Star-Crossed Lovers: The Ex-Convict and the White Rabbit - Chapter 34
When Lu Yin arrived in Qianyuan, he was 29 years old. When he got off the bus, a moist breath fluttered across his face, and he sniffed it. Lu Yin hooked his lips and had a long-lost intimacy.
When you stepped out of the platform, you saw Lu Youzhen standing on her feet. She was wearing a gray jacket and coarse trousers. Her trousers were rolled up, revealing a pair of black cotton socks.
Lu Yin had no reason to pantothenic acid, and quickly waved at him.
Lu You saw him, smiled happily, and strode toward here.
He took Lu Yin luggage, “Tired?”
“Not tired, fell asleep.” Lu Yin asked: “How about aunt?”
“She is at home and both children are on holiday. It’s very noisy.”
Lu Yinxizi, grab luggage with him: “I’ll come.”
“I’m coming, I’m coming,” he hid and walked a few steps forward: “The car is at the door.”
To avoid the crowd, Lu Youzheng’s manpower stopped on the back lane for three rounds. He unlocked the lock, put the box aside and helped her pull the door.
Lu Yin raised his head and glanced at it. It was the same car a few years ago. The car body was rusty, the tires were covered with dirt, and the shade of the roof had no color.
As she stepped up, Lu You was plugging in the door, pedaling quickly and riding away.
He passed quickly through the crowded train station.
Lu Yin sat behind, looking at his back and forth shaking back and forth, “Uncle,” the volume was covered by the hustle and bustle, she exclaimed: “It’s all twenty-nine years, do you still come out to work?”
Lu Youzheng turned his head halfway: “To stay is to stay, to pick you up by the way.”
The town is not very big, a street leads straight to the end, and both sides of the road are selling new year’s goods.
They lived in an old alley, and the house was old, left by grandmother Lu Yin.
Entering the door, the two children are making fun, both girls, Da Ke and Xiao Ke, the longest just went to college this year, the youngest is only 11, was born when Lu Yin left home.
Seeing her standing at the door, she was recognizable, and she shouted with a smile.
Xiao Kesheng was born, hiding behind Da Ke and secretly looking at her. Lu Yin smiled kindly, walked over to squeeze her face, and happened to have a piece of chocolate left in her pocket, turning it out and handing it to her.
Lu Youzheng shouted into the kitchen. After a while, a middle-aged woman leaned her head and smiled: “Yin Yin is back.”
“Yes, aunt.” Lu Yin put down his backpack. “Need help?”
She glanced up and down at her, “Forget it, just wait for the meal, don’t follow it.”
Lu Yin was taken aback for a moment, and took off his coat: “It’s okay, anyway, the car is not clean.”
I was busy working in the kitchen for a while, and I had a few chats. Lu Yin was not good at speaking, and the relationship did not touch the point of nonsense. There was only the sound of dishes colliding in the cold.
For dinner, four dishes and one soup, when serving, Lu You was suggesting to touch a cup, the person on the opposite side didn’t move.
He shouted, “Li Lan, raise your glass.”
Li Lan looked up at him for a few seconds, picked up the chopsticks, and smiled: “Take Yin Yin as an outsider, how to live here for several years, not eating and wearing the same as his own. Touching.”
Lu Yin paused, his arms raised a bit stiff.
Lu Youzheng was busy: “The two of us are here, Yin Yin, don’t worry about your aunt.”
She smiled and touched him slightly.
They are all ordinary dishes, with shredded bamboo shoots and wild rice in the south, and the soup is vermicelli tofu soup.
Xiao Ke chopped off the plates and pouted: “It’s all dishes. I want to eat the roast chicken at the door.”
Li Lan glared at her angrily: “I think you are a rich man, what do you want to eat, and don’t need money for roasting chicken?” Put two pieces of water rice in her bowl: “Hurry up and eat.”
Xiao Ke put down the chopsticks and grunted.
The atmosphere is a bit awkward, Lu Zhengyou smiled gently: “This kid… Dad will give you money, go buy it.”
Without waiting to pull it out, Li Lan heavily chopped the chopsticks over there: “You are rich again? If you earn enough every day to buy food, the children’s fees will fall next semester? What about the two children… What can we do here? .”
Lu Zhengyou’s old face was blushed with her shame, and she couldn’t keep her hand in her pocket.
The food in Lu Yin’s mouth could not be swallowed, and his throat was stuck like a wooden stopper, which was uncomfortably blocked. She twitched her mouth: “Aunt, don’t worry about the tuition, I will give it to you.”
As soon as these words came out, Li Lan’s complexion immediately turned cloudy: “Oh, aunt doesn’t mean that…”
“It’s okay,” Lu Yin smiled and took a hundred dollars from her wallet. “Xiao Ke, go buy it now.”
Xiao Ke’s eyes lit up and took the money to run out.
Li Lan busy said: “Look at you, everything depends on her, and the children are spoiled. I’m greasy, I’m afraid you won’t get used to it, knowing that you are afraid of being fat at this age…I don’t fit together? Auntie will do well tomorrow .”
Lu Yin: “No, it’s fine.”
