Fireworks were forbidden in the city before, but in recent years, there has been a trend of rising, at seven or eight o'clock in the community someone secretly set off firecrackers, Chen Haodong was woken up by force, remembered, but his body moved and felt that his head was bursting.

"Hmm..."There was a sound around him, and an arm suddenly hooked around his waist.

Chen Haodong let out a rumble in his head, turned his head to look, and then saw the woman who was sleeping soundly next to him, the woman's arms were still wrapped around his waist, and the exposed shoulders were smooth and delicate.

His mind was buzzing, trying to remember the scene of last night, but his whole body seemed to be run over by a wheel, and all kinds of messy fragments filled his mind, but even if he couldn't think of it, he could roughly guess that he was a lonely man and a widow, drunk and disorderly, and when he woke up, the two slept together, and there was no suspense.

Chen Haodong pulled away the hand on his waist and got up, hugged his head and knocked it twice painfully.

He wants to curse!

"Why did you wake up so early?" A voice suddenly came from behind him, He Ling woke up at some point, wrapped in a quilt and came over to hug Chen Haodong from behind.

Chen Haodong didn't look back, so He Ling couldn't see his expression, only heard a crackling sound, and soon smoke came over.

"Are you in a bad mood when you smoke early in the morning?" asked the woman who was attached to her waist.

Chen Haodong bit the cigarette butt and took two puffs.

"I'll go take a shower, you can sleep a little longer!" he tore the hands from his waist and went to the bathroom without saying anything.

He Ling still maintained a posture of sitting cross-legged on the bed at first, with his temperature in his hands and his body, but it was a little cold, probably because he sat shirtless outside the quilt for a while.

Chen Haodong went into the bathroom and turned on the faucet, but he didn't do anything, just sat on the toilet and slowly smoked the cigarette.

He drank too much last night, and it was dark, so he didn't remember what he did at all, but he was extremely awake at this time, and everything went smoothly when he came to this point, but he felt extremely hated when there was no one around!

He didn't dare to think about what he had lost, but the heartache was very real.

Did he win? He felt like he couldn't win in his life!

Twenty minutes later, Chen Haodong walked back to the bedroom again, already wearing a half-worn T-shirt.

He Ling had also already dressed and was standing by the bed to tie his hair.

She used to have short hair, but she didn't cut it since the child ran out, and during this time it was kept to shoulder length, and she could tie it up in a small ponytail with a hair ring.

She also took a picture from the Internet a while ago and sent it to Chen Haodong, and there was a sentence on the picture - "When I have long hair and waist-length, it's good for you to marry me!"

"You're done bathing?"

Chen Haodong didn't say a word, he walked over with his slippers in his mouth, and looked at He Ling fixedly.

He Ling smiled: "What's the matter, it's scary to look at me like this early in the morning!"

Chen Haodong smiled bitterly and bowed his head, he was not without hesitation, after all, after so many years of relationship, he even had a child, if that child had no accident, they should have been husband and wife by now.

It's just that the more sober he is, the more he can't deceive people, and he can't stand it anymore.

"Lingzi, it's not as good as us ......"

"Ah, wait a minute, I suddenly remembered that my brother just called me, you wait, wait..." He Ling suddenly went to get his bag and flipped through his phone.

Chen Haodong's words were interrupted abruptly.

With a bang, she probably flipped over too quickly, and all the bits and pieces in her bag fell to the ground.

Chen Haodong squatted down and wanted to help her pick it up, she pushed her hand, "No, I'll do it myself!"

"Forget it, I'd better go straight to him, I won't see him for the New Year!" After speaking, he went out with his bag, and the footsteps were a little messy.

She didn't wear slippers either.

Chen Haodong chased after him for two steps, "I'll send you!"

"No, I'm driving myself!"

When he came back to his senses, he had already run out, and with a "bang" on the door, Chen Haodong, who was standing at the door of the bedroom, gritted his teeth and buried a deep breath.

He Ling's attitude was obviously evasive, which he did not expect.

Walking back to the bedroom, the quilt and sheets on the bed were a mess.

