sanguine and depressive

Take the elevator up from the basement, and the baby's loud cry can be heard outside the door. Cindy rang the doorbell and muttered, "Hey, I'm crying."

Then there was the sound of hurriedly flipping shoes on the floor, and Aunt Wang opened the door: "Ah, it's you..." But she hesitated to speak.

Cindy reacted quickly: "Are you angry?" Aunt Wang said with her mouth, "I just got angry." She turned sideways and let us in.

"Let's go, let's go." As soon as I got up straight after changing my shoes, Cindy grabbed my wrist and walked into the back room. In the cloakroom, my mother was sitting on the bench sofa in the middle, and there was an ornament lying on the floor.

While I was picking up the ornaments, Cindy sat next to her: "What's the matter, don't you have to leave the day after tomorrow?"

"I just found out that she is going too," Mom said.

Cindy continued: "Oh, you're as knowledgeable as her." Then she changed the subject, "I don't think Sandy should do the styling this time, the curly hair she did last time is too old-fashioned."

"I'm so busy." My mother said, "She doesn't mess with me, so I don't see it, and I don't have time to care about her. It's funny, the brand doesn't invite me, and I still have the cheek to buy a ticket, and I insist on showing off with me." .” After speaking, he seemed to let out a sigh of relief, and turned to me and patted the empty seat beside him: “Come and sit.”

I sat down, and she hugged my shoulders affectionately: "Did you go to college? Where did you go?"

Cindy got up and went outside to answer the phone.I replied: "I passed the S University."

"Oh, that's pretty good." Mom asked, "Is it enough for living expenses? It's all called by Xiaoma. How much is it for you? Is it enough?"

I said [-], and my mother replied that it was not much, and said that she would give me some more, but I still said no.Maybe she didn't remember asking the same thing a long time ago.

I raised my head and looked around slowly.There are dark lights behind the surrounding cabinets, which illuminate a cabinet of bags, furs, and high-heeled shoes colorfully, and suddenly feel boring.And Cen Shu outside was still crying, everything was so strange.

I washed my hands and went to see my sister. Another strange aunt was shaking her gently. She might have been frightened and was crying out of breath.At first, I didn’t have any idea from the photos, but now I see real people, it’s really big.She would suddenly open her eyes when she was crying, and we looked at each other unpreparedly.

Auntie teased her: "Oh, do you know me, don't you know, it's your brother! Brother~brother~"

Cen Shu stared at me blankly and stopped crying.Her eyes are round, her face is also round, and her whole body is round, like a little seal.The aunt put her on the crawling mat next to her, and told me: "Come on, brother, take a look at her, I'll go see how the steamed food is doing."

I knelt by the side and dutifully guarded. Cen Shu put her hands on the non-slip mat, and she was motionless at first, like a plane landing on the tarmac. ,pull."

I said in my heart that I was wrong, she supported my knees again, grabbed my wrist in the next second, and "cracked" to stand up.

"Oh!" Cindy trotted over, turned around and shouted, "I will stand! Yining, your daughter will stand!"

"Oh my god!" She then sighed, "I can finally stand up. It's been almost 11 months, and I can stand up when I see a handsome guy."

Cen Shu and I looked at each other wisely, and sat down again, like a doll.Although inappropriate, I asked, "Cindy, who is mom talking about?"

Cindy touched Cen Shu's face, hesitated for two seconds: "An Internet celebrity named Zi Shan, please be quiet, I will tell you later."

After dinner, we went to the cafe downstairs and sat in the open air. The clerk brought lemon tea and latte, and Cindy asked, "Mind if I smoke a cigarette?"

I shook my head, and she lit a cigarette, and said after a while, "Hey, do you know Zishan? She is very famous. She has been shooting videos in Taikoo Li and Xintiandi for the past two years, and now she mainly does live singing."

I pursed my lips in embarrassment and didn't answer, she blew a smoke ring: "Haven't read it? Oh yes, you are studying hard... sorry."

"Zi Shan is your father's lover." Cindy leaned forward and shared the secret in a low voice, "Don't let your mother know that you know!"

"Lover..." I repeated these two words dumbly, and she said, "Yes, it was several years ago. Your mother and I guessed that it might be some kind of meeting your father attended. She is the emcee, We got on it one after the other.”

"A few years ago?" I asked, "Then there is Cen Shu now..."

"Oh." Cindy said again, which made me very ignorant.She said: "It's normal for a man with a successful career to have one or two lovers!"

