Chapter 22: I want to sing
Last time, I talked about Chang Xia's preparation to contact netizens who had never met.
(1) In normal summer, put the microphone between your ears and shoulders. The semi-circular phone booth obscured the faces of passers-by looking at her.
The red scarf and long black hair on his chest were pulled by the autumn wind, leaving only a gray coat and a blue skirt, swaying slightly in the wind.
Regardless of whether it was abrupt or not, Chang Xia dialed the number, and in the short interval of waiting, Chang Xia felt like a desperate rabbit, in order to escape the pursuit of the hunter, he wanted to climb into the Moon Palace along the empty air.
"Hey!" Someone over there finally answered the phone.
"Autumn water". She asked? "Huh?" There was inexplicable: "Who is Qiushui?" The man on the phone shouted, and it was a young man.
Chang Xia nervously wrapped one finger around the telephone line, and the curved line was stretched straight.
Hearing the words, Jian continued to shout in a joking voice, "Who is Qiushui, Qiushui answers the phone." β
It's like a boat sailing through the cabin in the middle of the night, hearing the sound of the water crashing and the loud words on the other side.
Then there was a burst of laughter on the side of the microphone, Chang Xia's feet kept moving around in embarrassment on the ground, and the first reaction she wanted to throw away the microphone, feeling as if there were countless pairs of eyes coming out of the words, looking curiously at this girl who took the initiative to call the door.
But she secretly comforted herself, anyway, they didn't know who they were?
Her gaze swept over the bare branches. It seems that there is a lot of time to observe the scenery in front of me, and the tree in front of the hospital has been cut off its branches. Only the thick branches remained, facing some half-new shophouses. This turned her into embarrassment.
The boy, whose face was temporarily covered by a mask of his screen name, later said that he had just given his cell phone number to his little cousin.
Several people from the company's marketing department were decorating things in the newly rented house, and they rushed to rent the house after the New Year.
He wondered if he was looking for him? However, his screen name is Akiba, not Akisui.
He took the phone in a hesitant laugh.
"Hello! Which one, please? "Another person answered the phone, listening to the voice, it was also a young boy, the voice was milder and deeper than the previous one, but it was also Mandarin not very standard, oblique, with some local dialects.
Chang Xia felt a little regretful, in Beili Town, their Mandarin was spoken like small block letters, square and soft.
However, at that time, Chang Xia was more embarrassed, like playing the huqin with his raw hands, Chang Xia slowly and jerkily pulled out a few words: "Are you Qiushui?" I'm Jin Se Nian. β
Probably in reality, no one has ever called him like this, and he reacted slowly to the echo of these words in the microphone, as if following someone else's language: "Autumn - water, Jin Se Nian." β
Suddenly it dawned on him: "Oh, you areββ, and then surprise, surprise, surprise, and so on. A girl who took the initiative to break the wall of the phantom ice called.
She asked him for advice, and he did his best to tell her something. Before hanging up the phone, he said warmly and gently that if there was something in the future, he could call him at any time.
(b)
After officially going to work on the eighth day of the first lunar month, I went back and forth a few times to run errands in the town, and everything went according to plan.
On the way, he went to an office to sign, Chang Xia wore a red dress and a black dress, lined with a delicate face, and his long black hair like thick ink was draped over his shoulders. A middle-aged man sitting in the office saw her come in, and his eyes suddenly lit up. As Chang Xia signed, he couldn't help but stretch out his pale and greedy hand.
"What are you doing?" Chang Xia asked annoyedly.
The man salivated, reached out and continued to stroke the back of Chang Xia's white and tender hand in circles.
A married middle-aged man, a lewd office clerk. The town is so big, knowing that Chang Xia lived unmarried before, it must be coquettish.
In the past, there was a man who had been eyeing her, not letting anyone get close to her. Now that this man is gone, why don't he come and get some oil.
At the same time, I regret in my heart, why didn't I wait for her on the way to get off work earlier! Anyway, she is an orphan girl, so what can she do?
Chang Xia picked up the signed paper and ran away. A weak and beautiful girl will always be disturbed by others. And after that!
You can go tomorrow. Alone in the dormitory, she suddenly felt that the wind was swishing around, and she was in hell, surrounded by minotaur ghosts.
She retreated into the room, where she seemed to find a place to hide in the room with a few single beds, a television room on a table next to the window.
She turned the TV to the fullest, laughing out loud as she sat in her chair and leaned back in her chair to burst into tears. If someone looks in through the window, they think that the girl inside is happily watching TV.
Chang Xia remembered to call Blue. In her mind, she was stubborn that Blue could hear the cracking of her life.
After dialing, it was a buzzing sound, it was hard to hear clearly, there was an accent like the wind whistling, blue said that he was on the train, going to Linyi to buy goods, and he couldn't hear what she said. Will you get in touch next time?
Chang Xia listened silently, and heard the sound of blue feeding the ground inside.
After hanging up the phone, one person walked in the dark, Chang Xia squatted on the ground, crying bitterly. To him, it was as empty as if he had brought a pile of ice from an ice kiln and put it on the sunny beach to build a house.
(c)
At the top of the stairs, I met Chun Shan in a gray coat, she was here to see Chang Xia off, with a solemn look on her face.
"Another doctor is gone, and he has gone to Shanghai." Usually, I hear a lot of people talking like this. More and more people resigned, and they were rated as intermediate titles, unwilling to live such a stable life, so they found a good unit outside and came back to handle the resignation procedures. They walked steadily.
Like Chang Xia, a young, weak girl resigned from a small town's state-owned enterprise and went to a metropolis outside where she was unfamiliar with her life, which seemed to Chunshan to be a little incredible.
Extremely poor all his life, he will not leave a unit. This is the state of life of most people in the town.
What the outside world is like, no one knows? Chunshan, who came to see her off, secretly worried for her in her heart. At the same time, the thought of a girl who had never left the town alone now had to go out to find a job alone. Chunshan felt that there was an unspeakable life that was terrible.
The two walked side by side on the streets of the town, the hazy night, the night wind was bleak, Chun Shan tightened her scarf, and the two walked silently, only to hear the footsteps following them.
"When you get there, buy an electric stove and use eggs to make noodles when you have time, which is also more nutritious." Half-ringing, Chun Shan admonished, after all, she has become a family, and in life, Chun Shan can take better care of herself. She was worried. "If you meet a suitable person, marry it." Chunshan continued: "At least, you still have such convenience, you are single and unmarried. β
"Okay, don't be depressed, maybe Chang Xia will make a name for himself! Isn't it? β
In the middle of the night, when Chunshan came back, Chang Xia looked at the empty hut blankly and said, "Don't." "Let your red veil and black hair fly together in the wind, so that all the pain of today will be melted away with the wind.
Chang Xia wanted to sing, so he took the train to another place to sing. Chang Xia was about to leave the place where she had lived for nearly eight years.