Second marriage itch

Chapter 118 That Winter Night
That year, I was ten years old.

That winter night, it was very late, and my parents hadn't come back yet. I couldn't bear the sleepiness and went to bed first, until a sudden knock on the door woke me up.

I thought it was Mom and Dad coming back, and ran to open the door sleepily, but there were two tall police uncles standing at the door, covered with snowflakes all over their bodies and heads.

I tremblingly followed the police uncle out the door. I didn't know what happened, but I felt faintly uneasy in the sometimes dignified and sometimes sympathetic eyes they cast on me.

The scene of the car accident was a mess. Although it was late at night, there were still many people watching.

The front of the truck was severely deformed, and the snow in front of the truck was full of shards of glass.

A person lay quietly in the red-stained snow.

From a very far distance, I still couldn't see his face clearly. I only saw him in a plain dark blue labor protection uniform, and I knew it was my dad.

I walked up to Dad and stared at his bloody face, refusing to believe he was dead.

Everything is so cruel, cruel like an unreal dream.

I really hope that all this is just a dream. When I wake up from the dream, I am still lying in the warm bed. Suddenly I heard the sound of the key being inserted into the keyhole. I jumped out of bed and ran out of the bedroom. I can still see my father. A figure pushing the door open.

Before Dad had time to shake off the snowflakes all over his body, he put his hand into his pocket, but he pretended to be mysterious and did not take it out. He smiled and said to me, "Little fish, guess what Dad bought for you?"

In my 26 years of life, I have met all kinds of people, and every smile is different, but my father's smile is the warmest.

It was on that winter night that I lost such a warm smile forever.

The police uncle told me that my father was dead, and my mother was still alive and had been taken away by an ambulance.

I was frozen and stood there, not knowing what to do but cry.

The onlookers were all sympathetic. A kind aunt came over and stuffed a handful of paper and a box of matches into my hand. She said that this was the place where my father died, and he had to burn some paper for him here.

At that time, there was a kapok tree by the side of the road. I burned the paper under the kapok tree. I accidentally burned my hand. The pain was very real, reminding me that everything was not a dream.

Dad is gone, really gone, and will never come back.

That winter night was a cruel dividing line that put an end to all my happiness.

When the dawn came again, I was forced to mature overnight, and the script of my life was completely rewritten.

This kapok tree is the one that year.

Things are different now, and when I recall the scene of that night, my heartache is still so clear.

I touched the much thicker trunk and said sadly, "My dad had a car accident at this intersection. I burned the first handful of paper for dad under this tree and sent him away."

"Shen Yu."

Xu Yafei called softly behind me, but it seemed to be choked in his throat.

"I've lived very hard these years. It must be because I don't have my father's support, so I'm always bullied. My father will definitely think I'm so useless."

I stretched out my arms to hug the tree trunk, as if countless heartaches had suddenly poured out, and I couldn't help breaking down and crying.

"I'm not richer than North and South. I have nothing, nothing."

"Who said you have nothing?" Xu Yafei suddenly grabbed my arm, very excited.

With tears in my eyes, I looked at him blankly.

He suppressed his excitement, his eyes were especially gentle and full of pity.

"Come on, I'll take you to a place."

We sat back in the car and were quickly away from this sad place.

The road at night is unimpeded.

In the quiet car, Xu Yafei was breathing heavily, and the speed of the car was much faster than before. I could feel his eagerness, and his fingers rubbing the steering wheel from time to time revealed his nervousness.

The place where the car finally stopped was unknown to me.

Only the big gold-plated characters at the gate reminded me of this place.

Happiness Primary School, where I used to go to school.

The Xingfu Primary School back then was naturally not what it is now.

Xu Yafei turned on the headlights and opened the windows, and the cold air rushed in.

With one hand on the car window and the other on the steering wheel, he stared at the school gate, his lips twitching lightly, as if lost in memory.

"Once upon a time, there was a little fool who got a zero in the test because she couldn't find the pencil during the test. In fact, the pencil was in the hand of her deskmate, but she dared not tell it. She cried all the way home after school. She is really annoying when she cries, dragging a long tune like singing, I really don't want to go with her, there is always a suspicion that I bullied her. But I dare not leave her alone, okay I'm afraid that others can't stand her crying and beat her up."

I looked at him like a fool, and the scene he described gradually became clear in my memory.

He said it was annoying, but the corners of his lips were curved, and his eyes were full of smiles.

"That little fool is really stupid and cowardly. She didn't even dare to ride a bicycle, so I had to take her with her. She always wears skirts in summer, and I'm always worried that her skirts will get caught in the bicycle tires."

"The little fool is very sentimental. I caught a butterfly for her and put it in a bottle. After the butterfly died, she was sad for a long time. She insisted that I bury the butterfly with her, ahem."

Xu Yafei coughed lightly twice, as if he couldn't help laughing.

I laughed too, crying while laughing.

I said, "Once upon a time, there was an even stupider fool who always lent me his umbrella when it rained, and then went home soaked and scolded."

"That big fool has grown up in vain, and his appetite is smaller than that of a girl. He always forces me the milk for breakfast."

