiny white fingers landed on the keys, and a slow and beautiful melody sounded in the room. After a while, Zi Luo hummed softly.

The unhappiness and grievance caused by the beating just now have been washed away by the sound of the piano played by Zi Luo. What stopped in Jiang Yu's ear was not Jiang Dezhi's roaring abuse, but Zi Luo's childish and gentle voice. voice.

At the end of the song, Jiang Yu was still unsatisfied. Zi Luo's figure was reflected in his bright pupils, and he asked, "What song is this? It's really nice."

Zi Luo laughed: "I played it myself."

"Wow——" Jiang Yu opened his eyes wide, clapped his two little hands, and praised Ziluo for how powerful he was.

Before that, Jiang Yu had heard the sound of Zi Luo's piano many times, but it all happened before he was five years old, and he couldn't remember it anymore.After that, Zi's compound was like a haven for him to shelter from the wind. He felt sad when he was tired, and always wanted to come in to hide and let Zi Luo play the piano for him.