the other side of the fireworks

In the past two days, the old lady had been coughing badly. Xia Fengshu often saw her sitting on the soft rattan chair in the living room fuming when she came back from get off work. Xia Fengshu couldn't help asking her: "Do you have asthma?"

The old lady just panted, unable to speak.

"Go to the hospital!"

The old lady shook her head, waved her hand to signal Xia Fengshu to go away, and sat for another two hours before her breath gradually calmed down. Xia Fengshu never closed the door, watching her return to the room tremblingly. The wife didn't close the door either, Xia Fengshu was afraid that she might make a mistake, and the old lady herself was also afraid.

The next morning, Xia Fengshu got up half an hour earlier and went to see her in the old lady's room. This was the first time she entered the old lady's room.Those beds and cabinets are very old, and all of them look older than Xia Fengshu. At five o'clock, the sun is still hazy, the windows are closed, and the light is weak. The old lady breathes evenly, although she can't see her face clearly. , but also not worrying.

The thought of calling the landlord flashed through Xia Fengshu's mind, but she still decided to leave her phone number.

Two days before the exam, she and Xu An made an appointment to eat skewers. Xia Fengshu called, and she wanted a treat.There are many people in the world who use treats to boost their self-esteem, Xia Fengshu is one of them, and they come and go without being rude. Treating guests before the exam is really meaningful and face-saving.

Xu An doesn't care who treats guests, it's a joy to meet each other.

Among the girls, Xia Fengshu was the one who didn't talk much, and Xu An didn't talk too much.

"I hate pink." Xia Fengshu responded to Xu An's clothes matching suggestion.

"I think pink makes you look a little friendlier."

"I don't want to be affectionate."

"That's why I suggest you wear pink. You can continue to be unkind, and others won't find you difficult to approach."

"Strange, why do you want others to approach me?" Xia Fengshu disagreed.

"People are group animals. You don't need to deliberately please anyone, but you also need to communicate and deal with people. Like you have been working in a supermarket for several months, and you don't have a single friend. Are you not alone?"

"Not alone." Xia Fengshu's tone was cold.

But Xu An has a good temper, let alone understands her nature. "The rent is almost due, do you want to renew the rent?"

"I haven't thought about it yet, I'll talk about it after the test." Xia Fengshu was a little distracted, which really hurt Xu An.The joy in her tone was a little less, "Do you have something on your mind?"

Xia Fengshu's eyes slowly moved to Xu An's face, unlike the movie camera looking from bottom to top, but staring deeper and deeper like pouring. "Xu An, how sure are you of the exam?"

"Eighty percent! Effort accounts for [-]%, and the other [-]% is luck. I have a hunch that I can pass." Xu An is very confident.

Xia Fengshu envied her self-confidence, "What about the interview?"

"Well, the human factor is very big, I'm not sure. But as long as you pass the written test, you can even have an explanation to grandma. I don't really mind the rest."

"You don't want to get that job?"

"It's nothing to think about or not. It's all arranged by my family. If I'm asked to do it, I'll do it seriously. They won't blame me if they can't do it."

Xia Fengshu was going crazy with jealousy, how much she wanted someone to arrange her life, it would be nice to just do it and not think about it.Xu An could see her sadness, but she didn't clearly understand why she was there, but she knew that Xia Fengshu had much more troubles and pressure than herself.

"Xia Fengshu, the exam... you are afraid!"

Xia Fengshu glared at her, "Don't eat, you're overspending."

"How can there be such a thing, the treats are not full."

"That's how I treat guests." Xia Fengshu said angrily, but actually paid the bill and left.Xu An angrily walked behind her, trying not to get angry.

After leaving the door, Xia Fengshu walked straight forward, with long and fast steps. Xu An followed for more than 20 meters, and got angry for more than 20 meters. Seeing that she was about to cross the bridge, she took two quick steps to catch up with Xia Fengshu. The tree suddenly turned left and walked along the tree-lined road by the river, Xu An wondered, this is not the direction to go home.Because one side is the river and the other side is the wall, there are few pedestrians on the small street in the early winter at six o'clock, only weeping willows with scattered branches and leaves, the street lights are dim, and occasionally one is broken, and there is darkness for several meters.Seeing Xia Fengshu disappear into the darkness, Xu An didn't care to get angry, and caught up with her, and as soon as he grabbed her arm, he was hugged tightly by her.

In the silence, only the breathing of the other party can be heard.

"Xu An, I miss you."

Xu An froze, "Xia Fengshu, if you attack me like this, you will have a heart attack sooner or later!"

"Don't you miss me? Why don't you hold me?"

Xu An hugged her like a dream, then kissed her from ear to lips.

"You are so bold." Xia Fengshu said such words between the kisses, which was an extremely powerful provocation.

