God said I would meet you

"Why do you like those furry animals?" Zhang Xinli leaned against him from behind, looked at Lin Jinyu's side face with lowered eyebrows, and asked, "I can't even feed myself, and I still want to raise cats and dogs."

"I've always liked it, what's the reason?" Lin Jinyu held the remote control and used his chest as a backrest to watch TV: "You don't like cats and dogs?"

Zhang Xinli didn't dislike it, but he was more ordinary. He was not a man who grew up in a big city like Lin Jinyu, and his parents didn't like pets, so he had a sense of novelty and great enthusiasm for owning a cat or dog of his own. In that village, cats and dogs can be seen everywhere, and they are not tied to a leash very much, they run all over the place all day long.

He said: "It's very troublesome to take care of. The city is not in the mountains. It takes time to take it out every day. If you like to bark, you will disturb the neighbors."

"I know, just bring it with you. Raising a dog is like raising a child," Lin Jinyu said, "You think I'm just talking about it, and when I have a dog, I will be a shopkeeper?"

Zhang Xinli remembered the time when he stole raw meat and ham sausage from the kitchen to feed his old black dog. At that time, he thought that Lin Jinyu was the kind of pet dog who liked sweet smells, and would yell and rush out to wash his hands if he was licked by a dirty dog. Lin Jinyu thought that he hated herself, hated Fu and was so arrogant... Their initial impressions of each other seemed to have quite a few mistakes.

He said: "If you like it, then you will have money to raise it." Then he asked: "What kind of one do you want to raise?"

"I haven't thought about it yet," Lin Jinyu thought of the black dog that dragged him all over the mud, and said, "It's black, it's cool, it's not a pet, it's a son."

Zhang Xinli stretched his arms forward and held his hand: "It's so exaggerated."

Lin Jinyu didn't think it was an exaggeration. He really felt that cats and dogs are very similar to children. It's not enough to just give them a bowl of rice to eat and drink. cats dogs and children.

He knew that he and Zhang Xinli could not establish any legal relationship in the sense of marriage, so he hoped that there could be something to connect them together. Living objects like a dog and a cat are not simple objects. , he hoped that such a subtle connection existed... and hoped that there were other, more, stronger connections besides this.

He hasn't thought of it yet, but he may have an idea in the future.

……

Time passed day by day, and money was always spent quickly in this game.

Because Lin Jinyu said that electronic data has no quality and it is troublesome to transfer it around, Zhang Xinli took out all the money left in his hand and exchanged it for cash, plus the money from odd jobs this week, about a thousand, and put it all on the bedside in the first drawer.

A dozen or so red bills were stacked in a thin layer and spread in the corner. Whenever she needed to spend money, Lin Jinyu would touch one from the inside. The money for vegetables, cars, snacks and drinks were all mixed together. Get everything from the same place.

Just kept groping like this...Suddenly one day, when Zhang Xinli inserted the card and found that the meter reading was in single digits, and wanted to use 100 yuan to pay the electricity bill—he stretched out his hand, took out for a long time, and actually only took out a five-dollar card. Ten and a few ten or twenty change.

"..."

We haven't even reached the end of the new year, and there are still a few days left before the Chinese New Year. Although 1000 yuan is not much, it won't be spent so quickly.

"..." Zhang Xinli put the little change away, opened the drawer and looked inside and out, and after confirming that there was really only so little money left, he turned his head to the door of the room and began to call Lin Jinyu's name: "Jinyu Yu, come here."

"What's the matter?" It was raining with sleet outside, and there was no heating in the south. Lin Jinyu had just finished taking a shower, when he heard Zhang Xinli calling him, he didn't care about getting dressed, wrapped a bath towel, and walked over murmuring, pulling his water-filled slippers : "What's wrong?"

Zhang Xinli took the money in his hand and turned around to show him.

Lin Jinyu didn't understand, so: "What's the matter..." He said, "You don't have enough money? It's in the drawer."

"This is in the drawer," Zhang Xinli looked at him and said, "All of them."

When Lin Jinyu went out this morning, he just touched a piece of Grandpa Red Mao's. He took the money casually and didn't look at how much was left in it. At this moment, he was a little incredulous: "Impossible?"

Facts speak louder than words, Zhang Xinli turned half his body and let him see for himself.

Lin Jinyu checked the whole thing inside and out, and even his posture and movements were exactly the same as Zhang Xinli just now. He was a little confused, straightened up, and said, "That's all? There is a thief, right?!"

