Chapter 497: A Key
After driving on the highway, all the lights and trees that were quickly left behind the car seem to become still life, only the air flow generated by friction with the car is the only dynamic object, and I am still and moving, it has become the most unique existence in this world, I think this is the pleasure that many people like to drive the car to the highway.
I don't know how many heavy trucks and brisk cars I overtook before I finally arrived in Shanghai. After getting off the highway and driving around the familiar roads outside the suburbs, I went to the long-lost "Dream Tree......
During my absence, the Dream Tree has undergone some welcome changes, with a new train restaurant in a new commercial area, a heavy motorcycle club, and a cluster of abandoned factories, giving the neighborhood a very industrial feel. I think that Jin Qiu has a development blueprint in mind about the dream tree, and I am afraid that it will become an art district with a main industrial style in the future, and Jin Qiu is the chief designer of this block. She's powerful and ambitious......
In the warm or cold moonlight, I stood at the door of the newly opened heavy motorcycle club with my shoulder bag on my back, just quietly staring at everything in front of me......
The phone that lasted like this for about ten minutes, and it didn't ring all the way, suddenly rang in my pocket quickly, and I hurriedly took it out, but it was not He Meihui who could give me a little hope at all, but Yang Qu, who would make waves and make big things from time to time.
I answered her call, and she asked me bluntly, "Brother, are you still in China?" ”
"Yes, but my heart has flown away...... Have you returned to Shanghai? ”
"I'm back, I'm back with Sister Jin Qiu, I'm in the taxi right now...... So where are you? ”
"Dream Tree, I've just arrived in Shanghai."
Yang Qu thought about it and understood, she said: "I forgot, you haven't been abroad before, you must have come here to apply for a visa, right?" ”
"Hmm...... I also want to meet Jin Qiu before going abroad......"
Yang Qu is a person who is good at causing conversations, and before I finished speaking, she interjected and said, "Do you think you have failed her and want to give her a little explanation?" ……”
"No, I just want to have a brief conversation...... When will you arrive? ”
"I'm not going to go, I still have classes tomorrow, so I'll go straight back to school...... Sister Jin Qiu, there is about half an hour to an hour or so, depending on the road conditions! ”
"Hmm."
"Then I won't tell you yet, I'm on the ground."
After a few simple conversations, Yang Qu and I ended the call, and then my emotions were pulled out of the leisure just now. So, I lit a cigarette and sat quietly on the steps waiting for the arrival of autumn. I know that she will bring me a lot of news about Shenzhen.
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After sitting like this for about forty minutes, Jin Qiu finally walked over from the gate with her handbag in hand, and we faced each other very calmly in the night. But no one was willing to speak first, so they were silent for a long time in the intermittent wind.
I put out the unfinished cigarette in my hand on the ground, and finally opened my mouth to ask Jin Qiu, "Have you eaten?" ”
"Ate the plane meal, what about you?"
"I ate a bowl of instant noodles while I was waiting for you......" After a pause, I looked at her again and said, "Sit down and talk, it's weird and serious to stand like this!" ”
Jin Qiu answered, and sat down next to me, she straightened her hair, which was a little messy by the wind, and then opened her mouth to ask me: "Jiang Qiao, I really want to know, when you made this decision, did you think about what the consequences would be?" ”
"Considered, the worst, the best."
"Tell me about it."
I looked up at the distance, which was much quieter than the city, and then whispered, "The worst thing is to lose my current family affection!" …… Yang Jin is my mother, and she has felt guilty about me all these years, so no matter how much she opposes it or how unwilling she is, she still has to accept this decision in the end...... But it's your parents who feel the most sad about me...... If it is really because of this incident, they think that I Jiangqiao is an ungrateful person and will never interact with each other again, I will really feel very hurt and feel that I have lost two particularly important relatives......"
After a pause, I said, "Seriously, since you went abroad to study, I probably get along with your parents more than you get along with them, and I know that in addition to their work relationship, they have also poured a lot of family affection into me. Sometimes, when your dad calls you to your house for a drink or a meal, it really makes me feel like I'm home...... You know, isn't the most lacking thing in my life a home! ”
After saying that, I took out a cigarette from my pocket and lit it, forgetting that I had made up my mind to quit smoking some time ago. Or rather, it doesn't matter to me anymore whether I quit smoking or not. At the moment, I want to live according to my mood.
