There is a word called: hindsight.
That night, Lu Yanchen was worried about Qin Xiaonan and left halfway through the meal. Because the cousin and husband were both there, the two didn't communicate much. When Gui Xiao finished the bill, he was told that the gentleman who left first had already settled the bill. In the evening, Gui Xiao didn't talk to Lu Yanchen on the phone, so he sent a few messages, saying that he wanted to see Qin Xiaonan, and made an appointment with him the next morning.
So, when Gui Xiao looked at Lu Yanchen who walked out of the auto repair shop through the front windshield, he finally found the root cause of tossing and turning last night, unable to believe that he had really reconciled—everything was too fast.
Just like the days when we held hands, there was no omen and no preparation, so that she would be uneasy for a long time, and repeatedly stressed to him: "If you are together, you are not allowed to break up, Lu Chen, if you dare to break up, I will cry to death. Let me show you. Don't play, promise, swear, you can quarrel, just don't break up." This is what Gui Xiao said most often when he was a child. It is estimated that he doesn't seem to give people a sense of security.
At that time, Lu Chen often ignored this question when she heard it, and the more she ignored it, the more she emphasized it. Infinite loop, never get tired of it.
Now that I think about it when I was a child, it was really hypocritical. Later, when I asked the people around me, it was almost a life-and-death relationship with my first love.
Lu Yanchen approached her car with a can in her hand, took a sip of Sprite, and looked at her through the layer of transparent glass.
The light of the winter was projected in, and the outline of the lower half of her was drawn. The angle was a problem, and the whole picture could not be seen clearly. Probably noticed a light layer of hydrating lip gloss on her lips. When she was a child, she was still a student, so she couldn't have the opportunity to smear this kind of thing, so it was clean. But when I kissed it yesterday, it had a sweet taste similar to cherries.
At that moment, he was shaken, and he was not used to it, but he finally felt the desire between men and women that could not be expressed in words.
Gui Xiao opened the window.
Lu Yanchen raised his head and drank the last two remaining sprites, squeezed the can with his two fingers, pressed his elbows against the door, and said in a low voice, "Come in, let's inspect the car for you."
Gui Xiao just wanted to restart when he said, "Come down, let me drive."
Gui Xiao also thought that he was more familiar, so he got down and handed the car to him.
It was only a short distance from the factory gate to the inside. Gui Xiao didn't get in the car again, and followed Lu Yanchen's driving track and walked in.
The old man at the door had an impression of the car and the girl, holding his small radio and shaking his head, looking out from the window of the reception room, watching the excitement. In my heart, I also thought that the eldest son of the Lu family has been lively since he came back. I really can't finish watching it... There was a breakup of the marriage over there, and a girl here came to the door.
It seems that this girl has been here before? The more the old man thought about it, the more interesting it became. He closed the window and continued to think about it.
It happened to be Chinese New Year, and it was the busiest time for the auto repair shop.
There are rows of cars waiting to be repaired in the yard. The six inspectors are surrounded by a lot of people, all handing over the incoming cars. After listening to this one's fault, go to discuss with the other to finalize the project and materials. By the way, I told the other party that it was the peak season of the Spring Festival, and I had to wait. One customer had a small problem, that is, he was smashed by a taxi while parking. After spraying paint, he was told that he would have to wait at least ten days. When he was on the verge of going wild, he saw Lu Yanchen and drove directly in. , shocked: "Eh? We are still lining up, why did we drive in by ourselves? You don't care."
The inspector pulled off the list and handed it to the other party: "Boss son."
Gui Xiao was passing by, and heard inexplicably a sense of guilt that he was a related household.
When she walked in, dozens of maintenance workers in the factory were busy, and when she saw a big girl walking in, she took a few more glances. Some people have seen Gui Xiao before, some people haven't, and they discussed it in a low voice for a while, smiling veiled and explicit. Lu Yanchen hadn't come back for more than ten years. As soon as he came back, there was a girl who ran twice before and after the festival. Not to mention the marriage contract of the big beauty in the town, this little episode alone was better than many bachelors here.
