I used to cry in the middle of the night, wanting to talk to you about life

Chapter 22 So what, love (8)
"Hello, uncle and aunt." Xiaoyi smiled and bowed slightly to my parents.

"Hello, hello, come to the door first!" My dad moved to the side, let Xiaoyi in, and followed him in a jerk, completely ignoring that his own son was carrying two bags. With a big suitcase, he stood at the gate covered in sweat.

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The feeling of going home this time is really different, not only the house is new, even the parents seem to be new, especially my dad, not only does not teach others, but even the tone of his speech is very gentle, when eating dinner , He even took out a bottle of white wine and poured me a glass.My nature is to put my nose on my face, and I got used to it within two days. When drinking with my father, I would even put my father on his shoulders. The two of us are as good as brothers.My mother came back from get off work two hours early every day to cook, one meal at noon and one meal at night. She was very busy in the kitchen. You have to burp two small burps first.

After lunch and before dinner, Xiaoyi and I wandered around the city of Huai'an.I first took her to the major scenic spots. Huai'an is a famous historical and cultural city. As a place for "southern boats and northern horses to board boats" on the Grand Canal, it was quite good in the era when water transport was developed. Although it has declined now, there are many relics. , there are several steles inscribed when Qianlong went to Jiangnan alone.In fact, Xiao Yi has no interest in these scenic spots. What she likes is riding a rickshaw on the way from one scenic spot to another.When I took her to ride a rickshaw for the first time, she stopped me desperately, "Don't sit on it, it's so expensive! Let's take a taxi!" Hearing what Xiao Yi said, the tricycle driver scratched his head in surprise.I told Xiaoyi that people are much cheaper than gasoline here.The money for Beijing’s tricycles to run around Houhai is enough for our tricycle driver to pedal 30 kilometers... Don’t feel sorry for his tiredness. There are so many laid-off workers, and the streets are full of tricycles. Can fight.

Xiaoyi seemed to understand, but I helped her into the car, "Master, go to Qingyan Garden."

"Four dollars." The tricycle driver said.

"It's crazy, three yuan is a lot for this trip." I bargained with him in Huai'an dialect.

"Okay, okay, three yuan, let's go!"

Along the way, Xiaoyi would lean into my ear every two minutes and ask, "Haven't you arrived yet? How far away?" When I arrived at the destination, I gave three yuan to the tricycle driver, and he happily took the money. I drove away.Looking at the master's back, Xiaoyi said with emotion: "It's too cheap, it costs three yuan to ride so far."

"I paid extra for this, and I can walk this section of the road for two yuan."

Because it was cheap, Xiaoyi fell in love with riding a tricycle crazily. Later, we stopped going to those scenic spots, so we threw 20 yuan to the master and asked him to take us wandering in the streets and alleys of Huai'an. If we ride slowly, 20 yuan You can go shopping for more than an hour for a dollar.Huai'an is a small city. In 2002, except for some buildings in the city center, most of the buildings were still very low. The color of the sky was relatively pure, and you could see far without standing very high.Everyone here can ride a bicycle. People over 30 will maintain a relatively stable speed, but those young people will pedal their mounts very fast. The younger the children, the more they love to kill like arrows from the slow traffic. Going out, rushing out of the congested area, into the translucent dusk, is very cool.Whenever such a bicycle passes by, Xiaoyi will stare at it until she can no longer see it. Xiaoyi asks me: "Grandpa, have you ever ridden like this before?" I smiled and nodded, "Why not?" Yes, who hasn't been a sophomore X?"

During those days when I took Xiaoyi to visit Huai'an, I was always entangled in reality and memories. Those familiar streets and signs seemed to have relived my previous 20 years.Xiao Yi kept talking beside me, her smile was mixed into all my memories, as if she had gone to elementary school, junior high school and high school with me, and all my past was exposed in front of her.On my high school campus, Xiao Yi suddenly had a sudden impulse, "My lord, tell me the story of your puppy love?"

"Are you sure you want to hear it?"

"Well...forget it, I don't want to."

"I don't even want to hear it. I haven't had a puppy love."

"Liar."

"Do you think I look like a puppy lover?"

"Like, you're not ugly."

"I never fell in love early."

"Ah? You haven't had a puppy love?"

"You have?"

"Me? Me neither."

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I really don't have puppy love, it's not that I don't want to, it's that people don't agree.

The girl I have a crush on is my high school classmate, tall, white, with big eyes, long hair, soft and slow speaking, that is to say, she has all the advantages of a traditional Chinese woman.Therefore, her name is Duan Chang'e.If I hadn't met her in person, I definitely wouldn't like a girl with such a name.It happened that fate made us two classmates in the liberal arts class when we were in the second class of high school. When the teacher called "Duan Chang'e", I burst into laughter. At this time, Duan Chang'e was standing in the row closest to the window. Standing up, he replied softly, "To".I fell in love with her at first sight before I could see her face clearly.That white dress and shoulder-length hair, even to this day, still kills me.When arranging the seats, Duan Chang'e sat in the fifth row because of her tall stature, while I was arranged to sit in the fourth row because my parents gave a thick red envelope to the class teacher, and I was in the same group as Duan Chang'e. I turned my head Just talk to her.I still think that this is the most worthwhile red envelope sent by my parents in my 16 years of student career.

