Chapter 46 Love is like floating clouds in the wind
Within a few days, Gong Mengshu attended the graduation ceremony of the girls' middle school with short hair. Cheng Molin, with her distinctive curly hair, stood out among her classmates. The graduation scene was not too sad, because the ladies of these famous families had long understood that as soon as they stepped out of the school, they were about to step into the threshold of their husband's family.
The next thing waiting for them is to enter and find a good match, and the right age to marry. This is the path that women must take, especially with their family background, and they don't have to worry about it themselves, and the family may have already made arrangements and plans for their future destiny.
Only Gong Mengshu stood in the corner of the lawn, looking at the female classmates who were showing off their branches and branches and was slightly distracted. When she was stunned, she suddenly heard someone calling her name, and when she heard it, it was Huang Qilun, who she hadn't seen for many days. She was a little surprised, and remembering how good he had been to her that day, she stepped forward and said, "Why are you here?"
Huang Qilun looked at her neat short hair, and stuttered a little: "You, have you cut your hair short?"
"What, isn't it pretty?" Gong Mengshu shook his head playfully and asked rhetorically.
Huang Qilun hurriedly waved his hand and said, "It's good-looking, it's good-looking, you can look good with any haircut." ”
Gong Mengshu smiled, and the breeze brushed the ends of her hair, blowing on her face. In fact, she is also a little unfamiliar with her new image, and it takes a long time to get used to this change in appearance in front of the mirror every day.
"I haven't seen you all this time lately?" Gong Mengshu hesitated for a moment before saying. Some time ago, Huang Qilun came to the school every day to wait for her, but there was no trace of him in the past few days, she was tired of being unable to persevere, and she didn't think that he muttered: "Because you got drenched in some rain and got a fever when you came home, so you have been recuperating at home for the past few days——"
Gong Mengshu's heart moved, remembering that he was also sick in those days, his heart was sour, and he felt that the guilt in Huang Qilun's heart had increased a little. She looked at him and said, "You are only well when you are sick, why can't you be born at home?"
"Isn't it your graduation today? Gong Mengshu's heart moved, but he didn't say anything more. Just because Cheng Molin took Li Zhehan from a distance, it turned out that Li Zhehan also came, and he also held two bouquets of flowers in his hand, one bouquet was given to Cheng Molin, and the other was handed to Gong Mengshu.
The corners of Cheng Molin's eyes and eyebrows were full of joyful smiles. Li Zhehan looked at Huang Qilun and Gong Mengshu, and asked for advice: "I invited the two young ladies and Brother Qilun to dinner together at noon today, I don't know if I can appreciate my face?" Cheng Molin naturally agreed in her heart, but looked at Gong Mengshu with some apprehension, lest she hear the word "disagree" from her mouth again.
Who knew that Gong Mengshu today was surprisingly generous, she smiled slightly, and replied: "Of course you can, but today I will invite the three of you——"
"Oh, Mengshu, it seems that after graduating from a school, your whole person is different!" Cheng Molin said happily: "I like your transformation!" Gong Mengshu listened to Cheng Molin's cheers, just pursed his lips and smiled, his clear eyes contained complex emotions, but no one noticed it.
At noon, the four of them asked for a private room in the Yellow Crane Tower in the city, and Gong Mengshu and Cheng Molin sat down generously. Although Gong Mengshu wanted to treat him, from ordering food to telling the shopkeeper to serve the food quickly, it was Li Zhehan who was taking care of it. The four of them asked for Longjing fried shrimp, sweet and sour pork ribs, West Lake vinegar fish, stir-fried kale, and lettuce soup, which was simple and affordable.
Gong Mengshu couldn't resist the persuasion of Huang Qilun and Li Zhehan, and also drank two small cups of warm Huadiao, but she was too strong to drink, and as soon as the wine was down, peach blossoms flew on her face, and she became a little able to speak, attracting the eyes of the two young men to stare at her face. Cheng Molin also drank a few glasses of wine, and saw that Li Zhehan's attention gradually shifted to Gong Mengshu, "Zhehan, Zhehan...... Mengshu, listen to me......" She tapped the table with her chopsticks, trying to attract Li Zhehan's attention back, but no one paid attention to her.
Cheng Molin was a little anxious, and the wine she drank turned into vinegar, all of which poured into her heart, and she shouted at Gong Mengshu: "Mengshu, I have something to tell you!"
Gong Mengshu raised his eyes to look at Cheng Molin, Cheng Molin's face turned red, and said: "I almost forgot to tell you, the second brother and the second sister-in-law arrived in Nanjing early! And the second brother is now a major general, and the Lu family sent someone to deliver a letter last night! But grandma said that I don't need to tell you for the time being......" As soon as the words fell, I saw that the smile on Gong Mengshu's face gradually faded, and his movements slowed down.
"Really...... Congratulations to him......" Gong Mengshu's tone was very difficult.
"I didn't lie to you, now the family has begun to prepare a new house for them, I heard that the second brother and the second sister-in-law will get married when they come back from Nanjing! Grandma wishes that the second brother and the second sister-in-law would hurry up and cook ripe rice outside, so she could hug her grandson early-" Cheng Molin held her head, smirked for a while, and frowned: "Mengshu, you are so pitiful." But it's pitiful, you can't get too close to your male classmates outside, lest the second brother know, you will definitely have to walk around without eating......"
"Who is your second brother?Why does he control Mengshu?!" Huang Qilun asked after listening to Cheng Molin's words, and doubts rose in his heart.
