Chapter 420, Story of an Old Friend

Uncle Meng is a deep patient who loves fishing.

These days, Lu An and Meng Qingshui accompanied him to the suburban reservoir to fish twice, but they didn't catch many fish, and Uncle Meng's favorite fishing rod was broken, and he felt distressed for a long time.

Lu An comforted him: "Uncle, the old one doesn't go away, and the new one won't come. I'll buy you two good rods if I have a chance."

"Haha, I've been waiting for you to say that. Anyway, you are not short of money, so I look forward to it in advance." Meng Zhenhai said so happily.

After failing to catch fish, Lu An put the fishing rod he bought temporarily in the trunk, and then the three of them went to the owner of the reservoir to buy some fish to go home for a feast.

On the morning of the 5th day, the sky finally cleared up.

Lu An took Qingshui and his younger sister to buy some New Year's goods and rushed to Qianzhen. When they passed Liuduzhai and drove to Qijiang, they met a medium-term bus that had broken down.

What was even more unexpected was that among the passengers who were forced to stay, Lu An met two acquaintances, Nan Shaoqing and Sun Lina.

The male Shaoqing was covered with bags all over his body, and it looked heavy.

And Sun Lina was even more exaggerated, holding a baby in her arms, rocking and coaxing the child in her arms.

Lu An and Meng Qingshui looked at each other, decisively pulled over, and then opened the door and got out.

There were few private cars these days, not to mention an Audi car. When it drove over from a distance, it attracted the attention of the group of people on the roadside, staring at them without blinking.

As soon as Lu An and Meng Qingshui opened the door, the male Shaoqing and Sun Lina recognized them.

Sun Lina shouted with great surprise: "Ah! Lu An, Meng Qingshui, I can meet you here."

"Comrade Sun Lina, long time no see." Lu An waved his hand like a leader and walked over jokingly.

The four of them were all from Shao City No. 1 Middle School and were all from Qianzhen. They didn't feel as unfamiliar as they imagined after not seeing each other for more than a year. Instead, they felt a long-lost sense of intimacy and immediately chattered together.

After asking about each other's well-being, Lu An introduced the younger sister Song Jia who got off the car later to the two of them, and then asked: "Are you coming back from Beijing?"

The male Shaoqing was still the same as before, not very talkative, and preferred to communicate with body language, such as shaking his head.

Sun Lina was still enthusiastic, "No, the male Shaoqing had a winter vacation a long time ago. The child was disobedient these two days, so he went to the county people's hospital for a few days and was discharged today. Unexpectedly, he was unlucky and the car couldn't move here. It broke down."

Lu An leaned in to tease the child, and then greeted the three people, "It's cold outside, get in the car first, Qingshui happened to be in the same direction as you, so you don't have to take a detour."

Several people are classmates, and have known each other since junior high school. Lu An, Meng Qingshui and the male Shaoqing are the celebrities of that year. They talked a lot along the way, which was very lively.

Meng Qingshui asked, "When was the child born?"

Sun Lina replied, "On the Mid-Autumn Festival."

She looked at Lu An, "By the way, if I remember correctly, Lu An, your birthday is also on the Mid-Autumn Festival, right?"

"Yes, but don't think I'll get away with it." Lu An said with a smile.

Sun Lina happily responded, "No way, if my son has half of your ability in the future, I'd be willing to die as a mother now."

The male Shaoqing then said, "You may not die, but what if you die, what will happen to the child?"

Sun Lina choked him, "Just find another one."

The male Shaoqing said, "If you're dead, how can I live alone? What else can I find?"

Lu An's eyelids twitched. Damn, this love for Enxiu.

He immediately mourned for Wu Ying for three seconds. It is estimated that with the relationship between the two, even if Sun Lina really got into trouble one day, the male Shaoqing probably wouldn't look for another one.

Sun Lina and Nan Shaoqing's home is in Xuetangwan, and the Meng family's old house is in Jintan. The two villages are adjacent and belong to Weijiaduan under Qianzhen.

Strangely enough, 80% of the population in this place has the surname Wei, but the few people Lu An knows do not have the surname Wei, such as Meng Qingshui, Sun Lina and Nan Shaoqing, and Li Rou who also belongs to Xuetangwan.

On the contrary, Wei Fangyuan's family in Shangcun is separated from Weijiaduan.

When the car passed Jintan, Lu An asked Qingshui and Xiaomei to get off first, and then continued to send the family of three down.

When they were some distance away from Meng's house, Sun Lina suddenly mentioned Li Rou, "Lu An, Li Rou came back yesterday, do you want to see her?"

A hand tractor came from the opposite side, and Lu An parked the car aside: "Ah? Aren't you in the county hospital these days? How did you know?"

