[full-time master] immortal

Chapter 8 Dandelion's Promise

Before heading to the train station, I assigned two tasks to my grandfather: first, to find Aunt Su, and let her reunite with Su Muqiu’s mother and child; .

Grandpa Boss muttered reluctantly, "I'm a servant?", but he didn't refuse.

After Su Muqiu's death, I learned a truth: when you are full, you will lose, if you are full, you will lose, and great joy and great sorrow often live on the same branch.Even though I finally meet Su Muqiu again after many years, I dare not let go of the ecstasy in my heart, I am always cautious and vigilant, just afraid that a moment will pass, and I will lose it again.

Therefore, even with such great secrets and hopes in my heart, I was still frowning, and my whole state was even more bleak than before.On the train to Hangzhou, Su Muqiu saw that I was preoccupied.He may have also guessed what important things Grandpa just told me behind his back.However, I didn't say anything, so he didn't ask.He has always been so gentle.

As a ghost, he could have left me and went directly to Hangzhou—ghosts can move much faster than humans, and there is no need to go through the journey.But he still decided to take the train with me.I have taken the train from Shanghai to Hangzhou countless times in the past 16 years.Before Su Muqiu died, this was often the most emotional moment for me.I often nestle in a comfortable seat, holding in my arms the supplies and "martial arts cheats" that I want to give to the Su brothers and sisters, looking forward to the reunion with the Su brothers and sisters again.

The first time I took this train from Shanghai to Hangzhou alone was probably in the summer of 2008.That summer I graduated from elementary school, asked permission from my grandfather, and rushed to Hangzhou with my luggage excitedly.I have received news from Su Muqiu that he rented a house in an old community on Wushan Road. Also get home earlier.Su Muqiu found a job, although it was barely enough, but it was not a problem to make ends meet with Mucheng.

When I arrived at Hangzhou East Railway Station, I didn't go straight to the new home of the Su brothers and sisters, but took a taxi to Wushan Flower and Bird City.Grandpa gave me an extra two hundred yuan before I left, and asked me to go to the flower and bird market to buy a pot of Phalaenopsis orchids to celebrate the Su family's brother and sister's housewarming.The etiquette of the old man made me puzzled, but I still obediently went to Flower and Bird City first.I was dizzy on the first floor of the Flower and Bird City, and the various flowers and plants were dizzying.I took a fancy to a pot of pink-purple Phalaenopsis, and saw that it was growing in an elegant light blue flowerpot, full of branches, full of flowers and beautiful.The boss also ingeniously hung small lanterns and paper butterflies between the branches, and it really looks like a school of warblers, flying swallows and dancing is full of vitality from a distance.

I held the 200 yuan in my hand, and I had negotiated the price to [-] yuan with the proprietress, but then I thought: I can hardly move such a big pot of Phalaenopsis back to Su’s house by myself, so it’s better to wait two days Bring Su Muqiu and come to Flower and Bird City with me.

So, I gave up this pot of Phalaenopsis and took the No. 8 bus for two stops to the old-fashioned community where the Su brothers and sisters lived.The first time I walked to the door of the unit building, I looked at this extremely dilapidated house, smelled the lingering smell of the elderly in the corridor, and couldn't help wondering if there would be ghosts here at night-although I could see Ghosts, but I'm still terrified of being haunted.

Unexpectedly, when I walked through the winding stairs and corridors, and finally opened the door of the Su brothers and sisters' room, I found that the room was bright and warm.Although the sparrow is small, it has all five internal organs, and the brothers and sisters take care of every corner clean and tidy.The rooms of the brothers and sisters of the Su family are on the sixth floor, facing south, so the light is excellent, and they can be exposed to the sunlight in the room every day, which is not inferior to my bedroom at all.A few small pots of succulent green plants were placed on the window sill of the living room, and the little ones were enjoying the sunshine and rain, looking thriving.These little plants are just like the Su brothers and sisters, vigorous and healthy, tenacious and robust.

I thought of the pot of Phalaenopsis that I was about to buy just now. It is like a wealthy lady who has no worries about food and clothing. Beauty is beautiful, but it is incompatible with everything here.I was suddenly glad that I didn't buy it, and even felt ashamed for it.

