The Pentium Era - South to North

Hearing the knock on the door, Zhang Chen quickly got up from the bed and went to open the door. Xiao Zhao was standing at the door wearing a military coat. Zhang Chen pulled her in and closed the door.

"Why are you wearing this?" Zhang Chen asked as he fled back to bed.

"Sister Guihua helped me wipe the outside of my down jacket with water and dry it by the brazier." Xiao Zhao said, "It's all your fault. I'm so embarrassed. How can I compensate you?"

"I'll warm up the bed for you." Zhang Chen said with a smile.

"That's pretty much it."

Xiao Zhao smiled maliciously, she had already thought of how to punish Zhang Chen.

She got on the bed, and when Zhang Chen wasn't prepared, she suddenly put her cold hands under Zhang Chen's clothes and pressed them against his chest. Zhang Chen felt like he was being burned, so he yelled and tried to get away. Zhao shouted:

"Don't hide, or I won't let you touch me today."

Zhang Chen did not move obediently.

"Help me warm up." Xiao Zhao said.

"Okay, as ordered, it will be warm."

Xiao Zhao giggled proudly, leaned over, and the two hugged each other tightly. It felt like they were hugging and kissing for the first time.

It felt like the weather wasn't that cold anymore. The two of them cuddled together, and Xiao Zhao suddenly asked: "My dear, I want to ask you something. Don't be angry."

Zhang Chen said: "Okay, you can ask."

"First make sure you're not angry."

"I promise I won't be angry."

"Tell me the truth, are you unwilling to take me back to Yongcheng?"

"no."

"Then why do I feel that you don't want to go back to Yongcheng after you arrive in Hangzhou?"

Zhang Chen was silent. After a while, he sighed and said honestly: "I really don't want to go back to Yongcheng."

Xiao Zhao was shocked, and Zhang Chen also felt it. His arms around her tightened, and Xiao Zhao asked, "You don't want me to see your parents?"

Zhang Chen shook his head and said, "No, I just feel embarrassed."

"Is it because of me?"

Xiao Zhao pouted and asked blankly. Zhang Chen quickly turned around, kissed her, and said to her: "Of course not, don't think too much, it's because of myself."

"Why? What do you have to be ashamed of?"

Zhang Chen told Xiao Zhao all the messy thoughts he had while lying in the corridor last night. After speaking, he sighed, and Xiao Zhao also sighed.

Zhang Chen was amused and asked, "Why are you sighing?"

Xiao Zhao smiled softly: "You can't tell, but my man is still such a face-conscious person."

"What your man?"

"do not you?"

"Yes Yes."

"Hmph, don't you dare."

Xiao Zhao thought for a while and said for no reason, "But it's pretty good."

"What's good?" Zhang Chen asked puzzledly.

"You are obsessed with saving face. People who are obsessed with saving face cannot be considered bad people. They are afraid that others will say bad things about them."

Zhang Chen laughed loudly: "What nonsense are you talking about?"

"Are you a bad person then?"

Zhang Chen was speechless for a moment.

"Look, right?" Xiao Zhao nodded, "So what I said is right."

Zhang Chen didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He was going around and around, but he couldn't get out even though he was trapped inside.

Xiao Zhao stretched out his hand and drew on Zhang Chen's chest with his fingers. Xiao Zhao said:

"My dear, if you don't want to go back, then we won't go back. We will look for jobs in Hangzhou. If Hangzhou doesn't work, we will go to Shenzhen or Guangzhou. What's so scary? We can't support ourselves?"

Zhang Chen said yes.

"As long as we are together, it will be fine." Xiao Zhao said, "With you, I am not afraid of anything. My dear, you promise me one thing."

"What's the guarantee?"

"Don't leave me alone, I will be sad."

Zhang Chen kissed her: "I promise."

"Don't bully me." Xiao Zhao continued.

"That's two pieces." Zhang Chen smiled.

"What, you want to bully me?"

"Don't dare." Zhang Chen said quickly, "I promise not to leave you or bully you. Only you can bully me."

"That's more like it." Xiao Zhao chuckled, "Now I'm going to bully you again."

…

When Zhang Chen woke up, it was already dawn outside, but Xiao Zhao was not around. He looked at his watch and saw that it was already past eight o'clock. Zhang Chen put on his woolen sweater, sat up, leaned against the head of the bed, took a cigarette from the table beside the bed, and started smoking.

Before he finished smoking a cigarette, there was a knock on the door. Zhang Chen quickly got out of bed and went to open the door.

Xiao Zhao came in holding a big bowl of wontons and shouted: "Eat quickly, eat it while it's hot."

Zhang Chen asked curiously: "Where did it come from? Is there a snack bar open nearby?"

"Where." Xiao Zhao said, "It's breakfast sent by Sister Guihua's mother-in-law. Sister Guihua told her that we can share it too."

