Chapter 119: The Imprint of the National Flag
After a "fight and struggle", the basic positions have been settled, and those who grabbed the front row were complacent, and those who fell behind quickly calmed down in addition to complaining and complaining a few words, and there was still a period of time before the flag was raised, and then they could only wait.
Although Beijing has come out of the cold winter in April, it is still very cold at four or five o'clock in the morning, so after waiting for a while, some people around began to shout cold, especially the young girls who came to see the flag-raising ceremony, screaming why they didn't bring a scarf or a mask.
Chang An didn't wear much, but fortunately, she was wrapped in a coat by Zhou Wei, and her back was against his hot chest, which was also warm, but the skin on her face was sore from the wind, so she could only shrink her neck as much as possible.
Zhou Wei noticed her abnormality.
"Still cold?"
Chang An said "um", "The wind is a little strong." ”
"Turn around. ”
"What?"
"Tell you to turn around!"
He grabbed Chang An's waist and twisted the person to face him, and then raised his hand to wrap her head around the back of her head and asked her to put her face against him.
"Well, is it better?" the sound of the wind mixed with his deep voice.
Chang An nodded slightly: "Hmm." Then Zhou Wei wrapped his arms around and put the whole body in his arms, like a little rabbit.
The wind was no longer blowing towards her face, and she was not tall and was wearing sneakers, so her ears were just attached to Zhou Wei's heart.
Plop Plop Plop ...... The sounds of cars and people around her seemed to be fading away, and she stood in the cold wind, only hearing the man's firm and powerful heartbeat. At that moment, no one could see her expression, she drilled into Zhou Wei's arms, listened to his heartbeat, smelled the familiar smell on his body, but thousands of thoughts in her heart rushed like a river tide.
There are always some unforgettable moments in our lives, not necessarily how romantic and vigorous, maybe just a very ordinary thing in life, a very small experience, or even a moment, just like Chang An, was called up by this man early in the morning, sleepy and sporadically came here, he shouted, ran, she was dragged forward by him, and grabbed a rope with the uncles, aunts, aunts and aunts of those tour groups.
She would never have done this kind of thing before, and she felt that this man was completely out of line with his style, but she really did it, and now she was held in his arms by him in the cold wind, waiting for the sunrise and the national anthem to play.
Chang An felt that this would be an experience he would never forget.
Zhou Wei felt that the person in his arms seemed to be a little stiff, and looked down.
"What's wrong?"
Chang An also looked up at him, just as a ray of light came out of the clouds and reflected on half of his face.
She gazed at him gently, "It's nothing!" Fu turned his face to his chest again, but raised his hand to climb his waist and hugged Zhou in his coat as well.
Zhou Wei felt her attachment, smiled, and wrapped the person tighter.
Waiting was a terrible thing, but it didn't seem to be so difficult for Chang An that day.
Gradually, the sky began to fade.
At about 5:40 a.m., the flag-raising ceremony began, and the national flag guards set off from the ticket gate in the middle of the Tiananmen Gate Tower and marched all the way to the south side of the Jinshui Bridge.
At this time, the music of "Singing the Motherland" sounded, and as soon as the music sounded, the audience was silent, and the escort on the south side of the Jinshui Bridge began to change to march on foot, until they reached the base fence of the national flag pole.
"There are exactly 138 steps to be taken on this route, and each step has to be highly precise and the landing must be the same sound, without any deviation. Zhou Wei lowered his head and whispered in Chang An's ear.
Chang An only thought that raising the flag was just a simple ceremony, and he never knew that there were so many doorways inside.
"Does it have to be 138 steps?"
"Yes, the step range is just 75 centimeters, so each step must be stepped just right, but there is also a saying that it should be two hundred steps, one hundred steps in the right step, one hundred steps in unison, the specific special meaning, representing two hundred steps is the two centennial goals and historical missions of the Chinese. Zhou Tao said it rightly.
Chang An pursed his lips and smiled, "You've done a lot of homework in advance, huh?"
He raised his eyebrows and raised his hand to poke at the door of her head, "Okay, stop talking, watch the ceremony!"
Over there, the flag guard had already handed over the flag to the flag bearer, for a short time
waited for a while, and the sound of the audience became quieter.
