two-way love

With Yang Wan's deliberate care, Xixi would come here almost every weekend afterwards. She had a cheerful and proactive personality, and became good friends with Wu Yi after a few visits.She has already started the fourth grade. When Wu Yi recalled Teacher Yang's lectures, he could help her understand the knowledge points of the fourth grade by the way.

Before Julian left China, she seemed to want to tell Lin An all the hardships she had suffered in the past seven months, and she also visited frequently. Mia liked this brother who could tell fairy tales outside the content of the book. A handwritten bilingual card for Wu Yi.

Wu Yi is used to taking care of children. This familiar feeling has been extended to this new environment because of the appearance of Xixi and the others, which gradually made him let go of his nervousness. pick up.

When going to school in September, Lin An and Wu Chenfang asked for leave together and sent Wu Yi to the new school. They chatted with the head teacher face to face for several minutes and explained various precautions.They quietly hid outside the window and squatted for a class and a break between classes. After confirming that Wu Yi's adaptation was better than expected and most of the students in the class were friendly, the two left the school and drove to the company to work.There was still more than an hour before school ended in the afternoon, and the two of them packed their things in advance and went downstairs to pick them up.

This lasted for more than a week, and Wu Yi finally plucked up the courage to speak, saying that he already had a friend who could go home with him, and the two of them could concentrate on work instead of waiting outside the door so early for him to leave school.

Lin An enjoyed the joy of being a father at the school gate with other parents waiting for their children to leave school, but was rejected by the children himself, and felt sad for a while.Two days a week, I pick the section of the road that I "pass by" when school is over, and I don't make a sound from a long distance. It seemed that he and Wu Yi were good friends, and there was no high danger on the way back, so Lin An was completely relieved.

In the blink of an eye, the point of direct sunlight that started to push moved to the south, and the four days of heavy rain dragged down the temperature severely, and the thick fabric of the short sleeves could no longer bear it.

Wu Yi's nutrition has finally caught up in the past six months. He has grown a lot, and he can't wear spring clothes at all. There are still a few clothes that he hasn't worn at all, and he missed the time. Lin An asked the housekeeper I washed and ironed those clothes, packed them and donated them anonymously.

During dinner on Friday night, Lin An proposed at the dinner table to go shopping on Saturday to buy new clothes for Wu Yi.Of course, Wu Chenfang had no objection. Wu Yi naturally had no position or reason to refuse after hearing the two notifications, "Old clothes due to height problem will definitely not be able to fit" and "No need to try it, it has been donated overnight".

On Saturday morning, except for Lin An staying up late to revise the manuscript to be handed over to the publishing house, and getting up late in the morning, which delayed everyone's going out for an hour, there were no other accidents.

The weather is very good, the temperature and humidity are very suitable, the sun is bright but not glaring, the color of the branches and leaves of the trees on both sides of the road in the community has settled down, coupled with the clear blue sky, the words "autumn is refreshing" are really coming, and the mood is comfortable at a glance .

With plenty of time today, Wu Chenfang drove his family to Century Center.Wu Yi's requirements for clothing are still in the two aspects of "warmth" and "durability". As long as the clothes can be worn, his evaluation is "ok", which is really of no reference value.The two parents bought at least one piece in almost every store they passed by, relying on the clothes of the children of the same age around them and the suggestions of the staff.Although the main purpose is to buy new clothes for Wu Yi, it is not limited to this.After the number of bags in their hands reached six, the two parents thought that it was almost time, and after depositing the things they bought earlier, they began to choose and prepare other things.

At eleven o'clock, I temporarily bought three movie tickets on the fourth floor, and the family watched a comedy together.It was the first time for Wu Yi to go to a theater and watch a movie on such a big screen with so many people. Even if he didn't say anything, his eyes could not restrain the tension and excitement.

After watching the movie, it’s almost time for dinner. There are many types of food to choose from in the Century Center. Lin An thought that children seem to like junk fast food, and their status is in the “reward” range for primary school students, while his own children It seems that none of them have eaten...that is to say-they have never "rewarded" their children.

Lin An, who came to this weird conclusion, bluntly suggested to try the fast food that he hadn't seen for a long time.

Wu Chenfang understood, and he could roughly guess that Lin An was thinking about going to Wu Yi's age, and he didn't object.He and Lin An discussed after adopting Wu Yi, and one of the plans they finalized was "try to help Wu Yi make up for the missing childhood as much as possible the day after tomorrow."

There are several chain fast food restaurants in Century Center, but at noon, every restaurant is full of diners. Fortunately, they are not in a hurry. They chose the one with the best decoration and location, and waited for a few minutes for a table to be empty. When he came out, Wu Yi was left in his seat, occupying his seat and guarding the package, while Lin An and Wu Chenfang were in charge of ordering food and waiting to pick it up.

