far and near

There was an important performance on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in Maosheng. Wang Li said that it was not for making money, but for saving face and even more of a task.There are retired veteran cadres and old theater fans in the audience. Several roll calls want to see you, so don't ask me for leave.

As a master, she knew that Uo was not interested in the play. In the past few years, Wang Li, who had almost let go and stopped interfering with the child, still pushed her to walk on the stage, and repeatedly reminded that this play should not go wrong.Usheng agreed, saying that he would definitely sing well.As soon as I get off work, I put oil on the soles of my feet and run fast, buy things for Yinxiu to decorate the room, call the judicial office to confirm the process of Yinxiu's return, stare at Yin Xiaochang and call the prison to confirm the exact time when Yinxiu will come out ...

Yin Xiaoxiao, who was in the top class of the kindergarten, found that she was neglected by Uosheng. In the middle of the night, she sat on the head of the bed and built building blocks. Is there anything I missed.Xiaoxiao stood up and knocked down the building block, Usheng was too focused and didn't look back, the kid jumped behind her, put his fleshy arms on Usheng's shoulders and acted coquettishly.

"Xiao Xiao, what's the matter?" Uosheng turned his head and saw Xiao Xiao's unhappy face.The little guy has lived a regular life with Uno, how can he still look thin and weak a few years ago?His face was white and tender, and his height was also much taller. His jet-black hair was tied into two small braids by Usei.

The little braid swept over Uno's side face, and she hugged the child into her arms, "Oh, yes, I haven't had milk before going to bed."

Xiao Xiaoxiao doesn't drink, but hugs her sister.

"That won't work, how can you grow tall if you don't drink milk?" Uosheng always remembers Yu Ren's developmental lessons, "Your elder sister Yu Ren doesn't like to drink milk and soy milk, so she doesn't grow tall." I took a carton of milk from the refrigerator, poured it into a small bowl and waited for the microwave to heat it up.At this time, Yin Xiaochan also walked out of the room. The makeup on her face was not washed, and her face was still healthy. "You still rent this house when Yin Xiu is back?"

Uosheng said rent, but Yinxiu will not come back to live, right?She and Zhao Lan mentioned the matter of taking back their old house and no longer renting it. Zhao Lan snorted, "All right." This house was used as a foothold for herself and Yinxiu in Baizhou.Yinxiu has been in for a few years, and there is no guarantee that the creditors of some companies have not forgotten her. If the debt collection goes to Baizhou, it will affect her life. Usheng has taken all these into consideration.

"What's the relationship between you and Yinxiu?" Yin Xiaochang heard the sound of the microwave oven, and took out the milk to drink by herself.

"That's children's milk. The one you drink is in the second fresh-keeping layer of the refrigerator." Maosheng said, and she helped Yin Xiaochang take out a box, and exchanged a small bowl for Yin Xiaoxiao, "Come on, Xiaoxiao finishes drinking Go brush your teeth again."

When it comes to bringing up children, Yin Xiaochang feels that Uo, who has never given birth, is far better than her, who has given birth to a second child.This soft-tempered girl knows what's cold and what's hot. In addition to paying her rent in the past few years, the money spent on Xiaoxiao is incalculable: she buys all kinds of clothes and shoes. Dragonfly and Little Butterfly clamored for the wings, and Uosu not only bought the dragonfly and butterfly, but also bought all the dinosaur and panda costumes for her.Now the closet is basically full of small clothes.She also pays special attention to nutritional balance when eating. Except for a little blandness, her cooking tastes okay.She raised Xiao Xiao to look like a water spirit, and even Yin Xiaochang looked good.

Yin Xiaochang was worried that one day Bai Maosheng would ask her for money with a gun, and she had already thought about the reasons for refusing, "You are willing to buy it yourself, and I didn't force you." But Bai Maosheng never asked for it once.

She doesn't want money, but still spends money, and she misses Yin Xiu in prison even more.Knowing that Yinxiu didn't want to see Yin Xiaochang, she sent things to Yinxiu every now and then, and the letters were frequent.Yin Xiaochang helped to collect a few of them, but Uosheng snatched them just as she was about to open them, "This is the right of personal privacy, don't you understand?"

It wasn't for debt collection, otherwise Yinxiu wouldn't have been back and forth with her for the past few years.Therefore, what is the relationship between Bai Maosheng and Yin Xiu is a question that Yin Xiaochang loves to ponder.

"When did you recognize Yin Xiu?" Yin Xiaochang once asked Uosheng.

"Junior high school." Uosheng said.I won't disclose anything else.

