Chapter 6 The Story of a Small Town 1 - The Stranger is like a jade, and the son is unparalleled in the world
It's the end of March in the solar calendar, and it's supposed to be the season of spring flowers. But suddenly ushered in the cold spring. Outside, the sky was overcast, and a light rain was falling densely. The wind was a little strong, and a whistling sound could be faintly heard. The peonies in the yard have already produced many buds, but they don't want to encounter strong winds and cool weather. Yesterday it was nearly 20 degrees Celsius of spring warmth, but today it has dropped to 5 degrees Celsius like winter. Standing at the window, Li Huatong muttered in his heart, Peony Fairy, please be patient for a few more days! It shouldn't be long before the weather warms up, and you can bloom to your heart's content. Suddenly, I remembered Feng Tang's "Spring", "Spring water is new, spring forest is in full bloom, spring breeze is ten miles, you are not as good as you." "This is writing about spring, but also about youth, even if it is an ordinary girl like Li Huatong, she has had an age like a flower and jade, and she has also had a youth like a spring spring.
Li Huatong, who graduated from college, happened to meet the time when he no longer had a package assignment after graduation. I am ignorant, it is difficult to make a difference, so I can only go back to my hometown and wait for the opportunity. So, my parents, who rarely ask for help, asked my cousin, who works in the city, to help me find a job. Uncle Cousin is very good, he buys gifts, and he goes to great lengths to meet important people, and he has made a lot of efforts, and Li Huatong finally entered a public institution. I remember that at that time, Li Huatong lived at his cousin's house for a few days, helping his cousin pick up and drop off his daughter who was in elementary school. My cousin is a gentle and elegant woman, and she didn't change much of her clothes, so she bought a few clothes for Xiaotong. It was a warm home, clean and tidy, full of joy. Although Xiaotong can reciprocate very little, they treat her like family.
In late autumn, Xiaotong finally went to work. It is a small city, bordered by the Qinghe River, called Luochuan, with a population of about 400,000 people, and it is small and quiet with green trees. There are not many people in the unit, and Xiaotong follows Tu Accountant to learn to write business. It's not much, it's not complicated, it's not very hard. Because he works here alone, the unit intimately assigned a small room to Xiaotong as a dormitory. She was grateful and happy to finally have a nest of her own. Comparing it to Uncle Tom's hut, Xiaotong gave it a name, called "my hut", and arranged it as a shelter.
The days are also leisurely, Xiaotong goes to work and gets off work every day according to the work and rest time. Within a few days, colleagues in the unit almost recognized each other. There are one or two enthusiastic ones, and when they have time, they go to the financial room to chat, intentionally or unintentionally, they want to introduce Xiaotong to the object. Xiaotong is an obedient girl, she is not good at refuting face, and she accepts it seriously.
The days passed unhurriedly, and in the blink of an eye, it was winter when the north wind was howling. Luochuan Castle is close to the Qinghe River, and it is very windy and cold in winter. The office has set up a briquette stove and a long chimney, and a fire has been lit. Let the north wind howl in the world outside, and the room is warm, like another world. Xiaotong is like a bee, buzzing around the Finance Bureau, banks, units and dormitories every day.
Suddenly, one day, Accountant Tu came in with a cotton curtain and said, "Xiaotong, someone is looking for you." Xiao Tong looked up and saw that it was a young man of the same age, wearing a long tweed coat, his hair was a little messy from the wind, and he was standing at the door at a loss. Xiaotong didn't know him, looked at him, and was stunned for a moment. I felt that this was rude, so I quickly got up and greeted him, and let him sit by the fire to roast the fire. He was busy looking for a cup to put tea leaves and pour water, and the steaming water was handed to him. Accountant Tu asked Xiaotong to find this month's report and related information, and told Xiaotong that she was going out to run errands, and after a period of hurry, Accountant Tu got the information and went out.
When it stopped, Xiaotong found that the man was still sitting by the fire and drinking water quietly. He raised his head, looked at her, and smiled shyly, "You don't remember me, do you?" Xiao Tong looked at his face and touched his ears, and he couldn't remember when he had seen him or dealt with him. I had to say with a shy face: "I'm sorry, I really don't have an impression、、、、、、" He suddenly stood up, put his hands neatly on both sides, and said solemnly: "Let me introduce myself, my name is Xu Ruobin, it's nice to meet you!" Seeing that a mountain suddenly rose in front of him, Li Huatong suddenly panicked, and hurriedly stood up, with "Okay, okay!" in his mouth. Thinking that this was a bit inappropriate, he pointed to the chair behind him and said, "Sit, sit!" He sat down obediently, and she sat down too, around the warm fire, probably a little hot, and their faces slowly flushed.
