(89) See Hua Mei
On the fifth day of the lunar New Year, every family, firecrackers sing together to welcome the God of wealth, some stores to take this auspicious day to open for business.
Spring Festival small long vacation not a few days, visit hua Mei is imminent. I borrowed a motorcycle from my cousin Bo Ya and rode the wind all the way to the county seat.
There are certain skills that once learned, even if they haven’t been practiced for years, you can pick up later and still be very good at them, like riding a motorcycle. However, some skills, such as relationships, may be lost when they are picked up after years of neglect.
The town is small and poor, with no established enterprises. Both sides of the street are full of small workshops, mainly restaurants and supermarkets. Almost every shop has a shoddy speaker at the door. Pop songs, tearful sale, discount promotion and other sounds mixed together, full of market atmosphere.
I turned several streets to find huamei’s pharmacy. Drugstore is not big, close to the county people’s hospital. At the moment, the entrance of the drugstore is filled with flower baskets and red firecracker fragments are strewn all over the floor.
After three or four trips to the drugstore, I finally decided to call. I pulled over to a corner of the road and rehearsed my opening line in my head as I walked to the store.
As soon as I stepped into the store, a curly-haired aunt in a white coat greeted me. She smiled warmly.
“Hello, can I help you?”
I looked around, did not see hua Mei’s figure, then asked: “aunt, Wang Qinghua is here to work?”
The smile on the curly-haired aunt’s face faded in an instant. She turned around and buried herself in the shelves. “What do you want with her?”
“I’m her classmate.” I admire waist.
“All day long, but classmates and friends, brothers and girlfriends.” Aunt mouth du du rang, see I did not want to leave the meaning, then not good spirit way, “she today vacation, do not go to work.”
“Oh, well, thank you.” Obviously, I walked out of the drugstore and took out a cell phone to call Hua Mei, “Hey, Tsinghua, you didn’t go to the drugstore.”
“Ah!” The telephone that hua mei shouted 1, and then laughed: “I still think you are joking, you really come.”
Cold wind blowing hand, I pulled the sleeve cold, shivering way: “gentleman a word, a whip.”
“Wait for me in the shop. I’ll be there in a minute.”
Long separation of people look forward to the reunion, the reunion is afraid of the day in a hurry. I stood in front of the drugstore, stamping my feet to keep out the cold, scanning the traffic for the girl.
Half an hour later, Hua Mei rolled up on a silver electric bike. In the morning fog, she was wearing a white down jacket, her head covered by a hat, only a small face the size of a hand was visible.
I could not see the expression on her face because of my eyesight, but I felt that she was radiant, more dazzling than the sun. She parked her scooter, took off her hat and strode over to me.
The sun kissed her orange hair and the north wind caressed her white cheeks. They’re very careful, very gentlemanly. But I want to be a rude man, rushed forward to give hua Mei a big hug. And if the feeling is in place, a deep kiss.
Hua Mei is closer and closer to me, her appearance is more and more clear. Eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, neck, chest, belly, waist, thighs, calves, ankles began to swim in the sea of my eyes.
At last, our eyes met, our faces beaming with the joy of seeing old friends again. Even though I had a thousand ideas in my heart, we only changed into one sentence: “Long time no see, Tsinghua.”
“Why don’t you go inside? How cold it is outside.” Hua mei concerns way.
“It’s all right. It’s not cold.” My mouth try to be brave, thinking that if the curly aunt face a little happy, I will not like a bamboo pole like pestle in this cold wind.
I followed hua Mei into the drugstore again, curly aunt and I again face, she still put on a pair of indifferent appearance.
“Xiaohua, you haven’t studied very high here, but you have a lot of classmates. They come here every once in a while. Do we still do business in the drugstore?” Aunt Curly gave a sneer.
“Aunt May, if you go to square dancing again during work, I will report to the boss.” Hua Mei pout back, not to be outdone.
“Well, little girl, take your aunt’s army.” Aunt Curly Hair disarmed.
Watching an old and a small you to me to the ground bickering, I stood there with smiling face. Hua Mei, as I knew her at the beginning, will never lose.
