Lu Zhengzheng was pushing her suitcase forward. As she was walking, she heard a hesitant "Mom" from behind.
She suddenly stopped in her steps and looked back nervously.
Jiang Lingxi lowered her eyes to answer the phone and did not see Lu Zhengzheng's emotional change at this moment.
After she hesitantly called out 'Mom', the person on the other side of the phone spoke in a cautious and tentative tone, "Xixi, are you busy lately?"
"It's okay." Jiang Lingxi paused after replying, "How are you doing there?"
"Everything is fine here and here, everything is fine. Don't worry, just work hard."
"Um."
A few seconds of silence followed.
A more cautious voice came from the other side again, "Xixi, tomorrow is the monthly visitation day of the juvenile detention center. Do you want to come with us to see your brother?"
Jiang Lingxi could even tell that the woman over there held her breath after asking this question, as if she was afraid of missing her next reply.
"good."
The voice coming from the microphone suddenly became excited, "Well, then come over here early tomorrow morning, and let's set off together!"
"good."
The voice returned to being cautious again, "Then you have a good rest. Don't always skip dinner thinking about losing weight. It's not good for your stomach..."
Before she finished speaking, Jiang Lingxi heard another hoarse man's voice coming from the phone: "Are you talking to Xixi on the phone?"
Jiang Wenhui nodded towards her husband and couldn't restrain her joy and said: "Just now Xixi said that she would go with us to see Xiaoxu tomorrow."
"I won't go see that brat who keeps a straight face with me every time. You two can go tomorrow, but I won't go."
Jiang Wenhui saw her husband walking towards the door as he spoke, and quickly stopped him, "It's time to have dinner, why are you going?"
"Go out and talk to Lao Liu about the recent market conditions."
"Jiang Runcheng, stop playing tricks on me and going to drink again, right?"
"Don't worry about what's going on at the men's dinner table. Let's go. Go to bed early tonight and don't have to wait for me to come back."
Accompanied by the sound of an angry door closing, Jiang Wenhui's muttering sounded on the phone, "I said that business is unreliable, why don't you believe it? Drink, drink, why don't you drink..." The following words stopped abruptly. , followed by a sound of moving back and forth.
Jiang Lingxi guessed that she had forgotten to call her daughter, so she hung up the phone silently.
He raised his eyes and met Lu Zhengzheng's nervous and worried eyes.
"Why do you look at me like that?"
Lu Zhengzheng let go of the suitcase in her hand and trotted up to Jiang Lingxi, "Sister Xixi, you...do you still have dinner?"
To be precise, are you still in the mood for dinner?
Jiang Lingxi was confused by the question and nodded, "Of course I want to eat."
Lu Zhengzheng breathed a sigh of relief and said, "That's good." She didn't need to order takeout or go out to eat alone.
The two of them entered the elevator together.
"Why did you suddenly ask me if I wanted to have dinner?"
Lu Zhengzheng lowered her head and whispered back: "Sister Xixi, every time you received a call from home, your mood would become very bad, and sometimes it would last for several days. I just heard you shouting when you answered the phone Say "Mom," I'm just a little worried."
Jiang Lingxi raised her hand and patted her shoulder lightly, "It won't happen again in the future, don't worry."
"Uh-huh."
After arriving home, Lu Zhengzheng put her luggage and went into the kitchen to work in the kitchen. After Jiang Lingxi asked her if she didn't need help, she poured herself a glass of water and went to sit on the lounge chair on the balcony. After drinking the water, she frowned and began to think.
The original person didn't leave her many memories about her family, just a little more than that of Shen Yunqing. She could feel that the original person was deliberately avoiding and ignoring her family.
There is naturally a reason for this.
Three years ago, the original father, Jiang Runcheng, went bankrupt in business and still owed a lot of debt. The family also moved from a spacious villa to an old and small residential area.
This is not over yet. Because the debts cannot be repaid, debt collectors come to the house. Some of them go too far and even wantonly smash them in order to vent their anger because they cannot get the money.
