Chapter 45: Nanqiao, I want to protect you
Sometimes it's not just one straw that crushes a person, it can be many.
At the entrance of Jingxian Central Hospital, Nan Qiao stared intently at a black Buick car in front of the hospital gate, and the people in the car were none other than her so-called family members.
It was her own father who drove the car, her stepmother in the passenger seat, and their nanny and a child who had just been born a few days ago.
Nan Qiao sarcastically pulled out a sneer, what a happy picture, now there is one more person in this world who is related to her, but none of them seem to exist as her.
No, it's not accurate to say that, otherwise she wouldn't be here right now.
"Nanqiao, what do you want? What did I ask you to buy?"
Suddenly, a middle-aged woman appeared in front of Nan Qiao, she was Nan Langui, Nan Qiao's sister-in-law.
"Give. ”
Nan Qiao handed Nan Langui a box containing a pair of gold bracelets.
This is the local rule of Jing County, saying that if a little doll is added to the family, the eldest sister should buy a pair of gold utensils, which means that he will always be safe.
Therefore, they thought of Nanqiao, and only at this time would they think of her.
Nan Langui opened the box, took a look, and said in disgust: "Oh, it's so small, don't you make a lot of money in a big city?
Listen, does this seem like what a family should say? It doesn't matter if Nan Qiao lives or dies, they still want to use her and hurt her.
If this was before, Nan Qiao probably wouldn't have replied, because she was actually very afraid of her sister-in-law when she was a child.
Nan Langui used to scold Nan Qiao a lot, and when her family was unhappy, she would be angry with her, in her opinion, this child was an orphan without a father and mother anyway, so why not bully her.
Of course, there is another very important reason, because the old lady can't take care of Nan Langui's children if she takes care of Nan Qiao.
So at that time, she could only spend money to send the child to the nursery school early, and for this reason, Nan Langui sprinkled her anger on Nan Qiao.
"Give it back if you don't. ”
Nan Qiao snatched the bracelet and stuffed it into her bag, Nan Langui couldn't react, this dead child was talking to her just now?
"Who are you talking to, dead girl? Why, after fishing a wild man, your wings are stiff, and you dare to play prestige in front of me?"
Nan Langui didn't put Nan Qiao in his eyes at all, "Bring the bracelet, if this is not a rule passed down from the ancestors, you want to keep your brother safe, who is rare for your stinky things." ”
As she spoke, she went to grab Nanqiao's bag.
"Get out of here!"
Nanqiao took out the bracelet from her bag and threw it on the ground, and years of humiliation turned into an invisible force at this moment.
She is no longer the Nan Qiao who can be trampled on by Nan Langui before.
"You listen to me, this pair of gold bracelets will be my return to his fertility, and from then on I will have nothing to do with him, and he will be him and I will be in the future. ”
What is a father who has given her nothing but life to come?
Nan Qiao turned around and left, and Nan Langui was stunned.
After a while, she reacted, picked up the box, and scolded in the direction where Nan Qiao left: "You dead girl, useless money-losers, upside down to men, shameless, just like your mother, you deserve not to get true love, the boy of the Han family doesn't want you at all, and he desperately sticks it up, you are so cheap, right? ”
Nanlan Gui was unobtrusive, at that time she thought that Nan Qiao was just a paper tiger, but who would have thought that the next scene would surprise her eyes and fall off.
I saw Nan Qiao turn around, throw away the bag in her hand, and rush to Nan Langui with a fierce momentum, pushing her to the garbage truck next to her, and then pressing her head on the stinking garbage.
"Nan Langui, don't be embarrassed, let me tell you, the former Nan Qiao died, and the person who is alive now is no longer the weak person who can be bullied by you before, this time I will give you a warning, if you dare to provoke me next time, it will not be this end. ”
After speaking, Nanqiao picked up the bag on the ground and left without looking back.
Nan Langui actually didn't know that she stepped on Nan Qiao's thunder, Han Zhen.
was worried that there was no place to vent his anger, so Nan Langui sent it over.
The family affection that she could rely on the most in the world has become a luxury in her, since this is the case, they don't treat her as family, why should she give them a good face.
