While thinking about it, Wu Dao unconsciously walked to the supermarket. He wanted to buy towels, washbasins, toothpaste, toothbrushes and other daily necessities, and then buy something to eat, but because it was the first time he went to this supermarket, he didn't know anything about the layout of the goods, and he wanted to know what the supermarket sells, so he looked at it in rows.

Walking and walking, Wu Dao suddenly heard someone call his name, and the voice sounded like Meng Yihong, he turned his head to look, and sure enough, it was her. Meng Yihong said:

"I knew you were going to buy something at this supermarket, so I should have waited for you to come along. Just now I was still thinking about buying something to eat, and I asked you to come over and eat it, but I don't know what you like to eat. Okay now, you're here, buy whatever you want to eat, I'll treat you. ”

"Teacher Meng, you have already helped me a lot, I can't trouble you anymore." Wu Dao said.

"You don't have to see me, you don't know the place here, and it's the first day you came, so I should treat you to a meal. Besides, from Mr. Tian, I am your elder again, and it is natural to entertain you for a meal, but my cooking skills are not very good. If you want to eat out, it's okay, I live alone, and I always have leftovers to cook by myself, so I often eat out and get tired of eating. ”

"Then it's troublesome Teacher Meng, I don't like to eat outside."

"What do you want to eat?"

"I'm not picky, just buy the usual dishes."

Wu Dao and Meng Yihong bought vegetables together, and then went to buy toothpaste and toothbrushes, and Meng Yihong helped Wu Dao choose towels, basins and slippers. Wu Dao also wanted to buy a simple wardrobe, Meng Yihong said to him that the price of the wardrobe in the supermarket was too high, so it was better to go to the outside market to buy it.

Coming out of the supermarket, Meng Yihong took Wu Dao to a nearby market to buy a wardrobe. On the way back, Wu Dao went to the business hall to get a new calling card.

The unexpected encounter with Meng Yihong made Wu Dao's heart feel very warm, although Meng Yihong has always said that it is his elder, but he feels that this middle-aged woman with a gentle temperament and thinking about others everywhere is more like an amiable sister.

After returning to the dormitory, Meng Yihong began to choose vegetables and prepare to cook. Wu Dao put the daily necessities he bought in his dormitory, and also came to Meng Yihong's dormitory to help. He saw that Meng Yihong's room was the same size as his own, but it was cleaner and tidier, with more furniture, including laptops, refrigerators, TVs and washing machines. Meng Yihong said to Wu Dao:

"A few years ago, the dormitory was full and there was not a single empty room. In recent years, they have moved out one after another, and although some still have dormitories, they do not come to live, and more than half of the rooms are empty. Most of the young teachers who live here are new, and there are a few old teachers who live here. But they are all from other departments, I don't know them well, and I don't have much contact, so I'm quite happy that you live here. From now on, we will be neighbors, and if you have any problems, just come to me. ”

"When I just went out, I asked the doorman at the north gate for directions, and he also told me about the dormitory building, which is the dormitory of the Department of Chinese and the Department of Foreign Languages." Wu Dao said.

"You're talking about that Master Li, right?"

"It's him."

"Master Li is also a warm-hearted person, and he has helped me a lot over the years. I couldn't reach the roof when the bulb broke, so I asked him to help me change the bulb when I came back, and he could help fix the furniture, curtains and other problems. ”

"When I asked him for directions, he was very detailed."

"Do you know what Senior Brother Tian said when he introduced you to me?"

"I don't know, Mr. Tian didn't tell me."

"He said that you are very honest and shy, and that you are a person with dreams, personality and hard work, and also said that you changed majors when you entered graduate school. At that time, I was still wondering what kind of person I was when these contradictory traits came together. Now it seems that these are not contradictory, honesty and shyness are the external manifestations of a person, and waking up from dreams and personality are internal characteristics. ”

Wu Dao and his mentor Tian Mowen knew each other very well, and what Tian Mowen said to Meng Yihong, he was not surprised at all, but it was the words that Meng Yihong said later that touched his heart. Wu Dao said to Meng Yihong:

"Teacher Meng, do you think what Teacher Tian said is right?"

