Chapter 264: Life in the Poor Country
Xu Moyao led Sheng Yixi from the other end of the elevator, the two didn't see him, but he saw the two of them clearly.
The hand holding Sheng Yixi was supposed to be his.
Xu Moyao and Sheng Yixi were led over by the waiter in the restaurant, and in the midst of the smoke, Yan Ruiyang's cold face slowly lifted up and looked at the two people who were holding hands intimately.
"Sit." Yan Ruiyang said.
Xu Moyao motioned for Sheng Yixi to sit inside, Sheng Yixi nodded and sat by the window.
After Sheng Yixi sat down, Xu Moyao sat down.
Yan Ruiyang squinted and smoked, holding a cigarette in one hand and throwing the menu to Xu Moyao with the other.
Xu Moyao opened the gold-trimmed menu and asked Sheng Yixi, "What do Yixi want to eat?" ”
Yixi is a child's heart and doesn't know how to be tactful, "I've just eaten wontons, and I'm not hungry." ”
Yan Ruiyang sneered and looked at Xu Moyao, Xu Moyao glanced back at him and closed the menu.
"She usually wakes up late and skips breakfast, so she eats lunch early."
After speaking, he looked at Sheng Yixi again, "Sit down first, and then order food when you are hungry." ”
Sheng Yixi is very well-behaved, usually in front of outsiders, she nods whatever her uncle says.
Such a harmonious picture deeply stung Yan Ruiyang.
The menu was placed on the table, and Xu Moyao ordered the waiter to bring two glasses of water.
"How's it going, are you busy?" Xu Moyao lit a cigarette for himself and took the initiative to talk to Yan Ruiyang.
Yan Ruiyang looked at his face from beginning to end, and only felt that this person was hypocritical.
Seeing that he didn't answer, Xu Moyao of course knew that he was despising himself, and he didn't care, so he changed the topic and said, "I heard Ruisen say that Ruixi also returned to China a while ago and ...... in his company."
"What day is the wedding?"
didn't listen to Xu Moyao's nonsense anymore, Yan Ruiyang directly interrupted him.
Sheng Yixi's big eyes like black grapes fell on Yan Ruiyang's face at this time, but Yan Ruiyang didn't look at her, maybe those beautiful eyes were too transparent, transparent, and people were afraid of being peeked into by her to see the complex emotions in their hearts.
Xu Moyao lit a cigarette ash and replied, "The last day of this month." ”
"Huh."
Yan Ruiyang laughed twice, and finally, turned his gaze to Sheng Yixi's face, "This person is a villain." ”
“……”
Sheng Yixi would never have thought that the first thing he said to himself would be this.
should have been angry, but for some reason, Sheng Yixi couldn't bear to be angry with him from the bottom of his heart.
She pursed her lips for a long time and looked at him silently.
Xu Moyao smoked silently, no matter what Yan Ruiyang said, he didn't refute or stop it.
But Yan Ruiyang also stopped at the point, and did not say anything more excessive.
Sheng Yixi disappeared for ten years, and then returned to sight, even though he had a strong urge to bring her back to him, and wanted to tell her clearly: I am your lover.
But he knew that when all the truth was in front of her, it was equivalent to tearing her scars open one by one and making her hurt again. He couldn't.
So, he said, "But he is good to women, so you marry him, and you don't suffer." ”
Xu Moyao kept his head down, and the corners of his eyes were moist. He didn't have the courage to look at Yan Ruiyang.
Yan Ruiyang got married, Yan Ruiyang took over Jiaxing, and Yan Ruiyang raised a lot of female stars outside...... Regarding all kinds of things about Yan Ruiyang, once upon a time, he avoided it. He didn't want to let himself clearly see that the once affectionate and kind person had now become realistic and even abusive.
Xu Moyao pushed off the cigarette butt, got up, and said "go to the bathroom", leaving Sheng Yixi in his place.
After Xu Moyao left, there were only two people left, Sheng Yixi and Yan Ruiyang.
For a while, Sheng Yixi didn't know what to say to this man, so he remained silent.
If you don't say a word, will you seem to be very uneducated?
Sheng Yixi took a sip of water, lifted her eyelids and looked at the man opposite her, who was also looking at her, and his eyes were focused, which made her very embarrassed.
"That...... Before, we were very familiar? Sheng Yixi held the cup in both hands, looking a little nervous.
"Well, it's familiar."
