Be careful

Mu Chi nimbly picked the palm of Poplar's palm, and before the crowd caused a bigger commotion, he took Poplar's hand and ran away.

The painter behind continued to daub the canvas, and the girl was still excitedly saying to her companion: "Ah, have you seen it, it is definitely Populus oak!"

"Isn't he making a movie?"

"His hometown seems to be here..."

"Who is the man with him, it seems that the relationship is very good."

Pulled by Mu Chi, Populus shuttled through the crowd, and the colorful lights flashed quickly, as if there were only the two of them in the world.

Without stopping all the way, when I came to a fish ball shop, Populus was so tired that I was out of breath.He grabbed the vertical signboard of the fish ball shop and refused to leave.

"Brother Xiaochi, stop, stop for a while," Pu Li said, "This fish ball is... very delicious."

Mu Chi smiled, and loosened his grip on the poplar.

Pu Li turned around and asked the proprietress to order two fish balls, one for each person, and slowed down.

"I can't go to crowded places anymore." Mu Chi was not used to eating on the street, and was a little at a loss holding the paper box.

Populus chewed on Q-bomb balls in his mouth, his mouth was round and greasy, and he repeatedly agreed: "Okay, I won't go, I'm afraid."

In the old neighborhood of City X, the roads are intricate and complicated. After leaving the night market, he soon walks onto a path lit by street lights and covered with mottled shadows.

The little cat took a leisurely walk, the wind blew and the leaves rustled.

Pu Li found a bench, sat down, patted the seat beside him and invited Mu Chi to sit together.

Mu Chi sat down and began to fiddle with the fish balls in the carton with a fork.

"Come and let me help you." Seeing that Mu Chi was a little clumsy, Pu Li put one into Mu Chi's mouth with his own fork, and then asked, "Is it delicious?"

Mu Chi chewed carefully, squinted his eyes: "It's delicious."

The little cat came over and called "meow meow".

Populus split the fish balls into small pieces with a fork and threw them to the cat, who ate them bit by bit.After a while, it recruited its companions.

It was the first time for Mu Chi to feed the cat while eating, so he wanted to go back and buy some fish balls.

Populus held him back: "It's not good for cats to eat these, the taste is too strong, if you want to feed them, bring cat food next time."

Mu Chi nodded seriously, as if he would really come again.

They sat on the bench and chatted, as if they were going to the Mu family's old house for the first time, facing a dark pond, talking about everything.Especially the embarrassing and joyful things in childhood, like trying to make up for the days without each other's company.

Populus stroked the kitten's fur, and unconsciously said...

He knew from an early age that he was different from others, that he had no father and no more relatives.The mother came from afar alone, unaccompanied, and gave birth out of wedlock.In order to support him, he had to dance hard in the dance troupe.

Many things faded when I was a child, but I can still think of those doors with different colors and textures.He was always locked up, either waiting for his mother to pick him up at the gate of the kindergarten with a lock, or he was locked at home during winter and summer vacations.

He was unlocked when he was in elementary school, but he had nowhere to go.After school, I ran to Pu Yanan's theater troupe, lying in the corner of the rehearsal room to finish my homework, watching the adults rehearse, and sometimes dancing with them when I was interested.

He likes to dance, and he also likes to see figures swaying on the stage.

Since he was a child, he felt that he was related to the stage, and he longed to feel the lives of others and live as another person.

Since he was very young, he was sure that he would eventually wander in a foreign land, like his mother, born like duckweed.

He also told Mu Chi that Pu Yanan named him "Pu Quercus", "Pu Quercus" was originally a kind of tree, its bark is durable and not easy to die.

Pu Li also treated his curiosity about his biological father and his early dropout as a joke to Mu Chi.

He said that he never dared to ask Pu Yanan who his father was, because he knew that his mother would naturally say it if she wanted to, and she couldn't mention it unless she said it.

But that time was an exception.

Pu Yanan was 38 years old when Pu Li entered high school, and she was no longer fit to perform on stage. However, in those years, coincident with the system reform, many young dancers went overseas to start their own businesses, and many talents were lost in the theater troupe. .

Pu Yanan not only gritted her teeth and played two roles.Finally, when a play was about to end, he was exhausted and fell from the hero's shoulder, directly hurting his lumbar spine.

When Pu Yanan was sent to the hospital, there was not even a bed in the emergency room, and her injury was urgent.

After learning about his mother's injury from the teacher, Pope rushed to the hospital without crying or panicking.At such a young age, he thought this time was just another one of Pu Yanan's many falls and sprains, but he actually seized the opportunity to ask a question that had been hidden in his heart for many years in the emergency room.

He asked his mother: "You fell like this, where is that man, tell me, who is my father and where is he?"

