Xin Chen had long known about the existence of Lu Fei.

Lu Fei is the senior of Xin Di and Xin Chen, and he has always been a man of the year from elementary school to high school. His father is not the reason why he is conspicuous, after all, the school they go to is a local focus, except for those who get in with excellent grades, most of the other children have relationships or family backgrounds, and Lu Fei's family is very low-key, and not many people know his father.

Needless to say, he started learning the violin at an early age and was also the provincial junior chess champion. He is handsome and tall, and he has never been introverted, and his every move reveals the shadow of a strict family education. There are too many children in the school who are arrogant because of their good family background, and students like Lu Fei are naturally the pride of teachers.

It's just that a boy of that age rarely pays attention to a girl who is 4 years younger than him and several grades lower, even if she is beautiful.

The two officially met during the summer vacation when Xin Chen was 14 years old.

When Xin Chen was in the sixth grade of primary school, his grandparents died one after another, and Xin Kaiyu's state-owned enterprise was in a recession, so he began to quit his job and go to the sea to start a small business. He has always been a smart but playful man who can't set his heart into doing things, sometimes making and sometimes losing. When he made money, he was one of the first people in the city to use mobile phones, and he would take his daughter and niece to the city's most exclusive restaurants for big meals and go to the mall to buy clothes; When he lost money, he was even nervous about living expenses, so he had to accept his brother's quiet help.

Xin Chen once again went to one of the best middle schools in the city like his cousin under the arrangement of his uncle. She began to wear keys around her neck for a long time, and often stayed home alone. During the holidays, her uncle would pick her up and live with Xin Di, so that she would not be left alone and left unattended, and her three meals could only be passed in a small restaurant nearby.

The sisters have always gotten along very closely, especially Xin Di, who was strictly controlled by her mother Li Xin, and went home on time after school, except for Lu Fei, who she had known since childhood, and had no particularly close friends and playmates. She is generous by nature, and she also likes Xinchen, and is willing to share her room, snacks and books with her cousin.

Lu Fei graduated from high school that year and was admitted to a prestigious local school majoring in international finance, at this time his father had been promoted to a key position in the province, and after Xin Kaiming no longer served as his secretary, he was reappointed to a leading position in a district of the city, and his career was also smooth.

Xin Di, who is about to be promoted to the third year, is the same as most children with outstanding specialties, and he is very partial to the subject, and his math scores are very bad, although he has long decided to participate in the art joint examination, but to be admitted to a good school, the score of cultural classes should not be too ugly. That holiday, her friend Lu Fei volunteered to come to her house to help her with her homework.

Someone knocked on the door heavily, Lu Fei went to open the door, only to see a beautiful girl with a ponytail standing at the door, carrying a big backpack, a little shiny sweat on her forehead, holding an ice cream in her left hand and sending it to her mouth, and an unopened ice cream in her right hand. The tip of her pink tongue poked out nimbly, licked off the bit of chocolate, and then walked around him and entered the door, handing the unopened ice cream to Xin Di, "The flute is about to eat, it's going to melt, it's so hot." ”

Xin Di was getting a headache from math, so he dropped his pen and took it and immediately ate it. Xin Chen looked at Lu Fei, "I'm sorry, I didn't know you were here, otherwise I'd buy one more." ”

Lu Fei had already seen Xin Chen at school, and he knew that she was Xin Di's cousin, but after all, she was several grades lower and had not spoken before. The school is full of lively and beautiful girls trying to get his attention, and he has no impression of her, "Thanks, I don't eat this." ”

Xin Chen pursed her lips, obviously thinking that this answer was very boring, she turned her head and said to Xin Di: "Dizi, I'll go to the bookstore to buy books later, can you accompany me?" Someone was following me just now. ”

Xin Di felt that she had been a 17-year-old girl in vain, and she had never seen the stalking of boys, which was really embarrassing, "Which class of little boys?" You just tell him to get out, follow what. ”

This rude answer made Lu Fei frown, but Xin Chen shook his head, "It's not a male classmate, it's a woman, it's quite beautiful, I'm afraid it's my father's affair." ”

This sentence made Lu Fei disagree with it even more than Xin Di's rudeness, but Xin Chen didn't look at him at all, leaned to the sofa, picked up the phone and called Xin Kaiyu's mobile phone, and started a conversation that made Lu Fei even more surprised, "Dad, did you read the newspaper I cut out for you last time?" It was the report that a certain woman and her lover hated because of love, and used sulfuric acid to destroy her lover's daughter Rong. ”

Xin Kaiyu laughed, "I looked at it, I was impressed, it's terrible for women to be paranoid, Tatsuko, don't be such a fool." ”

"Come and teach me a lesson, I told you not to provoke such a woman, I'm afraid of being splashed with sulfuric acid."

