hope for redemption

In the process of drifting, the clouds accidentally overturned the color palette, and light gray, pink, light yellow, and azure spread layer by layer on the horizon.The sun has completely set, and only a few thin clouds can be seen in the sky at this time.

After eating at Zhuang Zhuang's house, Lin Wang and Jiang Xi unanimously decided to walk back to digest food.He deliberately took a long way around and didn't take a shortcut.

"Have you digested?" Lin Wang asked, tilting his head.

Jiang Xi hiccupped secretly, and replied helplessly, "No."

"Me neither." Lin Wang rubbed his belly, looked around: "Walk... again?"

They have already walked to the midnight snack street outside Qingnian Road, and they will arrive at the rented house in a few minutes.But obviously, this distance is not enough to digest food.

"Okay" Jiang Xi replied.

"Where is this going?" Jiang Xi asked belatedly after following Lin Wang across the road.

Lin Wang was still wearing a loose basketball uniform, and he could see the looming waist line hidden under the jersey whenever he raised his hand casually.

"I'll take you to the central area of ​​Lin County," Lin Wang replied with a yawn, "From this road, you can walk around the central area. After shopping, you will just return to the gate of the barbecue street."

Jiang Xi nodded half-understood, thinking that he had not visited Lin County well for so long since he came to the county, and just had this opportunity to quietly follow Lin Wang and walk slowly.

The distribution of shops in Lin County is a bit like the land rent level and zoning of high school geography. Most of the outermost shops are auto repair shops, flower and fruit wholesale shops, and some small shops that sell breakfast, clothes, etc. Selling jewelry, etc., the last center is two medium-sized shopping malls side by side.

One is called Backgammon, in the east of the central area; the other is called Baijia, in the west of the central area.

The two floors face each other, and an atmosphere of self-evident competition pervades the entire central area.

The shopping mall that Lin Wang took Jiang Xi to last time was Baijia, and now they have also gone to Baijia. Seeing the shopping mall, Jiang Xi suddenly thought of the kitchen utensils he bought here last time. used.

Isn't it just time to cook a delicious meal for yourself during the holidays? Thinking of this, Jiang Xi felt a little itchy.

"Let's go shopping at Baijia." Jiang Xi suggested.

"Huh?" Lin Wang paused, turned around and asked, "What do you want to buy?"

"Dishes," Jiang Xi replied, thought for a while, and added: "There are also desserts."

Hearing Jiang Xi's answer, Lin Wang raised his eyebrows in surprise: "You know this?"

"Hmm." Jiang Xi pursed the corners of his mouth, and muffled a syllable with his eyes downcast.

Jiang Xi didn't know why he suddenly thought of An Sheng.

No, I know the reason, because of dessert.

If you remove the antecedents and consequences and just look at the process, the time I spent with An Sheng was actually very good.

An Sheng will teach herself how to cook dishes and desserts from various countries.I will use my private power to arrange the best courses and the best teachers for myself, so that I can develop in all aspects, not just limited to translation.I will give myself the best material life, and the food and clothing are all famous brands.I will ask for leave for myself and take myself out to travel during the heavy study.

An Sheng left too many memories for himself, and also left indelible traces invisible.

This influence permeated day by day, bit by bit, into Jiang Xi's skin, flesh and bones.

Although Jiang Xi has left, Jiang Xi knows very well that this influence will not dissipate for a long time in the future, maybe even a lifetime.

I am like the unpolished jade, and An Sheng is the one who discovers and polishes the unpolished jade. An Sheng let herself get rid of the rough and hard shell, and bloom the dazzling inside.

An Sheng shaped Jiang Xi into what he wanted bit by bit.

How can a piece of uncut jade forget its polisher so easily, and how can a piece of uncut jade change its shape so easily.

Thinking of this, Jiang Xi trembled uncontrollably, and fear, panic, and uneasiness surged into his heart instantly.

Could it be that I really can't get rid of that shape?Will he really become the same person as An Sheng?

"Jiang Xi? Jiang Xi?"

Lin Wang's urgent call came from beside his ears, and the shaking of his body brought Jiang Xi back to his senses.

