Chapter 67: The City
One more
Seeing the network cable installer leave, Ruan Wan took a cup of hot tea, ran to her grandmother sitting on the sofa with a dog's legs, and said sweetly: "Grandma, drink tea~"
Grandma glanced at her with a smile and raised her chin: "Put it on the table." ”
"Hello!" After Ruan Wan put down the cup, she squatted down beside her grandmother, knocked her chin on the old man's lap, raised her head and smiled flatteringly, "Grandma, you are so good~"
"Little pony!" snorted Grandma, "Yahuazi laughed and quickly shut her mouth." ”
"Hey, hey, hey. ”
"It's a good grandmother to help you install the network cable, and it's a bad grandmother if you don't let you go to the Internet café, right?" Grandma stretched out her hand and patted Ruan Wan's little face, "I didn't sleep all night last night, and I patronized and said bad things about me, right?"
“…… Nothing!"
"You don't dare to say it!" Grandma stretched out her hand and rubbed her granddaughter's head, sighing, "You said that you are not usually stupid, how can you be so stupid when you should be smart." A few days ago, your grandmother Ma told me that some second-rate people in our town are about to use Sun Ergou's Internet café as a gathering place, where do you deliberately drill to, aren't you delivering food to people!"
Ruan Wan was stunned.
She really didn't expect it.
The first time she went to an Internet café in her last life was when she was in high school, and there were Internet cafes near the school at that time, so she went with her classmates out of curiosity - because the customers were all students, the environment was naturally good, and there were no safety problems at all. As for the internet café in the town, she had never had the opportunity to go to it in her previous life, so she didn't know the situation. But think about it, almost all of the people who love the Internet are young people, and the most unattended and playful young people in the town are those young gangsters. They can't say they're bad guys, they can only say ...... Well, it's a bit similar to Zhao Nengliang, who broke his leg by Qi, he couldn't read, so he simply dropped out of school and stayed at home, either going out to work or being idle in his hometown. She didn't think these people would dare to do anything to her, but at the same time, if she really ran there, she would inevitably be accosted.
At that time, it is estimated that some unpleasant gossip will be provoked.
She didn't care about that, but she didn't want to smear her grandmother's face.
On the contrary, my grandmother didn't care about any gossip, but she cared about her safety.
Ruan Wan lowered her head and apologized in a low voice: "Grandma, I didn't think it through. I was wrong. "It's not loud, but it's 100% sincere.
"If you know you're wrong, you have to change it. Grandma gently ran her fingers through her granddaughter's long watery hair, and whispered, "Although I don't like to use gender to restrain you, I never think that anyone's boy is better than you, but you are born a girl, and you can't change it if you want to." Girls need to know how to protect themselves. Now she can barely protect this child, but she is getting older day by day, Xiaowan is getting older day by day, more and more beautiful, and sooner or later she will leave her side. Looking at Xiaowan, who is becoming more and more slim, she is not only relieved, but also sometimes thinks of the "dangerous period" after she was just widowed, in that precarious situation, it is really difficult to live as a woman. It was so hard that she didn't know how many times, and she decided that she couldn't hold on anymore.
Now, Xiaowan is in a good time, but she can't be relieved because of this.
Seeing that Xiao Wan was about to leave her side to study in other places, she suddenly realized that there were some things that she should emphatically say a few more times. For example, don't drink outside if you don't drink well, and don't go to dangerous places alone, such as ......
In fact, Ruan Wan is not as "stupid" as her grandmother thinks, but no matter what her grandmother says, she listens carefully and responds with a proper attitude, as long as she can make her grandmother feel at ease, she is willing to do anything.
Seeing that her granddaughter "has a good attitude of admitting her mistakes", her grandmother said happily: "Don't rely on my legs, my legs are numb, get up quickly." ”
Ruan Wan laughed again, and then ran to the Internet happily. She ran around the house and wondered......
"Grandma, where do you put the computer?"
"Computers. My grandmother replied calmly, "I didn't buy it." ”
Ruan Wan: "......" she wiped her sweat, "That's when are you going to buy it?"
Grandma waved her hand: "What to buy, what a waste of money." ”
Ruan Wan vomited blood, so what's the point of installing a network cable!
"Anyway, that old thing said he was going to give you one. ”
“…… What?"
Ruan Wan was stunned,
Seeing the two of them pushing back and forth, the grandmother, who was watching coldly, became impatient at first.
"Don't make a fuss, Xiaowan, take it. ”
"Hey, big girl, you're saying a nice thing!"
