old age

Chapter 2

The two had a little quarrel the night before, and they were still a little awkward at breakfast the next day.

If I knew it earlier, I would have said good night. Now is it reconciled or not?so annoying.Do you want to wait for him to speak?

Yi Chen drank the last sip of milk, secretly glanced at Ji Kaiyang,

Ji Kaiyang looked up at him, then continued to eat bean sprout buns without speaking first.

Yi Chen pouted, "Aunt Zhang, I'm done eating, let's go first."

He picked up his schoolbag and rushed out the door quickly.

"Why did Chenchen leave?" Zhang Yun came out of the kitchen carrying millet porridge.

Before Ji Yangkai could answer, the door rang again.

"what's wrong?"

"Aunt Zhang, I took away my things." Yi Chen ran into the bedroom.

Ji Yangkai swallowed the remaining buns in two bites, "Mom, I'm full."

He went to the bedroom door and saw that Yi Chen was squatting on the ground, looking under the bed with his head tilted.

"Don't look for it, I put it in my schoolbag."

If you didn't say it earlier, I was worried that you would be discovered, so I ran away again.Yi Chen thought angrily, when he raised his head, he hit the bed.

He was even more aggrieved, he stood up and ran, bumping into Ji Kaiyang as he passed by.

"You wait for me." Ji Kaiyang took an egg from the dining table, "Goodbye, Mom."

"Slow down! It's still early for class."

The two children have run away without a trace.

Yi Chen ran all the way to the bus platform, just in time for the No. 5 bus to arrive at the stop.He panted and looked back, but Ji Kaiyang hadn't followed.

"Slow to death." Yi Chen kicked the trash can, but still didn't get in the car.

"Why are you running so fast?" Ji Kaiyang arrived.

"The car hasn't come yet." Yi Chen said nonchalantly.

"Oh." Ji Kaiyang pretended not to see the 5 marked on the back of the car that just passed, "Then let's wait a little longer."

Ji Kaiyang threw the bag in his schoolbag into the trash can, and Yi Chen stood aside with his arms folded.

"Does it hurt?" Ji Kaiyang turned to look at his forehead.

"It doesn't hurt!" Yi Chen said with his neck stuck.

It was all red, and said it didn't hurt, Ji Kaiyang took out the eggs and began to peel them.

"Let's go, the car is here."

Yi Chen got into the car and kept turning his head to look out the window.

"Turn around." Ji Yangkai patted him on the shoulder.

Yi Chen turned his head reluctantly, his forehead was only red just now, but now it is swollen.

Ji Yangkai applied the freshly peeled egg on it, "Don't move around, it won't hurt in a while."

"It doesn't hurt at all!"

Ji Kaiyang continued to rub his eyes down, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have hurt you last night."

"That's right, you've gone too far." Yi Chen's expression became vivid when he heard his apology, "I care about you, but you still scold me. I'm still younger than you, what did Aunt Zhang usually tell you, to let Brother, are you letting me go?"

"Then why don't you say that I'll help you with your homework?" The more he said, the more complacent he became, as if he was about to jump up from his seat, Ji Kaiyang couldn't help but interrupt him.

Yi Chen paused, "Forget it, don't mention it, I forgive you,"

"Pull the hook." Yi Chen put his hand in the middle, "It's reconciled, and you are not allowed to scold me in the future."

"I didn't scold you, but my tone was a little bit harsher." Ji Kaiyang said.

"It doesn't matter, anyway, I'm a generous person, hurry up and pull the hook."

Ji Kaiyang curled up his little finger and hooked it with him.Their eyes met inadvertently, and they both smiled.

After evening self-study, Yi Chen went back to Ji Kaiyang's house.

Zhang Yun called their homeroom teacher and asked him to tell Ji Kaiyang to bring Yi Chen with him after school.

"Your parents have something to do these few days, so you can stay with Aunt Zhang first." Zhang Yun cut the apples prepared for them and put them on the dining table. "Auntie went over to help you pack some clothes and come over. After you and your brother finish eating, you can do your homework."

