Chapter 207: The First Day of the Lunar New Year
As soon as Tan Man woke up and opened his eyes, the first thing he did was to reach out and touch his mobile phone from the bedside, and as a result, it was unusually quiet, and even the New Year's WeChat seemed to have come to an abrupt end after the impulsive confession with Gu Mochen last night.
I finally mustered up the courage to say "I miss you", and the courtesy was still exchanged, so I should say a word.
I got up in a hurry, and seeing that my father was in a good mood, the loss was temporarily diluted.
"Dad, morning, I'll go to the next strip."
Tan Weiguo nodded and continued to hum a little song.
The activities in the community began in full swing, dragon and lion dances, gongs and drums were noisy, the Tan family floor was not high, and the balcony was facing the community garden, which was unobstructed, and it was clearer than downstairs.
"Later, let's go down too, make up, lively." Tan Weiguo walked over from behind.
"Here, it's even better."
"After a while, there will be aunts, square dances, performances, I heard, your Aunt Xu, also participated." His tone was pretending to be casual, but he was betrayed by the expression on his face.
Tan Man couldn't help but want to tease his father, and deliberately said: "I think on the balcony, you can see more clearly, your legs and feet are not good, so don't drill into crowded places." ”
"I'm fine." Tan Weiguo's voice was a few points higher, "Watching it live, and watching it from the balcony, can it be the same?" ”
"Oh." She couldn't help laughing, dragging her voice and agreeing, "Yes, yes, the scene is better." ”
"The water is hot, go down." With that, he stepped into the kitchen first.
Father and daughter poured breakfast together in the kitchen, and before long, they ate at the table.
"After a while, remember, here you are, Aunt Xu, bring a bottle of water."
Tan Man swallowed the noodles and nodded with a smile: "Obey, do you need to move a small chair down, she is tired of dancing, can she rest for a while?" ”
"You." Tan Weiguo nodded his index finger at her in the air, "Naughty." ”
"Hey, hey, hey......" Tan Man laughed treacherously.
Community activities, than yesterday's small fights in the community, the scene is more, not to mention the trusses, but also invited a little professional emcee, not long after the beginning, there are a lot of onlookers in the neighborhood, and the stools put out by the activity party are almost full, only a few sporadic empty seats.
Tan Man put on a down and went downstairs, she held her mobile phone in one hand and a bottle of mineral water in the other, followed Tan Weiguo who was walking in front, this crowd was crowded, for fear that if one was not careful, he would trip or fall.
"Dad, there's a seat over there, it's close to the stage, you hurry up and sit down." Tan Man grabbed his father's arm from behind and pointed not far away.
Tan Weiguo glanced at the seat over there, turned his head again, his eyes fell on the mineral water in her hand, and before he could speak, Tan Man understood what he was thinking about, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, when you sit down steadily, I will go backstage to find Aunt Xu and bring water for you." ”
Seeing her father sit down, Tan Man turned around and squeezed out of the crowd, walked in the direction of the stage, passing by a display board with a performance schedule, she stopped and looked, Aunt Xu's waist was encouraging, just in the next show, she looked behind the stage, a group of middle-aged aunts wearing red dance costumes were already ready to go, lined up, and could only wait for her to finish dancing, in the past.
Tan Man brushed her bangs that were slightly messy by the wind, and was about to wait under the big tree on the side, when someone suddenly shouted to her behind her, and when she looked back, it was Lin Jiaming.
She flickered for a moment, then pulled the corners of her mouth and smiled faintly.
Since coming back from Flower Street last time, Lin Jiaming has sent several WeChat messages, either wanting to take the initiative to find a topic to chat with, or trying to ask her out, but Tan Man has perfunctorily rejected her with various excuses.
After saying hello, Tan Man didn't speak again, and he didn't know what to say.
"You're coming to see the show, you're the only one?" He smiled as if all the embarrassment hadn't happened before.
She nodded, "Come with my dad, he's sitting there." After speaking, he pointed in the direction of Tan Weiguo.
"I was also forced by my mother to come, she is going to play a waist drum today, and the next show is to shout that the whole family must come to watch."
"Your mother also plays waist drums, we are here to see Aunt Xu."
"The two of them are on the same show, and it's already over." His chin lifted in the direction of the stage.
At this time, at the end of the previous song, the host dragged a close-fitting evening gift to the long group, in this temperature of not more than ten degrees, Chu Chu froze, after the curtain was over, a lively and festive northern Shaanxi folk song sounded, and a group of middle-aged women with outstanding demeanor came on stage enthusiastically.
Lin Jiaming suddenly reached out and pulled her arm: "Let's go, go to the front, and see more clearly." ”
Tan Man subconsciously shrank his elbows back and struggled for a while, but the other party didn't know whether he didn't notice it or didn't mind, so he opened the way for her first and squeezed a gap for her.
"Stand here, you should be able to see it." He said.
