Chapter One

He and Mann know, it is already many years ago. It’s been eighteen years since it’s been counted – it’s really scary, and immediately makes him feel that he is a lot older. The days are really fast – especially for people after middle age, ten years and eight years seem to refer to things between the seams. However, for young people, it can be a lifetime for three years and five years. He and Mann have realized the breakup, but after a few years of work, there have been so many things in the past few years, as if they have experienced all the sorrows of life and death.
　　Mann had asked him when he started to like her. Of course he replied: “The first time I saw you.” When I said that, it was in such a fascinating situation that I could believe anything. I certainly believe that it is not a lie. In fact, when he saw her for the first time, he couldn’t remember it.
　　It is Shuhui who first met her. Shuhui is his best classmate. The two of them are studying engineering. Uncle Hui first went out of business and waited for him to finish his career. Shuhui introduced him to the same factory for an internship. Mann is also doing things in this factory. Her desk is next door to Shuhui. The world has gone to find Shuhui several times. She should always see her, but she has no impression. Probably also because he had just left school at that time, seeing women always a little restrained, I feel inconvenient to see more.
　　He worked as an intern engineer in the factory, working with the workers all day in the machine room, and then he was transferred to another department. That life is very bitter, but the experience is not affordable. The salary is very low, but fortunately, his family does not depend on him to support his family. His home is not in Shanghai, he lives in Shuhui home.
　　This is the first time he has been outside the lunar calendar year. In the past, he did not have much affection for the New Year, because every time he went to the New Year, there would be some unpleasant things in the family. The family waited for the father to come back to worship the ancestors to eat the reunion dinner, and the small mansion was deliberately detained. Mothers usually do not care about these, but New Year’s Eve is the exception. She said that “a family always looks like a personal home.” If the master is looking at the ancestors, he should go home on time and preside over everything.
　　In fact, there is still a program to worship the ancestors there, because the father, a sly wife, has a lot of years, and he is more prosperous than the other. My father is stationed there for many years. It’s rare to go home once, and the mother is also polite to him. Only when she was in the New Year’s holiday, because she couldn’t help but have a sense of life, she often couldn’t help but argue with him. People of this age are still crying. This is the case every year, and Shi Hao saw the present from an early age. This year is good, not at home for the New Year, and less trouble.
　　But I don’t know why, when I arrived in the rush, many people had to eat New Year’s Eve early, and heard the sound of the drowning firecrackers everywhere. An inexplicable mourning forced his heart.
　　On the day of New Year’s Eve, Shi Hao had a New Year’s Eve dinner at Shu Hui’s house. He asked Shu Hui to go out to watch a movie and even watched two games – there was a movie at midnight that day. Seeing a play at midnight on New Year’s Eve, it seems that there is a special kind of affection, and there is a bit of bleakness in the excitement.
　　They only put three days off in the factory, and the small restaurant they often went to eat at noon had to open the door at the beginning of the fifth year. On the fourth day of the fourth day, they went to eat together and rushed. I had to go back again, and the streets were full of red confetti. After walking through a rice shop, I opened the door. Uncle Hui said: “I ate here.” This place probably has to wait until the fortune has been taken before it is officially opened. Today it is still half-open, with half of the rows and doors. Go into the black hole. In the New Year, there is no business. When I enter a door, there is a girl sitting outside, wearing a light gray old sheepskin coat. There is only a pair of cups in front of her, and the food has not been taken up. She seems to wait. It was very boring, wearing red velvet gloves on his hands, and then slowly slid down his fingers, and wiped them into the handcuffs. Two fingers caught one, and they were alternately wiped. When Shu Hui saw her, she sighed: “Miss Gu, you are here too!” Then he was ready to sit at her desk and saw the world as if he was a little stunned. He said: It’s all colleagues, have you seen it? This is Shen Shizhen, this is Gu Manyu.” She is a square face oval in the square – not square, just the outline is. Fluffy hair, casually draped over the shoulders. Shi Hao judged a woman’s appearance and body style, which was originally unanalytic. He only thought that she was very good. She copied two hands in her coat pocket and smiled and nodded to him. At the moment, he and Shu Hui took the bench and sat down. The Zhu paint bench was covered with a layer of black oil. The world was originally made in the machine room. He certainly didn’t care. Uncle was a suit, sitting down. I couldn’t help but look at the bench.
