old age

The expected insomnia did not appear, on the contrary, Yi Chen slept soundly.It seemed that after a catastrophe, everything was destroyed, he had nothing, but he felt at ease, and had nothing to lose.

Before falling asleep, Yi Chen thought, it would be great if he could sleep without waking up.But this wish could not come true, Ji Kaiyang woke him up.

"How did you get in?"

"Uncle opened the door for me, get up quickly, it's already 07:30, if you don't leave, you will be late." Ji Kaiyang pulled him up, "Where did you put your clothes? Get up and change."

"I threw my clothes in the bathroom yesterday," Yi Chen yawned, "You can take it for me."

Ji Kaiyang took short sleeves and trousers from the closet, remembered yesterday's weather forecast that the temperature would drop, and found him a thin coat.Turning his face away, Yi Chen actually lay down again.

Ji Kaiyang threw off his quilt, "Don't sleep."

"Oh." Yi Chen shook his head dissatisfied, and finally got up.

"What happened yesterday?"

Yi Bochuan drove them to school in the morning, and Ji Kaiyang didn't ask Yi Chen about yesterday's affairs on the way, and only opened his mouth after entering the school gate.

In the morning of April, the wind was blowing and it was still a bit cold.Yi Chen zipped up his jacket and said nonchalantly, "It's nothing, they're divorced."

Ji Kaiyang turned his head in astonishment, "What?"

"Well, that's it. My dad and I won't move away, and we'll still go to school together in the future." Yi Chen took a bite of the bean paste bun he just bought and thought it was too sweet, so he threw it into the trash can again.He looked at the parabola across the sky, "My mother doesn't want me anymore."

"Don't talk nonsense." Ji Kaiyang recovered from the surprise just now, he actually guessed something a long time ago, but he didn't expect it to be so sudden and so fast. "Aunt Chu won't want you."

"She just doesn't want me!" Yi Chen pouted, "But it's okay. She doesn't want me, and I don't want her either."

He quickened his pace as he spoke, as if eager to get rid of something.The schoolbag bumped on his back, Yi Chen turned his head, "Let's go, the preparatory bell is ringing."

Yi Chen was surprised by his ability to recover, but in just two days, when he thought of his parents' divorce, he no longer had any special feelings, and even if he felt a little uncomfortable, it passed in a flash.Life has returned to calm again, nothing has changed, except for one thing, Ji Kaiyang spends more time with him every day.

"Didn't you tell me to wait for me?" Ji Kaiyang hurried to the cafeteria, looked around and saw Yi Chen at the seat by the window, who was sitting at the same table with him.

"I'll come over here first and finish the meal. Don't you want eggplant with oyster sauce? If you come late, there will be no more." Yi Chen pushed Ji Kaiyang's dinner plate in front of him.

When school was over at noon today, the head teacher asked Ji Kaiyang to go to the office and told him about his speech under the national flag at the flag-raising ceremony next week.Ji Kaiyang asked Yi Chen to wait for him in the classroom for a while, but when he came back from the office, he was gone.

"You're all growing up together soon." Miao Jiahao ate the boiled beef on the dinner plate, vaguely said, "My brother and I are not as close to you as biological ones."

"Your brother is older than you, it's strange that he is willing to play with you." Yi Chen exposed him mercilessly.

"I don't want to play with him, okay?" Miao Jiahao swallowed the last piece of meat, "Are you going back to the classroom?"

"You go back first." Yi Chen waved his hand, he had finished his meal, but Ji Kaiyang hadn't.

"You don't want to eat?" After the oil-consuming eggplant got cold, it was a bit greasy to eat.Ji Kaiyang stood up, planning to serve another bowl of tomato and egg soup.

"I'm done eating." Yi Chen moved his soup in front of him, "Drink mine, the soup in the cafeteria seems to be gone."

Ji Kaiyang took the soup, "You haven't eaten any vegetables yet."

The green vegetables in the school cafeteria are uniformly matched. No matter whether you order it or not, the aunt will put a portion on the dinner plate.

"I do not want to eat."

"Is it the same as not wanting to eat? Vitamin supplements." Ji Kaiyang had a straight face.

"You still don't want to eat."

"But I ate." Ji Kaiyang looked up at him, "Do you want to eat?"

"You're just taking revenge that I didn't wait for you today." Yi Chen wrinkled his nose, picked up the chopsticks with great reluctance, rolled up the vegetables on the plate and stuffed them all into his mouth.Then he brought back the soup and poured it all in one gulp, it was so choked that Yi Chen managed to swallow it successfully.

"I won't give you a drink," he said.

"You'll choke yourself to death." Ji Kaiyang stacked the two plates and carried them to the recycling place, "Childish."

"You really don't have to be so close to me." On the way back to the classroom, Yi Chen said, "It feels like hiring a bodyguard, who stays around 24 hours a day."

"Isn't it always like this?" Ji Kaiyang's voice was flat.

"Is it the same? Now you almost follow me to the bathroom." Yi Chen protested.

"Stop talking nonsense. How can I be so perverted."

"You also know that you are perverted." Yi Chen grabbed Ji Kaiyang's hand and pressed it against his chest, "You feel your conscience and say, do you have any?"

Ji Kaiyang gently shook off his hand, "Be quiet."

"Hey, I'm serious. You don't have to worry about me so much, I'm fine. I definitely won't go looking for death, jumping off a building or a river." He took two steps forward and turned around Ji Kaiyang, "Look Do I look like something is wrong?"

It's because you look fine that I don't feel relieved, Ji Kaiyang thought.

Yi Chen has been like this since he was a child, the more he has something on his mind, the more he doesn't care, but he doesn't know when it will explode.

