Slow-Witted - Chapter 58

[Chapter 57]

After Mr. Liu took Lele and Fu Jia upstairs, he continued to make dinner in the kitchen. She was in a good mood, and even hummed a little tune.

Teacher Liu’s husband took the opportunity to sneak out of the kitchen and walked to the living room, where he saw that Fu Jia was already skillfully sitting with Lele and playing with building blocks.

Lele likes to play with building blocks very much, but he is not happy to play with grandpa. He disliked his grandpa’s slow movements, and also disliked his arbitrariness, always trying to make the building blocks into what he wanted.

“Teacher Tang.” Fu Jia greeted him. Teacher Liu’s husband’s surname is Tang, which Fu Jia has always called him these years.

“Yeah.” Teacher Tang nodded at him. Although he was not his teacher, he put on airs as a teacher, “Have you ever told you about Lele?”

“I have.” Fu Jia said “If you and Teacher Liu both trust me, and Lele is willing to live with me, I will do my best to help you and Teacher Liu take care of Lele.”

Teacher Tang immediately understood that Teacher Liu must He begged Fu Jia in the tone that he must. Fu Jia would probably feel pity for their lonely old couple. They have no children around, want to go out to play, and can’t find anyone to help take care of their grandson, and they are bothering him, an outsider who is not relatives or friends…

Teacher Tang sighed Tone, did not dismantle his wife’s platform, but asked Lele according to the agreement: ”

Lele , would you like to live with Uncle Fu for a week?” She smiled a little shyly: “I know, grandpa wants to go out to play with grandma, it’s okay, you go, Lele can play with Uncle Fu.”

Teacher Tang: …

He turned around, walked back to the kitchen with his hands behind his back, and told Liu The teacher said: “Buy me an air ticket.”

Teacher Liu smiled and said, “You agree? Don’t worry, although Fu Jia has never taken care of children, as long as he is willing to do it, he will be able to do it well.”

Teacher Tang looked at her. With a complacent face, as if showing off his own son, he couldn’t help shaking his head helplessly.

After dinner, Teacher Liu took out Lele ’s daily necessities that had been packed before, and stuffed them into Fu Jia’s hands, while telling Fu Jia the precautions for taking care of Lele. Ah, aren’t we leaving in three days?”

Teacher Liu retorted, “Just let Fu Jia and Lele spend two days together before we leave, so that we can solve any problems.”

After explaining everything clearly, Fu Jia walked in front with her things, Teacher Liu led Lele half a step behind, and Teacher Tang reluctantly walked in the back, sending Lele out together.

They looked so close that they looked like a family. A neighbor met them face to face and asked in surprise, “Ms. Liu, is your son coming back from abroad?”

Teacher Liu smiled and said, “No, he is my student, but Some people often think of him as my son, maybe we look alike.” The

neighbor also laughed: “It’s kind of like, it’s fate.”

Teacher Liu turned to look at Fu Jia, and his smile deepened.

They walked slowly to the parking lot of the community and found Fu Jia’s second-hand Santana. The car was allocated to him by Fu Jia’s company. He didn’t have high requirements and needs for the car, so he has been using it for so many years without buying a new one.

Teacher Liu hugged Lele, opened the rear door, and found that a child safety seat had been installed inside. She was stunned, and Teacher Tang was also stunned.

Fu Jia put the things in the trunk and saw that they were all stunned at the door of the car, so she said, “I installed the seat according to the instruction manual. It is reasonable to say that Lele can sit in it. If not, I will adjust it again.”

“No .” Teacher Liu hurriedly carried Lele onto the seat and buckled up the seat belt. Lele’s kindergarten is close to home, and she usually goes to school on foot. Except for the safety seat that she used with her parents when she was a baby, she has never had a similar experience, so it is very fresh at this moment, shaking her legs happily, and rushing to her grandparents smile.

“You have a heart.” Teacher Tang said.

Fu Jia smiled, with a humble attitude: “It should.”

Looking at his current state, Teacher Liu seemed to see Lu Qi’an’s shadow for some reason.

She felt blocked, quickly looked away, and said to Lele: “Be good at Uncle Fu’s house. Grandma will come to pick you up in a week. If you miss grandma and grandpa, let Uncle Fu use WeChat to video chat with grandma.” , okay?”

