Chapter 016: See Mom Again
Before I could ring the doorbell, the door opened.
Mom was wearing a set of lounge clothes, a beige top, dark gray trousers, forty-five or sixteen years old, and her figure was still very superior.
My mother happily took my backpack and moved her slippers under my feet.
I changed my shoes, took off my coat and hung it up, and put my arms around my mother's waist and rested my head on her shoulder. Actually, I was hiding my tearful embarrassment. Of course, my parents didn't know that I came back this time was not an ordinary holiday home in the old days, this reunion was an opportunity to cross the river of years and go against time, I was both happy and sad, and I was full of emotions.
The old mother smiled and said, "Why is this child getting more and more clingy, and he was not allowed to hold hands when he walked when he was a child." ”
Dad closed the door and said, "That's because you're walking slowly!" ”
I "poofed" out of music, the two of them will talk to each other this mode has not been changed by the years, it is really ten years like a day. I often comment that the two of them talk like cross talk, a handful and a teasing, and the words never land, plus I gag next to me, and the scene of my family of three getting along is called a joy.
It was early for lunch when I got home, so my mother prepared a good breakfast. Preserved egg porridge, milk, fried eggs, egg cakes, fried dough sticks, and various side dishes are all on the table. After I washed up and had a full meal, my parents asked me what I wanted for lunch and dinner. I said, "Anything, anything." ”
After breakfast, I packed up my luggage and went into the bathroom, which was still the bathroom at home, big and warm, I looked at the lattice where the shower and shampoo were placed, and found that my mother had bought my favorite brand, to be exact, the one I liked ten years ago, and I wanted to cry again.
After taking a shower and drying my hair, I put on my cute pajamas with long bunny ears that my mother handed me. Lay on the bed in my bedroom after a long absence. It's been a long time, and in another time and space, since my parents moved to Beijing, I shouldn't have been back to my hometown for nearly three years.
While lying down, I beckoned my mother to come over, I moved to the side of the bed, patted the vacant position, and motioned for my mother to lie down. Mom smiled and lay down gently, I got into her arms like I did when I was a child, and whispered, "Mom, I miss you so much!" Mom didn't speak, just hugged her tighter. My father stood at the door of my bedroom and said jealously, "Oh, my little lover has been abducted!" ”
"Dad, I miss you too! I love you! I laughed and shouted at him.
"It's too late! It doesn't count! No one loves anyone, I can go to work! Dad walked away with a smile on his face.
I suddenly realized that at this age, they have not yet retired, so I asked my mother why she didn't go to work, and my mother said that the unit was not busy, and she asked for leave to accompany me at home today, and I cheered again: "Mom is so good!" Love you to death! ”
Dad was hit hard again before he went out, shouting, "Bad luck at home!" "Close the door and leave.
My mom and I grinned and continued to lie in bed.
Growing up, my parents were my best friends, and their open-minded minds and wise educational methods made our family a particularly harmonious parent-child relationship. When I was a child, the three of us used to lie on the big bed in their bedroom and chat, my dad would tell me some historical stories, and my mom would sing nursery rhymes to me.
After I went to middle school, the big girl was inconvenient and always tired of being in my parents' room, but my mother always came to lie down with me, chatted, and relived the time when I was a child.
From childhood to adulthood, my friends are very envious of me having such good parents, and my junior high school best friend Zhou Nan comes to my house every time she has an awkward quarrel with her mother, and her mother will reason with her softly and send her home in person.
Maybe I have never lacked love from my family, I have always been very confident, and my personality is free and easy and public, perhaps because of the backing of my parents, so I have no fear. I believe that even if I am wounded, there will always be a home for me to lick my wounds and recuperate until I am fully revived.
So, I grew up smoothly all the way and entered the university of my choice. Until he met Xu Zhekai, until he broke up with him, it is even more cruel to say that he was dumped by him.
It was also since then that I deeply understood what it means to "come out and have to pay it back sooner or later", maybe it is because I have been cared for since I was a child, and when I grow up, I will understand that being cared for and loved is not a matter of course, but it takes luck, maybe my luck is given to the family, so here in Xu Zhekai, I have nothing.
In another time and space, when I was just with Xu Zhekai, I confessed to my parents. On the phone, I excitedly described Xu Zhekai's handsome appearance, magnetic voice, and of course, his dazzling debating tournament and the attention he attracted on campus. My parents didn't object, they just reminded me to pay attention to proportion. Of course, I understand what this "proportionality" means.
After dating for about two years, Xu Zhekai's parents were abroad at that time, so I didn't meet his parents. My dad once went to Beijing on a business trip, and came to see me at school by the way, so he met Xu Zhekai by chance.
That afternoon, we were studying in the library, and we received a call from my father, and before I had time to put things back in the dormitory, I pulled Xu Zhekai to walk out of the library, and saw my father from the school gate from a distance, and I pointed it out to Xu Zhekai.
Xu Zhekai, a well-informed child who often goes out to compete, suddenly became nervous. It was May, and Xu Zhekai was wearing a simple white T-shirt and a pair of jeans, which was refreshing.
After meeting two important men in my life, they were both slightly cramped and embarrassed.
"Xiao Xu, hello!"
"Hello uncle."
