Chapter 90: The Last of Us
I put her on the bed, and then went to the service desk to ask a female staff member to help her change her dirty clothes, and then I felt that my night was finally coming to an end.
Back to my room, I hurriedly took a hot shower and then lay on the bed, I was so tired that I didn't have the energy to recharge the phone that had been depleted, but I remembered that I hadn't contacted Chen Yi tonight, so I used the last bit of energy to find the charger from the bag, charged the phone, and then watched the screen get brighter and brighter
After receiving the signal on the mobile phone, there were two missed text message prompts, and I hurriedly looked at the call time, which was from Chen Yi at 9 o'clock and 9:30 o'clock.
I looked at the time again, it was already half past twelve in the middle of the night, considering that Chen Yi would preside over the wedding of Mr. Xiao and Li Zishan tomorrow, it was not suitable to call her back at this time, so I opened WeChat and sent her a text message, telling her that she did not receive her call because her phone was out of battery.
I thought that this message would not be seen by Chen Yi until tomorrow morning, but she replied to the message in less than two minutes: "Are you busy learning to make pastries, and you can't remember to charge the electricity of your mobile phone?"
"Well, I haven't remembered to charge it during the day, and I haven't returned to the hotel at night, why don't you sleep?"
"I'll sleep, I'll be relieved when you reply to the message, but ah, although you have to socialize, you can't stay outside so late."
Chen Yi may mistakenly think that Ji Xiaowei and I went out to find a happy life, and I am not very good at explaining that I went to find Xiao Ai, after all, women are too profound, I am not sure what kind of eyes Chen Yi will use to look at the innocence between me and Xiao Ai, so he replied: "Tonight's situation is special, and you don't know that I don't like to spend the night." ”
Chen Yi replied with a smiling expression: "I'm really not sure if you like to spend the night, but I know that you like to grow flowers and grass, and such a man will not be far behind, because planting flowers and grass is also part of cultivation." ”
Chen Yi's biggest advantage is that she doesn't like unwarranted speculation and suspicion, so she knows that Xiao Ai is also in Yangzhou, but she has never made a big fuss about this incident, she is indeed a very atmospheric woman, and she is also a typical girl cultivated by a middle-class family, with a good upbringing.
Thinking of this, I feel infarcted because of the difference in our growth environment, if I was also born in an intellectual family, or like Zhao Mu, I was admitted to a prestigious university through my own efforts, there would not be so many uninvited bystanders to talk about our feelings.
I finally replied, "I'll plant flowers and grass well." ”
This time Chen Yi replied with a voice message: "There are too many uninvited people in this world who look at us with biased eyes, although we don't have to live for the eyes of others, but let them shut up, we can plant flowers and grass quietly, so come on and come on together"
Broadcasting and hosting is Chen Yi's job, and when she speaks seriously, her voice is so good that it can melt people's hearts. I unconsciously listened to this voice several times, and then realized that we actually thought of other people's uninvited people very tacitly, but this also indirectly shows that the pressure of the outside world is indeed the biggest trouble between us, always making us forget the sweetness of love, and focus on those damn rights and wrongs, so sometimes, we would rather be indifferent to watch, rather than uninvited bias like a thorn in the lightest place of our soul.
Yes, there are too many righteous and righteous words in life that are precisely the most vicious guns, and running is not to chase worldly fame and value, but to better protect yourself.
I lit the last cigarette of the day, and then I was not afraid of the trouble to connect my phone to the computer, found the voice sent by Chen Yi in the folder, and then edited it into a ringtone, and sent it to my mobile phone. I thought: As long as Chen Yi is with me for a day, her words will be the ringtone of my mobile phone, reminding me all the time: leave those murderous eyes far behind me with running
I sent a long text message to Chen Yi again, but she didn't reply again, I thought: She should have fallen asleep, and she must sleep, I hope she can have a good presiding state tomorrow at the wedding of Mr. Xiao and Li Zishan
Today it was my lack of care that delayed her sleep, and I apologize for my repentance
The next morning, the sky began to rain again in late autumn, and the whole city was shy like a woman without makeup, and the true face of the rain was revealed to our eyes, and I stood on the balcony and watched, watching the birds in the trees shake off the rain on their bodies, and then curled up on the empty branches, and also looked at the world that made them dare not fly anymore
I turned on my phone and looked at the weather today, and the minimum temperature had dropped below 10 degrees. I think: In such weather, Li Zishan in a wedding dress should not feel good. Sure enough, God still has a good pair of eyes, and the sunshine should not be given to that scheming woman at the wedding
I remembered Xiao Ai's drinking last night, and I was sure that she must not have woken up at this moment, and waking up must be accompanied by the pain of a hangover, because I was also so drunk, so I know very well what it tastes like.
At nine o'clock, I went to the vegetable market to buy tomatoes, went to Ji Xiaowei's coffee shop to squeeze them into juice, and finally returned to the hotel with Xiao Ai's favorite pastries.
I stood outside her door and rang the doorbell several times before she opened it for me in a daze, then walked to the side of the bed with her eyes closed, and the next moment she collapsed on the bed and did not want to say a word.
"Drink some tomato juice to relieve hangover and protect your stomach."
It took her moment before she opened her eyes and looked at me, and said in a state of discouragement, "I don't want to drink, it's uncomfortable."
"It won't be uncomfortable when you drink it."
