I'm still doing fine

An Yichi raised his head, crying until his numb fingertips trembled, but he couldn't avoid it no matter what he looked at, so he stood where he was, and only had time to close his eyes tightly.

But the expected pain did not come, and when the ashtray fell to the ground with a clanging sound, instead, his calf suddenly felt a little heavier.

Opening his eyes again, Shang Xiaoyun threw himself at his feet, his complexion turned pale, his backhand was pressing the back of his head between his fingers, and bloody blood slowly overflowed...

She blocked it for An Yi.

"Ah, auntie!" An Yichi wiped his face with his cuff, panicked in an instant, squatted down at a loss, and heard Shang Xiaoyun call him to the hospital.

"Yiqian, Yiqian! Go get my mother's coat, the thickest black one." Shaking his numb hands, An Yichi rushed back to the room, grabbed a sweater of his own, wrapped himself in cotton clothes and changed his shoes, and ran out. Kneeling on the ground to put on Shang Xiaoyun's shoes.

"Use this to cover." He stuffed the sweater into the palm of Shang Xiaoyun's hand covering the back of his head, took the padded jacket from Yi Qian's hand and wrapped him tightly, looking back, the anger that filled the room quickly condensed , An Jimin froze in place.

He is not a good father, but he is definitely not a husband who is so bad that he would abuse his wife, not to mention that after all these years, he still likes Shang Xiaoyun very much, and his unintentional mistake at this time has led to a big mistake.

But there was no time left for him to repent. An Yichi himself didn't know how to drive, so he wiped his still wet nose casually, and he yelled, "...Dad! Go to the hospital and go to the emergency department."

That night, the doctor was taken aback when he raised his head to see the doctor. Looking at the thin boy with blood stains and bruises on his face, and the thin woman with blue lips covering the back of his head beside him, he was not sure which one was the emergency patient.

"Doctor, the back of her head was smashed 10 minutes ago, and she bled a lot." It was An Yizhi who sat down with Shang Xiaoyun, and stepped aside, "Look..."

An Jimin, who was robbed from behind him, took a step back, as if he had just seen the dry and black blood on the sides of An Yichi's nose, peeling off like thin paper. An Yi, who was still young, moved outside the door and waited.

Shang Xiaoyun's hair was shaved in a rectangular area on the back of her head. The area was not small. The doctor gave her a tetanus shot. After local anesthesia, the wound was debrided and sutured. There were six stitches in total. The black thread pulled the wound, like a centipede on a panel. It's really ugly lying on the back of the head like that.

An Yichi watched, remembering how Shang Xiaoyun always cherished his long hair, and couldn't help his nose sore.

"Can the hair grow back?" In the quiet consulting room, the cautious inquiry was also magnified many times. The doctor was wearing a bandage, without saying a word, "It will take a while to recover, it depends on the situation."

He asked about the situation without a word, washed his hands, and went to the computer to prescribe medicine.

On the other hand, Shang Xiaoyun smiled, and said comfortingly, "It will always grow out, even if it doesn't work, it can be covered, it doesn't matter."

"I'm sorry." An Yichi sighed, unable to see his expression clearly, he said, "Forget it, what I just said was just angry words, forget it... I will apologize to him, don't do it again Blocked it for me, it should have been me—”

"What are you trying to do?" Shang Xiaoyun interrupted him, took the doctor's card and pushed him to sit on the chair, "With that much force, it won't hit the eyes, even if it hits the bridge of the nose. Or lips, you are disfigured, what will you do in the future?"

"It's a pretty face, isn't it?" Without waiting for an answer, she raised her head to look at the doctor, "Excuse me, let me see if I hurt my head, his father is too aggressive, and this kid is still in school..."

She closed the door very considerately and went out, leaving Yi Zhi alone, and the doctor squeezed the alcohol cotton to clean up the cut on her face little by little.

Yi Chi remembered looking straight ahead, outside the bright window behind the doctor, the umbrella-shaped orange light beams were sprinkled by street lamps, trembling slightly in the field of vision, and for a moment, the world was terribly silent.

"How was the result?" Liang Duanyuan interrupted the memory through a question from the mobile phone, and brought An Yichi back to reality, "Is there any problem?"

"It is said that there is a slight inner ear imbalance and a slight concussion..." An Yichi looked at his face and added, "It's all slight, not too serious

It's tight, I also listened to the doctor's advice, I didn't walk very far today, you see, my house is across the road. "

Liang Duanyuan was speechless, and just silently looked at An Yizhi's slightly tired face on the screen, and said after a long time, "It hurts, right, if I didn't—"

"Hush——" An Yichi interrupted him, and smiled with the corners of his mouth pulled, a little comforting, "It's going to be hard, I won't hide you for the rest of my life."

"Yeah." Liang Duanyuan seemed to squat down against the corner of the wall, the dim light by the window gradually moved up, making it seem vague and distant, but the pupils were still bright, he said, "Me too."

"Don't, don't, don't!" An Yichi shook his head quickly, as if he was dragging something, he took a breath, "I can't say it, wait for my uncle and aunt to settle down, and then we can talk about it later, I don't care."

Liang Duanyuan didn't speak, and after a long while, the screen lit up with sparks, and he lit another cigarette, the green smoke hovered, as if it could take away some depressed emotions, squinted his eyes, his fingers dangled, as if Touching An Yichi's bruised face on the screen.

But I care a lot, he thought, at a time like this, he wants to stay by your side confidently.

