Chapter 67: The Dowry
Chapter 67: The Dowry
Most of the routes taken by the green train are deserted, the mountains and fields are in front of you, sometimes the weeds hit the windows, the car is crowded, noisy, and even has a lot of peculiar smell, and the conductor pushes the car back and forth with difficulty.
Someone sells dishwashing artifacts in the carriage, and if you don't need this, he actually has other artifacts.
Huang Yaming, Fu Cheng, Song Ni and Fang Yunyao play cards on the train.
Because of the mountainous and hilly nature of the province, the train is always passing through various caves of different lengths, and every time it is dark, Huang Yaming begins to secretly throw cards or steal cards on the table, so he always wins.
Fang Yunyao was in a hurry, and she didn't bother to answer the phone when it rang a few times, she just picked it up and looked at it and cut it off, and finally turned it off.
Xu Tingsheng and Apple were on the side, playing flying chess and chatting.
The little boy next to him was biting a banana and watching, Apple teased the child for a while, and chatted with his parents for a while, and the couple handed the child to Apple with peace of mind, and the two fell asleep with each other's arms on their pillows.
They had been on this train for four days and four nights, coming out of a remote city to work.
Apple hugged the little boy with some smell and dirt on his lap, without a trace of reluctance, tried to coax and tease, and took out all kinds of snacks for him to eat.
Xu Tingsheng watched with a smile on the side.
"Help. Apple said.
"Huh?"
"He seemed to be going to pee. ”
“…… , don't help, can't pee, how to do mom in the future. ”
Then Apple carried the child through the crowd to the toilet, and came back ten minutes later, with a smug face, as if it had done a great thing.
Among the four people who played cards, Fang Yunyao began to win and kept winning.
Once after she finished playing the cards, Huang Yaming went to turn over the cards in the hands of Fu Cheng, and then said sadly: "This card can't be played, it's too dark, someone pinched Wang Bang and refused to put it, so that after a small two passed, three took two out." ”
Fu Cheng explained: "I didn't know that she could finish the next five cards. ”
Huang Yaming said: "Get out, at the beginning of the last game, I pinched a lot of cards, just out of a sharp you will up, after a while I will make a hook you also up, blow up so that I almost doubt life." ”
Several people burst into laughter, and the little boy in Apple's arms giggled.
Huang Yaming said to Xu Tingsheng: "Substitution, you come, or this card can't be played, this is called playing cards, it's a confession ,...... at all."
When Xu Tingsheng sat in Fu Cheng's position, there were only two White Rabbit toffees left in front of him, and Fang Yunyao and Huang Yaming were full of piles in front of them, Xu Tingsheng said, "Don't worry, see me help you win it back." ”
Then, when the train passed through the cave again, there was an extra hand on the table to steal cards.
Xu Tingsheng and Huang Yaming collided fiercely for a while, and finally reached a tacit understanding, and soon, the toffee on the table of the two girls was lost.
The car went for more than 7 hours, and at the end of the game I was tired, and I fell asleep one by one, Xu Tingsheng took the little boy from Apple and said, "I'll coax you, you can sleep for a while." ”
Apple smiled slyly and said to the little boy, "Good baby, play with dad for a while, mom sleep." ”
Xu Tingsheng countered and said: "Let the baby eat and sleep again, baby, come, eat grandma." ”
Apple kicked under the table, and then ignored Xu Tingsheng and fell asleep.
What's bad is that the little boy started to say to Xu Tingsheng all the time: "Grandma, grandma, grandma......". The hand grabbed and grabbed in front of Xu Tingsheng's chest.
There is also that he is going to pee again, Xu Tingsheng looked at the sleeping child's parents and apple, and had to bite the bullet to complete the first pee in his life.
When the train approached the south, Xu Tingsheng woke people up one by one, and the little boy's parents also woke up, chatted a few words, and gratefully stuffed a bag of dried sweet potatoes from his hometown.
This night, Xu Tingsheng invited everyone to dinner, and when he invited his roommate yesterday, he didn't call Huang Yaming and them, so he planned to invite them to another, after all, the nature of the two meals was different.
After eating, Xu Tingsheng took them for a walk around Yannan City.
Familiar places, familiar people, but Xu Tingsheng couldn't tell Huang Yaming or Fu Cheng, at that time, I rented this small building in front of me, you two bastards every time you come to take the civil service exam, I have to arrange everything, and every time you pass by, you have to come here for a few days, have you forgotten?
