On the weekend, Huo Yan was going home to pick up some books and daily necessities.
The Huo family lived in a small courtyard turret. This house was a welfare housing for employees allocated by his father's unit. The conditions were not good, but not too bad. A family of four lived in it, and it was a bit crowded. Fortunately, both daughters are in college, so they don't usually spend much time at home.
Two years ago, the Huo family mortgaged a house of about 70 square meters in the urban area for Huo Sinuan. Marry into Fu's family, so you can talk.
Huo Yan occasionally heard his parents discuss such things at the dinner table.
But according to her observation, the aunts of the Fu family are elegant, gentle, and amiable. When she was a child, she followed her sister to the Fu family to play, and the aunt made small bread and pastries for them. In her impression, Fu Shihan's mother was definitely not the kind that the mother said... would look down on her daughter-in-law because she didn't have a house.
As for Fu Shihan's father, he was serious and reticent, upright and upright, with a general air in his eyebrows.
Fu Shihan's Bingshan poker face is exactly the same as his father's.
With such a family and such parents, Huo Yan absolutely does not believe that they will treat his sister badly in the future. On the other hand, she looked back at her parents, who were snobbish, stingy, greedy for vanity, and full of philistine spirit.
Although sometimes she was slow to respond, she was not a fool, and she could tell that her family was not worthy of Fu Shihan's family.
No wonder Fu Shihan himself said that he didn't like his sister.
Sure enough, the parents are self-indulgent
At the dinner table, Huo Yan sighed.
At the same time, she heard her father sigh heavily. Huo Yan raised his head and looked at his father. His father's face was heavy and gloomy.
As soon as Huo Yan entered the house today, he realized that something was wrong with his father.
Her eyes fell on her father's wrist, and she suddenly asked, "Dad, where is your watch?"
Before my father could speak, my mother said lightly, "I've done it."
"It's a pawn!" Huo Yan exclaimed, "That Rolex watch was left to my father by my grandma before she died. How can I pawn it!"
"If you pawn it, you'll be pawning it. There are so many reasons." The mother scolded Huo Yan impatiently: "It's just a watch. Thirty thousand yuan hasn't been pawned, so there's nothing rare about it."
"It's not about the money, it's about grandma. Before she left, grandma said that she should cherish this watch carefully. This watch was accompanied by grandpa on the battlefield..."
Before Huo Yan could finish speaking, her mother interrupted her: "Why are you excited? Even if the watch is to be passed on, it will be passed on to your sister. What does it have to do with you?"
"Enough!" The father suddenly interrupted the mother's words: "You still mention Huo Sinuan, if it wasn't for her, my appearance would be... alas."
He took another sip of the stuffed wine on his own, and his words were blocked again.
With a "pop", she pressed Huo Yan's chopsticks heavily on the table.
"I remembered that there is still class today, so I'll go back to school first." Without waiting for his parents to respond, Huo Yan got up, picked up his schoolbag, and slammed the door out.
The parents looked at Huo Yan's leaving back in astonishment, this was the first time they saw her get so angry.
"I blame you." The mother glared at the father: "What's wrong with you, it's not like you don't know, this girl is a wooden fish that can't be knocked on by anyone, except for her grandma's business."
The father said angrily, "My father-in-law is acting as a watch to buy a birthday present for his son-in-law. What kind of world is this?"
"Isn't it for the sake of your daughter's future lifelong happiness, let alone a Rolex, even if Si Nuan wants the stars in the sky, you have to pick them!"
The wind in autumn is icy and cool, and there is rain in the air. A gust of wind blows the few remaining leaves on the dead branches and throws them into the sky.
Fu Shihan had just finished class, so he habitually came to the third canteen, put away his umbrella, and walked to the window where he cooked meals: "Monk, where is Huo Yan?"
While cooking for her classmates, Xu Mingyi said leisurely, "She has already resigned."
"I know. Did she come over for dinner?"
"This window is only open for business related to cooking, and the charge for inquiring information is extra, 10 yuan per minute."
Fu Shihan slammed his fist on the window glass and roared angrily, "I'll ask you the fuck, where is she!"
Xu Mingyi looked up in astonishment, and found that Fu Shihan's face seemed not quite right, his eyes were bloodshot, and he looked a little ferocious.
