far and near

The Spring Festival of the Year of the Monkey has just passed, and the year of the horse is a good harvest. When the news of the employment comes, it is the last step to make an announcement.Song Huixiang was a little dissatisfied with her daughter's return to Baizhou, but she looked better when she heard that there was such a fee, while Huai Xianglong was still doing her daughter's last job, persuading Fengnian to take the election and take a temporary post as the deputy county magistrate.

Feng Nian, who was afraid of hearing nagging, returned to Baizhou from Beijing without telling her parents. She lived in Yu Ren's house, studied and wrote every day, studied cooking and housework, and called Glory to go for a night run at night.

This night was the same as usual, Su Hai left Feng Nian behind with a single stride, kept his pace at a relatively fast level, and was still chatting without panting, "My dad has kidney stones and gallstones. It's just a minor operation. I'll take care of it." Some time ago, Su Hai went to the hospital to visit her father once a day, and after her father was discharged from the hospital, she had another apartment under her name.

Feng Nian is really envious of the luck of the demolished second generation. She is still considering whether to buy a house or rent a house, because Baida University replied, "The new teachers have no transitional housing since 2015, and you need to solve it yourself."

If you want to buy a house, the deposit on hand and the settling-in allowance are not enough for the down payment, and you need the support of your parents.But the parents support, they must live with themselves.Fengnian didn't want to go back to those days of flying around.

"Bad harvest year, I have a lot of houses, why don't I borrow one from you." The eldest girl said, what's the relationship between us?Send a child.

Fengnian said "ah", put the matter of the house behind him, and accelerated side by side with the eldest girl.The backs of the big girl's legs were tight and slender under the professional running five-piece suit. Fengnian looked down at her tiny legs, and tried to keep up after swallowing.

The two of them stretched and rested after arriving at Baijiang Square at the end. The aunts in front of them were still dancing vigorously. Three big girls passed by in front of them. They held milk tea in their hands and went shopping. At the same time, she noticed the sweaty Feng Nian, she secretly smiled, like a flower blooming at night, then lowered her head and continued to walk while chewing on the straw.

"It's so beautiful." Su Hai said.

"Well, it's pretty." Fengnian also said.She looked at Suhai, the eldest girl pointed to the aunt who had just finished dancing in front of her, and the auntie was stretching out her hand to put on a lambswool coat, and she took a fancy to that dress.Fengnian said, "Oh, it's not bad."

"Then what do you say is beautiful." Su Hai asked.

I say night.Fengnian pulls out the style of Wenqing.

"Pull it down." The big girl stretched her hamstrings, I think you think other girls are pretty, the one in the middle, right, how cute is she biting a straw?The eldest girl kicked Fengnian, "Looking honest and honest, her eyes are not idle at all." She said that I have noticed the bad Fengnian, you, you just like to see beautiful girls.

When you were in Beijing, even if your appetite was so weak that you couldn't fit a dish, you could always hold a girl in your eyes.Just like you, sister Song still talked to you back then?It's really high-spirited.

Feng Nian was so ashamed, and finally explained in a low voice, "It's the love of beauty."

The big girl raised her pretty eyebrows, and the corners of her eyes that were already flying upwards seemed more energetic, "Aren't I beautiful?" She had already found the location of the milk tea shop, pointing to the front door, "Bad harvest, I won't save you money Yes, you invite me to drink milk tea!"

Feng Nian, who was cash-strapped because of publishing a monograph, sighed and queued up to buy a cup for the eldest girl. Su Hai said why didn't you buy it yourself?

"I'm used to drinking water." Fengnian looked at Su Hai and smiled, "When you were young, you would eat popsicles instead of old salt water, which would make your face look bad, and watermelon would make you ice-cold. You need two or three servings of ice cream..." He stretched out his hand and gestured to Xia Suhai. Suddenly staring at Su Hai's eyes, unable to speak, Feng Nian sneered, "The eyes are really big."

Su Hai blinked his eyelashes triumphantly, "But I like small eyes and thin eyes, which are more fashionable."

"Bad Fengnian, if you go to Baizhou University to be a teacher, can I listen to your class?" The eldest girl has always been curious about this matter.

"Okay, you can help me with the computer and materials, and act as my assistant." Fengnian was suddenly stuffed with milk tea, and the eldest girl wiped her mouth, "I drank half of it, and I'll leave you half." Fengnian looked at the straw, Su Hai pulled it out impatiently and wiped it with his sleeve, then inserted it back again, "Be careful!"

