I wait for you to see through the scenery

During the two months after school started, Qu Jia went to the elementary school near the art museum every Saturday and Sunday, and completed the cram school that Zhou Yao signed up for him.

Punctual, rain or shine, whether on or off campus, Qu Jia did not miss any class.He also knows the priorities and is working hard to make up for those missed homework.The critical moment was under Zhou Yao's eyes, and he was always supervised by his ears and ears, and he became a domestic cat honestly.

Zhou Yao's cat.

All the money was taken, and the bankbook was all taken away, and Zhou Yao "raised" him.I never thought before that one day it would be like this, he is now holding all of Yaoyao's family property and private property, and Zhou Yao has kept the private money in his name without reservation, a precious new year's money, bonuses, etc. He has it.

This gave Qu Jia the feeling of being taken care of for the first time, who is the proprietress of whom?The status of the family is about to be subverted.

Every Sunday at noon is the tacit meeting day for the two of them, as well as the two families.At least the wise and omniscient mother of the two of them must be very aware of it secretly, but they didn't try to stop them. Now I hope the children are in a good mood and making progress. If you want to meet, see them.

The so-called date means that when Qu Jia came out of the cram school, Zhou Yao was waiting for him at the school gate. When they saw each other from a distance, they would smile, which was the kind of smile that was most heartfelt and expressive.

When they got together, they would touch the backs of their hands, and then go to the pancake cart to buy two big pancakes, or eat two bowls of noodles in a restaurant, and walk side by side on the sidewalk, chatting about the homework of the past two days.

My mind is full of quadratic functions, solid geometry, sequence, trigonometry, sets, and inequalities.

A comprehensive summary of various knowledge points, nine modules, comprehensive test points...

Qu Jia felt that he had never been so smart in 18 years, and he had never studied mathematics textbooks so seriously, and his knowledge and connotation were expanding.

The night before, I went to the big bathhouse to take a bath and wash my hair. Qu Jia rubbed the shampoo and stroked his head, as if everything was sticking out.The x-axis protrudes from the temple on the left, and a pyramid protrudes from the right. My brain is so full that it can’t hold it anymore, and the knowledge points are about to overflow.What grows on the top of the head is not hair, but a cluster of conic curves.The Venus jumping back and forth in front of the eyes finally jumps and arranges into a matrix.You can't even walk in a straight line, but when you walk on the sidewalk, you will consciously walk in a parabola.

Qu Jia complained and complained about his emotional perception all the way, Zhou Yao laughed wildly while eating pancakes, and kept touching Qu Jia's head, looking for where the function axes and conic curves were.

The days in my memory flew by before my eyes, and the students in the class were all working hard.Every week from Monday to Sunday, like a gust of wind.The spring flowers blooming in the green belts of the campus seem to have faded within a few days. They bloomed one crop after another, changing many colors, and there is no time to appreciate them.

The rhythm of the sprint in the third year of high school is so fast that people have no time to think about it and be sentimental, or to pick quarrels and troubles in their love life.Therefore, the relationship between Zhou Yao and his classmate Qu Jia is unprecedentedly close and friendly, neither quarreling nor fooling around, love is also discussed as an overhead Plato model, canceling intimate contact below the neck, consciously resisting unnecessary sexual life, meeting each other Just talking about mathematics and English, Chinese and history, they are a pair of good friends who are striving for the same goal.

The "Wufang" snack bar was very busy in the first two years when it started, and it was very tiring, but the business is getting better and better.Things are made authentically and made with heart, and the old neighbors know the goods.

In such an era of change and development, all kinds of trendy things and fashionable foreign tastes are pouring in like a tide, fiercely occupying the market and consumers' hearts, and the survival of the fittest is the general trend.The more this is the case, the old city style of surviving in the cracks, this bowl of hometown taste becomes more and more precious, which makes many people cherish obsession.

"Do you have any more pork-head pork biscuits? If you have any, I'll give you six." The bald and face-faced uncle outside the window came every day, and he also spoke a Hutong accent, so he could be seen as a nearby resident.

