The sun rose, and it was a new day. There were a few firecrackers outside the window. Fu Liqun, who was lying on the bed, raised his hand and put it on his forehead, squinting, facing the sunlight outside the bedroom curtain. Ou Qihang didn't sleep very well. He wrapped himself around Fu Liqun, buried in front of his chest, and wrapped his feet around his waist. Fu Liqun turned his shoulders and pushed his forehead, and Ou Qihang rolled over sleepily and lay on his stomach.
Fu Liqun rolled over and got out of bed, opened the curtains, and the green pines in the distant mountains were covered with a layer of snow, reflecting the brilliance of the rising sun in the sun, shining brightly.
A lazy sofa was placed facing the floor-to-ceiling window, and Fu Liqun sat down with him, sinking into it. On the night before the festival, he was sitting on the sofa, holding Cen Shan in his arms, telling each other about the goodbye, looking at the Milky Way on the winter night outside the window, and talking a lot.
"We haven't talked like this for a long time." Fu Liqun said.
Cen Shan said sadly and apologetically, "I'm sorry."
Fu Liqun smiled and put his arms around Cen Shan, who sighed leisurely and buried in front of Fu Liqun.
"It doesn't matter." Fu Liqun said, "The one who is loved doesn't need to apologize."
Cen Shan was speechless, and Fu Liqun added, "I was at the airport that day, and you almost wilted my whole body."
On the day he left Ying City, Cen Shan's story still started with someone else, and Fu Liqun remembered it clearly. At that time, he was carrying a sports bag and wearing a lucky rope woven by Yu Hao on his hand. When he saw Cen Shan coming to the airport, he thought it was a dream. He had too many things to say, but he didn't know how to say it. On that day, he had nothing left and still owed a debt of 100,000 yuan.
"Don't you have anything to say?" Cen Shan frowned.
"What can I say?" Fu Liqun said with a wry smile, "Everyone only listens to the victors, who cares about the mood of the losers?"
"I want to hear it." Cen Shan repeated, "I want to hear it, if not..."
"Your dad is right," Fu Liqun said, looking at the howling wind outside the airport, "I'm just a fool."
Cen Shan then stopped talking. People were coming and going at the Yingshi Airport lobby, and Fu Liqun said, "I still remember the time we broke up two years ago, you mentioned Senior Sister."
When they were in junior high school, they had a senior sister who used to be very optimistic about them. She was three years older than them. She matched Fu Liqun and Cen Shan on their first date. When they were in their third year, the senior sister had just graduated and fell in love with a classmate. The boy was very poor, and the two lived in a rented house, a typical life of "sit on a bicycle and laugh", even if the family objected to them being together.
Senior sister's life is often sighed with sympathy. After Cen Shan's father found out, he used it to educate Cen Shan, but Fu Liqun has seen the boy a few times. He is really nice, not "you can't expect him to be nice to you" it is good. Instead, he is motivated, serious, gentle and considerate. In all fairness, he has done much better than Fu Liqun.
But the two finally separated. After the senior sister broke up, she found a husband who loved her and loved her. She was the proprietress in her husband's company, drinking afternoon tea every day, and playing all over the world. The boy left Ying City, went to Shanghai to seek a living, and became an excellent fund manager with an annual income of two million yuan.
If the senior sister and the boy insisted on being together, the senior sister wanted to stay in Ying City to accompany her parents, and the man would not leave, so she could only find a job with a salary of four or five thousand, while the senior sister would be very busy, her hair was disheveled, and she was raising money. Raising children, arguing with her husband for money for milk powder, school, etc. for the children.
After the separation, the man has a car and a house, and his career is prosperous. Senior sister also lived a life without worrying about food and clothing, which was good to both of them.
What does this prove? Fu Liqun couldn't help but wonder, is there not so many things in life that are obligatory? He knew that Cen Shan had been shaken, and he had shaken too. Has everyone been shaken? After the temporary pain, will everyone come out slowly
Those promises made when I was young and ignorant eventually turned into a dream that could not be returned with the passage of time.
And when he asked Yu Hao on the phone if he had been shaken, Yu Hao didn't even think about it, and the answer was, "No."
