Trivial Skin of Rebirth

Xiang Qingyun asked Ye Jiawen strangely: "Baby, what is this?"

Ye Jiawen sat up rubbing his eyes, glanced at Xiang Qingyun's hand, and immediately opened his half-closed eyes.He was silent for a while, shrugged pretending to be relaxed: "Forget it, don't care what it is, just throw it away."

Xiang Qingyun lowered his head and looked again, and read the above words: "Xiang Qingyun will go to Lingyun Vegetable Market to buy vegetables after get off work every afternoon... Ye Jiawen will go to the tobacco shop on Tianshui Street to buy cigarettes..." A sudden awakening Dazed, pinching the note, his expression changed a few times.

Ye Jiawen carefully observed his expression, and said slowly: "Those people just want money, and if you pay back the money, you'll be fine, so give me this piece of paper. It's all right now, and everyone will go back Forget it, forget it."

"This is really..." Xiang Qingyun frowned tightly, his mouth was flattened, with a tangled expression of wanting to say something but not knowing what to say.In the end, he just shook his head, ran to the trash can, tore up the paper full of messages and threw it away without saying anything.

Ye Jiawen had expected that Xiang Qingyun would not pursue it, he was just like this, he would swallow any unkindness of others, and he would swallow a fly without making a sound.This matter is far from touching his bottom line, so he won't say anything or do anything, but at least he will feel the shock in his heart, and that's enough.Take your time, this kind of thing can't be rushed.However, it was a pity to see him tearing up the paper. If he kept it in his hand, he would be really prosperous in the future, and Xiang Qingtian and his wife would be able to take this piece of paper back when they came to meet people again.

When Ye Jiawen got up and came to the balcony, he found that Xiang Qingyun had already dried all the laundry and was sitting on a small bench on the balcony smoking a cigarette.Walking over to see, there were already three cigarette butts in the ashtray on his lap.Ye Jiawen put his hand on his shoulder, Xiang Qingyun didn't look back at him, put his left hand on his hand, and rubbed it back and forth.Ye Jiawen said: "Stop smoking, smoke less, two cigarettes a day is enough."

Xiang Qingyun responded, took another deep breath, and then choked out the cigarette.

In two days, their Malatang shop opened.

On the first day of opening, Lu Qing sent two flower baskets, which said congratulations on the opening and wishing a prosperous business.This flower basket made Ye Jiawen feel a little embarrassed. His store is only about a dozen square meters in size, and there are enough tables for two or three tables. This kind of small business, sending a flower basket seems very grand; One, their storefront is small, and the small door of the storefront is also narrow. There are two big flower baskets at the doorway, which block the road, and no customers can come in. If you put it on the side, the road is very densely opened, and my door passes by. Two steps is the door of his house, if you don't block yourself, you will block others; if you move forward, the road is also narrow, blocking the way of straight passers-by.The intention is good intentions, but it seems like a sledgehammer is used to kill chickens, which is not suitable.

So the two big flower baskets were placed at the door for half an hour before they were transported back by Xiang Qingyun on a tricycle. In the evening, Lu Qing brought a group of friends to visit. Seeing that the door was empty, he was taken aback for a while, but soon realized that it was What's going on, I feel embarrassed instead.Ye Jiawen treated them to a pint of beer, which resolved the embarrassment. A group of people were chatting and laughing, and Ye Jiawen also made an agreement with Lu Qing that Xiang Qingyun would go to his company in the next year.A few days ago, Xiang Qingyun also approached Lu Qing's team. From the national policy to the economic system, they had a very happy conversation. Xiang Qingyun agreed with Ye Jiawen's words that they would have great development in the future, and decided to leave after receiving the year-end bonus. Resign with the unit.

In the first few days of Jiayun Chuanchuanxiang's opening, the business is very hot, and the queues have blocked the doors of several nearby stores.Because Ye Jiawen and the others advertised to every customer who came before they opened. They also wrote the new store address and opening date on large paper on the mobile Mala Tang car, and printed a lot of leaflets to the students in the school. The door of our dormitory and the pockets of our bicycles, so everyone knows about the opening of the new store, and the old customers also came to the store to cheer.However, the fire did not catch on for two or three days, and the business was getting worse every day. After the middle of January, the number of people who came to eat Malatang dropped sharply, and the regular customers stopped seeing each other.

