During the May Day holiday, Yao Yuan accompanied his grandma to the hospital to see a doctor. The old man had some chest tightness in the past two days, but fortunately, the examination results showed that there was nothing serious. On the way back from the hospital, the old lady asked the taxi driver to pull over halfway, "Son, walk here with grandma."
"Okay." The intersection ahead is where her parents had a car accident.
Yao Yuan helped his grandma and walked slowly there. When he was about to reach the intersection, a man passed by.
Yao Yuan, who was lowering his head, raised his head subconsciously. At that moment, she almost couldn't believe it, because she recognized this person's face, although it was very vague, but she recognized it. The man who was about to pass also stopped in his tracks. He was a little surprised to see them, or caught off guard, but soon, his expression recovered, and then he nodded to her and walked away.
Yao Yuan stared at him, unable to say anything, knowing that grandma asked her kindly: "What's wrong?"
"No, nothing."
Jiang Wenhan, how could he come here? Is it a coincidence, or...
After Jiang Ancheng received his uncle, he asked, "Send you directly to the hotel, or do you have other places to go?"
"The hotel, I've already been to the place I want to go." Jiang Wenhan smiled and asked, "Where's An Lan?"
"At his uncle's side."
"Really? I'll go over to say hello to Mr. Zhao later on. Now his calligraphy is worth a thousand dollars and hard to find, right?"
"yes."
"Scholarly family, his son Zhao Zijie hasn't received much influence, but An Lan has more of the scholarly taste of that generation." Jiang Wenhan said slowly, "I saw that girl today. I heard that An Lan likes her?"
Jiang Ancheng was taken aback for a moment, and then responded.
"It's a coincidence." Jiang Wenhan raised his hand and pinched the center of his brows, then didn't speak again.
When he arrived at the hotel, Jiang An sent him to check in for his uncle, who was sitting on the sofa in the lobby, such a refined man, when he didn't smile or speak, he always had a faint melancholy air, which made him look Feeling vicissitudes of life. "Unexpectedly, my incident would still harm people." Jiang Wenhan muttered to himself, propping his forehead, thinking of the girl he met before, she was only eight or nine years old at that time, and she could still recognize him However, the old lady who cursed him in court that he would suffer retribution and be struck by lightning did not remember him.
Later, Jiang Anlan heard Jiang Ancheng mention that his uncle had also come here, so he just hummed to show that he knew. Jiang Ancheng went to sit on the sofa next to him, "Do you want to talk to him? The hotel you two live in is not far away." He originally wanted to book this hotel for his uncle, but after thinking about it, he decided to forget it. . In the final analysis, he still prefers the brother side. For the younger uncle, not to mention the issue of seniority, he has only seen each other almost once a year for so many years, and the relationship has faded after all.
Jiang Anlan flipped through the interior design drawings in his hand, "What are you talking about? He is my relative after all. And since I have identified her, I will definitely let this relationship go to the end."
After Jiang Ancheng listened, he was speechless for a while. When this cousin started to do things seriously, he always felt like he was making a bold decision.
"Second brother, turn around and look at the house here. I want to try to install it before December this year."
"So fast?"
Jiang Anlan sorted out the design drawings after reading, and said calmly: "Get it done as soon as possible, so that you can get married and have children as soon as possible."
On Yao Yuan's side, the uncle finished his work in the evening, drove to her residence, and took the old lady back to the countryside. She was the only one left at home again, she watched TV for a while, and finally went to the study to turn on the computer.
I checked the messages on QQ, one of which was sent by Little Jack, half an hour ago, "Master, when are you going to play the game? I was hunted down by others, so pitiful."
She didn't want to reply at first, but she still couldn't help sending it to ask: "Who killed you?"
Little Jack replied quickly, "Miss, are you here? I don't know who they are, they have killed me several times, saying it was because I was the apprentice of my brother and my wife, so..."
"Where's your brother?" She asked this completely out of conditioned reflex.
However, her words made the fingers of the man in front of the computer with his younger brother number slightly stagnant, "I'm busy."
"Oh. I'm on the game."
"Wait, I don't want to play the game right now, Master, you can chat with me, I'm so bored."
"All right… "
"What are you doing?"
"I'm chatting with you."
Jiang Anlan pursed her lips and smiled slightly, "Can I have a video with you?"
"Well… "
"is it not OK?"
"No."
Jiang Anlan pulled off the external camera above the screen and put it in a drawer, "But I don't have a camera."
So it became a one-sided video, Jiang Anlan looked at the video frame on the screen for a long time. Her hair was cut short, he noticed it the last time he sat in the car watching her, and as for her face, she seemed to be thinner again. "Is Mistress losing weight?"
