Nanke Yifu Chapter 46
byLiving in the Wind and Staying in the Rain (18)
There were two things that surprised Yan Laixi. One was that no one asked about Chi Fu, and the other was the children’s enthusiasm for Fengsu.The latter doesn’t need to think about it to know who the reason is.
As soon as he entered the courtyard, Feng Su was surrounded by people. Yan Laixi, who was on the other side of the human wall, looked around and found the big girl in the wheelchair. He walked over and bent down and asked in a low voice: “What story are you making up again? Isn’t it strange?”
“I didn’t make anything up. I just said, ‘Our brother Xiaoxi dumped Xiaochi, so Xiaochi will not come again, but a stranger will come today. That person plans to monopolize brother Xiaoxi, and wants to play with brother Xiaoxi, so he pesters him to separate him.’ I woke up early and told everyone before you arrived.” Lin Yuyou said, “Of course, I only said the second part to the kids.”
Yan Laixi asked: “Did you tell your mother and sister Yue Heng?”
“Yes.” Lin Yuyou nodded and added, “There are several other brothers and sisters who have returned.”
The corner of Yan Laixi’s mouth couldn’t help but twitch. He just lost his love. There is really no need to tell the world like this, especially in such a way that distorts the facts.
Shame on you.
“Ah.” His eyes were drawn away, and his embarrassment drifted away.
An old man with gray hair walked slowly to the front of the crowd with a cane and a hunched back. He looked at the children with a kind face and nodded slightly to Feng Su as a greeting.
“Mom…” Yan Laixi ran over with a helpless tone.
Lin Yuyou also followed, turned around and said “Wow” to the woman supporting the old man next to him: “Sister Yue Heng is very good at her craftsmanship.”
The person being shouted chuckled and raised a finger to his lips.
Hearing this, Feng Su glanced at the old man more. His clothes were neat, his long hair was neatly tied up, and he was decorated with just the right hair accessories. It was neither ostentatious nor unconventional, but also added some elegance.
It was indeed good, Feng Suzai thought to himself, if Yan Laixi planned to grow his hair long in the future, he would definitely ask for advice.
If Yan Laixi grows her hair long… she should look good, no, she will definitely.
“It’s cold outside. Come in and warm yourself up first.” The old man spoke very slowly and in a strange voice. He put the crutch on the hand that was supporting his arm and patted the child next to him with his free hand.
The children who had originally surrounded Feng Su immediately separated a path and led them into the small building, half pushing and half hugging.
A person who would never take the initiative to get into a crowd was suddenly surrounded by a group of children, big and small. Everyone was confused for a moment. Feng Su subconsciously turned back to look for Yan Laixi, and happened to see the old lady with limited mobility with one hand on her waist. She was not standing very straight, but her back was straight. She also turned the crutch out of the flower with her other hand.
Even though she reacted instantly and returned to her “ordinary old lady” appearance, Feng Su would not suspect that he was deceived.
He doesn’t have such a rich imagination and can’t come up with such a picture.
The footsteps stopped in place, and for a moment, the noise stopped. All eyes converged on one place, and a chuckle broke the artificial “time still”.
“Mom, the secret has been revealed.” Yan Laixi said in a whisper, but in the silence, this sentence was a whisper to everyone.
The children laughed loudly, and the old lady threw away her crutches, straightened her back, waved her hands and strode towards the building, saying, “No more playing, no more, I’m going to wash my face.”
That was clearly the voice of a young woman.
Feng Su looked at Yan Laixi without knowing why, his eyes full of questions.
“Go in and talk.” Yan Laixi walked around the children and pushed the person inside, with a smile still on his face. Feng Su always felt that this person seemed to have relaxed a lot since entering the courtyard.
Is it because it’s a familiar environment and familiar people?
Sooner or later, he would make his home and the place around him more relaxing for Yan Laixi than here.
Looking at the person who reappeared in front of him, Feng Su finally knew what the phrase “his skills are good again” meant.
Zhujiu’s long hair turned into a uniform silvery white color and was spread down. He took a hair tie and tied it loosely into a low ponytail. The wrinkles and dark spots on his face and hands have disappeared. His gait is light, his posture is not very good, his face is not very beautiful, and his appearance has no features. You will never find it if you throw it into a crowd, and people will not be able to help but take a second look. This is if you don’t hear Yan Laixi’s “Mom” twice and the explanation just now.
Yan Laixi is twenty-seven this year. Even if Zhu Jiu becomes the dean with the eighteen-year-old Bian, and takes Yan Laixi back when he first takes over, she should be in her late forties this year, but she only looks like she is in her early twenties.
Zhu Jiu’s anomaly is definitely an anomaly that deserves to be envied.She can keep her body at any time in the past. Not only the appearance, but also the aging of organs, changes in bones, etc. will also change together. It can be said that she can truly maintain her youth forever.Youth, adolescence, childhood, and even infancy, she can achieve it as long as she wants, but the feeling of rapid changes in her body is too weird, so she will basically only stay in this period.
