timeless

Chapter 19 The Rainy Day (3)
Jiang Wei was stunned for a moment, but then quickly calmed down: "Oh."

"I don't know who to award."

"Oh, really?"

I don't know what tone to use to answer.

"I'm moving out in a few days."

"So soon...where are you going?"

"My parents' side." Xun Jiu shook his head unconsciously at her, "I may seldom come back in the future."

"Oh, like this."

I have never paid much attention to my single family background, and I have never deliberately avoided topics such as divorce. I thought it was just that two people no longer loved each other, but when this kind of thing happened to my relatives, I didn’t know what to do. What a reaction.

Had to use such a tone.

I don't know how to comfort people.It is impossible to say "Oh, me too, divorce is not a big deal" in a relaxed tone, so I can only reply in such a cold and blunt tone: "Oh, so."

Even you are leaving me.

Maybe it will be a little funny looking back later.But even if Jiang Wei, who is 17 years old or even in his 20s, looks back, he still walked all the way from the 16-year-old Jiang Wei.

She let go of the pride in her heart, lowered her stubborn neck like a wild crane before, and worried about her family's livelihood in a place where no one could see, and even helped others paint 30 yuan a painting to earn a little money regardless of cost .

From now on, every step she takes, steps on her own self-esteem and pride.

But presumably keeping yourself busy is also a way of suppressing heartache.

I saw Yu Xinye and Xie Yayi walking together on campus more than once, just like Yu Xinye walked with me many times before.They were wearing coats of the same color, Yu Xinye walked in front, Xie Yayi took a step behind, pulling his sleeves to follow.Most of the time it was Xie Yayi who was talking, and sometimes Yu Xinye would turn around and respond with a sentence or two.

Pretend not to see.

But the picture just appeared in front of his eyes like this, and he couldn't avoid it, so he could only walk towards them without looking sideways, or speed up a step or two to pass them.

At that time, the mood will be inexplicably relaxed.

It's a lie to say you're not sad, and it's a lie to say you're not sad.But what can I do?She wasn't even sure if Yu Xinye had ever fallen in love with her - even a little bit.Or, a certain moment.

The beacon in my heart is swaying.He hesitated whether to go to him to clarify.But it was only for such a short moment, and it was still dismissed by another thought of "forget it, there is nothing to say anyway".

At those moments of eye movement and eye contact, she just wanted to get a confirmation and an answer.But Jiang Wei knew very well that she would never ask.

But now, what she cares about and what she doesn't care about is no longer important.

Jiang Wei turned his head to look at Xie Yayi's back.

From now on, the two people who were standing by my side are now standing by your side.

Then please, stand in my position and finish what I haven't done to them.

Jiang Wei didn't know the addresses before, and it wasn't that difficult to get them. He just asked his father's former friends.

"Are you going to find him?" This was the last sentence asked by Dad's friend, with a meaningful expression on his face.

"Oh... I want to ask him for help with something."

It was night when I went there, it was raining outside and it was very cold.Jiang Wei was sitting on the bus with his hands on his lap, looking sideways out of the window.

Probably because it was raining outside, there were a lot of people in the car.The air was humid and hot, and there seemed to be a wet feeling everywhere.

At the next stop, the car stopped, waited for the people coming up and those going down to get off, and then started to start again.

Jiang Wei stood up, intending to get to the door before the car stopped.Just after taking two steps in the crowded carriage, the car suddenly swayed, the girl lost her balance and hit the person behind her.

"Sorry!" After subconsciously apologizing quickly, he turned his head and looked at the person parked behind him.At first, I saw the dark blue coat and the umbrella that was still dripping in the hand hanging by the side, and then I saw the thin white crew-neck sweater inside the coat.When Jiang Wei came back to his senses, the other party had put down the surprise in his eyes for a second.

"Yo." Yu Xinye smiled at her.

"It's you." Since it is unavoidable, there is always the right to refuse to answer.Jiang Wei turned his gaze away.

Unconsciously running away.

Yu Xinye didn't know the reason why the girl appeared here, and he didn't pay much attention to her indifference, so he just pulled his jacket: "I rarely see you coming out at night."

"Oh." Jiang Wei turned around.

As if it was too crowded, the boy standing behind moved a little closer to her, followed by a logical conversation: "Where are you going?"

"Find my dad."

"Ah?" Seemingly surprised, Yu Xinye knew that Jiang Wei was a single-parent family, "What's wrong?"

"Borrowing money." I don't want to discuss too much.Or to avoid communicating with him.

"Huh? My daughter borrowed money from her father? What happened?"

"It's nothing, something happened at home, and I'm short of money."

"Are you looking for him alone?"

"Ah."

