When I opened the door, I could see Xu Ziyang's side face under the dim light. His eyes were focused on his hands. I shifted my gaze and saw from a distance that he was holding a silver object in his hand. It was a small piece and looked familiar.
After taking a few steps closer, I realized that it was actually the amulet I had hidden under the box. He actually turned it out and held it in his hand. The look in his solemn gaze had an indescribable meaning that I couldn't understand.
Got it. Hearing the sound, he turned his head and saw that it was me with narrowed eyes. Then he straightened his eyes without hiding them. He put the amulet on the table, walked towards me and asked softly: "Why are you up?"
I told the truth: "I had a nightmare and I didn't see you when I woke up, so I came to find you."
My waist tightened and I was wrapped in his arms, and I followed him to the table. When he sat back in the chair, he hugged me and sat on his lap. I picked up the amulet and asked, "How can I give it to you?"
Found it?" He had people pack up the clothes and other things and move them over. Later, I made a special trip back just to get this sign, but I didn't dare to bring it in front of him, so I left it there.
At the bottom of the box, I didn't expect that he would find it.
He didn't explain, he just held my hand and rubbed his fingers on the lines of the Buddha amulet. On the front was Guanyin with his hands clasped together, and on the back it read: Guanyin protects you and keeps you safe forever. This plaque looks like metallic silver, but it's a bit...
It's heavy, but not as light as silver, and it hasn't had any gray color for so long. It's still bright and silvery white. I initially suspected that it might be platinum, but I didn't really go to identify it. I just thought it was an ordinary peace charm.
"Why don't you wear it?"
One sentence convinced me that this amulet was really a gift from him. When I later found out that Xu Zijie was also the only one, I once suspected that the amulet belonged to him. However, after thinking about it, I still had doubts in my heart. Therefore, even though I later cleared up the past feud with Xu Ziyang,
I didn't take it out again. There was another reason. I once held this amulet close to my heart for a long time. It meant a lot to me and was a kind of memory deep in my heart.
"Is it from you?" I still asked, but it was an affirmative sentence.
Xu Ziyang chuckled lightly and rested his head on my shoulder, "Didn't you guess it earlier? Didn't you agree not to take it off even when taking a shower?" He couldn't help but laugh along. Indeed, when he received this gift,
, he once said that, and I also did the same. I picked the slightly faded red rope and said, "The rope is broken and can't be worn anymore."
"Excuse me!" he scolded softly without asking any more questions. He opened the drawer, took out a jade pendant, and began to untie the red rope with his fingers flying. He was rarely seen wearing jewelry, not even the watch that symbolizes a man.
Dai, I have never seen this jade pendant before.
Seeing my confused expression, Xu Shi explained softly from behind: "This is the peace jade my mother went to the ancient Buddhist temple to ask for during the Chinese New Year."
When he heard him mention that powerful mother, Mrs. Xu's cold face came to mind, "Then why don't you wear it?"
"Women only like to hang these jade signs. Men are too girly if they wear them."
He couldn't help but laugh. Where did this weird argument come from? According to what he said, how many men must have become sissies. "Then you said at the beginning that you had been wearing this Guanyin plaque for a long time and never took it off?"
After waiting for a while, there was no response, so I turned back to look at him, only to see that his eyes were dim and he could not discern his meaning. His hand movements did not stop, as if he was focusing all his attention on it. Soon he removed the red string on the jade pendant.
He took it off, put it through the hook above the sign, and then looked at me: "Put it on for you?" I nodded silently. When the sign was placed under the collarbone, it felt slightly cold, but the coolness soon disappeared.
I lowered my head and looked at it for a while, and when I put it back on, I felt a little bit sad. Especially, I don't quite understand why his wandering gaze on it is so thoughtful and gloomy.
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After a few months of self-cultivation, my injuries have naturally healed, and my body has become mellower. I know I can no longer be a loser, so I submitted several resumes and received an interview notice. I tended to be more clerical, and Xu Ziyang did not raise any objections.
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I walked out of an interview location, still calculating the chances of success, when suddenly a black Buick business car parked next to me, and out of the door came a person who would never appear - my father.
After parting ways with the provincial capital, I only made a phone call on New Year's Day, a formal New Year's greeting, and had no contact with me on weekdays. My mother, on the other hand, often called me to express my condolences.
"Dad..." she called softly, looking at him with doubt in her eyes.
My father nodded towards me and just said: "It's not easy to park here, so get in the car first." I looked inside and saw my father's current wife sitting there. She greeted me kindly: "Xiao Qian, come up and sit.
" He frowned slightly. Parking was indeed not allowed on this section of the road. The traffic police at the intersection over there had been looking over here frequently, so he had to open the rear door and step in.
