On the way back, Meng Xiaoshan hesitated several times, thinking that Gui Xiao just couldn't let it go for a while, after all, Zhao Minshan was also an old classmate of her same class. But halfway through, I realized that Gui Xiao was really heartbroken.
"Gui Xiao, do you really still miss him? Sincerely?"
Gui Xiao frowned and shook his head.
"If there is no Zhao Minshan, it does not exist, what will happen to you?"
Gui Xiao shook his head again. I don't want to talk, I don't want to discuss it.
Gui Xiaojing leaned against the car window glass, her expression was not superfluous, her black pupils reflected the seemingly familiar yet unfamiliar scenery of the town outside the car window.
Meng Xiaoshan's restaurant is located in the center of the town, where the two army compounds border each other.
The three-story building of a single house is very stylish.
In the middle of the door is a bronze lion with a height of two people, the bronze plaque is engraved, and the long history of the hotel is detailed... Meng Xiaoshan is a person who is particularly good at doing business, and he just made this hotel famous. When the restaurant opened in the early years, Gui Xiao was still in college at that time. In order to spread her restaurant, she wrote a travel note about the natural scenic spots near the town, and brought it to the restaurant every time. Later, after graduation, she began to contact those who do. The public relations communicator, introduced to Meng Xiaoshan—
In the final analysis, the food is delicious and the style is high, and it has become the largest restaurant in the town.
The boss's friend is naturally the single largest private room.
Gui Xiao asked to eat the sheep scorpion, and the hot white mist filled his eyes when the pot was served. Gui Xiao picked up the chopsticks, poked at the bones in the pot, stood in a daze for a while, then flipped twice, walked for a while, and then went to the mutton that had been boiled for a long time...
"Do you want to eat, or do you want to play? If you want to play, I will turn off the fire for you and stir slowly."
"I'm like Zhongxie," Gui Xiao whispered, "My friend had his car stolen in Erlianhot, and I asked him for help. Later, the car thieves took revenge, and he taught him a lesson..."
Xiao Cai didn't know the past between her and Lu Yanchen, at most it was an ambiguous speculation, and then went to make a few jokes.
Therefore, for Gui Xiao, facing Meng Xiaoshan, he is much more calm. After all, the people in front of him know how to be together and how to break up. She thought that she guessed that the matter of Qin Xiaonan was Lu Yanchen showing weakness and subduing, and wanted to give the two a chance to start over, so she was full of expectations, so she became affectionate, and she achieved everything today.
"I didn't expect those things in Inner Mongolia. I thought you two haven't seen each other for more than ten years. You can't bear to hear that he is going to marry an acquaintance." Meng Xiaoshan pushed away the chair and got up, opened the door to say hello, and asked the waiter outside the door to take it. Baijiu came and asked in a low voice, "Is my husband still there?"
"Yes, it's not gone yet."
"Let him come over after eating."
Meng Xiaoshan seemed to want to persuade her, but she hesitated again, and the private room was dead silent again.
Until the door was pushed open, Qin Feng, who was quite arrogant, strode in and smiled when he saw Gui Xiao: "Here you come?"
Gui Xiao nodded and smiled.
"My car is still on the side of the canal. After dinner, you can help me drive it back." Meng Xiaoshan remembered the car that was thrown by the river.
"Why did the car get thrown by the canal?" Qin Feng sat down, "You drink with me, I can't drink."
"Gu Xiao is a little uncomfortable, so I'll help her drive over first."
She thought that Meng Xiaoshan was looking for someone to drink with her, so she called her husband Qin Feng.
After Meng Xiaoshan and Haidong broke up, they almost lost contact with friends in Haidong, so Qin Feng was the only one who could know Gui Xiao and Lu Chen at the same time. Qin Feng was ten years older than Meng Xiaoshan. In his early years, he was the owner of the most profitable billiard hall and game hall in town.
At that time, most of the things that Gui Xiao and Lu Chen, Meng Xiaoshan and Haidong were messing around together happened under the eyes of this man. The garage, the billiard hall, the game hall, the summer vacation we spent together at the beginning of the year was almost in these places... Gui Xiao blew his bangs lightly and smiled at Qin Feng symbolically.
Qin Feng saw that something was wrong with Gui Xiao: "What's the matter? Who was your sister bullied by?"
"Lu Chen."
Gui Xiao glared at Meng Xiaoshan, shook her head, and told her not to say anything.
"Lu Chen? Aren't they all in their teens?" Qin Feng smiled. He was really young, and he could toss.
