Jiang Xuemei did not stay in Haicheng for long because she had work to do. The next day at noon, she had lunch with Fu Shitian and Shi Yi in Nanyuan and then set off back to Beicheng.
Shi Yi drove and accompanied Fu Shitian to the airport. Considering that the mother and daughter might have some private conversations that were not suitable for him to be present, Shi Yi dropped them off at the entrance of the hall and asked them to go in first to get their boarding passes under the pretext of parking. Fu Shitian and Jiang Xuemei did not suspect anything.
After exchanging their boarding passes, the two moved to the security check area to wait for Shi Yi.
They are both reserved people. There are many things that they couldn't say in the dark yesterday, and now they can't say them in such a bright and crowded environment. The two chatted casually for a few sentences, and were silent for dozens of seconds in between.
It's not embarrassing.
If it was before yesterday, Jiang Xuemei might still feel hesitant, but after the hug last night, she felt at ease. Without saying anything, just looking at Fu Shitian's gentle face, she felt very satisfied and happy in her heart.
Fu Shitian felt the same way.
After she replied to Shi Yi's WeChat message "at the security checkpoint", she looked up and smiled at Jiang Xuemei, and said naturally: "Shi Yi has parked the car."
"That's pretty fast." Jiang Xuemei also laughed.
Fu Shitian replied, "Yeah." Just as she was about to put her phone back into her bag, it vibrated again. She glanced at it and saw that it was a message from the restaurant accountant. She replied with a few words and put the phone away.
"Mom," she reported to Jiang Xuemei in advance, "This quarter's accounts may be sent to you later. A company that the restaurant has been cooperating with has had some problems, and some projects may need to be hedged."
Jiang Xuemei sighed, looked at Fu Shitian with a helpless and reproachful look, and said, "No need. You don't need to review the accounts for this quarter, next quarter, or next year."
Originally, she wanted to open this restaurant for Fu Shitian. Her idea was that she would invest, Fu Shitian would control the shares, and it would belong to Fu Shitian independently. It was Fu Shitian who repeatedly refused, and later even said that he would write an IOU. Only then did she reluctantly accept Fu Jiantao's suggestion, and they both took a step back and became joint shareholders.
She had never asked for accounts and reports, but Fu Shitian always strictly followed the rules and sent them to her on time every quarter, so she was forced to accept them.
“Don’t transfer the money,” she added.
Fu Shitian frowned and opened his mouth to obviously refuse.
Jiang Xuemei interrupted her and said, "Xiaoyi said that you guys are going to renovate your house later?"
Fu Shitian was stunned for a moment and nodded truthfully.
Jiang Xuemei gave a warning first: "I didn't mean any other thing by saying this, you and Xiaoyi shouldn't take it too seriously."
Fu Shitian nodded.
Jiang Xuemei said earnestly: "Although you have a good relationship and don't have to worry about some things, but since you want to start a family and go on for a long time, there are some things that you can't just think about the present and think about so simply."
"Two people are two people, but behind them are two families. Shi Yi won't argue with you about anything, but will Shi Yi's mother argue?"
Fu Shitian was stumped for a moment.
Jiang Xuemei continued, "You are all girls, and there is no difference between who gets married and who gets married. Shi Yi offers the house, so we can't just stand there and say nothing, right?"
"My dividends from the second half of this year and next year will be used as renovation fees for you and Shi Yi. Don't refuse and don't let Mom lose face in front of Shi Yi's family, okay?"
Fu Shitian hesitated. www.
She had thought about what Jiang Xuemei had thought about. So she had always thought that she would be in charge of the decoration. The restaurant had done well in the past two years, and she had saved some money, so she could afford it.
However, when she looked at Jiang Xuemei's sincere and expectant eyes, she couldn't say no.
After clenching her fingers, she finally relaxed the corners of her lips, revealing a shallow dimple, and agreed: "Okay, then thank you, Mom."
