The two looked at each other.
I can't say, I can't say I don't love, but I can't say love to a man who is going to marry against my conscience.
In this silent moment, she seemed to see the former teenager pulling herself up from the ground and protecting her behind her. All the suppressed and forcibly forgotten emotions flooded up and engulfed her reason—the one that Gui Xiao put in his pocket. Hands, holding a layer of cloth lined, clenched so tightly that every joint of the fingers was sore and painful.
She heard herself ask him softly, "Bai Tao told me yesterday, are you getting married?"
no respond.
Lu Yanchen threw the broken cigarette into the plastic trash can, and went to touch his trouser pocket, completely forgetting that half a pack of cigarettes was pinching in his other hand. Gui Xiao watched him do this, and then saw that he stopped all movements, froze for a while, and then rubbed the cigarette case in his palm and threw it into the trash can.
"... Lu Chen?" she called him.
Lu Yanchen finally raised his eyes and laughed at himself: "Yes."
Something rushed up from her throat and choked her: "When?"
"Next month."
"… Congratulations."
He shook his head and said nothing more.
A gust of cold wind came in through the crack of the door, blowing behind Gui Xiao's head, the door was pushed open just right, it was Qin Xiaonan.
The child should have eavesdropped on the whole process from outside the door. When he came in, his eyes were at a loss, and he carefully moved to Gui Xiao's side: "Auntie."
Gui Xiao returned to his soul, his eyes were sore, but he still tried to calm down: "Uncle Lu is going to get married, so he will be very busy. If I remind you on the way, you should also think about it yourself. And—" I wanted to say that Qin Xiaonan should be right In the future, Lu Yanchen's wife should be more obedient. After all, she will live with someone for several years, but she feels that she has no position.
Finally, she touched Qin Xiaonan's head, and by the way, wiped a small black spot on his face: "Also, if you are bullied, remember what I said, transfer students have to pass this hurdle, it's alright. , after a long time everyone will accept you."
Someone outside the door called Lu Yanchen's name, a female voice.
"Keep busy," Gui Xiao said, "I'm leaving."
"Wait," Lu Yanchen opened the drawer under the TV cabinet and pulled out a black wallet, "How much is the money for the box?"
"One hundred," she said.
The brand of this box is very famous, and the aluminum alloy shape is also very recognizable, but Gui Xiao expected that Dinglu Yanchen had been in the army for so many years and would not have time to pay attention to this kind of thing.
Sure enough, Lu Yanchen had no doubts, and took out five or six red bills from his wallet, before handing them to her, he changed his mind again, emptied all the red hundred-yuan bills in his wallet, and handed them to her: " Qin Xiaonan's clothes, and staying at your house these days, I'm in trouble."
"You don't have to calculate it so clearly," she symbolically took two away, "You also helped me in Erenhot."
The people outside guessed that it was because Lu Yanchen didn't answer for a long time, so they got impatient and opened the door on their own initiative.
"Don't come out even if I tell you, are there any guests?"
Gui Xiao turned back, and the face that came into view was Zhao Minshan. Long straight black hair draped over her shoulders, black cotton clothes and a scarf of the same color, very simple and very beautiful. The main thing is that people are beautiful, and no matter how they dress up, they will not be wrong.
The two looked at each other, and Zhao Minshan was also surprised: "You are... Gui Xiao? Do you remember me? Zhao Minshan from the second class?"
Gui Xiao said "um": "You really haven't changed, you're still so beautiful."
At that time, the most famous ones in their grades were Gui Xiao and Zhao Minshan: one was a little girl who was a big brother and a big sister who had retired from the world, and the other was a little girl who became famous for being beautiful when she was in elementary school. After junior high school, young boys from seven or eight nearby villages liked to chase after them and blocked a few beautiful girls.
Zhao Minshan smiled softly: "You're the one who looks good, I almost didn't recognize it. It turns out that the friend that Lu Chen's mother said was you? It's a coincidence. Mother Lu said that there was a friend of his coming today, and I thought about him like this. I haven't seen any friends I've known outside for many years, so I just came to see them, everyone knows each other. I didn't expect it to be you, what a coincidence."
Zhao Minshan kept sighing, Lu Yanchen stuffed his wallet into his trousers pocket and said nothing.
