Going home that night, Duan Yuche told Duan Shumin about this: "Our country is going to hang out with friends for a few days."
Duan Shumin was watching the news, and when he heard the words, he asked him, "Which friend? Where are you going?"
"Ze Liang, and his brother and sister-in-law, the four of us, go to Wuzhen."
"Wuzhen?" Duan Shumin's expression changed slightly, his eyes reflected the light of the TV, and his tone contained nostalgia, "That's a good place, your mother used to hold exhibitions there."
It was the first time Duan Yuche knew: "When?"
"You haven't been born yet." Duan Shumin said, paused and continued, "By the way, why didn't you take your brother Xiaofeng with you?"
"He doesn't know anyone else..." The back seat of the car squeezed three men, fearing that it was too much. And with him, Duan Yuche can already imagine the shameful situation one after another.
"Don't all friends start from not knowing each other? And you really plan to leave him at home alone?"
"Isn't there still you at home to accompany him?" Duan Yuche said.
Duan Yumin explained: "Dad has something to do these days and is going on a business trip. This is the first vacation for your brother Xiaofeng to come to our house. You know, he used to be in his hometown and never went anywhere. Dad still thinks about it. I'm taking you to play together, isn't this a temporary thing... "
Duan Yuche thought for a while, and finally had no choice but to nod: "Then let me tell them."
Duan Shumin called Cao Feng and gave him a wad of cash: "You go to play with your brother, be optimistic about him and don't let him run around."
Cao Feng didn't want money: "Uncle, I still have money here, enough."
"Take it, your brother is a man who likes to throw things around. If he loses his wallet, you have to take care of him, you know? The weather in Wuzhen doesn't seem to be very good these days, so bring a light jacket to avoid catching a cold..."
This is his first time out to play.
Cao Feng was inevitably excited, what should he bring when he went out to play? Toothbrush, toothpaste, razor, water cup, Uncle Duan said he needed to bring a jacket when the weather was cold. He searched for a long time and couldn't find any better clothes, so he put the school uniform in his schoolbag and put two pairs of underwear. My younger brother likes to eat fenugreek, so bring another pack of dried fenugreek. If he is hungry at night, he can give it to him... He never thought about it, maybe there is no kitchen for him to use.
When he packed up, the schoolbag was stuffed so full that there were National Day homework, words and lessons in it, water cups and snacks in the side pocket, and several packs of plum candies.
Early the next morning, before eight o'clock, Duan Shumin had breakfast and was about to go out. Duan Yuche was still awake, and Duan Shumin came in and said to him, "Little Che, Dad is out, go out. Pay attention to safety when playing." He also just lay in the bed and didn't make a sound.
During this National Day holiday, Duan Shumin also gave the hard-working Xiao Zhang a holiday. He drove out by himself: "Xiao Feng, don't need to send it, you go back quickly, and when you go out to play with your brother, remember to keep an eye on him..."
This is the second time he has warned him like this, which shows that he is really worried about this son.
"Don't worry, uncle, I will be optimistic about my brother." Cao Feng assured him.
Not long after Duan Shumin left, Duan Yuche got a phone call, and then he got up slowly.
Cao Feng made breakfast for him, but Duan Yuche didn't have time to eat, so he hurried back to his room to pack his things. He couldn't find a piece of clothes, so he was very mad, but Zhou Zeliang sent him a message saying that he would be at the gate of their community soon.
"Okay, I'll be out right away." Duan Yuche packed some things casually, still shouting, "Cao Feng, have you seen me with jeans?"
"Which one?" Cao Feng went back to his room, put on his schoolbag, and ran over to ask.
"It's, it's..." He didn't know how to describe it, "The one with the hole!"
He had many pairs of jeans with holes. Cao Feng didn't know which one he was talking about, so he said, "Don't worry, I'll help you find it." He went into Duan Yuche's cloakroom and pulled open the trousers. He looked for: "is this?"
He raised a pair of trousers that Duan Yuche described.
"It's not this!" Duan Yuche was packing his toiletries and turned his head, "I won't wear it anymore because my waist is too big."
"Is that this?"
"Neither!"
"Is it this one?"
