28. His thoughtfulness
Seeing Zhong Ling coming out of the building, Liang Ju had the urge to step forward
But the step he had just taken shrank back in.
What qualifications does she have to thank Zhong Ling? At that moment, Liang Ju even felt that she was not as good as Zhong Ling.
Zhong Ling seemed to be in a bad mood, and kept walking forward slowly with her eyes down.
Liang Ju and Duoduo followed her all the time, not far away, but she didn't find it.
It wasn't until Zhong Ling took a taxi at the gate of the community that Liang Ju was relieved.
When the car turned and left, Liang Ju happened to be in the opposite position to the car, and she quickly hugged Duoduo and hid behind a high wall to prevent Zhong Ling from seeing her.
No matter what Zhong Ling thinks about Mao Dong, Liang Juda has his own careful thoughts from the bottom of his heart.
***
Throughout October, Liang Ju did not see Mao Dong again. During this period, I had a few meals with Shapi, and I heard him say that Mao Dong went to the south by himself.
In mid-November, Liang Ju hesitated to quit her job at North Star, but the next night, she met a difficult guest.
Liang Ju has been working in North Star for less than two months, and she is quite lucky that she has not met a drunk guest like Gillian said.
The audience was full tonight, Liang Ju was instructed by the foreman to serve wine to the guests at table No. 4 next to the dance floor, she carried a few bottles of drinks in her hand with a wine plate, the guests said that the sieve was not enough, Liang Ju went to get them a sieve again. When I came back, I saw that one of the guests had lost and was holding a wine bottle and pouring it down, and one of the men with a straight stomach saw Liang Ju coming over and pointed at her, "Come here, give me a win!" β
The guest's face was flushed, and a large gold chain hung from his thick, fat neck, and a gold ring was worn on his hand. Liang Ju knew at a glance that this person must not be good at serving, and stepped forward with a smile, "Big brother, I don't know how to play sieves, I'll help you play a game, if you lose, I'll help you drink this wine, do you think it's okay?" β
It was rare to see that he took the initiative to invite the waitress who wanted to drink, and the man smiled and nodded, "Okay!" β
In the first game, sure enough, Liang Ju lost.
She happily picked up the bottle and blew it directly, causing the guests present to applaud.
Putting down the wine bottle, Liang Ju wiped his mouth and bowed to the guest slightly, "Big brother, I drank this wine, you continue, play well, call me again if the wine is not enough!" β
With that, she turned around and was about to leave with the empty disk, but who knows, her hand was grabbed by the nouveau riche from behind.
"Who told you to go? Keep drinking! β
"Big Brother"
"If you drink, I'll take all the wine in your hands!"
The waiters all have a commission for alcohol, although Liang Ju also wants to make money, but depending on this man's posture, if he doesn't pour her down, he will definitely not give up. On the contrary, if she insists on leaving, then with this man's now drunk Cheng DΓΉ, a mouth and a smell of wine will rush towards her, Liang Ju thought, he will definitely not give up.
After hesitating, Liang Ju was dragged to the sofa by the man, and several large cups full of beer were placed in front of her in a row. "Drink!"
Liang Ju looked up and looked around, there were four or five people who came with the man, all of whom were almost drunk, and they all stared at her with a good show at this time, Liang Ju scolded in his heart, "A bunch of dead men, they don't know how to persuade this drunkard, it's great to be rich?" Drink and drink, drink you to death! β
On her face, she pursed her lips and waved her hand, with an indifferent expression, "Okay! β
Who is afraid of who?
Liang Ju picked up the wine glass and weighed it in his heart for a second before slowly sending it to his mouth.
"Yo, Uncle Wang?" Gillian's coquettish voice came from the entrance of the booth, interrupting Liang Ju's movements.
Gillian walked up with a bright smile on her face, and she glanced at the man and the other friends around him, but she didn't look at Liang Ju.
"Why don't you tell me when you come, I'll give you some fruit plates, Uncle Wang, how about you play tonight?"
Liang Ju put down the wine glass and muttered to himself, I call him eldest brother, you call him Uncle Wang, then I won't be your aunt?
