Chapter 2 The old people meet again, the peach blossoms no longer laugh at the spring breeze(1/2)
One afternoon afterwards, I was watching TV news except for listening to the confinement period playing violin. I don’t know what happened, but I always felt that I had heard of the confinement period “Kanon” somewhere, but I couldn’t remember it for a while. It was not until I had supper that I remembered that the ringtones of James’ mobile phone and alarm clocks seemed to be “Kanon”.
It seems that James really likes "Canon".
That night, James asked to go out shopping with Confinement. If you have time, you can watch a movie. I didn't refuse. James looked very happy and energetic, while Xueqi sat in the Rolls-Royce Phantom of Ma Bailong who came to pick him up and drop off. For a moment, only Frexiu and I were left at home.
I originally wanted to play games with Freshe, but seeing the little boy looking listless, I also suggested that he go to the movie because there are several cinemas nearby, and as long as I avoid the cinemas of Confinement and Xueqi, I would not encounter them.
When Freshe was very happy to hear going to the cinema, he waved his hand and said:
"Okay, okay. Thank you Mr. Yang."
So after calling Yuhui and saying some thanks, I took Frexiu to another cinema to watch a movie. Of course, he is still a child, and the movie I chose was just an animation.
However, before watching the movie, Fresch drank too much drinks, and he had to go to the bathroom with a stomachache. He hurried out of the cinema while covering his stomach, but he left his cell phone in the aisle between the seats of the cinema. I kindly picked up his cell phone, but suddenly thought of something, so I turned on his cell phone, found his text message record and started reading it.
I suddenly felt curious about what Fresio replied when he received Miyako's text message.
I soon found it, and the latest one was that Frescher had never received any new text messages since he came to China.
The text message content is as follows:
miyuko:doyouwanttobegod (Do you want to be God)?
foolish:sick(get tired).
The reply was short, but it left me in an unparalleled shock.
"Mr. Yang. That's my phone." A slightly tender voice came. I raised my head and found that Frei Xiu was standing in front of me, spreading his palms.
"Oh, oh." I came to my senses, smiled, touched Fresch's head, and returned the phone to him, "Be careful, don't fall into the bathroom."
"Thank you, Mr. Yang." Fresh smiled, his blue eyes as beautiful as the sea. I was thinking that Western eyes are much brighter than Asians because of their different colors.
Fresh took his cell phone to the bathroom. After a while, he came back with wet hands and continued to sit beside me, drinking coke while eating popcorn while watching animated movies. During this period, he also took his cell phone and took a few movie scenes with enthusiasm. Because the movie was in English, Fresh did not understand it. He was happy to watch the whole process without reading the subtitles.
Because animation movies are generally shorter than live-action movies of more than two hours, and only about ten minutes later, Fresh and I still have some time after watching them. Fresh said that he was still thirsty after eating too much popcorn and wanted to drink cold drinks, so I accompanied him to the cold drink hall next to the cinema and ordered two cups of signature milk tea with ice. Fresh honestly and unceremoniously ordered an extra portion of strawberry shaved ice, and I generously agreed.
However, because I was worried that Fresh would eat a bad stomach, I still asked Fresh to drink less:
"It's too cold to eat too much, so it's better not to eat too much. If you eat it badly, your stomach will be bad." I said to Freshe.
"Yeah. OK." Frexiu nodded obediently while sucking shaved ice juice. He sat on a high round chair, swinging his legs, staring at me with big blue eyes, and said with a smile, "Mr. Yang, you are so nice. You have invited me to a movie and have invited me to eat so many cold drinks. You are such a good person."
"Fresey, you are very obedient, too. You are so smart. Uncle is very happy to see it and like it very much." I smiled and said, "As long as you want, I will buy you all the things you want."
Fresh said no, and said thank you again. His tender nose made a heavy nasal sound. He pointed to the video game city next to the cinema and said he wanted to go there to play. I looked at the time and it was still early, so he said there was no problem. When checking out, Fresh suddenly exclaimed and stopped me.
"Mr. Yang, look, there is God in your cup."
Hearing Freshe's voice, I turned my head and saw the oversized round slogan I had just drunk with strawberry shaved ice cream melted at the bottom of the glass cup and the ice water mixed together. It looked like a smiling Jesus face.
Looking at the portrait of Jesus in the cup, I looked a little dazed, and even a strong sense of fear rose in my heart. This is not the first time I have seen this Jesus face. I have seen it many times before. If it is a coincidence once or twice, then it is definitely not a coincidence after four or five times. It is like something supernatural following me and looking at me everywhere.
I felt a little creepy and looked around subconsciously, but there was no one else except the waiter and cashier at the bar and the little boy Fresey in front of me.
