Chapter 553: Life and Death Are Boundless
Zhou Fan walked back and forth under the three buildings, wandering.
This building was exactly the same as he remembered, and time had not left any traces on it, and while feeling familiar, Zhou Fan's heart was even more flustered.
If Lao Ye is really at home, what should I say to him?
"Hello, I'm your son, I'm back from death."
It's really going to be called as a neuropathy.
That...... Don't say anything, take a look from afar and leave?
It seems that it can also be.
Zhou Fan now wishes he had a cigarette in his hand.
He doesn't smoke, but he's desperate to get one.
In the rising smoke, I vomited full of anxiety.
Don't think about it, go upstairs!
Zhou Fan came to the door of 502.
The doormat in front of the house was replaced with a new one, and it was still an unbearable red, with four golden characters on it, "Safe in and Out", which was washed clean by Mother Ye.
The couplet on the door has also been renewed, "People and families are good every year, peace and happiness are high, and the family is happy." ”
At a cursory glance, there is no trace of his life here.
It's a little sad.
Zhou Fan hesitated at the door for a long time, wanting to knock on the door, but he raised his hand but didn't dare to fall.
Although he had done many, many psychological struggles, and even hesitated for a long, long time before going upstairs, he still coaxed when it came to the end.
At this time, the iron-green door creaked open, and then through the mesh door, Zhou Fan saw a slightly bloated middle-aged man changing his shoes at the door.
He recognized it at a glance.
It's his dad!
Although more than nine years had passed, he had never seen his father again, but when he saw it now, he immediately recognized it.
His hair had thinned out a lot, and though it wasn't dense before, it was all black.
Now most of the head is full of white hair, unkempt and unkempt, full of vicissitudes.
At the same time, a woman's voice came from inside the house.
"Lao Ye, don't forget to buy a bottle of light soy sauce when you come back! Don't buy it wrong! ”
Zhou Fan's eyes moistened suddenly.
Mommy's voice.
After so many years and a different body, this voice still sounds so familiar and unforgettable.
Ye Tao replied impatiently: "I know, it's long-winded." ”
He bent down and tightened his shoes, and when he stood up again, his eyes happened to meet Zhou Fan's.
"Huh?"
Ye Tao is very strange.
This child looks strange, how can he stand in front of his own house?
Ye Tao blinked, when he was old, his eyes would always dry up from time to time, and he couldn't see it very clearly.
Now he saw it clearly, and then it was even stranger.
Why is this man crying?
Neurotic bar!
I've heard that there are often people who have terminal illnesses and can't be cured and then want to take revenge on society, so isn't that the kind of person this kid is?
No, you can't open the door for the time being.
Ye Tao felt a sense of crisis in his heart, stared at Zhou Fan tightly, and asked, "Hey, who are you looking for?" ”
Zhou Fan never knew that his tears were so low.
How many times have you cried all the way home?
But I just can't help it!
How can I bear this, after so many years, I see that my parents are still alive and healthy, but I have changed my face, experienced all kinds of twists and turns, and become strangers in their eyes.
The bitterness and bitterness of this are only clear to Zhou Fan himself.
And he has always been a leader, and his fragile emotions cannot be expressed casually, which has also caused him to be very depressed, except for Du Ruoxue, no one has doubted his strength, and no one has seen through his armament.
Zhou Fan took a deep breath, blinked his eyes to disperse his tears, and pretended to be calm: "Hello, is this Ye Yan's family?" ”
Hearing this name, Father Ye was obviously stunned.
The mental state changed all at once.
He frowned, his eyes shining suspiciously through the lenses.
"Who are you?"
"I ...... I'm his friend. ”
"Friends?" Father Ye obviously didn't believe it, "He has been gone, and he has been gone for many years." ”
Ye Tao looked Zhou Fan up and down.
I didn't hear that Zhou Fan was his son's friend, and the intimacy that suddenly rose.
There is no estrangement and coldness that suddenly arose because Zhou Fan was Ye Yan's friend.
It's as if it's just the calm of hearing an unfamiliar name that doesn't have anything to do with you.
Zhou Fan's heart throbbed instantly.
"Hasn't he forgiven me after all these years?"
"I'm all dead! He's still haunted and can't understand me? ”
"I'm so uncomfortable!"
When Zhou Fan saw Ye Tao like this, while his heart ached, the expression on his face also calmed down.
