Fork in the road

Bai Xiaoyuan and Yu Xian don't just get together to do their homework during the holidays. Sometimes they also go to watch the movies they want to watch, or try the food with good reviews.

The two of them happened to be out for activities that day, and they went to buy a lot of tutorial books and miscellaneous books in the morning—Yu Xian said that he only bought them before reading them—and found a nearby restaurant for dinner at noon.Because it took them a long time to buy books, it was already afternoon when they came to eat, and many restaurants were closed. The two of them searched for a while before finding one that was reliable by visual inspection.

Before entering the door, Bai Xiaoyuan said that he seemed to have seen photos posted by junior high school classmates before, and thought it was not bad. After going out, Bai Xiaoyuan said that he must beat that classmate when he returned to the class reunion.

The word "salt" may not be in the dictionary of the chef of this restaurant. After all the dishes are finished, there will be a phoenix in his mouth.

The restaurant is on the third floor. Yu Xian and Bai Xiaoyuan took the elevator down to the first floor. After going out, they looked for something to eat, and finally bought a pancake fruit on the side of the road.The two stood on the side of the road and ate slowly, Bai Xiaoyuan swallowed a mouthful and said, "I think those who give good reviews to this restaurant must have lost their sense of taste."

"Don't forget to communicate with your junior high school classmate who has lost his sense of taste."

Bai Xiaoyuan nodded angrily. Just as he was about to say something, his phone rang. He took it out and took a look, "Oh, Ah Guang."

The phone call was not long, Yu Xian saw Bai Xiaoyuan listening, suddenly raised his head and glanced at the building behind him - they just walked out of there - and then said to the other end of the phone: "I can go there right away, but Yu Xian is with me?"

Yu Xian who heard his name looked at the other party with some doubts, but Bai Xiaoyuan then just said "OK" and hung up the phone.

Yu Xian looked at Bai Xiaoyuan without asking any questions.Bai Xiaoyuan directly explained to him with a smile: "Lv Shaoguang, she forgot her wallet when she went to the coffee shop, and she wants me to deliver it for her. It's on the fourth floor." He pointed to the building behind him.

Yu Xian nodded, "I'll wait for you downstairs?"

"Let's go together, it's good to buy a cup of coffee along the way."

"No coffee, you will suffer from insomnia at night."

After Bai Xiaoyuan helped Lu Shaoguang deposit the money, the three of them walked out of the coffee shop without sitting any longer.Bai Xiaoyuan looked back after walking for a certain distance, and said, "I didn't expect it to be this...fortunately, I brought enough money. Girl, what stimulated you to come here alone for extravagance?" in a teasing tone , did not mean to accuse Lu Shaoguang of extravagance at all.

The per capita consumption of this coffee shop is quite high. Although Bai Xiaoyuan has never been to it, he has heard of it.

Until now, Lu Shaoguang still had a look of bitterness and hatred on her face. Her brows were lowered a little, and she said displeasedly: "I didn't come here alone. I wanted to trick him. Thinking about it, it's not good to do so. Pay yourself."

"Him?" Bai Xiaoyuan was confused.

"The boss there, he wanted to chase my brother, so he came to please me first."

Bai Xiaoyuan nodded, "Is that so... No, is the boss male or female?"

Lu Shaoguang gritted his teeth: "A man."

"Isn't that...just right?" Bai Xiaoyuan asked doubtfully.

Lu Shaoguang raised his voice instantly: "What a fart!"

It was rare for Lu Shaoguang to speak in such an anxious tone, and Bai Xiaoyuan didn't feel offended, so he followed her and said, "Then what a fart, are you planning to go home?"

Lu Shaoguang regretted the sentence just now, and nodded with embarrassment.When she saw Yu Xian behind Bai Xiaoyuan with a calm and unwavering expression, her embarrassment almost increased instantly, and she casually said "Let's go first, thank you today, I will transfer the money to you later" and left in a hurry.

Bai Xiaoyuan looked at Lu Shaoguang's back, which seemed to be walking in anger, smacked his lips, and then turned to look at Yu Xian.

Yu Xian looked back calmly, and said, "If you don't drink coffee, do you want juice or milk tea?"

The two sat in the milk tea shop waiting for their drinks. Bai Xiaoyuan ordered chocolate milk tea, and Yu Xian ordered tiramisu milk tea.After ordering, Bai Xiaoyuan shook his head, "It's all sweet enough."

