Chapter 4: Goodbye to the Forest
It's summer vacation, and the students who rented the willow house haven't come back yet, so this small yard is particularly deserted. Liu got up early in the morning, put on a big shirt casually, and dragged a pair of slippers to slowly move his body in the yard. Because of the long-term cutting and sewing in the past ten years, it is inevitable that the shoulder muscles will be strained, and if you don't pay attention to activities and exercise, you will often feel sore.
The small door leading to the street slammed, and Liu opened the door, but it was the Wang Ma next door, who was the most enthusiastic and had been helping Liu is pay attention to the right blind date. Liu is helpless in the face of her enthusiasm, but she still has a little bit of expectation, and it is not easy to find a suitable marriage partner.
"Liu, is there anything going on today?" said Wang Ma smiled mysteriously.
"Open a store!" Liu is opening the door to let Wang Ma in, Wang Ma said politely: "I won't go in, I'll tell you, dress up well today, someone will come to see you!"
Liu is smiled bitterly and said, "Mother Wang, who are you going to let come to see me?"
"Look at what you say!" After speaking, he looked at the pedestrians who were not passing outside, and whispered: "Isn't there a Zhang family in the back street? His son went out to work very early, and the marriage has been delayed. During this time, his mother was sick, and he was afraid that he would not be able to endure it, and he would have to live or die to see him get married.
"Mother Wang, it's right to be at home!" Liu is smiling, thirty is gold for a man, and thirty is for a woman.
"Knowing that your younger brothers and sisters are superior people, the Zhang family has long had that thought about you. He also has a house and a shop, and you will have a better life when you get married! I'll go first, you wear some good clothes, don't be so sloppy!" After speaking, Wang Ma went out.
Liu is looked at the fat clothes on his body and smiled. If this woman is still unmarried at the age of thirty, she will become a public nuisance, and everyone is worried about your marriage, for fear of creating an old girl who is not married.
I opened the store, sorted out the accumulated goods, and thought that it was time to buy some goods when I was not busy. In the morning, the sun is very hot, there are few people shopping, only a few neighbors come to say hello, casually look through the clothes that have been looked through countless times, Liu is too lazy to pay attention, always look at more people than buy.
Wang Ma stood outside the store with a smile and said, "Liu is, come out quickly!"
Liu knew that the blind date was coming, so he got up and went out, but saw a stocky man behind Wang Ma, with black and yellow skin, short hair, stabbing straight into the sky, looking very energetic, especially the pair of eyes that were extremely black, and he looked very energetic on that not outstanding face. Liu is smiled and said, "Come in, the sun is big outside!"
The man looked a little shy, standing in the bright store a little overwhelmed, and it was even more embarrassing to look at the densely packed clothes around, this is a store specializing in women's clothing, a big man standing here, somewhat unaccustomed.
Liu is to arrange for the two to sit and arrive at tea.
Wang Ma smiled at Liu and said, "This is Zhang Jiang, the one in the back street, who just came back!"
Liu knew that this was Wang Ma telling her to be active, so he said: "I have just moved here for a few years, and many neighbors are not familiar with it, thanks to Wang Ma taking care of her on weekdays!"
Zhang Jiang nodded, glanced at Liu is secretly, and immediately lowered his eyes again. This woman smiled so brightly, as if the light in the entire store was on her, Zhang Jiang couldn't help but feel ashamed of himself, and he didn't dare to look at her.
"You young people talk, I'll leave first!" Wang Ma patted Zhang Jiang on the shoulder and said, "Zhang Jiang is an honest man!"
Liu sent Wang Ma out, and when she saw that there were a few good neighbors at the door, she had a headache. She has almost become a landscape in this town, and she has to go on a blind date every once in a while. Young people make fun of her for being too picky, but older people can't help but doubt her character, the place is too small, and the atmosphere is conservative!
Liu didn't know what to call this man, it was too rusty to call Mr., and the name was not yet ripe, so he omitted the name and said with a smile: "The place is too small, it's uncomfortable to sit!"
"No, no!" Zhang Jiang hurriedly waved his hand, "It's the same, the old houses are all in this pattern, and you have already decorated them very well here!"
"Where do you work?" Zhang Jiang is not an active person, so Yuliu is the first step of a general blind date, asking questions such as work, age, and family.
"I was a soldier for two years and worked as a security guard along the coast!"
"Oh-" Ryu understood.
"However, I'm getting older, and I'm going to go home and start a small business!" After speaking, he looked at Liu is uneasily, "You...... What are the requirements?"
Liu couldn't help but laugh, what could she ask for?
Zhang Jiang saw that Liu is smile, and immediately knew that he had asked a question that should not be asked, and hurriedly said: "I didn't mean that......" After saying this, he found that he clearly meant that, and he didn't know how to continue, so he had to laugh innocently.