At this time, the car stopped and Jiang Wei arrived at the stop.She didn't want to make too much entanglement, so she started to move slowly with the flow of people: "I've arrived, let's go first."

"Wait." Yu Xinye's voice suddenly came from behind, which was very clear in the noisy carriage, "I'll accompany you."

It was still raining. After getting off the car, Yu Xinye naturally opened the dark umbrella in his hand. In order to cover both of them under the umbrella, Yu Xinye took a step closer to Jiang Wei.

The same distance as before.

But I can't get back to the kind of distance I used to be.

"Where to go, you say." Yu Xinye said.

Jiang Wei remained silent, showing an inexplicable obedience.

It was still raining and the ground was wet and muddy.There were three or two pedestrians running hurriedly in the rain, as if they were looking for a place to hide from the rain.

There are no stars in the night sky.

"The ground is wet, walk slowly."

"Oh."

Usually the answer "oh" is when you don't know what to say.Jiang Wei lowered his head, and his eyes fell on the boy's trouser legs. The fabric of the pants was wrinkled with the boy's movements.

The sound of rustling, mixed with the sound of rain.

"It's been a long time since I spoke to you."

"Really?" Jiang Wei didn't look up, unable to see the boy's expression.I couldn't tell what it was like, and I didn't know what to answer.

Why bother with this?

What would you like to hear from me?
you do this delibrately?
Yu Xinye didn't say anything else, but the girl bit her lip irritably and uncomfortably.

Occasionally, her elbow accidentally collided with the boy's hand holding an umbrella, and Jiang Wei immediately pulled his hand away like an electric shock. Fortunately, the boy didn't notice her strangeness.

There is an alley next to the station. After entering the alley, turn right and turn left again. Jiang Wei saw a fruit shop with various fruits under the awning at the entrance.

"Turn left again," Jiang Wei said.

Turn left again.

A gray building appeared in front of my eyes, many windows were lit, and it was hazy in the rainy night.Jiang Wei counted up layer by layer.

"It seems to be the fifth floor."

Yu Xinye closed the umbrella, and the rain dripped down the umbrella ribs, dripping drop by drop to the ground like tears.

The night was as thick as splashed ink.

As Jiang Wei went upstairs, he was thinking about what to say when he saw his father later.How are you, Dad?No one said that.She continued to think: My mother had an accident and needed to pay for it.I want to borrow some money from you.Return it to you as soon as I have it?
Jiang Wei felt his heart beating so hard that he couldn't help but hold onto the handrail of the stairs.

to the fifth floor.

It seems to be number seven.

Jiang Wei counted the doors one by one, and Yu Xinye followed her silently.When counting to the seventh door, Jiang Wei raised his head to confirm the Arabic numerals on the door.

Shall I knock or ring the doorbell?

Jiang Wei suddenly hesitated.

Finally, she raised her hand and was about to knock, but suddenly stopped.

"What's wrong?" Yu Xinye who was standing behind her asked.

Jiang Wei collected himself: "Nothing."

Sure enough, I still didn't have the courage to knock down.

Just stood there for a few seconds.

Just as Jiang Wei took a deep breath and was about to knock again, the door suddenly opened.Jiang Wei accidentally took a few steps back, and Yu Xinye behind him subconsciously supported her.

A strange woman in home clothes was standing at the door with a garbage bag, as if she was also taken aback by Jiang Wei and Yu Xinye who were standing at the door: "Who are you looking for? Who are you looking for?"

"Oh... let's find..." Jiang Wei collected himself, but his throat suddenly got stuck.

Suddenly forgot the name.

what is his nameShe actually forgot, she actually forgot what her father's name was.

Jiang Wei bit his lip in embarrassment, and turned to look at Yu Xinye.

"Who are you looking for?" The woman repeated again, frowning in confusion, "Did you go to the wrong place?"

"Wait a minute..." Yu Xinye pulled Jiang Wei to his side, and took a step forward, "Excuse me, is Uncle... Jiang here?"

"Uncle Jiang?" The woman frowned, then turned her head back into the room, and raised her voice, "Lao Jiang! Lao Jiang! Someone is looking for you!"

"Who is it?" A man's voice came from inside.

"Look for yourself." The woman came out carrying the trash, "Let's go, let's go!"

Jiang Wei took two steps back to the side, his heart beating violently.

After a while, a middle-aged man came out: "Who is it?"

"How do I know?" The woman walked back after throwing the trash near the wall in the corridor, and leaned against the door to watch, "Two children. Look for yourself."

The middle-aged man came out, his puzzled eyes fell on Jiang Wei's face, and then on Yu Xinye's face next to her: "Who are you?"

Jiang Wei took a step forward and pulled Yu Xinye to his side: "Dad, it's me."

The lights in the corridor jumped twice.

