When she got home, the first thing Anne did was turn on the computer, find her father's phone number from the phone book she didn't usually use, and then look at the number for a long time and meditate.

This is a Jiangcheng number, which has been changed twice.

It went from six to eight figures. No matter where she was, every time she changed her number, her father would try to find her and tell her the new number, but she didn't use it once.

She has always insisted on her prejudice against her father in her heart: because her father remarried, and her stepmother couldn't tolerate Anne, he made his choice and abandoned Anne in order to save his hard-won second marriage.

In Anne's upbringing, she was reluctant to communicate with her father no matter what happened, and the hurt in the past was too deep.

The stepmother's tyranny and meanness, and even the harsh treatment of daily food and clothing, living together for six years is like purgatory.

But this time, Anne is going to reach out to her father in order to go to high school abroad.

The process of contemplation is the process of overcoming psychological barriers. Anne finally reached out and picked up the phone, and dialed it with one click.

After ringing four times, the answer set in advance by the owner of the phone came: "Hello, I am Chang Yuning, I am on a business trip, I can't come back in a short time, please leave a message or call your mobile phone if you have something, thank you."

Even though the voice was unfamiliar, Anne could tell it was her father's voice.

Anne dialed the phone again, and the call was delayed for a moment, apparently because her father recognized the phone number, which was dialed from the place where the number in the city where Anne belonged.

Then came the father's nervous, excited, and somewhat confused voice: "Yes...... Nini? ”

There was a cacophony on the phone, as if it was in a crowded setting.

Anne also hesitated for a moment, and said a little stiffly: "Dad, it's me, you haven't rested yet?"

My father said, "I'm on my way to the airport, and I haven't rested yet, how are you?"

Anne said, "It's all right, I have something I want to discuss with you, can I go to Jiangcheng to find you?"

The father hurriedly said, "Yes, of course." I'm still in Xiangjiang, and I'll fly back to Jiangcheng at night. When are you coming? ”

Anne said, "I don't have the money to buy a plane ticket, you can buy it for me, buy tomorrow's."

The father said, "Yes, I'll buy it for you when I go back to Jiangcheng."

Anne said, "Don't tell my mother, I'm going to go secretly this time."

The father said, "You should tell your mother, right?"

Anne said, "My mother went to Hangzhou to study, and she is not at home, what do you mean...... Then I'm not going, forget it! ”

The father said, "No, no, I don't mean anything else, I'm just afraid that your mother won't find you, and since she's not there, you can come." Make a call in advance before you come and I'll pick you up at the airport. ”

Anne said, "Okay, then you book a ticket and notify me, I'm hanging, take care."

Put down the phone. Anne suddenly felt tired, as if she had just come down from the battlefield.

Anne opened the diary, did her daily homework, and the first line she wrote was: Me? Finally, I still have a request for him, and it seems that he still cares about me.

Anne couldn't finish writing this line, and looked at it in a daze, turned around and took out a pack of cigarettes from the drawer under the coffee table in the living room.

It was a cigarette that Mom kept in the living room to entertain guests, and Mom herself occasionally smoked one, as well as a delicate zippo lighter.

Anne reached out and took out a cigarette from the cigarette case and put it to her mouth, picked up the delicate lighter and just clicked it, suddenly stopped, subconsciously put the cigarette back again, grabbed the pack of cigarettes and clenched it vigorously, and threw it into the paper basket next to it along with the delicate lighter.

Anne immediately realized her action, suddenly sobered up, and asked herself in her heart: I shouldn't smoke, how can I smoke? What if my mom comes back and finds that the cigarette is gone? What will she think of me? Anne chewed on the question over and over again in her mind.

On the contrary, his heart became more and more calm, and he silently said to himself: I can't smoke.

The moment Anne identified the question, a new question leaped into her mind, and her fingers picked up the pen and wrote quickly.

wrote what Sister Lin Lin said to her in Frankfurt: You come to Frankfurt, so that we can be together often, you can live at home with me, we will be companions together, I really feel very lonely in Frankfurt for all these years, if you can come. ”

Anne sat thoughtfully at her desk, determined to go to Jiangcheng to persuade her father to let Anne go to school in Frankfurt.