"There are many paths in life, right?"
Zhou Sheng said to him on the sofa that day, "Some roads are difficult, and there are trade-offs. The key is that both of you have to be clear about what you want in the future."
Outside, there were the sound of dishes colliding, the sound of water, the conversation between Zhou Sheng and Chen Yekai, and the sound of frying eggs. Fu Liqun closed his eyes and felt the warmth of the sun on his face. Ou Qihang also woke up and was lying on his stomach to watch. cell phone.
On the second day of the new year, Chen Yekai made coffee in the living room, Yu Hao called friends one by one to say New Year's greetings, and Zhou Sheng cooked breakfast in the kitchen. Fu Liqun was in good spirits. Everyone sat down at the dining table. Zhou Sheng held the coffee and said, "Clink a glass? Xiaoou!"
Ou Qihang was still brushing his teeth while foaming at the mouth. Hearing this, he quickly rinsed his mouth, wiped it with a towel, and came over to sit down.
Everyone clinked glasses and started to eat the egg fried rice made by Zhou Sheng.
Ou Qihang: "… "
Ou Qihang: "Who fried this rice? It's so delicious!"
"Xiao Ou! Your sleep is so bad." Fu Liqun said.
Chen Yekai said, "He almost kicked me out of bed several times these days..."
Ou Qihang: "Brother Qun, your figure is really good."
"Big brother's chest is very comfortable, right?" Fu Liqun asked.
Ou Qihang: "When I teach you privately, take me to practice."
Yu Hao: "What are you talking about! It's so confusing..."
Ou Qihang: "leave me a little..."
Zhou Sheng: "Enough to eat! Are you a rice bucket? There are four catties of rice here!"
Yu Hao was dizzy from the quarrel early in the morning, and Ou Qihang said again, "Are we going to the playground today? Yu Hao, shall we go to the playground?"
"Eat your meal." Chen Yekai said, "The matter of the Golden Crow has not been resolved yet."
Ou Qihang said: "It's a big New Year's Eve, it's okay to play for a day or two, Yu Hao, are you right? Do you want to go too?"
Yu Hao: "..."
Yu Hao thought to himself that I really wanted to go, it had been a long time since I had been to the playground.
"How do you feel now?" Chen Yekai asked Fu Liqun.
"Suddenly I looked away." Fu Liqun replied, "No, it's 'thinking about it', like... When I wake up, I don't feel so anxious about many things. Anyway, I'll do my best in the future. Brothers, if you have any use for me, call me at any time."
Everyone nodded, Fu Liqun stretched again, glanced at everyone, and said, "Or should I invite everyone out to play? Although I haven't paid back the money..."
Zhou Sheng said: "Hey!"
Fu Liqun bought them tickets for the amusement park on his mobile phone, Yu Hao asked, "Can you call me sister-in-law?"
"Sister-in-law only came home yesterday, so don't bother her to run again." Zhou Sheng said.
Fu Liqun said, "I'll ask." Then he went to the side to call Cen Shan and stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window. Zhou Sheng looked at the e-ticket on WeChat, and Chen Yekai asked Yu Hao, "How much have you written for your graduation thesis?"
Yu Hao immediately regretted it, why didn't he reject the proposal to go to the amusement park!
"It's less than ten percent written." Yu Hao replied, "I still won't go, you two go..."
Ou Qihang: "Combining work and rest, together..." As he was talking, Fu Liqun ended the call and came back with a strange expression on his face.
"What's wrong?" Yu Hao asked.
Fu Liqun's face wanted to laugh but tried his best to control it: "Your sister-in-law's father is here and wants to talk to me alone."
"Wow!" Everyone said together.
Ou Qihang said, "My sister-in-law went back for a showdown yesterday?"
Chen Yekai said, "How to talk? This is too direct."
Fu Liqun spread his hands, pondered for a moment, and said, "Let me make an appointment for the time and place, he wants to negotiate terms with me."
Yu Hao: "Everyone go with you?"
Chen Yekai: "Looking for a high-end hotel? What do you want to talk about?"