　　At this time, the running hall also came over, with two tea cups in the fingers and placed on the table. Shuhui looked in his eyes and frowned again and again. “This place is not good, it is too dirty!” They gave them two cups of tea, and each of them called a guest. Uncle suddenly remembered it and said: “Hey, give two sheets of paper to wipe the chopsticks!”
　　The running hall has gone far, and I have not heard it. Mandang said: “Just take a look at the teacup. I don’t think you have to eat this tea.” Then he took the chopsticks in front of him and washed it in the cup and picked it up. I licked it, sprinkled the water, and then placed it on the cup. I took the chopsticks from the world and took it. The world was screaming and smiling: I came, I came! Not looking at people, just with a smile. Shiji took the chopsticks and left it on the table. After I put it down, I suddenly turned a word, and the table was so greasy. When I put it down, this pair of chopsticks was washed in white. I seemed to be indifferent. It seemed like a lot of things for people to wash my chopsticks. Instead, She felt that she was too diligent. When he thought about it, he quickly picked up the chopsticks and learned how her face was placed on the cup and carefully matched the two chopsticks. In fact, if the chopsticks are dirty and dirty, isn’t that a hidden thing? He felt a little embarrassed for no reason, so he took the spoon and scoured the teacup. At this time, the church was serving, and there was a bowl of soup. When the world sipped a spoon and sipped, he smiled and said: “The Chinese New Year, it is probably a good mouth color. It is an ingot.” Uncle Hui: You are also ingot , 芋艿 is also ingot, dumplings and egg dumplings are ingots, even green fruit and tea eggs are considered ingots – I said that we Chinese people are really wealthy, seeing in the eyes, everything is like ingots. Mann laughed and said: “The northerners call it ‘money string’. It is also considered to be crazy!” Shi Yan smiled and said: “Miss Gu is a northerner?” Mann smiled and shook his head, saying: “My mother It’s a northerner.” Shi said: “Then you are also a half-northern.” Uncle Hui: “The small restaurant we often go to is a northern pavilion. It’s just over there. Have you been there? Not bad.” Mann said: “I have not been there.” Uncle Huo said: “We will go together tomorrow.
　　This place is really not. It is too dirty!”
　　From this day, they always have three people to eat together; Three people eat rice, and they have three dishes and one soup. It is not so monotonous to eat. Everyone is familiar with the situation, standing on the street and eating the baked hawthorn as a meal. However, although they are familiar, their conversations are limited to Shuhui and Mang’s talk about things in the office.
　　Shuhui and her friendship seem to be limited to office hours. Out of the office, Shuhui not only did not find her, even mentioning her name. On one occasion, he and Shi Hao talked about the personnel disputes in the factory. The world said: “You are still lucky, at least two people in your room can still get together.” Shuhui just did not mind “snap” and said: “Mann this person is good. Very straightforward.” Shi Yan did not say further, otherwise, it seems that he had an interest in Mann, and later gave Shu Hui a playful sentence.
　　Another time, Shu Hui suddenly talking about in the chat: “Manzhen today you told me to.” Shijun down was shocked, after a while just laughed: “? What do I say”
　　Shu Hui laugh Dao: “She said that when I was with you, I always had only one person to talk to. I told her that everyone said that I bully you, even my own mother is fighting for you. In fact, it is just personality. Relationship, you happen to be the kind of person who sings funny stuff.” Shi Yan smiled and said: “How about filling up?” Shu Hui said: “Not very good, but often give people a fan bone to knock on his head. Just a moment.”
　　When he said this, he laughed happily. Again: “I know that you really don’t mind. This is your advantage. I am just like you. Although people are happy with me, I am not the only one who makes fun of him. He is not allowed to make fun of him. …” Uncle Hui said that he would not finish himself. Probably a smart and beautiful person, there is always a bit of “self-love”. He only managed to analyze the complex points in his own personality. The world sat on one side, but still thought about it in his heart, how Mann said about him.
