Chapter 8 Chapter 6 Reunion

Outside the window, a faint twilight began to disperse the shadows on the horizon, Xu Kesui got up and turned on a small lamp beside the bed.She got out of bed, took a suitcase to the bed and opened it, then went into the cloakroom, picked out some clothes, and threw them into the suitcase.She was flying to Florence, and her mother asked her to meet there. Mom had a concert in Florence. She suddenly felt indescribably tired of this way of mother and daughter getting together.Once a year, meet in a certain city, how is this like a kind of family life?This is one of her mother's small recitals, and her mother is still the violinist, and she is the audience, and she has to applaud her mother's wonderful performance at the end.

From childhood to adulthood, she almost woke up in the middle of the night or in the morning alone, dragging her suitcase and wandering between cities.Family, what a strange and desolate word to her. She put some daily necessities in the box.At this time, Jiji woke up slowly on the carpet, and walked to her feet, like a ball of mud glue, sticking softly to the instep.The curly-haired pup is old and faltering, and his teeth have long since fallen out.Xu Kesui held him in his arms, kissed him, and put him next to the suitcase. "Yeah! I'm going out again! This time to Florence," she said to Gigi.

As if he understood, he looked at her reluctantly. "I know you want to go. But, I can't help it! When I'm not around, you have to take good care of yourself! You know, you are not young anymore. Calculated by the age of a dog, you are a 'dog Rui' 'Ah! Well, I know you'll miss me and I'll miss you too. Don't envy me that I can go everywhere, I don't know how I wish I could be like you and be content with a bone. Do you understand? Walking on two legs They are all animals that are not easily satisfied." She looked at Jiji, who looked at her pitifully with those dark brown eyes.

"Stupid! I said human beings!" she said. She closed the suitcase, brushed the hair on Jiji's back, kissed him again, and said, "I'm leaving! Don't send it away." She dragged her heavy luggage out of the room.For many years, she often talked to Gigi like this, as if he was a person.However, just today, when she looked back, she found that Jiji was standing beside the bed trembling, unable to jump out of bed and follow behind her master.He's getting old.She put down her luggage, walked to the bed, untied the gold medal from Gigi's neck, and threw it in a chair.

Before boarding the plane, she was reading in the bookstore at the airport. Standing next to the bookshelf was a man with a big backpack on his back, who was concentrating on reading with his head down.She thought this person was very familiar, but she couldn't remember who it was for a while.She peeked at him while flipping through the magazine.The man realized that he was being watched secretly, and raised his head unexpectedly. "Are you Rong Bao?" She suddenly remembered. "You are--" "I'm Xu Kesui, remember me?" Rong Bao recognized her and said, "Long time no see!"

"where are you going?" "I'm going diving in Australia, how about you?" "Florence." "Oh, that's a beautiful city, I was there a few years ago." "I've been there for the third time." "Some places can be visited many times in a lifetime." "I just met my former children's choir classmate the night before yesterday." Xu Kesui said. "Really?" Rong Bao was curious. "It's Ye Nianjing's birthday party. Do you remember who it was? She was very fat when she was a child, and she wore a pair of big myopia glasses."

"I remember." "She's gotten thinner and prettier." "Who else is there?" "Oh, Meng Song'en! Lin Xiyi! Ke Chun!" When he heard Ke Chun's name, there was a subtle change on his face, and he asked, "Where's Qin Zilu?" "He didn't come. Maybe he was too busy. He's a singer now, you probably know that?" "Everyone looks good." She accidentally mentioned Ke Chun, "Didn't Ke Chun look like a boy before? Now he looks like a girl." Rong Bao smiled thoughtfully. "How can I contact you in the future?" she asked.

They exchanged phone numbers and chatted about a few things.She originally went out with a melancholy mood, but at this moment, looking at the blue sky outside the cabin, she suddenly had a different tone in her heart.Rong Bao was an inconspicuous boy when he was a child. He had a pair of single eyelids and was skinny. Be charming.All her thoughts suddenly drifted to him, and the originally estimated journey turned into an infinite time of imagination. She had been in a good mood to meet her mother.When they were sighing about the famous Florentine veal steak in a restaurant, Shen Kaixuan looked at the grown-up daughter in front of him and said, "You don't look like me, you look like your father."

"I've forgotten what he looks like," she said angrily. "If you were like me, you would be much more beautiful." Shen Kaixuan said. "Do you know that you will hurt my self-esteem?" She said angrily. "Self-esteem isn't based on looks," she says, taking a sip of her wine. "Do you think a man will separate a woman's soul from her body? Can I tell him that my body is not beautiful, but I have a very beautiful soul! Come and love me!" "The body cannot beautify the soul, but the soul can beautify the body." "What are you eating now, the soul or the body of this cow?" She pushed back.

