Chapter 2 chapter 2

In a blink of an eye, the summer vacation is over, and the little brothers and sisters and Shao Yimin are about to start school.Sun Yongzhi handed over the reward to Yi Min, and asked her to continue to teach Yueqing Leping every Saturday.Shao Yimin was a little surprised: "I can only help them lay a good foundation. The senior high school entrance examination is about to take place. Generally, parents tend to let their children go to places that are more suitable for the exam." Sun Yongzhi smiled: "It is enough to lay a good foundation, and it is not important to go to higher education. Their father plans to send them both to study abroad in the future. The problem now is that they also know this, so there is no pressure, and the homework is all done. .Yueqing and Leping all like you, saying that you didn’t treat them like children, and you explained your homework clearly.”

Therefore, Yi Min continued to come over every Saturday afternoon to tutor the two siblings in mathematics. From time to time, she would run into Su Zhe who took the place of her cousin to pick up the two children to go out to play. They just nodded politely. On a Saturday afternoon at the end of October, Shao Yimin gave lessons to the little brothers and sisters.Leping said happily: "Teacher Shao, today my father came back to celebrate our birthday!" Shao Yimin was a little surprised. Yesterday happened to be her birthday. When she was with her grandparents, they would remember to cook birthday noodles for her, but her parents had forgotten about it for a long time. She was used to it.She smiled and said to Yueqing Leping: "Happy birthday to you all, let's finish class a little earlier today."

Their father, Lin Yueqing, is a shrewd and capable middle-aged man. At this time, he went downstairs with Sun Yongzhi, and politely invited Shao Yimin to the hotel for dinner: "Today they are fifteen years old, and the guests we invite are all relatives, friends and them. Good classmates, more people will make it more lively." The younger brothers and sisters also echoed, Shao Yimin felt that he could not refuse, so he could only agree. When she arrived at the large private room that had been booked in advance in the hotel, Yi Min found that Su Zhe had been waiting there. There were also many relatives including the grandparents of the two children, and there were three tables full of them.She consciously sits at the same table with the group of half-grown children, and feels at ease without bothering to listen to what they have to say.

Halfway through eating, she went out to the bathroom, came back to the corner, and saw Sun Yongzhi and Lin Yueqing standing outside the door of the private room.Sun Yongzhi held a mobile phone, looked at it and said sarcastically: ""'One day is like three autumns', it is really affectionate, one text message after another, asking me to take it in front of your parents, children, relatives and friends Read it face to face, let them open their eyes too? " Lin Yueqing lowered his voice and said irritably: "You are enough, Yong Zhi, don't think I don't know that you have been drinking a lot these days. If you want to go crazy, you should also check the occasion. If you have anything to say, we can talk about it when we get home."

"You remind me to check the occasion." Sun Yongzhi laughed softly, "Did you check the occasion when you replied to these text messages?" "It's not what you think……" "Enough, stop lying and insulting my IQ. You make me sick." The door of the private room opened, and Su Zhe came out. He closed the door behind his back, glanced at Shao Yimin who was standing at the corner not far away, and said in a low voice, "Brother Qing, Sister Yongzhi, if you have anything to say, let's go back and talk about it." Lin Yueqing nodded, and reached out to take the mobile phone in his wife's hand.Unexpectedly, Sun Yongzhi took a step back, raised her hand and slammed the phone to the marble floor.There was only a crisp sound, and the mobile phone was torn apart and scattered everywhere, but she acted nonchalantly: "Go buy another mobile phone, Yue Qing, anyway, you are not short of money."

After she finished speaking, she didn't look at anyone, stepped on the fragments of the mobile phone with her high heels, opened the door of the private room and walked in.Lin Yueqing smiled wryly, and then went in.Su Zhe beckoned to the waiter and ordered them to clean up the debris, then looked up at Yi Min who was still standing at the corner.She didn't show any embarrassment or surprise, she just quietly watched the waiter clean up, then walked past him, pushed the door open and entered. The atmosphere in the private room was still warm and happy, and Sun Yongzhi and Lin Yueqing, who were sitting side by side at the main table, seemed to be talking and laughing happily, as if nothing had happened.Looking at the little brothers and sisters playing with their classmates, Shao Yimin couldn't help sighing a little. It turned out that the happiness and consummation that she envied was just covered by a veil.

At the end of the banquet, the grandparents of the little brothers and sisters will take them there to play for a day.Lin Yueqing told them to go downstairs and get in the car, and the others walked out of the private room one after another.Shao Yimin had already reached the door, but was stopped by Su Zhe: "Ms. Shao, please help me to watch my sister-in-law here. She may be too drunk to drive. I will send my classmates back from Yueqing and Leping, and I will come back to pick you up right away." Shao Yimin looked back and saw that Sun Yongzhi, who was seeing off the guests with a smile just now, sat down on the sofa by the window, as if she had exhausted her strength and could no longer pretend to be a qualified hostess, so she nodded and agreed helplessly.