Pu Ya Nan's lower body was about to lose consciousness, and her waist was in pain. Beads of sweat rolled down her spine, but she reached out her hand very gently to touch the eyebrows, eyes, bridge of the nose and the corners of the lips.

She gritted her teeth and said, "He's dead, and his appearance before his death is almost the same as that of me now."

Populus was in a hurry. I don't know why there were so many people in the hospital that day. There were people everywhere in the emergency room, in the corridors, and on the stairs.

Populus realized that he had asked something he shouldn't have asked, and his mother was obviously more important than the person who had never appeared before.

He knew that in those years, a seafood restaurant owner named Zheng Yidao was pursuing his mother.But his mother was always lukewarm to him.Now that his mother is in danger, and the troupe leader can't find a way out anxiously in the hospital, he stole his mother's mobile phone and called Zheng Yidao.

When Zheng Yidao heard that Pu Yanan was injured, he hurried over and contacted a respectable client. He asked a famous neurosurgery expert to perform an operation on Pu Yanan immediately.

It was from the moment his mother was pushed into the operating room that Populus truly realized what this accident meant to him.

The operation lasted more than ten hours, and his heart and liver were anxious outside the operating room for more than ten hours.

He began to blame himself, scolding himself for not realizing when he came to the hospital to see his mother that this fall might kill her, or make her unable to walk upright again.

But he didn't cry. Before he could cry, he was called by the nurse to pay the medical expenses three times.

At that moment, Pu Li knew that his family was so poor that he couldn't even afford the money to save his life.He reluctantly accepted Zheng Yidao's assistance, but secretly made a new plan for his future life.

Fortunately, the operation was a success.

After lying on the hospital bed for three months, Pu Yanan was finally able to get out of the field. Although she stumbled, it was better than being in a wheelchair for the rest of her life.In addition, she already has dancing skills, and she can't stand loneliness. After a year of exercising, she can move freely, and she looks like an ordinary person from the outside.It was just this accident that made her bid farewell to the stage completely.

That is, during that summer vacation, Populus started a part-time modeling career in a watch shop.

The manager of the watch shop is Pu Yanan's good friend. He watched Pu Li grow up and said that he could be a star with just his face.

That year Populus was 16 years old.I told my mother that I was going to make up lessons, but I was actually standing on the stage at the opening ceremony of a certain luxury store.

Later, he became less and less fond of going to school. It wasn't that he couldn't continue studying, but he simply wanted to stay away from the locked gate, and further away.

For this reason, he also thought of a roundabout way to get his mother.

He ran to Zheng Yidao's house, where the red bricks of the century-old house were shining brightly. He didn't have time to stop, so he knelt down in front of Zheng Yidao.

"Uncle, accept me as an apprentice!"

Zheng Yidao jumped up in fright, and scolded that the kid who broke in suddenly knelt in a really good place, facing the ancestors of the Zheng family enshrined in the ancestral hall.

Then Zheng Yidao recognized the poplar, he chuckled, and grinned his mouth to the base of his ears: "Thick la thick la."

Just like that, Pu Li dropped out of high school in the second year of high school, and followed Zheng Yidao under the umbrella of Zheng Yidao.Walk around during the day, and go to help Zheng Yidao's seafood shop at night. After a long time, I really learned how to cook seafood.

Pu Yanan had nothing to do with him, no matter how difficult the life was, she never lost her temper, but secretly sad and distressed for half a year before the mother and son began to talk normally.

"I met a scout later?" Mu Chi had investigated the experience of Poplar, and he knew that Poplar hadn't been in the seafood shop for long.

"It took about a year or so before I became a little bit famous, and then a sister said that she could take me to sign a contract with an entertainment company and become a star." Populus said this, feeling embarrassed.Those years are like old movies with strange scenes. Although it has only been a few years, it seems like the last century when I think about it.

"Your mother agreed?" Mu Chi asked Pu Li.

Populus shook his head: "How is it possible? She was so angry that she was the worst I've ever seen her. Even Zheng Yidao was so frightened that his forehead was sweating. She didn't want me to enter the entertainment industry, saying that people in the entertainment industry are all Scorpion scum."

Mu Chi now has a new understanding of Pu Li's mother, and he feels very emotional.

Once, standing under the sycamore tree, Mu Chi quietly complained about this woman, even though he knew they were all victims side by side.Now, he is full of admiration for Pu Yanan.

Based on his experience in the entertainment industry, life is difficult, there are too many ways to get money, but this woman chose to remain silent and raised his little chestnut by herself.Based on this alone, he should be grateful to this woman for the rest of his life.

Mu Chi sent the poplar back, stood under the sycamore tree again, looked up at the small dark red light bulbs surrounded by flies and insects on the balcony, and felt that all arrangements had their own reasons.