　　Their factory is located in the suburbs. Although there are several broken streets nearby, it is a few steps away. Spring is here, and the wilderness has a layer of greenery, and the weather is still the same cold. On this day, Shizhong went to work at noon, washed his hands as usual, and went to the general office to find Shuhui. Shuhui didn’t happen to be in the room. Only Mann was sitting in front of the desk and sorting out the documents. She is also surrounded by a small red and blue plaid scarf, lined with a dark blue burqa, dressed like a tall girl. The blue burqa has been washed with velvet and gray, and the color has a gentle feeling, like a dark blue cover with a line of books.
　　Shi Yan smiled and said: “Uncle?” Mann’s slight bias toward the manager’s office, whispered: “I always like to wait five minutes before I get off work, suddenly calling you, there is something to be told to you. I am afraid that this is the temper of the boss.” Shi Yan smiled and nodded. He leaned on Shu Hui’s desk and unknowingly reached over the calendar hanging on the wall and said, “I will see when the spring is coming.” Mann said: “It has already passed the spring.” Shi said: “So how? Still so cold?” He still squatted on the calendar one by one, saying: “The calendars printed today are more economical. Only Sunday is red. I like the calendar of our childhood, the Sunday is red. Saturday is green. One tears to the day of the week, I saw the green words, my heart is really happy.” Mann laughed: “This is the case, in school, Saturday is more happy than Sunday. Although Sunday is red, it’s already a little sunset.” As
　　he said, Uncle came in. When he came in, he said to Man: “Don’t I ask you to go first?” Mann laughed. “What are you busy?” Uncle Huo said: “If we have a meal, we have to pick a place with a good view to take two photos. I borrowed a camera here.” Man said: “This cold day, I didn’t look good when I showed red eyes and red eyes.” Mouth, said: “Hey, it’s all for him. Their old lady wrote a letter and asked him to send a photo. I said that someone must be the media for him.” Shi Yan said with a red face: “What? I know My mother has nothing else, that is, old man, saying that I must be thin, I don’t believe how to say it, I must have a photo to prove it.” Shuhui said to him, said: “You are not thin and thin. It seems to be too dirty. The old lady saw that when you were there to dig a coal mine, it was still the same distress.” Shi Yan bowed his head and looked at the set of workers on his body. Mann said with a smile: “Take a towel and wipe it. I have it here.” He said: No, no, no, my black stains are oil on the machine. I don’t wash it on the towel. Lost. A group of waste paper was picked up in the paper basket, and it was rubbed twice on the leg. Mann said: “Where is this?” She took out a neatly folded towel from the drawer, dampened in a glass of boiling water left by Shuhui, and handed it over. The world has to hold it, wipe it, and the white towel is a big black. He is really a little uncomfortable in his heart.
　　Shuhui stood in front of the window and looked at the sky. He said, “The sun is still a bit unbearable today. I don’t know if it can’t be filmed.” As he said, he took a comb from his suit pocket, right. The glass window combed the hair, pulled the tie and stretched the neck. When Mann saw his self-pity, he couldn’t help but grin. Uncle Hui turned his face and glanced slightly at his half, but his mouth kept urging the world: “Well, no?” Mann said to the world: There is still a black face on your face. No, here – she found the small mirror in her purse and handed it to him. Shuhui smiled and said: “Hey, Mann, don’t you have a lipstick?
　　Lend him a use.” He said that he smiled, and he took the mirror from Shiyan’s hand and took a photo.
　　Three people went out to eat together, because they had to save time. One person called a bowl of noodles. After the grass and grass had finished eating, they went to the suburbs. Shuhui said that this area is a wasteland, too dull, and then he remembered that there are two big willow trees, very interesting. But walking, walking, always can’t get. The world watched Mann as if he couldn’t catch up. He said, “Are we going too fast?” Shuhui listened and slowed down the pace, but the weather was not a walking weather. They were driven by the cold, and the pace was getting faster and unconsciously. And the faster and faster. Everyone gasped, greeted the wind, and talked intermittently. Mann tried to hold down her flying hair, because she glanced at them, and smiled: “Is your ears exposed outside?” Uncle Shu: “How is it not cold.” Mann laughed: “I often think, if I am a man, I will get a cold all day long in the winter.”
