During the Spring Festival of 2007, Meng Shengnan will never forget it.
When she was still on the train back to Jiangcheng, she received a call from Meng Jin. The forty-two-year-old man was a little incoherent, and asked her where she had been and how long she had been. She was secretly surprised, she had never seen her father like this. After careful questioning, the man said come back.
It was already 4:30 p.m. when she got off the train, and her father called again and asked her to go directly to the hospital.
Meng Shengnan hurried over, finally found the ward and opened the door to go in. Seeing Meng Jin sitting beside the bed with Sheng Dian who was sleeping soundly, he hissed. She glanced at the ceremony, and asked Meng Jin softly, "What's wrong with Mom?"
Just as Meng Jin was about to speak, Sheng Dian woke up.
The woman's eyes were half-opened, and she froze for a moment, her voice still hoarse.
"When did you come back?"
Meng Jin helped the woman to lean against the head of the bed, and Meng Shengnan quickly handed over a cushion.
"Just arrived."
Sheng Dian couldn't help but cast a glance at the man.
"It must be your father who asked you to come here, but the fetal image is a little unstable, it's nothing serious."
Meng Shengnan was stunned for a long time, then slowly looked at Sheng Dian's abdomen with a dull expression.
"You two—hid—deep enough."
Seeing her soulless appearance, Sheng Dian stretched out his hand and gently pulled her to sit on the side of the bed, sighing.
"I wanted to surprise you at the time."
"Scare it."
It took her a while to regain her senses, slowly bent down, put her hand on Shengdian's protruding abdomen and stroked it gently. The ward was quiet and warm. She was silent for a long time, then raised her head and asked Sheng Dian: "When will he come out?"
"Soon." Sheng Dian said with a smile.
Meng Shengnan sighed slowly.
Sheng Dian asked, "You don't blame Mom, do you?"
"Of course it's strange." She curled her lips and paused every word: "I've been hiding it from me for so long."
Meng Jin rubbed her hair, "I didn't mean to hide it."
Only later did she know that the birth of this little boy was purely accidental. Shengdian has always suffered from migraine neurasthenia and poor physical fitness. If labor is induced, it may be life-threatening, not to mention that at the age of forty-two, she can only give birth naturally.
A few days later, when Qi Qiao came back from Xinjiang and found out about this, she was also surprised, or even happier than her.
During that time, she has been in the hospital. The girl ran over to look for her when she was free, and the two would sit in the pavilion downstairs of the hospital and talk to each other when Sheng Dian fell asleep. Occasionally, he would be caught by Meng Jin who came back from cooking, and the girls just laughed it off.
A week before last, Meng Shengnan was going to Shanghai to participate in the semi-finals.
For things that have been taken for granted, no one continues to be nervous or anxious. Meng Jinteng couldn't get away, Qi Qiao sent her. On the platform, Meng Shengnan couldn't help laughing at the girl's mother-in-law's advice. She patted Qi Qiao on the head and said: "When the sisters come back, let's just forget about it."
"cut."
Qi Qiao had a disgusted expression, "Who ever told you, I will be a child bride for Aunt Shengdian's soon-to-be-born little prince, you know."
"got it."
Meng Shengnan suppressed a smile and nodded solemnly. People come and go on the platform, which is the most suitable place to stage joys and sorrows. The train moved forward slowly, and she watched Qi Qiao waving at her. At that moment, she suddenly thought of Song Jiashu, that girl liked the boy she liked very much. Meng Shengnan has never understood and never asked Qi Qiao why Song Jiashu insisted on being a soldier. Half a year ago, Qi Qiao was doing the same thing now, waving her hand to bid farewell to the person she liked so badly.
The train drifts away without end.
When I got there, it was still the same. She filled out the form at the front desk of the hotel, and then walked to 2007 step by step with her schoolbag on her back. As soon as the door was opened, it was quiet inside, as if no one had ever been there. The bed was brand new, as was the quilt.
