In the afternoon, Wang Xue'e went to a friend's house for dinner, while Dongmei came to the base canteen.

When Wang Chaoying left, he gave Wang Xue'e and Dongmei meal cards in the cafeteria.

The canteen is in the base of Xinglongyuan, not far away.

Dongmei was originally going to follow Wang Xue'e to her friend's house for dinner and temporary stay.

However, the two of them were about to walk to the gate of the community, but Dongmei felt that this was not good.

Wang Xue'e's friend Chen Lin's mother, although she also knows herself, but after all, the relationship is very ordinary, and she is really embarrassed to live in someone else's house and eat in someone else's house.

So, Dongmei rejected Wang Xue'e's kindness.

The base canteen is a canteen built underground.

Dongmei went down the stairs to the first floor and saw a very large cafeteria.

There are a lot of people in the canteen, and there is a lot of food, including rice that southerners like to eat, pasta that northerners like to eat, and a variety of complementary foods and side dishes.

Dongmei took the meal card and wandered around the cafeteria, not knowing what to eat.

Although Dongmei was busy in the room all day, in the afternoon, she didn't feel hungry.

Dongmei doesn't want to eat, but she can't eat it, in case her blood sugar suddenly drops, it will be difficult to do.

Dongmei bought a plate of side dishes, then asked for two steamed buns, and found an empty seat to sit down.

Before eating, Dongmei took out insulin from the bag on her back, opened her clothes, and gave her belly an injection.

After the injection, Dongmei sighed, fortunately, it is winter, and the insulin will not deteriorate because of the heat.

Otherwise, you have to find a refrigerator to refrigerate those precious insulins, which is so troublesome.

couldn't help but sigh that as a diabetic, she no longer traveled.

Dongmei was eating steamed buns and vegetables, and suddenly thought of the first day when she was just thirty years old, following Weiguo from the countryside of Guanzhong to the second base of Longdong drilling.

At that time, Dongmei clearly remembered that it seemed to be spring, and the weather was neither cold nor hot.

Since there was no house to live in, the whole family lived in a guest house inside the base.

However, due to the limited conditions of the guest house, the family could not live together, but the women lived in one large room and the men in one large room.

Dongmei once went out to buy something in the store outside, and because she didn't have enough money, she borrowed more than 20 yuan from Sister Liu, an eldest sister who also came from the countryside on the next bed.

When she paid back the money, Dongmei gave Sister Liu fifty yuan.

Sister Liu is illiterate, not only is she illiterate, but she also can't settle accounts.

She couldn't calculate what fifty minus twenty was, so she let Dongmei calculate it and find money for Dongmei herself.

Dongmei looked at Sister Liu, who was in her forties in front of her, and counted it for her.

However, due to Dongmei's negligence for a while, Leng counted looking for more than 20 yuan as looking for more than 30 yuan, and overcharged Sister Liu 10 yuan.

A few days later, when Dongmei found out that she had miscalculated the account for Sister Liu and took more money from Sister Liu, she hurried to pay back the money to Sister Liu.

However, at this time, Sister Liu had already left the guest house with her husband.

In the late eighties, early nineties, ten yuan was still relatively valuable, equivalent to a worker's salary for a day's work.

Dongmei hurriedly went to the inquiry bar and went to find Sister Liu.

However, she searched for a day, but she didn't find Sister Liu.

For this reason, Dongmei regretted it very much, regretting that she had miscalculated the account at the beginning, and should not have taken ten more yuan from Sister Liu, and also made Sister Liu think that she was a bad person, and deliberately miscalculated the account and took more of her money.

Although almost 20 years have passed, Dongmei is still haunted by this matter.

She once thought that it would be nice if she could meet Sister Liu at the Ganquan base or the Liquan base.

However, Sister Liu seemed to have disappeared completely, and there was no news from her.

Dongmei sighed that although the world is big, sometimes it is small.

The world is small, but sometimes it's big.

Although Sister Liu and herself are both in the same system, they are both family members of oil workers.

However, the two live in the same place, and how can they meet, and they can't meet each other?

Dongmei quickly finished eating a steamed bun.

After she finished reminiscing about Sister Liu, she began to think about accommodation again.

Although Wei Guo registered a relatively cheap guest house for Dongmei, even if it was cheap, it would cost thirty yuan a night.

After a month, you have to pay a thousand yuan, and Dongmei is really reluctant to spend this money.

She thought, if there can be a place like an activity room nearby, as long as it is not cold, as long as it is safe, she can make a bunk in it and make do with it, ten days and half a month, and it will be done.

When Dongmei was worried about accommodation, suddenly next to her, a woman about sixty years old sat down.

Dongmei picked up the bag that was placed on the seat, then moved it to the side, and said, "Master, there is no one here, you can sit down." “

After the woman sat down, she chatted with her friend next to her.

Dongmei listened to the woman's familiar dialect, and she suddenly felt that this dialect was unusually familiar, as if she had heard it somewhere?

Especially when the eldest sister speaks, that specific voice is simply too familiar.

Dongmei put down the steamed buns that had already eaten half of them.

She turned her head to look at the woman.

Fiercely, she felt that the woman's face was too familiar, like a person.

Dongmei is born with a very good memory, especially the memory of the face, which is particularly strong.

As long as I see you, Dongmei can remember you for a lifetime.

Although the woman next to her is old, her accent and general outline have not changed.

Dongmei was a little stunned, she felt that the woman next to her was none other than Sister Liu, who lived in a guest house with her twenty years ago.

Dongmei wanted to ask the woman next to her, but she was afraid that she would recognize the wrong person and make a joke.

At this time, Dongmei had no intention of eating.

She was thinking, is the woman next to her Sister Liu?

After hesitating and hesitating, Dongmei finally mustered up her courage.

She thought to herself, even if she recognized the wrong person, it didn't matter, after all, people are still vast, and meeting them is also a rare fate.

So, Dongmei coughed twice, and then said to the woman next to her, "Sister Liu, do you still know me?"

Sister Liu, who was chatting heartily, turned her head violently when she heard someone calling her.

She looked at Dongmei, and after a while, she said, "...... are you?"

Dongmei looked at the way Sister Liu spoke, twenty years have passed, and there is still no change, the corners of her mouth are always raised, and her eyes are a little squinted.

Dongmei said excitedly and happily: "Sister Liu, have you forgotten me?"

Sister Liu was confused, she said, "Whose mother-in-law are you?"

Dongmei faced Sister Liu, and she said, "Sister Liu, I'm Dongmei." Dongmei, do you remember?"

Due to her age, Sister Liu has forgotten Dongmei back then.

She said, "Who is Dongmei?"

Dongmei guided Sister Liu and said, "At the end of the eighties, did you live in the guest house of the second base of Longdong Diamond?"

Sister Liu nodded and said, "Yes, at that time, I just followed my husband and took a few children out of my hometown, and lived in the base guest house for nearly a month before the house in Caogoumen was divided." “

Dongmei choked up, and she said: "When you lived at the time, in the last period of time, there was a woman from the countryside of Guanzhong, with a son and a daughter, who lived next to your bed, do you remember that woman?"

Sister Liu tried to recall, she said: "There seems to be a woman, and the accent is particularly like the Pingliang accent of Gansu." “

Hearing Sister Liu think about it, Dongmei said: "I am the one who seems to have a Pingliang accent in Gansu, but I am actually from Guanzhong Xifu, with two children, and Dongmei who is just in her early thirties, do you remember?"

In an instant, Sister Liu thought about it, and she said excitedly: "You are ...... Small...... Yin ......?"