Drug addiction

Yan Ziqian watched the little daughter-in-law on the phone screen thumping hard on the bed for a while, and when the picture stabilized again, Tong Yu's little face with a smile like a mysterious moon appeared in front of him, raising his eyebrows, he Lying flat on the bed, the irritability that had been suppressed for a long time escaped in an instant for some reason. He opened his mouth to vent, but he swallowed the words that had slipped to his lips.

In fact, what he wanted to say was nothing more than the phrase that he had asked countless times today, 'When will you move back? '

But Yan Ziqian also knew in his heart that what they said about this matter didn't count...

Lying on his side, Tong Yu looked at Yan Ziqian's handsome face on the screen full of disappointment, frowned slightly and asked tentatively, "Brother Qian, what's wrong with you?"

Yan Ziqian raised his eyebrows again and turned his eyes to his daughter-in-law's small face, pursed his lips lightly to keep the full of complaints on his lips, then squinted his eyes and asked in a questioning tone, "Why did you get home so late tonight? You didn't arrive until I finished eating, almost an hour late..."

After listening to his words, Tong Yu dodged his scrutiny in an instant, lowered his eyelids calmly and thought for a moment, and then responded casually, "There is a traffic jam on the road..." After saying this, he added a very guilty sentence, "Otherwise Where can I go? You worry about it..."

Tong Yu definitely couldn't tell Yan Ziqian about meeting Liu Lin at night, and he couldn't tell him about the almost inseparable plan he had already planned...

"I'm afraid that Li Hui will take you to those dirty places..." Yan Ziqian said in a joking tone, and then continued to argue with his wife, "Baby, what did you have for dinner?"

"I ate braised octopus and vegetarian fried pleurotus eryngii..." Tong Yu told without thinking...

"Just two dishes?" Yan Ziqian's tone was slightly dissatisfied, he pursed his lips lightly to suppress the displeasure in his heart, and then asked again, "The dishes in the store were made by our mother?"

"Our mother made it..." Tong Yu blurted out, but then continued with lowered eyelids and a sad face, "Our mother has a bad appetite recently, and she can't move two chopsticks for every meal and stops eating; I also eat We didn’t take a few bites, so we asked our mother to cook only two dishes..."

Seeing Tong Yu's preoccupied appearance, Yan Ziqian felt very distressed. He tilted his head to think, but the next second he chuckled and said in an envious tone, "Look at how happy you are, you can eat our mother's cooking every day." The food here is not like mine..." After saying this, he wrinkled his nose and carefully added, "The eggplant at night was mushy by our father, it was bitter and astringent, hard to swallow..."

Tong Yu heard his complaining words clearly, as well as the slightly lost brilliance in his eyes. Tong Yu pursed his lips to hide his smile, and then kindly reminded "Uncle Yan goes to work every day. The family still has to cook for you, so you'll be content..." Then, he thought absently for a moment, and when he spoke again, his tone was already full of comfort, "You will make it for a few days, maybe a few days... .My mother went back..."

"Really?" Yan Ziqian became interested in an instant. He straightened up and sat up, and immediately asked on the phone screen, "Did my mother tell you that? Didn't you say how many days will it be before you come back?"

"Our mother didn't say anything, but...according to my observation, it shouldn't be too long..." Tong Yu didn't know where he made a mistake to talk nonsense with Yan Ziqian. , and while feeling annoyed in his heart, he also tried his best to control his flustered expression. He knew that Yan Ziqian didn't have such careful thoughts, but he must not be careless, and he must not let Yan Ziqian see the slightest clue...

"Hey, how long is it not too long?" After hearing Tong Yu's response, Yan Ziqian lay back on the bed as if discouraged, turned slightly to the right side, and took a picture of himself with the camera With strong arms, the words were full of complaints and a little coquettish, and said, "You used to sleep on my arms every day, but these days you are not here, I can't even sleep well, and I finally realized the success of lovesickness." The taste of illness..."

Tong Yu listened carefully to Yan Ziqian's sweet complaints, this time he unexpectedly didn't respond, and when tentative thoughts wandered in his mind, doubts inevitably arose in his heart. He coughed lightly, as if he was suspicious of changing the subject, "Brother Qian, I want to ask you a question..." After getting a positive response from Yan Ziqian on the other side of the screen, Tong Yu hesitated and said very seriously, " Brother Qian, you told me that our mother is a qualified mother and you want to be our mother's son, is that true?"

"Of course it's true..." Yan Ziqian's answer came unprepared, and the answer was full of sincerity. He watched Tong Yu's melancholy expression flashing across his eyes, and his brows furrowed instantly. Then, he said in doubt, "Why are you asking this all of a sudden?"

