Juliet Tower

Qiao Yumian set up the GPS and asked An Jia Yutu to turn around his residence.

"...Just live with me, my parents are not here..." The other party was a little reluctant, "If you find it inconvenient, there is a guest room where you can sleep."

He was amused in his heart, is there anything inconvenient between them...

"At least go to my place to have dinner before leaving. Auntie made a portion for two. It would be a waste if I couldn't finish it by myself..." Seeing that he was silent, An Jiayu frantically turned off the wipers and replaced them with turn signals, "I I can take you back."

"I just want to go upstairs to water the flowers. Recently, my colleagues next door helped me." Qiao Yumian really didn't want him to be distracted while driving, so she hurriedly reassured him.

The car stopped, and An Jiayu looked up. There were hundreds of identical aluminum alloy windows, and dozens of identical open balconies with fences. Only one was the most conspicuous. The branches were full of blue-purple flowers, hanging down from mid-air, opening and closing from time to time. The petals are carried away by the wind.

"Yes, dragonfly?" He didn't know much about flowers.

"No, it's blue and rainy, and it's a bit like the color of a dragonfly." Qiao Yumian raised her head, "It's kind of wasteful to plant in an apartment. If you have a yard, you can grow a flower wall."

An Jiayu turned his head and looked at him, didn't say anything, just went around to the trunk and found a bag of chocolate cookies hanging on his finger: "Give it to your colleague next door, thank him for watering you."

While fertilizing and watering the flowers, An Jiayu called him from downstairs: "Little Qiao, you dropped your phone on the seat. Qiao Zhe's call is on the second call, do you want to answer it?"

Qiao Yumian leaned out half of her body and saw him shaking his phone: "My father."

The man froze there like a ghost, he smiled, locked the door and went downstairs.

Qiao Zhe would ask him to have dinner during the holidays, but there was always an inexplicable gap between him and Xu Manman, and they were not comfortable getting along. Later, Qiao Zhe was not reluctant, and occasionally invited him out for a cup of tea and a meal , also went to a nursing home.

He looked at his ex-wife through the door and was stunned for a long time.

Qiao Yumian looked at him from the side with red eye circles, she didn't know what she remembered, they also fell in love and got married freely back then, no matter what, they would have many happy memories.

He didn't ask a word, no matter what Qiao Zhe thinks of, it's just one person's memory, Li Huijun forgets all the people and things in the past, whether it's sweet, painful, love or hate.It's just that occasionally when Qiao Yumian took a few cut flowers and put them in the plastic water cup, she would occasionally pick a red flower to play with.Qiao Yumian remembered that when he was four or five years old, roses were only popular in red, and they had to be matched with a lot of baby's breath.Occasionally, Qiao Zhe would bring a bouquet home, and she would scold her for wasting the money, but when he was angry, he would still find a bottle and put it in a bottle. If the flowers failed, he would not bear to throw them away, so he would collect the petals and soak his feet.

Calling Qiao Zhe back, Qiao Yumian was somehow asked to pick up the child from the kindergarten tomorrow afternoon.He couldn't help looking out the window and sighing. He didn't take care of children of this age, but it shouldn't be more troublesome than taking care of a dementia patient.

"What's wrong? You're frowning." An Jiayu glanced at him in the rearview mirror.

"My dad... asked me to go to the kindergarten to pick up his children tomorrow afternoon..."

The amount of information seemed to be a bit large, An Jiayu was silent for a long time, as if desperately trying to recall something: "During dinner a while ago, you seemed to mention it once, your sister..."

"Well, it's her. Her mother is going to have a minor operation tomorrow afternoon, and my dad will be with her in the hospital. She may not be able to go home until evening. Let me take it for a few hours."

"When did you have an extra sister? How old are you?" It was only after noon, the hottest time of the day, An Jiayu took off his coat at the red light, and rolled up his sleeves casually.

"I'm in preschool." He lowered his head and counted the year, "I'll be seven years old in August."

Seeing An Jiayu's surprised expression, Qiao Yumian added: "She was not in good health when she was a child. She was born with a brain injury and had to recover for a long time. Fortunately, her intelligence didn't have much impact. However, her athletic ability was not good, and her development was much slower. I have a low immune system and get sick easily, so I can only be sent to kindergarten when I am four years old, which is a year later than normal children."

It seems that An Jiayu's question has not been answered: "... how do I remember, your father quit his job to open a homestay at that time..."

"Yes. I came back for her at the beginning. Fortunately, I discovered it early and intervened early. Now it looks like other children are not too different."

"When did you find out?" An Jiayu asked earnestly, it seemed that she was not just chatting politely, but really wanted to know the situation.

Qiao Yumian didn't hesitate, and told the whole story that they would be together in the future, and sooner or later they would tell each other about these bad things.

"It was discovered when she was about five months old. After the diagnosis in the south, they were worried, and immediately brought her back to the big hospital here for reexamination, and the diagnosis was confirmed."

"Then... what about the homestay?"

