The two of them left the family planning office one after the other, and she followed him, holding the book she was reading just now, because she was so excited, her hand holding the book was shaking slightly.
When they met for the first time, she just followed behind him like this. How much she wished that she would follow him like this forever. Even if she didn't say a word, just following him silently like this was a great happiness.
After walking a few steps, he stopped and walked side by side with her. He didn't wear a coat, but only a gray, white, and black three-color prismatic check sweater. Under the attack of the severe winter cold, he was a little shivering. , he put his hands in his trouser pockets, turned his head and said to her with concern: "Is it cold?"
"Fortunately, I am very cold-resistant." She said with a shy but happy smile, and a warm current flowed through her heart.
Walking to Liu Xu's office, it should be said to be his office now (Liu Xu was announcing the appointment of the town's propaganda committee), he pushed open the door and let her in in a gentlemanly manner, the office was filled with A layer of blue smoke and a pungent smell of hot sodium and potassium came to her nostrils. She covered her mouth with her hands, and he turned to her and said, "Are you choking? Why don't you open the door to let it dry for a while?" He said After that, he poked the stove and added a few pieces of charcoal to the stove, the fire immediately "sizzled", and the cold air came in from the wide open door. The two of them approached the stove at the same time, and he suddenly laughed "hehe". Said: "I also said that you are resistant to cold, and you almost got into the furnace." After finishing speaking, he went to close the door.
Those ordinary things that couldn't be more ordinary, those trivial details that couldn't be more trivial, were deeply engraved in her mind, making her feel so warm and happy every time she recalled them.
The burning heat of the fire separated the two of them. She was sitting on the bed behind the desk against the wall, and he was sitting sideways on the chair, with his arms wrapped around the back of the chair, his chin resting on his arms, and he was smiling with great interest. looking at her.
She blushed, looked up shyly and smiled at him, and said, "Why are you staring at me like that?"
"You are the most special girl I have ever met." He put away his smile and said seriously.
"Really? What's so special about me? I never feel that I am different." She pretended to be relaxed and said, but she was eagerly looking forward to what he said.
"You look very weak, a bit delicate, like a weak willow supporting the wind, very similar to Sister Lin in Cao Weng's works."
"Slight... Slight... Slight..." She laughed coquettishly, not paying attention to his evaluation. When she was in college, her classmates called her Sister Lin.
"I thought you had some fresh insights. It turns out that you are just like them. Are you people who study literature so polite and sour?"
"Who are they, are they your suitors?" He asked sourly.
She smiled slightly, pretending to be a bit mysterious and said playfully: "I won't tell you, this is my secret."
He smiled and stared at her, with a look of inquiry in his deep and clear eyes.
After a pause, he said solemnly, "I do have a deeper understanding of you than they do."
He couldn't help but make her laugh.
She giggled and said, "You're so funny! You've only known me for a few days, how come you know me better than others?"
"I have a discerning eye. Really, you are weak on the outside but strong on the inside. You are so-called soft on the outside and strong on the inside."
"I can't be called soft on the outside but strong on the inside, it's just that I can endure hardships better than others."
"Our children from rural areas can endure hardships. This is not your unique specialty."
"So what is my unique characteristic? Is my specialty just melancholy?"
"Ha...ha...ha...ha" He laughed, and couldn't help but say, "This sentence seems a bit familiar. Are you a fan of Eileen Chang?"
"I like reading Zhang Ailing's books."
"Zhang Ailing's portrayal of human nature is too thorough. Her works are too bleak, and they read with a heavy sense of depression. What people feel is just the background of life's desolation. I think you should read some comedic ones with a personality like yours. books."
"Why do you think so? Do I look bitter? I like to face the bitterness of life. Isn't the background of life bitter?"
"Why is life so bitter? I think the purpose of a person's life is to try his best to turn suffering into happiness. No matter how you live, it's just a lifetime, isn't it?"
She sighed deeply, and suddenly became sad, her tone was long and sentimental and impatient, as if she was walking slowly from ancient times, traveling through the tunnel of time and space, and experienced the vicissitudes of several generations.
"I don't want to live a happy life, but I don't know why I can't be happy."