Huang Yaming also dug out the old underwear of the former female tenant in the crack of the toilet wall.
I don't know if she's living in it now.
I really want to see what she looks like, after all, Huang Yaming made a lot of fragrant fantasies at that time because of the large size of her underwear, in case she was a big dinosaur,......
Early the next morning, six people took the bus back to Libei.
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Fang Yunyao returned to her hometown in Hunan on the afternoon of her return to Libei, and throughout the 10.1 holiday, this girl who had been lonely for many years would spend time at home and by her parents' side.
So Fu Cheng had to follow Xu Tingsheng and Song Ni to help in the supermarket.
Huang Yaming made an appointment with Tan Qingling more than a dozen times, but only once, the two of them chatted briefly, and Tan Qingling went back.
It's just that Xu Tingsheng has already smelled a different taste.
Tan Qingling doesn't love Huang Yaming, when he is not around to take care of him, when the aura of the last stage of his senior year fades, everything is changing.
During this time, they attended several class reunions together.
Xu Tingsheng accidentally saw Ye Yingjing once at the party, and also saw Wu Yuewei once in the supermarket.
Apple has been accompanying the old man at his grandmother's house, and Xu Tingsheng went to visit him once as scheduled.
The old man's eyes were almost completely blind, and he lived alone in a low, dark little house, and when it was time to eat, Apple's aunts and uncles would take turns to come over and put a bowl of rice in front of the old man.
Xu Tingsheng and Apple helped the old man walk around and bask in the sun.
The old man's name was apple Xiaoni, she took Xu Tingsheng's hand and said, "Good boy, good to Xiaoni, good to Xiaoni,...... Xiao Ni is good, you have to be good to Xiao Ni. ”
Apple said to Xu Tingsheng in private: "Grandma has forgotten my age, maybe she thinks I'm married, don't you mind......
Also, don't let your grandmother touch your chin, or your grandmother will say that there is no hair on your mouth, you can't do things well, and the little man is unreliable...... My grandfather was bearded and died a few years ago. ”
In this way, when his grandmother was about to touch Xu Tingsheng's face, Xu Tingsheng had no choice but to dodge his chin, hold the old man's hand and say, "Grandma, don't worry, I will be good to Xiaoni." ”
Xu Tingsheng helped make a meal for Apple and his grandmother, a man who lived alone for 7 years in his previous life, his cooking skills are still very level, not only Apple was so excited that he screamed, but even his grandmother ate half a bowl of rice.
Apple sent Xu Tingsheng out of the small mountain village and said at the intersection:
"My grandmother is not doing well, and my mother is also having a hard time, I want to wait for me to graduate, so that my mother will not have to work like that anymore, and take my grandmother out...... I don't know if she'll make it to that point.
So, all the while, I wanted to be useful...... In fact, useful means rich, right?......
So I used to think that I must go to a good university, but I couldn't study...... Then I found out that I could do nothing but be pretty, so I thought, with my pretty, I must marry a rich man and live a good life...... At that time, I hated it, didn't I?"
Xu Tingsheng shook his head very seriously, his understanding is actually like this, it is the same as what Apple said.
He can't proudly deny the significance of money in this society, such as the difficult life he had with his mother and sister in his previous life, for example, the reason why he finally chose to leave Xiang Ning was to hope that she would live a better life, instead of being dragged down by himself and suffering together.
Very vulgar and true logic, money, if there is money, Xu Tingsheng's fate in his previous life may change, and that love will not be cast into a tragedy by Xu Tingsheng himself.
Perhaps, there will be no such rebirth.
"You promised your grandmother's words, but you are not allowed to cheat. Apple said.
"Huh?"
"Be good to Xiao Ni. ”
"Okay, when one day Xiaoni gets married, marries someone you love and loves you, I will prepare a big dowry for you, so big that you can't imagine. ”
The hidden meaning of this sentence is actually hurtful, but these days, Xu Tingsheng knows that he has unknowingly connived at the relationship between himself and Apple to a critical point, and he will not be able to turn around if he goes any further.
It will be self-defeating and misleading.
So, he had to cut through the mess quickly.
Xu Tingsheng thought that Apple would be sad, and he was ready to face her sadness and even tears ruthlessly.
But Apple said, "A dowry wants to send me away, and I want to be beautiful......
You make good money, and then it's all mine......
Alas, for the sake of a better life in the future, let's be arrogant for now...... When you fall in love with me one day, my mother will return it a hundred times and torture you to death...... Hum. ”