Chapter 3: Graduation
Three years of nursing school life are coming to an end in a blink of an eye. Students from the city are busy looking for jobs in the middle of the road. The students who came from the mountains, who had no relatives and no reason in the city, knew that their days in the city were numbered, and they would return to the mountains in a few days, so they hesitated and sighed on the streets in groups with the feeling of saying goodbye to the city.
In the days when she was about to graduate, Liu Sisi simply didn't go to school, and she moved her things to Ma Bo's house. She has a sense of home, and the classmates in the mountains are envious of Liu Sisi's good life, and the classmates used to say bad things about Liu Sisi behind her back, saying that she eats with her face, vulgar! The expression on his face was contempt and jealousy. It's different now, they sincerely envy Liu Sisi.
Liu Sisi also communicated with Ma Bo about her future, and she hoped that Ma Bo could find her a job in the city. Ma Bo said slowly: Don't be in a hurry, finding a job depends on opportunity. Are you still afraid that I won't be able to support you?
Ma Bo said so, and she couldn't say anything more. Anyway, she has a home in the city, so what else is she worried about? She believed that she was living with Ma Bo, and that he would marry her sooner or later. His home is his own home.
She and Ma Bo have lived together intermittently for more than a year, which has made her body more mature, and she is like a ripe grape, bright and dripping.
Soon, I finally graduated. After more than 100 girls of their class walked out of the school gate, they drowned in the corners. The noisy school of the past was deserted all of a sudden. After graduating, Liu Sisi had nowhere to go, so he could only stay in Ma Bo's room. Ma Bo goes to work during the day, she tidies up the room at home, then buys groceries, cooks, and waits for Ma Bo to come home from work. This feeling is husband and wife, and her heart is full of sweetness and anticipation.
At first, Ma Bo could come back on time every day after work, but then he came back not so punctually, sometimes with a mouth full of alcohol, and he was lukewarm to her. In the past, Ma Bo was always hungry for her, and he hated to let her grow on his body. Although the two of them were lying in the same bed now, he didn't touch her all night. She didn't understand, what was wrong with Ma Bo, did she not like herself.
When she was alone during the day, she thought about her relationship with Ma Bo, and she proposed the idea of marrying him, Ma Bo said impatiently: What's the point of getting married or not, isn't this the same as getting married?
When he said that, she was speechless. She is idle at home, every grass and tree here is Ma Bo's, she has nothing, what is the matter with her if she goes on like this? What will happen in the future? She couldn't think through it, and she couldn't see it clearly. A sense of melancholy hit my heart. She felt more and more that she was an idler, dispensable here. But she can't leave here, and leaving here is equivalent to leaving the city and her dreams.
In the middle of the night, Ma Bo came back, looking very tired. When he returned, he didn't go to bed, but sat on the couch and turned on the light. She got up from the bed and looked at him with a wistful eye. He said: I have thought about it these days, it is not a problem for us to live together like this, or I will pay for you to rent a house.
She was blindfolded at once, and her eyes looked at him fixedly. She understood that he was trying to drive her away; But why he did this, she couldn't figure it out. So she wept and mourned, and looked very pitiful. She's in the city, and the only one who has a relationship with her is Ma Bo. Ma Bo doesn't want her anymore, and she has nothing to do with the city. She felt fear and helplessness, so she could only weep helplessly. Ma Bo listened to her low sobs, didn't say anything more, took off his clothes in threes and twos, lay down beside her, and closed his eyes.
Later, Ma Bo didn't mention letting her move out again, but she felt that Ma Bo was getting colder and colder to her. She couldn't figure out what it was all about.
During the day, when she was alone, she kept looking in the mirror, and asked herself in the mirror: Am I ugly? Am I old? She still sees her young and beautiful self in the mirror, and sometimes she hides in the bathroom to see her body. Everything is still so delicate and full, as bright as flowers, swaggering, looking at the graceful carcass in the mirror, she herself is born with pity and emotion - it's only been more than a year, why doesn't Ma Bo love her anymore? She was really confused. She wants to find a job in the city, wants to marry Ma Bo, and her dream of being a city person has not yet been realized, but Ma Bo has lost interest in herself, which makes her have a sense of urgency and crisis. But all this made her helpless, she knew that she couldn't decide anything, and Mabo was deciding everything about her.
Ma Bo came back early that day, it was not dark yet, and she had already started cooking. When Ma Bo returned, he stood behind her, a scene that had not been seen in a long time. He said behind her: Don't be busy.
She turned her head to look at him, puzzled. He said: "Today, a student comes to talk at home, you go out shopping, and it doesn't matter if you come back late."
After speaking, he took out a hundred dollars from his pocket and handed it to her. She took it, thought for a moment, and put it down again. She asked him: What to do with these things? She was reluctant to take away half of the meals.
He said indifferently: leave it there.
She put out the fire, cleaned up, and went out. When she went out, she didn't take the hundred dollars he gave. She didn't want to buy anything, he asked her to shop, and she did. In the past, he would give her some money every once in a while, and she accepted it with peace of mind, it was the money her boyfriend gave her, and she could accept it. Since she had a relationship with Ma Bo, she has regarded him as her boyfriend in her heart. She spent all that money, and most of it was used to buy clothes. She wants to dress herself up nicely to make her boyfriend Ma Bo happy.
She walked down the street, her mind was blank, and after walking for a while, she became a little more sober. She thought, what kind of student is Ma Bo talking to, and she has to avoid herself? She knew that Ma Bo was not the head teacher, but just the teacher of the anatomy class, what did he talk to the students about?
She thought as she walked. Everything in the city that had attracted her before was now commonplace in her eyes. After she walked this street, she went to another street. Later, it turned back. The street, which had been bustling just now, began to desert, and she thought: The students should also go, right?
She walked sluggishly towards the door of the unit where she lived. Just then, she saw a girl come out of the hole and pass her. She couldn't help but glance at the girl. The girl is beautiful and healthy. Intuitively, this girl also came out of the mountains, and the girl in the mountains has a special flavor, she is all too familiar with all this. She watched as the girl walked off her toned legs.
She opened the door with the key, but the light in the room was dark. By the light outside the window, she saw that Marbo was already lying down. She tiptoed to the bed, undressed and lay down. She found that the place where she was lying was warm, that was the body temperature of a person. She smelled the scent of the mountains again in the quilt. Thinking of the girl she saw at the door of the building just now, she understood everything, and tears poured out at once, and she couldn't stop it. Only then did she understand why Ma Bo didn't marry her, she was just one of those girls. After enjoying her body, Marbo shook her off like throwing away a rag. Ma Bo on the bed closed her eyes, she knew that her crying and sadness at this time had nothing to do with the person next to her.