Jiang Xi woke up suddenly, his vision was still a little blurry, and there was only a blurry silhouette of a human figure in front of him.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Xi blinked, trying to calm down his tone.

Lin Wang looked at Jiang Xi who was a little absent-minded, held his arms even harder with both hands, and asked worriedly: "Are you okay?"

Ever since the dessert was mentioned, Jiang Xi has been a little abnormal, first she felt sad for a moment, then she seemed to be immersed in some kind of memory, unable to extricate herself, and finally there was a tendency to become more and more intense, and her emotions began to become panic and irritable , uneasiness and a touch of madness.

Lin Wang originally didn't want to investigate further, and pretended not to notice, just waiting for him to get out of his emotions. After all, everyone has things that they don't want others to know, but seeing Jiang Xi's intensified behavior The trend can no longer be pretended.

"It's okay." Jiang Xi began to slowly see the scene in front of him. Lin Wang's worried face was infinitely enlarged before his eyes, and the honking of the surrounding cars came to his ears. Only then did Jiang Xi recover and realized that he was on the street. .

After calming down his emotions, Jiang Xi quickly acted as if nothing happened: "Sorry, I was a little distracted just now, where did we just talk?"

Lin Wang looked Jiang Xi up and down, and after making sure that the emotions just now did not appear on Jiang Xi again, he put away his emotions and returned to his normal state: "When shopping for vegetables, I suggest you go to BBK to buy them. There are more varieties."

Lin Wang automatically skipped the topic of desserts.

"Okay," Jiang Xi wiped the cold sweat off his forehead and said, "Then let's go backgammon."

"Actually, Backgammon can be counted as the real central area. The Baijia area became prosperous because the bus terminal was here before. Since the bus terminal moved to our area, Baijia has gradually declined." Lin Wang said as he walked, wanting to divert Jiang Xi's attention.

"Well, is it the East Railway Station?" Jiang Xi asked after taking the words.

"Yes," Lin Wang kicked away the stones on the side of the road and asked, "Do you know the East Railway Station?"

"Well, I got off at the East Station." Jiang Xi replied, after thinking for a while, he added: "The day I arrive in Lin County."

"Well," Lin Wang nodded to show that he understood, then bypassed the road under construction, turned a corner, pointed to the hanging plastic insulation curtain, and said, "Here we are."

Then he lifted the curtain and led Jiang Xi into Backgammon.

As soon as Jiang Xi took a step higher, a gust of air-conditioning mixed with the fragrance of inferior dried flowers swept over his face, instantly enveloping his whole body and driving away the heat from his body.

The air conditioner is quite good.This is Jiang Xi's first impression of Backgammon.

As soon as you walk into the backgammon, you can see an open display cabinet for gold and silver jewelry. Under the cold white light, the gold and silver jewelry displayed in the transparent glass cabinet reflects the dazzling light.

On the left is the copycat version of KFC, and the authentic KFC is right across the road, just across the road.

Before entering, Jiang Xi also noticed that there was a 8% off banner hanging on the door of KFC, and when he entered, he saw a 7% off sign on Kentucky Chicken.

The cottage and the main palace are fighting.

Jiang Xi admired the courage of Ken Deji boss.

But Jiang Xi still wants to ask, who gave you courage?Liang Jingru?

"Go, the elevator is here." Lin Wang led Jiang Xi to turn left.

Although the whole building bears the name of Backgammon Supermarket, in fact only the second floor is the real Backgammon Supermarket.

The elevator of the supermarket is also very cleverly designed, in a pharmacy called De Ren Tang.

No, to be precise, De Ren Tang opened at the entrance of the elevator.

De Ren Tang, Tong Ren Tang.

These days, the marketing methods of merchants are simply eye-opening.

However, Jiang Xi quickly expressed his understanding. After all, with Zhuyu who is willing to win chickens in front, De Rentang's operation is no surprise.

The elevator leads directly to the backgammon entrance, and there are rows of straight trolleys next to the entrance.

"Are there many things you want to buy?" Lin Wang looked around and asked.

Jiang Xi thought about it, and besides vegetables, he also bought some fruits, drinks, and snacks, probably quite a lot.

