In April, the flowers bloom, and the particles are mixed with aroma.
After work, the bell rang, the office was full of creaks, Cong Jia closed the computer lock drawer, and discussed with the colleagues sitting next to him to go to the newly opened so-and-so hotel to play the tooth festival.
Speaking of the delicious roast duck, the saliva almost fell, Cong Jia was not happy, and asked colleagues to visit the township peach blossom festival on the weekend, just as a green.
The discussion was lively, and the eldest sister of the administrative department came over and squeezed her eyebrows: "Jiajia, don't worry about the peach blossom festival first, there is a ready-made peach blossom waiting for you in front of you." ”
At the end of the conversation, the eldest sister rushed to the front desk in the direction of Nunu mouth, Cong Jia looked down, and couldn't help but shout in her heart - how did this ancestor come again?
There was a bench on the edge of the front desk, and Xu Feng, who had long hands and long feet, spread out a third of his ass in a regular manner, and from the shape of his body, he and the thin stool looked like brothers belonging to two species.
Thinking like this, Cong Jia's mood of catching the horse seemed to be a little wider, and he suddenly came to be interested in teasing this stunned Qingqing.
She waved her hand to her colleagues, signaling them to watch her performance, and then the wind and fire jumped to Xu Feng's side: "My mother has assigned you a task again?" ”
The man who was reading the book looked up sharply, and the expression behind the black-rimmed glasses was first surprised and then happy, and there was confusion and self-composure in his eyes: "Ah... That one...... Yes, I was going to deliver a document, and the teacher asked me to pick you up by the way, saying that I had already told you about it. ”
Cong Jia patted her head on the door - it seemed to have received a message from her mother in the afternoon, but she was in a meeting at that time, and at a glance, she threw the phone aside.
Looking at Xu Feng's blank and expectant look, for a moment, Cong Jia suddenly thought, this stupid melon, do you know what kind of careful thinking the teacher in his mouth is hiding?
But before she could think about it, a phone ringtone cut off her thoughts.
Xu Feng hurriedly closed the book that looked thicker than the dictionary, and then respectfully replied: "Yes teacher, I am at Cong Jia Company, she just got off work, hmmm know, I will drive carefully, you can rest assured..."
Cong Jia tilted her head to see Xu Feng answer the phone seriously, and the wind blew through his face, and the fine fluff behind his ears was clearly visible, like the simplicity and tranquility of a newborn baby.
I don't know what moment of vain conscience made Cong Jia decide not to tease the man in front of him who was "obedient to orders".
Zuo was just a scum of her mother's fear that she would love the fire again, so she pushed her proud protégé in front of her.
Mother's love, she has been deeply experienced since she was a child.
2
There is a mother who is a university professor, and Cong Jia has received a different education since she was a child.
When a group of friends around them bent their "fragile" backs like a mountain of wailing in the ears of their parents, Cong Jia was the happiest child in the community, and she had a particularly complete childhood.
Her mother has her own set of parenting and teaching experience, and many years ago she insisted on the "Buddhist system", saying that she wanted her daughter to develop freely, grow into a square circle or flat, and watch her create herself.
It's not just lip service, it's really going crazy by Cong Jia.
At that time, Cong Jia went to class from Monday to Friday, and she only had to complete her homework carefully at night, and there would be no extracurricular exercises waiting for her to be lucky.
On the weekend, other children rushed back and forth between the two cram schools, but Cong Jia returned to her grandparents' house in the suburbs, tied up her apron, helped her grandmother make a fire to make a large pot of rice on the earth stove, and in the afternoon covered a big hat with a wide rim, carrying a fishing rod and her grandfather to spend an afternoon at the edge of the paddy field.
Cong Jia's fishing skills are not good, but her ability to mischief is not inferior to that of children in the countryside.
Pick up the bird's eggs from the tree, startle the shell of the young bird staring at her with round eyes, chirping back to the mother bird forage, or going into the water to touch the fry, stirring up a pool of still water, and ruining the bait nest that Grandpa had so hard to make.
The sky was high and the earth was wide, and she developed a big grinning personality.
