father's tree

When Li Su's mother passed away in a car accident, he was only two years old. At the age of two, he was still exploring every light and shadow in the world with curious eyes, and he didn't understand what his mother's departure meant to him.

When he saw that other children had mothers but he didn't, he didn't ask his father, Li Changen.

When he grows up and thinks about this question again, he can't remember why he didn't need other people's explanation when he was young. He already knew that his mother left him and his father forever and would never come back , and this matter should not be brought up at home.

His mother was the photo on the cabinet at home, a beautiful woman sitting on a bicycle, her long hair lifted by the wind, a cold smile on her face, and her eyes drifting into the distance.

Li Su remembers things very early, she can remember things at the age of three, and she can remember things very clearly.

He remembered what his house looked like at that time. He lived in a two-story building with a yard. The flowers and trees in the yard were taller than his. The house had wooden floors and wooden stairs. Everything in the house was very important to him. Big, he didn't even dare to come down the stairs by himself.

In his eyes, his father is an object that is so tall that he will never be able to reach it. There is a cook and a nanny in the family. His father is busy with his affairs every day and only comes home at night.

Li Su looked at the model electric boat in his hand, the scene when his father took it home and gave it to him seemed to be the same as yesterday.

At that time, his father was seldom at home during the day, and he seldom spent time with him, but his memories were almost all about being with him, as if his life was just to remember his father.

He has many children's picture albums, and since he was only three years old, he likes to nest in his father's study room. At the bottom of the bookshelf, the places he can reach are picture books and fairy tale books. He reads those picture books by himself every day, and now he still remembers that there are gourds in them Baby, there are Havoc in Heaven, and Peter the Rabbit, and the Happy Prince. He was very surprised that when he was not illiterate, he seemed to be able to read those books. Maybe he was also illiterate, but he didn’t pay special attention to it at the time. , ask the babysitter Xiaofen about the words he doesn’t know, and ask his father to ask him when he comes back, or read the picture book with him at night, his father will point to those words and read along with his father’s voice, Li Su thinks of himself That's about when I learned it.

Maybe he saw a ship in a picture book, so he asked his father for it, and then his father came back with a big model ship.

When Li Su received the ship, his face was flushed with joy, and he ran around the room excitedly holding the model ship which was not much shorter than his height.

Li Changen followed behind him, "Run slowly, don't fall."

"Don't fall!" Li Su said loudly, laughing so that the whole world seemed to be full of flowers, but in an instant, his foot was tilted, "!!", he fell to the floor, and he was stunned Standing still, the whole person was lying on the floor, like a silly tortoise on all fours. At the beginning, he didn't know how to move at all, and he didn't cry.

Li Changen walked over in two steps and picked up his son from the floor. Li Su recovered from the fall and began to sob softly. Li Changen said, "Stop crying, it doesn't hurt..."

He gently rubbed his son's little head, Li Su twitched, tears welled up in his eyes, but he held back and asked his father, "Daddy, is the boat alright?"

Li Changen said, "It's good, it's not broken, if it breaks, Dad will buy you another one."

Only then did Li Su stop sobbing, but said, "Dad, I hurt from the fall."

Li Changen coaxed his son softly, "Be good, be good, it doesn't hurt anymore. Let's go eat."

Li Su was coaxed by Li Changen's two words, it seemed that everything his father said at that time was correct, and when he said it didn't hurt, it really didn't hurt.

Taking a bath after dinner, Li Su also held the boat in his arms. Li Changen undressed him, let him sit on a small bench, and washed his body with water. His model boat was next to him. Wanting to hug her, Li Changen put the model ship aside and said, "Don't take it now, I'll take it tomorrow, I'm going to sleep."

Li Su looked at her father aggrievedly, "Father, I want it."

Li Changen sternly said, "No, don't hug her after taking a shower, and go to bed right away."

Li Su looked at Li Changen aggrievedly without turning his eyes, Li Changen had no choice but to say, "This boat can move in the water, if you are obedient, don't hold it now, Dad will take you to drive this boat in the river tomorrow, okay?"

