Goodbye, Mr. Mu

A spring breeze came overnight, and the old tree at the door sprouted new flowers. The flowers were blown by the spring breeze and fell on the shoulders of the children bending over to pick up stones in the courtyard.

Chai Fei was woken up by a child downstairs throwing a stone at the window.

He stood by the window and looked at the child downstairs who raised a bouquet of flowers in his hand to him, and showed him his big white teeth. He also laughed and asked with his mouth:

"Not going to school today?"

I don't know if the two children understood it, but I saw them both nodded, and then put the flowers in front of the downstairs door, and pressed a piece of paper under the flowers, with crooked characters written on the paper.

Chai Fei couldn't go out, and couldn't be exposed to the wind. The flowers and the note were brought upstairs for him after the former village woman brought food every day.

At first, it was the younger brother whose kite landed on the tree who came to visit him all the time, and the older brother followed him. Thanks to Chaifei's love of laughing this year, the two children gradually became familiar with him. One day, the older brother will go to Picking up people in the city, the younger brother was bored, so he waited for his elder brother in Chai Fei's yard. Chai Fei was in good spirits that day, so he went downstairs to write a note, handed it out through the crack of the door, and talked with his younger brother.

Later, the elder brother often accompanied the younger brother to deliver notes to Chai Fei.

The younger brother thinks that Chai Fei is a treasure chest, and often asks Chai Fei some weird questions that adults don't give him answers.

For example, why do leaves sprout in spring?

Why am I not my brother, my brother is not me?

Why every time I say thank you to my brother, my brother says no need to say it, but if I don’t say thank you to others, they must ask me to thank others.

……

Chai Fei couldn't laugh or cry every time he saw it, but the contents of the notes these days were quite different.

The note delivered the day before yesterday was: Brother, there was a good-looking uncle smoking outside your yard last night!

The note delivered yesterday was: Brother, there is a car parked outside your yard, he is still that handsome uncle, but he drove away as soon as we arrived.

Today, Chai Fei is waiting for his courier to deliver the letter.

It's just that I didn't expect that the person who is the messenger today is not the village woman.

"looking at what?"

This is Chai's mother's voice. Chai Fei looked back at the woman who came in with a bouquet of sunflowers and a bunch of medicine bottles.

Chai Fei drew the curtains, obediently moved back to the bed, took the bouquet she handed over, and a rose grew out of seven or eight sunflowers.

Chai Fei was stunned for several seconds before taking the note, reading it while replying: "Nothing."

"You still want to hide it from me, but the two brothers from the old Wang family are looking for you to play in our yard every day. You are quite liked by the children?" Mother Chai handed the medicine to Chai Fei.

Chai Fei crumpled the note into a ball and held it in the palm of his hand. After a while, he raised his other hand to take the pill, and swallowed it whole.

"I heard from my aunt that you haven't slept well in the past two days?"

"I..." Chai Fei tightened his hand holding the ball of paper before he raised his head to look at his mother, and his eyes fell on Chai's mother's hair: "Those two children just haven't seen someone like me think Novelty. By the way, Mom, sit down."

"what happened?"

Chai Fei threw the crumpled ball of paper beside her pillow and reached out to take a peach blossom stuck in her mother's hair, pretending to be relaxed and hooked the corners of her mouth: "Look, spring is here."

Chai's mother directly confiscated the bit of spring in Chai Fei's hand: "Don't think about it, the doctor said, you can't go out to catch the wind, not at all. Son, listen to Mom and take care of it. Mom is just like you now. A baby."

"Just, I'm such a baby? Lin Mu, he..." Chai Fei always felt that it was not as simple as the words after hearing Chai Mu's words, "Is something wrong with him?"

"It's not that Mu Huai of yours..." Chai's mother suddenly stopped when she said this.

When Chai Fei went to find her and asked her to take him away, he kept silent to Mu Huaizhang.

Originally, she had asked insincerely once, but Chai Fei only said "it should be stopped, so as not to delay others".

After that, Chai's mother didn't mention it much in front of Chai Fei, just thinking that he had something awkward with Mu Huaizhang, or that the two of them really agreed to stop here.

It was mentioned again today that although Chai's mother stopped talking in time, she still took a look at Chai Fei because of Chai Fei, thinking it was to take care of his emotions.

Unexpectedly, Chai Fei just smiled: "He sent my brother to the police station for tea."

"You already knew?" Chai's mother's gaze suddenly froze for a moment, and seemed to melt away after hitting Chai Fei's pale complexion. "Ling Mu is still young, so he should suffer."

Seeing Chai Mu trying to speak in his tone, Chai Fei always felt inexplicably sad. He raised his hand and stroked Chai Mu's white hair. It didn't exist before, but because he took care of Chai Fei these days, it seemed that he didn't. How to take care of yourself.

"I just found out."

Chai's mother frowned obviously, and probably wanted to ask what Chai Fei meant by "I just know", but before she could ask, Chai Fei interrupted her.

"Mom, go and see the trees. Don't waste your time on me."

"What are you talking about?" Chai's mother heard Chai Fei say this for the first time. No matter whether she had other purposes or not, she said that as a mother, she was not angry when her biological son said this. It must be a lie.

"I said, don't waste your time on me." Chai Fei met his mother's eyes.

In his eyes, there was no wave or wave, but when he met Shang Chaifei's mother's anxious and angry gaze, it was more like a pool of stagnant water, lifeless.

"This word, you can also bring it to Mr. Mu for me."

"Chai Fei?" Mother Chai stared at Chai Fei, but her hands were shaking uncontrollably, she didn't know if it was from anger or shame.

"Mom, I'm sick, not my brain. Mu Huaizhang knows I'm here."

You said, why does he know I'm here?

Why, would you know?

Chai Mu was the only one who clearly hid Chai Fei and knew that Chai Fei was hiding here.Isn't the answer to this question obvious?

Then why did Mother Chai tell Mu Huaizhang that Chai Fei was here?

Will she soften because of Mu Huaizhang's feelings for Chai Fei?

Or will he sell Mu Huaizhang an address so that his youngest son Lin Mu can save a few days of prison food in the detention center?

Chai Fei didn't ask these words out, he only asked if something happened to Lin Mu.

Judging from my mother's reaction, it seems... Let's forget it, let's call it a day.

He didn't want to dig any further, he was quite afraid, fearing that the kindness and filial piety of mothers these days were all hypocrisy.Now that everything has been fulfilled on the surface, then don't use worse malice to tear apart this calm surface...

"Tell him for me that there's no need to embarrass Lin Mu any more for me. I'm not angry with Lin Mu anymore, and I don't envy Lin Mu anymore. I don't have many days left, but luckily I'm still in the spring. Spring is here, and everything It's a new beginning, don't..."

Just stop thinking about me.

Chai Fei knew about Mu Huaizhang's concern from today's note.

The note said: That good-looking uncle asked them to send this flower, and said it was called: Rose and Calpis.

Sunflowers are flowers that grow in the sun.

As for roses and Calpis...

It was the first time he and Mu Huaizhang were on the road by the sea, and Mu Huaizhang talked about Chaifei.

At that time, Chai Fei said, "I am a fake romantic", and he said that Chai Fei was like "a person who likes roses and Calpis".

But today, he seems to be telling Chai Fei:

Spring is here, and a hundred flowers are blooming towards the sun, and his "romance" is not dead.

But Chai Fei didn't even have the confidence to respond to him.

He didn't know how to face such a person, how to tell him.

He was afraid that he would tell Mu Huaizhang himself:

"Your romance is about to die, and it's finally time for the flowers to bloom."

When Chai's mother left, Chai Fei had fallen into a coma...