Lele left home for the first time, but she was not timid at all, nor was she reluctant to leave her relatives. She said cheerfully, “Okay, goodbye, grandma.”

Teacher Liu kissed him with a smile, Close the door.

Fu Jia was standing in front of her, she could see clearly, but she still remembered the illusion just now, and she was a little uneasy.

“Fu Jia, call me if you need anything, okay?” she said.

Fu Jia nodded: “Don’t worry, I won’t turn off the phone for 24 hours these days.”

Teacher Liu said hello, watched him get into the car, and left with Lele.

Teacher Liu stared blankly at the direction the car was leaving, and asked her husband, “Do you think Fu Jia looks like a person now?”

Teacher Tang changed a lot about Fu Jia because of the safety seat: “I see him doing things He is meticulous and treats people well, quite like you.”

“Not like me.” Teacher Liu smiled wryly, and said, “I think…he is more and more like Qi An.”

Fu Jia lived in a single apartment, four Ten square meters, one bedroom and one living room with kitchen and bathroom, the layout is very compact.

In Lele’s imagination, he came to Uncle Fu’s house from his own home. Since they are all homes, they should be similar, but after he arrived, he realized that the home was small, just as small as him, and there was no family at home. Grandma, grandpa, this made him suddenly a little overwhelmed.

Fu Jia was packing up Lele’s things. Seeing him sitting on the sofa writhing uncomfortably, she walked up to him, knelt down and looked at him at the same level: “What was Lele doing at home at this time yesterday?”

Lele looked around, trying to find a clock to tell the time. He doesn’t know how to read a watch yet, but he can roughly understand what time it is based on the position of the hands.

Fu Jia didn’t tell him the time directly, but picked up the clock in the living room and put it in the same position as the living room of Mr. Liu’s house according to memory.

Lele saw the time clearly and said: “Yesterday, grandma told Lele not to watch TV, take Lele to take a bath, tell a story after the bath, and fall asleep after telling a story.”

“Okay.” Fu Jia said Pick him up and take him to the bathroom to take a shower.

This was the first time Fu Jia helped the child take a bath. After putting the hot water in, he deliberately reviewed the information he had checked in advance, and measured the water temperature with a thermometer before putting Lele into the bathtub.

Lele seemed to be able to feel Fu Jia’s unfamiliarity and nervousness, and was very cooperative throughout the whole process without crying or fussing. When Fu Jia helped him put on his pajamas, he also volunteered that he could wear them by himself.

Children who grow up surrounded by love, even if they are very young, know how to care for those around them.

Fu Jia tidied up the only bedroom in the house and used it as Lele’s room, while she planned to sleep on the folding sofa in the living room.

He took a fairy tale book and sat beside Lele’s bed to coax him to sleep, because his tone was flat, and he didn’t add lively and interesting expressions and movements like Teacher Liu. After reading a few pages, Lele yawned and fell asleep.

Fu Jia put down the book, tucked in the quilt for Lele, and walked out of the room softly.

“Uncle Fu.” Lele rubbed his eyes, and called him sleepily, “Can you not close the door, I’m afraid.”

Fu Jia agreed, sat back by the bed and guarded him until he was completely asleep. .

Lele fell asleep, but Fu Jia was far from having time to rest. He first chatted with Mr. Liu on WeChat for a while, and then turned on the computer to handle the work.

In addition to working in a sales company, he also cooperated with his colleagues to open an online store. The scale is not large, and he just uses the remaining resources in his hands to earn some extra money.

This colleague named Gao Xing helped him a lot. When he first joined the company, because of his education and experience, he was always at the bottom of the company. He did all kinds of chores, but he was paid as low as the cleaning staff. It was Gao Xing, who was still his boss at the time, who extended a helping hand to him, taught him, helped him win a place for further study in the company, introduced him to clients, and gave him a lot of stable client resources, which gave him room for advancement. If it wasn’t for Gao Xing’s help, maybe he is still struggling at the bottom.

Fu Jia turned on the computer and continued to work until midnight. He habitually touched the cigarette case on the table, and it was empty.

No, there is a child at home, so he can’t smoke.

He propped his head up and endured the craving for a long time without enduring the craving for cigarettes, so he went out with the cigarette and keys and went downstairs to smoke.