"Nonsense, am I the kind of stupid man?"

"Probably not, but today I went back to get my clothes, and a woman has been following me since I came out of the house, and she will go when I go, and she will stop when I stop, so strange, you haven't broken up with anyone recently, right?"

Xin Kaiyu was a little vigilant, thought about it, and really didn't dare to be sure, "Don't go out alone in the past two days, just stay at your uncle's house, I'll be back the day after tomorrow." ”

"I still have reference books that I haven't bought, do I have to go to jail at home?" Xin Chen pouted, "Dad, can you hurry back?" ”

"Okay, okay, I'll try to get as early as possible, okay? Tatsuko, don't run around, be smart. ”

Xin Di had long been accustomed to the tone of conversation between their father and daughter, but she was also very interested in the content, she had a childish curiosity about the little uncle's rich private life, and when Xin Chen put down the phone, she immediately asked: "Is it really the little uncle's old lover who is following you, Chenzi?" ”

"A woman I haven't seen, I don't know." Xin Chen shrugged, not caring at all, "I'll know when my dad comes back." ”

"Let's go out and have a look." Xin Di's life has been peaceful, and his curiosity is full at this time, where can he hold it, "Let's take the parasol and stay away, it should be fine." ”

Lu Fei didn't approve of this kind of troubleshooting at all, but he knew that he couldn't persuade Xin Di's whims, and he couldn't let them face the so-called old lovers and sulfuric acid that seemed to him to be nothing, so he had to go out behind the two girls.

The sun was blazing outside, and the two acacia trees in the yard were in bloom, full of half-red and half-white silky flowers, Xin Chen stopped and looked up at the acacia flowers, "It's really fragrant, do you smell it, Dizi?" ”

After she said it, Lu Fei noticed that there was indeed an imperceptible fragrance in the air, but Xin Di was now thinking about the mysterious woman, and only urged her: "It's not the first time I've seen this flower, hurry up, maybe she's gone." ”

Out of the courtyard, without Xin Chen's finger, Lu Fei and Xin Di also saw that there was a woman in a dress standing in the shade of a tree across the road, staring at them unabashedly.

Xin Di first analyzed her dress and came to the conclusion that the white half-heeled lace-up sandals and the flowing skirt of the yellow dress should be of silk texture and well-fitted, which fits the woman's slender figure and fair complexion very well. Although he is wearing sunglasses, he can also see that he is beautiful and a beauty, and it seems that the little uncle's taste is really good.

Xin Chen only glanced at it, didn't look closely, and took Xin Di's hand and motioned her to go. The three of them walked to the bookstore together, and the woman followed behind.

Turning another intersection, Lu Fei concluded that Xin Chen was not mistaken, and this woman was indeed blatantly following. He didn't want to go on like this, so he motioned for the two girls to stand a little away, turned around and waited, and the woman hurried to follow, almost colliding with him. He looked at her calmly, "What are you doing with us?" ”

She was stunned, and then looked at Xin Chen behind him, and Xin Di hurriedly shouted: "Lu Fei, stand back." ”

Lu Fei didn't move, the woman in front of her was thin, and she only took a small white leather bag, obviously unable to carry the sulfuric acid and the like that Xin Chen had speculated. Her gaze crossed Lu Fei and looked directly at Xin Chen.

"Xin Chen, I want to talk to you."

Xin Chen was not surprised that she called out her name, only smiled and shook her head, "I don't get involved in your adult affairs, if you want to talk, go talk to my father, he is coming back from a business trip, don't follow me in the future." ”

The woman frowned, "I don't want to see your father, Xin Chen." She took off her sunglasses and stared at Xin Chen with a slight smile, "I just want to see you." ”

Xin Chen was about to speak, but Xin Di grabbed her hand. She has been painting countless pixel sketches since elementary school, and she is very sensitive to details, and she can see at a glance that the woman in front of her is about 30 years old, although she is a beautiful woman, and more importantly, she and Xin Chen have subtle similarities in appearance. Xin Chen's eyebrows generally look very similar to her father Xin Kaiyu, and the two pitch-black eyebrows make her delicate face a little heroic, but she is the same as the soft-looking woman in front of her, with the same beauty point, hairline and eyes, and more importantly, when the two of them smile, the dimple on the left cheek is exactly the same, Xin Di was frightened by her own discovery, and her heart beat faster.

