Chapter XXXIV: A Letter
Under the water pipe, the stainless steel spoon forms a large heart shape under the impact of the water.
It's clear and transparent.
Shen Jiannan was speechless, it took him several weeks to learn this little trick.
Lu Xinyue saw the speechlessness on Shen Jiannan's face, so she didn't seem to see the speechlessness on Shen Jiannan's face.
"It's that simple, I thought it was so hard. ”
What can Shen Jiannan do with this kind of ninety-nine point pretend, he can only roll his eyes.
Suddenly, Lu Xinyue's eyes narrowed into crescent moon with a smile.
She likes to see Shen Jiannan eat deflated, which gives her a special sense of achievement.
"I'm not amazing. ”
"Average. ”
"Look how pure and transparent this heart of mine is. ”
"What, you want to give it to me?"
"You said something wrong, it should be returned to you. ”
Lu Xinyue was right.
It should indeed be returned rather than sent, the spoon in her hand is Shen Jiannan's.
The four eyes met for a moment.
No one spoke again.
Suddenly, the two smiled at each other.
Shen Jiannan stretched out his hand, and Lu Xinyue's hand did not move at all and held the spoon.
The two hands gradually touched each other, one was slightly cold, and the other was at the right temperature.
Shen Jiannan's spoon returned to his hand, but it was one more heart-shaped than when it was snatched away by Lu Xinyue.
A transparent heart, a heart that is washed out by a stream of water.
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Time never stops, and time does not leave a sound.
In the passing of time, the Spring Festival, the most important festival of the year, is coming.
Spring festival.
Some rejoice, others are worried.
In the eyes of children, being able to celebrate the New Year means that they can wear new clothes and get New Year's money, but simple-minded children still don't understand how much pressure the New Year has on adults.
Zhongzhou Province, Shenjia Village.
The children who had gone on winter vacation were running and chasing each other, and the faces of the children who had changed into new clothes in advance were full of joy before the festival.
The little faces were red from the cold, but no matter how cold the weather was, they couldn't suppress the joy of putting on new clothes.
"Ringing ringing!"
The bell of the bicycle rang, and the children who were running and playing flashed.
An outsider came to the village, a young man in a green coat and a green jacket, riding a 28-bar bicycle with two large green packages on the back of the bicycle.
The postman, this is the postman who comes to the village to deliver letters.
The children cheered and ran behind the postman's bicycle as if they had seen candy, knowing that the letter that the postman was coming to deliver might contain a letter from a loved one from afar.
Shenjia Village is not large, and the postman delivered the letters to the recipient's home one by one while the children were chasing them.
Whenever the recipient smiled and held the letter and raced a cigarette, the postman would smile and take the cigarette and talk a few words.
Soon, the young postman rode his bicycle to the door of a courtyard in the easternmost part of the village.
Yellow wooden gates, yellow windows, mud yards, fence walls.
Corn cobs hung everywhere in the yard, and a few big-flowered chickens were pecking at the corn on the ground.
A very ordinary, very common, and very poor family.
The young postman stepped his legs and stopped his bicycle, shouting at the top of his voice.
"Auntie, your college student has sent a letter. ”
In an instant, there was a reaction in the courtyard, and a slightly excited voice shouted before anyone could see it.
"Mom. My brother's letter. ”
The sound falls, and the person appears.
A seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl ran out of the courtyard, wearing a big braid that looked like a twisted flower, and when she ran, the braid flicked around like a little tail.
Then, another middle-aged woman in shabby clothes came out of the house.
Her gait was hurried, and a smile hung over her wrinkled face.
The girl who came to the door first took the letter from the postman's hand, and the woman who had not yet left the yard hurriedly greeted.
"Dongzi. Come inside and have some tea. ”
"Next time. Your college student sent it. ”
As he spoke, the postman took out another remittance slip and handed it to the woman who walked out the door.
The people around who heard the three words of college students came out to join in the fun, and suddenly coaxed.
"Sister-in-law. College student, I'm sending you money back!"
"You'll have to go to town to-morrow to buy more meat, and honor you. ”
"Haha!"
"How much was sent. ”
“......”
The woman's smile grew even deeper on her wrinkled face.
Suddenly, someone exclaimed.
"I'm a good one, five thousand!"
"That's five thousand!"
"College students are amazing. ”
The faces of the literate people around them changed when they saw the amount on the remittance slip.
Shock, envy, and a faint hint of jealousy.
The women were also shocked.
She didn't know how much money was on the remittance slip before, and her hands trembled when she knew the specific number.
That's five thousand!
"Sister-in-law. You'll have to buy a pig for the Chinese New Year. ”
"This boss is really promising. ”
"College students are just different. ”
"I've got to go out on the street tomorrow to buy a new outfit. ”
"I have to pull a new piece of cloth, and the family will add a set. ”
“......”
The commotion gradually dissipated, and the women who returned to the house could not calm down for a long time.
She asked the braided girl who was crouching in the doorway and looking at the letter.
"Meizi, did your brother really send five thousand?"
Meizi, who was busy reading the letter, took the deposit slip handed over and took a look, five thousand and 5,000 in capital letters, but not five thousand yuan.
After receiving her daughter's confirmation, the woman's wrinkled face was both excited and worried, happy and nostalgic.
Suddenly, she remembered that there was still a letter.
Carefully placing the deposit slip in the cabinet in the back room, the woman asked.
"What did your brother say, read it to me. ”
Meizi, who had already read the letter, smiled, it was not the first time she had helped her mother read the letter, she cleared her throat and read.
"Mother's Revelation:
I haven't returned home after a long absence, and I don't know what is going on at home, but I can't go home to see my mother this year because of work. The weather is getting colder, and it must have snowed at home, so I hope my mother will pay more attention to her body.
I'm fine outside, my work is going well, and my mother doesn't have to worry about it......"
The letter is not very long.
There is both greeting to the mother and concern for the situation at home.
The payment is, Zi Jiannan.
The woman's face wrinkled and relieved a lot.
She was overjoyed.
The child has already participated in the work, or is still a teacher in the university, so the 5,000 yuan must be in a dignified manner, even if he has to be a tutor after work, it must be very hard.
"Meizi, did you hear, your brother said that being born in a rural area and studying is the foundation of your life, and you have to study hard in the future!"
"I see. I will study hard and strive to be admitted to Huahai University in the future. Mom, you see my brother is different when he becomes a teacher. will also use my mother to open it personally, and the text will be crepe. ”!”
"You kid. ”
"Mom. You said that if I was admitted to Huahai University in the future, I asked my brother if he was called brother or teacher......"
"Haha......"
“......”