Xiaobai Deformation Meter

Just like the night when Mengsheng wanted to tell this story, the man suddenly woke up to the sound of rain.

When he subconsciously touched his wife beside him, he found no one, so he opened his eyes.

The man knew in his heart that he was actually more dependent on Lilian than Lilian on himself, and he couldn't imagine how boring his life would be without Lilian.

As the saying goes: behind a successful man there is always a woman who silently cares for him.

Good women are powerful and magical creatures, so men have always found it quite amusing to play tricks on their wives.

He raised the corner of his mouth and turned to look at the alarm clock on the bedside table.Although today is the weekend, it is still early from the usual wake-up time.

The man didn't get out of bed immediately. He rolled a few times on the bed, teased his daughter in the crib with his iPhone, and took a few kissing selfies of himself and his daughter, and then forwarded them to Moments, with a sentence: Where is our mother?Solid news from my daughter - she's packing her stuff for camping today.

After spreading the dog food, the man played with his daughter for a while before getting up to clean up in the bathroom.

He headed downstairs to the living room, trying to remember what Lilian had told him last night that he was looking for something... something to do with the barbecue, it seemed.

When he stepped into the kitchen and found that his wife was not there, it occurred to him that what he was looking for seemed to be a self-cleaning outdoor oven.

While peeling the cheese slices, the man recalled that he should have left it in the storage room, wondering if Lilian could find it.

He then turned his head... storage room?Inside is the oil painting I brought back... It doesn't feel good.

Without thinking about it, the man put down the work at hand, yawned and walked towards the basement.

Sure enough, there was movement in the storage room.The man paused at the door for two seconds, then pushed open the door, and saw Lilian with his back turned to him, tiptoeing to rummage through the shelves.

"Honey, are you awake?" Lilian said without looking back, continuing to look for her things.

The man unhurriedly pulled up a chair and sat down, and said to his wife, "It's impossible for me to put something like a cleaner at such a high place. It's a safety hazard."

"Like an earthquake or something?"

The man was speechless, but Lilian turned his head and pointed to the automatic cleaner in the corner.

"You found everything and what are you looking for?"

"By the way, clean it, there is too much dust on it. I don't usually enter this room, so I don't even notice it." Lilian couldn't reach it, so he said to the man, "Bring me a ladder."

The man stood up: "Do you still need a ladder when I'm here? Your husband is not just a decoration." After finishing speaking, he offered to help his wife get the things on the shelf.

He conveniently took down the last oil painting wrapped in kraft paper and several other paintings, and piled them on the desk.Perhaps it was because the other paintings were made of white wrapping paper, so Xu Bai's painting was particularly eye-catching, but Lilian still noticed it.

"Wait, what is the content of this painting, have I seen it?"

The man's palms were a little sweaty, and he pretended to be nonchalant and said: "Uh, you've seen it... When I was teaching painting, I would occasionally bring a few paintings with obvious flaws to the studio... You should know."

Seeing that his wife still couldn't remember, he thought that something was really wrong.

"Show me."

"Don't look at it, there's something to look at, I'm too lazy to pack it back."

"I'll just take a look." Lilian held the oil painting in his hands, with an expression of "Don't stop me, if you stop you, there will be ghosts".

The man was discouraged, thinking that lying was indeed a particularly troublesome thing, and suddenly he had deeper sympathy for Xu Bai.

He confessed, no matter what, this secret will be revealed at the last moment.However, if Lilian knew the content of the painting before he finished telling the story, it would be difficult for him to explain it, and maybe today's camping would be ruined.

Lilian began to gently remove the kraft paper, while the man had a resigned expression...

At this moment, the sound of the doorbell came from the hall.

Lilian stopped what she was doing and shouted, "Oh, I forgot, it was the neighbor who brought the milk!" She put down the oil painting, "I'll go and see it when I come back."

The man smiled and made a "please" gesture to his wife. When his wife really left the storage room, he felt an inexplicable sense of loss.

"Really, it's not my fault."

The man muttered a few words and quickly tore apart the kraft paper.He chose a painting of the same size and opened the white paper.Finally, I exchanged the packaging of the two paintings, and then wrapped them up again.

