Chapter 20
Chapter 19
When Xia Chiu-chuo went out in the middle of the night, the family would naturally not be at ease. So she took the umbrella and money, and sneaked out of the villa while everyone was asleep.
After slipping out, she quickly stopped a taxi and hurried to the place where Jianghuai An was.
Jiang Huai An was not far from her home. After Xia Jiao Jiao arrived soon, he began to call Jiang Huai An loudly: “Jiang Huai An? Jiang Huai An?”
After calling for a while, Xia Chiu-chuo saw someone sitting on the steps, hugging herself, without saying a word.
The rain wet his clothes, he seemed to be frozen there, motionless watching the heavy rain. Xia Chiu relaxed his steps, walked over step by step, stopped in front of Jianghuai An, cautiously calling him: “Jianghuai An?”
Jiang Huai’an slowly raised his head and looked at her quietly.
His eyes are still swollen, it is not difficult to see that he has just experienced a pain, but his face is calm, it seems that all his emotions are hidden.
He looked at the little girl in front of him without blinking. She looked at him, her eyes full of pity. She seemed to be afraid of hurting him inadvertently, so she moved cautiously. She reached out to him and whispered: “Jiang Huai’an, can you go home with me?”
Jiang Huai’an moved his gaze to her hand. Her hand was small, her skin was fair, and her eyes were glowing like jade under the street lamp. He watched quietly and did not dare to speak. He always felt like dreaming at this moment, eyes. In the blink of an eye, the dream woke up.
Seeing that Jiang Huai An didn’t understand, Xia Chiu Chuo boldly moved forward and took Jiang Huai An’s hand.
Her hands were warm, and when she held Jiang Huai An’s cold hands, Jiang Huai An trembled slightly.
Seeing that he was not resisting, Xia Chiu finally relaxed, handed him the umbrella, and said gently: “Jianghuai’an, you come to hold the umbrella and we will go back together, okay?”
Jiang Huai’an didn’t speak, his eyes moved to the umbrella handle. At this time, Xia Chiu’s whole person was exposed to the rain, his eyes flashed, he raised his hand to catch the umbrella, and turned the umbrella to her side to cover her. It’s raining.
Such silent behavior made Xia Chiu Chiu’s eyes soften, and his voice seemed particularly gentle: “Let’s go.”
“Come here so late, do your family agree?”
“disagree.”
“Is it very far?”
“Not far.”
“very dangerous.”
“nor.”
“Xia Chiu,”
“I’m here.”
Jianghuai settled down, and she answered every word quickly, making him particularly stable, as if this one was guarding him, standing by at any time.
He couldn’t help but muffled his voice: “Thank you.”
“you are welcome.”
When Jiang Huaian heard this, he couldn’t help laughing. With tears in his eyes, he stood up, held the umbrella for her, took her hand, and finally said, “Go, let’s go back.”
The two walked to the side of the road together, and Jianghuai An stopped the taxi and walked towards the apartment near the school.
When they left, the car that had been waiting in the dark finally started and turned on the lights.
“Dad,” Jiang Lan looked at the taxi away from the glass: “What you said just now…is it too heavy? Huai’an is never a person who fights for no reason. He must have a reason.”
“I remember when he was a child, he was very obedient,” Mr. Jiang said slowly, his voice full of nostalgia: “I want to be the first in everything, and do the best in everything. Then the **** left, Xu Qingqing came in. He changed.”
“Actually, I know too,” Mr. Jiang lowered his eyes: “He is not obedient, and his grades are poor, I know. I always encourage him, prefer him, sometimes it is not wrong for Ah Cheng to beat him, but I have been protecting him. I thought he would always be sensible this way, his mother is gone, isn’t there still us?”
Jiang Lan didn’t say a word, the sound of the wiper wiping the glass again and again, scratching in Jiang Lan’s heart.
Elder Jiang turned his head, looked at the flickering lights outside, and sighed: “But we are not his parents, nor can we replace his parents. I believe Huai’an is a good boy, but the video is always true. of.”
“He fights, skips school, goes to Internet cafes to play games, goes to bars to drink, his grades are messed up, he doesn’t learn anything, he is okay now, this is the best years of his life, if he keeps on like this, he will ruin himself. Other me Not to mention, what should he do if he fights like this, and something happens? What if he goes to a bar so mixed and gets poisoned?”
Old man Jiang looked up and looked at Jiang Lan: “Whether he is in jail, beaten, or even entered the drug rehabilitation center, I don’t want to see any of these endings.”
Jiang Lan was silent, and she also understood that what Elder Jiang said was not unreasonable. After a long time, she slowly said: “But, there is no need to do this…he is still a child after all.”
Still a child without a mother.
“What he is looking forward to is not our praise to him,” Mr. Jiang’s voice is flat, but it is not difficult for people to hear the pity inside: “There is no way for parents to replace it. If my encouragement and praise do not have any effect, it is better to change to another one. Method.”
“He has to understand that he has to pay a price if he does something wrong. He is not a child and can’t do whatever he wants forever.”
