Strong alliance

Since Mrs. An moved to the back street, such encounters are indispensable. Sometimes Xiao Xi and An Yu would meet her when they came to buy things in the back street.

But what made Xiao Xi curious was that his father actually knew Mrs. An.

However, judging from Xiao Renhe's expression, he obviously didn't want to explain anything to his son, Xiao Xi naturally didn't ask any more questions, and attributed this matter to "fate".

And Xiao Xi knew that even if he asked, there would be no result, so it was better not to ask.

In fact, Xiao Xi knew that there was something wrong with the way he and Xiao Renhe got along with each other long ago. He didn't know when it became a state of being well and peaceful with each other, so most of the time, they just stopped talking, even caring.

This kind of feeling is a bit like ordinary friends with blood relationship.

There seemed to be an impenetrable gap between them.

I can't tell and I don't know.

Because Chen Fanglan and Xiao Renhe had jobs, they planned to leave after simply chatting with Mrs. An, but it was Chen Fanglan who was always talking about it. Xiao Renhe was obviously not very interested, but kept his old-fashioned calmness on his face. Can't see anything.

Seeing that the two parents were about to leave, Xiao Xi and Xiao Xi still planned to send them off. He pushed An Yu who didn't know when he started to be in a trance: "Don't be dazed, give it away."

"Ah."

An Yu returned to his senses, looking at Xiao Xi's expression suddenly became a little complicated. The words Ms. Chen said to him in He Nian He Yue were like a stone sunk in the bottom of the sea that was suddenly brought out by the turbulent sea.

Chen Fanglan said with a little envy at the time: "Xiaoyu, I went back to Beilu Street to visit your grandma, and I met a man who fainted from crying because of his dead wife. I thought..."

At that time, he had never thought about who this person was. Now that this intricate relationship was in front of him, An Yu suddenly felt a little scared.

He hoped it wasn't what he guessed.

An Yu felt a little cold, he habitually pushed the zipper up to his head, put his hands in his pockets and walked at the back.

When Chen Fanglan was about to get in the car, An Yu suddenly called out to her: "Mom."

Seeing her son's tangled expression, Chen Fanglan felt that he had something to say, so she bent over to Xiao Renhe who was in the driver's seat and said, "Wait for me a while."

Xiao Renhe nodded in response, and Xiao Xi was very tactful. The mother and son wanted to talk, and it was not good for him to eavesdrop, so he waved his hand and said, "Go talk with Aunt Chen, and I'll wait in the car."

An Yu nodded, and he and Chen Fanglan walked under a tree. This open-air environment always made him feel unsafe and would be heard.

Eventually, they walked into a small teahouse next door.

It's winter, and the business of this small teahouse is actually pretty good. After lunch, many people choose to come in for a cup of warm tea to relieve their greasy. An Yu and Chen Fanglan chose a corner to sit down, and the loud voices became their natural protection barrier.

The mother and son didn't order tea, but asked the boss to serve a cup of steaming water. The steaming mist scattered in the air, blurring people's vision.

"Xiao Yu." Chen Fanglan felt that something was wrong with her son, and she waved her hand in front of An Yu: "What do you want to ask me?"

"Mom." An Yu felt that his breathing was a little painful, and he opened his mouth with difficulty: "The person you met four years ago was Uncle Xiao." He used a declarative sentence: "So, Xiao Xi's mother... "

"..."

Chen Fanglan's hand holding the cup paused for a moment. She and Xiao Renhe had just met at that time, and some of the words they said were unintentional.

Later, after she decided to be with Xiao Renhe, those words were like complaining, so she didn't dare to say them anymore, and she thought that An Yu would forget what she had said after a long time, but she didn't expect to remember it.

Chen Fanglan blew on the water in the glass, took a sip, nodded and said, "Yes, it's your Uncle Xiao."

An Yu: "Where did you meet?"

Chen Fanglan lowered her eyes: "The cemetery."

There is only one cemetery in this part of Mocheng, which is on Beilu Street. Although the location is a bit out of the way, the internal environment is not bad.

