Balance beam

Chapter 21

With the file folder under his arm, Perrin walked up the steps slowly. He felt that he was getting older, and sometimes he found that he was a bit of a Suo father in both manner and behavior. Does it happen when you get old? ?

From his position, he could see Sonia walking up and down on the terrace and making phone calls non-stop. Palin's back, which was so exhausted that it was almost arched, felt full of energy as if it had been recharged.Things didn't go well that day, and I had some entertainment in the evening to make up for it.

It is certainly sad for Sonia to become a joke, but who made them an unkind husband and unloving wife.It's like teasing a domestic pet, watching it retreat to the horns and still can't help but pat it on the head. It's not malicious bullying, it's just fun.

Sonia was leaving when Palin entered.Suddenly looking up and seeing her husband, Sonia was at a loss for a while, "Ah, you're back?"

Palin groaned, and glanced at her attire seemingly unintentionally.

Sonia clasped her hands, her long nails dug into her palms, "Do you want to eat?"

Palin shook his head, "No."

"I'll make you warm."

"Need not."

"Then do you want to take a shower first?"

Sonia and Palin were deadlocked at the door. If Palin didn't go in, it would be difficult for her to go out. She wouldn't reach out and pull her husband aside as soon as he entered the house and shouted "Get out of the way." In the end it is necessary to maintain the upbringing of a noble lady.

Seeing her eyes wandering around the door, Palin's tongue nimbly twirled around in his mouth, and then tilted one corner of his mouth, "Sonia."

"Huh?" His wife looked back at him.

Perrin took a few steps inward, clearing the passage.Seemingly unintentional, but also a silent connivance, Sonia's heart rose to her throat for a moment, and countless ideas flashed through her mind, whether to wait for Palin to sleep and then walk out quietly, or just wait for the snake to make a fool of herself. Came back unexpectedly?In fact, Palin had always indulged her, hesitating endlessly in his heart, and his feet were gradually moving towards the door.

"If you dare to go out, I will break your legs."

Sonia opened her mouth slightly in surprise, her husband's cheekbones protruded with two horizontal pieces of meat, which made her heart tremble.Instinctively, what Palin said was true, it wasn't the kind of trouble that was close to teasing by messing with her hair and messing up her makeup, it was real anger.Except for the two years before the marriage, Sonia saw the violent Palin, and never saw him really angry again.

I used to think that Palin's bottom line was untouchable, but with the increase of years of getting along, it became more and more unclear where Palin's bottom line was, and it seemed to extend infinitely downward.Therefore, no matter how she recalled the recent situation, she couldn't figure out which link went wrong.

In fact, Palin wasn't that angry anymore, but he still kept a straight face when he saw Sonia.Although the seemingly intimate relationship between husband and wife has long been in crisis, they have been together for nearly ten years, and there is still some tacit understanding, so it is difficult to find a balance immediately after being treated like this.

When acting becomes a habit, pretending becomes less painful. Trying to create a hypocritical and happy scene of a family of three is very familiar to both of them, but now it is easy for Palin, while Sonia is on pins and needles. .

Perrin looked at her thin cheeks, and there was still a trace of sympathy in his heart.They know each other well what kind of life they live. False prosperity not only satisfies the curiosity of others but also their own vanity. As the filial sons and grandsons of everyone, who ever asked them if they were willing to be tired? Have sympathy for them?

"Sonia."

"Ok?"

"To see your father tomorrow, what should we prepare?"

Sonia was stunned for a moment, with a layer of remorse on her face. She has been busy with her own affairs recently, and the number of times she went to her father's place was significantly reduced. His father even called two days ago to ask, "Oh, how is my precious princess recently?" Is it?" And he was with Bai Li at that time, and hung up in a hurry without saying a few words.Feeling ashamed in her heart, she felt a little ashamed on her face. Sonia lowered her head and said in a low tone that could barely hear her emotions, "Let's prepare as usual!" Palin nodded, "Okay."

