The already dilapidated Geely sedan stopped at the door of the dormitory building, and Lin Jia said to Kexin, who was sitting in the back seat fiddling with her mobile phone:

"You carry the quilt yourself."

"Why am I taking it, it's very heavy."

"Nonsense, you go to school, and I don't go to school. Let me tell you, from today onwards, you go to college, and my task is completed, so you should let me worry. ”

"Mom, what are these words? You're ready to abandon me right out of college? ”

"I didn't say that I abandoned you, you should start living independently, it's so big."

"I'm only eighteen years old, so I can't be independent yet."

"You have to exercise your life ability from now on, and when you go abroad in the future, you will have to rely on yourself, and I can't accompany you."

"You can come with me."

"Don't talk nonsense, hurry up and send your luggage up, I still have something to do."

Kexin put her phone into her schoolbag, slowly opened the car door, and pulled the quilt basin out of her seat while muttering:

"Definitely not my own mother."

Lin Jia also got out of the car, heard her words, and kicked her lightly in the ass:

"Later, your dad will find you a real mother."

Ke Xin grimaced at Lin Jia and walked upstairs to the dormitory with her luggage. Lin Jia followed behind, carrying large bags of daily necessities and food in her hands. In the dormitory for eight people, the beds were all empty, and Kexin was the first to report.

"I'm right, let you come early, you can choose a well-located bed." Lin Jia put the things in his hand on a bed board with a lower bunk and said to Kexin.

"What's good or bad, it's all this one room."

"You are stupid, you can get the sun by the window, don't be like our family, always gloomy."

"I just want to choose the lower bunk, so that I don't have to climb high every day."

"You kid is stupid, how clean the top bunk is, who comes and who sits on the bottom bunk, you go home and wash the bedspread yourself?" Without waiting for Kexin to say anything, Lin Jia had already rolled up the quilt, climbed onto the top bunk near the window, and chose the position to the west.

"Mom, you're really athletic." Kexin said with a hippie smile on her face. "Why do you want that?"

"It's sunny in the west on the opposite side, and it's uncomfortable on a hot day. It's so comfortable to get the sun in the morning, and it reminds you to wake up early. ”

"I CAN SET UP A MORNING CALL."

"CALL A FART, I SHOUT HOARSE EVERY DAY, YOU CAN'T AFFORD IT."

Lin Jia quickly put Ke Xin's bed away, and Ke Xin had been playing with her mobile phone next to her. She descended the ladder and put away the washbasin and other items. Took out a stack of money from her bag and gave it to Kexin. Ke Xin happily took it.

"Save some flowers."

"Got it, Mom." Kexin hugged Lin Jia's neck and kissed her.

"Okay, I'm leaving, I'm calling. What are you doing now? ”

"I'll go around the school and go to the classroom and wait for the ceremony."

"Okay, then I'll go."

Two men went downstairs. Kexin walked along the road in front of the building in the direction of the playground, Lin Jia started the car and drove to the outside of the school, she parked the car on the side of the road, took out a box of cigarettes from the toolbox of the car, and lit one. The phone rang, she took it, and there was a word on the screen: Xiao. She pressed answer.

"Did Kexin send it to school?"

"Nonsense, why don't I send you?"

"Why are you getting less and less able to speak?"

"You don't know how to speak? Are you still her father? Just looking for a daughter-in-law, right? ”

"Okay, don't talk nonsense with you, I'll call the child."

Lin Jia hung up the phone, looked out the car window at the conspicuous sign at the entrance of the university, and suddenly burst into tears.

After more than three years of struggle, today I finally achieved my goal, going to college seems to be nothing for Kexin, but for Lin Jia, it is a big event, much more important than her own work performance. Because Lin Jia didn't go to a regular university, she felt that this had always been her regret, and her studies were still good in high school, but later because her family asked her to go to work earlier, she slowly gave up the idea of going to college. Although she was later sent to a junior college for two years by the unit, this is not a formal school for her, so she must want Kexin to make up for her own shortcomings.

In the past three years, she didn't count on Xiao Shaohui. Xiao Shaohui can also imagine how difficult it is for Lin Jia to take the child, but he can't intervene. Every time it comes to the topic of her daughter, Lin Jia immediately turns her face. She is like a dog mother guarding her children, sensitive and vigilant, afraid that the outside world will have any encroachment and plunder on her daughter.

The phone rang again.

"Are you finished?" Lin Jia didn't look at it, and shouted at the phone.

"What's the matter, sister, it's me."

"Oh, it's you."

"What's the matter, who are you so angry with? Did Kexin go to school? ”

"Just cleaned up her dorm room."

"Come and eat with me, it's close."

"Okay, I'll buy some food."

"No, I've got them all here."

