Both of them were underage, and Jiang Li just teased Chi Fang on a whim, and didn't tease him too much. After playing games for a while, the two turned off the lights and lay down.
Jiang Li lay on the bed, remembering that he only saw the housekeeper and servants when he came here today, but not Chi Fang's father, so he asked aloud.
Chi Fang put his hand on his waist, playing with his fingers with one hand, and when he asked, he said indifferently: "He is very busy, you don't need to worry about him, anyway, you don't see him a few times a year. "
Jiang Li saw that he didn't want to say more, so he didn't ask any more questions, and asked him why he transferred to No. 2 Middle School.
"Well, there's actually no big reason..."
Chi Fang briefly explained to him.
Chi Fang's mother died of illness when he was in the sixth grade of elementary school, and his father was busy with business all day long. Although the relationship between Chi Fang and him is not very strange, it is not close, and they seldom see each other throughout the year. In the second year after his mother passed away, Father Chi had a new woman by his side, but considering Chi Fang's refusal to accept her, he didn't bring her home, but kept her outside.
Because just a year after his mother left, his father found another woman, Chi Fang's character was once very extreme and irritable.
In the first year of high school, a classmate in the class who didn't deal with him provoked him with this matter, and the two had a conflict. The other party's words about him being born with a mother and not taught by a mother touched his back, and he interrupted the other party. two ribs.
The other party is the young son of the company's partner. His father came back from abroad because of this incident. He escorted him to the ward to apologize without asking why. He transferred his school to Jiangcheng No. 2 Middle School.
He didn't ask how his father solved the follow-up matter, and he didn't care, but later his uncle called and said that if he wanted to, he could continue to study in Jiangcheng City, and he could go back to City B if he wanted.
Chi Fang chose to stay in No. 2 Middle School, because he felt comfortable in a different environment, and it happened to be able to accompany the old man.
When Chi said this, his tone was very indifferent, as if he was telling someone else's story, completely indifferent.
After Jiang Li heard it, he turned over and lay on his chest, imitating how he hugged himself before, and leaned into his ear and said, "I will accompany you from now on."
Chi Fang smiled in the dark, reached out and patted his head: "Okay."
Early the next morning, Chi Fang took Jiang Li out to play. For three consecutive days, the two went out early and returned late, and visited all the attractions in the urban and suburban areas. In the past three days, Jiang Li has not seen Father Chi. It is said that he has gone abroad to discuss business, and he will not come back for ten or eight days.
October 5th was Jiang Li's seventeenth birthday. The two of them went to the playground for half a day in the morning and went to the movies in the afternoon.
At night, around twelve o'clock, Chi Fang mysteriously took Jiang away to the suburbs.
Jiang Li asked him what he was going to do, he smiled without saying a word, took out a box from the bushes, and opened it under Jiang Li's puzzled eyes.
A delicate cannon barrel lay quietly in the box, and the four words "Happy Birthday" were inlaid on the cannon barrel.
"What is this?" Jiang Li was a little confused at first, then surprised, "It's... fireworks?"
"Hmm." Chi Fang fiddled with it for a while, and placed it on the open space, "I asked someone to help me last month. It took more than half a month, but there was no delay."
Jiang Li guessed that the fireworks were ordered by Chi Fang shortly after the two of them got together. He really didn't expect that Chi Fang's fireworks in Moments would not be enough, so he even customized one. He was both amused and moved.
Watching him take out a lighter from his pocket, Jiang Li followed him and squatted down next to him: "You asked me to come here... just to watch this?"
"Yeah, you can't set off fireworks in the urban area, so you have to run away." Chi Fang took out a lighter from his pocket, patted him, "stay away."
Jiang Li stood up and stopped about two meters away from him.
Under the dark night sky, the boy squatted on the ground, the lighter lit up his side face, and there was a light and gentle smile on his thin lips.
Jiang Li stood aside. This scene made him feel warm in his heart, and he couldn't hold back his lips. He quietly watched Chi Fang light the fuse on the barrel with a lighter, then got up and walked towards him, and stood beside him. Reach out and grab yourself.
After the fuse was ignited, with a long whistle, the fireworks rushed into the sky, and exploded at a high place with a "bang", colorful fireworks lit up the starry sky in the dark night, and huge flowers scattered around, gorgeous and gorgeous.
There are three fireworks in total, the first two are ordinary fireworks, and after the last one is scattered in the air, the golden stars gather into the words "Happy Birthday", which lingers in the air for a long time.
Jiang Li looked up at the four big characters in the night sky, his eyes widened slightly, and his fingers subconsciously wrapped around Chi Fang's fingers little by little, intertwining his fingers tightly.
Chi Fang's fingers also held him tightly back. In the dark night, the palms of the two of them clinging tightly were sweating, but neither of them let go, but pulled even tighter.
When the words in the air slowly dissipated, Jiang Li turned around and hooked Chi Fang's neck with his other hand, tiptoed slightly, and kissed his lips.
Chi Fang wrapped his arms around his waist, and whispered, "Happy birthday, baby."
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After Chi Guoheng returned from his field trip, he contacted Chi Fang and asked him to bring Jiang Li to his house for dinner.
Before going there, Jiang Li considered what gifts to bring there, since it was his first visit to the house after all.
Chi Fang waved his hand and said what gifts the family brought, which seemed to be a bit strange.
