Chapter 3 Prosperous City
After work that day, I didn't eat in the cafeteria, and I planned to go outside to improve the food by myself, and I was quite depressed after holding it for so long.
Came to a restaurant that is not particularly big, although the restaurant is not big, but it is very lively. I found a table in the corner and sat down, and the waiter handed me the menu, but I didn't look closely, just ordered two random dishes, and then sat down on a chair and waited quietly. After a while, the dishes were ready. It's evening, the rush hour for dinner, and the whole restaurant is half empty with only my table, which looks particularly bleak.
After the meal, I was about to settle the account and leave, when a waiter happened to pass by me, holding a plate of three fresh dishes in his hand. As I was so engrossed in rummaging through the bills in my wallet that I didn't notice her, I happened to bump into her when I got up, and she couldn't dodge and spilled all the food in her hand on me. I dodged in the other direction in some shock, and found that my sleeves were already covered in grease, but fortunately the dish was not too hot.
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry, are you alright?" the waiter bowed as he apologized. Before I could speak, a man who looked like a boss rushed out from behind. "What's the matter with you, you don't understand the dishes, can you do it, if you can't do it, hurry up!" The boss's menacing appearance frightened the waiter and didn't dare to raise his head.
"You're the boss, aren't you?!I don't blame her, I accidentally touched her. This dish and plate are all mine. I said lightly.
"How can I make you pay! I smiled at the boss, simply disposed of it with a tissue, paid the bill and left the restaurant. I returned to the dormitory on the construction site, washed my clothes, leaned against the wall, smoked and thought about my thoughts. I've been working on this construction site for more than a month, how long will I have to work......
At noon the next day, I was about to go to the cafeteria for lunch, when I suddenly saw the waiter of the restaurant yesterday walk in through the door, I don't know if the other party still remembers me, but finally I can't help but open my mouth and ask, "Hey, hello, do you remember me?"
She looked me up and down for a moment, and then suddenly realized, "Oh, it's you, thank you for yesterday!" and her respectful and reverent appearance embarrassed me.
It turned out that she was bringing food to our co-workers here, and someone called to order his family's food, (finally someone was not used to eating this dish). I accompanied her to finish the meal, and when I heard that she hadn't eaten either, I took the opportunity to say that I wanted to eat with her, and she hesitated for a moment, but finally agreed.
Turning the corner, we came to a small restaurant and sat down across from us. I chatted with her while picking up the dishes and looked her up and down. Her name is Yan Jijing, she is the same age as me, and her home is in Xiangcheng. At this age when love is just beginning, it is inevitable that there will be some small touches and excitement. Although she doesn't look like that kind of peerless beauty, she is very charming. I try to talk about things so as not to get cold.
"Do your parents agree that you are working outside?"
"They still wish I could work!" she replied. I was surprised, so I asked, "Don't you want to learn something?"
"I don't want to, I feel like it's too late to learn anything, so I hurry up and find a job, I'm a girl, and I'm from the countryside, so I didn't think about it so much. I noticed the displeasure on her face as she said these words, and I didn't go any further. The afternoon sun shone on her, and I looked at her back and had a special feeling...... Her back is also deeply engraved in my mind.
The next morning, before I woke up, I was woken up by the uncle next to me who spoke with a foreign accent, saying that the uncle was actually not very old, but he had been outside in the wind and rain all these years and did not take care of it, which led to being misunderstood as "uncle". I got up and sat on the bed, and I could vaguely hear his mother on the other end of the phone, asking him "how are you doing, when will you be home?" "Something like that, I just remembered when I heard this, I'm really heartless, I've been in Xiangcheng for so long, and I haven't called home once.
After that, I kept explaining on the phone, telling them not to worry, and that the other end of the phone was also unnecessarily concerned about me. In fact, I'm such a big person, I really don't need to care about everything. No matter how old you are, you will always be a child in front of your parents.
On the construction site, I was sometimes criticized, and some people thought that I couldn't do this kind of manual work. The other night, after going to bed, I overheard two workers talking about me, and they thought that I was pampered at home and ran away from home with my family. I generally turn a blind eye to these things, because you can't deprive others of their right to speak freely. When a child comes here to work, it is inevitable that he will be criticized. It's been a tough time, but I know it's worth it.
