Chapter 5 Brother Yu
I really like her!
Jin Mingyu picked up the beer on the table and took a sip, this time he didn't drink the rest in one gulp.
Those times that inadvertently slipped through his fingers were like old black and white photos, and after being marked with the halo of life, they turned over one by one in front of Jin Mingyu's eyes.
That summer, I was introduced by a relative to do an apprenticeship to a well-known Taoist priest over there. Every day, I went to set up a dojo for the families of those who died, and I couldn't read the scriptures at that time, so I just helped to beat the gongs and do chores.
I met Tingmei at her father's funeral. His father died in a mining accident that caused the collapse after several days of heavy rain. Four people were killed and more than a dozen injured in the accident, and it seems to have been reported by a media at the time.
At the funeral, I saw her kneeling not far from me, her tears were dry, her voice was hoarse, relatives and friends came to persuade her, but she still refused to get up and eat a mouthful of food.
Because of my identity and her relationship, I can only accompany her silently on the sidelines. In the middle of the night, most of the people who came to help went back, and there were still a few people playing cards and drinking in the next room, and she and I were left in the mourning hall. I saw that the candles or incense were about to burn out, so I went to replace them with new ones, and then went back to my desk and wrote some charms for the day.
She still knelt there, refusing to move half a step, and when it was just dawn, she finally fainted on the ground due to exhaustion and excessive sadness. I rushed over and carried her to her bed.
For three days and two nights, I didn't say a word to her, and she barely said anything to the people around her.
On the day she left her house, she came to me and said thank you! I said I didn't do anything, why do you want to thank me? She said, thank you for being by her side silently every night, she said that she didn't even dare to walk at night, let alone stay alone in the mourning hall late at night, and thanked me for accompanying her to see off her father on his last journey. I said it was nothing to thank her, and after a few words of comfort, I left.
The next time I saw her was in the county No. 1 middle school in our county, that time I was going to the No. 1 middle school to take the English listening test, when I was walking on the campus with a friend, suddenly someone knocked on my shoulder, and said in surprise, "You are still studying, I thought you had stopped studying a long time ago and became a Taoist priest!"
"If I don't read well, that's how I can make a living in the future. I was also very excited to see her again, "Do you go to school in No. 1 Middle School?"
She smiled and nodded at me, and said that I should not rush back after the test, and she wanted to take me around the area. I agreed to her, and after the exam, she and I each called a few of our friends and played the county together.
Since then, she and I have met for a meal or a trip whenever we have time.
It wasn't until the end of the college entrance examination and after the results came out that she suddenly told me that she didn't want to continue studying anymore and that she wanted to go to Zhejiang to work like other girls of the same age. I hurriedly asked her what happened, was it a poor college entrance examination?
She shook her head at me, her eyes filled with tears, the last time I saw her like this, it was at her father's funeral, and my heart chuckled, thinking that someone could not have had another accident!
When she calmed down a bit, she slowly told me that since her father died, her mother's main source of income was odd jobs, and that she had a younger brother who was also in school. If she goes to college, she must spend a lot of money, she doesn't want to watch her mother work so hard for this family, so she wants to go to Zhejiang to work, want to make money early, and don't plan to go to college.
In fact, before I went to see her that day, my mood had already fallen to the bottom, because my college entrance examination score was two points lower than the second line that year, I checked the tuition fees of the three books on the Internet, and found that the tuition fees alone cost more than 10,000 yuan a year.
I also came up with the idea of going out to work for the first time, and at first I heard Tingmei say that she also wanted to go out to work, and I thought it would be good to go out to work with her. But when I heard that her college entrance examination score plus the 20 points added by a few celebrities was more than 200 points more than me, my heart felt like I was hit by a bus, and my heart hurt and I couldn't breathe.
I'm sad not because she did better than me, but because we're all in the same situation. It was at that moment that I had an idea. I told her to let her go back and fill in the volunteers, and don't worry about tuition and living expenses, I'll figure it out.
She looked at me with a suspicious look and asked me what I could do? I said that I had checked on the Internet, except for three books, the tuition fees of other universities are generally about four or five thousand, and now there are almost three months before the start of the university, I will find a random construction site to do it for two months, and then find a way to make up a little bit from other places, so that you can finish the year of study first, there is no problem. After that, when you decide which city to go to university, I will go to work in which city, and then the tuition and living expenses in the next few years will not be a problem.
