Unique memory

Jiang Yan was counting the luggage that needed to be taken away so as not to leave things behind. Halfway through the count, the mobile phone in the bag rang.She stopped what she was doing and went to take out the phone.

It was her mother who called. As soon as she answered the call, she heard the other side of the phone asking, "Yanzi, have you and Jiajia gone out?"

"Ready." Jiang Yan sat down on the wooden sofa, and glanced at the round alarm clock on the table beside him, "The train at 02:30 in the afternoon, there is time."

"Really?" Mother Jiang obviously didn't believe it, and her tone was skeptical, "Don't fool me and take my good grandson to another place."

"The tickets are all booked, so why don't you believe me?" Jiang Yan squeezed her brows, feeling a little helpless that her mother didn't believe her so much, but there was nothing she could do, after all, she really planned to take Xu Jia away from the beginning. It's just that things have changed.

"That's good." Jiang's mother finally felt relieved, in other words, told her, "Do you know that you should pay attention to safety on the road? Let your dad pick you up at the station tomorrow. Remember to buy something to eat and get on the train. It will take you an overnight ride." , don't be hungry..."

"I know, Mom, I'm ready." Jiang Yan felt a little headache from her nagging, and didn't have much energy to deal with it, so she changed the subject, "It's getting late, and I have to take Jiajia out for dinner later, we'll talk about it tomorrow Bar."

"Hey...wait a minute, your dad will tell you a few words."

As soon as Mother Jiang finished speaking, the person on the phone changed, and Father Jiang's gentle and mellow voice came: "Be careful on the road, Dad will pick you up tomorrow."

His father was not as verbose as his mother, so Jiang Yan answered concisely: "Okay, you and mom don't have to worry."

Jiang Yan hung up the phone, and the phone page jumped back to the page of call records, and her eyes happened to fall on one of the names——Xu Zhenglin.

The call time was yesterday, and she remembered that the short 2 minutes were all used for arguing.

Putting the phone back into the bag expressionlessly, Jiang Yan lost interest in counting things, and sat on the sofa for a while, remembering that her son was bored in the room all afternoon and did not come out, so she raised her head and yelled in the direction of the room : "Jiajia, it's time for us to go out."

No one in the room responded.

She yelled again, but after still not responding, she simply got up and went to find someone, knocked on the door of the room twice, and then pushed it open.

The room is a bit narrow, but it is very clean. There is a little boy sitting on the bed 1.2 meters by the window. His head is lowered, half of his face is hidden in the light and shadow coming in from the window. His hands are clasped on his knees and he pushes the door open. Jiang Yan who came in did not respond.

The little boy is Xu Jia, the son of Jiang Yan, and he is ten years old this year.

"Xu Jia."

Seeing her son indifferently immersed in her own world, Jiang Yan's voice became a little more serious, with a little displeasure of not being answered, "Did you hear what I just said?"

Xu Jia was silent for a few seconds, then slowly raised her head, met her gaze, and said three words slowly: "I heard it."

"Did you hear that?" Jiang Yan walked over and stood in front of him, "How do I usually teach you?"

Xu Jia pursed his lower lip. He didn't like his mother's admonishing tone, but he didn't say anything, just nodded quietly as usual, and habitually admitted his mistake: "I'm sorry, I won't do it next time."

Similarly, Jiang Yan didn't like his lukewarm attitude of apologizing, as if she was perfunctory to herself, but she was not in the mood to say anything when she was about to go out, her eyes fell on the things he was holding , asked aloud: "What is in your hand?"

Xu Jia hid behind his back with something in his left hand, but Jiang Yan reached out and pressed his shoulder and turned around, taking the red car from his hand.

With empty palms, Xu Jia subconsciously reached out to grab the toy back, but froze her hand under Jiang Yan's indifferent gaze, slowly withdrew it, and said in a low voice, "Mom, I want...to take it with me."

Jiang Yan looked down at the red remote control car in her hand as if she didn't hear his words.

There are a few traces of collision and paint peeling on the car, which proves that it is often used for play. Although the body is a little damaged, it is not difficult to see that the workmanship is fine, and the body is also very heavy. Unlike ordinary toy cars, the price is not high. Cheap.

