The Road Home

Chapter 16: The road ahead is unknown (2)

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Before Lu Yanchen came back, she was chatting with the old man in the reception room.

The old man was afraid of the cold and the heating was not good, so he burned an old-fashioned coal stove for heating.

When Gui Xiao was in junior high school, each class had a coal stove for heating next to the podium. She benefited the most from sitting in the first row, but she also had to work, such as adding some briquettes and burning fire with tongs What. More than ten years have passed, and today it is still very easy to do it, just play with the stove and listen to the old man talk about a few wealthy families in the town.

After talking, it was the Meng family's turn.

After Meng Xiaoshan got married, she donated and repaired toilets to the middle school in the past few years, replaced the water supply for the whole school with direct drinking water, and donated a new playground...everything is a matter of accumulation. After the old man finished talking about those kind deeds, he turned to the marriage between Meng Xiaoshan and Qin Feng that shook the whole town, and finally sighed: "The fortune that the Qin family has cultivated for several generations, it is true that the Hai family can find Meng Xiaoshan as a daughter-in-law. No luck."

This sighed, as if witnessing the love and hatred of the three juniors.

Gui Xiao smiled, stretched his frozen fingers over the flames, and continued to bake.

It's not that the Hai family is unlucky, it's that Haidong is too tossed.

A good marriage was never made.

At the beginning, Meng Xiaoshan was all about marrying Haidong, but Haidong was so playful that he couldn't hold back Huahua's intestines, so he liked to tease the poor with little girls, eat and eat, and be ambiguous. He thought that he just recognized a few godsisters and didn't do anything out of the ordinary, so he expected that Meng Xiaoshan would not break up. At that time, the two of them were no different from ordinary young couples except for drinking and arguing.

But he still didn't understand Meng Xiaoshan, a woman who could be cruel. A breakup was broken when it was broken, and the commotion was earth-shattering. Everyone in the town knew that Haidong knelt outside Meng's house all night and tried to say good things to all kinds of people, but he didn't persuade Meng Xiaoshan to change his mind. But after all, it is the first love, the first night, etc. All the characters with the word "first" are related to Haidong. It's not uncomfortable. It's fake. Meng Xiaoshan has also been decadent because of this for a long time. , I didn't go home from morning to night in the game hall, so I had no human form.

At that time, Qin Feng, who was still the owner of the game hall, couldn't stand it anymore, and asked Meng Xiaoshan, if he didn't follow him, he didn't dare to say anything else, and he would never delay the family because of other women. Qin Feng is twelve years older than Meng Xiaoshan. He dropped out of school and served in the army for the whole round. When he came back, he started a business. He packaged up all the places these gangsters like to play in the town and took care of them by himself. This is Meng Xiaoshan. Understanding of Qin Feng. Meng Xiaoshan's family was in good condition, and her father was the mayor at the time. She disagreed with her life and death. Meng Xiaoshan was also disheartened and wanted to marry someone to find some warmth.

So Meng Xiaoshan, who had just passed the legal marriage age, was confused and married Qin Feng, who had never been around. On the day of the wedding, Haidong went crazy and was taken away by Qin Feng's former brothers and those "brothers" who were near several villages. come out.

After the wedding night, Gui Xiao asked Meng Xiaoshan on the phone, "Is it reliable?"

What Meng Xiaoshan said to Gui Xiao was that Qin Feng did well before he joined the army, and he did well when he joined the army, which proves that this man has the ability to support himself. Besides, he has been in his thirties for many years. , I didn't see anything messed up between men and women, I can see that this person has a correct attitude towards the relationship between men and women. In the end, Meng Xiaoshan concluded: "Reliable or not, if I can really tell them apart, I won't be like Haidong. It's been many years." Then Meng Xiaoshan laughed sullenly with a nasal voice she had just cried, "but I really experienced my husband, and the man who has carried the gun is in good shape. It's a pity that you and Lu Chen broke up..."

In the end, Meng Xiaoshan, who said she "had", said that she didn't want to have children. Qin Feng has a sister and two brothers. There is no pressure in this regard.

