Chapter 2: It's Not Late
There is a small place called Tangjiagou in Taibao City, Jinyuan Province, which is not a treasure of feng shui, and naturally there will be no outstanding people, that place is no different from other rural areas, young people basically go to the city to make a living, with the great dream of one day being able to return to their hometown, but there is no one who really does it, but the salary over there is not enough to eat, and it may be possible to take it home and enjoy the scenery. When the village is busy, it is the spring planting and autumn harvest, and the idle is to sit at home and chat, or a few old people play together under the tree, and there is no dispute with the world.
Here, Tang Zhongmou is one of the few young people who can rely on the village, in the eyes of the villagers, he is good at everything, and he will be a person with great prospects in the future, but he just has a bad life, he thought he would study in the first-class middle school in the town, but he destroyed his future for a girl, and when he was admitted to high school in junior high school, he was finally able to go to the city to study in a key high school, but his father suddenly became critically ill, and spent all the family's money but only let the man take a few more breaths, and then went out for several years and came back, I thought that with his IQ, even if he couldn't make a noise, then at least he had to be better than a few other young men in the village, but he returned empty-handed, and now he follows everyone to work in the fields, and occasionally carries a pot of self-brewed sorghum wine to the mountains to chat with his father or play chess with a few uncles, which really makes the villagers feel sorry for a while.
Tang Wanru is a white carnation in the village, sweet and innocent, no one can bear to hurt her, she likes Tang Zhongmou, she has liked her since she was a child, but this person she likes just treats her as a sister, no matter how hard she works, Tang Zhongmou doesn't seem to be able to see it, because before junior high school, he only had Ye Wenqing in his eyes, and after junior high school, he left Tangjiagou and walked quietly, as if there was no such person in this place at all, she would ask herself every day when she passed by that small house, Is that Tang Zhongmou a fantasy in his heart? It wasn't until he reappeared in his sight that he was firm that he was really there.
Tang Zhongmou manages Tang Wanru's father is called the third uncle, when he was a child, this third uncle would come to their house to drink with his father if he had nothing to do, and he has always praised that this kid is promising, and he will be a person who does great things in the future, and seeing that Tang Wanru seems to be interested in Tang Zhongmou, he will also want to match intentionally or unintentionally, although he was only a teenager at that time, but the third uncle said solemnly, didn't we start looking for a daughter-in-law when we were teenagers? But now it's different, Tang Zhongmou is a tiger falling into Pingyang, Tang Wanru's mind has not changed, but the third uncle's rhetoric has been changed to: You said that you are not looking for someone like this, and you will be careful to kill you. Of course, this is what Tang Zhongmou accidentally heard, it cannot be ruled out that the third uncle deliberately said it to him, it doesn't matter, anyway, he didn't have any thoughts about Tang Wanru before, and now he won't.
"I am a loose person in Wollongong, and I talk about yin and yang like Baoding Qiankun; The first emperor went down to Nanyang to drive three times, and Liandong Wu destroyed Cao Wei for three points; The official seal was sent to Wuxiang Hou to take charge of the handsome seal, and the east and west conquered the north and south to suppress the ancient and the present; King Wen of Zhou visited Jiang Shang Zhou's room and was greatly inspired, how can Han Zhuge compare to the gentleman of his predecessors, I will shine the sound of the piano in the enemy building when I have nothing to do......"
Tang Zhongmou lay on the wooden rattan chair, closed his eyes, and hummed along with the Peking Opera "Empty City Strategy" played on the old-fashioned radio in his arms, singing well, at least five tones, and learned from the blind old man, he said that he liked the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" written by Mr. Luo very much when he was young, and boasted that he was born in the era of the book, and he didn't dare to say that he was wise and close to the demon Zhuge Kongming, at least he had to have the level of the scheming ghost Guo Fengxiao, Tang Zhongmou asked himself curiously at the time What kind of role would he be if he returned to the Three Kingdoms? The blind old man shook his head and said, "Now you are just a passer-by, artillery B, if you are lucky enough to meet a Cao Apu in the future, you will either learn from Xu Yuanzhi, or be Sima Zhongda, if you really want to be a Sun Zhongmou as your name, I don't think it's a good thing!" ”
"Brother Zhongmou, are you singing again?" Tang Wanru walked over with a smile on her face.
