I cried, I pretended

Cheng Zhuang seemed to inadvertently push Song Mingwang away, and distanced himself from him.

Song Mingwang also noticed that the distance between the two was too close, and he took a few steps back in embarrassment, and the two of them didn't speak for a while.

Xue Wei asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

Song Mingwang pointed in the direction of the worm, with a disgusted expression on his face.

Tang Qin saw the corpses of bugs by the wall of the hot spring pool. There were trees planted around here, and it was not surprising that such molluscs fell down. bugs.

But the death of this bug is really disgusting.

"Why should I?" He swept away the corpse of the bug with a leaf, and then said to him, "Why don't you usually see that you are so timid."

Being reminded by him like this, Song Mingwang recalled bad things again, wrinkled his face, and muttered: "If you are thrown with bugs, you will be afraid."

Tang Qin obviously didn't expect him to say that, he was obviously taken aback, and after he reacted, he was also a little embarrassed, and quickly made up for it and said, "Who, who is so short-sighted, tell me, and I will help you deal with him."

Song Mingwang snorted, turning a blind eye to his flattery.

Cheng Wang patted his head and signaled him to get up and go. Before Song Mingwang could react, he stood up first, with the sound of splashing water.

Song Mingwang also followed him when he saw this: "Wait for me."

Tang Tan looked at the backs of the two of them leaving, rubbed his chin thoughtfully.

"When did you say the relationship between the two of them was so good?"

Xue Wei was taken aback, and said with a complicated expression: "Are they on good terms?"

"I don't know, it just feels different from before."

……

The last day before leaving the town was time for free activities. Song Mingwang originally planned to go to Hetian Mengmeng to play, because it was an appointment in advance, but Cheng Wang suddenly told him to go with him to a place.

"Where to?"

Cheng Wang didn't answer his question, but put on the hat for him and mentioned another matter: "Do you know that this town is actually not a real town?"

Song Mingwang asked suspiciously, "What?"

After Cheng Wang put his hat on for him, he turned the doorknob and walked out first, and replied casually: "It's just that this place is not the original preserved town, it's just an ancient town built for tourism development, and it's just across the river. It’s a town where the locals really live.”

"Does anyone still live there now?"

"There should be." Cheng Huan narrowed his eyes slightly.

The town across the water still retains its most primitive appearance. Unlike the deliberately built ancient town, modern buildings can be seen everywhere, and cement bricks and tiles can be seen everywhere. But it is amazing that walking on the bluestone road in the laneway , It really makes people feel that time and space are interlaced.

Song Mingwang and Cheng Wang walked side by side on the side of the road, until they heard the roar of a car, the quiet atmosphere was broken.

"It seems that there are still people living here." Song Mingwang looked around curiously, deducing with certainty, "And there are quite a few people."

After all, there is a densely populated ancient town next to it. Obviously, many local aborigines actually live here, but it can be seen that the relevant local departments have rebuilt the appearance of the original buildings that have not been demolished for the sake of neatness and beauty.

Cheng Wang seemed to be very familiar with this place, and walked towards the direction of his heart without distraction, Song Mingwang had no choice but to follow behind him.

"What the hell is here?"

Cheng Wang didn't answer, his thin lips were tightly pressed into a line, he seemed to be in a bad mood, to be precise, he hadn't been in a good mood since he came here.

But Song Mingwang was not a person who could read his face, he kept repeating his words again and again, and when Cheng Wang was about to shut him up, he suddenly saw a grocery store in front of him, and his expression paused slightly.

"Do you want to buy cigarettes?" Sensing his gaze, Song Mingwang immediately became alert and couldn't help frowning. Just as he was about to give him a popular science on the incidence of lung cancer, he saw Cheng Juan striding forward with his long legs and following in that direction .

"Wait for me!"

After finally catching up with Cheng Wang, he saw an old man sitting in the grocery store, who seemed to be watching the morning news, with a big bowl of white rice in his hand, and a stove beside him.

The old man didn't raise his eyelids when he saw people coming, obviously there were many tourists like them wandering in, he just asked, "What do you want?"