Xu An's hand reached into Xia Fengshu's jacket. Although the sweater was separated, the alluring body and temperature inside made people dizzy. Xia Fengshu smiled coquettishly, "Your hands are too cold, take them out!"

Xu An refused, so Xia Fengshu put his hand into her clothes, so they were immersed in each other's body temperature, "Xia Fengshu, your hands are even cooler."

"You care about me?"

"I blame myself for making your hands so cold." Xu An hugged Xia Fengshu tightly.

Are many people afraid of the dark, and are they also afraid of the tenderness hiding in the dark?

Xu An said that after the exam, he must go to sleep on Xia Fengshu's new mattress. I don't know if this expectation made Xia Fengshu look forward to the exam, and the feeling of hopelessness in the future has also faded, perhaps because of Xu An's influence. The impact may be to reduce the concern for mother.

On the morning of the exam, she got up without the old lady knocking on the door. After dressing up, she made breakfast. The old lady sat in the living room and suddenly said to her, "You go to the vegetable market with me, I want to buy something."

Xia Fengshu was a little surprised. This old lady never went out. When the sun was high, she sat on the balcony to bask in the sun, watering and wiping the leaves of her extremely ugly aloe vera.

"Not today, I have an exam." Xia Fengshu put the noodle soup on the table.

The old lady was obviously angry, and picked up the chopsticks tremblingly, Xia Fengshu felt that the old lady who was nearly eighty years old in front of her was too childish, she lacked more love than herself, at least I had Xu An.Thinking of this, my heart felt warm, and my tone became much softer, "Can I accompany you after the exam? Anyway, the weather is not good these two days, there is not even a sun."

The old lady's expression became more relaxed, "What test?"

"Civil Service Exam."

"What is a civil servant?"

"It's just eating the imperial food." Xia Fengshu explained patiently, and the two talked while eating. Later, the old lady had a smile on her face.After eating the noodles, the old lady took out five yuan from her pocket as usual, Xia Fengshu said: "Don't give me any more money, I will give you back what I gave you before."

"Why don't you think it's too little?" The old lady seemed to be angry.

"No." Xia Fengshu didn't know how to explain it. The old lady insisted on giving it to her, but Xia Fengshu didn't want it. When she pulled, the door opened and it was the landlord. Seeing this scene, she immediately understood.

The landlord pointed at the old lady's nose and started cursing, eating inside and outside, regardless of inside and outside, the old and immortal came out, the old lady didn't turn a deaf ear like before, and scolded her, but she was inferior in terms of physical strength and spirit Too much, coupled with anger, his face became paler and paler.

Xia Fengshu didn't want to get involved at first, but when he saw that the old lady's asthma was about to attack, he stopped the landlord and said, "Stop arguing, she is about to have asthma."

"Get out of here!" The landlord started to scold, and with all his strength with his thick arms, he pushed Xia Fengshu back a few steps, his shoulders also ached.

The old lady began to pant heavily, and the hissing sound in her breathing became louder and louder. Xia Fengshu hurriedly searched for medicine, and the landlord finally stopped talking. After struggling for a few minutes, the old lady was still panting heavily. 120, check the time, it is time to go to the examination room, in case of traffic jam along the way, you will be late.

"I'm going to take an exam, you can take care of her." Xia Fengshu said to the landlord.

"You want to run?" The landlord raised his eight-character eyebrows, "You can't go anywhere." She blocked the door as she said.

"What do you mean? Why am I running? What does this matter have to do with me?"

"Of course it has something to do with you. If you hadn't cheated the old lady of her money, there would be no quarrel. Would she get sick if she didn't quarrel?"

Xia Fengshu was about to speak, but saw the old lady trembling with anger, unable to speak, panting more and more, rolled her eyes and passed out.Xia Fengshu didn't bother to argue, and called 120 again.

The phone rang, and it was Xu An's number. Xia Fengshu knew that it would be too late.But the landlord refused to let her go anyway, Xia Fengshu was in a hurry and yelled that I had to take the civil service exam, so I couldn't delay it.The landlord was unmoved and asked her to keep things as collateral. Xia Fengshu had nothing to mortgage. Without an ID card, she couldn't enter the examination room. Another thing was her graduation certificate.Xia Fengshu turned around and went back to the room, but felt that something was wrong. I don't know how much he would have to pay to get this thing back in the hands of such a rascal woman.

The troubles in front of me are not one, but two. One is not being able to take the exam, and the other is the old lady's illness. If she can't wake up, this matter is really unclear.

Thinking of this, she called 110.

Then she suppressed her panic and called Xu An, "Aren't you here yet? I've already entered the examination room."

"I'll be there soon, you should take a taxi." Xu An didn't hear anything strange, and smiled.

"Well, that's it, I'll contact you after the exam."

