struggle in a small town

Chapter 59

It was still early for dinner, and the guests gathered in batches to play poker.

Zhang Xuejiao excitedly rolled up her sleeves, and was about to join the battle when Lin Zhiyuan dragged her away, saying she was going outside for a while.

After walking out of the living room, he felt a little more comfortable.

There are too many people, and he doesn't know each other, which is very embarrassing.

The two walked east side by side, and soon approached a village.

Lin Zhiyuan looked at the potholed road in front of him, and felt that he would leave the city if he walked any further.

When passing by a large yard, Zhang Xuejiao turned her head: "This backyard used to raise pigs. When I was young, I climbed a tree and fell into the pigsty. The smell made my brain hurt, and I will never forget it."

"Fortunately, it's a pigsty. If it was a hard floor, wouldn't you break it?"

Zhang Xuejiao thought about it, and couldn't help being happy: "I also have to thank the pigsty for saving my life."

"Are you crying?"

"Not really.

Recalling her childhood, Zhang Xuejiao was only amused: "Xiao Yu was terrified at the time, watching me cry. When I got close to coax her, she ran away and was smoked by me."

Lin Zhiyuan couldn't help laughing either.

He knew Xiaoxue was lively and active, but he didn't expect her to climb trees like a boy.

Along the way, Zhang Xuejiao told him many things about her childhood.

In her childhood, climbing trees and over walls was a common thing. Once there was a game of hide-and-seek. In order not to be caught, she climbed onto the roof of someone's house and stepped on a few tiles.

Consequences, mixed doubles for men and women.

Lin Zhiyuan smiled helplessly: "It's really not easy for your parents."

"That's right." Zhang Xuejiao smiled and said with crooked eyes, "I was killed when I was young, and it's God's blessing that I can live to this day."

At the intersection with the national highway, Lin Zhiyuan saw a big iron gate next to it with a sign for rent.

The iron gate is very old, not to mention rusty, there are still a few holes, like a product of the last century.

Zhang Xuejiao pulled him over and said, "This used to be an agricultural machinery factory, which closed down."

"Ah."

Lin Zhiyuan leaned close to the hole in the iron gate and looked in. There were two tall factory buildings in his eyes, and there were vaguely behind them, but he couldn't see them clearly.

Zhang Xuejiao also looked inside: "When I was young, I ran in every day."

"Is the place big?"

"It's quite big." Zhang Xuejiao looked back at him: "What are you doing?"

Lin Zhiyuan straightened up: "It's a waste of such a big place to be empty, I want to rent it out and do something."

Zhang Xuejiao heard the news and went to see the rental sign, but there was no phone number.

"My parents should know the contact information, go back and ask them."

Lin Zhiyuan gave an "um" and pulled her back.

Zhang Xuejiao has already started to ponder: "There is probably nothing inside, and the factory building is also very old. It is not cost-effective to tear down and rebuild, but it is so dilapidated, it seems that there is nothing capable of doing it."

"I'll figure it out."

When the two returned to the garage, Lin Aimin was playing poker. He didn't see Song Xiuni, so he probably went to the kitchen.

Lin Zhiyuan was surprised.

In his memory, Dad seems to only like to play chess, and he has never seen him play poker.

Zhang Xuejiao was no longer surprised.

For so many years, the Lantern Festival has always been like this.

Zhang Xuejiao went to the kitchen: "I'll help. If you feel uncomfortable, you can go to my room for a while."

"Which one?"

"The door to the east of Xiao Yu is unlocked."

Lin Zhiyuan went upstairs, stood at the door of Xiaoyu's bedroom to judge the direction, and then pushed open the door on the right.

Although Zhang Xuejiao seldom comes back to live, the house is very clean.

A double bed, two bedside tables, a writing desk with a glass plate pressed under the pink cartoon-patterned curtains, and a few books.

Looking closer, there are many large and small stickers under the glass plate.

Lin Zhiyuan pulled out his chair and sat down, carefully identifying the characters on the stickers.

There are Sailor Moon, Astro Boy, Transformers, and Saint Seiya.

All familiar faces.

Lin Zhiyuan smiled, stretched out his hand to touch the traces on the wall, and imagined the scene of Xiaoxue sitting here studying.

There is a touch of regret welling up in my heart.

Why did you refuse to visit your parents when you were young?
Obviously had the opportunity to participate in Xiaoxue's growth, but unknowingly missed it.

Lin Zhiyuan picked up a book at random, looked at the title of the book "Purple Moon" on the cover, and then looked at the author Cen Kailun, and suddenly remembered that this is a well-known romance novel writer.

Once upon a time, the bookstore at home was filled with all kinds of martial arts novels and romance novels, and they could be rented for ten cents a day.

Subconsciously flipping through it, I saw the red seal as expected.

After many years, the words "Zhiyuan Bookstore" are still clear.

It turned out to be an old book at home, probably Song Xiuni couldn't dispose of it and gave it to Xiaoxue.

If she really liked it, she should have taken it away long ago, and would not have left it on the desk to eat ashes.

Idle is also idle, reading a book is good.

It's just that the more you look at the frown, the tighter it is.

As a big man, he really doesn't understand the confused feelings and inexplicable entanglements in the book.

There were footsteps in the corridor, and soon Zhang Xuejiao pushed the door and entered. When she saw the book in his hand, she couldn't help laughing: "Is it good?"

"I'm dying." Lin Zhiyuan put down the book, and took her hand instead: "Do you like it?"

Zhang Xuejiao sat on his lap and hugged his neck: "Turn over when you're bored."

Although Lin Zhiyuan knew that Xiaoxue was not that kind of person, he carefully considered his words: "Women like these erotic things."

"It doesn't exist in reality, so I have to find solace in novels." Zhang Xuejiao gently traced his eyebrows with her fingers: "The start was too sudden, the separation was too hasty, and I knew there was a misunderstanding without explaining it, and I insisted on letting others guess my mind. , a waste of time."

Lin Zhiyuan smiled happily.

Zhang Xuejiao leaned against the desk and looked at him tenderly: "Sleep here with me at night?"

"Row."

"I like you so much!"

The two hugged and gnawed for a while before parting panting.

Zhang Xuejiao's eyes brightened: "Did you bring a raincoat?"

"Who would carry something like that with them?"

"Oh~" Zhang Xuejiao gave him a coquettish look: "So you had already planned that time."

It was wrong for Lin Zhiyuan to admit it, and it was also wrong not to admit it, so he had to gag her again.

Zhang Xuejiao faintly heard Zhang Yuqiao's voice, and pushed him with her hand: "Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm")

Lin Zhiyuan put his head on her shoulder and panted: "You are too bad, I will go out to buy right away, and I will clean you up at night."

Zhang Xuejiao smiled slyly and jumped off the ground and walked out: "Xiao Yu seems to be back, I will sleep with her at night."

Lin Zhiyuan was annoyed and funny sitting in his seat, why didn't he find that Xiaoxue had such a bad taste before?

But she seems to be more attractive this way.

After stabilizing his emotions, Lin Zhiyuan went down, but saw Zhao Yang standing in the middle of the living room in embarrassment, accepting ridicule from many strangers.

I think I was almost the same as him before I came here.

And Xiaoxue and her sister got together, muttering and biting their ears, but they didn't know what they were talking about.

One could only tell from Xiao Yu's joyful expression that something good happened.

When Lin Zhiyuan went downstairs, Zhao Yang happily greeted him as if seeing a life-saving straw: "Brother-in-law."

Lin Zhiyuan smiled when he was called "brother-in-law", and felt that Xiao Yu and Zhao Yang really deserved to be a couple.

(End of this chapter)