The lighter in Yan Ruiyang's hand turned around beautifully at his fingertips, and then lit a cigarette for himself, squinting and spitting out the smoke ring, "It can't be cooked." ”
Sheng Yi was silent for a moment, and then said, "Mo Yao said, I had amnesia because I had a traffic accident and hit my brain, and I don't remember anything before." ”
He nodded, "There's such a thing. ”
"Then can you tell me what I was like before?"
"You."
Yan Ruiyang lit the cigarette ash twice, lowered his eyes and smiled, and memories came to his mind like a wave.
"You are very well-behaved, very sensible, study very well, teachers and classmates, they like you very much."
Xu Moyao was telling the truth, and coincidentally, Yan Ruiyang was exactly the same as what he said, which made Sheng Yixi feel bored.
She sighed and said with disappointment, "Can't you say something new?" ”
The man's faint laughter was in her ears.
"But sometimes you can be stubborn, too." He said.
"Why?" Sheng Yixi's eyes widened, like a child who likes to explore.
Yan Ruiyang raised his head and exhaled smoke, his thoughts followed his memory, "What you like, no matter how difficult it is, you have to get it." ”
"For example?"
"For example, if you like seven-layer marshmallows, you want to buy them in the early hours of the night, and the ones who buy marshmallows are already closed......"
"And then?"
"And then ......"
Yan Ruiyang lowered his eyes, his eyelashes flashed a few times, "Then your man stayed there, and he stayed there for two hours in the cold wind, begging the ...... who sold marshmallows."
"Are you talking about Mo Yao?"
“…… Well, right. ”
Yan Ruiyang pressed the cigarette butt, picked up the water cup and drank water, and said with a smile at the end, "He is good to you, you are very happy." ”
Sheng Yixi's big eyes blinked a few more times, and then asked him again, "When I went out to change my clothes, my uncle was not happy to see that I was dressed beautifully, I thought he was jealous, you are honest, what was my relationship with you before?" ”
Yan Ruiyang sneered coldly, "This villain." ”
"What?" Sheng Yixi didn't hear clearly.
"Nothing."
Yan Ruiyang was angry in his heart, and he was forced to suppress it by himself, and then told Sheng Yixi good-naturedly, "I am friends with your man, and you used to call me Brother Ruiyang." ”
It's true.
She called Yan Ruisen is Brother Sen, and she called him Brother Ruiyang.
There is one more word, but it is more intimate than Brother Sen.
Sheng Yixi listened a little, and then said a little embarrassed, "I'm sorry, I'm guessing." ”
Yan Ruiyang raised his chin, "Understood." ”
It didn't take long for Xu Moyao to come back.
Yan Ruiyang looked at him with a thin layer of sweat on his forehead, and his eyes were not without sarcasm.
Waiting for Xu Moyao to sit down, Yan Ruiyang said to Sheng Yixi, "Do you want to go to the bathroom?" ”
“……”
Sheng Yixi felt that he was a little inexplicable, but she nodded after thinking about it, she did want to go to the bathroom a little, and then took the bag and passed by Xu Moyao.
After Sheng Yixi left, Yan Ruiyang smashed the thick menu in his hand on Xu Moyao's face without saying a word, gritting his teeth, "I won't forgive you." ”
Xu Moyao lowered his head and held the water glass, sitting still in place, "I won't mind." ”
"She's my woman!"
"You're married."
Xu Moyao pushed the expensive frame on the bridge of his nose, "Yixi is already, it's my woman." ”
What this sentence means, adults will not understand.
has been with Xu Moyao for ten years, it is impossible for Sheng Yixi not to share the bed with him, Yan Ruiyang has long known these things, but when Xu Moyao said this to him in person, the jealousy in Yan Ruiyang's heart instantly reached its peak.
As long as he thought of Sheng Yixi being pressed under Xu Moyao's body and doing the kind of thing he did to Tang Wanying, Yan Ruiyang was about to collapse, even if Sheng Yixi was ruined, but in his heart, she would always be pure and spotless.
She was raped/raped, she lost that memory, and those things were treated as if they hadn't happened. But she was conscious of it, and she was intimately entangled with him on Xu Moyao's bed, and Yan Ruiyang couldn't stand such a thing.
Yan Ruiyang is thirty-eight years old, and after so many years of deception in the mall, he has handled it with ease, but in the face of his once close friend, he was powerless to resist when he knew that he had used his scheming to take away his woman.