That year, Chen Fanglan learned that the man who ruined almost half of her life had died, and she went back to Beilu Street with complicated feelings.

But she didn't intend to tell An Yu the purpose of going back, she just told An Yu to go back to see grandma, although An Yu also wanted to go at that time, but he couldn't get away from his studies, so he had to give up.

After returning to Beilu Street, Chen Fanglan did not expect that she and Mrs. An had just stepped into the cemetery when they saw a person falling down in the cold weather of December, and later this person became the incumbent.

"So, Uncle Xiao has been lying to Xiao Xi," An Yu suddenly said, "Is that right?"

"Yes." Chen Fanglan said: "Your Uncle Xiao was also very broken at the time, and he didn't know how to speak. After he calmed down, he planned to wait until Xiao Xi went to college."

"...It's cruel to him like this." An Yu drank a mouthful of steaming water, and the tip of his tongue felt a little sore: "It's like the person you died without telling me, and finally I learned about it from Anchengkou. thing."

Chen Fanglan was a little surprised: "You know?"

"Understood." An Yu said: "An Cheng moved out from Beilu Street and lives here. I met him and I knew it." After a moment of silence, he added: "I have been there before. Once in the cemetery."

As a psychiatrist, Chen Fanglan has always known how to soothe other people's hearts, but she can't do it with her son. After a long while, she could only choke out three words: "I'm sorry."

An Yu looked out of the window, and the corner of the teahouse happened to be able to see Xiao's car.

Xiao Xi and Xiao Renhe sat in the same car, each doing their own thing, one silently endured the misunderstanding, and the other kept misunderstanding.

He couldn't imagine what it would be like after the secret was revealed.

An Yu's heart skipped a beat, causing his whole body to ache.

The pain lasted until the New Year's Day performance, and An Yu managed to relieve it a bit.

The New Year's Day performance is held in the auditorium.

However, the seats in Yujia's auditorium are limited, and parents are invited to watch, so, except for the two months after the third year of junior high school and the third year of high school, the grades that are either ascended or landed, and other grades have their own celebrations.

The sophomores were lucky enough to be scheduled for the afternoon show on the 31st, which meant that they could take the New Year's Day holiday as soon as the show ended.

Because of the last birthday, Xiao Xi planned to go back to the old house on Nanlu Street for the festival this time, and sent a message to Xiao Renhe in advance to report.

Wilderness Creek: An Yu and I went home on New Year's Day.

Dad: OK, I see.

Although the old comrade's reply on WeChat has a bit of a boss's tone, it seems that he doesn't care.

But when he saw the news, he immediately put off all his work and changed his business trip tickets for several days.

On the 31st, I drove Chen Fanglan to school, preparing to see her son's performance on stage, and then the family of four went home together.

When he arrived at the school gate, Xiao Renhe was a little dazed. Yujia's campus was huge, and he couldn't find where the auditorium was, so he directly called his son.

When Xiao Xi received a call from Xiao Renhe, he was having lunch with An Yu and Zhang Feiyang in the cafeteria. He said "Hello" in astonishment, and the old comrade over there answered immediately: "Xi Bao, the auditorium of your school is open." Where, you and Aunt Chen and I came to see you and Xiaoyu's performance."

"?"

Great doubt flashed across Xiao Xi's eyes, and the chopsticks fell to the ground in shock.

With this shock, Xiao Xi opened and closed his mouth for a long time, wanting to ask "Why are you here?" "What are you doing here?" "Don't you need to go on a business trip?".

Finally, he choked out a stiff sentence: "Where are you?"

"Your school." Xiao Renhe said on the other end of the phone: "That's fine. You don't have to pick it up anymore. I met the director of your school's political and education department. He took us there."

As a qualified and successful person in the business world, Xiao Renhe's calling style was the same as his working style, with a bit of resoluteness, and he hung up after speaking, not giving Xiao Xi any time to accept.

Looking at the man who had become numb, An Yu patted him: "What's wrong?"

"My dad is here." Xiao Xi gulped, and added: "Your mom is here too."

