Chapter 17: I'll take care of myself
On the evening of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Su Qing sat in front of the TV watching the Spring Festival Gala, and there was a plate of dumplings that had been cooled on the table.
Listening to the intermittent sound of firecrackers outside, Su Tian suddenly felt a little lonely.
In fact, she should have been used to such a person's life for a long time, but in today's day of family reunion, she still can't help but want to be lively.
Su Tian put on his coat and went out, and the street was also deserted. At this point in time, every family is sitting in front of the TV, eating melon seeds and watching the gala, and may also discuss whether this year's sketch is funny.
How could anyone hang out on a cold day like her.
Su Qing found a remote corner and squatted down, scribbling in the snow, a footstep sounded from far and near, she looked up, wanting to see who was like her, Chinese New Year's Eve was still on the road.
The man was wearing a pair of sneakers, with a pair of extremely long legs on them, a black down jacket, and a delicate and good-looking face on top of it, and the pair of peach blossom eyes Su Qian was even more familiar.
The boy stood in the snow, his whole body covered with the street lamp above his head, as if he had come out of a comic.
"Su Tilt?" Shen Huailiang walked up to her and looked down at her.
"Why are you here?" Su Tian looked up and asked him, only then did he feel that he had really been squatting for too long, and his legs were numb.
"I'm going to send something to Jiang Yi."
Only then did Su Tian see the bag that Shen Huailiang was carrying, and remembered that Jiang Yi was the boy he had seen before, so he nodded.
"Then why are you here? Didn't you say you went to your grandmother's house for the New Year? I remember hearing Lin Shiwen say, your grandmother's house seems to be in a neighboring province? ”
"Ah, the culture of neighboring provinces is to celebrate the New Year early, isn't it?" Su Tian began to talk nonsense, but Shen Huailiang looked at her like he was looking at a fool.
Su poured her nose and closed her mouth.
"What are you doing here? Not going home yet? ”
Su Tian stretched out his arm towards him, "My leg is numb, can you drag me?" ”
Shen Huailiang looked helpless, pinched her elbow and pulled her up. Afraid that she would fall if she couldn't stand steadily, Shen Huailiang didn't let go of her hand as soon as she stood up, but asked her first, "Can you stand firm?" ”
"Yes." After hearing her answer, Shen Huailiang let go of his hand.
Su stomped his feet, and slowly walked two steps, and the numbness in his legs slowly eased.
"Have you eaten?" Shen Huailiang asked her, and she vaguely learned from listening to Lin Shiwen's chat with her before that her parents didn't seem to be in Beicheng, and she ran out alone during the Chinese New Year, and she didn't know if she had eaten.
"Eat." Su Qian nodded, although he only ate two dumplings.
"Oh, you can go and deliver something." Su urged him, "I'm going home too." ”
Shen Huailiang looked at her, and after confirming that she was really fine, he said to her, "Then if there is something, you can call me, my phone will never be turned off." ”
"Okay." Su Tian smiled at him.
"Then I'll go first."
"Shen Huailiang." Su Tian shouted to stop him.
The boy turned his head and looked at her, only her.
"Happy New Year."
Shen Huailiang smiled, he didn't smile often, but Su Tian felt that he looked good when he smiled, and the corners of his mouth were relaxed, but with his usual laziness.
"Happy New Year, Su Tilt." He said.
When the sun rose on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Su Tian put down the paintbrush in his hand.
She didn't sleep all night just to draw the scene of the previous night.
The boy who turned around and smiled in the dark night, in the snow and under the street lamp, at that moment, looked healing and beautiful.
Su Tian stood up and rubbed his shoulders, fell into bed and covered his head and fell asleep.
She was woken up by the sound of the door opening, and the house was her own, so she rarely closed the bedroom door when she slept, and lived alone, no matter how sleepy she was, she would never sleep too hard, so as soon as the key was inserted into the keyhole, she was awakened.