She finally took the cup from my hand, drank it with her eyes closed, and asked me, "Are you going back to Nanjing in the afternoon?"
"Well, do you want to be together?"
"It's been a long time since I've been to school."
I nodded, and then fell into silence, although I didn't talk to her about marriage, but it doesn't mean that she won't think about it at the moment, so I went to the window and helped her open the curtains, so that this confined space would not give her too much oppressive feeling.
However, I was a little depressed in my heart, because I knew every step of the wedding process, and I knew that it was time to go to the bride's house to greet my relatives, and the wedding would be held in an hour.
What can be done in an hour, at least Xiao Ai no longer has the conditions to rush back to Nanjing, and everything will be spent in peace and forbearance.
After a long time, Xiao Ai finally opened his mouth and asked me, "After returning to the hotel yesterday, who helped me change my clothes?"
This is a question that needs to be answered well, in order to avoid misunderstanding, I hurriedly replied: "The waitress of the hotel, if you don't believe it, you can ask her, her job number is 2011." ”
"You don't have to be so nervous, I believe you won't take advantage of me, but I'm worried that I drink too much and become a burden to you"
"No, yesterday you became a fairy in white and flew back by yourself."
Xiao Ai didn't smile because I was deliberately amused, she just looked at me, and then watched the rain being blown by the wind on the transparent glass window, she was no longer as restless as before, her eyes were full of holes, and she looked like a different person.
But I know that she is hiding the fragile sensitivity in her heart in this way of not thinking about anything, and I can't bear it, and I feel sorry for her.
I finally said to her: "I'll go out to do something, you can take this time to pack up your things, we will have breakfast and lunch in Yangzhou and go back to Nanjing." ”
"There you go"
I nodded, and was about to turn around and leave her room, but she suddenly stopped me again and said, "Jiang Qiao, wait, I still have a few words to say to you." ”
"Hmm," I looked at her quizzically.
She looked at me in silence at first, then picked up the glass with tomato juice and said to me, "Thank you for bringing me this, it's much more comfortable now." ”
Her tone and appearance made me feel a little unfamiliar to her, so I was stunned for a moment before replying, "No thanks." ”
She looked at me and said to me without any warning: "Let Yangzhou be the place where we will see each other for the last time, after returning to Nanjing, you go your way, I will live my life, everything starts with Li Zishan's wedding, and ends with the end of the wedding." ”
I was a little caught off guard, and after looking at her for a while, I replied, "Okay."
"Hmm."
I didn't leave, I didn't look at her face, but I looked at her short and sleepy hair, as if there was an innate tacit understanding with her, and I knew she still had something to say.
She didn't look at me, just looked at the empty glass bottle and said, "I am with Yuan Zhen, that is, the afternoon before yesterday, we will study in Germany together next year, and he gave up everything he got in the field of music for me." ”
I finally remembered that morning, when Chen Yi and I faced two wedding convoys, Xiao Ai and Yuan Zhen also faced it, as artists who aspire to become artists, they are more sensitive and thoughtful than us, so it is impossible not to touch Chen Yi and me while that kind of picture touches them, maybe it was after that that they made up their minds to be together.
I stood on the concrete far from the ground, smiled and said, "Congratulations."
Xiao Ai was speechless.
I put the key to the Mercedes Benz on the coffee table in front of her, and said, "The car key is back to you, just say goodbye here, don't wait until noon, hehe, I also have a whim." ”
"Okay."
I looked at her again, and worshiped Ji Xiaowei like a god in her expression without obvious emotions, and now his two prophecies have come true, so fast that it makes me feel as if I am living in a novel full of unexpected plots, but the cold wind blowing outside the window is so real.
I was really leaving, and at the moment I was about to close the door, she whispered, "Last night you said what kind of child I would have if I married a man I liked." I can tell you right now, I won't let him become what I am, I want to give him her the most complete family and maternal love, if it were a girl, I would raise her to be a likable girl like Chen Yi instead of being as troublesome as me."
I stopped, I couldn't bear to look back at her, it turned out that she hadn't been so drunk last night. That's fine, at least it's a memory that can be remembered by each other, and life can't let her break into my world without leaving a single memory
Leaving the hotel, I sent a copy of the transfer agreement signed by myself to Yu Ya in Lijiang, and then stood under the rain-soaked eaves and smoked, I seemed to see my life in Yangzhou in the smoke to come to an end, and life after returning to Nanjing is a new beginning.
I don't know if I really met Xiao Ai for the last time in my life just now, and I don't know if I will be able to engrave my name on the marriage certificate with Chen Yi in a few years, but I know that one day my father Jiang Jiyou will come back from Shenzhen, and my mother will definitely come back to see me. It's just that I don't know if I still have the feeling of loving her at that time, because I'm not sure what has become of her in the past ten years since she left, and whether she still retains the full maternal love she had for me
The mobile phone rang in my pocket, it was a message sent to me by Chen Yi, and she could even feel her shocked emotions in the text: "Jiangqiao, the wedding was smashed, Yuan Zhen took someone to make a mess of the scene, and injured the staff of the wedding company in the conflict, Yuan Zhen has now been taken away by the police, Jin Qiu is so angry that he can't do it, and he said on the spot that he would investigate Yuan Zhen's legal responsibility on behalf of the injured employees, and he would not accept the mediation of the police station."