"This is your child?" Zhao Minshan looked at Qin Xiaonan kindly.
Gui Xiao coped with it with difficulty and explained: "It's his comrade-in-arms, and he asked me to lend it to him."
Zhao Minshan was stunned for a while, she didn't ask much in front of Gui Xiao, and murmured, "I didn't hear Lu Chen mention it."
…
The wife who is going to get married next month is standing in front of her, and she feels a sudden sense of guilt. Just now, the conversation between the two in the room was disgusting, shameless, and ambiguous.
Gui Xiao, you are too, too much.
She was cold all over, and didn't want to stay for a while, she said vaguely: "The child is here, I'll go first if I have nothing to do."
"It's almost lunch time, let's go after eating," Zhao Minshan took out her phone to check the time, and gave Lu Yanchen a blank look, "People are coming all the way, and you don't leave anyone to eat."
"No," Gui Xiao said hurriedly, "I made an appointment with Meng Xiaoshan."
"Ah... Meng Xiaoshan," Zhao Minshan and Meng Xiaoshan didn't get along when they were studying, and they were taught a lesson by Meng Xiaoshan because of the Haidong affair. The relationship has been delicate for more than ten years, and after hearing what Gui Xiao said, she didn't insist, "That counts. already."
Gui Xiao smiled and nodded to Zhao Minshan, there was Lu Yanchen's shadow in the corner of his vision, but he didn't look at him any more, turned his head and walked out of the room. She walked back the way she came, got into the car, reversed—
He slammed into the reception room steps by the door.
The uncle who was watching the door inside was frightened, he pushed open the door and came out and shouted, "Miss, are you all right? Are you not hurt?"
Gui Xiao kept nodding to the uncle through the windshield, placing his right hand in front of his eyebrows, and kept making gestures to apologize.
Seeing that everyone was fine, the uncle immediately started to feel distressed about the car:
Such a good car, I don't know how to drive it leisurely, hey, I really can't live a good life.
The car drove out of the not-so-wide road and turned onto the canal.
But her hands were shaking all the time, and she couldn't hold the steering wheel at all, so she had to step on the brakes, stopped under the big poplar tree by the canal, and went to the bag to flip through the phone.
All sorts of little things came out, and finally found a mobile phone and dialed Meng Xiaoshan, who was closest to her in this town. When the phone was picked up over there, Meng Xiaoshan was teaching the staff: "The table has been waived, please apologize - Gui Xiao?"
Gui Xiao took a deep breath and said with a trembling voice, "I'm hungry."
"Go to the lobby, I'll take a call here!" After the knock on the door, Meng Xiaoshan asked strangely, "Gui Xiao, you're wrong, something happened at home? Do you want to borrow money? I'll send it to you. ?"
"No..." Gui Xiao's eyes were dazzled by water mist, afraid to blink, for fear that it would flow out when he moved, "I'm just, hungry. I haven't eaten since I came out this morning, and I happened to pass by here, thinking about what you said last time. take me Out to eat."
How could he be able to deceive that old Jianghu? Meng Xiaoshan didn't say much nonsense. When she saw someone, she said, "Where are you?"
"By the canal."
"Canal? Which mouth?"
Gui Xiao wiped his face on the back of his hand, it was all water: "Outside Lu Chen's factory... that small intersection."
After Gui Xiao left, Lu Yanchen sat down on the single sofa alone, with his arms crossed, resting on the bridge of his nose, covering most of his face, staring at the box in a trance.
When the factory was expanded, the heating in this room was not installed properly, so there was no heater.
He came back from the frontier and didn't care about the cold, but he seemed to be frozen, and it was bone-chilling from the inside out.
Zhao Minshan took off her padded jacket, wearing a thick black cashmere sweater and trousers, she wanted Lu Yanchen to see her best side, but after sitting for half a minute, she couldn't stand it anymore. In the silence of the whole room, he pulled his clothes and put them on again, propped his chin, and looked around and the children who were also full of worries.
Seeing Lu Yanchen staring at the box, he took another look, and exclaimed in surprise, "Your comrade-in-arms are so rich, you use such an expensive box for your children? The last time my aunt went to Taiwan, I wanted her to give it to her. When I brought it back, I was reluctant to say it would cost more than 7,000."
