paranoid beauty

"Huaihuai went to take a bath."

Ye Zhong nonchalantly urged him to drink: "I'll bring it to him later, you drink first..." She paused, and frowned at him: "Are you going back?"

Su Bei nodded with a smile, "There are guests at home."

Ye Zhong understood, and sighed: "Our Huaihuai just doesn't make people feel at ease, and I have to ask you to forgive him more in the future."

Su Bei smiled slightly: "Naturally."

……

The next day was the first day of the first lunar month, Ye Zhong woke up early, happily cooked glutinous rice balls in the kitchen, and when he brought them out, he happened to see Jiang Huai who had just come down from the stairs.

He was wearing a black down jacket, the hair on the top of his head was sticking out, and he greeted her one by one. His brown Danfeng eyes were full of sleepiness, and there was a blue-gray shadow under his eyes, and the skin on his face was pale. It was pale, and even looked a little frightening just like that.

... It looked like he hadn't slept well.

Ye Zhong was taken aback, quickly put down the bowl and walked over, "Huaihuai, wake up so early... Did you not sleep well? Hey, you child, go back and sleep again!"

Jiang Huai glanced up at her listlessly, then shook his head: "Don't sleep anymore. Auntie, I'm going out."

Ye Zhong paused, and frowned fiercely: "It's the first day of junior high school today, what are you going to do? It's so cold outside..."

Jiang Huai yawned and interrupted her: "I'll go see Ji Chu."

Ye Zhong was stunned.

After a while, she came back to her senses and murmured: "Ji Chu... yes, today is the first day of the new year, and it's a new year."

"I should go and see her, I should go and see her..."

Recruited, she seemed to suddenly think of something, "Huaihuai, you'd better not go..."

She frowned and scolded in a low voice: "Jiang Feixu, that inhuman bastard! What an idiot!"

"Huaihuai," she sighed, "If Jiang Feixu bothers you... Huaihuai, he is your biological father after all, he is used to being crazy, you should follow him. If he won't let you go, we I won’t go anymore, okay? Auntie made glutinous rice balls for you, come on, can you eat with Auntie?”

Jiang Feixu, that heartless bastard, let people go there, if Jiang Huai went secretly, it would be known if he didn't keep it.

Jiang Huai listened to her with lowered eyes, calm like a deep spring, and then opened his lips and said softly: "Auntie, Jiang Fei asked me to go."

Ye Zhong was stunned again, his face was mixed with astonishment, joy, and a little bit of bewilderment: "Is that so..."

Inexplicably, she thought of what Jiang Huai said when he ran down the stairs last night and asked her with a strange face. Now it seems that it was because of this incident?

Jiang Huai frowned slightly: "Auntie?"

Ye Zhong came back to her senses, feeling the coldness on her cheek, she slowly reached out to touch it in a daze.

Tears all over my face.

She coughed lightly, regained her senses, and was as gentle and gentle as usual, if it wasn't for the tears on her face.It was impossible to tell that she had lost her composure in the last moment.

"Very good, very good," she smiled gently. "Huaihuai, come over and eat the glutinous rice balls before going out—it's cold outside, so I'll go upstairs to get some clothes later?"

Jiang Huai nodded obediently.

After finishing eating, he rummaged through the closet in the room, and suddenly found a scarf that was obviously strange but indeed somewhat familiar, and he paused.

This is……

Oh, the boyfriend scarf.

The last time I went out to eat with my classmates, Su Bei was afraid that he would be cold and wrapped him up. Later, when he came back from Su's house, Su Bei was still afraid that he would be cold, so he asked him to bring the scarf back.

After he changed the scarf in a daze that day, he casually put it in the clothes basket. Aunt Li thought it was his clothes, so she washed them and put them in the closet.

He thought his boyfriend took it away...

He pursed his lips, and stretched out his hand slowly to touch it.

Soft and fluffy.

He picked it up and sniffed it lightly. The smell of the same laundry detergent on Su Bei's body was already very faint, but he just felt that the scarf still smelled like a boyfriend.

Well.

He didn't even look for his clothes, and slowly took out the scarf and put it on for himself.

He seldom wears a scarf. When going out, Ye Zhong felt strange and looked at him twice more, but she didn't think much about it. After reading it, she turned her attention to the flower branch under her hand.

While pruning the flowering branches, she instructed: "Huaihuai, it's remote and far away. It's so cold, don't stay there for too long, come back early."

"Also..." She paused for a while, then continued, "Can you help my aunt with a message for your mother?"

Jiang Huai stood still, waiting for her to speak.

She was still smiling, but she showed some sadness in the mist of the winter morning: "Tell your mother, I am doing well, and..." She choked up a little, "I miss her very much too."

She suddenly remembered what happened a long time ago.

At that time they had just graduated from high school, Ji Chu and Jiang Feixu were childhood sweethearts, and they got together naturally, she was happy seeing Ji Chu, and she was also happy.

At that time, Ji Chu was beautiful and cute, and he was still full of childishness, but he had thought about having a child more than once.

She asked curiously: "Does Jiang Feixu like children?"

Ji Chu laughed so dimpled, "I gave birth, how dare he not like it?"

