In fact, there is an omen.

When I came home every week when I was in my second year of junior high school, I always felt that the atmosphere at home was a little bad, and my parents always kept a straight face, and I didn't dare to say much. Zhou Yu went to a key high school, closed education, I could get out of school once a month, I would stay at school that weekend, call home, my mother never asked, always hung up in a hurry.

I usually had a good weekend because I spent it with Zhou Yu.

He would take me to the city to eat, take a street shop from the street to the end of the street, and then move on to the snack street. In contrast, the snack street has become our usual stronghold.

Another place I often go to is the bookstore, because I can not only read books there, but also sit in a free seat, and I usually bring my homework to do it, and there are ready-made "teachers" around me.

Zhou Yu asked me to also take the entrance examination to his key high school, and he spared no effort to supervise my homework for this goal.

However, on the eve of the junior high school entrance examination, an important event happened at home.

My dad and mom are divorced.

It wasn't a weekend, it was Wednesday, I had just returned to my dorm room after school, and I received a call from my mother asking me to go home, in a serious tone. I packed my schoolbag and rode home, when I arrived home, it was already dark, I opened the door and saw my father sitting in the house smoking, saw me coming back and greeted me with a smile: "Xiaoru, you're back." ”

I don't know if it's my delusion, Dad's smile looks a little reluctant.

My mother came out of the house with a straight face, but she still told me, "Go wash your hands and have dinner." ”

I washed my hands and returned to the table, and after just two bites, I found that my parents didn't move the chopsticks, this atmosphere really made me unable to eat, and soon put down the chopsticks after the rice in the bowl.

At this time, my mother spoke: "Xiaoru, I called you back today because I have something to announce to you." ”

I suddenly felt nervous, and found that my father, who was sitting across from me, had no smile on the corner of his mouth, and my mother had a serious face.

"What's the matter?" I asked in a whisper.

It was still my mother who spoke: "I divorced your father by agreement." ”

At that time, my mind was blank all of a sudden, and I had already read the third year of junior high school, so I was not so ignorant that I didn't even understand divorce.

I looked at my mother, and then at my father, and my mother's eyes were locked on me, and my father just buried his head and remained silent.

What it means – are they going to separate?

My mother asked me bluntly, "Do you want to follow your dad or follow me?" ”

"I ......" is at a loss, and there have been countless multiple-choice questions on the exam papers, but this multiple-choice question is very unfamiliar.

"Your dad will leave the house, and if you follow him, he will move in with him, and I will still live at home. If you are small, you are also older, and this matter respects your own choice. ”

There aren't many times in my life when I have to make a big decision, let alone choose one or the other.

Seeing that I had no idea, they didn't force me to give an answer immediately, my mother told me to wash up and sleep early, and talk about it tomorrow morning. I couldn't sleep while tossing and turning in bed, and when there was no movement downstairs, I quietly got up and tiptoed downstairs to make a phone call.

It only beeped twice, and it was picked up on the other side and asked, "Hey?" Who to look for? ”

"I'm looking for Zhou Yu."

When he heard the microphone put down over there, he raised his voice and shouted: "Master Zhou, there is a sister looking for you." ”

After a while, Zhou Yu's voice appeared on the phone: "Hey? ”

"It's me." I spoke softly.

"Jia Xiaoru? Why did you remember to call me? ”

I was silent.

Zhou Yu didn't know that I was entangled at the moment, and was still teasing over there: "It can't be that I can't sleep because I think about it, right?" ”

I didn't bother to pay attention to what he was talking about, and I was hesitant to tell him about the family. He also seemed to realize that my mood was wrong, and asked seriously: "Jia Xiaoru, do you really have something to look for me?" ”

"Zhou Gongjin," I paused, and my voice was soft: "My parents are getting divorced." ”

The silence on the other end made me feel astringent, ashamed, embarrassed, and anxious to hang up the phone: "Don't say it." ”

Zhou Yu hurriedly shouted: "Don't hang up!" Hey, hey? Jia Xiaoru? Are you still listening? ”

"It's still there."

"Jia Xiaoru, where are you now? School? Did you call you from home? No, you wait for me, I'll be right over now. ”

Listening to his anxious voice, he suddenly felt that the irritability in his heart was fading, interrupting his busyness: "I'm at home." ”

He should have been stunned on the other end of the phone, "Huh? Oh, you're at home. ”

"My mom asked me who I was going to follow."

"This matter...... "may be about me, and he can't make up his mind for me for a while, so it's a little difficult for him."

Suddenly I heard footsteps going downstairs, I was so shocked that I hung up the phone directly, praying in my heart that Zhou Yu would never call back. Turning around, I saw a dark shadow walking down the staircase, and asked from the darkness: "Xiaoru?" ”

It's Dad.

My dad called me to the front room to sit down, and he pulled the cigarette case out of his trouser pocket and stuffed it back.

