Chapter Twenty-Seven: Broken Appointments

According to the Tang family's rules, at the end of the year, Mr. Tang took the child back to Fujian, because he was still young, Zhou's mother took care of him, which was equivalent to abandoning Su Youling in Shanghai. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info her back to him tears, he was silent, one hand pressed on her back and patted twice, sighed and went downstairs, she immediately couldn't stand the emotions poured out, but did not want him to hear, covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief and cried in his heart, crying in the trembling nerves, he hung his head in frustration at the door, turned back and pulled out a pistol from his waist and held it in her hand, circled her and taught her to use the gun - there were some things he could not do, But he at least wanted her to be safe, he didn't know the situation she was here when the exchange collapsed, he was also worried about what happened to her in the few days when he was not in Shanghai, he took care of Ah Long, but seeing her scene, he still couldn't help but leave the gun to her, held her arms together, and whispered "It's okay, I'll take the ...... for you when you hit someone" He turned around and went downstairs, picked up the child and left, she propped herself on the edge of the table and cried wantonly.

She didn't doubt his love for her, but this love was too cruel, like the gun, heavy, shiny, glimpsed in the empty house, strangely cold, like a dark and dangerous omen - a person did not dare to turn on the light at night, opened the curtains to borrow the night light outside, she later also knew that the hooligans who came to the door for a while were deliberately dragged him into the water, and the spearhead was not her, but now she felt especially afraid, I don't know where the courage came from at that time, and drove people out with whatever they wanted, It is probably because he is here, and at this moment, even if she has a gun under her pillow, her whole person is also empty, tossing and turning, and she can't sleep all night.

On the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the sound of firecrackers outside, and the farewell of the New Year to welcome the spring, she learned to make egg dumplings on the coal stove like the previous Liansheng, and she was extremely patient, but she couldn't do anything, and she made do with a few, and her heart was bleak after all...... The snow began to fall at dusk, not big, and it was only a thin layer on the roof tiles for a long time, and the night light was glowing with a light blue, and the sound of the tram across the street came, and she suddenly wanted to go out for a walk, but just walked casually, and put on a red coat along the gloves, and forgot about the heating of the fireplace, and went out barefoot and put on leather shoes.

The Chinese New Year's Eve here is not violent, in fact, there are quite a lot of people outside, maybe because she is alone, there is always a kind of bleakness that the joy of the world has nothing to do with me, and the crowd laughs and looks at the prosperity all the way, but it can't be rendered in my heart...... She was not too surprised to meet Xiaodong on Xiafei Road, he accompanied someone to watch the movie, and when he saw her at the door of the theater at the end of the show, he was a little stunned for a while, and she happily shouted to him "Xiaodong!" Pushing aside the crowd and walking towards him, he laughed two beats late, waved his hand, and turned back to greet his companions, presumably to let the family leave first, without waiting for him. Back to Shanghai for the Chinese New Year? She greeted with a smile, and he belched and smiled. She asked him how he was in Guangzhou, and he put his hand in his pocket and made an expression, vaguely, "Everything is difficult at the beginning-" His six months in Guangzhou were not smooth, not necessarily because he was not active, but the whole person completely lost the momentum he had when he was in Shanghai, Xu was uprooted, Xu had her reasons, and finally felt lonely and bored, and the years were passing - he saw that she did not seem to have made preparations today, but seemed to run out immediately, so he asked her, "What about Old Tang?" Her eyes withered, "...... who went back to Fujian for the New Year" immediately raised her eyes and smiled as if she realized something, "Hey, I have nothing to do to go out for a walk, I didn't want to walk so much...... he was obviously uncomfortable in his heart, he took a long breath, but it was inconvenient to talk too much about it with her, he only raised his hand to look at the time, persuaded her to go back earlier, and sent her off, and the two walked along the road. He only thought that she was still living in Pei Yuan, and wanted to cross the street to the tram platform opposite, but she hurriedly shouted to him, "Oh, I live on Kang Yi Road now!" …… It's just south of the point. "He"? Di turned back and asked her when she moved here, and she said that in September, the details would not be discussed one by one, only that Mr. Tang's business was sluggish, and he did not ask more.

Along the way, she asked a lot about Gu Xiaochun, and asked her about the child, he told her, and also asked her child, laughing and saying that she would be crying at home looking for her, she smiled a little embarrassed, but did not hide it from him, he listened to it for a long time - the west wind, the Spicy Fielde intersection blew up one after another, and the cold poured into her clothes, she obviously wore less when she went out, and she couldn't stand it anymore, so she wrapped her coat tightly, her hair blew down her face, and she was busy freeing up her two hands to grab her hair, taking care of one or the other. Seeing this, he reached out to unbutton his coat, unbuttoned one but then buttoned it up, said hello to her, turned around and went to buy her fried chestnuts. She didn't say anything polite to him, she took her hand directly, and peeled two grains while it was hot to eat, and looked at him in the dim neon light, and asked him when he would go to Guangzhou...... At the entrance of her alley, she left him a phone, saying that she would invite him to coffee in the New Year, and let him call when he was free.

