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"Xiao Nian, Xiao Nian, are you still there?"

Xiao Daihua's question on the phone interrupted Yu Nian's memory.

"Yes, I am here, Dad."

Xiao Daihua said with a smile: "I just have something to ask you, it's about making takeout. In the past few days, people have been coming to my door to persuade me to open a takeaway channel, but I don't understand. I'm too busy because of this Do you have time to bother him with trivial things? Guide me, an old man."

"Yes." Yu Nian said hurriedly, "I'm free, do you need me to go?"

"It would be great if I could come here for a while. I think you probably need you to teach me."

"No problem, then I'll go straight there now."

Yu Nian made a decisive decision and decided to change the route to the University City.

When I arrived at the shop, there was only one person standing at the door waiting for my meal.Xiao Daihua closed the stall hastily after finishing the fried rice, and kindly led Yu Nian into the house.

The interior of the room has not changed since Yu Nian last time, the display is simple and unadorned, but there is very little oil stain, it can be seen that the owner is very careful in maintaining the cleanliness of the store.

"Come on, you sit here."

He moved a plastic stool from the corner, took out a clean cloth and wiped it carefully, and then said, "You can sit on it."

After seeing Yu Nian sitting down with a smile, he took off his apron and randomly picked a stool and sat on the opposite side.

"Dad, is it closed tonight?" Yu Nian asked.

"The camp is closed, it's rare for you to come, let's talk together."

When Xiao Daihua looked at Yu Nian, he always looked at Yu Nian with kind eyes and a smile at the corners of his eyes, but his body seemed to keep a distance deliberately.

"Sit next to me." Yu Nian said.

"No." Xiao Daihua hurriedly shook his hand, "I smell of oily smoke, I'm afraid it will smoke you."

Yu Nian was taken aback, "It doesn't matter, you don't smell of oily smoke."

Xiao Daihua did have a little taste, but Yu Nian was not sensitive and didn't care, he was willing to get close to this kind elder.But no matter how I persuaded him, the other party was always sitting on the other side of the table safely.

Yu Nian had no choice but to give up, and taught Xiao Daihua to register the takeaway shop across a table, upload the business qualifications, and only wait for the approval to be able to take orders.

"That's it." He slowly swipe his finger on the screen, showing it to the other party, "It's not difficult, then you should just click to accept the order, and a deliveryman will come to pick it up."

Xiao Daihua leaned over his body and looked at it for a while, then nodded knowingly, "It turns out that this operation is enough, I thought I needed to go to a government hall to go through the formalities. Xiao Nian, you are so smart and patient, obviously you are also the first One time, it taught me, an outdated person, so quickly."

"There are reminders for every step, and I also read the reminders." Yu Nian bowed his head and smiled sheepishly, and returned the phone.

"Look at me." Xiao Daihua blamed himself as if he suddenly remembered something, "You've been here for so long, and you didn't bother to take a sip of water, you must be thirsty."

Before Yu Nian politely refused, he had already stood up and walked to the refrigerator, his eyes fell on the pot of lemon cucumber water he had made for a moment, then he opened the refrigerator door and took out a bottle of mineral water.

"Give."

"Thank you dad."

Yu Nian took it, unscrewed the bottle cap, took a sip, and smiled at Father Xiao.

Although the two chatted smoothly on the phone, they were unavoidably cautious in person. After all, they hadn't had the chance to meet several times in the past three years.

After sitting quietly for a while, Xiao Daihua took the initiative to find a topic.

"Xiao Nian, do you want to see the room Mo Cun lived in these years?"

It is said to be a room, but it is actually just a half-floor space separated from it.

"Can you?" Yu Nian glanced at the attic above his head, his expression obviously hesitant.

The last time he came, before he had time to take a closer look, he was slammed down by Xiao Mocun with a bad attitude.

"There's nothing wrong with that, come, come."

Xiao Daihua got up and took Yu Nian to the southeast corner behind a curtain made from an old bed sheet, and at the same time did not forget to hold the bottle of water on the table for him.