Father booked a ticket for Anne to fly to Jiangcheng at half past twelve at noon, and in the morning Anne made simple preparations for the trip at home, and then went to the civil aviation ticket office to pick up the ticket.

After getting her ticket, Anne saw that there was still some time, so she walked west down the street into a bookstore.

The bookstore's record selection section is filled with a wide variety of CDs. The waitress asked enthusiastically, "Excuse me, what record do you need, I'll help you find it."

Anne said, "I'll take a look for myself, you don't have to help me, just help you!"

"Okay, then you can take care of yourself." The waitress turned and walked away.

At this time, Anne suddenly felt someone gently touch her arm, and when she looked sideways, it turned out to be Guo Jing. Guo Jing whispered to Annie, "What a coincidence, you are also there."

Anne looked at her with a smile.

At this time, Guo Jing handed a record in her hand to Anne and said, "Look, I bought Jay Chou's latest album."

Anne took the record with some curiosity and looked at it, it was Jay Chou's new album "Fantesi".

Jay on the album cover is wearing a red hooded sweatshirt, pressing the brim of the sweatshirt against his bangs and slightly covering his eyes.

The theme of this album, "Fantesi", is a transliteration of the English Fantasy, which means fantasy, imagination. Jay Chou's use of Fantesi as a Chinese way to express foreign content is exactly his musical concept and the way he will create an era in the future: the adaptation and optimization of the advanced music forms of the West to the East.

Anne returned the record to Guo Jing and said, "Where did you get it?" I want it too, Jay Chou's album is too exciting. ”

Guo Jing turned around and took Anne to find a record, and the waitress saw it and came over and said, "Whose album are you looking for?"

Anne said: "I want Jay Chou's new album "Fantesi"!"

The waitress smiled and took the lead in getting the record and said: "Recently, I have been looking for this record, and the boss said that the goods are almost sold out, and I am afraid that this is the last few pieces, and it will take a while to buy after they are sold."

Anne happily reached out to catch "Fantesi", and the whole look was like a treasure. "Thank you." Anne said with a smile.

Guo Jing said with a smile: "This bookstore has the most complete records, every time the latest and hottest album, I buy it from here, every time there is a new album, I run over to find it as soon as possible, there must be, and I have never disappointed once!"

Anne thought to herself: It seems that the hearts of music enthusiasts are all the same. Maybe it can't be called a "shop" at all, but in fact, it is a rented window about three meters long outside a bookstore, and the inside is small enough to fit a counter, and all the records are displayed on the wall.

The boss is a handsome man in his 30s, dressed in a suit and leather shoes. Meticulously dressed, wearing a large gold ring on the ring finger of his left hand is particularly eye-catching.

Anne left the bookstore and looked at the time, it was getting closer and closer to the time to board the plane, Anne couldn't delay any longer, she had to hurry home to get her backpack and go to the airport, Guo Jing waved goodbye to Anne and rode away.

After a 2-hour and 50-minute flight, Anne was already at Jiangcheng Pudong Airport, and Anne had just walked out of the airport with her schoolbag on her back when she saw her father.

Anne hurried forward to meet her, and her father also walked quickly towards her, and before she could speak, he preemptively greeted her: "Nini, everything is going well, right?" I just came from Nancheng, and I'm in a hurry that I can't pick you up. ”

Anne and Dad hadn't seen each other for a few days, and they were a little embarrassed and strange, and they didn't know what to say, so they followed Dad to the parking lot with their heads down.

The August heat in Jiangcheng is so hot that people can explode on the spot every minute, and as soon as she left the airport gate, a 40-degree hot wave hit Anne.

And it's the kind of heat wave with moisture in the steamer, and the sky is gray and oppressive, making people so hot that they can't breathe.

When I arrived at the parking lot, my father walked straight to a black Mercedes-Benz, which was a S500 with a relatively high level of sedan series.

