Chapter 50: Pride and Prejudice II
Heidelberg was silent at night, but unlike in the past, there seemed to be an unstoppable strange smell in the silent air, like a rotten potted tree, always brutally ravaging innocent creatures. Time in Heidelberg seems to have stopped at a moment of crisis, and the street stalls have died down, scurrying away into another, more secluded and silent town that no one inquires.
When the jagged pace once again rushed to the street market, where the signs had just been hung up and gradually returned to normalcy, with a loud call like a church bell, two endless tides swarmed towards the flower town, which seemed to be disturbed by the strong storm surge.
In the face of those frosty and lead-streaked peeping eyes, the vendors were so frightened that they only felt that their clever words had lost their due effect, and looking at the beams and pillars that collapsed at their feet in the strong earthquake and the wreckage of fallen flowers scattered all over the ground, people could only treat and serve those bold and rude uninvited guests with warmth and acquaintance. After all, in the past few years, business in the market was booming, and taking a few days' insignificant meal tickets and then putting on a polite upbringing that is not inferior to that of urban white-collar workers as an obligation in exchange for the trust and protection of these people is always more concise and effective than hard-working. Although their profits are transferred to other people's accounts, people are somewhat reluctant and reluctant, but looking at those who are swelling their chests and belly, they are ashamed to say that they are like a river. And under the silent dark box, people's self-interest is also rapidly expanding like a big bubble, so the partners who get along with each other day and night on the whole street have their own thoughts, ghosts are hidden, and people are still looking at the wind and greeting on the surface, but under the case that is not discovered, everyone sets up a ruthless cold gun and secret bullet against the former familiar partner.
When the copper smell of money slowly diffused into the blood of the originally pragmatic farmers and merchants, the original fresh taste of food and personality also changed a lot, and people began to enthusiastically take out their treasured wine and expensive cold meals for those uninvited guests. Later, the entire long street of seabuildings was filled with the smell of dirty blood of primitive tribes in every inch of the air.
About three years later, even the strong north wind and the goose feathers and snow like cotton rain could not hide the gag yuppie style of those treacherous groups, and the cold snow hats were in the heads of those whose souls were gnawed by greed. At a loss, those guys who had long been accustomed to the cyborg-like nonsense had to shout a little and roll up the wine bags and rice bags and soak themselves in cheap dark beer glasses, long and dirty beards, and couldn't wait to throw themselves into the Yonghua red wine with budding peonies. The knuckles of their fingers sank in circles and circles until they became stubby jujube sausages, but the skin of their old friends, who had once been a nest of snakes and rats, had long since become shriveled by the tightening of their pockets.
But these quick-thinking businessmen would have come up with a better plan, counting their losses, and they chose to close again out of animal instinct, after all, everyone had been hungry for a long time, and this life of patches had long been unbearable for them. However, listening to those people's insinuations about a huge amount of money, people have put their minds on the superficial level of ** Yehe, although after the baptism of the years, The vicissitudes of life, they can also play a similar disdain for the underdressed people who are inferior to themselves, but they are still worlds apart from those who are accustomed to flies and dogs in terms of status and inferiority, so in everyone's unbelievable sight, these bright and decent people are like Ling Xiao who is involved in the mud, although the branches and leaves of the flowers are still standing straight in the mud filled with ice and snow shavings, but only he knows how uneasy he is cowering.
When the cold wind once again penetrates the atmosphere of decay, and an even worse breath is about to stir into the wider households, those who initially relied on shelter are instead discarded into a dizzying array of unfortunate ghosts. Watching the people who used to be hungry run the train with their mouths full of mouths and mouths at themselves who were also in tattered clothes. They can only turn their grievances at their cunning companions and the long past years that have passed under their sleepy faces. And in the face of these iron rooster-like collective small-bellied chicken intestines that the merchants had recalled, they once again looked at the newcomer who pretended to squeeze out his shriveled belly but secretly smeared some ground oil with more contempt. Not to mention that the newcomer opened his thin lips, and two rows of shiny close teeth spit out from his cherry-like mouth, which was really sweet and manly with ecstasy. Those old friends, hesitant and staring at the waist that was quietly straightened up by the last winner, but depending on the personality and the position of the heart of these newcomers, even if they were so angry that they convulsed, they had to close their mouths that had been cut so incoherently, and the excited liquid flowed out of their pale cheeks, and they had to tear their broken teeth into the scarlet gums, and give a thumbs up in approval to those eyes that were particularly contemptuous. At that moment, I listened to the wind chimes on my neck, and the crackling and elongated sound of the cane and pestle in the fireplace campfire. They had to stand still and doze off in a jaw-dropping slumber.
