6. Bastard cousin
Star Yan Shi (novel) Zhang Baotong
Xiuxiu didn't eat anything last night, and she didn't eat this morning, and it was past noon when she came here hungry, so she was very hungry, so she went out to eat with her cousin. Pen~Fun~ Ge www.biquge.info thought that my cousin had been in the city for many years, and she had earned a lot of money, so she would definitely take her to a big restaurant for a good meal, but unexpectedly, my cousin just took her to a small shop next to the entrance of the village and invited her to eat a bowl of Qishan noodles for one yuan.
After the two had dinner, Zhi first wanted to take Xiuxiu to the village to walk around, but Xiuxiu's feet were too sleepy to walk, and the weather was hot, so he said, "I'm too tired to go, let's talk about it in two days." With that, he went back to the hut where Shizen lived to rest. Zhixian didn't want to go back, so he gave the key to Xiuxiu and went to the mahjong parlor by himself.
In the evening, Xiuxiu rolls noodles in Shizen's house. The two had eaten, and it was already dark. The two talked in the house, and Xiuxiu was so sleepy that she couldn't open her eyes, and she didn't even take off her clothes, so she lay on the bed and fell asleep. When Zhi Xian saw Xiuxiu sleeping, he spread a small mattress on the ground and lay down to sleep. In the middle of the night, Xiuxiu dreamed that someone was coming to catch her, so she struggled desperately to run, but after not running a few steps, people hugged her. Xiuxiu screamed loudly, and then woke up from her dream. At this time, she found that her cousin was **** up, lying beside her, holding her with his hand, and touching her with his hand in her underwear.
She hurriedly pushed her cousin's hand away and said angrily, "Cousin, what are you doing here!" My cousin smiled and said, "It's so uncomfortable, I want you." When Xiuxiu heard this, she was furious and said sharply, "Cousin, if you are like this, I will not live with you." When my cousin saw Xiuxiu sit up from the bed, he was really angry, so he said, "Since my cousin doesn't want to, forget it." So saying, he got down from the cot to the ground, and lay down on the little mat again.
In the morning, Xiuxiu heard the movement of Zhixian getting up very early, but because she was too sleepy and tired, she didn't blink, so she fell asleep. By the time she got up from bed, the sun had risen in mid-sky. When she got up, she saw two yuan on the small table, and knew that it was the breakfast money that her cousin had left for her. She took the money to the street and spent two dimes to buy a steamed bun, and ate it with boiling water.
Then, she sat in front of the landlord's door and looked at the "Huashang Daily" that the landlord woman had just read. Because the school did not subscribe to the newspaper, the teachers had almost no habit of reading the newspaper, and they also felt that the things in the newspaper had little to do with them. But because Xiuxiu made such a big fuss, I really wanted to know if Deputy Township Chief Chang was rescued by someone or drowned by the river. She knew that this kind of thing was the easiest to report, so she wanted to get some information about it from the newspaper. However, she looked through the newspaper from beginning to end, and found no such news.
However, this made her suddenly realize that she could no longer call Xu Wenxiu by the name, if the news really appeared in the newspaper one day, wouldn't she be completely exposed? However, she wanted her to change her name any time, but she just couldn't change the name on her ID card. And the name on the ID card can't be changed, just like the name hasn't been changed. Therefore, after thinking about it, she still thinks that she should hide her ID card, as long as others don't look at her ID card, they won't know her real surname, even if her cousin Zhixian only knows that her name is Xiuxiu, what is the specific scientific name, he doesn't necessarily know very clearly. With that in mind, she went back to the house, took her ID card out of her travel bag, put it in an underwear pocket, and folded it back into the travel bag.
