After Pei Tian took away the gangsters, Tang Mi and his sister returned home, while Pei Shuo went to Lu Zhinian's house.
Pei Shuo didn't speak all the way, looking like he was hesitant to speak.
After arriving home, Pei Shuo sat in Lu Zhinian's room and asked him uncertainly.
"A-Nian, do you think this friend Tang Mi looks familiar to you?"
Lu Zhinian took two bottles of water and threw one to him.
"look familiar?"
Pei Shuo took the water without drinking it and put it aside, "Well, and I just asked Tang Mi her full name. Do you know what her name is?"
Afraid that he had made a mistake, he asked what words it was.
He just saw Jiang Suichu and felt that she looked familiar. In addition, Tang Mi kept calling her Sui Sui, so he asked Tang Mi her name. Unexpectedly, it was really her.
Of course he knew her name. When he saw the name in the book in the woods that day, he thought he had made a mistake.
But those few strokes, if you look closely, are all familiar strokes.
Lu Zhinian took a sip of water, nodded, and said, "I know."
"You know!" Pei Shuo raised his voice, stood up from his chair, and asked him, "When did you know it and why didn't you tell me?"
Lu Zhinian spoke calmly and said, "I just found out a few days ago."
Then he briefly talked about what happened before.
After hearing what Lu Zhinian said, Pei Shuo looked in disbelief: "She said she didn't know you? She also said she had never been to Yun City?"
Lu Zhinian nodded and said in a low voice: "Yes."
Pei Shuo didn't understand, and thought of something again, and said, "I remember that Aunt Liyun took Suisui to Xuancheng back then. Why did she suddenly appear in Yun City? And she even pretended not to know us."
Lu Zhinian fell backward and sunk into the sofa. The eyes are looking somewhere without focus.
I recall the previous contacts, the knotted shoelaces, playing with water on the roof on a rainy day, and when he asked us if we knew each other. She subconsciously denied and deliberately emphasized. If he really didn't know her, he would be curious about why he asked like this, instead of rushing to explain and specifically emphasize that she had never been to Yun City.
At that time, he had been thinking that she should be in Xuancheng, so he didn't ask her name.
Pei Shuo also thought back to Jiang Suichu when he was a child, but it really didn't match the face he saw today. As a child, Jiang Suichu was fair and chubby, always bright and energetic, never hiding his laughter and tears. Pei Shuo was very fat when he was a child, and the kindergarten children always bullied him. Every time she stood in front of him, she would drive away the children who bullied him. However, the face I saw today was gloomy and silent, and the eyes were hollow and sad.
Jiang Suichu shouldn't be like this!
She should be sunny, energetic, and always have a smile on her face.
Pei Shuo still felt it was impossible and began to overturn his previous thoughts, "A Nian, could it be that we made a mistake. Maybe it's just the same name..."
Lu Zhinian interrupted him: "Do you still remember the time I injured her when she was a child?"
Pei Shuo thought for a moment and realized that Jiang Suchu played well with everyone in the courtyard, but the one who played best was Lu Zhinian. The two never quarreled or fought. That was the only time the two quarreled, and it seemed that they were fighting over a bicycle.
Pei Shuo twitched the corner of his mouth and said, "Remember, how could I not remember? I even had a fight with you to avenge her."
Because they had promised to protect her forever. When he knew that Jiang Suchu had been injured by Lu Zhinian, he angrily ran to Lu Zhinian's house and beat him up.
"By the way, why did you push her?" Pei Shuo still doesn't know why.
When he was a child, Lu Zhinian was much the same as he is now. He was cold and distant to everyone. He only had rare patience with Jiang Suchu. No matter how Jiang Suichu made trouble or annoy him, he would never be angry. Not to mention a bicycle. There was never a time when he didn't give Jiang Suchu something delicious and fun first, so he never believed that Lu Zhinian would push Jiang Suchu away for a bicycle.
Why?
It had been too long. Lu Zhinian lowered his eyes and thought about why he pushed her away in the first place.
