“I thought you won’t answer my call anymore.”
“How come.” I held the trunk of the tree, the sunlight fell through the gap between the leaves on the back of my hand, and I looked at the two white lights on the back of my hand in a daze.
“Qiao Yi ran to me that day.”
“Ok.”
“She said you want me to withdraw the case.”
“Ok.”
“Why, you don’t want to divorce Xi Qingchuan?”
“These are two things.” I saw Xi Qingchuan standing in the bright sun discussing with a few engineers. The sun was shining on him, as if the cylindrical chasing light above the stage was shining only on him.
“In my opinion, it’s one piece.”
“One boat.” Regarding this topic, we broke up unhappy last time. I don’t want to engage in unnecessary quarrels: “Divorce is inevitable, but the entry point is wrong. Xi Qingchuan will get divorced sooner or later.”
“Xiao Sheng.” Ni Yizhou called my name.
“Yeah.” I subconsciously responded.
“If you want to get rid of Xi Qingchuan, you must make him hate you. Why do you care about his reputation so much?”
“Because the origin of everything is me, I just seek inner stability.”
“Really?” Ni Yizhou paused: “If this is the case, I will do everything you want me to do.”
“Thank you.” I sighed slightly: “Thank you, Yizhou.”
“I don’t accept your thanks, because I don’t accept you thanking me for Xi Qingchuan.” Ni Yizhou’s voice sounded a little dull on the phone, as if it could be blown away by a gust of wind.
I planned to say goodbye to Ni Yizhou, and he said, “Xiao Sheng, my mother has come to Huacheng.”
“Ah.” I was a little excited, and my voice changed tones: “Auntie is here.”
“Well, she really wants to see you.”
“I miss her, too.” I said, “but I won’t be able to go back in a few days.”
“She will live in my house temporarily, you are busy with you, and you can see you at any time.”
“Okay, I will look for you when I go back.”
“Ok.”
“Goodbye.”
I took the phone away from my ear, but I heard Ni Yizhou say on the phone: “Xiao Sheng, my mother thought we are together now.”
Although the phone was a little away from my ears, and his words were not so clear, I still heard them.
I put the phone in my ear again: “What?”
“My mother thought we were together and were getting married.”
“Yizhou, you know I am now…”
“My mother’s condition is not very good recently.” Ni Yizhou interrupted me slowly.
“What does it mean to be in bad condition?”
“Alzheimer’s disease.”
My heart sank, just like the sunset I saw on the boat last night, and fell below the sea level.
“How come, Auntie is still young.”
“This kind of disease, sometimes regardless of age, may be a big blow to my mother by the death of my father, so her mental state is very confused, she can’t remember many things, but she remembers you.”
“Yizhou.” I wiped my eyes, wet under them: “I will look for you as soon as I return to Huacheng.”
“Xiao Sheng, I have no way to explain some things to my mother.”
“I know I know.”
After hanging up Ni Yizhou’s call, my mood became very depressed.
When a person grows up, one of the worst things is to watch the relatives around him grow old and lose their former demeanor.
Everyone is the same, afraid of change, afraid of becoming unrecognizable, and they don’t know themselves.
I stood holding the tree for a long time, and heard the sound of Xiao Shi.
“Xiao Sheng.”
I looked back at her, she was standing in the sunshine not far from me holding an umbrella: “I called you several times.”
“Sorry, I was in a daze just now.”
She walked up to me and handed me a tissue.
I took it over and was a little stunned: “Huh?”
“You are crying.”
Really, I touched my face and I really cried.
My tears are quite high, but sometimes I cry suddenly.
I thanked her for wiping away the tears with a tissue, Xiao Shi was looking at me: “Xiao Sheng, did what I told you today made you stressed?”
“No, I’m not crying because of this.”
“That’s good,” she walked over, and handed me a tissue: “I think Xi Qingchuan seems to have changed, becoming different from before.”
I looked at her blankly: “Where is it different?”
“He used to laugh so much, and I rarely saw him laugh after I fell in love with him for so long.”
Is that right? I think Xi Qingchuan still laughs a lot in front of me, sometimes he can turn over the back of the sofa chair.
Maybe, he was very happy when he laughed at me, he wouldn’t laugh at Xiao Shi.
I was thinking about how I should answer, and Xi Qingchuan had already strode towards us.
Bai Yu said: “It’s time to have lunch. We have an engineer here who is a local. He invited us to his house for lunch.”
Xi Qingchuan walked to my side and glanced at me: “What’s the matter?”
“Ok?”
“Why cry?” His thumb stroked under my eyes: “What’s the matter?”
“It’s nothing, the wind just started, and the sand fascinated my eyes.” I pointed to the beach not far away.
He curled his eyebrows: “Can’t you change it for another reason?”
“Sand is really lost.”
He turned around and asked Xiao Shi: “Really?”
Xiao Shi said faintly: “I just came, and she was already crying when I came.”
I thought it would pass soon, but Xi Qingchuan is really terrifying.
On the way to the engineer’s house, he kept asking me, “Why are you crying?”
I was so annoyed by him that I simply said, “Because of you.”
“Well?”
“Because your public relations are so perfect, I’m afraid that one day the public relations will be over and I will not be used to it.”
He pressed my shoulder to look at me carefully, and his scrutiny gaze slid over my face: “If this is the case, you don’t have to worry about it.”
“Ok?”
“You flatter me a little bit, I can spend a longer time on PR.”
“Hey.” I looked out the window with my elbows on my elbows and my cheeks on the side of the car window. I found that the houses of the islanders here had been renovated and looked brand new in the sun.
“It’s changed here.” I murmured.
“how?”
“It has become too new.” I sighed: “Too perfect, the breath of life is gone.”
He broke my head and looked into my eyes: “Really?”
“The old ones are old, but the real life of the islanders is like this. These seem to be posing and fake.”
With his free eyes, he was thinking seriously, Bai Yu sat opposite us this time, and Xiao Shi sat in the co-pilot.
He suddenly said to Bai Yu: “How many houses are still not being renovated?”
“Sixty percent.”
“Stop it, that’s it.”
“Yes.”
“Xi Qingchuan.” I was taken aback: “Actually, my opinion is not that important.”
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