The voice was lazy and inattentive. Her heart tensed suddenly, and she looked up. The man had his hands in his pockets and was wearing a gray shirt and black trousers. His eyes swept over, his eyes were dark, and there was a playful smile at the corner of his mouth.
"That—" she laughed dryly, "it's a coincidence."
The man had already approached, leaning against the wall leisurely, looking at her leisurely.
"How many more days?"
Meng Shengnan looked aside.
"One more day today should be fine."
"Is it?"
His voice was flat, she nodded. Just as he was talking, a doctor came out of the consulting room. That was the old doctor who saw her, and Meng Shengnan greeted her with a smile. The doctor nodded and walked over. After not taking a few steps, he stepped back and said, "Remember to come here early tomorrow." After speaking, he left.
Meng Shengnan: "..."
Chi Zheng licked his rear alveolar, and laughed lowly.
"Those who didn't know thought you came here for a walk."
Meng Shengnan lowered his head uncomfortably, his cheeks flushed.
Chi Zheng got excited, "Do you feel something missing on your body?"
She blushed.
"What, what?"
"Think again." He bent his lips.
Meng Shengnan slowly raised his eyes to look at him, then shook his head.
Chi Zheng smiled, took out his phone from his trouser pocket and shook it, "What about this one?"
She was taken aback.
"Why are you there?"
Chi Zheng handed it to her, "What do you think?"
She smiled embarrassingly.
"I fell into the car." Chi Zheng said, "Put it away later."
"Thank you." Meng Shengnan nodded obediently.
He glanced at her.
"By the way, I forgot to go to the store when I left last night. There are more than a dozen missed calls. Please call back."
She opened it and saw that it was all Qi Qiao.
"It's okay." She smiled.
Chi Zheng glanced at the medicine on top of her head, "Is this the last bottle?"
"Um."
Meng Shengnan thought of something and asked, "Aren't you busy in the shop?"
Chi Zheng said, "Busy."
She' huh? ' with a sound, "Is that because Teacher Chen is not feeling well?"
"no."
She felt relieved, "Then you come to the hospital—"
Chi Zheng looked at her, slightly lifting his chin.
"Give me back your phone."
Meng Shengnan: "..."
"So it wasn't a coincidence just now." After he finished speaking, he raised a smile.
"But, how do you know I'm in the hospital?"
"Guess."
Meng Shengnan: "..."
Chi Zheng looked at it amusedly, and stopped teasing her. Lift your eyes to look at the medicine bottle, and hit the drip quickly to the end. He straightened up and went to call the nurse, leaving Meng Shengnan dumbfounded. The needle was pulled out, and the two walked out. Not far away, he saw his motorcycle parked in front of the hospital.
She was thinking about what to say, when Chi Zheng had already reached out to hail a taxi.
"You don't want to ride a motorcycle with me, do you?"
She opened her mouth slightly, and he smiled.
Chi Zheng has already opened the car door, "You haven't recovered from your cold yet, next time."
Meng Shengnan looked at him with pursed lips, not knowing what to say, then turned around and sat on it. He strode away, and she saw his back in the front-view mirror. For some reason, she opened the window and stuck her head out, calling his name.
"Chi Zheng."
The man's figure visibly froze for a moment, before he could turn his head back.
"Be careful on your way."
After she finished speaking, she quickly retracted her head and told the uncle driver to drive. As the car went away, Chi Zheng slowly turned around and looked over. He pursed his lips and looked in the direction where the car disappeared, took out a cigarette from his pocket and bit it in his mouth, but he never lit it. Meng Shengnan in the car slowly calmed down from the mood just now. It took so much courage to even call out his name after so many years.
"Your boyfriend?" The driver uncle asked with a smile.
Meng Shengnan was startled, "A high school classmate."
When she arrived at school, she went straight back to the teaching building. At that time, the class bell had just rang in the afternoon, and she was idle. At three or four o'clock, the education committee notified the head teachers of each class to discuss the general review at the end of the term. After the meeting, she returned to class one (8) and transferred, emphasizing a few words and going downstairs.
Xiao Lin just came out of class (9), and the two went back to the office together.
"How does the head teacher feel?"
"It's okay," she said.
Huaguchi's school ethos was relatively free at the beginning, which is rare. Xiao Lin chatted with her for a few more words, and suddenly said, "By the way, a man came to see you this morning."
Meng Shengnan was startled.
"It's the man who gave you last time."
Meng Shengnan asked, "What did he say?"
Xiao Lin smiled, "He found the English office and asked where you are. I said you went to the hospital and had to be given a three-day injection. Besides, what I said is that you are pitiful—"
Meng Shengnan: "..."
She suddenly felt even more embarrassed.
That day, the white clouds rolled and the sun was scorching. You look up and see the endless blue sky. On the tree-lined avenue of the school, there are delicate and pretty women. On the streets of Jiangcheng in midsummer, men are tall and straight. It's a busy time, each doing his best. Beside the curb, Chi Zheng had just picked up a job, leaning on the motorcycle and smoking a cigarette.
After smoking, he should go.
Two girls at the newsstand behind him bought a magazine and walked past him, chatting as they walked.
"Do you see where her article is?"
A girl turned to one of the pages, pointed to the words on it and said.
"I bought it yesterday, and I like her Deep Sea Boy the most."
"Ah," the girl yelled, "I like her article the most, but it's almost impossible to find online now."
Chi Zheng had already got on the bike, and he was about to step on the engine. The two girls chatted excitedly, dancing and dancing, as if they couldn't finish talking.
"A story is a good story even if it is a story."
"Hey." A girl sighed, "I know her name is Shu Yuan, but I don't know what she is like."
