Embroidered Pillows and Paper Tigers

The person who answered the door was an old lady with a pair of reading glasses and gray hair, no different from those old ladies playing mahjong outside the gate.

She opened the door slightly, and looked at Shen Yan and Li Shi'an expressionlessly from the gap.

Li Shi'an switched between disappointment and relaxation [-] times at this moment. It's not Liang Jing, so don't worry about meeting embarrassment.It wasn't Liang Jing, it turned out that what he thought his mother wanted to come back to fight for him was all his imagination.

How ridiculous, how sad.

The old man kept looking at the two children, and Li Shi'an said, "I'm sorry grandma, we may have knocked on the wrong door."

He dragged Shen Yan around and left. At this moment, the old man pushed the door open and called out in a trembling voice: "Shi'an."

Li Shi'an stood at the door as if struck by lightning, until Shen Yan put his hands on his shoulders, as if he regained his senses.

At this time, another old man came out of the room. He was an old man, about the same age as the old lady, but his back was slightly stooped, his appearance was elegant and elegant, and he looked like a very knowledgeable old intellectual.

Seeing Li Shi'an and Shen Yan, the old man held the old lady's hand, and the old lady said excitedly: "Old Liang, Shi'an, Shi'an is here."

Li Shi'an was still in a state of shock. He was at a loss about what happened before him, but he had vague guesses about the identities of the two old people.

The old lady called her wife "Old Liang", and Li Shi'an's mother also had this surname.

The old man was obviously excited when he found out who the person was, but he quickly calmed down. He led the old lady aside, and said to the two children who were standing outside the door at a loss: "Go into the house. "

The house was very old, and the whole house exuded an old smell. The old posters pasted on the windows gave everything a yellowish halo, but they were all very clean and tidy.

The table in front of him was covered with a hand-woven tablecloth. Looking at the tablecloth, Li Shi'an knew who made the dress that was sent to him.

A thick piece of glass was pressed on the tablecloth, and there were two glasses of steaming water on the glass.

The four of them sat quietly for a long time, the old man cleared his throat, and said to the old lady, "I'll do it for you or I will do it for you."

The old lady didn't speak, and she kept wiping away her tears since the two children entered the room, which made Li Shi'an very disturbed, and the more disturbed he was, the calmer he behaved.

Shen Yan was very nervous when he saw Li Shi'an's appearance. In his impression, Li Shi'an was always smiling, with one corner of his mouth turned up a little bit, looking very unruly. Smile, even the eyes are scattered.

Shen Yan had never seen Li Shi'an like this when Zhuang Jing called him into the office when he fought with Yu Qiao.

The old man waited for a while, seeing that no one was going to speak first, he seemed to hesitate for a moment, the wrinkles on his brows deepened, and after opening and closing his lips a few times, he finally said: "Shi'an, we are your grandparents."

Li Shi'an's eyes rolled slightly, not surprised at all, he guessed the identities of the two old people when he entered the room, he was just curious, what the old people sent him to do with those things.

The grandfather seemed to see through the child's thoughts, and continued: "Since your parents divorced, you and your father took you to move, and he didn't let us see you, so we haven't heard from you these years, so we need to send you something It's your grandmother's idea to contact you."

After the grandfather finished speaking, the room fell into silence. It took Li Shi'an a long time to ask: "Since there is no news about me, how do you know that I went to high school in the experiment?"

"Li Qishan will tell us about your recent situation by phone. He said that you are studying in the best high school in the city, so your grandmother thought of this way to contact you, because we don't know which class you are in, but we are thinking of you His name should not be repeated by many people, so..." The old man was suddenly afraid that Li Shi'an might misunderstand their purpose for contacting him, so he hurriedly explained, "We have no other intentions, but we haven't seen you in these years, so I miss you."

"I thought……"

I thought you were already dead, this is what Li Shian wanted to say, but just when he was about to blurt it out, he remembered that he couldn't say it.

