alternate performance

Wei Fangling's birthday party was held in the open-air banquet hall of the Moheba Hotel, with fiery trees, silver flowers, champagne and white tables, making it look like a reception where gentlemen and ladies gathered.

Gu Congran greeted the guests on behalf of his mother, and found a quiet corner to drink after he was free.He didn't have a high appetite, and he didn't feel hungry without eating anything for dinner, just thinking about leaving for Rongjing Town tomorrow, he just wanted time to pass faster.

In the hot season, the greenery and fresh air in Rongjing Town are more refreshing than the heat-filled streets in big cities.Subconsciously, Xu Chenhe tamed Gu Congran's dignity. He didn't ask Tezhu Zhou to book a hotel in the center of the city. He chose a hotel in the town and rented a relatively good room.

The so-called relatively good is just that the space is slightly wider than other rooms. Gu Congran wanted to wash his hands after packing his luggage, and turned the faucet to loosen it.

It's not that there are better conditions in the town than this hotel, but what Gu Congran values ​​is that the old residential building diagonally across the street is home to people who are familiar with Xu Chenhe——before leaving Rongjing Town, Xu Chenhe lived with Xu Chenhe. An uncle on the second floor said goodbye.

The temperature was not high today, and the sky was overcast. After lunch, Gu Congran took an umbrella and went out. He drove the car around the town by feeling, and drove to Shengyang Elementary School after he was basically familiar with the route.

On weekdays, there are very few people who drive high-end cars into the school gate, and the guards only open their eyes and close their eyes. They don't need people to stop and register, and they even report to the school leaders that there are distinguished guests visiting.

As soon as Gu Congran parked the car, someone came to greet him. He was a thin, middle-aged man. According to reports, he was the new principal who had just taken over his father's position the year before last.Chen Xiao was enthusiastic and talkative. Before he became the principal, he was a teacher of Shengyang Primary School. During the conversation, he slightly guessed the relationship between Mr. Fu Mao and Xu Chenhe who was taken away that year.

Chen Xiao had dealt with Xu Chenhe before, but he wasn't very familiar with him. Gu Congran didn't mention Xu Chenhe at all, and Chen Xiao didn't say anything. Gu Congran looked like he just wanted to go around the school. Chen Xiao took the initiative to take him in Walking around the not-so-big campus, when I arrived at the dormitory, I emphasized its importance to improving the quality of life of students.

Gu Congran naturally understands the purpose of being polite to investors, but he doesn't want to stay in this new building as much as Chen Xiao imagined.In a disguised form, this building is the second cage to imprison Xu Chenhe. If he stays here for a second longer, he will feel more guilty towards Xu Chenhe. The rest of my life was disrupted.

"Is it convenient for Mr. Chen to let me go to the teachers' dormitory?" Gu Congran asked when Mr. Chen still wanted to ask him to go up the stairs.

The teacher's dormitory is the oldest building in the whole school. The ground floor is used as a place to store sundries. Sports equipment, old bicycles with rusty chains are stored there, and rats roam around at night.While Principal Chen was still hesitating, Gu Congran asked again: "Is 306 still inhabited?"

"I can't live anymore," said Chen Xiao. "A large number of old teachers have retired from the school, and the new teachers prefer to spend some money to rent houses outside the school. Many houses in the dormitory building have been vacant."

Gu Congran insisted on going to 306 to have a look. Chen Xiao observed the words and expressions, and after finding the key, he thoughtfully reserved a private space for him under the pretext that he still had work.

Standing in front of Gate 306, the first time I saw Xu Chenhe was like yesterday, as if at this moment he knocked on the wooden door, the next second there was a warm nasal voice asking: "Who is it?"

"Xu Chenhe." Although he knew that no one would respond, Gu Congran still knocked on the door.

