no longer ordinary friends

Zhou’s breakfast today is noodles. There are many types of noodles in Nanri County, and there are many kinds of noodles. There is an old saying that how deep the sea is, how strong the noodles are. Deep and strong rhyme in dialect. The noodles here are usually thread The noodles, rice noodles and vermicelli are thin and long, more delicate and soft.

Zhou Guohua had cooked stewed noodles and red noodles before. This morning, he made fish noodles for breakfast. It was light and refreshing. He added scallops, shiitake mushrooms, clams and squid to enhance the freshness. It is a typical seaside flavor.

Zhao Yanjia picked up a pair of transparent vermicelli with chopsticks and asked, "Grandpa Zhou, shall we eat sweet potato vermicelli today?"

"Wild pigs can't eat fine bran." Zhou Guohua asked him to smell it with his nose, "Does it smell like fresh yellow croaker? Look at this thin transparent powder, it's as thin as paper, without my decades old skill, What can’t be cut out is fish noodles made from fish meat.”

Zhao Yanjia gave a thumbs up, eating very deliciously.

Jiang Xianghuai suffered from severe stomach pain last night. He had been on an empty stomach all night. At this time, he could only drink a little hot soup to warm his stomach. After pressing my stomach, I felt a little better.

Cai Mei noticed it and asked him, "Is it a stomachache?"

Jiang Xianghuai nodded.

Cai Mei: "If you young people don't take good care of your body, you will be miserable when you get old. You are only a few years old, and your stomach hurts. Wait a minute, don't eat this fish noodle. The angelica duck soup I cooked at noon yesterday is still there. Let’s warm it up, and Grandma will put some digestible noodles for you.”

Cai Mei's hands and feet were clean, and she came out with Dang Gui Duck Noodles in a short while.

Jiang Xianghuai said with a smile, "Thank you, Grandma."

Cai Mei is a typical representative of hard-talking and soft-hearted, she said in her mouth: "Take care of you is to take care of you. If you want to bully us, Chengcheng, there is no way."

But the man walked to the anti-theft window in the living room, looked at the prickly pears on the window sill, and said to Zhou Guohua: "You will buy two pork belly later, and pick another prickly pear, and I will fill Xiang Huai's stomach."

Zhao Yanjia immediately understood this dark dish: "Steamed pork belly with prickly pear balls?"

"Yeah, nourishing the stomach."

Zhao Yanjia looked at Jiang Xianghuai with pitiful eyes.

Jiang Li said: "You don't understand, it's delicious. It's an edible prickly prickly pear prickly prickly prickly prickly pear. Beat two eggs, add some ginger, and put pork belly to stew for several hours. Many people here drink this soup To treat stomach ailments."

Cai Mei thought of many folk remedies for stomach problems, and discussed with Zhou Guohua to fry some peanut kernels for Jiang Xianghuai to eat in the afternoon to overcome the cold, and what red wine soaked in coriander can also cure stomach problems. .

But Jiang Xianghuai was eating steaming Danggui duck noodles, and listening to the two old men chanting by his ears, the sharp pain in his stomach slowly disappeared. He raised his eyelids, saw Zhou Zhicheng and Zhou Bingcheng, and remembered Zhou Bingcheng saying that he, Arrogant and condescending, he looks down on Chengcheng's background.

He wanted to refute, obviously out of envy and low self-esteem, such a good clarity was cultivated by Grandma Cai and Grandpa Zhou for 27 years, and now it has begun its 28th year.

After dinner, Zhou Zhicheng knew that grandpa and grandma didn't sleep well last night, so she took the initiative to wash the dishes, and Jiang Xianghuai followed her into the kitchen with the dishes.

Cai Mei glanced at it, and wanted to stop it. Zhou Guohua thought that he was going to marry, so he boldly grabbed Cai Mei's hand, dragged her to the shop, and muttered: "Jiang Li's mother is coming soon, don't worry about it." Get out of these unimportant things."

