dhibooks Chapter 38 What she wants to say is very solemn
Chapter 38 What she wants to say is very solemn
Jiang Yi had a fever for two days, and the herbal medicine Yu Xi found to boil water made her consciousness more blurred than normal fever. Shu Xing was still worried, but after two days, her fever really subsided.
When I accompanied Yuxi to remove the stitches on Sunday, I felt refreshed.
In fact, on the second day when the two were lingering, Yu Xi asked Jiang Yi once when she was conscious: "Do you remember what happened last night?"
"Remember." Jiang Yi nodded: "You took care of me, thank you."
Yu Xi didn't say anything more.
After Yu Xi finished removing the thread, Shu Xing said, "Let's go celebrate."
"I know where you want to go." Jiang Yi leaned against the doctor's desk, watching the two of them sitting together with children, with a smile on her face: "Let's go, my sister invites you to go."
In the middle of summer, a shaved ice shop opened in the town.
In fact, the boss is the husband of the eldest sister who sells popsicles. The shaved ice is the same as the popsicles. It is a little white water with a little sugar or saccharin, which is ground into crushed ice with an old machine that others have eliminated, and finally sprinkled with a spoonful of fruity coloring that will fade.
After taking two bites, Shu Xing stuck out his tongue and giggled: "Am I poisoned?"
She asked for a bowl of grape flavor, and now her tongue was completely purple.
She has never eaten this kind of food, and she thinks it is very fun.
Jiang Yi looked at her and smiled, she ordered a bowl of cherry flavor, the delicate red pigment was dyed on her petal-like lips, making her more beautiful.
It was too hot, and Jiang Yi sweated easily, her disheveled hair stuck to her neck, giving her a lazy and charming feeling.She fanned the wind with her palm: "It's hot."
Shu Xing said: "Be patient for a few days, soon you will be able..."
She suddenly stopped talking.
Yu Xi asked: "What can you do soon?" She ordered a bowl of pineapple-flavored shaved ice, and the pigment made a piece of crushed ice stick together, icing her palate.
Shu Xing smiled: "It will rain soon." After speaking, he blinked again.
Yu Xi knew that what Shu Xing just wanted to say was definitely not this.The weather in Zhuzhen is complicated and changeable, even the weather forecast is not accurate, and Shu Xing is not a prophet.
But she glanced at Jiang Yi, and Jiang Yi smiled lazily while biting the broken ice with his chin, as if nothing happened to him.
But Shu Xing stood up: "Why do I feel that there is a grass over there that I haven't seen? I'll go over and have a look."
Shu Xing is expected to come to Zhuzhen for two weeks, and now a week has passed, and he has accumulated a lot of drawings.At the moment, the shaved ice stall is standing by the side of a small pond, on the bank made of old bricks, there are some aquatic plants similar to reeds.
But Yuxi felt that Shu Xing didn't go to see some plants, but Shu Xing avoided it.
Jiang Yi bit the limp plastic spoon and smiled lazily.Yu Xi asked: "What did Shu Xing want to say just now?"
Jiang Yi stood on the stream, dangling her calf: "I'm not her, how do I know what she wants to say?" She smiled again: "However, I have something to tell you."
Yu Xi: "I also have something to tell you."
Jiang Yi fed another mouthful of shaved ice into his mouth: "Okay, let's go back to the billiard hall later."
Yuxi thought so too.
It was still morning, and there was no one at the shaved ice stand. The two of them were sitting by the pond, feeling the rare occasional gust of wind blowing over the water.
They sat around a plastic stool, sitting very close together, Jiang Yi's flying skirt fluttered and swayed Yu Xi's calf.
Like that night, with fuzzy consciousness and lingering lingering death, Jiang Yi's calf rubbed against Yu Xi's calf.
Yu Xi lowered her head, the tip of her nose was slightly red.
Jiang Yi noticed: "What's wrong?"
Yu Xi shook his head: "Nothing."
She had something to say to Jiang Yi, but not now, Shu Xing, who was looking at the plants by the pond, would come over at any time, and she didn't want to be interrupted.
There was a passbook in her jeans pocket, which was heavy.
What she wants to say is very solemn.
******
In the afternoon, when Yuxi accompanied Shu Xing to go up the mountain to sketch, Jiang Yi played a few rounds and then came out to smoke at the entrance of the billiard hall.
Xiaomei came out and called her: "Sister Yi, Brother Qiang, they are all looking for you."