"Just ask..." At this time, Tong Yu's eyes were already filled with a thin layer of tears. He reached out to pick up the water glass on the bedside table and took a sip naturally, successfully concealing the mixed voice. Then he murmured as if pointing something, "If one day I'm gone, you will help me take care of our mother, right?"

This time, Yan Ziqian was quite frightened by his words, and he suddenly had doubts in his heart. He licked his lips, his entire handsome face was full of doubts, and carefully observed the expression of patience and expectation on the phone screen. , and then said in a tone full of anger, "Where can you go when you're gone? Where do you want to go? Tell me where..."

Tong Yu sighed hard in his heart, he knew it would be like this...

Swallowing his saliva to relax his tense emotions, Tong Yu said in a slightly complaining tone, "Why are you so fierce? I told you, I'll ask..." He said timidly He rubbed his eyes and added as a matter of course, "If one day you are gone, I will take care of Uncle Yan for you..."

Yan Ziqian fixed his eyes on Tong Yu after saying this, the staring light projected in his eyes gradually disappeared, replaced by a warm smile in his eyes, and there seemed to be something in the corners of his lips that he pulled lightly. Sneered, but still responded lovingly, "Don't worry, that person is our mother, whether you are here or not, I will take good care of her, even if I don't look at you, I still look at the little pup in our mother's stomach. ..”

Speaking of this, Tong Yu suddenly thought of Xiao Douding who was still thriving in Tong's mother's womb. He lowered his eyelids to hide the flash of bitterness on his face, and then murmured absent-mindedly, "Yeah, why did he put him in the womb?" forgot..."

Faced with Tong Yu's sudden emotion, Yan Ziqian didn't care much this time, he just pursed his lips and chuckled and shook his head helplessly, and then continued in an unquestionable tone, "Besides, there is our father , that's his own daughter-in-law, how could he be willing to let our mother suffer..."

After hearing this, Tong Yu really felt relieved, turned his head sideways to look at Yan Ziqian who kept raising his eyebrows at him on the screen, and was just about to say something in response, but unexpectedly he took the opportunity.. .

"Bao..." To be honest, Yan Ziqian was a little hesitant. He didn't know how Tong Yu would respond to him, and he didn't know whether his sudden question would make Tong Yu sad. He only knew that he wanted to ask, and this This idea is getting stronger and stronger...

"What's wrong?" Tong Yu reached out to pick up the remote control of the air conditioner from the side of the water cup, and pressed the red button towards the air conditioner on the wall that continuously pumps cold air to turn it off. , that face is full of doubts and fleeting hesitation at the same time...

"When...when will you change your mouth?"

As soon as the words fell, Yan Ziqian's whole heart fell into the abyss of hopelessness, he suddenly blamed himself a little bit, knowing how much Tong Yu resisted this word, and also knew that this word had a deep meaning to Tong Yu, But he still damned touched a minefield...

After listening to his words, Tong Yu's whole body trembled, and his trembling pupils were forced to accept the baptism of aftershocks again and again. He licked his lips and then scratched the tip of his nose guiltily. Not knowing how to respond, he raised his eyebrows Looking at the panic-stricken Yan Ziqian on the screen who pretended to be calm, he secretly sighed, suppressing the momentary surge of waves in his heart, and then said in a slightly embarrassing manner, "Didn't you change your mind?" ..."

"But I admit it in my heart..." Yan Ziqian raised his eyebrows and eyes as if he was offering a treasure when he heard the story was correct, and there was a hint of provocation in his words, "The four of us will sit down next time." I will change it when we eat together, do you dare?"

'A family of four sitting together for dinner? '

After hearing this, Tong Yu's heart was suddenly pierced by a sharp knife, and he pretended to be inadvertent and exhaled fiercely, the pain in his heart remained undiminished, but the smile on his face became brighter...

Gently nodding in response, "Okay, that's right..."

Tong Yu didn't hide, no matter what his eyes were, or the minefield, he wanted to face it upright this time, with his head held high, because he knew what a bad chain reaction leaving Yan Ziqian would bring to him, and he had to face it alone. There are too many situations, he must force himself to gradually adapt to this kind of life, to adapt to the life without Yan Ziqian...

After hanging up the video call with Yan Ziqian, Tong Yu went to the bathroom to wash his face. He admitted that he couldn't sleep. Since the day he and Tong's mother moved back to the house in Haidian, he hadn't had a good night's sleep. In fact, he I find this painful, even more unbearable than the days of insomnia before, after all, he didn't need to lie to anyone about 'I slept well last night'...

