Age of Chaos Chapter 20 What I Want, Time Has Been Given to Me (I)
[It's so good, pure love is always desirable, but how many people can bear the sour result? I've been decadent for half a month, it's time to start over, isn't it just a girlfriend, right? This has been written for a long time, and it wasn't supposed to end like this, but it's ......]
Twilight Xuefei is getting married, and the whole group is boiling after the news is broken in the high school classmates group.
Because Twilight Xuefei's marriage partner is Zhou Zimo, these two people have been together since high school, and now they have been married for ten years, and everyone is surprised that their long-distance love run will have such a happy ending.
Soon, someone broke out the wedding photos of Twilight Xuefei and Zhou Zimo in the group.
In the photo, Twilight Xuefei is dressed in white fur and shoulders, her waist-length hair has been permed into curls, which is pulled up and coiled on her head, leaning elegantly on the sofa, and a fashion magazine is placed on her lap.
Twilight Xuefei raised her head slightly, her eyes were half-opened, her eyebrows were slightly furrowed, and the corners of her mouth looked at Zhou Zimo who was leaning next to the sofa with a slight smile.
Compared with when Zhou Zimo was in high school, the whole person is much taller, and his facial features are deep.
I looked at the picture and looked at it closely.
The new intern from the company carefully patted me on the shoulder and asked, "Xiaojie, what's wrong with you?" ”
I looked up, looked at her, and blinked: "I'm a little uncomfortable. ”
With that, tears fell.
I met Zhou Zimo when I was six years old. That day, my mother called me downstairs just after my piano lesson, and her friend Wu Chunfang brought her son to play at home.
At that time, I hugged the bear, stood nervously behind my mother, carefully exposed half of my body, and carefully looked behind Wu Chunfang.
Zhou Zimo was standing behind Wu Chunfang, wearing a khaki vest, stubbornly looking up half of his face, his eyes kept rolling.
Wu Chunfang patted his head with a smile and scolded with a smile: "Splashing monkeys, you just can't be idle." ”
Mom smiled and said, "Children should be like this, but my house is too quiet." ”
I was a little curious about this new friend, and a little scared, but I listened to my mother and obediently took him upstairs to play.
As soon as Zhou Zimo left the restraints, he was like a wild horse off the leash, noisy and lively.
Zhou Zimo didn't like me because I was too quiet to talk to him, and I didn't know how to answer even when he chatted with me.
He thought I might be a mute, a mute who couldn't tell the mood.
Actually, I really like Zhou Zimo, a new friend, although he looks very domineering, he doesn't bully people, and he doesn't swear at girls.
I wanted to talk to him, but my personality was depressed because of my upbringing, and I couldn't have a fresh trajectory like everyone else.
Zhou Zimo was bored with me, so he made trouble in the room, and made my favorite dolls all over the floor, I wanted to stop him, but I didn't dare, my character has always been so cowardly.
Seeing him make a mess of my room, I don't know why, and suddenly I started crying.
My sudden cry frightened the troublemaker Zhou Zimo, and at the same time attracted my mother and Wu Chunfang, who were chatting downstairs.
Wu Chunfang saw that the house was so messy, and then glanced at me who was choking quietly in my mother's arms, and was about to beat Zhou Zimo, but my mother quickly put me down to stop me.
I looked at Wu Chunfang with an angry face in a daze, looked at her mouth that kept opening and closing, looked at Zhou Zimo who was staring at me angrily with her head drooping, shrunk her neck, and didn't know where the courage came from, so I stepped forward and took his hand and ran downstairs.
At that time, I just didn't want Zhou Zimo to be beaten.
Wu Chunfang and her mother were made to cry and laugh by my sudden move, but fortunately, Zhou Zimo escaped being beaten.
Before parting, Zhou Zimo whispered in front of me: "You little mute is not so annoying!" ”
I was stunned, looked up at him, and wanted to tell him that I was not dumb, but when he finished speaking, he turned around and left, and I could only watch him disappear, and I didn't have time to say anything.
When I moved in next door and moved in to the new house, I was in the piano room practicing the repertoire that my teacher had just taught.
"Chen Xiaojie, Chen Xiaojie? Are you there? Chen Xiaojie, Chen Xiaojie! Don't pretend to be a dumb babe with me! ”
Someone downstairs suddenly called my name, I immediately closed the piano and climbed to the window, only Zhou Zimo would call me a little mute.
