you are with the light

Gu Jinbei sometimes doesn't understand himself well.He didn't know why he felt happy when he saw Chen Ke, and wanted to get close to him, even if he pushed him away, he had to catch up.

After breakfast, he watched Xia Yin go out, and sat at home waiting for Chen Ke.However, he overestimated his own endurance, he was fidgeting at home for a while, then ran to the next door and knocked on the door.

Chen Ke opened the door for him, and was a little surprised to see him.But soon he turned sideways to make room for him: "Do you want to come in?"

Gu Jinbei nodded, took off his shoes and went in.The old lady from before was nowhere to be seen in the room, but there was a beautiful woman sitting in the living room.This woman looks gorgeous, and Chen Ke looks a lot like her. Gu Jinbei guessed that this was Chen Ke's mother.

"Which family are you from?" The woman sat on the sofa, asked with interest, and waved to Gu Jinbei, "Come and sit."

Gu Jinbei walked over and sat beside her, and shyly called out, "Hello, Auntie."

"Hey," the woman laughed, and gently touched his head, "What's your name? How old are you this year? Have you had breakfast?"

"You check your household registration." Chen Ke closed the door and walked to the kitchen. "He is from the next door, so he is a little timid. Don't scare him."

"Really." The woman pursed her lips and smiled, her lips sunken. When she spoke, two small dimples appeared and disappeared, "How did you know my son? My son is very indifferent, and he doesn't usually see him." Who does he have close contacts with, there is only one named Lu, and he often brings it home..."

The woman babbled about Chen Ke, her words were full of strangeness and love, her gentleness was different from Xia Yin's, Xia Yin was acting, but she was showing her true feelings.

Gu Jinbei looked at her and couldn't help thinking that she was too fragile.

It is also a flower, a woman is a rose without thorns, which will be torn off sooner or later, withered in the incompleteness, but Chen Ke is a poisonous piranha, looks gorgeous, but will never be easily humiliated.

Chen Ke came out with the dishes, and shouted to the two people on the sofa: "Stop talking, let's eat."

Chen Wanran stopped talking when she heard the words, raised her head and smiled at Chen Ke, then turned to Gu Jinbei and said, "Xiao Bei, would you like to eat more? My son's cooking is delicious."

Gu Jinbei hesitated and nodded.He got off the sofa and walked towards the kitchen: "I'll help."

He entered the kitchen, not daring to move easily, Chen Ke walked in and opened the cupboard to get the bowls and chopsticks, and said to him by the way: "Go and sit outside."

Gu Jinbei stretched out his hand to him: "Give it to me, I will serve rice."

Chen Ke ignored him, turned on the rice cooker and filled it with rice, and Gu Jinbei went out with a bowl filled with rice.

Chen Wanran was sitting at the dining table outside, looking at the kitchen with a smile, and when she saw Gu Jinbei, she boasted, "You're really sensible."

Gu Jinbei smiled shyly, and handed over the bowl: "Here."

Chen Wanran took the bowl, smiled and said "Thank you." As soon as she finished speaking, she heard the sound of ping-pong coming from the bedroom.

"What's wrong?" Gu Jinbei asked with some doubts.

"Son!" Chen Wanran yelled, "Go and see your grandma!" Then she explained to Gu Jinbei, "This is my mother. She is old and in poor health. She lives on the small balcony of my house. I don’t see many people.”

Gu Jinbei nodded, not worrying about it.Seeing Chen Ke entered the bedroom, he went to the kitchen to serve the meal out, and was praised by Chen Wanran again.

After eating, Gu Jinbei took the initiative to clean up the bowls and chopsticks, and Chen Ke said, "You can put them there."

"No need." Gu Jinbei tidied up skillfully, and said with some pride, "I'm very good, and I can also wash dishes."

Chen Ke was embarrassed to ask him a guest, so he stood up and cleaned up with him.Halfway through washing, Chen Wanran stood at the door of the kitchen and said, "Son, Mom is out."

"Yeah." Chen Ke put the washed bowl aside, and Gu Jinbei took it over to wash it. The two cooperated for the first time, but they had a tacit understanding, "Come back early."

"understood."

After a while, there was the sound of closing the door, and Chen Wanran had already gone out.

After clearing the table, Chen Ke took Gu Jinbei out.He thinks that Gu Jinbei is good, that is, he doesn't ask questions easily, and he doesn't ask him "if they all go out, what will grandma do?"

