In the toy store, Edamame was obsessively picking out toys, and I was a little bored standing outside the door, and then took out my mobile phone from my pocket. She was following a flight at a quarter past 6, which should have arrived.

opened WeChat and wanted to send her a message, but unexpectedly found that her circle of friends had already posted a set of photos. Among them are selfies of herself wearing sunglasses, as well as co-photos with Yu Xin and other colleagues.

In my memory, Xiao Ai rarely took pictures of himself, let alone those funny ones. And this time, there is really a photo of her lying in Yu Xin's arms, Yu Xin holding her waist, like dancing tango.

She seems to be in a good mood, and the people in the performing arts group seem to be very good to her, so there is also a photo of a male colleague inviting them to breakfast together, and she more affectionately calls the male colleague Brother Lu Hongbo.

I'm not jealous of this kindness, on the contrary, I'm happy for her, because I feel that she is actively adapting to human interactions, and in her current circle, such a character is needed to play.

I smiled, and then deliberately left a message under her dynamics: "Take me to say hello to your brother Lu Hongbo." ”

Xiao Ai replied with a smiling expression after a while, and then sent me a lot of photos of Xiamen University, which is known as the most beautiful university in the country, in private chat.

Unlike the rainy weather in Nanjing, it is a sunny day in Xiamen today, and there are already tourists wearing swimsuits and swim trunks on the beach, which makes those of us in the north extremely envious, because I seem to be able to smell the sea water through the screen of my mobile phone, and my ears are full of the sound of surging waves.

I sent a drooling emoji and then sent her a voice: "Do you bring a swimsuit, I heard that swimming in the morning is the best way to prevent cardiovascular disease...... You go for a swim, by the way, remember to let Yu Xin take pictures of you! ”

Xiao Ai also replied to me with voice: "Don't make trouble, I'm here to perform, not to show off my figure." ”

Xiao Ai and I bargained: "How about you take a picture of the beach?" …… At its best, it is both sexy and beautiful. ”

Xiao Ai didn't respond, I thought she was annoyed by me, who knew that five minutes later she would actually send me another picture.

Although this photo is not sexy enough, it is more than beautiful, because she is on the windy seaside, making a difficult movement that can only be found in ballet, her body is level with the beach, but her legs are in a straight line, the beauty of the golden ratio is simply thrilling to the point of suffocation, and a flock of seabirds happens to fly by the sea behind her......

She is a goddess, a goddess with both talent and beauty!

She took this photo especially for me, and of course I had to treasure it in a special way, so I set it up as a desktop picture on my phone, so that she could always be beautiful in my sight.

At this time, Edamame finally picked out a toy in the toy store, but it killed me, and he chose a high-fidelity tank with a shooting function, which cost a full 1,000 yuan. I hurriedly snatched the tank from him, then changed it to a much smaller one and handed it to the salesman, and said embarrassedly: "We want this model, that one is too strong, and it is easy to stimulate children's violent psychology!" ”

Edamame grabbed my trouser leg very unhappily and scolded me for slamming the door.

"Hurry up, I'm going to be angry!"

"Second Bridge, you slam the door!"

"I do what I can, you ask your father if he is reluctant to buy you such a big tank, he is still a civil servant who eats imperial food, and I am a jobless vagrant floating around all day long!"

Edamame felt that I had deceived him and began to attack me with words: "Who told you not to study well, everyone has a job, why don't you?" …… I don't care, I just like the big tank, I don't want the little one! ”

Edamame sat on the ground and clamped me with his legs, I was really broken by him, and when I was about to compromise, Chen Yi appeared in the toy store like a savior, and she didn't seem to go to the TV station today.

"Edamame, why did you get into trouble with Jiangqiao again?"

"He said to buy me a tank, I like the big one, he was reluctant to buy it, so he lied to me with a small one...... I don't care, I just want the big one. ”

Edamame said as he hugged my leg very unsteadily, so the phone I kept in my pocket was shaken off by him.

Chen Yi bent down and picked up the phone for me, she subconsciously glanced at the phone screen, and Xiao Ai's photo that I set up as a desktop was also eye-catching in her eyes, and she was silent...... After a long time, I returned the phone to me, and then said to Edamame with a smile: "Edamame is obedient, don't pester Jiangqiao, hurry up and pick the tank you like, Sister Chen Yi will buy it for you." ”

Edamame finally let go of me, and Chen Yi also took out a bank card from her wallet at the same time and handed it to the salesperson, and then entered the password of the bank card, I looked at her but didn't know what to say.