"A lot." Jiang Xi replied.

"Okay then, let's get the cart." Lin Wang walked towards the cart, pulled out a cart, and waved to Jiang Xi with a sideways body, signaling him to come over.

"What to buy first?" Lin Wang pushed the cart into the supermarket with Jiang Xi.

Jiang Xi stood at the entrance of the supermarket and looked around, pointing to the outermost periphery on the left side of the supermarket: "Let's start shopping from here, and buy whatever you see."

When Jiang Xi goes to the supermarket, he doesn’t like to go straight to the shelves and take what he wants to buy. Instead, he likes to go from the outermost edge of the supermarket to the inside, looking at the shelves one by one. Buy, buy what you see you need.

"Would you like to try sitting here?" Lin Wang pushed the trolley down in front of Jiang Xi, blocked Jiang Xi's way, pointed to the inside of the trolley and asked.

Looking at the trolley in front of him, Jiang Xi probably could barely fit half of himself, and looked at Lin Wang with an idiot expression on his face: "...don't."

"Hey, don't do this, wouldn't it be good to experience the fun of childhood?" Lin Wang smiled and pushed the trolley towards Jiang Xi, urging Jiang Xi to sit in.

Jiang Xi took a deep breath, advised himself not to argue with idiots, threw the juicer in his hand into the cart, and said regretfully, "I can't sit down anymore."

After speaking, Jiang Xi bypassed the trolley and walked to the next row of shelves. Just kidding, he was a 1.7-meter-1.8.. rounded up to 1.9 meters. Pushing, I dare not even think about that scene.

Along the way, Jiang Xi walked in front to choose, and kept throwing things into the trolley behind him.And Lin Wang pushed the cart and followed Jiang Xi like a little daughter-in-law.

Lin Wang found that Jiang Xi didn't look at the price at all when choosing things, but only on the quality and shape. As long as the quality of eye-catching and good quality was acceptable, Jiang Xi threw it into the cart without even thinking about it.

It looks like a child raised by the rich.

The trolley was almost full by the time the two picked the vegetable area.

"Help me pack the tomatoes." Jiang Xi tore apart a rolling bag and handed it to Lin Wang.

Lin Wang took it and began to pick out the large and small tomatoes in front of him.But Jiang Xi didn't know where he went with the other roll bag.

"Have you never bought vegetables before?" When Lin Wang was carefully choosing tomatoes, Jiang Xi's voice suddenly came from the side, which made Lin Wang's heart skip a beat.

Hearing Jiang Xi's question, Lin Wang smiled a little embarrassedly: "I bought it a few times."

Jiang Xi glanced at Lin Wang, then handed the rolling bag in his hand to Lin Wang: "Take it."

Lin Wang took the roll bag from Jiang Xi, which contained a few small cabbages.

Jiang Xi immediately reached out and took away the roll bag full of tomatoes from Lin Wang's hand. While searching, he picked out the tomatoes with poor quality and put them aside.

"Choose tomatoes to see their roundness. Those with edges and corners are forced drippening." Jiang Xi held up an angular tomato to Lin Wang and said, "Second, look at the color. The ones with uniform and rosy colors are of good quality. Three Look at the degree of softness, if it is too hard, it will not be ripe, and if it is too soft, it will rot easily."

"Okay, I understand, Mr. Jiang." Lin Wang joked with a smile: "But, what does forcedripening mean?"

"Forcedripening is..." Jiang Xi paused with his hand picking the tomato, but couldn't speak when the words came to his lips.

Jiang Xi really couldn't think of how to express forcedripening in Chinese for a while, he just said it out of his mouth when he was used to it, and he really didn't notice it.

"...forcedripening is forcedripening." Jiang Xi pressed his molars a little irritably, seeing that Lin Wang still looked puzzled, and said dumbfoundedly: "I...I don't know how to express it in Chinese."

"You keep fucking! Fuck you, uncle! You can express these words, but you can't express this?" Lin Wang asked in disbelief.

Hearing what Lin Wang said, Jiang Xi was also taken aback. That's right, I can even express such authentic Chinese-style swearing clearly, why can't a forceripening work?

