Wrong Dream of Rebirth

In the afternoon when Qi Lu came home, as soon as he opened the door, he saw that the house was smoky like a smoky restaurant. The TV was on, and a few leftover takeaway boxes were scattered on the table. Qi Ruochu's white feet were resting on the armrest of the sofa. Lala was facing the door, sleeping soundly.

"Stinky boy, I finished smoking all my good cigarettes secretly." Qi Lu walked to the coffee table, glanced at the cigarette butts in the ashtray, and kicked Qi Ruochu, "Why did you sleep in broad daylight, wake up."

Qi Ruochu blinked and stretched, and when he saw Qi Lu's new look, he jumped up from the sofa.He rubbed his eyes and asked in disbelief, "Why are you like this? Are you crazy?"

"It's not big or small, do you understand the rules?" Qi Lu habitually pushed his hands back on the back of his head, and the empty feeling made him remember that his hair is now a little longer than Bald Piao, "What's wrong with you today?" came back?"

Qi Ruochu picked up the cigarette case on the coffee table and put one in the corner of his mouth, sniffing: "I'm back today without filming, you don't welcome me?"

"Welcome, welcome." Qi Lu said a few perfunctory words. The meeting with his ex-wife was not as good as he imagined.

He was just about to go to the refrigerator to get some cold beer to suppress the fire, but he suddenly stopped when he thought of something, watched Qi Ruochu ponder for a long time before slowly opening his mouth: "Is there nothing wrong with number 31?"

Qi Ruochu's heart sank: "I have something to do." He mumbled out two words, thought for a while and then asked, "Why are you asking this?"

"How can you have something to do..." Qi Lu sighed, "You reminded me of it in the past, hey."

Qi Ruochu was slightly taken aback, he didn't know anything about the Qi family's affairs in the past, but he didn't expect it to be a coincidence.

"Your mother wants to see you." Qi Lu said bluntly, if he didn't vaccinate Qi Ruochu first, or when the mother and son meet, it might be difficult to end.In previous years, he staggered the time of the grave-sweeping, deliberately avoiding the ex-wife, who usually went to the grave in the morning.

"See you then!" Qi Ruochu took the cigarette from the corner of his mouth and suddenly became excited.This surprised Qi Lu very much, because in his impression, the original Qi Ruochu had always been full of resentment towards the biological mother who abandoned him, every time he mentioned her, Qi Ruochu would interrupt angrily.

Qi Lu stared at him strangely for a long time, as if he was looking at a stranger: "That's why I asked you if you have anything to do on the 31st, we can meet that day." He paused for a while, wondering what was in his mind, Finally, she said it out: "Your mother said that she is going abroad, and she may not come back in the future."

Qi Ruochu looked at the weird expression on his face, then looked at Qi Lu's attire today, and the phone call he hung up hastily in the morning, and he had some guesses in his heart.

"Did you meet her this morning?" Qi Ruochu asked cautiously, raising his eyebrows.

"Yeah." Qi Lu nodded sadly. After a while, he felt a little embarrassed, shook his head quickly, and waved his hands in embarrassment: "No, nothing..."

Qi Ruochu squinted his eyes to examine him, and asked, "Then how did you know she was going abroad?"

"Let's talk on the phone!" Qi Lu swallowed nervously, and then he said, "That's it, no matter what, you have to make time on the morning of the 31st, or I will send you out of the office." Remove the name from the account book, understand?"

Qi Ruochu shrugged with a wry smile, thinking that Qi Lu had already talked about this, so what else could he do besides agreeing.Fortunately, it was only half a day, and he still had time to pay homage to Yu Yuan, that day was his death day.

In the evening, Qi Ruochu originally wanted to go back to He Jie's side, because if he followed the previous plan, he would go back to the set to catch up with the show tomorrow.But the strange thing is, no matter how he dialed He Jie, no one answered the phone. He thought that He Jie might be busy with entertainment, and Qi Lu looked pitiful, so he simply stayed at home to accompany him, and planned to call again tomorrow morning. He exhausted.

