Chapter 24: Borrowing Fire
Su Youling danced happily, but she couldn't say that she was happy to dance with Mr. Tang, she always felt like a leaf carried by the wind in his hands, and it was difficult to show herself, so it was better to dance with Xiaodong - she danced with Xiaodong once, and it was also a social. www.biquge.info Mr. Tang has always introduced Xiaodong in the name of "brother-in-law", and the appearance of the two is somewhat similar, at first contact, people naturally think that they are brother and sister, and when Xiaodong has no companion, someone suggested that their brother and sister dance a song and applaud. Mr. Tang waved his hand, and Su Youling looked at Xiaodong with a smile, but Xiaodong was a little unnatural, and got up with an "oh" smile, laughing at himself for his poor dancing skills. In fact, he is fine, unlike Mr. Tang who controls her too tightly, nor like Mr. Luo, who is full of social weakness, he is reliable, even if he has done some things that have turned his back on her before, she still feels a reliable force in his body, a kind of original trust-"Mrs. Tang and Mr. Gu are worthy of brother and sister, dancing in harmony!" I don't know who said it, Mr. Tang pinched his fingers "oh", turned his face and let out a heavy breath...... At the end of the song, she smiled and straightened the collar of his shirt, a little out of shape at the beginning of the activity, but he instinctively flashed a little, but did not retreat from her kindness. She smiled and walked towards Mr. Tang, where Old Tang put out his cigarette butt and reached out to take her hand, shook it and sat beside him...... Xiaodong sat in the seats separated by a few people and smoked all the time.
The thoughts in people's hearts are a demon, and when they are suppressed in the bottom of their hearts, they eat away at their bones, and once they leak out to people, they become the echoes of the world's most chaotic and delusional, and the stormy winds and waves that sweep over destroy the barriers in people's hearts.
In the final analysis, Xiaodong's departure was still a young man's willfulness, and he was very confused at that time, because of Su Youling, because of Lian Sheng's disdain for him since then, and because of the unsatisfactory cooperation with Mr. Tang so far. He suddenly felt that he had been quite bad in the past two years, and he had come to such an unbearable situation, and when he had a good classmate doing business in Guangzhou, he contacted him two or three times, so he resolutely decided to give up the contacts he had accumulated in Shanghai and go to a strange city to start all over again. He still decided to be as ambitious as Lian Sheng, and he was young and endured a little hardship to polish it, so he was calm and calm, thinking about the future. He persuaded his parents, submitted his resignation to the foreign bank, and also left a letter to Su Youling, but he gave it to her through Mr. Tang - he sat at Mr. Tang's place for a moment that day, and the old Tang lowered his eyes and smoked in silence, and at the end he only said "Hmm" and said, "It's a good thing to be young and wander around...... but after he finished speaking, he pinched his fingers and couldn't help but add, "Call me if you have something, don't really die alone." He laughed all at once...... The early summer sun shone in, he left for Su Youling, and she couldn't let go of the most, but he stubbornly believed that she would live a better life after he left, so he didn't mention her to Mr. Tang, and put the letter on the table before leaving, "You tell her, I left early in the morning, and I didn't have time to say goodbye to her......" Mr. Tang nodded in agreement, got up and sent him out - in fact, Xiaodong has a lot of explanations about her that he wants to tell Mr. Tang, and Old Tang has always treated her very reassuringly, But Xiaodong didn't say a word at the moment, only shook hands with him again, and said twice, "Go back, don't send it." Mr. Tang smiled and patted his arm, "Don'......t worry," he smiled, waved his hand and turned away—he threw her into the pit, and grabbed her hand guiltily and refused to give up, but he finally let go.
The breath of June is that kind of sunny, but not very transparent. In the sound of the city, he passed by some storefronts, the wind of early summer was blowing, and inadvertently there were always one or two bursts of smell with a clear or unclear meaning coming from time to time, perhaps it was the mainstream fireworks popularity of the city, or it was the strange smell of the city that was crowded out on the edge of the city, mixed with the smell of plants and trees in June, like the sound of his departing leather shoes, like the age of twenty years old.