His tone was a little blunt, Song Mingwang frowned a little unhappy, and just about to speak, he heard Cheng Wang speak.

"Chewing gum." His tone sounded calm, but Song Mingwang still turned his head to look at him, always feeling a little strange.

The old man may not have very good eyesight, so he fumbled for a long time and finally took out a box of green arrows, "Three yuan."

When he looked up at Cheng Huang's face, his expression froze for a moment, then he frowned and squinted for a while, and then showed an expression of disbelief.

"Cheng Huan?!"

Cheng Wang nodded, and seemed to be smiling, although it was very faint, but it was indeed a smile.

He only heard him call "Teacher Zhang."

The old man Zhang quickly stood up in the next second, leaned in to look at his face, and then dared to really believe it was him, and couldn't help being overjoyed.

"It's really you, good boy! I haven't heard from you for many years, and I didn't say you came back to see me, an old man. At least I have been your head teacher for six years."

"I'm usually busy." Cheng Wang said without changing his face.

Song Ming glanced at him, then thought again that Cheng Wang was really busy at ordinary times, busy with part-time jobs everywhere.

Old man Zhang seemed to notice Song Mingwang next to him after he finished speaking, looked up and down for a while, and asked in doubt: "... and this one?"

"My friend." Cheng Wang said briefly.

Song Mingwang will pay great attention to politeness and propriety, he is so obedient that he is not like himself, he is about to shake hands when he comes up, "My name is Song Mingwang."

If Tian Mengmeng looked at him like this, they would be astonished, even Cheng Wang gave him a sideways glance.

"Haha, then I'll call you Mingwang, you all come in."

The house inside is just as Song Mingwang imagined, the shop is the place to live, it's not big, but it has all the necessary things.

As a teacher, Mr. Zhang obviously has the most concerned issues even after retirement, so he asked with a smile, "How are your grades outside?"

Cheng Wang replied, "It's okay."

Song Mingwang glanced at him immediately, admiring him from the bottom of his heart, it is rare to be able to lie so calmly.

"That's good haha, I remember your grades were very good in the past. At that time, I thought I could see you going to a prestigious university. How did you know that your parents took you away to your grandma? Hey, the town was also demolished." It's more than half."

Old Zhang lamented that things were right and people were wrong, and Song Mingwang pricked up his ears when he heard it.

"Did you come back this time to see your mother?"

Song Mingwang was slightly taken aback, remembering the woman in the photo last time.

"Yeah." Cheng Wang nodded, "It's been a long time since I came to see her."

"You have a lot of studies, I think she understands." The old man Zhang waved his hand, glanced at Cheng Lu, and sighed again.

Cheng Wang didn't seem to notice the faint pity in his eyes, his expression remained unchanged, his eyes fell on the water glass with white smoke rising from it, he didn't know what he was thinking.

"How does your family over there treat you..."

"I don't live with them." Song Mingwang interrupted him concisely, and said lightly: "I live with my grandma now."

The old man Zhang watched him hesitate to speak, and finally turned into a helpless sigh.

"Ah, that's it, it's good. You live with your grandma, and your mother can rest assured."

Song Mingwang was keenly aware that there must be a story in this, and couldn't help becoming curious, seeing him stop talking at the end, his heart was itchy like a cat's paw.

"It's all over." Cheng Wang stood up and returned to his usual indifferent look. Seeing that Song Mingwang was still immersed in his own thoughts and didn't intend to get up, he tugged on his shoulder strap again.

"Ah..." Song Mingwang came back to his senses and stood up.

"Are you going to leave so soon?" The old man Zhang was obviously very reluctant to part with his student, and couldn't help rambling again, "The student I remember the most after teaching for so many years is you."

"I still remember that you fought with someone once, and your nose was bruised and your face was swollen. You dragged your parents to complain. Your mother beat you up in the office. In the end, you didn't come home at night, which scared your mother. , thought you ran away from home."

"What's the result?" Song Mingwang couldn't help answering.

"Turned out he fell asleep in the school classroom, the person who closed the door didn't notice him, he was locked inside, and when we finally found him, he was fast asleep and beat him up again the fuck out of him .”

