Chapter 5 Fives

After eating the first dinner after returning home from the hospital, Xiao Tong couldn't wait to lean on the bed and watch TV, just like a person who has been blind for decades is hungry and thirsty after regaining his sight.Even programs such as "TV Shopping" and "Quyuan Miscellaneous Forum" that I have never been interested in in the past are not picky, and I even watch the lengthy commercials with relish, and I don't know what year it is.Wen Yan kept poking her head out while helping him clean up the bathroom, and asked him why he was giggling for no reason. He pointed to the TV, still staring intently at it.Wen Yan thought that there was indeed some ridiculous program, so she ran over to watch it for a long time, but couldn't figure it out.The screen was nothing more than employee sports of some unit, tug-of-war competitions..., she blinked and muttered in bewilderment: "You've only been blind for a few days and now you're so closed, what's the matter, you. "

Before ten o'clock in the evening, Wen Yan resolutely turned off the TV. "What did the doctor tell you, your eyes need to be nourished for a while, and you can't read books or watch TV for a long time now. If he is blind again, it will not be such a coincidence to meet a good person who offers love and light. " Xiao Tong was reluctant to part with him, and his amusement was not exhausted, but he still obeyed without saying a word.Wen Yan had already filled up the hot water in the bathtub, and beckoned him to take a bath, which effectively diverted his excitement.It had been a long time since he had taken a serious bath.

The bath water is lukewarm, a brand new towel is placed by the pool, and the soap, body wash, and hair lotion are also newly bought.Although the house has been unoccupied for a long time, after Wenyan cleaned it up, it immediately restored its previous cleanliness.Xiao Tong has been used to being served by others since he was a child. Surrounded by the nannies, the one who stretched out his hand and opened his mouth didn't suffer any pain.When he was a child, he lived with his parents in the dormitory compound of the institution. Twenty years ago, the family compound of this scientific research and academic institution was a high-end community with the highest concentration of senior intellectuals and cultural elites in the city. A fully functional self-sufficient independent kingdom and privileged society with shops, auditoriums, hospitals, kindergartens, swimming pools and even police stations.Like most children who grew up in such a superior material and spiritual environment, he has a natural contempt and isolation for the so-called petty citizens who live in courtyards in alleys and street-facing shops.He didn't move to his current home until he was about to graduate from middle school.At this time, those government compounds had gradually declined, and these newly built export apartments had replaced them as new tribes of the upper class.And Zheng Wenyan lived in an ordinary residential building on the edge of the tribe.She is from a demolished courtyard. Although the balcony where Xiao Tong lives is only separated by a piece of green space, they are still two different ethnic groups with distinct classes.Compared with Wen Yan, his ability to live seems to be poor, but in terms of thinking and conduct, he appears to be more generous and simple than her.He and she had discussed these differences, and on more than one occasion had ridiculed and belittled each other for their weaknesses.

Soaked in hot water, the whole body is relaxed, but the mind is full of vitality.He wanted to look for a magazine or something, but he didn't have it at hand, so he opened his eyes wide and looked around.After returning after a long absence, many details in this bathroom that I didn't pay much attention to in the past seem interesting today.Even the patterns of colored glazed bricks on the walls seem to be more vivid than in the past.Like his bedside, this bathroom has a few inappropriate pictures of cars on the wall.What "BMW", "Ford", "Mercedes" and "Maserati" are all collected from his visits to auto expos and daily accumulation.He has never learned to drive, but when it comes to these classic cars on the wall, whether it is the origin history, performance style, or even the market price, he can all know it.A few years ago, my parents bought an "Opel" in Germany.That car is not very popular in places like China that are greedy for luxury, but in Europe, it is the best-selling car.

