Inside a rented house in an urban village in Changping District.
Li Tong looked at the text message from an unfamiliar number on her mobile phone and was dazed for a while.
She had a strong premonition that the owner of this phone number was Wu Jun, who had brushed past without recognising each other today.
The sound of an old classmate seemed to pull time back to the high school days of eight years ago.
Eight years is not too long, not too short.
That he who was at the same table, that he who always loved to talk to the neighbouring students and was disliked by himself.
Now, himself and him were two worlds apart.
He can talk and laugh with the most successful people he knows, and he can only silently serve them from the sidelines.
One was no longer qualified to dislike him.
“Tong Tong, did you encounter any problems at work?”
A middle-aged woman on the bed with a wan look asked with a concerned face when she saw her daughter fidgeting with her mobile phone.
“No mum, work is fine, don’t worry.”Li Tong came back to her senses and turned to comfort her mother.
Zhao Chunrong looked at her daughter who was dressed neatly, then looked at the house where the two lived, and inwardly blamed herself.
How beautiful her daughter looked when she was dressed up, similar to the people on TV.
If she hadn’t dragged herself down, she would have married a good husband and lived a good life.
In order to cure herself, her daughter can only live with herself in a simple rented room.
She can’t afford to eat or wear, and all the money she saves is sent to the hospital.
“It’s all because Mum dragged you down Tongtong.”Zhao Chunrong’s tears came to her eyes as she thought of the life she and her daughter had lived over the years.
Because her illness cost a lot of money, her cruel husband divorced her.
Because of her illness, her daughter, who had such good grades, didn’t even go to college, and came out to work at a young age to take on the family’s burden.
Zhao Chunrong thought of dying more than once during the years of seeking medical treatment, but in the end, she couldn’t bear to let go of her daughter, so she survived.
“Mum, why are you talking about this again, this is not all over, I now earn enough money for us to live a good life.”Li Tong rushed forward to comfort her mother, reaching out to wipe her tears, “Our family’s life will get better and better, and your illness will be cured.”
Zhao Chunrong pulled her daughter’s hand and said, “Mom just can’t let go of you, otherwise ……”
“Mum, I’ll get angry if you say it again.”Li Tong knew what her mother was going to say next and pretended to interrupt in anger.
“Well well well, mum won’t say anymore, mum still wants to wait for you to get married and have a child to bring you a child, mum live well.”Zhao Chunrong drew back her hand and wiped away her tears herself.
I can’t help my daughter with anything else, so don’t give her a hard time is the biggest help to her.
“Getting married and having a child ……,” Li Tong inwardly laughed bitterly.
Although Li Tong graduated from high school and came out to work, not much education.
But Li Tong is very pretty and has a good figure, there is no lack of suitors over the years.
After a period of contact, when you know that you have a seriously ill mother who needs to go to the hospital for dialysis all year round, most of them beat a retreat.
There are persistent, do not mind their mother, but also just want to get some cheap with their own here and then find an excuse to break up just.
Li Tong has been in society for many years and has done many jobs.
Sales, customer service, shopkeeper, promoter, salesman, delivery, courier, and so on.
The people who have been in contact with a lot of different kinds of people, social experience is very rich.
Coupled with the influence of her father’s abandonment of his wife and son, Li Tong is sensitive and wary of people, especially men.
Over the years, those who harboured bad intentions never took advantage of her.
At one time, because of the extreme lack of money, she also wanted to degenerate.
In the summer when she was 20 years old, she put on her make-up, short skirt and stockings, and went to a club.
A middle-aged woman took her to the girls’ lounge to wait for the clock.
When she saw a girl in a high school uniform sitting on a couch in the lounge, talking on the phone and smoking a cigarette, Li Tong was frozen in place as if she had been electrocuted.
She remembered her high school, her classmates, and the boy who had pursued her so hard.
Li Tong grabbed the door and ran away from the club.
Meeting again today, Li Tong was glad that she was still a clean girl.
Even though the two of them were in a different status, she was able to hold her chest up when she faced him.
“Mum, you rest for a while, I’ll go out and make a phone call.”After considering for a long time, Li Tong finally decided to get in touch with her old classmates.
Back then, none of the classmates had mobile phones, and fewer of them had phones installed at home.
Once they graduated from high school, they went their separate ways, said goodbye, and never saw each other again.
Today, when they happened to meet, perhaps it was destined by fate.
“Go, go, don’t delay your business.”Zhao Chunrong waved his hand and lay back on the bed.
In July, Kyoto had entered the hot period.
There was no air conditioning in the rental room, Li Tong got up and opened the floor fan on the floor and turned it on to the lightest wind speed, and helped her mother to cover herself with a thin blanket before she turned to go out.
Li Tong and his mother live in the rental room, is a city village self-built two-story silo.
In order to facilitate the night part-time live broadcast does not disturb the mother rest, Li Tong rented two rooms.
Back to their own cabin, Li Tong sat down to the chair in front of the computer desk, took out his mobile phone, flipped out the mobile phone number that just sent her a text message.
Looking at the phone number on the screen, which showed that the place of attribution was Shimen, Li Tong felt incomparably close.
Although Li Tong is also a Jibei person, but over the years there has been very little contact with the Jibei hometown.
Over the years, Li Tong has been working while bringing her mother to seek medical treatment.
Wherever he went to work, he brought his mother with him.
She was adopted by her grandparents, and at the time of her marriage to her father, she had no relatives on her mother’s side.
After her parents divorced, Li Tong never went back to her hometown, and has been drifting north all these years.
I’ve done ants, lived in a basement, suffered, suffered.
In the past two years, because of the increase in income, living conditions have improved.
Kyoto Hotel as an account manager, can earn more than 10,000 yuan a month.
Live broadcasting at night, there are also ten thousand or so yuan a month.
In addition to treating her mother’s illness in these two years, Li Tong also saved a little money.
Just in case, she did not dare to spend this money.
Moving from a dark and damp basement to a silo in the middle of a city village, Li Tong was already satisfied.
“Phew~”After Li Tong gathered enough courage, this time she dialled Wu Jun’s phone.
Beep beep beep ……
The sound of a waiting answer came from the phone, and Li Tong’s heartbeat continued to accelerate.
The moment the phone was connected, Li Tong even felt her heart was about to jump out of her throat.
“Li Tong, it’s been a long time …… ” The voice of Wu Jun speaking came from the phone.
This voice, different from the voice he used to speak, Li Tong felt both strange and familiar.
At that time in high school, his own tablemate’s speaking voice was similar to a broken gong voice, often dry and muffled.
Now it had unexpectedly become so magnetic.
“Wu Jun, long time no see ……,” Li Tong’s mouth corners rose, smiling like a flower.
After eight years of wandering around, this was the happiest she had ever been.
Happier than the first time she got paid.