"Tolerance"

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Xu Xiaojuan interrupted his thoughts and said: "Fifth sister doesn't come to the store anymore. I heard that she went to her brother's house to help decorate. How can a girl do this job?"

Zhu Yushen whispered to herself: "Did she really go?" Xu Xiaojuan said in confusion, "Don't you know yet? You don't care about her too much! I heard that she was tanned. Oh, by the way, some time ago

Haven't you been to her house? Her parents have agreed to it, right?" Zhu Yushen did not answer her.

After saying goodbye to Xu Xiaojuan, Zhu Yushen got on his car and rushed to the intersection of the road to Xie Wumei's brother's house. In the distance, he saw a familiar figure carrying a load and walking toward the house from the sand pile. Waiting for Zhu Yushen

When she reached the sand pile, she had already come out of the house, and there was the sound of someone talking in the house.

Xie Wumei looked up and saw Zhu Yushen standing there. She said nothing, walked to the sand pile and put down the empty load. She lowered her head and said, "Sister Dahua will not open a shop soon, and I don't know where to go to work. My mother blames me.

The decoration date was delayed, so I was asked to pick up sand and help the bricklayers."

Zhu Yushen didn't speak. He saw that Xie Wumei's face was indeed darker, and her right shoulder was pressed by the dirty pole and her clothes were stuck to her body. Maybe her shoulder was also red from the pressure. Zhu Yushen stretched out his left hand and put it on her right shoulder.

Looking at her with pity, Xie Wumei turned her head to the right, bit her lip, and tried not to cry.

As soon as Zhu Yushen withdrew his hand, a small white truck rushed to the house. Xie Wumei hurriedly walked over to pick up the sand with a dustpan. After a while, two people got out of the car and moved a few frames of tiles from the rear trailer. Zhu Yushen had

Impression, the one with yellow hair should be Ding Wei, the cripple. His hair is covered with white ash powder, and the skin on his face has become wrinkled. The other person is very fat, compared with Xie Wumei

Like, he should be her brother.

After the pickup truck overturned, it drove away, and Zhu Yushen was exposed to the eyes of the visitor. The two of them only glanced at Xie Wumei and Zhu Yushen, and then the two of them used a rope to carry a frame of tiles into the house.

Let's go. The whole box of tiles is very heavy. When Zhu Yushen was decorating, he would dismantle them and move them into the house a few at a time.

Ding Wei walked behind. Because he was lame and not tall, the rope slipped backwards and most of the weight fell on his shoulders. He looked like he was struggling and walked into the house with a limp.

went.

Xie Wumei had already dug up the sand, and Zhu Yushen could only say goodbye to her. He waved his hand and disappeared into the white dust kicked up by the passing cars. Xie Wumei looked at his retreating shadow and threw the pole hard.

When he got to the side, he sat down on the red brick steps in front of the house and stared blankly.

After resting for a few days, Zhu Yushen went to the bank to withdraw money and was going to buy decoration materials for the second floor. At the moment, he could just concentrate on this. When he passed by Dahua Clothing, he stopped. He saw that in Dahua Clothing

Xie Dahua was doing some sanitation, and the door sign was removed. It seemed like she would no longer open this store. In the store opposite, Hu Yuqin was sitting on a motor, nailing clothes.

Zhu Yushen stood in the center of the street between the two stores for a long time. He could not move.

In the middle of summer, Huangzhen is extremely hot. During the day, the sun scorches the streets, roads, and concrete buildings. People hide in their houses and do not go out. At noon and afternoon, there are very few people walking around on the streets. Only when the sun goes down and lights are turned on, do people start to move around.

Walking around. At nine or ten o'clock in the evening, people who had drank beer or had dinner would gather in front of a store that was still open to chat, or sit on their balconies or on the platforms behind their houses to enjoy the cool air.

Twenty years ago, when Zhu Yushen was a child, there were very few houses with buildings in this area on the edge of the Yangtze River Delta. The streets in the surrounding towns were also relatively small. After a busy day, men, women, old and young, they mostly spent summer evenings in their homes.

I lay on the bamboo bed in front of the house and enjoyed the coolness until midnight. When the temperature dropped, I went back to the house and slept until dawn.