Lin Jia drove the car to a nearby low-rise building area, and walked around left and right for a long time before finding the small house that Lin Yi rented. This community was originally inhabited by local farmers, who were actually residents at the border between urban and rural areas, and 20 years ago it may have been a crop field. They all built their homes into simple small buildings with two or three floors, and then rented them to Beipiao from all directions. Although Lin Yi is not a North Drifter, she has not gone home to live since she got married, and she has no place of her own at home, and she has been renting a house everywhere since then. In order to build more houses, the buildings there are all next to each other, and there are only narrow small aisles between the buildings. Lin Yi's cottage was on the second floor of a building, and Lin Jia's car couldn't enter the passage, so he had to park on a slightly wider side street. She went up the stairs of the black hole, the corridor was also dark, the doors of the residents were opposite, Lin Jia counted them, a total of eight. Only Lin Yi's door was open, she was preparing a meal in the room, there was almost no place to stay in the very small room, a double bed accounted for nearly half, in addition to other necessary living utensils, two people in the area that could move had to pass by, and the coffee table in the middle of the room was placed with all the dishes of shabu mutton and an induction cooker.

"It's so rich, what do you need me to do?"

"No, you can find a place to sit down first, and stay out of the way. How's Ke Xin? ”

"It's all arranged."

The two sisters sat opposite each other on either side of the coffee table.

"Who did you just talk to?" Lin Yi asked.

"Who else, her father."

"What's the matter? Is he still thinking about you? ”

"Whoever made him worry about it, he was sick. I really think I should help me take care of the kids. ”

"Okay, people didn't say they wouldn't help you, it was you who didn't let go. Fortunately, now you have survived. ”

"Isn't it? It's been a tiring few years. ”

"Sister, it's time for you to think about your own business."

"What's the matter?"

"What are you talking about, it's time to find a partner."

Lin Jia woke up like a dream. I thought to myself: I can really think about this.

At this time, Lin Yi's mobile phone rang, and it should be her husband over there. Lin Jia saw that her sister was talking to each other very gently, it should be to tell Lin Yi when she will go home and let her buy good vegetables and other common things.

Having said this, Lin Jia remembered that she had been taking care of Kexin for college entrance examination during this time, and she had not been in contact with her sister Lin Yi for a long time, so she didn't know how her situation was, in fact, Lin Yi's affairs were more troublesome than herself.

Lin Yi is five years younger than Lin Jia and almost forty. She and her husband used to work in the same factory, but then the factory closed down, and the two of them received tens of thousands of yuan in compensation, and they were both laid off. Lin Yi's health is not very good, she has not gone to college, it is not easy to find a job, she basically relies on her husband to do odd jobs everywhere to maintain the family, they have never had a house, they can only rent a house, so that they have not even dared to have a child after being married for so many years.

"How are you? I didn't bother to ask you during this time. ”

"I'm fine."

"Where's Xiao Yong?"

"He got a job in Changping and only came back once a week."

"You're hard enough, are you okay?"

"It's okay, I found an old Chinese medicine doctor and prescribed me medicine, and it works."

"It's okay, I'm most worried about you, you don't have children, what will you do in the future?"

"I think it's good now, there's no burden, it's okay for two people to live for a lifetime, isn't it just a difficulty, and it will be fine in the future."

Lin Jia looked at her sister, although the current life is difficult, she can see that she is still quite satisfied, it is the kind of warm and sweet day, not seeking luxury, plain and harmonious.

Although my sister's words were just in passing, they reminded Lin Jia that she had just sent Kexin to school, and an important task she had completed in the past few years.

During the period of intermittent entanglement with Xiao Shaohui after the divorce, Lin Jia never thought about meeting new people, starting a new life, and then being busy taking care of her daughter, it is impossible to have this kind of thought, and now maybe as my sister said, I should think about how I will live in the future.

Xiao Shaohui can't worry about it anymore, he hasn't been in touch for a while, and he has slowly faded, not to mention that he should be stable now, it's inconvenient to bother him anymore, maybe now he is not living alone. Kexin was busy reviewing her homework, and she didn't go to her father's place, so she didn't hear from her, but she felt quite down-to-earth and peaceful.

It's just that this kind of thinking makes her feel ridiculous, 4 people in their forties, but they think about falling in love again, and even whether there will be a new home and a new man to live with in the future, which feels like a dream when I think about it.

But she thought of her daughter going to school again, and her work would be a little easier, although she was divorced, but she used to have her daughter by her side and didn't feel lonely, but now she is basically alone, and she is indeed waiting for her life to be completely new, she doesn't know what the future will be like, whether she can adapt to it.

And after all, she is only forty years old, she feels that life is still very rich, and there are many life experiences that need to be experienced, not to mention that she is very confident, she is still beautiful among her peers, and even those sisters and colleagues who are a few years younger than her are also a little ashamed of her, why let this beauty be wasted, it will be too late to regret it when people are old and yellow.