Yinxiu seems to have met the little sisters when she was in vocational high school, and Yin Xiaochang guessed that Maosheng was one of them.No matter how strong the little sister's relationship is, she can't do what she does, right?

Yin Xiaochang drank the iced milk as soon as she opened it, and Uosheng said that it should be warmed up, and it is still winter.

She is such a mother-in-law who is gentle, gentle and guarded. It seems that she will never quarrel with others. Even Yin Xiaochang's problem of swearing was cured at home, and she would only swear when she went out to play mahjong.

"What's the relationship between you two? How much does Yinxiu owe you?" Yin Xiaochang asked while sucking on her milk.

"Speaking of debts, let me count her as the creditor." Uosheng still said the same thing, but she smiled unconsciously, and when she mentioned Yinxiu, she felt warm in her heart.Xiaoxiao drank until there were white milk stains on her lips, and Uosheng said let's brush our teeth.

The child just stepped on the small bench and brushed his teeth with Uo. The elder and the younger nodded their heads while brushing, and sang the teeth-brushing song taught in the kindergarten indistinctly.Finally, after washing their faces, Usheng and Xiaoxiao went back to the big bedroom to sleep. They saw Yin Xiaochang sitting in the small living room with milk in a daze. She said that I would go out to pick up Yinxiu on the [-]th night of the first lunar month the day after tomorrow. Small?

"Okay, the old rules, 100 yuan." Yin Xiaochang, who has no source of income, reached out and regarded her own daughter as a source of extra money.

Uno frowned, both mother and daughter have this virtue.She shook her head, thinking that it was not true, Yinxiu was much more decent than her mother.It's like loving money.

Yin Xiaochang watched the people who looked more like mother and daughter go back to the bedroom, and the words she was about to ask were cut off by the soft closing of the door—"When Yinxiu comes back, are you going to move out?" She herself couldn't explain the relationship with Bai Maosheng On the surface, the relationship is between the landlord and the tenant. In fact, she is getting used to each other's existence, and even lives dependent on her.She might also want to talk to Bai Maosheng about something else, and even said that she has made another boyfriend.But Bai Maosheng was not interested in this, and just reminded her not to get pregnant, "Didn't the doctor tell you? Your disease is not suitable for another child."

Yin Xiaochang drank the iced milk, threw the box into the trash can and then stretched. She was really sick, and Bai Maosheng's illness was even worse.

In order to meet Yinxiu, Mao Sheng also went to Su Hai’s barber shop to tidy himself up, and Glory, who was promoted to deputy director, pinched his teeth scissors in his hand, "Sister Bai, you can control your face with any hairstyle. The hair quality is good. Do you want to change it?"

Uosheng said no change, it was still the original.Her hairstyle was still the same as before Yin Xiu entered.

"Haha, no wonder your fans nicknamed you 'Tubai' in your super chat." Su Hai personally washed Uosheng's hair while talking to her about the news he read online, "Hey, it feels good to wash a star's hair. "Su Hai said.

I'm not a star, I'm an opera actor.Uno said that she glanced at the messy things on the Internet and felt a headache.There are also fans who go to Bai Yue to block her car to give gifts, and the next day their license plates are posted online, "There are also people who say that I gave birth to a girl out of wedlock."

Isn't that right?Whoever told you to take Xiao Xiao with you.Sister Bai, you don't even fall in love, do you?Su Hai said that he couldn't figure out that you young people would not talk about it unless you died, like Sister Yu Ren, like you.Otherwise, as soon as you fall in love, you will dive into the deep well and not look up.

"Who is it?" Maosheng asked, "You? Xiao Liu?" She didn't expect it to be Huai Fengnian.

"Heh, I won't tell anyone." Su Hai rolled her eyes. Her attitude towards Huai Fengnian, who didn't show her face from the second day to the fifth day of the new year and only showed up on the sixth day of the new year, with black eye circles, was cool down.Fengnian personally came to the barber shop to compensate Su Hai for sending pigeons, Su Hai asked what are you doing these days?Do you want to be so mysterious when you fall in love?Huai Fengnian is not mysterious, but there is something wrong.Su Hai said bah, it was just about having dark circles under his eyes, Feng Nian just smirked.

"Sister Bai, it stands to reason that you are famous now, so you don't have money?" Su Hai reminded Maosheng, "Someone in your super chat posted all the clothes you wear repeatedly, saying that Tubai is so pitiful and poor. It feels like these are the only clothes I wear around, and I want to crowdfund to buy you famous brands.”

