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Simple plastic wildflowers, and plastic green vines hanging on the wall by the window.The whole room is fresh and natural.

"Is this your dad?" I looked at a photo of an oil painting on the bookshelf.

"Ah."

"Your father looks mighty and handsome." I stared at the middle-aged man in military uniform in the photo.

"That was years ago, it's a little older now."

"Oh? It should be more mature, right?" I looked into her dim eyes.

"That's all I can think of. But what does he have to do with me?" She said suddenly and indifferently.

"It has something to do with me." I took her hand and kissed it.

"You? Nonsense!" She finally smiled and glared at me.

"Yes, follow me." I smiled, "I need to take good care of my old father-in-law."

"Oh, villain! How old is that! By the way, here are the photos he took last year." As she spoke, she opened the drawer, took out a large photo album from it, and turned to the last page.

He is still a heroic and mighty man, not old at all.But through his resolute and quiet eyebrows and eyes, I can faintly feel a kind of unspeakable melancholy, which is actually the first feeling I got from the oil painting just now.Is it blown by the sea breeze?Is it the reason for loneliness?Is it the result of hardship and wandering?Or the pain of a failed marriage?This man is a bit of a mystery, and it also fills me with all kinds of guesses and imaginations about him.

I turned the photo album to the front and looked back from the front page.This should be his father's special collection. Some of them live as military students, some live in the army, some go out to sea, some are moored at foreign docks, and many are in different coastal cities. Most of the front ones are group photos. There are many single photos in the back, but no matter what time period or scene the photos are taken, the faint melancholy is always lingering. Even with a bright smile, people can see the light gray things behind the smile.

"Do you have a picture of your mother?" I asked cautiously.

Without making a sound, she took out a photo album from another drawer.I took her to sit at the desk together, looking at pictures of her mother, the woman I met three years ago.The woman in the photo is very different from the one I saw. The woman in front of me is young, beautiful, lively and full of youthful vitality.Such a woman and such a man together should be a perfect combination, how could it lead to such an ending?What is the basis of maintaining a marriage?I was distracted as I turned it over.

Suddenly Pei Fei stood up and walked out of the room.I just realized that I was just satisfying my curiosity and I was making her sad.I quickly closed the photo album and put it back in the drawer, and walked out with her.

Pei Fei went straight to the outside of the balcony, picked up a small shovel in the corner, and went to Songhua Ni. She just pried it here and knocked it there.

"Pei Fei, I'm sorry." I stood beside her.

She was silent.

"Pei Fei..." I went to hold her hand.She even shook my hand away and said, "Go and love them!"

What are these words?

"I love them because they gave birth to you, and they sent me the best girl in the world, and I not only love them, but I'm grateful for them." I looked at her eyes that were just staring at the mud.

"Love them! Appreciate them! They were born but not raised!" she whispered, turning to look at me.

"They must have their own difficulties. Look at how good the living conditions your father has created for you!"

"Their difficulties are their business, but the result they caused is that I'm like an orphan!" She became angry again.

"Orphans can grow up so well, it shows what a rare environment they provide you to hone people!" I smiled and looked at her.

"Spoken nonsense all day long!" She glared at me, but the anger was half gone.

"Well, good boy, don't be angry, you have always been tolerant and loving to them." I touched her head, "You have a home, a very warm and bright home."

"Yes, there is a home, an empty home." She said angrily.

"A home where the mother-in-law and grandson live very comfortably, it doesn't look like my humble room." I deliberately sighed.

"I would rather have your shabby room." After she finished speaking, she raised her voice and warned: "I tell you, remember it! You are no longer my teacher, and you are not allowed to educate me in the future!"

"Yes! Baby!" I raised my hand and saluted her.

"Mu Chenyu, I love you." She said without thinking.I scanned her face with rounded puzzled eyes, and her thinking was jumping too fast.

"You always understand me very well and are considerate of me." She said earnestly, "I should be very grateful to your parents for creating such a miraculous wife for me!" Can't help grinning.

"Teacher Mu, Pei Fei, it's time to eat!" Pei Fei's voice came from the dining room.

We turned into the dining room, and her grandma was happily putting food on the table.A very rich table of dishes made me feel a little embarrassed.