The night wind on the river bank was fierce that day, when An Yichi pinched the video and walked home, the scorching heat and dryness of the heating head rushed towards him, making him feel like his headache was getting worse for a moment.

But he just changed his shoes quietly, walked into his room without saying a word, because An Jimin was sitting in the living room watching TV at that time, and the sound of the news broadcast was quite loud.

He didn't accept Yi Chi's apology a day ago, and at some point a day later, the two started a cold war in tacit understanding.

This way is more free. For An Yichi, he closed the door and got into the quilt, rolled himself up, and stuffed his head into the quilt, hoping to sleep like this, but unfortunately the long headache refused to let go.

So Shang Xiaoyun knocked on the door, and when he tentatively opened the door to come in after a long time, An Yichi didn't notice it at all, until he was pulled by the horns, and then he quickly sat up with his head exposed, "Auntie, what's wrong?"

"It's nothing." Shang Xiaoyun sat down beside his bed and handed him a box, "A new phone. Half of your screen is black, take it."

"Here, I'll make a living, it's still usable..." An Yichi blushed, feeling the heat coming from the quilt, rubbed the corner of the box, paused, and said, "Thank you, I let you spend the money."

"I still have the money to buy a mobile phone, keep it." Shang Xiaoyun smiled and stroked his hair, "Your father is a person who wants to save face, and he has a bad temper. He wants everything to be as he thinks. Come on...you know I can't say no to him. I said you never wanted anything since you were a child, but now that you have it, why don't you let it go. "

An Yichi pursed his lips and looked at her.

"But he said, I'm a stepmother who would say that. If my own Yi Qian is like this in the future, can I still stay out of it?" Shang Xiaoyun patted his quilt corner, "To be honest, I don't know, Yi Qian After all, not yet."

"You can leave me alone." Yi Chi said, "Just take it slowly, me, I won't give up this time."

"I'm not here to persuade you to change your mind." Shang Xiaoyun looked up, "I think it's fine."

An Yichi was stunned.

"I think it's pretty good. What's your boyfriend's name?" Shang Xiaoyun asked, "I saw it the other day, but I didn't remember it."

"... Liang Duanyuan." An Yi bent his legs, propped his elbows on his knees, and scratched his hair carelessly, "The kite with a broken string, the broken kite."

"classmate?"

"Two levels higher, senior."

"Thanks to him for taking care of you." Shang Xiaoyun looked at his slightly shy expression, and patted his head, "Sometimes I always wonder, is it because I asked you to choose a subject you didn't like, that you didn't graduate from university?" Having lived so hard and suffering from such a disease... Now that I know he is here, I feel much better in my heart."

"Yeah." An Yichi nodded, "I'm doing pretty well, I don't blame you."

"I don't go to work, and sometimes I am idle thinking about it, and suddenly I feel that there is nothing in the world that can be obtained without pain, whether it is career or love."

Shang Xiaoyun from the pocket

She took out an egg from the bed, it was still steaming, she leaned against the trash can beside the bed, she peeled the shell little by little, paused, then said,

"There are many difficulties in falling in love with men, such as the evaluation of others, the pressure of public opinion, and some discrimination that will be reflected in the career once discovered. But think about it carefully, in fact, these things also have with women. Not many smooth sailing feelings..."

"Knead it, it will reduce the swelling faster." She took the peeled white and tender egg and placed it on the swollen area of ​​Yi Zhi's side face, "So when you have a wish, you might as well do it... The stepmother is Think so."

She smiled at Yi Chi, said good night, and walked out the door.

These fluffy words are actually not just for Yi Zhi, they are more like a kind of summary of his own life.

She is also a very obedient child, used to be.Compared with Yi Chi, she is just luckier and doesn't have a father who doesn't care about her so much.

However, being so obedient, she walked through half her life step by step, and asked herself, her life was not as good as her family promised, after all, it was not, the choice she made.

She didn't want to get married that early, but her parents asked her to, so she still chose and married herself hastily before 30.

She was not ready to be a mother, but relatives and friends persuaded her, so she gave birth to little Yi Qian while she was young, and became Yi Zhi's stepmother when she was not yet mature.

She tried to find an interesting job, but An Jimin refused, so she withdrew her wish and obediently lived in this big empty house, doing nothing, wasting time...

Some of the words of the parents are not deceiving, for example, marrying An Jimin, at least she really didn’t worry about money, but some things were not mentioned at that time,

For example, an autocratic husband is often not only domineering in his career, but also takes care of every detail of his wife's daily life, which style of skirt to wear, which style of makeup to wear, which brand of high heels to step on... The woman he likes must be himself An accessory that doesn't have to have a career or, well, a dream.

If it happened again, Shang Xiaoyun clenched her fists, she thought that if it happened again, she would never choose this path.

But now the deal is done, so let it be, no matter it is the environment or herself, she no longer has the courage to change.

So at least, looking at such a young An Yichi, she wanted to say something and do something.

Telling him to do what he wants to do boldly, to walk boldly on the path he wants to take, it's like standing on the top of a cliff, she wants to raise her arms and shout out, it's a warning, a guide, and even more bewitching——

Yi Zhi, go in the opposite direction, you don't have to always be so obedient!

In the room, Yi Zhi pressed the boiled egg that was gradually cooling down, but still rolled around for a long time. In the silence of the room, he suddenly said in a very low voice, "Thank you...Mom."

After more than ten long years, he finally tried to change Shang Xiaoyun's name in his heart for the first time.