Nan Qiao is like this, has she stepped out of the shadow of broken love and become stronger? No, she has wanted to do this thing for a long time, but Nan Langui mentioned Han Zhi so much, touching the string that detonated the anger in Nan Qiao's heart, so she became the object of venting.
Nanqiao got on the bus, she didn't come back this time to give a bracelet, her father never treated her as a daughter, she was not stupid enough to stick it up.
The reason why she returned to Jingxian was because she wanted to find the past, go back to the past and see how stupid she was when she was desperate.
It is a long and painful process of self-redemption, a phoenix bathing in fire and nirvana, and rushing out of the abyss of all evils.
So, before that, all she could do was to live every minute and every second in pain.
Nanqiao hasn't returned to Trillium Lane for a long time, but the things in the memories of the past are still there.
The electrical appliance repair shop at the entrance of the alley is still standing today in the high-tech leap, and Fangfang Beauty Shop is still the women she has seen since she was a child, and they don't seem to have changed except for getting older.
"Yo, Nanqiao is back? What about Ah Zhi? Why didn't you two come back together?"
The proprietress of Fangfang's beauty shop greeted her warmly, and she could be regarded as having watched Han Zhi and Nanqiao grow up.
Nan Qiao smiled and did not answer.
She continued to walk down the alley, and after a while, Uncle Han Zhi's car repair shop came into Nanqiao's eyes, which was the place she went to the most when she was a child, and every inch of the shop left memories of their past.
At that time, they would sit on the garage and play together, talk about the world, and talk about all kinds of interesting topics.
At that time, Han Zhi was not with Sheng Qiannuan......
At that time, she thought that she would become the proprietress of this car repair shop in the future......
Nan Qiao fell into the memory for a long time and couldn't extricate herself, this feeling is too sad, obviously the person in the memory has become someone else's boyfriend, but she is still deeply involved, which is really funny.
Nan Qiao didn't dare to stay longer, she wiped away her tears and walked to her house.
Grandma's commissary was no longer open, but Nan Langui didn't change the lock, and Nan Qiao opened the door with the key and walked in.
Everything here has not changed, there are still bits and pieces on the shelves, Nanqiao picks up a bag of snacks at random, and finds that it has been a long time since the expiration date.
After walking around the house, Nanqiao locked the door and walked towards a fork in the alley.
It's November, the rainy season has passed, the water in the moat is much shallower, and Nanqiao sat down on the dam.
The sunset dyed the sky vermilion, and the sunset made the scenery unique, but unfortunately even the beautiful scenery could not soothe the sadness in Nanqiao's heart.
She closed her eyes, and the tears flowed out like this, and she couldn't contain them, and she was crying hysterically here alone on the long dam.
The current Nanqiao is as fragile as the thin ice on the lake in early winter, and any memory can crush her.
Behind him, at dusk, the horses were broken, and Gu Shunshun stood in a row, just looking at her crying, looking at the shrugged shoulders, how sad it must be.
Han Zhi was right, Nan Qiao was really here, no one thought that the person who knew her best was actually the one who hurt her the most.
"Let her cry for a while. ”
Shen Dusk grabbed the horse that was about to go up the river dam and broke it.
"At this time, none of us can help her, sometimes it is not necessarily a bad thing to cry, the abyss, only by her own willpower can she climb out, what we can do is to protect and encourage her. ”
Ma Yu nodded and returned to his original position, Gu Shunshun was silent, he agreed with Shen Dushi's words, some things can only be walked out by himself.
It took about half an hour before the three of them appeared in front of Nan Qiao.
"You ...... How... Here?" Nan Qiao was still sobbing as she spoke.
"Come and accompany you, silly buckwheat, you won't tell me when you run back to Jing County alone, and you don't treat me as a friend. ”
The horse sat down next to her, and hugged her tightly with open arms.
obviously said that he was not sad, but he still couldn't hold back, and the horse broke and cried, "Buckwheat, I'm sorry, I didn't protect you and made you sad, I'm sorry, I'm sorry." ”
Nanqiao's tears that had been stopped could not break the embankment at this moment, and she and Ma broke and hugged and cried.