He's probably a bastard, he's almost thirty, who is he worth?

Chen Haodong sat back on the bed in defeat, the futon flicked, he reached out and touched the cigarette again, the mobile phone on the cabinet rang first, and at a glance, Chang Jiahui's call.

"Hey..."

"Brother Haodong, where are you? My mother asked if you could have lunch today!"

Chen Haodong paused, "In Fengli?"

"Yes, I will always live here during the Chinese New Year!" Chang Jiahui waited for a while, but she couldn't wait for a response, urging, "Do you want to come?

Chen Haodong raised his hand and looked at the window, the bedroom was not bright, the curtains were still drawn, and he couldn't see the situation outside, but he could vaguely hear the noise of children and adults downstairs.

New Year, a new day, everyone is visiting relatives and friends, and the whole country is celebrating.

He rubbed his swollen eyes: "I still have something to do, I won't go over today!" He hung up the phone directly, threw the phone on the table, and planted it into the futon again.

……

Chang An and Zhou Yi stayed in the countryside for another night, and returned to the city as planned in the second year of junior high school, gathering together in the morning for breakfast, sweet soy milk, gruel, steamed buns, and a plate of steamed potatoes.

Chang Jiahui hadn't gotten up yet, so the four of them looked very lonely around the table, but Chang An kept looking up at Chang Wangde opposite.

She stayed in the house for two nights, but the father and daughter barely said a word, and they were about to leave, and it would be some time before they came back.

"Dad..."Chang An finally spoke.

Chang Wangde raised his head, his eyes as cold as ever.

Chang An didn't care, and asked directly: "Do you have time to finish eating in a while?"

"Something?"

"I want to... I'd like to talk to you for a moment. ”

Chang Wangde seemed stunned.

Chang An was full of anticipation, and Baba pinched his chopsticks.

Chang Wangde on the other side hesitated for a moment.

"Is that okay?"

She was waiting, but soon, after a flash of hesitation, Chang Wangde put down his chopsticks, "It will take more than an hour to go back to the city, and the road may still be blocked, don't you want to rush to someone else's house as a guest? He found a good reason to refuse, but Chang An was unwilling.

"It's okay, it's time, and I'm just talking to you a few words!" She was still trying to convince, but Chang Wangde obviously ran out of patience, and put down the bowl and stood up directly in the back.

"I'm full, I'm a little tired, I'm going upstairs and lying down. "The man turned around and was about to leave.

Chang An shouted: "Dad... Daddy......"

Chang Wangde had already staggered out of the restaurant slightly, Wei Suying couldn't bear it after all, and also stood up, "Xiao An, your dad doesn't mean anything else, it's just that he's sick and now his temper is a little strong, I usually have to get used to him, don't go to my heart!"

Chang An still sat there in the same sitting position as before, pinching chopsticks in one hand and eating two bites of potatoes in the other, but people began to tremble.

Zhou Wei held her wrist, "Chang An, you relax!"

She didn't make a sound, she pinched the things in her hand, the potato was crushed by her, and the chopsticks were almost broken.

Zhou had to turn her chair around and let her face her.

"You listen to me, Chang'an, you listen to me......" He tried his best to calm his tone, trying to withdraw the things in her hand, but she pinched her fingertips white, but she didn't let go, as if she wanted to transfer all the pain of her whole body to the pair of chopsticks.

"You say..."The empty eyes gradually turned around, and he looked at Zhou Wei in a daze, "Does my dad hate me very much?"

"No, no. ”

"Then he's angry... I'm angry that I haven't been back to see him much in the past few years... But I know it's wrong, I really know it's wrong, I'm not a qualified daughter, so I want to make amends, I want to spend more time with him, or let him spend more time with me..."

She has never dared to ask Chang Wangde about his condition directly, but Wei Suying will reveal that although the words are not clear, she has already let Chang An know between the lines that her father's time is running out, and he has not much time left for her.

"I... I ......"

Chang An was a little incoherent, or she didn't know what to say, but when all the emotions were frustrated together, she couldn't find an outlet to vent, but Zhou Wei could feel her pain and anxiety in this father-son relationship, especially since Chang Wangde's condition was confirmed, this anxiety was even worse, as if a person was enclosed in a cage, surrounded by thick walls, unable to get out, unable to enter, and unconsciously bumping everywhere.