Back at Yu Ren's house in the evening, the deputy director had picked up Yuan Liu and was sitting in front of the coffee table staring at the TV with her legs crossed. She said that you came back just in time. I bought food and drink, and we watched " Schindler's List".Yu Ren often returns home in this state, neither sad nor happy, dazed and stunned.

Feng Nian sat down side by side with Yu Ren after taking a quick shower, the two old friends clinked glasses, each sipped their beers and then did not speak, looked at Schindler's back for a while, Yu Ren said Feng Nian, you said we would get old Wouldn't you live like this?

Does this count as seeing death at a glance?

"It doesn't count." Feng Nian ate the duck gizzard, "It's called life at a glance, so there's nothing wrong with it."

Yu Ren, who was wearing pajamas, leaned against the foot of the sofa and there was only one little one left. She shrank her neck and nodded.After watching the movie for a while, Yu Ren said, "I'm 28."

Feng Nian said I know, I am also 26.When I met you, I was 13 years old, and you were [-] years old. We had bridging classes in the living room of the teacher's house.One was secretly reading extracurricular books, and the other was scratching his hair anxiously because he couldn't keep up with the progress.Unexpectedly, more than ten years later, the two of us are still sitting in the same living room, and we have directly evolved from two young girls to two old men.

"Fengnian, how long have you been vacant?" Yu Ren asked again.

"Hmm... It's been almost a year." Fengnian's slender eyes and small single eyelids slowly stretched, "Huh? How do you say this."

"I've been here for almost six years." Yu Ren's chin rested on her knees, and she never asked any inexplicable questions after that, staring at the movie until late at night.

When Feng Nian woke up the next day, Yu Ren had already left home to go to work.A note was left on the table, "Fengnian, I will work overtime tonight, you can eat by yourself, there are vegetables in the refrigerator." Fengnian suddenly thought of what she said last night, and suspected that Yu Ren was making do with his company mean.

I also feel that it is impossible, because Yu Ren is still doing that little thing of "trying not to exert too much energy" every day.

Feng Nian went to the municipal library after breakfast, and after a while, he received a message from Yu Ren, "I won't be coming back tonight, I'm staying outside."

Fengnian thought that she would not find a lover, would she?After careful consideration, she asked, "Business trip."

"No, I took two days off to take Xiaoliu to Shanghai." Yu Ren said, "Come back tomorrow night." After a while, he added, "I have greeted Aunt Yuan and her head teacher. , not abducted.”

Six years of vacancy, taking a high school girl to Shanghai for a date?Seeing noon with doubts, Feng Nian went to Mao Xinxia's barber shop and called Su Hai for dinner, because the eldest girl said that she sent her son back to her hometown, and occasionally she had to do the job of looking for a restaurant.At this time, the store was still busy, and the deputy director said you should sit down for a while, I still have three customers left.

Fengnian feels that everyone has a focus in life now, those who make money earn money, and those who abduct others, only she is still half-baked.She looked down at the new book borrowed from the library, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a book under the sofa, which was a little unsteady. It was hard to imagine their shop with Mao Xinxia's mother and daughter's junior high school education, and their son Shao Junhan's education level in the second grade of elementary school. There would be a decent book in it, in a very new and familiar cover.

Bending down to pick out the book that was the foot of the sofa, Fengnian had already recognized it——"The British Cloak of Baroque Literature-The Fantastic Style of Metaphysics and Mysticism", the author, "Huai Fengnian".

Feng Nian blushed to the ears, she was a little curious, but more sad, this is a monograph she has worked hard to prepare for several years, it has only been published for a month, and now the Baizhou barbershop is cushioning the sofa.It's true that this is a niche work with no market, so don't waste it if you're not interested.Feng Nian frowned and caressed the indentation on the book, the sofa under his butt shook even more violently.

A hair-washing apprentice stared at the monograph on Baroque literature in Fengnian's hand, and said it was yours?I thought it was a guest who left behind, so I cushioned the sofa for a while.

Which guest reads his own niche book?Fengnian only thought of Yu Ren.However, the deputy director came over with scissors in hand, snatched the book, and slapped the little shampoo worker on the forehead, "This is new and you didn't see it? Take your own cigarette case."

Glory said that I bought this book. Didn't you mention it last time?She put the book into her bag at the cash register, and chatted with Fengnian about the British baroque metaphysical poetry, "It's really mysterious, they are all Chinese characters, I just can't understand a word."

Fengnian's mood turned from sour to sunny, "It seems that I came today at the right time, I have to treat you to dinner, Xiao Hai."

Su Hai nodded nonchalantly, and continued to lower his head to give the guest a fine cut.

