The day of the breakup.
Gui Xiao made the call in the lobby of the Telecom Bureau opposite the school gate.
The public telephone set for IC card, there are six telephones lined up beside the floor-to-ceiling glass window on one side of the hall of the telecommunications bureau, and there are people. Gui Xiao waited in line, and when the self-study started in the evening, an aunt finally gave up her seat.
She sat on the black leather seat, inserted the IC card into the slot, and dialed the number she knew by heart.
four months.
When I made a phone call, it was because the person was not in the army, or it was inconvenient to answer the phone. It's rare to get in touch, she complains, but he doesn't speak... Now she's scared to call him, and many times she regrets it after hanging up. Why has her temper been like this these past few months? Sentence with thorns.
She wanted to say, Lu Chen had an accident at my house...
She wanted to say, I'm at home every day, watching my parents get divorced, and seeing that girl. I used to admire my dad, but now I hate him and pity my mom. I can’t sleep at night, I don’t understand in class, and every subject teacher asks me to talk…
I want to say more tonight, I said to report my dad, he threw all my things out.
There were a lot of words in his heart, but he couldn't come back.
After waiting for a long time, he finally appeared on the other end of the phone: "Gui Xiao? Is there an emergency?"
She heard him panting slightly, tears streaming down her face: "Is it inconvenient to call you so late?"
He didn't deny it: "It's okay, hurry up, it's okay."
She waited in line for 40 minutes, and immediately went to study at night, and she didn't have time to go to the cafeteria to buy dinner...
"Gui Xiao?" Lu Chen whispered his name.
"I want to hear you, can you talk a little more?" Gui Xiao said softly, sniffing his nose, and rummaging through the tissue in the pocket of his school skirt, no... He was forced to wipe his tears with the back of his hands, feeling extremely embarrassed, " I miss you, Lu Chen."
"Have a cold? Fever and cold?"
"A bit."
"Go buy some medicine, okay?"
"Um… "
A person from the pay phone behind saw Gui Xiao curled up, her head resting on the plastic board next to the phone, crying, and she refused to cry out, so she looked around to watch the excitement.
"Why didn't you talk?" He paused for a while, "If it's all right, I'll hang up first. Remember to buy medicine."
"... Don't hang up?"
"I'll find you after the training camp, and then wait for another three months."
"Lu Chen, don't you hang up? I haven't had a good conversation with you for almost four months..."
"… "
She couldn't hold back and cried.
Over the past four months, I heard her cry too many times, one in Beijing and the other in the frontier, completely helpless. He doesn't understand, and he has no way of persuading her. Hearing the microphone, she cried so hard that she couldn't help herself, she cried to the point of choking. She really didn't understand why she couldn't speak properly.
"Gui Xiao, can you be more sensible?"
"...No, why should anyone want me to be sensible?"
He was in the phone booth, his hands clenched into fists and pressed against the frosted glass, trembling slightly from his forearm to his hands. The whole figure is like a string that is lowered and stretched, being pressed down infinitely... In her cry, she forced herself to calm down, and then calm down: "Hang up, when I finish training—"
"Lu Chen, if you dare to hang up my phone again, there will be no next time... You don't want to see me again in your life... "
As long as I think of this clip, the blind tone in the microphone is still clear in my ears.
But he didn't say that it was he who pressed it, and Gui Xiao threw the microphone in a fit of anger.
When this line is broken, it will be nearly nine years.
***
Xu Yao and Gui Xiao's father returned to Beijing on the same day.
Before leaving, the father-in-law went to the ward to meet Lu Yanchen alone, followed by the leaders from the two bases. Gui Yuanshan still held the tone of a superior, and did not want to see in front of outsiders that his father-in-law had special treatment to his son-in-law. Lu Yanchen used to be businesslike, waiting for the two leaders and father-in-law to end their condolences.
Gui Yuanshan held his hand: "It's hard work."
Their eyes met, and Gui Yuanshan patted the back of Lu Yanchen's hand again.
That night, Gui Xiao took her daughter to see her father.
Since the baby was still too small, she didn't dare to carry the small body that she could hold with both hands, so she asked the nurse to help push the small baby box with roller wheels to show him. Under the guidance of the nurse, Lu Yanchen learned how to hold a baby, but he was more careful than when he was dismantling a bomb. After holding it for a while, he was afraid that he would not be able to sit still and fall his daughter, so he carefully handed it back to Gui Xiao.
The first time I became a father, although the posture of holding it was very unsightly, it was considered a real hug.
Lu Yanchen is in good physical condition and will soon be able to get out of the hospital bed.
He was seriously injured on his back, but he also suffered a lot of injuries, and his leg was broken. He had to ask the nurse to take him to surprise his wife. The nurse was also a caring person. After taking him into the ward, he agreed to pick him up after an hour, so he made room for the young couple.
Inside the door, the curtain beside the hospital bed was half-covered, and I could see Gui Xiao's feet up and down, hooking the transparent baby box, mumbling, presumably she wanted to sing a lullaby, but she couldn't. , right there posing.
Lu Yanchen pushed the wheelchair over, picked up the curtain, and saw that she was drinking milk tea with a big straw. The lullaby that was out of tune and the words were incomplete came to an abrupt end, she was surprised: "Can you get out of bed?"
"Can I drink milk tea for confinement?" This is what he cares about.
"Yes, I will drink a lot of this milk."
She put the paper cup of milk tea on the bedside table and moved the little baby box to him.
The little girl opened her eyes and kicked her legs seriously. Unique rhythm.
"Yesterday I was surprised, she didn't even laugh, and after I've thought about it, I want to follow you, I can't stand it," Gui Xiao was lying on the hospital bed, pressing his arms on the edge of the baby box, "the doctor said, at least It will take a month to laugh."
