Cheng Yun was born in Baicheng.

She was born and grew up here, and the first time she really went out was during the Spring Festival when she was ten years old, and Cheng Yun's mother took her to Harbin by train.

Cheng Yun can still recall the freshness of that time.

The green train, one after another, drove incredibly slowly.

Cheng Yun's mother's name is Wu Min, she is a workshop worker, she is very beautiful, some people say that she looks like the star in the old Shanghai movie posters, Cheng Yun doesn't think it like.

She had seen the poster, and she felt that Wu Min was more like the beautiful but inconspicuous flower in the corner of the picture than the star.

During the Spring Festival, the passenger flow was exceptionally large, and the two of them originally did not have seats, but after getting on the bus, someone quickly gave them half a berth.

The sleeper kept chatting with Wu Min, and Cheng Yun looked out of the car window.

At the end of January, the snow was all over the sky, and the snow and fog outside the window were vast, and from a distance, the bald mountains were like cotton, white and smooth.

There are a lot of people in the carriage, full of red dust, someone next to her touched her face to tease her, she raised her eyebrows at him and smiled, the little face of just ten years old, was full and delicate by the heat of the carriage, there was no flaw at all, and I was afraid of touching it like tofu.

Wu Min didn't pay attention to Cheng Yun, and of course, she didn't pay attention to the man next to her who kept pestering her after giving them a sleeper for their mother and daughter.

Wu Min lowered his head, no matter what others said, he answered without a word, absent-mindedly.

No wonder she was in her early thirties, and her decision was so important that she needed to think with her not-so-clever mind until the moment she thought about success or failure.

When he arrived in Harbin, Wu Min bought Cheng Yun a new set of clothes. The red little cotton jacket, which is also embroidered with the pattern of small animals, is worn on Cheng Yun's body, which is as cute as a doll in a painting.

Wu Min found the door of a person's house, in the bleak corridor, she stood in front of the door for half an hour and did not dare to knock. Cheng Yun didn't know what she was thinking, although she felt very cold, but she didn't bother Wu Min.

Firecrackers crackled outside. At that time, the Chinese New Year was much more ruthless than now, and the night did not stop, and the ground was full of firecracker paper when I went out on the first day of the new year, and it was soft like a carpet when I stepped on it.

There were people talking in the room, as if they were having Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and some people were playing cards.

Wu Min stood at the door, stood at the end, and cried.

When Cheng Yun couldn't stand the cold, she pulled Wu Min's hand and said, "Mom, I'm cold." ”

Wu Min then remembered Cheng Yun, hugged it reflexively, buried his old face in his new jacket, and cried.

No one could hear the cry, and the firecrackers buried everything.

In the end, Wu Min took her out of Harbin and returned to Baicheng.

Since that day, Wu Min has been getting thinner and thinner.

When Cheng Yun grew up and understood everything at home, she gradually realized that that a trip to Harbin was a dividing line.

Moving forward, Wu Min is a delicate flower, looking forward to the rising sun.

Backwards, Wu Min just lives for the sake of living.

Wu Min's attitude towards Cheng Yun is lukewarm, and he can't be called ignoring, but it's by no means caring. Cheng Yun knew that she was just proof of the love between Wu Min and Cheng Pengfei.

But this love has no beginning and no end.

Wu Min rarely mentioned Cheng Pengfei to Cheng Yun, as if that memory could only be enjoyed by her. But then she got sick, and when she was seriously ill, she poured everything before to Cheng Yun. So hard, there must be evidence.

Her memories are jumbled, often paused and patchworked.

To be honest, Cheng Yun was not interested in the story between her and the actor of the Harbin Art Troupe who came to Baicheng to perform. But she still has to listen, who called Wu Min is her mother.

When Cheng Yun was sixteen years old, Wu Min died, and he was not yet forty years old.

The day before she died, she told Cheng Yun that she must pay more attention at the funeral to see if anyone comes.

Who's coming?

No one came. Wu Min had a child out of wedlock, and his life was unknown. The relationship between relatives is weak, and she doesn't listen to gossip, and she lives completely in the world she conceives.

A dream in my life, like ice and snow, the sun has passed, there is no trace, ordinary and ordinary, and the waves are not alarmed.

After Wu Min died, Cheng Yun's uncle came to her and wanted to take her back, saying that he had introduced her to a good family to marry. Cheng Yun didn't go. Uncle scolded her, saying that it is not easy for you to find a serious person from this background, don't be ignorant. Do you want to be like your mother?

Cheng Yun said, I think my mother is good like that.

She didn't lie recklessly, she really felt that Wu Min's life was very good.

Wu Min is the only family member identified by Cheng Yun, and after her death, Cheng Yun did not find any relatives, dropped out of school, and began to work.

She has worked in many places, hotels, restaurants, dance halls...... In such a somewhat restless era, she endured a lot of hardships, walked a lot, and met a lot of people.

Among them, including Wang Qinan.

