When we got closer, the school was still not closed, so we picked up a staircase and sat down on the opposite side, just in time to see the scene in the school opposite.

There is a row of straight trees on both sides of the school building, under which there are two table tennis balls, and at the end of the playground opposite the ball table are basketball hoops and single parallel bars. There is a small cafeteria on the side of the campus, and a library next to it. The library building is as low as the cafeteria, and I can't help but wonder if it can't be too rich.

I don't know what Zhang Nian likes and where he likes to hang out the most. Gao Tiancheng bought two bottles of water from the small shop next to him, helped me unscrew the lid and opened the bottle and handed it to me.

"Small place is good, stay comfortable." He said, unscrewing his bottle of water and taking a sip as he spoke, "But it's not okay to stay forever, people who stay often will lose their wolf nature, be content with the status quo, and be fine, if there is an incident, all the people here are lambs to the slaughter." ”

At this time, the bell rang for the end of class, and the children were in order, unlike when we were children, when we were children, the school didn't care about these details, and as soon as the bell rang for the end of class, the children ran out in a swarm.

Most of them are now lined up in a neat line, led by the deputy head teacher. I had thought of countless scenes where I came to see him, I thought I would hesitate, entangle, and hesitate, but blood relationship is a very complicated matter, when I saw a large group of children who looked very similar on the outside pouring out of the school building, in fact, there was no time to think about it, Gao Tiancheng and I almost instinctively ran to the school wrought iron fence as fast as possible, and our eyes searched anxiously in the crowd?

"Six classes in three years." I feel a little dry in my throat. "He's in the sixth class of three years. How? I craned my neck in, my hands gripping the wrought iron fence at the school gate, and my knuckles began to turn white because of the exertion.

"Where? Do you see that? There is a class card. Why didn't I see the sixth class of the third year? I asked.

Then, a red on a white background finally broke into my sight.

Six classes in three years!

I searched through the crowd of the sixth class of the third year and found him at a glance. He is not the same as in the photo, slightly taller, maybe the boy's appearance changes quickly, thin, but he doesn't look weak, his hair is very thin, and his facial features are not very clear, but I know that he looks like Zhang Ruolei.

Zhang Ruolei.

My heart was sour, and tears came unexpectedly. Will he recognize me? No! He didn't even know I existed. I turned away, tears streaming down my face, nothing could stop me from recognizing him, and I wanted to take him home. Right now!

I crouched down, my hands covering my face, salty and wet tears running out between my fingers, Gao Tiancheng stood beside me, he remained silent with rare and proper dignity, until I whimpered.

Gao Tiancheng stood in front of me, blocking the strange and inquiring eyes of passers-by, his calf and tibia against my head, and his body temperature was warm. The tide of the past is pouring towards me, all the things of yesterday, all the things that can happen today, all the things that may happen tomorrow, everything known and unknown. I used to complain about fate, why it was so cruel, and refused to let my lover stay for life. He said he loved me at that time, and I loved him. I want to know him for the rest of my life

After him, after being with him, I never pretended to be a man next to me in my heart. I used to fantasize that he would be my shore. But later, because of those inexplicable love-hate relationships, he insisted on revenge, and did not hesitate to sacrifice our marriage and even our children.

Creation is so tricky.

If there were no such episodes, I, him, and Zhang Nian, wouldn't we be a perfect family? How wrong the time, how inappropriate the place is, but at this time, I want to pay a hearty pass. Those past! He got into a fight with my blind date, and what he said behind me when he was engaged, he picked me up for the first time and told me to be with me.

I stood up again, and Chen Yu was standing not far away. I haven't seen her for almost eight years, she's also thin, she wears a black shirt, the button is open to the second button, revealing a fair and slender neck, a pair of navy blue jeans, gray sneakers, she is still carrying something in her hand, I see, it is a cup of soy milk, and fruit, grilled sausage.

She was standing where she was, probably convincing herself to come to me.

In fact, she did. However, I soon realized that she was not coming towards me, she was standing less than two meters away from me, surrounded by a black wrought iron fence between two concrete stamps, I was at this end and she was at that end. A little boy in a white shirt and school uniform ran towards her, it was Zhang Nian. I felt my heart come out of my breath, so much so that I had to cover my mouth tightly for fear that it would leap out of it. I heard the sound of my heart's aorta beating.

Boom, boom, boom......

Rhythmic, powerful, with the famous throbbing of the division.

"Finished eating?" I heard Chen Yu ask, her voice was much better than on the phone, gentle and warm and peaceful. People say that an emotionally stable mother will bring out excellent children, yes, who said that? He was right.

"Hmm." The little boy had sweat on his face, and there was light in Chen Yu's eyes. Like the stars looking at the night. A light that cannot be worn out or extinguished.

I choked. Chen Yu and Zhang Nian were distracted. Chen Yu was concentrating on wiping Zhang Nian's sweat, and Zhang Nian took the soy milk.

"Nope." Chen Yu stopped, "I'll drink it later." You've just run by, look at you, you're still panting. You can't drink at this time. ”

Zhang Nian did not disobey her, and raised his little face to accept the scrutiny of her gaze.

"Did you have a good day?"

