evening tide

The car drove to the edge of the town, which was actually only a few streets away from the hotel. Sun Er pointed his body and said, "We're here, we're here."

It is an old house that used to belong to the family of the credit union. It looks like five or six stories high, with blue-gray tiles.

After arriving downstairs, Chao Xin became nervous belatedly. These days, she has been afraid to think about the state of Pai Pai, and tried to relax in front of Xiang Wan and the others, but now Pai Pai is upstairs, and she has something similar to " The timidity of being close to the hometown.

Standing at the entrance of the dark rolling door, she looked up: "What floor?"

"Fourth floor." Sun Er said.

Just two streets, just two streets.

Chao Xin thought about this distance over and over again, without too much self-blame or guilt, just stood there not wanting to move, echoing these two sentences mechanically.

Then she lowered her head and said, "Let's go."

Sniffing, pulling her messy hair behind her ears.

There is no elevator in the old-fashioned house. They climbed up the dark concrete stairs with a rusty smell step by step. When they reached a dark red iron gate, Sun Er said, "Here we are."

I went up and slammed on the door twice, and a woman inside asked with a loud voice, "Which one?"

"Me." Sun Erqing spat out.

The door was opened from the inside, and Sanmei Sun was cooking, still wearing an apron, she glanced at him, and then at the fashionable girls behind her.

Sun Er swaggered in without changing his shoes, and sat on the sofa shaking his legs: "Aunt Chao Bei, she wants to take her back to school, call her out."

As soon as the words fell, the door inside slammed.

"Aunt! Aunt!" Pa Pai's voice.

Chao Xin's heart twitched, and he paused for two seconds before answering, "Pack card."

A little hoarse, with a faint breathy sound.

Sun Sanmei took out the key from her pocket, opened the door, and the card rushed out. When she saw Chao Xin, she was stunned.

Suddenly he stood there, tilted his head, and called again timidly: "Auntie."

Because she saw that Chao Xin's eyes were wet, she opened her mouth slightly to take a breath, then closed her lips again, and exhaled slowly.

This enlarged breathing action card is very familiar. When she woke up in a daze with a fever, Chao Xin did the same. Then he blinked and said to her, "I'm awake."

"Auntie, don't be angry," Paipai's tears suddenly flooded, she didn't dare to go over, she just stood a few steps away and rubbed her eyes, "I wanted to call you, but they didn't let me call .”

Sun Er lied to him, saying that he would take her and Chao Xin home to see grandma, saying that grandma missed her, and when she remembered that grandma said that she would not live long, she hesitated a little, and Sun Er said that she had told Chao Xin, eat After dinner, we went to pick up Chao Xin together.

He also said not to call yet, as it would affect Chao Xin's recording of the program.

He took her to dinner, and then said with snot and tears that he owed her, seeing that she was so big, and asked her if she remembered taking her to fly with her mother when she was a child.

Until he got in the fellow's car, he was still telling the fellow how sensible Pai Pai was when he was a child, so when he realized that it was not the way to the TV station, Pa Pai could no longer get out of the car.

"Auntie, I'm sorry." Paipai cried.

Chao Xin shook her head, she just stared at Pa Pai's protruding wrist, which was so thin that a finger could wrap it around, it's only been a few days.

"Didn't you eat well?"

I took another look at the big cartoon T-shirt on her body, and it looked like a little boy's style, with oily spots on it. The pants were still her school uniform pants, her hair was not combed, and was tied behind her head casually by Sun Sanmei, and she was wearing adult clothes under her feet. Slippers, men's, dark blue, look like two little boats.

"Whose clothes are they? Who changed them for you?"

"I changed it myself, and she gave me the clothes." Paipai pointed to Sanmei Sun.

Chao Xin squatted down, stretched out his hand, Pa Pai pulled on the slippers and consciously leaned over to her, snuggling softly into her arms.

When she smelled the familiar fragrance, she hugged Chao Xin's neck and let out a loud cry.

Chao Xin touched her back and lower back, and asked her in a low voice, "What have you been doing for the past few days? Does your body hurt?"

"What are you talking about? We are not allowed to beat people." Sun Sanmei wiped her hands on the apron twice. "She didn't eat at first, and I went to the vegetable market to cut half a catty of meat."

"She also said that she doesn't eat pork, oh, what a big lady Qianjin really is."

She was also very angry and complained to Sun Er.

"I also asked my brother to take her to play games, and she said that the game of the soul is for the mentally retarded, so the two of them started fighting. I said don't fight, and she kicked me here. Shut her up."

"It was originally played by the mentally handicapped." Papai cried and took the time to refute her.

"Look! Look at her." Sanmei Sun was so angry that she didn't want to say any more.

Chao Xin didn't want to say too much, so she picked up the cards and went out. Sun Sanmei saw that Sun Er was sitting on the sofa without moving, and gave him a wink: "Huh?"

Sun Er sat on the sofa and smoked.

The door closed with a "bang", and he didn't say another word.

Wearing high heels, Chao Xin hugged the ten-year-old girl and walked downstairs. Yu Zhou and Peng Yuzhi were amazed. When they got downstairs, they didn't want to delay. It was too much trouble, and it was completely dark, so I decided to stay in the hotel for another night.

When he arrived at the room, Chao Xin adjusted the water temperature for Paipai and asked her to take a good bath, then found out the clothes he had packed for her in his luggage, and turned into a comfortable pajamas.

He personally washed her hair carefully, dried it, and carried her to the bed to let her have a good sleep.

"Chao Xin." Paipai kept staring at her movements, reluctant to close his eyes.

After lying down for a while, she said, "I actually tried to eat well, and I knew you would come to save me."

"The pork she fried was too fatty. I felt nauseated after eating it, so I didn't want to eat it."

"I fought with that cousin because he talked nonsense. He said you don't want me anymore. I said you said I would beat you."

"He's not your cousin." Chao Xin interrupted her.

"Oh." Papai corrected politely, "That fat man."

"Who did you learn from talking about him?"

Papai rolled his eyes wide, glanced left and right, but didn't speak.

Chao Xin laughed: "Go to sleep, we will go back tomorrow."

Papai is still worried: "Have you asked my teacher for leave? What about my homework? Will the teacher think I'm playful? Remember to explain it to me."

And Zhou Ziqi, I wonder if he will be worried...

Is it possible to empathize with someone else?

Sun Er sold her mobile phone to a second-hand one. After returning home, she has a new mobile phone and needs to add friends one by one. She feels very tired.

After thinking about it, I fell asleep again.

The child who hadn't slept for several days whispered, and Chao Xin looked at her. The outline of her face was actually very similar to Chao Wang's, pale and frail, as if she couldn't wake up if she didn't pay attention.

Chao Xin guarded her, like guarding a regret that had been dusted for a long time.

But this time Papai's good sleep also told her clearly that some things will never come back.

She was really powerless to save it.