The son is full of joy and draws and draws on the paper. The scenery under his pen is a bit jerky but has a naive scene. It is a imaginary mountain forest in a scenery he has never seen before.When Sonia was still studying books on children's education and was keen to discuss children's growth experience with others, she once said that Songsong needed more ways to release himself, so he still didn't know how to use colors until he was six years old. Deliberately expressing my feelings and thoughts with lines under the instruction of my mother.

Palin looked at his precious son sadly. No matter how he releases himself, such a well-behaved child always has a part hidden deep in his heart. Even if he is unwilling to face it, he still has to admit the unstable factors in the family. The impetuous mood in the air has subtly affected Songsong.It was hard to imagine what would happen to him as he grew older. This little tree, like a twig swaying in the wind and rain, was the deepest worry in Palin's heart.

Palin kissed Songsong's cheek in distress, seemingly unintentionally and finally consoling, then smiled and grabbed Songsong's pen, "Let me draw one."

Songsong rubbed his small body back and forth in his father's arms, "Dad hates it, don't give it." Palin kissed his son more frequently on the cheek, "Will you give it, will you give it?" " Then he climbed onto his father's lap, sat down, raised his face innocently, "Dad, let's draw Songsong like last time!"

Perrin drew a big head, round eyes, a small circular mouth, and two rabbit ears on top of the head, and a figure in a yellow smock waving forward and kicking his legs underneath.The son yelled, "Haha, it's me, it's me."

Perrin stroked his son's hair, the softness reminding him of someone else.Li Jia's face appeared in front of Pei Yao's eyes, his smile narrowed into a crack, that person was really, really like that, and wanted to comfort him, and he didn't flinch when he was seduced.The sweetness of skin-to-skin contact, and the love of the person you like, Perrin shook his head and burst out laughing.

Songsong doesn't like to go to grandpa's place, Aunt Xue who always wears black clothes always looks so gloomy, he is afraid.He has been secretly afraid, and even dared not tell his mother that Aunt Xue once smiled and broke his fingers, "Songsong, you have to practice like this at ordinary times to play scales with relatively large spans." The sitting old woman had a facial expression on her face. Song Song suspected that his face was pasted on later, just like the master of disguise on TV. He stretched out his hand along Aunt Xue's Scratching the side of his face to see if he could peel off the skin, the woman's scolding expression at that time scared him to have nightmares at night.

The smell of Indian incense on Aunt Xue always reminded him of the kind of spice used by the servants to fumigate the toilet.Especially now, when she was sitting next to him, Song Song felt uncomfortable all over.

Sonia saw her son wriggling from side to side with a sad face, not acting like a baby but rather suffering, so she raised her voice and said to her son, "Songsong, if you don't like playing, go play in the yard."

Songsong ran out like an amnesty, and Sonia suddenly remembered something and turned her head and shouted at him, "Don't mess with the wolfdog, be careful of being bitten. If you bite off the penis, you will be a girl." Songsong was so frightened that she covered it tightly with her hands Crotch "Oh, I don't mess with it."

Xue Jing and the music teacher looked at each other, and forced herself to suppress the anger in her heart, "Mr. Li, I'm sorry, please go and have a rest first!"

Only when there was no one in the room, Xue Jing walked to the sofa, sat down facing Sonia, straightened her body and lowered her voice, "Sonia, how can you do this? Teacher Li is a top student in the music department, and he only comes once a week. This kind of opportunity is quite rare." " Sonia sneered, "So you're a student, I thought you invited a musician over here, you'd better save yourself!"

Sonia said to her nonchalantly, "Although he is a primary school student, Songsong's homework is quite heavy, and he usually has a lot of extracurricular activities. Such a young child is also under a lot of pressure. Let him rest to see his father today, let him relax. Let's go!" There was no tactful reassurance, "Thank you for your hard work, although I am very glad that you can find a teacher to train, but I don't think Songsong likes this aspect very much, so this kind of course will be exempted in the future!" It was to her. Xue Jing clenched her fists tightly, and Sonia's subtext was clearly "Who do you think you are? You are just a nutritionist, and you really think you are the hostess?" Xue Jing swallowed the words that were about to blurt out, and bit her lower lip tightly, "It was your father who said that he wanted to hire a music teacher."

