After entering the living room, Fu Shitian found that there were new items on the coffee table, a set of three colorful ceramic cups. The sofa was also replaced with a new cover, and three cute little pillows were added. Everything was filled with the warmth of a family of three.
Fu Siyu walked out of the bedroom, saw her, and greeted her indifferently: "Hey, our famous university student is back."
Fu Shitian smiled and ignored her scolding. She took off her schoolbag, took out some pastries from it, and followed Fu Siyu into the dining room: "Aunt, Xiaoyu, I brought back some specialties from Shencheng. I don't know if they taste good or not. You can try them later." She put the gift box on the table.
Wang Meifen pushed the rice and chopsticks towards her and said casually, "Look, why are you wasting this money? Keep it for yourself to buy some fruit."
Fu Siyu was eating the food, took a look at it, and said disdainfully: "It doesn't look tasty. Don't we sell it here? It's changed to another place and put a label on it and it becomes a local specialty. Only you believe it."
Fu Shitian smiled awkwardly, without making any excuses, and asked with concern: "Uncle, aren't you coming back for lunch?"
Wang Meifen served herself a bowl of tomato and egg soup, "He's not coming back. He's in town because the construction site is far away. Hey, the weather is hot and people lack water. You and Xiaoyu should drink more soup." She served Fu Siyu the chicken soup next to her and scooped up chicken legs and wings. "You too, I made this especially for you, but you didn't even touch a chopstick. You keep mumbling about losing weight. What are you trying to lose? If you keep losing weight, I think you'll turn into a monkey."
Fu Siyu was dissatisfied: "Mom, what kind of adjective is that? How can you describe your own daughter like that?"
The mother and daughter started arguing with each other.
Fu Shitian couldn't get a word in and just listened quietly to Wang Meifen's nagging at Fu Siyu. After finishing his rice, he took a spoon and scooped up half a bowl of tomato and egg soup.
The tomato egg soup tasted a bit bland. Fu Shitian suddenly discovered that the egg soup in the school cafeteria was actually quite delicious. During the holidays, there were few people in the school and the cafeteria was not crowded.
She felt a little regretful in her heart, maybe she shouldn't have come back.
This regret reached its peak when Fu Jiantao came back in the evening and had a big fight with Fu Siyu over her.
At noon, after finishing her meal, Fu Shitian consciously helped to clean up the dishes. Before Fu Siyu returned to her room, she informed her, "There are too many books and materials in my room and I don't know where to put them. It makes me upset. I saw that your room was empty anyway, so I borrowed it. I haven't taken it back yet. You can just make do with it for a few days. Is that okay?"
It was rare for her to speak to her so politely, so of course Fu Shitian said it was okay. But when she finished washing the dishes and returned to her room, she finally understood what Fu Siyu meant by borrowing - her room was small to begin with, and there were not many empty places to stay, and now these places were almost all filled with things. There were boxes of old books, suitcases full of old clothes, guitars with broken pillows... There were all sorts of things, even her bed was filled with things, it looked like half a storage room.
Fu Shitian stood against the door for a while, and decided to just tidy up the bed, so that she would have a place to lie down. She moved the things on the bed down, and sorted them into different categories in case Fu Siyu would have trouble finding them.
As a result, when Fu Jiantao came back in the evening, he was in a good mood and asked with a smile, "Where's Tiantian? Is she back?" But when he walked a few steps away from Fu Shitian's door, his face changed instantly and he became very angry.
"Xiao Yu! What's wrong with you!" He changed direction and rushed into Fu Siyu's room.
"Dad! Why didn't you knock before coming in?" Fu Siyu was also very angry.
Fu Shitian and Wang Meifen were confused and frightened, so they ran to Fu Siyu's door.
"What's wrong? What happened?" Wang Meifen still held the shovel in her hand.
Fu Jiantao pointed at Fu Siyu and said angrily: "Ask your good daughter what happened! I have told her several times to take the things out of Tiantian's room, so many times! So many days!" He glared at Fu Siyu: "You didn't take it seriously, did you?"
Fu Siyu followed up with a grumble: "Why are you yelling at me? I just asked her and she said it's okay. Why are you holding it back?"
"Your sister is too embarrassed to say it directly. Put it away!"
"She's only coming back for a few days, what's wrong with giving me some time off? I don't even have time to study now, can you please be kind and stop bothering me?"
Fu Shitian saw that the situation was not right, and hurriedly spoke to ease the situation: "Uncle, I'm really fine. I don't need the desk or anything. It's okay, just leave it there."
Wang Meifen also advised: "Hey, Lao Fu, can you please stop interfering in the matter between the two sisters?"
Fu Jiantao didn't seem to have heard him at all, and yelled at Fu Siyu again: "I'll ask you again, are you going to accept it or not?"
Fu Siyu was so upset that tears welled up in her eyes and she simply stopped talking. Fu Jiantao was so angry that he strode into Fu Shitian's room and directly picked up Fu Siyu's guitar and small table and threw them out.
