Chapter Twenty-Three: Drinking Together
It didn't take long for Yu Pan'an, who returned home, to receive news of Yanyan.
Yan Yan first asked her why she left without saying a word, and then said that today's work was canceled, so that she didn't have to come back in a hurry.
Yu Pan'an: Canceled???
Yanyan: Yes, Teacher Ji took the girl who broke in and left.
Yu Pan'an felt that his heart was in turmoil all of a sudden.
Ji Zhiheng took Geng Yao away, does that mean that he agreed to her marriage proposal?
However, today she just told Yanyan that she and Ji Zhiheng are just colleagues, and now she asks if her "colleague" has agreed to the marriage proposal. So, she didn't say anything, and she didn't ask.
Putting down the phone, Yu Pan'an looked out the window a little distractedly.
The spring color is very good, but she has no intention of appreciating it at all, and the praise sentences that come to mind are at most the level of elementary school students' compositions. Because her mind was all occupied by the sentence "Is Ji Zhiheng going to get married?"
At this time, she was just sitting in her small room, and there was no need to lie to herself, and there was no need to explain to herself why she felt sad and couldn't accept it.
- It's fine.
She leaned back and lay down on her bed. The bed was very soft, and she fell into it most of the time at once, and she felt as if her mood had been healed a lot.
Then, before she knew it, she fell asleep.
It wasn't until night fell that she slowly opened her eyes.
I slept for a short time, and it was obvious that I was going to lose sleep tonight. Yu Pan'an sat up a little upset and moved his sore neck. People always say that the best way to solve problems is to sleep, but now that she has slept well, she seems to be even more unhappy.
It's okay, you can't sleep, and alcohol.
Aunt Du would definitely nag her if she saw her drinking at home, so she decided to go to a bar. Remembering the lesson of being followed when she came home in the early hours of the morning, she swore that she would not walk around when she left this time, and that she would have to take a taxi when she went out.
After telling a little lie to Aunt Du, Yu Panan took his crossbody bag and went out. The spring night was still a little cool, but fortunately she put on a not thin coat, and she didn't feel cold at this time. She hailed a car and went straight to a nearby bar.
This time she came to a more formal place than the last time, and there was no waiter at the door who smoked and checked whether people had brought their own drinks. Yu Pan'an felt a lot better, she raised her feet and walked inside, but froze the moment she just entered the house.
The person sitting diagonally in front of her and lying on the table seemed to be Ji Zhiheng.
However, she immediately denied her idea, thinking that Ji Zhiheng should not appear here. He just agreed to the marriage proposal, even if he wants to drink, he should be drinking red wine sweetly at home with Geng Yao, how can he be drunk in a bar alone.
Maybe she's dazzled.
Even thinking so, Yu Panan couldn't help but get closer.
The man lying on the table had a short braid, and even the length of the braid was about the same as Ji Zhiheng. The dim light hit him, making Yu Panan very dazed. She rubbed her eyes several times, and finally determined that this should be Ji Zhiheng.
The clothes he was wearing were the ones Ji Zhiheng was wearing today, if it was a coincidence, it shouldn't be so coincidental.
Before she could figure out whether to call Ji Zhiheng to get up, a group of drunken people came from behind them. They were holding each other and making loud noises, and the one who walked in front was dangling a bottle of wine in his hand. The wine was open, and as he shook it wider, it spilled from time to time. When they walked to Ji Zhiheng and Yu Pan'an, the person holding the wine didn't know what he had tripped over, his hand was crooked, and the rest of the wine was sprinkled on Ji Zhiheng's clothes.
Ji Zhiheng woke up. It's just that when he raised his head and found that Yu Pan'an was sitting next to him, he felt that he might still be sleeping.
Is it a dream or a reality?
The person who spilled the wine didn't care whether he was sober or not, and hurriedly came over to apologize to him, muttered a lot, and finally handed him a few pieces of cash, saying that it was "dry cleaning fees". Seeing that he didn't take it, he stuffed it directly into his hand.
It wasn't until the group of people left that Yu Panan took out a pack of tissues from his bag and handed it to him.
"Let's wipe it first. ”
Ji Zhiheng took the tissue and wiped it casually with his feelings. The wine wore off, and he remembered why he was here.
After talking to Geng Yao, he drove here to drink. He forgot exactly how much he drank, and the empty bottles had already been taken away by the waiter.
Anyway, I guess I drank a lot.
"Why are you here?" Ji Zhiheng asked Yu Pan'an, his voice was hoarse.
"Come and have some drinks. ”
"Are you in a bad mood too?" he asked, pressing his eyebrows.
