flame chasing light

In the past few days, Gao Zhan received an old friend.

Su Ling has returned to China, and rushed over from the hotel as soon as she opened her eyes on weekend mornings. She insisted on eating pasta made by Gao Zhan. Floor to buy things.

Su Ling is a friend Gao Zhan met when he was wandering abroad. At that time, because he lived nearby, he always met, and gradually got to know each other. Later, when the two chatted, they both lived in Hanchuan, the motherland. It was a sense of fate. Meeting an old acquaintance in a foreign country, and quickly became good friends. Later, because they both love to travel poorly, the two even wandered through the United States together.Now, Su Ling lives in the United States for a long time, and this time she comes back to deal with the old house at home, and visit relatives and friends by the way.Hearing that something happened to Gao Zhan's family, she came here non-stop. She has been with Gao Zhan for the past few days, because Su Ling has always known about the tense relationship between him and his father. He also left the country because of this. of.

Going downstairs to the supermarket to do some shopping, it was just in the middle of the morning, and there was no one there. Gao Zhan was about to go back after paying the bill, and saw a man sitting on a bench by the window, eating instant noodles with his shoulder blades propped up. Stunned, with a fair neck, and more importantly, a dazzling round-neck T-shirt with fur edges.Gao Zhan stopped.

It can't be such a coincidence, Gao Zhan thinks that he must be thinking too much, it is impossible to meet that person here.The man looked up after taking a mouthful of noodles, and the face looming in the big glass in front was also looking at him through the glass.

It's not who Xin Yan is.

Recently, Xin Yan took the time to go to the hospital here a few times, and Xiaoying's younger brother was hospitalized.

Xiaoying was involved in a car accident. Xin Yan encountered an accident during the Spring Festival the year before last. She ran away from the accident. The family was hit by the accident. The 65-year-old father died on the spot, and the mother died of serious injuries. The son was disabled, and only a 20-year-old daughter suffered a fractured right arm. , After treatment, he was finally out of danger.Later, the hit-and-run was caught, but he ran away because his family was too poor, unable to pay medical expenses and compensation at all.

The family came to the city from the countryside to visit relatives, but unfortunately, Xiaoying was the 18-year-old daughter of the family. When she woke up in the hospital the next day, she found out that Xin Yan was passing by. Xin Yan knelt down and wanted to reward him like a cow or a horse.

Xin Yan scratched his head, that day he was going to repair his "little daughter-in-law", just that second-hand off-road vehicle, on Naihe road, Xiaoying's family was involved in a car accident, the fragile appearance of the little girl reminded him of a person , Saving people is the most important thing, so I put the money in advance.

Xiaoying is simple and simple, thinking about paying back the benefactor's money. Later, with her disabled brother, she found a job in Hanchuan and settled down.After work, he often buys things for Xin Yan and sends them over when he has nothing to do. He also goes to his place to help clean up and cook a meal from time to time.

Xin Yan was purely because looking at her at that time reminded him of a person, that child would be this old by now.At that time, he helped someone advance the medical expenses on impulse, without thinking of others to repay and didn't even think about what happened later. Xin Yan often told her not to come, and said several times that it was useless, so let it go.

On Saturday morning, Xiaoying suddenly called him early in the morning, and before he could say anything, he was crying over there.

"Xiaoying, don't cry, what's wrong?"

"Brother, little brother, he—"

Xiaoying's younger brother is Xiaoguang, who was disabled in the car accident. Xiaoguang has low self-esteem and feels that he is a drag on his sister.The siblings have been renting in a residential area on the edge of the city. Xiaoguang’s legs and feet are inconvenient. Xiaoying found a small warehouse that no one used in the rented community. Receiving the courier, firstly, there is something to do, and secondly, let him get in touch with people, so as not to think wildly.As a result, the courier collection point was pried last night, and a lot of things were lost. The people who came to pick up the parcels surrounded the door relentlessly. Xiaoguang got into a conflict with them, was beaten, and went to the hospital.

After hearing this, Xin Yan hurried over to help resolve the dispute, and they agreed to compensate them, so Xin Yan accompanied him and said a lot of good things.

Xiaoguang was hospitalized, and Xin Yan couldn't avoid going to see the siblings.After coming out of the hospital that day, Xin Yan felt empty in his stomach. He ran over early in the morning and didn't bother to eat. Now he found a nearby convenience store to buy instant noodles.

At this moment, Xin Yan, who was wearing a dazzling T-shirt with raw edges, also saw the acquaintance through the big glass, turned around for a moment, and then greeted with a bright face, "What a coincidence. How are you, Mr. Gao~"

"Hello." Gao Zhan nodded, the person in front of him looked a little unrefined, with dark circles under his eyes, and his hair was tied up. He was so busy that he didn't even have time to shave. He looked at the instant noodles in front of him again, and Gao Zhan frowned. , "Breakfast or lunch?"

"Ah, this time is neither too early nor too late." Xin Yan laughed at herself, not feeling bad about her image at all, scratched her head and said with a smile, "Merged."

"Why are you here?" the two asked in unison.

Gao Zhan pointed to the back, "Live here."

"Oh, I'm so hungry, I'm passing by to have something to eat." Xin Yan has never cared about his own image, for some reason he watched him raise his hand to smooth the fried hair on the top of his head.Ah, rich people's district, no wonder, grandma's cup of instant noodles costs 20 yuan, it turns out that she has entered the rich people's territory by mistake.

"Go ahead." Gao Zhan nodded and walked out. For some reason, Gao Zhan felt that he should leave as soon as possible, otherwise he wanted to stop and ask him why he made himself so embarrassed.Why do you ask, Gao Zhan knows, maybe because of his T-shirts that are always frayed, maybe——because of something else.

