Chen Anxiu really wanted to just agree to come down and come out to hide for two days to be clean and comfortable, not only for Ji Junyan, Ji Junyan is such a little kid, it is not worth his waste of too much energy, that is, he has been in Beijing for more than a month, and he has experienced too many things, he wants to calm down and sort it out, but it is definitely not now, he remembers what his grandmother said, and he quickly picks it out if there is a thorn in his heart. So he was going to ask Zhang Shi and hear what the man had to say. Another one, he didn't greet him in advance, and suddenly moved out of Ji's house, and the two old men were not easy to explain.

After listening to his decision, Lu Jiangyuan felt in his heart, if he and Changning were so brave to face it back then, and a lot of words were spoken, would a lot of regrets be avoided?" "Since you have decided, I will not be reluctant, just do what you say." If you need help or have any questions, you can come to me. ”

Chen Anxiu put down the teacup in his hand and said, "Uncle Lu, you have helped me a lot today." Answered a large part of the questions in his mind, which he couldn't ask in the Ji family.

"Anxiu, what are you polite to me. "I haven't done anything for this kid since I was a child. Now that the child is older, he just wants to do it, and what he can do is limited.

Chen Anxiu grinned and said, "I won't say much about that kind word." "When I came, I didn't have a heart, I just knew that Lu Dao seemed to be a three-story villa. Now look at it, the house is quite large, and the cleaning up is clean, that is, if you live in such a big house alone, will you feel empty? If he would rather live a little smaller, at least he will not feel space, remembering the sound of firecrackers that he only heard at night in the Chinese New Year's Eve, "Uncle Lu, do you have time in a few days?"

"Is there something wrong with you?"

"There are too many people in the Ji family, I want to come out in two days to hide and be clean, here in Beijing, I don't know anyone else, do you have a room here to borrow for me to live in?"

Lu Jiangyuan laughed, scolded the stinky boy, got up and took the key in the drawer and threw it to him, "I'll have people greet the doorman, you can come whenever you want, or I'll pick you up." ”

Chen Anxiu didn't know how to politely stuff the key into his pocket, "If I want rent, I definitely don't have any money, but I can use my family as a mortgage for you." ”

His natural and unrestrained posture made Lu Jiangyuan very happy to a certain extent, and Lu Jiangyuan's words were obviously much more relaxed, "Then forget it, I can't serve that little ancestor." ”

Coming out of Lu Jiangyuan and refusing the other party's send-off, Chen Anxiu took a taxi back by himself, this morning Zhang Shinian took tons and Ji Junxin to visit an elder, and when he got home, those people had not come back. Ji Junyan and the old man were standing under the cedar tree in the courtyard chatting, and when they saw him, Ji Junyan immediately greeted him, "Uncle Chen." ”

If he could, Chen Anxiu really didn't want to deal with him, he didn't hate this kid much, but liking it was absolutely not, but the old man was here, he had to cheer up and deal with it, "Dad, Junyan, what are you looking at?"

"Jun Yan said just now, there seems to be a magpie's nest on the tree, Anxiu, do you see that?"

Chen Anxiu followed the old man's finger and saw that there was indeed a bird's nest, "But there are no magpies in it, and I'm not sure what kind of nest it is." Although he grew up in the mountains and has dug up a lot of bird's nests, he really hasn't studied the types of birds' nests.

The old man obviously didn't mean to get to the bottom of it, the three of them talked casually, Sister-in-law Yu notified the meal, and they entered the house, today there were four people in the house, there were a total of five or six plates on the table, everyone was seated, Ji Junyan went to the kitchen to work for a long time, and then brought out a large portion of vegetable salad with a glass bowl, "Grandpa, grandma, if you eat too much, your mouth will inevitably be a little tired, and you will eat some vegetable salad to clear your mouth." ”

Although Chen Anxiu is not an absolute carnivore, he is still not interested in eating grass, in his opinion, that big bowl of raw vegetables and grass is a level, and the Ji family because of the old lady's taste, the dishes are not greasy at all, during the Chinese New Year, when the children and guests are there, they only add more meat dishes, usually it is still light, take today's dinner table, meat dishes, only a shredded chicken and a bowl of baby cabbage pig's trotter soup per person, and the rest are green vegetables, which is also called big fish and big meat?

Ji Zhongjie and Zhang Yunzhi both gave some face, and Chen Anxiu also followed with a pair of chopsticks, salad dressing and black pepper inevitably put too much, what kind of strange taste is this? He quietly drank the soup, rushing the taste in his mouth, the simplest vegetable salad is made like this, this child may have never been in the kitchen, although this dish is really not delicious, but it is not bad to have this filial piety.

