Star road

Chuanmen is a characteristic small city near the south.The small town has a long history, and there are a variety of local specialty snacks. The streets are lined with dense trees and the climate is comfortable and pleasant.

The town is divided into old and new districts.Some buildings in the old city are quite historic and were preserved during demolition, forming a unique landscape.

There are many small alleys in these places, the ground is maintained with bluestone roads, and weeping willows can be seen occasionally.In the continuous drizzle season of spring, walking slowly with an umbrella gives you the illusion of interlacing time and space.

But it is summer now, and the weather is not raining, so there is a slight reflection on the stone road.The side of this kind of stone road is usually paved with large pebbles, and the old people living in the alleys walk back and forth on it every day, and their spirits are much better than those in the new urban area.

Granny Liu has to walk up and down several times a day.

She is an old resident in the alley, and lives in the largest courtyard on this side.

About three years ago, she had two new neighbors, father and son. The father is very handsome, and the son is very sensible.They often play the piano next door. The sound of the piano is very pleasant. It should be an artist's family.

Over the past few years, Granny Liu has developed a habit of exercising her hands and feet in the yard listening to the sound of the piano every morning.Regardless of whether the sound of the piano is elegant and gentle, fierce and unrestrained, or immature, Granny Liu feels that as long as she listens to the sound of the piano, she will be decades younger.

Even regrets that had been forgotten for decades resurfaced.

Granny Liu's background can be traced back to her ancestors, and she can be regarded as a scholarly family. She has read a lot of books with her father since she was a child. Her favorite is the novels written by Miss Scholar. She even fantasizes that she is a certain lady in the book, waiting to meet A romantic and suave talent.

It's a pity that in that turbulent era, when she was a girl, the Liu family was ruined.At that time, the whole family was dragged to reformation. The parents were old and used to being pampered. They couldn't bear the hardship and fell ill.Their family status is not good, no one cares about your life and death, and your parents died of illness one after another.Later, she survived by luck and had to marry an ordinary farmer.Later, the state returned some private property, and she lived in the big courtyard of her own house again.

The father next door, like the characters in the book, is handsome, talented, and sickly pale, like a lotus flower out of the dust. Granny Liu occasionally thinks that if she can be a few decades younger, she will definitely look for him. A gentle and refined husband gave birth to such a delicate and sensible child.

Because of this, Grandma Liu was extraordinarily kind to them.

I remember that when they first moved here, the child was in poor health, and the father couldn't take care of the child's diet, so she helped to make soup for the body in different ways.After more than half a year, the child's face turned rosy.

Granny Liu's husband passed away early, and her son and daughter-in-law didn't live by her side, and she became acquainted with Chen Xiao and his son, and sometimes they kissed like a family.

"Xiao Chen, have you had breakfast?" The sound of the piano next door stopped, Granny Liu walked to the door, sure enough, after a while, the father and son came out from the next door.Granny Liu just felt like a gust of breeze was blowing, and the picture in front of her was comfortable no matter how she looked at it.

Chen Xiao was still wearing loose clothes, the hem of the clothes fluttering slightly, her thin figure, her skin was a little pale, in Granny Liu's eyes, she looked like a fairy about to fly into the sky.He held Xiaoxing's hand. After a few years, Xiaoxing grew taller. Compared with when he was a child, his eyes were not so round, but the black eyeballs were still bright, bigger than ordinary children's eyes.The whole person looks like a handsome and quiet boy, and the timidity and shyness of his early years have faded unconsciously.

One big and one small held hands, and the rising sun formed a huge pale golden background behind them, shining with warm light.

Chen Xiao nodded to Granny Liu, with a smile on her lips, "What do you want to buy today? I'll bring it back for you along the way."

Granny Liu shook her head to say no, she touched Xiaoxing's smooth and tender face, which attracted a sweet smile from Xiaoxing, and the old lady was very happy.

"Here, take it." She took out a handful of peanut cakes and stuffed them into Xiaoxing's pocket, then bent down and waited. Xiaoxing stood on tiptoe and kissed her on the face. Narrowed into a slit.

"Oh, Xiao Xing is so polite."

This child can't speak, so he kissed him to express his thanks.

Xiaoxing blinked, and kissed Granny Liu on the other side of her cheek.

"Grandma Liu, you often give him delicious food, this brat is flattering you!" Chen Xiao laughed.

"That's how I like him!"

Xiao Xing thought for a while, then shook Chen Xiao's arm, Chen Xiao bent over cooperatively, and got a wet watermark on her cheek.

"Well, Xiao Xing has become slippery."

Grandma Liu smiled and said, "Nonsense, the child values ​​you! Xiao Xing, go into the house with Granny, there are many good things inside, we won't accompany Dad today!"

Xiaoxing hurriedly took out a small notebook and a fountain pen from his pocket, and wrote: "I want to help Dad with things." He wanted to accompany Dad.

