heart to wild

At the end of the eleventh holiday, the younger sister of the Jiang family went out for a visit when there was only one person at home.

Originally, this was impossible, but when she was lying on the sofa reading a storybook, she suddenly heard a very faint sound of scratching the door, accompanied by a few soft meows.

After hesitating for 10 minutes, Jiang Bian got up and walked to the entrance, and unlocked the locked door.

The cat is a timid cat. If she has the guts to call her out, she has the guts not to touch her.

Anyway, the first step has already been taken, the little girl turned around and went back to the house to find a saucer, poured some water clumsily, opened the door again and walked out.

The gray-and-white-striped cat was so dirty that the white part could hardly be seen clearly, and it didn't know how it followed others upstairs. It was very uneasy in the strange environment at the moment, and it was cowering at the elevator entrance, looking at her timidly.

The girl and the kitten looked at each other for a while, then walked forward.

After walking two steps, she suddenly heard movement behind her.

The door accidentally closed by itself.

Jiang Bian, who didn't bring the key, turned her head and became even more silent.

When Chen Yiran came out of the elevator, he was thinking about other things, walking half-heartedly, so that when he walked to his door, he blinked in a daze, and turned his head to look at the silent person squatting by the wall a cat.

Pretty little girl, dirty kitten.

Chen Yiran didn't make a sound, the key was already turned in the lock, and the door of his house opened.

I seem to have heard it mentioned by the agent before that another resident on this floor is also a tenant. There are two brothers and sisters. The elder brother is still in high school, and the younger sister is only in elementary school.

...So the elder brother was not at home, and the child ran out to play and was locked out.

Chen Yiran absently pushed open the anti-theft door and walked in.

This apartment is very close to his new place of work. The location is good, the environment is elegant, the access control is strict, and the security is good. Except for the sound insulation, there is almost nothing he can fault.

Chen Yiran thought of the brother of the girl outside the door again.

The day the neighbor first moved in, the two of them had spoken a few words face to face.The boy admitted the wrong door, looked at him for a while, apologized casually, then turned and left.

Later, I accidentally bumped into him a few times on Xinzhong campus.

At the beginning, Chen Yiran thought about saying hello, but every time the boy who was slightly taller than himself would just glance at him lightly, and then kept walking past him with his trouser pockets in his pocket.

Before returning to China last month, Chen Yiran had lived in Australia for nearly 12 years, and the old events of Yancheng in his youth have long been difficult to trace.

He was used to being alone, and he didn't feel that the child's attitude was cold. Instead, he was secretly relieved after being treated coldly a few times—a good thing, he didn't have to deal with overly enthusiastic neighbors.

The door was closed behind him, and Chen Yiran thought of the boy's sister again.

This is not the first time he has seen her.

Sometimes when returning from grocery shopping after get off work, Chen Yiran would bump into the brother and sister feeding the cat downstairs.However, considering that he seemed to have provoked the teenagers at some point, Chen Yiran never took the initiative to greet them.

He sees many people every day, art students come and go, and new faces always appear and disappear every now and then.

Chen Yiran is still young, but his mentality is getting old early. He only feels that there is an innumerable generation gap between himself and these flowers. He occasionally looks up from the drawing board and can't remember their appearance clearly.

But it's all the same teenagers, the best age.

It's just that he inexplicably remembers this pair of brothers and sisters very firmly.

Perhaps it was because the boy had looked at him indifferently and stubbornly, and because his sister's temperament was too special, just like an AI cool girl in a sci-fi movie.

This place is heavily guarded and safe.

Chen Yiran held the handle of the glass jug and repeated it in his heart.

Two minutes later, Jiang Bian raised his head and saw the cell phone that the strange neighbor handed to him.

"Call your brother."

The man's voice was as light as the white water he just drank.

The elevator in the apartment was reported for repair by the naughty child upstairs blindly pressing the buttons.

Panting heavily, Jiang Zhai pushed open the door of the fire stairwell and turned around, just in time to see a very indescribable scene.