"I have a deep feeling," Meng Xiaoshan smiled lightly, "I just picked her up by the canal and persuaded her for a long time, thinking that she was seeing her first love and was going to marry an old classmate she knew, and she couldn't think of it for a while. I've seen it in Inner Mongolia, it's more complicated than I thought, so I can't make up my mind."
"I'm not sure what to say? What should I say?" Qin Feng was happy. "Gu Xiao is almost thirty years old. This is the first half of his life in the past. You still treat her as a child, such an adult?"
"Okay," Meng Xiaoshan felt that she was too paternalistic because of her man's education, so she pushed away the chair, walked behind Gui Xiao, leaned over and hugged Gui Xiao's shoulder, "I didn't tell you just now, It's because I don't want you to get involved in this shit."
Meng Xiaoshan was silent for a while, then sighed: "A few days ago, Haidong and I borrowed 400,000 yuan. Do you know who it is for?"
What happened next caught her by surprise.
About two years ago, Lu Yanchen's father's auto repair shop had a bleak business, few customers, and was on the verge of closing. Later, he borrowed 500,000 yuan from Zhao Minshan's family to clear the relationship, and cooperated with nearby auto dealers and insurance companies. , the expansion of the factory building, this is back to the spring. But when Zhao Minshan's family proposed to buy shares and pay dividends, Lu Yanchen's father turned his face and refused to recognize him.
So, Zhao Minshan's family took the loan and asked Lu Yanchen's father to pay back the money. This matter has been done by an intermediary and things are old, and it is still deadlocked. Not long ago, Zhao Minshan's parents suddenly came up with such a method, and the two families got married. As long as Lu Yanchen's father agrees, the money doesn't need to be returned, the betrothal gift can be what it means. Zhao Minshan heard that it was Lu Yanchen, and immediately agreed.
As soon as they hit it off, the two got married.
"His father is not a thing. He doesn't pay back the money he borrowed, and he doesn't want to pay dividends. He just wants to use his eldest son as something to pay off his debts." Meng Xiaoshan concluded.
Lu Yanchen was completely kept in the dark about this matter. After hearing the news, the first thing he did when he came back was to borrow money, pay it back, find someone to talk about it, and break off the marriage—
"Lu Chen came to me as soon as he came back. Because I had a close relationship with Zhao Minshan's family in the early years, and they did a lot of business together," Qin Feng said, "I bypassed Lu Chen's family and talked to Zhao Minshan's parents, but they let them go. In other words, it's okay to break off the marriage. First, you need to pay back one million. Second, Lu Chen needs to find a reason to let Zhao Jiashun go down the stairs. Lu Chen didn't say a word of bargaining, and said that he didn't want the dowry, and he would pay another hundred thousand to the Zhao family. Lu Chen, I, and Zhao Minshan's parents discussed this matter together, and both Lu Chen's parents and Zhao Minshan were bypassed."
Meng Xiaoshan hummed lightly, "Zhao Minshan needs to know, it's not so peaceful."
"I can't say for sure," Qin Feng smiled, "you have a big enough prejudice against her."
"Gui Xiao, Lu Chen and I have a good relationship in the past, but let me choose, I will choose your position," Meng Xiaoshan walked around the table and walked back to her husband, "he only saved money after he was in the army for so many years. He paid hundreds of thousands of dollars, and now he borrowed hundreds of thousands to repay the money to break the marriage. Not to mention that he is poor and has foreign debts. Hearing what he said about Inner Mongolia, I can hear that he is still interested in you. But this time, you have the initiative. In your hand, don't be impulsive, think clearly."
Qin Feng was not very happy when he heard this: "You kid..."
"Who?" Meng Xiaoshan wasn't happy either.
"Okay, okay, you woman," he shook his head, "Lu Chen is a good person. After so many children in the town over the years, he is the only one I can look at. How high a person can go depends on luck, How far you can go depends on your character."
"Don't push Gui Xiao into the fire pit, I'm too lazy to talk about his family..."
Qin Feng cleared his throat.
Meng Xiaoshan said angrily and said, "To be fair, what does Gui Xiao want, what kind of lid does the pot go with, why does he Lu Chen?" Qin Feng: "People throw their heads and shed their blood, and spend the best ten years to protect their homes. Wei Guo, why do you say people?"
"The head is still there, and not much blood has been spilled—"
"Meng Xiaoshan." Qin Feng's face sank.
Meng Xiaoshan resigned: "I won't say it, but you can't talk too much about him. Let's be fair."
Qin Feng shook his head and smiled: "If I didn't say it, it would be really unfair to him."
The potato chips that had been thrown away earlier in the copper stove were all boiled.