Lifting the curtain, there is an old-fashioned wooden ladder hidden behind it, leaning against the concrete floor as the only way to the attic.Xiao Daihua, who was walking in front, turned around and signaled Yu Nian to step forward, "Xiao Nian, go up first, and I will help you hold the ladder below. Don't be afraid, it's not dangerous."

Yu Nian nodded, remembering the last time he followed Xiao Mocun up the wooden ladder, he was indeed a little scared at that time.

He didn't dare to tell Xiao Mocun that it was the first time he climbed this kind of wooden ladder that required hands and legs since he was a child.In his memory, the servants hired by the family would set up ladders when they wiped the lampshades outside the walls of the villa, but this was not the case, it was the kind of double-sided ladder that looked like aluminum.

Going up to the attic, the light inside was dim, Yu Nian didn't know where the light switch was, and kept kneeling on the ground until Xiao Daihua climbed up and turned on the light before he dared to move his position.

The attic was very simple, and all the furniture could be seen at a glance. There were two single beds separated by a curtain, just like the one he saw last time.

"I sleep on the inside, and Mo Cun sleeps on the outside." Xiao Daihua walked in while bending over, and slid the curtain to the innermost side while raising his hand.

"He studied hard. When he was in middle school, he had to go to school for self-study before dawn. For convenience, he always slept in this bed outside. You sit and you sit."

Adults can't stand upright in the attic, so Xiao Daihua arranges Yu Nian to sit on Xiao Mocun's bed.

Yu Nian sat down obediently, and tried to touch the sheets under her body, but it didn't feel good, at least not as good as those four-figure four-piece suits at home.

But he thought, Xiao Mocun must feel that falling asleep like this is more comfortable.

"This is the silent backpack."

He pointed to the sports backpack in a storage basket next to the bed, "I saw him carry it in college."

"Yes." Xiao Daihua nodded with a smile, "He has memorized it for several years, and he was going to take it abroad, but I didn't agree with anything, so I secretly bought him a new one, so he is obedient."

He stretched out his hand to take it, and looked at the old backpack that had been cleaned softly, with a nostalgic expression as if he was looking at Xiao Mocun when he was studying.

"I thought at the time, he suffered so much to get a scholarship from a foreign university, and worked for two years to save living expenses, and finally got what he wanted. As a father, I have to give him a gift anyway, so I bought it for him. I bought a very expensive brand at that time, but I still don’t want to throw away the old one.”

When talking about what happened four years ago, Yu Nian felt sad and embarrassed, looked down at the bag in his hand, and asked slowly, "Is it his long-cherished wish to study abroad?"

Xiao Mocun never told him that it was his wish to study abroad, neither before nor now.At that time, he just said that he had tried to apply to a foreign university, and it was possible to go or not, because the cost was unaffordable.

"That's it."

Probably because he realized that some unhappiness happened that year, Xiao Daihua's words had a hint of explanation.

"Don't look at our poor family. This child has been competitive since he was a child. I took him to live in the countryside at the earliest time. In the countryside, if any family has a child who can study abroad, they will beat gongs and drums to let everyone The villagers knew about it. Everyone went to congratulate me, and I took him there too. When he came back, he said, 'Dad, I will go abroad too, and I want the whole village to praise you for having a good son.'”

He stopped, with a slight smile on the corner of his mouth: "Listen, he was only a primary school student at the time, and the words he said were no different from adults, and he was very precocious. You also know that he is a person with a lot of ideas. I want to go abroad, I think most of it is to fulfill my long-cherished wish.”

He took Yu Nian's hand and patted it lightly as if comforting.

Yu Nian hummed lightly, neither agreeing nor denying.

"Let's not talk about that." Xiao Daihua put the backpack back to its original place, and took out a photo album from the drawer of the low cabinet.

"Didn't you say on the phone that you wanted to know more about him? By chance, I have some photos of him when he was a child."

Yu Nian couldn't wait to ask: "Can I watch?"

"Of course." Xiao Daihua handed it to him with a smile.

Open the album, the first one is a single photo.The photo is yellowed and fuzzy, but the edges are intact and carefully preserved.In the picture is a little boy wearing a vest, shorts and old sneakers, standing under a pine tree that is several times taller than him, with a serious expression on his face, and an adult yellow cat lying on his feet.