"Hmm." The other man nodded heavily.

"What did you eat at noon?"

"Nothing is as delicious as my mother's cooking!"

I looked up at Chen Yu, they were actually called mother and son, Chen Yu never told me that she asked him to call her "mother". However, if she doesn't call her mother, how can and how can she explain it to him in the past eight years?

I understood, I told myself I should understand. But the pain in my heart still twitched unconsciously, and it hurt hard.

That's how it should be called! I! I'm your real mother.

I want to say to him.

But he could only open his mouth and swallow a few breaths of air silently. The hand was about to reach out and retract, I wanted to touch him, he had flesh and blood, and he had body temperature, and I remembered the scene of the day he was born, the frightened one

At the end of the day, remembering that he was croaking to the ground, and remembering that the nurse had carried him wet to me, I opened my eyes weakly and glanced at him.

One glance, eight years. I saw him again, he was eight years old, in the third grade. Most importantly, he has a new mother.

"Drink it now." I heard Chen Yu whisper, "Freshly squeezed." Eat two bites of grilled sausages, your favorite cumin flavor. There is also this fruit, which you eat only when you are hungry in the afternoon, and don't eat it if you are not hungry. ”

If there is no one next to Chen Yu, doesn't she know who I am? What has she and his life supported all these years? Not me yet?! But without her, would there still be this Zhang Nian in front of him?

No!

Without her, I hired someone else, too.

The boy was satisfied.

"Mom, you don't have to deliver it every day, I'm afraid you'll have too hard to run back and forth." Zhang Nian said that his voice is still a bit like a girl, immature is immature, crisp is crisp. And the sound of "Mommy" made my nerves tense instinctively, and I almost accepted it.

"It's not hard!" Chen Yu reached in and touched his head, rubbing his thin, soft hair. "I'm glad to see you eat."

She said.

Zhang Nian took the apple and said to Chen Yu, "Goodbye." ”

"I just had lunch, but I can't run around the campus. If you want to run, you can come out and run after the first class in the afternoon, you know? ”

"Got it." He didn't run, the wind lifted the front of his clothes, and the sun danced on his head.

My hand stopped in mid-air, Zhang Nian, is his name Zhang Nian?

I don't know, I don't even know if his name is Zhang Nian or not.

When he walked away, there were only three of us left outside the school, Chen Yu, me, and Gao Tiancheng. No, there is another person, who stomped through the wall just now, I didn't pay attention at all, that person knew Chen Yu.

"Yikes! Look how blessed you are! Your son has been the first in the school every time, who in this school doesn't know him? What the hell is your son doing? Can't take remedial classes outside? ”

Chen Yu looked at the man lightly and smiled, simply entertained her, and said goodbye to the man.

Then turn to me.

"Miss May." She said.

She still knows me! She also knew that I was her employer.

Yes, for so many years, so many days, I have experienced so many entanglements and made such a big determination, but I never thought of explaining to Chen Yu.

But do you need to explain? She was just hired by me to take care of Zhang Nian.

"You still know me!" I moved closer to her a little closer.

also pulled out the broken hair on her forehead, she is very good-looking, for so many years, I have never paid attention to what he has become? None of this mattered to me, and I squinted my eyes to look at her closely, and I wondered how I had the audacity to entrust my child to a stranger, who was basically a stranger, for eight years.

I don't even dare to think back to these eight years, I missed almost his entire childhood, he was sick, he had nightmares in the middle of the night, he was bullied by other kids at school, he cried, he laughed, everything about him. All of a sudden, I felt a chill down my spine.

I should really thank Gao Tiancheng,

If he hadn't forced me to bring Zhang Nian back, if he hadn't taken me across the mountains and rivers to this strange town where Zhang Nian had lived since childhood, I might still be afraid, hesitant, and entangled.

"That's right." I pretended to shrug my shoulders relaxedly, "This time, I want to bring back Zhang Nian." ”

I saw her whole body shake slightly, and that moment made my heart sink into the bottom of my heart quickly. She doesn't want to?

"After so many years I know, really, really hard for you. I ----- "I bowed my head, and then raised my head again" I will give you a certain amount of financial compensation, and you can open it at the price! "I'm going to cross my hands and try to look settled.

I looked up, and my brown pupils were together. I looked at her and carefully studied the expression on her face, how much would she drive? What if the lion opened his mouth? No! Money is no longer a problem for me now, and I will say yes no matter how much she is willing to offer.

Yes, I will say yes.

It's really strange for a woman who desperately didn't want to come at the beginning, and now she desperately doesn't want to leave. I had been hesitant to take him over, but now I was wondering how I could take him away now, immediately, immediately.

He is my son, and I will not let him leave me for a quarter of an hour.

No one can stop it, not even Gao Tiancheng.

Chen Yu's eyes were smiling, yes, it was her eyes smiling, contemptuous, disdainful. My body instinctively leaned back, there was Gao Tiancheng behind me, and I looked past Chen Yu.

What about her?

Who's behind her?

No! There was nothing behind her!

I wanted to curl the corners of my mouth, but for a moment, I frowned again, how could there be no one behind her? There was Zhang Nian behind her. If that kid is still called Zhang Nian.

(End of chapter)