"Hey." Zhen Zhen's head shrank suddenly, as if she had been pushed by something, and Bai Yunlian's hand also retracted like lightning, "Sister, your hand is very hard." Zhenzhen snatched his sister's hand, and his thick round and soft fingers soon touched the end of his sister's phalanges, where there were several small cocoon-like bags.

"Zhenzhen, when my sister was a child, she was like you, she always felt that her mother was annoying here and there." Bai Yunlian covered Zhen Zhenzhen's hand holding her palm with her other hand, "It wasn't until I grew up that I realized how difficult it was for my mother to be alone." ”

"How hard is it for Mom?" Zhenzhen's resentment came and went quickly, and on one side of his body, his little head simply fell into his sister's arms, in the warmest place in the world.

"You haven't been out in three months, have you?" Bai Yunlian gently took away the paper bag that was originally lying in her arms to make Zhen Zhen lie more comfortable, "Do you know what happened outside in the past three months?" ”

"I know, I said in the rain, there are big madmen outside who bite people when they see them." Rain is one of the hosts of Bijiang TV, surnamed Liang Mingyu, but because Zhen Zhen didn't know how to read the word "Liang" back then, "Yu" and "Rain" are homonyms, so he has always called him Rain.

"Do you know what Mom does?"

"Mom won't tell me anything."

Bai Yunlian nodded, her mother has always been tight-lipped about her profession, as if this is a big secret related to national security, and it was not until later that she figured out that her parents did this because they didn't want them to learn to compare at this age.

A pack of colorful rainbow candy suddenly appeared in front of Bai Weizhen, Xiao Zhenzhen's eyes lit up, and his two small and powerful arms stretched out and pressed together, but the force he used seemed to be a little stronger, Bai Yunlian "oops" and screamed, Xiao Zhenzhen immediately threw down the candy, and the two little hands took a lot of effort to close the big palms of his sister: "Sister...... You...... How did your hand break like this? ”

It turned out that in the past three months, because of work, Bai Yunlian had to wear gloves almost all the time, and the gloves were sprinkled with talcum powder, which caused every time she took off her gloves, she had to soak in the cold and biting water for a long time, but how could the back of her delicate hands withstand such a toss? After coming and going, the originally elaborate works of art have become shoddy knockoffs.

Bai Yunlian gently pulled out her hand, tore open the bag of Skittles little by little, and then bent Zhenzhen's little hand into an "arch" shape, and soon, Zhenzhen's hand collected seven sugars of different colors.

"Taste it." After Zhen Zhen grabbed the yellow, blue, and purple candies and stuffed them into her mouth, Bai Yunlian asked softly, "Is it delicious?" ”

"Mmmm, it's delicious. It's simply the sweetest sugar I've ever tasted! ”

Looking at Zhen Zhen's little face full of joy and happiness, Bai Yunlian bent the corners of her mouth: "But this sweetness has a price." ”

"At what cost?" The thinking is still stuck in "no money?" Go to the bank and pick it up. Zhenzhen, naturally, didn't know that the delicacy in his mouth was obtained by "destroying" the back of his sister's white hand.

"That's the price." Bai Yunlian nodded the back of her "tattered" hand.

"Nope! Did that uncle bully you, sister? Zhenzhen was like a little hedgehog "whooping" and "standing" from Bai Yunlian's arms, and the only few hairs on the eggshell "sighed" and stood up, quite to an angry little hedgehog, "I'm going to beat him......"

"No, no......" Bai Yunlian was taken aback by Zhen Zhen's reaction, and hurriedly waved her hand and shook her head, "I just want to say that some things that you think are readily available are actually not easy to obtain, but there are people who have borne the hardships for you." ”

Bai Yunlian didn't expect Bai Weizhen to understand such profound words, but she really couldn't think of how to say it in order to say it in layman's terms.

"Then I won't eat Skittles anymore! Sister, in this way, your hand will not break. Zhen Zhen's face showed a triumphant smile, and he thought that he had found a solution.

"You're so good to me." Bai Yunlian's body was once again occupied by a warm airflow, as if it was not so cold this day.

"I must listen to my sister in the future!"

"But have you ever thought about it, not only this Skittles, but also the sweaters and cotton pants on your body, including this pair of sneakers that you have been muttering for a long time, are also to be bought with money." Bai Yunlian said, gently pulled the orange sweater that Zhenzhen was wearing, and looked at the big brand sneakers again.

Zhen Zhen put on an "oh" mouth shape, and her little head was like a chicken pecking rice.

"Who bought these for you?" Bai Yunlian hit the railroad while it was hot, "It's not a mother yet." ”

"But the back of my mother's hand isn't broken?"

Bai Yunlian put a palm on her face, although she repeatedly reminded herself to be patient and enlighten him, Zhenzhen always gave her a feeling of "I am brain dead"!

"But my mother's neck, waist, and elbows are constantly sore and unbearable." Bai Yunlian opened the paper bag containing the basketball and pulled out the gift she had prepared for her mother from the far left of the bag—a plaster to relieve joint pain. Since that incident, in order to feed these two mouths that can never be filled, the weak mother had to work two jobs, which worked day and night, not only robbed her of her remaining charm, but also made her originally good body fall into a body of pain.