Time rushed back, Cong Jia became a girl with a special idea, from what kind of hairstyle to cut, to what kind of volunteer to fill in the college entrance examination, she had her own ideas.
After years of free range, Cong Jia not only did not grow crooked, but also unexpectedly fell out of the root of the seedlings, every fork in the road of life node, she carefully considered and made a decision properly, which made her mother proud beyond words.
The summer vacation when she received the notice from the key university was the highlight of her mother's life, even if it was a walk in the community after dinner, someone would come up to compliment her on teaching women and try to learn from her.
Xu is from childhood to the big Cong Jia's peace of mind so that her mother is completely unguarded, so in the years of college, her mother has less control over her, she can still eat, drink and study as she pleases, and also talk about a relationship at will.
3
That day, Cong Jia and her roommate went to the mobile company downstairs in the dormitory to consult about wireless networks, and the boys were separated from them on both sides of the service desk, and they were kind enough to introduce business to them.
Finally, a package with the highest cost performance is also suggested: "You can try it for two months first, and then you will have a summer vacation after two months, and you will decide whether to renew it after the summer vacation." ”
In the early summer wind, the drowsy afternoon reflected the boy's healthy wheat-colored skin and the burning smile in his eyes, and the gentle voice line lined his whole person, and Cong Jia's love and yearning broke ground at that moment.
Cong Jia has always been an activist, like it, to confess, this is the most in line with her brain circuit behavior.
The window paper was thinner than yarn, and the boy's response gave Cong Jia a surprise of running in both directions.
At first they had a lot to say, and when they went to the rolling playground at night, they couldn't finish talking about the 800-meter circle when they forgot to count.
The boy said that after graduating from college, he partnered with friends and opened such a franchise store on campus, and the road to entrepreneurship was difficult but he never gave up, but his family was too poor, afraid of failing the blue eyes given to her by Cong Jia.
Cong Jia smiled and pounced on him, hanging on him to say that she was good, found a self-motivated boyfriend, turned her head and poured out her past, and talked about her happy youth, and also about her enlightened mother.
Subconsciously, Cong Jia is comforting her boyfriend's heart, in fact, she has given birth to a love to the end of the year, she is afraid of her boyfriend's inferiority, so she began to take care of his fragile soul.
Time passed, Cong Jia had the charm of a girl in love, and began to flood with motherhood, covering her accommodation and care to all the relationships between the two people.
The business in the store is not good, the boyfriend is worried and troubled, Cong Jia asks the classmates who know each other to do business, and the difference is that she pays for it from her own pocket;
When the shop expires, the landlord wants to increase the rent, Cong Jia takes the initiative to bear the living expenses of her boyfriend, in addition to three meals a day, she also manages to buy shoes and clothes for people;
The two had a conflict, Cong Jia could not stand the cold war, and was always the first to raise his hand and surrender.
Over time, I even spoiled my boyfriend more and more excessively, carrying Cong Jia and the new school girl sticky and slimy.
In the winter vacation of the senior year, Cong Jia returned to her hometown for the New Year, it was her mother who found that she was not right, holding the mobile phone all day, sometimes smiling, sometimes sad and miserable, such a daughter, simply made her mother's back chill.
As soon as the mother and daughter communicated, Cong Jia couldn't help but burst into tears and put this love and discussion out.
Under her mother's analysis, Cong Jia jumped out of that relationship and re-examined herself, only to realize that she had sunk into the abyss.
"Jiajia, it is not wrong for boys to have inferiority, but some people are becoming more and more upward because of their inferiority, but he uses inferiority as a protective color, in exchange for your understanding and tolerance, and then eats you back, such a person, what can you not put down?"
Cong Jiacai finally woke up like a dream, quickly handled the relationship, and then concentrated on the graduation project.
Later, she chose to return to her hometown to work, but did not want to start there, her mother consciously or unconsciously pushed the Zhibo students she was taking in front of her.
Counting up, this was the third time Xu Feng had been ordered to pick her up and take her home.