Uosheng laughed tremblingly, "In our industry, we can't eat enough to eat and starve to death, and a month's salary is not enough for a famous brand. When we are on stage, we can sing well, and when we are off stage, is there anything wrong with what to wear?" Her salary is not enough. High, the rank subsidy is not as high as Wang Li, nor is it as high as Fengxiang.Raising a car, renting a house and taking care of children alone, it will be even more difficult if you don’t have the previous savings, and you still need to buy famous brands?Uno didn't even dare to think about it.

Usheng only thinks about Yinxiu, she describes the appearance of her sweetheart over and over again in her mind, and can recite the words in Yinxiu's letter over and over again, thinking about it, Usheng is drowsy under the hair-washing technique of Glory Suddenly, someone patted her shoulder, she opened her eyes, and saw Feng Nian who was pushing his glasses with a slightly unnatural expression.

"That—" There are still a few days before school starts in Fengnian, she looks at Su Hai, the eldest girl turns her head away from her, so she can only look at Uo, "Well, it's the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, right? What time is it?"

"Ten o'clock in the morning." Uno quickly realized, "I can go by myself, and it is convenient to drive." He added, "I will leave tomorrow night, and the morning after tomorrow will not be delayed."

Fengnian scratched his hair, "Well, I, I will go too."

Uno opened his eyes wide, "It's inconvenient."

Why is it inconvenient? Miss Xiaoying said in her letter that I was welcome to go.Fengnian said yes, you go to yours and I go to mine.I also prepared new clothes and shoes for Miss Xiaoying, and I also took her to eat Hangzhou cuisine.

"Please worry about it." Uosheng said that she had already prepared these things, but because of Su Hai's presence, she was embarrassed to ask directly, "Why is your face so big in Huaifengnian? It's my girlfriend, what are you worrying about?"

"Although I...Although I am Miss Xiaoying's good friend, I haven't seen her for a few years, why shouldn't she? I will return to Beijing after school starts in a few days, and it will take another few months." Fengnian and Sister Song confessed About Miss Xiaoying, he even said that he would pick her up.Sister Song didn't mind, "It's okay, Fengnian, I'm not the kind of little girl who checks the post. You have your own circle and life, I completely understand."

Fengnian finally saw that Uosheng remained silent, and said that I just came to talk to you, don't think I have bad intentions.

Why do you want to be so bad?Glory turned around to look at Fengnian, her gaze met her for the first time today, "Huh?" What are you talking about, what kind of shoes, clothes, hangbang dishes, whether Miss Xiaoying is going to see her?What travel are you two mumbling about?Without Xiao Liu and me?Without sister Yu Ren?

Fengnian and Usheng coughed at the same time, and finally Usheng made a rescue, "It's not a trip, it's just to meet a friend."

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month of Maosheng, the angel showed all her abilities and sang very well. After the house was full of applause, she was encouraged by the handshakes of the veteran cadres and asked her to make more contributions to the literary and artistic career of Baizhou.Uno looked at Fengxiang with a smile, and then at the master, all with a modest and cautious expression, she also focused, and said that she would definitely live up to your expectations.

Contributing to literature and art is not in a hurry for a day, she is very anxious, she can't wait to rush into the car and go straight to the highway, and tomorrow she will rush to put Yin Xiu in the car before Huai Fengnian.

At 08:30 in the evening, Maosheng, who had removed his make-up and changed his clothes, was able to get on the bus. Before reaching the expressway, Yao Mozi flew over from Yin Xiaochang, and she said that she had vomited green juice.What about Xiao Xiao?

"She's fine. I didn't give her iced food. There must be something wrong with the milk you bought. I felt unwell after drinking it a few days ago. Today, I just got vomiting and diarrhea. Please send me to the emergency department of the hospital quickly." Chang is weak, not like pretending.

Uno said no, I'm going to get on the highway.

After driving for a few minutes, she was still worried, turned the car around and went home, and she saw Yin Xiaochang curled up on the bed with her hands on her stomach, crying with tears all over her face, and she only made a sound when she saw Usheng, "Sister, wow, mom dying."

You are going to die.Yin Xiaochang opened her eyes with an extremely painful expression on her face.

Uosheng took the younger one and helped the older one into the car, and went to the nearest hospital for emergency treatment.Yin Xiaochang had an IV drip, and Yin Xiaoxiao fell asleep in her arms.Two hours later, Yin Xiaochang came back to life. It was agreed that you can go to Hangzhou to pick up the person tomorrow morning, before there is time.

too late.Uosu made a bitter face and said that I would take a nap and send you back to Hangzhou after you finished the second bottle.