As soon as he opened the door and entered, the unfamiliar layout made him know at a glance that someone lived here later.The floor was dusty, the electric lights were broken, and the old furniture in the house had been moved in all directions, erasing the traces of Xu Shenhe's past living here.The meeting three years ago was suddenly so far away, Gu Congran almost forgot the strong smell of traditional Chinese medicine, and also the taste of the cup of Pu'er tea that Xu Shenhe brewed for him when they first met.

The air that forced people to forget the past made Gu Congran uncomfortable. He slammed the door of 306, covered his mouth with the back of his hand and coughed twice, and hurriedly left this suffocating place.

As soon as the car slid out of the school gate, the school bell rang over the campus. The children were not in a hurry to go home, but always chased and played around in every corner.The children in the upper grades are more sensible, they go home to do their homework, and they are a little lively chatting around the young teacher. The area around the desk is more lively than in class.

In the past three years, the children have grown a lot taller, and their mouths have become sweeter. They grabbed the edge of the desk and surrounded their favorite teachers: "Mr. Xu, the bookmarks you made are so beautiful!"

"How do the veins change to other colors? Can they also change to the colors of the rainbow?"

"Mr. Xu, will the bird on your face fly away? Can you draw a little butterfly for me?"

When the children were entangled in the sunset, Xu Chenhe urged them to go home quickly, got up, took the textbook to the office and returned it to the teacher of that class, and thanked them with a smile.

His fingertips were covered with white chalk dust, Xu Chenhe twisted it with his fingers, turned to the bathroom and turned on the faucet to wipe his hands clean.After straightening up and shaking his hands, Xu Chenhe raised his eyes and saw himself in the mirror.The smile that was still on his lips gradually collapsed, he pursed his lips, turned on the faucet again, grabbed a handful of water and splashed it on the mirror, blurring his own face in the mirror.

Following his footsteps and returning here after three years, he shamelessly borrowed a lesson from the original teacher of this class. On the podium, he is still as confident as before, but he seems to no longer find the feeling he used to have.

His life trajectory has completely deviated from the time he decided to leave Rongjing Town. He still seems to like teaching, but he knows that he will give up this profession after all, so he will never let himself put more love into it, so that he can reminisce Once is enough.

A small town is not like a big city full of bicycles for everyone to use. Xu Chenhe is not in a hurry. The hotel he lives in is not far from the school. It takes 10 to [-] minutes to walk from here. almost meal.

The stall selling crayfish was having a special price, Xu Chenhe remembered that Uncle Zhang liked to eat it, so he bought two catties to send it over, and was dragged into the house by the polite Mrs. Zhang to have dinner together.The two couples got together only two years ago. Uncle Zhang's ex-wife left early and he had no children. After marrying Mrs. Zhang, it was inconvenient to have children due to age restrictions, but the couple lived quite comfortably.

More than ten years later, Uncle Zhang still treated Xu Chenhe as a child, peeled the shrimp and put them in his bowl first: "How do you feel about the lecture today?"

"It's a little rusty," Xu Chenhe said with a smile, "It's a good thing there is no teacher listening to the class behind."

"Come back if you like teaching," Uncle Zhang persuaded, "If you can't find a place to live, move here, and the room will be vacant for you."

Xu Chenhe just took it as a joke, the favor he borrowed before is hard to repay, how could he borrow it for a lifetime.When asked how long he would stay in Rongjing Town this time, Xu Chenhe turned around and looked through the calendar on the wall: "I'm leaving next week, I bought a ticket to fly to New Zealand, and I heard that it's spring there, so I went to avoid it." To escape the heat."

After eating and drinking some wine with Uncle Zhang, Xu Chenhe went back to the hotel diagonally opposite in a daze. Here comes the hotel.

The signal in the hotel was poor, so Gu Congran moved his computer downstairs, sat on a chair by the side of the road and connected to his mobile hotspot to work.In the residential building diagonally opposite, there was an old couple walking arm in arm. Gu Congran moved his eyes away from the screen and scanned them, watching them approaching hand in hand. He averted his gaze when he passed by.

