Chapter 71: The Parable of the Ant's Nest
Yes, she did ignore it, got out of the van, opened the trunk, and carried the boxes of vegetables and fruits out of the car. Chen Jiang was embarrassed to watch from the sidelines. So he rolled up his sleeves and helped Su Hui do it.
Those boxes were not very heavy, Chen Jiang had a lot of strength, and after a while, he helped Su Hui move those boxes to the small warehouse in the center of the property. Su Hui leaned against the wall and posted a message in the WeChat group to pick up the food.
Taking advantage of this moment, Chen Jiang glanced at her.
I have to say, she is very good-looking. Men, when they see a beautiful girl, they always look at it twice. After Su Hui finished replying to the message, she raised her head and happened to meet Chen Jiang's gaze. In a panic, Chen Jiang hurriedly turned his gaze elsewhere.
"What's that······ , nothing else, right?" Chen Jiang touched his nose to hide the embarrassment in his heart.
"There's still something to be done. Su Hui picked up a box of vegetables and fruits at random and strode out. The property manager trotted over, and Su Hui told him to hang out the QR code for the collection, and the owner did a good job of registering when he came to collect the food. The property manager agreed, and Chen Jiang, who was following behind him, saw this scene with a suspicious look on his face.
It seems that the girl in front of her, this security guard is not ordinary······
Room 112, Unit 2, Building 2, Yue Mansion in Hufeng Times City.
"I don't seem to know what your name is, what do you call it?" Chen Jiang asked before Su Hui raised his hand and knocked on the door.
"Su Hui, what about you?"
"Chen Jiang. ”
"Do you know how to cook?" Su Hui then asked.
"A little. ”
Chen Jiang was embarrassed to say that his so-called knowledge was limited to scrambled eggs with tomatoes.
"That's great. Su Hui smiled, raised her hand and knocked on the door a few times.
Chen Jiang stood behind her, and suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart.
What if Su Hui let herself cook? Chen Jiang swallowed his saliva, habitually gluttonous contact. Not surprisingly, his cry sank into the sea. He suddenly panicked.
At that moment, the door opened. A little girl of seven or eight years old jumped down from a small chair, and then looked at Su Hui with a restrained expression. Su Hui put the box in her hand into Chen Jiang's hand, turned around, and rubbed the little girl's head with a smile.
"Have you eaten?"
The little girl shook her head.
Chen Jiang silently glanced in the direction of the living room, it was dark, but the lights were not turned on in the room. The fluorescent light of the TV set was projected on the background wall of the sofa, Chen Jiang changed the angle, looked in, and on the sofa, a ragdoll bear of human height caught his attention.
The ragdoll bear sat on the couch like a human, and there was a small dent in the couch cushion next to it.
Chen Jiang saw these things in his mind.
In the dimly lit living room, the introverted and shy little girl, the big fluffy bear, the TV that was always on, and the indescribable loneliness suddenly strangled his neck like a rope, and he was almost out of breath.
He lowered his head, his eyes fixed on the little girl.
The light in the little girl's eyes quickly went out, she turned her body to the side, took Su Hui's hand and walked in.
"Just turn on the kitchen light, do you hear?" Su Hui whispered to warn Chen Jiang as she walked.
Chen Jiang didn't ask her why, holding the box of vegetables and fruits, and walked straight into the kitchen.
He turned on the light and looked at the clean pots and pans in the kitchen.
What should I do now? Is it really just a scrambled egg with tomatoes?
Chen Jiang propped his hands on the stove, and in his mind, the little girl's godless and gray eyes appeared when he first met.
Maybe he didn't want to disappoint her, right? Chen Jiang really wanted to make her a table of delicious food.
Everything is difficult at the beginning, so let's see what ingredients are in the refrigerator first, right?
Chen Jiang took a deep breath and opened the refrigerator door, and a large number of neat stacks of instant noodles, ham, sausage, milk and cola and other snacks caught his eye.