"The feeling at the time of the seizure is no lighter than the one you did." Zhen Zhen likes to play basketball, and once, he bumped into a senior classmate, and received three stitches in his right eye, leaving a scar about two centimeters long, and since then, there has been a dragon in the corner of his eye (his mother and sister comfort him) \ snake (classmates laugh at him).

"It does hurt."

"Then in the future, do you want to listen to your mother?" Bai Yunlian also ate a rainbow candy, and she believed that Zhenzhen's heart would definitely be touched.

"Yes!" Sure enough, Zhen Zhen replied without hesitation, although he had said this and done that every time before, but this time, Bai Yunlian believed that he was sincere.

"Sister, can you tell me where Dad went?" Somehow, Zhen Zhen asked this question that shocked Bai Yunlian's heart, "At the parent-child sports meeting, my classmates laughed at me for being an orphan!" ”

Looking at Zhenzhen, whose eyes were red again, Bai Yunlian's cheeks couldn't help but rise with a fire: It's all because my sister has no ability and can't stay in Yuanzhou to work.

"Zhenzhen, don't care what they say. You have a father-in-law, mother-in-law, mother, and sister who love you, how can you be an orphan? ”

Zhen Zhen choked as soon as he was excited, and when he sobbed, his speech became less eloquent: "They said...... I...... My parents ...... Never...... Not...... Take me...... Paternity...... Games...... Also...... Only...... I...... I'm ...... alone."

Bai Yunlian gently stroked her brother's back, what she didn't know was that the corners of her eyes were also a little red.

Zhenzhen was half-lying in his sister's arms, tears ran down his eyes, crossed the corners of his eyes, and finally fell on his sister's sleeve, and after a while, he stopped sobbing: "Sister, didn't my mother say that Dad was an angel, and he was just going to help other people who were more in need?" Can you get him back? I need him now more than anyone else! ”

Bai Weizhen's words are not bad at all, although he doesn't know that in this three-month lockdown, the two companies where his mother works, one has been suspended indefinitely and the other has closed down, although he doesn't know that if that distant disease breaks out in Yuanzhou, a family like them that lacks a pillar will definitely be the first to suffer a catastrophe. But he knew that whether it was for his in-laws, who were deteriorating, for his mother, who was no longer able to straighten her waist, or for himself, who was shaping his worldview, outlook on life, and values, his father should indeed come back.

Bai Yunlian secretly glanced at the door of the entrance, and quietly took out her mobile phone and looked at the time: 1:27 o'clock, at this point, my mother estimates that it will take a while to wake up.

"Zhenzhen, come, get up." Bai Yunlian said as she spoke, so she gently picked up Zhenzhen, and after stabilizing him on the ground, Bai Yunlian put the two paper bags on the shoe cabinet along with the backpack, and then led Zhenzhen out of the house and walked straight to the rooftop.

On the south side of this residential building, there is a large warehouse, and the south side of the warehouse is a cement road more than 100 meters long. A stall selling firecrackers. Between them, hundreds of people were stopping to choose, and it was very lively, and sure enough, the joy brought by the New Year finally outweighed the desolation brought by the severe disease.

The sea breeze sends the floral scent mixed with human voices into the olfactory nerves of the two, and this rich aroma can't help but lift people's spirits.

"Do you have an impression of Dad?" Looking at the lively flower market, Bai Yunlian seemed to be stimulated by something, her body turned, and her eyes avoided the excitement and luxury.

"Nope." Because of the headwind, Zhenzhen's immature voice took a long time before it reached her sister's ears. With the voice invading, there is still a little desolation: when his father left, Zhenzhen had not yet learned to call "Dad".

"What kind of person do you think Dad is?"

Bai Weizhen lightly jumped on a thirty-centimeter-high thick water pipe, so that he could also see the flower market in the distance, unlike his sister, his eyes were more yearning, he liked to be lively, he liked to stay in the crowd, because only in this way, Zhenzhen would feel that he was not an abnormal individual, he was not lonely, even if no one in it had ever set his eyes on this child.

"I heard from my mother that he was a liar with a lust for profit." Zhen Zhen said without hesitation, and said an idiom that was obviously beyond his knowledge, which was only possible - his mother repeated this sentence in his ear often and unconsciously. So much so that it has become a conditioned reflex.

Moreover, Zhenzhen also subconsciously imitated her mother's expression - frowning, staring, and disgusted. In this way, the dragon in the corner of his right eye seemed to be alive, and the dragon's mouth opened slightly, spewing out a ball of fire—Zhen Zhen's eyes full of hatred.

It seems that my mother's longing for my father has not faded with the passage of time, but has become more and more intense, so that she hates him because of her thoughts - why should she abandon her wife and go to a foreign country to help those who have never known her. She hated him, why did she leave in such a hurry, that she refused to stay longer even on the most valued reunion night. She hated him, why did she swear so much at the beginning, saying that she wanted to stay with her for a long time, but in the end, she was left with four sick old people, two of whom would always only shout "hungry".

Angel, liar, two words that praise and disparage, are used to summarize Dad's life at the same time, but they don't feel inconsistent at all.

"Then do you want to know why Dad is both an angel and a liar?"

"Yes." Zhen Zhen was also obviously attracted by these two adjectives, and nodded with interest while rubbing his arms.

A coat not much larger than his body was draped over his shoulders: "Sit down, my sister will tell you." ”