under the spotlight

Chapter 260

A road, winding, along a green water, facing the verdant green hills, the light fog in the morning shrouded the green water, I don't know whether it is the green of the mountains or the green of the water. The fog belt is also dyed green.

Ran Zhen was driving the car on this road that calmed people down inexplicably. The even breathing of Ran Yifan made her feel at ease. She woke up too early in the morning and did not wake up from dozing off. She was sitting in the child safety seat in the back row He slept soundly in the chair.

I don’t know if everyone has more or less unforgivable past events in their hearts. When they happened at the beginning, they always thought it was the most correct choice in this life. In fact, looking back, it turned into a painful youth.

If you experience it again, will you still choose that way?Looking back at the past with the experience and wisdom of a middle-aged man, Ran Zhen thought of it countless times, couldn't help covering his face in his heart countless times, and would even swear at himself without hesitation. How could he be so stupid back then?

Where did those willful courage and confidence come from?Ran Zhen asked herself countless times, and the only answer she got was that she had never rebelled when she was a child, but she suddenly rebelled when she was an adult.

However, Ran Zhen would not reveal these words no matter what, because for little Yifan, this was the most unfair thought and thought.

If it is unfair to children, how can it be fair to parents?They have been proud of themselves since they were young, and they have tried their best to cultivate themselves to grow up, but in the end, it is themselves who have stabbed them with the strongest knife.

The two people who were decent all their lives were unwilling to live in the unit's house anymore. At a young age, they abruptly left the small building in the compound and went outside to buy an elevator room to live in. Ran Zhen knew very well what the reason was.

Even she once thought to herself, this is my own private matter, what other people say, why should I care, but, after a few years, looking back, who is not living in the eyes and saliva of others of?

I heard that my father retired this year. Originally, it shouldn't be so fast. Ran Zhen knew that this had something to do with me. Some things are quite different when I lose my temper.

Mother retired from illness, the family moved, and father retired. They didn't call themselves, and Ran Zhen didn't dare to go back...

Her face was wet and warm, and Ran Zhen had to park the car on the side of the road, because her eyes were blurred, and she couldn't remember how long she hadn't had such mood swings. Tears, for her, had long been a luxury. But at this moment, it was like a flood that had opened its gates, unable to restrain itself, it poured down.

"Mom, are you crying?" Sensing the car stopped, Yifan also woke up.

Ran Zhen didn't dare to turn her head back, and even slowed down her heavy breathing a bit. She hurriedly took out a tissue and wiped the tears on her face, before turning her head with a smile: "Are you hungry? Let's wait until the next day." How about finding a place to have breakfast ahead?"

Yifan shook his head: "Mom, your eyes are red from crying, do you miss your mother as much as I do?"

Pursing her lips, Ran Zhen suddenly felt her heart swell. The long-forgotten feeling of missing her parents was like this. It gushed out and caught people off guard!
"Yes, mom misses mom too, and dad too!"

"Then mom will go to find mom and dad. When I miss mom, I want to see mom right away. Mom, can Yifan see dad?"

Listening to the child's long list of tongue-twister parents, Ran Zhen could understand that his son missed his father.

Ran Zhen could only make her smile bigger, and her tone was extremely gentle and patient: "Dad has gone to a far away place, in a foreign country, and I don't know when he will be back, but Mom can take you to find grandpa and grandma, okay?"

The child's hopeful eyes dimmed in an instant. Dad went to a foreign country where there was no mobile phone signal. He had heard this answer countless times, but he still couldn't help but want to ask.

"Okay then, mom, if dad comes back, will he come to see me?" Yifan raised a little hope again.

"Yes, I will!" It's not that I didn't want Fa Xiao to continue this father's deception, but he also really went abroad, and his life was not very good, it was really not very good, so bad that I don't know How long does the medicine last.

Can't help biting his lips and sighing, Ran Zhen changed the topic: "Let's go to see grandpa and grandma after breakfast, shall we?"

Yifan was not in a good mood, so he nodded sullenly, and silently took a bottle of milk and drank it himself first.

