Xiao Ye handed Xiao Han the model of the last pineapple house and Snail together in the box, watched Xiao Han find a good place, put things on the collection shelf, and asked behind him, "Why does Dad like this so much?" ”

Xiao Han looked at the collections placed on the collection shelves, sighed lightly with relief, turned around and walked towards the sofa under the staircase, after sitting down, Xiao Ye also came over, he held a water glass, and said in a deep voice: "Your father said that when he was a child, he was always alone at home, only this cartoon accompanied him, and he remembered every episode in it, so he always wanted to collect all the things inside." ”

Xiao Ye sat on the sofa next to him, the light was a little dim, he lowered his eyes, as if he was talking to himself, "So that's the case." ”

Although they have been living together for fourteen years, there are always very few words between Xiao Han and Xiao Ye, just like Ye Quan said, the two of them can sit opposite each other for an afternoon, and then, each of them looks at their respective books and doesn't say a word, not because they have a bad relationship, it's just that they are not good at expressing themselves.

Ye Quan always said that Xiao Ye and Xiao Han were very similar, Xiao Ye knew that he was sometimes talking about his character, but most of the time, Xiao Han and Mr. Wen, Ah Xin and some people who often came and went together, all said that Xiao Ye and Ye Quan were very similar, Xiao Ye knew that they were also talking about their own character.

Xiao Ye stared at a very small freshwater fish in the glass of the coffee table, watching it swim past another red goldfish and swim to the Taihu Lake Stone used for landscaping behind a clump of aquatic plants, and did not come out again for a long time.

This freshwater fish was brought back by the family last week, Ye Quan happened to go to the kitchen at that time, and when he came out, he had an extra fish that was only the length of his little thumb in his hand, and then put it with those goldfish. But this fish is very unsociable, and a week has passed, and it is still alone, and it is not known if it has eaten.

Xiao Han put the water cup on the coffee table, and watched Xiao Ye raise his eyes to look at himself: "You quarreled with her." ”

Xiao Ye knew that Xiao Han was not asking him, but affirming his judgment. He exhaled softly, barely audible "um", and looked down at the hands that had been clasped together because of the tension he had been doing.

After a long while, Xiao Han didn't ask him again, Xiao Ye looked up at Xiao Han and said, "Dad, I remember, you seem to have never ...... I didn't have a fight with my dad. ”

Xiao Han snorted coldly: "Your father's character, who can quarrel with him, besides, your father's blood pressure is unstable, his mood fluctuates slightly, his blood pressure is either low or high, and he is unwilling to go to the hospital, and I still quarrel with him?" If I quarrel with him, I might as well quarrel with myself. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Han's mobile phone rang, and the music of "SpongeBob SquarePants" just sounded, and it was broken, and Ye Quan's voice came from the mobile phone: "I got off work early enough today, and I have more than half an hour, go home and report ......."

I don't know if Ye Quan bumped into someone over there, he was apologizing to the person over there, Xiao Han's face changed, and he asked him, "Where are you?" ”

Ye Quan's voice sounded like he was talking while walking, and there was the sound of a very small plastic bag being picked up: "Shopping mall, aren't you about to make dinner, prepare something." ”

The corners of Xiao Han's mouth rose slightly, as if he could see the situation on Ye Quan's side through his mobile phone: "Put the sugar down." ”

The voice on the other side of the phone suddenly fell silent, and Ye Quan said to Xiao Han very unhappily: "Okay, okay, I won't tell you." And hung up.

Xiao Ye could imagine that Ye Quan had just picked a long time and finally picked a kind of candy that he liked the most, and then reluctantly put it down. Xiao Ye scratched his eyebrows, suppressed the smile at the corner of his mouth, and said in a somewhat muffled voice: "Dad, I found you...... I'm really worried about my dad. ”

Xiao Han looked tired, sighed softly, and said: "Your father just has a few more years of work experience than you, like a child who doesn't grow up, when it comes to taking care of himself, he and your grandfather, who will be the two of them?" ”

Xiao Ye smiled silently, Xiao Han suddenly changed the conversation, looked at him indifferently, and asked, "Xiao Ye, you know everything?" ”

Silence went back and forth between father and son, Xiao Ye knew what Xiao Han was asking, he looked at Xiao Han, but in fact, even he didn't know if he was looking at Xiao Han, looking at the staircase leading to the living room behind him, or looking at something else. His mind replayed the case in the file that afternoon, he saw in his study, starting from Ye Quan's one-inch photo, neatly mechanical fonts and professional esoteric medical images, page by page to the end, just like many years ago, he hid in a dim corner, no one came to him, when the light became dimmer little by little, until dark, fear also ate him little by little, until it was drowned, until it was not topped.

After a long, long time, Xiao Ye finally lowered his head heavily, nodded, and said, "I know." Xiao Han patted him lightly on the back of the neck: "Then don't let your father see it." …… And that woman, since you handled it, do it clean. ”

It has always been like this, Xiao Ye in front of Xiao Han has always been like this, no matter what he does, he can finally be seen through by Xiao Han at a glance, it was like this when he was a child, and it is still like this when he grows up.