However, even though the opponent's aggressive posture is really eye-catching, the crimson bozzle of rum rippling with bills can still appear in front of the eyes of the leading camel of the bar's proprietress . She took a deep sip of her polished pipe, and with full vigour, opened her teeth that were thick with smoke. The impression of the people in the town of her is that she talks to people who are not enough of her identity, and her scolding posture is like scolding beasts in the boundless wilderness. She used to be the most humble and lewd joke after dinner. But now she's in the town with her eyes raised, and no one can underestimate her. So those who dozed off could only beg against the wall, and the people in the room could get what they wanted.
However, for those who have always made a living by pleasing the nobles in the bars, this rabble is still a sudden midnight dream, especially when the well-dressed people who appear in the streets and alleys pass through the delicate bodies of the girls like a fierce black-green tide, and force them to drink a full glass of wine, and watch the people with belly spasms love to turn their rough gray folded fingers along the walls where the girls have left fragrant kisses, and the girls hang their heads timidly in the indecision of those people for fear of being insultedγ When they went straight to the most beautiful girl in the bar, Roseie. The girls clenched the torn number plate in their hands one after another, pretending to be fanatical and casting adoring glances at her. Looking at the rising obsidian eyes of the most faceful of those people, and Xiao Gui's frightened and reluctant old man who caters to the bandit-like appearance of the most dense beard and inverted iron thorns, the girls put their high hearts back into their stomachs, and said frustrated self-deprecating words, but in fact, even the crushed hearts and livers are hidden with uncontrollable joy.
Sure enough, people are as elegant as roses. Even if you don't wear heavy makeup, it's not the same as that group of vulgar and glamorous guys. β
Xiao Rose looked at the waist knife pendant worn by the bandit-like man, and when he raised his eyes from the bottom up, the old man's amber-like yellow eyes were covered with bloodshot eyes, and the drum beat that dragged his tired and heavy steps very hard under his feet. After the shiver, her eyes rolled and she panicked again. She looked warily at the man's companions on the dance floor, all of them with their bellies like balls, their red faces and eyes that looked at the girls. Compared with their fellow people who only know how to eat, drink and have fun in private cafes, the spring light after this naked contempt is the most unreasonable contempt for ordinary people, and his appearance of a unique pomp while venting his desires is even more unsettling. Because the girls who work here all understand that compared to those well-dressed, well-dressed and well-spoken career men, these people are often desperate to be powerful, and adultery and robbery are not worth mentioning at all in their eyes, while thinking so, Xiao Zhu only felt a cold swishing cold air blowing from behind, and when the girl looked blankly at the cloudy old eyes, the man with a face full of horizontal lines and even a hoarse and dull trilling voice suddenly refreshed a lot. In the corridor of the black hole, there was a fluctuating sound like a spring breeze blowing willows, and Xiao Gui looked at the round body of the person in front of him, sometimes curled up, sometimes stretched, he was like a long snake with people, but the rough nose made a dull neighing sound like an old horse, and at the same time, it also came out of the steaming heat that gathered from all directions. The girl sensitively moved backwards to the lively dance floor behind her, one step at a time. She crumbled the gravel path under her feet, and just as the girl looked at the man with begging eyes through the bleak dark light, the man immediately leaned over and arched her round arm, and he hugged the girl in his tattered big leather coat, and looked at the delicate and beautiful face of the girl in his arms, and he stretched out his hand as thick as hay to the girl's flushed face, and at that moment, his big belly rose and fell like a gathering dark cloud in the cloudy light.
Compared with the girl's surprised and frustrated look, it was the proprietress of the bar who took the lead in smiling, and in the corridor covered with a thin layer of frost, although the middle-aged woman's delicate skin and tender flesh had long been replaced by a pockmarked pock, while the old man was secretly looking at her, her equally bright eyes did not have the slightest fear, or her eyes could still stir up waves of passion. The desire to look at the man's eyes grew stronger. Then I looked at Xiao Rose's panting mouth with bright foam. The proprietress was satisfied, kind and kind, and closed the door leading to the lobby.
