Chapter 31 Thirty, father and daughter

Chen Jianxia hid behind the curtain for about two minutes, but it felt extremely long.The hall is very loud, and even though there is a little distance, the voices of the father and the young aunt can still be vaguely heard. The young aunt is still complaining, how did you sleep in this afternoon nap, and why the collar is crooked. Dad said, if it's crooked, it's crooked, don't straighten it, the child is here! Chen Jianxia didn't know how to sneak out the door, pretending to just come in.Her mind was blank, and her heart was suspended in mid-air, unable to tell whether it was fear, anger or shame.

Fortunately, Dad received the call again at this time, and walked towards the front desk of the hotel while talking, and Auntie followed behind, both of them standing with their backs to the gate. Chen Jianxia quickly took the opportunity to slip out the door, and as soon as she left, the young aunt in the corner of her eye accidentally turned her head and saw her.Her heart skipped a beat, but she still didn't stop, and ran out the door. Outside the revolving door was ice and snow, and the bitter cold air saved Chen Jianxia who was about to suffocate.She put her hands on her cheeks, the blood was still bubbling under the hot skin, and her ears were ringing.

She took a deep breath, walked in again with her head held high, and shouted to the front desk not far away, Dad! The young aunt also turned around, looked at her with a smile and said, "This is Xiao Xia? Sure enough, my daughter follows Dad, she really looks like Old Chen!" Chen Jianxia's father also introduced with a smile on the side: "This is the finance of our unit, called Aunt Lu!" "Hello, Aunt Lu." Chen Jianxia stared at the woman in front of her, and the woman also looked at her gently, as if she didn't see her running in and out of the hall just now.After a while, Chen Jianxia squeezed out a smile.

But she didn't expect that Aunt Lu would also have dinner with them.The three of them sat together at a newly opened boiling fish restaurant near the railway bureau hotel. Chen Jianxia's father flipped through the menu and said that there are many new things in the provincial capital. When Dad and the waiter were ordering, Chen Jianxia quietly stared at the sterilized tableware sealed in plastic film.She felt that Aunt Lu's eyes had been looking at her vaguely, as if expecting her to raise her head for a few seconds of eye contact—but she kept her head down. "Is Jian Xia busy with studies? Is the final exam coming soon?" Aunt Lu took the initiative to break the ice.

"There is still half a month left. January tenth." "Zhenhua is under a lot of competitive pressure, right? You are your father's pride. We always mention you in our office. Their section chiefs are famous in our unit for bragging. Before you were admitted to Zhenhua, the whole world was bragging about his son. , this time is good, you became our champion, your father and the section chief stopped working immediately, and never mentioned it again, it's as if you never gave birth!" After Aunt Lu finished speaking, she narrowed her eyes and smiled to herself.Chen Jianxia was praised many times during the summer vacation after the high school entrance examination, and he was immune to it long ago. This passage itself is not interesting, but Aunt Lu's tone is very relaxed, warm, and there are canine teeth in her smile, which immediately makes Chen Jianxia Feel close.

She wanted to resist this natural attraction. "My daughter has just entered the fourth grade of elementary school this year. You are her idol. Your dad made me a copy of all your junior high school notes. I plan to keep it for my daughter and let her use it when she goes to junior high school. You come back during the winter vacation. Come to my house when you have time and have a heart-to-heart talk with her, the power of an idol is the strongest..." Aunt Lu has never been cold, but she is not noisy or obtrusive.Chen Jianxia listened silently, not in a hurry to be modest or evasive, and occasionally sent a polite smile.

decent. Such a word suddenly popped up in Chen Jianxia's mind. Aunt Lu actively created such a harmonious atmosphere, which is the same as Chen Jianxia's act of re-entering the hall and pretending to have just arrived - she doesn't want to embarrass everyone, some things just need to be digested silently, resolved in private, and save a little dignity for herself. They are all mortals who can't look away, chasing interests and succumbing to desires; but some people can make the scene not so embarrassing, in short, they don't stick their buttocks and pull each other's hair for a real estate certificate, and transmit all the unspeakable abuse through the microphone. for outsiders to hear.

Chen Jianxia found himself making comparisons silently in his heart. A natural, uncontrollable and outrageous comparison. The characteristic of this boiling fish restaurant is to throw the processed fish into the square trough soup pot when it is boiling, and quickly cover the glass lid. Sometimes the fish is not completely dead, and it will bounce due to nerve reflexes. The waiter next to him is responsible for pressing the lid. , Let the diners watch "good luck, wealth and prosperity". The moment the fish struggled, Chen Jianxia was dumbfounded, and Aunt Lu who was sitting next to her gently covered her eyes and said, "It's too cruel, don't look at it."

