Chapter 40: Susu

It wasn’t difficult to buy a train ticket to Kunming. After waiting for a few hours, I boarded the train to Kunming.

Listening to the familiar sound of the train running, I lay on the sleeper alone, but my heart was filled with thoughts of Uncle Wang and Sister Chengzhen. They should have arrived at the hotel by now, right? Were they resting or doing something? Was Sister Chengzhen no longer sad?

When I returned to the hotel alone to pack my things, I was actually quite calm. A silent farewell was the perfect way for me to let go, and it made me feel a little better. But once I got on the train, the sadness came back. Yesterday, we were all three of us together, laughing and having fun…

Thinking about this, I couldn’t sleep any longer. I tossed and turned, and accidentally touched my right shoulder, which sent a wave of pain through me. My shoulder has been hurting like this lately, as if something was fighting inside it.

In order to delay the time of parting, I did not tell Uncle Wang about this, otherwise he would have let me leave earlier. However, the pain at this moment told me that this matter could not be delayed. If I delayed any longer, I was afraid that the Miao people would always find me.

It was simple. Three years ago in Chengdu, Master Chen had told me that A-bo claimed to be us, and that it was our village that needed money. So I could imagine that the Miao people were scattered all over the country, and I didn’t know where they would pop up to raise money for the village. I was like a beacon, and it was only a matter of time before I was found.

I don’t know if my psychological state has exacerbated my inner burden. The more I worry, the more severe the pain in my shoulder becomes. As I feel the pain, I really feel like there is something crawling in my shoulder. I feel creepy just thinking about it, and I just hope Kunming will arrive sooner.Taoist priest

It was early spring, but in Kunming, as soon as I got off the train, a warm breeze blew in my face. Kunming is known as the “Spring City,” and it is indeed warm and inviting.

I don’t know why, but after arriving here, I was facing the surging crowd at the train station for the first time alone, and I no longer felt that I had no one to rely on.

Maybe it was because the sun was so warm that it was hard to have a gloomy mood.

As I walked out of the train station with the crowd, I asked around for the address. The Kunming accent was also very familiar to me, although it was a bit difficult to understand.

You see, when Ruoyue first saw me, the first thing she said was in Kunming dialect.

The flower shop was not hard to find. It was in the bustling market. I originally thought that Uncle Wang had told me about the flower shop, but I didn’t think it was a flower shop. It turned out to be a flower shop, because the flowers here were not sold by the flower, but by the weight.

And on the way here, I found that this is not a new thing, there are people selling flowers like this everywhere.

Kunming is also known as the City of Flowers. I really like this city.

Standing in front of the flower shop, I noticed that there was only one woman busy back and forth. Her business seemed to be particularly good, and she never noticed me.

I wasn’t in a hurry anyway, so I leaned against the shop door and observed this woman with my arms folded. However, the more I looked at her, the more I thought she was a very special woman.

She is not a young girl, but it is hard to tell whether she is 30 or 40 years old. If it weren’t for her mature charm, a young girl could never fake it. You could say she is 20 years old.

This woman is well-maintained, and that was my first impression of her. As for my second impression, she is very beautiful. No, I shouldn’t say she is beautiful. It is the charm between her eyebrows and eyes that makes her unique.

As for the third impression, she is not simple. She is so busy and yet she is so organized in her dealings with people. Every move and word she makes makes people feel like they are basking in the spring breeze.

Another person who makes me feel like I’m in a spring breeze is my second senior brother, but that guy just looks like he’s in a spring breeze! Unlike this woman in front of me, you feel that she is sincere in everything she does.

But it is precisely such a woman who is meticulous and enthusiastic and sincere to everyone, ignoring me standing at the door. I am so big, is she really ignoring me?

It seems not. She would also take the time to look at me. The expression was not the same as the other customers waiting, but a kind of apologetic smile, and then a very calm expression.

It was as if she had known I was coming all along.

So, I stood here for twenty minutes before she finished with the last customer. At that time, she came to me and said in a pure Mandarin accent, “Come on, go to the back room to rest for a while. It’s tiring to catch a train. The back room is over there. Go upstairs.”

I nodded with a smile. She wasn’t as enthusiastic with me as she was with the other customers, but her natural consideration and concern was not at all artificial.

The proprietress is such a person, so I naturally became more relaxed. After nodding, I went directly to the back room in the direction she pointed.

“It’s Chengyi, right? Wait a minute.” She suddenly stopped me again. I was curious. Did she know my name? I was already very curious when she knew I was looking for her, but I didn’t ask too many questions. I didn’t expect her to know my name. Haha, that’s really new!

I don’t know why she stopped me, but the proprietress seemed to read my mind. She brushed her hair back from her ears and said with a smile, “Before you got on the train, your uncle called me to tell me you were coming. I thought you would be here, and you are. I know your height and appearance from your uncle’s description, and I guessed it was you when I saw you standing here.”

“Oh, is that so.” The natural way the proprietress tied back her hair made me experience the charm of a mature woman for the first time. Because of this, I was a little embarrassed and didn’t know what to say.

“Haha…” The proprietress was very natural. She pointed to the stairwell in the back room and said to me, “There is a clean bedroom upstairs in the second room. It’s a bit small, but it’s livable. My Chinese name is Shen Suru. Everyone here calls me Susu or Sister Liu. If you wake up, just call me and I’ll make you something to eat.”

Faced with such natural and considerate treatment, I was even more embarrassed. I simply nodded and fled into the back room.

Until I entered the room and sat on the clean little bed, my heart was pounding. To be honest, it wasn’t that I had fallen in love with Sister Liu, but because, after living for almost 26 years, I had truly felt the charm of a woman for the first time.

In high school and college, although I also fooled around with Qinhuai girls and had a mess of girlfriends, at that time in my heart, I thought my sisters were the most beautiful women, and Ling Ruyue was second. So I just had a playful attitude towards those girls, and I couldn’t even talk about liking them, let alone discovering what was moving about them.

The appearance of my sixth sister seemed to give me a sense of enlightenment. I felt that women could be so charming. No wonder my second brother, who seemed gentle but was actually fickle, told me that the people in this village were surprising. He was actually talking about this.

I have no doubt that Sister Liu is from the village where Grandma Ling Qing and her family are from. People from the same place always have similar characteristics. I have only met women from Grandma Ling Qing’s village, and the first impression they give is that they are clean, very clean women.

At the end of the room was a bathroom. After I had taken a simple shower, I found an ashtray on the bedside cabinet. I fell on the bed, lit a cigarette, and suddenly thought of a very funny question. People say that boys are late to open their eyes, but they are exceptionally early to open their eyes to the instinct of conquering women.

I don’t really feel it on a daily basis, although I used to be absurd. Could it be that I’m only just starting to understand now that I’m 26 years old? Suddenly I felt a strong desire to be with someone. If I’m with someone, doesn’t that mean I have a home? That must be a very warm thing.

Thinking like this, I smoked a cigarette to the end. After I put out the cigarette, I couldn’t help but feel tired and fell into a deep sleep.