Sui Xia

Chapter 6 Time is Paused
At the table by the side of the road, Lin Suixia looked at Jiang Mohe and ate beef noodles while chatting skillfully with Wu Ying, she seemed like an outsider.

Lin Suixia moved the dishes and chopsticks to the back kitchen, and found a middle-aged man with his head down washing the dishes.

Lin Suishia talked to him, but he ignored him.

"He can't hear." The limping aunt followed into the back kitchen and said to Lin Suishia, "Just put this here, and he will clean it up."

Lin Suixia just heard Wu Ying call her Xiao Zheng.

After Aunt Zheng put the bowls and chopsticks in her hand next to the middle-aged man, she took the bowls and chopsticks from her hand and put them down, and then made two gestures with the middle-aged man.

It should be sign language.

"You are Xiaoxia, right?" Aunt Zheng looked at Lin Suishia, "I often hear your mother mention you, saying that you are beautiful and promising, and you work in a big city."

After Aunt Zheng finished speaking, she also looked at Lin Suishia with a smile on her face.

Lin Suishia didn't expect Wu Ying to say that she was so powerful, so she turned to look at her who was busy.

"Your mother is very happy when you come back this time. She told us happily when she came in the morning that her precious daughter is back. Should I be able to stay at home for a few more days this time? Your mother misses you a lot."

Aunt Zheng said, seeing that Lin Suixia didn't respond, she smiled and limped outside to pack her things.

It's not that Lin Suishia didn't want to respond, she didn't expect Wu Ying to be so excited about her return.

In fact, after graduating from university, during the three years of work, she really never came back.She said she was busy with work, but in fact, she just didn't want to go back.

It's not that she doesn't want Wu Ying, but when she thinks about facing Lin Tao again, she simply doesn't return.

Sometimes I called Wu Ying, but it was just a normal greeting. Wu Ying never said that I missed her very much, and neither did she.

Since high school, Lin Suixia has had a dream.

—Leaving Spring Town.

So when she was in college, she deliberately chose a place far away from home.

When she was in university in city A, she only came back once a year, and she basically worked part-time during the holidays.

Her family was not poor, she was just making excuses not to come back.

Thinking of this, Lin Suixia was full of shame.

Wu Ying loves her very much. When she was a child, she got what she wanted. She often wore different princess dresses that other little girls envied.Basically whatever she wants, Wu Ying will satisfy her.

This time I came back in a hurry, but I didn't bring anything to Wu Ying.

Just thinking about it, the phone rang suddenly.

Feifei asked her why she hadn't come to work yet.

"I resigned." Lin Suixia didn't know how to tell Feifei, and simply explained her work.

"It was so sudden! However, I believe in Sister Sui Xia's choice. Sister Sui Xia, you must tell me where you are going, and I will resign immediately and run to you!"

"You work hard." Feifei has always satisfied her as an assistant, and Lin Suixia believes that she will be able to break out of her own world.

"Xiao Xia, are you still hungry? Shall I make you another bowl of noodles?" Wu Ying's voice interrupted Lin Suixia's thoughts.

"I've finished eating at home, Mom, what else is there to do, I'll do it."

Lin Suixia found a broom to sweep the floor, but was stopped by Wu Ying.

"Xiao Xia, it's enough for me and your Aunt Zheng to work in the noodle restaurant. You haven't been back for a long time, do you want to go out and have a look?"

Lin Suixia knew that Wu Ying still felt sorry for herself as she did when she was a child, and couldn't bear to do these dirty and tiring jobs by herself.

She didn't say anything, and when she walked out, she realized that Jiang Mo had disappeared.

Lin Suixia thought she hadn't come back for a few years, but she found that she was wrong. The outside world has changed with each passing day, but Chunguang Town seems to have changed little from when she was a child.

Everyone on the street is dazed, as if there is nothing in the world worth worrying about.

The complete opposite of the fast pace of the city.

If she was still in City A at this time, she would probably be stuck on the road, worried about being late.

Wu Ying's noodle shop opened so that this street is considered to be a relatively lively street, with a strong atmosphere of fireworks. Lin Suixia found that many shops have not changed. It was a small shop a few years ago and is still the same owner now.

"Xiao Xia is back?"

The boss was sitting on a chair at the entrance of the shop drinking tea, and was a little surprised to see Lin Suishia.

When Lin Suixia was a child, she often went to his family's canteen to get ice cream, but she didn't give any money, so the boss asked Wu Ying to pay the bill.

Lin Suixia smiled at him:
"Well, Uncle Chen, are you okay?"

"It's not bad, it should be better than your father. He sits all year round." Uncle Chen smiled at her, "By the way, my grandson accidentally broke my purple clay pot the day before yesterday, and my feet hurt a little these two days. I haven't had time to find your father to buy a new one, without the purple clay teapot he made, I really can't drink tea like this."

Lin Suixia doesn't know much about purple clay teapots, but Lin Tao's method of making purple clay teapots seems to be very special.

Drinking tea is also a big habit of the people of Chunguang Town. Among the people who used Lin Tao's purple sand pots, Lin Suixia found that there was no one who did not praise his pots.

When I was young, many people went directly to Lin Suixia to buy purple clay teapots, but they didn't know that purple clay teapots were what Lin Suixia hated the most.So she would often attack them angrily:
"Buy your grandma a leg!"

When Lin Tao was mentioned, Lin Suixia's expression was a little unnatural.

Chatted a few words casually and continued walking.

But unexpectedly, someone greeted her along the way.

The neighbors in the small town are so warm and friendly, unlike big cities, Lin Suixia lived in the rented apartment for two or three years, and he has never even seen what the neighbors across the door look like, let alone greeted each other.

Saying hello to the street visitors, Lin Suixia seemed to be back in high school.

At that time, the first thing she did after school at night was not to go home, but to go straight to "Chunguang Yiian Bowl", do her homework in the store, and play with the neighbors around until the noodle shop closed, and then went home with Wu Ying.

Lin Suixia walked around the town and found that everything was so familiar, as if the time in Chunguang Town had been paused in the past few years she left.

And this sense of familiarity is like a kind of iron, slowly smoothing Lin Suixia's troubles.

Lin Suixia bought an ice cream, and unknowingly walked to the Chunguang River—the river she fell into last night.

But today she strolled in the opposite direction.

Without Jiang Mo's bicycle, Lin Suixia walked very slowly, fine sweat broke out on her neck, but the river wind made her feel no heat at all.The trees are shady, and the scenery here is incomparable to the parks in the city.

Lin Suixia was feeling tired from walking, but when she looked up, she stopped involuntarily.

In front of you is a small courtyard surrounded by trees, with three words written on it: Lin's Zishahu Studio.

It is Lin Tao's Zisha teapot workshop.

From Lin Suixia's memory, Lin Tao stayed in this studio after getting up, and it was like a day for many years.

It seems that this is his home, and those purple clay pots and the tools for making them are his family.

Lin Suixia clearly remembered the most intense quarrel with Lin Tao, when she came here and threw stones at the gate of the small courtyard.

Lin Suixia even remembered the content of the quarrel between her and Lin Tao.Lin Tao said that the purple clay pot is a traditional Chinese culture, but she said that the purple clay pot is a pile of shit. If it weren't for Wu Ying's noodle shop, their family would probably drink Northwest.

After growing up outside, Lin Suixia realized that not all people who make purple clay teapots are poor, and some people can even sell tens of millions of teapots for a purple clay teapot.As Lin Tao said, it is a kind of culture.

Lin Suixia turned to leave, when she suddenly found an orange cat jumping to her feet.

This is Lin Tao's cat.

(End of this chapter)