I also had an extremely happy childhood before I was eight years old. My mother is the most gentle and virtuous woman in the world, she loves to raise flowers and everything beautiful. She asked me to learn piano, saying that music is the most temperamental, but in the winter when I was eight years old, I still remember it as a snowy afternoon.

After lunch, my mother suddenly said with great interest that she wanted to hear me play the piano. I was happy and surprised because I hadn't seen her smile in a long time during that time. When I was younger, I didn't know what was going on at home, but I could hear my parents arguing fiercely around every corner.

I was so happy that I didn't even eat a few bites of food, combed a beautiful ponytail, and sat next to the piano in my favorite plush white dress, with a long-lost smile on my mother's face. That day, I played a newly learned song "Lu Binghua", which was given to me by my mother, but I couldn't learn it. The atmosphere at home was unusually good that day, and I played it as best I could.

Mom said, "Xing'er, you played really well today." ”

Actually, I know that even though I tried hard, there were still several notes that went wrong. It's like something, I always want to hide it deliberately, but I still keep revealing my feet.

After I innocently said the sentence "The piano teacher will come tomorrow, I will let her teach it a few more times, and she will definitely play well next time", I saw her cry. I didn't know what was going on, and I thought it was because I didn't play well, so I cried and apologized over and over again. But my little repentance and tears did not bring happiness to my family. When I woke up from a nap that day, I saw my mother's back dragging her suitcase far away.

"The stars in the sky don't speak/The doll on the ground misses her mother/The eyes in the sky blink/Mother's heart, Lu Binghua......"

Since then, there has been no laughter in the house. The following year, an accident took my father's life.

But I didn't want to tell anyone about all this, so I summed up my cruel and desperate childhood in the shortest sentence, "I have no parents, I have experienced life and death, and no one is more miserable than me." ”

Aunt Liu let out a long sigh, and then looked at me with infinite compassion. Maybe before this, she thought I was the lucky one who didn't have to worry about food and clothing. I was very uncomfortable by her affectionate gaze, and smiled heartily, "But it's okay now, there is a big man who spends money on me, and no one is luckier than me." ”

As soon as I finished speaking, I heard the crack of a lighter. I was so frightened that I hurriedly put down the iron spoon in my hand and saw Xie Chen sitting on the sofa in the living room with his back to us. I didn't even notice when he came downstairs, and I don't know how much he heard in our conversation.

"You're down? Why don't you take a break a little longer? I squeezed out a flattering smile.

He seemed to have just taken a shower, he was wearing a large bathrobe, and his hair was not dried and hung messily on his head. My smoky cook must have been dressed in a particularly ugly outfit, because instead of answering my smiling greeting, he looked at me with a look of disgust, "What are you doing?" ”

"I'm cooking!"

He took a sharp puff of his cigarette, then slowly exhaled a long string of smoke rings, and said defiantly, "Cooking? Who told you to cook! How much does that wronged you? Where is there such a big man who does not pity the fragrance and cherishes the jade! ”

It seemed that my words just now had stepped on thunder again, and after knowing that I was wrong, I stuck out my tongue and apologized in an apologetic low. Fortunately, he didn't care, stuffed the cigarette butt into the ashtray and entered the restaurant.

He is still a bit old-fashioned to some extent, often pursuing the principle of "eating without saying a word", always saying nothing when eating on weekdays, and I look nervous and often have poor digestion. But today, I seem to have a new understanding of him. So when I noticed that he looked at the dishes, and finally left his eyes on the plate of tomato scrambled eggs, I hurriedly put a piece into his bowl, "I made this one, you can taste it!" ”

I looked at him expectantly, not with any courtesy, just hoping that he would acknowledge my achievements. But who knew that he didn't even look at it, so he was very unhappy and took it out and threw it on the table, "I hate tomatoes!" ”

It was as if my heart had been poured with cold water, and if there had been a mirror at that time, I would have liked to see my mournful eyes.

He suddenly burst out laughing, for this one-eyed robot, such a love couldn't help but be even smaller than the chance of Halley's Comet hitting the earth. Even Aunt Liu poked her head out of the kitchen, as if she had made up her mind to witness such a demeanor. However, he quickly realized his gaffe and coughed lightly twice to hide the embarrassment just now.

I remembered the tear in the corner of his eye just now, so I said, "Actually, you can laugh when you want to laugh and cry when you want, why do you always deliberately hide your emotions?" I see you just slept......"

"What do you see?" Before I could finish speaking, he interrupted me, "Who do you think you are mine?" Girlfriend? ”

"I just care about you." I hurriedly explained, for fear that he would think that I was a traitor or a thief, "I don't mean anything else, I'm pure, don't get me wrong." ”

He was eating rice with his head down, and after listening to me, he put down his chopsticks heavily, raised his head and smiled coldly, "I don't care if you are pure or not!" Don't I get me wrong? How do you think I misunderstood? Oh, what's our relationship? The unjust big deal! ”

He glanced at me with great sarcasm and explained with the most contemptuous look what he had just said about the "buying and selling relationship". My eyes hurt as if they had been pricked by a needle, but I didn't let them shed tears for the last shred of dignity. I swore in my heart that I would never speak to him again!

But my vows were as worthless as mine, and in a few days I couldn't keep them.

The reason was that I received a call from Su Haoyang that day. No wonder he hasn't contacted me for the past few days, it turns out that he went to Hainan with his mother to accompany his grandfather for the New Year. After hanging up the phone, I suddenly realized that I really should talk to Xie Chen about my return to my brother's house. Fortunately, he lifted my "lockdown" - in fact, he didn't say it, but I saw that he was in a better mood in the past two days, and I guessed that his anger might have subsided.

I thought of several theories beforehand, and I didn't say anything until I finally decided that I chose the most euphemistic one. He didn't say anything for a long time after listening to my request, but kept folding the newspaper in his hand, as if he was also thinking about what kind of ugly words to use to reject me.

"Actually, I really want to celebrate the New Year with you, but my brother is really urging me." I hurriedly added.

He glared at me again, "I thought you were a fierce woman, but I didn't expect that after only a few days of cold war, I couldn't hold it back." ”

I didn't speak, quietly listening to his taunts. He put down the newspaper in his hand, picked up the coffee on the side and took a sip, "Since you said that you also want to celebrate the New Year with me, then I will simply go home with you, anyway, it's been so long, I should also meet your family, what do you say?" ”

I knew he was joking, but he jumped up like he had been stung by a scorpion, "Don't! ”

"Don't want anything? What are you afraid of? He looked at me half-smiling, half-angry.

"It's nothing, don't think about it."

"I thought you didn't want your family to know about our relationship. Since it's not, then I'm going to pay a special visit to my brother and sister-in-law another day. ”

I'm completely speechless, it's better not to speak at this time. I've learned a survival skill that silence is golden, and it always lifts him high.

As a result, he finally agreed to think about it. In fact, I didn't make much effort, maybe he also had his own things to do, so he didn't bother me anymore. But it wasn't going to be easy, and he made a condition, that is, I would accompany him on the trip.