"Actually, we're all young, and it's unrealistic to say that we're still in love like those young people. I'll just talk about my thoughts first! I just want to find a man who can live, has a decent style, and has a relatively stable income to marry. Of course, you have also seen my own conditions, I am not ugly, I have this house, and I can be regarded as having a fixed income!" Liu is expression looked at Zhang Jiang as he spoke, Zhang Jiang looked at Liu is stunned, and he didn't expect that Liu is would be able to say such straightforward words when he met Liu Shi for the first time.
"I've been on a blind date many times!" Liu is smile, "Everyone knows this street, but didn't Wang Ma tell you when she brought you here?"
"No!" Zhang Jiang obviously didn't figure out the situation.
"In this way, I won't say more, you go back and ask your family for their opinions before you think about it, if your family doesn't object to you, then we'll continue to talk!" Liu said kindly.
"Okay, then I'...... Let's go first!" Zhang Jiang looked a little annoyed and a little ashamed on his face, and hurriedly walked out of the store.
Ryu was sitting in front of the store, watching the crowds coming and going on the street, and she was a little hungry. This Wang Ma is really in a hurry, and she brought people over early in the morning, and she didn't even have time to eat. Liu went back to the house to change into a big shirt, put on slippers, and went to the porridge shop opposite for breakfast.
"Liu is, I saw a man enter your shop in the morning!" Wang Qin, the proprietress of Sanba's porridge shop, teased, "Wang Ma is still following behind!" Wang Ma is a well-known nosy matchmaker on this street.
"Yes, you saw it!"
"See! It looks strong!" Wang Qin brought the porridge to Liu Shi, sat opposite Liu, and asked in a low voice, "What are you doing!"
"Security!"
"Security guard!" Wang Qin dragged out her voice, "This Wang Ma is really interesting, I will introduce you to a civil servant with a formal job in the first two years, and then a contract worker, and now they are all security guards!"
Liu is took a pair of cleaning chopsticks and broke them open, and drank porridge with a grin, "That's because she has recognized the reality, this is a good phenomenon!"
"You're really not in a hurry!" Wang Qin had a gossipy face, "You still have a good partner?"
Liu is put down his chopsticks, "You are such a gossip!"
"Hey, I care about you, you see that we are the same age, how old are my children!"
"That's your fate, when you got married, I was still doing it in the dark!"
"You are also capable, you can raise your mother by yourself, and pay for your brother's tuition! Since your brother is doing so well now, why don't you ask him to introduce you to a partner?" Wang Qin said, "You are so beautiful, I don't think there is a man in the town that you can look at!"
"Eldest sister, I graduated from junior high school!" Liu is said, "Would you like your son to graduate from college and marry a junior high school student?" After speaking, he drank the rest of the porridge in one go, put down the five cents, and shook out of the porridge shop.
Wang Qin looked at Liu is back crossing the street, and there was still a slender figure that was difficult to hide under the wide blouse, and couldn't help but curse secretly, the old goblin, and then turned his head to look at the husband who was making steamed buns next to him, a pair of eyes couldn't be taken back on the opposite side, and he was angry and annoyed in his heart, that old goblin was still married and trouble-free.
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There was no business in the morning, and there was no one at noon when the weather was too hot, Liu was in a daze in the store for a morning, and then went back to the yard to cook a bowl of noodles, and continued to be in a daze in the store to recall the past ten years of youth, and was recalling the bitterness, and the phone rang.
"Wang Juan, what's the matter? My mother is causing trouble again?" Wang Juan has always been on the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, although Liu doesn't know much about it, but he probably knows his character.
"No......" Wang Juan said hesitantly, "Sister, how did you talk to Cheng Lin last time?"
"It's nothing!" Liu changed the phone, "What did he tell you!"
"No!" Wang Juan snorted, "I happened to come to Tianhe to do business, can I go to your house for dinner?"
"Okay!" Liu put down the phone, thinking in his heart, it seems that Cheng Lin has something to do.
Liu closed the shop, went to the nearest vegetable market to buy a bunch of vegetables, then took a nap, got up and looked, it was past four o'clock, just ready to cook. She grabbed some mung beans and fragrant rice to make mung bean porridge, sorted the vegetables she bought, washed them, cut them, and stewed them.
Wang Juan pushed open the door of Liu Yes's house with a bitter face, and saw Liu Yes sitting on the edge of the courtyard in a daze, greeted her, and sat down too.
Liu is back to his senses, seeing that it was Wang Juan, said, "What is the matter with being so distressed?"
Wang Juan glanced at Liu is and said, "Sister, isn't Chenglin very interesting to you?"