"It's about to start!" Zhou Wei whispered a reminder in Chang An's ear, followed by a short and powerful command - "Salute!", and then the national anthem played at the same time, the flag raiser pressed the button, the escort saluted with guns, and when the national flag was thrown, a piece of red spread out a graceful arc in the wind.
Chang An had already turned around, saluted, and gazed as the national flag was raised, so far there was silence around him, and only the national anthem was played in the noisy square just now, and everyone's faces were solemn and solemn.
This is a flag-raising ceremony watched by thousands of people, solemn and heroic, but the heart is full of surging.
In 2:07, the national flag rose to the top of the 30-meter-high flagpole, and a red sun crossed the Tiananmen Tower.
"Rite over!"
The audience fell down, Chang An turned around and looked at the man behind him.
You are with the morning glow, and I am with you!
After the flag-raising ceremony, Chang'an Avenue, which had been under traffic control for a short time, began to flow again, and the people in the square gradually evacuated.
Chang An didn't leave, looking at the national flag fluttering on the top of the flagpole, the sun rose higher and higher, and the sky was bright.
"Don't you want to leave yet?" Zhou asked.
Chang An stood under the flagpole and watched for a while, and suddenly burst out laughing.
Zhou Wei was inexplicable, "What are you laughing at?"
Chang An lowered his head and rubbed his face, "It's nothing, let's go!"
Zhou Wei frowned and stayed where he was, then reacted suddenly, caught up and grabbed Chang An's hand, "Say I'm a hooligan?
Chang An knew that the absurd thoughts that had just popped up in his mind had been seen through by him, and his shame was even more obvious.
"What, I didn't say that, you said it last night. ”
"I'll just say it casually, are you serious?"
"I didn't take it seriously, it's... Oh, it's your fault anyway, there's something wrong with your thinking!" Chang An was still stiff-mouthed, and in a few words, he put all the responsibility on Zhou Wei and ran away by himself.
Zhou Wei smiled, and looked back at the national flag raised in the sky.
"Chang'an!"
Chang An, who ran away, turned around, "Let's go!"
"Come here..."
"What to do!"
"You come here first!" His face was serious, Chang An thought that something was really wrong, so he ran to Zhou Tao in a few steps. "What's the matter!"
Zhou Wei smiled, picked up her chin and gave a shallow kiss on her lips.
"Mrs. Zhou, the national flag is proof, you will be my person in the future!"
At that moment, there was nowhere to block the glow around her, Chang An's mouth was grabbed, and her eyes were wet, and it took a while for her to come back to her senses, and she waved around Zhou Wei's chest, "What, stinky rascal!"
Run!
The flag-raising ceremony ended early, and the two planned to settle breakfast first.
"Do you have another idea to go back to the hotel and eat?"
Chang An thought for a while, "Why don't you try the local breakfast?"
Beijing City is famous early, fried liver, boiled, steamed buns, fired, bean juice, coke rings...... The names of these varieties alone can be reported for several minutes, but Zhou Wei is worried that Chang'an will not be used to eating them.
Chang An smiled: "It's okay, if you can't get used to eating, I'll watch you eat, it's okay to have a long experience, otherwise eating in the hotel all day long will be a trip for nothing!" Seeing that she was full of interest, Zhou Wei naturally followed, so the two stopped the car directly on the side of the square.
Zhou Wei is not familiar with these small restaurants selling breakfast in Beijing, but the taxi driver is a warm-hearted person and took the initiative to recommend a few places, and finally Chang An chose a good name - Xingyuan.
Xingyuan Restaurant is in Xicheng District, take a taxi to the past, the time is still early, there are not many pedestrians and vehicles on the road, only to find that the guests who have breakfast have already crowded the entire store.
is probably a little famous, so Zhou Wei and Chang An were stunned for a while before it was their turn to the table.
The waiter took the menu and ordered it for them, but Zhou Wei hadn't actually eaten much of Beijing's authentic breakfast, so he asked the waiter to recommend it, and the waiter recommended a few of the store's signatures, knife-cut noodles, sugar pancakes, fried liver, bean juice, and steamed buns.
