Peach and Plum Do Not Speak

Chapter 3: Sound

“What did you say? Are you going abroad?”

“…Yes, keep your voice down, don’t look at me like that, it’s your turn to take care of the child.”

“…What should it be? We never had this agreement, okay? It was your family who took the child away and gave her the surname Tao.”

“It’s not because of your powerful parents and you! Now that my dad is gone, I tell you, it’s your responsibility now!”

“Hmph, I’m irresponsible? It’s like you raised that child, and you will only pass it on to your father. Now that your father is dead, you can’t wait to get rid of this burden…”

“Keep your voice down…”

The sound outside the door fluctuated high and low, like a spring, it can be suppressed when it is high, and then it jumps up again. And it’s getting sharper and sharper, even if you don’t want to hear it.

The house where Tao Zhenzhen lives is an old community with only one bedroom and one living room. It is clean and elegant, with floral curtains, hand-woven cotton carpets, and carefully prepared small potted plants. There is a warm atmosphere everywhere.

Tao Anzhi was alone in the bedroom, and the two adults outside thought the door was closed, so they could discuss her whereabouts and stay in the living room without any scruples.

Tao Anzhi thought: If only I could not understand so many words.

Sitting and sitting, it felt a little hot. In fact, the clothes Tao Zhenzhen bought for her were not easy to wear at all. The sleeves and skirts were too long, and the neckline was too tight. She knew that there was a white remote control that would turn the “air conditioner” on the wall, and the room would be cooler.

But it seems to be in the living room.

Tao Anzhi thought: If she just went out like this, would the two people in the living room stop arguing?

They’re good looking, but the voice they speak is so unpleasant.

She has no impression of her parents, and she has no idea. It’s just that the neighbor’s aunt in the village is nagging when she faces her children. The parents on the high-speed train would softly comfort their motion sick child.

Their expressions towards their children are very natural and real. So is the sound.

“Grandpa.”

Tao Anzhi shouted lowly into the air.

She lowered her neck and touched the little rabbit’s schoolbag on her knees, and touched the little rabbit’s long ears.

Will she be like Alice in fairy tales, will the little rabbit jump up and take her to the tree hole.

Will she become very small? If she could, she would hide in and never come out again.

It’s no use hiding, the two people outside seem to have torn their faces.

“My parents teach and educate people all their lives, and every penny they earn is innocent. It’s not like your family, Chen Muqi, do you need me to remind you that all three generations of your ancestors have mined coal? , let An Zhi follow you?”

“Yes, yes, your scholarly family, that child should follow you. How can a black-hearted family like me raise a child?”

“Chen Muqi, are you a man, you told me to give up my future? I’m not like you, I only have myself…” Tao Zhenzhen had already brought on a cry.

Chen Muqi’s voice was helpless: “…It’s not that I don’t want to, Zhenzhen…I already have a girlfriend…” Then he said:

“Or… send it to…”

The voice gradually fell.

Tao Anzhi suddenly covered his ears, his small shoulders trembling. I just feel that the room is getting hotter and hotter, the neckline is getting tighter and tighter, and the stuffiness makes people panic, and I want to scream loudly.

She didn’t call out, but the doorbell rang.

Then she heard a soft and clear voice: “Zhenzhen, you didn’t answer my call. The documents to be filled out by the students who have been granted a place to go abroad have been sent to the dormitory…”

“…Thank you, Yanxi.”

They started chatting softly, Tao Zhenzhen left school for a few days, afraid of missing some important announcements.

Tao Anzhi was attracted by this voice, she walked over and secretly opened a crack in the door. It was a tall woman, wearing a white shirt, aqua blue jeans, and flat shoes.

With her back to her, she was talking to Tao Zhenzhen, vaguely using words like “huzhao” and “qianzheng” that she didn’t understand.

Her voice is nice. Like last summer, when my grandfather took her to go fishing in a valley in the mountains, the clear spring water rippling through the rocks made a lingering sound.

Chen Muqi next to them interrupted them impatiently: “Hey, don’t be busy, tell me what the child is going to do? You don’t want to leave like this.”

Tao Zhenzhen paused for a moment, then turned around and scolded him: “It wasn’t me who walked away back then…”

These two are young and energetic, not ready to become parents, and they are disgusted with each other.

Chen Muqi said embarrassedly, “Can you make a face? Ask your classmates to leave and then talk about it?”

“What’s so shameful about me? The whole university knows that I met a heartbreaker, had a daughter out of wedlock, and took a year off from school… If I hadn’t graduated last year…”

Chen Muqi was completely irritated by her tone of voice that was neither yin nor yang, and said something that could hurt a woman the most: “I didn’t force you to sleep with me!”

This thorn saw blood and flesh, Tao Zhenzhen’s lips suddenly turned white, and he was speechless for a long time.

Chen Muqi knew what he had said when he said it, but he didn’t want to apologize, so he simply sat aside. sulking.

The room was quiet again, and before Tao Anzhi had time to breathe, he heard the woman in the white shirt say, “Zhenzhen, I’ll go first.”

Then she turned around and saw Tao Anzhi who had opened a crack in the door.

Many years later, every time Tao Anzhi thinks about this place, he will be very grateful that she opened the door.

Later, after she had a certain understanding of Yan Xiliao’s character, she guessed that of course she really wanted to say goodbye, because she was such a polite and respectful person, and she paid great attention to other people’s privacy.

An Zhi clearly remembered that when she turned around and had a plain face with no makeup, she could not fully describe how good-looking she was with her vocabulary at that time.

