Chapter 3: The Candle of Opportunity
(a)
She is a thoughtful woman, and in the small town, she has secretly inquired and selected several times. Some of the old workers who entered the factory entrusted their daughters to her, hoping that she would bring her daughters to Shanghai, but she politely refused, the children from these families were too delicate, and their education was too low, and after arriving in Shanghai, they couldn't support her for a lifetime.
Later, when she heard about Chang Xia, she was secretly happy in her heart, and felt that she really had nowhere to go, and it took no effort to get there.
She had known Chang Xia for a long time, in the supplement of the company newspaper. I know that the little nurse writes a good article, and she has a bachelor's degree.
In the unit, college students and workers are clearly separated, college students, the salary is higher, and workers are always just small ants. The company is so small, who doesn't know who?
In the past, before Chang Xia broke up, with the intention of being a mother, she felt sorry for Chang Xia.
It's not worth it, how can you choose such a man, that is, he is not an official family, and the family has no money; If you don't have a family background, then you can have a degree; But he didn't even have a degree;
It's okay to have no academic qualifications, the lowest, at least, I'm okay to look like, but he ...... Alas, it seems that he deliberately chose a man with no family, money, education, and appearance to marry.
Mother, if you know that your daughter has found such one, then she will cut it off with a knife.
Now it's okay, it's completely broken. She took a fancy to it, with Chang Xia's current situation, that little girl's desire to jump out of the town, as long as she gently stretched out a finger, Chang Xia would definitely do her best to hold it, and her gratitude to Dade naturally went without saying.
So, she quietly got in touch with Chang Xia through an old friend.
(b)
For the two of them to open a ditch and explore the road, it is all her compassion, where did this little girl come from in her previous life.
It's like choosing a folk girl to enter the palace, thinking that she will be the great benefactor of that girl's life, she unconsciously has the momentum of arrogance.
Just imagine, she was not related to that girl, but because she was reluctant to "let go" Xiaomu, she gave this great luck to this girl.
How could her two daughters not be so lucky! I suffered so much in Shanghai. She was indignant that God had not brought this luck to her daughter.
Her youngest daughter used to live in such a dark and dilapidated dormitory, and she only ate a bowl of noodles, and she was so distressed that she cried for her mother. Like this girl, as soon as she enters Shanghai, she will take this girl into her home and live in her daughter's room.
And the girl in front of her was still a little ignorant and confused about the good luck that befell her, thinking of this, Aunt Hong was even more indignant and regretful.
The tone unconsciously added an uncomfortable element of condescension.
"You must keep it a secret until it is done! I don't want to be poked and scolded in the back in the town, saying that I dig the corner of the Wu family! ”
Fortunately, she didn't know that Chang Xia still had a Bai Xian stored on her phone, after all, she only went back to the town occasionally.
"During this time, you should pay attention to your words and deeds, and do not touch any boys. Think about how you can hide your history. Wait for me to call, and you will come when I ask you to pass. ”
"Don't talk about it to anyone, and if we meet on the road, pretend we don't know each other. Siri is only the size of a slap, and I don't want to be accused of digging someone's corner. Wait a minute, I'll go first, you go a little later. ”
Chang Xia remembered that in the rice noodle shop where the light was not bright, Aunt Hong's teaching expression, obviously, "people" refers to Wu Min's family.
After Aunt Hong left proudly, Chang Xia was left alone to sit at the wooden table and ponder the whole thing. The whole process is uncomfortable, especially the middle-aged woman's unsmiling, stern face, like Chang Xia owes her a debt that she can't repay in her life.
But if someone really sent a golden cane, the face behind the pair of golden canes, no matter what kind of expression it looked, would not care for the time being.
After meeting once, Aunt Hong went to Shanghai and occasionally contacted Chang Xia by phone. Chang Xia finally felt that this matter was ethereal, and this golden cane was still far away in the clouds. Later, there was a relationship with Bai Xian.
But just after Chang Xia completed the resignation procedures, Aunt Hong called and repeatedly told Chang Xia to check her luggage to her home in Shanghai. This is actually true.
At this time, Chang Xia suddenly faced two life choices, or to go to Shanghai and be Aunt Hong's "third daughter"; Or put aside all possible temptations and follow Bai Xian to start a life she couldn't predict.
(c)
Chang Xia, who was wearing a white tunic dress, with long hair draped softly behind her ears, stood in the afternoon sun, holding a cup in her hand to drink water, stopping the action of drinking water, holding a cup in her hand, quietly looking at the roof not far away, her eyes were full of confusion of choice.
She never imagined that she, who was once desperate, would suddenly face two life choices when she was leaving.
Thinking of her in the cold night of the town's winter, the winter of this town, in the usual summer, feels like no winter, so cold.
A person walked across a bridge, the street lamps were dim, and they were as yellow as the moon dripping with tears one after another.
She looked at the road ahead, and her heart was empty in the night as thin as thin water, and at that time, she did not know where she was ahead.
Later, during an embarrassing trip to Nanjing, he talked to Bai Xian on the phone.
The sprout of love in the stones of daily life gradually revealed its prototype as the phone continued to be carved and chiseled, and the two met.
Just when Chang Xia was about to follow Bai Xian and never return to the town, suddenly, there was another fork in life.
After pondering for a long time, Chang Xia called Bai Xian, told Bai Xian what had happened, and asked him what to do? Bai Xian was silent on the phone for a long time, and then said cautiously: "It's good for you to go to Shanghai to have a look!" ”
(iv)
In fact, there was another voice, floating in Bai Xian's chest, lingering, but Chang Xia couldn't hear it at that time.
"If you don't let you go, you may regret it for the rest of your life. Instead of letting you stay by my side, there is always an unwilling heart, it is better to wait for you to see the scenery and return to my side. ”
With his understanding of Chang Xia at that time, he knew that Chang Xia had a greedy and curious heart for distant places.
In fact, Chang Xia's mind is also active, putting aside the "Xiaomu" for the time being, the scenery in the distance is gorgeous, and she must go to see it.
After all, she has only met Bai Xian once, and if she fails in life in the future, she still has a way out.
In the middle of the night when Chang Xia left the town, Bai Xian, who was in Fucheng, was almost completely sleepless.
In the dark night, Chang Xia was woken up by the vibration of the pager placed next to the pillow, Chang Xia turned on the light, and it was only three o'clock in the morning.
Chang Xia was caught by the habitual sleep, and sat on the edge of the bed hanging her legs in a daze.
The room has long been barren, as if it has been removed from the flesh and bones, opposite is an empty wooden bed, the wardrobe is also empty, and a row of shoes under the bed has also been taken away, only the bed quilt that sleeps on the body is old, and it is left here, you can not do it.
All this was as silent as if it had been sucked out in the white light of the night.
The pager jumped again, and the big black beetle fluttered uncomfortably, and Chang Xia grabbed the pager in his hand.
That day, Bai Xian said to Chang Xia, you go to Shanghai, I would rather wait for you, than you regret it in this life.
This pain tore apart when he said you go, and in the early morning of Cen Jing, Bai Xian saw off Chang Xia with sleepless nights, and it was possible to see off Chang Xia away from his life and never look back.