Song Mingwang had never imagined such a Cheng Wang, but thinking back, no one is born with such a bad temper, the eleven or twelve-year-old Cheng Wang should be no different from others, of course, except for the fact that he is good-looking.

Cheng Juan had no expression on his face, and reached out to take a small note to the old man Zhang, "This is my phone number, if you come to Jiangcheng, you can contact me."

After walking out of the shop, there were more people coming and going outside. Seeing that it was just ten o'clock, Cheng Wang bought some bread and milk for Song Mingwang, although he repeatedly emphasized that he was not hungry.

Song Mingwang's physical strength wasn't good, but he wasn't particularly useless either. He stopped and stopped along the way, and walked for more than an hour. He became impatient and kept asking about the destination.

How to go further and further outside the town.

Song Mingwang climbed the small slope, gasping for breath, they have now completely walked out of the town and came to the outer hillside.

The hillside is overgrown with weeds and dotted with unknown wild flowers, but he has no time to enjoy the wild scenery now.

After finally climbing up the slope, he was exhausted and out of breath. He was paralyzed on the ground and refused to move, cursing, "Cheng Wang, if I make you unhappy, you can just say, don't play tricks on me."

Cheng Wang didn't answer him, but took out a cigarette, lit it, took a deep breath, looked at the grave in front of him, and remained silent.

Song Ming glanced at the little soil bag aside, his brain froze for a moment, and he didn't know what to say after he realized it.

He knew that Cheng Wang's mother had passed away, and he also knew that when Cheng Wang went to worship, there would definitely be his mother's grave, but he never thought that it would be such a desolate place.

Cheng Wan slightly bent down and tore off the weeds in front of the grave, but he seemed to have thought of something again, and then extinguished the habitually lit cigarette in his hand.

He twitched the corner of his mouth and laughed at himself: "But you can't scold me now."

Song Mingwang's heart was filled with all kinds of questions, if it wasn't for the fact that the atmosphere was not right now, he would have wanted to ask them all.

"Aren't you always curious?"

"The one lying here is my mother, although not my biological mother."

Song Mingwang said: "...what's going on?"

Cheng Wang looked at him: "Wrong hug, it's as simple as that."

"what?"

"Do you think it's absurd? I think it's absurd too. Everyone thinks it's absurd, but that's how it is."

It turned out that Cheng Juan's adoptive mother was originally from Jiangcheng, and soon after giving birth in Jiangcheng People's Hospital, she took the child back to the small town, which is the hometown of Cheng Juan's adoptive father.

But she didn't know that the child she took away was not her own child. Because of the nurse's mistake, the life trajectories of the two newborns born on the same day were completely changed.

If there is no accident, it is not bad to live a life of making mistakes like this. The two families do not know each other's existence and are safe and sound.

Although Cheng Juan's adoptive parents are not as wealthy as his biological parents, they are not in short supply. His adoptive mother is a primary school teacher in a small town, and his adoptive father is a civil servant. His family also has a house in the center of Jiangcheng City, but it is for Grandma Cheng. That is the house in Qili Lane now.

It would be a safe and smooth life to live in such ignorance and unconsciousness.

But who knew that the matter was discovered in the end, and the first to discover was Cheng Wang's biological mother, Shen Taojun.

Knowing that the child she had raised for so many years was not her own, she obviously couldn't accept it. After a long time of ideological struggle, she still found Cheng Wang's family through various searches.

Song Mingwang asked: "...how does your parents know about this?"

Cheng Lu's expression was indifferent: "My mother locked herself in the house and didn't go out all day."

Although absurd things happened, the matter must be resolved. After the two families discussed it, the palms and backs of the hands were full of flesh. Although he was his own son, he had raised him for so many years and treated him like his own. Taking a step back, he chose the path that seemed to hurt the two families the least.

The two families did not choose to fight bloody fights, but discussed and decided that Cheng Wang's family would move back to Jiangcheng. parents.

Things developed to this point, and it was originally a peaceful and beautiful ending.