"It's gone." Qu Lianti lowered her head and wiped her hands with her apron, then turned around to carry a large plate and a plastic bag, "It was all sold out just now."

"Is this all sold out?!" The uncle rolled his eyes unwillingly, "The pork head meat is gone, and the sesame seed cakes are gone?"

"It's delicious, grab it all." Qu Liandi gasped, "Come earlier next time."

"I said you, can't you do more?" said the uncle.

"How can I be so busy?" Qu Liandi spread her hands, "Look for yourself, there are not enough people in the store today, I am really too busy!"

"The one who loves to buy you still talks so much... Can't you hire more people? Can't you do more?..." The bald uncle turned around and walked away muttering. I still have to come.

These are all repeat customers of "Wufang", the customer flow is continuous, and the small shop is well-known.

A Beijing TV reporter went to the store to interview several of their "aunts".A life column made a program for this purpose, which specifically told the inspirational story of "five middle-aged laid-off women workers defied the hardships of life and relied on their own hands to work hard to run a small shop to support their families and get rich".

At the opportunity of the times and the need for positive publicity, they have been established as a group of positive characters.The background music is accompanied by Liu Huan's "Start Over Again". If the heart is in the dream, it is there. No matter how hard it is, you must be strong. Seeing success or failure, life is heroic, but it is just starting from scratch... The response to the program was good when it was broadcast. It really makes people feel very excited. They don't burden the country, don't cause trouble for the society, and don't hinder the reform. They swallow all the bitterness by themselves and leave the afterglow and heat to the world. They are really a group of pacesetters of the times and the bottom of the pyramid. A role model for the hardworking people.

So much so that Wang Guisheng told Qu Liandi that in the future, when Lao Tzu’s landscaping company realizes the return of funds, and has invested in a profitable model, and has capital and confidence, let’s just open a serious store, your own store, nothing To those who are short-sighted and do not work well and hold you back, hire more young and capable cooks.

"I'm still the owner's family member, so you can be the boss and the boss's wife!" Wang Guisheng waved his hands in the shop with his hands on his hips, discussing the ten-year plan he had planned for Qu Liandi, "The joint-stock system is popular in everything now, and I will give it to you in the future." Invest in individual stocks in this store, invest some money, and you will be responsible for earning me back even the principal and interest."

What is the name of the store?

Lao Wang said, I think "Sister-in-law's Mending Meat Cake" or "Sister-in-law's Pork Head Meat Cake" are very good. Choose one of these two brands!Vulgar, unbearably vulgar, there is a delicious smell of pork and sesame sesame seed cakes.

During the day, they sell pork head meat pancakes and mending meat pies.

In the summer evening, it operates kebabs and malatang.

What about winter?In winter, I serve big copper hot pot, boiled sheep and scorpion pot or pork and cabbage vermicelli pot. This one is so attractive, everyone loves it.

When Qu Liandi heard that, she also smiled and nodded.It's okay, I'm satisfied, there's something to do.Comrade Lao Wang is very business-minded, and the planning is good. Let's work hard for another two years, and the whole family will work hard together.

It's just that Qu Jia really didn't have time to go to the store to help in the kitchen, so Qu Liandi had to do more work, and had to pay twice as much labor as before.

It is so hard to run a small business. I dare not rest even if I have a headache. Even if I hold on, I have to work hard to get through this half a year.For a group of middle-aged people in such a situation, who have experienced unemployment setbacks, have just climbed out of the mire to breathe, but are still hanging on the edge of the cliff, and their hearts are full of unstable factors.When they looked above their heads, the layers in the clouds were always out of reach; but when they looked down, they saw that there were still many people struggling deep in the big quagmire.

Every family is full of old and young, and what they bear is the anxiety and confusion about the rest of their lives, as well as the pressure of losing income again at any time.I have paid the rent, water and electricity for the store this month, and I don’t know if I can get it all together next month. My son is about to go to university, and I am afraid that the tuition and living expenses will not be able to pay, and the child will be wronged... Such mental anxiety, I have never experienced the pressure of unemployment. The cloud hierarchy is unimaginable.

