Xu Xiaoai went back to her room and changed her clothes, then hurried downstairs again.
Zhou Lin happened to come in from the hall, and closed the door behind him.
— Someone came again just now
Zhou Lin raised his head, looked at her and smiled.
"Let's go through the back door." He said softly, but there was a little excitement hidden in his tone.
back door? Does the villa have a back door
Xu Xiaoai was a little puzzled.
She has lived in this villa for more than half a year, and she never knew that the villa has a back door
The doorbell rang ding dong ding dong.
Someone is here again
Xu Xiaoai immediately rushed down the stairs in two steps, while Zhou Lin took her hand, led her into the kitchen, and opened a secret door—before Xu Xiaoai always thought that the secret door was Vertical air conditioning box? !
After the two entered the secret door, they walked down a few narrow steps and followed Zhou Lin to open the door...they were already in the underground garage of the villa.
Xu Xiaoai threw away his hand in disgust, straightened her clothes, and walked towards his black horse automatically and consciously.
Zhou Lin went to hold her hand again, led her to a red Volkswagen Beetle, and motioned her to get in the car.
Xu Xiaoai reacted immediately - Zhou Lin's black ride was so amazing, I'm afraid many people also recognize his license plate. If you want to sneak away quietly, it is better to drive another car.
She muttered, opened the door and sat in the passenger seat.
Zhou Lin used the remote control to turn on another car in the garage, reversed the car and left the garage from the opposite direction.
The car made a detour and drove out from his villa...
Xu Xiaoai's eyes widened.
— There are already seven or eight luxury cars blocked at the entrance of his villa, and several other cars are also blocked at the intersection. Probably other owners in the community wanted to drive out, but they happened to be blocked by these luxury convoys. Several drivers were blushing from arguing, and several security guards were sweating profusely maintaining order.
Xu Xiaoai's heart pounded.
Although she and Zhou Lin were sitting in a Beetle, and the windows were covered with reflective paper, but what if... what if he was recognized
Usually Zhou Lin has a lot of assistants and entourages around him, but when the Zhou family came today, Zhou Lin did not have any assistants or entourages by his side, that is to say, it is very likely that he let those people have a holiday...
Xu Xiaoai was really uneasy.
Soon, the security guards talked all their good words before they persuaded the luxury caravans that were about to line up to Zhou Lin's house to move to the side of the road, so that the caravans of the owners could file out.
Zhou Lin drove a Beetle and followed the owners' convoy and left the community.
Xu Xiaoai let out a long breath of relief.
Zhou Lin suddenly laughed.
"You still have the face to smile!" Xu Xiaoai complained to him, "... There will be so many people looking for you, and you didn't tell me earlier! I spent so much effort to decorate the house, but I ended up dressing up so beautifully that I couldn't bear it." If you can’t see it, you can’t appreciate it... It’s just a wink for the blind!"
Zhou Lin's laughter grew louder.
Xu Xiaoai was quite unhappy at first, but after thinking about it, Zhou Lin actually contributed the most to decorate the villa this time. He made those decorative light strings and Spring Festival couplets, and he also cooked the New Year's Eve dinner. At best, she just verbally ordered him... So, forget it!
And because Xu Xiaoai has very few relatives here, usually when it comes to the Spring Festival, it is a real rest, and every day is just doing nothing and playing...
And this Chinese New Year, she also had the same idea. After all, no one has ever come to find Zhou Lin at ordinary times. She felt that Zhou Lin might be the same as herself. Be more beautiful, and live a more comfortable life, but now it's good, and I will be forced to go out after the next year!
"Where are we going now?"
Seeing that he couldn't stop laughing, Xu Xiaoai felt even more annoyed, so she stared at him unkindly and asked.
Zhou Rin laughed again for a while, then stopped laughing, and said, "... probably only by going abroad can I really hide in peace."
go abroad
Xu Xiaoai's face collapsed, and he said unhappily, "I'm not going! If you want to go abroad, you can go by yourself... Let's go our separate ways. I'll go back to the villa after you come back to work after the Lantern Festival."
