Chapter 118: Let's watch the flag-raising ceremony together
Probably slept too late last night, Chang An slept directly for two or three hours, and when he woke up, it was already about four o'clock in the afternoon.
The curtains were half open, there was a glow in the room, and the sound of Zhou Wei talking to someone on the phone came from the cubicle.
Chang An was not in a hurry to get up, lying there and listening to the sound coming from the other side of the cubicle, low, even, and good, and the time seemed long and gentle on this spring afternoon.
She bent her body and hugged herself slightly, everything came too quickly last night, she drank again, so she didn't feel anything at the time, but now she calmed down, and thought back to everything last night, "bang", and blew her apart.
Chang An closed his eyes and was blindfolded into the cup, his heart was beating faster, and he had difficulty breathing, but he was obviously happy in his heart, and this joy was also accompanied by some unknown emotions, as if last night was a watershed, before last night she and him were in a relationship, and after last night, there was substance between them, and everything was different.
Chang An suddenly thought of the word "forever".
It's terrible, obviously she was going to divorce him not long ago, but after only one night, her mood completely changed, and even the body wrapped in the nightdress seemed to be different, as if he had carved some kind of mark, a unique and exclusive mark that only belonged to him.
"What is a person thinking about when he is bored in it?" Just when he was immersed in his thoughts, the quilt was suddenly lifted, and his eyes lit up.
Chang An was so frightened that he didn't have time to come back to his senses.
Zhou Wei saw a girl with a peach-like face, her eyes blinking, and her mouth slightly open for breath.
"What's wrong? Sichun?"
Chang An's mind swirled and got up with a "whoosh".
"I..."
"Huh?"
She couldn't say that she was lying here thinking about last night, so she lifted the quilt and got out of bed, "It's nothing, you're done?"
"Almost!"
"Oh, there's a party in the evening?"
"Yes, I made an appointment with a customer here. ”
Chang An's eyes darkened significantly when he heard this, and Zhou Wei didn't say anything, walked over and grabbed her waist in vain, and turned the person to face him.
"Don't want me to go?"
Chang An lowered his head, "No!"
"Truth?"
"Of course, it's not your first time socializing, I'll just find a place to eat alone at night. She also laughed deliberately.
Zhou Yan didn't expose it, took the person to him again, lowered his head and kissed it.
Chang An dodged, but he didn't dodge, he was directly pulled by Zhou Wei to meet his kiss, and gradually breathed and panted, Zhou Wei barely restrained himself and rubbed against her forehead.
"I've already postponed the dinner, so I won't go anywhere tonight, stay with you......" When he said this, his voice was low and bewildered, and it seemed to have some kind of orientation, which made Chang An's face hot and pushed people away, "Who wants you to accompany you, make yourself amorous!"
Zhou Wei smiled: "Hard mouth!"
……
Chang An didn't eat lunch, and when he woke up, he felt hungry, so the two went out to forage for food in advance.
There are a lot of things to eat in Beijing, such as mutton, elbow sauce, all kinds of street food and local food, but Chang'an doesn't seem to be adaptable, and finally picks and chooses, or goes to Quanjude very unconstructively.
Quanjude Wangfujing store is an old store, the original site is the Ming Dynasty Ten Princes' Mansion, so the overall style is magnificent, but because there is no reservation in advance, there is no vacant box, the waiter will arrange them in the hall, fortunately at this time has not yet arrived at the meal, the hall is not much, not noisy.
asked for tea, ordered food, and looked around while waiting.
"I always felt like I'd been here before. ”
Zhou Wei didn't think it was strange, "This shop in Wangfujing was built in 1959, and it's been so long, it's normal for you to have been here." ”
Chang An shook his head, but did not continue.
The ordered dishes are served first, and after eating for a while, someone pushes the roast duck over, and the master processes it on the spot at the table, skillfully slices the skin, cuts the meat, and separates the duck skin, meat and bones one by one.
Zhou Wei took the dough and wrapped one for Chang An.