The man known as Uncle Wang grinned and grinned for a long time, "Seeing that you are busy, I am embarrassed to disturb you." β
Gillian continued to talk to the man, and after a while, she instructed Liang Ju, "Go, bring a few more fruit plates." β
Liang Ju received Gillian's eyes, got up, bypassed the 'Uncle Wang', and hurriedly left the fourth table.
Back in the dormitory, Liang Ju thought about it, and decided that what if she met an uncle or uncle again, she couldn't help but drink too much with others, and scratched people again? So, the next day, Liang Ju proposed to Gillian that he wanted to resign.
Gillian was sitting on a chair with a mirror to touch up her makeup, and she was not surprised when she heard this, but nodded lightly, "I knew that you would resign, but it's okay, after all, this is not suitable for long-term work." β
When Liang Ju was packing up her clothes, Gillian turned around and said to her meaningfully: "Go and thank Sister Ling, she has helped you a lot." β
Liang Ju was stunned and nodded silently.
After getting off work in the evening, Liang Ju found out from other colleagues that Zhong Ling hadn't gotten off work yet, and she wandered around the gate of Beixing for a while, but she didn't see Zhong Ling.
A little hungry, Liang Ju went to a nearby convenience store to buy bread and water, and when he came back with his things, he saw Zhong Ling wearing a denim jacket with a black long skirt and a few foreigners coming out of the North Star.
Zhong Ling didn't know what to say, which made the group of foreigners laugh, she smiled and hugged them one by one, and then sent them into a taxi. When she turned around, she saw Liang Ju standing on the steps at the gate of the North Star.
"Leaving?" Zhong Ling stepped forward with a gentle smile.
"Well, today is the last day." Liang Ju saw that there was a foreigner in the taxi who kept waving to Zhong Ling, and Zhong Ling smiled and waved his hand.
Liang Ju asked, "Are you sending a friend?" β
"Frequent guests, after a long time, get to know each other." Looking at the things in Liang Ju's hand, Zhong Ling asked, "Why don't you go home for dinner?" β
"I'll go back to school."
After late autumn, it gets dark early in the early winter evenings, and the leaves on the branches are scattered and falling from time to time.
Zhong Ling followed Liang Ju step by step on the gravel path on the side of the street, the road on the side of the street was being repaired, and the rumbling noise came non-stop.
"I heard Shar Pei say that you have a good relationship with him?" Zhong Ling suddenly asked Liang Ju.
Liang Ju nodded, "He has a straightforward temperament, and I like to be with him." β
"Shar Pei is an honest man, but he has a bad temper, but he is actually quite good." The cold wind blew Zhong Ling's long hair up, and Liang Ju glanced at her under the street lamp, her soft face was light and elegant, white and clean.
Liang Ju stopped and looked at Zhong Ling, "Sister Ling, you are mistaken, Brother Shapi and I are not what you think." β
Just as he walked out of the path to the side of the wide road, Zhong Ling stood under the street lamp, her eyes fixed on Liang Ju's face.
She laughed, "May I ask you a question?" β
Liang Ju nodded.
"Who's your liking, him?"
Liang Ju didn't know if the 'he' Zhong Ling was referring to was that person.
Zhong Ling said again: "You are the first person he asked me to take care of." β
Liang Ju stood there silently.
Zhong Ling said: "He went to Beixing to find me before he went to the south, I thought he didn't mind if I sold Beixing, who knows, he just said, if you can, if it's convenient, can you let me take care of you." β
Zhong Ling's heart tightened, and she looked up at Zhong Ling.
Zhong Ling retracted her gaze and looked into the distance, "How could Gillian go to your table so coincidentally, she is very busy, you think you can quit this job, don't forget, you have signed an internship agreement." β
"Before leaving, Gillian asked me to thank you, you have been helping me?" Liang Ju asked.
The two of them walked along the road to the station, Zhong Ling smiled and lowered her eyes, "I was also instructed by someone, he may think that your temperament is not suitable for working in a bar." β
Liang Ju was also innocent, and asked rhetorically: "Are you afraid that I will fight with the guests?" β
Zhong Ling chuckled, and her eyes became brighter when she looked at Liang Ju.
"I envy you." She said.
"Why?"
"You're so happy and carefree every day."