The male Shaoqing, who had not spoken much, now spoke, "My house and Li Rou's house are opposite each other, separated by a road. When I called home yesterday, my father said he saw her."

When thinking of Li Rou, Lu An couldn't help but think of her father and the superb brother and sister-in-law, and asked curiously: "Her family is back?"

Sun Lina hushed, "How is it possible? After that incident, her father and her brother have never been seen again. There are only Li Rou's grandparents at home."

The three of them talked about the Li family, and the car unknowingly arrived at the door of the Li family.

Coincidentally, Li Rou was taking pictures in the rice drying field, squatting down to take pictures of a little girl with pigtails.

Suddenly seeing her best friend, Sun Lina rolled down the car window, stuck her head out and shouted excitedly, "Li Rou! Li Rou!"

Li Rou looked back and was a little happy when she saw Sun Lina, but when her eyes touched Lu An, she was stunned for a moment, then stood up and walked over.

Seeing this, Sun Lina winked at the male Shaoqing in a funny way: "Let's go quickly, don't get in the way."

The male Shaoqing looked at Li Rou, then at Lu An, and said as he got out of the car, "Lu An, don't be in a hurry to leave later. It's rare for you to come back and forth to Xuetang Bay. Come in and sit down."

"Oh, okay."

Lu An was speechless towards the two of them. After watching them leave, he turned to look at Li Rou.

"Lu An, I didn't expect us to meet again."

After looking at each other for a long time, Li Rou was the first to break the deadlock.

"Yeah." In order to show politeness, Lu An hummed, unbuckled his seat belt and got out of the car.

"You haven't changed." Li Rou said after looking at each other for a while.

"Yeah." Lu An hummed again.

Li Rou asked, "Do you think I have changed?"

Luan nodded, "It's changed a lot."

Li Rou asked: "Where is Da Da?"

Lu An said truthfully: "You have become more energetic and more beautiful?"

"Really? How does it compare with Meng Qingshui?" Li Rou asked brightly.

Lu An smiled and said, "It has been so long, but your competitive spirit has not changed at all."

Li Rou said, "Don't interrupt, you haven't answered my question yet."

Lu An thought for a moment and said, "Qing Shui is always changing."

He only said the first half of the sentence.

The potential meaning of the second half of the sentence is: Qingshui, who has broken away from the youthful appearance in high school, has also undergone big changes now, and his refreshing temperament is very attractive.

He believed that the second half of the sentence could be understood based on the other person's IQ.

Sure enough, after hearing this, Li Rou fell silent and said after a long time: "It seems that in your heart, I am not as good as Qing Shui."

Lu An wanted to defend himself, but he swallowed it back.

Seeing that he was hesitant to speak, Li Rou raised the camera in her hand and said, "Take a photo, we haven't taken a photo together yet."

Lu An did not refuse and said yes happily.

Li Rou shouted to Sun Lina who was watching the show secretly from the air, "Stop looking and come and take a picture for us."

"Huh? Are you rekindling your old relationship?" Sun Lina handed the child to her mother-in-law, then crossed the road and came to the two of them.

Before Lu An could speak, Li Rou had already spoken, "Lina, can't you keep your mouth shut? This place is very close to the Meng family. If you talk nonsense, be careful that Meng Qingshui will miss you."

Hearing this, Sun Lina pursed her lips and said, "Just worry about it. You, a best friend, dare to stab a man in the back. She has already regarded you as an enemy."

Lu An couldn't listen anymore and immediately interrupted the two of them: "Okay, don't treat me like transparent air. Take pictures quickly. It's raining heavily."

The rain started to fall, and the three of them just finished taking a group photo, and then it fell to the ground with a patter.

Li Rou put the camera away and said to him: "My house is not popular. It's too deserted, so I won't invite you into the house. I'll accompany you to the male young lady's house to sit for a while."

Lu An looked back at the Li family, feeling a little sad. Li Rou's father was so prosperous in Shao City back then. He had countless money, hundreds of people under his command, and two companies. The enviable scene was gone in the blink of an eye. So desolate.

It really complied with that sentence, it’s up to God whether it’s up to you or not.

There are three sisters above the male young lady, and the house is full of adults and children. Maybe because he came in an Audi, both the elder and the younger are full of curiosity about him. They all ask who he is and start asking about Lu An. I felt comfortable, and I didn’t stay long in the end. I had a cup of tea and chatted for a while before leaving.

Li Rou walked outside the house, and just as he was about to close the car door, she asked: "Lu An, do you want this photo? If so, give me your school address and I will mail it to you then.

