Jia Ru can come back

Chapter 54

In fact, there are omens.

When I went home every week when I was in the second year of junior high school, I always felt that the atmosphere at home was a bit bad. My parents always had a straight face, and I didn't dare to talk too much.Zhou Yu went to a key high school with closed education, and he could leave school once a month. I would stay at school that weekend and call home. My mother never asked more questions, and always hung up in a hurry.

I was usually very happy that weekend because I spent it with Zhou Yu.

He would take me to the city to eat, eat a shop on a street from the street to the end of the street, and then move to the snack street.In comparison, the snack street has become our regular base.

Another place I often go to is the bookstore, because I can not only read books there, but also sit there for free. I usually bring my homework to do, and there are ready-made "teachers" around me who don't know it.

Zhou Yu asked me to take the exam in his key high school. For this purpose, he spared no effort to supervise my homework.

However, on the eve of the junior high school entrance examination, an important event happened at home.

Mom and Dad are divorced.

It wasn't a weekend that day, it was Wednesday. I just returned to the dormitory after school, when I received a call from my mother asking me to go home, with a serious tone.I packed my schoolbag and rode home. When I got home, it was already dark. When I opened the door, I saw my father sitting in the house smoking a cigarette. When he saw me coming back, he greeted me with a smile, "Xiao Ru, you're back."

I don't know if it's my illusion, but Dad's smile looks a bit forced.

My mother came out of the house with a serious face, but she still told me: "Go and wash your hands and come to eat dinner."

I washed my hands and went back to the table. After taking two bites, I realized that my parents didn't move their chopsticks. The atmosphere really made me unable to eat, and I quickly finished the rice in the bowl and put down the chopsticks.

At this time, my mother said: "Xiao Ru, I called you back today because I have something to announce to you."

I felt anxious all of a sudden, and found that my father sitting across from me had no smile on his mouth, while my mother had a serious face.

"What's the matter?" I asked in a low voice.

It was still the mother who said: "I have agreed to a divorce with your father."

At that time, my mind went blank, and I was already in the third year of junior high school, so I was not so ignorant that I didn't even understand divorce.

I looked at my mother, and then at my father. My mother's eyes were fixed on me, but my father just buried his head and remained silent.

Meaning - are they going to separate?

My mother asked me directly: "Do you want to follow your father or follow me?"

"I..." I was at a loss. There were countless multiple-choice questions on the exam paper, but this multiple-choice question was very unfamiliar.

"Your father will leave this family. If you follow him, you will move in with him. If you follow me, you will still live at home. Xiaoru, you are growing up too. We respect your own choice in this matter."

There are not many times in my life when I have to make a big decision, let alone a situation like this.

Seeing that I had no idea, they didn't force me to give an answer immediately. My mother asked me to wash up and go to bed early, and I'll talk about it tomorrow morning.I lay on the bed tossing and turning and couldn't sleep. I quietly got up when there was no movement downstairs, and I tiptoed downstairs to make a phone call.

After beeping twice, the person on the other side picked up and asked, "Hello? Who are you looking for?"

"I'm looking for Zhou Yu."

Hearing the microphone put down over there, he raised his voice and shouted: "Young Master Zhou, there is a girl looking for you."

After a while, Zhou Yu's voice appeared on the phone: "Hello?"

"It's me." I said softly.

"Jia Xiaoru? Why did you think of calling me?"

I hesitated.

Zhou Yu didn't know that I was struggling at the moment, so he was still teasing: "Could it be that you miss me so much that you can't sleep?"

At this time, I didn't have the heart to pay attention to what he said, and I was hesitating in my mind whether to tell him about the family matter.He also seemed to realize that I was not in the right mood, so he got serious and asked, "Jia Xiaoru, do you really need me?"

"Zhou Gongjin," I paused, and said in a soft voice, "My parents are getting divorced."

The silence on the other end made me feel shy, ashamed and embarrassed, and I was eager to hang up the phone: "Stop talking."

Zhou Yu shouted anxiously: "Don't hang up! Hey, hey? Jia Xiaoru? Are you still listening?"

"Still."

"Jia Xiaoru, where are you now? School? Did your family call you about this? No, you wait for me, I'll come over right now."

Hearing his anxious voice, he suddenly felt the restlessness in his heart fading away, interrupting his fuss: "I'm at home."

He should have been stunned on the other end of the phone, "Huh? Oh, you're at home."

"My mom asked me who I was going to follow."

"This matter..." It may be related to me, and he couldn't make up his mind for me for a while, so it was a bit embarrassing for him.

Suddenly hearing footsteps coming downstairs, I was too shocked to make a sound and hung up the phone directly, praying in my heart that Zhou Yu would never call back.Turning around, I saw a black figure coming down the stairs, and a question came from the darkness: "Xiao Ru?"

It's dad.

Dad called me to the front room to sit down. He took out the cigarette case from his trouser pocket and stuffed it back.