The food for a meal was unsatisfactory, and it was over eight o’clock at the end. She opened the suitcase and most of it was a specialty of Zhangzhou. The two children were noisy and snatched in a small hut.
Living in the old two rooms, there is only one bedroom, there are high and low beds next to the living room, big and small can sleep there. When Lu Yin came back, there was no room for her to sleep, the size could be squeezed above, and Lu Yin slept below.
The town is not as lively as Zhangzhou, let alone nightlife, Lu Yin went to wash early.
When he came out, Lu Yin frowned secretly when she saw Da Ke and Xiao Ke were turning her suitcase.
It is obvious that she came out, holding skin care products in her hand, her eyes sparkling: “Sister, you have a whole set! We use this brand in our dormitory. They all say that they are very good after use…Can I try?”
Lu Yin wiped her hair and said with a smile: “Actually your age is not suitable for this brand, I will go back and give…”
She hadn’t spoken yet, Li Lan scolded: “Hurry back and see if your sister is angry.”
Lu Yin was stunned and said: “No, if you like it, use it. I will go back to Zhangzhou and buy it.”
Dake cheered and took out the bottles and cans and ran to the bathroom. Li Lan pulled up Xiao Ke in the past, trying to pull the suitcase up, hesitating for a moment: “Yo! Yin Yin is your clothes?”
Speaking of twisting a brown cashmere bottoming shirt, she looked back and forth. “The style is good,” she glanced at her. “How do young people choose this color?”
Lu Yin said: “In order to resist cold, I did not choose the color specially.”
Li Lan touched the cloth: “It’s quite warm.”
Lu Yin said: “If aunt doesn’t want to give up, take it and wear it. I haven’t gotten up a few times.”
“How is that good?”
“It’s okay.” Lu Yin smiled.
In the end, she was asked to pick two more items. Lu Yin basically had nothing left. When it was noisy, the hour hand passed nine o’clock.
Lu Zhengyou came out of the house and let the lights off to sleep.
Until the room was completely dark, Lu Yin still felt unreal. This place is full of strangeness, in fact she has never been integrated.
I don’t call home when I go home, I call home when I leave here.
I was awkward for a few hours when I fell asleep and was woken up by a mobile phone shock. In fact, just after ten, Lu Qiang was lying on the sofa and playing TV.
Lu Yin put on his coat and spoke softly to the balcony.
The weather in Qianyuan is much higher than in Zhangzhou. There is no snow or dead branches. The moonlight is gentle and the wind is humid.
Lu Yin lay on the fence and talked to him for a while, fearing that they would be noisy too loudly, and he hurriedly closed the line.
She went back on tiptoe, trying not to make a sound.
The door of the bedroom was not tightly closed, and at this moment a gleam of light came out from inside, accompanied by a suppressed argument.
Lu Yin’s footsteps stagnate, squeezing the corner of his clothes tightly, and then lying down on the bed again.
After that she opened her eyes and the night was very quiet.
The uncle said, “Come on, don’t wake them up.”
“What did I hear, wasn’t I right? She couldn’t get married now, and still seize the money given by the old lady, don’t you think our two girls squeeze a bed together, don’t you feel distressed?”
After a while, Lu Zhengyou said: “Don’t think about the dowry money my mother left for Yin Yin. We live in the house, what else do you want?”
“It’s also called a house. No one has a big toilet. You’re embarrassed. Our two girls, you don’t think about me, you have to think about them.”
“What do you think, not a son.”
“What do you mean,” Li Lan was excited: “I blame I didn’t give you an old Lu family son?”
“I don’t mean that…”
Lu Yin rolled over, forcing himself to close his eyes, and after a few moments, he opened it unconsciously, staring at the light in the darkness.
The living room was very quiet, and the sound came out a little empty.
Li Landao: “I heard that the man’s family returned the money to buy a house. Tell me about it. Even if we borrow it first, we will first change to a larger apartment.”
Lu Zhengyou didn’t say anything, she repeated: “How about talking to you?”
He was forced to hurry and drink: “I won’t go.”
There was a sobbing sorrow from inside, for a while: “My life is too bitter, my parents are not around, it is still intolerable to marry a man, the tuition of both children is a problem…”
“Yin Yin works on his own, and in which year will he not pay tuition fees? Is there less money sent to you? Being a man can’t be without conscience.”
“When she eats me and lives me?”
“Then those years should be over.”
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The next day is New Year’s Eve.
Lu Yin didn’t sleep much in the middle of the night and got swollen early.
She went to the bank after washing. Qianyuan has changed in recent years. The economy is more developed than before. Several shopping malls and restaurants have been opened. The middle school where she attended has been demolished and is now a convenient hotel.
Lu Yin stopped, turned around, and opened a room inside.
Just back home to catch up with lunch.
Li Lan came out with a plate and smiled at her, saying: “Yin Yin, go out to play in the morning? Xiao Ke has been hungry and hungry. I will wait for you to eat together.”
Lu Yin changed his shoes and held the backpack in his hand: “Aunt, I have a few words to tell you.”
“Say what?” She wiped her hands on the apron.