When I arrived, only Mucheng was at home.The little girl helped me pack my luggage, took me to visit their small dwelling, and introduced all the details in detail—under such a difficult situation, Mucheng even had her own small room.The room was small, but Su Muqiu managed to buy her a desk.On the desk, I saw Mucheng’s textbooks (every one was carefully wrapped in a book jacket and pasted with cartoon name stickers), a small can of Ovaltine, and the silver radio that Su Muqiu once regarded as a treasure.

Su Mucheng turned on the radio and extended the antenna. Amidst the familiar buzzing noise, the female announcer with a perfect accent was reporting a news about the Beijing Olympic torch relay.Mucheng turned the knob and tuned to her favorite station, and a moving melody came out from the radio.I have heard this song, "Dandelion's Promise", which was sung by Jay Chou. My deskmate really likes him, and the notebook is covered with his stickers.Mucheng seemed to like him very much, and happily hummed along with his melody.

I don't know if Su Muqiu likes Jay Chou.

"Where did your brother go?" I asked Jay Chou amidst his singing and piano.

"He's off to work and will come back later. He must be happier than anyone else to see sister Xiaoqing coming."

No wonder I didn't see Aunt Su, it seems that I went out with Su Muqiu.

I remembered the 200 yuan I had originally used to buy Phalaenopsis in my pocket, and I had an idea, and said to Mucheng, sister Xiaoqing will take you to McDonald's tonight!

Regardless of his housewarming, McDonald's is much happier than Phalaenopsis.

After Su Muqiu came back that night, I took them to the McDonald's downstairs for dinner.I have always been obsessed with the fullness, satiation, and abundance of fast food restaurants.I painted a ladle like a gourd and bought Mucheng a happy children's set meal like my grandpa. The toys that came with the meal had already been updated and iterated. Keep it in your bosom.Su Muqiu, who was sitting on the side, sighed to me with a smile, "You are the one who makes Mucheng happy the most."

"No way, she still likes your brother the most." I said humbly from the bottom of my heart.

"I like them all!" Mucheng heard our conversation and quickly turned her head and said.We laughed together - regardless of Mucheng's young age, she speaks impeccably, no one can offend her.

We chatted about our life in the past six months while chewing on the burger.After asking, I found out that the so-called "job" he did was to work as a network administrator in a nearby Internet cafe.What Su Muqiu went to was a small Internet cafe that was not very formal, and there were many social idlers and delinquent teenagers coming and going.After listening to his description, I felt that the Internet cafe seemed a bit smoky.Looking up at Aunt Su who was sitting not far away, seeing her frowning slightly, she seemed to disapprove of Su Muqiu's choice.

"It's okay, it's okay, I just went to see the place to run errands to earn some money, and I didn't say I want to hang out with those people." Su Muqiu indifferently asked for a Coke filled with ice cubes, "There are few things there, There is also a computer for me to use. I also use the computer to study when I am not working."

I don't know what he studies with the computer.Before at home, he accepted the textbooks and notes I brought him. He didn't turn over the Chinese and English, but turned over a few pages of mathematics, but it didn't arouse his interest.He put down his book and notebook, smiled at me, and said, Xiaoqing, you are amazing, and Mucheng will depend on you for more counseling in the future.

My heart was instantly empty, which was very unpleasant.I don't want to be praised as "very powerful" by him, I just want to follow behind him and be his Xiao Zhao girl.My "Wulin Cheats" was written for him, not for Mucheng.But he didn't need it, so he put it on the shelf, and it won't be seen again until Mucheng needs it three years later.

I couldn't help him again.

Instead of continuing to talk about studying on the computer, he changed the subject and brought up Dean Ning.He pushed the finished Coke aside, and the remaining ice cubes collided with each other, making a crisp sound.He said, Xiaoqing, do you know?Dean Ning died.

I was stunned, and couldn't digest this sentence for a while.

