After Mr. Liu took Lele and Fu Jia upstairs, they went to the kitchen to make dinner. She was in a good mood and even hummed a little tune.
Teacher Liu's husband took the opportunity to sneak out of the kitchen, walked to the living room, and saw that Fu Jia was already skillfully sitting with Lele and playing with building blocks.
Lele likes to play with building blocks, but he is not happy to play with his grandpa. He disliked his grandfather's slowness and slowness, and disliked him being arbitrary, always making the blocks the way he wanted.
"Mr. Tang." Fu Jia greeted him. Teacher Liu's husband's surname is Tang, which Fu Jia has been calling him all these years.
"Yeah." Mr. Tang nodded at him. Although he wasn't his teacher, he acted like a teacher, "Have you, Mr. Liu, told you about Lele?"
"I said it." Fu Jia said, "if both you and Mr. Liu trust me and Lele is willing to live with me, I will do my best to help you and Mr. Liu take care of Lele."
When Mr. Tang heard him say this, he immediately understood that Mr. Liu must have asked Fu Jia in a tone that was absolutely necessary for him. Fu Jia will probably pity them as a lonely old couple. They have no children by their side, want to go out to play, can't find anyone to help take care of their grandson, and trouble him, an outsider who is not a relative or an acquaintance...
Teacher Tang sighed. Instead of demolishing his wife's platform, he asked Lele as agreed: "Lele, would you like to live with Uncle Fu for a week?"
Lele hugged the building blocks, glanced at Fu Jia, and smiled shyly: "I know, grandpa wants to go out to play with grandma, it doesn't matter, you go, Lele can play with Uncle Fu."
Teacher Tang: …
He turned around, walked back to the kitchen with his hands behind his back, and said to Teacher Liu, "Buy me a plane ticket."
Teacher Liu smiled happily: "You agree? Don't worry, although Fu Jia has never brought children, as long as he has the will to do it, he will definitely be able to do it well."
Seeing her complacent, Teacher Tang shook her head helplessly as if she was showing off her son.
After dinner, Mr. Liu took out Lele's daily necessities that he had packed up before, and stuffed them into Fu Jia's hands, while telling Fu Jia about the precautions for taking care of Lele.
Teacher Tang stood beside him and kept talking: "Why so rush, don't we leave in three days?"
Teacher Liu retorted him: "I just want to let Fu Jia and Lele get along for two days before we leave, so that we can solve any problems."
After everything was explained clearly, Fu Jia walked in front with his things, Mr. Liu led Lele half a step behind, and Mr. Tang reluctantly walked in the back, sending Lele out together.
They looked very close like a family. A neighbor met them and asked in surprise, "Mr. Liu, has your son returned from abroad?"
Teacher Liu smiled and said, "No, it's my student, but some people always recognize him as my son. Maybe we look a bit alike."
Neighbors also laughed: "It's a bit similar, it's fate."
Teacher Liu turned to look at Fu Jia and deepened his smile.
They walked slowly to the parking lot of the community and found Fu Jia's second-hand Santana. The car was allotted to him by Fu Jia's company. His requirements and needs for cars are not high, so he has been using it for so many years without changing to a new car.
Mr. Liu held Lele, opened the rear door, and found that a child safety seat was installed inside. She was stunned, and so was Teacher Tang.
Fu Jia put the things in the trunk, and seeing that they were all stunned at the door of the car, he said, "I installed the seat according to the instructions. Logically, Lele can sit in it. If not, I will adjust it again."
"No." Mr. Liu quickly carried Lele into the seat and buckled the seat belt. Lele's kindergarten is close to home, and he usually walks to school. He has never had a similar experience except for the safety seat beside his parents when he was a baby, so at this moment, he is very fresh, shaking his legs happily, and rushing to his grandparents. Smile.
"You have a heart." Teacher Tang said.
Fu Jia smiled and said modestly, "It should be."
Mr. Liu looked at him at the moment, and for some reason, he seemed to see Lu Qi'an's shadow in a trance.
Confused in her heart, she quickly looked away and said to Lele: "Be good at Uncle Fu's house, grandma will come to pick you up in a week, if you miss grandma and grandpa, let Uncle Fu make a video with grandma on WeChat. ,OK?"