"I'm so unlucky today." Jiang Yi raised the cigarette in his hand: "I have to slow down, you help me win two rounds."
Xiaomei went in with a smile.
Jiang Yi slowly exhaled a wisp of thin smoke.
She has a lot of green skirts, all of which are cheap, and she is wearing a green one today, and the poor quality of the fabric can't be seen from a distance. She looks like a graceful willow tree.
It was almost evening, and the sun was not shining so brightly, and I didn't feel glaring when I stared at it.Jiang Yi stared at the sun and smoked, thinking about how to talk to Yu Xi later.
"Yu Xi, actually I..."
Before she could conceive an appropriate word, a clear figure walked towards her slowly against the setting sun.
Jiang Yi's fingers trembled: "Why did you come back so early today?"
Yu Xi smiled: "I have something to tell you."
She kept her hands in the pockets of her jeans, as if she was hiding something important.
Yu Xi called her: "You talk first."
"Yeah." Jiang Yi said slowly, "Actually, I..."
She has worn many masks in her life, but she never thought that she would be so nervous when she wanted to take off the mask to Yu Xi.
Because Yuxi is too young and too clean.
Zhu Zhen is too different from Bei Cheng, her past life experience has all been invalidated, and I don't know how Yu Xi will react when she knows the truth.
But always something to say.
"actually, I……"
Why do you say that?
Obviously according to the original plan, after Shu Xing returned to Beicheng, she should also leave.Maybe Ye Xingzhou came to pick her up in person, maybe he sent a luxury car to pick her up, or if it was an exaggeration, he might charter a plane to take her back to Beicheng.
But now everything has changed.
She doesn't want to go back to Beicheng.
She wanted to get Ye Xingzhou to come to her in Zhuzhen and have a good talk with Ye Xingzhou.
She didn't know whether it was because she had always thought this way deep in her heart, or she had changed her mind after meeting Yu Xi.
Like Yuxi?She thinks it can't be counted like this, the gap between her and Yu Xi is too big, and Yu Xi is too young.
But what she has to admit is that Yuxi inspired something in her heart.
She didn't want to be related to anyone in Zhu Zhen, but now facing the young face in front of her, with a pair of black and white eyes, she felt the need to clarify who she was.
"Speak." Yu Xi smiled: "When you finish speaking, I also have something to say."
"Okay, let me say." Just as Jiang Yi was about to speak, Xiao Mei ran out of the billiard hall in a hurry: "Sister Yi, something serious happened!"
******
The next thing happened suddenly, the gangster who had just arrived at the billiards hall brought news: the owner of the billiards hall has run away.
As the only place for entertainment activities in the town, this billiard hall has actually been open for many years.The boss's house is rented, but the rent is paid every few years.
The gangster who brought the news had a cousin in a neighboring town and knew the inside story. It turned out that the boss was a gambler and owed a lot of money. The money he earned was not enough to fill the hole, let alone the rent.
He was afraid that the debtor would come to the door with a knife, so he packed his things and ran away overnight.
The ball girls also owed their salaries for several months, and when they got the news, the boss had disappeared.
Xiao Mei burst into tears: "He hasn't paid his salary for five months! I don't think he's in a hurry after opening this billiard hall for many years! I also have a sick younger sister!"
After that, Jiang Yi had no time to talk to Yu Xi at all.
She was busy comforting Xiaomei.There are other ball girls who are also owed a lot of money by the boss, and each family has its own difficulties.Xiaomei cried and found out that the boss had a widowed mother who lived in the village next to the town, and she cried and led the sisters to come to ask for the bill.
Jiang Yi was afraid that something would happen if they got too excited, so he went with them.
Yu Xi was alone in the billiard hall for a long time, after thinking about it, he cleaned the billiard hall inside and out.
She didn't know what else to do.
After waiting for a while, Jiang Yi still hadn't come back, so she went to Jiang Yi's house to find Shu Xing: "Jiang Yi may come back later today." She told Shu Xing about the billiard hall.
Shu Xing was particularly worried: "Sister Yi will be fine, right? She is..."
Yu Xi asked: "What?"
Shu Xing said, "I'm worried about her."
Yu Xi said: "It should be fine."
She vaguely remembered seeing that old lady when she lived in the village with her grandmother when she was a child. She had a bad relationship with her son and had no contact with her. She had never seen any gangsters come to the village to look for her before.
But after returning to the pool hall, Yu Xi searched inside and out, and found a baseball bat.
No one in Zhu Town played baseball, this kind of foreign sport was too far away from them, and this bat was so bumpy that it must have been useless for a long time.