"She bought a hundred copies and piled them all under the bed." Shao Junhan sat beside Fengnian and muttered in a low voice, "Don't let me play, what's the fun?" The little boy poured out all the secrets under his sister's bed Fengnian looked at the eldest girl again in shock.

She had a serious expression and a professional silence. She wrapped her fingertips around the guest's black hair, cut it a few times, and combed it twice. She didn't notice Fengnian's touched eyes behind her.

One hundred copies.Feng Nian's eyes were moistened by the number of Su Hai's friendly support.

After several guests had left, Su Hai put on his coat and called Feng Nian, "Let's go, I want to eat grilled fish."

Fengnian laughed so that she felt weird, "No money?"

some.Feng Nian said, what else do you want besides grilled fish?

Fried skewers, grilled sausage, grilled pork belly and dragon fruit, the eldest girl walked in front and counted, "That's all, I think you seem to be quite poor recently."

"I'm poor because of publishing, why are you poor?" Feng Nian sat behind Su Hai, and followed her little eDonkey to the snack street, "Isn't it because I want to open a shop?"

"Isn't it because you bought a hundred identical books that you couldn't understand?" Feng Nian wanted to look at Su Hai's face in the rearview mirror, but the girl's faucet shook, saying that Shao Junhan told you, right?When I placed the order, I originally wanted to buy three copies. I kept one for myself, and one for Xiaoliu and sister Yuren. They should be able to understand.Then I thought about it, if a celebrity releases an album or makes a movie, fans won’t be able to cheer for the sales. We’ve been in love for so many years, so I’ll help you.

"I kept an eye out and bought five and ten volumes from different platforms." The eldest girl shouted bad Fengnian, "Your book is really ugly, and then I found that putting it under the bed can stabilize the four corners of my bed , it’s kind of useful.”

Feng Nian smiled behind her, "Sorry, the writing is ugly."

"Are you going to write books like this in the future?" The eldest girl asked worriedly, "I'm worried about the bad harvest, all your books are like this, if you can't sell them, how do you make money?"

The eMule stopped quickly, Su Hai got off the car, and took off the helmet from Fengnian's forehead. The associate professor leaned on the car and looked at the older girl with a smile, "Thank you, Xiao Hai." I will try to write for everyone to read in the future.

"Bad harvest, I know why you don't make money." The deputy director pulled out the key, "You have to write what everyone loves to read, not what you can read."

Which one do you like to watch?Feng Nian asked the big girl who was staring at the food, looking at this childish, mature, flexible, and ruffian girl with an afro, and wondered in his heart—is this the little guy I hugged before?

"I, I like to watch my sister and aunt Lily's story. Huai Fengnian, you try it." The Baizhou Lily wholesaler hooked Fengnian's neck and said earnestly, "I want to watch love, tragedy and comedy, not Baroque or Coca-Cola. "Bad Fengnian, I don't recognize your words in the book, it's quite scary.

March and April are the intensive period for independent enrollment in colleges and universities. Many students in the third grade of No. [-] Middle School will participate. Those who have won the provincial award or have not won the award, as long as they are confident in their grades, they can sign up.When comparing various schools and majors became a hot topic among students, Yuan Liu's quietness was particularly conspicuous.

Zhao Jiaqi was going to apply for several colleges and universities in Beijing and Shanghai, and asked Yuan Liu which university she wanted to go to?She got the answer of "whatever the test counts." All in all, she just couldn't take her own way, which was exactly the same as Yu Ren back then.

The homeroom teacher called the parents. Yuan Huifang didn't understand the pros and cons of this, so he asked Yu Ren, "Will Xiaoliu miss a good opportunity if she doesn't sign up?"

Of course, Yu Ren wanted to ask Yuan Liu if he had any intentions in colleges and universities?

The little girl smiled with her lips tightly closed, "I'm sure I can pass the exam."

"Sister, why didn't you enroll yourself?" Yuan Liu asked Yu Ren.

Yu Ren insisted on passing the college entrance examination because she was "suppressing bad water" and unwilling to reveal her wish prematurely. The little "bad water" was just the obsession of her youthful first love in the eyes of her parents and teachers.Recalling it in front of Yuan Liu many years later, Yu Ren could answer calmly, "Because Maosheng and I made an agreement to go to Shanghai, and at that time, we didn't want teachers and parents to work all day because of the school's goals, and beg for peace." My son's grades are not bad, so don't worry about failing the exam.