After she finished eating, she felt that the taste was not bad, and she wrapped another one, but she couldn't eat it anymore, she always felt that it was still a little greasy, and Zhou Wei was not reluctant, and served her another bowl of soup.
During the meal, Chang An asked, "What did you eat at noon?"
Zhou Wei: "I dealt with it in the hotel's cafeteria. ”
Chang An: "Are you with Assistant Xu?"
Zhou Wei: "No, I talked to Li Meiyu about something by the way." ”
Chang An paused, Zhou Wei looked up and saw her expression strange, and quickly explained, "Don't get me wrong, I just happened to meet her!"
Chang An smiled bitterly: "I don't mind this, it's just..."
Zhou Wei: "Just what?"
Chang An thought for a while: "Now Li Meiyu is still in Yu'an?"
Zhou Wei: "She is not just here, she is now the leader of Yu'an Group, which is your mother's previous position." ”
Chang An usually doesn't care about the economy or current affairs, so naturally she doesn't know these characters, but Li Meiyu can be the leader of Yu'an, and she is still a little surprised.
"I remember that she didn't seem to have a high degree of education, and she used to be just a small assistant by my mother's side. ”
Zhou Wei also knows this, Li Meiyu's fortune is also a topic in the circle.
"But my mother seems to trust her very much, and she often asked her to take me out to play at that time, she is very cheerful, funny and beautiful, and I used to like her. ”
"You like her?" Zhou smiled.
Chang An glanced at it, "What, it's strange?"
"No, you go on!"
Chang An paused, and sighed a little melancholy, "I remember that she was only as old as me at that time, but I didn't expect that after only ten years, she had actually climbed from the assistant to this position, and the man I saw at the elevator door last night, Sun..."
Sun Zhengdao. ”
"yes, I'm sure I've seen him somewhere, either in the news or in magazines, or in person, but it was supposed to be when I was a kid, so I can't remember it now. ”
Zhou Wei knew that Sun Zhengdao had always had a deep relationship with Yu'an, and when Xue Bing was in charge in the past, it was normal to take Chang'an to meet him by chance.
"Forget it, let's not talk about these people. ”
Chang An responded, lowered his head and took a sip of soup, but his consciousness was interrupted, and he looked up and asked, "Are you here to see him in Beijing this time?"
Zhou Tao didn't hide it, "That's right!"
Chang An: "Is it related to the project that had financing problems before?"
Zhou Wei: "Hmm!"
Chang An was separated for a few seconds, "It has something to do with Yuan Xi and my brother?"
Zhou Wei finally smiled, raised his hand and swept the bangs that covered her eyebrows, "When did you start being so interested in my work?"
He obviously didn't want to talk to her more, Chang An could hear it, smiled reluctantly, and stopped the topic.
……
After dinner, the lights have been on, and the guests in the hall have gradually increased, and there are some tour groups, and various dialects from all over the world are intertwined, revealing a sense of jubilation and liveliness.
Zhou Wei paid the bill and took Chang An out.
"Take a taxi or walk back?"
Chang An glanced at the street, the street lights were brilliant, "Let's go, you can eat." ”
It is not far from the Quanjude Wangfujing branch to the Beijing Hotel, go straight and turn a corner on Chang'an Street, even if you arrive, although Chang'an is seriously obsessed, but such a simple distance still has some impressions.
The two walked along the street for a while, and she suddenly asked, "We're not going to pass Tiananmen Square, are we?"
Zhou Wei: "No, Tiananmen Square is in West Chang'an." ”
Chang An: "Oh!"
Zhou Wei: "What's wrong?"
Chang An: "I want to go and see it!"
Zhou Wei: "Now?"
Chang An: "Forget it, it's a bit far. ”
Zhou Wei thought about it: "Let's take a taxi, go around that side a little." ”
He stopped the car and drove west along Chang'an Avenue, passing by the National Museum, the Great Hall of the People, Tiananmen Square, and the Grand Theater, until Xuanwu Gate came out again.
