28. Mom's glimpse
The morning light was reflected in the bus in the early morning, Xue Lanlan looked out the window with a trembling expression, since Du Peng's phone call, she couldn't sleep anymore, but fortunately she waited until dawn.
At this moment, all she was thinking about was how to explain the empty boyfriend to her mother.
"Welcome to the bus to X city, I am the conductor of this car - Xiao Xu, this car starts from xx and ends at xx, the whole journey is xx kilometers......"
Xue Lanlan tilted her head, listening to the sounds on the periphery, her head was blank, this bus would run for more than five hours, and she would arrive home at almost twelve o'clock.
Just when Xue Lanlan was in a daze, the mobile phone of a middle-aged woman next to her suddenly rang, the sound was very loud, and the noisy ringtone was very harsh in the sleepy car, which made Xue Lanlan's thoughts suddenly interrupted by the ringtone of the mobile phone.
She paused slightly, her eyes fell on the other party, this middle-aged woman was about forty years old, she looked very ordinary, she picked up the phone with a cramped expression, and threw an apologetic look at Xue Lanlan.
Xue Lanlan didn't react to the middle-aged woman's actions in the slightest, she lowered her eyes slightly, and then saw the middle-aged woman pick up the phone, which was a video call.
Xue Lanlan could slant her head slightly to the person on her phone, and the middle-aged woman was a girl on the phone, looking very young, about eleven or twelve years old.
The girl was cute-looking and had dimples when she laughed, and she shouted "Mommy" to the middle-aged woman on the phone and asked her what time she would be back.
"Nier has grown up, and she knows how to ask her mother when she will go back, and her mother will arrive at noon, and she will take Nier to eat delicious food when the time comes!" The middle-aged woman hung up the phone after a few words of greeting with the girl on the video call, she gasped slightly, then looked at Xue Lanlan and said, "Hehe, it was my daughter just now." ”
Xue Lanlan nodded slightly at the other party's kind accosting, and she said, "It looks cute, and you're still in elementary school?" ”
"Yes, isn't this about to be promoted to junior high school, I want to make more money and send her to a good junior high school when the time comes." The middle-aged woman also seemed to be bored, so she opened a conversation with Xue Lanlan.
"And what about her father?"
"Hey, my family died early, and he died in a car accident." When the woman talked about her husband, her face was very flat, as if there were no waves.
This reminded Xue Lanlan of her mother, as if when her father died in those years, her mother was also like this, once outsiders talked about her father, her expression would be like this, there was no wave at all, but she knew that every time her father died, she would freshen up and dress up, and always stay at her father's grave for a long time.
For his father's affairs, in fact, his mother has never forgotten that the blandness in the eyes of outsiders is just a disguise needed for life.
Probably because Xue Lanlan remembered her mother, she looked at the woman with a little straight eyes, and then said calmly: "Then it must be very difficult for you to think about it!" ”
"Actually, it's okay, but sometimes I blame myself for not being able to give the best to my child."
"Then why not remarry?" Xue Lanlan asked this question because she had doubts in her heart, it seemed that she had dreamed in the car before that she had seen her aunt talk about her mother, and it seemed that she was instinctively curious about this question.
So when she asked this question, she was a little more concerned.
"Hahaha, girl, what are you talking about remarrying!" The middle-aged woman put the phone in her pocket with a smile, she paused, as if her thoughts drifted away, she said leisurely: "I am now old, I just want to take care of the child, and I have never thought about finding a man again, even if I look for it again, I must be able to accept my Nier." ”
Xue Lanlan listened to the middle-aged woman's words, and her words were full of concern for her daughter's feelings, and she said lightly: "Then what if your daughter wants you to find a good man to marry?" ”
"Huh?" The middle-aged woman was stunned.
Xue Lanlan paused, and came back to her senses from her mother's memories, "I'm just curious, what if your daughter wants you to find a good man to marry?" Xue Lanlan repeated it again.
"If Niel really thinks so, at least there must be a suitable man!" The middle-aged woman exhaled lightly, "Although I am very tired alone, I still want to take care of the children alone, and I may always feel that there are two people in my heart!" ”
Xue Lanlan listened to this, her pupils widened slightly, she turned her head and looked at the middle-aged woman, at this time, the woman's side face reflected in the morning light curtain, looking a little vicissitudes and loneliness.
Xue Lanlan sighed slightly and said, "Auntie, some people can't come back, so you have to take care of yourself no matter what." ”
Xue Lanlan was somewhat moved when she said this, and when Xue Lanlan heard the middle-aged woman say this, she inexplicably felt that her shadow coincided with her mother's shadow.
"Thank you, little girl." The middle-aged woman probably felt Xue Lanlan's mood, and nodded lightly in thanks.
Xue Lanlan didn't respond anymore, and then Xue Lanlan felt a vibration on her mobile phone, and she deliberately set it to vibrate when she got in the car in the morning.
Xue Lanlan glanced at the phone, it was Du Peng's phone, and now she didn't know what was wrong, Xue Lanlan panicked when she saw that it was Du Peng's phone.
Xue Lanlan didn't answer the phone immediately, and the middle-aged woman next to her reminded at this time: "Girl, don't you answer the phone?" ”
"Pick up ......" Xue Lanlan silently responded to the middle-aged woman's words, then picked up the phone, put the phone to her ear, she swallowed her saliva, and paused: "What are you doing?" ”
"Xue Lanlan, this is a video, not a phone ......," Du Peng on the other end of the phone reminded lightly.
Xue Lanlan hurriedly put the phone in front of her ear, only to find that Du Peng on the other end of the video had arrived at her door, Xue Lanlan blurted out: "Are you at my house?" ”
"Well, I'm here, are you there at twelve?" Du Peng asked lightly.
Xue Lanlan nodded, and she said, "Yes, if you don't go to a nearby coffee shop and sit for a while, wait for me to go home." ”
Xue Lanlan thought that as long as her mother didn't see Du Peng and placed Du Peng in a small hotel nearby, her plan would be carried out in the same way! The video plan to disguise the robot as a boyfriend is still feasible!
"Shouldn't I be waiting for you at your house? Aren't you going home? Du Peng listened to Xue Lanlan's words and asked very incomprehensibly.
Xue Lanlan paused, ready to find a reason to fool Du Peng over, she paused and said, "I ......" As soon as Xue Lanlan said this, she saw the door of her house open, and her mother came out with a garbage bag.
“???” Xue Lanlan looked at the figure of her mother coming out, and her mouth was suddenly gagged.
What should she say now? Let Du Peng go? Or let her turn the video off? At this point, as she was thinking, she saw her mother looking towards her.
Xue Lanlan hung up the video without thinking about it the moment she saw her mother looking at her.