"How's Grandpa?" asked Ji Jun earnestly and earnestly.

"The few cold dishes that Bi'an Xiu and Jun Yi mixed yesterday are almost there, but it's still okay. ”

"I'll keep working hard in the future. ”

After the meal, Ji Junyan rushed to help Sister-in-law Yu clean up the dishes and chopsticks, Chen Anxiu estimated that he was about to wake up, greeted the two old men, and went back to the room directly, hot milk, and when he was feeding and drinking, Ji Junyan knocked on the door and came in, "Uncle Chen, I'm sorry for what happened that night, I was in a bad mood and lost my temper with you." I'm young and ignorant, so don't take it personally. ”

Chen Anxiu thought to himself, which one is this singing? This kid turned his face like flipping a book, and he couldn't figure out whether his words were true and which ones were false?

Ji Junyan saw that Chen Anxiu didn't speak, thinking that he was unwilling to forgive, and he was secretly annoyed, but he continued to explain, "This is the first time I have left my parents' side, and I feel uncomfortable when I see that others are all reunited, and they can't come back. And my mom is sick too, and I'm worried about her. "What he said is not all false, on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, everyone else spent it with the whole family, and he was alone, the family was not particularly close to him, and then thinking about the attitude of his grandfather and fourth uncle, he had a feeling of despair. So when he met Chen Anxiu, he didn't control it for a while, he said those words, he originally meant to make Chen Anxiu, who was the most jealous, not happy, but after saying that, he regretted it, if Chen Anxiu went to the fourth uncle to sue him, it would be even more impossible to let the fourth uncle help his mother, so today he took advantage of the fourth uncle's absence to force himself to come over and apologize.

Chen Anxiu had the urge to scold, but if he wanted to worry about it with a half-grown child, it would not be his turn to educate him, "I know about this matter, but I don't pay attention to it." ”

"The fourth uncle ...... over there" This is what he is most worried about.

"Don't worry, I didn't tell him. ”

Ji Junyan breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, "Then I won't bother you, Uncle Chen, grandpa is still waiting for me to practice calligraphy in the study." ”

Chen Anxiu smiled and nodded, "When you go out, please help me bring the door." ”

After he came out, Chen Anxiu hugged Mao Mao and patted him, "Mao Mao, it's still good for you, you can't speak, so you don't have to tell lies every day." Ever since he had spoken like a father at the annual meeting that day, and he hadn't said a word since then, he was even more sure that this little thing was born to oppose him.

"Ah......" The bubbling head rubbed against the dimple of Dad's neck.

"Why don't you have the energy for the past two days?" Chen Anxiu touched his little chubby face.

Mao Mao grabbed his father's fingers and put them in his mouth, Chen Anxiu had long known his habit of grabbing everything and putting it in his mouth, and he didn't think much about it at this time, so he said, "Dirty, this can't be eaten, Dad will go to the kitchen to get you clean radishes later." ”

Mao Mao's mouth was still open, Chen Anxiu looked at it for a long time and still didn't feel anything abnormal, as if there was a small white spot in the lower gum, he laughed, "Mao Mao, are you teething?" and then wanted to touch it.

At this time, Zhang Shinian came in from outside, and when he saw his action, he clapped his hands and said, "What do you want to do?"

Chen Anxiu said excitedly, "It seems to be teething, look, look." ”

Zhang Shinian washed his hands, skillfully found the clean gloves that had been sterilized and put them on, poked into his mouth, and helped him gently rub his lower teeth, which seemed to be more comfortable, closed his eyes, and began to doze off.

"What, it turns out that you already know the Tao. "No wonder Zhang Shinian has been doing this sometimes lately, he thought he was playing tricks before.

Zhang Shinian said with a smile, "This is just the beginning, and it's not good." You come and touch it. ”

Chen Anxiu washed his hands, leaned in and touched it, and there was obviously something hard in the white spot. He still wanted to touch it, but Zhang Shinian stopped him and said, "Okay, he's asleep, don't wake him up." He picked him up and put him in the crib.

"Where's the ton?"

"I went to Jun Yi's house, and I had a birthday today, saying that I wanted my little uncle to go over to eat birthday cake. ”

"It's a big birthday on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year. Shall we give a gift?"