Lele left home for the first time, but she was not timid at all, nor was she sticky and unwilling to leave her relatives, and said cheerfully, "Okay, bye bye, grandma."
Teacher Liu smiled and kissed him before closing the door.
Fu Jia was standing in front of her, she could see clearly, but she still remembered the illusion just now, and was a little uneasy.
"Fu Jia, call me if you have anything, you know?" she said.
Fu Jia nodded: "Don't worry, I won't turn off the machine 24 hours a day these days."
Mr. Liu replied hello, watched him get into the car, and left with Lele.
Teacher Liu stared blankly at the direction the car was leaving, and asked her husband, "Do you think Fu Jia looks like a person now?"
Because of the safety seat, Mr. Tang has made a big difference to Fu Jia: "I think he is meticulous in his work and treats people well. He looks like you."
"It doesn't look like me." Teacher Liu smiled bitterly and said, "I think... He looks more and more like Qi An."
Fu Jia lived in a single apartment, 40 square meters, with one bedroom and one living room with kitchen and bathroom, and it was very compactly arranged.
In Lele's imagination, he went from his own home to Uncle Fu's house. Since they are both homes, they should be similar, but after arriving, he found out that this home is small, just as small as his stature, and there is no family at home. Grandma and grandpa, this made him suddenly a little overwhelmed.
Fu Jia was packing Lele's things, and when he saw him wriggling uncomfortably on the sofa, he walked up to him, squatted down and looked at him: "What was Lele doing at home this time yesterday?"
Lele looked around, trying to find a clock to tell the time. He didn't know how to read a watch yet, but based on the position of the hands, he could roughly understand what time it was.
Fu Jia didn't tell him the time directly, but picked up the clock in the living room and placed it in a position similar to Mr. Liu's living room according to his memory.
Lele saw the time clearly and said, "Yesterday, grandma told Lele to stop watching TV, take Lele to take a bath, tell stories after bathing, and then fall asleep after telling Lele."
"Okay." Fu Jia picked him up with one hand and took him to the bathroom to take a shower.
This is the first time Fu Jia has helped a child take a bath. After putting in hot water, he deliberately reviewed the information he checked beforehand, and measured the water temperature with a thermometer before putting Lele in the bathtub.
Lele seemed to be able to feel Fu Jia's strangeness and nervousness. She didn't cry or make trouble during the whole process, and was very cooperative. When Fu Jia helped him put on pajamas, he also offered to wear them himself.
Children who grow up surrounded by love, even if they are very young, know how to care for the people around them.
Fu Jia packed up the only bedroom in the house and used it as Lele's room, while she was going to sleep on the folding sofa in the living room.
He took the fairy tale book and sat beside Lele's bed to coax him to sleep, because his tone was flat, and he didn't add lively and interesting expressions and movements like Mr. Liu. He yawned and fell asleep before reading a few pages of Lele.
Fu Jia put down the book, tucked the quilt on Lele, and walked out of the room softly.
"Uncle Fu." Lele rubbed his eyes and stopped him sleepily, "Can you not close the door, I'm afraid."
Fu Jia agreed to come down and sat back on the bed to watch over him until he was completely asleep before leaving.
Lele fell asleep, but Fu Jia was far from resting time. He chatted with Teacher Liu on WeChat for a while, and then turned on the computer to handle the work.
In addition to working in a sales company, he also co-operated with colleagues to open an online store, which is not large in scale. He just used the remaining resources in his hand to make some extra money.
This colleague, Gao Xing, helped him a lot. When he first joined the company, because of his education and experience, he was always at the bottom of the company. It was Gao Xing, who was his boss at the time, who extended a helping hand to him, taught him hand-in-hand, helped him secure a place for further education in the company, introduced him to clients, and gave him a lot of stable client resources that gave him room for advancement. If it weren't for Gao Xing's help, maybe he is still struggling at the bottom.
Fu Jia turned on the computer and continued to work until midnight. He habitually touched the cigarette case on the table and felt empty.
No, there are children at home, he can't smoke anymore.
He braced his head and endured the craving for a long time, so he went out with a cigarette and a key and went downstairs to smoke.
