Chapter 65: The Past
For a while, there was only the sound of the wind knocking on the window in the room, Gu Qiao sat still, but everything in front of her was suddenly a little blurry, a few lines of black words jumped to show a person's life, and those unknown old things were like a sucker cup, trying to suck her in now.
Her eyes were extremely sour, Gu Qiao thought, it must be the fault of the dim light above her head, she handed the few pieces of paper to Jiang Zhengze, although she was smiling, he clearly saw the tears in her eyes.
"It's ridiculous, do you think there will be a shallower mother-daughter relationship in the world?"
Jiang Zhengze looked down, but in just three minutes, just one page, he had written all the life of a person, he sighed lightly, turned his head and saw that Gu Qiao had already poured himself a drink, and most of the bottle of wine had gone down, and he held down the wine glass.
"Don't drink it. β
Drunkenness followed the supravascular nerve, and the smoked person had a drowsy headache, Gu Qiao held his cheeks with one hand, and his eyes were red.
"What do you mean by parents?"
"The two people who brought me into this world are my biological parents, Li Fengying and his wife... I guess it's my adoptive parents. However, they all hated me, no one wanted to support me, no one wanted to accompany me, no one told me how to be a smart and brave person. No one will think that I am still a child, a person will be afraid, will suffer a lot of sin, will be bullied, will not be able to eat, maybe they know, but still... Or choose to throw me away..."
"Gu Qiao. Jiang Zhengze muttered, his voice soft and unbearable, "You can't think so..."
"Then tell me, what should I think? Self-deception gives reasons for their behavior, makes excuses, keeps brainwashing themselves, and they are forced to do so, and they also have a hard time? Don't tell me those so-called don't hate, don't feel that the world owes you, live well, and you will definitely meet people you think are worthy in the future, and live the most fulfilling life...... It was all meaningless chicken soup, and it didn't hurt or itch to say, and the greatest pain that the person who said it was probably just a slip and a fall under his feet, but some condescending cheap sympathy. β
Jiang Zhengze's throat moved, but he didn't say anything. Gu Qiao's eyes turned red all of a sudden, she didn't know what was wrong with her, obviously everything was not the fault of the person in front of her, but she blindly took care of her temper.
"I'm sorry, I... No... Not at you, it's just..."
"It's okay, you can lose your temper with me, you don't need to have any scruples. β
Under the shroud of the dim light overhead, Jiang Zhengze's face carried a tenderness she had never seen before.
"It stands to reason that I hate her so much, I should be happy to see her end up, it turns out that even if she throws me away, she still hasn't been able to live a personal life, but I'm not happy at all, on the contrary, I'm even a little sad, it's ridiculous, I'm actually sad for someone who abandoned me. β
In the thick of the night, Gu Qiao's cold voice rose and fell, affecting Jiang Zhengze's heart to rise and fall together.
Before seeing the results of this investigation, Gu Qiao didn't know where he was, who his parents were, and who his birthday, name... When she was still Gu Shunxi, she didn't have a very clear understanding of this matter.
"When I was very young, I ran once, desperately trying to leave Baiquangou, but was caught back by Li Fengying halfway, she told me that I don't have parents at all, this sentence is indeed a basin of cold water, poured down, at that moment, I completely understood that I was indeed a person abandoned by my parents, I am different from you, I was not born in the love that my parents expect, I was just a mistake. β
Gu Qiao is very sad, it is more difficult than that since the dust has settled on his life experience, there is no hope in his fantasy from now on.
"I don't understand, how can she have a bad life?
"Gu Qiao..."
"How can she have a bad life?
"Gu Qiao!"
Gu Qiao seemed to wake up suddenly from a nightmare, and went straight to Jiang Zhengze's close face, the two of them almost put their foreheads together, and in an instant, Gu Qiao clearly saw his worry and uneasiness from Jiang Zhengze's eyes, as well as his own reflection.
"You're not!"
"What?"
"You're not a mistake, there are a lot of people and they all love you. β
Gu Qiao's eyes were full of disbelief, and after being stunned for a few seconds, he laughed at himself, "Will it? β
"Don't always have self-doubts, you deserve their love. β
"Look at her. β
Jiang Zhengze handed over a photo, the man on it was about his early thirties, wearing a neat suit, with neat short hair, but the figure made the person next to him a little shorter, with a delicate appearance, and a chic smile at the corner of his mouth.
"The person in the photo is my grandmother, and like you, she is a person whose mother is unknown and whose father is unknown. In this era, with such a life experience, you should be able to imagine how hard she lived, but she never gave up, nor did she ever belittle herself for a moment, she always told us juniors that it was because she received too little love from others in the past, so she had to love herself more. Later, she disguised herself as a man, and by her own efforts, she became the first batch of foreign students in the Qing government at that time, and after returning to China, she became an architect. β
"And then?"
"Later... She met my grandfather, and that's another story. Two years ago, my grandmother suffered from Alzheimer's disease, many things, many people don't remember much, but often talk about those things when they were young, I think what she misses most is the time when she stayed in the most beautiful years in her own country, I returned to China for these outsiders to see the dilapidated obsolete buildings, they are all my grandmother's works back then, I try my best to restore it to its original state, and when everything is finished, I will take her back to China to see. β
"She's such an amazing woman. β
"I just want to tell you that no one's life is easy, it's one thing to be sad, but life still has to go on. The beginning may be set, but the future path is all on its own. β
Gu Qiao's eyes were full of bloodshots, and she looked directly at Jiang Zhengze, looking directly at the only person in the world who knew her life experience and shared her thoughts, she thought, she was not lucky, she had found a true friend who could be completely trusted, and finally closed her eyes for a while, exhaled a hot breath from her chest, and slowly straightened her body.
"Is there a fire?"
Jiang Zhengze handed her a lighter, Gu Qiao took the lighter, licked the kraft paper bag with the jumping tongue of fire, and soon burned, under the light of the fire, Gu Qiao's face flickered, the paper quickly turned to ashes, and the wind blew and completely disappeared in the night wind.
"Promise me one thing, forget about tonight, I won't talk about it again. β
The wind blew, as if the long-standing knot in his heart was blown away, Gu Qiao chuckled, picked up his mobile phone and said, "Now you can notify Mendes to make a statement, he can finally sleep soundly." β
"Hmm. β
Jiang Zhengze knew that Gu Qiao was sad tonight, he raised his hand and gently patted the back of Gu Qiao's hand twice, his palms were hot, and Gu Qiao's hands became more and more cold.
He is willing to warm her cold heart with this heat, but at this moment he is not qualified to embrace and comfort, and the relationship between the two is still in the scope of friends.
In the dark night, affection flowed, but Gu Qiao didn't notice it, she leaned back in her chair and said softly.
"I hope that after the statement is issued, the public's eyes will stop exploring everything in the past, stop paying attention to my life experience, and hope that I am me in their eyes. I'm going to compete more in the future, win more gold medals, break more records, and I'm going to be a very successful athlete and let everyone in the world know my name, I know it's ridiculous and naΓ―ve, but I still want to..."
"There will be a day like this. β
Jiang Zhengze's tone was so determined, and his eyes were so gentle, that in a trance, Gu Qiao had an illusion that the person in front of him believed in that beautiful future more than himself.