Fog River

On the day of Xiaohan, Chi Shu happened to have no class during the day, so he followed his mother to Zhou Guocheng's house to join in the fun.

Zhou Guocheng's mother has a lot of etiquette and customs, and he has to do something in every season. Every year when it is cold, he has to invite a lot of people to drink mutton soup and eat hawthorn cake.

It's not like Chi Shu happens to be so coincidental every year, but now that it happens to be empty, he just follows.Not empty-handed, he brought two sets of new Barbie dolls to Xiaotuanzi.

There are few people this year. Zhou Guocheng and his uncles and uncles didn’t come, but Zhou’s mother made a lot of food. In the end, Chi Shu was so full that his throat was full. Zhou Guocheng’s father still wanted to eat Seeing Chi Shu drinking with him, Chi Shu was so scared that he ran to play with Xiaotuanzi.

The head of Xiaotuanzi followed Jiang Huiling, she had slender eyebrows and eyes, but she was a well-behaved little girl. Every time Chi Shu saw her, he would unconsciously follow her soft eyebrows and eyes.

Chi Shu touched her braids and asked, "The Barbie doll I bought is in line with your little princess's wishes, right?"

"It's super pretty, much prettier than the one my dad bought!" Xiaotuanzi smiled with his eyes bent, and didn't throw away the Barbie doll when he came over to hug it, which shows that he really likes it.

Chi Shu was also willing to hug her, completely forgetting Zhou Guocheng's confession not to spoil her, and carried her to the yard to watch the snow.

After Zhou's father stepped down from his top position in the shopping mall, he always stayed at home and refurbished. The foamy snow spread upwards, like a white plum blooming in the pool.

Chi Shu was sitting on the futon with Xiaotuanzi in his arms. Anthracite was burning in the stove next to him, making soft puffing noises along with the sound of falling snow.

Xiaotuanzi might feel a little cold, so he ran to get a blanket by himself, stretched out his short arms and put the blanket on Chi Shu's body, then grabbed the corners and circled around behind him, and finally turned towards Chi Shu by himself. Sitting in Shu's arms, he was at ease.

But it's just been stable in action for a while. It's the age of being active and talkative. How can you be idle, grabbing Chi Shu's collar and chattering, saying that he can grab the little red flower from last semester? When it came to holding hands with the little boy yesterday, Chi Shu couldn't help laughing.

"You're still holding hands with the little boy," Chi Shu said teasingly, wrapping around her slender wrist, "Which hand are you holding?"

"This one," Xiaotuanzi blushed, and raised his right hand shyly, showing off in his eyes, but a little scared, and leaned into Chi Shu's ear and said, "Don't tell my father, He's getting old."

Chi Shu couldn't hold back when he heard it, and laughed out loud while hugging the person: "Okay, I won't tell him, and I won't tell this kind of dishonest person."

As soon as the words fell, Zhou Guocheng shouted from behind: "Who are you talking about is not serious?"

Xiao Tuanzi shrank into Chi Shu's arms with a guilty conscience. Seeing the two father and daughter, Chi Shu couldn't hold back his laughter, and turned to look at Zhou Guocheng.

"No one, why did you come here and stop drinking?"

"Damn, the old man couldn't help scolding. My mother messed with me and dragged me to play mahjong." Zhou Guocheng sat across from him, his face still reeking of alcohol, and he yelled at Xiaotuanzi, "Zhou Huimin, what are you doing?" , be a shrinking turtle?"

Xiaotuanzi was so excited that she jumped out of her head, and a few strands of her hair swayed with her head: "What are you doing, big man Zhou, be careful when you drink so much, my mother will go back and beat you up."

"Your mother can't beat me, I'm the only one who will get her back." Zhou Guocheng yelled with his tongue out.

Zhou Guocheng guessed that he drank too much and didn't close his mouth, but fortunately, Chi Shu covered Xiaotuanzi's ears when he reacted to the last sentence.

"Zhou Guocheng, why are you drunk?" Chi Shu kicked him angrily, "Why are you jumping out of everything?"

After being kicked by Chi Shu, Zhou Guocheng also reacted, his face was suddenly embarrassed, he laughed a few times dryly, and waved to Xiaotuanzi: "Come on, come to Dad."

"I don't want it, you stink to death!" Xiaotuanzi pulled off the blanket and stood up, angrily shouting at Zhou Guocheng, "I'll go find my mother and beat you up."

After finishing speaking, the little girl ran out with her calves kicking, and Zhou Guocheng, who was angry, yelled behind her, saying that she was not old enough to have too many things.

Chi Shu watched the two father and daughter bickering in a funny and speechless way. He took the teapot off the stove and made a cup of tea for Zhou Guocheng.

"Have a drink," Chi Shu pushed the teacup over, "Wake up, I'll tell you when Huiling sees you later."

Zhou Guocheng glanced at Chi Shu's method of making tea, he didn't know how to make tea, and clicked his tongue in distaste: "You're a waste of tea."

"Then don't drink it," Chi Shu patted his hand holding the teacup angrily.

"Hey, it's going to burn my hand later." Zhou Guocheng hurriedly dodged and took a sip slowly.

Zhou Guocheng has never been a person who likes to come around and beat around the bush. After putting down his teacup, he asked directly, "What happened that day? Is your problem still a problem of boredom?"