Song Yihong gave him a mobile phone two weeks ago, saying it was convenient to contact classmates and friends.Wu Yi had never used a mobile phone before, so he didn't know how to do it. With the help of Yu Peng, the best student in the class, he downloaded the three-piece set of Weibo, WeChat, and QQ, and added half of the students in the class.

Yu Peng originally recommended several games to him, but Wu Yi gave up downloading it after hearing that he needed to spend money to become stronger, and finally only downloaded a game called "2048" under Teacher Yang's recommendation.

Wu Yi played for a few minutes, and a message popped up on QQ, which was automatically started in the background.

Yu Peng sent it with a pitiful soybean expression, and then asked Wu Yi to go to his space to give him a like.The content of that post was just a very embarrassing soybean emoji, and the accompanying picture was a photo of a tenth-level erhu certificate.Wu Yi clicked the thumbs up below, and commented "Congratulations, you are really amazing!", mixed in with "Big Brother Sunglasses on Monday!" Pull!" The half-congratulatory half-ridicule seemed very serious.

Wu Yi flipped through a circle of friends' news, and liked everyone he saw. Those ordinary classmates and obviously ordinary photos, there will be some differences after being separated from the Internet. Wu Yi thinks it is very interesting, but changing Apart from himself, he didn't know what to post, so on the third-party software he used so far, except for personal information, which was [-]% to [-]% filled, everything else was blank.

Wu Yi forgot to take a look at the ordering place, and saw Lin An and the others in the crowd waiting for the meal, and it might take a while before they can receive their meal.

The "2048" mode can be selected, and it can be automatically saved after exiting. After watching the dynamics of the students, Wu Yi clicked back to continue the game. He has played in the "9x9" mode until the square shows five digits. The small square is too small. After playing for a while, Wu Yi quit the game and looked around.

The table is on the side, and he is sitting with his back to the floor-to-ceiling windows. Looking up, he can see a cosmetics counter with an English name diagonally across the aisle through the glass door of the restaurant. There are one or two huge star posters and close-up beautified pictures hanging inside. Merchandise poster.The snow-white lights are dazzling, and the chromatic aberration increases, making the bottles and cans inside stand out brand-new, and even the skin of the staff in uniform is fairer than the people in the aisle.

Wu Yi remembered that he heard two female teachers chatting about cosmetics in the orphanage before. Although there were only a few words, the price figures involved in it still left a deep memory on the young Wu Yi... There is no one individual product The mineral water bottle is big, and it can be priced with such a huge number. Wu Yi looked at the luxurious and bright luminous display cabinet, and thought: Maybe the electricity bill is more expensive than other stores...

Just when Wu Yi was about to look away, a slender woman stepped on high heels and came out from behind. She was wearing a short dress with thighs exposed, curly hair shawl and sunglasses, her face was small and fair, she was slightly pursed With red lips, she raised her hand casually, and a middle-aged man with an expressionless face behind her immediately reached out to take what she was holding, and the two walked half a step away from each other.

Wu Yi stared at her blankly, as if something in her heart began to crack and tremble.

She raised her head slightly and turned around and walked into the aisle from the counter. At that moment, scenes of chaotic memories flooded Wu Yi's mind. The temperature of her body was stuffed into sweat by old memories and squeezed out of her body. A layer of sweat appeared on his palms and back. Cold sweat, heart beating like a drum, unconsciously began to tremble.

He stood up hastily, staring at the woman as if lost his soul, and started to walk towards the door.

The cool night flashed through his mind—the man's rude cursing voice mixed with the thunderous engine roaring from far to near and from near to far.Under the stone bridge next to him, the rough hand that was tightly pressing on his mouth was loosened, and he was still quiet and nervous, not daring to move. The woman with dirty clothes, old clothes and messy hair beside him, after a long time The hoarse panting gradually intertwined with the sound of insects all around.

Under the dim bridge hole, the boy looked up at the woman's face with wide eyes.She bit her lower lip hard to hold back the sound of laughter, but her eyes were wide open, facing forward indifferently, two lines of hot tears, which she had held back for an unknown amount of time, flowed like a floodgate on her thin face.When she was usually expressionless, her face looked delicate and haggard, but now she showed such a hideous and distorted expression in the dark, it was as creepy as a ghost Yaksha.

Wu Yi pushed open the heavy glass door.

"Hurry up!" he said to himself.