In the drawer, the last few pictures of the small and weak Grandpa Mao were huddled in the corner, looking extremely weak, Zhang Xinli said: "You have kept the account, take it out and have a look."

Hearing this, Lin Jinyu took out a small book from the drawer. It was the one used to keep accounts at school. He didn't finish writing it at the time, so he got lazy and continued to use it.

"Here, take a look." He opened the account book and handed it to Zhang Xinli: "I don't need anything, just normal expenses."

Lin Jinyu's accounting is very messy, and she often just writes down the amount lazily, without mentioning the specific purpose. This habit was fine when she was in school. After all, the school is in the cafeteria all day long, and she doesn't go out. Just a few fixed items, it doesn’t matter if I remember them vaguely, but now it’s different, two people live together, in addition to rent, daily water bills, electricity bills, gas bills, transportation bills, meals, cigarette money , toilet paper money and so on scattered and messy piles, his way of notation is a big headache.

Zhang Xinli took it, flipped through a few pages, and found a relatively fixed daily expenditure: "Is this money for vegetables?" He said, "It's just two people eating, how can the money for food be more than thirty every day? Fifty or sixty?"

Generally speaking, cooking by yourself is definitely much cheaper than eating out, but it’s a bit of a hassle. Zhang Xinli is not afraid of trouble. These days, whenever he has the opportunity, he cooks for himself. How much can a handful of vegetables make?I didn't participate in the dinner party, so how did I spend so much.

"Isn't it normal?" Lin Jinyu said, "I just buy what I want, and the two men eat a lot."

He must buy meat every day, and several times when he was hungry, he bought pork ribs and asked Zhang Xinli to make sweet and sour pork ribs for him, or stew them in soup.

Zhang Xinli also remembered eating pork ribs several times. He was very happy at the time, but now when it comes to counting the money...

Lin Jinyu thought for a while, and added: "Oh, it seems that there are still a few times when I was thirsty outside and bought milk tea, as well as fruit... and cigarettes."

Zhang Xinli said: "In this situation, you still buy pork ribs, milk tea, and cigarettes?"

When he was in school before, Lin Jinyu was in a bad mood, depressed all day long, had no intention of entertaining at all, had a bad appetite, and didn't eat much, so the expenses were naturally much less, so that he developed a feeling that they were spending money. There was no illusion of going anywhere at all, but since the follow-up visit, his condition has improved, and his worldly desires have gradually returned, and money is flowing like an ocean before he knows it.

"I..." Lin Jinyu said, "Uh, I don't seem to have bought it... a few times, just a few times."

Zhang Xinli has been smoking for many years, but he has good self-control, and he has passed the period when his addiction was particularly heavy. I really want to smoke, and I feel restless if I don’t smoke.

He began to try to pull out sporadic memories from the long river of memories: "Just...three or four cups, I don't order expensive ones, just eleven or twelve yuan, maybe one or two packs of cigarettes, twenty or thirty... ...The ribs are about 91 in total...You also eat the fruit."

It’s not like I don’t know, this calculation, the sum of seven, seven, and eighty-eight is actually two or three hundred, which surprised Lin Jinyu: "Hiss...how come it is more than a hundred."

"You only know hundreds of dollars." Zhang Xinli's tone was not as gentle as usual: "It was such a small amount of money, but you still use it to buy pork ribs, drinks and cigarettes?"

He has always been conniving towards Lin Jinyu. Although there have always been differences in their consumption concepts, he tried not to say anything. At first, it was because he understood that Lin Jinyu was different from him, and he had the capital to consume, but later he thought about it slowly. , Lin Jinyu should be able to realize it herself...but now she has to say a few words.

"..." Lin Jinyu said: "I didn't count, I don't think there are many."

Ten or twenty is really not much, but it can add up, not to mention that they don't have much money in their hands.

"You used to be like this," Zhang Xinli followed up with another sentence: "I don't think 80 yuan of ice cream is much, but now I still think it is not much, and school will not start for nearly a month, what should I do?"

"Let's talk about it, why don't you turn over old accounts?" Lin Jinyu frowned. He originally thought that something was wrong with him, but Zhang Xinli's tone was aggressive. Intellectually, he knew that there was a reason for his anger, but emotionally, he just felt very uncomfortable. uncomfortable.

"It's not me who wants to turn over old scores," Zhang Xinli said, "It's you..."