"No, no... No, I've looked for it there, it's not there," At this moment, the ringing of the phone he left on the bed rang, Duan Yuche said in frustration, "Forget it, don't look for it, they're here. "
Cao Feng said, "Could it be kept in my uncle's room?"
"How do I know where it is, I didn't wash the clothes... Let's go back and look for it, walk around, hurry up, they're all here..."
Cao Feng carried his schoolbag and Duan Yuche's schoolbag, and the two walked out of the community together.
"Du-du-" the car horn sounded, and Zhou Zeliang called him loudly: "Here! Here!"
It was a little white Audi.
The two walked over, the car door opened, Zhou Zeliang's cousin said hello to Duan Yuche, and then said to his son, "My name is brother."
The child called out obediently, but in a low voice, recognizing the birth.
Zhou Zeliang took Duan Yuche's schoolbag and let him get in the car.
Cao Feng didn't say anything so far, because no one asked him, and no one looked at him. When Duan Yuche got in the car, he realized an embarrassing question. The driver's seat was Zhou's cousin, the co-pilot was Zhou's sister-in-law, and the back seat was Zhou's cousin. It was him, Zhou Zeliang, and Zhou Zeliang's four or five-year-old nephew.
There was almost no place for Cao Feng to sit.
And Cao Feng was just outside, looking at the gap a few centimeters wide.
Duan Yuche glanced at him and asked Zhou Zeliang in a low voice, "Cao Feng is going with me, didn't you tell... your brother?"
"I played games yesterday, I forgot." He scratched his head, and his sister-in-law heard their conversation and said, "It doesn't matter, the three of you sit in the back, son, come here and sit in the front with your mother."
At this time, the child started to make trouble: "I won't sit with you, I won't sit in front!"
"Be obedient, how can others sit if you don't get up? Come and hug you."
"I don't want it! I don't want it!" When the child was making a fuss, he even looked at his cousin with his eyes.
One big and one small winked, and the child began to cry frantically, crying and saying not to sit in the front.
The sister-in-law was very embarrassed. She glanced at Cao Feng, who she didn't know, and said, "I'll sit in the back, Zeliang, you can sit in the front..."
No matter how sluggish Cao Feng was, he understood that he was superfluous.
Duan Yuche never made a sound, glanced at Cao Feng, and then lowered his head.
"It's alright, you guys can go play, I won't go, I just have something to do." Cao Feng smiled generously, bent over and said to Duan Yuche in the car, "Brother is at home waiting for you to come back, this is for you. I'm hungry on the road." He took out all the snacks and plum candies in his schoolbag, stuffed them through the car window and asked him, "Xiao Che, have you brought a coat? Wuzhen these few days. The weather is getting colder…”
Duan Yuche shook his head.
Cao Feng also gave him the school uniform jacket: "The clothes have just been washed and are very clean. You can wear them when you are cold."
Duan Yuche turned his head to look at him, and he smiled with teeth: "Call brother when you get there."
Duan Yuche nodded and said yes, his hand was tugging at the strap of the schoolbag, then paused and said, "Are you really not going?"
"Don't go, you have fun, pay attention to safety, and call if you have anything."
He nodded and waved his hand: "Goodbye."
Cao Feng waved goodbye and watched the car drive away. After a long time, he carried a schoolbag that was obviously lighter but heavy.
The villa was empty, and he was the only one left.
Cao Feng had nothing to do, so he started cleaning the house, starting from the kitchen, wiping the table, mopping the floor, watering the plants...
In the car, Zhou Zeliang was talking about Cao Feng with his brother and his sister-in-law.
"A student sponsored by Uncle Duan, from an ethnic minority, makes jokes all day long..."
"That day Xiao Che took him to wash his hair. That guy has never been to a barbershop. Guess what, he used the shampoo as a footbath..." He never tires of saying this joke.
So the day before yesterday, Duan Yuche called him and said, "My dad must ask me to take him with me." When he came up with a way to buy his little nephew with toys.
As long as the nephew makes trouble, his cousin and sister-in-law have nothing to do with him.
He didn't tell Duan Yuche about this.
The road was very dull, and it was thanks to Zhou Zeliang's "jokes" that Duan Yuche told him that he was full of laughter.
