Late that night, those missed calls | Author: Li Dongmei

Open the holiday mode, stretch the tense nerves, dominate the happy life, let the aftershocks of the exam disappear, and the holiday is so comfortable.

Some people say: I can't wake up at work, and I have a special spirit during the holidays. I fell under this spell unconsciously, experiencing the willfulness of a morning when I couldn't afford to get up, a late night when I said I wouldn't sleep. The "Ge You lie" of internet celebrities, the "entertainment style" of the public, randomly control the remote control, turn over the TV column, news, finance, literature and art, movies, TV series... Pressing it again, pressing it backwards, unconsciously it was late at night, but drowsiness was still on the way.

The mobile phone is still the habitual silent mode when going to work, casually thrown on the coffee table, and various groups seem to have stopped a lot with the holiday, too lazy to look at the few short messages. Although the TV festival was boring and boring, and it was very interesting to watch, I still insisted on it without sleep. The window was pitch black, the whole neighborhood was also immersed in silence, and there were few people with lights like the morning star, I desperately wanted to squeeze out a trace of drowsiness, but the excited nerves seemed to be wearing Jialun's red dancing shoes, and there was no intention of sleeping.

The time is earlier than the weekday bedtime, think about how willful can not not pay attention to health, decided to take a cold and go to bed. The phone was still silent, as if lurking, lying there silently.

After taking a shower, take the phone, turn off the TV, press the switch, and the action is perfect in one go, like a cloud flowing water. Lying on the bed, the spirit is still leveraged, so I plan to flip through the mobile phone and hypnotize it.

Click on the lock screen, suddenly see a missed call, and feel a little inexplicable in my heart: it is so late, who will call. Click on the call log, a look at the missed call, my heart can't help but tighten: at this time, what happened to my father's phone call? home...... My heart was suddenly trembling. Indeed, if there was only one missed call, I might think that my father had accidentally dialed it. But a few missed in a row, that is definitely not a misdial. With a belly full of doubt, he dialed back, busy, and his ears were full of intelligent voices. Hang up, dial again, still busy, still that intelligent female voice. Hang up again, redial again, or busy, or tone. I was inexplicably a little flustered, and the poor little sleepiness also ran to Java. Looking at the phone, I gave full play to the imagination of the suspicious ghost, and all bad thoughts poured out like a tide, is this? Is it the one? Still is...... For a moment, it seemed like a long time.

After a few minutes of silent pause, I called back again, thankfully, this time it finally passed, and I hurriedly asked: "Dad, why did you call so late?" Dad's voice came over, "Nothing, I don't know why." Listening to that voice, it should be the sound of drunkenness. I tentatively asked, "Dad, have you been drinking?" Drink too much, right? "Drank, not drunk. Are you on vacation? Is Linlin on vacation? Dad turned on the drunken mode of nagging, and I answered while relaxing a little.

Dad loves to drink, as soon as he drinks, he is drunk, and when he is drunk, he likes to dial the phone. Usually in order to facilitate the dialing of the phone, the contact number set by his elderly machine is a few of our sisters, and if you press 1 or 2 or 3, the phone will be connected. Xu is usually not much to say, as soon as he is drunk, he talks a lot. From the intensity of the speaking language, I guess dad drank a lot of alcohol, otherwise he would not dial the phone in the middle of the night. My heart couldn't help but tighten again: drinking so much, I don't know if anything is okay, if... I started to use my imagination again. "Dad, my mom is asleep, you asked my mom to answer the phone." "Your mother is watching TV outside and is still outside pouting at me..."

On the phone came the shouts of the father, mixed with the complaining voices of the mother. Also, in this lifetime, such a familiar scene has been repeated many times. "Mom, why is my dad drunk again?" On the phone, the mother complained about "go to sleep when you are drunk, call here, call that, this midnight shocked others can not sleep", while explaining that "nothing, your father and those old guys drink, drink too much, just called you no one to answer, and then called your sister." "I only then understood why I had been busy just now, and it turned out that my father was not only worried about me.

My heart was completely relaxed for no reason, "Mom, you make some honey water for my dad, and look at it more at night." "I reminded my mother that I was a little uneasy." It's okay, it's so late, you go to sleep. "My mother told me not to worry.

Hanging up the phone, I laughed at my nerves, a few missed calls, actually let me experience the ups and downs of horror, suspense, science fiction, reversals, and my heart was like a roller coaster, up and down. It seems that tonight is doomed to insomnia.

Later, when he came to tell his husband, he reminded, "Did Dad say anything on the phone?" "I didn't say anything, I just dialed when I was drunk," I said with some disapproval. "You didn't think about why Dad called your sisters as soon as he was drunk?" My husband's words made me shudder.

Thinking about it carefully, it seems that if dad usually has no special things, he really rarely takes the initiative to call, and most of them are dialed by us. But as long as Dad is drunk, he will take the initiative to call him. What the hell is going on here, it's definitely not as simple as misdiagnosis. Sister in Jiaozuo, can not often come back, I am busy reviewing the exam, there is a period of time did not care to go back, is it...

Dad is old, usually do not say anything, but as soon as he sees us go back, the corners of his eyes are a joy that cannot be hidden. If he doesn't go back for a long time, although he doesn't say it, his heart must be endlessly lonely, perhaps, he just wants to remind us of the phone subconsciously through each drunkenness.

In the TV series "Young Pi", the father Lin Dawei drew a table for his daughter Lin Miaomiao, calculated by the average life expectancy of each person of 75 years, life is only a short period of 900 months, a piece of A4 paper can draw enough 900 grids. He calculated for his daughter: now that he and his wife were forty-six years old, the form was crossed out by more than half, and then began to calculate the time that Lin Miaomiao spent four years in college with his parents, about three months a year, four years or twelve months, that is, twelve small squares. Some people say, don't think there are still decades left, in fact, you only have 55 days to spend with your parents.

It turns out that inadvertently, the longest time in life with parents has long passed, it is called childhood. In the days that followed, we had our own family, our own life. Only parents are left, growing old alone in the passage of time. Chen Hong's song "Often Go Home to See" is not the most sincere reminder to all the children in the world?

Often go home to see, is a late night missed call notes, isn't it?

About author:Li Dongmei, a native of Jiyuan, Henan. Ji Shuiyi is a Chinese language teacher who likes to read and write.

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