CHAPTER XIV

This Saturday, she and Xu Ruolin made an appointment to watch a movie, but they watched another movie, and it was only one o'clock when they came out, they had dinner, Xu Ruolin was going to the dance studio, and asked her to go with her, but Shen Danyu said that she wanted to watch the movie "Black Rose", so she said goodbye to her.

Shen Danyu came out after watching the movie again, and it was already past four o'clock. There is an intermission in foreign films, and the first half lasts nearly two hours, but this movie is a full house, and she sits there unconsciously, and the light of the projector at the beginning of the second half casts on her face, which makes her stunned for a long time. Finally everyone stood up, and it was pitch black in the cinema, except for the open door and a single light.

Shen Danyu knew that Fang Shiyan's house was in Lulin Hutong, she hesitated for a long time, I don't know if it would be a little presumptuous to go to him like this? She went around two circles in front of the movie theater, and she had already made up her mind that she was really going to do it, but she began to hesitate. She looked up at the sky, and the sun was swallowed up by a cloud during the day, and there was not a trace of sunlight in sight—should it rain?

Shen Danyu immediately called a passing rickshaw, and she would go home in case of rain. She told the charterer that she was going to No. 34 Lulin Hutong, but the charterer said, "Miss, I'll stop at Lulin Lane when it's being demolished for a while." ”

Shen Danyu suddenly remembered that many buildings and old houses of that generation were built in the former Qing Dynasty, and the houses leaked in case of rain, and the conditions were very bad. At this time, she looked down at the sky again, and silently worried. Thinking like this, she had already arrived at Lulin Lane, and the chartered driver called her, and she reacted and got out of the car and paid.

The mottled walls were old and yellow, and a large piece of the wall skin had peeled off to reveal gray bricks and moss spreading from the asphalt stone surface. She walked some way, but did not meet a person, so she looked for the mark on the door, and when the house was closed, there was a lock, and through the crack in the door, it was overgrown with weeds, and the family should have moved away for a long time. Just as she stopped in front of the door, the door of a house behind her opened, and a middle-aged woman poured a basin of water on the ground, and the middle-aged woman said very apologetically, "I'm really sorry...... Who are you, coming here to find someone?"

The middle-aged woman only looked at it, because her dress did not match this alley. Shen Danyu said politely: "Auntie, I'm looking for Fang Shiyan's home, No. 34, where are I going?" The middle-aged woman suddenly said suspiciously: "Fang family-you are a relative of their family?" Shen Danyu didn't know why she thought she was here to find a relative, but this way it was good to avoid trouble, so she only said: "Yes." ”

The middle-aged woman nodded, pointed to the left and said, "If you go back, you will be able to see it—speaking of which, you are the first one to come to mourn in the past two days." Shen Danyu put away his face, frowned and said, "What did you say? Who died in their family?"

A leaf fell from the cement and happened to fall on the edge of her shoe. White satin hangs on the door, and the door panel is written with the word "Fangjia" in brush characters. There was no movement in the door, Shen Danyu stepped in, the yard was very simple, the flowers planted in the enamel pot bloomed just right, Fang Shiyan said that his mother loved cleanliness, although she was busy every day, but she also lost the elegance of a decent person, his clothes were also clean and tidy, and he also said: "My mother said, although our family is not rich, but we can't be sloppy, we must treat people and things with care, and earn that backbone." ”

The door of the house is open, and there is a coffin under the white ayazi in the middle, and there is no electric light in the room in the evening, which looks gloomy - seeing the tablet at a glance, Shen Danyu can't help covering his mouth, and walks in two steps. Fang Shiyan sat on the square stool, he was wearing filial piety clothes, he lowered his head and just looked at his two hands - in the darkness, his shoulders seemed to be weak, and the green tendons of his arms protruded, I don't know if it was a thin relationship.

Fang Shiyan didn't know who would come, he looked up and saw that it was Shen Danyu, his eyes were very surprised, he didn't seem to have spoken for a long time, and he opened his mouth hoarsely: "Xiao Yu...... Why are you here?"

The tablet was engraved with "Biological Mother Yu Xiaohua", and the rectangular coffin was covered with a quilt, Shen Danyu was surprised, she felt that Fang Shiyan had lost a lot of weight, thinner than the last time she saw him, her cheekbones were prominent, and her eyes were swollen. Yao Yao remembered that Shiyan said last year that his mother was sick, and he would graduate in another year, so he didn't have to let his mother work, but now-

Shen Danyu didn't ask anything, slowly stepped forward, hesitantly stretched out his hand and put it on his shoulder, and said, "You...... Are you alright?"

When she spoke, she realized that in the face of the death of her loved ones, others could only say such a sentence, and she wanted to comfort but didn't know where to comfort, and you couldn't understand the pain of the person concerned. As she said this, she suddenly felt a slight tremor in his shoulders, and something touched her heart, and she could clearly feel his pain.

