The taxi I took drove in the night with no end in sight, but the bustling atmosphere brought by the city is getting stronger and stronger, and I have not been in such a mood for a long time to go to the city that is much more lively than Tulip Road in such a mood, and I have never thought that I must find Chen Yi who grew up with me in this way, I am very disgusted that we are now separated by the distance that requires 30 yuan to take a taxi.

About twenty minutes later, I came to Danfeng Street, where Chen Yi lives now, and then found Chen Yi's residence according to the address sent to me by Zhao Mu before, I didn't go up immediately, but stood downstairs and watched for a while, until I saw her blurred figure reflected in the curtain, then walked into the corridor, and then took the elevator to the 6th floor where she lived.

I rang the doorbell, and her familiar voice rang into the room, and my heart beat faster: "Who?" ”

"I, Jiang Qiao."

Chen Yi opened the door of the house, she had just finished taking a shower, her hair was still wet, and she was wearing a red silk pajamas, and looking at me, her expression was as calm as ever, as if this deep night could not even take me to provoke a trace of her emotional fluctuations.

"Why are you here now?"

I was a little cramped, and finally handed the two-leaf tulip in my hand to her and said, "Don't you want this pot of flowers, so I sent it to you." ”

She leaned over and motioned for me to come into the room and talk.

I placed the tulips on a flower stand closest to her bedroom, and then began to look at the furnishings in the room, when even I was fascinated by the wide floor-to-ceiling windows, it gently reflected Chen Yi's figure, and my heart seemed to fall into the blue ocean, but I was radically exploring a secret about the deepest part of a woman's heart.

I finally looked at the blue spotlights on the floor-to-ceiling windows and said, "Your floor-to-ceiling windows are really well designed, and when you look out from the inside, you really feel like you're facing the sea." ”

"That's what the designer designed inspired by the sea, and the background wall in my bedroom is also designed like this, so that you can calm people when you look at it at night."

I turned to look at her and asked in a tentative tone, "Have you been very unquiet lately?" ”

She met my gaze, but didn't answer the question, just took a bottle of drink from the fridge and handed it to me, and the words I had been holding back in my heart suddenly became speechless.

I was doing it on the sofa in the living room, Chen Yi went back to her bedroom, and after a while, she changed into a more casual set of clothes and walked out of it.

"Are you going out?"

"Hmm."

At this moment, I finally saw the vulnerability and sensitivity in her eyes, and then I realized that she might not be as good as I thought these days, I stood up and said, "Where you want to go, I will accompany you." ”

She nodded and replied, "That's why I want to go to that place because you're here." ”

……

Avoiding the bright lights of the city, Chen Yi drove the red A4 and took me to the edge of the Yangtze River, where the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge is still standing in the torrent of history.

Chen Yi parked the car on a green space under the bridge, and we got out of the car, and then looked at the Yangtze River and the ship that had docked in the night. Gradually, I felt that I was getting smaller and smaller in the magnificence of nature, including those chaotic moods, as if they were blown into the river by the night wind, and drifted with the current!

"Jiangqiao, you know what? Recently, there have been many suggestions to abolish the bridge. ”

I looked at her and asked in amazement, "Why scrap this bridge?" ”

"Because the bridge is too low, it has seriously hindered the development of the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and the 10,000-ton steamer cannot drive in, which has become the biggest bottleneck restricting the development of the Yangtze River golden waterway, and the Yangtze River Second and Third Bridges over there, as well as the river crossing tunnel, can completely replace its current role."

My tone unconsciously became higher: "Is it a Nanjing person who said these words, it's pure nonsense...... This bridge is already a cultural relic, a symbol of the times, and the pride of our generations, which is simply not something that can be measured by economic interests. ”

Chen Yi nodded, and replied after a long time: "Yes, what is indispensable in this world is this bridge that can communicate between the north and the south, sometimes the economic interests that people blindly chase are not the most important, but emotions are the most real!" ”

I thought for a moment, then lit a cigarette and inhaled it in the oncoming river breeze.

"Jiang Qiao, do you remember the night before the college entrance examination when you brought me here?"