Then at noon one day, Yan Jijing, a girl from the restaurant, came to the construction site to find me, saying that in order to express that I helped her last time, she would make a special trip to thank me. Actually, I really didn't care too much, it's not easy to work outside, let alone a girl. That's how we became friends, maybe not friends in her heart.
Yan Jijing belongs to that kind of girl, with good character and good looks. In this day and age, girls like her are on the verge of "extinction". I'm sorry, I shouldn't have described it that way...... Although we haven't been in contact for a long time, we can feel from her eyebrows that she is a very sincere and kind person.
During the month, I would occasionally go to the restaurant where she worked to eat, saying that I was actually going to see her (maybe I already liked her a little bit at that time, but I didn't know it), and sometimes she would come to me, but rarely.
One day after dinner, I asked her to go shopping, and she readily agreed, which surprised me a little, it was the first time she was so happy, and she always said that she was busy.
As we walked and talked, she suddenly asked, "Have you ever wanted to go home after coming out for so long?"
"I've thought about it, but it's not time yet, so I'm a little unwilling to go back like this. I replied.
"Actually, it's good to be out there like you, at least you won't hear your parents arguing. With that, she lowered her head slowly.
I hurriedly asked, "Your parents...... Did you quarrel?" After saying that, I began to regret that I shouldn't have asked. She nodded, and didn't answer again, and I didn't ask any more questions, after all, this kind of thing is not easy to participate in. I persuaded her: "Actually, my parents sometimes quarrel, always because of some small things, every time I persuade can't be persuaded well, they are reconciled by themselves, how to say, it is impossible for husband and wife not to quarrel, how can there be a time when the tongue does not touch the teeth? ”
"Actually, it's my mom, every time he messes around, and she shouts the loudest, my dad is silent, he's still arguing there, and then when I persuade her, she says I'm biased towards my dad, I really don't know what to do......" she said and suddenly burst into tears.
It was the first time I saw a girl cry in front of my eyes. I took out a tissue from my trouser pocket and handed it to her, she took it and wiped it and smiled: "Let you see me crying, I've never cried in front of anyone other than my parents, what should I do?"
I also smiled and instantly changed the topic: "Actually, you can't blame one person for two people to quarrel, there is a good saying, a slap can't make a sound." "As soon as I finished speaking, I felt that something was wrong, and I wanted to slap myself in the face. Doesn't this mean that neither of my parents is a good person? Am I a fish brain? I lowered my head and looked at my feet with a solemn face. Seeing me so embarrassed, she smiled and relieved me: "It's okay, I won't eat you again, I understand what you mean." ”
A song by Stefanie Sun once sang: "Who I meet, what kind of dialogue will I have...... We meet all the time in life, whether we meet good people or bad people, it will have an impact on your life, some of the effects are subtle, but some will make you meet the right person at the wrong time. Although man's life is in the present tense, God has already arranged us "properly", which is destiny.
In this way, another month passed, and in the evening of this day, I was about to go out shopping after work, and when I passed by a bus stop, I suddenly saw Yan Jijing also waiting for the bus. So I went up to say hello, and when I heard that she was going to buy clothes on sale, I was fine, so I followed her into the car.
It was rush hour, there were a lot of people in the car, and it took a lot of effort for the two of us to squeeze in, and I was standing at the front door. Actually, I don't like to stand in front, and there will be a lot of people at the next stop, and it will definitely not be comfortable in front. So I squeezed as hard as I could, but I moved for a long time and found that I was still in place. Yan Jijing looked at me and asked me to stand there with her, and she left me a place. We stood face to face, the car was so crowded that I was so close to her that I could feel her breathing.
It was the first time I had been in such close contact with a girl, and I was a little embarrassed, but the car was so crowded that there was no way to move. I was looking at her when she suddenly raised her head just in time to meet my gaze, and she blushed and lowered her head again. I vaguely saw lipstick on her sexy lips, and I really wanted to go up and kiss her. I felt guilty and looked out the window. This is indeed a bit like the plot in an idol drama, until now when I think about it, I can't help but laugh, our life is a drama......
