After only five days and four nights in Beijing, I felt as if half a century had passed, and I was as haggard as you can imagine. Hopefully, in the next few days, I will be able to do my best. But it is never us who controls life and knows how to strategize.

It's a series of accidents.

Less than ten minutes after I returned to the room with Jiang Beisheng, he was called out by a serious phone call. If it weren't for the fact that I still have the hard work and soreness of climbing the Great Wall, I would probably be a little interested.

Kidney Bean said that the enthusiasm between husband and wife is cooled to the point of strangeness by such and such insignificant excuses.

Perhaps, that's true, but I really don't have time to care about it at the moment.

I was about to sleep on the ground with my bunk, and the accident came uninvited.

"Seventy-seven?"

On the other end of the phone, it was a voice that was old but familiar to the bones, and after I was stunned, I finally remembered that it was Garfield's mother.

Jia Ma is a full six years younger than Nanako, and was an employee of a collective enterprise, and after the restructuring of the enterprise, she was bought out of her seniority at one time. That year, she had just celebrated her fortieth birthday in her life, and the hardships of life can be imagined. Later, Jia's father found a job as a cook in a private elementary school after asking someone to find a relationship several times. It was only three years ago that it was completely rested.

Garfield has complained to me countless times that his mom and dad have been reluctant to move out of the old house because they are reluctant to move out of the old house.

That house was a fund-raising house for the collective enterprise back then, and it was really old.

I still remember that before high school, I frequented there, the house was dark and unventilated, and the stuffy kitchen was always full of big cockroaches on summer nights. Until the year of college, Garfield went to a normal university in a remote place, which is said to be quite famous, and I stayed in Xiangbei University, where there was only a clear distinction between winter and summer. Later, for the sake of each other's favorite professions, we rarely went home and rarely saw each other.

My fate with the old house is cold, and I haven't seen my mother for more than ten years.

The passage of time, maybe in your sad days, every minute and every second is tormented and long, but when you look back, you will be sad to find that the original time is not torment and long, but a winged pegasus, it has traveled the road, called: the white horse through the gap.

A thirty-five-year-old woman is most afraid of recalling the past, because the past hides the youth and throbbing that we squandered and never came back. At this moment, sadness is like the wind outside the window, and it will be difficult to stop for a while.

Fortunately, Jiang Beisheng was not there.

"Why don't you speak, Qiqi?" After the little party was silent, Jiama's voice sounded softly in her ears: "Don't you remember Auntie?"

I sniffed and dragged back the thoughts that were too hard to float in a panic: "How can you not remember, when I was in high school, you didn't make me steamed pork ribs, I still remember the taste, it's much better than my mother's cooking." ”

"It's so delicious, why don't you come again?" Jia Ma is different from Nanako's strength, she is a genuine good wife and mother, what I can remember is always the gentle smile on her face, just like this gentle voice, it is like a spring breeze.

I am afraid that if I reminisce about the past without restraint in this way, I will have a deep emotional breakdown, and thus stage a drama of old tears. In case, it is always embarrassing to catch Jiang Beisheng back.

choked up for a while, and then forced a free and easy smile: "Auntie, I haven't been in college for a long time." ”

"So tell me, how long has it been since you came to see Auntie? If it weren't for Jiajia's constant muttering about Qiqi every time she came back, I would have thought that the two of you had a conflict and had no contact? Fortunately, I thought too much. After a low smile, Jiama paused, and finally got back to business: "Tomorrow at noon, you take the time to come to the house, and Auntie will make steamed pork ribs for you." ”

I guessed the purpose of her call, but I didn't want to get involved.

He said, "Huh...... This, I'm afraid ......"

"Don't come, Auntie is waiting for you to eat together. ”

Parents will only persuade them to agree and not to leave unless they have to. Jia Ma is so enveloped, I'm afraid that I have eaten the scales and have an iron heart, and I can't allow me to refuse. Otherwise, she wouldn't have made the call.

However, children do not necessarily want to live like their parents, especially in marriage.

I sighed, "It's a bit difficult at noon, can it be done at night?"

"Yes. Jia's mother was obviously relieved: "The old rule, dinner starts at six o'clock." ”

"Good. ”

As soon as I hung up, I immediately called Garfield.

No one answered.

This is a red flag.

A middle-aged woman who is about to lose her marriage may just want to be alone and quiet by refusing to be asked by relatives and friends in this simple and rude way. But the slightest carelessness in this kind of stillness will make people so quiet that they lose their minds.

It seems that this trip must be returned.

I quickly got up and started packing.

When Jiang Beisheng came back, his luggage had already been packed, and when he saw this scene, his brows furrowed, and his eyes were not very happy.

"Going to your friend's house so late?"

I raised my head and said quickly, "I'll go back tomorrow." ”

He snorted, and just swished past me, without saying a word.

Until I left.

Two hours before boarding, I sat in the bright waiting hall to report the whereabouts of the mosquito, and the mosquito said a few words, and by the way, she was working in the new company.

"Fox, Jiang Beisheng is really a vagrant?"

After explaining to each other, the mosquito couldn't help but ask this question after wanting to speak and stopping.

"I guess so. What's wrong?"

"I just don't think it's real. The mosquito was worried: "Do you know what the size of the new company is?"

"What scale?"

"I don't know the specifics, but from what I've learned so far, the conditions for recruiting people at this company are very demanding. At least, at my level, I'm good enough to be a cleaner. ”

"Don't be so presumptuous. I smiled absentmindedly: "Don't forget, you're a haughty mosquito." ”

"Don't talk about my power, after this incident, I really think that Jiang Beisheng is worth entrusting for life. ”

"Isn't this called power? A job is bought. ”

"It's not just because he gave me a job. The mosquito said righteously: "It's even more because he said that he moved Gege." ”

"What does this have to do with Gege?" I wondered.

"Gege withdrew, and yesterday, he and his partners were liquidated. The mosquito's voice gradually became joyful: "Gege said that yesterday morning he received a courier in the same city, which was a ten-page investigation report, and from a professional point of view, he made a precise analysis of the outcome of their company's difficulty in operating. It was Jiang Beisheng who made this report. Fox, believe me, a man who doesn't talk nicely, but is willing to care about the friends around you, will definitely not be a man who has no feelings for you. Just give yourself a chance to forget about that immature prank from more than a decade ago. ”

Is that a prank?

Was that just a prank?

I sat by the window, looking out at the white clouds, and asked myself: If it wasn't for that basketball that summer, would I really not be as embarrassed as I am today?

Was it just a prank that changed the course of my life?

(To be continued)