My girlfriend who has been running for ten years is getting married tomorrow

Chapter 13 Running to the Yellow Sea, Just to Promise You a Bright Future (4)
Thanks to her, my skin was fair and smooth back then, comparable to many girls, but now that I have been at the beach for a few months, I am no different from the migrant workers around me.During the days of lack of water, I lived in a very sloppy life. It was common for me not to take a shower for ten days and a half months. When I opened my neckline, I could smell the smell of sweat, and I even hated myself.Under the torment of the sea breeze and the scorching sun, my skin was dark and rough, and a circle of bloody scabs appeared on my lips.

Lack of money in the pocket, numbness of thinking, insomnia and anger, dissatisfaction with the water and soil-this is my five-element fortune.

When Ling Yiyao was about to graduate, he once offered to visit me at the beach, but I refused.There is no blue sea reflecting the blue sky, no stormy waves hitting the rocky shore, and there is not even a female-only bathroom.

"When I'm not so busy here, I'll come back and find you." I said.

"But I want to see the environment where you work, and the sea."

"I will accompany you to Dalian next time, okay?"

"Oh," Ling Yiyao seemed a little disappointed, "but I'm about to graduate and look for a job, so I don't have time to go out and play."

"Are you going to stay in Nanjing, or go back to Nantong?"

"The textile company where my uncle works has a good position and requires a master's degree," she said after a pause, "but I still want to stay in Nanjing..."

"why?"

She hesitated for a moment before whispering: "Some time ago, my parents suddenly asked us about the two of us, and they often mentioned the son of a friend of theirs, saying that he came back from studying abroad. I guess they had some ideas. I went on a blind date, so I excused myself by saying that my major was not suitable, and I wanted to make a breakthrough outside by relying on my own ability."

I am speechless.

Nantong's textile industry is top-notch in the country and even in the world, and Ling Yiyao's uncle's textile company is well-known in Nantong. It is a huge sacrifice for her to give up such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

I am ashamed to face my own incompetence.

"They have known about our affairs for more than half a year, and I haven't visited them all the time. It's normal for them to have ideas," I thought for a while, and suggested, "Well, you go to work with your uncle first, and my project is here. How about going to your house when it's over?"

Ling Yiyao asked suspiciously, "Why wait for the project to finish?"

I said: "The technicians here think it's hard here, so they resigned at the end of last month. You have to come up with some achievements, otherwise it’s not easy to explain.”

"Hmph, is it my fault?"

"Of course not, even if you eat a bear's heart and a leopard's guts..."

The two put aside the original heavy topic and chatted silly on the phone. I suggested that she go back to Nantong to live, but in the end Ling Yiyao insisted: "I'd better stay in Nanjing first, and rely on my own ability to accumulate some work experience and experience. Social experience, I will go to my uncle again when I have the opportunity.”

I understand that the reason she didn't want to return to Nantong's comfort zone was just one of the reasons she said, and more because she couldn't bear the pressure from her parents alone.

Speaking of meeting his parents, Zishi was also troubled by this matter.He has already brought Wang Xiaofei back to Rugao to meet his family. His parents are overjoyed, and his grandfather is even more speechless.It's a pity that Zishi was brought home by Wang Xiaofei, but it was a different experience. The Wang family's parents gave him enough sneering words and cold faces, and they almost threw him a bowl of cold rice porridge.

"They think you're ugly?" I asked seriously.

"That's not the case. Their aesthetics are quite normal. They know that I'm handsome," Zishi sighed.

"Then why did they treat you like that, are they jealous of you?"

Zishi put away his unscrupulous face and said in a low voice: "They asked me if I had a house. How the hell would I have such a thing? If I said no, they would not agree."

"Why don't you have a house anymore? A house as big as yours can accommodate a platoon." I asked in amazement.

"They only want commercial housing in the urban area, not my house."

When I was in high school, I often went to Zishi’s house to play. His house has a self-built villa of at least 8 square meters, which is well decorated, with a yard in front and a vegetable garden in the back.The surrounding environment is elegant and the transportation is convenient. It is only seven or eight minutes’ drive from the city. You don’t need to call 110 for anything. Just call out at the window, because the police station is across the road.

Such a house is simply the goal of the rich, isn't it?However, there are always some stupid earthlings who think that a small square in a tall building in a city is more valuable.

