After taking a car, train and then another car, this series of journeys made Li Lu, who was still in confinement after giving birth, feel very tired.
In a hotel that does not require ID card registration, Tuba is constantly complaining to Anna.
"Can you let my mother rest for a while? She's still a pregnant woman, and I'm still a child."
Anna didn't bother to pay attention to him. She bent over and opened her suitcase. On top of the sundries was a men's suit and a clown mask.
As she took out the clothes and mask and threw them aside, they instantly swelled up and formed the clown.
"You are held in someone's arms every day, why are you tired? And we are already here, come with me later."
Hearing this, Tuba immediately stood up from his swaddling clothes, his eyes widened. "So fast!"
Anna slammed the suitcase shut with both hands. "Charles lives not far from a coastal city, otherwise he wouldn't have fallen into the water."
"I don't need to go. I still need to take a nap. Don't you know that babies need to get 12 hours of adequate sleep every day, otherwise their development will be affected."
Anna walked over quickly and reached out to grab it directly from Li Lu's arms. "Stop talking nonsense."
Li Lu was about to take her son back, but was entangled by a bunch of magic flags that rolled over from the side. It was the clown who did it.
"Mask, keep an eye on her until I get back."
The clown raised his right hand with a white glove and made an OK gesture to Anna.
Anna walked slowly on the street holding Tuba, like an ordinary mother.
While gently rocking the baby in her arms, Anna also observed the surrounding residential environment.
She was very familiar with this place. She was very familiar with it. After all, on the Crown of the World Island, in an attempt to prevent Charles from going to the sea to die, she had built an identical area on the top of the Crown of the World.
But that method didn't work. Now when I think about it, I was really stupid. I gave so much to him, but how did he repay me in the end
When the real scene appeared in front of her, Anna was suddenly filled with emotion.
"Girl, who are you looking for?" The community security guard wearing reading glasses raised his head out of the pavilion and asked.
Anna turned her head and looked at the building in the distance, "I just gave birth to a child, so I went back to visit my parents."
When the old man heard this, he slowly shrank back and said, "Oh, then come over and register. What are your parents' names and where do you live?"
The guard took out the registration book and pen, but there was no movement. When he looked up again, he found that the man had disappeared. "Huh? That's strange. Where is he?"
At this time, Anna had already arrived at the community. She raised her head, looked at the fifth floor at the top silently for a few seconds, and then walked up the stairs.
As Anna climbed up the stairs step by step, Tuba in her arms seemed to notice something. "How is it? Are you nervous? Are you very nervous now? Have you thought about what you are going to do when you see him for the first time?"
"From your previous attitude, it seems that your attitude towards him is not right. Are you going to torture him? He is just a child now."
With a "pop", Anna stuffed her hand directly into Tuba's mouth, blocking his chattering.
The small advertisements for certificate applications on the wall kept appearing and disappearing, and Anna recalled all the memories of this staircase in Charles' memory.
He was born here and grew up here, and everything here is a memory for him.
She could even see little Charles running down the stairs above, his clothes constantly changing.
Children's clothes, new clothes for the Chinese New Year, old-fashioned blue and white sports uniforms from elementary school, sports uniforms that became dirty from playing football.
The camouflage uniforms for junior high school military training, the blue and white sports uniforms for junior high school, the uniforms that were torn to help my sister,
High school uniform, casual clothes to play with classmates, and dangerous hairstyles that challenge school rules.
Driven by this familiar environment, Anna's gradually forgotten memories slowly revived, and she recalled everything Charles had experienced here.
For some reason, looking at the memory fragments in front of her, Anna felt her heart tremble slightly.
At this moment, she seemed to be connected with Charles' heart and understood his obsession to go home at all costs.
Compared to what I experienced in Dihai, life in this community was almost like heaven.
But when she thought of what he did afterwards, the touch in Anna's heart quickly turned into anger, anger that was about to burn her.
Tuba kept rubbing Anna's fingers with his toothless gums, mumbling something in his mouth.
Anna pulled her hand out and slapped him on the face lightly, and Tuba immediately calmed down.
Anna walked very slowly along the way, but she would eventually reach the five floors.
Anna stood in front of a red security door on the fifth floor. This was Charles' home, the home he had been longing to find at all costs.
Taking a deep breath, Anna reached out and rang the doorbell.
"Beep beep beep~" The doorbell rang, but no one inside opened the door.
Anna frowned slightly and rang the doorbell again, but no one opened the door this time. "It's not a festival, where did this family of four go?"
Just as Anna was about to break in on her own, an old voice came from the bottom of the stairs behind her. "Who are you looking for? Why are you ringing our doorbell?"
When Anna turned her head, she saw an old lady with a basket of vegetables and a stern face. It was obvious at first glance that she was not easy to get along with.
Is she Charles's grandmother? Anna tried to recall, but she really didn't remember Charles's relatives other than himself.
"Hello, I'm here to look for little Gao Zhiming. Is he home?"
"Gao Zhiming? I don't know him! You've come to the wrong place!" The old lady walked up to Anna holding the stair handle, took out the key from her waist and prepared to speak.
"Waaaa~! Waaaa~" Tuba suddenly burst into tears with his face red.
The old lady who was turning the key in the door stopped and said in a very unfriendly tone: "Didn't you see your child was crying because of hunger? How can you be a mother! Hurry up and feed the baby!"
Anna's eyes showed a hint of murderous intent, but she forced herself to calm down. "The child has just been fed. It's okay. I want to ask, is this house yours? Or is it rented from someone else?"
(End of this chapter)