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In that photo, Zhang Yeqiu was smiling very happily.Zhang Ailin almost didn't recognize who it was, she couldn't remember how long she hadn't seen Zhang Yeqiu's smile.

The woman next to him, with the same happy face, had a kind face, and Zhang Ailin couldn't remember where she had seen it before.

It's just that among them, the little boy with a bright smile pierced her eyes hard.

Who is that?

Zhang Ailin hurriedly knocked on the door of Zhang Yeqiu's room, even though she was about to knock on the door, there was no response.She reached out to touch the door handle and pushed it, but unexpectedly, she pushed it open all at once.The door was unlocked.

It was just an empty room with lights on.no one.

Zhang Ailin searched every place in the house, but there was no one.

What makes her almost collapse is that she can find some new items with strange smells in many different places.She didn't know whose these belonged to.A little bit of panic accumulated in the bottom of my heart.

She turned on every light, and the room was brightly lit, but what echoed was a deathly silence.

Her panting sound was like rainwater dripping from an ancient well.

She wanted to ask Zhang Yeqiu clearly, but suddenly remembered that she didn't have his phone number.

Just as she was walking back to the living room, she suddenly found the red book pressed under the lady's backpack on the coffee table.

At that moment, fear covered almost every inch of her body.Nothing but fear, just fear.She looked at the red corner, took steps with her legs, and walked towards it.

Not one, but two.

Zhang Ailin took them out and held them in her hand.Each copy is exactly the same, with Zhang Yeqiu's wedding certificate printed on it.

Zhang Yeqiu.

Chi Lan.

remarry.

Zhang Ailin trembled, looking at Zhang Yeqiu in the photo in disbelief.

"How...how could you do that?" she demanded.Palely.In vain.

In the empty house, no one could answer her questions.Even she herself didn't know why she asked this question.

"I thought they were dead." It was a lie that Zhang Ailin lied to herself.

She is looking forward to, looking forward to one day.

Everyone can go back to how they were before.

All wishes collapsed at this moment.

She gently put the two marriage certificates back on the coffee table, looked around, no matter which direction she looked at, she ended up with a wall.Empty walls, everything feels strange.

Zhang Yeqiu lives here and refuses to leave for a long time, isn't it because of his mother and...her?

It seems that within a few breaths, this place has been replaced with a new one.

She returned to her room, turned off the light in the room, and exhausted all her strength to close the door tightly and lock it tightly.

She groped in the dark, and found out a cigarette case she hadn't touched for a long time from the cabinet next to the bed, including a lighter.

Zhang Ailin sat down with her back against the door, tore out a slender cigarette, and pressed it many times before the lighter flickered faintly.She rubbed the flame against the end of her cigarette.caught.

Smoke was swallowing in her mouth, and there were many cigarette butts lying on the ground.

Seeing that the cigarette butt between his fingers was still flickering, he simply let time escape.

want to talk.Still don't say it.It's all nonsense.useless.

Zhang Ailin pressed the cigarette butt to the ground again and extinguished it.

She sat here all night and thought she should go to sleep.forget.The mind is full of messy things.

When the movement in the living room came, she seemed to have just woken up from a big dream.

"Didn't I say don't hang up this photo?" It was Zhang Yeqiu's voice.

Immediately, a female voice said: "Nannan thinks it looks good and wants to hang it up. I forgot what you said, so I'll take it off."

Zhang Ailin heard the sound, stood up, unlocked the lock, and pushed the door open. There were three people in front of her.Zhang Yeqiu, Chi Lan, and a little boy.

Zhang Ailin lowered her eyes and deliberately stopped looking at them.

With a hoarse voice, she said, "married?"

Zhang Yeqiu frowned, but asked back, "Why didn't you go to class?"

Zhang Ailin raised her finger and pointed to the photo hanging in the living room, she also looked in that direction, and said with a smile, "I'm just waiting to congratulate you on your wedding."

After finishing speaking, she stepped forward two more steps, stood in front of Zhang Yeqiu, raised her bloodshot eyes, half-closed her eyes, stared at Zhang Yeqiu's face, and said, "Why didn't you tell me in advance? Such a lack of love?"

For the role of father, no matter what, Zhang Ailin has a three-point respect, a three-point fear, and some remaining unexplainable feelings.

Zhang Yeqiu's face was ashen, and he didn't make a sound.He smelled Zhang Ailin's body, pressed his voice and said, "Who instigated you to smoke again?"

Chi Lan and the little boy hugged each other, looked at the father and daughter, but dared not speak.

It was Zhang Ailin who took a step back, smiled contemptuously, walked back to her bedroom, and closed the door with a bang. The sound made the little boy tremble, and Chi Lan hurriedly stroked and comforted him.

Zhang Yeqiu kept a calm face, bit the root, stared at Zhang Ailin's closed door for a long time, and then said to Chi Lan: "Don't take off the photo, just hang it there."

