When only me and Hao Junqi were left around, I felt that the air was relatively "unfamiliar". Hao Junqi and I looked at each other and smiled, and both quickly shifted our gazes.

"Okay, you weren't scared, were you?" I didn't know what to say for a while.

"I'm fine."

"Where's my daughter?"

"It's fine."

There was silence.

"I didn't expect Brother Cheng to be so funny and speak with a lot of humor. He was injured and laughed with me as if nothing had happened. And comforted me. Hao Junqi broke the silence.

"They have seen all kinds of winds and waves, and this little thing is certainly nothing. In addition, he sees a lot of topics about beautiful women, and his thinking is very active. I said.

"A very helpful person. He said the thugs would beg him one by one, really? ”

I nodded, "These bastards are in big trouble." Cheng Wei is familiar with both black and white. ”

There was silence again.

"My daughter seems to have fallen asleep." I say.

"yes, it's a little late today."

"My daughter is eight years old, right?"

"Six years."

"Only six? I feel like you're about the same height as you were back then. I said.

"Am I that short?"

"It's not short, either. Anyway, I have the impression that you're small. ”

"I love to cry, don't you?"

"Yes."

There was silence again.

Hao Junqi shook the daughter in her arms.

"Why don't I come and hug you? It must be sour. I said.

"It's fine. As soon as you change hands, she wakes up. Goblin's. Forget about it. ”

"Do you set up your stall so late every day?" I asked.

"No, it won't. It is usually sold until nine o'clock and then returned. ”

"Then let's go back. I'll send you back, I have a car. I said.

"Did my brother buy a car?"

"It's rubbish."

"Looks like my brother is doing well."

"I can't find you, no matter how good it is, there's no point in mixing it up." I say.

"Brother—"

"Don't say it," I choked up a little, "how do you collect these things?" ”

"I'll come. Brother, you go and drive. ”

"How do you take it when you hold someone? You guide, I do. Besides, I'll never leave you here alone again. We can call a tricycle to carry my car. Please instruct me on how to collect it. ”

"How can you let my brother do these things?"

I was stunned. My heart was suddenly cold.

"There's a box here, brother, you can sort these things and put them in the box." Hao Junqi seemed to notice my mood change.

"Okay." I sorted the small items on the stall into cardboard boxes according to Hao Junqi's instructions, and then waved to a passing tricycle. I loaded two boxes onto the tricycle. Hao Junqi got into the car.

"Go to the square." I said to the master.

"Brother, what about you?"

"I'll call another tricycle."

"If that's the case, I don't think I need to go to the square, brother. It's also inconvenient to move things up and down, wouldn't it be better for us to take a tricycle directly to my house? Hao Junqi proposed.

"Okay, where do you live?" I say.

"I live in Hexi."

"Then go straight to Hexi."

It was a gloomy night, and there was not a single star in sight. I don't know when it became heavenly. The moon was obscured by thick clouds. Turning around the Xinhua Bookstore and going to the Yangjiang Bridge, I saw that several of the street lamps on both sides of the bridge were broken, and it was dark all around.

Yangjiang Bridge used to be a straight street, the green trees on both sides of the street are tall and lush, the street lamps stretch out from the branches and leaves to the top of the street, some branches and leaves wrap the street lamps whole, the light is filtered from the gaps in the leaves to the street, and the whole street also gives people a deep sense of shade.

Hao Junqi's home is near the Environmental Protection Bureau, which is a fund-raising building for employees of the Environmental Protection Bureau. Three buildings side by side, the structure is the same. The tricycle stopped in the courtyard between the two buildings. The yard was large and spacious, except for a clutter of things that looked dark in the absence of lights.

I rushed to pay the two tricycle masters and moved the boxes off the tricycles.

Hao Junqi lives in room 201, unit 2 on the first floor. These fund-raising buildings do not have basements or firewood sheds, so the first floor is the first floor of the tunnel, which is dark and damp.

Hao Junqi's house is about the same size as Jin Limei's house, less than 100 square meters, and the living room is small. The decoration of the house is extremely simple. The furnishings in the house are also extremely basic. A 17-inch color television is displayed on a student desk. There were no wedding photos of the couple or their daughters on the walls.

And to my bewilderment, there was no one else in the house.

My heart sank more and more: maybe Hao Junqi is also divorced. When I had supper, Cheng Wei and I sighed - the divorce rate is too high these days.

On the way here, I was still imagining, imagining the image of Hao Junqi's husband, and imagining what kind of state of mind I would be in when I greeted Hao Junqi's husband. If it's a very unbearable man, his wife and children are suffering outside, and he is still sitting in front of the TV, I don't know if my fist will be pounded on the other person's head.

