There was an elder sister who had never seen Pei Yan. After seeing Pei Yan's appearance, she sighed again and again: "This young man looks really energetic, no wonder..." She wanted to say, no wonder when Sister Qin introduced her boyfriend to Hua Jin, she was Hua Jin refused. But the words hadn't come out yet, thinking that they would offend people, she swallowed them back.
"This is a natural couple." Sister Qin pretended not to know what she was thinking, and bumped Hua Jin with her elbow, "Don't hurry up and pick up someone, and they will stare at them like this, I'm afraid your boyfriend will be arrested. Their eyes frightened away."
Hua Jin put down the half-peeled garlic, washed her hands in the sink, walked to Pei Yan and said, "Why do you buy so many things?"
"I prepared a gift box for them." Pei Yan pretended not to see other people's eyes, and put the gift box he bought on the wooden table. The wooden table looked a little old, but it had been washed early in the morning. , put it on the open space in front of the house and waited to dry.
"In such a cold day, are you holding his hand?" Hua Jin grabbed his hand, opened her fingers to touch it, and then generously took Pei Yan to greet the neighbors.
After the neighbors made a few good jokes, they asked Hua Jin to take Pei Yan to sit in the house for a while, it was windy outside.
"It's okay, everyone is here, chatting happily together." Pei Yan distributed the gift box to everyone, "Thank you for your usual care of Huahua."
"You're welcome, it's not a big deal for neighbors to help each other." Seeing Pei Yan driving a luxury car and wearing a high-end suit, Mrs. Chen knew that his family background must be extraordinary. She was happy that Hua Jin had found a good boyfriend and Worrying about the rich people taking care of her, she can't be single-minded about her.
Everyone present was unfamiliar with Pei Yan, and Pei Yan's style made everyone unconsciously polite, and the atmosphere at the scene was restrained and embarrassing.
Seeing that everyone couldn't let go, Hua Jin pulled Pei Yan to sit on the small stool beside him: "Come on, help me peel the garlic."
Pei Yan looked at the garlic that had been soaked in water but had not been peeled yet, and obediently peeled it like a flower brocade.
"Have you peeled it before?" Hua Jin asked.
"Peeled." Pei Yan recalled carefully, "When I was in college, I went out for a picnic with my friends and peeled it a few times. It was very interesting."
Hua Jin: "… "
"Your rich people's hobbies are quite special."
"Harmonious society, equality for everyone, and opposition to discrimination against the rich." Pei Yan put the peeled garlic into a bowl, "Be nice to your boyfriend."
Hua Jin smiled and bumped Pei Yan with her shoulder. The two leaned against each other and whispered.
Sister Qin, who was sitting next to Hua Jin, saw that the young couple could peel off the sweetness when peeling garlic. She picked up her own small bench, got up and went to get together with other neighbors.
"How's it going?" Seeing Sister Qin coming over, the female neighbor asked her, "I think these two are in a good relationship, can they really work?"
"I think this Mr. Pei is very good to Huahua, and he doesn't pretend to be rich in front of us. If it wasn't because he liked Huahua, how could he have done this?" Seeing that Sister Qin didn't speak, the female neighbor continued, "In the past, we were all thinking about when Hua Hua would find a boyfriend. We didn't expect that she would be fine if she didn't. Once she did it, she would be the best."
"I can see that the two of them are in a good relationship." Sister Qin arranged the dishes on the table, "Less gossip a little bit. Are you ready for the sour radish that will be put in the duck soup?"
"Oh, I forgot." The female neighbor stood up, "I'll go get some from the sauerkraut jar at home."
Seeing her leave, Sister Qin breathed a sigh of relief. She, a woman whose marriage was unsuccessful, really didn't dare to say too much, for fear of her crow's mouth.
"I didn't expect that there are so many people living in this building, and it's quite lively." Everyone gathered to chat, cooking and washing dishes together. This experience was novel to him.
"Everyone comes from all over the world to the big cities to seek a living, and the foreigners who are willing to rent here are already relatively well-off." Seeing that Pei Yan was very interested in peeling garlic, Hua Jin put half a pot of garlic in him In front of him, he began to manage the onion, "After this meal, it will be difficult to meet again in the future."
They are tenants, temporary neighbors, and it is fate to get together. But each other is a passer-by in the city, and it is difficult to spend energy to get together again if they have to run around for life.
Pei Yan probably couldn't understand such a living state, but Hua Jin didn't want him to understand.
Pei Yan looked at her worriedly: "Are you sad?"
"It's a bit reluctant, but people always have to move forward and look forward." Hua Jin smiled and skillfully removed the skin at the root of the onion, leaving white and tender roots, "For those who seek life outside In other words, getting together and parting is the norm.”
"I'm alone, and you're alone." Pei Yan smiled, "but when we walk together, we become a home. From now on, you don't have to be wandering around, no matter where you go, the lights in your home will be on. Await your return."