"Yes." I nodded and replied simply, I don't like to remember the past, because it was full of too much helplessness and loneliness, but I do remember that night, and half a year before that night, I had just turned 18 years old and had dropped out of school and embarked on a society full of complexities and conflicting interests.

"That day you lied to me that as long as I held your hand, the river god would bless me to be admitted to the university I wanted to go to...... And I really succeeded. ”

Hearing her talk about her absurd behavior, I finally smiled and replied, "I also successfully held your hand...... That must be your first time holding hands with a man, right? ”

Chen Yi also smiled with me, and then corrected with a serious expression: "What kind of man, at that time, you were at best a little boy running a train with a mouth!" ”

"That's right, how can I deceive you, an ignorant girl, if I knew that I was holding the hand of a famous female anchor in the future, I would definitely be more proud......" Speaking of this, I stopped, took a deep breath of cigarette, and then said with some loss: "Seriously, I never thought that you would have today's achievements at that time, maybe this is fate, some people are destined to be ordinary, and some people are destined to become leaders in this society, such as you now, Zhao Mu in the future......"

Chen Yi fell silent, and I don't know why she was suddenly silent.

After a long time, she finally said to me: "Jiang Qiao, I am really a woman who is very afraid of choice, but now I have to choose, you know? I had already chosen to give up the relationship with Qiu Zi'an, so I didn't give him a chance to find me again, and Qingdao was an exception, but even if we met, I didn't plan to continue the broken relationship with him...... However, you gave him the opportunity to meet me again, and let me know that it has not been easy for him to live alone all these years, and he has never let go of his relationship with me, so I have to face a choice again, and this choice makes me very painful......"

I choked a little, took another puff of my cigarette, and finally smiled and replied, "Is the choice really that painful?" I heard Zhao Mu say, you are already planning to leave the TV station, maybe you already have a choice in your heart, right? ”

Chen Yi wanted to speak and stopped, and finally looked at me and smiled, and said, "Don't talk about me, let's talk about you, what are your plans for the future?" After thinking about it, he added, "I mean your future marriage." ”

I was a little dazed, because I had never thought carefully about the so-called marriage, but in order to keep us from being so silent, I still replied: "Actually, my requirements for marriage are not high, just find an ordinary woman, whether she is a salesman, or a clerk, or a factory worker, I will save some money to decorate the house in the alley, and use it as a marriage room, and then wait for my daughter-in-law to give birth to me, I will do my best to raise my children and be a competent father...... I won't be like Jiang Jiyou! ”

Chen Yi nodded, but after being silent for a while, he said, "It's good, but is the girl who is with you the ordinary woman you expect in your heart?" ”

I didn't know whether to look at her with a cry or look at her with a smile, and finally after being silent for a longer time than her, I said: "Xiao Ai and I really don't have the kind of relationship you think, she is a more open girl, so what you saw the first few times really can't say anything between us, I swear!" Or you can ask Zhao Mu for verification! ”

Chen Yi looked at me and didn't make any response to this matter, she just pinned her windswept hair behind her ears, and then walked towards the fence closer to the river, and I followed in her footsteps......

After looking at Jiang Mian for a while, she took off the shoulder bag from her shoulder, then took out a bank card that seemed to have been prepared a long time ago, handed it to me and said: "Jiang Qiao, there are 100,000 yuan in this card, you let your uncle come back from Shenzhen, and then use this money to do some small business for him, he is also old, and it is really pitiful to be adrift outside alone all these years." ”

I hated Jiang Jiyou in my heart, pushed Chen Yi's hand away and said: "Whether to stay in Nanjing or go to Shenzhen to work, it is his own choice, he has not cared about me at all for so many years, why should I pay for his choice?" …… If it weren't for his gambling addiction when he was young, my family would not have become what it is now, and I wouldn't have lived such a ...... So ......"

I couldn't go on, I just closed my eyes and gasped, I didn't want to let myself think of that lonely childhood and the nights I spent alone......

Chen Yi gently held my hand like that night many years ago, but the moment I felt the temperature of her palm, all my defenses were lost, and I could no longer control her tightly in my arms, and then whimpered...... She is the only woman in this world who can give me hope and the only person who can give me support when I am on the verge of collapse!