Chapter 52: Before the New Year

"Blaw! My dad is back this year for the New Year! Yao Aijun took the Spring Festival couplets and walked home, and as soon as he entered the house, he couldn't wait to call out. After calling it out, I realized that my expectations and thoughts for my parents were far more urgent than I imagined.

Grandma looked at him with a smile: "Well, yes." Jun'er is going to paste the Spring Festival couplets. They probably won't be back until the first and second days of junior high school! ”

"So grandma you know!" Looking at his grandmother's reaction, Yao Aijun also understood, and asked him to go to Grandpa Li's house to ask for Spring Festival couplets, probably on purpose, just to make him happy.

In the next few busy days, Yao Aijun often wandered, lit the stove with briquettes, and almost threw out the unburned ones. Grandma looked at him angrily and funny, and sent him back to the house to play by himself.

Yao Aijun touched his nose in a sneer, ran out of the house, and ran to the big playground behind the compound.

There are not many people here on weekdays, and there are even fewer people during the Chinese New Year. Empty and empty is very suitable for tidying up your feelings.

Yao Aijun ran around and jogged a few laps, and with regular exercise, his brain gradually cooled down. Yes, he was so excited. After so many years of estrangement, he didn't even know what to say to his parents after meeting!

Running until his body was slightly warm, he came to the parallel bars area again, supported it with both hands, easily turned over on the bar, hung his legs on the bar on one side, hooked the other cylinder with the instep of his foot, hung upside down on his body, and hung himself on the parallel bars with his head down.

Scenes from the previous life came up from the depths of my mind.

When he was young, he practiced three times in winter and three times in summer, and the children in the same training cried again and again when they pressed their legs and stretched their tendons, only he gritted his teeth with a small face and held his breath to suffocate his face to blood red. Just for the sentence "Tiger fathers have no dogs, and boys shed blood, sweat and tears." ”

Bright red report cards in school, parent-teacher conferences again and again. Almost all of them were just mottled grandmothers sitting in the middle of a bunch of young parents, listening to the teacher complaining about his cultural lessons again and again, and begging in front of the teacher again and again to give the child more encouragement.

That year, when he decided to go to a sports school, he was on the phone with his father. It was not so clear what he had said, but he remembered his father's regrets, his father's sighs. Just because, I regret that I couldn't participate in person at an important intersection on the road of my son's life.

Then, he remembered the first time he stood on the podium of the National Youth Games. At that time, he didn't live much at home anymore. The permanent residence is in the team dormitory, and the training camp runs everywhere. The medal at that Youth Games earned him a ticket to the Championships where he died, and he became a rising star on the diving platform.

At that time, he was in high spirits, and he couldn't wait to share his joy. He covered the phone and called the enlightened teacher, the grandmother at home, and the old coach of the former provincial team to report the good news, but he didn't think to tell his parents.

Actually, I really didn't expect it? When the memory came up from the depths of his mind, he realized that the desire had never been forgotten and had not been erased, he was just too far away, carefully weighed, and did not know whether his success was worth paying attention to the plan......

He has been more strict with himself and trained again and again, hoping to get better results, and often does not go home even during the Chinese New Year.

And then ...... He received the news of his grandmother's unexpected death...... So suddenly, so suddenly that I couldn't make it in time to see the last one. Yes, he was training behind closed doors.

Because there was no one at home, my grandmother was delayed in treatment. At the funeral, he fought with his father fiercely, with red eyes and roaring like an orphaned little beast. What was my father like at that time? He couldn't remember, he was angry at that moment, and vented all the fear and grief of losing his loved ones on the man who took leave to mourn.

After that, he no longer contacted his family. He mechanically pursued the peaks of his career.

World Championships, World Cups, Olympic Games...... He has attacked for medals again and again, and has won what people call Grand Slams. Standing on the podium, he was lost in the light, and the event was noisy, but there was no one to share......

The Last ...... The memory freezes on the eve of his trip north to Russia. Falling from the peak, he hit a wall in front of reality again and again, ruthlessly abandoned by the glory of the past, became radical and suspicious, no longer trusting anyone, and no longer accepting anyone's care and help. He remembered that he was sneering and sinister on the last phone call, and there was only silence there, and then he sighed faintly, saying that he would always wait for you to come back. But, in that train accident, the return trip has become a ...... forever

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Fragments of memory are so blurry and so clear. It turned out that when he didn't know it, even after experiencing time and space travel, it was these that were indelible, unwilling and regretful, and looking forward to it.

Coming out of his trance-like memory, Yao Aijun saw a small pink lump squatting beside him, sitting quietly on his legs on the parallel bars. "Yo ho, scare me, why are you squatting here without squeaking?"

Xiao Tuanzi, who was fluffily wrapped in a cotton jacket, glanced at him sadly: "I called you for a long time, but you ignored me...... Alas......"

Xiao Tuanzi's love is very low today, and he is full of vitality on weekdays.

Yao Aijun hurriedly jumped down from the pole, squatted in front of her and comforted: "It's my brother who is not good, my brother is thinking about things and didn't hear it." Don't be angry, I didn't mean to ignore you. ”

The little ball is still nesting motionless. After a while, he sighed faintly: "Alas~~~~~~~~~~~~"

Yao Aijun was a little confused, what happened to this kid today. After thinking about it, he took out a two-dollar bill from his pocket, folded a common "east, west, north and south" and put it on his finger, and teased her with words in his mouth: "East eighteen, West eighteen, there is a child who wants to eat melons." ”

Gu Xiaonan looked at his fingers in the paper sleeve opening and closing, pretending to be a ghost, and couldn't help laughing: "Brother Yao hates it, there is no writing in this, so people don't eat melons." ”

He took the paper sleeve off his finger and put it on his finger, playing with the paper sleeve while keeping his head down and not speaking.

It took a long time before he sighed faintly: "Brother Yao, I'm leaving." I won't be able to see you in the future. ”

Yao Aijun was stunned for a moment, and reacted, no wonder he didn't have this little Lori in his impression, so he was already leaving the compound at this time?

At the beginning, Gu Xiaonan's words were much smoother: "Xiaonan is going to follow her father to a far place." Dad said he wouldn't necessarily come back. Will Brother Yao remember Nannan? ”

Yao Aijun looked at the little Lori in front of him with a sad look on his face, and he was also a little sad, it was too strict to have a love affair today. Stretched out his hand and rubbed his wrinkled little face, "Of course you will remember it, don't be sad, it's not a little beauty, and it's even uglier if you wrinkle." ”

Gu Xiaonan was angry, no matter how small the little beauty was, she was not allowed to question her beauty: "I hate it!" People are not ugly! ”

Yao Aijun propped up one leg and sat down next to her: "When are you leaving?" ”

The little girl's newly puffed cheeks were deflated again, and she said wiltingly, "Let's celebrate the New Year." ”

"So fast. So what do you do when you study? ”

"Dad said there is a school over there."

"Oh."

"Alas, Nan Nan is gone, and no one will study to Brother Yao in the future." The little one is still thinking about his "job duties".

Yao Aijun deliberately teased her: "It's okay, I'll find someone else to read it when I go back, such as Xiaopang, Erhuzi, ......"

"No, you can't!" Little Lori was really angry, staring at him with round eyes, and said word by word: "No! ”

"Just like Chubby, do you know how to read? Don't let them read it! ”

"Okay."

"Xiao Nan is gone, Brother Yao wants to miss me."

"Okay."

"Write a letter!"

"Okay."

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