"Who are you?" Lu Fei asked coldly, "If you don't make it clear, none of us will talk to you, and we will call the police." ”

"I'm your mother, Xin Chen."

After a moment of silence, Lu Fei and Xin Di were stunned, while Xin Chen only looked her up and down, but remained calm.

Xin Di didn't know Xin Chen's life experience, her illegitimate identity and unknown mother were taboo topics that Xin Kaiming and his wife were unwilling to talk about to anyone, but although Xin Di had never met her little aunt, she also knew that Xin Chen could not be born without a mother.

She was worried that her cousin would be stimulated, so she hurriedly said, "Auntie, please confirm with my little uncle and talk about it later, no one likes to meet a stranger on the road like this, saying that it is his mother's." ”

The woman didn't pay attention to her, only looked at Xin Chen, "Xin Chen, you are 14 years old this year, your birthday is January 24, it was snowing lightly on the day you were born, the temperature was very low, your weight when you were born was 3.1 kilograms, your blood type is AB, you have a red mole in the heart of your right foot, your father's name is Xin Kaiyu, he should be 33 years old this year......"

"That's enough." Xin Chen's voice interrupted her sharply, her hand was still in Xin Di's hand, Xin Di could feel her clenching her hand, the palms of both of them were full of sticky sweat, but they both stubbornly refused to let go, "What do you want to do?" Is there a TV series on the road? ”

"I just can't let go of you, I want to meet you, Xin Chen, please understand me."

"Let's wait for my dad to come back, you've been letting me go for fourteen years, and it's okay to wait a few more days."

"But I don't have much time, I came for three days before I found your lodging, and I stayed for two whole days, and I was desperate to see you come home today. I'm going to leave here in the evening for Beijing, then to Austria, and probably never to come back. The woman said directly to Xin Chen, "Please go sit with me, I won't hurt you." ”

"So, did you come to say goodbye to me?" Xin Chen smiled, her laughter was as crisp as a silver bell that rang gently, and it looked very bright in the sun, "Then no need, since you want to go, just go crisply, don't leave a little tail, let everyone worry, it's not interesting." ”

"Are you blaming me, or don't believe me? Xin Chen, I have a last resort......"

"I believe you, it's no good to think of a daughter of my age. I don't blame you, but I'm sorry, the word mom doesn't mean much to me, and since I didn't have a mom for the first 14 years, I think it's okay in the future. She squeezed Xin Di's hand hard again, "Let's go, Dizi." ”

Xin Chen walked into the bookstore without looking back, but the first thing he went to turn through was the comic books, one after another, picked it up and flipped through it hastily and then put it down, Lu Fei signaled Xin Di, Xin Di had no choice but to say: "Chenzi, what about the reference books you want to buy?" ”

She looked up blankly, the expression on her little face was blank, and her eyes that had always been smart were a little sluggish, "Reference books?" Oh, I'll look for it. ”

The two of them saw her slowly and sleepwalking slowly between the bookshelves, her fingers running over the erect spine of the book, but she did not stop.

Xin Di couldn't stand it anymore, so he went over and grabbed her hand, "Chenzi, tell me the title of the book, and I'll help you find it." ”

Xin Di quickly found the book she wanted, and then asked her carefully, "Do you want to read other books?" I'll buy it for you. ”

She shook her head, "Let's go home." ”

The three of them returned the same way, and the woman was still standing in the shade of the tree where she was, her face with her sunglasses put back on her face without showing her expression, and Xin Chen walked straight in front of her without squinting.

After returning home, Xin Chen was about to enter the bedroom, but suddenly stopped and turned around, looked at them and said softly but resolutely, "Don't tell anyone about this, okay?" ”

At that moment, there was no childishness on her face, and her eyes were as deep as a pool of water. Lu Fei and Xin Di nodded wordlessly, Lu Fei naturally didn't say anything, and Xin Di never mentioned it even to his parents.

Until Lu Fei finished his homework to Xin Di, Xin Chen didn't come out of the bedroom. They exchanged glances, and they all had a little sad feeling of powerlessness. Two normal eldest children in the family, faced with such a situation where their mother suddenly appeared after disappearing for fourteen years, they didn't know how to comfort the little girl in the bedroom.

