As soon as Jiang Suichu put away his phone, he saw Li Liyun arriving.
Li Liyun was holding a bag in one hand and holding Zhou Ran in the other, walking quickly: "There was a traffic jam on the road for a while. Suisui, has it been a long time since you arrived?"
"No, I just arrived too." Jiang Suichu said lukewarmly.
Li Liyun felt Jiang Suchu's coldness. She nodded, pulled Zhou Ran and said, "Xiaoran, call sister quickly."
Jiang Suchu opened his mouth and wanted to say no. But seeing Zhou Ran's timid eyes, she seemed to see herself as a child for a moment.
When you speak and do things, you always pay attention to the looks of others, for fear that you may not do well.
She pursed her lower lip, and finally swallowed it when it reached her mouth.
Zhou Ran hid behind Li Liyun, looked at Jiang Suchu with big eyes, and called out in a low voice: "Sister."
Jiang Suichu paused and curled the corners of his lips slightly stiffly.
Li Liyun saw Jiang Suchu smile and said happily: "I... let's go sit there for a while, okay?"
Jiang Suichu glanced at the direction she was pointing, which was behind the supermarket. There were some restaurants and milk tea shops facing the street.
She wanted to just give her something, but before she could say anything, her hand was held by a small hand. Jiang Suichu lowered his eyes and saw Zhou Ran's chubby hand holding her, timidly saying: "Sister, let's go."
After saying that, Zhou Ran pulled her towards where Li Liyun said.
Jiang Suichu didn't react for the first time. When she came to her senses, they had already reached an ice cream shop.
The ice shop is not big, only about ten square meters. There are four wooden tables inside, where a few people are sitting and eating smoothies.
It must be a mom-and-pop shop. The lady boss greeted them warmly: "Are there three of you? There are seats inside."
"Okay." He took Jiang Suichu and Zhou Ran to the innermost seats.
Li Liyun sat opposite her, looked at her and said carefully: "Suisui, do you still remember this store?"
Jiang Suchu was looking at the menu on the wall. Hearing this, he looked away and looked at her: "What?"
Li Liyun said with a smile: "Didn't you like the ice cream from this store the most when you were a kid? You always eat a big portion every time you come here."
Jiang Suchu was stunned for a moment, then turned around and looked around the small shop.
No wonder she felt familiar.
This store is actually right next to the family compound. When she was a child, her father would often take her here to eat ice cream in the summer.
Li Liyun pushed the menu in front of her: "What do you want to eat?"
Jiang Suichu glanced at the menu and pushed it back: "You order it, I won't eat it."
The proprietress stood aside waiting for them to take their orders. Li Liyun smiled awkwardly: "Then I'll order."
As she said that, she took the menu and asked Zhou Ran: "Would Xiaoran like the strawberry flavor?"
Zhou Ran glanced at Jiang Suichu and shook his head: "Mom, I want to eat mango."
Li Liyun: "No, you are allergic to mango and can't eat it."
Jiang Suchu paused and looked at Zhou Ran. Unexpectedly, he is also allergic to mango.
She remembers that it was in this store that she first learned about her mango allergy. At that time, she ordered a mango smoothie, but before she took two bites, she broke out in red rash all over her body and had difficulty breathing.
Jiang Zhiwei was frightened and ran back to the clinic in the compound with him in his arms.
Fortunately, it was delivered in time, and the doctor at the clinic gave her an injection and her symptoms were relieved.
Zhou Ran pouted and said reluctantly.
Li Liyun ordered two portions, one with strawberry and one with taro and red beans.
Jiang Suichu loved to eat taro and red beans when she was a child. She especially liked to pick out the red beans.
Li Liyun smiled at Jiang Suchu: "Xiaoran is allergic to mangoes just like you."
Zhou Ran heard this and looked at Jiang Suichu with joy: "Can't sister eat mangoes too?"
Jiang Suchu pursed his lower lip and nodded: "Yes."
Zhou Ran pouted: "My sister is just like me, so pitiful. The mangoes are so delicious."
Jiang Suichu twitched the corner of her mouth lightly. She also said this to Lu Zhinian when she was a child.
Li Liyun looked at the two of them. Jiang Suichu's attitude towards Zhou Ran was much softer than towards herself. She sat opposite and looked at her daughter in front of her carefully. She looks much better than in the photo Jiang Zhiguo sent her the year before last. Although she is still very thin, at least her face is not as bloodless as in that photo.
Jiang Suichu noticed Li Liyun's gaze, she raised her eyes and looked at her, and said calmly: "Why did you suddenly return to Yun City?"
When Jiang Zhiwei passed away, Li Liyun was afraid of the drug dealers' revenge and insisted on taking her back to Xuancheng. I have never come back in these years, so why did I come back this year?
"Your Uncle Zhou..." She paused, touched Zhou Ran's head and continued, "He is Xiaoran's father. His business is mainly here now, so we moved here."