At that time, Xia Lan's mother, Zhang Huilan, fell ill first.

The hard-earned money was lost by the family's dead dog gambling mahjong, and the couple had a big fight because of this. They didn't get a divorce for several years, all for the sake of their children, and all for the college entrance examination.As soon as the college entrance examination is over, the old people of the machine tool factory generation will definitely go straight to the Civil Affairs Bureau to leave a large number of people.

Zhang Huilan seemed to be suffering from gallbladder disease, and her abdominal pain was so unbearable that she squatted down in the operating room of the store, sweating profusely, unable to stand, and was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment.

It was said that the gallbladder was perforated, and the small organ was rotting away, so a resection operation was performed to remove the lesion.

There was only one less person able to work in the store. Qu Liandi went to the hospital to visit patients, patting Zhang Huilan's bed, smoking, do you dare to smoke again?Ladies, quit smoking as soon as possible while you are still alive!

Zhang Huilan lay on the bed with a sallow complexion, and when she smiled, she only had this comfortable hobby, otherwise life would be even more boring, and being sick has nothing to do with smoking, even if the body is tired, the heart is also tired.

Qu Liandi persuaded her sincerely and sincerely: "We, Qu Jia, can quit smoking. We stopped smoking for the college entrance examination, so you can't quit?"

"Succeed, this time I will quit smoking if I am discharged from the hospital alive." Zhang Huilan said.

The two old sisters sat and lay down in the ward, looked at each other, held their rough hands together, and smiled.Zhang Huilan said to Qu Liandi: "Master Qu, I will tell you one thing. If you have time, you should go to the hospital for a physical examination and get a blood test every year. You are getting older, and your body is the biggest asset. Don't ignore it." .”

"..."

After hearing this sentence, Qu Liandi also listened to it, pondered it in her heart, and went to the hospital for a comprehensive and detailed physical examination a few days later.

I used to work in a machine tool factory, and the employees had medical insurance. They went to the hospital for free medical examinations every year. If you didn’t want to go to the union, you were urged to go. This is the welfare of socialism for the working class.

Now that she doesn't work in the factory, she has no insurance coverage. If she needs to spend her own money, Qu Liandi will definitely not go, including the routine annual physical examination.So she didn't go last year.

Recently, I have been tired, have a headache, feel weak all over, and my feet are a little swollen. I am really tired.

She received the blood test, urine test and other laboratory test forms at the Chaoyang Hospital closest to her home, but was dragged away by the doctor at that time and refused to let her go.She herself was not at ease, and went to a better general hospital in the city to check again.

After receiving the test results again, Qu Liandi sat in a chair in the hospital lobby for a long while, thinking about what to do.

Calculate how much cash you have in hand, how much money the family has to save, and how much money is reserved for Qu Jianian's four-year university living expenses.

Walking out of the gate of the hospital, the subway station is 20 meters away from the road.She passed by the passageway of the subway station, walked for 10 minutes to find the bus stop, and saved another two yuan with the monthly pass.

……

At the entrance of the corridor in the third class, a red banner was pulled up, and the countdown number changed every day.There are almost two months before the college entrance examination, dozens of days.

During the exercise time before the evening self-study, all the boys from each class appeared on the playground, and there were only two basketball teams left when they all got together, and the two teams happened to fight against each other.

Xiao Jiang came dribbling in the backcourt, Zhou Yao on the left shouted "here is mine", and Qu Jia on the right also raised his hand "give it to me".Xiao Jiang first looked to the left, then to the right, who was passing it to, and was extremely entangled in his heart. With a shake of his hand, the ball flew in Qu Jia's direction.

