Eros kisses Psyche

"Old Cheng, I just bought the fish, it's fresh, try my skill..."

"Professor Cheng, I made this box of steamed cakes myself. Lele likes to eat them! Take them back for him..."

"Mr. Cheng, is it difficult for you to take the A University exam? My daughter is a sophomore this year..."

Cheng Zhu's meritorious service in "water control" made him the most popular person in the public kitchen. Money was not popular in public kitchens, but barter and food were popular. He was almost full just sitting there.

The one who hates him the most in the kitchen is Xiao Xu, who is banging the spatula loudly at this moment, shaking the spoon like a chef, pushing Cheng Zhu from east to west, and then back to east. "Don't hang around here, it's in the way."

"Why am I in the way? Look at how beautiful I shred this potato." Cheng Zhu also twisted up a potato to admire. The width was just right, and it would be impenetrable, which seemed inferior to a potato.

Xu Budie couldn't refute this.Cheng Zhu's fingers are long and slender, but his nails are rough due to work.He eats with these hands. If you give him a radish on the spot, he can carve it into a flower for you. A bowl of garlic is peeled like white jade beads. It’s fast and good. He simply took care of the garlic in the whole kitchen without delaying him. Chat and joke.

Xiao Xu held his mouth shut and lowered his head not to look at him: "What are you doing here?"

"Come to help you."

"You go to accompany Lele, how can he do it alone?"

"It's okay, I'm looking at the location on my phone. He's an older child, sensible. Besides, there are so many old people... as long as you give him food, he can't run away."

"Have you finished your manuscript?"

"I actually encountered a bottleneck, come out to change my mind..." He looked at the dense sweat on Xiao Xu's forehead, and reached out to grab his spatula, "Look, I'll fry one, you see, Teacher Xu gave pointers to see if I can do it."

Of course Xu Budie refused, the two of them squeezed together from shoulder to elbow.It was nothing at first, but Cheng Zhu accidentally held his hand while snatching the spatula, and the two of them suddenly stopped as if all their actions were stuck; however, there was no romance derived, the stalemate lasted only a few seconds, Xu Budie suddenly As if getting an electric shock, he let go of his hand, and took two steps back to get out of the way.

Cheng Zhu was also stunned, he didn't turn his head around for a while, and then let go of his handle, and the shovel fell into the pot with a clatter, only the sound of oil sizzling and bubbling was heard.

"Sorry, I'm not..."

"It's none of your business, I just remembered it all of a sudden," Xiao Xu was stunned, and then he regained his composure. He avoided his gaze with some embarrassment, squatted down and picked up the divided lunch boxes piled up on the shelf next to him, and frantically picked them up. A lot of them came out, "I'll pack the rice bowls and send them to them. If you want to stir fry, you can do it. I just packed these..." He moved too fast, only heard that it took a long time The shelf on the floor slammed, and the plastic pipe, which was already brittle from the oil smoke, was torn to one side, and all the pots and pans on it fell down.

"Hey, be careful!"

Cheng Zhu also didn't care about the food, and quickly reached out to hold the upper half, but the pots, bowls, lunch boxes and so on in the lower half were scattered all over the ground. Well, half of the shelf was broken, it was used for a long time, and it seemed to be the end of its life.

What are these things called?Cheng Zhu didn't dare to pull him, so he and he could only fight to clean up the mess on the ground in silence, the two of them didn't know what to say for a while.Until someone shouted behind him: "It's burnt! The pot is burnt!!"

Cheng Zhu frantically shoveled up the black lumps in the pot, and then rinsed the pot again. When he turned his head, he ran away again.

Xu Budie ran halfway, only to remember why he came here, he didn't bring all the food he wanted to bring, so he ran out empty-handed.The past few days have been muddle-headed, but after being disturbed by Cheng Zhu just now, he didn't even know where his brain was going, and only the heat in his heart was blowing upwards.He had no choice but to bite the bullet and turn his head back, walking procrastinatingly, and finally arrived without seeing anyone. He heard from Aunt Zhang, who was cooking, that Mr. Cheng had already packed the lunch boxes, and asked which area the others were for. The bed ones were sent one by one.

"What the hell is he here for today..." Xu Budie was speechless, and he didn't even think about what I should do; he thought that he likes to stay in the hospital, so just stay there; wait for the excitement After the child is over, the life experience is over, and he will leave naturally, can he still stay here for a whole day?

In the afternoon, there were two delivery jobs, both of which were heavy physical work. Brother Yang, who took over the job, had a waist flicker, and several heavy jobs for moving buildings were all done slowly.Originally, everyone saw him as young and let him go intentionally or unintentionally, but today he insisted on stepping up. "It's okay, I can do it. I've been working with you, Brother Yang, for so long... I can do it." The refrigerator weighing more than 100 kilograms, relying on two leashes for the upper body, with no calluses on the shoulders, immediately sank into the flesh.

"Is it okay? Will it work?"

"It's okay, it's better to be heavier."