In the 90s, remote-controlled cars were relatively new children’s toys. This car was brought back to Xu Jia when she and Xu Zhenglin went to Z City a few years ago. They thought their son would definitely like it, and even though the price was ridiculously high at the time, they bought it without hesitation.

Facts proved that they were right. Xu Jia really liked it. He held the car and played with it for a few days without letting go. Even though they bought him a lot of new toys later on, he still liked this car the most.

"Mother?"

Xu Jia's voice brought back Jiang Yan's mind, which was a little dazed, and focused her eyes on the car in her hand.

The red color that I used to think was bright and beautiful is extremely dazzling now, and the car body is more like a thorn growing into her hand, just like the relationship between her and Xu Zhenglin, how sweet it was before, how ridiculous it is now.

"No one is here, what's the use of bringing this thing." Jiang Yan sneered, raised her hand and threw the car on the table aside, the car hit the corner of the wall and fell to the ground, making a "click" One sound.

The voice fell on the hearts of one big and one small, as if some connection had been broken.

Xu Jia's eyes turned red, and he turned around to pick it up, but Jiang Yan dragged him out of the room. He turned his head in a hurry, and only had time to see the half shadow of the car lying on the corner of the table. It looked pitiful like an abandoned clown.

At that moment, Xu Jia felt extremely uncomfortable. She thought of her father whom she had not seen for a long time, the gentle mother who hugged him intimately and told bedtime stories, and herself who was so excited when she just received the car.

He broke away from Jiang Yan's hand suddenly, ran back to the room and picked up the car that fell on the ground, patted its body cherishingly, checked it again, and was relieved when he found that it was not broken.

Seeing this, Jiang Yan was agitated and wanted to say something, but looking at Xu Jia who was back in front of her with a stubborn face, she couldn't help but think of Xu Jia's changes in the past two years. Put it in the luggage bag, put it on the suitcase, and take him out the door.

Jiang Yan bought a train ticket for 02:30, and it was less than twelve o'clock. She took Xu Jia to the small restaurant downstairs for dinner, and then took a taxi to the train station.

The waiting hall of the railway station was bustling with people, and many passengers' luggage was piled up on the ground, leaving only an extremely narrow aisle. Fortunately, most of Jiang Yan's luggage had been mailed there first. Don't bring too many things, otherwise it will be difficult to squeeze in.

She led Xu Jia to find the ticket gate for the train heading to City H. The two arrived not too late, but the seats on both sides of the ticket gate were already full, and even the middle of the aisle was full of people, so she could only lead Xu Jia in the back.

Next to the two of them was a slightly fat middle-aged woman, holding a little boy about two years old in her arms.The little boy was probably not feeling well, and he kept crying in the woman's arms. The woman was anxious, patting his back and coaxing him.

The waiting room was full of people and voices, and the crying of the child could not have attracted much attention, but Jiang Yan was close and could hear it clearly. The sharp crying filled her ears one by one, almost piercing her eardrums, making her already irritable Feeling even worse, he subconsciously glanced at the other party.

The woman was coaxing the child while shaking her body, and inadvertently met Jiang Yan's eyes.

Jiang Yan is more than 1.7 meters tall, half a head taller than the woman who is coaxing the child. The clothes and aura of the two are quite different. At this moment, she is frowning slightly, with a slightly impatient expression, which makes the woman stunned.

Although Jiang Yan didn't speak, the way she looked at the child clearly expressed her displeasure.The woman realized that the child was crying and making noise, so she quickly apologized in a low voice, turned around with the child in her arms, and continued to coax her with her back to Jiang Yan.

But the child was crying all the time, and she also felt powerless. In anxiety, she felt that someone had pulled her clothes. Looking back, a white and clean boy handed over a small toy and said to herself: "Here He plays."

The little boy was Xu Jia, and he found a model toy of a small robot from his backpack.

The woman looked at Xu Jia in surprise, the child in her arms was attracted attention, and slowly stopped crying, looking at the little toy in Xu Jia's hand with pursed mouth.

The child reacted faster than the woman, and his eyes followed Xu Jia's hand. Hearing Xu Jia's words, he bent down and reached for the toy in Xu Jia's hand. The woman hugged him quickly to stop his movement.