His younger sister was sitting at the door of someone else's house with a wild cat in her arms.

And the kind-faced neighbor stood by the window at the end not far from her, leaning against the wall in the afterglow of the setting sun, looking down at the phone with one hand in his pocket, the lines of his shoulders and neck stretched gracefully.

But perhaps because of the long wait, his expression was actually very indifferent.

Obviously when I saw him at school before, he always looked gentle and polite.

How could it be my brother and sister's turn, but Teacher Chen, whom everyone praised as good, always looked so unfamiliar and indifferent.

The time it took to get close was enough for Jiang Zhai to breathe evenly, he stretched out his hand and patted Jiang Bian's slightly raised forehead, and looked at Chen Yiran who came back to his senses for a while.

"Thanks……"

"You're back."

Just before he could utter the first syllable, he was interrupted by a male voice that sounded at the same time, Jiang Di was suddenly speechless, and even inexplicably began to feel that Chen Yiran's indifference just now was a deliberate act, and he disappeared as soon as he saw him.

Chen Yiran, who had no idea what was going on in his heart just now, shifted his gaze to the kitten in Jiang Bian's arms, and said kindly: "It was probably brought in secretly by a child living in the apartment and forgot, if you want to raise it, remember First go to the hospital for deworming and vaccination."

"No." Jiang Zhai's tone was categorical.

Chen Yiran let out an "oh" and didn't reply.

With inexplicable impatience in his heart, Jiang Zhai opened the door of his house without changing his face, rubbed his sister's head and wanted her to go in first, but then he saw the little Maza in the arms of the girl and the cat.

This lady came here to fight against him today.

The area of ​​the corridor is not big, Chen Yiran also saw it, and took the initiative to say: "It was left by the tenant in front of me, it's worthless, take it away."

Jiang Bian seemed to have found a backer, raised her head, and stared at her brother without blinking.

You are the ancestor.

Jiang Zhai stuffed the girl and Maza into the door, took advantage of his height, and slipped the cat out by the back of the neck before closing the door.

The little girl still didn't say a word, but the door was slammed twice, and after five seconds of anger, Jiang Bian turned and went back to the room.

Chen Yiran put away his phone and was ready to go home.

Jiang Di held the cat under his arm and watched him walk back to the door without looking away, and suddenly said, "Mr. Chen."

Chen Yiran paused when he opened the door, and looked back at him.

It turns out that you still know that I am your teacher.

The air fell silent again.

Jiang Zhai seemed to really just want to call him, and he had nothing else to say after the call.

Kids this age are really hard to deal with.

Fortunately, Chen Yiran is used to being slick and slick, and he has just been a teacher for more than a month, so he can be considered handy, and the atmosphere is not chilled.

"Remember to go back and talk to your sister about your precautions against strangers," he said.

The words were cryptic, but Jiang Zhai raised his eyebrows and immediately understood the meaning behind Chen Yiran's sentence.

After he suggested that Jiang Zhai go back, he told his sister not to trust strangers too much.But in fact, nothing like this had ever happened before.

From the moment he picked up the phone call in the shop where he worked, Jiang Zhai realized the biggest violation of the day——Jiang Bian was too close to this neighbor he had never dealt with.

In order to avoid any possibility of uneasiness, Jiang Zhai will never refuse calls from strangers when he is separated from his sister.

Fortunately, Jiang Bian was also well-behaved, so he never really frightened him.

So much so that after receiving a silent call this time, Jiang Zhai suddenly seemed to be pierced by an ice pick, unable to respond for a while.

Fortunately, the owner of the phone seemed to have realized something in the girl's unusual silence, and took the initiative to answer the call with a gentle voice.

"Hi, are you a resident at 1, Building C1201, Jiasnail Garden? I am a tenant who lives next door to you. Your sister seems to be locked out of the door, but don't worry, I will stay with her until you come back .”

Such a gentle tone, like boiling water at the right temperature to wrap his pulse, at a moment when he should be more anxious, Jiang Zhai really slowed down his breathing for a moment.

