Anna watched her parents disappear after they got on the bridge, and as if a ghost had made a mistake, she got up from the stool and followed.

Anna's mother teaches Chinese at school, maybe there is no class in the first class, the two of them don't seem to be in a hurry to get over, they don't get off the bridge and don't ride, they still walk side by side along the side of the road slowly, talking as they go. Anna's father lowered his head from time to time to say something to his wife, and Anna's mother smiled, and the two looked very intimate with their backs.

Anna stared at the backs of the two in front of her without blinking, and just followed them all the time.

She knew that she might never rush up to them and sue them that she was their future daughter. But even so, being able to get close to them again like this is a kind of satisfaction for her now.

My parents walked for a while, and Anna's mother was probably tired from her feet, so Anna's father let her sit in the back seat, rode on the bike by herself, and when she sat down, she pedaled forward.

Anna couldn't help but speed up to keep up.

Anna's father rode faster and faster, gradually leaving Anna behind, Anna couldn't help but run after it, not paying attention to a pit under her feet, and fell to the ground.

"Mom, Dad—"

The moment she fell, she had no idea at all, and she subconsciously screamed, until she found herself on the ground, and a few passers-by looked at her with surprised eyes, and then she realized how stupid this was.

Holding back the feeling of loneliness and despair that suddenly welled up in her heart, as if she had been completely abandoned, and endured the pain in her knees and palms, Anna slowly got up from the ground. When he raised his eyes again, the figures of his parents in front of him were gone.

Ignoring the gazes of passers-by, Anna's eyes blurred with tears on the spot, and she couldn't control her feelings anymore, squatting under an old sycamore tree on the side of the road, burying her face in her knees, and sobbing silently.

"Lesbian, are you alright?"

Anna heard a voice, raised her face, and saw that a strange passerby had stopped in front of her.

Realizing her gaffe, Anna wiped her eyes, stood up from under the tree roots, smiled reluctantly at the other, and turned away.

……

Throughout the day, Anna wandered around the kindergarten on the street where Xiaoguang was.

In the evening, when the kindergarten was out and the parents came to pick up their children, she finally saw her parents appear again pushing the old phoenix bicycle. It should be that my father picked up my mother from work, and came here to pick up Xiaoguang home again.

Xiaoguang was picked up by his father and sat on the front bar of the bicycle, Anna's father held the front of the car steady, pushed the bicycle, and Anna's mother walked in front of Anna, who was standing a few steps away.

"The country is strong... Our school is closed tomorrow, and kindergarten is about to end...... It's a pity you're leaving again tomorrow...... At the end of the year, I can't go back to ...... again?"

It was very noisy on the side, but when Anna's father passed in front of Anna with his wife and children, her mother's unique sweet, coquettish and complaining voice still reached Anna's ears.

The father showed a guilty look, bowed his head and said something to his mother, and the mother smiled, her eyebrows and eyes were crooked, and she was not pretty.

Xiaoguang suddenly seemed to sense something, and turned her head to see Anna. should have recognized her, opened her eyes wide, and went out far away, but she still couldn't help but look back.

The father pushed the bicycle and soon disappeared from Anna's sight again with the flow of people.

……

It was getting dark.

Anna wandered like a ghost in the alley in front of her house, several times, walking up and down the door that she knew all too well.

The qiē inside this door, she could imagine with her eyes closed.

This winter seems to be particularly cold, but the inside is lit up warmly.

The ivy that covered the wall was still verdant even in winter, but the hibiscus that was taller than the top of a man had already lost its leaves. But wait another month or two, and it will come back to green and pull out young leaves, and then bloom all over the yard.

She seemed to hear the cheerful sound of the pan in the kitchen, and smell the familiar smell of sauce wafting out.

Mom is a kitchen killer, and the meals she makes have the effect of making people full at a glance. Dad is a master cook, even better than grandma's craftsmanship.

As soon as she smelled the familiar smell of the sauce, Anna knew that there must be a stew in the kitchen with his chicken feet and elbows.

Anna swallowed a mouthful of saliva and closed her eyes, greedily sniffing the familiar smell.

Suddenly, there was a sound of footsteps behind him.

"Who is this? What are you doing here?"

A voice followed.

Anna turned around, and by the dim street light coming through the mouth of the alley, she saw her neighbor Uncle Lin walking towards her house with a bottle of wine in his hand, and she was startled, and she sneered and stepped back a few steps.

Uncle Lin glanced at Anna suspiciously, pushed open the door and went in, shouting, "Lao An, I brought you a bottle of mung bean koji, which has been aged for ten years!

"What else is there to hide, hurry up and bring it!" came to my father's voice, "I cooked a few dishes in the evening, sit down and eat them together!"

"Lao An, there was a woman outside your house just now, is she looking for you?"

"Woman, no one is looking for you! I'll take a look—"

The familiar footsteps of my father came over me, getting closer and closer.

Anna's heart was beating wildly, and she turned around and ran wildly into the wilderness, running out of the alley until she was out of breath, and then finally stopped, bent over her stomach, and gasped for air.

