Chapter 4 (6)

He's back to the provincial capital!

He is now working in Wuhan, and this trip back to the provincial capital is only for work reasons; But he is likely to return to the provincial capital to work in the second half of the year.

And he is already choosing a place for himself to settle down after returning to the provincial capital......

These simple messages have been surging in Jiang Lihong's mind over and over again, and she has worked hard to connect them to see if she can find some details that have been missed by the landlord, especially those that are important to her, and at the same time, through her own imagination and guesses, these news are full, and slowly sketch a vivid and vivid picture in her mind.

…… He's in a good position now. There is no doubt about that. If he hadn't been able to make a career in that year, how could he have thought of buying a house for himself? Moreover, the housing prices near Qingshuitan Park are not cheap, which also reflects his current economic situation from another side - he is definitely no longer the "he" he was at the beginning. How embarrassing he had been a year ago, except for two changes of clothes, only a broken spring bed and a thin futon. I thought of the rusty folding bed, the bare brown mat under the bamboo mat, and the two sweatshirts hanging on the wall with blurred handwriting on their chests...... In this way, he was willing to lend himself money to help him overcome that hurdle; He didn't even teach himself to keep a note, he moved out of the room on the day he lent him the money, and then disappeared from his life as if there had never been such a person. And to her, that night became more like a dream.

It would be nice if I could stay in that dream forever. At least in the dream she was happy. Even now, she often reminisces about that night, savoring the happiness and sweetness it brought her, and uses it as a starting point over and over again, imagining many beautiful stories for herself. Of course, in these stories she will never encounter something that even she herself does not want to recall......

Sometimes she even wondered if her life would have changed if she had stayed in his room that night. Maybe she should have stayed there......

Every time she thought of this, happiness and pain befell her at the same time, and her eyes were immediately clouded with a layer of fog.

"What are you doing!" Jiang Yan, who was still talking to someone in the room just now, rushed into the kitchen like a crazy lioness, pushed her to the edge of the pool, and hurriedly turned off the gas.

Only then did she realize that the kitchen was full of the choking smell of oily smoke, and she was holding half a bowl of water in her hand, and was about to pour it into the smoky iron pot. Her face immediately became as white as the tiles on the edge of the pool.

Oh, my God! She was in a trance and almost caused unimaginable disasters!

“…… I'll do it. Jiang Yan looked at her with complicated eyes, took the bowl in her hand, and said, "You are not in good spirits, go sit for a while, talk to Chen Ying and watch TV, ......"

Jiang Yan's new roommate, Chen Ying, also walked into the kitchen. She didn't see the terrible scene just now, and she didn't know what was going on, she just asked Jiang Lihong with concern, if she was not feeling well, if it was inconvenient, she would go back to the original rented place tonight, anyway, her rent was not due yet, and she still had a lot of things that she hadn't moved over, and the landlord had nothing to say when she went back to live for one night.

Jiang Lihong shook her head and said, "I'm fine, but I was a little distracted just now." She said to Jiang Yan again, "I'll do it, I haven't been in the kitchen for a long time, I don't know if I have forgotten the craft...... "She doesn't want to talk to people now, she just wants to stay alone quietly." In fact, it is not a matter of her heart, it can only be said that she has good wishes and longings for life. She didn't want to be disturbed at this time, especially when she had just learned about him. No one could share this happiness with her, not even Jiang Yan, because this happiness was not real, but only existed in her fantasy......

Chen Ying glanced at the two of them. She knew that something must have happened just now, and it was probably related to what the landlord said in the hallway, but she didn't inquire, and only said, "I'll go back to sleep later......"

"Don't go, I'll take a taxi and go back after eating, and you stay with the geese." Jiang Lihong hurriedly said. She wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and said with a smile, "This smoke is so choking...... Go back to the house, I can do it alone, and when I was at home, I used to cook the whole family by myself. ”

"Xiaoying doesn't have to go. Don't go, just squeeze in at night. Jiang Yan also said the words of retention. She can't let Chen Ying go, at least if Chen Ying is there, Jiang Lihong can't tell her those words that will never have a result. Hey, this stupid woman is still thinking about that Gao Jinsong, why doesn't she know that guy doesn't care about her at all? The two of them didn't get together in the first place, let alone now? Now that Gao Jinsong is developed, it is impossible to see her in his eyes and in his heart...... It's just that these words are really unspeakable, Jiang Yan can only see if there is a way to remove Jiang Lihong's mind from this dead end.

Chen Ying still insisted on going back, but she could stay here until a little later, because it was her turn to take a break the next day, so it didn't matter how late she stayed today. As for whether it is safe for a person to walk at night, she doesn't care much, anyway, the two places are not far away, and besides, this is not a place where people come and go like the urban-rural junction or the railway station, so there is no need to worry about the public security situation. She washed her hands and stood in front of the board: "I used to cook at home, and my father was the master of the canteen of the unit, and all the skills were passed on to me." Before I came to the provincial capital, I even managed the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner during the Spring Festival. As one spoke, he had already shredded a few carrots at the other end, copied them with a kitchen knife on the board, and then put them on the plate and stacked them neatly into a pile.

