This is his first Christmas Eve in Shanghai.
Although he has been in a church school since he was a child, he is not a true Catholic because his teaching is more rigorous. But Gu Pingfan, a devout believer, will definitely go to church for midnight mass tonight.
So he made an appointment with Gu Pingfan very early to go shopping.
I just didn't expect that there would be so many people.
Gu Pingfan looked at the girl's clothing far and near, feeling a little at a loss: "TK, what are you here to buy?"
He pondered for a moment: "Girlish clothes."
… Gu Pingfan glanced up and down at him, and just about to laugh at it, she suddenly understood: "Is it for your student Tongyan?" As she said, she gave way to a few student-like girls.
"You are about the same size as her, and you have good taste..." He didn't deny anything, only that he was standing in the crowded group of girls, a little abrupt, "Buy me some suitable clothes, I want to make a Christmas present."
He raised his hand and looked at his watch: "I'm waiting for you at Coffee Bean downstairs, twenty minutes?"
Seeing that he was begging for someone, his tone was polite, but he didn't give him a chance to refuse at all.
Gu Pingfan was accustomed to his childhood style. He didn't even bother to speak, so he squeezed into the crowd with due diligence.
He went to the Coffee Bean downstairs, which was also overcrowded, and bought a cup of Earl Grey tea casually.
Fortunately, when the tea came out, someone left in the corner. The two young couples in school uniforms around him were laughing happily. The boy suddenly took out a box and didn't know what was in it. The girl opened her mouth and screamed, making an exaggerated expression.
"Ten minutes," suddenly a bag blocked his sight, "down jackets and scarves, all look what I like. Since you praised my taste, I bought what I like."
He opened the paper bag and looked at it, but it turned out to be royal blue: "Why have you been standing still? Have you liked this color for seven or eight years?"
Gu Pingfan took out his wallet and was about to buy water: "You said back that night that Tong Yan looks good in this color."
After speaking, I stood up and went back to buy a cup of coffee.
The two people’s seats were in the corner. When Ordinary came back with coffee, they almost tripped over the sloppy seat. They finally sat down, looking at Gu Pingsheng who was leaning on the sofa, and suddenly pressed his lips to look at him. .
Gu Pingsheng noticed her gaze and tilted his head slightly, motioning her to speak out.
"You and your student..." She thought about her words, and finally decided to be straightforward, "Are you together?"
After a brief silence, he said: "Just the beginning."
Gu Pingfan raised his eyebrows, took a sip of coffee, and suddenly talked about a topic that he never talked about, which can be said to be a taboo.
"I chatted with several heart surgery doctors in Ruijin a few days ago. Speaking of your mother's name, they all remembered this famous heart surgery doctor." She took another sip of coffee and continued, "So many years have passed. Now, even the irrelevant people still remember Auntie, TK, didn’t you forget it at all?"
He didn't speak and picked up the cup.
The tea is a little cold.
"Although you never said it, I always think you love your mother very much," Ping Fan said, "Auntie graduated from Pennfa, you must go to Pennfa, I know very well that you could have a better choice at the beginning. Auntie It was a heart surgery, and you ended up doing a heart surgery... including your name, TK, Tong Ke, Gu Tongke. You are all in the shadow of an aunt."
He still didn't speak.
In the end, ordinary people felt that this topic was too unpleasant.
She sighed secretly: "Actually, what I want to say is, you have to think clearly, is the teacher-student love also because of your mother? This is not a foreign country, and you know very well that teacher-student love is not so popular. Or it is because the girl is called Tong. Yan?" She guessed, asking the last question, "Or, she has a very similar experience to you?"
The white ceramic cup was raised to his lips, and he paused inexplicably.
Gu Pingfan watched him continue to drink water and fully understood that this was just a one-way conversation. When she gave up, he unexpectedly responded: "Are there any songs playing here? If so, what are they?"
Gu Pingfan was startled. After listening for a while, he shook his head and said, "I can't hear it. It should be a very new song. Now that the kids listen to it, I haven't heard it."
"Have not heard?"
"Have not heard."
"Whenever I know a new friend, I will feel this way. It is unfamiliar. I haven't heard it before. I probably won't have the opportunity to listen again," he said, looking at ordinary eyes. "You and I grew up, so you and I When you speak, I can still remember the manner and tone of your speech. Thinking about it now, it hasn’t been a few years since I was sick to today. I almost forgot even Zihao’s voice."
This time, Gu Pingfan was silent.
"I don't remember much about women's voices, but when I saw Tong Yan again that day, she still remembered her voice clearly."
To be exact, it was her thirteen or fourteen-year-old voice.
"It's a sense of familiarity," he said, tapping the porcelain cup with a few fingers rhythmically.
Perhaps at the beginning, it was because of this rare sense of familiarity.
He suddenly changed his tone: "And then? Who can say it clearly," his hair covers his eyes, and his smile is warm and harmless in the soft sunlight by the window. "If this feeling can be said clearly, God won't Use the story of ribs to prevaricate the world and describe love."
Gu Pingfan smiled angrily: "Don't blaspheme my faith."
"There is no blasphemy at all," he said, "I agree with the part of your conviction."
"For example?" She looked at him amused.
"For example, marriage is a gift from God and is sacred. For another example, God gave sex as a gift to mankind, but only in marriage, it is the most intimate expression of love, any sex outside of marriage It's all wrong." As expected from the church school, he didn't even have to think about it. "These, I am sincerely convinced."
When it was almost five o'clock, he was the only one left.