Wang Qinan is the owner of a video shop that rents and sells CD-ROMs and videotapes. The scale is very small, the owner and clerk are all by himself, and the store is opened in the depths of the old street.

The first time Cheng Yun went to Wang Qinan's store, it was to give him something.

At that time, she was working in a bar, and when she was about to leave work in the middle of the night, the boss gave her five bottles of beer and told her to work harder and send them to an acquaintance friend.

In the Northeast in the 90s, the chaos was beyond imagination.

At that time, Wang Qinan was twenty-six years old, and he was a bit famous on the road, and the day Cheng Yun gave him wine, he watched the film in his store.

Needless to say, what kind of film you watched.

In the summer night, the crickets outside the house kept barking. The house was also screaming.

The man had his back to the counter, a plain short-sleeved gray shirt, the sleeves of which were rolled up to his shoulders because of the heat, revealing his solid arms and the corners of tattoos.

Idioms gently put the wine on the table.

Wang Qinan turned around.

At a glance, the sky is thunderous and fired. Cheng Yun was suddenly confused. seemed to understand what Wu Min said to her in an instant-

I want to give it to him, I want to give it to him.

Wang Qinan looks good, but his eyebrows are forked because of the brawl in his early years, and he looks a little fierce.

Of course, others are not gentle. Like the angry King Kong, he is impatient with nothing.

But Chengyun is love.

Wang Qinan didn't take her seriously at first. He thinks she's too young, it's okay to play, and he can't take it seriously. Cheng Yun doesn't care, whatever he wants to play, she will play with her.

Wang Qinan mixed the road, there are a lot of enemies, once Cheng Yun came to him, just happened to meet the person who smashed the store, that time it was too ruthless, there were many people, Wang Qinan fought with people, saw Cheng Yun, yelled and got away. Cheng Yun ran to the fruit store next door, snatched the knife from the owner who cut the watermelon, and rushed over with his eyes closed.

Where can a little girl cut people, Wang Qinan snatched the knife, and the person was several times more fierce than before.

Cheng Yun was re-educated through labor for several months, and on the day she came out, Wang Qinan came to pick her up.

The two kissed at the door of the detention center.

Since then, everyone in the neighborhood has known that the vicious owner of the video store downstairs has company.

Cheng Yun often spends time with Wang Qinan in a small dark room on the second floor, making it dark.

Wang Qinan touched the □□ of the two of them and applied it to her, telling her that women use this, which is more effective than any skin care products, and she laughed and trembled in his arms.

Wang Qinan likes to go out to play, has a motorcycle, and often takes Cheng Yun around.

The northeast is cold, and in winter, heavy snow falls, and the city is full of rime. Wang Qinan took Cheng Yun to the park, and in those days, the park still collected money, so they parked the motorcycle nearby, and then secretly climbed the wall to get in. Wang Qinan jumped first and picked up Cheng Yun below. Cheng Yun always jumped heavily on purpose, and she knew that Wang Qinan would definitely catch her. But after that, he will definitely choke her neck and scold her.

Wang Qinan is like a strong fire tong, and he only wears a leather jacket in winter, with a thin shirt inside. They ran around the park until they were tired, Wang Qinan simply took off his jacket, shirtless in the ice and snow, and yelled excitedly.

The rime on both sides shook off the snow particles, as if they were also startled.

The world is too white, Cheng Yun can only see his eyebrows and eyes clearly, and he needs his hair.

Later, when it came to the Strike Hard Crackdown, Wang Qinan was caught by a friend who was arrested in the bureau and became a house finch under the big guns of the Northeast Anti-Pornography and Non-Pornography Crackdown. He ran.

He ran so fast that he only had time to tell her that he would be back in a while.

After a while, how long will it take to finish this period. Within half a month, Cheng Yun began to ask people everywhere, and finally found out that Wang Qinan went to Beijing and defected to his eldest brother when he was a soldier before, looking for him to save his life.

Beijing.

Beijing.

Cheng Yun had only seen that bustling capital on TV.

She tried to search her luggage and found that there was nothing. This intensified her determination to find him. With all the money she had saved, Cheng Yun got on the train to Beijing.

On the train, she remembered her mother who took her to Harbin years ago. She felt closer to Wu Min.

That year, Cheng Yun was 18 years old.

Beijing is so big, and she doesn't dare to blatantly reveal Wang Qinan's identity information, and it is impossible to find him.

Savings were soon to run out, and Cheng Yun had to look for a job in Beijing.

As before, she does everything, restaurant waitress, car mechanic, salesman...... There is more work in Beijing than imagined, and it is also more difficult than imagined.

The migrant worker who lived with her told her that it was very profitable to sell insurance, and asked her to sell it too.

Cheng Yun found a regular large company, and she was glad that she was an adult when she went to apply. She worked as an insurance officer at the lowest level, and after two days of simple training, she began to sell insurance door-to-door.

Cheng Yun knew her strengths at a very young age, so she often smiled. Her business is a little better than others, but it's only a little better. She couldn't concentrate, her heart was elsewhere.

