Chapter 19: The Rupture
This year's summer is the most unforgettable in Liansheng, and I have never felt such a flood of time in 20 years. The world of pen, fun, and pavilion www.biquge.info seems to be infinitely expanded, and you can't feel the edge of the dazed at all, and even the soul is ethereal. In dog days, the back kitchen is a huge steamer, and in the rumbling heat, in order to prevent dehydration, large cups of water are drunk, and after drinking, it is like a bamboo basket of water, and a person is dizzy and tired. At the end of his day, he washed his face by the sink in the afternoon, and poured cold water into his face with a towel, so depressed that he didn't want to open his eyes at all—he couldn't keep up his spirits on such days, but he had to force himself to wring up the towel to dry his face, and to change his clothes and go out.
Outside, the sun was scorching, everything was faded in broad daylight, and the white pit was lifeless and unreal. He sometimes walked without knowing why he came out to walk, walking aimlessly in the sun today, going around here and there, and there was a sudden glance at other people's homes mistaken for her...... He sometimes paused at the intersection, looking at the cars and pedestrians hurrying by, thinking about how big Shanghai was, but thinking about it, he looked back at the cars on the left and right, and walked across the street to Hongdingfang - no matter how big Shanghai was, he couldn't leave his job to find her, he had no choice but to wait.
That afternoon, he was heading to the four roads, and in the white sunlight, he saw a figure coming out of a used bookstore, with a figure similar to hers, walking west in the same direction as him. He quickened his steps and stepped forward to see clearly, but the man turned a corner at the intersection in front of him, and he was about to run after him, but he still didn't catch up, and he lost it. He looked around dejectedly, and for some reason felt an inexplicable panic - the houses here were too complicated, and the oblique sunlight was filtered and diffracted into countless chaotic rays, direct, reflective, and unadaptably swaying, and the buildings in front of him were full of glimpses of light and darkness, and all the scenes needed to be discerned with force...... He breathed a sigh of relief, put his hand into his pocket, searched all the way down the street, and saw the figure that looked like her at the entrance of an alley, and he was walking in the alley with his back to him at a considerable distance, and he shook his hand and ran over to grab her! The man heard someone running up from behind, and turned his head, it was not her...... He waved his hand awkwardly and smiled...... Walking slowly in the shade of the alley, he also calmed down before he felt a bead of sweat in his head, and he didn't even feel it at all just now, so he pulled open a button on his neck and breathed deeply...... He has walked quite far today, this intersection is a little further south is the Tianchan stage, where it is estimated that it is now the time to get on and off the guests, the door is crowded, anxious, he stood and glanced at it leisurely, turned around and walked east, back to Hongdingfang.
Human intuition is actually a fleeting sense between points. He felt inexplicable panic at that intersection, that is, there was a moment when she was really not far from him, and she was thinking about him, but all his thoughts at that time were on the figure that seemed to be her and not her, and she immediately turned her head and followed Mr. Tang into the Tianchan stage.
Mr. Tang was happy to watch the play, and today is a place to cover the sky, so he brought Su Youling here with great interest. She wasn't that keen on the slapstick scenes, and she came to watch them with him. He drank tea and glanced at her eyes, and probably felt that she was boring and reluctant, smiled and peeled a lychee and handed it to her, she was about to reach out to pick it up, but at a glance she saw Gui Sheng walking here, he had obviously seen her, with a look that she couldn't face step by step, she didn't know if she should bow to him, and she looked at it blankly and didn't say anything and it was really unbearable - the stage was playing a "bully" between the two generals compared to the previous one, and the sound of the Beijing gong and sandalwood was mixed with the percussion, "Knock Knock The sound wave trembled and shook a heart in her chest, and the soles of her feet slipped when she sat - Mr. Tang turned his head, "Yo", got up and smiled, "Lao Zhao, don't be embarrassed." Gui Sheng threw a pipe to the ground in front of him - on the stage, "Qiang! The gongs, drums and cymbals sounded in unison, and the two martial artists fought vigorously and murderously, attracting applause from all sides of the audience, and the cheers that rolled like waves shook the beams of the house! But she was so shocked that she lost her soul master all of a sudden, and she got up by the edge of the table, not knowing where to go...... She was thrown back into the chair by Mr. Tang, and that blow broke her arm. She sat in the chair silently and shed tears, did not dare to cry, and held a handkerchief under her nose, he sat and watched the play, smoking......