Zhang Shinian only had time to take off his coat at this time, and went to the bathroom to wash his hands, "No, it's just a child's birthday, the family is not so particular, and he will help buy it if he has money on him." ”

Chen Anxiu leaned against the door of the bathroom and said, "I have something to ask you." "Sooner or later, it's better to come directly.

Zhang Shinian pulled a towel to wipe his hands, "What's wrong, so serious?"

"I've always been such a serious person. After saying that, he couldn't help but laugh at first, it didn't seem that there was no need to be so serious about this matter, he hung on Zhang Shinian's body, and let people drag him all the way back to the room.

"Tell me, what's going on?" Although An Xiu was smiling, he obviously didn't have the spirit of the past.

"What's going on with Qin and Xi's photos?Why does it appear under your pillow?" He didn't believe Zhang Shinian, but he couldn't figure out what Qin Hexi's photo was like and what would appear on their bed, and then Ji Junyan said something to him.

Zhang Shinian's heart sank slightly, "Did someone say anything to you?" An Xiu didn't care about these at first, but now he suddenly asked again, it was definitely what happened in the middle, An Xiu is not the kind of person who doesn't say it at the time and settles accounts after the autumn.

"You don't want to talk about the previous thing, and I won't ask, but you shouldn't have any bad thoughts in your heart now, right?" Chen Anxiu squinted his eyes and looked at him.

Zhang Shi smiled young, patted Chen Anxiu on the forehead and said, "I was negligent, you go to change your clothes, and I'll tell you when you get to bed." Before, he thought that everything was over, and there was no need to say it, but he didn't take into account that although An Xiu's nerves were very thick, he would mind some things.

Chen Anxiu obediently went to change his clothes, Zhang Shinian locked the door, and changed his clothes and went to bed, "Where to start?"

Chen Anxiu hugged his waist and found a comfortable position, "From Qin and Xi." ”

"Qin Hexi's father, Uncle Qin Li, is my father's old comrade-in-arms, the two families come and go very frequently, I have known her since I was very young, she is six years older than me, when I was a child, she often took me out to play, and sometimes lived here, I always called her third sister. ”

"Sounds like a good feeling, but what happened later?"

Zhang Shinian rubbed his hair, "Later, I followed my uncle to the United States, and I came back twice a year, and the number of meetings was less, and there was an age difference here, Qin Sanjie had many suitors and friends, she couldn't take care of me, and I didn't have so much to say to her, so I gradually became estranged." ”

"And how did you like her later?"

Zhang Shinian smiled, and didn't admit that someone had told him, if no one said it, how could An Xiu know this, "I came back for the summer vacation when I was eighteen years old, and the third sister's birthday was in July, and the momentum of the Qin family was very strong at that time. "Thinking about the surging crowds at that time, the grand scene sought after by everyone, and then thinking about the sharp changes in the Qin family in the following year, it is like confirming those four words: prosperity must decline.

"I remember that day my father didn't want me and my third brother to go. "What the old man said at the time was that the Qin family's style was wrong, maybe he had a premonition, Qin Li didn't come to their house much at that time, and occasionally came, it ended in a quarrel. Perhaps at that time, they had a clear disagreement on the choice of some kind of path.

"You still went after the last?" Thinking about it, I also knew that Zhang Shinian specially mentioned Qin Hexi's birthday banquet, something must have happened.

The third brother insisted on going, and he also said that the third sister hadn't seen me for a long time, so let me go with me to play, and I didn't seem to have anything to do at that time, so I secretly followed the third brother. The birthday banquet was very grand, there were a lot of people who went, everyone from the Qin family was there, and a lot of people from the Ji family also went, Qin Mingjun was still called Ji Mingjun at that time, and he was also there at that time. ”

"So you've known him so early. And then, what happened? You don't get drunk and have sex, do you?"

Zhang Shinian knocked him, "You drink as much as you?" He wasn't drunk, it was someone else who was drunk.

It was Qin Youxi who was drunk, she was like a real princess, confident and decent, talking and laughing freely, many people at the banquet wanted to invite her to dance, and everyone revolved around her, "She has been dancing since she was a child, and she dances very well." She and I danced the last one of the night. ”

At that time, Qin Youxi turned down other people's invitations and came over to him: "It's rare for Xiao Si'er to come back once, and I must dance the last one with you today." ”

When she danced, she seemed to be drunk, and the whole person was lying in his arms. After that, Qin Youxi asked him to send her back to the room, he used to often go in and out of Qin's house, and knew where her room was, after entering the room, Qin Youxi suddenly hugged him and said: "The youngest little fourth child has grown up now, and the longer he grows, the more handsome he becomes." Saying that he said in his ear, before that, because of his uncle's strict discipline, he had never been so close to girls, and he was still such a beautiful girl.

