Chapter 42 Forty-two

It was a long time after Fang Yuzhu left that Ding Jie gradually calmed down.At this time, she had confirmed that it was Fang Yulin's younger sister Fang Yuzhu who had entered the restaurant just now.She also confirmed that Fang Yuzhu had seen her just now.So what if you see it?Why couldn't she have a coffee and a conversation with another man?Sit in a certain restaurant for a while?Fang Yulin's sudden estrangement and indifference to her over the past year, and his refusal to explain why, has already broken her brain, heart, and her "noble" self-esteem.She lacks nothing, but she needs the care of a lover.She never expected to find this kind of pampering in a well-matched pair.She thought it was very vulgar and worldly.She has seen too many officials. What are "officials" and "famous families" to her?If she really takes "official" and "famous family" seriously, and really only wants to marry an "official" and "famous family", it can be said that a hundred of them will be married, and the household registration should be done early. Went to a certain green brick mansion in Beijing.No, what she wants is a real relationship and life.A person who can really let himself walk over with sincerity and give himself to him completely.A man who can ignite all his life enthusiasm and emotional desire.Let her be "unrestrained", let her have her own life "unrestrained", and build a world of her own with her, even if there are only "a few small chickens and a lonely jujube tree to accompany them" .She was fascinated by Fang Yulin's perseverance and passion.His whole body, especially his eyes exuded such a rare freshness.And his status as a commoner just makes her who is good at romantic reverie arouse a kind of maternal pity, makes the whole love of the earth more pure and thick, and makes it easier for her to enter the fairy tales she read in fairy tales when she was a teenager. Such an intoxicating artistic conception... Perhaps because of all these, she has never taken the communication between Eye Zhou Mi seriously, which made her unable to follow Zhou Mi forward without any worries.But today is a little different.She really felt that Zhou Mi was very serious to her, and could even be said to be "extremely urgent"... Zhou Mi came from the same commoner background, lived the same... even more persistent, which made her Can't help being "heartbeat" for it.At least, she began to wonder what kind of person he was.It should be said that among the many men she has come into contact with, there are really few who can arouse her interest-it is definitely not because their "officials" are not so thorough.

"Mr. Zhou, I found that you are quite habitual..." Ding Jie smiled faintly. "How do you say that?" Zhou Mi carefully placed a piece of Ding Jie's favorite cake on the plate in front of her. "I have eaten with you a few times, and you always bring me to this western restaurant, and you always book this seat." Ding Jie said.Zhou Mi smiled slightly and said, "It's more about nostalgia than inertia." Ding Jie raised her beautiful eyebrows and asked in puzzlement, "Nostalgia? This western restaurant has been open for less than two months. This old Where did you come from?" Zhou Mi smiled and took out a brown paper envelope from a pocket of his suit jacket.A small but very old diary was poured out of the envelope.Open the diary again, and there is an old photo inside.

The photo is of a small Chinese restaurant called "Peace Canteen". "Do you recognize the street corner in the photo?" Zhou Mi asked. Ding Jie looked at the photo, then at the scenery outside the window, and guessed: "It seems... It should be this area, right? " Zhou Mi asked again: "Where is the small restaurant in the photo?" Ding Jie thought for a while and said: "There seems to be no restaurant called Heping Canteen nearby... Zhou Mi smiled: "Of course there won't be any more.That was the name of the restaurant in the 60's.Of course, there will no longer be such restaurants and restaurants calling themselves canteens.Let me tell you, the Peace Canteen in this photo is this western restaurant.For three years in high school, I delivered 100 red bean dumplings to this cafeteria every day, and received a commission of 80 cents from here.365 days a year, every day.Windy and rainy, cold and hot.

Weekdays and holidays, never delay.There were only three days of suspension in three years, and that was the three days of the college entrance examination. " Ding Huo was very curious: "Give them zongzi? Why?" Zhou Mi smiled and said: "In today's terminology, it is to process incoming materials for this cafeteria. They send us raw materials: rice, red beans, zong leaves, etc. We make zongzi, cook them, and deliver them to them the next day." go……" Ding Jie said: "Small family workshop?" Zhou Mi nodded: "Yes, you can put it this way. It is a small family workshop specializing in processing supplied materials."