"Mr. Mu, you're welcome. You can eat whatever you want. I'm very casual." Her grandma looked at me and smiled.

"Well, good! You are too polite, you have cooked so many dishes..."

"Hehe, they are all hometown dishes. I don't know if you are used to eating them."

"Hehe, I can eat any kind of food, and I like to eat any kind of food. My nickname is 'Little Greedy Ghost', and I eat enough for two people alone. My mother is always worried about not being able to raise me. "I laughed.

"Hehehe, okay, okay, then eat more!"

Pei Fei, who was on the opposite side, looked at me silently, met my puzzled eyes, and said, "Well, you owe me a lot of stories."

"What story?" I couldn't figure it out.

"your story."

"My story?" I understood what she meant.

"Mr. Mu, don't worry about her, she's still like a child, she wants to be told stories all day long." Pei Fei's grandma still said with a smile.

"Huh? She still asks you to tell her stories?" I looked at Pei Fei and then at her grandma in surprise.

"Grandma!" Pei Fei cried anxiously as she watched her grandma.

"Hehe, that's right. I've been pestering me to tell her stories since I was two years old, until now." Her grandma continued to say without hesitation.

"But you never promised me! You haven't told me a single story!" Pei Fei raised her voice and muttered in a low voice, "Just throw me a book."

I held back the food so hard that I didn't spit out the rice. Pei Fei looked at me viciously.

"Mr. Mu, Pei Fei has taken up so much of your time, does your boyfriend have any objections?" Her grandma asked while eating.

"Oh?" I was stunned for a moment, "Oh, no." After finishing speaking, I realized that "no" is very vague: Is it because the boyfriend will not be angry, or is there no boyfriend?

"Hehe, when is Teacher Mu going to get married? I heard from Pei Fei that you are still alone."

"I don't intend to get married."

"Uh...hehehe..." She smiled a little awkwardly, "That's fine, it doesn't matter, marriage is not necessarily good, like Feifei's parents, it is not good for adults and children. Her grandfather and I always It’s a quarrel, so it’s much easier to be alone.”

I knew she was looking for a step for me, but I was moved by her kindness.

"Pei Fei is so happy to have you." I said sincerely.

"Where is it, there is no way. But this child is really easy to take care of, and I never have to worry about it." She looked at Pei Fei with a smile.

"Have you finished nagging? Have you been polite enough? Good-good-eating-" Pei Fei knocked on her rice bowl.

We laughed and continued to eat happily.In the end, the three of them wiped out all the vegetables and meat.

Because it was too hot at noon, I stayed and chatted with them, and then her grandma went back to her room to rest, and Pei Fei took me to her room for a lunch break.It's been a long time since I took a lunch break, and I've been exhausted recently. Now that I'm back to my regular daily life, I feel very relaxed and quiet.We just lay on the wooden floor, spread our bodies into two big characters, and enjoyed the air-conditioning and tranquility comfortably.As a result, the two of them slept for two hours.

After waking up, we went to the computer with Pei Fei's grandma to look at our travel photos.Those ten days seem to be very short, but they ended all at once, and they seemed to be very long, filling our whole life. It seemed that it was still yesterday, but it seemed to have turned into a distant dream again. Our form returned, but God stayed there.This trance-like feeling keeps us in a mood that alternates between excitement and calm.It seems to be desperately trying to retract a bright and full smile in a quiet public place, but it can't be retracted no matter what. It is still smiling, but it keeps receiving instructions from the brain: close, close, close.

When the sun starts to fade in the evening, I will get up and go back.Pei Fei stared at me blankly, as if she didn't understand what was going on, as if she was standing in the center of a road full of roads in all directions, and suddenly forgot about the south, east, north, and west.That expression made my heart ache. She didn't even think that I was going home, and she didn't even realize that after the tour, we would have to go back to the previous life where we couldn't get together.

"I'm going back." I smiled.

She was silent, just stood there.

"Oh, Teacher Mu is gone? Let's go after dinner!" Her grandma came over.

"No, it's enough to bother you."

"What's the matter! I don't even know how to thank you for being so kind to us Feifei! Then come and play more when you have time! Hehehe... Feifei, you can go see Teacher Mu off."

"Oh." Pei Fei responded and walked out.She has been walking in front of me, silent.I followed behind her, also silent.