love letter to summer

Ye Ji said, "My dad, I like you." He paused for a second, and said, "It's the same now."

Xia Tang froze for a moment, showing surprise, but Ye Ma just smiled lightly, as if she already knew.

Ye Ma: "It's not important anymore."

Ye Ji: "I want to know what happened back then."

Mama Ye raised her eyebrows: "When did you become so gossip?"

Ye Ji: "I don't understand." He looked into Ye Ma's eyes, "Since we are in love, why do we have to separate? What obstacles are so difficult to overcome?"

Ye Ma: "I was too focused on my work. After I got married, my company started to take off. The scale became bigger and bigger, and the workload increased day by day. I worked [-] hours a day, all year round. It was almost equivalent to living in a company. I ignored I neglected my family and neglected my own family. I don’t need to talk about the rest, you understand.”

Ye Ji: "Just because of this?"

Mama Ye: "That's it."

Ye Ji couldn't believe it.

Ye Ma: "Love is very fragile. Many things can beat money. Love is the most precious thing in the world, but it is also the least valuable. People will hold it in their hands, and they will turn around because they want to pick up five things on the ground." Divide the money and throw it under your feet." Seeing that Ye Ji was still in disbelief, she waved her hand and said, "You are too young now, you will understand later."

Ye Ji still wanted to ask, but Ye Ma interrupted him, saying: "You don't need to understand now, and you don't need to understand, as long as you maintain an open mind, be honest, and do things seriously, good people will naturally gather by your side. With their help, good things will happen naturally.”

Ye Ma looked into Ye Ji's eyes: "As long as the bamboo pole is placed upright, no matter how the sun shines, the shadow will be straight, and the result will be good."

Ye Ji and Xia Tang took a taxi back to the hotel, Ye Ji kept chewing on Ye Ma's words on the way.

He didn't understand those words all the time, he felt that Ye Ma's words seemed to be addressed to Xia Tang at the same time, alluding to the matter between him and Xia Tang, but it seemed to be more than that.

When returning to the hotel, Ye Ji suddenly remembered that he didn’t buy Chicken McNuggets just now. He left the hotel on the pretext of buying a drink, and walked around downstairs, but found that there was no McDonald’s, but fortunately there was a KFC, so he bought a box of grilled chicken wings .

The moment Xia Tang saw the grilled chicken wings was like a child seeing candy. He held the chicken wing box, his eyes lit up. In front of the window, eating chicken wings like a puppy.

Ye Ji thinks his appearance is too cute.

Outside the window, the blue sky is high and far away, and the sun is shining.

Xia Tang's body was against the light, her whole body was soft and warm.

Ye Ji felt that as long as he looked at him, he would feel warm in his heart, and he really wanted to see him every day, always looking at him.

Xia Tang raised his head suddenly, seeing Ye Ji looking at him, Xia Tang froze.

Xia Tang had chicken wings in his mouth, his eyes blinked full of doubts, the more Ye Ji looked at it, the more he wanted to laugh.

Seeing him laughing at herself, Xia Tang asked, "Why are you laughing?" When asking, he pretended to be angry.

Ye Ji didn't answer, just shook his head with a smile.

For some reason, Xia Tang appeared a little shy, and he stopped talking, lowered his head, chewed the chicken wings, and looked at the table.

The setting sun stained his cheeks red.

***

At five o'clock in the morning, Ye Ji woke up from his dream.

The curtains were closed tightly, and the room was dark and gloomy, with a few faint light blue rays seeping into the room from the gap in the curtains.

Ye Ji looked at the ceiling and felt dazed for a while, as if he was in a dream.

Ye Ji turned his head to look at the window, and saw Xia Tang's figure through the light. Xia Tang was lying on the bed, sleeping very peacefully.

Ye Ji stood up.

There was silence all around, everything seemed to be still, and he was the only conscious person.

This feeling made Ye Ji feel erratic and confused, he subconsciously picked up his phone to check the time.

There was a message lying on the phone, from Mother Ye.

Ye Ji's finger was hanging on the "open message" button, unable to press it for a long time.

But finally clicked on the message.

"Grandpa is gone."

Ye Ji put down the phone, the light on the screen went out, and the room was surrounded by darkness again, with shadows everywhere, only the edge of the window had light.

Ye Ji remembered that An Ningyuan once said: "Our bodies are made of atoms. These atoms come from an exploding star, from a certain corner of the universe. They are scattered around and become part of something. They are stars, soil, and mountains. They are also rivers, one day they gather together and become a thing called people. After decades, they separate again, return to the soil, return to the mountains, lakes and seas. Therefore, we have never been born and will never be Dead, we have always existed, we have always been eternal and ancient star dust."

Ye Ji heard a vehicle speeding past outside, the engine roaring like a beast roaring, and then quickly returned to silence.

This room was thrown into the depths of the universe, surrounded by silence, as if the world after death was silent.

At 06:30 in the morning, Ye Ji returned to the hospital again.

The old man had stopped breathing and was lying quietly on the bed. His body was like a long and thin carbon pencil, shriveled, emaciated, and lifeless.

The old lady sat on the right side of the bed, raising her hand to touch her tears from time to time, Ye Ma sat on the left, and Ye Jinwen stood by the window staring at the morning sun in a daze.

Everyone was silent.

Ye Chaofeng's eldest daughter, Ye Ji's aunt, arrived with Ye Ji one after another. When she entered the ward, her eyes were already full of tears.

The old lady stood up and asked her to sit, and she burst into tears as soon as she sat down. The old lady sighed silently, walked to the back of the hospital bed, and stood beside Ye Ji.

Ye Ji glanced at his aunt, then at Ye Jinwen, who was still looking out of the window like a sculpture.

The old lady followed Ye Ji's gaze and said, "After your father got married with that woman, the old man was unwilling to forgive him. He didn't contact him usually, and he refused to meet even during Chinese New Year."

Ye Ji didn't reply.

The old lady asked: "How have you mother and son been all these years?"

Ye Ji nodded.

The old lady: "I heard that Jingya is still the same as before, focusing on work and traveling frequently, is it true?"

Ye Ji hesitated for a moment, but did not answer immediately, the old lady sighed heavily, feeling helpless and dissatisfied.

"Your father is indeed at fault, but Jingya is not much better. A woman knows about work every day, ignores her family, and doesn't care about her children. What is it like? I can't say anything if she is still unmarried, but she already has a husband. There is a child, but still like this, she doesn't look like a wife or a mother at all, I don't think it's much different if my son is married or not."

The old lady said again: "You used to be young, so I can't tell you these things. Now that you are old, I have to remind you that when you look for a wife in the future, you want to find a virtuous and family-friendly woman. It's useless for a beautiful and capable woman. It's a woman's bounden duty, if a woman doesn't do her own bounden duty well, and rushes to do a man's work all day long, such a person will not have good results when married into the family."

She said a lot more, Ye Ji couldn't remember what she said, he just felt bitter in his mouth.

When leaving the hospital, Ye Ji saw other relatives. For some reason, he suddenly took a look at the aunts and aunts.

They are all over forty years old, with fat bodies, simple clothes, plain face, and Ye Ma, who is wearing a slip-on, high-heeled shoes, and delicate makeup, stands among them, which is eye-catching and even out of place.

The old lady said she didn't have "what a woman should look like".

Then who has "what a woman should look like"?How many aunts and aunts?