Turning off the light in the bedroom, Tong Yu was just about to go to bed and pretend to be asleep, but he heard some rustling noises in the living room across the door. You don't even need to think about a thought, you know what it is, after swallowing saliva, Tong Yu trembling slightly, carefully opened the door a crack...

At first, I thought it was some thief who sneaked in while the moon was dark and the wind was high, but when Tong Yu threw her flickering eyes from the crack of the door to the living room, it was Mama Tong who was leaning on the sofa in a daze and The tiredness on her face could not be concealed no matter what...

Taking a deep breath to relax his body and mind, and by the way, put the heart hanging in his throat back to the ground safely, Tong Yu pursed his lips and opened the door, glanced at the silent TV, and then cast his eyes again Returning to Mama Tong's surprised face, she yelled "Mom?"

The moment Tong's mother looked at Tong Yu, a beautiful smile spread across her cheeks, she completely hid the fatigue that remained in the corners of her eyes, and she couldn't show a single bit of it in front of the person she loved...

"It's so late, why don't you go to bed?" Mama Tong complained in her tone, frowned and asked again, "Are you starting to lose sleep again?"

"No..." Tong Yu instinctively denied, and after gently sitting next to Mama Tong, she responded in a calm tone, "I didn't suffer from insomnia, and I'm sleeping pretty well now..."

But after saying this, he slapped himself hard in his heart, 'Hey, I lied again...'

Lowering his head and feeling annoyed, Tong Yu's eyes full of helplessness suddenly glanced at the box of An'ing on the coffee table, and then at the steaming glass next to the box of An'ing, his heart trembled instantly... .

"Mom..." His voice was full of panic, he picked up the box of Valium with trembling fingertips, and then asked in panic, "Are you... taking sleeping pills?"

Mother Tong read worry and tension from Tong Yu's gaze, she hesitated and pursed the corners of her lips, but finally she pretended to be relaxed and replied, "No, this medicine is expired, just take it out and have a look... .”

Knowing that Mama Tong didn't want to make himself worry, and Tong Yu didn't want to expose Mama Tong's white lies, he licked his lips to force his heart, which had experienced aftershocks, to return to calm, and said in a slightly trembling voice, "What are you looking at when it's all expired? throw it away..."

"Okay, you throw it, you throw it..." Tong's mother had no choice but to let Tong Yu's temper...

Tong Yu held the box of An'ing tightly in her palm, raised her eyebrows and took advantage of the light reflected on the TV screen to carefully observe the expression on Tong's mother's face. After several times of hesitating to speak, she finally mustered up the courage to say, "Mom, Have you been in touch with my aunt recently?"

Tong's mother glanced at Tong Yu, and calmly responded, "I made a phone call last week, and I didn't say anything, just complained to me..."

"Complaining?" Tong Yu didn't understand, so he asked in a curious tone, "What's wrong? My little aunt and my little uncle quarreled?"

"No..." Mother Tong shook her head, and then continued in a helpless tone, "Your cousin...he called your aunt and said he wanted to take his child to Los Angeles, ask your aunt Is there any way..."

"Uncle..." Tong Yu understood now, after listening to Mama Tong's words, he snorted lightly, and the corners of his mouth were full of sarcasm and disdain...

Tong's mother knew Tong Yu's resentment towards that family, she lowered her eyelids and thought about it, then reached out and gently stroked his shoulder to comfort him, "Don't worry, your aunt doesn't want to provoke that family, so she didn't agree at all..."

Tong Yu felt the warm temperature on his shoulders, and his whole heart instantly warmed up. After licking his lips, he said to Tong's mother as a matter of course, "Mom, I don't care about my uncle's family anymore. I don't care anymore. ..." After finishing speaking, he pursed the corners of his lips lightly in thought, and then added with a sweet smile on his face, "I once told Yan Ziqian about my childhood, and Yan Ziqian asked me to let them go. Letting go is not forgiveness, but complete forgetting, I have completely forgotten that family after listening to his words..."

Seeing the happiness on his face, Tong's mother's heart seemed to be alive in an instant, she turned her head sideways to stare at Tong Yu's slightly flushed face, and asked a little teasingly, "What are you talking about?" Is Ziqian doing well recently?"

When Tong Yu heard Tong's mother's question, she didn't know whether she was shy or what, the smile on her face disappeared instantly, she scratched her ear in embarrassment, and said abruptly, "Mom, Uncle Yan recently talked to you Have you contacted?"

