Volume 5: The Rainy Season (4)

The wind was a little strong.

The sky was cloudy, not the rhythm of the rain, after all, it had been raining for several days. But after all, it's a changeable June, and I don't know what to expect.

There are fewer people coming and going in the alleys tonight, perhaps because of the strong winds. Suddenly, a dazzling white light flashed, and the black car slowly stopped at the mouth of the alley. A woman of about twenty-six or seventeen years old with a child in her arms slowly opened the car window.

An unexpected gale swept into the workshop, and her wide gown rustled.

She hugged the child in her arms tighter and turned sideways to avoid the wind. With those slightly mean eyes, he stared at the somewhat dark night outside the window, and he didn't know what to think.

"Sister, close the window, the wind is a little strong, be careful that the child is freezing." In the driver's seat, the middle-aged man spoke.

"Okay."

The woman nodded.

"Are you going to Chen Zhao's house?"

"Hmm... Not yet. Let's go to the café next door. A hundred meters to the right. The woman replied.

Although the middle-aged man answered, the car did not move. was silent for a while, and suddenly said, "Is it okay for you to go to him behind Zhang Jun's back?" ”

"What can I do? Closer to 100,000 don't you want it like that? The woman sighed softly.

The atmosphere inside the car has returned to the silence it had not been so long ago.

It didn't take long for the car to continue moving.

Slowly drove towards the café.

...

It's been a long time.

As if with feelings, the incandescent lamp on the roof, which had never been replaced, favored Xia Qing. The dimming light made Chen Zhao unable to see her expression with her head down.

In the end, the second hand of the wall clock on the wall was 12, and at 7:24 at night, there was a two-minute silence, and Chen Zhao, who gave up the explanation, had no choice but to bow his head like Xia Qing...

"I don't want a divorce..."

"Really... That's it..."Xia Qing answered, paused for a few seconds, and suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, she actually smiled, but this smile was a little complicated, she added softly, "Yes, too." Can't get a divorce, divorced, what should Xiaole and I do? ”

Chen Zhao didn't understand what Xia Qing's smile meant for a while...

But he couldn't figure out the inexplicable tone, and he suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, and he bit his lip to control the quietly overflowing emotion called grievance.

You're not wrong, right?

Obviously, I have been working hard to pay for this family...

Obviously I like Xiaole very much, so I want to bring happiness to this family...

Then why did you have to suffer this kind of wronged grievance when you worked hard and gave everything?

It's not fair, right? Isn't it?

So why exactly?

....

The wind rattled against the glass, as if it was providential, and the sudden noisy impact sound was several times, which continuously disrupted Chen Zhao's thoughts about continuing.

In the end, he could only wait for Xia Qing's next words.

Just wait, wait.

It's been a few more minutes, but nothing has arrived.

He didn't want to expose the uncontrollable discomfort, he told himself that he should mature in this situation, he was now a 26-year-old adult, not an 18-year-old child...

Allowing himself to slow down his tone, Chen Zhaoqiang smiled, "Xia Qing, let's not think about this diary, okay, it's been a long time, it's been a long time ago..."

But Xia Qing, who was still silent, made Chen Zhao gradually amplify his fear, his voice trembled a little, and the lip he bit when he opened the book was already a little pale because he was too hard.

The words seem to have a little pleading...

"Really, I really want to continue to live well with Xiaole and you. I'm working hard, and in another year, I can get a mortgage. In another year, Xiaole will go to elementary school, and we will buy some cheap furniture, and we will have a home..."

"I really cherish this home and love Xiaole very much. Our future is very good, it will be wonderful, you believe me... Xia Qing, don't you don't stop talking, okay... In this world, what I have is really just this home..."

Yes, when he learned that he came to this world and was just an ordinary person, Chen Zhao didn't know when, and he began to slowly accumulate fear in his heart.

All he faces is a strange person, a strange self, a strange everything...

There is no good luck for the protagonist of the novel, no superpowers for the protagonist of the comic, no good script in the movie script...

He has nothing.

