far and near

Yinxiu has worked in a relative's rice noodle shop for less than two months, and has seen many inside stories that diners deliberately ignore.For example, when washing dishes, Yin Xiuxin said that they are for people to eat. It is normal to wash the dishes once with dish soap and water two or three times.The proprietress is her mother's cousin, and the family doesn't speak two words, "Go through it once, so you don't waste time and water, anyway, you won't die if you eat it."

In addition, the boss used the hands that had finished digging his nostrils to grab the rice noodles directly. Among the shredded pork with pickled cabbage in the kitchen of the proprietress, there was only pickled cabbage without meat, and the oil for stir-frying the rice noodles came from a strange place... Yinxiu felt that the two The object of cooking and eating is not human beings.

When she and Bai Maosheng were chatting on Q, she warned her, "You must not eat in small restaurants outside, it is too dirty."

Bai Maosheng said that the theater school cafeteria is not clean, it might as well taste better outside.After complaining a few times, Yin Xiu asked her to wait at the gate of the opera school on Wednesday evening.

Just after 05:30, Bai Maosheng, wearing white trousers and black down jacket, appeared at the gate of the opera school in good spirits.She looked left and right, and then checked the time on her phone, wondering how she hadn't seen Yinxiu at this o'clock.This small mobile phone was given to her by her master Wang Li, and it was agreed that she could only use the phone bill within 30 yuan per month.

Bai Maosheng put his hands in his pockets and stretched his neck to look at the road. Yinxiu's voice came from behind her, "Don't you know how to look back?"

Her complexion was better than the last time we met, she was still wearing the long down jacket, Yin Xiu finally added clothes inside.She endured the eyes of the tenants last time and went back to the dormitory of Sanfangchang to get the clothes. Yin Xiaochang didn't throw away her clothes, but just piled them in a corner of the balcony and ignored them.

Bai Maosheng found that her hair had been cut short and her nail polish was washed off. It could only be seen that she had deliberately used some lipstick.This spot is enough, the bright red outlines Yinxiu's beauty.

When Yin Xiu smiled, she still had a cold aura different from Yu Ren, but her eyes were warm.She took Bai Maosheng's hand, the palm was soft but the fingers were rough, Bai Maosheng looked down to see that the skin on the fingers had fallen off and was in a mess.

What Yinxiu handed over was an insulated box, which she prepared for her second job, "Find a place to eat and return the box to me." She pulled Bai Maosheng to look around, and asked her if she could join the show school.

Bai Maosheng said that if he didn't go far, he could just eat at the flower bed beside the road in the school.She actually wondered why Yinxiu brought her food.

When the lunch box is opened, there are sweet and sour pork ribs, shrimp dumplings and fish, and rice with soy sauce and small pickles can be seen at the bottom.She happened to be hungry just after class, so she stretched out her hands to pinch the ribs after saying "ah".After eating three yuan in a row, I saw a faint smile on the corner of Yinxiu's mouth, "Is it delicious?"

It's delicious, and the taste is even better than that made by my mother Zhao Lan.Bai Mao nodded wildly, and asked with his mouth full, "Why did you bring me food?"

"I haven't paid back the 300 yuan I borrowed from you, so I'll give you some food first, which is my kindness." Yin Xiu was still wearing the pair of canvas shoes, and this time she knew she was wearing a pair of thick cotton socks.Her classmate introduced the restaurant where she worked, which is also a well-known restaurant in the local area.The proprietress is kind, sometimes there are too many side dishes left in the kitchen and the freshest time has passed, so she cooks a few dishes for everyone to eat.

Yinxiu bought an insulated box, put the uneaten food in the box and bring it home, and then eat it again.Let Bai Maosheng taste this meal.

"You don't have to pay it back." Bai Maosheng's hands were red from the cold. The dormitory in the middle of winter is not as warm as home, and electric heating equipment is not allowed.She had no choice but to wrap herself up with clothes, and she had to pull her hands from her pockets because of her stutter.

"Bai Maosheng, is this your sister?" A classmate passed by the roadside to go to a small off-campus restaurant. Bai Maosheng responded with a "hmmm" and looked at Yin Xiu with a smile, "Is it okay?" She meant to ask herself if this promise method is correct question.

Yin Xiu sat beside her and rubbed her hands, "Whatever."

"You said that you moved to the two-person room, and the rent has increased by 80 yuan. How is the environment there?" Bai Maosheng also remembered Yinxiu's talk about changing rooms. Xiao Wang, who beat off the innocent and was accosted, regretted it, so he asked Yin Xiu if he would like to live in the two-person room that is currently unoccupied, which can be 20 yuan cheaper.

Yinxiu was a light sleeper, living in a six-person dormitory and hearing someone grinding her teeth and snoring insomnia in the middle of the night.Thinking that her monthly salary is only 600 yuan, it is worth spending [-] yuan to live in a room for two people to sleep well. The most important thing is that she needs a space where she will not be disturbed, at least she is the only one living in the room at present.After Bai Maosheng finished eating, she put away the lunch box, "I live in the west of the city, and there is a direct bus to Jinxi Street. You can go to my place if you have time to play."

Bai Maosheng agreed, "In this way, I will go to Yu Ren's school to find her on the way on the weekend." Yu Ren's No. [-] Middle School has recently received some stimulus and suddenly tightened it up. On Saturdays, students are required to make up classes all day, and even have evening self-study at night.And on Sunday, I have to study for half a day, leaving only half a day off for students.Yu Ren, who couldn't bear to run around on the road, finally applied to live on campus, and Bai Maosheng could only choose a weekend meal with her in a small restaurant outside the campus if he wanted to find her.