Fang Shiyan said strongly: "I'm fine......"

Shen Danyu said: "Xiansheng said that you came home and didn't go back to school for a week, I'm a little worried...... I just wanted to come and see you—" She didn't say anything after that.

At this time, it was completely overcast, and the sky outside was covered by the roofs of people's houses, and only the gray sky could be seen, and before I knew it, a drizzle was falling. Still silent.

Shen Danyu didn't know what to say, so he said it casually. There was no one else in the room, and it was getting dark, except for two candles lit in front of the spirit, the flames were very short, and a few wisps of black smoke flew out of the air. She forgot that their mother and son had always depended on each other here, and she didn't know that his pain was like a huge wave, rolling in her heart and rushing to her throat.

But she could understand that when her mother died, she cried in front of the spirit, and her father was a man, but tears rolled down her eyes from her red eyes.

Fang Shiyan is a man, so he has been enduring it and resisting the sadness in his heart with silence. But the waves will break away from the embankment, and at this time the waves will hit the white flowers, and they can no longer stand anything.

Shen Danyu said again, "Your mother will take care of you in heaven...... Just like my mother......" Fang Shiyan's shoulders were locked, and then he knelt down, supporting the ground with his hands, and the huge tears crackled one by one, and a mournful sound came out of the vocal cavity.

"Shi Yan ......" Shen Danyu wanted to help him

Fang Shiyan suddenly stood up and kicked the chair behind him, and the chair hit the square table behind him.

Shen Danyu stood there, Fang Shiyan shouted with all his might, as if he wanted to vent all the things that had been stuffed in his heart for the past two days-"It's all those damn Western medicines! Kill my mother! Those brutes who sell fake medicines!" He picked up a chair and threw it forward, and the chair immediately fell apart. He wanted to pick up something again, but Shen Danyu stopped him and hugged him, his strength was so strong that she stumbled forward and almost fell to the ground. Later, Fang Shiyan was surprisingly quiet. Shen Danyu watched him squatting down, burying his head in his knees, with the light shining in from outside, there were two candles burning non-stop, his neck and hands were red, and his snorting, Shen Danyu squatted next to him and listened to him: "That's life-saving money borrowed from all over the world...... Why is God so unfair, why is it ......"

Shen Danyu hugged him, his body wrapped in linen clothes was stiff and cold, and when he looked at the door, the drizzle drifted in obliquely and wet a piece of ground, and he still muttered: "That group of damn beasts......"

When she got home, Juan's mother waited for her for a while, and when she came up, she asked, "Why did you come back?"

Shen Danyu remembered, looked upstairs and said, "Did Dad ask about me?"

Mother Juan shook her head and said, "The master hasn't come back yet." She suddenly relaxed, and tiredly propped up her body and went upstairs. Because her face looked pale and wrong, Juan's mother caught up and asked, "Where have you been, are you feeling unwell?

Shen Danyu only felt tired and wanted to lie on the bed to rest immediately, so she only said to Juan's mother: "I'm really fine, I'm just too tired, let me rest for a while." ”

The door closed, and only the footsteps of Juan's mother coming downstairs were heard. Shen Danyu took off his shoes and sat at the desk, the sky outside was quiet, the room was quiet, and a lonely Su hit his back. She thought of Shi Yan, he must be miserable and lonely to stay at home alone now, and when she thought of this, she regretted that she shouldn't have come back so soon, but if she didn't come back, she couldn't. She sat on the bed and thought about it for a long time, until the drowsiness hit, and then she fell asleep.

The next day at school, she looked outside at a large tree with lush green leaves, the height of three buildings, and in the summer it would grow fruit under the shade of its leaves. Baoqing pushed her from behind, and the professor in the class called her name, she stood up, and the professor said, "What did I just say, you memorize that poem again." ”

The professor just noticed that she was looking out the window in a daze, but she was familiar with memorizing poems since she was a child, and she could memorize them fluently after only listening to half of the poems, and she said, "What you just talked about is a song by Wang Guo'an. I can't stay in the spring, and I can't help it. The ground is full of red palace brocade filth, and the South Park was stormy last night. Xiao Lian first went to the pipa, and Xiaolai silk went around the world. Unwilling to paint the hall Zhu Hu, the spring breeze is free in Yanghua. ”

After listening to her, the professor said a few lessons close to his lips, but he couldn't say it, so he had to let her sit down and continue the lecture by himself.

She was very inattentive to the day's lesson, and she just wanted to get out of school quickly. When I met Xiansheng at noon, Fang Shiyan didn't go back to school today, that's for sure, but even Xiansheng didn't know that something had happened in his family, so she didn't tell him.

The family's car was waiting outside as always, and as soon as she got in the car this time, she told the driver to park the car outside Eighth Avenue and go to the movies with her classmates.

She wasn't dating her classmates, which was a lie she told.

