reborn stepfather

"Dad, sometimes I feel afraid to face you. No matter what it is, you can solve it with silence. You are patient. There is no anger on your face, but a kind of tepid indifference. Getting angry and not arguing loudly is very decent from beginning to end, but sometimes this kind of experience makes people feel contemptuous, as if the other party is unreasonable and you don't take it seriously."

Chi Qian said that about me.

"You convey an attitude - no matter what others say or do to you, as long as you don't accept it in your heart, no one can shake you."

I admit he was right.

Chi Qian took me to visit his school. City No. [-] Middle School is Shi No. [-] Middle School, which is more grand than Nanchuan No. [-] Middle School, and the school is twice as big.Even so, it's not to the point where you want to hold my hand tightly as if you're afraid that I'll get lost, right?

Sometimes I jokingly think, maybe Chi Qian should not be a monkey, he should be a dog, loyal and clingy.

"I thought I couldn't shake you, because no matter how much I did, you could pretend nothing had happened. I thought giving up was probably my only way out. But when it came time to let go, I was more reconciled than anyone else. I want to jump out of the car and run back to you." Chi Qian pulled me to his side, wrapped his right hand around my shoulder, and held me tightly in his arms, "I want to contact you every night, but I'm afraid Hearing your voice, I can't help but look for you."

I looked up at him, with a tall nose bridge and a well-defined side face, young and full of vigor.

"I can only wait for you with a faint hope that one day you will take the initiative to come to me." He suddenly showed a childish smile like when he was a child, "I didn't expect to be able to wait, I didn't expect to be really waited for by me .”

I didn't even expect that he would be weak and want to rely on me.

Seeing his smug look, I couldn't help interjecting: "I came here because I was worried that you might not get used to living outside. Parents raise a child who is a hundred years old, and worry about 99 years. There is no other meaning, you know?"

Chi Qian scowled and glared at me.

I'm kidding, isn't he the same?If he gets angry and pulls his face, no one can coax him. As long as he doesn't bother to quarrel with others, he is the first one.

"If that's the case, Dad, you'd better go back." He was unhappy, "I'm doing fine, you don't have to worry."

The word "you" is really chewing.

I can't figure out why it has to be so clear.

Emotion is the most intricate thing. There are so many friendships between me and him, how can we tell them apart?

Maybe, I really like him, but how much of this liking is due to the relationship between father and son, family affection, and how much of it is unbearable...love?

I can't tell.

And it's better to hide those other emotions in my heart. For Chi Qian, I'm still too old, right?

Even if he likes a man, he should find someone who can accompany him for the rest of his life. I definitely can't live longer than him. If I get any worse, I might die early.It's weird to worry about that kind of thing in your 30s, but I still have to think about him.

Anyway, even if he falls in love with someone else, I will not leave him.

Even when he is gray-haired and hobbled, even if he is so old that no one needs me anymore, if he encounters danger and adversity, and everyone abandons him and stays away from him, I will try my best to stand in front of him and spread my chopsticks. An unsteady arm protects him.

This is father.

"Angry?" I tilted my head to look at his stone-like face, and pulled his ears with a smile, "The world is so beautiful, but you are so irritable, no good, no good."

"Because Dad, you don't even understand—"

"Chi Qian, is this the person you want to pick up after you rejected the autumn party?"

A man and a woman walked towards each other on the path full of redbuds in the school. The one who spoke was a girl. The girl had a very cute apple face, and when she smiled, she showed two playful canine teeth.The man wore a pair of glasses without lenses, and his face was as white as a vampire. He looked gentle but had an uncomfortable femininity.

I looked at the two of them curiously.

These two people are the type who don't feel pale when standing with Chi Qian.

Chi Qian stopped in his tracks, and replied with no expression: "What's the point of that kind of party? A group of people just eat and drink, and there's nothing to eat."

"No, I think it's very fun, and I feel so sorry that you're not here." The girl hopped up and down like a rabbit, jumped directly in front of Chi Qian, squeezed me away with her buttocks, and held Chi Qian tightly. moving arm.

I was shoved two steps away by her with the insulated bucket in my hand. I was shocked for a moment and stood there like a pillar.

My mind was spinning rapidly - this voice was so familiar, it seemed to be... Before I could figure it out, I heard an angry shout in my ear: "Let go!"

Chi Qian's face darkened.

The girl pouted, and pressed closer to Chi Qian: "Why did you let it go, I'm you—"

"Stop talking nonsense!" Chi Qian interrupted her sharply.

"Cough cough cough."

The girl showed unwillingness, and opened her mouth to say something, but the boy wearing glasses coughed deliberately, cast his eyes on me, bent his slender eyes, and said with a smile: "Chi Qian, this is your brother." Are you pretty handsome, college student?"

ha?I quickly lowered my head to look at my attire. I was dressed casually because I didn’t go to work. I originally combed my hair very neatly to see Chiqian, but after staying in the car for a long time, it became messy for no reason. It didn’t look too good Like an office worker, but it is too exaggerated to say that he is a college student.It is even more exaggerated than the level of flattery of a salesperson in a clothing store.