Liang Ju also smiled, and after a long time, he looked up and asked Zhong Ling, "Did he accept the money?" β
Zhong Ling had a surprised expression on her face, and Liang Ju said, "It's Sha Pi who sued me." β
"The kid." Zhong Ling shook her head, "He didn't take it." β
Mao Dong went to find her, also to return the money to her.
"Do you have any news of him?" Zhong Ling suddenly asked Liang Ju.
Obviously, Mao Dong did not contact anyone.
Liang Ju said lightly: "We are just ordinary friends. β
Zhong Ling bowed her head in understanding, and her face showed a look of frustration.
***
Liang Ju doesn't have a job at Beixing, and he has nothing else to do every day except for class. Yu Yanjie returned to school, and her classmates talked about her behind her back, but she didn't explain, and the whole person became silent.
Liang Ju wanted to take her shopping a few times, but Yu Yanjie refused, I don't know if it was Liang Ju's sensitivity, she always felt that Yu Yanjie was deliberately alienating her. In the past, whether it was eating or going to class, Yu Yanjie would definitely pull Liang Ju with her, but now, she occasionally went to the classroom alone, and most of them pulled Lan Lan with her.
Liang Ju told Sun Xiaoshou about this, and Sun Xiaoshou said: "You are suspicious, there is such a big thing in Jiejie's family, and she definitely doesn't want to see us." β
Think about it, if this matter is replaced by Liang Ju, she doesn't seem to want her friends to know that her mother can do that kind of thing.
November has passed in a blink of an eye, and the first snow of this winter fell in early December, and Liang Ju was wrapped in a quilt in the dormitory. Lan Lan pulled Yu Yanjie out early this morning, and only Liang Ju was left in the entire dormitory.
It's Saturday, and I don't know what to do when I think about it, go home? Or stay in a dorm?
When I looked out of the window, I could see how slippery the ground was. She was too lazy to take the bus home, but if she was left alone in the dormitory all day, it would be boring.
Just when Liang Ju was lying on the bed tossing and turning and thinking about what to do, her mobile phone rang.
It's Shar Pei.
Liang Ju hurriedly picked it up happily, "Hey! β
Her voice was particularly crisp in the cold winter, which made Sha Pei also stupid on the other end of the phone, "Little girl, come out, brother invites you to eat hot pot!" β
Chafing dish? That's Liang Ju's favorite!
"Okay!" Liang Ju replied dryly.
"In another hour, I'll pick you up."
Liang Ju stood at the school gate in the thickest down jacket and stamped his feet in the cold. She took her hands out of her pockets and kept breathing on them.
A gray Volkswagen sedan stopped beside her, Liang Ju curiously poked inside, and saw Sha Pei sitting proudly in the driver's seat, "Little girl, get in the car!" β
"Yo, my brother has been mixing well lately?" Liang Ju got into the car and patted Shapi on the shoulder, laughing and teasing.
Shar Pei started the car, and the sedan drove down the school lane to the road.
"The money my brother gave me."
"Your brother? He's back? β
"I'm in a hurry." Sha Pei glanced at Liang Ju with deep meaning, "I came back last week, and today I will take you to see him." β
***
On the way, the pet store called, saying that the kind of dog food that Duoduo asked for was coming and asked her to come and pick it up, Liang Ju asked Sha Pei if it was convenient, and Sha Pei immediately agreed without saying a word.
They entered the pet store and stood at the front desk waiting for the owner to go and get the dog food, Shar Pei accidentally glanced at a red rope placed in the corner on the counter, felt familiar, and picked it up.
"It was dropped by a guest a few months ago." The pet shop owner said to Sharpe.
Shapi took a closer look in front of his eyes and said, "How does it look like my brother's." β
Liang Ju was taking out his wallet to pay the bill, and when he heard the words, he raised his head, "True or false?" β
"My brother also has such a red rope, it seems that Sister Ling specially went to the temple to beg for him, and a small bell was also bolted."
When the old helper heard Shar Pei say this, she smiled and said, "Then you can take it back, anyway, no one has come to collect it for so long." β
The proprietress found the money and handed it to Liang Ju, and Sha Pei also stuffed the red rope into Liang Ju's hand, "You can ask him later." β
"Huh?" What's the matter with her?