Gui Xiao was seen not very comfortable, and took two quick steps to the car that had turned off in the innermost part.
Lu Yanchen threw the can into the trash, and without turning his head said, "It's a little off, and the noise is quite loud. I'll check the tire pressure for you later, do a four-wheel alignment, and then look at the tires. It's hot in the morning. Is the car shaking badly?"
"...It's alright." To be honest, she hadn't noticed.
"The valve closing problem, I don't often run at high speed, just run myself more."
From the dust filter core to cleaning up carbon deposits, Gui Xiao was taken aback for a while. He only felt that he was more foolish than the people in the 4S shop. It seemed that he had been fooled to do a four-wheel alignment earlier. not done
However, what Lu Yanchen said she felt was professional, so she stopped worrying about it. Instead, she looked around and went to the child: "Where's Xiao Nan?"
"Go fishing." Lu Yanchen walked to the corner, squatted down, and looked for tools.
A few days after Qin Xiaonan came here, he coaxed everyone in the auto repair shop to like him from top to bottom.
At first, everyone really thought it was Lu Yanchen who gave birth to a woman outside, but after finding out, they all felt that it was not easy to have a child. Several of the people in the auto repair shop are young people from nearby villages. They just took a break today. They discussed digging an ice hole in the canal and fishing for fish. Qin Xiaonan was fresh and chased after him.
Gui Xiao also squatted beside him: "What is this called?"
"Wrenches."
"What about that?"
She pointed to the set next to the box.
"Socket wrench." After Lu Yanchen finished speaking, he picked up a few socket heads, fitted her with a demonstration, then removed them, and told her where to twist the nuts, such as the hub and tire nuts...
He has long fingers and is an absolute skilled worker. When he picks up anything, he seems to be playing, and he is always habitually twitching his hand twice.
The action is frivolous and frivolous.
Gui Xiao looked at it like this, and remembered that he seemed to have the same style when he played billiards.
Gui Xiao took a closer look, and at the position of the tiger's mouth on his right hand, a faint warm breath kept blowing past. Lu Yanchen paused, and his movements were suddenly not as smooth as before. Finally, he casually threw things into the plastic box and got up empty-handed.
"Aren't you going to check the car for me?" Gui Xiao wondered.
"I'll do it in the afternoon," Lu Yanchen grabbed Gui Xiao's arm and pulled her up, "Let's go."
Gui Xiao was a little inexplicable, so he followed.
When the two of them entered the room, there were not so many idle people, and Gui Xiao was more relaxed.
Seeing that Lu Yanchen closed the door, she went around to the desk behind the sofa and flipped through the exercise book and papers that Qin Xiaonan brought from Erlianhot. The first time I came here, Haidong and Meng Xiaoshan were drinking and chatting, and she noticed that there were papers on the table, thick stacks, held by black iron clips... Later, the two got together, Gui Xiao I still remember this detail, every time I buy a paper clip by myself, I always buy two sets of the same pattern, and he has one set for himself.
Gui Xiao used his fingers to grind the words on the paper.
Lu Yanchen stood behind her, half a step away: "Do you understand?"
"In the first grade of elementary school, why can't you understand it? In the past, our paper was engraved by the teacher and printed by ourselves. Every time we finished it, we could smear blue here." She touched the skin under her pinky finger, "I want to Wash for a long time."
"Really?" He didn't feel that way. "High school papers are all bought by the school."
"There are few students in high school. There is only one class per grade, so it is not worth it to engrave papers. It's not like there are six classes in junior high schools." Now that I think about it, the teachers in junior high schools are really nice people. Zhang himself to engrave.
Lu Yanchen was funny, but he didn't bother to argue with her.
The junior high school she read, he also read.
The house faces north, has no windows, and is lit by lights all day.
A tube of white woven lamp hangs above the heads of the two of them.
Simple and monotonous.
Lu Yanchen saw that her back was facing the incandescent lamp, and the shadow was like a faint ink stain, falling on the paper and the table. Reaching out, he pulled Gui Xiao, who was turning the paper over his head, to face him.