Although the brothers and sisters of the Su family left the orphanage, Ning Xuan was still by the side of Dean Ning, the tiger wolf, unable to escape.Therefore, Su Muqiu also paid close attention to the orphanage's movements in the past six months, and planned to wait for the opportunity.Unexpectedly, in June, news suddenly spread that the director of the orphanage had changed.Su Muqiu thought that Dean Ning had been promoted again, but after inquiring about it, he found out that Dean Ning, who had just been discharged from the hospital, had a heart attack in his office, and when the aunt in the courtyard found out, his body was cold.

I quickly turned my head to look at Aunt Su, with a hint of questioning.Aunt Su's face remained unchanged, but she slightly avoided my sight.I know, this is another thing they kept from me.

I imagined the last moments of Dean Ning's life—after the severe pain in his heart passed, the fresh life finally passed away from his body.When he opened his eyes again, he had already turned into a blue ghost.He saw that he was surrounded by the ghosts of the orphanage.Before he realized his situation, he straightened his collar and was about to stand up decently, but was suddenly knocked down by Grandpa Abao with a punch.The ghost didn't feel any pain, but he still rolled several meters under the huge impact.He raised his head as if in a dream, but more punches and kicks greeted him.He was a hypocrite who did all kinds of evil things during his lifetime, but after his death he became a monster that even ghosts despise.I remembered the dead words that my grandfather always talked about, such as "life reduction" and "heavenly punishment". It turns out that karma is not a joke.

Now, perhaps his evil soul has been banished to the boundless wilderness, and no one knows his whereabouts anymore.

"What about sister Ning Xuan?" I woke up from my imagination and asked Su Muqiu.

Su Muqiu pondered slightly, and said, "I went to find her."

When Dean Ning passed away, there were not a few days left before the high school entrance examination, and Ning Xuan's third grade had already reached the impact stage of the high school entrance examination.Su Muqiu didn't want to disturb Ning Xuan's review, so she waited patiently for a few days.After the senior high school entrance examination, he borrowed a school uniform jacket from a bad boy who often came to Internet cafes, and sneaked into Ning Xuan's junior high school on the day of proofreading his answers in the third round of junior high school, and found Ning Xuan without much effort.

Su Muqiu said frankly that when he saw Ning Xuan that day, he felt that she was not in a good condition - he couldn't say exactly how, but he felt that she was very different from the sister Ning Xuan he knew before.He accompanied Ning Xuan on the junior high school playground for a few laps, and he pressed his tattered pair of running shoes on the dark red plastic track of the middle school playground, feeling a sense of stability and peace in his heart.Walking on the junior high school campus in June, he felt that the wind was warm and the light was bright. The laughter and shouts of the middle school students from a distance were so loud, which was amazing.He suddenly felt a little lost: these were youths that did not belong to him, and even his admission ticket to this middle school—the school uniform jacket tied around his waist—was all borrowed.He looked up and saw those junior high school students with bright smiles, they were only two or three years older than him, but they were so far away from him.

While Su Muqiu was secretly enjoying campus life, Ning Xuan told him that she was not going to continue studying.

Ning Xuan passed the answers of the high school entrance examination correctly, and she who had high hopes of being admitted to a key high school unexpectedly fell short this time.She roughly estimated it based on last year's score line, and it is very likely that she will fall off the Pugao line.In fact, she already had a premonition when she handed in the paper, and her heart was ashamed early on, without any complaints or regrets.She brushed back her sideburns as if she didn't care, and said with a smile, "It's nothing, I was just in a bad mood during the exam days."

She didn't say why she was in a bad mood, but Su Muqiu knew.

She told Su Muqiu that she will be 16 years old by the end of the year, and there is no point in studying any more. She is going to leave the orphanage and find a job to support herself.Su Muqiu nodded silently.He felt pity for Ning Xuan in his heart, but this pity was not so sincere.After all, no matter how you say it, Ning Xuan can get a junior high school diploma - that's much smoother than him who doesn't even have a primary school diploma.

None of them mentioned Dean Ning, but Su Muqiu could faintly feel that Dean Ning's ghost still lingered among them, influencing their fate.

"Sister Ning Xuan," Su Muqiu stopped and looked up at Ning Xuan, "Don't feel bad about yourself, you haven't done anything wrong."