Grandma's eyes were rolling: "Dare to love, what I said before is not a good thing, right?"
“…… Ahem!"
Ruan Wan knew that her grandmother also didn't like to take other people's things and take advantage of others to owe others favors, which can be seen from the wooden box she gave to Old Man Qiao at the beginning. So since Grandma has spoken, she can take things with confidence.
The uncle and grandfather who were about to laugh out of the big plate took out a bag of things: "By the way, I also bought you a few new clothes, you can come and take a look." ”
Ruan Wan: "......" is here again...... Uncle's show time......
Compared with her speechless, her grandmother was much more straightforward, she turned around and walked towards the house: "Wait, I'll go get some eye drops, otherwise I really won't be able to hold on." ”
Uncle: "......" His taste is so bad!
In any case, Ruan Wan can finally use the computer, which is really gratifying!
After watching her uncle's "clothing exhibition", she took advantage of the lively conversation between the two old people, and quietly returned to her room with her newly acquired computer - her grandmother installed the socket in her room. Ruan Wan pursed her lips and smiled, this move fully expressed her grandmother's trust in her.
She plugged the network cable into the jack of the computer, skillfully turned on the computer, and found that there was a text on the desktop called "Computer Instructions".
Does the computer come with this thing?
Ruan Wan clicked on it casually, and then almost didn't burst out laughing, the top of the text is a sticker of a short and fat old man, and next to it is a sentence - Xiaowan, don't be afraid if you don't know how to use a computer, uncle and grandfather will teach you, and you don't need money to learn from the bag!
So, this is what her uncle made for her?
It's not very useful, but it's ......
Ruan Wan was still grateful.
After opening the mailbox, she was not surprised to find an unread email, and her mood flew naturally. After opening it, she was not surprised to find a bunch of photos, well, last time she asked Jinnian about their school. But what made her unhappy was that this guy didn't take pictures even if he didn't take pictures, and he always didn't shoot himself!
It's stupid.
Obviously, the focus of her attention has always been on him!
Everything else is satisfied, but if you are not satisfied, what kind of trouble is this!
Thinking of this, Ruan Wan unconsciously puffed out one cheek and looked intently at the text in the email.
[Hello, Awan. 】
[As I write this email to you, it's raining on my side. The air in the room was a little stuffy, and I sat at the table in front of the window, which was half open, and every now and then a light raindrop swept in with the wind. Remember that you used to say that your hometown always has heavy rains during this season, and suddenly lightning and thunder, and suddenly clear skies. If I have the chance, I really want to see it with my own eyes. Compared to the rain on your side, I have more or less courage and more tactfulness here. 】
【…… In your last email, you mentioned that you will be returning to your hometown in the near future. Do the math, you should be home by now, I don't know if it's good to be on the road, and I don't know when you'll see this email......]
【…… You've said before that you're curious about what our schools are like. I don't think it's too much of a difference from you...... I took some pictures ......]
Ruan Wan first took a cursory look.
Then I watched it again carefully.
After reading every word or even a single punctuation mark for the third time, she began to look at the photos that had been sent with the email.
As she had felt before, he was really serious about this matter to the point of being a little cute. From the school gate to the school emblem to every corner of the school, he took pictures of them all.
When he photographed the classroom, he actually gave a close-up of the trash can. Well, the one holding the trash can is a golden retriever - golden retriever with blue eyes, a tall face, and a standard little angel appearance. But this little brother seems to be a little funny, he is holding the trash can in one hand, making a scissor hand in the other, laughing so much that he is happy, as if the trash can is his own brother!
It seems to have started here, and in the photos that followed, the number of appearances of the golden retriever brother gradually increased.
For example, he was lying on the grass......
For example, he walked on the road of school......
For example, he rushed to the school cafeteria......
……
Ruan Wan almost didn't lift the table, what is going on with this feeling that looks like a "stalker photo book"! What is this feeling of "he is in his shot, and she is actually a shameless third party"!
――Du Jinnian, do you dare to come over, I promise not to kill you!
Two more
Ruan Wan puffed out her face, held her breath and gritted her teeth, but the action of flipping through the photos did not stop - even if this guy was so annoying, she wanted to know what kind of environment had raised him like this.
One after another, the last one was an indoor basketball court.
Ruan Wan's fingers paused, and the corners of her lips hooked slightly, for no other reason, in this photo, there was finally a rare figure of someone. The stupid guy was wearing a basketball suit, a basketball under his arm in his left hand, a bottle of drink in his right hand, and sweat on his forehead, as if he had just finished a ball game. The golden retriever stood beside him, his arm on his shoulder, smiling brightly.
