Falling Down the Pond

Chapter 43

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Cheng Xin seldom calls herself "mother", so this heavy word stopped Cheng Feichi from turning around and leaving.

With a glimmer of hope, he asked, "Go abroad, and then?"

Cheng Xin thought he was finally persuaded, and held his hand tighter: "Study in a good school, and then he will pick you up..."

"Who is he and where is he going?"

"He's your father." Cheng Xin pulled the corners of his mouth away, his eyes lit up, as if thinking of something pleasant, "Go back to where you should go, that's your home."

Cheng Feichi's lips moved, and it took him a while to say: "I don't have a father."

"You have, you have a father." Cheng Xin was a little anxious, "He came here during the Chinese New Year, you met him, didn't he give a speech at your school last semester?"

Cheng Feichi thought it was funny, but couldn't laugh. Twenty years later, that man showed his face a handful of times, but he was able to hold his mother's heart firmly.

He wanted to ask Cheng Xin if he had been drugged with ecstasy, if he was crazy, but he knew that his grandparents had asked this question countless times, so what's the difference if he asked it

Cheng Xin went crazy twenty years ago, and there is no cure for it. The normal state of these years is her depression and disguise, and now it is her real appearance revealed by tearing off the mask.

"In two years, just wait for another two years. He promised me that he would take us back. At that time, you will be the only heir of that family. No one can drive us mother and son away again." Cheng Xin's speech speed was getting faster and faster. Quickly, her breathing also became rapid, and she said incoherently, "You go abroad first, listen to your mother, go abroad first, the sooner the better."

The arrival of that woman obviously stimulated Cheng Xin a lot, forcing her to say all the things that were usually difficult to say. Although Cheng Feichi had already guessed a lot, hearing his mother confirm the guess one by one, he still couldn't stop his heart trembling.

"Go abroad, and then continue to live like ants hiding in the ground?"

Cheng Xin was stunned, probably because she didn't expect Cheng Feichi to sum up the life of their mother and son in such a dirty and insignificant metaphor so bluntly and cruelly. She subconsciously wanted to refute, but she couldn't find a strong reason.

She could only hold Cheng Feichi's hand tightly, like a drowning person grabbing the only piece of driftwood: "Listen to mother, okay? When you come back from abroad, we will never have to live like this again."

The wind made the windows slam, and the cold wind poured into Cheng Feichi's heart, and the place he passed was icy cold.

All the efforts he made were to get rid of the shadow that had entangled him for more than ten years, but his mother still ignored his wishes and pushed him desperately into the darkness.

On Sunday, Ye Qin was doing a quiz in the apartment of Jiayuan Community. Cheng Feichi came later than expected, and Ye Qinhao complained when he entered the room.

"Did you go to work behind my back again? No wonder I had to drive to pick you up."

After school started, there were fewer opportunities for the two to be alone, and this became the best place for them to get together once a week. If Cheng Feichi hadn't had a tutor on Saturday, Ye Qin would have liked to let him stay here with him from Friday night.

"No." Cheng Feichi said while changing his shoes, "Work is all arranged at night."

Ye Qin asked persistently, "Then why are you here so late?"

Cheng Feichi said lightly: "There is something at home."

When giving a lecture to Yeqin, he received another call from a certain overseas study institution, saying that the relevant procedures had been prepared, and he was asked to take some time to complete some visa procedures. Cheng Feichi directly said on the phone that this application was not submitted by himself, please cancel it, the other party was very embarrassed, saying that more than half of the fee had been paid, and if he wanted to cancel it, please come in person.

After hanging up the phone, Cheng Feichi wanted to call his mother, but hesitated for a moment before giving up. Cheng Xin's attitude is already obvious, and he can't change his mind at all by himself. And he has already decided to stay in China to go to university, and now there must be a compromise between their mother and son.

"It's not over yet?"

The voice came from behind, and when he turned his head, Ye Qin stretched his neck, only his head was exposed, his cheeks were bulging, like a child whose toy was robbed, his face was full of displeasure.

Returning to the room to continue the lecture, Ye Qin suffered from laziness, and chatted with Cheng Feichi at every turn. After trying to be lazy with "what's for dinner" and failing, he turned the topic to study, yawned and asked: "I'm going to go on like this." , what kind of school can I get into?"

Cheng Feichi said, "It depends on your performance."

Ye Qin sighed, lying on the table and unable to get up.

"But I can guarantee," Cheng Feichi continued, "I will definitely be admitted to the same university as me."

Ye Qin rolled his eyes and said he didn't believe it, Cheng Feichi smiled and didn't explain much.

