"Uncle, come and laugh." I took out my phone, turned on the flash, and continued to shoot.

"What are you doing, quickly delete it for me, do you hear?" The old fat man finally let go and pointed at me, and Liu Suxi took the opportunity to hide behind me.

"Hurry up, or these photos will definitely appear on your door, or at the door of your unit?" I put away my phone as I threatened.

"Deleted!" He started hysterical, staring at me viciously and reaching for his phone.

I gently hooked his ankle with the instep of his foot that couldn't stop the car, and the fat man's bloated upper body slashed in a graceful arc towards the concrete floor.

Liu Suxi sat in the passenger seat, wearing a thin jacket, with her arms wrapped around her chest and turning her head to look out the window at night. In the middle of the night, the straight road surface was covered with a faint mist, and the light through the faint veil was like a time tunnel.

"If you had just taken the initiative to get into the car with him, maybe I wouldn't have stopped him." I broke the silence and pinched the steering wheel with my fingers. "Congratulations on growing up to the point where you can decide which path you want to take."

No response, no response, she still maintained that posture and looked out the window, outside which there was nothing but the lights flickering. There were two tear stains on her face under the reflection of the glass, and the tears wet the collar of her jacket, and the little girl who had been wronged and could only cry loudly learned to be alone and cry silently, maybe she really grew up.

What kind of suffering will make her grow up overnight?

"Dad, is it anyone's birthday today? It must be a pleasure to eat such a big cake. The next evening, I picked up Jingjing from kindergarten and returned to the community.

"Sister Xixi." I replied with a smile. "Knock on the door."

Jingjing and I stood in front of Liu Yi's house, I am very familiar with his door, I used to knock on this door as if knocking on my own door, but now when I raised my hand, I was a little hesitant.

Liu Suxi opened the door a crack and looked out of the door vigilantly, and a strong smell of medicine came from the room.

"Happy birthday, sister." Jingjing grinned, tilted her head and smiled at her.

Liu Suxi was stunned for a moment, but still slowly opened the door, "You guys? ”

"I'm here to celebrate your birthday, you'll be an adult from now on." I deliberately disguised myself as having made a mistake, but I don't know if the sweetness in people's mouths can make their hearts feel better when they are bitter in their hearts.

I pushed the door open and walked inside, and the smell of medicine was even stronger.

"Is Zhuang Yan here? And Jingjing. "An emaciated, sallow-faced old woman sat on the sofa, and I could barely recognize her as Liu Yi's mother.

"Hello Auntie." I really don't have the face to see their mother and daughter again, but there are some things I have to confirm.

"You remember the wrong day, Xixi had a birthday yesterday, and I went out to party with my classmates in the evening." Liu Yi's mother's voice was very weak, reminding her of yesterday, and Liu Suxi and I silently exchanged glances, and touched them lightly.

I took out my phone to check the calendar, pretending to miss the date, Liu Suxi came over and took the cake box in my hand, tapped my ankle with her toes, and I gave her a look in mind.

A rapid cough.

"Mom, it's time to take your medicine." Liu Suxi ran into the kitchen and brought out the Chinese medicine soup that was still smoking. I looked around the home of their mother and daughter, it was very different from when Liu Yi was there, although the furnishings in the house have not changed, but it always gives people a sense of oldness, except for the necessary daily necessities, the home is no longer as warm as when Liu Yi was there.

Zhuang Jing couldn't bear to open the cake box in a hurry, and then I helped her cut the cake into four with a knife, "Mother-in-law is bitter when she eats medicine, and it won't be bitter if she eats some cake." After speaking, he buried his head and began to eat the cake in front of him.

"That's good, let's eat." Liu Yi's mother didn't seem to blame me for Liu Yi's matter, which made me feel a little lighter, but when I looked at her home again, I couldn't say it.

Suddenly I was reminded of a word, the house is surrounded by walls. Their mother and daughter must have not had an easy time these years.

"Don't you go to study at night?" is about to take the college entrance examination, everyone is so overtime to survive, and Liu Suxi is no exception.

"My mom will leave after drinking the medicine." Liu Suxi's tone was gloomy, and her voice was faint.

"Auntie, are you still working in the shipyard?" I chatted casually.

"No, since Liu Yi didn't know where to go, my health has been getting worse and worse, and I have been sick and retired a few years ago. Liu Yi doesn't blame you, the troops have explained everything clearly, your life is big, and that kid can't blame others for his thin life. She sighed and said weakly.

A girl in the third year of high school and an employee who is in poor health and retired early, how to solve the source of livelihood for the two of them? Could it be that Xixi went to the bar last night just to make money? I began to think about the answer in my head.

