Song Song

The next night, Chu Yi went to the train station to pick up Songsong's mother.

Contrary to what he imagined, Mother Lin is obviously much younger, and her clothes are well-regulated, just like the common middle-aged women's clothes on the street. Lin Xiaosong mentioned that his mother gave birth to him at the age of 19. After all, this year has not yet come Year of Destiny.

Similarly, Chu Yi didn't quite match what Mother Lin had in mind. He thought he was a middle-aged man with a big belly and bald head. After all, her son's qualifications were there. Who would have thought that her "son-in-law" was quite handsome, Not at all lost to the stars on the movie pictorial.

The two greeted each other briefly, and Chu Yi drove him home.

Before entering the door, Mother Lin repeatedly reminded herself that people in the city love to be clean, so don't bury people's homes.

At this moment, she was looking at the clean floor, hesitating whether to change her shoes, Chu Yi turned to look at her, "Go straight in."

"Hey." Mother Lin rubbed the soles of her shoes on the doormat, came in with a big bag, and walked around carefully, "Oh, your house is so beautifully decorated, our Xiaosong is lucky."

Chu Yi frowned invisibly, and then returned to his usual casualness, "Do you drink water?"

"No, no, I'm full in the car." Lin's mother opened the bag and took out the special product she carried from her hometown, "This is pork sausage stuffed by his father, and the jar is filled with pickled sauerkraut, which is made by me and his father. Made it, it’s cleaner than outside, Xiaosong used to like these two most, you should try them too.”

Chu Yi said calmly, "Thank you, Mom."

"You're welcome, we're all family." Mother Lin looked around a little cautiously, "Where's Xiaosong?"

"The child is sick and hospitalized. He has been in the hospital for the past few days."

"I'm sick, then I have to go and see."

Chu Yi hummed.

The "son-in-law" looks handsome, and the "mother-in-law" likes it more and more. Lin's mother is sitting in the back seat, staring at the back of Chu Yi's head when she is free, and chatting with Songsong's father on WeChat: "I saw Xiaosong, he is a man. , she looks really good-looking, not at all awkward, but she doesn't like to talk."

Father Lin: "Have you seen your granddaughter?"

Mother Lin: "The child is sick and is in the hospital. I'm just going there, so I won't tell you."

Mother Lin looked out of the window, and the neon lights and high-rise buildings passed the window pane in the same way. She thought to herself that this place is really too big, and it is many times more prosperous than their provincial capital.

"Our Xiaosong came to Beishi when he was a teenager. This kid can endure hardships. His salary was only [-] at the beginning, and he can still send [-] to his family..."

Chu Yi abruptly interrupted the woman: "He stopped going to school when he was a teenager."

"Many children in our village go out to work in their teens. Anyway, they are not materials for study, so it is better to go out and earn money as soon as possible." Lin's mother took it for granted, "The money he sent back every month, I and his father gave He was saving, thinking about buying him a house in the city when he returned to his hometown, but unexpectedly, he got married here. We are all happy, happy for him."

Chu Yi was upset when he heard that, and waited for the gap between the traffic lights, picked out a cigarette from the cigarette case, froze for a moment, held the cigarette, raised his hand and asked the woman in the back seat: "Do you mind?"

"It's okay, his dad always smokes too."

The cigarette was lit, and the scarlet end flickered slightly. The man took a deep breath and slowly exhaled: "Didn't his brother go to college?"

"His younger brother has better grades than him, and he was in the top ten in the county before, but he didn't perform well in the college entrance examination. I don't have any preference for the two children. Xiaofeng is indeed smarter than Xiaosong, and he can understand everything."

Chu Yi smiled and said coldly, "Really?"

Lin's mother looked embarrassed. Before coming, the baby's father said, if you are an intellectual or a person in a big city, you can treat you as a mother-in-law. You are not making fun of yourself.

Sure enough, he was caught by his crow's mouth.

For the rest of the time, Mother Lin simply kept silent, the more she talked, the more timid she became.

The car drove into the hospital, and Chu Yi found an open space to park.The snow has not disappeared, and the bushes are covered with snow, which is reflected under the street lamps, like a flower bud.

The air is bitter, and the breath is frost.Chu Yi and his mother-in-law got out of the car. The woman looked at several buildings in the hospital and said with emotion: "This is your hospital, it's really big."

Chu Yi glanced at her, and said very flatly, "Let's go."

Lin Xiaosong did not expect that his mother would suddenly appear at the door of the ward. If there were no ordinary accidents, he and her would still maintain a simple mother-child relationship, sending money home regularly every month, caring for each other on the phone, and would not care about mother's love at all. Deviations, and I won’t be obsessed with it, why can’t I go to college?

That incident was like a detonator, disrupting all false balances.

It was a mess.

"Xiao Song, let me come and see the child." Mother Lin smiled awkwardly.The general scene is embarrassing for everyone.

Lin Xiaosong's face stiffened, and he took a bunch of grapes and a bowl to the bathroom, planning to wash some grapes for the child to eat.As for the man he hasn't seen in six years, he doesn't care.

Mother Lin walked to Lele's bed, put down her bag, took out a small gold bracelet from it, and put it on her, "I'm the grandma from my hometown, what's your name?"

The child was afraid of being born, so he pursed his lips and looked at Chu Yi. The man sat on the side of the bed, rubbed the little girl's head, and said in a gentle voice, "Tell grandma, what's your name?"

"Grandma, my name is Lin Lele."

"Hey, Lele, this name is easy to remember."

