Balance beam

Suo's father was ill. Elderly people already had fatty liver, heart disease, high blood pressure, and arteriosclerosis. However, the old man always looked good and would jog every morning, so he was really caught off guard when he suddenly fell down.

When I went to the villa in the middle of the mountain, the leaves that were run over by the wheels flew up and then fell slowly. The already sluggish sunlight was covered by the trees on both sides of the road, and only a few rays of light were sprinkled on the road to show that I was still there. I was a bit of a hero. the taste of.

Palin frowned all the way, her husband didn't want to come here, Sonia knew it well.But this is her home. Looking around, there are memories everywhere. It seems that when I was young, I held my mother's hand and walked through the forest. It was not long ago.Mother's floor-length dress is so beautiful, and her white high-heeled shoes make a moving sound when stepping on dead leaves, and my father, who is sitting on a rattan chair and talking to people, is so calm and courageous.

Now my mother has passed away for many years, and my father's health has declined significantly, especially in the past two years, he seems to be rapidly aging, and the white roots of the dyed hair will always hurt her eyes.Last year, because there was water on the floor, he fell and injured his tailbone while playing indoor pelota. This year, his leisure sports have almost turned into growing flowers and grass. He was even forbidden to ride a horse. Sonia couldn't imagine how her father could be so fragile.

As soon as the car stopped, without waiting for the driver to open the door, Yaniya rushed out anxiously, all the way into the hall, threw her handbag on the sofa, and ran upstairs.

After going up a few steps, Sonia stopped, turned around and walked down the steps step by step. At the top of the stairs stood a woman in black. She was her father's nutritionist.

Seeing Sonia raised her chin to look at her, the woman smiled and asked, "Are you here?"

The old woman was serious about her father's illness, and Sonia looked at her indifferently, "Slut!" She cursed in a low voice.Sonia stepped on T-shaped feet, folded her arms, and raised one eyebrow, "Is this how you take care of my father?" The eldest lady was full of majesty, and an invisible pressure forced the nutritionist to bow her head.The bun made Sonia disgusted, and the expression with lowered eyebrows made her nauseous, and the words that came out of the woman's mouth really didn't make her feel at ease. "Don't look at me like that, your father will be upset."

Sonia snorted coldly and went upstairs.

Palin, who came in afterward, saw the scene before him and didn't speak. The woman smiled at him in embarrassment, "You're here." Palin nodded, and followed Sonia upstairs.

Suo's father was sitting on the hospital bed playing cards, with drips on his hands, grinning at Sonia like an old child.Sonia pretended to be angry and turned her face aside, "Oh, you're smoking again!" Father Suo imitated the American style, raised his shoulders and spread his hands, "No!"

Sonia took out half a cigarette from under the pillow, "What is this? The smell in the room can't be driven away." Suo's father scratched the back of his hand, and opened his arms to Sonia, "Son, how are you doing?" Impatiently, Sonia leaned over to be hugged by him, then held Suo's father's head and kissed him hard on the left and right cheeks, "I'm fine, how about you?"

"Of course I'm fine." The old man shrugged with a smile on his face.

"Yeah, of course you're good, stay away from that vixen, I really don't know what you like about her." Suo's father chuckled, and Sonia straightened his collar, "Also, watch your money."

"I see, I will leave all my money to you, and no one will give it to you." Sonia pouted slightly annoyed, Suo's father put his arm around her neck and hit her forehead, "My little princess is angry? Okay, I won’t give you all, but only part of it.” Sonia picked at her father from the corner of her eyes, she had single eyes, she looked very much like her mother, Suo’s father sighed, and coaxed her very dotingly, “I’ll give you the rest. Give it all to Songsong, okay?"

Sonia sat halfway on the bed, wrapped her arms around her father's neck, and called out to her hoarsely, her eyes were wet. She had never noticed that her father was so weak, "You have to live well, and when Songsong finishes college and gets married After having a child, you still want to travel with me! As you said, the two of us will travel all over the world and live wherever we want, and you will not leave until I am 70 years old."

Suo's father smiled, patted Sonia's shoulder, and let out a breath, "You child, I am very healthy." Then he posed as a bodybuilder, with less obvious bulges on his arms, "A few days ago The other day I lifted the goldfish tank in the yard, and Aunt Xue yelled in fright, haha, there is nothing in it, it is empty.” Sonia was a little sullen, “You, really, don’t always mess with these kids It’s just doing things like this, it’s going to be annoying.”

