Ruan Yu accompanied his mother back to his hometown in Suzhou City before the trial.
Two days before preparing to travel, she received a call from Liu Mao, saying that he happened to be going to Suzhou City to investigate a case in the past few days, and asked if they wanted to go with them.
As soon as Ruan Yu heard it, he knew that this was Ruan's father ordering mandarin ducks, and he wanted to refuse but couldn't.
Because Liu Mao said that the reason why she was invited was that Auntie was in poor health and tired of squeezing the high-speed rail.
She doesn't think about herself, she has to think about her mother.
In the early morning of that day, Liu Mao picked her and Qu Lan up and drove with full concentration, except for the initial greeting, he didn't talk to them much.
After getting off the highway and entering Su City, Ruan Yu sent him the location of his hometown, and heard him say, "Your place is quite close to Huai Song's grandma's house."
She didn't expect Liu Mao to even know the address of Xu Huaisong's grandmother's house, so she choked a little, and subconsciously glanced at Ruan's mother beside her.
Qu Lan was also a teacher at Suzhou No. 1 Middle School at the beginning. Before she was divided into arts and sciences, she taught Xu Huaisong Chinese for one semester.
Fortunately, she didn't have any special reaction, and she probably didn't remember this student. Ruan Yu quickly followed up on Liu Mao's words without seeing the gangbang: "Really? What a coincidence." After saying that, he smiled with a "hehe".
This episode was quickly forgotten by Ruan Yu. When she arrived near her hometown, she walked around with her mother and took a few photos. At noon, she asked her where she wanted to go for dinner.
Qu Lan said that since they are here, why not go back to No. 1 Middle School to have a look, and eat in the school cafeteria.
Ruan Yu suddenly became nervous.
Today is Tuesday, so Xu Huaishi must be at school. If she meets her by chance and she turns her head and tells Xu Huaisong, isn't he a big step away from "falling off the horse"
So, what reason does she have to reject her mother
No.
At twelve noon, Ruan Yu arrived near the school cafeteria.
Qu Lan came in a low-key manner, did not inform her old colleagues, and deliberately avoided the teachers' cafeteria. But this point coincides with the peak time for students to eat.
Looking at the students in blue and white school uniforms coming in and out from a distance, mingling together in twos and threes, full of vigor, Ruan Yu felt a burst of emotion.
She lowered her head and glanced at the dress on her body, and realized that she was out of place here, so she sighed to Qu Lan, "It's nice to be young, Mom, I'm already old."
Qu Lan glanced at her: "You are getting old, what should Mom do?"
"I'm going to borrow a school uniform. After you put it on, someone will ask you, 'Student, how can I get to the Art Museum'?"
"Poor mouth."
Ruan Yu smiled and walked forward, holding her hand, and when she was near the row of slop buckets in front of the cafeteria, she heard a girl say to another girl, "You didn't even eat the chicken legs, so it's not a waste, is it? "
The questioned girl glared at her and said, "What do you know?"
Ruan Yu suddenly lost his mind.
What the girl didn't understand, she thought, she might understand. - Chicken legs are delicious, but if there is a sweetheart sitting in the cafeteria, no matter how delicious the chicken legs are, they will only be wasted.
She used to be like this too.
The crush I had when I was young was that I had a pair of radar eyes, looking for him in the crowd all the time, but once I found him, I turned my head away quickly, pretending not to see him, and then made every move I made. Create the perfect ladylike look.
"Chicken legs, I want what I want. Xu Huaisong, I also want what I want. You can't have both, and the one who gives up the chicken legs and takes Xu Huaisong."—Thinking about it now, the secret love at that time was really too simple and pure.
The most romantic thing is to put a ladder for him to climb over the wall at the back door of the school, and the most passionate love is to be willing to give up his beloved food for him.
And all the romance and enthusiasm don't need to be responded to, or he doesn't even need to recognize you.
Ruan Yu entered the cafeteria in a daze and queued up. When it was her turn, she pointed to the braised chicken legs and said to the cafeteria uncle without hesitation, "Three."
She wants to make up for the meat she hasn't eaten in those years.
The surrounding students cast surprised glances at her, Ruan Yu was a little embarrassed, and said to Qu Lan, "Mom, you are too skinny, eat more meat."
Qu Lan spat at her in a low voice: "You are the only one who is clever!"
The mother and daughter found a corner seat and sat down.
There is no air-conditioning in the student canteen, only a dozen large fans blowing. Ruan Yu picked up the chopsticks, ready to meet the three chicken legs, but suddenly heard a male voice coming from the wind: "Xu Huaishi, that one just now, your boyfriend?"
She turned her head and saw a short-cut boy not far away holding a dinner plate and talking to Xu Huaishi.
Really can meet.
She was about to bury her head and keep a low profile when she heard Xu Huaishi's answer: "How can a boyfriend be so handsome? That's my own brother!"
