Chapter 12: She Was
"I'll go, Brother Nan has also dated Nepalese girls?"
"I wonder what it's like!"
"Compared with these girls in China, they should be more obedient, right?"
"Strange, why is the anchor still single?"
"How did you break up? Got into a fight? ”
When Zhao Nan told the fact that he had a relationship with a Nepalese girl, in the live broadcast room, the fire of gossip quickly burned, and countless barrages surged instantly, and everyone pricked up their ears.
Zhao Nan did not procrastinate, and said bluntly: "If you have been to Nepal, you may know that there is a small white pagoda in the Tamil district of Kathmandu, and the local young people like to sit around the white pagoda, drinking lemon black tea for about three cents a cup, and chatting about topics such as ideals and love. ”
"There's also a famous ice cream parlor there, which is always crowded with people holding thin bills and forming a long queue outside."
"That's how I met Maya at this ice cream parlor, and I turned to her for help, so Maya recommended me a local favorite ice cream, which costs only 15 rupees, which is equivalent to less than nine cents."
"Actually, I was afraid that eating such cheap ice cream would ruin my stomach, but I really couldn't live up to the kindness of the beauties around me, so I bought one, tore open the simple wrapper, and took a bite gently."
"Surprisingly, the ice cream for less than nine cents has the taste of a child that has not been seen for a long time, with a rich milk and peanut aroma."
"I thanked Maya, and then naturally and logically added Facebook to talk to each other, and she said that she lived in the suburbs, had just graduated from a local vocational college, and was working as an accountant in a wood processing factory."
"I asked her how her income was, and she smiled and said that 10,000 rupees a month, equivalent to about 600 yuan, would be given to the family for 7,000 yuan, and she would keep 3,000 for herself."
"I nodded, although the country is so oppressive of employees, it will definitely be sued in the labor protection court, if there is really a labor law in our country, but in Nepal, a monthly salary of 600 yuan is really not low."
"In Pokhara, the second largest city, I used to know a guy who worked two jobs a day, who sold cold drinks at the bus station during the day and worked as a security guard at the bar at night, earning just over 10,000 rupees a month."
"Because they live relatively close, he and his brother come to me to practice Chinese whenever they have time, and I do my best to help them."
"After about a few months, the two of them made a good improvement in their Chinese skills, and one day he came to me happily and made sure to invite me for coffee."
"I feel weird about this, because with his spending power, he usually drinks four bags of milk tea powder for one dollar, and although coffee is not expensive, about seven or eight yuan a cup, it is definitely not within the range of what he can afford."
"After asking, I learned that he had changed to a new job, and a local communication company that handled phone cards felt that he could speak a few broken words of Chinese, which was a material that could be made, and offered 15,000 rupees, equivalent to a high salary of less than 900 yuan, and he felt happy for this, and constantly thanked 30 million gods for the blessing of me, a wandering stranger in the local area."
"That's the real economy in Nepal, where the rich live in the grand villas of Kings Road or Naya Bazar, pay a huge 300 percent tariff, buy Mercedes and Land Rovers."
"Ninety-nine percent of the people who have almost nothing, who earn the lowest wages in the world, eat a bowl of cheap rice with long stems, a spoonful of curry with ginger powder and spices, live in a humble shed, search the whole house, and can't even find a kitchen knife, so they can only peel potatoes and chop onions with a scythe from farming."
"In contrast, the Maya family is already in a good situation, at least they are far away from the mountains where they can't grow a few grains of rice, they came to the capital, the family rented two houses in the suburbs without running water, the father and brother worked on the construction site every day, bringing back the food and sunflower oil that the whole family needs, and now Maya also has a job, although the salary is not much, but at least the family can eat chicken once a week, and the rest of the money can pay for her sister's school fees."
"Maya told me that the biggest dream of her life is to have a room of her own, not too big, just to be able to put a bed so that she doesn't have to huddle with her sister, grandpa, grandmother, and younger brother."
"After dating, I went to Maya's house twice, to be precise, it was two empty rough houses, there was no running water, the bathroom was shared by all the neighbors on the whole floor, the only electrical appliance in the house was the electric light, I slept on the floor, and when I woke up, I put away the quilt and stacked it in the corner."
"Maya's mother cooked me a meal, a few pieces of chicken curry, a few slices of raw cucumbers and carrots, a small cup of the cheapest local yogurt, they didn't eat it, they looked around smiling and looking at me, which made my meal extremely embarrassing, and then Maya told me that she had only bought a chicken leg that day, which was for me, and that they were eating potatoes and pumpkin leaves."
"I'll go! That's too miserable, isn't it? ”
"Is there really such a poor place in the world?"
"What's the matter with the sudden urge to save?"
"I can't listen to it, people are already so bitter, why don't you bring some food and drink when the anchor goes to be a guest?"
The audience spoke, saddened by the barrenness of a distant and strange land, forgetting that they did not actually live in a world of milk and honey.
Maybe only ordinary people know ordinary people best, after experiencing the pain of being locked up in recent years, forced to lose income, lose freedom, and unable to speak out, everyone in the live broadcast room still can't see the suffering of the world, which shows that the Chinese people are the most innocent and kind people in the world, they are hardworking and forbearing, and they deserve a better life than now.
Interestingly, the audience just lamented that life was difficult, but no one, even the girls who had been waiting to see Zhao Nan's jokes in the live broadcast room, did not doubt the authenticity of this experience.
Because you've seen too much in the last few years.