The pulp of the finger was rough and dry, and slipped past her lower jaw: "Why did it suddenly grow up?"
When he saw her at the gas station two years ago, he wasn't too sure that he looked the same, but suddenly grew up. Later, when he returned to Erlianhot, he also thought about what would have happened if he could have pulled her over and hugged her when she was looking at him with hesitation in his eyes that day? There is no idea of reconciliation, after all, others are still on the frontier, and there is no essential change from the original situation. Only when I was on a mission in the middle of the night one day, and drank two sips of water from a stream mixed with ice, this idea popped into my mind: I would forcibly hold her for a while that day, and I would have no regrets.
From this angle, he had also kissed her in such a relative position.
At that time, Gui Xiao was too young, and he was just an adult. He would always tell himself that intimacy should be in moderation, but occasionally he would accidentally touch the underdeveloped chest, the inside of the arm, and even some places under the skirt...
Don't think too much about the impossible, just think about it.
Right now, it's really different.
…
Lu Yanchen's hand on her waist somehow slipped down and clasped one hand under her thigh, lifting her onto the back of the sofa. Gui Xiao was pinched by his hand and hurt so much that his body lost his focus, panting slightly, and whispered, "... I almost fell."
The real adult man's body, with a scorching temperature, was tightly pressed against her.
"I can't fall." He chuckled softly, completely out of the seriousness of his youth, half-truth.
…
When Qin Xiaonan pushed open the door and came in, Lu Yanchen was leaning on the back of the sofa, biting a cigarette he just took out, lit it with a lighter, and glanced at Qin Xiaonan who was carrying a small grass carp to offer his treasure.
Gui Xiao sat on the sofa with his arms folded, staring at the advertisement on the TV, fascinated.
"I'm in a hurry... come back to see Aunt Gui Xiao."
Based on years of survival experience, Qin Xiaonan guessed that she must have come in at an inopportune time.
Lu Yanchen saw Gui Xiao's movements in the corner of his light, and with a cigarette in his mouth, walked over and followed the child's head: "It's not enough just to have fish, you have to go out to buy some food." With that, he took the child away.
There was a burst of heat on her body, and then she hurriedly began to block the arm on her front chest. She lowered her head to fix all the clothes that she had not had time to sort out, and her movements were not easy, and her finger joints could not exert any strength.
After sitting for five minutes, I couldn't stand still, and I buried my head in my arms again, thinking about just now, just now...
The vegetable market in the town is in the east. If there is no place to change, it will take half an hour to pick and buy vegetables on the way back and forth. When Gui Xiao came, he was thinking about seeing Meng Xiaoshan, and wanted to know how to deal with everything from breaking off the marriage to borrowing money.
So taking advantage of this space, I made a phone call, and within two minutes of hearing Meng Xiaoshan speak over there, she didn't have time to get to the point here, and the door of the room was pushed open.
It was a middle-aged woman with an unfamiliar face, gray hair, and a dark red down jacket. She was not too surprised to see Gui Xiao when she entered the room, as if she had known for a long time that there was an unidentified girl here.
"I'll call you later," Gui Xiao hung up in a hurry, nodded to the woman, didn't know how to say hello, and could only find the most correct words, "Are you looking for Lu Chen? He just went out and should be back soon."
The person who came to this house to look for someone must be looking for him, but I don't know if he is a relative of Lu Yanchen? neighborhood? Or his mother
Gui Xiao's heart was up and down, afraid that if he said one wrong sentence, he would be in trouble. Whether it is relatives or neighbors, it is necessary to avoid it. After all, it is too easy to cause criticism after breaking off the marriage just now. If it was his mother... Gui Xiao had never heard Lu Yanchen say anything about his mother, so he didn't know his temperament, and he was even more afraid of saying the wrong thing.
"Who are you?" the gray-haired woman asked her back.
Gui Xiao was not sure about the situation, so he chose the safest way to say: "His past classmates, middle school classmates."