No wonder Jiang Bian got close to him.

But with such a gentle tone, the moment he saw her, he had such a cold face.

Could he change his face?

"Teacher, is my sister cold on purpose?" Jiang Zhai asked.

Chen Yiran didn't speak, but he didn't refute either.

He has lived abroad for many years, and his sensitivity to these things will be a little higher than ordinary people.

Ordinary well-meaning people would be very sympathetic and patient when they saw the little girl locked out of the door, and the more enthusiastic ones might even take her back to their home for delicious food and entertainment.

But Chen Yiran would rather just give the girl a ponytail, and stand outside the door with her thirsty and hungry for a few 10 minutes, rather than make any more intimate gestures.

He didn't want this child to have such high expectations of the world because of one of his "good deeds", so that the next time he met someone with a lack of conscience, he would still choose to approach and believe blindly.

This is the greatest, cold and delicate tenderness that a hypocritical adult can give.

Jiang Di's eyes softened suddenly.

"Thank you, Teacher Chen."

Chen Yiran showed a gentle "hmm" on his face.

The atmosphere of being a good teacher and helpful friend, he praised his performance.

But the boy suddenly raised the corners of his lips out of routine, and blinked at him almost viciously.

"Teacher, has anyone ever told you that you look fake?"

"..."

Chen Yiran looked at him for a while, then suddenly raised his hand, pointing to the wimpy kitten in Jiang Zhai's arms.

He said slowly: "Student, with all due respect, you are slowly killing cats."

Jiang Di: "..."

When he was speechless, the adult who always wore a fake mask had already walked into the house with a calm expression.

The door was closed.

There was repeated silence in the hallway.

Jiang Zhai mentioned the Sha Mao who was still alive and well, looked at it for a while, then leaned his head against the wall for a while, and gave a low laugh.

Yu Zisheng was in the living room entertaining relatives of old Yu's family when he received a text message from Jiang Zhai inexplicably asking what the name of the new art teacher in Building 2 was.

He raised his hand and replied, "I don't know. Are you sick?" He passed by, and was immediately spotted by the sharp-eyed Tong Qiyan, who reprimanded him softly, "Playing with the phone again! The adults don't even know how to pour water!"

"Oh, children are like this now, it's okay." The eldest aunt interrupted him with a smile.

"It's the same with Ziyu. As soon as he gets home, he holds his phone and doesn't even look up."

Tong Qiyan sighed: "But Ziyu went to T University, my family's ancestor can at most enter the TV University in front of the house."

Yu Zisheng got up lazily and poured a round of tea for the elders: "Just now your eldest nephew asked me about my vacation homework."

The third aunt also said: "Listen, sister-in-law, we Zisheng did nothing wrong playing with mobile phones."

Let him brag.

Tong Qiyan rolled her eyes in her heart, and still smiled gently at the family's sisters-in-law who had no bottom line and favored the eldest grandson: "That's because I misunderstood that the son was promoted, so let's take my younger brother into the house to play."

The little fat man Dongdong stared at his second cousin with piercing eyes.

Yu Zisheng smirked cooperatively with his mother, and when he turned his back to the crowd, his expression of desolation returned.

As soon as the door opened, Dongdong cheered softly and made a gesture to sprint to his AJ area.

Yu Zisheng grabbed the little fat man's collar, closed the door behind him, looked down at the inexplicably nervous little cousin, and said calmly: "You weigh over [-] pounds, you should be sensible."

Dongdong: "..."

"...I'm not yet eighty." Dongdong defended himself aggrievedly.

Yu Zisheng picked out the "Civil Engineering Mechanics" that Yu Kun left here from the bookcase and threw it to the child, then sat on the bed and picked up the phone again.

Jiang Zhai was probably bored, so he replied, "Then go back to school and ask your deskmate. I'm not sick." Come here.

Yu Zisheng didn't pay attention to him anymore, because someone suddenly put a small thing in his hand.

