Chapter 48

"Going to the Soup and Fire" / Call me Meow

In my life, the most feared thing is not being able to meet someone who makes you have the urge to go to the soup.

As soon as the lunar month begins, the atmosphere of the Lunar New Year has wrapped the city closely. Red ribbons and lanterns hang in the streets and alleys, and the lively streets are filled with cheerful New Year's songs and laughter.

The new year is coming, this is the second year that he and Shen Bai broke up, and it is almost a year since he graduated from college.

During the year, he was very busy, busy with work things.

Countless days of staying up late and working overtime will make him feel that his life is very fulfilling. He had to go to one glamorous banquet after another, socializing with people of all different identities in the city.

In the eyes of many people, he is young and promising, and he is in his prime. And he did, in just one year, he learned a lot. He knows what kind of attitude he should have when he sees someone, and he seems to like to smile more than he is cold and serious. At any given time, he was able to pull the corners of his mouth naturally.

Chen Ziang sat in the car, focusing on the documents in his hand, as if everything outside the car window had nothing to do with him. After signing his name on the last paper, he leaned back in his chair wearily.

Seeing that he had finished his work, Wen Xincai, the assistant sitting in the co-pilot, turned around and asked, "General manager, do you want to cancel tomorrow's trip?" ”

Chen Ziang half-narrowed his eyes and rubbed his eyebrows heavily, "What day is tomorrow?" ”

"Chairman's birthday."

He forgot his father's birthday.

After a moment of silence, Chen Ziang asked, "When is the birthday banquet scheduled?" ”

Wen Xin checked the schedule and replied, "Evening." ”

Chen Ziang nodded, "Tomorrow's itinerary will not change." ”

Wen Xin hesitated, "General manager, the chairman's wife..."

The chairman's wife had already explained to Wen Xin that all the trips would be canceled tomorrow, and the chairman's 50th birthday banquet would be the most important. The general manager is a workaholic, and he is not very sure, but Wen Xin does not dare to offend the chairman's wife.

"The plane ticket is booked, and we can come back before dinner." After speaking, Chen Ziang had completely closed his eyes, breathing shallowly, as if he was asleep.

The next day, Wen Xin followed Chen Zi as an assistant to fly to Q City. Marriott had been planning to enter the city a few years ago. In the past two years, through the efforts of Mr. Chen Jing, chairman of the board of directors, and Chen Ziang, general manager, Marriott has one hotel and three restaurants in Q City. This time, Chen Ziang went to Q City, in addition to visiting and inspecting, but also to tailor the second newly opened hotel.

The company sent someone to pick them up, but Chen Ziang did not go back to the hotel immediately, but asked the driver to take him to Q University. As soon as the car drove into the campus of Q University, Chen Ziang asked the driver to pull over, did not let anyone follow him, and walked towards the depths of the campus alone.

Wen Xin and the driver stood beside the car, watching the tall figure slowly shrink.

The driver asked Wen Xin on the side puzzled, "What's wrong with the general manager?" ”

Wen Xin was still holding the folder in his hand, his face was blank, "Chen always graduated from Q University, probably to miss his alma mater." ”

No one knew that he was walking on the campus of Q University, but he was missing another university.

Half of the winter in Q City has passed, and the land after the snow is covered with silver everywhere and turned into a crystal fairy tale. The carefully planted trees on the campus are covered with silver flowers and shimmer in the sunlight.

Chen Ziang walked unhurriedly on the snow-clearing road, and occasionally a few students who stayed at the school would walk past him, and they looked at Chen Ziang with amazement, doubt, and kindness in their eyes. But Chen Ziang didn't notice, his eyes were drawn to three or four students who were having snowball fights.

The smiles on their faces were warmer and brighter than the sun, and Chen Ziang stood motionless and watched them play, laugh and chase.

Where his eyes were concentrating, he seemed to be able to see a white figure running towards him. It was a shoulder-length girl in a white down jacket, her fair face was ruddy, and she was very eye-catching in this icy and snowy world. Dressed in a lot, the bulky body stumbled headlong into a boy's arms.

The boy was wearing a dark blue down jacket, a head taller than the girl, he was stunned, he stabilized his bulky body, frowned and said to the girl, "Won't you come slowly?" ”

There was a lot of concern in that tone.

"I'm in a hurry, if you go too fast, I won't be able to catch up with you." After the girl finished speaking, she only looked at the boy who was holding her.

The boy reached out and gently swept away the snowflakes scattered on the girl's clothes and hair, and his slender and beautiful fingers ran over the girl's cold red cheeks, and withdrew his hand with a shrunken hand.

They stared at each other as if there was no one else around, only each other in this white world.

"Chen Ziang?" A voice pulled Chen Ziang back to reality, and it turned out that there was only a thick field of snow where the two people were standing.

Chen Zi raised his eyebrows and turned around slowly, and a man was holding a book and looking at him.

"I saw you from afar, and I didn't dare to confirm it, but I didn't expect it to be you." Huang Jie grinned, reached out and habitually punched Chen Ziang, "How is it, are you okay now?" ”

Huang Jie was one of the few college classmates Chen Ziang could remember, his roommate. Chen Ziang smiled, his eyes swept over the book in Huang Jie's hand, "I'm fine, are you in graduate school?" ”

"Yes, several students in our class ended up staying at Q University for graduate school." Huang Jie scratched his hair and sighed, "No way, you have to have a good education to find a good job." ”

Chen Ziang patted Huang Jie's arm twice, "Study hard." ”

The sky was still snowflakes, and Chen Ziang stood in the snow for some time, the collar of his coat covered with white spots. Huang Jie glanced at it, "Alas, let's find a place to sit down and talk, I haven't seen each other for more than a year." ”

"Okay."