But other than that, he didn't know what to say.Before he thought he would see Liang Jing, he typed up so many drafts on the way here, so many doubtful and decisive things to say, who knew that none of them would come in handy.

The two old people looked very kind, and Li Shi'an couldn't attach his complaints about Liang Jing to them.

After hearing what Li Shi'an said, grandma became excited for some reason: "What do you think? Do you think we are all dead? How did Li Qishan tell you? Did he say that your grandfather and I were already dead?"

Faced with this sudden questioning, Li Shi'an seemed to be frightened. He had no experience in dealing with these things, and was in a panic when Shen Yan pressed his shoulder.

Li Shi'an turned his head and glanced at Shen Yan. Shen Yan gave him a firm look, and he was able to continue to sit in this room reluctantly.

"Oh! Let's not talk about it. If the child comes, don't you tell the child these things? Why do you mention it again?" Grandpa blamed and comforted grandma, as if afraid that his wife's impulsiveness would scare the two children away.

The scene once again fell into a situation where there was nothing to talk about. Li Shi'an saw a photo frame randomly placed on the TV cabinet opposite the sofa. In the photo frame was a woman dancing ballet.

His intuition told him that it should be Liang Jing. Sure enough, after noticing Li Shi'an's gaze, grandpa said, "This is your mother."

He staggered a few steps over to pick up the old photo frame, wiped off the almost non-existent dust on it with his fingers, and handed the photo frame to Li Shi'an.

Li Shi'an didn't pick it up, and grandpa's hand was raised in the air, unable to take it back in embarrassment.

Shen Yan took over for Li Shi'an. He couldn't speak, but since Li Shi'an's mother danced ballet, he had a natural topic to break the embarrassing situation at the moment. He said: "I also learn ballet, and my aunt is still dancing. ?"

Grandpa let out a long breath and said: "It should still be there, ballet is her life."

The word "should" confused both Shen Yan and Li Shi'an. Grandpa explained: "She hasn't contacted us for 16 years."

From the size of the room and the few photos of the furnishings, Li Shi'an felt that Liang Jing should be the only child of his grandparents. However, what happened so that the only child did not contact her parents for more than ten years?

No one had ever told him about Liang Jing's life or death. He wanted to ask, but he didn't know how to ask.

Grandpa sat back next to grandma again, and said earnestly, "Shi'an, your grandma and I are getting old. We have no other intentions. We don't mention the past. We just want to see you, not to destroy your relationship with us. Your father's current life. When you are old, you have to think about it. Our old couple has no other grandchildren except you. If you don't dislike it, you can come to see our two old things when you have time, and we will be content. .”

Li Shi'an didn't want to whitewash the peace at all, he wanted to get to the bottom of it, so he grabbed the trousers at the knees with both hands, and the fabric was wrinkled.

After being quiet for a while, I asked, "Why did my dad tell me that you... are you gone?"

Before grandpa could answer, grandma, who was wiping away tears, suddenly became excited again: "Look, let me just say it, that's what Li Qishan told the children all these years!"

Grandpa said: "Oh, why are you still like this after so many years? No matter what he said, it's not easy to raise a child by yourself all these years. What can you blame?"

Grandma patted the armrest of the chair angrily, as if she had some deep hatred with Li Qishan: "It will be easy for me to raise Jingjing? My daughter ran abroad in a fit of anger. It has been more than ten years, and he returned my daughter!"

Grandpa saw that her words became more and more outrageous, trembling with anger, he snapped: "Shut up! If you want to see your grandson, just get along well with him. Why do you have to talk about Li Qishan?"

Grandma burst into tears.

The two quarreled with each other, but the two children didn't understand a word.Only vaguely from these words, Li Shi'an noticed that Liang Jing's departure seemed to have a great relationship with Li Qishan.

However, at this moment, his cell phone rang, and when he took it out, it was Li Qishan calling.

Li Shi'an looked around. There was not even a balcony in this old house. He asked where the toilet was and ran to answer the phone.

As soon as the phone was connected, Li Qishan's voice ran out, "Li Shi'an, where are you?"

