The senior year of high school is very stressful, and both No. 1 and No. 4 middle schools have to make up classes until ten days before the Spring Festival. Moreover, school starts earlier than other grades, and students will return to school on the eighth day of the first lunar month.
On the first day of the holiday, Jiang Suichu slept regardless of the darkness. I slept from around eight o'clock the night before to noon the next day, without even eating breakfast.
When she woke up, she was startled to see Aunt Shuyuan sitting beside her bed.
"Aunt Yuan." She rubbed her eyes and sat up.
Shu Yuan looked at the green color in her eyes and felt heartbroken. She quickly took a pillow and stuffed it behind her back for her to lean on.
"You must have been exhausted during this period." She studied day and night, and several times she saw the lights in her room were still on when she got up at night.
She knew that the child was working hard, but she was worried that her body would not be able to bear it.
Jiang Suichu smiled and shook his head: "Aunt Yuan, I'm not tired."
Although he was physically tired, Jiang Suichu felt that this period of time was the most fulfilling and meaningful time he had ever lived.
Because she has goals, motivation and so many people around her who care about her.
Shu Yuan touched her head distressedly: "Are you hungry? Get up and eat something before going to bed."
Jiang Suichu stretched out his body, leaned over and hugged Shu Yuan's waist. He buried his head in her chest and rubbed it, his voice soft: "Why is Aunt Yuan so nice to me."
Better than mom...
Shu Yuan rubbed her back with her hand and said with a smile, "Because we, the Suibao, attract people's pain."
She still remembered that when Jiang Suchu was born, she and Lu Shenghua went to the hospital to see Li Liyun.
At that time, Li Liyun had just given birth and was still too weak to hold the child. Jiang Zhiwei became a father for the first time, and he was so anxious that he hugged Jiang Suichu, who was crying loudly.
But when Shu Yuan hugged her, she stopped crying immediately. Newborn babies are all wrinkled, like little old men. But Jiang Suichu was pretty when he was born, pink and white. The small hand grasped her finger, and her heart melted at that moment.
Later, Li Liyun was busy with work, and she took care of Jiang Suchu most of the time. She has always treated her as her own daughter.
Jiang Suchu hugged Shu Yuan, and the smell of her grandma made her feel at ease. Now, the smell of Aunt Shuyuan's body made her feel equally happy.
She is also a loved child.
QQ~
There was a knock on the door, and Shu Yuan turned back to look at the door: "Who is it?"
Lu Zhinian's voice came from outside the door: "It's me, can I come in?"
Shu Yuan first took a look at Jiang Suichu's clothes, which were a pair of thick pajamas, and then said, "Come in."
The door was pushed open and Lu Zhinian walked into the room. Jiang Suichu lay in Shu Yuan's arms in the same position as before, looking at him with a pair of sleepy eyes that had just woken up.
Lu Zhinian smiled when he saw the two of them looking like this: "Did I disturb your tender moment?"
Shu Yuan smiled and glared at him: "You just know."
Jiang Suichu pursed his lips and smiled, leaning on Shu Yuan's shoulder and looking at him: "Is something wrong?"
Lu Zhinian raised his eyebrows: "Didn't you say you were going out to buy new year's goods today? Did you forget?"
Maybe I slept for too long and my mind was a little confused. Jiang Suichu was stunned for a while before he reacted, "Ah~ I'm sorry, I forgot.
This year's vacation for their senior year was too short. Shu Yuan felt sorry for the two of them and was worried that she would not feel comfortable taking Jiang Suichu back to Beicheng for the New Year. So he decided not to go back to his father's house outside Beicheng this year and stay in Yun City to celebrate the New Year with the Pei family.
Yesterday, the three of them agreed to go out to buy new year's goods together, but Jiang Suichu slept until noon. Pei Shuo had already come to Lu's house for lunch, and she hadn't even woken up yet.
He also went upstairs to see her several times. Seeing that she was sleeping soundly, he couldn't bear to wake her up.
Lu Zhinian smiled and asked her, "Are you awake now?"
Jiang Suichu bumped his chin on Aunt Yuan's shoulder and nodded: "Wake up."
As soon as he finished speaking, a head stuck out from the door of the room, and Pei Shuo pressed it on the door frame: "Princess, if you don't wake up, I will think you have passed out."
Shu Yuan raised her hand and hit him from the air, "Go! Lele, what are you talking about?"
Pei Shuo pouted and walked into the room with his hands in his pockets.
Jiang Suichu smiled and rubbed Aunt Yuan's neck. Shu Yuan hugged her and started to scold him: "You two, get out of here and don't run to Suisui's room."
I thought it was when I was a kid.