Liang Ju wanted to excuse himself, but Sha Pei had already pushed the door out with dog food.
The place to eat was about to be in a Sichuan hot pot restaurant with ancient decoration, because it was the dinner rush and it was a weekend, and the private car in front of the store was parked a lot.
Two reception ladies in red cheongsams stood on both sides of the door, one on the left and one on the right, smiling and raising their hands to make a welcome gesture.
Liang Ju and Sha Pi went up to a box on the second floor with the waiter, bypassing the antique carved screen, only to see a large round table in the center of the box, and two people were already sitting behind the round table.
As soon as I looked up, I met the pair of dark eyes, deep and dazzling under the white light.
Looking at each other, Liang Ju's heart stagnated for half a second. I haven't seen him for more than two months, and he's lost weight again.
Mao Dong was sitting at the door, and when he saw Liang Ju who came in with Sha Pi, his dark eyes were clear, and a smile flashed.
Liang Ju's heart seemed to be stagnant, his eyes lowered slightly, and he followed Sha Pei honestly.
The two sat down, Sha Pei naturally sat next to Mao Dong, Liang Ju was next to Sha Pei, and Ah Yuan was at the same table.
"Our three good brothers haven't been together for a long time, today with oranges, my godsister, they are all their own family!" Shapi leaned and commanded the waiter to order, and raised his hand to entertain others, "This meal is my Shapi treat, and it should be for our brother to catch the wind, quick, what do you want to eat, don't be polite to me!" He turned his head and asked Liang Ju again, "Orange, what do you want to eat?" β
Ah Yuan didn't say anything polite to Shapi, he flipped through the menu and kept ordering, Liang Ju glanced at Mao Dong, he was holding a teacup and drinking tea, so he pushed the menu to him, "I'm a foodie who eats everything, and I don't have taboos, you better ask Brother Mao Dong!" β
Shapi was not stupid, he glanced at Mao Dong with a smile, and then at Liang Ju, "Okay, brother, you order!" β
Mao Dong took the menu and flipped through it, and suddenly asked, "Can you eat spicy food?" β
Sha Pei just wanted to answer, but he paused, he and Ah Yuan are both spicy and unhappy, Mao Dong Tie must know, he glanced at Ah Yuan opposite, the two looked at each other tacitly, Sha Pei then knew that this eighty percent was asking Liang Ju, so he looked sideways at Liang Ju.
Liang Ju saw Sha Pi's cheap smile, and replied to Mao Dong: "Yes, I love spicy food!" Under the table, she didn't hesitate to give Shar Pei a kick.
Sha Pei let out an 'oops', causing Mao Dong to raise his eyes to look at him, "What's wrong?" β
"It's okay, it's okay."
The steaming hot pot is fragrant on the table, the red chili oil is bubbling, and the white vapor is steaming, which suddenly warms up the atmosphere on the table.
Liang Ju sandwiched a piece of mutton and put it in the hot pot, as soon as she saw the spicy one, especially the spicy hot pot, her saliva was about to stay, and she didn't care about it anymore because the person's storage zΓ i wanted to maintain her image.
She asked the waiter for a few bottles of cold beer, Sha Pei couldn't drink because he came by car, but he couldn't help it, so he wanted to beg Ah Yuan to help him drive when he went back, but Ah Yuan flatly refused.
"I still want to drink it." A-Yuan said.
Sha Pei gritted his teeth and despised him, and he was about to ask Liang Ju again, but when he turned his head, he saw that the little girl was already drinking beer and eating the meat in the bowl.
"Drink, I'll drive." Mao Dong said lightly.
"Haha, it's still my brother's righteous anger!" With Mao Dong's words, Shapi rolled up his sleeves and prepared to eat.
Liang Ju chewed the vegetables and meat in his mouth, and looked at Mao Dong with some pity, who called him a big brother, sometimes he had to take care of these little brothers.
Thinking that he asked Zhong Ling to take care of himself before leaving, Liang Ju felt warm in his heart.
She was eating mutton with her head down, when suddenly she saw a pair of chopsticks appear in her sight.
Raising his head, he was facing the unusually shining black eyes of the man under the light.