Xiaotong doesn't like "Opel", his current favorite car is "Porsche", even though it has the lowest sales in Europe. Mom and Dad bought a car, but didn't buy a house abroad.After they went abroad, the original unit kept clamoring to take back his house in the compound.He didn't move until his parents returned to China and bought this apartment the year before last.This one-bedroom apartment is much smaller in terms of area than their original home.But the decoration is exquisite, the kitchen and bathroom are very spacious, and there is hot water supply 24 hours a day.This is quite suitable and comfortable for a single man.Judging from the house bought by mom and dad, they obviously don't plan to return to China to live.According to their plan, Xiao Tong will also study abroad after graduating from university, so there is no need to make a permanent home in Beijing.

After soaking enough, he washed his head and body carefully, put on the bathrobe hanging behind the bathroom door, and looked at himself in the mirror.Those eyes were still bright, not the slightest difference from before.He wanted to know what the man who donated his cornea looked like.And his unmarried fiancée, the policewoman who had been with him in the ward for several nights, what exactly did she look like. Walking out of the bathroom, he saw Wenyan sitting on his bed, and had already turned down the bedside lamp to a very low level. He said: "You don't hurry home yet."

Wen Yan looked at him unhappily: "Look at what time it is, and you still let me go home." He looked down at the alarm watch on the bedside table, it was past ten o'clock, and he asked, "Then how are you going to sleep?" Wen Yan looked at him pitifully, but did not answer.He knew she wanted them to sleep together, but he didn't say so. "How did you sleep?" He still asked. Wen Yan whispered, "Then, then, I'll sleep on the sofa in the living room." Of course Xiao Tong had to say: "I'm going to sleep on the sofa." He picked up a quilt from the bed and was about to go to the living room, but Wen Yan jumped up and grabbed him.

"No, no, I'm going to sleep on the sofa. You have just been discharged from the hospital, so you have to rest well. Anyway, I sleep on the sofa at home." He let go, Ren Wenyan snatched Yu Yu away, threw it on the sofa in the living room, and looked at it again. She went in and made the bed for him.He sat down on the bed, glanced at Wen Yan, and said in a half-joking tone: "Do you think I bullied you?" Wen Yan didn't look at him, and knelt by the bed to fold the clothes he had taken off, with a look of grievance and helplessness on her face, and said, "Even if you bully me, I can't help it."

Xiao Tong was silent for a while, instead of answering her words, he just smiled at her, which was a kind of affectionate expression, and said, "Go to sleep." Wen Yan didn't say goodnight to him and went out.Xiao Tong sat on the edge of the bed without moving.He listened to the sound of Wen Yan turning over on the sofa in the living room.After a while, the lights in the living room went out. He stood up and wanted to close the door between the bedroom and the living room, but Wen Yan said in the dark: "Don't close the door, okay?" "What's the matter?"

"It's nothing, the door is open, it's still a big room, I don't want to sleep alone." So Xiao Zhong didn't close the door, he turned off the light in the bedroom first, then took off his bathrobe in the dark, and lay down under the quilt.In the dark, he could still see everything clearly, even the patterns on the plaster lines on the roof, which made him feel excited.He thought, Wen Yan had been guarding him in the hospital for so many days, it seemed that he shouldn't be indifferent to her as soon as he opened his eyes.He didn't know whether he should just spend time with her like this, maybe Wen Yan could persist in this way, but he himself felt more and more boring.Wen Yan was proactive from the very beginning when she met him, and it was probably because she was too proactive that he lost interest.