Gradually, from his high-pitched wine throat came the faint sound of snorting and moving under the bottom wheel of a dilapidated green train, and a hissing sound that was not smooth in breath lingered back and forth. The companions who had just spoken flattering and sycophantic words on the surface pricked up their ears and listened earnestly, only to hear the long syllables that seemed to come from the chest and abdomen, like the rhythm of a piano played by a child, sometimes sharp as a bead, sometimes extremely soft and low. Accompanied by this ungraceful and even somewhat scattered busy note, a hoarse and salty sound that dried up like a dry spring reached the ears of the girls who were thinking about it.
"Here we go again, oh! It's annoying, it's endless, how can you make a silent oath? No wonder people without principles like to put the word principle on their lips. As he spoke, the door leading to the hallway in the lobby was torn open by an invisible hand in the darkness, and even the man with the red ribbon of the suspency skirt with cups, plates, and food scraps stopped moving forward. Later, even the uncle who played the guard extinguished the light in his hand and jumped desperately to the crack in the door. Soon after, there was a deafening sound of intense shaking in the silent room, like a boiler as the air pressure soared.
"Honey, are you bored right now?" the proprietress crept behind them, placing her fat hand lightly on the shoulders of one of the shadows in the crowd. And at this moment, the quiet voice that suddenly appeared in the silence was also goosebumps. People walked towards the lobby without saying a word.
Aiming the key at the keyhole, after doing such an important but trivial thing, the proprietress faced the blazing fire, not to mention how proud she was. She picked up the coffee cup carved with a gilded cut-out pattern and swept away the milky white grease that had fallen on the coffee. Then she lowered her face and shaved the crumbs of coffee that hung on the rim of the cup with each sip of her face. When she looked at Shuli, she still choked on the coffee in her mouth.
Shuli ran into the center of the crowd with a big belly, but when she clearly felt that Jiang Lianxun's table seemed to be very harmonious, and there was a crackling air bomb that crackled as soon as the alarm sounded, she turned a corner and carefully hid behind the statue of the Virgin in the center corner of the bar. From her point of view, in addition to hearing the clearest conversations, she could also see through the dripping raindrop-like roller curtains the real monologues hidden under the original form. Especially the VVIP director Jiang Lianxun, who she has cared about for a long time, he looks as if he has been seriously injured physically and mentally, drinking quietly alone, and the people around him are entertaining themselves with a look of ignorance. It wasn't until the phone rang that he said goodbye cautiously, and then turned and walked into the alley of Hezheros opposite. Thinking of his usual six-kiss discognizant pace, this time he seemed to have encountered a difficult opponent. Or that the rude guy's spring and autumn dream soaked in a drifting bottle is about to be shattered from his neck.
Thinking of the fact that he pretended to be expressionless like those *** aholic on weekdays, but when he was still looking at each other, he thought about her with a pair of lustful eyes, and she felt that her life was so funny. Being treated as a pastime by a group of guys who don't even know how their careers can be, but fortunately, although they can't change their current situation, they are no different from those well-dressed noble people who are actually no different from ants from the bottom like her, except for being busy like bees, and at the same time being squeezed like juice in a press, she felt sincerely relieved at that moment. Perhaps the pleasure had come too late, and if she had known it from the beginning, maybe, if not, she would have been doing this special happy livelihood in the midst of her work. It's just that she doesn't want to go around spinning cracked eggshells like a headless fly like she does now. And in the eyes of the proprietress, she is always a green-headed fly stumbling around the broken eggs.
Because just now, Shuli found tonight's hunting object - Cui Xueman. In other words, Sherman really shouldn't be pressured by her as an ant, just like when she first arrived in Heidelberg, she once felt that she was the most pitiful stunner in the world (because she was the lowest rank) when she looked at her seniors who were also not good at official ranks. In fact, as far as Sherman is concerned, every man and woman who has to be in an embarrassing situation is very pitiful. Thinking about it this way, the thunder fire before and after those people's psychological distortion is really worthy of understanding and sympathy, although not everyone can forgive.
Gu Beiming started from the confused four-person conversation just now, and from time to time shifted her gaze to the pretty beauty with tears in her eyes, although her gaze at their table was different from the chubby woman's blazing eyes, but from the perspective of a stable landing, she should also be quite concerned about Director Jiang Lianxun who had just gotten up and left the table.
Large tears slowly dripped from her gloomy eyes, and she was still surrounded by men who tried to do something to her, and she had to reluctantly greet them politely as they shook the colorful bills in their hands and laughed and teased her.