The days were as bitter, Wang Qinan had no news at all, and Cheng Yun gradually became anxious.

Especially at night, she slept in a small hotel near the bus station, a large bunk, crowded with many people. She often couldn't sleep, and at that time, she especially missed Wang Qinan.

One winter night, she didn't want to stay in a hotel and take the bus. I came across a high-end residential area with a neat courtyard and high walls around it.

She rummaged through her bag, carrying all kinds of insurance policies, and occasionally thought, people here should buy a large share of insurance.

Cheng Yun sneaked into the community, the community was very quiet, and even the ordinary street lamps looked so sophisticated. She knocked on the door first, and it was an old lady who opened the door, Cheng Yun said what she meant, she showed a shocked expression, and looked Cheng Yun up and down.

"We don't buy insurance." Fu asked again, "How did you get in?" ”

She interrogated again and again, and Cheng Yun turned her head and ran away.

She felt that she had made the wrong decision to come to this neighborhood.

Freezing his hands and feet, Cheng Yun stomped hard and turned around to leave. At this moment, she found that there was another small building next to her.

The yard at the entrance of the building was clean, and there was no food hanging outside that was so dry that it was impossible to see like the old lady's yard just now. Pines and cypresses are planted here, and they are lush in winter. The courtyard is neatly planned, and the stone path is smooth and clean.

The door lights are on, warm tones.

Cheng Yun pursed her lips, walked over, and rang the doorbell.

A man opened the door.

The man is handsome and has a gentle complexion. He looked at Cheng Yun quietly, and after listening to her words, he seemed to feel a little funny, leaned against the door panel and said, "Which salesman are you, you wear a small dress to sell insurance on a cold day?" ”

Cheng Yun looked down and saw a pair of long legs.

She was so cold that she was almost unconscious.

Cheng Yun trembled and took out the leaflet from his bag to show the man, he didn't take it, just glanced at it, and then raised his eyebrows.

"Pintai?"

Cheng Yun snorted.

"Which branch?"

Cheng Yun glanced at him, only to feel that his eyelids were about to freeze.

"To buy or not to buy?" Concise.

The man was dumbfounded, "Oh, just sell like that?" ”

Cheng Yun once again felt that it was a mistake to come to this community, she frowned tightly and turned her head to leave. took two steps back, took back the list in Li Yunchong's hand, and walked again.

The backpack strap is pulled.

"Not for sale?"

"It's not for sale."

"Why don't you sell it?"

"It's too late."

"It's too cold, isn't it?"

Cheng Yun looked up, the man had already let go of his hand, he opened the door a little wider, and said to her, "Come, come in." ”

Cheng Yungan stood.

The man pointed behind her and said, "Don't come in again and wait for someone to come and get you." ”

Cheng Yun turned around and saw the security guard walking this way.

"Come on."

The lights were on in the house, and Cheng Yun saw the entrance at the door, the screen behind it, and the long passage.

The man walked inside on his own and said, "I'm a little interested in this insurance, you just want to introduce it to me." ”

Cheng Yun finally entered the house. The man led her to the living room, where there was a large carpet, which was fluffy and soft to step on, and all kinds of tea sets were regularly placed on the low coffee table, and next to the coffee table was a sofa, and a fan-faced white drawing hung directly above. In the corner of the living room are carefully tended plants, lush green leaves, and the fragrance of blooming magnolias.

This home is very beautiful, but it is so quiet, so quiet that everything in the house seems to be a decoration.

The man sat on the sofa, Cheng Yun handed him the leaflet, and just gave it out and found that this one had been folded like broken paper, so he quickly took it back and replaced it with another one for him.

"Don't you want to introduce me?"

Cheng Yun coughed and began to stumble through the insurance. was originally half-witted, but his brain was confused by the cold wind again, and he spoke in a mess.

The man laughed.

Cheng Yun saw his expression and shut up.

"Don't say it?"

Cheng Yun pointed to the leaflet in his hand, "It's all on it, see it yourself." ”

The man scanned the list as if he was amused, and when Cheng Yun didn't pay attention, he raised his eyes from the leaflet. The cold and heat were sudden, and the girl opposite was flushed.

The man put down the list and said out of thin air: "Aunt Hong." ”

A middle-aged woman dressed as a nanny came over, the man pointed at Cheng Yun, and she nodded into the kitchen. After a while, bring a cup of tea.

The man said, "Ginger and red date tea, your face is not very good, drink a little congested qi." ”

The tea is beautiful, clear and transparent, steaming.

"Let's have a drink." The man whispered.

Cheng Yun looked at the tea for a long time, and then whispered thank you.

The first sip was not delicious, so I paused, and I took a breath.

When he put the bowl down, the man smiled lightly.

"It's bold enough, I don't know if I think you're drinking."

The man leaned back on the sofa and waited for her to finish the heat of the tea before saying, "Tell me about it." ”

"Didn't you look at the list?"

The man shook his head, this introduction was not his introduction, she didn't understand, so he led the way.

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