Jiang Xuemei's eyes curved with laughter, she was overjoyed. She couldn't help but pull Fu Shitian's hand, patting it again and again, and said happily: "That's right, that's right."
She is her mother, the person closest to her in the world. It is perfectly normal for her to love her and treat her well. There is no reason for her to be so formal or polite with her.
Fu Shitian's ears turned red as she looked at her, rarely showing her little girl's behavior in front of her, smiling shyly and obediently.
"Auntie, come here..." Shi Yi came over and stood beside Fu Shitian.
Jiang Xuemei looked at Shi Yi like a mother-in-law looking at her son-in-law. The more she looked at Shi Yi, the more she liked him. She didn't know why, but she had a hunch that Shi Yi had contributed greatly to the changes that had taken place during this period of time.
She picked up Shi Yi's hand, placed it on the back of Fu Shitian's hand, and said lovingly, "I'm almost in. Xiaoyi, I'll leave Lai Lai to you."
Shi Yi held Fu Shitian's hand, looked at her, and said, "Auntie, don't worry."
Although her facial features were so cold, she could glow so gently when she looked at Lai Lai. Jiang Xuemei no longer had anything to worry about.
"Come and play in North City when you have time," she said.
Shi Yiying: "Okay, Auntie, come visit us often."
Jiang Xuemei nodded: "It's about time, I'm leaving." As she said that, she took one last look at Fu Shitian, turned around and walked towards the security check line.
Fu Shitian suddenly called her, "Mom!"
Jiang Xuemei turned around.
Fu Shitian held Shi Yi's hand, smiling brightly, and sincerely wished: "Please help me bring good news to uncle."
"You, too, need to be happy."
Jiang Xuemei's throat moved, and her eyelashes suddenly became wet. She had always thought that Fu Shitian did not really accept her new marriage, so he had always been resisting her and her help. So unless it was necessary, she had been trying to avoid the two of them meeting.
Turns out it isn’t.
She burst into laughter and nodded heavily.
Fu Shitian tilted her head, dimples deep in her eyes, waved her hand, and watched Jiang Xuemei gradually go away and disappear.
"Haicheng's plum rain season is about to end." Shi Yi was afraid that she would be sad, so he spoke suddenly.
Fu Shitian's attention was indeed diverted, and he turned his head to look at her.
Shi Yi raised his eyebrows and said cunningly, "Next, it will be the plum rain season in Shencheng."
Fu Shitian understood the double meaning of the words.
She lowered her eyes and smiled, then held Shi Yi's hand tightly and looked up at her steadily. For the first time, she was so sure and confident: "I will perform as well as you."
Like the new lotus leaves that have been baptized by heavy rain in midsummer, they are covered with rain and dew, standing tall and graceful, still slender and graceful, but exuding a more vigorous and charming beauty.
The leaves are greener and the flowers are brighter.
Shi Yi’s eyes became even hotter.
"He will be better than me." Shi Yi said firmly.
*
Due to the particularity of the catering and media industries, the holidays are busier. In the end, Shi Yi and Fu Shitian were unable to return to Shanghai during the National Day holiday. It was not until the end of the year, near Christmas, that they finally took a holiday and took the high-speed rail back to Shanghai together.
The reason for taking the high-speed rail was that when Fu Shitian was booking the plane ticket, she accidentally mentioned, "I suddenly remembered the feeling of booking a bullet train ticket when I went back to school during the holidays." Shi Yi suddenly had an idea and asked her if she wanted to take the bullet train back together.
They had never taken such a long-distance train ride together before.
Since he had time anyway, Fu Shitian naturally didn't refuse.
On the day of the trip, as soon as I stepped onto the high-speed train with Shanghai as its final stop, a wonderful feeling of the interweaving of old and new times came over me.
Fu Shitian and Shi Yi sat side by side, connected the music player, and listened to the same song with one earphone each.
Shi Yi asked: "When was the last time you went back to Shencheng?"