At that time, I don’t know whose family started it, but the children all started learning to ride bicycles. Lu Zhinian was in poor health when he was a child, falling ill every three days and often staying in the hospital. When he came back from the hospital, the courtyard was full of children riding bicycles. Jiang Suichu has had poor balance since he was a child. He has not learned it for a long time and can only run behind the bicycle.
"Brother Yang Yang, you are so awesome."
"Brother Yang Yang, you ride so fast, faster than them all."
"In that Suisui, do you think your brother Yang Yang is more powerful or your brother Nian Nian is more powerful?" Zhang Yang stopped and teased her.
"Brother Yang Yang is awesome!" Jiang Suichu thought he was asking who was better at riding a bike. She thought about it honestly and realized that since Nian Nian doesn't know how to ride a bike, of course Brother Yang Yang is the best.
He stood behind the poplar tree by the playground and looked at her with her little face tilted up, smiling and unable to see her eyes. When he got home, he asked his mother to buy him a bicycle. She wanted the most expensive and coolest one, a hundred times cooler than Zhang Yang's.
After buying the bicycle, his bike turned out to be the coolest in the compound, and all the children were envious of it.
She did the same, with her round eyes wide open, "Nian Nian, your car looks great."
Every year?
She had never called him brother, but she kept calling him brother Zhang Yang that day.
snort! He pushed away her little palm on the handle, got on the bicycle and pedaled away without even looking at her.
"Wow! You are so awesome Nian Nian, you can ride a bicycle." She was wearing a pink princess dress, jumping and clapping her hands. I am happy as if I can do the same.
He didn't show it on his face, but he sneered in his heart: "What's so difficult about riding a bicycle? Only a fool like you can't learn it."
He rode around in circles in the courtyard, doing cool tricks from time to time, bending and holding one hand, and looked at Jiang Suichu who was running behind him with a look of admiration.
Later he found it boring and didn’t want to ride anymore. Seeing him stop, she ran forward and held his hand, "Niannian, I also want to ride a bicycle. Can you teach me how to do it?"
"No." He rejected her mercilessly. I also secretly said in my heart, you should ask your brother Yang Yang to teach you.
Jiang Suchu didn't care at all about his rejection. She thought that just like before, as long as she acted coquettishly, she would rely on her for everything every year.
"Please, please." She held him with her little hand and dangled it, looking at him eagerly, "Brother Yang Yang taught me yesterday, why don't you teach me too~"
Lu Zhinian, who was a little soft-hearted at first, collapsed when he heard her calling Yang Yang brother. He threw her hand away and pushed her: "I won't teach you!"
Jiang Suichu was already jumping up and down, but with such a push, he lost his balance and fell down, hitting his head directly on the edge of the flower bed.
He was frightened at the time and only remembered that Jiang Suichu bled a lot.
That was also the first time his parents beat him.
Dad said he was ignorant, not a man, and bullied girls.
His mother told him that a girl's face is very important and cannot be scarred. What he did this time was really excessive.
At that time, he didn't think it was serious. Instead, he felt that his parents just liked her more than him. But when he removed the gauze and saw the centipede-like scar, he hid. He didn't even dare to look into Jiang Suichu's eyes.
It was obvious that he had made her like that, but she still played with him every day, and even apologized to him and said she would never compete with him for toys in the future. She still bent her eyes, smiled and told him it was okay, it didn't hurt at all.
She is obviously a child who is even afraid of the pain of injections.
So, today he asked her if it hurt. When she said no, his heart tightened, like a needle pricking him.
Lu Zhinian ignored his subsequent questions and said, "She also has a scar on the right side of her forehead."
She was still young at that time, but as she grew up and took Shu Yuan's careful care, the scars became very light after a year or two. It was impossible to tell it until now without looking carefully. It was only when he looked at the injury on her forehead that he noticed that there was still a faint trace of stitches on her forehead.
Then I remembered that I had done such a bastard thing when I was a child.
Pei Shuo really couldn't understand: "But why does she pretend not to know us?"
Lu Zhinian shook his head slightly.