Who would have thought that there was no one else in the house.

Of course, there is no one else: Hao Junqi and her husband are separated, and her husband is working in the field and comes back once a week, or once a month.

It is also possible that there is no one else: Hao Junqi's husband has died. Whether it was due to illness or other reasons, in short, he passed away.

It doesn't have to be a divorce.

But I don't want either one.

"The house is very simple." Hao Junqi brought me a cup of hot tea after putting her daughter into the bedroom, "However, it is much better than the thatched house we lived in when we were children." It's a thousand times better, more than a hundred times. Does brother remember the thatched house? ”

"Remember, how can you not remember? It often appears in my dreams," I said, "you are an old-style commercial house, and you can afford to buy a set of this kind of commercial house more than ten years ago, I don't know how enviable it is." However, you shouldn't choose the first floor, the first floor is very humid and humid. ”

"Brother thinks this is the house I bought? How can I afford a house? Rented. Hao Junqi smiled bitterly.

The traces of time were carved on Hao Junqi's face like a knife. A shallow wrinkle or two crept up prematurely at the corners of his eyes, and his big eyes were still full of melancholy, as they had been every time he talked to me about going back to the city, but the crystal clear pitch black eyes had become slightly cloudy.

"Rented? Didn't buy a house yourself? "My heart is sinking again.

"Brother, don't you think I'm like this, it's good to be able to rent a house and live in it?" Hao Junqi said.

I was stunned. Tears welled up in his eyes. I couldn't help but grab Hao Junqi's hand and said, "Why do you talk like that, huh?" You don't know, every word you say is like a hammer hitting my heart. Junqi, have you had a hard time all these years? Have you suffered a lot? ”

"Brother should be doing well?" Hao Junqi avoided my question and asked me instead.

"I ...... Economically, it's okay. Dip in the light of your parents. ”

"I heard them call you Zheng Yidao, I heard that a knife in the hospital is very good, tens of thousands a year, right?"

"Almost."

"I'm very happy if my brother is doing well." Hao Junqi pulled her hand out of my hand and sat down on a small stool opposite the wooden coffee table.

I picked up my cup and took a sip of tea. After drinking too much, I felt my mouth was dry, "What about you?" How are you doing? Are you okay? Where did you and Uncle Hao go? Have you been through a lot? Also, when did you return to Yangjiang? No matter how much I searched, I couldn't find you. By the way, why don't you have a single person in the house? What about Hao Jia's father? And why didn't Uncle Hao live with you? ”

I asked several questions in one go.

"Hao Jia, her father? Hao Jia, she doesn't have a father. Hao Junqi said.

"Ahh My heart sank again.

It turned out that Hao Jia didn't have a father. This seems worse than anything previously thought. In this world, as long as a person is born, he must have a father. Not having a father must mean that when life is conceived, the man and woman who gave birth to life have been separated. One is the end of the world forever, and the other is never to be seen again.

I don't know which one.

"Looking at my brother's appearance, my brother's mood is very heavy, isn't it?" Hao Junqi said, "Actually, it's not what you imagined. Hao Jia was sent by God to be my companion. God took away all the people around me, and he must have seen that I was too lonely, so he thought of giving Hao Jia to me. ”

"What do you mean? What takes away the people around you? Could it be that Uncle Hao is also ...... Also, isn't Hao Jia your own? Have you not been married for so many years? I asked anxiously.

"Brother, do you want to know everything about Junqi?" Hao Junqi's eyes were misty and misty, and she had the appearance of Ai Ai when she looked at me when she was a child.

"Well, brother wants to know everything about you, everything you have experienced, brother wants to know."

"Every time I imagine meeting my brother, or on the train, or at school, or at the bus station, or just in the square, on my way to the vegetable market to buy vegetables......" Hao Junqi's eyes were slightly red, and tears were stored in her eyes, "But I never thought that our reunion would be like this tonight." I'm ashamed. Why did my brother see this side? ”

"You just want my brother to see your beauty, but you want to hide your danger, if so, then do you still treat me as a brother?" I know what Hao Junqi is trying to express.

"No, no. Brother, I didn't mean that. I just don't want my brother to feel sorry for me. ”

"But I don't just want to share your happiness, brother wants to share your pain even more. So I want to know everything about you. I said.

"But my brother can't share everything from Junqi." Hao Junqi looked at me, her eyes full of sadness.

"Why?"

"Because of the time. Time has set up a big void, and it has swallowed too much, too much. I also know that my brother must know everything about me when he sees me, but now I can't remember many things, no matter how I think about them. If my brother is really interested in listening, then I will share all the things I remember with my brother. ”