Yu Xi held the bat in his hand and weighed it, it was heavy and quite comfortable.
She decided to wait another 10 minutes, if Jiang Yi didn't come back, she went to Murakami to find Jiang Yi.
Just when she was planning to go out, Jiang Yi came back in a hurry, taking Xiaomei with her.
Yu Xi greeted her and asked in a low voice, "Where are the others?"
Jiang Yi also replied in a low voice: "Go home first."
In fact, Yuxi has worked in the billiard hall for a while, and already knows that Xiaomei is the most difficult one in the family, and it doesn't mean that she has no living expenses, but that she wants to save more money for her sick sister, so she doesn't rent a house , This sister lives in a week, and that sister lives in ten days.
In fact, Yu Xi also knows that Jiang Yi invites Xiao Mei to eat fried noodles every time.
Because Xiaomei has no fixed place to live, so many things are put in the billiard hall. Yuxi knows that Jiang Yi will definitely accompany Xiaomei back to pack things, so she waits here.
Xiao Mei couldn't stop crying, Jiang Yi frowned and helped her pack her things.
In the end, Yu Xi took the old luggage bag from Jiang Yi: "Let's go, I'll send it with you."
******
During this time, Xiaomei lived in a rented house of a little sister, on the edge of Zhu Town.
Jiang Yi walked in front with Xiao Mei on his arm, and Yu Xi walked behind with a luggage bag.
The road is still the same cobblestone road, but walking tonight is extraordinarily heavy, and people's feet are trapped like a swamp.
Finally arrived, Xiaomei was still crying: "Sister Yi, thank you."
Jiang Yi shook her head: "Thank you, I didn't help much."
Yu Xi handed the luggage bag to Xiao Mei, and Xiao Mei went in crying.
Jiang Yi's eyebrows were still frowning, and she took out a cigarette and a lighter from her skirt pocket: "Wait for me to smoke a cigarette?"
Yu Xi: "OK."
Tonight the full moon is ridiculously big, Jiang Yi smokes in front of the moon, feeling irritable.
In the past, it would have been easy for her to help Xiaomei. She simply and rudely took out the money, and all of Xiaomei's problems were easily solved. Even if Xiaomei doubted how she had so much money, she could fool around and say that she would borrow it from a client and pay it back later.
But now, her bank card has been frozen by Ye Xingzhou, and there is only 1000 yuan left on her card after buying the air ticket, which is far from enough.
This is what it feels like to have no money.
At this time Yu Xi said: "I have something to tell you."
Jiang Yi frowned: "Now?"
Yu Xi nodded: "Well, right now."
In fact, Jiang Yi frowned and smoked a cigarette at this moment, thinking about Xiaomei, a little absent-minded.
"Well, you said."
There is nothing to stop the stubborn look on the child's face.
Yu Xi walked up to Jiang Yi, and Jiang Yi leaned against the half-collapsed wall, watching Yu Xi who had been putting her hands in her pockets just now, stuffing something into her hands.
Jiang Yi was stunned for two seconds before realizing what it was.
Because that thing is very uncommon in places other than Zhuzhen - it's a passbook.
Only in Zhuzhen, where time seems to be stagnant, people retain ancient habits because of poverty.
Jiang Yi raised her head and looked at Yu Xi in confusion.
Yu Xi asked: "The billiard hall is gone, what are you going to do?"
Jiang Yi was startled, Xiaomei's family affairs were too troublesome, she hadn't thought about her own affairs yet.
"I'm Sister Qiu'er..." Jiang Yi smoked a cigarette slowly: "Go to wherever there is a billiard hall." She raised her bankbook in her hand: "This is yours? Let me keep it for you?"
Yu Xi didn't answer this, but instead asked: "I asked you to go to Beicheng with me before, how did you think about it?"
"Children..." Jiang Yi smiled: "When did I say that I would go to Beicheng with you?"
"Then where are you going?"
"Where are you going?" Jiang Yi tilted his head: "Go to a place with no 4G network and a billiard hall."
Yu Xi was taken aback: "What happened to the 4G network?"
"4G network is nothing." Jiang Yi said with a smile: "But I am an old man, and I like the old life, such as Zhu Zhen, isn't it good?"
Zhuzhen's billiard hall is gone, otherwise, she really planned to stay in Zhuzhen forever.
Yu Xi said, "Okay."
Jiang Yi didn't understand: "What are you doing?"
