Requiem Chapter 19 The girl cried
The sky cleared up that day. Although there were still some clouds, the sun was still shining.
But the sky seemed fine, but in the evening it suddenly became cloudy, as if it was getting dark. Within half an hour, there were lightning and thunder, and a heavy rain fell.
Tang Yan called Yin Hui.
"When will you come back?"
"Not sure. Wait until the rain stops!"
"Did you bring an umbrella?"
"No. I saw the weather was fine this morning, so I didn't bring it."
"Then how did you get back?"
"It's okay. If the rain continues for a while, I'll borrow an umbrella from the master."
"Let me bring you an umbrella! Where are you?"
"No need. It's not far from here. I'll go back by myself later."
"It's okay. Wait a moment. I'll bring you the umbrella and your sandals. The ground is full of water. It will be very uncomfortable if your leather shoes and socks get wet."
"Where's the umbrella?" Yin Hun asked.
Although Tang Yan arrived and brought slippers, she only brought an umbrella.
"This...I didn't find it." Tang Yan said embarrassedly .
"Then what's the point of you coming here? It would be terrible if you catch a cold again."
"But I brought you slippers. Come on, put them on first!"
"No rush. Please wait a moment." Yin Hui went upstairs to borrow an umbrella from Old Zhao. "Okay, let's go!"
At this time, the rain had become much lighter, but it just kept falling.
Tang Yan took off her work clothes and put on a creamy white dress. Her long hair was pinned behind her ears with a hairpin and she wore a pair of half-high heeled sandals. It was the first time Yin Hun saw Tang Yan wearing a skirt. In the dim light, she looked even more graceful. Tang Yan had a good figure. In the past Yin Hun thought she was dignified when she wore formal clothes and delicate when she wore casual clothes. Today, when she wore a skirt, Yin Hun felt like a little sister Tang who had fallen from the sky.
There is a direct bus from Lao Zhao's neighborhood, but the last bus is at 8 p.m. Yin Hui checked the time, it was exactly 8 p.m.
"I wonder if the last bus has passed?" Yin Hui said.
“What if it’s over?”
"That's no big deal." Yin Hui said, "It's no more than five stops from here to my home. If I take a taxi, it will definitely cost the upper limit. Even if I walk back, it won't take more than half an hour at most."
The two waited at the platform for about ten minutes, but the bus never came.
"It seems the car has passed by." Yin Hun said.
"What should we do then?" Tang Yan asked.
"Two options: take a taxi or walk back. Which one do you prefer?"
Tang Yan thought for a moment and said, "Either one is fine. What about you?"
Yin Hui said, "If I had to choose, I would definitely walk back. We can save eight dollars and go get ice cream. Besides, I haven't walked in the rain for a long time, and there's a beautiful woman walking with me!"
"I agree. But just eating ice cream is not enough, I also want to eat potato chips." Tang Yan said with a smile.
"No." Yin Hui said, "Do you think I'm rich?"
The rain continued to fall, and in the dim light of the street lamps, the raindrops looked like pearls. Yin Hui rolled up his trouser legs to his knees and walked side by side with Tang Yan in the rain.
Tang Yan kept kicking the water on the ground with her shoes, splashing water, and sometimes she would stand on the narrow curb and walk crookedly in a straight line. She looked like a child.
"Hey, beautiful lady, be careful." Yin Hui said, "That's not safe." "It's fun. I haven't played like this for a long time, especially in the rain."
Yes! Such a simple game, we seem to have become unfamiliar with it. Yin Hui sighed, thinking back to when he was young, he used to bathe in the river and fish for frogs in the pond. He also used to steal sweet potatoes from other people's fields and then go to the mountains to light a bonfire for barbecue. He also used to sneak into other people's orchards to pick apples when it rained. What a simple and happy thing! They just left him.
After adulthood, everyone is running around for their own lives. For the sake of profit, they can drink with people they despise. For the sake of communication, they can wear all kinds of masks. To achieve their goals, they can put on different disguises. For money, they can betray their friends. For the sake of physical pleasure, they can deceive others' feelings at will. For the sake of power, they can disregard social order.