After stopping for several stations in a row, there were many passengers on the train and few passengers getting off the bus, and the car was getting more and more crowded. Finally, at one of the stations, the number of passengers getting off the train increased significantly, and the air in the train was somewhat relieved. When everyone was moving towards the back door, a man suddenly entered from the side, about thirty or forty years old, between me and Yan Jijing. I saw that he took out a long pair of tweezers from the sleeve of his left hand, and his right hand was zipping Yan Jijing's satchel.
I hesitated for a second, in this short period of time, Yan Jijing's zipper had been completely unzipped by him, and she hadn't noticed it yet. The pickpocket took out the wallet with tweezers with lightning speed, I grabbed his wrist, it seemed that he was a novice, he was startled, the clip and wallet fell to the ground, the clip made a crisp metal sound, Yan Jijing turned around and was at a loss, I said to her as quickly as possible: "Take your wallet and get out of the car quickly." The pickpocket saw that he was about to be discovered, and was about to run in a panic, when I quickly stepped forward and grabbed his wrist. I shouted, "There's a thief!" At this time, the people in the car were already halfway down, and after hearing my shout, some of the passengers who were sitting in the car also got out of the car in a panic, probably afraid of danger...... The thief staggered out of the car while I wasn't looking, and I quickly followed, followed by a flying kick that kicked him right in the ass, and he fell to the ground with an unsteady center of gravity. I was just about to grab him when three more men rushed out of the car, and I thought they were righteous men of the same "class" as me, but when I saw them pick up the pickpocket, my heart was completely cold.
The four of them tacitly surrounded me in the middle. I was a little flustered and didn't know what to do next. When I was still in a daze, a man had already rushed up and punched me in the face, and I couldn't dodge it, and I was punched so hard that my nose immediately bled out. Before I could react, another man punched me in the face from the right side, and this punch hit me in the ear, and I was knotted and fell to the ground, buzzing in my ears. At this moment, I could vaguely hear what these men were saying: "You still want to arrest us with this little ability? We are not afraid of the police, let alone a little hairy child!"
I fell to the ground, looked at Yan Jijing, who was trembling outside the crowd, slowly got up and spit, wiped the blood on my face and said to them: "Are you four very capable of beating me? ”
As he spoke, he threw out a baton, about forty centimeters long, from the waistband of his trousers, and the others also took out their weapons, and what worried me the most was that one of the guys behind me took out a small dagger knife. At this time, the onlookers retreated to a long distance away from us, and some people tried to call the police, but the mobile phone was snatched by one of the bandits. At that time, I didn't understand how they dared to do whatever they wanted in front of the people on the street with murder weapons, even though it was evening, but the sky was still bright.
I suddenly felt bad, and I was not allowed to think about it, the man with the knife behind me had already rushed up, and it was a knife to my upper body, I dodged to the left, dodged this knife, and the knife missed, and he continued to wave the weapon, and I had to dodge left and right. Just as I was patronizing the dagger man, the bandit next to me rushed up with a baton in his hand, and a stick was on my back, I was defenseless, this stick was strong, my back felt a hot pain, I gritted my teeth and tried desperately to avoid them. After all, I was alone, and I couldn't hold it after a while, and the left stick hit me in the head, and the man behind me stabbed me in the back, and I dodged to the right, but I didn't flash it, and my arm was scratched by the blade, so it can be seen that they really want to kill me.
At this time, I was covered in blood all over my body and head. But they didn't stop, and another man threw himself at me with a baton, and there was a telephone pole behind me, so I flashed to the left, and at the same time grabbed his hand holding the weapon with my right hand, and with a twist of his arm, he snatched his baton, and then grabbed his clothes and dragged him in the direction of the telephone pole, and because he was defenseless, his head hit the telephone pole, and he fell to the ground unconscious. (God knows how I did it!)
