Chapter 187: Picking up all the cold branches and refusing to live on them
When I left the lounge and was about to leave, I heard that the performance in the auditorium was not over yet.
Su Chengyi thought for a moment, and it seemed that they had said before that their "Butterfly Lovers" was the finale, and the last one was the one who was squeezed.
Now that I think about it, it’s the so-called mysterious program.
A little curious, Su Chengyi decided to lean against the door and listen for a while.
The host’s high-pitched voice was making some warm-up previews:
“Students, it’s almost time for the last program of our grand celebration today! Everyone, are you excited or not! Excited or not! Look forward to it! Not looking forward to it!”
Although it was very late, the audience still responded in unison:
“Looking forward to it!”
After all, it’s countdown. The second program can already be said to be a killer, and the last program should be even more exciting, right?
Could it be that some popular youngster was invited to be a guest?
Thinking of this possibility, the audience below couldn't help but become more excited.
"Okay, next we have a mysterious guest perform for us - "Real Hero"!!!"
"Huh?"
"That's what I thought. Why do you have a bad feeling about "Real Hero"?"
"Don't worry, what if Didi Baba comes to sing."
Although the audience had a bad feeling because of this song title, they still had a glimmer of hope.
Su Chengyi was different. He knew the ending the moment he heard the title of the song.
He peeked inside, and sure enough, Principal Xiang quietly disappeared from the judges' table at some point.
The lights on the stage came on at this time.
Principal Xiang is holding the microphone and standing on the stage with an eager smile.
Behind him stood many teachers from the school, including Li Tianwang, who had been thinking about "Real Hero".
“I’m convinced!”
“I knew it.”
“Okay, now you can rush.”
"Those in front move your legs, I'm leaving."
After seeing the people on the stage clearly, the audience's last glimmer of hope was extinguished, and they all stood up to leave early.
"In my heart, there was once a dream. I want to sing to make you forget all the pain!"
Xiang Principal's affectionate but off-key singing is like sending off the audience. , which sounds quite sad.
Looking at the crowd gradually pouring out, Su Chengyi left the auditorium one step ahead.
As he was walking out of school, he couldn't help but think that he had changed a lot during this time.
After experiencing the embarrassing situation just now, his mood was actually not that bad.
It is rare.
Just now in the lounge, after Su Zelang said Zhong Qiuhe's name, the air almost turned solid.
Su Chengyi subconsciously raised his head and glanced at Yangliu.
Her eyes were full of anger that was about to burst out, and her face turned pale with anger.
Although the others did not know the inside story, they were also infected by the frozen atmosphere, and no one spoke for a while.
"Is it possible that you are still in contact with her? Su Zelang, do you still want to be shameless?"
Yang Liu's tone of voice was trembling.
Su Zelang turned around helplessly and looked at her,
"Do you think this is possible? Can you be calmer? You yell when something happens."
"Ha, Su Zelang, are you kidding? Am I not calm enough? I If you weren't so calm, I would have sent you two to see the King of Hell."
"Then you go!"
The two were at war with each other in the next second. .
Su Chengyi glanced at the three frightened children beside him, and interrupted:
"Then if it doesn't work, you can argue somewhere else, okay?"
The two people who got emotional finally calmed down and realized what the occasion was.
Su Zelang was upset, kicked the remains of the flower basket on the ground, sighed and said:
"No matter what you say, Yang Liu, I really didn't do anything to apologize to you back then. It doesn’t matter whether you believe it or not. Regardless of the letter, it’s all over.
I haven’t contacted Zhong Qiuhe again in these years. You hate her, don’t I? She made me lose my family, my children, and so on. Mine.”
At this point, he suddenly paused and did not continue.
Then he took out a cigarette from his pocket with trembling fingers, but did not light it.
After being silent for a long time, he raised his head and looked at Su Chengyi, with a stiff smile:
"Are you going home now? Son, daddy will take you back."
< br>Su Chengyi glanced at Yang Liu, who was on the verge of emotional collapse next to him, and shook his head.
"Did mom drive here?"
Yang Liu took a deep breath and wanted to answer him, but she opened her mouth but no sound came out.
