Chapter 65: I Want a Little Sister
Si Xiaojun pushed him to the empty bed * and sat down, and then with two little short legs, he laboriously moved out a dilapidated box from the book* sea in the cabinet next to him, which contained a photo album that did not sell well, and he whispered: "Mommy's previous photos were also thrown away by her, and there is no one left, which is also secretly hidden by grandma, we can only look at it secretly, but we can't let Mommy know." "His sneaky appearance is quite funny, and his face is full of excited little expressions.
Shi Jing knew that it was wrong to do this, but he couldn't say anything if he refused, Si Qi's previous photos were like a huge temptation, so that he couldn't say anything to refuse, and even his eyes involuntarily showed anticipation, so he watched Si Xiaojun open the album like a gourd, but what he didn't expect was that it was empty, and it wasn't until he was almost finished flipping through that the first photo appeared, slightly yellowed, like an old photo from many years ago.
This should be a photo of Si Qi when he was a teenager, wearing a set of dancing clothes, his hair is tied high into a ponytail, and a butterfly-like hair ornament is inserted in his hair, his face is slightly green, but his smile is very warm, and the stars are shining in his crooked eyes, as if he is holding the entire sea of stars, his mouth is big, showing clean and neat teeth, and the whole person is full of vitality, like the sun at six o'clock in the morning.
and the current Si Qi, judging like two people.
"Grandma said that Mommy was a great dancer, she had won many, many awards, and she was the most famous person in our town back then, but I didn't understand why Mommy could dance herself, but she was not allowed to let me learn to dance. Si Xiaojun pouted and looked at Shi Jing with a face full of grievances, "Dad, can you tell Mommy, I want to learn to dance, and I want to be as good as Mommy, but Grandma doesn't agree with me learning to dance." ”
Shi Jing stared at the photo as if he hadn't heard it, and after a while, he asked in a low voice, "Can your mommy dance?"
"Of course. Si Xiaojun said proudly: "My mommy graduated from the most famous dance school, my grandmother said." After a pause, he stepped down his little face again and said, "Now my grandmother won't let me mention it, let alone mention dancing in front of Mommy, saying that Mommy will be sad, so I don't dare to say that Xiaojun is a good child, and Mommy can't be sad." ”
Shi Jing pursed his lips, Bei*Beijing went to college and studied dancing, is it the Bei*Beijing Dance Academy?
He thought of Hongwen Kindergarten participating in the city's dance competition and winning the grand prize, Mo Wenlan said that the dance was choreographed and directed by Si Qi, but when he watched the video, he didn't see Si Qi's name, and Si Qi did not leave any figure at the competition site.
Thinking about it, this dance is like his past, and it is also the past she doesn't want to mention, as for what her past is, he doesn't want to know, or doesn't want to know in this way, the kindergarten teacher is right, he should know these pasts from Si Qi's mouth, not in this way, this is too disrespectful.
After being silent again, he suddenly got up, stuffed the photo back into the album, put it in the box, and put it back in the cabinet next to him, and then pulled Si Xiaojun out of the room quickly, and whispered, "Don't tell Mommy that we came in, okay?"
Si Xiaojun nodded heavily, and said like a little adult: "I know, this is Mommy's privacy." ”
Shi Jing pursed the corners of his mouth and pulled him back to the first floor slowly.
Although the Si family lives on the side of the road, they are single-family families, there are no other families within a radius of two miles, behind the house is a large orchard, and then there is a deep mountain, across the road is a farmland, and then there is the Fu River that crosses the town, which has a kind of paradise taste.
Zhang Xingmei came out with vegetable washing water to water the flowers and plants at the door, and when she saw Shi Jing holding Si Xiaojun at the door, she hurriedly said: "Hours, if you are bored, you can go to the living room to watch TV, and I will make you tea." ”
Shi Jing was a little embarrassed, his two hands quickly twisted his pants, Si Qi was not around, he seemed to have lost his backbone, and the few pills he had just swallowed could not relieve his tension and helplessness.
Si Xiaojun shook his hand, raised his little face and asked, "Dad, let's go to the orchard to play, okay?"
Shi Jing nodded hurriedly as if he had met a savior.
Zhang Xingmei said a few words in the back, went back to the kitchen and put down the vegetable basin and went to the second floor, Si Qi woke up the moment she pushed the door in, and asked with hazy eyes: "What's wrong, Mom?"
"It's been a long time, are you still sleeping?" Zhang Xingmei looked at the neatly folded pajamas placed at the head of the bed, and her face softened, "You hurry up and accompany the hour, I see that he is quite bored alone, and he is dragged by Xiaojun to pass the time, and now Xiaojun is pulling him to the orchard again, he must be very unaccustomed to coming to our house for the first time, why are you embarrassed to lie on the bed and sleep alone?"