"I remember that the last time my mother took me to Beijing was when I was seven years old, it was also at night, she went back to the hotel after talking about business, I said I wanted to go to Tiananmen, the driver said that there was nothing to see at night, but my mother has always relied on me, so he asked him to turn around, and it was like this all the way to the west, to Tiananmen, in fact, there is a square, it is really nothing, but I shouted to get off again, my mother did not agree, said that it was too late, and there was time to take me to see the flag-raising ceremony another day. ”
It stands to reason that the memory of being seven years old has long since faded away, but after so many years, the scene of Chang'an has been deeply imprinted in her mind for no reason.
"It's just a pity..."
Chang An lowered his head, intertwined his fingers with his hands, and twisted it gently, "That was the last time my mother went to Beijing, and she said that she would take me to see the flag-raising ceremony, and she finally broke her promise." ”
Zhou Wei knew that Xue Bing passed away Chang An was exactly seven years old, his relatives died, and all his promises before his death came to naught, and Chang An rarely talked about Xue Bing in front of outsiders for so many years, thinking that time had passed and she had grown up, and Xue Bing's death had no impact on her, but how could it be?
At that time, she was only seven years old, no matter how good her life was, no matter how spoiled the people around her, no one could repair the missing maternal love.
The shadows and hurts of childhood will accompany you.
Just because she doesn't mention it doesn't mean she's gone.
Zhou Wei took a slight breath, took Chang An's cold hand, and put it on his lap.
"Wake up early tomorrow, and I'll take you to the flag-raising ceremony!"
It's still early to get back to the hotel.
Zhou Wei had work to deal with as usual, and Chang An nested on the sofa and was about to look at the phone for a while before taking a shower, but not long after he sat down, the mobile phone rang.
Wei Suying's call.
"Hey Xiao'an, your dad and I have moved to the countryside, and we have all settled down, don't worry. ”
Chang An responded, "How is my dad recovering in the past two days?"
"It's good, the doctor came to see me in the afternoon, no problem. After a pause, he said, "Do you want your dad to answer the phone?"
"No!" Chang An directly refused.
Wei Suying smiled slightly awkwardly, "Nacheng, I just want to tell you, everything is settled here, and your father is quite adaptable." ”
Chang An: "Just get used to it, how long do you plan to live?"
Wei Suying: "At least ten days and half a month." ”
Chang An: "Is he willing?"
Wei Suying: "Of course he doesn't want to, his mind is full of things at work, but the doctor's words should always be listened to, not to mention that this time he is recuperating, and he has to wait until he is cured before he can go back, and he thinks that he can carry it when he first became a soldier?"
The corners of Chang An's mouth twitched, and he didn't ask much.
When Zhou Wei came out of the cubicle, she had just finished the call, pinching her mobile phone and sitting on the sofa chair in a daze.
"What's wrong? Whose phone is it?"
"Aunt Ying!"
"Looking for you?"
"No, she accompanied my dad to the countryside and told me. ”
Zhou Wei's eyes sank: "Your father moved to the countryside?"
Chang An: "It's just recuperation, it is estimated that he won't be able to live there for long, after all, there are many things, and he can't be idle." ”
Zhou Wei smiled, didn't ask any more questions, walked over and propped one hand on the semi-curved back of the sofa chair, "Are you tired?"
Chang An: "Sort of..."
Zhou Wei: "Then go take a bath and go to bed early with you?" The second half of the sentence was obviously purposeful, she was still half-smiling, and the wolf-like eyes under the shadow of the light seemed to be bright and shining.
Chang An pushed, "Hooligans!" quickly got up, didn't care about wearing slippers, took a clean nightdress and went into the bathroom barefoot.
Zhou Wei lowered his head and rubbed the bridge of his nose, still blushing?
Soon there was a sound of dripping water in the bathroom, and Zhou Wei took off his coat and went in, and the white mist inside was thick with steam. Chang An was originally standing against the wall, but when he heard the movement, he turned around, and inertly pulled a towel to cover himself, and yelled at him: "Why did you come in?
