Chapter 2 The Camphor Encounter
When I got home, my brother seemed to have not come back yet, and the light was still shining in the bedrooms of my stepmother and father.
Gu Xiyan gently walked into the kitchen and was about to pour tea. However, the stepmother's loud and excited voice sounded in the room: "...If you don't say it, then let me tell you what the situation is now, don't you know... Xiaobao's girlfriend is pregnant... We are also people who raise children. Can't you let your daughter have an abortion..."
Gu Xiyan was a little surprised. Unexpectedly, her younger brother, who was five years younger than her, was about to become a father!
"This, this..." My father's voice was weak, "Are you not going to drive her away when you are like this?"
When the stepmother heard this, she became even more angry: "What do you mean by this... Since I married into your family, what do you think of your daughter? Have you not thought about your daughter? Is your daughter not sure about it... Not to mention anything else, there are two bedrooms and one living room at home. I will let Xiyan sleep in one room, and let her biological son sleep in the living room for ten years... But this time it's different, Xiaobao is going to get married! We can't afford to buy a house for him, so we have to live in a room..."
The father was silent.
The stepmother's voice was crying in her voice: "I have been a good person for so many years, and I still care about these few days... Isn't there really no way?"
Gu Xiyan could understand, and her face became hot, and a hint of shame also arose in her heart. The stepmother's words made sense. My father was just an ordinary middle school teacher. Her stepmother had been laid off at home. Now the prices are so rising. The living expenses Gu Xiyan gave me are simply dropping the bucket...
Thinking from the perspective of others, I may not be able to do better than her!
Gu Xiyan left the house in silence.
But after leaving the house, Gu Xiyan had nowhere to go.
She stood in the middle of the road and hesitated for a while. She ran to the supermarket to buy some cans of beer, sat next to the curb and started drinking.
Gu Xiyan can be regarded as a person who pays attention to image and has received a lot of relevant training in the workplace. But today, for some reason, I always want to indulge in my heart.
After drinking, everything in front of him became a little blurred. Gu Xiyan stumbled and stood up. She didn't know where to go, but she didn't want to go home anyway.
Some taxi drivers stopped in front of Gu Xiyan: "Miss, where are you going?"
Gu Xiyan looked at the driver and felt that he had a simple eyebrows. She lay on the car window and asked him: "Do you know there is a camphor tree forest that planted real camphor trees. When the wind blows, the fragrance will appear and disappear..."
The driver smiled generously: "That place is a famous love forest. Why don't you know? Get in the car and I'll take you there..."
Gu Xiyan got into the car and the driver nagged: "...Lost in love is not a great thing... I see that the lady is dressed properly and must be a white-collar worker. People like you all have a close mind and everything is in their hearts. When they are not satisfied, they only dare to drink and go crazy... Go there to mourn the dead love and calm down, there is no grass in the world..."
Gu Xiyan looked at the neon lights flashing like meteors outside the window, and two lines of tears couldn't help but flow down.
If the mother is still alive, Gu Xiyan will cry loudly like all girls. When she is heartbroken, she will complain loudly, and when she is not satisfied, she will criticize loudly... But Gu Xiyan cannot... Maybe it's because Gu Xiyan dares not... not someone who really cares about you, how can you be really sad for you? What's your crying, what's happening, is just a farce in the eyes of others... Gu Xiyan feels that her situation is already very sad, why bother people to watch the free eight-thirty plot... that will only make you feel even more pitiful...
Gu Xiyan returned to the camphor forest. She smelled the unique fragrance of camphor trees, and she felt much better than before.
There were obviously fewer people on the carved bench than when Gu Xiyan came for the first time. Gu Xiyan ran around the path in the forest, trying to find the bench she and Xiaolin had sat on. She turned around a few circles in a daze, but couldn't find the north at all. There was nothing around her. Perhaps because of drinking, Gu Xiyan's body became hot. She impatiently found a bench and sat down.
Looking up at the sky, she found that the moon was so bright, so bright, so cold...
When was the last time I watched the moon like this?
Gu Xiyan can no longer remember it. Life is too busy. No, this is not a reason, but an excuse. No, it is just a mood!
She lay casually on the bench, looking at the gray-blue sky, smelling the fragrance of camphor trees, and gradually falling asleep.
I don’t know how long it took, but Gu Xiyan suddenly woke up.
It was quiet all around, and even the wind seemed to be still, with a faint mist surrounding the motionless branches without any sound.
Why did you fall asleep in such a place?
It seems that you can really ***** after drinking. If something like "midnight **" appears at this time...
Gu Xiyan was sweating all over her clothes when she thought about it. She immediately sat up and took out her cell phone.
Don't know when it's time?
The phone has been turned off automatically.
Forget it, even if I don’t go home all night, I’m afraid no one will be unable to sleep because of this!