The first time he met Wenyan was two and a half years ago. At that time, he had just received the admission letter from Yenching University, and he was enjoying the last relaxation before his studies.Every evening, he gathers a group of children younger than him to play football in the open space not far from his home.He seemed to have accidentally seen a quiet girl standing under the row of thick locust trees on the sidelines, watching them trample on the lawn for a long time.After the girl stood there for a few days, he started to pay attention, deliberately kicked the ball to her feet and ran to pick it up.The first impression she gave him was that she was not a student but a professional woman.Because she dared to take the initiative to say: "Hey, you played well." At that time, his face was still a little shy, but he suddenly had a good impression of this girl in his heart.The second time the ball rolled over by itself, when Xiao Tong went to pick it up, he deliberately gave her a positive look, and she immediately said to him: "You are from a sports school, right?" He couldn't figure out if she was flattering her on purpose or she really thought so, because he was naked at the time and only wore a pair of shorts. The body, is a body that obviously works out a lot.It's just that he still lacked practice in speaking with the opposite sex at that time, so he asked unnaturally: "You live here? I see you all the time." The girl pointed to an ordinary residential building not far away, "I live there, which building do you live in?" "Just live in this building." The girl made a fuss and laughed and said, "Really, I thought that people living in this kind of building wouldn't play street football in this kind of field." Before he had time to taste whether the surprise was sarcasm or envy, the golfers on the field had already uttered mocking shouts: "What are you doing! Your calf is cramping?" He threw the ball back to them and said, "I'm tired, take a break." The girl seemed to get rid of the embarrassment of being ridiculed by his peers, and immediately found a topic: "Are you going to school or work?" This question could not be more pleasant for a future college student who is basking in the joy of winning the gold list, but he deliberately understates his answer: "Going to school, Yenching University." "Really?" The girl's expression immediately became awe-inspiring, *I really can't see that you are a student of a famous university because you play such a good ball. " This kind of praise was very pleasing to his mood at that time, and the distance between him and her seemed to be shortened all of a sudden.He asked, "What about you, do you go to school or work?" "I'm working as a secretary in a company." "Oh, it's not bad. It seems to be quite trained." ’ “Yes, I studied at a public relations academy.” "Really, then you are considered a public relations lady." "That's out of the question." Like many boys and girls who met on the principle of attraction of the opposite sex, they became friends in a few words.It didn't take long for the girl to become a regular visitor to his house.It didn't take long, and the girl took the initiative, and they made love in the blinding sunlight of the day on his bed, which was strewn with clutter and clothes.This was his first sexual experience in his life. Amidst the fear and panic, the pleasure came surging and short-lived.Immediately afterwards, like many men's rules for women, after making love with Wen Yan several times in a row, he felt that everything about her was boring. After school started, he began to avoid Wenyan.The ubiquitous academic atmosphere in the university and the well-educated people everywhere made him feel that he should live a very decent life, at least he shouldn't have a girlfriend so early and rashly.But he didn't expect that Wen Yan was by no means the kind of woman who could be easily thrown off.Her love for Xiaotong seems to be very frivolous, frivolous, a little trendy, but after falling in love, she can endure humiliation like an old-fashioned woman and be loyal.No matter how Xiao Tong treats her indifferently or willfully, she is willing to stay by his side like a shadow. Yes, she is far inferior to Xiao Tong in terms of appearance, education and family conditions. She is even two years older than Xiaotong.But this is not the reason she let him, she let him just because she loves him. More than two years have passed like this. He doesn't take Wenyan seriously, but he still relies on her to take care of him in his life.Wen Yan overcame the short-term psychological imbalance and gradually got used to it.And he, after a period of uneasy conscience, felt at ease.There were many nights when the two of them were alone, they slept separately like this, and Xiao Tong never took the initiative to touch her again.And she still stayed by his side without complaint or regret, like a one-sided spiritual love. It was dawn, Xiao Tong got up, got dressed, washed his face, and went to the kitchen to fry eggs. Wen Yan sleepily got up from the sofa, ran to the kitchen and asked him why he got up so early if he