Two hundred kilometers, whether it is far or near, Ran Zhen drove the car, got off the highway, and returned to the city where he grew up, but he became extremely strange, especially his parents' new house, which could only rely on navigation. to go home.

It turns out that there is a big difference between what I heard and what I saw with my own eyes. The community is quite large, and the area near the lake is full of six-story bungalows. Only the outer circle facing the street is the tall elevator room.

The lake is a newly developed civic leisure scenic spot at the southern end of the city. On one side of the lake is a high-end residential area. The greenery in the residential area and the greenery in the scenic area outside the iron fence spread into one. On the opposite side is a commercial block and leisure square. Connected, tall trees, short shrubs, and colorful flowers form an interesting contrast, which is quite pleasing to the eye.

Although the two elders live in such a place, although they are not as grand as they used to be in the compound, it is still a pretty good place, and Ran Zhen feels at ease.

This is a first-floor end house with the best view of the lake. The yard is extremely clean. Through the wooden fence door, it is not clear what the inside looks like, but it is my mother's usual clean style.

Ran Yifan saw his mother standing in front of the door without moving, so he rang the doorbell without hesitation.

Hearing the ringing of the bell, Ran Zhen's heart trembled instinctively, his palms suddenly became damp, and he bit his lips habitually, feeling the urge to run away, but Yifan's little hand was in his own, so how could he? What about taking a step back?

"Come here, who is it?" The voice of the woman in the door came from far to near, and Ran Zhen was very familiar with it. If it's not her mother, who is it?
The door was pushed open from the inside with a bang, and Ran Zhen led Yifan to the door. The mother inside the door put her hand on the door, and instantly petrified, her eyes moved from Ran Zhen to Yifan, and her eye sockets instantly turned red...

"mom……"

"Damn girl, do you still know to come back?"

Ran's mother raised her hand, and wanted to slap it down, but seeing Yifan's stern eyes, she could only fold it down suddenly, and took Yifan's hand from her daughter.

"Grandma, are you grandma?" Yifan's eyes sparkled.

"Yes, yes, I am grandma, Yifan doesn't remember grandma?"

"I remember, but the grandma in the photo album at home has black hair, grandma, why is your hair gray?"

Ran's mother wanted to hug Yifan very much, but found that he had grown to a weight she couldn't bear: "Yes, yes, grandma's hair is turning gray when she gets old..."

Ran Zhen really wished that her mother's slap would slap her firmly on her body. Since she was a child, her mother had never touched a finger of her. But at this moment, seeing her mother who loved beauty before, her hair was already mottled like this, and her face no longer looked like this. She used to be rosy and lustrous, she really wanted to slap herself, the kind of slap that hurt so much that her whole body trembled!

In any case, it was better than the pain in her heart at this moment. She stood at the door, watching her mother try to hug Yifan but couldn't, she couldn't help it anymore, and started to cry like rain.

"How old are you? You're still the same as when you were a child. Why don't you come in soon? What are you doing standing at the door?" A gentle male voice sounded, and the pampering in the words was as reserved as before.

When Ran Zhen raised his head, the male voice raised his tone again, and a pair of big hands patted the child, and then stretched out: "Yifan, come to grandpa quickly, grandpa hugs!"

"Grandpa, grandpa, you are exactly the same as in the photo!"

"Dad..." Ran Zhen wiped away her tears, and called a thousand times, until the tall old man's heart trembled.

……

After entering the house, the old couple’s attention was completely focused on the children, consciously or unconsciously. Grandma was busy cutting watermelon and getting food, and grandpa took the children to the back yard to show them the amusement facilities prepared for them. .

The yard at the back is bigger than the front. It doesn’t have a few ridges of vegetable fields, flower beds or terraces like the neighbors’ houses. Instead, it’s flat and flat. A swing with a shed is installed facing the lake, and there are boxes without boxes. The disassembled toys, electronic organs, and even bicycles, there are three from small to large, and there is also a toy racing car that can be charged, all wiped clean without any dust.

