Chapter 90: She's Home
As soon as Xia Xu took off his shoes when he entered the door, he felt that something was wrong.
Sen Sen sat quietly on the sofa, looking at her with a tangled face, changing from usual. Sun Zuo stood aside, "Are you back?" asked, as if he had something on his mind. Xia Xu instinctively followed the gaze of the two to look upstairs......
I heard the sound of "soldier pong" high heels.
"You're going to live in this room first, close to the south side, and it's well ventilated. The familiar voice floated down from the upper floor.
Xia Xu's heart tightened.
Slowly moving forward, he just met Zhou Juanru, who walked down from the upper floor.
"Little ..... Xiao Su ......" Zhou Juanru was a little excited and surprised, and her slightly trembling lips gently read her name.
The slim girl in front of her and the girl in the photo in her mind overlapped each other in front of Zhou Juanru's eyes......
"It's the same as in the photo, oh no, no, it's ......better looking than in the photo," Zhou Juanru muttered to herself, tears constantly flashing in her eyes.
It's been more than ten years...... Time and experience made Sen Sen stand up uneasily and approach Xia Xu.
No one understands better than her what kind of pain they have in Xia Su's heart over the years that they have depended on each other.
"Xiao Su, ......," Sen Sen whispered her name.
Xia Xu still stood there upright, looking dazed.
Is it the long-awaited joy, or is it distressed that you can't help yourself? The thoughts that are surging in Xia Xu's heart have already been covered with hot marks on her cheeks.
After abandoning her for more than a decade, her longing mother has returned. Should I immediately run over and hug her tightly, crying in her arms about my own difficulties over the years, right?
No, Xia Xu wiped them clean.
Then he lowered his head, picked up his school bag, and walked upstairs on his own.
Sen Sen was a little surprised, and a little frightened. "Little ...... Small flocculent ......"
When she passed by Zhou Juanru's side, she didn't stop, she was in a hurry, and her steps were faster. It's like she doesn't exist.
"Xiaoxu!" Zhou Juanru shouted. "Wait, wait. ”
Xia Xu hesitated and stopped.
Seeing her slow pace, Zhou Juanru's sad expression melted slightly, "Little ......" just hadn't finished speaking, but she heard Xia Xu say without replying, "Please don't walk around the house in high heels." Please change your shoes before entering. We don't like to hear high heels in the house. ”
Zhou Juanru was stunned, looking at Xia Xu's back, tears couldn't help but flow out.
The picture of himself and Xia Xu playing in high heels in the living room when they were children echoed in his mind echoed in his mind.
"Mom is so beautiful in high heels, the sound of my mother's high heels is so good, like hitting the keys of the piano, I really want to wear them, when can I wear them?"
"You'll be able to wear it when you're older. ”
"No, no, can I try it now?"
"Haha, yes. Come...... Stick in with one foot,...... Isn't it a bit big? Slow down. ...... When you grow up, your mother will buy you a lot of high-heeled shoes to wear. ”
The picture swelled in Zhou Juanru's heart with tears.
"Mopping the floor was tiring and we wouldn't help wipe the dirty areas. Xia Xu's tone was cold, and he continued to walk upstairs.
Zhou Juanru's heart was painful, "Xiaoxu, I know that you have always complained about your mother, and your mother also knows how hard you have been working, but your mother is also ......" Before the words were finished, I saw Zhou Junxuan walk out of the next room with the door closed. Unexpectedly, he faced Xia Xu who stopped at the door.
"Teacher Zhou?" Xia Xu blurted out in surprise.
glanced back at his mother behind him, and for a while, he seemed to understand something.
Zhou Junxuan smiled politely. "There's a lot of things, I think we need to sit down and talk about them. ”
After hearing this, Xia Xu turned her face to look at Zhou Juanru.
Seeing that Zhou Junxuan packed up his things and came out of the bedroom, Zhou Juanru wiped the tears on her face, stabilized her emotions, and walked forward with a smile and said to Xia Su: "Xiao Su, call my brother quickly,...... Junxuan was an orphan sponsored by his mother when she was in Australia. You've seen him, right? Thanks to him all these years......"
Brother, Xia Xu snorted lightly as if mockingly.
Is she not a child of her own? can go abroad to take in a homeless person, but she can abandon her daughter at home. And brought the man home.
At that time, she had been following the taxi from the road for so long, didn't she see it? No, she did. She saw everything. But she let her heart-rending cry, let herself hold her broken leg in the back of the car, and staggered behind with only one foot still wearing shoes, and did not get out of the car......
She must not have known what it was like to walk home barefoot covered in mud like a beggar? It's like looking at an abandoned stray dog.
The pain choked in Xia Su's heart, and she felt her heart a little tight and breathless.
There are many kinds of pain and grievances in this world, like a sponge that has sucked water. We can dry the water in various ways, even until it becomes dry and stiff.