"The young couple don't buy a house when they get married, what happens when they get divorced..." This is the experience of a colleague who has been a house slave for many years.But I still understand the importance of the new house, it is a warm nest for the newlyweds, where they can avoid the nagging of the elders and enjoy the two-person world with peace of mind.

I don't want to repeat Zishi's mistakes, I want to give Ling Yiyao a warm home as soon as possible, and stop letting her continue wandering with me.As long as I finish this project and borrow some more from my parents, I can at least make up the down payment for the new house, and then I will have to repay the loan year after year for ten years.

Among the people I know, Zishi is the least serious.

One night during the summer vacation of my sophomore year, the two of us drank beer and ate barbecue at a food stall, and then staggered to the Internet cafe to play World of Warcraft all night.Unexpectedly, not long after we sat down, the two groups of people next to us suddenly started fighting noisyly, and fragments of plastic chairs flew around.Zishi and I turned a blind eye to this. The two thieves were lying in the grass in Stranglethorn Valley waiting for an opportunity to rob. Unexpectedly, a guy suddenly squatted next to Zishi and shouted: "Hey, my brother has been beaten. Why are you still surfing the Internet? What are you talking about?" Disrespectful?"

"Who, who doesn't talk about loyalty anymore?" Zishi didn't see who the buddy was, so he grabbed the ashtray and went to battle in a daze.

He fought around in the crowd, the ashtray danced wildly, knocked down two or three, and finally grabbed the buddy who had dragged him into the battle just now, and said, "Who the fuck are you? Do we know each other?"

The guy stared at Zishi for a while and said, "I've got the wrong person!"

"Oh." So the king of fights came back to play the game with an ashtray.

Not long after, a group of policemen rushed in, and the brawlers dispersed, only a few people with injured legs and feet were unfortunately arrested.The police took the prisoners to identify people in the Internet cafe. Zishi was taken away in a daze, and was released back in the middle of the night, because he couldn't explain why he beat someone, and the other party couldn't explain why he was beaten.

Sometimes, he would suddenly call and say, "Hey, Brother Yang, do you have any spare money?"

"How much?"

"How much can you give?"

I calculated carefully and said, "I can give you three thousand at most. When will you want it?"

Zishi chuckled and said, "No, I'm so tall, handsome and rich, how can I be short of money, just to make sure that when I didn't bring a checkbook, someone would give me money."

He played this game tirelessly, almost every two or three months, and I tirelessly played it with him based on the principle of caring for mentally handicapped youths, regardless of whether I had money or not, it was always this round of lines.But now, the bitch is doing the old trick again, saying, "Lend me some money."

"Three thousand."

"Deal!" He was quite straightforward, "I'll send you the card number, and you can call me when you are free this week."

"Damn, that's not how the script was written! Do you really want money?"

He looked very surprised, and shouted on the phone: "When did I ever joke with you?"

At that time, I had just paid the rent to Ling Yiyao, and I was very poor. I only thought that he was joking again, so I casually gave the number of three thousand.I asked dumbfoundedly: "I want to tell you a fable called "Wolf is Coming". I wonder if you have heard of it?"

"I heard."

"Then I'll sing you another tragic but optimistic little song. I wrote the lyrics myself. Please listen carefully." Then, I sang in a heavy tone, "Ding ding dong, ding ding dong, jingle ding ding poor... "

This time, Zishi didn't talk to me anymore, he sighed helplessly, and said, "Forget it, if you don't have one, I'll borrow it from others, and make up as much as I can."

I also realized his seriousness and asked, "What are you raising money for?"

"Buying a house," Zishi sighed again, as if he was addicted, "Her family insisted that I buy a house in Suzhou, and the down payment would be more than 20 yuan. You know, my business has not improved in the past few years. Come back, my dad can afford 15 at most, and I have to figure out the rest."

"How much do you need now?"

"It's still [-] yuan short, barely enough to make up the down payment," Zishi laughed at himself, "then the two sat in the rough room and drank the northwest wind."

"Then what does she think?"

"When we were in a relationship, I said that I would spend my youth as a house slave, but now she seems to have forgotten it, and is urging for a house just like her parents." Zishi was silent for a moment, and then said: "She is no longer on my side."

This should have nothing to do with me, but my mood has also become depressed.

Zishi and Ms. Wang fell in love like glue at the beginning, not inferior to Yaoyao and me, but the changes in reality finally made Zishi say "she is no longer on my side".

So, what will be my fate?
(End of this chapter)