Shen Taojun is a single mother, and she placed all high hopes on her son. When she knew that she had a biological son, she took the lead in investigating everything about him. When she learned that Cheng Huang had excellent grades, she was relieved. In the end, I don't know if it was because of their personality incompatibility, and they always maintained a lukewarm and awkward relationship, and they couldn't get along anyway.

But fortunately, she also has a caring and excellent son to accompany her. Although it is not her own, the two families have already agreed to make mistakes like this.

In order to make the two children close, the two families will send the children to each other's home to live together for a period of time.

The thing happened was that when Cheng Wang went to live in Shen's house, Shen Taojun took them to play together. The other child had asthma, and Cheng Huang lost the asthma medicine when he left, so he suddenly died of asthma.

Of course, this was only Shen Taojun's one-sided remarks later on. Only the person concerned will know whether the fact is so.

"Anyway, after the incident happened, she felt that I deliberately killed her son. Her mental state was not very good at all, and she had been taking medicine, and it got worse after that."

Song Mingwang asked in a low voice: "...Did she hit you on the head?"

Cheng Wang didn't speak, which was equivalent to acquiescing.

Song Mingwang said with some difficulty: "Then what do your parents think?"

He could hardly imagine what a desperate situation it was for Cheng Huang to be caught in the middle at that time.

Cheng Huan was startled, then slowly shook his head and said, "I don't know."

After the incident, whether they admit it or not, the relationship between the family has become very delicate. Although his mother tried her best to conceal it, there are some things that cannot be whitewashed.

"It's the same as before, and it's not the same as before."

After a moment of silence, Cheng Lu said slowly, "I'd rather she beat me up like before."

Song Mingwang didn't know what to say at this time, so he stepped forward and hugged him.

Cheng Huang smiled and patted his arm, "What are you doing?"

Song Mingwang said in a muffled voice, "Don't feel guilty."

Hearing this, Cheng Lu was slightly taken aback, lowered his eyelashes and looked at him, his expression was moved, and his voice was slightly hoarse.

"Why do you say that?"

Song Mingwang looked up at him, his light brown eyes seemed to be full of starlight, clear and clear.

"I don't know why, but I just feel the need to say this."

Cheng Wang didn't speak, but Song Mingwang could feel that his whole body seemed to lose his tense state in an instant.

Cheng Wang lowered his eyelashes, stroked Song Mingwang's head, pursed his lips and remained silent.

The child was killed by him.

This idea once took root in his heart, desperately absorbing nourishment, but he has been tortured to the point of being overwhelmed.

He had also hoped that someone could say this sentence to him, no matter who it was, as long as he needed one sentence, but there was no one, not his mother, nor his grandma.

Everyone seems to have forgotten him.

I didn't expect to wait for this sentence for so many years.

It's a little late, but fortunately it's not too late.

A boulder that had been pressing on his heart for many years was finally removed, Cheng Wang seemed to have let go of the weight accumulated on him, and finally he was able to breathe every breath of air with ease.

But when he was about to speak, he was suddenly interrupted by an inappropriate sob.

Song Mingwang seemed to feel more and more sad as he thought about it, and then wiped his face on his clothes.

Cheng Wang pushed him away, seeing his red eyes, couldn't help but feel a little headache.

"Is it real crying or fake crying this time?"

Song Mingwang covered his face: "I want you to take care of it."

Cheng Wangxiao: "I didn't cry, why are you crying?"

Song Mingwang sniffed, "I pretended, I didn't cry."

Cheng Wang looked at him with a half-smile.

"Song Mingwang, do you know why I brought you here today?"

"What?"

"stupid."

"You bullshit!"

Cheng Wang condescendingly looked down at the scenery down the slope, the endless roofs of the ancient town, and even the towering trees at the entrance of the town. He blinked casually, and habitually lit another cigarette.

Song Mingwang looked at the sky for a while, and then at the ground for a while, but he really couldn't figure out what he was thinking.

I saw Cheng Wang playing with the lighter with lowered eyes, half of his face flickering in the shadows.

After a long time, he raised his eyes, his dark pupils reflected the flickering flames, and said in a low voice, "Shall we try?"

"try what?"

"Together."