He wrote to her briskly and crownedly, saying that he wanted to go to the south to conspire with his old classmates, and she was now settled, and Mr. Tang had always been reliable, and he was very relieved and had nothing to worry about. She was putting on makeup at that time, and there was a dinner in the evening, Mr. Tang put the letter on her table, "Xiaodong went to Guangzhou...... her eyebrows pencil, he patted her shoulder and kneaded it, and went downstairs to see the child...... When he came up after a while, she was still mending two eyebrows, the eyebrows were obviously asymmetrical, and the more pretentious, the more failed she was, she irritably put away the pen and put away the belongings, but in the hurry knocked over a porcelain jar containing alabaster, and had no time to touch the ground and grunt down the table, "Smack!" "A blow to pieces. He approached with a sigh of relief, "Don't you go for a while, I'll just go, the Mo family doesn't matter much today......" She stubbornly muttered, "It's all already said......" He sat on the edge of the bed and didn't say anything more.
She was completely able to survive the Mo family's dinner, and she couldn't cope with it alone, and she was powerless than ever. There was a torrential rain at night without warning, and she scribbled goodbye to people, and walked into the rain in a trance, but without an umbrella, she walked through the garden to the car parked in front of her. He hurriedly greeted people in the back, ran with an umbrella and ran to catch up with her, and now he was embarrassed and angry at this party, and she stumbled when she missed, but he immediately suppressed it and opened the door to let her get into the car...... She crossed her arms in the car and asked him for cigarettes, and he threw her a box of cigarettes in his suit pocket, and gave her a lighter, and after a while he took off his suit and draped it over her, and the two of them were silent all the way......
From then on, she began to smoke, using a slender ivory plain-faced cigarette holder, and dreamed back in the middle of the night, and the smoke was suffocating - she complained about Xiaodong's lack of kindness, and also suspected that Mr. Tang was angry with him.
This year's rainy season seems to be extraordinarily colorful, and the whole body is breathless. Xu was depressed in her heart for a moment, she was weaned all at once, the dried water source did not seep like a drop of water, the child downstairs cried heartbreakingly, the milk substitute custard she had just drunk vomited in the cradle, she closed the door and smoked anxiously, wrapped in a wide black Hangzhou silk robe, the body was screaming in the depths of the empty panic, tossing and turning on the slippers, the damp and moldy smell of smoke was somehow devastating......
She didn't remember how long it took for the plum to come out, when the children could eat rice porridge, and she fed it spoonful by spoonful with the small spoon that had been coated with blueberry jam before, while "Huh? Hey? Teasing it in a strange way, it ate rice porridge, danced and kicked its feet, laughed - she laughed too, she laughed at it and didn't understand anything. She didn't ask Mr. Tang anything, she was indifferent to him since then, he rarely took her out to socialize later, the child came to visit as usual, he looked at the child, she didn't interfere, indifferently avoided the room or the terrace, he didn't bother much, he greeted her slightly, pinched her chin and lifted it up when he left, and teasingly said goodbye, "What face!" ......" but with a smile. Recently, the child has inadvertently always called "Daddy, Daddy", he was very surprised, hugged her room, taught it all the way to call "Mom", reached out and took off the cigarette holder in her hand, "Xiao Nan is here, smoke less......" She sneered, and got out of bed in annoyance and wanted to go out to the terrace, he finally couldn't hold down and grabbed her arm and pushed it back, and sent the child downstairs and threw the door on. "What the hell do you want, you don't have to make yourself like this when Xiaodong leaves!" "Then don't do the thing of unloading the mill and killing the donkey......" she looked over and said firmly. He didn't have any surprises, nor did he excuse himself, he took a deep breath, unbuttoned his collar, sat down, smoked, and paused for a while...... "I have always treated your friends with sincerity, but when I have to do it, I can't keep ......" He didn't want to be too straightforward, thinking that she could just count, but she didn't understand, so he exhaled his cigarette and said in a different way, "I know you treat him as a brother...... But he's not your brother after all......" She didn't understand the twists and turns until the last sentence, and she was so angry that she couldn't be good, and she said "Neurotic!" The earthslasher threw the cigarette holder at him, and the blow hit him in the temple, and he dodged the ground with a mark.