"Okay, don't think nonsense, be obedient, give me what you have in your hand!" Zhou Wei spoke softly again, pulling Chang An's fingers away little by little, and the chopsticks cut a deep mark on his finger, Zhou Wei held it, rubbing it back and forth......

Chang An was still trapped in emotions and kept trembling.

"Okay, it's okay, it's okay..." Zhou Yan took the person into her arms like a child, she put her face on his shoulder, and finally closed her eyes, and tears began to fall silently......

More than half an hour later, Chang An and Zhou Wei were about to leave, and Wei Suying sent the two to the door, carrying two bags in their hands.

"I see that you seem to like to eat steamed potatoes in the morning, which was sent by Xiao Ai's hometown, I can't finish eating here, so I will fill some for you to go back, and in this bag is a ham, which was sent by the villagers, and your father can't eat these now, so you can also take it back with you." ”

Wei Suying handed the bag to Chang An.

Chang An stalked his throat and wanted to refuse, but in the end he said thank you.

"Thank you, it's not anything of value!"

Zhou Wei took the bag and took it to the trunk.

Chang An looked at the door again, the gate was open, and he could see the yard leading to the back room.

"My dad she..."

"Oh, your dad just took the medicine and has already fallen asleep, so he may not wake up for a while. ”

Chang An swallowed silently, she didn't seem to have any expectations.

"Then I'm not going to say hello to him, and I'm going to go back and talk to him. ”

"Yes, be careful when driving on the road!"

Zhou Wei had already come over and opened the co-pilot's door first, Chang An took two steps, and then turned back, the pots of orchids in the yard were still there, but the flowers were already showing signs of decay.

"Aunt Ying. ”

"Anything else?"

Chang An smiled, "Thank you for so many years!"

Wei Suying was stunned for a short time, but quickly came back to her senses, "Thank you, say such things during the Chinese New Year!"

Chang An is not good at rendering feelings, so he won't say much after simply bringing it over.

"Alright, let's go first, call us!" she got into the car.

Wei Suying was still standing outside the car, waving at her and Zhou Wei, "Be careful on the road, it's best to remember to wind Jiahui when you get to the city> "Okay, remember!" Chang An replied, suddenly remembering something, and dropped the window, "By the way, there is another thing." ”

Wei Suying heard that she hurried to the car window.

"When the Spring Festival is over, let Jiahui move to the city, it's not convenient for her to commute to work here, if you want, you can live with me, you have to feel inconvenient..."Chang An thought for a while, "There is an apartment in the city of Ayan, which is very close to her company, and she can move there when the time comes." ”

Wei Suying didn't expect Chang An to think of this, and she was grateful in her heart, but she felt embarrassed.

"Won't that be a hassle?"

"It's not a problem, and it's not realistic for her to live here and commute to work. ”

"But—" Wei Suying was still hesitating.

Chang An knew that she had always been interesting, and immediately made a decision for her, "That's it, I'll tell Jiahui myself when I go back!" To say goodbye again, Wei Suying suddenly said thank you to Chang An.

Chang An was a little embarrassed, "Thank you, it's all a family, you're too polite." ”

She didn't think there was anything wrong with this, but Wei Suying's eyes suddenly turned red.

"It's... Family, family......" She repeated this sentence as she watched Zhou Wei's car go around the bamboo forest......

On the way, Chang An was still thinking about Chang Jiahui, turned around and said to Zhou Wei: "I'm sorry, I took it upon myself to lend your apartment!"

Zhou Wei smiled, "It's okay to borrow an apartment, but there is a sentence I have to say in front, it doesn't matter if she comes to the house as a guest, but she definitely can't live at home!"

Chang An was stunned, "Why?"

Zhou Wei twisted his eyebrows, serious, "If she hears any movement at night, she will feel very inconvenient!"

Chang An: "......"