Suo's father flattened his mouth and changed the subject, "Where's Palin?"

Sonia stood up and opened the door, and Qian Peilin walked in, "Dad!" Suo's father looked him up and down. Weng and his son-in-law have been unable to get close for many years, as if there was a barrier.The old man rubbed his face with both hands, who would make his daughter like it, there was nothing he could do.Sonia sat and listened to their conversation, she just asked about her health and then started talking about the company.The husband put his elbows on his legs, raised his eyes and spoke concentratingly, while the father interjected a few words from time to time, crossed his fingers, and circled his two big fingers upside down.My father was old, really old, especially in the light, and found that he had a lot of age spots.

Sonia recalled that when she was negotiating with that man, she reluctantly invited him out, rehearsed the dialogue and tone in advance, and even imitated her father's sophisticated demeanor. She was still attracted by the expression on the man's eyebrows when they were tangled. The aura before the rejection is really unbearable.

At that time, I wore heavy makeup, covered my haggardness with a scarf, sat there strong, with my chest upright and back in the end, all those confidences and ambitions that I will achieve are all gone now.Dad, did I choose the wrong one?

Suo's father's eyes shone brightly, and suddenly he changed the subject, and begged Perin to take good care of Sonia. Palin was startled for a moment, and immediately turned his eyes to look at his wife. The surprised expression looked rather pitiful for a moment.

Sonia stared at her father for a few seconds, then quickly turned to Palin. Palin smiled at Sonia with the corners of his mouth pulled, "Dad, don't worry, you will be fine. Sonia and I are fine."

The old man raised his eyebrows, and Sonia immediately patted her father's hand with her hand, "Don't do it." The father insisted on picking it up, and the father and daughter quarreled together.This is the old man's unique way of pampering. When he expresses his love to his daughter, he will not say how much I care about you, but will only make her cry or make her laugh.

While Sonia was arranging her hair, she peeked at Palin, who was peeling durians for her father.Although he promised his father that he would treat him well, this man was cruel in his heart and hated everyone, especially himself. So what he said just now was a promise or a perfunctory one?

Why doesn't she hate her? Her life is ruined, so what can this man have to complain about?What right does he have to refuse?Afterwards, her father told her what she had done, but who could blame her?It's just that the relationship between Palin and Li Jia can't stand the test. Is the love that can't stand the test true love?I was blind and misjudged the wrong person. I blamed others for so many years, as if the whole world owed him.

Sonia couldn't understand, where did Palin's grievance come from?

Back home, find fault and quarrel with Palin, "Do you feel wronged?"

"what?"

Sonia felt that Palin had no reason to complain. He was the only child, and her father had only one daughter, because Palin insisted on staying at home on New Year's Eve, and Sonia did not want to leave her father behind. Two years before their marriage, they went back to each other. Each family has its own year.In the end, an agreement was reached, the two families took turns, and the father would often go on vacation in advance and come back on the first day of the junior high school, waiting for them in the villa. Every time he saw his father standing at the door and smiling at them, Sonia's heart There will be throbbing pain, and the husband refuses to compromise, it is entirely because he does not have himself in his heart.

The more she thought about it, the more she hated it, Sonia grabbed the cushion on the sofa and threw it on Palin's head, Palin knocked the cushion aside, "Are you still making trouble?" Sonia gasped, "I'm making trouble? Is it me? Qian Peilin, what are you thinking, don't think I don't know. Where did you get the nutritionist, it's just, it's..." Palin stood up and squinted at him, "What is it? Do you think What am I thinking?"

As Palin pressed on, Sonia stepped back step by step, and finally fell down on the sofa, dodging to avoid Palin's sight, and she didn't dare to say some words easily.

Qian Peilin propped his hands on the sofa, trapping Sonia between his arms, "Sonia, do you think I'm trying to hurt your father?" Palin looked sincere, and Sonia blinked her eyelashes, and finally "That's not what I mean." "Then what do you mean? I didn't know her before, and we made the decision to hire her together. I didn't expect your father to like her. If you We can all understand how uncomfortable it is to think that she will take your mother's place. But if you want to associate her with me, especially if there is any conspiracy involved, I think you should see a doctor. "

Palin's attitude was serious, and Sonia didn't dare to speak nonsense, she pursed her lips with a stiff face, "No, but that Aunt Xue is not a bullshit nutrition expert at all." Palin frowned, "I think she is the most professional." My dad is sick!" Sonia looked up at Palin with an accentuated tone, "This time it was a sudden attack, and next time. He doesn't live with us!" Palin spread his hands, "You can move over to take care of him!"