He raised his eyelids, and saw an extra delicate talisman on the bed, and the little fat man's hand that quickly retracted.

Maybe it was really less than eighty catties, and the arms could still be stretched behind the back.

"What is this?" Yu Zisheng raised his eyebrows and asked.

Dongdong pouted at him, reluctantly, but also vaguely looking forward to it.

"My sister and I went to the temple to ask for it for you. Everyone in the family has it."

Yu Zisheng said "oh" slowly, neither happy nor happy, and wanted people to take back their kindness to him immediately.

But the bastard quickly picked up the little cloth-covered talisman when the younger brother really stretched out his hand.

"Thank you." He pinched the little fat man's blessed earlobe.

Dongdong became happy, and approached without hesitation: "Each one is different! Your sister chose it specially, take a look!"

Girls are full of tricks.

Under the forceful coquettishness of his younger brother hugging his arms with his belly, Yu Zisheng pinched the blue amulet and turned it over to the light, and suddenly saw a row of "Academic Success" that seemed to be printed with Yu Ziyu's joking smile.

"..."

He patted Dongdong's head, and re-stuffed the engineering mechanics to the child, with a very gentle tone: "Go to study, I will check later."

On the last day of the National Day holiday, at some point in the evening in Yancheng, the lights of thousands of houses were suddenly lit up.

Half of them will be as bright as day tonight, accompanied by teenagers who make up their homework, or stay up all night with sleepless guests and sex-indulgent men and women.

The TV in the living room is playing a popular TV series, and the parents are wearing aprons in the kitchen and bickering quietly.

The top student wearing glasses finished writing the last set of extracurricular test questions for the day as planned, picked up his mobile phone and flicked for a while, and habitually posted a friend on Weibo with a collection of super funny videos.

The adults at home still haven't come back from get off work.

The girl with shawl and long hair put on a denim jacket over her nightgown and went downstairs to throw out the trash, pausing slightly on the way back.

She turned her head quietly, and under the sycamore tree not far away, she saw the almost flawless and proud girl in the class holding a cigarette between her two fingers, and blowing out smoke rings with her head up skillfully.

On the square in the Central District, the boy with wheat-colored skin was sitting next to the fountain holding a gift, waiting for another afternoon in vain.

He just received the "Sorry, I didn't buy a ticket to Yancheng today" on the phone. The screen saver settings dimmed, and he turned on the screen again. After hesitating, he edited the four words "Are you?" down.

The music on the square was warm and cheerful, and the noise and laughter of people coming and going came and went.The young man was silent for a long time without being able to see his expression clearly, and finally sent a message "It's okay! See you next time during the holiday [showing teeth]" in the past.

The pine gray Volvo parked at the front gate of the villa.

Yu Dian jumped out of the car, beside the door was Ding Yuan's dimpled smile, so bent that she couldn't see her pupils clearly.

"baby!"

He threw himself into his mother's arms, and heard the woman smile and say to him, "Someone sent you a very thick letter today."

Very thick, like a brick.

Yu Dian held the kraft paper envelope and looked at it stupidly for a long time, then suddenly turned around and ran upstairs, leaving Sister Manman's call for dinner behind him.

He closed the door, knelt by the bed, hugged his big teddy bear, held his breath and carefully tore open a corner of the envelope like opening a present from Santa Claus.

It's a photo.

very many.

There are Yudian who is wearing a military training uniform and giggling, standing in the front row and walking seriously, Yudian who is standing on tiptoe watching the national flag guard in the team, and Yudian who is bier with everyone in the group photo...

There is also the picture of the stickman Raindrop in the cafeteria that he missed, but was drawn with a marker pen and booing in the classmates.

The photos were scattered on the bed to form a map of his heart. He sat down on the bed and held Sister Xiong's hand tightly, laughing in surprise and sending a voice message to the cursive name on the envelope.

"Today is also super super super super super super happy!"

Want to tell you right away.

That extra "super" in the tail of autumn is just because of you.