At home, let's make a good meal.
Seeing her coming back, Meng Hang ran over with his little legs and stretched out his chubby little arms to wrap her around her. Meng Shengnan was so soft-hearted that he hugged him upwards, rubbed his head and smiled: "If you grow up a bit, I won't be able to hold him anymore."
Xiao Hang pouted, "Brother-in-law hug."
Meng Shengnan: "..."
She squeezed his small mouth, "You are very poor."
The little boy hummed arrogantly, and she couldn't help but kiss his little cheek. Xiao Hang frowned angrily, "Sister."
"Um?"
"A man and a woman can't kiss each other."
"..."
"If someone sees it, Zhang Jiahe will really laugh at me."
Meng Shengnan suppressed a smile, "You always say that Zhang Jiahe likes him?"
"So-so." He thought for a while.
She said 'Oh', "Normally, when will you bring her home to play and let me get to know her?"
"Okay." He said reluctantly.
In the kitchen, Meng Jin called the two of them to eat. At the dinner table, she and Xiao Hang were playing around. Sheng Lian pretended to be cold, the two looked at each other, stuck out their tongues and bowed their heads obediently. She had just had a sip of soup when her phone rang. She put down her chopsticks and went to look through the bag. It was an unknown number in Jiangcheng.
"Hello."
"Sheng Nan?"
She came back to her senses, "Teacher Chen?"
"It's me." Chen Si said with a smile.
After saying a few words, she hung up the phone and returned to the table. Sheng Dian asked, "You, Teacher Chen?"
"Um."
Sheng Dian said: "I haven't seen her in the past two years. I heard that I'm not in good health."
"Yes." Meng Shengnan said, "I feel much older than before."
Sheng Dian sighed, "It's nothing, you can go for a walk."
She glanced at the vegetables and mushrooms on the plate, and nodded slowly.
"I just called and asked to come over for dinner tomorrow."
After a while, Sheng Dian suddenly asked: "I remember that your teacher Chen has a son, what is he doing now?"
She scratched her cheek, "I'm not sure about that either."
"Do the math." Sheng Dian was thinking seriously, "It should not be a few years older than you."
Meng Shengnan: "..."
In the living room, Central Eight was broadcasting Liang Jian on the TV, and Li Yunlong roared and yelled three times to fire the gun. Meng Jin likes to watch this episode the most, and he is about to go over to eat with a bowl in hand. Sheng Dian's attention suddenly turned away to talk about Meng Jin. Meng Shengnan breathed a sigh of relief, and looked out the window. At that time, Chi Zheng had just finished his work in the shop in the small street, so he took care of dinner casually.
He leaned against the door and lit a cigarette.
Shi Jin drove over and took four bottles of beer into the store. Chi Zheng glanced lightly, then took another puff of cigarette before asking, "What's the matter so happy?"
"My buddy picked up a batch of goods today." Shi Jin smiled, and stretched out his hand to make a two-point comparison, "I earned 20% more."
"Promise." Chi Zheng hummed with a smile.
Shi Jin shrugged his shoulders, "I can't help it, who told you not to do that, buddy is waiting to hang out with you."
Chi Zheng didn't make a sound, his tongue arched his cheek, and he turned his head to look outside the door. Then he snuffed out the cigarette neatly and threw it away, walked in and picked up a bottle of beer and bit it open with his mouth. He leaned against the glass cabinet and wiped his mouth carelessly with his hands.
"Brother's talking too much." Shi Jin punished himself, raised his head and felt depressed.
The shop was very quiet all the time, after a while, Chi Zheng lit another cigarette. He took a few deep breaths and spat it out. He took off the cigarette and held it between his fingers, resting his arms lazily on the cabinet. The smoke surrounded him, and Chi Zheng narrowed his eyes.
"I'm sorry," he said.
Then, I suffocated in one breath and left half a bottle.
Shi Jin said 'Hi', "My brother, what the hell."
"Hold."
Chi Zheng snorted and laughed. He was leaning against the cabinet to smoke when his cell phone rang suddenly. Chen Si asked him to go back at noon tomorrow, and he agreed. Shi Jin heard the voice, and asked with a smile: "Auntie has been calling a lot lately, isn't she trying to tell you about your daughter-in-law?"
The person who was asked paused and smiled briefly.
"It's true."
Shi Jin' ah? ! ' After a while, "Which one have you seen?"
Chi Zheng gave a faint 'hmm'.
"How do you look?"
"good."
He flicked the cigarette ash, thinking of the woman's restrained smile.
Shi Jin said 'Damn', "If you say it's okay, it's really interesting."