Hua Jin stared at him blankly, and suddenly smiled.
Her birth was not expected, she had a family, but she lived like an outsider. In fact, after her grandmother passed away, she had no home. She is Aunt Gao's apprentice, and Aunt Gao treats her very well, but an apprentice is an apprentice and can never become a family member.
She is not afraid of being alone, but now someone tells her that she wants to form a family with her.
Not to give her a home, but to form a home with her.
"Okay." Hua Jin smiled and rolled her eyes, "If possible, I want to have a home with you."
"We'll go home after dinner." Pei Yan said happily, "Our room..."
"Wait." Hua Jin interrupted him, "Before we got married, there was no room for us, only your room, and my room."
"Oh..." Pei Yan's frantically peeling garlic slowed down.
At lunch time, everyone brought the prepared wine and dishes to the table, opened beer, and filled everyone up. When pouring wine for Pei Yan, Hua Jin held down his cup, "I agreed not to pour him, so don't make trouble."
"It's okay, have a drink..." Before Pei Yan finished speaking, she was stopped by Hua Jin.
"It's okay, you'll have skin allergies after drinking too much alcohol, and you don't know it yourself?" Hua Jin glared at him and said to the neighbor, "He will help me move things and drive later, so I'll just drink the wine. ."
"Don't drink while driving, you're right." Hearing that Pei Yan was allergic to drinking, everyone didn't make a fuss, skipped Pei Yan, and continued pouring wine for the next person.
Pei Yan silently looked at Dazzling Jin: "..."
No, when did he become allergic to alcohol
"Don't talk." Hua Jin glared at him and whispered in his ear, "You don't usually drink, but if you start drinking suddenly, it will hurt your brain."
"I only drink a little."
"Everyone is together today. As long as you start drinking, you can't just drink a little. If you're drunk, how can you take care of me." Hua Jin said confidently, "Today is my home court, you can accompany me to dinner. "
"Okay." Pei Yan laughed, and put some vegetables in her bowl with chopsticks, "Eat the vegetables first to cushion your stomach."
He didn't stop Hua Jin from letting her drink, he knew she wanted to drink today. The only thing he can do is to feed her two mouthfuls of vegetables and a few mouthfuls of soup from time to time.
"My hometown is in the north. I saved money to buy a house in the county town two years ago. I can't live for a few days throughout the year, but with the house, my baby is studying in the city, and his classmates ask him where he is, and he can raise his head." After a few glasses of wine, everyone's chatterbox opened, "I've been working hard outside for so many years, isn't it just trying to make the old and young live a good life?" The man who spoke wiped his face, "Come, let's have a drink."
When it comes to the elderly and children at home, the neighbors have something to say, and it is very lively. Sister Qin has to take care of the children, so she didn't drink. He tilted his head and glanced at his son who was sitting beside him, and scooped him a bowl of soup. Xiaohai drank the soup and gave her a chicken wing, "Mom, you can eat it too."
Sister Qin smiled and saw that Pei Yan, who was sitting opposite her, was shaving Hua Jin's fishbone, the smile became more obvious.
Hua Jin doesn't usually drink much, so she doesn't drink much. After a few glasses of beer, his cheeks were dyed red. She opened her mouth to eat what Pei Yan fed to her mouth, and smiled brightly at Pei Yan, her eyes shining like stars.
Pei Yan couldn't help pinching her cheek: "drunk?"
Shaking her dizzy head, Hua Jin smiled: "I'm awake."
"Well, you're sober." Pei Yan fed the soup bowl to Hua Jin's mouth, "Take a sip."
Hua Jin drank it obediently.
How can he be so obedient, he is obviously drunk.
"There is a saying that alcohol is not intoxicating and one is self-intoxicating." Hua Jin wiped the corner of her mouth with a tissue, "Pei Yan, I'm... happy today."
Although there was parting and reluctance, she still had an uncontrollable joy.
"Hua Jin, I wish you and Mr. Pei a hundred years of good luck and happiness." A female neighbor raised her glass, looked at Hua Jin and said to Pei Yan, "When I first moved here, I was not familiar with this place, so take me with you. Go shopping, take me shopping, I was sick and in a coma, and it was you who found something wrong with me and called an ambulance for me, I really appreciate you."
"Upstairs and downstairs, you don't need to say these polite words." Hua Jin clinked a glass with the female neighbor and drank the wine in the glass, "When I was sick, didn't you accompany me to the hospital to pay for the medicine? "
"Yeah, it's my luck to meet your neighbors after working hard outside." The female neighbor filled her glass and toasted everyone.
"In the future, everyone should take good care of their health. The money is endless, but life has to be lived well."
"cheers!"
"Dry."
