1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 118 Each Has Its Own Crossing
night.

When Yang Mo, with a depressed look on his face, opened the iron gate of the courtyard, comrade Lv Yingying, who was loading her welfare products onto a tricycle, came towards him with a hissing sound like a husky.

"Yang Shitan, I heard that a beautiful girl came to see you today... and even had coffee with you?" Classmate Tugou's eyes were full of gossip.

The corners of Yang Mo's mouth twitched. He knew that gossip spread quickly in state-owned enterprises, but he never expected that what happened this morning would be known even to this girl by the evening.

Without even bothering to close the door, Yang Mo walked into the yard in silence: "The people from the Fifth Farm came to deliver rice dumplings and invited me to have a cup of coffee as a token of appreciation. Is it necessary to make such a fuss... And you've seen that girl, too. She's the one who came to our place with Vice President Diao a few days ago... By the way, who told you about this?"

The girl who came over two days ago?

Lu Yingying tried to recall it carefully, but she couldn't remember what the girl looked like... She was only thinking about the beer that night and didn't pay much attention to these insignificant details.

Rubbing his nose in annoyance, Tugou said in a muffled voice, "The bus driver said so. Many people saw it."

No matter what era, drivers are always one of the groups with the widest source of information. In addition, the shuttle bus drivers responsible for picking up and dropping off employees like Lu Yingying have a very leisurely job and have plenty of time to visit people and chat, so they know even more gossip.

After briefly explaining the source of the news, Lu Yingying became excited again: "Hey, Yang Shidan, the driver told me that the girl was dressed very exquisitely today, and there are so many departments that have business ties with the Fifth Farm. Today, she only sent you rice dumplings, and finally invited you to a place like a coffee shop. It's obviously not just to express gratitude... Tell me the truth, does she like you?"

Yang Mo rolled his eyes: "Is your bus driver a man or a woman? How can you be so gossipy that you can even tell this?... Well, the girl who came here today did have that intention."

Lu Yingying smiled proudly: "The driver of our bus must be a woman. It is said that she has been involved in no less than 20 relationships over the years. She must be very good... She can find the problem at the first sight!"

As he said this, he turned to Yang Mo slyly and said, "How is it going? ...Did it work?"

Seeing this guy possessed by the god of gossip, Yang Mo sighed tiredly: "What's the point of doing this? Let me get rid of him!"

Hearing this, Lu Yingying sighed in disappointment: "Failed? That shouldn't be the case... Yang Shidan, although you stay at home all day like an inert gas, can't even cook, and are too lazy to even throw your clothes and pants to me to wash for you, but you still look good enough to be seen by others, right? Besides, you have been promoted to deputy section chief now, and you can barely be considered a small cadre. Why is a girl..."

After a lot of complaints, Tugou suddenly reacted and raised his voice by eight octaves: "What did you just say? ...I was sent away by you!?"

Yang Mo looked at this fellow with amusement: "Isn't that nonsense? I don't have that kind of intention towards her. Why would I keep her around if I don't want to send her away?... And this girl is a little bit complicated. If I hadn't used Manager Mu as a shield, it would have been really hard to deal with her!"

Tugou opened his mouth widely, with a look of disappointment on his face: "Yang Shitan! Do you know how old you are today... In two months you will be 24! If you were still in the village, your son would be old enough to help with cooking at your age!"

"Originally I thought the girl didn't like you, and I was planning to comfort you, but in the end..."

As he spoke, Tugou raised his eyebrows and poked Yang Mo's chest viciously: "Do you know how difficult it is to find a wife these days? Finally a girl fell in love with you, but you didn't even spend time with her and sent her away?... You, you, you are really pissing me off!"

Yang Mo slapped the girl's fingers away in annoyance: "Hey, hey, hey, girl, my mom is not in a hurry yet, why are you worrying so much... And please understand that dating is a matter of feeling. I am not attracted to that girl, why should I keep her around if I don't send her away? Are you waiting for her to come to my house and bother me every day?"

Lu Yingying almost couldn't catch her breath.

Although I don't remember the girl's appearance clearly, she seemed to be a pretty woman. But from the tone of your voice, it sounds like you're just shooing away a fly.

Lu Yingying looked at Yang Mo suspiciously, with a strange expression on her face. She then whispered in a distressed tone, "Hey, Yang Shidan, we are buddies who grew up wearing open-crotch pants. There is nothing to be shy about. Tell the truth... Do you have no feelings for that girl, or... ahem, what?"

Seeing this fellow making a symbolic gesture with an extremely vulgar expression, Yang Mo's forehead darkened and he slapped him casually: "Damn it, do you think he is a person with abnormal sexual orientation?"