In short, for their own sake, we can disregard everything and even sell our souls.
Just like that, the innocence of the past now seems so strange. The deep friendship of the past now seems so fake. Now even a simple game like walking in a straight line and finding balance on the curb can make me so excited. The sadness is really indescribable.
We hang out in discotheques, go in and out of hotels, and see the prosperity of the world, but how much happiness has touched our hearts? After drinking and eating, we are still hungry and thirsty. After enjoying ourselves, we are still empty. The warmth and coldness of human feelings make our friendship so fragile. The vicissitudes of the world make our integrity vulnerable. After years of hard work, we have gained a lot, but how much have we lost? Sincere friends, independent personality, and even two things that literati once said are more important than life: love and freedom.
Innocence is gone, and now we feel so powerless even if we want to hold on to it. It's not that we are weak and powerless, but because we are carrying too much, the expectations of our family, the eyes of our neighbors, the rules of society, and our ideals, each of which is as heavy as Mount Tai. We are no longer able to bear anything else, even the remaining innocence has become unbearable. What a pity! Youth. What a sorrow! Youth. It is said: Youth has no failure. But: Youth will not come again. On the road of youth, it seems that no matter what choice we make, it is understandable. I am me, you are you, he is him, and we are born to make our own choices.
"Oh!" Tang Yan's soft cry interrupted Yin Hun's thoughts.
As soon as Yin Hui turned around, Tang Yan threw herself into his arms and hugged his waist tightly with both hands. The umbrella fell to the side.
"Look, he fell down, didn't he?" Yin Hui said, "It would be troublesome if he sprained his ankle. Besides, it wouldn't be good even if he stepped on flowers and plants!"
"Hmph ! You are so heartless." Tang Yan came out of Yin Hun's arms, her face flushed, and she deliberately pouted her lips: "Still thinking about flowers and plants." After saying that, she picked up the umbrella.
Yin Hui smiled and said, "Okay, Miss, I was wrong. What's wrong? Did you sprain your ankle?"
Tang Yan moved her ankle and said, "It hurts a little, but not bad." She took two more steps. "It hurts a little."
"It looks like you sprained your ankle." Yin Hui looked around and said, "There's a KFC up ahead. Let's go over there to take shelter from the rain. I'll help you massage it there. Come, I'll help you."
When she arrived at the door of KFC, Tang Yan didn't want to go in.
"There are two benches outside, let's just stay here!"
"up to you!"
Tang Yan sat next to the statue of the old colonel. Yin Hui looked at her ankle and found nothing wrong with it. It was probably just a slight muscle sprain. She should be fine after a rest and some exercise.
"How about it?"
"Well! How should I put it?" Yin Hui pretended to be deep, "Maybe he hurt his muscles."
"Ah?" Tang Yan panicked: "What should I do then?"
Yin Hui held back his laughter and pointed to the colonel's statue next to him. The old colonel smiled happily! "Do you know what he is doing?"
"What?" Tang Yan was in no mood at all.
"He's laughing at you for being stupid." Yin Hui laughed, "Stupid, if you were really good, would you be able to get this far?"
Tang Yan realized that she had been fooled, and her cheeks were flushed with excitement. However, she was still angry, so she could only stare at Yin Hui and said bitterly, "You are such a bad person."
The two were joking when the rain started to get heavier.
"It seems we have to take shelter here for a while." Yin Hun said.
As they were talking, an umbrella came in from the rain, and a middle-aged foreign woman walked in and sat on another stool.
Yin Hui saw that when she came in, one of her feet was higher than the other, so she must have been too tired or twisted it. Sure enough, she sat down and began to rub her right ankle, but she only rubbed the painful part, and it was not done properly. After rubbing for a while, she stood up and walked a few steps to try, but it still didn't work, so she sat down and rubbed again.