She was very opposed at first, saying that she couldn't use the money I earned to study for no reason, I smiled and said, I have poor grades, not a piece of study material, you have such good grades to work is really a violent thing, I will lend you this money, and after you graduate and work, it is not too late to pay me back!
That day, she said to me, Brother Yu, you are so good, if anyone becomes your girlfriend in the future, she will definitely be spoiled by you as a princess. I smiled and looked at the endless mountain peaks in the distance, and said in my heart, no matter where you go, I will accompany you.
After I got home, she sent me a message and asked me to help her fill in the volunteer together, and I agreed with her that as long as the school is located in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, I will not fill in any of them. After filling out the volunteers, she went to a supermarket down the street to find a part-time job as a cashier, and I went to work as a small clerk on a construction site.
The day I received the acceptance letter, I went to the mountains with her to tell her father the good news, and I watched her hold the letter and just keep cheering on the grass, and I knew that I had made the right choice.
Soon it was the day of the start of college, and when my parents heard that I was going out to work, they didn't say anything. Most of the young people in our village go out to work as soon as they graduate from junior high school, and their parents don't expect anything from them, they just hope that they can save some bride price money outside, and then come back to marry a wife and have children.
Ke Tingmei is a girl, and her father has just passed away for more than a year, and her mother still hopes that she can find an in-law to marry and live a stable life. Later, I suggested that Tingmei find a junior high school teacher and go to her house to understand and love her mother, and her mother finally decided to let her go to college.
Sister Tingmei and I traveled all the way around and drove dozens of hours to Wuhan. In the first few months, I didn't adapt to a lot of things, but then I slowly got used to it. In the past few years, Tingmei and I only went back on the two days of the Chinese New Year, and the rest of the time we were either making money or on the way to make money.
Jin Mingyu grunted and drank the rest of the beer, "Time flies so fast, in the blink of an eye, it has been three years since I came to Wuhan with Sister Ting, and I remembered the first time I saw her pear blossoms with rain, as if it was just yesterday." ”
Glancing at Jin Mingyu's indifferent face, as if he was talking about someone else's experience, Yin Yi knew that he had met the person who was willing to go down to the dust for her and silently give everything.
Later, Jin Mingyu added to Yin Yi, I do like her very much, but I will always be her brother Yu.
After Yin Yi and Jin Mingyu said goodbye, they walked in the direction of the school.
At night, the snack street is very lively, with many young people gathered in front of each stall, and the aroma of various foods is overflowing, tempting the taste buds of every passerby.
Yin Yi walked through the crowd, waited for a traffic light, crossed a bridge, and walked into the school gate.
To be exact, I walked through the gate of the main school. His school is an independent college from the university, and apart from the library, playground, etc., which can be shared with the main department, other infrastructure is pitiful.
No matter what, it's his alma mater, and he can complain at will, but he will never tolerate others saying no. Yin Yi deliberately chose a boulevard that few people walked at night, this road he had walked once when he first came to school, and he had never walked it since, and now it may be the last time he has walked it.
When many people first enter college, they think that they will go to college, and when I have rich spare time, I must practice the hidden impulse of high school and go out for a walk. But in the end, the body and the chair are like two magnets, one positive and one negative, and the ascetic-like rickets are lying in front of the computer, turning a little fresh meat into a middle-aged uncle.
Yin Yi is no exception, which can be seen from the fact that he has been in and out of the school gate more times these days than he has combined in the past three years. The difference is that everyone else is playing games in the dormitory, and he is fulfilling a dream he had when he was a junior high school student.
After walking for about 20 minutes, Yin Yi returned to the dormitory, where Xu Zhe in the same dormitory was watching Zhang Daxian's live game, Li Wei was watching Hollywood movies, and Yang Xu was playing DOTA, which he never seemed to get tired of playing.
Yin Yi couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart and posted a message in the circle of friends. Shortly after it was posted, it received several likes and a comment. The comment reads, "Congratulations!"
It was none other than Xu Ying who commented, the person who had humbled him to dust. In just four words, I was a little happier than hearing that he was hired by Yinhua this morning.
Yin Yi searched and searched, but finally failed to think of a satisfactory answer, even if a thousand words were turned into a very commonly used and formulaic thank you.
Yin Yi has long been accustomed to this kind of conversation that ends in no more than three sentences, and in ordinary life, this is an unexpected little surprise.