The sadness just now was quickly replaced by novelty, Yu Nian smiled very nicely, and his eyes were bright: "Mo Cun really looks like a small adult since he was a child... Is this cat raised by him?"

"No." Xiao Daihua shook his head, "There is nothing in the countryside that you can't keep. They are all native cats. This cat usually eats leftovers with us, and we don't even have a name for it. We call it Ah Huang. Later we moved here. In Luocheng, Ah Huang followed the neighbor next door, and I heard that he was gone the year before last."

The year before last, it happened to be the time when I picked up steamed buns.Yu Nian nodded thoughtfully, feeling that there is God's will in the dark.

The album turned a few pages later, and a little Alpha grew up and became a man, like an old movie.Although limited by his family's conditions, he didn't take photos every year, but he found that Xiao Mocun had taken a group photo under this tree more than once, and his stature was getting taller and his appearance more and more mature.

Yu Nian's heart moved: "Is there something special about this tree? I see that several pictures of Mocun were taken under the tree."

"Xiao Nian is really smart." Xiao Daihua looked at him.

"I picked up Mo Cun under this tree."

"Under the tree?" Yu Nian raised her eyes in surprise.

He knew that Xiao Mocun was abandoned by his parents, but he didn't know all the details, and he never dared to ask.

"Yeah." Xiao Daihua looked at Xiao Mocun in the photo with deep eyes, "At that time, Mocun was less than a month old, and he was thrown under the pine tree behind the house, wrapped in a dark blanket, and stuffed inside. A few hundred dollars."

"I was only 22 years old at the time. Not to mention abandoned babies, I hadn't even seen a few children under the age of one. I was really terrified at the time."

He smiled, and slowly stroked the little boy in the photo with his fingers.

"But Mo Cun was so painful when he was a child. His face was pink and round, with thick eyebrows and big eyes. Other children's hair is short, but he grows a lot. He doesn't cry or make trouble. He eats whatever is given to him. Drink rice soup without milk powder, and giggle when you tease him. Such a milky doll, looking at me with two eyes, I will see wherever I go, as if I am his whole world, trust me , I need it again. Tell me, how can I be so cruel that I don’t want him?”

"So, I thought, let's make it difficult. No matter what you say, you have to raise him. Those people in the countryside love to gossip, and they can't kill people anyway. Let them go, at worst, we move out. Later, I came to Los Angeles. , Because of this body of pheromones, I almost had accidents several times, I thought about it, and simply took off the glands, and it was over."

Yu Nian's heart skipped a beat when he heard that the glands were removed, and he looked at Xiao Daihua in disbelief, but the other party nodded at him comfortingly, "I haven't had glands for many years, but I feel relaxed."

"Don't you feel sorry?" Yu Nian asked.

An Omega without glands is worse than a Beta, and cannot be loved by anyone.

"What are you regretting?" Xiao Daihua looked at him gently, "I have raised Mo Cun all my life, and I have also educated him to be a self-reliant person. This is the greatest achievement to gain a foothold in society. Others, nothing is nothing Fantastic."

The conversation was so earnest that Yu Nian's eyes were already moist.

"Did I talk too much?" Xiao Daihua looked at him with a smile, "Xiao Nian is tired of listening."

"No." Yu Nian hurriedly turned around and wiped away her tears with her sleeve, "I love to listen."

"That's good. I usually can't find anyone to talk to, and Mo Cun is impatient, and doesn't like to hear such old things. You can't help but say a few more words when you come."

He pushed the photo album in front of Yu Nian again, "Look, I won't bother you anymore, the shop below has not been confiscated yet, I have to go to work."

Yu Nian nodded, Xiao Daihua bowed and climbed down the wooden ladder, leaving him alone in the attic.

There are not many photos in the album, so he looked through them all in a short while.Follow Xiao Mocun to grow up quickly with his eyes, and then turn into the appearance when he met him back then.

Later, he bowed down and went downstairs, said goodbye to Xiao Daihua, and went home alone.

This night, as usual, he didn't wait for Xiao Mocun before falling asleep, but the strange thing was that he dreamed of his childhood husband, wearing a tank top and shorts, standing under the big pine tree with steamed buns lying on his feet.