The Road Home

The two looked at each other.

I ca n’t say, I ca n’t say no love, but I ca n’t violate my conscience to say love to a man who is about to get married.

In this moment of silence, she seemed to see a young boy pulling herself up from the ground here and protecting her, all the emotions of repression and forced forgetting surged up, engulfing the reason-Gui Xiao in her pocket Those hands, holding a layer of cloth, clenched tightly, so that each joint of the fingers was sore and painful.

She heard herself asking him softly, “Bai Tao told me yesterday that you are getting married?”

no respond.

Lu Yanchen threw the shredded cigarette into a plastic trash can, and touched his pants pocket, completely forgetting that a half carton of cigarette was pinched in the other hand. Gui Xiao watched him do this, and then saw that he stopped all movements, froze for a while, rubbed the cigarette case in his palm, and threw it into the trash can.

“… Lu Chen?” She called him.

Lu Yanchen finally raised his eyes and laughed at himself: “Yes.”

Something came from her throat, holding her: “When?”

“Next month.”

“… Congratulations.”

He shook his head and said nothing more.

A gust of cold wind came in from the crack of the door, blowing behind Gui Xiao’s head, and the door was just pushed open by Qin Xiaonan.

The child should have eavesdropped outside the door. When he came in, his eyes were helpless, and he moved carefully to Gui Xiao: “Auntie.”

Gui Xiao returned to her soul, her eyes were sour, but she still worked hard to calm down: “Uncle Lu is going to get married and will be very busy. If I remind you on the road, you must remember it. And-” I wanted to say that Qin Xiaonan wanted Be nice to Lu Yanchen’s wife in the future. After all, you have to live with people for several years, but you don’t think you have any position.

Finally, she touched Qin Xiaonan’s head, and by the way wiped out a small piece of black on his face, “And, if I was bullied, remember what I said, the transfer students had to go through this hurdle, all right. It ’s been a long time since everyone accepted you. “

Someone outside called Lu Yanchen’s name, a woman’s voice.

“You keep busy,” Gui Xiao said, “I’m gone.”

“Wait,” Lu Yanchen opened the drawer under the TV cabinet and turned out the black wallet. “How much is the box money for you?”

“One hundred,” she said.

The brand of this box is very famous, and the shape of the aluminum alloy is also very recognizable. It can be said that Yanding Dingluochen has been in the army for so many years and will not have time to pay attention to such things.

Sure enough, Lu Yanchen took no doubt and pulled out five or six red tickets from the wallet. Before waiting to hand it to her, she changed her mind and emptied all the red hundred-dollar bills in her wallet. Qin Xiaonan’s clothes, as well as living in your house these days, are in trouble. “

“You don’t have to be so clear,” she took two of them symbolically, “you also helped me in Erlianhot.”

The people outside estimated that because Lu Yan didn’t agree for a long time in the morning, he waited impatiently and opened the door.

“I told you not to come out, are there any guests?”

Gui Xiao turned his head back, and the face that ran into his eyes was Zhao Minshan. Black long straight hair draped over the shoulders, black cotton jacket and scarf of the same color, very simple and beautiful. The main thing is that people are beautiful, and how to dress up is not wrong.

The two looked at each other, and Zhao Minshan was also surprised: “Are you … Guixiao? Remember me? Second class Zhao Minshan?”

Gui Xiao said, “Yeah,” “You haven’t changed, you’re so pretty.”

At that time, Gui Xiao and Zhao Minshan were the most famous in their grades: one was a big brother and elder sister with friends who were retreating from the rivers and lakes, somehow a little girl that made people feel inexplicable; After junior high school, young boys from seven or eight nearby villages like to chase and block up pretty girls several times.

Zhao Minshan laughed softly: “You just got better, I almost didn’t recognize it. It turned out that Lu Chen’s mother was your friend? It’s a coincidence that Lu’s mother said he had a friend here today, and I thought about him like this I have n’t seen any friends I ’ve known for many years, so let ’s take a look. Everyone knows them. I did n’t expect it to be you. It ’s a coincidence. ”

Zhao Minshan kept sighing, Lu Yanchen stuffed his wallet into his pants pocket, and said nothing.