"You have to ask Meng Shu about this," Cheng Molin was a little drunk and threw out the question, but she didn't plan to continue answering.
Huang Qilun turned his head to look at Gong Mengshu, only to see that her red lips were pursed, and she had no intention of explaining, so she didn't dare to ask more.
Li Zhehan saw that Gong Mengshu's pretty face changed from crimson to pink and then to pale, and he realized a little in his heart, and saw that Cheng Molin was going to mess around again, so he hurriedly stopped her and said, "Miss Molin, you drank too much, I'll send you back......"
"No, I'm not drunk, I want to sit for a while, everyone is rarely happy, isn't it?" Cheng Molin stretched out his hand to hold Li Zhehan's arm and refused to let go. Li Zhehan saw that Cheng Molin was so drunk and proposed to leave early, and the other two also agreed. Gong Mengshu wanted to pay the bill, but Li Zhehan told her that the account had already been settled.
Gong Mengshu looked at him with grateful eyes and said, "Thank you so much, classmate Li, I'll invite you again in the future, right?" A flash of light flashed in Li Zhehan's eyes, but at the end of his eyes, he caught a glimpse of Huang Qilun's infatuated eyes looking at Gong Mengshu, and the light in his eyes gradually went out.
"You're welcome, Miss Gong, it's my honor to invite you and Miss Cheng to dinner," Li Zhehan is a polite gentleman.
After the end, Li Zhehan saw that the drunk and hazy Cheng Molin was snuggled up to him, so he had no choice but to call a rickshaw to send Cheng Molin home, and the task of sending Gong Mengshu was handed over to Huang Qilun.
Gong Mengshu is still sitting on the back seat of Huang Qilun's bicycle, the sky is completely dark, and Gong Mengshu's face cannot be seen, Huang Qilun is riding all the way, his heart is pounding. He thought for a while, and said without words: "Miss Gong, the Cheng family hasn't been so fierce to you recently, right?"
Gong Mengshu just stared at the woods on the side of the road in a daze, as if he hadn't heard him speak, and was silent. "It's okay," Gong Mengshu said after a while, his voice hoarse as if he had been wiped by sandpaper.
"Since it's okay, you can barely do it for a while, and when you get married in the future, you don't have to come out to show up and work," Huang Qilun didn't know how to speak, but it was very reasonable to say such a few words at the moment.
"Well, I know, thank you," Gong Mengshu lowered her head and said, blown by the wind, the wine came up, she almost fell off the back seat, and had to hold on to the frame with her hands.
"Oh, by the way, since you have graduated, can I still find you in the future?" The bicycle soon arrived at the gate of Chengfu, and Huang Qilun waited for Gong Mengshu to get out of the car, propped his legs on the ground, and asked her.
Gong Mengshu's body shook a little, she barely stood still, and responded to Huang Qilun in a daze, "You...... Come as you want......" He turned and walked towards the gate, forgetting to say thank you.
"Then I'll come back tomorrow!" Huang Qilun didn't care about Gong Mengshu's careless faux pas, he stared at Gong Mengshu's slender figure in fascination for a long time, until he couldn't see it anymore before reluctantly going back.
Gong Mengshu slowly walked back to her room in despair, but saw the Cheng family's housekeeper wandering around her door with a few subordinates in the corridor, and when she saw her coming back, the housekeeper hurriedly greeted her and smiled: "Miss Gong, are you back?"
"Is there something wrong?" Gong Mengshu asked.
"That's right," the housekeeper was a little embarrassed at first, but still said: "Miss Gong, the master instructed us to prepare the second young master's wedding room, and the master said that the feng shui of this house is good, and he wants to decorate the whole house for the second young master and the second young grandmother to live in, so——"
"So let me make room, right?" Gong Mengshu stood still, his head still a little dizzy, but there was a cold mocking smile on the corner of his mouth.
"This is the master's order, and I would like to ask Miss Gong if you can understand the suffering of our subordinates...... And the little ones didn't dare to expel Miss Gong if they had the courage to leave, but asked Miss Gong to move to the wing room on the same side as the old lady...... "The housekeeper just laughed.
Gong Mengshu stood alone at the door, looking at the room close at hand, and suddenly felt disheartened like she had never felt before, she nodded and said, "It's done, whatever you want." ”
When the housekeeper got permission, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief and flattered, "Thank you Miss Gong for your understanding." It's getting late to-day, so why don't we move your things to the old lady tomorrow?"
Gong Mengshu shook his head and said, "Okay, thank you butler." Then the butler led the people to retreat.
Gong Mengshu entered the room, her dull gaze slowly wandered to every corner of the room, she had been in this room for more than ten years, familiar with every inch of the room. Here is a record of the process of her and Cheng Ruikai growing up together, and also records all her joys, sorrows, and sorrows, whether it is a memory full of laughter and tears, or a bitter and sweet love and hate, everything will eventually pass away, leaving empty memories.
Gong Mengshu raised his trembling arm, habitually trying to hold the ends of his braided hair to comfort and stabilize his emotions, who knew that his hand reached behind and grabbed the air, only to wake up that the original long braid had already been cut off.
She was stunned for a long time, and then she felt a burst of sadness welling up in her heart, and couldn't help but hold on to the door frame and whimpered in a low voice.
"Rikai, you now have your protector, you don't need me anymore. And I, I can't wait for you to come back......" Gong Mengshu closed her eyes, and a line of hot tears poured down her cheeks.