Duan Yuche frowned, as if a little uncomfortable.
Zhou Zeliang noticed it and asked him what was wrong. Duan Yuche said, "I'm a little motion sick."
"Then what? Do you want to eat a piece of xylitol?"
"No need, I'll just listen to the song." He put on his earphones, and then took out the plum candy that Cao Feng had just given him from his bag. The sour sweetness pressed under his tongue, and he could vaguely hear Zhou Zeliang Said to his cousin: "Brother, please drive slowly, he has motion sickness..."
Cao Feng cleaned the house diligently, and even played a song to listen to. After an hour, he received a message from Duan Yuche that it was Wuzhen.
After returning the message, he continued to clean. After noon, he changed his clothes and went out.
That day, he asked the girls at the front desk to find out, and he knew a few good places to buy gifts.
The end of this month is Duan Yuche's birthday. He hasn't prepared a gift for him yet. Cao Feng's hands can only do some rough work and some woodworking work.
He entered the boutiques in the mall, walked around, and was frightened by the price of thousands of dollars. After leaving the mall, he went to other places to continue shopping, and entered an antique store. This small shop sells Everything had the flavor of the age. Cao Feng looked at each other, his eyes lit up, he picked up a metal block that looked like a pocket watch, and asked, "Boss, what is this?"
The boss said in a lazy voice, "That's a miniature music box."
"Music box? Can you play music?" He had never seen such a small music box. When he went to the gift shop just now, he also saw music boxes, but they were all very large.
The boss said, "Yes, there is a clockwork at the back, and you can make a sound when you turn it."
Cao Feng tried it, and sure enough he had a voice, and it was still Beethoven's "To Alice"—
When he was using his brother's computer, he listened to Beethoven's piano music, and listened to many of them.
Cao Feng was very interested, and asked the miniature music box, "How much?"
"This is an original antique mechanical music box from Sankyo." The boss was just a little more refined at this time, glanced at it, and said, "The base you took is brand new, and it is in good condition. It costs two thousand and five."
Cao Feng: "..."
Cao Feng went out from the Zhonggu store and received a call from Duan Shumin.
"Hello? Xiao Feng, have you arrived at the hotel yet?"
When Cao Feng said it, he also asked him, "Are you there yet?"
Duan Shumin also said that he had arrived: "You two have a good time." Soon, the two ended the call, and Cao Feng took the bus home.
He was not familiar with the road conditions here, so he accidentally sat in the opposite direction, but when he got home, it was almost nine o'clock in the evening.
Opening the door and entering, Cao Feng saw a black car parked in the garage—the one that Duan Shumin drove away in the morning.
Didn't Uncle Duan go to Shanghai
Why is the car at home
Cao Feng was a little puzzled and took out the key to open the door.
At the same time, the two people on the sofa were startled and hurriedly separated.
Cao Feng turned on the light and happened to see Uncle Duan, who was always in suits and leather shoes. He was sitting on the sofa with some disheveled clothes and messy hair. He also tried to cover the face of the girl next to him with the sofa pillow.
But Cao Feng's eyes were still on the girl's eyes—
The air was quiet for a while, and Duan Shumin stared at him. For a moment, he didn't see Duan Yuche before he breathed a sigh of relief: "Xiaofeng, you... Didn't you guys go to Wuzhen? Where's Xiaoche?"
Cao Feng was so embarrassed that he didn't know what to do, so he had to explain the whole story: "The car can't sit a bit, so I-I didn't make it."
Duan Shumin reluctantly regained his composure and said, "Do your uncle a favor and don't tell your brother about this, okay?"
Cao Feng looked at the girl with a few words. She looked young, maybe she just went to college, blushed, and lowered her head to dare not look at anyone.
He didn't know what happened to the Duan family, nor did he know the story between Duan Shumin and Duan Yuche's mother. He only knew that Duan Shumin was too important to Duan Yuche. According to his younger brother's character, he would not allow his father to marry a second time. Yes - but this matter is not something he can handle as an outsider.
Cao Feng was silent for a while, and heard Duan Shumin say: "Take care of your uncle's secret for the time being, I'll ask you uncle, okay?"