Dad said that he and his mother had actually had a bad relationship for a long time, and it took more than two years to drag it on, so he decided to divorce by agreement; He also said that he advised me to follow my mother, because now he was running around with the circus, and he had no place to live, and I was going to study, and he had no extra energy to take care of me; He also said that he did not want to shirk his responsibilities as a father, he would send alimony to my mother every month, and he would provide for me to study until I graduated from college.

After listening to his words, I only asked: What happened to you and your mother?

There is always a reason for a bad relationship, and it is impossible for them to suddenly have a bad relationship after more than ten years.

Dad took out the cigarette again, but came to me and asked, "Is it okay for Dad to smoke one?"

I have no objection.

After he lit the cigarette and took a big puff, the frowning brow that had been frowning loosened slightly, and slowly explained what had happened.

It turns out that the roots started when I was still in my first year of junior high school.

I still remember when I was hospitalized with my head smashed, and then my dad performed a trick for me when he picked me up and was discharged from the hospital, and he said that it was not called trick, it was called magic. And his relationship with his mother went into a trough because of this magic.

After my father was laid off from his original unit, he was introduced to work in a circus and embarked on a path of magician. My mother strongly disagreed with this at the beginning, but my father insisted on doing this business, which also caused various contradictions in the future.

The reasons are nothing more than the most realistic things: first, the circus often has to go to other places to perform, and there is no fixed workplace; The second is that in the eyes of the public, they don't understand what magic is, and those who call it tricks are good, and those who are ugly say they are liars; The third is that the remuneration received is too small, which cannot be compared with the stable job of my father, so the family life has become poor.

The so-called poor couple's pepsi grief may be like this, if the family life is worry-free and the father is not laid off, then he and his mother will not be able to get divorced. When I was not at home, they quarreled countless times, but then they gradually lost the passion for arguing, and my mother died of her heart for my father, and finally filed for divorce.

I asked my dad if he regretted it? He thought for a long time and spoke to me earnestly, and he said—

If you ask me if I don't regret your mother's incident, I must regret it, and I shouldn't have neglected my family when my work focus shifted. If you ask me if I regret my job as a magician, my answer is no. Magic is magical, it has a strong sense of faith, and when you believe in it, you will find that there is a magical power that takes you to another world.

Dad's eyes lit up when he talked about magic.

I've never seen him like this, and I can't help but ask: Is there really magic in this world?

Dad laughed first, reached over and rubbed my hair, and invited me in a gentle and doting tone, saying that there was a show at the playground on the weekend, and that I should go and see his show too.

I went to the playground on the weekend with Zhou Yu.

It's not that I called him, but that he came to me himself. He tried to sneak out of school on Wednesday when he learned that I had an accident at home, but I stopped him, and waited until the weekend to hear me say that I was going to the playground, and probed the temperature of my forehead with his hand, and then asked me suspiciously if I was too stimulated and delirious?

I ignored him, although I told him about the divorce of my parents and parents, but I didn't want to tell the details.

The playground was big and crowded, so I didn't know where to watch the show. Zhou Yu led me to find it, and when I went in, I was performing acrobatics on the stage, and there were more than a dozen people watching it.

When I sat down, I looked around the stage, but I didn't notice my dad or what his show was on.

Under the pretext of going out to the bathroom, I sneaked to the backstage, but quickly went around again.

I saw my father's figure, and I happened to hear his conversation with someone, but he was begging the person who might be the head of the troupe to let him perform, because his daughter came. I probably understand the reason why my father's income is not high, the magic show is not liked by the audience, and the head of the troupe may want to remove the show.

When I returned to my seat, Zhou Yu was extremely bored, and asked me why I had been there for so long, and when he saw that I was silent, he came to see my face again, and then he didn't ask any more questions, and he also restrained his attitude and accompanied me to watch the performance on the stage seriously.

I didn't think much of it when the big props were pushed on stage, but when I saw my father's figure on the stage, I immediately felt refreshed, and the magic show was about to begin.

Zhou Yu was halfway through it before he gasped and shouted in surprise: "Isn't that your father?" ”

I stared intently at the stage, only humming softly.

I saw my dad use the escalator to climb up the big wooden box that he pushed up to the stage before, the big wooden box was more than five meters high, and someone wanted to tie a seat belt for my dad, but he took a deep look in my direction and shook his head and refused.

I didn't know what to do next, but my heart was beating inexplicably.

Then, I saw my dad flying on the side wall of the big wooden box!

There were constant exclamations from below, and some people even stood up excitedly, and everyone felt that the scene in front of them was incredible. I couldn't control myself from getting up from the chair, unlike others, my heart was clenched, and I was afraid that my father would fall off the side wall of the wooden box every second, how could I walk sideways on the vertical plane?

It wasn't until my dad got to the ground safely and stood up normally that my breath didn't let go.

The audience was silent, and suddenly burst into fierce applause - from me.

Then there was thunderous applause.