Jin Qiu looked into the distance, and then exhaled softly, she said to me with a melancholy smile: "It's not easy for you to make so many compromises just because you're afraid of losing this family affection and the feeling of home...... I just don't know if in the future, home and love, two things that should not be opposites, can be both in your life...... But I still bless you! ”
I lowered my head and smiled back, "The word blessing feels quite heavy when it comes out in this atmosphere. ”
"It's sad, isn't it? …… After all, we all have a wedding house in Nanjing, and we are just one step away from getting married. ”
"It's kind of ...... Your mother and your father also gave me a renovation fee, and when I think of it, I have no face to face them. ”
"Why don't you give me that house...... Anyway, you don't take these things outside of your body seriously. ”
"Are you serious?"
Jin Qiu looked at me, and then nodded very seriously. I don't know how to deal with it, that house can be said to be the last continuation of the old house, if it is given to Jin Qiu, I really have nothing to do with my past life. And to this day, she doesn't lack a house at all, so I'm a little confused about her intentions.
At this time, she said to me again: "If you don't want to give, forget it." ”
"It's not that you don't want to give it, it's just that I don't know why you want that house."
This time, I rarely saw a confused expression on Jin Qiu's face, and it took a long time for her to reply, "I don't know either...... Maybe it's because I've never been able to see what that house looks like, and people's hearts will always be possessive of what they feel belongs to...... I just don't know, if my parents didn't make that renovation payment, would I have such a possessive desire? ”
I thought about it for a moment, then took out the key from the wallet I was carrying, handed it to her, and said to her, "Take the house, and when everyone has time, we will make a transfer." ”
Jin Qiu took the key from my hand, she clenched it and then released it slightly, then held it tighter, and she didn't speak again......
After a while, she had quit smoking, and she also took out a lady's cigarette from her bag and put it in her mouth and lit it. It wasn't until she finished smoking a cigarette that she whispered to me and asked, "Jiang Qiao, do you think I ever loved you?" ”
I barely hesitated and replied, "No, you've never loved me......"
Jin Qiu looked at me, then smiled, she tucked her collar tighter, and looked away at the Dream Tree, which was twice as large as before......
She finally spoke to me, "It doesn't seem to matter to us whether we're really married or not. In fact, in my heart, following in your footsteps to Shanghai more than a year ago, we are already a kind of marriage, and this dream tree in front of me is our child, and now this child is thriving, and I am very satisfied...... Go, go...... Go after the woman you want the most, go to your paradise, the dream tree and I will be a light to always light the hardest part of your life......"
After Jin Qiu said this, she got up, put the key in her handbag, and walked towards the hotel not far away. Her back tells me that she is tired...... And I waited until she completely disappeared from my sight before I remembered that she didn't talk to me about this trip to Shenzhen.
I just sat there, and gradually I had the feeling that although I gave her a key, she gave me the whole "dream tree".
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The next day, I took my passport to the old five, whom I hadn't seen for a long time, and he was the one who advised me yesterday, so I finally chose to get a Belgian visa and travel to all the countries in Europe.
After I gave my passport to Lao Wu, he called a friend who worked as a travel agent and handed over this matter to him.
Before leaving, his friend promised that he would do this for me in a maximum of 15 working days, which also meant that I only had 15 days left in China.
At noon, I stayed in Shanghai to have a meal with Lao Wu. During the meal, he told me that Liu Liu took Yao Yu to Ireland this morning before me.
This news didn't surprise me at all, I knew that Yao Yu would go to that country to see Yuan Zhen, but I didn't expect that the person who accompanied her would be Liu Liu, and before leaving, they didn't tell me anything. Presumably, what drove them to do this is probably also a kind of mentality that is afraid of being disturbed.
And I have expectations for Yao Yu, I hope she can get out of this shadow in her life as soon as possible, and then start a new life. I always feel that in this irreversible tragic situation, Xiao Ai and I may not be the most hurt. She and Yuan Zhen are the two people who have paid the most price, and now she is still living painfully, and she really doesn't know what kind of blessing she needs to make up for the first half of her regretful life.
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In the afternoon, I drove the borrowed God of War GTR back to Nanjing, and I had already taken care of the visa, and the only thing I didn't worry about was the company that had just started, and I couldn't find anyone who could trust me for the time being......
All afternoon, I was in the company to inquire about the talents who can be professional managers in this industry, but the result was disappointing, because this is a relatively partial industry, so there is no professional manager at all, most of them are managed by the boss himself.
Just when I was at a loss, I received a call from Su Han, who was in Nanjing, and asked me to go out and sit.
She won't ask me out casually, because of her close relationship with Xiao Ai, there is suddenly a glimmer of hope in my heart, maybe she will find Xiao Ai.
Driven by this expectation, I turned off my computer and drove Qiao Ye's car to the teahouse I had agreed with her......