Section 23: Relatives do not know each other when they meet
The next day, the sky was dark and low, and the gray-black clouds were pressed low by the moisture. The north was whistling slightly, and the snowflakes seemed to be ready to fall at any moment.
The temperature also dropped suddenly, reaching minus 10 degrees Celsius.
There are few pedestrians on the road, and occasionally a few people rush from the neighborhood to work, squeeze the car, and go to school. Only a few people had no food in their homes, so they had to run out to buy some vegetables, rice and noodles and go back.
Shen Feifei yawned, put on a thick down jacket, and took a closer look at the situation opposite by the window, before going downstairs to have breakfast.
In the breakfast shop downstairs, Shen Feifei ordered a home-cooked millet porridge and a few vegetarian buns, and ate them slowly. While eating, don't forget to look up at the situation on the other side at any time.
The rice porridge is very thick, as if it has been boiled for several hours, and the sweet rice aroma is all boiled out, and it is fragrant, which is very good. Shen Feifei drank a big bowl of hot porridge to his heart's content. Just as he was about to add another bowl, he inadvertently saw a figure on the opposite side with his head shrunk and hurriedly walked towards the community.
Isn't that it?
Shen Fei stood up immediately, picked up his bag and was about to rush out.
"Girl, girl, you haven't paid yet!" The proprietress behind her shouted anxiously.
Well, some of them were in such a hurry that they forgot to pay.
Shen Feifei took out a few large tickets and put them on the table, "No need to look for money" As soon as the words fell, people had already rushed out of the door.
"Young people now!" Behind her, the proprietress of the porridge shop looked at the big bills on the table that could buy dozens of breakfasts, and shook her head helplessly at Shen Feifei's back. But he didn't slow to put away the banknotes.
At the entrance of the compound opposite, a middle-aged woman with curly hair carried a vegetable basket containing a bundle of celery and a few potatoes.
She went out in a hurry, obviously underestimating the coldness of the weather, and didn't even wear gloves. The hands were red and cold, and they were not warm when they were tucked into the sleeves of their clothes. I had to take it out and curl up my hands while rubbing them back and forth quickly, while lowering my head and snorting hot air into my hands.
The warm heat from her mouth quickly merged with the cold air in the air and turned into a white mist that landed on her hand, temporarily bringing her a little warmth, but the moisture condensed on her skin and made her colder soon.
As a last resort, rub again, rub again, rub again, and haze again?????? The curly-haired middle-aged woman was lowering her head and repeating this action, but she didn't want to meet a few frizzy little boys chasing each other running out of the neighborhood, and they were speeding past her.
One of the little boys crashed into the woman's basket at once, and the huge force of the impact knocked the basket out of the way.
In an instant, celery and potatoes were spilled all over the ground, and the green and falling vegetable leaves were everywhere around the woman, and the bundle of celery had long been knocked apart.
"Oops, my dish!" The middle-aged woman didn't care about rubbing her hands to keep warm, so she hurriedly lowered her head to pick up the vegetable basket and vegetables.
"I'm sorry, Aunt Shen. We're in a hurry to go to school, we're going to be late—" In the distance, the apologies of the children were heard for a long time, and they quickly drifted away with the wind.
As soon as Shen Feifei came out of the door of the breakfast shop, he saw the middle-aged woman with curly hair working hard, squatting down with difficulty and lowering her head to pick up vegetables all over the street. Suddenly, there was a pain in my heart, and I immediately took three steps and one step, and rushed across the street to her in two steps.
"Mom, ah, Auntie - I'll pick it up for you!" As soon as Shen Feifei shouted out the previous word, he immediately realized that he couldn't say that now, and hurriedly changed his words and called Auntie.
"Huh? Yes, thank you, thank you, good girl! As soon as Shen Muchu heard the word 'Mom', she immediately looked up at Shen Feifei as if she had jumped a piece of reflex. Seeing that it was someone he didn't know, he glanced at Shen Feifei a few times in disappointment and surprise, and immediately replied politely subconsciously.
This middle-aged woman with curly hair is none other than Shen Feifei's mother, Shen's mother.
"You're welcome, you're welcome, you're really welcome-" Shen Feifei was very fast, and after a while, he picked up the celery and potatoes rolling all over the street into the vegetable basket.
"Ahh handed the vegetable basket to Shen's mother, Shen Feifei wanted to shout out the word mother, but at this time, the words were like a fish in his throat, and he couldn't spit it out, and finally he just choked up, and an aunt came out with difficulty.
"Okay, thank you—" Mother Shen glanced at the strange girl in front of her, and strangely found that the girl's eyes were red, as if she was going to cry out with sadness.
"What's wrong with you, are you okay?" Shen's mother asked Shen Feifei with concern, but she still maintained a long distance from strangers.
"It's okay, it's okay, my eyes were blown by the wind and a grain of sand went in. You're busy. Shen Feifei's tears that had been rolling in his eyes couldn't be controlled at this time, and they burst out in an instant. She hurriedly found a reason to prevaricate Shen's mother, while wiping her tears with her hands.
"That's good, that's good!" Shen's mother didn't notice anything wrong, and was polite to Shen Feifei, so she took the vegetable basket and continued to walk home.
Mommy, Mommy, I'm your daughter!
Don't you really recognize me at all?
Shen Feifei stopped wiping his tears and let it flow down. It formed a line of water on his face, dripping on his chin, dripping on his white down jacket, dripping into the dirt under his feet, splashing a little bit of fine dust.
Shen Feifei's heart is like a knife, but his relatives don't know each other when they meet!
Her loved ones are in front of her, but she can't recognize them!
I have traveled thousands of miles to return to my hometown, but I can only sigh home, and I can't go back home!
This is more painful and uncomfortable than cutting her heart with a rusty blunt knife!
For the first time, she resented that she was a dead body, a different kind from her parents.
The sky that had been gloomy for a long time, as if it knew Shen Feifei's thoughts, began to fall like goose feathers, mixed with the cold wind blowing to all corners of D City.
In a few moments, the whole land was white. On the rooftops, on the branches, on the streets, on the billboards on the side of the road, there are all white, fluffy snowflakes.
At the gate of the Guangming Community, a girl in a white down jacket stood there motionless as if she was frozen, like an iron cast, staring blankly at the community, letting those tears condense on her face, freeze, and turn into crystal pearls hanging on her clothes and cheeks.
The people walking in the heavy snow involuntarily quickened their pace, hurried to come and go. From time to time, someone stopped strangely, looked at the girl, muttered, and ran faster.
Shen Feifei seemed to not know the cold in the north in December, standing at the door of the Guangming Community, letting the snow blow and the wind blowing, and letting the rapid snow fall on her head, face, and clothes. It didn't take long for her body to be covered with a thick layer of snowflakes, as if it was going to bury her.
Perhaps, the rapid cold wind and snowflakes are the spiritual healing medicine that Shen Feifei needs, the stronger the wind, the tighter the snow, and the colder the weather, the more comfortable Shen Feifei's heart will be in the ordeal.
In the distance, the figure of a middle-aged woman in the wind and snow approached.