Chapter 2 Choosing a palace maid
(a)
Just now, at the densely populated Shanghai Railway Station, a middle-aged woman in her 40s was sending off a young girl. The middle-aged woman was permed with a curly woman, and the grooming was neat, and they both looked preoccupied.
Until the moment before getting on the train, the middle-aged woman did not give up hope and said to the young girl: "Xiao Xia, go back with your aunt, isn't it just the money for a train ticket?" Auntie makes it up to you. ”
Chang Xia didn't say anything, looking at the dense crowd of waiting for the bus.
The ticket cutting began, Chang Xia was swept into the flow of people, and in the crowded crowd forward, Chang Xia looked back at Aunt Hong for the last time.
Aunt Hong's lips were pursed, and Aunt Hong's expression of pursing her lips grew like fruit and jumped out of her white and red skin, and Aunt Hong's eyes showed helpless indignation and regret.
Chang Xia knew that if she Chang Xia was really Aunt Hong's daughter, Aunt Hong would have slapped her out of the train station a long time ago. At this time, she could only know that Aunt Hong had a kind of hurt and resentment in her heart that she had been let down and that her plan had failed.
This person named Aunt Hong almost completely changed the love fate of Chang Xia and Bai Xian, and her and Bai Xian's life was almost broken because of this.
The two passing trains were pulled together by an accidental cilia, and at this moment, the cilia was almost blown away by the inadvertent wind.
In fact, Chang Xia left the town by car early that morning, and her first stop was not Fucheng, where Bai Xian was located, but Shanghai. The story begins with Chang Xia's last days in the town.
(2) Just as Chang Xia was about to leave the town and go straight to Baixian, an unexpected thing happened.
One morning, Chang Xia was cleaning up in the room, the room was messy, there were a few cardboard boxes on the ground, stuffed with quilts, clothes and books, and scattered gadgets were spread out all over the table.
There was also a small plush dog hanging from his wallet. When I went to the department to pack up my things at the end, I saw a fluffy puppy with yellow wool hanging in the cupboard, and a burst of pity swelled up in my heart.
She held it in her hand, and there was a small red dot on the tip of her cheeks, which she had when she bought her lipstick. I brought it with me when I bought it!
I clearly remember that one afternoon, Wu Min shook her awake and stretched out something and shook it in front of her eyes. The puppy, her eyes lit up, she snatched it, held it tightly in her arms, rolled over, and fell asleep again.
Holding it in my hand, a nostalgia for the past was a little warm day in my heart. It's the warmth of small-town life.
When I moved, I looked at the room full of things standing in the middle of the house and didn't know where to start, and I remembered Li Qingzhao's "Look around, and melancholy, and vast." "When I put things in the paper box little by little, my heart was filled with a sad feeling.
This house that I have lived in for half a year, from the accident half a year ago, the world seems to be torn apart, from the crazy rejection half a year ago, from the coldness in this room half a year ago, to now I have established a little bit of relationship with it.
A few months ago, she regained a little mood to clean it up and decorate it, and by the arrival of a person half a month ago, this room gave her a different kind of feeling.
Life is full of impermanence, like a script that has been cut and modified, and you don't know the final ending.
Suddenly, there was a suspicious knock on the door outside, accompanied by the voices of two women: "I don't know if I live here?" Knock it out and see! ”
Chang Xia opened the door, one was a woman about thirty years old, and the other was an elderly woman, who looked like mother and daughter.
A woman about thirty years old, Chang Xia knows, the same hospital, but she is just familiar with her on weekdays, why did she come to her today?
The two of them had obviously just climbed the stairs, panting a little, and said directly: "Xiao Chang, someone wants to introduce you to a university teacher in Shanghai. I don't know much about the specific situation, so you better come with me! ”
Somewhat mysteriously, Chang Xia was taken to a newly opened rice noodle shop in front of the hospital.
Lifting the curtain at the door, I saw a middle-aged woman in a red silk shirt sitting in the corner, with permed hair and watery white and ruddy skin.
It's just that the surface layer on the watertight peach is a layer of slightly dry dense lines, judging from this dense lines, the age should be between forty and fifty years old.
She looked Chang Xia up and down with a critical gaze, her eyes revealing a layer of shrewd calculation, as if she was a little dissatisfied with Chang Xia, and frowned slightly.
Chang Xia wears a small vest with black spots on a white background and a pair of red floral culottes on the bottom, looking slender and moving, elegant and cute, but not worldly.
"Sit down, and have a bowl of rice noodles too." She said condescendingly to Chang Xia. He turned to smile at the two women who brought Chang Xia again, obviously, they knew each other very well.
After a few people sat down, they chatted for a while. The middle-aged woman lowered her head and drank a sip of rice noodle soup, and then glanced at Chang Xia, the queen mother blessed her, and said slowly: "Xiaomu is a good child, a university teacher, and a native of Shanghai, but it's a pity that I don't have a third daughter." ”
She measured Chang Xia with her eyes, she had done such a great good deed to herself, and the girl in front of her was still unaware of the good luck that had fallen from the world, and her heart was quite uncomfortable.
Chang Xia slowly figured out the reason for the matter. It turned out that this middle-aged woman, that is, Aunt Hong, was thinking about leaving this town when she was young, and as the years passed, she was almost old, but her wish was finally fulfilled in her two daughters.
Both daughters studied in Shanghai, and after graduation, they both stayed in Shanghai to work. When I went to see my daughter, I saw that my daughter lived in a dilapidated dormitory, and it cost more than ten yuan to eat a bowl of somen noodles, and this mother was so distressed that she almost shed tears.
At the beginning of this year, she retired and went to Shanghai to live with her two daughters. A few members of the family, gritting their teeth, built a house in Shanghai.
In the eyes of the small townspeople, they were envious, and finally left the small place and went to the metropolis.
Aunt Hong looked back at the people in the small place, and couldn't help but be a little arrogant, the caged birds in the metropolis looked at the domestic chickens in captivity in the small place, and they were all unsightly.
Xiaomu was the homeroom teacher of her youngest daughter when she was in junior college. She could tell that Xiaomu liked her little daughter.
When she first went to Shanghai, her family's house was renovated and there was no place to live, so Xiaomu let her rent a house for her to live in.
The house her family bought was also due to a discount given by a relative of Xiaomu in a real estate company. This discount is nearly 10,000 yuan less.
Now, the family is close to Xiao Mu as her own family, and in her eyes, Xiao Mu is the embodiment of love when she was young.
It's a pity that the youngest daughter has already intended someone to be a crusher, and for the mother, she can't change her daughter's mind. The eldest daughter's boyfriend position is not vacant, but this mother is reluctant to "let go" Xiaomu.
She thought about it and finally came up with a foolproof plan, she was going to bring a "daughter" from the town to Shanghai, and this "daughter" would be grateful for taking her out of the town and settling in the metropolis for the rest of her life, and Xiaomu would still be their son-in-law.