Chapter 3 Solitude
Meng Jiayue's room was very different from Ruan Yu's thoughts, as soon as the door opened, he saw a shelf full of books, and immediately Ruan Yu let out an exclamation, and then looked carefully, what children's books, fairy tales, popular science novels, famous books, comic books, etc., Ruan Yu was dazzled, and he didn't take his eyes off Meng Jiayue when he entered the door, and he didn't pay attention, and his head hit Meng Jiayue's back.
"Ahh I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. Ruan Yu hurriedly apologized to him, afraid that he would be angry.
"It's fine."
Meng Jiayue didn't care, but looked at the books on the bookshelf and asked, "Do you like to read?" ”
Ruan Yu nodded hurriedly and said, "I like it." ”
In her hometown, her grandfather had a small bookcase with a lot of old books in it, and she heard her grandfather say that some of the books were older than Ruan Yu. Although the pages in those books are yellow, and there are wormholes and missing corners, Grandpa Ruan has told Ruan Yu since he was a child that those books are treasures, and he often reads the content with Ruan Yu.
When she came to this house, she couldn't see the books, they were basically Ruan Yue's textbooks, so she suddenly saw more books than Ruan's grandfather's small bookcase, Ruan Yu couldn't think of anything else in her mind, if it wasn't for someone else's house, she would have wanted to take one directly from the bookshelf and read it.
"Take whatever you want." After Meng Jiayue finished speaking, he went to the bedside to pick up and fold the clothes he threw down casually, and Ruan Yu immediately ran over to find the book.
Ruan Yu flipped through the bookshelf for a while before finally taking a copy of the "Doraemon" comic book, turned around to find Meng Jiayue but didn't call anyone else, and didn't see the figure outside the door, so he didn't know what he was going out for.
With a book, Ruan Yu was not afraid, pulled the chair next to the desk and sat down, looking down at the book with great interest, his mind was completely immersed in the comics, and he didn't even know when Meng Jiayue would come in.
Meng Jia saw that she was looking energetic, so he casually put the snacks he brought on the table, and simply found a book to read.
During this period, Aunt Chen came once and saw that they were reading, so she didn't bother, closed the door lightly and left.
The room was quiet, and after I don't know how long, Meng Jiayue suddenly heard a sobbing sound, at first he thought it was an illusion, but when he heard it again, he looked up and saw Ruan Yu silently wiping away tears, as if he didn't want him to notice, biting his mouth and not daring to raise his head.
Meng Jiayue didn't want to pay attention to it, and just pretended not to hear her cry, but when she glanced at it, she noticed that the spread out on her legs seemed to be "Doraemon", and she asked curiously: "Why are you crying?" ”
"Didn't cry." Ruan Yu hurriedly shook her head in denial, but her state was not adjusted, and there was a cry in her voice.
Unable to hide it now, Ruan Yu raised her red eyes and said sadly: "Fengzi is dead." ”
Meng Jiayue didn't react, he stretched out his hand and said, "Give me the book." ”
Ruan Yu closed the book and handed it to him, Meng Jiayue glanced at the cover, it was "Doraemon Theater Version", and then followed the depth of Ruan Yu's reading to the part of "Nobita and the Messenger of the Wind", and finally understood who Fengzi was.
"Potato chips?" Half-ringing, Meng Jiayue asked her.
Ruan Yu nodded boldly, she was still in a very sad mood, and she wanted to eat something happy and happy.
Meng Jiayue picked out the potato chips from the table, tore open the seal, and handed them to Ruan Yu.
"Thank you." Ruan Yu took it and stuffed it into his mouth, the sweet and sour tomato flavor, and the potato chips were crispy and thin. She hasn't eaten it a few times at home, because Ruan Kangming likes to eat it, even if there are potato chips, they are all close to him.
"Do you eat cookies? It's also delicious. ”
Meng Jiayue handed over the opened biscuit box again, and Ruan Yu pinched a piece, and the sandwich was still her favorite chocolate filling.
"Delicious!" Ruan Yu stuffed the whole biscuit into her mouth, her cheeks bulging, and she praised it indistinctly.
Meng Jiayue raised her eyebrows to look at her, unscrewed a bottle of Coke and handed it over, Ruan Yu took a sip, her face wrinkled with anger, Meng Jiayue asked her, "Don't like to drink?" ”
"It's not." Ruan Yu shook his head, "I like to drink it when the gas in Coke is gone, so I won't rush it." ”
Meng Jiayue didn't speak again, only dismantled all the snacks she brought, and handed over another pack after seeing that she had finished eating, Ruan Yu had just eaten, and now she ate snacks like this, and it didn't take long for her to be held up until she couldn't eat anymore, Meng Jiayue stopped unsatisfied. Ruan Yu quietly breathed a sigh of relief, finished reading "Doraemon" in his hand, and went to the bookshelf to change a copy of "One Hundred Thousand Whys" to read.
The room was quiet, during which Ruan Yu looked up at the alarm clock on the desk, it was almost two o'clock, but Ruan's father hadn't come back yet, otherwise he would have come here to find her.