Shen Kaixuan smiled: "If he has a soul, he doesn't need to feed it to me," and then she said, "Ke Sui, you are a child with a soul." "Should I thank you for giving me my soul?" she said in a mocking tone. "The man who loves your soul will also love your body. Soul and body are a concerto." "Stop talking to me about your music again!" she said impatiently. On the contrary, Shen Kaixuan seemed to become more and more interested in talking, regardless of whether her daughter wanted to hear it or not, she continued: "When a string of a violin is plucked, it can cause the resonance of all stringed instruments in the same room, even if the vibration It is too weak to be heard by the human ear. But the most sensitive people can feel this resonance. When the string of the soul is plucked, the body and love will resonate."

"You know your violin better than I do!" she said coyly. Shen Kaixuan shrugged and smiled, as if he didn't agree with what she said. The lights outside the window went out one by one, Xu Kesui turned on the lamp beside the bed, made a phone call back to Jiji, although he didn't make a sound, she knew he was listening on the other side.She imitated Shen Kaixuan's tone and said: "Jiji, you are a child with a soul!" She hung up the phone, turned off the light, and slipped off to sleep.Over the years, her conversations with her mother have always been so tit for tat.She contradicted her mother mercilessly, but her mother was never angry. If she would be angry, it would be better, at least it proves that they are two mothers and daughters.But she is not angry, just like a friend, separated by a layer. The next day, she bought a small chandelier near the Uffizi Gallery. The lampshade was a fat little angel with wings in Botticini's masterpiece "Spring".She took the lamp and went back to the hotel room through the Florentine twilight, plugged it in, and turned on the lamp.She thought of a place to stay for it. The next day after she came back, she called Rong Bao and said lightly that she had brought him some souvenirs. When she arrived at the bar, she saw Rong Bao drinking π water, so she also ordered a bottle. "For you." She put a box in front of him. "Oh, thank you." "Don't you see what it is?" "Oh, yes." Rong Bao opened the box, saw the lamp, and said politely, "It's very beautiful, thank you. I didn't even bring you any souvenirs." "Forget it! If you go diving, what souvenirs will you get! You can't bring a fish back." "I really brought a fish back. My teammates and I caught a grouper on the bottom of the sea. It weighed several kilograms. We shared some with each other. My share was in the refrigerator and I haven't finished it yet." "Then when will you invite me to your house for fish?" she asked. That evening, with the dim moonlight outside the window, Xu Kesui lit up all the lights in the room. She went in and out of the cloakroom, busy picking out clothes, while Jiji looked lazily at his master who was full of love.Finally, Xu Kesui picked out a pair of jeans and a thin black pullover sweater.She likes the deliberate understatement.Her breasts are flat, so she never wears a bra, so she has a kind of whimsy that she feels. Before leaving, she squatted in front of Jiji and said, "Jiji, will you fall in love with me?" Gigi wagged her tail. "I know you will." She swept the hair on his back, sighed, and said, "It's a pity you are not human." One of the lights in the room was on, she went out with a small leather bag, turned her head and said to Jiji: "No need to give it away, wish me good luck!" Rong Bao drove a dark green SUV to pick her up.The car drove through the shining city and headed for the suburbs.Rong Bao lived in the suburbs, it was an elegantly furnished bachelor apartment.This evening, he cooked several dishes, all organic except steamed fish: organic bean soup, organic tomato and organic chicken.Although it was a bit strange, Xu Kesui thought of all this on the bright side.A man who pursues an organic life should also yearn for the soul. After the meal, they walked out of the balcony. Outside the balcony was a sandy beach. Standing there, they could hear the sound of the waves at night. "Gigi will love it, he can run on the beach." "Who's Gigi?" "My sister, but our blood is different." "no the same?" Xu Kesui smiled mischievously, and said, "He is my puppy. He has been raising him for more than ten years. His name is Xu Jiji." Rong Bao giggled. "Where's the lamp? Where did you keep it?" she asked. "in living room." She looked up and saw a light bulb hanging casually on the balcony, so she said, "Isn't it good to hang that light here?" "Oh, yes." Rong Bao went to get a ladder and hung the angel lamp on the balcony.The light was on, swaying gently in the wind, and the gentleness flowing out illuminated the time of reunion.They have all grown up.She looked at the profile of the man leaning against her, and suddenly felt a surge of admiration for him.For the first time in her life, a man cooks for her. When Rong Bao turned her face around, her eyes quickly glanced into the distance, so as not to make herself look too eager for love.Then, in due course, she offered to go home.She is always good at leaving at the right time, so she won't be rejected and disgusted. When she walked out of that apartment, she saw a wooden sign for rent on the door of the