Chen Jinzhi took out a piece of paper from his shirt pocket and handed it to her hand.
Yang Liu took it, covered his eyes with paper to calm down for a while, and then thanked Chen Jinzhi in a soft tone.
“No, your Uncle Ji is waiting outside.”
Uncle Ji is Yang Liu's current husband, and Su Chengyi has not met him yet.
Yang Liu has always known that Su Chengyi resents contact with her new family. She also respects this decision, so she has never allowed them to meet.
For some reason, Su Chengyi imagined an image of a gentle and kind middle-aged man.
In short, it must be contrary to Su Zelang’s image.
After adjusting his emotions, Yang Liu quickly left this place.
After Su Zelang asked Su Chengyi's opinion, he left in a hurry.
The remaining students stared with big eyes.
"There's no need to do this. If you have anything you want to ask, just ask."
Su Chengyi said helplessly as he looked at several people's expressions of embarrassment.
“No, no, no, there’s nothing to ask.”
Han Bing immediately waved his hand and denied it.
This kind of grudge from the previous generation is the most terrifying.
It is said that today's young people are open-minded and precocious. If she were to say it, the emotional dramas of the previous generation must be the most outrageous.
Although no one explained it, with Han Bing's keenness in this area, she had already roughly understood it.
Su’s father, Su’s mother, and Zou Lian’s mother Zhong Qiuhe are old friends.
Then the relationship between Su’s father and Su’s mother broke up because of Zhong Qiuhe!
Today, for some reason, Zhong Qiuhe came to deliver flower baskets to other people’s children, and even wrote a message with unknown meaning.
Zou Lian was very angry because of his mother's behavior, so he went crazy.
Unexpectedly, he kicked the wrong flower basket and smashed the flower basket sent by Su's father. The flower basket sent by Zhong Qiuhe was still there.
This should be almost the process. Han Bing silently went through it in his mind again.
Although she was a little curious, she knew she shouldn't ask such private questions.
Although Su Chengyi looked unconcerned.
“Yes, yes, we are not curious at all!”
Xu Yang immediately helped.
He didn't understand the scene at all.
All I know is that I came on stage after you sang, which was a completely unexpected development for him.
Even if Su Chengyi explains, he probably won't understand it for a while, so he'd better not explain, otherwise he will look stupid.
Su Chengyi knew what Xu Yang was thinking as soon as he saw Xu Yang's clear and stupid expression.
The great wisdom is still the same great wisdom.
“Aunt Yang looks very sad, but it seems that Uncle Su is also aggrieved.”
Chu Qingmian looked worried, even more worried than Su Chengyi, his biological son.
The squad leader’s ability to empathize is really strong.
Only Chen Jinzhi didn't speak. She lowered her head and didn't know what she was thinking.
She is probably the only one here who thinks that this kind of scene is nothing to be embarrassed about. After all, compared with her experience, it can only be said to be nothing.
Su Chengyi walked over the mess on the ground to the flower basket sent by Yang Liu, took down the small card written by Yang Liu and put it into his pocket.
The broken bamboo strips were broken here and there, and several of them were stained with blood. Now they have dried and turned brown, which looks weird.
Anyone who has broken bamboo strips with bare hands should know that there are often sharp and fine thorns on the edges of bamboo strips, which can get stuck into your hands if you are not careful, which is very difficult to deal with.
When Su Chengyi went back to the countryside to play as a child, he suffered a lot of this kind of hardship.
I like to pick up those bamboo sticks and wave them all the way, and accidentally get the small thorns on the edges stuck into my hands.
The small thorn is submerged in most of the skin and only a sharp tip is exposed. It cannot be pulled out even if it is tried.
I thought about letting it stay like that, but when I accidentally touched it, the pain shot straight to the sky.
It can be called torture on earth.
Finally, Yang Liu brought the embroidery needles and said she would pick them out for him.
Su Chengyi, who was born to be fearless, felt panic for the first time.
When he was sick and getting injections, his face remained calm and his heart did not beat, but that was because he knew that the person opposite him was a serious nurse.
The way Yang Liu held the needle didn't look professional at all, and his hands were shaking harder than an 80-year-old woman.