As soon as Dad and Anne got into the car, Dad quickly turned on the air conditioner, and the father and daughter sat in the car without saying a word.

The air seemed to freeze, as if it had been separated for too long, and suddenly it seemed that they didn't know what to say when they were facing each other.

In the end, Dad took the lead in breaking the deadlock: "Nini, will Dad take you to dinner?" What do you want to eat? ”

Anne hummed as little as a mosquito, and the car began to leave Pudong Airport.

The city made Anne feel like a world away, a feeling that was both familiar and strange.

Familiar because Anne had lived here for ten years, and strangely because Anne had not returned for more than three years.

The city has changed a lot, and Anne has walked the road of Pudong Airport too many times.

When I was a child, my father always liked to take Anne with him on business trips, and there was no subway station at Pudong Airport at that time.

Far from being as convenient as here later, the transportation is so convenient, the subway can be reached anywhere for a few dollars, which is environmentally friendly, time-saving, and most importantly, money-saving. Everything here is all too familiar to Anne.

Along the way, Anne looked at the familiar streets, most of the streets in Jiangcheng were lined with thick French plane trees.

The old apartments under these plane trees are all buildings left over from the previous French Concession period, and most of them are in some French style.

For example, this Clement apartment in front of you. Completed in 1929, the French apartment lane consists of five identical apartment buildings, three stories high and four with a roof, and the roof is lit by dormer windows.

Although it faces the middle road of Fuxing, it is quiet because of the sycamore shade and the deep courtyard.

The name of Clement's apartment was taken from Clement, a French businessman and Belgian man in Shanghai at the time.

The delicate clear water red brick decoration with the artistic cement brushed wall often attracts passers-by to stop and linger.

It is also one of the popular places for many domestic and foreign tourists to check in Jiangcheng.

Another feature of Jiangcheng in autumn is that osmanthus trees are planted in many residential courtyards and near hotels.

Those osmanthus flowers exude a strong fragrance of osmanthus even at night, which is refreshing and refreshing.

Anne couldn't help but roll down the window, the sweet smell of osmanthus wafted into the car, and the faint pure fragrance brought people into the world of magic.

The car drove to the Xiaonanguo restaurant in Jing'an District and stopped, Xiaonanguo is some Jiangcheng local dishes.

In the past, my father liked to come to Xiaonanguo for dinner, and sometimes he brought friends from other places to invite guests to Xiaonanguo.

At the door, Anne was a little square, really, really square.

The welcome at the door can be said to be a little funny, wearing a beach-style skirt, just like the big green and blue flower skirts that abound on Hainan holiday beaches, and a big straw hat on his head.

It makes people suddenly play, and it feels like this is not a river city in Shiliyangchang, but a resort beach in Yazhou. It's not like a restaurant to eat, but like you're supposed to be lying on a deck chair on the beach under a giant parasol with sunscreen.

Sitting down, Dad asked Anne, "What does Nini want to eat?" Anne said, "It's been a long time."

When Dad heard Anne say that the fourth child was the same, he actually smiled like a child, because it was the fourth child that belonged to Dad and Anne.

The waiter next to him was a little confused, and the waiter said, "What kind of dish is the old four?"

Anne also smiled, Anne laughed this time from getting off the plane, Anne smiled and said: "The old four are stir-fried river shrimp, grandma's braised pork, crab roe tofu, and two scallion oil noodles"

The waiter asked, "What do you want to drink?"

Dad replied, "Suntory with 2 bottles of ice." Nini, what do you drink? ”

Anne said: "Bright brand yogurt bar"

Before the food was served, Dad asked Annie: "Nini, you haven't been back for a long time, you can come over on vacation in the future, you don't want to go back to live, there is a small apartment downstairs in Dad's company, Dad occasionally takes a lunch break there, you come to live there."

Anne was a little surprised, Anne thought that after not being in touch for many years, her father had forgotten Anne in the back of her mind.

Anne had mixed feelings in her heart, and she couldn't put it into words.

Not long after, the dish was on the table, and Anne looked at the hot grandmother's braised pork, which was "a classic of Shanghai cuisine."

