"By the way, what about Ake, the piano has been bought, why haven't you seen her?" Xu Heng looked left and right and asked.

"I'm angry in the room. Tong Wangjun pointed.

"What's wrong, is it because you didn't buy the piano well, or because you said she did?" Xu Heng looked at me, and then at Tong Wangjun, "Ah Ke is only eight years old, and she has only been learning the piano for a long time, and she can play well, so you can't be too harsh on her." ”

I don't know if Xu Heng did it on purpose, he was guessing the reason why Chen Ke was angry, but I always felt that his tone was a little wrong, as if it was deliberate, deliberately guessing in the direction of the side, and deliberately guessing wrong.

"It's not because of this, it's because her father reprimanded her, saying that she had lipstick in her bag, and she shouldn't accept gifts from others, so she ran into the room and hid. Tong Wangjun explained.

Xu Heng sat on the stool by himself, stroked the piano with his hand, played it, and then turned to look at me again: "It is normal for classmates in the aristocratic school to give gifts to each other, this is basic socialization, and there is nothing abnormal. You can't understand the way of learning in an aristocratic school in the way you learn in an ordinary school, the academic performance in the aristocratic school is not the most important, the most important thing in the school is to cultivate the comprehensive quality of students, social, etiquette, art, learning and so on, it is a real quality education, and the quality education we see in ordinary high schools is completely different from the quality education that sells dog meat with a sheep's head on the head of a sheep. ”

"I don't care about quality education or not, I only know that Ake is only eight years old, and there shouldn't be lipstick in her gifts, which in itself shows that it is abnormal. I said.

"What's abnormal, I don't know if you've heard of a sentence, different people reading the same book will have different perceptions, for example, if you read the golden bottle of plum and give birth to compassion, it means that you have a bodhisattva heart, if you read the golden bottle of plum and give birth to fear, it means that you are a gentleman, if you give birth to joy, it means that you are a villain, if you have the heart to imitate, it means that you are a beast. Xu Heng said lightly.

"Seeing that there is lipstick in Ake's schoolbag, but you are angry, it is actually the same reason. I think the reason why you are angry is not because someone gave a gift to Ake, in fact, because someone else gave her a gift is lipstick, you think it is abnormal, you think that an eight-year-old girl should not be a gift from someone else, but in my opinion, there is nothing abnormal about giving lipstick, it is just an ordinary gift, you really think too much. ”

"Standing and talking doesn't hurt your back, Ake is not your daughter, that's why you can say that. Lipstick is not something that a child can use at all, what kind of person would give lipstick to an eight-year-old?" his explanation was simply far-fetched, and I was not convinced.

"Okay, let's go, let you come originally thinking of being able to accompany Ake and Xiaole, but as soon as you came, you reprimanded Ake, not only couldn't help anything, but added to the chaos, Xu Heng got a double bachelor's degree in college, understands psychology, and must know more about children's psychology than you, you don't always put your thoughts on others, children's thoughts are very simple, how can they be so dirty as you think?" Tong Wangjun said to me.

She wanted to drive me away, and I didn't want to stay here at all, so I knocked on the door when I got to the door of the room: "Ake, Dad is going back, will you go back with me?"

Chen Ke has two days off at school, I can take her back and send her over tomorrow.

I waited at the door for a while, but Chen Ke didn't reply to me, I twisted the doorknob again and found that the door was locked from the inside.

"Then Dad will go back first, and come back to see you next time. I glanced at the door, there was no movement inside, and Chen Ke didn't want to pay attention to me.

My heart hurts a little, Chen Ke will never be like this, but now that she closes the door and ignores me, and doesn't reply to my words, could it be that I am really wrong and shouldn't reprimand her?

I glanced at the lipstick in my hand, put it on the table, and clapped my hands at Chen Le: "Xiaole, dad hug." ”

Xu Heng was playing the piano, the music sounded, Chen Le was listening to it, Xu Heng picked her up and sat on her lap, Chen Le's little hand pressed the piano keys indiscriminately, very excited.

