14 years time difference

Chapter 29 8-2

Step on the clutch.in gear.Step on the gas pedal.

The old Volkswagen roared like a beat-up old man.

Turned off.

Lin Zhique glanced at Director Li and Zhao Qian who were looking at her heavily in the rearview mirror.Xu Wenjing was sitting in the co-pilot with a delicate and terrified expression.

cough cough.

Since finishing her driver's license test, she has never driven a car with manual transmission again.

She pretended nothing had happened, and started all over again, please, what's so difficult about it?She passed the second and third subjects in one pass.The engine hummed again, trembled a few times, and the car finally started smoothly.

She slammed the steering wheel to back out of the parking space, kicked the accelerator and drove towards the main road. The whole process could not be said to be smooth and smooth, it could only be described as lightning and flint.Xu Wenjing clung to the armrest beside the car door, Zhao Qian tilted her body, and slammed into Director Li's body hard, stepping on Director Li's foot that was hit by the splint.

Director Li screamed: "Lin Zhique, you murdered!"

Lin Zhique replied, "It's your fault for not wearing your seat belts."

A driver with a splint on his foot, a driver without a driver's license, two little kids without a driver's license, two and a half hours' drive from one city to another.

Dao Li said heartily, hey, this looks more like a road movie.

Half an hour ago, he leaned on crutches and asked Lin Zhique, "Can you drive?"

He is like a wandering spirit every day, a few days ago, he stepped into the air somewhere and fell like this.

Lin Zhique replied: "Yes."

"Have you brought your driver's license?"

"Did not bring."

Director Li thought for a while, "It's okay if you don't bring it."

Lin Zhique also thought about it, "Well, yes."

Zhao Qian and Xu Wenjing stood at the door of the store, carrying small schoolbags, watching the transaction scene of two unreliable people through the glass.

Director Li limped out of the door, Xu Wenjing said obediently: "Brother, why don't we go take the bus, and you go home and recover from your injuries."

He waved his hand: "No need."

So they closed the shop and boarded this dilapidated old car as a group, and the destination was Yu'an, the hometown of the three people in the car.People from Dusi mentioned that it is a city very close to Girl Mountain.

Zhao Qian had a pair of dark circles under his eyes from playing games all night. Before the car drove out of Jincheng City, he leaned his head on the glass and fell asleep. Lin Zhique drove too hard, and his head hit the glass window. Damn, Xu Wenjing took a distressed look, and said to Lin Zhique: "Sister, drive slowly." Director Li also echoed distressedly: "Yes, don't break my car window."

The car turned away from the city, and on both sides of the road was a boundless spring rice field. Director Li put his splinted foot on Zhao Qian's lap, and fell asleep on his back. Only Xu Wenjing was left to help Lin Zhique. Looking at the road, she was very cautious, carefully looking at a tattered map that Director Li left in the co-pilot drawer. In fact, she remembered this section of the road very well, and she often pointed in a direction, and Lin Zhique would not hesitate Changing lanes, she hurriedly said, wait a minute, then lowered her head and studied on the map with her fingertips.

Lin Zhique thought she was quite cute.

She saw that she had been looking at the rearview mirror, probably looking at Zhao Qian who was sleeping soundly.

"You like him very much?" she asked lightly.

Xu Wenjing's eyes widened in panic, probably because she didn't expect Lin Zhique to ask such a straightforward question.She cautiously turned her head to look at Zhao Qian, and confirmed that he was in a deep sleep.

She replied: "I don't know either. Maybe it's because I've been used to being with him since I was a child. Apart from him, I don't know who else I can be with in the future."

"What are you going back for?"

"To see an old friend."

There is a street sign indicating the direction of turning right to Yu'an, Lin Zhique turns, and Girl Mountain appears in the distance.

Xu Wenjing said: "In our third year of high school, he stayed in the mountain in front of us."

Lin Zhique was silent.

Xu Wenjing added: "We go back this way every year. This year is the fourth year. It happened to be April Fool's Day. When Zhao Qian called me, I thought he was joking and scolded him severely. .”