Hey, why are you in such a hurry, every time you walk in such a hurry, when Xin Yan remembered something and chased him out, the person had already disappeared.He probably doesn't know about Gao Yanliang's matter, besides, this person definitely doesn't want to know, it will only increase troubles, forget it, let's not talk about it.On second thought, that was his own father.

Just as Gao Zhan got into the elevator, his phone rang, and he saw the acquaintance he met just now.

"Hello, Mr. Gao, it's still me."

"what's up?"

"Oh, it just happened to happen. By the way, let me tell you that there is something about Gao Yanliang's matter."

Oh?

"Did you know he had a problem?"

Gao Zhan frowned, he had too many questions, what did you say. "Squad Xin, what do you mean?"

"He and the former gardener's wife..."

Before he finished speaking, Gao Zhan knew what he was going to say, and subconsciously interrupted him, "I'm not interested in knowing about him." After speaking, his tone became cold, "Is there anything else?"

Xin Yan got stuck there before finishing his sentence, and the person on the other side of the microphone had a cold tone, and he said slowly, "No, I just remembered to tell you."

"Thank you, please contact Tu Wanyan if you have anything to do in the future. Gao Yanliang's matter has nothing to do with me. Goodbye." After finishing speaking, Gao Zhan hung up the phone.

Listening to the busy tone from the mobile phone, Xin Yan said in her heart, yes, I owe you!People obviously don't want to know.After scolding herself, Xin Yan looked at the half cup of instant noodles left in front of her eyes, which seemed to have lost its taste.

When Gao Zhan returned home, Su Ling was looking at the bucket arch model he had assembled two days ago with great interest, "Gao, you still like architecture."

"To pass the time." Gao Zhan put down his things and didn't speak for a while.

After a while, Su Ling noticed something strange about him, she was fine when she went out, but she suddenly became depressed when she came back, "What's wrong, your face smells so bad?"

"It's okay, just sit by yourself for a while." After finishing speaking, Gao Zhan went into the kitchen and started to pack things.

Although I haven't seen him for a long time, Su Ling knows that he must be in a bad mood at the moment. In the past, when he was in a bad mood, he loved to stay by himself, shut down the communication system unilaterally, and didn't talk to anyone.

Gao Zhan mechanically packed the materials in the kitchen. Ever since he hung up the phone just now, he felt irritable for no reason. He didn't want to hear anything about Gao Yanliang, let alone the history of pornographic affairs.When I was a child, I thought my father was a big tree, the support of myself and my mother, until one day I found that the big tree was just a maggot-infested tree, full of silverfish, with a bright surface and an ugly inside.In those years, he could see clearly how the light in his mother's eyes disappeared bit by bit. The misfortune that his mother suffered has been in his heart for so many years. How many nights he heard his mother's sighs and crying, and in those years, his mother's heart was full of tears. He is full of scars, why not, those scars have become scars that cannot disappear, and will always be there.Mother cried, quarreled, redeemed, and even gave in, but Gao Yanliang couldn't make the slightest change until she finally fell ill.Gao Yanliang, no matter what happened to you, you deserve it, but why do you want your mother to pay for it all her life.

So many years have passed, those things have always made him unable to calm his heart, so when Xin Yan mentioned Gao Yanliang's filth just now, he was not polite at all, but now he came to his senses, he overreacted, and he was out of good intentions , should not vent your anger on others.

Until we sat down to eat with Su Ling, Gao Zhan was not in a very high mood. He was annoyed by his rudeness just now, and because he met him suddenly and saw him like that, he felt a little irritable.

"It's delicious! What's the matter, don't you want to eat, think about something." Su Ling asked while praising his craftsmanship.

Gao Zhan put down the fork in his hand, "I still can't control my temper."

"For a while, who are you angry with?"

"An irrelevant person."

"Scientifically, people generally lose their temper with people they are close to or trust, because they know they won't leave."

"False. Irrelevant, how can you get close or trust." He denied it, but Gao Zhan couldn't help thinking in his heart that he had never met that person a few times, but somehow he felt close, and he didn't want to be so close that he would be annoyed.

"You don't believe me, do you? You see that you never lose your temper with me. In fact, in your heart, you think we are just ordinary friends."

"Bullshit."

"Remember what I said. Speaking of which, Gao, has your side been clean recently? What about that little brother who was begging for nothing last time?"

"Sent off."

"Ah, Gao is still so cruel."

"It's even more unfair to pester people if you don't like them." Gao Zhan was also cynical for a while when he was young, and there were many men and women around him. Later, those same skins became a blurred background, and he was finally tired of it.Only at this moment, the face just now clearly appeared in my mind.

Su Ling said, "You are right."

"How about you and William, are you okay?" Gao Zhan calmed down and asked while drinking water.

"As always, hurt each other and then report to the group for warmth. Don't talk about him, don't want to talk to him."

"You quarreled with him again?"

"You know me too well. It's also very distressing that we are arguing tens of thousands of kilometers away."

Gao Zhan shook his head, people, they are always like hedgehogs, they hurt each other if they are too close, and there is no feeling of intimacy if they are too far away, no one knows where the safe distance is, and how to maintain a perfect balance.

"Ah—Gao, it's still delicious. I really miss your pasta."

"Eat more."

"When will you go wandering in the United States again, I will follow you, and go to the Grand Canyon again, okay?"

"I won't go for the time being." Speaking of wandering, there is a person who is quite suitable for wandering together. That raw-edged T-shirt is very suitable for wandering. Gao Zhan thought about it, and his thoughts drifted to the person again.