Lin Xiaosong came out after washing the grapes, caught a glimpse of the golden bracelet, asked his mother without saying anything, "Why are you here?"

Mother Lin looked at her eldest son, who seemed to be thinner than before, and his face was still pale, as if he couldn't get tanned. "It's almost Chinese New Year. I'll bring you some New Year's goods. Come and see the child."

Lin Xiaosong said "Oh" indifferently.

Chu Yi walked to the window, opened the window to let in some fresh air, then turned to look at Lin Xiaosong, "Get the girl out of the hospital tomorrow morning."

"Yeah." Lin Xiaosong's eyelids were sagging, and he couldn't regain his energy. "I had a CT scan today, and Dr. Xia said there's nothing wrong."

Lele shook the small bracelet on her wrist a few times. She was not the only one. When Pingping came home, Mother Lin also bought one for the child in a gold jewelry store. The style was not bad.

"You said you were grandma?" Lele was purely out of curiosity, she didn't understand those complicated ethical relationships.

Mother Lin said, "That's right."

Chu Yi walked back and said to Lin Xiaosong, "I'll book a restaurant, and the family will have dinner together tomorrow night."

Mother Lin raised her head abruptly, and said to her son-in-law, "It costs a lot of money to go outside, and you can just eat at home."

Lin Xiaosong also said: "Let's eat at home."

Lin's mother chatted with her children, basically chatting with ducks, and the old and the young couldn't match a few words.Lin Xiaosong carried the basin into the bathroom, and Chu Yi followed.

"Did you bring her here?" Lin Xiaosong asked while washing the basin, with his back to the man.

"Ah."

"There are only two rooms in the house, where does she sleep?"

Chu Yi's eyes converged on the back of Lin Xiaosong's neck, which was slender and sexy, and the man's Adam's apple moved slightly: "I'll book a hotel for your mother."

Lin Xiaosong washed the plastic basin, turned around and shook it vigorously. After careful consideration, he rejected the man's proposal: "Forget it, let's live at home, let her sleep in Lele's room, and the child will squeeze with us."

Chu Yi touched his cheek and looked down at him: "Unhappy?"

"Fortunately."

Chu Yi squeezed his fingertips together little by little, raised Lin Xiaosong's chin with a light pick, "How old were you when we two met?"

Lin Xiaosong was taken aback by the question: "I don't remember." He sniffed closer, frowned, raised his eyes and asked, "Are you smoking?"

Chu Yi smiled and patted his forehead lightly, "Dog nose."

Mother Lin also stayed in the hospital overnight. The next morning, Chu Yi bought them breakfast, and just after entering the door, she heard Mother Lin talking to the woman in the next bed.

"That was my son just now. The tall and handsome man who sent me here yesterday is my son and his husband. He works in this hospital. He is a doctor."

"What does your son do? He must be very promising."

"I don't know exactly what to do, anyway, it's a good job."

Chu Yi was faintly displeased, he always didn't want to listen to such trivial gossip, and then remembered yesterday when she talked about Songsong dropping out of school to work when he was a teenager.All kinds of things intertwined together, in short, it is very disturbing.

He raised his foot and wanted to leave, but Lin Xiaosong came back with a cup of hot water, "Why don't you go in?"

Chu Yi handed him breakfast, and stretched out his hand to press the bruises under his eye sockets, "I still have something to do in the department, I have to go back, look at your dark circles, go back to bed early today."

After returning to the office and changing his clothes, Lao Zhang opened the door and came in with a smile on his face. When he saw him, the first thing he said was: "Your mother-in-law is here."

Chu Yi made himself a cup of coffee, stirred it a few times, and leaned against the table, "Where did you hear that?"

"Zhu Jun's wife is in the pediatrics department. Now our department knows that your mother-in-law is here. This old lady is also strange. She didn't show up when she got married. Now she is here. Come to your house for the New Year." Old Zhang waved The last work injury certificate, pointing to the signature, "Director Chu, help me sign it and stamp it."

Chu Yi glanced, signed his name, and then went to the drawer to look for the official seal.

"When will your little girl be discharged from the hospital?"

"It will be released today." Chu Yi took out the official seal and stuck a red stamp on the lower right corner of the paper.

Lao Zhang put away the work-related injury certificate issued to the patient, propped up the table with one hand, and leaned over, "How does it feel to have a cheap girl fall from the sky?"

Chu Yi twitched the corners of his lips: "Like a little padded jacket, very caring. As soon as I got home, my wife and that girl rushed to pour water for me. I can't do without drinking. The little girl said that uncle is tired from work. Drink more water."

Lao Zhang rubbed his chin in doubt, "It sounds unscientific, she is so tall, can she reach the table?"

Chu Yi glanced at him with a smile: "You can believe nonsense."

"Fuck you! Go away!"

After eight o'clock, Lin Xiaosong completed the discharge procedures for Lele, and wanted to go upstairs to tell Chu Yi, thinking that the man was probably in the operating room at the moment, and it would be a waste of time to go up there.

While thinking, two young girls in white coats walked up to him, and one of them paused on his face for a few seconds longer.

"He is Director Chu's lover." It was Xu Zeling who asked this question.

She heard that Chu Yi was married a while ago, and she felt uncomfortable for a while. Later, that broken-hearted feeling was gradually replaced by curiosity, and she wanted to see what that man looked like.

"That's right, his daughter is sick and has been living in our department recently. Director Chu often..."

Lin Xiaosong couldn't hear the rest.

It's strange, even a little girl knows Chu Yi.