Zhao Qian snorted lightly and evenly in her sleep.Director Li slept in silence.

"He cried so hard that day. I have known him for almost 20 years, and I only saw him cry like that once. It was even worse than when his father took off his pants and beat him in public." Xu Wenjing smiled, as if wanting to talk about this topic. become less sentimental.

Lin Zhique drove the car very quietly, and the road suddenly became very long, like a bridge connecting life and death, pointing straight to the group of continuous snow-capped mountains.

There seemed to be tears in Xu Wenjing's eyes, and she suddenly asked her again: "Sister, tell me, how did God make man-made? Did he make mistakes? Would he misplace a woman in a man's body? I I heard from Siren that your hometown is in East China, and East China is a big city, right? Are there many people like this?"

Lin Zhique hesitated for half a second, and then replied: "Yes, not many, but there are."

"Are they doing well?"

"It's been ... good and bad, just like everyone else, going to school, working, getting old."

Xu Wenjing turned her head to look at her, raised her hand to wipe away the tears in her eyes, paused, and said with a smile, "That's great."

It's nice to be able to live an ordinary life.

Lin Zhique didn't know what to say. There was a trace of tenderness in her heart, and she felt that maybe she should try to act as an older listener, but she didn't know what to do. She has always been not very approachable. Yes, most of them are wine and meat friends who can only play around together. It seems that no one chooses to reveal the most vulnerable part of their heart in front of her.

She suddenly thought of a very soft tone of words.

"So...what happened?...Can you tell me?"

It seems that the imitation is a little stiff.

However, the tears that Xu Wenjing had just wiped away moistened her eye sockets again.

"...Actually, I didn't tell the truth just now. That person is not our old friend. At least, she certainly doesn't think we are her friends." She wiped her eyes, looked at Yuan Shan blankly, and murmured "She doesn't seem to have any friends. The male classmates said she was weird. She never played with them. She always avoided them when she went to the toilet. Her birthday was in March. In her third year of high school, she wore a white pair of I took a picture of the skirt and put it in my homework book. When Aqian went to collect the homework, she accidentally found it, and everyone saw it. He always thought he was the one who hurt her."

Xu Wenjing's narration has no beginning and no end, as if some parts are too cruel, she really can't say it.

Lin Zhique raised his eyes and looked at Zhao Qian's side face leaning against the car window.He frowned, as if dreaming.

Xu Wenjing said: "After she passed away, I accompanied Zhao Qian to see her family. Her mother was very excited and said that she thought she had no friends at school. Later, we went back to see her every year. Her mother showed us I bought a lot of her things. She likes to draw and write beautifully. She copied lyrics that I also like, and she can also make cutouts. I thought, if I got to know her earlier, I would be able to really Make good friends with her. In fact, she lives on the same street as us. Her family owns a small supermarket. Every time I go shopping, she helps me check out and gives me a truth stick. Asked me to eat crushed ice, she said she couldn't finish it, so she gave me half of it, at that time no one in the class wanted to play with her, so I didn't dare to eat her crushed ice..."

Her voice gradually dropped.

Lin Zhique asked, "Which day is her birthday in March?"

Xu Wenjing sniffed her nose.

"March [-]."

March fourteenth.The boy was wearing a white dress and holding a bouquet of flowers.

Suddenly the bell rang loudly in the back seat of the car, someone's mobile phone rang, and the two people in the back seat woke up. Zhao Qian looked around in a daze, and Director Li took out a Motorola mobile phone from his pocket.

"Hello? Oh——Student Du." As usual, he drew a long tail.

Lin Zhique raised his eyes and glanced at the rearview mirror.

"Well, yes, the store is not open today. Tomorrow? It is not open tomorrow. I don't know, we will go back after playing for a few days, and you can buy it elsewhere."

After hanging up the phone, Director Li raised his eyes, and the two of them met in the rearview mirror.

"It's your little girl."

Lin Zhique frowned, smiled with his mouth curled up, and didn't respond.

