Chapter 39 19

Wu Zhenqing first went to a public bathhouse. There were not many people in the big bathhouse, and there were a few old people soaking in the warm pool; Wu Zhenqing went to the hot pool, he stretched out his hand to test the water, and felt it was hot, but at this moment he seemed to be suffering from "compulsion". Syndrome", gritted his teeth and entered the hot pool, stretched his feet first, then lowered his legs. After a while, Wu Zhenqing was already soaking in the hot pool against the edge of the pool. The old men soaking in the warm water stared at him in admiration. Wu Zhenqing sang ventally: "Make up your mind, don't be afraid of sacrifice, overcome all difficulties, and strive for victory... Make up your mind, don't be afraid of sacrifice..." He closed his eyes, submerged his whole body in the water, and only his head was exposed.

At this moment, he couldn't help thinking of his mother bathing him when he was a child, and kept saying, "Sit down! Sit in the water..." "hot……" My mother was a little impatient at the time, and said, "Why is it hot! I don't know if it's hot or not?" He said, "It's hot!" Mom spanked his ass and sat him down in the tub. At that time, he endured the heat, tears and grievances. The father who washed the feet aside said: "Maybe it's hot? The water I tried with my hands didn't feel hot, but as soon as my feet were soaked in the water, they felt hot. Besides, the hands of adults and the hands of children The thin skin and tender meat are different."

Mom rolled up her sleeves, dipped her arms in the water and shouted, "Oh, it's hot! Son, get up." However, with tears on his face and his lips tightly pressed, he just couldn't get up. His mother rushed to hug him, and he stubbornly fell down... Wu Zhenqing, who was soaked in the hot water, closed his eyes and smiled profusely. An old man in the warm water pool said to his companion: "Could he be..." pointing to his head. The old man who was close to him left him far away, and they couldn't help but move closer together. After coming out of the bathhouse, Wu Zhenqing went to the barber shop to have his hair cut and shaved. Not counting that, he also had his hair blow-dried and waxed until his face looked radiant before returning home.

His mother, who hadn't seen him for many days, saw him coming in, and immediately shouted, "Hey, my son is back!" Wu Zhenqing pretended to be happy: "I'm back!" Mother said: "Tsui Hark said you were on a business trip, so please don't worry about it at home. Where have you been for ten days?" Wu Zhenqing was taken aback for a moment and said, "To... an unforgettable place." Mother asked: "Beijing?" Wu Zhenqing replied: "No..." "Shanghai?" "no." "Then, did you go to Guangzhou?" Wu Zhenqing didn't intend to make up any more nonsense, so he stopped the topic and said, "You don't even know... Anyway, it's a place that you have no chance to go in this life."

As he spoke, he walked into the small room, only to see his father sleeping on the bed with his head inward, with his cane leaning on the head of the bed. He backed out: "Mom, why are you and my dad sleeping in my room?" Mother said: "vacate the big house and prepare it for you." Wu Zhenqing said, "What are you preparing for?" Mother poked his forehead with her hand: "You don't want to get married anymore?" He pushed open the door of the big house again. The furniture in the house was half new and not old, but it was complete. It could be regarded as a new house in the 1980s.Newspapers were spread on the painted floor.

Wu Zhenqing said: "Hey, I don't even have a date yet, so why are you so anxious!" "Aren't you in a hurry to be a father and a mother?" said the mother, "this is all your father's idea. You have been away for ten days, he is exhausted for you! No, just lay down Sleep at ease. He said, as for who you marry back home, we parents don't have to worry about it." Wu Zhenqing's gaze was attracted by the newspaper on the ground, and he squatted down to take a look. The newspaper contained the story of their fight at the train station. "You haven't read these newspapers, have you?"

Mother said: "Look at what you asked, don't you know that your father and I are illiterate? We all got them from other people's homes." Wu Zhenqing tore off half of the newspaper, crumpled it up, and put it in his pocket. During dinner, my father started to drink with him as usual, and my mother said to the side: "You two, eat slowly, drink slowly, but don't let me get drunk!" Father said: "Go, go, I can't get drunk, he can't get drunk!" Wu Zhenqing drank a few cups and was already half-drunk; he added more wine to his father and said, "Dad, have some more. I think you are very happy today."

The father said: "You are promising as a son, and of course I am happy as a father... and then... tell me about your construction team." Wu Zhenqing stammered, "I...the captain...the more I become...the more...the future is boundless! Dad, more than a hundred people...signed...no, it's not...it's joining! 35 Years later, it will grow to a thousand...people...in ten years or eight years, the whole city...can be counted!...by...at that time...ah, Dad, you said until then..." My father was also excited: "In a long time, you have to... give me a good... make a good show! Is the project going well?"

"Successful! It's incomparable...smooth! After handing over the project...we will get a bigger one, the big one...the project...the small one...we don't want to...do it..." Wu Zhenqing drank too much that day, so he stumbled into the big room and lay down; in the small room, his father was lying on the bed, and his mother was sitting on the bed and talking. The mother said proudly: "What did I say in the past? Boy, is it a good one? Now it has come true, right?" The father sighed: "Yes! I don't know which burner of incense smoked from the ancestral grave. For our ordinary people's family, if the son can get to this point, he is considered promising."

Mother said: "That's not it!" At this moment, when they heard Wu Zhenqing's loud cry of "Dad! Dad! Dad!", the old couple were terrified, and the mother hurried over.Wu Zhenqing sat up panting heavily. "It's okay," he said, "I had a nightmare." Yes, he dreamed again when he was in middle school, when he helped his father push the cart across the railway, and the wheel got stuck on the rail...