The next day, Qi Ruochu got up before dawn, picked up his phone and looked at it immediately, he thought that He Jie would call him back, but he didn't expect that the caller displayed in the missed call column was Xiaopang, at the same time There was also an unread text message, which was also sent to him by Xiaopang.

"He Jie is temporarily busy, and the filming of Shendiao is temporarily on hold. During this time, you can go home first."

After reading the text message, Qi Ruochu suddenly felt empty in his heart, why didn't He Jie tell him himself, why didn't he call him back?

Qi Ruochu lay back on the bed dejectedly, looking at the gradually brightening sky outside the window, he suddenly felt that the mood just now was really too awkward, and his complaints and concern for He Jie were as hypocritical as a little girl.

It's not unusual for two people who are just in a contractual relationship to convey these messages through Xiaopang. Why is he so petty?

The answer does not seem to be simple.

In the next few days, Qi Ruochu's life became dull, without He Jie's pursuit and beating, he was suddenly so leisurely and clean, and he fell into confusion and anxiety for a long time.

But Qi Ruochu was thin-skinned, even though his heart was itching like hell, he never called He Jie again.He Jie never contacted him again, nor did he appear outside his house without warning like before.

He Jie's sudden disappearance from the world even gave Qi Ruochu the idea of ​​going out to find a job as a laborer. After all, Qi Lu doesn't work anymore. There are two mouths waiting to eat at home, and the little money in the passbook can only be withdrawn.

During the period, I accidentally heard some news about the draft from Xie Lou and Xiao Fei. After the last turmoil, the radio and television asked the draft party to rectify, and the draft had to be suspended until the radio and television accepted the rectification plan of the producer.

Days passed, and even the snow had already fallen twice.

From Luoxue to Xueji, Qi Ruochu looked at the slashes that Qi Lu had drawn on the calendar, only the number "31" was left intact at the end of the calendar.

"Qi Ruochu! Are you alright? What time is it!" Qi Lu got up early, and put out more serious effort than going to work in the ballroom to dress himself up from beginning to end. When I got up, I was already sitting quietly on the sofa in the living room like Buddha.

Holding a toothbrush in his hand, with toothpaste foam hanging from the corner of his mouth, Qi Ruochu stared at Qi Lu for a long time, and asked, "Why are you dressed so grandly? You're not going on a blind date."

"Brush your teeth and forget about adults' business." Qi Lu said.

Qi Ruochu exaggerated a long "Hey", and persuaded earnestly: "If you still have thoughts about my mother, you should seize the opportunity quickly, or she will never come back after going abroad, and it will be too late for you to regret it."

Qi Lu was taken aback, looked at him strangely and asked, "So you don't have this attitude."

"People will grow up." Qi Ruochu went back to the toilet and sneezed, raised his head and shouted towards the living room: "Father is too big to keep! Grab your own happiness!"

Qi Lu smiled wryly, never thought that he would have this day, my son was guiding my life, this Qi Ruochu has really grown up.

Suddenly there was a rush of trumpets outside the door, Qi Ruochu was wiping his face, when he heard the sound outside, the hand holding the towel suddenly froze, a flash of light flashed in his mind, and He Jie's face popped out.

Before he had time to think carefully, his body had already started to move. The towel in his hand was thrown into the pool by him, the slippers on his feet were only half worn, and half of the soles of his feet were still exposed. The whole person was like an arrow that had left the string. Flew out of the house.

Qi Lu was already standing outside the courtyard, talking to the people in the opposite car, Qi Ruochu stumbled and threw himself behind Qi Lu, after he saw the strange man in the driver's seat, he froze in place in a daze .

Qi Lu looked down at Qi Ruochu's bare foot, and asked in surprise, "Why are you so lost?"

Qi Ruochu came back to his senses, pointed to the car in front of him and asked, "What's going on?"