　　The two willow trees have already drawn out the golden buds. They took several photos under the tree. One of them was Shu Hui and Mann Li, and the world took them for them. The light gray sheepskin coat she wore was rolled up by the wind. She covered her mouth with one hand, and the red wool gloves lined her face, making her face pale.
　　The sun on that day was always thin. A film has not been filmed yet, and the sky has changed. Go quickly, go halfway, and have already started the spring snow. It turned into rain again when it was down. Walking through a small shop, Mann saw a lot of paper umbrellas hanging inside, she wanted to buy one. Opened up, there is a color of blue and green, there is also a kind of drawing. There is a bunch of purple grapes on it. She takes a look and looks at another one without flowers. She can’t decide. Shuhui said that women always buy things like this. Shi Hao later said with a smile, “No flowers,” she immediately bought the one without flowers. Shuhui said: “The price does not seem to be cheaper than in the urban area. Wouldn’t it be our bamboo bar?” Mann pointed the umbrella tip at the sign hanging on it and smiled. “Not written, ‘Children are not bullied. “Why? Over.” When he
　　walked down the street, Mann suddenly smiled and said: “Oh, I lost a glove.” Uncle Hui: “It must have been lost in the store.” Go back to that. The store asked, and the store said that he did not see it. Mann said: “I didn’t wear gloves when I just counted the money. – That is when I took the picture and lost it.”
　　Shi said: “Go back and look for it.” At this time, it is almost time to go to work. Everyone is eager to go back to the factory. Mann also said: “Forget it, for such a glove!” She said that she said this, but it was a bit embarrassing. This place is almost trivial and stingy, but after many years of recollection, she is still very reminiscent of such a place. Mann has such a temper. Once something belongs to her, she always looks better and thinks that it is the best in the world.
　　…he knows because he used to belong to her.
　　On that day, I went back to the factory from the outskirts. The rain kept going. When it was laid off in the afternoon, it was only five o’clock, and the sky was already dark. I don’t know what kind of awkward state of mind, so that he took the rain and went to the suburbs. It’s very difficult to walk on the muddy ridges, one step at a time. There is also a small tile house that stops the coffin, like a doghouse, low in the ridge, not noticed during the day, seen in the dimly rainy night, but there is a strange feeling. Silently, I only heard the bark of the bark. I have never met a person along the way. Only once, he saw a man wearing a lantern and holding a large apricot umbrella and passing by on the other side of the river. After a long walk, I found the two big willow trees. He walked away with a flashlight and looked at the red glove under the tree.
　　I was happy first. Going to the front, I strolled and picked it up. I looked at it with a flashlight and took it in my hand, but I picked it up again. Take it to her tomorrow, how can I say that? It’s not that weirdly, taking the rain and going so far, we are going to find such a glove for her. His original meaning is simply because he is sorry because he wants to take pictures, otherwise people will not lose things. But even he himself feels that this reason is not enough. So how do you say that? He really regretted coming here, but since he came, things have been found, and it is not always possible to throw it underground. He bowed the sand slightly and put it in his pocket. Since I took it, I can’t help but give it back to others. It’s a joke, it’s saved.
　　At noon the next day, he went to the office upstairs. Fortunately, Shu Hui happened to be called inside by the manager. Shi Hao took out the muddy glove from his pocket. He could have said this, or said that, but he did not say a word, just put it in front of her. If there is any expression on his face, it is a kind of grievance, because he did not expect it at first, otherwise he would not ask for trouble, and he would be so embarrassed.
