good old days

The smell of the dry toilet was unpleasant. After high-temperature fermentation, it attracted a swarm of flies, and the pit was filled with slowly squirming rat-headed maggots.

Wang Sumei held her breath and quickly finished the treatment and walked back. On the road in front of the hospital, she met Luo Chaosheng who was squatting and smoking.

If it hadn't been for the eye-to-eye contact before, Wang Sumei wouldn't have felt anything wrong seeing him again, but now it was a bit awkward.

"What are you doing here? Aren't you too hot?" She brushed her hair away from her ears.

Luo Chaosheng was dressed in standard cadre clothes, with a blue-gray long-sleeved shirt on his upper body, a pen in his breast pocket, and blue-black trousers on his lower body. He was tall, standing more than a head taller than Wang Sumei.

"Sister Wang, you don't have any thoughts about me?"

Luo Chaosheng wanted to slap himself as soon as he asked the question.

He obviously had some thoughts about her, but when he said it, it was as if he was forcing her to express his attitude.

Oh no, no, no, no, with Sister Wang’s temperament, she will definitely have to reject him.

Wang Sumei was surprised and then suppressed the strangeness in her heart and asked: "What can I think of you? What should I think?"

Before he could speak, she said again: "You have been here for so many years, and you haven't thought about finding another one?"

Luo Chaosheng didn't think he was a clumsy person before, but now he didn't know how to answer her questions.

He didn't speak, so she waved her hand: "I just wanted to ask a question, and I didn't want to interfere with your business. It's sunny outside, I'll go back to rest for a while and I have to leave in the afternoon."

She walked forward, and Luo Chaosheng grabbed her sleeve in a hurry.

Wang Sumei turned to look at him and pulled back her clothes, "What are you doing?"

Luo Chaosheng's face was so dark that there was no trace of red, and he said bravely: "If you want to find someone to live with, consider me first."

If she and her ex-husband had continued to live together, they would have become a family again.

If we are not a family, why can't we consider him?

Wang Sumei's face suddenly burned up.

She didn't expect him to be so direct all of a sudden.

"Well, don't listen to your father and think that I am a good wife and mother. I don't want to find another person to work as a cow or horse in someone else's house..."

Luo Chaosheng interrupted her: "There is no need for you to act like a cow or a horse."

Wang Sumei's eyes widened: "I think the capital is very good, and I don't want to follow anyone to other places. I'll pretend I haven't heard what you just said, and you won't mention it again in the future."

Luo Chaosheng did not let her go easily this time, and blocked her way again.

My mouth is open, how can I get no results?

What gave him the courage? It was the look he had made with her earlier.

They are no longer young people who don't understand anything. How can they not feel the meaning in their eyes?

"There is no need for you to sacrifice, and there is no need for you to accommodate me and come here..."

Wang Sumei couldn't stand listening any more and felt that his advanced ideas were too advanced for her to resist. She asked, "Then what do you want from me?"

She ran away like a monkey burning its butt. Luo Chaosheng stood there feeling somewhat depressed.

He is not a man who has never met a woman. Over the years, many people have wanted to introduce him to a partner, but he always feels bad if he gets married.

He would find it boring to just find someone to live with. But just now he deceived Wang Sumei in this way, and it turned out that this trick was useless.

Jiang Xinyu paid special attention to her mother-in-law today and had been secretly observing her expression since she entered the hospital.

My mother-in-law looked erratic and absent-minded, something very wrong.

Before Luo Chaosheng came in, Uncle Luo slowly walked out of the courtyard.

Seeing him squatting there and smoking a cigarette despite the heat, he gloated: "It didn't work out?"

Luo Chaosheng now wants to find a crack in the ground to crawl in. Looking back on what he said just now, anyone who listens to it will think that he is unreliable.

How did he say it with such a face? How can a couple not live in the same place? Isn't there any problem if we are not together for a long time? Did Wang Sumei think he was crazy just now?

His dad said that casually, so why did he listen to it?

"Don't mention that in the future, people will look down on me."

Uncle Luo nodded with a smile and said "Yes", then asked: "So you admit that you have fallen in love with her?"

Luo Chaosheng remained silent.

He didn't have much dealings with Wang Sumei, and he didn't even meet her a few times in the past two years. He mostly heard from his father that Wang Sumei was a good woman with backbone who could support a family.

I have to admit that she is good-looking, quick to handle things, and has a simple temperament, but she is not silly and simple. She has a strong mind when doing things, and her seemingly thin shoulders are capable of carrying out tasks.

He admired her tenacity and felt a little sad when he thought of the years when she was raising a child alone. He also thought that if he could have met her earlier, he would have sheltered her from the wind and rain and supported a home, so that she would not have to work so hard. .

Although she only occupied his thoughts for a short time, she was indeed the only person he had thought about spending time with in these years.

Uncle Luo snorted and said deliberately: "I don't care how long you want to stay here. Anyway, I will take Duoduo back to the capital in two years. Compared with the capital, life and education here are not the slightest bit worse. I have accommodated you in the past two years, but I can no longer suffer this pain with you. From now on, you can just take root here by yourself."

Luo Chaosheng was not happy to hear this: "You lie in the courtyard every day and bask in the sun. What kind of sin have you suffered?"

Uncle Luo rolled up his sleeves and said, "I'll tell you what I have suffered. Because there was no place to escape, I was forced to bask in the sun every day in the courtyard. What kind of life did I live before? Going to the park to play chess, Fighting crickets, going fishing when the weather is nice, even just walking on the street is beautiful, but now what? What extra activities do I have?"

Seeing that his son had stopped talking, Uncle Luo took advantage of the victory and pursued his attack: "I know you have been working here for many years, but you can't take root here regardless of everything. There are thousands of people in the Corps, one less you is less, and one more you is more. Not much, don’t stick around here with a sense of mission. You have gone through the most difficult years here. Let me say that is enough. You will be an official wherever you are. Listen to me. If you can be transferred back, just transfer it back. .”

Luo Chaosheng: "I'm not as noble as you say."

He does have feelings for this land, but he must also look at reality. Here, his personal value is maximized. As someone who was approved to build Xinjiang Province early, his future is bright.

Seeing that he was silent again, Uncle Luo sighed inwardly, raised his legs and walked back.

Luo Chaosheng, who felt ashamed to see Wang Sumei, did not return to the hospital until he sent them to the train station. He took advantage of their lunch break in the hospital to drive to buy some instant noodles and fruits, and handed them to Jiang Xinyu directly when they arrived at the train station.

"Give me the ticket and I'll change you to sleeper berths."

If you can lie down and go back, it's better not to sit down. Jiang Xinyu hurriedly paid for it, but Wang Sumei stopped her, "Don't change it, please. I'll be home in less than four days. You go back to work quickly, don't delay your work."

Luo Chaosheng: "..." She really hates me!

Jiang Xinyu: "..."! My legs are swollen after sitting for four days!

(End of this chapter)