There is really no choice, in the end, everything is served, but the result is naturally predictable, fried liver and bean juice Chang An did not even have the courage to taste a bite, just smelling the smell of the want to vomit, the sugar pancake is not good-looking, but the name is not bad, so I barely ate two bites, she also ate a small bun, but the knife noodles eat a lot, indicating that the taste is really good.
After eating, the sun was already rising, and the two came out of the restaurant
"Go back to the hotel or continue looking for a place to wander?" Zhou asked.
Chang An: "Let's go shopping!"
Zhou Wei: "Are you sure you can walk?"
Chang An snorted, ignored it, and left.
Zhou Yi thought to himself, dare to cry like that last night It's all fake, or he started lightly, otherwise how could she be so crazy today? But Chang An also has a reason to want to go shopping, after all, it is also a trip to the capital, so she can't just stay in the hotel without going anywhere, so Zhou Tao followed her to the Forbidden City and the Temple of Heaven all morning, but she just looked at it like a leisurely look, similar to "come here", and it was not a regret.
It took about a little more than a little before the two of them finished their lunch.
"What are you going to do after that?" Zhou Wei didn't make up her own mind, she listened to Chang An's arrangement throughout the whole process, and at that time she bit the straw of the juice, her face was flushed, and she didn't know if she was tired or hot.
Zhou Wei looked at the heart ape, "Go back to the hotel." ”
Chang An thought that he had work to deal with, so he didn't force it, and he was indeed quite tired, so he nodded and agreed.
The two of them went back by car, Chang An leaned on his shoulder on the way and fell asleep directly, just when the phone rang again, Zhou Wei didn't dare to move half of his arm, and carefully pulled out the phone and pressed it off, but after a short while, the ringtone rang again, and the three words "Li Meiyu" were displayed on the screen, Zhou Wei directly changed the mute, but knew that the other party must be indomitable, so he finally picked it up.
"Hey..." he tried his best to keep his voice low, but Li Meiyu had a loud voice over there.
"Okay, Mr. Zhou, I didn't expect you to have a hobby of pimping!"
Zhou Wei naturally understood what she meant, and his voice was smiling: "What, Mr. Li didn't sleep well last night?"
"Okay, the young man is in his early twenties, with fine skin and tender meat, and a sister shouts obediently and likable. ”
"Then what are you not satisfied with?"
"I ask you, are you so sincere?"
“……”
"Do you really think I just want to find a man to sleep with?"
“……”
"Then he is far worse than you, too small, too tender, stripped naked, his body is full of bones and tendons, how can you be so energetic, right?" Li Meiyu's shrill voice leaked out of the phone, and the driver driving in front couldn't help but look in the rearview mirror.
Chang An frowned and snorted on his shoulder, estimating that he was about to be woken up.
Zhou Wei sighed: "Mr. Li laughed, since you don't like me to go back and re-arrange, I'm sorry, my wife is resting and hanging!"
Chang An slept soundly, and was very unhappy to be disturbed by some sound for no reason, frowning and drilling into Zhou Wei's chest again.
Zhou Wei raised his hand to wrap his arm around her shoulder, and the taxi driver in front of him glanced back twice, and he swept over with a cold light, "Trouble drive well!"
“……”
The two returned to the hotel, and Zhou Wei immediately entangled.
Chang An asked urgently: "What are you doing?"
"I want you!"
He didn't even bother to cover it up now, he was so brazen that Chang An was so angry that he pushed it straight, but his hand was grabbed by him, and Zhou Wei had already held Chang An's earlobe when he spoke.
She gradually began to react, her body went limp, and she was soon hugged to the bed by Zhou Wei.
She struggled as her shirt fell.
"It's not dark yet..."
"Who said you have to wait until after dark to do this kind of thing?" he leaned down, grinding little by little, until he finally succeeded, Chang An gradually snorted.
He put it to her ear and said word by word: "We are a legal husband and wife, and the national flag has been stamped by me, and you are my woman everywhere!" Chang An was distracted, but he still left the words Zhou Xian said in his mind.
"You're my woman everywhere......"
It was another bone-eating experience, and after it was over, Chang An lay on the bed sweating, and he didn't even have a sound of panting.