Nowadays, there are more buildings in the town and surrounding areas, and the weather has become hotter. If you stay cool outside until midnight, it will still be too hot to sleep when you get home, so you have to use electric fans or air conditioners to cool down. Some people have 24-hour air conditioners.

When left on for hours, the fan outside will disperse the hot air into the air, allowing people without air conditioning to absorb it.

Because Huangzhen Middle School is some distance away from the town and is surrounded by farmland and woods, summer is the time when green gauze tents are put up, and the surrounding area is a lush dark green, so it is relatively cool at night. In the fields, in the fields

, the small animals in the woods have become active, making various sounds, singing, and the sound of leaves intertwining with each other in the wind.

Zhu Yushen was lying on the small bamboo bed he bought between the teaching building and the dormitory. He looked at the stars in the sky and listened to the sounds. He felt that his body had become one with nature. The starry sky was like a huge cover covering him.

In the center, he looked extremely small and lonely. A gust of cool wind blew by, and his body couldn't help but tremble, and a hint of fear surged into his heart.

He sat up quickly. The single dormitory area opposite was dark, with only a few windows in the staff dormitory building showing the green light of the TV screen. There were also lights blinking at the bottom of the mountain in the distance, but the buildings under the mountain could no longer be seen clearly.

The outline of the object. The mountain seems to have become a huge home for those who turn on the lights.

When those green lights went out one by one, the night got deeper and the temperature cooled down. When Zhu Yushen returned to the dormitory, he only needed to turn on the breeze from the electric fan to fall asleep. At this time, he lay flat on the bamboo bed, but

I remembered the scene when I stepped into the water one summer night a few years ago.

In the summer evenings at that time, he always went to take a bath in the reservoir near his residence. He was delayed because of something that day. When he went to take a bath, it was already dark and the moon was already hanging in the sky. The moonlight illuminated the sky around it.

, the sky was a brilliant scene of bright yellow broken clouds dotted with the moon. He didn't pay attention to the starry sky at that time, he just wanted to take a bath early. When he ran to the reservoir ridge, took off his clothes and jumped into the water.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! When his body was tilted and unable to hold it back, he saw the starry sky reflected on the water surface like an abyss, and his body jumped down as if he had fallen into an eternal doom.

situation! The moment he entered the water, he was extremely frightened. So after entering the water, he hurriedly swam to the shore, flopped a few times and got ashore. Looking at the starry sky shattered by himself in the water, he was frightened and hurried back to his residence.

He didn't bathe there for a long time after that.

During the summer vacation, Huangzhen Middle School was as quiet as it was during the winter vacation. After Xie Wumei left Zhu Yushen, he felt that he had no relatives. Although there were many colleagues and friends in his life circle, he had no relatives or people to whom he could draw him.

A person with relatives. He feels no sense of belonging when he is with everyone. In summer, people move around less in order to escape the heat.

In the early days, Zhu Yushen was busy decorating the second floor of a house in the town. He dragged his tired body at night and fell asleep quickly after taking a shower. When the simple decoration of the house was completed, he saw

With pink and white walls, it feels a bit dizzy. In this two-story house, he only placed a bed and some daily utensils, making the house look relatively empty.

Zhu Yushen felt that such a small house was already big enough, and he could not live in it. He spent all his savings to buy it, and later frugally renovated it. Now that everything is completed, he doesn't know who he is busy with.

. He locked the door that day and returned to his residence at the school as if he was running away. This single dormitory divided into two small rooms was compact and comfortable to live in.

During the day, he still read and wrote, and occasionally went to town to buy groceries. It was only at night, especially when he was enjoying the cool air alone at the door, that the feeling of loss and loneliness suddenly came over him, leaving him at a loss. In the silence, he thought of

Xie Wumei, the only woman who could be called his girlfriend in a short period of time.

He thought that if her parents agreed to them, or if she followed him without hesitation against their parents' wishes, she would be by his side in this silent night, and then his world would be different. They would be together

Talking about the past and looking forward to the future, his world is much wider and much wider. Now, she will never come back. This kind of lonely days may only get better when school starts.
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