Gu Shunshun glanced at Shen Dushi helplessly, and then both of them smiled, and they sat down next to the two girls.
Shen sat next to Ma Buckw, and Gu Shunshun sat next to Nanqiao.
"Okay, don't cry endlessly, it's almost enough, and if you cry any longer, the river will be filled with water. ”
What Gu Shunshun couldn't stand the most was that the girls were crying, so he reached out and handed them tissues.
"Well, don't cry, buckwheat, isn't it just Han Zhen, let him hell with it. ”
The horse broke and wiped away the tears.
"Promise me, buckwheat, forget about Han Zhi now, live a good life in the future, you still have me. ”
"And us. ”
Gu Shunshun and Shen Dushi said in unison.
Nanqiao nodded, but was still sad and speechless.
The four of them sat on the river dam for two hours, during which they drank a lot of northwest wind and poisonous chicken soup, and with the company of friends, Nanqiao did not feel so lonely and sad.
About eight o'clock in the evening, Gu Shunshun proposed to go to dinner, and Ma Breaking immediately proposed to eat barbecue.
When it comes to beer, Gu Shunshun refuses in his heart, not to mention, he still regrets being a gentleman that night.
There is only one barbecue restaurant in Trillium Lane, and that is Black Dog's, and as soon as he saw Nanqiao, he excitedly shushed and asked warmly: "Mom, why are you back?
This "mom" almost scared Gu Shunshun to death, how could he not know that Nan Qiao had this ability, and he actually gave birth to such a big son.
Shen Dushi also had the same confusion, he knew that the man in front of him was definitely not Nanqiao's son, but he didn't know why.
She sighed and patiently explained to the two men: "This man's name is Black Dog, he is Nanqiao's hair, he used to bully Han Zhi and Nanqiao when he was a child, and later Han Zhi subdued the black dog and asked him to call his father, but he didn't expect to be able to change his mouth when he shouted like this, as for calling Nanqiao so much, it was not because she liked Han Zhi at that time, so you know." ”
Ma Breaking explained in detail, and Gu Shunshun and Shen Dushi also understood.
"Cut, neurotic, boring, childish. ”
Gu Shunshun pulled Nanqiao over to a small square table, "Eat your barbecue, I want to be a mother, I will give you a chance in the future." ”
Nan Qiao glanced at Gu Shunshun, "Nerves." ”
Now they look very much like flirting, Ma Jie took her eyes off Gu Shunshun in a panic, she didn't know when she started to pay attention to this man.
She thought she must have lost her brain.
Shen Dushi sat down at the table without saying a word, and no one knew what was going on in his heart.
The four of them happily ate barbecue, indulged in beer, chatted and talked about everything.
Seeing this situation, the black dog was a little puzzled, why the person who accompanied Nanqiao was not Han Zhi, but two strange men.
Curiosity kills people, the black dog took out his mobile phone and secretly took a video and sent it to the fence chicken.
When Ji Ji received the video, he was also very confused, he scratched his head and showed the video to Han Zhi next to him.
"Brother Zhen, why did Sister Qiao go back to Jing County? Didn't you go back with her? Look, this is a video sent by the black dog, how did I hear Sister Li Qiao say that she is going to forget you. ”
Han Zhi glanced at the video and didn't watch it seriously, so Nanqiao really went back to Jing County.
Han Zhi refocused his gaze on his computer screen.
"Fence chicken, I separated from Nanqiao, and I now have a new girlfriend. ”
Han Zhi said very calmly, without even a trace of guilt, as if he was telling someone else's business.
"What?"
Ji Ji's jaw was about to fall, "No, Brother Zhen, didn't Sister Qiao come to us a few days ago, she also said that you would accompany her for her birthday, how long has it been, and you broke up? You have a new girlfriend." ”
Han Zhen's most annoying thing now is to answer topics related to Nanqiao, and the tone of the fence chicken is very similar to Ma Bucking, as if he broke up with Nanqiao as if he had committed a major event.
"Fence chicken, just because Nanqiao likes me and treats me well, I must like her, right?"
Han Zhen's tone was a little helpless, why did everyone feel that this matter seemed to be his fault.
