Chapter 24: The Drunken Mantra
He looked at Wu Meng and felt that he should do something for her, which could be regarded as an apology for the pile of spray paint in the corner of the sofa at home.
After a busy morning, I finally wiped the graffiti almost completely. Wu Meng touched his head, it was already cold, it was probably the reason for sweating, the fever had subsided, and there was no longer the previous feeling of cold and heat. Raising my hand to look at my watch, it was lunch time again.
It was another morning that took time and didn't come in, and the frustration became stronger and stronger with the bank card given by my father. Look at this small shop that she has spent a few years saving to open, what has she used all those lapsed time for?
Compared with those enthusiastic peers around him, how much enthusiasm do you have to invest here? It can't go on like this. She suddenly became energetic as if she had been beaten with chicken blood.
went to the bank and withdrew 20,000 yuan, which was returned to Fang Zhi, and the rest was returned to his father intact. This is the father's pension money that cannot be touched. My father said that it would be kept as dowry money in the future, what kind of dowry money? Xiaoqi gave her the 60,000 yuan card, she didn't touch it, and returned it to Xiaoqi in a while.
She rode her bicycle with her father and her lunch hanging on the handlebars, and along the way began to imagine her next work plan and direction before she started again.
When I got home, my father sat on the couch and watched the rehabilitation tutorial on the TV, his hands and feet cooperating with the tensile machine to exercise muscle recovery. There are also some grip machines, rehabilitation bicycles and other various gadgets used for rehabilitation training.
Seeing that Wu Meng was back, he smiled and showed his strength to his daughter.
"Look! Meng Meng, isn't it a little useful? β
Lao Wu gritted his teeth and used his unobedient hand to pull the tension device on his foot at the other end. The tension device was slightly pulled, but it had already exerted all his strength, and the sweat on his head showed that he had been practicing for a while.
Wu Meng was happy for his father at first and encouraged his father: "Wow! You've got it all right, come on! He asked Lao Wu with doubts in his heart: "Where did these things come from?" β
Lao Wu was still pulling, and replied to her in a voice squeezed out of his abdominal cavity: "That friend of yours, Xiao Qin, he sent it over in the morning." It also comes with a CD, you see! Lao Wu pointed to the video playing on the TV with his other finger. There is a small DVD linked to the bottom of the TV, which was not available at home before, and it seems that it was also sent along.
Are you all running home? Wu Meng felt a little grateful but a little uneasy. Will he cause Xiaoqi to be dissatisfied with doing this? But he still tried his best to hide his thoughts from being seen by Lao Wu. I wanted to make a phone call to thank you, but I thought about it and put the phone aside.
"Dad, let's eat, don't practice yet. You come down and practice slowly. After putting the food out and eating it with his father, Wu Meng took out his bank card and handed it to his father, saying, "Dad, your card is collected, I took 20,000 yuan and returned it to Fang Zhi, the rest is not moved, you keep it, don't lose it." β
Lao Wu pushed the card to Wu Meng with his healthy hand, wiped the corner of his mouth again, and said, "You keep the card, and pick it up yourself when you need it, why am I pretending to be it?" β
In the afternoon, Wu Meng wanted to open a store and start to open the business to make money, but when Xiaoqi called her again to make an appointment with her about the time and place of dinner, her enthusiasm in the morning was replaced by another plan.
She didn't know why she spent a long time picking out clothes, shoes before going out today. I didn't know where to put the eyebrow trimmer on the dresser, and I couldn't find it after looking for a while, so I asked my father: "Dad, do you still have an unopened blade for your old-fashioned razor?" Give me a slice. β
I found a piece in the place my father said, and after disassembling it, I looked left and right at my face in the mirror.
Lao Wu was anxious, and hurriedly dissuaded: "Silly girl, girls can't shave, if they shave, they will grow longer and more prosperous, and then it will be ugly." Can't scrape! β
Wu Meng smiled and comforted her anxious father: "Dad, I don't use it to shave, I want to shave my eyebrows." β
This is even more amazing, Lao Wu approached his daughter with the new crutches sent by the so-called "Xiao Qin" in the morning, and wanted to persuade her. It can be seen that this crutch is not easy to use, or that it is not necessary.
"It's even more impossible to shave your eyebrows, although it will still grow, but your eyebrows are shaved like leprosy, and the bare ones are even more ugly, why do you say that this girl of yours can't get along with her face today?"