His name is Xu Ruobin, as his name suggests, he is a gentle and gentle young man who is polite and even a little shy. Li Huatong has always been a guy who bullies the soft and is afraid of the hard, if she encounters that kind of thick-skinned trickster, she really can't deal with it. However, Xu Ruobin is not such a person, so she took advantage of him to drink tea and took a closer look at him. The eyes are slender and not too large, but the gaze is very gentle. A head of jet-black hair, dense and well-combed. The complexion is relatively white, and there are a few freckles on the bridge of the nose, which are almost impossible to see when you are far away. He has thick lips, and according to his mother, there is a saying that "thick lips can eat meat", so he must be a blessed person who can eat a lot of meat. Suddenly, the mouth that Xiao Tong was staring at spoke: "How is it? After watching it for a long time, do you recognize me?" Li Huatong quickly withdrew his gaze, cautiously reached out to hold his teacup, turned around, and looked for such a character in the long river of memory. But this was in vain, and the search results did not have any impression of this person. So, I had to turn to him and ask, "Do I really know you?" He suddenly laughed, and his face looked softer, and he said to her, "You may not remember, I have always known you, we used to have a relationship". He lowered his voice, said it was really magnetic, and slowly talked about his college life. Only then did Li Huatong understand that the two of them were studying in the same city. Xu Ruobin actually studied at the Judicial Cadre School, although it was not the same school, but he had friends who knew each other together. Once, that mutual friend asked everyone to go to the park together, and we might have met there. He remembered her, but she forgot it all. In order to avoid embarrassment, Li Huatong picked up his words and began to talk about the interesting things about the trip to the park, everyone remembered it, and they chatted enthusiastically after a while. Speaking of excitement, Li Huatong got up from his chair and walked around the office, dancing with his hands. He sat there quietly, looking at her all the time, laughing and smiling, taking a sip of tea from time to time. Suddenly, for some reason, both of them stopped, no one spoke, and the room suddenly became extraordinarily quiet, perhaps silently immersed in the past years. Li Huatong held the cup, took a sip, and found that the water was already cold. So, I picked up a thermos and refilled him with hot water. At this time, he suddenly stood up, rubbed his hands and said, "I'm sorry, I have talked about it until now." It's time for you to get off work. I took my leave. Without waiting for Li Huatong to speak, he strode to the door, opened the door and went out.
Looking at the cotton curtain that was still shaking, Li Huatong suddenly felt that life was really wonderful!
Li Huatong later learned that Xu Ruobin had been planning for a long time when he first came to see her. On that trip to the park, he knew that the two of them were fellow villagers, and at that time, they were close to graduation, and they were busy writing papers and many other graduation things, so he had no leisure time. After graduation, Xu Ruobin went to the Luochuan City Public Security Bureau as he wished, and because he was familiar with the computer business, he became a computer talent in the technical department. Seriously, that's a good fit for his character.
Since going to Xiaotong's unit for the first time, Xu Ruobin has become a frequent visitor here. When Li Huatong was free, he chatted with Li Huatong. When Li Huatong was not available, he chatted with Li Huatong's colleagues. Li Huatong got off work, and they went out to Qinghe Bridge to eat together. The area around Qinghe Bridge is the place with the most restaurants in Luochuan Castle. There are Chongqing small noodles, Qu's rolling dough, large plate chicken, Korean cold noodles, Qishan whistle noodles, stewed noodles, etc., and of course, dumplings are indispensable. During that time, they tasted almost all the small restaurants in Qingheqiao.
When Li Huatong was in her hometown, she never thought that one day she would have to cook to support herself, and her mother rarely taught her to cook and cook, as long as she was admitted to university, she would have food. As a result, Li Huatong hardly knows how to cook. Fortunately, she is not particular about it, she can eat anything, and she is very well fed. Xu Ruobin's appearance made Li Huatong feel that he could live without cooking, and the two of them went to eat together, so as not to be lonely, and they would not be told, wouldn't it be a beautiful thing.
Watching Xu Ruobin go in and out, after a long time, Aunt Zhang suddenly called Xiaotong to the office, asked Xiaotong if she was in love, and asked the high school political teacher who introduced Xiaotong if she wanted to see her?