Lu Yingying rubbed her head with a grin, and said unconvincedly: "Then why did you send the girl away without even being a virgin? She's such a beautiful girl, wouldn't she be snatched up by everyone else if she was left somewhere else?"

Yang Mo was a little speechless: "Girl, you are still young, you may not understand the little things between men and women."

“Sometimes, gaining something is not necessarily a blessing, and losing something is not necessarily a disaster;”

"Everyone has their own ferry and boat in life; sometimes what you think is a miss or regret... may actually be a dodge!"

These words come from my heart.

After experiencing the betrayal of his ex-wife in his previous life, Yang Mo would occasionally go to the wild to catch some snake meat to cook snake meat soup, just like A Tai, but in fact, his prejudice against women had reached a level of near rejection;

Whether you say he is generalizing or narrow-minded, it is really difficult for him to accept a woman now... Not to mention that the woman is his ex-wife in his previous life?
Seeing this guy talking sourly, Tugou sneered: "Tsk~! You still have your own ferry? There are so many ferries in front of you, but you don't even cross it!"

As he spoke, Tugou stretched out his arms and clamped Yang Mo's neck tightly, staring at him fiercely: "Do you think I don't know that the girl named Tu Lili in your department is also interested in you, but you still ignore her?... By the way, it's not just Tu Lili, it seems that there is a girl named Zhao in your department who also has feelings for you!"

"Look at yourself. So many girls are interested in you, but you just keep pretending to be dead. In the past six months, I haven't seen you showing any interest in the opposite sex. Do you think this is normal? ... Tell me the truth, are you not interested in women?!"

Seeing the excitement on his face, as if he had watched a taboo film, Yang Mo felt like he was about to be suffocated. He stretched out his finger helplessly and pointed somewhere: "Hey, hey, hey, classmate Lu Yingying, a friendly reminder... Even if you suspect that I have a problem with my sexual orientation, there is no need to put yourself in danger like this... Although we are all brothers, you are a woman after all, and I tell you responsibly... I am also a normal man!"

Following Yang Mo's finger, Lu Yingying looked at her chest which had been completely deformed by the external force. She screamed and quickly let go of her arms.

After taking a few deep breaths, Yang Mo looked at this girl who had no sense of being a woman in silence, then leaned over to help her carry a box of fruit onto the tricycle;

In the past six months, whenever they received salary or benefits, the first thing he and the girl did was to keep enough for the minimum living expenses and take the rest back home as soon as possible... Of course, except for the commission from Xia Liu Supply and Marketing Cooperative. For two elderly people living in the countryside, that money was still too much, so much that it would terrify them.

Glancing at Tugou, who was still standing there, not knowing whether he was shy or angry, Yang Mo waved his hand, pointed at the two bags of glutinous rice in the living room and shouted, "Why are you still standing there like an idiot? Give me a hand. This thing is so heavy. Do you think I can carry it by myself?"

Lu Yingying, who was gritting her teeth and wondering what was going on, saw that this guy still looked as if nothing had happened. She let out a depressed sound and ran over happily.

bang~
As the broken tricycle shook, two 25kg bags of glutinous rice were finally loaded on.

Wiping the sweat off his forehead, Yang Mo gave the sulking classmate a light slap: "Okay, okay, why are you still sulking?"

"You've already said that we grew up together wearing open-crotch pants. Is there any part of your body that I haven't seen? We've slept in the same bed countless times, so why do you care about a little bump?"

Yang Mo said this without any psychological burden, although he and this guy didn't do anything inappropriate in the true sense in the later lives, but they had countless contacts like arm in arm, bumping and rubbing against each other, and everyone was used to it. Although the action today was a little bit bigger, but sometimes this kind of thing is not a big deal in terms of the heart rather than the action.

Upon hearing this, Lu Yingying glared at him angrily. The same excuse again!
Please, we are all grown up girls and boys now, how can we be compared with when we were kids?

Kicking the guy in revenge, Lu Yingying rolled her eyes and seemed to remember something: "Hey, Yang Shidan, you said before...you used Sister Mu as a shield to send that girl away?"

Yang Mo rarely hid things from this girl, so he nodded nonchalantly: "Yes, that girl is very scheming. If I hadn't lied to her that I was dating Miss Mu, it would have been really hard to deal with her!"

After saying that, Yang Mo looked depressed.

He was caught talking nonsense today, and he was so embarrassed. If Miss Mu got angry on the spot, it would be fine, but that guy acted like he was laughing at a joke and teased him a few times, which made him uncomfortable.

He certainly wouldn't be so arrogant as to think that someone was really interested in him, so...

