After leaving the Internet cafe, Lu Chen rode a bicycle slowly into the community, and when he opened the door, a charming voice came from the kitchen, "My aunt didn't want to sell that house, so I kept it for rent for a year. It’s less money, just in time for my cousin’s need for money to start a business, and my aunt hurts me again, so she let go, 30,000 yuan per flat, thousands of dollars cheaper than the average price around.”
"Hehe, right?"
Ms. Zhuo Lin's laughter was quite forced.
"mom."
Shouting without raising his head, Lu Chen changed his slippers.
Zhuo Lin was chopping vegetables, and when she heard the movement, she came out with a knife in her hand and said, "School ends before six o'clock. You've been messing around outside until this time and you didn't come back? Did you go to the Internet again?"
"No no."
Lu Chen was perfunctory, and when he saw the person in the kitchen looking out, he smiled casually, "Sister Roman."
"After school, hurry up and wash your hands, and get ready for dinner."
The latter urged him with a smile.
Lu Chen didn't say anything, he went to the bathroom to wash his hands, then sat down in the living room, and found a layer of cigarette butts in the ashtray on the coffee table.
He casually pulled out half of the cigarette from Lu Jianmin's mouth and extinguished it, "It's surrounded by smoke and mist. If you don't know it, you think your house is on fire!"
Lu Jianmin was upset and gave him an annoyed look.
Lu Chen pulled a low stool and sat down beside him, looked around, raised his chin and asked him, "Where's the boss?"
"Go downstairs to buy sesame oil."
"Oh~"
Lu Chen snorted and turned his head to watch TV.
In my mind, a bunch of messy things emerged.
His mother is self-employed and sells women's clothing on the commercial street. His father works as an accountant in a local private enterprise. They are a pair of brothers, more than enough.
Until his brother, who loves to study, went to the capital to go to university.
His elder brother Lu Yao, the nerd in his eyes, the gold bump in the eyes of his parents, the child of other people in the eyes of relatives and friends, has good grades since childhood, and has been praised as "it looks like Tsinghua University." After studying for two years, I didn't get close to Tsinghua University, and I left a key book in Beijing.
Four years of college and three years of postgraduate study cost my family nearly 200,000 yuan. I just came out last year to find a job and asked my mother to buy a car with 100,000 yuan.
This time I brought my girlfriend back to buy a house.
At this time, the house price in Beijing is not as high as it will be a few years later, but the average price is more than 30,000. His brother took a look at a second-hand house in his girlfriend's aunt's house. The area is 100 square meters, and the total is 3 million. One-third of the down payment is required for the mother with one mouth, which is almost one million.
Not to mention, his mother's absolute true love for her eldest son.
In his previous life, he emptied his entire family for this, and even borrowed it from relatives and friends, and finally raised 900,000 yuan to let his brother settle down in the capital.
The couple said beautifully, the money was borrowed by them, and they will be repaid regularly every year in the future. But in fact, his brother's monthly salary is nearly 20,000, and after paying off the mortgage and credit card, there is not much left. After having a child, life is even tighter. His mother is busy with business and can't go north to take care of it. She has to pay 6,000 a month. Block please babysitter.
It should be when he was in sports school, his mother had gray hair, his father was diagnosed with lung cancer, and when he was dying, the old man was so thin that only a few bones were left. He pulled his hand and said in tears: "Yes. Dad has no skills, and he hasn't been able to save anything for you throughout his life."
As for his brother, he said that he had just been promoted and couldn't take time off. When he rushed back, he almost fainted from crying in the hospital morgue.
"Bang bang bang—"
A knock on the door interrupted Lu Chen's thoughts.
Roman, who was in the kitchen, went out and opened the door.
Lu Yao handed her the sesame oil in his hand, walked to the living room, looked at Lu Chen and asked, "Why are you back so late?"
"Evening rush hour, traffic jam."
"Traffic jam?"
Lu Yao had a face of "you're fucking kidding me", and said displeasedly, "Do you think I don't know your bicycle or something? Did you go to the Internet cafe again?"
Lu Chen ignored him, and lowered his head to peel a plate of pistachios on the coffee table.
Lu Yao sat next to him, and said earnestly: "You are already a sophomore in high school, shouldn't you give some snacks to your studies? Lu Chen, let me tell you, don't think that your uncle puts you under his nose to practice sports, then you can sit back and relax If this goes on like this, you may not be able to pass the sports school!"
"Is it over?"
Casually stuffing a nut into Lu Jianmin's mouth, Lu Chen said impatiently.
"Why are you talking to your brother!"
Zhuo Lin put the dishes on the dining table, and gave him a hard look, "If it wasn't for my family, who cares about you? Every time you get a score in the exam, you will do what you can!"
Lu Chen: "..."
Too lazy to argue, he simply shut up and concentrated on feeding Lu Jianmin pistachios.
As he approached his sixtieth birthday, Lu Jianmin didn't like these snacks, but it was rare for him to enjoy the thoughtful service of his youngest son, so he silently ate a dozen of them without saying a word.
The family began to eat, and the topic was still on the house.
