It was an early summer afternoon, it was raining lightly outside, and the air smelled fresh and moist. As soon as Chen Xiang was lying on the bed and wanted to take a nap, the mobile phone on the table rang.

Except for his classmates Liang Gang and Feng Xiaojun, Chen Xiang has no other friends in Beijing, and almost no one will call him at this private time, he went to Liang Gang and Feng Xiaojun last weekend and learned that they had partnered to open a cabinet factory, and they did not tell him, probably afraid that he would not have the money to invest, but in fact he did not have the money to invest.

At first, Chen Xiang knew that his two classmates had partnered to open a cabinet factory, and when he didn't call himself, he didn't feel good in his heart, but then he thought about it, and they were all for life. After opening the cabinet factory, his two classmates were busier and less likely to contact him. Occasional calls, but at night, Chen Xiang felt desolate and lonely, and took the initiative to call them.

Except for Liang Gang and Feng Xiaojun, no one else here would call him without being fine, and he thought that maybe Wang Yan had called him. Thinking so, Chen Xiang quickly got off the ground and picked up his mobile phone. It was an unfamiliar foreign number, Chen Xiang picked it up, and it turned out to be a call from his parents. The parents didn't have any money, but after Chen Xiang sent the saved salary to the family, the family paid off the debt, and there was still some surplus, so they installed a telephone.

The mother on the other end of the phone sighed happily: "It's still convenient to install a phone at home, if there is something to do, don't go to the town to find a public phone." ”

Yes, it's really not easy to make a phone call in their small village in the middle of nowhere. Now that I have a phone at home, I can easily understand the physical condition of my parents. Originally, when Chen Xiang was forced out of the house by his parents, he skipped the desolation in his heart and complained about his parents' ruthlessness and indifference. However, after suffering and starvation, he turned to understand the difficulties of his parents. There are so many brothers in the family, it's good to be able to pull the big one, but it's not easy for such a big person to make money, let alone them.

Knowing that the family's debts had been paid off, Chen Xiang felt his shoulders suddenly lighten. Feeling his mother's happiness, Chen Xiang said: "In the future, I will send you some money every month to pay for daily expenses, don't save it, buy something delicious." ”

Originally, after Chen Xiang's mother knew that her son had rejected the "happy life" she arranged for him, she once blamed her son for being stupid and didn't know how to seize the opportunity, but now when she sees that her son can earn "a lot of money", and she is still worried about their two elders, she is very happy, and she can't help but say on the phone: "It's still my family's five sons, go to work hard, don't make trouble, don't spend money, I'll tell you a beautiful girl from home, let her marry you in the past!" ”

"No, Mom, I have a partner."

Chen Xiang didn't know the aesthetics before he arrived in Beijing, and after he arrived in Beijing, he saw a lot of capable and good-looking girls, and he suddenly felt that what he talked about when he was studying in his hometown was too shallow. Now that he was in a little better condition, he began to brag about his mother again. This kind of "bragging" is more about reassuring the family.

"Really? Where? Take it home for the New Year. ”

"Fellow countryman, it's also our Jiangsu." Chen Xiang was still thinking about Wang Yan in his mind.

"What does the girl do?" When her mother heard Chen Xiang's quick answer, she thought it was really something.

"Well, I haven't graduated yet." Chen Xiang said.

"Oh - what are the conditions? Can you take a fancy to our family? Since Chen Xiang sent money home, Chen Xiang felt that his parents' attitude towards him was much more affectionate. Chen Xiang thought that maybe his parents thought he was promising, so they didn't have to worry about it.

"No problem." Chen Xiang deliberately emphasized.

"Oh—that's good." There was a smile in my mother's voice.

"Mom, I'm going to work in a while, I'll hang up first."

"Good, good. It's okay, hang up. ”

Chen Xiang hung up the phone, feeling relieved. The phone has been installed at home, and his parents' life has improved, and he feels that this is better than his daughter-in-law. It's just that just now I unconsciously treated Wang Yan as a prospective daughter-in-law and told my family on the phone, will Wang Yan become my daughter-in-law?