In the kitchen, Zhou Zhicheng turned on the faucet, and there was a splashing sound of water. She put the bowl in and was about to wash it, when Jiang Xianghuai said, "Chengcheng, I know it's too early to say this, but I know that grandpa and grandma treat you well." I have said these words several times recently. I am not joking. If you are willing to give me a chance, I would like to have a home in Nanri County. Bingcheng asked me if I would regret it, I can't predict the future, but even if I regret it, it is absolutely impossible for me to regret giving up Mindy's job, let alone blame you as he said, this is my own choice, not for you , for my own selfishness."

"Grandpa and grandma are worried that you will marry far away and suffer, and don't want you to go to Beicheng again, and I am the same. From the beginning to the end, what I like the most is the you in Nanri County, in the Meimei canteen, in front of grandpa and grandma... ..."

Zhou Zhicheng put down the bowl and suddenly said, "You wash it."

Jiang Xianghuai didn't dislike washing the dishes. He used to live with her, and he basically washed the dishes. He took the dishes and suddenly laughed. He seemed to have made her angry by saying the wrong thing again.

He explained: "I'm not saying that I don't like you in Beicheng..."

"You don't need to like it."

Zhou Zhicheng replied lightly, turned his head and went out, the sun had come out, the sky was blue, and there were a few scattered white clouds, not like clouds, but more like white sailboats floating in the blue sea.

She stared at the sky for a while, thinking about what the sky in Beicheng was like, and it was quite beautiful in her impression, except that when the school came to autumn and winter, the monster wind began to blow, and people would be blown away when they went out, and their hair would never be. smooth.

Does she like Beicheng, and herself in Beicheng?

Of course I like it, each stage of me is very precious, don't sigh, just move forward, Grandma said, sighing will take away good luck.

Jiang Li was still applying ice lollies to her eyes, leaving one eye free, and when she saw Zhou Zhicheng, her first words were: "It's over, what about the bicycle I rented last night, I'm going to suffer a lot now, I don't know what to do. How long have you worked!"

Zhou Zhicheng laughed and motioned her to look at the gold on her body: "You are a rich woman now."

"I'm a weed." Jiang Li said, "It grows savagely and is easy to feed."

Zhou Zhicheng understood her stalk, and laughed. In fact, the two of them "colluded together" in college, which is sometimes quite annoying. They have the same hairstyle, wear the same skirt, and get tired of being together almost every day. , laughing and watching variety shows in class, holding hands in the second cafeteria after class, and then at the class leader’s criticism meeting, a classmate who didn’t like them very much criticized them for not having a sense of collective honor, forming a small group of two, being out of gregarious, reluctant He praised the two of them as easy to feed as weeds.

In fact, just because of the bonus of friendship, a lot of suffering has become interesting.

The freshman finished two weeks of military training in the mountains. Most people were complaining about the hardships of the two weeks. However, they each sent two photos of the ghosts who stood guard wearing military coats and masks late at night during the military training. The memories they left behind were mostly happy. It was the first time she knew how delicious northern steamed buns and corn mush were.The school’s hardware equipment is also not good. There is a large collective bathhouse. Every time you take a bath, you have to carry a bath basket across half of the campus, then take off your clothes and stand in a row without a shower curtain. Even the person who is taking a bath is in front of you. Everyone’s face was washed, and some people complained about the loss of dignity, but it didn’t help. Jiang Li comforted everyone, and he could only think better, the fog was hazy, the lights were dim, and he pretended to be a medieval beauty or Our Lady of Paradise taking a bath in Western oil paintings.

In the cramped six-person dormitory in the 80s, at 6:[-] a.m., the famous teacher’s classroom occupied by the dormitory was rushed out. At the end of the semester, when there was not enough space for self-study, during the exam week of working hard and taking eight subjects in a few days, I went to KTV to sing in the middle of the night. At dawn, they sang the promotional song "Say No to Pornography, Gambling and Drugs" and walked on the street in the early morning.

This is a happy college time for her and Jiang Li.

After graduating from the University of Law, some alumni often resent the school because of the small size of the school, the lack of resources, and the extreme style of study, but she and Jiang Li are still very grateful to the school, perhaps because they came from a small town that grew up barbarously. of weeds.

Jiang Li said: "Our school's graduation certificate is still very useful in the legal circle. If it weren't for the school, how would I have the ability to compete with my mother now?"