"Listening to what Senior Brother Tian said about you, and seeing you in person, I found that what he said was not wrong at all. When your uncle and aunt came to see you off, you said that you had someone you liked, I was curious, I don't know what kind of girl it was, can you tell me about it? ”

Meng Yihong's words made Wu Dao feel that she was a person who could confide in her inner distress, so she opened her heart:

"The girl I liked was very special, she was like the person of my dreams. She has an admirable experience, but also extraordinary talent and shape. Her mother died when she was very young, and after graduating from junior high school, she left home to work outside and did a lot of work, but she never gave up her dream and studied on her own to get a bachelor's degree. It was a very coincidental thing that we met, when I was still in my first year of graduate school. She wanted to go to Jeju University for graduate school, so she found my email address on the Internet and sent me an email and told me about her, hoping that I could help her get into graduate school. I was so touched by her experience that I decided to help her and met with her. The first time we met, I was attracted by her temperament. She showed me the poems she had written, and they were brilliantly written. Later, we became best friends. Later, she took the graduate school entrance examination twice and finally entered Jeju National University as she wished. In the first half of this year, she signed up for the volunteer teaching program of Chinese as a foreign language, and now teaches Chinese in Southeast Asia. ”

"This girl is really not simple, if I were a man, I would definitely like her, did you confess to her?"

"She passed the preliminary examination when she first took the graduate school entrance examination, and was eliminated in the second examination. During the May Day holiday, I took her to Beijing to relax, and when I visited the Cao Xueqin Memorial Hall in Xiangshan, I confessed to him. ”

"The result?"

She said that she had already thought about it, never getting married for the rest of her life, and not accepting anyone's pursuits.

"And then?"

"After that, there was a period of time when our relationship was so strained that she almost cut off contact with me. At that time, she was a substitute teacher in a private school, and because the family relationship was not harmonious, she had to review for the graduate school entrance examination, so she stayed in school during the summer vacation. She is a sentimental girl, maybe I hurt her too deeply, she was alone in school, fell into a depression that could not be extricated, and chose to commit suicide by taking sleeping pills. Before committing suicide, she sent me a text message. Luckily, I arrived in time to take her to the hospital and was able to save her. Later, she told me the reason for rejecting me. ”

"What is the reason?"

"It's because of her family. Her parents often quarreled, and when she was ten years old, her mother committed suicide by drinking pesticides in a fit of rage. She witnessed all this, and her heart was greatly stimulated, and she developed a rejection of marriage and love. ”

"It's no wonder that a lot of adult behaviour stems from what happened in childhood. Therefore, a complete and happy family is very important for a person's growth. What happened to you in the future? ”

"After she told me why, we became best friends again and made a pact."

"What kind of agreement?"

"She said that when she was forty, if neither of us were married, she would marry me."

"I didn't expect you to have such a tortuous emotional experience. I know you're twenty-seven years old, how old is that girl? ”

"She's twenty-five now."

"That means fifteen years before the age of forty, do you really want to wait for her fifteen years?"

"Yes."

"What if I met a better girl?"

"I don't think there's going to be a better girl in the world than her. However, I may not have to wait that long, at the end of April, a classmate got married, and she went to the wedding with me, and then she told me that she was not so afraid of marriage and would try to accept me when she came back from abroad. She also told me before she left the country that she wanted me to wait for her to come back. ”

"It's really interesting about the two of you, like a novelist. But this also shows that literature is derived from real life. Having said all that, I'd love to know what that girl really looks like, do you have a picture of her? Take it and take a look. ”

"There are a few."

"Can you show me?"

"Yes."