So......
Ruan Wan began to grind her teeth again.
How good the relationship between these two is!
Although she knew that her thoughts were a little willful, she still felt that something had been snatched away. The saddest thing is that he was snatched away by a boy's paper. Not to mention the forest!
With this in mind, Ruan carefully and gracefully downloaded this photo, and by the way, he found the drawing tool that came with the computer, and blacked out the golden retriever next to him. Hmph, that's how stingy it is!
After doing this, she looked at Jinnian's smiling face in the photo, and her mood was inexplicably better.
Alas, if it weren't for the fear of being discovered by her grandmother, she would really want to set this photo as a desktop and screensaver, what a pity!
"Xiaowan, come out and take a hand!" suddenly came from the courtyard.
"Oh!" Ruan Wan answered, stood up and lay on the bed to look out, and found that Grandma Diao had come again at some point, sitting on the ground and playing tricks, suspected of rolling on the ground. She was sweating, and hurriedly ran out to help, "Grandma Diao, get up quickly!"
"I don't! I don't!" Grandma Diao sat and refused to get up, "I want to move the capital! I must beat your grandmother today to move back the capital!"
Ruan Wan: "......" What kind of psychological shadow has been left behind? Moreover, she really wants to say "Old man, give up!", in the shadow of her grandmother, the Great Demon King, as long as it is a person, she must tremble, and there is no room to turn over!
She turned her head to look at her grandmother in embarrassment, and found that this legendary demon king was calm and relaxed, as if he didn't take what was in front of him seriously at all, well, completely left it alone!
Ruan Wan secretly vomited blood, thinking to herself that she was being regarded as a firefighter? She whispered to Grandma Diao for a while and found that it didn't work, so she had an idea, ran back to the house, found the playing cards, and stuffed them into Grandma Diao's hand: "Oh!
Grandma Diao took the card, suspected to be very moved.
And then!
She stood up, stuffed the card into Ruan Wan's hand, raised her head and said with dignity -
"Don't try to corrode my will with sugar-coated cannonballs, my old man never eats this!"
Ruan Wan: "...... what the hell is this!"
She was completely dumbfounded, old child, old child, if this old man really became a child, it would be really difficult to manage!
Uncle and grandfather were amused: "Yo, old sister, you are really determined." As he spoke, he gave a thumbs up.
"Of course!" Grandma Diao was proud, and then sat down on the ground again, "So if you don't play cards with me today, I won't leave!"
Uncle: "......"
Nguyen Wan supported her forehead.
Grandma rolled her eyes: "Let's fight, Xiaowan, go and take out the mahjong." ”
"How do you fight three missing one?" asked Ruan Wan.
"How can there be three missing one, isn't there still you? ”
Ruan Wan: "......"
"What?" Grandma glanced at Ruan Wan and said with a smile, "With a new toy, you are impatient to accompany the elderly?" ”
Ruan Wan blackened, thinking to herself that her grandmother said generously, if she really turned around and left, it would be really tragic.
So, she originally wanted to reply to someone, so she played mahjong with a group of sunset reds.
And what Ruan Wan didn't know was that at this moment, in another country, there were people who were entangled in their hearts-
No......
No......
There is no mail.
Du Jinnian swiped his email several times, but never saw a prompt about the new email appear behind the inbox, so far, he had to sadly admit that she still didn't reply. And this has been determined by him countless times.
It's the fourth day.
Normally, she should have replied yesterday, but the reality is that until now.
I knew it earlier......
I won't listen to that guy Richard.
He sighed, remembering that when he was at school during the day, Richard asked him with a smile on his face, "How is it? So how could he be so obsessed with listening to his advice at that time?
This tragedy began in the library.
When he was using the computer, he instinctively clicked on the mailbox, and then found that she had a reply, so he subconsciously clicked on it. But I completely forgot about it, and there was a guy who was particularly gossipy. Richard, who was passing by, accidentally caught a glimpse of him reading a Chinese email, and his first reaction was-
"Wow, Du, when did you hook up with a Chinese girl?"
He was speechless at the time, and he could guess correctly, which was outrageous, right? But considering Richard's usual popularity among girls, it was only natural that this guy could make such a guess.
Richard, who has an astonishing instinct in this regard, quickly saw through his lie that "there is no such thing", and said excitedly, "Oh my God! So you really are not a, I can finally not worry about you having any strange thoughts about me!", while pestering him and asking, "Is the Chinese girl you know the legendary Oriental porcelain doll? Is there a photo? Will she come to see you?" He was pestered and miserable, and after learning that "Huaguo porcelain doll is interested in school", Richard said, "It's so boring to just shoot the scenery, how can you shoot some people!".