After speaking, I couldn't help but sigh, people really can't compare.
Zhao Minshan talked for a long time, but Lu Yanchen didn't answer a word. She embarrassedly brought two water cups, and she and Qin Xiaonan poured the water separately and pushed them in front of the child: "Are you going to study in Beijing? Where are your parents? Are you coming too?"
Qin Xiaonan's heart was filled with what Gui Xiao and Lu Yanchen said, and she wanted to cry all the time, just wanted to cry.
A big man treats her like air, even a child, Zhao Minshan's enthusiasm when she came has been extinguished by most.
But after thinking about it, this man used to be like this, and he looked like he was ignoring everyone when he saw him.
She heard about Lu Chen's name when she was in elementary school. Later, when she went to junior high school, many gangsters chased after her after school. This is not a big deal for her, she can deal with it easily, but there are times when she can't get around it. At that time, Haidong rescued her, and Haidong was beside the famous Lu Chen.
There was no such thing as a rich second generation in those days, but everyone knew that Lu Chen's family was rich and good-looking, and his mother's family belonged to the army. In short, he was a girl who could not help but be moved when she heard it and saw it. that kind of person.
But Lu Chen was much older than her, and there was no way to get close. Besides, Zhao Minshan herself is also a realistic person. She likes to be surrounded and chased by people, and she has no extra feelings for such distant boys. In particular, he and Haidong were famous for being mixed out in junior high school. When Haidong dropped out of high school, he also restrained himself and was regarded as a figure who "exited the arena".
At that time, Zhao Minshan preferred to play with the young gangsters, which was more interesting.
It's really sad to think about it, no matter how prosperous you were when you were young, in the end, you still have to be plain. No matter how good-looking she is, she will marry, and when she is married, she will have a bad temper, and when her sought-after temper comes, she will get divorced in one shot. But after the divorced women in the town, there are many bees and butterflies, but the people who care about them are pitiful.
This delay has dragged on until the age of 28, which is nothing in the city, but it is very unpleasant to say it at this age in the countryside. The first marriage is fine, the second marriage is even more troublesome.
Zhao Minshan glanced at Lu Yanchen, also in a trance, but she didn't expect to turn around and marry her.
…
When Meng Xiaoshan came to look for Gui Xiao, she had already got out of the car and was sitting on the dirt on the river bank in winter. Tears were wiped away, but the wind made his cheeks hurt and his eyes hurt too.
"Have you cried?" Of course Meng Xiaoshan didn't know about Inner Mongolia, but when she heard this location on the phone, she could guess the reason why Gui Xiao was so abnormal.
At the beginning, Zhao Minshan's divorce was well known in the whole town. The family was very embarrassed. So since I made an appointment with Lu Chen's family a few days ago, I really wanted to have a drink right away after receiving the dowry.
The best restaurant in town belongs to Meng Xiaoshan's house. Could she not know
Meng Xiaoshan took two cushions from her car, pulled Gui Xiao up, stuffed her under the cushions, and sat down herself: "If you were born and raised here, you would marry at the age of twenty-three or four. I haven't gotten married until twenty-seven, and I cried because of my first love when I was a teenager... Don't blame me for scolding you, Gui Xiao, do you think you are sixteen?"
"… "
"When you told me Haidong to break up, didn't you break it cleanly?" Meng Xiaoshan calmly seemed to be discussing other people's affairs, "You should cry, you should have cried when you broke up. Who has never had a first love, Always thinking about your first love, can't you live your life?"
Gui Xiao looked at the little men and women skating on the river: "I'm hungry."
"..." It was Meng Xiaoshan's turn to choke.
Meng Xiaoshan threw her car by the canal and drove back in Gui Xiao's car.
When she touched the steering wheel, she sighed, a good car just feels different, look at the center console, look at the sound effects... She has made a lot of money over the years, and she drives well, purely to amuse Gui Xiao. Gui Xiao shook his head and raised the corner of his mouth with reluctance: "If you want to leave, I'll change with you."
"No," Meng Xiaoshan couldn't help laughing, "you're still alive or dead, how can I take advantage of the fire?"
Gui Xiao pressed his forehead against the window glass and retorted her: "It's not about life or death."
I just feel like my life is over.