"I rented a car from a car rental company, and they delivered it to my door!" Qi Lu thought for a while, then suddenly realized, staring at him with wide eyes and asking: "My dear, you don't think it's He Jie who came, do you? "

"Crazy..." Qi Ruochu shook his hand in embarrassment, lifted his foot without a shoe, and bounced back into the room like a lame rooster.He suddenly felt that he was contradictory and ridiculous. He called Qi Lu crazy, but in the final analysis he was completely crazy.

There must be a carnival on the last day of each year. It is a day to get rid of the old and welcome the new. The next day is the New Year’s Day holiday.

Qi Lu drove the car, quietly blending into the crowded traffic, passing through the streets and alleys decorated with lights and festoons, passing the bustling overpass full of small stalls, all kinds of promotional information were hung outside the shops on the street, glowing red Yes, it seems that people all over the world are excitedly looking forward to this day, except for the father and son in the car.

The place they are going to is a resting place, where time has stopped forever, a place where the colorful world outside and the joy of the world can never be integrated.

Looking at the changing scenery outside the window, Qi Ruochu suddenly felt that the road ahead became more and more familiar, and his heart suddenly stopped.

"Dad, where are we going?"

Qi Lu took a strange look at him from the rearview mirror: "The cemetery, why do you still ask me about the place I go to every year?"

Qi Ruochu didn't expect it at all, and his heart skipped a beat.He wanted to ask who he was going to see, but from Qi Lu's tone, he knew it, and it would be strange to ask too many questions.

Qi Lu parked his car in the empty parking lot at the entrance of the cemetery. Besides their car, there was also a white car parked there. On such a good day, there should be few people like Qi Lu and the others. This is how to sweep the grave.

Qi Ruochu was a bit curious at first, and wanted to tease Qi Lu about the white car, but he suddenly found that he was looking at the car with a complicated expression, as if he knew why it was parked here like their car, so what did Qi Ruochu say? I didn't say any more.

He thought that the owner of that car might be Qi Ruochu's biological mother, but who were they sweeping the grave for?Is it Qi Ruochu's brother and sister that Qi Lu mentioned by chance before?

The street opposite the parking lot is basically full of shops selling money paper candles, and there are a few shops selling flowers and fruits.

Qi Lu asked Qi Ruochu to buy a bunch of chrysanthemums and two red candles on the opposite side, and the two greeted the mausoleum guard at the door, and went straight into the cemetery.

There are only two landscapes in the cemetery, the pines and cypresses that can be green even in the cold winter, and the rows of black tombstones erected neatly on the ground.There are black-and-white photos on the tombstones, recording the life of their owners, and the silence makes everyone who steps into this place feel unavoidably depressed and sad.

Qi Lu led the way alone, and Qi Ruochu followed behind him, and saw from a distance in front of a tombstone more than ten meters away from him, two women in black clothes were facing the tombstone in front of them.

Qi Lu stopped in his tracks, and suddenly arranged his clothes and hairstyle on the spot.Standing behind him, Qi Ruochu couldn't see his expression, but he could somewhat imagine the tension and uneasiness in Qi Lu's heart.

The woman in front probably heard the footsteps behind her, and they both turned around and looked behind them, revealing the tombstone behind them.

"You guys came first." Qi Lu looked at the two women in front of him blankly, then turned to look at Qi Ruochu, "Ruochu, send the candles and flowers over."

Qi Ruochu couldn't respond to his words, the hand holding the chrysanthemum and candle suddenly lost strength, and a bag of things scattered on the ground.

He stared straight at the two women standing behind Qi Lu - Yu Yuan's mother and Jiang Nian, and the black and white photo in his memory on the tombstone behind them.

Qi Lu didn't expect Qi Ruochu's reaction to be so big, he hurried forward to pick up the chrysanthemums and red candles scattered at his feet, pinched his arm and said in a low voice, "Why are you stunned!?"

Qi Ruochu shuddered violently, and asked in a daze, "Are they..."