I took the baton and waved it at the men who were about to rush up, at this moment, there was a siren from outside the crowd, these men felt bad and fled in all directions, I threw down my weapon and sat on the ground, the police rushed to my side and said something to me, but I couldn't hear anything, I only saw Yan Jijing standing in the distance looking at me, as if I didn't know what was going on, I gritted my teeth and smiled at her, and most of my consciousness fell into fainting.
At some point, I was carried onto a stretcher. I don't know when, I was lying in the ambulance, and after that I was groggy all the time, I don't even know when I was lying in the hospital. When I really came to my senses, I was in a hospital bed, and it hurt terribly with gauze wrapped around my head, and gauze tied around my arms and body. Yan Jijing sat next to me, still vividly remembering what had happened before. She was looking at me worriedly, I endured the pain and tried to sit up, but she held it down, she whispered, "Your injury is not healed, lie down! ”
I waved at her and sat up, using the pillow against my back, and she helped me to put the pillow in the most comfortable position I leaned on. We stared at each other for twenty seconds, and I wanted to break the awkward situation, but I didn't know what to say, so I thought about it and said to her, "Thank you!"
"Thank me for what? I should thank you, we've only known each other for such a short time, and you've helped me so many times. Yan Jijing lowered his head with some shame.
The nurse pushed open the door and came to my bed, changed the hanging bottle, and after a few words, went to see the other patients. Then we fell silent again, not knowing what to say to each other. In the end, she spoke first: "What do you want to eat? I'll buy it for you." ”
"No, I don't want to eat anything, don't bother!" my words didn't stop her at last.
After a few minutes, she was carrying a large plastic bag of things on the table next to me, and I could clearly see the smile on her face, and I didn't know what was hidden in her smile. She said, "I don't know what you like to eat, so I'll buy it to my taste, and if you don't like it, I'll go down and buy it later." ”
As we spoke, two policemen walked in the door, and the other patients in the room looked at us in amazement. One of the policemen showed his police card and asked, "Are you the one who fought with the gangsters on Minjiang Street today?" Before I could speak, Yan Jijing hurriedly said, "Yes, he is still injured!" The policeman asked Yan Jijing quietly: "The gangsters first stole your wallet, and then he saw and stopped it, and finally there was a conflict, right?"
Yan Ji scenic spot. The policeman continued: "You don't need to be nervous, we just need to find out the specific situation, this is a criminal case." That gang was involved in a robbery before, and our police have been following up, but they didn't show their feet, and they didn't expect to show up here today. Could you please describe in detail the exact process of the confrontation and the physical characteristics of each person!" he remembered something and added, "By the way! One of them has been caught, but is still unconscious. ”
I told the police what happened in the car today, and I told the police about what happened today, and based on my memory, I roughly described what the gang looked like. After all the questioning, the police said some comforting words to me, and Yan Jijing stood up to send them out, and it was already completely dark at this time. I slowly lay down on the bed, thinking nonsense in my head. After a while, Yan Jijing came in from outside the door, with a smile on her face, and despite her efforts to restrain herself, her face still showed joy, and I asked, "What's wrong? ”
"No... No, nothing good......" she smiled and said nothing more. We had a simple meal in the ward.
After the meal, I stood up and walked to the window, looking at the lights outside the hospital window, it was very charming, and I felt intoxicated...... But I suddenly found Yan Jijing standing behind me in the reflection of glass, she looked at me with strange eyes, and she didn't notice that I was looking at her until I turned around. It took a long time for her to slowly come back to her senses, and she lowered her head when she saw that I was looking at her. I asked, "What's wrong with you?"
"No... Didn't think about anything. "I suddenly remembered that she had work tomorrow, so I urged her to leave, and although she insisted on staying and taking care of me, I finally persuaded her to leave. I stood there for a long time, she was a little unusual today, and there always seemed to be an ambiguity between us. I immediately lay down on the bed and fell asleep before I knew it.
When I woke up, it was already the next morning, I rubbed my eyes and sat up, but what I didn't expect was that Yan Jijing was also here, she was standing by the window playing with her phone. She looked back and saw me looking at her, smiled at me, and said, "Are you awake? She remembered something again, and then said, "Oh, by the way, I have already paid you the hospitalization fee, and the doctor said that you can recuperate in the hospital, and you can go home, but I feel better in the hospital." Besides, you have no home and no friends, and I have to be responsible for you to the end. "I took the burrito she bought in my hand, and my heart was warm and I felt an indescribable gratitude. As I ate, I said to her, "How can I repay you for buying me food and taking such good care of me?"