"What's the relationship between you?" Yin Xiaochang really didn't believe any creditors and sisters said, the surname is Bai, you don't know—you like Yinxiu, right?Yin Xiaochang would never have thought of this when she was dead, but yesterday she heard the mahjong player say that the neighbors of the seven aunts and eight aunts' nieces are almost [-] and are not married, and they live with their girlfriends, so she thought of Uo's intentions.

Uosheng averted his eyes, neither answering nor denying.

Yin Xiaochang counted the drops in the tube, one drop, two drops...it was only after seventeen or eight drops that she came back to her senses, "Male Gobi." She scolded.

"Don't swear." Uzumaki said in a low voice.With her hand on Xiaoxiao's face, she was suddenly startled, "Oops, Xiaoxiao has a fever." No wonder the child's face turned red from sleeping after crying. Toss together, can you not get sick?

Usheng was so anxious that he went to the pediatric emergency department again, and Yin Xiaochang was left alone, "Hey——" Yin Xiaochang called Usheng, and finally pulled out his needle to catch up...

Yinxiu was transferred from her original prison area ten days before her release, and she was not required to participate in garment-making labor.The prison guards said that this is the program, which allows you to change the environment and get used to the psychology in advance, so that it will be easier to connect with the outside world when you go out.

The inmates congratulated her long ago, and gave her all kinds of suggestions. Some people said that Xiaoyin should not eat the prison food on the day you leave, otherwise you will not be able to stay in prison, or you may come back in the future.

Some inmates said to ask your family members to send you new clothes in advance, and to go out wearing new clothes inside and out.This Maosheng has already done it.

Some people say that firecrackers are set off across the brazier to send off the God of Plague before entering the door. You are so young and pretty. Don’t come in anymore. Go home and live a good life with your boyfriend.

Everyone was chattering, but Yinxiu just listened. In the past few years, she was used to silence, and her heart was much more stable and fragile than when the accident happened.Not to mention connecting with the outside, it is not easy to connect with yourself inside the high wall——Yinxiu has not looked in the mirror for several years, and she can only see a strange and deformed piece of paper in the black head of the sewing machine. Face, that person is her, nor is it.

An old inmate who entered the palace for the second time and was sentenced to another ten years, and had five years to go out, said that he had to do two things when he came in: forget others and forget himself.Only in this way can we live more comfortably.If you forget about others, you will not have some unrealistic hopes, if you forget about yourself, you can accept the current state, and you can pretend not to see all the embarrassing things.Only such people can eat and get used to the food inside, and be able to do the boring work day after day.

After more than ten days of adaptation time, Yinxiu's mind was repeatedly replaying the past people and events, as well as warnings from inmates with good or bad intentions.Yinxiu never questioned the creed of the old inmate. She just kept it in her heart and silently referred to it. She didn't have a mirror to look at her face, but more often she used a mirror to look at her heart.

Yinxiu has never forgotten the things outside, she thinks about all the ups and downs.During the routine ideological education, the trainer asked her if she regretted it?Have you realized your mistakes?Yin Xiudu said quietly that she regretted it, she reflected, she blamed herself.Countless female instructors looked at the girl's eyes for a long time, and finally shook their heads slightly, saying you should go back.

Do you regret it?Yinxiu looked at the sky outside a small window in the single confinement room, and she regretted every time she thought of the freedom outside.I regretted it especially when I thought about Uo so hard.If she is not greedy for the conditions of Zhu Chunsheng's couple, and does not dream of the production line with an annual output value of 7000 to [-] million, she will honestly open those online stores, live in her own house and live a life with Uosheng .If the business goes well, the few years in prison are enough to earn one or two houses.

When she secretly looked in the mirror in her heart, the criteria for reference were reduced to two: how much money she made, and the warmth of being with Uno.

The simple and dogmatic life full of precepts also brought her heart back to the year when she was 17 and lived in an urban village.Really, when Yinxiu was 17 years old, she didn't dare to think that she had seven-figure assets and got an unborn child.

However, after holding these basics in her hands, she took the risk. She still remembered the cry of Usheng: Your bottom line is money, and you can sell anything for money.

Why still make money, why can't she stop making money?Why did she think about keeping her own money as much as possible when she knew something might happen? For more than 1000 days, Yinxiu didn't think about these problems for a single day. Every time she wanted to write to Uo and explain to herself, she changed her pen and wrote something else.Even Uno seems to have accepted this kind of self. When she writes, she will joke about money, "Yinxiu, I am waiting for you to come back with three big treasure boxes."

