Confessions of a retired star

The family of three looked at Zhu Shisi's mobile phone at the same time, Meng Tang and Zhu Mingchang looked at each other, silently exited the room, and closed the door.

It was Fang Shuyun calling, Zhu Shisi pressed the answer button.

"How do you feel today?"

"Better."

"That's good," Fang Shuyun coughed twice over there, "I seem to catch a cold from the air conditioner, and I feel a little dizzy. I want to go to bed early today, so... I wish you a happy birthday in advance."

Zhu Shisi didn't tell Fang Shuyun about his birthday, and he didn't expect him to know. Zhu Shisi was a little surprised: "Thank you, you should rest early."

Zhu Shisi was about to hang up, when a hoarse laughter came from the receiver: "Don't worry, when can we meet?"

"Uh, wait," Zhu Shisi walked out of the bedroom, said a few words to Zhu Mingchang, and then picked up the phone, "I want to finish the rest of the subjects at home these two days, how about the beginning of August?"

"Then August [-]nd?"

"No. No. [-], my dad wants to take me to the handicraft factory. Are you free on No. [-]?"

"Yes, I'm free anytime."

"Then No. [-], I'll go to your grandma's and pick you up to my house. You've wanted to come here a long time ago."

"Great, I'm looking forward to it from now on."

The two set a time and chatted a little more, Zhu Shisi's mood improved a lot.

The preview plan was successfully completed on August [-]. Although Zhu Mingchang was busy with work these days, he did not break his promise. On the early morning of August [-], the father and son set off for the handicraft processing factory in the suburb of Lanyao.

Before leaving, Meng Tang sprayed Zhu Shisi a lot of toilet water, kept telling him to have fun, and gave him 100 yuan pocket money.

Zhu Shisi went downstairs and stuffed the money into Zhu Mingchang's old briefcase. Zhu Mingchang asked him what he was doing, and he said that he had a shallow pocket and was afraid of losing it.

After taking three buses and traveling for two hours, Zhu Mingchang smelled the orange toilet water on Zhu Shisi's body, sneezed countless times along the way, and finally arrived at his destination.

A short, thin middle-aged man with a crew cut greeted the father and son at the gate of the factory. He was Zhu Mingchang's junior high school classmate, and Zhu Shisi called him Uncle Lin.

"It looks more like his mother," Factory Manager Lin enthusiastically patted Zhu Shisi on the shoulder, "Your father is very lucky. He married Lanyao's famous beauty. I didn't say that Meng Tang still has a lot of people even if he is married. Miss her forever."

Zhu Mingchang smiled as he walked: "The face is like his mother, and the temperament is like me. He is upright."

"Your son is much more iconic than you, especially his eyes, which are so expressive," Director Lin grinned and waved at Zhu Mingchang, then turned to look at Zhu Shisi, "What do you want to do in the future? I see you It's the material of the entertainment industry, with such a figure, God will appreciate it."

The factory building is very wide, and there is no shade in the open space. Zhu Shisi was dazed by the sun, and honestly shook his head: "I didn't want to do this."

"This kid likes astronomy," Zhu Changming smoothed things over. "Since he was in elementary school, he aspired to be an astrophysicist."

Director Lin pointed Zhu Mingchang with his index finger: "It's what you instilled in him. Even the banquet for his centenary banquet was arranged opposite the planetarium. How can there be a father like you? Hahaha."

Zhu Mingchang also laughed and said: "Old Lin, you don't understand, the planetarium is very special to our family."

Two talking and laughing middle-aged men walked into the workshop with a sun-drunk young man between them. The moment they hid under the eaves, a cool wind blew over, and Zhu Shisi came back to life.

"I heard from your father that you like to make small things with your hands. You can play with all the machines here." Director Lin pointed to a row of instruments in the workshop.

At first glance, Zhu Shisi was attracted by a machine connected to the computer. He walked over and looked at it curiously for a while, then turned around, and saw that Zhu Mingchang and Factory Manager Lin were having a lively chat.

"Uncle Lin, can I play this?" Zhu Shisi asked expectantly.

"Good vision! This is a laser engraving machine that was just introduced last month." Manager Lin enthusiastically pulled Zhu Shisi to the computer. "No matter what you want to engrave in the glass, you only need to use this software to design a [-]D image. , and I'll fix it for you with two clicks."

Manager Lin called a staff member over to teach Zhu Shisi the basic operations. Zhu Mingzhang also came to the side to watch, not only watching, but also asking questions from time to time. Manager Lin commented: "You two are indeed father and son, eager to learn Personality is almost carved out of a mold."

"Dad, I roughly know how to do it. What do you want to carve?"

"Today you are the protagonist, you decide."

"Hmm..." Zhu Shisi stroked the hair on his hair, "Then here is a star map of Aries and Capricorn, this is the constellation of you and your mother."

Director Lin laughed and praised Zhu Shisi for being sensible, Zhu Mingchang also smiled, his eyes were full of kindness: "Wish, why don't you carve a galaxy? There are you, me, and mother in the galaxy. There are countless stars, and it’s great to shrink countless stars in glass, just like holding infinite possibilities in your hands.”

"Old Zhu, old Zhu, you are such a poet!" Director Lin clapped his hands with a smile.

Zhu Shisi's amber-like eyes gathered light, he nodded, and the corners of his mouth stretched into an arc of joy: "Just carve this."