Before going to see Fang Shiyan, he deliberately went to the restaurant to cook a few dishes, thinking that he must not have eaten well in the past few days. When she arrived at Lulin Hutong, she was about to enter the door, but she saw that the door was open inside, and the person who came out made her a little surprised, and the people inside may not have expected it, but then she greeted with a smile, Shen Danyu said: "Senior, why are you ......?"

Feng Shen explained: "The professor has not been back to school for more than a week, or something has happened at home, so let me take a look...... Outcome...... It's a bit sudden. ”

Shen Danyu nodded silently to show that he understood, and then asked, "Senior, are you going back?"

Feng Shen said: "Yes. You comfort him. ”

Shen Danyu stood outside the threshold, and only then did she walk in when she saw Feng's dark white shirt disappear into the alley. She was hesitant in her heart, because she didn't know how to comfort Shiyan, after thinking about it, she entered the house, Fang Shiyan's expression was calm compared to yesterday, and she said very calmly: "You're here, why don't you go home after school?"

Shen Danyu put the packaged meal on the table, opened it and said, "You shouldn't have eaten much in the past two days, I'll finish eating with you and then leave." ”

Fang Shiyan sat opposite her, she moved a bowl of rice, there was a small window next to it, through the weak light, she clearly saw his hands shaped like bones, his eyes were deeply sunken, his dim eyes, in her impression, Fang Shiyan was already thin, a thin skeleton - but it was he who looked thin to help her beat away five hooligans and villains, when she thought of this, she couldn't help but have a sour nose and moist eyes, she hurriedly covered it up, picked up the vegetables and put them in his bowl, and then asked softly: "When is Auntie-" Fang Shiyan immediately continued: "Tomorrow, tomorrow morning." ”

Shen Danyu let out an "oh", and after eating half a bowl of rice, she said, "I'll send my aunt tomorrow." Fang Shiyan only said: "No, I can do it alone." She didn't say anything more.

It was past six o'clock when I got home. When I entered the hall, I smelled the fragrance of Juan's mother's stir-fried vegetables in the kitchen, and there were three more dishes on the table today than usual, she entered the kitchen, and Juan's mother didn't look back and said, "If you're hungry, eat first." She shook her head and said, "But I've eaten it...... Why did you cook a few more dishes today?" said Juan's mother, "Because the master's guests are here, he ordered him to cook specialty dishes." ”

Shen Danyu is a spirit, but the driver follows her in the afternoon, and her father usually comes back at seven or eight o'clock in the evening, but today he came home so early, she said a little uneasily: "Oh, then I'll go back to the room first." ”

Juan's mother thought that Miss was not in the right spirit for the past two days, and took advantage of the old man's hospitality to make a bowl of fish soup for Miss, but she didn't think that Miss had eaten outside. Shen Feiyin sat in the main seat, greeted the guests, and after looking at the dishes on the table, he asked Juan's mother to call Miss down to eat, and Juan's mother replied: "Miss said that she had eaten." Shen Feiyin smiled at the guest, restrained his face and said, "There are guests here, why do you have to come down to say hello." ”

Juan's mother went up and called Miss.

After Shen Danyufang took a bath, she heard Juan's mother say that her father asked her to go and greet the elders, and it would be rude if she didn't go down, so she changed her clothes and went downstairs.

It turned out that the guest was a tobacco merchant from other places, surnamed Bai, and his father didn't know when he befriended Mr. Bai, Shen Danyu called him "Uncle Bai", but halfway through the meal, Shen Feiyin saw that his daughter was absent-minded, so he let her go upstairs.

After that, Mr. Bai said to Shen Feiyin: "Old Shen, your daughter is dignified and beautiful, it's a pity...... I don't have a son. Shen Feiyin took a sip of wine and said with a smile: "Giving birth to a daughter is actually not worry-free...... It's not as good as someone's son...... Come, drink too. ”

Shen Feiyin and Mr. Bai both drank and called their own driver to take Mr. Bai back to the hotel, while Juan's mother helped the old man into the room, and it was already late to clean up the kitchen after settling down.

Shen Danyu didn't fall asleep until twelve o'clock in the room, she couldn't keep up her spirits for the past two days, tomorrow was Saturday, she didn't know whether to go to Fang's house, but thinking that Fang Shiyan was the only one left in the Fang family, she had to go, so she decided to go before going to sleep.

When she woke up, she only heard the sound of Juan's mother walking outside the corridor, and when she opened the door, she bumped into Juan's mother holding a bowl of porridge and said to her, "I woke up early today, let's sleep a little longer." "Juan's mother brought breakfast to her father and came into the house. She went downstairs to have breakfast alone, thinking that she would go to Fang's house if she had a casual meal. When she was getting her bag on the hanger, Juan's mother went downstairs and said, "The master asked you to go up, it seems that I have something to say to you." ”