Only when she saw her facing him, she frowned slightly, turned her face and said, “The child is still in the room, why are you arguing like this?”

Then she walked towards herself, came to the front, squatted down, her clear eyes filled with a faint gentle smile: “Hello.”

Then she said, “My name is Yan Xi, and I’m a friend of your mother. What’s your name?”

Tao Anzhi thought: Finally, someone noticed that she was a child, and not only regarded her as a child.

Tao Anzhi said: “Safe, Tao Anzhi.”

While thinking about how to write yanxi? which yan which xi

The eyes of the woman in front of her were softer, a smile rose from her lips, and her voice was clear and sweet: “What a good name.”

She turned her face slightly and said, “Zhenzhen, I’ll take Anzhi down to get some fresh air. It’s too hot here.” Because the angle was a little off, the sun was shining brightly in the living room, and her long eyelashes trembled slightly, as if they were fluffy. , a nice touch.

Then she turned her head, stretched out a fair and narrow hand towards Tao Anzhi, took hers, and walked out just like that.

Tao Anzhi was stunned for a long time, looked at the hand being held for a long time, then turned to look at the closed door, and she no longer needed to hear all the quarrels.

Is it all because of this person named yanxi? She looked up at her, so tall. From this angle, you can see her jade white lower jaw line.

Suddenly she lowered her head and smiled at her, and said, “Do you want to press the elevator?”

Tao Anzhi stared at her blankly, then nodded blankly. The first time she came, she was really curious about the iron gate, but she didn’t dare to speak to Tao Zhenzhen. They didn’t go downstairs for the next two days, and they all ordered takeaways.

“Go press that down arrow…” The woman released her hand.

Tao Anzhi walked to the elevator door, looked at the two arrows, and looked at her again, the woman smiled slightly, she thought about it, stood on tiptoe, and pressed the key.

The red letter next to the key flickered, and a faint roar could be heard. After a while, with a ding sound, the bright iron door opened.

Tao Anzhi’s little face suddenly lit up, his little mouth opened slightly, and he gave a soft “wow”.

After entering the elevator, Tao Anzhi pressed the 1st floor button again. The elevator rumbled and his body felt like he was descending. Her hand was held by the woman again, Tao Anzhi was very happy, and lowered her head shyly. The hands that wrapped her were warm and delicate, especially comfortable.

She was led by her step by step slowly. The footsteps were soft.

Tao Anzhi secretly froze, and suddenly wondered if this person was my mother?

Tao Zhenzhen rents an old-fashioned community, which was converted from a former compound. The environment is quiet and there is a fireworks atmosphere. There are several old trees downstairs, and there are marble tables and chairs under the old trees.

Tao Anzhi and Yan Xi sat on chairs, one big and one small, Anzhi holding the crispy ice cream she bought. The ice cream is in the shape of a fish, with a layer of black hazelnut chocolate on the outside, which is crunchy when you bite into it.

Tao Anzhi enjoyed his meal.

“Is it delicious?” Yan Xi asked her. She had a bottle of mineral water in her hand, twisted it open, raised her head slightly, Yu Bai’s neck moved, and swallowed a mouthful of water.

The crispy ice cream in Tao Anzhi’s hand gave her a big horn. She just took a new bite and put it in her mouth. When she heard this, her mouth bulged, and she nodded her head vigorously.

The temperature in the mouth melted the ice cream, and the strange feeling of warmth and ice was so good, Tao Anzhi couldn’t help but take another bite.

Suddenly, the Xiu narrow hand grabbed some tissue and wiped the corner of her mouth for her. When I got closer, I saw that the fingers were slender, and even the knuckles that were bent were warm and smooth.

“How old are you? Four?”

…

Tao Anzhi lowered his head and said a little depressedly, “…Six years old.”

After speaking, she was a little awkward, took the stick left after eating the ice cream, and the tissue, walked a few steps, and threw it into the trash can.

Walking back and looking at the woman in front of her, she seemed to see her little awkwardness, smiled lightly, raised her hand and patted her head lightly.

Tao Anzhi was so shy that she even wanted to rub her face with her hand.

How good is this person really her mother?

But her surname is yan, and the second tone is salt? Yan? Word?

xi, the first sound, west? interest? creek?

…No, I can’t think of any more words.

She knew so few words that she didn’t even know how to write these two words.

She secretly looked at her, just at this moment a breeze blew, blowing a few strands of hair on her temples. Then she smelled a faint scent in the air.

It smells good.

The woman noticed that she was looking at her again, turned her head and smiled at herself, twisted open the mineral water bottle, and drank water.

After a while, something seemed to be ringing in her trouser pocket. She took out a white ‘small square”, Tao Anzhi blinked, this should be the “mobile phone” the adults called.

Someone might be looking for her, is she leaving?

An Zhi was suddenly very reluctant and looked at her eagerly.

The woman pressed the phone off and put it back in her pocket.

After a while, An Zhi saw that she didn’t get up, and suddenly understood.

She is with her.

They are also big and small, each occupying a stone chair. No conversation.

An Zhi thought that maybe she was not a talkative person, maybe she didn’t know what to talk to a child of her own.

The human feeling is really a wonderful thing, Xiao Tao Anzhi thought. She has spent these days in fear, fear, and anxiety, but she still can’t show it. Because she knew her mother didn’t like her.

And now, next to a stranger whose name she couldn’t even spell, she felt at ease. She even ate the ice cream that the strange woman bought her.

Because she took the initiative to hold her hand.

The wind of early autumn was still a little warm, and for some reason, An Zhi’s heart suddenly calmed down.