"No."
Yao Yuan heard the phone ring, "Xiaojie, I'll answer the call, you wait."
Jiang Anlan watched her go to the back to answer the phone, with her back to the screen, her figure looked really thin. He turned up the volume, and could vaguely hear her low voice.
He really missed her so much.
The call was from Yao Xinran, asking Yao Yuan to go on a trip with her tomorrow, the latter shook his head, "I won't go, there are people everywhere during the holidays."
"Our unit organized it. I want to take your family with you. Is it really exciting to go on a five-day trip to Jiuzhaigou?"
Yao Yuan was really not in the mood to go out, but he didn't want to make his cousin worry too much, so he joked, "If it was a foreign country, I would go, there should be fewer people."
"The requirements are quite high." Yao Xinran laughed and scolded, and then asked, "Let me introduce you to a handsome guy, a colleague from our unit. How about arranging for him to meet you when you come back from the tour?"
Yao Yuanhan, "No need."
"He's really handsome, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a very good figure..."
Yao Yuan interrupted his cousin, "Sister, I don't want to meet any handsome guy."
Yao Xinran sighed in her heart, is it just because the starting point is too high? That Jiang Anlan...
After Yao Yuan ended the call, he returned to the computer and asked Little Jack, "Are you still there?"
"Yes." Jiang Anlan typed, "Don't you want your brother?"
Yao Yuan was speechless immediately, this child... "Uh, children don't care about adults' affairs."
"I'm not young anymore."
"At least you're still underage, right?"
Jiang Anlan lowered her head and smiled slightly, and said to herself, if I knew you when I was a minor and then cared about you, you must be within my reach now.
Love is the most invisible thing to find, but once it touches it, it is the most inseparable.
The two chatted for a while, and Yao Yuan finally said that she was going to the beach for a walk, and they said goodbye to each other. After she turned off the video, Jiang Anlan got up and walked to the floor-to-ceiling windows of the room, looking out at the sea. She has also been to this room in this hotel, and took a nap with him here.
You said, is there really something magical in this world? Just watching her in the video, he kept thinking repeatedly in his mind that he wanted to see her, not the kind of untouchable meeting on the Internet, but she will come here in the next moment.
Can he see her earlier
He's really not very patient.
Yao Yuan went out when the sky was full of sunset, and took a bus to the seaside of the city. She has wanted to come here since the beginning of spring.
There are many people walking on the beach, most of them are tourists. The sea breeze blowing in the early spring brings a slight coolness, which is very comfortable. Yao Yuan walked from north to south. She walked very slowly, thinking about her thoughts. She walked for about 20 minutes. It was gradually getting dark and there were fewer people. Beyond that was the most upscale sea view hotel in Jiangning City. Yao Yuan stopped suddenly, and was about to turn around and walk back when someone came up behind her and grabbed her arm. She was startled immediately, and turned her head to free her hand, but the next second she forgot to move because she saw the person in front of her clearly.
He said softly, "Xiao Yuan."
For Yao Yuan, seeing Jiang Anlan right here and now made her even more upset than being caught suddenly. The former is frightened, and the latter, I don't know what kind of emotion it is.
"you… "
"I said it was a coincidence, do you believe it?" He who had never bothered to lie since he was a child, was full of nonsense today, and Jiang Anlan laughed at himself sadly.
Yao Yuan naturally didn't believe it, but Jiang Anlan didn't give her much time to think, and reached out to hug her who was lying sideways. Yao Yuan struggled to break away from him. He was slender, with long arms and legs, and he put more effort into hugging her. She was helpless, but she couldn't escape, "Didn't we agree?"
The usually cold man turned the person in his arms to face him without much thought, leaned over and kissed those rosy lips. They kissed twice, the first time was cloudy, the second time was lingering, but this time, Yao Yuan only felt tenderness like water. She really likes him. She thought sadly as she closed her eyes.
Even the last few rays of light in the sky dimmed, leaving only the nearby human fireworks dotted here and there. Jiang Anlan pushed aside the short hair on her forehead, and kissed from the corner of her eyes to the side of her neck, "I love you, Yao Yuan."
Yao Yuan didn't open his eyes and let him hug him.
In the end, he hailed a taxi for her, gave the driver a hundred yuan, told her address, and closed the door for her. As the car drove away, she looked at his figure in the rearview mirror, standing still in the dark night.