The cigarette holder cracked, she listened to a shocking crisp sound on the hard object, the air smashed into countless pieces, and the splashing glass slag buried her in an icy cold shadow - she didn't remember the situation when he left, she picked up the cigarette holder and lit a cigarette, ran the cigarette, and suddenly imported a breath of air, which spread all over the body of the cold void, she impatiently pulled out the cigarette and smoked it directly, a few cigarettes, Zhou's mother brought tea up, so she comforted her, she smacked her in a muffled voice, "Mouthy!" ……”
Su Youling and Mr. Tang have since become a distant and distant torment, he no longer meets her, the child rarely comes to visit, it is rare to come to the door, Zhou's mother greeted him happily and loudly downstairs, intentionally, shouted upstairs to her, her door was closed and there was no movement, he teased the child twice, looked at it and sighed, and left...... In fact, he has already begun to take other women in and out of various social occasions for a while, Xiaodong left, he is equivalent to half a broken hand, many problems have to be dealt with personally, she and he quarreled like this, helpless and upset, he found other solace - and these she also knows, a few games between the slightest hear, the radio cloud wrapped in the sound of the gloomy voice, she depressed fingers to look at the cards, laughed and smoked a cigarette to pull out a few cards...... Some people persuaded her, but they couldn't speak to her heart.
On the day of the summer solstice, she had a new perm in her hair, fashionably cut it short and fluffy like a movie star in a pictorial, and a thick cloud of smoke swept down obliquely on the side to cover half of her face, and the bridge of her nose was raised arrogantly and coldly, hidden in the eyes that loomed behind her hair...... Accustomed to insomnia, the fragrance of the wild rose in her heart is the eyebrows of a drunken man, the sorrow that is too heavy to lift, she breathes, sits up and smokes a cigarette, and in the blue night, a vine hanging from the terrace in the moon shadow wakes up and extends slowly, blooming red flowers, and the smoke lingers, she remembers and puts on a black silk robe and bends over the edge of the bed with one hand to paint the red kodan on the toes - one hand holds a cigarette. The cigarette holder was repaired, and the crack was inlaid with silver to make a circle of cirrus, which she used to smoke.
Later, when the weather became hot, she often went to the river to take the ferry, the kind of special flight for summer night entertainment, sometimes she made an appointment with someone to go to Baixiang, sometimes she went alone, along the Huangpu River all the way to Wusongkou, the salty river breeze blew up, and the gray smoke drifted out of the drifting gray smoke to reflect on the city...... One of the Midsummer Night's encounters was on the Bund, when she got off the ferry, he happened to send a man over at night, and the rickshaw was on the Bund - he saw her first, and for a moment he was quite shocked that she was like this, a man with a skeletal figure, wearing a red georgette dress, and a piece of arm exposed by the wide bell sleeves was withered, and he was not in good spirits, and he almost grazed his rickshaw when he was about to pass by, and suddenly bluffed away, Like a convulsive red butterfly fluttering suddenly, the wind on the Bund stirred up a strong air wave, he was startled and "belched", without hesitation got out of the car and asked her at a distance, "Didn't you catch it?" ......" was a pure inquiry, not a greeting, she glanced at him, smiled abruptly, shook her head, "no ......" and immediately greeted as if she had come back to her senses, "Go back?" He belched his head. He saw that she was in a very bad state, so he couldn't help but look around and ask, "Alone?" She lowered her eyelids and buried her head in silence, did not say yes or no, and then bowed her head to him in a different way, turned around sadly, and departed gloomily - she took out a cigarette with her back to him, but could not find the lighter, it was estimated that it had just fallen on the ferry, she still remained calm and searched in her purse while walking, he thought that she must have been unspeakably unhappy, and then he took out the lighter and walked over and handed it to her, she took it and lit a cigarette, looked at him and returned it to him, he asked her, "What about Xiaodong?" He had long lost any hope for this person, but he still mentioned him for some reason, probably thinking that he was the only person around her who could help her. As soon as he mentioned Xiaodong, she was suddenly shocked, and then thought about it, what does it matter, everyone is gone, those past are irrelevant, he asked, presumably he already knew, what does it matter to tell him about Xiaodong now. She said that Xiaodong was no longer in Shanghai, and that she would go to the south in June, she didn't say much, just a few words, but he listened to it but intuitively thought that he left because of her, and he said it very sincerely after that drink, but now it doesn't seem like a drinking talk. He let out a long sigh, he used to be so disdainful of him, he left, but he suddenly felt an empty piece in his heart, he probably didn't want to hurt her again because of this feeling, so he also gave up caring for her...... He didn't know if her situation was related to Xiaodong's departure, and he also felt that he no longer had the right to share her joys, sorrows, and sorrows, he could only be separated from her by a short distance, and he briefly told her two big and empty words, but he also lingered in his heart for a long time, "When he leaves, you will forget this person from now on." Don't think too much, cheer up a little ......" This is what he meant, and he said it for Xiaodong.