smoke scar

On the night that Su Zhaoxi left, Lu Yuanting got very drunk in the office.He asked his assistant to buy the wine, and sat on the carpet, facing the window, drinking glasses of wine in the night.

No matter how much he drank now, no one cared, so when he drank so much that he couldn't support himself and lay on the ground, no one came to help him.He touched his pocket, there were still two cigarettes left in the cigarette case.He didn't eat anything for dinner tonight, he just drank the wine and the current two cigarettes.

He took out one and put it in his mouth, then took out the lighter and lit it, and he felt better when the smell of tobacco dissipated.He struggled to sit up again, looking at the Wanjia lights below from the window.Then he took down the ashtray on the table and put it on the ground, and flicked the ash in it with his fingers.

He looked at the burning end of the cigarette, and just looked at it without smoking until the ash fell from his hand to the ground because it was too long.

He didn't know what to think, rolled up his sleeves, exposed a section of his strong forearm, then looked at the red light from the smoke, and pressed down on his arm.

The smell of burnt flesh soon spread to his nose, but he didn't feel any pain, he just frowned slightly, probably because his heart hurt too much.When I picked up the cigarette, the piece of flesh was already blackened, and it sank slightly.

Just take it as a lesson for him to teach himself, if he doesn't treat Su Zhaoxi well in the future, then he will be in court for a hundred days.

When Su Zhaoxi got home, it was already past dinner time, he walked into the alley of his house based on his memory.The alleys have also changed their appearance now, the dirt roads have turned into stone slabs, and the cracks in the walls have turned from white to gray.He found the door of his own house, hesitated for a while with the hand he stretched out to knock on the door, closed his eyes, bit his lower lip, and then gently knocked on the door that he hadn't touched in several years.

"Come on, who is it?"

The small house is not soundproof, and even a little noise can be heard, so soon after he knocked on the door, someone answered.It was his mother who answered. Hearing this voice, he was much older, and his eyes were a little sour for a while.

"Who is it, it's so late."

His mother opened the door while talking, and when the door was completely opened, she stared at Su Zhaoxi who was standing at the door, stunned, and stood on the spot in a daze.

Su Zhaoxi tightened her hand holding the box, then raised her head to look into her eyes and whispered: "Mom."

His mother looked at him and sighed, blinked her eyes as if there were tears, then turned sideways to make room for him: "Come in."

Su Zhaoxi picked up the suitcase and crossed the threshold, his mother closed the door after he came in.

The yard has also changed a lot, the old locust tree has grown a bit, but because it is winter, there are only some black branches left now, the door of the room is a bit old, I remember it was only renovated once when he left of.The light in my sister's room was on, and the little girl pulled the curtains and didn't know what she was doing, but in his room, it was so dark that he couldn't see anything clearly.

"Come in." Mom reminded him behind him.

"Okay." He smiled at his mother.No matter how much mental construction he did before coming here, he is still a little nervous now.

After entering the house, he felt some warmth on his body. Just now, after getting out of the car and walking all the way back, his hands were numb from the cold.

"Mom, who is knocking on the door?"

The little girl jumped out of her room in her pajamas. She had an unsteady temper when she was a child, but she hasn't changed at all now.

When she came to her, she looked at her brother who was standing in the living room with a suitcase, and was stunned for a few seconds, then jumped up and pulled Su Zhaoxi's face, and began to yell: "Su Zhaoxi, are you still I know come back."

Su Zhaoxi couldn't stand her pounce, so she took a few steps back, and after standing still, she began to support her with her hands to prevent her from falling: "Su Yingyue, why are you still so crazy."

"Who are you talking about?" The little girl pulled his face to both sides in disbelief, and his face was deformed by him.

"I was wrong, it's okay if I'm wrong, come down, I'm afraid I won't be able to stand still and I'll fall you."

"Hmph, weak chicken." Su Yingyue uttered contempt for him.

Letting her make such a fuss, Su Zhaoxi relaxed a lot, she was not as stiff as before, after all, it was her own home, she hadn't come back for so many years, this was also her own home.

"Who is this coming back?"

His father came out from another room, because he was a teacher in the early years, with a natural majesty in his voice.

Su Zhaoxi became nervous again, picked at the corner of her clothes with her fingers, and called out timidly: "Dad."

"You still know when you come back, you still know that you have a father, and I still think you have no father or mother."

Su Zhaoxi could tremble with fright when his father yelled. When he was a child, he was most afraid of his father. His father was a very strict person. Before high school, he beat him a lot, especially during the rebellious period. ruthless.

"Dad." Su Zhaoxi lowered his head and shrank his neck and called out again.

His father slapped him on the back, and he straightened up immediately.

"What does it mean for a man with his chest in his chest to be hunchbacked? You've been away for a few years and you've forgotten everything I taught you?"

"I haven't forgotten." Su Zhaoxi clenched his fists, trying to relax himself.