Or I can send it to Wei Fangyuan and ask her to forward it to you. "

Lu An knew what she meant by this, but due to fate, he was not so stingy and immediately gave the other party the zip code address of the NTU studio.

After saying that, Lu An said goodbye: "Then I'm leaving. I wish you a Happy New Year in advance."

Li Rou waved her right hand slightly in front of her chest, "Happy New Year! Goodbye!"

The Audi drove away, turned a corner, and quickly disappeared on the other side of the mountain.

Sun Lina next to her couldn't help but ask, "Lu An has a BB phone number, why didn't you ask him for it?"

Li Rou asked, "Why do you ask him for it?"

Sun Lina was speechless and said for a long time: "I thought you would want it. If you couldn't be shameless, you would have told me earlier and I would ask for it for you."

Li Rou shook her head.

Sun Lina stared at her and asked confusedly: "Have you really given up?"

Li Rou did not answer directly, "I don't know, but my mind is not on that right now."

Sun Lina gestured, "He's Lu An. Have you lost interest so quickly? Or is he not a woman?"

Li Rou turned around and said, "If I were in high school, I would try hard, but now that several years have passed, things have changed."

Sun Lina explained her expression, and finally spread her hands helplessly: "Okay, I am being treated as a donkey liver and lungs because of my good intentions. I hope you will be so relieved when you hear the news about his marriage and children in the future."

Meeting Li Rou was purely by chance, and Lu An didn't feel too disturbed.

To be honest, Li Rou didn’t have many scenes in his life, only two scenes left a lasting impression on his memory:

One of them stabbed his best friend Qing Shui in the back, forcing Qing Shui to transfer to another school.

The second one is that after the great changes in the Li family, in order to avoid being pursued by her enemies, Li Rou used and abandoned everyone around her one after another, including the first time she met him through life and death, but in the end she confessed her love to him at the train station and returned her kiss. Give him a look.

Generally speaking, although this girl is very beautiful, the deepest impression left on him is not her beauty, but her "self".

Or to put it another way, it’s extremely selfish.

Passing through a low hill, the Audi returned to Xuetangwan Village and finally stopped at the old residence of the Meng family.

Due to the rain, the Meng family's grandparents were moving the sundries hanging in the corridor to the main room. Meng Qingshui and Song Jia were helping.

"Grandpa, grandma, I'm here to see you."

It is said that sweet words are worth money. Lu An always likes to call people and elders. Anyway, he just wastes some words and gets a lot of goodwill. He is never stingy with this kind of business without losing money.

"Hey, Xiao Lu is here." Grandpa and grandma were very happy to see Lu An.

The last time they told their son and daughter-in-law about their granddaughter and Lu An staying in the bedroom until late at night, Meng Zhenhai and Li Meng didn't react at all and thought it was normal. Immediately, the grandparents knew something about it. This little Lu will be designated in the future. He is the son-in-law of our Meng family.

Since they are a family, they must have good food, drink and entertain them with care. No, Lu An was so full of food on the table that night.

After dinner, everyone chatted around the charcoal fire for a while. Originally, Meng Qingshui and his grandparents wanted to keep the two of them overnight, but Song Jia was not used to it. She said she missed her eldest sister and wanted to go back.

There was no choice but to follow Lu An's younger sister's will and stood up to leave.

Before leaving, he turned to Qing Shui and asked, "Would you like to come with me? Come and stay with us for two days?"

These words have far-reaching implications. What does it mean when a young girl who has not yet left the court goes to a boy's house to stay for a few days?

What it represents is self-evident.

The grandparents looked at each other, smiled and said nothing. After all, both of them were retired state cadres. Their knowledge and mind were not comparable to those of ordinary country people. They adopted a non-interference attitude towards the feelings of Lu An and their little granddaughter. .

Song Jia's eyes rolled around Qing Shui a few times, but she also remained silent, just shouting in her heart: Sister Fangyuan, Sister Fangyuan, you really have no sense. There are many women outside my brother who want to sleep with him, but you just don't look down on him. , very angry.

Meng Qingshui was naturally very happy when the man she liked invited her, but when she thought about the entanglement between him and her sister, her rare happiness was tempered.

In the end, Lu An figured out her state of mind, and then regardless of it, he reached out and pulled her out the door, "Grandpa and grandma, let's leave first. I will bring water down in two days."

"Okay, it's getting dark, please slow down on the road." The Meng family's grandparents personally saw people off to the road.

Just as he was about to drive away, the neighbor suddenly told them that the road to Shangcun was covered with ice and cars could not drive in, so they had to walk.

Lu An was dubious when he heard this, and thought it had been several days. Hasn't the ice melted yet?