The old man taught Yifan to drive a toy car in a few moments. The children drove the car around the yard, and the laughter spread into the house. Ran Zhen stood under the eaves of the door with a glass of water, looking at the old man's back , My heart is sore.

They have long been prepared to welcome themselves back at any time. The purpose of buying this house is not for them to get rid of their previous environment, but for their mother and son to come back and have a free living environment. Three bicycles are three years. I buy one for my birthday every year, but it fails every year.

Ran Zhen clenched the cup in her hand, sipped the jasmine tea in the cup, and forced herself to suppress the tears that could not be suppressed at all.

"I heard that your law firm is doing well, and your teacher is quite pleased, that's all!" The old man stood quietly in front of her, his eyes glued to the child.

Ran Zhen stretched out a hand cautiously, and wrapped his arms around his father's arm as he did many years ago, and shook it lightly: "Dad, I'm sorry!"

The old man didn't look back: "Don't cry, why are you still living and getting younger, let Yifan see it, what will it look like?"

Ran Zhen bit her lip, leaned her forehead on her father's broad shoulders, tears fell on her father's body in big drops, heart-piercing but finally settled - at ease!

Feeling that his daughter finally calmed down, the old man asked, "Did you suffer some kind of grievance?"

I don't know why, but at this moment, Ran Zhen really didn't want to hide in front of his father anymore, sniffed, and said in a very soft voice, "Yifan, Yifan's father, I met him."

Such a wise old man naturally knew the meaning of Ran Zhen's words. He didn't say anything for a long time. After a long time, he turned around and lowered his voice: "Does Yifan know? Does he know Yifan?"

"I don't know, I mean, I don't know!"

The old man turned his head to look at his daughter again, and sighed silently. The daughter who thought she should be more mature, at this moment, turned into the appearance of doing something wrong when she was a child again, with a clear look in her eyes.

In the ears were the excited laughter of the children having fun, the old man didn't speak, this is really not the time to talk about this.

The child got up too early, and was fed by grandma at noon, so he started to wilt, and fell asleep after a while.

I don't remember how long it has been since I sat down with my parents and talked so seriously. Ran Zhen honestly explained the matter of Fan Qigang clearly.

The old couple had made countless guesses in the past, and it wasn't that they hadn't thought about this possibility. Although they had never seen this person before, and they didn't know who this person was, but the situation before them, according to their understanding of their daughter, if there was no such possibility at all. Mind, it will not be what it is today.

The old lady still felt sorry for her daughter, and said first: "If you say that the times are different now, it is not impossible to take care of the child by yourself, but how hard it is, you should have felt it in the past few years."

The old man thought more: "This person is not simple. No one knows what he means. Some things seem simple, but this is not the case of reunification. Besides, if you think about it a little further, if it is good, you can still It’s easy to say, if it’s not good, I’m afraid it will be…”

The old man had been so particular about his words all his life, the old lady didn't think so much at first, but now her face turned pale.

As soon as Ran Zhen heard it, she understood that this was something she hadn't even considered. She didn't talk about reputation and disrepute in front of her children, but only said that she really accepted Fan Qigang. When the trouble got to the point of separation, he would bring up Yifan's life experience to talk about it. At that time, Yifan was too old, and he was not as comfortable as he is now.

The old man studied law and worked in the court. Ran Zhen is a lawyer. He has seen the ugliest side of human nature. The divorced parties who appeared in front of them could not see the happiness and beauty of the past, but could only see each other. Spare no effort to stab the knife.

Seeing his wife and daughter's complexion, the old man couldn't bear it, he turned around and said, "Of course, you always have to look at the good side when looking at people. You should also work hard in the best direction. You are now in your 30s, and you already have a certain amount of experience. We have never met anyone before, so it is not easy to comment..."

The old lady was said to be anxious: "You old man, what a big deal, the child has been killed... Forget it, the past is over, what I mean is, no matter what, you can't just ignore it. "

Ran Zhen felt hot and sniffed: "Dad, Mom, you haven't been to the house I bought, and I'm usually busy with work. Why don't you live with me for a while? Yifan is going to elementary school soon. ..."

(End of this chapter)