The courtyard: the atmosphere of human life

At night, Darong was sleeping soundly and felt thirsty. She wanted to get up to drink some water, but she heard the conversation of her parents in the outer room.

"I always think that child is the one I held when I was pregnant with Darong."

"How could it be such a coincidence?"

Sometimes don't disbelieve in fate, otherwise you will be shocked by coincidences.

When Darong's mother was pregnant with Darong and felt heavy, she went back to her parents' home with her third aunt. As they passed by a ridge, they saw a very pretty little boy with big eyes, sitting naked on the ground playing in the mud.

At that time, Darong's mother was not a person who was close to children, and generally seldom cared about other people's children. But when the two sisters saw that the little boy was extremely handsome, they couldn't help but hug him and get close to him. This seemed to have determined Darong's life destiny.

Before she met Zhong Yunxing in person, Darong's mother had a sense of déjà vu about him. Now that she had met him and heard about the location of his home, the memory that had been buried in her mind emerged more clearly.

"Who knows, but Darong said she disagrees, so it could just be a coincidence."

When there was no more sound of conversation in the outer room, Darong lay down for a while before getting up and pouring herself a glass of water.

After Darong refused to continue developing a relationship with Zhong Yunxing, life returned to normal. The entire March passed quietly as Darong went to work and came home every day.

"Little white goose!"

Zhong Yunxing stood at the gate of the textile factory waiting for most of the day. Almost all the people who got off the early shift had left before Darong slowly pedaled her bike to the road in front of the factory gate.

Hearing Zhong Yunxing calling her like that, Darong frowned uncomfortably. After all, apart from Goubangzi, no other male colleague in the factory would call her by her nickname.

"Is there anything wrong?" Darong got out of the car and looked at Zhong Yunxing not far away.

"I heard you didn't fancy me?"

Darong was stunned by his direct question. It seemed that her brain was a little slow to respond and she didn't know how to answer such a direct and sharp question.

"Hahaha... why are you still scared? Aren't you a pretty strong girl?"

Zhong Yunxing laughed heartily, and his porcelain-white teeth sparkled Darong's eyes. It was hard to find a few people without dental fluorosis in the southern suburbs, but Zhong Yunxing not only had no fluorosis, but his teeth were neat and dazzling, shining white.

"How can you ask people like that?" Darong held it in for a long time before finally squeezing out this sentence.

In fact, human emotions are very subtle. When you don't care about someone, you will always be calm and composed. When you start to become restrained in front of someone, it means that your emotions have quietly changed.

"Come on, I'll take you home."

Zhong Yunxing didn't say anything else, but got on the bike and rode side by side with Darong on the road.

Later, Darong found out that the day after he met her, Zhong Yunxing was sent by the factory to a training class, which lasted for two weeks.

After he came back, he heard that Darong had refused to date him, so he immediately went to the door of the textile factory.

"Sister, who brought you back?" Sibei, who was about to go out to work, happened to see Zhong Yunxing bringing Darong back.

"Why don't you go to work quickly? It's already so late. The person who's taking over the shift will scold you to death."

Darong did not answer Sibei'er, but urged him to go out quickly in a scolding tone.

"It's okay. The one who took over the shift is Bingfen. She's fine." Sibei said to Darong nonchalantly.

"Bingfen was transferred to your factory?" When Darong heard the name, she had a bad feeling in her heart.

Bingfen and Sibei were classmates. Bingfen had pursued Sibei in school, but because she always liked to go out and hang out with a group of young men and women, Darong's mother sternly told Sibei not to get along with her.

"Our mother told you to stay away from her, why did you take over from her?"

"That's none of my business. These are all shifts arranged by the leadership."

"Then don't owe her a favor. Go there early to take over your shift. If you're late, she'll watch over you. How are you going to repay her for the favor?"

Darong slapped her silly brother, saying that he didn't even understand how to deal with the world. How could favors between men and women be repaid so easily?

"Okay, okay, I'll leave now."

After being scolded by Darong, Sibei forgot about what he had just asked Zhong Yunxing and hurried out to go to work.

Ever since Sibei'er and Darong both got formal jobs, the living conditions of Darong's family have become more comfortable. The debt for building a house for Darong's grandmother has been paid off, and Darong's mother has also begun to save money slowly to prepare for her two children's future marriage.

"Zhong Zi..."

Here, Zhong Yunxing had just sent Darong home and was stopped as he turned onto the main road.

Zhong Yunxing stopped the car and looked back in the direction of the sound.

"It's really you, why are you here?"

The person who called Zhong Yunxing was not someone else but Pei Bin who was on his way to work.

"Hey, are you going to work? A friend of mine lives here."

Zhong Yunxing and Pei Bin were middle school classmates. They were in the same class for three years. Although they were not very close, they were in the same class after all.

"Girlfriend!" Pei Bin joked with a sly smile at Zhong Yunxing.

Zhong Yunxing chuckled and did not refute.

"I'm in a hurry to get to work. I don't want to chat with you anymore. Come back here and have a drink. I work in this paper mill."

The two of them didn't exchange much greetings, and Pei Bin rode his bike into the factory. At that time, he never thought that Zhong Yunxing would eventually marry his most beloved girl.

Erdaohezi, where Zhong Yunxing lives, is actually not in the town in the southern suburbs, but just a small village on the edge of the town.

At that time, the difference between urban and rural areas was very obvious. If people in the village wanted to buy something, they had to ride a bike for more than half an hour to get to the town to buy it. Some special food supplies were not available to families with agricultural household registration.

This also further divides the gap between urban residents and rural residents, so for people in the village, whether boys or girls, it is a very enviable thing if they can date a person in the town.

Darong's mother originally did not approve of Darong marrying a rural mother-in-law, but for some reason Zhong Yunxing's family became an exception for Darong's mother.

Ever since Zhong Yunxing found out about Darong's home address, he began to frequently appear at the entrance of the alley. Gradually, everyone in the Nanjian dormitory knew that Darong already had a girlfriend.

"Aunt Liu said there's always a young man looking for you? Don't you know your place at this age? You didn't even tell my family, and now they're asking me about it, but I don't even know who the kid is with."

As soon as Darong's mother came back from the backyard, she started to scold Darong angrily. She accepted that Darong had a boyfriend, but she could not accept the rumors from the outside world. In Darong's mother's opinion, if someone is dating seriously, they should let their family know first.

"It's Zhong Yunxing."

Darong was also a little unhappy. She hated those gossipy women in the compound the most. It was obviously nothing, but once they spread it around, it became completely out of context.

But is it really nothing?