"What to repay! That's what I'm supposed to do! You're like this because of me, so I have to help you. She whispered. From the beginning of her care in the hospital yesterday to the time when she said these words, my good feelings for her have multiplied, and this feeling is like being away from home for more than ten years, and when I return home, I drink a sip of hometown water......
I stayed in the hospital for four days, and Yan Jijing brought me food every day for these four days, three meals in the morning, noon and evening, which were placed in front of me without falling, and she went back to work after delivering the meals. To be honest, my meat has grown a lot in the past few days, and every meal is three dishes and one soup, and they are all good dishes.
At my insistence, I was finally discharged from the hospital, and if I didn't leave the hospital, I would really rot inside, and I was even more embarrassed to trouble her. We walked down the street and found a bench to sit down, and I said to her, "I don't know how to thank you for taking such good care of me." I took out a wad of bills from my pocket, about a thousand dollars, and said to her, "This is the hospital fee you paid for me, thank you for taking care of me during this time." ”
She looked at my hand, pushed the money back to me and said, "It's nothing, what I did for you is what I should do, hey... Why do you have to be so clear with me?" she bowed her head a little sadly. My hands hung awkwardly in the air, feeling so unnatural that I didn't know what to say. It's very attractive to watch her sit there quietly with her head down and pouting, and I may not have had any special impression of her when I first met her, but when I really got to know her, I was completely attracted by her temperament. After a long time, I said to her, "Okay, you can keep this money for now, and when my injuries are completely healed, let's take a day off and have a good day, and then how about we go to eat something delicious?"
"That's it, it's a word!" she nodded with the corners of her mouth raised, her face showing a long-lost sense of joy.
Fast forward to the next month, my injuries are basically healed, it is the day I agreed with her, the day before I had already taken a leave of absence, ate a little in the morning, and then went to the barber shop to get my hair done. I am a very clean person, I care a lot about my appearance, I always check and check before I go out, and I repeatedly tidy up my clothes, and now it has evolved into obsessive-compulsive disorder......
I waited at the gate of the construction site, and after about fifteen minutes, a taxi came, and Yan Jijing greeted me in the car. With the sound of wheels crashing against the road, the taxi merged into the traffic.
October is the season of autumn and winter. Walking on the street, the autumn breeze blows, and it feels extraordinarily comfortable, giving people the feeling of being in a fairyland. The autumn wind beats the leaves, and the leaf stalks can't withstand the "touch" of the autumn wind and falls to the ground, and as far as the eye can see, a golden wheat field. A couple of lovers on the street holding hands, as if they are talking about a love that will never break up, but how many couples will stand the test of time in the end?
Standing at the entrance of the amusement park, looking at the lively crowd and the running amusement facilities, the mood is particularly comfortable, although this season is not the peak season for the park, but there are still many people queuing up to play games, of course, there are also particularly deserted, such as haunted houses. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as cold.
We walked together and stopped at a place that resembled a spinning top. In fact, it is a big spinning top, and visitors are sitting on all sides, and the machine will rotate constantly. I don't have much interest in amusement parks, maybe I'm a bit of a loner by nature, but it's worth sacrificing myself once in a while to be with her.
After buying the ticket, we both sat on it together, and after sitting down, I realized that this thing didn't have a seat belt, which meant that I had to hold on to a railing by myself. I grabbed a crossbar and had a bad feeling about it...... The machine began to spin, and the people sitting on it were all staggering, and I was no exception. After a few turns, a man who looked like he was twenty-five or sixteen years old was clearly unable to hold on, and he was constantly struggling to hold on to the railing behind him. When the machine turned to the top, he finally couldn't hold it anymore and slashed headfirst down, I couldn't dodge, and my stomach hit his hard head, and I almost didn't vomit my stomach when I hit it.