That is, I haven't come back for a year, and Q University seems to have changed a bit. For example, the current café, if he remembers correctly, was originally the third cafeteria of the school. At that time, he and Shen Bai had eaten here a few times.

Thinking of this, Chen Ziang picked up a cup of sugar-free black coffee and took a sip.

"Ziang, I heard that you are now the general manager of Marriott, so you should be very busy with work. How did you come up with the idea of coming back? ”

After graduating from university, Chen Ziang returned to City A and never had contact with these classmates again. Chen Ziang's family is well-off, and his son inherits his father's business, and they are more or less envious. Envy is envy, and Huang Jie still admires Chen Ziang in his heart. When he was in college, Chen Ziang's grades have always been among the best, and at that time he thought that Chen Ziang would continue his studies, but he didn't expect that now he has also achieved a career in Marriott.

Chen Ziang smiled faintly, a little more affectionate than usual, "This time I'm on a business trip, so come and have a look." ”

"There are four people in our dormitory, and now only Wenxi and I are still fighting with the teacher's exam. You don't know yet, Wenxi read psychology. Yang Yuhang is already married, and his son can play soy sauce. ”

Huang Jie talked about the recent situation of several roommates, and did not notice Chen Ziang's face. In fact, when Huang Jie mentioned Yang Yuhang, Chen Ziang's hand on the table shook unconsciously.

Two years ago, they were in their third year of college. When Yang Yuhang accompanied his unexpectedly pregnant girlfriend to the hospital for a pregnancy test, he met Shen Bai in the obstetrics and gynecology department. When Yang Yuhang came back, he asked Chen Ziang if he had a relationship with Shen Bai. This question usually becomes a topic of conversation when a few boys in the dormitory are chatting. Chen Ziang has never liked them to joke with Shen Bai, so Yang Yuhang will not ask him like this for no reason.

Yang Yuhang told Chen Ziang that he saw Shen Bai queuing in the obstetrics and gynecology department, her face was very pale and she looked bad. Yang Yuhang unintentionally reminded him, but it became one of the reasons why he broke up with Shen Bai in the end.

After separating from Huang Jie, Chen Ziang walked around the campus by himself. When he came out, the car was still parked on the side of the road, and he walked around the bus to the bus stop at the school gate.

The No. 4 bus had just arrived at the station, and he had no change in his wallet, so he borrowed two yuan from the assistant and put coins on the bus.

He went all the way back, there were not many people, and there were many vacant places. Sitting down in that window seat, his breathing became rapid. His eyes also became silent, and he turned out of the window and watched the scene and object hurrying by.

It's been a long time since he'd graduated, and he hadn't been on a bus. The heating was obviously on in the car, but he felt unusually cold, from head to toe, which made him shiver.

I remember two years ago, also in this position, he accompanied his girl back and forth between the two schools. She always sat by the window, holding him in one hand and pointing to a certain store outside the window, telling him, "Chen Ziang, we'll go there on our next date." ”

Her eyes were always so bright that you couldn't take your eyes off them, and she always had a flower-like smile on the corner of her mouth, calling his name in her mischievous voice and tone.

At that time, he would nod his head without hesitation when she asked for any proposal, "Okay." ”

As soon as he met her request, she held his cheek and kissed him as if she had the whole world. Completely oblivious to their circumstances, he glared at her fiercely, but she laughed heartlessly.

The car stopped at the terminal, and after all the passengers had gotten off the train, Chen Ziang walked slowly down alone. Every time he sent her back, she would look at the door proudly and say shamelessly: "Q University is nothing great, you don't want to marry me back from our University of Science and Technology." ”

He'd pinch her nose, "Don't think." ”

There was still a smile in her dark eyes, "I think about it every day. ”

Since he left Q City, no one has been able to tease his calm heart and make him have a conniving heart like her.

Chen Ziang stood outside the school gate for a long time, looking at the teachers and students coming and going, and lit a cigarette for himself irritably. During the year, when the pressure of work weighed him down, he needed nicotine to numb his nerves. He learned to smoke, he learned to inhale deeply in one breath without coughing and wheezing.

This time the pain welled up in my heart, and even nicotine didn't work.

He extinguished his cigarette before entering the campus.

Everything here is already familiar to him. But he still walked very slowly, for fear that he would miss something in the next second. Beneath the calm exterior, the heart was faintly expecting and afraid.

When he came downstairs to Shen Bai's dormitory again, he realized how worried he had been all the way. He wanted to see her, and the thoughts that had been suppressed for a year came like a tide. He couldn't restrain himself, and he didn't have the idea of restraint.

Chen Ziang went to the Academic Affairs Office and learned that Shen Bai had graduated for half a year. As for where she went after graduation, the school was not very clear, and her file was sent back to her place of residence.

Chen Ziang sat downstairs in her dormitory and lit another cigarette, and the fireworks went out in between. He didn't smoke, just sat and looked at the dormitory building quietly.

He lost his girl.

It was as if a needle had been pricked on the tip of his heart, and it hurt so much that he forgot to breathe. He clenched his cigarette tightly, his lips trembling. He swore that one day, he would find her. 166 Reading Network