"No, feelings can't be improvised, but Brother Zhen, since you can't like Sister Buck, why do you want to provoke her, you see that she was pregnant for you, had an abortion, and you lied to her later, for your studio, she almost tried her best, worked three jobs a day, and took care of your life, since you don't like her, you shouldn't enjoy her good to you with peace of mind, you see, you lied to her while disliking her, and at the same time disliked her, and even more excessively, you still split your legs, this ......"
"That's enough, Fence Chicken, you want to accuse me too? So it's all my fault, it's me who shouldn't have made Nan Qiao like me, right?"
"No, you shouldn't have squandered her feelings so comfortably, Brother Zhen. ”
The chicken has no culture, and he can't say that kind of nice words.
"At least, you shouldn't pretend to be innocent when she's so upset, you should comfort her. ”
Console?
Han Zhi looked at the fence chicken and sneered: "Do you know that all my comfort now is nonsense, and if I go to comfort her, I will harm her, do you understand?"
“………”
was scolded by Han Zhi like this, and the chicken felt a little speechless.
He wanted to say something more, and Han Zhi left the studio.
After the carnival feast, what was left was the loneliness of the embers all over the ground, and it was now twelve o'clock in the night, everyone had dispersed, Ma Breaking and Shen Du went back to their respective homes, and Gu Shunshun went to the hotel.
And Nanqiao went back to his home alone.
She hadn't lived here in a long time, the room was covered with dust, the furnishings hadn't been touched, and her things were still there.
Nanqiao walked over to a cabinet, and she opened the drawer, which contained all kinds of knick-knacks.
There are thousands of paper cranes she folded for Han Zhi, there are peace charms she begged for Han Zhi, and there are photos of Han Zhi that she secretly took ...... Many......
This contains her full love for Han Zhi in the past twelve years.
Nan Qiao picked up a diary, she knew what was written in it, but she didn't dare to open it.
People are very strange, sometimes brave as a tiger, sometimes as timid as a mouse, just like the current Nanqiao, obviously reminiscing about the past, but not daring to face the past.
She found an iron basin and threw all the contents of the drawer into it, as well as the cheap bracelet she had once treasured.
Incineration of things is very simple, a matter of fire, but deleting memories is fishing for the moon in the water, and begging for fish from the wood.
Looking at the raging flames in front of him, Nanqiao cried again.
No one counts how many tears it takes to shed a broken love, maybe one day the tear ducts dry up, and you will never be sad again.
I don't know why, she still didn't feel enough when she burned all these things, how did she say that, let go of everything, start from scratch, so, how do you start from scratch?
Nan Qiao came to the bathroom, she stood in front of the mirror, reached out to take off her rubber band, and in an instant, a soft black hair poured down.
This long hair, Nan Qiao kept it for six years, because she didn't have a mother, and her grandmother didn't know how to tie her hair, so she directly shaved a boy's head, and then overheard Han Zhi reveal that she likes girls with long hair, so since then she has silently kept her hair.
Now that I think about it, the girl with long black hair should be Sheng Qiannuan.
It's ironic, isn't it? Han Zhi is with Sheng Qiannuan, and she is still trapped in memories and can't get out.
Nan Qiao smiled bitterly, took out a pair of shears from the drawer next to her, picked up a strand of hair, and cut it off without hesitation.
The light and fluttering hair fell silently to the ground, and they were like Nan Qiao's love for Han Zhen, peeling off from her body little by little.
The waist-length hair was gone, but it was gone in an instant.
The current length is just shoulder-length, uneven, and mutilated.
"Bang Dang"
Nan Qiao threw the scissors on the ground and entered the room.
She was afraid of the night now, because when it was dark, it meant sleeping, but it was so simple that she could do it with great difficulty.
Since Han Zhi left, she has not fallen asleep naturally, and sometimes even if she sleeps, it is because her body can't survive and she falls asleep.
Within two hours, I would wake up again, open my eyes, my pillow was half wet, and I would wake up from a long night, and I would wake up in a blur.
Nan Qiao got up and pushed open the door to her grandmother's room and walked in.