Ruan Yu almost choked on a mouthful of food, but the next moment, Xu Huaisong came forward with a plate and sat down opposite Xu Huaishi.
What else did the short-cut boy say to Xu Huaishi, but she never heard it again, because at this moment, her head was full of "buzzing buzzing buzzing".
Seeing that something was wrong with her, Qu Lan asked her what was wrong.
This voice caught Xu Huaisong's attention.
She turned her head in fright, and the moment his gaze swept over her, she lowered her head and raised her hands, tightly covering her face, while shaking her head to her mother to indicate that it was okay.
At the other end of the long table, Xu Huaisong didn't seem to notice anything, and said to the person opposite: "Eat quickly, I'll take you home after eating."
Xu Huaishi let out a "huh".
Ruan Yu understood that the college entrance examination will be in a few days. In order to free up the examination room, the first and second year of senior high school had a short holiday. Xu Huaisong probably came to pick up his sister home.
Then, get through the meal and she'll be safe.
She pushed her hair to the right side to cover her face, then picked up the chopsticks, and felt that the three chicken legs on the plate were tasteless. Strong smile.
After eight years, I ate with Xu Huaisong in this cafeteria again, but it was the same as every time before, and I couldn't get enough to eat.
Ruan Yu breathed a sigh of relief when the brothers and sisters of the Xu family finally picked up their dinner plates and left.
After dinner, Qu Lan also planned to go back, but Ruan Yu was afraid that Xu Huaisong would not go far, so he deliberately dragged his mother around the school. Unexpectedly, he met the vice principal of No. 1 Middle School near the teaching building. He Chong.
This He Chong was Ruan Yu's English teacher back then, and he was very close to Qu Lan and Ruan Chengru.
He recognized Ruan's mother at a glance, was surprised and delighted, and blamed her for not saying a word when she came.
Now I can't escape a meal of reminiscing about the old days.
Fu Chong chatted with Qu Lan all the way, smiled kindly, and said: "Today is really strange, just now I also ran into a student from my old class, coincidentally speaking, he was in the same class as Ruan Yu."
Ruan Yu knew that Xu Huaisong was most likely what he was talking about. Because back then, only Class 9 where she was in and Class 10 where Xu Huaisong was in were liberal arts classes, so they had many teachers in common.
She intentionally avoided the point, and said with a smile: "Teacher He is full of peaches and plums, so there is nothing unusual about it."
This stubble is just like that.
The mother and daughter were invited to the principal's office, and it happened to be lunch break. After a while, a group of Qu Lan's old colleagues heard the news, and the hall was packed.
Ruan Yu felt that this scene was not suitable for her generation, so she proposed to go around the campus and come back later.
The principal's office is not far from the big playground. After going out, you can walk along a forest road full of cicadas.
The sun was not very bright today, so Ruan Yu went all the way to the playground and sat in the stands. On the shaded field, a group of boys are playing football.
She took out the notepad and pen she carried with her, sat on it and wrote: "June 5th, the weather was cloudy. I went back to Suzhou No. 1 Middle School today..."
As soon as I wrote this, a loud voice suddenly came from the opposite side: "Be careful!"
As soon as she looked up, she saw a football shooting straight towards the stands. Fortunately, it hit the railing in front of her with a "bang" and fell down.
She was startled, and her heart skipped a beat as if belatedly aware.
The instigator ran towards this direction quickly, and when he reached the stands, he looked up at her panting heavily, "Senior sister, are you alright?"
Ruan Yu was taken aback.
Isn't this the "ban-cut head" who talked to Xu Huaishi in the cafeteria just now
How did he know she was a "senior sister"
She got up and stepped forward, shook her head and said "it's okay", and then asked, "Why did you call me senior sister?"
The other party smiled and showed his big teeth: "Is that a school girl?"
Today's young people have really sweet mouths. It seems that the phrase "senior sister" is just a casual saying.
Seeing her smiling and not answering, the boy held the football and continued to ask: "Sister, what are you doing here?"
Because this boy and Xu Huaisong have already separated two relationships, Ruan Yu felt that it was safe, so he didn't act too coldly, and shook the notepad in his hand: "Come here to gather stories and record life."
"Caifeng? Are you a painter? Or a writer?"
"It's a writer."
"What book was it written in?"
"Romance novel."
"Then are you good at dating?"
Ruan Yu choked, and then saw him throw the football to a classmate, climbed up to the stands in two or three steps, and came to her: "Teach me how to chase girls!"
She laughed for a moment: "How high do you study?"
"Second year in high school."
"In a few days, you'll be a senior in senior high school. Do you still want to fall in love?"
He glanced at her: "It's boring, adults are all the same."
Ruan Yu was laughed angrily: "Did you call me junior just now?"
"If you don't say it, you won't be a school girl."
As he said that, he got out of the stands through the gap in the railing, took off the school uniform jacket that was in the way, and threw it on the playground track.