Zhou Lin took a deep look at her.
"Where do you want to go?"
This question stopped Xu Xiaoai from asking.
In fact, she has nowhere to go.
After thinking for a long time, she said, "...I, I'll go back to my hometown! I haven't been back since my parents passed away, and I'm going to visit the grave by the way."
"Yungui?" he asked.
Xu Xiaoai let out a "hmm" and said, "...Yungui."
They drove to Yungui.
Yungui is actually in the countryside of City A, but the mountain roads are not easy to walk, so they didn't arrive at Yungui Town until after four o'clock in the afternoon.
Xu Xiaoai's hometown is in an old residential area in the town.
Looking at the dilapidated community, Zhou Lin said, "Is this the demolition area?"
Xu Xiaoai let out a "hmm" and said, "It was demolished seven or eight years ago, the land was expropriated, and we got compensation... But I don't know why, after the land was expropriated, there has been no movement... Later, the place was deserted, and many folks moved back to live here. However, there were more homeless people living here... Let’s see and leave.”
She followed the path in her memory and led Zhou Lin towards her home.
Turning the corner of the street, walking into the community, bypassing the tents built by the homeless, and then going upstairs... Xu Xiaoai pushed open the door of her former home.
This is a small two-bedroom apartment.
There are still some old furniture on display in the room, the furniture is full of heavy dust, the floor and the wall are in a mess...
"Hey, our furniture has been almost moved..." Xu Xiaoai laughed suddenly while carefully identifying the furnishings in the house, "Xiaohui's certificate is still posted on the wall! This... Xiaoqing's mouth Cup? My God, what's in it? It's moldy..."
"Didn't Xue Qing live with Xue Weilun when she was a child?"
"Well, my mother, she can compromise on everything, but she can't bear the matter of our siblings. Xue Weilun is not good to Xiaoqing, my mother has been fighting with Xue Weilun, thinking desperately Ask Xiaoqing to come back... Sometimes she goes directly to school to block people, and when Xiaoqing is caught, she takes her home and spends a few days with me and Xiaohui... However, Xue Weilun often blocks people at school. people… "
As she spoke, Xu Xiaoai sighed, and said, "Our house is very small... Xiaohui and I lived in the same room when we were young, but when we grew up, that room belonged to me, and Xiaohui lived in the living room. A folding bed. At that time, I also heard my parents say that if I earn some more money, I will sell this small house and change to a big four-bedroom house, so that the three of us, siblings, can share a room. Who knows... "
Having said that, Xu Xiaoai fell silent.
She looked around, and vaguely recalled that when her parents were still alive, there were always all kinds of joyful songs and laughter in this small dwelling: she and Xiaohui were fighting, and her father would always do it as long as he stayed at home. Do some manual work, make a small bench, make a whole empty Coke bottle into a small hanging fish tank, filled with clear water to hold the small fish that Xiaohui brought back from the pond, and so on. Mom is always busy with housework, cooking, washing clothes, mopping the floor...
At that time, Xu Xiaoai herself was also a child who didn't know worries. She had the sense of stability and happiness that her parents would support even if the sky fell. She never thought about the hardships of life and the dangers of human heart.
But…
Her eye sockets turned red involuntarily.
Zhou Lin stretched out his arms to wrap her around her, letting her rest her head on his shoulder.
Xu Xiaoai pressed all her tears onto the man's clothes, and endured it for a while before she calmed down and forced back the remaining tears.
"Let's go... There is no water or electricity here. After a while, it will get dark and you won't even be able to see the road." Xu Xiaoai said, looked back at the old house again, and walked out first.
Zhou Lin came out after her.
It was getting dark outside, and the homeless people gathered firewood and were camping and cooking. The air was filled with a strong pungent smell of smoke and the aroma of food.
