Wang Chu has always had the same dream, dreaming that he has never been married, dreaming that no one has married her at all, and he does not know anyone of the opposite sex.

This dream haunted Wang Chu for many years, and she often dreamed that she and Li Haoran dragged their luggage over one high mountain after another, where there were green fields and islands everywhere, and the vast grassland and those forests formed by one or two seemed infinitely mysterious. At the end of the straight road is the small village, which is covered by tall trees that are impossible to see from a distance or from a high vantage point. Thousands of ancient trees pass by the roadside, and countless kinds of unnamed flowers gather in one place, forming a long sea of flowers. The low horizon in the distance, the green flowers and the sea, and the sunset that has already fallen to the ground, indicate that the dream is in the evening. She chose to live in a small village, there is a courtyard, there is a red tiled house, and the front of the house is full of all kinds of vegetables, and those hazy pictures appear in the dream, which is surprisingly vivid.

When she woke up, Wang Chu was sure that she was divorced, Li Haoran belonged to her, and her ex-husband Li Xiangyang did not fight for the custody of her son, so she left him a set of façade houses, and ended her seventeen-year marriage with their own clothes.

Today, Li Haoran is fifteen years old, Wang Chu is nearly thirty-seven years old, she still looks like a gentle and petite woman, simple-minded, no bad intentions, and she has never tried the depth of society.

Wang Chu and Li Xiangyang's married life is different from that of many couples, this is what she summed up by herself, not long after they fell in love, they experienced the most intense quarrel. The first time I took the car to see him, he insisted on staying with her for the night, and her overly conservative thinking told her that she couldn't live in the same room with her boyfriend without getting married, without getting a license, and without seeing her parents, and this sentence was also explained to her by her best friend Yang Zhizhi.

Yang Zhizhi is Wang Chu's childhood sweetheart's best friend, they both skipped school and left school at the same time, and later, they came to the more prosperous group field in the Tumshuk jurisdiction and found a more decent job, that is, to work as a waiter in the most luxurious Lantian Hotel, which was the first hotel she saw in the Corps.

Li Xiangyang often comes to Tumshuk on business trips, he is a frequent visitor to the Blue Sky Hotel, he always comes to stay once or twice a month, usually this person is relatively clean, and he needs to go to his room to clean the room and clean up the garbage in the morning and evening. There was a little dirt on the toilet, flowers on the mirror, hair on the floor, and sheets were not neatly folded, he would call the front desk to help him clean up, a big man, impeccably clean.

Wang Chu rarely spoke, he and Yang Zhizhi were more speculative, and they became acquaintances after going back and forth, and finally became her and his introducer.

Li Xiangyang wears a black suit and black sunglasses on weekdays, he looks thin, his skin is also very dark, and he has a lot of acne on his face.

Acquaintance with Li Xiangyang, Wang Chu really tried his best to maintain a relationship, so when he appeared, he did a rather shy treatment in his expressions, movements and eyes, she didn't say much, and she was not good at communication and exchange, especially in front of lovers, she seemed even more shy.

And Li Xiangyang is cheerful, straightforward, honest, bold, and careful, which is in stark contrast to Wang Chu's personality, at the first party, Yang Zhizhi deliberately teased, "My sister, don't be so shy, okay?" How can you fall in love like this? ”

Wang Chu didn't dare to speak, but just used a slight facial expression to signal Yang Zhizhi to stop teasing, and when Li Xiangyang cast a look, she immediately moved her eyes to the side to cover up, or kept eating vegetables, or nervous, or evasive. She doesn't know if the panic and struggle in her heart is the emergence of beautiful love, for her who has never been in love, it is obviously an inexplicable mystery.

"Wang Chu, I will come to see you often." Before Li Xiangyang left, he took Wang Chu's hand and said.

Wang Chu didn't speak, and watched Li Xiangyang get into a taxi and leave. A week later, he appeared in front of Wang Chu again, and bought her a set of clothes, remembering that the top was a red sweater and the pants were black, as if they were tailor-made for her, just right to wear on her body, and gave her a ring, which was not tailor-made for her, and was worn on her finger.

"This ring is my family's heirloom, I will give it to you, and you will be my daughter-in-law recognized by Li Xiangyang in the future." Li Xiangyang said.

Wang Chu still didn't dare to speak, nor did she dare to look up at Li Xiangyang, she held the ring in the palm of her hand, and even sweated.

"My hometown is very close to your home." Li Xiangyang said, "Less than 60 kilometers, you can reach it after crossing a mountain." Wang Chu still didn't answer, he asked again, "Don't you usually say a word?" ”

"I ......," Wang Chu hesitated, "I don't have much to say." ”

"Oh." Li Xiangyang said, "It's not okay if you don't speak, I ask you, you must at least answer, otherwise I don't know what you think." Wang Chu lowered his head and was silent, he asked again, "Then do you have a crush on me?" ”

Wang Chu's face was hot for a while, she lowered her head completely, Li Xiangyang didn't ask any more, he took her acquiescence and took her hand as a matter of course.