In the end, Su Chengyi ran away, preferring to endure it.
After a while, the wound gradually healed, but the small thorn that had not been treated completely grew into the palm.
At first he would observe that location from time to time, but then gradually forgot about it.
Now looking at the broken bamboo strips on the ground, Su Chengyi suddenly felt that the small thorn in the palm of his hand that had been hidden for many years started to hurt again.
"Instead of worrying about uncles and aunts, let's get back to the topic. Mr. Yi, who took a bite of you?"
As the leader of the lively atmosphere, Xu Yang has always been the most intolerable of everyone's bad atmosphere.
So he decisively brought the matter out again.
Unexpectedly, the atmosphere that was just a little awkward just now dropped to freezing point in an instant.
Okay, why is this a topic that cannot be discussed?
With Su Chengyi's cold glance, Xu Yang immediately shut his mouth and made a decisive move to zip up his zipper.
"Then I'll go home first. Today's performance was a success, thank you all."
Chen Jinzhi said goodbye in an official manner, with an expression on his face that seemed to be a smile but not a smile.
Then he turned around and walked out without mercy.
Su Chengyi watched the corner of her white shirt disappear at the door, and subconsciously raised her feet and took two steps to follow.
Reminded by the heavy weight under his feet, he realized that he was still wearing the indigo robe he wore during the performance.
Aware of the doubtful looks of the remaining three people, he turned around and said slowly:
"I'm going to change clothes."
"Then I'll wait for you for a while. "
As soon as he finished speaking, Chu Qingmian immediately found a small stool and sat down.
Han Bing glared at her with hatred, raised his hand and pulled her up.
“What are you doing——”
Chu Qingmian was swayed and she complained in a longer tone.
Before Han Bing could say anything, Su Chengyi took the initiative and said:
"It's already very late. You go back first. I'll take a taxi later."
"But."
Chu Qingmian muttered something in a low voice.
"Hurry up! I still have something to interrogate you for!"
Unable to reason any more, Han Bing pulled her out and walked out.
"Then send me a message when you get home!"
Chu Qingmian was dragged outside, but she still didn't give up.
Su Chengyi had no choice but to raise his voice and reply:
"Okay."
"Damn it, you guys made me seem like a villain who beats up mandarin ducks."< br>
The two of them walked away some distance away, and Han Bing's angry voice could still be vaguely heard.
Su Chengyi glanced at Xu Yang, who had already occupied the small stool that Chu Qingmian had just found.
Just now, Chu Qingmian didn't feel anything wrong while sitting, but when he sat like this, the legs of the stool were overwhelmed and bent a little.
“You’re not leaving yet?” “Waiting for you.”
“.?”
"Hi, Mr. Yi! It's rare that all the girls have escaped. Let's go out and play string."
It's already ten o'clock in the evening, and Xu Yang is still in high spirits.
“How can you be in such good spirits during evening self-study?”
“Oh! After finishing playing strings today, there will be eight sets of comprehensive science papers tomorrow!”
"That's what you said."
"I said it!"
"Sure."
"I just said it casually, don't take it seriously, Mr. Yi!"
Xu Yang said casually, but Su Chengyi's answer was obviously serious, and he immediately became frightened.
With Su Chengyi's temperament, if he said eight pieces, it must be eight pieces that didn't run away.
He will definitely watch himself finish writing each question.
Su Chengyi walked into the dressing room and had just untied the bow tied by Chu Qingmian around her waist, loosening the tangled belt in circles.
Xu Yang knocked on the door outside and said:
"Hey, Mr. Yi, I'll wait for you at the school gate. The taxi has arrived. I'll go and tell him first."< br>
“.When did you call for a taxi?”
"Hey hey hey."
Before he reached the school gate, he saw Xu Yang's back in the distance. He was holding the person next to him and talking.
Su Chengyi squinted his eyes slightly. The light was too poor, and he still couldn't see who it was.
As I walked in, I realized it was Lin Tong.
“.But I have to get up early tomorrow.”
"Mu Mu, you are confused in your studies. Tomorrow is Saturday."
"I usually get up at 5:30 on Saturdays."
"Hey, you are exaggerating."