There were quite a lot of vehicles on the way back to the city in the second year of junior high school, as Chang Wangde expected, it was really blocked at an intersection for a while, it seemed that two cars were rear-ended and caused by congestion, and after waiting for about ten minutes, Chang An put down the subject book in his hand.

"I'll go to Lao Deng's house in a while, do you want to buy something?"

Zhou Wei was not in a hurry, it was rare not to be in a hurry, so he turned on the stereo in the car.

"No, there shouldn't be anything missing in his house. ”

"But after all, it's not good to go to someone's house for the New Year, empty-handed. ”

In the end, the two discussed it and decided to go shopping for a few things after entering the city.

After half an hour of congestion, Zhou Wei accelerated his speed, and after entering the city, he found a store to buy some things, and arrived at the community where Deng Shunlin's house was located at about eleven o'clock.

Zhou Wei had obviously been here many times before, parked his car on the nearby road, and walked to a certain unit building with familiarity.

"How is Mrs. Deng's condition lately?"

"I heard that it was not good, and the chemotherapy had been stopped, and the doctor said that it might be in April and May. ”

Seeing that there were still three or four months of time together, Chang An asked, "Lao Deng should be sad, right?"

Zhou Wei smiled bitterly, "It's certain that I'm sad, but I was mentally prepared to give up treatment when I agreed to her." "It's only a matter of time before it comes to this day," not to mention that her illness has not been a day or two, almost eight years before and after, back and forth, Lao Deng should already have the ability to bear it. ”

After battling the disease for a long time and snatching time from the hands of death, Zhou Wei felt that there was no pain in this step.

"No, that's not the case at all!" Chang An interrupted, "I used to think that life and death are fateful, just do your best, but since I found out that my dad has cancer, this kind of thinking is a kind of outsider's thoughts, if you really want to put things on yourself and your relatives, you won't be so detached at all." ”

Who is not afraid of parting, who is not afraid of death, especially in the face of loved ones, no matter which step they take, they will feel reluctant and unwilling.

Zhou Wei stopped and glanced at Chang An.

Chang An looked up at him too, "What's wrong?"

"Nope!"

He wanted to say a few words of relief, but then he realized that she didn't seem to need it.

This woman seems to be soft, but she has a sail in her heart, and she always knows the course and direction clearly.

Chang An smiled again, "Hurry up, I guess it's time to wait." As a result, he turned around and confronted someone.

Everything was caught off guard, and even Zhou Wei was a little surprised.

Chang An was stunned in place, and only after half a salary did he squeeze out: "Brother, why are you here?"

Chen Haodong glanced at the gift box in Zhou Wei's hand, and saw that the two of them should be here to visit some friends or relatives, so he bared his teeth: "I live here!"

"Do you live here?" Chang An swept around, it was a very large community, and the environment was clean and quiet, but she vaguely remembered that this was the real estate developed by Rongbang.

"Why, if you can come, I can't live here?" Chen Haodong's face returned to his usual appearance.

Chang An also had nothing to say.

Chen Haodong simply went over to look at Zhou Wei and swept the gift box he was carrying, "Mr. Zhou still has friends here?"

"Yes, a colleague made an appointment to come over for dinner at noon. Zhou Wei didn't put on a shelf, the answer was extremely natural, and after speaking, he also looked at Chen Haodong, he was wearing a half-used jacket, jeans, and his beard probably didn't shave in the morning, so some scum came out, and he also carried things in his hands, looking at the shape, it was obviously a disposable packing box, packed in a plastic bag, and the words "XXX Yellow Braised Chicken Rice" were written on the bag.

"Why, Mr. Chen actually eats this during the Chinese New Year?"

Chen Haodong didn't hide it at all, hooked his mouth and smiled: "Alone, fill your stomach horizontally and vertically, don't bother too much, okay, don't disturb you to eat!" After speaking, he directly carried the food box around Zhou Wei, and never looked at Chang'an again from beginning to end.

It's just that I often smell the smell of his body, the smell of dry dry grass in winter, mixed with the strong smell of tobacco

The two got into the elevator.