The two walked out of the community, stood on the side of the road and watched for a while, then walked towards a place with a lot of people and dense lights.
"Let's go, let's go eat." Xu Xiaoai took the initiative to take Zhou Lin's arm and said, "... I know there is a Mala Tang in the town, it's delicious... In the past, whenever Xiaohui had money, he would definitely go there. The one that eats skewers..."
Zhou Lin looked at her shining eyes, then looked at her hand on his arm calmly, and pursed his mouth slightly.
But Xu Xiaoai took Zhou Lin around the town, but couldn't find the Malatang restaurant in his memory.
She stood by the side of the road in a daze.
After a long while, she suddenly smiled and said, "... there won't be someone standing there waiting all the time, right?"
Zhou Lin looked at her quietly.
Xu Xiaoai sighed, and dragged him to a small noodle shop that looked clean.
He ordered two bowls at random, but Zhou Lin stopped his chopsticks after only two mouthfuls.
Xu Xiaoai frowned after taking only one mouthful... These days, her stomach has been spoiled by him for a long time, and it is easy to see that the proprietress of the noodle shop put MSG in the noodle soup in order to improve the taste. So that the noodle soup is fresh and a bit bitter...
She also only took two bites, and took out the money to pay the bill.
There are not many people in the small town, and most of the migrants have returned to the village during the Chinese New Year. Not long after the street lights came on, most of the people in the market had returned home, deserted...
Xu Xiaoai dragged Zhou Lin to find a place to live.
But Yungui has always been a remote town, and there are only three guest houses in the town. One house was full, and the proprietress of one family went back to her hometown for the New Year, so it was closed... So Xu Xiaoai and Zhou Lin went to the only Fortune Guest House where they could stay.
The condition of the guest house is very poor, there is no air conditioner, although there is a simple small bathroom, but there is no hot water, and the toilet is squatting...
Zhou Lin was not used to it.
Xu Xiaoai ran to the canteen downstairs and came back with a bag full of things: a small plastic basin, two pairs of plastic slippers for men and women, toothpaste and toothbrush for two, mouthwash cups, new towels, and even There are barrel-packed instant noodles, pickled mustard and ham sausage, biscuits and melon seeds, and pineapple beer snacks.
There was a hot water kettle in the room that could be plugged in. Xu Xiaoai used the electric kettle to boil a pot of boiling water, poured it into the sink, took a new towel and went to the bathroom, then wiped her body with warm water; He poured a pot of boiling water, mixed it with cold water to adjust the temperature, and handed Zhou Lin a new towel, asking him to go to the bathroom to wash his face and body.
While Zhou Lin was in the bathroom, Xu Xiaoai seized the time to boil another pot of boiling water, soaked two bowls of cup noodles, poured ham sausage and mustard into the cup noodles, and then covered the lid.
When Zhou Lin came out of the bathroom, she saw Xu Xiaoai who was busy in the small | cramped room...
She was wearing a pair of plastic slippers, humming a brisk song, her long hair was pulled back with an elastic cord, and the flowing ends of her hair hung messily behind her head.
He didn't speak, but kept staring at her.
"Come and eat noodles!"
Xu Xiaoai signaled him to come and sit down.
This room is the most rudimentary room that Zhou Lin has ever seen... there is no one.
In this so-called deluxe room, apart from a small narrow bed, there is only a dilapidated bedside table, a coat rack with two brackets broken off, and a broken TV set Standing on a simple rusty iron frame, that's all.
Zhou Lin sat on the edge of the bed according to Xu Xiaoai's instructions.
At this time, Xu Xiaoai moved out the bedside table and used it as a small table in front of the bed. The table was filled with the instant noodles and messy snacks she bought. She asked Zhou Lin to sit on the edge of the bed, and she turned the small plastic basin they used to wash up just now on the ground as a small stool, and sat on it.
Then, Xu Xiaoai took off the lid of the cup noodles that had been soaked in hot water for several minutes...
The room was immediately filled with the rich aroma of instant noodles.