He remembered the first time the woman called out to him to let him go, touched his head with her hand, and asked him hoarsely, "Do you want to escape?" She smiled ugly, as if she was about to cry: "I'll take you with me, listen to me, let's escape together, okay?" He didn't understand anything, but nodded under the warmth of her palm.

"she is!--"

One day after the vicious man left the house, she suddenly took the initiative to smile and touched the hand of the bachelor next door who was in charge of delivering meals to them every day, and then the man smiled and went to another room to find a key to open her ankle chain... The boy and the two boxes of leftovers were shut outside the door together.After repeating this for two days, on the third night, the woman did not sleep on the old and worn-out mattress, but lay on the ground for one night. The next day, her body temperature rose without any surprises. The man still didn't let her go, and he didn't bring anti-inflammatory drugs to the woman until he hurriedly delivered the meal at night.She swallowed the capsule in front of the man, but after he went out and locked the door, she took the medicine out from under her tongue and handed it to the boy.

"Be good, put them away!" she said, "When the beast comes back in a few days, they can help us!"

Wu Yi felt that his footsteps weighed a thousand catties, and it seemed that thousands of hands were pulling him backwards.

"Hurry up!—" The voice in his heart became louder and louder.

It took them three days to walk out of the closed mountain and came to a small county town around them, but they still didn't dare to stay longer, and walked forward with high tension for two days and two nights, and entered a relatively large City.They have no money, no food, no concept of time, date and geography.They are ragged and unkempt, like two ordinary and conspicuous beggars, unable to ask passers-by, and dare not ask the police for help at will. There was once a woman in the village who escaped and reported to the police station, but her biological parents were not found. , but was taken back by a group of villagers who heard the sound in advance. After the woman was arrested, the heartbreaking screams and men's beatings continued all night, which could be heard in the whole village. It's like killing chickens and monkeys to deter women from other families...

The woman asked a female sanitation worker related questions, and after confirming the direction, they walked to a farther and larger city, sleeping on bridge holes and alleys all the way, picking up and eating as long as there was no bad food-the woman never I used the money they got from picking up trash.

Wu Yi looked at the glamorous woman in front of him.In a trance, I felt that I couldn't connect with that thin and haggard figure.

But the voice in my heart said: "Don't stop! Go after it!"

That fierce and ugly man once said that he was "obedient", and the woman kept emphasizing that he had to be "obedient" before escaping - he kept these two words firmly in his mind, no matter how tiring and bitter the journey was, he was quiet and well-behaved Like a marionette, occasionally when I wake up in the morning or in the middle of the night, my heart trembles, thanking myself for being "obedient"-if I don't resist, I won't be beaten, I won't be punished, and even... And be brought out of that hell.

then……

He looked at the back that was close at hand.

Opened his lips, took a breath——

They walked from the end of summer to the beginning of winter. In two months, they were very close to the "home" that the woman was talking about, but one day until dark, the woman did not return to the cardboard under the bridge, and the boy sat alone On the cardboard, two food bags were placed on the cardboard where no one was around. One was filled with a half-bitten meat bun, and the other was filled with a piece of cold white flour bread.He curled up in a corner of the cardboard and soon fell asleep. After a while, a soft heat source approached him. He opened his eyes and raised his head. A warm hand patted his back gently: "Sleep, go on." Go to sleep...be obedient..."

For the first time, he knew that this woman's voice could be so soft.

Just as his voice was about to come out of his throat, the back in front seemed to sense something, stopped and turned around.

This accident cut off and crushed Wu Yi's original words in his throat. In the end, he opened his mouth slightly and let out only a breath.

When he woke up in the sun the next day, there was only the cold piece of cardboard beside him, and the woman disappeared, as if she hadn't appeared all night...

The woman also froze for a few seconds, then slightly bent her red and beautiful lips, turned her head and said to the man beside her: "Brother Secretary, you go down first, I have something else to do, I will come down by myself later."

The man didn't raise his eyes, and responded indifferently: "Yes, please pay attention to the time, Miss Guang."

"Don't worry, the delay will not last for a few minutes, and it will definitely not affect Mr. Jiang's meeting in the afternoon." She waved her hand.

The man left without looking back.The woman turned her head sideways to look at his sharp back, gave a light "sneer", and then turned her attention to the child in front of her.

She took off her sunglasses and casually pinned them in the middle of the V-shaped neckline, revealing a little plump lines. She painted delicate makeup and looked beautiful and young. Even if she stood in front of Wu Yi, Wu Yi probably wouldn't recognize her.

The woman's eyes were calm, her expression didn't fluctuate much, and she didn't seem to want to speak actively.

Wu Yi looked at her, pursed his lips, and finally made a trembling voice: "Mom..."