This evening.
Li Mu received a call from Lexus.
Ask him to call Xiao Zhengyang.
It means that Xiao Zhengyang asked him to come over for a drink before the divorce but he didn't go, so he wanted to treat him to a drink. After receiving this call, what Li Mu had been worried about for a while finally happened.
He quickly contacted Xiao Zhengyang.
Let him come back as quickly as possible.
With eleven days left before the Chinese New Year, Xiao Zhengyang rushed back from the distant ZS County.
We haven’t seen each other for almost a year.
Xiao Zhengyang has changed quite a lot. His skin has darkened a lot, but he is more energetic than before. Even his receding hair has recovered. He is a energetic young man.
That is, this night.
Li Mu and Xiao Zhengyang brought two bottles of wine and came to Zhang Xinrui's house.
The cooking was naturally left to Li Mu, a good man. In the living room, Ling Zhi and Xiao Zhengyang sat together and joked. Occasionally, Ling Zhi would urge Li Mu to hurry up, saying that he was about to starve to death.
"How's your recovery going!?"
Lexus's spirit is particularly good tonight.
He actually joked with Xiao Zhengyang, saying, "I thought you would commit suicide after the divorce."
"Definitely better than you"
Not to be outdone, Xiao Zhengyang retorted, "I almost burped my farts."
"Yo"
Ling Zhi said seriously, "You know nothing, I am rushing to be reincarnated into a rich family, how about it!? Do you want to come together?"
"Go away"
Xiao Zhengyang smiled and replied, "Li Mu's wife is about to give birth, and he happens to be considered a rich man now."
"Li Mu"
Ling Zhi turned to the kitchen and shouted, "Have you heard what Xiao Zhengyang said? It's decided. I will go to your house and be your brother for more than ten years. In the end, I became your son. You really took advantage of it."
"I don't mind"
Li Mu's answer came from the kitchen. He smiled and said, "I'm just afraid that my wife will give birth to a daughter. If you don't mind being a woman in the next life, I won't mind either."
"Rolling, rolling, rolling"
Ling Zhi laughed and scolded, "If it were a daughter, I would change my family."
The meal is ready.
Several people sat around Zhang Xinrui's table and started eating.
Li Mu, who doesn't like drinking, also drank liquor tonight. Seeing him choked by the liquor and coughing repeatedly, Xiao Zhengyang and Ling Zhi also made a series of disdainful sounds. Then Ling Zhi also boasted that he drank two boxes of beer and a pound and a half with his client at noon.
, the glorious history of knocking down two more customers in the evening.
I heard him say that.
Xiao Zhengyang and Li Mu turned to despise him again.
In the end, Li Mu and Ling Zhi despised Xiao Zhengyang for not being able to deal with a woman in ZS County for so long.
In short.
Everyone was despised.
Zhang Xinrui didn't move her chopsticks from beginning to end. She just sat quietly on the chair and looked at Ling Zhi who was joking with Li Mu and Xiao Zhengyang.
Finished a glass of white wine.
The second bottle is opened.
After everyone poured a glass, Ling Zhi suddenly started singing.
This song is so old that they were not even born when it was released. It was arranged, composed, and composed by Robert Burns, a Scottish poet in the 18th century. It is also the theme song of the movie "The Blue Bridge" and was later widely used as a prison song.
Film Interlude.
"How can we forget old friends? How can we not laugh in our hearts? How can we forget old friends? Friendship lasts forever..."
Ling Zhi held the wine glass and started.
Then.
Xiao Zhengyang took it.
"We used to wander around all day long. We can forget old friends and friends, and we can stop laughing in our hearts..."
"We also wandered around the green hills of our hometown all day long, and we also experienced hardships and wandered around..."
The three of them raised their glasses together and drank it all.
Outside the window.
A few scattered snowflakes appeared.
In less than a moment.
The first heavy snow in Ningyang City in 2021 fell across the sky and earth in this way. Under the illumination of incandescent lamps, the heavy snow flying outside the window can still be seen through the glass.
It’s different from the cold outdoors.
The living room wrapped in air-conditioned temperature does not feel the slightest coolness.
It has the function of air conditioning.
It also has the effect of liquor.
Looking at each other with Xiao Zhengyang, Ling Zhi and Xiao Zhengyang picked up their wine glasses in unison.
"Li Mu, this is our toast to you, because you have done something that none of us have done."
Lexus opened his mouth and said.
Li Mu smiled, picked up the glass and drank it in one gulp.
He understood what Ling Zhi meant. Ling Zhi's father also died in a car accident. However, unlike Li Mu's father, Ling Zhi's father was taken to work by his uncle on his motorcycle. He hit a big tree because of drinking and injured his head on the back of his head.
He fell to the ground and died last, and it was his mother who pulled out the oxygen tube of Ling Zhi's father.
This scene happened to be seen by Ling Zhi, who was eight or nine years old. After that, he kept blaming his father's death on his mother.
He has not forgiven his mother for so many years.
However.
A year after his father left, his mother remarried and they lost contact with her.
Judging from the situation at the time.
In fact, there is nothing wrong with his mother doing this, because Lingzhi's father is brain-dead after all. Although the heart can still beat under the influence of the pacemaker, brain-death is indeed a real death in a sense, and the person who takes him out to work is not
The outsider happens to be his uncle.
As a mother.
How can I choose!?
Continue to consume until your brother who has a broken leg is completely exhausted!?
Or was it cut off in this way!?
So Lingzhi's mother was actually in the most pain at that time.
On one side is a husband that one cannot save, and on the other side is one's biological brother. It is really difficult to choose.
But Ling Zhi was still young after all at that time. He only knew that his mother pulled out his father's oxygen, so he stubbornly believed that his father was killed by his mother. Later, when he grew up, he also understood what brain death meant, but his mother had already died.
Now that he has a new family, he no longer cares about being forgiven by his son.
Things continue in this way to this day.
Probably this sentence.
"Sorry, I misunderstood you"
There is no chance to speak out again.
That embrace, no matter how warm it is, will never appear again, and now, these things seem to have become unworthy of mention.
After dinner, Ling Zhi was probably tired. When he went back to his room to rest, he suddenly turned around and cupped his hands and fists at Li Mu and said, "Please."
Li Mu desperately held back his tears to prevent them from falling
Xiao Zhengyang's eyes were also red, and he laughed and cursed, "If you feel sleepy, go to bed quickly and drink again when you wake up tomorrow."
Zhang Xinrui had already burst into tears. She walked to the door of the room and wanted to accompany Ling Zhi, but was pushed back by Ling Zhi.
"Don't watch it, you'll have nightmares after watching it"
Finish this sentence.
Ling Zhi returned to the room and slowly lay down on the bed.
In a trance.
He seemed to see his father's figure.
His father was looking at him with a smile. In the flash of lightning, the corners of Ling Zhi's mouth showed the same smile as when he saw his father when he was a child.
He threw himself into his father's arms.
The figure lying on the bed slowly closed its eyes, as if having a sweet dream, and kept a smile on its lips.
2021.
January 3rd.
Evening.
At about 9:20, Ling Zhi left.
It was a decent walk.
This chapter has been completed!