That punch should have landed on Xu Moyao's face, but he clenched it tightly and didn't fall.
It's all for the sake of Yixi.
He didn't want Yixi to be afraid, and he didn't want Yixi to be hurt again.
So he turned and left.
From then on, he and Xu Moyao were no longer friends.
……
In the blink of an eye, it was April of fireworks, and Yan was murmuring among the beams.
Qiao Xiang has settled down in Aydin Village, a line at two o'clock every day, the dormitory and the school.
The village of Aydin is relatively remote, and it is not very convenient to buy things. Logistics is also very backward, and many express delivery services are not accepted for online shopping, so Qiao Xiang called Yan Jianan to tell him what he wanted, and asked him to bring it to her at the end of the month.
Qiao Xiang came in early March, and when Yan Jianan came to see her at the end of March, she brought her a lot of food, and she could hold out until he came back next month.
It's April 26th, and Yan Jianan will be here again in a few days.
Yan Ruisen usually manages Yan Canaan strictly, if it weren't for this, that guy probably wanted to take the high-speed train to come over to see his mother every week.
"Your brand of sunscreen isolation, the counter is out of stock, I asked many shopping malls that are not available, what star products sell fast and are often out of stock."
Yan Jianan was out of breath on the other end of the phone, shuttling between the major counters in the mall, and started a professional "purchasing agent" for Qiao Xiang.
Qiao Xiang squatted on the edge of the fence to water her shallots, and talked to Yan Jianan, "That's really nothing, forget it, you can buy me another brand." ”
Yan Jianan complained to her while walking over there, "You don't know, my dad has been on a business trip almost every week for the past two months, and I can see him at most once a week, this workaholic, I don't know if it's because you abandoned him and got stimulated!" ”
“…… I didn't abandon him, I said many times that I was not compatible with him. ”
"That's abandonment, too!"
“……”
"Mom, a new cookie shop has opened, do you want to eat it, I'll buy it for you?"
"No, I've gained weight lately."
"Oh, my grandmother often said that women are blessed when they are fat, good boy, I'll buy you a box before I come."
"Okay then."
In the past two months, Yan Jianan has become a lot more sensible and mature, and Qiao Xiang is very pleased.
However, the more sensible and well-behaved Yan Jianan, and the more she knew how to feel sorry for her mother, the more uncomfortable Qiao Xiang felt in her heart, and she always felt that she owed this child too much.
……
Yan Jianan carried the bag home, carrying the bag in both hands, knowing that he was coming back, Aunt Lin didn't lock the door, Yan Jianan kicked the door open directly.
"Aunt Lin, come and help me."
The little guy shouted at the kitchen, and soon, Aunt Lin came over.
"What did you buy here?"
Aunt Lin helped bring the things upstairs, Yan Jianan smiled and explained, "I bought it for my mother, it is useful to eat, and you don't know that women are troublesome." ”
Aunt Lin rolled her eyes in her heart, and said, "In the future, you will be as good to your daughter-in-law as your mother." ”
"Of course."
"If you are as filial as you, most of you will not be able to please your daughter-in-law."
“……”
Walking to the door of the children's room, Yan Jiannan stopped, frowned and asked, "Aunt Lin, what do you mean?" ”
Aunt Lin smiled and patted the child's head, "Tease you." ”
Yan Jianan glared at her, and she couldn't help but say, "In this society now, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is not good, most of the reason is that mother-in-law and daughter-in-law compete for favor, you say that you are so filial, in the future, your mother will quarrel with your daughter-in-law, who will you help?" ”
Yan Jianan was very serious, "I don't help my relatives." ”
"The little guy's Chinese is getting better and better."
“……”
"Normally, if you are good to your daughter-in-law, your daughter-in-law will naturally be good to your mother, which is a virtuous circle."
"It's like you already have a daughter-in-law."
Yan Jianan snorted and carried her things back to the room, not wanting to pay attention to Aunt Lin anymore.
Aunt Lin was blocked out of the door, and was stunned by what the child said.
Yan Jianan cleaned up the things he had just bought in the mall in the same way in the room, all of which were bought for Qiao Xiang, spending his pocket money.
Originally, he planned to ask Uncle Xing Hui to send him to Aydin Village once a week, but his father disagreed, and his grandparents did not agree, saying that it would affect his studies and rest, and it would be too much trouble to come and go.