"Dad?" Mr. Jiang was puzzled for a moment, then his eyes flickered twice, "Jiang Wei?"

"Well, Dad." Jiang Wei responded in a low voice.

"Why are you here?" Mr. Jiang took a step forward, "Come inside quickly."

"No." Jiang Wei took a step back, "I've come to ask you for something... just talk at the door."

"What's the matter?" Mr. Jiang looked at her, as if feeling a little at a loss for a while, "You've grown so tall, the female college has changed... I don't even recognize you, hehe——"

"Then I'll go in first, Xiaosheng has class tomorrow, you guys talk." The woman next to him probably recognized Jiang Wei's identity, turned around and went back to the room sensibly.She should be Dad's current wife. After a while, she called out from the house again, "Lao Jiang, bring your child in and sit! It's cold outside."

"Oh, I see." Mr. Jiang replied.

It seems that Dad's life is good now, Jiang Wei thought.

A lot older, and some gray hair.

The face overlapped with the vague shadow in the memory, and it turned out to be much stranger.

"Come in and sit down." Mr. Jiang stretched out his hand to pull Jiang Wei.

Yu Xinye beside her also rubbed her elbow: "Go in."

"This is..." Mr. Jiang's gaze shifted to Yu Xinye, and he probed a little more.

"My classmate." Jiang Wei looked at Yu Xinye and took a breath, "Then... I'll just go in for a while, and I'll leave right away."

The room is fairly spacious, much larger than the one Jiang Wei and her mother lived in.Jiang Wei and Yu Xinye sat down on the white leather sofa.

"Eat fruit." The aunt sitting on the other end of the sofa greeted, stood up and took two fruits, "I'll wash you."

"Thank you, Auntie." Yu Xinye said, and then he touched Jiang Wei and whispered, "Say it quickly."

"Wait a moment."

Mr. Jiang came over with two cups and put them on the tea table in front of Jiang Wei and Yu Xinye, "Drink water, drink water... I haven't seen you for so many years, and they are so big and beautiful, hehe... How old is this year? Already? 15 years old, right?"

"Almost seventeen."

"Which school do you study at?"

"Beach No. [-] Middle School."

"Study hard." Mr. Jiang sat down on the other side with a smile, and his eyes fell on Yu Xinye, "You are a sophomore in high school, and you should focus on studying. Don't keep thinking about making friends. This is your boyfriend, right?"

"No, you got it wrong, Dad."

Mr. Jiang changed the subject with a smile: "Okay, I know all about you young people. By the way, is your mother okay?"

"not good."

"Ok?"

"I'm here to tell you about this, Dad." Jiang Wei looked at him, took a deep breath secretly, and his eyes became more determined, "Dad, my mother lost the lawsuit... dead, you Can you lend me some money?"

"Dead?" Mr. Jiang's expression turned serious, "What's going on?"

"Medical malpractice... I don't know very well." Jiang Wei lowered his eyelids, rubbing his fingers on the glass, "A [-] compensation is awarded. The family doesn't have that much money... Can you lend me some first?"

"Your mother asked you to come?"

"No. I did it myself. She doesn't know."

Mr. Jiang breathed a sigh of relief: "That's it. Jiang Wei, adults can take care of the adults' affairs. You are still young, so you don't need to worry so much..."

"Dad." Jiang Wei interrupted him, his eyes had lost all emotion.She stood up, "My grandma also died of diabetes this year. I pawned the jewelry she left me, and I pooled it together with the money she left me, and it was only 6000 yuan. My mother probably also has One to twenty thousand. This money is far from 10 yuan. If you have it, lend me some, one yuan is not too little, and 1 yuan is not too much. If not, then pretend that I have never been here."

When I stood up, my eyes just met the aunt who came over with two washed fruits.

Everyone says they look like dad.

I didn't understand it when I was a child, but I was always praised as beautiful.People say that my eyes are like my father's, with light-colored pupils and crescent eyes that droop slightly at the corners of the eyes.

After growing up, parents divorced, and few people said that.

Looking back now, I probably inherited many parts of myself from my father.

So are the eyes, and so are the noses.

It's all part of Dad.

"Wait, Jiang Wei, wait a moment..." Mr. Jiang also stood up in a panic, and led his aunt into the room.The aunt had no time to put the two fruits down on the table, and one of them rolled to the ground.

Yu Xinye picked up the fruit and put it back.

Jiang Wei sat down again.

"I shouldn't have come," she said. "I think I'd better go back."

"Wait a little longer, I'll accompany you." Yu Xinye picked up another washed fruit for her, and grabbed the damp bangs on his forehead.

There was arguing in the room, and Jiang Wei bit his lip more and more.

Jiang Wei stood up immediately and was about to go out, Yu Xinye also stood up and held her.

