Self-cultivation with a plate of tomato scrambled eggs

Chapter 19

"I'm back." Song Xiaowu opened the door, picked up two watermelons, and hung a bag of lychees on his arm. He leaned against the entrance and kicked off his shoes twice to put on sandals. The sand on the surface of the watermelon turned to Li Tianqi in the living room and said: "I froze the watermelon in the refrigerator, and I will eat it out at night. By the way, the fruit seller also told me a recipe for making lychee wine. If you want to drink, let's try it? But this lychee may not be enough, I will buy a few more catties tomorrow..."

After chatting for a long while, without getting a response, Song Xiaowu couldn't help leaning out half of his body from the kitchen: "Oh, I'm talking to you, Big Lizi."

Li Tianqi seemed to have just heard his words, and turned his eyes from the TV to him, but his expression was still a little complicated: "Xiao Wu, I found my sister."

Li Tianqi has a younger sister.Song Xiaowu found out about this after the two of them confirmed their relationship, and he understood why Li Tianqi was so resolute in not allowing himself to be called his elder brother, no matter whether it was because he wanted to get close at first or later from the bottom of his heart.As for other things, Song Xiaowu didn't ask any more questions. He couldn't bear to let Li Tianqi recall how warm and happy that home was, and how he survived alone in this strange city after that incident. At the age of 21, he was deprived of the best five years. Fortunately, he met Ni Yan by chance—so Song Xiaowu was grateful to Ni Yan, and envied her for being the one who accompanied Li Tianqi during his most bewildered and hopeless year. people.

"Where is it?" Hearing this, Song Xiaowu didn't care about anything else, just wiped the water stains from his hands on his pants, and hurried to Li Tianqi.

Li Tianqi's gaze had already returned to the TV, and then he said, "Mucheng Middle School."

Song Xiaowu was puzzled, and glanced at the TV, only to find that it was an education channel of a local station. The scene had just switched back to the indoor studio, and he paid special attention to the host's name—it wasn't Li.

"She has become a teacher." Li Tianqi smiled a little bewilderedly, "When I think of her these past few years, she is still the same as when she was a child... She should have grown up like this."

"Go find her." Song Xiaowu sat down beside him, and held his hand, "I'll accompany you."

Mucheng is a small county, but it's not far from Beijing. It's just a high-speed train and then a bus. In recent years, tourism has developed, which can be regarded as a popular route.

After deciding to leave, Song Xiaowu went back to Yao's house.He and Li Tianqi have now moved into the new house, and taking advantage of the spare money in their hands, they rented a newly built shop next to the community, and the original shop was taken over by Aunt Yang, so it is not as convenient as before to go back to Yao's house, but since After Yuan Ke's father came to the capital last time, Mr. Yao didn't ask Song Xiaowu to stay at Yao's house all the time like before. Instead, he took the initiative to mention that no matter what business Song Xiaowu wanted to do, Yao Jian would pay attention to it. that is.

Probably the old man also noticed that instead of Song Xiaowu answering on time every day, the kid came back more diligently.

Yao Jian was also there at lunch, and the old man asked him, "Is Lao Yuan going back to Jinzhou?"

Yao Jian replied: "Let's leave at No. 16. It seems that there is something in the business that requires him to make decisions. I set the practice at No. 15. You know that Qiarong Garden will not come out that day, so I changed it to Qingsong building."

The old man nodded: "Yes. I won't be there at that time, you and Xiao Wu will treat you well." He said to Song Xiaowu: "Your Uncle Yuan likes you, so you don't have to be too cautious. If you have any doubts, you can ask Your big brother."

Song Xiaowu thought, No. 15 will happen in three days, and it will take two days to go back and forth to Mucheng. It is hard to say whether he can find Li Tianqi's sister smoothly, so he can only say: "What a coincidence, my friend and I have agreed to go tomorrow. Take a look at Mucheng, the tickets are all bought, and it's the first time we've cooperated together, so it's not good to let the pigeons go..."

The old man heard this, and said, "Go to Mucheng? It won't take much time on the way, and NO.15 can always come back."

Song Xiaowu nodded quickly: "That's what I mean. Uncle Yuan is leaving, and I will definitely be there if I can. It's just that the schedule is a bit rushed, and I'm afraid the plan won't keep up with the changes."

The old man sneered: "Do you really think I don't know about your little fights?"

Hearing this sentence, Song Xiaowu suddenly felt that the hairs on his back were blowing up for no reason. He sneaked a look at the old man's expression, but there was nothing unusual. He wanted to ask the old man what he meant, but he was afraid that he would be suspected of being a guilty conscience. Pretending not to know anything, he continued to eat honestly with his head down.

After eating and talking with the old man for a while, Song Xiaowu wanted to rush back.

Li Tianqi had already bought the tickets, and prepared the gifts for his family properly. On the surface, he looked calm and decent, but Song Xiaowu knew that this person was just hiding his nervousness. Otherwise, he wouldn't have walked back and forth in the department store for nearly four hours, buying a shopping cart full of things, but in the end he still couldn't decide which to give away-and tried to forcefully drink a glass of stars. Ice Le comforted himself.