Yin Xiu only knew that she really couldn't stop.She is afraid that everything will disappear, and new money piles up old money, and only by piling up day by day will it give her a sense of security.There is nothing wrong with being greedy, what is wrong is that the means she used were illegal.But in the prison, where there is not so much money to spend, multimillionaires and illiterate mountain village women have to work, sleep in a room with more than a dozen people, lie on a bed [-] cm wide, and talk about their families and children sobbing... money There is always a limit to what can be covered.

Thinking of the three suites in Ningbo, Yin Xiucai was a little relieved, after all, she had something to rely on when she went out.But she never told Usheng, she felt more and more that Usheng was her reliance.Uno gave her a more sense of security, she could only fall asleep when she saw the words written by Uno, she would smile when she thought about Uno's face, and she would feel that life would go faster when she thought about cooking and doing laundry for him... , Uno knew that she loved money, and he didn't dislike going to jail.Usheng's waiting is Yin Xiu's confidence for several days.

So much so that when it was time to receive the letter, Yinxiu was terribly afraid. She was afraid that Uo would stop writing to her, not that Uo would run away with her three houses.

Thinking of Yinxiu's insomnia on the night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, she didn't know how much her face had aged in the past few years, was her yellow face and gray eyes no longer the same?Uosheng doesn't know what changes have taken place, but in fact, Uosheng has never changed in Yinxiu's heart.Taking advantage of the [-]th moon shining into the window, Yinxiu stretched out her hands to look at her palms. There were more lines and thicker calluses. Without maintenance, these hands should be uglier than her face.

After thinking wildly all night, Yin Xiu was woken up by someone, "Don't sleep, go through the formalities and go out."

She washed up in a daze, took her confiscated clothes and mobile phone, and pressed it, but it couldn't be turned on anymore.She looked down at her new clothes: a wool dress, thick socks, half boots and a down jacket. The texture could tell that it was expensive.Finally, she received the certificate of release, and after talking to the trainer, she walked out of the prison.

The instructor's last words were, "Xiaoyin, you are a very smart girl with a kind heart. Go back and live a good life and work hard. Don't take risks to earn money for nothing."

Yinxiu kept in mind the suggestion of the inmates, don't turn back when you come out, because turning back means you have to go in again.Holding her old leather bag nervously, she stood in the wind and watched the vehicles on the side of the road.Which one is hers?Did not see.But every time a car passed by, Yin Xiu felt that the eyes of the people in the car fell on her.She looked down at the ground, and after a while, touched her lipstick to put some color on herself.At this time someone came up to her, "Miss Xiaoying?"

Yinxiu raised her head, with single eyelids, round glasses, high nose bridge, and thin lips...it wasn't Maosheng, it was Fengnian. She subconsciously avoided her eyes after being surprised. Fengnian said, Miss Xiaoying, I'll pick you up and go to the hotel first, and Bai Maosheng I'll be there later, she wants to talk to you on the phone first.

She dialed Usheng's number and handed it to Yinxiu, but Yinxiu pressed it down, with thin tenacity in her eyes, "Let's talk about it later, thank you, Fengnian." Her fingers held the bottom of the purse tightly, her palm There is only a little bit of her lipstick at the bottom left after drying, bought by Uno in the winter of [-]: the outer golden paint surface has been polished off long ago, and there are only some irregular gold dots scattered on the silver plastic superior.This ten-year-old lipstick has been dropped, and the scar on it made Yinxiu feel distressed for a long time, and now there are crimson or even black lipstick residues around it.

Yinxiu said that she actually had some salary in it, and there were hundreds of dollars left in her purse that hadn't been touched in the past few years.In her old wallet, there are six yuan that seem to have faded.She said, I can go back to Baizhou by myself, thank you Xiaohuai, I thought you were joking, but I didn't expect you to really come.

Looking at Yinxiu, Fengnian couldn't find the high-spirited expression she had dragging a handcart alone a few years ago. Her spirit was condensed in her body and didn't come out. It looks rough.After being silent for a while, Fengnian said, Miss Xiaoying, don't worry.Bai Maosheng was going to pick you up by car, but two members of her family were sick last night, and they couldn't make it at ten o'clock today. Let me pick you up first, and we'll meet again at noon.

Yinxiu still bowed her head, her palms curled up into fists, she said that I want to go home now.You tell Uno to stop picking me up.She even wanted to leave Fengnian to find her own way, Fengnian's comfort sounded pitiful to her ears.

It's so pitiful, God never gave her a chance to meet Uogi first.Yinxiu shrugged her shoulders and bowed her head, but Fengnian held her tenderly in her arms, "Miss Xiaoying, it's great that you're back."

Yinxiu's tears overflowed silently, she said Fengnian, tell me, has she changed her mind?