If it had been when he was a child, he would have gone mad. But now, there was a faint anger in his heart.
That little girl is only seven or eight years old, right? It's the time when she grows her body, how can she eat these things every day?!
Her family is too irresponsible, right?! Chen Jiang's face was extremely gloomy in vain.
"Don't blame her mother, it's not easy for her mother to be alone. ”
Su Hui tiptoed into the kitchen, and as she spoke, she gently closed the kitchen door.
"Where's her father?" Chen Jiang said, flipping down, trying to find some vegetables and fruits. In the end, he turned out a few pieces of frozen meat in the refrigerator.
I don't know if it's time, and there are large patches of macular under a thick layer of frost.
"This meat is no longer edible, so throw it away. ”
Su Hui snatched the piece of frozen meat from Chen Jiang's hand and threw it into the trash.
Chen Jiang's face was a little gloomy again, and then, without saying a word, he threw all the remaining pieces of frozen meat in the refrigerator into the trash.
The eyes of the two people were focused on the trash can, and the worry about the little girl in their hearts was undisguised on their faces.
"Where's her dad?"
It was still this question that Chen Jiang suddenly broke the atmosphere of silence and oppression.
Su Hui was afraid that the little girl would irritate her when she heard them talking about it.
So I listened intently for a while to see what was going on in the living room.
The little girl was watching "The Dancing Girl", and the old monk was as quiet as she was calm, and she could even be described as lifeless.
Su Hui sighed and said gloomily: "Her father ran away with a sassy vixen, and she just divorced last year, and her mother didn't even invite a lawyer, so she got custody of her." ”
"Didn't her dad fight for custody? Chen Jiang's expression became a little weird.
"Do you want her to follow that negative man?" Su Hui glared at Chen Jiang and replied unceremoniously.
Chen Jiang's expression became serious: "Discarding and giving up are sometimes two different things. ”
At this moment, Su Hui seemed to have been hit in the chest by something, and she almost lost her breath. It wasn't until now that she realized that the little girl had been acting withdrawn, and not just because her mother was busy with work and didn't have time to spend with her.
She is a child discarded by her father, no different from a kitten or puppy discarded by her owner next to a roadside trash can.
She should have low self-esteem, no, she just has low self-esteem.
She could no longer see her own shadow in others.
She would have thought that no one in the world cared about her. She is not worthy of love.
Will she feel helpless because of this?
At that moment, all the memories of the little girl flooded into Su Hui's mind.
Su Hui smiled bitterly, that little girl was helpless enough to close herself off against this indifferent world!
Before that, she had never felt that there was anything wrong with her big personality, but now, she wanted to slap herself.
Su Hui opened the kitchen door a crack, and through the crack in the door, Su Hui cautiously looked at the little girl's side face.
She was only seven or eight years old, but from the day she realized that she had been discarded, her life was over.
In the living room, the little girl sat upright on the sofa, and the plot of the TV series was lively, but her expression was very numb from beginning to end.
Occasionally, she would glance at the big stupid bear beside her.
The fluorescent glow of the cold TV set hits her face, making her look more like a ghost.
Chen Jiang noticed the strangeness of Su Hui's expression, and his face first showed a stunned look, and then he realized.
"She's been discarded, isn't she?" Chen Jiang finally asked without giving up.
"I heard her mom say that on the day the court mediated, her dad was eager to kick this burden to her. In these days, there are families with such a serious patriarchal concept, can you believe it?"
"Her mother also thinks that little girl is a burden?" Chen Jiang keenly captured the word.
"You can't say that, her mother worked very hard for her, often working overtime until late at night. ”
"When she told you about this, did she use the word "cumbersome" when she talked about that little girl?" Chen Jiang asked.
The corners of Su Hui's mouth froze, and after a long while, she nodded.
Chen Jiang stopped talking.
I believe Su Hui also understood something, she was very irritable.
Her mother was also a victim, and like the little girl, she was the one who was discarded.