But there is only one that is difficult to unravel. Just like the one in Xia Xu's heart, it was a huge white cloth, which had been stained with ink stains that were too deep and too long......
Xia Xu interrupted her mother's words angrily. Turning his face to look at Zhou Junxuan, the grievance in his eyes made Zhou Junxuan a little convulsed.
"Should I call you brother, or should I call you Teacher Zhou?" her words were soft, but this weak voice was mixed with a heart-piercing sarcasm and sadness.
Zhou Junxuan stood there, wanting to speak and stopping.
Xia Xu turned around and pushed the door open fiercely and hid in his room.
Just like after Zhou Juanru left, her father also went to a far away place because of work, and he was never heard from again.
And she has become a complete "orphan". He and Sen Sen were placed in foster care with relatives at the behalf's behalf.
Those days were the most difficult days for Xia Xu.
If it weren't for Sen Sen giving her courage, she would probably have been living that kind of life under the fence. After Sen Sen was falsely accused by his cousin of stealing yogurt, Xia Xu stubbornly took Sen Sen back to this empty villa and began a life where the two of them depended on each other......
It was also at that time that she remembered that she had found someone to "take care of" them.
As a result, when she was looking forward to her mother's return, she waited for a passage overheard on the phone, "I can't let anyone know that I have a child here...... Remember? Don't let anyone know!
"She's afraid people will know I'm her child? why?...... Woo, mom really doesn't want to be herself...... Yes......" Xia Xu didn't close her eyes for a week until she had a high fever and fired the nanny......
Until Sun Zuo moved into this "home" that was too big......
Until they finally get their first paycheck......
Xia Xu felt that he was alive again......
Xia Xu hid his face and squatted behind the door, biting his lip tightly, not wanting the sound of sobbing to be heard by them outside the door.
"Obviously, she was the one who didn't want me in the first place, and she had to arrange these people to spy on me, so why are you afraid that others will know that I am her daughter and come back now? Xia Xu struggled painfully in her heart. "How could you forgive her? ”
And Mr. Zhou, who everyone likes very much, was arranged by his mother to enter the school, and Xia Xu understood why he cared so much about his every move at those times. Only he, a fool, still respects him as a teacher, and confides in him a lot of his troubles with Jiajia and Ziyang.
"I'm such a fool! I would believe him!" The huge sadness made Xia Xu still couldn't help biting her lip and crying in chagrin.
After Sen Sen followed, he knocked on the door for a long time, no matter how he called her, Xia Xu just refused to open the door.
In the living room, Zhou Juanru comforted Sun Zuo, who blamed herself, "I don't blame you for this, it was our temporary decision, it's just that I didn't expect her to be ...... like this."
Zhou Juanru sobbed a little.
wiped the tip of his nose, choked up and asked Zhou Junxuan: "Did you find out where she went later?"
"The guard at the door said he was going out with a classmate. ”
"Do you know who it is?"
Zhou Junxuan paused and replied, "...... It's not clear yet, but it should be found soon. ”
Zhou Juanru nodded slowly after hearing this, took a long breath, and said, "You are all tired, go back and rest early." I want to be here alone for a while. ”
After hearing this, Sen Sen and Sun Zuo glanced at each other and left obediently.
"Junxuan, you can go back to the house too......"
"I ......"
Zhou Juanru interrupted him, "I'm fine. Rest early, I have a meeting tomorrow for your help. ”
Zhou Junxuan finally nodded and went upstairs.
Downstairs, the light in the living room was turned off by Zhou Juanru, and the moonlight came in, and the room seemed to be smeared with a dreamy color.
She is still as romantic and cheerful as she was back then. It was this "scenery" that only had in this location that made her spend a lot of money to buy this villa.
Looking at everything in the living room, it was exactly the same as the year she left, except for a few extra pots of flowers and plants, nothing else had changed. The piano is still there.
She reached for the tulle from the keys, only to find a thick layer of dust on them. Yes, it was the piano that no one was allowed to touch by Xia Xu, and it was so "dusty" there.
"Haven't you been touched since?...... Xiao Su ......" Zhou Juanru's tears flashed the way she played the piano for Xia Su and the tune. It's just that song, she later played it to Zhou Junxuan......
"She'll understand, someday. ...... It's time to go rest. When Zhou Junxuan walked down the stairs, Zhou Juanru forgot that she didn't notice it.
"Why haven't you gone to rest yet?" asked in a low voice.
“...... I don't ...... worry" Zhou Junxuan had some sadness on his face, and stopped in front of the floor-to-ceiling window in the living room, like a prince who had just returned from the sea in the moonlight.
It's just that Zhou Juanru's eyes were not attracted by his heroic posture and stopped.
"Okay. With that, he walked slowly upstairs......
