Chapter Seventy-Seven: Reconciling with the Past
Han Yidao has been busy. Chen Xu is here in Wu Sixian, in addition to accompanying the elderly, it is to study. On the evening of the fifth day of the first lunar month, Han Yidao said to Chen Xu: "Liu Jingsheng has been contacting me for the past two days, saying that he wants to invite the two of us to his house as guests, I don't have time, you can go for me!" Chen Xu nodded helplessly.
On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, Sister Lu, the nanny, came to work, and Liu Jingsheng came to pick up Chen Xu early in the morning to be a guest at his house.
When entering the house, Liu Jingsheng took out a new pair of women's slippers and handed them to Chen Xu, she changed them and hurriedly ran to see the flowers. The flowers on the balcony are blooming more beautifully, and the lilies in the living room are still undefeated. She looked at this and that, and loved it. Liu Jingsheng stood behind and looked at her and said with a smile: "You, like a child, come, eat something, let's watch while eating." Chen Xu turned around and saw Liu Jingsheng on the coffee table full of all kinds of fruits and dried fruit drinks. Chen Xu was speechless, why did he put so many things? Liu Jingsheng explained: "I don't know what you like to eat, so I bought some of them." Chen Xu looked at the apples on the table that were red and bright, and the color was particularly good, and he fell into memories for a while. Liu Jingsheng saw her staring at the apple, so he took one and handed it to her, she hesitated to put it to her mouth, and suddenly became so disgusted that she retched, Liu Jingsheng saw that her tears came out, and he was stunned on the spot. Chen Xu wiped his tears and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, I can't eat apples, as soon as I want to eat apples, it will cause a physiological reaction, and it will be like this." ”
Liu Jingsheng hurriedly took the apple and said, "Are you allergic to apples?" Chen Xu shook his head, "It's not allergies, it's caused by something that happened when I was a child, and I tried to change it, but it didn't work." ”
Liu Jingsheng put the apples in the fruit bowl and wanted to take them all, but Chen Xu stopped, "Let it go, I can't eat it, just take a look!" Liu Jingsheng cautiously asked, "Can you tell me why?" ”
Chen Xu sat on the sofa, threw off his slippers, curled up his legs, hugged his knees, looked at the apples on the coffee table and said, "I was able to eat apples when I was a child." Later, my parents divorced, and my family never bought apples again. One year, my grandmother and I were picking up scrap that could be sold for money at a garbage dump, and a nearby fruit shop threw a box of rotten fruit on the edge of the garbage dump. My grandmother took the box of rotten apples home. At night she used a spoon to dig up the rotten parts of the apples and eat the ones that were not rotten. The lighter ones were eaten by my grandmother, and the worse ones were let me eat, and the apples all had a rotten smell. But because I hadn't eaten fruit for a long time, I ate it too, but after a while I vomited, and from then on I was nauseous when I smelled rotten apples. A few years later, when I was in elementary school, on Christmas Eve one year, my classmates gave the teacher peace fruit, which was the kind of red and big apple wrapped in a nice gift wrapping paper. Our teacher Lin is a very good person, she put all the peace fruits together and asked each class to take one, I was very embarrassed at the time, because I didn't have the money to buy peace fruits to give to the teacher. But Mr. Lin said that good things should be shared by everyone, because the students in the other classes also gave Mr. Lin peace fruits, so there were enough apples. After everyone took one, Mr. Lin gave me an extra one and said that I should eat it with my grandmother. ”
Chen Xu looked at the apples on the table, "The apples that day were as red as this, bigger than this, and I could even see a faint fragrance through the wrapper." After school, I happily went home with two apples and wanted to eat with my grandmother, but-" Chen Xu couldn't go on, Liu Jingsheng patted her shoulder, Chen Xu suddenly laughed with tears, "I'm sorry Teacher Lin." When I got home that day, my aunt was there, and she saw me holding two packaged peace fruits, and said to me angrily, 'Where did you get the money to catch up with this fashion?' Three yuan for a wrapped apple, enough to buy several, how can you be such a loser, where did you get the money? Is it the money to steal your milk? I quickly said that it was given by the teacher. My aunt said that students give it to teachers, and I haven't heard of teachers giving it to students. As soon as my grandmother heard my aunt's words, she asked me where I got the money, and I kept explaining but no one believed me. In a fit of rage, my grandmother slapped me a few times, snatched the apple and threw it to the ground, and the apple rolled under the cabinet. A few days later, I secretly took out the apple, but the apple was broken, and it also smelled of rotten apples, but because it was given to me by Mr. Lin, I was reluctant to throw it away and ate it all, but that time I still vomited so badly that I couldn't eat apples again. There are too many things in this world that I haven't eaten, but I just feel that it's a pity that I can't eat apples, especially the good apples that Mr. Lin gave me, I can't taste it. That was the first time I hated my grandmother. However, Liu Jingsheng, on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, I suddenly missed my grandmother, I haven't seen her for more than nine years, on the morning of the first day of junior high school, I also asked someone else to take a mobile phone and grandma video, is it strange for me to be a person, she is obviously not good to me, how can I miss her? ”
Liu Jingsheng walked next to Chen Xu, gently hugged her shoulder, and patted her lightly with his hand, "Chen Xu, reconcile with the past, you don't have to forgive, but let go of the bad ones!" Chen Xu wiped away his tears, "Thank you, Liu Jingsheng!" Liu Jingsheng let go of his hand, "Good friend, no need to say thank you." As he spoke, he picked up the apple on the table again, "This is an apple imported from New Zealand."
Vy, we have an interesting name called 'Ai Fei'. It is said that foreign monks are good at chanting, do you think foreign 'concubines' should be pampered? Chen Xu was amused by him, she took the apple in Liu Jingsheng's hand and looked at it carefully for a long time, and brought it to her mouth, Liu Jingsheng held his breath and looked at Chen Xu nervously. Chen Xu looked up and found Liu Jingsheng's expression, smiled as if comforting him, and then made a lot of determination, and gently took a small bite of the apple, Chen Xu's conditioned reflex was nauseous, she tried her best to hold back, but tears flowed out involuntarily, Liu Jingsheng was in a hurry, and hurriedly held it with both hands and put it to her mouth, "Don't force it, if it doesn't work for the time being, let's take it slowly." Motioned for her to spit out. Chen Xu chewed softly with tears, then tilted his head and swallowed. The two of them seemed to be frozen, Liu Jingsheng maintained the posture of receiving vomit for two minutes, and suddenly Liu Jingsheng said excitedly: "Chen Xu, you are awesome!" Chen Xu looked at the bitten apple and cried and laughed.
For lunch that day, Liu Jingsheng also made a fruit salad seriously. Every time Chen Xu took a bite of an apple, Liu Jingsheng was excited, as if Chen Xu had done something amazing. After eating, Liu Jingsheng took the initiative to wash the dishes, although he was a little clumsy, fortunately he didn't break the dishes. In the afternoon, Chen Xu and Liu Jingsheng sat on the sofa and talked about various things that were unknown before.