Every time I came, it was the same configuration, sitting quietly at the front desk and reading a book, emaciated and integrated with the bench, quiet and inexplicably poking people laughing.
Just thinking that this person was assigned by her mother, Cong Jia was upset.
She is still used to making her own decisions, and does not want to accept things that others have forced on her, people and things.
Besides, she wasn't in that mood either.
4
It was only half an hour away from the company to home, but in time for the evening peak, Cong Jia was sitting on Xu Feng's car until his waist was sore.
When braking sharply for the third time, Cong Jia's fiery temperament and broken mouth were confiscated: "Did you just get your driver's license?" Are you going to upset me? Oops my mom, my milk tea is spilled... My clothes... Sigh, I don't know if this can be washed off..."
She talked a lot, looking for a tissue as she spoke, and when she looked up at the water stains on the hem of her shirt, she just looked at Xu Feng's confused eyes.
Xu Feng's grip on the steering wheel tightened and loosened: "That... I just searched, there is a milk tea shop in the front corner, and you have a brand, I will buy you another cup. ”
Watching him stare at the missing milk tea, Cong Jiacai reacted that he had misunderstood, so he quickly put away her broken horse Zhang Fei's impatience: "I am not for this milk tea, nor do I blame you... Oops, I'm just this character, I'm sorry ha..."
Before she could finish speaking, the green light came on, and Xu Feng stepped on the accelerator with one foot, and stepped back with even the half-cut words she had not finished: "This personality is very good, go straight to the point." ”
Poplar flowers drifted in from the car window, brushing on Cong Jia's face, the slightest touch, some itchy, and some... Hot, she thought back to Xu Feng's words, and the frequency of her heartbeat was actually faster.
She thought... Is it exaggerated?
Since separating from her scumbag boyfriend, she is immune to men.
People probably have a self-defense system, and for a long time after being hurt, resistance is self-preservation.
Later, I still bought milk tea, Cong Jia said no, but Xu Feng said that it was a good mood to drink some sweets, just as a relaxation after a day of work.
Biting the straw, Cong Jia aimed at Xu Feng with the afterglow, thinking that this man did not seem to be as dull as he seemed on the surface.
At dinner, Cong Jia listened to Xu Feng and her mother talk about the graduation thesis, many professional terms she did not understand, but she knew what it meant for the thesis to be accepted by international academic newspapers.
She put down her chopsticks and looked at Xu Feng with a posture of close to looking up, and the word admiration floated out of her eyes: "You are looking at the daze, in fact, in private, I have heard of the magazine, my mother herself has not been through it." ”
As she spoke, Cong Jia was gently flicked by her mother with chopsticks and flicked the back of her hand twice: "Just know to dismantle your mother's table!" ”
Xu Feng smiled shyly, a twenty-eight-year-old man, happy as pure as a child.
That night, before going to bed, Cong Jia received a WeChat message from Xu Feng, asking her to use baking soda mixed with dish soap to remove milk tea stains: "It really can't work... I'll pay you one. ”
Cong Jia jumped up from the bed, holding the mobile phone to spread the information in front of her mother, the little old lady's eyebrows stretched, it was the joy of finding the fertile soil of her own cabbage.
5
Inviting Xu Feng to the Peach Blossom Festival was a temporary decision by Cong Jia.
After that dinner, she and her colleagues talked about Xu Feng, said a few more words, about his papers, about his agility, colleagues coaxed her to call people out: "Let's see the living, rigid bully." ”
Cong Jia made up a message and sent it over, asking Xu Feng if he was available for the weekend, and there was no response for the following afternoon.
She glanced at her phone every five minutes, disturbed by the darkened screen, and only received a call from Xu Feng when she was about to leave work.
Across the earpiece, Xu Feng's voice had an unreal excitement and apology: "After an afternoon of experimentation, I was dizzy, I just saw the information, I can do it on the weekend, you and your colleagues like to eat and drink and send me anything, I will prepare." ”
At the end of the crackling, Xu Feng tentatively added, "You... You didn't change people because I didn't reply to the message, did you? ”
The mobile phone was slightly warm in Cong Jia's palm, and her just flat heart was gently fluttering again, and she could feel Xu Feng's caution, like the humility she had when she faced her ex-boyfriend.