Zhou Zimo stood outside the fence, wearing a denim suit, with boyish hands on his waist, and when he saw me, he immediately sniffed and smiled.
"My mother said, you are not a little mute, you just don't like to talk, I am here to tell you now, our family has also moved here, you will be my sister in the future, I will take good care of you."
Zhou Zimo was standing downstairs, his eyebrows and eyes were crooked, and his smile was as warm as spring.
Zhou Zimo is actually a very timid person, he is reluctant to kill, afraid of the dark, but in my eyes, Zhou Zimo will always be so good, so kind, and so clean.
That year, Zhou Zimo was seven years old and I was six years old.
Zhou Zimo has a very cheerful personality, and she has made a lot of friends in less than a week after transferring to our school.
But no matter who he hung out with, he would take me with him, and I began to learn to be Zhou Zimo's quiet little tail.
Unlike Zhou Zimo, who has a large group of friends, my world only has Zhou Zimo in addition to my family.
I don't need to have others, it's enough for me to have Zhou Zimo.
When I was in the third grade of primary school, the school opened an English class, and Zhou Zimo didn't like to memorize things, and she didn't like English even with it.
He said that English was his class enemy, and he was especially patriotic and hated foreign things.
With a cup of milk tea in my hand, I glanced at the pair of sneakers on his feet that his uncle had just sent back from the United States.
When Zhou Zimo saw my expression, he immediately pinched my face unhappily: "Anyone can dislike me, but you can't." ”
I smirked and nodded, he immediately retracted his hand, wiped it on his clothes in disgust, and then patted my head: "It's okay, no matter how stupid you are, I won't dislike you, and I won't leave you alone." ”
At the end of the third grade, after the exam, Wu Chunfang and her mother came together, I sat with Zhou Zimo obediently, and the English teacher complained to Wu Chunfang about her dissatisfaction with Zhou Zimo.
Wu Chunfang was instantly angry when she saw that Zhou Zimo only had forty points in the English test paper.
I heard my mother say that Wu Chunfang and Zhou Zimo's father Lin Zhen are both high-achieving students who have returned from studying abroad, if it weren't for taking care of Zhou Zimo, Wu Chunfang would not have given up her career to become a housewife.
Zhou Zimo's father Mo Junqing is a very good diplomat, so Wu Chunfang's requirements for Zhou Zimo are also extremely high.
Wu Chunfang is not a mother who can physically punish her children, but she can be cold and violent.
Zhou Zimo is very clingy to Wu Chunfang, and Wu Chunfang's ignorance of him is the most severe punishment.
After the parent-teacher meeting, Wu Chunfang said that she didn't like disobedient bad children to leave Zhou Zimo and leave alone, Zhou Zimo's eyes were red and he crumpled the English test paper and threw it on the ground, and his mother hurriedly stepped forward to take him and took him out to find Wu Chunfang.
I followed them, picked up the English test paper he had thrown on the ground, opened it carefully, the whole paper was crumpled, glanced at the bright red characters on the test paper, and then looked at my test paper, which only said 65.
I clenched my fists and vowed to myself that I would learn English well.
This year, I was nine years old and Zhou Zimo was ten years old.
Time flies quickly, and in a blink of an eye, we have graduated from elementary school.
After entering junior high school, Zhou Zimo and I were still in the same class, and he still took me to school together, went home together, and went out to play together.
Everyone who knows Zhou Zimo knows that he has an inseparable sister named Chen Xiaojie.
After entering junior high school, Zhou Zimo gradually became very fond of learning, to be precise, he began to know what was important and what should be insisted on.
However, Zhou Zimo's English is still very bad, because he really hates memorizing English words, and Wu Chunfang ignored him for two days after that parent-teacher meeting, and from that day on, he hated English even more.
Wu Chunfang often asks me to tutor Zhou Zimo in English, because my current English score is the first in the school.
But Zhou Zimo was not convinced every time, he felt that he was an elder brother, and his brother should be better than his sister in everything, so that he could protect his sister a little.
It turns out that he is indeed better than me in everything except English, and he does use these advantages to protect me and make me grow up happily.
If you are not convinced, no matter how hard Zhou Zimo is studying English, her English score is always a little worse than mine.
Later, he got used to getting worse than me in English, and he got used to me giving him tutoring often.
The happiest days in my memory are the years when Zhou Zimo and I went to elementary school and junior high school, because it was really like what he said, he protected me all the way, and I owned him.