"What time do you get off your self-study at night?"

As soon as my words fell, I only heard the sound of the door closing, and Liu Suxi had already gone to study at night.

The bell rang for self-study in the evening, and the students walked out of the school gate one after another.

"Hey, get in the car." I shouted at the figure outside the window.

Liu Suxi bowed down and glared at me, then continued to walk forward with her classmates.

"If you go back to change your clothes, I'll send you there? Yesterday the bar was quite far from here. "I got out of the driver's seat and stood up against the door, deliberately amplifying my voice.

Liu Suxi was stunned for a moment and stopped, and the female classmate next to her seemed to be more startled and turned to look at me. She stared at me viciously, and the girl next to her began to mumble incessantly, some covering her mouth and some smiling.

"Don't get in the car yet? Do you want to go back and tell your aunt about yesterday? I deliberately took a threatening tone.

Liu Suxi finally came over and opened the car door in a huff, and slammed the car door after getting in.

"Jingjing is not small, after the second half of this year and next year, she will be in preschool, but I really don't help my child with homework, simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division is fine, but I may be very busy at work, can you help teach her simple literacy and English? This is the tuition fee for this month. "I turned the steering wheel with one hand and handed an envelope to Yoo Suxi with the other. Thinking about it from various angles, maybe it's the only way to make everyone feel comfortable.

"I don't want it." Liu Suxi angrily blocked the envelope with her arm, and the envelope fell under the passenger seat.

"So do you mean to keep going to the bar? Okay, I'll send you there. "I deliberately provoked her.

"You!" Liu Suxi turned her face and stared at me through gritted teeth.

"Auntie, how much does a month of Chinese medicine cost?" I stopped joking, but asked in a serious tone.

Silent...

"How much does Auntie need for a month of Chinese medicine?!" I asked again in an accentuated tone.

"A thousand." Liu Suxi spit out two words.

I don't want to speculate too much about the salary of the employees in the factory who retired from illness, but the lives of their mother and daughter can be imagined.

"That's not the kind of place you should be, especially at times like this." I parked on the side of the street not far from the neighborhood. "Don't take up your evening self-study time, just use a little time after class in the afternoon, if you can, even if you can occasionally pick up Jingjing on the way home, you can teach her."

"You don't have to worry about me and my mother." She's still angry.

"Then I'll tell your mom about you and let her take care of you." I replied earnestly.

"You, you—" she gritted her teeth and stared at me fiercely.

"What am I talking about, saying, saying." I glared at her with the fire suppressed.

After a few minutes of stalemate, I opened the window and lit a cigarette, and the sea breeze poured in, and the slightest coolness calmed me down.

"I'm only responsible for you until you graduate from college, and when you get a job, I won't care about you anymore, and I won't ask you where you want to go." I picked up the envelope and placed it lightly on her lap, trying to soothe my tone.

Maybe it was because of the cold, and after a few seconds, she shivered inadvertently.

"This money should have been given to me by my brother, but what about my brother? Where is he? Where is he? Liu Suxi supported her legs with one hand, grabbed the envelope with the other and began to burst into tears, "I'm not afraid of a hard life, but don't tell me the answer, just like that, there is still hope for life." ”

Liu Suxi's words are like knives, scraping in my heart, I am not only ruining a person, a family, I am afraid that I will never be able to pay off the debts I carry.

"Jingjing is sick?" I opened the door and saw my mother holding a thermometer.

"How can you be a father, and you can't see that she is not in good spirits when you go to pick up the child? Do you still take them to Liu Yi's house to play? My mother glanced at me with a complaining expression.

Jingjing was sick, a seemingly simple question but a completely unfamiliar problem for me, an unprepared father. The next day, I had to ask the kindergarten teacher for leave to take her to the hospital, because my mother happened to be on duty and could not ask for leave, Zhuang Jing had to complete all the trivial tasks after the fever by me alone, the first time I was entangled in the trivial things in life, which made me feel a little at a loss.

Seeing a doctor, taking medicine, and getting an injection to go home seemed like a simple process, but I had no clue at all. I didn't know anything about how to register, how to communicate with the doctor, and then take medicine and injections, so I carried her back and forth until it was dark. The day finally passed, and Jingjing fell asleep after a slight decrease in fever, and I realized that I didn't know how to pass the whole day today.

The most important thing is that I found that every step of the process of seeing a doctor and taking medicine requires a lot of expenses, and it was not until I got home in the evening that I realized that the money I earned from driving was not enough to cover all this, not to mention Liu Suxi's future tuition fees and the support of Xinrui's parents.

I hesitated, but I got through anyway.