Upstairs, directly behind the bathroom door in the living room, a pair of eyes with lingering tears had not yet dried, and they were staring at the two of them with a frown......
Back in the apartment, Du Ke staggered open the door, and saw a pair of dark purple high heels on the ground, without thinking about it, he knew that it was Sister Xiaohui who came.
When I brought Xia Su over in the afternoon, the house could be so clean, but it was all thanks to Sister Xiaohui's "gift". Almost every two weeks or so, Xiaohui would come to clean up the house for Du Ke.
"What's the matter?" Seeing Du Ke enter the door, swaying and struggling to take off his shoes, Xiaohui hurriedly ran over to help him.
Just like the last time he went to the hospital, Xiaohui thought that he had encountered something outside again. Frightened, he asked again and again.
Secretly blamed himself for being really unreliable, just follow it closely, Xiao Ke won't be like this.
"I'm fine,...... Sister Xiaohui, why are you here?" Du Ke moved to the sofa with Xiaohui's support.
Xiao Hui said cautiously: "It's not that I can't rest assured of you! Look, I just came, and you came back like this." While feeling distressed, he squatted next to Du Ke and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
Du Ke's lips were dry and looked a little painful, "Do you want to drink water?" Xiao Hui picked up the kettle on the coffee table and poured water, but found that there was not a drop of water in it.
So he got up and ran to the refrigerator, and found that the "potion" that he had given Du Ke for a week had not been touched. I couldn't help but be a little surprised.
I saw that there was no more mineral water in the refrigerator that I had bought for him a few weeks ago. Xiaohui had no choice but to run to the kitchen to pick up water and turn on electricity for heating.
"The water in the house is gone, and you don't know how to buy some, really. Let's drink some tap water first. Just wait. Xiaohui went over and patted Du Ke on the back.
"What the hell is going on?"
"I don't know, all of a sudden......" Du Ke was a little weak.
"Xiao Ke, don't scare me. Could it be that the old injury from last time has recurred? Dr. Hatoda said that he wanted you to come for regular check-ups, but you didn't go again. You'll have to go to the hospital with me this time. ”
Xiaohui hurriedly brought out the heated water from the kitchen, poured a cup for Du Ke, and then poured it with a cup. The temperature of the water has just dropped.
"It's okay, I can drink cold water. Douc took the cup and drank it down.
"I'm worried about your stomach. Thinking of the last time he vomited, as well as the mess on his clothes, Xiaohui was very worried that there was something wrong with Du Ke's stomach, how dare he let him drink cold things again.
"Why didn't you drink a bottle of those medicines in the refrigerator?" Xiao Hui helped Du Ke to stand up.
Du Ke let out a trance, "Those...... Hmm......" After a pause, he didn't continue.
didn't care so much, Xiao Hui didn't ask any more, just wanted to take him to Tian Heng as soon as possible.
In the car, Du Ke was still in a cold sweat, "Sister Xiaohui, those medicines ...... Do you really want to keep drinking them? I don't think it's okay if I don't drink them. ”
"It's better to drink it, it's good for your throat and your body. Xiaohui drove the car, glancing at his condition from time to time. muttered, "It can't be because you haven't drunk this week that you're feeling unwell?...... Probably not. ”
"Sister Xiaohui, you haven't told me all the time, why do I want to drink that for a long time? Is it just because it's a health supplement that is good for my throat and body? It can't be an illegal drug, right? If that's how I can sing the songs that everyone likes, I don't want it. ”
"Hey, you kid. How is that possible? We are born with a good voice, and besides, how can we let you drink the medicine that will only have a good voice after drinking? It's just to protect your throat. Well...... Anyway, the family specially instructed you to drink on time. Xiaohui thought for a moment and added, "I heard your brother say that it seems that you were sick once when you were a child, and your body got better after drinking it." The doctor said that it is best to drink it on time and all the time, it is good for your body. And it's said to be good for the skin. Imported from abroad, your brother took a lot of effort to get it, it's very expensive. ”
"Xiao Ke, if you hold on, we'll be there soon. ”
Hearing his brother's words, Du Ke was very relieved.
It's just that from the moment he drinks this potion, his body will emit a strong jasmine fragrance, and it will take a long time to take a bath and soak before most of the smell will be released, but it can't be completely clean.
What if your body always carries this scent?
Because Xia Xu has been a little allergic to this smell on his body recently, his nose will itch uncomfortably.
Doucle stopped taking potions for a week. The smell on my body is really much lighter, and with a little more bathing at night, the smell has become very light and light. This time, she took Xia Su around, and sure enough, when she didn't get close to her, she kept rubbing her nose.
When he arrived at the hospital, Xiao Hui, who took Du Ke into the hospital gate, was Chen Chen's black car. Du Feng soon received a call from Chen Chen......