Chapter 14: Family Portrait
Early the next morning, Chen Jiaqi was awakened by the sound of rain outside the window, he sat up, looked at the curtains that were blown into the shape of a cloth bag by the wind, and was stunned for a while before going down to close the window.
The rainstorm outside, the light gray curtains have turned dark gray, and the white curtains inside are tightly glued to the curtains, which have become one and the same, they are like a pair of lovers who are wavering in the wind and rain, and regard each other as their only support.
A thick layer of rainwater had accumulated on the marble windowsill, which was flowing down the edges.
Chen Jiaqi pulled hard a few times before separating the curtains and curtains, he closed the window, and when he looked down, he found that the wall cloth and wooden floor under the window sill were wet by the rain, so he hurriedly went to the bathroom to get the mop, but when he walked to the living room, he found that the balcony that also did not close the window was staging a big drama of flooding Jinshan, so he had to leave the bedroom and deal with the water on the balcony first.
He used a rag to wipe again, sucking up water with a palm-sized rag and then going back and forth between the balcony and the toilet, and when he finally realized his stupidity, he forgot to take a basin to catch water, and the floor of the living room had become a big face.
He threw the rag in anger, but the rag seemed to be deliberately against him, and it actually crashed into the glass picture frame on the corner table.
"Bang-" After a screeching sound, the picture frame embedded with the family portrait shattered.
A few glass stubbles swept over the surface of his feet, leaving a few white marks on his skin.
Chen Jiaqi rolled his bloodshot eyes, his head was confused, and he couldn't figure out what he had done in the past half a day.
Looking at the messy living room and thinking of the bedroom that had not yet been cleaned, Chen Jiaqi couldn't help but close his eyes and said a dirty word in his mouth.
He felt terrible, and the frustration he had never felt before came at him, and he stood with his shoulders slumped and blank for a moment before slowly walking over to the broken frame and crouching down.
Brushing the glass slag off the frame, he pulled out a thin piece of photo paper from the frame and held it in his hand.
This family photo was taken on the 17th anniversary of his marriage with his wife, in order to pull him into the photo studio who doesn't like to take pictures, Nan Yan did everything he could, and used all the tricks, and finally under the begging of his baby daughter, he obediently surrendered, and accompanied their mother and daughter to spend most of the day in the photo studio where oxygen was lacking to take this family portrait that was most unlike himself.
Maybe the effect of this kind of artistic photo is to make people not like themselves, too perfect, flawless, like a dummy in a fairy tale world, the more they look at it, the less they look like themselves.
In the photo, he has a bright smile, as if he can't perceive the mess of the real world.
Looking at it, he suddenly envied such a fake 'Chen Jiaqi', and really wanted to get into the photo like this, become one with him, and always show people with a smiling face.
In this way, can he act as if nothing happened, he is still the handsome and responsible husband in the eyes of his wife, or the father of the master chef in the eyes of his daughter.
If there was one more chance, what choice would he make?
His fingertips rubbed over his wife's pretty face for a long time, and finally rested on his daughter's lively and exaggerated smile.
This family photo was captured, because the photographer asked them to sit in the front row in a decent manner, and Nanbei stood behind him to take this picture, who knew that at the moment when the photographer pressed the shutter, Nanbei suddenly leaned over and hugged their necks and pasted three smiling faces together.
He and Nan Yan's expressions both looked a little stunned and overwhelmed, but Nan Nan raised his eyebrows, smiling funny and proud, like showing off, look, you adults are too old-fashioned, family photos have to be taken like this to be creative!
Although the photo was post-PS processed, the real person P looked like a dummy, but he couldn't deny that the expression of this photo was indeed captured very well, so when they chose the film later, they did not hesitate to choose this photo to make a crystal photo frame.
Now, this picture frame, which symbolizes family harmony and happiness, has been shattered by his own hands.
North North.
He nodded at the dimples on his daughter's lips with a complicated expression, wondering if she could forgive him.
Although his Beibei is selfish and willful by them, he knows that his daughter is kind in her bones.
Beibei took her out to play when she was very young, and whenever she met a beggar person, she would always pull his pocket with her small hand and turn out the change for others.
Every time she comes home from school, in addition to the huge school bag, she will always hold five or six roasted sweet potatoes that have cooled down, in fact, she has a bad stomach, and she can't eat roasted sweet potatoes often, she buys them because she wants the old man to go home quickly.
Then in the blink of an eye, she grew up.
Big enough to do what you love, big enough to see the dirty side of the adult world.
The bloody plot that I saw in film and television dramas before is now happening to her family, especially this person is still her favorite and favorite father.
She grew up, but not fully grown, and she couldn't bear the blow of her father's cheating, so she chose to vent her anger in the most extreme way, declaring war on him, on the filthy, chaotic adult world.
But the kindness in her bones and the bond of family affection made her hesitate and hesitate, and she would rather harm herself than expose him to Nanyan for the first time.
Last night, he couldn't worry about his daughter's condition and quietly went to the hospital.
Outside the door of the observation room, he saw through the glass that his daughter Nanbei picked up a sheet and put it on her sleeping mother, and then she sat on the side blankly, looking at her sleeping mother with a lonely expression, and did not move for a long time.
At that moment, he hated himself so much, and his heart was full of guilt for his wife and daughter, but he didn't have the courage to push the door in and confess to his wife and daughter in person.
He was wrong.
He knows.
However, once some mistakes are made, they can no longer be made up for and corrected.
He put the photo on the corner table, got up, and took out his mobile phone to call his wife Nanyan.
"Are you sure you can be discharged, okay, I'll drive you up." Chen Jiaqi said.
"No, don't come here, I'll wait for Beibei to call ......a taxi after the infusion" His wife Nanyan's voice gradually weakened, and after that, Chen Jiaqi heard a sound, and his wife's voice became louder again, "Hey, Jiaqi, what's the matter with you, why did you quarrel with Beibei and make her angry like that, she almost ......"
"Don't talk about that yet. Is there any discomfort in Beibei's body? Chen Jiaqi interrupted Nan Yan's questioning.
"At present, everything is normal, and the doctor said that he can be discharged, but do you know Jiaqi, last night it was a half-old boy who sent Beibei to the hospital, I asked her who she was, she didn't say, did you say that our daughter is in love, how old is she, can't you delay her studies because of this......" Nanyan began to complain.
Chen Jiaqi frowned, "Don't hearsay. ”
"It was the nurse who said it, and when I asked her later, she said that she was a teenager, and she should be about the same age as Beibei. Jiaqi, what if this thing is true, we have to take the 985 test when we come back from Beibei. Nanyan said.
"I'll talk about it when I get back." Chen Jiaqi said.
"Okay. Then don't come here, Beibei shouldn't have forgiven you yet, she won't allow me to mention you. Nanyan said.
Chen Jiaqi was silent for a while, "Then I'll go grocery shopping and cook what she likes to eat." ”
"Well, it's raining heavily outside, you go out and be careful." Nanyan advised.
"You too, I'm hanging." Chen Jiaqi hung up the phone and cheered up to pack up the housework.