But when I think that Shangcun is located in the Xuefeng Mountains, extending into the mountains along the way, and the altitude is increasing throughout the journey, combined with the experience of previous years, my heart suddenly beats.

After thinking about it, he ran back to the main room and called his eldest sister Lu Yan. The result was exactly like this. The ice on the road had not yet melted, so the car could not get in due to a skid, so he could only walk.

Lu An put down the receiver and asked Qingshui, "I have to walk, and I have to walk 7 miles. Are you afraid?"

Meng Qingshui pursed her lips slightly, "Wait a minute, I'll go find some flashlights."

"Okay." When Lu An said yes, he saw his little sister staring at him.

Lu An quietly hit her on the head, and Song Jia immediately complained in a low voice: "When you have a wife, you forget your mother, and when you have a woman, you forget your sister. I'm talking about you, Big Pocket Lu."

Lu An hit her on the head again: "Why is it called Lu Big Pocket? What kind of nonsense nickname did you get?"

Song Jia covered her head and argued to herself: "That's not what I said. I secretly read the horoscopes for you and eldest sister. The fortune teller said that you have big pockets and can hold many wives in the future."

Lu An was frightened to death. He glanced at his grandparents and Qing Shui who were looking for flashlights in the bedroom, "Can you speak properly? Can you speak according to the situation?"

Song Jia blinked her big eyes, looking very innocent, "Brother, I really didn't say it randomly. I didn't believe it at first, but after I showed you three horoscopes in one breath, I believed it."

Lu An asked: "How many sisters-in-law?"

Song Jia stretched out a slap and said nothing.

Luan asked, "What do you mean?"

Song Jia said, "I don't know what it means. This is what the fortune teller said. Is it five? Or can't you count it with one slap? It all depends on your luck, brother."

Lu An's eyelids twitched and he skipped these words, "What about the eldest sister's marriage?"

Song Jia put her hands behind her back and said, "It's coming soon, either next year or the year after."

At this time, Qingshui and the others came out of the bedroom. Lu An nodded and did not ask further questions.

The road into the mountain was not easy to walk. The three of them had straw ropes tied to their feet, holding a flashlight in their left hand and a cane in their right hand. The flat road was fine, but the three of them walked as fast as flying. At least it was smooth, but the uphill section was really tiring. People should take every step carefully and take a break every time they go up a steep slope.

The downhill section was even more dangerous. Lu An fell twice, and Qingshui and Xiaomei fell at least five times. The straw rope could not stop them at all. Amidst a burst of ouch, the three of them were afraid of falling, for fear of falling to the road. Later, the three of them used crutches to help each other walk.

When we returned to the village, it was already after eight o'clock and it was pitch dark. Although there was electricity these days, the electricity bill was expensive and everyone had no money left in their pockets to waste. They usually lit kerosene lamps when they were not doing anything serious. Some families simply go into the dark and are reluctant to part with kerosene lamps.

But it's the same everywhere, where there is poverty there is wealth. The canteen at the intersection and the party secretary's house are always brightly lit. The former lights up to collect card table fees, while the latter is simply rich.

The three of them stamped their feet, stamping off the snow foam on their shoes, and then reached out to knock on the door. There was light in the room, and it seemed that the eldest sister Lu Yan was not asleep yet.

After two consecutive shots, footsteps came out of the inner room and asked loudly, "Who is it?"

"Sister, elder sister, it's me, I'm back!" Before Lu An and Meng Qingshui could speak, the little sister at the back had already jumped up lively.

The door of the house opened with a few clicks. Lu Yan held a spoon in her left hand, and her right hand was still covered with pig grass and rice bran. It seemed that she had just fed the pigs in the backyard.

When she saw her brothers and sisters outside the door, her face was full of uncontrollable joy. When she saw Meng Qingshui in the middle, she wiped her right hand on her apron fiercely and hurriedly pulled Qingshui in. "Qingshui is here, come in and sit down."

Seeing this scene, Song Jia's face fell instantly, and she muttered a lot of words in her heart that she herself didn't understand.

When Lu Yan lit the charcoal fire and poured hot tea for the three people, the eldest and second aunts who heard the news also rushed over with flashlights.

Seeing their nephew bring a girl back, and she is the daughter of the famous Meng family in Qianzhen, the two aunts were so happy that they hurried over to ask Meng Qingshui about her well-being and talk about family matters.

Song Jia was very depressed because she was ignored. She usually revolved around her, but today she didn't revolve around her. She couldn't help muttering in her heart: If the fortune teller is reliable, sister-in-law Qingshui, you are just one of the sisters-in-law. If you steal my limelight, I will hug a sister-in-law who is more beautiful than you as my thigh to get back at her.