She asked Yuan Liu, who was third in the class and about tenth in grade, "Are you confident that you can get into the university you want to go to? May I know which one it is in advance?" People's University, Beijing Normal University, or Zhejiang University...or, my alma mater?Yu Ren said that this is very important to your future, Koyanagi, you can't ignore any opportunity.

The little girl who felt a little sour when she heard "Maosheng" hesitated, "Sister, I know." And Yu Ren also knew, she could see that Yuan Liu probably wanted to stay in Baizhou to study in university.

Since the well-behaved and caring Yuan Liu couldn't even pry Yu Ren's mouth away, she decided to take the little girl to visit several colleges and universities in Shanghai.On the bullet train, Yu Ren answered several work calls and explained, "I will work overtime on weekends." Yuan Liu sat beside her and peeked at her out of the corner of his eye. , Occasionally "um", calm and calm.

After hanging up the phone, Yu Ren wrote down the itinerary in the memo on her mobile phone, and from time to time compared the self-enrollment registration time and the requirements for arts and sciences of various universities that she had collected.After working on deletion, modification and addition for more than half an hour, Yu Ren took off her glasses and rubbed her temples. Seeing Yuan Liu looking at her, she tilted her head and smiled helplessly, "Look at the place you want to check in the most?" I want to go where you used to go.

Yu Ren nodded thoughtfully, "That's the school, some restaurants..." The places she has checked in are much more abundant than those on her mobile phone, and her love has been born and even matured through time and time again.

"Well, let's go near my alma mater first." Yu Ren put away his phone, "I always want to take you out for more walks, but the rest time on weekends is irregular, so I can't go far." Qi Yiguo took his little sister through the streets and alleys tirelessly to draw a map of Shanghai that belonged to them alone. Yu Ren in front of Yuan Liu has no vigor and energy now, and it took him several years to create such an opportunity.

"Every day you come to pick me up, we go to the movies when we have free time, I think it's good." Yuan Liu doesn't mind, she wants to tell Yu Ren, "The important thing is not where you go, but whether you are by your side."

After the two stayed in the hotel, Yu Ren said that I would take you to see the Xifu Building where I used to study by myself.When looking at a university, don't look at its building gates, first look at the people.

"I saw it." Yuan Liu answered in his heart, and followed Yu Ren to the university honestly.

On the way, Yu Ren introduced the courses, activities, scholarship policies she enjoyed when she was studying, and which teachers she attended... Yuan Liu wrote down silently. Thinking about it, "Let's go to the coffee shop on the fifteenth floor."

She took Yuan Liu to sit in the coffee shop, and the little girl from Baizhou put her hands on the armrest and looked at the spherical transparent dome upstairs, with surprise in her eyes, "If you look at it at night, how beautiful it would be?"

Yu Ren smiled, "Yes, I can see the stars and the moon."

"Why don't we come at night?" Yuan Liu regretted that it was daytime.

Yu Ren bent his eyes, "Some scenery is in your imagination, some is the fate of passing a glance, and some are worth your time to dig and experience." Some universities are not a symbolic name, its connotation is like The starry sky late at night, tourists can't see it during the day, but students can always see it at night.

Yuan Liu understood that Yu Ren was trying his best to persuade himself to enter a prestigious school.She took a sip of coffee, "Yu Ren, why did you return to Baizhou after studying here for several years?"

"I love my country and my country." Yu Ren said that you have stayed in one place all the time and come back after you have been far away. The angles are also different.People still have to raise their horizons as high as possible, and going out to study is an opportunity.

The little girl paused for a few seconds and said I understand.

After Yu Ren took Yuan Liu back to his alma mater, he took her to another university.Shanghai University, it took a lot of time for a single journey. Yu Ren said that there is only one scenic spot to go to today, where else do you want to go?

"I want to hang out with you casually." The little girl said to go to Fuzhou Road, we can walk to the riverside.

At the last point of the tourist check-in journey, Yuan Liu and Yu Ren took a walk in the concession-style buildings. When crossing the zebra crossing, the little girl even held Yu Ren's hand and did not let go.

The whistle on the Huangpu River seems to have the vicissitudes of time and space. Yuan Liu said it was great, "Study every day is really boring. I can go out to play for two days, and I can still be with you... I feel relaxed."

Yu Ren looked at her hand and tried to pull it back, but Yuan Liuruo pulled her away nonchalantly.After pretending to be stupid for a while, Yu Rende came to his senses, "Can you let go now?"

"I don't know the place well, so I'm afraid of getting lost." Yuan Liu said that it was dark and no one could see.This fox cub somehow got the guts to change the handshake into interlocking fingers.