Xu Yang seems to be trying to convince Lin Tong to join his Lu Chuan plan.
When Su Chengyi walked to the side, Lin Tong seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw and sent out a signal for help.
"Mr. Yi."
"Hey, Mr. Yi, you came just in time. Help me take this kid with us."
Su Chengyi took a look and was wrapped in Xu Yang's arms. , Lin Tong looked troubled and couldn't express it. , Yun Danfeng said softly:
“Let’s go together.”
Lin Tong was originally full of hope, but he never expected that Su Chengyi would say this. He immediately knew that tonight’s meal There is no escape.
Xu Yang was now satisfied and pulled Lin Tong towards the car.
Su Chengyi also followed slowly.
He did do it on purpose. Lin Tong's mental state and learning state during this period can be described as terrible.
I spend a lot of time studying, but because I am too mentally stressed, my efficiency is not high.
Finding that my efficiency is not high makes me more nervous, so I have to spend more and more time.
Forming a typical vicious circle.
It will be terrible if this continues.
The vehicle started, Xu Yang leaned over from the passenger seat and said with a smile:
"Great, today is boys night."
Back row Neither of them spoke, one was worried and the other expressionless.
Xu Yang didn't care and waved his fist excitedly.
“Today’s barbecue restaurant, let me tell you, is absolutely amazing. The beef and mutton are all fresh, and they taste tender and smooth when you eat them.”
“Young Master Yang, About what time can we go home? I'm afraid my sister is anxious."
Lin Tong looked really panicked, holding her phone tightly.
Xu Yang obviously didn't expect this and was a little stunned.
"How about making a phone call?"
As soon as the words came out, he remembered that Sister Lin couldn't hear him, and hurriedly changed his words:
"Send a text message?!"
Lin Tong pressed his mobile phone, the screen went dark, and it looked like it was out of power.
Su Chengyi glanced at him and handed over his mobile phone.
"No. I helped her set up a blocker for strange text messages."
Lin Tong sighed.
After going to Yang Liu’s house to work, Yang Liu arranged a new smartphone for Lin Zhiwan without any explanation.
By the way, she even changed her mobile phone card package to one with a lot of data, so that she could make video calls at any time.
As the saying goes: "A competent housekeeper will never be missed."
So Sister Lin would answer the call religiously whenever there was a call. Although she couldn't hear it at all, she would slowly type a text message to reply to others.
"Hello!"
"Excuse me, who are you?"
"I type very slowly, sorry."
That's it It took her a long time to type a few sentences each time.
However, the other party usually makes harassing calls or scam calls.
So Lin Tong had to help her set up rejection of unknown numbers and blocking of text messages.
Su Chengyi thought for a while and asked:
"What time does Sister Lin usually go back?"
"Usually she goes back around six o'clock. It will be later on weekends because Aunt Yang will let her have dinner together, probably around eleven o'clock.”
Today, Friday, Su Chengyi hesitated for a while and then called Yang Liu.
Yang Liu obviously pinned his message to the top of his list and picked it up in almost a second.
The lights over there are brightly lit. It looks like the living room at home, with gorgeous decoration.
“Hello? Xiaoyi?”
Yang Liu’s face could no longer see the traces of his previous emotional breakdown, and he said with a smile.
"Mom."
Su Chengyi said hello. Seeing that the picture on his side was dark, he specifically moved the angle.
"What's the matter? Haven't you gone home yet?"
"Well, I went out to eat with my friends."
"Oh, that's okay. Normally. You just need to go out with friends more often to relax, and you can’t always be at school and home”
Seeing that Yang Liu was about to start a tirade again, Su Chengyi quickly interrupted:
"Is Sister Lin home?"
Yang Liu obviously didn't expect that he would ask this. He was stunned for a moment, stood up and went to A look in the kitchen.
"Not yet, but I'm going home soon. What's the matter? Brother Lin is asking?"
Yang Liu knew that Lin Tong and Su Chengyi had a good relationship, so he subconsciously guessed this.
"Let her pick up the video."
"Okay."
Yang Liu stood up immediately, and the scene changed from the mahogany floor in the living room to the white tiles in the kitchen.