One day two months later, Wang Chu decided to go to see Li Xiangyang for the first time, which is more than 60 kilometers away from his home, the traffic is not developed, there is not even a bus, you need to call and make an appointment with the driver to take the car, the car can put together four people, you need to wait for half a day or a whole day to set off, a distance of more than 60 kilometers, so that she feels what a long-distance relationship is.

Li Xiangyang's room is very simple, it is an adobe house, and the outside wall has been turned into more than half of it, and it seems that the wall is about to collapse. To put it bluntly, at that time, the houses in the group field were very simple, 90% of the people lived in adobe houses, and the shops on the street were also made of adobe houses, and the only office building was the best building in the group field.

The room was simple but neatly tidy, with only a bed, a writing desk, a coffee table, and a cloth wardrobe in the bedroom. There were several books on the coffee table, and Wang Chu had forgotten what books they were. There are many photos under the glass of the desk, and the most vivid one is the group photo of Li Xiangyang when he graduated from university. He said that in the year they graduated from college, they were the first batch of college students to be assigned to the Corps.

That night, Li Xiangyang specially prepared a candlelight dinner for Wang Chu, which was not sumptuous, but the two chatted happily. He said he would soon buy a house and marry her, and she promised to take him to his parents at the time.

After dinner, it was already dark, and there were no fingers outside, Wang Chu asked Li Xiangyang to send her to live in the guest house, Li Xiangyang had a tough attitude, "Are you coming to see me or to live in the guest house?" ”

"Do you send it or not?" Wang Chu asked.

"I don't send it."

Wang Chu turned his head and left, but Li Xiangyang still didn't come to see her off after all. At that time, she was only nineteen years old, there were no street lights on the streets here, and she didn't even know where the direction of the guest house was.

Wang Chu finally found a phone booth on the street and inquired about the location of the guest house, so he stayed with peace of mind. That night, she secretly made up her mind that she would never have anything to do with Li Xiangyang again, so she wrote a breakup letter the next day, put it at the door of Li Xiangyang's house, and left.

On the third day, Li Xiangyang chased after him, Wang Chu thought he was here to ask for peace, but what she didn't expect was that he came to ask for the ring.

"I can give you the clothes, but I have to go back, the ring was passed down to my grandfather by my grandfather, my grandfather passed it to my father, and my father passed it on to me, since we are divided into two, why do you keep the ring?" Li Xiangyang said.

Wang Chu didn't want to return the ring to Li Xiangyang at all, how could there be any reason to go back to the things he sent, it wasn't the rare ring, but his attitude was surprising and unexpected.

It took more than two hours, and Yang Zhizhi couldn't help but break in, "A ring is given to him, and he has to divide it, why do you keep him with the ring?" ”

Wang Chu felt that Yang Zhizhi was reasonable, put the ring on the sofa, and Li Xiangyang took the ring and left.

"Who is this?" Yang Zhizhi cursed, turned around and comforted, "Don't be sad, I'll introduce you to a good one when I turn around." ”

Wang Chu lowered her head and didn't speak, in fact, she was still a little sad, in the more than two months she had been in contact with Li Xiangyang, she felt that his own conditions were not bad, he had a stable job, and he was still a college student. Wang Chu didn't like to study since she was a child, either skipping class or skipping school, her mother often chased Wang Chu to school with a stick in her hand, and in class, novels were often hidden under the seat, and reading novels became the most important part of her life. Even if she didn't read, she had already flown into a certain conceived novel scene, and it was difficult to withdraw her heart to the class, and the teacher had long been indifferent to her behavior, which was the result of being scolded by the teacher countless times to the point of misery, and still had no effect, not to mention the ranking of grades, either the first from the bottom or the second everywhere.

Entering high school, a variety of courses made Wang Chu fail to a mess, fortunately, the multiple-choice questions can still be corrected by more than half, do multiple-choice questions, Wang Chu used the method of short-term selection and elimination, and the score was not zero. She doesn't remember how many times the head teacher invited her parents for grades and truancy, and she doesn't remember how many times she was beaten and scolded by her mother. My father's best way to educate was to hold a thick and long stick in his hand and roar loudly in front of her, and the stick could almost shake in front of her, and my father was so angry that he gritted his teeth and spat at the stars, but he never refused to hit her.

Wang Chu never understood what his father was angry about, nor did he understand the heart of his son Jackie Chan, he only felt that his father was a lifelong farmer, and he could only be a farmer in the future, or a migrant worker wandering in a certain city, or just learn a skill to eat. This kind of thinking led to her staggering results in the first semester of her junior year of high school, with a total of 232 points in all subjects.

Wang Chu clearly remembered that the head teacher's sarcastic smile was backed by a poisonous knife, "You Wang Chu is not a writer, the novel you hold in your hand every day is not written by you Wang Chu, your grades are only suitable for picking up garbage in the future, look at it, what skills can you see from reading novels?" I don't think you'll even be able to pick up garbage in the future. ”

This kind of expression and words stabbed Wang Chu's young heart, and the strange eyes and discussions between her classmates made her self-esteem hurt greatly. So, she and Yang Zhizhi escaped from the classroom one after the other, from the high school where she was imprisoned, from teachers and classmates, and from her father's sight.

