Moonshine & Valentine: His Excellency’s First Love (Love Knot) - Chapter 18

For half a year, except on weekends, Pippi will go to Tongren Alley by Qingnian Road for breakfast every morning. That shop is only for simple breakfast and drinks. The soy milk is thick, the fried dough sticks are crisp, and the fried buns have the fragrance of pepper. It also sells coffee, raw ground, Colombian flavor, cheaper than the island, and the cup is bigger.

The shop is an old-fashioned house, and the business is not particularly good. It is inconspicuous in this residential area dominated by white-collar workers.

Pippi saw the man again at half past seven.

For several months, a “couple” has been meeting here almost every day. They obviously belonged to a different family, each wearing their own ring, forty men, thirty-five six women, ordinary people, demeanor and appearance are very suitable.

They come from different subway exits and seem to live far away. A man always arrives for a few minutes first, greets the woman for coffee and breakfast, and then waits in a secluded corner. The women’s dress is very fashionable, the diamond ring on the finger is gleaming, the small figure, the high heel, and the charm when walking. Pipyou loves the pair of ruby ​​studs on her ears, the size of a grain of rice, which is looming in her short black hair, which makes her face with no special features.

Their love is like this pair of ear studs, and it seems that they do not exist. Just a little bit, everything is there. After talking for less than ten minutes, they each took their own coffee, went to different buildings, and disappeared into the gray crowd.

Whenever I saw them, Pippi wondered what his mother would be like when she was with that Taiwanese businessman. She had never met that person, only knew that he was a rich middle-aged man, very gentle, very rich, and there were several toy factories in this city. It was said that he was not generous to his mother, so Xiao En Xiaohui was captured. The grandmother later said that it was all the sins made by Grandpa Pipi. There was a daughter who didn’t know how to take care of her. She drank and went crazy and beat people to death. When she grew up, she couldn’t resist the temptation of men. Later, my mother became pregnant and sneaked into the hospital for abortion. She almost died due to heavy bleeding. The hospital notified Pippi. Not long after Pippi went to work, he took his savings to the aftermath, and brought her bloodless mother back to the dormitory, and stewed her turtles every day to raise her body. The money was not enough, so he borrowed a thousand yuan from Jialin. Jia Lin insisted not to let her return it, and Pippi did not return it either.

The whole story is like a popular version of “Covered Bridge”. The mother told Pippi that she was actually not the mistress, and that the man was divorced. He plans to expand in Europe when his business grows, and wants her to follow. She hesitated and refused to agree, so he looked for another woman. Pippi said after hearing that, mom, if you really like him, divorce. One shot and two breaks everyone relax. Ma Pippi couldn’t keep crying, it’s not that I didn’t want to go, I couldn’t bear you. If it were not for you, I would have left your father. Your grandma’s stern mouth can be cut in her eyes, and I will suffer a whole day with her. I must have died prematurely with her.

In fact, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have seen it every day since they were sensible. They always thought it was a contradiction among the people, but unexpectedly it would be to the point of death. Later, she told Xiaoju this, Xiaoju still envied: “You still have a mother, no matter what happens, you still go home. What about my mother? As soon as she left without a trace, she threw a piece of paper to my dad before leaving. Article:’Xiaoju already knows how to cook’.”

Life to Pippi is like a Zhang Daqian ink painting, too many fuzzy and messy sinking under the water, only Jialin’s independent lotus in Lingfeng is clear. It was as clear as her future.

Jia Lin is the only recognizable landscape in Pippi Brown’s life, and Helan Jingting has never appeared in her blueprint.

Ever since, after Muyu Tea House, Pippi never saw him again.

It’s not that Pippi doesn’t know what’s wrong. On the day when Helan Jingting left, Pippi guiltily called him three calls: two cellphones and one landline, no one answered. Fearing that he was still in anger, Pippi waited for three days and called again, but there was still no one. The phone dropped a few times and entered the automatic message. Especially suspicious, Pipi said timidly: “Mr. Helan, I’m sorry for what happened that day. You—” She wanted to say, “Is the injury on your finger better? “The words were not finished, the message time had passed, and the phone was turned off with a beep. For some reason, she felt an inexplicable humiliation and could no longer muster the courage to call.

In desperation, she asked Feng Xinhua. Feng Xinhua said that Helan Jingting will go to see two archaeological sites with the curator this month. The schedule is full. People are now in a certain county in Shaanxi. Pippi waited restlessly for another week, but there was no answer. Thinking about the future of the hard-to-find interview, I was a little discouraged. After thinking about it, I decided to wait for Helan Jingting to return to City C.