I chose the window seat on the left and sat down. The woman sat on the right. As soon as I got up, she struck up a conversation with me: "Xiao Qian, last time your father told me that you were hospitalized with appendicitis, and I complained about why he didn't tell me earlier.
If I had known earlier, I would have rushed to the hospital to take care of him. How is your physical condition now? Is it better? "
I responded with a faint smile: "It's much better. It's already been three months, so it's no problem." Another meaning is that after three months, you came to ask for help. Is it too late? Is it too late?
Well, you have called me a long time ago, why are you still waiting now? Just like the father who was driving silently in front of me, didn't he just call me on the day I left to ask how I was discharged from the hospital, and to express his slightest "care".
The woman smiled awkwardly and then changed the subject: "This time your dad happened to be here to do something, so he came with him. He bought some supplements for you later. Come, I'll show them to you." Then she
She picked up several gift boxes from the back seat, and I could only listen patiently as she introduced them one by one.
I'm not familiar with her, so I really don't have anything to talk about, but she seems to be very chatty, and I know everything about her family. Out of politeness, I can only say one or two words occasionally. After a while, I felt something was wrong.
Yes, the car is always running.
The scenery outside the car window had left the city. I no longer paid attention to the woman beside me, but frowned and asked my father who was driving in front of me: "Dad, where are you going?" But he remained silent, and I
His expression changed, he patted the chair in front of him and said in a deep voice: "Stop the car, I want to get out of the car."
Indifferent, I looked back at the woman next to me. The smile on her face was gone, and she lowered her gaze without looking at me.
I pulled the car door and found it was locked. I intuitively touched the phone in my pocket, but as soon as I took it out, it was snatched away from me. She stared at me gloomily and remained silent. A feeling of uneasiness suddenly filled her.
In this situation, there is no need to think too much about what purpose these two people must have in taking me away.
After the phone was taken away, it was turned off, and she handed it to her father. When she turned around, she said with apology in her eyes: "Xiao Qian, we came to you because we had no other choice."
I didn't look at her, only staring at the man driving the car directly in front of me. It's not that I wasn't wary, but I never thought that my father might plot against me. I felt so bitter in my heart, and people's hearts are sinister. Is this what I said?
But, he is my father.
Now I have two options. One is to accept my fate and go with them to an unknown destiny waiting for me; the other is to immediately attack and rush to the front to hinder my father from driving and force him to stop, but it is very likely that the three of them will
There will be car accidents.
I tightened my coat tightly and chose the first path. After all, we were not going to die together. After all, the person in front was related to me, and I also wanted to know where the two of them were trying to trick me and where they were going.
For what purpose.
The car drove along at a very fast speed. The scenery outside the window gradually changed from high-rise buildings to bungalows. As we went down to the suburbs, there were more and more green terraces. A familiar place passed before my eyes. I was slightly startled.
It was the farmhouse that Xu Ziyang and I went to last time, and we drove onto this road.
The river pond in the distance could still be seen, and the scene of fishing that day was still vivid in my mind, but soon the car left the farmhouse behind. Suddenly, I felt inexplicable fear, and cold sweat broke out on my back, which was ominous.
Feelings abound.
The road became muddy and became more and more remote as we drove forward. There were almost no people around. After driving for more than an hour, the car stopped at a place that looked like an uninhabited factory. I looked around and saw overgrown weeds, like
It was generally a wasteland. The government's demolition plan was launched, and many such suburban areas were included in the planning, but it was impossible to build houses in a short period of time, so they were abandoned there and allowed to grow over people.
I settled for what I had come, and I didn't ask any more questions. Once the central locking was unlocked, I opened the door and walked out. The cool wind blew against my face, making me feel a little chilly in the empty and depressing land. I followed them.
When the couple walked into the factory, they found that it was not just idle, but actually still in operation. They saw workers wearing work clothes carrying steel plates and the like.
When they saw us appearing, the workers took a look and then started working on their own without paying any attention. They walked all the way inside and arrived at the warehouse area. From a distance, they could see people sitting around there. When they got closer, they saw one of them clearly.
, I was as dumb as a chicken.
I thought about many possibilities, and even secretly guessed that Xu Zijie was having trouble again, but my intuition overturned this possibility, because if Xu Zijie really wants to find me, he doesn't need to borrow his father's relationship, he has many ways. Moreover, with this long-term experience
From what I know about him, in addition to having a sharp personality, he is also a proud man. He came to me that day, in fact, he came to say goodbye to me.
If he failed to get ahead in the military, he would be unlikely to appear in front of me again. So, I quickly dismissed the possibility that it was him. But after thinking about it, I didn’t expect that it would be him waiting here.