"Your dad didn't come back that soon." Meng Jiayue said suddenly.
"Huh?" Ruan Yu blinked, but didn't react.
Meng Jiayue didn't raise his head, only flipped through the book and said, "Every time your father goes out to eat, he doesn't come back at least two or three o'clock, and if he drinks, I'm afraid it will be even later." ”
"How do you know?" Ruan Yu's eyes widened, and his expression was incredulous.
"I also know that your mother has a bad temper, but she never shows it in front of people." Meng Jiayue continued.
Ruan Yu bit her lip and couldn't speak, her mother really has a bad temper, and she usually starts a fire inexplicably, and every time she is unlucky, she is either scolded or beaten, she was often beaten when she was a child, and now she is a little better when she is older.
"But although your mother has a bad temper, she is very good at dealing with the world, and she is quite sincere to my mother." Meng Jiayue looked up and smiled at her, and said, "Otherwise, my dad wouldn't have let my mom be friends with your mom." My mom is too simple and easy to deceive. ”
Ruan Yushu couldn't stand it anymore, and looked at Meng Jiayue cautiously and asked, "What are you talking about this?" ”
"Say it casually." Meng Jiayue suddenly smiled at Ruan Yu, the smile was indescribably strange, her heart trembled, her limbs suddenly rushed to a coldness, and she subconsciously lowered her head, not daring to look at Meng Jiayue again.
"Still." Meng Jiayue glanced at Ruan Yu a few times, and said: "Your sister's temper is like your mother, and your brother is like your father, as for you, I haven't seen who you look like after observing for a few days, but you should have a slight social phobia." ”
"What is social phobia?" Ruan Yu asked him carefully.
"You don't have to know, come here." Meng Jiayue said.
"What?"
"It's at my house."
Ruan Yu glanced at him, put down the book and moved it in small steps.
It could be seen that Meng Jiayue was in a good mood, he stretched out his hand and pointed to his side, motioning for Ruan Yu to sit down, Ruan Yu didn't want to sit at first, because Meng Jiayue was a boy, and he was still sitting on his bed, she was embarrassed, but seeing that Meng Jiayue's face had deteriorated, Ruan Yu sat down in fear.
The sheets on the bed are dark blue, printed with a few simple lines, neat, there is not a trace of wrinkles on the bed, and the quilt is folded like a square, which reminds Ruan Yu of the quilt folded by the soldiers on TV, but although Meng Jiayue's quilt is also regular, it is definitely incomparable.
"It's quite obedient." Meng Jiayue closed the book in his hand, and then asked Ruan Yu, "Do you want to play with the computer?" ”
"Hmm." Ruan Yu nodded, if she hadn't dared to nod before, but after what happened just now, she felt that Meng Jiayue was not so strange.
Meng Jiayue turned on the computer and asked, "Play games or watch animations?" ”
"Anime, watch Naruto."
"Do you like this? I do have a Detective Conan comic book there, so if you like it, you can take it home and read it. Meng Jiayue said and pointed to the upper level of the bookshelf, where there were several comic books in the corner.
Ruan Yu followed his fingers, his eyes lit up instantly, and he nodded vigorously as he looked at the row of books.
Ruan's father didn't come back until three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and Ruan Yu only watched a few episodes of the cartoon, and said goodbye to Meng Jiayue unsatisfactorily, and then went home. Ruan's father drank wine, drunk, and his body smelled of alcohol, and when he got home, he lay on the bed and didn't move, Ruan Yu shouted a few times in the past, and went out when he saw that he was asleep.
The comic book he borrowed from Meng Jiayue was still on the sofa, and Ruan Yu flipped through the books for several hours with great interest, and only closed the books until dinner was in the evening. When I looked at the clock, it was past six o'clock, and Ruan's mother had not come back yet.
Ruan Yu ran to her dad to take a look, and found that her dad was sleeping, and she didn't wake up by pushing and pushing, so she ran to the kitchen to wash rice and cook, because the dishes were too complicated and couldn't be fried, so she beat ten eggs and made a pot of scrambled eggs with only eggs.
When the meal was ready, there was finally movement at the door, and Ruan's mother came back with Ruan Kangming and Ruan Yue.
"Mom." Ruan Yu came out of the kitchen.
"We've all eaten at our grandma's house, and you've cooked our food?" Ruan Yue asked casually.
"It's done."
Ruan's mother went into the kitchen to take a look, and immediately exclaimed, "How many eggs have you beaten?" ”
Ruan Yu shrunk his neck and replied, "Ten." ”
"Four or five is enough, why are you playing so much? It's only scrambled eggs, and I don't know how to get a handful of green onions? It's okay to wash a tomato, what do you see? Why are you so stupid? How do you have a brain? Ruan's mother raised her eyebrows and said to Ruan Yu, and then asked, "What about your father?" ”
Ruan Yu hurriedly replied, "Sleep." ”
"When are you still sleeping? Still haven't eaten? Ruan's mother angrily went to the bedroom to find Ruan's father.