"Do you want to add wine, sir?" The girl didn't know where she got the courage from, she walked straight to Gu Beiming, and Gu Beiming's gaze outside the window immediately retracted. He noticed that the girl was secretly wiping tears from the corners of her eyes with her head down. An inexplicable emotion suddenly surged in his heart. In the girl who was physically and mentally exhausted by the oppression of life, he saw the shadow of Tae-hee's unyielding busyness in the past. Although these two people have different professions, it is difficult for Sherman to arouse compassion in others while at the same time inspiring pity. But it's not as scornful as those showgirls.
"You can get a tip for wine, then I'll give it to you directly. Also, I can come and sit here every day I am here, can you reserve this seat for me? β
Sherman smiled without saying a word.
"You, you're not like those people. Xue Man looked at Gu Beiming with wide eyes. At that moment, in addition to surprise and surprise, she also threw the teapot in her hand on the ground under the confusion of her thoughts.
"Cui Xueman. A familiar voice broke into Xue Man's ears, and as the voice stopped abruptly, Gu Beiming who was waiting to add wine turned around.
"Cui Xueman. He whispered in his heart the name that was similar to his brother's girlfriend.
"What's going on, Shirley, why are you here?" said Shehman, who trotted towards Shirley. "Ah, Shirley, why do you have to come to me? As for the family, they are still in the country, and you are the only one who has come here, right, you have no other companions, right? β
My sister burst into tears with excitement, and in contrast, Shirley's reaction was much calmer than expected. Before landing, Shirley had drawn countless ideas in her diary, desperately threw herself into her sister's arms and tearfully said that she missed her secretly, or scolded her hysterically, scolding her for choosing to say goodbye to a man she had never met, why she had made a mess of her life, and was deceived by that person's ruthless hurt and deception, but she had to spread countless lies before the world evaporated. In order to prevent her father's illness from getting worse, her sister increased her survival pressure for no reason. In addition to the expensive tuition and living expenses, plus the cost of medicine and the subsidy that my sister sent home on a monthly basis, recalling these in front of my sister, my life is really difficult, and it is rare to be hanging.
"Are the other companions, the other companions in my sister's eyes, our parents, why do you expect them to come to you as desperately as I do?"
Sherman stared into Shirley's eyes and took another step closer. And hugged Shirley from the front. Shirley's thoughts were confused, and for a quarter of an hour, she really wanted to hold on to her sister and hold her hand and never let go. But when she remembered that guy had been fooling around with a wine bag and rice bag man in a foreign country, she still resisted the urge in her heart and broke free from her arms.
"Shirley tell my sister that Mom and Dad are okay, all healthy, do you have your phone? Is there any photo of them, I'm so happy to see you here." β
"Happy? How can you be happy when you see me here wandering across the ocean looking for you? Aren't you hard-hearted and don't want to see me again in your life? Don't you even want to reply to me? Can you easily hang tears of longing in the corners of your eyes when you are so indifferent to me?"
"You are ashamed to care about the health of your parents, and you still want to know what they look like when you don't have to pay anything? Haven't you planned to escape from the place where you were born and raised for a long time? Why are you embarrassed to say polite words that care about people? How can you be so brazen about mentioning those who have been broken by you, can your conscience be better and be redeemed?" Even though she was full of hatred for her, a bloodless guy, she still resisted her impatience to think of her family who was far away from the ocean.
"Tell me, Shirley, who brought you here to me, you will never find such a place without the guidance of others. β
"The question you care about now is what you most urgently want to know the answer to, it turns out that your concern about your family just now is a blank check, and sure enough, compared with your sister who has not met for many years, it is still that amazing bastard who worries you more. By the way, what else do you want to know? Did I expose you to that man, did I tell him the same grumbling?"
"Oh, you did find him, your boyfriend helped you do it. With our conditions, all we can do is send out advertisements and then look for them aimlessly, just like looking for a needle in a haystack, you can't find me. Because I didn't drive any coordinates either. Then you must have seen him, and what did you tell him about me? You didn't tell him about my years of making ends meet. By the way, you should know his name, tell me it's like a code in a suspense drama?"
