Chapter XVII
For a few days, Gu Xiaojing's heart went up and down. It seems that it is just a blink of an eye, she and Chen Zhigang have been separated for more than two months, Chen Zhigang's performance this time makes her feel strange, they have had similar angry separations before, but they will be together again for some reason in a few days.
The Spring Festival is approaching, and his seventeen-year-old son Chen Tianyu is back from vacation, and on the first day he returns home, he found that the atmosphere at home is not right. In the past, the house was always messy, but this time it was exceptionally clean and quiet, and only his mother Gu Xiaojing was alone when he came in and out, and Chen Tianyu felt that something was wrong.
"Where's my dad?"
"At your grandmother's house." Gu Xiaojing didn't want to disturb her son's interest in going home, so she didn't tell her son about their separation.
After settling her son, in the afternoon, she went to the hotel where Chen Zhigang worked alone. It was a small restaurant called Yueyang Building, the signboard was a little dim, Gu Xiaojing pushed open the door and entered, the waiter at the bar asked her who she was looking for, she said she was looking for Chen Zhigang, the waiter at the bar frowned slightly and thought for a while, as if he couldn't remember who Chen Zhigang was for a while.
I'm looking for Chef Chen in your back kitchen. Gu Xiaojing re-explained.
Oh, got it, you turn in from here. The waiter knew who she was talking about, and then pointed to a small door under the corridor with her hand, and Gu Xiaojing pushed the oily door with the tip of her finger and entered. After passing through a slender aisle, Gu Xiaojing went directly into the kitchen, but there were one or two very young chefs who seemed to be apprentices in the kitchen, and asked where Chen Zhigang was, and they pointed to one of the rows of houses on the first floor behind the kitchen that looked like a dormitory.
Gu Xiaojing cautiously walked through the kitchen, the cement floor was greasy, Gu Xiaojing was worried about falling, and walked slowly on tiptoe, she came to the door of the room pointed by the little chef, after all, it was the first time to come, she was worried that she was going wrong, so she stopped, ready to knock on the door, confirm it and then go in.
A young woman's laughing voice came from inside, Gu Xiaojing thought she had made a mistake, but then she heard Chen Zhigang's sullen but happy voice, "Your little arms are so thin." ”
The young woman giggled.
Gu Xiaojing felt an indescribable sense of foreboding and uneasiness in her heart, she didn't knock on the door, and directly pushed the door in.
In the room, Chen Zhigang was wearing a white coat and sitting on the edge of the bed, a thin woman in her thirties wearing waitress clothes, or a girl, sat tightly next to Chen Zhigang, stretched out an arm and Chen Zhigang's arm side by side, and the two of them each rolled up the sleeves of their clothes.
Gu Xiaojing was unhappy in her heart, and closed the door with a calm face. Chen Zhigang and the two of them were concentrating on being thinner than their arms just now, and they didn't notice Gu Xiaojing coming in, and when they heard the sound of the door closing, the two of them raised their heads together.
The woman in waiter's clothes raised her head and stood up somewhat flustered, she looked at Chen Zhigang, said Master Chen, I will go first, and then nodded at Gu Xiaojing and left.
Chen Zhigang didn't have the panic of a woman, he slowly stood up, rolled down the sleeves of his clothes, and asked coldly, is there something wrong? I'm going to the back kitchen.
Gu Xiaojing was not happy, but she didn't say anything, she simply told Chen Zhigang that her son was back, and hoped that he would go home to deal with it, so as not to let her son see that they were separated. Chen Zhigang smiled faintly, basically smiling and not smiling, is it necessary, you know, that's it anyway.
I don't care, I told you, you can do it. Gu Xiaojing was originally angry, but after all, she was in a hotel, she didn't want to quarrel with Chen Zhigang, so she turned around and left. The ground was greasy and slippery, Gu Xiaojing was wearing high heels, and she almost slipped, she calmed down, stabilized herself, opened the small door under the corridor and went out.
Gu Xiaojing was not happy in her heart and went to find An Dong. As a result, An Dong told her that she and He Fei were going to go to the nearby Xingji City to see a painter's art exhibition, and asked her if she would go, Gu Xiaojing was not happy, just like changing her mood, she went with her.
