squirrel

With the heat getting worse, the matter of urging the squirrels to go back to school has been put on hold for the time being - and it's not all because the squirrels are too greedy.The day after Aunt Yu's visit, Gao Liyuan's distant relative who hadn't been back to the old house for a long time suddenly visited. The squirrel was eating popsicles in the living room, and the two of them coughed intermittently for more than ten minutes before they finally settled down on the balcony full of sundries. I dug out a package of things from an old cabinet.

"Hey, the little ancestor of my family thought that every time I come out, it's just a matter of time. Fortunately, I didn't throw it away for her at that time, otherwise I would have been killed."

Relatives went to the toilet to wash their hands, and things were left on the dining table.While no one was around, the squirrel peeked in through the gap—it turned out to be just some small things such as cross-stitching.

Just because of this little thing, he was willing to run back and forth in the hot weather. It's amazing... He couldn't help but slander in his heart. It happened that Gao Liyuan walked back to the living room with his wet hands, and he guessed at a glance that the squirrel was thinking about something again. What, reached out and patted his forehead, leaving water all over his face.

"What are you doing!"

The squirrel raised his foot and wanted to kick someone, but his relatives walked out at this time, so he had to temporarily truce, watched Gao Liyuan exchange a few words with that person, and then opened the door to send him away.

The anti-theft iron door squeaked, but it was a duet. The neighbors were about to go out, and when they saw their old friends with their probes, they both burst into laughter. Regardless of the chatter echoing in the narrow corridor, fourteen families on the seventh floor, each of them can hear.

"That's it! It's settled! You must come to my place some other day." Finally, Squirrel clearly heard the relative say in the living room, "My nephew also entrusts you to take care of me."

"What do you say, we old fellows are the ones under his care! When Liyuan gets married and moves away one day, we will be sad to death."

The relative's voice suddenly raised a level: "So Li Yuan has a date?"

With a movement of the squirrel's hand, the TV jumped to the next channel. The host was enthusiastically recommending the golden mobile phone, and the excessive volume suddenly diluted the conversation outside the door.He pinched the remote control in his hand and tossed it over and over for several rounds. When he finally pressed his finger on the volume button, Gao Liyuan had turned around and walked in, closing the door behind him: "What are you looking at? The sound is so loud that people's ears hurt .”

"Golden mobile phone." The squirrel threw the remote control, sank into the sofa, and said blankly, "Only [-]."

Gao Liyuan was a little speechless.He silently looked at the squirrel who seemed to be watching an advertisement for a while, but still couldn't figure out what kind of trouble the other party was having, so he turned around and sat down on the other side.The squirrel couldn't see his face. After a while, Gao Liyuan suddenly heard Gao Liyuan say: "These days... If the phone rings, just pretend you didn't hear it."

Hearing this, Squirrel couldn't help turning his head and glanced at the phone next to the shoe cabinet at the door.He hadn't heard it ring since he moved in, only Gao Liyuan used it to make a few calls occasionally, either to school or to that relative's house... Gao Liyuan was worried about who would call?

He opened his mouth, wanting to ask something, but in the end he uttered a short syllable: "Oh."

But the phone didn't ring as Gao Liyuan said.Squirrel originally wanted to laugh at the other party for being affectionate, but when he saw Gao Liyuan's always frowning brows and the obvious increase in smoking, he also became uneasy.

Three days passed in the blink of an eye.

The stock of ice cream was exhausted, and Gao Liyuan made another wholesale bag on the way home from get off work, and filled it full into the freezer of the refrigerator.The squirrel insisted on eating a popsicle before washing the dishes after dinner, so when the doorbell rang with the sound of water in the kitchen, only Gao Liyuan who stayed in the living room heard it.

He glanced at the wall clock on the wall, but didn't answer, walked to the door and looked out through the cat's eyes.There was an earnest face in the narrow field of vision, Gao Liyuan looked at that familiar face, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief—it finally came.

