Chapter 23: Drowsiness
After half past ten, the barbecue stall was almost empty of customers, Qi Bo helped his parents collect the stall, and when he got home, it was almost eleven o'clock, and when Qi Bo washed and returned to the room, his sister Qi Wen had already fallen asleep.
The Qi family lives in a very old two-bedroom apartment, only 50 square meters, but what makes Qi's father more proud is that compared to most of the other migrant workers from the counties and towns below, they are considered good. At least he had a house with his own property here, which Qi's father and mother had earned by getting up early all day and working in the dark, and it was not until the year before last that they paid off all the loans from their relatives and completely owned the entire property right of this house.
The house has a special meaning for the Chinese people, if there is no house in one place, there will be no sense of belonging to that place. In the impression of most Chinese people, house and home are almost the same concept. If a man does not have a house of his own ownership, no woman will even be willing to marry him.
With the current conditions of the Qi family, it is indeed difficult for Qi Bo to find a woman with household registration in Yunfeng City to fall in love and get married. First of all, this house has to live with her parents and sister, the woman will definitely dislike it, and this house is too small, now looking for a girlfriend, the new house is not more than 100 square meters and is embarrassed to propose to the other party.
In addition, the cost of marriage is also a daily figure, and if you can't give a woman a decent wedding, she won't agree to marry you.
Qi Bo is twenty-four years old, and he has not yet found a girlfriend, and his crush on Ling'er, who he met by chance five years ago, is on the one hand, and on the other hand, there are also reasons for family conditions. He was reluctant to face these things until he felt that he could not give his future wife an independent, comfortable house and superior living conditions.
This is a man's face, a man's self-esteem.
Many men in Huaxia Kingdom fell in love and started a family at the age of thirty, mostly because of this reason. Especially if the family conditions are relatively poor, because when they graduate from college, they have almost nothing, and after the family has supported the tuition fees for so many years, they are all emptied to ask for a wife?
Sometimes, Qi Bo even suspected that he wanted to escape, so he used his thoughts about Ling'er to cover up his fear of reality and some unspeakable inferiority, and actively refused to have further interactions with girls in his heart, so he has been single until now.
The sorrow of the poor hanging silk is only known in his own heart.
There are two bedrooms and one living room in the house, his parents live in one, and Qi Bo and his sister Qi Wen live in one. The one he lived in was like a rental capsule room, with only a single bed crammed in, and he had to get in and out of bed. The remaining two-thirds of it was given to her sister Qi Wen, and a curtain was installed for her, so that in addition to the bed, she could also put a table next to the bed to review her homework.
This family, like most poor families in Yunfeng City, is poor, but it works hard and is happy.
As long as there is no serious illness in life and no unexpected disasters befall you, this family will always be happy like this. Qi Bo felt that after he graduated from college and joined the workforce, he had the responsibility and obligation to improve the living conditions of the family first, feed his parents who had raised him for so long, and escort his sister Qi Wen all the way to college, graduate and find a job, and then think about starting a family.
It's just that his ability is really limited, and his work is not going well, so he is getting farther and farther away from this goal. Now with the help of the medical ethics system, I don't know if it will get better.
"Brother, are you back?" Qi Wen asked Qi Bo through the partition, because of the limited living conditions, there was only a partition between the beds of the two.
"Haven't you fallen asleep yet?" Qi Bo was already light enough, but he didn't expect to wake up his sister.
"No, I don't. Qi Wen opened the small slide door on the partition and looked at Qi Bo who had just laid down on this side with a smile.
Qi Wen is very timid, her parents are very busy, she has been sleeping with Qi Bo until she was seven years old, and later at Qi Bo's insistence, the two of them slept in separate beds after she was seven years old, which made her cry for a long time. When I bought this house, on the partition between the two beds in this room, Qi Bolai did not design this small slide door, but Qi Wen sometimes didn't know what happened during the day and couldn't sleep peacefully unless Qi Bo coaxed her to sleep.
Helplessly, Qi Bo made a slide door less than half a meter square on the partition between the two beds, which could only be opened from her sister Qi Wen's side, if she was afraid, open the slide door, and you could see Qi Bo here.
As a result, her favorite thing to do now is to open the slide door and look at Zibo when she is sleeping.
"Close the door and go to sleep! I still have classes tomorrow!" Qi Bo pulled Qi Wen's little nose.
"Brother, today another boy handed me a note and wrote a long letter, saying that he likes me and wants me to be his girlfriend. Qi Wen couldn't sleep, so she leaned on the side of the slide door and poked out her little head to chat with Qi Bo.
Girls of her age are generally very rebellious and are reluctant to communicate with their families about things, but Qi Bo is different from her parents, she has always treated her as an equal, only providing guidance to her, and never reprimanding her or forcing her to do anything, so Qi Wen is willing to talk to him as an elder brother about anything.
"Oh, what is your impression of him?" Qi Bo actually cared about Qi Wen's affairs, and was afraid that she would go astray. But he also knew that once he began to reprimand and restrain her like his parents, she would definitely not open up to him anymore.
"He's a little handsome. Qi Wen replied to Qi Bo.
"Oh?" Qi Bo couldn't help but sink in his heart, he knew that his sister Qi Wen would have such a day sooner or later, but he hoped that this day would be later, he was a man, and he also knew that men were lustful and irresponsible. He has always cared for her, and he doesn't want her to be hurt in an unknown love that is too early.
"He's also very good at writing poetry, do you want me to read it to you?" Qi Wen continued.
"Read and listen. Qi Bo rolled his eyes, what age is this? Still writing poetry? Is it sour? But he didn't want to spoil Qi Wen's interest, so he still pretended to be very interested.
"Every time I see you, it makes my heart ripple, you are like a flowing cloud in the sky, and I am a stream on the ground, when I can't see you, it rains in my heart......" Qi Wen read over there.
Zibo rolled his eyes again, trying to resist the urge to vomit.
"How's it being written?" Qi Wen asked Qi Bo after finishing reading.
"What do you think?" Qi Bo asked Qi Wen rhetorically.
"Not very good. Qi Wen laughed.
"Will you be his girlfriend then?" Qi Bo then asked Qi Wen.
"He's not my type. Qi Wen shook her head.
Hearing Qi Wen say this, Qi Bo calmed down...... It is estimated that she should not have the mind to do this now, most of them just went to the old brother to show off, saying that someone was chasing her or something.
Then Qi Wen began to gossip about some boys and girls in their class, and Qi Bo was drowsy when he heard it, but he still pretended to be very interested in 'uh-huh' to deal with her.
Finally, Qi Wen may be tired and stop squeaking, Qi Bo glanced at her, and after feeling that she should be asleep, he reached out and gently pulled the slide door.
When I came to listen to Qi Wen's gossip about the boring topics of the boys and girls in the class, Qi Bo was a little drowsy and almost fell asleep, but then he suddenly woke up again.
The main reason is that he inexplicably recalls the tragic car accident of Scar Li on the street, and his mood will inevitably become a little nervous, and he will have to try to calm down for a while to dissipate this tension.
Think of something else to distract yourself.
The new book is on the list, and I continue to roll all over the ground for collections and recommended tickets~~