For several consecutive days, Gu Congran worked at the same place, but the old couple had a regular schedule, taking a walk at this time after dinner every day.They also seemed to have noticed Gu Congran, one day after a walk the uncle asked his wife to go upstairs first, walked over and sat next to Gu Congran and talked to him: "Young student, you look familiar, have we met somewhere? "

Gu Congran recognized him, Xu Chenhe left Rongjing Town three years ago and said goodbye to him at the end.Uncle Zhang was a little fatter than that time, but Gu Congran remembered clearly that when he came here for a few days in a row, he took the initiative to say hello to him because of the other party.

"Uncle, you have a good memory." Gu Congran closed the computer, "I'm Xu Chenhe's friend, and I met you once."

"I mean, no wonder." Uncle Zhang patted his thigh with a smile, "Would you like to come over to relax?"

Gu Congran was slightly stunned, and didn't say that he came here alone: ​​"Yes, but I had some troubles with him recently, it's not your fault." He pointed to the computer on his lap, "I was kicked out."

"This is a quarrel..." Uncle Zhang counted on his fingers, "Four days? Xiaohe has a good temper since he was a child. Don't be stubborn with him. Be soft and apologize. He won't be angry with you anymore. .”

Gu Congran raised his mouth and smiled: "He was like that when he was a child?"

"That's not it." Uncle Zhang sighed when he talked about Xu Chenhe when he was a child, and looked up at the window of his own house on the second floor, "This child is suffering, his biological parents don't know how to cherish it, and they abused him so badly... ...Look at me, the bull's head is not right, and once the conversation starts, the conversation has to be dragged away."

The word "abuse" made Gu Congran's face shudder.When Xu Chenhe mentioned his parents, his expression was always indifferent and without any concern. The relationship between Gu Congran and his father was never as resentful as Xu Chenhe's. It is clear that Xu Chenhe hated him when he was grounded. He did not forget the video of being kicked out of the house by his father.But the abuse was the first time he heard about what happened to Xu Chenhe from people close to Xu Chenhe.

In addition, the diving bird also said this word. For Gu Congran, it was nothing more than pulling him an inch deeper into the quagmire that Xu Chenhe had sunk into.

"It's okay, you say," Gu Congran turned to Uncle Zhang, "I still want to get to know him well when he was a child, and he didn't mention it to me much."

"How dare he mention it, he wants to forget it." Uncle Zhang shook his head, "That family is crazy, shut such a young child in a dark room, and nailed the windows to prevent people from crawling out of the house. Xiaohe When I broke into this town with a disheveled face, I was so hungry that I was sick, so I just passed by and picked him up, and I picked up the dirty clothes, oh, there were scars on my back and legs!"

The dark night weighed down, making it difficult for Gu Congran to breathe.He scratched at the edge of the computer, his fingernails hurt, and he found his voice: "His parents called?"

"Otherwise who else could it be?" Uncle Zhang was also angry, "Xiaohe is so handsome after being washed, and his parents are willing to beat him, do you think he is human? Fortunately, this child was not mentally disabled, and Xiaohe is the only one who bears it." The ones who are stressful are the ones who survived that and grew up unharmed."

The words of condemning the Xu family and his wife were like piercing Gu Congran's heart, so why isn't he himself that kind of person?

"So, Xiaohe has changed his life here. He remembers whoever treats him well, and he treats others with a gentle temper. When he has a small dispute with others, he will worry about it for a long time. If they take the initiative to come to him and give in, he will take it easy. This chapter is over."

A child from someone's family slapped a basketball and ran across the street, and the sound of "dong dong dong" hit the bluestone road, concentrating Gu Congran's ever-diverging thoughts on one point.

Xu Chenhe didn't turn over the chapters, he just piled them all up in his heart, and he just wanted to pull them out one night to make himself sad.

"I—" Gu Congran opened his mouth, but couldn't think of what to say.

Uncle Chen thought he was stubborn, he got up, and sighed: "He has been running to Shengyang Elementary School these days, and I don't think you followed him. You can't let him do everything when you come with him. go by yourself?"