……

On the way back to the alley, Edamame jumped up and down in front of me and Chen Yi with a toy. I grabbed Chen Yi, then counted out a thousand yuan from my wallet and handed it to her, saying, "The gift I bought for Edamame can't let you spend money, otherwise it won't be meaningful." ”

"It's okay, next year you buy two gifts for him, I won't buy them."

I didn't insist anymore, because the cost of thousands of dollars at every turn had made me feel very difficult to do for the time being, I touched the tip of my nose with some embarrassment, and then replied: "Okay, I'll earn a little more next year and buy him two copies." ”

"Hmm." Chen Yi responded, and we walked forward in silence again, and when we were almost at the former "mood coffee shop", she asked me again: "Do you think about how to go in the future?" ”

I remembered the picture of the collapse of the conversation with Jin Qiu yesterday evening, and I felt a burst of melancholy in my heart, I now want funds without funds, and I am unwilling to return to the workplace again, after all, I was only one step away from success.

My pace slowed down unconsciously, and I didn't have enough confidence to reply to Chen Yi: "It's not so easy to find a project that suits me, let's take a look at ......."

The edamame that was running all the way was gone, and in the alley except for the rain falling carelessly, only the silence between me and Chen Yi remained.

……

At noon, Chen Yi and I had dinner at Edamame's house, thinking that it would be a peaceful afternoon, but I didn't want Qiao Ye's parents to find the hotel where he stayed, and a war between families broke out with an earth-shattering momentum.

When Chen Yi and I arrived at the hotel, Qiao Ye had already been beaten by his father, and his mother who had always regarded Qiao Ye as his heart did not protect him, and I really saw the sorrow of a wealthy family in Qiao Ye's silent anger......

Qiao Ye's family education method is like this, his mother pampered him as much as she could, his father neglected him, once Qiao Ye had a rebellious place, it was a brutal stick education, but Qiao Ye was a person who was not afraid of beating, and then intensified his misconduct.

Actually, his nature is not bad. I still remember: when I was in junior high school, in order to help a seriously ill classmate, he really took a group of us to his father's construction site to steal construction equipment worth tens of thousands of yuan, and all the money was finally handed over to the classmate's parents, saving a family that was on the verge of being broken. It's just that he is always used to doing the right thing in the wrong way, again and again, but no one can understand why he has become so contradictory.

Seeing Qiao Ye being beaten like a ghost, I finally understood why Su Han didn't come back with him this time, he didn't want to push Su Han to the cusp of this family war.

A group of security guard-looking people dragged Qiao Ye towards a business car, and when they passed by me and Chen Yi, he had a fierce fight, and after getting rid of the security guard who was holding him, he looked at me and Chen Yi with a mixed gaze.

I blamed myself a little, and Chen Yi also avoided his gaze......

Qiao Ye wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, but said to us without any hatred: "You two don't have to feel sorry for me, I have no problem with what you do, because from the moment I stepped on the plane, I knew what the situation would be when I came back...... I'm not coming back for Qin Miao, let alone for this cold-blooded family...... I'm here for my kids......"

Before Qiao Ye's words were finished, he was put into the car by the group of security guards, and was kicked by his father in the middle......

The car carrying Qiao Ye had already left the bustling streets in the evening rain, but the people watching the excitement on the road had not all dispersed, including me and Chen Yi, we just stood where we came, and we didn't move a single step.

I wiped my hands heavily from my face, and whispered to Chen Yi beside me: "If I come back this time, it will be a gamble for Qiao Ye...... Then he's going to lose everything! ”

"I don't know, but looking at the way he looked just now, I can't tell how sad I feel in my heart, and I don't seem to hate him so much for Qin Miao!"

"He has nothing to hate, just a poor man who has lived a good life for a few days...... Have you just seen the loneliness in his bones that is not understood? ”

Chen Yi nodded. After that, none of us said a word more, I don't know what Chen Yi's mood is at this moment, but my heart is filled with a kind of empathetic injury.

In fact, I am the same as Qiao Ye, but the way and process of the injury are different, I am also a victim of a discordant family, I still don't know where my mother is, whether I still think about this child abandoned by her in Nanjing.

It would have been a blessing for me if she had abandoned me from the moment I was born, but it was a pity that she had lived with me for 8 years, gave me the warmth of a mother, and then disappeared overnight.

I will never forget how many dusks I waited for standing under the plane tree at the entrance of the alley, until half a year later, after experiencing countless despairs, I gradually believed that she would not come back, and would never come back! (Supplement)