Yu Xian said, "According to my mother, we will get diabetes when we get old."

"No, it's only been a few years since I ate sweets recklessly. Now of course Youth Invincible can eat candy if he wants to eat candy, drink soda if he wants to drink soda, don't worry about the feeling of disobedience. But wait until the age of 30 and be an OL—no, then It's a girl—well, she's in a suit and leather shoes, and holding a cake and milk tea is a bit delicate, so I'm sure she won't eat much." Bai Xiaoyuan nodded after speaking, feeling that what she said was quite reasonable.

"What fallacies?" Yu Xian disagreed.

Bai Xiaoyuan pretended to be surprised and said, "It's obviously a golden word."

"Okay, when that time comes, I will supervise you." Yu Xian smiled, "Don't eat sweets, don't drink drinks, right? I'll remember."

"Tsk tsk tsk, don't use a good memory in this kind of place." Bai Xiaoyuan smiled and shook his head with his chin in his hand.

After the milk tea was ready, they left immediately.It's late, just drink on the way back.Going out of the door and taking the escalator down the stairs, the route from the escalator to the door on the first floor has to pass through a counter for buying cosmetics and gold and silver jewelry. Both of them have no interest at all. Compared to these, it is better to let them go to a supermarket.

Just as he was about to cross the shining road on both sides, Bai Xiaoyuan suddenly grabbed Yu Xian.Yu Xian looked at Bai Xiaoyuan puzzled, and the other party motioned forward with his eyes, and asked, "Is that Uncle Yu?"

Yu Xian looked back for a long time, and saw a familiar figure at the gold jewelry counter far away.He couldn't help sighing a little, "Yuan'er, you can see it so far away, I've been looking for it for a long time."

"Be observant. Shall we go say hello?"

"Well, maybe I can get a ride."

After the two finished speaking, they walked towards Yu Xian's father, and just a few steps away, they saw the other party hurried towards the gate with the bag from the gold shop.If you want to call the other party at this distance, you may need a loud voice.

Yu Xian stopped in his tracks, "Forget it, anyway, it's not too late to say hello, if you don't see my dad someday, let's talk about it when we get home."

Bai Xiaoyuan also stopped, "Listen to you, then go home now?"

The two drank milk tea and sat on the return bus with their schoolbags in their arms.

Yu Xian took out his mobile phone to check the time, and suddenly frowned and said, "No, my dad should still be at work at this time...Why did he come here to buy jewelry?"

"Maybe I want to surprise my aunt? Is it coming to my aunt's birthday or wedding anniversary?"

Yu Xian thought for a while, shook his head, his expression became even more strange, "It's still early." He paused, and said, "Could it be..." Yu Xian couldn't continue, his expression was a little dazed.

Bai Xiaoyuan probably knew what guesses Yu Xian had in his heart, so he immediately persuaded him: "Why don't you ask uncle directly, it's useless to guess here. And maybe uncle will give it to auntie in a few days , you don't have to worry about it."

"I hope it's nothing to worry about." Yu Xian's expression was a little dignified.

Looking at Yu Xian's expression, Bai Xiaoyuan couldn't help but ask, "Is... what happened before?"

"It's nothing, it's just that my parents quarreled a few times before." After Yu Xian finished speaking, he took a few sips of milk tea with a straw in his mouth, "Forget it, let's not talk about it."

"Well, maybe Uncle wants to give Aunty a gift to make Auntie happy. In a few days, you will see Auntie wearing shiny yellow, no, shiny gold rings and necklaces every day." Bai Xiaoyuan showed a relaxed expression. smile.

Yu Xian also smiled, "Yes", and said, "I hope so."

Bai Xiaoyuan secretly looked at Yu Xian's expression, and changed the subject with a smile, talking about what Lu Shaoguang said to himself just now.Lu Shaoguang didn't turn his back on Yu Xian when he spoke, and didn't deliberately lower his voice, so Bai Xiaoyuan picked up something that could explain it clearly to Yu Xian - didn't mention Lu Yanwu's sexual orientation - and just talked about it. We talked about something funny that happened in dance class.While talking, Bai Xiaoyuan paid attention to Yu Xian's expression, and thought to himself: It seems that Yu Xian really cares about what happened today. I don't know how much the quarrel in his family went...