Pei Shuo grabbed her hair and said, "Is it possible that she is angry with us?"
Lu Zhinian looked at him, and Pei Shuo continued: "Think about it, when we were young, whenever we played better with other children, she would get angry and ignore us. Now she is right in front of us, and we didn't recognize her at the first time. She, with her temperament, it’s strange that she doesn’t get angry.”
Pei Shuo felt that his analysis made sense and said to himself: "That's definitely the case! Princess Sui Sui's bad temper will not change in twenty years, let alone ten years."
Lu Zhinian smiled lightly. It had been a long time since he heard Pei Shuo call her that.
Princess Sui Sui.
That night, Lu Zhinian slept very uneasily and had a very confusing dream.
——On a hot summer day, the sun made the courtyard white with heat. They were still young and took advantage of the adults' lunch break to sneak out and sit in a circle under the big banyan tree in the courtyard to eat the big watermelon that Pei Shuo stole from home. The watermelon juice flowed down from the corners of my mouth, dripped onto my clothes, and everywhere.
——It's still summer, and the abandoned basketball court behind the compound is overgrown with weeds. The adults don't let it go, but it's their secret base. Jiang Suichu wore a pink and white princess dress and followed a group of little boys and said they were going on an adventure. They found many treasures in the grass, including deflated basketballs, glass beads stuck in the mud, and Barbie dolls without clothes...
They rolled around in the grass, and their laughter echoed through the dilapidated basketball court. He wanted to look back at Jiang Suichu, but when he turned around, the leaves were withered and yellow, and the cold wind was howling.
——In the deep winter, a man covered with white cloth lay quietly in a coffin. The little man next to him had a calm and confused face, holding on to his sleeve tightly.
"Nian Nian, is dad asleep?"
"Every year, why doesn't daddy get up and see me?"
"Nian Nian, why is mom crying?"
As he spoke, his big eyes were filled with tears, and he looked at him: "Every year, do I have no father?"
She actually knows everything.
The end of the dream was in that alley today.
He asked her if it hurt?
She looked at him, her eyes changing from calm to aggrieved, and finally shed two lines of tears, but she still shook her head and said.
"It doesn't hurt."
The ringtone of his cell phone rang, shattering his dream. Lu Zhinian sat up and looked at the silent and dark room for a brief moment.
It's not like he hasn't dreamed about Jiang Suichu in recent years, but it was always the face of his childhood. In the dream, she was fair and clean, wearing a beautiful princess dress, and she was still a proud princess. This is the first time that Jiang Suichu in the dream no longer looks like a child, she has grown up. The thin and cold face, the cold and distant eyes looked at him quietly, as if looking at a stranger.
The feeling of panic and palpitations in the dream came again like a rising tide, and it was difficult to go away.
The phone rang again. He reached over and looked at it. It was nine thirty-five.
He could afford the eleven o'clock flight.
Shu Yuan went on a business trip with Lu Shenghua before the National Day, and he was the only one at home. After briefly washing up and packing up to go out, he saw the mobile phone on the table.
The screen was shattered into pieces. It took him a long time to answer the phone yesterday before he got through. Suddenly thinking of something, he took out his mobile phone and called Tang Zi. The phone rang for a while before it was connected. It was obvious that Tang Zi was still sleeping, and his tone was full of displeasure at being disturbed from his sweet dream.
"Master Lu, why are you calling me so early in the morning after a long holiday?"
Lu Zhinian: "Is the resort you mentioned in Muyang Town?"
Tang Zi hadn't woken up yet. He closed his eyes and groaned, asking, "What's wrong?"
Lu Zhinian curled his lips and said, "Book a ticket for me too."
"Ah?" Tang Zi was a little sober now and asked him, "Aren't you going to Beicheng?"
Lu Zhinian: "I'll go there today and come back in a few days. You book the tickets for me first, that's it."
After saying that, he hung up the phone, took the broken cell phone and went out to catch the plane.
Tang Zi couldn't react to the call that came and hung up quickly, but he still booked a ticket for Master Lu with sleepy eyes, and fell asleep after booking.
