Chapter 13: Roses and Cement
"Nishino, it's 7 o'clock, it's time for us to go to the cement factory." Tao Jin pushed Nishino, who was laughing in his fantasy. Nishino, who was intoxicated by the illusion, did not react at all.
"Who are you thinking about? Laughing so sweetly. Tao Jin's quilt was all lifted, and Nishino jumped up: "I'm not thinking about anyone, I'm thinking about making a lot of money today." β
"Then don't hurry up and get dressed, the driver who waits for the loading car will scold when it's late, time is money, you know better than me." Tao Jin said as he squeezed the toothpaste.
"I don't have cement clothes, old classmate. There's no way I'm going to move cement in a suit or tie, right? Nishino asked Tao Jin.
"Yes, as long as you're not shy." Tao Jin walked out of the room with a glass of water.
"No, the drivers won't laugh their big teeth." Nishino put on Tao Jin's liberation shoes, "Find me a dress to carry cement." β
"Didn't you wash it last night?" Tao Jin answered at the faucet.
"It's okay, I'm like a cow. Where's the clothes? Nishino walked out of the room wearing a pair of bare pants.
The girls in the rental room also got up and washed, admiring Nishino's strong muscles one by one, and couldn't help but be stunned: "Wow, Stallone!" β
"Retort Dan!"
"I think Jackie Chan is almost the same, and he looks very similar!"
"The hairstyle is like Stephen Chow, especially that mouth!" ......
Nishino stretched out like a small tent, so many girls looked at him hotly, a little uncomfortable, and quickly ripped off the clothes on the wire and quickly put them on: "Ladies and sisters, I am not a Yankee, nor a Hong Kong and Taiwan star, I am Nishino." β
"Hahaha, this young man is still a little interesting, how many times have we done it with real guns, the first time we have seen such a powerful little brother!"
The two women joked to each other, "If you come to us in the evening, you'll fall to the ground in less than three minutes!" β
So many girls looked at themselves, and in front of everyone's eyes, Nishino's face turned red, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.
"Sisters, what do you say? People or students? Tao Jin shook his toothbrush.
"The student is better, come and accompany me tonight, if it makes me happy, I will seal a big red envelope for you." A woman with heavy makeup twisted the waist of the water snake and laughed beside her.
"Sister Yin Hong, you can blow it. Will you do a loss-making business? Tao Jin pulled Nishino to leave.
"Little brother, sister, I can do it if I want, isn't it just about money?" Yin Hong took out a stack of 100 yuan bills with green flowers from her bag, "Is 1000 enough?" β
"Eldest sister, I don't care where you got this money. If you really like my classmates, accumulate some virtue, please don't use money to humiliate a guy who is still in school," Tao Jin is very clear about Yin Hong's character, she is just a dusty woman, from a poor background, young and beautiful, old and young, even so, she is also helpful, especially taking care of Tao Jin.
"Oh, Xiao Tao, I'm just talking casually, don't take it to heart." Yin Hong twisted * and walked straight to Nishino, the smell of perfume was so strong that Nishino couldn't help but sneeze "Ah Che".
"Young man, you catch a cold before I can make a move." Yin Hong took the opportunity to stroke Nishino's chest, took his hand and stuffed the money into his pocket, "Wow, it's quite sturdy." Sister, I'll rush at your muscles, and I'll give you the 1,000 yuan today, you can buy some milk or something. β
"Sister Yin Hong, I can't accept this money from unknown sources." It is very taboo for those dusty women Nishino.
"I'm a good citizen now, a businessman." Yin Hong was not angry, "Do you think my money is dirty?" β
"Nope." Nishino shook his head.
"I've been a stage lady, but my heart has not been captured and corrupted by money...... See you...... I thought about my ...... A younger brother who goes to college. Yin Hong stalked and said, leaving tears of sadness.
"Sister Yin Hong, my classmate can't speak, and he has no intention of hurting you." Tao Jin helped Yin Hong to soothe her emotions. After pausing for a while, he said to the unsophisticated and sleek Nishino: "This money is a piece of Sister Yin Hong's heart, you must accept it." Hurry up and compensate Sister Yin Hong. β
A woman's tears are *, and no matter how strong a man is, he can't resist it. Now that Tao Jin has spoken, Xiye no longer insisted: "Sister Yin Hong, it's all my fault, I made you sad and sad, and the little brother is deeply sorry." β
"Adults don't care about villains, I will recognize you as a younger brother today." Yin Hong saw that Xiye didn't mean to, so she burst into tears and laughed.
"Sister Yin Hongβ" Nishino squirmed.
"Hmm." Yin Hong happily agreed, "If there is any difficulty in the future, just look for my sister." β
"Nishino, it's not too early, we have to go to the cement factory." Tao Jin looked at his watch, "Sister Yin Hong, you are also busy with yourself." Let's go. β
"Okay. Tao Jin, remember to take care of Nishino. Yin Hong waved her hand.
"Got it." Tao Jin and Nishino left the rental house, walked through several alleys, went to the street, bought some xiaolongbao, ate while walking, and arrived at the gate of the cement factory after a while.
There were already three or four large trucks waiting inside the cement factory, and the two hurriedly swallowed the last xiaolongbao, and then hurriedly moved the cement.