woke up from hunger, took the frying pan and fried eggs for him.Xiao Tong took out the frozen juice from the refrigerator, went to the living room, drank it, and then said to the kitchen: "I'm going to school today." "What?" Wen Yan leaned out from the kitchen, "You have just been discharged from the hospital and you need to rest for a few more days, why are you in such a hurry?" Xiao Tong didn't explain much, he didn't want to hang out with Wen Yan all day, he thought it would be better to go to school. Seeing that Xiao Tong stopped talking, Wen Yan got used to not asking any more questions.She put the fried eggs on the table, and they ate together.She went back to the kitchen to clean up.She watched him put on his shoes, put on his backpack, and stand there waiting for her, which meant very clearly that he didn't want her to stay here. "It's time for you to go to work too," he said. "Don't let your company fire you." Wen Yan said: "I asked for half a month's leave, but I haven't arrived yet." She said so, but still dried her hands, put on her coat and leather shoes, and the two went out side by side. Xiao Tong's bicycle was placed in the corridor, and it had accumulated a lot of dust after not riding it for a long time.It was a very fancy name brand mountain bike.Xiao Tong squatted there to wipe the car, while Wen Yan stood by and watched.Seeing that he finished wiping, she said: "Or you can give me the door key, and I'll cook you dinner early after work today, okay?" Xiao Tong said: "No need, I may not come back today, I will live in school. I have to hurry up and make up my lessons." Wen Yan was silent for a while, and only said: "Then be careful not to tire your eyes." Then she said nothing.The two didn't even say a word of goodbye when they parted.They often do. When Xiao Tong arrived at school by bicycle, the first class had just ended.When the classmates saw him coming, they couldn't help asking questions around him.Some students met Wen Yan when they went to the hospital to see him, so of course they had to ask the details: "Who is that, is that your girlfriend?" "What, do you have a girlfriend? When did you find it?Where is it from?I haven't heard you say that. "Those guys always like to say these things very loudly in front of girls. Xiao Tong smiled lightly and said that was my cousin and you talking nonsense. It was a foreign language class in the morning, so he didn't listen to it, so he went to his dormitory to take a look.His bed has been slept by countless lodgers these days, and it is already filthy.He pinched his nose and rolled up the quilt and sheets, ready to take them to the Student Services Department for unpacking and washing, thinking that he still had to go home to sleep tonight. He walked to the student service department with the quilt in his arms, and happened to meet the counselor Lu Lindong on the way.Lu Lindong said: Why don't you rest for a few more days, why are you in such a hurry.Xiao Tong said: "It's fine to be idle at home. I really miss school these days when I don't go to school." Lu Lindong set up his bicycle and said, "Just in time, I also have an important matter for you. The school party committee will organize a speech contest for the whole school. Celebrate July 1st. Several leaders of our department discussed it, and our department is going to let you go." Xiao Tong said: "Don't, I've missed so many lessons, I have to concentrate on making up for it, you should find someone else. It's best to find a girl." Lu Lindong said: "This is a political mission, don't push it. It will also be good for you to accumulate some political points and join the party in the future. We have thought about it. First, you have a good eloquence; second, you have a good image; third, Everyone knows that you are blind, but now that you can suddenly stand on the podium and recite, the meaning is different, and it is more conducive to our 'hype'. This kind of thing is absolutely beneficial to yourself, and you have to do your part." See Xiao Tong still hesitated, he got on the bike and knocked again, "That's it." Lu Lindong left by bicycle, while Xiao Zhong still went to the student service department with the quilt in his arms.The Student Service Department is run by Yanjing Service Company, the school's "tertiary industry".When he walked to the service department with the quilt and sheets in his arms, he ran into the company's manager Yu Wenhuan.Yu Wenhuan, who taught them history a year ago, was an associate professor in his fifties.A while ago, I probably felt that there was little hope of being a professor, so I volunteered to start a company. I have not been in office for a long time, and I am interested in doing business and investing.At this time, he didn't know what trouble he had encountered and was frowning. When he saw Xiao Tong as if he had found a savior, he immediately felt relieved. Pull him to the door, and greet him affectionately: "How are your eyes? Are you all right? When did you come back?" Xiao Tong said, "I just returned to school today." Yu Wenhuan said: "It's just right, you can help me with something, you came