Yan Jianan is quite obedient, even if she misses her mother, she listens to adults.
Yan Jianan still wants his parents to reconcile, but he doesn't force it, the most important thing is that his parents are happy.
When he went to Ayding Village last month, Yan Jianan saw that there was a man who was very good to his mother, and he was pursuing his mother at first glance, to be honest, he felt that the man was not worthy of his mother, no matter his height or status, he was very different from his father. No, no, no, it's not comparable to his dad at all.
Yan Jianan is not so selfish and will not ask Qiao Xiang to stop falling in love, but even if Qiao Xiang falls in love, he can't find someone who is too bad.
Recently, there was a football match in the school, Yan Jianan is the pillar of the class, and their class has entered the finals in the competition of the lower grade group.
What girl hasn't liked a handsome guy who plays football well when she was young?
But Yan Jianan's heart belongs, and he is dedicated to Xie Miaomiao, so many girls buy him a Coke sleeve, so he only drinks the orange juice that Xie Miaomiao bought for him.
The relationship between the two is quite stable, but it does not affect the school at all.
At the end of last semester, Yan Jianan took the third grade, and Xie Miaomiao took the fifth grade, both of whom were top students.
Yan Jianan plans to work hard to be the first in the grade this semester to make his Xiangxiang happy.
In a blink of an eye, on the 31st, on Friday afternoon, Xing Hui picked up Yan Jiananan from school and sent him to the train station.
Originally, Xing Hui planned to send Yan Jianan, but Yan Jianan preferred to take the high-speed rail.
Xing Hui always felt that this child was too sensible, and many six or seven-year-old children knew how to buy and eat all day long, so they said that Jianan was well-behaved and likable, and he was quite young.
Yan Jianan was very frugal, and he didn't buy snacks when he was hungry on the train, so he took out the apple he had prepared earlier and ate one.
Yan Jianan saves money, mainly because the expenses are big now, and he has to go to the countryside to see his mother every month, and he has to buy thousands or even tens of thousands of things when he goes.
Women have to be spoiled.
Along the way, Xie Miaomiao was chatting with him on WeChat.
Xie Miaomiao said that a few days ago, he saw Zhang Wei, the class leader of the class next door, kissing with their class flowers on the edge of the stands in the playground.
Yan Jianan replied with an "oh".
I'm excited at this time, I'm going to see my mother, where do I have the heart to talk about my children's private affairs!
Xie Miaomiao saw that his attitude was very perfunctory, knowing that his heart had already drifted to Teacher Qiao, and while he was jealous, he also understood him.
But Xie Miaomiao really wants to kiss Yan Jianan, on the premise of not affecting her studies, what does it matter if she holds hands and kisses, Yan Jiannan plays seriously with her all day, it's really annoying.
Later, Xie Miaomiao ignored him and sent him a message of "My mother and I went to do nail art, bye-bye".
Two hours later, when the train arrived at the station, Yan Jianan, carrying a hiking bag and pushing a trolley suitcase in his hand, lined up to get off the train.
The train station is mixed, thieves, traffickers, everyone, Yan Jianan is very cautious.
Yan Jianan is small, but he is not small, and he can handle any troubles around him with ease.
Across the street from the train station is the bus station, and Yan Jiannan has to take an hour's bus ride to town, and then take a tricycle to the village of Aydin — and when she was queuing up to get on the bus, Yan Jiannan was targeted by traffickers.
Yan Jianan stood in place expressionlessly, the reflection of his sunglasses allowed him to see clearly the three men whispering in the corner, and he held the trolley case tightly in his hand.
More than ten meters in front of the platform, there were several station staff members who were smoking, and the work badges on their chests proved their identities.
Just when the three traffickers approached Yan Jianan, Yan Jianan had already thought of a way to save himself, and there was quite a lot of inner drama.
"Child, where are your parents? Are you separated? ”
One of the men wearing a peaked cap grabbed Yan Jianan's trolley case and asked him with a smile.
A few passengers waiting for the bus at the party on the side, it is estimated that these few are not good people, but they are timid and dare not speak out.
Yan Jianan looked at the person who spoke quietly, and then looked at the other two hideous-looking people, and after about a few seconds, he let go of the lever of the box, ran to the platform very quickly, and grabbed the hand of one of the staff, "Dad!" ”
Everyone present, including the traffickers, and the staff were stunned.