Fu Liqun said, "I will definitely come here with a check and let me fill it out myself. What else can we talk about?"
Zhou Sheng: "Ask anywhere?"
Fu Liqun: "You can make an appointment wherever you want. Anyway, find a place to drink tea."
Zhou Sheng and Fu Liqun looked at each other, and Fu Liqun was silent for a while, with mischievous smiles on their faces. Yu Hao had seen too many such moments of tacit understanding between the two of them in the dormitory. This was a precursor to the imminent release of a spoofed, outrageous evil taste.
Zhou Sheng: "No! No! No! Now he asks you to make conditions! Do you want to… "
Fu Liqun: "Yes! What hotel are you going to! Don't go!"
After living with Zhou Sheng and Fu Liqun for so many years, Yu Hao immediately guessed what they were trying to say, and suddenly burst out laughing and said, "No, you are going too far!"
Fu Liqun said domineeringly, "Let's go!"
Zhou Sheng said: "Let's go! Why are you afraid of him?"
Ou Qihang: "???"
Chen Yekai: "..."
Yu Hao: "Wait! Hurry up and find clothes for your brother, and help him get his hair before going out!"
Ou Qihang went to get a hairdryer, Zhou Sheng went to look through his clothes, and Chen Yekai went to find a hair wax.
Two hours later, the playground.
Yu Hao, Zhou Sheng, Chen Yekai, and Ou Qihang each held a cup of hot chocolate and saw Cen Shan's father, Cen Yongchang.
He was a very energetic middle-aged man in a suit. He was actually quite handsome. He had the demeanor of an old handsome Zhou Laichun, but compared to Zhou Laichun's unstoppable aura of the boss, Cen Yongchang was obviously more powerful. More restrained, he has very few wrinkles and is well maintained. It can be seen that he has been exercising all year round. Cen Yongchang wore a scarf and did not show obvious hostility to Fu Liqun in the playground.
Yu Hao watched from a distance. When Cen Yongchang occasionally turned his head, Yu Hao seemed to have discovered a new continent and said to Zhou Sheng, "It really looks like that dragon!"
Cen Yongchang's decree pattern and eyes are indeed very similar to the dragon in Fu Liqun's dream!
Fu Liqun was also very polite in front of Cen Yongchang. He wore a slim suit jacket. During this period of time, his figure was very good, and he lost a little weight in the MLM organization. Now he is relieved and refreshed. I went to get my hair cut, and before going out today, they helped Fu Liqun trim a little.
A middle-aged man who looked rich and delicate stood next to Fu Liqun, and the two of them were still about the same height. Yu Hao thought that Cen Shan's father must have been a god-like man when he was young.
"It's as if the middle-aged president kept a little wolf dog..." Zhou Sheng put his hand on his forehead, showing an expression he couldn't bear to see.
Yu Hao answered a phone call from Cen Shan. Cen Shan felt wrong when she woke up today, so she hurried to Yingshi, and sure enough, Cen Yongchang had already arrived.
"Uh... we were at the playground? Did you guys fight last night?"
"No noise, why did you guys go to the playground?" Cen Shan said, "Wait, I'll be there soon, just passing by here."
"Look, look!" Ou Qihang hurriedly pushed them and motioned them to look, "It's really up!"
"Hahahaha! Hahahahahahaha!" The four of them were about to go crazy with laughter.
Fu Liqun asked Cen Yongchang to get on the Ferris wheel! Chen Yekai was holding the hot chocolate and was about to lose his footing. Zhou Sheng couldn't stand this prank. The key point was that Cen Yongchang said "You can talk anywhere you want", so Fu Liqun took him on the Ferris wheel!
Before going up, Yu Hao also took the camera and pushed the lens to take pictures of Fu Liqun and Cen Yongchang, capturing this historic moment.
Cen Shan came and saw the four handsome guys laughing so hard outside the restaurant that they couldn't take care of themselves, she said inexplicably, "Big guy? What are you laughing at?"
Zhou Sheng quickly waved his hand, pointed to the Ferris wheel, and said, "He and your dad... are on the Ferris wheel. Hahahahaha!"
Cen Shan: "..."