The machine stopped, and I clutched my stomach and found a step to sit down, my stomach hurting like a river. Yan Jijing came over and sat next to me and asked with concern, "How are you? Are you okay? Do you want to go to the hospital?"
"It's okay, just sit down for a while. "I endured the pain and cursed in my heart: I just came out of the hospital, and I don't want to go in again!
Every life may have regrets, life without regrets is incomplete, sometimes the loss of something is not necessarily a bad thing, from another perspective also gained experience.
In the blink of an eye, in the spring of the following year, I had been away from home for more than half a year, and I had a little savings. I quit my job on the construction site and was ready to move to something else. I was bored wandering around the street, and I inexplicably walked to the restaurant where Yan Jijing worked, I walked in and looked around, but I didn't see her, and I asked the waiter to know that she was no longer working here, and I felt an inexplicable sense of loss in my heart.
Walked out of the restaurant with a mobile phone in his hand...... Hesitant to call her. After thinking about it for a long time, she finally mustered up the courage to dial the number, and when she heard my voice, she was obviously a little surprised on the other side of the phone. It turned out that she wanted to change jobs, and the restaurant was low paid and tired. After hanging up the phone, I found a small restaurant for lunch, and after the meal, an officer at the police station called me to inform me that the thief who stole my things had been caught. I rushed to the police station, and when I looked at the woman's familiar face, I felt the urge to rush up and slap her. That's right, the woman who stole everything from me on the train. After disappearing for more than half a year, I was finally caught, but my things were gone.
When a major event was resolved, I instantly relaxed a lot. At night, walking on the streets of Xiangcheng, the neon lights on the streets are particularly dazzling, although it is not a big city, but it has a big city-like atmosphere. A phone call woke me up, it was Yan Jijing calling, and I was anxious to hear her voice.
When I came to the meeting place, she was already waiting there, and when I walked up to her, she trembled as if she was frightened.
"I lost my wallet, and there are thousands of yuan in it from my part-time job, including ID cards, bank cards, etc., all in that bag, what should I do now?" she almost cried. Actually, I really didn't expect her to have such a delicate side, she usually looks like a queen, as if nothing can bother her, and I was a little panicked when I saw her like this today.
"Don't worry, call the police first, think about where you've been, did you drop somewhere?" I told her.
"I've called the police, I just remember when I got in the car, I swiped my card and put my wallet in my bag and got out of the car and it was gone!" she looked flustered, her face showing a rare nervousness.
"That may be stolen, I guess I can't find it, you have time to go to the bank to report the loss of the card first, and then you can only wait for the police to solve the case!" At this moment, I was a little excited in my heart, not because she lost her wallet, but because she could think of me for the first time.
There was anxiety in her eyes, and she hung her head and didn't say a word. I opened my wallet and looked at it, about 2,000 yuan in cash, and I secretly stuffed the money into his bag. I know she has a lot of self-esteem, and if I give it to her, she won't want it, and I don't know if I'm doing the right thing......
Before I woke up early the next morning, Yan Jijing called and said that he was looking for me for something, and he didn't have to guess to know what was going on. I checked out and went to the place where we met yesterday.
"You put the money in my bag yesterday, right? Why?" she asked.
"I think you're going to need help, but if I give it to you directly, you won't want it, so I stuffed it secretly, and I didn't give it to you for nothing! ”
She looked at me with gratitude in her eyes, and I really couldn't tell why I believed in her so much and wanted to help her so much, maybe it was because her strong appearance concealed her inner vulnerability!
After a while, she looked up and said, "Why are you helping me?
"We didn't know each other before, didn't you help me too?!" I replied lightly.
"That's different! You were injured because of me......
Once again, we fell silent, not knowing how to move on to the next topic. After a long time, I suddenly felt a hot current rushing to my brain, I turned my face to Yan Jijing, and said cautiously, "Xiaojing...... I like you!"
I don't know why I blurted it out, and as soon as this remark came out, the scene fell into embarrassment. This is the first time I have confessed to a girl, my heart is beating wildly, I look at her, she also looks at me in a daze, as if the air has condensed. At that moment, the boy had quietly settled in the girl's heart.