With a pair of chopsticks, it broke into countless pieces and fell back into the boiling broth.
There were all kinds of things that could fill the stomach tumbling in the water, and what was tumbling in my heart was what happened after I met him again. What day was it, the gas station? Have a meal? Or later that night? Or did he learn at some point during that time that he was engaged
"Gui Xiao?" Meng Xiaoshan called her.
Gui Xiao shook his head: "I'm fine, I just remembered that I was hungry when I was in college, and the two buns spent a day together."
The couple didn't know how to answer this.
Gui Xiao was really hungry. He put on plastic gloves and took the freshly cooled sheep scorpion to eat. After eating for a long time, he said softly, "Except for him, I have never liked anyone for so many years, not a single one. Maybe I missed it. This time, he is too lazy to get married."
The couple understood this.
The days have passed, and marriage is not a necessity, it has always been the state of Gui Xiao over the years.
After lunch, Qin Feng went to get a car for Meng Xiaoshan.
Gui Xiao wandered around in Meng Xiaoshan's office doing nothing, sitting by the window for a while, and flipping through her entire wall of cabinets for a while, Meng Xiaoshan was also annoyed by her affairs: "Go to my house, I'm being tricked by you. It's going to be frustrating."
So, in the hutong after the two returned to the junior high school, the yard of Meng Xiaoshan's house was renovated.
The original one-story courtyard has been turned into a three-story building, but after so many years, the billiards room still remains. Gui Xiao pushed open the white glass door, and four sets of heaters were connected to the room to warm a small room. In the afternoon, the sun shines through almost the entire wall of glass—basking in the sun, that's what it feels like.
Gui Xiao touched the green suede pool table and thought of learning billiards here at the age of fourteen, taught by Haidong, and directed by Meng Xiaoshan.
"I'm going to pour the water, you yard the ball first." Meng Xiaoshan threw her coat on the corner rattan chair and went out.
After a while, people came back without a water glass.
"Lu Chen is here, do you want to see me?"
Gui Xiao was still digging the ball out of the cat's pocket. Hearing these words, he raised his eyes and stared at Meng Xiaoshan, startled.
Seeing her like this, Meng Xiaoshan knew that what she said at noon was in vain, and Gui Xiao was still the original Gui Xiao, feelings are feelings, life is life, and they are too clear. I can't see through it at all, and it is estimated that I can't see through it in this life. Meng Xiaoshan clenched her wrist: "There are so many people, it will be troublesome to break off the marriage. If you two want to talk, just tell me at my house, and I will let him come in first."
Gui Xiao's mood was up and down that day, but now he panicked: "...what am I going to say? I'm not ready yet..."
"What?" Meng Xiaoshan laughed, "I told you Gui Xiao, not me. He was smart enough to ask the Haidong license plate number when he saw an empty car parked at the small intersection of the Canal. You're here with me. So you don't have to say anything and see what he has to say."
Meng Xiaoshan patted her on the back and told her to wait in the room, then went out and brought Lu Yanchen in.
Gui Xiao leaned against the pool table and watched him walk in through the two dark green iron gates. Although the big wolf dog was on a leash, it could be seen that a strange man was still barking fiercely. Lu Yanchen tilted his head to recognize the dog's four snow-white paws, and whispered the dog's name.
After the big wolf dog barked two more times, it fell down with a whimper. When Lu Yanchen saw this dog, it was only a few months old, and it was not easy to recognize him.
Gui Xiao put his hands behind his back and clasped his fingers on the edge of the pool table.
He stepped up two steps, walked into the house, and looked at her in the sunlight. Now the girl is doing well, it should be said that it is very good. He can't bear to worry that she will be bothered by things that should not belong to her. Watching her leave the garage in tears in the morning, it hurts more than when he broke his arm by parachuting from a high altitude, and more flustered and numb than the explosives that he detonated when he first dismantled it.
If you can't drag her down the fire pit, then try to crawl out.
He really, had loved such a girl in his life and was reluctant to bear it.
"The matter between me and Zhao Minshan is complicated, but it's different from what you think." He tried to finish the matter as quickly as possible with the simplest words. As soon as he thought about it, Gui Xiao cut it off softly: "I know."
She didn't want him to repeat those real dilemmas and hurt a person's self-esteem too much.
Lu Yanchen nodded slowly, it seemed that Qin Feng had explained everything that should and should not be said.
He didn't say any more nonsense: "Give me some time, Gui Xiao."
Gui Xiao leaned against the pool table and nodded lightly.
"Soon," he said, repeating in a low voice decisively, "soon."