As a 33-year-old man, I am very unconvinced.

Chi Qian's expression was worse than mine, and he threw off the girl who was as clingy as gummy candy angrily, and came over to clasp my shoulder: "Don't look at my dad with that kind of eyes."

"Nani?!!"

Although the spectacle frame just opened its mouth in surprise, I clearly saw these two words from his eyes.

Chi Qian pursed his lips in displeasure.

At this time, the bunny girl jumped in front of me again, without any warning, she gave me a big ninety-degree bow, her voice was so sweet that it made people tremble all over: "Hello, uncle, let me introduce myself first." Let me know, I'm Chi Qian's—"

"Xu Baorong, stop talking nonsense!" Chi Qian cut her off again.

"It's disgusting, and let people not talk about it." The rabbit girl named Xu Baorong pushed Chiqian affectionately, "How can I not understand this kind of thing, idiot, how could I talk about this kind of thing in front of the elders Come out, I just want to say that I am your classmate, you are so stupid."

The six words "stupid" and "you are so stupid" are really coquettish.

At this moment, a fragment suddenly flashed in my mind, ah, I remembered, it turned out to be her.

I looked at this girl named Xu Baorong with great interest.

So she and Chi Qian are not just classmates, are they?

"Xu Hang," Chi Qian shook his hands at the glasses frame with a tense face, "Before I get angry, take your crazy sister away."

Xu Baorong pouted coquettishly: "Chi Qian, why do you say that about me?"

"Don't be like this, Chi Qian, it's rare for your father to come, why don't you go to eat together?" Xu Hang also said with a smile, "You didn't eat, did you? As soon as you received the call, you ran to the bus station. I don't know, I thought there was a ghost." chasing after you."

"Don't worry about it, you can eat it yourself. My dad and I can make arrangements freely, and we don't need a light bulb." When Chi Qian spoke, his eyes shot at my hand, and I quickly hid the hand holding the thermos bucket behind my back. Damn, he saw it!

As a result, my action made Chi Qian's sullen face immediately collapse. Although the corners of his mouth were still tense, his eyes were already crooked.

Xu Hang rubbed his chin and smiled like a malicious fox. Although he was talking to Chi Qian, he looked me up and down with a particularly uncomfortable look: "Chi Qian, your father is so cute."

C'mon, c'mon, c'mon...you are so cute!abnormal!

"Get out." Chi Qian only sent him one word.

Chi Qian pulled me away, leaving behind those two people who were confused.

Xu Baorong seemed to be chasing and yelling to pounce, but was held back by Xu Hang.

Both of these people looked weird, and I couldn't help walking faster and faster.

As I walked, I found out the school gate, and I wondered, "Where are we going, Chi Qian?"

"Go back to where I live."

"Huh? But isn't the dormitory inside?" I pointed backwards.

"I don't live in a dormitory." Chi Qian kept on walking, "Dad, didn't you find that there was a little more money in the card? Because I refunded the accommodation fee and changed to day school."

I really didn't notice, I haven't checked how much money is in the bank card for a long time.

"But you don't live in a dormitory, where do you live? Sleep on the street?" I asked nervously, "You don't have to save so much, Dad won't even be able to afford the accommodation fee, Dad has money, really, if you don't believe me, go to the bank Take it for you to see."

"No, I live here."

Chi Qian pulled me into a pretty neighborhood and got on the elevator.

I was dumbfounded.

"The Xu Hang you saw just now, I lived with him on the sixth floor." Chi Qian continued to explain, "The dormitory in Shiyi Middle School is too dilapidated, and he couldn't bear it, so he borrowed a room from his aunt. There is a house, and I am kindly invited to live with you."

City No. [-] Middle School is good everywhere, except that the dormitory is dilapidated. I heard that their principal insists on letting students grow up in a difficult environment.

"Oh..." I was still a little confused, and nodded, "The dormitory in Shiyi Middle School is really broken, not to mention twelve people living there, and there are rats running around on the cabinets every night to hold sports meetings, When it rains, it becomes extremely damp, and the quilt smells musty."

"Huh?" Chi Qian turned to look at me, "How does Dad know? Isn't today your first time here?"

My face froze, and I immediately laughed again: "I heard what other teachers said, he has children and he also goes to Shi No. [-] Middle School."

Chi Qian seemed to accept the reason and didn't press further.

I breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, I came to Chi Qian once before, just a few days before I pretended to be sick and asked for leave, during the National Day holiday.

I came to him secretly.