And Yin Xiu knew Yu Ren, and Bai Mao was afraid of disturbing Yu Ren's study, so he would gradually talk to Yin Xiu about his old classmate, "To be honest, I regret going to drama school. If I study hard, I might be able to get along with Yu Ren." Still together."

"Then you go to retake the third grade of junior high school and retake the senior high school entrance examination." Yin Xiu said.Bai Maosheng thought for a while, "Mathematics is too difficult, forget it." She would rather stay in the drama school than go back to the magic cave in the third year of junior high school.

"Why didn't you finish your vocational high school?" Bai Maosheng asked Yin Xiu, the girl who had trained her standing and walking posture in the restaurant straightened up, "The teacher who recruited students before said that we could find a suitable job, so my mother let me I went to study. Later I found out that’s not the case, and I don’t care after finishing school.” She majored in tour guides, but she didn’t get a certificate after studying for two years.So she didn't want to waste time, she just wanted to make money earlier.

Making money has always held a heavy weight in Yin Xiu's mind.In Yin Xiaochang's common language, besides genitals, money is money, "If you don't have money, what a fart." This is what she scolded her lover. "You just lost money, and you lost me for decades." This is what she scolded her daughter.Yin Xiu herself didn't know that she was seventeen years old, how could she make Yin Xiaochang pay for decades.The more money was on her lips, the poorer her family became. She was so poor that she never paid her tuition on time, and so poor that she was the only one who was alone during spring and autumn outings in elementary and junior high schools.

Because of poverty, Yinxiu was one of the few in the school who could not order school uniforms when she was in elementary school and junior high school.Every time there is a school-wide event, even if it is simply wearing a school uniform and raising the national flag, the head teacher will say hello, "Yin Xiu, you are in the class."

Yinxiu knew that because she had no money, she would be the most eye-catching person in the class, because she destroyed the collective sense of order.

She always thought that her family was very poor. In the second semester of her second year of high school, she saw her mother give the man 2000 yuan to pay off his gambling debts.Unexpectedly, the stingy mother can be tender when she borrows money, and curses at herself for asking for money to buy a pack of sanitary napkins.It was only three yuan and seventy cents, and Yin Xiaochang went from losing money to being cheap, saying that she had worked so hard to raise Yinxiu, and she was almost [-] and still gnawed at her mother.

"You have to make money to survive." Yinxiu said that she quit the rice noodle shop because the restaurant gave her an extra salary of 50 yuan. In addition, the proprietress also taught her how to walk and greet customers, how to talk and greet people, and even teased and teased customers. How to get away easily without breaking the opponent's face, "much more real than the school teacher."

"Besides making more money in that place, it can teach my mother what I can't." Yinxiu lifted the box, "and the food you eat is also given to the employees for free by the restaurant." Yinxiu packed up her things, and then looked at Bai Maosheng , "Come on, stick your head out."

Bai Maosheng tilted his head obediently, and Ren Yinxiu messed with her hairstyle again, and finally twirled her bangs with her fingertips to the corners of her eyes, "Let's go."

"Call me on weekends." Bai Maosheng shouted behind her, "You know my number."

"I know, I'll contact you after I'm off work that day." Yin Xiu waved casually without looking back.

"Thank you." Bai Maosheng said again.

Yin Xiu turned her head, "Let me know next time you want to eat."

Yinxiu had no friends since she was a child in junior high school, and she gradually became cheerful after entering 23rd middle school.In addition to being poor, she has many skills that can be handed over to her little sisters: she is a fast learner, and she can even help little sisters to greet their faces after teaching makeup once; She will accompany them to go to various public and private hospitals for gynecological examinations.

Affection does not fall from the sky, it has to be collected a little bit, and a little bit more is paid back.The most successful thing Yin Xiu was educated by Yin Xiaochang is to be able to settle accounts.

But she couldn't figure out Bai Maosheng's account for a while. She tentatively opened her mouth when she didn't have enough money to buy a bus ticket.When she was starving like a bereaved dog watching her luck in Bai Uosheng's community, that girl really appeared in front of her.She said she didn't have to pay it back, and she took the initiative to borrow it.Yinxiu has never seen anything like this in her life, but the idea rooted in her heart told her to pay it back.

She didn't get her salary for a month at the rice noodle shop, and she didn't get her salary for this month at the restaurant.Except for rent and daily necessities, I have no more than 30 yuan in bills.It was this thank you meal for Bai Maosheng, and she delivered it within four or ten minutes on foot, just to save a dollar for the fare.

When she saw Bai Maosheng appearing in front of her clean and carefree, Yin Xiu actually froze for a moment.She envied the refreshing breath of this child, who didn't suffer from the hardship of daily necessities, rice, oil, salt and rent, and didn't have the crampedness caused by long-term scolding by his family.

It turns out that walking alone in the sunset can be so light and beautiful.Bai Maosheng's hair fluttered dryly, and only the white corduroy trousers and the fragrant down jacket made this future niche look so beautiful.

Yinxiu raised the sleeves of the borrowed down jacket, and the cuffs were stubbornly stuck to by the accumulated stains from her repeated scrubbing.Just like her life, since she came to the world, it seems like a second-hand child borrowed by Yin Xiaochang from somewhere, with interest attached to gossip in the third textile factory, poor to desperate material life, and intertwined cold eyes and contempt campus...

When Yinxiu walked to the gate of the opera school, he suddenly turned around, and Bai Maosheng, who was in white trousers and black clothes, was still watching him off.Seeing Yinxiu turned her head, she stepped on her feet and waved.It gets dark early in winter, and the street lights are turned on one by one at this time, and Bai Maosheng under the tree is like another sun.

Yin Xiu also waved, smiled and laughed, and then turned around and disappeared into the black night.