Lingering ballet
Wu Meilai sighed and looked at the peeling vermilion paint on her door. She knew that this was probably what Liu Guiyan was going to talk about.
The door opened by itself. Liu Guiyan stood behind it and said with a smile, "Why don't you come in now that you're back?"
Wu Mei looked behind her and saw Wu Ergou sitting on the sofa with a stern face, smoking a pipe.
He glared at Wu Meilai and ordered, "Eat."
It's funny that Wu Meilai doesn't have the ability to play the role of a strict and kind father.
She sat down by the fire, without moving her chopsticks, and asked, "What's the matter?"
She looked at Liu Guiyan as if the other person didn't exist.
Liu Guiyan smiled awkwardly, glanced at Wu Ergou, and said, "I heard from your father that there has been no money in his card for a while. But hasn't the business in the store been good recently?"
Wu Meilai smiled and said, "Business has been pretty good recently, but of course the money I collect in my shop goes directly to my bank card."
Liu Guiyan was embarrassed and said weakly, "Girl, why should we divide our family into yours and mine?"
Wu Ergou continued, "Don't be so dramatic. You keep bringing up that matter. Isn't it because of this family?"
Wu Mei came without saying anything.
Seeing this, Wu Ergou yelled, "Is it all in vain that I've raised you for decades?"
Wu Meilai's expression didn't change at all.
Wu Ergou's face flushed with anger, and he looked like he was about to go crazy. Suddenly, his eyes rolled and he calmed down. "That's right, you're older now, you've grown up, you've become independent, and I can't control you anymore."
He continued, "I can't afford to support you anymore, so get married as soon as possible."
She knew that what Wu Meilai feared most was getting married.
Wu Ergou is not stupid. The money Wu Mei earns after she gets married will belong to someone else's family. Judging from the current business situation, Wu Mei can earn back the tens of thousands of dollars in betrothal money within two years.
He said this to dampen Wu Mei's fighting spirit.
As expected, Wu Meilai frowned as soon as she finished speaking. After thinking for a while, she said to Liu Guiyan, "Leave the money with me. I'll cover any expenses at home. Also, I'll transfer 500 yuan to that card every month."
Liu Guiyan nodded repeatedly, "Okay, okay."
Wu Ergou was not satisfied. "500 to get rid of a beggar? Don't you think about how much I spent raising you two?"
Wu Meilai was too lazy to refute his claim of taking credit and his unreasonable behavior. She just said "Not much" and went back to her bedroom without even eating.
I opened the window and saw that the moon was still very round tonight, and the moonlight gently spread in the plum forest behind the house.
The plum blossoms have faded.
Before Wu Mei came, she had planned to take Zhou Qianling there for a trip.
She picked up the music box, opened it and placed it on the windowsill.
The colorful lights light up and the pretty little people dance to the music, allowing her to temporarily forget all her worries such as debts, pressure to get married, and kinship.
As she watched, she imagined the dummy to be Zhou Qianling.
"Zhou Qianling" was wearing a white ballet skirt and spinning on her tiptoes. Wu Meilai reached out her fingertips and touched her face.
After playing it once, the little man is still, and the lingering sound is still in the air.
Wu Meilai hesitated for a while, took out her cell phone, and opened a hidden album. There was only one photo in it, which was Zhou Qianling's selfie that was about to show off.
She saved it.
Wu Meilai's eyes scanned every noise point on the screen with extreme offensiveness, and she wished she could get into the photo and pull off her pajamas that were about to fall off.
She placed her thumb on her face, neck, shoulders, and arms, and finally let it hang loosely above the snow-capped mountains, looking into her seductive eyes, not daring to press it down.
Turn off the screen and slowly lower your palm...
Wu Meilai closed her eyes and imagined that she was kissing the slender shoulder straps on her shoulders.
This is the strange habit that Wu Meilai has developed. She is addicted to that night. Whenever she encounters something boring, she can't help but recall it and even associate more scenes.
In the New Year's graveyard, there was no Liu Guiyan who came to intrude, only Zhou Qianling's careful guidance.
In the plum forest, white petals scattered and fell on her body.
In the kitchen of the small shop, he prepared food for the diners, and she knelt in front of him...
Wu Meilai was sweating profusely and her skin had turned red. After a long time, the stuffiness in her chest finally dissipated briefly.
He opened his eyes and looked at the ballet princess in a daze.
She missed Zhou Qianling a little.
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On the stage, the white swan and the black swan were embracing each other, and they were spinning and separating and getting together to the sound of clear music.
The phone rang, and Zhou Qianling took his eyes off the TV and looked at the caller ID.
"Chunmei."
"The motorcycle you mentioned has been shipped. Are you sure you filled in the address correctly? I remember your hometown is called..."
Zhou Qianling looked up at Lin Yue and her daughter, covered the microphone, and walked out.
"That's right. It's at Yuxianwan."
"Tsk tsk." Jiang Chunmei joked, "I can find a girlfriend even if I go back to my hometown."
"No." Zhou Qianling picked a plum blossom casually, blew it gently, and the snow-white petals fell down.
"Do you still remember what happened in junior high school?" Zhou Qianling suddenly asked.
There was silence on the phone.
a long time.
"sorry."
Zhou Qianling shook his head. "It's not that thing. I mean, my classmates mistakenly thought I liked you."
She leaned against the tree trunk and continued, "After that incident, people have always privately discussed whether I like girls. Although the starting point was wrong, the result was right."
The microphone was extremely quiet, with only the occasional small boxing shouts coming from it.
Zhou Qianling chuckled, "Don't be so serious, I just..."
Looking at the bare branches, I said to myself, "I suddenly feel that I may have been wrong all along. I shouldn't like girls."
"Why? Isn't this a very normal thing?" Jiang Chunmei raised her voice in vain. "At that time... I didn't mean it. I just... What happened? I'll come pick you up right away."
Her incoherent speech showed her nervousness.
Zhou Qianling told her not to worry and hung up the phone.
She looked into the distance, and the mountains that were stacked one upon another confined her vision to this area, as if the sky was only the size of a bowl.
When I pushed the door open and walked into the house, the show on TV had already ended.
After watching it for a while, Zhou Qianling roughly knew that this was a movie.
Lin Yue's family uses an extra-large antenna dish, which sometimes receives signals from TV stations in other countries. This film should be in French.
The camera turns to behind the scenes, where the two women test each other with their eyes and slowly approach each other...
The screen goes black instantly.
Lin Yue put down the remote control and chased the siblings away, "Don't look, don't look, it's not suitable for children. Why are two girls kissing? No matter how much fun they have, they can't kiss..."
Zhou Qianling leaned against the window casually and explained, "They are not friends, they both have a crush on each other."
Lin Yue's voice stopped abruptly. Zhou Qianling looked over and saw that she was terrified.
It seemed like I heard something horrible.
Zhou Qianling couldn't help but sit up straight. This invisible pressure made her heart tighten, as if she was really falling into the abyss.
"Oh, so the one on the left is a girl. I always thought it was a boy." She lied.
Lin Yue sighed, "You scared me to death. I told you, how could a woman have a crush on another woman? Foreigners just like to kiss here and there..."
"Yeah." Zhou Qianling responded, and suddenly felt very tired and had no strength.
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