Chapter 45: Tides
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As the college entrance examination approached, Yi Xuejia was gradually accepting the fact that the six of them would be separated sooner or later, but she didn't expect that she was the first to leave this happy Nanli community, she thought that by the last day, she would be like a guardian, watching everyone leave, and then make a ceremonial farewell to this land where she has lived for sixteen years alone.
Just last Saturday, she was still lying in bed as usual, and heard a knock on the door from the living room, and usually friends from her parents would come to visit, but she usually made a phone call first, or shouted downstairs first, and rarely saw a greeting and didn't call directly, so Lin Biguang's voice was also full of doubts: "Who?" ”
After the door opened, there was a silence, and Yi Xuejia susceptibly bounced up from the bed.
"You are ......," Lin Biguang's voice carried a hint of fear.
Yi Xuejia jumped to the door of the bedroom and saw four strange middle-aged men pouring into the door, Yi Chengcheng, who was originally blowing a small song in the kitchen, also noticed that something was wrong, and hurriedly walked out with his hands still stained with flour.
"Mom, who's that?" Yi Xuejia said hurriedly, and took a step forward.
"Go back to the house and close the door." Lin Biguang subconsciously raised his hand to block her behind him, and scolded her, "Don't come out." ”
The men raised their eyes to see Yi Chengcheng, one of them sat down on the sofa, and the other three walked straight towards him.
"It's Dad's friend, it's none of your business." Yi Chengcheng hurriedly waved at Yi Xuejia, and then smiled at them, "Why did you come here suddenly, and you didn't say hello and drink tea?" ”
Yi Xuejia was pushed into the room by Lin Biguang, and then watched the door be closed.
Her ears were close to the door, and she heard that the men were coming to collect debts, but Lin Biguang didn't speak the whole time, only Yi Cheng's weak voice came between the words of a few strangers.
"The children are here, don't shout, okay? Dear friends, big brothers. ”
"Didn't you say you'd pay it back? Is that not yet time? ”
"The money is coming, it's almost ...... Of course I do...... I can't run, where can I run, I have a home and a mouth......"
"Pay back some of it first? Definitely, definitely, no problem. ”
"It's not a lot of money, is it? Our house is also listed as an agent...... Really, alas, I don't lie to you...... Yes, I don't believe you call this number. ”
When Yi Xuejia heard this, she turned around slowly, fell on the bed, she rolled around the quilt with her legs, looked at the aluminum alloy window frame with rusty spots with blank eyes, and then followed the light to see the wooden door frame leading to the balcony, which recorded the nicks on her from childhood to adulthood, thinking that she couldn't live in this bedroom for many days, she buried her head in the quilt and let out a long sigh.
After a week, the family had borrowed a circle of money from relatives, and Yi Xuejia judged through the sad faces and words of his parents at the dinner table that the money they borrowed was not enough to pay off the debt.
Next, I can only borrow from a friend, Zhou Shuguang and Lin Biguang have the best relationship, but Zhou Shuguang is the kind of timely musician who will spend every penny immediately, not to mention the fact that it is unlikely that they will have a deposit with their family's income.
Liang Shugong, who relies on temporary work to support his son, doesn't have to think about it directly.
Although he was born in a factory, because he was from the next generation, Lin Biguang and Ke Yufei's grandparents were not very familiar, so they didn't consider bothering the Ke family for the time being.
Leaving Yuchen's family and He Zixuan's family, although Lin Biguang can usually chat a few words calmly when he sees Yuxikun, and he can't feel the difference between superiors and subordinates, but there is no reason to borrow money from the leader.
So Lin Biguang decided to go to He Zixuan's house this Saturday, compared to a working-class family where both husband and wife get salaries, her family has a business boss, and she is a little richer in comparison.
"When you enter the door and sit down for a while, you can ask Xuanxuan to go out to play, we adults have something to say." Lin Biguang looked back and spoke to Yi Xuejia who was following her while walking the stairs, and at the same time took out a hundred yuan with some hesitation, "Take it and spend it, go shopping and have a drink." ”
Yi Xuejia didn't stretch out his hand to take it, shook his head and said, "I haven't spent the pocket money I gave last time." ”
Lin Biguang remembered that this "last time" was last month, she hesitated for a moment, and still forcibly stuffed the money into Yi Xuejia's hand.
When she entered the door, He Zixuan was not in the living room, her father He Youqiang was cleaning at home, and her mother Meng Riyue was the owner of a small clothing store, and she was looking at the store at this time.
The He family is a typical "strong woman and weak male weak combination", the father is handsome and weak, always greets people with a smile, has a lot of experience in housework and cooking, has no ambition in the career, and is willing to be an assembly line worker in Yazhi Electronic Accessories Factory all his life.
And mother Meng Riyue is more like the role of a father in a traditional family, although she is not tall, but because of her heroic aura and visually looks extraordinarily tall and big, she is a big voice, very assertive, full of energy, she is hard-working in business, self-made, at home is not the same, the status is the absolute head of the family.
