The picture went dark.

And when Xu Zhengchen returned to the door of Youwei Restaurant, it was already four hours later.

The taxi that the two of them took stopped on the side of the road at the door, and before leaving, for convenience, they specially asked the driver to help Su Yuxi onto his back.

Zhang Yufeng learned from him that the two stayed in front of the temple for a while, and Su Yuxi, who was still bouncing on the stone steps at that time, was completely unconscious in the next second.

"Hypoglycemia?" Zhang Yufeng brought the water cup on the table to his hand, "So, you came back with her after the drip......

Xu Zhengchen took the water cup: "I'm sorry." ”

"No need to apologize, it just so happens that there is not a single customer in the store tonight, even if you miss the work time, it doesn't matter."

"It's not this ...... that I want to apologize for" Xu Zhengchen, who was sitting across the table, lowered his head, his face was terrible and speechless.

"It's about her?"

"If I hadn't promised to take her to the park, she wouldn't have ......"

Zhang Yufeng has known him for a year, and he has heard about it in his family. He lived with his mother after his parents divorced, his personality was not bad, and his studies were not bad, but Zhang Yufeng was the only one who liked to take responsibility.

Boom.

A fist immediately smashed on Xu Zhengchen's head, neither painful nor itchy, just enough to make his spirit clear.

"It's not your fault."

"But ......"

"If you really want to apologize, just wait until the little girl wakes up, and then you can tell her face to face." Zhang Yufeng smiled on his face, and then rubbed his hair back and forth.

In the blink of an eye, Xu Zhengchen became silent.

"Really, what kind of anger are young people so angry." Zhang Yufeng patted his chest and said, "Learn more from your uncle." ”

Xu Zhengchen took the opportunity to smile and said, "Uncle, didn't you cry when you watched Su Yuxi a few days ago?" ”

As soon as these words came out, Zhang Yufeng's old face instantly turned red.

"My mouth is dry, I'll go to the refrigerator to get a bottle of wine, you wait for me for a while, let's go out and talk."

"Uncle, count me in."

The two men looked at each other and smiled.

Syllable.

The two of them sat on the stairs in front of the store, the beer cans in their palms retaining the cold air taken out of the refrigerator, and their bodies were slightly hot from the cold.

"Where did I just go?"

"Speaking of Su Yuxi." Xu Zhengchen said.

"Honestly, she looks so much like my daughter that I almost thought she was my daughter a few times."

"No wonder you're so excited to see her for the first time, wait-uncle, you shouldn't be a heavy daughter, right?"

"Ahem...... Don't think about it, I just think they're alike. Zhang Yufeng deliberately pretended to cough.

"So, the nightdress she wore in the morning was actually ......"

"It's my daughter's clothes, because the little girl didn't bring a change of clothes, and the clothes she bought were also washed, so I had to do this, I can't let the girl be naked."

"Oh-" Xu Zhengchen elongated the end note.

"Ahem, uncle, I'm a serious person, so I'm not as obscene as you think. Also, your nosebleed came out......"

Xu Zhengchen wiped away the nosebleed from his nose with his hand, and instead restrained his smile, sitting aside and listening silently.

"Three years ago, there was a medical accident, my daughter left me and my wife forever, and the incident was too sudden, and my wife ......"

Thoughts drifted back to the past with the thick smoke.

"Miss, I want this, please help me pack it."

Zhang Yufeng stood in front of the window of a flower shop and struggled for a long time before finally deciding to buy 11 red roses.

"Welcome to the next time." The flower shop staff tied the removed roses into a bouquet and handed them to Zhang Yufeng, "Sir, go slowly." ”

The cake for the birthday gift has also been prepared, and now she is about to go home to surprise her, just thinking about it, Zhang Yufeng can't suppress the joy in his heart.

"Let's make a phone call first, lest she faint with joy."

He clicked on his phone's screen and found a familiar number from his contact list, and the call was dialed out with the swipe of his finger.

"I'm sorry, the phone you are calling has been turned off, please wait to call ......" The phone next to the ear emitted an emotionless service tone.

The phone was dialed three times, but still no one answered.

He smelled unease.

Forget it, it may be that she has been tired from overtime recently, and now she is resting at home, Zhang Yufeng returned home with this thought.

The moment before opening the door, his heart was so uneasy, he always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say what the problem was.

"Wife, I'm back."

Zhang Yufeng didn't expect that the scene that happened in the living room would surprise him who was unprepared.

A middle-aged woman was lying quietly on the sofa in the living room, looking like a sleeping person, the vein of her right wrist had been cut with a shallow cut, and the red blood dripped down her arm onto the surface of the carpet, obviously coagulated for a long time.

On the glass table next to the sofa, a bottle of medicine resembling sleeping pills could also be found, and several pills leaked from the upside-down bottle......

"Wife ......"

……

"Uncle must have been a very gentle person before."

"No, I've loved her as a woman in my life."

No one knows what is behind this man who has experienced the loss of his wife and children in middle age and the vicissitudes of his face.

Smack.

Zhang Yufeng took out a cigarette pack and a lighter from his pocket, skillfully lit a cigarette, and smoked it relaxedly. Thin wisps of smoke filled the mouth, quite a bit of melancholy and sadness.

"Would you like one?"

"No, I don't smoke."

"yes, it's a pity."

"It is said that when adults are in a bad mood, they will use simple and common ways to relieve their boredom, either smoking or drinking." Xu Zhengchen scratched the back of his head, with a hint of helplessness in his tone.

"Haha, you stinky boy...... Where did you learn these crooked truths? Zhang Yufeng stretched out a hand to put it on his shoulder, and the other hand still held a lit cigarette between the fingers.

"It's not thanks to my stinky dad who doesn't work all day to make money, and only thinks about fooling around outside."

The two of them sat on the stairs in front of the store, two empty beer cans on their laps.

"It's been a long time since I've talked to someone like this." Zhang Yufeng changed his expression and said, "That, Zhengchen, there is something I want to tell you......"

In-store.

There was a dim light on the floor of the guest room on the second floor, Su Yuxi was wrapped in a thin air-conditioning quilt, her hair was messy and she was lying on her side on the bed, and gradually, fragments of the past came to her like a tide.

She closed her eyes, and the initial reaction was not a whimper, but after a minute or two, tears flowed uncontrollably from the corners of her eyes, and then all the way down her cheeks, soaking the pressed pillow.

Invisible pain was tearing at her fragile, severely atrophied vocal cords. The crying in the bed was intermittent, hoarse as if it was bleeding, and it couldn't help but feel distressed when I heard it.

The potted plants on the windowsill shivered slightly, the raindrops rolled down the leaves into the soil of the pots, and a silky drizzle fell outside.

Zhang Yufeng snuffed out the cigarette with his backhand, and took a small breath of air while he was still unfinished smoking.

"The day she left, it rained at night, just like now."

Xu Zhengchen sat quietly in place and didn't say a word for a long time.

"That's why I hate the rain......"