Tang Zhongmou turned off the radio when he heard the sound, opened his eyes and yawned, looked at Tang Wanru, and said: "Didn't I tell you not to send me this and that in the future, I can support myself, besides, one of your girls' family always runs to my side, and it will not affect you well if people see it!" ”
"I don't care what they say," Tang Wanru didn't care, opened the thermos box in her hand, and said happily: "This is the chicken soup that my parents stewed for me, I brought some to you, you can taste it, it's delicious, you see you've lost weight!" ”
Tang Zhongmou closed his eyes and said indifferently: "You better take it back, your parents know about it, and a scolding is indispensable, I am used to eating porridge and pickles, this thing is greasy, not suitable for my current appetite!" ”
Tang Wanru's face was full of loss, she bit her lip, and said, "Brother Zhongmou, don't you hate me very much, you don't want to see me, why can you and the third aunt and the second aunt sit down and chat, and treat me so coldly, did I do something wrong to make you unhappy, you say it, I can't change it?" ”
Tang Zhongmou asked, "Can you really change it if I say it?" ”
Tang Wanru nodded vigorously and said, "I'll change, I'll really change!" ”
"You can't see it, this is your biggest mistake, just like your father said, I am a serious evil, I am destined to live a mediocre life in this life, I can't repay you for being good to me, but I advise you to stay away from me in the future, it is not good for you to get too close to me, you are a good girl, don't fall in love with people like me, you yourself will not be happy, and I can't give you the happiness you want," Tang Zhongmou said and took out a pack of cigarettes bought for five or six yuan from his pocket, lit one, and saw that Tang Wanru did not speak, he continued: " That's it for the rest of my life, I'll be honest with you, Wanru, I've been out for a few years and I'm not going to do anything, I accompanied a blind man to travel around the world to tell fortunes, of course, it's nice to call this fortune teller, it's a charlatan, and then he left, I only learned half of the ability, and he only left me half of the book, and in the next time, I met a few guys who threw people's ancestral graves, and they saw that I had some ability to pull me together, to be honest, they were very lucky, they were very righteous, I didn't make any uneven distribution of spoils or see the money and open the eyes to bury the living, I did make a lot of money in those years, but I didn't take a penny, because I was afraid that if I had the opportunity to have children in the future, he would be asshole, if there was not only a little conscience, I am now either living in a villa and driving a luxury car or have gone to eighteen layers of hell, the string of Buddhist beads in my hand was given to me by the blind man before he died, saying that it was a light, but he also said that only good people will have a safe life, if there is a lack of virtue to do too much, Even if there are gods and Buddhas in the sky, they can't bless the sins of a body, so I washed my hands and returned here, from that time I was down-to-earth, the people in the village have not experienced the scene of dealing with the dead, have not experienced the evil door of feng shui chaos, have not seen a bunch of white bones and a large number of cultural relics mixed together, so they don't care what they think, just ask for peace of mind, and I also hope that you can be like them, because I am not clean, maybe when God opens his eyes, give me a day thunder! ”
"I'm not afraid!" Tang Wanru lowered her head and said, she could hear some crying.
"You're not afraid of me, silly girl," Tang Zhongmou looked at the sky and sighed, and said with a wry smile: "People live in this world, everything has to pay attention to fate, you and I are destined to be born in the same village, but I don't have that fate to be a childhood sweetheart, my five elements belong to the earth, your five elements are all water, you will be killed by me!" ”
"I don't believe this!" Tang Wanru shook her head and said.
Tang Zhongmou threw away the cigarette butt in his mouth, spit out a deep puff of smoke, and said: "I didn't believe it before, but I believe it now, you said that it was also a matter of throwing people's ancestral graves, why are those guys who are with me not dying, just I'm still sitting here alive, is it because my father has a spirit in the sky or because this string of Buddhist beads in my hand really has aura, I don't understand, I just suddenly realized that I don't want to do something that damages yin morality, I don't want to live a long life, I just hope that I don't go to the eighteenth layer of hell after death!" ”
"Brother Zhongmou, the soup is cold!"
Tang Wanru took a bowl of chicken soup and handed it to Tang Zhongmou's eyes, her eyes were red, but she was stubborn and didn't shed half a tear, Tang Zhongmou didn't take it, she kept this posture, she can grow such a watery cabbage in this kind of unplucked place, it can be regarded as Tang Wanru's father has accumulated eight lifetimes of virtue, and the people in the village are suspicious that it is not their own child, and it looks completely different from their husband and wife, when he says this, the man will smile proudly and say, "My girl went to college, The temperament cultivated in the city is naturally not comparable to us rural people", perhaps this is why Tang Zhongmou's third uncle treats him coldly now, in his snobbish eyes, he feels that such a down-and-out scholar is not worthy of his daughter at all.
After a stalemate of ten minutes, Tang Zhongmou, who was beyond ordinary people in his master's eyes, finally lost the battle, took the chicken soup in Tang Wanru's hand, and drank it slowly, and seeing this scene, the girl who was crying finally showed a happy smile, laughing so much that she didn't fall into the country or the city, but looked a little stupid, stupid and innocent. Tang Zhongmou just glanced at it, not daring to look at it, his heart was like a knife, covered with bruises, and dripping with blood.
"If I had appeared in front of me earlier, or if I had seen you earlier, wouldn't it have been different now?" Tang Zhongmou thought like this in his heart, and felt sorry for a while, but the girl next to her suddenly said something, making his hand holding the spoon suddenly shake.
"It's not too late, Brother Zhongmou!" Tang Wanru smiled slightly.