During the New Year's holiday, everyone will visit each other, once for the New Year, He Youqiang invited everyone to go to their He family for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, he made a large table of dishes by himself, busy in and out between the kitchen and the dining table, the taste of the dish is really delicious, it is obvious that he has studied cooking with his heart, Yi Xuejia feels that he can rank first in the community cooking list, everyone praises, He Youqiang's face is full of red light, Meng Riyue has been constantly asking everyone to raise a toast, and then because of the strength of the wine, he made some grand speeches comparable to news broadcasts, the husband and wife seem to be enjoying this state of life, but He Zixuan is unhappy.
He Zixuan looked down on her father very much, and always looked disdainful when she mentioned it, she thought that "men should be outside the Lord, and women should be Lord." Yi Xuejia has always felt strange about her attitude, some people like to do business, some people like to do housework, and they have found the most comfortable position, isn't it great, why bother to divide what men should do and women should not do, take off the gender to see, anyway, they are all people with hands and feet.
"Master Lin is here, sit down, I'll make you some tea. Does Allison drink Coke? He Youqiang, who was kind and kind, rubbed his hands on his apron like a housewife, put down the mop in his hand, and rushed over to pick up the fruit in Lin Biguang's hand, "Come on, and be so polite, you will have more life with us." Then he dusted off the spotless sofa cushions, motioned for Yi Xuejia's mother and daughter to sit down, and he immediately trotted into the kitchen, "It just so happens that my water has just been boiled, is it okay to drink Longjing or Pu'er?" ”
He Zixuan came out of the bedroom lazily, and when she saw Yi Xuejia, she said softly: "Yo." Then he looked at Lin Biguang and shouted, "Hello, Auntie." ”
Lin Biguang smiled and nodded, "Xuanxuan hasn't come to our house for a long time to play, it seems to be beautiful again." Then he glanced at Yi Xuejia.
"Hey, what are you doing?" Yi Xuejia stood up and walked over, "Shall we go out to play?" ”
"It's boring." He Zixuan turned around and went back to the bedroom and asked, "Where are you going?" ”
"Just go for a walk." Yi Xuejia leaned against the door frame.
He Zixuan then combed her hair in the makeup mirror, then grabbed necklaces, bracelets and other jewelry and put them on her body one by one, and finally picked up a coat and put it on, turned around and raised her chin, "Drink milk tea." ”
Before leaving, Yi Xuejia heard Lin Biguang's tone as if he was inferior: "Master He, I don't know how to speak...... The second half of the sentence was truncated as the security door "slammed" shut, and Yi Xuejia felt that the heavy iron door clamped her fleshy heart hard.
After leaving the unit door, He Zixuan asked nonchalantly: "Your mother shouldn't have come to our family to borrow money, right?" ”
Yi Xuejia didn't know whether to answer or not, and scratched her ears in embarrassment.
He Zixuan continued: "The whole factory should know about your family's affairs. ”
"Oh." When Yi Xuejia saw her say this, she could smile calmly, only her parents thought that not many people knew about it.
"Auntie came at the wrong time, my father can't be the master, and the family's money is mainly earned by my mother." He Zixuan, who was wearing a double ponytail, said while playing with the end of his hair on one side, "As far as my father's salary is concerned, it is not as much as my mother earns a week." ”
"Then do you want to do your own business in the future?" Yi Xuejia followed her words and asked, "Isn't it an office worker?" ”
"I don't want to work." She suddenly laughed, put one hand around Yi Xuejia's arm, as if she was her husband, played the role of a coquettish wife, shook her head and said, "It's good if my husband goes to do business, I'm going to be a housewife." ”
Yi Xuejia stuck out his tongue, and then said with certainty: "Yes, I don't think you look like a person who can go to work." ”
When the two of them came to the business district in the city center, He Zixuan thought of Liang Feng when he passed by the department store, and complained to Yi Xuejia: "I can't make an appointment, why is Liang Feng so afraid of me." ”
"That's because you do have bad intentions." Yi Xuejia said, "You ask yourself, what do you want to do when you make an appointment?" ”
He Zixuan said as a matter of course: "What can you do?" Call him my boyfriend. ”
Yi Xuejia raised his hand and pointed at her, squinting his eyes, with a posture of "look at you".
"So what's wrong with being my boyfriend? I'm not going to eat him again. He Zixuan slapped Yi Xuejia's hand away, "What's so good about him?" Fall in love with me, is it good for him to make a lot of money. ”
Yi Xuejia retorted: "Then you still think you are losing money, so let him go." ”
"Potential stocks." He Zixuan walked into a bubble tea shop and chattered, "I'm also taking a risk to invest, okay?" If he doesn't make a profit in the future, won't I lose it? ”
When ordering, Yi Xuejia took the initiative to pay the two of them, and He Zixuan knew that her family had a request for her own family, so she didn't say no.
The seats on the first floor are all plastic tables and chairs attached to the wall, small and occluded, and the upstairs is full of four-person sofa seats.
When she arrived at the staircase, Yi Xuejia saw He Zixuan standing stunned and didn't move, she said to her frozen back in confusion: "Let's go?" ”
She still didn't move, like a magic barrier, Yi Xuejia was a little taller than her, so she looked over her shoulder, and saw Ke Yufei sitting on the sofa in the corner, and Fang Yuan, who was in the same class as He Zixuan, was lying in his arms and coquettish.