She smiled and continued: "When your child is born, I will be his godmother, and I will love my godson well!"

Ji Chu shook his head, his eyes seemed to be full of stars, and looked at her tenderly: "No, I want him to call you auntie."

They went crazy together, made trouble together, read books together, experienced all the joys and sorrows together, and their relationship has long since gone further than that of real sisters.

She is two days younger than Ji Chu, so she is the aunt of Ji Chu's child.

……

Jiang Huai went to a flower shop outside to buy a bouquet of platycodon flowers, and then took a taxi to the cemetery in the outskirts of Jichu.

This cemetery is far away from the city, and there are very few "people". Jichu is on a quiet mountain top, surrounded by mountains and rivers, and there is a plum forest at the foot of the mountain.

When Jiang Huai arrived, the sky was already dark, and there was a drizzle of drizzle. He got out of the car and subconsciously covered the platycodon flowers in his arms from the rain. After realizing that he had moved, he was stunned, and then put his hand down.

The driver was a young man in his 20s, and he didn't rush away. Seeing him standing there in a daze, he lowered the car window and stretched out his head, "Little brother, you can't find the way, right? Or did you find the wrong way?"

He knocked on the steering wheel, and said casually: "I know this place well, it's just a cemetery, and it's too remote that no one would like to be buried here, seeing you like this..."

He spat, "It should be a young master too. How could your family bury such a place? Don't be stunned. Your grandfather and I are in a good mood today. I will take you back. I will bring you auspiciousness in the New Year, and I will not accept you." fare."

Jiang Huai raised his eyelids and glanced at him, then shook his head lightly, with a hoarse voice: "It's not wrong."

He paused and said softly, "No, thank you."

"Don't thank me, I'm not a good person," the young man waved his hand, "Okay, if you're right, you should go to the grave, right? Just follow the stone road at the corner over there, and pass by a plum grove You can see the entrance of the cemetery."

He squinted his eyes and looked at Jianghuai again, the scrutiny in his eyes was obvious, "You go and see... Forget it, you go, it's Chinese New Year anyway, I'm waiting for you here, it's not easy to take a taxi in this area ..."

Jiang Huai said "thank you" softly to him again, turned around and went up the mountain.

The stone road passes through the middle of the plum forest. It is not yet spring, and the plum trees have lost their leaves, leaving only some jagged branches, which looks extraordinarily bleak.

The air was filled with a faint smell of soil, and the drizzle fell on his body, which felt cool. He lowered his eyes slightly, and the petals of the platycodon flower in his arms had some tiny drops of water on them, making them more delicate and bright.

she……

You should like it.

There is a small security room at the entrance of the cemetery. The old man inside is sitting on a rocking chair and watching TV, singing babbling inside. The rain is swaying.

Seeing Jiang Huai out of the corner of his eye, he turned his head and asked in a long tone, "He came to visit the grave?"

Jiang Huai responded softly: "Yes."

The old man paused, stood up from the rocking chair and stared straight at him, as if through time, he saw someone who was no longer there.

Jiang Huai noticed that his gaze was looking at him, and there were tears in his cloudy eyes.

The old man caught his line of sight, and was stunned for a moment, with a slight smile on his dry, wrinkled face: "You are..." His voice was so hoarse that one instantly thought of an ancient tree deep in the mountains. , "Jianghuai?"

Jiang Huai looked at him silently.

The old man didn't move, and when he spoke again, he choked up a little: "I've grown up..."

The characters on the TV are still babbling and singing: "The old man is willing to never go home..."

The old man stretched out his hand to cover his eyes, but the tears rolled down his vicissitudes of the cheeks and dripped on the floor, making a soft "click".

"She has been gone for 17 years... 17 years..."

He seemed to wake up suddenly from a dream, and hastily wiped the tears off his face, "Can you find Xiao... where is she?"

Jiang Huai nodded silently.

"Then you go, I..." He seemed to be ten years older suddenly, and slowly sat back on the rocking chair, with his back facing Jiang Huai, "You go, she...she should miss you too."

Ji Chu's tomb is very clean, and it can be seen that someone often cleans it.

The stone tablet in front of the tomb is engraved with "Ji Chu, the wife of Fei Xu whose surname is Jiang". The photo above should have been taken when Ji Chu was nineteen and twenty years old. The girl was wearing a white cotton skirt and looked at the camera with a bright smile. The platycodon flowers beside the bun are blooming as brilliantly as hers.

This is the beginning of the century.

This is the first time Jiang Huai saw his biological mother.

The dimples in Ji Chu's photo are very deep and intoxicating.He slowly raised his hand and touched the dimple on his cheek.

This was given to him by Ji Chu.

He bent down stiffly and put the platycodon flower in his arms in front of the cold stone tablet. The moment he raised his eyes, his eyes just met the girl in the gray and white photo. The two pairs of red phoenix eyes that were exactly the same passed through 17 years of vicissitudes saw each other.

He paused.

After he stopped breathing for two seconds, he clenched his fingers, bent slightly and bowed to the stele.

In the bitingly cool drizzle, the boy's voice was low and hoarse, "...Thank you."

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