my neighbors

Chapter 17

Okay, mom said you can't ask for other people's money. "A five-year-old girl is shockingly sensible.

Seeing Mrs. Hu and me rushing over, Si Mu raised his hand and said, "Sister-in-law Hu, I bought this as a gift for Xiaoai."

Mrs. Hu didn't put down too much pretentiously, a pot of flowers is not very expensive, so she patted Xiao Ai's head: "Then thank you brother quickly." Xiao Ai seemed to be very repulsed by the normal interaction between Mrs. Hu's mother and daughter. He was also very afraid, but he still obediently said to Si Mu, "Thank you brother."

During the subsequent trip, Xiao Ai kept holding the pot of sunflower seedlings, stumbling behind us.I was surprised that Mrs. Hu didn't intend to help bear the flower pots, which made me feel embarrassed to ask Ying to help Xiao Ai get the flower pots.His mother didn't move, so if I moved, I had no intention of doing so.

I asked Xiaoai why she liked this potted flower so much and insisted on holding it.Xiao Ai smiled at me: "Because... I have never met my father. When I was very young, I only remembered a pot of sunflowers left by my father before he left. For me, the sunflower is my father." She His smile was extremely stiff, his eyes seemed to have no focus, and he didn't know which direction he was looking in.

Xiao Ai's father works outside the home all the year round and has not been back for more than six years.Thinking of this, I felt a little more pity for Xiao Ai.

Si Mu seemed to have returned to his cold and silent look, and I didn't dare to ask him, and I didn't even dare to strike up a conversation.In order to eliminate the embarrassing atmosphere, I was looking for things to talk about all the way, and I was embarrassed to say it, because I was deliberately avoiding him.

When I got home, I was so tired that I fell directly on the sofa, unable to say anything, my head sank to death, and the pain from the hangover hadn't left me.But my thinking is very clear, my mind is full of Si Mu's figure, and I have been unable to fall asleep.

"哐——!" There seemed to be the sound of something breaking from the next door to me, and I jumped off the sofa all of a sudden.It should have been mentioned earlier that the 404 next door to my house is the home of Mrs. Hu.Startled, I pressed my ear against the wall reflexively.I feel like a perverted eavesdropper right now.However, the effect of this posture is quite good. I heard a faint scolding sound from the other side of the wall, and the tone seemed to be very angry.Why is Mrs. Hu so angry today? You won't be stingy about a pot of flowers, will you?If not for flowers, then what?

After the crackling and cursing, the next door fell into dead silence again. I had a bad feeling in my heart, but how can I take care of other people's affairs?So I chose to pretend I didn't hear it.But if I travel to the present three days later, I will definitely scold me now, because I really missed the most important thing.It's a pity that at this time, I was still based on the present and couldn't foresee the future. I rolled over on the sofa and fell asleep.

Gardening ([-])

"I'll trouble you this time too." Mrs. Hu's smile remained the same, but for some reason, Xiao Ai acted timidly. It seemed to be the first time I saw her showing such a scared expression.I saw that she was still hugging the potted flower preciously, and she would not let go of it even if she was beaten to death, she was very careful.

I wore a trademark smile on my face, but I sighed in my heart. Last time this little girl pretended to cry and tortured me to death.But what can I say?I touched the top of Xiao Ai's head unnaturally, and said to Mrs. Hu: "Don't worry, Mrs. Hu, you have a lot of night shifts this month, so you'll be busy slowly. Besides, I don't mind. Xiao Ai is... well, very generous. Aunt Hu's expression became extremely weird for a moment, but she quickly concealed the unnaturalness very well: "It seems that Xiao Ai likes you very much. Don't chat anymore, I'll go to work first. Xiao Ai is at my brother's house Be obedient and don't cause trouble again, you know?"

Xiao Ai ran behind me and nodded stiffly, and Mrs. Hu turned around and locked the door with her bag, ready to go to the hospital.

In 403, Xiao Ai, who was holding a flower pot, finally looked normal, with agility and cunning in her eyes again, but her expression was not related to the word "relaxed": "I'm exhausted."

I joked: "It's difficult to get along with your mother? Isn't it because you are too naughty? Your mother told me, don't make trouble again, it seems that you are really naughty."

Xiao Ai frowned, with a frowning expression: "Oh, I can't tell you, adults have their worries, and we children also have children's worries!" I was amused by her appearance, and put on an apron Ready to cook: "Yo, I can't understand, this feeling is too deep." In the end, Xiao Ai stretched out her hand to stop: "Wait, what are you doing? Cooking!? Forget it, let Brother Si Mu do it."

I put my hands on my hips, a little upset and guilty: "What's the matter, I'm still picky."

Xiao Ai glanced at me, and I seemed to see the deep contempt in her eyes: "Is that what you cook called food? Besides, I miss Brother Si Mu too."