Du Jinnian actually wanted to refuse.
However, Richard was so enthusiastic that he said, "Just as I am interested in Orientals, your Oriental porcelain doll must be interested in Westerners as well." Look!I!standard Westerner!I!I!!I! Not to mention, Richard, an enthusiastic guy, borrowed a new high-end camera from his parents the day after he mentioned yì.
Facing the other party's enthusiasm, Du Jinnian couldn't say anything if he refused. So, the photo that Ruan Wan saw appeared like this. But in fact, Richard is not a "camera bully", he also helped Du Jinnian take a lot of photos. However, when it came to the final selection, Du Jinnian silently chose to put Richard's photo. How do you say it? I feel like I'm just posting a bunch of photos of myself so suddenly...... I'm a little ashamed.
With such thoughts, he secretly mixed a group photo into it.
If other photos could speak, eighty percent would say, "There's a guy with a different style of painting mixed in!!"
Ahem, it's not good to put your own alone, but it's okay to take a group photo...... Right?
She shouldn't be annoying...... Right?
Now it seems, the results are clear.
Du Jin let out a long sigh and closed the mailbox page, and the sadness in his heart was also a river. He stretched out his hand to push open the window, there was no rain tonight, a little sultry evening breeze blew in, and he suddenly remembered what she had said, outside the window of her hometown room, there was a luxuriant osmanthus tree, and every October, the dream was full of sweet fragrance.
If I could, I'd love to check it out.
And then there's ......
Maybe he needs an apology?
So, when Ruan Wan returned to the room in the evening, she was about to reply to the letter and unexpectedly received another letter from the other side of the ocean, well, someone solemnly apologized to her in the email, saying that his previous photos were not taken well, and many details of the school could not be shown, and asked her if she needed to do it again.
Ruan Wan blinked with her cheeks, wondering if this guy was in a hurry, because she hadn't been able to hear her back for a long time. Her hard work was not in vain!
According to the rules of flirting, she will have to delay a few more days before she can be reliable, but how can she be willing to let him be too anxious. So, she quickly replied to an email to soothe Du Xiao's "Shousang's heart", and by the way, she tactfully reminded that she actually wanted to see more photos of him than the golden retriever brother. Ahem, the thought of seeing someone full of people when she received the email again in the future made her feel uncontrollably good.
Mainly, right......
Now he is a little fatter than in the future, and part of the flesh grows on his cheeks, which makes people special, don't, think, poke, poke, poke!
This excited mood made her dinner extraordinarily fragrant.
In fact, I didn't eat anything good, just ordinary white rice porridge with cucumber and lotus root slices and small pickles - Grandma Diao, who lost a fine light, still ran away in tears today, and my uncle and grandfather also left because of something temporary.
"You're almost. Grandma slapped the table.
“?”
"You go and look in the mirror yourself. Grandma pointed to the room and said, "Look at your expression now, it's full of two words from top to bottom, left to right." ”
“…… What's that?"
"Ripple!"
Ruan Wan: "......Hey, "Hey, don't you want to be so exaggerated!" She stretched out her hand and touched her face, and found that the rippling thing really couldn't be touched by her hands. She coughed lightly, "I'm just so excited to have a computer to use." ”
Grandma sighed, noncommittal.
Ruan Wan's heart instantly became empty, for no other reason, this old man's eyes were too sharp, and he would show his feet if he was not careful. So she hurriedly ate and ate, and after eating, she cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks with her hands and feet, well, the "confession attitude" is called a good one.
The grandmother looked at her granddaughter's back, which can be called "deserted and fled", and held her forehead with one hand, thinking that this unlucky child really looked like a stupid dog with its tail stepped on. Moreover, a small pink flower had grown on her head, and she still wanted to put garlic in front of her? Hmph, she found out when the unlucky child first came back!
She was confident that the child would not let her down.
At the same time, my grandmother was a little worried—when she was fifteen or sixteen years old, she was also so happy, but after that, she took a sharp turn for the worse. So she only hopes that her precious granddaughter can keep this happiness for a long time. The tragedy that has lasted for two generations should also end when it comes to Xiaowan.
Ruan Wan, who was worried, was humming a beautiful ballad while washing dishes at this moment. She hummed, and suddenly wondered if they would see each other often.
What I was accustomed to in my previous life, now seems so unattainable in this life.
But it is precisely because of this that people are full of expectations.