Escape

"haven't seen you for a long time."

This is the first sentence we said when we met again.

Lu Zhenyu was invited to give a speech at my school, and I was responsible for discussing the process and specific matters with him.I wanted to say a few words on the phone, but Wu Jing insisted on asking him out.The location of the appointment is also unbelievable-a children's playground.

He was holding his daughter with his left hand, and Zheng Xiaoyu was holding his right hand. The three of them seemed to have just walked out of the TV parent-child show "I Love My Family".I hugged my son, he was anxious to play, Wu Jing took him away.Before taking it away, I didn’t forget to mention a word——“It’s been a long time since I saw you, Officer Lu is still very heroic.”

Lu Zhenyu's daughter seemed to like my son very much. Seeing my son run away, she clamored to play with him.Zheng Xiaoyu couldn't resist her, so he had to take her into the amusement pool.In the end, it was just the two of us standing by the pool, carrying my wife's bag and our children's toys.

I thought that the two of us would meet again, we were in the same city, and it was impossible for us to see each other again after ten years or never see each other until death.But no one thought that our goodbye would be such a scene.

"How old is the child?"

After a long silence, we asked this sentence almost in unison.

"Three years old, just started kindergarten."

"My daughter is four and a half years old, and her name is Lu Zhi, the mushroom of Ganoderma lucidum."

"It sounds good."

"What's your son's name?"

"Xu Chengyu. The Yu who controlled the water by Dayu."

"He looks like you, very cute."

"Your daughter is beautiful too."

The funny thing is, after this passage, we never talked about anything about each other again.What's even more ridiculous is that during the conversation, we kept looking at the wives playing in the pool, but never glanced at each other.

In just a few hours, Wu Jing and Zheng Xiaoyu became acquainted like neighbors from the same village.They rushed to reveal the embarrassing things about me and Lu Zhenyu after our marriage, as if these were Jiazhen worth showing off.

"When we first got married, my family Zhenyu always liked to get up at night to smoke. I said it was not good for the child in my stomach, and told him to quit smoking. He also went in one ear and out the other. I think he must be anxious before marriage. I didn't care about him. After Xiaozhi was born, he took the initiative to quit smoking. This man, he still can't win against children."

"My family's Xu Zhi is the same. Before Xiao Yu was full moon, he was busy in and out alone. He said that he was afraid of my hard work, so he stayed by his son's side until midnight every day. One night I couldn't sleep and wanted to see Son. Guess what? I found Xu Zhi sitting next to Xiao Yu and whispering. I asked him, the baby is still young, how can he remember what you said? Xu Zhi replied to me—it was because he couldn’t remember Talk to him. Sometimes I really don't know what's going on in his head..."

"If a man is too smart, he likes to play tricks. An honest man like Xu Zhi is good. Speaking of which, which of you two chased who?"

"I chased her." I interjected, "We were classmates in high school."

"Yes. He was too shy at that time, and I confessed it first after graduating from college. At that time, he blushed and didn't give an answer. He said that he would go back and think about it. It took several days before he proposed to be together."

I don't like to mention the past. After I escaped from his room for the last time, that memory has been sealed up by me.Lu Zhenyu probably sensed my resistance and embarrassment, so he found an excuse to take Xiao Yu and Lu Zhi back.

When I got home, I changed my coat and took out a thick folded piece of paper from my pocket.

Inside the paper was a small piece of bright red rose petals, which should have been picked just this morning, and on the piece of paper was written a series of phone numbers, but in the lower left corner of the piece of paper was written "Super 8 Hotel 1408 at ten o'clock in the evening".

At that moment I felt sick, extremely sick.

I ran into the bathroom, crumpled the rose petals with the paper, and threw it down the toilet.The moment I hit the flush button, I stopped.

Tens of thousands of hypotheses and fantasies flashed through my mind, like a ball of fireworks that seduce moths, exuding maddening light and burning heat.

But soon I remembered him.The boy who was wearing training clothes, with a drop of sweat on his face, brazenly said that he stole me; the boy who was afraid that I would hurt, walked behind my back and refused to let go no matter what; I am a petal, the boy who said "Happy Valentine's Day" with a smile; Can't help but kiss his boy too.

The boy who was killed by time.

I hit the flush button and the whirlpool swallowed the white and red.

This [-]-hour movie was finally forced to press the rewind button, and everything in the past was like a game with lost save files.But I don't have the energy to play it again.

What if I had actually gone?There will be no ifs.

At ten o'clock that night, I lay on a bed less than 1.5 meters long, hugged my son, and told him a fairy tale.

"A long, long time ago, there was a big tiger and a big yellow dog. The big yellow dog was very playful and ran to the mountain by accident, but was stared at by a big lion. At this time, a tiger ran over and rescued the dog from the lion's mouth. Get off the big yellow dog.

"Since then, they lived together in the cave. The South China tiger taught the golden retriever to hunt, and the golden retriever taught the South China tiger to eat bones. They lived a carefree life. But one day, a tigress came up the mountain. The tigress entered In the cave, it was full of hostility towards the big yellow dog and snatched away the bones of the big yellow dog. As a result, the big yellow dog had to escape from the cave."

"And then what?"

"Later, the big yellow dog ran to the village, got together with a beautiful little white dog, and had puppies. They were adopted by well-meaning people and lived a happy life without worrying about food and clothing."

"Where's the big tiger?"

"That tiger...he's still king of the hill—along with that tigress."

"Dad, this story is not funny at all."

"...Xiao Yu, let me ask you. If you were that big yellow dog, and one day you met that tiger again, and it invited you to go back to the mountain, would you like to go?"

"Go back... Can I be king after I go back?"

"No, only a tiger can be king."

"why?"

"Because it is dangerous to be a king, you must be a very powerful animal to be a king."

"Then...if I go up the mountain, will that tigress accept me?"

"No. It only likes that tiger and absolutely does not accept other animals."

"Then I don't want to go back. I want to live with the little white dog and the baby dog. There is no danger and I won't be hated. That's right!"

I looked at his innocent but smart eyes, and rubbed his head.

"Xiao Yu, there are many things in the world, there is no right or wrong. What we think is right is only something that is good for us."