Zhang Chen was overjoyed and sat on the bed and started eating. He asked Xiao Zhao: "Have you eaten yet?"

"Well, I'm downstairs, eating with Sister Guihua."

"What are you doing up so early?"

"I got up to help Sister Guihua. She worked alone from the first day to the sixth day of the first lunar month and worked the evening shift and the early morning shift. No one went to work. There was nothing I could do. This time in the morning is when the most customers leave. When it’s the busiest, I’ll go down and help.”

"Sister Guihua asked you to go?"

"No, I went by myself."

"How do you know this is the busiest time at the hotel?"

Xiao Zhao rolled her eyes at him: "Have you forgotten that I have been trained? Aren't big hotels and small hotels all the same except for the price?"

Zhang Chen suddenly realized, yes, he had indeed forgotten that when Xiao Zhao came to Haicheng, Wanghailou went to their hometown and hired him as a waiter.

Zhang Chen finished eating wontons, got out of bed, got dressed, and went downstairs with Xiao Zhao. When they got to the duty room downstairs, they saw an old man in his sixties sitting there, looking at them with a smile. Xiao Zhao shouted After calling her "Auntie", Zhang Chen knew that this must be Sister Guihua's mother-in-law, so she quickly called her "Auntie".

Xiao Zhao picked up a large wide-mouth thermos bottle and bowl on the table and went to wash them, but his aunt snatched them away and said that she would wash them.

The aunt went out with a thermos, a bowl and a spoon. Xiao Zhao patted the chair in the duty room and said to Zhang Chen, "You sit on duty. If there are people who want to check out, please call Sister Guihua. I will go and pick up the ones we stayed in." The room was cleaned.

Zhang Chen agreed, sat down on the chair, and Xiao Zhao went out.

Not long after Xiao Zhao went out, the aunt came back after washing the dishes. Zhang Chen quickly got up, got a stool and asked her to sit by the brazier. The aunt dragged the stool aside, sat down, and told Zhang Chen that she didn't like sitting by the brazier. Once I sit down, I can't stand up.

Zhang Chen knew that this meant that it was too warm and comfortable next to the brazier. It seemed that this was an old man who was used to working.

Zhang Chen asked her whether she came here by car or bicycle from home?

Auntie said that wherever you need to take a car, you can get there by walking or walking.

This slap in the face means a little bit.

While the two were talking, Sister Guihua walked in. She asked Zhang Chen, "Where is Xiao Zhao?"

"Going upstairs." Zhang Chen said.

"Going upstairs again? This girlfriend of yours is so nimble. She has finished two rooms, but I haven't finished one. She said she was trained, right?"

Zhang Chen nodded.

"You are so lucky to have found such a girlfriend. She is beautiful and capable, and everyone will like her."

"I like both the smile and the good looks." Auntie said from the side.

Zhang Chen quickly said yes.

Auntie stood up, put the thermos bottle and bowl into the bamboo basket that Sister Guihua brought yesterday, held it in her hand, and said she was going back.

"Mom, please don't bring me food at noon. I'll eat when I get back from get off work at one o'clock."

Sister Guihua told her aunt, and the aunt patted Sister Guihua on her arm and cursed affectionately:

"When you carry the ghost of time, you will be hungry when you are so good?"

Sister Guihua is like a child, smiling happily.

"Do you want to go out later?" Sister Guihua asked Zhang Chen.

Zhang Chen said he wanted it, but Sister Guihua and her aunt said that it would be enough to give it to me alone.

Sister Guihua took her aunt's arm and said she was going to send her out. When she walked to the corridor outside, she saw a thread on her cotton-padded jacket and shouted, "Mom, wait a minute, there's a thread."

She turned around, bent her head, and bit off the thread with her teeth.

The two people continued walking and reached the gate. They didn't seem to want to break up yet, so they stood and continued talking. When the two people stood talking, their hands were hooked together.

The aunt seemed to have said something funny, and the two of them laughed so hard that they hugged each other. Zhang Chen looked at the two of them, not like mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, not like the previous generation and the next generation, but more like a pair who had been together since childhood. Grow up sisters.

Finally, the aunt waved her hand and said, let's go, I won't talk to you anymore.

"Mom, go well, mom, be careful of cars on the road."

Auntie has already walked out, and Sister Guihua is still calling.

Sister Guihua stood there, watching her mother-in-law walk away, then turned around and walked back.

"Sister Guihua, the relationship between your mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is really good." Zhang Chen said to Sister Guihua.

"We came from past lives, so we get along very well." Sister Guihua said with a smile, "My mother-in-law also asked whether we were mother and daughter in our previous life."

"I think they look more like biological sisters." Zhang Chen said with a smile.

"Really, really, if I have anything on my mind, I won't tell it to my own mother-in-law, but I will tell it to my mother-in-law." Sister Guihua said cheerfully.