Hearing the sound of the key turning, Su Tian sat up at once, and when she heard the door being unscrewed, she picked up the vase placed on the bedside table and stepped on the cold floor with her bare feet, not daring to make a sound.
The sound of high heels stepping on the floor sounded, getting closer and closer to her, Su Tian slowly moved behind the door and raised the vase in his hand high.
"Little tilt?" Bai Xiangmei walked to the door and shouted.
Su Tian walked out and was a little surprised to see the woman standing outside the door, "Mom? ”
Bai Xiangmei saw that Su Tian was still holding a vase in his hand, and Su Tian hurriedly put the vase down, "Why are you here?" ”
"Look at what you're saying, I can't come to see you yet?" Bai Xiangmei walked to the sofa and sat down, "Your grandmother told me, let me take good care of you, I guess you should have gone back to Beicheng by yourself under the pretext of going to me, what's the matter, your aunt is not good to you?" ”
"No, my aunt is very good to me, and I want to come back."
Bai Xiangmei looked at Su Tian who was still wearing pajamas, with a worried look on her pajamas, "It's three o'clock in the afternoon, why did you just get up?" ”
"Well, the nap is a little longer."
"Go wash your face, and Mom will cook for you at night."
"Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, don't you have to accompany your uncle and Xiaobo?"
"I'll go back in the evening and leave after eating with you."
Sue lowered her eyes, her eyelashes covering her lower eyelids, "Actually, you don't have to. ”
After finishing speaking, Su Tian turned around and entered the bathroom, Bai Xiangmei sighed softly, took off her coat and began to clean up the house for her. After entering Su Tian's bedroom, Bai Xiangmei saw the painting folder standing next to the window, and the pile of paintings that had been painted next to it.
The water in Su Tian's hands had not been completely dried, and when he returned to the bedroom, he saw Bai Xiangmei looking at some of the paintings she had recently completed that she had not had time to put away, and Su Tian hurriedly stepped forward and snatched those paintings from Bai Xiangmei's hands.
"You're still drawing? Didn't you say that you don't draw anymore and you have to study hard? ”
Su Tian didn't speak.
"I'll tell you Su Tian, you are not allowed to get me these useless things again, your only task now is to study hard and be admitted to university, what is the use of you drawing these, can you be admitted to a good university? Don't paint anymore, if you paint again, I won't give you a penny of living expenses. ”
Su Tian looked up at the woman in front of her, she has been old in the past few years, and there are more wrinkles at the corners of her eyes than before, but unfortunately, they don't meet often, and she can't know when she got old.
Su Tian turned around and opened the drawer, took out a bank card from it, and handed it to Bai Xiangmei, "This card is the living expenses you have given me in the past few years, before at my grandmother's house, there was a grandmother, I didn't spend your money, after returning to Beicheng, I made money by painting myself, and I didn't use the living expenses you called, I haven't touched a cent in this card since the first day you paid money, and now I will return it to you." ”
"What do you mean by that?" Bai Xiangmei didn't answer, "Su Tian, your wings are stiff, don't you still want to recognize me as a mother?" ”
Su tilted his head and smiled, and said softly, "My mother, is there a difference between having and not?" ”
"You ......" Bai Xiangmei raised her hand, wanting to hit her.
"You have a new family now, a new life, I don't blame you, you don't have to care for me like a task when you think of me occasionally, or pretend to be a formality, since you can't balance between me and your new family, don't pretend that you can't let go of me, there's no need, really."
"Su Tilt!" Bai Xiangmei was angry, reached out and snatched the paintings in her hand, and tore them hard, as if she had sprinkled all her anger on these paintings.
Seeing that the painting that was painted all night yesterday was also torn apart, Su Tian squatted on the ground and picked up the fragments one by one, pinched them in the palm of her hand, stood up, and put the bank card on the table, "From now on, you don't have to send me any more money, live your life well, I will take care of myself." ”