Yin Hui couldn't bear to watch it any longer and thought: Your kneading method may not work even if you knead until late at night. So he walked forward and asked in his awkward English: "Are you OK?"
When the middle-aged foreign woman saw someone greeting her, she was surprised at first, but then, probably because she saw that Yin Hui didn't look like a bad person, she pointed to her feet.
Of course Yin Hui knew what was going on: "There is not right, look at me." Yin Hui looked at her condition and found that her ankle was a little swollen, probably because she walked too much.
So he combined the acupoints of Chengshan, Shuiquan and Sanyinjiao, and rubbed each group for two minutes. After rubbing, Yin Hui asked her to stand up and try. The middle-aged foreign woman was skeptical, stood up and walked two steps. Then she showed a surprised expression on her face and spoke in English. Yin Hui only understood one sentence: That's must be a kungfu!
Yin Hui replied: "Yes, this is just a Chinese kungfu!"
Tang Yan watched the whole thing and kept laughing.
At this time, the middle-aged foreign woman also saw the relationship between Yin Hui and Tang Yan, and said to Yin Hui with a smile: "Your girl friend is very nice!" The second half of the sentence was even added in Northeastern dialect: "Congratulations! Congratulations!"
Yin Hui also laughed and thought: Foreigners really have a sense of humor.
Before leaving, the foreigner took out a large bag of red-wrapped potato chips from his travel bag and insisted on giving it to Yin Hui, saying, "Congratulations! Congratulations!"
She must have thought that red represents good luck in China, so giving potato chips in a red bag would definitely be popular.
Seeing that it was hard to refuse the kindness, Yin Hun accepted it.
Yin Hui handed the potato chips to Tang Yan: "Beauty, I'll treat you to some potato chips. Haha! It helps me save a few bucks again."
"Hey! Hey, hey!" Tang Yan said with a smile: "It's not shameful to borrow flowers to offer to Buddha."
On a rainy night, the two didn't return home until half past ten.
Yin Hui went to the bathroom to rinse his feet first, and turned on the water heater. Then he sat on the sofa in the living room and turned on the TV, watching it while waiting for the hot water. Suddenly he remembered his umbrella, so he went to the shoe cabinet to check, but it was not there. He went to his room to look for it, but it was not there either. He thought: This is strange, I clearly put it on the shoe cabinet! Could it have disappeared?
For some unknown reason, Yin Hui suddenly thought that he should go to the storage room to look for it. As expected, as soon as he turned on the light in the storage room, he saw the umbrella on the windowsill.
Yin Hui took the umbrella out and said to Tang Yan, who was mopping the shoe prints on the floor, with a smile: "Hey, isn't this weird? I clearly put this umbrella on the shoe cabinet, but who knew it would run to the windowsill of the storage room. It seems that even it knows how to practice Chinese Kung Fu."
After hearing this, Tang Yan showed an embarrassed and nervous expression on her face, smiled and said, "It seems so!"
"Hey! The world is so big, there is nothing that doesn't exist." Yin Hui said as he put the umbrella back on the shoe cabinet and sat back on the sofa to continue watching TV. Tang Yan continued mopping the floor.
Yin Hui changed several channels but the TV didn't work, so he simply put down the remote control, leaned back on the sofa, stretched his arms flat on the sofa, and thought about nothing.
At this time, the swing of Tang Yan's skirt while mopping the floor attracted Yin Hun's attention. Yin Hun's favorite thing for girls to wear is skirts, especially this kind of dress. Just a few years ago, Yin Hun still believed that girls should wear skirts. Although Yin Hun no longer pays attention to this point, girls wearing skirts always attract more attention from Yin Hun. Why do you like girls wearing skirts so much? Yin Hun is not very clear now. Maybe he likes the elegant feeling, just like Yin Hun also likes girls with long hair. At this moment, Tang Yan has both of these points.
Yin Hui thought about it. It's been almost a month! Why didn't he pay close attention to her before? Thinking about it carefully, since the two of them started renting together, the whole house and even Yin Hui himself have changed a lot.