I stood up, sighed, and went out the door.

Tong Wangjun just glanced at me and didn't follow, I closed the door, felt in my pocket, and took out a cigarette to light for myself.

"Uncle Xu, you're here. I heard Chen Ke's voice, she went out of the room and seemed to run to Xu Heng's side.

"Come, come, sit with me, and let my uncle see what you have learned in school, and whether you have made progress in the piano. "Xu Heng is greeting my daughter.

"I'll move another stool. Tong Wangjun cooperated beside him.

There was a needle that seemed to pierce my chest, I was in terrible pain, standing at the door, slowly exhaling smoke, wanting to hear some more sounds, wanting to hear Chen Ke ask, I wanted to hear Tong Wangjun explain for me.

But no, nothing, only laughter and music from time to time, Tong Wangjun didn't explain to Chen Ke, didn't ease the relationship in front of Chen Ke for me, Chen Ke didn't ask me, but smiled and played the piano there, competing with Chen Le, and laughing with Xu Heng.

The laughter inside was accompanied by the sound of the piano from time to time, and I imagined that the picture should be very warm.

Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with me, I seem to have come here just to pay for the piano, to help move the piano.

I'm on the margins.

Suddenly there was a sound in the room, very close to me, and I fled in a bit of a hurry, scurrying down the stairs, afraid of being discovered.

Out of the community, I suddenly felt some irony, why did I run away? Inside is my daughter, my ex-wife, why should I run away? Xu Heng is just an outsider, I should be closer than Xu Heng in front of Tong Wangjun, Chen Ke and Chen Le, but why am I the one who escaped?

Before I knew it, it seemed like I was an outsider.

I always thought that for Tong Wangjun, Chen Ke, and Chen Le, Xu Heng was an outsider.

My hand reached into my pocket, the cigarette was finished, and I crumpled the cigarette case into a ball and threw it in the trash.

I walked casually, without a goal, I bought a cigarette again in a small grocery store, but I didn't smoke it in my hand, I didn't go back immediately, and after walking for a distance, I went around to the side of Tong Wangjun's community and found a place to sit down.

I'm waiting, waiting for Tong Wangjun to call me, Chen Ke may think of me, think of my father, think of wanting to see me, I take out my mobile phone and look at it from time to time.

But time passed, and it was getting dark, and my phone never rang.

"Is there something wrong with the young man, do you want to help?" someone talked to me, I looked up, a sanitation worker stood in front of me, she still held a few hot buns in her hand, handed them to me, showing a kind smile, "I see you have been sitting here for a long time, for most of the day, take the buns to eat, just bought, still hot." ”

"No thanks. I smiled a little awkwardly.

"Take it, fill your stomach, it will feel better. There is no hurdle in life that cannot be overcome, and you can see what you encounter. The sanitation worker stuffed the bun in his hand into my hand, "I still have to go to work, it's a cold day, let's go home early." ”

I stood up, looked at the sanitation workers cleaning the streets, looked at the buns in my hands, and finally decided not to wait, and prepared to go back.

I looked up in the direction of Tong Wangjun Community, watched for a while, carried the bun into the subway station, and got on the subway line to the train station.

Some things seem to be drifting apart, even though they are reluctant to give up on each other.

On the side, a gray-haired sanitation worker looks like a 60-year-old sanitation worker wielding a wide bamboo broom, sweeping the streets with difficulty but hard work.

At this age, she should have enjoyed her life at home, but she was working against the cold wind.

Who doesn't want to enjoy their old age, be happy and happy, and tease their grandchildren, but life is destined to not be so happy, and everyone has more or less regrets.

There may be many regrets in life, but there are more responsibilities waiting for you.

The third branch has already opened, and I rushed back at this point, and it should not be closed yet, so I just went over to see how the business was doing.