Jiang Suchu nodded, and quickly and gently twitched the corners of his mouth.
What was she expecting just now?
Li Liyun didn't want the topic that had finally started to go cold, so Zi Gu continued: "The year before last, your grandma accidentally fell down at the door of the house. She was paralyzed for half a year and then left. When she left, she kept holding my hand. Calling your name."
Jiang Suichu paused and asked in confusion: "Call my name?"
Li Liyun nodded: "Yes. Every year, grandma actually regrets forgetting you alone on the street. She..."
"It's not forgetting." Jiang Suchu interrupted her, his eyes were scarlet and said, "It's just losing."
Jiang Suchu looked at her with a frown and asked with a wry smile: "Are you telling me this because you want me to forgive her? If so, then I can tell you with certainty that it is impossible."
She could never forget the fear of being abandoned on an unfamiliar street.
Li Liyun shook her head and choked with sobs: "No, mom didn't mean that."
Jiang Suchu glanced at her, then looked away at the boss behind him making smoothies: "I don't have a mother."
From the day Li Liyun tricked her into hiding in the closet and didn't come to find her, she didn't have a mother.
Li Liyun's breath was stagnant, and her eyes were red and filled with tears. She tried her best to hold back her tears and looked at her: "Sui Sui, how have you... been in these years?"
Jiang Suichu looked away, looked at her slowly, and asked calmly: "What do you think?"
Li Liyun's eyes glazed over slightly, stung by her indifferent eyes.
She choked with sobs: "It's mom's fault. If mom had been firmer, you wouldn't have had to..."
"Stop talking." Jiang Suchu interrupted her confession, looked at her calmly and indifferently and said, "It's meaningless."
In fact, both of them knew that even if they could do it again. Li Liyun will still choose a new life, not her.
Li Liyun was stunned for a moment, with tears in her eyes that could already tell her age. When the tears fell, she hurriedly turned away and wiped them away.
Zhou Ran's big eyes moved back and forth between his mother and sister. When he saw his mother crying, he stood up and took a piece of paper from the paper box on the table and handed it to her.
"Mom, don't cry."
Li Liyun took the tissue, smiled at her son forcefully, and touched his head: "Be good."
Jiang Suchu looked at the two people opposite him and couldn't tell what he was feeling. She pursed her lips and turned her head away from the scene opposite the scene of a loving mother and a filial son, and looked at the entrance of the store with a vague gaze.
Ice eaters came and went, rotating several times. As the glass door was pushed open, a man wearing a shabby hat and somewhat slovenly clothes entered the store and sat down at the table near the door.
"Boss, a bottle of cold beer." He shook his legs and shouted directly without looking at the menu.
"Hey, come right away." The boss took a bottle of beer from the freezer and sent it over.
Jiang Suichu glanced at the freezer and didn't expect that the ice shop actually sold beer.
Not knowing what beer tasted like, Jiang Suichu suddenly wanted to try it for some reason. I want to know if it is like what is written in the book, where a thousand worries can be solved by just getting drunk.
Just as she was thinking about it, something was thrust into her hand. She lowered her eyes and saw a piece of chocolate lying in her hand.
Zhou Ran looked at her timidly: "Sister, eat chocolate. It's very sweet."
After saying that, he ran back to the opposite side, climbed onto the chair and sat down, staring at her expectantly.
Jiang Suichu glanced at the chocolate in his hand, slowly closed his fingers, and squeezed the chocolate tightly in his palm. She raised her eyes to look at Zhou Ran across from her, and slightly curved her lower lip: "Thank you."
She could always see the shadow of her childhood in Zhou Ran. He was so careful to please that she couldn't bear to refuse his kindness.
Seeing Jiang Suichu smiling, Zhou Ran leaned on the table and smiled sheepishly.
"Ice is here." The boss lady came up with two portions of smoothie, "One is strawberry, one is taro puree and red bean. Please use it slowly."
Jiang Suichu nodded and politely thanked him.
Li Liyun pushed the taro paste and red bean portion in front of Jiang Suichu: "Eat it and see if it is the same as what you ate when you were a child."
Then she placed the strawberry portion in front of Zhou Ran and said softly: "Eat slowly, don't get it on your clothes."
Zhou Ran stared directly at the smoothie and responded obediently: "I know, mom."
Jiang Suchu didn't move, but looked at the red beans on the smoothie, his eyes a little sore.
——"Dad, this doudou is delicious. It's sweet."
——"This is called red bean."
--"red beans?"
——"Yes. Red beans are also called acacia beans."
——"Dad, why are red beans called acacia beans?"
——"Because there is a poem that says so."
——"Red beans grow in the southern country. When spring comes, a few branches will grow. I hope you will pick more of them. This is the most loved thing."
This thing is the most lovesick.