"Aren't you here?" She put down her schoolbag and murmured in a low voice.
The curtains were tightly covered so that no light could come in. She walked over to pull them, and the sound of footsteps approached behind her.
"So early?"
It was Zhou Ningzhi.
She turned around and smiled, "Just arrived."
Zhou Ningzhi put down the backpack, walked to her side to pull the remaining half, the sun formed two shadows.
"How are you?" he asked, adding, "At school?"
"Good."
Zhou Ningzhi nodded.
"Still short hair." He pointed to her hair.
Meng Shengnan was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "No way, we won't stay long."
After chatting for a few words, Zhou Ningzhi casually leaned against the window eaves, against the light. Meng Shengnan was still standing by the window facing him. She glanced downstairs and said, "Why haven't they come here so late this year?"
Zhou Ningzhi glanced over.
"It may be congested during rush hour now."
"oh."
After a while, Zhou Ningzhi suddenly spoke.
"I've been meaning to ask you a question."
Meng Shengnan was startled: "What's the problem?"
He looked up at her for a while, then smiled lightly: "Forget it."
Meng Shengnan' Huh? ' with a sound.
Zhou Ningzhi raked his hair.
"It's nothing, I just want to ask if you had any actual combat drills when you wrote the boy in the deep sea?"
There was something in the words, why couldn't Meng Shengnan hear it.
He said again: "Jiang Jin and the others have talked about this many times, don't you know?"
She shook her head.
"I—write whatever I want."
Zhou Ningzhi smiled: "Really."
Meng Shengnan was a little embarrassed.
"Meng Shengnan."
He suddenly called her, and she looked up.
"Is there anyone you like?"
Not knowing how to answer, she pursed her lips.
Zhou Ningzhi looked at her and said, "If not, we can work together."
Meng Shengnan suddenly felt her ears ringing, she didn't dare to think deeply, and even had the urge to run away immediately. She felt uncomfortable being stared at by Zhou Ningzhi, and she was stunned deeply. The boy suddenly laughed again, the voice was clear and hearty.
"scared?"
His expression was not as serious as before, and Meng Shengnan heaved a sigh of relief.
"Hey, I'm kidding you." He exhaled softly and smiled.
Zhou Ningzhi laughed and shook his head as if she had been connected to the two veins of Ren and Du.
"Think of it as a joke on April 1st."
As soon as that sentence was finished, Jiang Jin broke into the door.
"What April 1st joke?"
Zhou Ningzhi turned his head, "It's nothing, just chat casually."
With Jiang Jin's arrival, the atmosphere suddenly rose to a higher level. The topic just now came to an abrupt end, and Zhou Ningzhi never brought it up again. Afterwards, besides Li Xiang who went to study abroad, Lu Huai and Zhang Yiyan also arrived one after another.
Perhaps because of the topic in the afternoon, Meng Shengnan always felt a little offended. He didn't talk much, just sat and listened to their chatting.
Jiang Jin realized and glanced at her.
"Why do you look at someone who is suffering and hates deeply, whoever offends you, tell brother, beat him up."
Zhou Ningzhi didn't speak.
"What's the matter?" Lu Huai also looked over.
"No, it's fine."
Meng Shengnan laughed a few times, and Zhang Yiyan suddenly changed the topic.
"Let's play a game, or I will be as boring as Sheng Nan."
Everyone laughed, good good good.
Later, the noise dissipated until late at night. The next day, several people participated in the rematch normally, and when Meng Shengnan came out, they had already gathered at the door. It was a very happy thing at first, and they went to have fun as usual, but their expressions were a little uncomfortable that day.
Zhang Yiyan asked what was wrong.
Lu Huai said: "Zhou Ning is on the plane in an hour, going to the United States."
Meng Shengnan suddenly had a feeling that she couldn't express, the kind that she didn't want to understand before, and gradually didn't want to understand. Many of the people around her are people with dreams to achieve, eclectic. Like Zhou Ningzhi and Li Xiang, she is a little envious.
