Lin Feifei bought these new white shoes. She wore them for the first time today. They were so glorious and made her feel so distressed.
She frowned and took off her shoes, then supported me on one leg and walked back.
I felt a little sorry, and I held my dirty shoes and smiled bitterly: "You should put on your slippers when you go home! I'll clean these shoes for you."
Lin Feifei was startled, "I can do whatever you ask me to do by myself. You can help me find a pair of slippers."
I rummaged through the cabinet and found a pair of unworn women's slippers. This pair of slippers was originally prepared for Kuang Li, but unfortunately she had never worn them.
I miss people when I see things, but I no longer feel anything in my heart.
Walking up to Lin Feifei, I bent down and knelt down in front of her, "You put this on first! Don't worry, no one has worn this."
Lin Feifei's eyes flashed, "Is this Kuang Li's?"
I smiled bitterly, "Well, you don't mind, do you?"
"of course not!"
I couldn't laugh or cry, "Can you please don't gasp when you speak?"
"Tch! Didn't I learn this from you? By the way, where do you get your shoes cleaned?"
I walked into the toilet, took out a large aluminum basin and a shoe brush, and said with a smile: "You put the shoes in it, soak them with water first, and I will brush them later."
"No, I'll do it myself! What's the point of asking you to clean my shoes?"
I nodded, "Okay, I still have a few pairs of shoes that I haven't cleaned, so you can clean them for me!"
Lin Feifei: "..."
I made a joke with her, and I hurried to the vegetable garden to pick vegetables for cooking. My family is self-sufficient in food. I only come back once in a long time. I usually don’t prepare anything at home and just eat what I grow. I pulled some spinach, tomatoes, and cucumbers. Fortunately, I still had bacon made by my mother at home. It was simple but healthy.
Lin Feifei and Chen Xiaoxing also came to help. The three of us had a clear division of labor. Lin Feifei washed and selected vegetables, Chen Xiaoxing chopped vegetables, and I took the spoon.
Chen Xiaoxing surprised me. From the way she chopped vegetables, I could tell she was good at cooking.
The three of us were talking and laughing in the kitchen. The two of them did not show any distaste for the messy environment in my house. Instead, they felt that they yearned for this kind of self-sufficient pastoral life.
They live in big cities, but they yearn for rural pastoral life. I grew up in the countryside, but yearn for the gorgeous and dazzling urban life. Perhaps in our hearts, what we can’t get is always the best, and what we have is often not cherished.
The smoke from the kitchen and the laughter added a bit of popularity to this cold home.
I finally feel a little like home.
The food was ready, and then the door suddenly opened with a crash.
I looked up and saw my parents coming back on their electric bikes.
In fact, I cooked the food step by step, thinking that they would be home soon, so I prepared the meal so that they could eat it hot when they got home.
Lin Feifei and I hurried out to greet them. I gave them a brief introduction to my parents. My parents acted a little restrained. My mother took out a large bag of strawberries and cooked food from the car pocket, saying that it was specially for the greeting. We bought it specially.
Although they didn't say any kind words, they expressed their welcome with practical actions. We rural people are so simple.
My mother walked in and was about to wash the strawberries, but Lin Feifei took her over. One of her and Chen Xiaoxing washed the strawberries, and the other served the dishes. Du Yue couldn't help but follow her with a pout.
My dad said we should eat in the living room, but I voted down. I said we should eat in the yard.
In the late summer and early autumn, the weather is pleasant in the evening. Drinking and eating in the courtyard is something that many people who live in big cities would envy.
I took out the dusty canopy from the bedroom. I originally bought it for camping with Kuang Li, but it had no value until we broke up. Today I can finally use it for a while.
When I set up the hexagonal canopy in the yard and hung up the string lights, the atmosphere was immediately filled!
Lin Feifei and the others came out of the kitchen and saw the canopy set up in the yard. They were surprised and happy. They had been trapped in the fast-paced urban life for a long time. It was their first time to experience the feeling of camping in a small yard. They almost screamed with joy. stand up.
Lin Feifei: "Wow! Yu Bin, you are so romantic!"
Chen Xiaoxing: "Let's put all the dishes on the table quickly, I want to take pictures!"
Du Yue's expression was a little unnatural, and she snorted disdainfully, "What's the matter!"
She said this with her mouth, but her body was very honest and she couldn't help but take out her mobile phone and take a few photos.
The meals were served one by one, including stir-fried spinach with eggs, preserved eggs mixed with cucumbers, stewed baby cabbage with tomatoes, stir-fried bacon with garlic sprouts, and several kinds of cooked food and strawberries. The six of us had enough to eat!
I moved another box of beer and drinks from the side room. When I was done with my work, the setting sun had already plated a layer of gold in the forest, and under the sky that was dyed crimson by the sunset, the sky was lit up with bright lights.
Lin Feifei and the others had only camped in the park before. It was their first time camping in a small courtyard and they all found it new.
I never expected that they would be so welcomed by just setting up a canopy in the yard. Seeing their faces that they had never seen "the world", I secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Lin Feifei crossed her legs, supported her chin with her hands, looked at the crimson and distant sunset, and sighed with emotion: "Hey! How great would it be if I could have a small courtyard in the countryside?"
Chen Xiaoxing nodded empathetically, "Yes! The suite I live in has very poor soundproofing. I want to exercise by skipping rope at home, but I'm afraid of disturbing the noise downstairs. Let's go downstairs! I live on the 20th floor, and I'm not tired of waiting for the elevator. Especially when I go to work in the morning, I have to wait several times.”
I took a sip of beer and said with a smile: "You want to come to the countryside, and our rural children want to go out. You don't know that there are basically no young people in our village now."
Most of the young people in the village have gone out to work to make money. Now the most common people in the village are the elderly and children.
Sometimes I also wonder, if one day I get married and have children, can I bear to put down my children and go to work in a big city?
I have thought about this question for a long time, but I have never had an answer.
Lin Feifei smiled and said with great sincerity: "Actually, I have long been tired of the fast-paced life. I used to think that having a house and a car meant success, but now I feel that external success is just a void in the end. Wait. When we die, we can’t take our house, money, or car with us. In order to earn more flight expenses, I used to fly as fast as I could while I was young. I made more and more money, but my health got worse and worse. I got a stomachache when I couldn’t cope with the food. , and cervical spondylosis.”
I smiled and raised the bottle, "I remembered a sentence in a book: The universe is big and life is even bigger! Let's drink to life!"
Working overtime in the dark to make money is actually far less valuable than having a meal or drinking a glass of wine with the one you love.
Lin Feifei and Chen Xiaoxing raised their glasses with smiles, and Du Yue reluctantly raised her glasses and clinked them with us.
I put down the beer bottle and found Lin Feifei looking at me with a smile, as if she had something hidden in her heart...