Chang An's face was expressionless, and Zhou Wei suddenly said: "Recently, he has been very close to He Bin. ”

Chang An was stunned for a moment, and then replied: "He Ling is He Ling's fiancé, and it is normal for him to get close to He Bin." ”

"That's not why!"

"And what do you want to say?"

"I want to say..."Zhou Wei paused and looked into Chang An's eyes, "Don't you know that he and He Ling haven't been warm recently?"

"What?"

"He has been living on the construction site for the past few months, and he has been separated from He Ling. ”

Chang An felt like something was stuffed in his head, and he tried to sort it out, but finally found that it was in vain.

"I don't know what you mean, but I know that you just eat his jealousy, and you just respond to my previous relationship with him!" Chang An simply made it clear, anyway, there was no fear.

The expression on Zhou Yan's face instantly became extremely ugly, as if he had been fed a mouthful of flies, and Chang An was very proud of his breathless appearance and nowhere to spill, and his body and mind were extremely free.

If you want to be jealous, you can eat, stingy and naïve man!

Chang An stepped out of the elevator first, Zhou Wei stood inside for a few seconds to calm down before following out, walked to a red-painted anti-theft iron door, rang the doorbell, and heard footsteps inside.

The door opened, and Deng Shunlin, who was wearing an apron, stood there with a shovel to greet him.

"Hurry up, I've been waiting for a long time, come in quickly!" while beckoning to take the slippers, he shouted into the inner room, "Wen Juan, Mr. Zhou and his wife are here!"

Wen Juan should be the name of Mrs. Deng Shunlin.

Chang An followed Zhou Wei into the door and soon heard the sound of wheels rolling.

"Mr. Zhou, Mrs. Zhou'......"

Chang An looked over and saw Deng Shunlin's wife sitting in an electric wheelchair, much thinner than the last time he saw it in the hospital, I don't know if it was because of the pain or because he had stopped chemotherapy, but the whole person looked more energetic than before in the hospital.

"Mrs. Deng, I'm sorry, I still have to come over to disturb you during the Chinese New Year. ”

Deng Shunlin hurriedly grabbed the white, "What did you say, I heard that you and Mr. Zhou were coming, she was excited for many days, and she urged me to get up and go grocery shopping before dawn early this morning!"

"Yes, it's rare for someone from my family to come, and I'm actually very happy in my heart. Her voice was a little heavy, and she waved her hand again, "Come in quickly, Shunlin, pour them two glasses of water first." ”

Zhou Wei was even more unceremonious, and went directly into the living room, wanting to put the things in his hand on the table, but at a glance, the entire living room was almost empty, only a coffee table was placed next to the wall, which was obviously to facilitate the electric wheelchair to roll around at home, so Deng Shunlin cleaned up the house as empty as possible.

In the end, Zhou Wei could only put a bunch of nutritional products at the root of the wall, two boxes of cordyceps and a gift box of bird's nest, both of which were high-end nutritional products for patients to nourish.

"Come on, why do you have to bring something!"

"Don't ask me about this, the thing was chosen by Chang An, and she felt that it was too ugly to walk around with two empty hands during the New Year!"

There are four people in a meal, in fact, there are only three people to be exact, because Deng Shunlin's wife did not serve the table, she almost couldn't eat those meals, she just sat next to her and relied on physical support, and the long-term illness had tormented her to be thin and weak, but there were few people at home, and it was rare to have laughter, so she had to support it.

After the meal, Zhou Wei and Deng Shunlin seemed to have something to discuss, and entered the study, Chang An stayed alone in the living room to accompany his wife, and the two chatted with each other, and before they knew it, it was two or three o'clock in the afternoon, Zhou Wei and Deng Shunlin finally came out of the study.

Chang An and Deng Shunlin's wife no longer use the word "wife", but when they saw the two men come out, the topic that was obviously continuing suddenly stopped.

"What are you talking about so mysterious?" Deng Shunlin asked with a smile.

Chang An didn't squeak, but Deng Shunlin's wife replied: "I'm talking about children, I advise Xiao Chang to get one while he's young." ”

Chang An seemed to turn his head a little unnaturally, just to meet Zhou Yu's dark eyes......