Seeing this guy sighing, Lu Yingying smiled with sudden enlightenment: "After all this fuss, the ferry you went to was Sister Mu's!"

As he spoke, he patted Yang Mo's shoulder heavily: "Sure, Yang Shidan, you have good taste... Compared to Sister Mu, the other girls are indeed far inferior, no wonder you look down on them... How about I give you some advice? I know Sister Mu very well, I can help you find out what she likes and dislikes."

Yang Mo rubbed his injured shoulder and rolled his eyes: "Sister, please forgive me... I just borrowed Miss Mu's name as a shield... Which eye of yours saw that I was interested in her?" Lu Yingying was shocked when she heard it: "You look down on Sister Mu? Hey, hey, hey, Yang Shidan, that's enough... You must have drunk a few pounds, you can't even find your way to the north when you're drunk!"

Yang Mo made a disdainful gesture towards the guy, then took out an Ashima and lit it: "Come on, we are not talking about the same thing... Whether you like someone or not and whether you are interested in them are two completely different concepts, okay?"

Exhaling a light puff of green smoke, Yang Mo lazily leaned against the tricycle, not caring about the dirtiness: "Anyone with eyes can't deny that your sister Mu is a first-class talent in both appearance and temperament. Add to that her family background, she is definitely the moon in the sky... If any man looks down on such a fairy-like person and thinks she is not qualified, he will be beaten to death in a minute."

"But whether you are qualified is one thing, and whether you are interested in someone is another... I, Yang, don't have any other advantages, but I do have self-awareness. With my little talent, is it worth it to make myself look bad?"

As he spoke, Yang Mo shook off the cigarette ash tiredly: "I know you girls always think that men are animals with lower bodies, and you will have thoughts when you see a beautiful woman;"

"But what I want to tell you is that regardless of whether every man will be unable to walk when seeing a beautiful woman...even if he is unable to walk, the thoughts he has are different from the thoughts he has;"

"I don't deny that I like looking at beautiful women. After all, it is an instinct engraved in our DNA. Even most men would not mind playing a friendly game with a beautiful woman, even if they have never met her. "

"But if you say that we fall in love with every beautiful woman we see and then fall in love with her without any explanation... then you are underestimating us men. We are not little kids in the impulsive period of puberty. How can we be so superficial?"

Hearing this, Lu Yingying wrinkled her nose in dissatisfaction: "Hey, hey, hey, Yang Shidan, why do I feel that your words are full of thorns... So in your eyes, pursuing Sister Mu is superficial?"

Yang Mo didn't know why this girl was so picky today. It was obviously not what he was talking about, but this girl had to nitpick on such irrelevant things.

Fortunately, after two lifetimes of getting along, he knew this guy well. He knew that this guy looked carefree on weekdays, but sometimes he would make some bad habits of a little woman. He sneered and said, "To be honest, your sister Mu is beautiful, but to be honest, I, Mr. Yang, may not be interested in her."

Without waiting for Tugou to interrupt, Yang Mo picked up his cigarette butt and said in a scoundrel tone: "First, you know, as the saying goes, "Marry a man to get clothes and food; marry a wife to get a wife to clean the house to fill the stomach"... Two people live together, no matter how beautiful she is, she can't be eaten... She has to be able to work and willing to work... Look at your sister Mu, who has never worked before. Compared with our Tugou girl who can make pancakes, wash clothes and clean the house, she is far inferior!"

Before Lu Yingying raised her eyebrows, she heard Yang Mo's compliments, and her face immediately burst into a smile. She twirled her fingers a little embarrassedly: "Well... it's okay, I'm not as diligent as you say."

Yang Mo looked at this guy blinking his eyes and looking at him, with the words "hurry up and praise me more" written all over his face, and his stomach was about to burst with laughter.
He coughed and continued with a sad expression: "It's the same old saying. Two people live together as a team. They have to have compatible personalities... No matter how beautiful you are, if I look at you every day, I'll get tired of you one day. Only when your personalities are compatible can you be together for a long time. Don't you think this makes sense?"

"Look at your sister Mu. She is beautiful now, has good temperament, and has a good figure... well, her figure is also acceptable;"

"But don't you think about it? That young lady is so arrogant and cold all the time... If we were really together, I could tolerate it for a day or two, or a year or two, but who could stand it for a long time? I'm not a masochist!"

"To be honest, compared to your sister Mu who doesn't care about worldly things, our little country girl is so much better in this aspect!"

"Look, our girl is so lively. She likes to play and fight all day long. She doesn't hold grudges. She will forget about a small conflict after half an hour. Even if a big conflict occurs, our girl is not unreasonable. She will let it go after a good talk... This is how life should be!"