Zhou Wei raised his eyebrows, as for it?
"Wash together?"
"Don't!"
"Shy?"
“… Anyway, you get me out!"
But Zhou Wei didn't listen, walked to the front of the shower room in three or two steps, and smoked her towel casually, "I did it last night, and now I still use it?"
Chang An tugged at her legs and didn't know what to do, the water from the shower was still pouring on her body, the man's eyes were like fire, she was so stuffy that she was about to lose her breath, and bit her lip after a while, "Go out, will you go out first?"
With this pleading appearance, how could Zhou Wei still let her get her wish, and directly stepped forward to pick up her chin and kiss her, completely ignoring that she was still neatly dressed, and let the hot water pour on her body from the beginning, and poured him wet in a few seconds......
In the mist, Chang An finally found a gap and pushed people hard, "Go away!"
"Where are you going?"
"Get out!"
"Do you really want me to go out?"
"Hmm...... You don't..."
"Anything else?"
Chang An's voice in the mist was already fragmented, and after a while, a slight pant leaked out, she grinded her teeth and scolded, "Why are you like this......?" Here is the bathroom ......"
"What about the bathroom?" he grinded at the root of her ear, "we're husband and wife! This kind of thing can be allowed anywhere, anywhere...... Even under the red flag of the motherland, facing the rising sun, ......" is extremely shameless, but it cannot be refuted.
The white mist filled the air, and the whole fire burned out, and the sound of the water was ......
After the end, the woman under her didn't move, Zhou Wei raised her to look at her, she was ignorant, she seemed to be staring at him unconsciously, but there was no focus in her eyes, and when she touched it again, her face was full of water.
Zhou Wei leaned over and kissed her again, kissing her wet eyes, but he tasted a hint of bitterness.
He frowned and asked, "Crying?"
Chang An was silent.
Zhou Yan pulled away her fingers that grabbed the sheets one by one, and then looked at her body, there were many deep and shallow bruises, but Chang An's cotton-like body bones could withstand him so tossed.
"I'm sorry, I didn't control my strength for a while. ”
The pupils that had been out of focus finally gathered and glanced at him, Zhou Wei thought that Chang An was going to scold, but she suddenly twitched her shoulders twice, and tears rolled down her eyes.
"Didn't you say it wouldn't hurt the second time? You lied to me, didn't you? You liar... Liars ......!"
Zhou Wei didn't expect it, what kind of operation is this, no woman has ever cried at this time!
"I..." he was in a hurry for a while, and he didn't know how to coax, but Chang An's tears fell more and more, Zhou Wei was about to go crazy, and pressed her shoulder, "Okay, can you not cry?"
But it was useless at all, Chang An cried even more fiercely, and his eyes were simply closed in the back, as if he had been greatly wronged.
Zhou Tao clenched his fist against her side, "Okay, okay, my fault, I shouldn't have worked so hard, next time pay attention, I promise to pay attention, huh?" In the end, I had to endure the coaxing, but just a few words back and forth, fortunately, Chang An's crying gradually became thinner, but the person was still twitching, his cheeks were flushed with lingering, and there were tear stains in the corners of his eyes.
Chang An cried when he touched it, and Zhou Wei was a lot more disciplined later, so he only dared to hold it loosely, and there was no next move.
In the second half of the night, they finally got along and slept well, but Chang An was woken up by the mobile phone alarm before dawn, and he was so angry that he shook his feet twice and turned over.
"Whose alarm clock won't be turned off at night?" muttered a sigh to himself, and continued to sleep under the covers.
Zhou Wei was helpless, so he had to lean over, "Get up!"
"Hmm..."
"It's up, it's four o'clock. ”
"It's early......" She was so dazed that she didn't even want to open her eyes.
Zhou Wei got up and turned on the light, propped up his elbows and simply leaned on her ear, "No matter how late it is, I won't be able to watch the flag-raising ceremony, Chang An?"
