Chapter 3: Reverie
I don't know if I love her or not, I just want to be nice to her.
Zhou Tianle stood on the side of the road, first looked at the school cafeteria and the group of students who came in and out, thinking: Eating should be a kind of practice, and through eating, you should have an understanding of life. With this in mind, he walked into the cafeteria. He didn't go to dinner, but wanted to see what his classmates looked like when they ate, eating together, some men, some women, some men and women, some in groups, some alone, some talking and laughing, some silent, some kissing me and me, and some ignorant and in a daze. This is undoubtedly the case in society. It's just that I don't know why they came to the cafeteria, and they really realized that life is just because of simple hunger.
Walk through the cafeteria, walk out of the school gate, and walk about 500 meters to the right is a construction site. Zhou Tianle sometimes works part-time here to drive lifts, and the workers are ready to start work at about seven o'clock every day, most of them are simply washing their faces, and only a few can brush their teeth, and the behavior of brushing teeth may really be related to the age and the level of education. Rural people in the sixties and seventies did not like to brush their teeth, no, they should not have the awareness of brushing their teeth. At this time, I recalled that when I was young, I was forced by my mother to brush my teeth, and I also forced my father to brush it, and my father brushed it while my mother was there, and I didn't brush it when I was not there, and I remembered that my father was supervised by my mother to brush his teeth like staring at a child. When I was a child, I didn't have the consciousness of brushing my teeth, I cried and made noise, and I didn't know the benefits of brushing my teeth. Maybe it's because my father's genes are so strong that until now I just brush my teeth every morning and don't brush until I go to bed.
There are two places for workers to eat, one is that several families live together, and a specially selected cook is responsible for everyone's food. The other is to find a nearby restaurant to solve, most of the people who go to the restaurant are locals, they go out before dawn in the morning, most of them are riding motorcycles, because they can only eat in the restaurant when they go out early.
There are many small noodle restaurants near the construction site, and the most popular is a noodle restaurant called "Mo Homesick", Zhou Tianle only walked in when there were few customers, because there was a pungent smell when there were too many people. The smell comes from the workers who come and go. He does not reject workers, and even always feels that workers can give full play to the Chinese's hard-working and hard-working character, they are the backbone of each family, showing the responsibility and responsibility of men.
Walking into the "Mo Xiangjia" noodle restaurant, there are only three or two people inside, with an area of about 20 square meters, seven round tables are placed in the noodle restaurant, four small tables are placed at the door of the noodle restaurant, and two large porcelain bowls are placed in front of each table, a bowl of mustard and a bowl of pickled radish. Zhou Tianle walked to the innermost table and sat facing the door, he liked to lean back against the wall and look at the whole thing.
The man is in his forties and is in charge of hand-ramen, and the hostess is estimated to be a few years younger than the man, and is responsible for cooking noodles and seasonings. There was also one who was supposed to be their daughter, who was in charge of topping the guests, as well as wiping the tables and sweeping the floors. From their faces, Zhou Tianle saw the happiness and satisfaction of ordinary Chinese families.
After ordering a beef noodle, Zhou Tianle observed the girl who was sweeping the floor, because she was facing away from herself, so she couldn't see her front, but Zhou Tianle felt that she should be about the same age as himself, or one or two years younger than himself.
"The noodles are ready." After the hostess screamed, the girl put down her work, brought the noodles in front of her, and placed them on the table. Zhou Tianle raised his head, the girl lowered her head, and for a moment looked at each other, the girl was stunned for a moment, and then quickly removed her eyes in a panic, and turned around to go about her own work.
The girl has black hair, a delicate face, single eyelids, a simple hairstyle with oblique bangs, her hair is not trimmed, her head is clamped with black clips, and a red rope ties up her long hair and puts it on her back. When he turned around, the fragrance of his hair wafted into Zhou Tianle's nostrils, refreshing his heart and lungs.