Because of crying, his nose was blocked, and his mouth was full of nasal sounds.

Xu Yafei took out a tissue to wipe it for me, and said softly, "Why are you crying? You don't like me so much? Seeing me so heartbroken?"

I took his tissue and laughed again while wiping away my tears, and I glared at him pretending to be angry.

"Good job, why didn't you say you were Xu Fei? How could I have thought that Xu Yafei was Xu Fei? That's too bad."

Xu Yafei smiled lightly, "I think it's good to get to know each other again."

Xu Fei, who was a few years older than me, also lived in the Kuanzhai Alley. At that time, we went to and from school together every day, until he suddenly changed schools when he was in the second year of junior high school. After his family moved out of the alley, I never saw him again.

After a man grows up, he changes a lot, and I really didn't recognize it at all.

"Wait for me." Xu Yafei got out of the car suddenly after speaking.

After a while he returned to the car with an extra ointment in his hand.

"Look up." He said gently pinching my chin.

I raised my head and remained motionless.

He leaned over and his eyes fell on my neck.

"What's wrong?" I asked a little embarrassed.

"Stay still," he said.

After a while, there was a cool touch on the neck.

"What happened to the neck?" he asked me as he rubbed.

neck?

I get it.

"Nothing." I said.

I don't like to talk about people behind their backs, although it is a fact that North and South want to strangle me.

Although I didn't say anything, Xu Yafei seemed to understand. Putting down the ointment, he still kept a very close distance from me, looking at me very seriously.

"Shen Yu, sometimes you can't just be patient and shrink back. Also, you don't have nothing."

He paused, his Adam's apple slipped slightly, and he held back when he seemed about to blurt out something.

Xu Yafei is too close to me at this moment, the elegant men's perfume on his body is very different from Xue Duyun's.

The quiet space suddenly became very ambiguous, and what broke the ambiguous atmosphere was the ringtone of my mobile phone.

I hurriedly took out my mobile phone, took it out and saw the word "husband" clearly on the screen, when my hand was empty, the mobile phone was already in Xu Yafei's hands.

He pressed the answer button, then leaned back in the chair calmly, and raised his head.

"Duyun."

"Well, Shen Yu is with me."

"I won't send her back for the time being. You should deal with the North and South matters first, that's all."

I didn't react until he hung up the phone.

From the beginning to the end, his tone was calm, without any anger, but very straightforward, even a little domineering.

He turned off the phone by the way, and turned off his own mobile phone as well.

He said, "Sorry, I did it for you once, but I don't think you want to go back for the time being?"

Indeed, going back now will only add to my troubles.

"Go to my house or open a room? You choose." Xu Yafei said suddenly.

My face burned instantly.

"Well, I mean it might not be appropriate to go to a single man's house, why don't you stay in a hotel?"

Xu Yafei probably also realized that this was inappropriate, and hurriedly explained, his face also blushed quietly.

After a few seconds of embarrassment, I smiled and he laughed too.

In fact, Xu Yafei has the temperament of a gentleman, so it is difficult for people to think of him as impure.Especially after knowing that he was Xu Fei, I suddenly felt that the distance between me and him was much closer.

"But I think you may suffer from insomnia, why don't I take you somewhere?"

From what Xu Yafei said, it should be a good place.

But I didn't expect that the place he brought me was the game hall.

It is open all night, so there are still many people playing here at the moment.

He changed the game currency and handed it to me.

Holding the game currency, I said awkwardly, "I don't know how to play."

He sat down in front of the game console and said with a smile, "I'm not too good at it, but we can study it, I believe it's not difficult."

Later, the two of us who are not very good at it slowly figured out the way, and the more we played, the more excited we were, and we played all the games.

Xu Yafei said, let go of everything, because thinking about it will not change, so don't think about it, this moment is fun.

I also really put it down temporarily, as if all the bad emotions were vented in the game, the more I played, the happier I was, and I didn't feel tired after playing all night.

The people in the game hall gradually emptied, and finally only Xu Yafei and I were left.

I turned my head, Xu Yafei took out his mobile phone at some point and pointed at me.

"Don't shoot me." I blocked my face, only showing my two eyes, and refused to be in the mirror.

He looked at the photos on his phone with satisfaction, and said with a smile, "It's rare to see you smiling so happily, and I want to keep it."

I glanced at the time on the wall, it was already seven o'clock in the morning, and the number of people in the game hall slowly increased again.

I turned my head inadvertently, and my eyes suddenly froze.

The person who was walking in had a cigarette in his mouth, his eyes fell on me impartially, and he showed a smirk.

It was Jiang Feng.

He moved his jaw to one side, and I understood what he meant.

"I'm going to the bathroom." I said to Xu Yafei.

Xu Yafei nodded, "Well, we'll leave when you come back."

I followed the figure in front of me out of the game hall and came to the corridor outside the bathroom.

Jiang Feng exhaled a smoke ring and smiled at me.

"I'm still in the mood to play games, I'm very excited."

"What do you want?" I glared at him.

He looked at me with a half-smile, "Would you like to know where that girl was on the day she disappeared?"

(End of this chapter)