Lu Fei said goodbye from Xin Di's house, and subconsciously looked at the two acacia trees in the yard, he admired the freehand landscape hibiscus and cold plum, this kind of gorgeous flower was not his interest, but smelling the fragrance in the air, looking at the posture of blooming in the sun, he couldn't help but admit that it was indeed beautiful.

He walked out of the yard, only to see that the strange woman was still standing across the road, he hesitated, walked over, and didn't know how to call this woman who should be called an aunt according to her generation, but looked so young that she could only be regarded as a big sister, "Please don't stand here, this is really troublesome to Xin Chen, even if she goes abroad, she can find a way to contact her in the future, suddenly recognize each other, and say that she wants to leave forever, how can you let her accept it?" ”

She nodded, "I know I'm ridiculous this time, maybe it's not good for Xin Chen, but I can't control this thought." I had to go, but I suddenly lost my strength, and I was a little desperate at the thought of going to Beijing, and then to Europe, so far waiting for me. Are you a friend of Xinchen? ”

She spoke soft and delicate Mandarin, and her voice was quite similar to Xin Chen's, which made Lu Fei sigh at the mysterious power of heredity, "I am a friend of her cousin Xin Di, and of course I am also her friend." ”

"Can you do me a favor?" She opened her white handbag and took out an envelope, "Inside is the address where I will settle in Austria, if Xin Chen is willing to contact me one day, please give it to her." Tell her that even if I move, I'll ask someone to hand over the letter. ”

Lu Fei hesitated, she looked at him pleadingly, the deep sorrow contained in those beautiful eyes touched him, he took the envelope, "Xin Chen probably won't want it now, I will find the right time to give it to her, but I can't guarantee anything else." ”

"I will never bother her against her will again, but if one day, like me, she has the idea of knowing more about the end of her blood, then I will be there, waiting."

After Lu Fei became acquainted with Xin Chen, he knew her background and persuaded her, but her answer was always to shake her head, refusing to talk about the woman who appeared and disappeared in a hurry on a midsummer afternoon, let alone the envelope.

As a result, the white envelope has not been opened to this day, and it is still in the custody of Lu Fei. He took the envelope with him to San Francisco, New York, Beijing and other major cities, always keeping it in a folder.

That summer, Xin Chen didn't seem to encounter anything unusual at all, she still did her homework, wore headphones to listen to Hong Kong and Taiwan pop songs on the Walkman, watched TV, read fashion magazines that Xin Di bought without her mother, and sometimes acted as Xin Di's model, let her do sketching exercises, or learn to draw with her, and she couldn't see anything different.

Almost halfway through the summer, Lu Fei insisted on coming over several times a week to make up lessons for Xin Di, and occasionally he also gave Xin Chen a lecture on his homework, but Xin Chen was much more careless about learning than Xin Di, and he was quite crooked, "I know that this is the case, why do you have to know why this is the case?" ”

This kind of lack of understanding is helpless. Xin Di laughed beside her, only thinking that Xin Chen's tone was not alive and sound, like enough for her father Xin Kaiyu.

The two sisters both paint in their spare time, but Xin Di paints fashion design drafts. She begged Lu Fei's sister Lu Fei, who was studying in the UK, to help her buy a set of original English fashion painting techniques, hidden under a large number of reference books in her bedroom, and took them out to copy them when she had time. Lu Fei sighed while helping her translate, "If you divide this mind into mathematics, your grades can be improved by at least forty percent." ”

Xin Di didn't pay attention to his advice at all, she only told Lu Fei that she planned to study fashion design, and told him not to tell others, "My dad is probably fine, at most he will be surprised, but my mother will be crazy when she hears it." What she thinks about is that I paint those fine brushes of flowers and birds, hairpins and ladies, or oil paintings, in short, it must be elegant. ”

Lu Fei looked at Xin Chen, who was happily drawing comic characters, and had to admit that Xin Di was still working towards his ideals, and Xin Chen was probably only thinking about playing. Xin Di was not demanding of Xin Chen at all, looking at the childish cartoons she drew and boasting proudly: "Look at my guidance, you will be able to draw well, everyone in our family does have artistic talent." ”

Xin Chen smiled carefree, and Lu Fei almost thought that the girl in front of him was superficial and happy, and she didn't have anything on her mind.