He reached his right hand to his daughter's face and lightly scratched the little face with his fingertips.
The daughter stopped, without warning, and burst into tears.
…
"... I'm hungry." Gui Xiao comforted Lu Yanchen based on his experience as a mother for a few days.
She hugged her daughter skillfully, but just as she was about to breastfeed, she felt something was wrong.
Lu Yanchen had an attitude of "yes, I can finally see how to breastfeed", and calmly leaned back on the wheelchair and waited to see. "What's so beautiful... Turn around, turn around." She was embarrassed when the doctor taught her how to breastfeed, and slammed in front of Lu Yanchen—not to mention.
Lu Yanchen raised his eyebrows slightly, but did not move.
As a newly promoted young mother, Gui Xiao made a decisive choice, closed the curtain, and turned her back to hide from him.
Across a curtain, the cry disappeared.
It was quiet in the ward, and a big clock on the wall was dutifully counting the minutes for them. Lu Yanchen thought that in two or three days, the shyness of Gui Xiaogang's mother would fade, and it would not be too late to watch. So, I sat in a wheelchair boredly, listening to the movement of the second hand walking, to conceive the picture behind the curtain—
"That Xu Yao," he asked suddenly, "how did you two know each other?"
After so many years of being empty, he really didn't know what kind of friends Gui Xiao had made between high school and work. Except for Qin Mingyu's girlfriend who suddenly fell from the sky, he had no chance to know about Gui Xiao's circle. Especially this Xu Yao, it seems, is too special.
"High school classmate." Gui Xiao said behind the curtain.
One second, two seconds, three seconds—
A pair of big black eyes appeared from behind the curtain, and asked softly, "Are you jealous? He already has a wife, didn't he tell you?" Lu Yanchen seemed not to understand: "I thought he was with you. kinship."
Gui Xiao looked at him suspiciously, but Lu Yanchen frowned, and said sternly, "Go and breastfeed."
... just jealous. Don't care if it's flying vinegar or not.
Gui Xiao took a mouthful of honey, and then went behind the curtain: "Didn't my mother get sick when I was in high school? He helped me and asked his father to operate on my mother. His father was the most authoritative doctor in the industry at that time. "The kindness of dripping water is reciprocated by the spring, so even if there is no close contact for so many years, as long as he asks to borrow money, Gui Xiao will definitely help.
Gui Xiao didn't like to mention those years.
She held her baby behind the curtain and groped to find the mobile phone, handed it out through the curtain, and gave Lu Yanchen: "My mother called me this morning. She said that she was an elder, and she couldn't take the initiative to call for the first time and asked you to call me back. After a phone call, you look for it, and it's the first one in the call record. My mother is a serious person, much more serious than my father, so I'll give you a vaccination first... "
She didn't talk much about her parents, and she was closer to her mother. He also listened to her when he was a child. Her mother was a diplomat, and she was very serious. Time is afraid of being airsick; and my parents met on a blind date, and they formed a family because of the same ideal for the revolutionary cause. From this, Gui Xiao came to the conclusion from a young age that free love is bigger than the sky—
Lu Yanchen rummaged through the call records, and for a moment, he was about to be cramped by his mother-in-law's "army parade".
Think about it, or out of the ward.
Gui Xiao's ward was at the end of the corridor, facing the window.
Out of politeness, he dialed from his own phone. After a long waiting tone, the other party picked up: "Hello, hello."
Is it auntie? Not quite.
Lu Yanchen called out "Mom" in a prudent manner, his throat was astringent, and then he said, "I'm Lu Yanchen, hello, I'm sorry to talk to you so late."
It was the first time that the elder over there was called Mom by a young man, after a long pause, he smiled.
What Lu Yanchen didn't expect was that Gui Xiao's mother first mentioned the evacuation of overseas Chinese, saying that she heard someone say that without the cover of Lu Yanchen and his colleagues, the chances of the two little girls dying are very high. : "Thank you, Xiaolu, thank you." The successive thanks made Lu Yanchen speechless, and he was about to reply to serve the people...
The other party returned to the topic: "Xiaoxiao's father and I have disagreed since the beginning, and I have no objection to the matter between you two. At that time, Xiaoxiao showed me a lot of your high school examination papers, saying that you are the best in Chinese. These are all model essays in the class. I knew she wanted to hear me compliment you, and she read it carefully. It was very good, and I could see that you are a child with a high temperament and ambition. Later, Xiaoxiao said that she separated from you, I also feel very sorry.”
Another unexpected statement.
He likes to read various books to pass the time since he was a child, and he is indeed good in Chinese, even in the abandoned junior high school and high school one. At the end of the college entrance examination, Gui Xiao collected all his Chinese test papers in the third year of senior high school for the purpose of "study". He also thought that it was just a little girl's mind to keep some memories.
In his 30th year, it was an indescribable feeling to receive such praise from an elder whom he had never met before. some weird...
The call lasted a considerable amount of time, and he went back to the ward.
Gui Xiao had already finished breastfeeding, and just finished eating the small half cup of pearl milk tea left over before breastfeeding. Seeing Lu Yanchen, he asked anxiously, "Why are you and my mother talking so much? What did you say?"
Lu Yanchen repeated it in general, and when Gui Xiao heard the word "compose", he hugged the pillow and smiled: "Don't look at me like that, I just think your writing is good," she recalled and told him, "You three If it was written on the paper, I also used it for the college entrance examination."
It's a pity that she didn't understand the meaning when they were together, but she understood the meaning behind the words that year: life is ignorant and hard work.