This “young girl” who is over 60 years old has a hobby, which is acting. She has been acting for decades. She is good at acting, but she is exposed faster and faster every time.The reason is basically the same as the situation just now. It can be summarized as not being interesting enough.
Although it doesn’t seem good to think about elders like this, maybe it’s because this elder is really not that old based on his appearance, or maybe Feng Su himself doesn’t have such good moral standards. He thinks that he probably knows who Lin Yuyou has that kind of temperament.With such a ungrateful mother, she spent a noisy but happy childhood, and gradually grew into what she is now.
Look at Yan Laixi on the other side. Sure enough, with more people, the probability of small-probability events not being so small.Lin Yuyou and Yan Laixi, who can barely be regarded as two extreme personalities, can be raised by the same person.
Although this will be affected by one’s own personality to a certain extent, Feng Su thought, if Yan Laixi, like Lin Yuyou, had never had the accident caused by the adoption when he was a child and had grown up here, would he be as lively as Lin Yuyou?
What will Yan Laixi be like when she grows up like this?
You may have many friends, and you may be so dazzling that you attract the attention of others wherever you go. You may always smile and be curious about many things. You may still be a person who always thinks about others, but you will not be too harsh on yourself. You may still value feelings and hate losing, but you will notIf you torment yourself so much that you almost lose half your life, you may run up to him in surprise and excitement when you see him for the first time, call out his name, tell him in a surprised tone that you will dream about him, ask him stories that you don’t know in reality, and tell him stories that he doesn’t know in dreams.
Probably not, after all, there are still the effects of dreams.
Is the formation of a person so complicated?
Moreover, if it was Yan Laixi like this… Feng Su thought, then Lin Yuyou wouldn’t have to worry about it as much as now, or it is possible that they would even have to go through Lin Yuyou before they could have a new intersection.
A small front yard, a three-story building, and a backyard with a small vegetable garden and a small pond are the entire area of this orphanage.It takes a lot of effort to clean up thoroughly and then dress up.The children were divided into groups and each area was separated. Each group brought one or two adults. Feng Su also helped along and was pulled to the backyard by several children.
Yes, Yan Laixi is in the front yard.
When the weather gets cold, the water in the pool will form a thin layer of ice, but the weather in the nest area is not enough for it to freeze solid. I am worried that a child will fall in, so I simply drain it early.Spring cleaning is a thorough cleaning. Every corner in the building must be cleaned, and no corner outside must be left behind. The pool must be jumped in and wiped clean, and the fences must be wiped clean one by one.
Feng Su carried the bucket and placed it by the fence. He twisted the rag in his hand and glanced at the pool. He found that the children were all on this side of the fence and there was no one on the other side.
There was no water inside, and it wasn’t very dirty. It didn’t look like everyone was unwilling to go, so Feng Su patted the girl closest to him and asked her, “Will the pool be cleaned later?”
The girl said “Ah”, as if she just remembered something, and said, “Brother Xiaochi and Brother Xiaoxi were the ones cleaning the pool before. I forgot.”
She took the hand of a smaller child and called to another child not far away. The three of them took their things and went to the pool.
“It was the same before”, “Brother Xiaochi and Brother Xiaoxi”.
In other words, Chi Fu often came here before, at least almost every year before the Chinese New Year, and when assigning tasks, he would be rarely assigned together with Yan Lai.
Why did Fengsu become one person after another when it was his turn?Is he so unlovable?
It is definitely useless to please Lin Yuyou. You need to find someone to ask for advice on how to win over children.Who to ask… I don’t know if Chen Mo is reliable in this, but it seems that this is the only option. Let’s try it later.
“Brother.”
A clear child’s voice sounded beside him. Feng Su looked around and saw that there was no one else, so he should be calling him.
He raised the corners of his lips, showed a just right smile, knelt down and responded in a warm voice: “What’s wrong?”
So flattering.
This is what Feng Su said to himself in his heart, and what made him think of this word was when he was facing a child.
“Can you help go outside and wipe the fence over there?” The child pointed to a two-story wooden house for cats and dogs on the edge of the yard. The wooden house was leaning against the side and blocking the fence behind it. “I can’t reach the back, and my mother said we are not allowed to go out by ourselves.”
“Okay.” Feng Su agreed first and looked at the height of the fence. It was actually okay to climb over it directly, but climbing over the fence in front of children… would give Lin Yuyou a chance to continue to damage his image, so he would just go around in a circle.
“Can you go find some other brother or sister to come over?” he said to the child.Just cleaning the yard doesn’t actually require anyone to watch. If anything happens, there are a few older-looking children here. But after all, it is my first time to come to Yan Laixi’s home with many children. I must eliminate the possibility of any negative accidents and let’s treat myself to paranoia.
The child nodded and ran away. Feng Su also turned around and continued to wipe his fence. When he heard the child calling him again and turned around, Feng Su instantly felt that the word that came out of his heart just now was simply nonsense.