"Can't make ends meet, sister, you're finally telling me the truth. Do you know how much your annual nonsense has cost me. Just for your marriage, I worked day and night. You blurted out a sentence about tuition, and I almost took a break from school. And you, what have you done with all that money? How many years, have you ever bought a decent piece of furniture for your home? Do you know how desperate I am to look at the palatial palace-style residence in your mobile phone? Why do you ask for so much from your parents, but selfishly close your wallet when you become an adult, whether it is shriveled or bulging, in short, your fat dripping hands still put it into other people's pockets, and they, who don't know it, still want to help you, I am not convinced. β
"How can you be desperate, aren't you living better than me? And you just said that you are constantly working, do you think that I am a child and ignorant of the world? People like Gu's can search a lot of information with a mobile phone? Don't try to bluff me, I know what you are here for, you want to show off your generosity to me. But I think you're still making your calculations early, and who doesn't live to the end who knows that your causal wheel is a patchwork of several beautiful boards? Just like the people in this bar, who doesn't have the same desire to succeed as you, including the people on the dance floor over there. β
"I think you're insane, hopeless, how can you compare me to the people here? Am I just as worthless in your heart? Yes, how can you be so selfish and still have someone else in your heart. Retribution, retribution. It seems that I shouldn't have imagined how good you are. I even want to come to see someone like you who doesn't deserve it. β
"But in my position, sister, you are really timely rain, and it came at the right time. It's hard to carry such a big box of things, but by the way, did Shirley bring my favorite mango mousse and sweet chocolate chip cookies when I was a child?"
"I remember my sister's favorite food was the bibimbap sauce made by her clever mother. β
"Well, you can say whatever you want, because. β
Sherman rolled up her sleeves and opened the suitcase standing next to the cupboard, and turned her whole plump and sturdy body inside.
"Because all I really miss is money. With this stuff, I can buy my lover's favorite mango mousse and chocolate chip cookies at the moment. β
"Stop!"
Shirley rushed forward regardless of her image, desperately snatching the neat stack of banknotes in her sister's hand.
"How can you do this, this is the only savings I have, and I still have to save money to study. β
"Oh my God, do you still have such a naΓ―ve idea? I really can't believe that a secondary school graduate looking for a job with a monthly salary of 2000 is the same for undergraduates. What's the use of your efforts? It's easier than them to get such a cheap job, right? Come on, our fate is predestined and there is no room for negotiation, why don't you understand? At least look at me in your eyes, I still have a job that has been done for five or six years even though I am facing the white eyes, but you, how many houses have you gone this year, don't you have a scale in your heart? Don't think that if I am not by your side, I will never know. β
"Well, since my sister knows my hard work, she should also give it back to me, not for anything else, but for your forgiveness just now. β
"I'm not forgiving you, it's because you've been walking the path I've walked. β
"Ridiculous, absolutely nothing!"
The two of them faced each other, Xue Man's face turned white, and Shirley's face was ruddy and textured under the anger in front of him. She said solemnly word by word: "Give it back to me, and then we can get together and disperse." β
"There's no way I'm going to give it back to you, because your money is just as worth scrutinizing. β
Xue Man's pale tiredness couldn't resist the gaze that held some kind of strong desire in his blazing eyes, and he was approaching the bottom of his eyes.
"Cui Xueman, I will definitely tell my family how depraved you are here, you hang out with someone who is simply playing with you all day long. And I must have a way to meet him and break you up in front of the two of you. β
"Cui Xueli, no matter how difficult it is, even if you are my sister, I will send a message to tell everyone how much black history the girlfriend of Secretary General Gu can dig into. β
The two of them deservedly threatened each other with the most serious words.
"Do you know that before I met my sister, I imagined countless encounters, and when I saw my sister and what my sister said, you shattered all my dreams. Even though I know you're such a ruthless bastard, I want to see you so much. β
"Let's go, let's go, get out of Heidelberg, where you are not welcome at all. We are not all the way at all, so naturally even if we meet in the future, we will inevitably meet each other. Please remember today, because this unforgettable today will also be copied into countless tomorrows with only you and me. β
Sherman forcibly pushed away Shirley, who was sticking to her arm, she shrugged her shoulders, pretended to be sorry and explained a few words in harsh words, while Shirley looked at her blankly and pondered without saying a word, she detained her suitcase and walked away mercilessly.
"Hey, sister, don't you abandon me anymore, okay? Don't you know that I also left my mother and went to you alone? What I just said was angry, I, I don't want to lose you. Shirley wailed and hugged her shoulders as she slowly crouched on the ground. Looking at the strangers around her who cast surprised eyes for no reason, she was extremely frightened, and the feeling of being abandoned by the closest people was even more desolate than just being stripped from the bottom of her heart and regarded as a strange acquaintance.