Arriving at a strange place, Wang Chu felt that everything was novel, she first saw the Blue Sky Hotel, near the hotel, is the most prosperous commercial area, a small station next to the hotel, a few cars parked in twos and threes, a long road will divide the commercial shops on both sides, government buildings, schools, hospitals are the buildings of the property market, and the commercial shops are two floors up and down. There are several snacks, restaurants, clothing, bridal shops, Xinhua bookstores, cake shops, and dance halls.

When they saw the recruitment advertisement of Lantian Hotel, Wang Chu and Yang Zhizhi were overjoyed, so the two stayed, worked together, slept in the same bed at night, and it didn't take long for them to meet Li Xiangyang, and they ended a first love after two months of love.

On the night when Li Xiangyang was about to take away the ring, Wang Chu put away the clothes he gave her, during that time, she tried her best to make herself have no regrets, and tried her best to cultivate herself to be lively and cute, frank and natural.

Looking down at novels is still a part of Wang Chu's life, and she can't afford to buy books. In my spare time, I often soak myself in this Xinhua bookstore, which is less than 50 square meters, and I look at it for several hours in a row. In this city, there are not many books in Xinhua Bookstore, "One Hundred Years of Solitude", "Border City", "Midnight", "All the Way to Gesang Flowers", "Jane. There are still books such as "Love", "Journey to the West", "Dream of Red Mansions" and the four famous books.

In the novel "Midnight", he wrote about the Baidu Bridge, the wharf, the Bund Park on the Jiangsu River, and the bunk in Pudong, Wang Chu felt like he was in it, and he also felt that he was the one who drove the Citroen to the Baidu Bridge. The story of "Midnight" tells the story of Wu Sunfu, a national industrial capitalist, the feudal and decadent old lady Wu, Lin Peiyao, who longs for romantic and great love, and Huifang, the fourth lady who collides and conflicts between feudal civilization and urban civilization.

Jane. The narration of "Love" made Wang Chu love it at a glance, and the character portrayal was even more unforgettable. Jane in the book. Love the image of a woman who is poor, lowly, unbeautiful, small, unsatisfied with the status quo, unwilling to be humiliated, daring to love, independent, daring to struggle, daring to fight for equality, and daring to resist in life, society and religion. Simple. Love once said in the book, "The real world is infinitely vast, a world full of hope and sorrow, excitement and excitement, waiting for those who have the courage to take all kinds of risks to pursue the true meaning of life." This sentence interprets Jane. Love's attitude towards life also interprets her attitude towards life.

Wang Chu tried to minimize the time spent in the bookstore, cleaning the room is a very tedious matter, and the area in charge of cleaning is cleaned up in a timely manner according to the living conditions of the guests, tea sets and sanitary ware need to be disinfected, toilets need to be sealed, and beds should be made neatly. During that time, she was very tired from work, but she was also very able to eat, and she grew three kilograms of meat in less than half a month, and she examined herself in front of the mirror countless times, "Don't eat fat." ”

Wang Chu is short and small, but she doesn't want to gain weight at all, she has a sallow complexion, she feels sickly, overeating makes her stomach a little uncomfortable, and even vomits.

"You're not pregnant, are you......?" Yang Zhizhi shivered when he saw Wang Chu vomiting while eating.

"Who am I pregnant with?" Wang Chu put down the dishes and chopsticks and ran into the bathroom.

"Looks like you're really in a bad mood during this time." Yang Zhizhi commented.

"Do I have one?" Wang Chu frowned, pretending to have an expression of indifference.

Yang Zhizhi also shook his head coldly, this shaking head was more like shrugging his shoulders, and it was also like shivering.

It didn't take long for Wang Chu to finally usher in a beating from her father, which was the inevitable result of her thinking after skipping school, after running away from school for three months, she didn't even think about telling her father where she was, let alone wanting her father to interfere with her current life, but her father finally found her.

Wang Chu was not beaten very badly, his father was soft-hearted, and he couldn't do it, he was so angry that he gritted his teeth countless times, his face was pale, and when he was trembling, he couldn't bear to hit her hard, this time he was beaten badly, and he was marked with red marks on his body. The father burst into tears and gritted his teeth and said, "Girl, you have ruined the future of your life, and you will regret it." After saying that, he left without looking back.

Looking at the back of her father's departure, Wang Chu's heart was inexplicably sore, and she also cried, at present, she didn't realize how important her education was to her life, and she never thought that she would regret it, but she was touched by the back of her father's departure.

On the tenth day of breaking up with Li Xiangyang, a black car stopped at the door of the store, and the driver handed Wang Chu a letter, which read: "Wang Chu, today is my birthday, I asked the driver to pick you up, I hope you can come." ”

The payee is Li Xiangyang, and the date of payment is December 19, 2000.

Wang Chu wanted to throw the letter away and let the wind blow away, but he still put it back in his pocket. She wanted to turn around and enter the store, but she hesitated for a moment and got into the driver's car.