When the camera showed Lin Zhiwan in front of the sink, Su Chengyi burst into laughter.
She seemed to be busy with something in her hands, and the lit screen of her mobile phone suddenly came in front of her, frightening her.
Even though her face was pale, she was still as beautiful as a frightened deer in the forest.
She must have just finished making some flour products and was washing her hands. Her hands may have been washed, but there were still several white flour marks on her face.
After seeing Su Chengyi on the other side of the screen, Lin Zhiwan's eyes lit up. She just looked at the boy in front of her whom she had not seen for a long time, and did not notice anything unusual on her face in the lower left corner of the screen.
It was difficult to sign with a mobile phone. Su Chengyi looked around and happened to find Lin Tong waiting to report to her sister that she was safe.
“Get the phone for me.”
Lin Tong thought Su Chengyi handed the phone over to let him say something to his sister, but he didn't expect that he was just using it as a phone stand.
Freeing his hands, Su Chengyi gestured:
"Hello, Sister Lin."
Yang Liu over there also helped Lin Zhiwan hold the phone, and Lin Zhiwan gestured with some fear. "Thank you." After receiving relief from the other party, he greeted Su Chengyi again.
"Lin Tong will play with us tonight and we will send him back later, don't worry."
Having said this, Su Chengyi stretched out his hand and opened the lens, showing the people in the car to Lin Zhiwan.
Xu Yang waved hello immediately when he saw the camera. When he saw the person on the other side of the screen, he couldn't help but sigh:
"Wow, Sister Lin is so beautiful."< br>
Sister Lin couldn’t hear it anyway, Xu Yang’s decibel level was very high.
The camera finally showed Lin Tong, he gestured and said:
"Don't worry."
Lin Zhiwan nodded immediately to show that she understood.
She has always felt at ease when Tongtong was with someone like Su Chengyi.
Originally, the conversation could have ended here, but Lin Zhiwan’s harmless eyes were still looking at the screen.
So Su Chengyi froze when he was about to press the button to hang up.
He could probably guess what she was expecting.
But after thinking about it, he still didn’t mention that incident, but said:
“There is something on his face.”
Lin Zhiwan was stunned for a moment, and then from I saw my slightly embarrassed face on the screen of my mobile phone.
She immediately shook her head in panic at Yang Liu who was holding the mobile phone, and then fled away from the camera.
When Yang Liu came back into the camera, she was still laughing.
"Mom, please tell Sister Lin later and leave my mobile phone number. Lin Tong's mobile phone is out of battery."
"Okay, okay, where are you three going to play? Yeah? Do you still have money? Do you want mom to transfer some to you?"
Yang Liu found a chair and sat down, and then asked Su Chengyi the most familiar sentence.
Just when Su Chengyi was about to answer, Xu Yang, the co-pilot, couldn’t wait to shout:
"No need for auntie! I have money!"
Xu Yang can always create a feeling: "He is obviously talking alone but it sounds like two hundred people."
Others have long been used to it, but the driver’s eardrums obviously couldn’t bear it, and he silently turned on the car music.
"Yangyang, Auntie treats you to a meal, don't mess around."
"No, no, no, Auntie, I am really rich, look!"
Xu Yang quickly took out a handful of red banknotes from his pocket, much like a silly son of a landlord showing off his family property.
Yang Liu on the other side was obviously amused. She was about to say something when a child's voice called mother suddenly sounded from the other side.
She just paused for a moment, and Su Chengyi immediately understood and turned the camera back.
“Go and do your work.”
“Okay, I’ll tell my mother when I get home later.”
"Yeah."
Su Chengyi waved his hand and hung up the video.
The noisy environment suddenly became quiet, and only a hoarse and deep male voice could be heard singing on the car music:
“When the thread of memory is entangled and the past is fragmented,
It's panic that takes over my heart
There are flowers accompanying butterflies, lone wild geese can fly together,
and they linger alone in the dead of night.
When happy lovers send red messages to share their joy,
I close my eyes and feel sad and don’t dare to look back.
Still picking up all the cold branches and refusing to rest, with a hint of regret,
Who should I miss in Lonely Sandbank?"
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