Xu Wenjing kept silent, turned her head to look out of the car window, and never mentioned the topic just now. The snow mountain was always in front of them. As the car moved forward, it became more and more clear in sight. Far away, a checkpoint appeared at the end of the road. The red lacquer plate is hung, which is the two big characters of "Yu'an".

Yu'an is a very small city. According to Lin Zhique's understanding, it is almost like a small town. The layout is horizontal and vertical. The most eye-catching buildings are only the bank, the municipal office building and a shopping mall that doesn't look fashionable.

The Xu family lived in one of the most beautiful red brick buildings on the street, and the Zhao family was downstairs.The Xu family's parents were gentle and enthusiastic, and they packed up the guest room for Lin Zhique to live in. Li Dao's family moved to Jincheng a few years ago, so they borrowed at Zhao Qian's house.

At the lunch table, Xu's parents mostly talked about their daughter's marriage. They kept saying that when the age was reached, it was time to think about it when they decided to work. They said that some uncle's son was also in Jincheng. He was young and talented, and was about the same age as Xu Wenjing... …Speaking of Zhao Qian, "The child looks at the uncertainty. He is studying music, and he doesn't know what his future plans are. You are all so old. You have to know how to measure. You can't be like you were when you were young."Xu Wenjing lowered her head to eat and let them talk.

The conversation turned to Lin Zhique, looking at Ms. Xu's earnest questioning eyes, she put down her chopsticks, and answered without blushing, um, married, the child is two years old, husband?Husband works in a bank.

Dad Xu nodded again and again, the bank is good, the bank is good.

Xu Wenjing was very surprised, and really couldn't tell.Xu's mother said, what can't be seen?I saw it right away!Well, when you reach your age, you have everything you should have, which is a blessing...

After dinner, Director Li and Xu Wenjing went out to meet old friends.

Lin Zhique went out alone and walked slowly in the nearby streets.It is indeed very close to Girl Mountain. Even in the not so clear weather, you can still see the gentle ups and downs of the snow mountain.

She walked towards the direction of the snow-capped mountains and walked past the houses and shops along the street. The buildings on both sides were stepped and lower and lower. At the end of the road, there was a row of low mud-tiled bungalows, one of which was particularly large. Yes, with a faded signboard saying "Daily New Supermarket".

The supermarket is short and has no decoration at all, with plastered walls and cold iron shelves.Only the commodities are colorful, showing a cheap but real vitality.At the entrance of the supermarket, next to the iron net with all kinds of plastic children's toys, there is an old low table, which is placed where you can see the snow-capped mountains. There is a set of painting tools in dozens of colors on the table. Watercolor brushes and a set of watercolor paints, and a tall tray with some candy treats.

The table just sits around like this, without a name, with no apparent use, neither happy nor sad.

The owner of the store is a short woman, cheerful and talkative. Seeing Lin Zhique's appearance as a casual outsider, she invited her to watch TV together in the store.She said, have you watched "Love Girls"?You look so good, why don't you go to participate?My baby girl is still too young to go to elementary school, and she wants to participate.

A family portrait was placed on the cash register, which was taken in a photo studio. The woman was holding a fleshy five or six-year-old girl, and her husband was sitting next to them. Behind the two of them stood a slender and handsome boy, I cut my hair like a dog gnawing.

The boss took out a pack of loose melon seeds, poured them on the table, and asked Lin Zhique to eat them together.While watching TV, the boss murmured, "I don't know how much a ticket to take the bus to Jincheng is now. I heard that this competition will also be held in Jincheng. When the time comes, I will take my daughter to take the bus to sign up."

She said between clicks, you know, right?Whatever a child wants to do and what he likes, let him go. To become what kind of person he is, it depends on his own good fortune. It is like planting a tree. If he wants to grow westward, if you insist on turning eastward, it will not matter. I know how much it hurts him.

Lin Zhique looked away from the TV screen and peeked at the family portrait framed in a dark red photo frame. The boy's eyes dodged and his lips were pursed, as if he was trying to smile.