"great, good luck!"

Xia Fengshu hung up the phone in a hurry, afraid of showing his feet.

The doctor and the police arrived almost at the same time. The old lady was sent to the hospital. She was investigated by the police in the corridor of the hospital. Regarding the five yuan, she admitted, but the old lady's coma was not caused by her.

After being rescued, the old lady fell into a deep coma, and she didn't know if she would wake up. The landlord insisted that she robbed the old lady of her money.She said that she was looking for Xia Fengshu to talk about renewing the lease, which should be true, because it was impossible for her to visit the old lady, and she saw Xia Fengshu arguing with the old lady when she entered the room.

The policeman said, "Just for five yuan?"

"These outsiders can't do anything."

Xia Fengshu felt tears welling up.

The policeman said: "The reason is a bit far-fetched!"

"How far-fetched? Am I going to hurt my mother-in-law? She is my relative." When the landlord said this, Xia Fengshu felt that it would be too polite to describe her as shameless, and it would be more appropriate to describe her as shameless.

The policeman asked Xia Fengshu again. Xia Fengshu didn't speak, but looked straight at the policeman. The other party was [-] years old, not tall, with good features, but he had a sense of integrity.Her mother has always told her that it depends on the person to do things. The same thing can be done by different people with different results.Xia Fengshu was assessing what kind of person the policeman in front of him was.

The policeman was puzzled by the sight, and his heart skipped a beat, "Ask you!"

Xia Fengshu said: "Today, I'm going to take the civil service exam. Comrade policeman, tell me if I have time to quarrel with the old lady for five yuan."

The policeman nodded his head in thought, "I have to take an exam."

Xia Fengshu took out the admission ticket from his bag, "Every morning, the old lady knocked on my door and asked me to make her breakfast. I helped her do it, and she gave me five yuan to buy ice."

"Admit it, you lied to my mother-in-law!" the landlord interrupted Xia Fengshu.

"I didn't spend any of the money. I wanted to return it to her when I left."

"Who would believe it! Today you must have quarreled with my mother-in-law because you didn't get paid for cooking." The landlord's reaction was rather quick.

Xia Fengshu also knew that logically speaking, there were some loopholes in this matter. Only from an emotional point of view could he be understood seamlessly.

The policeman said, "Come back to the prison with me and talk slowly."

The landlord agreed, and pretended to ask the nurse to take good care of her mother-in-law when she left.

I stayed in the police station for another two hours, and after lunch time, I still didn't make it clear. The landlord insisted that it was Xia Fengshu who caused her mother-in-law to get sick. The purpose was nothing more than to make her lose money. The best witness was the old lady who was in a coma in the hospital.

The investigation came to an end. The police asked Xia Fengshu if she had a guarantor. Xia Fengshu was very sad. She felt that she had been discriminated against. The stubbornness in her bones could no longer be suppressed. She said coldly, "No."

"The procedure is like this, otherwise you will have to pay a deposit of 3000 yuan." The tone of the policeman was very peaceful.

The landlord said from the side: "No, three thousand is not enough."

"Please keep quiet, I'm following the rules," the policeman said.

Xia Fengshu said: "I have no money."

The landlord said contemptuously: "Of course I don't have any money, and if I have money, I wouldn't lie to the old woman."

The policeman said, "This is going to be difficult, why don't you keep your ID card."

Xia Fengshu didn't say a word, she was a law student, and there was nothing wrong with the police's actions, but she couldn't balance her mind no matter what.

Seeing this, the police said to the landlord: "Go back to the hospital to take care of the elderly, we will deal with the matter here."

The landlord insisted, "At least 20 yuan must be deposited. Don't let her deposit her ID card. It only costs [-] yuan to get an ID card."

The policeman frowned, "Sister, we have opened a case to investigate this matter, so don't point fingers and trust the people's police."

The landlord immediately said: "I believe, I believe, I just don't trust these foreigners."

The policeman waved his hand, and the landlord left. He looked at Xia Fengshu, "It will take a process to handle the matter, I hope you can cooperate."

Xia Fengshu gritted his teeth angrily.

The policeman said, "Did you go to college here?"

Xia Fengshu didn't say a word.

"Let's go to work. It's okay to ask colleagues or leaders to come over."

Xia Fengshu still did not speak.

"Classmates, friends...it's not a big deal, anyone will help with this."

Xia Fengshu didn't appreciate it.

The policeman was also a little impatient, "You pretty girls are like this, let me tell you, this is not playing with your boyfriend, this is justice."

Xia Fengshu sneered, judiciary, after studying law for four years, she became unfamiliar with this thing. It turned out that what she read in the book and what happened to her were completely different things.

She sat without eating or drinking.

It wasn't until Xu An finished the exam and called her that she held back her tears and said, "Xu An, where are you?"