Lu Zhinian and Pei Shuo looked at each other, smiled helplessly, went out and closed the door behind them.
After the two of them went out, Jiang Suichu was also ready to get up.
Shu Yuan took her clothes from the closet and put them on the bed: "Suibao, it's getting cooler today. Wear an extra base layer underneath to keep warm."
"Yes." Jiang Suichu was brushing his teeth in the bathroom, and when he heard it, he raised his head and his eyes turned into crescents, "Thank you, Aunt Yuan."
Today, Jiang Suichu is much more cheerful than a year ago, and Shu Yuan feels better when she sees her smiling.
Shu Yuan smiled and put down her clothes and said, "I'll go down first. Suibao, you pack up and come downstairs to have something to eat."
Jiang Suichu was holding mouthwash in his mouth and responded vaguely: "Yeah~"
Lu Zhinian and Pei Shuo waited for Jiang Suichu to eat something before the three of them set off to the mall.
In fact, Shu Yuan had already prepared all the things for the New Year. The three of them mainly bought some things that they wanted to play and eat.
When they arrived at the mall, the three of them went to buy a lot of things to decorate the New Year. There were small lanterns, couplets, blessing papers, and all kinds of childish toys. Then I went to the supermarket on the first floor and bought a lot of snacks.
I didn’t realize it when I bought it, but I realized I bought a lot of things after I bought it. Lu Zhinian and Pei Shuo both carried several large bags in their hands, and only Jiang Suichu carried a bag of snacks.
After leaving the supermarket, Jiang Suchu asked them: "Is there anything else you want to buy?"
Pei Shuo glanced at the bags in the hands of several people and said, "They should all be bought."
Lu Zhinian thought for a moment and said, "It seems like there is something else you haven't bought yet?"
Pei Shuo: "What?"
Jiang Suchu also looked at him, and Lu Zhinian raised his eyebrows at her.
She was stunned for a moment and suddenly an idea came to her. She smiled and pointed with her finger, "Ludo!"
Lu Zhinian curled his lower lip and said, "Let's go, there seems to be something for sale on the third floor."
When the two of them said this, Pei Shuo remembered that his previous flying chess set was in a B&B at Beicheng Ski Resort.
Ludo was a traditional Chinese New Year game for the three of them when they were young, so the tradition cannot be lost.
So the three of them took the escalator to the third floor. Pei Shuo stood in front and turned around to talk to the two of them. Jiang Suchu stood in the middle and Lu Zhinian was a little behind her.
Pei Shuo: "I think we have to think of some punishment this year. We can't have no punishment every time we lose."
Lu Zhinian: "Then what good ideas do you have?"
Pei Shuo thought for a moment and said with a smile: "Blick the forehead. The loser will have the other two players flick the forehead with their index fingers. Just like this."
As he spoke, he picked up the bag in one hand, made an Oke gesture and flicked it gently on Jiang Suichu's forehead.
Jiang Suchu was startled by his sudden movement, covered his forehead with a smile and leaned back.
Lu Zhinian reflexively held her waist and glanced at Pei Shuo: "Tsk, they're on the elevator. Be careful."
"Oke Oke." Pei Shuo gestured with a smile, and then asked: "How about my punishment?"
Lu Zhinian twitched his lips and said, "I don't think it's a good idea."
The elevator just arrived. Pei Shuo turned around and walked a few steps forward. He turned back and waited for them: "What's wrong?"
Jiang Suchu walked between the two of them and turned to look at Lu Zhinian.
Lu Zhinian glanced at her sideways, and then said to Pei Shuo, "Do you think if Jiang Suichu loses, the three people in the family can watch us slap her on the head?"
Pei Shuo paused for a moment, thinking of Pei Tian's Tathagata Palm and Uncle Lu's whip, and instantly became excited.
When Jiang Suchu heard this, he tilted his head proudly: "I should have no problem playing you two."
Pei Shuo: "......"
Pei Shuo: "Princess Sui Sui, dads can teach us to be fair and just from an early age."
Jiang Suchu smiled, rolled his big eyes, and said, "Then I'll hit you both on the forehead, and you'll stick a note on me. That'll be alright."
Anyway, she is the luckiest among the three in this game, so she will definitely not lose.
Lu Zhinian saw the cunning in her eyes and guessed what she was planning. He smiled and watched in silence as Pei Shuo jumped into the pit.
As expected, Pei Shuo nodded without thinking, "That's okay."
Lu Zhinian turned his head and smiled. He had never lost the worst in flying chess.
The three of them bought a flying chess piece in a stationery store. After paying the bill, Pei Shuo had to go to the toilet. Jiang Suchu and Lu Zhinian stood in the corridor waiting for him.