"Dad, you go to practice yours, I'll fix it, don't bother me." Wu Meng gave an order to his father not to affect himself.
Choosing clothes, making masks, applying makeup, saying that it is makeup is actually trimming the eyebrows, applying lipstick, and a few hours have passed. She also had a hint of uneasiness in her heart, this is called waste, she is a poor girl, she does not open the door to earn money, but spends an afternoon "crafting" on the appearance. She couldn't figure out why the uneasiness was quickly overshadowed by the importance of appearance.
When she met Xiaoqi at the agreed place, she tried her best to hide her little disappointment. Because she had been preparing for an afternoon tonight, she still looked a little pale under Xiaoqi's radiant light in the end. No matter how Xiao Qi looks, she looks more like a well-dressed person than her.
This is actually not the main thing, the most important thing is that this meal is only eaten by her and Xiaoqi.
Xiaoqi sat down, poured a glass of red wine that had already woken up, picked up the glass and touched it with her, and apologized to her: "Don't be angry with me, I drank too much yesterday and said something that shouldn't be said." We're good sisters, won't you take me seriously? Come and take a sip. β
Wu Meng also picked up the cup and touched it with her: "What are you talking about?" Drink less, you just woke up from last night's drink, and I don't want to wait for you to get drunk again. He took a sip.
Xiao Qi took a big sip of relief, and said to Wu Meng: "Your brother Qin has something to do temporarily, just the two of us will eat, so many dishes, pack them back in a while, don't waste them." β
Wu Meng returned the bank card that Xiaoqi gave her.
"The money didn't work, thank you. I deserve this cup to you. β
Saying that, Wu Meng poured good wine for Xiaoqi and poured it for himself. She sincerely thanked Xiaoqi, over the years, she was such a good friend who could put her heart to heart. They all know each other's faults and advantages and disadvantages very well, and it is not easy to share joys and sorrows along the way, and she must cherish this friendship, which is one of her wealth.
After drinking the wine in the decanter, Wu Meng was already a little drunk. The two talked a lot, about the past, but also about the present, including the future. The more they chatted, the more energetic they became, and Xiaoqi asked for another bottle.
It stands to reason that this little red wine is not enough to make Wu Meng drunk, but maybe because she has something on her mind, the drunkenness comes relatively quickly.
She listened to Xiaoqi's life plan and ideals. She never laughed at the idea that Xiaoqi wanted to leave her hometown and stay in the city to live a good life. Not in the past, and not now. She knows the pain of not being understood.
Just like before high school, she silently fought against all incomprehension and provocations from the outside world by herself, so over the years she has been trained to arm herself well, so that she is not easy to be bullied by her classmates who are full of superiority.
It wasn't until I met this classmate Xiao Qi who was also excluded in college, those circles that Xiao Qi wanted to fit in but couldn't fit into, and those who ridiculed Xiao Qi for wanting to climb their faces, Wu Meng hated it in her heart.
However, Xiao Qi himself didn't seem to think so, until Wu Meng couldn't listen to their various derogatory ridicules of Xiao Qi behind their backs, and clashed with each other, injuring the three of them. Finally, in the upcoming graduation season, I didn't get the certificate and was taken home by my grandmother.
After Xiaoqi graduated successfully, she still kept in touch with Wu Meng, and the two worked hard together for a few years in that big city with no sense of belonging.
Wu Meng hated the indifference of the people there and the mutual calculations between colleagues, and decided to resign and leave, returning to her birthplace to live with her father, and Xiaoqi followed closely behind, resigned and came back with her.
Xiaoqi felt that Wu Meng had ruined her future in order to help her fight for her breath, and she couldn't live a smoother life than her because of the advantage of having a graduation certificate. Therefore, I am willing to start again from the same starting point with her.
I was still too young at the time, and many of my ideas are naΓ―ve now. Wu Meng told Xiaoqi that she hoped that she would soar as soon as possible through hard work, and she could be pulled in the future. The two laughed heartlessly.
She told Xiao Qi that what she had worked hard to gain was more meaningful, and she really didn't know how to remind Xiao Qi that Qin Feng was not worth her trust. In the end, when the decanter met for the second time, she said what she thought:
"You are so good, there must be a lot of people chasing you around you, find a more suitable one, Qin Feng is really not suitable for you."
Before Xiaoqi could ask her why, Wu Meng suddenly felt unwell and fell down from the chair.