The next day, Mi Cai and I got up early in the morning, we had breakfast at the nearby morning tea shop, and then went to the gas station to fill up the car, and then left Xuzhou, a city that gradually gave us a sense of belonging, and the destination was Suzhou, 500 kilometers to the south, my feelings were a little complicated, I seemed to lose everything in that city, but I gained love, and until now, I don't know, whether I abandoned a city, or a city abandoned me who escaped.

In the afternoon, we arrived at the Jiangdu section of the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway, parked in a service area, and did not want to eat fast food in the crowded crowd, so we bought two buckets of instant noodles, soaked them in boiling water, and sat in the car to eat simply

Mi Cai didn't have much appetite, only half of the food, then put the bucket noodles on the center console of the car, looking at the cars in a queue on the highway with a blank expression, and we will continue to join this crowded queue later, I don't know whether the front is deep or shallow, and we are going to the destination that we are not looking forward to reaching.

I said to Mi Cai: "I don't know when I will be able to get to Suzhou, so you should eat more." ”

Mi Cai shook her head and didn't speak, I saw the heaviness of her mind in her body movements, and she may have had some bad premonitions.

After a moment of silence, I asked her again, "Do you think Mi Zhongde will not hand over the household registration book to us so lightly?" He's going to use this to stop us from being together? ”

"He won't stop it, it's someone else!"

I was a little surprised, and after thinking about it for a while, I couldn't figure out who could sway Mi Zhongde, and Mi Cai finally said to me again: "It's my mother, Yan Zhuomei." ”

I looked at her with shock, this was the first time I learned her mother's name, and I also knew the origin of the mall, there was indeed an untold story in it, at least I could guess that Mi Zhongxin loved Yan Zhuomei deeply, otherwise I would not have used her name to name my group.

It took me a long time before I calmed down and asked her, "Why did she stop us?" And why did Mi Zhongde listen to her? ”

Mi Cai's expression was full of pain, as if she recalled the past that she had been unwilling to face, she finally said: "Things are very complicated, I will talk to you slowly when I have the opportunity, we have to set off, and strive to rush to Suzhou before dark, maybe I'm just too anxious and thinking too much!" ”

In fact, along the way, we have a lot of time to talk about her mother Yan Zhuomei's past, but she is still avoiding, presumably, only when she has to face it, she will choose to tell me the truth of the matter, I know that the old things between her parents must have left a deep shadow on her, so she always looks indifferent over the years, but in fact she is hiding the pain with indifference

After night fell, Mi Cai and I encountered intermittent traffic jams, and finally returned to Suzhou, a city that seems to be entangled with our fate, after entering the city, those neon signs are still the same as before, emitting a shaking light in their fixed position, the light falls through the glass window in the closed car, shaking out a flickering light, and in the building under construction, there is a burst of metal friction sound during the operation of the machine, as if roaring, as if telling us, the city has never changed, It can make us intoxicated in the spring of the garden, or it can make us lose sleep in the roar of the machine

I finally asked Mi Cai, "Would you like to give them a call in advance?" ”

"No, I hope that my aunt is the only one in the family at this time, maybe she will hand over the household registration book to us"

"That's a fluke in your mind, isn't it?"

"Are you willing to face all of them I really hope that they all went to Zhuomei's headquarters in Shanghai, and there is only one aunt at home in Suzhou, although we are not related by blood, but she is the person who understands me in the world, I think I am sure I can convince her."

"Of course I don't want to face them, if that's what you say, it would be great, seriously, Suzhou is a place that makes people feel tired, here, all I see is the desire of the world to boil. Hope, in my eyes, it is a lust under a beautiful coat. The City of Hope, let's keep getting and losing here so repeatedly! ”

"The essence of the city is the same, the point is what kind of people you meet in the city, only people will boil in the world. Hope to pursue desire. Hope for the thrill! ”

"Yes, you are objective, I am idealistic!"

Mi Cai didn't say anything more, she sped up the car, so the street lights with the intertwined light and shadow retreated faster, or ten minutes, we will come to that rich area, and Mi Zhongde's home in Suzhou, is located in that rich area, where the luxury cars everywhere will make people see numb, go there, no one will believe that there is a coffee shop called "West of the Old City" in the westernmost part of the city, a block behind the coffee shop, displaced beggars, Think of the smelly garbage bins as the source of life

The car stopped outside a villa, the nanny opened the door for us, when we got out of the car, she looked at Mi Cai with surprise, and only shouted "Miss Mi" after a while, maybe in her consciousness, Mi Cai would not come to this place again.

Mi Cai asked her, "Aunt Li, is my aunt at home?" ”

"Well, she's here, but the chairman is not here, they have a meeting to attend tonight."

Mi Cai nodded, and motioned for me to go in with her, so we walked towards the villa under the leadership of the nanny, and when I only had to face Mi Cai's aunt, I felt that my feelings were finally not so complicated, and it was only a matter of a few words to borrow the household registration book.

We entered the house, Mi Cai's aunt was sitting on the sofa in the living room reading the newspaper, suddenly found Mi Cai's arrival, her expression was first surprised, and full of surprise, put down the newspaper and walked over to Mi Cai, and then hugged Mi Cai, a little choked and said: "Xiaocai, you are here!" ”

Mi Cai nodded, and whispered "um" in her ear, but my eyes stayed on the wedding photo of Fang Yuan and Mi Lan on the background wall of the living room.

Mi Cai's aunt finally let go of Mi Cai and asked her: "Xiaocai, have you eaten, if not, just eat with us, your uncle and Xiaolan will be back later, they just called me and said that the meeting had been over." ”