Far away in Moscow

Chapter 203 Heading straight home
"Haha, you're such a clever little handsome guy." The old lady looked up to the sky and laughed a few times, then lowered her voice: "Here... According to the regulations... When do you need it?"

"Of course, the sooner the better." Hu Yi smiled and stared at her: "If possible, it's best to do it now, lest I make another trip."

"Well, today? It's very difficult, impossible." The old lady thought for a while with the ballpoint pen on her chin: "Tomorrow, come and pick it up after noon."

"That's really great." Hu Yi pointed to his visa application: "Please give me the application, I will advance the start date."

"Let me do it for you!" The old lady picked up the pen attentively, and looked at Hu Yi with kindness in her eyes, just like looking at her younger relatives: "Change the date to the day after tomorrow, what do you think? "

"Very good. Thank you, beautiful girl." Hu Yi suppressed the disdain in his heart, and squeezed out a Chow Yun-fat smile at the counter: "See you tomorrow."

"Please don't be impolite." The old lady smiled tremblingly: "Goodbye! Maybe I won't be here tomorrow, I wish you a smooth journey in advance! Happy Chinese New Year!"

Hu Yi waved at her, turned around and walked out of the room to the corridor, secretly feeling sorry for the thousand rubles just thrown out.

"Forget it, just take it to feed Misha." He comforted himself, took out his wallet to look at the thick wad of rubles inside, and said to himself in a low voice: "Money still works. Thank you, Full wallet."

Two days later, Hu Yi and Xiang Nan left Moscow by plane.Due to the relatively short winter vacation, he only told his family and a few closest friends about his return to China, and he didn't make too much noise, and he didn't let Xiang Nan tell his parents that he was going to visit, lest they make preparations.

The journey back home is already relatively familiar.In the morning, I left the Capital Airport to BJ South Station, and in the afternoon I stepped on the land of my hometown.After getting off the car, Hu Yi went home with Xiang Nan to see Xiang Dong. Xiang's mother was in the tobacconist's hotel, leaving his wife alone at home to watch over her son.

Father Xiang only knew that his daughter was coming back today, but he didn't expect Hu Yi to follow him home.At first, he forcefully smiled and pulled him into the living room to exchange some pleasantries, but when he heard that Hu Yi was making a special trip to return to the east this time, the old man lost his smile, and sighed in a low voice with a frown: "Oh, You talk about this bear bastard who has suffered eight lifetimes of bloody misfortune, and he was deceived by others on the Internet, you are really useless for him, if it spreads out, our family will be killed!"

"Uncle, calm down." Hu Yi didn't know how to comfort his father: "I have also heard that someone was cheated on the Internet. After all, no one can see who is far away. It's just... I didn't expect Dongzi to give me this time." It's set up."

"It's not easy for a person to live a lifetime. It's not uncommon to be fooled a few times. The key is that this kid is too stupid! We have long thought it was strange, but he didn't listen to him! No, he has been fooled for a whole year! How much work wasted? How much time wasted? How much money wasted?"

Father Xiang probably never had a chance to express his resentment to outsiders, so he caught Hu Yi talking about all kinds of incidents during this period: "...I can't hang up on the Internet every night, and our phone doesn't work at night. Fa Shi. Fortunately, I have a mobile phone, otherwise how many things would have been delayed? This prodigal son! I spent tens of thousands of dollars to buy things for others, but you haven’t seen his monthly phone bill, oh... me and you Auntie does a small business, how much money does she earn all year round? Let him get into trouble!"

"Don't be angry, he's reining in the precipice anyway." Hu Yi finally found an opportunity to interject: "Is Dong Zi in the house? Can I go and see him?"

"When you're not here, go. Oh, look, I'm too busy talking, but I didn't pour you any water." After talking to his father just now, he felt a little happier, and waved at Hu Yi and told him: " Talk to him about other things, try not to mention the woman, or he will get sick again."

"Really?" Hu Yi hesitated for a moment: "He hasn't...hasn't gotten over it yet?"

"I don't think he's recovered yet." Pointing to his father, he pointed at his head: "It's not normal here, try not to irritate him."

Hu Yi nodded silently, and walked lightly to the door of Xiangdong's bedroom with Xiang Nan.

In order to meet the needs of lighting and ventilation, buildings in the past usually installed a small glass window on the middle and upper part of the door panel of the interior door, and left a window with the same width as the door on the top of the door frame.

This is the case for the bedroom door facing east, except that the windows on both sides were always bright, but now they are pasted up with newspapers from the inside.Hu Yili hesitated outside the door, raised his wrist and knocked lightly on the door twice.

When there was no movement, he knocked again and again, and after a while, Xiangdong yelled vaguely in the room: "What are you doing?" His voice was lazy and sticky, as if he hadn't woken up yet.

Just as Hu Yi was about to speak, Xiang Nan who was beside him answered first: "Brother, open the door, I'm back."

"Who? Nannan?"

"it's me!"

"Oh. You...you wait." The room was quiet for a while, and then there was a creaking sound from the wooden bed, as if someone had rolled over and got out of bed.Immediately after a "bang", a glass bottle fell to the ground, Xiang Dong cursed something in a low voice, and came over barefoot to open the latch on the door: "When did you... eh? Yi...Brother Yi?"

"Ha! Surprised?" Hu Yi grinned, as if to give him a hug, and then covered his nose with the smell of alcohol pouring out of the bedroom: "Damn, how much did you drink in broad daylight?" ah?"

"No...not much." Xiang Dong, wearing a faded shirt and underpants, gave a dumbfounded smile to Hu Yi with an unshaven beard: "Just now, I kicked a wine bottle and spilled some."

"It's past three o'clock, why are you still sleeping?" Hu Yi stretched out his hand and pulled the light cord by the door, turned to Nan and said, "Nan Nan, go and open the window for him to breathe, the whole room smells of urine."

Xiang Nan Yiyan entered the room and opened the window, and a gust of fresh cold wind blew in.Xiang Dong silently took off a coat from the wall and wrapped it around his body, avoiding Hu Yi's eyes in embarrassment and doubt: "Brother Yi, why are you here?"

"What do you mean? I'm not welcome?" Hu Yi went straight into the room. The furnishings in the bedroom were almost the same as what he saw last time. A whole box of cigarettes and alcohol was piled up under one wall, and there was a single wooden bed by the window. There is an old chest of drawers next to it, and a whole piece of glass is laid flat on the heavy wooden desk, with a few old photos pressed underneath. The computer case and monitor on the desk seem to be new, but the milky white keyboard and mouse They're all filthy.

"Of course you are welcome." Xiangdong walked slowly back to the bed and sat down, and smiled unnaturally: "You... you're fine."

"It's okay. What about you?" Hu Yi leaned forward and saw his dull eyes, haggard face, and sunken cheeks under the light, and couldn't help sighing: "Why are you so thin? You're out of shape , those who didn’t know thought you were living in the evil old society.”

"No." Xiang Dong subconsciously lowered his head and touched his face: "No, it was like this before."

"Before? How long has it been since you looked in the mirror? Look at your beard, and you don't know how to shave. And that hair, saying it looks like a chicken coop is an insult to a chicken coop!" Hu Yi couldn't bear it: "Before I Isn't it nice to look at the photos you took? You look like a dog, how did you become such a virtuous person now!"

"Photo? What photo?" Xiang Dong was startled in a daze, his expression changed suddenly, he turned to stare at Xiang Nan and asked coldly, "Did you show him the photo I sent?"

(End of this chapter)