You stay in my heart

chapter ten

That evening, when Xie Pingchuan came home from the backyard, the lights in his house were already out.

He walked straight through the living room without turning on the chandelier. Passing his parents' bedroom in the dark, he noticed a crack in the bedroom door and heard his mother say, "Do you really want to buy the neighbor's painting?"

Xie Pingchuan knew, of course, that Xu Bai's mother was a painter. So he stepped with a stop and stood at the door of the room.

Xie Pingchuan's father said slowly, "What else do you want me to say? I just want to buy a painting."

My mother was applying a facial mask, lying on a soft chair in her bedroom, with a few thorns in her mouth: "Can't you buy other people's paintings?" You must buy her paintings."

Xie Pingchuan's father set high standards for himself. Over the years, he has done the right thing, has a clear conscience, and speaks with confidence: "My sister is coming to meet me at the airport in California, what gift is appropriate for her?" Bringing a painting is just a matter of course."

Mother said: "At the end of last month, I bought a piece of Hetian jade, the quality is good, then give it to her."

Father still insisted: "The neighbor has a few paintings, really good painting, color and mood are very good."

It was cold at night, and there were few people at home. Usually large room, only Xie Pingchuan figure, now parents put down work, finally returned to the family, but the indoor atmosphere is not harmonious, lurking the smell of gunpowder is not easy to detect.

Xie Pingchuan's mother said angrily, "Are my words not clear enough? Go ahead and buy it if you have to."

She lay upright, properly maintained face, and did not pull out the expression, the words also suddenly no emotion: "you want to buy how much to buy, I will not stop you."

The other side of the father compromise: "Forget it, I don't buy, home and everything."

The mother replied, "Just so you know."

This kind of meaningless dispute is something Xie Pingchuan has been used to since he was a child - generally, it ends in a compromise on both sides.

Xie Pingchuan too lazy to listen, he left.

He did not hear his mother's next words: "This June, our whole family will go abroad, once this house is sold, we will not come back." You have nothing to lose?"

Xie Pingchuan's father said, "I have nothing to give up, but Xie Pingchuan, I see that he has a good relationship with Xu Bai." Xu Bai, that child, has no heart, and looks very nice..."

"He's still young," Mr. Xie's mother interrupted. "When he grows up, his horizons will broaden."

Xie Pingchuan's father said: "My son told me that he wants to go back to China after finishing school."

He paused and then added, "Let my son follow his own interests. He has grown up."

This did not go down well with his wife.

After lying flat for a while, she changed the subject and said, "Did I tell you that last week on Suzhou Street, I was driving by, and I saw Xu Bai's father and another..."

"One" after what she said, Xie Pingchuan's father did not hear.

So he asked, "Why, who did you see?"

Xie Pingchuan's mother unveiled the mask and turned to the bathroom to apply the face, she only left a sentence: "Nothing, other people's housework, we'd better leave it alone."

Xie Pingchuan's father did not ask again.

After a few days in the evening, Xie Pingchuan as usual, and Xu Bai together back home. Since the beginning of spring season, the grass and trees have been pulling seedlings, and the yard has a light green, Xu Bai's cat squatted on the side of the flower pot, stretching a pair of cat claws to its owner.

Xu Bai paid no attention to the cat.

Xu Bai said: "My parents are not at home tonight, but I forgot to go to the supermarket to buy food."

The kitchen refrigerator drawer was empty, she found this before leaving in the morning, originally planned to go to the supermarket after school, but on the way home, she was worried about talking to Xie Pingchuan, nothing else.

Xie Pingchuan was about to say goodbye to her, when she heard this sentence, he immediately proposed: "Let's go to my home."

He didn't give her time to think. As soon as he said that, he took her by the wrist and dragged her into the house-but Xie Pingchuan neglected to note that his parents were also at home this evening.

Across a screen in the entrance, Xie Pingchuan's father made a pot of tea and sat on the sofa with a newspaper in hand. On the other side, Xie Pingchuan's mother is on the phone with someone, talking and laughing on the mobile phone, paying no attention to her son taking the little girl home.

There was a busy figure in the kitchen, belonging to the family's maid. Xu Bai did not know how many dishes the aunt had cooked, but the smell of the food wafted through the corridor and all the way into the spacious and bright living room.

This is not Xu Bai's first visit to Xie Pingchuan's home, in fact, she has been here countless times. Today, however, was different, and there was an inexpressible strangeness about her.

She wondered why -- maybe it was because she felt calmer and more relaxed when she was alone with Xie.

Xie Pingchuan's father was the first to discover them. He put away the newspaper in his hand and said with a gentle smile, "Hey, isn't this Xiao Bai?" Then he looked at his watch: "You guys finish school early today."

Xie Pingchuan put down his bag and said, "There is no one at home today. I invited her to come over for dinner."

He made sense, followed by another: "There are only three chairs in the dining room, I will go to the study to get another one."

Xu Bai, as a person who comes to dinner, is still a little embarrassed. Although their home and Xie Pingchuan home is a decade of old neighbors, but because Xie Pingchuan's parents are not at home all year round, Xu Bai felt that the relationship between the two can not be considered close.

Xu Bai's father is more familiar, every encounter Xie Pingchuan his father, to "old Xie" as a proxy, and to "old friends" self-regard.