“Big yao, let’s go out to chat, don’t delay my aunt Mei’s business.” Hua Mei spoke very loudly on purpose.
Hua-mei turned and walked out of the store, and I followed her. I took the opportunity to sneak a peek at Hua Mei’s thickly clad but still slender legs.
Hua-mei’s beautiful legs remind me of old high school days. At that time, there were two gym classes every Friday afternoon, which were free time. Many of the boys in my class would gather on the basketball court to play games, while I, who did not like sports, used to sit in the stands on the playground and do homework.
I was commanding, occasionally looked up around, hua mei often appeared in my field of vision. Sometimes she wears headphones quietly in the corner, sometimes she jumps around the court.
Then her little feet seemed to glow, and she could walk as fast as she could. My eyes often follow the light, catch her, followed her, finally to the playground side of the women’s bathroom direction.
Today, Hua-mei’s feet still glow. Taking small steps is like stepping on a drum beat. It’s refreshing. We walked straight along Center Street, aimlessly.
The crowd, the flow of traffic or head-on, or passed from behind. So we walked quietly, she didn’t look at me, I was embarrassed to look at her.
I thought I’d be able to talk 300 rounds with a Chinese sister when I met her, thanks to all the hot social media chatter. The actual operation is full of reserved, wanting to speak to each other.
Twinkling of an eye, to the people’s hospital gate, I looked up at the high-rise, take the opportunity to talk: “the people’s hospital or the old look ah.”
“Yes, it’s still broken.” Hua mei looked down my line of sight and answered.
I took the opportunity to catch a glimpse of Hua Mei. I caught a glimpse of her side face, bathed in winter sun and slightly embellished. I could even make out the fuzz at the tip of her nose. Oh, no. It’s an irregular heartbeat.
“You’re just the same.” My style light cloud light.
“Crow’s feet are out, old.”
“I still look young and radiant.”
Hua – mei burst into laughter, like a stone thrown into a lake, ripples of joy spread across her face.
After many years, I finally no longer don’t understand amorous feelings, no longer nervous to say words, no longer clearly like but pretend to be bored. I finally learned how to please a girl.
(90) Retraction for helmet
Our reserve gradually left us, hua Mei began to chat with me about some old high school friends. She talked with great emotion about who had kids, who got married, who got divorced… There was a lot of good laughter in between.
I’m not too excited about it. Now, I don’t care about the old classmates I haven’t seen in a long time, I only care about her.
Talk with, faintly heard the cry of hua mei’s stomach purr, I then ask a way: “didn’t have breakfast?”
Hua mei rubs belly, embarrassed place nodded. I scanned the street and found a bun shop cooking on the corner. So we hurried into the bun shop and sat down in a quiet corner.
Hua Mei ordered a tray of Hangzhou steamed buns and a bowl of wontons. Since I ate too much before going out under the supervision of my mother, I didn’t order anything. I just sat opposite and watched Hua mei eat.
May be too hot wonton, steamed stuffed bun is too hot, not good next mouth, may also be I this huaichun man sitting opposite, not too bold. Hua mei’s eating style is very delicate, not the high school met food after a pair of voracious appearance.
We were getting to know each other, and Hua Mei was leading the conversation. She reminisced about the past and talked about embarrassing things, while I nodded and agreed with her like a replay machine.
After ending a topic, I finally found the right time to seize the initiative.
“How many times has my mother told me about you?” I dropped a soft cannonball on Hua Mei.
“Oh?” Hua Mei shot fell to the ground, surprised, handed to the mouth of the steamed stuffed bun from the chopsticks slide.
I picked up the bun that had fallen off the ground, threw it into the trash can and asked, “Do you still remember that you came to my house to return books during the summer vacation of the second year of high school?”
Hua mei mouth is stuffed with steamed stuffed bun, drum cheek son say: “remember ah, your mother also stuffed two wild vegetable steamed stuffed bun to me.”
“Yes, it was lunchtime, and my mother wanted you to stay for dinner, but you wouldn’t. When she left, she shoved two buns on you. You didn’t eat that bun, did you?”