Hearing Tong Yu's question, Tong's mother seemed to be discouraged, she sighed secretly, her face was full of loneliness and she kept silent, her drooping eyes were full of sadness...

Tong Yu really couldn't see Mama Tong's sad look, so he bit his lips hard, trying to control the sadness that was gradually surging in his heart. He suddenly sent a slightly exaggerated smile on his face, and then asked Mama Tong questioningly. "Mom, how did you meet Uncle Yan?"

"I'm talking to you, Uncle?" Tong's mother raised her eyebrows and asked back, the smile on the face that was full of sadness just now gradually returned...

In her mind, she kept thinking about every scene of getting acquainted with Yan's father. She might be shy, and when she lowered her head and chuckled, she took a pillow and hugged her in her arms...

Seeing the long-lost smile on Tong's mother's face, Tong Yu actually put the smiling face on his cheeks, lowered his eyelids and thought for a moment, temporarily put all the negative emotions behind him, and imitated Tong's mother's way of teasing himself just now With a smirk, "Mom, I just want to know about this, you can satisfy my curiosity..."

Tong's mother glanced at Tong Yu, surprised by his playful appearance, cleared her throat and pretended to think, but the smile on her face became stronger, and the moment she spoke again, she seemed to have the whole world, "You and I Uncle Yan met in our restaurant. He went to the restaurant to eat that day, and the money was miscalculated when he paid the bill. I chased him out to give him the money. I had the impression that he always came to the restaurant to eat, so I chatted a few more words. As a result, after that day, he patronized our restaurant almost every day, not only coming by himself, but also bringing colleagues from their office. I didn’t think it was strange at first, after all, we are open for business, and we can’t keep business out.. " Mama Tong suddenly paused when she said this, reached out to pick up the glass with warm water on the coffee table and took a sip, and when she put the glass back in place, an inexplicable blush appeared on her cheeks, she pretended to be relaxed He breathed a sigh of relief, and then continued, "Later, their company worked overtime a few times, and they actually ordered supper from our store. In addition, your aunt Zhou once told me that he had inquired about me before. It was immediately clear what he meant..."

"What happened later?" Tong Yu couldn't restrain her heart of gossip and hurriedly asked...

"Later, he not only came to eat every day, but also always came to the store to help out. He did chores when unloading the dishes, took the dishes when there were too many people, washed the dishes when he was too busy, and sometimes acted as the cashier..." Her face There was still a smile on her face, and the arc of her mouth was full of happiness. She sighed lightly, but it had nothing to do with sadness, and then thoughtfully added, "But it's always so unclear to invite people to gossip. So later on, I simply made a relationship with him..."

"Oh..." Tong Yu's tone was full of mischief, he raised his eyebrows and looked at the shy mother Tong, pretending to be mocking and said, "So we started dating..."

Mother Tong nodded lightly when she heard this, she always had a nice smile on the corner of her mouth, even if that person was not by her side, the shadow in her mind made her smile even brighter...

"Actually, I didn't expect anything to happen to him at the beginning..." After smiling for a long time, Tong's mother said this a little abruptly. She thought quietly, and then looked at Tong Yu's face. Puzzling responded "Because I didn't want my kid to get hurt, but then I found out that he's really different..."

"What's different?" Tong Yu frowned, waiting for his mother Tong's answer.

Tong's mother pretended to be distressed and thought sideways, and then gave Tong Yu a very pleasant answer, "He contains all the qualities and fantasies of my 'partner', I think he is the one I am looking for... "

"So you resolutely argued with Uncle Yan..."

"Well..." Mother Tong's eyes were full of affirmation when she nodded, and then she spread a smug smile all over her face, "And it turns out that my choice is correct..."

Tong Yu has always looked at every happy expression on Mama Tong's face. Those micro-expressions that made him feel pleasantly surprised and gratified all told Mama Tong's persistence and confidence in this relationship, paired with a happy smile, in In Tong Yu's eyes, Mama Tong's smile is the most brilliant, healing and gratifying thing in the world, there is no doubt about it...

He hopes that this kind of laughter can always exist in Tong Mama's life, even in the days without him, he can always laugh like this...

Withdrawing his gaze from Tong's mother's face, and lowering his head to think for a moment, Tong Yu mustered up his courage and said a little abruptly, "Mom, where is our household registration book?"

"In that family..." Mama Tong blurted out, and she frowned and asked after she had fully reacted, "Why do you ask about our household registration book?"

Tong Yu pointed straight at Tong's mother, and responded without the slightest hesitation, "I won't wait for Christmas, I'm leaving early..."

Seeing the unusually determined expression on Tong Yu's face, Tong's mother frowned even deeper...