I didn't have time to be surprised, she said again: "Really, why are you surprised. You are also a man, can you understand it?"

"Originally, going back and forth was considered calm, but since your mother gave birth to Cen Shu, that Zi Shan couldn't sit still and started to get sick." Cindy took out her phone and showed me Zi Shan's Weibo, "I flipped through her Weibo. Let me show you...Here, look, this is going to New York...This is going to Bali. Look, this is the ring and the background she deliberately showed off. Does this shadow look familiar?" I can also see, That is Cen Zhiyong.

I took a second look and didn't want to look at it again, and even found it hard to breathe: "Mom also knows?"

Cindy took it for granted, "Your mother has always known."

"Then why..." I couldn't even find the euphemistic words, I felt betrayed and stopped outside the venue, "...why didn't you tell me."

"Tell you what, they are not planning to divorce, and now they are living their own lives." Cindy seemed to have a mind reading ability, "You are stupid, without your father's identity, do you think your mother can go to shows everywhere now and know so many people?" Is it a star?"

She stubbed out the cigarette, took a sip of lemonade, and pushed my glass over by the way: "Oh, I regret telling you about your reaction. Actually, you really don't have to worry, 'lover', maybe After a while, I got tired of it and replaced it.”

Lover, even the words are cruelly romantic, thinking of the strange girl in the photo just now, with a smiling face much younger than her mother.But this is clearly fornication.

"Just study hard in Shanghai and have a romantic relationship. Don't worry, you won't get divorced. Otherwise, why are you so anxious about Zishan?" Cindy continued to enlighten me, and suddenly gossiped, "Hey, your girlfriend is you. University classmate?"

My palms were sweating suddenly: "Yeah."

"So fast! What does it look like? Do you have a picture?"

I smiled and shook my head to perfunctory her, but Cindy didn't force it. After drinking the cup of tea, she raised her wrist and looked at her watch: "Would you like to sit still or go up? I'm going to see a designer with your mother. I won't be there in the next two days." At home, the driver will use it for you, oh yes, I will give you Uncle Lin's contact information."

Cindy left, and I continued to sit on the bamboo and rattan chair, staring at the coffee on the table in a daze.The person sitting across from me asked, "Again?"

The aunt sitting next to me was very smartly dressed and had burgundy dyed hair.She said, "Yes. Now this one, I met last time I went to Qiandao Lake."

"Oh, what about the original one? I remember the one who said that he wanted to get a certificate?"

"Oh, the original one passed away."

The person opposite said in surprise, "Huh? How old are you?"

"68."

"It wasn't good before, why don't you go on a trip together?"

"Yeah. It's very good for me. It's windy, so I'll put on my coat. I had a cerebral hemorrhage, and it's gone in no time. I've left a house for me." The wine-red haired aunt brushed her hair and changed A topic, "How about my hair? Newly dyed, it's only 308 after discount..."

………………

I was flustered, sitting in a cold sweat in the autumn wind, and took out my phone after a while.

The other end was connected, and the yin and yang said strangely: "The user you dialed has turned off the phone, please return to Shanghai and dial again."

Upon hearing this sound, it was like a fish returning to the water.He couldn't wait for me to speak for a long time, and said with a smile: "I'm really dead if I don't talk."

I hastened: "No."

He asked: "Are you home? Does your sister call your brother?"

"...you called me daddy just now." I said, "How could this be?"

Wei Chengyu laughed for a long time over there: "When will you come back, the morning of the [-]th?"

"Well." I replied.He said, "Oh, I'll pick you up then."

I said yes, this conversation should be over.When I was about to hang up the phone, I suddenly felt a sense of fear, and many words were accumulated on my lips.I can't seem to understand what Cindy said, that it's normal to have one or two lovers, and I can't understand my mother's choice, and I don't understand why the aunt sitting next to me said that the lover "died" in the tone of "it will rain tomorrow."... …for a moment, the world was spinning, as if everyone else was certain, but I was the only one who knew it later, with a terrible naivety.

"What are you doing?" Wei Chengyu asked without hanging up the phone.

The dusk looks so simple, the fountain in the distance is blooming, someone is folding the flag that has just been accepted under the flagpole next to it, and the couple with children are passing by pushing a baby carriage tied with balloons.

I also honestly said: "I miss you."

The author says:

This chapter may be a bit shocking, it should be the last time to talk about Cen Xiao's family before breaking the mirror :)