Sonia closed the magazine with a bang, looking at her with contempt.

When Palin and Suo's father were together, they never had anything to say. The only topic between Weng and his son-in-law was Sonia.When Suo's father asked in a roundabout way what Sonia was doing recently, Perrin saw a kind of loneliness in his eyes that belonged to the old man, and he talked about Sonia's worries in a moment of sympathy.This is not the main reason why she seldom visits her father recently, but it can be used as a reason, because Palin herself is not happy to see a stepmother enter the door.

If it was Sonia's resolute attitude, Suo's father would definitely be very concerned.It would be fine if Suo's father just wanted a lover, but if he was sincere, it would be really troublesome.

Expressing this idea tactfully, Palin asked Suo's father to think about Sonia, Suo's father raised his eyebrows and looked at Palin, "I see." The old man propped his hands on his knees, and his slightly bent body looked a little stooped." Palin, in fact, the happiness of my children is my greatest happiness, I hope you will think about Sonia and Songsong more in everything! Even if your wife is like clothes, the children are always your own."

Perrin looked at old man Suo in surprise, and cursed secretly. He thought he was an old man, but his arms were as long as before.Old man Suo who can hide Sonia may not be able to keep old man Suo from waiting here to test his attitude towards Li Jia. Perin flicked the cigarette ash lightly and smiled ambiguously, "How did you treat Aunt Xue?" Old man Suo Smiling suspiciously, he turned his gaze to the bed sheet. He didn't like this kind of grid, like a ward. "I thought you would be different." The old man Suo raised his eyelids to look at Perin, and all of a sudden, Perrin didn't look at him. In the eyes of the old man Suo, the smile was a bit bitter, and so was the promise, "What difference can there be?" ?”

The old man Suo and his son-in-law swallowed their clouds and smoke, and it was rare that there was no one to disturb them. They went downstairs refreshed, chatting and laughing, and the two men had a rare harmony.Seeing Sonia and Aunt Xue wrestling with each other with cold faces, Suo's father raised his eyebrows, "What's wrong?"

Sonia snorted and looked out the window, Suo's father looked at Aunt Xue, and asked in a low voice, "What's the matter?" Nor object.Aunt Xue also turned her head to the side, "It's nothing." Sonia couldn't bear her little girl's aggrieved look.Suo's father asked meanly, "What's the matter?" She also couldn't understand it, Dad is Dad, why do you want to be someone else's lover?Really uncomfortable!

Sonia didn't explain, and watched her perform with a smile. Aunt Xue looked at her fingers, "It's nothing, but when Teacher Li was in class, Sonia asked Songsong to go out to play games." Although her tone was flat, when she said this, the corners of her eyes were already I couldn't help but burst into tears, as if I was holding back the tears so that they didn't fall, the grievance was self-evident.

Father Suo raised his eyebrows, and looked at Sonia with an amiable smile.Sonia snorted, and looked at her father savagely, "Dad, I heard it was the music teacher you were looking for? The level is too bad, the technique is not very good, and there are quite a lot of requirements. You don't know what Song Song likes." I know, why force him to learn this? Quit."

Suo's father smiled and said it was not good or bad, of course it was not the teacher he was looking for, but Aunt Xue suggested that she had an acquaintance who "has talent in this field and is looking for a job as a tutor, and Songsong is at the right age." Appropriate." He didn't say anything against it.

Seeing Aunt Xue's discolored face, Suo's father smoothed things over, "Ms. Li is pretty good, since Songsong doesn't like it, then just don't let her come." Sonia hated her father's ambiguous attitude, bit her lip and wanted to say goodbye. Biao, Perrin smiled and hugged Sonia's shoulders and explained to Suo's father, "She is a mother, and she is more authoritative in educating children. At home, I always follow her arrangements and have no right to speak."

Suo's father laughed loudly, and raised his hands, "I don't have any right to speak."

Sonia leaned against Palin's arms and smiled until she could see her teeth. She asked Palin to look at the flowers in her hand, "I just picked them. Is it good?" Palin looked at her with love in his eyes, and whispered softly, "It's beautiful." He knew that this flower seemed to be a new species planted by Aunt Xue, who had been taking good care of it for a long time.