Just in time for this month, Wei Qingtan was unwell and took three weeks off. Pippi’s TOEFL test period is getting closer and closer, so he will learn vocabulary in the study class and do exercises every day after get off work. She didn’t expect to get a good grade in the exam. The expensive registration fee was there, and I was too sorry for the money.

A whole month was spent in busyness and chaos.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Pippi went to McDonald’s for lunch and would meet Xin Xiaoju by the way. During the lunch break, Xiaoju took Pippi’s hand and slipped outside, and suddenly said, “Pippi, I’m online.”

“You, net, love, right?” Pippi frowned, skeptical.

Xiaoju said very surely.

Except for part-time work, Xiaoju spends all his spare time on the Internet: he is the moderator of several forums and has joined more than fifty QQ groups. She is very active in joining online “group activities”, but keeps a reasonable distance from these groups. Refuse to contact anyone alone. So far, there are only about Pippi and Pepe on the QQ list of her personal friends. There is no internet in Pippi’s dormitory. It is only online after going to the newspaper office. Pepe only likes to contact by phone. They don’t have time to chat with her.

And Xiaoju has an online dating! ! !

Before Pipi tortures, Xiaoju recruits. They met in the “Open Sesame” forum. Twenty-nine years old, a researcher at the Institute of Mathematics.

“Fake.” Pippi denied, “Liar. Now some fifty-year-old men are frustrated in love and cheat girls on the Internet until they get to bed.”

“At least he understands mathematics, this must not be false.” Xiaoju tried to defend him, “I threw him a nonlinear differential equation, and it will be solved in a while. He threw it to me, and now he can’t even do an approximate solution. come out.”

“Okay. He is a liar who understands math.”

“I think… he speaks quite sincerely.” Xiaoju put her hands in her hands, her eyes pierced, “he asked to meet.”

“Ask to meet so soon?” Pippi’s head sounded the alarm, “Could it be a pervert?”

“My conditions are not good. My mother ran away with someone, and my father was a lunatic, uneducated, unemployed, part-time job, and accomplish nothing. If he is really doing research, maybe he dislikes me.” Xiaoju sighed.

“What do you think? You look so good!” Pippi gave her a push. “Do you think men look at their high school education?”

“Oh, these years, I also want to study night school or something. But I have to do two jobs a day, so I really don’t have the energy to study. Besides, my dad is sick again.”

Xiaoju’s father is like this. If he is healthy, he will do math problems in the park or on the street. When you’re hungry, just buy something to eat. The money is all provided by Xiaoju. He remembers going home to ask his daughter once a month.

If he is sick, he will no longer sleep on the street, but hum and fall at the door of his house. Xiaoju has to take care of him, and when it is serious, he has to ask for leave.

“Do you need to borrow money?” Pippi asked.

“This time his illness is a bit troublesome. The doctor suspects it is cancer.” Xiaoju thought for a while and said, “Can you lend me five hundred? I won’t be able to pay it back next month, and I won’t pay you until the end of the year.”

Although Xiaoju occasionally wants to borrow money from Pippi or Pepe, she is very trustworthy, saying when to pay it back and never defaults.

“I will lend you a thousand.”

“I only need five hundred.” Xiaoju looked into the distance and said softly, “I’m considering changing to a job with more money.”

“Don’t tire yourself too much.”

“Pippi, I saw my mother last week.” The expression on her face was weird, “I always thought she was away from home. Unexpectedly, she still lives in this city. She is married again and her children are so big Now. I walked in front of her and she didn’t even recognize me. Damn. Dead woman. I cursed her ancestors for eight generations.”

Pippi didn’t dare to talk about her mother with Xiaoju, and she had been struggling to take care of that unconscious father for so many years. He quickly averted the conversation: “Hey, you used eyeshadow today. Which brand? It looks so good, I’ll buy one too.”

Xiaoju took out an eyeshadow box from his jeans purse: “What did you buy? You gave it. Do you remember? A birthday present?”

“Oh my God, that was two years ago. It will expire!” Pippi cried.

“What’s going on, I’m optimistic.” She took out the small mirror and glanced at herself. “I will see him later.”

“You see him? Who do you see?”

“That netizen.”

Pippi became nervous: “See you where?”

“He asked me to choose a place. I chose McDonald’s at the gate of C. Isn’t it safe?” She smiled slyly, “I used to work there, and everyone inside is familiar.”

They talked about a conversation, Xiaoju’s break time was up and she went to work.

At three o’clock, she called Pippi: “Hey Pippi…”

Pippi was organizing files, holding the phone to her ear: “What’s the matter?”

“I’m not going to see him. Retreat.”

“Let’s do it,” Pippi said suddenly, “how about I’ll meet him for you?”