Pan Rui and his group of brothers made an appointment in the food stall of the town's one-night market, they were all the best people in high school, playing ball and games together, and after graduation, they went to college, went to college, and worked, and finally got together again.

There are six men on the table, including Pan Rui, and only one girl is Xia Zhi. These six people usually get together once a month, and except for Pan Rui, the other five are bachelors. When I heard this battle last month, Xia Zhi didn't come with me, but the five people didn't follow, so they had to ask Pan Rui to bring Xia Solstice over to meet.

"Come, sister-in-law, you drink tea." The tall thin man who called Liu Neng poured her a cup of tea first, and she immediately thanked her. When I was in college, I also had dinner with Pan Rui's roommates, but it was the first time she was called "sister-in-law", and she was quite ashamed to hear it.

As a result, Pan Rui wiped out her gentle and good image with one sentence: "She doesn't need to serve tea, she can drink." ”

The five of them shouted and cheered, Liu Neng asked the waiter to bring an extra glass, and Xia Zhi stared at Pan Rui with the whites of his eyes. Pan Rui only squeezed her mischievously twice.

They are Pan Rui's brothers, but for Xia Zhi, they are just strangers who have just met and can't remember their names, and Xia Zhi is not used to drinking with strangers, but he still clinked glasses with everyone according to Pan Rui's meaning.

At the beginning, everyone spoke politely, needless to say, Xia Zhi also guessed that it was because of her presence, so she didn't believe that a group of men would not even speak with foul language.

Everyone's topic revolves around her or takes her around, no matter who accidentally deviates from the topic, someone will always quickly lead the conversation to her again, ask her if she is suitable for life in Wugu Town, ask her about the situation in Kangzhou, and so on.

After two rounds of drinking, the men's eyes gradually became empty, and they didn't know which sentence to start with, she couldn't interject, so she silently sandwiched the dishes.

She didn't care much if she could talk or not, they kept circling her, which made her feel uncomfortable. It's also fun to listen to their nonsense, and you can know a lot of Pan Rui's past troubles. She was also teased from time to time.

But when they poured the wine cup by glass, and who started to speak in tongues, the table began to rattle uncontrollably.

Xia Zhi was completely stunned at this time, she watched them slap the table for a while, hug their shoulders for a while, and laugh after a while. She laughed awkwardly, but she didn't know what she was laughing at.

Pan Rui's face was flushed with alcohol, and he turned his face to her and asked her, "What's wrong with you?" ”

"Uh...... Nothing ......."

At this time, Liu Neng staggered to her with a wine glass, and said another sentence, she was stunned for a moment, she thought that this should be a bar to honor her, and hurriedly stood up.

Liu Neng seemed to have rediscovered her existence just now, and shook his head with his tongue in Mandarin and said, "Sister-in-law, I will work hard for you in the future!" ”

Liu Neng touched her wine glass and took a sip of the wine in her glass. Xia Zhi didn't understand why he said that he would work hard in the future, but he still smiled and took a sip of wine, and there was another coaxing on the table inexplicably.

Summer Solstice sat down, while the six men stood up at the same time, each filling a glass of wine.

She didn't know if she should have stood up with a full glass, but they didn't seem to wait for her, and in the second she hesitated, they were already holding their glasses to the sky.

Xia Zhi looked up at them and felt that she had been completely pushed out of their joy, as if she was watching a movie where she couldn't catch the laughter at all, and the audience laughed, and she was the only one out of it.

Not only did she not fit in because her life experiences did not coincide, but the language barrier made her feel like a bystander from another world.

In Pan Rui's house, the Pan family will be on her side, and as long as she is present, they basically communicate in Mandarin. As soon as she went out, she was blocked everywhere because of language problems.

The dialect of the entire Taicheng area is its own branch, known as Taicheng dialect, and each county has a slight difference in individual words and tones, such as Dahe dialect and Taicheng dialect are not exactly the same, but the dialects of each county can also communicate with each other.

After she came to Taicheng, she had suffered more than once for not knowing the dialect. To buy a fruit, the boss will charge her two dollars more. Eating beef offal noodles, she ordered food in Mandarin compared to the meals ordered by others in dialect, and the beef offal was significantly less. There is also a previous application for a job at the newspaper, and it is suspected that he was brushed off for this reason.

She was angry, but she wanted to learn dialects more than once. She asked Pan Rui to teach her, but she just learned to say a few words, and even Pan's father, who was unrestrained and unrestrained, laughed breathlessly, and Pan Rui even laughed at her for having no talent for dialects.

Pan Rui refused to teach her anymore, and she had no choice but to give up.

In fact, if she didn't go out, she wouldn't have such a strong feeling of isolation, but at this moment, she was dragged by loneliness and was deeply at a loss. She sat quietly, holding her hand on her cheek and watching them stagger at each other.

She was so bored that she wanted to sleep, but she didn't drink much, she was more awake than anyone at the table, she wasn't sleepy, and in the end she watched them stagger.

She gently shook Pan Rui's hand: "You drank too much, right?" Shall we go back? ”

Pan Rui buried his head in the crook of his arm, grabbed his head and nodded twice, Xia Zhi took the bill to the cashier to settle the bill, Liu Neng and another person who seemed to be nicknamed Beard rushed over to grab her bill, she didn't rob the two drunken men, so she had to let them go.

A group of people staggered out of the night market, except for two people who walked from the neighborhood, everyone else came by motorcycle or electric car.

Xia Zhi watched everyone walking towards the row of parked motorcycles, and hurriedly pulled Pan Rui: "Let's take a taxi back, you're drunk." ”

Pan Rui took her into his arms, and the strength of his hand was so strong that she staggered, as if she was the drunk one, and the wine in his mouth rushed to her face: "No-no!" I can drive. ”

Xia Zhi was a little angry: "If you dare to drive, I don't dare to sit." ”

Liu Neng came over and said, "Yes, Pan Rui, you have to listen to your sister-in-law, you go back by car." ”

Xia Zhi saw that the others had already unlocked the car and were about to get into the car, and said worriedly: "Don't drive it, I'll call the car to send you back." ”

Liu Neng waved his hand as if he had heard a joke and said, "No sister-in-law, we didn't drink much, just he drank too much." We also live close, you can take him back, and let him come back tomorrow to get the car. ”

After finishing speaking, Liu Neng no longer listened to Xia Zhi's persuasion, and rode away with the other two. Xia Zhi helplessly watched them disappear, and then stopped a taxi on the side of the road to go back.

Pan Rui was so drunk that he slept in the car, and as soon as he got out of the car, he vomited jaundice water on the side of the road. It took a lot of effort for Xia Zhi to get him half-dragged and half-carried to the third floor.

When she entered the door, she was worried that the movement would be too loud to wake up Pan's father and Pan's mother, and finally went up to the third floor, and she wondered that the two elders were not woken up like this, it seems that Pan Rui's good sleep is inherited from the previous generation.

It was impossible to get Pan Rui up to take a shower, so she dipped a hot towel in it and wiped him clean. As she washed his face, she couldn't help but scrutinize his face.

Her fingers traced along his face, trying to take in every arc of his face, and finally, she imprinted a gentle kiss on his forehead.