Yucheng finally asked the question that had tortured him for a long time, but he never got a response. Feeling ashamed and annoyed, Yu Cheng closed the lid, but in a fleeting moment, he saw that familiar face again.
"It's you, Chengmei!" Across the road, at a cheap supermarket that was about to close, the clerks were grinning and looking around. Even Chengmei, who had always been grumpy in her memory, had a smile on her face and was busy brushing her hands. Ma, while glancing towards Yucheng, her eyes were slightly erratic, so Yucheng was not sure whether she really didn't see him clearly or just pretended not to see him.
"Hey! Mom." Yu Cheng thought angrily, and sat on the bench next to the hiking trail and hesitated for a while, until the familiar ringing of the bell made his eyes light up.
"You haven't completely forgotten my voice. It's so rare! I just want to call you to confirm whether you are alive or dead?!"
"I don't have to worry about money, and my life is pretty good."
Yucheng was so frightened by the murderous aura emanating from the phone that he trembled. After taking a deep breath, he forced himself to answer calmly.
"If that's the case, you shouldn't have encountered anything recently, right?! Then I can feel at ease."
The evening wind carried dust and flew past Yu Cheng. He smiled vaguely and quickly turned his gaze to the moonlight, which was colder than winter snow.
"Mom, um, has dad been taking any health pills lately?"
"Hey, that's what your dad does for a living! Talking to him is a waste of time and I feel sulky. Looking back, it's totally unnecessary."
Yucheng listened to the phone blankly, but his mother over there clapped her hands and replied easily as if nothing was wrong.
"Oh! And Yucheng, don't you plan to come to your house this year? After the wedding, we will never have the chance to see you again. Now all I can think about is how you were seven years ago. You, Qian Don't try to prevaricate us with your New Year and holiday talk. Just tell me something clear. How long will it take for mom to see you?" Mom suddenly said sadly.
"I'm sorry, mom. I'm going to discuss it with Zhuxuan and see if I can go home soon." Yucheng put the phone close to his ear so hard that it hurt. Instantly, a bad premonition came into his mind and quickly penetrated his blood. Yucheng was so nervous that his breathing was somewhat disordered.
"Okay, but Yucheng, do you think Song Zhuxuan can be happy this time?"
In the eyes of Yucheng's mother, Song Zhuxuan was not the charming rose, but the sharp dagger that hit her heart.
"Mom, why do you say that!"
Yucheng looked at the phone in disbelief. The more he listened, the more guilty he became. At the end, he felt that he in his mother's eyes was like a wandering soul who could not be converted in the vast world.
"Hey! It's all my fault. It's rare that I have to mention Song Zhuxuan during a phone call! There's nothing wrong with your dad, but I feel more and more uncomfortable now. I always feel that my biological son has been taken away by others. Forget it, Don’t tell me, don’t tell me, don’t linger outside for too long, otherwise Song Zhuxuan will feel unhappy.”
Just when Yucheng opened his mouth and was about to say something, his mother's voice suddenly disappeared.
"Mom, hello! Mom!" Yu Cheng opened his eyes wide, but could only stare motionlessly at the injured self reflected on the screen.
"What kind of scrambled egg life is this!" Finally, Yu Cheng looked up to the sky and roared like crazy. The left eye is about to cry without tears, and the right eye is filled with tears...
At the Sharing Voices food stall, the proprietress Zheng Yuqi easily threw the fried bread cubes brought by the clerk into the air, and then bit into them again, making a crunching sound.
"Yu Qi!" Relying on animal-like softness, Yu Cheng pushed open the glass door that was stuck to him without leaving any trace. "Oh, it's brother, it's so late, why are you still here!" Yuqi suddenly turned into a summer dog, his mouth wide open and he never closed it.
"Is my sister looking after the store alone? Where's Ke Mian?" My brother, who has always been cool and handsome, looks so eye-catching even when he is leaning against the wall and looking lonely.
"Oh! My husband just took the kids to grandma's house. But brother, did something bad happen at home when you went out so late?!"
Yucheng lowered his head like a little daughter-in-law who had made a mistake, pinched her fingers one by one, and bit her mouth until there was no gap left.
"I just felt that our store was not open on my brother's way to get off work, and it was too early, so I asked. But brother, please don't worry about it. If the reason is hard to explain, just pretend that I didn't ask. "After Yuqi finished speaking, he pretended to be leisurely and stuck to Yucheng's side, carefully studying Yucheng's face.
"I just came out of the house to throw away the garbage. I talked to my mother on the phone when I came back. I felt that her condition seemed to be very bad. By the way, sister, have I done something to make my mother unhappy over the years?!"
Yu Qi didn't dare to look directly at Yu Cheng, so she could only ignore him standing next to him and turned his eyes to the kitchen as if to avoid reality.
"Yu Qi, you must be hiding something from me. Did mom and Zhuxuan have any disagreements? Was it a vigorous one?"
Yu Qi quickly took out the pieces of bread from his mouth, threw them to the ground in a panic, and bit his thick lips tightly.
"It's really something."
Yu Cheng was uncertain and didn't speak for a long time. Yu Qi looked at him worriedly, with a handful of cold sweat in his hands.
"Well, it doesn't seem accurate to put the blame on mother and sister Zhuxuan." Yu Qi still stared at his brother with vigilant eyes, as if he was afraid of being caught and eaten, he kept saying one sentence after another. Get out of the way. Yu Cheng stared at Yu Qi closely, his hands always tightly clasped around his chest.
"Okay, I admit that Sister Zhuxuan's generous family background is indeed enviable. But more often, my mother and I feel ignored or even despised by others. Just last year during the Chinese New Year, I was originally with you, my brother. We discussed that we would only stay at our house for one day during the Chinese New Year, but as a result, Sister Zhuxuan repeatedly yelled on the phone that she had to go on an overseas trip! After hearing the news about my mother’s airsickness, she also argued that people are boring and she insists on going on an overseas trip with you. Warm up the romance of newlyweds. Please, it would be nice if you could go back to your husband's house once every two or three years. Moreover, Sister Zhuhyun seems to have never had the habit of calling her mother to express condolences. Even when her mother took the initiative to call her, she If you can refuse, just refuse. If it doesn't work, just ask your servants to stop him."
Yu Qi said unexpectedly, with a sarcastic look and heart-wrenching words that made Yu Cheng lower his head unconsciously.
"That Yuqi, do you and Ke Mian live happily?"
