evening tide

After Chao Xin met Su Chang, he invited Su Chang, Peng Wangzhi and Yu Zhou to dinner again.

This time it was Xiang Wan who initiated the group voice in the group, and Chao Xin took the initiative to ask them what they like to eat.

"What do you want to eat?" Yu Zhou asked.

"Wan Wan..." Chao Xin glanced at Xiang Wan, "She likes to eat Japanese food recently."

"Then eat Japanese food." Yu Zhou said with a smile.

There was also an inconspicuous breath on the other end, as if Su Chang smiled.

The meal had a decent atmosphere, and Chao Xin even told a rare joke about a project.Except for the eight celery who is confused, the four dubbing actors all laughed happily.

On Christmas, Chao Xin took Xiang Wanhe Papai to the water town again, because he didn't soak in the hot spring last time.This time they booked a small private soup courtyard, where they soaked in the soup in Zhuying and Yueying, while eating gingerbread handmade by Xiang Wan and Paipai during the day.

This time Xiang Wan didn't cry, and Papai's impression of her was much better, especially her gingerbread was very beautifully made, so Papai had a little more admiration for her who was becoming stronger and more skillful.

At night, the three of them live in the parent-child room, and one sleeps in a small bed.Chao Xin put his arms around Xiang Wan from behind, Xiang Wan faced the card lying on his side, and told her a long history story.

Her voice is antique, almost insane.

"What does Li Chao do at night?"

"There is a night banquet. It is full of guests, silver candles are painted on the screen, Hu Wu dances and songs, jade flute and harp."

"Wow~~~" Paipai listened to her four words and four words, a little admiration.

"I think you look like a princess when you speak idioms." She said, leaning on the back of her hand.

Xiang Wan smiled, frowned slightly at her, and winked behind her.

Chao Xin actually fell asleep after listening, her breathing peacefully stopped at the back of her neck.

Paipai hates iron but not steel: "My little aunt never liked learning history since she was a child."

"Since childhood? How do you know what she looked like when she was young?"

"My grandmother said it."

"You... grandma?" Why does Papa have any other relatives?Never heard her mention it to Chao Xin.

"I haven't seen my grandma for many years. Sometimes, when my aunt thinks of grandma's birthday, she will ask me to call her." Paipai thought for a while, "I have called three or four times since I arrived in Jiangcheng."

"Call..." Xiang Wan repeated subconsciously, "Over the years, only three or four times. Does your grandma miss you?"

"I think, one time my grandma cried while she was talking, crying, saying she wanted to see me, my aunt got very angry, and then she stopped letting me call grandma."

"I overheard my aunt arguing with my grandma in the bathroom that time. My aunt was very impatient and said that the cards were still small, so she told my grandma not to tell me what I had or what I didn't have."

"But grandma didn't say anything, she just said she wanted to see me."

Xiang Wan lowered his eyes and wandered in his heart.

"Oh, my grandma also said that she won't live for a few years, and before she left, she wanted to see me."

"It seems to be said to be beaten to death."

Pa Pai frowned, she was very worried at the time, and asked Chao Xin what was wrong with her grandmother, but Chao Xin said that her grandmother was confused and talking nonsense.

Xiang Wan said thoughtfully "Well", called Pai Pai to cover the quilt, then turned off the light by the bed, and fell asleep under the moonlight.

On the second day after returning from Water Town, I received a call from Ms. Zhao.

"Hey, when is the school holiday? This year's Chinese New Year is early, so come back early." Ms. Zhao signed up for the bel canto class, and her voice sounded more like she was singing.

"I finished the exam in mid-January," Xiang Wan recalled, "After the exam, I have to catch up on several film and television projects. I'm afraid I won't go back early this year."

"Oh, you came back after a long time last year. At that time, you told me that you would come back earlier this year." Ms. Zhao was a little dissatisfied.

Xiang Wan smiled: "I will try my best."

After thinking about it, she asked again: "Mother, if I want to..."

"Bring a friend." Jiang is still as hot as Ms. Zhao, she smiled cunningly, when Yu Zhou brought Su Chang home in the first year, it was the same tone, hey, exactly the same.

"Male or female?" Ms. Zhao is very experienced now, and it's easy to say anything else if you ask the gender first.

"Female, it's a girl." Xiang Wan stood in front of the French window of the dormitory, looking at his own silhouette reflected inside.

"Girl?" Ms. Zhao's voice was exaggerated, "Using this word, you are very young?"

In fact, she was a little happy for Xiang Wan, she liked Xiang Wan very much, and took it upon herself to adopt her as a goddaughter, but after all, with Yu Zhou standing in the middle, Ms. Zhao was always afraid of Xiang Wan's embarrassment, but this is all right, be good There is also a new favorite person, then she will be happy.

She, Zhao Qingxia, is the final winner. She has four daughters all of a sudden, and she can't even like them.