Jiang Yan asked: "I remember you said that there are two older brothers, what about them?" Don't do housework? ”

"They're going to study. Where is garlic? Chen Ying said. She immediately found what she wanted from the second floor of the cupboard under Jiang Yan's guidance, gently opened the garlic tail with a kitchen knife, and then picked it with her fingernails along the gap between the garlic skin and the garlic meat, and the garlic skin was almost completely peeled off the garlic meat. "My parents are old brains, and they don't want to see the girl...... she seemed to realize that it was not appropriate to say this to her parents, so she changed her words, "Boys naturally have to study in order to be successful." I'm a girl, and I'm someone else's family sooner or later, and it doesn't matter if I read or not. Besides, the conditions in my family really can't afford three college students......" Her expression was a little gloomy.

"How did you get to the provincial capital?" Jiang Yan hurriedly interjected and asked. She didn't want to face two friends at the same time.

Chen Ying said: "My aunt works here, and her first job was introduced to me by someone she asked someone, which was the fast food restaurant you used to go to. She and Jiang Yan also met in that fast food restaurant, not long after Gao Jinsong went to Wuhan, although they felt very close to each other, but after Jiang Yan was transferred to another shopping mall, the two broke off contact.

"Your aunt also found you a job now?" Jiang Yan asked curiously.

Chen Ying smiled: "No." My aunt has been out of work for a long time, and now that she has retired and is concentrating on taking care of my uncle at home, how can she know my current boss? I found it myself. After the Spring Festival, a familiar shopping mall salesperson quietly told her that a company was recruiting, but the requirements were a little high. She tried her luck with the idea of giving it a try, and it turned out that the company only admitted six people out of the 100 people, and she was among them.

"Is the salary high?"

Chen Ying grabbed a pinch of peppercorns and threw them into the hot oil pot, and the peppercorns immediately stirred up a few clusters of fine oil flowers on the oil surface, and took the shredded meat that had been prepared a long time ago, pouted while looking at the pot, and said, "It's okay." Our boss is a Taiwanese, knocking on the door to death, and it's not easy to talk, at the beginning our commission was three pips, and seeing that we sold well, it immediately dropped to two points, and now it's only one point five. The sales performance of other counters like ours has already exceeded 2,000 a month, and we are only in our early 1,000s. He pursed his lips and smiled, "It's finally better than me at a fast food restaurant." I'm only 3,500 yuan a month in a fast food restaurant, and after all the expenses are removed every month, there are only a few left, and standing at the counter in the mall is better than there, and I can save some money......

Jiang Yan and Jiang Lihong both looked at her understandingly. Their experiences are similar, when they first arrived in the city, they were taken care of and helped by acquaintances before they gradually gained a firm foothold, and after getting familiar with the surrounding environment and adapting themselves to the city and this kind of life, they really began to struggle in the city - Jiang Yan is fighting for herself, she has been trying to get rid of the traces of the past, and is looking forward to becoming a city person; Jiang Lihong is living for her family, and almost everything she does is for her family with a greedy mouth. And Chen Ying, we don't know what her goal is yet, but this must be a capable girl, which can be seen from her capable appearance in front of the board and the stove, she is talking to Jiang Yan and Jiang Lihong here, and she didn't stop in her hand, and in a blink of an eye, two stir-fried vegetables and a soup were prepared, and she also scrambled an egg, mixed with shredded carrots to make a cold dish, and then there were two braised vegetables that Jiang Lihong bought early, this dinner can be regarded as sumptuous, and Jiang Yan's small strip shop is full. Jiang Yan also opened a bottle of wine that he didn't know where to find it, and poured a small half cup for the two friends with a tea cup.

But the atmosphere at the table was not very lively.

Jiang Lihong didn't talk much all the time, and sat there with her head down sullenly thinking about her thoughts. Chen Ying was not familiar with her, and she didn't know why she was happy, so after two sips of wine, she said that she was hungry, so she took a bowl of rice, and seemed to be ready to leave after eating. Jiang Yan couldn't find any good topics to break the dull atmosphere for a while, so he had to turn on the TV to see if he could find anything new from the TV.

What appeared on the screen was last night's football match, and it seemed that the TV station was rebroadcasting the video of the game, and the voiceover was full of praise from the host and guests to the provincial capital Mingyuan.

"It's not a good match." Chen Ying glanced at the picture and said matter-of-factly, "Last night's game was over." The provincial city of Mingyuan played a nest, and at the last minute, the teacher was forced to draw, their coach must have been blinded by lard, and the score was ahead and he was still holding on to others, and he deserved to be forced to draw by others. As far as Mingyuan's appearance is concerned, it is also a shame that Mingyuan's boss is embarrassed to say that their team is a A giant. These words were all read by her in today's newspaper. She doesn't care about these things on weekdays, but she is so bored at work that she has to read a newspaper left by a customer from beginning to end, so that she can pass a lot of time. But that's all she knows about the game, and she doesn't have a rough idea of who helped who scored or who conceded due to someone's fault.