The second day of the new year is the beginning of spring, and her eyes are yo when she flops the month cards. After the snow, the clear sun shone in, and she set up the mirror box in front of the table to trim her eyebrows, the two light and slender eyebrows, the morning glow was dense, and there was a spring brilliance. She dismantled the child's bedding to wash and dry, and took advantage of the good weather to do a lot of chores in the past two days, but she didn't wait for Xiaodong's call.

On the afternoon of the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, when many chores were busy, she sat on the domino bench on the small balcony behind her and smoked to relieve her annoyance. The wind after the beginning of spring is different, I can't say clearly, anyway, there is something hidden in the season, blowing lightly on the body, leisurely urging the sadness and depression in people's hearts - she thinks that he is also a mortal person after all, and whether he is snobbish or not, but in the end, he is talking about the passage of time, in fact, Mr. Tang is right, he is not her brother after all.

Mr. Tang they came here at dusk, he got out of the car and held the child and looked up at her with a smile, she stood on the railing and smiled, and did not go downstairs, he hugged the child upstairs, the child wore a new red silk jacket and pants, black satin embroidered tiger head shoes, forked two hands holding a red envelope and handed it to her, the Tang family's year-old red envelope this year has Mr. Tang's handwritten message, five columns of hairpins on the cover, the book "Tang Huixin, ever-changing, smart and clever", the payment "Tang Yat-sen", the date is the first day of the Lunar New Year, very solemn, Unexpectedly, Donald didn't treat her well, but treated children equally. She asked why there was no inscription on the red envelope last year, and he said that the old gentleman had rules, and only sent the red envelope without inscription in person, and it was nothing, according to the custom, the old gentleman examined it one by one at the end of the year, and the victory and debt in the year he was present were clear, and the absence was naturally countless, and there was no inscription on the red envelope - the red envelope bag she stored in the drawer. She sat at the head of the bed and smeared glycerin on her body after bathing, her face caressed her bare neck in the warm soapy scent, and her tone was sour and pretended to be disdainful, "Is the Tang family forever closed to me like this?" He sat at the table and smoked on one leg, and looked at him with a smile on his sideways face, "What, do you want to go to Fujian to live an eventful family life?" She smacked at him and forced him to say, in fact, he didn't know much about the rules of the Tang family, he didn't tell her that he had only recognized his ancestors in recent years, and his fate was the same as that of their children, but Tang Lao was more tolerant than his ancestors, and his recognition of his grandchildren was also innovative, and this child was included in the Tang family at the beginning, and he himself had been adrift for half a lifetime, unruly, profligate and indulgent, so he also told her, "What do you want to do so much, you are here-" He didn't go on, She then frowned, turned her back in the dim stage light, and muttered, "What about here......" He exhaled and moved his eyes, sneered and dropped the cigarette in his hand, and took her in his arm in the past, and took a deep sip on the back of her shoulder, and suddenly took a mouthful of heart, she trembled in panic, and slurped a purple mark on the tip of her heart, and after a long time, she was stunned...... He didn't take the pistol back, leaving her just in case.

In fact, Xiao Dong did not go to Guangzhou again after the New Year, but stayed in Shanghai, with his previous foundation, it is not difficult to find a reasonable thing to do, but he has never contacted Su Youling again, but Mr. Tang knows about this matter, he smoked in the chair in the dock office, and he stayed for a long time, but in the end he still did not know.

Xiaodong talked about friends, someone was a matchmaker for him, and he also felt that he should restrain himself and couldn't be ridiculous anymore. He stayed in Shanghai because the living environment here was suitable for him, and because people had to try to face some unbearable feelings and face their past selves after all. In the early morning of March, he took the tram with his friend to work on Wuma Road, got out of the car and walked on the road together, the early spring sun shone obliquely, he remembered and held his friend's hand, smiled slightly, and turned his face to look at the misty street scene, the cool dew covered his eyebrows, confused, the bustling sound of the city that had not yet awakened in the morning glow - he was not too surprised to meet Liansheng, and smiled and waved his hand; He sat on the rickshaw and walked by, smiled faintly, and did not stop in particular, and he understood that some words and some things were just his young and frivolous Gu Xiaodong after all, but fortunately, it was so. Lian Sheng has not talked about friends so far, but it has nothing to do with Su Youling.