At this moment, Mr. Jiang came out, followed by his aunt with a cloudy expression.With some money in his hand, Mr. Jiang smiled awkwardly: "Jiang Wei, there is only so much money at home. Come to me tomorrow, and I will go to the bank to get it for you tomorrow. There is no cash at home..."

"I see, Dad." Jiang Wei took the money he handed over, put the fruit in his hand on the coffee table, looked at the aunt's face for a while, and then turned back to his father's face, "Then I'll go first , I won’t come tomorrow, I will try to return the money to you as soon as possible.”

"Ah, don't you want to sit a little longer...it's raining outside..." Mr. Jiang's face was very embarrassed.

"No, my mother and Xunjiu are still waiting for me at home."

Yu Xinye closed the anti-theft door with a soft click.

The dim yellow lights in the corridor danced.

Jiang Wei grabbed the money in his hand and ran towards the stairs suddenly.Yu Xinye was startled, and quickly grabbed the umbrella in his hand to catch up: "What are you running, the stairs are slippery! Be careful of falling!"

Finally, seeing Jiang Wei squatting on the ground at the stairs, Yu Xinye hesitated to take a step closer, only to find that she was crying.

The boy stiffened his shoulders and stopped.

He thought how long he hadn't dared to talk to her, and he didn't even know that so many things happened in her family.Unlike Jiang Wei, his parents were not divorced, and his family was not short of money.He didn't know how Jiang Wei was feeling at the moment, so he didn't know how to comfort the girl for a moment.

It was raining outside, and the ground was wet.The rain drifted into Jiang Wei's neck, which was icy cold.The lights in many windows were off, probably because he was asleep.

After a while, she wiped her tears and stood up.

Perhaps, today is really not a good day.

Yu Xinye opened an umbrella beside her: "Let's go?"

"Wait a minute." She took out the money her father gave her just now, and counted it under the dim light. 100 yuan, 50 yuan, one yuan, two cents, new and old, big and small, and banknotes of various colors lie in the girls' white palms.

"940 yuan and seven cents."

She repeated it again: "940 yuan and [-] cents...not as much as my own money...heh."

Yu Xinye looked at her coolly, didn't know what to say, just maintained the rigid movement of holding the umbrella, watching the rainwater dripping from the edge of the umbrella and seeping on the ground.

Tears flowed down the girl's nose and dripped onto the ground.

The wind blew and the rain fell on Yu Xinye's face and neck.After a while, he put down the umbrella, took off his coat and put it on Jiang Wei's shoulders, then put his arms around the girl: "Let's go."

A coat with a damp body temperature.

I can't tell if it's the smell of rain or tears.

One day not long after, Jiang Wei went to the supermarket to help her mother buy household appliances. While queuing in front of the cash register, she heard two girls behind her discussing.

"Did you get your nails done?"

"Not yet."

"Me too. I heard that the store has a new trick, let's go and have a look later?"

"Okay."

Jiang Wei listened to their conversation boredly, and twirled his fingers on the shopping basket.

"I've been straightening my hair for a year and it bounces back, it's annoying."

"Go make it up."

"Huh? Hair can also be sold?"

"Well, I was curious, so I asked the proprietress, and she said that the waist-length hair can be sold for 140 yuan."

"That's a lot, but what's the use of those hairs?"

"I don't know, maybe it's a wig or something."

Hair, waist, 140 yuan.

Jiang Wei leaned back, trying to hear their conversation clearly, but the two girls quickly changed the topic to the new cosmetics.

Several words overlapped in my mind.

Jiang Wei's eyes fell on his long hair hanging around his shoulders.

The noisy hustle and bustle of the surroundings gradually faded away, as if they all sank into a belated dream.

She suddenly remembered one thing.

It probably happened a long time ago, Jiang Wei can't remember exactly how long ago, it should be when school just started.

At that time, a flu outbreak was happening, and Zhao Mengfan, who was sitting next to Jiang Wei, asked for leave to go home because of a sudden high fever during the second class in the morning.I don't know if it was due to psychological effects, Jiang Wei also felt groggy, but he still insisted on listening to the class all morning.When going to school again in the afternoon, Jiang Wei suddenly found that Yu Xinye, who was still alive and kicking in the morning, did not come to class.

Are you late?This guy must have overslept.

Originally, I wanted to use this excuse to convince myself, but I didn't see the shadow of the boy after half of the class, and the girl felt more and more uncomfortable.In the end, I had no choice but to raise my hand to the office to approve the leave slip, but I didn't expect to bump into Yu Xinye who also went to the teacher to approve the leave slip there.

Jiang Wei looked at the boy who was also blushing because of the fever, and pressed his gloating expression into the corners of his eyes.

(End of this chapter)