Tan Man pursed his lips, although he was reluctant, he couldn't refuse, so he could only stand tense and try not to have any physical contact with him.
She was absent-minded in a performance, and there was a person standing next to her who didn't like it, which always made people uncomfortable, so that the neat and rhythmic beating of the waist drum on the stage became a spell, hitting her head one by one, shaking her upset, and the depression that was finally diluted in the morning was also mixed together and made a comeback.
Before shopping in Flower Street, her disgust with Lin Jiaming was not so strong, but his performance that day, as well as his repeated interruptions, made her even standing next to him now, which became a torment.
Sure enough, there is no reason to like someone, anything he or she does, any expression, is so in line with your heart; But when you don't like a person, any trivial thing can be infinitely magnified and used as a reason to hate it.
As the last knock that resounded through the sky fell, the dance finally ended, Tan Man felt ashamed of Aunt Xu, thanks to Lin Jiaming, not only did he not appreciate it well, but he was very impatient.
As the audience's applause fell, Tan Man immediately said, "I'll send water to Aunt Xu." With that, he turned around and got out of the crowd.
I just wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, but I didn't want Lin Jiaming to follow.
"Vines, wait."
Tan Man's eyebrows furrowed, taking advantage of the noise of the crowd, pretending not to hear, and continuing to walk forward.
But he strode after her, blocking her.
"Manman, I have something to tell you."
"Aunt Xu is waiting for me to bring her water." She smiled perfunctorily, visibly reluctantly.
But Lin Jiaming insisted more than any time: "Just a few minutes." ”
Tan Man took a deep breath and put away his smile: "What are you going to tell me?" ”
"Let's go to the door of the community and talk about it, it's too noisy here."
Approaching noon, the traffic began to increase, Tan Man looked at the outside world through the car barrier at the entrance of the community, and tried to dilute the irritability in his heart, so as not to show it too obviously.
Lin Jiaming stared at the indifferent person in front of him for a while, and then asked straight to the point: "Manman, you did it on purpose, right?" ”
Tan Man was stunned, his gaze returned to him, and he looked at him puzzled.
"Deliberately ignore me, want me to pay more attention to you."
Is this guy watching too much romance, or is he feeling too good about himself?
No, she remembered that Niu Li said last time when she was having dinner at their house, her son has been excellent since he was a child, and he likes girls, and he still remembers that in high school, a little girl gave him scarves and gloves, and he was always spoiled.
That's right.
Tan Man raised his head and looked at him calmly as usual: "Jiaming, I think you misunderstood, I didn't pay too much attention to you." "Because you can't get close to my heart at all.
"Then I'll ask you a few times, why do you always refuse." He asked.
"I've made it very clear why I didn't go in WeChat."
"You're running away from me?" He stared at her, his eyes full of oppression, as if he had to beg for a talk.
She scratched her eyebrows, coughed lightly, and decided to spread out the words and said, "Originally, today is not suitable for talking about this, but since you have asked, it is better to talk about it as soon as possible, so as not to misunderstand." ”
"Actually, we know each other, it was originally wishful thinking on the part of the elders, you work in Suzhou, I work in Shanghai, in the short term, I have no plans to return to my hometown, and you will not rush to Shanghai, besides, I think our personalities are more suitable to be friends, so ...... You know what I mean, right? ”
Lin Jiaming seemed a little surprised, probably not believing that he had become the one who was rejected.
"Do you already have a boyfriend?"
Tan Man's eyes flickered, he thought about it, and said firmly: "No!" ”
She can't admit it, at least not in Lin Jiaming's first, with her understanding of their family, if she knew, maybe she would say something nonsense in front of her father, in this way, she was passive, not that she couldn't let her father know, but, you know, she must also tell it from her mouth, a daughter.
Lin Jiaming laughed self-deprecatingly, laughing a little disdainfully, and showing helplessness: "Okay, what do you mean, I understand, during this time, I was arrogant and abrupt and disturbed you." ”
"......" Tan Man is really not very good at dealing with this kind of problem, she frowned slightly, symbolically easing the atmosphere, "Don't say that, everyone is a neighbor, there is nothing to disturb." ”
He nodded and said, "Okay, I wish you to find Ruyi Langjun as soon as possible!" With that, he left first.
Tan Man looked at his back for a few seconds, then withdrew his gaze, and subconsciously took out his mobile phone, which was still very quiet, quiet and annoying.
Turning his head to look at the street outside the community, a car outside the car barrier just started and drove out like an arrow, rolled up a few fallen leaves, turned around in the dust a few times, and fell down again.
Tan Man thought to herself, the real resemblance of the car and Gu Mochen is also a black Audi off-road, it seems that the license plate is still Shanghai A, she walked too fast, she didn't have time to see it clearly, she laughed at herself, anyway, it's not him, what if you see it clearly.
In the next second, an inexplicable grievance swept over, and his nose was slightly sour.