It was originally a boring afternoon, and Yi Xinnong nestled on the sofa to read a book as usual.

Although she is in the bustling metropolis of A, she has always had little interest in shopping, and the fact that she faces a group of half-young and enthusiastic middle school students from Monday to Friday is enough for her to be tired, and on Saturday and Sunday, she just begs for a phone call that never comes in.

Since becoming the head teacher, she has been hollowed out, so tired that she just wants to sleep at home. Some of my good friends from college went back to their hometowns and some went abroad, and the friends who stayed in City A knew that she was too tired in the past year, unless she really wanted to meet, or she would contact her on WeChat, and rarely asked her out to meet.

However, Yu Qing, the director of teaching, occasionally gave her a ride when she got off work, and also liked to invite her to dinner at home.

At first, Yi Xinong felt afraid of disturbing others, so she wanted to refuse, but Yu Qing said that most of the time she was guarding the huge villa with her son and a nanny who was not good at words, which was really sad, and Xinnong went to the house to add some fireworks to the villa, besides, Yi Xinong is a single girl, living in a foreign country, and has no boyfriend, so she is always lonely.

Yi Xinong didn't want to give others some kindness, and besides, Yu Qing was also her boss at school, so she still accepted this sweet burden.

In the past six months, Yu Qing has been pregnant again, so she has done her best to help her.

This Saturday afternoon, Yi Xinong was holding an iPad to watch "Pride and Prejudice", the drama was broadcasting the classic scene of Daxi confessing to Elizabeth in the rain, and suddenly received a call from Yu Qing, she eagerly asked her to hurry to the seven o'clock café on the first floor of Ginza to help her get the contract for the construction of the new school, saying that she was now outside the prenatal examination room, and she really couldn't leave.

Yu Qing explained on the phone that she had an appointment with the other party at half past four, and Yu Qing glanced at the watch on the wall, and it was already four and five o'clock.

Fortunately, it is two stops from Gakufu Road, where she lives, to the Ginza subway.

Yi Xinong's rented house is on Xuefu Road, which is also near her alma mater, and she rented this apartment from her landlord when she graduated and interned.

She thinks that this place is quite clean and elegant, and the landlord is Buddhist, and she has never urged rent, so she has never moved her nest, and she has been renting for nearly two years. Although the community here is a bit old, fortunately, most of the residents are mainly students and teachers' families, the security is good, and the traffic is relatively convenient.

She comforted Yu Qing not to rush and set off immediately.

Yi Xinnong hung up the phone and hurriedly ran to the bathroom to wash her face and put on makeup, in fact, it was not so much makeup as a wipe, her skin was fair and extremely delicate.

As long as a colleague from the school meets her in a meeting, the first thing they say is always, Mr. Yi's skin is good, what cosmetics do you use, Yi Xinnong always doesn't know what to say at this time, because she is just basic skin care, and she rarely uses cosmetics, and she just rubs sunscreen when she goes out.

She looked at herself in the mirror, her eyebrows were curved like a crescent moon, and compared with the popular Korean flat eyebrows, there was a little more classical flavor, and a pair of almond eyes were more black and white because she went to bed early last night.

The dark circles under her eyes have disappeared a lot compared to yesterday, her nose is small and straight, and although her mouth is not bloody, it makes her beautiful and delicate, but it's okay, her lipstick is on her temperament, and she feels that her overall state is not bad today.

She quickly washed her face, winked at herself in the mirror, applied sunscreen and lipstick, and rushed out to change her clothes.

But it was still too late, and it was already 4:36 when she arrived at the café, and damn it, she strode into the café.

When she saw that there was no customer in the café except for the clerk, she wondered, could it be that the other party had already left? She ran to the service desk and asked the clerk if there were any customers waiting for someone who arrived at about half past four.

The clerk didn't lift her head, but stretched out her right hand and pointed at the corner of the corridor, and she looked in the direction of her finger, only to see a cup of coffee curling and smoking on the table, but the seat was empty.

She was a little flustered, walked quickly to the table, and saw a briefcase placed on the chair with clear corners, which relieved her, she sat down across the table, thinking to herself, this is probably the contracting party, and she should walk away for a while.

She took advantage of the gap when the other party did not come, took out her mobile phone to check WeChat carefully, and Yu Qing told her on the phone just now that she would send her the details of the contract in the form of pictures.

Although this contract has been signed and sealed by both parties, and she is only working as a messenger today, according to her cautious character, she still feels that the content of the contract needs to be roughly understood.

Just as Yi Xinong lowered his head to see his mind, a low and magnetic voice suddenly sounded above his head, polite and thoughtful.

"Hello. Is it Director Yu from Zhengyi Middle School?"