If I could, I really didn't want to grow up, I'd rather stay at that time, He would always protect me, I don't like to talk, he won't let others talk to me,
I was afraid of a person, he took me with him every time he went out, he played with others, and I sat next to him and took out the silent English recitation.
I don't like to make friends, so he's always been there for me to be my friend.
He cries with me when I want to cry, and he keeps making trouble with me when I want to, so good.
But this little person who has always lived in my memory is still no match for time after all,
I watched him grow up unprepared, as he matured and drifted away from me.
The summer vacation after graduating from junior high school, the sky was always gray.
Zhou Zimo said that he didn't like the summer in Xi'an very much, as if he was going to dry people, and he didn't like this feeling.
It's no surprise that Zhou Zimo and I are in the same high school, but I don't know if we can be in the same class.
The summer in Xi'an is too hot, I don't like to go out, so Zhou Zimo accompanied me to watch TV in the living room.
Mom suddenly went home and told Zhou Zimo to hurry back, saying that Mo Junqing was back.
I have known Zhou Zimo for so many years, and this is the first time I have heard that Zhou Zimo's father, Mo Junqing, has come home.
Mo Junqing has never been to Xi'an, to be precise, every time Wu Chunfang takes Zhou Zimo to the city where Mo Junqing works to see him.
After my mother called Zhou Zimo, she also went to the next door with a bad face, and I chuckled in my heart, and followed out with the popsicle that Zhou Zimo only took a bite of.
Mo Junqing didn't come back alone this time, he also came back with a woman with a big belly.
Over the years, Mo Junqing has long changed his mind, and during a diplomatic event, he met a female student majoring in foreign languages, which is said to be love at first sight.
Zhou Zimo stood behind Wu Chunfang, grabbed Wu Chunfang's arm, and didn't let her hit the woman.
Wu Chunfang was very emotional, shook off his hand, and roared: "What? Feel sorry for this vixen? If it weren't for the fact that I was taking care of you at home, would I have this vixen? ”
Wu Chunfang didn't have the intention to say these words, she was just angry, so she was a little unscrupulous.
But after Zhou Zimo heard Wu Chunfang say this, she raised the corners of her mouth expressionlessly and glanced at the woman hiding behind Mo Junqing.
I felt bad in my heart when I saw Zhou Zimo like this, and before I could walk up to him, I saw him grab a stool, push Mo Junqing away, and smash it hard at the woman.
I don't remember much of the scene, except for the woman's screams and the blinding red of her pale dress.
Zhou Zimo ran away quickly from me, and I watched the popsicle that he knocked to the ground, slowly melting, and making the dry floor damp.
Mo Junqing walked away with an anxious face holding the woman who was still wailing, and her mother helped Wu Chunfang to follow.
Before leaving, Wu Chunfang begged me with a pale face: "It's all my fault, I shouldn't have said those words, Chen Xiaojie, you have a good relationship with Xiaobai, can you go find him."
Wu Chunfang was already crying in the end, although I was very angry at what she just said, but I felt sorry for her.
Now Wu Chunfang is on the verge of collapse.
Mo Junqing works outside all the year round and never comes to Xi'an, causing Zhou Zimo to be often scolded as a fatherless wild child when he was a child.
At that time, Zhou Zimo also led a group of people to block the children in the corner and beat them up.
Speaking of Wu Chunfang, she and Mo Junqing are college classmates, and the love in their student days is always simple and beautiful.
It is said that Wu Chunfang, who was chased by Mo Junqing at that time, chased for a year before he got the beauty.
After graduating from university, Wu Chunfang married Mo Junqing.
The two of them obviously got married because they loved each other, because they loved each other, they had Zhou Zimo, and because they loved each other, Wu Chunfang chose to be a housewife.
But now it seems that the love that used to be in love has become a joke.
I searched many places but couldn't find Zhou Zimo, and I called him many times but no one answered.
This is the first time, I found that I know so little about Zhou Zimo, I don't know what he likes to do when he doesn't have me, and where he likes to stay when he is alone.
called many of Zhou Zimo's friends, and they all said that they didn't know, and some of them were no longer in Xi'an and went abroad to play.
I don't know where to find Zhou Zimo, I don't know how he is now,
I knew I should have followed him the moment I saw him running, and I shouldn't have left him alone.
