Outside the wall, there was a flatbed truck parked on the side of the street, and on top of it was a large black iron pot, which looked like a sugar-fried chestnut stand. Chen Chi stared in that direction, and thought in a trance that this year's sugar-fried chestnuts had already been put on sale.

Xu Shuangchuan ate more and more, unlike the good time when he just graduated and returned to China, and he had to carefully look for good varieties of sugar-fried chestnuts, otherwise she muttered, she said that she had a hobby of squirrels, but he did not have the discriminating power of a squirrel.

"Is it because of a third party?" asked his father's voice beside him.

The third party, Lu Qing, Lin Yu?

In Chen Chi's mind, the appearance of Lu Qing calling him Brother Chen flashed, the appearance of Lin Yu wanting to shake hands with him, the appearance of Xu Shuangchuan arguing with him across the bed, turning like a kaleidoscope, and finally froze into the appearance of her quietly lying at the divorce counter to sign.

“…… No. He clenched his throat.

"Then why?" Chen Songping looked at his son with his eyebrows locked, saw him looking ahead in silence, and said slowly, "With your father, what can't you say?"

“…… It was my fault. Chen Chi's gaze crossed the sugar-fried chestnut stall, stopped in the middle of the void, and only made a voice after a while, "Almost all the things at home are taken care of by Shuangshuang, and when she was in a bad mood, I didn't reason with her properly, and I didn't ...... Give her a good life. ”

After all, Chen Chi was not used to mentioning his emotions to his father, so after a pause, he took a breath and lifted his emotions: "Dad, I'm going to buy a house." ”

"Okay," Chen Songping was also happy when he heard this, and couldn't help but worry, "Is there a shortage of money for the down payment? I saved a sum of money with your mother, and I thought I would give it to you when you needed it." ”

"You squeeze out of the pension, save so little, give it to me and use it indiscriminately, it's better for you to spend it yourself. Seeing that his father was happy, Chen Chi pulled his lips and suggested, "Don't think about me, when your mother's body recovers, you can also learn from other retired old couples, and you take your mother to travel to various places." ”

Chen Songping laughed out loud rarely, and even said frankly to his son: "Your mother is a person, she can set up a dragon gate formation with strangers in less than three minutes, and she can't see any good scenery when she goes out, so she likes to go to the crowd." ”

Chen Chi was surprised, glanced at his father, and couldn't help laughing: "Mom is like this." He looked at his father and said softly about his mother, and for no reason he actually envied his parents.

Decades of being in the same boat, his parents did it. He wanted to, too, but couldn't.

"Dad, when I buy a house, you can go live with me. ”

A smile appeared in the corners of Chen Songping's mouth: "Besides, let's talk about it, let's see if it's okay, it may not work to live in another place for a long time." ”

Chen Chi groaned and hesitated: "Maybe I'll buy a house here, closer to you?"

"Are you going to resign?" Chen Songping was very surprised.

"No," Chen Chi shook his head gloomily, he is divorced, and there is no need to consider the factor of Xu Shuang to buy a house, the location doesn't matter, "Buy it and put it first, and when you are older in the future, I will always come back often." ”

"Your mother and I don't need you to worry about it all the time, the two of us are very good, you work outside, the house has to be bought to live in now, renting someone else's house is not a long-term solution after all. Don't think about it so much, if you come back to see us when we are old, we will naturally live at home, our house is going to be passed on to you, what are you doing here to buy another house that you can't afford?"

It is an indisputable fact that the Chen family's house was given to Chen Chi in the future. But Chen Songping has never said so clearly in front of Chen Chi, he has always asked Chen Chi to fight and break through. In the community, there used to be a quarrel at the house of an old colleague, and the son wanted his parents to change the name of the house book to his as soon as possible, but the parents were half sad and half accommodating, and the neighbors talked about it, and persuaded the parents behind their backs that they could not change it, and the house would become the son's, and then the son would have the name to kick them out to rent a house. Chen Songping once commented in front of Chen Chi that the man who misses his father's little money is not a good man with ambition.

However, at this time, Chen Songping suddenly made a promise in advance like someone else's doting father, and warmly promised infinitely. Chen Chi stared at his father's plain and kind eyebrows in amazement, it took him a long time to get used to it, he silently swallowed the softness that inexplicably surged up his throat, and said, "Then you go live with me." ”

"Let's talk about it. Chen Songping still said the same thing. He looked at Chen Chi's eager expression, smiled and said, "In the future, when there is only one between me and your mother, I will always follow you." ”

"Dad," Chen Chi was stunned for a moment, and immediately said dissatisfied, "What are you talking about?"