After the meal, the three of them walked out of the restaurant together. Aunt Lu suggested that Chen Jianxia should take a day off, don't rush back to study, and go shopping with her father. "I'll go back to the hotel first. Sister Zhang and the others are still calling us to go back to play cards. I'll help you for a while," Aunt Lu said to Jian Xia's father, while naturally putting her hands on her shoulders. The thick down jacket still made her feel the obvious weight, "You haven't seen your daughter for a long time, you two have a good talk." Hearing that there were father's other colleagues in the hotel, Chen Jianxia suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.The reason for the relaxation made her blush.

"Just you? They are definitely going to play double promotion, whoever is with you will be unlucky," Dad drank a little white wine for dinner, his face flushed, "You let them play first, I will go to Xiaoxia's dormitory to see, and give the food to him." She sent it over and will be back in a while." Aunt Lu patted Jian Xia affectionately: "It's agreed, go and encourage my daughter during the holidays!" Staring at Aunt Lu's back, Chen Jianxia was indescribably relieved. She is a gentle and decent person, without any sense of distance, and is very kind. It is normal for a kind person to make kind body movements, such as straightening the collar of a male colleague.

……Right? The distance between the hotel and Jianxia's dormitory is very close, and the short stretch of the road is very silent. Even if my father occasionally raises a topic, the questions are all about grades and classmate relationships, and the chat will be cut off after a few words.Chen Jianxia has never been very clear about how to get along with her father alone.Even though she and her mother had a small quarrel every three days, a big quarrel every five days, puberty collided with menopause, and disliked each other... But there is a natural intimacy between mother and daughter, unlike father and daughter, who get more and more distant as they get older. In fact, Jian Xia likes her father more than her mother; her mother's eccentricity and nagging are undisguised, and the mediator is often the father who reads the newspaper on the side. One copy, to quell the dispute from the root.When I was young, whenever I saw Xia crying and asked "Do you like my brother or me", my mother's answer would always be "It's useless to think about it all day long, cry again, cry again and see if I beat you!" Will calmly say, what to cry, of course mom and dad like it. Even if he knows the answer in his heart, Chen Jianxia still prefers his father who is willing to lie to him. Chen Jianxia greeted the dormitory teacher in the mail room, and led him upstairs. The dormitory is the smallest, but the heating is good, and Chen Jianxia also cleaned up very neatly. Dad sat for a while and was about to leave. The food brought by the family was left to Jianxia. "dad!" "What's wrong?" Jian Xia's father had already opened the door and looked back at her. "Aunt Lu..." See Xia Ruo. Dad's expression froze for a moment, but he regained his composure in just a moment, waiting for Jianxia to continue asking. "Is what Aunt Lu said true?" She thought for a moment, raised her face and smiled, "Are you bragging about me at work?" Jian Xia's father smiled: "That can't be called bragging, my daughter is better than them, it's a fact." "Then what if I don't get into Zhenhua? Do you... or do you like my younger brother more?" "Here it is again, how old are you?" Seeing Xia's father can't help but laugh, "Your brother is half as worry-free as you, so I will burn incense." It’s so late, the students in the provincial capital must be better than you, it’s not a day’s cold to be frozen three feet, take your time. Take care of yourself. Your mother is also very worried about you, and she always says it’s impossible to take you back to the county No. 1 middle school, Anyway, you can study hard anywhere.” "Worried? You want me to go back and help my younger brother study." Jian Xia muttered, and was slapped on the head by his father. After seeing off my father, I saw Xia sitting on the bed in a daze thinking about it. During the chat just now, my father said something. Your mother has been sleeping badly lately. She went to see a Chinese medicine doctor. She is on a business trip to the provincial capital for the past two days, so I happened to buy some American ginseng for her. . Chen Jianxia deliberately ignored his father's reaction when he mentioned Aunt Lu, and drew a line in his heart: Parents are still loving, there is no doubt about it. After self-deception is a relief.Chen Jianxia got up to draw the curtains, accidentally glanced downstairs, and saw a person standing under the street lamp at the door. Li Ran. The young man exhaled, stamped his feet back and forth to keep warm, stood under the big orange umbrella formed by the street lamps, raised his head, and stared pitifully at her window. Chen Jianxia's heart was terribly gentle, as if she had returned home. Most of the plastic-steel windows were sealed by the dormitory teacher, leaving half of the small window for daily ventilation. Seeing that Xia wanted to open it, the window was frozen. After trying for a while, he had to give up. Then he remembered the mobile phone in his pocket. . During the meal, she was worried that Li Ran's call would be caught by her father, so she turned off the phone; looking at the slow black and white boot screen, Chen Jianxia was very anxious. Finally, the signal was full, and four or five text messages jumped in one after another. "Has your classmate replied to your letter? Will you go skiing on weekends?" "I'll take you there." "I mean, if you feel that it's inconvenient to go back on your word after asking him, then follow his regiment. If he doesn't take you, we'll go by ourselves." "Why is it turned off? Are you still angry? You are not competitive at all, you are a dove of peace." "Peace dove, peace dove!" ...Chen Jianxia had a black line in his head, and instantly didn't want to talk to the stray dog ​​downstairs.