Chapter 15: Heart-to-Heart Conversation at Night
This is what he bought to refresh himself, the taste of mint lemongrass, sour and cool, the taste is very good, he brought it from Jiang City, Jinbei has no sale, it can be regarded as a specialty.
Xie Yunsheng touched the few candies in his palm, the shell was a transparent packaging bag, there was no pattern, and there was a yellow-green hard candy inside, which looked like it was in bulk.
He didn't smoke, he pinned the cigarette in his mouth to the base of his ear, tore open the bag with his fingers, pinched the candy and threw it in his mouth.
Sour!
Xie Yunsheng couldn't help but narrow his eyes and frown.
The sour taste, with the taste of cool mint, makes people suddenly sweep away the chaos in their minds and gradually become clear.
It's better than cool oil!
Xie Yunsheng smashed his mouth, and a piece of sugar was chewed by him in his mouth.
"Damn, my teeth are about to sour out, where did you get this thing?
"Ahh......h It...... It still has a filling!" Xie Yunsheng's whole person was distorted by the acid.
"Oh. Zhou Chong pursed his lips and unconsciously bent the corners of his lips: "I forgot to tell you that the sandwich is concentrated lemon juice." ”
He smiled shallowly, but Xie Yunsheng's eyes were not blind, and he could see at a glance that this person was holding back.
"Bastard, you can fool me!" Xie Yunsheng squinted, chewed, chewed, and quickly swallowed the sugar into his stomach.
"Smoke less. Zhou Chong was holding a cigarette and spitting out smoke rings, but he persuaded Xie Yunsheng to smoke less.
"Concerned about me, afraid that I will have blackened my lungs?" Xie Yunsheng moved the cushion and leaned towards Zhou Chong, his eyes staring at Zhou Chong's face carefully, as if to see what kind of mood he had.
But that was going to disappoint him.
Zhou Chong has always been moody, how can it be so easy for people to see his emotions.
Instead, he raised his eyelids, glanced Xie Yunsheng up and down, and finally fixed his eyes on Xie Yunsheng's snow-white teeth.
"I smoked too much, and my teeth were yellow. ”
"Disgusting. ”
"Ugly. ”
Exercise!
Xie Yun was angry and depressed again.
Even peeled off another piece of candy and threw it into his mouth, crunched and crushed, sour he squeezed his eyebrows, and goosebumps all over his body.
He's just making trouble for himself!
The hands on the watch crossed a small dot, Zhou Chong looked at the time, it was already half past nine in the evening, this time the old man should have gone to bed a long time ago, it was freezing cold, and it was almost ten o'clock when he went back, so he simply rested directly, and made do with it all night here.
"Don't look at it, it's ten o'clock when you go back. It's too late, it's interesting to divide half of your bed tonight, right?" Xie Yunsheng picked up the tin jar on the fire rack, and it was half a jar of water that was about to boil.
"Wash your hands and feet with hot water, otherwise you will get scabies if you freeze the wood." He dragged an enamel basin from the heel of the cabinet, on which was printed a small red fish, and a few lotus patterns, and when the water poured in, the water swayed and swayed, and the small fish seemed to swim.
Zhou Chong burned his hands, rolled up his trouser legs and took off his socks to burn his feet, the water was very hot, and the hot soles of his feet were a little sweaty, but they were very comfortable.
There were no slippers here, so Zhou Chong stepped on his shoes after ironing, sat by the fire, and let it dry by itself.
Xie Yunsheng didn't rush to soak his feet, but ran back to the cabinet and took out two packets of instant noodles.
"Do you want to eat?" he asked Zhou Chong.
"Eat. "Zhou Chong is indeed hungry.
So Xie Yunsheng took out two more packs from the cabinet.
"Have you finished eating?" Zhou Chong didn't know how much there was in four packs of instant noodles, but he had just eaten one pack before.
"Yes, you can eat as much as you want, it's mine if you can't finish it. Xie Yunsheng said.
Put the noodles next to the fire, Xie Yunsheng carried the small iron pot out, and when he came back, the small iron pot was already filled with a pot of water, it was freezing and snowy outside, and the water was frozen and condensed into ice, and Zhou Chong didn't know where this person got the living water.
"I'll boil more, in addition to cooking noodles, I can also drink hot water. Xie Yunsheng said and put the iron pot on the shelf again, and hung it on the fire again.
"Do you eat sauerkraut?" Xie Yunsheng bent down and stood in front of the big black jar in the corner, raising his eyelids and asking Zhou Chong.
"My mother pickled it, the taste is very positive, I moved it here with the jar, and put some of this when cooking the noodles, it is very fragrant. ”
"Have a taste?"
"Good. Zhou Chong nodded.
He doesn't have anything to taboo about, except that he can't eat spicy, everything else is fine.
As soon as the jar was opened, the sour fragrance suddenly came to the nostrils, and the smell of this smell can make people eat two more bowls of rice, and the gluttonous insects of the hook people have come up.
"It's just a taste, it's amazing. "The raw material of sauerkraut is Chinese cabbage, and in autumn and winter, this is the only one that can be placed, and the skillful women will always pickle one or two jars as a food for the family during the winter.
"Huang San'er likes my mother's pickled this, and he eats most of my jar. Xie Yunsheng laughed as he took a few pieces of sauerkraut and put them on the wooden board on the side, then took out a knife from the cabinet, chopped the sauerkraut finely, and threw it into the large enamel jar.