The teammate blew up first, "Fuck, Xiao Jiang, you are blind, who did you pass it to?!" Qu Jia caught the ball with a distinct smile on his lips, a very bad smile, and passed Jiang Rong unceremoniously, with two long legs Yimai almost seemed to step over Jiang Rong's shoulder, and then passed another person, and scored a layup in a smart way.

Xiao Jiang covered her face and let out an "ah", how stupid.

Zhou Yao didn't even bother admiring Jia Ye's shooting, and pointed at Jiang Rong: Good boy, your wolf ambition has been exposed again, you don't even have me in your eyes, you are too much.

Jiang Rong hugged Zhou Yao's back and tried to hide himself, shivering and shouting for injustice: "I dare not pass it on to him, Qu Jia is so fierce and he always stares at me, I'm afraid of him..."

"He belongs to the opponent! You are an undercover agent, pass the ball to the opponent!!" Zhou Yao strangled Xiao Jiang's neck and put him down on the field, wanting to step on his feet in disgust.

Qu Jia rode his bike home from school in the evening, while his mother was still working in the store, and her life was still the same.Qu Liandi would come back at night to cook him dinner and prepare breakfast for the next day.

The hardest thing about running an early morning shop is that you have to go to work early in the morning.It was still dark outside at three o'clock, and the large trucks carrying goods from the suburban farms and vegetable greenhouses set off, roaring into the city in groups.Fresh meat, eggs and vegetables are purchased at around four o'clock that day.At this time, the store starts to load goods, scrub, prepare dishes, heat up the stove, and start making the first batch of snacks out of the cage in the morning.

This is how it works day in and day out, the shop is like this, and so are the people.

Qu Liandi simply moved into the store for a while, set up a wire bed, rolled out the bedding at night, and put the bed away in the morning, so she could start working directly.

In this way, Qu Jia will not be disturbed to review homework and sleep at home.

Qu Jia leaned against the door and looked at his mother.Qu Liandi quickly cut out diced carrots, diced rapeseed, diced mushrooms and small sausages, and then spread two eggs to make a sausage, vegetable and egg fried rice with delicious color and flavor.

"Breakfast doesn't need to be so meticulous, I'll just eat whatever I want," Qu Jia said.

"It's nutritious." Qu Liandi said, "It's just for you. If you do well in the exam, you can't lose it to me anyway!"

"Tsk, aren't you putting pressure on the child?" Wang Guisheng frowned.

"It's not called 'stress'," Qu Liandi said, "It's called a real mother."

"I buy ready-made pancakes for Lu Jun'er, roll a green onion, and serve a bowl of noodles for Lu Jun'er," Wang Guisheng said, "I'm his own father too."

"So father and mother are different." Qu Liandi said, "I make two servings of fried rice, and you bring one box for your son?"

"Don't." Wang Guisheng refused with his eyes, "I'm tired, take a rest."

"Give him my lunch box?" Qu Jia interjected, sneering, "Give the pressure to Lu Juner, you're welcome."

"Go!" Qu Liandi glared at him.

Qu Liandi then quietly signaled to Qu Jia that there was a box of mung bean cakes and a box of pumpkin cakes hidden on the top of the refrigerator, and said in a low voice, "You bring Yaoyao to school tomorrow, and I'll make them for him."

Whenever she makes a variety of snacks for Qu Jia, she must leave a copy for Zhou Yao.To the children of the old Wang family, it is called politeness, but to Zhou Yao is the real sincerity.These layers of close and distant relationships are clearly distinguished, the first in my heart must be her son, the second must be Zhou Yao, and the third can barely be ranked with others.

At that time, Qu Liandi said to Lao Wang with her eyes: It's nothing serious, don't worry about it.

Wang Guisheng also said with his eyes: You like to show off.

Qu Liandi blinked: I am so diligent and capable.

Wang Guisheng also blinked: So people can't be too capable, if you are not tired, who are you?Are you tired?

At that time, Lao Wang came to his house more and more often, and almost every night he would send Qu Liandi back, cook for Qu Jia, wash clothes, and then send him back to the store.

