Chapter 87: The Listener
"Have a drink, I don't know what that friend of mine needs," I said.
"Okay. The waiter walked away, leaving a faint fragrance.
To be honest, it feels very comfortable and relaxing.
Thinking that the next person to face is Cheng Lehai, I feel a little apprehensive in my heart, I don't know what he means, just here, and accompany him? What have I become?
Soon Cheng Lehai's loud voice came, "Gao Lanlan, I'm sorry, I was delayed just now," Cheng Lehai was sweating profusely, and he said with a shy stomach while wiping the sweat on his forehead.
followed by the beautiful waitress just now.
"West Lake Longjing," Cheng Lehai said.
It seems that Cheng Lehai is familiar with this place, but they can understand that Cheng Lehai often comes to this kind of place, and it is a luxury for a grassroots like me and a working class to come here.
Who has the money not to buy some juice drinks, come here for tea, waste.
Fortunately, someone has a treat today, and I don't have to worry so much.
"Gao Lanlan, I'm sorry, I'm late," Cheng Lehai sat down and apologized to me, "I've kept you waiting for a long time, I'm sorry for the beauty." ”
"It's okay, I think it's nice here," I said.
Cheng Lehai pursed his lips and said with a smile: "It must be good, I often come here, as long as there are troubles, don't come here to sit, I feel that all worries should be dispersed to the clouds." ”
"You're going to have troubles, too?" I said with a smile.
"More gone," Cheng Lehai, his face was a little gloomy, "To be honest, I envy you, you young people, you have dreams and vitality, and you don't have so many troubles." Cheng Lehai said.
What's wrong with him today? He always seems happy, especially when he says this to a business partner like me. I feel that Cheng Lehai completely treats me as his own.
"How can there be, Cheng Lehai, you must know that I am under a lot of pressure, I need money for everything, and my biggest headache now is that I don't have money," I said helplessly. ‘
Honestly, isn't that the biggest dilemma in front of me? It's true that all the tragedies in the world are caused by money.
Cheng Lehai smiled and said: "Actually, when you reach my age, you feel that money is not so important, as long as it is enough to spend." ”
"You don't have a backache when you stand and talk, if you don't have any money, you try," I said with a smile.
"Gao Lanlan, you are, people's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants," Cheng Lehai said as he scratched the tip of my nose.
Oh my God, I can't accept such an ambiguous action.
"I hate it, Cheng Lehai, my dad didn't do this to me," I said pretending to be angry.
"Women must not say that they hate it, and if they say they hate it, it means that you have a good impression of this man," Cheng Lehai said excitedly.
"Gao Lanlan, if you have any difficulties in your life, you can say to me directly, really, just like I said on the phone day, when I saw you, I felt very eye-catching, as if I was an old friend many years ago. ”
He looked at me affectionately, and I felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere.
"Old friend, who is your old friend?" I asked with a smile.
"It's like my first love," Cheng Lehai said lightly.
First lovers, this is not an ordinary routine, saying that it is to invite a first love, and then deliberately seducing me, it seems that they are such old men, it is really not new at all.
I thought fiercely in my heart, but after all, I couldn't offend Cheng Lehai on the surface, so I forced a smile and said, "Young girls are your first love." ”
Cheng Lehai was not angry, but said heavily: "Gao Lanlan, do you know? Your eyes are not big, but they are very clear, very similar to the girls I liked in high school, but she doesn't know where she is now." ”
Cheng Lehai fell into deep memories.
"High school?" I asked.
"Yes," Cheng Lehai said lightly and began to tell me.
"Yes, girls in high school, we live in a compound, we go to school together, and chatting together is also a childhood sweetheart, but when I was a child, I was very innocent, I just thought that we would be happy together, and if she was bullied, I would help her. ”
"Bully, you guys," I interrupted.
I have the impression that their generation should be very simple.
"That is, someone took her books or asked her for money, and I stood up. Cheng Lehai explained to me.
"You're still a hero to save the United States," I said, and Cheng Lehai waved his hand at me, signaling me not to interrupt him.
He continued, "Yes, when we were kids, we used to play together, do homework, play house, and every time I was my dad and she was my mom, and those little rocks were our cooking. Qi Cheng Lehai couldn't help but giggle when he said this.
"The real days passed so fast, and soon we reached junior high school and high school, and we became the boyfriend and girlfriend that everyone talked about. Really my biggest wish at that time was to marry her, and if we can be together, I feel that I have no regrets in my life. ”
"You're so lucky," I exclaimed.
"She is not pretty, very ordinary, her eyes are not big, but they are very clear, her nose is small, her mouth is small, especially when she laughs, I feel very much like a little rabbit, every time I see her eat carrots, I laugh at her like a little rabbit. Cheng Lehai fell into memory.
"That era called for intellectual youth to go to the countryside?"
Isn't that what happened in my parents' time? I thought to myself, "Go to the country, I know," I said.
Cheng Lehai continued: "At that time, I asked her if she would like to go to the countryside, she could have not gone to the countryside, because her family has three children, as long as there is a quota, her eldest brother can go, but my family must be my go, because my sister is not in good health, so this burden falls on me, in fact, she is unwilling to go, but for me, he agreed, by the way, her name is Bai Yujie, is it a nice name?" Cheng Lehai seemed to be asking me and not like he was asking me.
"It sounds good," I chimed in.