After a long time, the relationship between Meng Xiaoshan and Haidong is not so stiff. Although they don't communicate often, they can help each other when they have something.

Meng Xiaoshan's self-evaluation on this is: it's not how big she is, but when a person has a good life, naturally he can't remember so many complaints. Although the two of them have long since lost that kind of relationship, with their youthful affection, the people who can think of each other at the most critical moment are still each other.

The coal did not burn well enough to suppress the fire.

Gui Xiao sat on the small stool and used iron pliers to remove the waste coal that was almost burned, trying to make the fire bigger.

On the right, the window was knocked.

She looked up and saw that it was him, and immediately threw the iron pliers back to the dustpan and left the delivery room.

Lu Yanchen carried three plastic bags of vegetables and meat, one of which was still dripping with water, and gathered a small stall on the cement steps: "Why did you come out?"

"Your mother is here," Gui Xiao said, still having lingering fears, "I started to want to chat with her, but she didn't seem very happy... I was afraid of saying the wrong thing, so I ran out without daring to sit any longer."

He restrained his smile: "Are you angry?"

"No..." Seeing him like this, Gui Xiao guessed that his expression was too exaggerated, and hurriedly returned the words, saying good things for his mother, "Your mother is very good."

Lu Yanchen didn't speak.

Gui Xiao added: "Before she left, she asked Qin Xiaonan and me to go to your house for lunch. Shall we go?"

"do you want to go?"

Lu Yanchen saw the broken hair on her face fluttering in the cold wind, and wanted to help her smooth it, but just picked raw meat and shrimp in the vegetable market with both hands, which was not clean. Think or give up.

When Gui Xiao hesitated, he lifted a few bags of things in his hand: "Buy so much, don't eat and waste, go in."

not going? Gui Xiao felt inappropriate again.

Although his mother had a bad attitude, since she asked her to come over for dinner, if she didn't go, it would be a thorn in her heart in the future. Or at least give a suitable reason to refuse. It is so unclear, and if you don't understand it, you won't go. It's very disrespectful in the eyes of any elder, not to mention his mother.

Gui Xiao was distracted and wanted to discuss with him again.

A big boy in work clothes with a registration sheet in his hand ran out and called Brother Juchen. Several guests were making trouble and making trouble. Lu Yanchen put the three plastic bags next to the iron gate: "Wait here."

Gui Xiao nodded, he walked out two steps and said, "Don't take the bag, it's full of dirty water, not clean."

After speaking, he followed the big boy in.

From beginning to end Qin Xiaonan pretended to be in the air and stayed by the side, Lu Yanchen walked away, and then rubbed over to stay beside Gui Xiao.

So the two of them snuggled together outside the communication room, waiting.

About ten minutes later, a black car came out of the garage. The driver was a young mechanic. Because of the pair of blue-rimmed glasses on his face, she still had a slight impression of that face. When the car passed by Gui Xiao, the man rolled down the car window and said, "Sister-in-law, Brother Chen told you to wait, don't go in. Someone is doing something inside. I'll call two people who can restrain them." After he finished speaking, he kicked the accelerator and walked away.

Did you do it

I saw him in Erenhot with my own eyes against more than a dozen hooligans. But here, I am even more afraid that if he does not know how serious he hurts someone...

Gui Xiao wanted to take a look, but Fang took a half step and kicked the plastic bag beside his feet.

The contents of the bag were fluttering, and two large live fishes rolled out. Gui Xiao went to pick up the fish, and Qin Xiaonan also helped to catch them. The two of them struggled for a long time to put the two dirty things back in, but they also got water and mud all over their hands.

Gui Xiao looked at his embarrassed appearance, and then went to see the child: "Why did you still buy fish?" Isn't there a little grass carp

"Uncle Lu said he would buy it and prepare it. If you want to eat big fish, I'm afraid you won't have it."

Gui Xiao's heart lightened and he didn't say a word.

The two got into the reception room and asked the old man for a basin of hot water, and cleaned their hands and clothes from the mud. After coming out again, another half an hour passed, Lu Yanchen still did not come out, but two more cars came.