The staff closed the door, and Fu Liqun looked at Cen Yongchang politely.
Cen Yongchang said: "What's the special meaning of choosing here?"
Fu Liqun: "No, I just made an appointment with the brothers to come to the playground today, so I stopped by the way. What do you want to talk about?"
Cen Yongchang: "..."
"Hahaha—" Yu Hao was about to laugh madly. Seeing Cen Yongchang and Fu Liqun getting off the Ferris wheel, Fu Liqun took the ticket and said, "Uncle, what other event are we going to play? Don't waste the ticket money."
Cen Yongchang said, "I'm not here to play with you, Liqun, I know you've already figured it out. What's the point of wasting time here?"
Fu Liqun added: "If you play another project with me, I will tell you what I have in mind."
Cen Yongchang glanced at his watch and said, "I can only give you another half an hour."
Fu Liqun: "Just three minutes!"
The roller coaster flew by, Fu Liqun even chose the first row for the two of them, hugging the bumper, Cen Yongchang closed his eyes tightly, Fu Liqun shouted, "Uncle! What do you want to say!"
"Uncle! Is it fun?!"
Cen Yongchang: "..."
"I can't do it anymore." Yu Hao said, "I'm going to die from laughing at my brother hahahahaha—"
"Uncle! Don't go!" Fu Liqun said hurriedly, "Sit down! Let's go have a cup of coffee! I've had enough."
Cen Yongchang was obviously angry, but he still tried his best to maintain his self-restraint on the surface, but he didn't break out in the end. Fu Liqun said whatever he wanted, and persuaded him to go to the coffee shop. In the meantime, he looked down at his phone and chose a seat with a high-back card.
Cen Shan, Yu Hao, and Chen Yekai sat behind Fu Liqun, while Zhou Sheng and Ou Qihang went to play a real CS shootout. With a helpless expression on her face, Cen Shan looked at Yu Hao, her lips moved, who meant to come up with a prank
Yu Hao spread his hands, indicating that it wasn't me. He flipped the camera to show Cen Shan. When he was riding the roller coaster, he was waiting on the road he had to go through. He adjusted the aperture and took continuous shots. .
Cen Shan was lying on the table with a smile, her shoulders twitching.
"Let's talk." Cen Yongchang said, "I heard that you failed in business and owed a lot of money?"
"Borrowing it from a friend." Fu Liqun replied, "It's still worth it, don't worry."
Cen Yongchang was silent for a long time, and Fu Liqun looked at him expectantly.
"Shanshan went back yesterday and told me a lot about you." Cen Yongchang restrained his overly obvious anger and said, "I knew you four years ago, and I also know that you play basketball well. Fine thanks."
The waiter gave Cen Yongchang a glass of white water, but Cen Yongchang didn't drink it, just stared at the glass.
Fu Liqun asked, "I know you don't want to marry your daughter to a useless boy who only plays basketball well."
"It's good to play basketball well and have athletic skills." Cen Yongchang replied politely, "Throughout the ages, men with outstanding sports can be respected as well. Just imagine, if you were an Olympic champion, who would oppose you? "
"Yes." Fu Liqun said, "Speaking of playing well, it's just that a mountain is still taller than my peers. With my talent, I haven't reached that level yet. I will never reach that level."
"You can clearly understand yourself," Cen Yongchang said. "You are already much better than Shanshan, and you are also better than your peers. The young man is a talented person. I believe you will stand out in the future."
Fu Liqun didn't answer, just stared at Cen Yongchang's eyes.
Cen Yongchang said calmly: "I'm not here to break up you. I always believe that because of the gap between world outlook, values, and outlook on life, sooner or later, you will go further and further apart, and finally be completely separated. Your relationship with her is like When we walked together for a certain distance, a travel companion who knew each other, through this distance, she has her big rivers to cross, you have yours to climb, why don't you calmly cross the intersection?"
Yu Hao had to admit that Cen Yongchang's words were to the point.
"You followed her to the river and wanted to cross the river with her." Cen Yongchang said, "but that's not your destination."
Fu Liqun said, "Where do you think her destination is?"