After going around and around outside for two or three hours, I still didn't find Zhou Zimo, I walked back a little discouraged, but I didn't expect to see Zhou Zimo curled up in a ball at the door of my house.
Zhou Zimo glanced up at me, lowered his head again, staggered to his feet, and said in a low voice, "I have nowhere to go." ”
I took an uncomfortable look at the house next door, stepped forward, opened the door, and beckoned him in.
"You're scared the hell out of me."
I held Zhou Zimo's trembling hand and led him to the sofa to sit down.
"Chen Xiaojie." Zhou Zimo hugged me, and said in a trembling voice: "They don't want me anymore, what should I do, what should I do." ”
I feel the chill in my neck,
This is the first time I have shed tears for Zhou Zimo in so many years.
In the final analysis, Zhou Zimo is just a sixteen-year-old boy.
Even if he dared to hit the woman with a stool, it was only because he was afraid, afraid of losing his home.
I didn't know how to comfort him to make his heart feel better when he was hurt by Wu Chunfang and Lin Zhen, so I could only hug him tightly and say:
"No, Zhou Zimo and Chen Xiaojie."
"Really?"
Zhou Zimo's mood seemed to stabilize and let go of me.
I nodded yes heavily.
Zhou Zimo was even more aggrieved after hearing this: "Then why didn't you come with me just now?" ”
I was so uncomfortable that I didn't know how to answer: "I walk slowly, and you don't wait for me." ”
Zhou Zimo suddenly smiled: "You take it slowly." ”
After Zhou Zimo's mood stabilized, he yelled to go to the hospital, I didn't want him to go, I don't know how I can help him in this situation, I just want to do my best to protect him and not let him get hurt.
But he stubbornly asked to go to the hospital, and I had no choice but to accompany him.
When I arrived at the hospital, I called my mother on my mobile phone and asked which ward the woman was in.
According to my mother, the woman's child was six months old, but it still hadn't been saved.
It stands to reason that the woman is five months pregnant, even if she is smashed on a stool by Zhou Zimo and frightened, she will not let her child flow away.
But the doctor said that the woman had too many abortions, resulting in a very thin membrane, and she couldn't bear to get pregnant again, even if Zhou Zimo didn't hit her with a stool today, the child would still not be saved.
When Zhou Zimo and I arrived at the ward, the woman was already asleep, and Wu Chunfang and her mother were sitting on a stool outside the ward.
Mo Junqing had just come out of the ward with a hot water bottle, and when he saw Zhou Zimo, he stepped forward and slapped him.
Zhou Zimo's head was half off, I looked at his red and swollen half of his face, and for the first time made a move that did not match my tutor, I pushed Mo Junqing away, and shouted:
"Are you a nerve?"
"What's wrong? I can't beat this unfilial son? ”
Mo Junqing seemed to be afraid of waking up the woman in the ward, and her voice was not as loud as mine.
"Then don't want my son, anyway, over the years, the number of times I've seen you, I can count it on ten fingers."
Zhou Zimo said without raising his head.
Wu Chunfang walked over and dragged Zhou Zimo behind her: "Mo Junqing, I can tell you, this is my son, that broken shoe is rare for you, the child is gone, who blames her for not being able to keep herself, you dare to move Zhou Zimo a finger, let's see you in court."
Mo Junqing's originally menacing face immediately changed, if he really went to court, he was at fault, and his career and reputation would be affected.
"It's not that children have done something wrong, parents also have to educate!"
Mo Junqing's attitude instantly became very gentle.
"No need, anyway, I haven't seen you accompany me when I was a child, and you have never been able to care about me or anything."
After Zhou Zimo finished speaking, he led me away, ignoring Mo Junqing who roared behind him and Wu Chunfang, who called him eagerly.
Zhou Zimo said that although his family is well-off, he always has a sense of loneliness that he is just dependent on his mother, and his world only has Wu Chunfang, not Lin Zhen, because Mo Junqing has too little time to participate in his world.
He was used to life without a father, but he couldn't bear it, he couldn't bear the things and people that made Wu Chunfang sad and uncomfortable.
He was very uncomfortable, he always thought that he and Wu Chunfang were two people who depended on each other, but now he knew that Wu Chunfang did not have to rely on him for his life.
Wu Chunfang and Mo Junqing did not divorce in the end, but they were already separated.
In addition to crying and crying for a few days after waking up, the woman was probably afraid that it would be too embarrassing, or she didn't have too many children, so she didn't care anymore, and she didn't make much trouble, so she left with Mo Junqing so quietly.
