Sister Mei picked up the wine bottle and filled it up for Teacher Shi. She also poured herself a glass and said, "It's not fun to drink alone. I'll drink two glasses with you."
Teacher Shi came back to his senses, picked up the wine glass and clinked it with Sister Mei, and said with emotion: "A house in Provence is expensive. Now it has increased to 8,010 square meters. With my salary, I can't afford it in two lifetimes without eating or drinking."
rise."
Sister Mei asked him: "How much can you get now?"
Teacher Shi said: "Being a teacher in the countryside is much better than before. I have been transferred to the city for four years and teach in an experimental middle school. I earn more than 2,000 yuan every month from miscellaneous things. It is okay to support myself. Buying
It’s still too early for the house to have a wife.”
Sister Mei secretly laughed in her heart. She had been in the industry for many years and knew how hungry old men were. With Teacher Shi's courage, she would not dare to set foot in a romantic place. She was so impatient that she had to ask a marriage agency for help.
"More than two thousand is not bad. It's more than enough. Those farmers only earn a few dollars for farming a year. You are a teacher, equivalent to a national cadre. Not to mention droughts and floods, the harvest is guaranteed. There are also winter and summer vacations. What do you do to make up for students in your spare time?"
You have a lot of extra money, and as for a house, you can find a woman who owns a house." Sister Mei comforted her.
Teacher Shi was slow to react and didn't notice the meaning of Sister Mei's words. He sighed and said: "Whoever has a house can like me. I can't like those uneducated rural women either. Those who are high or low will not be able to do anything at home."
He kept urging me, but I had no choice but to go to the dating agency."
Sister Mei asked: "Then where do you live now?"
"I'm renting a house. The rent is 300 a month. It's not far from the school. It's only a ten-minute ride on a bicycle. It's not too fussy to live alone. It's just convenient." Teacher Shi's mood was waning, and he drank by himself. The drink was all over his body.
When he got hot, he took off his down jacket, revealing the brown sweater underneath. This sweater was worn when he was in high school, and the cuffs were bald. The pack of cigarettes on the table had a two-and-a-half-dollar labor card, which showed that he
What a hard life it was.
Teacher Shi is not a big drinker, so he met an old friend in a foreign country today. Unknowingly, he drank half a pound of wine and began to talk thickly, pouring out his bitter words to Sister Mei. He is the eldest, and he has younger brothers and sisters at home. He relies on him to support his schooling. So,
I haven't saved a penny for many years and spent it all on my family.
"Now they have graduated and found jobs in Beijing and Shanghai. They are promising, but what's the use? They won't go home for the New Year, and their families have to pay for the house. That's a house in Beijing and Shanghai. How much is the down payment?
One hundred thousand, as the eldest brother, I will spend the rest of my life as a cow and a horse for them."
Sister Mei gently explained to him: "Drink less, don't take it personally, live your life with a clear conscience, you are worthy of your parents and family, learn to be smarter in the future, think more about yourself, find a wife, and have a child."
, there will be good days ahead.”
Teacher Shi was so sad that he took off his glasses and started crying. After crying for a while, he simply fell asleep on the table."
Sister Mei went to pay the bill and asked the waiter to pack the remaining dishes. She called Aunt Zhang from the dating agency and asked Teacher Shi’s specific address. She stopped a taxi outside and asked the boss to help her take the drunk Teacher Shi away.
He helped me get into the car and told the driver the address.
Ten minutes later, we arrived at the place. The driver helped Sister Mei carry Teacher Shi to the door. Sister Mei paid the fare and gave an extra five yuan. She took the keys from Teacher Shi's belt and tried them one by one. Finally,
opened the door
This is a bungalow with a small area, a bed, a table, and a simple wardrobe. There is a damp and biting cold in the room. There is a computer on the table, except for the areas that are often touched by hands.
It's a layer of dust, with dirty clothes and smelly socks on the bed, a standard bachelor's dormitory.
Sister Mei put Teacher Shi on the bed and pulled the quilt to cover him. This quilt was also cold and dry and had not been exposed to the sun for a long time.
Teacher Shi was sleeping soundly. Sister Mei looked around and started cleaning. She threw out the garbage first and soaked all the dirty clothes in the basin. She wiped the table clean and swept the floor. She saw a small kitchen at the door.
She had a gas stove and an iron pot, so she helped him make a pot of rice and put the packed mutton on the plate. When the rice was cooked and Teacher Shi hadn't woken up yet, Sister Mei simply washed all the dirty clothes and hung them outside to dry.
, wrote a note and put it on the table, closed the door, and went home.
It wasn't until seven o'clock in the evening that Teacher Shi woke up from his sleep. He had a splitting headache. When he opened his eyes, he was at home. He took off his shoes and was covered with a quilt. He quickly got up. There was no one in the room and there was a table on the table.
note.
The handwriting on the note is very delicate and it was left by Sister Mei.
"There is boiling water in the thermos, and there is rice in the pot. Eat it when it is hot. Don't forget to put away the clothes when they are hanging outside. You are not famous."
Teacher Shi put on her slippers and looked around. The room was clean, there were dishes on the table, and the hot water in the thermos was full. When she went out, she saw that the clothes hanging on the rope were frozen solid.
When the neighbor saw him going out, he smiled and asked, "Teacher Shi, is this your wife who came this afternoon?"
"Oh, no, it's a classmate." Teacher Shi explained, feeling warm in his heart. It would be good to have a woman at home. He put away his clothes, the food was hot, and he had a sumptuous dinner of rice and turned on the computer.