Ruan Yu took two steps forward and shouted, "What's your name?"
The boy didn't turn his head back, and waved to her with his back: "Zhao Yi, Che Shiyi, it's not iron!" After speaking, he turned his head and joined the battle in the green field.
Ruan Yu sat in the stands for a while, and wrote on a note pad: "During the graduation trip, tell her love, you must tell her." Then he tore off the paper, got off the stand, and stuffed it into the Zhao In the pocket of Yi's coat.
After doing this, she received a call from Liu Mao, saying that she was really embarrassed, but he met several important clients during the visit and had to send them back to Hangzhou.
"Ah, so." Ruan Yu thought for a while and said, "It's okay, I just book two high-speed rail tickets..."
"Wait." Liu Mao interrupted her, "I still have a vacant seat here, which is enough to send off my aunt, or let her take my car, make it more comfortable, and be careful on the way back by yourself."
That's all right.
She said "um", "then I will trouble you."
After Qu Lan finished talking with her old colleagues, she left the school. Ruan Yu accompanied her to a nearby shopping mall and waited for Liu Mao to finish his work. It was almost evening when she met him.
Ruan's mother originally wanted to take the high-speed rail with Ruan Yu, but she thought that if that was the case, her daughter would have to send her back to the suburbs after returning to Hangzhou, which would be troublesome, so she accepted Liu Mao's kindness and called her Pay attention to safety and report safety at any time.
Ruan Yu said "Okay" and was about to take a taxi to the high-speed rail station, but it was raining.
She gave her umbrella to her mother. Thinking that there would still be a lot of open-air roads later, she had to go back to the mall to buy another one. Useless.
The downpour rained heavily on the umbrella, and puddles of muddy water quickly formed on the bumpy road.
On a dim day, Ruan Yu was standing on the side of the road using a taxi app to hail a taxi. After a while, he received a call from Qu Lan: "Yu Yu, it's raining heavily, did you get a taxi?"
"Mom, don't worry, I bought an umbrella, and a driver has taken the order."
As soon as she finished speaking, a sports car flew past, the tires rolled over the potholes, splashing a puddle of mud on her white skirt.
She held back her breath, because she didn't want to worry Qu Lan, and after hanging up the phone, she clutched the phone to worry.
In this weather, the ghost will take her order.
She put the umbrella on her shoulders, wiped the skirt with a tissue, and kept refreshing the order page, worrying that she might not be able to catch the high-speed train, when she suddenly saw a Porsche Cayenne driving towards the side of the road where she was, and the speed was not slow.
After what happened just now, Ruan Yu immediately backed up to avoid it, but unexpectedly the car slowed down suddenly, passed slowly when approaching the pothole, and then stopped completely in front of her.
The rear window was rolled down, and Xu Huaishi poked her head out: "It's really you, Sister Ruan! Why are you here?"
Ruan Yu was taken aback, and saw Xu Huaisong in the driver's seat.
She hurriedly replied, "I'm taking a taxi and I'm going to the high-speed rail station."
Xu Huaishi greeted her: "Then get in the car, we will take you there!"
Ruan Yu was hesitating, when he saw that the front window had also been rolled down, Xu Huaisong said expressionlessly, "Parking is not allowed here."
She said "Oh" twice, quickly put away her umbrella, walked to the back seat, but saw Xu Huaishi wave her hand: "There is no room in the back!"
Ruan Yu had no choice but to turn around and get into the passenger seat.
The car was brand new, and she noticed it the moment she opened the door, so after sitting down, it was even worse to put down the wet and dirty umbrella, so that the water beads all dripped on her skirt.
While starting the car, Xu Huaisong glanced at her: "Just throw it away."
She said "hmm" and said "thank you", then put the umbrella under her feet not so casually, and heard him say, "seat belt."
Xu Huaishi in the back seat suddenly leaned forward: "Brother, the gentleman hero in ordinary novels will help the heroine wear her seat belt at this time."
Xu Huaisong and Ruan Yu: "..."
Is that a gentleman? Call it "conspiracy to commit crimes"
Ruan Yu laughed dryly: "I'll just do it myself." He said and pulled on the seat belt.
Because she knew why Xu Huaisong was in Su City, she didn't ask questions from the beginning to the end. After a while, she saw him turning the steering wheel with one hand, opening the storage box with the other, taking out a clean white towel from it, and handing it to her.
She took it in a daze, said "thank you" again, and then slowly wiped the mud and water stains on the skirt.
Xu Huaisong said "Yes", "Send Huai Shi first."
After all, it was someone else's car, Ruan Yu didn't have the nerve to say that if this was the case, she might not be able to catch up with the high-speed rail, and only planned to change the ticket if it was too late.
But when Xu Huaisong sent Xu Huaishi home, unloaded the big bags she put in the back seat, and returned to the driver's seat, she heard him say: "I won't go to the high-speed rail station, go directly back to Hangzhou."