journey

After dinner, Luo Nianli stayed at home on the pretext of doing the dishes, while Chu Zheng accompanied his parents downstairs for a walk.Chess players and dancers in the small park are very lively.Chu Zheng helped his father sit down, and his mother chatted with the neighbors and aunts next to him. Chu Zheng was worried about Luo Nianli's wild thoughts at home, so he said to his father:

"Dad, I forgot to take my mobile phone. I'm afraid something happens in the team. I'll go get it."

Chu Jianguo was watching the chess player, and nodded after listening to him, realizing that he should go.

Chu Zheng ran upstairs and entered the room. Luo Nianli had finished washing the dishes and went back to his room to tap on the computer. The bedroom door was open, so Chu Zheng walked in.

"Luo Luo, don't just sit at home all the time, go, come downstairs with me for a stroll."

"Don't go."

Luo Nianli didn't raise his head, and just replied two words. Chu Zheng knew that he was angry, so he walked over to please him and dragged him.

"Let's go~"

"I said no!"

Luo Nianli shook off his hand and looked at him impatiently.Chu Zheng sighed,

"You have been ignoring me since you came back from playing that day. This is my mother's own decision, and I can't help it. But I will not see Aunt Sun's daughter."

Luo Nianli looked at the computer and snorted.

"Why don't you go? Men don't want it, don't you want women too?"

Chu Zheng felt a little uncomfortable hearing this, and frowned,

"What nonsense are you talking about?"

"What am I talking about? What am I talking about?"

Seeing his angry face, Chu Zheng sighed,

"Luo Luo, calm down, let's talk."

"I don't want to talk to you, there's nothing to talk about."

Chen Shufen patted her legs again, feeling that the mosquitoes came out this season, she turned her head and looked around but didn't see Chu Zheng, so she asked a few neighbors next to him to help take a look at Old Chu, and hurried back to get some Take the fan.

"You have to understand her, if she knows how to accept it."

"So what if I know? That's my business, what has it to do with you! Can't I still expect you to get married and have children!"

"What does it have to do with me?!"

As soon as Chen Shufen entered the door, she heard the two brothers shouting loudly. She frowned, changed her shoes, and planned to go to their bedroom.

"Isn't it? It's me who likes you, and it's me who climbs into your bed! What does it have to do with you!"

Luo Nianli's roar stunned Chen Shufen at the door. She looked at their bedroom in disbelief.

"Luo Luo, that's not the case."

"What's that like? You've made your attitude very clear, haven't you? I've always been the villain. So go get married and have children. Do you need to care if I'm angry or not!"

Luo Nianli passed his brother to go out, Chu Zheng grabbed his arm, and stood beside him with his back to him, Luo Nianli's eyes were red, panting heavily, Chu Zheng's heart beat faster , he closed his eyes, tried to make himself calm and said:

"Luo Nianli, I like you."

Luo Nianli's angry expression froze in an instant, he thought Chu Zheng was joking with him, Luo Nianli stepped back to look at his brother in disbelief,

"What did you say?"

"I say..."

Chu Zheng swallowed, looked down at Luo Nianli's eyes,

"How could it have nothing to do with me, I fell in love with you...what to do."

Luo Nianli stared blankly at Chu Zheng, repeating in his head, impossible impossible impossible...

"What are you doing?!"

Chen Shufen stood at the door of the bedroom angrily and shouted.Chu Zheng and Luo Nianli looked at her in horror.

"What are you doing? Ah?! What are you doing!"

Luo Nianli shook off Chu Zheng's hand and hurried over,

"mom!"

"Snapped!"

Chen Shufen excitedly exerted all her strength and slapped Luo Nianli hard.

"Don't call me mom! I'm not your mother! I don't have such a disgusting son as you!"

Luo Nianli was slapped against the door by his mother, his face turned red immediately, Chu Zheng hurried over to block him,

"Mom, can you listen to my explanation?"

As soon as Chu Zheng finished speaking, Chen Shufen fell to the ground clutching her chest. Chu Zheng quickly caught her, and Luo Nianli hurriedly surrounded her.

"Mother!"

Chen Shufen fell into Chu Zheng's arms, covering her chest with her hands, panting heavily and trembling,

"Go away, all of you get out of here."

Chu Zheng picked up Chen Shufen, walked to her room, and put her on the bed.

"Mom, take a deep breath, don't be angry, it's my fault."

Chu Zheng knelt by the bed and stroked Chen Shufen's chest, while Luo Nianli stood outside the door but did not dare to go in again.

"Get out, get out. I don't want to see you... woo woo..."

As Chen Shufen spoke, she turned over and covered her face with the pillow, groaning in pain.

Chu Zheng knelt with his head down for a while, stood up, and looked back at Luo Nianli who was standing at the door, both of them had bitter eyes.Luo Nianli turned around, and Chu Zheng followed, closing the door of Chen Shufen's bedroom.

"You stay at home and watch them. I'll pick up Dad and go back to live with me."

The two stood at the door, Luo Nianli did not look up at Chu Zheng, he stared at the pattern on Chu Zheng's short sleeves, and said calmly.Seeing that there were tears on his face, and the left side of his face was red and swollen, Chu Zheng stretched out his hand to touch his face in distress. Luo Nianli turned his head to avoid his hand, turned and went back to the house to put the computer in his bag and take it out. stand up.Chu Zheng stood in the living room with a listless face. Luo Nianli came out and stood in the entrance to change his shoes. Chu Zheng followed.

"I told my dad that I got angry with you when I quarreled with you, so you can tell mom. He has a bad heart, so you can't stimulate him."