Wang Yan, whom Chen Xiang said in a call with his parents, was his daughter-in-law, returned to Beijing and returned to school. After going through the formalities for leaving school, Wang Yan called Chen Xiang, she is a trustworthy person, as long as she promises and remembers something, she will definitely do it.

Chen Xiang on the other end of the phone, when he received Wang Yan's call, his joy was far greater than his surprise, and he began to imagine again: this girl must have a good impression of herself when she called her. Chen Xiang was 27 years old that year, although he experienced the embarrassment and discomfort of just entering the society, and also experienced the loss of love, but young is young, his romance and fantasy exclusive to young people have been reawakened, and even this time the "love" experience is more ferocious and abnormal than the previous experience, with a bit of literary and artistic youth love.

Moreover, after Wang Yan completed the formalities for leaving the school, she could no longer stay in the school's dormitory. She moved her small luggage to a rented dormitory outside, which was a small dormitory in the basement of Fangzhuang. The rent in the basement was cheap, and at that time she had already found a job as an editor, with a salary of 1,500 yuan a month, which could pay for her own life.

Living with Wang Yan is also a fellow --- Huang Qiuyu, who has been her classmate for four years. They rented two dormitories, one for Wang Yan and Qiu Yu, and the other for Qiu Yu's boyfriend, Qiu Yu and her boyfriend Ah Hui worked in a company, doing website construction and network maintenance work.

This basement is very humid, and Wang Yan doesn't feel anything when he comes back sooner or later. What she can't stand the most is the sheer number of people here. There were often women dressed in red and willow green, with half of their breasts exposed, snuggling up to men in suits and leather shoes, swaying past her eyes. She didn't know what these people were doing, she just couldn't stand the way they were.

In addition, the landlord took special care that clothes and laundry detergent could not be left outside the dormitory. The basement is already damp, and the washed clothes will have a musty smell if they are not left outside to dry. However, it can't be helped. Fortunately, it was still summer, and the clothes were thin, faintly dry, slightly damp, and when I wore them, they dried automatically on the way to work.

This morning, Wang Yan was concentrating on editing a computer exam book at hand. Wang Yan is in the editorial department, the so-called compilation of books, in fact, is to take the annual examination books as a reference, according to this year's new syllabus test center, imitating the fixed mode to edit the content of chapter by chapter.

Just when Wang Yan started to mark a question, the pager in the drawer rang, and now only Chen Xiang is in close contact with her. Haitian, who had a good chat back then, has long since disappeared because there are no modern contact tools. Wang Yan took out the pager and looked at it, and sure enough, it was sent by Chen Xiang, and the content was: "After work tonight, can you come to eat with me?"

Wang Yan was at work, it was inconvenient to call back, she wanted to wait until noon to eat, and then go to the communication room at the door, where there was a payphone that billed by the hour, and it was not too late to call Chen Xiang back.

Chen Xiang was checking the drawings in the office, and waited anxiously for Wang Yan to call back, but after waiting for a long time to see Wang Yan's call back, he thought that this time there was no drama again. Who knew that at noon, Wang Yan called him back, which made him feel happy, and he wanted to make an appointment with Wang Yan this time no matter what, so he said: "Come over in the evening, I'll make you something delicious."

"Okay, where am I waiting for you?" Wang Yan readily agreed and asked where to meet.

"You sit on 300, and when you pass by the white pot kiln, get off there, and I'll wait for you on the overpass. I'm relatively close to the white pot kiln. Chen Xiang said happily.

"Okay, see you that night." Wang Yan responded, and hung up the phone after Chen Xiang also said "see you in the evening". Chen Xiang, who hung up the phone, began to calculate what time Wang Yan would arrive at Baipenyao, and he began to think about what clothes to wear to meet Wang Yan, this was the first time he officially met Wang Yan, and he couldn't wear blue overalls to meet her.

There was hope in his heart, and the time seemed to become fast, Chen Xiang only felt a glimmer of light flashing in his heart, as if he had seen the dawn and saw hope. Chen Xiang didn't think about it, I don't know if it was because he was too lonely in Beijing, or because Wang Yan was destined to belong to his fate, he had unconsciously fallen in love with the person who only had one side, and it had become a habit to think about her.