Until the first time he saw her fall into a nightmare.

That afternoon, Xin Di temporarily received a call from his art teacher and went to his home to get a set of exam materials. Lu Fei sat alone in the study reading a book, and when he came out to pour water and drink, he found that the TV was on, and Xin Chen was lying on the sofa and fell asleep.

The water dispenser was placed on the side of the sofa, and he took the glass to catch the water, only to see Xin Chen's hands clasped on his chest, one right foot on the armrest of the sofa, the foot was perfectly shaped, fair and slender, shell-like pink toenails, five small toes were rounded, and there was a striking red mole in the center of his foot, which reminded him of what the woman who claimed to be her mother said that day.

Lu Fei was taken aback by the fact that he noticed such a detail and suddenly felt restless for no reason, drank most of the glass of ice water in one gulp, turned off the TV with the remote control, and was about to go back to the study, but saw Xin Chen open his eyes and look at the ceiling without focus, with a confused and painful expression.

He asked in surprise, "What's the matter, Xin Chen?" ”

Xin Chen didn't answer, but his small face suddenly distorted, full of sweat, his pupils seemed to be dilated, and his face was so pale that there was no blood at all, and he was not at all healthy, as if he was struggling with all his strength, but he couldn't get rid of the burden.

Lu Fei was shocked, squatted down on the edge of the sofa, hesitantly stretched out a hand, held her hand, and noticed that she was shivering, and her skin was cold, and that look was clearly a child in extreme fear.

He hesitated again, but he still reached out and hugged this small body, patted her back gently, her expression suddenly relaxed, her pupils slowly returned to normal, stretched out her arms to hug him, buried her forehead on his shoulder, cold sweat dripped, and wet his T-shirt. After a moment, he felt her taut body relax.

He put her back on the couch, still holding one of her hands, and asked softly, "Is it uncomfortable?" I'll take you to the hospital now. ”

"No, I just ...... It was as if I had a nightmare, and then I woke up to find myself out of breath and not moving anywhere in my body. She raised her other hand, covered her eyes, and said softly, "I don't know how this happened, but it will be fine in a while." ”

"Have you ever been like this before?"

She shook her head, "It only started recently, and it was the same that day, lying in bed, my aunt called me outside, I was obviously awake, I could see and hear, I wanted to agree, but I couldn't make a sound." ”

Li Xin didn't see her say yes that day, walked in, and saw her lying on the bed with her eyes open, her expression was strange, and she was suddenly quite unhappy, "Why shouldn't you say anything, the basic politeness still needs to be explained, go out to eat." Xin Chen couldn't defend himself at all, so he could only wait for his ability to move back and wipe off his sweat and walk out.

"What kind of dreams? Maybe it'll be okay to say it. ”

"I can't remember clearly, sometimes it seems like I'm running, and there's no end in sight to a road, and I don't know where it leads; Sometimes it's like walking around in the dark hallway, and I can't find my home. Tears oozed from her fingers as she covered her eyes, and her voice choked, "I'm scared, really scared." ”

Her little hand was still trembling in his palm, and he clenched it and whispered, "Don't be afraid, it's okay, it's just a dream." ”

"But over and over again, it seems to be true." Her voice was distressed, and he stretched out his fingers to gently wipe away a tear that ran down the corner of his eye to his ear, and then pulled the tissue and handed it to her, which she took and pressed indiscriminately against her eye.

He squatted on the edge of the sofa and didn't get up until she was completely calm, "Let Aunt Li take you to the doctor tomorrow." ”

Xin Chen wiped the corners of his eyes with a tissue, shook his head and said, "Do you have to go to the doctor if you have a nightmare?" It's too exaggerated, maybe like you said, it's okay to say it. ”

She quickly regained her lively appearance, and when Xin Di returned, the sisters talked and laughed as usual, and she still acted like nothing had happened.

On this day, Lu Fei entered the yard and was running into Xin Chen coming out, she first raised her head and squinted at the sky, and then ran to the acacia tree, hugged the trunk and shook it vigorously. The flowering period was about to pass, and the tree was already full of red, and after she shook it, the half-withered pom-pom-like flowers fell and sprinkled her.

This scene made Lu Fei stunned.