Jiang Suichu glanced at the things in Lu Zhinian's hand and stretched out his hand: "Give me that bag."
Before her hand even touched the bag, Lu Zhinian's hand moved back a little: "No need."
He raised his chin behind her and said, "There is someone sitting over there, go and sit for a while."
I've been shopping all afternoon today, and my feet are probably sore from walking.
Jiang Suichu looked back and saw several chairs for people to rest at the entrance of a milk tea shop.
Her feet were indeed a little tired from walking, so the two of them carried their things and walked to my milk tea shop.
Just as he reached the entrance of the milk tea shop, Jiang Suchu turned around and wanted to ask Lu Zhinian if he wanted to buy a cup of milk tea for Aunt Yuan to take back. His eyes accidentally glanced at a strange yet familiar face in the milk tea shop. Her steps suddenly stopped, and the smile froze on her face.
Seeing her stop, Lu Zhinian also followed her line of sight and looked over: "What's wrong?"
In the milk tea shop, a woman about the same age as Shu Yuan was sitting by the window. The woman smiled softly, holding a cup of milk tea in her hand and teasing the little boy sitting opposite her with a smile in her eyes.
The little boy had his back to the window, and Lu Zhinian couldn't see what he looked like. But the woman was sitting facing the window, and Lu Zhinian felt familiar when looking at her.
Jiang Suchu stared blankly at the warm yet dazzling scene in the milk tea shop, and many scenes from his childhood flashed through his mind.
"Mom, do you love Suibao?"
"Of course Mom loves Suibao."
"Then why does mom always say that it would be great if I was a boy like Nian Nian Lele? Isn't it bad to be a girl?"
Li Liyun paused, not expecting that one of her usual unintentional jokes would be remembered by her.
She pinched Jiang Suichu's cheek and said, "Because if Suibao is a boy, he won't be easily bullied, and his mother will feel more at ease."
Jiang Suichu didn't understand what this meant. She bit her finger and said, "But Aunt Yuan said that girls are better than boys. Girls can wear beautiful princess dresses. And every year and Lele will protect me, No one dares to bully me."
She forgot how Li Liyun answered later, but she remembered that when she was a child, she heard Li Liyun say more than once that it would be nice if she was a boy.
She didn't understand at the time and thought that Li Liyun said that because she was too naughty when she was a child. But when he saw her looking at another little boy tenderly today, Jiang Suchu suddenly understood.
It turns out that my mother really always hoped that she would be a boy.
There was a crash.
The snacks Jiang Suchu was carrying suddenly fell to the ground and scattered everywhere.
Lu Zhinian glanced at the bag on the ground, frowned and then looked at the woman in the milk tea shop, suddenly enlightened. He immediately put down what he was carrying, stepped forward and reached out from behind to cover her eyes.
Her eyelids were hot in his hands.
Jiang Suchu's eyes ached a little. Just when Li Liyun raised her head and looked over and she was at a loss, a pair of warm hands covered her eyes.
"Don't look, don't cry." Her back pressed into a broad and powerful chest, and the deep voice in her ears gave her the strength to stand firm.
For a moment, everything went dark.
The darkness that made her feel at ease.
She lowered her eyes, and her long eyelashes brushed Lu Zhinian's palm. Her hand went back, grabbed his other hand that was hanging down, and held it tightly.
Lu Zhinian paused, glanced down at the caught hand, then turned his palm and held her hand in his palm: "Jiang Suichu, I'm here."
Jiang Suchu felt the strength in his hand, and his voice trembled a little: "Lu Zhinian, I...it's okay."
Hearing her trembling voice, Lu Zhinian felt a little lumpy in his throat. His Adam's apple rolled down and he covered her eyes even more tightly, "Yeah."
Jiang Suichu bent the corners of his lips. His eyes hurt, but there were no tears.
She originally thought that when she saw Li Liyun again, she would cry, feel aggrieved, and feel uncomfortable. But when she really saw her, she realized that her heart was actually very peaceful.
Probably because she knew that she never loved herself. So she was relieved, why she didn't choose herself firmly in the first place.
She raised her other hand and pulled down Lu Zhinian's hand covering her eyes, and light reappeared in her eyes.
She turned around without a trace, looked at him and smiled: "Lu Zhinian, I'm coming out."
That cabinet, I walked out.
Lu Zhinian looked at the slightly bitter smile on her face and felt a little distressed.
He knew what she meant. She walked out of the black cabinet that had trapped her for almost ten years. But a child's instinct to love his mother is forever lost, because not all parents truly love their children.
He raised his hand and rubbed her head, "Yeah. We pigs are awesome."