Speaking of this, Zhou Guocheng immediately added: "Hey, it's not that I have to ask, Teacher Zhu is also worried, you have to give me a few words, right?"

Chi Shu also understood what Zhou Guocheng said. He didn't explain what happened that day at all. If it didn't sound really bad, how could he be fooled so easily.

Chi Shu also deliberately avoided his mother and Zhou Guocheng for a while, because he was afraid that they would ask about this matter, but if he avoided the first day of the junior high school, he would not be able to avoid the fifteenth day. Sooner or later, he would have to ask about it.

Chi Shu's face tensed instantly, and all the events of that day flashed in front of his eyes like a movie, and finally all turned into a weeping roar.

Chi Shu's heart tightened instantly, he couldn't help wrapping the blanket around his body tightly, reached out to hold the teacup, and said softly in the dense mist that it was all right.

"Chi Shu, what nonsense are you talking here with your eyes open?" Zhou Guocheng snorted, reached out and knocked on the table, "Do you want me to find you a mirror and show you what expression you have now?"

Chi Shu is not a person who can hide things very much, let alone such things that concern him so much. He rubbed the wall of the hot teacup, and after a long silence, he said, "Da Zhou, I really don't know what to do now. My mind is messed up, I can't figure out what you want to know, and I can't say it, so... don't ask."

Hearing Chi Shu's words, Zhou Guocheng probably knew what was going on.

Zhou Guocheng rubbed his face, moved to Chi Shu's side, hugged his shoulders and sighed: "I told you earlier that Bian hates this person, and he has a lot of bad things about him. He's been around for many years, but he's so ineffective, he's amazingly tolerant, and it's no problem for anyone to follow him. Listen to my advice..."

"Da Zhou," Chi Shu interrupted with his head down, his hands on his legs trembling uncontrollably, and his voice became colder with the wind and snow, "I'm chaotic, you don't understand if you don't understand, but I've already told you about it, Bian Yan was the one I wanted to take home, do you understand?"

After speaking, Chi Shu looked up at Zhou Guocheng, met the astonishment in his eyes, and said seriously: "I'm not joking, maybe I would hesitate a little when you told me at first, but until now, I can't get away. He I know about those things now, no matter how bad it is, I have never thought of retiring, let alone leaving."

Chi Shu spoke very slowly, one word at a time, piercing through the howling wind and snow forcefully and smashing into Zhou Guocheng's ear.

Zhou Guocheng was stunned for a long time, and when he regained his senses, he couldn't help cursing in a low voice. He let go of Chi Shu's shoulder, turned around and remained silent for a while.

But it didn't take long, Zhou Guocheng sorted out his emotions quickly, and he turned back after sorting out a little bit.

"Then what's going on this time? The Bian family or the Nie family are looking for trouble." Zhou Guocheng adjusted his posture, and the alcohol in his eyes gradually subsided.

Chi Shu pursed his lips: "All of them." After a pause, he added: "Nie Hao came to see me and told me about Bian Yan and his sister."

Chi Shu didn't mention Bian's sickness, it's not just a matter of privacy.

Chi Shu knew Zhou Guocheng. As long as he knew about this kind of thing, Chi Shu's mother would know about it. Chi Shu didn't want to put on colored glasses because of this before they saw Bian Yan.

Hearing Chi Shu's words, Zhou Guocheng made a sound of understanding, as if he had expected it: "I've heard it mentioned before, and it seems that I have been scouted for every job. Damn, the Nie family's psychopaths like it all." Do such crazy things."

"All?" Chi Shu keenly caught the words in Zhou Guocheng's words, and he frowned, "What do you mean?"

"As for Nie Hao's sister, Nie Qian, she hated her fiancée," Zhou Guocheng pointed to his head, "There was a problem. At that time...oh, during the years when you went abroad, Nie Qian forced her to get married and hated her. Everyone in Beicheng knew about it, wearing a bright red embroidered Chinese-style wedding dress, standing on the roof in the cold winter months, saying that she was tired of not agreeing to her engagement, so she jumped off."

"What?" Hearing this, Chi Shu couldn't help raising his tone, and his anger broke through the cold air and poured into his heart, "Is she crazy?"

Zhou Guocheng shrugged: "Aren't you crazy? Even Bian Yan agreed to be with her at the beginning, she used the same method to force her."

Speaking of this, Zhou Guocheng knocked on the table, stared into Chi Shu's eyes and said: "But what Bian Yan did behind is not authentic. He handed in a new one three months before he left. No matter what Nie Qian It is said that the years of being with Bian Yan have not been less considerate and caring, how long have you been here, Chi Shu, you should think about it yourself."

After Zhou Guocheng finished speaking, Chi Shu didn't answer any more. He clenched his hand holding the teacup tightly, and turned his head to look at the wind and snow outside the courtyard, as if he had seen Bian Yan back then.

Saw the dark rot that weighed down the spine.

In a moment of silence, a drop of tears fell into the tea soup, splashing ripples in this ordinary world.

Chi Shu's hand holding the teacup kept shaking, and finally at the critical point, he suddenly slammed it far away, as if he wanted to smash the past behind the snowstorm.

Chi Shu bowed abruptly and covered his face, a suppressed roar escaped from between his fingers.

"Why do you think it's his fault? Why, he also has... grievances and hatred."