When Yi Xinong heard this, he hurriedly put down the phone, and bowed and apologized without raising his head, "I'm sorry, I'm late, I'm really sorry." ”

She only heard the other party smile lightly and said politely, "You are really polite, I have only been there for a while." Then a slender hand reached out and motioned to her, "You may be seated first." ”

Yi Xinnong only felt that this voice was strangely familiar, but she didn't think much about it, she just smiled happily, and raised her head as she spoke, "Director Yu has something to do today, I'll help her get the contract, I'm from Zhengyi Middle School..."

Yi Xinong didn't finish a word, the moment he looked up and saw the other party, he was stunned, the smile just now was still in his eyes and did not disperse, and now he just hung dryly on the corners of his eyebrows, interpreting the indescribable emotions, and I don't know how long it took to come back to his senses.

She didn't know what she was going to say, what she was talking about, so she just mechanically continued the unfinished words of the previous sentence, "Teacher... ”

The other party was also shocked when he saw her face, and his panicked expression flashed in his deep eyes, and then he was suppressed by some kind of restraint, "Hello, I am Gu Zhanqiao, the person in charge of this project. ”

The café is dimly lit and softly lit, with brick-red upholstery sofas and matte black dining tables for an end-of-the-century melancholy.

There were no other customers in the store, and the bored clerk seemed to be quietly busy with his own business at the counter, only the stereo sang Wang Ruolin's petty bourgeois singing, trying to break the silence that had lasted for ten years.

"Look at the sun shining, look at your back, you're only fifteen seconds away..."

Yi Xinnong's mind was blank, like falling into an endless white abyss, surrounded only by the whirring wind and his own frantic heartbeat.

Gu Zhanqiao in front of him has grown from a 16-year-old rebellious boy to a man with a calm temperament, his face is handsome and resolute, and his hair still looks straight like when he was a teenager.

Yi Xinong only remembers that when he was young, his hair was bright, always standing vigorously in the sun, and when he ran, the ends of his hair would sway like cyan wheat in the breeze, shining brightly.

Nowadays, his hair is trimmed to a more capable business look on the basis of gross inches, and it is ingeniously exuding a fashionable taste, and the sideburns around his ears are neat and clean, adding a lot of masculinity.

Gu Zhanqiao stood straight, his brows seemed to be lightly locked, the corners of his mouth pursed slightly, and he looked at the girl opposite with burning eyes.

The café sconces were striking at him from behind, and since it was Saturday, he changed into a looser casual trench coat, which was worn over his 185-year-old figure, which looked even taller, and the girl happened to be completely enveloped in his shadow.

The two men just stood like this, looking at each other in silence.

The two of them in silence seem to be trying to search for the remaining traces of the past on each other's bodies, and they both seem to distinguish some kind of strange aura in each other's bodies.

In a second, Yi Xinnong suddenly came back to her senses, she bit her lip lightly, quickly sorted out her emotions, and squeezed out a smile: "Please take a seat." ”

The other party also seemed to be pulled back to reality by her words, "Please do the same." ”

The two of them sat down, Yi Xinong looked at Gu Zhanqiao calmly, "Director Yu has something to do today, I'll help her get it, you brought the contract." ”

Gu Zhanqiao retracted his gaze and said in a voice that couldn't hear any emotion, "Bring it." As he spoke, he took out the document bag from the seat next to him, and took out a contract from it, and pushed the document towards Yi Xinong with his index and middle fingers together, and the whole set of actions flowed, "You can take a look at it first." ”

Yi Xinong picked up the contract, she tried her best to make her demeanor and actions appear calm, she flipped through the expected cost, construction materials, liability compensation, delivery date, payment and other important parts, although she couldn't read a word.

Everything should be consistent with what Yu Qing explained in WeChat, she thought a little scribbly.

Her eyes stayed on the last page, she didn't know how to move her head, her head seemed to need some courage to lift, the footer of the last page was already wet with her sweaty fingers, she looked at the blank part, as if looking at nothingness, and whispered aimlessly, "No problem." ”

"Hmm"

It's silence again, boundless silence, silence packed with too many emotions, silence that doesn't know where to start.

Thousands of emotions surged into her heart, thousands of words choked in her throat, the moment they met, but they were just speechless, she refused to look up at him, in fact, she refused to look up at him, in fact, she refused to look up to face this dense complex mood, which was a long time between the two.

Yi Xinnong only felt that her chest was airtight, which made her breathless, and the pain in her heart slowly dispersed, extending to her fingertips, and with a little force, her fingers were like being pierced into ten thousand steel thorns.

Ten years have passed, and the doubts, disappointments, resentments, and grief that have been in her heart have been mixed with some bright memories that have long been like her previous life have penetrated into her mind little by little, and those memories that have been sealed by her for many years have revived in an instant.

She originally thought that after such a year, she had already thrown the past behind in the rolling red dust, and never thought about it again, never to dwell on it, the summer that ended without a problem, that youth, the boy who amazed her whole youth.

It wasn't until I met him again today that I realized that all my efforts to forget were in vain.