In the evening, he went to Qinghe Bridge to eat rice noodles across the bridge, and Xu Ruobin said that he would take Li Huatong to a place. Li Huatong didn't ask, jumped on Xu Ruobin's bicycle, sat firmly, and said "go", and the car rushed away. Along the wide road, Xu Ruobin hunched over and rode hard, and Li Huatong, who was sitting in the back seat, kept asking where he was going and where he was going. Xu Ruobin rode forward, laughing loudly and saying, "Keep it secret, you'll know when you arrive." Going all the way, when you reach the traffic light at the intersection in front of you, the bike draws a beautiful arc and turns left. When night falls and the lights come on, Li Huatong discovers that the night in the city is always more beautiful than the day. The neon lights are shining, red and green, yellow and purple, and they are really beautiful. Li Huatong was enjoying the night view of Luochuan City at night, when suddenly the bicycle stopped, Li Huatong jumped down, and saw that it was Qinghe in front of him. The neon lights of the Qing River, sparkling, occasionally a stalk of leaves fall on the surface of the river, ripples in circles, really beautiful. Looking at Li Huatong's shocked expression, Xu Ruobin smiled and said, "Beautiful." Li Huatong has to admit that it is indeed beautiful. Locking the bike, the two men walked west along the guardrail. The weather was still a little cool, and the temperature by the Qinghe River seemed to be even lower, and a gust of wind blew, Li Huatong couldn't help but shudder, and wrapped his clothes tightly with his hands, after all, it was still the late winter and early spring! Xu Ruobin silently took off his coat and gently draped it on Li Huatong's body. Neither of them spoke, as if they were frightened by the beautiful night scene, and continued to walk forward. Qinghe at night is quiet and mysterious, like a beautiful woman, showing an unknown sexiness. Li Huatong still felt cold on his body, and leaned over to Xu Ruobin, while smiling and complaining that Xu Ruobin didn't tell her to come to the river earlier, if she had known, she would have added an extra piece of clothing. Xu Ruobin looked at Li Huatong with doting eyes, and said with a smile, "It's me who is wrong, it's me who is wrong!" He leaned closer, took advantage of the situation, stretched out his right arm and hugged Li Huatong, but his eyes looked at Qinghe on the left. Xu Ruobin's body was warm, and Li Huatong heard a steady and powerful heartbeat, and his heart was a little flustered, but his body didn't dare to move.
In February, the river seems to have come out and fall, and the spring flowers by the river are waiting to bloom, and they can't wait to report the news of spring. I heard that the plum blossoms in Qinghe Park are also blooming, which must be a unique charm. Li Huatong thought of Lu You's "Fortune Operator: Yongmei", and couldn't understand why the first paragraph was written so sadly, "Outside the post broken bridge, lonely and ownerless." It was already dusk and I was alone, and it was even more windy and rainy. This is a broken bridge, lonely and ownerless, and dusk sorrow or something, and "more wind and rain", it is already miserable and miserable. Mr. Lu You writes about plum blossoms like this, does the plum blossom fairy know? It is estimated that he saw Tang Wan who missed him with plum blossoms, and his heart was bitter, and he wrote poems very bitterly. Fortunately, there is a second paragraph, and the second paragraph is slightly better: "I have no intention of fighting for spring, and I am jealous." Scattered into mud and dust, only fragrant as before. "But it's not much better. Plum blossoms bloom in the bitter cold season of winter, but plum blossoms are self-satisfied, self-satisfied, and therefore self-satisfied. Like a beautiful girl, wearing a red shirt and dancing on a stage as white as snow, she is a winter elf, beautiful and confident. Lu You wrote her like this, and Li Huatong didn't like it. Wang Anshi's plum blossom poem is slightly better, "There are a few plums in the corner, and Ling Han blooms alone." I know that it is not snow, but there is a dark fragrance. "Plum blossoms are red and white, the red plum in winter is the most beautiful, why not write but write white plum? Xu Ruobin admires Mao **'s "Fortune Operator • Yongmei": wind and rain send spring back, and snow welcomes spring. It is already a cliff with a hundred feet of ice, and there are still flowers and branches. Pretty doesn't compete for spring, only reports spring. When the mountains were full of flowers, she laughed in the bushes. Li Huatong feels the same way, she thinks that in the cold, hard and rigid winter, the plum blossoms with pretty branches, the plum blossoms laughing in the bushes, and the plum blossoms are the most beautiful and worthy of praise.
Mo Shangren is like jade, and the son is unparalleled in the world. In the extremely cold winter of Luochuan, Li Huatong faced the Qinghe River and felt warm as spring in his heart.