But I can see it.Yu Ren sighed in his heart, "Xiao Liu, can you tell me what you think now?"

Yuan Liu secretly felt the temperature of Yu Ren's palm, "Let me think about it again, okay?"

This was a sign of looseness, Yu Ren let out a slight breath, "Okay." Trying to break free again, Yuan Liu, who was stronger, squeezed his hand tightly, "I'm eighteen."

This is false age.Yu Ren said.

"Then...you show relevant laws and regulations to prove that minors are not allowed to hold hands with others on the street." Yuan Liu moved closer to Yu Ren, and touched her shoulder.

Swap the concept.Yu Ren stopped at the intersection and looked at the little girl who was very determined today.

"Please don't hesitate to enlighten me, what did I secretly replace?" Yuan Liuzhen actively thought about every word Yu Ren said today, but no charming corner of the magic city can take away Yu Ren's magnetism for her.It is true that she is not familiar with the place, Yuan Liu is not only not afraid, but even more daring enough to be intimate to this point, all because of Yu Ren's indulgence to her.

Yu Ren is no mystery at this moment, she told Yuan Liu exactly that she cares, she is tolerant, and she likes it.

"Or, let me put it another way," Yuan Liu smiled, "If it doesn't meet the legal requirements, what does it mean if I hold hands?"

Squinting his eyes, Yu Ren said that it meant that I overestimated you in terms of tacit understanding.

The little girl's palm had electricity flowing through it, she let go, and said sorry, I didn't mean it that way.

"It's okay, let's go to eat and go back to the hotel to rest." Yu Ren chuckled, after all, she was still a little girl.

The one-night or two-day trip was not easy to come by, Yuan Liu tried her best to be happy and satisfied after that, and she helped to solve half of the food on Yu Ren's plate when eating.After returning to the hotel, Yuan Liu was always thinking about those two words: overrated.

The little girl's face was flushed after taking a bath, and she was lying on her side looking at Yu Ren who was busy working on her mobile phone again. She saw Yu Ren feel the temperature in her eyes, "Can't sleep?"

"Are you unhappy?" Yuan Liu noticed that Yu Ren had been in a low mood since the way back.

Yu Ren said that there is no unhappy, you know, the normal state of people in life is to be happy one day a week if you can't ask for it, and accept it for the six days you can't ask for.She just took it easy because of a little trouble at work.

"Is there any reason for me when you are happy?" Yuan Liu opened her eyes wide, her lips trembling because of this question that might cause her to be "overrated".

Yu Ren raised his head, his eyes swept from Yuan Liu's forehead to his lips without a trace, as if he was speechless, but also as if he was looking for a small outlet for thousands of words, "Yes."

Her tone was very light, hitting the soft flesh of Yuan Liu's heart hard.She opened her mouth and smiled, "Uh... Well, I'm going to bed first."

She got into the quilt to cover her head, and let out a silly laugh from under the quilt.

Yu Ren also smiled silently. The vibration of her phone reminded her to bow her head. Fengnian sent a dark picture with four stacks of books inside, "Xiaohai bought a hundred of my books." Girl...wouldn't be interested in me, would she?

"Fengnian, why do you think so?" Yu Ren asked.

"If not, why don't you buy a hundred copies and support me?" Fengnian let out a laughing emoji, "Speaking of which, I'm really shocked, Xiaohai's heart, let my hair ruin a hundred copies in her hand. Happy every time."

Yu Ren replied with a smile, "You are too."

After chatting for a long time, Yu Ren put down his phone.She felt that the relationship between herself and Yuan Liu was too real or lacking in this quality, and her consideration was blocked by a wall pushed by the little girl.

Yu Ren looked at Yuan Liu again, and found that the little girl's thin and gentle breathing had brought her body up and down under the blanket.

She got out of bed holding her breath and approached, and quietly helped Yuan Liu take off the quilt covering her face. Her smooth and powdery skin was exposed, and her eyelashes, which had grown since she was a child, covered her eyelids securely.Yu Ren's fingertips gently peeled away Yuan Liu's messy bangs, and Yuan Liu woke up, her big eyes opened wide, she looked at Yu Ren with a sly smile, and Yu Ren pinched the tip of her nose, "You can really pretend."

After laughing, Yu Ren stood at the head of the bed, a little embarrassed, "It's not good to sleep with your face covered."

"Yeah." Yuan Liu said, "Because I won't be able to see you that way." Good night, Yu Ren.

Now she got real again.Yu Ren said good night.I hope the little girl will consider her suggestion carefully.