He stared at her quietly, with a dignified and expectant expression.
She suddenly fell silent, she didn't want to reveal the difficulty of her family to win sympathy, although she knew that he wanted to know, but she just didn't want to tell him, she thought, if he really loved her, he would never care Her family, just like she doesn't care about his family.
After a moment of silence, he couldn't help asking.
"What is the cause of your melancholy personality?"
"Actually, it's nothing. Maybe I'm born with this kind of personality, maybe I have depression." She tried her best to change a smile, and said with a grin that even she felt a little far-fetched.
"How could it be? How could you have this kind of disease at such a young age? I'm sorry, I'm just curious, and I didn't mean to inquire about your privacy." He smiled embarrassingly and said embarrassingly.
"It's nothing. What kind of privacy is this? Besides, I diagnosed myself. The doctor never said that. Don't really treat me like a depressed patient."
"Hehe, no, no, I never think so, and besides, your unique personality is quite admirable." After he finished speaking, his face suddenly flushed embarrassingly, and he lowered his head and stroked the back of the chair.
She shyly lowered her head and fiddled with the book in her hand, her face was burning hot, but her heart seemed to let go of joy, they all lowered their heads and stopped talking, and the silence was a bit embarrassing.
At this time, a few people passed by outside the window. She looked up, and it was the women from the family planning office and the accounting office who passed by. They probably went home after work. The women stretched their necks curiously and looked in. Hearing a burst of giggling laughter, she seemed to hear Zhou Mei's crow's voice saying strangely, young people nowadays are really open, they just met each other for a few days, and then there was a burst of giggling laughter, Chen Jing reprimanded, The young people sat together and chatted about what was going on, making a fuss about you, and then the laughter and footsteps gradually faded away. When she heard the harsh words outside the window, she couldn't help becoming angry, and stared at the window fiercely, as if they were still there. Same there, Jiang Cheng blushed and smiled naively at her, the people in this small place are meddlesome, ignore him, stuck out his tongue after speaking. Seeing his funny look, she couldn't help but giggled. When she raised her head, she suddenly met Yin Yunfei's curious and sharp eyes looking in. Behind Yin Yunfei, several deputy department leaders walked in the opposite direction from those women. Passing by outside the window, she was also looking in with her probe, her heart trembled, the scene she least expected to see appeared.
Yin Yunfei pushed open the door and came in, and the others walked straight in. Jiang Cheng immediately stood up and said with a smile, "Leader, please sit down." Yin Yunfei just glanced at Jiang Cheng contemptuously, did not answer, and waved his hand at Jiang Cheng disdainfully. He didn't want to sit down, but he didn't leave her eyes for a moment, staring at her firmly, the unruly and presumptuous look in his eyes made her extremely disgusted, she also stared at him, and returned his angry eyes.
Jiang Cheng looked at the two of them in amazement, and the eyes of the two men finally fell on her.
Yin Yunfei walked towards her, folded his arms on his chest, and just stared at her provocatively, and she also looked at him angrily without showing any weakness, as if there was an irreconcilable hatred between them, Yin Yunfei stood After a while, he sneered sarcastically: "Did I bother you? Am I bothering you two?"
"Where is it, the leader must have thought too much." Jiang Cheng said with a smile.
"Huh!" Yin Yunfei snorted and turned around to go out.
She glanced at his back with disgust, Jiang Cheng looked at Yin Yunfei's back suspiciously, and then at him.
It turned out that the cafeteria was open for dinner. These people were going to eat in the cafeteria. When Lao Ding passed by their office, he called them both.
Jiang Cheng still looked at her, as if she wanted to find the answer from her. She was happy at first, but after being rushed by Yin Yunfei, she felt unlucky and depressed. She looked at Jiang Cheng's puzzled eyes, afraid that he would If there is any misunderstanding, he smiled at him and said, "Let's go, let's eat."
She didn't see Huang Juan in the cafeteria, Jiang Cheng asked Lao Dingtou if he invited Huang Juan to eat, and Lao Dingtou said that he met Huang Juan when he was shopping in the afternoon and took the bus home.
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