Only this family, this daughter, and this wife, everything simple and mediocre belongs to him, and everything is buried in his subconscious. That's why he worked so hard to make money.

And at this moment, when he found that there was a feeling of losing something, he realized that those things that were neglected by the fatigue of life and work...

No one knew what Xia Qing was thinking.

She just buried her head deeper, and Chen Zhao stood not far away in such a dazed, lonely, and uneasy way.

He had nothing to say, so he could only pray for Xia Qing to forgive these diaries that shouldn't exist.

In the end, he didn't get an answer.

It wasn't long before the ringing of a cell phone interrupted the quiet home.

"Chen Zhao, I'm in a café not far from your house, you know the location. Come out and get down. It was a woman's voice with an unfamiliar number.

"Who are you..."

"Yang Xiaoru."

.......

The people of this alley are not very fond of going to cafes at night.

Maybe it's a warm family that is more popular than a café.

There are only two or three tables of people scattered around the café of Nuoda. Chen Zhao touched the warm coffee cup in his hand and lowered his head to stir the coffee.

Maybe the effect of the wind is not only to bring cold, but after leaving the oppressive little home, Chen Zhao's indescribable discomfort has also been blown away a lot.

He thought, maybe when he returned home, Xia Qing would give him an answer.

Therefore, looking at the familiar and unfamiliar classmates in front of me after 8 years, I felt a little more melancholy.

Yang Xiaoru, who is holding the child, is more beautiful than before.

He remembered that Yang Xiaoru used to like to wear a ponytail, which looked very sunny and not very beautiful. It's just that because of Zhang Jun's relationship, he is very familiar with himself.

But I don't know if it's because of the years, Yang Xiaoru, who has lost her hair, became a beauty 8 years later, and her slender and plump figure is not inferior to Yazhi, but compared with the kindness at that time, he feels very strange now.

"Is this your child?"

Chen Zhao broke the silence and glanced at the child Yang Xiaoru was holding, "Male or female?" ”

"Male." Yang Xiaoru smiled, "Your question is very strange, didn't you come to see it when you were born?" ”

“....”

The topic he raised in order to ease the silence did not expect to make himself even more embarrassed.

"Looks like you're on your mind?" Yang Xiaoru asked suddenly.

“... It's a bit contradictory to Xia Qing, I'll wait to go back, do you have anything to do with me? Chen Zhao didn't plan to tell Yang Xiaoru the reason.

Chen Zhao's answer made Yang Xiaoru stunned.

Her thought of asking for money also stopped, and she frowned, "Chen Yi's reason?" ”

Chen Zhao was stunned, Xia Qing read the diary, and what he proposed was the name Chen Yi, which turned out to be the woman who Chen Zhao cheated on?

"How do you know?" Chen Zhao was dumbfounded.

"Xia Qing is such a good woman, what else could it be that she had trouble with you besides because of Chen Yi?"

"No, I mean, how did you know about Chen Yi?" Chen Zhao hurriedly said.

When she saw Chen Zhao, the sensitive Yang Xiaoru actually felt a little wrong.

This seems to have changed her skin color by exposure to the sun, and Chen Zhao, who lost her long hair, brought her a strange sense of difference from her previous impression, but she couldn't tell what it was, so she didn't ask much.

But his question made her brow furrow even tighter.

"What's wrong with you? Didn't I introduce you to Chen Yi? Yang Xiaoru stared at him strangely.

Chen Zhao's face changed suddenly.

The woman named Chen Yi, who he didn't know what happened to Chen Zhao, was introduced by Yang Xiaoru?

"Blame me too... If I hadn't introduced you to you, none of this would have happened. But fortunately, it's all gone. ”

Yang Xiaoru blamed herself a little, but she was just guilty of introducing it, but it was Chen Zhao herself who did the wrong, so she didn't take it too seriously.

"Forget it, Chen Zhao. Leave that aside, I don't really want to interfere in your family affairs anymore. I came to you in the hope that you could repay the money that Zhang Jun borrowed from you. Yang Xiaoru said.