This is not flattery, this is obviously sincerity for sincerity. When you show kindness to others, you will also get good results.This sentence is basically equivalent to fart in reality, but at this moment, Feng Su feels that it is a prophecy.
He thought that the child would go to the building and call someone he didn’t know to come out, but he didn’t expect that the other party would directly bring Yan Laixi over.
Although Yan Laixi was probably here to replace him, he only went around the fence to get to the back of the fence. He was only a few meters away, and he could still see people on the other side.
“What’s wrong?” Yan Laixi asked him. Apparently, he only received the instruction “Go over there” when he was called.
“Nothing.” Feng Su said, “I’m going to go outside to wipe it. There are no other adults here, so I thought I’d just call someone over.”
“There’s no danger, just let them stay here.” Yan Lai said with a thin smile, but had no intention of going back, “You go ahead, I’m here.”
Put aside the current scene and other conversations, just listen to this sentence “You go, I’m here”, it seems to have a hint of mutual trust, and the relationship is unusual at first sight.
Of course, these were all the thoughts of Feng Su, who was shaken out of his second personality by the sudden love. After a while, he would be scornful of this matter, and it was a feeling that came out of his head.
Maybe it was because the wrong tendon had not been put back yet. Feng Su walked out of the courtyard gate and walked around the back. He always felt that this road was indescribably familiar.
He had lived in Chaoyuan when he was a child, and it was normal for him to feel familiar. However, this familiarity was too shallow, like an illusion.
When he walked to the position next to the cabin, Feng Su remembered that he didn’t even take a rag and came out empty-handed. He wanted to ask Yan Laixi to help pass it to him, but he saw him squatting by the pool and helping the child below to climb up. Then he stood up and took two steps back to leave enough space.
Something seemed to be coming out of his mind. Yan Laixi looked over and trotted over. The scene that had long been forgotten in the abyss of memory overlapped with a similar scene across time and space, and gradually became clear.
In midsummer, the little figure was so scared that he couldn’t help but retreat by the pool, the medical dressing exposed under his shorts, the beautiful child he caught a glimpse of running towards him, the tears that fell quietly, a look at each other, a moment of encounter.
“So we’ve met before.” Feng Su said blankly.
Yan Laixi tilted his head, not understanding his sudden words: “Huh?”
“We have met before.” Feng Su said, his tone gradually becoming a little more excited, something Yan Laixi had never seen before, “When I was a child, in summer, you were still injured on your leg, and you ran towards me by the pool.”
Not to mention that Yan Laixi had never met before, Feng Su himself probably didn’t know the last time he felt such obvious excitement.
He is not a person with a lot of emotions. Expectation, touching, gratified, excited, nervous, and sad are actually very vague words to him. Some of them he felt for the first time when he was a teenager, and some of them have never been experienced at all until now.It wasn’t until Yan Laixi appeared that his emotions seemed to have ideas of their own, and began to frequently control him to do behaviors he couldn’t understand. Although there was no great progress, and most of the emotions he had never experienced before were still unexperienced, but it did bring him many experiences that he didn’t usually have. Recently, he had been vaguely exposed to what love is.
It turns out that there really are people who are destined to be special. It turns out that there really is a destiny.
Feng Su didn’t believe in the existence of the so-called fate, but he thought that if it was used as a description, he would be happy to use such words on Yan Laixi.
Yan Laixi on the opposite side was also a little stunned. He placed his fingers on the pattern between the two railings. From the mountains and seas of memories, he filtered out a small part according to the prompts Feng Su gave him and searched for that fragment.
“You were standing right here, playing with the kitten inside through the window of the wooden house, and then I ran towards you.” Yan Laixi said, his fingers tightening unconsciously, “But I didn’t touch you, and I didn’t talk to you. A man took you away. I didn’t dare to call you, so I just watched you walk away… You glanced at me, but didn’t say anything.”
“Well, the person who took me away was my dad, and I saw you crying last time.” Feng Su said. He put his hand on the back of Yan Laixi’s hand, and the fingers were facing each other, which could be regarded as interlocking. “But I didn’t just glance at you. I noticed you before you saw me. I was also secretly looking at you when you ran over.”
“I thought I was dreaming that time too,” Yan Laixi said.
“No, it’s true, we met when we were kids.” Feng Su said, with unconcealed excitement in his words, “Don’t you think it’s amazing? We have actually met before, and we can remember it again. If I hadn’t just seen you retreating by the pool, and saw you running over, I definitely wouldn’t have remembered it.”
Yan Laixi: “After all, I didn’t even say a word, why can you still remember…”
“What’s the reason for this?” Feng Su laughed, shook Yan Laixi’s hand, and said, “No one will take me away this time. Is there anything you want to say or do?”
Yan Laixi raised his head. After more than twenty years, the sight of each other was so clear this time. It seemed that he could see his own reflection in the eyes so close. He smiled and said, “So you came to see me so early.”