In the past seven years, his addiction to cigarettes has been on and off, and at the worst time, he would smoke three packs a day, and he was in a daze and sluggish. Now the situation is getting better, at most three sticks a day, at least one stick, the addiction is not serious, it just becomes a habit, and I can’t quit.

After smoking half a cigarette, he stubbed out the cigarette butt and returned home.

In the room, Lele fell asleep peacefully. Fu Jia stood looking at his peaceful sleeping face for a long time before recovering, went to the bathroom to wash up, and cleaned up the hygiene at home by the way.

Considering that Lele might wake up at night, he left night lights outside the bedroom and in the living room, lying on the folding sofa in the living room, skillfully put his hands in his arms, protected his abdomen, and curled up tightly.

I don’t know when it started, he can only fall asleep in this way.

I don’t know how long the quiet night will last. Because Lele didn’t sleep deeply because of the bed, she woke up after turning over a few times. Indistinctly, he heard a strange sound coming from outside the room.

He was a little scared, rubbed his eyes, climbed out of bed on hands and feet, and wanted to find Fu Jia.

The night light outside pointed out Fu Jia’s location for him. He leaned on the wall and approached, but the strange sound became louder and louder.

It was extremely depressing and vague, like the whimpering sound from the throat of a wounded animal. Teacher Liu took Lele to the pet store. He saw an injured puppy. He didn’t quite remember how the puppy barked at that time, but when he heard the whimpering sound, he immediately thought of the puppy.

With the faint light of the night light, Lele saw the mottled tears on Fu Jia’s face. His eyes were closed tightly, and he was still asleep, but a large piece of the pillow was wet from crying, and he hugged his arms tightly, sobbing non-stop.

Lele’s nose was sore, she didn’t dare to go any closer, turned around and ran back to the room, buried herself in the quilt, and sobbed softly like Fu Jia.

He was very scared and very sad, so sad that even if he didn’t understand anything and hadn’t experienced anything, he still felt a heavy sadness.

He didn’t dare to wake Fu Jia up, so he lay on the bed crying and crying. Tired of crying, he slowly fell asleep again.

The next morning, Fu Jia behaved as usual, got up early to prepare breakfast for Lele, then went to the room to wake Lele, took him to wash, and changed him into kindergarten clothes.

Lele looked at the normal Uncle Fu in front of him strangely, and suspected that what he saw last night was just a nightmare, so he said, “Uncle Fu, Lele had a nightmare.”

Fu Jia led him to the dining table for breakfast, While asking: “What did you dream about?”

Lele opened his hands, let Fu Jia hug him to the chair, and said loudly: “Lele dreamed that Uncle Fu was crying!”

Fu Jia stiffened his hands and smiled unnaturally Smile: “Well… why does Lele have such a nightmare?”

Lele shook her head and said, “I don’t know, but Uncle Fu cried so sadly, and then Lele cried too.”

Fu Jia lowered her eyes, The tone is gentle: “Maybe… this is uncle’s bad habit. Just like Lele has the habit of washing hands before eating, uncle also has a habit, but Lele’s is a good habit, and uncle’s is a bad habit.”

“Bad Habit?” Lele didn’t quite understand.

“Yes, bad habits.” Fu Jia said, “it’s a bad thing for a person to have bad habits, so uncle hopes that Lele can help keep it secret and don’t tell grandma.”

Lele nodded half understanding, feeling that Fu Jia Although he was laughing, it made him feel a little uncomfortable.

He thought of something, and said embarrassedly: “Uncle Fu has bad things, but he also has good things. Uncle is good at building blocks, and uncle is different from others. Grandma and other friends will ask Lele when they see Lele. Le’s parents, but Uncle Fu doesn’t ask.”

Fu Jia smiled.

He knew why Lele praised him. Although children are ignorant, they also know that when the people around them are sad, they should appreciate and agree with them.

“Does Lele not like people asking about their parents?” Fu Jia asked.

“Yeah.” Lele said with clear eyes, “Because they asked, it seems that parents don’t love Lele anymore, but they love Lele very much. Although they are not at home, they have always loved Lele Ya.”

Although the person who loves you is not by your side, he will not stop loving you.

No child who grows up surrounded by love doubts this.

Fu Jia closed her eyes, feeling a sharp pain in her chest.

He knows…

he knows.

[End of This Chapter]