Between lines

Chen Tingbai has been playing with this stone for several days, and he has always wanted to give Xu Shaohua something.

He originally wanted to give Xu Shaohua a watch, but felt that suddenly giving a man an expensive watch was contemptuous of him.What's more, it's not Chen Tingbai's style to give away these vulgar things.

Maybe in his heart, he can give these things away for various reasons at any time, but his intention is different, and he only has one intention, and he wants to give him something more precious.

A gust of wind suddenly blew in the yard. He looked up and saw that the leaves of the evergreen plants in the yard were blown by the wind, rustling. The wind in winter was still bitter, and it was hard to have a breeze like today.

The answer in Chen Tingbai's heart gradually became clear, like a gust of wind blowing away all the fallen leaves covering the stone slab, exposing the carvings on the slate.

Chen Tingbai and Hu Cong confessed to ask him to invite Lu Heng over when he came back from practicing calligraphy today, saying that his junior brother has something to ask for.

During this period, Xu Shaohua went back to his hometown and gave his parents some winter things.

The Xu family's two old employees were old employees of the machinery factory. In recent years, the machinery factory has used high-tech production, and many workers have been laid off, including their old couple.

Fortunately, Xu's father has some skills and opened a hardware store, so Xu's mother is completely unemployed at home.

Every time Xu Shaohua returned to his hometown and looked at his house in the old community, he felt inexplicably aggrieved.In the past, he didn't think how bad this small broken house was when he was at home every day, but now when he came back occasionally, he felt that it was so small that it made him uncomfortable.

He slumped on the sofa, half of his butt sank in. Looking down, it turned out that the sofa spring was broken.

Xu Shaohua frowned, and began to choose sofas on the orange software, complaining while choosing: "I said, Mom and Dad, can we change the sofa, who is still using this kind of coarse cloth sofa now. It's not outdated , the spring is broken."

He stood up and started walking around the room. It was okay if he didn't look at it, but he saw that everything in the house was old, and even the glass of the coffee table was cracked and cracked with scotch tape.

"Don't change it, we are too old to follow the fashion, just make do with it." Xu's mother was washing vegetables in the kitchen, and her son came back on rare occasions, trying to cook something delicious for him.

Mother Xu thought for a while, turned off the faucet, wiped her hands on the apron carelessly, came out and said to her son, "Your father and I want to buy you a car. You said you were alone in the city. The subway here is crowded, and it is convenient to buy a car to go to work, and if you buy a car, even if you have all the RVs, you can marry a wife to live."

Xu Shaohua was startled, his parents still have savings to buy him a car?Hastily asked what car.

Xu's mother couldn't remember what kind of car it was, but she remembered that many young men who went back to their hometown drove that car. After thinking about it for a long time, she finally remembered it. "Son, it's a car worth over a hundred thousand. Do you know what a German car is? But I've inquired about it. Let's buy it before the Chinese New Year. Those who sell the car will give us a discount, which can save us a lot of money. "

Xu Shaohua silently uttered two words in his heart—sure enough.But after thinking about it, he asked Mother Xu: "I heard that my cousin also bought a car, what did he buy?"

Xu's mother couldn't remember even more, she only saw it once, and it was the time when Xu Jiaxu brought his new daughter-in-law back from the city.I only remembered that the car had an English brand, and it looked tall and big. Mother Xu thought about it and told her son: "It seems to be called Wo."

As soon as Xu Shaohua heard it, he knew it was a Volvo, and he even looked down on the car worth more than [-] yuan.

He suddenly thought of something, patted Mother Xu on the shoulder, and pretended to be relaxed and said to Mother Xu: "Mom, don't worry, I haven't had time to tell you that I have been promoted. When I return to my hometown during the Chinese New Year, I will drive a Mercedes-Benz. You have a long face. Mercedes is much better than what you said."

Rao Xu's mother also knew that Mercedes-Benz is a good car, so she laughed naturally. An old horse is not worth three dicks, and she got off a mule and paid back her money. This sentence is really good. mule.

Xu Shaohua had a plan in mind. From the beginning of the struggle, at this moment, it became clear and firm.

When Lu Heng got to the words, he saw Chen Tingbai playing with the stone he gave him, and he was inexplicably excited, maybe his junior brother had enlightened.

"What's the matter, ancestor, don't you like to beg for favors? Why do you suddenly have something to ask for? What can you ask me for? Boss Chen, can you ask me for a poor teacher?"

He and Chen Tingbai went out of the same school, and they joked for more than ten years, but Chen Tingbai didn't care.

On the contrary, because he had something to ask for, his tone was polite and gentle: "Isn't this the stone that my senior brother gave me? I still have to use it after deliberation? Why? You don't want to help me?"

"Really? Are you really planning to engrave the chapter back? Are you planning to pick up the pen again?" Lu Heng was ecstatic. Chen Tingbai took the initiative to engrave the chapter back, which also shows that he really came out and wanted to pick up the pen and write. Not far away.

"Forget it, I just feel that I don't have a chapter and I'm not used to the things I write occasionally. You should carve one for me." Chen Tingbai made a cup of tea for Lu Heng with a smile, and then pushed the stone to Lu Heng. .

"However, this stone is cut in half, and the half is as usual. The sun is engraved with the east wind passing through the ear, and the half is engraved with the sun, so let's engrave it. Let's hear the wind." Chen Tingbai took a sip of tea, and the bitterness dissipated. Huigan melted in his mouth.

Chen Tingbai was thinking in his heart that when he wanted a chapter at the beginning, he used Dongfeng to pass his ears, not only because his surname was Chen, but also because he had never heard other people's words in his heart, and he used a derogatory term as an opposite. A compliment for one's own life.

But these years, what he cares most about is other people's eyes, and other people's words behind him.

I hope he and Xu Shaohua don't have too many storms this time, just let the wind blow.

The chapters were delivered to Chen Tingbai in a hurry in December, along with two concert tickets. Chen Tingbai looked at the two clean and moist chapters, and was very happy. Come over and have a look at the facets. The facets are smooth and the handwriting is clear. Whether it is stone or chapter surface, it is a rare good chapter.

He originally wanted to put it in a box and give it to Xu Shaohua, but he was afraid that he would not be able to open the box immediately to show Xu Shaohua such a good thing, so after thinking about it, he decided to put it in his pocket so that he could take it out in time.

He was thinking about giving it to him in a place with so many people at the concert, what if he was not sure and dropped it, so he booked a late-night snack in that restaurant.

Chen Tingbai looked at the chapters and concert tickets on the table, and he suddenly felt as if he could pick up a pen when he was busy, or make up nonsense in his spare time, and he could continue to use it.

Chen Tingbai sent a message to Xu Shaohua, reminding Xu Shaohua of the concert, see you soon.

Xu Shaohua didn't return.