Suo's father tapped his fingers lightly on his leg with a smile on his face. Even though he knew that their relationship was not deep, he still liked to see such a picture of a husband and wife singing together, especially the happy face of his daughter. Yes, if you don't think about it deliberately, sometimes you will really mistakenly think that she is really happy. "By the way, what shall we have for dinner?" "Anything is fine, I'm not picky." Hearing Sonia's answer, Suo's father turned to look at Aunt Xue, "The salted mutton you cooked last time was good, how about dinner Come too?" Aunt Xue agreed softly, as if the unhappiness just now had been forgotten.

After a dinner, it seems to be enjoyable on the surface.

Songsong fell asleep on the back seat with eyes closed, and Sonia brushed the hair off her son's face, staring at her son's face worryingly.

Before going home, the private conversation with her father was always circling in her mind. It was not the usual connivance of her coquettish father. His father seriously warned her to be more careful, and tactfully hoped that she would treat Aunt Xue better. He would never give her Looking for a stepmother, but as a single woman in their house, I don't want her to live too hard.

That woman used to be Sonia's heart knot, but what she cares about now is "Did Palin say something to you?" You have to be careful." Sonia turned her face to one side, and the woods on both sides of the road flashed back quickly, her thoughts turned a thousand times.

She was not willing to live such a life, and once pretended to be dissatisfied and acted like a baby to her father, "Oh, Dad, you are so stingy, didn't you say that Palin was a male peacock before? You also introduced me to the riding instructor." Even Learning Suo's father's tone and laughing at him, "Son, that young man is not bad."

And what did her father tell her?Sonia clenched her fingers and gave her husband in the co-pilot a hard look at the back of the head. Her father told him that a man like Palin was hard to come by, "At least I won't worry if you're here with Palin. You're not always Let me watch my money? Your money is also good."

"You always have to think about Songsong. Songsong is your son and his son."

Bai Li didn't dare to come out to see Sonia, but it didn't mean that Sonia couldn't find him. Bai Li sat tremblingly in the box, and when Sonia came in, he pressed her on the seat, "I can't come out too much." Long time, we won't meet again in the future, Qian Peilin has recognized me." Sonia frowned and broke away from his arm, "What are you doing? Dates are also evasive, what are you afraid of? It makes me wonder I don’t understand, I was not afraid of your wife before, but now I’m afraid of my husband, it’s useless.”

Bai Li repeatedly begged for forgiveness, "Yes, I don't have a seed, so forget it, grandma? Please let me go!"

Sonia glared at Bai Li, water was about to come out of her eyes, Bai Li sighed and leaned over again, touching the corners of her eyes and brows, "Hey, although I made a lot of determination not to see you again, but I will always Thinking of you, why are your eyes so beautiful, as melancholy as sapphires."

Love words are spoken without knowing it. Sometimes a man is troubled by his own passion, but he has to be gentle when facing her. He always wants to treat her better, but unfortunately there is only so much he can give.

When the waiter knocked on the door, the two bounced away instantly, and Bai Li saw a familiar figure flashing past through the slightly opened door, and he was so frightened that he clenched his cup tightly with both hands, "Sonia, Sonia, are you alright?" See?" Sonia raised her brows and asked him, "What?" "Qian Peilin, it's Qian Peilin."

Sonia didn't believe that Bai Li had such good eyesight. To be on the safe side, she walked in the direction he said. Sure enough, it was Palin. He had been married for many years, and his back view could not be wrong. He slipped into another box , a man was sitting very close to the door. The man's face could not be seen, only a small half of his body was exposed, and the long hem of his clothes could be seen as a nostalgic plaid suit. For some unknown reason, Sonia's heart was racing. jumps a bit.

When Bai Li saw her coming back, he was dumbfounded, and shook her arm vigorously, "Is it him?" Sonia gave Bai Li a hard look, took out her phone, turned to a number and dialed it, "I asked you to check How are things going?"