……

Early the next morning, the road was still sparsely populated. Anna hid behind the telephone pole under the bridgehead yesterday and witnessed her father being sent out of the door by her family.

Grandma told her father, and his father picked up Xiaoguang, touched his head, put it down, and grandma then led Xiaoguang back first. The mother and father were left standing at the mouth of the alley.

The mother seemed to have just cried, and although she had tried her best to hide it, her eyes were still a little red. The father was also reluctant. The two stood opposite each other. Finally, the mother lifted the watch on his father's wrist and looked at it, as if urging him to leave.

The father suddenly grabbed his mother's hand, shook it hard, nodded at her again, suddenly let go, turned his head and strode away in the direction of the arched bridge.

"Guoqiang, are you leaving?" the old Tang couple greeted their father who passed by.

"Yes, let's go!" replied the father.

"Let's go, when will I be back next time?"

"It depends......"

In response, my father had already walked past the telephone pole where Anna was hiding, onto the bridge, and finally disappeared into the morning light.

Anna looked back at her mother and saw that she had turned around and walked slowly in the direction of home.

Mom is very squeamish in front of her father, always like a little girl, and always loves to cry. Anna remembers just a few years ago, she went to college, one day at home early in the morning wanted to discuss things with her, to her bedroom twisted the handle, saw that the door was not locked, casually pushed open, went in only to find that last night I don't know when the business trip dad back, is hugging the mother and head in the child is not suitable.

At that time, she didn't feel anything special, so she turned around and came out without seeing it. Anyway, they have a good relationship, so she is not surprised by anything. But my parents were very embarrassed, and they separated immediately like thieves, and when I got up, I saw that she was still talking, and I guess I regretted that I died, and I forgot to lock the door.

Thirty years later, their relationship is still so good. Not to mention now.

Anna didn't have to think about it, she knew that Wenqing's mother would definitely cry in the house again when she went back.

She forcibly resisted the thought of trying to follow and comfort her, and watched the back of her young mother, who was not a few years older than herself, disappear from sight.

……

Anna has been here for three days.

In the past three days, she followed her mother, grandmother, and Xiaoguang like a pervert, watching them go in and out, and again and again she had the idea of wanting to get closer, but finally retreated.

Anna knew she had to go.

If she could, she wanted to stay here forever, even if it was like now, they would never know about her existence, and she could only see them quietly in secret, and she would be happy to do so.

But reality forced her to interrupt this qiē.

Although she has saved a lot, the money she brought out is no longer enough to support her to continue to stay here like she is now - at this time in S City, there are not so many jobs for her to stay without a proper identity and find a job that is enough to support her life - even if she goes to work as a waiter in a state-run hotel, it is also a sought-after position, and it is impossible to enter without an acquaintance.

She can only go back to Hongshijing first, and find a way to make more money so that she can stay with her parents for longer.

She'll be back early before something happens.

Now, having finally seen them with her own eyes and knowing their save, it was already a great comfort to her.

……

On the last day before the kindergarten holiday, Anna went to the most exclusive shopping mall in S City to buy the White Rabbit toffee, which is still a high-consumption product, and came to the street kindergarten again.

Ten years ago, the street kindergarten was converted from an abandoned factory warehouse, the house is old, the roof is full of wires, and the so-called teachers in it are actually more like childcare aunts. But even then, only children whose parents work in formal units can enter, a complete seller's market.

On the last day of the semester, the children were all happy, running around a black cinder clearing in the fence, squeaking and making noise everywhere.

Anna always felt that Xiaoguang seemed to have telepathy with herself. As soon as she was next to him, he was always quick to notice her coming.

It's the same now. Anna leaned on the edge of the iron door and looked in, and when he finally found Xiaoguang among a pile of children dressed in similar clothes, he soon found her too, and turned his head to look at her.

Anna smiled and beckoned to him.

Xiaoguang hesitated, and finally slowly walked towards her, stopping in the iron gate.

"Let me guess, your name is An Xiaoguang, right?"

Through an iron door, Anna bent down and smiled.

Xiaoguang sighed and tilted his head slightly to look at her: "How do you know?"

"I guess," Anna smiled, "do you want to know what my name is?"

"What's your name?"

"My surname is Ann and my name is Anna. ”

"Sister Anna. ”

"Yes, I'm Sister Anna. I like you very much, I'm going to leave later, I bought you a bag of white rabbits, you can take it. Anna handed over the paper bag.

Xiaoguang glanced at the candy in her hand, swallowed his saliva, and then shook his head: "I can't ask for it." My mother said that you can't just take other people's things, let alone eat them greedily. ”

"I know, my mom taught me that when I was a kid," Anna said softly, "and when people give you something to eat, you remember not to ask for it, they can be bad people." But sister's things you can take. My sister bought two packets of candy. One pack for a young lady who is older than you, this pack for you ......"

"Mom-"

Xiaoguang suddenly shouted behind Anna.

Anna slowly turned around and saw that her mother had ridden the women's phoenix bicycle that her father had bought three days ago to pick up Xiaoguang.

Anna stared at her mother, who was more beautiful than a movie star in her youth, and held her breath.