I admire her from every hidden angle; talk to her, make her laugh; show her the composition I have written, and show her good things in a subtle way; solve all the difficulties for her without letting her know; All my notes.It is an open secret that Fang Peng likes Duan Chang'e in Class [-] and [-] of high school.

The reason why I say it is public is because everyone knows it.The reason why I say secret is because only she doesn't know, or pretends not to know.

In this way, from the second year of high school to the third year of high school, the opportunity finally came.

Although Duan Chang'e is very important in my mind, I have to admit that her brain is quite average. Of course, this does not mean to belittle her. Such girls are too common on campus: the family is good, the life is stable and not extravagant; Good, clean but don't like to dress up; study hard, and the grades will always be in the middle and lower reaches... The last one hit Duan Chang'e quite a bit. She fell on the desk and cried because she failed the math in a monthly exam.Although mathematics is not my strong point, it is still much better than Duan Chang'e, so I comforted her and said, "Don't cry, I will help you in the future."

At that time in the third year of high school, there were four self-study classes every day, two in the afternoon and two in the evening.I will use the first self-study class to produce a basic math paper for Duan Chang'e. It will take her almost two self-study classes to finish the paper. I will do it and copy it during this time. Complete all the homework, and then in the last self-study class, correct and comment on this paper for Duan Chang'e.I often praise her for small improvements, and then get a little happiness from her shy smile.

Our two self-study classes every Thursday afternoon are time for sports activities. For the sake of love, I didn't even kick the ball, just stayed in the classroom, devoted myself fully, and wrote hard.Of course, everything I did for love seemed like I was studying hard. The head teacher who didn't know the truth repeatedly praised me for "recently very hardworking" at the class meeting, and called on all the students in the third and sixth classes of high school to learn from Fang Peng.After a period of time, my ranking began to fall back three to five places each time, which made the class teacher wonder if my brain had degenerated, and even suggested that my dad take me to the hospital for a checkup. The crazy thing is - my dad actually took me there!
Later, there were more and more rumors in the class, and then Duan Chang'e passed a note to me, saying: "You also have things to do, let me work hard on my studies." She deliberately kept a distance from me, refused my counseling and started not wanting to talk to me.Later, we graduated, I went to Changsha, and she went to the local normal university. It is said that she performed well and won a scholarship, which really surprised me.

But now that I think about it, she is still good to me.

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Xiao Yi stayed in Huai'an for 11 days and gained three kilograms.Before leaving, my dad stuffed Ke Yiyi’s classmate’s box to the brim. There were various specialties from Huai’an and the white tea brought to Xiaoyi’s parents. Eat and take.On the day of the farewell, my mother and Xiao Yi had red eye circles.Xiaoyi said to me in private: "Grandpa, I like your parents so much!" My mother also said to me in private: "Son, I don't know why, but I think Ke Yiyi is very close to the girl, so I just Just like my own daughter." Hearing what these two said, I felt a wave of panic in my heart, and I almost dragged Xiao Yi to do a DNA test. If she was my long-lost sister, it would be nonsense.

In any case, it is a good thing that Ke Yiyi was accepted by my parents. After the junior year started, my monthly living expenses increased by 200 yuan, because my dad said: "Go out to eat with Ke Yiyi or something, don't let Girls pay."

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When school starts again, Xiaoyi and I are both juniors, and Xiaoyi said excitedly: "Female junior, hold the golden brick, you can hang out with me this year!" I nodded and reached out to grab her, "Said Where are the gold bricks?" "Don't move, don't move, I'll call you molested!" Xiao Yi struggled with a smile, but there was no way to escape, "Scream, shout, you won't even shout out loud!" Someone came to save you..."

You see, in those years, no matter how serious things were, we would make them very serious.

Xiao Yi and I still lived in the house we had last semester. We haven’t come back for two months. There were some dust and cobwebs in the room. We cleaned it all afternoon before we cleaned up our little home. We were so tired. Didn't do anything at night, just fell asleep.When we woke up in the morning, we both had a bit of a cold, we had a runny nose, and we wasted a lot of toilet paper.I am somewhat superstitious, and I felt a bit messy at the beginning of the semester, which made me feel a little ominous.Sure enough, the school had just started, and the TV station was urging me to organize students to participate in the video, but I couldn't organize anyone.