Dad said that he and his mother had a bad relationship for a long time. After more than two years, they couldn't drag it on, so they decided to agree to a divorce; Running around, living without a fixed place, and I want to study, he has no spare energy to take care of me; he also said that it is not to shirk the responsibility of being a father, he will send alimony to my mother every month, and will For me to study to graduate from college.

After listening to what he said, I just asked: What happened to you and Mom?
There is always a reason for a bad relationship. It is impossible for their husband and wife to have a bad relationship after more than ten years.

Dad took out the cigarette again, but came to ask me: Can Dad smoke one?
I have no objection.

After he lit the cigarette and took a big puff, his brows that had been frowning all the time relaxed a little, and he slowly told the whole story.

It turns out that the roots started when I was still in the first grade of junior high school.

I still remember that when I was hospitalized with my head smashed, my father performed a trick for me when he picked me up and left the hospital. He said it was not a trick, but magic.And the relationship between him and his mother fell into a trough because of this magic.

After my father was laid off from his original unit, he was introduced to work in a circus and embarked on the road of a magician.My mother strongly disapproved of this at the beginning, but my father insisted on doing this, which caused various conflicts in the future.

The reason is nothing more than the most realistic thing: one is that the circus often travels to other places for performances, and there is no fixed workplace; the other is that in the eyes of the public, they don’t know what magic is. Liar; the third is that the remuneration received is too small, which cannot be compared with the stable job of my father before, so the family life has become difficult.

The so-called poor couple's sorrow may be like this. If the family life is worry-free and the father is not laid off, then it is impossible for him and his mother to get divorced.When I was not at home, they quarreled countless times until the passion for the quarrel gradually disappeared. Mom gave up on Dad and finally filed for divorce.

I asked Dad if he regretted it?He thought for a long time and said to me earnestly, he said——

If you ask me if I have any regrets about your mother, I must regret it, and I shouldn’t have neglected my family when the focus of work shifts. If you ask me if I have any regrets about my job as a magician, my answer is no.Magic is a magical thing. It has a strong sense of belief. When you believe in it, you will find that there is a magical power that takes you to another world.

Dad's eyes lit up when he talked about magic.

I have never seen him like this before, and I couldn't help asking: Is there really magic in this world?

Dad laughed first when he heard the words, stretched out his hand to rub my hair, and invited me in a gentle and doting tone, saying that there was a performance at the playground on the weekend, and asked me to watch his performance too.

I went to the playground on weekends with Zhou Yu.

It's not that I called him, but he came to me himself.He wanted to sneak out of the school after learning about the accident at my house on Wednesday, but I stopped him. When I heard that I was going to the playground on the weekend, he even took the temperature of my forehead with his hand, and then asked me suspiciously. Didn't he get so stimulated that he lost his mind?
I ignored him. Although I told him about the divorce between my parents, I didn't want to talk about the details.

The playground is very big and there are many people. I don't know where to watch the show.It was Zhou Yu who led me to find it. When I entered, the acrobatics of stacking stools was being performed on the stage, and there were more than a dozen people sitting bustling below watching.

When I sat down, I looked around the stage first, but I didn't find my dad, and I didn't know where his show was.

Using the excuse of going to the toilet, I sneaked to the backstage, but quickly came out again.

I saw the figure of my father, and just heard him talking to someone, but he was begging the person who might be the head of the group to let him perform, because his daughter came.I probably understand the reason why my father's income is not high. The magic show is not liked by the audience. Maybe the head of the group wants to withdraw this show.

When I got back to my seat, Zhou Yu was very bored, and asked me why I had been away for so long. Seeing that I was silent, he looked at my face again, and then stopped asking, and restrained his attitude, and accompanied me to watch the performance on the stage seriously.

I didn't think too much when the large props were pushed onto the stage, but when I saw my father appearing on the stage, I immediately lifted my spirits, and the magic show was about to begin.

Zhou Yu gasped in surprise when he saw half of it, and shouted, "Isn't that your father?"

I stared at the stage intently and only hummed lightly.

I saw my dad use the escalator to climb up the big wooden box that was pushed onto the stage before. The big wooden box was more than five meters high. Someone wanted to fasten a seat belt for Dad, but he took a deep look in my direction and shook his head. Refused.

I don't know what to do next, but my heart beats inexplicably.

Then, I witnessed my dad flying over the wall on the side wall of the big wooden box!

There were constant exclamations from below, and some people even stood up excitedly. Everyone felt that the scene before them was inconceivable.I couldn't help myself from standing up from the chair. Unlike others, my heart was clenched. Every second I was afraid that my father would fall from the side wall of the wooden box. How could it be possible to walk sideways on a vertical plane?

I didn't let go of my held breath until my dad safely reached the ground and stood up normally.

In the silence of the audience, fierce applause suddenly broke out-from me.

Then there was thunderous applause.

(End of this chapter)