Xiaonanguo's nostalgic old Shanghai taste, select the "Shangfeng" brand pork for Hong Kong with full quality control, only pick the pork belly, change it into a moderate size of the square block, with a hundred leaf knots, sublimate the traditional ancient method, and cook it is not sweet or greasy.

Dad sandwiched a piece of braised pork to Anne and said, "Even if you don't want Dad, but Nini must miss grandma's braised pork, when she was a child, Nini liked this dish the most, and when you were 7 years old, you could eat two bowls of rice with braised pork alone!"

Anne took a bite and ate her grandmother's braised pork that tasted like she was a child.

It turns out that food can pull people back to the time tunnel from the sense of taste.

When I was a child, the summer was also so stuffy and uncomfortable, Anne hung a keychain around her neck, nibbled on a bright brine popsicle, and squeezed the bus to and from school on a hot day.

At that time, there was no yellow school bus today, and I had to squeeze the bus to and from school.

Anne was in a trance, and something froze Anne's arm. Pull Anne back to reality in a second from the time tunnel.

It turned out that the waiter put a box of Bright brand yogurt in front of Anne.

The second dish is stir-fried river shrimp, which is fresh river shrimp.

The raw materials belong to Xiaonanguo, which are produced in the waters of Jianhu Lake in Jiangsu, which is known as the "land of fish and rice", which is crystal clear, fresh and sweet.

Only the simplest processing and cooking are carried out to maintain the original flavor of river prawns. Eat it in your mouth, a bite of freshness.

Dad said, "Nini, why are you so skinny, you are still growing your body, you need to eat more, by the way, what do you want to tell Dad this time?"

Anne looked up at her father, her eyes averted a little awkwardly, and she stuffed a mouthful of fried shrimp into her mouth.

said: "Dad, I will be in the third year of junior high school next semester." I want to graduate from junior high school and go to Frankfurt. ”

"Frankfurt? So far? Why do you want to run so far to go to high school? Dad stopped his chopsticks. Asked Anne with a puzzled face.

Anne said: "My mother is too busy with work, and she is away from home for more than half of the time for a long time, so I can't stay alone, anyway, sooner or later I have to go abroad to study, so it's better to go out early, maybe I can adapt faster."

After saying that, Anne didn't raise her head from beginning to end, but raised her head to look at her father, and at this time Anne found that her father had changed a lot in recent years, and he was a little blessed, not like when he was young.

When Anne looked at her father, her father was a little unnatural, his eyes averted, and he took a big sip of beer from his glass.

The staple food is served, and the fragrant scallion oil is mixed with noodles and minced meat. The noodles are tough and smooth, and the green onion leaves are crispy and fragrant, leaving a fragrant mouthful.

Dad took a bite of scallion oil noodles and said, "Have you discussed it with your mother?" What did your mom say? ”

Anne said: "My mother has no problem with this, my mother has always let me make up my own minds, and I just came back from Frankfurt a few days ago."

As soon as my father took a bite of crab roe tofu, he was shocked and asked me anxiously, "What are you doing in Frankfurt?" Are you alone? Your mom didn't go with you? ”

Anne replied: "I'm not alone, our school organizes to go together, 20 classmates, and 5 teachers, who go together, and the summer camp is not accompanied by parents!"

When Anne said this, she also took a bite of crab roe tofu, oh my God, it was so delicious. Hand-dismantled crab roe accompanied by slippery nen tofu, and then drizzled with Xiaonanguo's secret balsamic vinegar, it is simply unparalleled in umami.

Dad listened as if his heart had finally fallen to the ground, sighed and took another sip of beer and said, "Why do you have to go to Frankfurt?" If you want to study abroad, you can go to Tokyo, Tokyo's science and technology are also very developed, and it is close to China, it is convenient to come back from the holidays or something, why not go to Europe alone, too far, it is not safe, and you need to take such a far plane to go home during the holidays every year. What a sin. ”

Anne was a little disappointed, it seemed that her father would not agree, Anne buried her head in the food, and said no more.