She was even imagining that during the New Year's dinner, Yu Zhou's little aunt would ask who this beautiful woman was, and she could say proudly——my third goddaughter, beautiful?

Ms. Zhao has no doubts that the person Xiang Wan likes is beautiful, because she has figured out a pattern, beautiful girls always get together, if there are one or two, the third one who joins the family will definitely not be bad.

"No, she's not young, she's 33." Xiang Ban said.

Ms. Zhao made a "hiss".

"Aren't you a bit older, my dear?"

Very tactful, after all, Ms. Zhao is also two years older, and she is not as surprised as she was back then.

"It's bigger than Su Chang." She said in a low voice, as if she was afraid of being heard by someone.

Xiang Wan pursed her lips and smiled softly: "It's older than Su Chang, does the godmother disagree?"

"She is very nice, she obeys me very well, and is very considerate. But I haven't promised her yet, I just want to ask you to take a look, if you think it's not good, I won't do it."

She stretched out her index finger to trace the figure in the window.

Ms. Zhao gave a "hum" knowingly, saying she refused, as if she had room for it, but at the end she was smiling, it was obvious that she liked it too much.

The little girl Xiang Wan is the best at making elders happy.

"Yesterday, I chatted with Pa Pai. They probably won't go home for the New Year. I wanted to take advantage of everyone's free time and invite her to my house for dinner and meet the elders."

Parents' order, matchmaker's words, although Xiang Wan has no parents here, occasionally there is a little sense of ritual.

"Then since they don't go home, don't just come to eat, they can stay for a day or two. Anyway, we have always been a small family for the New Year, and there are no outsiders." Ms. Zhao said.

It was only after I finished speaking that I remembered: "Is she calling Pai Pai?"

"She's 33, and you still call her so nasty?"

Xiang Wan was taken aback, and couldn't help laughing: "No, her name is Chao Xin, Ri Zhaochao, new and old, and the card is... her daughter."

"Hiss..." Ms. Zhao gasped again.

"Yes, have a daughter?" She quickly started brainstorming.

"Divorced? How old are you? Have you cleared up the quarrel with your ex-husband? Let me tell you, this kind of thing is very troublesome. Although many people say that it doesn't matter if you get divorced, but if you have children, be good. It’s ridiculous, after all, one is the father and the other is the mother. When the time comes for the children to grow up, the two of them will go out to play or parent-child activities together. You are an outsider, and you can’t say anything against them? That’s the father and mother after all. .”

"Besides, I heard your tone. That child is sensible, right. Stepmother is not easy to be. You have to know that you have to treat her better than your own daughter, otherwise people will say that you are mean to her. The neighbors in the neighborhood You can also make irresponsible remarks. It’s not good to be too courteous, if outsiders see you being so flattering, it must be the mistress who is in the top position, so I feel ashamed.”

"Let me tell you, your old colleague, Uncle Yu, is in his fifties and married a stepmother in her twenties, who is not a few years older than her youngest son. Their unit circulates every day that she wakes up at six o'clock in the morning Cooking soup, hearing it in my own mother's ears is uncomfortable, and everyone says that this stepmother wants to take her place."

She racked her brains for examples, but she didn't say she disagreed, but she almost wrote down the words "consider again" and faxed it to Xiang Wan.

Xiang Wan taught her well and didn't interrupt her. When she said that her mouth was dry and she went to pour water, she smiled leisurely and said softly, "That's not the case. It's not her own child, it's her sister's child."

"Oh sister," Ms. Zhao took a sip of water, "Where did my sister go? Why didn't you bring it yourself?"

"I……"

Xiang Wan didn't know either.

Ms. Zhao chattered a lot, compared with Xiang Wan's quietness, it made Xiang Wan's poor understanding of Chao Xin very pitiful.

After worrying about the family's affairs, Xiang Wan realized that there are actually many things that should be discussed but never mentioned.

Before starting a relationship, it seems that she should have taken the trouble to ask the person in her heart like Ms. Zhao.

—What is your life like?What is your past?What stage do you and I belong to in your life?Was it an accident, or a predestined opening?

She still wanted to ask more, for example, in Chao Xin's eyes, where did the first "slow motion" about Xiang Wan appear.

In Chao Xin's ears, where did the "voiceover" about Xiang Wan appear.

Xiang Wan has never been in love, but she has loved someone, and she has loved two people. She knows that when you slow down the opening and closing of your eyelids, freeze a person's tiny movements, prolong the time of feeling and the halo of the background, that It probably means heartbeat.

She also knows that when you look at a person, you don't think about the present, not this moment, but meet him with words that seem to pass through the desert of time. That moment can be called forever.

She always felt that the journey between herself and Chao Xin was very logical and logical, but she didn't know where her vague uneasiness was rooted in.

Probably due to lack of understanding.

She hadn't even been in sync with Chao Xin, in each other's eyes, about the ins and outs of this relationship.