happy event under the tree

Gu Xi had a dream.

In the dream, backlit faces approached him with big black mouths.He ran and ran, and there was a person in front of him with his back turned.He patted the man on the shoulder, and the figure turned around and grinned, revealing the upper and lower rows of fangs gleaming coldly.He was so frightened that he had to hide in a cramped room and lock the door. It was small, stuffy, and hard to breathe.

Gu Xi struggled to wake up and turned around, wiped the sweat from his forehead, sat up and looked around.

At this moment, the room of less than twenty square meters was still a mess.Some miscellaneous gadgets, bottles and cans, some paper bags and leaflets that are reluctant to be thrown away, are lying on the floor of the room in a peaceful manner.

The temperature outside the house is getting higher and higher as the sun rises, and it is nearly 40 degrees Celsius at noon. Even in the morning, the house is not cool.

"Alas..." Gu Xi sighed, as if there was a ball of hot air in his chest, rushing wildly, suffocating him to explode.

He lifted his half-length bangs, washed his face under the faucet, and drank another large glass of cold water on the table.

He let out a long breath of stale air, endured the heat and continued to stuff the required clothes into the suitcase, and put all the messy household items into the big plastic woven bag.He didn't have the heart to sort out the rest of the things, he gathered them all into a pile, tied them up with ropes, carried them downstairs, and threw them all into the trash can.

Gu Xi felt that life was really unfriendly to him.

The job he found after graduating from university will eventually be unsustainable, and going home seems to be his last retreat and refuge.

The trash thrown out is like my self-esteem being thrown away.It's only such a short time, but some students are already doing well, and the happy life keeps covering their circle of friends every day.Look at yourself again, look at yourself...

The little tricycle who made an appointment by phone was beeping the horn at the door to urge, Gu Xi came back to his senses, and hurried upstairs to pick up the last two bags, as if something was chasing after him, he fled in a panic It seems to have left.

A gust of drafts passed, and the door of the rental room closed with a bang.

Gu Xi gave the tricycle uncle a smile.The tricycle uncle threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, twisted the handle, and did not give Gu Xi time to say goodbye, and the electric tricycle rushed out.

There were very few pedestrians on the streets in the afternoon.Needless to say, the heat died down, and even the leaves were curled up in the sun, as if they would rustle into piles when the wind blows.

Unable to bear the suffocating silence, the uncle of the tricycle began to gossip with a strong smell of cigarettes: "Young man, where are you going by train?

Gu Xi paused, then truthfully replied: "C Town."

"Hey, I know, that place is famous for peaches, right?" The tricycle uncle smacked his lips, as if he had tasted the fresh and sweet juice of peaches.

"Ah."

"Going to school?"

"no……"

"That's to go to work. It's good to be young, work, change places, and leave as soon as you say."

"……Um."

Gu Xi closed his eyes, the shadows of the trees flashed across his face one by one, bright and dark.

It was fleeing.

The more than four-hour train took a nap and arrived in a blink of an eye.

Gu Xi groaned and dragged a few pieces of large luggage, received a few stares, and finally got out of the platform.

"Smile, here!"

Gu Xi turned around upon hearing this, a smile finally appeared on his face: "Brother Xiaozheng."

The young man who came to pick him up wore a pair of metal-rimmed glasses and a gray T-shirt, looking very refined.The man called Little Zheng was Gu Zheng who lived in the same village as Gu Xi, and was also a senior at the same school as Gu Xi.

"I've been waiting for a long time." Gu Xi greeted with a rather embarrassed smile.

"No, I got it right away." The gentle young man took the big bag from Gu Xi's hand, and poked the reddened bridge of his nose on his fair face with one hand, "Is it too hot? Let's go, brother will catch you."

Town C's industry is not well developed, and its development is relatively slow. The new and old buildings on the roadside are intertwined, like giant beasts that are shedding their skin.The words "Welcome" are still stuck on the glass doors of some old stores with yellow tape, and Gu Xi was quite surprised to see it for a while.

Picking a seat at a mid-range small restaurant at random, Gu Zheng ordered a few home-cooked dishes.He "clicked" to open a can of iced Coke and put it on the dazed Gu Xi's face: "Smile, I'm back to my senses."

Gu Xi was shivering from the ice, and took the Coke with his neck curled up: "Don't tell me to laugh..."

"This is your nickname, why don't you let it be called?" Thinking about when Gu Xi was a child and just learning to speak, adults taught him to say his name, little Gu Xi would always say "Xixi..." Xi Xixi said "hee Hee hee hee..." He laughed.Even later, when he was called Gu Xi, he would laugh, hence the nickname Xiaoxiao.

Gu Zheng thought it was funny when he thought of this, he said: "What a good name, I always laugh. Don't be sad, it's good to come back."

Gu Xi took a chopstick of bitter gourd into his mouth, and the expression on his face became even more wrinkled.

Gu Zheng looked amused, and asked him again: "What are your plans for the future?"

Gu Xi wiped his mouth with a rough paper towel from the restaurant, pursed his lips and said, "I don't know, maybe see which factory is short of manpower, go find a job..."

Gu Zheng stared at his fair and tender cheeks for a while, and said, "Our part-time jobs here are all manual labor. You are so tender, and others don't necessarily want you."

"Well, that's not necessarily..." Gu Xi muttered weakly, "I'm already in my early twenties..."

"I remember that the store that Uncle Gu left behind is still vacant. Instead of going to work, I think it's better to start a small business by yourself."

Gu Xi blinked and blinked: "But what can I do?"

Gu Zheng held his chin and thought for a while, then said, "Let's do your job professionally."

"But I went to an agricultural university like you..."

"Then let's do agricultural technology," Gu Zheng said, "I'll check for you from the agricultural technology station when I go to work tomorrow, and sell some chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Your store is close to the village, so you don't need to go in for the goods." There are many, enough for everyone to buy and use.”

Gu Xi looked at Gu Zheng gratefully, his eyes sparkling.

Gu Zheng waved his hand: "I just came up with an idea, and you have to do all this work yourself."

"Uh-huh."

Gu Zheng drove his minivan with red logo to help carry Gu Xi's luggage all the way to the bottom of a slightly older apartment.

"Brother Xiaozheng, this is..." Gu Xi looked at the strange Xiaolou in front of him and said doubtfully.

"This is where I live," Gu Zhengdao, "I bought it. Since I decided to take root, I must have a nest."

"Wow!"

Gu Zheng smiled and said, "Let's go, the second floor."

"Well, I'll go find one myself..."

"Okay, staying here with me is only temporary." Gu Zheng said casually, "Hurry up and move your things down, I will take you to the store first, and you clean it first, I have something to do in the afternoon, come tonight pick you up."

Gu Xi lowered his head and sniffed vigorously: "Oh!"

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