Cen Yongchang said: "I have to ask her, do you think you know her?"
Fu Liqun was silent, just behind him, Cen Shan calmly looked at the coffee milk foam in the cup, the clerk pulled a flower for her - two hearts pierced by an arrow appeared on the milk foam.
Zhou Sheng and Ou Qihang also came after playing CS, sitting behind Cen Yongchang and eavesdropping.
"Do you think you know her?" Fu Liqun asked rhetorically.
Cen Yongchang replied, "Let's put it this way, if you had a daughter, would you choose to marry her to a young man like you?"
That's alright—everyone in the audience said it in their hearts. Yu Hao felt that if he had a daughter, it would be great to marry a boy like Fu Liqun.
"Yes." Fu Liqun said with a smile, at this time, the afternoon sun shone through the glass window and sprinkled on his head, "When I was a child, I would accompany her to the playground, and when I grow up, I will give her to a A boy who can accompany her. By the way, have you been to the playground with her?"
Cen Yongchang looked at Fu Liqun quietly, and Fu Liqun said, "When we first met, Shanshan couldn't take the bus or subway, never ate at a roadside stall, and never rode a roller coaster. I know that you spend very little time with her, every day only A fixed one hour—before going out in the morning, 6:30-7:00, before going to bed at night, 9:30-10:00. Right? You will occasionally take her abroad, go to meetings by yourself, and let the assistant take her to play. What do you do? It's all arranged for her. But you don't play with her, and you never ask her how she wants to live."
"Her studies are very hard." Fu Liqun looked at Cen Yongchang and said politely, "You think, what kind of hardship is this hardship? What kind of hardship is it? Your daughter is destined to be excellent from birth. It doesn't matter. She just wants you to get to know her better, listen to her heart, and take her opinion seriously. But you're a hard-hearted man, uncle."
Yu Hao could feel that many of Cen Shan's thoughts and attitudes were indeed just like what Fu Liqun had said. She always didn't care much about what others thought, neither caring about others' evaluations of herself nor their emotions. Because her father is like this, just like Cen Shan's actions to solve this problem in person after Cen Shan's showdown with her father, Cen Yongchang completely ignored her the next day and set out to come to Yingshi.
"If we can't be together in the future," Fu Liqun said seriously, "you plan to ignore her thoughts again and choose a husband who is right for her."
"Well, please choose a man for her who really values what she wants to say and her joys and sorrows, and doesn't treat her as a vase, but as a decoration. She has a lot to say, even if it's childish, even in your In her eyes, she will always be a little girl, but no matter how naive she is, she has her own words to say. Please, uncle, are we like this today?"
Cen Yongchang took something from the inner pocket of the suit, and Fu Liqun said, "You don't need to take out the check. I won't ask for any money."
What Cen Yongchang took out from the inner pocket of his suit was a pair of sunglasses, put it on, stood up, no longer talked nonsense with Fu Liqun, and left directly.
Everyone wanted to laugh, but they prevented Cen Shan from laughing in front of her. Zhou Sheng probed and gave Yu Hao a wink from behind the booth. Yu Hao got up and followed Zhou Sheng.
After a while, Ou Qihang and Chen Yekai also left. The rest of Fu Liqun was sitting in the coffee shop, watching a group of ants come over and carry a candy cube that was placed by the window. Under the sun, Fu Liqun and Cen Shan sat back to back in two positions.
"How long are you going to sit here?" Cen Shan's voice suddenly sounded.
Fu Liqun was startled, then raised his head suddenly, Cen Shan turned her head and greeted him from the back of the booth, her eyes were red, and she said with a smile, "Hi."
"Hi." Fu Liqun said with a smile, "Come to see the ants?"
"Are there?" Cen Shan sat next to Fu Liqun, the two looked at the group of ants, and Fu Liqun said again, "Want to take a roller coaster ride?"
Cen Shan said, "Let's go. Before closing the garden, sit down and talk about it."
Fu Liqun took Cen Shan's hand and walked downstairs quickly to take the roller coaster.
Zhou Sheng and Yu Hao were sitting in the Ferris wheel. Yu Hao looked out of the seat and said, "Time flies so fast, it's almost three years in the blink of an eye."
