While packing my mom’s things, a receipt suddenly slipped out of an old cardboard box.
It read: April 8, 2006. Aigo MP3 player returned and refunded. Goods and payment settled in full. Total: 498 yuan.
I felt as if I’d been plunged into an ice cellar.
The MP3 player I had thought had been lost for twenty years, the MP3 player that became the trigger every time my mom and I fought, had appeared out of nowhere, just like that.
Clutching the receipt, I asked her numbly, “Back then… did you return that MP3 player?”