Factory Manager Lin moved a stool for Zhu Mingchang, and the father and son sat in front of the computer and worked together to draw a three-dimensional map of the Milky Way. After several failures, they finally succeeded at sunset.

When the four spiral arms of the Milky Way formed in the square crystal glass, the old Zhu and the young Zhu let out a low sigh of joy.

"Dad." Zhu Shisi's bewildered eyes almost fell into the monitor screen of the inner engraving machine.

"What's the matter son?"

"I want to add a line under the Milky Way."

"Okay, what word, you say, I'll write it." Zhu Mingchang called up the software window.

"cube of the milky way, c, u, b, e..."

Zhu Shisi read word by word, and Zhu Mingchang's face leaned on the monitor to draw it carefully.

"c, u, b, e..."

When the last "y" was written, Zhu Mingchang's concentrated nerves relaxed a little, and the orange dew on Zhu Shisi's body floated into Zhu Mingchang's relaxed nose, and he sneezed exaggeratedly.

The hand trembled, and the "y" was dragged a little longer.

Zhu Mingchang smiled, and Zhu Shisi also smiled. In order to commemorate this smile, they decided to keep the "y" of this mistake.

Zhu Mingchang and Zhu Shisi returned home happily with fresh Galaxy Cubes. In the evening, the family celebrated Zhu Shisi's 16th birthday. Zhu Shisi was very happy on this day.

However, Fang Shuyun's daily routine phone call did not come back until he went to bed.

Tomorrow, I made an appointment to pick him up at his grandma's house. The specific time has not been set. Zhu Shisi was lying on the bed while fiddling with the Galaxy Cube, while dialing Fang Shuyun's number. The receiver rang more than a dozen times before he was connected.

The first thing that came into my ears was a burst of noisy human voices, and a few seconds later, Zhu Shisi heard Fang Shuyun's voice.

"good evening."

"I want to read a book at home tomorrow morning, and come to pick you up in the afternoon."

There was silence for a while.

"it is good."

"Is your brother still at your grandma's house?"

"..." Fang Shuyun was a little absent-minded, "ah, yes."

Zhu Shisi noticed his strangeness, and shifted his attention from the Galaxy Cube in his hand to the phone call. He vaguely heard the sound of a man yelling at him from the opposite side.

"What's wrong?" Zhu Shisi asked in confusion.

"It's nothing...it's getting late, go to bed early, see you tomorrow."

Fang Shuyun hung up the phone quickly, Zhu Shisi was hesitant to call back, and he sent a text message.

[I have some housework to deal with, sorry, I will wait for you tomorrow afternoon. 】

Zhu Shisi was relieved after reading the text message, put the Galaxy Cube beside his pillow, and fell asleep peacefully.

At this time, he didn't know that after this night, the trajectory of his 16 years of ordinary and happy life would be completely changed.

The next morning, when Zhu Shisi got up, Zhu Mingchang had already gone out.

"He received an inter-provincial arrest mission in the middle of the night, and left before five o'clock in the morning."

Zhu Shisi heard what Meng Tang said.

This kind of situation is normal for Zhu Mingchang, Zhu Shisi didn't take it to heart, after eating and reading all morning, he was ready to go out just after one o'clock in the afternoon.

Meng Tang called him to stop, gave him pocket money as usual, and sprayed orange-flavored toilet water all over his body.

"Enough is enough," Zhu Shisi walked out holding the bicycle keys, "I sprayed too much toilet water yesterday, and my father kept sneezing."

After going downstairs, Zhu Shisi took the car from the shed, and just stopped at the gate of the compound.

Fang Shuyun's younger brother is here, neither his own car nor Fang Shuyun's car has a back seat, if the younger brother can't ride a bicycle, who will take him?

Zhu Shisi thought of this problem, turned around and backed away, and went home to take Meng Tang's car keys. Her car has a back seat and can carry one person.

Zhu Shisi rode very fast along the way, he was very familiar with the route of Fang Shuyun's house, he hadn't seen him for more than [-] days, he still missed him a little, although the weather was very hot and the sun was scorching, Zhu Shisi was in a relaxed mood.

The bicycle turned into a deep alley, the heat gradually receded between the red brick walls covered with ivy, and the cool wind dried the thin sweat on Zhu Shisi's face.

Before arriving at Fang Shuyun's grandma's house, Zhu Shisi stopped the car, took out a tissue and wiped his face, and then smoothed his wind-torn hair.

Pushing open the unlocked bamboo fence, Zhu Shisi leaned his bicycle on the side of the stone road and briskly walked towards the entrance.

At the end of the path, the gate is half open, and the swing is covered by the tangled flowers and plants. Under the staggered green shade, the shadow of the swing swings and creaks, accompanied by the monotonous cicadas and birds and the dazzling sunlight filtered by the leaves. Speech depression.

Zhu Shisi slowed down his pace. Instead of feeling the relaxation and tranquility of the past, he felt a little depressed. He walked carefully to the door, tilted his body and looked over, and saw five people sitting in the room.

Fang Shuyun and his grandparents were on one side, and a strange middle-aged man and woman were sitting opposite. They were both facing the door, and no one noticed Zhu Shisi's visit.

"You are too ignorant, you only know how to mess around with Chenchen!"

The man's tone was very severe, his voice was similar to the vague scolding he heard on the phone last night, Zhu Shisi took a step forward and saw his appearance clearly.