"Can you read football?" Jiang Yan asked in surprise. It was amazing to her, no one around her liked football, even the male directors in the mall, they rarely talked about football. A a? Giants? Jiang Yan heard these unfamiliar words for the first time. You must know that the traditional sports strength of this province is table tennis, and it has contributed several world championships to the national team; In addition, the level of badminton and women's volleyball can also be ranked in China, and even the little-mentioned weightlifting event has produced a two-time National Games lightweight champion, which is an occasional pastime after dinner. As for football, it has always been an unnoticed sport in this province, neither has left any traces to boast about in history, nor has a broad mass base like table tennis, and has not even been able to carve out a unique page for itself in the newspaper, so even if there are two first-class clubs in the provincial capital now, they have no market - Mingyuan, the provincial capital of A-A, often does not even reach half of the attendance rate of home games, ranking first in the bottom of the league, as for the other A-B clubWell, a lot of people don't even know there's such a club in the city......

Jiang Lihong also looked at Chen Ying in a daze.

"Sometimes I accompany my uncle." Chen Ying said, "He used to be the coach of the provincial football team. This is not true, her uncle was only the coach of the provincial youth football team before he was sick, not the coach of the real provincial football team, and what is the difference between the provincial team and the provincial youth team, even she herself is not very clear, so she can't be regarded as deliberately coaxing two listeners when she says this. It was even less possible for the two listeners to comprehend the gap between the two, and they just looked at Chen Ying in surprise, as if she were her uncle.

"Your uncle is still a coach?" Jiang Yan asked. She knew that there was a football club in the provincial capital, and the video of their game was shown on TV.

He may have been an athlete before. Jiang Lihong thought silently. She remembered that he had two sweatshirts, and the blurred handwriting on his chest suggested that he might be part of a team in the province. She whispered, "There was also an athlete living in this house before...... and she looked at Chen Ying hopefully, expecting her answer. Maybe she could ask Chen Ying's uncle about something she wanted to know.

Chen Ying shook her head and said, "My uncle is not in good health and has been sick for a few years. She didn't pay attention to Jiang Lihong's words, but just told two friends who didn't know anything about football about the news she saw in the newspaper on weekdays. Mingyuan is not a team in our province, it is a team from Hainan, but they set their home stadium here. She didn't notice that Jiang Lihong and Jiang Yan were also from other provinces, and they didn't understand why the Hainan team came here to play, and what does "home" mean?

Chen Ying had no choice but to explain the definitions of "home" and "away" again. As for why Mingyuan from Hainan came all the way to the provincial capital, and why they called it "Provincial City Mingyuan", it was difficult for her to explain clearly to the two, and finally she had to reluctantly say that she didn't know.

"Can you ask your uncle about the next person?" Jiang Lihong asked eagerly.

Chen Ying looked at Jiang Lihong strangely. Could it be that the person she was looking for was a member of the provincial football team before? If so, then how did Jiang Lihong get in touch with this person? She turned her curious gaze to Jiang Yan and nodded subconsciously.

"It was a colleague of hers, and then there was no contact......," Jiang Yan said lightly.

"Oh." Chen Ying glanced at Jiang Lihong again and smiled at her understandingly, but she immediately said, "Don't get your hopes up too much - my uncle fell ill not long after he came to the provincial capital, and I don't know a few people in the provincial football team." Besides, the provincial team was disbanded two years earlier...... Is the guy you're talking about playing football? "If that person doesn't play football, then she doesn't have to ask her aunt. She can only find her aunt about this, and her uncle has a problem talking to this day......

“…… I do not know. Jiang Lihong lowered her head and whispered.

Chen Ying was stunned. How is this the case? She looked at Jiang Lihong in puzzlement, and then at Jiang Yan. Why doesn't Jiang Lihong even know about that man's past?

Jiang Yan could only smile bitterly at Chen Ying, and then came out to play a round for Jiang Lihong: "You don't listen to her." The man borrowed her money and ran away...... she didn't say more. If Jiang Lihong is wordy, she will definitely defend Gao Jinsong, and if she talks too much, it will inevitably make Chen Ying ask questions, so that if she talks about the first half of the sentence, Chen Ying will be able to generalize the matter in her heart, and will not ask any questions; Of course, the vague saying of "borrow money and run" is also very flexible - it not only leaves enough room for Chen Ying to imagine the whole story, but also does not arouse Jiang Lihong's opposition, and finally Chen Ying herself can find a way to cover up this embarrassing incident in her imagination.

Sure enough, as she expected, Chen Ying quickly said, "Sister Yan, I have something I want to ask you." I have a classmate who has recently come to the provincial capital, and I can't find a suitable job for a while, if there is any company in your mall to recruit people, you can call me, or call my classmate's pager directly......"

For several days, Jiang Lihong wandered around the sales departments of several real estate companies outside Qingshuitan Park, looking forward to meeting the person she had been thinking about for a long time. She received many beautifully printed advertising posters, but she never saw him. She also inquired with the staff of the real estate company, but as soon as she finished speaking, she immediately turned cold and did not hesitate to reject her with the sentence "We have no right to disclose customer information". In the end, she had no choice but to give up.

Could it be that he has already returned to Wuhan? Or did he have no intention of buying a house here at all, just stopping by to take a look here?