Ruan Yu put the rice out with trepidation, and when it was served to the table, she was told by Ruan's mother again. She didn't dare to refute, for fear of being scolded even harder, so she drooped her head and didn't say a word, and finally finished eating, and Ruan's mother paid for her to go to the supermarket to buy something.
"What to buy?" Ruan Yu asked, holding the money.
"Buy eggs, you cook a meal and run out of eggs, and buy a bottle of soy sauce, buy a bag of rock sugar, and stew mung bean soup tomorrow." Ruan's mother said uncomfortably and advised: "Rock candy should be old rock sugar, you have to pick up the eggs and buy them, don't take those eggs with broken holes, they are all broken." ”
"Okay." Ruan Yu nodded, and then asked, "How much do you buy eggs?" ”
"You look at it and buy it, one or twenty yuan is fine."
"Okay."
Ruan Yu went to the entrance to change her shoes, and before leaving, she heard Ruan's mother say, "Remember to come back and brush the pot." ”
Ruan Yu nodded, and didn't care if Ruan's mother saw it or not, she opened the door and ran away.
The elevator just stopped on this floor, Ruan Yu just closed the elevator door, and was opened from the outside, she looked up and found that it was Meng Jiayue, wearing a sportswear, and the white sneakers on her feet were clean without a trace of dust, unlike Ruan Yu's white shoes, which were always unclean.
"Where do you go alone at night?" Meng Jiayue asked her when she came in.
"Buying something." Ruan Yu tilted his head to look at him, and then added: "Don't you do the same." ”
Meng Jiayue smiled: "I'm going to exercise." ”
Speaking of this, Ruan Yu didn't know what to say, she saw that she was too close to Meng Jiayue, so she moved to the side, and was discovered by Meng Jiayue, and raised her eyebrows: "What are you doing so far away?" I'm not going to eat you again, come here. ”
Ruan Yu pinched her fingers and didn't dare to look at him, but she still moved over in small steps, and when the elevator reached the first floor, Ruan Yu almost couldn't wait to get out of the elevator, for fear that Meng Jiayue would call her again.
There is a large supermarket about one stop away from the community, Ruan Yu has been to it a few times, it can be reached in less than ten minutes, she doesn't have much to buy, she weighed the eggs and took a bottle of soy sauce, and Ruan Yu was a little difficult to buy rock candy. She didn't know what her mother said about the old rock candy, and she hadn't heard of it before, looking at the row of rock candy on the shelves, she picked it up one by one and looked at it, and she couldn't see the difference.
After hesitating for five or six minutes, Ruan Yu casually took a bag of rock sugar, thinking that it was all rock sugar anyway, and it should not be much worse, and her grandmother didn't hear of any old rock sugar when she stewed mung bean soup.
When Ruan Yu came home with her things, she saw Meng Jiayue running in the garden of the community, and she didn't know how many laps she had run, and her bangs were wet with sweat and stuck softly on her forehead.
Ruan Yu originally wanted to take advantage of Meng Jiayue's detour to the other side of the green belt and didn't see her to hurry away, she was most afraid of greeting people, but she met Meng Jiayue head-on just a few steps, and she couldn't pretend not to see it, so she stopped to say hello.
said that it was to say hello, but in fact, it was to smile at people and not speak, Ruan Yu really didn't know what to call Meng Jiayue, she didn't call her name directly, for fear of saying the wrong thing.
"Ruan Yu." Meng Jiayue stopped in front of her, glanced at the things in her hand, and asked, "Can you move it?" ”
"You can carry it."
"Then I won't help you, goodbye."
After Meng Jiayue finished speaking, he continued to run, and Ruan Yu hurriedly carried his things and walked home.
When she returned home but didn't see Ruan's mother, Ruan Yu put things into the kitchen, saw that there were still dishes and chopsticks in the sink, and then remembered that her mother asked her to brush the pot before leaving, and resigned herself to brushing the pot and washing the dishes and chopsticks, Ruan Yu came out of the kitchen and asked Ruan Yue: "Where is our mother?" ”
"Let's take a shower! Get out of the way, you're in the way. Ruan Yue was watching a Korean drama, but the TV was half blocked by Ruan Yu, and immediately waved her hand impatiently and asked her to go away.
Ruan Yu sat down next to her, saw that there were freshly washed grapes on the table, pinched one and ate it, and asked, "Sister, do you know what old rock candy is?" ”
"Old rock candy? It's the kind of big, yellowish one, I boiled eight-treasure porridge and added rock sugar to it, don't you know? The one that was chopped with the back of a knife was the old rock candy. After Ruan Yue finished speaking, she frowned and said, "Don't talk to me, I'm seeing a beautiful place." ”
Ruan Yu glanced at the TV, the hero and heroine were hugging each other, and she couldn't see anything good, but she bought the wrong rock candy, and when her mother came out of the shower, she would definitely be scolded again, so while her mother was away, Ruan Yu hurriedly ran back to the bedroom.