Chapter 4: The Night Road (Part II)
Not long after Geng Jiangyue came out of the building, he felt that the temperature had dropped sharply.
He tightened the winter clothes he had put on, but he still couldn't withstand the cold outside.
Geng Jiangyue couldn't understand why more than 90% of the world's population still lived here without hesitation with such a sand sculpture climate as the Bad Frye continent. Dead of heat during the day and freezing to death at night, all crops can only be grown indoors, only a few hardy and drought-tolerant plants such as the purple peach tree can still survive outside, and wild animals have long been extinct.
On the other hand, in the rainforest continent, legend has it that the four seasons are like spring, the climate is mild, and when rich people have a party in the courtyard of their villas, there will be some cute small bags from time to time, stupidly running in to sell cute, begging for food, begging for touch, and then being roasted to eight medium cooked and eaten.
"Alas, the rich man of the dog day ......" Geng Jiangyue just scolded.
Although I know that jealousy is not good, I still can't help it.
The temperature was getting lower and lower, and Geng Jiangyue could only trot up, hoping to get to his mother's house early. Buses and taxis pass by from time to time on the road, but none of them stop for Geng Jiangyue. Geng Jiangyue went all the way to the north, and the closer he got to the north of the city, the fewer pedestrians there were on the road.
The layout of Sea Lion City is like this, with the GK district to the south, the city hall, the commercial center and other messy centers all there, the rich district is also there, and there are relatively many people on the road after dark.
Beicheng is a purely residential and industrial area, even during the day, only the food processing factory and a few machinery factories are a little moving, and at other times, there are few people on the road.
After all, people who live in various super buildings, if they have any needs, they can go to their respective second floors to solve them.
The only people who really need to go out every day are those from the freight company.
Geng Jiangyue trotted on the road for about 40 minutes, and finally arrived at the super building where he had lived for more than ten years at early 8 o'clock. Entering from the door of the building, which was almost identical in appearance to his current home, but much more intimate in terms of atmosphere, Geng Jiangyue first went up to the second floor and walked to a familiar grocery store.
The grocery store is full of people, there is no fart business, Geng Jiangyue didn't have to line up, he poked his head directly into the sales window, and shouted to the uncle inside: "McCann, bring me half a catty of fruit candy, half a catty of scallion oil biscuits, two red candles, and a bundle of the best incense!"
McCann, who was watching the live broadcast of tonight's "Mysterious Professional League" in the grocery store, turned his head, saw Geng Jiangyue, couldn't help but grin, showed a mouthful of yellow teeth, got up and said, "Come back to see your mother today?"
"Hurry up, hurry up, I'll go up and burn incense for my dad and leave immediately!" Geng Jiangyue urged impatiently.
"Do you still have a temper tantrum with your mother? Stay here at night to sleep, what's wrong with your mother's love of believing in God, don't you burn incense yourself? Believe in gods are the same......" McCann muttered, but the movements of his hands were not slow. In less than two minutes, he put the four things Geng Jiangyue wanted into a plastic bag and handed them out of the window.
Geng Jiangyue grabbed the plastic bag, took out the citizen card and swiped the money, and ran towards the staircase without saying a word.
My mother's house lives on a low floor, on the third floor, which belongs to the welfare house-
The meaning of welfare is that the lower the floor, the more convenient life is, and the more convenient it is for individual people living in the building to commute to work.
Geng Jiangyue's father used to be a security guard in this building, equipped with a gun, and belonged to the peripheral employees of the city hall, and his status was quite high in this kind of super building. At least it is several grades better than Geng Jiangyue's current situation.
Running up to the third floor, Geng Jiangyue ran briskly for nearly ten minutes before he came to the door of his mother's house out of breath.
Rang the doorbell, and after a few seconds, the door opened, and the mother, who seemed to have just finished taking a bath, was obviously in a good mood, hugged Geng Jiangyue, and said happily: "Come, Mom wants to kill you!"
Geng Jiangyue understood that this opening was only temporary, and he hoped that he would not quarrel later.
"Come in, come in, the bed is made for you, will you sleep at Mom's place tonight?" Mom pulled Geng Jiangyue into the house and closed the door with her hand. This house is a little bigger than Geng Jiangyue's own small house, and the entrance is a small living room of five or six square meters, which used to be where Geng Jiangyue slept at night, and the small room in the living room was his parents' bedroom.
The sofa in the small living room has been lifted, mattresses and quilts have been laid on it, the heating has been turned on in the house, and from the bathroom window, there are already snowflakes falling above the patio outside.
Geng Jiangyue put the bag down and let his mother help him take off his coat, but he didn't immediately agree to stay overnight.
