I don't remember much about when I fell asleep. All I know is that when I opened my eyes and woke up, it was already dark. Glancing at my watch, the time was exactly five o'clock. I hurriedly got up and went to catch up on the homework I had left last night.

As he was writing, Cao Cancan suddenly knocked on the door and stretched out his head: "Hey, I'll go, Cao Muxi, when did you become so enthusiastic about learning?" What, is it your mother's illness that irritates you? Pack up for school. ”

"What time is it to go to school?" I looked at Cao Cancan at the door suspiciously.

"You forgot? Yesterday my aunt said she was going to visit your mother with us this morning. "It seems that when Cao Cancan mentioned my mother again, I realized that my mother was sick last night, and I don't know what happened now.

"Let's go early, my aunt said we could take a look together." After Cao Cancan finished speaking, he turned around and went out.

"Together?" I asked, confused.

"yes, let's go. It's also close to the school anyway. I let out a sigh and put my unfinished homework in my bag.

When I went downstairs, I saw Aunt Qin sitting alone on the sofa so early. I don't know why, after a series of events last night, when I saw Aunt Qin again, I always felt that I suddenly didn't dare to look at her, and as for the reason, I can only describe it with two words, or maybe it's the fear of the unknown. As I said before, when you feel that the other party who has been trying to hide the secret suddenly knows something, and there is no reaction, this reaction is the biggest blow that breaks your psychological bottom line. Because, you're going to get hairy. That's where I was.

Cao Ge and Cao Cancan were in front of me, hurriedly putting on their shoes. I followed them both. Before Cao Cancan went out, he turned around and greeted Aunt Qin, but as a result, Aunt Qin smiled, but did not respond to Cao Cancan positively, but asked me: "Mu Xi, are you going to school?" ”

This sudden sound of Mu Xi made my heart tremble. I looked down and whispered, and I was going to hurry out. As a result, as soon as she put her hand on the door, Aunt Qin said faintly behind her: "Mu Xi, take me to say hello to your mother." "If this Mu Xi can make me frightened, then, when Aunt Qin talks about my mother, I will go straight from panic to weak legs. I wanted to turn around and respond, but who knows, my feet were soft and I stumbled directly on the threshold. The whole person shot out directly because of gravity, and the skin of his left leg and knee was worn out at once. Cao Ge and the two of them had already opened the car door and were about to get into the car, when they heard the sound behind them, they turned around: "What happened?" Mu Xi, this early in the morning, why did you still fall? "Nothing, nothing." I got up on my own, looked down at my legs, saw that nothing was wrong, and limped down the steps.

When I was approaching my mother's residence, the driver frequently turned back to me in the co-pilot and asked, "Mu Xi, is this your home?" Here? Is it? "I didn't speak. Cao Ge glanced back at me in the co-pilot: "Mu Xi? What do you want? Is this your mother's house? Seeing that I still didn't answer, she muttered to herself: "I came here once when I was looking for her last time, well, it seems to be the alley in front, and it is a bit like this." But it's a bit long, I can't remember clearly, and it was night. I remember that I was driving at the mouth of this alley. Uncle Zhao, the driver, kept turning around and asking me, waiting for my answer: "Are you going here?" Or turn there? ”

It's not that I don't want to answer, it's that I really don't have enough brain circuits at that time, I don't know what I'm thinking, and my brain is blank. Cao Cancan pushed me: "Cao Muxi! Feed! Cao Muxi! You don't even know where your mom lives. I looked at her, but she was still silent. In my mind, I still recall that when I was about to go out, Aunt Qin said hello to my mother behind her, but in fact, how could this be a concern and concern from the heart? Even though Aunt Jean spoke in the same tone as before, I could still feel that she should have felt something. She's waiting for the day when the water will come out, or she's waiting for the fish and bait on the fishing hook to get fatter, so that she can pull out a big fish.

Cao Ge asked me three times to no avail, suddenly asked the driver to stop, turned around and got out of the car, jumped to the back door, and pulled me down: "Cao Muxi, don't you know where your mother lives?" Impossible! Didn't you just come back two days ago? ”

This action of hers instantly pulled me back from fantasy to reality: "Ah, that's it, right here, right in front of the alley, where there is a plane tree at the mouth of the alley." ”

The driver parked the car under the plane tree according to the direction I pointed, and in this way, the three of us, in order to catch up with me and Cao Cancan's school time, trotted all the way to the depths of the alley. It can be seen that Cao Ge is even more anxious about his mother's condition than me. is more like a mother's daughter. And as far as I'm concerned, it's not that I don't care, it's just that the two slaps before really interrupted the kind of love between me and my mother.

Cao Ge was in front, Cao Cancan followed me, and staggered into the alley all the way after following my ass.

On that day, it was cloudy in Nanjing, and the fog in the south was very heavy, and in the morning, I saw the sun shining black behind the hazy clouds. The damp air blew through the gaps in the trees, making tiny droplets of water on my eyelashes. It's not like crying, it's better than crying.

Cao Cancan was babbling all the way behind me, yes, how could such a rich lady have ever seen this kind of obscure, dark and mottled ancient alleys in the rainy season. If Kan Tao was surprised enough last time, then Cao Cancan can be described as stunned. She kept covering her mouth and nose with her hands, trying to hide the putrid sour smell. When she turned at the second intersection, she actually hit a spider web on her face. I saw her look of disgust, and her expression was almost like crying. She seemed to keep saying something, but it was masked by her hurried footsteps.

When Cao Ge stepped on the stairs, he briefly tried it, and then carefully walked through the net step by step. Because of the disrepair, and the entire building has almost been emptied,

The sound of going up the stairs was particularly abrupt. In a way, this abruptness hit me in the depths of my heart. I don't know why, but that day I heard the sound of the stairs coming up again, and suddenly I felt the sound hitting an unknown side of my brain and soul. This side can be related to fear, or it can be said that it is not related to fear, it is a weak heart, it is fear, maybe it is self-blame, in short, the interweaving of multiple emotions makes me panic all of a sudden. Even when Cao Cancan followed Brother Cao's ass and walked up, I actually stood at the corner of the first floor of the stairs and stopped.

I looked up at Cao Cancan as she went up the stairs, trembling, she seemed to be afraid that the steep staircase might swallow her up in an instant.

Cao Ge asked me while going upstairs: "Mu Xi, it seems that this building has really been moved." You see, half of the move over there, there's another one over there, and the rest is your mother's house, right? I hummed, it seemed that Cao Ge suddenly felt this sound, a little far away from her space, so he hurriedly turned around and found that I was still standing on the first floor of the stairs: "Why didn't you go upstairs?" Mu Xi, what's wrong with you? Why are you weird this morning? "I stood there with my hands clenched into fists and didn't speak. Clenched into a fist, it is giving yourself the strength to go upstairs. Cao Ge continued to urge: "Hurry up, hurry up, you and Cancan will have to go to school in a while." ”

As I walked up the stairs, I sighed to myself that it was not a few days before I last came back. It's just that I haven't walked through such an early morning for a long time.

The darkness and dampness of the house have penetrated a person's heart to a certain extent. I held on to the mottled railing next to me and walked up step by step.

I knew the staircase as well as anyone else, but when I stepped on it again, the iron and wood didn't give me enough security.