01 A merry-go-round for one person

For as long as I can remember, I've noticed that my family is different from other families. Dad was very busy at work, and sometimes he had just stepped into the house and a phone call called him away. My mother often sat on the balcony in a daze with the opposite road, and sometimes it was a day to sit there.

It is rare for our family of three to sit down and eat together, and even if there is, it will end up with their quarrel.

When I was four years old, I heard the word "divorce" for the first time from their arguments. At that time, I didn't understand what "divorce" meant, so I ran to my grandmother's house and asked, "Grandma, do you know what divorce means?" ”

Grandma hugged me in surprise, "Kitten, where did you hear that?" ”

I thought I had said something wrong, so I lowered my head and whispered, "Mom and Dad said it when they were arguing." ”

My grandmother still didn't tell me about the "divorce" that day, she took me home, called my parents back, and the three of them talked mysteriously for a long time in the study.

Since then, Mom and Dad have rarely quarreled in front of me, but they have chosen to argue after I fall asleep. They always think that their children sleep deeply, but they don't know how many nights I wake up to the sound of their arguments.

When I was seven years old, during the Lunar New Year, my father went on a business trip. My mother and I came back from dinner at my grandmother's house and met a strange uncle at the gate of the community.

When his mother saw him, she actually laughed. It's been a long time since I've seen her smile so happily, her eyes are like two crooked crescents when she laughs, and there is a shallow pear vortex at the corner of her mouth, which is so beautiful that even the uncle is dumbfounded.

My mother told me to go and play by myself, and they stood in the doorway and talked for a long time, so long that I was a little frozen in the cold wind.

I walked over, took my mother's hand and asked cautiously, "Mom, I'm a little cold, can I go home?" ”

Mom put my hand in her coat pocket and said guiltily, "Kitten, let's go home." ”

My mother waved to the uncle and led me into the community, and after walking a few steps, I quietly turned around, and the uncle was still standing in place, his eyes full of reluctance.

On my birthday, my mom suddenly came to pick me up from school early, saying that it was my birthday and that she was going to take me to the amusement park.

Sitting in a taxi, my mother held my hand tightly but didn't speak. I looked up at her secretly, and the corners of her eyes were red, as if she had cried.

Did mom and dad fight again? Tomorrow is the weekend, why does my mother insist that I take a day off from class to go out?

I had a lot of questions in my mind that I wanted to ask her, but my grandmother once told me that it wasn't a child's business.

I took out a carnation paper flower from my schoolbag and handed it to her, "Mom, give it to you, I made it very carefully, I hope my mother can be happy every day." ”

Mom took the flower with trembling hands and took me into her arms, "Kitten, thank you, you are such a good boy." ”

In the amusement park, I played almost all the items and finally stopped in front of the merry-go-round.

Mom squatted down and gently patted my head and asked, "Kitten, do you want to play with this?" ”

I nodded, "Mom, can you sit with me?" ”

"Mommy watches the kitten play."

The merry-go-round spun in circles, and her figure flickered.

She answered the phone and came up to me and said, "Kitten, Mommy is going to buy you your favorite strawberry cake." Don't run around when you stay here. ”

"Mom, I'm going with you, and I want yogurt."

But before I could finish the sentence, her figure had already gone far away.

I was faintly uneasy, so I got off the merry-go-round and called out to her for a long time, but she didn't look back.

I assured myself that my mother would be back in a while, so I squatted on the ground and waited, and when I was tired, I just sat on the ground.

Wait, wait, the merry-go-round didn't know how many times it turned, and it was getting dark, but my mother still didn't come back.

I looked around and had a bad feeling in my heart that my mother was lost.

The more I thought about it, the more frightened I became, and I sat on the floor and cried.

"What are you crying about?" An immature female voice sounded next to me.

I looked up and stood in front of me a little girl about my age, with a ponytail and a pink princess dress, looking at me with round eyes.

I sniffled and stopped crying, "My mom seems to be lost, I've been waiting for her for a long time and hasn't come back." ”

The little girl crouched down next to me, and she smiled at me, "Then I'll wait with you for a while." ”

I looked around and asked her suspiciously, "Why are you alone, what about your mother?" ”

She pointed not far away, "She's queuing up there to buy tickets!" ”

I thought of my mother again, and my heart ached, and tears fell again.

When the little girl saw me crying again, she panicked. She opened the small bag she was carrying over her shoulder and rummaged through it.

"Don't cry, I'll give you candy, it's my favorite candy." She put her fleshy little hand in front of me, and in her palm was a large white rabbit toffee.