Then he turned the corner immediately, rolled his eyes at Lin Wang, imitating his words and said mockingly: "Then you can even express words like fuck! shit! Why can't you remember an address?"

After speaking, the two were silent for a moment.

This is not our problem, it's all because these cursing words are too deeply rooted in people's hearts, and they will be easy to hear.

"You can't do that," Lin Wang rubbed his chin, and said helplessly, "You have forgotten Chinese. Could it be possible that you will write English words halfway through your composition in the future?"

Hearing what Lin Wang said, Jiang Xi immediately frowned, and began to feel worried.

Lin Wang is right. My current language of thinking is English, but I am going to take the college entrance examination in China. This state is indeed unacceptable.

Not to mention the college entrance examination, as a Chinese, if my own language of thinking is not Chinese, how dare I say that I am Chinese.

"This has something to do with the living environment," Jiang Xi frowned and said, "I'm back in China now, and I'm surrounded by Chinese-speaking people, so I should gradually change back."

"Well," Lin Wang remained skeptical of Jiang Xi's statement, thought for a while, took out his mobile phone and said, "Spell that word again."

Jiang Xi tapped Lin Wang's fingers on the screen quickly while reading.

"Okay, forcedripening means ripening." Lin Wang said looking at the results on his phone.

Hearing this word, Jiang Xi suddenly realized, slapped his head, and said "tsk" dissatisfied: "Yes, it is ripening."

"In the future, I will use this method when I encounter people who are not interesting, I think..."

Just as Lin Wang was about to say something, the phone in his hand started to vibrate. Lin Wang glanced at the caller ID: "You choose first, I'll answer the call."

After speaking, he walked to a place with few people and picked up the phone. Jiang Xi glanced at the cart, and there was no other food to buy. Originally, the National Day was not a few days off, so this amount was probably enough.

Put the bag of tomatoes in your hand into the cart, and then push the cart to the price counter to price the vegetables.

When Lin Wang came back from the phone call, Jiang Xi had already priced all the dishes and stood in front of the cooked food freezer waiting for him.

"Have you finished shopping?" Lin Wang asked.

"After buying, you can go to checkout." Jiang Xi replied.

"Okay," Lin Wang took the cart, and while pushing it forward, he turned his face to Jiang Xi and said, "Uncle Xun came over with your fingerprint lock and is going to install it for you. You download the next software first, and wait a while." For fingerprinting."

"Okay," Jiang Xi was a little surprised, he didn't expect it to be so fast: "What software?"

Lin Wang reported the software name, Jiang Xi opened the software store that came with the phone, entered the software name, and downloaded the software.

There were not many people in the supermarket at this time, and Jiang Xi and the others arrived after a short queue. Lin Wang was responsible for stacking the products on the cashier counter, and Jiang Xi was responsible for putting the scanned products into plastic bags and paying for them.

There are three whole bags of things.

"Let's go," Lin Wang put the things into the trolley without changing his expression, as if he had expected the result a long time ago: "I'll take a taxi back later."

BBK Supermarket can push the trolley directly to the first floor, and the main road is outside the first floor.

As soon as the two of them went out, they stopped a taxi. The driver in Lin County really didn't care about the traffic rules, and drove on a rampage along the way until he flew up.

That scene probably could have made a Fast and Furious movie.

"Uncle Xun!" Lin Wang smiled and greeted the person sitting on the steps with two big plastic bags.

"Hey!" Uncle Xun jumped down directly from the steps, picked up the box on the steps, took a bag from Lin Wang's hand, glanced at it and joked, "Where did you go shopping?"

"It's not mine." Lin Wang smiled, raised his chin towards Jiang Xi and said, "I bought it with him. The new tenant, Jiang Xi, doesn't have all the things in the house."

"Oh," Uncle Xun nodded, then turned slightly to look at Jiang Xi and asked, "Do you want to change the fingerprint lock?"

Jiang Xi looked at the man in a black T-shirt with a long scar on his face, suppressed the surprise in his heart, smiled and said, "Yes, Uncle Xun."

"Well," Uncle Xun glanced at Jiang Xi, without showing any expression: "Open the door, I have to go to the casino later."