He looked down and saw that he was clenched into a fist, and his joints were white.
Xu Mingyi is a smart person, so he restrained his smile and said, "Forget it, let me tell you, at this time, she usually does charity in the garden behind the cafeteria."
Fu Shihan took the umbrella and turned around to rush out of the cafeteria. Xu Mingyi was secretly shocked. He had never seen Fu Shihan's gaffe just now since he knew him.
In his impression, although Fu Shihan was slightly younger than the four people in the dormitory, he was the most mature and stable one in terms of mind and conduct. Strategizing, there is no problem in this world that he cannot solve.
That little girl can actually make Fu Shihan, who has always claimed to be a gentleman, swear.
Ability.
Xu Mingyi called Shen Yuran. If he remembered correctly, Shen Yuran should have attended the same class as Fu Shihan.
"What's the situation with the fourth brother?"
"It's rare for you to speak normally today without pretending to be aggressive." Shen Yuran on the phone raised his tone: "I must have been scared by that guy."
"Stop talking nonsense, tell me quickly."
The gossip soul of a man is blazing, no less than that of a woman.
"In the C language class just now, the fourth child received a text message, and stood up from his seat with a 'snap', his whole face was as cold as an Antarctic glacier, which shocked our professor, and his glasses Terrified."
Xu Mingyi raised his eyebrows: "Fu Shihan never cared about his mobile phone during class. When a text message came, he pretended not to have seen it. A good student has a strong character."
"Yeah, but that text message came in just now, the guy just glanced at the screen, asked the professor for leave, and rushed out anxiously."
Shen Yuran paused for a moment, then asked Xu Mingyi: "Who sent the text message? The president of the student union who can make us behave decently has skipped class."
A smile curled up on the corner of Xu Mingyi's mouth, and he raised his voice at the end: "Want to know?"
"think!"
"Exclusive information, charge 20."
"Get out!"
…
After some gags, Xu Mingyi hung up the phone. Thinking of Fu Shihan's anxious appearance just now, he couldn't help shaking his head, and murmured: "The sea of suffering has no limit, so good is good."
Fu Shihan took out his mobile phone, and the screen of the mobile phone was splashed wet by the raindrops falling from the eaves of the umbrella. He wiped off the water droplets with his fingertips, and looked at a line of text messages on the screen—
"Fu Shihan, can you lend me some money?"
He knew Huo Yan's character too well, if she hadn't been driven into a desperate situation, she would never ask him to borrow money anyway.
It hasn't happened before, and it certainly won't happen in the future.
Running out of the cafeteria in one breath, across the quiet tree-lined stone path, the autumn wind is blowing, sandwiched with cool raindrops.
Fu Shihan kept making phone calls one after another, but every time she got through, she stubbornly cut it off.
Unprecedented flustered emotions enveloped Fu Shihan, and his always calm heart was turbulent. This feeling made him irritable and made him lose control, and his brain could no longer calm down. At this moment, for the first time in his life, he experienced what it was like to be so anxious.
"Pick up the phone, damn it, answer the phone!"
He threw the phone out and hit the gravel road hard, splashing water.
And at this moment, he saw a girl squatting on the side of the road under the green shade not far away, hugging her knees, and buried her small face in her knees.
There were a few stray dogs in front of her, circling around her, rubbing their noses against her legs from time to time, and one of them rolled in the puddle in front of her, seeming to amuse her.
Seeing a stranger approaching, the stray dogs rushed away, but they didn't dare to go far. They could only hide in the grass and look at Fu Shihan defensively.
Fu Shihan walked up to her holding an umbrella, and looked at her with pity.
When Huo Yan heard the movement around her, she slowly raised her head, and her eyes fell into Fu Shihan's dark brown eyes that were still water flowing deep.
He stood beside her holding an umbrella, a few drops of rainwater slipped from between his sharp jaws, and he pressed down his fine eyelashes and looked down at her.
Huo Yan had never seen Fu Shihan's complex eyes.
Can't bear, heartache, love...
She turned her head again, and rubbed her eyes vigorously, trying to wipe away the teardrops in the corners of her eyes, her eyes were dry and dry, and they became more and more red.
Seeing her so cute and pitiful, Fu Shihan looked like a kitten who had been wronged and hid alone to lick its wounds.