Xin Chen let go of his hand, looked up at the tree unsatisfied, and then shook his head and ran out, just as he hit Lu Fei, Lu Fei held her and picked the filamentous calyx from her hair, "I said why did this flower fall so fast." ”

She stuck out her tongue, "I didn't do anything." ”

"It's true that you didn't go up to the house, uncover the tiles, go up the trees, and dig out the bird's nest."

Xin Chen didn't expect Lu Fei to laugh with her, hehe.

"Still having nightmares lately?"

Her smile disappeared suddenly, showing childish worry, hesitated, and whispered: "My dad said it's okay, it's just a dream, but my classmate said that she asked her grandmother, this is called ghost pressing, maybe there is really a ghost haunting me." ”

"Nonsense, where the hell came from." Lu Fei scolded lightly, "It's neither scientific nor meaningful to attribute all the things you don't know to strange forces. ”

She stuck out her tongue again at the serious lesson, "Thank you for the standard answer." ”

"I'll take you to the doctor, his answer is more authoritative than mine."

"No, I hate going to the hospital, I hate smelling medicine. Tomorrow the school will start making up classes, and the holidays will be over. Now someone asks me to watch a movie, I'm gone, goodbye. ”

She deftly ran out of the yard, petals falling all the way down from her. Lu Fei looked at the back and couldn't help but smile.

Xin Di is lamenting the early end of the holiday, she and Xin Chen are about to be promoted to the graduating class, and the key middle school is strict, and it has always been stipulated that the graduating class will start classes at the end of the holiday early. She complained as she sketched: "This cramming education system is really unreasonable, and it completely treats us as robots." ”

Lu Fei stood behind her, only to see that she was still painting Xin Chen, who was known as her "queen model", with a face as round as a fresh peach on the side, her hair tied into a small bun, thick eyebrows and long eyelashes, big eyes looking ahead, with a little naughty smile, the pear vortex on her left cheek loomed, so bright that there was no haze, and the curvature of her lips was full and perfect like a small bow, overflowing with sweet breath.

He couldn't help but shake his head and admire: "Xiaodi, it's a pity that you are not a painter." ”

Xin Di smiled, "I have already decided, don't come to tempt me or lobby me again." ”

"What about Xiao Chen, what does she want to do when she grows up?" Lu Fei didn't know why he suddenly asked her.

"She said she wanted to travel the world, make the world her home, and wander far away." Xin Di laughed, obviously not taking her cousin's childish words seriously, she took a step back and looked at the painting on the easel, "Finally, this one has caught Shen Yun a little, this chick can't sit still, it's too difficult to draw." ”

Lu Fei thought of the scene where Xin Chen shook the acacia tree just now, and also smiled, "It's not easy to paint, not only can't sit still, she is obviously already a girl, but she still has a bit of naughty childish breath in her bones, her energy is diffuse, and she is always a little uncertain, which is really not easy to capture." ”

Xin Di was surprised, "Ah, Lu Fei, what you said is exactly what I felt, but I couldn't express." ”

Lu Fei groaned at the sketch, such a lively child was actually haunted by nightmares, but he covered it up well, it was incredible.

On the eve of the start of school, Xin Chen packed up his things and prepared to go home to live, Lu Fei also came this day, the two went out together, Lu Fei saw Xin Chen lazily preparing to go home, and suddenly his heart moved, "Is there anything going on today?" ”

Xin Chen shook his head, and Lu Fei reached out to take her backpack with clothes, "Let's go, I'll take you to a place." ”

Xin Chen looked at him in surprise, "Where are you going?" Too many boys have asked to date her timidly or abruptly, but she never thought Lu Fei would be one of them.

Lu Fei was wearing a white shirt, standing tall in front of her, his black hair was faintly shiny and flashing in the sun, his eyes were bright and deep, looking at her gently, and said with a smile: "You will know when you arrive, don't you dare to go?" ”

Xin Chen didn't dare to do anything, tilted his head, "Let's go." ”

I didn't want Lu Fei to stop the taxi, so I took her directly to the gate of the largest central hospital in the city, she immediately pouted, and turned around to leave.

Lu Fei's eyes were quick, and he grabbed her hand to prevent her from running, "My uncle is the director of the neurology department here, let him show you." ”

She retracted her hand forcefully, "Hey, it's just a nightmare, it's not that neurosis is so scary." ”

Lu Fei laughed, "There is no common sense, where does the term neurosis come from, there is only psychosis and neurosis, and neurology and psychosis are two different things." ”

She didn't say a word, she didn't move.