In a blink of an eye, the huge private room was empty, only she and Sun Yongzhi were left.She was about to speak, but Sun Yongzhi spoke first: "Ms. Shao, bring me a cup and have a drink with me. I'm really afraid of being alone now." There was half a bottle of red wine on the coffee table in front of her. Shao Yimin took two glasses and sat beside her.She poured a third of a glass of red wine into each of the two wine glasses, held up a glass, let the deep red liquid sway gently in the glass, took another sip, and smiled: "Yueqing said that I have been drinking too much recently, it's true." That's right. Alcohol is indeed a good thing, it helps us forget our worries, but I guess if I continue like this, I will become an alcoholic sooner or later."

Shao Yimin's only drinking experience before was at the high school graduation dinner, which was actually the only class reunion she ever attended.A group of half-grown children full of self-righteous parting melancholy, coupled with sudden freedom, who was the first to propose, and then ordered a case of beer.With a somewhat bitter liquid, it's actually not as pleasant to drink as Coke, but everyone feels that they have a reason to swallow it as an indispensable ritual of adulthood.In the end, everyone faltered, some cried, and some laughed. Shao Yimin didn't drink much, just a little dizzy.

On the way home, a boy suddenly said to her: "Shao Yimin, actually I have liked you for a long time." She was so surprised that she couldn't believe her ears. When she looked at the boy again, his expression was reserved and his eyes wandered. After saying this, he stopped looking at her, turned around and walked away with another male classmate.She thought: Ah, it turns out that this kind of hallucination occurs when I am drunk. Looking back now, she found that she couldn't remember the boy's name for a while, only a straight face remained.She picked up her own glass of wine and took a big sip. The fine red wine had an astringent taste, but after it flowed down her throat, it felt like an ironing hand caressed her melancholy heart, with a wonderful aftertaste.

"You saw it just now, Xiao Shao, that's the truth about my marriage," Sun Yongzhi giggled, "I met Lin Yueqing when I was a sophomore in college, and I'm about the same age as you are now. It seems like it was yesterday, but a In a blink of an eye, I'm old, a mom of two and a half kids, and maybe a lousy single mom." "But Sister Sun, you still look very young." Yi Min didn't just compliment her casually. Sun Yongzhi kept her figure and appearance very well. the mother of the child. "I try my best to maintain the appearance of this skin. If I even give up on myself, then life is really hopeless." Faced with such a sad sigh, Shao Yimin didn't know what to say.Fortunately, Sun Yongzhi didn't need her consolation, and poured herself another half glass of wine: "My family is not here, and I fell in love with Lin Yueqing in junior year. At that time, the relationship was really pure, and I always thought it would last forever, and it was all us from day to day. Yes. Not long after graduation, we got married and had a pair of lovely children. Let me recall now, I really can’t remember where I went, and suddenly went off the road, and I can’t go back.” "Sister Sun, maybe you can communicate more..." Shao Yimin paused, thinking that the words were very hollow. "I give up, Xiao Shao. I've done all the hard work, and I'm tired, so why bother to lose any remaining self-esteem. I just feel sorry for Yueqing and Leping." Sun Yongzhi drank half a glass of wine in one gulp, and gave it to him again. The two poured half a glass, "I'm afraid they won't be able to accept the divorce." "Children's ability to understand is not as narrow as you think. My parents divorced when I was ten years old, and then each got married." Shao Yimin was taken aback by what she said. Someone who didn't know her said this to her before. , she turned around and left immediately.To a large extent, she wanted to leave the environment where her acquaintances paid too much attention to the fact that her parents were divorced.She has never liked to sell her own experience and exchange sympathy with others in exchange for sympathy. At this moment, she blurted out that the wine she drank must be at fault. She said: "I don't blame them either. They can't deserve to be without them just because they gave birth to me." own will and life." "Hehe, you can really comfort me." I'm blaring, but I really blame them, especially after a birthday that's been forgotten.Shao Yimin picked up the wine and thought wistfully, I just accepted the unchangeable reality. The two drank wine with their own thoughts, and in a blink of an eye, more than half of the bottle of red wine had gone down, and they both felt a little drunk.Sun Yongzhi sighed: "If I say so much, it won't make you feel disappointed in love and marriage, right?" "No, both my parents remarried and lived well. It's just a matter of giving up and choosing. I'm very optimistic." Sun Yongzhi giggled: "You don't look like an optimistic person, Xiao Shao. But we really have to be optimistic, otherwise how can we survive. Is there any wine?" Shao Yimin felt that she was already drunk and should not drink any more.Shao Yimin turned around, and suddenly found that someone was sitting at the farthest table.Sun Yongzhi thought the lights were too dazzling, so she only left a wall lamp next to the sofa. Shao Yimin really didn't know when that person came in without a sound, and overheard their conversation, only saw a figure in the darkness, Then there was a flash of dark red cigarette butts, and the smoke curled up.The man stood up, put the cigarette out in the ashtray, and walked over. His face appeared in the light, and it turned out to be Su Zhe.