I shook my head and refused with tears in my voice, "My grandmother said that you can't just accept gifts from others. ”

At this time, the little girl's mother called not far away, she stuffed the toffee into my hand and hurriedly ran away, ran a few steps, and suddenly turned back to me and showed a big smile, "Your grandmother is telling you not to accept gifts from bad people, but I am not a bad person." ”

Strangely, I only spent a few minutes with her, but for many years afterward, I often saw her smile in my dreams, and every time I thought of her smile, I felt an inexplicable warmth in my heart.

02 Girl, toffee and dog

The first time I met Ye Zhenzhen was in the summer vacation after the high school entrance examination.

I took my grandmother's change of clothes home that evening, and when I got downstairs, I saw a girl with a ponytail squatting by the grass, chatting with a puppy with her head down.

Yes, that's right, she's talking to a dog, and she's talking to people.

"Have you been discarded by your master? I saw you lying here in the morning. ”

The girl reached out and touched the puppy's head, and the puppy whined a few times as if he understood.

The girl tilted her head and listened carefully for a while, and suddenly realized, "I know, you must have been too hungry and low blood sugar without eating, so you have been lying here without moving." ”

I was already going to silently pass by her and walk into the hallway, but I was thundered by her "low blood sugar", and I stood there in a ghostly way, curious to listen to the next conversation between her and the puppy.

I saw the girl rummaging in her bag, and then raised her head in disappointment and looked around the community for a while, "I'm sorry, I didn't bring anything to eat." I only moved here yesterday, and I don't know where to sell dog food around here. ”

As she spoke, she took out a few White Rabbit toffees from her pocket, "Why don't you just eat a few pieces of candy?" “

The girl peels off the toffee and puts it in the puppy's mouth. The puppy sniffed, but turned his head away in embarrassment.

"You're a picky eater, this is my favorite candy."

Just when I thought the girl was going to give up, I didn't expect her to take out a bottle of mineral water from her bag, pour it into the empty plastic box on the ground, and melt the toffee into the water.

Maybe the puppy was thirsty, buried his head in the plastic box, and licked the water clean.

"That's good, I'll go to the neighborhood to help you find out if there is a store that sells dog food, and I'll come back to you later."

The girl stood up and smiled at the puppy with satisfaction.

That smile is the smile that has appeared in my dreams countless times.

I stood stunned and watched her pass me.

With a ponytail, round eyes, white rabbit toffee and a big smile, the girl in front of her gradually overlapped with the little girl nine years ago.

It turned out to be really her.

After that, I occasionally met her in the community.

She seems to have become good friends with the stray dog, as every time she sees her, she chats with the dog. The dog, under her careful care, was much stronger than before.

One morning, I went to the hospital to bring breakfast to my grandmother, and I met her downstairs at home.

She was carrying a bag of dog food in her hand, looking around, with an anxious look on her face, shouting as she walked, "Xiaobai, where have you been?" ”

Xiaobai is the name she chose for the dog, the dog who was always waiting for her at the entrance of the building is missing today, no wonder she is in such a hurry.

I walked slowly towards the outside of the neighborhood and couldn't help but look back at the figure.

Her petite body was bouncing through the grass, not even realizing that she had a leaf on her head.

At that time, I just thought that this girl was so stupid and cute, even if the dog was gone, just like my mother suddenly disappeared, and I never thought I would find her.

When I walked out of the entrance of the compound, I saw the dog, known as Xiaobai, playing with a beautiful poodle. I squatted down and patted it on the head, "Xiaobai, you are really a heavy color and light friend, she is in a hurry to find you everywhere, go back to her, don't let her worry." ”

I don't know if it's because I've been with her for a long time, Xiaobai actually understood my words, it barked softly at the poodle, and then pulled its legs and ran into the community quickly.

I watched as the black-haired puppy called Little White vanished.

That silly girl, she should be happy by now.

(I deliberately went to Baidu, whether dogs like to eat toffee or not, and found that many dogs like to eat sugar, such as toffee, halva, peanut candy, and also like to eat foods with high sugar content, such as cream cakes, ice cream and other things.)

Whether Lu Li is like this is love at first sight, I don't know. Maybe Ye Zhenzhen's silly cuteness attracted him, maybe even he didn't know when he fell in love with this girl.

The next few chapters will be updated with Lu Li's extras, and the story between them will be reinterpreted from Lu Li's perspective. Maybe you'll find a different kind of land. ）