"Okay." Yi Chen chewed the apple, vaguely said, "Why did they go, do you know?"

"They didn't say, children don't care so much, be good." Zhang Yun hesitated for a moment, opened the door and left.

Yi Chen stayed at Ji Kaiyang's house for almost a week, during which time Yi Bochuan and Chu Jing both called him, telling him to listen to Zhang Yun and not to cause trouble to others, but kept silent about what they were up to.

No matter how dull Yi Chen was, he still felt that something was wrong, "What the hell are you doing? It's so annoying to be so mysterious."

Ji Kaiyang passed by the bedroom one day and heard Chu Jing contacting Zhang Yun, so he vaguely guessed something, but he was not sure, and he didn't know how to tell Yi Chen.

"Don't worry." Ji Kaiyang said, "Uncle and aunt will come to pick you up after the matter is over."

"I don't want them to come. They took me back. They won't stay at home, and they let me stay at home alone. They say they are busy every day, and they quarrel when they meet." Yi Chen rested his head on his hands and lay on his back On the bed, sullen, "Ji Kaiyang, it would be great if you were really my brother."

"I was originally."

"I didn't mean that." Yi Chen tilted his head to look at the back of Ji Kaiyang's desk, "You clearly know what I mean."

Ji Kaiyang was using a pencil to mark out the mistakes in Yi Chen's homework, "Well, I know. But it's not bad now. You could have stayed at my house forever, and no one would drive you away."

"It's different!"

"As long as you think about it, there is no difference." Ji Kaiyang turned his head and threw the eraser on Yi Chen, "Okay, don't lie down. Get up and correct your mistakes. You have written something wrong three times."

Several days passed like this, and the Yi Bochuans didn't show up until Wednesday of the second week.

At that time, the afternoon class had just finished, and he was planning to go to the cafeteria to have dinner with Ji Kaiyang.Walking out of the teaching building, I saw Chu Jing and Yi Bochuan standing under the Jue tree not far away. There was a distance between them and they were not close.

"Chenchen, Kaiyang." Chu Jing walked in front of them with her handbag in hand.

"Why are you here?" Yi Chen looked at Chu Jing, but Yi Bochuan was still where he was and did not come over.

"Mom will take you out for dinner."

"Why?" Yi Chen looked surprised, "I still have evening self-study."

"Mom and the teacher have asked for leave, you go and pack your schoolbag." She said, touching Ji Kaiyang's head again, "I'm sorry to trouble you and mom during this time, and auntie will go to your house some other day to thank your mom. "

"No trouble." Ji Kaiyang shook his head, Yi Chen's hand was grabbing the corner of his clothes, he hesitated, "What's the matter with you? It's physics class tonight, and the teacher is going to talk about the paper from last time." , quite important."

"It's something. What the teacher said, please help Chenchen take notes." A look of embarrassment appeared on Chu Jing's face, and she patted Yi Chen, "Go get the schoolbag, mom is waiting for you here." "

"What's the matter?" Yi Chen sat in the back row with his schoolbag in his arms.Chu Jing and Yi Bochuan hadn't spoken since they got in the car, and the atmosphere in the car was dignified and awkward.The ecstasy brought about by self-study at night disappeared without a trace.

"What would Chenchen want to eat tonight?" Chu Jing answered irrelevantly.

Yi Chen looked at her unhappily, "Don't fool me, can you?"

"Let's talk after dinner." Chu Jing dodged her eyes for a moment.

"I do not want to eat!"

Chu Jing adjusted the expression on her face and smiled at him, "Didn't you say you wanted to eat steamed silver carp with rice flour a while ago? Anyway, it's very close to here, so shall we just eat this?"

"That happened a month ago." Yi Chen said with a blank expression, "Aunt Zhang has already taken me to eat."

Yi Bochuan on the cab sneered.