After drinking a glass of wine, Hua Jin's eyes became brighter and brighter. When the wine was exhausted, everyone in the room was half drunk. Pei Yan held Hua Jin's shoulder, listened to everyone's drunken talk, and gently wiped the corners of her mouth.
The banquet was over, but no one spoke first.
In the end, the oldest old lady Chen sighed, swept her eyes from everyone, and said in a low voice, "It's all gone."
Everyone did not speak.
"I made some seasoning sauce for everyone, and everyone took a bottle and went back to eat." Mrs. Chen stood up and tapped her shoulder, "Let's go, let's go."
The first to leave was a couple who had only lived here for half a year. One after another, someone stood up and started to go back to their house to pack their things.
When Pei Yan helped Hua Jin and was about to take her back to her room, she was suddenly stopped by a middle-aged woman.
"Mr. Pei." Sister Qin walked up to Pei Yan and seemed to have a lot to say. She stared at the two of them for a while before spit out a few words, "Take care of her."
"I will." Pei Yan nodded.
"Then, goodbye." Sister Qin held Xiaohai, "Xiaohai, say goodbye to Sister Hua Jin."
Hua Jin opened her eyes, her mind was dizzy, and when she spoke, she lost her usual reason and scruples: "Sister Qin, take good care of Xiaohai, he is a good boy."
"I know." Sister Qin smiled, "You also have to take care of yourself."
Hua Jin touched Xiaohai's head: "With such a good head, he must be a smart child. Don't worry about anything in the future. The most important thing for children and their parents is not to get angry, but to communicate."
Xiaohai whispered: "Sister Hua Jin, I can't bear to part with you."
"Now that communication is so developed, you can meet whenever you want." Hua Jin smiled, "Take care of yourself and your mother."
"Yeah!" Xiaohai nodded heavily.
Pei Yan helped Huajin go upstairs and found that Huajin had put away her things, several large boxes were neatly placed in the corner, and the whole room was empty.
"Let's go now?" Pei Yan helped her to sit down on the chair, "Is there anything left?"
Hua Jin shook his head, reached out and hugged his waist without speaking.
"Then I'll let someone come up to carry things, and I'll take you down. Do you want to say goodbye to the neighbors again, and do you have their contact information?" Pei Yan was afraid that she would be uncomfortable, and patted her on the cheek gently. back.
"No need, those of us who are looking for a living outside will meet a lot of people when we come and go. After we part, even if we have contact information, we won't keep in touch again." Hua Jin sighed, "Fortunately, I have now. You, or you will be sad."
When you have too little, losing a little bit can be painful. But she now has a complete love, and she becomes relieved when facing parting.
"Then do you want me to carry you down, or carry you down?" Pei Yan took the opportunity to rub her hair.
"There are children in the building, it's embarrassing to carry them, you carry me." Hua Jin's voice was a little vague, "When it was raining in elementary school, other students had their parents to pick them up. After the rain, the road was muddy and difficult to walk, and many preschool classes There are also parents of first- and second-year students who will carry their children on their backs.”
"But I've never been carried on my back once." Hua Jin pouted, "Never once."
Bowing his head and kissing her forehead, Pei Yan bent down and carried Hua Jin on his back carefully, and whispered, "Hua Xiaozhu, you are really heavy."
"I'm not sinking, it's because I ate too much at noon." Hua Jin put her arms around Pei Yan's neck, "You should exercise."
"Okay, I'm going to exercise, and when I'm in the 70s and 80s, I can still carry you on your back." Pei Yan carried her out of the room and met several assistants who had caught up.
"Mr. Pei..." The assistant looked at Pei Yan in a neat suit carrying his girlfriend, and was stunned for a moment.
"Everything is in the house, move it down." Pretending not to see the surprised eyes of the assistants, Pei Yan walked downstairs with Hua Jin on his back.
Hua Jin was already very drunk, but she was sober, she knew who was carrying her. Reaching out to wrap his arms around his neck, Hua Jin leaned on it with confidence.
"Mr. Pei." Madam Chen, who was waiting in the aisle on the second floor, saw Pei Yan came down with the flower brocade on her back, "Your car is parked there, I'll take you there."
"There are some sauces and medicinal wine in it. Xiaohua has bad knees. When it rains, you can use this medicinal wine to wipe it, it will make you feel better." Mrs. Chen followed behind Pei Yan, talking about some small things.
Going downstairs and meeting an assistant waiting downstairs, Mrs. Chen handed the things to him.
Pei Yan stopped and said to Mrs. Chen, "Thank you for taking care of Huahua, take care of yourself, goodbye."
"You guys have to be good." Old lady Chen wiped the corners of her eyes, "Don't let her down, it's not easy for this child."
Pei Yan nodded, carrying the person on his back, step by step, and left the dilapidated old building very firmly.
The author has something to say: Pei Yan: I carry my heart, my liver, and three-quarters of my life.