"Besides, our girl is really not ugly. She is a beauty at first sight, and the more you look at her, the more beautiful she becomes. She has a good figure and is the type that can bear children... If a man is lucky enough to marry you, I guess the whole family will be so happy!"

When Lu Yingying heard this, her face turned red, her mouth stretched to her ears, her teeth were almost showing, she looked like a silly girl, pinching her fingers shyly, completely unlike her usual carefree self.

Seeing this, Yang Mo chuckled: "Besides that... think about it carefully, what else is different between your sister Mu and us?"

Lu Yingying looked at him with confusion: "What's the difference? Don't they both have two eyes and one nose?"

Yang Mo gave her a light slap on the head: "Please! You should understand... your sister Mu is from the Hui ethnic group and has dietary taboos!"

Spreading his hands, Yang Mo said in a straightforward tone: "Like now, if everyone visits each other occasionally, it's okay to use a pot to make pancakes for her or cook some mutton. "

"But if we really get together, then from now on, I will never be able to eat twice-cooked pork, braised pork, pork head meat, nine-turn pig intestines and other delicacies again... But these things are my favorites. I have no other hobbies in my life except cigarettes, tea, and meat. If you don't let me touch these things, isn't that the same as killing me?"

"Just think about it, you can only watch others eat the greasy fat meat with big mouthfuls while you can only stare at the side. How much suffering does it have to endure! Just for this, how can I have any thoughts about your sister Mu?"

Classmate Tugou, who had a special obsession with fatty meat, a supreme delicacy, nodded in agreement... Putting herself in his shoes, if it were her, she would not be willing to not eat even white fatty meat for a man, no matter how handsome that man was!

Seeing this, Yang Mo added with a sad face: "If it's just that, it's fine. As long as you have money, eating beef, mutton and chicken every day is not unacceptable, but the problem is..."

"When their new son-in-law from another tribe comes to visit, he has to have his stomach washed out!"

"Just think about it, forcing you to drink a big bowl of lime water, and then vomiting and diarrhea for several days, and as long as you don't live in the same room, you have to go through this every time you go back to visit your relatives... Who the hell can stand this!?"

"Even for this, we can't let beauty get to our heads for a moment, don't you think?"

This is not Yang Mo's nonsense.

In his previous life, he had a subordinate who dated his Hui girlfriend for seven years. When it came time to discuss marriage, he went through the formalities of marriage proposal and lost a lot of weight in just one week.

As a result, after returning with half a cow as a return gift, the young man with sunken eye sockets ate twice-cooked pork with rice for three days in a row, slammed his chopsticks and broke up with his girlfriend the next day. However, his girlfriend refused to agree and the matter was brought to the company.

Based on the simple truth that it is better to destroy ten temples than to break up a marriage, Yang Mo, as a leader, called him into the office to persuade him. However, after hearing the subordinate's complaints, he finally gave up the idea... During the marriage proposal process, the other party's parents did not actually make it difficult for him. However, according to the rules over there, he had to face far more than just a process of gastric washing with lime water. Not to mention the young man, even Yang Mo felt his scalp tingling after hearing it.

The reason why the girlfriend didn't tell him all the procedures was that she was afraid of scaring him away.

As expected, the incident ended with the young man resigning and moving to another city.

This incident really opened Yang Mo's eyes... He respected the customs of all ethnic groups, but he still didn't expect that in the 21st century, when sinicization had become a common phenomenon, some places still retained such troublesome rules.

Although this incident happened in Qinghai and may not be very representative, it left him with a significant psychological trauma and left a deep impression on him.

………………

After describing to Tugou how horrifying it was to have the stomach washed with lime water, and how horrible it was to have to go through the same process all over again every time you went out alone without someone to accompany you,
Yang Mo was shocked to find that Tugou, the classmate who usually loved to join in the fun, did not pull him aside to ask about the details with a curious look on his face, but looked through him in the direction of the iron gate with a very strange look.

My heart skipped a beat.

broken!

I forgot to close the door!

Sure enough, when Mr. Yang turned his neck stiffly, he found Miss Mu with a frosty face standing quietly at the door holding a bag.

"Um, Manager Mu...when did you come?"

Yang Mo asked with a sad face and trembling voice.

Today is such a bad day for me. I have been caught red-handed by the real culprit twice in a row. Who the hell can I go to for justice?
Mu Liya stared at him for a while with a gloomy face, then glanced at Lu Yingying beside her, hesitated for a moment, and snorted unexpectedly: "Since you said I can't cook!"

Yang Mo's eyes went dark...

Finished!

(End of this chapter)