In the past seven years, his smoking addiction has been heavy and light, and the most serious is that he has to smoke three packs a day. Now the situation is getting better, at most three sticks a day, at least one stick, not too addictive, just get into the habit, you can't quit.
After smoking half a stick, he snuffed out the cigarette butt and returned home.
In the room, Lele fell asleep peacefully. Fu Jia looked at his peaceful sleeping face and stood for a while, then came back to his senses, went to the bathroom to wash up, and cleaned up the housekeeping by the way.
Considering that Lele might wake up at night, he left night lights outside the bedroom and in the living room, lying on the folding sofa in the living room, skillfully tucked his hands into his arms, protected his abdomen, and huddled tightly into a ball.
I don't know when it started, he was only able to fall asleep in this way.
The quiet night didn't know until what time. Lele didn't sleep deeply because he recognized the bed, and woke up after turning over a few times. Indistinctly, he heard strange noises from outside the room.
He was a little scared, rubbed his eyes, and climbed out of bed on his hands and feet, trying to find Fu Jia.
The small night light outside pointed out Fu Jia's position. He leaned on the wall and approached, but the strange sound became louder and louder.
It was extremely oppressive, vague, like the whimpering of a wounded animal in the throat. Mr. Liu took Lele to the pet store. He had seen an injured puppy. He couldn't remember how the puppy barked at that time, but when he heard the whimper, he instantly thought of the puppy.
With the weak light of the night light, Lele saw the mottled tears on Fu Jia's face. His eyes were closed, and he was still asleep, but weeping wet a large pillow, clasped his arms tightly, and kept whimpering.
Lele's nose was sour, and she didn't dare to come closer. She turned and ran back to the room, buried herself in the quilt, and whimpered softly like Fu Jia.
He was very scared and sad, so sad that even if he didn't know anything or experienced anything, he felt a heavy sadness.
He didn't dare to wake Fu Jia, so he lay on the bed crying and crying, tired from crying, and slowly fell asleep again.
The next morning, Fu Jia behaved as usual, got up early to prepare breakfast for Lele, then went to the room to wake Lele, took him to wash, and changed him into kindergarten clothes.
Lele looked at the normal Uncle Fu in front of him strangely, suspecting that what he saw last night was just a nightmare, so he said, "Uncle Fu, Lele has a nightmare."
Fu Jia asked him, "What did you dream about?"
Lele opened his hands and asked Fu Jia to carry him to the chair, and said loudly, "Lele dreamed that Uncle Fu was crying!"
Fu Jia's hands froze, and he smiled unnaturally: "Well... why does Lele have such nightmares?"
Lele shook his head and said, "I don't know, but Uncle Fu cried so sadly, and then Lele cried too."
Fu Jia lowered his eyes and said in a soft tone, "Maybe... this is uncle's bad habit. Just like Lele's habit of washing his hands before eating, his uncle also has a habit, but Lele's is a good habit, while his uncle's is a bad habit. ."
"Bad habits?" Lele didn't quite understand.
"Yes, bad habits." Fu Jia said, "It's a bad thing for people to have bad habits, so my uncle hopes Lele can help keep it a secret and don't tell grandma."
Lele nodded understandingly, feeling that although Fu Jia was laughing, it made him feel a little uncomfortable.
He thought of something, and said a little embarrassedly: "Uncle Fu has bad things, but also good things. Uncle builds building blocks very well, and uncle is different from others. Grandma's other friends will ask Lele when they see Lele. Happy parents, but Uncle Fu doesn't ask."
Fu Jia smiled.
He knew why Lele praised him. Although the child is ignorant, he also knows that when the people around him are sad, they should appreciate him and agree with him.
"Don't Lele like people asking about mom and dad?" Fu Jia asked.
"Yeah." Lele said with clear eyes, "because they asked, it seems that parents don't love Lele anymore, but they love Lele very much. Although they are not at home, they have always loved Lele. ah."
Although the person who loves you is not with you, he will not stop loving you.
All children who grow up surrounded by love will not doubt this.
Fu Jia closed his eyes and felt a tingling pain in his chest.
he knows...
He knows.