far and near

Zhao Lanren was still in the provincial capital hospital and started to talk about buying a house there. After lending money to relatives or not coming back, she was worried that after receiving the compensation, she would have long nights and dreams.After saving enough money for medical treatment, she sorted out the family's financial situation to Maosheng, "Mom's savings over the years plus compensation, you can also buy an [-]-square-meter apartment in the provincial capital. This is for you to study and work here. prepare."

In addition, she asked the child to return the money Wang Li handed over to Maosheng, "Your master has no money left after buying the house, so she must have borrowed it from someone." Regarding Wang Li, Zhao Lan did not express much emotion in front of her daughter. She also knew that Uno was still not willing to transfer schools, so she set up an account of embarrassing the child, "For you to transfer schools, my mother has already got a leg. The unit means that I can consider my sick leave, and I will accompany you in the provincial capital and not return. It's Baizhou."

Uno couldn't stop crying, "What about the master?"

Zhao Lan's throat choked, "She still has relatives and friends in Baizhou, and she...she still has a career there." The companionship she had imagined was only a short two years, like a dream in the river of life.

Maosheng returned to Baizhou with her mother's great trust, but Wang Li had already taken the team out to compete, and she came home alone before she fell down, and her grandmother came to the door.The old man said that he was afraid that the child would eat and live at home alone and no one would take care of him, so he brought a basket full of vegetables to accompany Uosheng.After only eating two meals, she dragged Maosheng to cry that uncle was not easy, "You and your mother are not short of money now, so let's help you with this pass. It's not that he doesn't pay back the money, or grandma will make it for you guarantee?"

And Bai Maosheng was worried about not being able to contact Yu Ren, and when he was getting a headache from being quarreled by his grandmother, he slipped out of the house by himself while she was out shopping.

In addition to stuffing some clothes and a certain red velvet theater hat in her handbag, she was extra careful, and she carried the mother and daughter's account book, bank card passbook, real estate certificate with her.Now these assets are spread on the table in Yinxiu's room, "I...I don't want to stay at home today..." She came here to join her.

Yin Xiu picked up the red velvet cap, twirled it around on her fingers and helped Uosheng put it on, and a handsome young scholar appeared. "It's a pity that you don't look like you are so proud of being the number one scholar?" Yinxiu helped Maosheng get a strong cloth bag, "You have to pack these important things."

After sitting with Uno for a while, Yinxiu said you wait for me to go out for a while.She went back to the Unicom store and found Yuan Huifang, "My friend wants to stay in my room for a few days. Although there is still a bed in this room, she is not a tenant after all—"

Yuan Huifang was uncommonly straightforward and generous, "It's okay, just a few days, let's live." Although there are many people who come to see Yinxiu's room, most of them are sensitive to price or location, and there are also people from Baizhou University of Technology who come to rent a room The young couple hoped that Yuan Huifang would do Yinxiu's work and give them this room.Yuan Huifang's sentiments did not allow it, "I only rent this place to women."

Yin Xiu thanked Yuan Huifang, went back to her room and called refugee Bai Maosheng to go out.Ask Uo what would you like to eat?

"Wonton." Mao Sheng laughed, and Yin Xiu also laughed.

There are many snack bars like this on the edge of the village in the city. She still ordered two bowls, but they were all eaten by Maosheng.Maosheng was sweating from the hot wonton soup, holding a small spoon and raising his orchid fingers, looking gentle but eating happily. Seeing Yinxiu paying, she said with wonton in her mouth, "Hey, sister Yin, I have money..." While talking, she went from pocket change.Yin Xiu had already paid and turned around to sit in front of her, "Go ahead, I can still afford two bowls of wontons."

Yinxiu had seen too much of the people at the wine table who were charming, caring, ugly, fierce and funny, but Bai Maosheng, who was sitting on a small plastic round stool beside an old four-legged table, showed a cuteness that she rarely saw.Maybe it's the beginning of spring tonight, and the wind warms people's hearts.Maybe I haven't met anyone who forcibly took advantage of me at work these days.Maybe it's also because of Yinxiu's new year salary increase of 100 yuan.Her smile flowed from her heart. Seeing Mao Sheng with red lips and white teeth was anxious, she said, "Slow down."

"You went to look for me outside my community last year, remember? There were eight spoonfuls of chili oil in the two bowls of wontons." Bai Maosheng was amazed at Yinxiu's ability to tolerate spicy food, and Yinxiu also smiled lightly, "Eating vegetarian food since childhood, When you have no taste in your mouth, you should serve it with chili sauce."

