Song Song

"Dad, it's that uncle..." Lele sat in the cart, looking at Lin Xiaosong pitifully.

Lin Xiaosong took out a tissue and blew his nose for the little girl, his eyes were still red: "Be more obedient and don't make Dad angry, okay?"

With a crying voice, Lele hummed.

Lin Xiaosong held the little girl by her armpit and carried her out. Then he carried the bags in his left and right hands, ready to go back.

It was only past eight o'clock, and the location of the exit of the supermarket was full of people. Zhou Yubin took off his glasses and wiped them in his hands, "Where do you live, I'll take you back."

Lin Xiaosong was a little surprised, he took a breath of cold air in the cold wind, and the tip of his nose was red: "No, we'll take the bus back, thank you."

Zhou Yubin put on his glasses again, raised his head slightly, and smiled kindly: "It's too cold, let's take you to the bus stop."

Lin Xiaosong pursed his lips and said yes.

"Let's go, my car is parked underground." As he spoke, Zhou Yubin took the big bag from Lin Xiaosong's hand very naturally, as well as the doll suit for his daughter.

Lin Xiaosong said thank you, led his daughter to follow, hesitated a few times, and said softly, "I'm sorry to trouble you today."

Zhou Yubin looked back at him, smiled and said, "Anyway, it's on the way, no trouble."

Lin Xiaosong remembered that this man was unmarried, at the age of 35, his appearance and status were not unique in Beishi, but he was able to escape the critical eyes of the matchmaker.

There was a slight movement in his heart, and it was hard to say why, maybe anyone who received such care would have some inexplicable thoughts, meaningless.

"Dad, I'm sorry..." Lele looked up at Lin Xiaosong.

Lin Xiaosong came back to his senses, his eyes no longer had the coldness just now: "Our Lele is a good baby, don't make trouble next time."

"Well, I see... Dad, I'm sorry."

Zhou Yubin paused, turned his head to look back, and jokingly said, "This is not very sensible."

His Beishi accent was a bit heavy, and if he didn't pay attention, his son's accent would come out.

At the entrance of the parking lot, the three of them bumped into Chu Yi again, one south and one north, exactly two directions.

Chu Yi looked at Zhou Yubin again, and glanced at the pink doll suit in his hands. The atmosphere was a little tense. He looked at Lin Xiaosong and said in a hoarse voice, "Come to buy new year's goods."

Mother Chu couldn't care about how her son met the man in front of her right now, and all her attention fell on Lele, "Oh, tell grandma, why are you crying?"

Lele was so frightened that she got behind Lin Xiaosong's buttocks, grabbed her father's pants, poked out half of her head to peek at Chu's mother.

Lin Xiaosong pulled her out with his backhand, knelt down, put on her scarf and hat in turn, and finally wiped her eyes with a tissue: "Stop crying, let's go home."

Lele nodded, and took her father's hand. She ignored Chu's mother, but waved at Chu Yi with her cotton-gloved hand: "Goodbye, uncle."

The little girl has a really good memory.

Chu Yi lowered his eyes and said softly, "Goodbye."

Sitting in the car, Zhou Yubin adjusted the mirror, accidentally caught sight of the father and daughter in the back seat, and asked out of curiosity, "Do you know that man just now?"

Lin Xiaosong was straightforward: "I've seen it a few times, but I'm not very familiar with it."

Zhou Yubin smiled, and stepped on the gas pedal without further questioning.

The car passed by Chu Yi, and the horn honked twice. Chu Yi's eyes darkened, and he took two steps back. Through the windshield, the eyes of the two men met for a moment.

Then, Lin Xiaosong's profile faintly flashed in his eyes.

"That man is really rude. I greeted him for a long time and ignored him at all." Fortunately, he was an irrelevant person, so Mother Chu didn't get very angry, "Who is it?"

Chu Yi didn't give her any response, and gradually withdrew his gaze, striding forward.

Chu's mother guessed wildly, and said clearly: "Those two men are a couple, they must be a family of three."

Chu Yi lowered his head halfway, took out the car keys, and glanced at his mother, his eyes were as cold as ice.

Chu's mother said to herself: "The child must be adopted by the orphanage, which is good. I don't approve of DINK families. It's so deserted without a baby at home. After you and Xiao Chen settle down, go Adopt one."

Seeing that her son was silent, Chu's mother sighed twice: "Adopted ones are not related by blood, so they can't be better than biological ones." Thinking about it, "Isn't there artificial surrogacy now, you and Xiao Chen also go Ah, one person, one person, no one loses."

Chu Yi looked at his mother: "You are buying vegetables at the vegetable market, and you still have one per person. Do you know that surrogacy is illegal?"

"Come here secretly, who knows, you just say you hugged her, and you hugged her."

Chu Yi frowned, a little impatiently, opened the trunk door, put the things in, and then closed it with a "bang".

Chu Yi went home and rearranged the books in the study. When he touched the collection of dusty poems, he was a little dazed, as if there were only a few numbers, and six years had passed in a flash.

He divided those books into a row of grids and placed them on the top shelf.