Yu Xi said, "How much do you owe that person last time?"
Jiang Yi was stunned for a while before she realized it: "Why do you ask this again? Didn't I tell you to don't worry about it, my sister will pay it back soon."
Yu Xi nuzzled: "This is ten thousand."
Jiang Yi looked at her.
Yu Xi: "I said last time that I will help you pay back the money. No matter you owe 20, I will help you pay it back."
Jiang Yi slowly opened the passbook.
Inside is really 1 yuan, with a fraction attached to the back, accurate to the cent.
One stroke at a time, Yuxi, a minor, has lived in a place like Zhuzhen for an unknown amount of time.
Jiang Yi weighed the passbook in his hand, and the small passbook became heavy: "Is this the tuition fee you saved?"
Yuxi nodded.
"Then you gave me the tuition fee, how do you go to school?"
Yu Xi said lightly, "I won't go to school anymore."
Jiang Yi suddenly raised his head: "Can you tell me again?"
Yu Xi said: "I don't go to school anymore, I will go wherever you go. I am very smart, I will work part-time to help you pay back the money..."
Before he finished speaking, a slap landed on Yu Xi's face.
Jiang Yi looked at her out of breath.
Yu Xi covered her face and smiled: "Why do you act like a mother, when you hear that the child is about to give up studies, you are as anxious as something..."
Jiang Yi said: "That's because you don't know what you are giving up."
She is so angry.
Yu Xi saw her white shoulders protruding from the green skirt, trembling slightly under the moonlight.
Yu Xi wanted to change the subject: "What do you want to tell me during the day?"
Jiang Yi smiled, frivolously and charmingly: "Actually, I want to ask you, have you packed your luggage?"
Yu Xi was taken aback.
"Aren't you going to Beicheng in a week?" Jiang Yi smiled: "I can't wait. Because you have been pestering me..."
"It's annoying."
Yu Xi looked at Jiang Yi: "You fart."
Jiang Yi raised her eyebrows: "Why don't you believe me? Think I'm quite attractive? Let me tell you, I'm almost thirty."
She smoked a cigarette and looked at Yu Xi and smiled: "We are almost ten years old, kid. For example, at your age, how do you feel when you see an eight-year-old kid? Do you think it's so stupid and annoying?"
Jiang Yi laughed again as she spoke: "When I first met you, I thought it was fresh and interesting. But now I'm bored, who wants to be a babysitter for a child every day?"
Jiang Yi shook the passbook in his hand, and stuffed it back into Yu Xi's hand with a look of contempt: "So, have you packed your luggage?"
Yu Xi looked into Jiang Yi's eyes dumbly.
She thought Jiang Yi's words were ridiculous.
In the previous days of getting along, Jiang Yi's expressions of laughing, trembling and hesitating to speak were not fake.
But now, Jiang Yi's frivolity, indifference, and impatience are not fake.
If so, then Jiang Yi's acting skills are too damn good, right?
Yu Xi took a deep breath: "You are like this, can't it be because Xiao Wu proposed to you?"
Jiang Yi smiled: "So you know?"
"I'm younger than you." Yu Xi said, "But I'm not stupid."
"Don't look at me like that." Jiang Yi looked at Yu Xi and smiled, her peach eyes narrowed slightly, the smoke between her red lips fainted into a vast mist in front of her eyelashes: "It seems that I am sorry for you. Xiao Wu and I Does the proposal have anything to do with you? To put it bluntly, what do I have to do with you? "
Yu Xi lowered his head and smiled: "No."
Those flying brows and those laughs.
Soft lips in those whispered moments.
It's all fucking wishful thinking on my part.
Anyway, you have always been like this, flirting with everyone, and not confessing to anyone.
Turns out I was never that exception.
Yuxi turned around and left.
The pride of the young man made her unwilling to stay where she was for a second longer, she walked and ran again.
On the old broken flagstones.
In the cold gray moonlight.
Yu Xi ran faster and faster.
Until they bumped into someone hard, both of them staggered.
"I'm sorry..." Yu Xi stood still and found out that the person was Zhou Qi.
Zhou Qi rubbed his forehead and looked at Yu Xi with a smile: "I just heard from my brother that you are borrowing the billiard hall now, it seems that you have found the right one..."
"What's the matter?" Yu Xi was panting, she was indeed running towards the billiard hall now.
"I heard that something happened in the billiard hall, and," Zhou Qi smiled shyly, "I got the standard answer for the college entrance examination paper. Shall we evaluate the score together tomorrow?"