She was still young at that time and could not understand her father's words at all. Just to coax my father to buy me another smoothie, I memorized this poem at an age when I couldn't even recognize the words.
Li Liyun took out a few pieces of paper and put them on Zhou Ran's collar. After finishing them, she looked up and saw Jiang Suichu looking at the smoothie but not moving.
Li Liyun: "Sui Sui, why don't you eat?"
Jiang Suichu's eyelashes trembled slightly before he came back to his senses: "Oh..."
She picked up the spoon, scooped out a small spoonful of dense ice and put it into her mouth, with several red beans on it. The crushed ice melts in your mouth, and the red beans are so dense and soft that they fall apart in your mouth as soon as you sip it.
The sweetness of the red beans melts coldly in your mouth, just like the ones you had when you were a kid. She swallowed it slowly, and the red beans became bitter as they slid down her throat.
After all, it is different from when I was a child.
She put down her spoon and didn't take another bite.
Li Liyun saw her put down her spoon and asked her, "What's wrong? Isn't it delicious?"
Jiang Suchu shook his head: "It's delicious, but... I don't want to eat it."
Li Liyun paused and said carefully: "Then do you want to change it to another one?"
"No." Jiang Suichu refused.
She glanced at the bag in her hand and said, "Can you give me the stuff?"
"Okay... okay." Li Liyun was stunned for a moment, and it could be heard that she wanted to leave. Although she was reluctant, she still handed the bag to Jiang Suichu: "These are the things you put at your grandma's house when you were a child. I have been able to keep them for you all these years. Whenever I miss you, I will take them Come out and take a look.”
Her voice was choked up when she said it.
Jiang Suchu frowned, took the bag and looked at the contents.
Dad's police uniform, the sunny doll given by Lu Zhinian, the bunny doll, and some other gadgets.
She didn't look carefully, she just took out the police uniform and the sunny doll, and then returned the rest of the things to Li Liyun together with the bag.
"I only want these two, you can take the rest back or...throw them away."
Li Liyun did not take the bag immediately. Instead, he directly took out the things inside, put them in front of her, and said anxiously: "Isn't this backgammon something you liked to play when you were a child? There is also this rabbit doll, you like it very much, and you always hold it to sleep. "
Jiang Suichu glanced at the old and yellowed backgammon board and rabbit doll. She bit her lower lip hard, and her eyes gradually turned cold.
She hugged her father's police uniform, holding the sunny doll tightly in her hands and looked at Li Liyun: "You bought me backgammon and said you would play with me. But you have never played with me once. I am always the only one." You can do it yourself. As for this rabbit doll..."
She smiled bitterly and said, "You gave one to me when you bought it for Zhou Siqing, right?"
Li Liyun glanced at the doll in her hand blankly, and muttered: "No...no."
Jiang Suchu twitched the corner of his mouth mockingly: "You don't need to explain, I don't care."
She stood up and glanced at Li Liyun, whose face was full of tears: "I'm leaving first. From now on... let's not contact him again."
As she said that she was about to leave with her police uniform in her arms, Li Liyun was a little panicked when she saw that she was about to leave. He quickly got up and caught up with her: "Sui Sui, mom, you can forgive me if you don't want me to. But, can you... don't let me I can’t see you.”
As she spoke, her tears burst into tears, and she cried with begging: "Mom just wants to see you and know how you are doing. Don't worry, I won't disturb your life, okay?"
Everyone in the ice cream shop looked at them, and Jiang Suichu glanced at their eyes.
There is inquiry, sympathy and contempt.
"Let go!" She closed her eyes and wanted to throw away Li Liyun's hand. However, Li Liyun held her with great force, and instead of letting her go, she accidentally dropped her father's police uniform in her arms to the ground.
The police uniform fell at the door. Jiang Suchu pushed Li Liyun away and went to pick it up, but she didn't want the man sitting at the door to pick it up first.
He handed the police uniform back to her: "Little girl, don't throw this clothes away."
The brim of his worn-out hat was pushed a little low, and Jiang Suichu couldn't see his features clearly. He could only vaguely see his thin chin and sunken cheeks.
The man is very thin.
His hands were bony, the backs of his hands were stretched, and there were bruises and red spots on the backs of his hands.
Jiang Suichu paused and reached out to take the police uniform: "Thank you... thank you."
The man slowly raised his head, glanced at Li Liyun behind her with his sunken eyes, and smiled: "You're welcome."
After saying that, the man pushed open the glass door and left.
Li Liyun's mind was focused on Jiang Suichu. She stepped forward to pull her back, but Jiang Suichu raised her hand to avoid him.
Jiang Suichu looked at her: "You don't need to see me. I've managed it without you in the past few years. I won't need you in the future, so please don't appear in front of me again."
"If you don't see me, it's best not to disturb you."
After saying that, she hugged her father's police uniform tightly, opened the door and left without looking back.