Li Qishan almost never called Li Shian by his full name. Hearing this shout, Li Shian felt a "thump" in his heart, but he still pretended to be lucky and said to Li Qishan nonchalantly, "Dad, what's wrong?"

There was silence on the other end of the phone for two seconds, as if suppressing indescribable anger, finally Li Qishan said: "No. 33 Changshou Street, my car is parked outside the community, you come out immediately."

Li Qishan went out late today, and his aunt came to clean the house in the morning. He told the children not to throw away the things in the room casually, and asked before throwing them away. Unexpectedly, the aunt cleaned out a shoe box from Li Shian's room after a while.

Li Qishan remembered that the shoebox belonged to Shen Yan, but he just glanced at the address on the box and went crazy.

He called Lao Yu to ask, and the first time he learned that Li Shi'an didn't go to learn painting, he drove to City C.

"Father." Li Shi'an felt Li Qishan's irritability for the first time, and from Li Qishan's irritability, he seemed to sense that Li Qishan was hiding something.

Is it really related to Liang Jing's departure like what grandpa and grandma said?

Li Qishan shouted angrily at the other end: "Come out immediately! Do you hear me?"

"Dad..." Li Shi'an pressed one hand on the sink. In the mirror, his eyes were filled with tears. Li Qishan never spoke to him in such an orderly tone. The gentle and gentle father got in touch with the person on the other end of the phone.

It turns out that people who have been under the same roof for more than ten years will have a side that you have never seen before.So what did Li Qishan do to Liang Jing?

"I'll tell you to come out immediately!" Li Qishan smashed the steering wheel on the other end of the phone, making the horn blare loudly.

At this moment, grandma rushed in from the outside and snatched the mobile phone from Li Shi'an's hand: "Li Qishan! Why did you stop us from seeing the child? If you hadn't cheated on Xiao Jing and made Xiao Jing depressed, she would have acted like that!" Is something wrong?"

"What did she do to the child back then? After so many years of ignoring the child, you still dare to contact Shi'an behind my back! For the sake of the child, I don't want him to know unnecessary things. The child is now in high school. When it's urgent, don't contact him again!"

Although the speaker was not turned on, Li Qishan's voice could still be heard clearly.

Grandma seemed to feel that there was no need to talk to Li Qishan, so she hung up the phone angrily, pulled Li Shi'an and said, "Shi'an, it's not that your mother doesn't want you, the reason why you went away because your mother was still in confinement, and your father is went off the rails..."

The grandfather who was preparing fruit for the two children in the kitchen heard the shout and pulled the grandmother out: "I said you can't hold back, how can you tell the children these things?"

Grandma didn't let go of Li Shi'an's hand, and Li Shi'an was pulled back a bit, and his head hit the door frame heavily.

Shen Yan was dragged to the kitchen by his grandfather to ask about Li Shi'an's daily life, and he followed behind when he heard the sound. When he saw that the situation was like a grandmother rushing to the toilet to grab someone, he frowned, regretting that he hadn't guarded Li Shi'an. Li Shi'an bumped his head, becoming even more irritable.

The 1.8-meter tall man threw a cross in front of the two old men and said, "Grandpa, grandma, don't force him."

Shen Yan is not very good at talking, but his tone and expression are involuntary. Using him as a protection, he wants to give Li Shi'an a little quiet space.

Li Shi'an heard what grandma said clearly, it was Li Qishan who cheated.

Ordinarily, the parents' emotional entanglements were their own business, even if a son had an opinion, it was just an opinion, but why did Li Qishan lie?The reason why he didn't have a mother since he was a child turned out to be Li Qishan's own selfish desire?

Li Shi'an couldn't accept it, and rushed out of the door like crazy.Shen Yan quickly grabbed the backpacks of the two of them from the sofa, and ran out following closely.

"Ten safety, ten safety!" Grandpa chased after a few steps and couldn't catch up. He was completely angry, and pointed back at grandma and scolded, "The child is answering his phone in the bathroom, why are you running in there! Do you know what respect is?"