Lin Wang took out the door key from his trouser pocket and opened the door while asking, "Going to drink with Uncle Yun again?"

Uncle Xun slapped Lin Wang on the head in displeasure, and cursed with a smile: "Fuck off, can't I just have business."

"What serious business do you have when you shake your hand at the shopkeeper?" Lin Wang said with a smile, "How long did you rest this time?"

"Four or five days," Uncle Xun put the box under his arm, reached out and took out a cigarette, put it in his mouth, and then went to touch the lighter.

"Don't smoke on the stairs!" Lin Wang turned around and smoked the cigarette from Uncle Xun's mouth.

Uncle Xun smiled sheepishly, and said apologetically, "Hey, I forgot."

After reaching the fourth floor, Jiang Xi stepped forward and opened the door: "Everyone, come in and have a drink of water first."

After speaking, he took the shopping bags from Uncle Xun and Lin Wang, put them on the cooking table, opened the locker, took out two plastic cups, filled them with water and handed them to Uncle Xun and Lin Wang.

Uncle Xun showed the momentum of drinking with others at the dinner table, smothered the water in the glass boldly, smashed his mouth: "Look, bring your toolbox here, and give me a hand."

"The toolbox is here." Hearing what Uncle Xun said, Jiang Xi immediately bent down to open the locker on the bottom floor and took out the toolbox.

The last time Lin Wang lent Jiang Xi a toolbox to assemble furniture, Jiang Xi forgot to return it after assembling it. If Uncle Xun hadn’t mentioned it today, Jiang Xi might not remember it until sometime.

"Okay," Uncle Xun took the toolbox from Jiang Xi's hand, and greeted Lin Wang, "Go, let's remove the lock."

Uncle Xun looked like an old hand at first glance. While Lin Wang was unloading the lock, he assembled the scattered fingerprint locks. When Lin Wang finished unloading the old lock, Uncle Xun took As soon as the fingerprint lock has just been assembled, it goes directly to it and gestures for the size.Remove the pinned ballpoint pen from the collar and draw a few lines on the door.

The next steps are beyond their comprehension by laymen.

Uncle Xun screwed in the last screw, checked it, and confirmed that there were no other problems. While installing the battery on the fingerprint lock, he said to Jiang Xi: "Register an account."

"Okay," Jiang Xi quickly agreed, and took out his phone.

"Look, give him the paper, there is an invitation code on it, and teach him how to do it." Uncle Xun raised his chin at the scattered paper on the ground and said.

Lin Wang said good, rummaged on the ground for a while, took a piece of paper to Jiang Xi's side, and taught Jiang Xi how to register.

"Has the registration been completed?" Uncle Xun asked, lifting the baffle.

"Okay," Jiang Xi replied after logging in his account.

"Okay, come here to take fingerprints." Uncle Xun said.

What Jiang Xi recorded was the fingerprint of his left thumb, and then he entered the backup password.

"This is the emergency key." Uncle Yun handed Jiang Xi a bunch of keys wrapped in plastic: "All the precautions are in the instruction manual. If you don't understand or can't figure it out, just ask me."

"Okay," Jiang Xi took the key, held the key tightly in his palm, took out his mobile phone and said with a smile, "Uncle Xun, let me add you on WeChat and transfer the money to you."

"Well," Uncle Xun took out his phone, opened the QR code, and quoted a price to Jiang Xi.

After Jiang Xi added a friend, he transferred the money and added some hard work.

"Okay, then I'll go first." Uncle Xun glanced at the phone and put it away.

There is no objection to Jiang Xi's behavior.

Jiang Xi breathed a sigh of relief, afraid that Uncle Xun would not like this.

"Okay, Uncle Xun has worked hard for you today." Jiang Xi thanked politely with a smile.

"I'll see you off." Lin Wang straightened up and said.

"It's okay." Uncle Xun waved his hand at Jiang Xi, then looked at Lin Wang and said, "Okay, then send it off."

After Uncle Xun and Lin Wang left, Jiang Xi looked at the installed fingerprint lock, smiled contentedly, printed his thumb on it, and heard a "beep".

Then a gentle female voice sounded.

"Welcome home."