The eye drama and inner drama of the two old guys became more and more abundant. They leaned against the door of their house all day long, and they even flirted with each other, as if they were making secret signs... But, Qu Jia didn't understand the content and content of this scene at that time. towards.

It was another Sunday, the math cram school was finally over, and the one-model exam at the same time in the city was about to take place.

Zhou Yao waited punctually at the entrance of the cram school, smiled at Qu Jia on the sidewalk, and waved.

With the same smile for eight years, this boy is still the same as when he first met.

Qu Jia's schoolbag was full of the review materials that the teacher gave out in the last class, and the schoolbag was wrinkled and dragged on the ground, unable to fasten the zipper.

"Will you carry your schoolbag for you?" Zhou Yao wanted to take it.

"No, you can carry me on your back... um..." Qu Jia threw himself on Zhou Yao's back, resting his head on the back of Zhou Yao's neck and shoulders. It seemed to be the first time in eight years that he used this This posture asks Zhou Yao to act like a baby, play tricks, and beg for a hug.If you have been coquettish, you will be relieved and not tired.

They have known each other for eight years.

There was only one seat in the subway car, so Zhou Yao signaled Qu Jia to sit quickly with his eyes.

"Don't sit," Qu Jia said in a low voice, "You're dead, you might as well let me stand."

Zhou Yao sat down and helped carry the schoolbag.When I'm particularly tired, I'm too lazy to talk, and I just look at my handsome boyfriend, and I can watch the whole journey with trembling heart.Qu Jia grabbed the handrail on the roof of the carriage, and the other arm hung down. In a place where no one else could see, the two hooked their little fingers together, and then scratched each other's palms with their index fingers.

They both want to send each other home, but they can't send each other back and forth, what a fool.

"I'll see you off." Zhou Yao had a good reason, "I can sit at your house for a while... If you send me off, then the two of us can only sit in the Fairy Trail Forest."

"You can't sit at my house." Qu Jia complained, "The old king is here."

"What are they doing?" Zhou Yao suddenly had a lively face, "Oh my god, if we go back now, will we see the video clips?"

Their eyes met, and they were too shy to speak out.

Like thieves exploring the way, the two looked in from the entrance of the alley, moved to the gate of the courtyard, and found that Wang Guisheng's cart was indeed there.Zhou Yao signaled, go in and take a peek through the window?Qu Jia was still awkward, so I won't go.

The two old ones occupied the nest, and the two young ones could only stand under the tree at the root of the wall outside the courtyard.

Qu Jia lowered his head and turned his wrist, as if looking at the red string on his left wrist, a tingling tingled in the softest part of his heart, and suddenly raised his eyes to glance at Zhou Yao.

"What I owed you before included interest on the principal. Do you want me to pay you back the interest?" Qu Jia said softly.

"Did you use the passbook? Did you spend the money?" Zhou Yao was a little surprised. Although he gave Qu Jia the little red book, he didn't imagine that Qu Jia would spend the money immediately.

"..." Qu Jia rolled his eyelids, "No."

"Have you bought something for the family?" Zhou Yao asked, "Have you hired a small worker in the store? Okay."

Qu Jia frowned, and a smile flicked from his lips: "I mean, last time, the interest you paid...you don't want to forget it, I'm leaving."

Only then did Zhou Yao react.

The two of them stared at each other, their faces and ears were dyed orange by the evening sun, the blush gradually rose to the corners of their eyes, and water splashed from their hearts.

Three times for six times, changing me makes you comfortable, Zhou Yao, do you want the usury loan you put out?

"If you don't want it, forget it, and the interest will be written off."

Qu Jia turned his face away coolly, and was about to run away with his schoolbag.

Zhou Yao grabbed and put his arms around his neck.The two of them laughed muffledly while chatting, and their hands and feet were sticking together consciously.

"No, no, it's time for the exam. It's agreed that you won't come before the exam!" Zhou Yao's heart was itching to be seduced, but he wanted to refuse, but he was flattered, "We have to abstain from sexual intercourse before the competition."