Chi Lan hugged the child in her arms and agreed.

This little boy, Zhang Ru, changed his nickname to Nan Nan.It is the child of Zhang Yeqiu and Chi Lan.Zhang Yeqiu also didn't expect that his old lover, whom he hadn't seen for five or six years, not only found him again, but also brought a child with him.He himself did not expect that he received Chi Lan and Nan Nan.

Could it be that one wrong step will lead to a wrong life?

He didn't believe it.

For some things, he will hold them tightly in his hands, and no one can take them away.

Under the gaze of Zhang Yeqiu and others, Zhang Ailin changed her clothes, walked out of the room again, went to the door to put on her shoes, patted her buttocks and left.This series of coherent movements seems to have been practiced.

Zhang Ailin pressed the elevator button irritably, and the elevator slowly descended from above as if on purpose.

As soon as the door was opened, it was the kind old lady.He was still wearing a blue shirt as usual, his hair was gray, but it was neatly combed, and he tied it behind his head with a fancy hairpin.

"Where are you going?" She asked Zhang Ailin with a smile.

Zhang Ailin bravely entered the elevator, turned her back to her, and replied, "Go to school."

After finishing speaking, Zhang Ailin felt her arm being pulled by the old lady behind her, and the rough skin of her palm rubbed against her arm, the tactile sensation was obvious.

Zhang Ailin turned her head slowly following this movement, and the old lady took out two pieces of blue candy from her coat pocket.

The old lady turned Zhang Ailin's palm upside down, handed the two pieces of candy to her palm, then bent her fingers and clenched them into fists.

The old lady said: "Take it to school and eat."

Zhang Ailin felt a sudden soreness in her heart.

Nodding his head, he didn't speak, and left as soon as the elevator door opened.

The day was as if nothing had happened.

Being late as usual, going to class, and after school, Zhang Ailin lay on the table as usual, looking out the window, watching the people downstairs laughing and playing.It's just that she has something in her head and can't say it.What popped up in my mind was always the shadow of Zhang Yeqiu's marriage certificate.

Should be sad.The sadness seems to be over again.

Not happy?kind of.Can't tell.

How is it different from before?Nothing seems to have changed.

I don't know what I'm struggling with.My heart suddenly felt empty.Insipid.

So boring.

It was Meng Wenjun who woke her up.When she woke up, Zhang Ailin was startled.

"After school?" She lay on the table with sleepy eyes.

"It's been released earlier." Meng Wenjun patted her on the shoulder.

"Then let's go." Zhang Ailin wanted to stand up, but her legs were numb, she couldn't support her whole body weight when she got up suddenly, and she suddenly leaned forward, about to fall down.

Fortunately, Meng Wenjun quickly stretched out his arms to support him: "Slow down."

When Zhang Ailin stood firm and pressed her forehead, she woke up: "Let's go."

"where do you want to go?"

After hearing this, Zhang Ailin laughed instead: "Where else can I go?"

Meng Wenjun wanted to reach out and pat Zhang Ailin's shoulder again, but Zhang Ailin raised her hand and opened it.She walked forward without looking back.

What can I say.Meng Wenjun didn't even fart in advance.

Just pretend yesterday was a dream.

Get used to it twice, and you will get used to it.

She tried her best to hide her emotions, deeply.

But until she came home again and saw the pile of broken glass on the ground, she couldn't persuade herself no matter what.

The lucky stars that my mother once folded for her are scattered among the piles of broken glass.

The bottle, which was so big at first, was so shattered that it was lying on the cold floor.

Chi Lan was busy cleaning up the pile of debris, just like cleaning up garbage.

That was the only trace of my mother.

"Who made it?" Zhang Ailin gritted her teeth and spit out these three words.

After hearing this, Chi Lan hurriedly came forward and took Zhang Ailin's arm, with an apologetic smile on her face, she said, "I'm sorry, Irene. Nan Nan was curious about the small airplane model on the cabinet, and accidentally broke the bottle while holding it. I will Give……"

Before Chi Lan could finish speaking, Zhang Ailin picked up the largest shard of glass on the ground, furiously threw it at the little boy standing not far away.

The angry fragment was broken again at Nan Nan's feet.

Zhang Ailin still didn't want the little boy to bleed.

She threw this futile, restrained temper.

But the startled cry of the little boy suddenly sounded like a dry pyre that had been lit.In an instant his cries broke out, filling the room.

Hearing the crying, Zhang Yeqiu hurriedly opened the door and came out.

Seeing Chi Lan squatting on the ground, holding the frightened Nan Nan in her arms, stroking his hair with both hands to comfort him.

Without any time to think, Zhang Yeqiu took two steps forward and came to Zhang Ailin, rounding his arms.

Snapped.

The slap fell firmly on Zhang Ailin's face.

A bloodstain also responded to the sound, sliding down from the corner of the mouth.

The air condensed into a dead silence.