He remembered the time Tong Yan had said, and he wanted to wait here until half past five. Unfortunately, the plan was used to be disrupted. Luo Zihao violently texted him in Xintiandi, and he must meet him in person. He was not very familiar with Shanghai. He was going to take Tong Yan to dinner and was planning to go to Xintiandi, but he couldn't stand Luo Zihao's text message chase, so he had to go there first.
He had booked Din Tai Fung's seat early.
"The stuff here is good," Luo Zihao just sat down, and he caught a glimpse of the paper bag by the table and the obvious women's color inside... "TK, did you make an appointment with Zhao Yin?"
"Between your ex-girlfriend and you, can you not get involved with me?" He beckoned, asking for a drink list.
Luo Zihao laughed: "Don't tell me, you have a girlfriend? Have I met?"
The waiter brought the wine list, and he gestured to Luo Zihao.
"You haven't seen it yet, but she will be here soon."
Luo Zihao was almost burned to his fingers by a cigarette butt, and felt as if he hadn't seen him in his entire life. Why did he change so much
Since receiving the text message, she seemed to have done something wrong.
But Shen Yao whispered softly all the way, begging her to accompany her to dinner, without giving her a chance to refuse. In the end, she had to send a text message to Gu Pingsheng with a guilty conscience, saying that she might be late. Soon, he replied:
It's okay, I'll wait for you. TK
Holding her phone, she began to count the time silently.
When I arrive in the city after six o'clock, eat faster, or leave in the middle of the meal.
It should be possible to get to him after seven o'clock.
Shen Yao didn't expect it to go so smoothly. He didn't make a reservation in advance. He only said that he wanted to take care of two guests from the north and taste Shanghai cuisine, so he chose Ding Tai Fung from Xintiandi.
As a result, when I arrived at the door, I realized that there were nearly a hundred people waiting. She had a headache looking at so many people.
Just about to leave, Shen Yao stopped unexpectedly: "Tong Yan, look, it's Teacher Gu."
My heart flickered, a little panicked.
She turned her head, through the entire glass wall, Gu Pingsheng sat in a very eye-catching seat.
It just so happened that I saw them at the same time.
Shen Yao desperately shook her hand through the glass to say hello, and she could only follow Shen Yao's movements to greet him schematically.
Then I saw him withdraw his gaze and continue to talk to the person in front of him.
"Your teacher is a scumbag," Cheng Yu smiled, "I don't look like a teacher who teaches laws."
Shen Yao took Tong Yan's arm: "The first time he came, I was shocked, completely overturning my impression of a law student. Forget it there are too many people here, I will take you to eat near my home. Forget that today is Christmas Eve, there must be no seats where there is no acquaintance."
Cheng Yu shrugged: "I do whatever, in your place, I can only let you command."
Tong Yan was confused, thinking of countless excuses, but couldn't find any reason to leave.
As a result, he could only follow Shen Yao downstairs uneasy. Because it was a holiday, there was no way to stop a taxi. They walked for 30 minutes, and she kept silently remembering the way, lest she couldn't find her way back for a while.
"What do you want?" Shen Yao ordered the food, and asked her in a low voice, "Why don't you behave since you saw your boyfriend. I think he is very good, quarreling is just a little fun, it's almost the same. Appropriate for people to step down."
Drinking chrysanthemum tea, Tong Yan whispered: "He is my ex-boyfriend, and he has nothing to do with me now."
"Ex-boyfriend?" Shen Yao opened his eyes wide, and immediately reached out to hold Lu Bei's hand, "It's not easy. With an uncertain future, he dared to cross 1,400 kilometers and chase to Shanghai. I support you!"
Lu Bei probably had never seen such a troublesome one, and looked at each other with Cheng Yu, wanting to laugh or not.
"By the way, The longer you have to wait for something, the more you will appreciate it when it finally arrives, this sentence is good."
Lu Bei was taken aback, looking at Tong Yan's doubts.
Tong Yan pulled Shen Yao's arm under the table. Before reminding her, Shen Yao blurted out, "Isn't it the text message you sent? He said he was waiting for Tong Yan?"
"Tongtong?" Lu Bei's expression was a little strange, looking at her.
Tong Yan pressed his lips tightly, and after hesitating for a few seconds, he said, "Yes, I have someone I like now."
The entire small box was quiet, and Shen Yao gradually understood what he had done. Cheng Yu suddenly coughed softly: "Shen Yao, go out with me to smoke a cigarette?" Shen Yao, who had a rare acquaintance, immediately followed out, leaving the two of them.
Tong Yan never looked at Lu Bei again, and he did not speak.
He held the cup in his hand, tightly, as if he was trying his best.
She continued to drink tea: "Maybe try it, and you will find that she... is not bad. No wedding ring, no living together, come to me on Christmas Eve, nothing will change, you are already married. Student of politics and law, how? Don’t understand the marriage law?"
She reluctantly pieced together such a sentence, and couldn't continue. It was Fang Yunyun who separated the two of them. She could try to forget Lu Bei, but she could not bless her with a smile. If there hadn't been that car accident, what would this Christmas Eve be like
The two didn't say a word, she quickly left the box and told Shen Yao outside that she had something to leave.
Shen Yao was a little stupid. He didn't expect the result of his matching all the way... When he went back, Tong Yan walked a bit faster and arrived at Ding Taifeng's door in more than twenty minutes.
Along the way, I wanted to text him, but I didn't know what to say.
He may have gone? What should I do if I leave
It was eight o'clock, and there was still a lot of people in the restaurant.
The seat is very eye-catching, and he is still there. The friend has gone.
The coat was placed on the back of the chair beside him. He was only wearing a light gray cotton shirt. From this angle, he could see the weird lights of Xintiandi coming through, and he, with his back facing the floating light, holding a book in his right hand, Half-ridden on the table, looking at it page by page.