Seeing that the toy he was about to get was far away from him again, the child constricted his mouth and cried again, this cry was much louder than before.

While coaxing him, the woman said to Xu Jia, "No kid, thank you."

As soon as she finished speaking, Jiang Yan took the toy from Xu Jia's hand and put it in the child's hand, and said flatly in the woman's surprised eyes: "Take it, the child cries too much is not good for the throat."

The child took the toy, and the crying stopped.Embarrassed and relieved, the woman thanked Jiang Yan and Xu Jia sincerely.

Jiang Yan nodded indifferently, and turned her gaze back to the ticket gate ahead.

Xu Jia stood next to Jiang Yan, Jiang Yan held his hand, but his eyes looked at the child who was hugged and coaxed by the woman from time to time, watching the mother and child's intimate interaction, with a slight look in his eyes envious.

Jiang Yan bought a ticket on the spur of the moment and only bought a sleeper berth. She gave the bed to Xu Jia to sleep in, and spent the night by herself sitting on the corner of the bed against the wall. The train from city B to city H, plus the delay, arrived at the railway station of city H the next day after five o'clock in the afternoon.

Jiang's father was waiting at the train station ahead of time. When he saw Jiang Yan and Xu Jia coming out, he waved and called "Swallow" and greeted them.

"Dad." Jiang Yan responded, and her uneasy face eased a little along the way, then she lowered her head and said to Xu Jia beside her, "Jiajia, say hello to grandpa."

Xu Jia looked at Jiang's father and obediently called out, "Grandpa is good."

"Okay, okay, my good grandson." Father Jiang smiled and bent over to hug Xu Jia, but Xu Jia stepped back to avoid his hand.

Father Jiang was stunned for a moment, looked at Xu Jia with his head lowered, his mouth tightly pursed, and looked at Jiang Yan in confusion: "What's wrong?"

Although he and Xu Jia didn't live together, every year when Jiang Yan brought Xu Jia back when he was free, the little guy was very happy and was very close to him and Jiang's mother, unlike this time with obvious resistance.

Jiang Yan saw Xu Jia's reaction and knew the reason, but at this moment, she didn't have much thought to explain, she just said, "Dad, let's go back first."

"Then go back first, your mother cooks at home, and you can eat it when you go back." Father Jiang nodded, reaching out to take the suitcase in her hand, "Give me the suitcase, you are tired after driving all night gone."

"It's not heavy." Although Jiang Yan is a woman, she doesn't intend to ask her father to help carry the things, and the things are not heavy, so she avoids his hands and says, "Let's go, Dad."

Father Jiang knew his daughter's character, so he didn't insist. He turned around and wanted to take the two of them back, but was suddenly held by a soft little hand. He looked back and found that Xu Jia, who had avoided him just now, took the initiative to hold his hand.

Xu Jia still lowered his head, but let go of Jiang Yan from his hands, and turned to pull Jiang's father.

Father Jiang was a little surprised, not understanding why the little guy's attitude changed suddenly, and turned to look at Jiang Yan.

Jiang Yan was also surprised. Xu Jia had been living with her and Xu Zhenglin, and she rarely returned to her parents' side throughout the year. As her parents hadn't retired, there were not many opportunities to see Xu Jia.

Although Xu Jia was close to his parents in the past, Xu Jia's temperament has changed too much in the past year. Not to mention the grandparents who he doesn't see a few times a year, even teachers and classmates who he sees often, he rejects them. This is still these days Come, Xu Jia took the initiative to get close to people for the first time.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yan felt that perhaps it would be a good choice to bring Xu Jia with her parents.

Thinking of this, she finally relaxed a little, and said to Father Jiang: "Let's go back."

"Okay." Father Jiang smiled, looked at Xu Jia lovingly, and took his little hand to take a taxi.

On the way back, Father Jiang tried to communicate with Xu Jia. Every time he asked Xu Jia, Xu Jia would answer, but the words were very concise, mostly nodding, polite but not eager.

After a few times, Jiang's father stopped forcing him, and just patted the little guy's head.

