6. Ordinary families

Xu Ziran could hear the BBC at this time because four years later, Xu Ziran and Qiu Yurou got in touch again, just because of English learning.

At that time, they shared their methods of learning English, Xu Ziran said that learning English was boring, Qiu Yurou built yì she could listen to the news, in order to accept Qiu Yurou's Wen Jiàn bag, the two exchanged contact information, and the more they talked.

After doing it for a long time, it turned out that the information given at that time was listened to by people in their first year of high school.

Xu Ziran was surprised, and wondered, why had he never found out about this before, obviously they had been at the same table for more than two years.

She pondered and meditated, and her impression of Qiu Yurou in the past high school was still vague, and she only felt that the other party was very good at talking and reasonable, but she did not have the impression of particularly good grades.

But on second thought, the other party was later admitted to one of the best medical schools in the world in one fell swoop, and it seems that there must be no difficulties in learning.

While thinking about this, Xu Ziran said to Qiu Yurou: "You also listen to the BBC when you walk on the road, and you love learning too much." ”

Qiu Yurou originally had an embarrassed look, but when she heard this, her eyes lit up: "You know this is the BBC, do you listen to it too?" ”

Of course fifteen-year-old Xu Ziran didn't listen, but he pretended to be a twenty-nine-year-old core, and he didn't want to lose his position in front of the little girl, Xu Ziran cleared his throat and said, "Well, listen to it once in a while." ”

"Have you heard of the latest one, there are actually several words in it that I don't understand very well......"

Seeing that Qiu Yurou wanted to talk to her about studying, Xu Ziran's head grew up, and she didn't have any idea about learning now.

But when Qiu Yurou said those words, Xu Ziran breathed a sigh of relief, after all, she had been in contact with and studied a lot later, and Qiu Yurou still knew what Qiu Yurou said, so she explained them briefly one by one, and got Qiu Yurou's several surprised smiles.

When she saw this smile, she actually thought in her heart: It's a pity that she has changed her mode and changed her task, and now, the target person should not be unhappy.

When I thought about it, I "ding" in my head again, and the female voice said-"Complete daily task 2: make the target person's pleasure more than 60 points, and reward five points every day." ”

When Xu Ziran heard this voice, he couldn't help grinning, and he had an inexplicable feeling that he had picked up a bargain.

As soon as a smile appeared on her face, she heard a cold snort from beside her.

Xu Ziran smiled for a while, turned her head and saw Tian Jiaqi and Meng Shitao passing by on bicycles, the sound was blurred in the cold wind, she couldn't hear it for a while, whether the cold snort was made by Tian Jiaqi.

But when she saw Tian Jiaqi, she was inevitably depressed, not to mention that although Tian Jiaqi did not stop, Meng Shitao stopped her bicycle in front of her and stepped on the ground with one foot and turned around.

Xu Ziran and Qiu Yurou moved forward steadily and walked to Meng Shitao's side.

Meng Shitao frowned, looked at Qiu Yurou, and then at Xu Ziran.

She is a girl with a round face and a wide forehead, a fleshy nose and thick lips, she doesn't look beautiful, but she has a natural and convincing mature temperament, Xu Ziran realized that she might have something to say to herself, but she really didn't want to listen to it, so she said before the other party spoke: "Hurry up and catch up, you blocked the road." ”

Meng Shitao choked, glared at Xu Ziran and said, "You went too far today." ”

With that, he stepped on the pedal and rode away.

Xu Ziran sighed secretly, feeling bitter in his mouth.

She obviously felt that she should have made up her mind, but in the face of this situation, her heart was shaken, and an inaudible voice in the depths of her heart said: Look, it hasn't happened yet.

-- Since it hasn't happened yet, why don't you try to give it another chance, maybe things will go in a better direction.

But she clenched her fists and gritted her teeth, knowing that it couldn't be.

When Tian Jiaqi betrayed her at the age of twenty-five, Xu Ziran couldn't figure it out.

She couldn't figure out how her friends of twenty years could compare to a man, or why they had come to such a situation.

But she figured it out later, and she was slapped in the face and understood that in this world, some people are destined to go farther and farther.

At that time, the person who told her this truth was Qiu Yurou.

So in the face of the current situation, what will Qiu Yurou say?

Xu Ziran couldn't help but look at Qiu Yurou walking beside her, and saw a pair of shy and evasive eyes, and a look of wanting to speak and stopping.

…… Well, forget it, don't force her.

The two walked all the way while listening to the audio, and at the next fork in the road, Qiu Yurou whispered, "I'm going that way, it's not the same way as you." ”

Xu Ziran looked at Qiu Yurou's feet and said, "I'll send you home." ”

Qiu Yurou was unwilling, the two tugged at each other, and finally Qiu Yurou was anxious to start riding a bicycle with her injured foot, Xu Ziran finally gave up, told Qiu Yurou to be careful, and watched the other party go to another road.

Seeing that Qiu Yurou's back was gradually invisible, Xu Ziran got into the car and rode home.

She hadn't ridden a bicycle for so many years, so she didn't feel strange about riding it, and soon entered the street of her house, because of the familiar and unfamiliar thing in front of her.

Ten years later, the row of ginkgo trees that had risen well was now just saplings fluttering in the cold wind, and the undulating pavement ten years later was just being built.

The cat that died in a car accident three years later is still yawning lazily on the wall, and the rebellious junior high school student in a certain house is still a milk doll blowing snot foam.

Xu Ziran looked at it all the way, and the thoughts in his heart were complicated and indescribable.

Is it a dream, or is it reality? She couldn't tell.

