Chapter 2: The Poor Home
"Nini, don't talk nonsense..."
Before Berlin could recover from the mess, the woman spoke to answer her daughter's words. Her soft voice brought Berlin back to her senses and stopped her daughter's sobbing. Her beautiful and gentle eyes looked at Berlin, without the initial plea, only a little despair that could not be concealed: "If it doesn't work, it's actually okay Berlin, it's really okay... I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that..."
Berlin looked at them in amazement.
looked at the thin little daughter in front of him with red eyes, and looked at the woman in front of her who finished speaking, holding Xiao Ke's hand and lowering her head a little...
All of a sudden, there was an indescribable sense of concern in Berlin.
Dazed... Guilty... Disturbed?
Berlin couldn't understand what was the sudden emergence of mixed emotions.
His mind was still messed up. He didn't understand why he would be involved with Le Yao in the future, and any memory of not having a future also made him anxious. But at this moment, seeing the future wife and daughter who turned around and took steps and will continue to move towards the Civil Affairs Bureau, although Berlin did not know how to deal with the current situation, as if he was afraid of losing something important, he suddenly shouted, "Or we won't get divorced." ”
The woman paused, turned her head, and met Berlin's gaze in amazement. And just a second later, Berlin avoided her eyes as if escaping, lowered his head, paused, and gradually lowered his voice, "I'm serious, Le Yao, I'll make it clear to her there... You think, okay? ”
Berlin knows that the future is its own decision. The choice he made now may be wrong, but looking at the haggard woman and the emaciated daughter, Berlin clearly made his current self understand that he couldn't let go of the future wife and daughter in front of him.
.....
What follows is not the same as Berlin's nervous, speculative rejection, or joyful hugs. The woman was stunned for a long time for his sudden change, her red eyes still staring at him unchanged, and finally she bit her lip, showing a rare smile on this tired face that seemed to be tormented by life, and replied softly, "Okay." ”
Berlin went home with a woman.
He followed the woman, bypassed the prosperous neighborhood in front of him, walked into a remote uninhabited alleyway, and finally came to a small intersection, stopped in front of a low, old-looking bungalow, took out the key, and opened the wooden door that was beginning to mold in the corners under the complicated gaze of Berlin...
What catches Berlin's eye is a small house of only about 30 square meters, excluding the bathroom.
The room was dim, and a few rays of light pierced through the small window, barely illuminating the room.
The house is not big, and the cleaning is surprisingly clean and tidy.
The walls are yellowish and white-painted, and the ground floor is uneven, somewhat potholed red stone bricks. The furnishings stand out in the cottage – a simple wood-paneled double bed, a small duplex wardrobe, a Haier refrigerator with no paint, a small kitchen with a high table on top of the stove in the corner, and a desktop TV that has been on the table for an unknown number of years...
Simple, old-fashioned.
Berlin pestle at the door, a long time to come back to the senses - this is the future home of oneself?
Berlin was a little difficult to accept for a while. Although under the simple dress of his wife and daughter, Berlin has already thought of it a little. But he never thought that his future self would be so downcast.
What kind of bright future is this fantasy in high school?
"What's wrong Berlin?"
Seeing Berlin pestle in a daze at the door, the woman who opened the door and walked into the hut asked.
"Ahh Not... Nothing, I'll go in right away. Berlin panicked, and even entered the hut, and while looking at the familiar room, he slowly sat down opposite his daughter, who seemed uneasy in this little strange room.
It didn't take long for his gaze to fall from the observation inside the house to his daughter's emaciated little face. At this time, the daughter didn't notice Berlin's eyes, holding a rusty white iron water cup with some paint peeling, and drank the water seriously with her little head down.
Looking at her skinny and cute appearance, Berlin couldn't help but feel a heartfelt affection in his heart, and he subconsciously wanted to reach out and touch her head. But as soon as her hand was stretched out, she suddenly noticed the remaining tears in her eyes, and her hand hanging in the air froze coldly...
"Berlin, are you hungry? Fried rice at noon? ”
The woman's voice came, and Berlin was so shocked that he withdrew his hand and responded, "Okay, it's all right." ”
The sound of running water from the faucet sounded.
Berlin withdrew his gaze from his daughter, and turned to the woman who skillfully washed rice and chopped vegetables in front of the stove. He looked at the thin back and was silent for a long time, when suddenly Berlin caught a glimpse of the refrigerator not far from her. There was a photo on the refrigerator, and Berlin frowned and looked at it for a moment, showing him and his woman a few years younger. The two of them smiled brightly, and the woman was holding a sleeping baby in her hand...
Under the photo, three vague names are written in bead notes.
Berlin, Chen Kexin, Nini.
Chen Kexin... Is this the name of the future wife? Such beautiful words, she should have written them...
Berlin fell into deep thought.
The air in the room was stuffy, there were no fans, only a few wisps of sultry summer breeze from time to time outside the windows and doors. In the quiet atmosphere, gradually, the sound of 'zizi' oil from the pot of green vegetables was accompanied by the sound of cicadas outside the house to break the silence.
Strangely, however, Berlin's restless heart calmed down in the midst of the noise.
Not long after, the rice was cooked and the dishes were served.
On two small iron basins is a stir-fried cabbage and a fried egg, which is an unappetizing dish in Berlin in the past.
"Don't have an appetite, Berlin?"
Chen Kexin saw Berlin holding the chopsticks motionless, turned her head, and saw Berlin's undisguised dissatisfied gaze, she was slightly stunned, then silently lowered her eyes, slowly put down the chopsticks she was holding, and said softly, "I don't have any money at home, so I didn't go to the vegetable market... Why don't I go and see if I can go buy some meat and come back?" ”
"It's not... I didn't mean that, I didn't stop eating, I think it's good now, I don't have to buy it. ”
Only then did Berlin react to his gaffe, squeezed out a smile and shook his head in denial, grabbed the chopsticks and picked up the cabbage, put it in his mouth and chewed it hurriedly.
No money...
Berlin remembers these two words very clearly.
Chen Kexin picked up the chopsticks again, her daughter Nini ate seriously, and the family was quiet.
It's just that for some reason, Chen Kexin's lack of money and the experience after crossing have always been imprinted in Berlin's mind and cannot be forgotten. It made him suddenly have an uneasy thought-
If, if you are just a time-traveler, you don't have the superpowers in the protagonist of the novel, extraordinary encounters, just an ordinary person.
What should he do to a poor family in the face of this complicated situation?