He opened the door: "Mom. Why are you here. "

"It's been a long time since I saw you, so Mom came to see you." Gao's mother followed her son into the house, looking around the empty living room, "This is the first time Mom has seen the place where you live, um, yes, the room is bright and bright, the furniture is also……"

"Mom." Gao Liyuan couldn't help interrupting his mother's words, and asked straightforwardly, "Did Uncle Feng tell you something?"

"Your Uncle Feng will call us every now and then, so there are too many things to talk about." Hearing this, Gao's mother glanced at her son with some complaints, and was about to say a few more words , but suddenly bumped into the squirrel coming out of the kitchen with a splash of water, "Oh, this is... the child that someone entrusted you to take care of?"

"It's him." Gao Liyuan was a little annoyed, wanted to smoke, put his hand into his pocket and held back, only turned to the squirrel and said, "Ming Yue, this is my mother."

Squirrel nodded: "Hello, Auntie."

"Hello, hello," Gao's mother smiled, "What's the young man's last name?"

Squirrel didn't think much, and opened his mouth to say his last name. Gao Liyuan's heart trembled, and he saw Gao's mother lowered her eyes and muttered something: "Jiang..." She pondered for a while, and then asked her son, "Is his brother Jiang?" When? Are you still in touch?"

"It's not Jiang Shi, and it's not someone you know."

Gao Liyuan finally lowered his voice, interrupting his mother's inquisition.Fortunately, Gao's mother made a special visit this time because she had other important matters, so she stopped caring about the squirrel and said instead: "Liyuan, Mom still says the same old saying, I know you don't want to keep arguing with your dad, so you can come back twice less. But getting married is a major event in life, so don't procrastinate any longer, huh? Last time I met you, Uncle Song, he asked you, we have been neighbors with him for so many years, and now seeing him alone, in his heart It's really uncomfortable."

The squirrel had already had a chance to play while playing. At this time, Gao Liyuan heard Gao's mother babbling, Gao Liyuan was a little impatient before, but when he heard "Uncle Song", his expression changed obviously.He just remembered the photo taken a few days ago when he heard Gao Liyuan say: "What happened to Xiao Lang is not entirely Uncle Song's fault..."

"We all persuaded him to come like this, but his son is so gone, how can he bear this." Gao's mother sighed again when she said this, but after a few words, she went back to the topic of urging Gao Liyuan to get married quickly.

Gao Liyuan had already guessed that this time his mother came to the door in person, and he couldn't do it so casually, but he still thought that it would be a day if he could delay it, and while the wall clock in the living room was striking nine, he quickly took out the excuse of tidying the bed for her first. People sent to wash.The original extra bedroom was occupied by squirrels, so Gao Liyuan had to give up the master bedroom.

"You sleep in the living room?"

The squirrel was watching the TV series, and seeing Gao Liyuan hugging the pillow and towel and being thrown on the sofa, he couldn't help but stare.The owner of this house had a good-looking picture during the previous decoration. A chandelier was installed in the living room, which took away the position of the fan.There is also a vertical fan, but it will be dragged to the squirrel room at night. In this season, the living room will not be much cooler even if the windows are opened for ventilation.

Gao Liyuan didn't understand his fuss: "Otherwise, who would sleep outside? My mother is still a wounded person like you?"

The squirrel's lips moved, as if to say something, but it was completely submerged in the background music of the TV series. "What did you say?" Gao Liyuan thought he had something to do, took a step forward, bent down and asked.

"I said let you squeeze me!"

Gao Liyuan was startled.

The hut where the squirrel lives was previously lived by Gao Liyuan's relatives' son and his wife, so it's no problem to sleep two people in a double bed.He just didn't expect the squirrel to be willing to open such a mouth.Gao Liyuan hesitated for a while, but still asked him with confirmation: "Is there any problem with your arm?"

What answered him was the squirrel's heavy snort: "Such a big bed, you sleep in yours and I sleep in mine, and my arm is still in plaster. Is it possible that I can be squeezed by you again? Just say it if you think I stink. , don’t talk about what’s there or what’s not.”

"That's not what I meant..." Gao Liyuan explained, seeing that the squirrel still had a look of disbelief, he simply took action, took the pillow in his hand again, turned and walked towards the hut.The squirrel sat on the spot and looked at Gao Liyuan's back, his eyes flickered several times, but finally said nothing.