"And... today's words, I've never heard of them."

Chu Zheng stared, and just about to say something, Luo Nianli immediately closed the door, separating the two of them mercilessly.

After a while, Chu Jianguo came back angrily. As soon as he entered the door, he asked Chu Zheng why he made Luo Luo angry, saying that he sent himself upstairs and left in a hurry.Listening to his father complaining about himself, Chu Zheng felt as painful as a knife.

The next day, Chen Shufen grounded Chu Zheng, confiscated his mobile phone, and forbade him to go to Luo Luo.Chu Zheng took care of her body, so he didn't contact Luo Nianli.Chen Shufen herself couldn't lift her spirits, her eyes were always red and swollen, and she didn't talk to Chu Zheng for two days.Chu Jianguo knew there must be something wrong. He asked Chen Shufen once, and Chen Shufen said it was nothing but that they were uncomfortable together. Chu Jianguo was even more puzzled but didn't ask again. He knew he would find out sooner or later.

Soon, Chu Zheng's vacation will be over. The morning before he left, Chen Shufen asked him to call Luo Nianli back, saying that he had something to say. Chu Zheng got the phone and turned it on. Luo Nianli called, his mother looked at him, and he just called back from the phone.After two rings, Luo Nianli connected.

"Hey?"

"Luo Luo, it's me."

"Brother, are Mom and Dad okay?"

Chu Zheng raised his eyes and glanced at his mother, his mother turned her head away from him, Chu Zheng sighed,

"It's all right. Are you okay? Mom asked you to come over at noon and said yes... I have something to say."

Luo Nianli was stunned for a moment,

"okay, I get it."

After hanging up the phone, Chu Zheng also took the phone from his ear, looked at it, and handed it to his mother, but Chen Shufen didn't answer it.

"You don't need to give it to me, as long as you have the number."

After saying that, he got up and walked out, Chu Zheng clenched the phone in his hand, knelt down on the ground wearily, and lay on Luo Nianli's bed.

Luo Nianli casually ate a couple of bites outside, he didn't rush to eat, but waited until his father's lunch break before arriving at Chu's house.Chu Zheng opened the door for him, and the two looked at each other at the door. Luo Nianli put a square band-aid on his left face, probably to cover the marks of the slap, Chu Zheng looked worried, Luo Nianli lowered his head, walked in.

Chu Jianguo fell asleep, and Chen Shufen sat on the sofa with her hands on her chest, staring blankly at the front with a very serious expression.

Luo Nianli walked in front of her, lowered his head, like a child who has done something wrong,

"mom."

Chen Shufen looked up at him, and Chu Zheng also came over and stood beside him.Chen Shufen closed her eyes, then looked up at the two of them again,

"I don't know what's wrong with you two, but Mom won't let you two go wrong unless I die."

Chu Zheng frowned, Luo Nianli still didn't dare to look up, he could feel the pain of being torn apart in his heart.

"Starting tomorrow, Chu Zheng will return to your army. As long as it is not the news of my death and your father's death, you will not come back. As for Luo Luo,"

Chen Shufen looked at Luo Nianli, Luo Nianli slightly raised his head to look at her, Chen Shufen's face was full of resentment,

"You do it yourself."

Chu Zheng left this time, very deserted.No one came to see him off. Standing on the platform, recalling the scene of seeing him off when he first joined the army, he took out his mobile phone and called Luo Nianli, but the phone was turned off.He smiled wryly, turned and boarded the train.

After leaving, it took another two years. During these two years, Chu Zheng had no news of Luo Nianli, but Luo Nianli appeared in his mind all the time.Lu Ziqi felt that Chu Zheng would be completely different every time he came back from leave.This time, it worried him the most, because Chu Zheng was always in a daze. When chatting, eating, and even when Dui Hu was lecturing, Chu Zheng would stand there in a daze, not knowing what to think.It wasn't until Lu Ziqi knocked open Chu Zheng's bedroom with two bottles of wine, and threw the bottles empty on the ground, that Chu Zheng covered his face and said:

"I lost one of the people I loved the most, and I hurt two of the people who loved me the most."

Lu Ziqi didn't understand, but he knew that this was Chu Zheng's most thorough statement.

After Luo Nianli left the Chu family that day, he once again felt abandoned by the whole world, like a puppet who lost his soul, living a routine life every day, but his mind was empty.Wang Zhe asked him many times if he wanted to develop abroad, Luo Nianli always refused with a smile, but this time, the moment Luo Nianli nodded, Wang Zhe actually thought that Luo Nianli had heard wrong.

Before leaving, he went back to his hometown based on his memory. His grandfather's house was in ruins. He climbed up the mountain and came to his grandfather's grave, knelt on the ground and wept bitterly.

"I'm sorry Grandpa...I did something wrong. They love me so much and I hurt them... woohoo..."

"But I still love him...Grandpa, I'm not filial, I'm in so much pain, what should I do..."

"...Grandpa...I miss you so much..."

Chu Zheng didn't know that Luo Nianli had been in the United States for the past two years. Apart from work every day, nothing could arouse Luo Nianli's interest. Wang Zhe was afraid that he would be depressed, so he took him to the psychotherapy room every now and then forcibly.

The night was quiet and dark, a sharp whistle echoed in the mountains,

"Level 20 mission. α Detachment Chu Zheng, Lu Ziqi, Zhang Yang, Wang Chuan, and Huang Qi are dispatched to the border of Yunnan and will depart in [-] minutes."

"Yes!"