"Hmm...... I know, I just remember that he told me about this place before, that his parents live here, and that we should help take care of it if we can in the future. ”
"It's a pleasure to see you today, as long as you're in good health!"
Zhou Fan packed up his emotions and quickly said the prepared words.
Ye Taohu nodded suspiciously, still without any intention of opening the door.
A father and a son looked at each other quietly through the screen window and door.
Until Ye Mu's voice came again.
"What's the matter with you, Lao Ye, have you twisted your waist after wearing shoes for so long? Let you go out for a walk more often, sit at home all day and watch some TV, now it's good, it's really ......"
The voice got closer and closer, and Zhou Fan's eyes lit up suddenly.
Mom is here.
He crossed Ye Tao's body, and in an instant caught the figure of Ye Mu who came in a hurry, wearing a wool drag.
Not the slightest change.
is still so gentle, so beautiful, his eyes are still gentle, although he criticized Ye Tao unrelentingly, he was very distressed and walked over to support him.
Mother Ye saw Father Ye and Zhou Fan facing each other across the door, she was stunned for a moment, and asked cautiously, "Old Ye, is this ......?" ”
"He said he was a friend of Xiao Ye." Ye Tao replied angrily.
"Xiao Ye's friend!" Ye Mu was obviously startled, and then her movements became flustered.
"Oh, Xiao Ye hasn't been back for so many years, and he doesn't know a few of his friends, but I didn't expect to come to the door today. Okay, that's good. Lao Ye, why are you still stunned, quickly open the door and let the young man come in and sit, people are guests when they come to the door, how can there be a reason not to open the door. ”
"Hey, I'm going to make a pot of tea, you can entertain this little classmate first, and your temper will be better, ah (a sound)."
Ye Mu hurriedly walked in the direction of the kitchen again.
"Come in." Ye Tao opened the door.
Zhou Fan said thank you and stepped in.
He glanced around without a trace, and the TV was replaced by a new smart TV, which looked like it was 50 inches, standing on the cabinet, and the small objects next to it were crowded.
The sofa is still the same as before, it has not been replaced, but the sofa cushion covered on it is much newer, and it is no longer the big red pattern with flowers before, but Zhou Fan still recognized it at a glance, this should be sewn by Ye Mu herself.
After so many years, the thrifty nature has not changed.
Facing the door and walking through the living room, there is a short aisle, and the two bedrooms of the Ye family are on both sides of the aisle.
On the left is the master bedroom, where Ye's father and Ye's mother live.
On the right is the second bedroom, which used to be lived by Ye Yan, and it was slightly smaller.
The living room is designed with two halls, the left half is the living room, which is divided by a small cabinet, with a sofa, coffee table, TV, electric heater, and a few pots of green plants.
But winter is coming, these green plants are listless, and they don't seem to be cold-resistant.
On the right half is the dining room, with a dining table, and a door connects the dining room, and after entering the door, there is a kitchen and a bathroom.
It seems that the pattern of everything has not changed.
After Zhou Fan took in the full view, he squatted down to untie his shoelaces, took out a pair of slippers from the shoe cabinet next to the door and changed them, and then walked to the left.
He sat obediently on one side of the four-seater sofa, while Father Ye sat on the single sofa next to him, looked up at Zhou Fan, and stopped talking.
Yes, it's still the same, dull and silent.
Father Ye didn't speak, and Zhou Fan didn't know what to say, so the father and son sat quietly, with an unspeakable embarrassment in the air.
Fortunately, Ye Mu came out of the kitchen at this time, carrying a tea tray with two porcelain cups on it.
Ye Mu turned around again, took the electric kettle that had just boiled water, and put the two porcelain cups in front of the two of them.
Then she hurriedly took out some snacks, melon seeds and peanuts, put them on the coffee table, and beckoned Zhou Fan to eat.
Zhou Fan watched her work hard back and forth, and while he was happy, he was also a little distressed, and hurriedly said: "Auntie, sit down and rest, I'm not hungry, don't be busy entertaining me, I'll leave after sitting for a while." ”
"Ah, it's rare to come once, sit a little longer."
As she said this, Ye Mu poured herself a cup of hot water and sat on the other side of Zhou Fan.
In his previous life, his father and mother were left and right, and the two of them had different expressions, but they both looked up at him, which made Zhou Fan feel a lot of pressure.