"Everyone can't avoid life and death, what's there to taboo?" Chen Songping said open-mindedly.

Outside the railing, a gust of wind came, rolling up the corners of the father and son's clothes.

"Dad hasn't been with your grandparents for many days in his life. Your grandmother passed away early, your grandfather lived with your uncle, and my father left home at the age of sixteen. ”

Chen Chi looked at his father in surprise, he had never heard his father talk about this past.

"I hadn't known your mother for long. Chen Songping looked at the sky, the fine lines at the corners of his eyes seemed to stretch softly, and his voice was slow: "Later, I thought, what should your mother do? It is very difficult for your mother to transfer with me, so I applied and changed to her unit." ”

"The factory in the mountains, was it a mother's unit at the beginning?"

Chen Chi never thought that his father and mother would have young love. Since he was a child, all he can remember is that his father pointed to the corner of the wall with a straight face and told him to stand over, and his mother glanced at him behind his father's back, signaling him to obey first. This impressive impression ran through his entire childhood memory, so that he could not adjust for a while, and he looked at his father silently, trying to find the distant reverberation from his father's clear face.

"Dad's life, after all, stayed with your mother the longest, which I didn't expect at the time. Chen Songping's narration has always been calm, and it seems that many years have passed in such a calm manner, "This is actually normal." A person, except for the period from birth to adulthood, is with his parents after starting a family, and is with his other half. ”

"People, who have been with each other the longest, are not parents, not children, but the other half they are looking for. Chen Songping turned his head sideways and looked at Chen Chi gently.

Chen Chi looked back at his father and wanted to ask what would happen if the other half left, but he couldn't ask.

"Shuangshuang's daughter-in-law, I like it very much," Chen Songping sighed lightly, "The first time I saw her, I thought that this girl's personality must not be bad, and then I really thought that she was delicate, simple-hearted, and very good with you." Your mother also likes frost, we have lived with you for half a year, and your mother came back and said that such a daughter-in-law can live together all the time, and she can be harmonious. ”

Chen Chi lowered his eyes and hid the astringency in his eyes.

"Originally, I wanted to go to her house with your mother to see her and persuade you, but I think you don't want our parents to get involved, and now your mother has surgery again. Chen Songping sighed again, "You are always living your life, and only you know what it means to get along with husband and wife." ”

"Chen Chi, when you first got married, your parents always wanted to give you a palm, and ...... in the future If you think about it yourself, your parents won't express their opinions, but we hope that you will be good and not mislead others or yourself. ”

“…… Well. ”

The autumn breeze melts into the golden sunshine of the street, wrapped in the railing, but it can't wrap the fragrance of sugar-fried chestnuts on the street. Chen Chi raised his eyes, he once lamented that he had to remember one thing every autumn, he had to buy her a sugar-fried chestnut, she had lamented that he had eaten his sugar-fried chestnuts every autumn, and he had to remember to change the seasons of the bed at home and his clothes.

But it turns out that they only have a few years every year.

At dusk, dinner was delivered to the ward.

"This fish is big, I can't eat so much, you and Chi'er share it. ”

"You eat, Chen Chi is not used to eating the food in the hospital, and he can't eat enough, I will go out with him to eat later, you drink the soup, and eat the fish, how much can you eat, be careful of stabbing." His father kept admonishing, thought about it, and took a pair of chopsticks to take out the fish, "You eat with one hand, or I'll pick a thorn for you." ”

Chen Chi watched his mother sit on the bed and his father sit on the edge of the bed, smiling around a few small bowls of food on the bedside table. Father carefully picked the fish bones, his movements were not very dexterous, and he was certainly not as good as the skills he had cultivated in the Xu family, but he was very meticulous, slowly picking down the fish meat with chopsticks, and looking at it again and again before putting it on top of his mother's rice.

Chen Chi couldn't help, he sat at the end of the bed and watched, his thoughts a little drifting. Xu Shuangxia is generally less sick, and if there is a cold, he can take medicine at home to nourish him. He deliberately ridiculed her for being a strong calf, and she had a good foundation when she was a child. She fell ill this spring, and it was delayed for a long time, and at first he happened to be on a business trip, and she dragged the sick body to and from the hospital for infusion alone, and there was no one to take care of her. When he came back, she avoided her mother's house, and then he went to pick her up, and she just slept quietly every day, eating the takeaway he brought back from work, and she didn't express her opinion on whether it was delicious or not, so it gradually got better. She never described her illness to him, nor did she tell him how she ate and spent the days with a high fever.

Since when did she begin to be silent about him?