Xie Pingchuan's father would also be polite with him, but the two had little interaction in private, in Xie Pingchuan's parents, although they lived together in the courtyard, their relationship with each other was more like neighbors in a single-family apartment.

The adult world is always more complex, with pros and cons to consider. However, when Xu Bai and Xie Pingchuan first met, they were just two children who had not opened their minds, their ages were similar, their personalities were compatible, and it was unlikely that they would have a bad relationship.

Xie Pingchuan's mother thought so, and her attitude toward Xu Bai was a little more gentle: "Xiao Bai, you are fifteen years old this year, and you will soon grow up to be a big girl."

There were only Xie Pingchuan's parents and Xu Bai in the living room. Xie Pingchuan went to the study to move a chair, Xu Bai still stay in the living room and talk to his parents.

Xu Bai responded to Xie's mother by saying, "Yes, I am almost an adult."

"Have you thought about where you're going to college?" Xie Pingchuan's mother picked up the teacup, sipped the tea and said, "Xie Pingchuan considered early, he wanted to go to the United States to study in the second day of the middle school, now count up, he prepared for five years ah." Even as a mother, I don't know how much work he put into it."

Xu Bai could not hear her voice-over, thinking that she was simply asking... My own plans for the future.

The new semester has begun for more than a month, and Xu Bai's third year of junior high is coming to an end. Her performance is in the middle of the class ranking. She has a wide range of high school choices, including not only the high school of our school, but also other schools in Haidian District.

But she was young and had no clear choice. She just wants to go with the flow and keep doing what she loves.

So Xu Bai said, "I haven't decided where to go to college yet, because I haven't graduated from middle school yet."

Xie Pingchuan's mother smiled and said, "Don't worry, think slowly, you are only fifteen years old, there is nothing to worry about."

Xie Pingchuan's mother also wears high heels at home, eight centimeters high heels, red and black leather. She gracefully c****d her legs as she talked to Xu Bai, who was close enough to smell the perfume.

The chandelier in the living room was shining, the marble tiles on the floor were reflecting, and Xu Bai was standing on a tile, his hands behind his back, facing Xie Pingchuan's mother, listening to her one-sided conversation.

Xie Pingchuan's mother said: "If you want to come to California in the future, you can contact us first. Oh, by the way, Xie Pingchuan's aunt is also in California, and when we get there, his aunt wants to introduce him to some friends, peers can play together."

Xu Bai repeated, "Is it the same age?"

"Yes," Xie Pingchuan's mother responded warmly with a smile, "there are boys and girls, and the girls are pretty and easy to get along with." I want Ogawa to integrate with them as soon as possible, the new generation of immigrants, in fact, there are many problems."

Xie Pingchuan's mother pays attention to speaking skills, this time, Xu Bai finally understood how to connect.

Xu Bai recalled the previous sentence: "to introduce friends to Xie Pingchuan", and the next sentence: "The girls are very good-looking, personality is easy to get along with."

It was as if there were something she could not now understand and could not control.

Xu Bai lowered his head and did not speak.

Perhaps because she is beautiful, her wronged look is very cute.

No wonder her son is so interested in her. Xie Pingchuan's mother thought.

But even Xie Pingchuan's mother, seeing Xu Bai at the moment, could not help but stand up and touch Xu Bai's head.

She spoke in a more gentle tone: "Little white, aunt just said that you want to go to California in the future, you can come to our house." Where else do you want to play, aunt will find you a guide."

When Xie Pingchuan appeared with a chair, he only heard this word from his mother.

In addition to a chair, he took a bag of snacks. It was filled with fruit and cookies. The cookies were sweet cookies, and the flavors were only strawberry and chocolate. In a word, that was Xu Bai's favorite flavor.

Whenever Xie Pingchuan went to the supermarket to buy something, he would make a backup for Xu Bai, in order to deal with this situation - Xu Bai told him that she had no food at home.

Xie Pingchuan carried the bag of snacks and put the chair in the restaurant. Then he returned to the living room and gave the bag of food to Xu Bai.

"You don't need to go to the supermarket today," Xie Pingchuan and Xu Bai said. "You can go tomorrow."

Xu Bai held the plastic bag, as usual: "Thank you brother."

His parents were still in the living room, but Xie, who had made a habit of it, responded with a smile: "You're welcome."

His father just smiled, but his mother said, "That's nice. You look just like brother and sister."

The mother sat on the sofa with a teacup, her red-dyed fingernails pressed against the mouth of the teacup, still sitting in a dignified and elegant manner. She asked in a relaxed voice, "Ogawa, you grew up with Xiaobai, did you treat her as your own sister?"

Xie Pingchuan did not think much, and even if he thought much, he would not explain, and he casually answered: "Yes, otherwise."

Yes, or else.

The heart is not enough to swallow the elephant, what kind of result do you expect?

Xu Bai asked himself, ask why not.

She did not know if her mind is sensitive, the ear suddenly seemed to be "buzz" for a while. It's a pain in the back, a hundred claws scratching the heart, and I don't know why.

Holding the bag of snacks, Xu Bai stood dazed for a while, until Xie Pingchuan's parents called her over to eat, and she slowly walked to their restaurant.