Chi Zheng smiled.
"Hey!?" Shi Jin remembered to ask, "Where's that woman?"
"Which one?"
"Tsk, it's the one whose phone was left in the car. Didn't I ask you to fix it?"
Chi Zheng glanced at Shi Jin.
"how?"
Shi Jin laughed hilariously, "Since you've already taken your fancy, then give this to me."
Chi Zheng raised his eyebrows.
"You should have her contact information?"
"without."
He dropped a word.
"No way." Shi Jin was terrified, "That woman is really nice, let me tell you."
Chi Zheng glanced over and pressed his tongue against his cheek.
"Forget about her."
Shi Jin: "..."
No one came to the store at night, Shi Jin stayed until ten o'clock and drove away, full of regrets before leaving. Chi Zheng closed the shop door, took off his short sleeves, bare his upper body, washed his face indiscriminately, and lay down to sleep. From the window in the center of the wall above the bed, moonlight seeped in and fell on the man's bearded face.
At half past nine the next day, the sun was shining brightly.
At that time, Meng Shengnan had just finished eating at home. She simply packed up and planned to visit Chen Si. When she left, Sheng Dian made some pigeon soup for her to bring. She bent down to change her shoes, and conveniently put the soup on the shoe cabinet. When Qi Qiao called while going out, she forgot about it.
I didn't think of it until I got on 5○2, and I was immediately annoyed.
Later, I got out of the car and went to a shop near the community to buy some fruit and went in. The fountain at the door was still there, with a circle of small pots of chrysanthemums under it. She walked in slowly, thinking of her little thoughts hidden deep in those long days in the past, she couldn't help but feel deeply moved.
When she entered the room, Chen Si was alone in the living room.
The woman was very enthusiastic, "Just come and do it, what are you doing with these?"
She is embarrassed.
"I will come here often in the future, so don't bring it any more."
She smiled and said 'ah'.
As Chen Si pulled her to sit by the sofa, an aunt in her fifties came out of the kitchen. Chen Si said it would be fine to call Mama Yang, and Meng Shengnan greeted her with a smile. Chen Si said again: "Sister-in-law Yang, Ah Zheng is coming back today, let's add a few more dishes."
Hearing the sound, Meng Shengnan was taken aback.
Mama Yang went into the kitchen, Chen Sixiao said, "Sit down, I'll go and have a look inside."
Meng Shengnan couldn't sit still, "I'll help too."
In the kitchen, she was washing dishes.
While cracking eggs, Chen Si said with emotion: "Tell me how time flies, you were only sixteen or seventeen years old at that time, and you are already 24 now."
Meng Shengnan nodded and said 'hmm'.
Yang Ma and Chen Si looked at each other and smiled. There is the sound of motorcycles outside the house, from far to near. Meng Shengnan's heart tightened, Yang's mother laughed and said it must be Ah Zheng. Within a few minutes, someone opened the door and came in. Before she could turn around, the voice approached.
"Why are you in the kitchen?"
Chen Sidao: "I'm back."
"Um."
Chi Zheng said again to Mama Yang, and glanced at the back of the woman by the pool. At that time, Meng Shengnan slowly turned his head to look over, not knowing what expression he should have. Chi Zheng raised his eyebrows and asked, "When did you come here?"
She gave a soft 'oh', "Just arrived for a while."
Chen Si glanced at Yang's mother, pulled Meng Shengnan to the kitchen door, and pushed them out.
"Let's talk in the living room. I'll call you when the meal is ready."
After closing the compartment door, Meng Shengnan pursed his lips and lowered his head slightly.
Chi Zheng glanced at her, "Sit over there."
On the sofa, she sat a little stiffly.
"Have you recovered from the cold?" Chi Zheng asked.
"Um."
Chi Zheng sat on the sofa with his legs apart, and asked nonchalantly, "You went to Jiangcheng Ninth Middle School, right? Which class?"
Meng Shengnan's heart skipped a beat, "Liberal Arts (4) class."
"Is it."
Chi Zheng lowered his eyes, and said again: "I heard from Lu Sibei that you often write manuscripts?"
Meng Shengnan responded and smiled, "It's okay to write nonsense."
"That's not what I said."
"ah?"
Chi Zheng said, "Is there anything published?"
Meng Shengnan: "..."
She stroked the hair next to her ear, but didn't answer directly, "It's all written casually."
Chi Zheng raised his eyes: "What's your pen name?"
"..."
She was in a dilemma, and Chen Si called for dinner in the kitchen. She hurriedly stood up as an excuse to help, and ran away without even looking at him in a hurry. Looking at her slender back, Chi Zheng couldn't help curling the corners of his mouth, touching his nose, his eyes narrowed.