The sun is shining and the weather is still hot and humid in October. The heat wave in the cement room is rolling, and every time I go in to carry a bag of cement, it is very uncomfortable. Tao Jin is a skilled hand, and it is easy to carry two bags at a time, and he is still humming "Shanghai Tang" in his mouth.
The first time Nishino moved cement, his movements were clumsy and difficult, but he had endless strength. Looking at the empty cars one after another, Nishino's heart became tighter and tighter. I prayed secretly that none of the cars were here to load goods, but just passing by.
Seven cars came, only two drove away, and five were parked there. There's no way, so let's pretend! β¦β¦
The sweat soaked through the clothes, and the two wrists hurt so much that they couldn't lift up. The tips of the ten fingers also hurt hard, and it was really hard to hold on. Finally, after loading these five cars, there are still more than ten bags left, and it is done.
β591γ592γ593......β Nishino counts in his heart.
At this time, the horn sounded again, and several more cars drove in one after another. His face was pale, his heart sank, he could no longer hold on, and he fell......
Tao Jin couldn't help but be shocked when he saw Nishino fall on the hot cement floor, threw the two bags of cement on his shoulders to the car, quickly ran to Nishino's side, picked him up, slowly helped him to a cool place, and fed him a little water. After a while, Nishino opened his eyes: "Tao Jin, am I still alive?" This isn't the Hades Palace, is it? β
"Where, you are prostrate from excessive water loss. If you can't do it, don't be reckless and have a good rest. Tao Jin wiped the dust from Nishino's forehead with his hands.
"What are you doing? Why don't you hurry up and load the cement, I'm in a hurry! A truck driver urged.
"It's coming, it's coming, it's coming." Tao Jin responded, "Xiye, don't go." β
"I'm going." The weakened Nishino struggled to remember.
"You're asking for money, not your life. Be obedient, don't get up. I can handle it alone. After Tao Jin finished speaking, he ran to the cement room......
Nishino watched Tao Jin carrying cement there alone, and he lay there for almost two hours. These two hours are really hard, longer than 20 years.
Finally moved out, Tao Jin got the money very smoothly, and he gave Nishino another 100. Nishino refused to accept money no matter what he did this time: "Old classmate, it's not easy for you." I moved 600 bags, just 300 yuan, and I couldn't take more money. β
"Ambitious! We work as coolies, and the money is earned by a dime, and blood and sweat drip from every pore. Tao Jin helped Nishino up.
"I can go by myself, I'm embarrassed to ask you to hold me." Nishino walked a few steps on his own, feeling much better.
"Fuck, there were too many cars today, and I'm tired too. Let's go, let's eatβ" Tao Jin yawned......
In the afternoon, Nishino returned to school, deposited the more than 1,000 yuan in the school's bank, and kept 100 yuan for living expenses. He sat on a stone bench in the bamboo forest, the deep bamboo forest was lonely, and Nishino was silently thinking, in this life he would like to thank the people who helped him, parents, teachers, classmates, and Yin Hong.
"Only when the soul is quiet is when we are closest to ourselves. Learn to quiet the soul and slowly settle all your troubles. Learn to accept your vulnerability and unbearable, give yourself a little time, give yourself some deadlines, and you will unconsciously gain the quietest strength in your life. Thanksgiving for meeting, grateful for having you! β
A week passed quickly, and what made Nishino feel strange was that Zongjian came and went to school in a hurry, and rarely talked to him. Could it be that something happened to her family?
At noon on Saturday, when Nishino was sorting out the books, a heart-shaped letter fell out of the history book, the letter was colored, and there was a faint fragrance, Nishino sniffed it, and there were traces of tears on it. He opened it for a while before opening it, and it turned out to be written by Zongjian.
Nishino:
Perhaps when you open this letter, I am no longer with you. Thank you for going crazy with me, having fun together, fighting the overlord together, and I'm the happiest when I'm with you. It's not that I'm ruthless, and it's not my original intention to leave you.
You also know that I love you, love you very much. God doesn't fulfill people's wishes, my dad is going to be transferred to another county to work, and our family has to go with him. I want to accompany you through the cram school journey, I would love to stay, but I can't. Forgive me for my selfishness, I will often think of you in a strange foreign land, will you miss me?
I have always regarded you as my future dependence, and the future will never come. You are the eternal love of my heart, how far away it will always be, God knows. Without me, you've got to make me happy. Remember, that He Yan is not suitable for you, you are destined to have no fate, and I have no fate with you.
As I wrote, I couldn't help but cry. My heart was trembling, and the finally meeting became a passing cloud in a blink of an eye, a flower in the mirror, and a moon in the water. I won't write anymore, and it's going to be dawn again.
Your eternal supra key
Oct. 24 at 2 a.m
After reading the last line of words, Nishino was sad, and tears quietly slipped down his face in an instant, are these tears happiness, happiness, or loss? Only he knew that the wait on the wind and rain bridge had become far away, and Zong Jian's farewell to Nishino was confused for a long time.
The manic Nishino wrote in his diary that night: The affection is deep and shallow, because of a longing, what should come will come and what should go, and what should be left will go, and if you don't force it, you won't keep it. The love is faint, the thoughts are shallow, and it is destined to be a guest, so why should you burst into tears? Doomed parting, why sigh for the remnants of flowers? is destined to be lost, so why be sad? It is destined to be the road to the end of the world, why be too close and too far? The long road of life, gradually drifting away, why bother only to love the flowers before the moon?