"Who said drinking must be because you're in a bad mood. Yu Panan said as he ordered two bottles of wine for himself. She noticed that Ji Zhiheng said the word "also", but she didn't ask much.
"Would you like to have two drinks together?"
"Are you still drinking?" Yu Pan'an glanced at him, "You're already drunk." ”
Ji Zhiheng pinched his eyebrows. "Still not drunk enough. ”
Yu Pan'an deliberately joked, "How can you be drunk enough, walk in, and then be carried out?"
Ji Zhiheng smiled.
When the waiter served Yu Pan'an's two bottles of wine, Ji Zhiheng took one of them directly and naturally. He raised the bottle in his hand and said, "Let's have a drink." ”
This time, Yu Pan'an didn't refuse again, she nodded, "Drink, the wine money is yours." ”
Adults drinking two drinks together seems to require no identity and no reason.
The two of them drank silently for a while, although they drank together, but there was no communication. Yu Pan'an knew that he must have had something unpleasant with Geng Jiao when he looked at Ji Zhiheng's state, so he couldn't ask, so he could only wait for him to say it himself. But what obligation did she have to drink with him here and listen to his grievances?
"Yu Pan'an. ”
Ji Zhiheng suddenly called her full name again, just like when they met for the first time after he returned to China. But this time he didn't have any bad news to tell her, just asked, "Is it really impossible for two people to say that they don't have the same views?"
Yu Pan'an laughed a little unhappily. "Please, please make it clear, I don't want to answer casually and become a villain. ”
Ji Zhiheng didn't go around in circles, and told him and Geng Jiao everything about it. When he had said that, he sighed. "She felt that when I said not the people of the world, I meant material life, and I didn't mean that. ”
"You probably didn't understand what she meant. Yu Panan said, "What she means may be that she has no material life, so she doesn't have the heart to think about the spiritual level." ”
"Are you speaking for her?"
"No, I hate her. ”
“...... It's rare to see you so direct. ”
"What's there to do about it. Yu Pan'an took a sip of wine, "Hate is hate, doesn't she hate me clearly." I can understand what she did to you, but I can't agree with that. I can understand what she did to me, but I will never forgive. This is the way it is between people, understanding is understanding, and accepting or not is another matter. ”
"You can at least understand. Ji Zhiheng smiled bitterly, "I can't even understand it." I knew she was from a bad family, but I still couldn't believe she would do something like that. Doesn't that sentence say that people in the gutter also have the right to look up at the stars. ”
Yu Pan'an snorted and laughed. "You have to be a person who has really lived in the gutter to say this, don't you just stand and talk without backache?"
“...... Possibly. Maybe that's what she thinks. ”
"You went to university abroad, and the students in that school should be from a similar background to you, so you haven't come into contact with anyone from a bad family. I'm different, I went to public in college, and I've met a lot of people from poor families. It can only be said that romance and dreams are indeed extravagant, and not everyone has the heart to think about them. I don't think it's wrong for Geng Yao to be realistic, her only fault is that she shouldn't lie to you. ”
Ji Zhiheng shook his head, "What about you, if your family is very poor, what kind of person will you be." ”
"How do I know that. Yu Pan'an replied with his mouth, but he was thinking in his heart: I think I should be able to dance in a chicken feather.
I didn't say it because I thought it would be boring to say it, as if I was belittling others and elevating myself. Besides, she has not tried to live a life of financial worries, so she is not qualified to say that kind of thing.
"I don't think it's really possible for me and her this time. When Ji Zhiheng said this, he didn't look at Yu Pan'an like he did just now, so it was more like he was talking to himself.
So Yu Panan didn't answer. She fiddled with the small turntable on the bar at random, watched the pointer stop at the "kiss on the person opposite", startled, and quickly turned another big circle.
The pointer rests on "drinking".
She silently took a sip of her wine.
When Ji Zhiheng and Yu Panan left the bar, it rained heavily again, Ji Zhiheng's car was parked far away, and the two of them had to brave the heavy rain to run in the direction of the car together. The heavy rain wet their hair, blurred their vision, and they couldn't see the road clearly, so they could only estimate a general direction in their minds.
It's not a comfortable thing to get drenched in the rain, but maybe it's because of a little wine, and the two of them are quite happy in the rain, as if all their worries have been washed away.
Because of drinking, Ji Zhiheng had no choice but to call a substitute driver, he first sent Yu Panan back to his residence, and then let the substitute driver drive in the direction of his home.
The rain did not mean to decrease at all, and he looked at the dense rain marks on the windshield, and his heart was much quieter.
What is right and what is wrong seems to have really passed.
Think of it as a new beginning.