Zhou Tianle felt that the girl should have washed her hair just last night, otherwise the fragrance would not have been maintained until now. Zhou Tianle started eating chopsticks, feeling that something was missing, walked to the place where the coriander was placed, grabbed a handful and threw it into the noodles, and ate it thoughtfully.
He looked at the girl wiping the table while eating, how old was she? Why didn't you go to school? Didn't read it? It stands to reason that a girl of this age doesn't like to do this kind of chores, she should wear beautiful clothes, dress up more delicately, walk between the major shopping malls with a few girlfriends, or eat, drink and have fun with her boyfriend.
Well? Maybe she's still single. If you are willing to do this kind of chores, you must feel that it is not easy for your parents, and it is too wasteful to ask for personal help, so you should help your parents reduce the burden of life. If so, it's so much better than the other girls sitting in college classrooms. Most of them spend their parents' money, play with their mobile phones in class, shop on Taobao, buy thousands of yuan of cosmetics, and even prefer to be taken care of for the sake of vanity and comparison.
Zhou Tianle shook his head, he knew that most of the students studying in Westlake College were from ordinary family backgrounds like him, and few were born with golden keys, most of the parents did not have extra money to let their children squander as they wanted, and the parents only gave their children to be hungry and frozen, and there was some extra pocket money. But parents usually don't think that college life is accompanied by brand-name mobile phones, Taobao shopping, exquisite perfumes, and brand-name bags.
Sitting at the table to the left of Mr. Zhou was a worker in his forties, dressed in a few thick old clothes, eating ordinary noodle soup with his head down, and a large steamed bun and a glass of white wine on the table. Messy hair probably hasn't been washed in days. It's because I save money so I don't eat meat noodles, and the leftover noodle soup with steamed buns can really fill my stomach, no matter how hard life is for the workers, only the wine is indispensable.
He is the pillar of a family, such hard work is for the family, if there are children, it must be for the children, I hope that my children can study hard, not like themselves, so hard to live. But does he know what his children are like in college? Like in the film and television drama, he sat in the classroom and studied carefully and took notes, working hard for his dreams. Does he know what kind of life his child is going to live in college? No, he doesn't know. He only knew that his child was a good boy.
At this time, the migrant worker looked up at Zhou Tianle, Zhou Tianle hurriedly withdrew his gaze, thinking: I am thinking too much, maybe his child is a scholar, he is sent to college and receives a scholarship, and when he has nothing to do, he still works and studies, loves life, and honors his parents. Zhou Tianle lowered his head and smiled, and continued to eat noodles.
Zhou Tianle took out a black wallet from his pocket, which only contained an ID card, a bank card, and dozens of yuan of broken silver, not even a hundred. He took out ten yuan and handed it to the proprietress and walked out of the noodle shop. After taking two steps, he suddenly looked back at the girl, who lowered her head in a panic and continued to wipe the table. Zhou Tianle thought to herself that she must have been looking at herself just now, could it be that she liked herself? Love at first sight? Ha ha...... It's also good to fantasize about it.
Looking at the time, it was already past nine o'clock. Walking out of the "Mo Homesickness" has been more than 100 meters, and looking back, the noodle restaurant has no customers. Oh, yes! At this point, there should have been no customers for a long time, and there was only one family of three people who were busy closing the stall.
There is still a year to graduate, it is time to think about what to do after graduation, you can't live for more than 20 years, you don't even have the ability to live independently, then more than 20 years are not in vain. Former high school classmates, after graduation did not choose to go to college but chose a technical college, studied the major of auto repair, three years, last summer vacation home, people have mastered a technology, into an auto repair company to work, the treatment is more optimistic, no longer need parents to worry about their own life problems, more independent self-reliance. Now think about yourself, think about the students who are still wasting time in college, I am really ashamed of my parents, myself, and youth. What have you done in the past three years? I fell in love without a hitch, read a few historical novels, and spent most of my time doing things that had nothing to do with my chosen major, or playing games with my classmates in the dorm room, watching adult movies, and bragging. When regretting that he had wasted his youth, Zhou Tianle thought about it again, isn't this another kind of youth.