Crowds of people.
The shopping malls of years ago were crowded with men, women and children as if they were free of money. My mother complained as she walked: "I told you to come back early, but you didn't listen. You can see that the mall is almost sold out."
"How can it be possible to buy them all?" Zhu Yun came out of the elevator with a large bag and a small bag, and reached the third floor, where ladies dressed. "There are so many more."
"Some of them were picked out by others." My mother also had a bunch of packages in her hand, "You didn't take back some of your school clothes, and now you have to buy everything again."
Zhu Yun quietly made a face.
It was a busy day, and she only had time to pack her computer and books when she returned to the dormitory, so she didn't have the energy to take care of her clothes.
Entering a boutique clothing store, mother chooses clothes, Zhu Yun follows behind, slowly distracted.
today…
She looked down at her watch, it was noon.
Is he ready, has he gone to the company
Zhu Yun sent Li Xun a text message in the morning, but there was no reply. She didn't dare to call rashly, for fear of disturbing him.
So annoying.
"How about this one?"
"ugly."
"..."
Zhu Yun coughed twice, and explained to the stunned salesperson, "No, I mean...it looks pretty."
Mother said: "Didn't have a good rest last night? Why do you feel that you are not in shape?"
Zhu Yun touched her nose: "Maybe I'm a little tired from the journey."
The mother expressed her deep understanding, and said to the salesperson beside her, "I just know how to study, and I will still be in school after the Chinese New Year. The little girl doesn't care about dressing up at all."
The salesperson looked at his words and said in admiration: "That's great. This customer is a good student, with a particularly outstanding temperament."
The mother handed the skirt in her hand to Zhu Yun: "Go and try it, this one is very beautiful."
Zhu Yun carried the skirt to the fitting room. Changing clothes in winter is very troublesome. Zhu Yun took off her glasses and was about to take off her pullover. Just halfway through, the phone vibrated.
Zhu Yun felt as if she had been charged, and she didn't bother to take off her clothes. The sweater got stuck around her neck, and she freed one hand to grab her phone.
It was indeed Li Xun's reply.
"On the way, let's talk later."
What time is it late
Zhu Yun had a lot of questions she wanted to ask him, but she always felt that the timing was wrong, so she only sent two words in the end—
"come on."
Li Xun didn't reply to her.
After Zhu Yun changed her clothes, she lowered her head and pushed open the door of the fitting room. The salesperson looked at her with a smile, and was about to praise her, but found a fatal problem.
"Customer, your clothes are on the wrong side."
Zhu Yun bowed her head.
"..."
My mother was choosing other clothes, and seeing this scene, "I'll just say you, what do you think about every day?"
Zhu Yun went back to put it on again without a word, and when she came out again, the salesperson finally praised: "It looks good! Customer, white really suits you, your skin looks good!"
Zhu Yun lowered her head to put on glasses, but the salesperson said, "Customer, you look better without glasses."
I can't see ghosts without glasses.
Zhu Yun was fully dressed and looked in the mirror.
I have to say that my mother’s eyesight is really good. The white dress is made of hard texture, the hem is dotted with floral flowers, and the waist is matched with a finger-wide buckskin belt. Because it is a winter style, a light-colored dress is worn outside the dress. short fur. Zhu Yun's face was hidden in the fluffy fur, which looked extraordinarily small.
"It's so beautiful! This one is so beautiful! It matches you so well!" The salesperson strongly recommended it.
The mother smiled again and again amidst the salesperson's praise, and said to Zhu Yun, "I must have chosen well."
Zhu Yun nodded.
Mother said to the salesperson, "I want this one."
After buying a few more sets of clothes in a row, when Zhu Yun was about to break her arm carrying the bag, her mother was finally satisfied.
"That's about it," my mother said. "Wait a few days and go to pay New Year's greetings to your uncles and aunts. They are dressed in rags, how decent they are."
On the way home, my mother counted down the New Year's itinerary, and Zhu Yun listened absent-mindedly. After arriving home, mother began to prepare meals, but Zhu Yun couldn't eat any more, so she said something about previewing her homework and went upstairs.
"What homework are you previewing? It's just a holiday, and you don't even have any books for the next semester!"
Zhu Yun: "It's a review! I made a mistake!"
The mother was wearing an apron, and shouted upstairs: "It's not a two-day Chinese New Year!"
"Oh, let her read if she wants to read." In the living room, Zhu Guangyi was drinking tea and reading a newspaper. "You are more angry than anyone else if she doesn't read the book, and you are anxious to read the book. What do you want from her?"
Mother fastened the apron behind her back and looked upstairs without saying a word.
Zhu Yun fell headlong on the bed, tossing and turning again.
She kept looking at her watch, her phone, and everything she could see.
How did time pass so slowly
She tried to flip through books and write code, but she couldn't do anything, as if there was always something pressing on her chest, she couldn't go up or down, and she was extremely anxious.
In the evening, her mother asked her to go downstairs for dinner. Zhu Yun had no appetite at all, and she kept going with her parents' discussion about studying abroad.
"What do you think of Brother Xiaoyu?"
"fine."
"The opportunity to study abroad is very rare now. There are few people, so the resources are naturally good. But I heard from your Aunt Jiang that your brother Xiaoyu also suffered a lot when he went out in the early years. There is still prejudice against us."
Zhu Yun shrugged.
Mother: "However, if you really have the ability, you can also impress others. You can't be locked in your own small circle, you have to integrate into their big society."
Zhu Yun's heart was not on the topic at all, she glanced out the window.
"It's snowing again," she said.
"Again?" Mother said with a smile, "This is the first snow this year."
Zhu Yun was taken aback.
It turned out that there was no snow in the city that day.