“Yes, it tastes good.”
My heart suddenly broke the honey pot, but began to imagine with hua Mei formed a good marriage, my mother and her mother-in-law two people live in harmony. If a man can solve this Chinese conundrum, he is sure to be happy for life.
“I thought you threw it away?”
“No.”
Hua Mei smile really beautiful, the corners of the mouth exposed two small pear vortex. Suddenly, she returned to her stern face and stared at me, which made my heart tremble.
“Tell the truth, did you put that physics reference book in my bag on purpose?”
My heart says that if I had been sixteen or seventeen years old, I would have had such a profound knowledge, and now I would not be alone and neglected. I waved my hand repeatedly and said with a bitter smile, “How can it be? How could I have been so clever?”
Hua-mei pouted, “The other day when you called my house and asked for reference books, yelling and screaming, my mother thought I had done something terrible.”
“Ha ha, at that time I was really do not understand pity xianyu, you have a good life. Then I thought, maybe we got a whole bunch of them when we were sorting out the books before the holidays.”
Hua Mei deliberately put on a ruthless manner: “if other people, not my violent temper, would have torn that reference book to pieces.”
I borrow slope donkey, open big mouth: “am I in your heart have so important position?”
“Damn it, you think too much. Your old people at that time but our head teacher Wu teacher’s palm treasure, I am afraid that no reference books to delay you. Monthly test if you lost to the first class of two, I am not our class of sinners.”
I laughed and said, “Aren’t you always a sinner in our class? Single-handedly brought down our class’s average scores by nearly one point.”
“Big yao, don’t take you so damage people.” The smile faded from Hua Mei’s face.
When I saw hua Mei’s face was a little pale, I thought I was talking nonsense again. When can get rid of the smug will forget the smelly problem, do not be surprised, the passions in color.
I hurried to squeeze out smiling face: “Tsinghua, elder brother joke ha, can’t take it seriously.”
“With whom? I’m a month older than you, Aries.” Hua mei plate face, tone is very domineering.
I thought female Aries, male archer, perfect match. Can turn to think, I his mother is clearly a person who does not believe in constellation, why now hard to concave constellation, I guess must be because of ebullition, not, is love.
“That…… Elder sister, you don’t angry, line…… No.” “I said reluctantly.
Took advantage of me a little, hua Mei’s face this just from overcast to clear.
“Aren’t you 91? I’m 90.” I suddenly realized the problem.
“Oh, I just lost my temper.” Hua mei’s face changed from sunny to sunny in an instant.
This must be a pattern. Being taken advantage of by others, I must beg to come back, I stare at hua mei closely: “that quick call elder brother.”
Hua mei refused of course, she cut a proud jiao such as Galen.
As expected, if the face is thick enough, feelings will progress quickly.
After breakfast, I accompanied Hua-mei to stroll around the county’s largest department store. In the small county town, where there is little entertainment, shopping malls can be the best way to kill time.
Hua Mei had her eye on a coat and was going to buy it. I insisted on paying for her, but she couldn’t compete with me, so she chose not to buy it.
In the middle of shopping, Hua Mei went to the bathroom. When I returned from the toilet, I smelled the faint smell of tobacco on her body. She must have been addicted to cigarettes, so she went for a smoke, and I didn’t tell her.
I spent more than two hours in the shopping mall, and almost every shop and every booth fell down. It’s not that Hua Mei loves shopping, it’s just that adult entertainment is too scarce.
The road walked much, my stomach began to protest, then with hua Mei into a Decs. I ordered a set meal. It was neither lunch nor dinner. It was to eat when you were hungry, whether it was food or not.
During the meal, li Xiangyang sent me a video request on wechat. I refused many times, but he invited me again and again. Before returning home, I left Galen in The care of Li Xiangyang. He was a novice cat owner, so I was afraid something had happened to Galen and had to answer the phone.
Sure enough, Galen had been mewing nonstop for the last few days, and Li xiangyang had no choice but to turn to me for help. I comforted Galen, teased and begged, but to no avail. He was still lying on the ground, wagging his tail and whining.