As it is now, I have cooked a lot of dishes and brought them here. The No. [-] Middle School in the city has been closed. I think if he doesn't go home, he will probably be in the dormitory.Like a bumpkin going to the city, he walked all the way and asked all the way. After asking a lot, he asked about the boys' dormitory in his class.

I searched one by one, and found that most of the students had gone home, the dormitory doors were locked tightly, and no one was there.

I finally found a room occupied by a shirtless child who was lying on the bed and playing video games in full swing. I poked my head in and asked, "Is this the dormitory for Class [-] and [-]?" He responded casually: "Ah, oh."

"Well, classmate, is Chi Qian in your dormitory?"

There were greasy instant noodle bowls on the table, and the child’s face became grim as he pressed the button, and he dumped me impatiently: “Next door!”

The dormitory next door was locked.

I had no choice but to stand in the corridor and wait. I thought Chi Qian might have gone out and would always come back at night.

But it was getting dark, and there was no one in the corridor, except for the shirtless gamer next door who went down to get a takeaway, no one passed by.

I just wanted to call Chi Qian.

I hit one and got knocked out, and I got angry and hit one after another, and I had to hit Chi Qian to pick it up.

Later, I picked it up, but it wasn't Chi Qian.

"Who is it, is it annoying to hit you all the time!" Jiao Didi's female voice was angry again.

I was stunned immediately.

"I told you not to fight, my boyfriend has no time to talk to you!"

The woman said again.

Boy friend?I continued to be in a daze.

Just a few sentences, and then I heard a voice that sounded like Chi Qian coming from a distance on the phone, asking, "Who's calling?"

The woman clutched the receiver and shouted, "No, it was the wrong number."

Before the voice fell, the phone hung up.

I was so angry that I dialed again, no matter how many times, it was always "on the phone".

At that time, I really couldn't tell whether my heart was bitter or astringent.The food that has been hidden in my arms is already cold, no matter how tightly I cover it, the temperature still passes without knowing it.

It was already dark, only the white and miserable lights above my head covered me.

My legs were numb, so I squatted at the door of Chi Qian's dormitory for a while, thinking, maybe a little later, Chi Qian will come back.

When he comes back, I can file a complaint with him. I tell him that there is a woman pretending to be his girlfriend, which is disgusting.

But Chi Qian didn't return all night.

At six o'clock in the morning, I walked down the dormitory building with bloodshot eyes, threw away the insulated bucket with a dull expression, and took the earliest bus back.

I didn't tell anyone about this, I asked for leave, and spent many days in a daze holding Chi Qian's quilt.

Looking back now, that sweet and greasy voice was clearly that crazy Xu Baorong just now.

When the elevator arrived, when I got out, I asked Chi Qian: "Is that Xu Baorong your girlfriend?"

"Ahem." Chi Qian was choked by my question, and turned to stare at me, "What are you thinking, she is just Xu Hang's younger sister."

"Oh..." I grunted in response.

Compared with the dormitory of Shiyi Middle School, the place where Chi Qian lives is like heaven. I took off my shoes and stood in the living room looking around. It was much bigger than our apartment in Nanchuan.Three bedrooms and one living room are very elegantly furnished.

Such a good place doesn't charge money, that Xu Hang is quite generous.

"Dad, what do you want to drink?" Chi Qian asked me, "Orange juice, cola, milk or tea?"

Damn, there is a refrigerator, what a luxury for a high school student.

"dad?"

"Milk, milk." I answered quickly, sat on the sofa lightly, touched it, and leaned forward to observe it. Is this genuine leather?

"Then let me warm it up for you." Chi Qian took out a box of fresh milk from the refrigerator and went into the kitchen.

I finished touching the sofa and the super-sized LCD TV in admiration like a mountain ghost, and my eyes slowly fell on Chi Qian's mobile phone placed on the coffee table.

I bought this mobile phone for him specially for him to go to school outside.

In fact, I'm a little curious, what exactly is his note to me, so that people will misunderstand him as the guy who keeps making harassing calls.

Seeing that he was still busy, I secretly pressed Kai Chiqian's mobile phone. At this time, most mobile phones have buttons, and Nokia is still very popular. To unlock something, just press the answer button and the Mi key.

After unlocking it, I looked through the call records first, and found that the call records I made to him were only for today, and all calls made that day were deleted.It is estimated that the corpse was destroyed by Xu Baorong.

I entered my mobile phone number into the address book lookup, and four words popped out above my number.

Those four words made me blush a little.

"my only."

The author has something to say:

My aunt was driven to work by her uncle and she was not allowed to rest. As a result, she was too tired and had a miscarriage. She stayed in the hospital all afternoon. Alas, I don’t know what to say... Sorry, I was late because of family matters and haven’t posted yet Here comes the meat, I’m really sorry that I want to see the meat, I promised but I didn’t do it, alas... (Three bows of apology...)

p: The meat may have to wait until later, please forgive me.