The original brother was only a fifteen-year-old boy at that time. He was young and energetic. He couldn't get angry at the leader's arrogance and domineering, so he impulsively stabbed the leader.
The person who was stabbed immediately called the police. Although Jiang Lingxu did not have to go to jail because he was underage, he was sent to a juvenile detention center for education. It has been almost three years now.
After that, the original father still wanted to make a comeback, but there were too few examples of people who could withstand the earth-shaking life gap and successfully make a comeback, and he was not one of them.
As time went by, because he was always depressed, he became addicted to alcoholism. He would only go home drunk all day long.
The original mother, Jiang Wenhui, used to be a pampered stay-at-home wife. Now her husband is an alcoholic and her son is in jail. She has to go out to find a job at a young age to maintain the family's livelihood.
Talking about the original body, the original body just entered college three years ago. Due to the drastic changes in her family, she had no choice but to give up her studies. By chance, she joined the entertainment industry. After earning money with her good looks and easing the burden on her family, she stayed. Come down.
But in my heart, I still have some resentment towards my family.
It can only be said that changes never give people a chance to prepare.
The originally happy family of four was in disarray, and the warmth of the past was no longer the same.
Quietly looking back at the original person's short life of more than twenty years, Jiang Lingxi felt that she understood why the original person developed such a dog-like temper that everyone disliked.
The entertainment industry is a vanity fair, and it is a place with little privacy. I have such a terrible family, and I feel a little inferior to myself.
But the entertainment industry is a place where people are not allowed to feel inferior, and it is even harder to hide their inferiority.
In addition, my studies were interrupted three years ago.
For a little girl who grew up carefree in this era, these barriers are really not easy to overcome.
Only she herself can know how many setbacks and difficulties she has experienced.
"Sister Xixi, the food is ready, come and eat."
Lu Zhengzheng's cheerful shout came from behind. Jiang Lingxi came back from her thoughts and raised her eyes to look at the flashing neon outside the glass window.
I am reminded of something someone often said: Everything will be fine.
*
Jiang Lingxi stood outside the old residential area.
Today was a working day, and it was the peak time for work and school. The surging flow of people in the residential area almost knocked off her sunglasses.
When fewer people came out, she crossed the puddles left on the potholes due to the rain last night and walked into the residential area.
"Three zero three, this is it."
Looking at the anti-theft door with its mottled paint in front of her and the traces of red paint that had been splashed on it in the past, Jiang Lingxi took out the keys she had found in her pocket before going out in the morning and opened the door with some unfamiliarity.
Before I even entered, I was greeted by an indescribable smell that I couldn't block even with a mask on.
This caused her to pause as she originally planned to step in.
Jiang Wenhui was busy mopping the floor in the small living room. When she heard the door open, she quickly raised her head and looked toward the door. When she saw that it was her daughter, a smile appeared on her face, but it soon turned into embarrassment and pettiness. "Xixi came here so early. Please stand at the door first. The smell in the room is a bit bad. Wait for me to spray some air freshener before you come in."
Jiang Lingxi took off her sunglasses and mask and entered the house. After entering the living room, she turned to look at the crack of the bedroom door that was ajar. She heard snoring coming from inside, "Dad is still asleep?"
Jiang Wenhui didn't see the disgust on her daughter's face, and she just felt warm. When she heard these words, she couldn't help but darken her face, and complained in a low voice: "I came back at midnight last night, and I was so drunk that I vomited all over the floor. . I closed the bedroom door before going to bed. He was so drunk this time that he didn’t even know how to open the door. I happened to pack your brother’s things last night and forgot to close the door, so I went to your brother’s room to sleep, and he couldn’t do it in the morning. Wake up. Forget it, we don't need to worry about him, we and I will go there today. Anyway, they always get very stiff every time they meet, so it's better not to go."
Jiang Lingxi was silent for a moment, "Have you eaten yet?"