"Not to mention, this kind of workshop form was quite suitable for the level of China's productivity at that time. It is really a feasible way to organize idle labor to produce and save yourself. Mr. Zhou, are you right?" Zhou Mi smiled silently, but did not answer right away. Ding Jie smiled mischievously: "I'm wrong, economics teacher?" Zhou Mi sighed softly and said, "You are so interesting, here you are doing economic theory analysis with me. But you have to know, at that time, the 100 zongzi a day laid a heavy and painful burden in my life. Branding? When will I close my eyes, I will be able to see my mother and my sister making zongzi under the lamp, their hands white and swollen from soaking in water... They bite the zongzi with their teeth At that time, his lips looked red from being strangled by the rice dumpling rope..."

Ding Jie hurriedly said in embarrassment: "I'm sorry..." Zhou Mi didn't seem to hear Ding Jie's sincere apology, and just immersed himself in the memories of the past. "My sister and I finished middle school with the commission of 80 cents a day... this is the restaurant... right here... I took the basket of rice dumplings from my back, and took the one they had prepared in advance Money... 365 days... For three whole years..." Zhou Mi's eyes were moist. Ding Jie was solemn. That night, Ding Jie came home, washed up, changed her nightgown, and lingered in her room until late at night. What she wanted to do the most was to take apart the The package of Zhou Mi’s diary that has not been opened yet. After hesitating for a long time, the phone in the room rang. Ding Jie guessed that it was Zhou Mi’s call, and went to pick up the phone. Sure enough, Zhou Mi’s calm voice came from the phone: "Haven't slept yet? "Although I guessed that Zhou Mi would definitely call tonight, Ding Jie still felt an indescribable joy when he actually received his call, and hurriedly said: "I am hesitating whether to take your phone apart or not." Let's take a look at the sealed pack of diaries. "Zhou Mi is always so unhurried: "If you are not interested, don't force yourself. Ding Jie laughed and said, "Why don't you force me?"Maybe push me and I'll watch it. "Zhou Mi said: "I don't want to let you do something you don't have any interest in doing. "

Ding Jie sighed softly and said, "To be honest, it's not a matter of interest. It is conceivable that the early diary of a newly promoted deputy mayor will be attractive to a journalist..." Zhou Mi immediately interjected: "I really don't want to read it, I won't read it for now Forget it..." "No... no, it's not that I don't want to watch it, I'm just a little scared..." "What are you afraid of?My diary is not a Pandora's box, there are no monsters in it. " Zhou Mi said. He is making this call at his own home at the moment. The sofa is very old, and many things in the room seem to have been moved away, leaving only a few necessary pieces of furniture, so it looks very empty. In the middle of the night, it seems that there are even It's a bit weird. It's been over an hour since he got home, but he's still wearing that suit, and he hasn't even changed his leather shoes. If Ding Jie saw him at this time, he would think he was so pale, so tired, so sad, so...then old and lonely...

"I can't say what I'm afraid of... I always don't have the courage to open your diary... At first, I didn't think I was qualified to read your diary. I asked myself, why do you read a man's diary? And He is also a deputy mayor. Later, in my mind, your role as deputy mayor gradually decreased, but I still didn't dare to look at it.I think to read a person's diary is to enter that person's heart.If you enter a person's heart, you have to be responsible for that person.I asked myself again, what right do I... have to let this man open his heart to me.and……"

"And what?" After resting for a while, Zhou Mi's expression recovered a lot, and he asked sensitively. Ding Jie blushed slightly, and said, "I...do I have this obligation to be responsible for the other party?" The phone suddenly fell silent.Ding Jie hurriedly asked: "Are you listening?" Zhou Mi's voice appeared again: "Listen, of course I am listening." "Listening to you today told me about your life as a boy, which really brought me closer to you. It cleared up some of my worries, but I found that I still can't open your diary..." Ding Jie didn't even feel that her voice became tender and sentimental as she spoke.Of course Zhou Mi noticed this, but he didn't point it out.Of course, he understands that the budding of emotions is extremely fragile and delicate in the early stage, and the best care for it is often to let nature take its course and never force it.He just said: "Are you trying to tell me that it's still impossible for us to have this true relationship?" Ding Jie blushed suddenly, and said in embarrassment: "That...that's not what it means...but...but ...I really can't tell..." The empathetic Zhou Mi didn't ask any further questions, and gave Ding Jie, who was in distress, a time to relax.In this way, the two sides did not speak for a long time.After a while, Ding Jie took the initiative to ask, "Are you still listening?" Zhou Mi said, "Yes."

Ding Jie hesitated for a moment, then said: "You should rest early, there are so many things to deal with tomorrow. Rest..."