The weather is very face-saving, blue sky and white clouds on weekends.
Cong Jia waited at the door of the house for Xu Feng to pick her up, and she saw that the back seat was full of packed bento boxes and convenience bags, and the aroma of fruity tea penetrated into her nose, especially matching spring.
A group of six of them set up a barbecue in the town's wetland park, surrounded by peach forests, some of the pink petals that fell to the ground were intact, and some of them were complete, and some of them were mud, all of which were different flavors.
Xu Feng, who was busy grilling skewers, was like a monkey on display, and several of Cong Jia's colleagues gathered around him to look at him and teased him in passing.
"Aren't PhD students all nerds?" It's time for life to be unable to take care of itself, how do you do everything? ”
"That is, think carefully, bring all the snacks that girls love to eat, which can also be used to make a fire and grill meat, which is amazing."
……
The young man joked without moderation, and Xu Feng smiled back and did not say much.
Later, everyone arched to Cong Jia's side to summarize: "At first glance, it is a good seedling of housework proficiency, can joke, not much to say, the most important thing is to learn to bully, try you will not lose." ”
Cong Jia's eyebrows were bent, the corners of her lips were curled, and her heart was full of courage.
6
Later, the days were brisk, and Cong Jia's resistance was gone.
She began to exchange WeChat with Xu Feng, occasionally calling and chatting a few words, more often, or Xu Feng quietly came to guard her after work, and then went home together.
At that time, her mother was changing the last big paper for Xu Feng, and the face-to-face communication paper became a protective cover for them to meet every day, and it seemed to be a tacit secret.
One day in early May, when Huaihua was on the bench, Cong Jia called Xu Feng and said that she was on her feet and asked if he could pick her up and take her to the hospital.
When Xu Feng came, the hair on his forehead could drip water, and you can imagine how fast he used to catch up.
He put Cong Jia on his back and walked into the elevator, across the rib-like body, Cong Jia could hear his beating heart, Cong Jia could not tell whether it was his normal reaction after strenuous exercise, or because she was on his back, he was nervous.
In order to ease the atmosphere, Cong Jia deliberately diverted the topic: "Look at your thin, I didn't expect that the strength is not small." ”
Xu Feng didn't speak, and Cong Jia couldn't see his expression, but she could feel his slightly trembling shoulder blades showing worry.
Ankle bone cracks and misalignment, the severe pain during the reset made Cong Jia clutch Xu Feng's slender forearm, and when all was done, she saw that there were two clear scratches on Xu Feng's exposed arm, which must have been the mark she had just scratched with her fingernails.
Later, what they said, Cong Jia can't remember clearly, she just clearly remembers, after sending her to the door, Xu Feng suddenly locked the car door and spoke quickly: "I am about to graduate, and there will be no legitimate reason to pick you up from work in the future, so I want to find myself an identity that does not need an excuse." ”
Cong Jia's heart beat faster: "What are you going to do?" ”
Xu Feng's face turned from white to red, and soon became lustrous, and his eyes were piercing through everything: "Jiajia, I want to be your boyfriend... That, the teacher told me to pick you up, didn't he just want me to change from a student to a son-in-law..."
After a long silence, Cong Jia laughed so much that tears flowed out.
She reached out and pushed Xu Feng: "I thought you were a stupid melon, it turns out that you know everything, my mother's professor deserves to be really good, when you meet good, first leave it for your girlfriend." ”
Xu Feng took Cong Jia's hand and put it in his palm tightly and tightly, while muttering, "Speaking of which, the teacher is still good to me, and the daughters and daughters have given it to me." ”
This reverse thinking caught Cong Jia off guard, and after she was stunned, she couldn't think of anything but silly music.
At this moment she suddenly wanted to steal a lazy.
From childhood to adulthood, she has made her own decisions, and it seems that it is not impossible to listen to her mother's words once in a while.
After all, the person her mother chose for her was really not bad.