Back in the community, Father Jiang led the two of them inside while talking to Jiang Yan. When they went upstairs, there were laughing and joking noises upstairs, and when they looked up, they saw three little boys chasing and running down.

Seeing this, Jiang's father pulled Xu Jia to the side, but the speed of the other three was too fast, and they rushed down like a rocket, unable to dodge, one of the boys jumped on Xu Jia directly, and the two fell on the side of the stairs. Around the corner, there was a bang.

"Oh, where did you get the human flesh mat..."

The boy who hit the person hadn't finished his sentence when he was suddenly thrown to the ground by Xu Jia. He turned himself into a human mat and was pressed down by Xu Jia.

"..." When Wei Lingyang was suddenly overturned to the ground, he was stunned for a moment. He let out a "hey" and looked up. After seeing the other person's appearance, he was stunned for a moment.

The other party and I looked about the same age, wearing a light blue plaid shirt, with very big eyes, very white skin, and a very smelly face.

... You've already bumped back, so don't be so aggressive, right?Wei Lingyang muttered something in his heart, and forgot to struggle for a moment, while Xu Jia also maintained the posture of sitting on his stomach, grabbed his collar with both hands, and looked at him expressionlessly.

Jiang's father next to him was the first to react, and stepped forward to hug Xu Jia away from Wei Lingyang's body.

Wei Lingyang took the opportunity to get up, patted his buttocks, looked left and right, wanted to find his little friends, but found that they had long since slipped away.

traitor!Wei Lingyang cursed inwardly, but he didn't slip away like the others, but stood aside, thinking about what to do.

Father Jiang and Jiang Yan were startled when they saw Xu Jia being bumped unexpectedly by Wei Lingyang. They were afraid that the little guy would be injured. After they hugged him away, they helped him by the shoulder to check, She asked with concern: "Where did you fall? Does it hurt?"

Xu Jia shook his head. Seeing that the two looked a little worried, he added: "It doesn't hurt." Just now he landed on his buttocks first, so the fall was not serious, but his buttocks hurt a little, but he was afraid that the two of them would be too worried, so he said It doesn't hurt.

Father Jiang patted his head again to make sure he hadn't been knocked out of the bag, then turned to look at Wei Lingyang, and asked aloud, "Where's Yangyang? Where did he hit? Come and see Grandpa Jiang."

Wei Lingyang's family and Jiang's father live in the same neighborhood, which is the building next to them. The two families are close to each other, and the balconies are facing each other. Wei Lingyang's mother is Jiang's father's former student, and the two families are very close.

"No, no, no hit anywhere!" Wei Lingyang waved his hands quickly, not to mention that he wasn't hit, even if he was hit, he was the one who hit someone, how dare he say that.

Even though he said that, Jiang's father didn't feel relieved, and went to help him check it again, and he was relieved when he saw that there was nothing wrong, and then gently reprimanded: "The stairs are such a dangerous place, don't fight around next time." Fortunately, Xu Jia was not on the stairs just now, but at the turning point of the stairs, otherwise the collision would put both of them in danger.

"Okay, Grandpa Jiang, I won't do it next time, I'm sorry." Wei Lingyang apologized obediently, and glanced at Xu Jia who was standing aside from the corner of his eye, and found that the other party's head was tilted, and he didn't know where he was looking, but he had the same expression The stink, I can't help but slander in my heart: Xiao Mian's temper is quite big.

"It's okay, be more careful next time." Jiang's father had a good temper, since the two children were fine, he didn't say much, and after a few words, he went upstairs with Xu Jia and the others.

Wei Lingyang stood on the spot, looked at their backs with his head tilted, his eyes fell on Xu Jia's calf wearing bib shorts, stared at it for a while, and then looked down at his calf which was more than one shade short, I couldn't help sighing: "Tsk tsk, the legs are so white!"

It was the summer of 1998, ten-year-old Xu Jia and ten-year-old Wei Lingyang met for the first time.

Many years later, when Wei Lingyang thought of this incident, he felt that he had made a lot of money, and a daughter-in-law would come out of him as soon as he bumped into it.

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CP: Xu Jia (Shou) Wei Lingyang (Gong), from the campus to the society, the bamboo and the horse are in pairs, reunited after a broken mirror.