"Mr. Yang?" Fresey blinked his blue eyes and waved his hand. I came to my senses, smiled at him, and said:
"It's really a bit magical. Maybe God is watching us. Let's go to the video game city?"
Fresh nodded happily and went to the video game store next to the cold drink hall with me. It only cost 30 yuan. Fresh played racing games, fighting games and simulated naval battles and zombie games. These games reminded me of the arcades I played when I was a child. In that era, there was a five-dollar and ten-dollar in my pocket to play in the arcade store on the side of the road for an afternoon. It really made me miss it, but it was a bit old for me at this age. Looking at the video game store full of boys and girls, my older child couldn't help but feel a little out of place.
"Come on, Mr. Yang, let's play together." Freseu greeted me, "I can't beat these zombies by myself."
"Okay, okay, I'm here."
So I played pirates with Fresh for more than 30 minutes like a little adult, and I beat zombies with pirates. Finally, when I reached the third level, Fresh couldn't hold on anymore. We lost. Fresh said it was too difficult. I smiled and said, "I want to have another game?" Fresh said he was a little tired and wanted to go back and take a shower. So I accompanied him out of the video game city. When I walked along the passage between the video game city and the cinema towards the elevator, I suddenly stopped and held Fresh's hand froze.
At the entrance of the ticket checkout passage in the cinema, I saw a pair of familiar figures walking out next to each other.
Seeing those two figures, I was a little surprised.
How is that possible?
Why are they here?
Those two people were actually Xueqi and Ma Bailong.
Shouldn't they be in other theaters?
I was a little surprised. I watched Xueqi and Ma Bailong walk out shoulder by shoulder, and I was a little at a loss. I stood in the aisle.
But I didn't know if I should walk up to say hello or hide away, so I pretended not to see it. I didn't know how I would face Xueqi and Ma Bailong when I ran into them on such occasions.
Then I will feel like I'm inserting a light bulb.
At this moment, I suddenly felt that I was so redundant.
In the young people's world, there is no room for me to interfere.
As a father, I am actually the most unnecessary one.
But my heart felt like a gummy candy was indescribable. Seeing Ma Bailong and Xueqi coming out with a smile, I was wise in a hurry, and pulled Frexiu back to the previous cold drink room, and then peeked at Xueqi and Ma Bailong from afar through the glass wall covered with window flowers.
"Mr. Yang, isn't that Sister Xueqi?" Frexiu asked me.
"Well, she is playing with her friends, we won't bother them anymore." I whispered.
"Oh." Frexiu said oh, nodded and stood beside me, holding my hand, then put his nose and forehead against the cold glass wall, and peeked at Xueqi and Ma Bailong with me.
"But Mr. Yang, you seem to be unhappy." Frexiu murmured in a low voice, my heart skipped a beat, Frexiu saw my mood. Children's eyes are always brighter than adults, and a little bit of emotional changes can't escape their eyes. Happy? How could I be really happy when I see Xueqi being with other boys?
I just smiled at Frexiu, touched his head, and continued to look at Xueqi and Ma Bailong from afar. They seemed to be talking about the movie. They were talking and talking happily. Ma Bailong took out his cell phone and looked at the time, as if he had said some time. Then when I saw Ma Bailong held Xueqi's hand and walked towards us. I was shocked and thought they would enter the cold drink room. I hurriedly pulled Frexiu back aside, but in the end they did not come in, but instead went to another couples' restaurant next door...
The restaurant is obviously specially prepared for couples with men and women. Various roses are painted on the walls, and rose lamps are hung on the top of the ceiling. The lights are very soft and quiet, and it looks ambiguous. There is a thin-necked vase on each table, and there is a rose inside. It looks very high-end. Moreover, the people who eat and drink cold drinks in the restaurant are pairs of men and women. No matter how you look at it, they are all places where date couples will come.
My heart began to turn around. I knew that Xueqi and Ma Bailong had a good relationship, but I never thought that they would develop so quickly. Maybe it was because my indulgence accelerated the emotional process between Xueqi and Ma Bailong. If I opposed it again and again, with Xueqi's courage, she would definitely not dare to go to a place like a couple's restaurant with boys...
Maybe.
I just watched Ma Bailong and Xueqi sitting by the window in the couple's restaurant. Ma Bailong gave Xueqi a cold drink list. Xueqi ordered a drink that didn't know. Then the waiter gave her a caller and left with the cold drink list. During this period, I saw Ma Bailong making a phone call and squinted my eyes. I noticed that his mobile phone was actually a silver-black calfskin vertu. It was such a rich boy. If it was genuine, this mobile phone would cost about 300,000 yuan. With the Rolls-Royce Phantom and with the Vertu, I could imagine what kind of family background Ma Bailong had, which was definitely not something ordinary people could imagine. Even if I had been working hard for many years, I could not reach the height of their big family.