Just talking about her mother, her mother came soon.

As soon as Jiang Li's mother saw Jiang Li, she looked her daughter up and down, and couldn't help but complained: "I went to a big city to become a barrister, and I didn't see how different you became, how expensive, and how temperamental you are." , but you said so many cruel words on the phone, who are you going to scare to death? I am your mother, and you will never leave me in your life. "

The smile on Jiang Li's face disappeared completely, and he looked at her quietly.

Jiang Li's mother pursed her lips and said: "Daughters' families in this world are all subsidizing their natal families. Whose daughter is free? You are the only one who will post back. I used to have a crush on Zhou Bingcheng, and now I am even more shameless. I slept with someone for free. If it wasn't for me , do you think the Zhou family will be responsible for you? Your elder sister doesn't study as much as you, everyone knows that when you get married, you have to give the bride price to your mother!"

Cai Mei was right behind her, walked around the yard from the store, and said, "Shameless, who's mother would take a daughter's bride price, and you raised your daughter to sell money?"

"Isn't your granddaughter? You pretend that I don't know about you, Aunt Cai Mei. You haven't let your granddaughter marry. You just want to sell it for a good price?"

Cai Mei didn't want to quarrel with Jiang Li's mother anymore, because Jiang Li was the one who hurt Jiang Li by cursing and cursing. It was meaningless to argue whether her daughter was sold or not. She said directly: "How much dowry do you want? I'm not afraid Make up your mind, I, Cai Mei, have spent my whole life for the good of my children and grandchildren, you don’t love Jiang Li, I do, you vicious parents, you should hang your photos on the bulletin boards in the street, and let everyone kill you.”

"You hurt?" Jiang Li's mother sneered, "Okay, 100 million."

Just as Cai Mei wanted to agree, she was stopped by Jiang Li: "No, you can only get 50."

Jiang Li's mother: "Hey, it's no wonder that the daughter's heart, the water she poured out, started to turn to a man before she got married? Do you think he will feel bad? He will only think you are cheap."

She looked around and shouted, "Where's Zhou Bingcheng? Tell him to come out!" Her impression of Zhou Bingcheng was that he was a filial man with a good study, a good job, and a high income. If she got him right, she could let him help her in the future son.

I didn't want to, but I suddenly heard the piercing sound of a porcelain bowl being smashed on the ground from the kitchen inside.

Several people looked over subconsciously.

But Jiang Xianghuai seemed to be beaten out by someone holding his collar, and he fell directly on the door, making a heavy sound. He frowned and held his chest in pain. Coupled with the colorful scars on his face, he was very ferocious.

With a gloomy face, Zhou Bingcheng squatted down, grabbed Jiang Xianghuai's collar, and made a gesture to punch him again.

Zhao Yanjia rushed forward and stood in front of Jiang Xianghuai, like an old hen guarding the chicks: "I won't let you hit my brother!"

"No?" Zhou Bingcheng sneered, stood up, his eyes were fierce, he suddenly kicked over the stool beside him, and picked up the iron pipe.

Zhao Yanjia screamed exaggeratedly in fright.

"Zhou Bingcheng! What are you doing?" Zhou Guohua came from the shop, his face flushed with anger, he clutched his heart, as if out of breath, "Do you still want your job?"

"I, Zhou Bingcheng, will never allow anyone to take advantage of our family and bully my family."

Zhou Guohua cursed: "You will beat Xiang Huai to death like this."

Jiang Xianghuai lay powerlessly on the ground. The wound on his face was really bad, with bruises all over the place, and the red medicine at the corner of his mouth looked like blood. It was scary at first glance.

Jiang Li's mother was frightened, Zhou Bingcheng in her impression is not so crazy, right?But how could the acting really label that barrister like that?

Zhou Guohua said: "Jiang Li's mother is here, what do you look like?"

When Zhou Bingcheng heard this, his body froze and he turned around.

When Jiang Li's mother saw the cruelty in his eyebrows and eyes, it made people's backs shudder, as if she was perverted, she was still copying iron pipes to beat people, but he called her: "Mom."

Jiang Li's mother pursed her lips, her palms were slightly wet, and she trembled, not daring to respond.