Ji Yangkai still remembers that when they were in the second grade of elementary school, Yi Chen liked a little girl in the class who always wore a pink bow, followed her every day, and always brought her candy and biscuits from home.Later, the little girl changed schools because of her parents' job transfer.Yi Chen was depressed for about a class, and then started to be cheerful again.Ji Kaiyang originally thought that this matter was over like this.As a result, after a week, Yi Chen suddenly disappeared one day.At that time, Aunt Chu was still working as a teacher, and Ji Kaiyang's father happened to be at home on vacation.Together, the four adults looked for him everywhere.In the end, the girl's grandma called and asked her parents to pick her up.Yi Chen didn't know where she got her home's address in City N, and ran over there crying and making noise, insisting on asking where she was transferred to.

This incident has been one of the classic jokes reserved for two family gatherings for a long time.It's just that things are different now, he won't mention it again, and Yi Chen will never admit it again.

"Kaiyang is back?"

Ji Kaiyang came home from his study next night, when he opened the door, he saw a pair of dark red high heels at the door.Zhang Yun wears flat shoes all the year round, these will not be hers.

Sure enough, Chu Jing stuck her head out from the living room.

"Mom, Aunt Chu."

Zhang Yun raised her wrist and looked at her watch, "Why are you 10 minutes late today?"

Isn't it because Yi Chen insisted on buying hot dogs after school, which delayed his time.

The words went around in his mind, but when Ji Kaiyang opened his mouth, it turned into another sentence, "I lost a copy of my homework, so I went back to get it."

"Be careful next time, don't miss anything." Zhang Yun tested the temperature of the milk with her hand, "It's cold, Mom will warm it up for you again. You sit with your Aunt Chu in the living room for a while."

Ji Kaiyang sat down obediently, unconsciously a little cautious.

Chu Jing and Zhang Yun are actually two completely different people.Zhang Yun is gentle and steady, while Chu Jing is enthusiastic and flamboyant.When they were young, two mothers took their children out to play together, telling them not to run around, it was often Zhang Yun, and it was Chu Jing who allowed them to eat a big bucket of ice cream in winter.Children are playful, and Ji Kaiyang is no exception, so he actually likes this aunt very much in his heart.

But in the past few years, Chu Jing has become more and more busy, and she doesn't see her own son often, let alone Ji Yangkai.Except for the time when Chu Jing came to the school to look for Yi Chen, Ji Yangkai couldn't remember exactly when he saw Chu Jing last time.

"Kaiyang seems to be taller again." Chu Jing chatted with him, "Is there a lot of homework in school recently?"

"Fortunately, not many."

"Is it difficult for the teacher to teach?"

"It's not difficult." Ji Kaiyang thought about it and changed his words, "Some subjects are quite difficult."

"You have good grades, you are smart, and you can learn everything. Our Yichen is not good. That kid is not worrying at all. How is he at school recently?"

Finally changed the subject.

"It's fine, as usual."

"pretty good?"

"Yes." Ji Kaiyang took out the water glass next to his schoolbag to drink, "No crying, no fuss, nothing special."

Chu Jing was stunned, and looked at him with some hurt, "Kaiyang, do you also blame Aunt Chu?"

So he was blaming her?It was only at this time that Ji Kaiyang realized that the strangeness he felt when facing Chu Jing was not just because of unfamiliarity.

"I don't have one." Ji Kaiyang lowered his head and said dryly.

Chu Jing laughed at herself, and didn't try to talk to Ji Kaiyang anymore. Ji Kaiyang was in a daze with the cup in his hand, and the living room became quiet again.

"Come on. Bring it in and drink it by yourself. After drinking, finish your homework and wash up and go to bed early." Zhang Yun finally warmed up the milk, handed him the glass, poured another glass of water, and took her stomach medicine.

Ji Kaiyang felt relieved, "Mom, Aunt Chu, I'm going back to my room."

"Yeah." Chu Jing raised her head and smiled at him lightly, "Hey, go in."

Chu Jing stayed at his house that night and chatted with Zhang Yun until late at night.Ji Kaiyang went to the living room to pour water in the middle of the night, and saw that there was still light coming from Zhang Yun's room.

"Is Aunt Chu still sleeping?" Zhang Yun's door was still closed when she had breakfast the next day.

"Yeah." Zhang Yun rubbed the center of her brows. Chu Jing was a little emotional yesterday, and cried while talking until three o'clock in the morning.But what is the use of crying?She has known Chu Jing for more than 20 years and knows her well.Chu Jing has always been a person with ideas, and the decision she has made will never change.She may regret it many years later, but at this moment, she will definitely not regret it.

"She's been at our house all the time, don't you want to see Yi Chen?" Ji Kaiyang rolled the eggs on the dining table and began to peel them.

Zhang Yun took it over and peeled it for him, "Every child is like a child, and he even ordered the adults to come."

She put the egg into the small bowl in front of Ji Kaiyang, "Why did you talk to Aunt Chu yesterday?Don't think that mom didn't hear it inside. "

Ji Kaiyang drank the porridge in silence, and Zhang Yun tapped his forehead, "No matter what Aunt Chu does, whether you agree or not, she is an elder, so you have to be polite. Things you knew when you were young, how can you live more now?" Go back more."

"Then do you agree?" Ji Kaiyang said suddenly.

"Don't gossip about people behind their backs." Zhang Yun's tone was gentle, but with a trace of reproach, "I also taught you this. Everyone is different, huh?"

"I'm leaving." Ji Kaiyang finished eating the eggs quickly, "I'm going to check my student ID at the school gate today."

Zhang Yun patted her son's head, "Be careful on the road, don't tell Chenchen about your aunt Chu's arrival."

"understood."