In the next two days, Yao Yuan went to the countryside to accompany his grandma. At noon that day, as soon as the uncle and auntie went out, someone stepped into the front yard of their house. Jiang Wenhan walked to the door of the living room. At this time, Yao Yuan was in the living room with his grandma. She was sitting at the Eight Immortals desk marking students' homework, while grandma was lying on the wicker chair next to her, twirling a string of Buddhist beads and chanting. Yao Yuan heard the sound of footsteps and looked towards the door. The next second, he stood up abruptly. The sound made the old lady who had closed her eyes open her eyes. far away friend?"
Yao Yuan stared at the man, he bowed slightly to the old lady, said "Hello", and then said to Yao Yuan, "I think you would rather come out and talk to me."
She didn't want this person to enter the house, so she said to grandma: "Grandma, I'm going out, it's cold outside, so don't come out."
Jiang Wenhan followed Yao Yuan to a blossoming pear tree in the front yard and stood still, "Miss Yao, I came here just to tell you that no matter how much you hate me, I have nothing to compensate you. "
Yao Yuan was stunned for a moment, then glared at Jiang Wenhan fiercely, "I have nothing left for you to destroy, please leave immediately."
Jiang Wenhan froze for a moment, then gave a low wry smile, "No, what I mean is, I also have nothing, so there is nothing to compensate you..." Looking at Yao Yuan's disgusted and angry eyes, Jiang Wenhan twitched the corners of his mouth, "Do you think I'm lying? I also hope that this is a lie, a nightmare... Don't say that everything turns around, it's just a dream... Unfortunately, I have had this nightmare for sixteen years, and I may continue to do it in the future , I won’t be able to wake up for the rest of my life.”
Yao Yuan remained silent.
Jiang Wenhan said: "I didn't come here to beg for your forgiveness. My whole life has already been ruined in that car accident. Forgive or not, nothing will change. Girl, I am forty-five this year, twenty-five I went to jail when I was nine years old. My lover waited for me for three years. She said we would get married when I came out, but she left in the last year. After I got out, I tried every means to find her. I searched all the places, and I found out later that she didn't leave, but died. She was a reporter and died in San Francisco. Now, I have nothing and I don't want anything. I came here just to finish these words with you. I don’t want to see people being affected and hurt unnecessarily because of my fault.” And sometimes, it’s not necessarily better to be alive than to be dead. Jiang Wenhan thought lightly in his heart, but such words cannot be said out loud.
A gust of wind blew, and pieces of pear blossoms fell. The gentle and elegant man looked up and smiled slightly, "Little girl, I've finished my words."
Jiang Wenhan left, and when he left, Yao Yuan watched his figure gradually melt into the darkness, feeling unspeakably lonely.
When Yao Yuan turned around, he met a pair of old eyes, "Grandma, why are you standing at the door?"
"It's getting dark and there are many mosquitoes outside. I wanted the guests to come in and talk..." The old lady walked slowly to the pear tree.
Yao Yuan hurriedly supported grandma, "Well, he has already left, let's go back to the house."
The old lady patted her granddaughter's hand with a smile, then looked at the pear tree and said, "This tree was planted by your father when you were born. Now it is so tall, and you have grown up too. Grandma I still remember that when you were three or four years old, the pear tree bloomed for the first time. You ran under the tree, but you couldn’t speak well, so you recited an ancient poem. '."
Yao Yuan's nose was a little sore, he stretched out his hand to gently hold grandma's arm, and said in a low voice, "Grandma."
The old lady said again: "Yuan is a good boy, he shouldn't suffer so much. Grandma recites Buddhist scriptures in the morning and evening, and she only asks the Bodhisattva for one thing, that is, that you and Xinran are happy and healthy."
Yao Yuan suppressed the soreness in his eyes, lowered his head, and replied softly: "Yes."
In the evening, my uncle sent Yao Yuan back to the urban area. As soon as the uncle's car left and she was about to enter the building, someone ran towards her, "Ms. Madam!" It was Jiang Jie.
Yao Yuan was very surprised, "Why are you here?"
"I'm here to play, and my mother is here too." He looked back, and a lady not far from them came over with a smile, and said to Yao Yuan, "Miss Yao, can I talk to you?" Her voice was gentle, It makes people feel the feeling of moistening things silently.
Yao Yuan couldn't help thinking that she had seen so many Jiang family members these two days.
They went to the nearest tea restaurant outside the community. Jiang Jie held Yao Yuan's hand all the time, said "sister" on the left, "sister" on the left, his mother didn't say anything, just looked at the child tolerantly, and sighed to Yao Yuan: "My son is naughty, don't mind."
"No." Yao Yuan really likes children, not to mention Jiang Jie is so cute.