"Third sister, you are drunk, rest early. Although he was calm at the time, he was still a little flustered. When he first came out of Qin Youxi's room, he met Qin Li, and he made a joke about him and Qin Youxi at that time.

But these are still not so clear to An Xiu, "After the birthday banquet, we can be regarded as resuming contact, and we have eaten together a few times after that. "It was a bit hazy at the time. He thought that this might be in love, "Qin Youxi asked me if I would stay in the United States after graduating from college in the future, or return to China for development." I also asked if I wanted to try it with her?"

"You promised?"

Zhang Shinian shook his head, before he could answer, the third brother broke in, "The third brother's eyes were red at the time, and he was crazy to do it with me." I haven't been at home for a long time in those years, and I don't know that the third brother of Lu Dao likes Qin Hexi is already well known in this circle. The third brother probably thought that I deliberately pried him into the corner, and the people outside did not know about this matter, but there was a big fuss at home, and the whole family knew about it, but no one was on my side, even my mother thought I was wrong, and asked me to apologize to the third brother, and I was angry, so I went to Green Island to find my father who was recuperating......"

"Wait, wait. Chen Anxiu interrupted him, "You said Green Island? It turns out that you went there more than 20 years ago? Didn't you say that the old man lived in the sanatorium on Dongshan? Then are you the one you went to, I used to play there after school." Maybe we've met, but unfortunately we didn't know each other at the time, otherwise I could comfort you and comfort you. He raised his hand and touched Zhang Shinian's forehead and said, "It's so pitiful, the whole family is not on your side." ”

Zhang Shinian was hurt by his gloating tone, grabbed his hand and said, "Do you still want to listen, if you don't listen, I won't talk about it." "Obviously, I felt very sad in the past, but now I am being troubled by An Xiu, and I feel like talking about other people's things now. I can't bring the emotions of the time into it at all.

"Alright, alright, I won't say anything, you continue. Chen Anxiu grabbed Zhang Shinian's slender fingers and bent them around.

"Since then, the relationship between me and the third brother is not as good as before, my third brother is actually not bad, but a little roundabout, he likes Qin and Xi to the point that he can not even die, he thinks that I am the obstruction between him and Qin and Xi, how can I forgive me, if I admit his mistake at the time, maybe it will be better, but I also felt that I was wronged at the time, insisted on not apologizing to him, and said that I couldn't catch up with my girlfriend, don't blame others, after the summer vacation, I went back to the United States, and I didn't come back because I was angry with him during the winter vacation, so I came back for two days during the Spring Festival, and then left, and I didn't talk to the third brother。 The third brother seemed to want to talk to him a few times, but he didn't pay attention.

"When I came back again, it was the summer vacation of the following year. The third brother is still not married, my father is very angry, the third brother is the most obedient of our four brothers, but in this matter, he is particularly persistent. He was engaged in a job of compiling literature and history at the time, this was his interest, after a long time, my father seemed to have given up, a bit by his temperament, I also met Qin Youxi at that time, she was working in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the time, but after seeing her, I couldn't say what I felt. Qin Youxi is still so beautiful and confident, but he is a little disgusted in his heart for this person dragging the third brother and dividing the relationship between him and the third brother. But thinking that the third brother was wishful thinking, he couldn't say anything. Even with some resentment, the third brother is not angry, and he doesn't want to deal with him more and more. The relationship became more and more stiff, and after getting to the worst, everyone in the family felt that the two brothers loved Qin and Xi deeply, so that the brothers turned against each other.

The knot in my heart is formed day by day, and when I want to untie it after the end, I can't find where the knot was at the beginning, "The decline of the Qin family seems to have happened overnight, and there was no sign in advance, at least in the eyes of many people, Uncle Qin was caught first, and Qin Youxi's brother came to ask his father for help, but at that time, his father had not been home for many days." It didn't take long for the Qin family's cases to come out one by one, because our family and the Qin family were very close, but our family had nothing to do, and my father refused to meet, so it was rumored that the Qin family's affairs were reported by my father, and he was very deeply involved. ”

"The people of the Qin family are all involved?"