Just as An Yu thought about "Oh", Zhang Feiyang howled suddenly, "Uncle Xiao came to see the show?"

"Yeah." Xiao Xi nodded: "Here, I have already gone to the auditorium with the big bison."

An Yu didn't quite understand the key point: "What's there to be surprised about?"

"This kind of thing can be described as sparks hitting the earth, you understand!" As Xiaoxi's junior high school classmate, Zhang Feiyang knew too many things, he skipped some things and focused on certain points: "When I was in junior high school, I have never seen Uncle Xiao appear on such an occasion, and I, Brother Xi, hold family meetings when I have time."

That's right, that's the fact. In Xiao Xi's deep-rooted impression, Xiao Renhe would never withdraw from work because of such insignificant matters.

Even the parent-teacher meeting would be rejected because of business trips. At that time, he could only mix with a bunch of parents and hold a parent-teacher meeting for himself.

Therefore, it is a good thing that Xiao Xi didn't drop his jaw in shock.

But when An Yu heard Zhang Feiyang's words, his hand holding the chopsticks suddenly felt a little weak. He spread his face and said "oh", and ate quietly, hiding all his emotions in his eyes.

Today, the chef in the cafeteria seems to be shaking his hands. He accidentally poured the salt jar into the pot. Every dish is fried very salty.

Xiao Xi suppressed his shock, took two bites with his chopsticks again, and finally couldn't help but attack the only bottle of water on the table.

He grabbed the mineral water on An Yu's left, drank two gulps, and watched An Yu eat the vegetables in one mouthful after another in astonishment: "Don't you think your throat is sluggish?"

"It's okay." An Yu took a mouthful of salty potato shreds in front of him again, and said, "Today's food is quite tasteless."

"..."

Xiao Xi couldn't help but drank two more sips of water, thinking that there might be something wrong with his boyfriend's sense of taste.

After eating, the three of them went directly to the auditorium.

And some activists in class one were so excited that they gave up their lunch and went over to eat with dry food, because in the program list, the group dance group of class one and class eighteen appeared very high, and their last show was prologue.

Although the group dance is interspersed with other events, there is also a sequence.

The order was determined by lottery. Yao Jing knew that she was very lucky, so she discussed with the literary and art committee of class [-] to let her go, but they were also very lucky, and the first one was drawn directly.

As soon as Xiao Xi and the others stepped into the auditorium, they saw the activist He Chen changing his clothes backstage and beckoning them to hurry up.

Before entering the backstage, Xiao Xi let Zhang Feiyang go first, and he and An Yu stopped in the aisle.

From a distance, he saw two people sitting at the parents' seat in class three.

An Yu naturally saw it too.

Xiao Xi and An Yu were considered tall among their peers, they were conspicuous even if they stood quietly, Chen Fanglan and Xiao Renhe noticed them as soon as they came in.

Chen Fanglan smiled and waved to the two, and then secretly poked Xiao Renhe who suddenly became overwhelmed: "They have seen it, please show it."

Xiao Renhe immediately reacted, and tugged at his clothes in a serious manner. In order to appear sincere, he specially wore a suit today.

Feeling that he had tidied up, Xiao Renhe slowly gave a thumbs up to the two of them.

Xiao Xi, who was still startled, laughed when he saw this thumb. He raised his hand to hook An Yu's shoulder, bent his eyes and said, "Do you know what my dad looks like?"

An Yu was bent over by him, "What does it look like?"

"A emoticon pack." Xiao Xi took out his phone and found the emoticon pack that he often used for fighting pictures. There was a funny face on it, with a thumb up, and the words 'nice job' on top of his head. "Look carefully, does it look like it?"

An Yu stared at the emoji for a while, then turned his head to look at Xiao Renhe, his slightly old face was indeed somewhat similar, and then he looked at Xiao Xi's face carefully, and said: "You should be old when you are old." It’s also this emoji.”

"..."

Xiao Xi was stunned for a moment, smiled and cursed, chased An Yu and started beating him.

There will always be some small accidents when making a fuss in a small place. Seeing that he is about to step into the door of the backstage, he suddenly collides with the people coming out of it.

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