She remembers that when her grandmother couldn't sleep, she would go to the medicine box to get sleeping pills.
Sure enough, there were sleeping pills in the medicine box, but they were expired.
Nanqiao opened the lid and swallowed two slices directly.
"Boom. ”
Falling on the bed, she closed her eyes and waited for the expired sleeping pill to take effect.
"Tick, tick. ”
Time passed minute by minute, and Nanqiao did not fall asleep, but became more and more energetic.
Looking up at the wall clock on the wall, at three o'clock in the morning, she knew that she was afraid that she would have to stay up from night to day again.
took out her mobile phone, Nan Qiao clicked on Han Zhen's WeChat, although she was blocked, she could still see that he had changed his avatar, it was two hands with ten fingers clasped, she recognized that it was Han Zhi and Sheng Qiannuan's hands.
Nan Qiao smiled, how much he loved that girl, what he once abandoned was now done for her, so she understood, Han Zhi didn't know how to love, he just didn't love himself.
The sad mood is like a big black dog, it catches Nanqiao and sticks to it, gnaws at her with its sharp fangs, cuts her heart and bones, and makes her worse than dead.
"Han Zhen, I will give you back my freedom, so can you give me back your sleep?"
Nan Qiao's tearful eyes vaguely typed these words in the dialog box.
No surprise, the red exclamation mark appears prominently in front of the green dialog.
This night, I'm afraid I can't sleep again, Nanqiao's current state is that it is normal during the day and collapses at night.
The night breeze pushed open the window and crept in, and in a short time the air was filled with a thick musty smell, this house had not been lived in for a long time, and it was normal to have this smell.
Nan Qiao couldn't stand the smell a little, she got up and got out of bed, walked to the gate, opened the door, and just took a step, but she didn't expect to see Shen Dushi on the stone bench next to her.
At this time, he was buried between his knees, and it looked like he was sleeping.
Nan Qiao didn't understand why Shen Qiao appeared here at dusk, did he come early or didn't leave at all?
She turned around and went into the house and came out with a blanket, which was just about to be covered by Shen Dushi, and he woke up.
"Nanbuckwheat?"
Shen Dushi didn't seem to be very conscious, he looked at Nan Qiao with a sleepy expression, and he noticed that her hair had become shorter.
"Well, why are you sleeping here? Didn't you say go home?"
Nan Qiao furrowed her brows, "It's cold outside, let's go into the house and talk." ”
"No, it's not cold, you're alone in this house, it's inconvenient for me to go in, it's all your neighbors here, if you show them something, I'm afraid it won't affect you well." ”
Shen Dushi thought very thoroughly, he was also very self-disciplined, and he would never touch the bottom line that should not be touched, just like now.
Nan Qiao didn't say anything, she knew that Shen Twilight was kind, but he probably didn't know that her reputation had been ruined as early as the day Han Zhi was admitted to college.
"Oh, why didn't you come home?"
Nan Qiao continued to ask the question he hadn't answered just now.
Shen Dushi pondered for a moment and replied, "Nanqiao, I'm afraid that you will do something stupid, so I want to guard you." ”
Well, that's the reason.
Shen Dushi's worries were too much in Nanqiao's opinion.
She smiled at Shen Dushi:
"Don't worry, even though I'm sad, I haven't thought about suicide. Some things will pass after a while, and everyone only has one chance to be a human being, and I won't waste it. ”
"That's good. ”
Shen Dushi nodded and continued: "I couldn't find you a few days ago, we were all in a hurry, we were afraid that something would happen that everyone didn't want to see, and then I asked Han Zhi to know that you were here, Nanqiao, I want to ask you if you came back this time because you couldn't let him go, and remember the places where you went with him, what happened?"
Nan Qiao didn't expect Han Zhi to know himself so well, but what was the use? He still hurt himself without hesitation.
After being silent for a long time, she couldn't speak: "What do I remember? I don't remember anything except that Han Zhi doesn't like me." ”
Sometimes it's strange, it's obvious that it's stuck in memories and can't get out, but when I really want to try to think about the cause and effect, I find that I have forgotten everything.
The only thing Nan Qiao remembers now is that Han Zhi never liked her.