"It's the same as kung fu in our drama. You have to practice it over time." Uosheng nodded, "Then you should go to work during the day or go to work. Today is Friday, and I will go to Yu Ren when I live until Sunday, and then go back to the provincial capital." Thinking of leaving Baizhou and Yu Ren, Maosheng felt heavy, "Sister Yin, I don't want to go to the Provincial Opera School, but my mother said she has a leg."

"You are filial." Yin Xiu thought of Yin Xiaochang, not to mention a leg, even 200 yuan is worth her cursing for a long time.The little scholar in front of him was about to leave, and the fate between them was finally cut off by relying on their cheeky luck?In the eyes of others, this fate is an inconspicuous thread among all living beings, but in Yinxiu's heart, it is indeed a thick and transparent ballast stone.Whenever she was ups and downs and felt lonely, she felt that it was enough for her to have a friend like Uo.In Uno's view, what is between them?

The two bowls in front of Maosheng had bottomed out, and she hiccupped, "Come on, let's go shopping in Yintai City." Yintai City is the most high-end shopping mall in Baizhou in recent years.

Unlike Maosheng's ease of entering the mall, Yinxiu actually has some subconscious resistance to this kind of place.She wore old clothes given by her relatives since she was a child, and was always ridiculed by her classmates as a bumpkin.After entering the 23rd middle school, her vision may have improved. She knows how to match old clothes to fit as much as possible, and she also taught herself to use grandma's old sewing machine to change clothes for herself.But the thousands of clothes in the shopping mall are like bright mirrors, illuminating Yin Xiu like a ground mouse who can't see the sun.

Her poverty, low self-esteem, darkness, and her shady desires are all reflected in these mirrors.Yinxiu didn't want to face herself at that time.

Ke Uosheng said, "I want to choose nice clothes for you."

Yinxiu's best-looking dress is probably the dress that Yin Xiaochang wore twice when she was in high school.It fits her perfectly, the broken bamboo leaves and flowers, and the lace pleated belt make the girl's shoulders and waist outline slender and clear.It was the unique youth of a 15-year-old girl, and it was the first time that Yinxiu discovered that she also had such a taste.But Yin Xiaochang's boyfriend stared at her in amazement once she wore that dress, and she knew she couldn't wear it anymore.

"I have enough clothes to wear, and the restaurant even issued work clothes." Yinxiu stopped, but Uno didn't want to, and pulled Yinxiu's arm, "A beautiful girl must wear beautiful clothes. Besides, I'm here to join you, we have a destiny to live together One room for a few days, this is called a meeting between mountains and rivers." Mao Sheng's playful tone came out again, and Yin Xiu rolled his eyes when he heard it, "Which room did we meet in?"

Sure enough, Uosheng's shoulders seemed to be frozen by ice, she shrugged, put down, and looked at Yinxiu with concern, "I... I know you didn't mean that at the time, you just wanted to tease me." Just like Yinxiu went Like holding her at the entrance of an alley in front of Shenzhen, she raised her eyebrows helplessly, "You..."

"I take your wish, let's go shopping elsewhere?" Yinxiu advised Uosheng.

"Oh, sister Yin... sister Yin, shall we go to Yintai? I also want to buy something." Bai Maosheng shook his arm at her coquettishly, Yinxiu was startled, "Oh."

When she stepped into Yintai, she was uncomfortable all over, and when her heartbeat suddenly increased, Uso pulled her palm, "Come on, I want to pick a lipstick."

"For Yu Ren?" Yin Xiu asked.

"She's just a little country girl, she wears school uniform all day long and can't wear lipstick." Uosheng thinks that Yu Ren's biggest improvement is knowing how to keep bangs straight, and he hasn't changed his hairstyle for several years.

"Do you use it?" Yin Xiu thought that Uosheng needed makeup for the exercise, so she nodded, "Go and choose."

Uno chose lipstick, eyebrow pencil and a moisturizing skin care product.Holding a small bag in her hand, she walked around several floors with Yinxiu until she saw Yinxiu's eyes stopped at a white cashmere loose coat in a brand store.Uno walked in immediately, and she picked up the coat and gestured on her body, and when she saw that the price was affordable, she directly said that she wanted a size M.Yinxiu waited outside the store leaning against the railing, looking at the happy Uo, and then turned to look at the mirror-like store.