This afternoon, in less than an hour, Xiao Han and Xiao Ye talked a lot, more than when Xiao Ye was at home in the past. Xiao Han is not a nagging person, Xiao Ye knows very well that he said these words from the same perspective as Ye Quan, from the perspective of a father.

Xiao Han said: "I don't quarrel because I don't want to, but because I can't, because there are many things to consider." Xiao Ye, you are still young, and many times, it may be difficult for you to control yourself, but you have to think about the consequences before you lose control. ”

Ye Quan came back half an hour later, probably because he went to that shopping mall, so he took a long detour. Xiao Ye sat on the dimly lit sofa, and saw Ye Quan mysteriously coming down the stairs, as if he didn't see himself, while walking around from behind Xiao Han's sofa, he said mysteriously: "I have pretty good news to tell you......" He walked to the coffee table, Xiao Han reached out and grabbed his hand and pulled him over from the coffee table, after he sat down next to Xiao Han, he said to Xiao Han in surprise: "I'm on vacation." ”

Xiao Han looked at Ye Quan softly: "Where do you want to go?" ”

Ye Quan stretched out his hand probably to get the cup on the coffee table, but his hand fell next to the cup, and Xiao Han pushed the cup towards him. Ye Quan picked up the water glass, approached his lips, and said, "Go to Yunnan, didn't you say you wanted to see elephants last time." I'm the fairest person, last time you accompanied me to Thailand, this time I will accompany you to Yunnan. ”

Xiao Han didn't speak, Xiao Ye sat on the sofa next to the two of them, and said with a "sneer" smile: "Dad, last time you obviously said that you wanted to see elephants." ”

Ye Quan seemed to know that Xiao Ye was also there, and said in surprise: "Xiao Ye...... When were you here? ”

Xiao Ye's hand was unnaturally dotted in his hair, and he said suspiciously, "Dad, I've always been here." ”

Before dinner that day, Xiao Han and Ye Quan said something and asked him to go to the hospital to check his eyesight, Xiao Han repeatedly promised Ye Quan not to let him be hospitalized, and Ye Quan agreed. Those words that day, Xiao Han said to Ye Quan, but at the same time, he also said to Xiao Ye, but he wanted to tell the two people that they knew something different.

Xiao Ye only knew from that time that Ye Quan's eyesight had dropped very much in just two years, and at that time, Xiao Han grabbed Ye Quan's hand and pulled him across the coffee table, and pushed the water cup to his hand, all because his eyesight was not good, he was afraid that he would be knocked on the side of the coffee table, and he was afraid that he would not be able to touch the cup of water. And these are things that Xiao Ye has never known in the past, he doesn't know, Xiao Han and Ye Quan are hiding these things from him, they just don't want him to worry. But now, he understood, and he understood now that it was not just this matter.

The thing that had been pressing in his heart was removed in an instant, Xiao Ye stood up, and said to Xiao Han and Ye Quan with a relieved smile: "Dad, I understand, thank you." Never-before-seen recklessness and impulsiveness appeared in his movements, and he ran up the stairs in a few steps.

Xiao Han said to him at the bottom of the stairs, "Remember what I told you today. He paused for a moment, listened to Xiao Han finish speaking, nodded with a smile and said, "I will, I will always remember." He turned around and quickly ran up the stairs and out of the living room.

The car slowly drove out of the gate, drove towards the greenery, and stayed away from the greenery, Xiao Ye thought, he would go and get Wang Jie back now, and he would apologize to her.

Wang Jie came out in the early hours of the morning, and she didn't know what time she came out, because she didn't bring her phone, not even anything, including her wallet. She walked along the road for a long time, not knowing where she was going, she only knew that she had walked a long, long way, her stomach was empty, warning her over and over again, and Xiao Ye's eyes as hot as dementia appeared in front of her again and again.

When the sun just rose in the morning, Wang Jie went back to the house, the door was locked, her mother was not there, she stood alone at the door, until the neighbor's aunt came back from shopping for vegetables and saw her, and asked her in surprise how she came back, she didn't remember how she answered at the time, or whether she said anything, and the aunt told her that her mother had not come back the afternoon before yesterday. She remembered that her mother had made a video call to her the night before, saying that she was going on a business trip.

The neighbor's aunt chattered a lot of gossip with Wang Jie with a smile on her face, but Wang Jie didn't listen much, in fact, Wang Jie was already very chaotic at that time, and when she came out in the early morning, she was also very sleepy, she just wanted to sleep in the place she was most familiar with at home, or find another place to be quiet. Unconsciously, he said "thank you" to the neighbor's aunt, and walked along the road in one direction.

Wang Jie walked farther and farther, and the tall buildings on the side of the road gradually decreased, and finally, she came to a rusted iron gate, and the road in front of the gate was sprinkled with stones of various sizes. There was a very empty and messy unfinished building inside the door, she wanted to find a place to rest, so she pushed the door, the door was open, she pushed it gently, and the door opened.

The first floor was damp, full of moldy white spots, and there were some construction wastes, Wang Jie followed the stairs without handrails and turned to the second floor. At a glance, she saw several men dressed in dirty clothes, cooking behind a thick cement pillar—just below that, the cement pillar was blocked, and she didn't see it—and now, these men were all looking at her, strange smiles trying to restrain themselves from appearing on their faces, teasing glances exchanging between them.