Obviously he is the one who needs to be appeased - it's a pity that sweets don't work for him.

When they finally set off, the presents in the room were nothing more than two cans of good tea, a pack of ganoderma lucidum spore powder, a pack of bird’s nest, and a pair of bracelets. All of them are things that are not broken for a long time, and there will be opportunities to give them away slowly in the future-of course, it's not that I never thought about what if I can't give them out?

Song Xiaowu knew that Li Tianqi must have thought more than him, and he didn't even really fall asleep last night, but he didn't want to show it, so he could only pretend that he didn't know anything.After getting into the car, Song Xiaowu took out a pair of earphones and put them on for Li Tianqi involuntarily: "Listen to the nursery rhymes for a while, and I'll call you when I get there."

He chose an old English song for Li Tianqi, because he himself felt drowsy when he heard English, and he only hoped that it would have some effect on Li Tianqi.

Of course Li Tianqi is different from him, but in his ears, the music of the end of the last century slowly sounded, and with the quiet surrounding environment full of hints of hustle and bustle, Song Xiaowu really created a distant feeling for him by mistake. , Slightly sad, but stable and familiar, people dare to expose tired and slack things, such as memories, and hometown.

Song Xiaowu gently closed the magazine, and was relieved to see that Li Tianqi had fallen asleep.

He can understand Li Tianqi's mood at the moment, but he still can't empathize with him. He seems to be born without a nerve in his brain. He rarely tosses and turns for uncertain things. He strives for what he desires desperately, and cherishes what he gets. , As for what you can't get, you have to accept the fact.

Song Xiaowu couldn't help thinking, is it the same for other people when they fall in love?No matter how close the relationship is, can't you be happy or cry instead of each other?He tilted his head, resting his chin, and looked at Li Tianqi seriously, his thoughts became very rare, until the notification sounded that the train arrived at the station, Li Tianqi opened his eyes, and the bright face of Song Xiaowu came into view: "Are you awake? Did you sleep well?"

Li Tianqi smiled at him and took off the earphones. After a few hours of driving, the Beijing dialect that he had become accustomed to had changed into Liangxi dialect again, which rang out from time to time in the surrounding area. Only then did Li Tianqi realize that this journey was actually not Not as far and as difficult as he thought.He picked up the bag and said to Song Xiaowu: "Let's go, let's have lunch first."

The restaurants around the train station are always busy, not to mention it's a serious meal, the two walked all the way, Song Xiaowu saw that the shops were bustling with activity, even the temporary tables and chairs were crowded with people, let alone the restaurant. There were quite a few takeaways, so they couldn't help being a little jealous, and said to Li Tianqi: "Oh, I heard that our house is going to build a train station?"

Li Tianqi said: "This word has been spread for many years, and it's not unheard of. Now that many new buildings have been built, how can we build a railway station?" Seeing Song Xiaowu's regretful expression, he couldn't help laughing: "The money-making You have a lot of work, and you can take it all? Besides, if you really want to live near the train station, you will be noisy from morning to night, so what if you earn more money?"

Song Xiaowu pursed his mouth, thinking that I am just a money string, what's the matter?While continuing to look around, all the restaurants that I passed just now had the signboard of authentic Liangxi sauced ribs. Unfortunately, Song Xiaowu had eaten the sauced ribs made by Li Tianqi. A little bit except that Wushan is not a cloud, until the word "sugar taro" appeared, Song Xiaowu's eyes lit up immediately, and he quickly said to Li Tianqi: "Let's eat this!"

Not long after sitting down, the proprietress came over to discuss whether she would like to share the table with other guests. Song Xiaowu had no objection, and Li Tianqi nodded in agreement.Two young men sat across from them. It seemed that they were on a business trip and they were discussing whether to go to Donglin Academy or Lingshan Buddha first. The accent seemed to be from the Jinzhou area.

Li Tianqi ordered two servings of candied taro, oily gluten stuffed meat and shredded radish pancakes. Turning around, he heard a person on the opposite side ask, "Boys, are you here to play too?" Song Xiaowu raised his head and was about to speak, but I realized that the two of them were obviously waiting for Li Tianqi's answer... Well, anyway, I didn't say anything, so there's nothing shameful about it.Song Xiaowu thought to himself.I saw that Li Tianqi just nodded and didn't intend to answer the conversation. The atmosphere was awkward for a while, but fortunately, the food ordered by both sides came one after another, and everyone bowed their heads to eat, and it was all right.

After dinner, I went to the bus station opposite the train station. Outside the ticket hall, men, women and children were bustling with people driving cars, seeing off, selling steamed buns and siu mai, and driving black cars to hotels. Li Tianqi didn’t hear much. He was scrambling to ask him in dialects that he understood, "Will Hudai go?" Which words, and which words, can represent the hometown.