Then I went downstairs and sat in front of the landlord's door, and saw the landlord woman sitting in front of the door watching the "Huashang Daily", drinking strong tea, Xiuxiu asked the landlord woman, "Auntie, what did my cousin Zhi do first?" Because she had asked her cousin last night, but he just snorted and didn't answer. The landlady said quickly, "Your cousin first pedaled a tricycle to collect old homes and old appliances. Xiuxiu nodded and asked, "Does this business make a lot of money?" In her impression, only her cousin is relatively wealthy. If it weren't for the fact that my cousin worked in the city to earn so much money, how could his family build such a good house?
But the landlady said, "Zhixian, what kind of money can he make?" The money he earned wasn't enough for him to play cards and gamble. Xiuxiu asked, "Why does he have no money to play cards and gamble?" The landlady said, "He borrowed money from others when he didn't have any money, you can go to the mahjong parlor and ask for it, and the people there have borrowed all the money from them." Moreover, he borrowed and had no money to repay, so no one lent him money now. If nothing else, I owe money for the house for three months. I remember that he has lived with me for a few years, and it is not easy to drive him away. ”
Xiuxiu is not very familiar with her cousin, she just heard her parents say that her cousin doesn't like to study, and there is nothing wrong with anything else, but she doesn't want her cousin to have such a bad problem. This made Xiuxiu somewhat contemptuous of her cousin.
When it was almost noon, Xiuxiu stayed in the house and was fine, so she began to clean and tidy up the house. The room was too dirty and messy, not to mention that the oil pot and the bucket of water were so dirty that she couldn't see its true colors, just when she was cleaning the panel, as soon as she lifted the panel, she saw a nest of cockroaches as big as a shell hiding under the panel, so frightened that she screamed "wow" and ran out of the door.
She calmed down outside the door for a moment before entering the house, but she still didn't dare to approach the panel. When it was time to cook at noon, she was going to roll noodles, but because she didn't dare to go near the panel, she had to go to the small shop and buy a bag of noodles, and then she turned on the honeycomb coal stove in the aisle and started to make noodles, boiling water, and waiting for her cousin to come back.
My cousin waited until one o'clock before he pedaled back on his tricycle. Xiuxiu saw that her cousin was sweating profusely, so she gave her cousin a wash of water and said, "Cousin, hurry up and take a look under the panel, there are a lot of cockroaches in it, it scares me to death." ”
Zhi Xian went over and lifted the panel, then picked up the cup of drinking water, and began to smash it with a bang, and in a short time all the cockroaches were smashed to death. Xiuxiu said, "Why are you smashing cockroaches with a cup of drinking water?" Can you still drink water from that cup? Zhixian swept the cockroaches on the table with a broom and said, "I'll wash it with water for a while." ”
When my cousin washed his face and hands, Xiuxiu put down the noodles, poured the pre-made noodles into the noodles, put them on my cousin's hand, and said, "Originally, I was going to roll the noodles, but there were cockroaches under the panel, and I was afraid, so I didn't dare to roll the noodles on the panel." Zhixian looked at the house cleaned up, the items were neatly placed, and as soon as he got home, the food was served to his hand, so he was not moved, and said with deep feeling, "It's good to have a woman, you can have food when you return home." ”
After eating, Xiuxiu thought that her cousin would go out to collect old furniture and electrical appliances, but her cousin threw the rice bowl on the table and said, "Xiuxiu, you give me fifty yuan first, and I will pay you back in two days." Xiuxiu just thought that her cousin had something urgent to do, so she took out fifty yuan from her purse and gave it to her cousin. My cousin took the money and went downstairs. However, when Xiuxiu went downstairs with pots and chopsticks to wash, she found that her cousin's tricycle was still parked in the yard. Only then did she remember what the landlady had said to her in the morning.
In the evening, the meal was cooked and let it cool, and I haven't seen my cousin come back from the mahjong parlor. Xiuxiu ran to the mahjong parlor again to call her cousin, but her cousin thought she was annoying and very unhappy. So, she didn't want to go to the mahjong parlor to call him anymore, so she sat in the room and watched the small, broken black and white TV. When he was tired and tired, he closed the door, undressed and went to bed.
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