At the dinner table, Mama Yang and Chen Si sat opposite each other.
Chi Zheng was next to her, the smell of the man permeated, Meng Shengnan didn't like it. Chen Si smiled and talked about her university affairs, Meng Shengnan thought about it and said a few words. Asked why she changed her major, she thought for a while and said, "I still want to go back to Jiangcheng, so I will become a teacher."
The movement of the man beside him to pick up the vegetables paused.
"That's great, your mother still teaches?"
She shook her head, "I'm at home."
"It's time to rest, it's been so many years." Chen Si said.
she smiled.
Just as he was talking, Chi Zheng's cell phone rang. She stopped eating and took a look, the man frowned lightly and answered briefly before hanging up the phone.
"What's wrong?" Chen Si asked.
Chi Zheng: "A job."
"Let's go after eating."
Chi Zheng said calmly: "It's okay, you guys eat."
After finishing speaking, he swallowed a bit, then put down his chopsticks and turned to leave the door. He walked to the door and turned to look at Meng Shengnan.
"I'll take you back when I'm done in the afternoon."
Meng Shengnan's cheeks were slightly hot as he watched his figure go away. From time to time, I heard the sound of the motorcycle starting, which slowly disappeared. Afterwards, she helped clean up the dishes and was sat and chatted by Chen Sila in the yard.
Before I knew it, two or three hours had passed.
Chen Sixing got up and asked her: "Do you still play the guitar now?"
She smiled, "Not much."
"Try now?"
Chen Si took out the guitar from the house, it was the one she saw when she was sixteen or seventeen. Under the big tree, Chen Si handed her the guitar. Meng Shengnan sat on a chair with his toes pointing down on the ground. She asked Chen Si: "What does the teacher want to hear?"
"Jacky Cheung's love letter." Chen Si's eyebrows were gentle.
She said yes and bounced.
When Chi Zheng came back, he saw the courtyard, under the big locust tree. The young woman lowered her head slightly, plucking the strings with her fingers. He didn't come close, just stood at the gate like that. The faint tone of the guitar came over, and he just looked at it. Then he leaned against the wall and smoked, his eyes kept on the woman.
After she finished playing the song, she looked up and saw him stunned.
Chi Zheng threw away the cigarette and came over, while Chen Si went back into the house calmly. The two of them were left in the yard, and Meng Shengnan stood up holding the guitar. She glanced at him, her eyes averted.
"Well, I'll take the guitar in for Mr. Chen."
He stood looking back, shaking his head and laughing. After Meng Shengnan went in, he told Chen Si that he was about to leave, and Chi Zheng just came over.
"Now?" he asked.
She nodded, "No—"
"I'll see you off." He interrupted her, "Let's go."
Chen Si saw the two of them going out, smiled and sighed.
At that time, the sun was at three o'clock. She was sitting on the back of the motorcycle, and Chi Zheng was not riding fast. On the car, the wind slipped past on both sides. He asked, "Which side is home?"
Meng Shengnan suddenly said, "Fengshuitai."
"Um?"
She thought he didn't hear clearly, so she raised her voice slightly, "Fengshuitai."
The corner of Chi Zheng's mouth moved slightly, "What?"
Meng Shengnan: "Wind-water-table."
Chi Zheng turned the corner with a smile, and stopped at an alley in about 20 minutes according to the road she pointed out. Meng Shengnan got out of the car and stroked his hair. There are no people on the street, and there are children playing in the alley. She thanked her and was about to leave when she suddenly remembered the pigeon soup that Sheng Cianrang brought.
"wait a moment."
After she finished speaking, she ran into the alley.
Not knowing why, Chi Zheng stared at her back. The white skirt she is wearing today is knee-length. When running, the hem of the skirt is all around, and the canvas shoes are kicked one by one. Inexplicably, he felt that time stopped and the world was quiet. When she came out again, she approached him with a small jar in her hand.
"What?" he asked.
"When I left at noon, my mother made soup. I wanted to take it to Mr. Chen to replenish my body. When I left," Meng Shengnan paused, blushing, "I just forgot."
He looked up at her.
The sound of children playing in the back gradually approached, and they ran past them one by one. I don't know who made a fuss, and bumped her back with his arm. Meng Shengnan didn't react, he was still holding the soup pot in his hand, just like that, his body suddenly leaned forward and staggered.
With sharp eyes and quick hands, Chi Zheng put his arm around her waist and caught the soup can with the other.
only one second.
Her lips fell on his right cheek.