******
On the other side, Jiang Yi returned to the rental house.
Shu Xing rushed over all of a sudden: "Sister Yi, are you alright?"
Jiang Yi smiled: "What can be the matter?"
Her beautiful face was intact, but Shu Xing always felt that her face was a little pale.
Shu Xing pulled her over and sat down: "Sister Yi, I never imagined that you would be able to do things like debt collection."
Jiang Yi seemed to be in a daze, raised his face after listening to her words, and winked at her playfully: "Can't think of it?"
Shu Xing just smiled: "It seems that I can think of it. After all, it's you, you can do any job, right?"
Jiang Yi followed with a smile.
"Shu Xing..." She was thinking about how to speak. Her once prosperous life made it hard for her to imagine that this sentence was so difficult to say: "Can you...can you lend me some money?"
Shu Xing is only a sophomore, but her family is extremely rich, and she is a real daughter.
Shu Xing was taken aback.
She probably didn't expect that Jiang Yi would still hear such words as borrowing money from Jiang Yi's mouth in this life.
Jiang Yi forced a smile.
That sentence popped up again in my heart: It turns out that this is what it feels like to have no money.
Shu Xing looked at her face and asked, "Did something happen to you?"
Jiang Yi shook her head: "What can I do, I just want to help a friend."
Shu Xing was a little embarrassed: "I wanted to lend you money, but..." She said frankly: "Before coming to Zhuzhen, Mr. Ye told me not to lend you money."
Jiang Yi was taken aback.
Has Ye Xingzhou's defense against her reached this point?
She muttered, "Why?"
This question was obviously not about Shu Xing, the young Shu Xing couldn't possibly know the answer, she was more like asking herself, how did she make things come to this point.
Unexpectedly, a slightly sinister voice sounded behind him: "Because I'm afraid you won't go back to Beicheng."
Shu Xing raised his head, Jiang Yi turned his head.
Then Jiang Yi laughed.
Because life is sometimes more like a TV series than a TV series, and the coincidences are a bit absurd. For example, when she turned around just now, a thunderbolt flashed across the sky, illuminating Ye Xingzhou's always gloomy face.
Ye Xingzhou was born fair, and her face was actually quite youthful, with delicate features, but there was a shallow scar on the side of her eyebrows, and she didn't use concealer to cover it. Matching her expression, the whole person looked gloomy.
She always wears a black long-sleeved trousers gauze dress, even in the hottest summer, and leans on a silver crutch, as if she has stepped out of some horror movie that conforms to the traditional oriental aesthetics.
Everyone was nervous when they saw Ye Xingzhou. For example, at this moment, Jiang Yi obviously heard Shu Xing take a deep breath in her ear, and called out timidly: "Boss Ye."
In fact, according to the relationship between Shu Xing's family and Ye Xingzhou, it is normal for Shu Xing to call "Sister Xingzhou", but Ye Xingzhou doesn't seem to know anyone that well.
She doesn't smile at anyone, except Jiang Yi.
At this moment, thunder was rumbling outside, she smiled and said to Jiang Yi: "I miss you, so I will pick you up two weeks in advance to Beicheng, okay?"
Even if she smiled, the gloomy look on her face never disappeared, Jiang Yi would rather she not smile.
Jiang Yi stands up and looks at her, because what she has to say next is very important.
She said, "No."
Ye Xingzhou's jade-like face never showed any expression, and now he just squinted his eyes.
"No?" Ye Xingzhou repeated these two words playfully, and suddenly asked: "Last time you accompanied the child to the city for treatment. What's his name? Yu?"
Jiang Yi curled her fingers tightly behind her back.
"Aren't you a child yourself?" Jiang Yi said.
Ye Xingzhou laughed dryly: "But I have already grown up."
Jiang Yi looked at her and said nothing.
Yes, from an objective point of view, Ye Xingzhou has grown up a long time ago, and he is so powerful that Jiang Yizeng could hardly imagine it. In a sense, he is also so powerful that even Jiang Yi is afraid.
"Ran Ge." Ye Xingzhou yelled again, and another flash of lightning outside the window illuminated her gloomy face: "You have to go back with me."
"Because Dodo is sick."
Ye Xingzhou approached, took out his mobile phone, and played a short video for Jiang Yi. The little girl on the screen had beautiful eyes and said happily to the camera: "Aunt Ran, I miss you. When are you going back to Beicheng?" ah?"
The author says:
Ye Xingzhou, a woman who always has her own special effects