He will never forget every promise he made, even if Cheng Xin pleads with tears, even if he is heartbroken, he will not waver.

This is what he promised Yeqin, and it is also the first decision he made from his heart, letting go of his involuntary and no choice for many years.

Ye Qin didn't know this, and he still lived in a daze every day.

Cheng Feichi studied hard when he was around, and slacked off when he was not around. He was not stupid at first, and he belonged to the type that the teachers said "can learn well but refuses to work hard". Even though he was fishing for three days and drying the net for two days, his grades were still improving steadily.

On the day of sending Liu Yangfan and Zhao Yue away, Zhou Feng cried with snot and tears, as if he was sending his brothers to the execution ground. Ye Qin thought he was ashamed, so he walked quickly out of the terminal after seeing him off, and when he got back to the car, Zhou Feng stopped his sadness and dragged Ye Qin to accompany him to the store to choose a birthday present for Sun Yiran.

Going through various luxury stores, Zhou Feng thought for a while that this bag was good, and Yiran would definitely like it, and for a while, he thought that the necklace was also good, which matched Yiran's complexion.

"Then buy them all." Yeqin said.

"How can I do that? Birthdays come once a year, and every time you give a birthday gift, it is very particular. If you give it all, the fate is gone. What's the point of that?"

Ye Qin listened awkwardly: "You still care so much about Yiran's birthday, aren't you afraid that the squad leader will be jealous?"

"Why is he jealous?" Zhou Feng looked puzzled.

"Aren't you two dating?"

"Where did you hear it? He said it again?" Zhou Feng laughed happily, knocking on the counter to ask the salesman to take out the men's wallet inside, hold it in his hand and look at it for a while, "If that's the case, then give it to him as well." A present."

Ye Qin didn't agree with his state of eating the bowl and looking at the pot, and couldn't find a position to control him, so he simply ignored him and went to the counter next door to look at the one that caught his attention just now. ring.

He usually wears casual clothes and has no interest in accessories. However, this ring has a unique design. Several geometric patterns are evenly distributed on the simple metal ring. Together with the broken diamonds interspersed in it, it exudes a low-key and gentle light under the lamp.

I wanted to ask the cabinet sister to take it out to have a look. When I saw the "love" series written on the label below, I realized that it was a pair of rings. My scalp felt numb and I was hesitant.

After looking around but not seeing any other favorites, Ye Qin reluctantly took out his mobile phone to take a photo of the ring, sent it to Moments, and added a few words: It looks pretty.

On Sun Yiran's birthday, he had a treat at an off-campus restaurant, but Ye Qin didn't go, so he asked Zhou Feng to send gifts and blessings.

Turning around, she was completely sent back. Zhou Feng said helplessly: "I did her ideological work for a long time, but she still didn't listen. She said that she will talk to you again when you explain it to Cheng Feichi someday."

Ye Qin scoffed at her sense of justice, and threw the bracelet originally bought for Sun Yiran to Cheng Feichi after self-study next night, and asked him to help him deal with it.

He looks angry and fierce, but every word he speaks has a small nasal sound of grievance.

Cheng Feichi knew Ye Qin's arrogance that he didn't care about, but he was more emotional than anyone else. He stood up and said, "I'll help you."

"Don't you." Ye Qin was not happy, and dragged him not to let him go, thinking that Sun Yiran would tell Cheng Feichi about his deceitful feelings in a fit of anger, so he took Cheng Feichi's arm and said, "She doesn't want me. Wear it yourself, it is suitable for both men and women."

The temperature dropped sharply tonight, and the cold wave warning was played in rotation on the TV. The two of them went to the food stall for a while after self-study next night. Ye Qin's hands were cold and his feet were cold, he was still shivering when he put on Cheng Feichi's coat, Cheng Feichi took his hand and stuffed it into his sweater, Ye Qin shook his head like a rattle, refusing to live or die.

"There is still a piece of clothing inside." Cheng Feichi said, "I didn't let you touch me."

Ye Qin's face was flushed red, and he couldn't tell which was shy and which was cold.

When the haggis soup was served and he warmed his hands while drinking it, Ye Qin calmed down, sniffed and said, "I'm celebrating my birthday soon."

Cheng Feichi: "Yes."

Seeing that he didn't express anything, Ye Qin couldn't help asking: "Are you free that day?"

"For the winter solstice, there should be."

The ambiguous answer made Ye Qin a little uneasy: "Then, have you thought about what gift to give me? Not too many, just one."

He remembered what Zhou Feng said about the meaning of birthday gifts, and it was rare for him to be superstitious once, for fear that Cheng Feichi would give too much at once, and there would be no more in the future.