"Let's just eat something today. After today, I'll go see my parents tomorrow. Let's go back to the city. Then you'll cook something delicious for me..." Xu Xiaoai muttered.
Zhou Lin couldn't help laughing again.
"I didn't say that you can't eat these things normally," Xu Xiaoai rolled his eyes at him, and said, "However, it's still delicious to eat once in a while. Hey, have you ever drank pineapple beer?"
The man shook his head.
"Pineapple beer and spicy strips are a perfect match!" Xu Xiaoai handed the plastic fork to Zhou Lin, signaling him to eat noodles.
The man took the plastic fork, imitated her appearance, and ate the cup noodles with a disposable paper bowl... The MSG in the cup noodles was actually quite strong, but it was better than the bowl of MSG noodles I ate downstairs just now. Strong, and watching the woman across from him eat so sweetly... It also gave him the illusion... In fact, this side is also delicious.
Xu Xiaoai ate a few mouthfuls of instant noodles, opened pineapple beer for him to drink, and invited him to eat spicy sticks.
The man stared at the spicy strips for a long time, and finally ate them in silence.
Xu Xiaoai hasn't eaten these junk foods for a long time, and now she is addicted to eating them, and she can't stop... She ate a whole bowl of cup noodles, three packs of spicy sticks, drank another can of pineapple beer, and finally started eating again. Nibbling melon seeds...
"Xiao Ai, eat less." Zhou Lin couldn't help reminding her, "You have a bad stomach, be careful if you eat too much."
She said "um", and said indifferently, "It's okay, happy Chinese New Year, what's the matter with some snacks... Otherwise, how can you spend the Chinese New Year? There is no TV, there is no flower market... Hey, what did you do before?" Is it Chinese New Year?"
Zhou Lin said, "I have lived abroad."
After thinking about it, he added, "... I used to spend New Year's Eve alone."
"Even if you celebrate the New Year alone, you still need some entertainment, right?" After Xu Xiaoai finished eating the melon seeds in her hand, she went to pick out another handful of melon seeds and continued eating.
Zhou Lin said, "Well, sometimes I also dive, run, climb mountains and so on."
"Running alone? Mountain climbing? Diving?" Xu Xiaoai ate a few more melon seeds and said, "That's kind of boring... In the past, when we celebrated Chinese New Year, it was me, Xiaohui, and Mengmeng who spent the New Year together... Huh! These two guys, if you don't do it yourself, you always think that my cooking is not good... "
Zhou Lin laughed.
Xu Xiaoai sighed suddenly, "I don't know how Mengmeng is doing recently..."
Zhou Lin opened his mouth, but finally said nothing.
Xu Xiaoai lost her mind too.
She clapped her hands and started picking up the trash...
After cleaning up all the garbage, she moved the bedside table back to its original place, and then said to Zhou Lin, "Brush your teeth and go to sleep... You only take off your coat when you sleep, and you still wear the sweater inside. The bedding here I don’t know if it’s clean or not, if I get ringworm or sores when I go back, it won’t be worth it…”
Zhou Lin let out a "hmm".
On the first day of the new year, the night in the small town was deserted, and the TV in the guest house room was broken. The two of them really had nothing to do, so they went to bed before nine o'clock.
The bed is very small, the bed board is very hard, the quilt is very thin, and the bedding and pillows all smell unclean. The two were lying on the bed clinging to each other, and it was difficult to even turn over. In addition, Zhou Lin was tall, lying on the bed... his feet were hanging in the air at the end of the bed.
He couldn't fall asleep until midnight.
Xu Xiaoai regards the man as a large pillow, at least he is much softer than the bed board, and he is still hot... She fell asleep quickly, but in the middle of the night, she suddenly started tossing and turning in her sleep, and became breathless. hastened up...
Zhou Lin felt that something was wrong, propped up half of his body in the dark to look at her, and asked nervously, "Xiaoai? Xiaoai... what's wrong with you?"