When Pei Shuo found the two of them, they were picking up snacks that had fallen on the floor.
"What's going on?" He walked over and knelt down to pick it up with them.
Jiang Suichu didn't say anything. Lu Zhinian said calmly: "I didn't hold it and accidentally let it go."
Jiang Suchu was carrying this snack just now. Pei Shuo glanced at Jiang Suchu who was a little weird and didn't say much.
After picking up everything, the three of them took the elevator directly down to the first floor with large and small bags. The Lu family's driver was already waiting for them in the parking lot.
Li Liyun looked at the backs of the three people leaving with a dazed expression.
Just when she raised her eyes, she accidentally met the eyes of the girl outside the window. She was stunned and didn't take a closer look at the girl's face. The boy behind her covered her eyes, leaving only a pointed chin.
She looked at the thin figure walking in the middle, and she felt an inexplicable emotion in her heart. My heart seemed to be pulled by a thread. As she walked further and further away, the thread became tighter and tighter.
"Mom, mom!" Zhou Ran, a child, held a spoon in her chubby hand and wanted to feed her cake. She called her several times but she didn't hear her.
It was only when he stood up and the spoon was almost to her mouth that Li Liyun came back to her senses, looked at him and said softly: "What's wrong, baby?"
Zhou Ran stretched out his hand: "Mom, eat the cake."
Li Liyun lowered her head to eat the cake sent by her son, smiled and rubbed his head: "My dear son is so good."
Zhou Ran tilted his head and smiled, then took another piece of cake and ate it in his mouth. There was still white cream on her lips, and her eyes were crooked as she smiled: "Mom, I love you."
Li Liyun was moved to her heart by her son's sweet words. She smiled and reached out to pinch his chubby face: "Mom loves you too."
After saying this, her expression suddenly paused.
Another childish voice suddenly appeared in her mind, saying to her sweetly: "Mom, Sui Bao, loves you."
On the way back, Jiang Suchu sat in the back row and kept looking out the window without saying a word.
Pei Shuo noticed something was wrong with her. He sat in the passenger seat and turned around to wink at Lu Zhinian, motioning for him to look at his phone.
Lu Zhinian glanced at Jiang Suichu. There was no extraneous expression on her face, but she looked particularly empty.
He took out his mobile phone, and Pei Shuo sent him a message on WeChat: [What's wrong with Suisui? 】
Lu Zhinian pursed his thin lips and typed back to him: "I seemed to have seen Aunt Liyun just now." 】
Lu Zhinian did not recognize Li Liyun at first, after all, he had not seen him for so many years. It was Jiang Suchu's reaction that was so strange. After thinking about it carefully, he realized that the woman was Li Liyun.
Pei Shuo: [What! ! 】
Pei Shuo: [Real or false? When did this happen? 】
Lu Zhinian: [I was just in the shopping mall, at the milk tea shop. 】
Pei Shuo thought about the snacks that had just been scattered on the floor. He felt a little strange at that time. So that's it.
He glanced at Jiang Suichu in the rearview mirror. She was looking out of the car window, her eyes out of focus as if she didn't know what she was thinking.
Pei Shuo: [They...have seen each other? 】
Lu Zhinian thought about it, and he was not sure whether Li Liyun had seen Jiang Suchu.
Lu Zhinian: [She probably didn’t see Suisui. 】
Pei Shuo didn't know why, but he was secretly relieved. Although he liked Li Liyun very much when he was a child, when he knew that Li Liyun didn't want Jiang Suchu because of his remarriage, he didn't have a good impression of her.
He also secretly hoped that she would not disturb Jiang Suchu's life.
Pei Shuo: [Should I tell Aunt Yuan and my dads about this? 】
Lu Zhinian glanced at Jiang Suichu and replied: "Let's not talk about it, let's see what she means." 】
If Jiang Suchu didn't want to mention it, then there was no need for them to talk about it.
Pei Shuo thought for a moment and felt that what Lu Zhinian said made sense.
Pei Shuo: [Yeah]
After the two of them finished chatting, Lu Zhinian put away his cell phone.
It gets dark early in winter, and now it's completely dark outside before six o'clock. The light in the car was very dim. Lu Zhinian turned his head and looked at Jiang Suichu, then slowly reached out and hooked her finger.
Jiang Suchu felt her fingers being hooked and shaken, and she slowly turned her head to look at him. Lu Zhinian smiled at her, the dimples on his cheeks appearing particularly deep in the flickering light and shadow.
She smiled slightly and curled her fingers to hook his. I also followed his example and shook my head to show that I was fine.
it does not matter.
She is no longer the little child who still needs her mother.
Besides, she has grown up without her mother these years.
