It's the fifth day of the Lunar New Year. On the afternoon of Chinese New Year's Eve, after saying goodbye at the T-junction in the town, Shi Jiaojiao was silent. Tang Jianyu has been staying in the town, and the anxiety in his heart has become more and more serious with the passage of time, and he simply lost sleep all night last night. On the third day of junior high school, he couldn't help it, so he sent a message to test it, and he sank into the sea; On the morning of the fourth year of junior high school, the worry in my heart was no longer able to bear, and I dialed the phone only to find that Shi Jiaojiao's mobile phone had been turned off without knowing when!

That night, Tang Jianyu quietly went to Shi Jiaojiao's house by bicycle, and he pushed the car past in front of the beautiful whitewashed bungalow, carefully observing the situation in the house under the cover of night. He wasn't sure if there was anyone in Shi Jiaojiao's house, because there was no light in the room, and he couldn't hear any conversation, but the door lamp in the corridor that was easily turned on was quietly on, glowing with a soft yellow light, looking like a distant warm candle flame on a winter night. This night, Shi Jiaojiao's current situation, Tang Jianyu found nothing.

He fully trusted her steadfastness and was only worried about her safety. But after she got home, she reported that she was safe, and a girl returned to her parents who had always loved her, and there could be no personal danger, thinking about it like this, Tang Jianyu didn't know what he was worried about. "Still scared, right?" Tang Jianyu lay flat on the sofa, pressed his chest, looked at the gray sky outside the window, and asked himself, "Will she be happy when she is by my side?" ”

Because he barely closed his eyes all night, Tang Jianyu was in a daze, that is, he couldn't fall asleep, and his consciousness was not as clear as when he was awake. The sound of music on the phone was breaking the silence of the room, Tang Jianyu suddenly opened his eyes, and saw the clock on the wall not far away, it was not yet eight o'clock, and no one would look for him at this time...... He immediately bounced up from the sofa, hurriedly grabbed the mobile phone that was placed on the ground in a daze, and flipped over the screen to see that it was not Shi Jiaojiao.

"Hey......" Tang Jianyu pinched his eyebrows, his voice was tired and hoarse, and Xia Lei's voice came, "Burnt out, right?" Tang Jianyu listened to his cousin's knowing tone, thinking that she had already met her parents, and even heard her mother's accusations against her, so she nodded and said, "Have you gone back to your parents' house?" Xia Lei blinked, "Yes, but I haven't seen my aunt yet, she went directly to my uncle's house." "And what do you mean?"

"I can't contact Jiaojiao, I'm not at ease, so I have to call you, it seems that you are at a loss." Xia Lei held her stomach in one hand, leaned on the tightly padded pillow, and said, "She told me, brother, I feel ashamed." Tang Jianyu was puzzled for a while, "What does it have to do with you?" Xia Lei pursed her lips, "She has loved you for a long time, she is afraid of affecting you, afraid of being despised by you, afraid of her parents being burdened, afraid of gossip, so she desperately endures it, and even finds someone who looks like you casually to be with and force herself to let go." This painstaking process has grown longer than you can imagine, and we have seen it all in our eyes. ”

"I'm ashamed." Xia Lei exhaled with a trembling breath, "After I returned to the town, I often came into contact with you, and I vaguely found that you seemed to be equally depressed. Several times, I wanted to speak for Jiaojiao or you. But I'm afraid that I'll make the wrong decision, and I'm afraid that I will bear the consequences of being unsatisfactory...... If my friend is sincere enough, and my sister is competent enough, you don't have to delay until this time, I ......" "It's not like this, Jiaojiao won't agree with you to think so." Tang Jianyu interrupted Xia Lei with his words, "The parties don't have the courage, how can they blame others." ”

Xia Lei was silent for a while after hearing this, and then changed her tone, "Don't worry about Jiaojiao, she will definitely be able to get my godmother's understanding." It's my aunt and uncle's side...... I heard my mother say that the couple went back to their grandfather's house a few years ago, and it is still strange that they have not come back for more than 20 years. Listening to Jiaojiao's words, I immediately understood, it must be you who went home to announce this matter, and my aunt couldn't accept it, so I dragged my uncle back in a rage, didn't you? Tang Jianyu couldn't help pinching his eyebrows and said, "Yes." ”

Tang Jianyu really didn't expect his mother's reaction to be so intense! After he finished speaking, his mother was not happy, but asked who it was, and the three words "Shi Jiaojiao" only spit out two, and the woman was furious, "I must not accept it!" Tang Jianyu looked at his father, who was speechless, and asked "why" in disbelief, and his mother screamed like crazy, "There is no why, I say no, I can't do it!" He turned his head and picked up a tea cup from the coffee table, from the entire celadon tea set, smashed it in front of her husband, and left a sentence, "I knew there would be such a day, it was all you!" "Leave angrily.

Isn't she the mother who, since she was twenty-five or sixteen years old, has been praying for him to form her own family as soon as possible? Her son will soon cross the forty-year-old mark, and finally at the age of three words, he will tell her with certainty that he has a person who must be with him for life, and he is no longer alone! Why did she resist such a thing that she had been worried about for a long time, so arrogant! Is it just because Shi Jiaojiao was her own student, like the corrupt style in her mouth?

......After a long silence, Tang Jianyu looked at his father sitting in astonishment, listening to his mother's faint crying from the room in the distance. Father Tang's eyes moved blankly behind the gold-rimmed glasses, and he didn't speak. "I don't understand." Tang Jianyu spread out his hands, stood helplessly in front of his father, and said, "What great mistake did I make?" Tang's father's hands on his legs were silently clenched into fists, the joints were squeezed bloodless, and they quickly recovered after they were released, and he said to Tang Jianyu: "You are not wrong. ”

I don't know what Tang's father talked about with Tang's mother, after that night, Tang's mother had no strong emotions, but she always refused to communicate with her son. Tang Jianyu didn't dwell on it much, he just told his mother clearly that he would definitely be with Shi Jiaojiao and wanted to get married as soon as possible, "Mom, my son hopes that you can watch your son be happy." After hearing this, Tang's mother began to avoid talking to him. The family of three never had a chance to get together again, and they went to the south because Tang's father temporarily informed Tang Jianyu on the phone.

"I don't dare to talk nonsense." Xia Lei gritted her teeth, got closer to the microphone, and said, "I feel that the crux of my aunt's problem is not you and Jiaojiao, but my uncle." Tang Jianyu pursed his lips, said with a dull "um", and said, "The elders naturally can't ask more about the juniors." Now she's hiding from me with my dad from afar, and I really don't know what to do. Xia Lei breathed a sigh of relief and promised: "Brother, now you are waiting for Jiaojiao's news, as for your aunt, I will help you bring her back, which can be regarded as making up for your mistakes." ”

There is no way to do his own son, what can a distant niece do? Tang Jianyu didn't expect much, but it still brought a lot of relief to hear the voice of support at this time. Now he can't do anything, he can only maintain his own state, waiting for Shi Jiaojiao, who insists on "going to the meeting alone", to send himself a triumphant signal on the "other battlefield".