Chi Zheng stopped the movement of stepping on his feet, and was stunned for a moment. He glanced at the magazine in the girl's hand, got off the motorcycle together and went to the newsstand to buy the same copy. Then I turned to where to go to that article, and glanced roughly. I didn't look carefully, but my eyes paused when I saw the author's name.
The phone in his pocket was ringing, it was Shi Jin's call.
He replied briefly, clipped the magazine to the back seat and rode back to the store. Shi Jin was half lying on the chair, and got up when he saw him come back. Chi Zheng shook his sweaty short sleeves, and threw the magazine on the glass cabinet. The man also entered the inner partition, pulled the corner of his clothes with both hands and pulled his arms upwards, took off his short sleeves and threw them aside. He went to the sink with his bare upper body to wash, wiped his face indiscriminately, and found a black short sleeve to change into.
"I said why do you like this woman thing?"
Shi Jin shook the magazine in his hand and smiled badly. He walked over and took the book over, but he didn't say anything good.
"Go on your own."
Shi Jin stretched his waist, "I'm not busy."
Chi Zheng laughed.
"Miss a woman?" Shi Jin asked.
Without raising his eyelids, Chi Zheng lit a cigarette and smoked it.
Shi Jin smiled, "Looking at you like this, I guessed about seventy to eighty percent."
Chi Zheng didn't speak, just smoking a cigarette.
"Really, that girl?"
Chi Zheng glanced at Shi Jin lazily.
"Why are you talking so much nonsense today?"
Shi Jin raised his eyebrows, "Yo, dare not admit it?"
Chi Zheng's eyes were dull.
"I think back then, you could smell a woman no matter how far away, my buddies were jealous."
Chi Zheng licked his front teeth, "Fuck."
Shi Jin laughed very meanly.
The two chatted carelessly for a while, and Shi Jin went to buy goods. Chi Zheng was sitting alone in the store, and was idle at the time. He suddenly changed his mind, quickly opened the search engine and entered the name. It's just that there is no information other than the article and pseudonym, which is exactly the same as the results he searched back then. Chi Zheng rubbed his chin, once and for all.
He turned the mouse and looked around. Sitting on the chair like that, he smoked four or five cigarettes in a row. In the smog, he frowned and touched his phone. He called Jiang Jin, but it showed that he was not in the service area.
He raked his hair and put the phone away.
In my impression, it was mid-May of the year of graduation. When Lu Sibei returned to China, he came to Jiangcheng to see Chen Si. At that time, the software development project between him and Lu Huai was in a difficult period. If it wasn't for Chen Si's sudden illness, he would still be busy in Beijing. In his room that day, Lu Sibei accidentally chatted with him about Meng Shengnan.
"She didn't know you were back?" he asked.
Lu Sibei said 'hmm', "I haven't said anything yet."
"Are you having trouble?" Chi Zheng said neither salty nor dull.
Lu Sibei chuckled softly, "It can't be said."
At that time Chi Zheng was leaning against the wall, looking sideways out of the window. After a while, Lu Sibei suddenly spoke.
"Did you buy that meditation book?"
Hearing this, Chi Zheng shrugged.
"I don't know who sent it."
"Isn't there a signature on it?"
Chi Zheng: "I don't know."
After a while, Lu Sibei said: "I have talked with her for so long, and I only found out that she is an author of manuscripts during the few days when I was exchanged abroad."
Chi Zheng raised his eyes and remained silent for a while.
"Ah Zheng, she has someone she likes."
Lu Sibei smiled lightly, "It's not me."
That was the last conversation between Lu Sibei and him before leaving. Later, Chen Si was seriously ill, and something happened to his and Lu Huai's project, and he had no intention of caring about other things. When things calmed down, many things couldn't go back, and Lu Sibei also lost contact.
He was so busy with his life that he didn't have much time to think about other things.
Later, I mentioned it to Shi Jin.
The guy said: "Brothers turn against each other, most of them are caused by women."
He kicked directly.
It seemed until I met her again, so many times by chance. Back then when Lu Sibei said it was love at first sight, he laughed. Thinking of this, Chi Zheng lit a cigarette. He always has an intuition, and he can't explain it clearly. It was getting late outside, he pinched his cigarette and got busy again.
At night, sleep directly in the store.
He woke up early the next morning and couldn't leave the shop. He sat on the chair until noon, and when he checked the time again, it was already half past twelve. At that time, Meng Shengnan had just come out of the hospital and had already boarded the bus. She couldn't fall asleep because of her wild thoughts last night, but now the car was shaking slightly, but she was sleepy.
When I arrived at school, I received a call from my home landline.
"sister."
Meng Shengnan rubbed his eyes, "Xiaohang."
"When will you come back?"
She smiled, "It's evening."
After hanging up the phone, she went back to Class 1 (8) and transferred, exercising her right to act as the head teacher. Suddenly, I remembered that when I was in high school, Lao Shi always stood at the back door secretly and looked in to catch those troublemakers. As the old saying goes, don't work hard, don't be lazy, and don't work hard.
She left school at 6:50 and arrived home at 7:30.
There was no one in the alley, so she walked along the path. Perhaps it was because his ears were too sensitive, and he vaguely heard some movement from the house next to his right hand. The teasing and laughing sounds of boys and girls should be that the adults are bold enough to explore each other when they are not at home.
Between lightning and flint.
She thought of him, the ruffian in the Wen (4) classroom that year.
The author has something to say: After browsing the full text last night, I found a flaw. It was July when I wrote it at the beginning, but later I thought, I was wrong. That would be early summer vacation. So it was changed to May and June, and then the class was changed to Junior One (8), because the third grade was a graduation class, not as idle as Meng Shengnan. You were all too busy watching the rival show, didn't you notice it? (Laughing and crying) I will change it after I finish writing, people can't help themselves in the rivers and lakes.