Mother Chu knocked on the door and came in, put a glass of milk on the table, and asked again when she would meet Chen Jiaze's parents.She has a quick temper and likes to do things first. In the era when every household earned work points, her family must be able to live well.

Chu Yi was still packing up: "After the year."

Chu's mother said: "Let's meet up early, what are we going to do later in the year? If we continue like this, our parents will think that our family is looking for a horse on a donkey."

"He's not in a hurry, what are you in a hurry for?"

"What are you talking about? How do you know that Xiao Chen is not in a hurry." Chu's mother was speechless, and accidentally looked up to see the pile of childish-colored books on the top of the bookshelf, and there were some must-read books for elementary school students printed on them, "Your primary school books , why keep it, just throw it away."

Chu Yi didn't dump her, and wiped the top grid inside and out with a rag.

"Let me tell you, you should contact your father. When the two families meet, he has to attend no matter what."

Chu Yi said "Understood", and perfunctory.

"Forget it, forget it, I'm too lazy to talk about you, I drank the milk on the table, and I'll go back." Mother Chu stepped out of the study.

The room fell into silence again, the clock was ticking, silently, and the hour hand was sliding towards the Arabic numeral "10".

Chu Yi leaned back on the chair, lit a cigarette, and enjoyed it slowly. Unexpectedly, he received a call from Gu Xuyang.The man said on the phone that he was getting married soon.

For this first love, the two of them get along more like relatives now, Chu Yi licked the cigarette ash, "When?"

"On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, take fewer patients and free up that day for me."

"Okay, I'll definitely be there."

"And you, according to Zhao Rui, you're coming too."

Chu Yi hummed, "Maybe in the first half of next year."

Gu Xuyang said: "The action is very fast, you haven't been with the blind date for a long time."

Chu Yi smiled: "You are not too."

As soon as these words came out, Gu Xuyang was stunned, hesitated for a long time, and said through the phone: "You don't know why I am so fast."

Chu Yi couldn't answer him, he held the remaining half of a cigarette and drew an arc in the ashtray with no interest, the phone was surprisingly quiet.

"...There is something I have always wanted to ask you. If my parents hadn't opposed us at that time, would you have married me now?"

Chu Yi stopped what he was doing and remained silent for a few seconds, "Xiao Xu, look ahead."

Gu Xuyang smiled on the phone, as if he was relieved: "I see."

In fact, after Lin Xiaosong left Beishi, Zhao Ruiming secretly arranged for the two of them, but the person involved didn't say anything, and the matter was left alone.However, Gu Xuyang was always alone and had no plans to find a partner, but it was Chu Yi who found a blind date first.

It was a night.

Zhao Rui went to the downstairs of the unit, looked for the magnetic card in his trouser pocket, and suddenly a person jumped up from the left with a cigarette in his hand, and said in a displeased tone, "I've been waiting for you for a long time, didn't you tell me to invite me to drink?"

Zhao Rui looked at it intently: "Cough, I was shocked. I didn't reply to the message for a long time. I thought you were hiding at home to wipe your tears."

"Too lazy to go back." Gu Xuyang threw away the cigarette, "What are you doing in a daze, unlock it."

Zhao Rui's alcohol capacity is not bad, a catty of white is no problem, but he has already drank a lot during the dinner in the department, so he can only accompany Gu Xuyang to have some beer at the moment.

It was still the same cliché, Zhao Rui tried to persuade him while sipping his wine: "Forget it, everyone has a partner, listen to my advice, let's turn this page."

Gu Xuyang didn't say a word, he poured the whole bottle of beer with his neck up, and wanted to drink it, but Zhao Rui stopped him, and continued: "That kid Chu Yi looks ruthless and coquettish, what do you think you like him? If you don’t have a partner, you can match up for you, so don’t worry about it now, since ancient times, so many heroes and heroes have all fallen on their first love, so don’t be a mistress.”

Gu Xuyang kicked him: "Which eye of yours sees me and misses me?"

"Both eyes can see." Zhao Rui dodged a blasting hammer and said with a smile, "Okay, I didn't think about it."

Gu Xuyang was not in the mood to make trouble with him, so he opened another bottle as if discouraged.

When the wine was half full, both of them were a little tipsy, Zhao Rui confided in his heart and said, "Have you seen that movie, "Heis not that in to you", a very famous American movie."

Gu Xuyang took a deep breath between his cigarettes, and exhaled a smoke ring with his head up, "What foreign language are you dragging, I haven't read it."

"Look at it when you have time, it's really good, what is said in the movie, if a man doesn't care about you, then he really doesn't care about you at all, without exception." Zhao Rui hiccupped and looked at Gu Xuyang , with a sober face, "Whether he likes you or not, you know best, don't be sentimental and trap yourself."

Gu Xuyang interrupted him calmly: "Stop talking."

In a word, Gu Xuyang himself understands that - from the beginning to the end, that man actually didn't like him that much.

After that day, he tried to get in touch with new people, and when he met someone with the right conditions, he would no longer be as resistant as before. Relationships, in the words of his mother, there will always be some by slowly cultivating them.

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Thank you for the soft grenade!Thank you Jingshui, Friday's Landmine!