"Sister-in-law!" The person in the car jumped out and called her.

Gui Xiao was stunned when he was called, almost didn't recognize that it was Haidong.

The eyebrows and facial features have not changed much, but the spirit has obviously changed. It doesn't have the ruffian spirit of the year, but it is more like the kind of local boss that Gui Xiao usually encounters on business trips. He didn't seem to know that Gui Xiao was here, so he was very happy to have a few words with her: "I'll go first, a few thorns in our village are causing trouble here, and I'll help Lu Chen educate and educate. We'll talk about it later! "

Haidong brought a few brothers here, and things were handled neatly and relieved.

Lu Yanchen came out like a normal person. When he brought Gui Xiao and Qin Xiaonan in with a few bags, Haidong was sitting on a bench that was temporarily moved out by the gate of the factory with a cigarette in his mouth. The three young men who squatted with their heads in their hands in front of them: "It's really promising, and I don't even ask who owns this garage?"

"Brother Haidong, we just want to pick up the car early..."

"Stop talking nonsense." Haidong was too lazy to talk nonsense. Seeing Lu Yanchen passing by, he pointed his cigarette between his fingers, "Brother Chen."

One after another, "Morning Brother".

Lu Yanchen walked into the workshop without squinting his eyes.

For some reason, Gui Xiao couldn't help laughing, as if he hadn't seen Haidong Gou fight against others for hundreds of years, and Lu Chen watched with a cold eye. Seeing that Gui Xiao was so happy, Haidong seemed to also affect the memories of the past, and he was in a good mood. He slapped the boy who was squatting at the front: "Aren't you going yet?"

The three of them stood up as if in amnesty, nodded and bowed, and kept saying, "Have time to eat, Brother Haidong", "Brother Haidong has done a lot of business recently, don't forget the brothers in the same village", "Brother Haidong." Send a message to Brother Chen, let's drink wine to apologize, apologize"... Gui Xiao didn't listen any further, and caught up with Lu Yanchen.

Qin Xiaonan was sent by Lu Yanchen to the house to make a workbook.

When she found the kitchen, Lu Yanchen was rolling up his cuffs in a hurry, pouring the dirty fish into the sink and rinsing them clean.

For a while, there were all kinds of monotonous sounds in the small kitchen, scraping fish scales, throwing scissors into the pool, washing vegetables, brushing pots... Gui Xiao was the same as before, watching him make these things, but he couldn't get involved.

She pressed her head to the door frame: "If I don't go, I have to tell your mother in person, right?"

Lu Yanchen turned on the faucet, poured the biting tap water, washed his palms and backs with soap, took off the towel hanging on the rope, and dried his hands: "No, I'll tell her. ."

It is necessary for him to tolerate, and Gui Xiao does not have to suffer the slightest grievance in this regard.

"How do you want to eat the fish?" he asked suddenly.

"what fish is this?"

"mandarin fish."

The first thought popped into Gui Xiao's mind: mandarin fish is very expensive.

Since he paid the meal last night, Gui Xiao has always felt uncomfortable. For that meal, she specially asked her cousin to find an expensive place, and she was willing to send it to her door to be slaughtered by her cousin's husband and wife. Unexpectedly, Lu Yanchen paid the bill in the end. As soon as Gui Xiao heard the waiter's words, he hurriedly asked for an invoice, saying that it was going to be reimbursed, but in fact it was to see the total price. When the invoice was brought, the cousin and his wife were also stupefied, boasting that the road team was really generous. This compliment from her cousin made her even more uncomfortable.

But I can't say it directly: Lu Chen, don't worry about the money in the future, let me come, wait for you to relax...

The fish with its scales and gills removed, washed and drained, is still awaiting sentencing.

She temporarily retracted her thoughts, thought about it, and said, "Squirrel mandarin fish."

It's really not too much trouble to be as picky as when I was a child.

Lu Yanchen seemed to sigh secretly, just as he saw Haidong who had dealt with the little thorns outside and reached the kitchen with a smile on his face to ask for credit, he took out a ticket from his trousers pocket and threw it out: "Go, buy a packet of starch. ."