Zhang Shinian nodded, "But before that, Qin Youxi, his brother, and two cousins were gone. ”

"You don't need to say the next thing, anyway, you already know that you have nothing to do with Qin Hexi, and you were beaten by your third brother without even holding someone's little hand. He knew that the experience below must be unpleasant, otherwise the Ji family would not have wanted to mention it all these years.

pressed his legs numbly, Zhang Shinian changed his leg and pressed him, "That's all here, just give you an understanding." ”

"Seeing Qin and Xi again was more than half a month after they disappeared. That day, the third brother called home and said that he had something to say to me. At that time, he didn't want the relationship between the two brothers to be stiff like this, and felt that the third brother bowed his head first, so he cooperated, "I was defenseless against him at all, he was drugged in the water." When I woke up again, I was in a basement. There are no lights, one step forward, one step back, it's all walls, you can't lie down. ”

Chen Anxiu subconsciously shook his hand, "How long have you been in there?" ”

"At that time, I didn't have the concept of time, and then I heard my mother say that it was twenty-one days. ”

Chen Anxiu couldn't think about what it was like to stay in such a closed and dark place for twenty-one days, it was a miracle that people didn't collapse, "Qin Hexi's brother, Qin Youtao has always believed that the Ji family betrayed the Qin family, he hates the people of the Ji family, and he can't wait for the people of the Ji family to die. ”

"Did he do anything else to you?"

"Qin Youtao is a ruthless and cautious person, he didn't feel at ease when he locked me up, he was afraid that I would escape, and he even asked people to inject me with morphine. ”

"Then you ......"

"Qin and Tao directly wanted me to die at that time, anyway, the third brother communicated with the family, and the family didn't notice anything for the time being, but the third brother tried his best to help me intercede. He also threatened them that if I died, he would never help them again. Qin Youtao wanted to leave as soon as possible, so he agreed to the third brother's request. They threatened my mother and uncle to use the Zhang family's overseas connections to help them escape to China. ”

"And then they all managed to escape?"

Zhang Shinian said flatly, "They are all dead, except for the third brother and Qin Hexi." "Where is the Zhang family being bullied, and the Zhang family doesn't want to fall out with the above. The third brother was able to survive because of the Ji family's face.

Chen Anxiu doesn't advocate violence, but at this moment, he didn't sympathize with those people at all, the atmosphere was a little heavy, and he found a lighter topic to turn away, "So, you haven't been married all these years, isn't it because of Qin Hexi?"

"At that time, I didn't even start, what did I think about her over the years, even if she had, it was already worn out in those twenty-one days. "Small, occluded, untouchable darkness, the spirit is almost broken, how much love can be left.

"Then you haven't made it clear to your family?"

"I mentioned it once, but they all pretended to be strong for me, and then I didn't mention it, if I didn't have this shield, would I be able to wait for you? Don't you think Mom is very good to you?"

Chen Anxiu nodded, the old lady had never felt sorry for him since they first met, it is said that people of this age should be very reluctant to this kind of thing, "I always thought it was the reason why I was so likable." ”

Zhang Shinian took him to lie down and said with a smile, "Of course, this is one of the reasons, and there is another one who probably thinks that you are the one who rescued her son from Qin Hexi's suffering." "Not to mention the two old men, but the two brothers above feel that he has a wound in his heart that has not healed over the years. "I begged my third brother for help, hoping that he would let me go, but Qin Youtao didn't let him get close to me at all, and in the end, Qin Youxi secretly let me go once, but I was physically exhausted and was arrested again. "I was beaten up a lot.

After that, going to the United States was a long period of psychological and drug rehabilitation, and now it is a matter of one sentence, but it was difficult at that time, and my mother, who had been with her, couldn't hold on, and once even moved the idea of divorce. When he was nineteen years old, the family almost broke up.

In a sense, he really owes Qin Hexi once, so Qin Hexi can escape smoothly at the last moment, he thinks that leaving Qin and Xixi's lives is considered two clear, so now that Jun Yan is back, what kind of affection do you want him to read?

Things are clear, the world is peaceful, Chen Anxiu deeply comforted Zhang Shi at home for two days, and found that he really had nothing unusual, saluted, took the ton, hugged the risk, greeted the two old men, and went directly to Lu Jiangyuan, Ji Junyan with you at home, right?

Zhang Shinian went home and didn't even see Anxiu and the children, so he went to Hongyuan to block Lu Jiangyuan, Lu Jiangyuan was obviously prepared, and when he saw people, he said, "I live alone with my son and grandson for a few days, is there anything inappropriate?" and kindly suggested to him, "If you still have time, let's have more to do with the affairs of the Ji family." ”

The author has something to say: I didn't finish writing last night, but I finally finished supplementing it at noon, and I finally finished explaining the things of the year.