Me: "..." This little ancestor is too difficult to serve!Si Mu is a disaster!Disaster!Disaster for the country and the people!It has brought disaster to my country and also to Xiaoai, the people.But on the surface, I will never admit it.

Thanks a lot, I invited Si Mu down from upstairs, and seeing him enter the kitchen with a black sheet, I threw down my apron, and I finally breathed a sigh of relief.I hope Si Mu didn't find out that under my flattery, there are so many other elements in it that I can't figure out.There was panic and fear, and more of a loss.

The reason for the loss is simple, the distance between me and him seems to have returned to the time when we first met, obviously close at hand, but seems far away.

The three of them joyfully and harmoniously occupy one side of the dining table and eat food... how is that possible!Leaving Simu alone, Xiao Anannizi suddenly said something that made me choke a piece of rice into my trachea: "We really look like a family of three."

I coughed for a long time and my face turned red. I didn't expect that guy Si Mu to make a knife, which made me have the urge to fall to the ground: "Then who do you say is the father and who is the mother?"

"Brother Si Mu is my mother—because the cooking is delicious." Xiao Ai finally remembered to put the flowerpot aside when eating, she blinked, this answer touched my point of laughter, so I lay down on the table I laughed for a long time and didn't stop.Seeing Si Mu's helpless side face, I laughed even harder.

After eating, washing the dishes and tidying up, Si Mu and I ate and drank with us, and then worked hard as playmates.Of course, the game is playing house, which is popular enough and boring enough, but it is attractive enough for Xiao Ai.Even if you are bored, you have to keep playing. No matter how mature Xiao Ai is, she is only a five-year-old child.

"I will be my younger sister, and this pot of sunflowers will be my father." Xiao Ai hugged the flower pot cherishedly. The soil in the flower pot was new and loose. It was obvious that the soil had just been loosened, and the small seedlings were growing rapidly. Jia, I've grown a lot taller than I saw last time.But recognize a potted flower as my father... I tried my best to cover the twitching corner of my mouth: "That...is it okay to have flowers?" Besides, there are no flowers at all right now.

Xiao Ai's eyes dimmed all of a sudden, and she wrapped her arms tightly around the flower pot: "It's not a flower, this is Dad."

For a little girl who has never seen her father since she was a child, any trace left by her father is very precious.I didn't force Xiao Ai anymore, let her continue talking.

"Brother Si Mu is my mother, brother Lin Feng will be my brother..." Xiao Ai pointed with great interest, "Okay, let's act next! Well... the life of a family of four starts from a day The morning begins..."

The good times always passed quickly, and Xiao Ai was so tired that he fell asleep.I carried her to the bed to tuck the corner of the quilt, and I put the potted flower on the bedside table so that Xiao Ai could see what she liked when she woke up.The father she imagined had the generosity and warmth of a sunflower.Suddenly, I can understand Xiao Ai a little bit, because I am so eager for a broad shoulder, and it is enough for me to lean on me when I am hurt.

"Okay, thank you for your hard work today." I returned to the living room and yawned, "Go home early and sleep." Si Mu looked up at me: "You forgot, I don't sleep at night." It seems There is such a thing.I laughed in embarrassment: "Then what, I want to sleep."

The atmosphere seemed more awkward.I turned around stiffly, and I heard Si Mu shouting from behind me, his voice was a little hoarse: "Lin Feng..." I trembled all over, and rushed into the bathroom almost as if I was running away. After I finished calming down and came out, Si Mu had already gone.What does it mean?When I breathed a sigh of relief, I still felt an inexplicable sense of loss. Why Si Mu treated me like this, I couldn't guess at all.Could it be... what I did when I was drunk really made him furious?

I took a shower with this strange mood, then turned off the light and got into bed.The feeling of loss did not diminish at all, but intensified.For the first time, I felt a deep loneliness surrounding me, which had not occurred at all in my only life before.Could it be that I have gotten used to the feeling of Si Mu being around, this habit is simply too dangerous.

It is destined to be difficult to fall asleep tonight, waking up and falling asleep intermittently, I seem to hear a strange whimpering sound from the room where Xiao Ai sleeps in a half-dream, a bit like Xiao Ai’s voice but a bit different, and it continues like this It was late at night.I didn't think much about it, I thought I had some strange dream, this is the second key point I missed.

When I got up the next day, it was snowing several feet deep outside, and I gave up the idea of ​​going out because of the ferocity of the snow.When Aunt Hu came back from the night shift, her body was covered with snowflakes, which almost turned her into a snowman.Standing at the door of my house, I smiled and helped her pat off the frost on her shoulders, and joked: "If you go out for a walk, you can put a carrot on your nose."

Mrs. Hu and I have a chat