Only the two of them saw that snow, and Zhu Yun felt comforted for a moment.
At two o'clock in the middle of the night that day, Zhu Yun received a reply from Li Xun—
"OK."
Zhu Yun let out a long breath. She went down to the ground, locked the door, then went back to bed, pulled the quilt over her head, and called Li Xun.
"Hello?"
"Li Xun..."
"Well, you haven't slept yet?" Li Xun seemed to be outside, but there was wind on the phone.
Zhu Yun: "I was just watching TV with my family."
He sneered, obviously in disbelief.
Zhu Yun pursed her lips, "That..."
"Which one?"
She heard the sound of a lighter. Zhu Yun stopped beating around the bush and asked him directly: "Have you seen the people from Languan? What did they say? Why is it so late?"
"A group of idiots, the demo software has been demonstrated for a long time."
"Then are they satisfied?"
"Except for the ugly homepage picture, I'm very satisfied."
"..."
"Let's talk about the contract in detail tomorrow, and it should be settled a year ago."
"oh."
Li Xun smoked at the snowy intersection. The snow was heavier than before, and the night temperature was low, leaving a thin layer on the ground.
He smiled and said, "Okay, rest assured, go to sleep."
Zhu Yun: "Wait, have you recovered from your cold?"
Li Xun: "Okay."
"Then you should rest early and go home to celebrate the New Year."
Li Xun paused for breath, then hummed in a low voice.
Hanging up the phone, a big stone in my heart also fell. Zhu Yun stretched, then covered her face in the pillow, pressed it firmly, then took a deep breath, tightened her muscles, and let out a loud roar.
"Ah!"
She was afraid that her parents would hear the sound, so she buried her pillow very deep, so deep that when she raised her head, due to the momentary lack of oxygen, her eyes were full of stars.
Zhu Yun lay down on the bed dizzy.
awesome.
She was indeed relieved, but it didn't mean she could fall asleep. Zhu Yun was excited all night, and was still alive and well the next day.
In the next few days, she began to help her mother prepare things for the New Year. Because of Zhu Guangyi's status, his family entertains many people during the Chinese New Year every year, and most of them are scholars or educators, who talk a lot.
Fortunately, these activities are carried out after New Year's Eve.
The New Year's Eve dinner is still with my family. The hotel was booked more than two months in advance and was full. Grandpa Zhu Yun has passed away, and there is still a grandmother in her eighties who is disabled and a little confused. Because Zhu Yun's parents were busy with work and had no one to take care of her grandma, her father sent her to a senior nursing center and visited her once a week.
Their tables are opened early, eating at seven o'clock, and finishing after eight o'clock. Grandma's energy was limited. After the younger generation finished paying their respects, she was already drowsy, so the family drove her back to the nursing center.
The whole city is full of firecrackers, deafening.
After sending grandma to the nursing center, Zhu Guangyi drove home. Too full to eat, Zhu Yun was too lazy to talk, she put her head on the car window and looked up at the sky.
Today the top is more lively than the bottom.
The sky is filled with fireworks.
The car drove into the community, the building blocked the view, Zhu Yun unfastened her seat belt and was about to get out of the car. At this moment, she suddenly caught a glimpse of a person standing by the community fountain outside the window.
The car quickly turned a corner and turned into a small road. Zhu Yun only had time to see the general figure of the man, and didn't even see the basic identification point - the hair color, and her heart beat wildly.
Don't get excited yet, she told herself, tall boys are everywhere.
No use, still excited.
When she got home, her mother went to turn on the TV, and Zhu Yun rushed directly to the bathroom, closing the door behind her backhand.
She took out her cell phone and called Li Xun.
It rang twice, and it was connected.
"Hello?"
"..."
What should I say
Zhu Yun: "...Happy New Year."
"The same to you."
"What about... the software?"
"It's over long ago, and the contract is over."
Zhu Yun made an ooh, and Li Xun asked her, "What are you doing?"
Zhu Yun sat on the toilet seat and said, "Nothing, I just finished eating, how about you?"
"I have received the advance payment, and I am about to give out red envelopes to the employees."
"Ah?" Zhu Yun was in a fog.
"Ah what?" He seemed to be laughing.
"Li Xun..."
"I'm at your door."
Zhu Yun squeezed the phone hard!
really! That was you just now! It's you! It's you! I fucking said I didn't admit my mistake!
She stood up, walked around twice, lowered her voice, and quickly asked:
"How do you know I live here?"
Uncle Li said lazily: "I think it's difficult to get on the background of your teaching affairs?"
"..."
Computer technology is not used in this way.
Someone knocked on the bathroom door, Zhu Yun's heart skipped a beat, and then she remembered that she had locked the door just now.
"Zhu Yun, come down and eat some fruit, which one do you want, mango or grapefruit?" It was the mother.
Zhu Yun rushed outside and said, "Anything is fine, grapefruit!"
Mother leaves.
She didn't hear it, thanks to the firecrackers tonight.
Zhu Yun put the phone to her ear again.
"Well, Li Xun, I might..."
"I know." Li Xun said calmly, "You know where the Lihua Hotel is, right?"
"Yes." Not far from her home, two streets away, there is a small hotel.
"I live there, come when I'm free."
"Um."
Just as I was about to say something more, my mother knocked on the door again.
"Why so slow? The apples are about to wrinkle."
"Here we come, right away!"
When Zhu Yun picked up the phone again, Li Xun had already hung up.
Going to the living room to chat with her parents and watch TV, Zhu Yun stuffed fruit in her mouth, and the TV program caught her eyes but not her heart.
Looking at the joyful sketch, she suddenly remembered that she seemed to have forgotten to ask him a question just now.
Today's New Year's Eve, why didn't you go home