"What are you laughing at?" Chu Jing broke out suddenly, "Do you care about the child? What right do you have to laugh?"

Yi Bochuan gave her a cold look, "I don't want to argue with you, it's meaningless."

He found a Chinese restaurant and stopped the car, "It's here, it doesn't matter where you eat this meal anyway."

Although the restaurant was chosen randomly, Chu Jing still ordered a table full of dishes.

"Eat more." She hardly ate anything herself, and kept picking up food for Yi Chen, "Is there anything else you want to eat? Mom will order more."

"I don't want to eat." Yi Chen put down the bowl, "You guys talk."

"Chenchen..." Chu Jing put down her chopsticks, hesitating.

She looked at Yi Chen, "Your father and I, we..."

"We're divorced." Yi Bochuan sat far away at a large round table, without even taking apart the bowls and chopsticks in front of him, "Is there anything I can't say, he is 14 years old, can he keep it a secret?"

"Are you divorced?" Yi Chen stared blankly at Chu Jing. They hesitated along the way. In fact, he had a little premonition, but when he heard these two words with his own ears, his heart was still empty.

Chu Jing suddenly covered her face and began to cry.Yi Bochuan lit a cigarette, his complexion ashen.

Yi Chen sniffed, "Who am I with?"

"You and me." Yi Bochuan said.

Yi Chen looked at Chu Jing who was crying in front of him, "Don't you want me?"

"Mom loves you." Chu Jing grabbed his hand, "You have to trust mom, no matter what, mom loves you."

"You don't want me anymore, what are you talking about?" Yi Chen shook off her hand, "Why do you not want me?"

"Mom has her own difficulties." Chu Jing's face was covered in makeup, "Mom is too busy to take care of you. But I will come to see you often."

"You don't have the energy to take care of me, so why did you give birth to me?" Yi Chen bit his lip.

Chu Jing didn't answer him, her cell phone rang.

She glanced at the caller ID, hesitated for a moment, then picked up the phone and walked out with the phone.She seemed to have gone to the bathroom to wash her face, and when she came back, she was much calmer.

"Yichen, you are a premature baby. I gave birth to you after two days of pain. You are a piece of meat that fell from my body. It is impossible for me not to love you." She seemed to be standing unsteadily, with her hands on the dining table , "But I am an independent person first, and then your mother. I also have my own career and my own pursuit. I thought I could take care of both, but now I find that I can't."

"So, you don't want me and Dad, do you?"

"Mom doesn't want that either."

"You've already chosen." Yi Chen randomly tore at the plastic tablecloth on the table, "Is there anything you don't want to do. You are just selfish."

"Chenchen..."

"Stop talking, I don't want to talk to you."

"Chenchen..."

"You go! You have to go sooner or later. What kind of mother-child relationship is playing now? Do you want me to hold you and cry, please? I won't!"

He stood up abruptly, walked up to Chu Jing, and pulled her out of the door.

"Yi Chen." Yi Bochuan called him, but it didn't work.

Yi Chen gritted his teeth and pushed Chu Jing out, then threw her handbag out of the box and slammed the door hard.

"Chenchen, don't do this." Chu Jing patted the door panel.She felt that she hadn't looked at this child for too long, and the little boy who was pestering her to hug her would already shake off her hand.

Yi Chen put his back against the door and did not open it.He listened to the sound of knocking on the door gradually diminishing and slowly stop.Then another sound sounded, it was Chu Jing's footsteps leaving.

Yi Chen seemed to be drained of all his strength and felt very tired.He slid down the door and sat on the floor with his head on his knees.He thought he was going to cry, but his eyes were dry and there were no tears.

Yi Bochuan took Yi Chen back home, and he had already gone to Zhang Yun's house to get Yi Chen's clothes in the afternoon.

Yi Chen walked towards the bedroom with his head down, and Yi Bochuan called him back, "Chenchen, don't rush in, come and sit for a while, let's chat."