"There's no bowl here, so let's eat it with this. Xie Yunsheng shook the enamel jar in his hand, walked back and sat down with steps.
Zhou Chong glanced at the enamel jar in his hand, the style was the same as that used by his old man, but it was a circle bigger than the one his old man ate, if it was a little bigger, it couldn't be called a jar, it had to be called a basin instead.
"You all like to use this for dinner. "Old Man Zhou uses this, Zhou Wenwu also uses this, and Xie Yunsheng is also now.
It's as if this thing is particularly popular.
"Get used to it. Xie Yunsheng stretched his brows and was slightly happy: "This thing is cheap, and it can't be broken, how good." ”
"We used to have a big enamel field there, everything was made in it, enamel jars, enamel basins, even urinals were made of enamel, one piece of two, five pieces of ten, buy one can be used for half a lifetime, even the girl has to marry a set of enamel, the enamel field was booming at that time. ”
"My dad is an enamel worker, and my mom said that when my dad first entered her house, he brought a set of enamels. ”
Xie Yunsheng still smiled, his eyebrows narrowed slightly, the tip of his chin was slightly raised, and the small mole on the left was particularly obvious, he looked very good when he smiled, his facial features were as soft as an ink painting, and the small mole on the tip of his chin moved as soon as the corner of his lips moved, and the ink painting came alive.
"Later, no one used the enamel, everyone switched to stainless steel, and the enamel factory also closed down. My dad was among those people. He worked in the factory for half his life, had no skills, and was unemployed from the enamel factory, so he could only go to work in other places. ”
"He drove trucks to people in other places, delivered bricks and sand and cement to people at construction sites, and my mother said that he could earn 2,000 yuan a month at that time. ”
"Later. ”
"No later. ”
At this point, Xie Yunsheng stopped talking or laughing, just lowered his head slightly, and played with the firewood in front of him from time to time.
Zhou Chong knew that there was no later, and then his father died, his mother remarried, and he followed his mother to Nanli.
"Do you think I'm very pitiful?" Xie Yunsheng's eyes raised, and it was rare to be a little sharp.
"Are you pitiful?" Zhou Chong sneered, pinched the cigarette butt in his hand and pressed it directly on Xie Yunsheng's windbreaker, sparks penetrated the fabric, and a burnt smell filled it.
!
This little bastard!
"Damn, my old alley model! I just bought it! It's more than ninety!"
"Burn my clothes, are you crazy?"
Xie Yunsheng pushed the person away, touched the leather jacket with a hole on his body, and felt distressed, this is what he just bought!
"Say to me again that you are pitiful, and I will throw you into the fire. Zhou Chong pinched his cigarette, his eyebrows and eyes were full of ruffianism, and he was very stingy, how could he still look serious: "You still have a mother, I have nothing." ”
The two elders of his family left one after the other without any nostalgia, leaving him alone in this world.
Zhou Chong sometimes thought about why it was so unfair, why such a big disaster was coming to him, why it was him!
But in fact, there are so many whys.
Life and death come back for a while, and to put it bluntly, it is fate.
Predestined.
Anyone has to leave at the point, and no one is an exception, but this point is sooner or later.
Zhou Chong even thought about it, is it that as soon as a person is born, the time of death is already predestined? It is to come to this world to walk and live a life, as for how to live, whether the life is wonderful or not, it all depends on himself.
When his father went, Zhou Chongcheng had nightmares all night long, dreaming of everything, and his father died for a while. After a while, his father was alive again, and even his mother, who had been gone for a few years, dreamed again.
The two held hands and looked at him, smiling very happily, his father said that his mother had been waiting for him for so long, he was going to accompany her, so that Zhou Chong could live well and live well.
In fact, if there are too many dreams, people can't tell the reality a little, it's not that important whether it's true or not, because people have already gone, and Zhou Chong can't go with him, his father's life is over, and his own life has just begun.
It's not that it's not uncomfortable, but no matter how uncomfortable it is, he can only resist it alone, and it was his father who died, and only he knows how uncomfortable it is.
"Yes, I knew I wouldn't provoke you, a little wolf cub, better than me!" Xie Yunsheng touched his coat and gasped in distress, for a moment, he really wanted to do it, but Zhou Chong's words made him wilt and extinguish the drum.
Yes, he still has his mother, what about Zhou Chong? There is nothing left, compared to him, he really has no face to say pitiful.
"It's too late to understand. Zhou Chong pinched his cigarette and smiled badly. "I'm not messing around for a day or two. ”
He's not good-natured.
"Last time it ruined a pair of my shoes, this time it's my coat. Xie Yunsheng couldn't cry or laugh, he really shouldn't provoke him, he didn't get a good one horizontally and vertically!" ”
"I won't pay if I lose a lot. ”
"Next time you owe your mouth, I'll burn you. Zhou Chong said this with a smile, his eyes were crooked, his eyebrows were a little provocative, and he was very arrogant.
If this was someone else, Xie Yunsheng would have kicked it over, but it was Zhou Chong, he couldn't kick it, in Xie Yunsheng's eyes, arrogance was Zhou Chong's nature, that person was very perverse, Xie Yunsheng knew it from the first time he saw him.