I was writing something, but I couldn't write anything, and my mind was completely confused.
At night, Teacher Shi lay in bed unable to sleep, staring at the ceiling, tossing and turning, feeling confused.
…
Early the next morning, Teacher Shi got up, ate some hastily noodles, and rode his bicycle to the school for duty. He came down all morning and was distracted. He wanted to call Mei Ruohua several times, but he held back.
Shi Guoying was transferred to the city purely by chance. Zheng Jiayi had an accident in Pingchuan that year. His testimony played an important role and contributed to the stability of the city. The municipal party committee transferred him from the countryside to work in a school in the urban area with just a greeting.
At first, he was very excited, thinking that his life had begun a new chapter, and he was ambitious and wanted to make great achievements, but his dream was soon shattered by reality.
He has low education and is old, so he cannot chat with young teachers. Even the older urban teachers look down on him. In addition, his ability is not high enough, his Mandarin is not standard, he does not understand English, and he cannot flatter others.
I fawned over the leaders and was gradually marginalized. I became a transparent person in the school. I am almost 40 years old and have not even been rated as a senior teacher.
The heavy family burden prevented Shi Guoying from saving money, let alone buying a house and getting married. Girls in the city were demanding, and he didn't want to find an uneducated village girl. After careful consideration, he decided to settle for the next best thing.
In the case of a divorced and widowed middle-aged intellectual woman, before meeting Sister Mei, he met several women in succession, but none of them fell in love with him. This was another big blow to his self-confidence.
Shi Guoying had heard about what Sister Mei did for a living, but it wasn't a job that would lead to a decent job, but then again, who hasn't been there before? You should give others a chance, right?
Sister Mei's real name is not actually Mei Ruohua. She was called Mei Ling when she was a child. When she was in school, she changed her name to Mei Ruohua. Later she found out that it was Mei Chaofeng's name. It was too late to change it. She just made a mistake and called her that. The two of them were
We are classmates in high school and can be considered childhood sweethearts. It's just that everyone was busy with the college entrance examination and couldn't think about the person to talk to. But with this foundation, it will be much easier to develop.
At noon, Shi Guoying went out to eat. Suddenly his cell phone rang. He took out a Nokia cell phone with a black and white screen and answered it. Sister Mei's voice came from the receiver: "Teacher Shi, come home for dinner tonight. I bought some elbows."
"I won't go. It's too troublesome." Teacher Shi said politely. In fact, his heart was pounding. He yearned for the Provence Garden. A colleague bought a house there. He once visited it. If there is such a thing in the world,
There is no paradise like a garden in Provence.
"Why are you being polite to me? If you don't come, I'll send you the specific address." Sister Mei said without any doubt, hung up the phone and sent the address information.
Shi Guoying spent the whole afternoon in anxiety and left school just after five o'clock. Now he bought two kilograms of apples at the vegetable market. After thinking about it, he went to the supermarket and bought some puffed food with large packaging bags but cheap price.
He also found a barber shop and spent 20 yuan to shave his head. This was the first time he went to a barber shop in the city. In the past, he went back to the countryside and asked the uncle at the entrance of the village to shave his head.
At five minutes to six o'clock, Shi Guoying arrived at the gate of the Provence Garden. The security guards standing in the guard booths gave the place a sense of a noble community. The residents coming in and out were also dressed decently, unlike the slovenly and casual people in the country.
The community was built only four years ago, and the facilities have not aged yet. It was recently evaluated as a provincial health city, so the ground is still clean. Shi Guoying walked slowly carrying his things, imagining that he was a resident here, and his heart was filled with happiness and pride.
When he came downstairs, Shi Guoying called Sister Mei. Sister Mei said that you just come up and knock on the door. I was cooking and I wouldn't go down to pick you up.
Teacher Shi went upstairs and knocked on the door. The door opened, and a little girl of six or seven years old stood at the door. She turned around and shouted: "Mom, the guest is here."
Sister Mei's voice came from the kitchen: "Get your uncle's slippers."
The little girl took a pair of cotton slippers from the shoe cabinet. They were brand new men's slippers, and they still had labels.
Shi Guoying glanced around the room. The living room was paved with laminate flooring, and there were fabric sofas and glass coffee tables. A 52-inch LCD TV was hung on the wall. The cabinet air conditioner in the corner was blowing warm air. Everything in his dreams was realized here.
.
"Uncle, change your slippers." the little girl said.
"Thank you, thank you." Shi Guoying woke up from the hallucination, took off his cotton leather shoes and put on slippers. His socks had a few holes in them. He was a little embarrassed, but the little girl didn't care at all and ran back to watch cartoons.
Sister Mei came out of the kitchen carrying dishes. She was wearing a tight sweater and an apron, looking a bit like a housewife. Shi Guoying wanted to help, but she declined: "You sit down, the teacher can't do this, I will do it."
In a short time, the table was filled with sumptuous dishes, including chicken, duck, fish and meat. It can be seen that Sister Mei had made full preparations for this meal. There was also a bottle of Jiannanchun on the table, a good wine that costs more than 200 yuan in the supermarket.
"Smoking, you're welcome." Sister Mei took out a box of Su cigarettes from her apron pocket and handed it over, "Don't smoke those cheap cigarettes in the future, it's not good for your health."
"I plan to quit smoking in the future." Shi Guoying, but still accepted the pack of cigarettes.
"Wash your hands and eat." Sister Mei took off her apron and sat at the dining table. Shi Guoying went to wash her hands and sat opposite Sister Mei. In the middle was Sister Mei's daughter Xiao Yan'er, looking like a happy family of three.
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