Chapter 3: Shopping
As the rain began to fall in the afternoon, Hu Shanshan and I were forced to go back to the hotel early and wait until the evening to go out for dinner and enjoy the night view of the riverside by the way.
The evening breeze is cold and the lights are on, and when you walk on the bridge across the river, you will be prosperous and peaceful in front of you.
"Shall we go to Wuhan University tomorrow?" Hu Shanshan took a picture of the river scene, and suddenly asked casually.
"Hmm" I nodded in agreement, but I didn't have much opinion on the proposal. "Will we ever come here again?"
"What?" Hu Shanshan checked the photos taken, and the fluorescent screen of the mobile phone screen was reflected on her face.
"Nothing," I shook my head slightly. "I just feel a little sorry!"
"Regrets?"
"I've heard that the cherry blossoms at Wuhan University are particularly beautiful. We won't see it tomorrow. ”
"Then come back in the spring?" Hu Shanshan put down her phone, tilted her head and said, as if she had discovered a novelty, her expression was full of longing, and it seemed that she had found a problem worth thinking about, and she needed to be prepared.
"Okay! So, let's wait until spring and we go to Wuhan University. ”
I couldn't hide the excitement in my heart, and a beautiful picture of spring had flashed in my heart.
Hu Shanshan thought for a while, stared sideways at me, and asked, "You don't want to go to Wuhan University?" ”
"No! I just think ......."
"If you have your own thoughts, just say it, say that you will regret not seeing the cherry blossoms, hypocrisy!"
I was trying to defend myself when a propaganda truck drove behind me, shouting something from a shrill microphone. Since I was a child, my hearing was poor, and I had a local accent, so I didn't understand much.
"Let's not go out for a walk," Hu Shanshan said lightly as she looked at the car that was far away.
I looked left and right and found that it was just me and Hu Shanshan on the bridge, and I thought it was strange. "What did you say to us?"
"yes!" Hu Shanshan wasn't too sure, she lit up her phone and swiped her fingers: "It's not too early, let's go back!" ”
"Hmm"
When I returned to the hotel, I noticed that there were many more people wearing masks around me. The cleaning aunt in the corridor carried a watering can to sprinkle disinfectant water, and the unpleasant smell made people panic. At this time, a girl in her 20s asked me if I had bought a mask, and when I shook my head, the girl's face was eclipsed.
"Yikes! It's true, you can't buy masks anymore. ”
Hu Shanshan hurriedly explained: "Oh, we just went out for a walk and didn't go buy that"
"Is it that serious?" I was also a little nervous, looked at the dark night behind me, and then asked Hu Shanshan, should we also buy it?
"I seem to have brought one," Hu Shanshan said, "and I'll look in the suitcase for a while."
"So what should I do?"
"It doesn't matter to you." She said seriously. "You have a thick skin, and you can't invade all kinds of poisons!"
At this moment, a well-dressed middle-aged man came up to us, smiled gentlemanly, then put his arm around the young girl's shoulders, and said to her warmly, "Baby, don't always scare yourself. ”
The young girl looked at him with her slender neck raised, and all the bumps on her face did not dissipate.
The middle-aged man comforted the girl and complained in front of me and Shanshan: "Now this information age is like this, the slightest little thing will turn bad when it is passed on. Isn't it the flu? What year is it? It's like something."
The young girl struggled in the man's arms and raised her face
On the way back to the guest room, I suddenly thought of the man's cry of 'baby' and goosebumps all over my body.
"Hey, what do you think they're doing?"
"Couples!" Hu Shanshan said without thinking, and raised her thumb behind her shoulder. "Didn't you hear the man call her baby?"
I couldn't help but look back and be noncommittal. "Not necessarily! What if the family is father and daughter? ”
"Then this dad is young enough."