　　Mann first took a nap, took the glove and looked at it and said, “Hey?…
　　Oops, did you go again yesterday? So far away – it’s still raining–” When it comes to this, Shuhui comes in. She sees Shi’s face as if she doesn’t want to mention it, she mechanically puts the red glove into a ball Hold it in the palm of your hand, then slam it into the coat pocket. Although her movements are very calm, her face is slowly red, and she feels wrong, her face is hot, it can be seen that it was hot. How powerful it is. I can’t see it, and everyone must have seen it. When I think about it, my heart is anxious, my face is red again.
　　At that time, although I found it for no reason, after that, it’s fine, eating together, she The attitude of the world is no different from that of the world. The weather in spring is hot and cold, and many people suffer from colds. Mann one day is also ill, and calls the factory to ask Shu Hui to take a day off for her. That afternoon, Shu Hui and Shi Hao returned home, and Shi Hao said, “Would we like to go see her?” “Uncle Hui: “Hey.
　　It seems that it is not very ill. Yesterday was propped up. “Shi Shudao: “Do you know the address of her home? “Uncle revealed a hesitant look and said: “Knowing knows, I have never been there. You have known her for these days. Have you never heard her talk about the situation at home? She can be said to be a little mysterious. Only this is a bit mysterious. “He heard this to the world, but he was a bit resentful. Is it because he said that she is too ordinary, there is no mystery, or is he because he suspects that she has any ulterior secrets? That is not clear, in short, in short, It was a double resentment. Shih said at the time: “That can’t be mysterious. Maybe she has more family members and no place to entertain guests. Maybe her family is still old-minded and she is not in favor of making friends outside. So she is not allowed to call someone to her house. ”
　　Uncle Shu nodded and said: “Whether they are welcome or not, I have to go.”
　　I am going to ask her to take the key, because there are two letters to check the draft and lock her in the drawer. “The world said: “So let’s go.” But… At this time, it’s too late to go to the family’s home. “The kitchen is already burning dinner, and the sound of the very loud “嗤啦啦, 啦啦啦” cooking pot is coming upstairs.
　　Shuhui raised his hand and looked at the watch, suddenly heard his mother. Shouted in the kitchen: “Uncle! Someone looking for you! ”
　　Shuhui ran downstairs to see, but it was a face-to-face child. He was surprised. The child handed over a bunch of keys and said, “My sister asked me to send it. This is the key on her desk.” Shuhui smiled and said: “Oh, you It’s Man’s younger brother? How is she, is it better?” The child replied: “She said that she is better, she can come tomorrow.” Seeing that he is only seven or eight years old, he is very experienced and speaks. After the account was finished, he turned and left. Uncle’s mother left him to eat sugar and he did not eat.
　　Uncle Shu put the bunch of keys in the palm of his hand. When he looked up and saw Shi Hao standing on the stairway, he smiled and said: “She must be afraid of us, so I sent the key in advance.” Shi Yan smiled: “How are you so nervous today?” Uncle Huo said: “I am not nervous, just the child’s temperament, it seems to be trained, telling him not to talk to outsiders. – But not her brother? “Shi Yan couldn’t help but feel a little impatient. He smiled and said: “It looks like her!” Uncle Hui smiled: Maybe it is her son? Then he said: “The woman who came out to do things has always been called “some lady” regardless of whether she has married or not.” Shi Yan smiled: It is this situation, but at least… she is very young, This can be seen. The age of a woman – it is hard to say!
　　Uncle Hui often talks about how to “woman”, and it seems that he has a very rich experience. In fact, when he first entered the university, Shi Yan heard his argument. At that time, Shi Hao did know that he had a girlfriend and a classmate named Yao Zhenzhen. He said how “woman” is, the so-called “woman” is synonymous with Yao Zhenzhen. There may be more than one Yao Zhenzhen now, but he is still more theoretical than practice. He is a human being, and the world knows very well.
　　Today, what he said about Mann is just thinking about where to say it. There is absolutely no malice. The world does not know it, but it still feels very harsh.
　　After meeting him for years, he has never been angry with him like this.
　　That night, Shi Hao said that he wrote a family letter and always avoided talking to Shu Hui. Shuhui saw that he was always sitting under the desk lamp, worried about the paper, but also because he was because of family disputes, so he was very worried.