It was a solo exhibition held by a painter from Xingji City, painters from surrounding counties and cities and some of the more famous painters invited to come, He Fei belonged to the scope of special invitation, An Dong openly held He Fei's arm, in and out of the exhibition, with a happy and confident look, completely indifferent to the familiar and unfamiliar eyes around him. He Fei was so interested that he painted two paintings on the spot, which attracted praise from everyone. An Dong wasted no time in handing out her business card to the people around her, and the business card was imprinted with Yi Fei Gallery Manager An Dong.
During the lunch break, An Dong opened two houses, she let Gu Xiaojing live in one alone, and she took He Fei's arm and entered the room twice. Gu Xiaojing was originally sullen and wanted to talk about it, but An Dong didn't even give her a chance to speak, and generously hugged He Fei to rest.
Gu Xiaojing thought about An Dong and He Fei these days, as well as Jiang Xueyun, Tan Zhijiang, Cheng Hui, Chu Yu, this group of friends began to get together again and get together as in the past, but An Dong relented in front of Jiang Xueyun and was no longer intimate with He Fei, but in fact, the relationship between the two people became closer. Gu Xiaojing couldn't persuade An Dong, she knew that An Dong was the kind of person who either didn't love, and if she loved, she would be desperate to get out, she could spend money, pay, and even sacrifice her life for her beloved, regardless of the consequences, she was also recognized as righteous and sincere to her friends, but she and He Fei were in love, and there was also a childhood partner in the middle, Jiang Xueyun, who had been in love with He Fei for less than 20 years.
She asked An Dong, and An Dong said that as long as she could be with He Fei, she was willing to bear any consequences, Gu Xiaojing couldn't help her, but she was also moved by An Dong's persistence.
Right now, she thought about the scene of Chen Zhigang and the waiter giggling together, and her heart was depressed for a while. The waiter, except for the eyes are big enough, the rest is almost not outstanding, like a pair of small pieces together, and she Gu Xiaojing, tall, recognized as a beauty when she was young, even now is a charm, no matter the temperament and demeanor, the waiter is not comparable to her. But Chen Zhigang's cowardice, stubbornness, passive resistance or even loud quarrel when he was with her, beside that woman, these are all gone, replaced by an indescribable ease and simple happiness, she can't say the stuffy feeling in her heart, and An Dong's happy laughter came from the next room.
When my son called, they were already on their way back. Chen Tianyu's voice was obviously unhappy, he said Mom, my dad came back just now and brought back my favorite sheep scorpion and fish-flavored shredded meat, but he said that he would not come back at night, I asked him why, and he said let me ask you. Mom, what's going on?
Gu Xiaojing's heart seemed to be stuffed into a mess, she felt that she couldn't say anything about her separation from his father when she told her son on the phone, so she comforted her son, you study first, don't think about it, my mother will be home in a while.
Hung up her son's phone, Gu Xiaojing wanted to talk to An Dong about these things at home, but at this moment, Jiang Xueyun called, she asked He Fei what he was doing, He Fei said to go to Jixing City to participate in the art exhibition, Jiang Xueyun asked who went with him, He Fei said that he went, Jiang Xueyun said to make dinner at home, and when he came back to eat, why not say thank you wife.
Hanging up the phone, An Dong put his arm around He Fei and looked at He Fei with a happy face, husband, you have two wives now, aren't you very happy?
He Fei didn't say anything, patted An Dong's face, An Dong couldn't help grabbing He Fei's arm with his hand, kissing He Fei's side face, completely ignoring Gu Xiaojing's existence.
Gu Xiaojing smiled, and while being infected by An Dong's happiness, she couldn't help but feel a little desolate in her heart. She thought about Chen Zhigang's intimate appearance with the waiter in the morning, thinking that she sent a message to Tan Zhijiang a few days ago, Tan Zhijiang didn't reply, and later when they talked together, Tan Zhijiang told her that although he and her wife had some differences, and there were some things she couldn't understand him, but they had been together for so many years, and they also had deep feelings, and she could hear that Tan Zhijiang would not divorce his wife, and the idea that Tan Zhijiang, who she had been dangling in her mind before, might divorce was completely passed in her mind, and now, no matter what, An Dong found his dear person, no matter whether this relationship can last for a long time, but now An Dong is really happy from the bottom of her heart, and Chen Zhigang, she has always looked down on the man who dislikes his nest, and there will be a waiter who is so happy with him, what about herself, she suddenly felt desolate in her heart.