"If a man is well maintained, it is difficult to tell the age." I turned to Hu Shanshan and pointed to myself, "Few people can tell my age. ”
Hu Shanshan stopped suddenly, patted me away and hugged her arms and asked, "So, uncle, are you expensive this year?" ”
The Internet can not only make two people from other places who cannot intersect in their lives fall in love, but also bring people of different ages together. Although many people subconsciously refuse to forget their love, in the face of the person off the screen, your understanding of him is very one-sided. He can be sincere with you, or he can be perfunctory.
On the third day of our meeting, Hu Shanshan and I first went to Han Street, and there were few pedestrians along the way. From time to time, two raindrops from the gloomy sky warn you like a provocative warning, but there are still many people who are unmoved.
This is a particularly strange phenomenon, when you panic about it, everywhere you go there is the smell of disinfectant water, and the streets and alleys are filled with a kind of apocalyptic atmosphere; And when you don't think so, you will find that the whole city is peaceful, and many people are still doing what they need to do, working, exercising, and shopping for groceries, in an orderly manner.
Han Street is one of the busiest commercial streets here, with a wide variety of brand goods, and only here can you feel the prosperity and avant-garde of the city. You can bring your favorite person here to drink coffee lazily, take her to try on clothes and jewelry, or you can see the unique buildings of the Republic of China and taste all kinds of delicacies.
- In a word: coming here is the cost of money!
I don't have a lot of savings, but what I want to do most here is to buy clothes for Hu Shanshan. It is said that women will always lack a piece of clothing, and under my incessant persuasion, Hu Shanshan was also moved and promised to let me buy him a coat.
However, I underestimate a woman's pickiness in choosing clothes and colors, and when she sees a style she likes, she will think of which bag she can wear, what style of shoes and pants to wear, and even what kind of hair to comb and which shade of lipstick to wear......
"I think this one is amazing, stylish! Advance guard! Handsome! ”
I really didn't want to go shopping with her anymore, I wanted to promote her choice on the side, and said to Hu Shanshan who was swaying left and right in the mirror: "Moreover, Teacher Hu wears a special temperament, if you wear it to stand on the podium, the average score in the class will definitely increase by 8 percentage points." ”
"Isn't it too glamorous? Tsk...... no! ”
Hu Shanshan frowned, and when she looked at it again, she was even more disgusted, so she quickly took it off. "And there's a hat, awkward enough!"
"It's nice to have a hat! Wind. ”
Later, Hu Shanshan and I didn't buy a satisfactory coat and didn't have time to have lunch. I saw the security guard posting a notice in front of the glass window, so I walked over to take a look.
In the corridor of the hotel, yesterday's girl was holding a pink schoolbag and crying, and the middle-aged man coaxed her, his face full of sadness and helplessness.
"What's wrong?" When I passed by, I asked with concern, and when I saw the girl crying pear blossoms with rain, I glanced at the man meaningfully.
Hu Shanshan quietly shook my arm, trying to tell me not to ask more.
"Missed the train," the girl looked up, tears in her eyes.
"Hey! I didn't calculate the time, and I got up late. ”
The middle-aged man said and took out two train tickets from his pocket, and I looked intently, it was the train to Anshi at 10 o'clock in the morning, and it was 13 o'clock at this time.
I gloated and thought: how did I miss the time to sleep? What happened last night that delayed the rest?
I don't know if Hu Shanshan noticed my spirit, and coughed lightly before comforting the girl.
"It's not easy to buy a ticket at the end of the year, and then she can't buy it, so she cries when she is in a hurry." The middle-aged man shook his head helplessly and said.
"You still say, it's not all your fault..."The girl wanted to say something, but she stopped talking, but she swallowed it back, and then she cried even more sadly.
I glanced at my train and thought to myself that the same tragedy must not happen to us.
When I returned to the guest room, I washed my hands and changed my coat, and in the past two days, there have been propaganda broadcasts on the streets and alleys, which still gives people a sense of urgency. I lay down on the bed and played with my mobile phone for a while, and sent WeChat chats to my family.