After the tea was served, Jiang Jie's mother said seriously, "Actually, An Lan's father asked me to come this time. Ms. Yao, have you heard that An Lan wants to change her surname?"
Yao Yuan frowned and shook his head.
Jiang Jie's mother sighed, "Because of your matter, An Lan told his family to change Jiang's surname and follow his biological mother's surname. Naturally, his father would not allow it, but An Lan has been used to being independent since he was a child. If his father doesn't agree, he will still do it. His grandfather loved him since he was a child, and he let him do anything that can be accommodated, but in this matter, the old man agreed to him somehow. His father these days I've been restless all day, and after thinking for a long time, I decided to let me talk to you. Maybe there will be a turnaround. An Lan's father is a person who cares about face, and he also wants to have successors in the company he has worked so hard for all his life, so he can't accept An Lan no matter what. It was because of the change of mother's surname that I made this decision. Let me talk to you. My child, I know that it is selfish for us to make such a request. An Lan loves you, and he has a reason to do everything for you. Some things are not good even if there is a reason.”
Yao Yuan was stunned when he heard this, and didn't know how to speak for a moment.
The other party said again: "Can you talk to him? As long as he doesn't change his surname, everything else is easy to talk about."
Yao Yuan finally forced a smile and said, "You probably know who I am, right? I mean, you know who my parents are. If I'm with him, don't you guys worry that I have bad intentions? ?”
There was obvious pity on the gentle and quiet woman's face, "We are sorry about your parents. And I know, you are a good girl. An Lan loves you, Xiaojie likes you, and An Cheng also mentioned it to me on the phone. However, you are perfect for An Lan, because you are stronger, independent and sensible than many girls."
"I'm not as good as you said." Yao Yuan really felt that he was not that good, at least not good enough to deserve so much for him.
"I will talk to him." When Yao Yuan said this, the preoccupied woman in front of her finally showed her face. She took Yao Yuan's hand and patted it gently, "Thank you, child, thank you."
Before leaving, the other party also said: "If I am lucky enough to have a daughter, no matter how hard I raise her, I'm afraid I may not be able to teach as well as you."
Yao Yuan just smiled faintly. She thought of a sentence her mother said when she was a child: "Being a human being is hard and simple, but as long as you follow your own heart, no matter what you do, ups and downs, it's all worth it."
He did these things as he wished, right
But is it worth it
After Yao Yuan arrived home, he sat on the sofa for a long time, and finally took out his mobile phone to call him, "Are you in Jiangning City?"
"Not here, shall I come?"
"It doesn't have to be today..."
"It's okay, I'll come." His voice was soft and magnetic, the tone of a lover.
After two days, they still met again.
When he appeared at her door, he obviously came in a hurry. Yao Yuan couldn't bear it, but he still held back and didn't say anything, and let him into the room sideways. Jiang Anlan took off his suit jacket, and the white shirt on the back was slightly sweaty, but his expression was as calm and calm as ever.
"What do you want to drink?"
"Water." He said, and finally smiled, "Why do you suddenly want to see me?"
Yao Yuan poured him a glass of water, "Xiaojie's mother came to see me." She didn't say that Jiang Wenhan also came to see her, she didn't hide it on purpose, but felt it was unnecessary to say.
"Yeah." Jiang Anlan responded, but the reaction was flat, "You don't have to care about what they say."
Yao Yuan didn't notice that he said "they", but just said: "You don't need to do that." The two seats were originally separated by a certain distance, Jiang Anlan got up and sat next to her after looking at her for a while. Yao Yuan didn't look at him all the time, she was afraid that she would be discouraged if she looked at him.
The atmosphere was somewhat awkward, at least for Yao Yuan. She had never been so unsteady, sloppy, inconvenient, and troubled herself. If she had known that such past events were involved, the two should not have come together from the very beginning, at least she would not have approached him, so that she was in such a dilemma now.
What a shrewd and transparent person Jiang Anlan is, "I changed my surname not for you, but for myself. Yao Yuan, I am a very selfish person. I want you to be with me without any psychological burden, so that my life can be fulfilled .”
The two of them didn't speak for a while, until Jiang Anlan said with a little smile; "How about we elope?"
"..."
"Xiaoyuan, you actually helped me twice, do you remember the last time?" If it wasn't necessary, this second time, he didn't want to say it.
"ah?"