After a while, the wife came back and continued to unpack her kraft paper, but she didn't know that the painting had been dropped.

"Well, I have indeed seen this painting." Lilian said to the man with a smile, "I just saw you so nervous, I thought you had something to hide from me."

"Ahem, do you still want to go camping baby, it's a rare weekend, I want to accompany you guys."

"Let's go, let's go, see if you're in a hurry."

The two worked together to tidy up the storage room, and the man then drove the car out of the garage, waiting for his wife to come up with the children, and they went camping and barbecued together.

After arriving at the camping site two hours later, the man pitched his tent, played with his son by the lake, and returned to the shore to barbecue with his wife when he was tired.After eating and drinking, they chatted for a while with a few foreigners who also came to camp.

The foreigner handed the man a cigar, but the man smiled and declined. He never smoked.

The sky gradually darkened, and everyone went back to their tents to stay. After Lilian put the children to sleep, the man proposed to go out to look at the stars. He had already set up the astronomical telescope.

In the dead of night, the man observed the starry sky very seriously, and had already forgotten about Xu Bai.

It was his wife who kept asking him in his ear: "What happened to your friend, did she really not go to the Academy of Fine Arts in the end?"

"Obviously, isn't it? Just like Pluto tonight."

"Then how did you meet?" Lilian pulled the blanket over her body. "I've been thinking that the biggest thing you have in common is your love of painting. Maybe you met in college."

"Yes, that's fine, but it's a pity that not only did she not go to the Academy of Fine Arts, she didn't even go to university."

"Didn't she go back to take the exam, did she really do so badly?" Lilian was surprised.

The man looked sideways at his wife and said, "Her grades are enough to go to a junior college, but she didn't go to school, and neither of them went. They have been planning to open a store and live together."

"That is also a special opportunity, right? You have been emphasizing to me that those who choose to open online stores in China at that time have made gold."

The man stopped talking, and after thinking for a while, he said, "Honey, have you ever felt that way..."

"What do you feel?"

"The feeling of falling into the abyss." The man left the telescope, lay down and hugged his wife, "One day, when you walked to the edge of the cliff, you were fascinated by something under the cliff. You jumped down. But when you jumped down, you realized that it was just an abyss. What you were looking for was not at the bottom, maybe it was the opposite. But you had no choice but to continue to fall. There are many branches on both sides of the abyss. You pray in your heart that one or two of them will catch you and make you stop."

Lilian looked at the man: "And then?"

"It's useless, you're falling too fast, those branches can't give you resistance, they just scratched your clothes, your arms, your cheeks, making you even more ugly before landing." The man shook Shake your head.

"Honey, have you ever experienced such a desperate situation?"

The man shook his head again and said to his wife, "She has experienced it."

"But they all live together, which means that their parents have already agreed, so just manage the online store well. How could this happen?"

"This is the story I'm going to tell you next." The man sighed, "This state lasted until three years ago."

Lilian did the math and said in disbelief, "It took six years from the year of the exam? She was already 6 years old at that time."

"Well, it's almost 25. Now she is 27, the same age as me, what's wrong?" The man leaned closer to the telescope again.

"So, what happened all these years? Did she finally... climb out of that abyss?"

The wife suddenly kept asking questions like a hundred thousand whys.The men didn't answer.

He finally got tired of observing, and said to Lilian: "Since you are interested in her affairs, then I will tell you."

The man and his wife lay under the starry sky, feeling the breath of nature in Yucheng.

And Xu Bai, who had just finished his college entrance examination, was sitting on the side of Nanxi Road, looking at the increasingly sultry night view of the city across the river, lost in thought.

This is the place where she and Meimei made sure of each other, but it didn't rain tonight.

They had a meal, hardly a celebration.She learned from Liang Haimei that Meimei's exam trip was very unpleasant, and she didn't do well except for mathematics.

Needless to say, Xu Bai, as usual, she did the questions she knew, which is considered normal, although it seems like a lifetime away.

Xu Wenhui said to her quite comfortingly: "You have learned almost nothing in the past three years, and you can still get close to 400 points in the test, which is a bit unexpected."