"Why not just the red one? Isn't it just over 1000 yuan?" Came a pretentiously charming voice.

Upon hearing these words, Yin Xiu turned her head suddenly, and saw her mother, Yin Xiaochang, who was by her boyfriend's side, walking over.The man is ugly, and Yin Xiaochang changed her boyfriend again.

If you don't ask her age, it is easy for others to guess that she is in her early thirties.Yin Xiaochang knows how to dress up, and the level of cosmetics on her face also changes according to the level of the man around her.The man she was carrying now was about fifty, half bald and with a round belly, wearing a high-quality suit, with an oily face and an aura like a contractor.He turned his face and scolded Xiaochang, "I know how to buy clothes all day long, have you bought more than a dozen pieces this month?"

"Marrying a man, marrying a man, dressing and eating, why don't I buy clothes?" Yin Xiaochang looked at the man reproachfully, not paying attention to the strange expression on her daughter's face behind her.

"Who are you marrying? I am still at home with a yellow face." The man reached out and pinched Yin Xiaochang's waist, "I'm afraid of you, so I'll buy one."

Bai Maosheng, who was carrying the packing bag, also walked out of the store at this moment, bumped into Yin Xiaochang unexpectedly, and she hurriedly said, "I'm sorry, Auntie."

"What aunt? You are so old." Yin Xiaochang smiled at the 1.7-meter-old child in front of her, and the man next to her said frivolously, "Why don't you all take out your ID cards and see if they are called sisters or aunts?"

Uosheng turned sideways and hurried away, she pulled Yinxiu who was stunned, "Sister Yin, it's ready."

Yin Xiaochang turned her head and met her daughter's eyes in the air.Her smeared white face froze at that moment, she opened her mouth slightly and then closed it randomly, and turned her head to hold the man tighter, as if she didn't know Yinxiu.

"What's wrong?" Uosheng asked Yinxiu.

"It's okay." Yinxiu's face was paler than her mother's. She gritted her teeth and smiled at Uosheng, "Go back." After walking a few steps, Yinxiu's tears dripped down on her chest.

Hearing that she was silent, Maosheng turned his head to see Yinxiu crying and was also surprised.She was busy looking for a tissue, and Yin Xiu wiped it with her hands, "It's okay." After the sound, the tear glands were full again, and the teardrops quickly hung down to the chin.

Uno didn't dare to speak, he just lowered his head and dragged her out of Yintai City, "Are you unhappy? Don't you like shopping?"

Yin Xiu's eyes were red, "I'm happy."

After walking for a while, Yinxiu said, "The woman you bumped into just now is... my mother." Her teeth were trembling, "My mother doesn't have a job. When people ask, they say that she has chosen her own career. Actually She chooses each man, chooses a man, chooses a man, dresses and eats." She was saddened by Yin Xiaochang's shamelessness, and that she didn't want to recognize her because of her appearance.

"It seems that this time she met a nice man who is willing to take her around Yintai City." Yin Xiu calmed down and took a deep breath, her eyes were extraordinarily bright in the dark after crying, and also extraordinarily sad.

Uosheng paused, "I... I also went shopping with you in Yintai." She stuffed all the gifts into Yinxiu's hands, "These are all for you." She grinned sheepishly, "I used to come You find that you have few clothes when you live, maybe you haven’t had time to move them all out of the house.”

Yin Xiu froze in place, tears began to fall again.

Usheng was anxious, "You don't like it? If you don't like it, we'll change it—" Yinxiu held the gift bag in one hand, and pulled her with the other, "No...don't be too nice to me."

"You are so busy and went to visit my mother in the provincial capital, and helped me win the fight against my uncle, I should." Uosheng took Yinxiu's hand, "The lipstick is pink, it may be too bright. We sang Sheng No one is afraid to use this kind of red for eye shadow, let alone you? Your lip line is very smooth and clean, just outline it."

"I don't want it." Yin Xiu returned the things to her, and then wiped away her tears, "Unless you help me put on makeup." She bit her lip and raised her head resolutely, "Bai Maosheng..."

"Huh?" Uosheng said, "Okay, I'll show you a hand."

"Bai Maosheng." Yinxiu called her name, she sighed, and said softly, "Can I call you Bai Maosheng?" "Of course." Looking at Yinxiu's plain face and sincere eyes, Maosheng felt in his heart I don't know where it hurts.