Yi Chen turned around and sat down without saying a word.Yi Bochuan looked at him, and seemed to have forgotten how to speak for a while.

He got up and went to the kitchen to get a box of yogurt for Yi Chen, and made himself a cup of tea.

"Chenchen, it's dad who is sorry for you. He can't give you a complete family." When he said this, his eye circles were a little red unconsciously, but Yi Chen was unmoved.

"Then why do you want to divorce? If you don't divorce, don't you have these things?"

"You are too young to understand the things of adults."

"I don't understand, what else are you talking about with me?" Yi Chen squeezed the straw, "Then you don't have to tell me anything."

"Chenchen." Yi Bochuan looked at his son, "Today your mother is right. Parents are not just parents, we also have our own lives. She has her ambition, and she thinks that is better than ours. Important, I thought about keeping her, but I couldn't. What can Dad do?"

When Chu Jing went to sea, Yi Bochuan didn't agree.He has been doing well in the company and has already become the deputy general manager. The general manager will retire in a few years, and he is very promising to become a full-time employee.The family has no worries about food and clothing, and he hopes that Chu Jing will stay at home to take care of her husband and raise her children. In his opinion, the teaching position is dispensable.But one day, Chu Jing suddenly told him that she wanted to resign and start a clothing business.

"It just so happens that Chenchen is getting older, so I don't have to take him to and from school all day long. I've been a teacher for so many years, and I'm tired of it, so I can do something else."

"If you don't want to be a teacher, just stay at home. It's not that I can't afford you."

"It's because you can afford it that I want to give it a try. Even if it fails, it won't have much impact on the family."

There was something restless in Chu Jing's bones, and Yi Bochuan knew it early on.But he had to admit that this was also an important reason why he was attracted to Chu Jing in the first place.

After Chu Jing talked to Yi Bochuan, she went to school and resigned in the second week. She was always very straightforward and did not give herself a way out.Then she rented a shop and started her women's clothing business.There is nothing Yi Bochuan can do if he disagrees with making cooked rice from raw rice.

When the business just started, Chu Jing prepared lunch for Yi Chen every day at noon, and closed the door at seven o'clock in the evening to go home.The atmosphere at home is quite harmonious, and the change of Chu Jing's job doesn't seem to have caused much change.But later, as the business gradually improved and got on the right track, the store opened and expanded, and she became busier and busier, and it was not uncommon for her to come home at eleven or twelve o'clock.Yi Bochuan couldn't accept his wife's dedication to her career, and the conflict between the two broke out.Chu Jing is very talented in doing business.A year ago, she successfully won the general agency of a mid-range women's clothing brand in North China.Since then, I often travel on business, and I don’t see anyone for three to five days.When the couple meet, they often end in quarrels.No matter how deep the relationship is, it can't bear such attrition. When facing the other party, there is only a deep sense of exhaustion, and when there is nothing to say except bad words, Yi Bochuan knows that his marriage has come to an end.

"So you are not responsible, you are not at fault, is that what you mean?" Yi Chen took a sip of yogurt, then frowned, but swallowed it anyway.

Yi Bochuan didn't notice Yi Chen's movements, he was surprised by Yi Chen's words.He didn't know when this child had grown into such an aggressive teenager.Yi Bochuan didn't continue talking with him, "We will be left with you and me in the future, and I will try to minimize socializing during this time. You go to do your homework first, go to bed early when you are done, and we will talk about it another day when it is not too early."

Yi Chen picked up his schoolbag and walked towards the bedroom, his back was thin and lonely.

"Chenchen." Yi Bochuan felt very unbearable, "Why don't you go to Aunt Zhang's house for a few more days? Your brother Kaiyang can accompany you."

"You don't want to control me, do you still expect others to control me? Also," Yi Chen grabbed the doorknob and looked back at Yi Bochuan, "Dad, you remember to throw away that carton of milk. You haven't cared for too long Family business, so didn't know it was overdue."

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