"Yes! Good! I know, I'm wrong!" Lin Jinyu said: "Didn't you remind me earlier to save money, and you didn't say that, I have tried my best to save money, and I didn't mean it!"

Compared with the past, he has indeed restrained himself a lot. Before letting go, he would finish eating the 900 yuan sesame-sized meat in three days.

"I thought you would judge the situation," Lin Jinyu said loudly, and Zhang Xinli's voice subconsciously came up: "You are such an adult, don't you know how to read?"

"I saw it." Lin Jinyu's hair was still dripping with water: "Didn't you keep saying that you can buy as much as you want? Now it's all my fault?"

"You..." Zhang Xinli didn't know what to say, he was used to Lin Jinyu because he loved him, but it seemed that he had given him some kind of wrong signal, but Lin Jinyu himself was such a grown-up... how could it seem like who was right and who was wrong? Still can't figure it out?

"Besides, it seems like you haven't eaten the ribs and fruit," Lin Jinyu glared at him, and said, "Fuck eats more than me."

Every time Lin Jinyu bought something delicious, he always ate half and left the other half for him. Zhang Xinli didn't say much when he ate it, but only asked a few words.

"Don't swear," Zhang Xinli said, both sides holding back their anger, "There's still something I haven't eaten."

"You didn't eat anything," Lin Jinyu said, "Yes, you didn't drink milk tea. I was dying of thirst and exhaustion while walking to find a job. Is it a big mistake to drink a cup of milk tea?"

... Even so, he still couldn't find a job. Those odd jobs either paid seven yuan an hour or only forty or fifty a day, and he didn't like them.

Zhang Xinli originally only said a few words about him, but Lin Jinyu always liked to talk against him, not giving up half a step, and he was so strong, he kept talking more and more: "Okay, you are right, that smoke What? I never smoked that."

"I'm addicted to cigarettes," Lin Jinyu said, "I've been addicted to cigarettes since the third year of high school. If I don't smoke, I'll feel very uncomfortable, restless, and my hands tremble. It's all thanks to you."

"..." Zhang Xinli was speechless, and it was his fault.

"You were so noble at that time, you were addicted to pretending to be a straight man, right? The little door of Heidengxiahuo, it's so beautiful, you can't help it with your mother one second, and you're going to fuck me right away, the next second, good guy, 'It's just a physiological reaction, it's the same for anyone else', you cow, how cool is it to slap your ass and leave, what about me? I'm so annoyed, so annoyed to death, if I don't smoke, I'm afraid I'll be depressed at that time and jump off the stairs , you still blame me for being addicted to cigarettes?"

Originally it was Zhang Xinli's reasoning, why did the feng shui change, he suddenly felt that he was the one who didn't care?

Zhang Xinli was a little dazed, he didn't quite remember what he said many years ago, but Lin Jinyu remembered every word clearly, the person who was always hurt remembered everything, but the hurter always forgot the scars.

Lin Jinyu was actually exaggerating. The main purpose was to win Zhang Xinli and jump off... If not, he wanted to live.

"I..." Zhang Xinli was a bit misled: "Isn't it..." Halfway through the apology, he realized: "I'm not talking about that!"

Lin Jinyu said, "Never mind what you're talking about."

He never thought that one day they would quarrel over such vulgar things as money, but in fact, money is really a major source of quarrel between couples.

"Okay," Zhang Xinli said, "I don't blame you, okay, I blame myself for not telling you directly, don't do this in the future."

Having said that, Lin Jinyu bowed and kowtowed to him a long time ago and said, "I'm sorry, I will definitely change it in the future." If you have something to say, you can speak up, and if you have an opinion, you can openly raise it, and turn over any old scores.

"Understood, I will pay attention." Lin Jinyu talked to him while wearing a bath towel and blew the wind for a long time. Now he sneezed. Medicine is another sum of money.

Lin Jinyu put it on honestly, and said, "You also need to add some clothes to cool down again."

The two had been quarreling just now, as if Erlang was fighting Monkey King, but they still took care of each other in the next second.

Zhang Xinli took a towel to dry his half-dried hair, and halfway through drying, the phone rang.

It was very rare for Lin Jinyu to get someone to call him. Zhang Xinli didn't stop, and while wiping his mind, he picked up the phone casually. He glanced at the screen, put it to his ear and held it between his shoulders, and said, "Hello..." He said : "Dad, what's the matter?"