028 The purple clay pot
"If you suddenly want to take the train, you must lean against the window so that you can avoid the strange eyes of others, and you must wear headphones so that you can't hear the trivial sounds in the carriage. I know where the train is going and when it is going to arrive, and it's important and happy that I'm free in the time before I arrive. Even though there was no wind in the carriage, I looked out the window and seemed to touch the breeze on the fields outside. (From a diary by Li Yaotang)
After listening to An Zhijia's words, He Yu coughed deliberately.
An Zhijia looked at him and smiled, and continued: "Haha, listen to it, what you say is so literary!" Ouch, just talking about this, I can't really tell him that he is an unscrupulous and rogue lawyer, right? I love to say that. Just because of this, he is often beaten by his sister-in-law, but he can't change it repeatedly! Tang Tang, you have to be careful at the wedding banquet, don't be caught by my brother, then he will have a chance to talk. You know, lawyers always talk a lot. An Zhijia smiled.
Li Yaotang looked at He Yu and said softly: "Fu Gan and Zhijia are here to deliver invitations. Auntie also prepared a lot of things for me to bring to my parents. β
"I have to trouble my aunt every time." He Yu hurriedly said, "Tang Tang and I will definitely go to your wedding." β
"Well, watching the ceremony is secondary, and watching your daughter-in-law is serious." An Zhijia continued to joke.
"That nature. Also, what needs to be done for us to just say. He Yu said with a smile.
"Okay, thank you first." An Zhijia also smiled.
Fu Gan looked at the floor clock in the corner of the hall, it was already more than ten o'clock, and he pulled An Zhijia to say goodbye. What a retention. An Zhijia smiled and grabbed Fu Gan's arm and said, "Thank you for your hospitality, the future will be long." Say goodbye. β
He Yu was not reluctant to do so, and sent them out with Li Yaotang.
When Fu Gan said goodbye, he glanced deeply at Li Yaotang. That glance, like a sharp knife, slashed Li Yaotang's heart fiercely. Li Yaotang involuntarily raised his hand and wrapped his shawl tightly. He Yu grabbed her shoulders and waved his hand.
An Zhijia looked at the two people standing at the door from the rearview mirror and sighed.
The domineering He Yu and the gentle Li Yaotang seem to be two completely different people. But after watching it for a long time, you will feel that this pair of seemingly unbounded combinations, full of charm, are actually intertwined with threads, and they couldn't be more harmonious.
Fu Gan beside him was still silent.
As he often does, tonight was too quiet.
Thinking so, An Zhijia suddenly realized that tonight, it seemed that she was singing a one-man show.
No, there's another guy gagging. What a encounter.
He Yu watched Fu Gan's car turn into the boulevard, and the hand on Li Yaotang's shoulder was put down and put into his pocket. For a moment both stood still. There was no wind, but the air became more and more stuffy, and it seemed to be hot in the mouth and nose.
Li Yaotang looked up at the sky, covered by clouds, and the palace lamp above his head sprinkled warm light. It's just that the warmth of this light is too faint, Li Yaotang felt for a moment that it was winter now, and the night was too cold, like a small pebble thrown into a deep well, thrown over, and disappeared in an instant.
He Yu turned around and left silently, and she stood quietly for a while.
When I returned to the house, I saw He Yu standing in the living room, and he had the invitation card in his hand. Li Yaotang was stunned. Her expression did not escape He Yu's eyes. He looked at her calmly.
She walked over and pulled out the lightly scented card from his hand and clutched it tightly in her hand.
In an instant, a wave of anger rushed to his head, and the emotions that had been suppressed for a night exploded almost immediately. Although He Yu's expression was calm, in her eyes, it was sarcastic and disdainful...... It's a stinky virtue of a bystander who has watched a good show.
"Say whatever you want."
She didn't care what he said or thought.
yes, I don't care.
She's had enough tonight.
When the "ex-boyfriend" takes his fiancΓ©e and shows boundless happiness in front of her; And her husband acted better, and his performance was even higher than happiness...... She's really going to be pushed to the brink by them.
He Yu pursed his lips, bent down slightly, and picked up his coat from the sofa.
"You really don't have a conscience. I was just helping you. β
She looked at him silently.
Nothing? Conscience?
Hehe.
Help her? Isn't it also for his own face?
Li Yaotang glanced at He Yu coldly.
"Don't you just want him to think you're happy? Well? β
He glanced at the coffee table. No need to ask, he also knows that this is Lu'an melon chips. Too familiar with this taste. Because, she only drinks this kind of tea.
He smiled wryly. It's like seeing through something, and it's like mocking yourself.
Li Yaotang's face turned red.
He was cold, lazy, and seemed to spew out these words from his nostrils: "What about you, have a good rest tonight." If you don't want others to see your swollen face, don't cry. β
After saying that, he went upstairs on his own.
The room was silent.
She wanted to cry.
But I couldn't cry. I really can't cry.
Only the pain in the heart is getting worse and worse.
She held it down, but to no avail.
She knew what it was, it was a wound she had sewn up with her own hands. But it turned out that the wound had never healed, and was just waiting for the opportunity to add deeper pain to her.
Fu Gan parked his car in a secluded neighborhood.
Shen Peiyi, who was sitting in the back row, said, "Send things up." β
Fu Gan didn't move, his eyes staring ahead. In the sun, there are several old people basking in the sun.