Wu Dao had been carrying a photo of him and Si Baifang with him, and when he returned to his dormitory, he washed his hands, took out a photo from the bookcase, and returned to Meng Yihong's room. Meng Yihong looked at it and said:

"With poetry and books in her belly, this girl is a very talented person at first glance. She didn't look like a girl from the North, but like a Southerner. ”

"Yes, her mother is from Hunan."

"What's this girl's name?"

"The surname is Si, it is the commander and Sima's Si, named Baifang, one hundred, two hundred hundred, and Fangcao."

"Si Baifang, this name is really good, and it is also a good match for this girl."

"Yes."

"Listening to you tell you the story of the two of you, I think you and Si Baifang do have a deep fate. However, no one can say anything about feelings. Fate can't be forced, Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu are in love, aren't they not together in the end? ”

"Yes. Everyone knows that fate cannot be forced, but when you are really in it, it is difficult to extricate yourself. Mr. Meng, can you tell me your story? ”

"It doesn't hurt to say that. Back then, when I graduated from graduate school, I could actually go to a better unit, and it was also for a talent to come to Fangzhou and work in Fangzhou Teachers College. ”

"Is that person your ex-husband?"

"Yes, I have known him for a long time, we were classmates in junior high school and high school, and then we were admitted to different universities. He didn't go to the university as well as mine, and after graduating from college, he returned to Fangzhou to work, and I was escorted to graduate school. First, I don't really like to do research, and secondly, I also want to get married, and after graduating from graduate school, I went to Fangzhou Normal College. Soon after we worked, we got married. In the beginning, life was peaceful. We want to have a baby, and the family is happy. Later, I was diagnosed with infertility, and the contradictions gradually increased, and everyone in the family was very tired and awkward. Although no one asked us to divorce, I could see that they all wanted children, especially my father-in-law and mother-in-law talked about it every day, so I took the initiative to file for divorce, which was a relief for everyone. The house belonged to theirs, I didn't want anything, and it was inconvenient to rent a house alone, so I moved to the school dormitory. There is a definite number of aggregation and dispersion, and it must be dispersed when it should be dispersed. In order to start a new life as soon as possible, I went to study for a PhD. At that time, it was still Fangzhou Teachers College, and there were very few doctors in the school, and after I graduated, I was rated as a professor a few years later. ”

"You've had such a bumpy experience."

"You're still young, and you should have a lot of options. Maybe a few years later, Si Baifang will marry someone else and have her own family and children. Promises are promises, and when that day comes, you can't wait like this forever. However, whether you can meet the right person or not depends on fate, and everything depends on fate. Having said all that, the dishes have been chosen, so let's start stir-frying. ”

Meng Yihong fried three dishes that night, and although she told Wu Dao that her cooking skills were not good, she was actually very good. Meng Yihong also took out two cans of Tsingtao beer. During the meal, the two of them talked about some work things, as well as some past things about Meng Yihong's work after he arrived at Fangzhou Normal College. Meng Yihong said to Wu Dao:

"The compulsory course of the foreign literature course in the Department of Chinese is only two volumes of "History of Foreign Literature", which is arranged to be taught in the two semesters of the second year. Before, I lectured on the next volume, and the first volume was taught by an old teacher, at the beginning of the year, the old teacher retired, and then you were recruited. I can talk about the upper and lower volumes, I guess, you just came, you have no teaching experience, this semester I will talk about the first volume, and next semester you will talk about the next volume. ”

"Don't I have a class this semester?"

"You can start with an elective course, you can teach anything, you can have one class a week, you can also have one class every two weeks, there is no limit."

"Then I'll talk about the most familiar study of French literature."

"Yes. Also, after the start of the school year, you have to give an open class, so that all the teachers in the department can listen to it and give you advice, and you will prepare it in the next few days. Don't be nervous, it's just a formality, and no one will really find fault with you. ”

"Then I'll tell you about Camus."

"Yes."