Lu Chen finished the meal in twos and twos, put down his chopsticks, and looked at Lu Yao sarcastically: "Brother, isn't one million too much? You said that you, a graduate student from a famous university, have to be arranged by your parents to buy a car, a house, and get married. Then you As for myself, since I was a child, I learned how to be a good ass, earn money to support my wife, and my parents stand aside?"
"..."
The atmosphere at the dinner table froze for a moment, and Roman looked at him amusedly, "No, Lu Chen, you don't know, the price of goods in the capital is different from that in Ningcheng, and your brother's salary is less than 20,000 a month..."
Lu Chen chuckled, "Understood, it's enough to buy you two bags."
After saying this, someone kicked his calf.
Zhuo Lin gave him a sullen warning, only to hear Lu Yao next to him put down his chopsticks, and said angrily: "I just graduated for a year, you want me to save gold and silver, Roman? My girlfriend, that is your future sister-in-law, show me some respect!"
After exhaling, Lu Chen stood up, looking like an unrestrained bastard, "Then I will make a statement today, we have more than one son in our family, and you should save yourself some face, don't take it as an honor to be an old man, today one hundred thousand One million tomorrow, you need money every time you come back, you think your parents run a bank!"
"Lu Chen you!"
"The evil pen—"
Too lazy to say any more, Lu Chen pushed the chair with a "stab" sound, turned his head and went back to the room.
Lu Yao yelled a few more words outside, but he didn't respond. He put one arm under his head and spread himself carelessly on the bed.
After being reborn, his life has not changed much.
Ruan Yue used the four words "excessive" to evaluate him, which is actually quite right. From childhood to adulthood, he has no desire for food, clothing, housing, transportation or even the future. He has always acted recklessly and whatever he wants.
From the day he met Ruan Yue again on the streets of City A, he chased her for three hundred days, and he didn't catch up to her until she graduated.
until that evening...
In fact, it was a fairly ordinary evening. He had just returned from going out, took a shower in the club, and was about to play billiards with two buddies when he received a call from her by accident.
It was also an evening rush hour, and the traffic jam in City A was on the verge of paralysis. He heard crying from her voice, and when he ran more than ten streets to her, the street lights of the city just turned on at night.
He still remembers how he was then.
After exercising, my heart beat fast, I was out of breath, it was too hot, my face was covered in sweat, and my short sleeves were so wet that I could almost wring out water.
Standing in front of her, he belatedly remembered that she had always been particular, and felt annoyed.
Ruan Yue stood up at that second, she looked up at him, her eyes were red, and she asked in a hoarse voice, "Can you hug me?"
Even today, he can't recall her face at that moment.
When I think about it, my heart hurts, it hurts like hell.
He forgot how he stretched out his hand, probably his body took a step faster, and by the time he realized it, Ruan Yue had already been hugged tightly in his arms.
It was the first time he hugged a girl, he didn't have time to distract himself, he just kept tightening his arms subconsciously, wishing to give her his life.
On the way to send her back, he tentatively took her hand.
Ruan Yue did not refuse.
Finally, she was about to separate, she hugged him on tiptoe, rubbed her tender face against his chin for a long time, with a voice that sounded complicated and couldn't tell what emotions, she was very gentle in his ear Said: "Lu Chen, let me be your girlfriend."
The happiest moment in his life should be that moment.
He had been chasing the girl for three hundred days and offered to be his girlfriend, still with such a weak and gentle posture.
Lu Chen turned over and sat up, and took out his mobile phone from his trouser pocket.
Turning to the class WeChat group, he found Ruan Yue out of the group members, and stared at the moon-patterned head portrait for a long time.
In the end, I couldn't make up my mind to add her as a friend.
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After dinner, Ruan Yue kept doing homework in the room.
At around eleven o'clock, Wen Ru's voice came from downstairs: "They're all in the room, Mr. asked about you before eating..."
Her mother is back.
This thought flashed through her mind, Ruan Yue put on a cardigan and went out.
In the dining room.
Zhao Bingzhi had just sat down when he heard footsteps on the stairs.
She looked up and saw that Ruan Yue was wearing a thin beige cardigan over a white suspender nightdress, her hair was loose, and she was walking down in sandals.
When he met her eyes, he smiled and shouted: "Mom."
"why are not you sleeping?"
Zhao Bingzhi asked, and raised his hand to pinch the back of his neck.
"I heard you came back, come down and have a look."
Ruan Yue walked to the restaurant, turned her head to look into the kitchen, and said, "Are you too busy to eat? Aunt Wen is making it for you?"
"Um."
Zhao Bingzhi yawned.
She is in her forties, with a tall and thin figure. Due to frequent overtime work, fine lines have already appeared in the corners of her eyes. Although she is still sitting in a chair with a straight posture, the tiredness between her brows is clearly visible.
"Does your neck feel stiff?"
Asking again in a soft voice, Ruan Yue walked up behind her, and before she could refuse, she raised her hands to help her massage the back of her neck.
This girl in my family was raised pampered and well-clothed, and her hands were not exposed to the spring water. In the past ten years, she has never offered such kindness on her own initiative...
Zhao Bingzhi felt unreal.
Wen Ru came out of the kitchen with a bowl of chicken noodle soup, just in time to hear her ask Ruan Yue thoughtfully, "Did you run out of pocket money?"