Because the school is on winter vacation, the students have all gone home.Most of the rest who come to take care of the business are the residents around the school.

It's almost New Year's Eve.

On the 16th of the first month of the lunar calendar, which was the night of Laba that year, Ye Jiawen called back to City H.During this period of time, he came according to his own plan. Every Saturday night before leaving the stall, he would call back to report that he was safe, ask his father how he was doing, and talk to him.It made his father get used to it, instead of going out on Saturday night, he just waited for his call at home.Laba is on Thursday, so Ye Jiawen called this week in advance, but unfortunately no one answered.In the evening, Ye Jiawen and Xiang Qingyun went to visit the store, but it closed at 09:30, and went home to celebrate the festival.

I bought mung beans, cowpeas, red beans, jujubes and peanuts from Qingyun, and cooked a pot of Laba porridge myself.Ye Jiawen likes sweets, so the porridge he cooks is very sweet, cooked with brown sugar, it nourishes blood and is delicious.The two of them ate half of the pot for supper, and there was still half of the pot left, planning to save it for breakfast tomorrow morning.

Because they need to save money, they don’t even buy a TV set at home. The Internet is not so popular these days, so their life is very monotonous. Apart from a tape recorder with radio function, the electrical appliances that can be used for entertainment at home are barely a telephone. machine.After eating supper and listening to the news broadcast, Xiang Qingyun planned to take Ye Jiawen to bed and start a physical entertainment activity.

However, they had just rolled onto the bed and hadn't even finished taking off their clothes when the phone rang suddenly. Ye Jiawen poked his head out from under Xiang Qingyun's body, squeezed his hands out of the crack, stretched out his hands, and picked them up. phone.

The call was from Gu Shangxue.Ye Jiawen was a little surprised when he answered the call.Gu Shangxue's stepbrother is just like his stepmother, he is a good person and treats Ye Jiawen well, but no matter how good he is, he is still a stepbrother, they are not close enough to each other emotionally.When Ye Jiawen called his father, several times it was answered by Gu Shangxue. Gu Shangxue always asked "Are you doing well?" and then transferred the call to his father. It was the first time he called to express condolences. .

Gu Shangxue said: "Jiawen, today is Laba, happy holiday."

"Hmmmmm, happy holidays." Ye Jiawen didn't usually address him, because he didn't know what to call him, and it felt strange to call him elder brother. He was an elder at his age, and it was difficult to call him by his first name. "I called at six o'clock, but no one answered, did you go out?"

Gu Shangxue said that because it was Laba, the family went out for dinner and did not answer the phone.Now that my father has fallen asleep, he made a phone call to ask about the situation.

The two brothers talked for a while without saying a word, and Gu Shangxue suddenly said: "Jiawen, are you coming back this year for the Chinese New Year? You haven't been back for two or three years. Dad said he missed you at dinner tonight. Come back, let's celebrate the New Year together as a family."

Ye Jiawen was a little dazed after hearing this.In the past two years, because he graduated from university and was busy writing a thesis and looking for a job, nothing was stable, so he and Xiang Qingyun didn't go back to their hometown, and spent the new year together in S City.The young couple listened to the radio and set off firecrackers, but they also enjoyed themselves.In his previous life, he and Xiang Qingyun seldom spent the New Year together. Usually, Xiang Qingyun took Xiang Xiaolong back to the countryside, and Ye Jiawen went to H City, because after all, they are not husband and wife, so it is not good to go to my house this year and next year Go to your house like this, so they have to separate every Chinese New Year, and then listen to those aunts and aunts who don’t know how they are old and not married year after year, making the Chinese New Year like a punishment.

After Ye Jiawen hung up the phone, he lay on the bed staring blankly at the ceiling, thinking about something.Xiang Qingyun put his hand into his clothes to feel around, but Ye Jiawen suddenly grabbed his hand and said without thinking: "Qingyun, will you go to City H with me to celebrate the New Year this year?"