reborn stepfather

When I opened my eyes the next day, the first thing I did was to touch the child's head.

The fever is gone.I breathed a sigh of relief.

After dinner yesterday, the sky was already full of silver nails, and I couldn’t go back. I took Chiqian to the hotel, facing the main road, a long-distance heavy truck drove by, and the whole building would vibrate.The bed is made of wooden boards, the TV has only ten channels, nine of which are snowflakes, and the windows are full of dust. When I went to turn on the faucet for him, he would squat in front of the window and watch the spiders weave their webs.

I couldn't ask for too much, so I stripped him naked and threw him into the shower. I pinched my nose and threw his colorless clothes into the trash can, then turned and went downstairs to buy him new clothes and shoes.The proprietress of the children's clothing store and I compared the child's height, shortness, fatness, and thinness. The proprietress smiled and pulled out a bear suit, light brown, with two furry bear ears on the hat, and a round tail behind the buttocks, and said: "This kind It’s selling well, I’ve added it several times, and now it’s all sold out, and there are matching shoes!”

I imagined what Chi Qian would look like wearing, and although I was a little moved, I still said uncertainly: "Our child is nine years old, can he still wear this?"

"Yes! Why can't!" The proprietress hurriedly put it in a bag for me, "Yesterday I saw a girl in her twenties wearing it!"

After finishing speaking, he asked again: "Do you want any matching sweaters, scarves and cotton shoes?"

I couldn't restrain my eyes from shining: "Okay, okay."

So in the morning, I took a bear and got on the bus bound for Nanchuan, surrounded by countless envious eyes, and I heard a girl screaming: "Look, look, it's so cute, so cute, so cute ah--"

It almost jumped up with a "wow".

I am as proud as walking into the Avenue of Stars. Who says men have no vanity?

When I returned to Nanchuan, I took the bear child to see my parents first. The Hakka people are not happy to separate their families. My brother still lives with his parents. My parents live in an old house with a long history. , there is a courtyard in the middle, an old well, and the field behind the house is full of tall banana trees. Open the windows on the second floor, and the leaves like banana fans can poke in directly, and the sunlight is shattered.

My first two elder brothers lived in the north, the east, and my parents lived in the west. I originally lived upstairs from them, but moved out to marry Liqiu.She doesn't like this kind of short-lived family life. After my mother told me to come home late for the third time, she made a fuss about moving, so I bought a house outside.

As soon as I opened the door, my mother was taken aback when she saw the big and small shapes. Chi Qian grabbed the corner of my clothes, took out the hand behind my back, and handed a half-bloomed wild flower to my mother. He picked it secretly in someone else's vegetable field, and the child was a little shy, so he called out timidly, "Grandma, here you are."

The old lady in her fifties had her heart melted.

My dad rushed out of the kitchen wearing an apron, wiping it nervously with both hands: "Come in, come in."

I reported it to my parents on the way, and they also knew about my decision to adopt Chi Qian. At first, my father was a little unhappy. He didn't like Li Qiu. From the beginning, he felt that Li Qiu was too cold to me. What happened later was even worse. It made him dissatisfied, but now that everyone is gone, he doesn't say anything.

When Li Qiu and I divorced, my mother was the one who scolded me the most, but when my mother heard about Li Qiu's suicide, she was taken aback and sighed softly: "She is also a silly girl."

In front of me there are two older brothers who eat, drink, prostitute and gamble, but my mother said that she is most worried about me.Maybe it was my mother who was frightened by my heartbroken face when I went to self-exile in the west. I still remember that in my previous life, I had been immersed in self-pity for a while, and I wrote a letter to her all night, saying that I was sorry. The marriage is hopeless, and I don't want to get married anymore, so my mother thinks that I am ordained ordained in the mountains.

So when I came back with Chiqian, my mother was very excited, holding the baby and choked up, saying, "My God, I finally left someone to plant chrysanthemums for you!"

Chi Qian: "???"

I:"......"

If I refuse to get married again, my mother has always been worried that I will be desolate, so she bought me a big flower pot early, and repeatedly told my little nephews, when I die decades later, remember to put my ashes in it. Sprinkle some seeds on the soil, so that after I die, I will turn into spring mud to protect the flowers. I have something to do, so I won't be too lonely.

I said... Even if I grow cucumbers, I don't grow small chrysanthemums!

After putting Chi Qian'an at my parents' house, I thought about contacting the school and teachers. The child is nine years old, so he must go to school.When I go to support education, I have to suspend my salary and keep my job, and I have to go to No. [-] Middle School. Otherwise, how can I support my family?

My job is fine, but I can't attend classes this semester and have to wait until next year.It looks like I'll have to find another way of living and a side job for a few months, at least until next spring when I start school.In my previous life, I was a poor teacher, and I didn’t even leave any savings to Chi Qian in my whole life. I can’t repeat the same mistakes in this life. If anything happens to me, I must at least leave some property to him, so that he can fight less in the future. Year.

This matter can be slowly added up, but Chi Qian's study is a bit of a twists and turns.

In his previous life, everything was handled by Tuo Weiheng, and he didn't know that his school was so hard to find.Liqiu, whose registered permanent residence is the same, is a person who has been sentenced, and the slightly better Central Primary School and Experimental Primary School refused to accept him. They were afraid that Chi Qian would spoil other children.

In the end, he decided to go to Wei Heng. His father was the mayor of Nanchuan Town, so he didn't need to do anything like this, just ask the secretary to hang up the phone.

Step by step, he went to Wei Heng's house, full of guilt towards Chi Qian.