They were all on the list in that competition, but one person was missing in the group photo on the podium.
After the game, Meng Shengnan went back to Jiangcheng and has been helping Meng Jin in the hospital. On New Year's Eve, I received a New Year text message from Lu Sibei. Later, Qi Qiao accidentally discovered that she often joked about it, and she had no choice but to do it. One week after the year, Sheng Dian finally gave birth smoothly, and gave birth to a six-pound little boy with round and round eyes. Grandpa and grandma also came, and the whole family often teased him lively, very happy.
One day, Meng Jin had a headache about naming her and asked her opinion.
"I take it?"
"I discussed it with your mother, you can take it."
Meng Shengnan thought about it all day and night, then got up early in the morning and ran to the ceremony room, kissing the child's mouth and cheek. Sheng Dian woke up and asked her why it was so early in a daze. Meng Shengnan was silly.
"Mom, let's call it Meng Hang."
Qi Qiao later asked her why, Meng Shengnan laughed.
"It's not because your grandma's family is in Hangzhou, is it?"
Meng Shengnan shook his head, "Not only."
"Then what else?"
Meng Shengnan's eyes flickered and he pursed his lips.
"Hang, Ark also."
"Wow."
Qi Qiao: "With this brain hole, a talented woman is a talented woman."
"That is."
Qi Qiao gave her a wink: "Will I mix with you in the future?"
"You?" She squinted.
Qi Qiao nodded hurriedly.
"Come out with some skills first."
Qi Qiaodun's fashion is extremely gentle, "I'll lend you my shoulder when you're tired, I'll lend you your sleeve to wipe you when you cry, and I'll be your punching bag when you're bored."
Meng Shengnan couldn't help laughing, "Really so caring?"
Qi Xiaoqiao raised her chin and looked down arrogantly.
"My sister graduated from the empathy major of the Special Sensible Academy, do you know?"
she laughs.
Time waits for no one, Qi Qiao left the school not long after. She also went to Changsha by car, and kept in touch with Qi Qiao intermittently. That kind of pure and beautiful day can only be revisited after a long time. It's strange that some things are still there after a long distance. She always thinks of a lot of things recently, and she can't explain a lot of things in a mess, and she is in a daze when she has nothing to do.
In a flash, the semester has been nearly half a year.
At the busiest time in the second half of the year, she heard rumors that Lu Sibei from the Department of Economics and Management had resigned, and that he had resigned from the Student Union. When she was younger that year, she and Lu Sibei rarely saw each other. Roommate Li Tao joked: "He's free now, he has more time to chase you, wait for you."
Meng Shengnan didn't pay attention at first, and the turning point happened on the second weekend after May Day.
That day she had just finished her self-study in the library and was walking out when she happened to meet him at the door. When the boy saw her walking over immediately, Meng Shengnan was also taken aback. Then the two laughed at the same time, Lu Sibei paused, and said, "I want to ask you for a favor."
Meng Shengnan asked with his eyes.
Lu Sibei smiled again: "You are good at it, don't worry."
"what?"
"Talk while walking?"
The two of them walked along the small path in front of the library, and Lu Sibei said: "There are a few shows in the meeting, and there is a lack of a guitarist, so I thought of you at that time, so—"
He stopped halfway through, and Meng Shengnan grasped the central idea.
"Inside your student union?"
"right."
"It's not good for me to go, is it?"
Lu Sibei smiled: "This is the last thing I do before retiring from the meeting. I sincerely invite you."
Meng Shengnan was a little embarrassed.
"You really want to withdraw?"
He nodded, looked at her and said, "If you don't do something very important, you won't have time."
Meng Shengnan agreed.
In fact, in retrospect, if there is no such intersection, perhaps the relationship between them will not go so fast. But many things are always like this, it will happen so suddenly that you have no way to start. During that internal performance, almost the whole school knew the fact that was recognized by everyone.
Lu Sibei was chasing Meng Shengnan.