In a way, everyone should be grateful for those years, because before that, everyone was bewildered by the flowers they created, and their blood boiled for their imaginary great future, and people only cared about poetry and distance, but forgot that there were countless compatriots who were abandoned by the times, those who were weak, and those who were pitiful.
In those years, we finally stopped indulging in grand narratives, to see, to feel the real world, helpless old people and young children, heartbroken fathers and sons, lying on the balcony and looking at the people in the distance, shouting out their throats but not making even a small sound.
People a few years ago lived in an illusion.
And today's people, although life is cold, they gradually see the truth in their eyes.
So when Zhao Nan told about the life of the Mayan family, although they were thousands of miles away, although they had different cultures and customs, all the viewers in the live broadcast room still felt the same way and couldn't help but sigh.
Perhaps, as the Internationale sings, the proletariat has no way out except to liberate all the proletariat and all the suffering people of the world.
For them, Internachonel is an absurd slogan, a cry of a fool, but for the proletariat it is the ultimate fate.
There was a stir in the live broadcast room, although everyone's life was not easy, but there were still many brothers who had an indescribable impulse to do something with their insignificant strength.
At this time, Zhao Nan took out his mobile phone, opened the photo album, and showed everyone a series of photos about Maya.
I saw that it was a very delicate girl, with three-dimensional facial features, a pair of big eyes, long black hair, and a thin and small figure, standing with Zhao Nan, as if it was the difference between a college student and a primary school student, shyly and quietly holding Zhao Nan's arm.
There are many photos, including Zhao Nan's photos for Maya, selfies of the two of them in the park, boating on Lake Phewa, and Maya's birthday, where the two of them ate KFC together.
"Maya's least favorite thing is that I spend money indiscriminately, even if it's a birthday, which is to eat KFC." Zhao Nan said while recalling: "Anytime she would stop me from taking a taxi, take me a long way, to catch the local bus, the so-called bus in Nepal is actually a kind of motorcycle three-wheeled, the carriage is always full of people, crowded like canned sardines, swaying to drive, and full of heavy curry mixed with the smell of sweat, but Maya doesn't care at all." ”
"After I took her to eat two Chinese meals, she didn't want to go again, although she said that she liked the dish called Jing sauce shredded pork, but Chinese food is too expensive, the roadside MOMO dumplings are only four yuan, fried rice and fried noodles are also only three or four yuan, and even the luxurious Daloba curry rice set costs only ten yuan, which is not enough for half a plate of hot and sour shredded potatoes in a Chinese restaurant."
"I took Maya to buy clothes, and she turned down the brand store on King's Road, and plunged headlong into the local wholesale clothing market, and after a long time of comparison and bargaining, she finally chose a pair of shoes, 600 rupees, which is equivalent to less than 40 yuan, and a dress and a long-sleeved T-shirt, which is just over 100 yuan."
"I bought it and gave it to her, it was such a cheap gift, but I received a warm hug, a smile that was so happy that it flew up, and a happiness that couldn't be hidden in my eyes."
"Yes, happiness."
"I often wake up at night, when I wake up drunk, and gradually I look through these photos, and gradually I finally understand that what Maya cherishes most is not her bumpy body, nor her cooking for me, but happiness and satisfaction."
"From beginning to end, her eyes were full of me, she didn't ask for anything from me, just satisfaction and happiness, every time she went to the temple to pray for blessings, she would be grateful to the gods for giving her a me, and my existence was her hope, her happiness, her all."
"Such a girl, how can I forget, even if I suffer more, as long as I can make her happy, all the efforts are worth it."
Love to the depths, sincere outpouring.
Zhao Nan said silently, and every sentence reached the hearts of everyone present.
From ancient times to the present, Chinese boys are the most diligent and willing to pay.
What they fear is not giving, but paying wrong.
What they are afraid of is not that there will be no result in the end, they are afraid of contempt, they are afraid of indifference, they are afraid that from the beginning, they are doomed to be impossible to have results.
"That's so good, how could you and Maya be separated?"
"It's like, why aren't you together?"
"Cut! Men in the world are all virtuous, and if you get it, you won't cherish it, I'm afraid this Mayan girl has already been dumped by him, right? ”
"Scumbag!"
"I used to think that the anchor was just a bastard, but now it seems that he is still a bastard who specializes in deceiving foreign silly girls!"
Some unpleasant words appear on the screen, and you don't have to guess to know that they must be those who want the outer roll plan to fail completely.
But even Zhao Nan's most loyal fans in the live broadcast room are actually full of doubts, of course scolding people is wrong, but Zhao Nan's words are illogical.
He cares so much about Maya, so the question is, where is Maya now? The parents have met, why didn't they end up together?
Facing the camera, Zhao Nan's expression gradually sank, he lowered his head slightly, and clenched his fists hard.
Call~
Zhao Nan let out a long sigh, his body stiffened, his palm rubbed his hair hard, it seemed to be very uncomfortable, his heart was blocked by some substance, and his face looked a little pale.
"That's a good question." After a while, Zhao Nanfang showed a wry smile and said in a hoarse voice: "At 14:11 on April 25, 2015, an unusually tragic earthquake occurred in Nepal, with a magnitude of 8.1, causing countless houses to collapse and towns to be razed to rubble. ”
"What is the concept of an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.1?"
"The Wenchuan earthquake in my country was magnitude 8."
"A few days before the earthquake, I said goodbye to Maya because my father was hospitalized."
"It's just that I never thought that that farewell would become an eternal farewell."