Zhou Wei knew that he was "in trouble" again, so he went to the bathroom and wrung a towel to help her wipe it off little by little.
"Chang'an..."
"Chang'an?"
After shouting twice and not moving, he had no choice but to deal with himself and then wrapped the person in the quilt and hugged him to his lap.
"It hurts again?" Zhou asked.
Chang An leaned on his shoulder and didn't speak, looking at the overwhelming sunlight outside the window, for a while, he shrunk his sore legs, raised his head and glared at Zhou Wei weakly.
"Are you not ...... Wear that thing?"
“……”
One is a newcomer, but the other doesn't know how to control at all like a hungry wolf, Chang An didn't leave the room that afternoon, and Zhou Yan called room service to send her in for dinner, but when she bathed her at night, she saw all traces on her body, Zhou Yan was still a little distressed, and couldn't help but sigh: "Why is the meat so tender!"
Zhou Wei smiled, took her out of the water, wrapped it in a bath towel and put it on his lap, "Well, I'm a bastard, so I won't touch you tonight, let you raise it for a few days..."
After Zhou Wei blew Chang An's hair, Chang An sat on the toilet lid in a nightdress, and Chang An pulled the line of the hair dryer over...... This is a warm and beautiful thing, but it is not the first time that Zhou Yi has done it, Chang An suffered a head injury before, and he also blew her hair after stitches.
He blew his hair half-dry, and his fingers touched it, and there was a noticeable bulge on the back of his head.
"Does it still hurt?"
Chang An shook his head: "It doesn't hurt anymore!"
"Don't feel like anything at all?"
"Well, it used to be a little itchy, but now it's all better. ”
Zhou Yan responded, didn't ask any more, and continued to help her blow her hair, but Chang An's head gradually drooped, and his hands folded and hugged both shoulders.
"Say, how is her family doing?"
"What?"
"Jin Xiaoxiao, is the girl who likes you so much that she finally jumps off the building and commits suicide. ”
“……”
This topic... Zhou Wei didn't know how to pick it up for a while, although he knew from beginning to end that he had nothing to do with Jin Xiaoxiao, but there was a saying: You don't kill Boren, but Boren died because of you, so you really have to be held responsible, Zhou Wei can't completely wipe himself out, but he is more rational than Chang An in this regard.
"What can I do? Jin Dafu was sad for a while and still came out to socialize, drink and talk about business, and in recent months, the project has continued, as for Jin Xiaoxiao's mother, it is said that she did not return to her hometown after the funeral was done, Jin Dafu bought her a house in Yunling, moved over directly, and found a nanny to take care of her. ”
Sounds good, and better than before.
Chang An couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Yes, the relatives are gone, no matter how sad and sad they are, the people who are left behind must continue to live, and they must strive to live better than before, right?"
Zhou Mian's action of blowing his hair stiffened.
He knew that Chang An must have thought of Xue Bing's suicide again, she was only a 7-year-old girl at the time, and how desperate she should have been to watch her mother swallow medicine and leave.
"Okay, don't think about the past, the important thing is that in the future, as you said, even if your relatives are gone, those who stay must live well, because you don't have a second choice, understand?"
At this moment, Zhou Wei suddenly became serious, like an elder who was kind and persuasive.
Chang An glanced back at him, his eyes were firm under the light, like a relative, and like a leader who was holding her hand and was willing to take her all the way out of the swamp and confusion.
"I know, I'll be fine!"
"Well, obedient!"
“……”
"Turn around, your hair hasn't dried yet!"
“……”
The next day, the two ended their trip to Beijing, and the flight back to Yunling at about 11 o'clock in the morning, after breakfast, there was still a little time, Chang An proposed to go to a nearby store to shop, but in the end he bought a lot of special products, so that he was stopped when consigning, and asked Zhou Wei to open the box for inspection.
Zhou Wei has been flying around at home and abroad since he started business, accumulating countless miles and never being stopped at the security checkpoint, and counting the local products in front of everyone, what Daoxiangcun pastries, Liubiju pickles, Quanjude roast duck, plus donkeys rolling sugar gourds, preserved fruits, halva forests, and finally there are a few sauce elbows......