His father didn't want to embarrass him, but there was still a little bit of resentment, and he just felt pleasing to the eye after calling him a few times.

"Go and go, didn't eat, went back to sleep after eating, tossing and tossing all day, coming back so late, it's annoying." His father left the house without saying a word.

After he left, Su Zhaoxi dared to raise the corner of his mouth to smile.His mother took his hand, and she couldn't hide the concern in her eyes: "Have you eaten, there is still food in the kitchen, I will warm it up for you."

Su Zhaoxi didn't want to tire her mother anymore, so she said that she ate on the train.Su Yingyue pulled his suitcase over and waved at her mother: "Mom, you should go to bed earlier, my brother can sleep in my room tonight."

Su Zhaoxi also said to let his mother go to bed early, his mother saw that his brother and sister were colluding when they were young, she smiled and shed tears.

Su Yingyue put his suitcase at the end of the bed, then sat on the bed and spread her hands towards him. Su Zhaoxi was puzzled and asked her what she was doing.

As soon as Su Yingyue slapped the bed, she disliked him for being stupid, so she made it clear to him, "You owe me the New Year's money for several years, and you will make it up in one lump sum this year, and refuse to pay in installments."

Su Zhaoxi laughed and gave her all the cash in the wallet. The little girl patted him on the shoulder with satisfaction, and then Su Zhaoxi couldn't help yawning.

"You said let me sleep in your room, where should I sleep?" Su Zhaoxi looked at the bed, and felt that his sister was not the kind of person who could divide the bed into half for him.

"On the floor." Su Yingyue put the money away, and pointed to the floor mercilessly.

"On the ground?" Su Zhaoxi was surprised, and then he was so angry that he couldn't speak: "I gave you so much money just now, and you asked to sleep on the floor? Just this service?"

Su Yingyue spread her hands and shrugged her shoulders, looked at him innocently and said, "That's lucky money, it's different, and the service fee is extra."

Su Zhaoxi shook her head, she didn't want to bother her family at this late hour, anyway, there was floor heating and it wasn't very cold, so let's sleep like this.Su Yingyue secretly hugged a quilt for him and came over to spread it, then turned off the light and started chatting with him.

The little girl hasn't seen her brother for a long time, and it seems that she has endless things to say. Su Zhaoxi also misses his sister very much, so she always answers her questions.

In the quiet night, the two talked in a low voice, and a tea party began.

Su Yingyue lay sideways on the bed, looked at Su Zhaoxi who was sleeping on the ground, and asked curiously, "Brother, why did you come back this year?"

She remembered how tragic the scene was when his brother brought another brother home, how much trouble his parents had, and then his brother left for many years.

Su Zhaoxi also remembered the scene at that time, and felt a little funny in his heart, it was so naive at the time: "I missed you, so I came back."

The little girl turned her head, puffed out her mouth and said arrogantly: "I don't believe it, did you come back because you couldn't get along outside without me covering you?"

Su Zhaoxi smiled, and wanted to make her happy, so she followed her words and said, "Yes, I'm miserable outside without you covering me, and I've been bullied all the time, so now I'm going home and going to you. "

Su Yingyue wanted to pat him on the shoulder to show his righteousness, but she couldn't reach him with her short arms, so she patted her chest and said, "Don't worry, your sister is already in high school, if someone bullies you, tell me One sound, I told the boys in our class to beat him."

"Why are you so powerful?" Su Zhaoxi looked at the little girl on the bed pretending to admire.

"That's right, I'm very familiar in class." Su Yingyue looked at her brother, and there was something stuck in her heart, and finally asked hesitantly: "Brother, how are you and that brother doing now?" ?”

After she finished speaking, she nervously picked the bed sheet, some of her small movements were exactly the same as Su Zhaoxi's, exactly the same.

When Su Zhaoxi thinks of Lu Yuanting, his heart still hurts, but he pretends to be good in front of his sister.He said nonchalantly, "We're separated."

Su Yingyue shouted in surprise: "Separated?" Then asked: "How did you separate?" After finishing speaking, she felt that she shouldn't have asked.

"I didn't like him, so I left." Su Zhaoxi smiled, but there were tears in his eyes.

Su Yingyue stopped asking him about this matter, and started chatting with him, asking him what he has been doing these past few years, how he is doing, and whether he has met anyone he likes again.

Su Zhaoxi said that he had been a doctor in a hospital for a long time, and then quit his job when he felt too tired, and opened a bookstore on a street, and met someone he liked, but the fate was too shallow, and they separated soon Yes, we haven't been friends for long.

The little girl was very curious about his life. After all, they hadn't seen each other for several years. They kept chatting, and it was Su Yingyue who couldn't bear it and fell asleep first.

Seeing that she was asleep, Su Zhaoxi didn't talk anymore, he pulled the quilt and turned over to sleep, he was very tired after sitting in the car all day.

He slept soundly that night, rarely dreaming, different from the drowsiness of the previous few days, this time he felt very at ease.

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