Zhao Yanjia said: "Auntie, if you treat Lawyer Jiang as your daughter, you should take her home quickly. Zhou Bingcheng is a violent person and will be violent at home. He used to go to college and failed in Beicheng, and often fought at school. "

Zhou Bingcheng sternly said, "Shut up!"

Zhou Guohua's heart hurts, Cai Mei panicked to help him, he said angrily: "Don't get married, don't get married! Fuck you!"

Jiang Li also shed tears: "I don't want to end either..."

Before she finished speaking, Jiang Li's mother hurriedly said: "How can that be possible! Of course not! She has been slept by Zhou Bingcheng, how can she not get married?"

Zhou Zhicheng watched it for a while, and felt that the acting skills of these people were so exaggerated that he didn't know what to say.

But Jiang Li's mother was originally trying to make a fortune at no cost, and she came with the mentality of not losing anything, and she was afraid that something would happen to old man Zhou. Then Zhou Bingcheng would definitely not marry Jiang Li, and Jiang Li was not alone. The goods are sold, and sold to others, the dowry will not get much money, how will her son have the money to marry a wife in the future?

She gritted her teeth: "90, the lowest."

Zhou Guohua sat on the chair again clutching his heart, Cai Mei panicked to find medicine for him, Zhou Bingcheng was about to go crazy again, Zhao Yanjia wanted to send his cousin to the hospital, Jiang Li wept silently.

There was only Zhou Zhicheng who could only adapt to the situation and didn't understand what the script was. Seeing Jiang Li stretching out five fingers, she said, "50."

"No, it must be 90."

Zhou Zhicheng saw Zhou Bingcheng nodding over there again, so she had no choice but to say: "It's okay, but my brother is impulsive occasionally, and if Jiang Li is beaten by my brother..."

When Jiang Li's mother heard the words, she looked at Jiang Li: "I don't care, she has her own life, who can make her not love herself."

The air was dull for a moment. This was the expected answer of several people, but it was also chilling.

"Are you trying to sever the relationship between mother and daughter?" When Zhou Zhicheng asked this, his heart ached.

Jiang Li's mother became shrewd again: "When did I say that? You want me to sign a contract? You think it well. I listen to every time you give a speech on the street. Don't try to lie to me with the law. I said it again, the law does not allow the severing of the mother-daughter relationship."

Zhou Zhicheng caught a glimpse of Jiang Li's younger brother appearing at the gate of the yard, and gradually a few neighbors came to watch the excitement, and it was always a one-time settlement.

Laws cannot cure such savages.

Zhou Zhicheng then said: "One million, you swear to God and Bodhisattva, if you take away Jiang Li's one million dowry and come to our house to make trouble again, your son..."

She was ashamed to go on.

The old man watching the excitement at the door added: "Then her son will die badly. If he is hit by a car and dies, the Lord of Heaven will show his spirit."

Jiang Li's mother's complexion suddenly changed, she said three times, and she was about to curse back, Zhou Zhicheng said: "As long as you swear a poisonous oath, we will give you 100 million."

Jiang Li was expressionless. She originally thought that such a scene would be embarrassing, just like the time she would never forget when she was a child, she knelt on the ground and was beaten by her mother with a stick, surrounded by villagers watching.

But it was different at all. Chengcheng stood in front of her, and Aunt Cai also rushed over: "If you want to take it, take the 100 million. If you continue to make trouble, if something happens to our old man Zhou, you will have to buy it." If you are legally responsible, our Zhou family will not let you go."

Jiang Li's younger brother yelled in embarrassment: "Mom, I'm home."

Jiang Li was not surprised at all, her mother would swear such a poisonous oath, after all, without a daughter, she could still get 100 million for her son, but it was a pity, for the sake of her precious son's safety, she would not dare to make trouble again.

After Jiang Li's mother left, Zhou Zhicheng realized that Zhao Yanjia had come up with this silly and bad idea, and these people all acted well, especially the victim who was beaten, Jiang Xianghuai, and her old naughty boy Grandpa.

Zhao Yanjia was also taught a lesson: "It turns out that sometimes the law is not as good as the Lord of Heaven."