Fu Siyu was frightened, angry and aggrieved, tears rolling down her cheeks: "Take it away, take it away, even if you take it away, you still have to give me space to put it. The room is so crowded, where can I put it? If I have a study, do I need to do this? If you have the guts, move to a bigger house, wuwuwu..."
As soon as she started crying, Wang Meifen became distracted and her voice rose eight octaves, "Fu Jiantao, are you crazy? If you are angry, go out and vent it. Why do you come back to vent it on your wife and children? Why are you yelling at her? If you have the guts, go out and show off."
Fu Jiantao turned around and glared at Wang Meifen, who was protecting her chicks like a hen. His eyes swept over the frightened Fu Shitian, and he suddenly kicked the box hard, making a dull "bang" sound. "I'm incompetent, that's all, that's all! You think I can't get a bigger house, right? If you have the ability, find her a new father!"
"Fu Jiantao, what do you mean?!" Wang Meifen was enraged and joined the battlefield completely.
There were constant quarrels, scolding and crying. Fu Shitian stood in the middle of their family, like an outsider, and even more like a sinner.
She was at a loss. She really shouldn't have come back on a whim. It disturbed them too much.
The fight ended with Wang Meifen slamming the door and going back to her room. The carefully prepared National Day dinner was gradually getting cold on the table, and no one had the appetite to eat. Wang Meifen and Fu Siyu locked themselves in the room and refused to come out. Fu Jiantao took the chopsticks and said angrily, "Forget about them, we'll eat by ourselves."
Fu Shitian didn't dare to eat, so she heated up the food and called Wang Meifen and Fu Siyu to come out for dinner, but they ignored her. Fu Shitian had no choice but to beg Fu Jiantao, who loved his wife and daughter, so he put down his face and went into the bedroom to coax Wang Meifen.
Finally, Wang Meifen and Fu Siyu came out, and the four of them still ate the meal together at the table, but no one spoke. They just ate in silence, without enjoying the food.
The atmosphere was too depressing. Fu Shitian washed the pots and pans, and went out under the pretext of taking out the garbage and digesting her food, and escaped from this house that made her feel suffocated.
It was completely dark outside. Cars were coming and going. Among the tall buildings, clusters of yellow lights gave off a warm smell.
Fu Shitian walked aimlessly along the crowded road and unknowingly came to the edge of a nearby park. The park was built by the water, with a long river bank and a lush lawn. The river bank was crowded with people, many of whom were walking or walking their dogs.
Fu Shitian found a clean spot on the embankment, sat down casually, supported his hands behind his back, and looked up at the deep blue night sky and the silver moon with a missing corner.
For no apparent reason, she suddenly thought of Shi Yi. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, Shi Yi also looked up at the sky from this angle. What was she thinking at that time
Her eyes gradually moved downwards, landing on two children who were chasing and playing on the lawn not far away. The children looked no more than five or six years old.
Fu Shitian was in a daze. She and Shi Yi were probably about this age when they first met.
That was the darkest period of her life. Her mother had used her connections to get her into a private kindergarten even though she did not have a hukou. But after her father's incident, everyone pointed fingers at them, and all the kids in the kindergarten bullied her and refused to play with her.
Until Shi Yi transferred in.
Except that she is quiet and doesn't like to laugh, she is like a little princess from a fairy tale, beautiful as ice and snow, with a good family background. She has a nanny and a special car to pick her up, and the teacher is also very polite to her. At the beginning, the children were very curious about her and wanted to get close to her. Every time they played in groups, they rushed to play with her. But after a few times, one time when the teacher suggested playing in groups of two or three, Shi Yi was unexpectedly pointed at Fu Shitian who was always alone in the corner and said, "Teacher, let me be in the same group with her."
The children kept trying to dissuade him, but Shi Yi didn't care. She held Fu Shitian's hand and played the whole game with her normally.
Fu Shitian was flattered.
During the outdoor activity time after finishing the game, Fu Shitian sat alone on the stone steps watching everyone play. Shi Yi walked over from the crowd in the distance, sat down beside her, holding the kettle and drinking water quietly.
"Shi Yi." She mustered up her courage and called her softly.
Shi Yi turned his head to look at her.
"Don't choose me next time." She said softly.
Shi Yi asked: "Why?"
Fu Shitian hugged his knees and said with a drooped face: "What they said is true. My father is a bad man and it's not good to play with me."
Shi Yi was not surprised at all: "I know, your father is a murderer."
"so what?"
She actually said "So what?" This was not the reaction Fu Shitian expected at all. She looked up at Shi Yi in surprise.
Shi Yi stared at her with clear eyes, and said calmly word by word: "It was your father who did the bad thing, not you. What does it have to do with you?"
"Your father is your father, and you are you."
"I think you're quite good."
Like a ray of light, it broke through the darkness that had imprisoned her for so long. In Shi Yi's dark eyes, Fu Shitian saw her little self and the entire sea of stars that belonged to her.
Little Fu Shitian was stunned, tears suddenly flowed out completely uncontrollably and could not be wiped away no matter how hard he tried.