Chapter 49: Janeway's Appointment
Back in the old room where I had countless arguments with Mi Cai, I chewed on the chew tablets and lay on the sofa to relieve the pain, Mi Cai poured me another glass of boiled water, and then sat down across from me.
She asked me, "Are you feeling better?" β
"It'll be fine after a while."
Mi Cai nodded and said, "Then when you are better, I will send you back." β
I sat up in pain: "Where am I going back?" β
"Didn't you stay with your friend for the time being, and I'll send you back there."
I replied angrily, "Can't you play a humanitarian role, I'm a sick guy now!" β
Mi Cai still said indifferently: "This is my house and not a hospital, why do you have to pretend to be your sick number, or you feel that your physical condition is very poor, I can send you to the hospital." β
I lay back on the couch, unwilling to talk to her, and the two sides fell into a cold war because of disagreement.
After a short while, the phone vibrated in my pocket, I turned over, took out the phone from my pocket, and looked at it but it was an unfamiliar number, belonging to Shanghai, I answered the phone in confusion: "Hey, who are you?" β
There was a moment of silence on the other end of the line before saying, "It's me, Janeway." β
My mind suddenly stagnated and went blank, and I couldn't even feel a stomach ache, and it took a long time to respond mechanically, "Is there something wrong?" β
"Come out and sit down, the old place will be waiting for you."
I didn't react, Janeway had already hung up the phone, and she was still the same as before, and she wouldn't give me any chance to refuse, so I didn't refuse when I broke up with her, and I didn't ask why.
The phone has been hung up for a long time, and my heart is still shaking, but one thing is certain, she invited me, I will definitely go to the appointment, no matter how bad we are, we are still ordinary friends.
I finally put the phone in my pocket and said to Mi Cai, "I'll go out to meet a friend, you can help me leave a door." β
"Let's go quickly, you don't have to leave the door, see what else you have in the house, take it with you."
At this time, I didn't have the heart to argue with Mi Cai at all, I looked at her again, and then walked out the door, and my stomach was still aching for a while, maybe the pain in my heart was even more unbearable.
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I stood outside the neighborhood waiting for a taxi, but I wondered where Janeway said the old place, was it CC's music restaurant? Or is it by the moat? I'm not sure, but it also shows that we have too many memories of Suzhou, too many places that we have been wandering in, and each place is an unforgettable past.
In the end, I chose to go to the moat, which used to be where we would walk every evening, where we laughed and looked picturesque.
A quarter of an hour later, I was at the moat, the most of the road we had ever walked, and I sat down on the lawn and lit a cigarette in the midst of a stomachache, because my heart was uneasy, I didn't know why Janeway suddenly asked me out, I didn't know how I was in the mood to face her, and I didn't know what to say after we met...... Look, look, this is the passage of time, weathering all the intimacy of the past into the ignorance of the present!
Half an hour had passed, and Janeway hadn't come yet, and in the cold autumn breeze, I finally realized that I had come to the wrong place, and perhaps Janeway was waiting for me in CC's music restaurant at the moment.
I immediately took out my phone and dialed it, but Janeway's phone was busy, and the moment I hung up, Janeway's phone called again, probably just now we were dialing each other's phone at the same time.
Answering the phone, Jane Wei told me that she was in the CC's restaurant, I told her that I was by the moat, I said to go to her, she said to come to me, I naturally obeyed her, so I ended the call and started a new wait.
I'm a little disappointed, I didn't even choose the old place in Janeway's heart, our hearts have long been incompatible, so a breakup is inevitable.
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The autumn breeze covered the night, the neon light reflected in the qiΔ around me, and I lit another cigarette by the moat that looked good, and watched the smoke fill and finally disperse.
After another 20 minutes, I saw the Cadillac CTS parked on the shore, this top-of-the-line CTS was a graduation gift from Janeway's father to her three years ago, and it was this car that tore us out of the simple school romance, and I still remember it vividly: how I forced a smile when Janeway drove me around in her new car that day, as if I painfully predicted the final outcome of Janeway and me at that moment, in fact, I did anticipate it.
Janeway opened the car door and stepped out of the car, her clothes were very thin, just a short women's leather jacket, slightly loose off-white slacks, her hair was very simple to tie, and she was dressed very casually, unlike the last time I saw it in a bar, I didn't dare to look at it directly in a luxury brand.
I couldn't meet her with my eyes, so I turned my head and took a heavy breath on the cigarette in my hand, just one puff, and half of it was smoked into a cigarette butt.
The familiar woman's scent on Janeway's body wafted into my nostrils, and I finally looked up at her and said stiffly, "What do you ask me to do?" β
Janeway sat down next to me, "Do I have to have a reason to ask you out?" β
I tried to relax a little, smiled and asked, "Didn't you go to Nanjing with Xiang Chen?" How did you come back so soon. β
"I have my arrangement."
"Well, you've got your plans." I followed Janeway, but I didn't know what I could say to her, so I lit another cigarette and looked at the windswept river, dazed and apprehensive alternately occupying my feelings.
Janeway took the cigarette out of between my fingers, looked at me and said, "Don't smoke in front of a lady, you should be a gentleman." β
The corners of my mouth twitched, Janeway actually asked me to be a gentleman, time does change a person, she used to like to play with me, go crazy together, and even smoke the cigarette I was smoking, at this moment, I realized: she has really gone too far from my world, and I can't learn to keep up with the times, just stupidly stand there and watch, so I smoke in front of her so abruptly.
After the silence, I finally said to her, "Say, what the hell is the matter of asking me out, you and I shouldn't just sit here and blow the cold wind." β
I say this, but I am willing to sit here with her all night, and then look at her, and look carefully at her three years later, and let her know how much I like her watery eyes, the slightly raised corners of her mouth, her smile like a flower, her face like water, the smell of women in her, the love she seems to scold but cares, the love she leans on my arms and whispers, and the heavy breath we hold together after our love......
I like her qiΔ, the one qiΔ with her, but now she is like a kite that has been dropped by me, I can only hold on to the torn string, helplessly watching her fly to the far north, drowned in the dusk sunset, and finally only walk once in my memory.
What a loss, how melancholy, how reluctant!
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