His home is near the No. [-] Middle School, half a street away, a single-family building with a mountain behind it, and a fish pond full of lotus flowers.

When I went to find him, he was sitting by his own fish pond fishing, he got a big umbrella to support it, and a folding deck chair. I talked dryly, and he just hissed: "Ayan, you sit down." , wait for my carp to take the bait in no hurry."

I had no choice but to sit down with him. Fortunately, I knew his behavior well, otherwise I really wanted to kick him into the water.

Thinking back to when I first met him in my previous life, I was so angry with his bad temper that I didn’t know how many times I felt sullen, especially that time, my brother was arrested by the anti-pornography police, and I went to his house like a whirlwind to ask him for help , I saw him idly leaning on the rattan chair, with a game of Go on the table, playing with himself with relish, he waved his hand and said to me: "Ayan, sit down, wait until I finish this game of Go." urgent."

I remember staring at him as if I saw a ghost, thinking, maybe in the next second there will be an earthquake and tsunami, and the sky will collapse. If I run in and tell him to run for his life, he will also gently lay out a pen and paper: " Ah Yan, sit down, wait for me to write a suicide note to explain my future affairs before I can run away."

An hour later, I sat next to him and nodded sleepily. He finally caught a fat, stupid carp and put it back into the water contentedly, before he said slowly, "Huh? Why did you come to me?" What's up?"

"Uh... I came to you to help my little ghost arrange a primary school. I just found several schools and they refused to accept..."

"Oh, okay." He nodded flatly, "Is there anything else?"

"......Gone."

Wei Heng is such a powerless guy, but I have been friends with him for almost ten years, and I feel incredible when I think about it.

Many people don't like Wei Heng, because he is too unsophisticated. When others see his indifferent face, they will feel that his eyes are high above the top and lighthearted, but I know he is not such a person. On the contrary, if you have something to ask He, he doesn't know how to reject you.

When he was still studying, a girl sitting in the back seat of him asked him to bring her a piece of chocolate every day. He persisted for more than a year until the girl transferred to another school.Chocolate was a rare thing back then, at least I didn't have it then.He also found it troublesome, but he was like that, afraid of saying no to others.

I met him when I was in the third year of junior high school. At that time, Wei Heng was in the third year of high school. I interviewed him as a small reporter of the school radio station, because he was the only one in that year who was recommended to the medical university for undergraduate and postgraduate studies.

There is a picture of him in the school magazine. In June of his graduation, he was asked by the school to take a promotional photo. Standing in the hot sun, he showed a letter of acceptance in one hand and a photo in the other. Tears mixed with sweat in his eyes Water dripped down.

I know the boy in the photo. His name is Aomori. He is a sports student of the school's track and field team. He is very tall and strong. He is not handsome, but he has sharp edges and corners. He looks a bit ferocious if he doesn't smile, but his eyes are like deer. Just as soft.

I also interviewed him. At that time, he broke the record of the provincial sports meeting and was named a national second-level athlete.

Half a year before Wei Heng passed the entrance examination, when Aomori was returning home, he was knocked off the road by some motorcycle gangsters who were riding crookedly. He hit his head on a high-voltage electric box and never woke up again.The person who hit him was not even 15 years old, he was caught and released, and he only paid 10,000+.

It was not easy to interview Wei Heng, because he was elusive, and finally found him on the top floor of the library, with a pen in my mouth and a notebook under my arm, through the crack of the rusty iron door Sneaking in, Wei Heng was sitting on the whirring air-conditioning box in a daze.

I asked him why he was holding that photo.

"He is often injured in practice, and I am the doctor who took the exam for him." Wei Heng replied, "I just want him to know that I have not broken my promise."

I wrote silly sentences in my notebook: "Friendship lasts forever."

He smiled when he saw what I wrote: "I am his best friend, but he is the person I love the most besides my parents."

I flicked my pen and looked up at him. He was very frank, with open eyes.

In 2001, the "Classification and Diagnostic Criteria of Mental Disorders in China" excluded homosexuality from the list of mental patients, but it was still classified under the item of "sexual psychological disorders".

You know it was 1989, no one dared to say that kind of thing, he dared, he was fearless.

Because he doesn't care anymore, what people in this world say about him, he doesn't care anymore, because the only person who can control his joys and sorrows is gone.

Thinking of this, I felt a dull pain in my heart.

I asked, "Does he know?"

"I don't know." Wei Heng smiled, "He's not that kind of person."

"Have you not hinted at him?"

"No, I originally planned to be his friend for the rest of my life, but I didn't expect that life would be so short," he paused, and said softly, "...and so long."

After he finished speaking, he was silent for a while, then patted his pants and jumped down, I followed him and jumped down, I looked at him a little sad, I said: "Can I give you a hug?"

He slowly stretched out his arms and hugged me, and left.

A person, clutching his pocket, slowly disappeared into the dimly lit corridor.

Later, I became friends with him, and he helped me with the exam questions, but if you rely on him to give you lectures to improve your score, you must have no hope in the exam, and I suffered from it.For example, in a geography multiple-choice question, with four options of abcd, he will tell you: "Why is the left side of the river eroded more severely than the right side? A is wrong without looking at it, b is wrong at a glance, and d is wrong when you think about it. If you are wrong, then you can only choose c."

I:"......"

He treats people like this, he speaks and does things slowly, and always greets friends with only one sentence: "Who is so, you sit down."

But I don't blame him.

I know, he just doesn't want to go to the future without Aomori so soon.

Someone once commented on Wei Heng's quiet temper, but I know that is dead silence.