"There should be neither injections nor medicines," Lu Fei looked at her with a headache, "Hey, you're not a child anymore, don't you need to do this, do you want this nightmare to haunt you in the future?" ”

Her hand stopped in his hand, and after a while, she relented and went with him to the hospital.

Lu Fei's uncle, Xie Siqi, was about 40 years old, wearing a white robe and rimless glasses, with a wise and kind expression, and a typical doctor's demeanor. He inquired in detail about the little girl brought by his nephew, and when he asked exactly when he started having this nightmare, Xin Chen lowered his head and was silent for a while before saying, "It started the night that the woman came to me. ”

Lu Fei thought about it seriously and told his uncle an approximate time. Only then did he know that Xin Chen was not as careless as she seemed, and her mother's sudden visit was oppressive and troubled her in this way. He decided to keep the envelope, at least not to mention it to her for now.

Xie Siqi told them not to worry too much, and he expertly explained its cause: "This nightmare is called sleep paralysis, which is caused by cerebral ischemia during sleep. Sometimes when a person has just woken up from cerebral ischemia, because the visual and motor impairments that have lasted for several minutes have not ended, it will cause the psychological illusion of struggling to wake up, but unable to wake up. Because the blood vessels in the human body dilate more severely in summer, the blood pressure is low, so the probability of occurring in summer is higher than in other seasons. ”

"Can it be avoided?" Lu Fei asked.

"Sometimes it's related to a bad sleeping position, a pillow that's too high, or pressure on the heart, and adjusting these can help prevent nightmares."

Xin Chen shook his head, "I've tried, and it's the same if I lie in bed and sleep well recently." ”

"If you rule out the problem of sleeping position, it should be caused by psychological reasons, which is usually more likely to occur in situations of high stress, excessive fatigue, abnormal work and rest, insomnia, and anxiety. Judging from the symptoms and frequency you mentioned, they are not serious, as long as there are no organic causes, there is no direct impact on health, so take it easy. ”

Lu Fei couldn't help but worry when he heard terms such as "pressure" and "anxiety" that shouldn't be associated with a little girl of this age at all, but Xin Chen looked very happy, as if there was such a scientific explanation that could make her feel safe, "Anyway, as long as it's not what others say, I don't want to play ghost movies by myself." ”

Out of the hospital, Xin Chen immediately ran across the road, Lu Fei didn't react, she had already taken two unsealed ice cream cones and ran back, handed one to him, he shook his head, she stuffed it into his mouth without saying anything, and he had to take it.

Lu Fei has always had a strict family education and strict self-discipline, this is the first time he has eaten while walking on the street, and he still eats a childish strawberry cone, knowing that he has no manners at all. But looking at Xin Chen, who was walking in front, was still dressed in midsummer, wearing a white T-shirt and denim shorts, walking with slender legs, lazy steps, the sun shining on her through the shade of the trees, and when she turned around, her lips were stained with cream, and her face was full of bright smiles, Lu Fei felt a kind of happiness in his heart for no reason.

It was on this day that Lu Fei sent Xin Chen home and saw Xin Chen's living environment for the first time. He couldn't believe that Xin Chen, who looked glamorous, actually came in and out of here every day.

The surrounding environment is messy, full of buildings built randomly, clothes are hanging horizontally, and some are still dripping and dripping, although the sky is bright outside, but the corridor is backlit, it is already dark, he stumbles upstairs behind Xin Chen, and from time to time encounters piles of debris, and sighs: No wonder when Xin Chen falls into a nightmare, there will be a plot that he can't find a way out in the dark corridor.

Xin Chen opened the door, Lu Fei was amazed again, the small two-bedroom in front of him, the room was no less cluttered than the outside, the furniture was all old, but there was a latest large-size color TV, and the entrance was placed in a disorderly manner from sandals, leather shoes, sneakers to leather boots, and the sofa with a dull and collapsed color was also piled with colorful clothes of various thick and thin textures.

Xin Chen didn't care about the mess in front of him, threw down his backpack casually, turned on the ceiling fan, and then went straight to open the doors and windows for ventilation, then turned on the TV, pushed all the clothes on the sofa aside, and greeted Lu Fei: "Sit, but I haven't been home for a long time, there is nothing at home, and I forgot to buy soda just now." ”

"You're a girl, is it hard to tidy up your room?"

"I clean a lot." She said justifiably.