"Student." Jiang Nian recognized him, and greeted him with a smile, his face full of surprise.She looked at Qi Lu, then at Qi Ruochu, and said with a smile, "I didn't expect such a coincidence, you should be Aunt Yao's biological son."

Qi Ruochu's brain was stunned for a while, and he tried hard to sort out the mess in his heart.According to what Jiang Nian said, then he and Yu Yuan are brothers?But Qi Ruochu is younger than Yu Yuan, and Brother Gou has known Yu Yuan for a long time, and has never met Qi Ruochu, how did their mother, Yao Fang, do it?Infidelity in marriage?

The more Qi Ruochu thought about it, the more he felt incomprehensible. He noticed that Yao Fang's eyes were flickering slightly as he looked at him, and the hot emotion was spreading out in her pupils little by little.

But she still didn't say a word.

Qi Lu calmly walked from Yao Fang and Jiang Nian to Yu Yuan's tomb, placed the chrysanthemum in his hand gently in front of the monument, lit two red candles and stood on both sides, and whispered to the tombstone:

"Yu Yuan, although you two brothers are not related by blood, Qi Ruochu still regards you as your brother, and we will visit you every year in the future."

"Thank you..." Yao Fang had tears in her eyes, folded her hands on her chest, and stared at Qi Lu's back.

"Is Yu Yuan's father not here?" Qi Lu turned his head and glanced at Yao Fang.

"After our divorce, he went to other places to develop, and he may come to see Yu Yuan a few days later." When Yao Fang talked about her ex-husband, the expression on her face seemed very calm. She brings too much trouble.Jiang Nian beside her stroked her shoulder comfortingly.

"Qi Ruochu, come and offer incense sticks." Qi Lu beckoned to Qi Ruochu.

Qi Ruochu heard some clues from the words of the three of them. Based on the situation of Qi Lu and Yu Yuan's family, Yu Yuan might not be Yao Fang's own.When the two went to school, Brother Gou discovered that Yu Yuan and his mother didn't look alike at all, so it made sense.

He passed by Yao Fang, and under her gaze, as Qi Ruochu, he burned a stick of incense for his old friend. The spiraling green smoke spread in front of Yu Yuan's black and white photo, bringing his relatives with him. their thoughts of him.

"Ruochu, your mother is going abroad." Seeing that Qi Ruochu had been in a daze, Qi Lu anxiously reminded him.

"Hmm..." Qi Ruochu still couldn't fully put into the mood of this new identity. He didn't have particularly complicated feelings for Yao Fang in front of him, only the gratitude she had for Brother Gou when she was a child.

He didn't experience Qi Ruochu's 22 years of single-parent life before, and he couldn't inherit the resentment and complicated desire for his biological mother who abandoned him through his body.

"Ruochu, do you still hate me..." Yao Fang is about to leave the country, and she may never come back after going abroad. Even though she clearly guessed the answer to the question, she still doesn't give up. The only remaining flesh and blood of my own has always hated her for the rest of her life, "In the past, I really had to leave you..."

When Qi Lu heard her words, his heart immediately raised his throat, and he looked nervously at Qi Ruochu.It's not like he didn't tell Qi Ruochu about this kind of explanation before, but for a child who was abandoned by his mother, he didn't care about why the adults did that at the time, and only thought that the mother would only choose when she didn't care about the child. abandon him.

This kind of hatred will not disappear with age, on the contrary, it will increase day by day as every single-parent family child encounters blind eyes and difficulties in life, and Qi Ruochu at that time was no exception.

Whenever his classmates laughed at his father as a monster and his mother didn't want him, the hatred in his heart would grow crazily.

Qi Ruochu was stunned, how should he answer Yao Fang?Not hating - it seems impossible, but now he really can't hate the poor woman with white hair and black hair in front of him.

"It's been so long, the answer to this question doesn't matter much, does it?" Qi Ruochu could only answer her in such an ambiguous way.