Watching the two of them shake hands and say hello, I want to laugh. It wasn't dinner time, and it was awkward to stand and talk, so I proposed to go to the café outside the school gate for an afternoon tea break.
Maybe it's because the café is comfortable and relaxed, and Xu Zhekai and his father are a lot more relaxed. During the banquet, the two talked about Xu Zhekai's professionalism and talked about some of what Xu Zhekai saw and felt when he went out to compete. In the end, they even talked about basketball for a while, which both of them loved.
I sat quietly and listened, and without saying a word, I ate several pieces of cake.
I remember that my father's evaluation of Xu Zhekai was "Xiao Xiao Susu, hearty and clear". For fathers who feel that no one is worthy of their daughter, this evaluation is already very high.
My mother is a full face control, she has only seen a photo of the two of us, and she has become Xu Zhekai's "mother fan", and she is really good-looking.
Later, after we broke up, my parents also asked me the reason, I didn't want to hurt Xu Zhekai's image in their hearts, I didn't mention Ji Yang's matter, I just said that Xu Zhekai would develop abroad in the future, I didn't want to go abroad, he didn't necessarily come back, there would be no future, so I broke up.
Mom and Dad didn't say much, but they could see that they still had some regrets. It is no wonder that with Xu Zhekai's appearance, talent, and way of behaving in the world, he is really a good child that his parents' generation will like. However, such a good boy destroyed the self-confidence I had built up since I was a child.
After the breakup, especially after seeing him and Ji Yang together, I never disdain to compare myself with others, but I always secretly compare myself with Ji Yang in all aspects in my heart, the more I compare, the less confident I become, but I use my superficial conceit to cover up my imposed inferiority. It wasn't until I graduated and I couldn't see each other again that I recovered little by little. But it's no longer as careless as before.
Those who have been injured know how high the ceiling in their hearts is, and they will always be afraid when they jump up again, for fear that their heads will break and bleed again.
Now, with the memories of the past, I have returned to the home that gave me life and the initial happiness, security, love and self-confidence of life, and at this moment, I am lying next to my mother, chatting about what I saw and heard at school. I don't know if I should mention Xu Zhekai to her again.
"Forget it, let's wait." I thought to myself.
So, I avoided the important and talked lightly about the troubles of Xiaoru and them, the various naïve legends of the "614 Four Sages", and the scene of my verbal battle at the debate, of course, I did not deliberately emphasize Xu Zhekai's excellence. I just said casually, "There's a philosophy department that's pretty powerful." ”
Chatting and talking, I don't know when I fell asleep. The past and the present are intertwined in my dreams, making it difficult for me to tell which time and space I am in. Half-asleep and half-awake, I faintly heard the sound of laughter coming from the living room. When I opened my eyes and woke up completely, I looked at my watch again, and it was already more than three o'clock in the afternoon, and I had slept for so long that I had even missed lunch.
Thinking back to the chaos of time and space in my dream, I had a headache, so I planned to get up and wash my face and wake up. When I walked out of the bedroom, I saw Aunt Hu sitting across the door in the living room, the same woman I saw at the door of the unit when I came back in the morning. I understand that the source of the half-dreaming laughter just now is my mother and Aunt Hu. Unlike in the morning, Sun Hechen was not around.
I greeted warmly, "Aunt Hu, didn't you go to work?" ”
"Oh! Today, I just came back from shopping for groceries and met your mother going out to take out the garbage, so I chatted with your mother for a while. ”
I smiled and nodded as I went into the bathroom to wash my face. Aunt Hu's loud voice made me have to hear the conversation between her and my mother.
"Yiyi is really beautiful, and she was good-looking when she was a child, but now she has more temperament."
"Going to university in Beijing is different, and the world you see is also different."
"There's nowhere to go? Be cautious. The object of the university is just a joke, and it will be all over as soon as you graduate. You see the second child of the old Liu family in our unit, who went to college and dealt with a small object in the field, who took money and worked hard for four years of college, and as soon as she graduated, the little girl returned to her hometown without looking back. Aren't you saying this is a girl for someone's family? ”
I deliberately slowed down the speed of washing my face, but I couldn't always hide in the bathroom, so I flashed back to the bedroom from the bathroom quickly, for fear that Aunt Hu would pull me to talk, and before closing the bedroom door, I winked at my mother and made a grimace to show sympathy.
Mom's good temper is well-known in the community, so the popularity is very good, Aunt Hu lives in the opposite door, so she often chats with her mother after dinner, and her mother does have self-cultivation, and she doesn't see that she hates Aunt Hu. If you think about it, Aunt Hu is not bad, but her mouth is a little broken.
I lay back on the bed, called Xu Zhekai, and whispered a smile to talk to him about what Aunt Hu had just said.
Xu Zhekai replied seriously, "It's a good aunt, but she has a long mouth." ”
I couldn't help but laugh.
Just chattered like this, and there was no actual content to talk about Aunt Hu going home to make dinner, so I stopped talking to Xu Zhekai on the phone and went to the kitchen to help my mother who was going to make dinner.
The winter vacation began so calmly and happily, and the things I had worried about before were self-heating that didn't happen. Well, just be so happy with your parents and cherish the time of reunion again.