"Mom, you just let Xiaojun accompany him. When Si Qi heard this, he quickly turned his face to the other side by stretching his waist, pretending to be sleepy, and said: "I didn't sleep well last night, I was too sleepy, I have to sleep again, Xiaojun is very good with him, with Xiaojun by his side, don't worry, besides, Dad didn't also say that he wanted Shi Jing to cultivate more relationships with Xiaojun, don't worry about it." ”
"You kid, really, how bad this family style is. Zhang Xingmei muttered two more sentences, probably agreeing with her old man's words, so she swallowed back the words full of stomachs, her chest hurt when she choked, and she shook her hand and walked out, for fear that she would go fast, and the words in her mouth would run out.
Si Qi waited for her to go out, then got up and pushed open the window, the window of this room was facing the back mountain, among the fruit trees, two figures, one large and one small, appeared from time to time, after a while, they walked to the highest place, Si Xiaojunwu was digging with a branch, probably looking for insects, and Shi Jing was standing straight, looking up at the rising sun, his face could not be seen too far away, but she could imagine that Shi Jing must have closed his eyes slightly.
After watching silently for a while, she closed the window and returned to bed, but she couldn't sleep after tossing and turning, as long as she closed her eyes, her mind was like putting a slideshow, one moment was when Shi Jing went to her house for the first time, when she looked back at him in the stairwell, one moment was Shi Jing's villa, the clothes he prepared for her, and the other time in the dream last night, Shi Jing stretched out his hand to her.
These images swirled in her mind, poking her temples with a sudden pain, and she wished to tear off her brain stem and put it aside and put it back on when needed, lest it think about it on its own.
At eight o'clock, there was the sound of my father running around the house, and it was estimated that there would be another half an hour before dinner, so she got up slowly, changed her pajamas, and went downstairs after washing.
"Kiki, go and call them back for dinner. Zhang Xingmei greeted from afar.
Si Qi answered, and entered the orchard along the path behind the house, first a green vegetable field, and then an orchard, which used to be an orange orchard, and then my father was old and didn't have much energy to take care of it, so the orange trees slowly withered and died, and then my father asked people to dig up all the dead trees and replant all kinds of ornamental plants, such as yew, magnolia trees, and so on.
In the innermost part of the orchard, there is a very thick loquat tree, Shi Jing sat under the tree, looking sideways at Si Xiaojun who was sitting next to him and playing with branches, from time to time he would reach out and touch Si Xiaojun's hair, with a soft expression on his face.
"Dad, isn't it fun here?" asked Si Xiaojun by looking up.
Shi Jing nodded, a rare smile on his face.
"Let's go home together next spring, okay?" Si Xiaojun excitedly began to compare: "There are a lot of delicious fruit trees in my grandfather's orchard, and there will be a lot of fruits to eat in spring, such as cherries, peaches, plums, and apricots, and there are many flowers and plants, such as spring flowers, azalendrons, lilies, and kudzu vines that can be seen and eaten, which are very beautiful." ”
Shi Jing touched his little head, hummed softly, and said, "Okay." ”
"Grandma also said that Mommy will give me a little sister in the future, isn't it, Dad?" Si Xiaojun asked very ignorantly, not knowing at all that his words were tantamount to dropping a nuclear bomb on the barely calm lake, and the mushroom cloud that exploded roared in, making someone almost blown into the sky, and the effect of the concussion was probably not comparable to his chaotic thoughts at this moment.
Shi Jing: "......"
As if choked by a breath of breeze, he turned his head and coughed violently, his face turned purple, and even his neck was red.
Si Qi, who came to shout for dinner, also happened to hear this sentence, suddenly stumbled under her feet, and almost fell on her heels, she stared at Si Xiaojun in despair from a short distance, embarrassed beyond measure, stepped out of the foot and rubbed the ground to take it back, thought about it, and silently took a few steps back, hidden behind another tree, very spineless hidden, Si Xiaojun's mouth, she was really not sure, for fear that he would lose a thunder unconsciously.
Her gifted son got up very considerately, walked to Shi Jing's side, gently patted him on the back, and when Shi Jing's coughing almost stopped, he chattered and asked, his face was full of warm anticipation and excitement: "Isn't it, Dad? If Mommy wants to give birth to a baby, you must tell Mommy, I don't want a little brother, I want a little sister, I must be a little sister." ”
Shi Jing blinked, took a deep breath hard, and finally settled his mind that was startled, he twisted the corners of his clothes, his lips trembled, and after a long time, he whispered: "You... Your mommy..."
"Mommy said that it would be a few years before she gave birth. Si Xiaojun didn't feel his father's embarrassment and helplessness at all, and said very firmly: "Anyway, I must be a little sister." After a pause, he bumped his father's arm, blinked his big eyes, and added: "Dad, you must also like your little sister, isn't it, grandpa said that the girl is Dad's little padded jacket, just like Mommy is grandpa's little padded jacket." ”
Shi Jing: "......"