After a while, I saw Xueqi and Ma Bailong chatting all the time. Of course I couldn't hear it. All I could see was Xueqi and Ma Bailong chatting happily. During this period, Xueqi covered her mouth and giggled. Ma Bailong looked gentle and elegant, not as out of control as I hoped. His words and deeds all looked like a rich child with a good tutor should have.
But the more this happens, the more I feel indescribable. It’s like when sucking snails, you have obviously tried your best, but no matter how hard you suck, you can’t suck out the meat inside.
That feeling will suffocate you and drive you crazy.
Ma Bailong and Xueqi didn't eat for too long. I saw them get up after about twenty minutes, but when Xueqi was about to get up, Ma Bailong's action made my heart tugged.
Ma Bailong suddenly grabbed Xueqi's wrist, who was about to get up. Xueqi was a little shocked. Then I saw Ma Bailong a little excited and kept saying something naturally. Xueqi's cheeks soon turned a little red. Xueqi is a girl who is very shy. Not to mention other boys, she will blush even if she says a few words at home. Now that she blushed like this, I know that Ma Bailong must have said some more intimate words.
I saw Xueqi's face a little hesitant, and Ma Bailong seemed to be asking her something. In the end, Xueqi actually nodded. Then, I saw Ma Bailong standing up, and then, he actually walked to Xueqi's face, and a handsome face slowly pressed towards Xueqi's cheek. Xueqi also looked at him nervously, a little at a loss, but in the end, she closed her eyes.
This kid actually wants to kiss Xueqi!
I saw it trembled. I really wanted to rush out, but my feet seemed to have roots and couldn't move. Because I knew very well that Xueqi now was the happiest time in her life. If I rush out at this time, it would only make her lose and destroy her happiness.
But at this moment, a small figure that shouldn't have appeared broke into the world of Xueqi and Ma Bailong.
I saw Frexiu walking to Ma Bailong with a bottle of unfinished drink, and then "accidentally" hit Ma Bailong's waist. Then, thick cola juice sprinkled on Ma Bailong's trousers' legs. The brown cola flowed down Ma Bailong's white trousers like a blood vessel. At first glance, it looked like Ma Bailong had incontinence. At the same time, Frexiu actually tripped "accidentally", screamed, and put Ma Bailong's vertu mobile phone on the table and struck it on the ground. The vertu mobile phone flew out like a frisbee and hit the table near a couple's table. Not only did the keyboard on the surface fall out, but the screen seemed to be cracked. It was obvious that Frexiu was deliberately!
"Oh, I'm sorry sir! I didn't mean it!" I saw Fresh holding the Coke Cup in his hand, looking up at Ma Bailong, and said loudly, as if he wanted to let everyone in the entire couple's restaurant hear it.
Ma Bailong looked at his wet trousers and the vertu phone that fell to the ground, a little stunned.
Of course Xueqi also saw Frexiu. I saw Xueqi bowing slightly to look at Frexiu with a smile on her face. What was she saying? Judging from her mouth shape, it was probably Frexiu, why are you here?
Freshe just smiled innocently like a child and touched his head, but it seemed that he didn't say where I was.
Then I saw Xueqi pulling Frexiu to Ma Bailong, with a guilty smile as if she said something apologized, and then picked up the dry towel on the table to help Ma Bailong wipe his pants. Ma Bailong's face was a little stiff and wooden at the beginning, but gradually he smiled gracefully. He took Xueqi's towel, wiped his pants legs, and then touched Frexiu's head, as if he was saying it was okay.
Seeing Ma Bailong's kind appearance, I couldn't help but sigh. At this time, I was expecting him to get angry and scold Fresh fiercely, so that his score in my heart would become lower, and maybe, I would feel better.
Unfortunately, Ma Bailong is not such a man. He is very well-educated and perfect, so he can maintain his demeanor even if he is smashed into a mobile phone and his clothes are dirty. I think if it were me, even if he has a good temper, his face will not be much better.
Xueqi picked up the mobile phone on the ground and handed it to Ma Bailong, as if she had said something to Ma Bailong to ask him to go to the bathroom to wash. Ma Bailong smiled, took Xueqi's mobile phone, said something, and then turned around and walked towards the bathroom. But at this moment, Fresh actually did something that I couldn't believe. He suddenly squeezed the remaining half cup of Coke in his hand. The coke bottle was squeezed, and the thick juice suddenly shot out from the straw, and shot it on Ma Bailong's waist and buttocks without bias. Ma Bailong's butt was wet.