She finally walked to the door of her yard, and saw the magnolia tree inside, with withered branches and leaves, black and thin.

Step by step, she approached the silver-painted iron door, and there was a kind of homesickness and timidity.

When you think about it, she hasn't been home for three years.

After the age of twenty-five, her mother forced her to get married, when she was busy with entrepreneurship, and was betrayed by Feng Tian Jiaqi, the company that had just improved was on the verge of bankruptcy, she was already under pressure, her hair fell off one by one, and she couldn't sleep even three hours a day.

So soon he didn't even go home on holidays, and only sent a video to report his safety during the New Year's holidays, and it wasn't until he became more stable that he had contact with his family again.

It's just that every time I contact, I still can't escape getting married and having a baby, it's like a spell.

Xu Ziran stopped in front of the door, took a deep breath, took out the key and opened the door.

Xu's mother's surname is Liao, and she has been a full-time housewife since she got married

Xu's father's name is Xu Guoxing, and he is a public servant of the people, but Xu's father's consciousness is too high, and he disdains flattery, gifts and bribes, so the family's income has been very stable, no more, no less, from the perspective of national policy, it is just enough to run a well-off.

Xu Ziran remembered that Father Xu usually came back later than her, but today she was delayed on the road for a while, and Father Xu should have already gone home from work.

Xu Ziran walked through the courtyard and saw the familiar small flower bed, the chalk lines on the outer wall that he measured his height, and the ghost drawings that he had naughtily painted on the wall with ink when he was a child.

Entering the courtyard, the door of the house was open, Xu Ziran glanced at the shoes in the hallway, and sure enough, he saw the leather shoes that Xu's father had changed, and at the same time heard his mother's voice.

Mother Xu shouted inside: "Ranran? Why did you come back so late? ”

The smell of food came from home, and Xu Ziran's originally tense heart gradually relaxed.

This is not ten years later, now she is still an obedient daughter in her parents' hearts, not only will they not urge her to get married, but they probably have to remind her not to fall in love.

Thinking so, she couldn't help but laugh secretly when she thought of the "love letter" in her bag.

I don't know who wrote it to her, but if her mother saw it, she would probably be able to nag for a night.

The Xu family is a two-story villa, the first floor is the living room, kitchen, bathroom and one guest room, and the second floor is three rooms, two bedrooms and a study.

The study room is used by his father's office, and Xu Ziran usually studies in his own room.

Xu Ziran threw his schoolbag on the sofa when he entered the hallway, and saw that Xu's father and mother were already sitting at the dining table, looking like they had just started eating.

The dish is four dishes and one soup, one fish, one chicken and one green vegetable, but in the center is a pot of steamed potatoes.

It's a whole pot, full of steam.

Xu Ziran's scalp was numb, she hadn't gone home for dinner for a few years, and then she remembered that her mother had a quirk of cooking, that is, she could cook as many ingredients as she could, and when they were cooked, they would be stuffed in the refrigerator and heated up if they wanted to eat.

Xu Ziran ate leftovers at home for more than ten years, and when he went to college, he was finally liberated, and he felt that the canteen was full of Han people.

Mother Xu was still asking: "What are you doing, Jiaqi next door has already returned." ”

Tian Jiaqi's house is in front of the Xu family, the two families can almost be said to be married together, the children of the house, Tian's father and Xu's father are high school classmates, and they are also fellow villagers from the village, not brothers but also brothers.

So Tian Jiaqi and Xu Ziran played together when they couldn't speak, and they were so intimate that they couldn't distinguish each other.

Xu Ziran was annoyed when he heard Tian Jiaqi's name now, but when he saw the younger father and mother, he felt excited to cry, so he soothed his expression and only changed the topic: "Why are there so many potatoes?" ”

Mother Xu said: "What your grandmother sent, home-grown, is very fresh." ”

She didn't say that it was okay, but what she said seemed to arouse Xu's father's dissatisfaction, and Xu's father snorted coldly: "Cook as much as you want, and throw it away if you can't finish eating, no amount of family business is enough for you to lose." ”

Mother Xu raised her eyebrows and said angrily: "If you put it at home, you think it won't be rotten, if you burn it, you will eat it, and if you don't eat it, you will burn it yourself." ”

Father Xu shut up and picked up the food angrily.

Xu Ziran wanted to laugh when she saw it, and secretly thought: It really hasn't changed for decades, even if it is another ten years, the way these two couples get along is still like this.

She took off her scarf and gloves to eat, and gradually had a down-to-earth sense of realism as the parents at the dinner table became short, and when she finished eating and lay on the back of the chair to digest, she suddenly remembered the task in that system-

Wash the dishes for mom (5 points per day).

Xu Ziran looked at the glittering line of words on the panel, thinking that for so many years, the number of words to help her mother wash the dishes was really only a handful, and she couldn't help but feel a little guilty, rubbed her itchy nose and said, "Mom, I'll wash the dishes tonight." ”

As a result, the imaginary picture of tears in her eyes and moved by her daughter's sensibility did not appear at all, Xu's mother shook off the rag, rolled her eyes and said, "Don't you want to do your homework?" Go read me a book. ”

Xu Ziran: "......"

Xu Ziran said something bad, and finally completed the task of washing dishes under the supervision of Xu Mudi, and then was forced to go back to the room and study hard.

Xu Ziran looked at the pile of test papers taken out of his schoolbag, and suddenly felt that his life was gloomy, and when he was thinking about "when will this nightmare end", he saw the letter that was snatched back by Meng Shitao.

She raised an eyebrow and pulled the letter out of her book.