"Later, we went to the countryside, in a very remote rural area in northern Shaanxi. Loess Plateau, there are people singing Xintianyou every day, singing red ears, what orchid flowers, everything is there, in fact, I tell you, in fact, like the Ah Bao in the Avenue of Stars, to be honest, he doesn't sing very well, I can hear it. Because what Bao sings is not that authentic and that flavor at all, that kind of game is a kind of game, what Bao sings, he is a bit serious, to be honest, not very good. Cheng Lehai commented.
"I didn't expect Cheng Lehai, you also chase stars!" I said with a smile.
Cheng Lehai smiled and continued: "At that time, we loved to listen to those old farmers sing these songs, because life was too boring, there were no books, and we just worked every day. Either to move corn in the field or to harvest wheat, that's what is grown there anyway. Or go to open up the wasteland or pull weeds and weeds, the days are really cold in winter and hot in summer, and they live a really unpleasant life. But at that time, Bai Yujie was very good to me, and when it was cold in winter, Bai Yujie would send me a warm water bag. It warms my heart and my hands.
At this time, I will give Bai Yujie an erhu, and the place where we meet is under the big locust tree at the entrance of the village. If there are few people there, at the entrance of the village, we can talk about our daily life to our heart's content. ”
At this time, a man and a woman under a large locust tree came to my mind.
"Because he knew I couldn't get enough to eat, he would bring me two potatoes every time. It's the grilled kind, it's very fragrant, and to be honest, I've never eaten anything that good now. ”
"Maybe there's a taste of love in this," I said with a smile.
"Yes, the taste of love, we are very happy, because of Bai Yujie, I think I am the happiest person, no matter how hard life is, but after a few years, I really can't stand it, really, I can't go home, and I don't know where the future is? ”
"And then?" I asked eagerly. "Aren't you married?" I wondered.
"If I got married, it wouldn't be like this, I don't think I'm sorry for Bai Yujie, I couldn't go to school at that time. The number of places to go back to the city is very small, and the village chief must nod his head, but the village chief likes those who give him gifts or have a relationship, and the conditions in my family are very ordinary. ”
"So dark?" I couldn't help but say.
"Once I mustered up a lot of courage and went to the town to buy three catties of candy and sent it to the village chief.
tiptoe to him, but God knows. He didn't even look down on it, and let others humiliate me and let one of my competitors bring it back to me, saying that I should not be delusional, saying that I was a toad and wanted to eat swan meat, really, my lungs were about to explode, that night under the big locust tree, I hugged Bai Yujie and cried for a long time. Speaking of this, Cheng Lehai's eyes flashed with tears.
Bai Yujie stroked my head and comforted me, although she didn't know what to say, I was just very annoyed, at that time, love was just a placebo for me, which made me feel insignificant at all, because I didn't know where the future was, I was unwilling to live in the countryside all my life, I was afraid of living the kind of life facing the loess with my back to the sky, I didn't want to be like those farmers. Cheng Lehai paused and smiled at me.
"Squatting on the ground, holding a bowl of noodles, you can eat garlic, you can laugh loudly with sour gas, I don't like to live like this, I'm afraid, I don't want to live in a broken cave. Bai Yujie comforted me and said, no matter what kind of hardship you endure, you have to be with me But I pushed Bai Yujie aside, I yelled loudly, I don't want to live such a life, even if I let me go back alone, I'm willing! Am I very selfish!" Cheng Lehai asked me.
I nodded.
"My white jade is clean, just under the big locust tree, in the hazy moonlight, I see Bai Yujie tears. Bai Yujie scolded me, she said that I was so selfish, and she asked me again, do I really prefer to go back alone, as long as I can go back to the city, will I be happy? I also shouted to Bai Yujie angrily, yes, I just want to go back to the city, I don't care who I marry, I said this. ”
When Cheng Lehai said this, he sighed heavily.
"I think I really hurt Bai Yujie that day, because, I saw Bai Yujie's back running away, the back was so thin, like a deer, disappearing into the vast night, I wanted to call Bai Yujie, but I never opened my mouth, I was too face-saving, too strong, I didn't want to bow my head in front of him. ”
Cheng Lehai said this, I was addicted to it, this is really a beautiful story. Although he is very sad, such pure love is really rare now.
I think of Wang Boyuan again, there is no hope for our love?
I am now earning money to support Wang Boyuan, but what about him? My heart is bitter.
Are all men in the world so unkind?
I didn't speak, Cheng Lehai continued: "I didn't expect Bai Yujie to be like that for me. ”
"How's that?" I quickly asked.
Bai Yujie went to ask the village director to come for me, I don't know, this was all told to me later, that is, my competitor, because he has always liked Bai Yujie, just because, he knows that Bai Yujie has me in his heart, so they hate me, he thought that he must go back to the city, he must be better than me in this regard, but he didn't expect that in the end, he still lost to me, or because, Bai Yujie is a woman. ”
"Why?" I asked in surprise, "Bai Yujie went to ask the village chief?"
The village director has long coveted Bai Yujie, but the village director can be Bai Yujie's father at that age, and later, he asked Bai Yujie to marry his foolish son. His son has a sick head, to be honest, he is the second son in the village, he doesn't have a brain!" Cheng Lehai said fiercely.
"Is Bai Yujie willing? This is the happiness of her life!" I hurriedly asked.
Because I don't believe that there is such a woman in the world who gambles her happy life.
Cheng Lehai smiled bitterly, and he said, "I didn't expect Bai Yujie to love me like that."
Bai Yujie also disagreed at first, Bai Yujie scolded the village director fiercely, because the son of the village chief, really, has a very long snot, although he is dressed very neatly and his hair is combed cleanly, but people in their twenties are still eating snot and defecating in the open. ”
"So disgusting," I asked.