Qi Ruochu's gentle answer made Qi Lu quietly relieved after being shocked.Yao Fang was originally mentally prepared. She had imagined what kind of resentment Qi Ruochu would say, and she was even prepared to kneel down to ask Qi Ruochu for forgiveness, because this was the last chance for the mother and son to let go. I don't want to leave this regret before leaving.

Jiang Nian is an expert in psychology. He has met many people like Qi Ruochu, but no one can act as calm as him.

"Uncle and aunt, I don't think this is a good place to chat and reminisce about the past, why don't we go and find a place outside to sit and talk?"

Only then did Qi Lu think of Jiang Nian, and asked Yao Fang, "Who is this?"

"Yu Yuan's ex-girlfriend just came back to China a while ago." Yao Fang wiped the corners of her eyes and forced a wry smile, "She's right, let's not talk about this in front of Yu Yuan, let's talk about it outside." She looked eagerly Looking at Qi Ruochu, he choked up for a while, "I heard from Jiang Nian that the two of you had contacted in private, this time she came back and brought you some things from Yu Yuan."

"What?" Qi Ruochu looked at her in surprise, Yu Yuan's relic could be regarded as the best New Year's gift for him.

"Leave here first." Jiang Nian pressed the satchel on his shoulder, and helped Yao Fang to the exit of the cemetery.

"You're really sensible today." Qi Lu muttered next to Qi Ruochu, and followed behind Yao Fang and the others.

Qi Ruochu glanced sideways at him, just smiled slightly, and didn't speak.

Yao Fang walked in front, every few steps she took, she would sneak a glance at the father and son, for fear that such a good opportunity would slip away under her nose if she was not paying attention.

"Are we going to drive our own cars?" Qi Lu stood in the parking lot, a little confused.

Yao Fang cast a questioning look at Jiang Nian, she came in Jiang Nian's car.

Jiang Nian looked around and found a small teahouse that was not very eye-catching on the diagonally opposite street.

"Let's go to the opposite teahouse to chat, otherwise it will take a lot of work to find a place by car."

Yao Fang looked at the teahouse that Jiang Nian said, there was no business at this time, and it was near the cemetery, so there were few people there.But it doesn't matter to her, as long as she can have a good chat with Qi Ruochu face to face, she won't mind even if it's by the garbage dump.

When she first left Qi Ruochu that year, she was very reluctant to give up, but after a while, when she thought of her own son, she was a little afraid to face it, because she felt ashamed, until later she was overwhelmed by trivial matters in work and family life. Almost all the time, the idea of ​​going to Qi Ruochu again becomes an even more unattainable and unrealizable thing.

Everyone had no objection to Jiang Nian's proposal, and the group crossed the road to the teahouse opposite.

The red solid wood signboard directly above the teahouse gate has been blackened due to years of wind and sun. Although the waiter standing inside the gate looks listless, it complements the lifeless atmosphere in the store.

"Four of you?" The young male waiter put down four white porcelain teacups and the menu in front of Qi Ruochu and the other four, one of which had a small hole.

Yao Fang and Jiang Nian glanced at each other in embarrassment, Qi Lu just stared at the waiter, only Qi Ruochu didn't get used to the waiter, picked up the teacup with the gap and shouted at the waiter: "Is your shop going to close down soon? The ones with cut mouths are also taken out for the guests, can you afford to pay for the cut mouths?"

The waiter was stunned by Qi Ruochu's aura at first, but soon he got thick-skinned, took the teacup from him, and cursed: "I came to such a place where no shit to drink tea in the middle of the day, and I still drink tea." I have a sense of superiority, what are you doing?"

"Hey! I said you're on the fence, right?" Qi Ruochu stood up suddenly, staring at the waiter as if he was going to fight.Qi Lu on the side blushed in embarrassment, and quietly pulled him.

Qi Ruochu's anger didn't come out in one place, but Qi Lu's pull completely interrupted his aura.He lowered his head and looked at Qi Lu in disgust, and found that he was looking at the two women opposite him embarrassedly.