After Gui Sheng threw a pipe on the Tianchan stage, it took two or three days before he called Liansheng, called Hongdingfang, and called him to come over for dinner. He hadn't greeted Lian Sheng for a long time, because he knew that Lian Sheng was busy, and this time the Xing Shi mobilized the crowd to call him to find him at the place where he worked, so it was estimated that there was something, so Lian Sheng took advantage of the free moment in the afternoon and went to Bifangzhai to look for him. Gui Sheng was smoking upstairs, and he didn't tell Lian Sheng directly, but just said that Su Youling had been gone for so long, and asked him if he had any new plans. When Lian Sheng heard this, he asked him if there was any news of Su Youling, Gui Sheng smoked a cigarette and did not answer, but asked Lian Sheng, "Does Xiao Nan have anything to do with you?" He only asked today, he had always taken it for granted, but now that he asked, he must have known something. Lian Sheng didn't answer him positively, just said, "You know me." Gui Sheng smiled and nodded, "Lian Sheng, don't think about her anymore, this person is like a page of a book, even if it is in the past, there is nothing that you have to remember in the end...... Good men are ambitious in all directions, huh? He didn't say much, he clicked a few words and moved on to other topics, but Lian Sheng thought that he must not be a casual persuasion, and it was estimated that something had happened, he didn't say it, and he didn't ask. Later, Gui Sheng had something to go out, so Lian Sheng left first, met the coachman Ngawang at the door of the store, pulled Ngawang aside for questioning, and learned the truth. At that time, he only felt a chill in his spine, and no one looked at it. It turned out that she already had other feelings, she lied to everyone, even Gu Xiaochun, whom she trusted the most, she was not an innocent victim at all! She wasted his and the Gu family's attention to her! The irony is that she still has to leave a letter to him when she is leaving, and ending her relationship with him with such nostalgic words now seems all ridiculous...... At the lodgings, he took the letter from a book on the table, and without even looking at it, threw it into the paper basket on the floor, along with the letter folder, along with a photograph he had taken of her.
He began to find a place to live and move again, he listened to Gui Sheng's persuasion, a good man is ambitious in all directions, change places and change states, and follow his master to temper his heart. But the house was not easy to find in the hot weather, and when he found his preferred place to stay, the summer was coming to an end—he came back after a busy afternoon to pack up his belongings, gathered a few simple things on the bed, dragged out the rattan box from under the bed, and threw a pecan with the rattan box, which she had waited for a long time and threw on the ground, and he picked it up and wiped the dust off it with his hands, and threw it into the paper basket - he confessed that he was partly responsible for her departure, that he had been too negligent with her. At first glance, he was resentful, but as time went by, and when he calmed down, he seemed to understand what she was doing. She was like a cat, and when she couldn't feel the temperature, she left; And this is also fate, if he had met her earlier or later, it might have been a different situation, but the matter has come to this, what can be assumed? When he left, he left his new address for Mrs. Yan out of courtesy, but not because of her.
Lian Sheng moved to Aidoya Road, and from there, when you look west, you can still see the spire of the big world.
Since that break with Gui Sheng, Su Youling has also been cold to Mr. Tang for a long time. He was not in such a mood at that time, and Gui Sheng no longer supported him in some people and things, which had a certain impact on Mr. Tang's business, and he was tired of dealing with some problems that gradually emerged for a while, and he had no time to come to Peiyuan. At the end of summer, she could feel the child move, the feeling of a living life, and when she heard the rustle of the wind blowing through the camphor outside, she moved so hard that she could wake up at night. She thought that this child would definitely be a martial artist on the stage in the future, with short thin boots, two big knives in hand, and a few harriers turning over, playing with drift and recklessness, crisp and neat...... She didn't remember the drama that day, and she didn't want to know what kind of all-martial arts show Mr. Tang Guisheng and them staged outside, she just wanted this child to come out and use the most primitive voice and frame to give her a pure martial arts drama - the martial arts drama it performed, she must have watched it with great interest.
She began to learn to smoke, but Zhou's mother Axi couldn't persuade her, so she could only call Mr. Tang behind her back. When he came, she extinguished the cigarette butt and curled up on the bed, looking away leisurely, she was going to beat him, and she was cold and decided. He looked at her at the door for a moment, unbuttoned his cuffs, leaned over, and the child suddenly stirred in his abdomen, and she shook her uncontrollably like a dragon, and she was startled and pressed it, and looked at him with a shocked look - he came and sat on the edge of the bed, and put his hand on her abdomen for a moment, "Sure enough, like my temper......" At that moment the lines at the corners of his eyes were extremely clear, and one of them was the deepest, and when he laughed, the tail of his eyes squeezed, and it became a deep ravine. "It's going to be a martial artist." She raised her eyes and told him with certainty, and he laughed when he heard it, "Okay, okay, you can fight anyone, just don't fight me." "It's fun to talk to you......" she muttered angrily, and he came up and pressed her knees, tied her hands behind her back and let her struggle, "You want to fight me too, don't you?" She giggled and fought with him, not admitting defeat at all, and he almost hit her stomach with a tug. Later, Ah Xi called them downstairs for dinner, and he let go of her, got up and dusted off his clothes twice and went down first. She rubbed behind her for a while before coming downstairs, and the thief smiled with him and gave him a bite to eat...... He didn't do anything to her later, but he was heavier in the theater that time, and it is estimated that Gui Sheng's turn of face touched him quite a lot at that time.
The relationship between Mr. Tang and Gui Sheng is that whoever leaves will suffer losses, Mr. Tang's temperament is easy to make friends and enemies, without Gui Sheng to balance some interpersonal relationships, his business is not stable, and Gui Sheng also needs to rely on Mr. Tang to help many times. The two tigers stalemate for a while, and then a respected person in the circle came out to persuade him, and later at a drinking party, Mr. Tang took the lead in public to drink a glass of liquor, and the deadlock between the two was resolved, and it was no longer the past.