The room is indeed not dirty, otherwise Lu Fei's cleanliness habit would have left a long time ago, "But it is very messy, put the shoes neatly, fold all the clothes and put them in the closet, it will be much better." ”

Xin Chen frowned, obviously thinking that he was very instigated, but he took her to the doctor to relieve her of her heart disease for days, and she decided not to make trouble with him, and only quickly folded her clothes. She moved neatly, quickly straightened all her clothes and carried them into the bedroom, and then came out and looked at him, "Is there anything else you don't like?" ”

Lu Fei was still very dissatisfied with the state of this room, but the happy and smiling face of the girl in front of him was really infectious, and he decided to take his time and not spoil the scenery.

The two of them each sat on a rattan chair and chatted on the balcony, at this time the summer was coming to an end, the weather was not so hot and unbearable, at sunset, a little breeze was blowing in the face, and the opposite side was also a gray building, a flock of pigeons were circling and flying, from time to time skimming the sight of the two, looking very comfortable.

Xin Chen stretched his waist, "School is going to start again, and the teacher is talking about the high school entrance examination all day long, it's so annoying, I really don't want to go to school." ”

"When I have time, I'll come and give you some homework."

She nodded, but was visibly unmotivated.

"So what do you want to do, play all day long?"

"If it weren't for the fear that my uncle would be angry, I wouldn't want to be admitted to my high school at all, and it's the same if I went to an ordinary middle school." Xin Chen was very calm when he was not ambitious, "But I still have to take the exam well, otherwise he will have to find a relationship and even help me pay the sponsorship fee." Uncle is good at everything, but he is too bad for Dizi and my obsessive-compulsive disorder. ”

Lu Fei knew that OCD was Xin Di's private complaint about her parents' high demands, and it was obvious that Xin Chen definitely approved of her cousin. But he doesn't think it's obsessive-compulsive, and lowering his requirements and having no goals in his life is incredible in his opinion, "If you don't set a goal for yourself, won't you become a mess." ”

"You're going to teach me a lesson again." Xin Chen was not disappointed by him, "The most important thing for people is to live happily, like you, you probably find fun in learning, but I don't, so don't ask me with your standards." ”

"And what's your fun?"

"A lot, put on a new dress, sleep undisturbed, listen to songs, watch movies, smell flowers, eat chocolate ice cream, drink cold soda, and ......," she said, looking back at him solemnly, "and sitting and chatting with you like this." ”

Such a trivial and specific happiness, especially related to himself, like a hand delicately plucking the heartstrings, Lu Fei was moved, and all the truths he was ready to tell her in simple terms were thrown aside.

His sister Lu is 8 years older than him, and the reason why he has always been close to Xin Di, except that her father has been his father's secretary for a long time, and the two have known each other very early, largely because the two have similar families, both have parents who are both civil servants and have strict personalities, and have a strict family education.

He has always unconsciously taken his father as a role model, behaved calmly, handled things rigorously, and had a sense beyond his age, and he never felt naïve for the youthful gestures of the girls in the school, and he politely and resolutely refused, and did not intend to develop friendships with anyone above the level of classmates.

And the little Xin Chen, Xin Chen, who has no restraints, is the first girl Lu Fei hugged when he grew up, and before he even knew it, she had already walked into his heart with a reckless and direct attitude.

She said frankly that she had been paying attention to him, in the tone of a typical little girl, "When I was in elementary school, I thought you looked very handsome playing the violin on stage. ”

Lu Fei smiled.

"But you are also very lame, looking uncaring about people, very arrogant."

Lu Fei admitted that he did give this impression to many people.

"But after getting acquainted, I found that you are not as coaxed as you seem at first."

Lu Fei could only shake his head.

"You'll have time to play the piano for me in the future, okay?"

Lu Fei nodded in agreement.

"You hold me, and it makes me feel at ease."

Ah, that hug, of course he remembered the pity he felt when her tiny body was in his arm.

At night, Xin Chen went downstairs with Lu Fei, and had to take him to a small restaurant that he couldn't usually enter for dinner, "I can hang up the account here, and wait for my father to come back from a business trip." ”

After eating, he sent her upstairs and told her to lock the door. He went down in the dark, and for the first time, he thought that he was 18 years old, about to go to college, and he actually liked a 14-year-old girl, such fun is a bit special.

Just liked, no big deal, he comforted himself. Looking back at the old building in the night, and thinking of her smile like a bright sunshine, he smiled in the darkness too.