It is better to be heavier, full of pressure, rough grinding, and full of pain, so that a person can believe in himself, believe that this body still belongs to him, and he can control it and bear it.Just stepping out like this, I always feel that there are many marks under my feet, but when I turn my head to look at the ground, it is still empty, and nothing is left.

For the old-fashioned room, you can only get 10 yuan if you climb the fifth floor and go back and forth.This is standard hard money, but after doing it, I sweat profusely, and it is indescribably refreshing.Everyone also praised him, he climbed the stairs neatly, he was full of energy, young is good.Brother Yang gave him a cigarette, Xu Budie thought about it, and stuck it to his ear in a similar manner, and said courteously: "Brother Yang, look, I can do it. Call me next time you have work."

"What do you want to do! Are you crushed like me?" Brother Yang slapped his head sullenly, "Didn't you go to university? It doesn't mean that you can do this job, so you have to do it. You If you earn money and solve the problem, you still have to go back to study, you know? If your brain is good, then use your brain more and less your body. The brain is not broken, you can use your brain to make money, who wants to make money with your body?"

He nodded his head: "Look, brother Yang and I are working so hard now. Although my brain is not good, it is still for my son to study. He will not be able to follow my old path in the future. But he is not very good, and he is only in elementary school. , I learned it in a mess. But I also want him to learn in a mess. If I can learn a little, I can learn a little, so that the road in the future will be broad and there will be more than one choice."

"But... I have no other choice."

"You really haven't? Have you tried everything? I mean, desperately, even shamelessly. Just like me, in order to send my son to school, I went to the principal's house to stay at the school principal's house. They didn't When I receive presents, I will serve them tea and water, wash the toilet, and do everything, as long as my son can go to school. If it doesn’t reach that level, it’s not like there is no other choice.” Brother Yang chewed the cigarette in the corner of his mouth, Probe and glanced at his back, the two deep strangle marks leaked blood from the folds of his clothes, he rolled up Xiao Xu's sleeve on one side, and sure enough, he saw that under one side of the muscle, due to excessive force, it was densely packed. With a bleeding spot.He sighed: "You are like this, I just think you are playing childish. Just like my son, when I say he is stupid, and I say that his family is difficult, you have to study hard when you go to school. With so much tuition fees, you are going to beat him , He got angry with me, stopped eating, said not to waste the family’s food, and let him starve to death. In the end, his mother still felt sorry for his son, and wished to feed him mouth to mouth, and there was no educational significance.”

On the way back, Xu Budie was thinking about this question all the way.Am I being mad?I don't want social assistance, I don't sell my father's collection, I don't ask for pensions from my parents' unit, I don't even want aid and help from the school, am I being angry?I thought I was protecting the little bit of self-esteem that was left, preserving the little bit of reputation that was left for him, and burying the little unknown truth, but in fact, I was just being angry because he lied to me... just like that without saying a word Abandon everything, leave me, and make my mother like this?

He thought so much that he tied himself up, and suddenly felt particularly wronged for a moment, and even envied Brother Yang's stupid son-I said in anger that I would not eat, and in anger that I would not go to school, but no one begged me, answered me, Follow me, confess to me...

Xu Budie suddenly wanted to see her mother urgently, she shouldn't have left her there alone, if I told her that I would not be angry with her anymore, would she wake up?He rode the e-donkey so fast that his body was soaked by the cold wind, and his bones felt cold; when he arrived at the hospital, he climbed up to the 15th floor in one breath, sweating profusely, and the heat was outside, and only the sweat dripped down his neck. But it doesn't warm my heart.

He almost trotted all the way to the bed in the ward, but he didn't hear acquaintances and nurses greeting him.The curtain in front of the hospital bed was drawn, but when he got close to him, he stopped and didn't dare to open it.Early on, he had tried all his prayers too, drawing the curtains every day, hoping that it was all just a nightmare, that with that soft swish, his mother would wake up, say hello to him, or even Just a smile... However, after day after day without change, and after disappointment after disappointment, he no longer dared to hold any hope.

At the moment of hesitation, the clear "shua" sounded again, and the curtain was pulled open in front of his eyes.

Cheng Zhu didn't expect him to stand outside the curtain, but when his eyes met, he was taken aback, and then laughed again: "Are you back?"

Lele was lying on a corner of the hospital bed, holding a piece of paper and colored pencils and drawing shapes of various colors on a piece of colored paper.Cheng Zhu held a bunch of wind chimes in his hand, and seemed to be planning to hang them on the curtain.When he stood up tall, the thing made a slight knock, only to realize that it was all made of paper, folded extremely delicately, and it didn't make any sound, which disturbed the patients and their families.

The nurse came over to change the dressing, but she was more fussed than Xiao Xu, and said pleasantly, "Teacher Cheng finished it so quickly?"

"Ah." He explained to Xiao Xu, "Help Lele with her homework, and I did it easily." Cheng Zhu tied the rope to the curtain rail, and then jumped down briskly.The movement stirs up the airflow, and it rotates slightly, which is really beautiful.

Mother still lay there, looking soundly asleep.