"It's only a family that needs to be taken." Jiang Li said with a smile, "After all, it's considered to be seeing the parents, isn't it?"
Meet the parents
Chi Fang paused, turned to look at him, met his smiling eyes, and blurted out: "Take it! Take it with you!"
So before going to Chi Guoheng's house, the two went to the mall again, bought gifts for the couple, and then took a taxi there.
Knowing that the two were coming to eat, Mrs. Chi specially prepared a lot of dishes, and when she saw that the two had brought gifts to the door, she was annoyed and funny, she took the things and put them aside, and scolded a few words.
After Chi's mother passed away, for a long time, Chi Fang lived in Chi Guoheng's house. Apart from the old man, he had the closest relationship with their husband and wife. He was not angry at all when he heard Mrs. Chi scolding him. Respond, and occasionally speak back.
Mrs. Chi scolded him with a smile, turned to Jiang Li, and asked with a smile: "Is this Jiang Li? I heard from Lao Chi that you are helping Xiaofang make up lessons during these hours, thank you for your hard work."
Jiang Li once heard Chi Fang mention that Mrs. Chi and Chi Guoheng are alumni, and they are the same age, both over fifty. But she seemed to be improving very well, but there were some fine lines at the corners of her eyes, she smiled very kindly, and spoke softly, which reminded Jiang Li of Jiang's mother in her previous life.
"It's not hard." Jiang Li said with a smile, "It's all what I should do."
Mrs. Chi smiled, let the two of them sit down, and went to call Chi Guoheng by herself.
After Chi Guoheng came back, Mrs. Chi greeted everyone for dinner.
After the meal, Chi's mother said that she was going to a nearby shopping mall to buy something, and asked Chi Fang to accompany her for a walk.
Chi Fang wanted to bring Jiang Li along, so Chi Guoyan said, "I heard the old man say Jiang Li played chess well last time, how about taking this opportunity to play two games with me?"
After speaking, he looked at Jiang Li, Jiang Li and him looked at each other, knowing in his heart that this was the intention to let Chi Fang go, so he nodded in agreement.
After Chi Fang and Mrs. Chi went out, Chi Guoyan asked Jiang Li to go to the study with him, then took a photo album from the bookcase and handed it to him, saying, "Let's have a look."
Jiang Li took it over and saw that the photo album said xx university xx graduates photo album. He sat aside and opened the photo album, and what came into view was a graduation photo.
Jiang Li looked up at him: "This is..."
"This is a group photo of our graduates." Chi Guoyan said, reaching out and clicking on the female student in the middle of the second row in the photo album, "This is your mother, Lu Xuanxuan."
Jiang Li was taken aback, and looked down at the person he was pointing at. After moving his fingers away, he saw a young girl with braids.
In the three rows of names below the graduation photo, there is the word Lu Xuanxuan written on the girl's name.
Lu Xuanxuan was the original mother's name.
Jiang Li guessed that Chi Guoyan might have known Mother Jiang, but never thought that they would be classmates.
The people in the group photo were too small for Jiang Li to see clearly, so he turned a few pages back and saw several group photos of Jiang's mother with other people and her alone.
When she was young, Jiang's mother was very beautiful and had a very good temperament. She wore a simple white shirt and a black knee-length skirt, which did not hide her charm.
Jiang's mother in the photo is younger and more youthful than Jiang Li's impression of her.
"You are very similar to your mother, and I recognized it immediately." Chi Guoheng said, with a smile on his face, but a little sadness in his eyes.
He looked down at the photo album, his expression seemed to be nostalgic and sighed, which made Jiang Li suspicious: "You and my mother..."
"We used to be together." Chi Guoheng said, "It's been many years ago."
Chi Guoheng told a very clichéd but realistic story. He fell in love with Jiang's mother when he was in college.
After graduating from university and breaking up, Chi Guoheng left his official career, and Mother Jiang disappeared. Some people said that she went back to her hometown, and some said that she went to work in other provinces. In short, the two separated for many years and never saw each other again.
So many years have passed, the past has gone with the wind, he also married a wife and had children, and the family is harmonious, but occasionally he can't help but feel sad when he thinks about it.
When he saw Jiang Li for the first time, the face similar to the woman he liked in the past caught his attention. Afterwards, he found out that Jiang Li was Lu Xuanxuan's son, as he had guessed.
From the collected information, it is known that Lu Xuanxuan was not happy after marriage. Her husband was drinking and domestic violence all the year round, which forced her to run away from home and never came back.
After returning from Jiang's City, he privately arranged for someone to find out about Jiang's mother. It's just that it's been six years since Jiang's mother left. It's not easy to find someone. It took a lot of time to find the clues. After searching all the way, they got unsatisfactory results.
Hearing his words, Jiang Li's heart skipped a beat: "Where's my mother? Have you found it?"
Chi Guoheng looked at him with sadness and pity in his eyes, complicated and difficult to understand.
He looked at Jiang Li, reached out and touched his head: "Uncle found it too late, your mother died of illness a few years ago."
"What did you say?"
Jiang Li stared at him blankly, feeling that his ears seemed to be ringing at the moment just now, and he didn't hear his words clearly, but his eyes were red, and an indescribable feeling suddenly rose in his heart, as if something was tearing As if looking at himself, the tears fell down without warning.
At that moment, Jiang Li heard a burst of uncontrollable crying from the bottom of his heart.
That was the cry from the original Jiang Li.