If the previous forced was considered an accident, then Frexiu's behavior this time was obviously malicious. Not to mention Xueqi, even I couldn't stand it anymore. Frexiu didn't know why he hated Ma Bailong so much, as if he had made up his mind to anger him. Sure enough, no matter how good Ma Bailong's temper was, it was impossible to remain calm at this time. I saw his brows slightly squeezed, and then he touched Frexiu's head and said something laughed and cried, as if not so naughty. Xueqi kept apologizing next to her, her face was in a state of anxiety.
It was anxious, but Ma Bailong waved his hand and seemed to say it was okay. Then, Ma Bailong did something that surprised me. He walked directly to the bar counter of the couples restaurant, then put a black diamond card from his underwear pocket and placed it on the bar counter. The waiter was surprised at first, and then Ma Bailong gestured for a moment. Soon the waiter left the couples restaurant with understanding and walked out towards the employee passage. I saw that the direction she was walking seemed to be in the direction of the clothing mall next to the cinema. It was obvious that Ma Bailong asked the waiter to buy the pants he had used for him.
At this point, I felt like I was completely collapsed, as if I was trapped in an ice lake, and the cold feeling continued to rise from the soles of my feet to my waist and then to the top of my head.
If I were standing in front of Ma Bailong to witness all this, I might think he was deliberately showing me, but when I was standing aside from the perspective of a bystander, Ma Bailong was still so calm and generous, without any hiding anger and grudge, I felt a sense of powerlessness. He was really perfect. No wonder Xueqi fell in love with him.
He is handsome, generous, well-educated, has a family background, has a high family, and is generous. No matter from any perspective, he is the ideal lover in the minds of most girls. If I don’t know Xueqi, I just pass by here by accident and see Xueqi and Ma Bailong together, I will also have the idea of “Ye, this pair of men and women are really handsome, made of heaven and earth.”
But, I'm not a passerby.
I am Xueqi's father. I raised Xueqi with one hand and accompanied her for sixteen years.
I suddenly felt an indescribable sense of loss. I didn't know whether I was afraid of being discovered by Xueqi and the others, or to escape the noble-minded manner of Ma Bailong, I did not walk towards Xueqi, Ma Bailong and Frexiu, but silently left the cold drink hall alone, walked out of the cinema, and came to the mall outside the cinema to get some breath. My mind was confused. I didn't know why I came out, nor did I know what I was going to do.
I wandered aimlessly in the mall next door, like a ghost who couldn't find the direction.
Xueqi and Ma Bailong are together, and Confinement is also with James. What about me?
Who do I have?
If one day Xueqi and Yuezi leave me, who is left beside me?
I suddenly realized that after living for thirty years, my world is so small that I am the only one or two people left. I am the only one left alone. Business partners, colleagues at work, former classmates and friends, they can only accompany you for a while. They can drink with you at some time, but they will not be with you all the time.
One night when you lie alone in the empty and dark bedroom, you will be alone.
Looking at the pedestrians and bright lights coming and going in the mall, I suddenly couldn't find where I should go.
"Hey, Boss Yang, do you want to look at the clothes?" A middle-aged woman's voice came from her ears. I turned my head and saw a middle-aged woman with yellow curly hair. She saw me and smiled, as if she knew me.
When I saw her, I didn't recognize her for a while, but I just felt a little familiar.
"Who are you?" I asked with a dry smile.
"I can't remember it, haha. Haven't you come here to buy clothes before? I'm very impressed." The boss lady smiled and said, "Haven't you come here to buy baby clothes several times before? It's been many years in the blink of an eye, and you probably won't recognize it. I'm old too."
After the boss said this, I gradually remembered that during the days when I just picked up Xueqi and adopted her, I did go to the boss’s store to buy baby clothes and children’s clothing several times. Because I was the youngest among the people who came here to buy children’s clothing, this boss’s wife probably knows me more.
I hurriedly smiled and said sorry, and then looked at the boss's wife a few times. Compared with what I remember, the boss's wife is indeed old, with a lot of dry skin, a wider chin, a little fat, and a crow's feet at the corners of her eyes. It's no wonder that she hasn't recognized her for so many years.
I felt an inexplicable feeling in my heart.
Sometimes, you think no one in this world remembers you, no one cares about you, you are the only one in the whole world, but in fact, you have left a faint mark in the hearts of many people, you arrogantly think that you have been abandoned by the world, but in fact, you have already lived in a corner of others' hearts. The pieces together of those who have memories of you are more like yourself than you.
To be continued...