This year, I was fifteen years old and Zhou Zimo was sixteen years old.
As the summer faded away, the farce came to an end.
I tried my best to tell myself that this was over and that time would heal everything.
But Zhou Zimo is becoming more and more withdrawn, and she is less and less talkative.
Wu Chunfang didn't know what to think, so she hurriedly applied for a job as a supervisor at an advertising company in Shanghai.
The day she left, there was another day when Zhou Zimo and I started school, she walked very decisively, Zhou Zimo kept standing behind her without saying a word, watching her get into the car, waving, and leaving with a smile, with a thick ink in her eyes.
When high school officially opened, my mother sent me and Zhou Zimo to report to school, Zhou Zimo chose to board, but I went home every day.
It's a pity this time that Zhou Zimo and I are not in the same class.
Luckily, our classes were on the same floor, except that he was on the far left and I was on the far right.
Zhou Zimo sent me to the door of my classroom, touched my head and said, "Be obedient, if someone dares to bully you, come to me, you know?" ”
I nodded obediently and tried to pull out a smile that reassured him.
In an environment without Zhou Zimo, I was really scared.
The boy was already very arrogant, so even if Zhou Zimo knew that I was afraid, he thought it was because I had just arrived in a strange environment, I was not used to it, and I didn't think much about it, and when I nodded obediently, I left with confidence.
I looked at the back of Zhou Zimo walking forward step by step with his backpack, my nose was sore, and I suddenly wanted to stop him.
In fact, Zhou Zimo was also scared at that time, and he was actually very scared when he was alone in Xi'an at that time.
I asked Zhou Zimo if he would be afraid of being alone in a strange environment, Zhou Zimo said that as long as he thought of me behind him, he was not afraid of anything, and what he was most afraid of was that he would never see me again.
Life in high school is hectic and stressful, and it is very different from junior high school, but it also has a magical similarity.
As soon as Wu Chunfang left, it was like a stone sinking into the sea, and there was no more news.
But fortunately, Mo Junqing is not a good father, but he can also be regarded as a man in charge, and he will call Zhou Zimo on time every month for his living expenses.
Every time I accompanied Zhou Zimo to the bank to withdraw money, he always looked at the money he had just taken out of the counter like an enemy, and spat on the ground fiercely.
Zhou Zimo always said that he hated Mo Junqing so much for the harm he brought to Wu Chunfang and him, but he still couldn't pretend to be very tough and didn't use the money he sent, let alone pretend to say to Mo Junqing that he didn't rarely use his money.
On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, the school is still in class as usual, and there is no holiday at all.
My mother wrapped some zongzi and put them in a lunch box and asked me to take them to school for Zhou Zimo.
The first time I went to Zhou Zimo's classroom to look for him, it was not the right time for him to go, he was not there.
I was a little nervous, thinking that I would come back to Zhou Zimo later.
A girl standing at the door of the classroom suddenly grabbed me and said with a smile, "Chen Xiaojie? You're Chen Xiaojie, right? ”
I blinked, looked at her a little blankly, and nodded hesitantly after making sure I didn't know the person.
"Zhou Zimo showed me your photo, and he said that as long as he looks at a girl who is stupid and stupid, it is Chen Xiaojie."
The girl said it to me very familiarly, and finally saw that I was a little stupid, stuck out her tongue, and explained embarrassedly: "My name is Du Xuefei, and I am Zhou Zimo's tablemate."
Twilight Xuefei is very tall, half a head taller than me, with very white skin, long hair, very delicate facial features, and a beautiful smile.
I smiled, feeling a little uncomfortable: "Do you know where Zhou Zimo went?" ”
Twilight Xuefei waved her hand, "Maybe I'm going to play with Jian Yun again." ”
I know Jian Yun, Zhou Zimo often mentions this person to me.
Actually, I know Twilight Physile, the goddess of my table.
The leader was a very rich-looking little fat man, and although he kept emphasizing that he was strong and not fat, I still thought he was fat.
"Let's go, I'll take you to him."
Twilight Xue Fei dragged me away very enthusiastically as she spoke, and I was a little stunned by her sudden self-acquaintance, and by the time I reacted, I was already standing on the edge of the playground.
Zhou Zimo was wearing a vest and sweating profusely and a shirtless boy were playing on the basketball court.