Chapter 4: South Star
The driver's voice called back Xu Nanxing's thoughts, and she said apologetically to the driver,
"I'm sorry, I didn't hear you call me, just stop in front."
It was already very close to her destination, she paid to get out of the car and walk, and saw the sign of Chaoshan seafood casserole pot in the distance, and she followed the fireworks all the way to the past.
Although it was late at night, the small shop was still crowded with diners, bustling and lively. Ordinary restaurants, not those extravagant occasions, the dress and skirt on his body were a little too conspicuous, Xu Nanxing pulled the zipper of his coat, and then entered the door.
The proprietress obviously still had an impression of her, and when she saw her standing in front of the counter, she smiled heartily and greeted her,
"Beauty, I haven't been here for a long time. Is it still the same? ”
Xu Nanxing responded to her with a smile,
"The same old way."
After speaking, he dodged and stood aside to avoid the back kitchen, which came and went.
The meal will be good for a while, Xu Nanxing took out his mobile phone and looked at it, and there was a new message coming in from the lock screen.
Click in to see it, it was sent by Lin Qingying.
Lin Qingying: [Nanxing, Sister Lili said you went home? What happened to you? 】
Xu Nanxing knew that she was just concerned, thought for a few seconds, and went back.
In a few seconds, another message came over there.
Lin Qingying: [You...... You okay? 】
Xu Nanxing sighed, even the people around her felt that something must have happened when she was taken away by Gu Huaizhi, let alone others.
I didn't bother to explain, so I hastily replied that it was okay to end the conversation.
Looking around, the small shop was busy, people came and went, and the proprietress was so busy that her feet did not touch the ground.
After waiting for a while, the proprietress squeezed out of the back kitchen sweating profusely.
"I'm sorry to keep you waiting, your meal."
Someone in the kitchen behind her shouted to the proprietress again, she looked at the other box of things in her hand in embarrassment and shouted to the back kitchen,
"The guest is waiting across the road, I'll go over and see it off, and I'll be back right away."
At this time, someone came to order food, and the proprietress greeted her, so anxious that she shouted to the people in the back kitchen to come out and help.
Xu Nanxing thought that he had to cross the road to take a taxi anyway, so he said to her,
"If you don't mind, I'll bring it for me, I'm just going to get a taxi on the other side."
The proprietress hesitated for a moment, then glanced at the long queue at the cash register, and said apologetically,
"Then it's bothering you, the guest's car is across the road, and the license plate number is Jing A......."
Xu Nanxing smiled and said that it was okay, and then went out with the lunch box.
Looking into the distance, sure enough, a black sedan stopped on the opposite side with a double flash, and she went around to the side of the road fence, went down the sidewalk, and walked towards the car.
After checking the license plate number, she turned to the side of the cab and knocked on the window.
The window was lowered, and Xu Nanxing was stunned for a moment.
The person in the car obviously didn't expect it to be her, and was obviously stunned for a moment, but then looked as usual,
"Miss Xu, what a coincidence."
Xu Nanxing nodded, didn't answer him, handed him the things in his hand, and nodded his chin to the Chaoshan seafood casserole across the road,
"I also went to buy something, and I happened to help bring it here."
Xu Zhinian understood it and took it.
I wanted to say something, but the words came to my lips and turned and swallowed back. The affairs of his own boss are not something he can talk about at will, so he simply keeps silent.
His expression changed, and he was secretive, but in Xu Nanxing's eyes, it meant something different.
Indeed, those things in the past were really embarrassing to say, and it is no wonder that Xu Zhinian looked at himself with such eyes.
Without staying long, she said goodbye.
Xu Zhinian watched her walk to the back of the car and beckoned to take a taxi, and considered whether to give her a ride.
His boss's mind has become more and more unpredictable in the past year, and he obviously avoided the name Xu Nanxing everywhere, but at tonight's banquet, he took action to relieve others.
can see Xu Nanxing's appearance just now, it is estimated that the two will break up unhappily tonight.
There was rumbling thunder in the distance, and the radio in the car was broadcasting in real time that there would be a thunderstorm tonight. Xu Zhinian glanced at the back of the car, Xu Nanxing was still standing alone on the side of the road, he changed gears and retreated to her.
"Miss Xu, it's going to rain, I'll send you back."
"No need."
Xu Nanxing smiled and waved his hand, "I'll take a taxi back, you can go back quickly, the porridge won't taste good if it's cold for a while." ”
"If we could get a taxi, we wouldn't have to say that, would we?"
Xu Zhinian unlocked the lock and motioned for Xu Nanxing to get in the car,
There were already scattered raindrops falling in the sky, Xu Nanxing was not a hypocritical person, so he didn't say anything more, pulled the car door and got into the car.
"Thank you."
After politely thanking her, she turned her head out of the window and ignored Xu Zhinian's searching gaze.
Nanhua Road is very close to Xu Nanxing's home, and it takes less than 20 minutes to drive out.
After getting off the road, Xu Nanxing stood on the side of the road and watched Xu Zhinian's car drive away, and then ran towards his home.
Panting into the door, my sister Xu Xianglan came out of the room in a wheelchair when she heard the sound, and saw that she was messy, and said angrily,
"Go take a shower, change your wet clothes, don't catch a cold."