After joking for a while, Chen Xiao took Xiaoxing away, and they had to buy some fresh ingredients.

Xiao Xing held his father's hand, feeling the warmth coming from the palm of his hand continuously, very happy.He likes life now.

His father taught him the piano every day, taught him to read, bought vegetables and cooked together with his father, and his father took care of him when he was sick... He used to envy the children in the village to have a father, but now his father is better than anyone else!

Granny Liu stood at the door for a while, and for some reason, she suddenly thought that Chen Xiao and his son had lived here for so long, and it seemed that they had never seen any guests. There must be a long series of stories behind them.Both father and son have the elegant temperament of artists, and one day, they will leave this small town.

Life is always coming and going.

All day long, Granny Liu was in a sad mood.However, she never expected that Chen Xiao's guest would come just after the thought flashed for a while.

When the guests came, Chen Xiao didn't go home, but found Granny Liu's house.

"Hi, may I ask if Chen Xiao lives next door to you?"

"...Yes, he will be back soon."

The other party is a man in his 30s, with a good looks and talent, not like a bad guy.When he heard Granny Liu's affirmative answer, joy flashed in his eyes.

So Granny Liu became curious, "Who are you? Are you a relative?"

"...No, I'm his friend, a very good kind."

"No one has looked for him in the past few years. I thought he had no relatives or friends."

The man was silent, looking a little sad, "Is he okay?"

"Not bad. Just wait, he'll be back in a while."

In the elegantly furnished living room, there are two cups of steaming green tea on the table.Chen Xiao and the man sat face to face.

After Xiaoxing brought the tea, she went to the back room to study according to Chen Xiao's words, but she couldn't read it. She kept thinking, who is that uncle?What is he doing with his father?Why was he so happy when he saw Dad?He won't take Dad away, right?

Not to mention that Xiao Xing was entangled here alone, but there, the man just greedily looked at Chen Xiao's bland face, as if he couldn't get enough of it.

"You still found it, Lynch." Chen Xiao took the lead to break the silence,

Lin Qi came back to his senses, Chen Xiao's indifferent expression inexplicably irritated him, and he burst into reprimands, "Why did you leave? Why haven't you contacted me? I have been looking for you for the past few years, but all of them said I don't know your whereabouts, but do you know how hard it was for me to find it?"

"What do you want me for? When you got married, we agreed to get together and leave."

"But what I didn't expect was that I didn't even have the chance to see you!"

"Be more open, Lynch." With a smile on the corner of Chen Xiao's mouth, she said softly, "When you see me, you can only add unnecessary troubles. Can you go against your parents' wishes? Can you get a divorce?"

"I……"

"Even if you could, I wouldn't."

Lynch lowered his head with a dejected expression, "But even so, you can't just walk away... Because of a person like me, is it worth giving up your future?" You should have stood on the international stage, your name should be Acclaimed all over the world...

Chen Xiao sighed, "I have never doubted your feelings for me. The feelings are true, but they are not deep enough to make you give up everything for them." Lynch's body shook, his expression turned gray, and Chen Xiao's heart turned gray. Unable to bear it, I brought the tea to him personally, but I still had to speak out.

"So, it's not because of you that I left."

Xiaoxing couldn't stay in the room, so he took out the violin to play, and an etude was played to pieces.I don't know why, but I always feel panic in my heart, and I can't help but leave the room.As soon as he walked into the living room, the conversation between the two adults had ended. The strange uncle was about to get up and leave. When he saw Xiao Xing, he stopped in his tracks.

"Come here and show uncle. Chen Xiao, this child is very energetic, very similar to you when you were a child."

"Well, he is the continuation of my dream. When I see him, I have this feeling." Chen Xiao smiled.

Lynch squatted in front of Xiaoxing, touched his head, and said with a smile: "Little guy, take good care of your father, he is not in good health."

Little Star nodded.

He knew that his father was not in good health, because his father had to take a lot of nutritional pills every day, so every time he went out to buy vegetables, he helped him carry things.He kept in mind the time when Dad took the medicine, and if Dad forgot, he would remind him.

"Good boy." Lynch stood up, looked deeply at Chen Xiao's smiling face, and let out a long breath.

"I'm leaving, take care of yourself."

As soon as Lin Qi left, Xiao Xing immediately threw herself into Chen Xiao's arms, feeling at ease with the familiar warmth.Just now, he always felt that that uncle came to take his father away. Fortunately, he was the one who thought too much, and his father didn't leave, but his father is still here.

He didn't see Chen Xiao's expression at this time, and the corner of his mouth was bitter with a faint smile.

In the alley, after turning a corner, Lynch suddenly grabbed his hair with both hands, and slammed against the wall twice, then hugged his head, slid down against the wall, and squatted on the ground weakly.

Chen Xiao!Chen Xiao!