Chen Ke took Gu Jinbei to No. [-] Middle School, and it was not too long, so they walked there.Gu Jinbei lived in a big city in the early years. When he saw this kind of rural scene for the first time, he couldn't help being a little surprised. He often wanted to let go of Chen Ke's hand and walk over to have a look.

"What kind of flower is this?" Gu Jinbei squatted on the ground, looking at the flowers blooming on the side of the road. The three purple-red petals wrapped the stamens. Gu Jinbei had never seen such a unique flower.

"Bougainvillea." Chen Ke didn't know many flowers, but he happened to know this kind.There is a flower bed downstairs in Lu Weijian's house, and bougainvillea is planted in the flower bed.

"Why is it called a bougainvillea? It doesn't look like a plum blossom." No matter how mature Gu Jinbei is, he is still a child in essence, and his curiosity has not been completely extinguished. When he met Chen Ke, he couldn't help breaking the casserole and asking the bottom line.

"This... I don't know either." Chen Ke was a little ashamed, "I was also told by someone else that it was a bougainvillea, so I remembered it."

"Oh." Gu Jinbei nodded. He looked at this novel flower, which bloomed just right, and his hands were itchy. "I want to pick one."

"Pick it if you want, anyway, there is no one here." Chen Ke looked indifferent, and pointed to a bougainvillea that was in full bloom and said, "Just this one."

Gu Jinbei easily picked off the flower, he held it in his hand, and took the other one to hold Chen Ke.

The two walked for a long time before reaching No. [-] Middle School.The big iron gate of No. [-] Middle School was closed, and Chen Ke led him through the security room to enter.

The two went to the lotus pond. The lotus in the pond had long since died, leaving only the pond full of duckweed. Gu Jinbei lay on the mottled railing and looked down, feeling bored.

Next to the lotus pond is a tree-lined path. Gu Jinbei and Chen Ke walked from one end to the other, and finally entered the playground along the path.

Someone was having physical education class on the playground, and the sun was very bright. They sat on the rostrum and watched, but no one cared about them.

"Brother Chen, will you be admitted to this school in the future?" Gu Jinbei asked, shaking his feet.

"No." Chen Ke said, he squinted his eyes to look at the sky, the sky was blue, with large chunks of white clouds floating in it, the whole world looked very peaceful.

"Why? Didn't you say this is the best high school in town?" Gu Jinbei was a little puzzled.

"But you can't get in if you want to." Chen Ke turned his head to look at him, "I don't have good grades, so I can't get in."

"That's it." Gu Jinbei didn't know what to say for a while, "Then what are your plans for the future?"

"Planning..." Chen Ke thought for a while, nodded, and shook his head again, "Maybe, maybe not, it's about taking one step at a time, and walking, the road will be straight."

After he finished speaking, he paused, and then asked Gu Jinbei: "What about you?"

Gu Jinbei said: "Me too." Compared with his peers who don't think about the future because of their naivety, Gu Jinbei is much more realistic.His life is full of unknown variables, and he's used to an unplanned future.

Without planning, you will not give yourself inexplicable expectations, and without these inexplicable expectations, you will not be disappointed.

Two people sat in the stands, one looked at the playground and the other looked at the sky. It took a long time for Gu Jinbei to say, "Let's walk again."

One middle school is not big, and it will be over in a while.Chen Ke took Gu Jinbei out of the school gate, and waited for a car to slow down at the gate.

On the street, Chen Ke took Gu Jinbei to have lunch.When they reached the door of a bookstore, Gu Jinbei suddenly remembered that the teacher asked them to buy a book, so he said, "Let's go in."

Gu Jinbei went in to look for books, and Chen Ke looked around in the small bookstore.The bookstore is very down-to-earth. In addition to a large number of homework materials, there are also most of the comics and magazines. Chen Ke is not interested in these, and he didn't see anything he wanted to read after looking around.

He walked out of the bookstore and waited for Gu Jinbei at the door.The bookstore set up a stall on both sides of the door, displaying some books such as story books.Chen Ke glanced at it unintentionally, and saw the recipe for surviving between the cracks in the story.

The cover of the book is very straightforward, full of ingredients.Chen Ke picked it up and flipped through it. It was full of cooking methods, which looked quite reliable.Chen Ke watched a few dishes and thought they were quite interesting, so he bought them.

When he went back, he was always thinking about the newly bought book, and always wanted to take another look.There are not many dishes he can cook, and there are only a few of them back and forth. This cookbook seems to have opened the door to a new world for him, leading him to explore.

At the door of the house, Gu Jinbei said goodbye to him: "I... can I continue to look for you tomorrow?"