“This is your child?” Zhao Minshan looked kindly at Qin Xiaonan.

Gui Xiao coped with difficulties and explained, “It was his comrade-in-arms, and I asked him to borrow it.”

Zhao Minshan took a nap, and couldn’t ask much in front of Gui Xiao, and muttered, “I didn’t hear Lu Chen mention it.”

…

His wife, who was about to get married next month, stood in front of her, and her guilt was abrupt. Just now, the conversation between the two in the room was so shameless, shameless, and ambiguous.

After all, you are too, too much.

She was so cold that she didn’t want to stay any longer, and said vaguely, “The child is here, so I will leave first.”

“I’m going to have lunch, let’s go after eating,” Zhao Minshan took out her cell phone to check the time, and went to Lu Yanchen for a white look.

“No need,” Gui Xiao said anxiously, “I made an appointment with Meng Xiaoshan.”

“Ah … Meng Xiaoshan,” Zhao Minshan and Meng Xiaoshan were at odds when they were studying, and because of Haidong’s affairs, they were taught by Meng Xiaoshan. The relationship has been subtle for more than ten years. After hearing Gui Xiao’s words, he didn’t insist. Forget it. “

Gui Xiao smiled and nodded at Zhao Minshan. There was a shadow of Lu Yanchen in Yu Guang, but he didn’t look at him any more and turned away from the room. She walked back along the road when she came in, got in the car, reversed—

Slammed into the doorstep of the delivery room.

The uncle inside was scared, and shouted when he pushed the door: “Girl, are you okay? Are you hurt?”

Gui Xiao nodded to the uncle across the windshield, put his right hand in front of the eyebrow, and kept gesturing apologizing.

When the uncle saw that he was okay, he immediately distressed the car:

Such a good car, I do n’t know how to drive away, hey, I really wo n’t live.

The car drove off the not-so-road and turned onto the canal.

But her hands were shaking all the time, she couldn’t hold the steering wheel at all, so she stepped on the brakes, stopped under the big poplar tree beside the canal, and went to her mobile phone in her bag.

With all sorts of small things rolling out, finally found the mobile phone and dialed to Meng Xiaoshan, who is closest to her in this town. Answering the call over there, Meng Xiaoshan is teaching the staff: “That table list has been waived, and a good apology-what is it?”

Gui Xiao took a deep breath and said with a shaking voice, “I’m hungry.”

“Hurry up to the lobby, I’ll pick up the phone here!” After the sound of the door knocking over there, Meng Xiaoshan asked strangely. ? “

“No …” Gui Xiao shook water and mist in front of her eyes, afraid to blink, fearing it would flow out, “I am, hungry. I haven’t eaten since I came out in the morning, just passing here, thinking about what you said last time Want to invite me to dinner. “

Where can I deceive the old rivers and lakes, Meng Xiaoshan didn’t say much nonsense. When I saw someone, I said, “Where are you?”

“By the canal.”

“Canal? Which mouth?”

Gui Xiao wiped her face on the back of her hands, all water: “Outside Lu Chen’s factory … that little intersection.”

After Guixiao left, Lu Yanchen sat down alone on the single sofa with his hands crossed, resting on the bridge of his nose, blocking most of his face, and staring at the box.

When the factory was expanded, the heating in this room was not installed properly.

He came back from the frontier. He didn’t care about the cold, but he seemed to be frozen, cold from the inside out.

Zhao Minshan took off her cotton clothes, wearing a thick black cashmere sweater and trousers. She wanted Lu Yanchen to see her best, but she couldn’t stand it after sitting for half a minute. In the stillness of the room, he pulled over his clothes and put on his chin, looking around and looking at the same full-hearted children.

Seeing Lu Yanchen staring at the box, he narrowed his eyes and sighed in amazement: “Your comrades are so rich, you use such expensive boxes for your children? Last time my aunt went to Taiwan, I want her to give Bring it back, I can’t bear to say more than seven thousand. “

After speaking, I couldn’t help but feel sorry that people can’t be compared.