"Of course the inn can't be opened. The medical conditions are definitely better here. For the sake of their children, they lost some money and sold the hotel."

"Did they tell you before your sister was born?" An Jiayu's mood was visibly depressed, and the car drove faster and faster.

"No, I didn't know I had an extra sister until I got a diagnosis here." Qiao Yumian realized that the air in the car was a bit cold while talking.He turned his face, and the man's expression became tangled again.

In the second half of the trip, neither of them spoke again until they got home and changed their clothes, and went to the restaurant to steam rice and hot soup together.

An Jiayu picked up a piece of chopsticks with chopsticks, raised it to his mouth, and put it back in the bowl, as if he had lost his appetite.

Originally, he was just curious about Qiao Yumian's younger sister, but when he asked, he discovered something strange about her, her age, and her illness.

She was born in August and is seven years old this year, so when Qiao Yumian learned that she had such a younger sister, it happened just in time for her mother to be diagnosed.

Based on his understanding of Qiao Yumian, this good baby who was cold outside and hot inside must have not told Dad about his mother's illness in time.

More than that.

They hadn't broken up at that time, and Qiao Yumian had a younger sister, but she didn't tell him.

An Jiayu never wanted to recall that suffocating winter.

It seemed that everyone and everything was playing tricks on this person, forcing the boy to grow up overnight.

An Jiayu was a little annoyed and resentful.

Those who should protect him made an appointment one by one to make things difficult for him and drag him down.

But all of this has passed, and I missed all the most difficult moments for Qiao Yumian, which is irreparable.

He got up and walked to Qiao Yumian's side: "Little Qiao, is there anything else I should know but don't? How have you been living these years... Is there someone helping you..."

Qiao Yumian knew exactly what he was thinking.

An Jiayu likes to stand in front of him and hug him, kiss his hair and forehead, and put his head on his chest, inexplicably protective.Qiao Yumian vaguely remembered that when he was a child, he accidentally saw a horror movie on the TV, and at night when he couldn't sleep, his mother seemed to hug him like this.

"A lot of people helped me." He heard his voice far away, his heartbeat nearer, and the smell of ripe apples lingered on An Jiayu's wrist, "Su Ruike, a counselor, and a librarian, neighbors when renting a house They are also very helpful. There is also Han Zhuoyi's family, who have helped me a lot. Xiaoyu, I have always been fine."

He hoped that An Jiayu would never know about those bad parts.

Human beings don't have the so-called empathy, but he and the person in front of him do.

"I'll be here from now on, Xiao Qiao. No matter what happens, let me accompany you, okay? I'll accompany you to take care of your mother, and your sister..." An Jiayu let go of him and knelt down, grabbing his hand, " You have me, so...you don't need anyone else."

Qiao Yu was confused by what he said, looked down at him and didn't know how to answer, what do you mean you don't need others?

An Jiayu gritted her teeth, and squeezed out a sentence with great difficulty: "You don't want to marry her." After finishing speaking, she sat down at his feet, buried her face in his knee, and bit her in shame and resentment. He said, "You... are not allowed to marry her."

……

With a pain in the top of her knee, Qiao Yumian asked in a daze, "...I... Married? With whom?"

"Are you still refusing to tell me... Your mother was hospitalized, the day I went to deliver food..." An Jiayu muffled, "I didn't eavesdrop on purpose, you didn't close the door. Han Zhuoyi's mother talked about your marriage... I heard everything. Have you been together for more than two years..." He raised his head, his eyes were full of reluctance, "Why are you with her? I almost thought it was because I had been away for too long and you decided to forget Me. But you obviously don’t, why do you want to marry her if you don’t like her? Just because their family has helped you a lot, do you want you to agree with me? It’s not ancient times... You are not married yet, so I am not the third Those who interfere... If you insist, I never agreed to break up with you six years ago..."

Qiao Yumian looked at him dumbfounded.

These are all ridiculous ideas.

Then it suddenly dawned on him, no wonder An Jiayu deliberately kept a distance from him since the hospital.

What is it to allow a third party to intervene...

"An Jiayu." He tapped the other person's forehead, and couldn't help but be amused by him, "You're sick, crazy. It's not even mild."

It seems like it's been a long time since I scolded him like that.

For so many years, going around and going on and off, it turned out to be for Han Zhuoyi again in the end.

He forcefully dragged An Jiayu up: "Her boyfriend is not me."

An Jiayu was taken aback, and couldn't help pinching the hand on his shoulder: "Then her mother said..."

Qiao Yumian took out her phone and opened Han Zhuoyi's WeChat. The girl seldom talked, and she only posted photos on her birthday and Qixi Festival for two consecutive years. The same bar, the same angle, the same boy, and the same kiss on the cheek.

The girl smiled softly and sweetly, but the boy who kissed her was not Qiao Yumian.

An Jiayu grabbed the phone and looked at it again and again, excited and annoyed at the same time.

The author says:

I can't wait until night (covers eyes)