Hai Ling hugged her son back and eased her serious tone, saying, “Recently, mum has been too busy, neglecting you and not accompanying you properly, two more days of kindergarten will be a weekend holiday, this weekend, mum will take you to the beach to play, okay?”
“Is sister-in-law going?”
“We can ask my sister-in-law, and your cousin aunt and the girls to go together.”
Yangyang said cheerfully, “Okay, Mum, I’m sorry, I’ll never say anything about not going to kindergarten again.”
Hai Ling let go of her son, smiled, and said, “Yangyang can understand mum, mum is very happy, she corrects herself when she knows she’s wrong, she’s still a good boy, she’s mum’s good Yangyang.”
Saying that, she kissed her son on his little face.
The little guy also kissed her back.
“Mummy, we’re going to kindergarten.”
Yangyang took his mum’s hand and walked towards the door of the house.
And said to Hai Ling, “Mummy, let me carry my schoolbag by myself.”
Hai Ling handed him his schoolbag and he put it on his back and went out with his mum.
Outside the house, Yangyang stood waiting for his mum to lock the door.
Hai Ling unlocked the door to the house, turned around to take his son’s hand, but saw a man standing not far away watching mother and son.
That man was none other than the drunken man he met in the lift last night.
The drunkard looked a lot soberer than last night, but the way he looked at people was still terrifying.
He stared at Hai Ling, and when Hai Ling picked up her son and was about to leave, he suddenly grinned and said, “So you live on this floor.”
Hai Ling’s heart tightened.
Without ignoring him, she held her son and hurriedly walked away, and when she walked to the entrance of the lift, she saw that there were people on the same floor waiting to take the lift to go downstairs to buy groceries, and only then did she breathe a little sigh of relief.
“Auntie, did you see that man just now? Why is he on this floor where we live, I haven’t seen him before.”
Hai Ling greeted the aunt she knew, asking the other person this question in passing.
That aunty said, “You mean that man who smells of alcohol, ah, he lives on the top floor, I heard that he recently fell out of love, he runs out to drink every day, when he gets drunk, he lays around, and when he sees a woman, he still stares at her with a deadpan look, a lot of people are afraid to meet him.”
“I am an old man, not so afraid, but when I meet him, I am also far away, he rarely come to our floor, today I do not know what kind of nerve, ran to our floor.”
“Hai Ling, you take Yang Yang to live, you have to go home early in the evening, unlock the door of the house early, don’t be targeted by that drunkard, who knows if he will do something with the strength of alcohol.”
Hai Ling rented here for so long, familiar with the same floor, everyone knew she was a divorced woman living alone with her son.
Auntie then kindly reminded her.
Hai Ling hmmmed, “I will.”
The lift door opened and Hai Ling led Yang Yang into the lift with that auntie.
“Wait a minute.”
When the lift door was about to close, a person swooshed over, Hai Ling heard the shout and instinctively pressed the on/off button so that the person could enter the lift.
The smell of alcohol hit her.
The person who rushed into the lift was none other than the drunken man who had fallen out of love and couldn’t take his eyes off a woman when he saw one.
He rushed into the lift, stood firmly, and smiled at Hai Ling.
Hai Ling did not respond to him and instinctively held her son back a few steps to pull away from him.
Instead, he kept staring at Hai Ling.