The rain was much lighter, and it was sparsely floating in the wind and blown away by the wind.
Huo Yan caught a glimpse of the mobile phone he threw on the ground, quickly got up and ran over to pick up the mobile phone.
The fuselage was covered with mud and water stains.
Huo Yan took out a clean white tissue from the bag, carefully wiped the phone for him, opened the lock screen button, and checked whether it was broken.
The moment the screen was turned on, it was quickly taken away by a hand behind her, so that she couldn't see the screen saver clearly.
For a dazzling moment, it seemed to be a person.
Fu Shihan stuffed the phone into his bag, asked her in a low voice, "Why didn't you answer the phone?"
Huo Yan lowered his head slightly: "Just pretend you didn't see that text message, okay?"
Huo Yan was in a daze at that time, he didn't think about anything, he just wanted to redeem grandma's Rolex watch quickly, and sent Fu Shihan a text message on the spur of the moment.
In this world, only he can help her.
But within five minutes after the text message was sent, she regretted it. This watch is worth a lot. She asked him how he could afford it after borrowing the money at such a high price!
She hated herself for being incompetent, and loved her sister like her parents did without principles and bottom lines. Finally, she couldn't hold back her emotions and ran to the garden alone to wipe her tears.
Fu Shihan suppressed his voice, restrained his emotions, and asked her, "What happened?"
Huo Yan didn't speak, just shook his head vigorously.
Fu Shihan stretched out his hand to hold her slender shoulders, bent slightly, and kept eye level with her.
"No matter what happens, you can tell me."
His voice was low and exuded a reassuring power.
Huo Yan seemed to be struggling for a long time, finally raised his head to look at him, and said in a low voice, "I want to buy a watch."
Fu Shihan chuckled lightly: "It's that simple?"
Huo Yan bit her lower lip, showing a certain pinkish white color due to too much force. After a long time, she choked out three words: "Rolex."
Fu Shihan was stunned, although he didn't know why she bought such a watch, but since she wanted it, even if it was the moon in the sky, he would take it off for her.
"Go back and take a shower first, and change into clean clothes." Fu Shihan held an umbrella in one hand and walked back with her shoulders in the other: "Then let's go shopping, have you thought about what we want?" style, or do you need me to help you refer to it?"
"No." Huo Yan repeatedly explained: "I just want to redeem grandma's watch, because the family is in urgent need of money, so I pawned the watch, but that watch is grandma's favorite thing."
Fu Shihan probably understood what was going on.
"How much do you need."
"Two... twenty thousand."
"The Rolex watch is an old thing, and it only costs 20,000 yuan." Fu Shihan shook his head: "How urgent is your family's need for money to sell it at such a low price?"
Huo Yan clenched her fists tightly, and didn't tell him that it was because Huo Sinuan spent too much, which forced her parents to sell the watch.
"I can write you an IOU, and I will definitely pay it back!" she assured him.
Fu Shihan looked at her frowning with a serious expression. However, he raised his eyebrows and smiled, with a hint of sarcasm in his tone: "It's already in five figures, what do you use to pay it back?"
Huo Yan said dejectedly: "I... I don't know, I can't make so much money now, but it will take a long time when I can make money in the future."
She gritted her teeth, feeling for the first time that she was so powerless in the face of cruel reality.
"Forget it, I'll find another way."
Seeing her stubborn appearance, Fu Shihan shook his head helplessly.
"Go back and take a hot shower. The pawn shop should be closed now. I'll wait for you downstairs at nine o'clock tomorrow morning. Remember to be on time."
After he finished speaking, he turned and left.
Huo Yan was stunned for a moment, and stopped him: "I'm not joking, 20,000 yuan is not a small amount, I really can't get it out for the time being..."
Thinking back to seeing her wiping tears alone in the small garden, Fu Shihan felt a throbbing pain in his heart. A mere 20,000 yuan was not worth half of her tears.
"That's what I owe." Without turning his head, he said in a deep voice, "One day in the future, maybe you can use other things to pay me back."
Huo Yan didn't react, and asked, "What else can I pay back?"
Fu Shihan turned his face sideways, and the outline of his handsome profile was deep and beautiful.
"Girl, remember, don't cry for money in the future."