If this happened to someone else, Bai Xiaoyuan would definitely not care about it, but when it happened to Yu Xian, Bai Xiaoyuan couldn't help but pay attention.

Bai Xiaoyuan knew Yu Xian's thoughts and was worried that his father was cheating.

But after all, it was a family matter, and Bai Xiaoyuan didn't want to ask too many questions, so he could only find a way to find out by himself—this way was to contact Bai Xinhong to communicate his feelings.After the last parent meeting, Hu Yue and Bai Xinhong exchanged the latest contact information.Although overseas calls are expensive, Internet calls are cheap, and the two of them seem to be in constant contact with each other.

Bai Xiaoyuan first greeted his queen mother, and then mentioned Yu Xian.

He didn't say that he saw Yu Xian's father buying gold jewelry, he only said that Yu Xian told him that his parents were arguing, so he wanted to ask if the two mothers had communicated about it when they were on the phone.

After getting an affirmative answer, Bai Xiaoyuan continued to ask questions about the content of the quarrel. He also said that he was worried that Yu Xian's study status would be affected, so please ask Bai Xinhong to persuade Aunt Hu.

After Bai Xinhong agreed, Bai Xiaoyuan seemed to just ask casually: "Why are they arguing? According to Yu Xian, they were arguing even in the middle of the night."

"It's just trivial matters. It seems that Yu Xian's father works too much overtime?" Bai Xinhong's tone was careless.

Bai Xiaoyuan said "Oh", he felt that Bai Xinhong seemed to have more to say.

Sure enough, Bai Xinhong continued: "Tell Yu Xian not to worry too much, there is no one who doesn't quarrel after marriage, it will be fine after a while."

Bai Xiaoyuan couldn't help asking: "What if it doesn't work?"

"Either get used to quarreling every day, or get divorced." Bai Xinhong said lightly.

"Then, are you not used to it?" This was the first time Bai Xiaoyuan asked Bai Xinhong the reason for their divorce.I didn't ask before because I was not curious, but it was useless to ask, and maybe it would make my parents angry.

Bai Xiaoyuan's parents divorced too early, so even if he thinks about his parents' divorce, he doesn't feel any sadness at all. After all, since he can remember, his parents will not appear in front of him at the same time, so he just let it be I feel that this is a matter of course.And to be honest, he himself does not expect his parents to remarry, and even said that he hopes that the two will not remarry.After all, in Bai Xiaoyuan's memory, he has never had a complete family, and he doesn't yearn for a so-called "complete" family. He doesn't want any sudden changes in his life.

This time, in order to satisfy his curiosity, he finally asked. Bai Xiaoyuan thought that he would be nervous or afraid of the answer Bai Xinhong was about to give, but at this moment he found that he had no special emotions at all.

Bai Xinhong answered straightforwardly: "Yes."

The tone was so blunt that Bai Xiaoyuan didn't know what to say. He wanted to laugh a little, but felt that the timing was not right, so he could only try his best to whisper softly: "That's it."

"Your dad and I were both older men and women at the time, and we had the attitude of having no relationship with love for several years. As a result, when we met each other, we fell in love impulsively, got married impulsively, had children impulsively, and divorced impulsively. No, having children is unplanned. Divorce It was only later that I found out that I was pregnant, and I didn’t want to have a baby, let alone a fight, so I impulsively had a baby.”

Bai Xiaoyuan didn't even know what to say.He felt that if he heard this, he might already want to take revenge on the society, but it was okay with him. After all, he knew from an early age that he was not a treasure that was cherished by others, whether it was reflected in life or other aspects, just Even his name is a simple combination of his mother's surname and father's surname, revealing a casual feeling.

Bai Xinhong continued: "Your father and I are very irresponsible—especially me. When you were young, I always thought that you would hate me when you grow up. Where is there such an irresponsible mother? Where..."

Bai Xiaoyuan immediately interrupted Bai Xinhong, "I don't hate you." These words are sincere, Bai Xiaoyuan has never resented his parents, otherwise why would he work so hard to get close to them?And Bai Xiaoyuan doesn't think that the neglect he received in the past can make him resent his parents, because his expectations have always been very low, so naturally he will not have any dissatisfaction and resentment.

Bai Xinhong smiled, "You are a very good boy, so you don't hate me and your dad. However, you don't love us either."