Chang An's eyelids wrinkled, loosened, and wrinkled, and finally reason defeated the sleepy worm, turned his head, and a pair of sporadic sleepy eyes, "Really go and see?"
Zhou Wei: "......"
After more than ten minutes, Chang An finally washed and dressed, although his face was still sleepy, but in the end he still wore a coat and a bag and followed Zhou Wei out.
……
The time of raising the national flag at Tiananmen Square in Beijing is not the same every day, but is determined according to the sunrise and sunset time in Beijing, and the specific time must also be specially calculated by the experts of the Beijing Astronomical Observatory.
In the morning, when the upper edge of the sun is level with the horizon seen in Tiananmen Square, it is set as the flag-raising time of the day, so the flag-raising time will be different depending on the date, and it is not fixed and uniform.
Zhou Wei had already checked the latest announced ceremony timetable last night, and estimated that the ceremony would start at about half past five, so he also searched for some strategies to see.
The two took a taxi at the hotel, the Beijing Hotel was not far from Tiananmen Square, and there were not many cars on the road early in the morning, so they quickly arrived in front of the square.
Chang An thought that he had come early, but when he arrived at the scene, he found that the pressure was full of people.
Because the time had not yet arrived, they were not allowed to pass, so they were all stopped outside the cordon on this side of the road and waited.
Chang An didn't know that watching a flag-raising ceremony would be so complicated before, and she was finally led by Zhou Wei to find a place to stay, she looked up at him and asked, "Why don't you let us go?"
"Need to be cleared over there!"
"When will it be released?"
Zhou Wei put his arm around her head, protected the person in his arms from being hit by the crowd around him, and raised his hand to look at his watch, "It should be fast, I heard you follow me and run over there after a while, don't look back, and then run to the front of the rope and hold on, do you hear?"
Chang An felt funny: "As for it, watching a flag-raising is like a war!"
Zhou Wei didn't have time to explain to her, there were people all around, crowded around, the wind was loud, mixed with all kinds of noisy sounds, and he felt tired even shouting.
The two of them were squeezed in the middle like that, but fortunately, Zhou Wei was tall and strong, and he always protected Chang An in front of him.
After waiting like this for about ten minutes, I only heard what seemed to be a whistle in front of me.
"Run!"
Chang An didn't react yet, only heard a sharp shout in his ear, his hand had been held by Zhou Wei and ran forward, the surrounding area erupted noisily, and the crowd of people who had been standing still was surging in the same direction like a flood with a valve opened.
The whole process Chang An was like a puppet, he dragged him desperately running forward, chasing the flow of people in front of him, crossing the road, and the sound of the wind and shouts in his ears were intertwined.
Who says it's not a battle?
Until Zhou Wei ran to the front with Chang An, he roared: "Pull the rope!"
Chang An reacted and grabbed the rope in front of him.
At this time, armed police came and demanded that all of them be returned to the position of the seventh brick.
Zhou Wei secretly reminded beside him: "Retreat slowly, retreat little by little, you know?"
Chang An didn't understand what she meant at the time, and it wasn't until she retreated to the place required by the armed police with his rhythm that she realized that she was standing in the front row.
There were hundreds or even thousands of people, and he actually took her to the position closest to the flag-raising platform.
At this time, the morning glow has risen in the sky.
Chang An tilted his head and asked, "You've been here before, so you're experienced!"
Zhou Wei kicked his pocket and lowered his head and smiled.
He has indeed been to Beijing many times, but he has not even been to a few scenic spots, how can he get up at three or four o'clock in the morning to watch the flag-raising ceremony for a few minutes.
He is so "experienced", it is nothing more than that he checked a lot of strategies last night and learned the suggestions of netizens.
"Is it cold?" Zhou asked again.
Chang An shrank his head, "It's a little." ”
Although the first row is good, there is no one in front of it to block the wind, and the wind blows straight over and blows all on the face.
Zhou Wei smiled, pulled the person over and buckled it on his chest, opened the front of his coat, and wrapped Chang An in his arms......