Jiang Lan understood what Elder Jiang meant, but she still couldn’t bear it. She sighed, and finally said: “Okay. But the little girl next to him…”
“When people are in the hardest time, it is better to have someone walking with them.”
Old man Jiang didn’t really care: “Go and check what’s going on. If there is no major problem, don’t worry about it.”
“Yes.”
Jiang Lan responded and stopped answering.
However, Xia Chiu-chuu and Jiang Huai-an returned to the apartment together. After entering the house, Jiang Huai-an took the umbrella, without saying a word, first went to get Xia Chiu-Chiu’s set of clothes. He handed the clothes in front of her, Xia Jujue looked at the clothes and was stunned: “What are you doing?”
“If your clothes are wet, you will catch a cold.”
He spoke very seriously, and Xia Chiu-chuo realized that his clothes had only been wet by the rain. However, the degree of his own wetness was nothing compared to Jiang Huai’an. She couldn’t help but smiled: “You should change your clothes.”
Jiang Huai’an didn’t speak, but looked at her quietly. Xia Chiu knew that he wanted her to change before he could go back by himself. So she didn’t delay, took the clothes from Jianghuai’an, walked in the room and said, “Take a shower and change clothes, and get ready to sleep.”
Jiang Huai An answered and took the clothes into the bathroom.
When he came out of the shower, he saw Xia Chuchuu sitting on the sofa, watching TV with his legs crossed.
She was wearing his clothes. His clothes were a bit too wide for her. The sleeves were rolled up by her, revealing her slender arms. The legs followed the same example, revealing her slender legs.
She was eating an apple. Seeing him coming out, she turned her head in amazement: “You wash it so fast?”
“Ok.”
Jiang Huai’an lowered his eyes, obviously not in a high mood.
He thought for a while and felt that this was not good, so he changed the subject: “It’s so late, you should go home.”
“No, no,” Xia Chiu waved his hand: “I have agreed with my brother, let him cover me, my parents both get up late, and tomorrow I will ask my brother to say that my classmates and I have an appointment to ride a bicycle to school. ,I go first.”
With that, Xia Chiu stood up, waved the veil in his hand and said, “Come on, come on, I’ll wipe your head.”
When she spoke, her eyes were shiny and full of vitality, like a beam of light, breaking through that dark cloud and haze and falling into your world.
Jiang Huai’an couldn’t help but smile. The smile was shallow, but just right, gentle and beautiful.
Xia Chiu was stunned there, Jiang Huai’an walked over, sat on the sofa, bowed his head and said, “Thank you.”
Xia Chiu Chiu reacted, not knowing how, she felt a little hot on her face: “No… it’s okay!”
As she said, she stood up from the sofa and turned directly over the back of the sofa with agility and agility. Jiang Huaian glanced sideways and couldn’t help but twitched the corner of her mouth.
It’s really not a lady at all.
Xia Chiu-chuo couldn’t understand Jiang Huai’an’s bellyache. He wiped Jiang Huai’an’s head with a kerchief and said: “Take a bath and you will feel better. Waiting for me to help you dry this hair, your troubles It will be gone!”
Jiang Huai’an didn’t say a word, thinking Xia Chiu Chiu was a little naive.
but…
She has always been like this.
Seeing that he didn’t reply, Xia Chuo said to himself: “Don’t believe me, every time I am unhappy, I always take a shower. Let Xia Jiao wipe my hair and rub my head. It’s very comfortable! No worries at all. Up.”
“Don’t you ask me?”
Jiang Huai’an pursed his lips, wondering why Xia Jiao was so careless, whether he really didn’t care at all, or was it just inconvenient to ask.
Xia Chiu replied casually: “If you want to tell me, just tell me. It’s okay if you don’t want to tell.”
Xia Chiu’s voice is very gentle: “Anyway, I don’t need to know what you are upset about, I only know that I will be there when you are upset, that’s enough.”
Jiang Huai’an didn’t speak. He suddenly wanted to lean on her, want to hold her, and then tell her about the past few years, telling her all his sadness and pain, loneliness and loneliness.
He felt like a child at this moment, and the person behind him was obviously so petite and so cute, but he seemed to have nurtured a huge amount of power, enough for him to rely on and cry bitterly.
“Xia Chiu…” He slowly said, every word felt like a knife fell on the tip of his heart.
“Do you know who is the easiest to have a bad life?”
“I don’t know.” Xia Chiu-chuo shook his head honestly: “There are too many reasons for a bad life. I don’t know who is the easiest.”
“That’s right,” Jiang Huai’an smiled bitterly: “I clearly said that I gave up myself, but there are still people who are unwilling.”
If you don’t work hard, it’s hard to know, and you’ve comforted yourself. In fact, your wish is like this, but you still secretly look forward to it, secretly envy, and secretly think that you should also be one of those outstanding people.
I can’t ask for it, I can’t get it, I regret and hate myself, but I can’t do anything.
such a man…
Probably, it’s the hardest to be happy.