"Huh, where does this start?"
"When he called me to ask about you, I didn't know how to make it up! You see, as soon as I said you graduated from college, he asked which university it was. As soon as I said that you had been working on the coast for many years, he asked which company it was, and I was going to die of sorrow!"
"You deserve it!" Liu is scolding, and his heart is even clearer, this Cheng Lin is afraid that he will use himself as an interface to take the opportunity to approach Wang Juan, it seems that this Cheng Lin is really not a thing, not only harassing married women, but also deliberately destroying her reputation as an unmarried girl, "Who let you talk nonsense!" Liu is food into the kitchen, starting a fire and stir-frying.
"Why don't you meet him again?" asked Wang Juan cautiously.
"No, I've already found someone to go on a blind date again, this one is not bad, it looks very down-to-earth!" Liu is stir-fry and said, "Wang Juan, don't introduce me to those elites or the like, I don't look down on others or me, I only look for marriage partners, I don't have time to mess around!"
"But, he's already here!" Wang Juan shrunk her neck.
Liu is eyes were round, and Wang Juan immediately said: "He called to ask me what I was doing, and I said that I was doing business in Tianhe, and I came to my sister's house for dinner by the way, and he said that he would come too!"
Liu is sigh, I don't know if Wang Juan really doesn't understand or if Cheng Lin is better disguised, it seems that Cheng Lin's plan is to fully enter Wang Juan's family life, step by step, it is really leaky. Liu is no longer talking, stuffy and fried the dishes, the food was served, and he waited for the young master to come.
When the meal was served, Wang Juan looked at the good food, and was about to grab it, Liu is hand opened Wang Juan's hand and said, "What are you doing here?" Wang Juan does copywriting work, just stay in the office every day, and even have few opportunities to travel, let alone go out to shop for goods every once in a while, which is really hard.
"Oh, the company thinks this place is good, and wants to build a project here, I came to the field to investigate the mobile phone information report!" Wang Juan took a pair of chopsticks and said while eating vegetables: "Sister, your house is in a good location, and there is a small ditch on the back, it must be a key development object!"
Liu is bitter smile, what's a good thing about this!
"Sister, if you really occupy your house, you will buy a house in the city with the compensation!" Wang Juan said enthusiastically, she also has a small abacus, as long as she lives close, she can pull her sister if she has any problems at any time, where is it inconvenient to live so far away like now.
"If you don't move, what will you move?" Liu refused.
Wang Juan was about to reply, the phone rang, and when she picked it up, she saw that it was Cheng Lin's number, and hurriedly ran out to pick up someone. Liu is sitting at the dinner table, this Cheng Lin frequently harassed Wang Juan with the sign of a childhood sweetheart, Wang Juan didn't know if she really didn't know or Cheng Lin did too perfectly to make anyone doubt it, in this way, she was not very good at making big moves, and first look at the situation before acting.
After a while, Wang Juan's cheerful laughter was heard, Liu is leaning against the door, watching Cheng Lin grab Wang Juan's arm and run in, rubbing Wang Juan's head, as if he was pampering a child. Liu is sneered to see when you showed your fox tail, so he smiled and said, "Just came, the food is cold!"
"It turns out that my sister lives in such a good place!" Cheng Lin looked at the small courtyard, which was full of flowers and plants, which was meaningful.
Liu is hand stared at Cheng Lin, Cheng Lin noticed Liu Yes's gaze, let go of his hand, and smiled at Liu is smile: "My sister's cooking must be delicious, I'm welcome!" After speaking, he walked into the restaurant, with a breath of hot summer air.
Liu turned on the fan, set up the dishes and chopsticks, and the three of them sat around to eat.
"You see this location is good, it's on the side of the highway, it only takes half an hour to drive into the city, and there are mountains and rivers!" Wang Juan turned her head to Cheng Lin to speak, "The planning of this project is more insightful, what do you think?"
"Not bad, not bad!" Cheng Lin was perfunctory, obviously not interested in talking further, but Liu is interested and said, "Which company wants to develop here?"
"Cheng Lin has a friend who is an investor, and now he is inspecting our company to see if this project has any investment value. Now, even if he is the God of Wealth of our company, of course he has to serve him well! If he serves this God of Wealth well, the boss will reward me greatly!" Wang Juan joked.
Liu is heart was shocked, it seems that this Chenglin really occupies Wang Juan's life in an all-round way, and it is really not to be underestimated. She looked at Cheng Lin's gentle smile and said, "Mr. Cheng really has an eye, you can also help Wang Juan's work?"
"Sister, don't listen to him!"
Liu is skin looked at Cheng Lin with a smile, that idea was cautious, she really couldn't see it, it seemed that she, who was an older sister, also had to help her younger brother!