Mom opened the bag and took out the contents of it, first smiled slightly, and then muttered: "Why are you buying these again, I said that these things are useless, if they are useful, your father will not have an accident." ”
"Okay, what do you know? If it's useless, why is the town hall sticking talismans all over the world?"
Geng Jiangyue frowned slightly, picked up two red candles, and walked to the alcove in the entrance behind the door. The alcove was empty, Geng Jiangyue squatted down, opened the cabinet under the alcove, and took out his father's tablet and an incense burner from it.
As Geng Jiangyue expected, my mother immediately pulled down her face and said angrily: "I'm just afraid that you will be unhappy, otherwise I would have taken these messy things and thrown them away, and God wouldn't like them either." If you listen to your mother and praise God with your mother every day, how can God not let you go to college?"
"It's the laws of the Central and South Federal Republic of Nations subcontinent that don't let me go to college, not your god ......" Geng Jiangyue set up the tablet and incense burner, inserted the red candle, turned around, took out three more incense sticks to light it, and then bowed in front of his father's tablet and inserted the incense in.
Mom's brows tightened more and more, and her face was quite dissatisfied.
She deliberately made an unbearable look, and changed to a yin and yang weird tone, and began to chatter: "God, forgive my son, he doesn't understand, he didn't mean to provoke you." You forgive him, you forgive him......"
Geng Jiangyue heard the green tendons on his forehead throbbing slightly, but he could only endure it.
He knew that as long as he returned his mouth at this time, his mother would definitely be mad.
As soon as she went crazy, she had to leave immediately.
And if he leaves, then the few incense sticks that have just been lit are probably in vain......
Enduring his mother's indiscriminate bombardment, Geng Jiangyue patiently waited until the three incense sticks were burned, and then bowed again, then extinguished the candles, and carefully put the tablet and incense burner back into the cabinet under the alcove, saving his mother from making excuses and really throwing away the tablet and incense burner while he was away. You must know that tablets and incense burners are not cheap, and they will cost at least a hundred yuan to re-order. If it weren't for the fact that the place where he lived was too small and there was no suitable space for it, he would have taken the tablet and incense burner back to his home.
"I'm leaving. Geng Jiangyue stood up and said directly.
Mom, who has been chattering endlessly, refuses to do so now, and doesn't follow: "Why do you have to leave when you come? You haven't said a word? How long have you not spoken to your mother? You don't want your mother?"
Geng Jiangyue said speechlessly: "Where haven't I talked to you, don't I talk to you in the game every day?"
My mother was dissatisfied: "The game is the game! That's the workmanship! We can't talk face to face?"
Geng Jiangyue raised his hand and looked at the time, it was almost 9 o'clock......
"What do you want to say?" Geng Jiangyue reluctantly cooperated.
Mom immediately asked, "How much do you have for this candy and biscuits?"
Geng Jiangyue couldn't help but go crazy: "Isn't it the same every time! Half a catty of fruit candy, half a catty of biscuits!"
"I'll just ask casually, see if you have been deceived by McCann, those businessmen are very bad......" Mom habitually took Geng Jiangyue as mentally handicapped, opened the bag and looked at it, and complained without words, "Why is it apple-smelling again, I said I don't like apples." There are also scallion oil biscuits, I don't like to eat them either, you can take them back and eat them yourself. ”
"Okay, okay, pretend to be a fart, say no every day, you will eat faster than anyone else as soon as I leave!" Geng Jiangyue really didn't know what to say to his mother, put on his clothes, and was about to go out.
The old mother hurriedly stopped her, and took the bag containing biscuits and fruit candy and stuffed it into Geng Jiangyue's hand: "You take it back!"
"No need!
The two of them pushed behind the door for a long time, but in the end, Geng Jiangyue's attitude was more resolute and forcibly left the candy and biscuits. Mom wasn't done yet, she took out a six-pointed star from her pocket, forced it to Geng Jiangyue and said, "You take this, God will bless you on the road." ”
"No, I don't believe it! My dad is covered with tattoos all over his body, and it's useless......" Geng Jiangyue walked out of the house with a cold face, and left without looking back. The old mother followed a few steps, looking at Geng Jiangyue's distant back, with a little worry in her eyes, and there was really no way to let Geng Jiangyue stay, so she could only shout at Geng Jiangyue from afar: "You take the car back! Don't save these few dollars!"
"Got it!Go to bed early!" Geng Jiangyue replied loudly, and in the blink of an eye, he ran across the corner of the corridor.
My mother stood at the door of the house and watched for a long time, holding the six-pointed star tightly in her hand, only to feel empty in her heart. It wasn't until the hallway light blinked twice that she was frightened, hurried back to the house, and quickly closed the door.