Yan Jianan shouted loudly again, "Dad, when will the car come, I'm so tired from standing." ”
The staff member who was held by Yan Jianan, felt that there was a little finger in his palm picking at his flesh, and instantly understood something, squatted down, and pressed his hands on Yan Jianan's shoulders, "There are still five minutes, wait a minute." ”
The three traffickers looked at each other, and then left one after the other.
The platform returned to its previous tranquility.
"What's going on, kid?" The staff asked Canaan with concern.
Yan Jianan said, "I don't think the three of them are good people, my mother told me to be cautious when I go out, and to call for help in time when I encounter difficulties." ”
The staff laughed, "How did your mom let you go out alone?" ”
"I'm so old, isn't it normal to go out alone?"
“……”
"Thank you, uncle."
After speaking, Yan Jianan returned to the queue waiting for the bus, lining up in a regular manner.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, Yan Jianan arrived in Ayding Village.
In the last class on the weekend afternoon, Qiao Xiang gave art to the children.
In this primary school in Ayding Village, there are six grades, and each grade has only one class, but Qiao Xiang is responsible for the Chinese, mathematics and art of each class, which is not an easy job.
Yan Jianan leaned on the window and watched his mother teach children to draw, and felt that his Xiangxiang was really beautiful, and the woman's kind and gentle appearance was the best.
After class, Qiao Xiang came out of it with a lot of chalk powder on her hands, which couldn't stop her from seeing Yan Jianan's happiness, and picked up her son.
"Give mom a good kiss."
"Haha."
The mother and son hugged each other, you kiss me, I kiss you, and the children in the class crowded next to them and watched, all giggling.
From school to Qiao Xiang's place, it only takes fifteen minutes to walk, and along the way, Yan Jianan told Qiao Xiang all the things he did at school this month, including those annoying girls who always handed him love letters and gifts.
Qiao Xiang sighed and reached out to touch his son's head, "It's not a good thing that the peach blossoms are too prosperous." ”
Yan Jianan stopped, "Don't laugh at fifty steps and take a hundred steps, you think I don't know, the one surnamed Jiang is chasing you." ”
“……”
"Mom, he's not handsome at all, and he's so dirty, he doesn't deserve you."
"Don't judge people by their appearance."
"Oh, so you mean, do you think he's still going to be?"
Yan Jianan was going to be angry to death.
Qiao Xiang walked with a smile, dragging the box with one hand and pulling his son with the other, "That's not true, I don't want to do that for the time being." ”
Yan Jianan breathed a sigh of relief at this time, "In short, even if you don't want my father, you can't find someone who is much worse than my father." ”
"You're so demanding, how many of your father's level can there be in the world?"
"You mean, you still think my dad is good?"
"No, I think he's really good. But the premise of my choice of men has nothing to do with these. ”
Country roads, stone roads are very few, mostly sand and gravel, plus it rained the day before, and the road is muddy.
The liberation shoes worn by Qiao Xiang on his feet are really ugly, Yan Jianan thought so in his heart, but in fact he didn't dislike it.
Yan Jianan's hiking shoes were stained with mud, and when he arrived at Qiao Xiang's residence, Qiao Xiang took him slippers and changed them on.
This pair of children's slippers was bought by Qiao Xiang in the town for ten yuan when Yan Jianan came last month, the material is cheap, the workmanship is rough, and the clothes are definitely not as comfortable as at home, but Yan Jianan didn't say a word, and he wore whatever his mother gave him.
"Aunt Wang picked fresh oil and wheat vegetables for me yesterday, as well as fruit tomatoes, and I didn't want to eat them when I knew you were coming."
Qiao Xiang was holding a basket in his hand, and the vegetables in the basket were all pesticide-free green food.
Yan Jianan sat on the strip bench and dangled her legs, deliberately showing a disdainful expression, "My grandmother will send organic vegetables to our family every week, will I be rare for you?" ”
Qiao Xiang knew that he was deliberately saying this, so he smiled and flicked his forehead, "Don't be picky, that's all you can eat in the backcountry." ”
"I'm glad to know that you're still here in the backcountry."
"A person can be poor materially, but not spiritually, and I am happy because I have brought knowledge to the children of these places, and every time they learn to recognize a word, I am happy."
Qiao Xiang sat on the threshold, picking vegetables contentedly, and glanced back at his son from time to time, "This kind of peaceful life is what I yearn for." ”