Chen Ke nodded, Gu Jinbei smiled, and he entered the house contentedly.

Gu Jinbei was originally happy, with a smile on his face involuntarily, but when he saw Xia Yin sitting in the living room, his smile froze.

Xia Yin played a TV drama, it was a suspense drama, the plot was a bit bloody, but it was still within acceptable range.

When Gu Jinbei came in, the TV was just playing the scene of the murderer.The knife pierced the skin and made a "pop" sound. Blood flowed from the victim's body like a stream. The murderer had a grim look and a sinister laugh.

Xia Yin smiled.

When she laughed, her voice was very high-pitched, her throat resonated with her chest, and she made a weird sound, which echoed in the living room, sounding a bit pervasive.

Gu Jinbei walked to her side and called softly, "Mom."

Xia Yin turned her head, showing a surprised expression: "You still know to come back, I thought you were going home with someone else."

Gu Jinbei hugged the book, lowered his head, his whole body tensed up to cope with the ensuing beating and scolding.

But nothing.

Xia Yin picked up the remote control and switched to another station. This station was playing a cartoon, and the whole atmosphere in the room was eased because of this cartoon.

"Is he your friend?" Xia Yin asked him, "Don't stand there stupidly, come here and sit beside me."

Gu Jinbei walked over in fear.

"……Yes."

"Friends are a good thing. I used to have them too." Xia Yin said, she tilted her head slightly, as if caught in some kind of memory, "We have a very good relationship. At that time, I thought we would be so close to her forever."

Gu Jinbei dared not speak.

"Tomorrow, let's invite your new friend to have dinner, we know each other." Xia Yin seemed to be asking him, but her tone was uncompromising, "Are you okay?"

"……it is good."

Xia Yin just laughed, this time her smile was quiet, just a smile that pulled the corners of her mouth: "Xiao Bei, let's talk—how long has it been since we had a good talk."

Gu Jinbei asked her, "What are you talking about?"

"Do you like your current father?" Xia Yin asked.

"...Hi, like it." Gu Jinbei said while watching Xia Yin's expression change, but fortunately Xia Yin was still smiling, her dark color remained unchanged.

"I didn't like him very much at first." Xia Yin said, she almost confided in Gu Jinbei as an adult, "Look at his greasy appearance, his unremarkable appearance and messy personal life, what is there that I like of."

"But, why should I return it to him?" Xia Yin stretched out her right hand in front of Gu Jinbei, "Look, look at the ring on my finger."

It was a gold ring with beautiful patterns engraved on it.

"I've married so many men, but this one gave me a ring." Xia Yin said, pointing at Gu Jinbei, her tone almost gnashed her teeth, "Not even your own father, that scumbag!"

Gu Jinbei suddenly said: "Then, will you kill him?"

Xia Yin was stunned.She seemed to be questioned, she was dazed for a long time, then looked at the ring on her finger, and said with some hesitation: "I don't know..."

She was shaken.

But Xia Yin is Xia Yin after all, even if she shakes, she will quickly adjust.She turned the topic elsewhere: "How are you getting along with your tablemate?"

"Very good." Gu Jinbei said.He looked directly at Xia Yin, which was more convincing, "We get along very well."

"She is a pretty girl, will you like her?" Xia Yin asked forcefully, "Will you fall in love with her in the future?"

"No." Gu Jinbei shook his head vigorously, this time he was sincere, without any adulteration.

Xia Yin looked at him for a while, then smiled and said, "You are like your father who went to hell, you love to lie."

Gu Jinbei retorted: "No!" He frowned, and said unwillingly, "It's not that I like all the good-looking ones. In that case, they are no different from beasts."

Xia Yin laughed out loud, and also burst into tears.She wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and said, "You are only eight years old, but you know more than your 28-year-old father. If he is as smart as you, maybe he won't die in the end, right?"

Gu Jinbei couldn't answer, all this was out of his control.Xia Yin firmly controlled everything, and he was just a puppet in her hands.

"Okay, let's not talk about this." Xia Yin sighed, "It's so uncomfortable."

"Let's talk about how you were beaten."

Gu Jinbei's heart skipped a beat.

"You are my son, so you have to be like me. If someone hits you, you have to fight back, you know?" Xia Yin said and shouted violently, "You know!"

Gu Jinbei replied loudly: "I know!"

"Then call me back next time!" Xia Yin raised her voice very high, with suppressed anger, "If you get hit, you have to fight back. You can't lose anything! Let me find out that you are being bullied again." Now, you know what I'll do. You're my son, don't embarrass me!"