Xu Nanxing put the porridge in his hand on the dining table, went to the kitchen to get a bowl and spoon, served a bowl to his sister first, and then took a change of clothes and went into the bathroom.
The heat is steaming, and it also takes away the tiredness of the whole body.
Habitually scrubbing in his hands, his heart still involuntarily flashed over Gu Huaizhi's face, if it weren't for a thought, they might not be like this today.
At least not to be so hated by him.
Thoughts drift back to the year we first met.
That year, she had just been admitted to Jingzhou University and finally returned to Jingzhou from Xiacheng.
I used the last two words because she didn't grow up in Jingzhou.
His father, Xu Jianguo, is a native of Jingzhou, a sports car driver, and travels back and forth between Jingzhou and Xiacheng all year round. An accident on the way to a sports car rescued her mother, Chen Xue'e.
Single men and women who have the grace of saving lives have different feelings when they come and go.
After a year in a different place, the two couldn't stand the thoughts, Chen Xue'e simply quit her job and left home to live with Xu Jianguo in Beijing.
In less than a year, he had his sister Xu Xianglan, Xu Jianguo continued to run cars, Chen Xue'e applied for a job as a teacher in a private school, and the family of three was not rich but also had a good life.
The change happened in the summer of the year she was born.
The cargo station gave Xu Jianguo a job, or went to Xiacheng. At that time, Chen Xue'e was pregnant with Xu Nanxing in her belly, and the month was already very big, Xu Jianguo thought about pushing this job. But when I thought of the freight that the cargo station said was worth a lot, I gritted my teeth and responded.
Xu Xianglan was on summer vacation, and Xu Jianguo said that he wanted to go to his grandmother's house in Xiacheng to see, Xu Jianguo thought that the goods would be delivered and he would come back, so he only took her over after two or three days.
Originally, Chen Xue'e was also going to go with her, but she was afraid that Xu Nanxing in her stomach would start at any time, so she stayed at home alone.
It's just such a coincidence, the father and daughter just arrived in Xiacheng, and they received a call from a neighbor, and Chen Xue'e was sent to the hospital with a stomachache.
Xu Jianguo was so anxious that he asked his neighbors to help take care of Chen Xue'e first, unloaded the goods on the car and rushed to Jingzhou. After driving for two days in a row, he didn't even take a nap, and he was worried about Chen Xue'e, although he knew that it was not safe to drive at night, Xu Jianguo still drove the car fast, and he couldn't wait to return to Jingzhou immediately.
It was to welcome a new life at home, but I didn't expect things in this world to be so unpredictable.
Xu Nanxing didn't know how the accident happened, but when she grew up, she learned from her grandmother that her father Xu Jianguo's car collided with another car on the highway that night and had a serious accident.
The father died on the spot, and the sister was taken to the hospital with serious injuries, but after resuscitation, she was told that both legs needed to be amputated.
On that night, Xu Nanxing was born.
No one thought that the first time a family of four got together was in the hospital. No one could have imagined that the rebirth of this family would be accompanied by the death of a life.
Xu Nanxing never understood why other people could grow up next to her mother, but she could only live with her grandmother in her uncle's house.
Only during the winter and summer vacations every year, I will follow my grandmother back to Jingzhou to see my mother and sister.
When she was a child, she didn't understand, thinking that her mother was working too hard to take care of her disabled sister, and she couldn't take care of her when she was young. When she grew up, she got some clues in her mother's cold look, and she was an unpopular child.
It wasn't until she was admitted to university and returned to Jingzhou that she knew from the gradually frequent getting along and daily words that her mother had deliberately transformed all the tragedies of this family into resentment against her.
If she hadn't started it in advance, her father wouldn't have rushed back to Beijing in a hurry, and the accident wouldn't have happened, and her father's life and sister's leg would not have been lost.
Xu Nanxing only understood then why she was named Nanxing.
Nanxing, also known as Aracea, has a bitter taste and is poisonous to eat.
Her thirst for love and inferiority complex for her family made her feel lonely, but she never had a grudge against her mother and sister, but cherished this precious family affection.
During the years of living with her grandmother, although her uncle's family regarded her as their own, they never were biased, knowing that learning piano was a costly professional subject, but they never rejected her. My grandmother was even more frugal, and spent most of her retirement salary on her studies until she was admitted to Beijing University and got a scholarship.
Despite this, during her years in Xiacheng, she was still cautious and cautious, worried that she would make her uncle and aunt angry.
Fortunately, my aunt is a hard-mouthed and soft-hearted person, and sometimes she speaks badly, but she has never been harsh to her.
However, she still misses her home in Jingzhou.
So although her mother was very cold to her, she still chose Jingzhou when she filled in the college entrance examination. She even felt that being able to go home after school every week to see her mother and sister, and that the family could sit together for a home-cooked meal, was the best life she had ever imagined.
Gradually, her mother became less indifferent to her, and occasionally asked her how her life was at school, whether she needed money, and so on.
Blood and family affection can't be given up after all.
Xu Nanxing carefully guarded this hard-won family affection, but he didn't expect that even this was a luxury.