Li Su flashed a pair of big black eyes, and laughed, "Okay, I won't hug now."

Li Su was placed in the small bathtub, and he sat there watching his father take a bath. His father's body was as tall as a giant to him at that time, and he had no choice but to look up at it. Perhaps in his heart, the gods in the sky would only That's it.

At night, Li Su didn't carry the boat to the bed at night. He nestled in his father's arms and was gently patted on his back. In the quiet night, he just fell asleep like this. When he woke up, his father would take the boat with him. He went to the river to release the boat.

In fact, there are not many memories of being coaxed to sleep by his father. Most of the time he was coaxed to sleep by the nanny Xiaofen, and his father always came home after he fell asleep.

The next day, my father really took Li Su to the river as promised. He said it was a river, but it was actually a river.

The river was wide. At that time, there was already a restaurant for a steamship on the river. He remembered that he was on one of these restaurants. It seemed that the owner of the boat knew his father and entertained them warmly. In the blink of an eye, the water was put down, and his father handed him a remote control, saying that the boat would start by pressing this button.

Then as expected the boat started to move, Li Su was so excited that he swayed in his father's arms, and the boat sailed to the distance with the sound of "boom boom", he got anxious and called his father loudly, "Dad, the boat is about to run away."

Li Changen said with a smile, "Turn the other direction, and the boat will come back."

As expected, the boat was able to sail back, but in the middle of the journey, a fast boat, which was rarely seen at the time, roared over, and a wave hit, and their boat was overturned. Li Su saw it sinking into the water. to go.

After returning home, Li Su was crying all the time, and Li Changen kept comforting him, "Daddy will buy you another one, will you buy another one? Don't cry, Susu."

Although Li Su agreed, she still cried.

At that time, this kind of electric boat was imported from abroad, and it was about half a month's salary of Li Changen. It didn't seem to hurt to just buy two boats for his son.

It seems that at this time, Li Changen resigned and opened a law firm to work alone.

Li Su looked at the electric boat model in his hand. This boat was indeed re-bought by his father. He was reluctant to take it to the river and start it. He only played in the bathtub sometimes, but he couldn’t drive it anymore. He didn’t like it either. He was taken away by his father.

When I was young, those memories of being with my father seemed to be good.

Li Su doesn't remember the experience of being beaten, maybe he was very obedient from birth, and Aunt Mei, who was a helper at home at that time, is still praising him, saying that the little child is very obedient and cleanly dressed Sitting on the small rug in the study and reading a book in beautiful clothes, he is not like other children playing in the mud and running around in the mud.

Li Su had no playmates when he was a child. The one who has some memories is about an uncle who came back from abroad and brought a little cousin back. This little cousin played with him for a while, but he tore up his books and messed up his books. Many of his toys were broken, and even the piano at home was not sensitive when he pressed a key. Li Su hated him very much. When he went to bed at night, he cried in his father's arms, saying that he had broken his book. That sentence, "Buy a new one, it's fine, Susu."

Li Su still remembers the tone of his father every time he said "buy a new one". Li Su was not very happy at that time, but he could always be coaxed. He couldn't coax it anymore, after all, he already understood that the new one and the broken one are actually still different.

The book that was torn up by my cousin contained the birds and mice that my father drew next to it. The newly bought one is gone, and the complicated new words that my father specially marked are nowhere to be found.

As he grew up, his father seemed to be getting busier and busier all the time. Being able to spend a weekend with him to go out to play was the most extravagant thing for Li Su.

Li Su is very obedient, and doesn't pester his father to accompany him very much, probably because Aunt Mei, the family helper, always likes to say in front of him, "Your father needs to earn a lot of money to support you. If Susu is not obedient, father will have no money." I've raised you. Your father works so hard outside, and Susu is still making trouble, so what can I do?"

At that time, Li Su was very sensitive to this sentence, so even though she wanted her father to accompany her before, she held back in the end and felt that she could not make trouble.