Cheng Feichi was amused by his small appearance of asking for gifts of course, took the schoolbag, found out a brand new set of May 3, put it on the table and patted it: "Here, a gift."

Knowing that he was teasing himself, Ye Qin still pretended to be angry, and fiercely took out the answer booklet that was inside and put it in his pocket: "Okay, I'll take it!"

Ye Qin firmly believed that Cheng Feichi must have prepared a birthday present for him. The reason why he was anxious was because his birthday was not at the winter solstice in December, but at the end of November, with less than two weeks left.

He wanted to tell Cheng Feichi that he didn't have the guts, for fear that Cheng Feichi would become suspicious, so he followed the clues and discovered that his motives for chasing him were not pure. It is said that one lie needs to be covered by ten thousand lies, and now Ye Qin felt it personally.

So these days, whenever he has free time, he is thinking about what reason he should use to make Cheng Feichi give up his part-time job on November 29th to celebrate his birthday with him.

Seeing that the day was getting closer and closer, before he could polish a perfect rhetoric, Cheng Feichi sent a message asking him to go home by himself in the next few days.

Ye Qin asked why, Cheng Feichi replied: [My mother is hospitalized]

Cheng Xin's fainting was accompanied by cardiac arrest. After being rescued at the hospital, the oxygen bottle was inserted for a long time, and it was only in the afternoon that he turned the corner.

Ye Jinxiang was the first to rush over, and together with Cheng Feichi, he was busy taking care of things.

Grandma also arrived later, saying that she had come without telling grandpa, holding her daughter's bony hand and sobbing softly. Wiping away her tears with a handkerchief, she pulled Cheng Feichi and asked, "What's going on? Didn't you go well last time we met?"

There is no need for my family to hide it. Cheng Feichi truthfully told his grandmother that a woman came to the house several times. Cheng Xin fainted this time because of the stimulation of that woman.

Grandma was shocked at first, and then she covered her face and wept: "It's a crime, it's really a crime."

In the evening, Cheng Feichi sent his grandma to the taxi, and Cheng Feichi walked alone on the path covered with yellow leaves in front of the hospital, walking slowly, looking up at the stars and moon in the sky, but his heart was in a mess.

The woman's sharp words before she left were still in my ears. Over the years, he had heard too many gossips, and he thought he was an impregnable fortress, but he was still defeated by the sentence "You are only worthy of staying in this crappy house with your mother for the rest of your life".

Upstairs, he stood at the window at the end of the corridor, took a few deep breaths of the cool night air, took out his mobile phone to reply to Yeqin's message, calmed down a little, and walked into the ward.

Dinner was settled in the ward, and Ye Jinxiang took the chicken legs from his lunch box to Cheng Feichi: "You are still growing up, eat more, uncle will have a social event later, and you can have a meal."

Although Cheng Feichi didn't like his occasional superiority, he had to admit that this man at least really cared about Cheng Xin, and said politely, "Thank you uncle."

Ye Jinxiang could sense the softening of his attitude, so he talked more: "Speaking of which, you are in the third year of high school like my son. Which school do you study in?"

"Sixth Middle School." Cheng Feichi replied.

Ye Jinxiang was a little surprised, he thought it was at least a key high school like the High School Attached to Normal University, and asked him which class he was in, and when he heard that it was the first class of science, he showed a clear expression: "I heard from your mother that you are excellent, so I will say Well, it must be in the top class."

Cheng Feichi couldn't imagine the circumstances under which Cheng Xin would praise him for his excellence. He suspected that it was just a scene, and he didn't know how to respond.

Ye Jinxiang seemed to be very interested in this topic, and continued: "My son is also in No. 6 Middle School, but he is not in the key class, so you probably don't know him."

The classrooms of class one and class two are located in two buildings respectively, and there is a long corridor between them. The students in the two classes usually do not have many opportunities to communicate except for meeting each other during the exercises.

But Cheng Feichi knew quite a few classmates from Class Two, and one of them happened to be named Ye, which was a bit of a coincidence. He thought for a while and asked, "Uncle, what's the name of your son? Maybe I can recognize him."

Ye Jinxiang wished that his son would learn more from a good student with good grades and high self-motivation, and Cheng Feichi was still the son of that person, there would be no harm in making friends, so he immediately replied: "Ye Qin, I admire you."

Afraid that he might not recognize him, he stretched out his index finger and wrote the word "Qin" on the palm of his hand. After writing it, he felt it was redundant, and said with a sneer, "Your grades are so good, how could you not know this word? Uncle is unnecessary."