apartment next door with a phone number on it. "Is no one living here?" she asked. "It's been empty for a long time, and the traffic in this area is inconvenient." "What a pity!" She saw that the grass in front of the apartment building had been deserted, and only a tall street lamp was shining alone. The next day, she called the phone number, but it was not rented out, so she quickly became the owner of the apartment. When she told Rong Bao, he asked in surprise, "Don't you live on the top of the mountain?" "I like that beach, I can take Jiji for a run in the future; oh, no, he can only go for a walk now, he is too old!" Then, she subtly complained to Rong Bao: "It's all your fault, Show me such a beautiful house." Three weeks later, she was driving her little black sports car, with Gigi squatting beside her, and they drove towards their new home.She justifiably lives next door to Rong Bao. On the night she moved in, she hung a lamp on the balcony, which she bought in Rome. It looked like a wine bottle, but it had no bottom, and the light bulb hung in the bottle. She turned on the light, and stood on the balcony with Jiji in her arms. Her balcony was side by side with Rong Bao's balcony, and she could see him when she looked over. Rong Bao walked out of the balcony, leaned against the railing, and said, "Is there anything I can help? I can fix the plumbing and electrical appliances." She smiled at him: "Just treat me to dinner more in the future!" She threw a bunch of keys over and said, "If I forget the keys, I don't have to climb up." That night, she nestled on the bed with Jiji in her arms.Thinking that the man she liked was only a few feet away, she stood up and stared at herself in the mirror without moving.Is she really not like her mother?Oh, she doesn't want to be like anyone else, she's like herself. The phone rang, and it was my aunt. "Someone wants to see you." "Who?" she asked strangely. "Your father." "He hasn't seen me for more than ten years, why do you want me?" Her voice trembled slightly. "He is your father anyway, go and meet him!" My aunt was there to help my father with good words.She has always been on her father's side. Her older sister is too good to be a younger sister.She wished she could marry Xu Kesui's father, but Xu Yuanhao didn't fall in love with her. Xu Kesui agreed to meet him.The bedside lamp was turned on and off.Does she hate him?She hated him, but once upon a time, she kind of missed the man who gave birth to her.Xu Yuanhao is a son of a wealthy family and has inherited a large number of properties from his family. "However, he is a well-educated rich man." Shen Kaixuan often said that.She is always trying to prove her good taste. Xu Yuanhao and Shen Kaixuan met in Paris. They divorced when Xu Kesui was nine years old. Xu Yuanhao's hair was almost bald, and he was already an old man.She sat in front of him with no expression on her face. "You look like your mother, very beautiful. It's good to be like her, but bad to be like me." Xu Yuanhao said. "That's what she said too," she said coldly. Embarrassment flashed across Xu Yuanhao's face, and he said, "Time flies so fast, you've grown so tall." "Are you talking about your time or my time? Mine is too long." She said as unemotionally as possible, as if she was sitting in front of a stranger. However, no matter how ruthless she pretended to be, a sad feeling still surged from the bottom of her heart.Since he didn't want her before, why did he come looking for her now?She knows this kind of man too well. After they lived freely for decades, they suddenly remembered that they were a father, and it seemed that they had not fulfilled their responsibilities as a father, so they wanted to do something to make up for their mistakes and make their conscience feel better. a little. She looked at the old man and was angry with him and herself.How much she had adored her father, how much she longed for his attention?Time was irretrievably lost, and for so many years she lived alone in that big house, longing for a loving embrace, but that embrace rejected her.She becomes an emotional stammer, always in love with the wrong men, always afraid that the one she loves will leave. She looked at Xu Yuanhao, feeling sore for his ruthlessness, and refused to say a word again. With clear eyes floating everywhere, she drove the sports car towards the suburbs at high speed.On the way, a car caught up with her, it was Rong Bao's off-road vehicle. "Why are you driving so fast? It's dangerous!" he yelled at her as he lowered the window. She didn't stop, and continued to accelerate, leaving him behind. The car was so fast that it seemed to be floating, and she saw Rong Bao following her in the rearview mirror, as if she was afraid that something might happen to her. The car parked outside the apartment through the vast and high cold night, she turned off the engine and sat in the driver's seat blankly.Rong Bao's car came, he got out of the car in a hurry, walked to her car, and asked her nervously.Her legs were shaking and her teeth were chattering.He opened the car door, pulled her out, and put his hands on her.As if she had lost her soul, she threw herself into the embrace in front of her. The street lamp was shining high, illuminating the two aging children, as well as illuminating the bitterness of growing up.