Dad checked the score, Xu Bai didn't care, and didn't fill in the application.Most importantly, her graduation certificate came down, and Xu Wenhui also kept his promise and gave her 1 yuan.

He also said to her: "This is hard-earned money earned by Dad. No matter what you do with it, don't waste it. Do you know why I insisted on letting you take the exam? Xu Bai, people must leave notes for themselves." back road."

Thinking back on these words, Xu Bai picked up the lemon green tea in front of him and asked Meimei, "Have you talked with the landlord?"

Liang Haimei looked a little tired as she was blowing the wind from the river. She showed dimples to Xu Bai and said happily, "Grandma asked for help. The landlord is a man who seems to know your parents very well. I don't know what their relationship is."

"Not a classmate, but a colleague."

"It's also in the southern district, near the business school. It's a community near the school. The price is average. Let's go and have a look tomorrow."

Xu Bai looked at Liang Haimei and smiled.She could feel that this person's status in her heart was getting higher and higher, and it was a rare person she was so fascinated by.No matter how hard the adults beat the mandarin ducks, she will never be separated from Meimei.

Besides, they are going to live together, so they are really happy.

At noon the next day, accompanied by Grandma Wu, they went to the Xinyu Community next to the business school to visit the house.

22 floors, about 70 square meters, simple decoration, the living room includes the bedroom, the bed is next to the balcony, there are necessary household items, it looks like it is for rent.

"I think it's okay. It's very quiet here. What do you think?" Grandma Wu sat down on the sofa and took a sip of water.

Xu Bai smiled and said, "I think it's okay too."

Liang Haimei walked up and down, as if she was already the owner of the house, and happily answered: "You all said it's ok, then let's go here. When will you move in?"

The answer is anytime.

Grandma Wu is in charge of talking to the landlord, and she feels like their intermediary.But there are also reasons for doing so, after all, they come out to live, and it is more reassuring if the landlord is an acquaintance.But just because they are acquaintances, there must be someone to talk about. Grandma Wu said that they will go to college soon and want to rent a house near the school for convenience.

After returning home, Xu Bai told her parents truthfully that she was going to move out.When Xu Wenhui knew who the landlord was, a strange expression flashed across his face.

Xu Bai caught it, but didn't understand it.

Bai Mingzhi seldom answered the words: "It's no wonder you don't have conflicts when you live together, an only child is selfish."

Xu Bai ignored her, mainly because he didn't know how to respond.Xu Wenhui didn't say anything. When it was the day she was moving, he greeted her and told her a lot of precautions, such as fire prevention and so on.

It is indeed Dad's style... Grandma Wu reminded them again and again, Xu Bai will keep it in mind.

She has never lived alone without her parents. To be honest, she is a little scared when she is excited, but she always has to take this step.

Mom talked with her about living expenses for a long time, and decided to pay her according to Xu Bai's university standards.

"You didn't go to school at all. Don't you want to open your own shop to make money? It's not bad to give you so much."

Xu Bai didn't want to quarrel with her, so while his father wasn't around, he asked her, "Is there any problem with that landlord?"

As soon as these words came out, Bai Mingzhi's expression also changed.Only then did Xu Bai know that the landlord was indeed his mother's colleague, but he also pursued his mother...

Before she could laugh out loud, another sentence from her mother completely overturned her.

"Your father was very popular when he was young. Many girls wrote love letters to him in high school, but he didn't understand at all, like an idiot. Later, he went to college and liked to play the guitar. At that time, Liang Haimei's mother and him He is a classmate, and he also likes your dad very much, your dad was only a little enlightened at that time."

Xu Bai was so surprised that he couldn't speak, but luckily his mother said again that nothing happened to them.

That's right, otherwise, why would she and Liang Haimei still exist... Xu Bai suddenly felt that the water was really deep.

When she told Meimei about these things as a joke, Meimei's reaction was particularly strong.

"My mother wouldn't like your father! What does your father like? You heard it wrong, maybe your father liked my mother."

"What are you doing... This is just a past event. Why are you so excited? Your mother is amazing."

Xu Bai was almost pissed off by her.It seems that Liang Haimei doesn't recognize Xu Wenhui no matter what, just like she doesn't like Aunt He either.