Over there, Chang An had already stepped on his boots and walked away with a small bag on his back, leaving Zhou Wei to be blocked, and counted and sorted into the box according to the requirements.
It's a shameful and fatal thing.
However, although there was a little episode in the consignment, the whole flight went smoothly, and he arrived at Yunling Airport on time at about two o'clock in the afternoon, and Xiao Zhao had been notified in advance to wait at the gate of the terminal.
On the way, Zhou Wei received a call from Liu Shulan, and he also knew that Zhou Tao took Chang An to Beijing this time, and learned that the two had returned, so he asked them to go back to the house for dinner together.
Zhou Yan didn't reply directly, turned around and asked Chang An with an expression first, Chang An immediately shook his head, and said softly with his mouth: "I'm tired, can I go tomorrow?"
Zhou Wei snuggled and replied to Liu Shulan, "Tomorrow, I'll go over for dinner tomorrow night." ”
Liu Shulan also asked the bottom of the matter, "Why tomorrow? Your grandfather is looking forward to it!"
Zhou Wei frowned, and simply said directly: "I can't pull away today, I have to go to the company in a while, let's do this first, hang up!"
Because of his luggage, Xiao Zhao drove the car directly into the yard, and carried the two suitcases into the house for Chang An and Zhou Wei.
"Mr. Zhou, madam, if there's nothing to do, I'll leave first!"
Zhou Yan responded, but Chang An shouted, "You wait!"
Xiao Zhao: "Madam, you still have something." ”
Chang An: "It's nothing, it's just that I went to Beijing this time to bring some specialties, and you have a share!" So he trotted into the kitchen and took a paper bag out, opened Zhou Wei's suitcase, and took a vacuum-packed roast duck and two boxes of tea on the top.
"I picked it casually, and I don't know if it's good or not, so you can take one back and taste it. ”
Xiao Zhao was so shocked that he couldn't speak.
"It's... How embarrassing is that!"
"There's nothing to be embarrassed about, just go out and bring some souvenirs and take them!" Chang An simply stuffed the bag directly into Xiao Zhao's arms.
Xiao Zhao glanced at Chang An uneasily, and then at Zhou Xian, who smiled half-meaningfully, "If you give it to you, you can take it, and it won't be in vain for me to bring it back so far." ”
Xiao Zhao was flattered, "Thank you, Mr. Zhou, thank you, Mrs." said several times in a row before carrying the bag out.
Chang An watched people leave, but when he turned around, he saw Zhou Wei leaning against the wall with his chest crossed, "Okay, so soon you started to know how to bribe the people around me?"
Chang An couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, "Yes, bring all the people around you over one by one, and keep track of your whereabouts and movements at any time!"
Zhou Wei pretended to snort lightly, and didn't forget to poke Chang An's forehead in the past, "Look at your appearance!"
“……”
After a short rest, Zhou Yi went to the company, Chang An packed up his luggage at home, and put the special products he brought back in a bag, and was busy for a while before he knew it was evening, thinking that Zhou Yi would come back for dinner, but he called to know that he had only a meeting, and he was busy as soon as he came back.
In the dead of night, when no one was around, some pictures kept pouring out of my mind, until my body was hot, and then I didn't know how I fell asleep, but I knew that Zhou went to bed in the middle of the night, and hugged himself from behind.
Chang An turned over dimly.
"Coming back?"
"Hmm... Haven't slept yet?"
"Sleep, woken up by you!" she said with a little resentment, and Zhou Wei smiled bitterly and kissed her on the forehead.
"Well, my fault, I shouldn't have woken you up. ”
Chang An was satisfied, and then put his arms around his waist and drilled into his arms, after a while, he thought that he would continue to sleep, but the drowsiness gradually subsided, and his consciousness became more and more awake.
She simply stopped sleeping and said, "Tomorrow I want to go to the countryside to see my dad." ”
Zhou Wei frowned, "But I don't have time tomorrow, and I've already made an appointment to talk about things." ”
Chang An: "It's okay, I'll just go by myself." ”
Zhou Wei thought for a while, "Then I'll let Xiao Zhao send you there." ”