With this thought in mind, I went upstairs. I carefully entered the password on the door lock, feeling anxious and timid. The door lock opened in response, and the sensor light came on immediately.
The house that had been unoccupied for more than three years did not have the musty smell she had imagined, and there was not even a trace of dust. The floor and table tops were all as shiny as if someone had been cleaning them frequently.
When she took her mother on a self-driving trip, she thought she would come back soon, so she left with just some luggage and left many things in the house unpacked.
Everything was still the same as before, she was in a trance for a moment, it was still the same as before, nothing had changed.
Until she saw two sweaters in her mother's closet in the small bedroom, one pink and one blue. She remembered that in the mental hospital, Cheng Zhimin tore these two sweaters. It turned out that
Mom knitted two more pieces.
Everything seemed to be doomed. She folded the two clothes and took them back to the hotel, holding them tightly in her arms all the way, like her mother, and like she was holding two children, which made her very happy.
Peace of mind.
When I returned to the room, Xiaoxin was already asleep.
She simply washed up and lay down on the bed, but she still held the two pieces of clothes tightly.
Xiaoxin woke up suddenly in the middle of the night. She vaguely felt a low and suppressed cry coming from the bed next to her. She broke into a cold sweat and thought there was something unclean in the hotel, so she quickly turned on the bedside lamp.
and called out
: "Lawyer Shu, wake up."
While shouting, he also looked at Lawyer Shu in the bed next to him.
Caught off guard, she saw Lawyer Shu who was full of tears and had no time to hide them. Lawyer Shu was wearing pajamas and holding a ball of woolen clothes in her hand. When the bedside lamp illuminated her, she only looked up at her and said
: "Sorry, I disturbed you!" His eyes were still red and his voice was hoarse. So it was Lawyer Shu who was crying just now?
In Xiaoxin's heart, Lawyer Shu is indestructible and represents a strong existence. How can a person who can calmly handle a child being hospitalized cry?
"Lawyer Shu, are you okay?" Xiaoxin vaguely felt that Lawyer Shu was homesick.
"It's okay, go to sleep." Shu Tinglan didn't explain anything. In fact, she was almost asleep just now, and she dreamed of her mother while half asleep.
Her mother was very happy and asked her: "Lanlan, do these two sweaters look good? The children will definitely like them, right?"
The mother gestured to the sweater and said a little sadly: "I don't know how old the children are, whether the sweater is too big or too small."
Shu Tinglan replied in her dream: "That's right, these two sweaters are just right."
"That's good, that's good." The mother's shadow became more and more blurred until she disappeared. She woke up suddenly, still holding the two sweaters in her hands, and suddenly there was an indescribable pain in her heart. The children continued
It was so cute that my mother didn’t have a chance to see it. In the middle of the night, I couldn’t help but shed tears, but I didn’t want to disturb Xiaoxin.
"Lawyer Shu, if you have anything sad, you can tell me at any time and I will keep it confidential for you." Xiaoxin said sincerely before going to bed.
Shu Tinglan did not answer any more. There were too many sad things for her, but none of them could be shared with outsiders. Just like returning to a familiar neighborhood or a familiar home in the evening, she was in a daze for that moment, and Zhuo Yuan was in a daze.
He would suddenly stand up from the kitchen or the bedroom and ask her, "Tinglan, what do you want to eat tonight?"
She didn't dare to stay at that house any longer. She almost ran away holding the sweater her mother knitted.
Fortunately, she walked fast enough, because when she just left the community, Zhuo Yuan from the other direction was driving slowly into the community and went upstairs to her house.