Fu Shitian said: "Six years ago, when I picked up my father from prison."
Shi Yi was stunned and regretted that he had chosen a not-so-good topic.
Unexpectedly, Fu Shitian didn't mind. He smiled and continued, "I didn't say a word to my father that day. I was wearing headphones and listening to music on repeat. Do you know which song it was?"
Shi Yi couldn't guess: "Which one?"
Fu Shitian's dimples appeared on her face. She pressed a few buttons on the player and changed the song.
A slightly sad guitar sound came from the headphones, and Shi Yi recognized it immediately - "fivehundredmiles?"
That was the interlude of the movie they watched together for the first time. In order to appease Fu Shitian, Shi Yi hummed a short part of it for her.
Fu Shitian nodded. "Do you remember that I said I didn't like that movie?"
Shi Yiying: "Remember."
Fu Shitian said: "Because that movie made me feel that no matter how hard a loser struggles, it is useless. When I left you, I took the train back to Ningcheng, and this song randomly played on the playlist, and I started crying. I kept crying and crying. The aunt sitting next to me was scared by me and thought something was wrong with me. She kept comforting me and told me, 'It's okay, little girl, it will all pass.' The more she said that, the harder I cried."
She said it as a joke, but Shi Yi felt distressed. But she didn't want to drag Fu Shitian back to the painful emotions of the past, so she just looked at her gently and asked, "Guess what song I sang on the way home after the teacher appreciation banquet on the day of my graduation ceremony?"
Fu Shitian couldn't guess.
She did not attend the graduation photos, graduation ceremony, or teacher appreciation banquet.
"Which one?" she asked with a smile on her face.
Shi Yi said: "About My Love for You."
Fu Shitian's heart felt sweet and bitter at once, a mixture of all five emotions.
Shi Yi said: "Actually, I don't remember it myself. I was drunk."
That day she thought Fu Shitian would come back to participate, and thought that at least they could see each other one last time. In the end, even this expectation was dashed.
At the teacher's farewell party, many boys came to toast her, expressing their affection either directly or implicitly.
Without Fu Shitian by her side, there was no longer that spoiled and jealous girl. For the first time, she accepted all the drinks offered and drank until she vomited.
"Lu He, Yilin, and Zhu Mo sent me back together. Lu He said that I was singing this song the whole way, sniffing while singing, and not singing a word in tune. Afterwards, I didn't dare to see Yilin and Zhu Mo for several years. Whenever I thought about it, I wanted to kill them to silence them."
Fu Shitian couldn't help laughing.
Shi Yi threatened: "You're still laughing?"
Fu Shitian bit his lip, held back his laughter, and apologized sincerely: "It's my fault, it's all my fault. I ruined your image."
"And then?" Shi Yi teased her.
Fu Shitian said obediently: "I'll compensate you?"
"uh-huh?"
"Next time... I'll sing this song to you a hundred times?"
Shi Yi raised an eyebrow: "Isn't it a bit too simple?"
Fu Shitian blinked, suddenly laughed, moved closer, took off the earphones from Shi Yi's ears, and whispered into her ears:
"Then let me sing this song with the actions of the rest of my life, okay?"
Shi Yi instantly felt numb from her ears to her whole body. She turned her head to look at Fu Shitian. Fu Shitian looked at her with smiling eyes, which contained the innocence of a twenty-year-old and the charm of a twenty-eight-year-old.
Pure and sexy, it's very touching.
Shi Yi looked away, snorted and didn't answer her, but there was a curve at the corner of his lips that he couldn't suppress.
"The next stop is Mangcheng Station, the next stop is Liucheng Station..." the train broadcasted the announcements over and over again. The sky slowly darkened, and under the railway tracks, the city lights lit up like stars.
Shi Yi and Fu Shitian listened to the song, holding hands, shoulder to shoulder, and slowly closed their eyes.
There’s no rush. The terminal is still far away anyway.
They still have a long, long time.