Looking at the dark green trees and the white fog, which is as beautiful as a Chinese static pastel painting, Gu Xiyan felt much better. Life is rare to have this quiet mentality that allows time to stay, and she couldn't help but sit quietly for a while. But those trivial matters in life are like little fleas, which make you feel uncomfortable. I have lived at home for ten years, and now it's time to move out. My stepmother said it was right, they were raised by my parents in life, so the girl will be her sister-in-law in the future, keeping her three-point affection for her, so she will meet again in the future... Although she is not a sibling with her father and mother, she is always the one with the most blood relationship in this world... And moving out is not a life-and-death juncture, and there are no things that can't be let go. Many of her colleagues also live in rental houses outside, and some of them are not as good as their own income...
Thinking of this, Gu Xiyan's heart that had been a little confused was slightly calmed down. She stood up and stretched, then took a deep breath, secretly "booster" herself before she stood up and prepared to go home.
At this moment, a timid voice suddenly came from behind: "Sister, sister, please stay!"
Gu Xiyan turned around.
Behind a camphor tree that was thickly embraced, a girl's face as white as pear blossoms popped out, and her waist-length hair rippled behind her.
Gu Xiyan looked around, and there were only two of them, and smiled and confirmed: "Are you calling me?"
The girl nodded and walked out from behind the camphor tree.
The girl's facial features were very magnificent, and her eyebrows were childish, but her big black and white eyes were full of aura. She asked Gu Xiyan arrogantly: "Who are you, why are you here?"
Gu Xiyan laughed. The girl was very thin and had no curves. Although she was about 1.62 meters tall, she could tell at a glance that she was a developing girl, and she would not be over fifteen years old at most. She wore a pajama with two-piece long-sleeved trousers in the body, and was shining with the unique cocoons of silk under the moonlight. The hands stretched out from her sleeves were as white as fat and as slender as green onions, and her nails were neatly cut into small moon buds...
When the girl saw Gu Xiyan looking at her, she immediately lowered her face and said, "What are you looking at?"
How could Gu Xiyan have a ignorant little girl? She smiled and said, "What's wrong with you?"
The girl bit her lips as delicate as peach blossoms, with a slightly unnatural expression, and her voice lowered a little, saying, "I, I'm lost..."
I said, why are there still a single girl wandering in this forest when it's so late?
Gu Xiyan smiled and said, "I'm not very familiar with this place. Let's all walk with you. How can you see?"
When the little girl heard Gu Xiyan say she was willing to walk out of this forest with her, her face showed joy like a sudden light of dawn. She smiled and pulled Gu Xiyan's arm, sighed a long time, and said, "Sister, thanks to meeting you. I have been in this forest for a long time... I am so scared!"
Gu Xiyan smiled.
Although she looks like she is not easy to get along with, she is a little girl after all... and she has a bit of a strong outside and dry inside!
Gu Xiyan took her to choose a direction and walked forward along the path.
On the way, the little girl turned her head and asked Gu Xiyan: "Sister, what's your name?" She showed that kind of arrogance again, destroying her quiet beauty like white pear blossoms. Gu Xiyan was a pity for her, but then she thought, why bother to care about so many people when we met by chance? She smiled and introduced herself: "My name is Gu Xiyan."
"Really?" the little girl jumped, "My name is Gu Xiyan too!"
Gu Xiyan was really surprised. The name Xiyan was a bit literary. It is said that when she was in love with Xiyan, her mother was fascinated by Qiong Yao's novels. Gu Xiyan lived to be twenty-five years old and had not met a person with the same name as her, let alone the same surname. Gu Xiyan immediately became more intimate with this little girl.
The little girl chirped, "I was born at dusk, so my father named me Xiyan. I also have a sister, who is about the same age as you, and is Chaorong, which was born when the sun was just born. Is it funny? I once asked Duan Niang why my sister was not called Xuri, which sounds much better than Chaorong..." At this point, she suddenly stopped and looked at Gu Xiyan awkwardly, "Sister, I have a lot to say! Duan Niang said that we are about to arrive in Shengjing, so that we must look like a lady of the Gu family, so that I can talk less in the future..."
Gu Xiyan has a miserable fate and is patient when encountering things, but she likes those little girls with a little willfulness the most. She thinks this is the mark of a happy life because she has something to rely on and has never seen anything dark... Just like a plant, it grows when it should grow leaves, and when it should bloom, it is a natural growth. So she patted the hand of the girl named Gu Xiyan and her, comforted her: "No, I love to listen to you very much, and I like it very much."
The little girl was really happy after hearing Gu Xiyan's words. She became more intimate with Gu Xiyan. She leaned her head on Gu Xiyan's shoulder and said, "Sister, I like you too. Duan Niang doesn't like me like this. She always cares about everything. Sometimes she says that I speak like a child's speech, sometimes she says that I am unsteady in walking... You don't know, she even asked a singer to teach me pronunciation, which was really annoying. Those lowly actors actually asked me to learn from them..."
Chapter completed!