He hurriedly coughed lightly, broke the silence, and said, "Uncle and aunt, it's a bit abrupt to come to visit today, huh...... I mainly happened to pass by here, and remembered that Ye Yan told me that his house was here, and then I wanted to come and have a look. ”
"I don't know if any other friends have been here before, and I'm a little worried that I've found the wrong door, but I didn't expect you to still live here after all these years."
"I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Zhou Fan, and I am now a student at University B."
Seeing that Zhou Fan was right, Father Ye dispelled his suspicions a little, and it seemed that this person didn't look like a liar.
In addition to worrying that Zhou Fan was a perverted neurotic murderer, he was also a little worried about whether he was the kind of person who started fraud after obtaining other people's private information.
Nowadays, there are too many such people, but they are generally scammed by phone, and most of these door-to-door scams are in the form of sales pitches.
Ye Tao had just planned it, if he said half a product-related word from Zhou Fan's mouth, he would immediately send the guest away.
Zhou Fan looked at Mother Ye, Mother Ye's eyes were a little red, I don't know if she secretly cried when she hurried back to the kitchen just now, but now her state of speaking is quite normal.
"Then, I'll call you Xiao Zhou. Xiao Zhou, how did you know Xiao Ye, tell me. ”
"Hmm...... That's a long story. ”
Zhou Fan began to make it up.
Now this plot is a little bit wrong.
Aren't you just going to take a look at it from afar and leave?
Why did you even get in the door?
I just casually said that I was a friend, why do you still believe it?
I was almost 23 when I died in my last life.
How old was Zhou Fan at that time?
The provinces of the two are separated by more than 1,000 kilometers, and it is really difficult to explain how this friendship came about.
Fortunately, Zhou Fan's brain was alive and turned fast enough, and he immediately made up a seamless lie.
"Brother Ye used to like to play games, and then I was quite fun-loving at that time, and I met by chance."
"Later, Brother Ye was going to play professionally, and I wanted to go with him, but he thought I was too young and didn't agree to let me follow...... I was afraid that he would leave me to play by myself, so I asked a hacker to help me check his TB delivery address...... Then I found this place......"
"Later, Brother Ye had an accident, and I was under a lot of pressure to study, and I had to work to support myself, so I didn't take care of it. Now I happened to come to Anji City to do some business, so I thought of my uncle and aunt's house, and I happened to come over to have a look......"
Seeing that Ye's father and Ye's mother could listen attentively, Zhou Fan's ghost envoy added:
"Hmm...... I'm not afraid of uncles and aunts laughing when I say it, my parents died in a car accident when I was very young, and at first Brother Ye told me that he was also an orphan, and I was a little sympathetic. ”
"But then he told me that he ran away from home and didn't want to go back to home, although I couldn't quite understand it, but I couldn't say anything more."
Hearing Zhou Fan say that when Ye Yan said that he was also an orphan, Ye's father snorted coldly, but Ye's mother had red eyes, pursed her lips, and big tears rolled in her eyes.
"Later, I was nervous about my studies, and I didn't touch the game for a while, and when I went back, Brother Ye's QQ dimmed and never lit up again."
"I looked up information on the Internet, but I couldn't find anything, I don't know what happened......"
"If so, can my aunt and uncle tell me why?" Zhou Fan asked cautiously.
When he finished speaking, there was silence in the living room, and after a long time, Father Ye picked up the teacup, took a sip, and sighed.
"Xiao Zhou, it's not that we don't want to tell you, and we don't know what's going on."
"It's been so long since we can't remember a lot of the details."
"After the boy went out, he didn't contact us until he died."
Ye Tao paused word by word, seemingly trying his best to consider the sentence.
"Anyway, if you're dead, it's nothing, I don't think I have this son anymore."
When Mother Ye heard this, she cried and cried, and did not forget to accuse Father Ye.
"It's all your fault, if you weren't so ruthless and kicked the child out of the house, how would he say that he was an orphan without a father and mother? There was no news of him for a few years, and then I finally saw him on the Internet, I said to buy a ticket to see him, but you just stopped me from buying it, now it's okay, the white-haired man sends the black-haired man, I haven't even seen my son's last face......"
"Woo woo woo ......"
Ye Mu lost her temper and buried her head in tears.