just in time for me to be in a hurry." Xiao Tong hugged the quilt and said inconveniently: "Professor Yu, wait for me to send the quilt in first." Yu Wenhuan seemed to realize that he was holding the quilt, and immediately called out to the staff inside, asking them to take Xiao Tong's quilt and take it in for washing, and ordered: "It's free to wash, and I'll sign it later." Xiao Tong was flattered: "Professor Yu, what do you want me to do?" Yu Wenhuan swallowed his breath, as if he had suffered so much wronged and didn't know where to start, "I let Liang Zhide get tricked." Liang Zhide is a graduate student in the law department. Xiao Tong knew him, so he asked, "What's wrong with Liang Zhide?" It seems that we have to start from the beginning, Yu Wenhuan gestured with both hands and said: "You know that our company's Yanjing Food City project has not been started for many years. It's so easy for me to get investors I found him, and he has no other conditions, just let me find a partner for his daughter in college. He has plenty of money, so he wants to find a college student, graduate student, teaching assistant or something for his daughter. I have agreed with Liang Zhide, He didn't say he didn't agree. He made an appointment to meet at the Kamogawa restaurant of China World Hotel tonight, but he went to Tianjin and said he wouldn't come back today. I can't get in touch with the boss again, and I can't take him tonight. Isn't this asking for others? If they don't make it right, they will think that our Yanjing Company has no credibility and lose confidence in investing in us." Xiao Tong said with a smile: "It's not that serious. If he wants to invest, he must think it's beneficial. He won't do what is not profitable, and he can't run away from what is beneficial. If it's because his daughter didn't see her husband's family tonight, he won't If you invested, it must be because you didn’t want to invest in the first place, and you are fishing for it.” "You put it simply.'" Yu Wenhuan patted Xiao Tong on the head, "I realized that it is not easy to start a business after I came out to start a company. Socialism is not taught in the classroom, it is so expensive. I got it for a penny. Hey, it’s agreed, you will come with me tonight, and I will let you eat a Japanese meal for nothing.” "What am I going to do?" "You're going to replace Liang Zhide." "Ah?" Xiao Tong didn't know whether to laugh or cry, thinking to himself how Professor Yu was like a "pimp" as a teacher.He blushed and said, "I'm not a graduate student, and I don't want to find a partner. How old am I?" Yu Wenhuan patted him on the head again, "If you want to find someone, they won't want you. That girl talked to me, and now people don't want to talk about someone at all. She is not too old. I just don't know why Her father is in a hurry to let her find a partner, and she has to find it in a higher education institution like ours. Her father has mentioned it to me several times. Liang Zhide and I have also agreed, just go to have a meal and show up , the girl will definitely not do it. I have also communicated with her, even if she plays a show for her father, it can be regarded as a task entrusted by others, and we really take it seriously." Xiao Tong felt that this was pretty much the same, but he also felt that if he did this kind of thing as a student, it would be a laughing stock if it was spread to let his classmates and teachers know.There is no way to hide this kind of thing in the university, and it becomes a "joke" when it is passed on three times and two times.So he still shook his head: "No, no, at my age, I don't look like someone who is in a hurry to find a partner." "Why doesn't it look like, don't you all have a partner?" "Professor Yu, who did you hear that from?" Yu Wenhuan looked a little angry, "What's the point of going there, besides, it's for the benefit of the school. There are many students who want to go, but I won't let you go. I came to you because I think you have good conditions. The young man needs to be big and strong. You have a good appearance, let people see it, it must represent the level of our school. If you dress neatly tonight, you can say that you are a graduate student in the law department, do you hear me! How old are you? Twenty-one years old? Just say you It's twenty-three four, do you hear me? " Xiao Tong said: "In the future, when people know that I am not a graduate student, they will say that you are cheating, and that will affect your company's reputation even more." Yu Wenhuan stared and said: "You thought that if someone really wants to fall in love with you, they will ask you more carefully in the future. Just tonight, one meal, after eating and finishing, each will go his own way, and then it will be nothing to do with you." ,what!" Yu Wenhuan patted Xiao Tong again, and left as if it was a deal.After walking a few steps, he turned around and exhorted loudly: "Hey, I eat Japanese food at night, and I have to take off my shoes when I sit on tatami mats. Remember to wash your feet and change your socks, so that you don't smell bad, do you hear me?"