[Call for Papers] Fan Notes

Chapter 8

Chapter 8 Reunion after a long absence

When my father left, he kowtowed a few times in front of grandma’s grave, one by one louder than the other. When he left, he didn’t know whether it was resentment or nostalgia for Baijia Town in his heart, but I believe that at a certain moment, the resentment in my father’s heart It is far greater than nostalgia.

Uncle Li didn't come to look for his father, just like he once said to his father, if one day you choose to disappear, I won't bother you.In fact, this sentence is wrong. Uncle Li has looked for his father, and he may not even know how many times he went there. He saw grandma, mother, and me.He even passed by my house when my father was away, and even hugged me. As for the excuse and reason, my mother didn't record it, so I don't know.It’s just that one can imagine Uncle Li staring at his father’s back in a daze in a certain inconspicuous corner, looking at the picture of his father’s family of three having fun, but is father’s happiness really Uncle Li’s happiness?This is unfair to Uncle Li, and it is also a kind of harm, at least that's what my father thinks in his heart, and he thinks weakly.

When my father came to Haizhou, he inserted the card he used before into his cell phone. Father never used this cell phone card when he was in Baijia Town, but the money in it was never short. cost.During the period, my father once forgot to recharge the phone bill, and checked the consumption records and call records by the way when he went to the business hall.That's one missed call and one unread text message a day.

"Sir, is this card yours?"

"No, it belongs to a dead person." The father's tears flowed down.

"I'm sorry, but this person is really infatuated." The salesperson seemed to be moved by this simple but great love.

My father read the text messages one by one, almost every one of them said, "I'm thinking of you, I'm waiting for you".

Back to the place where the two lived, my father still had the key, which could still open the room he hadn't entered in two years.

The house is still the same, but it is much cleaner and deserted than before.Father's slippers were still at the door, they were brushed clean, and next to them were Uncle Li's slippers, they were so close, it was obviously placed by Uncle Li.

The father knelt down as soon as he entered the door, and instead of changing his slippers, he walked up to Uncle Li step by step on his knees.

Uncle Li was sitting on the sofa smoking a cigarette. He ran back the moment he received the text message sending report. He knew that his father would come back.

"Why are you coming back?"

The cigarette was extinguished. It was the first time Uncle Li hit his father, kicking his father.Uncle Li is a military police officer, so his strength is not small.

Father didn't speak, but knelt up, waiting for Uncle Li to visit again.

My father didn't know how many times he was beaten until the corner of his mouth was also bleeding.

Uncle Li's strength became weaker and weaker each time, and finally hit himself with his hands.

"Why should I hit you? I promised that as long as you come back, I won't hit you."

Uncle Li also knelt down, buried his head in his father's arms, and cried, as if crying for all his unwillingness, all his haggardness, and all his waiting in the past two years.

In my father's view, physical pain is nothing, but heart pain is the most harmful.Father's heart hurts too, he knows that feeling, holding it in for a long time will drive a person crazy.But at least he still has me, while Uncle Li has nothing.

"You've lost weight." Father said while touching Uncle Li's cheek.Uncle Li's puffy stomach from two years ago disappeared at some point.

"I fell in love with losing weight." Uncle Li smiled, tenderness appeared in his eyes, and even distressed, even blamed, "Does it hurt? Why don't you know how to hide? Why don't you talk? As long as you give me Tell me a reason, even if you make up an excuse, once my anger subsides, I won't be able to do anything."

Father smiled and hugged Uncle Li even tighter.

"I know, I have never been as happy as I am today in the past two years."

"I am willing to be beaten by you. You are my wife. If you don't beat me, how can I have an excuse to deal with you."

Father's body never lacks strength, he picked up Uncle Li and threw him on the bed, now it's time for me to clean you up.

It wasn't until his father was lying on the bed exhausted that Uncle Li came down to the bathroom and took a towel to wipe his father's body, and then found some plaster to apply on the bruises on his body and the wound at the corner of his mouth.

Father's eyes were obviously moistened, and his eyebrows were obviously furrowed. Uncle Li's beating was not light, and Uncle Li's love was still so heavy.

"Does it hurt?" Uncle Li asked with concern, did he use too much strength?

"It doesn't hurt, it will never hurt when you hit me."

"I should have been disabled by you just now, but now it hurts all over my body."

"Hehe, I haven't planted seeds for you for two years, so it's even tighter." My father smiled, that kind of shameless smile.

Uncle Li's tears flowed down like this, it has been two years.

"Does it really hurt? No wonder you look weird when you walk. Do you want to apply some medicine?" Father was not a careless person, but he was flustered because he saw Uncle Li's tears, "Why are you crying? Does it hurt that much?"

"Ah." Uncle Li poured alcohol on his father's wound.Cursed, the uncle is only happy if it hurts to death.It hurts to death, my lord...

The more Uncle Li said, the more he lacked confidence. In front of his father, it seemed that he would never win, because he saw his father smiling at him brazenly again.

My father was not angry, he held Uncle Li in his arms, and just looked at Uncle Li with his eyes open, "No matter how I look at you, I can never see enough."

My father was indeed tired, approaching the long-distance bus for a day, a beating from Uncle Li, plus tossing on the bed, exhaustion and relaxation of the mind, sleepiness began to creep up, and his eyelids began to become thicker and thicker.

"Sleep with me for a while, okay?" Father held Uncle Li in his arms.

Uncle Li nodded. It seemed that only his father's arms were the warmest place in the world. He looked at the man he hadn't seen in two years, how happy he would be if he could sleep by his side for the rest of his life.

Father's snoring seemed to be a lullaby, and even Uncle Li, who didn't feel very sleepy at first, slowly fell asleep. Maybe he knew that at least from today onwards, he would no longer have to make calls and text messages that he couldn't get through every day. The text message has been missed day and night, and the burden of the heart can finally be let go of the burden at this moment, and quietly sleep with the lover beside me.

It's just that the two people who reunited after a long time held hands even in sleep, as if they were afraid that the person would disappear when they woke up.