The reason for not being able to organize people is very simple. This year’s freshmen have not yet entered the school, and the old students’ tastes are getting more and more tricky... Actually, it is understandable. After all, our school is so big and there are only so many students. We organize more than 100 people a week. No. 32, after a year, basically everyone who is interested in this matter has been there once or twice.Unless it's Jay Chou and Jolin Tsai, it's almost the same, the students really don't give any face to ordinary small-time singers or newcomers.The most annoying thing is that if you don't go, you don't go, and some people like to make sarcastic remarks.Once there was a girl who was holding a thermos bottle, not much taller than the thermos bottle, and her face was swollen as if she had been scalded by hot water. She stood there just after reading the poster and shouted in a high voice: "Oh, this guy is so ugly, The head looks like a potato, this person can also be a star, I'm only a fool to see it." After speaking, he pursed his lips so hard that his upper lip almost touched the root of his ear.Hearing my anger, I said in my heart, girl, look in the mirror, you have grown up like this yourself, how dare you criticize others? ...It is worth mentioning that the rookie on the poster who was demoted to nothing at that time later became a star, and now he is flourishing in the mainland music scene, with [-] concerts a year.

The program team didn't care about my difficulties, the number of viewers was too different once, Brother Liu was very unhappy, and his face was so long.In order to keep this source of income, I later had to solicit customers for free, or even spend money on treats, begging others to watch the show, not to mention making money, as long as I don’t lose money, it’s not bad.After thinking about it, I felt that it would not be a problem to hang myself from a tree in my school, and I still had to open up new markets.The new continent I am going to open up is the Finance College, which is a small financial college next to our school. In the years when the university merged, it always said that it would be merged by our school. It merged many times, but it never came.Not only is this place close, it is convenient to go back and forth, but the smaller the school, the less opportunities for social activities.Sure enough, the students of the Finance College expressed their strong inconceivability and great enthusiasm for participating in the fact that they can charter a car to and from the Celebrity Fan Club for ten yuan.In the past, it only took me an hour to sell out the quota of 150 people. The grand occasion at Nanhu University half a year ago was repeated in Caizhuan. Thank God, I had a comfortable life again...

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Just when I was struggling to organize the audience, my own class was not stopping.Our counselor, Mr. Zhou, didn't know what was going wrong, and she suddenly wanted to hold a class committee election. You must know that the current class committee is appointed by her. After two years, everyone has adapted to it. What is he doing!Of course, this is just my personal point of view. Several people in the class felt that this session was a rare opportunity, so they rolled up their sleeves and rushed forward. For example, Dong Zhitu in the dormitory opposite me publicly declared that he would run for class monitor, and uttered cruel words "it is inevitable" .

Dong Zhitu was born in an official family, his father's status in Nanning is almost equivalent to Wei Xing's father's status in Lanzhou, but unlike Wei Xing's classmate's playful style, Dong Zhitu tried his best to copy himself like his father.Trousers, shirts, jackets... If the size of his clothes for all seasons is not a problem, he can directly let his father wear them to the city committee meeting.And his tone of voice and calm gestures are exactly the same as his father we have seen.Dong has a high self-esteem, especially loves to boss him around, but he often gets mad at himself because no one buys it.The second child in the class was Dong Zhitu who was most upset. He always said that Dong Zhitu was "the face of "The Appearance of Officialdom"" and "there is no need to prove that he is his own."

The monitor throne that Dong Zhitu wants to usurp still belongs to Wang Tao in our dormitory.Brother Tao comes from the countryside of Henan. He is honest and honest, and he is serious and responsible in his work. However, these are his advantages that he only discovered after he became the squad leader.Freshman just came in, his eyes were darkened, no one knew anyone, the whole class lined up on the playground, the counselor Mr. Zhou asked, "Who can call the password?" Brother Tao didn't know where the courage came from, so he answered : "Me!" He was directly appointed as the monitor of our class.Brother Tao can't sing, play football, shoot hoops, pick up girls, and his grades are average at best... His only specialty is that he reads English texts aloud every morning during his morning reading, the volume of which can surpass that of a class.Moreover, if you carefully imitate Brother Tao's pronunciation and accent in English, it is said that you can learn to speak Henan dialect.It is a miracle that such a person can serve as monitor for two years, and it is simply a fantasy to be re-elected.So when he learned that Dong Zhitu was going to run for class president, he became very depressed and didn't know what to do.

The second brother comforted Brother Tao: "Don't be nervous, who will choose Dong thief based on his poor popularity?"

"It's hard to say," Brother Tao scolded, "Dong Zhitu invited him to eat and sing again recently. Isn't this buying votes!"

"Isn't it just a treat for dinner?" I said disdainfully while playing mahjong with Brother Bao and the others, "You can invite us too, we will all give you face!" Dumplings, but "the more you drink the more you drink the dumplings", the comrades at the meeting expressed their appreciation and trust for Brother Tao and their firm support. Even if this vote was for a dog, it would not be for Dong Thief...Of course, we I will not vote for the dog, because all votes must be voted for Brother Tao.Brother Tao toasted with tears in his eyes to thank everyone for their support. He didn't realize that four of the seven people he invited were not from our class and had no voting rights.

(End of this chapter)