my neighbors

Chapter 18

, cut to the point: "I'm here to pick up Xiao Ai, has the little lazy pig gotten up yet?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Xiao Ai appeared at the door wearing a cotton padded jacket, her little face was flushed from the cold, and she was still clinging to the flower pot that was bigger than her head.The seedlings were covered with gauze, which Xiaoai asked me to borrow yesterday, so as not to damage the sunflowers from freezing.She had lost that calm and polite smile on her face, and her whole body gave me a strange sense of tension.

Mrs. Hu looked at Xiao Ai with a strange look, and pulled her arm: "Xiao Ai, go home with mother." Xiao Ai's expression showed unprecedented fear: "...No, I, I want to stay with Lin Feng Brother's house." I was stunned when I heard this, Xiaonizi obviously fell in love with me.

Aunt Hu frowned: "No, I can't bother Brother Lin Feng any more." Xiao Ai stayed where she was, holding the pot of flowers motionless, but refused to move a step.

"I told you to come home with me!!" Mrs. Hu suddenly raised her voice. I have never seen her who can be called a loving mother yell at Xiao Ai like this. Xiao Ai was so frightened that she burst into tears on the spot.Seeing my shocked expression and Xiao Ai's crying, Aunt Hu finally calmed down with a distorted face: "...I'm sorry...I'm afraid of trouble for you."

I hurriedly said politely: "No, no, no trouble. Xiao Ai is very cute, I'm too happy."

Mrs. Hu's face was a bit strange, more of a gloomy ashes: "Well, Xiao Ai, you stayed at brother Lin Feng's house temporarily a few years ago, so don't cause trouble for others, do you hear me? But you still have to come to my mother's place every day. Talk to mom."

Xiao Ai was still crying, Mrs. Hu comforted her for a while and then returned to 404.I always feel that there is something strange, but I can't say it, I can only blame it because I am too sensitive.

Gardening ([-])

After Mrs. Hu left, Xiao Ai, who was still crying just now, seemed to be paused and stopped crying. How could there be any weak and frightened look in her eyes?I sighed to myself, this child is so capable of pretending to cry, he is really too mature.But it is precisely because of this maturity that I let go of my doubts for the time being, because no matter what she does, she has her reasons.

We locked the door of 403, Xiao Ai was finally relieved, and smiled at the flowerpot.The more I looked at her, the more I found her funny, so I couldn't help but said: "You can't bloom if you smile at the flowerpot. If you want to bloom, you have to water and fertilize it." Xiaoai sat on the sofa at my house, keeping her eyes on the flowerpot. : "Yes... in the future, many, many fathers will come..."

Seeing that the topic was getting farther and farther away, I quickly brought it back: "Wait... what makes me curious is that you pretended to cry? Why, are you having trouble with your mother? Go back to your mother as soon as possible, she will be worried." Xiao Ai looked at me with a calculation in his eyes: "As I said, children also have children's troubles. My troubles are not understandable by brother Lin Feng." That dark and negative feeling is only fleeting. But it made me feel chilly.

In fact, it was very strange at the beginning, Xiao Ai and Mrs. Hu are not like mother and daughter, but Xiao Ai tends to show her real side in front of strangers, and she is taciturn or afraid to speak when facing her mother.This made me very curious about how deep the gap between them was.

More sympathy for Xiao Ai, such a girl, living in a family without father's love and maybe no mother's love, what kind of bitter suffering.

So I said to her, "Call my boss, Brother Mu, and the three of us go to build a snowman together, shall we?"

Xiao Ai's eyes suddenly brightened: "Okay!"

When I got to the gate of 503, I realized that I felt guilty. First of all, I knew better than anyone else that Si Mu was sleeping during the day. Besides, after being drunk that day, who knew what I did, which caused the relationship between the two of them to become so rigid. .

But since I agreed to Xiao Ai without much consideration, I still bit the bullet and knocked on the door.After a very, very long time, when Xiaoai and I were bored waiting, Si Mu finally opened the door.He still looked like he hadn't woken up, the dark circles under his eyes seemed to be a little heavier, and he looked extremely mentally ill.

When I saw him make himself look like this, my nose became sour. Maybe I caused this look. I was worried that the direct consequence would be that I didn’t react until he called me a little impatiently for the third time.

Xiao Ai also explained the reason for my visit at this time: "Brother Si Mu, do you want to go with us to build a snowman..."

Si Mu stared at me for a long while, then slowly uttered a word: "...OK."