Yao Fang and Jiang Nianzheng stared at him intently, with complex expressions, as if they were looking at an alien visitor.

Qi Ruochu realized that his words and deeds in front of the elders just now were a little out of character, so he pretended to cough calmly, waved his hand at the waiter and said, "Forget it, forget it, hurry up and change the cup."

The waiter was so good that he was cheap, he snorted coldly and gave Qi Ruochu a supercilious look before leaving.

"There's a reason why this teahouse's business is so poor." Qi Ruochu tried to save some face, "The waiters are too unqualified."

Jiang Nian looked at him and covered his mouth and smiled: "I didn't expect your character to be so interesting, it's a bit like a friend I know."

Yao Fang also nodded and laughed: "It seems that Qi Lu raised you very well, and your personality is more cheerful than I imagined."

"That's needless to say." Qi Lu straightened up immediately after being praised by his sweetheart, and even began to get carried away with complacency: "It's because our genes are well combined."

The other three people at the table immediately fell into an awkward silence. Qi Ruochu secretly kicked Qi Lu under the table for the sake of father-son relationship, gave him a wink, asked him to talk for a while, and helped him by the way. Circular field.

"By the way, you just said that Yu Yuan had something for me?" He asked Jiang Nian.

"Yeah." Jiang Nian nodded, and took out a USB flash drive from his satchel, "Here's what you want."

"What do I want?" Qi Ruochu looked curiously at the black USB flash drive in his hand.

"Huh? You don't remember." Jiang Nian looked at Qi Ruochu strangely, and smiled after thinking for a while, "After Yu Yuan passed away, I logged into his Weibo account and saw your message. Three years ago Well, you probably forgot."

"What did I say?" Qi Ruochu thought in his heart that since he was pretending to have amnesia, he should pretend to the end.

"Don't you want his Weibo account?" Jiang Nian looked at the USB flash drive in his hand, thinking of Yu Yuan, his bright eyes suddenly dimmed a lot, "I won't log in to his Weibo anymore, yeah Time to say goodbye to the past."

Qi Ruochu sympathized with what she said, thinking that she must have had a hard time in the past three years.

"Yu Yuan, this child is too aggressive, only reporting good news but not bad news." Yao Fang gently held Jiang Nian's hand, and the two women who lost their beloved man together cherished each other.

"Let's order something to drink first." Qi Ruochu put away the USB flash drive, and asked Yao Fang embarrassedly: "Um... what do you want to drink?" He still doesn't know whether he should call her "Mom".

"I'll follow you." Although Yao Fang really wanted to hear that address, she knew not to rush, "Qi Lu, order."

"Then order a pot of Pu'er." Qi Lu put down the menu, and said in a voice that only he could hear: "At that time, you loved drinking the most."

Qi Ruochu didn't want to see the stinky face of the waiter who owed him 800 million, so he excused himself to urinate urgently, so as to give Qi Lu a chance to talk more with Yao Fang, so that everyone's focus could not be on him. On him, and ignored Qi Lu, the miserable single king.

The layout of the teahouse is not very clear. If you don't ask the waiter, you don't know where the toilet is at all. Qi Ruochu doesn't want to bother, remembering that there is a public toilet next to the parking lot opposite, so you can delay time by the way.

There were still only their two cars parked in the parking lot. Qi Ruochu was walking towards the toilet with his trouser pockets in his pockets, while whistling and looking around idly. Suddenly, his eyes stopped on a car that was driving into the parking lot. next to the nanny car.

He stopped at the spot curiously, wondering who, like them, would visit the cemetery on such a day.

The back door of the nanny's car was opened from the inside, and two strong men in suits and black sunglasses came out of the car first, Qi Ruochu couldn't help laughing when he saw their outfits, it looked too exaggerated, no Those who knew it thought that the president of some country was on a tour.

But in the next second, when he saw the last person coming out of the car, the smile disappeared from his face immediately.

In his memory, it seems that he has never seen He Jie with such a gloomy expression.

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