When we were at a loss what to do, Hua Mei approached: “I also have a cat, let me see.”
I handed hua Mei the phone.
‘Who’s this girl? The picture was suddenly filled with Li Xiangyang’s big face.
I took the phone from Hua Mei’s hand and glared at Li Xiangyang. “Who wants to see you? Give the camera to Galen.”
Li Xiangyang one Peking cavity: “ya big head also hurriedly move from the screen, I want to see the beauty.”
Hua Mei stared at the screen for a moment. “Galen doesn’t look sick to me. He looks like he’s in heat.”
Li Xiangyang face dew difficult color: “estrus? I can hardly find a girl this Spring Festival. Where can I find a female cat for it?”
His words instantly made hua Mei laugh. This guy doesn’t know what to say, he always reveals a slut. Can have to ask a person, I have to dedicate a face flatter however: “xiang Yang elder brother, later little younger brother hair a big red envelope to you, you be tired to help Galun?”
“Get, don’t hold up your boy good thing. I asked my feline friends around if they could find him a female. When you come back for the New Year, you must treat me to a good meal.” Li Xiangyang was also interested.
“No problem.” I promised.
After sending Li Xiangyang away, I received an alarm message about qianlong online fault just a few minutes after it was peaceful. It was the integral module I was in charge of that had a problem.
Everything else can be ignored and ignored. But this alarm text, I can’t be careless. Because a single online glitch can affect millions or even tens of millions of people.
“Tsinghua, the company is in a hurry.” I got up and put on my coat, ready to go outside.
“What, are you going back to Beijing?” Hua – mei stared at me.
I smile way: “that pour unapt, this nearby have net cafe?”
“There’s one across the street, but it’s in a bad environment.” Hua Mei pointed to the outside.
“The environment doesn’t matter, just the Internet.”
Under hua mei’s guidance, I entered a name “exceed the speed of light” Internet bar, opened two machines.
“Tsinghua, you play casually, I have to solve a problem.”
I opened the machine, entered the account, entered the screen, downloaded the relevant terminal, logged in VPN, sent to big Fly brother for help, let him help add key on the springboard machine, I use the fastest speed to fix the environment. Meanwhile, colleagues in the test group were helping to reproduce the problem, while students in the operation and maintenance group were locating whether it was caused by the environment.
By the time I had solved the problem, night was falling. As I flex my neck, I see a cup of bubble tea in the corner of the table. I looked to Hua mei, she is engrossed in a mobile phone to play lianliankan games.
She curled up like a rabbit, criminally cute. I could not bear to disturb her, so I stared at her until I became fascinated. Suddenly, she raised her head and met my eyes. I quickly turned my eyes to the milk tea.
“It’s cold. I’ll go out and get you another one.” Hua Mei gets up and wants to go outside.
I stretched my hand to stop her once, stand up straight, stretched a lazy: “forget it, I finished the thing, let’s go.”
By the time we walked back to the drugstore, it was dark. With great difficulty, I started the motorcycle and waved goodbye to my sister.
“Wait a minute.” Hua-mei rushed into the drugstore, and moments later, she came to me with a pink women’s helmet. “Can you put it on?”
“There’s no need. I’ll be home in half an hour.” I refused.
“Put it on. It’s very cold to ride a motorcycle at night. I’m close to home and usually don’t wear it.”
I said no, but I wanted the helmet in my pocket. A tiny helmet, it can be a token of love or, at worst, an excuse to meet up with a girl next time.
I had the story all figured out: return the helmet, lose the helmet, buy a new helmet, the new helmet doesn’t fit, change the helmet… Come and go between, with hua mei can create a number of opportunities to meet.
To be honest, Hua-mei’s helmet is a bit small. But it’s not unheard of to shave one’s feet. I held my breath, gritted my teeth, and tried to tuck my head into my helmet. This is called a retraction helmet.
A few years later, if I become a famous person, the doer can use this idiom. I’m not taking royalties. I just hope the story is about love, not intelligence.
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