"A competition is a competition, and you need to preserve your strength." Qu Jia frowned and said, "The exam is done with the brain. You use your thing on the table to do the questions?"

"That won't work. All the blood and protein are gone, which will affect my arousal state in the examination room." Zhou Yao explained seriously.

"Nonsense, does it matter?" Qu Jia also argued very seriously, "The exam uses your brain without using your brain, and you don't need your mouth. For the two of us, you use both your brain and your mouth without using your brain, so you still use it together?"

"..."

"No wonder you didn't do well in the general math test?" Zhou Yao asked angrily, "What do you do all night before the test?"

"I didn't do anything!" Qu Jia replied, "I'm just with you every time, what can I do alone? How about I put a long straw on it for myself?"

I couldn't go on talking anymore, and there was a burst of unrestrained and wild laughter from the bottom of the wall.

Zhou Yao hugged Qu Jia and squeezed his neck. The two of them laughed for a long time before they stopped their convulsions before the exam.

It's just to hold back the fire, say a few words with color and pretend to be intimate.

Zhou Yao couldn't help recalling what happened in the small room of the guest house. He forced Qu Jia to take off his pants, and Qu Jia was pressed on the bed by him... The flag continued to be raised for more than an hour, and Qu Jia restrained himself in a state of extreme depression and shame. Can't help being masculine and then forced to beg for mercy with his eyes... that kind of expression, that kind of Qu Jia, he will definitely not forget it in a few years.

I just used ideology to fantasize about each other, but without practice, they hooked each other's little fingers, bid farewell in the depths of the alley, and went back to their respective homes.

When I grow up, sometimes I still look like a child. When encountering important events, I still have to pull the hook to guarantee that I will take the exam next week. I will fight hard in the exam room. My boyfriend, please do your best.

In the morning, the alarm clock on the bedside table picked up Qu Jia from the bed on time.

In the refrigerator, there is today's breakfast that his mother prepared for him last night, pancakes with meat, marinated eggs, and red dates eight-treasure porridge, which is quite hearty.The small flowers of Chlorophytum hang down from the window sill, budding and dewy. It should be that Qu Liandi watered them last night before leaving. She took good care of her son and every pot of small flowers.

After breakfast, Qu Jia took her schoolbag, locked the door of the house, and rode her bicycle to school.This is his daily life. He habitually wakes himself up slowly from a dazed state on the cycling road, opens his eyes, and feels no disturbance in his mood.He was not nervous about the exam, even if his grades were mediocre, he stepped into the battlefield fearlessly every time.

There are some things in the family that he has been keeping in the dark.

There are some things that he has absolutely no prior knowledge of.

He also misunderstood why the old Wang came to his house very diligently in the past two months, picked him up every night, and never left when he came. He was so affectionate and seriously inconsistent with the age and temperament of the two old comrades.

On weekends, I went out on "dates" without telling him where to go, and whispered at home, quietly passing things around, so that he wouldn't see or hear them.

Many parents will make the same decision in similar situations. When their children are facing a major life juncture, they choose to temporarily conceal it, just so as not to affect Qu Jia's exam.This is understandable.

It wasn't a big deal at first, but Qu Liandi was dizzy and flustered that morning, and she felt unbearable pain when she bent down.She stood at the door of the shop directing the little worker to carry things and load the goods. She fell down and fainted.

The colleagues in the store immediately called an ambulance and called Wang Guisheng.

Qu Jia parked his bicycle at the intersection of Dongdaqiao, with one foot on the ground, usually in a daze, waiting for the traffic light behind the white line of the bicycle lane.This is where he passes by every day on his way to school.

An ambulance was honking its horn, its blue lights flashing on its roof, and it sped toward the other side of the main road from east to west, rushing towards the intersection.

It was a green light to go, the traffic police stopped the vehicles in their direction, wait a minute, let the ambulance pass first!

Qu Jia watched the ambulance speeding past him.