The buildings in the community are all gray, and the bicycle shed in front of the building is covered with thick dust, and everything looks so old. Not far away is a forest of aspen trees, each with a thick hug. You can hear the sparrows chirping, and this cry adds a bit of summer vitality to the quiet community.
"Fugan?" Shen Peiyi couldn't help but urge when he saw that he didn't move.
"Since we're all downstairs, let's go up together." Fu Gan said slowly.
The narrow, straight path in front of me, the gray-white bricks, so many years have passed, and the traces left by time here are the growth of the annual rings of the poplar tree in a circle. The days of playing with slingshots, bouncing glass balls, and throwing mud dolls here seem to be just yesterday.
"Seeing me angry again will only make him angry." Shen Peiyi hesitated.
Fu Gan unbuckled his seat belt, got out of the car, and took out a few plastic bags from the trunk. Then I looked at my mother in the carriage and saw that she really didn't mean to get down, so I turned around and walked in the direction of the unit door.
Shen Peiyi watched his son walk slowly, the streamers on his clothes trembling slightly in the wind with the rhythm of his walking. The old people who were basking in the sun saw him and talked to him.
Fu Gan patiently coped with them one by one. After a long delay, Fu Gan said goodbye and went upstairs.
Shen Peiyi shook his head. She looked at the dilapidated courtyard with some disgust. Bicycle sheds, small coal houses, half-collapsed ping-pong tables, broken bricks into eight petals...... There was also the annoying chirping of cicadas in the sycamore forest, and the disturbing cries of night and day, all of which made her irritable.
For decades, no matter how fast the world outside the compound was changing, it just paced at its own pace, as if it never changed a bit.
The old people basking in the sun looked into the car and whispered.
Shen Peiyi twisted his head.
Over there, Fu Gan was already standing at the door of 301, he put the plastic bag in his left hand and rang the doorbell with his right hand. It took a while for someone to open the door.
Fu Gan took half a step back. The answer to the door was a silver-haired old man with reading glasses in his hand, and after opening the door, he cleared his throat with a "hum" before raising his eyes to look at people.
"Where's Xiaofu?"
"Grandpa." Fu Gan smiled.
Grandpa "uh-huh" twice, cleared his throat, turned around, and moved into the house, "Come in." β
"Hey!" Fu Gan watched his grandfather's slow-moving footsteps attentively. His steps were much slower than the last time I saw him. Fu Gan couldn't help but feel uncomfortable in his heart.
Grandpa said to let Fu Gan sit and go to the inner room by himself. Fu Gan put his things on the square table in the corridor and living room, tilted his head to look, and his grandfather was cleaning up a stack of newspapers inside. Once folded, place the glasses on top. It looks like I'm going to wait and read the newspaper later. Fu Gan saw his grandfather turn around and come out, and hurriedly sat down.
"Grandpa, are you okay?" He put his hands on his lap and rubbed them twice.
Grandpa passed in front of him, glanced at him, went to the kitchen, raised his hand and pulled the lamp rope, and the dark kitchen suddenly lit up. Fu Gan saw that his grandfather came out with a teacup, and hurriedly stood up to take the cup. Grandpa waved his hand, and Fu Gan had no choice but to sit down again.
"Uh-huh...... Give me the tea box. Grandpa said.
Fu Gan took an iron box with blue flowers on a white background to his grandfather on the side of the square table against the wall. I opened the lid of the box. Grandpa's hands trembled, and he took the silver spoon from the clasp on the side of the box.
Fu Gan looked at his grandfather's hands, the nails were a little long, but they were clean. Fu Gan's eyes were a little sour. Turning his head to look at the room, it was as clean as ever. For an eighty-six-year-old man who lives alone, it is even a little too neat.
Grandpa put the tea leaves into the snow-white ceramic teapot, Fu Gan reached out and picked up the hot water bottle on the table, and said, "Grandpa, I'll come." β
Grandpa sat down.
Fu Gan poured eight full of water into the teapot, closed the lid, and put the thermos back in its place. After doing these few actions, Fu Gan felt that his forehead was sweating.
He looked at his grandfather, and his grandfather looked at him.
"Uh-huh......" Grandpa picked up his purple clay pot and took a sip of tea.
"Grandpa, my mother ...... too"
"Uh-huh......," his grandfather interrupted, "you called the other day and said you were going to bring a girl to see me, didn't you?" β
"Yes."
"What about people?"
"I couldn't come together for something temporary."
"Uh-huh, uh-huh...... Is it with you? β
"Yes. It is the interpreter of the embassy. β
Grandpa nodded.
Fu Gan suddenly felt that his grandfather's eyes were a little cloudy, and at this time they were much clearer.
"You're getting married?"
"Yes."
"Uh-huh." Grandpa's fingers stroked the lying poodle on the lid of the purple clay pot, thoughtfully.
Fu Gan looked at the purple clay pot.
The purple clay pot...... It was given to his grandfather by Li Yaotang.
"Uh-huh...... Have you come back and seen Tangtang? Grandpa's voice was low and hoarse.
Fu Gan nodded.
Grandpa's action of stroking the purple clay pot stopped, and his fingers flicked twice.
These two blows seem to have hit Weiren's heart.