Zhou Sheng stepped on the opposite seat, looked out lazily, looked at Yu Hao absently, Yu Hao said, "Look at the scenery, what are you looking at me for?"
Zhou Shengdao: "So tell me about you, when you were just together before, when you looked at me, the little eyes of admiration, now you can ride the Ferris wheel again, and the birds don't care about Lao Tzu, you know how to look out, alas."
There was a smile in Yu Hao's eyes, he glanced at Zhou Sheng, Zhou Sheng was stunned, Yu Hao smiled and said, "What kind of look? Is it this look?"
Zhou Sheng put his legs down and said, "Damn it, it's hard." Then he adjusted his belt.
Yu Hao: "..."
The Ferris wheel slowly turned high, Zhou Sheng's face was actually a little red, he lightly touched Yu Hao and said, "Hey, say something?"
"I'm sorry." Yu Hao had an intoxicating smile, not wanting to look at Zhou Sheng.
"Old man, old man." Zhou Sheng said, "Are you still shy?"
Yu Hao laughed so hard that he leaned against the window, Zhou Sheng went to hold his hand, Yu Hao wanted to avoid it, but turned his head to the side, but Zhou Sheng leaned over to look at him, and pursed his lips to kiss him again, for a moment both of them remembered the confession. That day, Yu Hao's face was flushed. For some reason, in this exact same environment, the confession from three years ago felt like it was yesterday, and he couldn't help but feel a surge of emotions.
"Kiss one." Zhou Sheng said, "Quick, the Ferris wheel is going down soon."
"I want to go home and kiss..." Yu Hao blushed.
Zhou Sheng ignored him, pressed the back of his neck and leaned in to kiss him earnestly and tenderly. Yu Hao first pressed his hands on the seat, then he couldn't help raising his arms and wrapping them around Zhou Sheng's neck.
"Coming… "
"It's still early… "
When the phone rang, Zhou Sheng glanced at it and said, "Fuck." After pressing it down, he wanted to kiss Yu Hao again.
"Who?"
"Turtle son."
"… "
Yu Hao was afraid that he had something important to do. When he looked at Zhou Sheng's cell phone, he was stunned.
"Come on, it's a big New Year's Eve." Yu Hao said.
"It's definitely not good." Zhou Sheng replied, but he still accepted.
"Hey, Mr. Zhou, have a good New Year." Zhou Sheng opened the door, and when the Ferris wheel arrived, Zhou Sheng took Yu Hao's hand down, holding the phone, with an impatient expression on his face.
Zhou Laichun's voice said, "Let's have dinner together tonight, is Yu Hao here?"
Zhou Sheng said, "Another family banquet? Don't you want it? Last time Yu Hao witnessed you being pulled by my mother to perform a performance of breaking a boulder on your chest. The psychological shadow has not recovered yet."
Zhou Laichun said calmly, "It's just me, it's nothing major, it's really just a chat, the car is on standby at the entrance of the playground, you can come anytime, I'll wait for you until ten o'clock."
Zhou Sheng hung up the phone and stood with Yu Hao under the Ferris wheel. Yu Hao looked down at WeChat and said, "Qihang has run into high school classmates. I will go to dinner with them in the evening. Mr. Chen is going to visit Mr. Liang, and we won't wait. "
Zhou Sheng thought about it and said, "Okay, don't worry, see you back in Beijing."
"Go?" Yu Hao asked.
"What do you think?" Zhou Sheng took the mobile phone, tossed it around a few times, put his arms on Yu Hao's shoulders, and reached the gate of the playground, where the driver was waiting.
Yu Hao said, "Has he compromised?"
Zhou Sheng shrugged and spread his hands.
"Have you come back after you compromise?" Yu Hao said.
"What do you think?" Zhou Sheng asked back, Yu Hao didn't say anything, but Zhou Sheng laughed, put him in his arms, and kissed him on the side.
Yu Hao went to buy two cups of hot drinks. Zhou Sheng raised his eyes to look at his car. Neither of them went over. The driver looked at them with a bit of melancholy across the parking lot.