Palin's indifferent attitude made Sonia furious, and she rushed over to scratch her. Palin grabbed Sonia's hair and pulled her aside. Sonia yelled like a lioness, forcing her The vicious curses that can be imagined "Qian Peilin, you disgusting villain, your conscience has been eaten by dogs..." Sonia seldom cursed so hysterically, Palin simply closed the living room door and used With eyes dismissing all the servants, he leaned against the door and smoked a cigarette to light it.

The door panel behind him gradually became quiet, and only one or two words of curses could be heard from the woman. Perrin opened the door and walked in, and saw a broken room. Sonia sat on the ground with her legs crossed, her hair slightly disheveled.Palin raised his hands in a gesture of surrender, "Okay, okay, your husband is a disgusting homosexual, a man who throws up when he sees a naked woman, okay? Don't be like me."

He stepped on Sonia's sore foot with one word, and Sonia grabbed Palin's wrist and bit it off.There was a clear smell of blood in her mouth, and Sonia still didn't let go, her eyes were bloodshot and stared at Palin.Perrin pinched her jaw to make her open, and Sonia suddenly felt powerless.

"Forget it, Sonia, I know you are in a bad mood, please don't be like this? Your father will be fine. It's nothing, right?" Sonia cried, this man can make her feel even a little gentle probation.

Pushing Palin away, and staggering upstairs, Sonia pulled out the luggage and swept all the cosmetics in, opened the closet, and took out the clothes in big fistfuls.After picking up the luggage indiscriminately, he woke up Songsong from the bed, "Let's go to grandpa's place." Songsong rubbed his eyes back and forth with the back of his hand, and yawned loudly, "Didn't we just come back?"

Sonia dragged the child down the stairs like a tornado, raised her leg and kicked hard as she passed Palin's study.Order the servants to carry the luggage and order the driver to go out.

Along the way, Sonia Yahoo remained silent and held the child tightly. It was not until the driver handed her the gift box from the front that the expression on her face slowly turned into calm.Inside were two hundred-year-old wild ginseng. Palin once said that he would give one to his father and one to his own father. Now that they are all packed, it really is a sign of goodwill. There is also the forest frog oil that she eats every day. Filled a small bottle.

I am not so angry anymore, I have already gone crazy when I should be crazy.There have also been fierce conflicts, as calm as Palin, and he also yelled, "I didn't marry into your family again. Is your surname Suo also my surname?" Such words have not been said for many years. Seeing that he was a spineless man relying on his wife, he never confronted him again.

Life is inherently unsatisfactory, and Sonia is too desperate to live, so she doesn't feel how hard life is.Nine years of tormenting each other is enough.

Perrin clasped his hands to his head, pushing all the corrupt emotions out of his chest.Looking at the itinerary, I will go to Changxia tomorrow, and there is no winter in that city.

Someone hid there for nine years.

He loathes himself so much?Almost as soon as I left that year, I went straight there, like fleeing and taking refuge.Palin once asked his father-in-law what happened to Li Jia and where he got him.The father-in-law was trembling with anger, "Did you watch too many science fiction movies? Your father-in-law is a businessman, not a gangster. I can't do anything to harm your lover."

Although the old man's speech is mostly out of line, and he mixes truth and falsehood with his unique so-called "brightness" in the shopping malls, his private behavior and methods are only better than the underworld, not necessarily less vicious.So Perrin didn't listen to a word of his exasperated explanation.Palin was angry with a cold face, "No matter what, I won't marry your daughter." The old man threw an ashtray out, "Who wants you to marry, lunatics, a bunch of lunatics."

Palin frantically went to find Li Jia, all the places he might have been.Li Jia's parents' snarky words and the inexplicable eyes of friends around him can be ignored.Palin was in a turmoil, and even got angry at his mother because of a trivial matter, but when he calmed down, searched every corner of the house, and stood smoking alone on the balcony, he realized that Li Jia had really left and abandoned him. go.