Gao's mother is getting old, and she has been running around for another day. After washing, she went into the room to rest.After all, the old house had poor sound insulation, so Gao Liyuan called Squirrel to turn off the TV and went back to stay in the house.He brought all the novels he bought at the bookstall before, but the latter curled his lips when he saw the cover: "I've read them all—you're interesting when you're on TV all day long?"

"Then go out and buy a few more books tomorrow." Gao Liyuan just felt sorry, packed up the books one by one, and when he was putting them on the cabinet, he suddenly heard the squirrel asking from behind, "By the way, the person you talked to your mother about today , is it the kid in the photo?"

"Yes."

Gao Liyuan only answered one word, but when he turned around, he had a smile on his face: "Why do you ask so many things? You need to know everything, and you don't talk about your own affairs."

He took out what the squirrel said before and hit back, which really made the squirrel choke. "If you don't want to say it, forget it." The squirrel pouted, and lay down with its back facing outside, but felt the mattress behind him sinking, and the light of the bedside lamp also dimmed a little, and it was Gao Liyuan who sat on the head of the bed. "Squirrel," he heard Gao Liyuan's voice, which was very clear in the silent night, "Why did you come here then?"

"... poor, what else could it be because of it?" Squirrel didn't turn around, staring at the white corner of the curtain in front of him, and said to himself, "After finishing the nine-year compulsory education, he is good at hands and feet. Willing to give me free food - it's that simple."

"How did your parents die?"

"Sick. My dad has been sick since he was a child. It's useless for the whole family to pay for him to finish high school. He passed out on the day of the college entrance examination. My mother was hired by them to serve others. She did everything. She died later. My dad is still early."

Even with the mouse, the squirrel never mentioned anything about his own family, but this time he said it all—although it was only a short paragraph.After he finished his narration, he didn't want to talk anymore. Fortunately, Gao Liyuan didn't continue to ask the bottom line, allowing the silence to be prolonged infinitely.

The squirrel fell asleep in a daze, and when he fell to the edge of the dream, he vaguely felt that someone patted his shoulder - he didn't know if it was an illusion.

But the next day the squirrel completely forgot about it.Gao Liyuan guessed that he went shopping early in the morning again, and the quilt was neatly folded.When the squirrel opened the door, he saw Mrs. Gao sitting on the sofa in the living room, watching Peking Opera with the remote control in her hand, which made his mood after finally resetting a lot worse.

Gao's mother was very happy to see him: "Mingyue is up? The breakfast is all hot and it's on the table. Li Yuan is going to go shopping by himself... Doesn't he cook delicious food? Auntie will cook for you at noon OK."

"Thank you, Auntie." The squirrel responded, but said in his heart, it's much better now than you know.

But he immediately realized that this was a good opportunity.After hastily washing his face, the squirrel tried to strike up a conversation with Gao's mother while eating breakfast.Elderly people are always talkative. Whenever he asked about Song Lang, Gao's mother sighed: "Does Liyuan still have Xiao Lang's photo? It's no wonder, they are both only children. They have played with each other since they were young." Brothers are just as good."

"Isn't it the result of being laid off at the time? Life was good at first... It's because Xiao Lang's life was bad. After his mother left, his father found another one. Otherwise, if he was his own mother, he would have to feed the child even if he was hungry." Ah? At that time, Liyuan was in the provincial team, and Liyuan's father and I were looking for jobs everywhere, and didn't care about other family affairs. I only heard about it after Xiaolang's accident. His stepmother took all the good things. This kid was always hungry, so he ran to steal restaurants... The boss let the dog chase him after too many times, which frightened him. When he fled, he fell into the river and disappeared. You said that at that time If someone is watching him..."

Gao's mother was still talking in a low voice, and the squirrel lowered his head to take a sip of the porridge, but he could only taste the porridge.No wonder he wanted to pretend to be a good person to treat himself to dinner, and then he took the initiative to lure thieves into the house—the cause of some things finally became clear, but Squirrel felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.