The atmosphere at the dinner table was depressed to a freezing point.

Both father and daughter ate in silence and remained silent.

Anne thought about it, Anne returned to Jiangcheng this time, because she overcame a great psychological barrier and the knot in her heart that she had accumulated for many years.

ran all the way from Tangcheng to Jiangcheng just to persuade her father to support her to go to Frankfurt to study in high school, if this matter ends like this, wouldn't this trip be in vain!

Anne took a sip of yogurt, looked at her father seriously and said: "Dad, I have made a lot of determination to go back to Jiangcheng this time, I want to go to Germany to study, not only because I adapt to the study abroad life in advance, but also because you and my mother, your work and private affairs are more than one another, one is busier than the other, you, I have not seen you for many years, although my mother says that I live with me, but I also see more than I see, rather than this, I am also a burden to you in China, it is better to let me go out to study by myself, so that I have also got my wish, You guys are easy too! ”

Dad was about stunned by Anne, and the noodles in his mouth fell into the bowl at once, and most of the beer was gulp. After drinking, I poured another glass, and I went down again.

After two beers, Anne saw that her father's eyes were red and bloodshot. There was a trace of guilt in my heart, thinking that Anne's words just now were too straightforward and too heavy!

Dad looked at Anne very sincerely and said: "Nini, Dad knows that he can't live with you, and he also knows that you have suffered too many grievances all along, and I resent Dad in my heart, for so many years, you have never contacted Dad and never returned to Jiangcheng, but Dad has no choice, Chang Bo is still young, (Chang Bo is my half-brother who is 7 years younger than me) Dad also doesn't want Chang Bo to repeat your mistakes and be wronged under his stepmother......"

Anne couldn't listen to it anymore, and it hurt her heart, so she hurriedly interrupted her father's words: "Dad, I don't want to mention the past." There is no need to mention that, what happened has already happened, yesterday cannot be stayed, I came today to discuss with you about going to Frankfurt! ”

Dad turned the conversation to studying abroad: "Frankfurt is going to speak German, do you?" Can you keep up with the high school you went there? ”

Anne said: "You don't have to worry about this problem, Frankfurt has a special one-year language school, I looked it up on the Internet, went to study language for a year, and then transferred to a regular high school."

Anne continued: "Besides, my cousin and my cousin's family are also in Frankfurt, they have immigrated for many years, and now they run a Chinese restaurant in Frankfurt, I can also be with Sister Lin Lin when I go, and I don't have to live on campus, I can go to school, I can go to school, live with Sister Lin Lin, and I can quickly learn German, not a problem."

Dad finally understood at this moment, and said, "Oh, you want to go to Frankfurt because of your cousin's family and your sister Lin Lin for a long time?" I said that I had no reason to go to Europe alone. ”

Anne continued to eat fried noodles with scallion oil, the scallion oil noodles were a little cold, not as fragrant as when they were hot, and a little greasy.

Anne replied: "Yes, that's it, I'm not alone, I'm studying at Sister Lin Lin's house, just like studying in Jiangcheng and studying in Tangcheng." You don't have to live on campus, and you and my mom don't have to cao my heart! ”

Dad was overwhelmed, sitting on the chair with his hands turned back to support the back of the chair, and his belly was bulging because he had drunk a lot of beer, like a general.

Holding his stomach up, he burped and said, "Then if this is the case, then you can really consider it, the question is, are your cousin and cousin willing to take care of you?" They're also busy, so what if you go and cause trouble for someone's house? ”

Anne listened to her father's words and seemed to be relieved.

My heart suddenly became much more relaxed, and I said with a yogurt straw in my teeth: "I went, mainly to follow Sister Lin Lin." I won't let my cousin and aunt worry about it, Sister Lin Lin solemnly extended a strong invitation to me before leaving a few days ago! ”

"Oh, that's good, that's it, Nini, you give Dad a few days, think about it, and you can go back and discuss it with your mother and cousin's family, you still need to be cautious about this matter, okay?"

Anne hummed in relief......