Lu Yin took out a few dozens of dollars: “There are thirty thousand here, I’m far away and I can’t take care of it. How much do you hold first,” she paused: “The money that I can afford to go to school will be left to my grandmother I have been saving, I can’t move this money, and I will marry someone in the future, I have to have a little bit in my hand to straighten my waist.”
Li Lan was a little embarrassed, knowing that she heard all of what she said last night, but when she thought about it, she didn’t give any money, and she didn’t want to go too far.
“That’s a long way off, I thought, first…”
“Not far away,” Lu Yin intercepted her words: “It’s just about these two years.”
Li Lan stunned, “Are there anyone? When is it?”
Lu Yin answered ambiguously. Li Lan couldn’t ask anything, but the hard-spoken mother persuaded her to make a complete consideration, for she was afraid that she would choose the wrong person and meet Liu Zecheng’s scumbag.
Lu Yin nodded and said yes.
In the end, the money didn’t come out, she was a little cold.
Lu Yin said by the way: “It’s not convenient for big and small to be packed together. I have eaten tonight, go to the hotel.”
Li Lan squeezed the money and acted: “Is the bed at home uncomfortable?” Lu Yin opened his mouth, didn’t wait for an answer, and listened to her again: “Indeed, this broken bed should also be changed. I have backache when I sleep. I have eaten that and let your uncle give you.”
After dinner, Lu Yin packed up and went out.
Lu Zhengyou carried the luggage and followed behind with a dull voice. The Lu family is left with only Lu Zhengyou. He hasn’t read many books. He dropped out of school early to work hard. He is bored and can’t speak. What his wife said is what he has done all his life.
Most of the time, I can only swallow my voice and barely live.
Seeing that he was not in a high mood, Lu Yin pretended to chat with him easily and pretended to insert thousands of dollars for him.
Lu Zhengyou repeatedly shook off and refused to close.
Lu Yin insisted: “Don’t be so tired during the Chinese New Year, buy clothes for your aunt, and big and small pocket money… You accept it, just let me feel at ease.”
He finally accepted the money, a pair of old eyes gleamed with light, and buried his head deeply: “Come back to eat tomorrow morning.”
Lu Yin watched Lu Zhengyou leave and waited for the figure to disappear in the darkness before turning around.
On New Year’s Eve, the family reunion, the hotel is too deserted, half of the guests are not seen, the little girl at the front desk handed over the keys, it is inevitable to look at her more.
Lu Yin is not uncomfortable. People are not lonely, they will be lonely when they are compared.
She turned on the TV, and every channel was playing the Spring Festival party. The firecrackers were ringing outside, and the fireworks were red.
But it still didn’t feel so lively.
The Chinese New Year is still a few minutes away.
She took the phone and dialed Lu Qiang, and when he was connected, he heard his voice. She was stunned, and she made a decision at that moment, planning to go to the station tomorrow morning.
Suddenly feeling good, she smiled: “Wait for my phone?”
It was too quiet at the end, he hummed: “I just wanted to call you.”
Lu Yin lay on his back on the bed and felt it in her heart. She really felt that the hotel bed was more comfortable than her uncle’s. She asked, “How about smoking?”
Through the current, she could hear soft breaths.
Lu Qiang: “Well.”
“You have been a bit fierce recently.”
“Nothing to do.”
“It’s always bad for your health.”
Lu Qiang said: “If you want a child, just give up.”
Lu Yin bit her lip and secretly smirked for a while, deliberately changed the subject and asked: “Have you eaten?”
“have eaten.”
“With roots?”
Lu Qiang said, “Where is it?”
He didn’t talk much, and after a few words, Lu Yin heard that he was not right, and in the sound of firecrackers resounding in the world, his side was surprisingly quiet.
Lu Yin rolled over, her index finger lightly clasped the sheets, and asked lowly, “…What are you doing?”
After two seconds: “On the road.”
Lu Yin stopped her finger and pressed her palms against the bed sheet: “Are you still out here so late?”
There was a breath of smoke at that end, and he seemed to open the car window, and there was a whistling wind reaching her ear.
Lu Qiang threw away his cigarette butt: “The fourth day may not be able to pick you up. Genzi and I are on the way back to our hometown.” Lu Yin waited, holding his heartbeat fast, and said, “The old lady’s head is a little out of the way.” thing.”
She sat up sharply from the bed: “Is it serious?”
“Go to the roof to repair the tiles and break your legs.”
Lu Yin shook his heart, “Don’t worry too much, when will you arrive?”
“Minger early in the morning.”
She murmured softly.
There was nothing else for a while, but no one hung up.
Lu Yin couldn’t help but recall the address written on the express list…
Suddenly, several fireworks burst out of the window, colorful, rendering the whole sky.
She looked sideways out of the window, the sound of the firecrackers was deafening, and reached the peak fiercely. On TV, the host came out together and started counting down with joy…
In the hustle and bustle of the world, a low whisper in his ear: “Happy New Year,”
“Yinyin…”
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The transition chapter is not exciting at all, it is estimated that Brother Qiang will be drowned, hahahaha~~