He hasn't read too many sage books, and he doesn't know how to turn his tongue, and he can't say beautiful words to comfort others, so he can only talk about comfort in such a clumsy and ordinary way.

Ning Xuan also stopped and looked at him.She didn't speak, but her eyes moved slightly.

Sure enough, as Ning Xuan said, she disappeared after returning to school to get her graduation certificate, and she didn't go to report to her vocational high school.At this moment, she may have left the orphanage and went out to work.

After Su Muqiu finished speaking, neither he nor I fell into a slight silence.

Once again, I felt infinitely sad.Not only for sister Ning Xuan, but also for him.He told me his heart journey so frankly, but it made me sadder.I thought of the faces of him and sister Ning Xuan once illuminated by the warm yellow light—they used to be such a pleasing couple, so beautiful, so intelligent, as if the future road has been paved by the stars, they will live together Into the crystal clear crystal ball, from longlongago to loveforever.However, unexpectedly, the sand table was reversed overnight, the fate was overturned, and everything was different from the past.

Seeing my sad and sad expression, he stretched out his hand and ruffled my hair like before.He smiled, and his smiling face was still as good-looking as before, which made people lose their minds for a moment.

"Xiao Qing, don't be sad, everyone is having a good time."

I nodded vigorously, and lowered my gaze again, looking at my short skirt covered in crumbs.It was a good quality British-style skirt that my grandfather took me to the mall to buy before the summer vacation.At that time, I walked into the well-lit shop anxiously, and there were two fluffy brown bears in gorgeous clothes at the door, staring innocently at me with two pairs of swarthy eyes.Grandpa asked me to choose one. I picked up a dress from the hanger, but first I found the price tag.After seeing the numbers, my eyes widened.

Just such a summer dress can buy several pots of Phalaenopsis and eat dozens of meals at McDonald's.

When I shamelessly came to Hangzhou wearing this extravagant dress, sister Ning Xuan and Su Muqiu, who are much better than me, were struggling in the corner of the city like mayflies.

I'm such a lucky bastard.

We each remained silent for a while.Mucheng had already finished eating her Paradise set meal. She wiped her fingers with a paper towel, and was sitting by the French window, hugging her little bear, humming a song in her nose, while dangling her legs happily, while resting her chin on the window and staring at the bright lights outside the window. night.I recognized the melody from her singing, which was "Dandelion's Promise" we heard on the radio during the day.

Mucheng's voice is crisp and clean, which made me fall in love with this song and Jay Chou instantly.I wonder if Su Muqiu usually listens to Jay Chou?Still like before, always listening to some old songs on the late night radio station.

I suddenly felt that the brothers and sisters of the Su family were like dandelions. They were born in a small place, but they were always strong and brave, dancing with the wind and being at peace with the situation.But just for a moment, I felt extremely guilty in my heart-I thought, now, the fate of all people is precarious, and only I, with a little luck of talent, became a pot of Phalaenopsis trembling in the breeze, looking like that Hypocritical, ashamed, and out of place.

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The author has something to say: Although the main thread of the article has been opened, let's kill all the memories before grandpa calls for help.

Phalaenopsis appears in the article, but it has nothing to do with Chong Daddy. It is entirely because I accompanied my cousin to the flower and bird market on New Year’s Day to buy a pot of Phalaenopsis for his classmate who just moved, but he bought a pot of white, I didn’t buy my dream orchid, so I wrote it into the novel in a fit of anger (I also seriously asked the florist about how much the same pot of Phalaenopsis should be sold in 08)

Although Xiaoqing should be in the fifth grade in the summer of 2008, the primary school in Shanghai is five years old and the junior high school is four years old, so she graduated from the fifth grade, so there is no problem in graduating from elementary school this year.

My favorite Jay Chou appeared in this chapter.I still remember that it was about the same time as this chapter, around 07 or 08, when our elementary school held an event and really invited Jay Chou, who was holding a concert in Shanghai, to the school to sing "Nunchaku" for us... Now that I think about it It sounds so ridiculous that even I can't believe it orz the next chapter will have an old friend that everyone is familiar with (thumb)

2022.01.28

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