That tape makes me suffocate every time I listen to it.Still unable to give up, he resorted to various methods and put all his energy on this matter. In the photo cheated from Li Jia's parents, Li Jia hugged the child and smiled at the camera, which broke Palin's heart. We didn't even have a chance to explain, so we just separated.

The most difficult time in life was when Sonia was by her side. The girl who was bedridden due to anorexia, supported her body to take care of his daily life, and then sat in the corner quietly watching him without saying a word.

Of course he couldn't accept it at the beginning, but as time went by, as Li Jia said, "No one can't live because of leaving." He still wears clothes, eats, and goes to and from get off work.It's just that occasionally I can't control myself, and I will sneak over to peek at Li Jia according to the address provided by the private detective.

When the man was walking, he looked back in confusion, as if he was looking for someone.Palin couldn't help rushing out, wanting to yell, "Li Jia, I'm here, I'm here." But what if those confused eyes turned into panic?What if the last person he wanted to see was himself?After the first impulse was missed, he no longer had the courage to rush out. Perrin felt that he could face any problem, but he couldn't face Li Jia and stab him again.

The days were peaceful, and everything became logical. As Zhang Ailing said, losing the person I love the most in the world, the one I hate the most, I no longer hate it. Marrying Sonia is like a logical thing.

In the second year after marriage, Li Jia visited his home.That year Palin and Sonia had a fierce quarrel, the woman went to find her father crying, and he returned home alone with presents.Not long after sitting upstairs, Li Jia came, dragging his annoying child.

When Palin was sitting in the living room and heard Li Jia's voice, the pores all over his body were emitting heat. He was holding the orange and staring blankly at the partition of the entrance with his mouth slightly open.When he came back to his senses, he had already entered the bedroom, separated by a door from Li Jia.It wasn't fear, but if he didn't control his emotions, he would definitely rush out and strangle Li Jia to death. The orange juice dripped down his fingers, and Palin's heart beat like a lightning strike.

"Hey, Palin was still here just now, maybe he went out?" His mother would give Jiang Jiang some things and then greet Li Jia, and the first question Palin wanted to know was "How are you doing now? What are you doing? Where do you live? Have you ever had a girlfriend again?" Palin slid sideways and listened carefully, but when Li Jia asked, "Is Palin okay?", his brain froze instantly.

Palin felt a little sick to his stomach and wanted to vomit. The roads in Changxia City were always smooth, but the road he took today was full of potholes, and he was exhausted from being bumped by the car.Because he chose a road that was not easy to walk, the driver was also sweating profusely, and couldn't help explaining, "This road may be full of heavy vehicles, and it is full of potholes. Maybe the auxiliary pressure was cut corners and materials were used. Defective product." Perrin closed his eyes and rested his mind, enduring his nagging, when suddenly the car came to a screeching halt and broke down at the corner of the street.

Perrin impatiently opened the car door and stepped down, taking a breath of fresh air while looking around.There is a fruit stand on the corner of the street, and there are people selling newspapers under the street lamps.Perrin stomped his feet, saw that the driver had put up the hood and was busy looking there, and shook his head impatiently, "I'm going to buy a pack of cigarettes."

When he was about to cross the road, he was hit by a person who turned the corner, and the paper bag that person was holding fell to the ground.The man said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." He bent over the paper bag on the ground, and bread of different sizes rolled out. The man picked up the bread with one hand and patted it with a smile. "Fortunately, it's wrapped." Perrin looked at him He stood up holding the paper bag, and gradually opened his mouth wide in surprise!

"Palin?!" The cake box that Li Jia was carrying in his other hand fell to the ground with a bang.

Perrin smiled at him, "How are you?" He knelt down to help him pick it up, "It seems a bit broken," and the red happy birthday was pierced by a crack, and the red cherry on it lay sideways with cream on it, "Who is today?" Birthday?" Li Jia looked at Palin intently, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses, "Oh, it's my son." "Well, then you should go home quickly, he must be waiting impatiently."

Perrin strode back, the driver had just finished fixing the car.Palin sat in and closed the door, and the one-way glass blocked Li Jia's view.

Of course, Perrin didn't see the man's hesitation to speak, and the half-stretched arm that was then suspended in the air. Even if he saw it, he would turn a blind eye to it.

The car drove a long way, and the isolated figure of the man was still in the side-view mirror.