"I was hospitalized shortly after graduating from Jiang University. I was in Beijing at first, and then I was transferred to Jiang Ning's hospital. I stayed in the hospital for more than half a year. I was so annoying..." Jiang, who originally wanted to say "very annoying" An Lan changed her words midway, "I feel bored, and I don't like eating well. You know, the food in the hospital is not very tasty. One day, I went to the restaurant outside to eat by myself. The people at the next table were very noisy, and I Those few days... I was not in a good mood, so let them shut up... "
Yao Yuan went out to work in the first semester of his sophomore year. His first job was to work as a waiter in a high-end restaurant. The salary was very good. He was required to look good and speak good English, because most of the consumers there were foreigners. As a result, she hadn't been working there for a week, but she ran into trouble. Three or four foreigners at one table bullied a polite Chinese at the next table. The manager just went out that day, and the colleagues around me were muttering and didn't know what to do, so she didn't think much about going up to help the compatriots, and said to the foreigners in English: "He didn't mean it, sorry, you at this table I'll bury the bill." As soon as she finished speaking, Yao Yuan regretted that she was still short of money, so what kind of hero was she? No, she was taken advantage of. But since the words were spoken, it was too late to take them back. Fortunately, there was no violence in the end.
"You paid me twice, although the latter time, I don't think it's necessary." Does he look that weak
As for Yao Yuan, she is naturally not a person who does good deeds everywhere. She has had a very difficult life since she was a child. Of course, when she sees someone in need of help, she will help, but after all, it is very rare for people to lose their money when they are caught. As a result, the big money was paid for him twice, and Yao Yuan didn't know what to say.
"Are you trying to repay your kindness..."
Jiang Anlan interrupted her rather helplessly, "I thought our relationship was more like Romeo and Juliet." Besides, he has never been a good man and a faithful woman, and he still wants to repay his favor? It's just because she is her that he treats her differently and intentionally magnifies that kindness infinitely.
"Yao Yuan, let's start over."
If her heart could be a little colder, she would say no to him, but she is not decisive enough after all.
There are always such people in the world who make you feel involuntary and powerless, and those twists and turns in the middle are just to let you see that helplessness more clearly.
Yao Yuan sighed, and finally looked at the person who was afraid to face him once, "I've been thinking about you a lot lately."
"Um."
"I don't want to think about it, but I still can't help thinking about it, and then I can't sleep."
Jiang Anlan kept staring at her intently, his breathing was a little shallow, afraid that if he was not careful, he would interrupt what she was going to say next.
"I may not be able to get along with your relatives without any grudges."
"I know."
"I just like you..." She was still a little sad when she said this.
"I know." Jiang Anlan stretched out his arms to embrace her, and closed his eyes deeply. The relief was so palpable. The man who has always known how to make use of his strengths and avoid his weaknesses, and keeps his cool is too lazy to hide his thoughts at this moment. He has already clearly revealed his previous feelings to her, so he doesn't mind admitting his previous panic and uneasiness at all. , "If you have been unable to accept me, I really don't know what to do, fortunately... fortunately."
They made up, didn't they? During this period of time, both of them had a bad time, and now they were leaning together, feeling indescribably peaceful. There was a faint fragrance in the room, Yao Yuan thought, probably the scent of dried lavender flowers that her aunt asked her to bring back from the countryside today to soothe the nerves.
"What are you thinking?" Jiang Anlan bowed his head and kissed her forehead.
"Thinking about that bouquet of lavender in the dining room."
They just sat on the sofa in the living room, chatting without saying a word.
When Yao Yuan fell asleep, Jiang Anlan's cell phone turned on, and there was a text message: "How is it?"
Who can play against someone as full of heart and mind as Jiang Anlan
Those people in the family would come to her, all because of his quietness. Even such a major event as changing his surname, he managed to do it in the end. This kind of thing is difficult to handle even in some ordinary small families, let alone a famous family like the Jiang family. In fact, according to his prediction, even if she doesn't call him, he can come to her after preparing for at most one day.
"Last Qingming, when I went to my mother's grave, I told her that I would take you to see her during this time.
"When my mother died, I didn't know much about her. I only found out about her later by listening to others and reading some notes left by her. She also took my name,'I My child, I wish you a safe and peaceful life, and my name is An Lan.'Although my half life is not a safe and peaceful life, I did not die early...
"My parents met when they were in college, and they fell in love freely. My mother sacrificed a lot for my father, gave up her own ideals, and married from Jiangning to Beijing. My mother was in poor health, and she couldn't adapt to the food and environment in the north. But for her father, she is willing to do anything. I am probably more like her in this regard, maybe I am even more. I will spend more means than her, regardless of the cost, and will never give up until I achieve my goal, just to get what I want.
"Xiaoyuan... I'm not kind, but I will never betray you."