I didn't feel right at this moment, so I hurriedly said to him: "If you are really sleepy, forget it, really, I'm fine, it's just me and Xiaoai..." Si Mu ignored me and continued to speak , Come out and lock the door.I saw that his movements were decisive and straightforward as usual, but his fatigue could not be concealed between his brows and eyes.

"I'm sorry..." I couldn't help but said to him, with my head lowered, I did make a mistake, he's not me, I know.But I always judge him by my own standards, which is a mistake in itself.

Si Mu also replied in a low voice: "No need to apologize." He looked at me a little unfathomably, I couldn't tell what kind of mood he was looking at me with, what kind of emotion was in those eyes? a feeling of.I was a little afraid to look directly into his eyes, and quickly slipped to Xiaoai's side with both feet.

I have longed for games like making snowmen in the snow for a long time. I used to live in southern cities and never had the chance to see snow. After coming to S City, I am no longer a child, and I have no reason to play these games anymore.Today, my mind seems to have returned to the time when I was full of childlike innocence, and my intertwined mood is only filled with relaxation and happiness.

Si Mu stood aside and watched us busily busy. I deliberately staggered his sight a few times, and I didn't know what I was avoiding.

Xiao Ai quickly built a small snowman, but the corners of her mouth suddenly drooped joyfully: "Such a cute snowman, I really want my dad to see it." I hurriedly said to her: "No, it's so cold. If you can’t move the sunflowers down, you won’t be able to support them.” At this moment, Xiao Ai suddenly said to me, “I’m not talking about flowers, I’m talking about my real father.”

I was choked up all of a sudden, I couldn't tell which one was Hua'er or Xiaoai's father?Xiao Ai was very clear from the beginning, but she just didn't want to distinguish. "But it's okay if the pot of flowers is my father." Xiao Ai patted the snow on the snowman's head sadly, "I still want a complete father who I can hug."

Xiao Ai’s words shocked me a bit. In my incomplete childhood, I seem to finally know the reason why she likes to fill her arms with flower pots. Unrelated sunflowers light up her whole life.

I tapped on the top of her head: "Even so, you still have your mother. If you are so pessimistic, your mother will hate you."

The next answer left me speechless, Xiao Ai said: "She is not my mother."

"It's not my mother who will drive away my father."

I'm a little confused. Didn't Xiaoai's father go out to work?Xiao Ai couldn't remember things at that time, how could she say such things? !But I don't think Xiao Ai is the kind of person who talks nonsense casually, let alone such words can't be said casually.

The weather was getting colder and colder. I stepped on the thick snow and urged Xiao Ai to go upstairs quickly.After returning home, I felt much better. I figured that after the new year, I would find a worker to install the floor heating. I really couldn't stand the biting cold.As soon as Si Mu waited for Xiao Ai to return to the room to look at her flowers, he immediately untied his scarf and tied it around my neck.I was taken aback by his actions, and stammered: "You... what are you doing? I just remembered to tie a scarf for me at this time, I don't need it anymore." After I finished speaking, I wanted to slam my head on him In front of him, no matter how it sounds, it sounds like... acting like a baby.

Seeing that he didn't respond, I felt even more ashamed, and continued: "What, I didn't mean that, uh, how about I return the scarf to you?" ...I shut up, or don't say anything.

"Lin Feng," he finally spoke, "I want to talk to you about what happened that day."

When?I knew almost immediately what day it was!But what happened that day is absolutely impossible for me to talk about.I laughed dryly, and immediately felt that the scarf made my neck a little uncomfortable: "There...what is there to talk about? No matter what I did that day, it must not be what I wanted to do. Uh, I must be drunk So it's inevitable to talk nonsense and get drunk... and so on, don't worry about it..."

"Are you talking nonsense...?" Si Mu looked at me with deep meaning, and his tone of voice seemed to have improved.I swallowed desperately, calm and calm, must be calm.

At this time, the savior-like Xiao Ai finally appeared: "Brother Lin Feng, I want to ask you something."

I quickly brushed past Simu's shoulder and ran towards Xiao Ai who was holding a flowerpot in the corridor: "No problem, no problem, absolutely no problem, even if you want brother to pick off the stars in the sky."

Xiao Ai looked at the flowerpot in her hand and said with great reluctance: "Please, my mother will pick me up tonight. Can this potted flower be placed in your house temporarily?"

Gardening ([-])

Xiao Ai suddenly handed over the precious flower pot to me. Although I didn't understand why she did this, I still agreed: "Okay, I will take good care of it. Do you need to water it these few days?"

The girl shook her head: "No, I've loosened the soil, and the nutrients are enough. If I water it again, the flowers will be drowned."

I took the flower pot in Xiaoai's hand, it was very heavy, my hand