Zhao Minshan said for a long time, and Lu Yanchen didn’t respond for a word. She took two water glasses and was poured water by herself and Qin Xiaonan, pushing them to the child: “Are you going to Beijing to study? Your parents? ? Come here too? “

Qin Xiaonan was full of those words that Gui Xiao and Lu Yanchen said, and kept crying, just crying.

A big man took her as the air, even the children, and Zhao Minshan’s enthusiasm was mostly extinguished.

But then think about it, this man used to be like this, seeing everyone look like an indifferent recruiter.

When she was in elementary school, she heard of Lu Chen’s name, and later she chased her after attending many junior high schools. This is not a big deal for her. She can handle it freely, but there is still a time when she can’t get around. That time, Haidong gave her a solution, and Haidong was surrounded by the famous Lu Chen.

At that time, there was no such thing as the rich second generation, but everyone knew that Lu Chen’s family was rich, the people were good, and the mother’s family was in the army. In short, it was a girl who could not help but hear when she saw it. That kind of character.

But Lu Chen was much older than her, and had no access at all. Besides, Zhao Minshan herself is also a real person. She likes to be surrounded and chased by people. She has no unnecessary emotions for such distant boys. In particular, he and Haidong are well-known outside of junior high school. When he dropped out of high school in Haidong, he also converged, and he was regarded as a “quitting river”.

At that time, Zhao Minshan liked to play with Fengshui Shuiqi, and it was more interesting.

Think about it, no matter how much you mixed up when you were young, you still have to be bland in the end. She’s going to marry no matter how good-looking she is. When she gets married, she gets divorced when her sought-after temper comes. However, after the divorce in the town, the women attracted a lot of people, but there were very few people asking for help.

This dragging was to be 28 years old, and there was nothing in the city, but it was awful to talk about it in rural areas at this age. Fortunately, one marriage is more troublesome.

Zhao Minshan glanced at Yan Chen, who was also a nagging, and did not expect to go back and forth, and it was him who married her.

…

When Meng Xiaoshan came to return, she had already got out of the car and sat on the muddy soil by the river bank in the winter. The tears were dry, but the cheeks were hurt by the wind, and the eyes were hurt.

“Have you cried?” Of course Meng Xiaoshan would not know about those things in Inner Mongolia, but when I heard this place on the phone, I guessed why Gui Xiao was so abnormal.

Zhao Minshan’s divorce was well known throughout the town. His family was very shameless. She was anxious to think of a second marriage, but after years of tossing, she was still beautiful, but she wanted to find another one in the countryside. So since a couple of days ago, I had a relationship with Lu Chen’s family, and after accepting the offer, I really could n’t wait to get a drink immediately.

The best restaurant in town is Meng Xiaoshan’s, can she not know?

Meng Xiaoshan took two cushions from his car, pulled Gui Xiao together, put her under the cushion, and sat down, “If you are born and raised here, you will marry at the age of 23 or 4. It ’s late. I ’m not married, but I ’m crying because of my first love in my teens … Do n’t blame me for telling you to turn your back. Do you think you are sixteen? ”

“…”

“I told Haidong at first that I had to break, wasn’t it clean?” Meng Xiaoshan was calm as if talking about someone else. “Don’t cry, you should have cried when you broke up. Who has never had a first love, Always remember that your first love is too much for you? “

Gui Xiao looked at the little men and women who skated on the river: “I’m hungry.”

“…” It was Meng Xiaoshan’s turn to be trapped.

Meng Xiaoshan left his car by the canal and drove back home.

She touched the steering wheel, she felt emotion, good car just feels different, look at the center console, look at the sound effects … She has made a lot of money these years, and the car is not bad, purely for fun. Gui Xiao shook her head, barely cooperating and raised her mouth: “You want to open, I’ll change it with you.”

“No,” Meng Xiaoshan couldn’t help crying. “You still have to live or die. Where can I rob while on fire.”

Gui Xiao’s forehead was against the window glass, refuting her: “There is no life or death.”

I just feel that my life is over.