Father Ye glanced at Zhou Fan, and said angrily: "It's been so long, why are you still mentioning this?" Isn't it just an unfilial son, if it's gone, it's gone, what's so sad! Xiao Zhou is still watching, don't let the children laugh at you! ”
…… Gone...... It's gone...... Is it?
Zhou Fan, who was sitting on the side, felt like a knife after hearing this.
Ye Tao, Ye Tao, I thought that after so many years, I was already dead, and you should let go of that little emotion.
I didn't expect you, I didn't expect you to change at all!
You are still the one who is selfish, only cares about your own face, and does not know how to stand in my perspective and think about me at all!
You don't deserve to be a father at all!
My heart hurts, it hurts......
Zhou Fan hurriedly picked up the teacup and covered his face with the steaming mist.
He was afraid that his parents in his previous life would see the clues, but listening to the cry of his mother next to him, his tears still fell down his cheeks and dripped into the teacup.
Silent, speechless tears.
That's it, I already knew what kind of person Ye Tao was, I didn't have hope for him for a long time, and I was dead and desperate a long time ago.
There is still only my mother in the world, and only my mother will miss me, remember me, cry for me, and feel sorry for me.
This old leaf, hum, I'm afraid I didn't shed half a tear at my funeral, right?
Zhou Fan's heart was half cold and half hot.
Cold is cold because of the father's selfishness, and hot is hot because of the mother's care.
After listening to Ye's father's words, Ye's mother knew that she was out of shape, pulled two tissues to wipe her tears, and said in a thick nasal voice: "I'm sorry, classmate Xiao Zhou, since Ye Yan left, every time I think of him being so young, so young and gone, every time I think of it, I can't help but want to cry, let you see the joke." ”
"No, no, Auntie, you just made me cry."
Zhou Fan raised his head, smiled slightly, and showed the tears on his face to Ye Mu.
“…… Okay, good boy, Ye Yan has a friend like you, if he knows everything, he will be very happy, let's stay for dinner today, I'll go see what else there is. ”
"Ye Tao, what are you doing sitting, add some water to Xiao Zhou."
Ye Mu wiped away her tears, and suddenly became the character in Zhou Fan's memory again, no matter when, she was chaotic and orderly.
The big and small matters at home can always be arranged properly, and there is never a mistake.
On the other hand, Ye's father ......
Zhou Fan naturally wouldn't stay for dinner, for him, it was already very satisfying to see such a side. Inquiring about the news is secondary, and the most important thing is to confirm the well-being of the two old people.
No, no, people like Ye Tao are the best when they are sick, and they will die of illness!
…… No, he is sick, doesn't he have to be taken care of by his mother, and it will be Ye's mother who will be affected at that time.
For a while, Zhou Fan fell into a deep entanglement of contradictions.
Seeing that Zhou Fan really didn't want to stay for dinner, and Mother Ye was not forced to stay, after nagging her parents for a while, Mother Ye suddenly said, "Xiao Zhou, do you want to see Xiao Ye's bedroom?" That's what he was like when he was a teenager, and I haven't touched it in all these years......"
She said while leading the way: "At that time, Ye Yan was naughty, he skipped classes all day, he didn't like to study, and he came to the house several times angry, if he was half as smart as you and willing to study hard, maybe he could go to a good university - of course, a school like B University is not expected." ”
"Look, this poster was his favorite game to play at that time, what was it called King Pesticide or something else, I don't know much, he was obsessed with this at that time."
"This sheet is also the pattern he liked at that time, for so many years, even if there are guests at home, I am reluctant to let them sleep here, for fear that they will mess up Xiaoye's things."
"I always thought he would come back, kid, rebellious period, run away from home, and come back after a while."
"So I've been packing up and waiting for him to come back."
"But why didn't he come back?"
"How could he not come back?"
“……”
Looking at Ye Mu, who suddenly cried bitterly next to him, Zhou Fan's tears couldn't help but flow.
Ten years of life and death, without thinking, unforgettable.
Explain the slow update.
I thought about the plot and didn't dare to write it.
I've always been a very emotional person, and I'm very emotional.
I probably know what's going to happen here, and I feel sad just by going through it in my head.
So I kept procrastinating and procrastinating, and I didn't dare to open the word codeword.
Sure enough, when I wrote the last sentence of the chapter, I cried.
There is nothing to hide, I was moved by myself and cried.
Woowoo......
There are also updates during the day.
(End of chapter)